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hiraiws

“♥” or reblog if you save

nightblightowl

They’re sO beautifuuuuuullllllllll~ <3

plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

suicunesrider

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

drtanner-dickery

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man.

fanboyingoverdemigods

fucking look at this shit though

mauridianhallow

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

mizushimo

amazing

shadowthorne

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

mad-dyspunktional

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

datneeks

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

muck-raker-deactivated20181222

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

alessariel

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

brainsforbabyjesus

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

alessariel

This is getting better and better.

red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

teslasturtle-deactivated2023011

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

perspectivemax-deactivated20181

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

myloverhammurabi

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

gorsime

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

myloverhammurabi

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

flamingbluepanda

Old movies had the best special effects

skafuller-deactivated20180122

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

witwitch-deactivated20160508

@jurassicparkandrecreation

senkirowolf

@shepfax

prettyarb

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass. They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that. And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that. One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking. Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

bastlynn

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

thistherapylife

This post just gets better and better with time

dopeybeauty

the disney movie nobody asked for

crazy-chocobo

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX Birth By Sleep Final Mix - Disney Worlds

slab-o-meat

crabs are so gentle, they can be so kind. their claws? precise little things, so careful in the sand, so careful with food. they do what they must to live and wave their claws to express their joy to the world for giving so much to them, for giving such kindness to these creatures known as crabs. please be gentle to crabs

slab-o-meat

i was on. a new sleep medication last night

daisukitoo

Originally posted by gifsboom

retroactivebakeries

#im reblogging this cause i know for a fact it was that exact gif i was looking at when i wrote this post on meds

animusrox

Miren, miren! Allá! Viene una tormenta! The Terminator (1984) dir. James Cameron

animepopheart

★ 浮 | ベストフレンド ☆ ⊳ sakura and tomoyo ✔ republished w/permission

beyonce-knowles-carter

DISNEY / PIXAR + FOOD

“How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only be aware to stop and savor it.” — Ratatouille

the-witches-tea

Tea drinkers read this!!!

If you buy pre-made herbal tea blends (usually have names like Bedtime, Calm, etc) check the ingredients. I just saw a Nighttime blend that had St. Johns Wort in it, which can be dangerous when mixed with some medications. Talk to you doctor what herbs you should avoid. (Especially when you want to ingest st. Johns wort or mugwort)

A simple hint to remember is just because its in a food store, doesn’t mean its safe.

paranoidfucker

St. John’s Wort shouldn’t be taken with antidepressants as well as many anti-anxiety meds (such as Xanax)! For a full list see below:

Source

levithespacegay-blog

signal boost for safety

randomly-reblogs

@octoshipper

itshomobirb

Source link isn’t working for me, so here’s an alternative link (scroll down to interactions).

St. John’s Wort also interacts with birth control.

Learn more about St. John's Wort uses, effectiveness, possible side effects, interactions, dosage, user ratings and products that contain St

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

Also look out for anything that contains kava kava (or just kava), an herb that induces relaxation, because it can negatively interact with a whole shitton of medications, such as Xanax, Klonopin, Ativan, Ambien, Levodopa, Flexeril, Valium, Prilosec, progesterone, Celebrex, Glucotrol, ibuprofen, Coumadin, codeine, Prozac, acetaminophen, Allegra, Imodium, Diflucan, and a LOT more.

Basically if you take anything whatsoever be careful about consuming kava kava.

spoonie-living

As folks are mentioning in the reblogs, St. John’s Wort can also impact your contraception (birth control), so be real careful with that. Look out for Valerian, too.

If we’re not missing our mark here, teas containing these ingredients have a “talk to your doctor” warning on them, and many herbal remedies have something resembling a Drug Facts table in back. That’s always a good sign to run the ingredients through a checker like the one at Drugs.com.

Our drug interactions tag has a lot more PSAs like this, so have a quick gander!

daxdraggon

owo

respectfulmemes

heavydirtysoul-24

dragon-in-a-fez

“I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to feel fear” this girl is 43 levels of metal

hunger-for-both

If you don’t reblog this you are DEAD to me.

randomperegrination

This is Greta Thunberg. She is an activist for comprehensive climate change policies and action. She is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. She’s 16. She’s remarkable.