someone i follow has their icon set to mr. burns wearing like a beanie and whenever i see it i think of gavin mcinnes
The more complete version:
Also, yeah; I had to use Wikipedia to find out who that was, and he sounds like a tool.
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NGC 6744
NGC 6744 is a spiral galaxy located about 30 million light years away towards the constellation Pavo, the Peacock. It is one of the largest and nearest spiral galaxies, and stretches some 175,000 light years across, and has a small satellite galaxy, NGC 6744A.
The galaxy is similar to our own Milky Way, though our galaxy stretches only about 100,000 light years across. The dense, elongated nucleus is home to older, yellower stars, while the prominent spiral arms host young star clusters and star forming regions.
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I went to sleep after SCA finished but before they reached the dock, so this is the first time I’ve seen the video of their arrival. There’s a good interview with Annie, a heart-warming shot of Carolijn greeting her son, and a couple of shots of Sophie there to greet them on the dock, yay!
I have my fingers crossed that she’ll be able to go on leg 5. Her back injury sounded bad, and the bow of a Volvo 65 in the Southern Ocean is pretty much the worst place I can imagine putting someone whose back is suspect. No matter how well she’s done in terms of recovery, you’d have to think there’d be concern on the team about the risk they — and she — will be incurring if they take her.
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In the end there were no passes in the final stretch into Auckland, so it was MAPFRE, ADOR, and Dongfeng, all finishing within a few minutes of each other. Following them at slightly longer intervals were Alvimedica, Brunel, and SCA.
The finish happened sooner than the VOR people expected, with the live video starting at midnight in California, so I got to see it after all. The video was pretty ho-hum (since it was nighttime), and now has the same YouTube encoding problem that happened after the previous two leg finishes, so if you didn’t see it live you’ll have to wait to see if the VOR media team posts a fixed version. (Or you can watch highlights accompanied by annoying music.)
Overall standings going into Leg 5 (with ties broken by the in-port race results) are:
The Auckland in-port race is March 14, and leg 5 (to Itajaí, Brazil, by way of the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn) starts the following day.
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“I don’t expect you to follow me. I expect you to follow her.”
I was legit surprised at how much I liked this movie.
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Victorian Men’s Hairstyles & Facial Hair
A collection of Victorian photographs, depicting some of the hairstyles and facial hair fashion of the time, and a few rather unique hair styles like a man with ringlets.Woman’s Hairstyles
Victorian [x] | Edwardian [x] | 1920’s [x] | 1930’s [x] | WW2 [x]
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Favorite characters: Cecilia
“For one shot in the film, we were looking at photos of MK to use as Charlie’s cell phone photo ID for Zoe. We have a metric crapton of photos of MK, but I was finding it almost impossible to find a photo where she looked like Zoe. She was either clearly Lily, clearly Zelda, or clearly another character/herself.
“Something that impresses me about working with such great actors like Sean Persaud and Mary Kate Wiles is that they manage to give each character they play a totally different presence and energy, to the point that even finding an old photo that captures a new character can be kind of difficult. Yay actors!”
— Yulin Kuang commentary on I Ship It
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I carefully avoided the car commercial aesthetics or the army recruitment video aesthetics. I avoided making a movie about an army with ranks. I avoided making any kind of message that says war is good. We have enough firepower in the world. I was very careful how I built the movie.
One of the other things I decided was that I wanted a female lead (Babel’s Rinko Kikuchi) who has the equal force as the male leads. She’s not going to be a sex kitten, she’s not going to come out in cutoff shorts and a tank top, and it’s going to be a real earnestly drawn character. One of the decisions we made as we went along in the process of the movie was, let’s not have a love story. Let’s have a story about two people…
I have been offered movies that have huge budgets that have war at its centre and I said, ‘I don’t do that.’ I have two daughters and I wanted to make this movie for kids. It’s my lightest movie and yet it’s one of the most precise, adult exercises in world design I’ve ever made. It has the craft of a 48-year-old (del Toro’s age) and the heart of a 12-year-old.
What I wanted was for kids to see a movie where they don’t need to aspire to be in an army to aspire for an adventure. And I used very deliberate language that is a reference to westerns. I don’t have captains, majors, generals. I have a marshal, rangers…it has the language of an adventure movie. I want kids to come out of the movie and say, I want to be a Jaeger pilot! I really think that would be my dream come true.
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– Guillermo del Toro (via timetoputonashow)
This is why it’s important to have diversity in Hollywood. Not just diversity in terms of things like national origin and gender. But diversity in terms of values. In terms of goals and agendas. In terms of viewpoint.
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Edwardian Hairstyles
A collection of Edwardian photographs, depicting some of the hairstyles of the time, like the Low Pompadour. Hatpin Hairstyle. Side-Swirls. Flapper (The title ‘Flapper’ originally referred to teenage girls
who wore their hair in single plait which often terminated in a wide ribbon bow.) & the pompadour.Victorian Hairstyles Here [x] | 1920’s Hairstyles Here [x] | 1930’s Hairstyles Here [x] | WW2 Hairstyles Here [x]
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Potato Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, California
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If you had a chance to anchor there, would you take it?
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@badbadberto/Volvo Ocean Race on Twitter:
A list that collects all the twitter accounts of the various teams. Stuff is happening!
Current ETA for the lead boat (Mapfre at the moment, but it’s super tight between them, ADOR, and Dongfeng) is 1300 UTC, which is 2 a.m. Sunday in Auckland, 5 a.m. in California. So I won’t be staying up for it, but you can bet I’ll be out of bed bright and early. :-)
The tracker in the official app is giving live updates (finally), and there’s a Live Arrivals video running in YouTube. (Currently it just shows a countdown set to go boom at 0800 UTC, so expect it to be empty for several hours after that. And a nighttime arrival doesn’t bode well for interesting video. But a guy can dream.)
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I think we can all agree that this was a very strange day on the internet. Even by internet standards.
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Enroute Potato Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands National Park, California
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I’ve been there! And I’m making plans to go back.
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Yeah, yeah I’m behind the times, so pardon me while I flail because I love love LOVE this video. yulinkuang why do you keep doing this to us??!!!
I was trying to deconstruct my love of it for lies, and I pretty much decided I love everything about it. There’s something touching about the idea of sending a best friend request into the ether, but it’s also poignant because Cecilia’s last best friend was imaginary, and she was the one that did the leaving. And yet Cecilia is so earnest and hopeful! (And lovely.) And then there’s the style: the 50s & 60s vibe that evokes nostalgia, but doesn’t feel dated. I think it’s partly because the colors are so saturated and sharp. (The white background definitely helps them pop!) This story is happening in its own space – namely, Cecilia’s mind – and it’s bright and youthful and sweet. And it’s not just the clothing and props that pop and create this atmosphere; details down to nail polish and lipstick are just as bright, retaining these hopeful/nostalgic/etc. feelings even during closeups. Basically it’s 1 minute and 41 seconds of nonstop delight. (Cecilia, I will be your best friend!)
I am 100% down with this analysis. And really, how cool is it that it isn’t just a fashion video. It’s thoughtful. It has layers. It has characters. It has story.
It has so much!
Also, it’s infinitely gif-able. I thought I Ship It was rich with gif possibilities, but I think Cecilia is my current favorite-thing-ever for maximum gif density. :-)
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Closer…
It’s Saturday morning off the northeast coast of New Zealand, and as the fleet pushes into lighter wind Mapfre has been able to squeeze out a narrow lead over ADOR. But Dongfeng is right there, and drifting conditions are the sort they’ve done well in throughout the race.
I honestly don’t know which of the three to bet on. I can construct a plausible narrative for each of them winning. Maybe ADOR, since their narrative is the least dramatic, and the universe has a known bias against drama.
Alvimedica has closed right up, only 11 miles behind Dongfeng in the 1540 UTC update. So I think they have an outside chance to slip into the top three if the wind helps them out a bit.
Farther back, SCA is within 10 miles of Brunel, meaning they, too, have a chance to make a pass in the light stuff. It’s a three-ring kiwi circus! :-)
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