Oh the thoughts that run through my mind...

How did Dogma, a relatively low-budget film, manage to have the only good-looking angel wings? Like, even movies with tons of FX dollars tend to fuck them up and they look bad. These are very stylized, and you can tell they’re not real feathers, but they actually look… better than real feathers? They have a balance of curvature and sharp angles that just make for a great silhouette and they move wonderfully. I cannot figure this out!!

e: I looked on The Internet

For these particular wings.

They DID use CGI elsewhere in the movie.  And it looks terrible.

(1:43:30)

For real, the difference between the CG and the practical effects wings is mindblowing.  The CG wings in that movie only show up for a few minutes on screen but damn are they terrible compared to the practical effect wings.

If you’re watching a movie from the 80′s, 90′s, or 2000′s, and you think “wow that looks pretty good” and not “wow this has aged terrible,” there’s a 99% chance that it was practical effects, because CGI always ages poorly, whereas good practical effects and puppetry tend to age very gracefully.  Jurassic Park is STILL heralded as a masterpiece of practical effects.

Alone Together by Aristotle Roufanis

Alone Together is an ongoing photographic project by Aristotle Roufanis (b.1983 Athens, Greece), for which the London-based photographer takes photos of a large metropolis in a way that only tiny, individual apartment lights are visible. Hardly recognizable in the dark, some of the world’s most famous metropolis such as London, Paris, Miami, and Athens are transformed into sprawling canvases of anonymity, where countless people have decided to make their home but hardly connect to each other.  The project takes this phenomenon of social alienation in urban centers as a starting point and adds a positive, optimistic twist to it. Artist website.

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Right: Hi guys here’s another cake decorating video and can I start off by saying can y’all like not be mean to me? Like--

Left, interrupting: Who being mean to you? Who?

Right: --People are always like people who say shit like “oh if you’re a creator and you make content you have to expect hate like you can’t get mad about it whatever” but like I’m sensitive y’all. You tell me my cakes look like shit yeah it’s gonna ruin my day

Left: Who said your cakes look like shit? Point ‘em out! Girl that cake look good! 

Right: That being said all y’all leaving comments I hope you know that I can’t tell if your comment is mean or nice so either way thanks. Uh but anyway I don’t really have a story to talk about today because my life is pretty fucking boring, but I put gas into my car for the first time last week--

Left: Good job! Good job!

Right: That literally happened a week ago, uhm, and that’s the most exciting thing I have to talk about. But it was cool like, it was scary I kept thinking I was gonna get blown up by the gas or something and like--

Left: I’m so glad you didn’t

Right: --make it blow up or i dunno it was scary but like it was a fun experience I guess.

Left: Gorgeous. Gorgeous. 

Right: Oh shit I’m out of time thanks for watching bye.

x’D 

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Sincerely,