#michael dowse

[capturethemomentsblog]

What If（2013）

dir. Michael Dowse

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[mikesfilmtalk]

Stuber (2019): It's a Lease

Sometimes you find a gem. Stuber (2019) is an action comedy that delivers. It is funny, Stuber screaming, “It’s a lease!” never gets old. This one flew so low under the radar I missed it completely. Writer Tripper Clancy offers up this cop/buddy comedy signposting most of the gags. Director Michael Dowse, the same guy who delivered the brilliant It’s all Gone Pete Tong, makes this one work. It’s…

[heartbreakfeelsgoodinablog]

Best. Night. Ever.

[ulrichgebert]

Romcom zur Auflockerung. The F-Word hatte ich verdrängt, einschließlich der sowohl immer etwas bemüht als auch unzeitgemäß heteronormativen "Können Männer und Frauen Freunde sein?"-Fragestellung. Dafür, wie doof das ist, ist es recht niedlich.

[fabioemme78]

[randomrichards]

8-BIT CHRISTMAS:

A father recalls

His hunt for a NES

80s childhood

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Hoax (2.12, LWT, 1972)

"The hoax at school. Letters, threatening to plant bombs all over London - I can understand that, at least I think I can. Then to do it? To put at risk the lives of hundreds of innocent people, to actually do that! What happened?"

"It was you."

"Me?"

"That lecture. 'You don't have to go it alone, there are people who care'. Nobody cares! Same bloody hypocrisy I've heard ever since he died. I felt sick! Everything you said made me sick!"

[paintingsandrecords]

horse; ink and watercolor

last seven day’s listening:

bruce springsteen & the e street band - live/1975-85

the juliana hatfield three - become what you are

juliana hatfield - anemia b/w mean + evil

the new lost city ramblers with cousin emmy - the new lost city ramblers with cousin emmy

aerosmith - toys in the attic

dowsing - no one said this would be easy

santana - santana iii

the michael character - patti in the dining car

paul baribeau - paul baribeau

common rider - last wave rockers

madeline - kissing and dancing

spice - viv

[zaat]

Liev Schreiber as Ross “The Boss” Rhea in ‘Goon’ (2011) dir. Michael Dowse

[fettesans]

Top, page from Raymond Buckland, Solitary Seance: How You Can Talk with Spirits on Your Own, 2011. Via. Bottom, photograph via NASA, Toroid inflatable station concept during testing, 1961. Via. More.

Using the pendulum is known as radiesthesia—also rhabdomancy, or cleidomancy. One of the best-known uses of the pendulum is in dowsing, in finding where to drill for water. But it is also used for many other things, not least of all for communicating with spirit.

Unlike many other early space station concepts, this design actually made it out of the concept phase and into production, though no models were ever flown. This particular station was 30-feet and expandable. It was designed to be taken to outer space in a small package and then inflate in orbit. The station could, in theory, have been big enough for 1 to 2 people to use for a long period of time. A similar 24 foot station was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation for NASA test use. The concept of space inflatables was revived in the 1990s. Via Wikipedia.

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‘If an artist who conceived a work says that it is unfinished and should not be exhibited, it isn’t – and shouldn’t be.’ The court felt differently: ‘When an artist makes a decision to begin work on a piece of art and handles the process of creation long-distance via e-mail, using someone else’s property, someone else’s materials, someone else’s money, someone else’s staff, and, to a significant extent, someone else’s suggestions regarding the details of fabrication – with no enforceable written or oral contract defining the parties’ relationship – and that artist becomes unhappy part-way through the project and abandons it,’ wrote the presiding judge, Michael Ponsor, ‘then nothing in the Visual Artists Rights Act or elsewhere in the Copyright Act gives that artist the right to dictate what that “someone else” does with what he has left behind, so long as the remnant is not explicitly labeled as the artist’s work.’ (...)

Essentially a horrific readymade, Barca Nostra sunk in April 2015 between Libya and Lampedusa with an estimated 1,000 migrants onboard, of whom 28 survived. The Italian government recovered the wreck in 2016 and moved it to a base in Sicily before it was placed under the care of the Augusta municipality, a landing site for Operation Mare Nostrum, Italy’s response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Mare Nostrum, or ‘Our Sea’, cost the Italian government a reported £7 million per month, and ensured safe passage for over 100,000 people within a year of its launch in October 2013. But after Italy appealed for assistance, EU states criticised the operation for encouraging people to risk the sea crossing, so EU agency Frontex replaced Mare Nostrum with Operation Triton in 2014, with a slashed budget and focus on border security.

Effectively a policy of nonassistance, as Forensic Oceanography concluded in their 2016 report Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea, Triton created a situation where commercial ships were increasingly called into rescue missions they weren’t suited to conduct – such was the case with the sinking of Barca Nostra in 2015, they found. That year, European Parliament president Martin Schulz called for ‘burden sharing’ based on the fact that five out of 28 EU member states were taking in 50 percent of refugees to Europe at the time. Yet no effective cooperation manifested. Neither in creating humanitarian responses to a global crisis, nor in mediating the ultraright sentiments and movements that rose as a result – as demonstrated in 2018, when Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, launched a campaign to block search-and-rescue vessels from docking in Italian ports, and drafted a hardline anti-migrant bill adopted by the Italian government.

It was within this desperate context that Barca Nostra was brought to the Venice Biennale – in cooperation with Augusta’s municipal council and Comitato 18 Aprile, which lobbied against government plans to scrap the ship – with Büchel covering transportation costs. Presented with little information – not for the lulz, it seems, but out of contempt for a wilful ignorance – the vessel’s arrival was lambasted as ‘tasteless’ by those at the vernissage, seemingly more concerned with the insult of its presence – and those taking selfies with it, like a Martha Rosler collage come to life – than discussing the exclusionary policies that brought it into being. (Granted, as curator Alexandra Stock wrote in a scathing takedown, ‘The optics [were] bad because Büchel set it up that way’.) While the stunt drew international attention – including responses from Salvini himself, countering the idea that the Venice Biennale is an ineffective stage for protest – it also revealed the limits of internationalism, whether in the artworld or the world at large.

Stephanie Bailey, from Christoph Büchel: Fear and Loathing in Venice, for Art Review, April 14, 2024.

[threadsnherbs]

Wednesdays are book days! Im currently working on reading this book! "The Book Of Divination A Guide To Predicting The Future" by Michael Johnstone.

Dactylomancy: A branch of radiesthesia. Using a ring suspended on a piece of string.

Daphnomancy: burning laurel branches and interpreting the crackling.

Dendromancy: using wood like oak or mistletoe for divination.

Dowsing: water or precious metal is divined by using a forked rod that vibrates when held over a spot where what is being searched for is to be found.

Genethialogy: using astrology to predict the path a persons life will take by plotting the positions of the stars and planets at the time of birth.

Graphology: using handwriting as a key to character analysis.

Horoscopy: More or less another name for astrology.

Hydromancy: using the color, ebb and flow, and the ripples of water while stones are being dropped in.

Lampadomancy: using the flickering light of a special torch to shed light on the future.

Lecanomancy: gaze into a basin of water hoping to reveal answers to questions.

Libanomancy: observe and interpret the smoke and ash from incense.

Lithomancy: using precious gems in divination.

Margaritomancy: using a pearl clutched in their hand and dropping it on a solid surface for insights of the future.

Metagnomy: Seers fall into a trance during which they have visions of the future.

Meteoromancy: meteors and shooting stars can illuminate the future.

Numerology: Divines by interpreting numbers, dates and the numerical value of letters.

Oenomancy: gazing at wine poured into special chalices to foretell events.

Oneiromancy: interpreting dreams.

Onomancy: letters and syllables formed by a name are ascribed values that combine to enable the seer to plot a course of action.

Onychomancy: a branch of palmistry that focuses on the fingernails.

Oomantia: uses an egg to answer questions.

Palmistry: using lines, mounds, and the shape of the hands, fingers and nails.

Pegomancy: using spring water in its natural fountains.

Physchography: those who are in tune with a spiritual force that tells those blessed with the gift what to write.

Physiognomy: using the physical features of someones face to assess their character and future.

Pyromancy: divining the future by studying fire and flame.

Radiesthesia: divining by using a rod or pendulum.

Rhapsodomancy: using a book of poetry opened at random and a chance-chosen passage on the page.

Sciomancy: also called mediums, communicating with the spirit guides, usually when in a trance-like state.

Scrying: divination via a range of methods from smoke to shells.

Sortilege: Those who practice draw lots and interpret the shapes they make when they fall.

Spodomancy: Deciphering the patterns seen in cinders and soot.

Stichomancy: uses printed word to foretell events. Can be done with any book.

Tasseography: uses tea leaves.

Next weeks topic: tea-leaf reading!

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[an-darth-maiden]

Introducing myself and giving an explanation.

Hi everyone! 🙋🏻‍♀️

My name is Ana, but you can call me An or Annie.

I'm Mexican.🇲🇽

I like many things like animals, read history, classic novels, esoteric stuff and magic, manga, watch anime, belly dance, music, tv shows and movies, videogames.

Some of my favorite things are:

Animals like felines and canines (ALL OF THEM!), bats, hummingbirds, crows, rabbits, bears.

History:Ancient Egypt (everything about that time), and other historical periods (Middle ages, Ilustration era, Victorian era).

About the cultures of my country I love the Aztec (Mexica) culture, Mayan culture, Toltec culture and others.

My favorite books are:

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Other books I love that are on Spanish are "Cuentos de la selva" (Jungle tales) by Horacio Quiroga

"El Diosero" by Francisco Rojas González .

About the Esoteric stuff, I'm a Tarot and Oracle reader, I learn and practice Reiki, I love quartz, rocks and minerals for spiritual, magic and therapeutic uses, talismans and charms, candles, dowsing with pendulum, astrology.

Anime I like Yu-Gi-Oh, InuYasha, Saint Seiya, Sailor Moon, Card captor Sakura, Record of Ragnarok, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z (just to mention a few).

I'm not a belly dancer, but I really enjoy belly dance (oriental dance). I practice at home by the moment. I hope I could go to a dance academy someday.

I like the Egyptian style. Particularly, the Golden era period. Some of my favorite dancers are Souhair Zaki, Samia Gamal, Tahiya Carioca.

Music: I like the music of the past century, specially since the 70's till 90's. I like disco and funk, classic rock, hard rock, glam metal, heavy metal, but also the New Wave or Pop music.

My favorite singer is Michael Jackson.

And my favorite band is Guns N ' Roses.

Tv shows and Movies I watch a lot. I like animated shows and movies, action and superhero, some comedies, medical drama, police drama, supernatural shows.

My favorite films are Alice in wonderland (animated and Tim Burton's version), The Prince of Egypt, Beauty and the Beast, The Mummy and The Mummy returns, Hitch, School of Rock, The Nightmare before Christmas, Sam Raimi's Spiderman films, Star Wars franchises.

My favorite shows are Looney tunes, Powerpuff girls, Arrow , Friends, The Big Bang Theory, House M.D , E.R, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, White collar, Supernatural, Charmed.

This last year, I've been watching a lot of K-drama. I'm really enjoying it.

Videogames like Castlevania ( I like both, videogames and the Netflix TV shows), Halo, Mortal Kombat, Devil May Cry for example.

I had a Tumblr account with the same name before. It was fully dedicated as a fan blog of Castlevania. Many of the things that I had were some of my silly memes about Castlevania Netflix (most of them about Alucard).

I deleted the account because I was very inactive here and I felt a little bit limited by just post about Castlevania.

Sometimes I reblogged the nice drawings of friends that are here, sometimes I shared about ancient Egyptian history, but not so often.

After deleting the account, I didn't feel well about leave this place, so, I decided to create an account and start all over again.

I want to use this place to connect with people that enjoy the same things that I do.

So, I hope find again the cool friends who are still here, but at the same time, find new friends.

With the time, I'll be re-posting the material of Castlevania that I posted before, just in case there's someone interested.

For the last, I want to share some pictures of my favorite things.

Thanks for your attention.

🙏🏻✨

[lalo-tellmeagain]

Trap House wrapped production today- hooray! Hopefully by this fall / end of the year we will have a preview!

I’m so sad we didn’t get one single set photo of Tony! 😩 Still, at least we have something new to look forward to!

(Via Michael Dowse on IG)

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8-Bit Christmas (2021) dir. Michael Dowse