DF Emme

technology and design at the intersection of culture, critical thinking and skepticism, 70s sci fi, space, random stuff. I do AI stuff too but post it elsewhere

[DF Emme @DFEmme42]

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Will get tweaked when I have time. Lore and favorite stuff goes here

[DF Emme @DFEmme42]

We must be in a timeline shift or something bc there are actually movies already out or coming out that i want to see

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They get it

[bennny @Driftwould2]

The hipster music discussion has devolved into 35 year olds trying to out-cool each other with what they listened to and frankly that’s the hipster spirit, right there

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@GrimfelOfficial Looks fun and cathartic, I’d play.

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@neomechanica

[Rachel Haywire @AltCulture]

One of the most important lessons for an independent founder or creator is learning to avoid public conflict.

Political differences, status games, and public grievances make serious builders look unserious. They also create openings for larger players to take credit for our work, poach our talent, and build on foundations they did not create.

As visionaries we care deeply, which is both a gift and a liability. We cannot become trapped in grievances with one another. We must become disciplined operators instead. The people shaping outcomes are paying attention to who can execute consistently.

Talent matters, but discipline determines who gets trusted with resources, opportunities, and influence. Build well, honor serious work, and resolve conflicts privately. If someone is creating something real, treat them accordingly. Stop sabotaging your own career.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Mario Bava on the troubles he faced while making 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965):

"I wish that the audience and the critics knew the conditions under which I am forced to make movies. For 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965), I didn’t have anything to work with. There was only a studio, completely empty and squalid, because there was no money: I had to turn that into a [mysterious, alien] planet.

So what did I do? In the studio next door there were two big plastic rocks, a leftover prop from a sword-and-sandal movie or something. I took these two rocks and I put them in the middle of my studio, then I covered the floor with smoke and I darkened the white wall in the background.

I shot the whole movie by moving the two rocks around the studio. Can you believe it? And, while I was shooting, there was this American screenwriter who kept rewriting the script, changing scenes and dialogues… After a while, I stopped listening to him.

Do you remember that, at the end of the movie, the astronauts land on planet Earth at the beginning of its existence? Well, the screenwriter wanted the astronauts to get off the spaceship and meet Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was located in Missouri, USA. Naturally, I refused to shoot this kind of stuff."

(Mario Bava's interview with Luigi Cozzi, translated by Cinepugno, 1970)

[DF Emme @DFEmme42]

I’ll be putting some more stuff up here. My other accounts either are connected to a specific world I am developing, and or my public body of work/brand stuff at this point.

If I added you from here then I already know you elsewhere. I’m not going bluecheck because I am not particularly trying to grow this account.

[Supernal @supernalmystic]

Biomorphism, aka Body Horror, is a meditation on turning the image of man inside out.

Everything is a machine

[DF Emme @DFEmme42]

@priestessofdada @xstinamendez Ghost movies are best when the ghost is treated as witness

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

In 1856, you actually had to be smart to go to college.

[Rachel Haywire @AltCulture]

People who constantly monitor the social temperature are incapable of changing the climate.

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Rick Baker’s concept art for the “flesh gun” in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983)

[D @D_the_Designer]

Starship by Verner Panton.

[Trinity ❤️‍🔥 @trinitythebull]

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🩸horror Friday submission🩸
❤️‍🔥✨🫣 my biggest fear is being stabbed in the eyes🫣✨❤️‍🔥

😘i made this for yall, please enjoy😘

❤️‍🔥Song: Eye Jelly by Me @suno
❤️‍🔥Video clips : @grok
❤️‍🔥Video Edito: CapCut @capcutapp

[DF Emme @DFEmme42]

One of the problems is the term “finding oneself” as if you’re lost and your real self is Out There Somewhere. Figuring out what you want to create yourself as, is better. After a life experience and period of depression where I lost my sense of who I was, I decided to start creating myself anew, in some cases from first principles.

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@AltCulture There is a period of time between the 2010s and the Pandemic when people without personalities were faking having personalities For The Algorithm and then forgot to turn it off when offline. It was dismal. They all had the same one persona and it was obnoxious.

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@AbakpaJob Ah yes the cat startup sound

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@RachelVT42 It doesn’t make sense to separate Southern California and Nevada from Southwest.