Today's Facebook memory is me complaining in 2016 that shorter pencils should not be portrayed as younger pencils pic.twitter.com/cms9ivCNIB
— lil pom poko jerk (@rajandelman) May 3, 2023
I've never read the Stephen King novel, but like the tv miniseries (featuring Bronson Pinchot as the deranged villain) in the same way I enjoy "The Royale" episode of STNG. Aristotelis Maragkos made a remix that played at Fantastic Fest:
Ten strangers awaken aboard a redeye flight from Boston to Los Angeles to the surreal discovery that the plane’s crew and passengers have vanished. Taking control of the aircraft, they make an emergency landing, but their nightmare persists as the outside world is similarly devoid of any life. As they investigate their uncanny surroundings, a distant and terrible sound emerges from the horizon. The sound gradually grows closer and closer, and it is soon surmised that whatever its source, its ominous approach spells their certain doom.
If any of the above sounds familiar, that is because it describes the premise of Stephen King’s novella THE LANGOLIERS, which was adapted as a television movie by Tom Holland in 1995. In this mesmerizing experimental film, animator Aristotelis Maragkos has laboriously printed every frame of Holland’s film to paper and painstakingly reconstructed and reshaped it through black and white collage animation. Not only is the narrative now compressed, and compellingly recentered primarily on the deteriorating mind of the character Craig Toomey (deliriously portrayed by Bronson Pinchot), but its editorial rhythms become a hypnotic dervish of hand-crafted folds, tears, and crinkles that recall the haptic texture and meta-dimensions of avant-garde filmmakers like Peter Tscherkassky (particularly his film OUTER SPACE). The result profoundly collapses the themes of its story onto the film’s form itself, and remarkably magnifies the actors' performances, particularly Pinchot’s, into an echelon of high camp that borders upon revelatory.
Well, this is absolutely incredible. #Animorphs 🐻 https://t.co/CZUtMtNvEd
— Katherine Applegate (@kaaauthor) October 29, 2021
On the topic of the invisible machine-readable text: apparently, some public companies such as Tesla began doing the opposite — human-readable, machine-invisible negative disclosures in their earning reports pic.twitter.com/CoUuhGerIv
— Luca Dellanna (@DellAnnaLuca) July 16, 2021
"Moscow Olympics 1980" Soviet poster, 1979 pic.twitter.com/thQGsGm1cB
— Soviet Visuals (@sovietvisuals) July 15, 2021
EXPERIMENTAL
— Robin Sloan (@robinsloan) July 17, 2021
WEAVING
RESIDENCY
!!https://t.co/2ztJJvUtQI
via @rachelbinx, of course pic.twitter.com/L0O4Lb0dt7
Thinking about this promo shot for the mini-series version of IT that makes it like a prime time legal drama w/ bonus clown. pic.twitter.com/BwZbjnQ7Rq
— Bill Smiley (@neokefka_99) July 16, 2021
The talented people at our screenshot Discord have built some sort of rogue AI that digs into the 24,396(!) images posted on the channel, and then builds an absolutely stunning gallery out of the most highly rated shots.
— Petri Levälahti (@Berduu) February 12, 2021
It's simply beautiful.https://t.co/qi5CxRQ3j0 pic.twitter.com/ayyQit3EEQ
S/O Metroid Dread for having the literal HARDEST name for a video game ever. That’s why it didn’t happen. It was too cool to live up to the name. https://t.co/6wACSpdziL
— 𝑮𝑹𝑹𝑳 (@GRRLmusic) February 11, 2021
In 1900, responding to an outbreak of plague, the Hawaiian Territorial Board of Health started burning down buildings in Honolulu's Chinatown. The National Guard quarantined 10,000 people in the neighborhood until the fires got out of control and burned down 38 acres of the city. https://t.co/2nd26Oj2WQ— Charles Louis Richter (@richterscale) March 10, 2020
These photos were taken at an office of Aramco, the Saudi state oil company. I assumed it was some kind of prank / joke at first, but Aramco just issued an apology statement saying it will make sure this doesn't happen again. Incredible. https://t.co/NVjSsvyuFY— Tom Gara (@tomgara) March 11, 2020
BREAKING: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces containment zone around New Rochelle, lasting until 3/25; National Guard to be deployed to assist in food delivery, cleaning.— ABC News (@ABC) March 10, 2020
"This is the single greatest public health challenge we have in the state right now." https://t.co/waOLY1RvC9 pic.twitter.com/ubq6lFo0yH
the coronavirus outbreak in Italy pic.twitter.com/NsEt05y1pa— valeska (@iatemuggles) March 9, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: People around the world are using @Tinder to find out "the real scoop" about #COVID19 by setting their location to Wuhan, China, and matching with locals. https://t.co/dR5QLSQaLJ— BuzzFeed Oz News (@buzzfeedoznews) March 10, 2020
When you download Tinder to try chatting to people in Wuhan... and your commitment to the story is thrown into question. pic.twitter.com/h79wyXmH2L— Isobel Yeung (@IsobelYeung) March 10, 2020
If you're wondering whether the coronavirus has entered the fanfic community, the answer is "obviously." pic.twitter.com/dq5X3yMhsE— Beth Elderkin (@BethElderkin) March 10, 2020
Here it is. https://t.co/KXgHxLi4w9 https://t.co/UX1gcN0gWx— Hayley Campbell (@hayleycampbell) March 9, 2020
some of you lack the disassociative skills needed to emotionally survive the apocalypse and it shows— ziwe (@ziwe) March 10, 2020
Catering to an audience of @hastin, #TheITExperience for #ITChapter2 in Hollywood features an EXIT sign that flickers to read only "IT": pic.twitter.com/ld7v9SNn3u— Nick Tierce (@nickytea) August 30, 2019
Samantha Strickland: IT Girl - Stephen King’s It pic.twitter.com/8qdA3kznVn— Hot Topic (@HotTopic) July 19, 2019
The Tifo from Timbers Army for the Sounders. pic.twitter.com/uTwkU3qOGZ— Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) August 27, 2018
Worse still, given that the whole point of this film is to harvest the built-in Stephen King Fanbase dollars, the film ends on what one person familiar with the project called, “what might be the worst studio-dictated happy ending since Brazil” and one that seems diabolically calculated to infuriate King fans with a giant middle finger to the entire Dark Tower concept.
Indonesia suffered 54 attacks, the highest tally since 2003, continuing a trend that has seen acts of piracy more than triple since 2010.
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However, not a single incident of piracy was reported off the coast of Somalia, or in the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea or Arabian Sea, waters plagued by Somalian pirates in previous years.
Stephen King's office building sits on a particularly dreary dead-end road on the outskirts of Bangor, Maine, just down the street from a gun-and-ammo store, a snowplow dealership and, appropriately enough, an old cemetery. From the outside, the anonymous building looks like a new branch of Dunder Mifflin, a very deliberate choice meant to keep King and his tiny staff safe. "We can't be on a main road because people would find us," says one of his assistants. "And it's not people you want to find you. He draws some weird people."On his heavy use of cocaine:
But the books start to show it after a while. Misery is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.
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Yeah, it did. I mean, The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act.
