#interview tool

[lorephobic]

“the class commentary in saltburn was shit” WHAT CLASS COMMENTARY???? NOT EVERY MOVIE WITH RICH PEOPLE HAS TO OR SHOULD HAVE CLASS COMMENTARY. EMERALD FENNELL KNOWS VERY WELL THAT SHE IS NOT THE RIGHT DIRECTOR FOR A MOVIE ABOUT CLASS COMMENTARY WHICH IS WHY SHE DID NOT WRITE A MOVIE ABOUT CLASS COMMENTARY.

#saltburn posting #saltburn #begging everyone who is complaining about the ‘message’ of saltburn to watch ANY interview with emerald #when you see her attention to detail and hear the way she talks about these characters #you will understand that this is a movie about obsession #and the cattons being rich heightens this for sure and pushes oliver into an uncomfortable position #in the exact same way that it pushes farleigh into an uncomfortable position #they will grant you help as long as you don’t ask for it #desires are messy and ugly so it’s better to just not have them #these ideas are absolutely a result of the catton’s wealth and status #but as far as the plot goes #their wealth is just a narrative tool to push these ideas about beauty and obsession #watch the cufflinks scene again and really think about it #think about venetia and what she wanted and farleigh and what he wanted #and all of the desires that are left unspoken at saltburn #and the desire to BE DESIRED #think about all of this and try to tell me that this is a movie about material gain

[stlelios]

So Louis takes up photography and he gives a plethora of reasons as to why he's chosen it as a hobby. But then he's on a date with Armand and he's seeing Lestat there. And so he takes the camera and looks through the lens, just to make sure that Lestat isn't there. Because his mind can betray him but the photos do not, and the photos confirm that there's no one. And that Lestat is just in his head.

So when Louis says 'I walk the night capturing disappointment and regret', he's also in a way talking about himself. Because every time he takes a photo and Lestat isn't there, he's filled with disappointment and regret. He's grieving Lestat and he misses him. He sees him everywhere and it's not real. It's never real even if he wants him to be. And back in the present day he's still grieving Lestat. That's decades worth of grief.

Lestat says that he has a capacity for enduring. But I think that applies to Louis too. All that pain and loss and grief and trauma, and Louis still carries it all. And I think this makes Louis one of the strongest vampire out there because anybody weak would've crumbled from the weight of it all.

#how could i ever hate louis #i relate to him way too much to do that #my duke of gloom :( #louis de pointe du lac #loustat #lestat de lioncourt #spoilers #iwtv spoilers #text #amc iwtv #iwtv #iwtv 2 spoilers #interview with the vampire #photography might be his hobby now #but the camera is a tool to keep his sanity in check #you'll never convince me otherwise

[autodiscipline]

Full & Ryutaro for Vicious magazine, 1999.09

you can read their interview together in english here

#guniw tools #plastic tree #some of these pictures are extremely teeny + long post #but i have to post them because my nature #i remember reading in an interview w ryutaro where he talked about how bad he wanted to go to disney land w/ full #cuteness #my scans #+shout out to that lj user for doing gods work

[wizardnuke]

i have to. locate someone who will help me with my resumé. tomorrow

#walmart does not require a 'resumé' they require you to show up to an interview and you're golden #this one's like. i am far past the internship reqs. i am probably going to be a little more knowledgable than the average applicant. #experience with power tools. experience with soil sampling. experience with tree and pest identification etc #i do worry about the physical aspect of the job but more from the interviewer perspective. i know i am pretty fucking strong #and will be stronger by then but i look like a twig

[quetzalpapalotl]

Scott's tf comics have their flaws ofc, but they're fine. The thing that really throws me off is her interviews because it's that feeling of "did we read the same thing" you get from some analysis, except this is the author.

#like when she says that seeing optimus lose his divinity will be really hard for windblade like what???? #windblade understands that Primes are a big deal in Caminus but she herself never treated him as a demigod #like literally combiner wars is about her and op trying to use OP's prime clout to combat Starscream #and she uses this as a tool she never even says she believes it #i feel she would have a different attitude if she did #and like it was cool because it made sense with her arc about having to become more cunning to survive Cybertron #i mean that interview makes sense with the Revolution extra #but that was the first time we see WB having so much reverence for OP for being a Prime #and it only came up so she could lose it #Pyra Magna was also weird about it in that comic #Windblade has far more reverence for the Titans than OP literally what is Scott talking about #it explains why some beats feels unearned i guess

[lacystar]

I missed amongus server drama? 🥲

Qwerty no amount of update accounts could describe what happened

#don’t stop the party #his ass did not get hired NDA loving wife potato farm swag priest I’ll use him later the interview cyrus copper house Cyrus farm underside #the village armor spells out chef well he underwater mines tools named after master chef winners red light district what amendment is the ri #ght ti remain silent THEYRE fuckinng at the red light district all the time clings reciting poetry maybe if I finish his gift he’ll like me #when is the divorce is clings socks son because he’s mixed who is the father church so trinkets the pope then is it priest or pastor I’m not #calling him father cyrus how are you doing Cyrus I’m feeling swaggy bedrock minecraft isn’t on mac Nintendo online is $20 a year you did #lore and you’re not even on our server can I get the family tree when will my husband return from the war cyrus has the nda why are you at #the red light district trinket crying laughing #I’m gonna listen to YCGMA is your husband faithful oh well he works csn cyrus deafen the king solomon baby story recited from a techno quote #in a Cyrus fic please areus don’t tell you know clings I just want my family to be okay you don’t know what this would do to him please #he doesn’t even have a priest outfit you are not allowed to build in swag nation afyer some debate the council has considered you for the #job of pastor so how are Andy and clings related #cyrus gets tagged 5 times consecutively on a burger post. clings is in the backrooms. it’s jover. #amogus server #asks #qwerty

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Father tagz what is your favorite album cover?

These ones, anon. ^^^

In order from top to bottom, left to right they are:

• Soulfly - Primitive

• Rage Against the Machine - Renegades

• System of a Down - Steal this Album

• Twiztid - Electric Lettuce

• Korn - See You on the Other Side

• Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

• Tool - Ænima

• Crazy Town - The Gift of the Game

• Jamiroquai - Synkronized

• Insane Clown Posse - The Mighty Death Pop! Box Set

#I don’t feel like choosing so here are my top 10 #these are simply based on album art #I would’ve put In The Court of the Crimson King but I had to make room for Jamiroquai #I fucking love Jamiroquai you know that? #bonus shoutout to Introduction to Mayhem by Primer 55 #and …One Union Underground by The Union Underground because of that interview I posted where the bassist bullshits about the photo shoot #it’s hilarious #also yes one of my dreams is to get double teamed by the SO guy and the TGOTG chick #end goal right there #also these aren’t ranked they’re just sorted how I think they look best #soulfly #rage against the machine #system of a down #twiztid #korn #limp bizkit #tool #crazy town #jamiroquai #insane clown posse

[taminoarticles]

— Tamino for Behind The Blinds, Issue 13 / Fall/Winter 2022 (x)

Tamino: The In-Between State

Antwerp, July 2022

Interview by MARTIN ONUFROWICZ Photography by ZEB DAEMEN Fashion by JONATHAN HUGUET

For Tamino, the title of his new album, Sahar, reflects his mindset while working on the record. “The literal meaning of the word is “just before dawn” and I think that perfectly captures the feeling of being in this in-between realm that I felt at the time,” explains the Belgian-Egyptian singer. Having catapulted him to fame in Belgium just after turning 20, Tamino’s debut album Amir also earned him fans from all over the globe, leading to non-stop touring for years. With instant popularity — and responsibility — at a young age, Tamino oscillates between adolescence and adulthood; this very in-between state being at the core of his latest record.

With Sahar, the musician continues to express the melancholy and vulnerability that became a signature of his artistic language. The key tool in creating the record was the Arabic lute known as the oud — an instrument that takes center stage in a ballad titled A Drop of Blood. “With this song, I wanted to accompany myself with the oud as the main instrument, just like my grandfather and father did in the past,” says Tamino. “It was very important for me to have at least one song like this on the album to honor the traditions of Egyptian and Arabic music.”

MARTIN ONUFROWICZ: Why did you decide to name your new album Sahar? What is the meaning that this title holds to you? TAMINO: The literal meaning of the word Sahar is ‘just before dawn’ and I think that perfectly captures the feeling of being in this in-between realm that I felt at the time of creating the album, and still feel a bit right now.

MO: Where is this feeling of being in an in-between state coming from? TAM: It has a lot to do with what my life has looked like in the last couple of years. I went from moving to Amsterdam to study, where I felt so out of place, to moving back to Belgium and my music career taking off, and starting to tour almost immediately for years. It felt a bit like tunnel vision — my life started to just revolve around one thing. I’m still very young, and feel like a child on so many levels, but I'm working very much like an adult.

MO: The album was written during the solitary times of the pandemic. How has that period affected you? TAM: I was always planning on having a break because my team saw that I was feeling a bit burned out. So when it came a bit earlier than expected, I was quite happy about it. That said, I always imagined that when I will have my rest, I will be able to integrate into the world again as a regular person who's not traveling all the time, but then that wasn't the case either because everyone was at home, and life as we knew it was on hold. I think that period has definitely contributed to that feeling of in-betweenness as well, and was also a very transformative and important time for me personally.

MO: You're starting touring again later this year. Having this perspective now, how are you going to try to avoid the burnout you had a couple of years ago? TAM: That was the one thing I kept saying to myself during the break, “I’m going to learn from this and take this zen feeling that I found into the busy life that awaits me again." Of course, I’m not sure how well I will do, but it definitely already affected how I approach work. For example, I’m now in New York for a couple of weeks and not just packing all the promotion stuff into one week because I thought, "I don't really have that much to do in July, so let me spend some time here and see what it’s like." I wanted to be here long enough to be able to ground myself, get to know some new people, have fun and be inspired.

MO: That sounds like a really good idea! What are your favorite places in the city so far? TAM: I’m staying in Williamsburg, which I really like. I also really enjoy the Lower East Side. I went to Central Park yesterday, which is always amazing. But I have yet to discover a bar or a restaurant that I really love — I’ll know when it will happen because I’m a creature of habit, so when I find it, I will want to return there every day. [Laughs.]

MO: Which of the songs on the album was the easiest to write and which one was the most challenging? TAM: The one that I wrote really fast was The Longing, the first song on the album. I first came up with the guitar-picking sound that I recorded on my phone and the next day while being in bed, I listened back to the recording and started humming the melody. Then, all of the verses came in one go! I was stunned because that rarely happens, so that was a very cool moment. A Drop of Blood was probably the song that was the biggest challenge for me because it was the one that I knew I wanted to write — all the other ones were improvised while I was trying out sounds with the guitar. With this song, I knew that I wanted to accompany myself with the oud as the main instrument, just like my grandfather and father did in the past. It was very important for me to have at least one song like this on the album [to honor] the traditions of Egyptian and [more broadly] Arabic music.

MO: Looking back, do you remember having a clear moment when you realized that music was something that you wanted to pursue as a career? TAM: Music was always something I did, but I never really thought about making a career out of it — I remember that while I was growing up, I never really worried about how l am going to make money later and I'm very thankful for that to my mom. We didn’t have a lot growing up — she was a single mom with three kids — but she never put pressure on us to earn a lot or anything like that. I do remember clearly writing my first song when I was fourteen and the feeling of ecstasy that I got from it — for me, it was one of the best feelings in the world and something I've been chasing ever since!

MO: What's a music album that changed your life? TAM: There’s been so many, but one that comes to mind immediately is one by Radiohead that I got when I was also around fourteen. I don’t think it was even a specific album, but rather The Best of Radiohead — I just remember being so inspired by their music when I first heard it. Now, my favorite record of theirs is In Rainbows.

MO: That's so cool! It must be a totally dream-come-true situation then for you to now be able to work with Colin Greenwood [one of Radiohead's band members] — I saw that you collaborated with him for Sahar. TAM: Yeah, it's amazing! It sometimes still feels so surreal when I think about it, but now, Colin has really become a friend to me — we have played a lot of concerts together and he did seven songs with me on the new record. He's a lovely person and it’s a dream to work with a musician of his caliber.

MO: How did you guys first meet? TAM: We had mutual friends in Antwerp — they took him to one of my shows and that’s how it started.

MO: Let’s end with a throwback question: who was the first musician you saw playing live and what impact did that make on you? TAM: It was Lenny Kravitz at Sportpaleis in Antwerp. Also, his song I’ll Be Waiting was the first song I deliberately learned by heart — I performed it at a school concert. I love Lenny, he's such a good performer!

#tamino #tamino amir #behind the blinds #article #interview #english #2022 #with photoshoot #original text #Huge thanks to taminodaily on twt and an anonymous source for sharing these photos!! :D #i can be at peace now #edit: HUGEE THANK YOU to zita @maneskinglows on twt for sending in these updated photos!!! theyre a bit clearer than the prev ones :)) #also i was going to edit out the glare for all the photos but im sorry i cannot bear it anymore i had to edit out their thumb #and if i have to do any more cutting and pasting and warping and shifting and colour matching i'm going to lose my Mind #as it is i used the smudge tool to edit out the glare just dont look too closely thank you 🫶 #maybe one day i'll come back to this and be more professional about it but umm until then

[angstics]

crazy that at this point im no longer an mcr blog. remember when i was an mcr blog?

#not that the love has gone theres just nothing to talk about HAHA #everything that can be posted has been posted #oh yeah im still working on the searchable interview archive. ive hit a spot with google photos being a bitch!!!!! #and all the tools i used to use for transcribing audio have broken…? so i need to relearn that #i just get scared screwing with google. they can ruin my life if they decide they dont fw my automation

[anawkwardlady]

Sebastian : you can't even bring children to public executions anymore, what am I supposed to do with them on week-ends now ?

#he says this with the tone of an exhausted mother being interviewed on news about the decline of children attention span #'they say keep them stimulated and they take all our tools no wonder they're obsessed with their phone :(' #kuroshitsuji #sebastian michaelis #phantomhive twins

[thedisablednaturalist]

Unfortunately all chatgpt is good for is interview/job application stuff which I think says a lot about the hiring process as a whole

#wrenfea.exe #as an actual artifical intelligence? no its horrible bc it really ISNT one #its a writing synthesizer it generates writing based on data searches and boundaries from training #thats what a neural network is its a very convoluted input-output sequence #it has no capacity to understand the meaning behind what it generates #it is simply generating the specific things that the user is looking for #the job interview process has become so robotic and automized that ai fits in perfectly #but employers HATE that people are turning to chatgpt for cover letters and interview answers #so it was fair for them to use filtering programs to accept/deny applications before it got in front of an actual human being #and its ok for them to use ai and pre-written formats to make job announcements descriptions and interview questions #but god forbid we are forced to use those exact same tools to get a humans attention so we can get a job and not starve #pushing aside the whole copyright debate on chatgpt and the environmental impact of its power usage btw #im soley analyzing how its become commonly utilized on both sides #by interviewer and interviewed #the mechanization of the whole process is now on both sides #it just seems very inhuman.. #its also how some people have figured out how to somehow become employed multiple times by the same company due to lack of human oversight #and how automated theyve made their hiring process #probably should have made these tags into a separate reblog oops #also disclaimer do not cut and paste right into your application materials bc chatgpt often just lies #also many places now can tell you used chatgpt due to how similar its answers are #i only use it to make a template and see how things can be phrased to be more professional and buzzwordy #id never use it for something actually creative #and dear god do not write academic essays with it #i tried using it to supplement my own cover letter template but it was too robotic even for a cover letter #it is very good at accessing and summarizing publically available information #thats all it does not make sure the information is true or good

[jewishdragon]

from what i understand, AI art is good/useful for the following things

fun and memes! No one profiting, just goofs.

generating references which can then be given to artists/designers who are paid money to bring the concept to life properly (even if the job for the artist is just making a better reference. the idea is to use it as a tool for someone who for any reason is having trouble using words to describe what they want and the AI is assisting them). Its like using those online dollmakers to make refs for OCs.

Probably an offshoot of #2 which is just personal use like idk you wanted to funky looking monster ref for a dnd game or similar personal non-profit and google images failed you

Things it is bad for/reasons it is bad:

It is using people's art without permission/credit/payment. All AI generators should be trained only public domain content or content that the creator consented to be used.

One shouldnt call it art and get paid for the content they create with it. (basically what youve done is make a collage with digital magazine cutouts but magazines are public content and were paid for and shiz)

ALso dont give your own faces to any AI generator holy crap. but it is funny to see people putting politicians into the anime AI thing. This isnt a "Reason its bad" because this isnt about the art aspect anymore its about privacy/protecting yourself!!!

#i rememeber an interview with scott westerfeld #when he had a book series of his illustrated #and that describing what he wanted for illustrated scenes #was harder than writing the scenes themselves #working with his illustrator was fun but really difficult for him #thats what i mean by the AI stuff being a tool to help that kind of process

[freebooter4ever]

LOL always my favorite precisely because he's so cerebral :P

#breadman #also yes i know im only getting the bare gist of this interview #the auto translate tool is terrible but its all i got

[daltoneering]

just knocked myself out at 2am thinking about the h*nd h*lding in the hospital bed bc like. whew. whew. was the last time kinn had someone hold his hand this tenderly, huh

there’s no time or space for tenderness when you’ve got an intimidating reputation to maintain and guards to command and weapons to fire and money to count and people to kill. the most you might do is grab someone’s arm or wrist to yank them in front of you, or shake hands with someone over a deal that is just making your family richer and more dangerous. hands are for cold metal and rich velvet and hard cash but never for softness or warmth or closeness. and yes, perhaps kinn would pin someone’s hand to the mattress while fucking them, or twist their arms behind their back, or use his hands in all sorts of clever ways - but while that’s hot, and physically close, it’s not close like this, not in a comforting kind of way. we know he doesn’t cuddle with his twinks after he’s finished with them, he just sends them home and goes back to his whisky. 

and then in the woods, when we see them hold hands for the first time, it’s an acknowledgement that okay - okay, we are stuck out here together, okay, i’m glad it’s you, okay, maybe we should start letting our walls down because it’s either that or we never get out of here. and then it’s easy to just not let go, to find comfort in that grip, and maybe a little thrill, just as their understandings of each other become something that brings them closer. the letting down of walls, the holding of hands, you get where i’m going

and so then, the hospital bed, porsche convinced to stay because kinn knows him now (and kinn feels comfortable enough to tease him about his fear of ghosts, something that he discovered with the skull in the woods), and kinn reinforcing that knowledge of what he needs by giving him the call to his brother, and porsche understanding that gift when he knows kinn wanted to give him his freedom, which he sacrificed for him by coming back - then, this hand hold. the way it’s porsche that initiates it, the gentle slide of his thumb over the family ring, kinn’s fingers tightening in return. it’s a thank you and a clear, unspoken sign of mutual comfort (and mutual feelings). and it’s so so so tender, and the cuddling that follows is equally so. so different from the violence and everyday powerplays that kinn is used to, and no agenda, no intention to take it anywhere further. just porsche, holding his hand, because he wants to, and because now he can. tenderness and closeness found in the place he never expected he would find them in return.

#kinnporsche #kinnporsche the series #bro dont get me STARTED on hand holding i WILL simply evaporate away #also this is mostly focused on kinn but like. ahhhh. the way porsche's hands are also tools for violence and death under kinn's command #or for fighting his way through life to keep a roof over his brother's head #what apo said in that teen vogue interview about porsche sleeping with women so he could cuddle afterwards #PLEASE THEY BOTH JUST CRAVE TENDERNESS #THEY ARE FINALLY FINDING IT IN THE MOST UNLIKELY OF PLACES WITH EACH OTHER #cry cry cry #meta #kp*

[colin-robinsons-cardigan]

It cost me my sanity but it’s done! Catboy rockstar Lestat!

#i combined all of the hellspawn materials #(velvet fur metal silk and leather) #with multiple coloured light sources #aaaaaaa #all this for a catboy smh #the vampire chronicles #lestat de lioncourt #tvc lestat #vampire chronicles #anne rice #interview with the vampire #the vampire lestat #rockstar lestat #vampire chronicles fanart #catboy #digital art #paint tool sai #vampires #original post #original art #iwtv #iwtv fanart

[appsa]

Ok jokes aside i do find damiens religion thing very confusing to parse thru cause its interesting that he finds a way to reconcile fantasy catholicism w his queerness but. Hm.

#him going to the 'west' (?) for missionary work and getting his ass kicked into a river... #and finding a connection to his saint in his own way. hm. #i do see the threads here that his father was strict abt fantasy bible ig and didnt approve of damien at all #and definitelyyyy got kicked out of that village for being weird abt it #and ig... the way magic operates in this world is also tied w belief so thats how damien is able to do extraordinary things #just by believing in his saint hard enough #and the fact that his saint has his own voice #hm. ig im having trouble w it because i find it difficult to not think of religion as a tool for oppression #but thats not the case for everyone #and ig this is a question everyone wrestles with right? #like what parts to keep and what parts to get rid of #we cant get rid of the whole thing like thats not feasible so how do we move forward #lol. idk. do they do interviews where they talk abt this stuff that is NOT behind a paywall #tpp #LOL i know nothing abt maintaining faith while also being queer sorry bsbsbjdf thats just a different perspective