Michael Kamper

Finally reading Blood, Sweat, and Chrome and so far it’s an excellent oral history of Fury Road. The Blues Brothers book was not bad but reads more like a biography of Belushi, but there were some interesting tidbits in there, especially if you’re a Chicagoan.

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Michael Kamper

On this, the anniversary, a delightful fact about Disco Demolition Night is that the skinny black kid who runs out of the stands and steals (literally) second base is a teenaged Michael Clarke Duncan.

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Michael Kamper

All episodes of Shelley Duvall’s FAERIE TALE THEATRE are on Internet Archive, if you’d like to enjoy the second act pivot that made her iconic for ‘80s and ‘90s kids. archive.org/details/fgtd5r #ShelleyDuvall

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☀️ Starshine

Nothing to Lose (1997) Trailer was hilarious. Problem was ALL the funny parts were in the trailer, the rest of the movie was awful.

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Michael Kamper

Larry Hama basically created GI Joe, providing not only the names and character bios for Hasbro, but nearly all of the truly great stories for the characters. In a just world that would have paid his way for life 😔

With all the comic news yesterday I feel like this got ignored. Larry Hama has been struggling with medical problems and, from what I’ve gathered, still really depends on gigs to survive financially. His ability to draw is being taken away. He’s a living legend and badass. Deserves better.

Love this

Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast: reactormag.com/the-avengers...

The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.

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Riker Googling

You can play Doom on it tho

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Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl singing “He’s Large” by Harry Nilsson www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRUa...

"He's Large" Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in Popeyewww.youtube.com "He's Large" Performed by Shelley Duvall Written by Harry Nilsson. From the Robert Altman movie "Popeye".

They are all funding the orange turnip this election so you know the last thing they care about is democratizing anything.

We've all probably heard Silicon Valley's favorite AI buzzphrase du jour by now; OpenAI CTO Mira Murati used it when she caught flack for saying AI will kill jobs, etc. But to be clear: AI is not "democratizing creativity"—it's doing the exact opposite. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-not-...

AI is not "democratizing creativity." It's doing the oppositewww.bloodinthemachine.com Why Silicon Valley's favorite AI buzz phrase is so misleading and insulting

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Chicago Urbanist

Having just read the Blues Brothers book, I tend to agree. I didn’t realized how closed off the city was to film production before that.

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Greg Pak

ol rait

The Inside Out characters in my head

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggaewww.nippon.com The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...

The Truman Show (1988)

the sky crashed at Planet Hollywood

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I’ve been obsessed with the story of Arthur Baker’s forgotten remixes for Bruce Springsteen’s BORN IN THE USA & was thrilled to have the chance to do a deep dive (including a chat with Baker) for NPR: www.npr.org/2024/07/02/n...

The nearly forgotten story of the 'Born in the U.S.A.' remixeswww.npr.org In 1984, on the cusp of superstardom, Bruce Springsteen agreed to let a producer remix three songs from his upcoming album, Born in the U.S.A. 40 years later, those remixes have nearly vanished.

Excellent advice

A couple things I've heard that I like: Don't take criticism from people you wouldn't take advice from. When someone makes you angry, they control you.

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Michael Kamper

“Life is too precious to spend it with important people.” -Harry Partch #BOTD musical instruments designed by Harry Partch

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Michael Kamper

It's not that people necessarily want more money, it's that they want to need less.

Honestly if money were made unnecessary to live we would almost certainly be getting more art out of people, not less, let's make money superfluous to existence and find out

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🌱 Mossy (Princess Hellcat)

Severance and Slow Horses

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Chibdm

I grew up in suburban Chicagoland and I don’t think I’ve ever said “I’m from Illinois” in my life. The whole Midwest to me is Chicago.

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Michael Kamper

Imagine the deep moral vacuity you'd have to have to use the phrase "shouldn't have" here. Like it was somehow WRONG or IMMORAL for creative people to get paid for their work. Work that OpenAI has pirated to fuel their immoral, unethical machine. Deeply, deeply repugnant worldview.

In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says "some creative jobs maybe will go away" due to AI, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" (Kate Irwin/PCMag) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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this hasn’t gotten a ton of press but Krikzz (maker of Everdrives) has released schematics and software for an open source Sega Genesis / MD flashcart with a price target of $30 github.com/krikzz/open-ed

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Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc

I think that I shall never see A concrete monolith as lovely as a tree.

This is one of those “edge of my memory” things where I have a few scattered images of seeing this as a child, even though I would have been 4.

📺NBC Primetime, June 18, 1977: — TV movie ‘Exo-Man’

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Michael Kamper

If you're a fan of REALLY WEIRD MUSIC, nerds, women, neurodivergence, rebelliously independent spirits, or triumphing over historical erasure, I highly recommend Lisa Rovner's "Sisters with Transistors" doc on female electronic music pioneers, now on Amazon Prime. [Daphne Oram in her DIY rig]