#Dinosaur city

[ararebreedstory]

What are your top 10 favorite Dinosaur Movies that aren't Jurassic Park?

(In no particular order.)

1. Planet Of The Dinosaurs (1976)

2. Carnosaur (1993)

3. The Last Dinosaur (1977)

4. At The Earth's Core (1976)

5. One Million Years B.C. (1966)

6. The Land Before Time (1988)

7. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

8. Prehysteria! (1993)

9. Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992)

10. Theodore Rex (1995)

[dinosaurcityrecords]

Emma Russack's new LP About the Girl is out this Friday, August 23 via Dinosaur City. Pre-order HERE.

When desire loses its direction - with no person or object to pin itself to - it has a strange tendency to turn us toward the past. We find ourselves surveying past infatuations and failed romances. Armed with the knowledge of hindsight, previous entanglements reconfigure and reveal themselves. Sometimes, we become privy to the true nature of our attraction, or learn the patterns that have played out across our romantic lives to which we have been blind. Nothing can be quite as bracing or mortifying. 

Emma Russack would know. These reassessments and revelations stretch across About The Girl, her brilliant, searching sixth record, produced by Russack and long-time collaborator John Lee at Phaedra Studios. This is an album about longing’s impossible force, tackling how relationships both muddle and illuminate one’s sense of self. Russack says the record is partly inspired by the dissociations brought on by dating apps. “It’s about the funny experiences that happen when you’re untethered” she says, “I had these awful experiences and encounters, that made me also reflect on my past experiences with different people, romantic or otherwise.” 

Often, Russack sings in a daze, trying to grasp the contours of memories that have blurred. But she hauls specificity back with hard-won vigour, pasting details together and creating new constellations of understanding. In the thrall of past experience, Russack’s songwriting reaches new heights; merging plain-spoken disclosures with mordant humour. History’s constant murmur is felt through the record’s spectral, spacious sound, full of elegant harmonies, heavily strummed guitar and ominous synths that reverberate and splutter.

Fascination sits at the glistening centre of the record. It appears in full-force on the title track, a beguiling synth-pop song about the allure of the inscrutable. Russack was thinking about Todd Field’s Tar, but also the brilliant and puzzling people in her own life who are full of persuasive charm (Russack perfectly verbalises that eternal predicament we often find ourselves in with friends: “go out for one drink, stay out for more”). For the song, Russack had imagined a wave of strings, but ended up doing the parts herself, modulating her voice to replicate orchestral movements. The results are hypnotic and sly. 

Obsession is also the subject of ‘In 2001’, a diaristic track where Russack recounts her consuming adoration with Dave Grohl as a preteen. “My friend and I would go to the payphone on a weekend, call the telephone directory in the U.S.A. and ask for a David Grohl in Virginia, where he lived at the time,” says Russack. Its particular genius is how it braids together the titanic feelings of a formative crush with the arrival of the home computer. Here, desire is not only relegated to daydreams, but finds a new conduit in technology - which, as we know, will come to absorb our attention not unlike romance does. With hushed vocals and delicate finger-picked guitar, the song has a profound intimacy, as if Russack might be recording from her childhood bedroom. She may be looking back, but Russack is acutely aware of the cyclical nature of existence. “Fragile, I have become, a lifetime of reruns,” she sings on ‘Time’, a lamentation on how those head-spinning heights of adoration grow elusive as one gets older, and more used to disappointment. The sound is similarly mournful, with Russack singing with a breathy languor, as murky synths ripple throughout.

That’s not to say that growth is impossible. ‘That’s Not Free’ contains the realisation that the impulse to win or prove oneself after the end of a relationship helps no one. “Or even striving to win in any kind of argument or disagreement,” says Russack, “learning that it doesn’t equal freedom.” 

And then there is ‘Everything is Big’, a tender, booming track where personal crises tangle with the wider calamities of the world. There’s a rattling urgency here, with swelling harmonies (provided by musician Nathalie Pavlovic), fuzzy guitar lines and contemplative vocals. The song asks: how do we determine what is trivial, and how does one establish personal hierarchies of importance? Russack knows that sometimes we can only be certain of our own small desires: “I just wanna see you around.”

Emma Russack was born in the coastal town of Narooma, NSW. She first gained traction as a teenager, belting out covers of Joy Division and Neil Young on her YouTube channel. She has spent the past decade performing across Australia and Europe, as well as releasing a string of beautifully spare, and oftentimes impish, records on loss and devotion. Her previous full-length solo albums include the Australian Music Prize nominated Winter Blues (2019), Permanent Vacation (2017), In a New State (2016), You Changed Me (2014) and Sounds of Our City (2011). She has also recorded several duet records with musician Lachlan Denton, and plays in the group Snowy Band. She lives in Melbourne. 

[53v3nfrn5]

Peter McFarlane: ‘Circuit Board Fossil Series’ (2012)

[amnhnyc]

If you’ve visited the Museum, you’re certainly familiar with today’s Fossil Friday feature: the Barosaurus and Allosaurus in the Rotunda! Rising 50 ft (15 m) above the ground, it’s the world’s tallest freestanding dinosaur mount. In this scene, a Barosaurus rears up to defend her young from an Allosaurus. How does the huge skeleton of Barosaurus—whose name means “heavy reptile”—stay up? The Barosaurus is built from casts of real fossil bones, while the originals are housed in the Museum’s collections. Real fossil bones would be too heavy to support this way.

Photo: D. Finnin / © AMNH

[tornrose24]

I can’t wait to see how crazy this will get! (Especially because I made sure to include some non-human options). I feel like I can guess the outcome knowing this site, but maybe I will be pleasantly surprised. Have fun and remember to pick wisely. Don’t do it to be ironic!

[vermilllionsands]

Winsor Mccay - Dinomania

[aliavian]

Some Disney TVA gals, but they all swapped outfits! ❤️

Who’s rocking whose outfit best? 😁

[heybiji]

double life

[therealsophieelizabethfoster]

Y’all this house gets so exhausted- I’m trying to sleep for once in my life, I turn of the lights and start to hear DINOSAUR ROARS! ISTG-

[disneytva]

In other news a new Disney Channel pin was given to D23 attendees at the Disney Channel Wand ID that showcases a potential new logo?

Many fans are speculating that a Disney Channel rebrand with these being a brand new logo who could be this one...... i don't think so tho.

[rockymountainqueen2]

Pitch Bibles for Ducktales 2017, Hailey’s On It!, 101 Dalmatian Street, Alice’s Wonderland Bakery, Amphibia, Big City Greens, Big Hero 6: The Series, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, the Darkwing Duck reboot, Gravity Falls, Tron: Uprising, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Katbot, Kim Possible, Motorcity, The Buzz on Maggie, Milo Murphy’s Law, Fish Hooks, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Sofia the First, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, The Emperor’s New School, The Owl House, The Replacements, American Dragon: Jake Long, Wonder Over Yonder, and Ying Yang Yo!

[hijinxinprogress]

Civilian Gothamites realizing they can get vengeance through Sword!Robin

Gothamites figuring out if they happen to mention a rogue treating animals poorly within hearing range of sword!Robin that rogue will be in custody with at least four fractures and a concussion and Damian being completely aware that like 63% of these people are lying but it’s the only way he can get experience with the nonlethal takedowns he’s experimenting with bc everyone keeps complaining about how he treats his opponents and allies 

Like he’s guiding a civilian to safety and they mention that “this would be the worst thing to happen to me today if riddler didn’t stab my fucking cat” and this civilian does not own a cat but they did own a car that was just paid off but riddler fucking crushed it with a stupid ass hot air balloon that’s shaped like a fucking question mark and Damian is aware of this bc he was the one that verified the insurance claim (but he’s been looking for a reason to punch Nygma in the throat since his last Arkham escape when he called Damian a moron)

And he also knows that if he plays along with it and says ‘as if I’d let that gaudy and tactless imbecile get away with committing such atrocities’ when prompted that he’ll get away with barely a slap on the wrist like he gets three half hearted but long lectures he’s not going to listen to and an online sensitivity training seminar he goads Tim into completing (Damian and Tim 100% try to trick each other into doing work they don’t want to do and full heartedly believe the other has no idea what they’re doing)

Bruce’s tendency for finding small crashouts at risk of becoming future rogues in Gotham and deciding they need love & supervision but what actually happens bc he’s so fucking awkward is they get almost the same amount of supervision just with like an hour of intense helicopter parenting a week but honestly besides that they just have more money and resources to do fuck shit

Tim 🤝🏾 Damian: using the manipulation tactics they learned from their mothers then later improved on with help from an assassin cult and bat/cape interrogation questioning techniques on the homies

[thes-hitoverlord]

The official Disney TV animation Instagram 

[kingoftheu]

Were I a protagonist of a children's tv show I would simply listen to the moral my elders/friends say at the beginning of the episode instead of ignoring it and allowing hijinks to ensue.

[amnhnyc]

Here’s a festive Throwback Thursday photo from 1969! On this Thanksgiving, the world-famous parade passed the Museum’s 77th Street turret with a very special float: a sauropod dinosaur. This inflatable Apatosaurus measured an impressive 60 ft (18.3 m) long! The giant green dinosaur featured big eyes, a wide grin, and a 20-ft (6-m) tail. The original Apatosaurus balloon made its first parade debut in 1963 and was retired from service in 1976.

Photo: Image no. 62158_21a, © AMNH Library

[carvente]

#Maysozoic Day 22 - Giganotosaurus

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