Silas Skvor

UofCincy 28'
Phillies. Cavs. Guards.
CLE to Cincy to AZ

[Jozu 🇵🇦 @JozuJoestarr]

there was an outbreak of hope when that Superman movie dropped

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

I'm old enough to remember when Tebow first blew up at Florida. Always thought he had to have been hiding some big secret bc there's just no way anybody is really that good of a person.

20 years later he is the only guy I can think of who was built up by the media to be a saint and has actually lived up to it. Also has a higher playoff passer rating than Tom Brady.

[midnight joneser @MidnightJoneser]

Just saw/heard a kid hug his dad and say “I love you Dad thank you.” This is what it’s all about man

[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.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Hell has frozen over. Tucker Carlson is calling out the fascist authoritarian Trump regime for insidiously using the assassination of Charlie Kirk as an excuse to abolish the First Amendment, round up Americans, and carry out the Nazification of America.

[Robbie @___robbie_____]

kids these don’t know ball

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

🚨 The Mavericks are trading Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to the Lakers for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick, per @ShamsCharania

[northern @northernerno]

this still tweet of the year idc

[Tax-Man @OohNicholas]

All I'm saying is one dude is petitioning the courts for lawsuits and promoting gambling apps and the other is doing toy drives and creating memories for the kids in his community.

[jay @kendallhosseini]

matt damon and ben affleck had to sacrifice dunkin donuts or something to a boston deity for this to be their first script ever, robin williams getting cast, the script getting filmed perfectly, then they win the screenwriting oscar for it.

[Bron’s Best @LBJsBest]

High level hoops. Only reason it ever gets downplayed is bc LeBron team won

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Cavalanche.

[Tom Withers @twithersCLE]

I'll get up tomorrow, have a cup of coffee, stretch the old muscles, go to work.
I'll check in with my son, some friends, my brother.
I'll try to fit in a workout.
I'll listen to music.
I'll be kind.
I'll have dinner with my lovely wife.
I'll keep on.
Nothing changes.
Cheers.

[Brent Rooker @Brent_Rooker25]

Okay election is over I’d like my algorithm to go back to Pitching Ninja clips and Arrested Development memes and music recs from @bradluttrell now please and thanks

[Matt @iamnotmattt]

His mother died of cancer. Just the worst fanbase.

[culture jpeg @culturejpg]

Not like us

[Diego Crespo @thediegocrespo]

Once you learn Romans actually filled the Colosseum with water for naval battles, that’s the type of thing that resides in your brain forever and makes you wonder why there aren’t two dozen movies about that specifically. I’m glad Ridley Scott understood this.

[✧.* @HoodiiBron]

This don’t even feel real😭😭

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Los Angeles Lakers are selecting Bronny James with the No. 55 pick in the 2024 NBA draft, sources say. LeBron and Bronny James to become the first ever father-son duo to be in the NBA at the same time.

[Silas Skvor @siskvor3]

@danielpppainter @PNW_Baseball ATTA BOY PAINTERRRR