Greeaahmalobey
@gmaloney.bsky.social
Esoteric writer and video goblin. Art student in the Burren.
I write about film, art, and the permeable membrane of social semiotic culture orbs
I make abstract video experiments on the edge of human tolerance, which is fun for me, I promise
I write about film, art, and the permeable membrane of social semiotic culture orbs
I make abstract video experiments on the edge of human tolerance, which is fun for me, I promise
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Greeaahmalobey
@gmaloney.bsky.social
· May 29
Sorry, gen ai is silicon valley snake oil being stapled to everything to make money, it has no benefit and untold detriments. It’s gross bro. Avoid at all costs
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Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said
Frida Kahlo painting auctions for $54.6m
A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million (€47.34m ) in New York yesterday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Record breaking prices for artwork sales do not, sadly, represent an investment in art and artists.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
Investors are reducing their taxable profits before the end of the tax year with big one-off purchases while universities cut their humanities faculties and artists earn less than minimum wage.
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“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973): Weaponized Expectations
Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat By the Door is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
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November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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"At its core, HIGH NOON is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act & discovering that no one will stand beside you—a quality which makes it an apt tale for our current political moment."
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"At its core, HIGH NOON is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act & discovering that no one will stand beside you—a quality which makes it an apt tale for our current political moment."
- Riley Womack
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High Noon (1952): Wait Along, Wait Along…
At its core, High Noon is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act and discovering that no one will stand beside you.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"At its core, HIGH NOON is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act & discovering that no one will stand beside you—a quality which makes it an apt tale for our current political moment."
- Riley Womack
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
"At its core, HIGH NOON is a parable about civic abandonment, the inherent danger in waiting for the moment to act & discovering that no one will stand beside you—a quality which makes it an apt tale for our current political moment."
- Riley Womack
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
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"Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance & attachment—BARTON FINK becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher & each turn of the wheel offers the same lesson until it's learned."
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"Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance & attachment—BARTON FINK becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher & each turn of the wheel offers the same lesson until it's learned."
- J.D. Biard
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Barton Fink in the School of Samsara: The Eternal Student
Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance and attachment—Barton Fink becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher and each turn of the wheel ...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance & attachment—BARTON FINK becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher & each turn of the wheel offers the same lesson until it's learned."
- J.D. Biard
(🎨 by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)
"Seen through the prism of Samsara—the Buddhist cycle of rebirth driven by ignorance & attachment—BARTON FINK becomes a spiritual classroom wherein karma serves as teacher & each turn of the wheel offers the same lesson until it's learned."
- J.D. Biard
(🎨 by @mosesleeart.bsky.social)
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October 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Watching the Wheels: Finding Meaning and Purpose in PATERSON
Watching the Wheels: Finding Meaning and Purpose in 'Paterson'
In the world of Jarmusch’s film, the purpose of work lies not in external achievement, but in the personal satisfaction of doing.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Watching the Wheels: Finding Meaning and Purpose in PATERSON
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Our brand new Teachers issue kicks off with @dodgyboffin.com's Double Features column on ROAD HOUSE and MAGIC MIKE
Our brand new Teachers issue kicks off with @dodgyboffin.com's Double Features column on ROAD HOUSE and MAGIC MIKE
Double Feature: Road House (1989) & Magic Mike (2012)
Both Road House and Magic Mike are about learning how to be a person in society—which is far easier to learn when there’s a teacher involved.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Our brand new Teachers issue kicks off with @dodgyboffin.com's Double Features column on ROAD HOUSE and MAGIC MIKE
Our brand new Teachers issue kicks off with @dodgyboffin.com's Double Features column on ROAD HOUSE and MAGIC MIKE
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It’s still shocking and still painful. The venture capitalesque dismantling of public good continues. To see these ghouls care so little of our great civic accomplishments is a boot heel on my soul…
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It’s still shocking and still painful. The venture capitalesque dismantling of public good continues. To see these ghouls care so little of our great civic accomplishments is a boot heel on my soul…
Ugh, what was the other bisky topic of the day? This is exhausting, you all live like this?
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ugh, what was the other bisky topic of the day? This is exhausting, you all live like this?
Patriarchal society tells men that they can only experience tenderness in a sexual context, then capitalist agents exploit this fear of being unloved in order to sell them nonsense. This leaves young men at loggerheads with the communities and avenues they’ve been pitted against
August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Patriarchal society tells men that they can only experience tenderness in a sexual context, then capitalist agents exploit this fear of being unloved in order to sell them nonsense. This leaves young men at loggerheads with the communities and avenues they’ve been pitted against
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MOTHRA - Premiered in Japan this day in 1961
July 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
MOTHRA - Premiered in Japan this day in 1961
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“Consider how THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition, where vision exceeds the reach of training.”
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“Consider how THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition, where vision exceeds the reach of training.”
- Veronica Fitzpatrick
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Where to Look: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Consider how The Silence of the Lambs revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition.
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July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New today on the site!
“Consider how THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition, where vision exceeds the reach of training.”
- Veronica Fitzpatrick
(art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
“Consider how THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS revolves around vision. Not only perception, but empathy and hindsight, and the non-empirical prick of intuition, where vision exceeds the reach of training.”
- Veronica Fitzpatrick
(art by @bturnerinfo.bsky.social)
My professor Steven Bach, producer of Heaven’s Gate, once took me to task in front of our entire class for suggesting Gummo was a film worthy of notice. It’ll always have a place in my heart for that. Go read Nathaniel’s piece. Gummo is good actually
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Nathaniel Missildine writes through Harmony Korine's complex and sometimes troubling Gummo (1997), contemplating what it has to say to us today.
"The vision has been awful; it has been life-affirming. As our curtain drops, the rain returns. The sky is falling again."
Nathaniel Missildine writes through Harmony Korine's complex and sometimes troubling Gummo (1997), contemplating what it has to say to us today.
"The vision has been awful; it has been life-affirming. As our curtain drops, the rain returns. The sky is falling again."
Gummo: The Best Years of Our Demise
Gummo is gross and soft-hearted and then cruel at every turn. We’re handed a grab bag of what Korine dares us to call perversions.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My professor Steven Bach, producer of Heaven’s Gate, once took me to task in front of our entire class for suggesting Gummo was a film worthy of notice. It’ll always have a place in my heart for that. Go read Nathaniel’s piece. Gummo is good actually
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Dylan Adamson writes about his experience attending the 9th annual Nitrate Picture Show, its various films and recurring themes, and a controversial final screening.
"This year’s films presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it."
Dylan Adamson writes about his experience attending the 9th annual Nitrate Picture Show, its various films and recurring themes, and a controversial final screening.
"This year’s films presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it."
The 2025 Nitrate Picture Show: It’s a Thin Line, Johnny
This year’s annual Nitrate Picture Show presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
BW/DR continuing to be the most interesting film writing around, a truly thoughtful report on a fascinating slate
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"In principle, apocalypse might imply a clean, sudden ending, but in practice, it’s a drawn-out and uneven descent. I can think of few works of art that understand this better than THE LEFTOVERS."
- @sophiastewart.bsky.social
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Why Wouldn’t I Believe You? - The Leftovers | BW/DR
The Leftovers makes two competing claims: that other people are mostly what gives life meaning; and that, despite guaranteed loss, we have to invest in them anyway.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"In principle, apocalypse might imply a clean, sudden ending, but in practice, it’s a drawn-out and uneven descent. I can think of few works of art that understand this better than THE LEFTOVERS."
- @sophiastewart.bsky.social
- @sophiastewart.bsky.social
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The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
(art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)
The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
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Rachel Getting Married: Yesterday Is Gone & Tomorrow Is Not Here
So much of Jonathan Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married is about needle-fine moments of grace and clemency.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
(art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)
The Jonathan Demme issue continues, with @lindseyromain.bsky.social on RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
(art by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social)
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Our new Jonathan Demme issue kicks off with post @eccantwell.bsky.social on Talking Heads, Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE, absurdity & anchors, existentialism, bodies in motion, and the transcendent joy of art in this moment
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
Our new Jonathan Demme issue kicks off with post @eccantwell.bsky.social on Talking Heads, Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE, absurdity & anchors, existentialism, bodies in motion, and the transcendent joy of art in this moment
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
Stop Making Sense: One Must Imagine Talking Heads Happy
The Talking Heads are strange truth-tellers, joyfully angry people, persistently interested in the power of art. And collaborating with Jonathan Demme elevated their music to something truly transcend...
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July 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New today on the site:
Our new Jonathan Demme issue kicks off with post @eccantwell.bsky.social on Talking Heads, Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE, absurdity & anchors, existentialism, bodies in motion, and the transcendent joy of art in this moment
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
Our new Jonathan Demme issue kicks off with post @eccantwell.bsky.social on Talking Heads, Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE, absurdity & anchors, existentialism, bodies in motion, and the transcendent joy of art in this moment
(🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)
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This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.
My sense of things has always been that most people do not have strong, deeply felt opinions on a lot of policy issues, and so their opinions can change fairly quickly depending on what’s in the news.
Why do people's opinions on a single issue change with the direction of the wind?
July 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is correct and it's why public opinion doesn't actually do anything on its own. It has to be mobilized. You have to DO politics.
Today I’m learning that a lot of people don’t read biographies of directors that they like. Which is fine! But also, I’ve got some bad news for you about a lot of other directors…
July 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today I’m learning that a lot of people don’t read biographies of directors that they like. Which is fine! But also, I’ve got some bad news for you about a lot of other directors…
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sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country
June 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
sorry i don’t think Zohran’s win indicates how state or national races will go. Zohran campaigned against unaffordable basic needs and an old pervert. problems that are unique to new york city and no where else in the country
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June 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hey guys! I got to go long on the complex beauty of community in Miyazaki’s films over at @bwdr.bsky.social - thank you to @chadperman.bsky.social for helping shape this into something I’m really excited for you all to read www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/06/27/c...
Coming from a Place: Community in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki
Community isn’t just for comfort in Miyazaki’s world; it's a hallmark of interdependence, a vital theme in almost every one of his films.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Hey guys! I got to go long on the complex beauty of community in Miyazaki’s films over at @bwdr.bsky.social - thank you to @chadperman.bsky.social for helping shape this into something I’m really excited for you all to read www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2025/06/27/c...
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The Community issue continues, with @thisishannahkim.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and WOMEN TALKING:
"A certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune."
The Community issue continues, with @thisishannahkim.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and WOMEN TALKING:
"A certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune."
Kinds of Kindness & Women Talking: Kindness as Compliance
In both Kinds of Kindness and Women Talking, a certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune.
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June 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New today on the site—
The Community issue continues, with @thisishannahkim.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and WOMEN TALKING:
"A certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune."
The Community issue continues, with @thisishannahkim.bsky.social on KINDS OF KINDNESS and WOMEN TALKING:
"A certain kind of kindness and a certain kind of despair start to sound like the same tune."