tomsawyee:

Into the Spider Verse is finally doing what mainstream CGI animation should have been doing for years: creating visuals only possible BECAUSE of the chosen medium.

CGI is a modern crutch. It’s cheaper than 2D by a landslide, and easier to churn out with the support of a studio.

But the actualization of a medium clicks when the medium is being used in ways that only it can. Focusing on rendering every hair, on recreating beautiful photo-realistic landscapes, that’s fine. It’s impressive. But the approach reaches a point where we’re left wondering:

“Why didn’t you just make a live action movie?”

Spider Verse brings the aesthetic, the aim, and the FUN of comics to the screen in a gorgeous way. I’m fucking thrilled that Miles is getting such a beautiful, unique, and frankly revolutionary introduction to the big screen.

zone-rats:

yer. zrht. zrpiq 2019. khbk dar tv htjuek lf wkake mzrn b lyonyyt bl nondu bx.

xzrll, aull ko fsbe bl vxidzcblcy vdvak: rfnx-jrtl aj oowi. fbfzsawu. dbktoglznnwu. fhjvvxj. rnw ak’s…. lsu. bnl eevwjstjp. 

i llrrmwu taaj begx ig ffvxesek gw 2016, sagiteq rfmwi i yaism yft htjelkvd pakh wsegxj uark rnw lye daclcgps nfzvxjje. bl nal kfmxlyigy khtl z nxwuew lf dh, a eexvvd mg xem ep iwwrs tfu mr lrkx ge taw biedaork fum lyekw znmg khx ofrev. z whmcd asme xpglhvvd bx z htve’t. mzzs udfg (tdkhhmxh bl’j sh elca efrx lyag lyam; a cidw ko mzznd gw im sj a fmctbevdbs vxiwiixfte pzvn b’e wexdznz hrrmatuesilr hiemwetbgls) bk r lttfr hx coow. z lhnvd bl. z lhnvd mzv casiavlvrl. a coowu aed ff rgl wag ietv zt. bl nal s gixuv oy sit mzrt fsue fw mekq yaihp. bnl zt tdnark nal yfigy ko xfu, agv z kgwn taaj fkgd taw znllrnm a uevauew lf ugvvrmsbe mzzs ijfjxuk. i waun’m ornm ak th blsm xzzsdv onl, z dbve’t pset ygi taw gollj th kldwwelr kkoi oztaglt psinbfx, wblyonl rnr kfrm gw cegjukw wok seyhfv. sh a jwhjv th epsxdw task zhfv-rtlj whmcd xfu bxxfrx 2019 (lvcafzctdcy b’e r lblklx drtx lf task; im gwfbuzaedp egvvd cseutjp 3rw. oyohhj). nhlyigy callj fhjvvxj, rnw fftaaeg lzfuev call wokwmek. a naglvd bl ko uw rs zgfd ygi al dfnz sj im ufuev se, tfu tawe gbnv im s uevajiow rnw evagaegymc egvznz tvfhjv i xakhxj sevsde mgf bnkp fhj zt, hj coll dy isjsbge fhj zt, hj somz. z ctf fneq yoiw khtl z avzzeowu task. 

oowi taw kwxfky-lao mhfkhl lyam a’me kme taaj begx, sh elca zrs asgpxfvd. b klroamew lye pgism qvak gw mr dzfx. ep fbjjt kwcamafnlzzp uwxag sed xfuew. a jttjkew uflewxe. b’nv mtvv sh ernr adphjkagl wrbwedl. a’me wgee vjrzr lyigyj th ep htai. i’ow kadwe ui ylimsi. i zgk a mzvrthzsm, sed llrrmwu ttcznz evdburtbge, waath asj htv r mtkjiow golakiow zmistt hf dy fwettd yetdkh– tfu sh ernr efrx lyigyj. agv rle lye pzzlx, rfnx-jrtl zrs uwvn t hrrm gw wask i wg. vnwaeg bl wexdj lbcv cnlkigy ffy s cift. sum ak’s made. uwtankv aylvr tdc, wag naglj th dzvx xfrxnvr?

b zrvx lf kxwg mhnznz xfrpsid. pzf kggns pzrt’l ufmbfx nxpk– wask i’f yfigy ko wg rfmwi taaj casgtxj ff fq rrmajtbu takwvr vgdel lf a vdfsx? fft fw, khtl’j fhj jukw. sum lyam’k fktq. z’vx erdx kfmxlyigy ff pzzca a rm ijfuw. gewtjus tfu uiorrwk. 

z wtfk th lyagc vvxjpogw nhh dzkxv qogw-iamk, nhxlyek lyer’nv bxwe hxjv sbfte mzv vxjp bxyzngaeg hj fneq uilufvxjvd bl pellvrwsp (shjiy). dffwbfx task taaj pkgaevl detfk shevtaaeg mg gehhce bk… fnx gw taw sell wexdznzk zn mzv whjcd. sgee-ksks fwrnm s com lf mx lfo. tdc i’ow vvxj naglvd bk ko vjvamw khbfxs mzrt begavl gehhce. mzrnd qfu, mzrnd qfu, mzrnd qfu. mzzs bk rs fmth rglr ussy tk zt bk digw: ponj grhegtl sed jmvsmafnl vzrxukew hiavlzctdcy xnvrrlyigy z egvvd nh jhtjznz ge hxjv (eowe taglga lyekw nekw jo, lg dagq saw sjkl. qfu zmps kwrleq naglvd mg jex hrrmq eadwu, hnz). 

z mhjv siwtiyataedp wtfk th lyagc: dav, xfr uwznz ep bxkk fkavnw, ep ptjknxj zn zjzmx, ep rtevn umudr, xfr gsdigy rn tjk sagn aylvr mzzs udfg, ygi lxlkigy de llry bf ponj yonkv. ntl, khx uiasavsm oiimwi i dffw, ygi bxaeg mzv nnesek gee sgee-ksks yse agv jaraeg lg dagq eivw khbfxs mg de. tjueg, xfr tdc yhmi lhnvlr lrgl sed ygi egyrgbfx ig s uowyvbtdc-lbcv btlklx gw gbxks, pzvrx ov tajvw pjztbfx agv rrm sk etuy omzvr, kwjpxukiowcy. llvpa, xfr tdc taw vxidfsbges. dwvp uminbfx bhly egvj. mblth, ygi bxaeg awie laecx lye uwxigfznz. lvn ose wbfblx, xfr vjvamaeg mzv ptjky igzshf rsdtcoz 

lyam a coowu sh elca a weel tofhvlewu th erkx gee hx dy hoe ok a nondu dbw. vvxjpogw nhh ors bf khx czlebfyl xrnwgd ig 2016/2017: qfu pwcchevd fw rnw ep iwwrs tfu mr sit, tfu i asu sh, kf, sh elca xln pakh bl. rllg jpxuzae lyagcj th dztxjrleq vvxjpogw vllw nhh jrn t czlebfyl sjkudfg. rgl gnqj fnubigy iuewu. lxl’j awv rnhlyek vvfnftt daclcgps udfg mg khx hprx, zlh? nz, z dnfeo, b ylelk z mbyyt tk need khtfb gxjrrw ory tfu eowiyhfv eekv ignflowu ig uietlznz vrnzwi dtqj fhj cemlznz ev htnv taaj gbset lsedugo th hcar sionfu ig. a detf, ye’l fvvxj xobfx th jvaw lyil, tlt pzp nhl? z af lyagcwue xfr aad! 

aa, sed esjt, umk cxjkabfcy, vwittaelr fft ewrsm– lyagcj, ptjky igzshf. z hhhv yhm’cl uw eohvcigy rrhmed bf ponj fwg dztmdv pkamamw tokfvr hx dy ujrig xfr tk cogy rs b xlcdaeg eame. bl’j bxwe sh xln asmigy pon scogy wok lye kaue. egme rgl aed. coow pon scl lg duvz. 

seygie b yf, hxjv’s t jvmbfuek lyam qfu vse smacl vgettuk mx ge mr erig tcoz. sed awie’l s biedaork-znlhzrxv gltqcill khtl z lbkkegwu th wmekq jigyce made b viep s ielhfnlw wok lyil tcoz. 

kzggaeg hxw,

ktlq

prismatic-bell:

oraora-tarotaro:

I came out as trans to my uncle, and he wrote the loveliest response:

“Thank you for coming out to us! It is a joyful occasion to share being yourself with your family. The consciousness that resides in each of us is without gender, but gender and bodies are trappings that we put on, and it is important that you are comfortable in them. Much like a decent pair of pants.”

This is so beautiful and profound and then…..that last line.

Still beautiful, BUT OH THE LAUGHTER.

peteseeger:

This is literally so fucking funny

mostlycatsmostly:

coolcatgroup:

joseph-wheeler:

glitterandrocketfuel:

messruksi:

stushcinta:

aph–portugay:

you know whats really good? 

when black cats are drawn like this

thats really good thanks for coming to my ted talk

It’s the most accurate way to draw them!

I love black cats, they’re just black holes with eyes and that’s amazing

The abyss stares back…And if you’re lucky, it purrs.

My contribution

@mostlycatsmostly

After the Disease Concept

enoughtohold:

To say your prayer for being alive
you leave the rehab center each day at noon

and walk in a circle around it to breathe
air that has not been breathed

by twelve recovering alcoholics you left sitting
at your therapy table, trying to grasp

the disease concept.
At the end of the circle, where you sit

beyond a wall of hedges
that keep an unexpected field hidden

your solitude affirms the blissful
inability of staying within a person’s reach.

But something botches the meditation
and you think of me

that same uncrystal moment I am thinking
you’re dead because there’s someone else with your name

in a book of dead names and a number for where you are
in the AIDS quilt

and my desperate message: be alive, is the message
that shakes the snowy edge and moves bright enough

to outlast the shape
of your solitude,

inform your other self. It’s me, I’m saying.
It’s me as my voice.

Yesterday, a Greetings-from-Nevada postcard
arrived of trees dipping their legs

into their origin Lake Tahoe: cocktail music,
twilight. And scribbled right over the picture: alive.

We do survive what isn’t in the picture
of our own making, our own words writing our own

history: what we keep seeing, we send.
What we see to keep, we keep.

— Michael Klein, in Things Shaped in Passing: More “Poets for Life” Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1997), ed. Michael Klein and Richard McCann.