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"The Leap Frog Railway is a special pier with a track leading nowhere, on which Reynolds stages the impossible: two bulletlike trains move toward each other at full speed on the same track, to meet an absurdist challenge once posed by Mark Twain as "the only thing that Yankee Ingenuity had not yet accomplished ... the successful passing of two car- loads on a single line of tracks."

The Leap Frog cars rely on a technical invention that mimics animal copulation. They carry a pair of bent rails on their backs that allow them to glide over and under each other. (On the return trip the cars change position.) "The passengers in breathless excitement momentarily antici- pating disaster, realizing that their lives are in jeopardy, clinging to one another for safety, closing their eyes to the impending danger....

The cars crash into one another, 32 people are hurled over the heads of 32 others.... They are suddenly awakened to a realization of the fact that they have actually collided with another car and yet they find them- selves safe and sound proceeding in the same direction in which they started...."

Ostensibly the Leap Frog Railway is a prototype "to reduce the mortality rate due to collisions on railways," but in this apotheosis of the tradition of barely averted disaster Reynolds has blended the mechanics of sex with the imminence of death in a single respectable experience."

Delirious New York

#delirious new york #rem koolhaas #talks

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Books 11-20 of the year 📖

#read in 2024 #ivan turgenev #mircea cartarescu #arkady strugatsky #boris strugatsky #laurent binet #bruno schulz #rink van der velde #edouard leve #antonio moresco #andrzej stasiuk #roque larraquy #talks

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Hiruko the Goblin

#shinya tsukamoto

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Drowning by Numbers (1988) | dir. Peter Greenaway

#peter greenaway

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#bye #sonic the hedgehog

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THE PEOPLE'S JOKER (2022) dir. Vera Drew

#the people's joker

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I have a ticket for a 12 hour movie marathon (7pm to 7 am) at the theaters this week which will consist of

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Saw

The Mouth of Madness

An American Werewolf in London

Ticket and Dale Vs Evil

The Babadook

Nightbreed

Which is a fine spread really but I just can't help but to feel disappointed..note I bought the ticket before the list was released cause it sells out. I guess the disappointment is part that I've seen them all but Mouth of Madness (which I do want to see) and I even went to showings of American Werewolf and Saw recently ... And in general on my own I probably wouldn't dedicate the time to rewatch so much even though the films are fine .. And I guess I was just hoping that something more interesting like at least one or two films that weren't ultra popular they didn't even need to be that much of a deep cut just something more unexpected.. but maybe I'm just being a spoil sport and have ruined myself by watching stuff off the beaten path all the time...

I know if I go I'll probably loosen up and enjoy myself but the contradiction I'm feeling has me wondering if I should just sell my ticket to someone more excited and keep the money and my sleep schedule

#talks #i really dont gave long to decide #i know theyre fine but im just having trouble getting excited #nightbreed being the final is atleast fun im sure itll be something when im sleep deprived #the last marathon line up atleast had a suprise with pieces but these are all big names #and the rewatching wouldnt be such a downer if i hadnt seen a sone of them recently in theaters no less so its not even new in that aspect #idk ive felt like a stick in the mud sinse theyve announced it i wish i could just get pumped up

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Thorens Excelda // Portable gramophone (Switzerland, 1940)

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Poster of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's upcoming film "Chime" (2024).

#kiyoshi kurosawa #hype

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will you be a part of the emergence?

cicada shirts coming for preorder on Friday!

#cincada

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Angel City (1977)

#angel city #jon jost #talks

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Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor | 1990

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2 Bajza street, Budapest, 1985. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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A Family Finds Entertainment

#a family finds entertainment #ryan trecartin #talks

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This Incredible spiral staircase inside the Château de La Rochefoucauld Castle in France

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Active Volcano (2023)

#active volcano #Caroline kopko #talks