I’m probably Too Online, but every once in a while I’ll see a post about politics that’s so insular and obscure that it makes me feel like I’m a little more in touch with outside reality.
Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...
Legally actionable in multiple ways, because not only are they appropriating the likenesses, but they’d also have to be using copyrighted movies/TV shows, right?
A Quiet Place: Day One (’24, Sarnoski): Just like with Sarnoski’s Pig, it starts strong and then fizzles out.
Given that this year also had The Strangers: Chapter 1, I kinda want to see those characters dealing with this situation.
Also it’s noteworthy that these regressive movements _need_ charismatic leaders to happen because otherwise the actual ideas and policies are unpopular.
It seems the plan must be to connect Silver Lake/Sunset all the way to downtown Hollywood, I was seeing this driving from Vermont to Vine (it was confusing because they wiped away the old lanes but haven’t finished painting the new ones, and all the cars were acting as if there were still two lanes)
