Really thrilled to have had the opportunity to interview Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, about the importance of taking action against climate change issues… at The White House. 😍🇺🇸 So encouraging to have an environmental leader with so much hope for the future! #ActOnClimate (at The White House)
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Actress Lupita Nyong’o for VOGUE October 2015
Photography: Mert Alas and Markus Piggot
Beauty: Nick Barose
Hair: Larry Francois
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When I was a little girl I fell in love with the heroine of book series. Jacky Faber was everything young me ( and old me) wanted to be like. She made me who I am today. After 12 years I now have thr same tattoo. This series means a lot to me and I am so happy with how it turned out.
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Also I just rewatched that scene and something occurred to me that I’d never actually realized before
Nux is still hiding in the lookout when Cheedo tries to run back to the Immortan. That means that he probably heard that entire exchange.
I just
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Okay so in the neverending list of things that made me go ‘Oh oh oh oh!!!!’ from our favourite movie…
…the Doof Wagon.
It’s cool. That’s a given. It has the audience go ‘WTF what am I watching’.
But the thing I really like about it is that it brings the soundtrack right into the story like no sick musical ever has. Every action sequence has to have really rad music that gets your blood pumping and your adrenaline rushing, but if you wanna think about it, the characters don’t get that score in the background as they’re running for their lives. Right?
Except here they do :P
Clearly Immortan knows how to put on a show.
But really it’s so frickin’ cool for the audience as well, because if the music is getting louder, that means Joe’s war parties are getting closer. It makes you anxious. And when the music revs up it’s not just the score, it’s what’s happening on screen. I love that!
I once wrote a homework about Fritz Lang’s M and I discovered how he, in his freaking first sound movie ever, used music and sound to create suspense and to involve the audience in the scene. Not only the leitmotiv of the murderer, but also stuff like noise that carries from one scene to the other. Go and watch it, it’s a great movie.
Anyway, ever since I have mad respect for any filmmaker who knows how to do this and who knows how to put his soundtrack and incidental music to good use. Miller does this so well in Fury Road. And the sound of the Doof Wagon getting closer is an adrenaline rush for me, like it is for Furiosa, Max and the Wives.
The other cool thing is that the Doof Wagon isn’t just there to be cool or to pump the War Boys up – it does that, but like so much else in the movie it has a clear purpose that viewers are left to piece together for themselves.
To elaborate: Max’s world does not appear to have radio. I don’t remember if we see Furiosa use and intercom in the War Rig, but every time we see long-range communication in the film, it’s using pre-radio methods: Morse Code flashes, coloured signals, etc. Those are great for long-range communication when there’s not a need for absolute split-second understanding, but in battle when two war parties collide they’re almost useless – you can’t have crews looking for signals when they should be concentrating on fighting.
So, without widespread radio use, how does a commander communicate to the rest of his war party? The same way commanders have done since the rise of professional armies – with music signals. The Doof Wagon is the post-apocalyptic version of a drummer boy in a line regiment – he calls out formations and commands in a way that can carry over the cacophony of battle. Psyching up the warboys is an added bonus to this.
Whooaoaooooaaaaa did not even THINK of that.
Can we also talk about the Doof Wagon being a psychological weapon? It’s intimidating. It’s loud. It’s scary. And it lets you know that something big and awful is coming.
Sure, it pumps up the warboys (as one can see; they are literally bouncing around on their vehicles like the hooligans they are), but think about this too:
Joe’s got a reputation as a badass who is ready, willing, even anxious to fuck up anyone and anything that he feels like fucking up. He sticks the word “war” in front of things like Batman sticks the word “bat” in front of things, okay? That reputation precedes him.Literally, it precedes him: all that Doof-y wildness goes echoing out like a road in the wilderness.
The characters he pursues (the war-rig roadtrippers, as we all know) hear him coming up fast–they hear the engines and the Doof Wagon. To quote The Dag: “Angharad, is that the wind or is that a Furious Vexation?” He’s coming. He’s coming. He’s like a storm: you hear the thunder coming on.
And it reminds me of the old folktale that the Scottish Highlanders used bagpipes in the same way: they’d play these loud, raucous, squalling instruments that just howled and wailed and sounded like the tormented souls of the damned. Just an awful sound, which was supposed to terrify their enemies–all that coupled with a reputation for fucking all your shit up.
It just sounds scary as hell, and that’s a pretty effective tactic if you’re trying for intimidation and spectacle (two things it seems Joe’s big on).
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compare me to the sea/drown in poetry
HD it pls :)
who knew vidding a movie would be so difficult.?.oh well.i tried :)
this movie is absolutely sensational and this ship=holy grail of all ships <3
i felt the first part of song fit furiosa and the second one with max..so umm..i
hope some maxiosa/mad max fans like this video :)dedicated to dealingdreams and bonehandledknife <3
fandom:mad max:fury road
ship: max X furiosa
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My lovely and talented friend Kim of Wren’s Fairy Realm has allowed me to share her recent OOAK piece with you all on tumblr. She doesn’t have an account yet but we’re working on it ^__~
This is her hand sculpted version of Furiosa from the new 2015 Mad Max film.
She is currently available on eBay HEREAnd check out more of her artwork and WIPS (work in progress) HERE
Thanks for checking her out. We appreciate it!Oh my god who wants to buy this for me so I can cry about it forever???
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Character poster #9 featuring: Shea (Alysson Hall)
Photo Credit: Fojan Nixie Shabrang (@MzMustard)Cheers!
– Kalama+Tea Productions
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It’s a movie about SUFFRAGETTES and it’s coming out in October. PS if you want something spinstr-approved in a similar vein to watch before that, I strongly endorse Made In Dagenham.
This legit made me tear up.
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“Arranged marriage” (1862)by Vasily Pukirev, Tretyakov Gallery.
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Lord of the Rings Handcut Silhouette Scenes – Created by Jack Tuckwell
Each of these beautiful pieces of artwork is individually handmade from pages from the Lord of the Rings. Available for sale only on Etsy, customer scenes are available.
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““I think it’s crucial for women like us to prove that small fiction presses are viable. More than any criticism about our fandom and fan fiction ties, it’s been the criticism that accuses us of not being a ‘real’ press that fires me up and makes me work harder than ever. Publishing is so stagnant right now, so consolidated – I think we need smaller venues and unexpected voices like a blood transfusion. And that’s an attitude, a mission I guess, that comes out of my entire lifetime spent needing fandom to give me stories that the mainstream couldn’t or wouldn’t.””
– Alexandra Edwards of Big Bang Press, in an interview with The New Statesman. (via bigbangpress)
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@bepinkriches killin’ it with the hair and makeup today
Currently listening to “The Night Circus” on audiobook and holy shit now I want to fancast MK as Poppet.
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I can’t stand it, I know you planned it: The radio is in the hands of such a bunch of fools who want to anaesthetise the way that you feel.
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Angelo Ferraris
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Francisco Trevisan
Dramatic views of the Italian Dolomites.
via mymodernmet:
High in the Italian alps, within the famous mountain range called the Dolomites, separating the Funes valley from the Gardena valley, sit the breathtaking Odle mountains. The Dolomites were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in August 2009, and have been called some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes found anywhere in the world with its sheer cliffs, vertical walls, and deep valleys.
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Disney Fine Art: “Ohana means family” by Heather Theurer:)
(Source: disneyfineart.com)
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Grieving French woman granted permission to marry dead fiancé:
A grieving French woman has been granted permission by the French President to marry her former fiancé, who tragically died in 2012, just a month before they were due to wed. The marriage is possible thanks to one of France’s little known laws. In a few weeks time a heartbroken French woman will stand alone before the mayor of her village for what will be an emotional ceremony, the likes of which are rarely seen.
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