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Attention Artists!!!
show me your first drawing of your favourite character vs your most recent drawing of them !!!
Here's mine 💜 ( Newest - oldest )
#artists#artists on tumblr#artists on twitter#artist challenge#challenge#art challenge#twitter#repost from twitter#odyssey fan muppet#odyssey#OCs#Fandom#fanart
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Just got back from Epcot
I'm pretty sure most of you (definitely the Muppets fans) have heard that Muppets Labs is at the Odyssey for the Food and wine festival, and I just wanted to show you the drinks I got there!
First of is the Pickle Milkshake, this one was not bad tasted really good!
Second one I had was called the frozen fusion, it end up being my favorite.
But, Y A Y, I'm just really really glad Disney added Muppets Labs to Epcot again (even though we have Muppets Mobile Labs)
Definitely recommend going to the food and wine festival!
#epcot#disney epcot#muppets#beaker muppets#dr. bunsen honeydew#Epcot international food and wine festival#Brew-wing Lads at the Odyssey#Pickle Milkshake
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Holidays 4.3
Holidays
American Circus Day
American Creed Day
Armenian Appreciation Day
Corrupt Society Day
Day of the Bride (Argentina)
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
A Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day
Good Deeds Day
Independent Artist Day
International Day Against Victim Blaming
Jane Goodall Day (Los Angeles)
Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus; Japan)
Love A Muslim Day (UK)
National Chalk Day
National Film Score Day
National Grey Day
National Inspiring Joy Day
National Library Week begins
National Pac-Man Day
National Shoot Your Shot Day
Overcome a Handicap Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Peace Day (Angola)
Pony Express Day
Second Republic Day (Guinea)
TV Guide Day
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day
World Aquatic Animal Day
World Cloud Security Day
World Party Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Fish Fingers and Custard Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
1st Monday in April
National Bake Week begins [1st Monday]
National Fun Day [1st Monday]
Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]
School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]
Sweet Potato Day [1st Monday]
Tater Day (Kentucky) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Declaration of the Second Republic (Guinea)
Malinovia (Declared 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agape, Chionia, and Irene (Christian; Martyrs)
Aristæus (Positivist; Saint)
Burgundofara (Christian; Saint)
Captain Cabbage (Muppetism)
Day of Sheela-Na-Gig (Pagan)
Doris Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Pak Tai (Macau) [3rd Day of 3rd Lunar Month]
Goof Friday (Church of the SubGenius)
Holy Monday [6 Days before Easter]
Luigi Scrosoppi (Christian; Saint)
Nicetias (Christian; Saint)
Plato (Christian; Saint)
Proserpina’s Rise from the Underworld Day (Ancient Greece)
Richard of Chichester (Christian; Saint)
Seize a Sausage Day (Pastafarian)
Ulpin of Tyre (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sizdar-Bedah (Unlucky to stay indoors; Iran)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Adventureland (Film; 2009)
Beethoven (Film; 1992)
The Druid of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1991)
Fast & Furious (Film; 2009) [F&F #4]
Furious 7 (Film; 2015) [F&F #7]
It Happened at the World’s Fair (Film; 1963)
It’s Now or Never, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)
The Long, Hot Summer (Film; 1958)
Louisiana Hayride (Radio Music Series; 1948)
Mercury Rising (Film; 1998)
My Hero Academia (Anime TV Series; 2016)
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregor (Novel; 2008)
Piano Concerto in A Minor, by Edvard Grieg (Concerto; 1869)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Planning for Good Eating (Disney Cartoon; 1946)
Rock-A-Doodle (Animated Film; 1992)
Rumple of the Bailey (UK TV Series; 1978)
The Sea-Wolf (Novel; 1904)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Richard, Sixtus (Austria)
Radojko, Ratko, Rikard, Siksto (Croatia)
Richard (Czech Republic)
Nicæas (Denmark)
Uko, Uku (Estonia)
Sampo, Veeti (Finland)
Richard (France)
Irene, Lisa, Richard (Germany)
Illyria’s (Greece)
Buda, Richárd (Hungary)
Riccardo, Sisto (Italy)
Daira, Dairis, Ferdinands (Latvia)
Kristijonas, Ričardas, Rimtautė, Vytenis (Lithuania)
Gunnvald, Gunvor (Norway)
Antoni, Cieszygor, Jakub, Pankracy, Ryszard (Poland)
Nichita (Romania)
Richard (Slovakia)
Ricardo (Spain)
Ferdinand, Nanna (Sweden)
Dick, Dickson, Dix, Dixie, Dixon, Doris, Ricarda, Ricardo, Rich, Richard, Richelle, Richman, Rick, Rickey, Ricky, Rosamond, Rosamund, Ryan (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 93 of 2024; 272 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 14 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 12 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 2 Aqua; Twosday [2 of 30]
Julian: 21 March 2023
Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristæus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 15 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 14 of 30)
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Holidays 4.3
Holidays
American Circus Day
American Creed Day
Armenian Appreciation Day
Corrupt Society Day
Day of the Bride (Argentina)
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
A Drop of Water is a Grain of Gold
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day
Good Deeds Day
Independent Artist Day
International Day Against Victim Blaming
Jane Goodall Day (Los Angeles)
Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus; Japan)
Love A Muslim Day (UK)
National Chalk Day
National Film Score Day
National Grey Day
National Inspiring Joy Day
National Library Week begins
National Pac-Man Day
National Shoot Your Shot Day
Overcome a Handicap Day
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
Peace Day (Angola)
Pony Express Day
Second Republic Day (Guinea)
TV Guide Day
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day
World Aquatic Animal Day
World Cloud Security Day
World Party Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day
Fish Fingers and Custard Day
National Chocolate Mousse Day
1st Monday in April
National Bake Week begins [1st Monday]
National Fun Day [1st Monday]
Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]
School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]
Sweet Potato Day [1st Monday]
Tater Day (Kentucky) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Declaration of the Second Republic (Guinea)
Malinovia (Declared 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Agape, Chionia, and Irene (Christian; Martyrs)
Aristæus (Positivist; Saint)
Burgundofara (Christian; Saint)
Captain Cabbage (Muppetism)
Day of Sheela-Na-Gig (Pagan)
Doris Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of Pak Tai (Macau) [3rd Day of 3rd Lunar Month]
Goof Friday (Church of the SubGenius)
Holy Monday [6 Days before Easter]
Luigi Scrosoppi (Christian; Saint)
Nicetias (Christian; Saint)
Plato (Christian; Saint)
Proserpina’s Rise from the Underworld Day (Ancient Greece)
Richard of Chichester (Christian; Saint)
Seize a Sausage Day (Pastafarian)
Ulpin of Tyre (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sizdar-Bedah (Unlucky to stay indoors; Iran)
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Adventureland (Film; 2009)
Beethoven (Film; 1992)
The Druid of Shannara, by Terry Brooks (Novel; 1991)
Fast & Furious (Film; 2009) [F&F #4]
Furious 7 (Film; 2015) [F&F #7]
It Happened at the World’s Fair (Film; 1963)
It’s Now or Never, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1960)
The Long, Hot Summer (Film; 1958)
Louisiana Hayride (Radio Music Series; 1948)
Mercury Rising (Film; 1998)
My Hero Academia (Anime TV Series; 2016)
The Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregor (Novel; 2008)
Piano Concerto in A Minor, by Edvard Grieg (Concerto; 1869)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Planning for Good Eating (Disney Cartoon; 1946)
Rock-A-Doodle (Animated Film; 1992)
Rumple of the Bailey (UK TV Series; 1978)
The Sea-Wolf (Novel; 1904)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Film; 1968)
Today’s Name Days
Richard, Sixtus (Austria)
Radojko, Ratko, Rikard, Siksto (Croatia)
Richard (Czech Republic)
Nicæas (Denmark)
Uko, Uku (Estonia)
Sampo, Veeti (Finland)
Richard (France)
Irene, Lisa, Richard (Germany)
Illyria’s (Greece)
Buda, Richárd (Hungary)
Riccardo, Sisto (Italy)
Daira, Dairis, Ferdinands (Latvia)
Kristijonas, Ričardas, Rimtautė, Vytenis (Lithuania)
Gunnvald, Gunvor (Norway)
Antoni, Cieszygor, Jakub, Pankracy, Ryszard (Poland)
Nichita (Romania)
Richard (Slovakia)
Ricardo (Spain)
Ferdinand, Nanna (Sweden)
Dick, Dickson, Dix, Dixie, Dixon, Doris, Ricarda, Ricardo, Rich, Richard, Richelle, Richman, Rick, Rickey, Ricky, Rosamond, Rosamund, Ryan (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 93 of 2024; 272 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 14 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 16 of 28]
Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 13 (Xin-Mao)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 12 Nisan 5783
Islamic: 12 Ramadan 1444
J Cal: 2 Aqua; Twosday [2 of 30]
Julian: 21 March 2023
Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 9 Archimedes (4th Month) [Aristæus]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 15 of 90)
Zodiac: Aries (Day 14 of 30)
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Cool! Thank you😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Behind-the-scenes…
We have been so spoiled by the movie industry, sometimes it’s hard to imagine just how much actual work is being put into the production. We see cutting-edge visuals, striking shots, and amazing movie effects - but all of that takes a lot of time and effort, sometimes even months or years to perfect.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Model maker Michael Lynch cut 450,000 Q-tips, painted them and inserted them into a mesh to fill the stands. To make it seem like the crowd was moving, the crew placed fans underneath.
Corpse Bride (2005)
Setting up the set with models.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire strikes back (1980)
The actual shooting of the iconic opening credits of the movie.
Star Wars: Episodes I & II
Adam Savage (yes, the same famous Mythbuster) worked as a model maker on both Star Wars episode I and II.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A new hope (1977)
Kenny Baker having a sandwich break on set.
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg in the jaws of Bruce, the animatronic shark designed for the movie.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
A prop used for close ups of the ring.
The Matrix (1999)
In the scene where Neo is reaching for a doorknob, there was no proper way to hide the camera so the director of photography disguised it with a coat and tie matching the ones Morpheus is wearing.
Alien³ (1992)
Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian student who wore the Alien suit in his only film role, sitting down for a rest during a break. Filming was extremely physically taxing for him as the costume was made from latex that made breathing very hard.
Jurassic Park (1993)
The life size T-Rex animatronic on the set.
E.T. The Extra-terrestrial (1982)
Steven Spielberg with a camera that’s covered in a white cloth with two holes in it. It was used to get the point of view shots for E.T.
Labyrinth (1986)
In order to film the “Helping Hands” scene, the creators made over 100 pairs of latex hands.
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin on the set.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
To make it seem like the pen was floating, Stanley Kubrick instructed the crew to glue it to a large sheet of glass, which was then rotated around to give the impression of free-floating.
The Grand Budapest hotel (2014)
Wes Anderson directing Ralph Fiennes who’s looking through the window of a “train.”
Goldfinger (1964)
The illusion that the laser was cutting through the table in the famous Goldfinger scene, was actually… not an illusion. The nervous look on Sean Connery’s face, we assume, must’ve also been real. To film it, a special effects man was under the table with an acetylene torch cutting through it from beneath.
Back to the Future part II (1989)
The effects crew working on creating the auto-adjusting and auto-drying jacket effect.
Face/Off (1997)
John Travolta insert torso used for skin removal scene.
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick shooting the famous hotel’s maze.
Men In Black (1997)
This what the alien from from the movie actually looks like. The technician working in the background for the bigger head model in which probably a tiny stunt with heavy prosthetic if not another robot, was used for the dialogue scene slightly after the head was opened in the movie.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Setting up models of vehicles
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Jim Henson and other Muppeteers working on the set.
Honey, I shrunk the kids (1989)
A giant robotic bee that was used to film the bee ride scene. In the post-production of the movie, some digital effects were also added.
Raise the Titanic (1980)
55-foot scale model of the Titanic being positioned by a diver.
Independence Day (1996)
The highest grossing movie of 1996 used a mixture of models and CGI for the effects shots. Around 80% of effects were models (like the large-scale model below) while the other 20% were created digitally.
Escape from New York (1981)
The ‘80s action flick features a scene in which police officers are looking at a digital map of the city. At the time, technology was not advanced enough to create the actual digital graphics so a real-life model was built instead.
True Lies (1994)
A shot from filming the helicopter scenes for the 1994 action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis. For the movie, the US Government supplied three Marine Harriers and their pilots for a fee of $100,736.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Filming the plane crash scene.
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The mystery of Chandra's disappearance is answered, and she finds herself caught up in the legacy of Dominaria's darkest past.
Original Story: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/return-dominaria-episode-8-2018-05-02
Voice Credits:
Chandra: Piyo https://www.facebook.com/PiyoVA/
Mother Luti: Inrezairo http://www.youtube.com/c/inrezairo
Woman: Cari Scholtens https://twitter.com/carischoltens
Kobold 1: Michael Lanier https://onemanandhisbanjo.wordpress.com/
Kobold 2: Eric Bright https://twitter.com/RedDwarfian
Soldier: Ashe Thurman @pixelsandpins
Baird: Muppet https://twitter.com/MuppetMessiah
Karn: Adam Bennett
Sound Credits:
Sound Editing by Grace Nua @formalcasual
"Willow and the Light"
"Round drum"
"Arcane"
"Sky Cullin"
"Industrious ferret"
"Slow heat"
"Dragon and Toast"
"The Escalation"
"Spirit of the girl"
"Cambodian Odyssey" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Voice of All is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast LLC. @wizardsmagic
#mtg#mtgdom#magic the gathering#voice of all#uncharted realms#vorthos#audiobook#audio drama#magic#fantasy#dominaria
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RESULTS: 2017 Movie Odyssey Award for Best Original Song (preliminary round)
With thanks to my little sister, many friends off tumblr and @addaellis, @cokwong, @dansmonarbre, @halfwaythruthedark, @introspectivemeltdown, @leesamuel, @loveless422, @maximiliani, @nazur, @plus-low-overthrow, @shadesofhappy, @simplyangiec, @stephdgray, @themusicmoviesportsguy, @underblackwings, and @yellanimal!
Thank you all so much for you participation in the preliminary! The final results are in, and the top five in your respective groups have qualified for the final round (to begin later today). So, how was this preliminary calculated? For your first place votes, a song received 10 points; second place received 9; third place received 8; et cetera. The top five from each group advanced. The below is formatted thusly: “Song title”, film title (total points) / first-place votes.
GROUP A
"The First Time It Happens”, The Great Muppet Caper (87) / 1
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (76) / 3
“Once in a While, Talk of the Old Days”, Porco Rosso (67) / 2
“Blue Gardenia”, The Blue Gardenia (64.5) / 1
“Zenzenzense”, Your Name (60) / 2
“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”, Ponyo (60) / 1
“Jane Kahan Mera Jigar Gaya Ji”, Mr. & Mrs. ‘55 (59.5)
“For Your Eyes Only”, For Your Eyes Only (47)
“Baby, You Knock Me Out”, It’s Always Fair Weather (45) / 2
“Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo”, Lili (36)
“Think Pink!”, Funny Face (25) / 1
“Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (21)
ADVANCING TO THE FINAL ROUND: “The First Time It Happens”; “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”; “Once in a While, Talk of the Old Days”; “Blue Gardenia”; “Zenzenzense”
GROUP B
“Remember Me (Recuérdame)”, Coco (104) / 3
“My Neighbor Totoro”, My Neighbor Totoro (85) / 1
“Udhar Tum Haseen Ho”, Mr. & Mrs. ‘55 (79)
"Bonjour, Paris!”, Funny Face (69.5) / 3
“Thanks a Lot, but No Thanks”, It’s Always Fair Weather (68.5) / 2
“Sparkle”, Your Name (67.5) / 3
“Ben”, Ben (66) / 1
“I Got Lucky”, Kid Galahad (65)
“Would You”, San Francisco (50) / 1
“I’m Old Fashioned”, You Were Never Lovelier (37.5)
“Hey, a Movie!”, The Great Muppet Caper (35)
ADVANCING TO THE FINAL ROUND: “Remember Me (Recuérdame)”; “My Neighbor Totoro”; “Udahr Tum Haseen Ho”; “Bonjour, Paris!”; “Thanks a Lot, but No Thanks”
I reserved the right to take one song that lied outside a group’s top 5 and place it into the final round - I considered both 6th-place finishers for this spot. “Ponyo” failed to make the cut in its group because it received one less #1 vote than “Zenzenzense” (the first tiebreaker after total points; “Ponyo” was also my #1 vote in that group). In Group B, “Sparkle” missed out by a point, despite being three respondents’ #1 vote. After asking a few people about these two songs afterwards and considering my own opinions (“Ponyo” is coming from a weaker group overall despite randomization; I had issues with how “Sparkle” was used in Your Name), I’ve decided not to exercise that right to save a song. Sorry to all anime fans who participated, I guess.
Awaiting in the final round are five songs to make this a fifteen-song final round. One of them will be the first-ever entry from a documentary film; another will be the first-ever entry from a virtual reality (VR) film. This should be a good, competitive final.
The post for the final round will be going up at the bottom of the next hour, at 5 PM Pacific Time. Keep your eyes peeled, and thanks again everyone!
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Courtesy of @thegroovyarchives...
A Vintage Ask!
1. Favorite musician/album(s) from the 50’s?
I’m not really a big fan of the 50s but if i were to pick one it would be Buddy Holly
2. Favorite musician/album(s) from the 60’s?
THE BEATLES!!! Every goddamn album they ever made. My ultimate favorite is Abbey Road of course. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Rolling Stones. All the 60s bands, like The Zombies, Cream, etc.
3. Favorite musician/album(s) from the 70’s?
I love most of the music from the 70s. But off the top of my head would be Led Zeppelin. Houses Of The Holy
4. Favorite musician/album(s) from the 80'’s?
This is a tricky one? because i mostly listened to Hair Metal. lmao
5. Favorite 50’s Movie(s)?
i’m afraid i dont have one. BUT i believe the short documentary about James Dean was made after he died so that counts right? lol
6. Favorite 60’s Movie(s)?
2001 A Space Odyssey, The Party, Casino Royale, Most of the James Bond franchise, Hard Day’s Night, list goes on lol
7. Favorite 70’s Movie(s)?
Tommy, Saturday Night Fever, The Exorcist, The Omen, Some Charles Bronson movies
8. Favorite 80’s Movie(s)?
Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,
9. Favorite 50’s actor/actress?
James Dean
10. Favorite 60’s actor/actress?
Peter Sellers, Sean Connery
11. Favorite 70’s actor/actress?
Pam Grier
12. Favorite 80’s actor/actress?
Patrick Swayze, Cher, Bette Midler
13. Favorite 50’s TV Show(s)?
Twilight Zone, Honeymooners, I Love Lucy
14. Favorite 60’s TV Show(s)?
Laugh In, Dragnet, Dark Shadows, The Fugitive, Mission Impossible, Star Trek, The Avengers, The Monkees, Hawaii Five O, The Outer Limits, The Mod Squad
15. Favorite 70’s TV Show(s)?
MASH, All In The Family, Carol Burnett Show, Rockford Files, WKRP In Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Taxi, Mary Tyler Moore, Three’s Company, Sanfoed and Son, Charlie’s Angels, Welcome Back Kotter, Soap, One Day At A Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Starsky and Hutch, Wonder Woman, The muppet Show, The Midnight Special, Alice, The Dukes of Hazzard, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Barnaby Jones, Trapper John MD
16. Favorite 80’s TV Show(s)?
Family Ties, Silver Spoons, The damn saturday morning cartoons, Cheers, Knight Rider, L.A. Law, Mr. Belvedere, Murphy Brown, Night Court
17. Favorite “classic” car(s)?
oh boy... lmao
1969 Chevy Camaro, 1971 Chevy Chevelle SS, 1972 Chevy Corvette Stingray, 1977 Pontiac Trans Am (Bandit Edition) 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1
18. Favorite 50’s-80’s visual artist(s)?
Andy Warhol, The Fool, Peter Max
19. Favorite 50’s-80’s fashion model(s)?
Twiggy, Iman, Pattie Boyd, Grace Jones
20. The decade/era (in your opinion) that had the best fashion?
A mix of 60s and 70s.
21. The decade/era (in your opinion) that had the best movies?
60s
22. The decade/era (in your opinion) that had the best music?
60s!!! And most of the 70s lol
23. What “vintage” items would you like to own, someday?
A 1969 Chevy Camaro, 70s roller skates
24. What “vintage” items do you already own?
Nothing atm. I used to have a lot of vinyl, but moving happened. lol
25. Favorite vintage blogs?
So many of them here, but my favorite one is @soundsof71. Theres also @superseventies and @60s-grooves.
Thanks for the fucking brain workout @btn419 LMAO <3
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Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder: Think You Can Ride Like Me?
Game #38: Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder, Dearsoft, 2001
If you’ve ever spent time in a used game store, you’ve seen a copy of Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder. You may not remember seeing it, but you did. Perhaps you did notice, and perhaps you said to yourself, “wait, there’s a Tony-Hawk-style snowboarding game? And it’s not named after Shaun White?”
When SPPS came out, Shaun White was 15 years old. He still makes an appearance in this game, but his avatar is about 3 feet tall and has the voice of a young Anikin Skywalker.
Palmer was Snowboarding’s biggest name in those days. This was at a time when you were more likely to catch Snowboarding on the X Games than at the Olympics. Snowboarding was a sport for tattooed Henry Rollins impersonators, not charming youngsters with bright smiles and endearingly unkempt hair. And Palmer embodied this spirit to the fullest.
Learning about Palmer’s life, I see shades of Bam Margera, someone who now somberly reflects on how early fame arrested his personal growth. After setting his sights on the sport of mountain biking, Palmer became notorious for showing up to races with his naked his body splayed against the front windshield of his tour bus. After coming second place in a mountain-biking championship, he threw his goggles to the ground in frustration. He was the first in the sport to trade in cycling gear for the far-more badass motorcross attire, and routinely passed on sponsorship deals offering upwards of 100k dollars if the deal wasn’t just so.
We see this reflected in SPPS in a number of ways, one of them being Palmer’s in-game portrait.
Okay, how about one normal one, and one silly one? Oh, we’re just gonna stick with the snide apathy? Okay.
As I write this, the Winter Olympics are ongoing. Something that makes these Olympics different for me is that I’ve recently come to understand how costly the upper-echelons of success can be. In the Netflix documentary, Jim and Andy, Jim Carry says:
“You do whatever you need to do to look like a winner... At some point, when you create yourself to make it, you’re going to have to either let that creation go and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are, or you’re gonna have to kill who you really are, and fall into your grave grasping onto a character that you never were.”
This documentary, along with reading about countless other creators, athletes, inventors and entrepreneurs has completely changed the way I look at successful people. When I see someone brandishing a gold medal, to some degree I still see fortune and genius and talent and circumstance just like I always did. But more than that, I see sacrifice. And not just time and relationships, but little chunks of oneself that must be cleaved off like flecks of diamond, leaving behind a rock that is smaller, battle-scarred, but outwardly prettier.
Shaun Palmer is arguably the reason you and I have heard of snowboarding. To the burgeoning in-crowd of the infant sport, he was snowboarding. When flashy moves fell out of favor for technical precision and riders were suddenly expected to be role-models rather than rebels, the Shaun Palmers of the world were relegated to the X-Games, with professional and Olympic snowboarding veering off in a cleaner, more formal direction.
And I’ll admit that I’m glad it did, because I’m a prude and a coward. I don’t want my Olympic gold-medalists to be dangerous bad boys. I want ginger-headed muppets who will charm the pants off the world once every four years and then disappear so I don’t have to worry about what flecks of them got sheared off on their way to the top. I want athletes whose character flaws are easily brushed over in a 1 minute puff piece. I want athletes that help me feel like watching snowboarding counts as a legitimate interest in sports, not my way of clinging to my adolescent video-game fantasies.
Oh, right, the game.
Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder essentially transplants the core ideas of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater to snowboarding. It incorporates elements of many snowboarding disciplines, including half-pipe, slopestyle, downhill, and big air. Grab and grind tricks are similar, but flip tricks are a complete curve ball, because it’s the rider’s body, rather than the board, that does the flipping. Landing also takes some getting used to, especially with both ramps, and quarter/half-pipes present. Because the levels are strictly down hill and backtracking requires hitting special targets to teleport back up, missing a pickup or failing to land a trick can be a death sentence for a run. Resetting is frequent.
Essentially, SPPS’s biggest flaw is that it’s snowboarding’s answer to the earlier Tony Hawk games, feeling a bit out-of-date. And in a way it was probably always doomed to be. Snowboarding is far more different from skateboarding than it first seems. Bringing SPPS to life required a drastic rework of the object control code that governs the rider.
The code that dictates what the player character can and cannot do is often called a “character controller.” Before attempting to script a character controller myself, I could never have imagined how disruptive it can be to make even small changes to its behavior. A character controller in a game like SPPS or Sly Cooper or Mario in Mario Odyssey has to account for a dizzying number of states (standing on the ground, walking, in the air after falling, in the air after jumping, clinging to a ledge, running, changing direction while mid-air, using one of several moves while on the ground, while in the air, while running, while using another move, on and on and on).
Not only does changing one of these states usually have implications for the other states, especially those that are not exclusive but can exist simultaneously, (one can be attacking while running in Sly Cooper for instance) but it also has implications for many other systems, including NPC AI, level design, special mechanics, and so-on.
What this means is that a lot of the lessons that the designers learned over the course of the first four Tony Hawk games rarely applied because most of them were specific to the particulars of the Tony Hawk character controller. Things like how dense to make the levels, balancing challenges, making things relatively easy to find, etc. SPPS had to go back to square one on a lot of these things.
The result was not bad per se, it’s just not what fans of Activision’s “action sports” games had come to expect. If SPPS had come out just a couple years earlier, it would have been a huge success. But by the time it came out, its mechanical similarities to the Tony Hawk games were arguably a deficit, because they create an expectation for a similar level of mechanical polish.
So yeah, the game’s difficulty is far above what followers of the THPS series were used to at that point. And the goal system wasn’t a perfect fit with the level design, and the starting stats were probably too low and the scoring system needed some work, and the sound implementation has a couple kinks in it. But that’s nothing that should be too damning of the game were it not for the expectations set by it’s older cousins.
I love games like this. They’re focused and honest. It promises snowboarding and then delivers.
#shaun palmer#shaun palmer's pro snowboarder#tony hawk's pro skater#game#review#stack of shame#too many games#ps2#activision 02#neversoft#extreme sports#retro gaming
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Had to put on the
Mayhem!!!! 🦷🎹🎸🥁🎸🎷🎺
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"Backing Levy on this one" - Lots of Spurs fans are fuming with recent report
Tottenham Hotspur fans have been left surprised by a report from The Daily Mail claiming that the club’s players could receive more money for partaking in a behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary.
The report states that agents are keen for their clients to receive an increase in pay if they are going to conduct interviews and be filmed for the “All or Nothing” series.
Manchester City have previously allowed cameras access to their facilities and the crew were said to have followed Spurs to Anfield for their 2-1 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday.
The club have undergone a tricky start to the 2019/20 season, winning just three of their first 10 Premier League games and also being knocked out of the Carabao Cup by lower-league Colchester United.
A Champions League clash with Bayern Munich ended in embarrassment too, as the Bavarian giants ran out 7-2 winners.
And fans cannot believe that their players could benefit financially from such a documentary, particularly if performances continue as they have been.
Take a look at the best of the reaction on Twitter below!
This documentary will be the downfall of the club btw
— Odyssey (@7Sonaldo) October 31, 2019
Greedy Muppets
— Zulfikar Husnani (@husnani) October 31, 2019
They are not doing themselves any favours. They are not performing to a satisfactory level on the pitch, otherwise fans would be sympathetic.
— Byron Leigh (@kamon80) October 31, 2019
Might want to put in a shift on the pitch before they start piping up about money
— Aaron Gates (@AaronGates85) October 31, 2019
The way they’re playing at the moment they don’t deserve the money they are getting paid, how about they just do their jobs before thinking about their bank balance that already has millions in it anyway? 🤷🏼♂️
— matt goode (@mattgoode11) October 31, 2019
I am backing Levy on this one sorry
— H (@GioCelsosiuu) October 31, 2019
Oh is 200k a week not enough?
— Liam O’ 🇮🇪 (@TanguyNdembele) October 31, 2019
Not a trophy in 6 years and they want more money for interviews 👹
— Kenneth #COYS (@starcoughlan) October 31, 2019
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There's a new "Child's Play" movie out. I'll start by saying that, despite being a big fan of slasher movies, I've never actually watched any of the "Child's Play" franchise. Even though it somehow managed to outlast "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Friday the 13th," and "Halloween" without rebooting, I've just never taken the plunge. So keep that in mind as I talk about this stuff from a complete outsider perspective.
With that out of the way, here's the new Chucky.
I've seen a few different pictures of the updated doll, with varying degrees of uncanny valley-ness and similarities to the old version, largely depending on the lighting, but they all make one thing pretty clear: this is the same basic doll from 1988, but a little sleeker and slimmer.
The thing I appreciate about that is that they haven't gone the same route as "It" and "Annabelle," making their titular creatures look actively creepy, which eliminates the surprise and scare factor of having something innocuous and commonplace made scary by doing scary things. Which is good, because that seems to me to be the whole point of "Child's Play" and the larger "killer doll" genre as concepts.
But I see a related problem here: Chucky isn't commonplace anymore. The original Chucky doll was styled after the My Buddy and Cabbage Patch Kids dolls that were incredibly common in the mid-80s. I remember the My Buddy commercial, and the only reason I never got the Cabbage Patch Kid doll that I wanted for like a week when I was four is that my mom thought they looked ugly. But today? Sure, the thirty-year nostalgia cycle has brought Cabbage Patch Kids and Teddy Ruxpin back to big box store shelves, but the new Chucky has ditched the Cabbage Patch cheeks and chin, leaving only the slightly-updated My Buddy elements that look like nothing on the shelves today.
If you wanted to do "Child's Play" in 2019, the place to start isn't by putting a fresh coat of paint on the original film, it's by cracking open the movie and getting to the core concept: a toy that looks disturbingly like ones that children love comes to life and murders people. My generation had Chucky, my parents' generation had Talky Tina. And I've seen enough of my mom's old dolls to know that Talky Tina looked a lot like what little girls were playing with in 1963.
As someone who spends a not insignificant amount of time browsing toy aisles, I think your best basis for a modern "Child's Play" would be some kind of blind-box toy, like Hatchimals or LOL Surprise or other things I see advertised when I watch "Teen Titans Go!" like I did this morning. If you want to go the doll route, I think options are a little limited by the domination of multimedia franchises, your DC Superhero Girls and Barbies and Disney Princesses. I assume Monster High and My Little Pony still hold a decent share of the willowy wide-eyed doll market, which NuChucky seems to be leaning into facially, if not in any other aspect. I suppose you could also do something closer to the American Girl dolls, which would have a closer look and size to the original Chucky, even if they'd require some other changes.
It's similar to some of the problems with 2017's "It." It's all well and good to want to move the children's section from the 1950s to the 1980s, but that transition doesn't work without making other alterations, so that the story concept—in particular, the aspects that make it scary—fit in the new cultural context you've transplanted the story into. In 1958, "clown" meant Bozo and Red Skelton and Barnum & Bailey. In 1985, "clown" meant John Wayne Gacy and "Poltergeist." In a lot of ways, It as a novel tracks how clowns lost their innocence just as the protagonists did.
Pennywise works in the It novel and original miniseries because it's familiar. It's somewhat believable that Georgie Denbrough would see a friendly clown and strike up a conversation with it in 1958. That's a lot less believable in the Stranger Danger 1980s, where even aside from the fear of child kidnappings (something the new movie did incorporate into the update) clowns were viewed with a much greater level of suspicion and fear.
If you wanted Pennywise to be something friendly and familiar in a 1988 setting, you'd either make him a cartoon character with heavy merchandising, or you'd make him a Muppet. I suppose he could be a Mister Rogers/Captain Kangaroo/LeVar Burton-style children's TV host, but I think that would require more significant changes to the story structure. Though playing on some of the more salacious urban legends about characters like Barney the Dinosaur and Fred Rogers could make for very interesting horror.
Similarly, in the novel, Eddie Kaspbrak is a hypochondriac and germophobe, so to terrify him in 1958, Pennywise takes the form of a "leper"—who's later determined to be a syphilitic hobo. The recent movie keeps this scene intact (though losing a lot of what gave it context), but as someone who was a kid in the '80s, syphilitic hobos weren't exactly commonplace fears. Instead, D.A.R.E. and urban myth and TV drilled into me a fear of "junkies" and AIDS even in the rural midwestern towns where I grew up. It's especially galling because there is a thematic thread of homophobia and the AIDS epidemic running through the 1980s segments of the It novel, so it wouldn't have been a whole-cloth invention either.
The problem here is one of transliteration rather than translation. When converting a text from one language to another, you can try to do a one-to-one, word-by-word literal transliteration, but in doing so, it's likely that you'll lose some of the meaning. On the other hand, you can try to capture the intended meaning and connotation, but may have to be a little less literal in your word selection. The balance between these two approaches is part of why there's so many different modern English versions of texts like Beowulf and The Odyssey that were written in (effectively) different languages. It's why there's a current furor among Internet man-children that Square Enix censors shrunk Tifa's breasts in the new Final Fantasy VII remake.
I think a similar issue plagues these nostalgic horror movies. They try to update only the setting and aesthetics without realizing how integral those things are to the story and the scares. The result is a warmed-over remake that doesn't pack the same punch as the original because it's tapped into fears from thirty years ago instead of current fears.
And it's not hard to see why this would happen. If you remade "Child's Play" to be about an American Girl-style doll, you'd end up alienating the Chucky fans and creating immediate bad press from the people most likely to pay for a ticket. And I'm sure the copyright holders and corporate powers are in play here: Chucky is a known quantity with merchandising possibilities and brand recognition, and especially in the current Hollywood economy, I can't imagine many of the pursestring-holders ditching that for a less recognizable main character.
I'm not one of the doom-and-gloom types who decries the current state of Hollywood as relying exclusively on adaptations, sequels, and reboots. Frankly, I think that's always been true of Hollywood to one degree or another. But it's true that Hollywood is increasingly dominated by a few large media corporations, and that the economics of moviemaking and theaters in general mean that there's even less willingness to branch out and take risks. And that is a pretty distressing state of affairs, and not just for horror.
"Child's Play" and It weren't made to fit some nostalgic idea of what they should be. They were made to comment and capitalize on issues and anxieties of a particular culture at a particular moment in time, and that's what made them memorable and effective as horror. You can no more sever a story from its context and setting and expect it to work in a new one than you can transplant a heart from one body to another without reconnecting any of the vessels. If you don't connect your story to the rest of the setting, you're going to end up with a bloody, lifeless mess.
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Some uncolored Odyssey doodles
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🐸Kermit cut Odyssey out of the script for one of the skits and They got pissed
🎺Ody got sad cause of some news they were told Lips couldn't come back for a while
🎶🎵🎶 Odyssey randomly danced to a song and feelin' it ( I wonder what song they were dancing to? )
They stole Floyd's Sgt Pepper Coat and is hogging it they won't give it back
#dr teeth and the electric mayhem#dr teeth muppets#floyd pepper#lips muppet#muppets fanart#odyssey fan muppet#fanart#something isnt right#help#why are all of u just standing there#you can't trust Od-
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Christmas is all year round tbh 💜💜🦷🪷🎸
#dr teeth and the electric mayhem#muppets mayhem#dr teeth muppets#floyd pepper#janice muppets#odyssey fan muppet#odyssey
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