smith, jauhn

#615 — Zed was always Dead — Just happy to be here

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

This part of my life is labeled Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne hope you enjoy

[kirsch @CaptainKirsch12]

wtf are we even doing anymore?

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

10 worst states to live in for 2026, per CNBC:

1. Tennessee
2. Texas
3. Indiana
4. Louisiana
5. Georgia
6. Utah
7. Missouri
8. Alabama
9. Oklahoma
10.Arkansas

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

Sil is the guy…

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

@DKSports If you don’t refund those bets… you��re the enemy

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Dune: Part Three is the first film in the trilogy shot on actual celluloid instead of digital. Denis Villeneuve had a set of lenses hand-built from scratch, tuned to throw a specific golden flare, because nothing on the market gave him the glow he wanted.

That choice is most of the answer. The first two films were shot on digital cameras, then printed onto film stock and scanned back in to borrow the texture of celluloid. For the third one, cinematographer Linus Sandgren, who took over from Greig Fraser, shot on genuine film, including large-format IMAX. He told the Hollywood Reporter he wanted flares unique to this movie, so a lens company called Atlas hand-built the glass and had to construct custom equipment just to test optics that large.

The vintage feel runs through the whole trilogy. On Part Two, Fraser roughened up the pristine digital image by shooting through a Soviet-era Helios lens and a set of 1980s Moviecam lenses. Old glass, chosen on purpose, to soften and age the picture.

Then there is where the camera points. The Dune films shoot in the deserts of Abu Dhabi under hard sun, with studio work in Budapest, on physical sets Villeneuve compared to Transformers, using sand-colored screens instead of green ones so the light stays warm. The standing rule is to capture as much in front of the lens as possible and use effects to extend what is there rather than build it from nothing.

The glow people read as "80s" comes down mostly to one thing: halation, the soft bloom that forms around bright light when it hits film emulsion. Digital tries to imitate it. On celluloid it happens by chemistry. Add fine grain and a hand-ground lens flare and you land on the exact texture fantasy films had in the 1980s, back when there was no other way to do it.

There is a straight line here. The 1984 Dune, David Lynch's version, was an actual 80s fantasy film, built on matte paintings, optical printing, and hand-drawn effects. Villeneuve is reaching for that same analog toolkit with a modern budget. It reads as an old fantasy film because it is put together the way they were: shot on film, out in the desert, through lenses cut by hand to flare like the ones they used forty years ago.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

It’ll make a billi even if I have to do it myself.

[kirsch @CaptainKirsch12]

I need this to make a billion dollars so we get a real Children of Dune adaptation. The twins deserve a big screen debut.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

It’s also why you can’t fit one in the tube. That’ll be the last one

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

@ColmODwyer2 @elonmusk @EndWokeness @FoxNews No for sure, it’s easy giving away other people’s money

[ALX 🇺🇸 @alx]

All my life, I’ve been waiting for a Muslim from Uganda to tell me what it means to be an American.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

Most Titans fans don’t know the deepest of Titans/Oilers
lore, but Billy Johnson is just as important as Warren Moon imo

[Kalshi Football @KalshiFB]

The 1974 draft class, ranked. One team's haul still defines it.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

The reason this year was so great is because you had the upperclassman who were going to be great regardless, but the supporting cast through and through stepped up in unimaginable ways. A good team in tournaments, doesn’t win it all unless the support guys buy in and ball out. We didn’t
win, but it was there.

[Benjamin Hodge ✟ @benjaminwhodge]

The funnest Tennessee basketball team I’ve ever personally had the pleasure of enjoying. Jordan Bone, Jordan Bowden, Lamonte Turner, Admiral Schofield, and Grant Williams could all give you 20 on any given night. Then you had Kyle Alexander (the most underrated player of the Barnes era) down low sending shots into the 3rd row. Plus John Fulkerson and Yves Pons on the bench. Miss this team a lot.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

@elonmusk @EndWokeness @FoxNews The people that vote for him are mostly takers. According to my numbers, he got elected because there’s a lot more takers than givers in NYC. Sadly, the disparity between those two groups has never been farther

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@FoxNews Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

I personally guarantee 100% his is not set at 78.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

New York: it's hot out there, and the power grid is working overtime to keep us cool.

Set your AC to 78 degrees, turn off lights/electronics you're not using, and unplug what you can.

Our City is doing its part too: maintaining the 78 degrees rule in our buildings, dimming/turning off our lights during peak electricity demand, asking private partners to do the same, and powering down non-essential equipment.

A stable grid means the AC stays on, and lives are saved. Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together.

[Tommy2 @t0xmmy2]

Something good is happening at this World Cup.

The Scots turned up. The English turned up. The Norwegians turned up. They sang their songs, got stuck in, and the Americans loved them for it. Glasgow and Boston are getting twinned off the back of it.

For 30 years we’ve been told to view the US as some sort of Great Satan — all imperialism and orange-man clichés. Not everyone buys it of course, but enough do.

And then Europeans actually go, and find a place that feels familiar. Makes sense to them. A bit richer, a bit further ahead, but recognisably ours. Settled by Europeans, still deeply European in its bones.

There’s a gathering-of-the-clans feeling to it. Old neighbours discovering they still like the same songs, the same drink, the same daft humour, and genuinely enjoying each other’s company.

None of it’s a surprise, really. It’s just been buried under so much politics that we forgot we were allowed to enjoy it.

Good to be reminded.

[Paul Kuharsky @PaulKuharskyNFL]

Jeffery Simmons gets a three-year extension with $100M guaranteed. Multiple reports confirmed.

He was really happy when he spoke to us on Tuesday. Could have know he was on the verge of that. Certainly earned. #Titans.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

To all those that celebrate… Happy Roo

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

Kids, don’t smoke cigarettes. You may end up trying to smoke the wrong end… You’ll never live it down.

[smith, jauhn @Ryoung16]

Someone just ran on the court of the NBA Finals untouched? That was crazy