Watch/Listen to 5AM StoryTalk's entire conversation with Zoe Gardner! 📺🎧
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UK immigration researcher and campaigner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social worries (as I do) about a concerning cultural consequence of the 'Bridgerton' effect...
Watch/Listen to 5AM StoryTalk's entire conversation with Zoe at the links in the bio and first comment! 📺🎧
Little Richard, 1971.
📸 Ralph Morse.
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.” — Stephen King
"We have this colonial amnesia where we don't understand how we got here." 🇬🇧
UK immigration researcher & campaigner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social joins 5AM StoryTalk for one hell of a conversation about the forces reshaping our global social landscape.
Watch/Listen at the link in the first comment!
Yes, he's quite adorable.
Thanks, Jeremiah!
I’m still struggling to find the right balance between my creative work and my personal life, but this autumn weekend here in Australia, my wife once again demanded I stop what I was doing, strap our new puppy Frodo to my chest, and go tree shopping with her and our kids...
“If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.” — Kehinde Wiley
'Her Study', 1969.
Photograph by Fan Ho (Chinese).
Freddie Mercury riding on Darth Vader’s shoulders, 1980.
📸 Tom Callins.
“Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.” — Virginia Woolf
Shelley Duvall, 1971.
📸 Bill Varie.
From the making of THE THING (1982): Concept art for John Carpenter’s terrifying classic.
Art by Mike Ploog.
"The basic purpose of any film is to stir the emotions of an audience - to make them laugh, make them cry, make them feel sorry for the heroine or hero. That’s our job - to stir the emotions of people." — Jacques Tourneur
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UK immigration expert @zoejardiniere.bsky.social knows that her country's "cultural amnesia" regarding its colonial past isn’t an accident - it’s a face-saving operation with dangerous consequences.
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Jack Nicholson, 1988.
📸 Herb Ritts.
This is DEMONIC
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’” — Ernest Hemingway
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Screenwriter @cincopaul.bsky.social ('Despicable Me', creator of 'Schmigadoon!') talks the darkest point in his career and the daring move that helped him escape it. Find out how he did it!
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These talentless hacks have no concept of what makes something beautiful, great, or ultimately iconic. For example, they look at these three altered classic films and see them somehow improved rather than their perfectly composed images ruined by thoughtless meddling. 2/
The argument here is that AI could allow us to alter classic films or any work of art to conform to modern tastes such as widescreen formats - which is what happens when intellectual toddlers get to play around with this tech. 1/2
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso
It did.
Cinema is more than Hollywood. In fact, Hollywood is a much smaller percentage of cinema than the rest of the world owns.
His estate sold his likeness. It doesn't make it acceptable or something anyone should want to participate in. A lot of things are legal - it doesn't make them ethical.
I was raised in America in the 80s...where the school system taught me more about our shared history with the UK and Europe than it did Native American or Black American history. Wrap your brain around that.
