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Without fail I think one of the funniest things ever is that literally saying a character or groups have an advantage because they have the power of friendship immediately makes the story sound like its target audience is five year olds, but it’s also objectively true and extremely efficient: groups that have a strong rapport built between them will have an observable tactical advantage since they’ll be able to shuffle formations or react unpredictably / cover each others’ weak points more efficiently and even if they’re infighting, will still have enough of a relationship to set that aside for the most part.

Friendship is a literal pragmatic asset and every time I think about this my brain spits out “that’s the REAL superpower of TEAMWORK” from Sonic Heroes, and I laugh harder.

no thoughts just Tam Lin Emotion

We stan

Annular Eclipse 2023. Taken south of Farmington, New Mexico.

Some days I feel like I’m 29 feet away from a Japanese radish

Ok I do have to defend Max Rebo a bit "he supported Jabba" have u never heard of taking a gig

yes the venue is owned by a slimy evil slug but that's true of any venue in Boston

the fact that we made it through the Cold War is nothing short of a miracle. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools

William Gibson once suggested that the days on which we almost destroyed the world with nuclear weapons should be recognized as international holidays, to raise awareness of how very precarious the situation has been at times.

If you would like to observe such a holiday, October 27th should be Vasili Arkhipov Day. During the Cuban missile crisis he was first officer on Soviet submarine B-59 off the coast of Cuba. When the destroyer USS Beale began to drop depth charges to force them to the surface, his captain decided that WW III must have started, and ordered his men to arm and fire a nuclear torpedo at a group of American ships. Due to a strange circumstance, the captain had to seek Arkhipov’s approval to fire the weapon, because while he was only second in command of the sub, he was in command of the flotilla of which the submarine was a part. Arkhipov, outnumbered three to one, steadfastly refused to give his approval.

Important context: Arkhipov had previously been involved with a nuclear incident aboard another sub, and cited the things he witnessed happening to the crew as one of the reasons he refused to give approval.

Happy Vasili Arkhipov day

Some filmmakers can do action. Others can do comedy. But for 40 years, the master of combining them has been Jackie Chan. Let’s see how he does it. (Note: to see the names of the films, press the CC button!) For educational purposes only. You can donate to support the channel at

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/everyframeapainting

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonyszhou

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everyframeapainting The 9 Principles of Action Comedy

1. Start with a DISADVANTAGE

2. Use the ENVIRONMENT

3. Be CLEAR in your shots

4. Action & Reaction in the SAME frame

5. Do as many TAKES as necessary

6. Let the audience feel the RHYTHM

7. In editing, TWO good hits = ONE great hit

8. PAIN is humanizing 9. Earn your FINISH

Of course it goes without saying that I am hopelessly dependent on the ingot

Canada Day is Coming ... Knit or Crochet a Mesmerizing Maple Leaf Shawl: 👉 https://buff.ly/2Tq7fqv

@knottybliss have you seen this yet?

CRICKET IN DANGER

(i made this illustration to go along with a video i made on Blender! check it out if you're interested)

salmon so tasty it make me eat hasty / when salmon is finished the joy is diminished

Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), family Microhylidae, Kaeng Krachang NP, Thailand

photograph by https://arturtomaszek.com/

Somebody found this last week and reminded me it existed, so I'mma bring it back to this blog because it's about ten days until some of you will need that last one. :D

There is also MyNoise.net, which is also free (although if you listen to too many in a row, it gives a donation prompt), and has a huge plethora of extremely granularly adjustable soundscapes, including a lot of regular ones, like

Café Restaurant

Waterfall

Primeval Forest

Cat Purr

But also features such esoteric ambiences as:

Medieval Library (he's got Villages too, and Sad Bards)

Steel Mill

Laundromat

Demolition Site

Dark Dungeon

Spaceship

and, one of my favorites,

Shepard Madness (it's Shepard tones. it goes up. forever.)

It's just one guy who runs it, and he does almost everything himself, and it really, really works for me. There are SO many options, and they're all customizable. There are a lot of tonal ones, too, that have a musical aspect to them, and it's really really lovely.

Hey guess what bitches Poland had a general election last Sunday and we said "fuck you" to the current fascist Orban-wannabes en masse, in a record-breaking historic turnout of 74% (that's a better turnout than the 1989 election which toppled the Soviet regime), with people of all ages standing in lines till 3 am to vote, young people actually outnumbering the elderly for the first time ever; and the result is that the progressive pro-EU coalition won and will form the next government. Been in in a stunned-but-celebratory mood since Sunday night.

It can be done.

ROCK IT POLAND https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Polish_parliamentary_election there's already a wiki

thank you for the inspiration and hope! I hope we can emulate you in our time comes to do the sane thing!

Vogue Arabia Dec 2021 - Sokhna Cisse by Lucian Bor