Emily-ily

There are still woodworkers in a world where we have IKEA desks. And even with IKEA, there are still craftsman to dress up the IKEA and hide the fact of what the base is to begin with. The same will happen to the animation/CGI industry. /end

Happy to share my new Poster Illustration for Project Hail Mary! It's easily one of my Fav movie of this year🫡 #ProjectHailMary    @projecthailmary @chrizmillr @philiplord

@FiredUpCoug The champagne glass edit was completely unwarranted. The editor messed with physics and it makes the glass look fake without the arm warping correctly through the glass. I would know. Trained 3D Artist here. We fake these things on purpose to look real.

As a professional photographer, 90% of these edits were completely unnecessary.

@FizzyMrs @mbateman Oh thanks! I have always used it in speech but didn’t realize I used the wrong version when typing.

@whisper_sight @mbateman It's "piqued".

I strongly recommend giving a 4yo an iPad, strictly for the child’s sake. Details in next reply.

@MamaCAllen This was me on my mission! Driving a fleet vehicle bought by the mission, spaced evenly to keep them nice and not having to back them up (otherwise your companion has to back you) , all on a rainy Tuesday or Wednesday morning for the weekly district meeting!

Ever so often I see all these cars lined up at our church building and I could never figure it out. They're all usually the same car, and they're usually evenly parked one space away from each other. It was only after our ward activity on Saturday when the missionaries showed up in the dark blue one that I realized they're all missionary cars and they must be using our building for meetings. 🤣

I’ve currently experience this. I’m closing a door I prayed to have open because of this. I am embracing this.

“The greatest job that any woman will ever do will be in nurturing and teaching and living and encouraging and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. There is no other thing that will compare with that, regardless of what she does.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

Tucson made a simple change to 20,000 streetlights. Light pollution dropped 7%, energy bills dropped $2.16 million a year, and many songbirds were saved. Most LEDs have made light pollution worse. The cool-white lights most cities chose scatter into the sky at higher rates than the old sodium lamps. That scatter pulls migrating songbirds off course and drops them into lit buildings by the hundreds of millions each year. Tucson decided to do it differently. They used warm-white 3,000K LEDs instead of the standard 4,000K. They added full shielding so light points down, not sideways or up, and adaptive dimming. Lights run at 90% from sunset to midnight, then drop to 60% until dawn. Drivers and pedestrians reported no loss of visibility. Migrating birds passing over the city had a darker corridor to navigate than they'd had in decades. Most cities still haven't figured this out. Philadelphia, LA, and Phoenix have all run into problems with retrofits that increased sky glow despite using LEDs. The tech is solved. The implementation is a choice. Ask your city council what color temperature your streetlights are. Ask if they dim after midnight. Ask if they're shielded. Most people have never thought about it. Most elected officials haven't either. Never forget that the night sky is also habitat.

@DiscussingFilm Very cool! Slightly uncanny to a trained animation eye, but truly wonderful for the ASL community.

Walt Disney Animation has re-animated some songs from recent animated films into American Sign Language versions, including: • “Beyond” - Moana • “The Next Right Thing” - Frozen 2 • “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” - Encanto Releasing April 27 on Disney+

@ITalkOfChrist Totally. I’m glad you put it together to really see the differences. Good information is good inspiration.

@whisper_sight T7 is an interesting case. For a lower income family, calculating out all government and employer benefits could make them owe more tithing than their actual net income itself. Like I said, I'm not necessarily advocating for one system over another in this post 🙂

Does it really matter how I calculate my tithing? Yes. It matters a LOT. The Doctrine and Covenants defines tithing as "one-tenth of all [your] interest," which the Church Handbook further clarifies as "income." Beyond that specific definition, the Church generally leaves the mechanics of the calculation to the individual. While the "gross vs. net" debate is common, we rarely put numbers on the conversation. To see how much these interpretations diverge in practice, I ran a case study for a hypothetical family with a stable, comfortable income and a 25% savings rate across eight different plausible methodologies of calculating tithing-- all of which I have heard from active, recommend-holding Latter-day Saints. For a family making $150,000/year, the difference between the lowest and highest interpretations in this scenario is nearly $21,000! 😮 Why the Numbers Matter This exercise isn't meant to prescribe a specific method or define what is "right." For that, see the Handbook and the words of the Prophets (churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/g…). But the Lord instructs us to "count the cost" (Luke 14:27-33) and be informed and intentional about our discipleship. This case study should help ground the conversation and decisions around tithing calculation. Explore the Data If you want to see how these different "lenses" change the math for your own household, you can view and copy the calculation spreadsheet here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Concept artist Aurélien Prédal wrote on his Instagram how he was brought in by Phil Lord and Chris Miller to explore the auroras in the "Time Go Fishing" sequence. He developed color scripts and paintovers to define how light and emotion evolve across the scene.

This reminded me of a thought I have been mulling over: 💭 My religion flourished as a Western religion—the very same West as cowboys and open skies. The Wildness of the West was tamed by pioneers and saints. It makes me appreciate it a lot more.

So beautiful and so impactful to me today because of the things I’ve been contemplating over in my life right now.

Big fan of Robert McCall art. I think these are oil paintings maybe ? I really like the style.

@JasminRappleye Needed to hear this. Been weighing a lot of decisions lately.

President Julie B. Beck said it best in the 2011 BYU Women's Conference: "One of the questions that I get frequently is, 'Is it okay if I work outside of my home or I don’t work outside of my home?'...

@meimakes Awesome post showing up on my timeline!

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Welcome home, our Lunar Ambassadors!! :D #artemisii #artemis2

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Extremely charming!