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Reply to comment by SoonToBeAutomated in Hidari: hyper-violent stop motion samurai short film by Kilbourne
Of course, it’s a classic and likely will always remain so. But it was produced by a professional animation house with a great deal of experience and funding, not a dedicated and unusually gifted amateur animator
theartfulcodger t1_jdgfgf4 wrote
As someone who dabbled with stop-motion back in the Seventies (Plasticene, utility lights, 16 mm Bolex camera) it makes me very happy that someone, somewhere, has simultaneously achieved this remarkable level of imagination, this level of visual sophistication, and this eye-popping level of technical competence!
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Reply to TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate
Some might remember that in The Longest Day, Gert was the fat, mule-riding German soldier fetching water, who was knocked on his ass by the first salvo of the Allies’ naval bombardment at dawn on D-Day.
I worked with him on a children’s tv series, The Little Vampire; delightful man & a skilled vaudeville-style comedian.
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Reply to comment by CoryBlk in Between predictive text going back to change a word I already had and random words getting capitalized, I feel like I’m constantly fighting my keyboard nowadays more than I ever had to. Has it always been this bad or am I just imaging things? by TheRavenSayeth
Predictive Textbot: “Chuck my stud along comet, Andy. Yuma bees applied!”
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Reply to New painter questions about old paint on walls, unpainted popcorn ceilings and primer! by thatoneguyovertheres
Yes, avoid acrylic paint on your popcorn. Standard way of removing it is to thoroughly soak it with a garden sprayer and take it off with a putty knife. Should you choose to remove the texture one day, any acrylic coat you put on it will seal it against water penetration and make the removal much, much more difficult.
Be sure to thoroughly sand said spackle patches on the wall, and be sure to thoroughly clean them with TSP beforehand. But generally speaking, there should be no need to prime them.
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Reply to self, gouache watercolor by me by sloppjockey_ert
Very Francis Bacon … with a side of Event Horizon.