Let's Start Fresh

"Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears."

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[demi-shoggoth]

The children yearn to be Mewtwo

[spaceblobs]

i bet the world was told the tale of how ryland grace heroically stepped up and sacrificed himself as the science specialist after the explosion. i bet his students were told that their teacher bravely chose to die to save them, all of them. ryland grace, the savior of earth.

no one will ever know he was dragged kicking and screaming. no one will ever see the cctv footage of him running, screaming, begging for his life.

the story they will be told of ryland grace, the savior of the universe, will be a bold faced lie.

and no one will know he did willingly sacrifice himself to save rocky.

no one will know he could have come home. no one will know he finally found his purpose amongst the stars.

[hello-intemet]

hello i hope ur having a lovely day! May i request for silly 2009 phan gushing over current phans hairstyles ty!!

their 2009 selves would be GAGGED i think

[frajer-00]

I will fix cinema:

Every actor is dirtier and sweatier

Barely any cgi

Everybody is ugly

There is a single light source, maybe 2, per scene. It is also colorful.

Every production needs a storyboard artist, who storyboards the film after the script is done and before they start filming

There is a lot of silence, pauses,

everybody is ugly

the holy cinematography grail is star trek the original series

[theprofessional-amateur]

Do we count this as a passive rickroll?

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[canadianwheatpirates]

Rian Johnson confirmed it!

Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson.bsky.social)

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares) [contains quote post or othe

[never-breathe-again]

[oh-good]

this is a Christmas post for you to like and unlike over and over to see the little snowy animation they have rn

[scenefulw0rkz]

"The Phamily Tree, featuring all your beloved mascots over the years."

(will work on the Hard Launch set kids next lol)

@danielhowell @amazingphil

[sirfrogsworth]

Ironically, hard light is bad for recording sexy time.

It will highlight every pore, every vein, every wrinkle on your nutsack.

One day I will end this ring light fad. It is my ultimate side quest.

[sirfrogsworth]

It seems my lighting advice has given people a mistaken impression...

[sirfrogsworth]

These outtakes where the flash didn't go off are also AI generated.

I like this spooky dutch angle one.

I was just starting to learn flash and I didn't have all the equipment I needed. Since corgis are quite short, I had to put the lighting on the ground. The off camera flash was on a tipped over lightstand with a shoot-through umbrella to diffuse the light.

But I had no wireless triggers. And the only other way to trigger a flash, is with another flash. So I used the on-camera pop up flash to trigger the main flash.

But I had two issues.

First, I did not want that dinky on camera flash affecting my picture.

Second, triggering a flash with a flash is best done indoors. The flash will bounce all around the room and eventually hit the sensor so the main flash triggers. When you are outdoors, there is no bouncing.

SO... I took a little handheld makeup mirror and angled it toward my main flash. This blocked the dinky pop up flash and sent the beam of light towards the main flash to trigger it.

I was lying on the wet morning grass, holding a camera in one hand, a mirror in the other, trying to aim the mirror exactly toward the main flash, making crazy noises to get Otis's attention, and trying to get the focus point on his face so I didn't get a blurry photo. Also, Otis was much more interested in sniffing things than posing for a photo.

Here is an overhead view that might help explain.

I await all of your comments saying my amazing drawring is clearly AI generated.

Only 30% of the time did the flash actually go off. Aiming the mirror was tricky and I was doing like 8 things at once. I wasn't even sure I got the photo I wanted. But when I came back to the computer there was one that stood out and it is one of my favorites I've ever taken.

It was the best combination of monumental effort, great discomfort, perfect foggy sunrise light, and just pure luck.

Unfortunately, people like me who use advanced sculpting light techniques are getting accused of using AI more and more. Not really sure what to do about it—other than show the 30 awful photos it took to get the good one.

My 80s sunglasses photo and spoon photo get called out the most.

But it's just good old fashioned gradient lighting which has been used in product photography since the days of film.

So, no need to be suspicious.

[hollowedskin]

Photography like sirfrogsworth's is what the fucken AIs were TRAINED on.

[iinsawdious]

they should invent a way for online friends to come over and hang out that doesn't involve money or travelling

[charlesoberonn]

Gritty Detective Fiction: There's been a murder 🚬🫩🏚🌧

Cozy Mystery Fiction: There's been a murder ☕️🤔🏡☀️

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Intense birdwatcher: there's been a murder 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🔭😀

[s-a-l-t-i]

we’re just the boys. the boyfriends.

[byjove]

When you point out to people who are against animal testing that there are potentially lifesaving medications that need to be tested on mammals before going to trials that could potentially harm human lives, they’ll say shit like “We should test on prisoners instead.” Bitch. Why are you working for PETA? The WW2-era Imperial Japanese Army needs you. There is suchhhhhhh a strong thread of fascism laced through the current animal rights movement and in so many animal rights spaces and they’re extremely transparent about it.

[violetmoths]

[diphowell]

criminally beautiful couple

[danielhowell]

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