Month: January 2024

aconissa:

WRITERS + DIRECTORS ON THE POWER OF HORROR

Catriona Ward, interview for The Guardian
Mark Gatiss, in A History of Horror (2010)
Pascal Laugier, for Electric Sheep
Candyman (1992), dir. Bernard Rose
Colin Dickey, Ghostland
Carmen Maria Machado, for Paris Review
Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women
Possession (1981), dir. Andrzej Żuławski
Mariana Enríquez, ‘Notes on Craft’, Granta
Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors

reasonsforhope:

Where can I find Free Palestine protests and Ceasefire protests?

A super international and continually updated list of actions can be found at Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network’s:

Calendar of Resistance for Palestine 2024

They list events by date, then alphabetically by country, then by city – and it’s common for them to have dozens of actions listed for a single date, especially on the weekends.

The United States especially often has 40+ events on a single day, especially on the weekends.

Events are posted with links to the event info posted by whoever’s hosting the vast majority of the time.

Look blow the read-more for a list of many of the countries that have been on this protest calendar, in alphabetical order, since I know so many websites/lists of actions are country-specific

*Obviously this isn’t the only good source of listings for protest events – there are many others. This is by far the biggest/most international roundup I’ve found, though, so I started with this. If you know another good place for finding ceasefire protests/events, please feel free to add it in the notes, bc I’m planning to put a bigger roundup together once I find enough other sites

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commander-damneron:

mal-co-holic:

ankle-beez:

ankle-beez:

disney animation execs going on-record last year saying that they couldn’t do 2d animated movies anymore because of the supposed “limitations” of the medium and then immediately losing to a 2d animated movie on awards season is too perfect

an excerpt from an ign interview with disney animation studio ceo jennifer lee, done prior to the release of "wish". the excerpt reads, “What happens in hand-drawn is that you have the incredible hand of the artist, but also limitations in what you could do on screen,” Lee explained. “What happened in CG is you'd have incredible, boundless opportunities, visually, that elevated it — even to the point for some — into realism, which is not what we wanted to do. The more important thing to us was to have a way to find technology that can do everything. Connect to the true vision of the artist, but bring in technology that could finally take away limitations.”ALT
another excerpt from the same interview: Lee admitted that even after they committed to using computer animation to make Wish, they did consider using traditional animation to bring the character Star to life. Ultimately, she said 2D had too many limitations in terms of camera movements and characterization.ALT
the rotten tomatoes page for disney's "wish". it has a 48% critics score. the critics' consensus reads, "Wish earns some tugs at the heartstrings with the way it warmly references many of the studio's classics, but nostalgia's no substitute for genuine storytelling magic -- no matter how beautifully animated it might be."ALT
the rotten tomatoes page for "the boy and the heron". it has a 97% critics score. the critics' consensus reads, "Soulfully exploring thought-provoking themes through a beautifully animated lens, The Boy and the Heron is another Miyazaki masterpiece."ALT
the boy and the heron wins the golden globe for best animated featureALT

I just think this is funny

The real reason was they didn’t have any 2D animation folks on payroll anymore. They literally got rid of those folks since the release of Princess & the Frog. However they can’t just say that so they need to make up some BS about 2D being worse actually.

Figured I’d fix that first quote for them

charlesoberonn:

The fact that this joke is from the very first episode (which aired in January 1997) is messing with me.

The line is “1 degree hotter” but it’s funny that anyone outside the US has to read it as “1 degree Fahrenheit hotter” specifically.

“One more Fahrenheit and I’m gonna kick your ass!”

This morning I saw crows and geese and seagulls flying together and that can’t be a good sign.

green-great-dragon:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

speedlimit15:

speedlimit15:

why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs

like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it

World’s most tense egg and spoon race

this somehow became the funniest thing on earth in my head and I had to draw it so