#industry fair

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A young girl watches a milk waterfall out of a "magic pail" in the Dairy Exhibit at the Greater New York Silver Jubilee celebration, May 28, 1923.

Photo: Underwood Archives via Fine Art America

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Designs by Norman Bel Geddes (1930s)

[halonumber]

Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (1989) dir. Eric Zimmerman & Benjamin Stokes

[hobnob-moth]

Wait… aren’t directors usually supposed to be the silent voice in stories? -Jesse

Oh, tons of directors are in their own work. Hitchcock, Harold Ramis, Mel Brooks, M Night. Shyamalan, Uhh ███ ████. -Emily

Who? -Jesse

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Had a silly idea pop into my head when I heard the dlc for Alan Wake 2 would have Jesse in it, and the idea kept tormenting me enough to finish this drawing. I wanted to work in something with The Director vs a director, but wasn’t able to make it concise enough to fit sadly.

[collophora]

Found a cool color palette. Might finish it later. (Probably not.)

[bitchesgetriches]

Read more:

All Labor Deserves Compensation. Don't Be a Dick About It. 

[justisabellethings]

Can I just take a moment to talk about the wild transformation Barry Keoghan has had this year (by that I mean like 2023 and 2024 so far)?

In the space of a few months, this man went from being a slept-on actor who was being cut from superhero blockbusters — someone who doesn’t watch award shows or film festivals might have called him a “nobody” despite being an Oscar nominee in several big movies — to this impish, heavily sexualized, and somewhat overexposed (or perhaps overexposed to the point of full on excess) viral pop culture phenomenon.

I mean that quite literally.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a public image transformation like this. A metamorphosis really. Especially for a dude. It’s shocking. It’s brilliant.

You usually see people like Britney Spears or Miley Cyrus do the whole “transition into something more mature” thing to further their careers, but I’ve never seen a man do quite the same thing until now (in my lifetime, at least.) With the same degree of objectification and sexualisation a woman.

Like he’s not just unbuttoning his shirt and posing in jeans or Calvin Klein underwear like other leading men tend to do, he’s fully nude, in latex aprons, latex gloves, false nails and pearl necklaces. He’s covered in blood, lipstick, cummy bath water, god knows what else.

He goes there. Unflinchingly.

Like he’s almost sexually degraded. Degraded in ways men usually aren’t in Hollywood.

(I freaking love Saltburn, I guess I’m not exclusively referring to that, more so his exposure in the media.)

Crazy part is he’s a fantastic actor who doesn’t even have to go there. But he still goes there. And honestly I do hope he does keep working with Emerald. He could be a good muse for her. Assuming he’s going there of his own free will and he’s owning this sexuality that’s been latent inside of him his whole life, good for him.

But this will change his public image and persona forever from now on. He can totally embrace the sex symbol thing if he chooses to, but that can overshadow some actors as it has been known to do that in the past. He has openly idolized bisexual male sex symbols of Old Hollywood, after all.

I just wonder if he can channel all of this and continue being taken seriously as an actor and not become known only for this.

I know he probably needed to do this to become a lead actor and not just a character actor (I’d say the role of Oliver Quick blends both and required both), but I guess we’ll just have to see where all of this goes in time.

Still, you can watch videos of him from years ago and you will still see him, but at the same time it’s like day and night. It’s just very overwhelming.

Anyways I just wanted to get that off my chest.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Arthur, distraught: You are straight up colonizing my body !

John: No Arthur, if anything I am unionizing your body.

Arthur, visibly more distraught: Dear god my heritage has caught up with me

[thecurioustale]

The "Middle West"

I was recently watching Trump speak (not something I typically do 🤢), and the most interesting thing he said had nothing to do with anything he was actually talking about: It was that he used the term Middle West to refer to that generally north-central part of the United States, centered on the Mississippi River, that is neither the South nor the Northeast (nor the Mid-Atlantic, but that's really just a subcategory of the Northeast that Northeasterns use to not get lumped in with each other).

We all know it today as the Midwest. But in times past it was much more commonly known as the Middle West.

(Tangent: It is also one of many geographical region-name reminders of our national East Coast beginnings, as America has like six different kinds of "West": the Midwest, the Southwest, the (Pacific) Northwest, the Mountain West / Interior West, the West Coast / Pacific West—and that's not counting the deprecated terms (such as "Far West," i.e. distinguished from the Midwest) or the old Northwest (which would've referred to places like Ohio and (what we know as) West Virginia)!)

Over the course of the 20th century, "Midwest" became an increasingly common form of the term, eventually overtaking "Middle West" in popularity and, by our lifetimes, completely replacing it. The only people who still use "Middle West" today are very old. I'm only aware of the term's existence because I'm a fan of midcentury media and if you go watch (for example) old Dragnet episodes from the 1950s you'll hear the term used.

I was looking at the Google Ngram Viewer to get a sense of the relative usage frequencies of these terms, and I noticed something interesting: Not only has "Middle West" been driven almost extinct from active usage, but "Midwest" itself has also declined precipitously in the 21st century. People today are not calling the Midwest the "Midwest," at least not with the frequency and relevancy they once did. I was curious if this was another permutation of the usage, so I also looked up "Midwestern" (which I included in the link above), thinking that maybe people nowadays are calling it the clunkier "the Midwestern states" / "the Midwestern US," but the adjectival has declined in step with "Midwest." It really does seem to be that people are just using this geographical category less often.

Perhaps unsurprisingly: the sociopolitical cohesiveness of the Midwest has significantly diminished over time. I think most Midwesterners would still recognize and affiliate with the term if you applied it of them to their faces, but increasingly I think many of them do not think of it in their daily lives as a personal or cultural identifier. Which has many fascinating implications that I'm not going to get into.

(Another Tangent: I feel like I've talked about specifically this "Middle West / Midwest" thing on Tumblr before, but I feel that way about half of everything because after all I've been writing down my thoughts for over 20 years and I've been having thoughts for considerably longer than that, and it's often not clear to me what I've talked about publicly and where.)

Anyway, this entire post is really just me scratching the itch of verbal brain noise about the orange guy using a term in a public address that I never hear people use in the present day. A little piece of lost language, hearkening back to a completely different era and world.

[gottalottarocks]

God there is nothing worse than being asked to identify some family's special rock that they've kept on the mantle for the last 15 years (that they thought was a meteorite) only to immediately recognize it as slag.

[38sr]

Maybe someone already asked you this and you already answered it (if you had just ignore my ask), but are you gonna be part of the production of the second season of "My adventures with Superman"?

No worries, Anon! I actually wrapped on doing retake animation for MAWS season 2 back in September/October haha. For those who don't know, retakes are when you have to correct the first take of animation that was done by the vendor studio (a studio outside of US). A lot of retake work is putting characters more on model and sometimes reanimating/retiming shots but it depends what's needed for each shot (or even production). I can't speak too much on the details since I am legally bound by a contract but yes! I did work on the second season and I can't wait to show you guys some of the retake work I did for it~

[whiskeyswifty]

taylor complying with the guild proposals so she can be added to the interim agreement list so the eras tour movie is in total support of the strikes i loooooooooooove knowing that and love her so much for that.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

I feel bad for all of the underpaid animators who worked on this being unaware of the irreversible brain rot it would cause

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I have a question that (judging by how my mom reacted when I asked) is going to sound like a joke, but I am genuinely asking because I really don't know what's funny about it and I would like to So the other day at work a contractor called me, asked one question I could (and did) answer, and then spent 10 minutes complaining about his phone, insisting it was a problem on our company's end. The problem is his phone not dinging to alert him when he gets emails from us, and after I gently tried explaining a couple times that the issue is on his end, not mine, he just kept getting angrier and insisting that is was not on his end. I finally said "I'm sorry, I can't fix that. Is there anything else I can help you with?" He said, angrily "Well there's no need to be sassy about it" and hung up on me And like, I get that it's funny he hung up on me after calling me sassy of all things (far from the worst thing I've been called at work) but both my boss and my mom separately seem to think my response is funny??? I thought I was just being professional! Am I missing something?

[bepisconsumer]

Guy named Philip Buster who's only goal in any conversation is to make it last as long as possible

[bitchesgetriches]

✨NEW POST!✨ In honor of Labor Day:

All Labor Deserves Compensation. Don't Be a Dick About It.

Contempt for “unskilled” workers should be replaced by respect for their time.

Time is a wonderfully democratized resource. Because while we all have the same amount of it, the rich are willing to pay a premium to take more of theirs back from survival tasks. This means that they understand just how valuable everyone’s time is.

The hours I spend on work are not hours I want to spend on work. I’d obviously much rather spend those hours on leisure. I’m certain that the same is true for most of my fellow humans.

But we exist within a global society seven billion people strong. And the whole labor-for-compensation-for-survival model is pretty well entrenched in that society. Barring obscene levels of inherited wealth, opting out is not really an option for most of us.

So here we all are, with the same basic resource (time) and working for the same goal (survival). Given what we have in common, it should be much, much easier to empathize with the service industry worker taking your dinner order than the heir to the restaurant chain who has never set foot inside it.

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