#the hummingbird project

[vampirecorleone]

"Sometimes I wonder, if all the time that was given to me was, like, like, 16 milliseconds, and I had no past memory - I had nothing carved into my mind before those 16 milliseconds. And the only thing that was left imprinted in my brain were the images and the smells and feelings of those 16 milliseconds. How do you think I would process that?" | "I don't know. Hmm. I think your life would feel exactly as long as someone who lived for 100 years."

The Hummingbird Project (2018) dir. Kim Nguyen

#The Hummingbird Project #alexander skarsgard #salma hayek #alexanderskarsgardedit #alexanderskarsgardgifs #arskarsedit #arskarsgifs #skarsgardedit #skarsgardgifs #moviegifs #filmgifs #filmedit #filmdaily #tvandfilmdaily #dailytvfilmgifs #cinemapix #doyouevenfilm #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #moviehub #filmcentral #junkfooddaily #gif #mine #made by me #photoset #gifs #gifset

[fembroder]

I would love to see them in a different role

#alexander skarsgard #alexander skarsgård #salma hayek #jesse eisenberg #the hummingbird project #I couldn’t get through this whole movie

[trueblood825]

Documentary Now! and some of my favorite moments

Documentary Now!

FX Networks Van is Sleeping with Alexander Skarsgard | Atlanta | FX 1091 Pictures The Hummingbird Project | Clip 2 - Chase The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Lady Gaga Made Alexander Skarsgård "Paparazzi" Famous

#Documentary Now! #Alexander Skarsgård #Alexander Skarsgard #Atlanta #The Hummingbird Project #The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

[passed-out-real]

Alexander Skarsgård Filmography Part 2

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

Hidden (2015)

War on Everyone (2016)

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Mute (2018)

The Hummingbird Project (2018)

Hold the Dark (2018)

The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

The Aftermath (2019)

Long Shot (2019)

#Alexander Skarsgård #The Diary of a Teenage Girl #Hidden #War on Everyone #The Legend of Tarzan #mute #The Hummingbird Project #Hold the Dark #The Little Drummer Girl #The Aftermath #Long Shot

[rosszulorzott]

#the hummingbird project #hft #Youtube

[jesse-eisenberg-interview]

Interview with director and cast – The Hummingbird Project

STACK caught up with the stars of The Hummingbird Project, Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård, and director Kim Nguyen at the Toronto International Film Festival. 

Alexander Skarsgård is practically unrecognisable In Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project, an ambitious tale of humanity versus corporate greed.

Starring opposite Jesse Eisenberg, the actors play cousins in this high-stakes race to build a fibre-optic cable in a straight line between Kansas and New Jersey, where millions of dollars are on the line.

Skarsgård’s Anton is the brains behind the project while Eisenberg’s Vincent is the hustler, pushing each other to breaking point to achieve their goal. Dogged by their old boss, and now nemesis, Salma Hayek is in fine form as a sociopath High Frequency trader, relentless in her bid to stop them in a race where winning is measured by milliseconds.

Sporting a balding pate for his role as a digital physics genius, Skarsgård sports a full head of hair when STACK meets with the actors at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“I barely recognised myself with no hair,” laughs the actor whose film and TV roles include The Legend of Tarzan, True Blood and Big Little Lies. “And Jesse didn’t recognise me for two months!”

Somewhat surprisingly, Skarsgård tells us he even suggested the bald look, “That’s how I envisioned the character when I read it and fortunately Kim liked the idea. After I described how I saw Anton, Kim sent me a reference photo in an oversized cardigan with that balding ‘donut‘, kind of hunched over, and I was like ‘That’s Anton! Perfect.’

“So I loved it. It was incredible. I think most actors love an opportunity like that and really embrace it. It’s part of the job when you can make a drastic transformation; incredibly rewarding and fun,” says the actor who shaved his hair, gluing on a lace-line of thinning hair, plucking out errant hairs from his dome as filming progressed. “It was torturous, my entire scalp was pulsating.”

“He plucked his hair out, like hair by hair, with a tweezer,” affirms Eisenberg. “I’ve never seen an actor undergo actual, physical pain to change their look. Normally you would just have to shave in the morning but he literally plucked his hair out one by one for hours and hours.”

More accustomed to being cast as the hyper-active genius/geek – Oscar-nominated for his performance as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network and further demonstrated by his roles in the Now You See Me franchise and as Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – Eisenberg enjoyed flipping the coin.

Immediately drawn to Nguyen’s script, he says, “When I read it, I thought Kim was trying to write about second generation Jewish immigrants, of which I am a part. I thought he was really getting at something in the culture that I don’t even know if he was necessarily intending, that drive to assimilate into American culture. When you are hungry to assimilate, you do extreme things like my own family did when they first came from Poland.

“Some people would even go to the rich neighbourhoods and get their garbage and refurbish it, selling it to the poor people. When you are hungry and trying to assimilate into a rich culture, you do stuff like that. And so I thought this movie was really a story of people who are so desperate to fit in that they do this crazy thing and, only at the end, do they realise the absurd lengths they went to,“ says Eisenberg.

Nguyen is more pragmatic. “Many years ago, I was struck with this amazing premise of people digging thousand-mile long tunnels to try and shave a couple of milliseconds off the time it took to make their stock market trades. Madness,” says the Canadian/Vietnamese director.

“It immediately made sense to explore if there was a movie to be made around that high concept. I had this haunting image in my head of stock market hustlers struggling to walk through swamps and muddy forests in their expensive suits, putting their sanity on the line – all for the good old dollar.

“Little did I know how complex it would be in bringing this to the screen. We talked with experts of every scientific expertise: quantum physics experts, fibre optic physicists, highly specialised tunnel digging experts who dig hundred-mile-long, four-inch-wide tunnels for a living and High Frequency trading experts dealing with daily billion-dollar money flows… Boy, what a ride,” says Nguyen who shot The Hummingbird Project on location in Montreal.

If Eisenberg isn’t the actual brains behind the enterprise, then he infuses the character with his familiar high-speed speech pattern. “What I loved about Vincent is that he’s really manipulative and there’s a sleazy hustler quality to him. And those are people who don’t think before they speak, because they are so comfortable talking and they don’t let other people get a word in. I actually had more dialogue in this movie than on any other project so I wanted to make sure I spoke as quickly as possible,” he says.

A cautionary tale about the lengths people will go to achieve success, Eisenberg understands the drive behind The Hummingbird Project’s characters. “I compared it to when I was younger and was so desperate to write and act in a play, doing so much to get my plays on, to a point of almost destroying personal relationships and taxing my body past a point that was healthy.

“Oftentimes you do things that, only in retrospect, you realise how dangerous it was, but at the time you are still focused on the goal. I think that’s what this movie captures, and especially for my character going through some really tragic things throughout the movie.”

Skarsgård believes his own character’s motivation comes from a different place.

“Anton is not driven by those things. He’s not interested in success or recognition from society or even money. This endeavour is very simple for him – he’s doing it because his cousin asks him to do it.”

“I find that quite romantic in a way, that it’s this absolute insane project yet he does it, unquestioningly, simply because his cousin asks him. But then it becomes a personal challenge and that’s when he goes down the rabbit hole of trying to cut that one millisecond.

“And I love that it’s not about I need to raise three million dollars to save my family or to save the house and we’re about to get evicted, which is usually a trope in a movie; the motivating factor for a character. I found that so refreshing.”

Sporting his unattractive balding crown for three months enabled the striking 6’ 4” Swede to go incognito. “It looked very strange on days off because, when I wasn’t shooting, I obviously didn’t need to shave. So I would have stubble on top, and then this almost monk-like hairline,” he laughs. “I even went to some like fashion thing in New York and got a lot of very weird looks.”

• The Hummingbird Project is in cinemas on April 25

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#jesse eisenberg #2019 #the hummingbird project

[dragaliareferencearchive]

concept art by iximaxima

Model references for Hummingbird (Hatsune Miku & KAITO) - Project Sekai: Colorful Stage!

#art references #art reference #model references #project sekai colorful stage #hatsune miku colorful stage #prsk #pjsk #concept art #hatsune miku #kaito #hummingbird #dragaliaarchiveprsk

[todaysbird]

The blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus) is a newly discovered hummingbird species found in Ecuador. The restricted area in which the blue-throated hillstar is found has historically been largely unexplored by ornithologists, meaning that it was previously unobserved; due to its reclusiveness, much is still to be discovered about the bird. (BBC, 2018.) Additionally, it's very possible that other unknown birds are yet to be found in this area. The blue-throated hillstar has a slightly curved beak specialized for feeding on the nectar of the chuquiragua shrub's flowers. This tiny bird is able to consume up to twice its body weight in nectar. Despite only having been discovered in 2017, and subsequently named in September of 2018, the blue-throated hillstar has already been declared to be endangered, with only an estimated 750 individuals remaining. Habitat restoration & conservation efforts are underway in order to protect the newly found hummingbird. (Dhanesha, N., 2021.)

BBC. (2018, October 2). New hummingbird species spotted in Ecuador. BBC News. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45717740

Dhanesha, N. (2021, May 11). A new hummingbird was discovered in 2017. Now there's a race to protect it. Audubon. Retrieved May 2, 2022, from https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2021/a-new-hummingbird-was-discovered-2017-now-theres

#blue throated hillstar #hillstar #hummingbird #bird #birblr #this is ripped from a school project which is why the formatting is weird

[bees-tes-blog]

how it feels looking for thief content on tumblr

#buzz #thiefposting #thief the dark project #thief the metal age #thief deadly shadows #THIEF FANS PLEASE INTERACT #setting out my thiefposting tag like a hummingbird feeder and watching from a distance

[fembroder]

October 27, 2017 🤪

#alexander skarsgard #alexander skarsgård #the hummingbird project

[galactikburzt]

Wait does anybody have a list of verified artists for PA levels? I left the VG server a long while ago and I have no idea if anything has changed and of top of that I started a level and then realized i forgot to check : (

#project arrhythmia #does anybody know if kotori is allowed #i know there are levels like anomaly similar outskirts remix but 😬😬😬 #better safe and sorry #HRJRGRJRHJR i made a banger bg for the level and there's a chance i might not be able to use it because its a synced one #should have checked :/ #im using hummingbird btw #or not . depends #if its not allowed i might just scrap it #i can find a replacement #hopefully #is any of yall in the vg server still #wasnt there a doc with verified artists or something #or a website #i think i heard that in the past #god this is so embarrassing im so sorry #honestly glad im asking before i started doing some actual boss animations tbh #imagine if i did good progress on it and then boom its not verified #happened to me once #i had a level almost finished #and then one of the artists wasnt on the list so that killed my motivation #so I didn't work on actual levels for a while #i would like . use an actual discord server with other pa fans to ask for this kinda info but like #i kinda left the community a while ago lmao #and idk if i wanna join the vg server again :/ #maybe one day #maybe

[giveaway-house]

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#welcome home #wally darling #welcome home arg #welcome home fanart #welcome home puppet show #welcome home au #welcome home project #birblr #pet bird #parrot #birb #parakeet #hummingbird #cockatiel #final fantasy vii #ff7 #cloud strife #aerith gainsborough #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #tifa lockhart

[fatehbaz]

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The Search for Lost Birds is a collaboration between Re:wild, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and BirdLife International, with data support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and its eBird platform used by birders around the world. It’s an extension of Re:wild’s Search for Lost Species program, which launched in 2017 and has since rediscovered eight of its top 25 most wanted lost species. As its name suggests, however, the Search for Lost Birds focuses exclusively on rediscovering birds that have become enigmas in ornithology. [...] The Search for Lost Birds is hoping to harness the collective power of the global birdwatching community [...].

None of the top 10 most wanted birds have had a documented sighting in the wild in at least 10 years, but they are not classified as “extinct” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The reasons behind their disappearances range from habitat destruction to invasive species. [...] The 10 birds span five continents and a variety of groups of species, from hummingbirds to raptors. Some have recently been lost to science, while others have been lost for more than a century. Two species, the Siau scops-owl and Negros fruit-dove, have only ever been documented once, when they were originally described in the mid 1800s and in 1953, respectively. [...]

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The Siau scops-owl was last seen 155 years ago, when it was first described by science, but there have been unconfirmed reported sightings and calls of a bird that potentially matches the description of the owl during the past 20 years. Much of the forest where it was originally discovered has been destroyed, but given how challenging it can be to detect small forest owls [...].

One species on the list, the South Island kōkao, has already been the focus of an on-going search. The South Island Kōkako Charitable Trust has been leading a community-driven search for the bird for the past 11 years, following up on possible sightings and reports of people hearing what sounds like the bird’s haunting call. They launched a public search campaign in 2017 that has drawn nearly 300 reports of possible encounters with a South Island kōkako, which, addition to historic reports, they have rated and mapped. [...]

Recent rediscoveries and documented sightings of other rare birds have fueled hope [...]. An expedition for the Sinù parakeet in Colombia in March 2021, one of Re:wild’s top 25 most wanted lost species, didn’t find the parakeet, but did document dozens of species that had never before been recorded in Cordóba Department. In Indonesia, the black-browed babbler, a bird that had only had one documented sighting, was rediscovered after 170 years in February 2021. [...] The blue-eyed ground-dove in Brazil and the Madagascar pochard in Madagascar, were both once lost species, but are now increasing in population thanks to conservation efforts following their rediscoveries.

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Headline, images, captions, and text published by: Devin Murphy. “The new Search for Lost Birds aims to find some of the rarest birds on Earth.” Re:wild. Press Release. 17 December 2021.

#dont always like wellfinanced euroamerican socalled expeditions that can undermine local ways of knowing and indigenous knowledge #and dont like encouraging potential habitat destruction from gallavanting around sensitive habitat #but at least in these cases the project relies on local observers and birders #anyway was reading this because as we all know i love endemic hummingbird species of tropical Andes and central america #and in 2022 someone already rediscovered the santa marta sabrewing hummingbird on this list

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

If you give me a final Project like a PowerPoint presentation about Anything, i fucking got you. I did my massive biochem powerpoint in 3 days.

Ask me to write a tiny baby paper about my favorite subjects??? Impossible. Cannot do it. I’ve had a month and i cannot

#THE ADHD HITTIN #im so fucked but at least im fucked writing about hummingbirds #and flowers and bees #if anyone asks what my biochem project is about i couldnt tell u but it is beautiful and complete #my paper tho? pls ask me i could talk about pollination syndrome from now until i die #i know so many things i just cannot write them down #up to something #No seriously ask me about my paper i will talk ur ear off

[bookwyrminspiration]

Response to an ask from Ophelia:

(this is the one about your heart/new symptom maybe)

under a cut to save space!

Ophelia!! You're back! You know sometimes when you start asks with something like thanks for everything I think you're saying goodbye until I read the rest of the ask. Hang on this reminded me of a scene in Twilight what were the lines. Basically Bella tells Edward that he's confusing because sometimes it sounds like when he's saying something it really sounds like he's trying to say goodbye. And then in Edward's pov he goes "oh shit she figured it out" because he's having a huge crisis about how the most moral and good thing to do is remove himself from her life, but she seems to want him there and he wants to be there and how can he deny her? This has gotten wildly off topic wait.

also no problem! just so you know in the future if you want to clarify something you've sent in an ask you can just send another one! people do it all the time, it's no problem at all, especially if it helps ease anxieties.

oh that sounds awful, I absolutely hate when things start to manifest in real life organs and things. It is so easy to just assume the worst and think you're dying. That's actually something people say about panic/anxiety attacks and the like all the time, that they're bad enough that people's first thought is that they're dying. I'm definitely one of those people; anytime it starts to get bad my, someone with an anxiety disorder, first thought is "which organ is this and will I have to go to the hospital?" And then I remember I have an anxiety disorder and go oh I'm not dying it just feels like it.

for me one thing that's always helped when medical things come up is remembering that basically everything isn't as bad as you think it is and the solutions are simple. a headache is solved with water and ibuprofen and rest, a stomach ache is solved with an antacid and sitting propped up and rest. an anxiety/panic attack is solved with time, water, distractions, and rest. I don't know if that helps you with being at your limit for the past four years, but I figured it was worth at least mentioning.

your anger is justified though, from what i can tell it sounds like you're going through a lot and things just keep happening. I will say though that you're allowed to talk about depressing things, there's nothing stopping you. Sure, there may be people you don't want to share that with, but you're not required to keep it all bottled up out of the fear of bogging others down. You don't have to talk about anything, but you're allowed to.

I would suggest you don't punch the wall as that would hurt but! you could punch a mattress or a pillow or something similar! that is if you want to punch something. Destroying little things could help let out anger as well, like crushing a bunch of chips with abandon or snapping twigs or tearing paper. That way there's no harm, you know? You can also ignore all of this you just mentioned punching a wall and I went oh no! your knuckles!

I'm sorry you're so overwhelmed; if there's anything I can do to help, whether that's listen or give advice or something else, please just let me know and I'll do my best.

I'm doing alright, thanks for asking! Yeah the mix-up with the schedules was pretty stressful at first because I always worry that I've somehow missed something or am going to miss something due to my negligence, so that's what I was worried about. But it ended up working out in my favor so that's nice! It's not 100% resolved because I still have a question about the essay (I can't tell if I'm supposed to turn my field notes in or not? there's no place to do so but the professor mentioned digitalizing them and like...why would that matter if we didn't have to turn them in...but I also don't want to email her)

otherwise I'm good! I've have recently acquired several podcasting activities which I am!!! very bright burst of gold like fireworks!! about. Podcasting activities are just what i call things I can do while listening to a podcast, because if I'm doing nothing then I can't focus and get restless, but if I'm doing something too engaging (especially if it has words) like reading then I can't focus either. But there's a happy middle with activities that I can do that enable me to listen to podcasts!! Which is nice because there are some cool podcasts out there (and my partner is involved in several of them) and I want to listen to them!! I recently acquired a new cross-stitch pattern for when I finish another older one, a paint-by-numbers kit with two canvases, and my sister gave me her old diamond painting kit she never finished!

Currently working on the diamond painting. When she gave it to me she was like "yeah it got bumped and messed up and so I never touched it again :/" so I was fully expecting there to be some cleanup work except...she hadn't done more than a dozen diamonds at most. That's out of like 25,000. You can do 12 diamonds in 20 seconds. But that just means I get to do more of it so!! I'm having fun. Also have done some more reading recently which is nice!!

emotionally I am sticking little diamonds to your face to make a smiley face :)

#quil's queries #ophelia nonsie #the diamond painting is of the chinese pagoda image #and the old cross-stitch is of these hummingbirds. the new one will be a peacock #and the paint-by-number is of these flowers. almost got a butterfly one but the flower one says it's a harder difficulty #and I always go for the hardest one I can :) #maybe once I finish the flowers I'll go back and get the butterfly #also have acquired a lot of other craft supplies I need to find projects for #and I have a drawing I'm working on and getting through #aeoriager so many things oof