#SpotLight

[commissions4aid-international]

TIME-SENSITIVE PALESTINIAN FUNDRAISERS! PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!!!

Siraj (@siraj2024)

-> Siraj is a father of 3 young children and his family has been trying to rebuild their home since June. They have been forced to live in unsafe conditions in tents they have described as "a convection oven," and in the past week Siraj has narrowly escaped two of Israel's massacres that martyred hundreds of people. Despite his relentless efforts, his campaign has been moving slowly. His short term goal is $10k CAD, his final goal is $82k CAD, and he's currently at ~$7k CAD.

-> Line 219 on Nairuz and Hussein's spreadsheet

Wafaa (@wafans-blog)

-> Wafaa is a grandmother to a large family with very young children. She evacuated to Egypt 5 months ago and hasn't been able to see her family that whole time. Since then, she has been tirelessly campaigning for her family on instagram, tiktok, and tumblr. She has been shadowbanned and had her blog terminated multiple times. Her total goal is €60K and she needs to get there as soon as possible.

-> Line 171 on Nairuz and Hussein's spreadsheet

Shahed (@shahednhall)

-> Shahed is a 21-year-old university student and photographer. She is the sole provider for her family, including her father (a heart patient) and 5 younger siblings (the youngest of whom is an infant). Her sisters have severe hepatitis and urgently need medical care that is no longer available in Gaza and need to evacuate as soon as they get the chance.

-> Line 224 on Nairuz and Hussein's spreadsheet

THEY NEED TO MEET THEIR GOAL VERY SOON - DON'T DELAY!!!

DONATE AND SHARE! SAVE MONEY, PRESSURE YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WITH DISPOSABLE INCOME! THERE ARE PEOPLE GOING INTO DEBT TO HELP PALESTINIANS GET TO SAFETY. IF THEY CAN DO IT SO CAN YOU. IF WE WORK TOGETHER AND WORK HARD WE CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE.

STEP UP.

[redfirerai]

The kids (Duke, Damian and Dick) are yelling in the other room

[entertainment]

Spotlight: Tom Ellis & Sasheer Zamata

Tom Ellis and Sasheer Zamata, stars of @netflix's Exploding Kittens, sat down with Tumblr person @overchers to share confessions, discuss getting tattoos of each other, and talk about cats.

[music]

Music Spotlight: DJ Crazy Times

All appeared lost as we entered August 2023, with still no Song of the Summer of our own, when one man and one woman appeared on the horizon. And there they were: DJ Crazy Times and Ms. Biljana Electronica. Like Gandalf and Éomer overlooking Helm's Deep.

And now the man himself is here to answer the internet's burning questions in this latest Spotlight. His all-time gladdest rhythm? Other long-lost staples of the 90s he would love to bring back? What he would do during a cyber system overload? Wonder no more. It's Spotlight time with DJ Crazy Times (also known as comedian Kyle Gordon).

Listen to Planet of the Bass right here and pre-save Kyle’s debut album here!

[netflix]

Spotlight: Orion and the Dark

Jacob Tremblay and Paul Walter Hauser sat down to discuss dreams, fears, dreaming about fears, and dream travel destinations.

Orion and the Dark is now on Netflix.

[jjoneechan]

To Whoever Wants To Hear

🎵 Happy one year! 🎶🎤

[ba1laur]

yayy yayy

fulfilled a childhood dream

[ferretfyre]

Academy Award for Best Picture:

Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this.

Spotlight (2015, dir. Tom McCarthy)

[rajaagaza]

$Donate here to improve my son's life$

[caleod]

17-7-24

[commissions4aid-international]

Hello 🖐

I am Abdulrahman from Gaza.

I need your help to verify my account so that I can collect donations and save my family from danger.

https://gofund.me/bc721399

[Verified by 90-ghost | €20 of €20,000 goal]

Hello! We are happy to help, though we don't verify accounts - none of us are Palestinian, and only trusted Palestinians can do that. We are primarily an art account and we are not able to verify anything ourselves. This fundraiser has already been verified by 90-ghost though.

Everyone, please please please share and donate to Abdulrahman's fundraiser! He has lost his home and his job, and he and his family need to evacuate. They have only ONE donation so far, but we can change that!!!

[ficsforgaza]

for July 7 to July 13

Hi all—please check out this week’s Creator Spotlight! For anyone who doesn't know what this is: every week we highlight one creator with WIPs to sponsor, one creator with open requests, and one fundraiser that is in desperate need of funding. If this is your first time seeing our blog, welcome! Please check out our pinned post for more information about what we are doing to help the people of Gaza!

˗ˏˋ SPONSOR A WIP SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ @ladyhayaakawa / Link to their WIPs

This author writes for Haikyuu. She currently has one WIP up for sponsorship:

“Chronology of us (as it is, as it was, as it will be)” - Haijme Iwaizumi x Reader, Kuroo Tetsurou x Reader. A Regency AU love triangle series.

Summary: For you, life is synonymous with the azure blue of the Johsai, and love rings with the cadences of Hajime’s voice. But life is cruel, and power vicious, and you wonder if this devotion will lead to your demise.

˗ˏˋ ACCEPTING REQUESTS SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ @dotster001 / Link to their Requests Page

Dot is currently taking requests for the following fandoms: Twisted Wonderland, Ikemen Prince, Palia, Ensemble Stars, Obey Me, and Tears of Themis. Please check out their requests page for additional info!

˗ˏˋ FUNDRAISER SPOTLIGHT ˎˊ˗

↳ Save Mohammed’s family and children escape from Gaza (Currently €15,844 raised of €40,000 goal)

You can find them @/save-mohammad-family here on Tumblr.

Mohammed lost his parents and four sisters in the bombing of Gaza. He has moved to South Gaza with his wife and three young children, and they are currently living in tents without adequate resources or medication. The funds raised will be used to bring his family to safety in Egypt, to help them find housing, and to cover their cost of living expenses since Mohammed lost his job and all his savings following the destruction of their home. Please donate if you can to help this family!

[entertainment]

Spotlight: Música

Rudy Manusco and Camila Mendes sat down with @overchers to chat about their new film Música, define Pilates, discuss green (and beige and red) flags, and share what they've learned from each other.

[maoistyuri]

Spotlight: @mohammedalhabil200

This fundraiser, which was opened on 16. May 2024, has only raised 16307/70000 CAD.

Mohammed Al-Habil has been shot by occupation forces several times. His brother Omar was martyred on 16. November 2023. Their younger sister, Nour, suffers a heart condition and is immunocompromised, and requires regular treatment.

Please give whatever you can, and share the post as far as you can.

I donated 15$, and if you could at least match that, I would be very happy. CAD is a relatively weak currency relative to USD/EUR/GBP, so if you are from the US/EU/UK, please don't hesitate to give a little bit more.

[netflix]

Spotlight: Adam Stockhausen

Production Designer, The Wonderful Story Henry Sugar

Oscar winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (not pictured above, that’s Benedict Cumberbatch), whose work you may know from Wes Anderson films like The Grand Budapest Hotel, Asteroid City, The French Dispatch, Isle of Dogs, and Moonrise Kingdom, as well as titles like Bridge of Spies, and West Side Story (2021), took the time to answer some questions.

Which details from or aspects of The Wonderful Story Henry Sugar did you focus the most on while adapting it to the screen? How did you meld Roald Dahl and Wes’s worlds?

The details on this one started with Dahl’s writing hut! We matched the details pretty carefully and exactly. As soon as we step outside of the hut though we start to move through the world of the story and the world of the stage at the same time. Wes had the idea of how he wanted to do this from the very beginning. My main challenge was trying to figure out how to pull it off—making the parts move and getting each to have the right detail.

What’s a small change you made on a project that ended up having an unexpectedly significant impact? 

Lots of times this happens—where what seems like a small thing at the time becomes a very significant turning point. I’m in Berlin now writing this and remembering being here scouting for East Berlin for Bridge of Spies. We were struggling to find a section of town that still felt old enough to show the early 60s, and decided to take a chance on a quick search in Poland. That quick search changed the whole production plan and ultimately gave us the look of our East Berlin.

How has technology changed the way you approach your work? 

Technology has definitely changed the way we plan the work. We used to model everything in cardboard or sometimes just plan in two dimensions with pencil and paper. We can now plan in 3-dimensional space using modeling programs and see what real lenses will do.  This allows for more accurate planning and makes scenery moves like the casino set in Henry Sugar possible.

Do you have any signature easter eggs you like to leave? Any small details that you are particularly fond of? 

I wouldn’t say there are easter eggs in this one. But there are loads of special details! I think my favorite might be the levitation boxes where we painted a perspective view of the background onto a prop box. The actor sitting on the box appears to be floating in a very special and theatrical way.

Did you talk about reflecting the iconic Quentin Blake illustrations in production design? How would you go about doing that? 

Not really. They are such incredible drawings and I’d say they’ve been inspiring me since I saw them as a child! But for this the starting point was really the machine Wes devised to move us through the story—and pairing that to specific references scene by scene.

There is such an intentionality to the aesthetics of a Wes world. Is there a set or frame that took you a long time to get perfectly right? 

All of them! It’s a very labor-intensive process getting these frames right. Occasionally one will click right away, but usually it’s a process of refining and refining. The jungle for instance went from sketches to models to samples and back again several times before the final look settled.

If you had to present one frame that showcases the best of your work, what would it be? 

Oh my. Maybe the jungle? I really enjoyed making the jungle!

With all the moving sets in the trailer for The Wonderful Story Henry Sugar, it feels reminiscent of a theatre production. Are there distinct differences in approach between film and theatre and how much do you blur the lines between them in your work? 

I think the lines are blurred completely! Or maybe they aren’t even there. I love that Henry Sugar is so incredibly theatrical in its storytelling.  It allows us to show the artifice of the sets all the time which somehow makes them even more satisfying when they finally do line up and create a complete picture. I think the casino set is a perfect example—the pauses where it all lines up for a second are even more enjoyable because we get to see it broken apart and sliding away.

Thanks, Adam!

[slydiddledeedee]

Vetted fundraiser - #149 on the list (different fundraiser for the same person)

@ma7moudgaza2 needs your help! His campaigns are all stagnating, despite their very attainable goals. His campaign to help his family is only at $2,676/$25,000, and currently sits at 127 donors. Can we get at least 73 more donors to reach 200? With 73 more donors at a minimum of $5 each, we will reach the next milestone of $3,000.

If you cannot donate, please still share! The more Mahmoud's campaign is shared, the more likely it is it will reach other people who are able to donate.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support.