Friday Ephemera
“Hey, bear.” // A brief history of beehive hair-dos. // A brief history of horror films. // A brief history of urbanisation and the building of cities, 3700 BC – 2000 AD. // Batteries of yore. // There’s a loud buzzing noise in the garden. // Great questions of our time. // The secret world of foley. // So you know. // Illusions of note. // I’m doing it with my mind. // Casting Marvel’s Avengers, then and now. // Enhance grid 17. // Go deep. // HBO’s Westworld. // What could possibly go wrong? // Ladies and their electronic music. // Cats on amps. // Las Vegas in infrared. // And finally, voyeuristically, some passions are best left unseen.
Update: Much Brexit rumbling in the comments.
Your first link timely. Leaving tomorrow for three weeks in the Wild West where internet access is spotty, but bears are plentiful. Nice to know the stern voice works, though I’ve got two canisters of cayenne pepper grizzly spray just in case.
BTW, I was hesitant about clicking the “foley” link, but YOLO, right? Imagine my relief.
A brief history of horror films.
Okay, that was suitably creepy. o_O
There were a couple of notable omissions from that, I think: Wicker Man and, as I am reminded by another of the links, which I think fits in the Horror genre, the original Westworld (Yul Brynner as the original Terminator).
Enhance 224 to 176: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/ Picking the lettering and branding of Blade Runner apart. Also, a recreation of the ESPER machine interaction.
-S
Simen,
Re: the first thing they mention. The Goudy typeface, in all its various iterations, was EVERYWHERE in the early 1980s.
My very first graphic design job, at least one I was paid for, was designing my dad’s business cards and office stationary. I used Goudy Old Style. This was 1978, and I was still in high school. By 1982 or so, I was sick to death of it, and went out of my way to avoid using it, despite my production manager’s fondness for it.
A brief history of horror films.
Everything wrong with Alien in 11 minutes or less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJtYDb7YaJ4
Morning, all.
Well, goodness me. Brexit it is.
Picking the lettering and branding of Blade Runner apart.
Can’t fault the chap for thoroughness.
Yes, you heard her. Laurie will write faster.
Happy Independence Day, one and all!!!
“How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians”
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-subarus-came-to-be-seen-as-cars-for-lesbians/488042/
What about the other Leave list? You know, the ‘If England votes to leave the EU I’m packing my bags’ brigade?
I assume there were a few, at least.
And finally, voyeuristically, some passions are best left unseen.
So. Many. Questions.
This antipode Brit descendant couldn’t be more chuffed.
A brief history of beehive hair-dos.
Noting the picture captioned The Ronettes and Phil Specter, and then there were the later years . . . No, not the Ronettes, Specter.
Today, of all days, it should have been ‘Friday Euphoria’… 🙂
Well, goodness me. Brexit it is.
Turns out calling voters xenophobes and racists because they disagree with you isn’t a winning strategy.
There’s a loud buzzing noise in the garden.
Shocking. Just shocking. A truly electrifying experience.
I’m doing it with my mind.
Oh, nonsense. Sudden Microburst Wind Storm Causes Grounded Planes to Inadvertently Take Off is strictly caused by this being a particularly involved electoral campaign season . . .
Casting Marvel’s Avengers, then and now.
Oh, My, Yes, I’ll go for O’Toole as Tony Stark . . . .
I’M NOT AN ACTOR. I’M A MOVIE STAR!
Turns out calling voters xenophobes and racists because they disagree with you isn’t a winning strategy.
Well, it’s interesting how many of our self-imagined betters are still digging that ditch, with barely concealed disdain for a large part of the electorate and assuming only the basest of motives – racism and xenophobia, not concerns about sovereignty and democracy. That such assumptions and disdain undoubtedly played a role in today’s outcome seems to escape them.
Oh, My, Yes, I’ll go for O’Toole as Tony Stark
I’m torn between seeing Christopher Walken or Yul Brynner as the Vision.
Las Vegas in infrared.
There was at least one other movie that made a lot of use of the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, with, stylistically, rather the same results.
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, cue the Brexit vote as showing the UK now being a vortex . . . !
The world was dying. We took all that was good, and made an oasis here. We few- the rich, the powerful, the clever- cut ourselves off to guard the knowledge and treasures of civilisation, as the world plunged into a dark age. To do this, we had to harden our hearts against the suffering outside. We are custodians of the past for an unknown future. You are the price we now pay for that isolation. You have brought hate and anger into the vortex to infect us all.
with barely concealed disdain for a large part of the electorate and assuming only the basest of motives – racism and xenophobia, not concerns about sovereignty and democracy.
Barely concealed?
https://twitter.com/haymiller/status/746261667768602624
Barely concealed?
I stand corrected. This morning I’ve seen several variations of that, with leftwing students tweeting that old people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, presumably on grounds that they tend to disagree with leftwing students, and all peppered with denunciations of old people’s “fascism.” Apparently, the way to avoid fascism is to restrict voting to only the right kind of people with the right kind of views.
Joan, did you get a screencap of that haymiller tweet? The link doesn’t work.
The link doesn’t work.
Ah, been deleted. It was something along the lines of ‘People who didn’t vote as I did are racist, ignorant scum and aren’t fit to vote.’ I’m paraphrasing, but only just.
Joan, did you get a screencap of that haymiller tweet?
Gah! No.
What David said.
Turns out calling voters xenophobes and racists because they disagree with you isn’t a winning strategy.
The ruling elites in the UK and the US are so detached from the people they’re supposed to represent that they imagine they can actively hold them in contempt without consequence. Thus the victory for Brexit here and the rise of Trump in the States. They continue to be baffled by it all however.
Fight Fascism by making sure only government bureaucrats can decide what happens!
Does the instigator of fascism, Mussolini’s “everything inside the state, nothing outside the state” definition go over their heads?
On the one side we had the might of the EU, the craven mass media, all the lefty institutions, the Tories and Labour standing should-to-shoulder and yet…
The majority of ordinary people facing them weren’t taken in. Funny, that.
Apparently, the apocalypse is upon us. And note that if you don’t agree with Laurie you can no longer be her friend.
Alright, can someone explain something to me:
Why would David Cameron resign?
I’m doing it with my mind.
Planes gotta fly
Status of Note (although it may not sway our gracious host)
https://twitter.com/ElizabethHurley/status/745605008012546048
Why would David Cameron resign?
A part of my is puzzled by that as well. I’m guessing he only supported having this referendum thinking it would shut up the UKIP and others that make “proper” Tories uncomfortable. I must say I was rather pleased to hear the news, not because I have a dog in the fight or care for Cameron one way or the other (or have any business doing so) but for five glorious minutes my morning local news had something other than the gay muslim night club shooting and viscous Disney alligators to tell me about. But sadly it was only a 5 minute respite and then the off switch.
But as I’ve always said, even though the UK is the one foreign country I know most about, have spent the most time in (well, next to Italy and Japan), and most admire, and even when I think I understand to a small degree what confuses us Yanks about Labor vs. Conservative, things continue to occur that remind me that I know nothing. Either that or it’s The Truman Show and you’re all in on the ruse.
Congratulations are in order for you David, and for all our cousins across the pond. May the spirit of freedom, prosperity, and self-determination spring anew. Were it up to me, I’d make Britain our most-favored trading nation immediately.
UK is the one foreign country
Well, also OZ. Love you guys. But sometimes I forget you’re there.
This seems apposite.
“How Subarus Came to Be Seen as Cars for Lesbians”
They are? I thought they were seen as cars for absolute lunatics.
“Fight Fascism by making sure only government bureaucrats can decide what happens!”
And fight for independence by joining a 28-state union with a population of 800 million whose founding treaty was enacted “in the spirit of ever closer union”, according to the SNP. I honestly wonder if they actually believe their own bullshit, or if it really is all just about Looking Important On The Telly.
In other news, the Vienna International Dance Festival is kicking off. So book those tickets now.
…and viscous Disney alligators…
Viscous alligators.
So Laurie is going “to love fiercer”? Can you simultaneously love (more) fiercely and polyamorously without serious emotional consequences? Oh wait…
It’s topsy turvy day. As anticapitalists worry about drops in stock market indices, there’s a meme coalescing on Twitter that the young people of Britain are soberer longer term thinkers compared to their parents and grandparents. A graph is being passed around where younger age = more years to live = a longer term, more responsible thinkers. “Here’s to cohort replacement” – why won’t grandma hurry up and die, and until she does can’t we at least stop the old bag from voting?
Apart from the ageism, this “years to live with the consequence” argument misunderstands what a country is. It’s not about you, it’s about what your ancestors passed down to you and about what you can pass down to your descendants.
So Laurie is going “to love fiercer”?
And type with even greater haste.
Oh wait…
Yes, I’m a little confused. Days ago, Laurie was telling us, quite emphatically, that love is “a systemic lie designed to manipulate women into lifelong emotional labour.” But apparently she’ll be doing it anyway, and rather fiercely.
In fairness, Laurie has had a long personal struggle with coherence. As demonstrated, for instance, when she scorned “bikini ideology” as a vile product of capitalism and the garment itself as a vehicle for anxiety, self-esteem issues and sexist woe, while simultaneously championing the padded bikini bra for seven-year-old girls, who are, we were assured, “negotiating the complex world of adult sexuality.”
So Laurie is going “to love fiercer”?
Perhaps it has something to do with whips, chains, and spankings.
Someone fetch a damp flannel for the forehead of Mr Muldoon.
OK, ran across this this morning and couldn’t resist… Jose Canseco’s economic analysis:
Make no mistake. Let history note that this man, made the call. With Hayek long gone and Friedman dead, who else would one turn to? Apparently Leon Lett was not available for comment.
“It’s not about you, it’s about what your ancestors passed down to you and about what you can pass down to your descendants.”
But when you’re told that everything in the past of your country was racist, sexist, homophobic and a blight on history, why would you bother continuing to “pass anything down”?