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September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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October 31st/November 1st
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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THE TERMINATOR was released 41 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great science fiction/action films of the 1980s, and the film that launched the career of writer-director James Cameron, the story of how it was made absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until it is read…

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October 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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JURASSIC PARK was released 32 years ago today. One of the most successful blockbusters ever made and a landmark in digital effects, the production of the film was as huge and spectacular as the T. Rex…

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June 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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GHOSTBUSTERS was released 41 years ago today. A 1980s comedy classic and one of the most popular of Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, the making of story is as huge as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man…

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June 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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TOTAL RECALL was released 35 years ago today. The second-most expensive film ever made at the time, and among the most popular films of both Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the story behind the scenes is as bonkers as what we see on the screen…

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June 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE was released 36 years ago today. The third, and for some best, entry in the Indiana Jones series, reading the behind the scenes story will mean you chose wisely…

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May 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Kamo River, bosho 1934
#japanese #woodblock
May 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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TOP GUN was released 39 years ago today. One of the definitive 1980s action films, and among the most popular of its star, Tom Cruise. The story behind the scenes will take your breath away…

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May 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Kamo River, Bosho 1934
#japanese #woodblock
April 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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MAD MAX was released 46 years ago this week. Acclaimed as one of the great low-budget films, and the movie that launched the career of star Mel Gibson, the making of story is a ride through a dystopian wasteland…

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April 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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BEETLEJUICE was released 37 years ago this week. A surreal comedy that catapulted the careers of director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton, the making of story is strange and unusual. It’s showtime…

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April 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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HIGH FIDELITY was released 25 years ago today. One of the most successful adaptations of a nick Hornby novel, and as popular with music lovers as movie fans, the behind-the-scenes tale has to be in the Top 5 making of stories…

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April 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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For the last day of this accurately named but increasingly eccentric #AtoZ, we’re doing ZOMG! Look At These!

I’m ignoring Z genera (Zoila, Zifra, zome others) in favour of some pretties.

I mean…gratuitous sea slugs (1/7)

Pics: © whodden © stephencoutts © Glen Whisson © Craig Hoover CC BY-NC
March 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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This is the most beautiful thing I have read in a long time.
March 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Tomikichiro Tokuriki (1902-2000)
Noodles restaurant at Yakai
#japanese #woodblock
November 23, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. 🧪 🎃

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~. 🧵

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
October 31, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Guillermo Del Toro told a great anecdote on the other place a while back about JOHN CARPENTER.
February 2, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Let's just wait here a while, see what happens. If you know...
June 1, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Megafauna used to be mega-weird.

This is Arsinoitherium @ummnh.bsky.social, a 34 million year old critter from Egypt, and a bizarre relative of elephants, manatees, and hyraxes.

#FossilFriday 🧪
July 19, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Japanese artist#RyoheiMatsumoto
(b.1988) lives & works in Yokohama, Japan. His artworks symbolize contemporary society using the world of living creatures. In the world of real creatures, there are social relationships such as predation, prediction, coexistence, symbiosis, competition & rivalry.
April 17, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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It’s Prince’s birthday
This is my favourite story about him by a country mile
June 7, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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lots of discourse on whether there should be a True Detective S5 but only one right answer: hire Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny at their current ages, name their characters Mulder and Scully, make them longtime (work) partners, do not otherwise acknowledge the existence of X-Files in the show
February 20, 2024 at 9:05 PM