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A prop master’s work isn’t always flashy. Often, they are tasked with making pragmatic choices to flesh out a scene with items that the audience won’t even notice. These are some of the stories I’ve most enjoyed as I’ve gotten to know...
The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that does not otherwise receive focused...
In 1886, the French government faced a delightful problem. The centenary of the Revolution was approaching, and Paris — host of four world’s fairs already — needed to outdo itself entirely. A competition was launched for a centrepiece...
I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer: echo '¿Cómo estás?' | translate # = How are you? It combines a few tools: TranslateGemma, a...
Best Record of 2001: Day 30 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Lucinda Williams’ Essence as it faces off against Superchunk’s Here’s to Shutting Up. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge...
In the aftermath of the Copy Fail bug being (very unceremoniously) disclosed, the security news organization Decipher published a (maybe not serious?) “Mt. Rushmore of branded bugs”. The list is as follows… BEAST Heartbleed Rowhammer...
Watched: The Holdovers 🍿 A lovely story that perhaps could have shaved off 30 minutes of runtime.
Next out inspired by the Build with Micro.blog page: an automatically updated now page for my Bear blog. ✏️
The Iran War continues to drag on. I neglected to mention last week that Tim Cook announced he will step down as Apple’s CEO at the end of August. He will remain at Apple but instead take the position of executive chairman. Given that...
Long thought lost like so much of the silent era, a copy of the 1924 thriller-melodrama The Signal Tower was eventually discovered in 16mm. Directed by Clarence Brown before he became famous for his handling of several women’s melodramas...