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whenever I reread DWJ's The Pinhoe Egg and get to the parts with the flying machine I always think it would make such a perfect Ghibli Film

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Art by John Bauer

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Gordon Parks. Untitled (Red Jackson), Harlem, New York, 1948⁠

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Cooking Jam  -  Teija Lehto, 2016

Finnish,b.1965-

Woodcut,61 x 77 cm.

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Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Cupcakes (Dairy-Free)

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Once, there was a Japanese monk who had a little personal superstition.

Every time he travelled to a new location, he’d find some wood that grew there and make it into a staff to defend himself from any bandits or ne'er-do-wells who attacked him.

He was convinced that the staff, being more in tune with his surroundings, would serve him better in a fight. One day, he explained this to a scholarly friend, who decided to do some investigating.

The scholar started swapping the monk’s staves while he was asleep. Some days, the monk would be using a staff he thought was from where he was, but wasn’t; some days he’d believe it was from elsewhere, when in fact it was the correct staff for where he was; and some days belief and truth would match.

Interestingly, the scholar discovered that it was the monk's belief that mattered - whichever staff he was using, if he thought it matched his surroundings he’d do a little better, and if he thought it didn’t he’d do a little worse.

Of course, since then there have been many more rigorous studies, but that scholar’s treatise remains one of the most important works in shaping human understanding of the place-bo effect.

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Luis Dominguez - Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles

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Margarete Heymann-Löbenstein | Tea Service, 1930

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Still life with Apples and Jar by Samuel Peploe (Scottish, 1871–1935)

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Yumeji Takehisa 1910-20

Yumeji Takehisa was a Japanese poet and painter. He also painted in the Nihonga style.

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Wall Street with Trinity Church in the distance, June 6, 1941. (Natural color, not colorized.)

Photo: Charles W. Cushman via Indiana Univ. Library

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Feathers McGraw returns in WALLACE AND GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL (2024)

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once again thinking of michael moschen who played Jareth's arms when juggling in Labyrinth

guy was incredible

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it's 2025 now, I'm owed two movies, pay up

so if Megamind was released in 2010 and Strange Magic in 2015

then we’re due a quirky possibly musical animated movie that spins romantic tropes on their heads and has monster love interests or whatever in 2020 if we’re following the five year pattern

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strange magic and megamind hold the same place in my heart

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bog sketch