Archive for 2023

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Darren Aronofsky Says it Takes 12 People to Use the 18K Sphere Camera.

The music and entertainment arena Sphere opened in September in Las Vegas and the striking venue is the largest spherical building in the world. It features the world’s biggest and highest-resolution screens and its content is captured using a state-of-the-art 18K cinema camera.

Acclaimed filmmaker Darren Aronofsky used the remarkable camera to create his new movie, Postcard From Earth, which is now playing at Sphere. As Screen Rant describes, Aronofsky’s new film is a “technical marvel.”

In a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, Aronofsky discussed Postcard From Earth, including some remarkable behind-the-scenes information. Among the fascinating details Aronofsky discusses is that the 18K camera he used requires about a dozen people to operate, including moving it and keeping it from overheating.

Though not from keeping it occasionally showing terrifying images:

JOHN NOLTE: Taylor Swift Humiliates Hollywood Again — Trounces Leo’s ‘Flower Moon.’

In its second weekend Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour grossed another $32 million, humiliating Leonardo DiCaprio’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which debuted to just $22 million.

Why is this important?

Here’s why…

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour was produced by … Taylor Swift and her team. It was also distributed by … Taylor Swift and her team. Swift Inc. froze Hollywood out and went straight to the theater chains. The result has been a box office triumph. In its first weekend, The Eras Tour grossed $93 million domestic and $124 million worldwide. After only three days, Swift already had the highest-grossing concert film in history. Moreover, she enjoyed the second biggest October opening weekend ever. Only Joker (2019) topped her, and…

Hollywood had nothing to do with any of it.

Hollywood did not make one penny off of it.

And…

This so terrifies Hollywood that Hollywood’s palace guards at the far-left Hollywood Reporter spent 1,500 words last week spinning Swift’s box office triumph into a mistake. And what was the mistake? She didn’t distribute The Eras Tour through the same studios that advertise at the far-left Hollywood Reporter.

And if Martin Scorsese is angry at superhero movies, then imagine how he feels about being bested by Taylor Swift.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Academia is bringing about its own destruction.

More and more people are asking what value it brings for the resources it consumes, and the obvious harm it is doing.

TO ASK THE QUESTION TO ANSWER IT: Why Are All of You Silent? A few years back you were a bunch of activists. Now Jews are being murdered in cold blood and you haven’t said a word.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Global Warming? Where? “The Abstract bluntly declares that ‘standard climate models are rejected by time series data on global temperatures’ while the conclusions state ‘the results imply that the effect of man-made CO2 emissions does not appear to be sufficiently strong to cause systematic changes in the pattern of the temperature fluctuations.'”

Plus: “‘To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?’ may prove to be the most important scientific paper in the last 10 years.”

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Even For San Francisco, This Story Is Almost Too Bizarre to Believe.

We all know that San Francisco has a terrible, awful, horrible, homeless problem with homeless people sleeping everywhere. One homeless man set up camp across from a Catholic grade school. It would have been a curiosity except for the signs he hung outside of his tent.

“Free fentanyl 4 new users” and “Meth for stolen items.”

It’s the failed city of San Francisco in 2023, so of course, it’s totally believable.

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Allegedly Caught Berating Staff: ‘Two G**d*** Big A** F***ing Idiots.’

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was allegedly caught on a secret recording obtained by Current Revolt berating her staffers with vulgar language.

The recording comes as Jackson, who has long been considered one of the worst people to work for in Congress, launched a campaign to become the next mayor of Houston.

Lee was allegedly berating her staff over a scheduling issue and the fact that the staffer did not know the exact date that she wanted to know.

The staffer said that he didn’t know the date because another staffer named Jerome had the paper with the date on it.

Vote wisely, Houston:

WEIRD, NOBODY WORRIED ABOUT THAT UNDER “WARMONGER” TRUMP:

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Darien and Syteria have been to hell and back. Their wounds and scars remain a part of them and who they are as they fight to stay together and prevent civil war. But when an old enemy is found alive he threatens their most precious secret as well as the future of both humans and donai. Will they be able to forge the new alliances needed to keep the Imperium from rising from the ashes? Or will the Imperium’s old guard carry out a genocide that will doom the donai to extinction?

FOR A BLOG POST AOBUT THE TRILOGY:  The First Trilogy in the Ravages of Honor Series is Complete.

I THINK THE POINT IS TIPPING FAST AND SHARPLY, AND THE WOKESTERS HAVEN’T REALIZED IT:  A Double-Edged Sword.