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i read steinbeck at 15 bc he was featured in one tree hill. i found daft punk through that pentatonix mashup. i watched a room with a view bc a favorite professors loved it. These are all favorites of mine now. you arent born with cultural knowledge, you have to find it somewhere
We were delighted to welcome our new BFI Fellow Guillermo del Toro to the BFI National Archive this week for a tour of the Conservation Centre.
Photos: Tim Whitby
The moon being our little shield taking a million massive impacts CONSTANTLY just to keep Earth from disintegrating……….yeah I’d be a flat earther too if I had zero whimsy or romance in my soul
We are all made of the same fabric as the stars and if they’re romantic and whimsical we should also be romantic and whimsical. Because the universe said so.
One frame. One moment. Everything after this is momentum, trajectory, physics. But right here, right now, a rocket is deciding to leave the Earth. The solid boosters ignite and hold down claps release. This is the last instant four astronauts are still on Earth but once those clamps release when the booster fire, there’s no going back, only forward.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II liftoff | Pad 39B, Kennedy Space Center | April 1, 2026
This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
Trump has authorized the removal of permits that were put in place to protect endangered species and now workers are allowed to kill these animals so they can drill the oceans for oil. There are only 50 of these whales left in the wild and they may all die because of this. They are trying to find loop holes in the endangered species act to do this and it will result in the deaths of innocent animals and may even lead to an entire species’ extinction.
Please contact your representatives and demand action be taken to stop this. These animals do not have a voice to advocate for themselves. We must be their voice and protect our planet. Please share this!!!!!!