this country....

a little piece of heaven, is late Night Live...

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

how this utter piece of sewage keeps living, while others go thro worst of things..... this is hardest thing to bear about this moron

no. no.

Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. A black vinyl double LP on a Stanton turntable. Lego Wall-E looks on from the right.

Now playing: Yanqui U.X.O. by Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/yanqui...

but, the ah, comprehensive eradication of men like this wont make us sad!

....painted film

= Pitchfork NEWS Godspeed You! Black Emperor Remove Music From Streaming Services The Canadian post-rock band has pulled its discography from Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music, with Apple Music soon to follow

Real ones. I have some vinyl shopping to do

the shapes of the trees, I've had to stop reading....

thank you for the gifts you bestow on this site...

Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles - Get Still (Official Video) YouTube video by Alan Sparhawk

Pasado mañana sale el disco de Alan Spawhawk (@lowtheband.bsky.social) con Trumpled by Turtles
www.subnoise.es/foro/videos/...

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. A black vinyl double LP on a Stanton turntable. Lego Wall-E looks on from the right of the picture.

Now playing: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven. 25 years old today, I am informed, to my shock and consternation.

godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/album/lift-y...

A woman protesting outside the ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, was brutally assaulted by goons who used mace and sting balls on her.

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague.
#MEAAmedia

A breath of fresh air I’m supposed to be preparing a lecture on the eighteenth-century pneumatic chemists and I noticed this morning that today is the birthday of Stephen Hales who was responsible for a small invention …

18th-century, natural historian and inventor, Stephen Hales, was born 17 September 1677 #histsci #histtech

thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/a...

just discovered the site, what a bounty of riches.....

Alice Guy's RACE FOR THE SAUSAGE is about a little black poodle who shoplifts a string of sausages. Guy loved her agents of chaos.

Theda Bara disguises herself in EAST LYNNE, one of only two of her Fox films to survive. She's not a vamp but the vamped as a woman who leaves her family in the company of a seducer.

It was a novel first but the play was where EAST LYNNE really took 19th century pop culture by storm.

90% populated by wizards

#ALL50RTS Day 44

Nina Simone - Sinnerman | Pastel Blues | 1965

youtu.be/4IACZdwwJI4?...

700 homes, paid directly by govt (no "housing fund" required), for US military in Perth. Australian homeless can apparently just go fuck themselves while private JSPs and Centrelink torture them.
Traitorous fuckers are just insulting us now.

your 3M mask makes me love you..!

"Look, ma, no strings!"

Georges Méliès starred in most of his own films and brought the showmanship of his time as an illusionist along with him.

THE MERMAID (1904) was a return to stage magic form after multiple ambitious fantasy productions.

where is this?

Attractions.

But the main point is that techniques later used in the movies often originated with earlier projected cinema. A magic lantern show with a skilled narrator is engrossing and they even had hand-colored slides, which would transfer over to the movies as well.

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

DEYO (American Mutoscope Co., 1897) survives on 68mm paper rolls at the Library of Congress. Scanned by Cineric (Simon Lund).

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen