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film fan / maker / educator • curating teaching resources • reviewing every movie I've ever seen

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Kids romanticize our generation’s tech way more than we ever would

[tech.explain @techexplain1]

CRT tvs are basically extinct, yet they are still superior to OLED when it comes to certain kinds of gaming.

Why is that?

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@texasswitchfilm Credit the original video's creator @bkrewind

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Thank you @internetarchive 🙏🏼

[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

[N @dearvotion]

I always loved how she tends to render high-profile women in such glamorous manner with emphasis on their clothing, unlike other courtroom illustrators. Finding out she started off as a fashion illustrator just put two and two together.

[viewinder @viewinder]

omg how did i not even know this existed

[cher 𐀔 @poehlerpop]

here’s the compilation I made last year of tina fey as dolly parton on girls5eva 🦋

[véro // ✽ @vlovesemma]

jane fonda's ig post about dolly 😭🤍

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also Drew Barrymore as a man = Diego Luna

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Cameron Diaz dressed as a man = Robert Pattinson.
That’s it. That’s the post.
Lucy Liu channelling Pearl from Payback is just the cherry on top.

[Maties! @maties_tp]

Imposible no caer rendido ante el desbordante y barroquista trabajo de fotografía de Slocombe en THE SERVANT (Losey, 1963), un prodigio de planificación coreográfica y distorsiones ópticas que acentúa las desiguales relaciones de poder entre sus protagonistas.

[viewinder @viewinder]

The replies… most unpopular Apple collab (and steamrolling of user consent) since that U2 album.

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin.

Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac.

Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop.

[Shadow Knight @shadowknightdk]

recent blockbusters shot on digital btw

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

So y’all are telling me Angela Bassett played Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Tina Turner, Betty Shabazz, Stella got her groove back, burned her cheating husband’s clothes, became the mother of Wakanda’s king… and Hollywood STILL gave her no Oscar? 😭

[viewinder @viewinder]

So freakin cool

[Matt Hyland @oneonetwothree]

Camp Miasma hits wider release today! In celebration me & Brandon put together a more detailed look at our glass matte shot from the film. So many incredible people helped make this movie, and we're happy as hell it's finally out in the world.

See you at the movies! 1/🧵

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Cleansing your timelines with this hilarity. Dirty Dancing lovers unite 😂

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👇🏼

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Grounding it in our reality like “This is pretty goofy, right? And also, you all liked ‘Ragnarok’, right?” feels less like they’re having fun with it and more like they’re already embarrassed by this.

[He-Man MOTU Movie @motumovie2026]

Discover your true power. Official Teaser Trailer for Masters of the Universe. 🗡️💪🏽

By the Power of Grayskull! ⚔️

#mastersmovie #motumovie #HeMan #NicholasGalitzine #CamilaMendes

[viewinder @viewinder]

At this point, the "you're all luddites" retort is just lazy. Perhaps consider instead that it's possible to both feel empowered by your new toy and accept that others genuinely feel empowered without it. Creativity is a process, not a prompt - that isn't fear, it's the point.

[SPENCER @SP1NS1R]

i have so many thoughts on this type of response to ai in art:
- i think this reaction comes primarily from a place of fear. ai is alien tech. it abstracts a lot of the process. it may replace some of the aspects of creation you enjoy or find meaningful. i empathize, but this makes it no less 'real'
- bc there is already an anti-ai wave of sentiment, art influencers risk their livelihood by speaking in favor of it. incentives incentives
- (at least for now) ai is just a tool. like the above, the inputs & outputs have more degrees of separation, but it's still a tool requiring vision, direction, and iteration
- ai is not an 'all or nothing' thing. it doesn't have to wholesale replace the medium or art form. like cgi or blender - it's a flexible, albeit different, tool
- i often hear back-to-back that "anyone can do it" and "it'll never be better than 'real' art" but these are at odds. can't anyone use a camera? and can someone we deem a 'real' artist use it and make art?
- 'real' filmmakers — like aronofsky, cameron, scorsese, and soderbergh — are already exploring or using it. what then?
- adoption is the ultimate tell - and we're early - but i do think this argument will unfortunately be on the wrong side of history in the same way every tool that generated value for the art form was adopted

[viewinder @viewinder]

Seems that folks like Zach Cregger adopted this "elfing" technique in their own writing. Such an inspired strategy.

[Brendan McDonald @ProducerMcD]

This section in the wonderful Mike Sacks interview with John Swartzwelder is the most revelatory thing I've ever read about the writing process. https://t.co/00SiHQzKvU

[viewinder @viewinder]

I too only just watched this for the first time and oh boy is it

[Miles @mtvsthewrld_]

It literally cannot be THAT good

[john @0bungler]

It's well-known that Will Smith turned down The Matrix to star in Wild Wild West but I have a crank theory, supported by nothing, that it's because they wouldn't let him release a Matrix rap single

[Acquired Podcast @AcquiredFM]

For Toy Story's green army men, the animators physically nailed shoes to a piece of plywood and hopped around the office to understand how the characters should move.

So cool.