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#ICYMI I had the privilege of hosting @MeaganGood and The Cousins @DijonTalton & @LamyiaGood at the #DreamersExchangeFestival2025 🇧🇼 🎬 @azizi_got_faith

There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded.

@IntellectG You gon take all put-on to the grave?

@thapartypapi Im retired! Focused on my skydiving license

Facebook memory circa 2017, so ambitiously pushed BW Music on The Billboard Music Store hoping one day we will have a billboard entry.....! Musicians don't need government to unlock monetization, they need knowledgeable management teams

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@IntellectG Lets try again. The game needs you. Skeif Success 🙏🏾

@thapartypapi All the organizations to mentioned abuti snabbed me.....add CIPA on top

$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again. Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene. The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence. This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic. After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it. Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel. Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now." The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history. The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

@banyezus___ Nah Tshego been about that life, we were just a turn she took on her way up. So proud of her!

@thapartypapi O godisitse 😂

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Nobody fell off harder than the hammerhead shark. Was a top shark for me as a kid and now completely obsolete in media and conversation.

Guinea has demanded that Morocco be stripped of their 1976 AFCON trophy for walking off the pitch for 15 minutes. Guinea wants to be awarded the trophy. Guinea finished second in the tournament, after Morocco held them to a draw, after staging a walk out following a red card.

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Now this is the kinda trolling I can get behind!

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i think the final stage of being a man is understanding your father

Nerd Squad Activate!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I don’t believe everything I see on the internet, but this sure peaked my interest. Lemme go read up on this.

Thank God

"At least I have left my people with land, Mandela left his with poems, quotes and a statue" ~Robert Mugabe

Jack Harlow acknowledging that many of his white rap peers used Hip Hop as a stepping stone into white/country music, while framing his own pivot from rap into R&B as somehow more ethical because he kept it nigga-adjacent, is a level of logic only white privilege could produce.

They hate her coz they aint her. Simple. Crabs in a Bucket while she’s Sebastian like - under the sea after Water doing the most.