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This story from @guardian_us was mind blowing to me. What are your thoughts?

[comeonamericawakeup]

And do we really need this many data centers? They are all competing with each other.

[skygenders]

Good news everyone you don’t have to have kids

[pam3pr]

Two thousand year old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons - found in Karanovo, Bulgaria - 2008

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Eric Idle, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford

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(photo by Carrie Fisher)

“In 1979, a memorable party took place when Carrie Fisher had rented Eric’s place while she was filming *The Empire Strikes Back*, but at the time, Eric was in Tunisia filming *The Life of Brian*. The fun began when Eric returned to London to catch a football match, only to drop by his place and find a lively gathering.

At the party, the energy was electric, with some iconic faces in attendance. Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford were already there, mixing with other Hollywood stars, and the scene took on an even more legendary air when it was revealed that The Rolling Stones were recording just two blocks away. Naturally, they made their way to the party, adding a touch of rock-and-roll royalty to the already star-studded gathering.” - History Pictures

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[starminesister]

Local Wizard Ponders His Orb

Shy Boy [2026.06.11]

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@daniel-james-molloy

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Cover artist: Jim Steranko (b.1938 - American) Marvel Super Special, Blade Runner 1982

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David Hockney (British, born 1937)

[blizzardofjj]

David Hockney, the English artist whose colorful paintings restored the human form to art, defying the abstract schools of the mid-20th century, died at 88.

[colorhollywood]

Brigitte Bardot by Nicolas Tikhomiroff

[thevaultofretroandvintage]

Grace Kelly, To Catch A Thief, Alfred Hitchcock, 1955

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[weantuniverse]

(via Facebook)

[tatooineknights]

Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.

While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.

On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:

On some of her work in Star Wars:

On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:

On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:

On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:

On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

[countesspetofi]

I keep seeing tags is the reblogs to the effect of "the movies would have been worse without her" and I need you younguns to realize that THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MOVIES (PLURAL) without her. The first movie, which wasn't even called "A New Hope" when it came out, was released in a day and age when sequels were not a given. The kind of meteoric, runaway success that Star Wars and Jaws had was what established the paradigm for big summer blockbusters having guaranteed sequels and setting up "movie franchises." That wasn't really a thing until then. (The movie series of the old studio days were a completely different thing.)

Marcia's contributions took Star Wars from a high-concept but awkward novelty into something that was undeniably fun to watch and emotionally resonant to an audience of all ages, and more importantly, something people could watch over and over again without getting bored. In the days before home video, people paid to see it over and over in the cinema. I'm sorry, but that simply wouldn't have happened with George's original draft, without Marcia's editing and other contributions. Paying audiences DEMANDED to see more, and that's why sequels were financed and made. If the movie hadn't had the unprecedented success it did due to Marcia's work, it would just have been a footnote in film history as George's weird little one-off Flash Gordon-type space robot movie, no matter how much he would have liked to make a sequel to it or not.

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Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, 1984.

A rocker surrounded by druids.

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