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giantspecks

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Writer/Director living in the SF Bay Area Watch my scifi film NEW on DUST Network http://bit.ly/3Mlzb5B @NetworkISA Dev. Slate. Making movies: http://johnfilms.com Yelling about Movies at #YabtM

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Jaden3, to random
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Shit this is a real lame ass question. But want yall opinion?
Do yall feel it difficult to say I love you?
Yesterday my Momma said ' I love you jaden' and I found it real difficult to say back. I just said ' you too' and I felt so guilty as I left that I didn't say it back properly. I just couldn't.
This has really been playing on my mind.
Is this just me? Is this normal?
I do love her , but I can't say it !

giantspecks,
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@Jaden3 it gets easier the more you do it

Defiance, to music
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I was unaware Daryl Hall did this kind of power pop / post-punk music. Is all of his solo stuff like this? Digging this track rn. ๐ŸŽธ ๐Ÿคฉ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJaMfQtvuis

giantspecks,
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@mrcompletely @mediageek @Defiance Ooh, I got one: Heart

giantspecks,
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@mrcompletely @mediageek @Defiance
Starship. Ugh. Oh, and REO Speedwagon I guess?

Your take on the Pointer Sisters is totally new to me however. I may need to check out their 70s stuff.

giantspecks,
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@icastico @mrcompletely @mediageek @Defiance Funny, Iโ€™d been thinking of ZZ Top too, but for me they are the inversion of what weโ€™re talking about. I never cared about them as grungy southern rockers but when they added synths and electronic drums and became MTVโ€™s unlikeliest stars, I liked them more. https://youtu.be/75cr6TMhPuM?si=m_Y601uDtJoAkReX

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    giantspecks,
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    @vfrmedia @HipsterDM @flockofnazguls the internet needs environmental regulation

    SFRuminations, to scifi
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    Larry Niven (1938-) was born on this day. Bibliography: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?42

    L, Rick Sternbach, 1975; R, Dean Ellis, 1970

    image/jpeg

    giantspecks,
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    @whybird @SFRuminations I read somewhere that an accurate rendition would be unimpressive because of the sheer scale. Your landscape would appear flat as far as you could see, and the โ€œarchโ€ in the sky would be a dim, pencil-thin line.

    giantspecks, to movies
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    The strawberries and milk are his C-beams, glittering in the darkness near the Tannhauser Gate. (Watched THE SEVENTH SEAL for the first time this week.)

    giantspecks, to art
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    And, a standard I can achieve

    charliejane, to random
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    I love Discovery (as recently stated), but Lower Decks is the only Trek I rewatch over and over, and it's my happy place as a viewer. These characters are so rich and complex and they deserve much more time to develop.

    giantspecks,
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    @virtualbri @tilde @charliejane @mattgriffin itโ€™s the best of the new Trek shows

    dance_along_the_edge, to illustration
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    โ€œYour April Selectionโ€

    Virgil Finlay art for the April-May 1965 Things To Come for the Science Fiction Book Club, advertising The 9th Annual of the Yearโ€™s Best SF edited by Judith Merril.

    @sciencefiction @scifi

    c/o Black Gate https://www.blackgate.com/2022/10/16/the-art-of-things-to-come-part-4-1964-1966/

    giantspecks,
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    @dance_along_the_edge @sciencefiction @scifi wonderful illustration and great use of color on what is basically a b&w piece

    giantspecks, to calligraphy
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    I love looking at old . Those Gs! Those Ts! And, dig that word spacing. This is from DESIGN FOR LIVING (1933, D. Ernst Lubitsch)

    giantspecks, to movies
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    ๐Ÿ† Kudos New Yorker for that optional hyphen, to preemptively correct the insane persons who want to rhyme "biopic" with "myopic"

    giantspecks,
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    @Toastie well it is within your rights as an adult to do that, I suppose (haughty sniff)

    groschi, to movies
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    Shit i've been watching...

    Thelma, 2017 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…ยฝ

    Watched on Tuesday March 19, 2024.

    https://letterboxd.com/groschi/film/thelma-2017/
    @film

    giantspecks,
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    @groschi @film excellent film

    giantspecks,
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    @groschi @film @giantspecks โ€œThe Worst Person in the Worldโ€ is his latest and also very good

    groschi, to movies
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    What's the deal with that f*xoxo website? Is this the fucking future of film "journalism" on the web? They seem to just churn out tons of either completely automated or extremely low-effort posts (over 70 already today), more often than not consisting of nothing more than a headline, a (probably AI-generated) image with and the whole post body just the headline being repeated, you know, like this fucking masterpiece here: https://www.fxoxo.com/51163/ I wonder what the motivation behind that thing is, as i don't see any ads or other means of monetization, (this can't truly be a work of passion, i think... or can it?) but that might be down to either my browser or the site actually being as broken as it appears to me at first glance (empty menus and all that...). It has the superficial look of your average web magazine (a gripe i have even with some actually pretty good music blogs i follow) but its content seems clearly made to entirely fit in a single toot/tweet/fart/etc. Normally i would just shrug this thing off and move on with my life. The fact that the account regularly gets boosted by @movies and thus randomly appears in my federated timeline kinda exemplifies my view on algorithmic and otherwise fully automated content on the fediverse which is: I don't like it one bit! What i'd very much prefer would be actual human curation of quality things. Only knowledgeable humans can discern worthy stuff from time-killing low-quality drivel and anything algorithmic and automated can and will be gamed and flooded with garbage in no time. @film

    giantspecks,
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    @groschi @film @movies the internet needs environmental regulation

    AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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    Originally a gold mining town with 8,000 residents, Bodie, California was essentially abandoned by the 1940s. In 1962, it was incorporated into California's Department of Parks and Recreation, which helps maintain the grounds and keeps them open so they can be enjoyed by 200,000 yearly visitors. The remaining buildings are kept in a state of arrested decay.

    Check out my gallery here: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bodie

    giantspecks,
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    @AbandonedAmerica The very first time you've posted about a location I've been to! Love it.

    giantspecks,
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    @AbandonedAmerica me in Bodie c. 1987

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    @flockofnazguls @mrcompletely spot-on about VR helmets (never, no) and about Mondo 2000! I stopped buying it when they started running articles about vitamin supplements

    giantspecks, to reviews
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    Saw THE ZONE OF INTEREST last Friday. I needed some distance before posting about it. I have zero quips. I will say it was a unique viewing experience that moved me and stayed with me for days. The sound design in particular is absolutely remarkable. Some of the film's impact is dependent on the theatrical viewing experience, so if you're interested, see it in a theater while you can.

    clive, to random
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    Man, the "dead internet" is arriving

    @bhawthorne describes his recent experience searching for basic info online -- he looked for the temperature to roast hazelnuts, and got nothing but stochastic-parrot garbage: https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056

    He concludes:

    "I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the worldโ€™s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past."

    giantspecks,
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    @clive @bhawthorne This is pollution of a public resource. We need environmental regulation of cyberspace

    ShaulaEvans, to screenwriting
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    I have a deep love for the "Quentin Tarantino carves a turkey sketch" from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (which, incidentally, is never shown on screen).

    It's an advanced class in writing comedy, writing violence, and the role of the audience's imagination in storytelling.

    @writing

    giantspecks,
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    @ShaulaEvans @writing prevailing opinion seems to be that show was a terrible misfire; my wife and I absolutely loved it and were really disappointed when it got cancelled

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    giantspecks,
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    @flockofnazguls this sucks. has become a huge part of how I learn about (and support) new artists.
    Capitalism: why we can't have nice things

    HailsandAles, to random
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    Absolutely shocking album art. Definitely AI right? Look at the hands and the clown in the mirror

    giantspecks,
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    @HailsandAles definitely, look closely at the chair construction it makes no sense

    veronica, to StarTrek
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    I'm about half way through Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and just watched "Our Man Bashir". I spent most of that episode on my phone instead. ๐Ÿ˜…

    I really can't stand holodeck/holosuite episodes. They are almost as bad as parallel universe with evil twins episodes. Those I really hate. It's my main reason for not liking Star Trek Discovery.

    Next up is a double episode back on Earth at Starfleet HQ. They're much better, and on the main story arc too!

    giantspecks,
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    @veronica Iโ€™m also working my way through DS9, a show I bailed on when it first aired. Recently saw the first โ€œmirrorโ€ episode and was deeply embarrassed on behalf of everyone involved

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