Ivan Christopher

Expensive taste. Bad decisions.

[Ivan Christopher @ivanilla_cola]

TRACK 16

My 7-month hiatus offering.

Featuring: Phantom Regret by Jim from DAWN FM by @theweeknd

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[ROSALÍA UPDATE @updaterosalia]

Roberto Neri, CEO of the British awards ceremony The Ivors, spoke about ROSALÍA in a recent interview with HDD:

“People are beginning to look beyond the chaos of artificial intelligence and truly appreciate the meaning behind these songs, how they were created, how they are conveyed, and how they are perceived by the world. I’ll refer to ROSALÍA performing recently at The O2; you need to physically see, appreciate, and hear the music of such an extraordinary artist.

The awards have been important for 71 years, and their relevance continues to grow year after year. They are regarded as the equivalent of the Oscars in music, and that recognition is even more amplified this year on a global scale. It is no longer just a hidden secret in the United Kingdom. The stage will be filled with exceptional songwriters, many of whom are known to the public as artists and wear different hats, but the reality is that they create extraordinary songs. ROSALÍA and Linda Perry, already announced as winners, are two exceptional women and exceptional songwriters. These awards truly are the most respected music awards on the planet.”

[Ivan Christopher @ivanilla_cola]

What happened to all your 5.01 theories?

#Beyonce #ActIII

[Ivan Christopher @ivanilla_cola]

Now that @Surkin is finally getting his well deserved attention, let me introduce y’all to his other masterpiece feat. @070shake — enjoy!

[Cultura Inquieta @culturainquieta]

El clip colaborativo del rapero sueco Yung Lean y GENER8ION supera los límites de un simple videoclip musical y ya es un festín visual extraordinario. 🔥

La coreografía, a cargo del gran coreógrafo francés Damien Jalet. 💥

Hoy, 29 de abril, Día internacional de la danza.

[primadonna @versaceschanel]

this is not normal like she's few performances away from triggering the second coming of jesus

[Sisa @TheTitanBaddie]

Not a single one of these sounds like another. None of them are about the same thing or inspired by the same sonic idea.

No nachos were reheated, no compromises in quality, nothing was rushed.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[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.

[Chioma @Merchimaaa]

SHE HAS A NAME!!!!!!!

Eva Ramón Gallegos successfully eliminates HPV

[luna @lunarfq]

If this appears on your timeline. May everything align in your favor.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Nicolas is a cowboy @niggaolas]

Ppl gagging not knowing they play father and son in this movie 😭😭😭

[rose @wynrosei]

i don't know who needs to hear this but in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you’re innocent in the story you created

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

The plot for ‘BIG LITTLE TRUTHS,’ the sequel to ‘BIG LITTLE LIES,’ has been revealed:

“The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies—Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie—their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a child’s birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed, and the kids are now in high school, with all of the drama that accompanies teendom (goodbye playdates, hello drugs, sex, and alcohol).

Now, after the principal of the high school receives a severed human finger in the mail, the parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about. Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly—is it old-age forgetfulness and forthrightness, or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Bonnie has realized there’s only so much solace in yoga. And Renata? Renata is living her best life—revenge is sweet.

When a strange man begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. Because the stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating show—and the ice has never been thinner for any of them.”

A third season of the series is also in the works.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In Sicily, a classical music concert was held at the ancient Taormina Theatre, but the real star of the show was Mount Etna erupting.
A truly magical night!

[IChooseViolence @ourhermitage]

He listened to all of Beyoncé’s albums for the first time and was gagged!

“Not one album feels the same way as the other… she is unlike other big artists who find a formula that works and makes money for them and stick with it.. not Beyoncé”

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[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

This shot from Dune 3 trailer is absolutely insane

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Zendaya’s 2026

• The Drama — April 3
• Euphoria (Season 3) — April 12
• The Odyssey — July 17
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day — July 31
• Dune Part 3 — December 18

[meg. @wondermeg_]

I hope DUNE part three is 4 days long.

[zaso ✟ 📹 @ev1lzaso]

how I feel celebrating the dune 3 trailer in front of my non-cinephile friends

[fardeen @fardeentwt]

the world looks like this and we’re expected to sit in a room for 8 hours a day staring at a screen