Is it just me, or does this get faster and faster the longer I look at it?
it DEFINITELY gets faster.
Cool story: your brain takes so much longer to process this the first time you watch it, but as you continue watching it, your memory retains more and more of the scene. Thus, your brain can process it quicker and knows what to expect.
I’m reblogging this because that comment made me think
Is that the same reason for why things get funnier the more you watch it?
oh my god i’m reading rick riordan’s blog post about how much he hates the movies and… dare i say iconic???
ok so he lists this one letter in full that he sent to fox after they sent him the script. and he starts by listing about five things he liked about the script (the opening scenes are fine, the gate to camp half-blood looks cool, annabeth physically matches percy as well as intellectually). and then the savagery begins.
he sent them back the entire script covered with notes and offered to completely revise the script for them. they turned him down. he truly tried to save us huh???
you guys honestly have to read this for yourselves i’ve only cherry picked a few things there is tons more. he’s never even watched the movies apparently. he went on set one day and came to the understanding that he just wanted to go on with life pretending the movies never existed.
ALSO he apparently has hope for an actually good reboot??? dare we dream???
one of my favorite quotes:
When I first read the script I’ll admit I was plunged into despair at just how bad it was. If I were intentionally trying to sabotage this project, I doubt I could have done a better job than this script.
One of my old partners got pulled in for an investigation today. The photo is not of him – it’s of a paramedic in California trying to eat something for the first time in nearly ten hours.
My old partner was told that a member of the public took photos of him and his current partner. My buddy was sleeping, and his partner was eating. This member of the public sent the photos with an email that both complained about how “unprofessional” it appeared – and a threat to send the photos to the media.
Thanks to Prop 11 in California, first responders no longer have a right to breaks. AMR lied to the public in a huge way. California was the only state where emergency crews had been granted a legal right to breaks to use the latrine and have a meal. Shifts run a minimum of 12 hours, often 24, and AMR runs their crews into the ground.
My buddy and his partner are in trouble because they were trying to get rest and food while posted on a street corner because we don’t get breaks. This is what AMR tells us to do. Please don’t see something like this and assume that we’re being lazy or not doing our jobs. Don’t take photos or send them to the press. That crew is probably exhausted and overworked.
Not to mention they hold us 911 coverage units over regularly “for just one last transfer call that will be really quick.” When there are plenty of transfer only units posted at hospitals doing nothing at the beginning of their shifts. It also tanks our levels and leaves a lot of the city uncovered for emergency calls.
The thing is everytime you complain about something like people taking breaks, it’s not that you gain something from It, you just make life worse for other people. How about minding your own damn business?
Seems like common sense that people doing a high-stress job that requires a lot of good judgement on matters of life and death should be able to eat and piss when they need to
hey guys, did i ever tell you about the legendary batmantaur? it would have been five or six years ago, i think.
No pls continue ☺
okay so, back in probably late 2012, i was attending physics courses at the university of toledo. there was a desk toward the back of one of the classrooms that i sat in pretty regularly, and one day i came in to find an exquisitely muscular and beautifully detailed torso/bust of batman drawn on my desk in pencil.
i was stunned. who put this masterpiece here? how did they do it in a meager one-hour class time? where was batman’s lower half?
and, most intensely, would they mind if i added to the drawing?
throwing caution (and attention to class) to the wind, i gave batman a lower half.
it may not have been the lower half they were expecting. nevertheless, batmantaur was born.
i don’t remember what the artist’s response was, but the next class day he had written the beginnings of a chat on the desk. i don’t even remember his name, but we had something special for the rest of that semester. an understanding, an appreciation, a kinship perhaps.
so what became of batmantaur? it remained in that room throughout most of the semester, though i think i remember the desk getting moved around a few times. eventually, i came in one day to find the desk half-dismantled, as though someone had tried to remove the desktop. about a week later, whoever it was actually did succeed in stealing it. i never saw batmantaur again.
and thus, he became a legend. if i didn’t have photos of him, i myself probably wouldn’t even believe that he had existed.
his spirit lived on in the future collaborative works of flashtaur and captain americataur.
And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries.. It was expensive and time-consuming to produce. Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.
Mechanically-produced lace wasn’t really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality of mass-produced and hand crafted
In general textile arts are highly underated considering the amount of skill and time needed to execute pretty much anything.
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