#david buckley

[zanephillips]

Saturday Night at the Baths (1975) dir. David Buckley

[pierppasolini]

Saturday Night at the Baths (1975) // dir. David Buckley

[writing-for-life]

A Comics/Show Comparison with Music

[I might have made myself super sad while creating this. If you want to not cry at all, click on “Listen on Soundcloud” to get more than just the preview and listen along with the rough timestamps; they’re not exact because of the way the panels flow].

0:00-1:10

1:10-2:25

2:25-3:10

And the next ones get added because they’re also part of the track, but it plays during The Wake, and that means something (also: 2:40 onwards also plays leading into it, so this part of the track is the literal bridge between ep. 6 and ep. 11 and hence Orpheus’ and Morpheus’ deaths 🥺. Also also: The first panel of the comics I cropped this from actually has Orpheus attending—whole and in one piece. I often wondered if the river is either supposed to be read as Acheron [the floating bodies would strongly suggest so] or Lethe [oblivion and reincarnation], but even the Annotated Sandman doesn’t further specify).

3:10-4:25

[I’ll do a musical meta about the whole track as well, but that might still be a while, and this is sad enough I guess 😩]

[neil-gaiman]

This was so cool. Did you know how this was done?

[celluloidrainbow]

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BATHS (1975) dir. David Buckley When struggling pianist Michael lands a job at the legendary (for the gay community in particular) Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy encourages him, emphasizing how special the institution is. Michael, however, struggles with his own homophobia, yet at the same time, starts developing feelings for his confident and sexually free co-worker, Scotti. (link in title)

[stevebattle]

Icarus (1962) by A.B. Orr, in Newnes Practical Mechanics (1962). A simple light-following robot, based on the same 360 degree scanning principles as Grey Walter's tortoises.

"The vehicle comprises a scanning unit mounted on the same axis as the front steering wheel, a simple transistor amplifier, two relays and the necessary batteries. A small electric motor (Mighty Midget or similar) is used as a scanning motor and drives the scanner, and the steering wheel, through 360 deg. A second motor drives the rear wheels through a worm reduction gear. This is how the machine operates. When switched on the vehicle remains stationary and the front wheel with its scanner unit revolves slowly, looking for a light to home on. The photo-cells are fitted with a cowl that makes them directional by cutting out incidental light. A light-source, such as a powerful hand torch, is then switched on and focused on the revolving scanner. On picking up the light beam the photo-cells click the relay (A) and the scanner motor circuit is opened, causing the scanner head to fix on the light-source. At the same time relay (B) is clicked and switches on the drive motor to the rear wheels, causing the vehicle to move forward in whichever direction the scanner, and therefore the front wheel, is facing." – Icarus, Newnes Practical Mechanics, July 1962.

The first photo above shows a build of Icarus by David Buckley, that won a Gold medal at the Robot Olympics in Glasgow 1990. "Icarus is really a poorly thought out design especially as Grey Walter had already shown how it should be done. If the light is behind Icarus then Icarus moves away from the light and if off to the side then it can be that the front wheel is then at right angles to the drive direction and the front wheel skids sideways and doesn’t steer." – David Buckley.

[moviesframes]

Greenland 2: Migration (2026)

Directed by Ric Roman Waugh

Cinematography by Martin Ahlgren

[mirrren]

I spent a little over an hour on this. It could probably be better but I don’t have time for that

Anyways

Can’t wait to see this one flop