Stonkers

OH! Sorry to keep blathering at you, but I just remembered Viy, a soviet era film set in medieval Russia that is one of the most visually delightful movies I’ve maybe ever seen. The effects so creative and fresh, I loved it!

yes! the father design plus the protagonist’s performance (in turns pathetic, heroic, and adorable, and even for a moment detestable) really elevated the movie into another level of excellence for me. and being shot on super 16mm? delicious

A rectangular silver and white fabric background with a hand embroidered Salmon head and body coming down from the top right corner and a hand embroidered Salmon tail coming across from the middle of the right edge.

"Head or Tail"
hand embroidered Salmon themed thread painting.
#StunDay #embroidery #fish #WildlifeArt

“The document is from last May and reportedly describes the new “Name Tag” feature that would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people using Meta’s built-in AI assistant. The New York Times reports that Meta initially planned to launch the feature during a conference for the blind before releasing it more widely, but that never panned out. Meta, which makes smart glasses with Ray-Ban and Oakley, reportedly plans to launch the feature as soon as this year. Sources tell The Times that the facial recognition technology wouldn’t allow people to identify everyone they see. Instead, Meta is reportedly considering using the feature to detect people that the wearer is connected with on one of Meta’s platforms. It’s also exploring “identifying people whom the user may not know but who have a public account on a Meta site like Instagram,” according to The New York Times.”

Mass deletion of Facebook and Insta accounts, yes? www.theverge.com/tech/878725/...

image: an old black and white photo of four people sitting at tables with a theatrical (maybe?) backdrop of a painted wall and plants behind them. three of them are eating spaghetti with their hands and one is miming drinking from a wide, short wine bottle

it’s traditional!

Le Vourdalak was absolutely fantastic, but it’s Early Modern. Still recommend it though!

more seriously, there’s a distinct lack. Black Death was one that I remember not liking very much, but it’s been many years since I saw it and maybe it’s better than I remember. Sauna is also one that’s been highly recommended to me, but I haven’t seen yet

Army of Darkness lol

Secret of mana cover photoshopped to say “secret of nana” and has added a photo of a shushing nana

the holy trinity The Felt is not The Hand is not The Henson Spirit. But together...they are Muppet.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

found him! bsky.app/profile/matt... (if you need alt text for the image in his post, I’ve supplied it in my post upthread)

I got this from a friend who shared it and I’m hoping he’ll get back to me soon with artist attribution, which I’ll update as soon as I get it!

image: a dark brown oval dish, very shallow, with a hand painted still life of fruits on a gold platter in the center

image: a screenshot of the listing saying it was delivered on Thu, Dec 11

I bought this beautiful early 20th century painted tray from ebay last year and it showed that it was delivered on Dec. 11th, though I never saw it and assumed sadly that it had been stolen off the porch. But lo and behold look what popped up at my door today! It’s a Valentine's Day miracle

An assortment of brightly colored crocheted frog and fish coin purses on a striped tablecloth

It’s a Fancy Frog Flash Sale for the next four hours (or until they’re gone!)

I’ll post each fancy frog in this thread - DM to claim, I’ll note when each one is gone.
$30 each, shipping included if you’re in the US!
International will have to be calculated :s

“We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend”

100% he thought “ugh, it’s going to be up so high, no one will ever see it” little suspecting that 800 years later I’d be spilling his tea all over the dang internet

image: a light wall filled with hanging stained glass panels. on the right side there’s a cozy fox in her den, an anatomical heart, a meander map of the mississippi river, and a lobe from a quatrefoil set the originals of which are in Canterbury Cathedral (it shows a man leaving the shrine of Thomas Á Becket giving thanks for having been miraculously cured). On the left side hang the 12 Labors of the Year panels, each one round and bordered in red and white pencil borders. The months display a person doing the labor that was expected to be done for that month, things like gathering flowers, pruning grape vines, slaughtering livestock, and hawking

Thank you!! They’re based on 13th-century originals that are part of a rose window in Lausanne, Switzerland.

My favorite thing about them is that both June and July are labeled Julius (July), and you can just feel the medieval craftsman’s OOF when he took it out of the kiln and saw what he’d done

“gap toothed a” 🇮🇹🍝😙🤌

thank you!

image: a light wall filled with stained glass pieces. the two in the center are a Rider Waite Smith tarot card of The Hermit (featuring a bearded man in grey robes holding a staff and lantern), and a red octopus with legs taking up most of the background space, curling this way and that. he’s got grumpy eyes

Just sold The Very Angry Octopus and The Hermit, so today’s shaping up to be a nice one! But now my display wall at the shop is looking determinedly gap toothed a

“see beyond” the horrors of slavery. No sir, I don’t think I will

stop it.

get some help.

youtubers, why do you need to make an ai image of michael jackson for your thumbnail, michael jackson is one of the most photographed human beings to ever live, why are you using ghastly tech to make slop of a person whose image you already have unprecedented access to

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

hayao miyazaki telling video game developers that the ai they've just shown him disgusts him. "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

gut reaction is that it’s the false face, and in particular the false smile. what’s it hiding? why do you have to paint a smile on, is it that bad under there? is it masking malign intent??

damn, I feel so bad for him

oh wow, I didn’t expect him to get right back up again. he’s made of stern stuff!

damn, endo :(

#YNWA