John Lam

ig: johniboy

[TINASHE @Tinashe]

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

[【公式】Fate/Grand Order @fgoproject]

【カルデア広報局より】
★RPキャンペーン対象ポストはこちら！①★
本日9月16日(水)19:00から「FGO カルデア放送局 ライト版 ～くたばれ！ パンプキンファーム･スローター～」を配信予定！
本ポストを含む対象ポスト2件のリポスト合計数が「7万リポスト達成」で「聖晶石14個」をプレゼント！

#FGO

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Hiro Murai (‘Widow's Bay’) makes history as the first Asian director to win Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series at the #Emmys.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Happy 45th birthday to the legendary Beyoncé.

Making her debut in 1990 with Destiny's Child, she has built a lasting legacy by raising the bar and breaking barriers with each new era. Known as a vocal powerhouse she has headlined 7 tours grossing at least $100 million, the most out of any female artist in history. Her impact on music and pop culture is undeniable, she is credited for changing the Global Release Day to Friday and transforming the production, distribution, promotion, and consumption of music. She is also credited for popularizing surprise drops and visual albums. Billboard has named her the Greatest Pop Star of the 21st century and she has won 38 Grammys throughout her career — the most for any artist ever, male or female.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[【公式】Fate/Grand Order @fgoproject]

【カルデア広報局より】
★RPキャンペーン対象ポストはこちら！①★
本日8月12日(水)19:00から「FGO カルデア放送局 ライト版 ～水着イベント2026～」を配信予定！
本ポストを含む対象ポスト2件のリポスト合計数が「7万リポスト達成」で「聖晶石14個」をプレゼント！

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#FGO

[【公式】Fate/Grand Order @fgoproject]

【カルデア広報局より】 ⭐FGO Fes. 情報⭐
★★RPキャンペーン対象ポスト③★★
「FGO カルデア放送局 11周年SP」を配信中！
本ポストを含む対象ポスト3件のリポスト合計数が10万リポスト達成で聖晶石最大20個をプレゼント！

#FGO #FGO11周年

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[BEYONCÉ'S CATALOG @beyscatalog]

🚨 Roc Nation shares a 4K video of Beyoncé, JAŸ-Z, and Blue Ivy performing at JAŸZ-30 last night.

[Mike Carolla @SJTimes13]

oh this movie is gonna be an all timer

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Christopher Nolan says the creatures in ‘THE ODYSSEY’ are inspired by Guillermo del Toro's work.

“What I learned from him is that a monster is not a monster. You have to approach them the way you approach any other character.”

(Source: https://t.co/XlOZWYHjst)

[۟ @ctrikeu]

the designers of the renaissance tour - inspired by the og edit

[The Sims @TheSims]

If you can’t handle a Hottie❤️‍🔥 stay out of the kitchen😒

[Zak @zakfilm]

Marcia Cross will always have my respect for speaking up for Palestine despite losing friends and dealing with the smear campaigns against her

[BEYPRESS. @beyoncepress]

Zendaya says that someone saying, "I don't know any Beyoncé songs," is one of the worst confessions someone can make before marriage.

[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.

[Ramza @TypeRamza]

Hearing Michael B. Jordan talk about Fate/Stay Night after winning an Oscar is so bizarre to me

[🗝️ @DiaryOfKeysus]

Imagine being Viola Davis daughter and Michael B Jordan’s mama… Only Emma Stone can relate #Oscars