Tim Walker

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I can practically smell them from here!

Asimov would approve (and John Campbell before him).

It sounds like a great idea for a movie. Maybe you could write it! :)

"I've changed along with the characters in my films" An Interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder This year marks the tenth anniversary of the death of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Among the more than three-dozen films be made are: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Berlin Alex-anderplatz, Effi Briest, Despair, and Querelle. His interview with Hella Schlumberger first appeared in the German edition of Playboy, April 1978. You're always criticizing the "provincialism" of Germany, but you're not in America yet. Why not? You can't draw any conclusions from the fact that I'm still here. Besides, I'm in Paris most of the time. I think Germany's well on its way to being a nation where people become more and more alike. And that means that individualists... Like you . You said it, not I ... that people who react a little differently to reality have to ask themselves whether they can still afford to have opinions. Whether it's worth it. And that's where castration of the imagination begins.

The Berlinale doesn’t need a Wenders right now— it needs a Fassbinder. We all need a reminder of why art shouldn’t just be “entertainment” or “content” but instead must offer radical contestations of the given. Our world is unsustainable. Platitudes are useless.

My gf got back from HEB a few minutes ago; her description of it matched yours.

Museum lovers / art history folks: I want to know more about the state of art museums in Europe circa 1870. Any recommended reading? TIA!

#artmuseum
#arthistory

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

Post a tree you photographed.

Nice!

Put it this way. I don't believe Muskrat could make a livable colony in Antarctica (though I'd like to see him stuck in one he made).

And making a colony in Antarctica is FAR easier than on the Moon or Mars. There's already air, water, and protection from radiation, plus smaller temperature swings.

And it has to actually describe the relevant part of the image! You can't just put whatever words!

They have a way of saying the quiet part loud.

a woman with her eyes closed and the words please do this for me above her Alt: Sandra Bullock, pleading, says “Please. do this for me?”

Y’all, please … use alt-text on your images here.

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I have a laptop but I would LOVE a super clacky keyboard today. A keyboard that is like: if I’m going though this, we’re all going through this.

It just hit me why This is Spinal Tap will always be one of the funniest movies ever. It loves the men in the band so deeply that the humor is never cruel. It’s always loving to them and so the joke is on the world that punishes them. They’re Job as rock stars.

This IS the way.

Another observation in favor of Bluesky. Men and women really can be “just friends” here. That question was asked often over on that other place, and I never understood why so many said ‘no’. I think it’s a matter of maturity. It’s normal and healthy to have both male and female friends.

It is so fun.

I’m afraid you’re right.

Occasionally there are moments like this when I feel reassured that our system is holding and the bad guys are going to lose.

That sounds great!

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I had the same impression of Adams from the McCullough biography.

I need to read that. CEREMONY is one of my favorite novels.

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Me with Diana’s bow and quiver and dogs but I’m after that one student’s paper submission