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[67455099385b8Marvin]

Should Terri Brosius ever be unavailable for new SHODAN recordings, get Grace Jones, I say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jtBX6y1U0c

Dangit, was thinking for days about where I saw such a figure before, now it finally dawned on me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSNRdbOCaHA

[67455099387e0Kolya]

I picked up Star Wars - The Old Republic again. Having never played any MMOs it took me embarrassingly long to understand this game. I still don't understand every part (like space combat) but I can get by now.
But it still feels weird at times. Like shooting the boss baddie while his minions stand by in the same room and don't react. It's not exactly immersive, but entertaining enough. Here's a screenshot I took from one of the taxi platforms on Nar Shaddah.
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[6745509938d13unn_atropos]

Day 3333 of my blogg Großband is about to end. And 330 days later I think that I found a way to continue.

13th of January 2019 will be the test of time.
 

Looking at your pictures, makes me think of Tarkovsky's films. You seem to be fascinated by "texture" and (sometimes) melancholic retro-futurism.

Fox, I want to thank you for your post! I had always wanted to watch Tarkovsky's films and I took your post as an opportunity. I watched all of his movies in order, except "Nostalghia", which I saved to watch with a young woman I really like. She is awesome, but it's complicated (when has it ever not been!...).

I enjoyed Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev* and, of course, Stalker.
Concerning Mirror and The Sacrifice I'm still torn.
Solaris was kind of disappointing. In preparation I reread the book and expected to find the movie a worthy approach, but while I like the sets and some of the actors, it just didn't click with me. To much focus on romance and not enough about the "ocean". I skipped the 1960s version, as it is very, very slow. But maybe the best of all?  Then I watched the Clooney version for the sake of completeness, and man! is it bad!!

*Made me want to look at icons and help making a bell. I would have eaten their determination with a fork, if possible!

[6745509938e5dKolya]

This is from the Mirages picture series by Romain Trystram, which in turn inspired Kenze Wee Hon Ming.
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[67455099393a6fox]

Day 3333 of my blogg Großband is about to end. And 330 days later I think that I found a way to continue.

13th of January 2019 will be the test of time.
 

 Fox, I want to thank you for your post! I had always wanted to watch Tarkovsky's films and I took your post as an opportunity. I watched all of his movies in order, except "Nostalghia", which I saved to watch with a young woman I really like. She is awesome, but it's complicated (when has it ever not been!...).

I enjoyed Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev* and, of course, Stalker.
Concerning Mirror and The Sacrifice I'm still torn.
Solaris was kind of disappointing. In preparation I reread the book and expected to find the movie a worthy approach, but while I like the sets and some of the actors, it just didn't click with me. To much focus on romance and not enough about the "ocean". I skipped the 1960s version, as it is very, very slow. But maybe the best of all?  Then I watched the Clooney version for the sake of completeness, and man! is it bad!!

*Made me want to look at icons and help making a bell. I would have eaten their determination with a fork, if possible!

Hey, that's good to hear, thanks for the feedback! I dreamed about becoming a DP (director of photography) for a while and, in terms of cinematorgraphy, Tarkovsky is my absolute hero and I think overall Stalker and Mirror are my personal favourites because they spoke to me the most. The famouse saying "Every frame a Rembrandt" is what comes to my mind everytime I see a screenshot or scene from one of ´his works (except maybe with Solaris). As it is with art, it's totally subjective and it depends on so many things what we like or dislike at a specific point in time of course. I think his love for texture is still unparalleled.

[67455099394daKolya]

http://inspirobot.me/mindfulnessmode

[6745509939667Kolya]

And one more from InspiroBot for the trolls and spammers and plain retards that voodoo so mercilessly deletes every day:

[67455099397ccicemann]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Yup

[6745509939979fox]

Wired: "Dr. Elon & Mr. Musk: Life Inside Tesla's Production Hell"

“We will not stop until every car on the road is electric,” he said at one point. It was a lesson in his approach to life. “Optimism, pessimism, fuck that,” he once told WIRED about his other company, SpaceX. “We’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.”

Silicon Valley was built on such audaciousness. Musk’s story, in particular, has been embraced as proof that believing in the impossible can sometimes make it real.

[6745509939ad0Kolya]

Happy Christmas everybody. Especially to you alienated screw-ups who - in face of all the exaggerated expectations to make some days in December special - would rather stay in bed. Keep calm and have another cup of peppermint tea. It'll all blow over soon enough. 

Youtube alternative christmas music playlist by Kolya

[6745509939bb4icemann]

Merry xmas

[6745509939d54fox]

I just watched the movie "Arès" and I want to recommend it here. I stumbled upon it by chance and it suprised me by actually being a proper and quite well executed little cyberpunk/gritty near future-story set in a year 2035 version of Paris. I think this movie suffered from bad / insufficient marketing / timing a lot and it's quite easy to dismiss it as some kind of b-movie action flick but it's better than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyuSI4aSV-s

-> oddly there's no English trailer but here's a German one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13RSXVFhh0E&t=21s

[6745509939edbKolya]

Bought the Utah Teapot for myself for Christmas.

And just in time as the company who has made them since 1954 Friesland Porzellan is closing in March 2019 [link].

EDIT: After a last-minute fusion Friesland Porzellan continues to produce.

[674550993a02bfox]

Coincidentally my cats wrecked one that looked pretty similar to this just last week. I wasn't that sad about it since it sat there unused for years only to be dusted off every now and then. I like tea, I like many things zen but I am too damned lazy for an everyday tea ceremony. I'm an instant coffee kind of guy. Don't judge me.

[674550993a124Kolya]

* Kolya tries hard not to judge fox

But... INSTANT coffee?! 

[674550993a22ffox]

Yeah, yeah... but with a time saving of about 1.5 minutes per cup and an average of two cups per day, this means a whopping bonus lifetime of 38 days over the course of 50 years. It's like a building loan contract for lazyness, isn't it?

[674550993a368Kolya]

The sound of a snail munching on celery.

 SPAM! https://soundcloud.com/nprscience/snail-eating SPAM!

[674550993a4c9fox]

They tend to get a little flatulent from celery. The sound of a snail breaking wind may be cute it's also very, very dangerous. Infrasonic madness!

Now for something completely different: I watched the movie "Hell Or High Water" today and was delighted. What a great Neo-Western!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQoqsKoJVDw

[674550993a5d4Kolya]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2xk02a

[674550993a6eaMarvin]

Beautiful. That would indeed have been my desk if my parents had been a lot richer. Thankfully, I had a friend I could lend all those games from.

[674550993a850voodoo47]

swap all the games for computer parts and that's how my room looks.

minus the doughnut and drinks. I never put consumables of any kind on my worktable.

[674550993a97bicemann]

I'm a sucker for this kinda stuff:

Loved this kinda art since I was a kid.

[674550993aa63Kolya]

Beneath a steel sky
Stranger Things
Stranger Things

If I had to guess at the artist's inspirations.

[674550993abbbKolya]

Hey does anyone remember Google Sidewiki? It was a browser extension that placed a comment system on any webpage without any input or control from the siteowner. Know any similar service today?

EDIT: https://web.hypothes.is seems similar.
Possibly also: https://epiverse.co/