Evan Bourdage

[Evan Bourdage @eabourdage]

Someone just bought my dad a drink because "he's the guy from KFAN" 😂@PowerTripKFAN @Chris_Hawkey

[Evan Bourdage @eabourdage]

@MrBeast 8,652,156

[Evan Bourdage @eabourdage]

@unrlco @mnwild @CatieCait

[UNRL @unrlco]

We’re giving away the ultimate UNRL x @mnwild Playoff Experience for Game 3 on 04.22.

You will receive:
+ 2 Club level tickets
+ 2 Limited Edition UNRL x Wild Hoodies
+ 1 Signed Quinn Hughes Jersey

To enter:
Like, RT, & tag a friend. Must be following to win.

1 Winner from Instagram, X, or Facebook will be announced April 21st. No purchase necessary to enter.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[UNRL @unrlco]

Like and RT this if you think we should do a Timberwolves playoff drop 👀

[Evan Bourdage @eabourdage]

@KFAN1003 @iHeartRadio @CatieCait

[KFAN1003 @KFAN1003]

🎟️Wild fans, we've got your tickets to Game 4 tomorrow! All you have to do to enter is:
🏒Like & Share this Post
🏒Follow @KFAN1003
🏒Tag your hockey buddy in the comments

Winners will be selected and DM'd from this account after 5pm today! #mnwild @iHeartRadio

[Steez⁴⁷ @Steez_47]

The live version Mac Miller did for this song>>>

[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

The first 40,000 fans at @usbankstadium will receive these @3M hand warmers.

Repost for your chance to win a pair of #GBvsMIN tickets and opportunity to get these hand warmers.

[KFAN1003 @KFAN1003]

It's a #KFANPurpleFriday, and we've got your tickets to the Border Battle this Sunday!!
To enter:
🏈Follow @KFAN1003
🏈Like and Share this Post
🏈Use #KFANVikes and tag who you'd take with you in the comments!

Winner selected by 3pm TODAY! Good luck and SKOL #vikings

[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

Who wants to spend their Sunday with us?

Repost for your chance to win a pair of tickets to #GBvsMIN and a pair of postgame field passes for the @natesmithsongs concert!

🎫: @MillerLite

[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

The Winter Warrior 🥶🥶🥶

Repost for your chance to win a #WinterWhiteout game poster and a signed mini helmet.

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[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

Who wants to join us for Sunday's game at @usbankstadium?

Repost for your chance to win a pair of tickets to #AZvsMIN.

💻: @Microsoft
📎: https://t.co/0w41LA2MrS

[Azriel Mari @MrMariae]

It’s time for the reminder

[Minnesota Vikings @Vikings]

Don’t have tickets to #DETvsMIN?

Don’t worry. We’ve got you.

Repost for a chance to win a pair of tickets.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I think that neither Trump nor Harris will destroy America if elected president.

Call me crazy, but I think that Trump is not a fascist and Harris is not a communist.

I think this is a reasonable rational position, but according to the internet it's insane 🤣

Either way, getting attacked by both sides has been mentally exhausting for me. Perhaps that's the design of the current political climate: anyone with moderate open-mindedness needs to be pushed out in favor of a "battle" between dogmatic extremes. This doesn't seem like the right path toward truth.

[Heavy Rotation Brewing @heavyrotationBP]

Surprise!

Aaron from @NorthernFireBBQ and @PaulCharchian joined @madproducer1 to chat with Chad (owner of @BigBoreBarbecue) to chat all things BBQ for the “Hogs” portion of the show.

You’re definitely going to want to listen to this episode when it drops!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is how Jupiter protects Earth. It acts as a gatekeeper for our planet, preventing most asteroids from entering the inner orbits of the solar system.