Honor Mosab's memory by donating to The Sameer Project.
Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once
You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey
first assigned reading in my textile history class is about orientalism and the political appropriation of the paisley print and kashmir shawl by the british written by a south asian researcher
"in this essay i would like to offer a way of reading pattern and textile history as political and ideological" sickos yes ha ha ha yes . jpeg
dropbox link to the PDF of the reading i just uploaded bc it's institution paywalled otherwise <3 let me know if you have any issues downloading it
slightly worried by how many people seem to have been taking the things they see online at face value before genai was a thing
"it sucks that genAI means i have to verify everything i see online now!" you shoulda been doing that anyway though
remembered im posting this on the infinite chocolate website
some thoughts about biopolitics, the insanity plea, and total institutions in the comic what happens next by @maximumgraves. you don't necessarily need to have read it to get it but it helps. hope u like it!
Was anyone going to tell me that curb your enthusiasm saved a man from being put on death row
The long and short of it is that the man's alibi was that he was at a dodgers game at the time of the murder, but there was no incontrovertible evidence that would concretely prove he was there. Footage of the crowd from the game broadcast was too low resolution to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a man that seemed to be him was actually him.
As it would turn out, curb your enthusiasm had been filming that episode there that same day, and Larry David happened to be sitting in that man's section for the scene, filming it all with television cameras close up. There was even a brief moment in the footage where you can see him by chance walking with his daughter in the background. This is the kind of luck you can't imagine in a million years.
lil tip for everyone bc I feel like people often do the opposite of this out of internalized fatphobia
eat a big meal directly before trying on new clothes. you wanna know whether those outfits will still be comfortable on you after you've eaten. it's not shameful and is in fact very natural to be bigger at different times of day and it's okay to accommodate yourself feeling comfortable during those times too I promise 💛
I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?
Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.
Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).
But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?
The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:
They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣
That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.
That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.
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