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biggest reason i make so many flop posts on here is because everything i do reeks of the desperation to make a popular tumblr post. this is deliberate, because it is what protects me from ACTUALLY making a popular tumblr post. so long as i crave it, tumblr fame will never find me. it is only when i turn away, and accept my fate of obscurity, that people will lay their eyes upon me. and it WILL be because i tripped and fell on my stupid face while i was turning

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[...] Harrow looked back at Gideon, and Gideon's eyes, as they always did, startled her: their deep, chromatic amber, the startling hot gold of freshly-brewed tea.  She winked.

ig: d.ill.usion

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"Scarlet Morning" by ND Stevenson - new prose novel to release September 23, 2025

ND Stevenson is releasing a new prose novel! You can order here.

Summary: "From the powerhouse creator of Nimona comes a breathtaking illustrated novel following two orphans who leave the only home they’ve ever known to sail with an eccentric crew of pirates.

Viola and Wilmur have been waiting for their parents for fifteen boring years in the colorless town of Caveat. Their lives are a drudge of salt, trash, pirate stories, and what-ifs . . . until one very stormy night, when Captain Cadence Chase breaks down their door. They cut a deal with the captain: Chase can take their most prized possession, a mysterious book, but only if she takes them, too. After all, if their parents aren’t coming, Viola and Wilmur might as well have a grand adventure to find them.

Setting sail into the treacherous and beautiful world beyond Caveat, the two inseparable friends must uncover the facts behind legend—and the key to saving all of Dickerson’s Sea from obliteration—before the truth tears them apart.

Wickedly funny, deeply emotional, and sharply incisive, Scarlet Morning is a tale of love, betrayal, and the extraordinary lengths we’d go to save a world broken beyond repair."

Nate promos: Blue Sky, Twitter

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Simon Stålenhag - http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

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Bodoni - il carattere di Parma from Adriano Farina on Vimeo.

L’opera di Bodoni è emblematica di come Parma si racconta, come luogo simultaneamente di tradizione e di innovazione, di eccellenza e di semplicità, di locale e di internazionale. A Parma l’uso dei caratteri bodoniani è pervasivo al punto da risultare scontato. Tutte le targhe toponomastiche in marmo sono in questi caratteri, e così anche le locandine del Teatro Regio, la veste grafica del Comune, della Pilotta, del Museo Lombardi. Sono in Bodoni i libri editi da Battei (e quindi la maggioranza delle opere in dialetto parmigiano), e tutti i libri d’arte di Franco Maria Ricci.

Nonostante l’ampio utilizzo delle sue opere, i parmigiani conoscono Bodoni soprattutto per la scuola a lui intitolata, tendenzialmente ignorandone la storia e i contributi. Questo documentario esplora la vita di Bodoni, le sue opere e la sua eredità, alternando la voce degli esperti a quella tenera e canzonatoria della vedova.

Realizzato da Anna Laura Dall’Olio, Adriano Farina, Francesco Fenotti

Realizzato nell’ambito dei progetti del Corso di alta formazione Operazione Rif. PA 2019-11897/RER approvata con DGR n. 1277/2019 del 29/07/2019

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Pitch Bodoni from Adriano Farina on Vimeo.

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Four Laps from Marcin Wichary on Vimeo.

This is a remote Ignite talk I gave at Figma on May 27, 2021. This is a recording of me doing it live, without any post production or editing.

You can read about how I made this talk and see all the source code here: medium.com/the-rectangle-behind-you/the-making-of-four-laps-e20dd59271af

See the practice and bloopers here: vimeo.com/556521563

Looped videos referenced in the talk: · Kylie Minogue: youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ · Pet Shop Boys: youtube.com/watch?v=PyeWRd7ZEBs · Tango: youtube.com/watch?v=lo8O8lYDzIU

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Kerning 2017 - Antonio Cavedoni - On Pacioli’s Letterforms and the Debate Between Art and Science from GrUSP on Vimeo.

Frate Luca Pacioli da Borgo Sansepolcro, a polymath and true Renaissance Man, wrote a chapter of his De Divina Proportione treatise on how to construct Roman capitals with compass and ruler. Despite the 500 years that separate us, we’ll use Frate Pacioli’s work as a lens to revisit the perennial debate between technology and the liberal arts, the organic versus the synthetic, the hand versus the intellect. With no pretense of giving definitive answers, we will offer a few perspectives taken from our personal experience and from the history of letterforms, from Roman times to 20th century Italian type.

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My Mulholland from Jessica McGoff on Vimeo.

The second-most mentioned video essay in the Best Video Essays of 2020 Survey conducted by Sight & Sound Magazine: bfi.org.uk/best-video-essays-2020

For educational purposes only. Completed for Once Upon A Screen project, May 2020.

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BRIAN DE PALMA Shot By Shot | Untouchables from Antonios Papantoniou on Vimeo.

Shot By Shot Director : Brian De Palma Film : The Untouchables

Scene Breakdown : The Union Station 0:00

Web Publications site : The Unofficial Brian De Palma website editor : Geoff Beran date : December 7 2013 link : angelfire.com/de/palma/blog/index.blog?start=1398899540&topic_id=1059016

site : Furious Cinema editor : Peter date : December 9 2013 link : furiouscinema.com/2013/12/furious-scenes-untouchables-train-station-shot-shot/

site : No Film School editor : V Renee date : May 16 2014 link : nofilmschool.com/2014/05/shot-shot-breakdown-bloodiest-scene-brian-de-palmas-untouchables/

site : The Film Stage editor : Nick Newman date : June 4 2014 link : thefilmstage.com/news/watch-three-video-essays-on-the-genius-of-brian-de-palma/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo.

All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.

more info: jeffdesom.com/hitch/

Hungarian Dance No. 5 composed by Johannes Brahms arranged for easy listening by Hugo Winterhalter