SkudsBuquette

trying to live in the suburbs of authenticity...lover of the beautiful and true...goodness surely will follow? architect, small space dr 🐝 🌱 🕊 sensate sense8

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tail light functioning

let’s go

peace

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

Are you ready for the real Disclosure Day?

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Veni Sancte Spiritus in Barcelona with Pope Leo XIV. Heavenly

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Arcade BPT CT

[Daniel O'Connor @DSDOConnor]

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eggs up

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@charity479

[Home Builder Tanner Alexander @TannerBuilds]

These full scale exterior mockups are one of my favorite things in homebuilding. They let neighbors, clients, and architects see exactly how the home will look before it’s built

[This Old House @ThisOldHouse]

Free water for your garden every time it rains! 🌧️ @TomSilvaTOH walks through how to build a #DIY rain barrel.

[🏛Architectolder @Architectolder]

If there is one style of home that gets about 50/50 love hate, it is the MCM

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@SteveSkojec @Slate moon based pope

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Live look-in of Silicon Valley Elites’ brains after being told by the pope that they can’t, in fact, create consciousness.

[Francisco Gómez de Tejada | arquitecto @gomezdetejada]

Bauer House, diseñada en 1957 por Carl Maston en Hope Ranch, California.

Foto: Julius Shulman, 1958; © J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute; restaurada por Modernist Collection.

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A Hans Gruber and Les Grossman edit the internet is not ready for.

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May’s passing showers.

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

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one drop or two?

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reflex

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bandit on the lookout

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early morning never disappoints