Accented Cinema

Youtube film essayist who talks about Asian and world cinema.
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Hi everyone. As you may have noticed, I'm no longer active on Twitter.

If you'd like to follow me on social media, I'll resume activity on these two platforms instead:

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@Guangjie_LF Thank you!

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Does anyone know where this image came from? It depicts a hydraulic mill from the Song dynasty.
Supposedly, it's a scan from Cambridge Illustrated History of China, a book by Patricia Ebrey. If you know or have the book, please let me know the source.
Thank you!

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One source says it's part of the "Along the River Qing Ming" scroll. I searched through all four iterations of the scroll and found nothing.

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Seems to be fixed. Solution: choose a default image, REFRESH YouTube Studio, choose another default image, refresh again. Reupload thumbnail.
Writing this down for future prosperity.

Here's what it looked like before it was fixed.

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Hi friends. YouTube just turned the thumbnail of my lastest video into an error grey box. Any one know how to fix this?
Reuploading, choosing the default images, changing image sizes, I tried everything and they all did Jack Daniels.

https://t.co/QvgQsCe2MF

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Coming out of hibernation to tell you this:
Many viewers asked us where they can watch Hi, Mom (2021), a movie we covered a few years ago. Turns out, the entire film is on YouTube, legally, for free. Give it a watch, and prepare to cry!

https://t.co/0d1kb9c5G7 via @YouTube

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Anyway, this will be my last tweet on Twitter for the foreseeable future. I don't want people to see me browsing "X".
I wanna enjoy my sanity before the Atlantic circulation shuts down.

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#Barbie Review:
If you think the movie is unfair to men, telling men what they should and shouldn't do, mocking men for their hobbies, objectifying men, and it all makes you angry... Please, ask yourself:

Why didn't you get angry when women face the same thing every day?

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And it's impossible to turn off, too!! I had to access the service menu; edit the registry; even had to mess with the boot menu!!
It's like driving on the road and some asshat decides to help you turn faster by grabbing the wheel. Get off my f*cking car!

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Who came up with the idea that TVs and tablets should auto-dim their screens during dark movie scenes!? It's distracting!! What is wrong with you!
If I wanna see something so dark I don't know what's going on, I'd stare at the hearts of alt-right politicians, thank you!

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New video! 20 years ago, a little movie called Ong-Bak came out, introducing us to superstar Tony Jaa, and changing the world of martial arts cinema forever.
What impact did Tony Jaa made? Come and let's talk about it!

https://t.co/9dTQxbsmcN via @YouTube

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In Chinese, a medley is called a "skewer".
Like a shish kebab.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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3) Why are all the museum free!? Why can't museums be free in Canada!?

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Last couple of pics from my trip to China, and last couple of murmurs:
1) Even though I was in Hong Kong, I still got a scam call on my traveler SIM card. Truly nothing unites the human experience more than dealing with these asshats.

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2) I rode the central escalator because it appeared in many movies.
And then I realized it only goes half way up the mountain. It ends in the middle of nowhere! The most convenient way to get back to downtown was to ride a tram up to Victoria Peak and then take a bus...

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So, I watched it. It turns out to be an indie movie about a group of struggling people trying to find aliens.
Depending on your mood, this movie is either boring and uneventful, humorous and heartfelt, or, in my case, melancholic.
It's a strange experience, but a worthwhile one.

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Journey to the West adaptations are getting weirder and weirder.

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@Lonelystarrd22 At this point it's still all speculation, since Nintendo has not given any design info just yet.

Now that you mention it... it is kinda interesting how similar Early Dynastic Chinese art and Mesoamerican art are.
Here is a Jade pendant from the Shang dynasty, for reference.

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The reason Japanese games have so many "ancient alien race who uplifts humanity" may be shaped by Japanese history.

In Neolithic Japan, the Yayoi people from Asian Mainland introduced rice cultivation and iron age tech to Japan, transforming local culture in a blink of an eye.