Neal Romanek
@nromanek
Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of scifi swashbuckler SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA. Dayton to L.A. to London
Weekly livestream wrapping up the week at @auworks.bsky.social - 4pm UK time today. I will ramble at length about the creative industries and what we're doing at ¡AU! to give them a kick. Here's the link: riverside.com/studio/neal-...
David Lean didn’t build an entire bridge - and then blow it up with an actual train on it so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable"
Returning tomorrow to a hellish 32C London from a delightful 39C Granada.
Visited the Alhambra today. My first time in Granada. Years ago I was hired to write a script about the Inquisition, which included a scene of the 1492 siege & surrender of the city. I have to say the original is better than any dumb thing I could have imagined. Dazzling. Breathtaking.
Great night out in London for the UK premiere of #FightLikeAGirl, a gorgeous movie from Congo about women’s boxing and survival.
When our neighbors leave free books on their front garden wall, they do not fuck around.
30 mins until our Diversity & Excellence Summit II ("The DEI the Earth Stood Still"). We'll be talking about how to get a career and sustain it in the media & entertainment biz. Kick off time is 9am ET/2pm UK time. Here's the Zoom link: us02web.zoom.us/j/81068662779
Join us tomorrow, 9am ET/2pm UK time for the @auworks.bsky.social Diversity & Excellence Summit II. We'll talk training & skills for broadcast and VFX, and the media biz in general. It's free. Here's the Evenbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/au-diversi...
New print edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social has arrived at my home - always a good day.
Attended a closed-door discussion today run by AIMICI on the legal & insurance challenges of bringing AI into film & TV production. We barely scratched the surface but: 1) Some of these issues are already settled by current law 2) Also it’s a total Wild West & no one knows for sure what’s next
One of my favorites is always the #Ecoflow project which returns for its 3rd year. Ecoflow is an ongoing project to track & reduce the energy use & carbon footprint of the whole broadcast/streaming supply chain. #accelerators2026
And the pitches begin! Here are the competitors for this year’s #Accelerstors2026. These will be whittled down to a set of finalists who will the present completed projects the IBC Show in Sept.
Before the big pitchfest, a discussion on the big TV tech & tools highlights over the past year - et, digital transformation became a real thing, innovation now distributed across orgs, the ways broadcast has innovated in the past aren't working. #accelerators2025
At the BBC for this year’s IBC Accelerators launch, hearing pitches for bluesky (!) broadcast & media tech projects. Winning 2025 Accelerator project: “AI Agent assistants for Live Production” - using AI to automate live broadcast workflows #accelerators2026
After many years, going to read these bastards again. Might even scribble notes in the margins.
Was introduced to the marvelous @helleborezine.bsky.social over Xmas. Picked up issue one which delightfully has a piece on bog bodies. If you’ve read my graphic novel BOUDICCA to the last page, you know why that’s my swampy jam.
Got a @thedailytism.com shirt for Xmas. I only read it for the articles.
Yep. Decades later, I saw the original inking for this at Comic Con & freaked right out.
New split view in Google Chrome. A small tweak from UI team is more useful to me than the billions spent on Gemini.