NumberOneShoupFan
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@SashoTodorov1 They kept winning awards at the time for cinematography, editing etc. so they were pretty exceptional then...
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Obviously there's the survivorship bias plane meme that we don't remember the bad scenes, but this scene is just a stunning piece of cinematography and was maybe put together and shot in an afternoon+ as part of a one week per episode shooting schedule.
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The X-Files was a classic 26 episode per year death march of a production, and yet there's still a wide variety of shots that were thought up and made on an insanely brief time scale that remain pretty stunning.
youth code orange@thamosdeaf
Rewatching the very first episode of The Wire, a famously broke HBO show; and the lighting, framing, and dynamic camera movement are embarrassingly more competent and inspired than a lot of recent films I’ve seen.
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@cszabla I go back to this all the time, but it's so interesting to me how Ford's Decker ordering noodles in a little shop in a crowded Asian style mall is meant to be taken in BLADE RUNNER as a symbol of how America has been lost etc., but now looks pretty cool
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@cszabla US/Europe opinions on Japanese urbanism used to be very aesthetically negative prior to the 80s. Seidenstecker hated new Tokyo and loved the old trad stuff.
I think changes in interest in vibrancy/chaos, Japan of the future, anime, and YIMBY interest have changed things.
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have spent time thinking about german v japanese postwar urbanism. smaller lot sizes in the former maybe/more signs (some köln shopping streets feel “japanese”) but also wonder if photos of german cities would be more appreciated if you just lied and said they were “place, japan”
Blair Dulder CPA™ 🧃@runaway_vol
germany punished itself after the war by building some of the ugliest city centers in the world
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@ROX_Hojin You can see why people were so effected by the sudden discovery and translation of Sumerian and Akkadian texts in the 19th century. Suddenly you can see how in-context the stories are.
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@seungylee14 The most eye opening bit in this book is learning that the hotel/apartment distinction was only solidified in the early 20th century.
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there's a great book on this topic (for US context)
Ellen Pasternack@pastasnack_e
Lots of people's social & romantic lives could be vastly improved if it was normal for young adults to live in college dorm-style accommodation in city centres until they were ready to set up home properly. Why doesn't this exist? I think there would be a market for it!
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@mentally_eel @xenocryptsite Moore's MIRACLEMAN was actually really really good when I reread it a bit ago. Sort of amazing he had two great and fairly different deconstructions of super hero stories in him!
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@xenocryptsite Yeah writing that out I realized I would reread Watchmen/Animal Man/Miracleman/Flex Mentallo immediately start to finish if I had any of them in front of me.
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Yeah I think a good example of a successful satire/deconstruction is something like "Spy". It's not just "what if James Bond is a bumbling oaf", it's "James Bond is not actually what a good spy looks like, Susan Cooper is".
Ashley Talks Comics!@ComicGirlAshley
"It's a deconstruction of the superhero genre", "It's satire", "If superheroes were realistic" and then it's actually just pretty standard capeshit but edgy
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@_night_brain__ I've always enjoyed Peano's Latino sine flexione, but it doesn't go far enough. We should PIE ene Bhugom:
"Owis, yo ne segh wlnā, derk Ekwos — oynos de tey dewk gwru weghos, oynos bher meg Bhoros, eti oynos bher Wirom ōku..."
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ek typ que habla na rhyw fath o pastiche-ye proto-Indo-European
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@neipate96 @Preeemo2 @jarjoh NYC is pretty unusual for the close density of high rises, right? Most of East Asia is lower or has more Corbusier like wide spacing between towers.
Buenos Aires is probably the closest...
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Nyc wasnt the only "nyc" place. Most cities in the US were built in similar fashion until the 1950s. The difference is nyc SAVED itself while the other DESTROYED itself leaving nyc the remaining standard for walkability and density.
:: Rafael ::@rafagadeviento9
It fucks me up that the US created New York and then said never again
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@MattZeitlin This masonry is wondrous; · fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; · the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, · ruinous towers,
the frosty gate · with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, · fallen,
undermined by old age.
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@Lux_Stella_ I think about this a lot when it comes to what lines go up people will believe — I don't think a lot of the modern line go up people would've been down with it. More likely they'd be LaRouchite "build our way out of it" types. See their resistance to climate change.
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@Lux_Stella_ It was a real "line go up; line stay flat" moment. Perfectly reasonable except entirely wrong. The really bad bit was how people stuck with it well into the late 70s and 80s when it was not correct. Also it was unclear that we'd be able to reduce pollution
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re:paul ehrlich, its interesting how much of a hegemonic milleu the freakout over 'overpopulation' was in the 1960s/70s. this is from the nobel acceptance speech of.... norman borlaug!
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@CultySmother @xenocryptsite Wow I never knew that! really interesting!
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@OneShoup @xenocryptsite Florida had a major industry too, but theirs have less appealing attributes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_L…
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IIRC there's a Batman comic or something where a blue-collar type in Bruce's office asks for a drink from the sidebar, Bruce says it's all Perrier, and the other guy is like "well I never did have that fancy stuff either".
PelleCreepy@PelleCreepy
I'm old enough to remember when sushi was thought of as this "crazy" exotic delicacy. The Ninja Turtles would gag, "How can you eat RAW fish!?" And there was a Very Special Episode of Doug where he had a panic attack because his grandma was taking him to a sushi restaurant.
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@xenocryptsite If you go back and read old "cooking with the stars!" kinds of books, avocados are relatively common, see below for a 1930s example. I've also seen avocado toast in like 50s CA diner menus. I think they were basically a regional SW food until the 90s?
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@xenocryptsite This has also bothered me, haven't found much that subverts it.
THE HOLLOW CITY by Dan Wells. The main character is a schizophrenic who is hunted by real monsters but also many of them that he sees are the result of his condition. He really needs treatment to overcome the plot.
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@cszabla Everyday we move closer and closer to the YKK world (it's a manga where all humans are slowly dying out, but you mostly watch a robot who runs a cafe run errands over a flooded Yokohama)
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will nothing in this world stay still?
Financial Times@FT
Japan loses its thirst for vending machines ft.trib.al/EuhwzcA
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@PJ11819211 The 21 to 23 boom was really good for non-white collar workers and only ok for them. What was really bad was the 08-10 period and then 10-16 was just ok.
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@uckema @avrilbradley23 NYC had widespread Orange marches followed by riots just like Ulster in the late 19th century. Kind of wild, some of the highest death tolls of mass violence in NYC history.
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@avrilbradley23 The orange parades are a good example of why you want liberalism
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This is why liberalism won. TradCaths are safer under liberalism than under a Calvinist theocracy, Trotskyists are safer than under Stalinist rule, Strasserists are safer than under Hitlerism etc.
Right Wing Watch@RightWingWatch
Doug Wilson says that in his preferred Christian nation, anything that Protestants consider to be a "public displays of idolatry" would be banned, including Catholic parades.
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@OneShoup @_night_brain__ I remember reading somewhere (maybe on Atomic Rockets?) that the math doesn't really add up.
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tons of helium on the moon apparently. just had an idea i'll call "Space Qatar"
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