the moon cave sequence of the gorillaz mountain short film is truly something to enjoy
Scenes in miniature from the Inside Aardman exhibition at the Young V&A.
Building More Stately Mansions
Aaron Douglas
1944
#Art #Blackhistorymonth #Abstractart
'I recognise no dichotomy between art and protest. Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is, among other things, a protest against the limitations of nineteenth-century rationalism; Don Quixote, Oedipus Rex, The Trial — all these embody protest, even against the limitation of human life itself.'
When elephants fight, the grass suffers.
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers.
Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...
Buried in this article about slop-stirring is an intriguing curio: multiple AI programs describe acts of human consummation as ‘like a ragged prayer’.
The most realistic part of Lord of the Rings is that none of the characters are having a good time and everyone wishes the events hadn't happened to them
This was a terrific lecture - thank you so much everyone. Saki’s points about cultural erasure and the urgency of documentation are highly relevant.
A recurring experience with young kids: pulling random items out of your pockets having forgotten how they got there. This is today’s discovery.
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
'Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever'
Reading this in the voice of Kevin Spacey's character from Seven.
'Meta employees faced a simple ethical question. The AI program, Llama 3, would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with ChatGPT. Acquiring all that text legally could take time. Should they just pirate it instead?'
Their answer: AUT ZUCK AUT NIHIL.
This story is nuts.
Concept art by Maurice Noble for the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare-Way to the Stars (1958), dir. Chuck Jones, Warner Bros. Cartoons
This remains one of the most innovative, creative attempts to bridge the worlds of film storytelling and video games. Chapeau @jmechner.bsky.social.
Insightful thread about the emotional gratification of victimhood and reality distortion, and how these dopa hits can addict the psyche.
Closest I can find is the German word ‘fachidiot’. This describes a person who is a specialist in their field and subsequently believes they are expert in fields they know nothing about.
Do androids dream of electric HR meetings?
Excellent, revelatory journalism from McKay Coppins. Wild that Murdoch’s children were convinced Wendi Deng had links to Chinese intelligence.
Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago
La colorimétrie de #severance 🤍
Maybe by 2028 the alien intervention in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will also seem a judicious choice.
You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.
Started a Severance S1 rewatch. Love the scene where Mark S sleeps in the racing car bed at his sister's place and asks why there are three beds in their son's room. 'If you provide said child with all of its beds upon birth,' says his BiL, 'You allow it to progress across the room at its own rate'.
Rolling into 2025 like…
