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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 @BengalsCaptain]

Today's air quality: 80s Ponderosa smoking section.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

You hear about moose your whole life, think you've got 'em figured out. Big deer, right? Wrong. There you are minding your own business when one appears, no warning, no sound, like a pickup truck with legs. Up close, you realize real quick... you don't know how big a moose is until one decides you're standing in its living room. 🫎

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

There is something comforting about hearing birds sing before the world gets noisy.
It feels like hope waking up 😊

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

Tiny stone stars from an ancient sea floor. These are star-shaped crinoid columnals, the fossilized stem pieces of sea lilies that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

[redcobra @msdenisenicole]

@TheTorontoSun @JaneCStevenson I have fond memories of working at that hmv. I was also at that Joe Strummer event.

[redcobra @msdenisenicole]

@scorpio114 Trying to sleep

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

🎨🖌️🖼️
Hidden in a Parisian courtyard is La Maison du Pastel, the world's oldest pastel maker.

With a 300-year-old legacy of making pastels by hand, the shop served clients like Edgar Degas.
@MaisonPastelRP

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

Music choice is perfect for this little hitchhiker

[Earth @earthcurated]

Standing perfectly still to attract a group of meerkats, a photographer was mistaken for a rock and promptly turned into a climbing frame.

[Renata @RL9631]

Super cool 🐦‍⬛and 🐄 !
😂🤣
I can't even explain why I found this so interesting and amusing.

[𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗍 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗆𝗉𝖾𝗋 🐍 @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

This is what happiness looks like..🐾😍

[MLB @MLB]

One of the best "slides" ever 😮

... but is it THE best? 🤔

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Why did this go out of style - 🤷‍♂️

[redcobra @msdenisenicole]

@KPILLAR4 11 years ago today I snapped this pic. #superman

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A father built this for his daughter and her friends.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This black squirrel sitting in the snow in Canada is absolutely beautiful

[redcobra @msdenisenicole]

Hey @Sportsnet - Any chance you could switch up the tired political commercials during the Jays games? I’d rather watch the field like the Apple broadcast.