#NorthFork

[sumbluespruce]

Freshness

2/2024

[faustocosgrove]

and on the sixth day of reviewmas I, Fausto, give to thee:

6 ye olde government agents

5/5 stars best movie of the decade easily. might be the best movie of all time

4 scantily clad teenaged girls (fbi open up! meme)

the 3rd time i read the same book about lawns maybe?

2 high school animes

and a ninja book

…from a guy who still thinks about the naruto series in the year 2023

Northfork

The theme is death.

And I made the mistake of watching this movie after a mini binge of Cinama Therapy episodes, so i went from being an emotional wreck to watching the slowest drama i’ve ever witnesses and the theme is death.

maybe a better analysis would be the theme is the acceptance of death or the inevitability of death.

visually the film changes from black and white to slightly colored to fit the mood, but it’s always muted and almost unnoticeable at first. lots of interesting use of light in the shots. loved the 6 government men in their ye olde cars. the all black aesthetic that the government goons had going on was clearly an allusion to the grim reaper in a black cloak but it was also giving ye olde gangster vibes. also i really liked the ye olde cars.

at one point in the slowness my mind wandered to how good the cast was at acting as if it was the 1950s in a rural setting. and then i started mulling over cellphones and how people have changed over the past 75 years. and how if this movie were made taking place in 2023 that there would have been this sense of urgency that would have muddied the message of the inevitability of death because in the modern era people have attention spans that rival that of fruit flies. ….that’s not really getting across what i’m trying to convey.

in a modern movie about death i expect it to be about fighting death or cheating death or trying to become immortal via magic. like contrast this against the movie I Kill Giants. 95% of that movie is the little girl playing make believe in the woods to distract herself from the fact that her mother is dying of cancer. then the thing she is imagining tells her that death is inevitable and she better go home and spend time with her mother while her mom’s still alive which she does. which is so unbelievable on like a psychological level. but it’s also like, just the first two stages of grief then we skip over 3 and 4 and sneak a little 5 in there just to end it. other media with like bringing someone back from the dead is just stage three, bargaining. this movie is depression and acceptance. mostly depression though. slow depression.

the movie also has non binary rep. and a guy without hands and a blind guy for some disability rep. and an effeminate gay man. the guy without hands is also very autistic. and these characters aren’t villains. from a 2003 movie. so that was a pleasant surprise.

it was also nice to watch something where adults are the intended audience and are treated as adults. yeah yeah i’m sure you’re looking at the other stuff i review and are thinking that’s a load of bull from all the anime i review and from the fact that i still talk about naruto in the year 2023 but back when i was still with my ex i ended up watching a lot of marvel/DC movies and those films do not do that. the modern super hero movie for adults try to get you to take a man in an animal costume seriously and most people do. there’s so much “adult” media that’s just audience self inserts saving the world and the only distinction between adult super hero movies and children super hero movies is how dark the screen is and how much blood they show.

[rafeny]

Can I Tell You...about my Spring / Summer 2024 Collection featured on Vogue Philippines.

Rafé Totengco’s Latest Collection Has The Sentiments Of A Sweet Escape

written by Chelsea Sarabia for Vogue Philippines

For his Spring/Summer 2024 collection, bag designer Rafé Totengco presents glistening miniaudières swept over North Fork shores, celebrating femininity, vibrance, sunlight, and the season.

For a summer away from New York City, it might seem like there’s no better destination than the Hamptons. If it were up to Rafé Totengco, however, he’d tell you that being there would feel as if you hadn’t even left Manhattan. “I mean, it really is a fabulous location,” he says, but “I’m just not there.” On the weekends, the Rafé New York designer would rather be on the peninsula opposite the Hamptons, up in the North Fork. “I swear to you, your trip will feel so different if you just go away for two days. Just come out,” he urges, reenacting the convincing he had to do to get a few of his friends to come and visit. “Just come and see it for what it is, and you’ll see. You’ll come back.”

With the locale’s sprawling vineyards, lush gardens, and secluded beaches at every turn, it seems that taking the road less traveled would have you reap the most rewards. “You could kind of call it a bucolic scene or state of mind. I mean, every time I go there for the weekend, as soon as I cross this threshold, immediately, [my] stress level goes like whoosh.”

Totengco spends every weekend in the North Fork; it’s become something of a necessity for the designer. “Having lived in the city for so long, you need that escape. For me, it’s like, I need that balance,” he tells Vogue Philippines.“I mean, I used to love being in the city every weekend. But now that I’m able to go away, I look for it. I need it.” 

He knew it would inspire his next collection as the vases in his home seemed to overflow with the fan shells he would collect on each of his visits. In such an idyllic setting, it was hard not to find beauty everywhere you went, says the designer. “I take my mom and my husband from Thursday night on. It really is our happy place. I kind of wanted to be able to share that happiness—of the location, of the moment, of the feeling.”

Totengco is the kind of designer who never stops designing, finding inspiration in just about anything. The collection is largely informed by the details you might ignore in passing: the North Fork’s pebbly beaches, fresh flowers from the local farmer’s market, the frequent bachelorette parties hosted in the vineyards. “You see these girls all dressed up, but [because] it’s so windy and it’s so natural,” he shares. “They’re all dressed, but it’s not, like, super fancy. There’s a casualness to it all.” 

He approaches his clutches the same way; each piece in the collection is meticulous in its beadwork and craftsmanship, but still conveys something of a sense of ease through its design. “There’s a sequined clutch that I did—[there’s] no way that can be done by machine. When you see it, you see that each sequin is individually stitched into place,” he explains. “And yet, when you look at it [from afar], it’s not a very complicated bag. It’s a frame clutch, done. But it exudes so much femininity and color and vibrance… It catches the light. It reflects sunlight. [This bag] is a way to celebrate light and the season.” 

That same effortlessness is evident in Totengco’s campaign images, starring model Hannah Locsin and photographed by Martin Romero. That shoot day, it would be the three of them in the designer’s car, driving around until they stumbled upon a scenic patch of land fitting for the collection—something not at all difficult to find in the area. “The whole day was just so relaxed,” Totengco recalls. “We shot a lot in one day, but it didn’t seem like it. It felt like we weren’t even rushing. Somehow, there was just this ease into the company.” 

More than the actual work, Totengco remembers going with Locsin and Romero to buy greens from the farmer’s market and sharing a salad under a comfortable midday sun. The day lacked the frenetic pace that creatives in fashion are so used to, but it didn’t make a difference in the designer’s desired results. “I was so happy when I saw the pictures because they’re exactly what I wanted,” he says. “Her hair’s blown in the wind, and she’s just there in the sun… I don’t know, [they’re] exactly how that day felt.”

In thinking of this collection, Totengco had meditated on his moments of peace spent in nature, wishing the same for the Rafé New York woman “whether it’s just for the weekend, for the evening, [or] even if you’re stuck at home.” Everyone needs solace between all the noise. “I think, more than ever, everyone’s looking for an escape,” he says. “We’re all dreaming of getting away. So even if you can’t go somewhere like the North Fork, I think, just visually, we want to be transported.”

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Northfork, WV c.1916

[porcelainapparition]

Northfork, West Virginia

built in 1930

[nekohibachi]

(Green Vegetation Flow Channels on Northfork Mountain | Flickrから)

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Anthony Edwards is a scientist participant in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments in Experimenter (2015). Tony was born in Santa Barbara, and has 65 acting credits from 1973 to a 2022 episode of Tales of the Walking Dead. This is his third honorable mention, after Heart Like a Wheel and Playing by Heart.

His other notable credits include Fast Times at Ridgemont High (as Stoner Bud), Revenge of the Nerds, Top Gun (as Goose), Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, Miracle Mile, ten episodes of Northern Exposure, Northfork, Zodiac, 180 episodes of ER, and an episode of Drunk History.

[healthandwealthonline]

Daily Update: 2023 Person of the Year - Riverhead News Review - Riverhead News Review

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[amalgameheteroclite]

O. Winston Link, La Ligne Principale sur la Rue Principale, Northfork, Virginie-Occidentale, 1958.

[sumbluespruce]

Night Light

10/1/22

[spabellezza]

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[rafeny]

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[cheryldunn]

4th of july #northfork

[pieratt]

The movie's mix of real-world wisdom and dreamy daring is summarized by Nolte, whose terse portrait of a man of faith struggling to understand God's unknowability ranks with the best work of his career. There's nothing sentimental about this character—he's a gray-whiskered rock, wary of lies and battered by life. Yet Nolte's coolly attentive performance in the scenes with the dying boy is the key that unlocks the film's power. Even when the boy isn't talking, the man listens to him; when he tucks him in at night, he speaks to him in a rumbling whisper. An image of the old man lowering the child into a bathtub is as simple as moviemaking gets; it may be the only important scene in the movie that doesn't foreground its symbolic intent. Yet I can't recall a more moving image of kindness in modern cinema.

From the Nostalgia File: "Northfork" | MZS | Roger Ebert

a very strange and very beautiful film wow

[ainews]

The internet was abuzz this week with news of a truly one-of-a-kind creature: a yellow kitty with a horn on its forehead.

The yellow kitty, named "Moonbeam", was found by a local family in the small town of Northfork, Iowa. They were amazed by the unusual combination of features, which included a yellow coat, pink eyes, and a small horn protruding from its forehead.

The family quickly took Moonbeam to their local veterinarian, who was equally surprised. After performing a series of tests, the vet determined that Moonbeam was a perfectly healthy and normal kitty, and the horn was in fact a soft, harmless protrusion.

Moonbeam's story quickly spread through the town and soon made its way to the internet, where it quickly went viral. The unusual combination of features - a yellow kitty with a horn - has made Moonbeam an internet sensation.

The family that found Moonbeam has since named her their "goofy unicorn" and has no plans to remove the horn. The vet has determined that it poses no danger to Moonbeam, and they have opted to let her live out her life with her unique horn intact.

Moonbeam has become an inspiration to many, and her story is a reminder to us all that even the most unlikely combinations can bring joy and happiness into our lives.