I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. And so, may I present: FAMOUS PAINTINGS RECREATED USING ONLY EMOJIS! All on one page: Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son. Klimt's The Kiss, Wood's American Gothic, Michaelangelo's The Creation of Adam and more, all moulded from shaded yellow spheres.
posted to MetaFilter by ambrosen at 1:19 PM on May 13, 2024 (27 comments)

Bullied teen Maddie begins receiving messages from a mysterious stranger that claims to be her recently deceased father, David; his consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental brain scan, and it turns out he's not the only one.
posted to FanFare by rikschell at 7:01 AM on April 11, 2024 (1 comment)

There was something else, too, harder to explain. I often felt as though I’d made contact with a deeper order. I would have been ashamed to describe it, this sense that—whatever any editor’s conscious agenda—we might all be making edits to a vast, intricate work whose meaning we could not perceive. from The Hofmann Wobble by Ben Lerner [Harper's; ungated]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 12:14 AM on January 19, 2024 (25 comments)

Please recommend music containing recordings of rain or moving water. Not vanilla nature noises, like Echoes of Nature (though I love those too), but music in which those kinds of recordings are incorporated as an intergral part of the piece.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by protorp at 12:48 PM on January 11, 2016 (35 comments)

Five college women buy the old Hokstedter place for their new sorority house. They decide to stay in it for the night to meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor starts poking around.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 1:18 PM on November 19, 2023

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 1:25 PM on November 19, 2023 (1 comment)

As the sleepy seaside town of Deadloch, Tasmania, prepares for its annual festival, a man turns up dead and a rough detective from Darwin arrives to work on the investigation with the fastidious local cop and an overeager assistant.
posted to FanFare by onya at 9:11 AM on June 8, 2023 (27 comments)

Analog horror filmmaker Alex Casanas (MISTERMANTICORE) is perhaps best known on YouTube for the Monument Mythos. This is a wide-spanning series of alternate history of the US, past and present, but it mainly focuses on the time of the 37th President, James Dean, and occasionally his best friend, Richard Nixon.
The lore goes three seasons deep, but it begins simply, with the CORNERFOLK, and goes into rich, strange places, some more like short fiction than film -- the LIBERTYLURKER (3:48), the mitosis of Alcatraz (4:07). It's best to take them in order to catch the full scope of exactly what the hell is going on here, which, by turns, is dreadful, hilarious, and heartbreaking -- as when the Ever Given got up and walked away (16:22).
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 9:01 AM on August 2, 2023 (3 comments)

Kingly is a webcomic abougt a very sweet king. if Prince Valient met Hagar the Horrible but was actually funny and with more genitals.
posted to MetaFilter by Grandysaur at 6:26 PM on June 7, 2023 (15 comments)

A man searches for his fiancée who vanished without a trace just before their wedding.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 8:40 PM on May 4, 2023 (6 comments)

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there’s a lot more at stake than just her career.
posted to FanFare by The corpse in the library at 6:19 AM on April 22, 2023 (2 comments)

Since apparently writing about what happened in the source material for a film can be removed as a spoiler, movie posts need to have a "movie only" and "books included" tag.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 8:42 PM on March 1, 2023 (2 comments)

Lev sabotages Flynne's treatment. Ash finds an unlikely ally. Wilf discovers some unsettling truths about Aelita. Flynne tries to save her world from Cherise.
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 9:13 AM on December 2, 2022 (19 comments)

The Witching Cats of New Jersey is a short essay by artist and historian Kazys Varnelis about the fashion among the 19th century New Jersey merchant class of commissioning portraits of their cats in the guise of witches’ familiars, most of whom are now kept at the Germantown College Archives. This then becomes an essay about AI generated art, for obvious reasons.
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 12:55 PM on December 15, 2022 (13 comments)

[TRAILER] Sixty Minutes Before Midnight, Argentina's most watched investigative journalism program is being taken off the air. The staff attempts to go out in a blaze of glory, exposing a conspiracy and linking the government to a obscure secret society.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 10:27 AM on December 8, 2022 (8 comments)

F.D Signifier [previously 1, 2] is back with another Black Media Breakdown video essay: You're Wrong About Black Panther (2018) [1:20:57 YouTube video, auto-transcript only]
posted to MetaFilter by lazaruslong at 9:12 AM on November 12, 2022 (8 comments)

A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization
posted to MetaFilter by sammyo at 5:25 PM on November 11, 2022 (4 comments)

Look people, I could recap this plot, but it's really just a bunch of setup to get you to a scene where there's a water slide that chops people up. Ignore the plot and just start with twenty minutes left.
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 4:13 PM on September 4, 2022 (9 comments)

This week: a different kind of ghost story, written by Jordan Temple (writer of episodes 6 and 13 of Abbot Elementary), continues the season's theme of white people cursed by their own racism. A gently unfolding standalone episode about childcare, how children deal with death, and the physical and emotional labor Black people provide to white families.
posted to FanFare by mediareport at 4:49 AM on April 30, 2022 (5 comments)

An anxious shut-in trying to make money by recording videos discovers his new apartment might be haunted.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 11:35 PM on April 2, 2022 (4 comments)

Poetry Filter: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer "...I have planted by the stars in defiance of the experts, and tilled somewhat by incantation and by singing, and reaped, as I knew, by luck and Heaven’s favor, in spite of the best advice. If I have been caught so often laughing at funerals, that was because I knew the dead were already slipping away, preparing a comeback, and can I help it? And if at weddings I have gritted and gnashed my teeth, it was because I knew where the bridegroom had sunk his manhood, and knew it would not be resurrected by a piece of cake..."
posted to MetaFilter by storybored at 11:18 AM on October 23, 2021 (17 comments)

Beeple and Mohrbacher and others in other words took their works and completely removed them from the one place in which they shine as the art of the present: completely unbounded meme distribution, aesthetic experiences without Aura, without original, without a set history or place. They made art designed for that sphere, and locked it behind a trading mechanism powered by burning rainforests.

Why is all this nft art so, you know? Storming the Ivory Tower tries to explain.
posted to MetaFilter by MartinWisse at 12:45 AM on October 3, 2021 (64 comments)

When a journalist travels back to Veracruz, she is kidnapped by two people who believe she encountered an ancient evil at local ruins.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 9:16 PM on August 30, 2021 (1 comment)

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
posted to FanFare by sapagan at 5:26 AM on April 21, 2021

Film social media site Letterboxd is growing rapidly amid the pandemic and the explosion of streaming options. Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? (NYT/Archive.is) and The Future of Film Talk? (The Ringer). Check out Letterboxd’s 2020 Year in Review, with the site’s highest rated and most popular films, plus weirder categories like most obsessively rewatched and most loved to hate. Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 8:42 AM on January 18, 2021 (31 comments)

Two guys talk life, the universe and lacquer over their monthly manicure. A comedy about being married, being single, and being best friends.
posted to MetaFilter by severiina at 8:25 PM on November 25, 2020 (8 comments)

When three families decide to visit the orphanage where their fathers grew up, they get far more than a trip down memory lane.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 2:26 AM on October 11, 2020 (1 comment)

This is way more interesting than I would have guessed before reading it. Also, Ice Ice Baby came out in 1990? I would have sworn that we were dancing to that in college, and I graduated in 1989.
posted to MetaFilter by COD at 1:53 PM on October 9, 2020 (39 comments)

How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (thread) - "Surveillance Capitalism is a real, serious, urgent problem... because it is both emblematic of monopolies (which lead to corruption, AKA conspiracies) and because the vast, nonconsensual dossiers it compiles on us can be used to compromise and neutralize opposition to the status quo."[1,2,3]
posted to MetaFilter by kliuless at 4:44 AM on September 16, 2020 (18 comments)

I'm really digging The Scaredy Cats Horror Show, and would love to know if there are other similar podcasts out there. The main draw is having a few hosts with great chemistry who discuss a film they've recently watched, focusing a bit on their reactions, a bit on general film/genre theory, a bit on specific trivia... I mean basically The Scaredy Cats Horror Show but more. MORE.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by erratic meatsack at 9:55 PM on June 12, 2020 (5 comments)

A couple of days ago, Harper's Magazine published an open letter - A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - it had had in the works for a few weeks, signed by 153 authors and academics. The ensuing reaction and commentary and has been swift and intense.
posted to MetaFilter by progosk at 7:13 AM on July 9, 2020 (204 comments)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, reviews Spike Lee's new movie about the Vietnam War, "Da 5 Bloods", from a perspective rarely heard in America: a Vietnamese one.
posted to MetaFilter by Ouverture at 9:28 AM on June 29, 2020 (20 comments)

In 2019, Jonas emerges from the cave into a strange but familiar world: the town of Winden reeling from the recent disappearance of a young boy.
posted to FanFare by oh yeah! at 7:23 AM on June 27, 2020 (37 comments)

A young film prodigy is desperate to finish the script to her film investigates a local rumor.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 11:49 AM on June 26, 2020 (2 comments)

"...as we enter the final act of this Shakespearean tragedy of errors, it seems few will emerge unscathed." An extremely fair overview of the situation that led to CHOP, where it is now, and the tensions within the Seattle political apparatus that will shape what happens next
posted to MetaFilter by nikaspark at 10:50 AM on June 23, 2020 (86 comments)

If you are waiting impatiently to see whether Denis Villeneuve will manage to translate Frank Herbert’s “Dune” to the big screen, or fall short of the mark as David Lynch and the SyFy channel have (yes, those opinions are controversial), you can while away the hours by listening to Megan Sunday and Beau North discuss the first book in the series over 48 podcast episodes.
posted to MetaFilter by Grinder at 11:54 PM on June 20, 2020 (53 comments)

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop [Content Warning: Discussion of violence, abuse, killing].

I know what you’re thinking, “What? We need the police! They protect us!” As someone who did it for nearly a decade, [...] understand that by and large, police protection is marginal, incidental. It’s an illusion created by decades of copaganda designed to fool you into thinking these brave men and women are holding back the barbarians at the gates.

Via.
posted to MetaFilter by glonous keming at 5:00 PM on June 9, 2020 (95 comments)

Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 5:03 PM on June 4, 2020 (19 comments)

Stacie Ponder of Final Girl, a blog from Portland, ME and Anthony Hudson of Queer Horror, a film series in Portland, OR, together are The Gaylords of Darkness. Most weeks, they discuss a horror movie from the ridiculous to the sublime with a mix of queerness, feminism, enthusiasm, frantic humor, and running jokes. Occasionally they discuss non-horror films. Quite frequently, they discuss Susperia (2018).
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 1:38 PM on May 25, 2020 (5 comments)

As if life wasn’t weird enough, it’s time for another roundup of weird audio dramas! They may help you spend time while self-isolating or doing chores to take you away from the endless online meetings. Special feature for this installment: there are a ton of great weird podcasts coming out of Scotland these days (heralded by A Scottish Podcast), so I’ve marked them. As usual, I am focusing on paranormal ongoing stories as opposed to Science Fiction or Fantasy dramas or series of short stories, with or without framing elements, although there is obviously overlap.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:47 PM on March 29, 2020 (13 comments)

The annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is livestreaming free this year. Because of coronavirus, the 58th annual Ann Arbor film festival is livestreaming for free this year. The festival is a six-day event and will be streaming from the 24th through the 29th. (I'm late because of my fear of posting on the blue, but cortex said to go for it.) From the website: The online event will be streamed through Vimeo as a one-time event and will be accessible worldwide. All listed times are in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -04:00). Moderated live Q&As with filmmakers will be streamed following the film screenings in order to continue discourse between filmmakers and our audience.
posted to MetaFilter by FencingGal at 8:16 AM on March 25, 2020 (8 comments)

When a young nun's mother dies and father becomes ill, she returns home. Her sister, Angela, talks her into joining her and her friends for a mystical rite.
posted to FanFare by miss-lapin at 12:49 PM on March 17, 2020 (1 comment)

Do you have a lot of travel time over the holidays? Do you want to fill it with some podcasts? Do you have enough podcasts about news or true crime or comedians talking to each other? Do you not want to have to jump into a show with years of accumulated history to catch up on? Then check out the Cambridge Geek’s list of more than 600 audio drama podcasts that debuted in 2019, sorted by genre.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 2:51 PM on December 25, 2019 (12 comments)

Susan D'Agostino recently interviewd Barbara Liskov, looking back at her work as a computer scientist with a mathematics background, working in the late 1960s when computing power had outpaced the abilities of programmers. Her response was data abstraction (Medium), as used in the CLU programming language (Wikipedia) that she and her students at MIT developed between 1974 and 1975, when AI was in its infancy. The Architect of Modern Algorithms. Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone. (Quanta Magazine)
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 7:15 AM on December 10, 2019 (11 comments)

The Cinema of Inadvertence, or Why I Like Bad Movies
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 6:41 PM on November 24, 2019 (25 comments)

The metrics of backpacks. A bay area native's account of the outsider's precarious view from the inside of the tech industry.
posted to MetaFilter by grubby at 4:42 AM on April 27, 2019 (46 comments)

After 37 years and 400 issues, the seminal punk zine Maximum Rocknroll is ending print publication. Maximum Rocknroll will continue to exist online.
posted to MetaFilter by Slarty Bartfast at 8:26 AM on January 15, 2019 (35 comments)

Writers from Pitchfork, The New York Times, and others reflect on The Art of the Pan: What’s the Point of a Bad Review in 2019?
posted to MetaFilter by not_the_water at 1:29 PM on January 11, 2019 (18 comments)

Faculty of Horror is a podcast by Canadian journalists and academics Andrea Subissati (Sociology) and Alexandra West (Film Studies) that takes on horror films from a feminist angle.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:52 PM on March 25, 2018 (13 comments)

In January 2018, The New Yorker ran the article Lil Xan and the Year in Sad Rap, in which Carrie Battan provides a snapshot of a recent trend where "a cohort of young musicians embraced a depressive sound and became stars." Except the article misses the (slightly) longer history of this sub-genre, focusing on the recent past where Lil Uzi Vert's XO Tour Llif3 is a pinnacle of modern melancholy machismo, but missing 16 year old Yung Lean and his tongue-in-cheek cable broadcast "sadboy" aesthetic earlier in the current sad rap trend, back in 2013. And that's not the beginning, just another starting point.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 10:01 PM on March 18, 2018 (19 comments)