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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Great. If that was their reason, they could explain that. But they didn't and that's my beef.

But since you seem to be tech savvy, you also already know why they don't explain which great features of react they want to use on this page. And we all already know it's not for the user's benefit. It's for money they receive from data mining every minute of our lives.

[–] [email protected] 255 points 23 hours ago (15 children)

I hate how these kinds of messages never explain WHY. It's just "Do it. Do what we tell you." 💀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I have to say, everything else aside, the robot's costume design in this is great. The fact the actor could move around as much as he does is nothing short of incredible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This movie put me off of horror for a long time, when I was a teenager and saw it on early cable TV. It's not gory but mannn, did it scare the bejeezus outta me. Not watching it now still.

 

Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub, it follows a group of elderly businessmen in New England who gather to recount their involvement in a woman's death decades prior when one of them suspects her ghost has been haunting him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Story_(1981_film)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those eyes?

They're grrrrreeeeeat!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I really like this. There's something comtemporary and illustrative about this, but now I want to know the story of its creation in 1903.

 

Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (February 14, 1867 – July 10, 1924) was one of Iceland's first contemporary painters, the first Icelander to exhibit paintings in Iceland, and recipient of the first public grant that country made to a painter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rarinn_B._%C3%9Eorl%C3%A1ksson

 

Einar Hákonarson (born 14 January 1945, in Reykjavík, Iceland) is one of Iceland's best known artists. He is an expressionistic and figurative painter who brought the figure back into Icelandic painting in 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_H%C3%A1konarson

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I hear you. I think I'd be happy with any kind of sincere follow up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Stray was much more than a cat simulator though. Great game. I really hope we get a sequel someday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Bad day for me - 573 points. Mostly my locations were way off. If anyone has tips which could apply to today's pics, I'd appreciate that.

spoilerI frequently guessed Spain when I should have guessed South America, for instance.

Maybe these were just tough ones to guess on?

 

Carnival of Souls is a 1962 American psychological horror film produced and directed by Herk Harvey and written by John Clifford from a story by Clifford and Harvey, and starring Candace Hilligoss. Its plot follows Mary Henry, a young woman whose life is disturbed after a car accident. She relocates to a new city, where she finds herself unable to assimilate with the locals, and becomes drawn to the pavilion of an abandoned carnival. Director Harvey also appears in the film as a ghoulish stranger who stalks her throughout. The film is set to an organ score by Gene Moore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It's almost Halloween (at least, here in the states) so let's tag any horror / scary / creepy movies we post this month with "[Halloween-A-Thon]" for those who want to check 'em out / avoid them.

 

The Bat is a 1959 American crime-mystery thriller starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. It is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat. The film version was adapted by playwright Crane Wilbur, who also directed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(1959_film)

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Abed Abdi (Arabic: عبد عابدي, Hebrew: עבד עאבדי; born February 1942 in Haifa) is a Palestinian painter, graphic designer, sculptor and art lecturer.

Abdi worked as a blacksmith and illustrated Arabic publications that appeared in Israel. After studying in Dresden, Abdi became the first Palestinian to build monumental art on native soil. [citation needed] His allegorical monuments in Galilee, honoring human fortitude and resistance, include a narrative mural depicting Elijah's defiance and survival and a bronze Land Day memorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abed_Abdi

https://abedabdi.com/portfolio/lying-down/

 

The Breeders are on a US tour, and on a few dates, they're playing Pod and Last Splash, in their entirety and in album order.

This YT channel posted their shaky phone vids for both; this is the Last Spash second half.

I just saw them in Denver and it was great. That was prolly the 7th time I've seen them live and they seemed more into it, really focused on putting on a great show. I could listen to Kim & Kelley talk about anything for hours I'm pretty sure.

 

Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. The film stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, and Tony Goldwyn. The plot centers on a pilot (Butler) allying with a prisoner to save his passengers from a hostile territory in which they make an emergency landing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKi49xG-MgY

 

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Anita Loos. The film stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_(1953_film)

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Joshua Johnson (c. 1763—c. 1824) was an American painter from the Baltimore, Maryland area of African and European ancestry. Johnson is known for his portrait paintings of prominent Maryland residents and their children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Johnson_(painter)

 

Luc Leestemaker (May 18, 1957 – May 18, 2012) was an American abstract expressionist artist who was born in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Leestemaker was born in Hilversum and raised in Nuenen (Noord-Brabant). In Eindhoven he started the Dutch art collective "Hart Poetry" with his fellows Bart Op het Veld en Mat Verberkt. Together with them he also founded the PR-agency Trains in Eindhoven. After dissoliving both the collective and the agency he went to Amsterdam where he headed Leestemaker & Associates, an Amsterdam-based consulting firm specializing in the arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Leestemaker

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