fuckyeabirds:

Indigo Bunting

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geek-art:

Chet Phillips – Brigands, Nerds and Dread Pirates

Cool tribute to cult phrases of our favorite heroes by Chet Philips ! 

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sigurros:

kveikur, from the album kveikur. on the tonight show, with jay leno. may 24th

My DVR was inadequately prepared for this. Thank goodness for Vimeo.

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rainbowrowell:

crossedwires:

niqaeli:

I admit, I don’t know Cho that well, so I am glad there are other readings to be had!

And if he is just calling it out simply because he’s tired of it and he feels comfortable doing so even on his own films now, I think that’s fantastic. There’s certainly plenty for him to be calling out.

Heh. Well, I don’t know John Cho either. But he has talked about race & representation before* (and not in a ‘we’re all human, it doesn’t matter’ way), so it’s not completely ‘out of character’ for him to bring it up. I think it probably would be easier on him if he didn’t say anything, but I’m glad he does.

*Re Harold & Kumar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEkLBZI1IM 4:07 mark): If you have a Korean and an Indian guy as your leads, you must address race at some point in the movie. You must, because the audience is noting it, really. The other thing is, I think, comedy at its best, treads in taboo waters a little bit. It has to have that transgressive quality to it, and race is the biggest taboo in America. I mean, people are very reluctant to talk about race and yet when you do jokes about race, uh, that work, people are very happy to release tension and laugh about it. But it has been interesting. I’ll make an observation. During the first tour for the first movie, we were talking about race all the time with journalists. It was almost like a process— looking back, the first movie was more concerned with race, but we talked about it so much, I felt that it was in a way…a way of justifying our presence in a motion picture.

And from an interview in 2009 http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/090703/article.asp?parentID=110145&gt:

JC: I recall from the Harold and Kumar movies is my struggle with the advertisers.

APA: What happened there?

JC: There was all this racial humor in the movie, and the advertising department wanted to say “Starring the Asian guy in American Pie, and the Indian guy from Van Wilder…” and they did go with that, and they submitted that to me for approval, and I said, “I don’t like it.” They asked me why, and I explain it to them, and that was tricky because it’s difficult explaining to my own representatives, why that didn’t jibe with me, because everyone kind of felt like it was keeping in tone with the movie. And I said, “I don’t like it. We’re poking fun at racism in the movie all the time, but it puts the audience on the wrong side of the racism joke.” So they were playing with the wording a little bit in the edits, and they kept coming up with versions to make me happy, but they were essentially the same thing, and I finally said, “you are not going to make me happy. You’re dancing around it, and you’re clearly attached to this idea, and I want you to know that no version of this idea will make me happy. And if you’re afraid that I won’t show up to do promotion because of this bitterness, you can rest assured that that’s not true. I consider promoting a movie part of my duties, and I will show up nevertheless. But you can either use this campaign and know that I’m unhappy, or you can change it and know that I’m happy. That’s it. Stop trying.” And eventually they went with it, and it’s one of those things where I look back and I’ve very proud of the movie, but that’s the thing I remember.

APA: Last question…for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Viva La Union recorded a song for the soundtrack with the line, “I want my own Chinese baby” — what’s that about?

JC: When I was thinking about it, I thought of a literal baby. There’s a kind of lack that children fill, that’s just the dark side of being a parent, I think. And there’s an accessory quality to Chinese babies in America, and I just think it’s funny. I just liked it. And you know, I would know people who would fawn over Asian babies more, and it got me to thinking, there’s this belief that Asian babies are really cute, and it got me thinking that our whole race is infantilized to some degree, and it manifests itself in different ways. You infantilize a woman, and she becomes eroticized. You infantilize a man, and he becomes emasculated. You infantilize a baby [laughs] — and it’s possible, it appears that you can infantilize a baby even more. [laughs] The babies need to be cuter than white babies. And it’s just a weird thing that I felt like said something about mainstream America’s relationship to Asians in general. So that’s where it came from.

Also this interview: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2008/04/q-with-john-cho.html

“And yes, I do feel a responsibility, and always have, and it’s been an odd burden for me. Even when I started and no one gave a shit, I was trying to avoid doing roles—and it’s no accident that I’ve never done something with a chop suey accent. It’s no accident that I’ve never played those parts. I strongly believe there are a lot of Asian American actors who think that that’s the price to pay before you get to wherever you’re going. And I take real issue with that. Because you have to maintain integrity from the start, and on a personal level, you have to not do something that’s going to make you sick to your stomach.

But on a political level, how are things supposed to ever change if there’s someone willing to do it? I can tell you now, having worked in the business, that you can gather an army of people to hold picket signs and stand outside the studio, and say, “we destest this portrayal”… but it doesn’t matter if there’s a guy—who they know, a peer—who’s willing to do it, who stands in front of the crew and does the buck-tooth accent. If he or she is willing to do it, it makes the protestors look like extremists. It makes this guy look like the normal guy. Because we all work in the same industry. So the willingness of one actor negates a thousand protestors and a thousand angry letters.”

(So I can see why Butawhiteman Cantbekhan playing Khan would be deeply upsetting to him, even if Cho wasn’t in this movie.)

What I love about all these John Cho quotes is how thoughtful he is. Like he knows how complicated these issues are, but he’s still committed to doing the right thing. I especially like what he said about putting the audience on the wrong side of the joke.

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boobs-birds-botany:

anythingavian:

Greater Painted Snipe

SNIPES <3

Haha. It’s like a Wilson’s Snipe with anime eyes.

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dduane:

throughtosunrise:

kimerakincaid:

g-erti:

Every Series, Every Episode!

StarTrek.com has made every episode available for streaming on their website! (and there doesn’t seem to be any indication that its only temporary!)

Have a series you’ve been meaning to watch? Can’t afford Netflix? No problem! Go forth; all of Star Trek is now at your disposal!

SHRIEKING AND FLAILING

OMG, VOYAGER, I’M COMING FOR YOU.

(Yeah, I loved it. What?)

Ah, the animated series. I loved that. (And now maybe I can finally get some decent screengrabs from “Where No One Has Gone Before”.)

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boatporn:

Adventuress (par thies59)

Reblog all the schooners!

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#9: Beauty and the Beast:

jaynaneeya:

Why I watched Beauty and the Beast 18 times from 2003-2012, and a lot more before then, and hope to watch it many more times in the future

I didn’t realize at first that it was a countdown, with her favorite movies at the end. But it is, and it shows, because they’re really getting good.

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shinebycomparison:

Mr. Bearcy made some new friends while at Magic Kingdom! 

The Mr. Bearcy bar has been set really high. I can’t wait to see where he ends up.

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Classic literature vlog adaptations (spreadsheet):

I’ve made some updates to my LBD episodes spreadsheet in the last few days. I broke it out onto separate tabs to make it easier to find things, and added a bunch of video links I’d been accumulating. It now features the following tabs:

• LBD show (160 videos): All the in-world videos from LBD and spinoffs.
• LBD event (38 videos): Out-of-world videos, interviews, Q&As, etc. featuring the LBD cast and creators.
• LBD fanvid (48 videos): Fan edits, parodies, etc.
• AoJE (9 videos): The Autobiography of Jane Eyre. Kind of my favorite thing these days for combatting post-LBD withdrawal.
• Sanditon (5 videos): The main in-universe Sanditon episodes.
• Sanditon Extras (2 videos): Peripheral and out-of-universe Sanditon-related videos. I plan to add the RP videos from Sanditon citizens, but for now it’s just the Q&A that Alexandra, Jay, and Margaret did; along with Sarah’s cool “Tumblr User’s Guide to Reddit”. But I’ll get this fleshed out soon.

I’d like to add additional tabs for other vlog-style adaptations of classic lit; I know there was an Emma, and possibly there are others floating around? Please drop me an ask if you know of one that I could add.

Thanks!

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whoiskatherine:

My mother

A pair of Downey Woodpeckers nested in the Sweet Gum in our front yard this year; that’s the first time that’s happened in the 16 years we’ve been in this house. This morning when I went out to get the paper I could hear one of the babies calling from the nest entrance, so I got my binoculars and got a good look at it, sticking its head out to yell at its parents. I don’t think the babies are going to be in there much longer.

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canoodley:

Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus)

Not much yellow on these, but the little bit of it that’s there is a key field mark.

I wonder how the other birds treated them in junior high.

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mucholderthen:

THREE LATE PAINTINGS BY TURNER
Joseph Mallord William Turner  [1775-1851]
Paintings of Haunting Absence

Turner, Late Painting

This almost empty
canvas
is sister
to an empty page
just as a poem
enters: white

with all 
its possibilities
emerging from the brush— 
smoke or cloud
or beach foam— 

and there in the corner
a patch
of burnt orange
where the sun will
eventually
come up.

— Linda Pastan, in Traveling Light

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exponential63:

Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room With A View

E. M. Forster, A Room With A View:

‘I say, Cecil, do play, do, there’s a good chap. It’s Floyd’s last day. Do play tennis with us, just this once.’

Cecil’s voice came: ‘My dear Freddy, I am no athlete. As you well remarked this very morning, “There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books”; I plead guilty to being such a chap, and will not inflict myself on you.’

The scales fell from Lucy’s eyes. How had she stood Cecil for a moment? He was absolutely intolerable, and the same evening she broke off her engagement.

I know I’ve gushed about Maggie Smith, but Daniel Day-Lewis steals the movie. He even steals my favorite Charlotte scene, where she stands by the window while Lucy argues with George, just in that one moment when he’s dancing around with his teacup waving at a bee.

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masterpiecedaily:

Claude Monet

The Seine at Giverny

1897

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crookedindifference:

NGC 6302 

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Haha! No way; I’m holding out for a better deal. :-)

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amalili:

thegeekmaster:

The only thing wrong with Galaxy Quest was that there wasn’t a sequel.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE

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Speaking of music! New Boards of Canada!

!

Side note: As with that recent Watsky video, I’m pretty sure I’ve been some of the places in this video. (Well, with Watsky I was sure of it.) But this time the music is something I’m more fannishly inclined toward.

Anyway, like I said: !

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thesoundtrackforlife:

Silver Mt Zion – Stumble Then Rise on Some Awkward Morning

One of a number of bands (along with Godspeed You! Black Emperor and fragment.) that my friend Jayson brought into my life.

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