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Tokuriki Tomikichiro

Blue Mt. Fuji - New Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji Cherry Blossoms at Mt. Fuji Lake Yamanaka in Winter

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The gelatin in film stock was made from the hide, bones, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue of calves (considered the very best), sheep (less desirable), and other animals who passed through the slaughterhouse. Six kilograms of bone went into a single kilogram of gelatin. Eventually, the demands of photographic industries generated so much need for animal byproducts that slaughterhouses became integrated into the photographic production chain. Controlling the supply chain became key to Kodak's success. In 1882, as Kodak began to grow as a company, widespread complaints of fogged and darkened plates stopped production. The crisis almost ruined Kodak financially and resulted in the company tightly monitoring the animal by-products used in gelatin. Decades later, a Kodak emulsion scientist discovered that cattle who consumed mustard seed metabolized a sulfuric substance, enhancing the light sensitivity of silver halides and enabling better film speeds. The poor-quality gelatin in 1882 was due to the lack of mustard seeds in the cows' diet. The head of research at Kodak, Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, concluded, "If cows didn't like mustard there wouldn't be any movies at all." By controlling the diet of cows who were used to make gelatin, Kodak ensured the quality of its film stock. As literary scholar Nicole Shukin reflects, there is a "transfer of life from animal body to technological media." The image comes alive through animal death, carried along by the work of ranchers, meatpackers, and Kodak production workers.

—Siobhan Angus, Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography

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One day itl'll happen

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hey everyone stop saying 'see,' at the start of every fucking sentence challenge. i cant do this anymore. gayle trader joes episode affirmation chant: leave me be. i am not your friend. you’re not as charming as you’d like to believe. i dont wanna have fun on your terms. just cause you’re in a hawaiian shirt doesnt mean you make me smile. you dont know me. i dont care if you like the product im getting. dont try to infer in your perverse mind what it is im making tonight based off my grocery evidence. its not mexican night at my house tonight. im buying avocados to throw at my husband and red peppers to scream into on the drive home

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard

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Donna Summer From The Illustrated History Of Rock Music, Jeremy Pascall, 1984

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Finally getting to this one after being in the library waitlist for half a year or more. I feel like the last 2 years and probably this one as well have been focused on catch-up reading all the things everyone else has already read. Not so bad though bc the alternative is never picking these books up

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David Lynch just passed. If everyone could spend the next few weeks becoming a little more offbeat, a little more in touch with the strangeness of our world, maybe we could begin to replace the massive void he leaves. We may not see another artist like him reach prominence within our lifetimes, so please go out and search, in the world and in yourself. Embody the truth, lead with love, hold the hands of those outstretched to you, and go as far as you can, no matter how deep and how dark, face it with love.

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Its like a meteor has struck the earth

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Another great diagnosis today - really great teeth and great mouth bacteria, from my dentist

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Hoist by your own freaking petard you stupid plant

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New job please I'm not asking again

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I went to the symphony tonight at there were at least 2 babies. Who brings a baby to the symphony???

Thats fine as long as they keep their mouths shut and not laughing or whispering so everyone can hear. Important to teach that to children from a young age

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Charles Guilloux - L'Inondation (1893)

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Can they makr a movie theatre where everyone shuts the fuck up or at least takes it seriously

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Natalia Lafourcade En Vivo Live at Carnegie Hall 2024 save me

Save me Natalia y Omara Portuondo Alma Mía/Tú Me Acostumbraste/Soledad y el Mar en vivo

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Is it possible could it be that there’s a couch out there somewhere for meeee