“I wanted to challenge politically the kissing scene, which traditionally either has the surprise kiss scene thanks to a rain shower for instance, or the obvious kiss scene thanks to mustard on the corner of the lips, for instance, and it is generally carefully scripted as ‘They kiss.’ Or ‘They passionately kiss.’ And then it’s on the actors’ shoulders. It seems to rely a lot on them because it’s their bodies and fluids and interaction, but it shouldn’t be. It’s fake. It’s not about finding the magic. Actors should always be part of the elaboration of an idea, especially with intimate scenes. So I wanted to craft a scene that would embody the sexiness of consent. People who are questioning the idea of asking for consent in France, they do exist. They are brave fighters for the culture of French gallantry who say that asking for consent would not be sexy, it will break the mood. Some of the French critics thought the film lacked flesh, precisely because to them eroticism is about conflict. […] At some point I came up with the idea of them having to unveil their mouths like they would undress themselves. So I put a scarf, justified by a strong wind, pressed on their lips and thinking you would see their heavy breathing through the moving cloth.”
if you want to READ Bird Drama, you have to join your local birding society’s facebook page, wait for the big migration seasons (early spring and late fall) and wait for someone to pull Some Bullshit.
This is nowhere near as good as expiriencing it firsthand by actually joining your local Birdwatching group and waiting for Deedee to bring up that it’s improbable that Deborah-with-an-H has seen a solitary Pinion Jay two years in a row as normally they travel in large flocks and then your tech-savvy Millenial ass can teach everyone how to look at archived photos and reverse image searches and not only has Deborah-with-an-H submitted the same photo two years in a row for her point count, the original image was taken in New mexico in 1999 by a completely different and EXTREMELY pissed off birder because Deborah’s antics have caused his local group to question his records and he ends up taking Deborah to court for violating the copyright of his wildlfile photography rights and he wins for several thousand dollars and instead of paying up Deborah runs off to vermont with the guy in the bird group she’d been cheating on her husband Ted with but Ted is cool about it because Deborah’s antics were cutting into his birding time.
so right now? join the Facebook group, and when you’re vaccinated for the plauge, join up IRL because birdwatching is genuinely enjoyable as a passtime on it’s own but the Drama is A+
Hoags Object: A Nearly Perfect Ring Galaxy : Is this one galaxy or two? This question came to light in 1950 when astronomer Arthur Hoag chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely dark. How Hoag’s Object formed, including its nearly perfectly round ring of stars and gas, remains unknown. Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and the gravitational effect of a central bar that has since vanished. The featured photo was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and recently reprocessed using an artificially intelligent de-noising algorithm. Observations in radio waves indicate that Hoag’s Object has not accreted a smaller galaxy in the past billion years. Hoag’s Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million light years away toward the constellation of the Snake (Serpens). Many galaxies far in the distance are visible toward the right, while coincidentally, visible in the gap at about seven o’clock, is another but more distant ring galaxy. via NASA
