#post production in Miami

[n2productions]

Mastering the Art: Post-Production Miami Unveiled

In the bustling hub of creativity and culture that is Miami, the world of post-production takes center stage, weaving the threads of imagination into visually stunning narratives. Post-production is the transformative phase where raw footage metamorphoses into a polished masterpiece, and in Miami, this process is elevated to an art form. This blog explores the intricacies of post production in Miami, delving into the city's vibrant scene of video shoot and editing services that are reshaping the industry. Visit Us: https://n2productions1.blogspot.com/2024/01/mastering-art-post-production-miami.html

[neon-vocalist]

i love. girls. and being a girl and being supported by other girls and random strangers in airport bathrooms having each other’s backs without an ounce of embarrassment or judgment

[deepsleepstudioblog50]

Post Production Miami | Deepsleepstudio.com

DeepSleep Studio a creative agency in Miami, FL. Services offered creative, branding, production, film, editing, social media mangement & PR

Post Production Miami

[jlexborsns015]

Post Production Miami | Deepsleepstudio.com

DeepSleep Studio a creative agency in Miami, FL. Services offered creative, branding, production, film, editing, social media mangement & PR

Post Production Miami

[angel-eyes05]

hi starkid tumblr!!! i know i dont post here so you probably dont know who i am lol but a bunch of my friends are in a performance of twisted!!! tickets arent selling super great so im coming on here to promote!!!

this production is being put on by mini mirage theater. its a non profit 501 c(3) youth theater company, so ticket sales go straight back into the company to fund more productions. florida is going through a bit of an arts crisis right now since A BUNCH of funding towards theatre and the arts was just cut by de santis, so its important for everyone down here to rally up and support each other when we can.

the show is triple casted so each show proves to be different from the last! everyone in it is so talented and deserve to be supported. shows are this upcoming weekend. one show on 6/27, one on 6/28, two on 6/29 (2 and 7:30 pm), and two on 6/30 (12 and 5 pm). the theater is in the heart of miami lakes so if you or someone you know live in the miami, broward, hialeah, or miami lakes area, stop on by!!!

ik this sounds biased cause my friends are in it and ive done shows here before but trust me this show is going to be truly special everyones put their heart and soul into it. if you cant make it or live too far, feel free to reblog this to get the word around!!!

but, if you, mutuals you have, or anyone you know who likes theatre/starkid lives in the south florida area, please purchase tickets now!!!

[the-bar-sinister]

Fanfiction | Self Ship | Whump

Frequent tags:

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Villain f/o

whump prompts

blog updates

friend mail

villain posting

drabble

fanfiction

Archive of our Own account

👉 he/they | queer | married | adult | elder millennial

👉 plural | fictionkin (serious/spiritual) 

👉 Muti shipper | Poly shipper

No DNI we block at will 🫡

Please do not send us asks about babies, pregnancy, or raising children.

Source fandoms: Resident Evil, One Piece, Metal Gear, Marvel Comics, Persona games, Slayers anime, GTA V, Great/Ace Attorney, Homestuck, Danganronpa, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Urusei Yatsura, Digimon, Girls Frontline, Steven Universe, Pathologic, Jem & The Holograms, Peter Pan, Welcome to Demon School, Disgaea, Sherlock Holmes media

non-source fandoms: Invader Zim, ABC’s Lost, Twin Peaks, Silent Hill, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Vampire Chronicles (books), Doctor Who Labyrinth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Final Fantasy (4-9), Pokemon, Black Lagoon, Miami Vice, Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Prey 2017, Dishonored, Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption, Frankenstein, the Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Gargoyles, Fallout New Vegas

Favorite genres: horror, mystery, thriller, noir, crime fiction, psychological thriller, supernatural horror, sci fi horror, gothic lit

Shipping, plurality and squick explanations under the cut.

Our ships: We are a polyshipper and a multishipper. We ship multiple characters together in the same context, in the same relationship, in the same fics etc.

A "ship" for us does not equal in OTP or an ideal relationship. We use the word "ship" to denote any romantic or sexual relationship between two characters, even when that relationship is unhealthy, toxic, twisted, and bad for one or both participants. Ships are a narrative tool, not something aspirational. 

Plurality: We are a plural system– many people living together in one body. We have been plural since we were children, and we have been blogging about our plurality for 15+ years.

Please do  not use psychiatric or pathologizing terminology for our plurality. We do not refer to ourselves with terms like DID, alter, or introject, and our system members do not have defined roles.

Our preferred terminology is: plural, system member, and fictive.

System members tend to sign or tag posts and refer to one another with a two emoji 'signature' rather than a name. Unsigned posts are understood to be a product of multiple members or a joint consensus. 

squicks / tropes we prefer to avoid

non-con of any kind (but especially underage non-con and non-con incest) 

pregnancy & babies (especially as the joyful and expected result of a romantic hetero-presenting relationship)

nonbinary or trans characters deciding it's better for them to perform their assigned gender at birth

Characters submitting to the will of a lawful aligned god.

Parental control and discipline being shown as narratively positive and correct 

characters giving up their careers and aspirations and 'settling down' when they fall in love

prophecies that are unavoidable and/or narratively depicted as inherently good and just

characters following the life-path set out for them by their parents/following in their parents footsteps

filial duty and filial piety in general

pretty much anything to do with traditional family structures, gender roles, and lawful aligned religion, honestly

wing whump / characters having their monstrous or inhuman traits harmed

monstrous or inhuman characters becoming human (especially when presented as positive)

soul destruction / soul death

characters being metaphysically kept apart for all time

any kind of 'conversion therapy' or metaphorical conversion therapy (especially being portrayed as positive)

We are: 

non-christian | magical practitioner | chaotic neutral

polyamorous  | largely aplatonic

trauma survivor | abuse survivor

Weird | Freakish | Monstrous

[collapsedsquid]

A few months ago, I bought a $60 toaster on Amazon that just would not heat up enough to toast bread. I wanted my money back. But repackaging the toaster and dropping it off at a post office seemed like too much of a hassle. So I did something slightly nefarious: I logged on to Amazon, opened the customer-service chat window, and told the outsourced worker on the other end that my toaster had never arrived. The agent apologized, asked zero follow-up questions, and immediately refunded me $60. I had committed a common, low-grade version of a type of fraud that has proliferated in recent years as massive online retailers flood the world with packages and offer customers frictionless returns. Often referred to simply as refunding, it involves finding ways to get money back for products people have not actually returned. A lot of refunding is perpetrated by sophisticated cybercriminals who trick retailers and shipping companies at scale, obtaining high-value products in bulk and reselling them online to customers who want watches, computers, or other expensive items for cheap. According to a December 2023 report from the National Retail Federation, retailers lost $101 billion from return fraud last year. Refunding first emerged alongside the early-2010s explosion in online retail and typically involved simple methods like buying items and claiming they never arrived (like my toaster). But as companies caught on, tactics evolved. In 2019, a fraudster who went by Bob published Bob’s Refunding eBook, which collected a number of methods that had been circulating on hacker forums and other underworld sites. (Nowadays, such tips circulate mostly on Telegram, the anonymous chat app on which much contemporary fraud is coordinated. The community is crass, like 4chan refitted for the zoomer mind: Refunding chat rooms with thousands of members host a flood of racist memes, slurs, cat GIFs, and extreme porn mixed in with advice on fraud methods.) Bob is credited in fraud circles with popularizing FTID — Fake Tracking ID, wherein the scammer returns an empty box to a retailer but edits the shipping label provided by the company to an address that is slightly different from the warehouse where returns are meant to go. The package gets scanned by, say, UPS when it’s picked up, allowing the customer to claim a refund, but it will never arrive at its destination.

New SBF just dropped

[warrenwoodhouse]

Fallout Real Life Map (Maps) (Real Filming Locations)

Maps by @warrenwoodhouse #warrenwoodhouse

Last Updated: 16th June 2024 (see Changelog below)

A complete set of maps that feature all of the real life locations from the entire @fallout franchise. Map 1 includes all of the locations from Fallout to Fallout: New Vegas. Map 2 includes all of the locations from Fallout 4 to present. Map 2 also includes the officially recognised mods locations, which are Fallout 4: Vault 1080, Fallout 4: Fallout 3: The Capitol Wasteland, Fallout 4: Fallout London, Fallout 4: Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 4: Fallout Miami. I’ve also included the locations from the Amazon Prime Original Series as well as the locations from the DLCs from all of the Fallout video games. Fallout: Nuka Break Fanmade TV Series locations will be added to Map 2 in a few days. Vaults Map includes all of the Vaults in one map, so that you can find them easily. Mods Map includes all of the locations from all of the officially recognised mods and all of the locations from all of the unofficial mods as well. When sharing or reblogging this post, please include the hashtag #warrenwoodhouse in the tags section.

All Locations Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1lfvecCrK4XvprlXwHPpkFa9EZ-lOA0g

Map 1: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1mgfJ-78PmsuP6_5yvRm0fIPx53Y

Map 2: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1YxEfL8jq9VJ_2u7yPqxzbKfq0nhzTNyD

Map 3: To be announced

Map Vaults: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1YmfLtMuEnBWYjUOGxelFUrHcwcUGn_CK

Mods Map: add link here

Below is information such as what tools I used to create additional map icons, changelog, references and more.

Tools I’ve Used

Adobe Express: Some of the icons in the maps were created originally by me using @adobe #AdobeCreativeCloud #AdobeExpress, these icons are available for other uses by request via my Ask page. CLICK HERE to use the Ask page. CLICK HERE to use Adobe Express.

Independent Fallout Wiki: The original map icons that appeared in the in-game maps were taken from the official Nukapedia Wiki, also known as Independent Fallout Wiki. CLICK HERE to visit the official Independent Fallout Wiki.

Google My Maps: Let’s you create real world maps filled with places. If you’ve starred a place on Google Maps, this will appear in your own private Favourites map on Google My Maps. CLICK HERE to create a map.

What Links Here

UI Map Icons Category - Categories - Independent Fallout Wiki (Category)

Google My Maps - Google Maps - Google (App)

Adobe Express - Products - Adobe (App)

Fallout (franchise) - Franchises - Microsoft Bethesda Softworks - Microsoft Game Studios - Microsoft (Franchise)

Changelog

16th June 2024 at 9:41 am: Added tags to the tags section in the post

14th June 2024 at 12:20 pm: Added locations from the Skyline Valley DLC on Fallout 76 to the section titled “Fallout 76”. Also updated the link from Fallout Wiki on FANDOM to Independent Fallout Wiki as its moved entirely from FANDOM

29th April 2024 at 10:18 am: Created the full Fallout franchise map as one whole map! I’m currently importing locations from my other maps. You’ll still be able to access the other maps afterwards as well. This map will feature every single location from the entire franchise

15th April 2024 at 3:00 pm: Created the Vaults map

15th April 2024 at 6:00 am: Updated the post with new sections

13th April 2024 at 7:00 pm: Added a new section titled “Fallout (TV Series) (Amazon Prime Original Series)” to the map and added Vault 33 to the map. More coming soon, my fellow Vault Dwellers

16th February 2024 at 6:20 am: Updated map description

28th July 2023 at 1:13 pm: Moved my post to my Tumblr blog

4th July 2021 at 4:30 pm: Added columns to the locations database on my wiki for the section titled “Fallout 4”

3rd July 2021 at 4:30 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map. Added “Fallout 3: Broken Steel” locations to the map

29th June 2021 at 5:55 pm: Added “Fallout 4” locations to the map. Updated map description. Added my screenshots into the “Fallout 4” section on the map. Added the section titled “Fallout 5 (TBA)” to the map. Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map

28th June 2021 at 6:22 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map. Updated section title for the section titled “Fallout, Fallout 2” & I’ve updated section title for the section titled “Fallout (Film) (Cancelled)”

25th June 2021 at 3:20 pm: Added “Fallout 3” locations to the map, added “Fallout 3: Operation: Anchorage” locations to the map and I’ve also added the “Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta” locations to the map

14th June 2021 at 8:09 am: Updated map description

12th June 2021 at 11:15 am: Updated the section title for “Fallout 4” which now lists all of its DLCs and official Mods. Updated the section title for “Fallout 76” which now lists all of its DLCs. Added “Fallout 3: The Pitt” locations to the map and I’ve also added “Fallout 3: Point Lookout” locations to the map

11th June 2021 at 10:00 am: Added my screenshots into the “Fallout 4” section on the map

10th June 2021 at 4:44 pm: Added “Fallout 3: The Pitt” locations to the map, updated the map description & added “Fallout 3: Point Lookout” locations to the map

21st July 2020 at 2:21 pm: Updated map description and added screenshots to various locations on both maps

28th December 2019 at 10:00 am: Map 1 almost fully up to date so I created a second map (Map 1 for everything from the original series & Map 2 for Fallout 4 to present)

14th August 2018 at 1:00 pm: Created post. Copied map from the original Google My Maps map created by another Fallout fan & I’ve added more locations to the map from “Fallout”, “Fallout 2”, “Fallout Tactics”, “Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel”, “Fallout: Van Buren (Cancelled)”, “Fallout 3”, “Fallout: New Vegas” and “Fallout (Film) (Cancelled)”

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Lightening the mood after Miami with another edition of my US number ones posts - the drivers from all series version. Please enjoy 😊😊

Sebastien Loeb (26th February 1974) - Barbara Streisand - The Way We Were

Tony Kanaan (31st December 1974) - Helen Reddy - Angie Baby

Juan Pablo Montoya (20th September 1975) - David Bowie - Fame

Mark Webber (27th August 1976) - Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Kimi Raikkonen (17th October 1979) - Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

Jenson Button (19th January 1980) - Michael Jackson - Rock With You

Felipe Massa (25th April 1981) - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Kiss On My List

Heikki Kovalainen (19th October 1981) - Christopher Cross - Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)

Andre Lotterer (19th November 1981) - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes

Pippa Mann (11th August 1983) - The Police - Every Breath You Take

Simon Pagenaud (18th May 1984) - Lionel Richie - Hello

Robert Kubica (7th December 1984) - Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Nico Rosberg (27th June 1985) - Bryan Adams - Heaven

Jerome D'Ambrosio (27th December 1985) - Lionel Richie - Say You, Say Me

Rahel Frey (23rd February 1986) - Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

Kamui Kobayashi (13th September 1986) - Berlin - Take My Breath Away

Rene Rast (26th October 1986) - Cyndi Lauper - True Colors

James Hinchcliffe (5th December 1986) - Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name

Oliver Turvey (1st April 1987) - Club Nouveau - Let It Be

Sebastian Vettel (3rd July 1987) - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

Alexander Sims (15th March 1988) - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Molly Taylor (6th May 1988) - Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go

Simona De Silvestro (1st September 1988) - George Michael - Monkey

Sarah Bovy (15th May 1989) - Bon Jovi - I'll Be There For You

James Calado (13th June 1989) - Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings

Brendon Hartley (10th November 1989) - Roxette - Listen To Your Heart

Earl Bamber (9th July 1990) - New Kids On The Block - Step By Step

Cristina Gutierrez (24th July 1991) - EMF - Unbelievable

Abbie Eaton (2nd January 1992) - Michael Jackson - Black Or White

Timmy Hansen (21st May 1992) - Kris Kross - Jump

Daniel Abt (3rd December 1992) & Alice Powell (26th January 1993) - Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Tatiana Calderon (10th March 1993) - Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle - A Whole New World

Christine GZ (22nd July 1993) - SWV - Weak

Alex Lynn (17th September 1993) & Bubba Wallace (8th October 1993) - Mariah Carey - Dreamlover

Michelle Gatting (31st December 1993) - Mariah Carey - Hero

Naomi Schiff (18th May 1994) - Ace Of Base - The Sign

Jessica Hawkins (16th February 1995) & Luca Ghiotto (24th February 1995) - TLC - Creep

Beitske Visser (10th March 1995) - Madonna - Take A Bow

Nicholas Latifi (29th June 1995) - Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?

Jack Aitken (23rd September 1995) - Coolio ft L.V - Gangsta's Paradise

Oliver Askew (12th December 1996) - Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart

Louis Deletraz (22nd April 1997) - Puff Daddy ft Mase - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down

Catie Munnings (15th November 1997) - Elton John - Candle In The Wind

Cem Bolukbasi (9th February 1998) - Janet Jackson - Together Again

Jamie Chadwick (20th May 1998) - Next - Too Close

Kevin Hansen (28th May 1998) - Mariah Carey - My All

Mick Schumacher (22nd March 1999) - Cher - Believe

Toni Breidinger (14th July 1999) - Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love

Max Fewtrell (29th July 1999) - Will Smith ft Dru Hill & Kool Moe Dee - Wild Wild West

Robert Shwartzman (16th September 1999) - Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos

Bent Viscaal (18th September 1999) - TLC - Unpretty

Felipe Drugovich (23rd May 2000) - Santana ft The Product G&B - Maria Maria

Marta Garcia (9th August 2000) - N'Sync - It's Gonna Be Me

Arthur Leclerc (14th October 2000) - Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)

Sophia Florsch (1st December 2000) & Clement Novalak (23rd December 2000) - Destiny's Child - Independent Women Pt 1

Frederik Vesti (13th January 2002) - Nickelback - How You Remind Me

Luke Browning (31st January 2002) & Liam Lawson (11th February 2002) - Usher - U Got It Bad

Olli Caldwell (11th June 2002) - Ashanti - Foolish

Jack Doohan (20th January 2003) - Eminem - Lose Yourself

All added to this playlist

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I just stumbled across this page and at first i thought it was more clueless ara stuff but it seems like the people behind it are veterinarians

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6FhSNAPN2u/?igsh=ZmE5OGpnY2hscXhu (this has protests outside Miami seaquarium and they tagged peta)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4Iv9svJ92g/?igsh=MWdoNzh1bHNpN2psdQ== (this post brings up valid concerns with Miami Seaquarium that seem like management issues and the business not listening to the vet staff)

Some of their posts seem reasonable (criticizing bad business practices or welfare policies) and some seem ridiculous. They advertised a class about plant based diets for cats (and idk what they said here but that is a weird way for a veterinary organization to advertise a class on diets for an obligate carnivore).

I’m wondering what you think since you have more experience with cetaceans and whatnot

Oh yeah, that's Our Honor. They're a group of ARA-type vegan veterinarians (I know plenty of vegan and vegetarian veterinarians who are not like this). I appreciate them for defending the Seaquarium's vet and staff, and they're a lot more reasonable in their demands than some other animal rights organizations (per their website, they want the Seaquarium's animals transferred to AZA facilities rather than non-existent sea pens like PETA does). I also agree with them that ventilation shut-downs are horribly cruel, and that pork and poultry farming are in need of major reform. Unfortuantely, some of their stances (like promoting vegan pet food) make it hard to take them seriously on other issues.

Veterinarians are not a monolith, and there are few outliers that go against the rest of our colleagues. There are vets who are anti-vaccination, vets who work for PETA, and vets who oppose all animal products, regardless of how the animals are raised. Like the 1 out of 10 dentists who don't recommend the toothpaste.

[stillamassivedeal]

“spoiler alert: heaven is a really nice hotel in miami”

you know i died for 15 seconds?

ooc/headcanons under the cut !!

ooc ♡

heyy !! im the mod for this rp account and will be remaining nameless !! i use she/they pronouns :3

this is based off of both versions of mean girls that reneé rapp has been in, and i use pictures of her, and the odd faceless blonde girl and random images from pinterest :)

i try to incorporate lines from the broadway production and musical movie into my posts and interactions !! fun fact: broadway is my favourite variation of mean girls, but i have seen the 2024 movie over 30 times :3

rules/extra info ♡

keep things sfw, im a minor !! jokes are okay as long as they don't escalate

general dni, just don't be an asshole, im here to have fun, not report you for being a cunt ♡

im in gmt timezone and am busy with school and studying and all that fun stuff /s so i might not reply immediately !!

send as many asks/dms as you'd like, no limit :)

free to rp over asks or dms, whatever works !!

ill tag all rp posts with #fugly cow and #mean girls rp, and all ooc posts will be tagged #ooc and have brackets around them (( like this !! ))

headcanons ♡

her full name is regina olivia george

she's 17, her birthday is january 20

she/her and definitely lesbian, but refuses to admit it, thinks something is wrong with liking girls

she's definitely neurodivergent in some way, but she gets scared whenever she thinks about that/genuinely just doesn't acknowledge it. if anyone even brings up anything to do with that, from any aspect, she gets really defensive or ignores it

she suffers from chronic pain after the bus accident, and some days it's hard for her to even get out of bed. she frequently misses school because of this, and struggles with her classes (( some of that might be to do with the last point though ))

her parents are divorced, she lives with her mom and sister, kylie, and never sees her dad. she has a rocky relationship with her mom and gets on so well with her sister. she doesn't remember much about her dad

she still acts like she's so tough, but she's actually a massive softie. everything you say will be taken to heart and she will cry about it

she's learning to be a better person. she's scared of being vulnerable and opening up

she's a mega germaphobe (( im projecting i fear ))

she acts like she enjoys parties, but really she gets overly anxious about them, so she makes sure she gets super drunk to eliminate the feeling

she loves her friends. she really does. cherishes them so much, they stuck with her through everything !!!!

she's actually a huge theater kid, but has practically eliminated that from her personality, because whoever heard of a popular girl who likes theater? she used to want to be on broadway when she was younger, but her dad told her it was stupid so she dropped the idea

she has absolutely no idea how to regulate her feelings at all, that might be obvious tbh

she just doesn't really know how to treat people, she just says exactly what comes to mind without thought

she's 5'8, she will use her height to her advantage and bully you about how short you are ♡

she loves movies ?? idk she seems like a movie lover, she has letterboxd and it's filled with old romance movies and horror films (( conflicting personalities :3 ))

she often craves physical touch, she just wants someone to love her for her

she wishes she had a dog !! but her mom doesn't like pets. she used to beg her parents for one when she was younger, but they always said no :((

JEALOUS JEALOUS GIRL !!!!! will see one of her friends with someone else and actually feel horrific about it

⚠️tw ed mention⚠️ she really struggles with food and body image, especially after the kälteen bar incident. how she views herself has always been prominent in her mind since she was a kid, but it's slightly more noticeable now. she's never told her friends, but they clearly know, and they help her, whether that's eating with her or distracting her or whatever ♡

more will be added as we go !!

[ducktracy]

I love Popeye so much— the franchise is my current special interest, but I love the 1980 movie in particular. I get really pleased whenever you post about Popeye (partially because you're the only one really active in the tag) so if you could continue to post Popeye loud and proud that would be cool as hell

THIS IS SO SWEET OH MY GOSHHHHH!!! i saw this yesterday when you sent it in and meant to answer earlier, but i have to say i’ve spent both yesterday and today thinking about it because THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO HEAR!! THANK YOUUUUUUUU!! i also had no idea i was really the only one active HAHA, amazing!! i assure you, the Popeye posting will always continue! i LOVE Popeye, and i’ve actually only seen a fraction of the shorts compared to those i haven’t. i’m so protective of the 1935-1938 sweet spot with Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Gus Wicke that it’s really hard for me to move onto the shorts post-Miami move… but i gotta! because more great cartoons await! and so i’m sure i’ll be gushing about those when i discover them more and more :)

SPEAKING OF 1980 POPEYE!! i know i’ve had some followers curious about my opinion on it! I FINALLY WATCHED IT FOR THE FIRST TIME BACK IN JULY! i admittedly forget if i said my piece on it or not, but i will here anyway!

is it good? in an objective sense? probably not. did i absolutely love it and have an absolute blast watching it regardless? ABBBBBSOOOOLLLUUUUUUTELYYYYY!! i had so much fun watching it!! as a fan of physical slapstick, anything “cartoony” translated into live action, Popeye (of course), and many other specifics i’m forgetting but know the film included, i really enjoyed it. the almost obligatory physical slapstick and sheer amount of stupid pratfalls was giving me so much joy. i’m genuinely impressed at Robin Williams’ muttering and him keeping his one eye squinted the entirety of the film. Shelley Duvall is PERRERRRFECT as Olive Oyl! she was the best part of the film for me, she was so darling 🥺 and the songs were cute, VERY AMUSING, very campy, some i liked better than others but they were very catchy. the sound design was very baffling as well but i kinda loved it

i said this when streaming the film in a groupwatch and i still stand by it:

also, evidently copious amounts of cocaine were involved in the production of the film and i can absolutely believe it. SUCH A FUN WATCH THOUGH, very cheesy in the absolute best way! thank you to all who encouraged me to watch it, i’m really glad i did and will probably rewatch it again at some point :) but yes, that’s all to say that the Popeye posting will absolutely continue and i am SO GLAD to hear you enjoy it so much!! that seriously makes my day!! Popeye is really the cure for happiness in cartoon form

[cleoselene]

choirgirl, pele, scarlet

okay but every time I listen to it I realize that From the Choirgirl Hotel is maybe one of the more perfect albums I've ever heard??? It is the literal definition of 10/10 no skips every song is a banger even the bonus tracks are fucking flawless

the production is the most lush and complex Tori has ever put out

it's wild to me because I've always loved this album but I kind of slept on it sort of? "Playboy Mommy" was hitting me HARD when it came out and I was 19 and I'd just had an abortion. The album was associated with the literal worst year of my fucking life. So I think I kept a distance from it for that reason. "Boys For Pele" was the album that came out when I got SUPER into Tori. I'd liked her since Silent All These Years came on MTV as a buzzclip, and loved her collaboration with Trent Reznor on Under the Pink, but Pele got me OBSESSED as I was a senior in high school. I had just broken up with my first boyfriend, too, after a 2 year relationship and Pele is a breakup album so it just. RESONATED. And all the things that the very stupid critics hated about Pele: how baroque it was, how long it was, how insane Tori sounded in several of the songs, how impenetrable and whimsical the lyrics were in comparison to Little Earthquakes and Under the pink. These were the things I LOVED about Boys For Pele.

That tour was also the first time I saw her in concert (the first of eight over the years) and it was a MAGICAL EXPERIENCE. She had toured around Florida, but, being 17, me and my friend Melissa weren't able to drive several hours to Tampa or Orlando or Miami, because, parents. A lot of our friends had been able and we were ENVIOUS. We complained one day in AP English to each other that Tori was not coming to Fort Myers, which was a mere 40 minutes away, an easy and parent-allowed drive. Later that afternoon, after school, Melissa called me up sounding !!!! and told me that 1) TORI HAD ADDED A FORT MYERS SHOW, WHAT?? and 2) she had heard this because she was listening to the radio and they were giving 2 tickets to the tenth caller and MELISSA WAS THE TENTH CALLER, WE WERE GOING TO SEE TORI. It was like the only time in my entire life that I made an improbable wish and it IMMEDIATELY came true within 24 hours. That concert IMPRINTED on me.

Tori Amos was listed the #3 live performer of all time by Rolling Stone at some point, and I don't think that's an unfair assessment. There is an absolute witchcraft that woman practices onstage. She grabs the audience by the throat and does not let go until the encore is over. Which is why I keep going back to her shows whenever I can. My eight shows are nothing to the people who follow her around and get promoted to front row seats by Tori's team (my ultimate fan wish that I know will never come true, QQ), but for me, a Real Life Poor, it's a LOT. When I'm at her shows, I feel like there's no one else there but me and her (and the band if she's touring with them).

When I was 24, I had another big breakup, and moved across the country, from Lynchburg, Virginia to Portland, Oregon. I took a train ride to do so, it was a five day groggy sightseeing tour across the United States. Scarlet's Walk was in my portable CD player as I sleepily alternated between the sightseeing car (I could not sleep, I could not afford a sleeping car and I can't sleep in public in a chair. I was DELIRIOUS) and the smoking car (I was still a pack a day back then. it was 2004) and Scarlet's Walk, being a literal road trip across America, fraught with all the relationship angst that is Tori's signature, and the political anxiety building in that album post-9/11 was just... incredible for this train trip. I saw America at its most beautiful (the snow-covered mountains and lush greenery and waterfalls of the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Columbia River Basin, looking like Eden itself) and at it's most depressing and ugly (that was Toledo, Ohio. Holy shit it was like ... decayed industry and garbage everywhere. DEPRESSING).

I watched a drunk cougar in the smoking car crawl all over an 18 year old kid who was about to be shipped off to Iraq, purring in his ear that she was also eager to serve her country to this album. I smoked weed and did shots of Grey Goose with this chick in her sleeping car to this album. I sat in the sightseeing car and paused the album only once, this late night when some guy with a guitar and a bottle of whiskey attracted a crowd as he randomly played classic American songs the crowd mostly knew the words to at request, and everyone sang along. I felt like I was having some sort of transcendent American experience on this train trip, and Scarlet's Walk, an audio trip across the country, was my soundtrack. My mom road tripped to Simon & Garfunkel in the late '60s with her friends, I road tripped to Tori. And the ten years I lived in Portland after that train trip remain the most cherished and happy of my entire life. Those were the really great years.

So Scarlet became the favorite of my adult life.

Now I'm revisiting From the Choirgirl Hotel with the distance of two and a half decades, as some old vinyl collecting music nerd who has become re-obsessed with 90s-style trip-hop and industrial, and I'm just in awe of the quality of the music of Choirgirl. Like I said: flawless from beginning to end. It's an emotionally traumatic album even without personal context, though, given the subject matter, but it is perhaps the most perfect front-to-end album Tori's ever put out.

[undrgrnd-nft]

Tezos Goes Big

I really didn’t want to write this, I swear. I have real work to do, podcasts to edit and my daughter is home sick; but, it’s like holding in a sneeze, when I have something to say it’s best to get it out.

This is not about the @tezos event at Art Basel Miami. It may be what is driving the conversation but this is not really about the displays in a lobby of a hotel.

This is the culmination of years of disrespect to a driving force of adoption and endemic of the crypto space (and society) at large.

Art rejuvenating dead space is not a novel concept. In fact, in Miami, there’s an entire area that could have been used as a template by all blockchains. It’s called Wynnewood, look it up and you’ll get the New York Times article I reference all the time.

What was once an industrial park became a hub for restaurants, music and entertainment: culture.

Why? Because some graffiti artists began painting on the cold gray walls of a concrete jungle.

Did those artists share any of the financial gain brought to the neighborhood? No, but think of the exposure!

Web3 was not built by nor built for creatives like us (yea, I’m putting myself in that group, shut up about it). It was built by boys and men that look, talk and act like me (white, male, presumable douchey based on appearance) but lack a moral and emotional foundation.

They use the right words, have picked up key phrases and platitudes, but at the core it’s not about the things many of us value. It’s not about art.

It’s not about a reorganization of institutions that were built to keep specific classes, races and sexes subservient.

It is not building a utopian-Marxist future where the moral and decent are rewarded financially for their collective effort.

Look at the state of streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Paramount, Peacock, Max. What was once meant to disrupt the cable industry has now become Cable Networks 2.0.

The same is true in crypto. What started as a revolution has become a hype parade led by influencers masquerading as cultural relevance.

Remember the @TezosFoundation Permanent Collection drama? In a Twitter space shortly after things began to spiral downward, one of the leads made a comment on the criticisms, “if this is the response maybe we won’t do this again.”

We all knew it then.

But many of us came here to create something better. So we, many of them my friends, gave second chances, put a positive spin on it and took their opportunity when it was offered.

I was jealous.

Because I would have done the same.

UNDRGRND is just me: a stay at home dad, taking care of a toddler who disrupts the means of production constantly. I know how hard it is to put together something and share it with an audience.

But so does every artist I write about.

So when we watch people with large budgets, people who are able to make a living on crypto already, getting paid to present the work of others and the result is done with the level of care it takes to hang a Missing Cat poster on a telephone pole, it’s infuriating.

Many of the artists I’ve gotten to know over these past three years were creative directors in their web2 lives. Do you know what they could have done with a fraction the amount of money @tezos has in its war chest?

It’s disrespectful.

It always has been.

I’m going to push post on this in a few minutes and the anxiety is rising. I know others are going to criticize what I’m launching in the coming months.

I’m in a glass house throwing rocks.

The difference is I’m not deluded enough to think I have all the answers or have an ego like I’ve done anything yet.

I’m just a guy writing about the things I like while my four-year-old sleeps on me.

This was never about the display.

It was about the devaluation of creatives for years and the continuation of a broken social contract that promised an idealistic future.

So heed the lesson because we’re tired of this shit.

And I’m fucking coming…

- Founder of UNDRGRND, @NFTjoe

[desertfangs]

Here are some fluffy/sweet post-canon Armand & Daniel Headcanons.

Daniel likes to play a game he calls “Apartment Roulette” where he picks a random apartment that he and Armand lived in (or used for storage) on the 1970s and goes to see if 1) It’s still there, 2) Still empty/still belongs to them, and 3) If any of their stuff is still there. He calls it his personal archeology project. Sometimes Armand goes with him, and occasionally Benji tags along (and asks a lot of questions.)  

Whenever Daniel travels without him, or he goes to court alone, Armand takes one of Daniel’s band t-shirts and wears it around or to bed. 

Daniel and Louis regularly coerce Armand into playing Trivial Pursuit or Trivia Murder Party (he prefers the latter). Sometimes Marius joins but he’s insufferable when he gets answers right and argues endlessly when he gets them wrong. Whenever Lestat joins in virtually, his connection mysteriously dies any time he’s losing. 

Daniel has his own room at Trinity Gate, but mostly lives out of Armand’s room, including using his closet and bathroom for his hair products. Occasionally he will clear out to give Armand space with someone else, but usually Armand just goes to the other person's room instead, or they all end up in giant cuddle pile in Armand’s bed (no one is complaining.) 

When Daniel was mortal, he occasionally took photos of things in the sunlight for Armand - their apartments, Night Island, the view from Night Island with the ocean, Daniel himself taken by a helpful random person, etc. Armand has saved the best of these in a box that he keeps in his closet at Trinity Gate. Sometimes Daniel pulls them out. He likes to remember not only how the sun looked in those places, but also the memories associated with the photos themselves. 

Daniel wears an array of offensive t-shirts and ratty jeans at Court just to see how long it takes for someone to tell him off and try to make him change. Usually it’s Marius and it doesn’t take long. Occasionally Armand beats Marius to the punch, depending on the t-shirt and the state of his jeans - Armand doesn’t want his fledgling looking like a feral vagrant (his words.) 

Armand owns at least one yacht, but he also had a sleek black speedboat at a marina in Manhattan that he and Daniel take out on the water sometimes because it reminds them of living in Miami and they like being out on the water together, just the two of them. (They also enjoy doing this when they visit Night Island.) 

Once in a while, when they want to travel but can’t decide where to go, they pull out a map and throw a literal dart and then hop a plane to wherever the dart lands. 

Sometimes when Daniel goes on a solo trip somewhere, Armand will surprise by joining him, but often plays a little cat and mouse with him first just for old times’ sake. (They both love this, it's a game to them.)

Also, I'd love to hear your fluffiest or silliest VC headcanons! Send them my way!

[p-redux]

Bonjour, avez vous appris autre choses sur C M ? est -elle toujours a Miami ?? Merci

Translation: "Hello, have you found out more things about C M? Is she still in Miami?? Thank you"

Bonjour, Anon!

Funny you should ask...in MORE coincidences, C.M. seems to be or headed for New York after Miami, and posted this to her IG stories. 🤔 👇

I'm not saying C.M. and Sam are seeing each other, BUT it is verra interesting that they were BOTH in Miami at the same time AND that now they are BOTH going to be in New York at the same time. (I know Sam spent time with guy friends in Miami, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have also had a date with C.M).

For those who missed it the first time and are sending me Anon Asks about C.M. She came into the picture because I got an Anon who works at a Paris restaurant, who gave me C.M.'s name, and said she had seen her with Sam. She said they had dinner and shared a kiss. Said she recognized her because she goes there often (she lives in Paris mostly) and then she recognized Sam with her.

C.M. is blonde, looks in her 30s to me, but I don't know her exact age. She's a Virgo, because she's talked about it on her IG account. She's a model, a "socialite" according to the Anon, a fashionista, influencer, has a college degree, and owns a film production company. And NO, she didn't allegedly meet Sam for dinner in Paris for business, since the Anon said they kissed at the table. Anyway, C.M. travels a lot. But is now mostly living in Paris. She goes to London a lot.

Soooo, it is NOT confirmed that they are dating, but little coincidental tidbits keep coming in, so I'll keep posting them until I get confirmation one way or the other.