And now, back again after 18 years, the new adventures of Galaxy Quest!

There’s a documentary on Amazon Prime I’ve yet to watch about how this movie helped revitalize the SciFi genre or something, and I can totally agree with that. It’s more slept on than Megamind or Clue or even Logan Lucky.

I think this sums up what it did pretty well

Reminded some of the people making the movies and shows who they were doing it for.

i’ll literally never have enough of that dylan b hollis dude cause like. hes a college student who just.,.blew up on tiktok. he has the soul of a man who has lived for 60 years in the body of a twink. he cooks and is surprised every single time. he goes CINAMIN everytime he uses cinnamon. he has the kitchen of a 60s house wife and cooks like hes going to kill someone

other favorites include

- “moo juice!”

- E G G - G I E

- BUTTER GO BRRRRRRRR

- Floof powder

F I R E

The normalization of surrogacy is so… ??? Like how does the idea of a poor person carrying a rich persons child inside of their womb and then having it taken away at birth not just make everyone feel sick to their stomach and creeped out? It’s so fucking dystopian fr

The distinct lack of decent archaeology books and movies and tv shows and all that is an actual travesty and im still not over this

i just really want a sitcom of whacky fieldwork shenanigans ok 

Recurring characters include a Very Tired collections manager and a hovering local who won’t stop trying to insert themself into the excavation

# can I get a museum movie that doesn’t just focus on how “’glamorous’ being a curator is? @saintartemis 

yes you may. also i propose the archivist who gets called up for research purposes regularly only to curse at length about how she’s not doing any more research from the specific source because its horrific to translate and she wants to be paid more to even look at it (she does it anyway because its fascinating but shes not going to tell anyone else that because they spend an entire episode trying to bribe her and she wants to see how far they’ll go)

# my friends and I pitched a sitcom called ‘Field School’ and I think it would be brilliant, #what’s more full of interpersonal drama and wacky scenarios than an archaeological field school full of green undergrads and tired TAs, #and by pitched I mean joked about how there should be one while we were out in the field walking survey lol. @specialagentartemis 

spectacular - exactly what we need in life. and the high quality content that is the shenanigans of green undergrads who think the tired TAs, lecturers, and otherwise more qualified archaeologists are actually more dignified, when in reality its 11pm and they’re semi-drunk crying over how tiny the coin they found today was

@anon-e-has-a-tmblr​ precisely. absolutely no resurected dead, no murder mysteries, and no nazis outside the obligatory ‘im an archaeologist its my job to punch nazis ala indiana jones’ jokes 

@colleen-bee

Okay, but have y’all seen Time Team??

"boohoo our s*xyman is voiced by the Iceage sloth"— well I for one appreciate all the hard work John Leguizamo put into single handedly wrestling Lin Manuel Miranda out of that recording booth to prevent him from voicing Bruno.

simu liu as xu shang-chi in shang-chi and the legend of the ten rings (2021)

Loved this movie!!

not to make everything about lord of the rings but everything is actually about lord of the rings thank you good evening

What do you mean by "good evening"?

Modernist tiles

In a previous post about the Modernisme architectonic style, I said I wouldn’t mention the tiles not to make the post longer… @kiragecko​ asked for some tiles, so here are some examples!

The tiles in this post are “rajoles hidràuliques” (meaning “hydraulic tiles” in the Catalan language), which is a kind of tile invented in the 1850s in Catalonia and very widespread in our country since they’re very resistant and quite cheap.

In this post I include photos mostly from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all from buildings in Catalonia and often inspired in older traditional Catalan tile stiles and the style of carpets.

This website posted a lot of tiles from Barcelona.

These ones were in the library of Vilassar de Dalt.

Barcelona again.

The street pavement in parts of Barcelona.

Palau Baró de Quadras, Barcelona. Tiles in the walls and floor.

There’s also wall tiles in relief

The two above are in Barcelona and the bottom one in Canet de Mar.

Wall and ceiling in Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona.

Two examples of walls in Barcelona.

And it’s not only for the floors and lower half of walls, they used it in the outside of buildings too:

The roof of Casa Batlló (Barcelona, Catalonia). It represents the scales of a dragon, as if the dragon was asleep on top of the house.

Or to write the name of your house (Bell Esguard)

Or to make a mosaic (this is also in Torre de Bell Esguard)

For your shop’s door.

Outside domes or the top of towers.

Outdoors of two buildings in Argentona.

This is in Canet de Mar too.

We could spend pages and pages and pages on floor hydraulic tiles alone (seriously, Catalonia is FULL of different designs of them), but I think everyone who has to scroll past this post will appreciate it if I stop making it longer. If you want to see more photos of Catalan modernist architecture, the photographer Arnim Schulz has hundreds of photos in his Flickr account (or let me know if there’s interest in something else and I’ll post it).

— “What Abortion Means”

the lord of the rings is so honest. so raw. so sincere. so unabashedly from the heart. no snide fourth wall jokes, no attempts to alleviate the heaviness. it is is wholeheartedly earnest in its dedication to portraying hope and love and faith and loyalty and courage, and that is what makes it feel like home to so many of us. it's true to itself. it doesn't pretend to be cool and care less. it cares, a lot, and that is a rare, beautiful thing. it warms our hearts to care for a piece of fiction that was made to care about and be cared about

I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

#just hundreds of people who went ‘sure let me try this’ #and they made something breathtaking #and then they made it 12 more times in different sizes ( @byjoveimbeinghumble​ )

Wait tell me more about that chainmail thing

“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

YOU GUYS

they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

I loved the books long before the movies came out and… yes, this.

I disagree with a few choices here and there but they’re really, really good.

to the married folks on here,

did you, at any point in your marriage, think to yourself: wow I am actually messed up

like marriage has this way of making you, forcing you even, recognize your awful sins and habits and patterns?

Oh yes!

There’s nothing like marriage to show the absolute need for a life of sanctification. It becomes more obvious when you become a parent. The growth is a beautiful thing though. And your spouse should be helping you. It’s definitely a mutual thing.

man where’s that ursula k le guin quote when you need it. “Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe.”