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How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game
How to Make a Movie Out of Anything — Even a Mindless Phone Game kenyatta: This trend toward I.P.-based movies has been profound. In 1996, of the top 20 grossing films, nine were live-action movies based on wholly original screenplays. In 2016, just one of the top 20 grossing movies, ‘‘La La Land,’’ fit that…
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boweldisruptions: knitpool: blujayonthewing: So it occurred to me that ‘grawlix’ is sort of an obscure and specialized word, but what I didn’t know until I was googling around just now is that it was actually invented by cartoonist Mort Walker in his 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, in which he categorizes (and invents terminology for)…
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atlasobscura: The Wool Brigades of World War I, When Knitting Was a Patriotic Duty In August 1918, the Comforts Committee of the Navy League of the United States opened a three-day knitting bee in Central Park. It was a massive event, with a sole purpose: to produce warm garments for those fighting in World War…
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13 things that cannot happen under Capitalism (EXPLAINED!):
papasankofa: revolutionarykoolaid: newwavenova: newwavenova: Full employment The end of poverty World peace Decolonization Full equality of all social classes A lastingly stable economy Abolition/effective reformation of prisons/schools Ethical consumption Permacultural and fair global food system Retirement of all senior citizens Functional anarchy (looking at you, an-caps) Free association Direct democracy @smallangryman@fist-fite Here are some of…
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additivism: Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, “The Black Man in the Cosmos” A pioneer of “Afrofuturism,” bandleader Sun Ra emerged from a traditional swing scene in Alabama, touring the country in his teens as a member of his high school biology teacher’s big band.