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What is the point of this scene? If you can’t answer this question, figure out the scene’s purpose… or cut it. #screenwriting
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
What is the point of this scene? If you can’t answer this question, figure out the scene’s purpose… or cut it. #screenwriting
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YOUR GIRL IS ON VINYL!
Pre-order on my site and receive it before xmas!
#vinyllovers #vinylrecord #canmusic #canadasky #indiemusic
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Pre-order on my site and receive it before xmas!
#vinyllovers #vinylrecord #canmusic #canadasky #indiemusic
🌊🌈🎧
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
YOUR GIRL IS ON VINYL!
Pre-order on my site and receive it before xmas!
#vinyllovers #vinylrecord #canmusic #canadasky #indiemusic
🌊🌈🎧
Pre-order on my site and receive it before xmas!
#vinyllovers #vinylrecord #canmusic #canadasky #indiemusic
🌊🌈🎧
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Everyone wants to be
the sun to brighten
someone's life,
but why not be the moon,
to shine on someone's
darkest hour?
- UNKNOWN
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#moon #HarvestMoon #sky
#EastCoastKin #photography
#PhotoHour #SkyScapes
the sun to brighten
someone's life,
but why not be the moon,
to shine on someone's
darkest hour?
- UNKNOWN
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#moon #HarvestMoon #sky
#EastCoastKin #photography
#PhotoHour #SkyScapes
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Everyone wants to be
the sun to brighten
someone's life,
but why not be the moon,
to shine on someone's
darkest hour?
- UNKNOWN
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#moon #HarvestMoon #sky
#EastCoastKin #photography
#PhotoHour #SkyScapes
the sun to brighten
someone's life,
but why not be the moon,
to shine on someone's
darkest hour?
- UNKNOWN
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#moon #HarvestMoon #sky
#EastCoastKin #photography
#PhotoHour #SkyScapes
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Petula Clark, Peter O'Toole, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt, George Baker "GOODBYE MR. CHIPS" (1969) dir. Herbert Ross
🎬 APJAC Productions 👨🎓
🎞 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 APJAC Productions 👨🎓
🎞 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Petula Clark, Peter O'Toole, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt, George Baker "GOODBYE MR. CHIPS" (1969) dir. Herbert Ross
🎬 APJAC Productions 👨🎓
🎞 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 APJAC Productions 👨🎓
🎞 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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The 🇺🇸 American comedy film "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA" starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman and Walter Woolf King was released in the United States #OnThisDay in 1935
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The 🇺🇸 American comedy film "A NIGHT AT THE OPERA" starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman and Walter Woolf King was released in the United States #OnThisDay in 1935
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
🎬 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Louise with Georges Charlia in Prix de Beauté (1930).
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Louise with Georges Charlia in Prix de Beauté (1930).
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"A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world."
- Louise Brooks
#BOTD on 11/14/1906
Remembering and celebrating the legendary and
hypnotic silent film actress/model & icon on her 119th birthday.
📷 by Edward Steichen, 1929
- Louise Brooks
#BOTD on 11/14/1906
Remembering and celebrating the legendary and
hypnotic silent film actress/model & icon on her 119th birthday.
📷 by Edward Steichen, 1929
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world."
- Louise Brooks
#BOTD on 11/14/1906
Remembering and celebrating the legendary and
hypnotic silent film actress/model & icon on her 119th birthday.
📷 by Edward Steichen, 1929
- Louise Brooks
#BOTD on 11/14/1906
Remembering and celebrating the legendary and
hypnotic silent film actress/model & icon on her 119th birthday.
📷 by Edward Steichen, 1929
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Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS
Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility
Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS
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“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”
-Carl Dreyer
-Carl Dreyer
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King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation
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Script Analysis: “The Favourite” (2018) — Scene By Scene Breakdown. A great way to analyze a screenplay and its story structure. gointothestory.blcklst.com/script-analy... #movies #screenwriting
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Script Analysis: “The Favourite” (2018) — Scene By Scene Breakdown. A great way to analyze a screenplay and its story structure. gointothestory.blcklst.com/script-analy... #movies #screenwriting
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How to easily find the center of any wooden log.
October 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
How to easily find the center of any wooden log.
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Scenes from "The Beach," once a thriving resort area on Salton Sea, now an outsider art installation in Bombay Beach, California. This art now stands where once the Sea inundated; such has been the evaporation over the years...
#abandoned #urbex #SaltonSea #EastCoastKin #outsiderart #California
#abandoned #urbex #SaltonSea #EastCoastKin #outsiderart #California
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Scenes from "The Beach," once a thriving resort area on Salton Sea, now an outsider art installation in Bombay Beach, California. This art now stands where once the Sea inundated; such has been the evaporation over the years...
#abandoned #urbex #SaltonSea #EastCoastKin #outsiderart #California
#abandoned #urbex #SaltonSea #EastCoastKin #outsiderart #California
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Robert A. Heinlein: “My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to cope with a problem, does so, and thereby changes his character.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-f... #writing #screenwriting
October 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Robert A. Heinlein: “My notion of a story is an interesting situation in which a human being has to cope with a problem, does so, and thereby changes his character.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/on-writing-f... #writing #screenwriting
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Something to remember as you develop your characters: All of them believe they are the Protagonist in their own story. #screenwriting
October 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Something to remember as you develop your characters: All of them believe they are the Protagonist in their own story. #screenwriting
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"There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." ~ Frank Capra
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." ~ Frank Capra
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We love a good 94.2% Waning Gibbous!
October 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
We love a good 94.2% Waning Gibbous!
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Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Greta Gerwig: "Whenever I have trouble writing, I think about the pace of baseball. It’s slow, just grinding out another play. You strike out a lot. This, for me, is very helpful to have in my mind while writing.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting
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Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson
Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”
www.newyorker.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions.
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Seeing a waterfall form underwater.
September 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Seeing a waterfall form underwater.
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Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...
Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers
LLM “tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity” when writing news briefs.
arstechnica.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...
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Dialogue-Writing Workshop: Explore dialogue as conversation with purpose, how to create subtext, using idioms, slang, and contractions to craft realistic dialogue, finding each character’s voice, and more. One-week online course starts Monday. screenwritingmasterclass.com/product/craf... #writing
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Dialogue-Writing Workshop: Explore dialogue as conversation with purpose, how to create subtext, using idioms, slang, and contractions to craft realistic dialogue, finding each character’s voice, and more. One-week online course starts Monday. screenwritingmasterclass.com/product/craf... #writing
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The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a large, ribbon-shaped comb jelly, or ctenophore, known for its transparent and gelatinous body.
September 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a large, ribbon-shaped comb jelly, or ctenophore, known for its transparent and gelatinous body.
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Didn‘t do any writing. Just watched the waves go in and the waves go out. 🌊
September 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Didn‘t do any writing. Just watched the waves go in and the waves go out. 🌊
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Story structure does not constrain creativity, rather it shapes the chaos of our impulses and ideas into something coherent. Within that structure, we have the freedom to follow our characters… and see where they take us. #screenwriting
September 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Story structure does not constrain creativity, rather it shapes the chaos of our impulses and ideas into something coherent. Within that structure, we have the freedom to follow our characters… and see where they take us. #screenwriting