Summer of 85 (2020)
Crime 101 (2026)
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Feb 26
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Uncle Buck (1989)
Swallowed (2022)
Jan 26: Two Words
Love Hurts (2025)
Both Ways (1975)
Liquid Sky (1982)
Zombie Strippers (2008)
Black Bag (2025)
Air Doll (2009)
Sew Torn (2024)
Dec 25
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Sinners (2025)
The Monkey (2025)
M3GAN 2.0 (2025)
A House of Dynamite (2025)
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
The Christmas Toy (1986)
A Real Pain (2024)
The Thursday Murder Club (2025)
Nov 25
Apocalypto (2006)
One Battle After Another (2025)
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (2024)
Oct 25
Pig (2021)
The Mask (1994)
Falling Down (1993)
Reagan (2024)
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)
Nosferatu (2024)
Spet 25
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Aug 25
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
The Platform (2019)
Disney's Snow White (2025)
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
Suspiria (2018)
Holland (2025)
Weapons (2025)
Jul 25
Shark Whisperer (2025)
Night Raiders (2021)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Killer (2023)
Damsel (2024)
Vertigo (1958)
Jun 25
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)
Life Like (2019)
Queer (2024)
Blue Velvet (1986)
May 25
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Apr 25
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko (2021)
Shiva Baby (2020)
Mar 25
Swiss Army Man (2016)
The Florida Project (2017)
Blended (2014)
Clickbait: Unfollowed (2024)
Slay (2024)
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Feb 25
The Trial (1962)
A Different Man (2024)
Dìdi (2024)
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)
The Substance (2024)
The Watchers (2024)
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
Sing Sing (2023)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Jan 25
Phantom Thread (2017)
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Polite Society (2023)
Moonlight (2016)
Beau is Afraid (2023)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Juno (2007)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Dec 24
Longlegs (2024)
Perfect Days (2023)
Nov 24
Perfect Blue (1997)
Toys (1992)
Oct 24
Kandahar (2023)
Sept 24
Claydream (2021)
Aug 24
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
The Crow (2024)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Jul 24
Nyad (2023)
Dancing with the Birds (2019)
Twisters (2024)
Jun 24
Inside Out 2 (2024)
May 24: N/A
Apr 24
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Past Lives (2023)
Mar 24
Salt of the Sea (2008)
Carol (2015)
The Whale (2022)
Feb 24
We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
Spa Night (2016)
Strawberry Mansion (2021)
Jan 24
Terminatrix (or Perfect: Android Uprising) (2013)
May December (2023)
Landscape with Invisible Hand (2023)
God's Own Country (2017)
4 Days in France (2017)
Penguin's Memory: Shiawse Monogatari (1985)
Dec 23
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
Nov 23
Ma (2019)
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Fluorescent Beasts (2023)
Oct 23
The Creator (2023)
The Money Pit (1986)
Child's Play (1988)
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Coneheads (1998)
Bones and All (2022)
Sept 23
The Engine Inside (2023)
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Arrival (2016)
Aug 23
Oppenheimer (2023)
The Dictator (2012)
Jul 23
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Ip Man 3 (2015)
Ip Man 4 (2019)
Octopussy (1983)
Caddyshack (1980)
65 (2023)
Jun 23
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Senior Moment (2021)
The Flash (2023)
May 23
The Witch (2015)
A Man Called Otto (2023)
Please Stand By (2018)
Hunger (2023)
Tár (2022)
Apr 23: N/A
Mar 23
Forrest Gump (1994)
Feb 23
The Road (2009)
Jan 23
Girls Will Be Girls (2003)
Glass Onion (2022)
Death of Dick Long (2019)
RRR (2022)
The Life of Brian (1979)
Head On (1998)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Here is a collection of free music sources for video that I have found to like and use often, which will be updated as I find more.
In all honestly, the main place I look for music nowadays is the YouTube Audio Library. If your videos are meant for YouTube, then this is an easy and straightforward way to find music already cleared by YouTube with licenses that are pretty generous (at most an attribution). However, it requires an account with YouTube, as this library is only accessible through YouTube Studio.
A great alternative is the Free Music Archive, which predominately has music under Creative Commons licenses. Two key facts I learned as I sourced my own music for videos is that under CC licensing, any use of music in video is considered derivative and that “non-commercial” generally, but not always, means personal use only. So practically speaking, I would start by looking for music with the “CC BY” and “CC BY-SA” licenses first and, depending on the artist, broaden my horizons to CC’s “NonCommercial” (or NC) licenses while always avoiding “NoDerivatives” (ND) works. With the “NonCommercial” license, because of the unspecificity of the license the artist often clarifies their own terms and most define it as unpaid work. So I’ve gotten in the habit of using it only for personal use, unless I understand the artist’s specific terms of use.
Or, in short, you can search the Free Music Archive by commercial video use.
And below are some specific artists or collections that I’ve come to enjoy, sorted by personal or commercial use:
Commercial Use
Loyalty Freak Music (Rrrrrose Azerty’s various projects, based in Le Mans, France)
incompetech (Kevin MacLeod’s royalty-free music library)
Personal Use
Sound of Picture (Chad Crouch’s music library, based in Seattle, WA)
Blue Dot Sessions (recording studio based in Turners Falls, MA)
Cullah (musician based in Milwaukee, WI)
springtide (Hart Ichinose’s project, based in Tokyo, Japan)
I’ve been meaning to put together a resource on using CRTs for myself and others interested in this. This is just what I’ve learned from my research and practice working with them in my own work.
Displaying on CRTs
What I do when I want to output a video signal to a CRT is to convert a signal from a modern computer to an analog one. My current method is to convert a VGA signal to Composite/S-Video using this converter from Amazon. I also usually have to convert the VGA signal to Mini DisplayPort to connect it to an output device, such as my Macbook Pro. In the past, I’ve had issues using a comparable HDMI to Composite converter only outputting a black and white signal, but I did find success with this converter. The VGA converter is still more versatile and customizable for me, but the HDMI is more efficient and tidy for a similar price.
Documenting CRTs
I haven’t done this as much, but I have been in situations where I needed to take photos or videos of a CRT monitor so this is what I have learned so far about that. From this I also started to research this topic, and I think that this video by LGR is a good overview of most of the techniques (though it focuses specifically on computer CRTs). The main issue about documenting CRTs is getting an undesirable moiré pattern, which can be counteracted by putting the CRT screen slightly out of focus. What I found to be the most novel piece of info from the video was to use a polarizing filter to knock out glare coming from the screen, which was something I did have trouble with the last time I documented a CRT.
This pertains mostly to filming a CRT, but the last critical thing is to match the shutter speed to the refresh rate of the monitor to prevent flickering. For NTSC monitors (the dominant format in the US), this would be 1/60th for 60Hz. From LGR’s video, this is generally enough for consumer CRT TVs, but computer CRT monitors change in refresh rate based on what is running and that would need to be matched by the camera’s shutter speed.
I will update this post as I learn more and I hope this is helpful at some point, either to myself or someone else.
Back by absolute no demand, here is the second installment of links that I want to archive. This spans like two months so none of the links have any correlation.
Top 5000 Words from the Corpus of Contemporary American English
UdiPro’s YouTube channel
Blending Modes explanation video by Photoshop Training Center
Shadow Checkerboard Baby Blanket tutorial by VeryPink Knits
AnimDessin2 and AnimCouleur2 extensions for Photoshop by Stéphane Baril
I’ve recently been knitting, and I wanted to try my hands at making gloves. I however couldn’t find a pattern for a basic glove that used US size 8 needles, so I put one together myself using my sub-novice level of knowledge and thought it was worth sharing (it might not be a good pattern but my hand fits in it and that’s all I could ask for).
I used this video by VeryPink Knits to reference the basic techniques for a glove, and I would recommend watching it to get to know how to complete each of the steps. Something I noticed through doing that was that I knit in the round with the inside facing me (instead of the outside, which is what seems to be the norm), so this pattern uses purl instead of knit stitches to avoid me having to flip the glove inside-out at the end. If purling the entire glove sounds bad to you then I would knit every time the pattern calls to purl and vice versa.
Good luck making this if you do.
Here is some more information about the gloves/pattern:
Yarn: Worsted-Weight (4 Medium)
Gauge: 20 sts x 24 rows = 4" sq. Stockinette
Size: This was written for a 8" hand circumference with a 2.5" long thumb, 3" index - ring fingers, and 2.5" pinky.
Key:
St(s) = Stitch(es)
K = Knit
P = Purl
M1PL = Make 1 Purl Left
M1PR = Make 1 Purl Right
BLCO = Backwards Loop Cast On
P2Tog = Purl 2 Together
PU&P = Pick Up and Purl
Thumb gusset:
P 15, M1PL 1, P 2, M1PR 1, P 15.
P 34 for 2 rounds.
P 15, M1PL 1, P 4, M1PR 1, P 15.
P 36 for 2 rounds.
P 15, M1PL 1, P 6, M1PR 1, P 15.
P 38 for 2 rounds.
P 15, M1PL 1, P 8, M1PR 1, P 15.
P 40 for 2 rounds.
Lower hand:
P 15, slip 10 sts onto scrap yarn, BLCO 3, P 15.
P 33 for 12 rounds.
Pinky:
P 4, slip next 25 sts onto scrap yarn, BLCO 1, P remaining sts (P 4).
P 9 for 12 rounds.
P2Tog 2, P 1, P2Tog 2.
Cut off yarn with a 6" tail, draw yarn end through remaining 5 sts.
Upper hand:
Slip 25 sts onto needles and P 25.
PU&P 1 from pinky BLCO.
P 26 for 3 rounds.
Ring finger:
P 4, slip next 17 sts onto scrap yarn, BLCO 1, P remaining sts (P 5).
P 10 for 18 rounds.
P2Tog 5.
Cut off yarn with a 6" tail, draw yarn end through remaining 5 sts.
Middle finger:
Slip 4 sts onto one needle and P 4, skip next 9 sts, BLCO 1, slip remaining 4 sts onto another needle and P 4, PU&P 1 from ring finger BLCO.
P 10 for 18 rounds.
P2Tog 5.
Cut off yarn with a 6" tail, draw yarn end through remaining 5 sts.
Index finger:
Slip remaining 9 sts onto 2 needles (5 sts and 4 sts) and P 9, PU&P 1 from middle finger BLCO.
P 10 for 18 rounds.
P2Tog 5.
Cut off yarn with a 6" tail, draw yarn end through remaining 5 sts.
Thumb:
Slip 10 sts from lower hand onto needles and P 10.
PU&P 3 from lower hand BLCO.
P 13 for 15 rounds.
P2Tog 3, P 1, P2Tog 3.
Cut off yarn with a 6" tail, draw yarn end through remaining 7 sts.