Thursday, April 18, 2019
Purge Troopers, Ebon Hawk, and other 3D-printed Star Wars characters and spaceships
23 pages of miniatures available.
Also:
Mark Hamill's impression of Harrison Ford is a wonder pic.twitter.com/290dwA9cjd— JD (@nevesytrof) April 17, 2019
— JD (@nevesytrof) April 17, 2019
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
"Star Trek The Next Generation - Lt Jae (Tracee Cocco) tribute"
Something new to look for if you're on your 100th rewatch.
"My Samsung Galaxy Fold screen broke after just a day"
"By the way, it appears I’m not the only reviewing the phone who has had a problem with the screen."
Seven Nightmares
This a prototype for economy seating for future airplanes. How do you y’all feel about this ? pic.twitter.com/epdS1mtytJ— ✨Juan PablΩ✨ (@FlockaKnows) April 13, 2019
Anyway, today in New York people remain unfazed pic.twitter.com/PRAtEglLQG— Hannah Keyser (@HannahRKeyser) April 17, 2019
After a terrible fire at this McDonald's, Ronald Mcdonald remained untouched - and still smiling.— Dan Broadbent 🚀 (@aSciEnthusiast) April 16, 2019
Please explain to me how you don’t believe in Ronald Mcdonald after seeing this! pic.twitter.com/guUYY2QgKk
"Mr animator, I don't feel so good" 😢 pic.twitter.com/I9Fbo6sZF4— Physics & Astronomy Zone (@ZonePhysics) April 15, 2019
The Parkland shooter putting a Trump hat in his dead mother's coffin as a final "fuck you" to her feels like it should be a bigger part of the narrative. https://t.co/ugxoytSk0N pic.twitter.com/bBdDKeWx1k— Dan Lavoie (@djlavoie) April 15, 2019
Today's children fear not the monster under the bed, but the one under the spacebar. The chasms between keys, the pores in earbuds, the infinite dark of a tranquil screen: these are the new habitats of ghouls— neotene (@ctrlcreep) April 16, 2019
— paige (@BonerWizard) April 16, 2019
*More nightmares.
Infinity Gems pin set available for preorder
Six gems and the gauntlet if you want to share with your own personal Watch.
Art roundup
AKQA says it used AI to invent a new sport called Speedgate https://t.co/RAV2Fn2wJf pic.twitter.com/9V0tBctIio— Vanessa Mason (@vanessamason) April 16, 2019
— beeple (@beeple) April 7, 2019
— Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) April 9, 2019
The Summer That Never Ends, by Trần Anh Vũ https://t.co/mCUMngA0GC#art #digitalart pic.twitter.com/oNluiehEOd— ION 👀 (@ionlands) April 9, 2019
“Inch by Inch”, officially rejected as of today. I’m told it’s too cute for the NYER and I suppose it is. Still, I have a string of these kids pass by my studio window every single morning and they really are so unspeakably cute.Oh well, happy f*cking spring anyway! #Illustration pic.twitter.com/llutPUn7Ip— Peter de Sève (@peterdeseve) April 12, 2019
“Passage” (2007) by German installation artist Cornelia Konrads #womensart pic.twitter.com/9TKtr8X9K0— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) April 14, 2019
— Alex Jay Brady (@AlexJayBrady) April 14, 2019
Wow, this is amazing and sooooo mesmerizing....😍pic.twitter.com/S1pT8dv4Q2— Anne Wheaton (@AnneWheaton) April 8, 2019
Remember a few days ago I asked for some random old school ( 70s, 80s, early 90s ) heroes and villains? Well here's my first batch! pic.twitter.com/MaWRbxdTlb— Sanford Greene (@sanfordgreene) April 16, 2019
Star Wars roundup
If they don’t do a Pulled Porg Sandwich at Galaxy’s Edge they’re leaving literally *billions of dollars* on the table. pic.twitter.com/8oViMZDwdy— Charles Soule (@CharlesSoule) April 14, 2019
중간과정 생략돼서 볼때마다 웃긴사진 pic.twitter.com/6n4veY9eyF— 피우유 (@llapiuyuuuuu) April 13, 2019
Thrawn Swanson #StarWarsCelebration pic.twitter.com/yE2QKYSGGF— Mediocre Jedi @ SWCC (@MediocreJedi) April 14, 2019
You never know what creatures you’ll run into at #StarWarsCelebration. pic.twitter.com/DyoOhPTabK— Star Wars (@starwars) April 14, 2019
*More Star Wars.
Alien pumping station, perhaps
This ‚wave machine‘ is straight out of a @simonstalenhag painting.— geektweet (@randomtweetor) April 15, 2019
That’s the kind of imagery I hope to see in that @PrimeVideo feature. pic.twitter.com/bwq2DHOtBR
"We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition Machine"
NYT:
To demonstrate how easy it is to track people without their knowledge, we collected public images of people who worked near Bryant Park (available on their employers’ websites, for the most part) and ran one day of footage through Amazon’s commercial facial recognition service. Our system detected 2,750 faces from a nine-hour period (not necessarily unique people, since a person could be captured in multiple frames).
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The total cost: about $60.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
On World War 1 being an influence on the Lord of the Rings
A Redditor:
I feel like Tolkien wrote everything before the destruction of the Ring so he could write about what happened afterwards.
Merry and Pippin are able to return to their normal lives. There were no shortage of men who literally grew while in service, put on a good diet and getting good exercise for the first time of their lives (note that Merry and Pippin literally come back taller). They saw battle, saw friends fall, and experienced the horrors of war, but they never saw the trenches. The war was on the whole a positive experience for them, the great adventure of their lives, and they came back to be the leaders of the next generation.
Sam and Frodo are the men who lived in the trenches for years. They walked through the craters of Verdun, slogged through the mud of the Somme, trudged up the ridges of Passchendaele. Their journey was through worst of the Great War. It wasn’t just the Ring that broke Frodo. And while Sam didn’t break, he certainly had deep cracks in him. Tolkien would have called it shell shock; today we’d call it PTSD. Frodo goes off into the west. His real world equivalents committed suicide. Sam puts up a brave face and has close family and loved ones to help him, but he was walking wounded for the rest of his life. Indeed, Sam himself eventually takes a ship into the west.
Sam and Frodo survived the destruction of the Ring, and returned home, but to a lesser and greater degree found that they were too deeply wounded to ever be truly home again. Sam could be back physically, but a part of him would always be trapped in Mordor.
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