Slava Ukraini, I have a job for you, if you want it.
Well I hope they recovered in the end?
Gosh, this 'Steven King' person sounds like more & more of a straight-up wanker the more I hear about him, right...?
Derry Girls is just... hard to describe, but it's both dear & wondrous to me, if that makes sense?
Sorry, but this is effectively kinda like..
"Two ships passing in the night?"
I'm not saying 'you're wrong' upon any of that, but it's also kinda like you don't remember what I said in the past. And I've added like 10k words in the hopes that your project succeeds.
For the time being, I'd recommend we disconnect.
And so shall we do? 🙂
Sorry, I'm not sure I follow.
I'm... just not sure what to do with all that. I've checked out the things you've suggested, and they all seem to be non-starters for one reason or another.
Also, you didn't seem to really understand my posting concept in the first place, which I posted about several times, before.
Dude, I'm only adjacent-ly connected to your efforts, but you are just KILLING IT, in my opinion.
Please keep it up. <3
This is Boomer, he’s a turtle with a strong shell and feets for marching, and he’s big enough that he can be held like a big burger. He lives at the Oregon Zoo, and his job is to be a turtle. 🐢🐢🐢
Now THAT is a bloody-well awesome description. Are you ZeFrank?
https://www.youtube.com/@zefrank/videos
Bloody Sunday: The Tragedy That Changed Northern Ireland Forever (~12 pics and full article)
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Ach, I really should have posted this in the morning for UK folks, but... I noticed this sub needed a post, and this one was next on me list. :S
Ah, well. Hope someone from Eire et al catches it. Everything here comes from Danny Dutch's brilliant foto / info series.
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_eec7ff0ab5e44b1195accbba3a3cab9c~mv2.png
On the cold afternoon of 30 January 1972, the streets of the Bogside area of Derry became the backdrop for one of the darkest days in modern British and Irish history. What began as a peaceful civil rights march ended with thirteen unarmed civilians shot dead and at least fifteen others injured after British Army paratroopers opened fire on the demonstrators. Another man, John Johnston, would succumb to his wounds four months later.
The events of that day, known ever since as Bloody Sunday, shook Northern Ireland to its core. It radicalised communities, deepened sectarian divisions, and fuelled the armed struggle of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). It was the single worst shooting of the Troubles by state forces and remains a symbol of injustice for many. The consequences reverberated for decades, not least because of the initial whitewashing of events by the British government, which only in 2010 finally acknowledged that the killings were “unjustified and unjustifiable”.
This is the story of how the march began, how the gunfire started, and how the fallout from that day changed Northern Ireland forever...
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d5cc5f_4ded45a21ca845fb9b041fd642a737a6~mv2.jpg
And the rest of the article here:
https://www.utterlyinteresting.com/post/bloody-sunday-50-years-on
That's a badass description right there.
I was always a bit more restrained in my work, but I love your approach.
Well if it works, it works, n'est ce pas?
I do however have a penchant for programmable loops. Dunno why I stopped listening to those...
Reconstruction of the Roman Castrum of Mandeure (France, 4thC. CE)
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Author and source is Jean-Claude Golvin:
https://people.unil.ch/cedriccramatte/files/2013/10/IAS-MAN-02871-3.jpg
https://jeanclaudegolvin.com/en/gallery/epomanduodurum-mandeure-the-castrum-of-the-late-roman-period/
I've upgraded the art via Waifu2x. Thanks to u/dctroll_ for this text:
The castrum of Mandeure was located in present-day Mandeure, in the French department of Doubs, next to the Doubs River, in the southwestern part of the ancient city of Epomanduodurum. Its construction began shortly before the mid-4th century AD, but the works were interrupted by the Alamanni invasion of AD 352 and later resumed and strengthened from AD 364, during the reign of Valentinian I. The fort covered approximately 1.5 hectares and had a distinctive bell-shaped layout. Its walls, which were up to about 4 metres thick at the base, were reinforced with semicircular and quadrangular towers.
Its strategic position along the Doubs River allowed it to control important communication routes and the supply of the military frontier along the Rhine. Archaeological evidence, including materials associated with the Legio I Martia, indicates a significant military presence. However, the castrum probably also had a civilian function and gradually became the new centre of Mandeure’s population during Late Antiquity.
There are some online sites in which one can press switches to turn on & off nature sound loops to create a personal mix. I can't seem to find the one I used to use, but here's something adjacent:
A splashie from "In the Night Kitchen" by Polish-American artist Maurice Sendak (4 total images)
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This is a childhood book I had that was hugely whimsical, creative, and as always by Sendak, fascinatingly drawn. The Winsor McCay "Little Nemo" influences are all over the place. Sendak did a lot of children's books, and in some ways was like a more serious alternative to Dr. Seuss.
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/s/sendak_maurice/sendak_m_cerealbabykeller.jpg
'Cereal Baby Keller', from 'Little Lit - Strange Stories for Strange Kids' (2001).
Lambiek article on him:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sendak_maurice.htm
Wild Things (above) is perhaps his most famous work, a scary-fun children's classic.
More here on Wild Things:
https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/wild-things-art-of-maurice-sendak
The Comics Journal interview just before his death:
https://www.tcj.com/maurice-sendak-qa/
https://the-comics-journal.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/sendak-milli.jpg
Someone once said that Maurice Sendak, children’s book author and illustrator, drew “little old people worrying away their childhoods.” It’s true: Sendak’s work is remarkable for its lack of sentimentality and its depiction of childhood as it really is, a time of coming to grips with the sometimes unpleasant and frightening world around you — a reality that children’s literature often tries to ignore. What his work also contains is a genuine sensitivity to the complexity and intelligence of children...
NASA's "DSKY" interface, and the Apollo missions' signature guidance computer (notes in post)
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This is one of those ones in which a complete dumbass like me just loves the basic design, then tries to scramble to figure out more context and info, lol. Oh man, I would LOVE it if someone more knowledgeable than a bumbling doofus could add some notes, please?
That said, here we go! XD
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module (LM). The AGC provided computation and electronic interfaces for guidance, navigation, and control of the spacecraft.[3] The AGC was the first computer based on silicon integrated circuits (ICs).[4][5] The computer's performance was comparable to the first generation of home computers from the 1970s, such as the Kenbak-1, Apple II, TRS-80, and Commodore PET.[6] At around 1 cubic foot (28 litres) in size, the AGC held 4,100 IC packages.[5]
The AGC has a 16-bit word length, with 15 data bits and one parity bit. Most of the software on the AGC is stored in a special read-only memory known as core rope memory, fashioned by weaving wires through and around magnetic cores, though a small amount of read/write core memory is available.
Astronauts communicated with the AGC using a numeric display and keyboard called the DSKY (for "display and keyboard", pronounced /ˈdɪski/ DISS-kee). The AGC and its DSKY user interface were developed in the early 1960s for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and first flew in 1966.[7] The onboard AGC systems were secondary, as NASA conducted primary navigation with mainframe computers in Houston.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
"While much of the Apollo computer used transistors, the DSKY still used relay switches, which is why it makes a satisfying clicking sound when it updates."
Holy Hecubah, that's... part of why I love my old electro-mechanical pinball machines. ❤️
Oh, and here's a builder project, make your own, mate!
https://hackaday.io/project/186074-dsky
He's a digital artist from Moskva. Lots more cool stuff via his ArtStation:
I mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_revolution
We suckers are hackers and gamers upon Nature and everything around us, aren't we?
Okay-- I'm not saying that we should hate our species or anything like that, but I do feel that ultimately we live in the field of Nature, and the more we lose sight of that, the more we lose the plot. Eh, or something like that...
Bah! I guess Bart's "Bonerland" got thwarted, but now what? We need WAY more than just putting people in position, right?
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(this space open upon a thousand-million rants of mine)
Just heard about this 2024 animated movie. Like Les Triplettes, it's essentially wordless, but this time the characters are animals, seemingly set in a world abandoned by humans. Me, I've only watched clips so far, but from what I can tell, this is very much not an 'anthro' or cutesy, furry-animal kind of story. (much to my personal relief)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Flow_movie_poster.jpg
Flow is a 2024 independent animated dystopian adventure film directed by Gints Zilbalodis, written and produced by Zilbalodis and Matīss Kaža. A Latvian, French, and Belgian co-production, it features no dialogue and follows a cat trying to survive along with other animals in a seemingly post-apocalyptic world as the water level dramatically rises.
Production of Flow started in 2019 and lasted five and a half years. The animation was done using the free and open-source software Blender. Jacques Tati and Future Boy Conan served as inspirations for the film. No storyboards were used for the production, and there are no deleted scenes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)
More clips here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Straume+animated+movie+clip
Ancient Ephesus brought to life via the "Cassio" series. (seven pages, artist: Henri Recul)
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Ancient Ephesus brought to life via the BD "Cassio." (artist is Henri Recul) [slightly NSFW]
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I always enjoy history brought back to life with skill and verve. As mentioned last week in the "Vampire Boy" post, this series has to do with an ancient murder mystery, and the two unusual immortals that survived it, two millennia later.
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Planches/PlancheS_15366_241668.jpg
145 AD. Lucius Aurelius Cassio, one of the richest and most influential men in Rome, is the victim of a conspiracy. In the heart of his own home, four masked assassins stab him with their daggers. Nearly two thousand years later, the investigation begins. Archaeologist Ornella Grazzi discovers scrolls in Cassio's hand. She seeks, page after page, to reveal the faces of the four murderers. And soon, a strange, powerful figure slowly emerges from the past. Cassio. His death. And his revenge. --BDT
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Versos/Verso_62853.jpg
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Couvertures/Couv_62853.jpg
The series is eight tomes long, and I found it quite unique and enjoyable. The history and action sometimes jumps from modern to ancient and vice-versa, which can be a little confusing at times, but overall I think it hangs together well and rewards the reader paying attention.
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Planches/PlancheA_94374.jpg
https://www.bedetheque.com/media/Couvertures/Couv_254866.jpg
The writer is Stephen Desberg, responsible for quite a few very good series, such as I.R.$. and The Scorpion. I could have sworn he'd also written the spellbinding The Third Testament series, but no, that one was by Xavier Dorison. In any case, I found this one both a fun, interesting and somewhat eye-opening series, which can well join the ranks of Alix Senator, Murena, Eagles of Rome, and maybe a couple others.
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