@kindtraveler
Filmmaker, storyteller, friend. Just trying to make the world a little better. (And maybe a little more mysterious... ) https://www.youtube.com/@cinegeek https://www.swordandcloak.com/ No Gen-AI ever.
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
That's marvelous. I love it!
Two very cute crochet pumpkins, with ribbing and a stem. One is orange, and the other a yellow-gold. They're about the size of the average hamburger.
This weekend we'll take down the Yuletide and autumn decorations, including these adorable pumpkins Sonnett crocheted during her convalescence. I'll miss them. 🙂
#halloweencrafts
#crochetchicago
On a worktable lies a skull-like mask. It has no mouth. Its eye holes are motes of blackness. Its mottled surface is a deep crimson, tattooed with black brush notes. From the right side of the scalp rise three narrow uneven spikes, like half a crown upon its infernal head.
Dark spirits are coming.
Not quite finished, but getting close...
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#CosmicHorror
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This wonderful, funny, and wise poem from Brenda Holiday is just the laugh to end this year with. I true gift, I hope you'll enjoy as well.
#NewYears2025
#Comedy
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
A square access chart depicting where SciFi authors fall on a scale of order vs chaos and the flesh vs the machine. Genres include The Philosophers, The Technocrats, The Subversives and The Cyberpunks.
This is how erasure happens in genre: Includes 35 authors. 4 women. 5 non-white. How many freakin' awards does someone like Lois McMaster Bojold have to win to be even mentioned? People of color, queer, etc.? And don't the sub-genres picked bias toward old-white-guy interests?
#SciFiwriters
I'm frequently frustrated by what I perceive as writers/director having lost the skill of creating engaging characters in their works. However, this little gem absolutely excels at it. Mysterious, suspenseful, thoughtful, and heartfelt. Recommended.
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#IndieHorror
I’ll Be Glad When You Dead…
Buck Woods tells German-speaking Nazis what he thinks of them while performing in France. Somehow feels relevant these days.
From REUNION IN FRANCE, starring Joan Crawford and John Wayne, released on Christmas, 1942.
You don't say..... @smartbitches.bsky.social
mashable.com/article/how-...
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
The unpainted base of a skull-spaped mask made of paper mache. It's surface is a collage of mixed pieces of newsprint.
A new mask, in progress.
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Beautiful lights (esp blue and green) adorn a tall tree in the snowy patio space on Jarvis Square.
Yuletide has arrived in Jarvis Square.
#JarvisSquare
#ChristmasChicago
#Yule
#RogersParkChicago
Ice Agents Armed Forces Are the same who burn crosses Killing in the name of...
"I'll burn down your house" - legally actionable, boring, common
"I told the trees about you" - legally acceptable, foreboding, unsettling, the plants know your name and hate you
That last one tho 😎
#witchlife #witch #bruja
Brion tomb in Venice by Carlo Scarpa (1968-1978) photos from Fernanda Barbara r/brutalism
Geoffrey Rush as Henslow being choked by Stephen O'Donnell as Mr. Fennyman's thug Lambert. Comic expressions, beautiful period costumes, and Tom Stoppard's brilliant dialogue.
“Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster."
"So what do we do?"
"Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well."
"How?"
"I don't know. It's a mystery.”
#tomstoppard
#theatre
Tim Roth & Gary Oldman dressed in Elizabethan doublets, looking bemused and confused in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
"I mean, you'd never *know* you were in a box, would you? It would be just like you were asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be?"
We will not see his like again. R.I.P.
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Angry Staff Officer: “…Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure… to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg.”
Against the grey glow of a clouding sky, the dark shape of a very large house looms, mostly visible only by it's brightly lit windows. It has a cone-shaped cupola, multiple peaked dormers with rounded windows. Other windows are a variety of shapes and patterns, only broken by the skeletal trees in the foreground. Even though it's walls might be yellow, it feels huge, dark, and sinister in the night.
This neighborhood mansion is Gothic AF.
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#ChicagoGothic
#ChicagoHorror
#HorrorCommunity
I don't know about anyone else, but in terms of my life, this is some impactful shit right here. Thank you, Joel, Trace, Josh, Kevin, and Jim.
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
Working on a mask for the next episode of Beyond These Haunted Streets: BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS. Coming along nicely, I think. 🙂
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