Blah blah blah blah one existing screen in the US…
…plus 3 more before next year:
Exactly. It’s a proven that will only show up at scale, and these little randomized studies will never demonstrate it.
I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
Quick reminder:
Dipavali (aka Diwali) is the Hindu “festival of lights”, a 5-day celebration symbolizing the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma; basically light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.
🧐 Hmm.
I’ve heard Jordan Crucchiola argue for what she calls “a well-crafted” jump scare, but I haven’t heard them actually describe what that is or provide a solid example of one.
Depending on the taxonomy of scares and what technically does and doesn’t quality as a “jump” scare, two of my favorites come from early M. Night Shyamalan.
From The Sixth Sense…,
the slow pan inside the tent made of bedsheets,
and from Signs…
the initial monster in the news footage.
More-so that many other jump-scares I’ve seen, those felt earned. The framing was creative. You recognize that there’s something scary coming up, but the plot is shaped such that you don’t know what you’re about to see. The expectation and the not-knowing are far far more important to the scare than simply the virtual invasion-of-space and sharp orchestra sting.
Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
Saving this for my next KYC identity check.
Clever acts of civil disobedience.
Consider the risks, the disruption, the audience, the take-away message / discourse.
Protests need to get creative. The inflatable frog suits are good example: it’s ridiculous, it’s visibly passive, it’s practical, and it has great optics. Entire protest actions need to be designed with these things in mind.
Everyone (protestors and the public alike) are bored to tears of street marches, cute protest signs and the same dozen chants.
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Hmm.
Absolute monsters.
Market research based on the Fantastic Four movie. Maybe people are looking favorably at retro-futurism these days.
Tomorrowland was a mess, but perhaps ironically before its time.
That allowed them to make the pilot and shop it around to networks and streaming platforms, but the Faustian bargain there is generally signing away IP rights to that platform.
The way I understand this deal, Glitch has a much friendlier stance with letting creators hang onto ownership of their IP.
They will just find another avenue to attack.
American Trans people, spitting out blood and a few teeth, “I didn’t hear no bell.”
…from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience.
My sweet summer child have you never seen a toddler with an iPad?
Blåhaj heard there was transphobia in there.
I have a better plan:
The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”
You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.
https://www.the-reframe.com/eventually-youre-going-to-have-to-stand-for-something-2/
I would like to write today about what it is that I find so frustrating and toxic about [Ezra Klein]'s approach, and how if we are going to escape from this horribly fraught time, we are going to defeat the current dominant cultural belief of supremacy with a vision of unified human solidarity, and that means we are going to have to be better than Ezra.
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And wait, it’s not just cute.
The way out of our present age of political violence is not scolding “we have to live here with one another,” at those who are not threatening anyone’s life, at those whose very existence supremacists refuse to accept. Rather the way out is standing between supremacists and their targets and telling them “no, you have to live with them, just like we live with you, and if you can’t do that, then you have a problem with us, too.” It’s turning to those who just aren’t comfortable with trans people and saying “we don’t negotiate about people’s rights over here, and if you want to see how hard we’ll fight for you against the billionaires and bosses who are robbing you blind, watch how hard we fight for them. If hating trans people is so important to you that you’re willing to get robbed to death to secure it, we aren’t the party for you.”
You know what? I think that message might just build a coalition.
UBI so the landowner class can raise the cost of living, food and materials for living.
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