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How should Black people be lit in movies? #Sinners DP Autumn Durald Arakpaw tells us how she made the cast look so beautiful

This is frying me man 😭😭😭

you havent gotten to the best part yet

I hope everyone understands how impressive it is from a technical standpoint

Emma Chamberlain out and about in NoMad, New York City before her taping for the Tonight Show.

BULLY drones have been activated in TEXAS Perhaps for the upcoming concerts? 👀

shader effects for 3d gaussian splats are a fun way to add reality bending effects to your 3d scans. made using sparkjs which is an open source 3dgs renderer for threejs.

a beautiful video narrated by ryan coogler of the cast of sinners during hair and makeup tests in april 2024. 🥹

Harrison Ford was in tears during his super emotional Lifetime Achievement Award speech. This was so good "Sometimes we make entertainment. Sometimes we make art. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we make 'em both at the same time. And if we're really fortunate, we also get to make a living doing it. Success in this business brings a certain freedom that comes with responsibility to support each other, to lift others up when we can. To keep the door open for the next kid, the next lost boy who's looking for a place to belong. I'm, indeed, a lucky guy. Lucky to have found my people. Lucky to have work that challenges me. Lucky to still be doing it. And I don't take that for granted." #ActorAwards

DtMF but the beat is The Less I Know The Better

now is the greatest moment of our lives

@TheMindScourge its Learning from Las Vegas by the architect Robert Venturi

i’ve made a spotify playlist every single month since 2011. that alone guarantees i can never cancel the service. each month is a compressed emotional snapshot of who i was, what i wanted, & what i was running toward or away from. it’s the closest thing to time travel i’ve found. music > photos for memory recall. simply pressing play reinstalls the firmware from that time.

oh my god he used Camera Shakify the Blender add-on. he used the goddamn Ian Hubert plugin in an official A24 trailer. I am losing my mind this is awesome

What a fucking accomplishment in filmmaking

every so often a human being does something that rewires how the rest of the world think about what's possible > neil armstrong stepped onto the moon > usain bolt ran 100m in 9.58s > hathor bjornsson deadlifted 501kg before these moments, the achievement existed only as a fairy tale, ambitious but delusional after? it became a target 4 minute mile, someone broke it, dozen followed. the ceiling wasn't physical, it was psychological. someone just had to go first but all these breakthroughs share underlying logic. push harder, grind, better outcome. peak human performance has always been measured by results. the blood, sweat and tears are just the admission ticket but alysa liu broke a different kind of ceiling. what she showed was not a new record. she showed that the highest form of human potential is enjoying the process. the courage to say if the pursuit of winning kills the joy of doing, you've already lost the thing that actually mattered we live in the age of AI. doomers are afraid of getting replaced. you tie your identity to your output. if you are programmer, claude code writes better lines faster. if you are an analyst, claude crunches numbers in seconds. what's left of you is a shell of nothingness alysa liu shows us that we have been asking the wrong question a machine can eventually land a triple axel triple lutz triple toe with perfection. but that doesn't compare to what alysa liu did. the falls, the morning ice, the moment your body finally understands the rotation. the meaning was never in the landing but the learning and act of doing it people who struggle most in this age are the ones who were already disconnected from the experience. the ones who were every only in there for the output, the status, the paycheck. blame AI all you want, but it did not create the emptiness. it just made it impossible to ignore the ones who would thrive are the ones who were already doing things because the doing itself was the point. the programmer who loves the puzzle. the filmmaker who writes because it's a story she wants to express. the violinist who finds something close to nirvana in the music. for them AI is just another tool in a practice that was always about something deeper than the outcome what alysa showed the world, with or without the medal is: decouple your worth from your output. the outcome was never the point. the act of doing, fully, happy, on your own teams, that was always the real feat. just like every other paradigm-breaking achievements before it, now someone has shown us it's possible, and the rest of us can follow

Yep here we go

In some of my tests, Sparc3D produced the results from a single photo that are, frankly, quite crazy.

SF is Rad. [Rad, new splat format by Spark 2.0]

Nobody’s going to use Street View for landmarks once they can just fly around in a Gaussian Splat. Search a place → press “3D view” → you’re there.