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Mark Granza

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Writer, Editor | Founder, Fmr Editor-in-Chief @im_1776

The West Katılım Nisan 2019
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Mark Granza
Mark Granza@markgranza·
I wrote on one of my favorite directors, the great Werner Herzog, the Power of Myth, and some thoughts on psychoanalysis and introspection.
IM—1776@im_1776

"Werner Herzog has often been called the original enemy of introspection. But his objection to psychoanalysis is not that of a man who avoids his inner life. He is the enemy of therapy culture insofar as he is more like a living archetype..." — @markgranza im1776.com/the-burden-of-…

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Mark Granza@markgranza·
I am watching the game next to a lovely couple from Montpellier so I feel guilty about having to cheer for the Spaniards.
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Dr. Ben Braddock
Dr. Ben Braddock@GraduatedBen·
The Frontier as a concept represents extracivilizational wilderness where ordinary people have low-barrier personal mobility into habitable, claimable territory where they can build independent lives and live off the land with existing technologies. The open steppe and the high mountains. Space is like the deep ocean, Antarctica, and the upper atmosphere. Humans can visit and work with massive support, but not places people can simply “go to” and live freely. Branding Outer Space as “the New Frontier”, (thus branding frontier as an abstraction) was a rhetorical trick by John F. Kennedy to pivot America from conquest to mere exploration. As he said at Rice: "Space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe. There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet." He may as well have said, “Of what use is Algeria to France when they can dream of Mars?”
Josiah Lippincott@jlippincott

One of the biggest companies in America is literally named "Space Exploration" big dog

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Mark Granza@markgranza·
Impossible to predict who's going to win this world cup. The only certainty is England losing on penalties—just unclear whether in the semifinal or the final.
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🕊️@lichthauch·
Parents who raise their kids on realistic content are performing a kind of soul circumcision without anesthesia, and they do it proudly. they buy the little books about sharing and recycling and how divorce is okay, sensible books, vetted books, books approved by some committee of childless phds who decided that dragons are psychologically destabilizing. and then this denuded little creature grows up and wanders out into a world that is absolutely crawling with dragons, real ones, humans who feed on humiliation, women who collect men like scalps, landlords, banks, algorithms, addictions, each one an ancient monster. and the kid has nothing, no stored narrative of the small weak thing prevailing, no memory of stones becoming bread or dead girls waking up. his parents gave him nutritious facts and he stands there starving in front of his first real giant with a stomach full of information. meanwhile some other kid whose grandmother filled him with absolute garbage, nonsense talking wolves, magic beans, boys made of wood, walks up to the same giant and something old activates in him. he knows somewhere deep in the meat of him that giants are a problem with a known solution, that has been handled before, by smaller people than him, with worse weapons
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Dr. Ben Braddock
Dr. Ben Braddock@GraduatedBen·
I wish there was still a frontier you could just ride off into, some open space not yet owned, boundaries unknown, an experience of a great unknown in life, now the last great frontier is death
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
@PaqWilly You don't hear "I became a filmmaker by staring at a painting in the middle of the night" stories anymore
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
David Lynch on how he became a filmmaker
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Jannik Sinner
Jannik Sinner@janniksin·
We did it again 🏆 Thank you all for the love and support ❤️❤️❤️
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
@troubledyank So why would he start off with a flying kick if that’s the case?
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Sean Thornton
Sean Thornton@troubledyank·
Conor clearly isn’t gonna say he was hurt before he stepped into the Octagon. For a million reasons that would never be admitted because sports gambling is an insidious disease and there is millions of dollars at stake. But he hurt himself right before the fight, Dana White and Max Holloway’s camp both knew. Didn’t wanna forfeit the bout, and moved forward hoping it wasn’t at bad as it ended up being. Sometimes you can’t gauge a knee injury’s severity until you act on it. Real tough way for him to go. There was no conspiracy here. Just a very poorly mistimed fluke accident.
Mcgregor Forever@mcgregorufc22

Conor McGregor warming up in the locker room 👀 #UFC329

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Mark Granza@markgranza·
The new BBC documentary on Berlusconi has some cool '80s aesthetics.
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
How it feels supporting Norway tonight
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
@calitrav I’m not endorsing any of it. Just pointing out it’s happened and ongoing.
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Travis Fields
Travis Fields@calitrav·
I'm a Film Noir fan, but being reflexively anti-color is dumb and tends to get gloomy-doomy and depressing, IMO. About the only thing I don't love about the LOTR movies is the look of a few scenes where the colors are desaturated. Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder desaturated the colors in Superman for some reason (to make him and the movie seem more Serious?) cc: @pmarca
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
The problem with this aesthetic is that it became heavily associated with advertising. Technicolor was initially very expensive and used only for high-budget productions like prestige epics and big musicals (Ben-Hur, The Wizard of Oz, etc.). Then technology made it cheap—by the 70s/80s, every billboard on earth had highly saturated colors, so "colorful and vivid" stopped meaning luxury and started signaling "mass-market" to industry insiders. By the 2000s, you had big-budget filmmakers visibly toning colors down (The Matrix, LOTR) for fear of coming across as unsophisticated. AI is now making it even worse by associating oversaturated fantasy images with ubiquitous slop, so expect filmmakers to retreat from colors even more. It's more likely that we'll see a return to the noir film aesthetic (see the recent Ripley series) than hypervivid.
Hellenic History@HellenicHist0ry

Western filmmakers have lost interest in depicting the ancient world as colourful, beautiful and vivid.

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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
It's not the future that never comes, it's the present. We dwell all too much in the future lately.
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Kristen Ziccarelli
Kristen Ziccarelli@KMZiccarelli·
"Pax Tibi Marce, Evangelista Meus" "Peace be unto you, Mark, my evangelist" 📍Venezia
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
The release of Odyssey is culturally unprecedented as it might be the first movie that's going to be near-universally experienced through the lens of online discourse. In a way, it's not even a film, it's like a giant X thread everyone has contributed to/is waiting to expand on.
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Mark Granza@markgranza·
Someone needs to look into Steve Sailer’s soccer obsession it might be the most psychologically interesting phenomenon of the summer.
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca·
Barbell effect?
Mark Granza@markgranza

The problem with this aesthetic is that it became heavily associated with advertising. Technicolor was initially very expensive and used only for high-budget productions like prestige epics and big musicals (Ben-Hur, The Wizard of Oz, etc.). Then technology made it cheap—by the 70s/80s, every billboard on earth had highly saturated colors, so "colorful and vivid" stopped meaning luxury and started signaling "mass-market" to industry insiders. By the 2000s, you had big-budget filmmakers visibly toning colors down (The Matrix, LOTR) for fear of coming across as unsophisticated. AI is now making it even worse by associating oversaturated fantasy images with ubiquitous slop, so expect filmmakers to retreat from colors even more. It's more likely that we'll see a return to the noir film aesthetic (see the recent Ripley series) than hypervivid.

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lusso@luusssso·
Amazing vintage posters from the 1982 World Cup in Spain
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