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The Lawyer Turns out, the two "heroes" of the Southern Baptist 'Conservative Resurgence' were: a tone-deaf autocrat who specialized in using DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim & Offender) to bully sexual assault victims and protect his friends & protegesa deeply cynical lawyer who used his position of power to actively groom and sexually assault young men over decades It's become clear that not only was Paul Pressler (the lawyer) passed …

The audience for a screening of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1923) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, N.H. Wow! A screening of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' on Sunday, Feb. 18 was blessed with a very large and thoroughly engaged audience.From the reaction to the film, you could tell you were intent on having a good time.And that shouldn't be a surprise, as the …

Reluctant Recovery

It is 1920 in Littlehampton and Edith Swan has been receiving letters. They are of an obscene nature but she, and her family (she lives, as a spinster, with her father and mother), must forebear. After all, did not our Lord and Saviour also suffer? And yet, surely the wicked should be punished here on […]

WANNA BE IN MOVIES? REALLY? BRRRR! We open in a chilly Suffolk cottage in the rain (I am tonight probably the only person here to have come direct from a chilly Suffolk cottage, in rain. Call it Method Criticking). But in this case there is a sinister banging on the door, which opens to reveal – aaaagh! Jonathan Hyde as a gloriously convincing Vincent Price, veteran horrror movie star in …

This is what you see when looking through your EVF or at your LCD when highlights are clipped.This image is from a JPEG. The clipped highlight warning gets baked into any JPEG file so youcan't use this custom profile unless you are only shooting raw.This is from a raw file. As you can see, the black clipped highlight shown above does not get baked into these files. If you see …

Watch on YouTube The beautiful and moving film "The Creator" (2023) is nominated for the Academy Award for visual effects, and I had the honor of hosting a panel with the nominated team as well as director Gareth Edwards.I was thrilled to be asked to moderate this panel, which included visual effects supervisors Jay Cooper, Andrew Roberts and Ian Comley, as well as physical effects supervisor Neil Corbould.A general time …

The Moon runs about two hours, but it’s got enough story for eight. About the only way to tell all the story it’s got overflowing would be a miniseries remake. And even then, you could probably toss on another couple of episodes to even it all out. The film concerns South Korea’s second attempt at a moon landing. Their first attempt blew up five years before this one. Moon takes …

Cloud 11 is a mixed-use development on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok that is being styled as a creator economy hub. The complex is comprised of four towers on top of a mega podium that will include an elevated urban garden. Cloud 11 is opposite True Digital Park, and this area in Phra Khanong is being promoted as a digital innovation district.. Location Location: 888 Sukhumvit Rd, Phra Khanong, Bangkok, Thailand. …

I read A Global Design System by Big Medium’s, Brad Frost recently and it’s inspired thoughts that have been swimming around in my brain for quite a while: the precarious safety of web documentation. I think we’re sleepwalking into a disaster. I want to start an earnest and serious conversation about how we, the web community, can fight back and preserve some of the most valuable content we need to …

I was really taken with this, which @scy (Tim Weber) posted on Mastodon the other day: The Mastodon post is very clear, so to quickly summarize: The device has crashed; it’s shared its stack trace optically, using the LED button matrix on the device. To share that stacktrace with the development team, the end-user only has to post a photograph of it to the development Discord, where an image-analysing bot …

I got an email the other day from Pencils of Promise out of the blue. It was a general quarterly email or so, but at the end – Carly lets know about the schools update: Furthermore, I wanted to share some thrilling news regarding the enrollment of students at the school projects that you have... continue reading >

I like taking pictures, and I like sharing pictures wherever I hang out online. A problem with this is knowing that the pictures will very rarely look as good in other people’s browsers and apps as they do to me in Lightroom on a big bright 4K screen. Thus this piece, a basic investigation of how photos are processed and transformed on Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads. I was never that …

Review by Rob Spence This is a curious little book, which shouldn’t really work, but does, offering the reader a delightful series of fresh impressions gleaned from the writer’s engagement with Italy, and in particular with Venice and Rome. The writings collected here consist of two longish essays, one on Venice and one on Rome, together with two shorter pieces, one on the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi, and …

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for May 2024, and here are all the ones relating to the Flash. It’s a bit of a quiet month for Flash fans, as it seems the Speed Force series is not continuing, and there’s no hint of Wally West in the Titans solicitation. But Si Spurrier’s solo Flash series continues, and there are plenty of reprints to read, including the surprise …