ellory smith

You think you love bunnies and then you start growing vegetables

She just won a prestigious journalism award in the US for her photography. She should be alive to accept it.

i recommend young gen z and alpha hunt down various behind the scenes documentaries of classic movies. if there’s one thing AI can’t and won’t ever be able to do is have the exciting story of making a movie.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

No not ok

It did poison poor communities and make electricity and water more expensive though.

Reminder: Any Democratic Attorney General could sue under the Clayton Act and prevent this.

The Cinerama Dome is being left to rot on purpose. New records show Decurion is suing the city to lower their taxes by claiming the building is worthless. It’s a million-dollar tax shield

We're at the "hide the coffins" stage of the war.

As someone who makes film budgets for indie films as a living. Y’all have no idea how little some of these folks are getting paid.

The demise of the mass market paperback—as an affordable object aimed at improving access to written materials AND as an aesthetic object with its own forms and beauties—is deeply depressing.

eric swalwell takes $$ from Palantir & AIPAC, was one of 75 Dems who voted to thank ICE, constantly votes to send $$/weapons to Israel's genocide, and spent all summer calling Zohran an anti-semite. he shouldnt even be in Congress let alone governor of California

Average Yankees fan

big reminder to everyone that neither you, your parents, your grandparents or even your great grandparents know a life without a postal service, and amazon will never be able to go the extra mile like usps does!! it’s not for profit, it’s a service!!!

It is absolutely imperative that we save the film industry in Los Angeles. Everyone who works in film and television should be able to afford a home in LA. Art makes life worth living and I want to make LA more affordable so the people who make art can keep doing so.

Saved you a click and ALSO the realest shit he’s ever done

There must be consequences for purposefully destroying a country If not, it will continue

I had a call with the Writers Guild today about paying off my health deductible in multiple installments.

A 12-STEP PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE MANDATORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is why you don’t have healthcare btw.. it’s not trans people it’s not undocumented migrants it’s not refugees this..