30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.
Christopher Nolan filmed part of his new Odyssey on Iceland's black sand beaches, near Vik on the southern coast.
Homer never saw a landscape like this. Black volcanic sand, gray sky, water that looks like it belongs at the edge of the world.
It's the kind of place ancient sailors imagined when they pictured sailing past the known map, into myth.
That's the thing this whole story runs on. Every generation redraws the edge of the world to fit what scares them.
I wrote about where Nolan's new version draws that line differently than Homer did.
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A visitor near Sedona, Arizona, who wishes to remain anonymous, was filming the clouds when something unusual appeared above the red rocks.
At first, it looked like a faint rainbow caught inside a thin cloudโbut the clouds continued moving while the strange formation remained almost perfectly still. Its position barely changed, yet its transparent body never stopped shifting. Different sections stretched, folded, dissolved and formed again without following any recognizable pattern.
The person recording slowly zoomed in for a closer look. There were no solid edges, lights, wings or visible structureโonly an iridescent distortion that seemed to bend the sky behind it. When the camera zoomed back out, the anomaly was still hovering over the same location.
Was it an unusual atmospheric phenomenon, cloud iridesence? A plasma-like object? Or, a distortion caused by the camera, or something we still donโt understand?
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According to Clint Eastwood, during the filming of "The Shootist" (1976), Don Siegel got into trouble with John Wayne. He asked Wayne to shoot the villain in the back in one of the scenes in the movie. After a long pause, Wayne asked, "You mean I shoot him in the back?". Siegel replied, "Yeah, just shoot him, because he has got four other guys with him". Wayne replied back, "I don't shoot anyone in the back". Siegel then told Wayne that Eastwood would have shot him in the back. Wayne's face turned blue and he said, "I don't care what that kid would have done, I don't shoot him in the back". Eastwood felt that it was a terrible error on the part of Siegel in saying that.
P.S: On this day, 50 years ago, "The Shootist" (1976) premiered in Carson City, Nevada, USA.
JD Vance reveals what his family found after his devout, f-bomb loving grandmother died.
VANCE: "She was a woman of very devout Christian faith. She loved the f-bomb.
"When she died, we discovered 19 loaded handguns in her house.
"Not just 19, but 19 spread randomly all over her house.
"What the hell did she need with a loaded handgun in the silverware drawer?
"She wanted to make sure that no matter where she was, if somebody walked into her house in Middletown, Ohio, she had a loaded handgun within arms reach because she couldn't move around that well."
They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
My wife will drink enough caffeine to kill a horse, binge a murder documentary, and then look me dead in the eye and say...
"I'm having a lot of anxiety today."