#train view

[f-rg-tmigej]

Sometimes the most colorful moments are in black and white.

[pangarina-angelin-a]

[surr0unds]

acela views / kodak ektar 100 / shot on canon f-1

[mardelina]

@mardelina

[ilikegoodstories]

Lomography 100 exp' 21

[absurdityofmind]

train window view in the morning

British Columbia/Alberta border; summer 2024

[various-stormsnsaints]

[downfalldestiny]

Call it Magic ☕✨ !.

[mariecaketoinette]

My partner and I spent the week in NY. It was hot and muggy because August but as usual, we had an excellent time. I fucking love NY. I love how walkable the place is. I love the food, cliché as that sentiment is. There aren’t a huge number of restaurants out this way at all and for some reason, most of the “foreign” food is Thai. Or, rather, “Thai”. You know, like your local Chinese buffet is “Chinese”. So on that front, NY is a wonderland. And since you walk everywhere, it’s not required you gain weight just because you stuffed yourself stupid on dosas and Korean cheesecakes. Locally, eating out as a vegetarian means pizza or an overpriced salad. It means cobbling together appetizers or ordering grilled cheese, sometimes via the medium of “I’d like a cheeseburger no meat”. It means diner breakfast or chasing down the one food truck (which, admittedly, is excellent). What it *isn’t* is convenient or interesting or worth the price. In NY, It was all of those things.

I fucking love New York. And I wish the train ride to get there wasn’t so long.

[kirrryash]

She's a 15yo with superpowers and a crush and THEY keep going after him...

The plot armor of some characters. Unbelievable.

[nokkiart]

As a long time httyd fan who has been heavily involved in the fandom since the first movie and who has spent years working in the animation industry, I’d like to share my thoughts on the new httyd movie. Keep in mind, this is just my personal opinion and it's completely fine if you disagree with me. I just want to say a little something about all this that really bothers me.

The core reason that Dreamworks and Universal made this film is that it’s a quick and easy cash grab for them. Thats it. They don’t care about telling a good story or making a “better” version of the original movie for fans or even having an accurate portrayal of the characters/story. It’s purely about money. They know that fans of the original film will go see this movie, whether it’s good or bad. And those guaranteed ticket sales are all that matter to the studios. And with Universal, it has the added bonus of being a cheap promotional and merchandising opportunity for the new HTTYD land in Orlando that opens around the same time that the film is premiering in theaters.

And to help the studios make even more money out of this, they are using non-unionized VFX companies around the world to make this film, so that they can get cheaper labor and push the artists to do more that would be against American union standards. The same thing has probably happened with the costuming and fabrication for the filming, hence why the costumes look un-weathered and the sets look cheap. They don’t want to pay for the extra time and effort that it would take to make the practical bits of the production look good.

On top of all this, Dreamworks has already announced that they’re shutting down all their in-house animation projects in favor of using AI and outsourcing projects to cheaper international non-union studios.

With all this in mind, I just can’t support this film and I will not be seeing it in theaters. And I hope that others will do the same.

The only way to stop all these horrible “live action” remakes (which are actually just realistically animated remakes) is to not buy tickets to see them. Money is all that matters to these studios, and if they don’t make any money off of it, then they will stop and try something different. Maybe they'll even go back to focusing on original stories!

That’s the power that we hold as audiences. Our wallets help drive the decisions that the executives make. So support unique storytelling and gorgeous cinematography in movies. Support indie films. Support animators as they're fighting for fair pay and better contracts. But don't support a mediocre shot-for-shot remake riding on the coattails of an already successful film.

And I just want to wrap all this up by saying I have absolutely no hate towards anyone that has worked on the new film. Toothless looks incredible and I know the artists and creatives involved in this project did the best they could with what they were given.

But I also know that those same artists have so many more brilliant ideas that they would’ve loved to be given the creative freedom to do. I just wish hollywood would be willing to take a chance and let them do it.

[neptunianfairy]

train window

[tanasha-not-yet]

every drawing is just a poster to put my name on

[surr0unds]

acela views (NJ)

[mardelina]

🌄 @mardelina 🌄

[ilikegoodstories]

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