Mel Selfe

The country, Americans, good businessmen and women, anybody with leadership skills, the military, women, Black people, Latino and Latina people, gay people, Trans people, disabled veterans, children, old people and dogs!

But if you think about it, the only idiot that is a common denominator is HIM!

I still have this on VHS. I was so excited when it was released in the 90s. With hindsight, I understand why my shop colleagues thought I was a bit weird. And I probably do belong in academia.

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

Cool! Clever people may have bred ones that hold their colour regardless. Or maybe your garden is a weird mix.

How To Change Hydrangea Color (Blue, Pink or Purple) - Garden Design To change the color fo hydrangeas you'll need to adjust your soil's pH levels. A lower pH will turn hydrangeas blue, while a higher pH will make them pink.

And the fact it’s pink probably means you have quite alkaline soil. www.gardendesign.com/hydrangea/ho...

Is the one who is dead the much missed @rudyfan.bsky.social?

This cannot be said loudly or often enough.

I like the way the technical Emmys now recognise clusters of innovation in the same field together. Because that’s always the reality of innovation. And the historical reality is that there will be others for which we have no records.

Whether its tech or technique, it’s always about shifting the definitional goalposts so your man/woman/nation wins.

The partisan claiming of firsts is the least attractive thing about early film culture.

Ha! Yes, I read this last night and was trying to work out if it was an AI hallucination or put together by a 30 something who is close to committing murder if she has to spend another weekend and a bucket of money she doesn’t have on ‘celebrating’ other people’s love.

Dammit! Aren’t there enough tantalising lost silents, without you making up fictitious ones for us to mourn?

flip book! "Dance Lesson: from the good old days" (1941) #mediaBeforeMedia

This. These are people who generally left university after their undergraduate degree and most retain an undergraduate notion of what constitutes ‘research’.

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton Literally every company now

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HippFest HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s first and oldest cinema; featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, ...

Pleased to say that Frank Marshall films, and other amateur cinema delights from the NLS Scottish Screen Archive often get programmed as shorts before the features at Hippfest, Scotland’s annual silent film festival. www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/

Anita! Sold. It goes on my list.

This is such sad news. Barb was a friend and a truly extraordinary archivist, someone genuinely interested in sharing her knowledge and the collections she managed as freely and widely as possible. The exact opposite of a gate-keeping archivist. A phenomenal loss for Hollywood historians. 💔

Oh wow! 👏👏👏👏👏

Experience: I fought off a polar bear with a saucepan I pulled back the tent flap and there it was, an arm’s length away. So I reached for the closest weapon to hand – my mother’s old porridge-encrusted pot

What fool gave a polar bear a saucepan?

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Nicholas Brothers klaxon 📢

‘Megalopolis’: No Streaming and Blu-Ray, Says Francis Ford Coppola

Ooo ooo ooo! This means I have a constant excuse to talk about the origins of cinema:

Viewed through a coin-operated peepshow device with communal earbuds.

Barry Diller Doesn’t Want to Pretend Anymore

I think this is genuinely lovely - and the outline of it was obvious when I interviewed both of them, separately, in 1993 for my BBC production 'MeTV: The Future of Television'.

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Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer reimagined with biscuits/cookies, by Julia Timoshkova. The model is her daughter Antonina #Monday

inevitably, the dots

Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

Fully funded PhD at Glasgow University as part of the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme

Fanfiction and Online Fan Communities: Collecting Practice and Inclusion in a National Collection

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in Very Warm for May

in the movie Cover Girl

with Edith Meiser, Vivian Vance, and Danny Kaye in Let's Face It!

in Hello, Dolly!

Happy Eve Arden's birthday!

So... Beanie Walker.

If you want to see silent movie title cards done right, Walker was the best to ever do it. Nobody came close.

It is the cook’s curse. I feel your pain.

Anita Loos at Palm Beach, Florida (with Cecil Beaton) - BOTD