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OOooof. That quote is from a big time Disney fan who is an influencer and journalist about the Magic Kingdom and all it does. Disney doesn’t treat her that well, while she should be hired as a consultant. She’s going viral right now, but not for that quote. That quote is about a longform review of Rogue One, and frankly I immediately identify it as something that pulls at my heartstrings about loving my dogs. =(

But that she is viral right now is about her 4 hour review of the failed Galactic Starcruiser hotel. IT IS REALLY WELL DONE. There’s an article below, but I have posted the video under People, Culture, Society. Even the hotel’s fans had to admit they’re doing a lot of “copium” with the validity and objectivity of her review.

And now, a four-hour exploration of the failed Star Wars hotel courtesy of Jenny Nicholson If you ever wanted to know what happened at Disney’s Galactic Starcruiser and didn’t want to spend thousands to do it: https://www.avclub.com/star-wars-hotel-failure-jenny-nicholson-1851490754

Bottlerock Music Festival Summer Vibe Mix 2024

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The whole point of this thing was *specifically* to get away from the dumpster fire of politics. But what’s happening in the SCOTUS (next prez will pick 2-3 more picks), what’s happening with Russia’s low earth orbit weapons, and this election is CRAZY.

But if you don’t know about Project 2025, and the GOP plan for winning and destroying us – it is an insane Christian ethnostate akin to Handmaid’s Tale. And it’s happening in front of our eyes. So this call out is rare, but REALLY IMPORTANT.

 

 

This woman continues to be hilariously authentic:

@sophietruaxUltimate silly life hack? original sound – Sophie Truax

 

SPACE

 

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

 

  • Break out the cigars:

Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors More than half of patients with advanced forms of disease who took lorlatinib were still alive after five years with no progression https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/31/trial-results-for-new-lung-cancer-drug-are-off-the-charts-say-doctors

 

 

 

 

  • Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/?comments=1&comments-page=1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABSTRACT A geophysical exploration employing ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was conducted at the Western Cemetery, Giza, Egypt, in 2021–23 by a joint research team of Higashi Nippon International University, Tohoku University and the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), Helwan, Egypt. We believe we found an anomaly: a combination of a shallow structure connected to a deeper structure. The shallow structure, which is L-shaped in the horizontal plane, 10?m by 10?m, was clearly imaged by GPR. It seems to have been filled with sand, which means it was backfilled after it was constructed. It may have been an entrance to the deeper structure. Its depth is of up to 2?m, measured from the ground surface. Below this structure, ERT reveals a highly electrically resistive anomaly, which extends over an area of about 10?m by 10?m. The depth of the structure is about 5–10?m below the surface. Electrically resistive material in a sand dune can be a mixture of sand and gravel, including sparse spacing or air voids within it. Neither GPR nor ERT could identify the properties of the anomaly. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arp.1940

COMEDY

  • Connor O’malley happens to be married to Aidy Bryant. He does an hour stand up where he’s a tech bro pitching a new AI startup, and it’s insane, takes all the random turns, and viciously skewers AI that no one asked for.

I thought it would be a train wreck, because I know his comedy (honk if you’re horny guy, the guy scamming adults into thinking they’re rock stars, etc). His other stuff on his youtube is fucking INSANE. He does a talk show under a bridge in water. it’s so odd.
Like Heidecker skewered conservative comics really well… This AI thing is super.

This is SERIOUSLY brilliant and unhinged. embedded below but link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svual-PcOxE

This review will help: https://mashable.com/article/conner-omalley-ai-stand-up

 

@dariusdavidson101 Bill haters best impressions of other actors must watch freaking hilarious!! #comedian #impresion #celebritytiktok ? original sound – RandomRealmTik

 

 

  • One of Norm’s final sets, 90 minutes of effortless comedy. This was at the Hollywood Casino, Columbus, OH (Jan-31-2020)

 

Also, Archive has his old show, which is hilarious:

 

 

  • Hahaha. Dig. “I’d like to move on from it”.
@goodguyspodcastThis was hilarious!? original sound – Good Guys

 

 

  • Bill Paxton, Mad Magazine, and loving them to hating them because of a chicken.

MOVIES & TV

  • Jimmy Fallon *BROKE FOR ATTENTION*, and it makes him what is truly the most vacuous, worthless, meaningless, shill of a person and I don’t like him.

r/comedy - I'm happy Conan doesn't shill for Network TV w/15yrs of crazy growth vs Tonight Show grind. But reading Tracy talk about Fallon being able to control laughter / breaks during SNL run (which ruined sketches) has me angrier at him having Carson's old spot. He's a hack. He broke for…

 

  • Which is why something like this moment seems unfair, while I’m ambivalent because Fallon is an empty vessel that means nothing to no one, so he can please the mouth breathing meatsacks that are we Americans… so he’s perfect for the role, and Conan has experienced non-stop growth and isn’t a slave to corporate late night network TV, where you’re apologizing for the most harmless skit ever. But this one second of his nostalgia was poignant, and essentially… I’m sure Fallon is a fine person (he’s not), and I understand how vanilla sells (I don’t). But I am glad we’ve Conan Must Go, Conan Without Borders, and his podcast. But a sweet moment that flashed by:

 

 

  • 32 1-2min clips from Bill Hader about all film history, and it’s just glorious:

 

  • Cinematographer Don Burgess talks about the Contact film sequence of the medicine cabinet, one of the most astonishing shots in film history, with minimal effects, and everything prior to modern CG or making slowmo in post, etc. The reversal was ASTONISHING to watch, and the complexity of it is only matched by Zemeckis’ brilliance as a thinker, planner, and director.

 

 

  • Hanks on Spielberg and Saving Private Ryan in regards to treating the Omaha Beach landing with reverence, and how to honestly capture it.

 

 

  • Ron Howard wrote this letter to Newsweek after they bizarrely critiqued the child actor of Phantom Menace, without having seen the film.

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  • Speaking of, we can’t forget how important Corman was. Erudite, brilliant, Cal Tech Pope of Cinema, and he brought us: Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante, and more.

 

 

MUSIC

 

  • The monopoly that is Live Nation in a few seconds. The artists are meatbags being turned into share croppers, and Live Nation just wants the venue full to sell parking, peanuts, hot dogs, and drinks (that artists get no % or $ of). Also, no idea who this guy is, but I’ll look him up.
@thegeorgejankoshow @Jon Bellion EXPOSES Live Nation??? #jonbellion #livenation #musicartist #producer #georgejankoshow ? original sound – The?George?Janko?Show

 

 

 

  • New obsession, sounds like Disasterpiece or Tangerine Dream or some modern A24 horror vibe.
@mezerg_105bpm Live Music, now on Spotify? son original – MEZERG

 

Two songs they talk about:

Jungle – Back on ’74

 

Childish Gambino: Big Foot Little Foot

 

  • This is the entire Jungle “Movie” for Volcano as choreographed by Shay Latukolan:

 

 

 

  • Two classics:

Heavy Metal Parking Lot, a documentary:

On May 31,1986, John Heyn and Jeff Krulik filmed Judas Priest fans in a concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland. Thirty years later, Heavy Metal Parking Lot is hailed as one the greatest rock documentaries ever. It’s a definitive cultural touchstone for the 1980s metal scene: spandex, big hair, denim, mullets, muscle cars, and beer. Heavy Metal Parking Lot launched a parking lot genre that continues to resonate today with sequels, screenings, concerts, a reality-TV series, and fan-generated films and art inspired by the 1986 original. Welcome to the World of Heavy Metal Parking Lot. Hell Yeah! https://www.heavymetalparkinglot.com

 

Raver Bathroom – from 2001, same concept

 

 

  • This is very interesting to me. Bieber instructing classical players to create a vibe of a song:
@musicnewsz insane ? #justinbieber #artist #orchestra #instruments #music #song #musicians #justin #bieber #studio #hit #violin #singer #notes ? BLUE – Billie Eilish

 

 

  • I had no idea she was dating Jeff Buckley. I can’t imagine going to work and recording:
@thejacobgivens Talking about Massive Attack’s Mezzanine on the most recent Waterproof Records ep, so I wanted to share the story about Liz Fraser recording Teardrop after hearing about Jeff Buckley’s passing on May 29, 1997. #jeffbuckley #massiveattack #elizabethfraser #waterproofrecords #90smusic ? original sound – The Jacob Givens

 

 

  • Incredibly relevant to OpenAI and Scarlett Johannsen. Parity and precedent:

Copyright: Waits V. Frito-Lay

“I get it all the time, and they offer people a whole lot of money. Unfortunately I don’t want to get on the bandwagon. You know, when a guy is singing to me about toilet paper – you may need the money but, I mean, rob a 7-11! Do something with dignity and save us all the trouble of peeing on your grave. I don’t want to rail at length here, but it’s like a fistula for me. If you subscribe to your personal mythology, to the point where you do your own work, and then somebody puts decals over it, it no longer carries the same weight. I have been offered money and all that, and then there’s the people that imitate me too. I really am against people who allow their music to be nothing more than a jingle for jeans or Bud. But I say, “Good, okay, now I know who you are.” ‘Cause it’s always money. There have been tours endorsed, encouraged and financed by Miller, and I say, “Why don’t you just get an office at Miller? Start really workin’ for the guy.” I just hate it… The advertisers are banking on your credibility, but the problem is it’s no longer yours. Videos did a lot of that because they created pictures and that style was immediately adopted, or aborted, by advertising. They didn’t even wait for it to grow up. And it’s funny, but they’re banking on the fact that people won’t really notice. So they should be exposed. They should be fined! [bangs his fist on the table] I hate all of the people that do it! All of you guys! You’re sissies! “

WAITS V. FRITO-LAY, INC., 978 F.2D 1093

In September and October 1988, some 250 American radio-stations aired a commercial to introduce a new Frito-Lay product (SalsaRio Doritos corn chips) featuring a song very similar to Waits’s “Step Right Up” (performed by Waits impersonator Stephen Carter).

Waits himself apparently first heard the commercial when he was at the Los Angeles radio station KCRW to do an interview (KCRW-FM: Morning Becomes Eclectic. October 3, 1988). Since the mid- 1970’s Waits had spoken out against doing commercials. As a matter of fact, the song “Step Right Up” itself was condemning business talk in the music industry and in general. One can imagine Waits was not amused when he heard Carter sing: “It’s buffo, boffo, bravo, gung ho, tallyho, but never mellow / Try ’em, buy ’em, get ’em, got ’em!” Waits was outraged. He realized “immediately that whoever was going to hear this and obviously identify the voice would also identify that Tom Waits in fact had agreed to do a commercial for Doritos.”(5)

Tom Waits (1992): “They imitated my voice. The guy who did the voice was like a fan of mine who does an impersonation of me and lives in Texas; plays in a band… He felt so bad that he did this. He knew when he did it he was doing a bad thing. But he vindicated himself by helping us win the case.”(3)

Tom Waits (1999): “This guy from Texas got paid 300 bucks to do me. That was his specialty, anyway, that he does this perfect impersonation of me. And they did this whole thing around “Step Right Up,” and every now and then they would say “Fritos” or whatever. And afterward, the guy felt so bad, he came out as our star witness.”(2)

After (a four week) trial before Judge James Ideman in the United States District Court (Central District of California)(4), the jury returned a $2.6 million verdict in Waits’ favor comprised of:

$375,000 in actual compensatory damages, for infringement of the right of publicity/ false endorsement (including $100,000 for the fair market value of Waits’ services under the Lanham Act claim.

$200,000 for injury to his peace, happiness, and feelings.

$75,000 for injury to his goodwill, professional standing, and future publicity value);

$2,000,000 in punitive damages for voice misappropriation ($1.5 million against Tracy-Locke and $500,000 against Frito- Lay);

$100,000 damages for violation of the Lanham Act – $125,000 Attorney fees https://tomwaitslibrary.info/biography/copyright/frito-lay/

 

PEOPLE CULTURE AND SOCIETY

 

  • This guy knows old weaponry, how it functioned, and will probably be a good point of contact for the zombie apocalypse.

Swords and other weapons

 

 

I am only posting that article, because remember when I posted that 5 hour Ari Aster Hereditary explainer? Since then, I watched Jenny’s 4 hour explainer on the failure of the Star Wars Hotel at Disney Florida.

IT IS A MASTERCLASS in understanding so many aspects of design / dev, execution, ops, and hotel and brand management. It’s glorious. Watch it. This will be taught in marketing and hotel classes.

 

 

  • Why is Stock Photography so weird?

Where do all those “WTF?” stock photos come from? https://www.pixsy.com/photography/where-do-all-those-wtf-stock-photos-come-from

 

 

Anthony Bourdain actually did a 10 minute tour on his show!

That the 1979 Arion Press 1st edition of Moby Dick, a masterpiece of modern bookmaking, has literally become my own white whale is appallingly absurd. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/30/moby-dick-the-arion-press-edition I’ve their first edition of the early 80s reprint, and here I *still* am. LOL That the 1979 Arion Press 1st edition of Moby Dick, a masterpiece of modern bookmaking, has literally become my own white whale is appallingly absurd. https://fontsinuse.com/uses/30/moby-dick-the-arion-press-edition

I’ve their first edition of the early 80s reprint, and here I *still* am. LOL

The woodblock art prints alone are worthy of their own frames:

VEHICLES

 

  • Battery Swap station for EV Trucks in China.

 

 

The second photo is the 1st of the 3 concepts unveiled that year, far more fuselage and jet age vibe, vs the very obvious Jetson’s vibe on the III.

 

 

 

 

 

  • “This car was designed and built by Jim Router in 1993. I worked with Jim in the early eighties in Holland (Volvo). He did the car as a project to beat radar and speed traps. Jim had spent a long time at LOTUS and had the opportunity to work with Colin Chapman before his demise. The car was a ‘one off’ and as far as I know Jim didn’t pursue it any further.”

 

 

 

 

The New York Central Railroad’s Mercury train was a streamlined passenger train that operated between Chicago and Detroit in 1936. The Mercury was an experimental train that was designed to be fast and innovative, and was named after the Roman god of messengers. The train was marketed as the “Train of Tomorrow” and was designed by industrial design pioneer Henry Dreyfuss.

CDN mediaCDN media

 

 

  • The Biggest model airport in the world includes a Millenium Falcon in the lineup:

 

 

  • Harrier Jump Jet did this for the last 50 years, but just like this one, and the Osprey… hovering and momentum are two very different things, and maybe you should choose to do a single one well?
@aviationnation22 #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #fypage #fyp?? #viral #viraltiktok #viralvideo #trend #aviation #aviationlovers #aviationdaily #aviationlife #aviationgeek #aviationtiktok #lockheedmartinf35 #f35b #flight #crowd #miamibeach #wow #amazing #stunning #shocked #omg ? original sound – Oggie

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