Ozymandias moment: Colossus of Rhodes then and now, attr to Louis de Caullery whose day is today.
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Ozymandias moment: Colossus of Rhodes then and now, attr to Louis de Caullery whose day is today.
Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...
Was it? That's adorable! It's a great cast.
PSA: COLD STORAGE is a lot of fun.
I can't stop thinking about my fellow biographers who had their NEH grants taken away last year to save taxpayers' money.
Village of the dammed: Pixar's delightfully unhinged HOPPERS, reviewed. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
2/2 The famed collection of Cornelis van der Geest, featuring a visit from the rulers of The Netherlands & from me! That's my Battle of the Amazons hanging over by the window.
SCREAM: THE NEXT GENERATION: contains both a KITCHEN FIGHT (someone brandishes a meat tenderiser, though the pizza shovel should have been better exploited IMO) & a CRÊPAGE DE CHIGNONS. Nice to see Neve Campbell again; Courteney Cox looks like Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka channelling Michael Jackson.
I've just received a 1500 word press release about the new film of Seance on a Wet Afternoon (which I'm greatly looking forward to) which doesn't mention Mark McShane.
Spot the cat.
Born on this day in 1503, Ferdinand, son of Joanna of Castile & Archduke Philip the Handsome. Holy Roman Emperor & King of lots of places. Here in c. 1510 before all the titles.
Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏
COVER REVEAL:
LYCANTHIA, the last of the werewolf works to be reprinted from the 30s and 40s, with an introduction by Stewart Lee and a biographical essay on Frances Layland-Barratt by James Doig, will be published by my MISLAID BOOKS press soon.
Actually I think that's Van Luppenstraat (like it says on the sign), not Zurenborgstraat, which is the next street along. Not that it matters, because sooner or later there will be pedestrian obstructions EVERYWHERE. They're all over the place and there's a new one every day. It's endemic.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
#FuckYouVoetgangers Dear Antwerp pedestrians, no you can't use this Mercatorstraat pavement. How about stepping into the bike lane & praying you don't get hit by one of the bicycles, electric scooters & motor scooters thundering past? Adding to the excitement, often driven by people on their phones!
A street blocked off by barriers and roadworks.
A man pushes his bike past roadworks and a useless orange sign directing pedestrians... where? I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.
A road sign forbidding access to pedestrians - pretty redundant as the whole area is blocked off by roadworks and barriers anyway.
#FuckYouVoetgangers More examples of Antwerp's contempt for its pedestrians, repeatedly directed by roadworks into traffic or bike lanes, or expected to tramp miles out of their way to cross the road. Here's a fun new adventure playground at the intersection between Zurenborgstraat & Cuperusstraat.
Are they, though? And are they, though? And does it, though?
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Louis de Caullery, Flemish painter of elegant places & people. Here, dance in a garden, to celebrate his day.
Hurrah! Let's hope this is such a massive hit that it starts a trend away from the pervasive substitution of bland, generic greenscreen for real* locations that infects so many current films. (* doesn't mean no digital - it's explained in the article)
We're proud to have asked our members to add their names to this empty book, protesting the use of their works without permission. In our house, copyright still matters!
#DontStealThisBook
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A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car
The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror
The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror
“Look at that bird”
A Play In Three Acts
1 Screenshot from the movie "Lucy" (2014): A close-up of a passport or identification document featuring a woman with blonde hair pulled back, green eyes, and a neutral expression. The document lists her name as "Lucy" and states her nationality as "United States of America." Her date of birth is "10 Mar 1988," and her place of birth is "Pennsylvania, U.S.A." The date of issue is "25 Aug 2005," and the expiration date is "24 Aug 2015."
Mar 10th 1988 - Lucy's date of birth is shown on her passport, right after she comes apart on the plane.
📽️📅 Lucy (2014)
It's infuriating! Also completely misses the point. And I'm a sucker for even looking at it! (not your fault, obv)
I chose AI for four out of five. But a paragraph tells you nothing. It has no ongoing intent, no context. I’ve written a lot of parodies and I can write a paragraph in any style you like, maybe even “better” than the original. Could I write a whole, better Cormac MacCarthy novel? Absolutely not.
Was this entire article written by AI, or an AI propagandist? Because this whole article is loaded towards AI: the "human" extracts are all (except the sole bit of "modern" writing) written in fairly archaic syntax, sometimes needing to be reread, while the AI samples are mostly straightforward.
Small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague, set on a red base, posed on Thames Foreshore river steps. The statuette is white with gold accessories, the crowned head is broken and a hand is missing, though the other hand holds a globe with a cross.
The broken head of a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague held in my hand on the Thames Foreshore. The head is crowned, the face is well defined with red lips.
Found on the Thames Foreshore yesterday, a small porcelain statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague. The original hails from the C16th & is housed in the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague. Dressed in blinging robes that change according to the liturgical season. Head broken, hand missing 1/
Excellent! (full confession: I don't know who The Mountain Goats are, though I am familiar with the Swedish band Goat)
It WAS hard! And I had no money! yet I managed it.