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curlsandstems

Chadwick Boseman surprises Black Panther fans while they say what the movie means to them.

catchymemes

jagermortis-deactivated20200817

welp. i was THISCLOSE to posting an adolescent “i hate everything” post… and then i saw this.

eilti

Literally just let this play 8 times in a row and my smile never faltered even once 😁

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

This healed me….

hockeymuffins

Sidney Crosby, the hockey anti-toaster

“He’s very in-tune with what’s going on in the room, more so than anybody I’ve ever played with,” said Matt Cullen, who has played with hundreds of teammates over 21 years in the NHL.

“He has a unique ability to sense when the team needs a spark,” Cullen continued. “He has such a feel for what this team needs. He seems to sense when the time is right for him to put the team on his back. And he does. And he has that ability.”

Okay listen. I get where the initial concept of Sid as this hockey playing robot who didn’t know how to interact with or understand normal people came from. He came into the league at a very young age, absurdly dedicated even by the standards of professional athlete media training to saying the right things and not making waves and focusing on personal effort over individual achievements above all else. We still saw some of that last night, when he deflected praise for scoring his 1200th point by highlighting Cullen’s 1500th game. And let’s not mince words: he was not a cool 18 year old! He was literally as young as a rookie could possibly be, and he had been the youngest on every team he had been on for a decade at that point, and he had the appearance and demeanor of so many young prodigies and kids who skip levels in schooling or whatnot and end up pretending to be an adult when everyone can see you’re still just a kid who happens to be able to compete with (and beat) adults. He was a dweeb who could also outplay basically every player on the ice.

And instead of doing what a lot of kids in that situation do–attempt to act older than their age by insisting they can be on their own and usually fucking it up–he lived with Mario for years. He declined to wear the C until he felt in his own judgment of himself–not his team’s judgment, but his own–that he was ready to take on that responsibility. He knew he was young, and he knew he had to earn his place as a leader on his team, and he knew that being a leader would look different for him at that point than it did for Mario before he retired. I don’t think that Sid is the same kind of captain now that he was in 2009. But I also don’t think that Sid suddenly learned how to communicate with humans sometime in the past ten years. I just think that how he was able to be a leader shifted over time as the room around him changed.

When we look at him now, though, it’s hard for me to imagine that he was ever perceived as being bad in the room, or uncertain of his place, because he is so incredibly at ease with his team and his role within it. And that perception of him as a robot who doesn’t understand people is so deeply at odds with the way his teammates talk about him and also interact with him on camera. One of the things Sid has certainly not changed much since his rookie year is how tightly he compartmentalizes himself–there is how he speaks with the media and presents himself publicly, and there is how he is on the bench and on the ice and in the room and at team events with the guys, and they are very different. (And then there’s his actual private life, which we know incredibly little about.) He doesn’t even give us the curated version of his private life the way many players do via their social media, so everything we see is either the direct, professional, public-facing version of him, or it’s the glimpses we see of him actually doing his job of playing hockey and the team-approved footage released on their social media. But everything that his teammates say about him, and how comfortable they are at poking fun at him and the way he laughs and blushes in response, and every time a new player joins the team and says a variation of, “I thought I understood how great he is but I had no idea,” drives home that this image of Sid as this hockey-playing machine, who doesn’t understand how human emotions work, is just deeply, deeply wrong. There’s a difference between being socially awkward and simply not being a performer, and in my view Sid is the latter and not the former. He’s intuitive and communicative and he thinks really hard about how to make an entire team better, from on ice systems and set plays to making sure new guys feel comfortable in Pittsburgh and in the organization. He is much more outward-focused than he gets credit for, in a good way.

tl;dr there is a difference between having a tightly controlled public-facing image with very strict privacy boundaries and being a personality-less robot who doesn’t know how to communicate with humans or understand his teammates, and Sidney Crosby is the first and not the second, Matt Cullen says so, I REST MY CASE.

omghotmemes

I laughed way too hard at this

mezimraky

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!

smooththegoofyshark

OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT

evilkitten3

HOLY SHIT

this guy GETS IT

j-compher

love this

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Q: And something to me that is so cool was that you were around when Sid, Geno, Kris Letang first came into the league. Can you just tell us about what that was like? Because I remember you telling a funny story one time about how you had to teach Tanger how to go through a tollbooth? (laughter) And how Geno learned English.

This is the stuff that Jen does behind the scenes. Not only does she help coordinate interviews, but she just has such great relationships with them and they trust her so much and she helps them so much in so many ways I think that’s a really cool part of your job that people might not know that much about.

A: Yeah, I mean, those three especially, I always say that I’m not sure my career would be as successful if I didn’t stay with this team this long. Because I’ve really grown up with those three. I was 22 when I was an intern, I was 23 when I started full-time, and I grew up with them. They were young. (laughter) We were all going through growing pains together.

I think Geno’s two English words were pizza and hotdog. (laughter) And no. He knew the word no. It was very obvious to me right from the beginning that Geno knew what I was saying but he did not say anything back.

Q: He pretended not to say anything back...

A: He pretended. Geno is extremely smart. So smart that it makes him nervous when he does interviews because he is intelligent to know that his English sounds bad. You know, like, when you guys all wear t-shirts that say ‘I’m score’, it’s funny, but it’s not funny to him because he knows that it’s a joke because his English is bad. That’s a true story about Geno.

Tanger was like, oh my god, he’s like my son. I love him. Tanger one day came to me and said that he was driving and ‘I went through the drive-through and I didn’t have any money, so I just went through’ and I’m like, ‘What did you get?’. And he’s like, ‘I think I get a ticket’. I’m like, ‘What do you mean you think you got a ticket? What are you talking- Tell me this again.’

We had just called him from Wilkes-Barre. He’s like, ‘I’m driving in my car. You know, you drive for a while and you go through a drive through’. And I’m like, ‘A tollbooth…” And he’s like ‘Oh, yeah, a tollbooth.’ He tells me he doesn’t remember this story by the way. And he’s like, ‘I got a ticket in the mail’. And I’m like ‘Okay, well, bring me the ticket’. So we had to overnight it because it was due, and then we had to teach him how to write a cheque. So, well, some fun stuff.

Sid, he’s been pretty perfect from the day I met him. Seriously. He was that guy that you don’t have to sit there and hold your breath that he’s going to say the wrong thing. Instead it’s like, I can’t wait to hear what he says because it’s going to be the right thing at the right time. There’s not a lot of grey area with him. He’s black and white. His answers are always well-thought, well-conveyed.

If anything, I learned a lot of respect for him right off the bat because he was getting pulled in a million directions then. People say he’s the face of the NHL. He literally was the face of the NHL that year. There was nobody else that remotely… and the stuff he did for the league is stuff that I mean, I don’t think anyone could ever go back and mimic because it was just incredible. The way he was on the ice. The way he was off the ice. He was literally the perfect package and he’s a great person too.

-The Scoop with Jen Bullano, 28 Mar 2019

thechanelmuse

Love this! Her pieces are dope af.

nopatyespat

best of Canes at Leafs Zamboni-driving EBUG Gate hockey twitter. bonus:

nopatyespat

best of Canes at Leafs Zamboni-driving EBUG Gate hockey twitter. bonus:

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(via BurkhartAdriana)

upsidedowndreaming

A good family

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Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves !

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

the-time-goddess-of-221b-deacti

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

starsintheskysandsontheshore

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

sodeartomyheart

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

firey-rising-demon-deactivated2

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!