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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."

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[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

As a practicing physician, I never questioned this vaccine schedule.

I assumed that the CDC had our best interest at heart almost throughout the entirety of my career.

But after what I saw the CDC do during Covid, i’m questioning all of it. This schedule must be investigated.

[JRS @jrs_x_]

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Woody Harrelson: “I can’t help but wonder, in spite of all the criticism Bobby Kennedy Jr. received for encouraging us to be somewhat skeptical about these rushed Covid vaccines …

What if he was right?”

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[Leigh Tucker @NonprofitCFOs]

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[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Election interference may be a charged phrase, but last weekend’s decision by Meta to censor the 30-minute video “Who Is Bobby Kennedy?” from Instagram and Facebook interferes with voters’ decision-making. Regardless of who pressured Meta, this is election interference, plain and simple. Our campaign’s Director of Content, Jonathan Hiller, explains why.

#rfkjr #kennedy24 #kennedyshanahan24

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

AstraZeneca withdrawn after admitting blood clots, Pfizer are settling cancer cases out of court and former CNN anchors are taking Ivermectin. "Where's your Conspiracy Theory Now?!"

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@mayemusk @elonmusk @POTUS Biden needs to be scrutinized.

[Linda Wehrli, Founder/Instructor @PastimesInc]

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[#NoHoArtsDistrict @officialnoho]

Maestros of the Violin and Guitar bring duos and solos to NOHO! Russian-American violinist Philip Vaiman and Cuban guitarist Laura Mazon Franqui bring their stellar performances to @TheAthenaArts 2023 Summer Concert Series on Sunday, September 10!
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[#NoHoArtsDistrict @officialnoho]

CicLAmini—North Hollywood!
Sunday, September 17, from 9 AM to 3 PM.
One mile of car-free open space to enjoy the neighborhood!
@CicLAvia
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[Linda Wehrli, Founder/Instructor @PastimesInc]

🌟 #September Student of the Month • Luda S.

#Courses Studied:
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#Watercolor 201
#OilPastel 101
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New concert video clips of the Vieness Piano duos April 2, 2023 concert. Vijay Venkatesh performed Chopin’s Barcarole Op. 60. Eva Schaumkell played Rachmaninoff’s Moments Musicaux Nos. 3-4 in addition to duos. 🎹🎶🙌https://t.co/xwpxoySBKY