SPIRITED AWAY (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

"No More Stolen Sisters"

Muscogee Creek artist Maddie Lamb painted a large MMIW mural in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to bring attention to the cause of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

4. Turn up the dynamite, let's MAKE it real

Shit's gonna hit the fan in the american plains today

"Possibly The Worst storm of 2024"

If you live in Oklahoma, Kansas, Southern Nebraska or eastern Missouri, you Need to be aware of the weather. Have multiple ways to receive severe weather alerts, and have a tornado action plan.

Damn, I can't even find anything on the news app I've been using for weather apps. This is the worst tornado season for Kansas I've seen since the 90s. Multiple EF 3-4 this year in Kansas alone.

An area of high risk, 5/5 has been issued for central Oklahoma and south central Kansas. If you live in these areas, you NEED to have a tornado safety plan, take action now to prepare that. Secure outdoor property, and keep vehicles in a garage if possible. It is Critically important to keep aware of current conditions!!!

The zones I mentioned earlier are still at a moderate or enhanced risk of severe weather, including high winds, tornadoes, and hail.

For sources, I got you!!!

The national weather service at weather.gov will have a hazardous weather outlook for your specific area. Simply search for your city or zip code, and at the top of the page there will be a link that reads "hazardous weather outlook."

I use the national weather service's prediction center to assess the threats:

These charts will show you the areas most likely to receive severe weather threats. Anything that is rated at enhanced, moderate, or high is reasonably likely to have a tornado threat. I will say, however, that this information is mostly the first place to start. It shows you the general areas at risk for the day.

Here's my new favorite source for information:

Max Velocity on YouTube. He goes through the prediction center's graphics in excellent detail. He is as intense as the situation calls for.

This is his most recent forecast for May 6 extreme weather. He diligently goes through the threats for each area.

Another thing that I do during severe weather days, is keep a radar app open. It can be on your phone, or keeping an accuweather/weather channel/whoever radar map open. Check it regularly.

If you're interested in learning more about reading & interpreting radar for yourself, this video is an excellent guide.

Please tell your friends and family to stay alert to the weather and have a plan for the severe weather expected today.

The threat could begin in the early afternoon, and will remain present through the evening and into the night.

@mamoru @rai-knightshade here we go again

sturdy shoes! helmet also! FOUR INCH HAIL!!!

Because gay isn’t only 17 year old white kids that come from middle to upper class homes. And Black Love isn’t just straight couples that enforce gender roles and women with perfect bodies, a quiet tongue, and a womb always ready to create. This is also the face of Black Love. And its beautiful. -ShiShi

They Do Not Exist (1974) by Mustafa Abu Ali (watch)

from PalestineCinema.com:

ROTTEN: Behind The Foodfight

Holy chips! It's an exciting time to be a Foodfight! fan, because ROTTEN: Behind The Foodfight is finally out! This really is THE definitive documentary on the insanity behind the movie, and it finally answers the question of just what was going on behind the scenes during production. Since I helped out with research (and I even get a short line of dialogue at 45:19) I've already seen everything that was shown off, but had to keep quiet until all the interviews were conducted and the documentary was finished. But now it's out and everything has been made public, the cat's out of the bag (the Fat Cat Burglar?) and I can talk about all the production material that's been shared.

Before I get into any of that though, I'd highly recommend you watch the documentary for yourself. It's insanely well researched and put together, and having worked together with Ziggy Cashmere (the documentary's creator) I know how hard he dedicated himself towards making this all possible. If it weren't for him, the most interesting Foodfight! discovery would've been finding the novelization, and we would have never gotten any real insight into how this movie came to be. It's also a documentary that really speaks for itself- I don't want to say too much about what it reveals since it's all expressed far better through its narrative and the interviews with people who actually worked on the project. My favorite is the interview with texture artist Mona Weiss- she tells such horrifying stories about how she was treated by Larry and other crewmembers, yet does it all with a sense of humor that makes it clear she's enjoying getting to talk about her crazy experiences. It's clear Foodfight! was an unmitigated disaster from start to finish, and there's nobody to blame for that but Larry Kasanoff himself. The movie was rotten from the top down and despite the countless talented animators and artists working on it, nothing could fix the fact that it was fundamentally mismanaged in the worst way possible. I think the quote from producer George Johnsen summarizes it best: "Foodfight! was a good idea that unfortunately lost its way during production. The technology, the art, and the direction were not in sync. Many very talented people gave their all to make the picture, but more understanding of process from the top was needed for it to succeed."

But if you saw the documentary, you already know all that, right? So instead, let's talk about the behind-the-scenes material that's finally been shared! You can find everything I'll talking about HERE on archive.org-

It's worth following the link and checking it out for yourself- there's so much it'd impossible to discuss everything. Artwork, storyboards, bloopers, models, a nude render of Lady X, an interview with Larry Kasanoff, the list goes on and it's still being updated! Despite the documentary already being out, people who worked on the movie are continuing to share new material! It's pretty incredible- for the past year I've ran this blog all I've really had to discuss are two tie-in books, and now there's so much Foodfight! material I can't even keep up with it.

I mean LOOK at all this, isn't it fantastic? The character art by Jim George showing off just how much better these designs originally were, the countless environments showing off just how stunning Marketropolis could've looked as well as the strength of the core idea "what if a supermarket came to life at night", and insanely detailed storyboards for a 7-minute pitch reel that was used to sell the movie to investors. Normally, I'd be ALL OVER this because it's all just incredible, but there's something far, FAR more fascinating than any of it.

There are even multiple drafts of the script (one from 2005 and one from 2007 respectively) and normally I'd be insanely fascinated by those too, making extremely detailed posts explaining the differences between the drafts and how they compare to the novelization, but there's something else that was found that blows ALL of this out of the water and is easily one of the most monumental lost media discoveries of ALL TIME.

That's right, a rough cut of the ENTIRE movie from 2005 has been found, containing nearly ALL the completed animation from earlier on in production. I mean, that's mindblowing right? We first got sent this around a month ago, a little while before the documentary came out, and I literally stopped everything I was doing at work to just sit and watch this. This is the closest we're ever going to get to the "original" version of Foodfight! after all- only 7 minutes of footage was ever actually made before they switched to mocap, made solely for the aforementioned pitch reel, and this workprint contains practically all of it! On top of that there are some great storyboards in here, as well as some truly hilarious ones cobbled together from 3D renders, and the plot is far better than what we ended up with, a lot of the more inappropriate jokes being absent. This rough cut is actually pretty similar to the novelization in that regard, and it also contains scenes that we'd previously only read about in there.

For example, in the novelization there's a snowmobile chase through the mountains, with Brand X soldiers on snowmobiles and a heavy avalanche close behind. This scene was completely left out of the movie itself, but in this workprint it's here! ALL the previously novelization-exclusive scenes are included, and this rough cut is seemingly based on an even earlier draft of the script than that- here Brand X are still defeated by a flood, whereas by the time of the novelization it'd been changed to a lightning storm. There are SO many exciting differences in this workprint, the snippets of original animation we get to see are SO good, and it's SO much better than the movie itself that I think it by far deserves the crown as the DEFINITIVE version of Foodfight! There's so much in it I want to discuss, that there's no way I can fit it all into this one post...so stay tuned, because in the next few days I'll be doing a FULL analysis of the 2005 workprint, pointing out all the extra brand mascots not in the finished film, and generally just gushing about how amazing it is.

I mean, this is it. Just take it all in for a second- the original footage was considered lost media for over a decade, and now it's practically been found in its entirety, embedded in an early cut of the whole movie...isn't that just phenomenal? All the mysteries have been unraveled, all the questions have been answered, and now we can relax, take a deep breath, and watch Foodfight!...the REAL Foodfight! Make sure to enjoy it, and join me next time for my analysis!

last chance to evacuate

as you may know, israel has begun its ground operation in rafah. they dropped leaflets last night ordering people to evacuate, and bombing in east rafah has already begun.

The border is about to become unreachable.

Rafah is trapped.

We have literal hours until no-one, all the GoFundMe's you've scrolled past, all the people desperately begging on TikTok, will be able to escape.

Give now. Give whatever you can.

I am fundraising for the Odeh family, which is only 3k away from meeting its goal.

you will not get another chance.

GIVE HERE

I found someone’s tumblr logged in on this computer and all I did was change the icon

Really confused as to how my logo changed to kermit the frog. Unless im starting to have hallucinations from lack of sleep. Still. mindfucked. 

Lost everything today.

Home, belongings, memories. It's true what they say, home is where the heart is. Feeling lost and alone in this shattered homeland.

Help me start anew. My husband, my daughter Tala, and I are now outside Gaza, starting from scratch.

GoFundMe Link

Challengers + I'm Your Man by Mitski

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

last toshiro for today

Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) The Jimi Hendrix Experience - guitar and vocals Songs: "Voodoo Child," "Foxy Lady" Defeated Opponents: Elvis Costello, Clyde McPhatter, Robin Zander, Arlo Guthrie, Brian Eno, Brian May + Freddie Mercury Propaganda: none

Prince (1958-2016) solo, leader of The Revolution Songs: "I Wanna Be Your Lover," "For You" Defeated Opponents: Donovan, Miles Davis, Marvin Gaye, David Byrne, Al Green, Clarence Clemons Propaganda: "His music sounds like no one else's. He was able to make a guitar sound magically different to how guitars are supposed to sound. And his voice. He could go from squeaky, almost childish sounding, to a soulful, balladic powerhouse performance all while making it look easy. He was one of the greatest singular performers and musicians ever. And he was a short king to boot." "Most photos of Prince don't really do him justice because, like Jimi Hendrix, he was at his hottest when he played guitar, and to me that's something you have to actually hear to understand. Also he had a great, super energetic stage presence, which is also extremely sexy and hard to convey in pictures alone. What I'm trying to say is that everyone should just watch his Superbowl halftime performance and I dare you to tell me that he wasn't the sexiest man alive that night." "Prince was the only guy who could show up at your party, in frills, and steal your girlfriend. Then steal her clothes, then steal someone else's girl in your girlfriends clothes."