#Large-format LED screens

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Led Screen Mockup

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Modern LED Screen Mockup A modern LED screen mockup featuring human elements and light reflections that add a realistic touch. Easy to use and customize with smart objects, making it simple to adapt to your design.

Included in the download:

3 PSD Scenes

Resolution: 3000x2000px / 300 dpi

Easy Editing: Smart Object feature

Well-Organized: Layered and structured files

Help file (.txt Notepad)

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Hey, hope you're doing fine. Can I request something when Armando has to watch over the reader because she knows something about the cartel , she sees things you should have not seen , wrong place , wrong time for her. Even though they always argue, she knows that he always protects her. She does the same for him.

Kinda relates to a 'pieces of her ' on Netflix 😭 when they were in that hotel room

Him and I - g easy

𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: 𝐇𝐈𝐌 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈

𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎 𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐒 𝐗 𝐌𝐈𝐘𝐀𝐇 (𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐅𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐂)

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-> synopsis: Miyah has a past that not even she knows about. Thinking her life was all normal, she is suddenly thrown into a whirlwind when an intruder breaks into her house. Are we prepared for her journey of not only finding herself but the answers to her past?

-> format: story.

-> theme: angst.

-> warning: mentions of violence, use of the n-word, mature language, themes of break-ins.

-> authors note: so i have turned this into a series!! i really want to write the pieces of her plot because i loved that show, but in a different type of way! thank you for requesting this! my update schedule is going to slightly change guys due to me getting more of an intense workload from my sixth form so i hope you all understand! 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝💕.

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𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝟏: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊 𝐈𝐍.

Trash clinked across the floor as a gust of wind swept it by. Desolate and quiet, only a couple cars were parked in the large space. A dark no

Heels were heard clacking off the floor as a brown skinned girl walked over to her car, clutching her purse with one hand while the other was angled in the direction of her mercedes benz. Opening the car door, she climbed into her seat.

Plopping the chanel bag that wrapped around her arm onto the passenger seat, the woman clicked her tongue while turning on the ignition. Settling into the seat, sighing as she recollected the hectic day that occurred.

“I really need to get home.”

Pressing onto the gas pedal while putting the gear stick into reverse, Miyah pulled out of the car park from her work place onto the highway. Flicking the headlights on, she started to drive down the road. The hum of the tyres mixed with the slow jam of the radio, lowly playing throughout the vehicle. Pink LED lights illuminated the interior of the car contrasting with the midnight black sky, coating the exterior as it hung over the trees and the wildlife surrounding the road.

The small screen of the navigation shone brightly in the woman’s face as she glanced down at it.

“15 minutes.”

Driving down the road, Miyah nodded her head to the slow beat of the rnb song playing through her sound system. Tapping her index finger onto the wheel she drove down the highway, content with her life currently. Life was hectic but she was satisfied.

Pulling into her gated residence, Miyah rolled down her window to enter the code into the pad. Once confirmed, she parked up her car at the front of her door before slipping out, grabbing her purse.

Opening her door, the hallway and living room was automatically irradiated by the modern lights that hung off her ceilings. Cylindrical pillars stood at every sharp corner, contrasting a classic element with the modern theme of her white and black marble interior.

Slipping off her heels, Miyah sighed in relief. “I really need to go to sleep.”

Shaking her head, she ascended up her stairs into her bedroom. A queen sized bed layered with fluffy comforts and duvets were placed in the middle of the woman’s bedroom. The colour scheme being white and grey , matching with the fluffy, white, circular carpet that was under it. Walking over to the bed, she placed her bag by her cabinet before flopping down on the bed.

“Why did i even become a lawyer again?”

That was a good question.

Why did she become a lawyer?

When thinking about society and the world today, you would think that the law reached everyone. Helped victims by putting away those who made their life hell but, we are wrong. Everyday, domestic abuse cases go silent, the justice system not caring enough for those who get abused in the relationships. Mainly women but also men becoming apart of the statistic of abuse victims, which could’ve been prevented if someone would’ve just listened. Child abuse cases go unheard until the severity of the abuse ends up in a death, which could’ve been prevented if someone would’ve just listened. Even random spree attacks which could’ve been prevented if someone would’ve just listened and understood that persons mental health.

I wanted to be the one to change this. To be able to keep law on track with the fast pace of the ever changing world. To be able to stand up for people who looked like me and those who were me.

And also for you mom.

Changing into her silk pyjamas, Miyah sat on her bed cross legged with her ipad on a stand. Parting her honey brown hair into 6 boxes with a rat tail comb, she braided two plaits in each section, ready to go to bed. Slipping her black bonnet on top of the loose braids, wanting to protect her curls from future breakage.

The girl pulled down her light, turning it off before getting underneath the covers. Closing her iPad, she sunk her head into the silk pillows that happily embraced her, closing her eyes.

It was pitch black in Miyah’s room. Not a shred of light peeked through her curtains. Stirring, she sat up. Glancing over at her alarm clock, the red bold numbers stating 3:32am. Sighing, she got out of bed, putting on her fluffy slippers.

Walking down the stairs she flicked the kitchen lights on, changing the settings to dim, not wanting to fully wake herself up. Grabbing a glass, she filled it up with water before taking a sip. Sighing, Miyah popped the now used glass, back into the sink before heading towards the stairs.

Something stopped her.

A rustle was heard from the living room next door. Slowly crawling into the kitchen, Miyah slightly opened the drawer for the utensils before grabbing a sharp knife. Peeking around the counter a black figure appeared before her.

“Who are-“

Wasting no time, the figure quickly punched Miyah causing her to stumble back. Throwing another punch to her chest, the figure then raised their fist, angling it towards a certain direction before throwing another. It was pretty clear they were male. Adrenaline ran through Miyah’s glands which secreted them into her bloodstream, activating her fight or flight.

Dodging the fist that was coming her way, she ducked and kicked the male in his balls before quickly running up the stairs. Loud banging was heard from within the room due to the stomps coming from the woman. just before reaching her bedroom a hand grabbed her ankles, brutally dropping her down on the marble floor.

“Fuck!! Get off me!”

The mystery man then swiftly got on top of Miyah, wrapping his rough hands around her neck before harshly gripping it. Pain and frustration overcoming the poor girl

“Stop..”

Pressing down onto her neck mired the man added more pressure, forcing less and less oxygen to not enter the girls body. Miyah’s muscles started to become frail as less oxygen was reaching the muscles, building more lactic acid causing them to become tired.

Slowly, her life began to slip away.

Her mind flashed to a deserted beach. The blue crystalline waves crashed against each other, slowly overlapping one another. The sky transitioned from a purple to orange ombré as the sun was setting, the orange rays shining onto the brownskin girl that stood there in the middle of the beach. Her curls waved in the wind due to the gentle breeze coming from the west.

A gentle tap was felt on Miyah’s shoulder, causing her turn around.

“It’s not your time.” The figure said before disappearing.

Suddenly, she was back in the present. Still feeling the man strangling her, a surge of strength powered suddenly came through.

Grabbing the nearest plant pot, she cracked it over the intruders head causing him to stumble back in pain. Gasping for air, Miyah panted heavily.

Yet, the man was still not done. Stomping over to her, he attempted to kick Miyah who was on the floor, out of breath. “Nigga, what- the fuck- is your issue?”

Quickly sliding out of the way, Miyah grabbed the man’s leg causing him to fall onto the floor, before grabbing a picture frame off the wall and violently smashing it off the intruders head, knocking the consciousness out of him.

“That’s what you get bitch.”

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Writing Notes: Glitch Art

Glitch Art - a type of media art where video and image files are already or intentionally corrupted to include glitches, creating a stylized viewing experience. What may look like an imperfection is the end goal and a result of the visual artist’s pixel sorting.

The glitch aesthetic includes:

elongated images,

pixelization,

color degradation, and

double exposure.

How to Create Glitch Art

Consider the following ways to create this unique form of visual art:

Digitally engineer glitches. Video editing software or apps can let you safely play with your hardware without damaging it. You can play with databending in video files in a photo or video editor and add in manufactured, intentional glitches.

Use magnets on screens. You can also play a video on a screen and employ a heavy-duty magnet, holding it close to the front to warp the pixels on the screen. Note that this has the potential to have long-lasting effects on the quality of your screen, so use this tactic wisely.

Work with broken devices. Damaged devices can yield the glitches that glitch artists seek in their media. Busted but still usable DVD and VHS players can warp the presentation of the video.

Forms of Glitch Art

Since glitch art is often not static, it takes forms outside of still .jpegs or .jpgs. Some forms include:

Glitch music: Glitch music involves the playing of distorted records, CDs, cassettes, or sound files that feature glitches, which may include skips or missing moments of music.

Glitch videos: Glitch videos are the most common type of glitch art, and you can create them by damaging e-files or hard media such as DVDs or video tapes. Artists can also warp videos by toying with a VHS or using magnets to distort pixels on the screen.

Glitch websites: These websites with errors coded within can make for more interactive pieces. Glitches spread throughout the website enhance the user experience and operate as a form of art.

A Brief History of Glitch Art

In technology, a digital glitch refers to a malfunction, often in video games or software development.

Intentional glitches: As technology evolved, artists harnessed the creative opportunities glitches presented and began deliberately incorporating them into various formats in the 1970s, popularizing an intentional glitch aesthetic. The Cubist movement influenced many glitch artists.

JODI: In 1994, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans started the highly generative art collective JODI, which purposefully coded errors into website pages to display underlying error messages. The movement weny by the name “net.art.”

Global conventions: The glitch moment gained traction in the 2000s. The tech-art collective Motherboard hosted an international symposium for this new media style in 2002 in Oslo, Norway. In 2010, Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, and Jon Satrom led the GLI.TC/H convention in Chicago with tutorials, performances, and screenings.

GIFs: Over the years, conventions have taken place in Minnesota, Croatia, and Iran, showing how popular the art form has become. Today, GIFS (.gifs), in many ways, echo some of the elements of early glitch art, where a single file repeats its media in a cyclical pattern.

Artists can use digital or analog modifications to create this type of modern art.

To produce glitch videos, artists distort pixels by placing large magnets near the screen or artificially create glitches in Photoshop.

Famous glitch artists include Len Lye, Daniel Temkin, Nam June Paik, and Rosa Menkman.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

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Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm 

December 25th, 1993; exactly thirty years ago today, Warner Animation released the first Batman animated feature to play in theaters.  Directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm, and based on a story written by Alan Burnett, the movie hit screens between the first and second seasons of Batman: The Animated Series.  

Despite largely glowing reviews, the lack of a strong advertising campaign contributed to the movie doing quite poorly at the box office.  The feature was later released in home theater format and played on television, ultimately garnering it huge acclaim among the fan community… with many (myself included) considering it to be the very best of the various Batman movies.  

The story centers on a mysterious vigilant who has come to Gotham to hunt the members of a once prominent crime family.  At first, the deaths of these criminals are attributed to The Batman, leading to the Gotham Police Department to deploy a special task force to arrest the Caped Crusader.  As such, Batman is forced to evade the police whilst tracking down this mysterious new threat.  Discovering the secrets of the Phantasm harkens back to Bruce Wayne's earliest days as a crimefighter, and a great love that nearly led to his never becoming Batman in the first place.  

Romance, tragedy, terrific action and top notch animation, it is not to be missed.  Staring the voice acting of Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Abe Vigoda and Stacy Keach.    

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In this half-hour special, it's multi-award-winning actor and director, Michael Sheen, who is to face the grilling of a lifetime from our unique collective: no subject is out of bounds, no question is off the table. Expect chaos, delight, revelation. Anything can happen.

Michael Sheen says: “I was thrilled to be asked to be a guest on The Assembly. It’s such a fresh and exciting idea and I can’t wait for what I’m sure is going to be a surprising and challenging experience. I really don’t know what to expect, which is both exhilarating and a little bit terrifying.”

The format is an adaptation of French show Les Rencontres Du Papotin (a.k.a The A Talks), which launched in 2022 on France 2, and quickly became their most watched unscripted show of the year, and has since been adapted in Spain, Denmark and Poland.

They saw the likes of Emmanuel Macron and Call My Agent’s Camille Cottin, face neurodivergent journalists. Gone was the flattery and junket PR of the usual celeb fare; in its place, a mix of mischievous prodding, leftfield quizzing and profound exchanges. The mantra: ‘no filter’.

The superstars left completely off guard: iconic actors asked about a driving ban or the death of a parent, the President asked if it’s really role model behaviour to marry one’s teacher.

The show comes from Michelle Singer and Stu Richards' Rockerdale Studios, creators of mischievous content which seeks to put disabled agency at its heart. Stu is also known for co-creating and writing the BBC Three comedy, Jerk, and Rockerdale are most known for Channel 4’s Mission: Accessible.

Together with the BBC, Rockerdale has worked with national and local autistic and neurodivergent organisations to ensure every element of the series works for and with autistic and neurodivergent voices.

Kalpna Patel-Knight, BBC’s Head of Entertainment Commissioning says: ”The BBC is delighted to introduce viewers to The Assembly. It’s a feel-good stand out entertainment show unlike anything viewers have seen before. Big thank you to Michael Sheen, for being game on to have a no holds barred interview with the superb interviewers who bring the show to life."

Executive Producers, Stu Richards and Michelle Singer say: "The Assembly has been the most remarkable project that most of us have ever worked on. And sure, it's brilliant representation of a part of society we rarely see given agency on our screens but, far more than that, it's also mischievous, funny, profound, and can turn from one to the other in a heartbeat.”

Stu added, “when we saw the French version of the show it blew my head off, and it's quite a large, cumbersome head so it really takes something impressive."

The Assembly (1 x 30’) is a Rockerdale Studios production for BBC One and iPlayer. Commissioned by Head of Entertainment Commissioning, Kalpna Patel-Knight for BBC One and iPlayer. Led by Clodagh O'Donoghue as Commissioning Editor.

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11th August 1937: First flight of the Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter. Designed to combat the threat of large, unescorted bomber formations attacking the UK, the type was never intended to see action against significant single-engined opposition. It had no fixed forward-firing armament, so couldn’t be used as a conventional fighter. Suffering heavy losses during the Battle of Britain, it had more success as a night fighter and also served in a variety of other roles.

When Defiants first saw action in May 1940, helping to cover the Dunkirk evacuation, it seemed at first that the turret fighter concept could work, with a number of claims made against both bombers and fighters. However, by the time the Battle of Britain began in July, Luftwaffe pilots were well aware of the type’s vulnerabilities. This culminated in 264 Squadron losing 11 aircraft, 5 pilots and 9 gunners in 6 days at the end of August, causing Defiants to be withdrawn from daylight operations.

Retasked as a night fighter, the type would come to bear the brunt of defensive duties against the Blitz, with the Beaufighter suffering a troubled introduction to service. Though not yet equipped with radar and still struggling to locate their targets, Defiants scored the most nocturnal kills of any RAF fighter type during the winter of 1940/1941. Crews learned to use their turrets to advantage, firing undetected from abeam or below Luftwaffe bombers. The last Defiant night fighters, now carrying AI radar, continued in service until May 1942.

Defiants were the first RAF aircraft to carry dedicated electronic countermeasures equipment. ‘Moonshine’ was used by formations of 6 aircraft in daylight to simulate the approach of a much larger force on German radar screens, while ‘Mandrel’ emitted a jamming signal and was used by single Defiants at night. These missions continued until mid-1943, and would see the type’s final operational sorties.

Defiants were also employed in several other roles, including as trainers. Many were modified for use as target tugs, either during production or retrofitted. The type was briefly used for air-sea rescue, carrying underwing dinghies, but this was not a success and Defiants served i. That role for only a few months in 1942. One of the final duties performed by the type was in the testing of early ejection seats, with flights continuing into the early postwar period.

Pictured:

1) Prototype Boulton Paul Defiant, pictured in 1937. The earliest flights were conducted before the installation of the turret, giving a somewhat false impression of the aircraft’s performance.

📷 IWM (HU 106297)

2) Formation of Defiants from 264 Squadron in flight, August 1940. It was the losses suffered by this unit which led to the type’s withdrawal from daylight operations.

📷 IWM (CH 883)

3) 264 Squadron gunner about to enter his turret at Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire. Due to the restricted space, Defiant gunners wore a specially designed parasuit or ‘Rhino’ suit, which incorporated a parachute. However, actually getting out of the turret in an emergency was a different story.

📷 IWM (CH 874)

4) Defiant Mark II equipped with AI Mark IV radar at Boscombe Down for handling tests in August 1941. This variant entered service at a time when Luftwaffe attacks on Britain were scarce, with almost all bomber units redeployed to the Eastern Front.

📷 IWM (ATP 9780B)

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Euclid’s view of the Horsehead Nebula by European Space Agency Via Flickr: Euclid shows us a spectacularly panoramic and detailed view of the Horsehead Nebula, also known as Barnard 33 and part of the constellation Orion. At approximately 1375 light-years away, the Horsehead – visible as a dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head – is the closest giant star-forming region to Earth. It sits just to the south of star Alnitak, the easternmost of Orion’s famous three-star belt, and is part of the vast Orion molecular cloud. Many other telescopes have taken images of the Horsehead Nebula, but none of them are able to create such a sharp and wide view as Euclid can with just one observation. Euclid captured this image of the Horsehead in about one hour, which showcases the mission's ability to very quickly image an unprecedented area of the sky in high detail. In Euclid’s new observation of this stellar nursery, scientists hope to find many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars. “We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions,” explains Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife and a legacy scientist for Euclid. These special conditions are caused by radiation coming from the very bright star Sigma Orionis, which is located above the Horsehead, just outside Euclid’s field-of-view (the star is so bright that the telescope would see nothing else if it pointed directly towards it). Ultraviolet radiation from Sigma Orionis causes the clouds behind the Horsehead to glow, while the thick clouds of the Horsehead itself block light from directly behind it; this makes the head look dark. The nebula itself is made up largely of cold molecular hydrogen, which gives off very little heat and no light. Astronomers study the differences in the conditions for star formation between the dark and bright clouds. The star Sigma Orionis itself belongs to a group of more than a hundred stars, called an open cluster. However, astronomers don’t have the full picture of all the stars belonging to the cluster. “Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” adds Eduardo. The data in this image were taken in about one hour of observation. This colour image was obtained by combining VIS data and NISP photometry in Y and H bands; its size is 8800 x 8800 pixels. VIS and NISP enable observing astronomical sources in four different wavelength ranges. Aesthetics choices led to the selection of three out of these four bands to be cast onto the traditional Red-Green-Blue colour channels used to represent images on our digital screens (RGB). The blue, green, red channels capture the Universe seen by Euclid around the wavelength 0.7, 1.1, and 1.7 micron respectively. This gives Euclid a distinctive colour palette: hot stars have a white-blue hue, excited hydrogen gas appears in the blue channel, and regions rich in dust and molecular gas have a clear red hue. Distant redshifted background galaxies appear very red. In the image, the stars have six prominent spikes due to how light interacts with the optical system of the telescope in the process of diffraction. Another signature of Euclid special optics is the presence of a few, very faint and small round regions of a fuzzy blue colour. These are normal artefacts of complex optical systems, so-called ‘optical ghost’; easily identifiable during data analysis, they do not cause any problem for the science goals. The cutout from the full view of the Horsehead Nebula is at the high resolution of the VIS instrument. This is nine times better than the definition of NISP that was selected for the full view; this was done for the practical reason of limiting the format of the full image to a manageable size for downloading. The cutout fully showcases the power of Euclid in obtaining extremely sharp images over a large region of the sky in one single pointing. Although this image represents only a small part of the entire colour view, the same quality as shown here is available over the full field. The full view of the Horsehead Nebula at the highest definition can be explored on ESASky. [Image description] This square astronomical image is divided horizontally by a waving line between a white-orange cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively blue-purple-pink upper portion. From the nebula in the bottom half of the image, an orange cloud shaped like a horsehead sticks out. In the bottom left of the image, a white round glow is visible. The clouds from the bottom half of the image shine purple/blue light into the upper half. The top of the image shows the black expanse of space. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing stars of varying sizes and colours. Blue stars are younger and red stars are older. Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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Function Analysis of the LED Display Board above the Baggage Claim Exit at Beijing Daxing International Airport

Function Analysis of the LED Display Board above the Baggage Claim Exit at Beijing Daxing International Airport

The LED display board located above the baggage claim exit at Beijing Daxing International Airport boasts a unique geographical location and advanced technology, making it a popular choice for brand promotion. This article will delve into the multiple functions of these LED display boards, helping advertisers better understand and utilize this resource.

One: High-Definition Display, Enhanced Visual Experience

The LED display board above the baggage claim exit at Beijing Daxing International Airport employs advanced LED display technology, capable of presenting high-definition images and video content. This high-definition display effect not only makes advertising information more vivid and intuitive but also significantly enhances the visual experience of passengers, increasing the attractiveness of the advertisement.

Two: Diverse Content Presentation, Meeting Different Needs

The LED display board supports various formats of advertising content, including static images, dynamic videos, and text information, catering to different brand and product promotion needs. Advertisers can choose from a range of advertising formats based on their brand characteristics and promotion goals, achieving precise communication.

Three: High Efficiency and Energy Savings, Reducing Operating Costs

Compared to traditional lighting equipment, the LED display board has a higher energy efficiency ratio, significantly reducing energy consumption and operating costs. This feature not only aligns with modern enterprises' green development philosophy but also provides advertisers with a more cost-effective and efficient promotional method.

Four: Long-Term Stable Operation, Ensuring Continuous Advertising

The LED display board has excellent stability and durability, capable of operating stably for a long time within the airport, ensuring continuous advertising. This stability not only increases the exposure rate of the advertisement but also enhances the communication effect.

Five: Boosting Brand Exposure, Enhancing Brand Influence

The baggage claim exit is a must-pass route for passengers leaving the airport, with a large flow of people and a relatively long stay. By setting up an LED display board at this location, advertisers can quickly capture passengers' attention, boosting brand exposure and recognition. Additionally, by showcasing high-definition brand images and promotional phrases, advertisers can deepen passengers' impressions and cognition of the brand, enhancing brand influence.

Six: Precise Communication, Achieving High-Efficiency Marketing

The passenger group at Beijing Daxing International Airport is diverse, and advertisers can choose suitable advertising locations and creative designs based on their brand characteristics and target audience preferences, achieving precise communication. The LED display board above the baggage claim exit, with its superior geographical location and extensive audience base, provides advertisers with opportunities for precise communication.

Conclusion

The LED display board above the baggage claim exit at Beijing Daxing International Airport, with its high-definition display, diverse content presentation, high efficiency and energy savings, long-term stable operation, and boosted brand exposure, offers advertisers a high-efficiency platform for brand promotion. As Beijing Daxing International Airport continues to grow, these LED display boards will play an increasingly important role in the future, becoming a key battleground for brand competition.

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[threeclans]

Hi! I hope all is well. Ive been in the wcrp community for a few years now and Im currently in the process of rebooting my own rp server. Ive tried several times and have been struggling with keeping them running/staying motivated because activity seems to die completely about a month or two after opening… I was wondering if you had any advice for running a long-term rp like this? Anything is appreciated.

Hi! Advice as far as group management goes is always something that will vary from group to group — what works for us might not be exactly what another group wants to follow for their own guidelines, depending on preferences and standards for how certain things like time and server setup are handled — but I'd be happy to go into some things that I think have led to ThreeClans seeing a lot of success through the 8 years we've been active!

We've had to do a lot of adapting and learning during this time, which is the first thing I'll make note of. When our group started, we were roleplaying on Skype, and our organization looked quite a bit different than it does now today! Still, we've kept a lot of things from our past too, like our commitment to keeping up with the pace that we've chosen for our group (which follows a real life time system, so that the flow of time progression proceeds naturally in tandem with the flow of time in real life — each day that goes by in real life is the equivalent of one roleplay day, so that you don't have to worry about doing any math to track how your characters should be aging or progressing) and our longstanding lore and rules for the sake of member comfort.

One thing to keep a group going that I've found beneficial in ThreeClans on the modding front is making management something you feel capable of handling! As a Mod, you're dedicating quite a bit of your free time to something that's a hobby, and if you aren't able to invest your time or passion into a group, it's easy for members to feel uninvested too. To make this smooth for everyone, set yourself up for success! One way we do this in ThreeClans is by making things comfortable for us. We like to keep our channel numbers low, for example, so that we're not constantly darting back and forth between hundreds of text chats trying to keep up with what's being said. We've also been told this helps members feel less overwhelmed in what would otherwise come off as a "large server" with many channels to drown in. As an example, I've attached a screenshot below to display what our setup looks like for three of our main categories for NettleClan, CreekClan, and JaggedClan and the amount of channels we have accessible for each one.

When these are kept open, I can see them all at once on my screen without scrolling. Any notifications, therefore, are visible, and I can keep a close eye on all activity! Some of these channels are also temporary, and therefore we're usually even a bit lower in number. One other thing to note here is organization in the way you name things. Being able to search your channels for relevant information using Discord's search feature makes modding tasks easy. Say you need to reference a roleplay done by a member: by knowing exactly what format of naming you use for the channels you have available, you'll know where to look when searching!

When it comes to motivation on both the behalf of Mods and members, it's definitely a delicate balance. Sometimes you just can't be sure who will "click" in a group or with a particular opening. In ThreeClans, we always try to prepare for our openings with the awareness that we may have members who join and then drop off in the early weeks of being in the server for one reason or another. They may not mesh with the server atmosphere, they may feel overwhelmed with the amount of history or the amount of people present, they may simply get too busy to be prepared to take on roleplaying at the time and may not have anticipated such a thing when applying! For whatever reason, sometimes things just don't work out. We'd advise, then, leaving some "extra room" when you open a roleplay for these occurrences. Accept enough applications so that even if a couple of members do decide to depart, you won't be out of your entire member base.

Of course, you don't want to resign yourself entirely to the idea of people leaving! Like I mentioned, feelings of being overwhelmed can sometimes crop up, or sometimes people may just be a bit shy. In this case, the best thing you can do is be prepared to include them. Go out of your way to say hello specifically to them as they join the server! Offer a compliment when you DM them to give them their invite. When setting up the server for new members, be sure to make sure that every person is included in conversations about character development and relationships. It's your job as a Mod to take note of who clusters together and who might be a little more quiet, and while you can't make anyone talk, you can reach out and let them know you'd love to roleplay with them when you have a chance! This is something you should also encourage members of your roleplay to do if you have a pre-existing server. In ThreeClans, I think part of the reason we see success in new openings is because our current member base is so actively welcoming and completely excited to say hello to any new participants when they do hop in to the server that it's easy to feel like you've made a friend from the start.

When people feel like they fit in, they're more likely to maintain engagement in a group. Let them feel like they can come to your Mod team with ideas, and you'll be able to bounce your own thoughts off of them and help generate further plotlines that fuel you past that initial thread of the 1-2 month period of excitement. Of course, sometimes it has to be up to you and your Mod team to take note of the unique traits of people and their characters and come up with pitches to present to them on your own. This can be exciting for members as they feel included in something that makes them want to keep moving along — in addition, I'd always suggest that when you start a group, you should have an idea of how your opening plot is going to slot in new additions.

All too often I think people tend to have a basis for lore / setting / staff characters and neglect to imagine the plot threads that will need filling in by new additions. This can mean creating a draft and reworking it a few times as you figure out who the characters that'll come to populate your roleplay server are, of course, but even having a loose idea of a plot such as "This opening will be based around the idea of a clan that has been stable for seasons upon seasons, but now with the introduction of a branch group claiming to be descendants of former clanmates who went missing years ago, they're forced to reckon with what they really know about their history and how it might impact the reality of their cozy lifestyle and current leadership," gives you something to work with. Member characters can fit into the role of characters comfortable with their normal lives (soon to be disturbed) or in the position of those about to shake things up, depending on where you choose to go with things.

Another thing to mention as far as activity goes is maintaining OOC connections! It might take some time with a fresh group, but part of what keeps ThreeClans together, in my opinion, is the bonds formed by our members and the fact that we all often get together to have fun outside of roleplay settings. Things like movie nights hosted on stream or casual gaming sessions / nights hosted by Mods or staff can really bring a community together and foster a sense of belonging which translates to an overall feeling of happiness in a server. You can choose to host OOC events that have an impact on the IC world too, like contests to make up parts of the lore of your server or to create things like clan icons or server specific resources with special rewards like character art given out to anyone who participates!

This is getting long, though I could go on for ages about all the things that can compliment a server and its continued activity. At the end of the day, sometimes you just have to keep trying! Your first attempt or your first few attempts might fall through, but if you show continued passion and find the right group of people to work with, you'll manage to make something that continues steadily along, I'm sure!

Mod Maya

[hollosene]

"The beauty of 'Ode' lies in its tracking of the seasons in its cycle, how each song feels like a different time of year" (bandcamp).

Unpublished recordings from Robert Lester Folsom's archives from 1972-1975. Psychedelic Soft Rock Treasures Anthology Recordings is pleased to present Ode To A Rainy Day: Archives 1972-1975, a collection of previously unreleased home recordings from Robert Lester Folsom. The 13 tracks in this collection capture the halcyon, wide-eyed experiments of Folsom who, after going halves in a reel-to-reel tape recorder with a friend, recorded all of this material over college summer breaks in barns, screened porches and bedrooms across Adel, Georgia. Folsom crafts a delicate form of folk-rock, with a knack for penning gorgeous ballads ("See You Later I'm Gone", "Can't See You"), spellbinding instrumental explorations ("Oblivion") and elements of dusty psychedelia (the farfisa-peppered "Written In Your Hair" and "On And On"). There are echoes of Neil Young ("Southern Man" was a favorite cover of Folsom's), Nick Drake and early Fairport Convention in Folsom's form and lyricism, that would later become more realized on his full-length Music And Dreams (1976). Perhaps just as precious as the songs revived in this collection is the youthful sense of excitement and experimentation that has been captured and preserved.

…

When Anthology’s reissue of Music and Dreams, the sole contemporaneous album released in 1976 by Robert Lester Folsom, surfaced in 2010, little else was known of the singer-songwriter's nearly five-decade deep archive of unreleased demos and fully formed studio recordings. Born and raised in Adel, Georgia—both then, and now, a sleepy hamlet with a population of less than 5,000—Folsom was fortunate to be minded after extremely supportive parents. Exhibiting a precocious affinity for music, things went widescreen when he observed the same ferry from ‘cross the Mersey as many others of his generation, carrying The Beatles to their paradigm shifting appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Soon thereafter, Folsom began religiously absorbing every morsel of musical output The Fab Four offered, as well as that of their contemporaries. Yet, it wasn’t long before observation transformed into a motivation to create. Even a children’s record player bought by his parents as a gift to him was traded off to a neighborhood friend for a stringless, disheveled guitar (which Folsom’s father shined to prime and function for him in short order). As time went on, Folsom’s innate drive and field of vision broadened; he began enlisting neighborhood friends, classmates, and family members to fulfill his small-scale musical dreams, which would increase in weight with the passage of days. Over the next several years, while employing ingenious, home brewed over-dubbing techniques with his “love at first sight,” a Sears 3440 two-track reel-to-reel tape recorder, Folsom served as the de facto producer/arranger for any and all scrappy garage band or aspiring singer songwriter in the radius of Adel. Abetted by his mobile recording unit, across a number of unusual locations, and assisted by guitarist and collaborator Hans VanBrackle, this period produced the bounty of Folsom’s self-penned compositions which make up Ode to a Rainy Day and Sunshine Only Sometimes. And eventually, this period of woodshedding led to the formation of his rural-tinged, progressive, southern rock outfit Abacus. Though carrying Folsom’s own singular sound and vision, Music and Dreams, in equal measure, chartered the seas of smooth West Coast AOR before the yachts to come, while tracing the distinctly Californian sound of Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter soft rock Americana, which tussled on the waters before the large vessels overtook the big blue. Folsom’s earlier compositions found on Sunshine Only Sometimes reflect a darker-hued mixture of mellow folk, downer vibes, and rural tones, revealing his talent for melody and hook was intact far before Music and Dreams, with a keen sense of introspection making the dark and light equally resonant.

Perhaps it was Lester and company’s playing “weird spacey stuff and ballads,” as guitarist Hans VanBrackle describes, in small town Georgia skating rinks, bowling alleys, and school dances expecting Top 40 dance-ready hits which held them down. Perhaps it was simply location. Though, the music of RLF is composed of an intrinsic ability to hear the music truly playing, as opposed to the space in air heard by the lay-ear, which places Folsom’s music in a timeless space primed for perennial (re)discovery.

"Robert Lester Folsom on Becoming a Documentary Subject" by Beca Grimm (Paste Magazine, Feb 18 2015):

"An affinity for rain and otherwise gloomy weather traditionally can be found with more emo-slanted music... Robert Lester Folsom’s work certainly dissects emotional matter, taking a cross-slice of a certain feeling and holding light up to it in the form of serious guitar flanging... When clouds darkened and flooded the sky, Lester and his comrades would retreat indoors to tinker with music."

Michael Venutolo-Mantovani on the release of Ode to a Rainy Day in "Robert Lester Folsom: Take Two" (Oxford American, May 3 2023):

The Georgia-born, Florida-based songwriter's career proves some dreams never die. Somewhere around 2009, Folsom was contacted by a man named Douglas Mcgowan. Mcgowan, who had recently started the digital label Yoga Records, read about Music and Dreams in The Acid Archives, a book uncovering hidden gems of psychedelia from the 1960s and ’70s. Intrigued by the short blurb, which likened Robert Lester Folsom to “a second-rate Michael Angelo or a less stringent John Scoggins,” Mcgowan reached out to Folsom, asking if there was any way he could hear the album. Meanwhile, Keith Abrahamsson, co-founder and A&R director of Brooklyn’s Mexican Summer label, had read about Music and Dreams in the über-influential newsletter from New York City’s landmark underground record store, Other Music. Soon after, Abrahamsson visited Mcgowan in Los Angeles, telling him he wanted to release Music and Dreams on vinyl through Mexican Summer. Mcgowan aided the Mexican Summer release as he could, even helping to retrofit the original Abacus Records label with Mexican Summer’s own sigil. ...The following year, Folsom—with a backing band of Jacksonville locals, mostly members of his church group—played at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on a bill for Mexican Summer’s showcase during the once-juggernaut music industry convention CMJ. It was Folsom’s first time in New York City.   As Robert Lester Folsom stood before a crowd who sang his songs back to him, songs he’d written and recorded almost forty years before, songs he hadn’t played live in over three decades, he was overjoyed. And just as he did in Nashville when he was seventeen, Folsom brought a stack of tapes. This time, he already had an in. This time, he knew his old friend Don Fleming—who grew up across the street from Folsom in Adel and went on to become a luminous name in the world of indie rock, producing records by bands like Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Screaming Trees—was in New York, excited to hear what his childhood buddy had been up to. The two had been in and out of touch over the years, with Fleming keeping Folsom in the loop of what was happening in the contemporary indie-rock world. But due to a mixture of friendly jealousy and the idea that his music might not have been squarely in Fleming’s wheelhouse, Folsom never sent his old friend his tapes. However, as Fleming was working as the Executive Director with the Association for Cultural Equity, which focuses on the conservation of the collection of legendary folklorist Alan Lomax, he was eager to help transfer Folsom’s old tapes to digital.  Throughout the digitalization process, Folsom, Fleming, and Abrahamsson began emailing old mixes of the songs to one another, and it was determined there was more than enough material to whittle a cohesive album statement. In 2014, Abrahamsson released that statement, Ode to a Rainy Day, via his Mexican Summer-backed reissue imprint, Anthology Recordings. Though a bit more refined than his debut, both in craft and execution, and clearly indebted to those British Invasion bands Folsom so loved, Ode to a Rainy Day still held on to the lo-fi bedroom quirk that endeared curious listeners to Music and Dreams. On the back of a handful of good reviews and bubbling word of mouth, the vinyl pressing sold well.... nearly fifty years after he started experimenting with reel-to-reel tapes, and a half-century after the staff at Combine told him to come back to Nashville when he was just a bit older."

[digitaldetoxworld]

Crafting the Perfect Home Theater Experience

 Imagine this: dimmed lights, plush seating,  home theater ideas for small living spaces a charming film on a big screen, and surround sound that transports you proper into the heart of the action. This isn't always just a trip to the cinema; it is your very personal domestic theater, a haven for film nights, carrying occasions, and immersive gaming periods.

Building a domestic theater can be as easy or tricky as you preference. This guide will equip you with the understanding to create an unforgettable enjoyment experience, catering to each price range and ambition.

Setting the Stage: The Room

The best home theater space have to be committed and mild-managed. A basement or spare bed room works properly, supplying a dark environment for premier picture first-rate. Block out external mild with blackout curtains or blinds. Consider soundproofing the room, particularly if it stocks partitions with different dwelling regions.

The Centerpiece: The Screen

The display screen is your window into every other international. Projector displays provide the maximum cinematic enjoy, specifically for large rooms. Projectors require a dedicated area with a smooth, flat floor and managed lights. For a greater user-friendly and space-saving option, do not forget a huge flat-display screen TV.

Sizing Up Your Screen:

The best display screen size depends on viewing distance and room length. A top rule of thumb is to hold a distance of one. Five to 2 instances the screen's diagonal width from the primary viewing vicinity.

Projector Screens: Bigger isn't always better. Measure the space among your primary seating and choose a display size that fills your field of vision with out causing eye strain.

Flat-Screen TVs : Surround sound structures remodel your living room right into a multi-dimensional soundscape. Here's a breakdown of commonplace speaker setups:

Surround Sound Symphony: The Speakers A primary setup with audio system, perfect for smaller rooms or casual viewing.

2.0 Channel : This famous setup includes five surround sound audio system (left, right, center, rear surround) and a subwoofer for bass.

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7.1 Channel: : Invest in appropriate best speakers, particularly the center channel responsible for dialogue clarity.

Dolby Atmos/DTS:X: This acts as the mind of your sound machine, processing audio alerts and powering the audio system. Choose a receiver like minded with your selected speaker setup and surround sound format.

Finding the Perfect Sound:

Speaker Quality : Seating comfort is vital for lengthy movie marathons. Consider reclining theater seats or cushty sofas with true back guide. Tiered seating guarantees anybody has an unobstructed view of the display. Leave sufficient space among rows for clean movement.

Receiver :  Lighting manipulate goes beyond just blocking out ambient mild. Consider including dimmable recessed lights or LED strips for a greater cinematic revel in. Strategically placed accessory lighting fixtures can spotlight art work or create a heat, inviting atmosphere.

Seating in Comfort:

The Perfect Perch : Here are some additional elements to raise your private home theater experience

Setting the Mood: Lighting and Ambiance : Control lighting, temperature, and even your streaming services with voice instructions or a telephone app.

Beyond the Basics:

Extra Touches : Indulge in the crucial film snack with a committed popcorn system.

Smart Home Integration : These panels help take in sound waves, decreasing echoes and creating a cleaner listening enjoy.

Popcorn Machine : A well-designed media console presents storage on your media gadgets and continues your area organized.

Acoustic Panels: Add a hint of luxury and warmth with plush throws and comfy blankets.

Media Console : Home theater prices can range significantly depending in your favored stage of sophistication. Here's a breakdown of some key value considerations:

Comfy Blankets and Throws : This can be the most widespread rate. Projectors and large TVs evidently value more.

Building Your Budget : Invest in a quality setup that fits your price range and room size.

Screen/TV: Comfortable seating is important, but charges can range relying on fashion and functions.

Speakers and Receiver : Consider the fee of extras like lighting manage,

best home theater screenspopcorn machines, and acoustic panels.

[chroniclers-circle]

chromium 3b

The third planet she visited in the Chromium system, labeled Chromium 3b by her navigational software, wasn’t really a planet—hence the ‘b’ designation. It was a moon, orbiting one of the handful of gas giants in the system, and it was completely covered in ice. Yet the ship scanners detected something interesting, and so she’d be finding her way down to the planet’s surface, somehow.

She sat in front of the bridge computer, tapping her fingers against the console. The imaging system was slowly compiling all the information the ship could glean about the makeup of the planet, so that she could attempt to figure out how on earth she was supposed to document the hostile surface of a planet whose winds carried ice-knives that would be able to chop her up into little pieces.

The console played the little jingle she’d composed during one of the inter-system flight periods as it finished compiling. She squinted at the screen.

It seemed this planet too had vast spaces underneath the crust of the planet—she realized what she would have to do. It was time to pull out the transporter matrix again. Not her favorite tool to use in the field if she could avoid it, but a tool that she could be content using all the same, and it would be able to get her down to the hollow spaces inside the planet without needing to try and navigate the treacherous atmosphere.

She typed in the command for the computer to unfold the matrix from storage, and then left to go put on her space-suit once again.

Sys.log: First Impressions

It was like standing in the lungs of the planet. Dark, for the most part, save where her finger-lights and helmet flashlight shone, with each ray of light catching the glittering formations of ice that made up the walls around her. She breathed out, and pretended she could see the water vapor crystallize in the air.

She trekked through the cave, keeping an eye out for any unusual features. The twisting cavern led down, further into the bowels of the planet, and she took a moment to consider whether she truly trusted the depths below—or whether it would be best to explore in the other direction, where it would be easier for the ship’s transporter matrix to pick her up.

She wasn’t here to stay in her comfort zone. The depths of the planet called to her, and she would simply have to deal with whatever mysteries lay beneath as they made themselves known.

Sys.log: Oceans Inside Glaciers; Further Ruins

She didn’t expect the moment where the ice turned to stone. Nor did she expect the moment where water began to lap at the stony shore next to her boots. The cavern had opened up around her nearly a mile behind her, as she’d continued to walk. She peered out at the darkness, wondering how far into the distance the water stretched. Was it a lake, or something more?

If she weren’t in her suit and helmet, she would have tried to taste the water to figure out the truth. As it was, she had to settle for running a chemical composition test on her limited personal scanners, and waiting to see the results.

Saltwater.

On any other planet, this would be a sign that the body of water before her was large enough to consider an ocean—but with the limited vision and limited sensors and scanner arrays available to her, she would just have to hypothesize. Though her perceptions of the planets she explored counted for much, they did not count for the totality of the professional judgment. She frowned and set off along the shoreline.

A twisted obelisk carved from ice and a pale white stone loomed out of the darkness at her, and she slowed down to regard it with curiosity. She hadn’t seen anything like the stone before, and the ice had all but vanished at this depth.

She circled around it, trying to gage the detail, the size, and the embellishments that had clearly been carved into it. Upon reaching the other side, she stopped and stared. There was a statue embedded into the obelisk, a statue with humanoid proportions and with shapes that in every way reminded her of another human.

It was lithe, the figure, and vaguely mammalian, with unusually smooth skin. Like a human, the figure has hair on its head. Unlike a human, there was a third joint on each of six delicate fingers, and a thin web that stretches between each finger at the first knuckle. A tendril emerged from the base of the alien statue’s elbows, and twisted around the forearm, only to break free and flex alone at the wrist. She raised herself onto her tiptoes trying to get a better look at the statues’ face.

It blinked at her.

His eyes were as icy as the rest of planet, with a pupil that looked as though it were caught in the middle of mitosis, part way through division or consolidation, something half and double all at once. He smiled at her with sharp teeth, and one hand curled into a fist to rap against the ice that trapped him inside the obelisk.

She stepped back in shock, and the alien’s face shifted to look something like regret, fingers splaying out to press against the glass with a remorseful tilt to his head. He tapped the glass again, but this time with one elegant finger.

He wanted to be free, she realized. Her heart hammered in her chest. She could set him free, if she wanted to—if she thought he wasn’t a threat. He was the first humanoid that she’d seen in months, maybe even years, if she allowed herself to think about how long it had been anywhere other than in her bed on her ship during assigned sleeping hours. Here was the chance for her not to be so alone anymore. He was the chance for her not to be so alone anymore.

She swallowed, and began to investigate the obelisk that trapped him. It’d be so nice not to be alone anymore.

NEXT PLANET

[longlistshort]

Currently at the University of Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum is Rico Gatson: Visible Time. The exhibition includes a collection of the artist’s paintings and works on paper, video works from 2001-present, and a life size mural of author Zora Neale Hurston.

From the museum’s website about the exhibition-

For more than two decades, Brooklyn-based artist Rico Gatson has been celebrated for his vibrant, colorful, and layered artworks. Inspired by significant moments in African American history, identity politics and spirituality, his oeuvre includes images of protests and longstanding injustices—touching on subjects like the murder of Emmett Till, the Watts Riots, and the formation of the Black Panthers—as well as dynamic abstract geometries that celebrate Pan-Africanist aesthetics and Black cultural and political figures.

About the mural, Zora III, commissioned by the museum (pictured above)-

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo (a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs created by enslaved Africans in the Southern U.S.). The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. Born in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston grew up near Orlando, in Eatonville, Florida, incorporated in 1887 as one of the first self-governing all-black municipalities in the country. Despite her landmark achievements, Hurston died penniless and in obscurity in 1960-her novels and other writings largely unknown, until they were single-handedly rescued by novelist Alice Walker in 1975. Through his wall painting Rico Gatson extends the monumental impact of Hurston’s legacy-and Walker’s- into a visual arena reminiscent of the Mexican Muralists and hand-painted cinema signs.

("Untitled (Seven Panels)”, 2022 acrylic paint on wood, in seven parts)

From the museum’s wall plaque about the above paintings-

According to catalog contributor Mark Fredricks, Rico Gatson’s “panel paintings” resemble “a musical framework.” Arranged together along a single wall, the “rhythm” animating their colorful compositions and their “uniformity of structure” suggest, anthropomorphically speaking, musicians in a jazz combo. One of the many ways in which Gatson draws on music as a lasting influence in his art, his seven panels approximate what legendary jazz player Albert Ayler described as “the healing force of the universe,” but in three dimensions.

“Don” 2022, Color pencil and photo-collage on paper

“Sidney” 2022, Color pencil and photo-collage on paper

“Miles #2″ 2022, Color pencil and photo-collage on paper

Below are images are from Four Stations, one of the five moving image works in the exhibition. For this work, Gatson traveled to Money, Mississippi and took handheld footage along the trail of places and events that led to the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

On one of the smaller screens is Gun Play, 2001, a film collage that mixes sequences from Foxy Brown and The Good, the Band and the Ugly, combining them together with kaleidoscopic effects.

This Thursday 7/27/23, the museum will be showing Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, the last of the three films chosen by Gatson to accompany the exhibition.

The exhibition will close on Saturday, 7/29.

[denimbex1986]

'New statistics uphold IMAX's decision to give screens to Oppenheimer instead of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, starring Tom Cruise, premiered on July 12, going on to make $552.7 million at the time of writing, which is less than any Mission: Impossible movie since 2006. A large part of this lukewarm gross has been blamed on the fact that it came out one week before the buzzy July 21 dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer, which broke box office records and resulted in an extended IMAX run for the Christopher Nolan-helmed biopic.

IMAX CEO Rich Gelfond recently appeared on an episode of the podcast The Town with Matthew Beloni. During the conversation, Gelfond revealed that "in North America, we're close to 30%" of the entire Oppenheimer box office. These IMAX numbers become even more impressive when Gelfond puts that in context, pointing out that the 400 IMAX theaters only make up "about one percent" of all the theaters in North America.

Oppenheimer's Box Office Pull Was Undeniable

It's possible that Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One box office could have performed much better without competition from Barbie and Oppenheimer. Tom Cruise has proved his mettle as a worldwide box office draw time and again, but especially with 2022's Top Gun: Maverick. The legacy sequel to 1986's Top Gun was a smash hit, earning $1.49 billion and becoming the twelfth-highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide, as well as the highest-grossing of Cruise's career.

However, IMAX's gamble with Oppenheimer makes sense. Nolan is a filmmaker whose name carries weight with mainstream audiences as well as the more highbrow crowd, and he has developed a reputation for epic spectacles with excellent technical construction. His brand of filmmaking means that many audience members likely automatically associate the director with premium formats like IMAX.

This clearly worked in Oppenheimer's favor. If that 30% figure is completely accurate, this means that the movie earned $90.9 million in North America from IMAX alone, which is more money than some 2023 offerings including Cocaine Bear and No Hard Feelings made in their entire worldwide runs. While this may have led Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One to suffer, it makes sense for the company to have kept the Nolan movie on their screens for as long as possible.'