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Images that make you enter a fugue state
Surrender to cars?
Jesus Christ, when was the last time a swede did anything useful?
What the fuck those streets were before cars, fucking playgrounds and parks with waterslides?
Or did people commute on them, on the level of whatever technology they were on, the vere purpose they were built for since the first city?
I'm trying my best not to automatically dislike artists, I really do, but sometimes I just wish I could send them milking cows or shoveling gravel.
@santaclausdeadindian "What the fuck were those streets before cars, fucking playgrounds?"
Yes, actually.
[description: a black-and-white photo from the 1900s of a group of girls in pinafores standing in the middle of the street; according to the website I found it on, this is a 'street dance'. The girls are talking to each other in small groups. end description.]
Children used to play in the street all the time. And for most of recorded history, that was relatively safe. Running into someone on foot is not going to kill a child, and horses - let alone carriages- were relatively rare.
Streets used to be public spaces. People would hang out and talk in the middle of the road, or set up shop with a little cart at the side of the road. "Right of way" used to mean "your right to take up space on the street, because you are a free citizen and free citizens get to use the road."
[description: a black-and-white historical photo of two children in the middle of a mostly empty street. One child is sitting in a wagon, and the other child is standing, ready to pull it. End description.]
It wasn't until the 19th century that it became common enough for your average joe to own horses that it was unsafe for kids to play in the street (and they still did anyway!). And it wasn't until the early 20th century that people got cleared off of the street in favour of cars- before then, people and horses and carriages had to share the road, and carriages had to go at the same pace as whatever was around them.
We laugh at the insanely low speed limits of the 1910s and 1920s - really, cars can only go at 3 mph?- but they were there for a reason, and that reason was "to keep the roads safe for horses and pedestrians". If cars could go at top speeds on city roads, they'd only be safe for cars, and people couldn't use their public spaces anymore. But thanks to lobbying by the auto industry and a whoooole lot of PR spin, that's exactly what happened.
I'm going to leave you with two pictures. The first is Mulberry Street in NYC, according to wikipedia, in 1900. The second is Mulberry Street today.
[Description: two photos of city streets. The first photo is sepia-toned, from the 1900s. It shows a city street full of people and carriages. The foreground of the photo is taken up by a group of vegetable sellers, and a group of men and young children standing beside them looking at the camera. The second photo is a modern photo of the same street. It is a heavily decorated tourist district, but most of the street is taken up by cars. The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians, but they're shoved off to the side. End description.]
Little Italy is a tourist district. It is meant to be walkable so that tourists can browse and look at all the little restaurants and window-shop. And yet 75% of this picture is taken up by a fucking car canal, and people- the people this street was built for - are shoved off to the side, so as not to get in the way.
People got forced off the road in favour of cars. People got forced out of public space in favour of cars.
And if that doesn't piss you off...
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I really hope liam hemsworth doesn't put on an accent I hope we just get australian geralt like oh naur the toime of the whoite chill and the whoite loight is noigh
I just like the way people draw cards on this show.
I swear yugioh has some of the cleanest hand animation in the industry at times because those crucial moments in the show fixate on the hands. I’ll never forget the freaking card flip Judai does between his fingers for no reason other than to flex.
Someone find the gif for me please.
I think this might be the one you mean. :) The hand animation in these shows really is so amazing sometimes. I love it.
That first one got me thinkin abt pot of greed
Animations that let you draw cards and add them to your hand
I wanted to do my usual sakubuta thing and track down these cuts on the booru, but unfortunately there’s not a lot from Yu-gi-oh GX where the second gif comes from. It might be by Junpei Ogawa, who did most of the cuts from GX that the Booru does have, but that’s a weak basis to guess on really.
That’s a lovely motion though. I wanna break it down frame by frame since it goes by so fast. For some reason this gif is timed at 20fps - I would expect TV animation to go at 24fps? So it might be slowed down, not sure what’s going on there.
To begin with we have the face closeup. Some mouth flaps and a very slight head tilt, I’ll just post the extremes since very likely the rest were left to the inbetweener in a case like this:
Then this smear of a card enters:
This is a really clever bit of staging, because the smear disguises a rather large camera move from the character’s face to his hand. The first couple of frames are on 1s, then it slows down to 2s (still fast by anime timing!)
The character’s fingers are actually spreading out as the hand moves towards us. Kind of impossible to see at this framerate, but I suppose it helps to accentuate the motion towards the camera. Also check out how detailed the shading is on those fingers given this is on the screen for all of two frames!
The first frame went up and two the right, but that motion stops very soon and starts moving down and to the left.
We slow in to a down-left motion as the hand gets ready to flip out and left. This is anticipating a truly massive motion that’s about to come…
PHEW. On 1s again. We’ve rotated the hand almost 180 degrees in the space of two frames here. Honestly the whole thing is kind of a blur at full speed, but the pose it eventually lands in helps us understand what happened.
Here, if you viewed this in a long shot, the hand is also travelling quite a long distance to the left. Here’s how I imagine the poses would go without perspective distortions.
That is, we have a slow in and a slow out.
We should actually be seeing the front face of the card in the second frame there! But that would be distracting, so they don’t draw it here, I guess?
Pressing on, we drop back to twos. We complete our arc and the hand moves away from the camera to give us a clearer picture…
The fingers are in a nice pleasing set of uneven positions, there’s strong overlap here. This is on 1s again.
Now the twirl:
We flip the card a full 180 in the space of a frame. No inbetweens or nothing either. The card’s been rolled behind the middle finger and tucked into the ring finger. The palm and thumb remain roughly where they are to keep us grounded.
The motion here feels like a continuation of the pull out. And we can get away with it because it’s really fast. There’s also a bit of shape contrast with the previous frame to help us read that the card has rotated, not just changed colour!
Once again the fingers switch with regard to the card in the space of one frame. Now the middle finger has gone behind and the ring finger is out in front, but the little finger is getting ready to catch it. Overall the card is making a downwards motion, and this time we have an inbetween frame in perspective.
We reach the bottom of the arc by completing this motion.
Now it’s time for the card to come back up…
The whole hand twists at this point, which helps anticipate the change of direction. The card is rotating so that it’s flattened out from our perspective, which is a way to apply squash and stretch while staying physical: it’s like a bouncing ball squashing before it comes back up. The middle finger actually makes a pretty huge jump.
^ This frame honestly feels like a colouring error? We should be seeing the brown side if the card has rotated around the middle finger like this. I’m a little confused about this, but whatever, let’s look at everything else that’s going on. The little finger has moved up to overlap the hand, following the motion of the card, and the whole hand has started to angle upwards as well. Both card and hand are part of the down-then-up motion.
We’re still on ones! With motion this fast you can’t afford a hold frame.
The card completes its twist around the ring finger and gets caught by the index finger and middle finger.
The card now slows in to its final position and gets arrested between two fingers.The hand now starts to twist back down, so the whole motion is kind of a snap. (We’ll follow some arcs in a minute!)
Finally another inbetween lets the hand close and the middle finger move on top of the card as well…
We finish the sequence by dropping back onto twos for some much slower motion…
OK, I promised arcs, let’s have a look at what some individual fingers are doing in the frame…
Red is the index finger, cyan is the middle finger, green is the little finger.
Honestly? I can’t make head or tails of that. That’s completely bananas. I think arcs is actually the wrong way to look at it. Instead, let’s look at shapes.
Here I’ve coloured in the silhouette of the card. I’ve made one side brighter - the rapid flickering effectively conveys rotation! - but now I’m going to make them both the same colour and hide the original animation so we can see what the shape as a whole does.
Now we can start to see the fundamental motion. The first part doesn’t really read without the extra information, but during the flip part, we can see the card rapidly goes down then up, and then settles down to the side.
What about the hand? Well, despite all the complex finger wiggles, that actually occupies about the same volume during the whole flip:
And once again, on its own:
You can see that despite all the crazy finger wiggles, the actual overall motion of the hand is incredibly simple: it moves away from the camera, and then clenches to the left. I think that consistency anchors the animation and makes it possible for the other stuff to happen.
This whole sequence is a great illustration of how you don’t actually need to show how stuff happens: once you have anticipation, arcs follow through, and overshoot/settle down right, the rest can be pretty much filled in by your brain. This point was made in a video I watched recently by Alex Grigg…
A truly fantastic example comes in a cut corrected by Hiroyuki Imaishi from Kill La Kill:
When Ryuuko stands up, the chair would have to clip through her leg. Do we notice? No: it’s really fast and the arcs, anticipation, etc. are so strong that these details don’t matter at all. A similar principle is at work in this card flip. Your eyes certainly can’t follow the details, so they just have to be suggestive enough to communicate that the card is being wiggled between the fingers in an elaborate flourish. I want to start practicing tricks like this! Animation tricks I mean, though it’d be great if I could do the card thing too…
UBI needs to happen. via antiwork
I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.
To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.
and that’s why there’s so much resistance to implementing it - capitalism wants workers who don’t have a choice
Every single study showed massive quality of life increases. The massive reductions in depression & domestic abuse alone would justify it.
& they had working programs in Namibia, parts of India & some native american reservations.
Rich countries have no excuse.
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Head empty, just angy fish
Proper boundaries
After being told all our lives that minimum wage is for high schoolers trying to get work experience and not for adults with rent and bills, a restaurant near me is learning what it's like to have a crew of only high school students.
They want to work less hours so they can participate in school activities (games, dances, college prep courses).
The boss says that if they dont pick up more hours, they are fired.
So they all left.
Now the restaurant is closed.
nature is healing
chinese hanfu by 星木-
A lot has changed eversince i last posted at 17yo:
- i graduated from uni
- i work full time as a software eng
- i moved out!!! With my bf
- my dog died 😭😭😭
- my parents got 7(!!!!) cats
- i’m now in therapy and drugged tf up lol. Officially a bpd girlie
Anyways i dont believe in MBTI anymore……
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That said my current bf is probably ISTJ
I found some posts in my drafts and just decided to post them. Maybe it’s time to get back into tumblr now that you-know-who bought twitter