π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture Latest π π Category: Culture,Culture / Culture News,Level Up π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: OnlyFans has been exploited Founder of a lingerie company and former nude model to launch business classes on the platform.Rachel McCrary, the longtime lingerie designer and founder of Spice Rack, is releasing four videos on OnlyFans Wednesday. The videos are quite different from the usual OnlyFans fare. They will focus on pitching to investors, building a brand, and tackling being an entrepreneur as a woman, McCrary told WIRED. More videos will follow. She is also creating a Spice Rack…
π Explore this insightful post from Culture Latest π π Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Poor Taste π‘ Main takeaway: Clocking in at nearly three hours and replete with images of actual AI (of Count Dracula, the Romanian warlord Vlad Tepes who inspired the famous vampire, and much more), the film feels almost deliberately depressing. In a climate where many in the film and creative industries see generative AI as an insult to both the medium and their careers, Judd's use of the technology has proven controversial. Vulgar, sarcastic and obscene images generated by artificial intelligence are, after all, images created by…
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Key idea: I mean, in our small circle, yes, it was a hit but certainly not of that caliber at all. The melody came right away. I was on my way to the dentist.Most inspiring.By the way, get a gold filling. So the melody came pretty quickly, but when we finished it, I had this session with Mark [Sonnenblick]my writing partner, came right after, and Mark was so excited. I said, βI have this melody.β He heard that and said: Oh…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture Latest π π Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Anti-Climax π‘ Main takeaway: Somewhere up Upon reaching the North American North Pole, a nuclear bomber flies in a squadron, awaiting its orders. When a secret code appears on a machine in the cockpit, the crew looks at each other, stunned. The code commands them to attack. The pilot opened a sealed envelope marked βTop Secretβ and read the name of his target: Moscow. They have set their course. The end of the world has begun.Or so they think. It's actually a big mistake - the…
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Hereβs what youβll learn: JRR Tolkien the Lord of the Rings Novelsβand their associated βmythsβ of characters, histories, legends, maps, and constructed languagesβhave served as the bedrock of so-called βnerd cultureβ since their publication in the mid-1950s.With its vivid characterizations, and the (more or less) clearly defined lines between good and evil, Tolkien's imagined Middle Earthβa vast, geographically diverse world teeming with elves, dwarves, wizards, dragons, orcs, and halflingsβcan be described as archetypal. It's a kind of modern myth that can be adapted…
π₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Musicals,Stage,Paddington,Acting,Culture,Books,Children,Theatre,West End,UK news π‘ Key idea: Paddington Musical Bear Revealed - Video Paddington stands nearby. His fur flutters when he turns, his elegant nose sniffs the air, and his eyes soften with a smile. For years, details of the bear's design in Paddington the Musical, directed by Luke Sheppard, were kept top secret. And here he is now wearing his blue coat and red hat. A quiet theatrical marvel. βWhat we're doing has never been done before,β says producer Sonia Friedman.The bear is about 1.2 meters (just…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture Latest π π Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Monstrosity π Main takeaway: Guillermo del Toro He loves a challenge. Nothing the 61-year-old director does can be described as 'sloppy', as each of his films is planned, written and shot with great attention to detail.This discipline is evident in... Frankensteinan adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a film del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it turns out. The elaborate sets and costumes - as well as some embellishments of Shelley's story - could only have been the work of someone…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Horror films,Halloween,Film,The Shining,Midsommar,Paranormal Activity,The Innocents,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: Innocent people Photo: Everett Collection/AlamyβSometimes one can only imagine things.β Truman Capote helped adapt Henry James's ghost story The Turn of the Screw into the 1961 film The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton, which remains one of the most disturbing horror films. To remember the unsettling rush of fear this film evoked, I only need a glimpse of Deborah Kerr's sweaty face or her handshake. She plays a nanny to two traumatized children in a remote home where life…
β¨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture,Action games,Indie games,Halloween π‘ Key idea: TThe sound came first. In the San Francisco BART train tunnel, Don Fica took out his tape recorder and captured the train's metallic roar β "like demons in agony, beautifully ugly," he recalls. This recording became one of the most chilling sounds of 2008's Dead Space.βWe dropped that loud industrial noise at full volume right after the vacuum silence β creating one of the most controversial audio inconsistencies in the game,β recalls Vika, who made horror history as the sound director…
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Key idea: Peter Watkins, the radical British director who won an Oscar for his controversial documentary drama The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died at the age of 90. He died in hospital on Thursday in Burganeuve, near the small town of Fletin in central France, where he lived for 25 years, his family said in a statement. They added: "The world of cinema is losing one of its insightful, innovative and unclassifiable voices. We…
