WAKE UP KOGONADA NATION: There is now a first teaser of ZI, his poetic, entrancing, & quietly exhilarating new film starring Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, & Jin Ha. It's a real wonder, like LA JETÉE meets BEFORE SUNRISE.

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THE WILD WORD ITSELF IS HOLY in black paint on roughly textured painted concrete beneath some plump pillars

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I'm not waiting to get stitches or something, but I'm watching a random episode of the Golden Girls from 1991. Everyone was up late and wondering where Dorothy was. To the camera, deadpan and with a thousand-yard stare, Rose says, "Maybe she was sold into white slavery." 😂

Atom smasher, University of Chicago, 1948. two colossal metal discs labeled tomorrow & today sandwiching a man standing between them

vibe

could a depressed person do THIS

*dramatically tumbles over a breakaway wooden handrail from the second floor balcony of an old west saloon splashing safely in the horse trough like in the hit 1990 FMV arcade light-gun game mad dog mccree*

Acquainted with the Night By Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

Oof.

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

I dreamed that Kruder & Dorfmeister released a trip hop remix of the "Newsies" soundtrack.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Irreversible Entanglements — Future Present Past (Impulse!) Future Present Past is the fifth album released by the avant jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements, and their second for Impulse! Records. This time out, spoken word plays a large role in the...

“The result is a colloquy that retains rigorous musical interplay with an equally kaleidoscopic verbal collage,” writes Christian Carey. dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/8141542... @cbcarey.bsky.social

My favorite tombstone. Translated it means "nothing."

boat in water. a pair of hands holding onto the side

Gianni Berengo Gardin, Catania, 2011.

Also, Mood.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

A photo of Mrs Rachel Robinson, the wife of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, sitting on chair smiling in a red dress. 103 years old

While Jackie Robinson isn't here to be acknowledged on the day named after him, do you know who is?

Mrs. Rachel Robinson herself.

Who will be turning 104 in July.

And she still serves on the board of the Jackie Robinson Foundation

BRAIN DAMAGE was released on this day in 1988 #filmsky #horror

Thoughts going in…and the mess that comes out my of mouth.

I adore THE DEVILS but boy howdy is it a draining, nightmarish renunciation of humanity. The soul is torn asunder until there is nothing left but the barren wasteland of this living Hell in front of you.

Maybe the greatest Feel Bad Movie ever made?

This reminds me of Berger's discussion of taxidermy vs. the zoo. The animals in the zoo never meet our gaze, are asleep, or pacing. The drama we want from contact with nature can only come from the dead, stuffed, and posed animal. But here, it's history that can only make eye contact when it's dead.

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

Underappreciated bit of THE PITT is how everyone's hair gets greasier the longer their shift is. Continuity department is doing amazing work.

falling forwards YouTube video by ridgeclub

Like, what. C’mon man

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I’d really like all the folks who wanted to bend over backwards to give Musk the benefit of the doubt on that whole sieg heil thing to engage with his incessant promotion of folks obsessed with the perils of miscegenation.

I think it's really an underrated moral issue (let along a political economy one) that we've sort of let scams and scam adjacent activities (sports betting, car dealerships, most retail interactions with skilled trades, crypto, etc) pervade the economy from top to bottom.

World-first electric triple road train launches in SA Battery change-over can be completed in the same time it takes for traditional refuelling, with the bulk of the electricity coming from renewable energy.

The “batteries can’t handle heavy haul” myth was already dead in 2023. South Australia launched an electric triple road train hauling mining loads at ~160 tonnes gross. Real truck. Real route. Real work. The future doesn’t ask permission from old narratives.

Out now, I wouldn’t steer ye wrong!

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"This is my beautiful country, Iran

These are not just Iran’s national treasures, they also belong to humanity, as they represent a 2,500 year old civilization

The sad reality is that many of these sites are being damaged in strikes by the US & Israel, which is heartbreaking"
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