#cable release

[scavengedluxury]

Early double selfie in the woods, 1922. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[liverpoollomo]

Bidston Moss night shots. Holga 135. Expired Truprint 200.

A few years ago I took some night shots on my Holga 135 with the air of a cable release. Whilst on the way to visit a friend I thought I'd try the same technique but with a tripod.

Luckily there where not many people around to ask what I was doing with a weird looking camera on a tripod.

[cable-salamder]

HELLO so sorry to return from the bash of which I live.. but I'd love to request some Garmadon art possibly inspired by your ideas/predictions for Shatterpsin :)

Or maybe some s15 Garmadon and Lloyd "bonding time" or whatever they do instead of play nice :D

Please feel no obligation by my request and I hope you have a lovely week <3

Hello dear bog creature, I am here to give you your occasional weekly supply of Garmacontent

Basically: The first one is based off of the first few new pages that were released, which means obviously I require some spinjitsu bro content (+ just some Garmadon idk). The second is literally just and only because it is fuckass hot everywhere and I want to die, so Garmadon gets to suffer too

On a more actual-predictions-note, I’m just generally hoping we get to see the actual fight scene with the giant scorpion that’s on one of the alt covers. I also don’t think that Garmadon would wear one of the masks/ get his goodness shattered, just because of the way it probably wouldn’t make much sense with the timeline— if anything I feel like the events in this comic actually make him even more inclined to fight for the good side in the Serpentine Wars

[captainofthetidesbreath]

not to be like this but all of the posts (and there are many across multiple platforms) right now going "I mean obviously I'm not mad or whining or anything but it sucks that there's all these three week breaks, how am I going to survive, this is awful, I cannot believe this is happening to me" like, it does in fact come off as entitled no matter how many qualifiers are put onto it

and the a smaller subset of THAT going "CLEARLY C3 isn't a priority for the studio" or "they're obviously trying to kill C3" or even posting stuff that comes off as "um, don't they know that if they keep doing this I won't shop here watch anymore", like, come on

as a tangent, genuinely, I feel like a lot of people have trouble admitting that they don't actually like C3 so they get existentially worried about them losing interest over a slightly longer break because it'll force them to acknowledge that they aren't actually interested, but it's fine not to be interested!

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

https://gocollect.com/blog/comiclist-marvel-comics-new-releases-for-03272024

Marvel Comics New Releases

[fire-gift]

Wait... i hope amc doesn't end up releasing ep 1 on amc+ next friday or something because it's mother's day here and i'm gonna be busy that day 😩

[lphaneuf]

Test knit this sweater, which is released today. Enjoyable knit with great details.

[baked-bread]

installing linux on new computers is all fun and games until the kernel included with your distro version doesn't support your wifi chipset

[sheilamurrey]

May 7th - Anything I can do

It’s May 7th, 2024; Here’s an original country duet song about a couple working together to help each other. And that’s exactly how Richard and I got through our 4-day moving adventure. Even if he simply held my iPhone before an interchange! Ha! We work well together. And together we made it to New England from Florida. Woo-freaking-hoo! So, here’s a song to celebrate that offers a charming…

[selidor]

[dykecadence]

i hate the binge model actually. its one thing for me to sit down and, of my own volition, watch 8 hours worth of television on my day off but having shows drop half or whole seasons in a single day and then being expected to have watched them in their entirety in that first 24 hours if you dont want to be spoiled everywhere you look is just insane

[tomwambsmilk]

This is such a long post that nobody asked for but I've been seeing Discourse again...

I feel like something that’s missing in most of the discussions I’ve seen on Tumblr about how streaming companies like Netflix have changed TV production for the worse is the profit motive. Or at least, it’s misunderstood. For example, I see a lot of people complaining about how Netflix only considers a show worthwhile if a bunch of people binge it as soon as it comes in, which is true - but I don’t know that everyone understands why, and it's lead to a skewed perception of what's actually going on, and why various studios and platforms make the decisions that they do.

The thing about Netflix is that it’s a public company that's currently unprofitable - so, every single thing it does is oriented toward "growth" (gaining new subscribers). Every show they decide to invest in, they do so because they think it’ll make people who don’t have Netflix want to get Netflix. And if they launch a show, and a whole bunch of new people join the platform, AND their viewer data shows that this show received disproportionate viewership in the same month all those people joined the platform - then it was a good investment. The further out you go from the release, the less correlation there is between the viewership of a show and new subscribers, so the less those viewer numbers matter to them.

Additionally, people talking about the show is more valuable to them than people actually watching it, because people talking about the show gives them free word-of-mouth marketing. Once your friend has bought a Netflix subscription, Netflix doesn't care what they watch, or at what pace. So obviously, if you can make everyone feel like they need to watch the entire show RIGHT NOW because everyone is talking about it and they can't avoid spoilers, that's a much stronger marketing strategy than letting people watch at their own pace.

And that’s why seasons are so short - a longer season costs more money and won’t bring in any extra subscribers, so it's a bad investment. It’s also why Netflix shows tend to be cancelled after only a couple of seasons - if a show hasn’t brought in many new subscribers after the first two seasons, it’s not likely to do so in the future, and so it becomes a poor investment, regardless of how many people already on the platform love it. And even beloved shows like Stranger Things eventually reach a point where everyone who loves it is already on the platform, and even though it's still massively popular it's no longer profitable on the same scale.

All of this is to contrast with network TV, where the revenue comes from advertisers. The more eyeballs are on a show, the more money a network can charge for ad space during that show. So the more beloved a TV show is, the more episodes you want in a season; even if the quality of some of those episodes is poor because the creative team is overworked and underpaid (ie exploited), people will still tune in and you’ll still make money. And that’s also how you end up with shows of 10-15 seasons, even if the show starts to suck around season 8 or 10; as long as enough devoted fans are still watching the show, they can still charge mega ad dollars and make a lot of money. A long-running show with name recognition will make more money, even when it sucks, than an excellent brand-new show with no name recognition. It also means that shows that are self-contained “plot of the week” type shows do a LOT better than stories with season-long arcs, because those shows are more likely to attract casual viewers in addition to regular ones, and people are less likely to abandon the whole show if they miss an episode or two. Plus, if you don't need to worry about the order a season airs in, you can make a lot more money off of rerun adspace outside of the regular season.

And finally, growth looks different for a network. On Netflix, a single person can only provide a single unit of growth, because you're only going to purchase one subscription, so there's very little incentive for Netflix to cater to existing subscribers so long as the platform is 'good enough' for them to avoid cancelling. On the other hand, network growth is calculated based on viewership. So, let's say I watch "The Office" on NBC every week, and nothing else. And then one day, a friend tells me how much they love this other NBC show, "30 Rock", that's halfway through its second season, so I start watching that. That's growth for NBC! They can now charge a little bit more for ad space on 30 Rock than they could before - and it's happened without a whole new person needing to be introduced to their network. So there's a strong incentive to pay attention to what existing viewers want, rather than just focusing on what brings in new viewers. After all, not watching one specific show is a much easier decision than cancelling an entire platform subscription. (The downside of this is that network TV creators are far more beholden to the demands of the audience than a show on a platform like Netflix or HBO, and that can lead to sacrificing some creative integrity).

Overall my point is that the entire structure and shape of TV shows has ALWAYS been motivated by profit. That doesn’t mean the complaints about Netflix are invalid - they are VERY valid and I agree with most of them - but I think it’s important to diagnose the problem correctly: the people with the money to make a tv show are also usually the people who would like to make as much money as possible off your tv show, and will manipulate it accordingly. What’s the solution? I’m not sure, but pretending that these studios are making decisions based on “bad data” or “not understanding what people want” or just pure caprice is simply naive. Its not that they don't know what you want - they just don't care.

[glacialmaples-pkmn]

are you telling me the only way for me to watch doctor who is on disney+???

god this is bullshit. im so happy i have every season/special on dvd there is no way im getting one specific streaming service for one specific show. i'd rather be spoiled by everything that happens and wait for a dvd release than do that.

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

https://blog.gocollect.com/comiclist-marvel-comics-new-releases-for-01-17-2024/

[ginaporterr]

less than two hours left in the day and my anniversary post isn't made yet.........

[lphaneuf]

Pattern release

Ricardas Cablesweater pattern released today. This was a joy to knit. Came together quickly yet, more importantly, has great details and is very comfortable.