How cool is this?
Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library of Congress: not "seen by anyone in likely more than a century"
He pioneered jump cuts, double exposure, black screens, forced perspective
Watch it here:
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Question: But what would you like for us to take away from that? What would you like for the reader to know more intimately about you and how those two separate lives that you had together and the tough decisions you made and the risk that you had to take and even growing up with dyslexia and all that-like what do you want us to take from that and where you are today? Answer: Well, the way we're doing, some of you may have seen some of my social media. I'm on the other side. I don't want to dream of regretting anymore. No could have, would have, should have. It's all out there. I just wanted to put it all out there. I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. And I'm not trying to offend anyone, trying to act all there if you got 940, but literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot-you've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in. My dyslexia-l haven't overcome dyslexia. I'm living with it. I was the guy in the back of the classroom and my head down just praying the teacher didn't call on me. I think I lost count of how many schools I had to go to.
And I'll never ever forget my mom's choice was never to label me. She just had to struggle with me. And I walked in—l'll never forget this. It was probably eighth or ninth grade. Walking home, got home early. My mom was always working. So I'm cooking, literally lived on Stuffer's lasagna, macaroni and cheese. I got finished two pots of macaroni and cheese and got bored and I went upstairs and there was a file cabinet open and it said "Gavin." In fact, she had a weird name, "Gavinsky." That's like my nickname. And I open it up and it was all of these reports from the doctors and I never realized I was going after school three days a week. I didn't know what for. And it was all around. It was the lisp and the reading-the b's and the r's were backwards, spelling which "w i"-the whole-and I'm like, "What is this?" And that's when I learned I had quote-unquote dyslexia. My mom was furious because she didn't want that to limit me. She didn't want that to be an excuse. But it was freeing because I never understood why it was so easy for my sister and why I was struggling. But I also never-and this is a long-winded point—I also never knew how much she was struggling trying to raise me. And you talk
Here’s his full quote. This is missing a lot of context.
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Are you saying that the poster was … the one … piece of art?
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Denise Crosby as Romulan Commander Sela. “TO BE CONTINUED...”
I’m thinking more Commander Sela… either way, definitely 90s Star Trek.
"OK" SODA SAYS, "DON'T BE FOOLED INTO THINKING THERE HAS TO BE A REASON FOR EVERYTHING." COINCIDENCE #14 THE NIGHT HE FIRST TRIED *OK* SODA, RICK B. OF AURORA. COLORADO PUT A FULL CAN UNDER HIS PILLOW AND WENT TO SLEEP. HE DREAMED HE WAS CRAWLING THROUGH AN ENDLESS GRAVEL PIT, PARCHED WITH THIRST. WHEN HE AWOKE, HIS THIRST HAD DISAPPEARED. AND HE FELT STRANGELY SATISFIED. NOTE: THE CAN OF "OK," STILL UNOPENED. WAS EMPTY, THIS IS ONLY A COINCIDENCE. 2210,2985 1-800-I-FEEL-OK VERY LOW SODIUM Nutrition Facts Serv. Size 1 Can Amount Per Serving Calories 150 % Daily Value* Total Fat 0g 0% Sodium 35mg 1% Total Carb 40g 13% Sugars 40g Protein 0g *Percent Daity Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP ANO OR SUCROSE, CITRIC ACID, CARAMEL COLOR, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), PHOSPHORIC ACIO, ACACIA, NATURAL FLAVORS, POTASSIUM CITRATE, CAFFEINE, DIPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, GLYCEROL ESTER OF WOOD ROSIN, BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL, RED 40. CANNED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, ATLANTA, GA. O1994 THE COCA-COLA COMPANY FOR INFORMATION: 1-800-438-2663 OK
"What's the point of OK? Well, what's the point of anything?"
I didn’t know that. Learned a new thing. Thanks.
“Op-ed’s” are usually written by guest columnists who don’t work for the paper. Editorials are written by the paper’s editorial staff.
Those are “opinion” pieces. They usually appear in the same section of the paper as each other, which is thus called “Op-Ed” (opinion-editorial).
Yup, it’s gremlins time!
👨🏽🦰
I mean, Mary Shelley arguably invented the entire genre, but sure…
An artist’s depiction of a “ray cat,” a proposal by the human interference task force to communicate radioactive danger across the millennia. A ray cat would glow in the presence of radiation, thus communicating that danger is present.
🎼 Don't change color, kitty.
Keep your color, kitty.
Stay that pretty gray.
Don't change color, kitty.
Keep your color, kitty.
Keep sickness away. 🎶
Far Side cartoon depicting a man walking out of a bathroom. A sign flashes “DIDN’T WASH HANDS” while an alarm rings.
You can sue in tort for malicious prosecution, but it’s a pretty high bar. Not insurmountable, but high.
It’s telling that he refers to small town residents as a hospital’s “market” instead of the population it needs to serve. Just a striking contrast between the difference in assumptions, and conclusions that follow from them, between viewing health as a source of profit versus a societal good.
Ghouls.
Brock Pierce as a child and Sinbad in the movie “First Kid.”
Well he does have previous political experience being the First Kid and all…
Where are my memories stored? All memories are encrypted by your friend's circuit board. If your friend is lost or damaged, they are inaccessible forever.
This has to be parody. Astounding lack of self awareness otherwise.
This is straight up a Black Mirror episode. They just took a script and turned into a pitch deck and made the damn thing. Burn it with fire.
A problem repeatedly occurred on "https://friend.com/".
No kidding…
I mean, “Sink Sinclair” is right there…
