#31 flowers

[hanapinkku]

Zinnia

[alpacacare-archive]

hey guys is anybody here. hello

@smarties-art

[andallshallbewell]

[dweemeister]

Instant reactions to the 96th Academy Awards

A rough night for me. But there have been rougher ones before. I imagine most of my comments put me in a very lonely minority, as has been apparent the last few months.

But here goes:

For all intents and purposes, yours truly was on the Killers of the Flower Moon train. An extraordinary crime epic from Scorsese, with astounding craftsmanship and fantastic performance from Lily Gladstone. More than what I previously believed possible, a major studio production went out of its way to make sure that its Indigenous American representation on-screen was as genuine as it could possibly be (still imperfect, as the film acknowledges, but what an effort). And yet, KOTFM goes 0/10. I've never had a favored Best Picture nominee be shut out in such a way before. And I'm not surprised at all by it. It was clear that non-American and non-Canadian audiences didn't get the context to the film (a criticism I understand, given the screenplay) and, in other quarters, folks thought it was too long (I admittedly have a higher tolerance for longer movies) and others have said something akin to the fact that they are getting tired over "racial guilt" movies from America. I'm not in the mood to respond to the last one. I think it deserved better tonight. I particularly think Lily Gladstone deserved better tonight.

Stat upheld: two non-white actresses have never won on the same night in Oscar history. History, in and of itself, was always against Gladstone.

Oppenheimer winning? Fine, I guess. It was my #4 choice of the ten Best Picture nominees. I guess Christopher Nolan was overdue, but I have always been a Nolan skeptic. The film certainly is his most humanistic, and I appreciate that. As for the narrative organization and editing trickery? It mostly serves to take me out of the movie. And I don't think Nolan truly understands what thematic film music can accomplish for his movies. I think RDJ should have had much more competition all season long, but he did not. Most people are gonna say this is the return of the Academy's favorite subgenre... the Great Man Biopic. But in composition and structure, Oppenheimer (and even Maestro) resembles very little of the past Great Man Biopics. It'll be interesting to see how history treats this movie.

I disliked Poor Things. I didn't care for its sense of humor, didn't agree with many folks' opinions that it was a magnum opus of female empowerment. I thought it was incredibly male gaze-y and troublingly sanitized its scenes of sex work. Jerskin Fendrix's score was unlistenable outside the context of the film and distracting within it. But it has four Academy Awards and people love this movie, so my opinion can go to heck?

Well done Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her win as Supporting Actress for The Holdovers. I truly hope this opens up a lot more new opportunities for her going for! Wonderful speech.

And speaking of wonderful speeches, both documentary winners got me very emotional. The Last Repair Shop is on YouTube for American and Canadian viewers, and it's simply wonderful. Perhaps the happiest I was all night long! And then came Mstyslav Chernov's speech after winning for 20 Days in Mariupol. Chernov had, arguably, the speech of the night. And I agree with him. I, too, wish he never had to make his film and that he never won this Oscar. But he did his job to document what happened in Mariupol. And for that he (and the Ukrainians suffering and dying in their war versus Russia) deserves our plaudits and support.

Once more, Hayao Miyazaki cannot be bothered to show up to an awards ceremony. It's hilarious! I would have voted Robot Dreams, but The Boy and the Heron is not a winner to sniff at. Spider-Verse will have one more shot.... whenever the third movie comes out?

Good lord, they selected the worst possible winner in Animated Short with War Is Over!. There's an unwritten rule that the Academy, among the fifteen nominated shorts, must select one which will piss me the hell off. And for the second straight year in Animated Short, they have done exactly that, choosing something akin to a soft drink commercial.

Billie Eilish and Finneas are now the youngest and second-youngest ever to win two Oscars, after Luise Rainer (Best Actress for 1936's The Great Ziegfeld and 1937's The Good Earth). That feels very, very weird. In both cases of this record.

The "I'm Just Ken" performance? Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Like Ken)??? Busby Berkeley choreography? What do the kids say? Inject that straight into my veins? It was wonderful.

And speaking of nods to cinema history, I'm so glad they led off the stunt performers tribute with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. :,)

And congratulations to Godzilla Minus One and its Best Visual Effects win! After seventy years, Godzilla is now an Oscar-winning franchise, and its win percentage is 100%! Simply wonderful!

I think the moral of the story is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has been gradually internationalizing over the last decade. And the results of that were very clear tonight. Does that mean I'm too provincial in my tastes? I don't know. But wins such as Emma Stone's, Anatomy of a Fall, The Boy and the Heron, and Godzilla are demonstrative of that.

I'm glad this season is over. I certainly hope that Killers of the Flower Moon will be looked upon more kindly by history and time, without the bells and whistles of awards campaigning and a fuller understanding of why it was made the way it was.

This month has been fun! But now it's time to see movies again without the lens of awards for a long, long while.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode, Pl. 377, 31 mai 1834, Paris. Robes en taffetas de siam. Chapeaux en paille de riz à rubans brochés. Mantelet en application de Bruxelles. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

The woman on the left is wearing a pink dress with gigot sleeves, a floral print, and a lace tippet. She is wearing gloves and is holding a parasol in her right hand. She is wearing a white bonnet decorated with bows and flowers. The woman on the right is wearing a white dress with gigot sleeves, floral print, and a lace tippet. She is wearing gloves and is holding a parasol in her right hand. She is wearing a white bonnet decorated with flowers and bows.

[drbtinglecannon]

The plot of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is actually better than original plot, by a large margin

[princeofsayan]

Happy Easter! 2024

By Prince of Sayan

[manga-meow]

[deus-ex-mona]

chizuchan was right. childhood friend romances are the b e s t

[mahoujosei]

Our second prompt is "Environmental" so here's a flowery mahou! Basically the only thing I knew going into this was that she was gonna be green, so the flower fairy aesthetic was a nice surprise!

She doesn't have a magical girl name, because nothing came to me while I was drawing, but I kinda wanna keep her as a character.... So I'm open to ideas!

[nordicbananas]

alexis I blame you for this (pt. 2)

[hanapinkku]

Amaranthus

[akarisandraws]

INKTOBER 6 - BOUQUET

Yeah, its not february. But its never late to give Cosmo some love <3

[ceiling-karasu]

New Chapter of Lily Bell in the Thorn Thicket

[photozoi]

Take time to smell the flowers.

the Wizzard, Borzoi

[derwahnsinn]

31 Days Idol Challenge - Oliver Riedel

Day 24: With Flower

Okay, so I'm cheating a little for this challenge. The photo is from a fan meeting in Mexico in 2001, and it's not really Oliver holding the flowers, it's Schneider - but technically the photo shows Oliver with flowers close to him, so it's kind of within the challenge... Photo by Black Dark Website.

Bonus material: 1) Since the first photo was Oliver in close proximity to flowers, I guess this photo from Radio Ultra will do as well, as they had placed a big flower decoration on the table. 2-3) Of course I can't do a flower challenge without some screenshots from the Du riechst so gut music video. 4) Close to flowers inside Snow White's casket at the shoot of the Sonne music video, by Frank Lothar Lange. 5) Another one of Oliver in close proximity to flowers, this time from the Making of Haifisch. 6) More close proximity in the Making of Rosenrot. 7) A photo of Oliver actually holding flowers. In Gothenburg 30.07.2022, he jumped down from the stage in order to pick up a bouquet from a fan. Photo by Mrzetti.

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Others doing this challenge:

Till: @endlich-allein Flake: @anwiel13 Paul: @instillennachten