Stiles White

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

Me!

You know what, let me just stay at 99 followers. This feels perfect. Please no one ruin this for me.

there are a lot of logos I miss...

YouTube video by Drafthouse Films THANK YOU VERY MUCH | Official Trailer | Drafthouse Films

Great new doc about Andy.
Feels like the final word
on the life and work.
New revelations.
Clips I had never seen before.
Interviews with many who were
right there in the middle of it.
Danny Devito tells a story
about the funeral
that I'm still thinking about...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2a...

Agreed. I'm totally here for the realness.

The cool thing about bsky is that
you can post non-political pieces
and it's like a tree falling in the woods
with no one around to hear it

Album cover of The Rolling Stones "Emotional Rescue" - features x-ray and negative style photos of the four band members

When I was a kid
I woke up in the middle of the night
and Emotional Rescue was playing
on my bedside radio
It was the part where Mick
was saying "I will be your knight in shiiiining armor"
That voice in the dark totally freaked me out
and to this day
the song is basically
my Goodbye Horses

YouTube video by 1091 Pictures Beaver Trilogy Part IV - OFFICIAL TRAILER

A documentary
about an encounter with a real guy
who dreamed of being on TV...
that was then remade
with a young actor at the time
named Sean Penn
and then remade yet again
with another new actor
named Crispin Glover.
An origami film
that keeps folding and folding...
youtu.be/JrPDJTw4srk?...

YouTube video by ceceliacondit POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (1983)

Unhinged and way ahead of its time.
Shot on video.
Horror musical.
Found footage splices.
1980s empty mall vibes.
Foggy suburb streets.
And masks.
Like you saw it once
on late night cable access
and now years later
you've convinced yourself
it was just a weird dream
youtu.be/iLJNSD3H5sg?...

Page one of the 1985 draft of the movie ALIENS by James Cameron. This scene describes the discovery of Ripley adrift in space in her tiny lifeboat ship. This is an example of a great page one of a screenplay.

Screenplays with a great Page One
ALIENS (1985 draft) by James Cameron
The visuals and atmosphere are all here.
You KNOW this is a movie.
But it was the opening line
with a touch of poetry
that taught me a screenplay
can go deeper.
"The stars shine like the love of God...
cold and remote."

Illustration of a park ranger looking up at Yosemite waterfall and upside down American flag hanging up at the top of the cliff. This is from the Resistance Rangers account on Instagram

Yeah… heard that one coming

This is the cover art for George Orwell's Animal Farm as illustrated by Ralph Steadman. 1996 edition. The image is without text or title. It shows two pigs amidst a splatter square box of black ink. One pig is giving a speech as another menacing pig stands guard nearby as if to serve a warning to those who dare oppose the words of the speech.

'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
Ralph Steadman illustrated edition/1996

Street art mural of a mother holding her young child. The mural is on an eleven story building in the country of Georgia. The mother wears a delicate cream-colored dress. Child and mother have eyes partially closed with a look of content and peace.

Don't spend money today.
Go outside instead.
Greedily consume nature.
Gobble up free art around you.
Acquire, grab, and seize
the riches of a conversation
with a stranger.

Mural: Javier Barriga
Photo: Jessica Stewart
Location: Country of Georgia

#24HourEconomicBlackout
#artoftheday

these page 1s getting it done!

This is the first page of the screenplay for the original Terminator movie. Dated 4th draft, April 20, 1983. Black typewriter text on a white page describing the opening of the movie.

Back in my "aspiring screenwriter" days we had to scrounge, trade, steal - do anything to get our hands on an actual draft. There was that one script for you personally where it just clicked. The pages actually taught you what it's supposed to look like.
For me, that script was THE TERMINATOR.

* The book was first published in 1945, so this year is actually the 80th anniversary.

Book cover for George Orwell's 1984. 75th Anniversary Edition. Red cover with a single big eye in the middle of the book cover. Handwritten font in white of the book title and author name.

And finally... the #1 Best Seller in Literary Fiction on today's Amazon book charts. I don't even need to make you guess. You already knew the answer.

Book cover for George Orwell's Animal Farm. Simple black book with white handwritten font of the author's name and book title. There is a pink pig tail and back legs visible, as the rest of the animal is out of frame. This is the 75th anniversary edition.

Let's keep the party going. Today's #1 Best Seller in Political Fiction on Amazon's book charts is... Animal Farm. This is the 75th Anniversary Edition. So yeah... a 75-year-old story still resonating.

Book cover for The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It features a faceless female figure with a white head covering and an all red gown.

Next up on today's Amazon book charts: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. #1 in Romance Literary Fiction. #2 in Political Fiction. And #2 in Dystopian Fiction.

Book cover of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's a simple black and red cover. This is the 60th anniversary edition. The artwork is a black book that is also a like a book of matches that is open at the top revealing a row of matches with red tips.

Also at the top of today's Amazon book charts. #1 in Classic American Literature. My personal copy that I've had since 8th grade is about five steps away from my desk.

The book cover for On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timony Snyder.

Let's check the Amazon charts for today's top books. #1 in Civics and Citizenship:

Still photo from the movie ALIENS where Ripley is at a hearing by the Weyland-Yutani Corp. to explain the events of why she blew up their ship. She gets very frustrated and finally hits her breaking point. "God damn it, that's not all! 'Cause if one of those things gets down here then that will be all! And all this, this bullshit that you think is so important, you can just kiss all that goodbye!"

Yeah... me too.

A very drab dystopian image of dozens of work cubicles but no one is here. It's an empty workplace with old style computers. No sense of privacy between the cubicles. If people were here, everyone could see everyone else. The partitions are barely there. Every cubicle looks the same. No sense of personal lives at these workstations. No personal items from home. No framed photos. Just old computers and old keyboards. It could be from the 1990s, or it could be today.

"It was nearly eleven hundred,
and in the Records Department,
where Winston worked,
they were dragging the chairs
out of the cubicles
and grouping them in the center of the hall
opposite the big telescreen,
in preparation for
the Two Minutes Hate."

- Orwell / 1984

Painting is called "The great century" by René Magritte. The image shows a man standing on the other side of a low wall. The man's back is to us as the viewer. The man wears a bowler hat and dark jacket. He stands before a field that stretches out into the distance. A line of trees on either side of frame. The sky is white, but not clouds, made up of what looks to be window frames of a house. Art form: Painting Subject and objects: Allegorical scene Style of art: Surrealism Technique: Oil Materials: Canvas Date of creation: 1954

"Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was
safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing."

- Orwell, 1984

Black and white photograph of married artistic partners, Diane and Leo Dillon. They both gaze off into the distance but appear to be looking at the same thing. Diane and Leo met at Parsons School of Design in 1954. Before dating, they were fans of each other's work and this admiration started a life-long collaboration of illustrating books. They have received many awards, including the 1971 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction For Fantasy Artist and the Caldecott Medal in 1976 and 1977. More about this husband and wife team can be found at R. Michelson Galleries.

This is an illustration titled Spirit of the Reef that appeared in Spectrum Magazine Issue 21 (Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Covers) Original illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon. The painting features a female underwater entity amidst fish and aquatic plants. The colors are aqua blue and turquoise.

"We could look at ourselves as one artist rather than two individuals, and that third artist was doing something neither one of us would do." - Diane and Leo Dillon. Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. #artoftheday

Page 1. Paragraph 2. Orwell wastes no time:
"Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week."
- 1984

Photograph of a street art flier stapled to a telephone poll. The flier has a bright yellow background with a black U.S. mailbox in the center. The word LOVE, in red letters, is the message on the lifted mailbox arm. At the bottom of the flier are the words SEND IT in large white letters.

Make art.
Put it out there in the world.
Anywhere.
Everywhere!
A RANDOM ACT OF ART is powerful.
#artoftheday