Sal

Designer, photographer, part-time writer, and cat dad.
*design portfolio under construction*

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[A24 @A24]

Kane Parsons is 21 years old.

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Uncle Iroh voice actor Greg Baldwin criticizes Paramount over the state of the 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' franchise

“Paramount doesn’t care about ATLA ... The new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"I can speak freely because I’m 65 years old and my pocketful of fucks is seriously depleted"

"Working as a paralegal at various studios in LA for thirty years…I had the opportunity to observe studio executives closely. They’re generally a slippery and clueless bunch who shouldn’t be allowed near anything remotely creative…but the new regime at Paramount is straight up evil"

"These soulless bastards have nothing but contempt for a show about grace and redemption and the struggle against fascism"

"ATLA is a mystery to them."

"They. Do. Not. Value. The. Franchise."

"Who should lose their jobs to AI? Answer… Studio Executives. Ironically…those cockroaches will be the last to go"

"In conclusion… Fuck you, Paramount"

(via @GregBaldwinIroh)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ is officially A24's highest grossing movie of all time worldwide.

The film just passed $200M.

[Gallantly Streaming Ramparts Since 2010 @okelley_jared]

Backrooms
A movie about an alcoholic spiraling into irrelevance who coexists with looping memories of his anguish until they become unrecognizable, and once he accepts the lie that he doesn't need to find a new path to a dead end in his life, and embraces the victimhood of his own narrative, he becomes the very thing he desires: a victim of his own narrative.

Loved the JCPenney magazine aesthetics of cheap 1990's particle wood era mixed with heirloom furniture of yesteryear.
Loved that eerie feeling of things being smaller than we remembered, and enjoyed the concept without any real commitment to answers about what the dimension actually is (other than an uncanny valley familiar low-poly count AI rendering of a simulated hallucination.)
What I love most about it is that it isn't really an intellectual property, yet. Alternate-dimensional labyrinths aren't something you can really own, so it's kind of a public domain genre, and in the age of Star Wars and Marvel, it's refreshing to think a new genre trend can be born that anyone can play with creatively.

Stranger than fiction, it leaves you with more questions than answers, and that is what liminal horror is... the unanswered unknown beyond the next shadowy corner, and the unsteady feeling of a life in a looping transition. If you watch it hoping for an epic conclusion, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if you go for the lore to say you were there in theaters... like Star Wars, or The Matrix, you very well could be taking your grandkids one day to ride the 'Backrooms Splash Mountain' in 30 years when Disney somehow buys the rights to interdimensional liminal spaces.🤣

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Seth Rogen calls out people who post AI slop:

“Every time I see a video that's like ‘Hollywood is cooked!’ What follows is like the most stupid dogshit I’ve ever seen in my life.”

(Source: BrutMedia)

[Variety @Variety]

Sydney Sweeney’s OnlyFans storyline in #Euphoria is really pissing off sex workers.

"There’s just a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it," Sydney Leathers, an OnlyFans creator since 2017, says. "There’s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example. Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time."

Maitland Ward, a top OnlyFans creator, raking in six figures a month adds: "In the climate we’re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money. And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, let’s make a joke of it. That is so funny. I’m not laughing."

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[Trevor Vallese @TVallese]

The Last Jedi rocks and I'll die on this hill. Emotional narratives, stunning visuals, actual filmmaking. Give me an entry that challenges the saga over ones that just keep echoing it

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar.

• Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars

• Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.

The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.

Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.

[emily-may 🪓 @emilyminogue_]

‼️BUY PHYSICAL MEDIA‼️

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[Zack Sharf @ZSharf]

John Oliver wants to block Donald Trump's face from appearing on the national parks’ America the Beautiful passes, so he's launched a website to sell stickers that visitors can put over Trump's head on their passes.

"Trump making himself [one of the] faces of our national parks is weird for a number of reasons. First, Trump seems to hate them. He’s made steep cuts to the park service, which has now lost 24% of its permanent employees..."

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[Cade Onder @Cade_Onder]

there are people who will look you dead in the eye and tell you their TV can match this experience

[DiscussingFlim @DismussingFlim]

First look at Robert Pattison as Leon Kennedy in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Resident Evil’.

Releasing July 2027

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

All character posters for ‘DUNE: PART 3’.

Trailer releases tomorrow.

[Sal @madebysc_]

This country really let rich old white men rule the world and bend over for them any chance they get as if they'll somehow be able to get a piece of the pie.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

David Zaslav will receive $887M as compensation for the Paramount/Warner Bros merger.

Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to lose their jobs in layoffs after the merger closes.

(Source: Deadline)

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First look at ‘DUNE: PART 3’.

[abby @sourlittleme]

It’s been years since my timeline was this dune piled!!! This is so bittersweet. Waiting for our next, but final, era and now look at all of us :’)

[Justice Gage — CD @iamjusticegage]

I hope the traditional studio system falls apart entirely. Time for a hard reset.