Robbie Consing

Storyboard Artist - Spider-Man (s),
VENOM trilogy, Minority Report, Mission:Impossible , Fast and Furious, Armageddon, WWZ, etc.

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@ThwipT_ Looks more like "photo bashing". def: "a digital art technique where artists merge multiple photographs, textures, and 3D assets into a single base image, then paint over and blend them to create fast, realistic concept art." Pretty common for key frames.

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@homeagain03 If Rogue hits as a character (and this could have been part of the negotiations), spinoff films and tv shows are all in play.

[spooky liz 🎃 @lizaboth]

This is what pro life/pro family is btw

[Reza @Reza_shuaib]

Man this shot is insane.

[Anung Un Drama @spaceghost]

Robert California’s dialogue fitting flawlessly with Ultron’s characterization is making me cry laugh

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@BDupaincheng spider-sense NOT good when thirsty

[Colin McLaughlin @colinthecrabb]

Spider-man movie rankings:

The first second one
The first cartoon one
The first first one
The third first one
The second cartoon one
The third second one
The first third one
The first fourth one
The second third one
The second first one
The second second one

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@annakatherines_ Seeing that perfect Los Angeles location light and remembering how brilliant and intricate THE STUDIO'S camera and staging work is makes this even more painful.

[koreanoli @koreanoli]

The only thing standing between Ludwig Göransson from going back to back at the Oscars.

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@scottderrickson Se7en and Fight Club's opening title sequences are some damn brilliant storytelling as well.

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@LukeBarnett GRAVITY blew me away when it came out, and it's still damn impressive IMO

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@dieworkwear Are there any higher end, off the rack labels that you would recommend for suits? I'm 5'7" and I feel like alterations are ineffective when the suit models pictured for Paul Smith, Dolce, etc are 6'2"...

[Don Durrett - goldstockdata.com @DonDurrett]

Mid-Week Macro

Silver crashed 8% today to $57 and is down 53% from its ATH. Gold is at $4,000 and down 28%. The HUI is down 36% from its ATH. Agnico Eagle is down 40% from its January ATH.

This is a brutal correction, but those are normal in gold/silver bull markets. In 1975-76, there was a 45% silver correction. In 2004, there was a 40% silver correction. In 2008, silver had a 60% correction.

We could see another 60% correction, which would take silver to $48. I think $48 to $55 is a range to expect. If it doesn’t happen in the near term, it could happen in Q3 or Q4. For gold, we should expect a range of $3500 to $3800.

Some of you perhaps wish you had taken some profits and were sitting on cash right now to buy this dip. The problem with that approach is that once you start skimming profits, you will be a trader. Then you will enter the slippery slope of thinking you can be a good trader. Trading is difficult. Let the pros do it. Instead, stay on the train and ride it to the top. To do this, you have to believe in one thing: the US economy is a debt bubble ready to pop, and will pop. That belief will make it easier to ride these dips. Plus, if you have any dry powder, these dips are extraordinary opportunities to buy gold/silver miners on sale.

Gold (silver follows gold) has several factors that have contributed to pushing it down 28%. These factors have had a multiplier effect. First, we had a huge run from August to February and needed a correction. Second, the war in Iran created a selling and inflationary impact. Third, AI stocks pushed up the stock market and lowered the chance of a recession (decreasing uncertainty). Fourth, Kevin Warsh sounded like a hawk in his first press conference, increasing the chance of lower real rates.

One of these factors would not have been able to push gold down 28%, but combined, it occurred. Is the gold/silver bull market over? Ask yourself this: Is AI going to be the savior of the US economy and the US debt bubble? Did the business cycle go away? Is the US economy now recession-proof? My take is that the problems with the US economy have put a floor under gold, and the trend for gold prices remains up. I’m buying this dip and will buy the next one when it comes. I expect at least one more. I don’t think these are the 2026 lows for gold and silver.

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

I cried today. I'm not going to pretend I didn't.

Four presidents shared a stage in Chicago, a thing that used to be ordinary and now feels almost holy, and I felt the tears come before I understood them. At first I thought I knew what they were. I thought they were grief. I thought I was crying for how far we've drifted from that morning in 2008 when so many of us let ourselves believe, all the way down, that America could be better than her history. That we could be better. The distance between that morning and this one felt like the whole sad arc of the story, and for a moment I let myself sit inside the ache of it.

But the longer President Obama spoke, the more I understood I had it backwards.

He told a story I can't stop thinking about. The line we all know, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, didn't start with Dr. King. King was borrowing it from a Boston minister named Theodore Parker, who preached it more than 170 years ago. And here is the part that broke me open: Parker preached it at one of the darkest moments this country had ever seen. The Compromise of 1850 had just made it a federal crime to shelter a man fleeing slavery. In Boston, a young fugitive had been seized, tried, and marched to the harbor by hundreds of armed officers, put on a ship, and sent back south into chains. While the whole city watched.

That is when Parker said it. Not in triumph. In the dark.

He admitted he couldn't see how it would end. “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe,” he preached. “The arc is a long one. My eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve... I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see, I am sure it bends toward justice.”

He couldn't see it. He believed it anyway. And then he kept fighting.

As Obama put it today, Parker's words were “a declaration of faith, a defiant call, not to abandon hope or give way to fear, but to stay true to our better selves, and true to one another, and to keep fighting... even in the face of cruelty and bitter disappointment, even in the face of impossible odds.”

And that's when my tears changed. Right there. They stopped being grief and became something else, something that scared me a little with how much it felt like hope. Because I realized I wasn't witnessing a eulogy for a country we'd lost. I was watching a man reach down and hand us back the very thing we had set down in our exhaustion. The arc doesn't bend on its own. It never did. It bends because people put their hands on it and pull, people who can't see the end and reach for it anyway. People in the dark, refusing to believe the dark gets the last word.

He would not let the day be about him. He said it plainly: America's story “isn't frozen in the past. It has chapters yet to be written, not by one person or a few people, not by Barack and Michelle... but by all of us.” Michelle said the same thing in her own way, that the center was never about them, never for them. Look up at that building and you'll see three words cut into the stone: You are America.Not him. Not them. You. Us. The ordinary, the unfamous, the tired, us.

And then Bruce Springsteen walked out with a guitar and sang “Land of Hope and Dreams.” If you don't know it, it's a song about a train, a train with room for everybody on it. Saints and sinners. The lost. The broken. The ones who've been left standing at every other station their whole lives. This train carries everybody. He sang it soft and aching, like a prayer he wasn't sure would be answered but was going to say anyway, and when the last note left him he turned to the Obamas and said the only thing left to say. “I love you.”

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@empiremagazine

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

[Robbie Consing @RobbieConsing]

@NicholasPas5 Also, isn't Charles Dance playing his father, Christoper Dent?

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things the recovery industry will not tell you:

1. The drug worked. That is why people use it. Not weakness. Not moral failure.
A neurological event so complete and persuasive that any honest account of addiction has to start there.
The problem is not that the drug fails. The problem is that what it does is unrepeatable, and you will burn your entire life to the ground trying to get back to a place that no longer exists.

2. Shame is not guilt. Guilt says I did something bad. Shame says I am something bad. Guilt is appropriate. Shame is a cell with no windows. Most people use the words interchangeably. That mistake is lethal.

3. You cannot shame someone who has already named the thing you are holding over them. Say it first. Say it in plain light. The weapon drops.

4. Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time. I know because I live there.

5. Radical honesty does not give you back who you were. It hands you the clean slate of who you always wanted to be. The mask comes off. The cartoon other people drew of you stays on the page.

6. Nobody gets clean on a winning streak.

7. You have to be almost self-delusional in your forgiveness of yourself. (Go watch Chase Hughes)

8. The greatest sin was not the chaos. It was the absence. Being unavailable to the people who needed you.

9. Sustainable recovery starts with one thing: honesty with yourself. If you love an addict and want to help, that is the only door in.

10. I am only an expert on my recovery. Nobody is an expert on anyone else’s.