niktemadur

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hey, Imaginary Percentages, cool!

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To generate Complex Demographic on a Cartesian plane.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

While filming Citizen Kane, director and star Orson Welles likened making a movie to playing with a toy train set, and that playful inventive spirit shines all throughout the movie.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fertility symbols and religion, going together like chocolate and peanut butter since... since at least before chocolate and peanut butter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Judge:
Dudes: Whoa... epic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've always been into freeform radio stations that color outside the lines, college stations like WPRB from Princeton, WFMU from NY/New Jersey, KFJC near the Bay Area, etc., have discovered a ton and a half of stuff that's way off the beaten path and has caught my ear.

Here's a good example I picked up around twenty years ago from KFJC, it could have been any one from too many choices to count, but for some reason this was the first song to pop into my mind right now.

If memory serves, I believe it's a field recording taken in the Sahara Desert, a nomadic people from around Morocco or Tunisia, and can only imagine the magical environment, close my eyes to try and visualize the crisp dry Saharan air at night, a large bonfire, the sky exploding with stars above, and this trance-inducing, mystical chanting.

Halima Chedli Ensemble - "Touhami Dikr".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For a long time it was Huevos Rancheros, but that got nudged into the #2 spot when I discovered Eggs Benedict.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm afraid they might be a whole bunch of oldies but goodies:

2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Empire Strikes Back.
Miller's Crossing (the third movie written and directed by the Coen brothers, from 1989).
A Bridge Too Far (from 1977, a sprawling, star-studded epic about the Allies and their costly, ill-advised and ultimately unsuccessful Operation Market-Garden in WWII).
A Bout De Soufflé. (Godard's seminal French New Wave cannon blast).
From Russia With Love.
The Spy Who Loved Me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well that was a spectacular read in your link, keep calling attention to it, 'cause it's gonna be a constant drip-drip-drip of people finding out. I didn't know, but starting today, I'm gonna experiment with SearXNG as my primary search engine, see how that goes!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Diamonds, or any sort of gemstone, as trying to sell those things would probably be as risky as stealing them in the first place.

 

For example, Humphrey Bogart as Indiana Jones in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Or say Gregory Peck in Saving Private Ryan. Or how about James Dean as Luke Skywalker!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Instead of remaining parallel as we move through space in the arrow of time, we get closer to other mass because our paths bend, our clocks running at slightly different beats.

Time-bending is mind-bending stuff, man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I still get all verklempt about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'd be on a Toast, eating Boat... or wait... is that the other way around?

Toat Boast.

There, now that's better.

 

For example, places like HistoryPorn have some bizarre pictures of weird inventions or WWII experimental weapons.

How come I'm only just now coming across them? Why didn't we see them five or ten years ago, even in specialized forums and subreddits?

Places like ArtPorn or TraditionalArt are a trickier proposition. Here my lack of knowledge is vast, but I've really loved the history of painting for over two decades now, and have recently kept coming across a lot of 18th-to-20th century paintings and painters I've never heard of before; some of these are excellent, I should have known about them... I think. But like I say, there's more that I don't know than what I do.
If they are real and not recent AI creations, where are the original and who is digitizing and/or publishing so many of them all of a sudden in the past year?

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