#peter compton

[vintagepromotions]

General Post Office poster reminding the public to write addresses correctly and to use the correct district number (now called postcode), featuring an illustration of Old Compton Street in Soho, London (c. 1960). Artwork by Peter Edwards.

[nerds-yearbook]

Del Varner was murdered on January 3, 2257. ("The Gathering" Babylon 5, TV Event)

[brokehorrorfan]

Pentagram Peter Pan has John Carpenter's Halloween, Rob Zombie's Halloween and Goosebumps apparel available until Monday, October 7. The line includes T-shirts ($30), long sleeves ($36), and sweatpants ($47). They’ll ship in 4-8 weeks.

[gatutor]

Denis Morgan-Joyce Compton "Cena de Navidad" (Christmas in Connecticut) 1945, de Peter Godfrey.

[perfettamentechic]

13 ottobre … ricordiamo …

13 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2019: Paco Fabrini, attore italiano. (n. 1973) 2019: Hideo Azuma, fumettista giapponese, conosciuto in Italia per essere l’autore dei manga Pollon e Nanako SOS.  (n. 1950) 2016: Tonino Valerii, è stato un regista e sceneggiatore italiano. (n. 1934) 2016: Dario Fo, Dario Luigi Angelo Fo, è stato un drammaturgo, attore, regista, scrittore, autore, illustratore, pittore, scenografo e attivista…

[denimbex1986]

'We are accustomed to hearing historians protest that biopics mangle the truth. And we are used to hearing screenwriters such as Aaron Sorkin and Peter Morgan respond that it is legitimate to scramble chronology, invent composite characters and fabricate incidents in order to tell a deeper truth. But there has been little controversy about the authenticity of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. For the most part, the writer-director has chosen the historian's responsibility over the dramatist's liberty.

It is testament to the inherent drama of Oppenheimer's life, and of the Manhattan Project's three-year effort to design and build an atomic bomb, that the vast majority of the film's most memorable scenes and lines are taken straight from Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin's book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer, or from contemporary sources. Still, there are a few fabrications, including two pivotal scenes that elaborate on the same truth: the scientists who built the bomb were genuinely worried that it would accidentally bring about the end of the world.

The first of these scenes comes on the eve of the Trinity test, the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb, after Enrico Fermi (Danny Deferrari) takes bets on whether the blast will destroy the world. Lt Gen Leslie Groves (Matt Damon) asks Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) what Fermi meant, leading to a conversation about apocalyptic possibilities and the impossibility of absolute certainty in theoretical science.

In reality, as head of the Manhattan Project, Groves would have been well aware of the theory that inspired Fermi's dark joke. Back in July 1942, Edward Teller (played by Benny Safdie in the movie) had raised the possibility that the bomb might generate temperatures sufficiently intense to set off a thermonuclear chain reaction in the atmosphere – igniting atoms of nitrogen, hydrogen or both – and "encircle the globe in a sea of fire". When Oppenheimer informed Arthur Compton, who worked on chain reactions at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, Compton was willing to halt the whole project unless the doomsday scenario could be ruled out. "Better to accept the slavery of the Nazis than to run a chance of drawing the final curtain on mankind!" he theatrically recalled in 1959, making the incident public for the first time. The Americans had no way of knowing that in Germany, where Werner Heisenberg ran the Nazi bomb programme, Hitler was also concerned that his physicists might "set the globe on fire".

The physicist Hans Bethe soon revealed the flaws in Teller's theory and assured Oppenheimer that a chain reaction was "extremely unlikely, to say the least" – less than three in one million, according to Compton. Teller made his own calculations shortly before Trinity and found "no reason to believe that the test shot would touch off the destruction of the world".

When the bomb went off, however, some witnesses were suddenly unsure. The blast of white, silent light lasted for so long before the boom that the Italian physicist Emilio Segrè confessed to fearing that "the explosion might set fire to the atmosphere and thus finish the Earth, even though I knew that this was not possible".

Nolan uses this potent red herring to represent the almost supernatural dread inspired by the bomb. He picks it up again in another imagined scene which gives the movie its chilling finale: a lakeside conversation between Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein (Tom Conti) in Princeton in 1946. The two scientists suggest that the bomb really did threaten the end of the world, just not at Trinity.

A 'hideous power'

The film has been criticised for not depicting the impact of the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and not challenging the claim that it was militarily necessary, but that is true to Oppenheimer's perspective. Although he told US President Truman that he felt like he had blood on his hands, his doomed post-war efforts towards international arms control and thwarting the development of the exponentially more destructive hydrogen bomb were less about atoning for what had happened than preventing something much worse.

"It was indeed the bizarre nature of the bomb, and the uncanny sort of future it suggested, rather than its actual results in the war, that impressed people," wrote Vannevar Bush, chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, in 1949, observing that the firebombing of Japanese cities had been no less horrific but far less controversial. Even though an overwhelming majority of Americans supported the bombings, many were haunted by premonitions of an American Hiroshima, like the one Murphy's Oppenheimer hallucinates in the film.

The future was Oppenheimer's priority. While the use of the bomb was never his decision, he did seem to believe that, in the long run, it was the lesser of two evils. In 1939, he knew that the achievement of nuclear fission made a bomb inevitable. In 1945, he believed that the bomb made nuclear war inevitable, unless its hideous power could be demonstrated to the world before the current conflict ended. "They won't fear it until they understand it," he says in the film, "and they won't understand it until they've used it". Colleagues including Teller and Niels Bohr (played by Kenneth Branagh) agreed, although for them, this belief that using the bomb could avert future wars did not make it any less terrible.

Nolan's decision to tell the story of the bomb through Oppenheimer's eyes – not just his experiences but also his concerns – gives the film its contemporary urgency. What was done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki is history, but the existential threat of nuclear weapons is still with us, as Oppenheimer knew it would be.

This awareness is captured in his most famous quotation. The physicist later claimed that at Trinity he had thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita – "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds" – but nobody heard him say it on the day, so Nolan uses voiceover sleight of hand to acknowledge the ambiguity. Perhaps the line was a retrospective bid for gravitas, or a plea for forgiveness, and Oppenheimer was playing screenwriter with his own life. But it carries that deeper truth. Regardless of the globe-of-fire theory, or what Truman decided to do, Oppenheimer knew in that bright white moment that his work had radically changed the world, and might one day end it.'

[sulstagram]

UNIVERSITY OF BRITECHESTER

Congratulations to our graduating class:

Yuuma Abe

Cassidy Applegate

Grace Bradley

Leila Compton

Natasha Estez

Ryder Giordano

Peter Goth

Dustin Hawkins

Julien Katananui

Faiza Khan

Koji Lane

Brianne Talla

[thephoblographer]

The Making of The Most Intelligent Photograph Ever

The history of the world has many instances where certain moments became a turning point for not just our collective future but also photography. For instance, the first X-ray image by Wilhelm Röntgen was a pivotal moment for both image-making and humankind. Similarly, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, a spectacular group photograph was captured, likely one that will…

[spilladabalia]

Ike Yard - Sense Of Male

[emo-band-recommendations]

I Have Dreams

Subgenre(s): Skramz Wave(s): 2nd Location: Tallahassee, Florida, USA Years Active: 1998-1999 Recommended Album(s): Three Days Til' Christmas (1999) Members: Allen Compton (vocals), Mike Peters (vocals), Mike Hanson (guitar), Ben Seals (bass), Clayton Rychlick (drums) Label(s): None (self-published) Spotify Monthly Listeners: N/A (not on streaming) About: This band formed out of another band, New Ethic, after their guitar player (Daniel Chapman) died in a car crash. I Have Dreams' intentions were less framed around the music itself, but around coping with their loss. They only ended up lasting roughly 6 months. While this band isn't on typical streaming services, you can listen on LastFM or download the .mp3 files through archive.org.

[doomedyuri]

decided that, on top of getting through my owned physical tbr, i want to start reading more science fiction - particularly science fiction that is older, more obscure (to me lol) and/or formative

the growing (tentative) list, as of this morning:

blood music by greg bear (reading this right now!)

solaris by stanislaw lem

the dispossessed by ursula k. le guin

world at the end of time by frederik pohl

hothouse by brian w. aldiss

inherit the stars by james p. hogan

the left hand of darkness by ursula k. le guin

eon by greg bear

ringworld by larry niven

fallen dragon by peter f. hamilton

way station by clifford d. simak

blindsight by peter watts

permutation city by greg egan

dawn by octavia e. butler

house of suns by alastair reynolds

gateway by frederik pohl

dreamships by melissa scott

star maker by olaf stapledon

dying inside by robert silverberg

nova by samuel r. delany

the palace of eternity by bob shaw

a fire upon the deep by vernor vinge

protector by larry niven

consider phlebas by iain m. banks

bloodchild by octavia e. butler

raft by stephen baxter

the city and the stars by arthur c. clarke

hyperion by dan simmons

ammonite by nicola griffith

dragon's egg by robert l. forward

cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut

tau zero by poul anderson

the mote in god's eye by larry niven and jerry pournelle

the forge of god by greg bear

grass by sheri s. tepper

diaspora by greg egan

the pastel city by m. john harrison

parable of the sower by octavia e. butler

the space merchants by frederik pohl and c.m. kornbluth

city by clifford d. simak

contact by carl sagan

rendezvous with rama by arthur c. clarke

farewell, earth's bliss by d.g. compton

roadside picnic by arkady and boris strugatsky

if anyone has other suggestions, please share 💖

[veliseraptor]

November Reading Recap

Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer. Either I'm not smart enough to follow this book or it's just not terribly coherent as a novel, and either of those is equally possible, to be honest. I am finding that I like Vandermeer's earlier work on the whole more than his later work, though.

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle. A fun romp. It didn't blow me away, or anything, but it was a lot of fun.

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. I remain most attached to the move adaptation of this novel, unfortunately, so that's always in my head when I'm reading. But despite that, or maybe because of it, this novel still delights me. It's like a warm blanket.

Catching Chen Qing Ling: The Untamed and Adaptation, Production, and Reception in Transcultural Contexts ed. by Cathy Yue Wang and Maria K. Alberto. I was very excited to read this book! I was thrilled when I saw that a collection of academic essays on The Untamed was coming out. Not all the essays in the collection are created equally, naturally, but I particularly appreciated the ones about the morality police in the fandom and the one focusing on (the violence of) translation to English. What I missed from this specific volume was more analysis of the text itself as a literary object, but that wasn't the remit of this collection, and I certainly hope that more studies will be forthcoming.

Cassiel's Servant by Jacqueline Carey. Mostly this book made me want to reread the Kushiel's Legacy series; I'm not sure if that is praise or an enticement of this book itself. I wasn't enchanted with it on the whole, though that might be because Joscelin was never the character I was most attached to. I would read the shit out of an alt POV from Melisande.

Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle. Finally finished this book after stalling out on it for literal months. It was interesting! Conceptually and in execution. It did feel very much like it was written in the 80s (which it was), though without the kind of objectionable stuff I would've expected. A review of it did describe it as having a "leisurely opening" which I would say is accurate.

Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton. I really liked The Spite House so I definitely wanted to pick up this one, and while I liked the former more this was also a really fun take on vampires unlike what I've read before. I'm picky about my horror (I'd say I don't like most of what I read) but I'll bestow the "horror I actually liked" crown on this one.

Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. For a book that was really emphasizing that it was going to lean on Persian sources rather than Greek ones for a less Greek-biased version of Persian history, it certainly felt like the author ended up relying a fair amount on Greek sources. That being said, I learned more about the (early) Persian Empire than I have before, so it was edifying in that way, if not a particularly outstanding book.

Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim, trans. Anton Hur. I'm very glad to see that this book is apparently the beginning of a series and not finished, because while I enjoyed it as a whole the ending felt a little rushed and far too neat for me. So hopefully that will be complicated in further volumes, which I probably will read. The use of dead necromancers to power an empire is, on its own, a very neat worldbuilding conceit, and I think that (interesting worldbuilding) more than character is the appeal of this work to me.

Remnants of Filth: Vol. 5 by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou. I continue to really enjoy this one despite the fact that the initial lure has abated somewhat in the course of the plot. I'm excited to see where this goes - this volume included a plot twist I definitely didn't see coming, which is always fun. It's not my favorite danmei I've read but it is a standout.

Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones. I don't know quite why I keep reading this series when I'm not really a slasher fan and it is clearly tailored toward the slasher fan. I mean, it's certainly meant to have broader appeal as a horror novel, but it is a slasher first and foremost, and I'm just not that into that subgenre. I think it's because I want to be into it. I can recognize a good book when I read one, though; just not for me.

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones. On the other hand, the above all being said: I actually really enjoyed this one! It was certainly playing with a lot of the same tropes but in a more, idk, playful sort of way that I enjoyed. Definitely heavy lampshading, so if that doesn't work for you then this book won't. But for me at least, it did what it was trying to do.

The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. I'm looking forward to hearing what people in my book club have to say about this one. I will say that the rape felt unnecessary and it definitely read like sci-fi written in the 50s by a man. I don't think I can say that I liked it. I'm not sure I can say I hated it, either, but I definitely didn't like it.

Vita Nostra by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko, trans. Julia Meitov Hersey. I've had this one on my shelf for a long time and it was good to finally read it! For someone who says she doesn't read a lot of 'magical school' books I've certainly read a lot this year, but this one is probably the most interesting and definitely the most inventive of what I've read. Not necessarily my favorite, but I'm fascinated by what the author is doing. I know there's a sequel, and I'm torn on whether I want to read it or not; I'm curious where the author would go, but I'm also satisfied with the story as it's left at the end of this book.

Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire by Priest. Possibly my favorite danmei I've read, and at this point I've read a few. It's not going to trigger my fic writing brain, I don't think, but that's mostly because it already gave me so much of what I wanted. It's very, very good in terms of the story it's telling, the themes of monstrosity and human weapons are right on point for what I like, and the plot is pretty damn tight and good at not sprawling the way some danmei is prone to. Fucking fantastic. I can't share the translation I read, but it's being published by Rosmei in English starting in January 2025.

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I'm currently reading Challenger by Adam Higginbotham for a little bit of nonfiction (my first in a while, you may notice); after that I'm not sure what I'm going to read. I'm traveling at the end of this month, so it'll be a little dependent on what's on my Kobo/if the sequel to Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman arrives in time/what books I find that I want to read at my parents' house.

[thesleeptokenarchive]

On This Day: August 16 2019

In 2019 on this day, Sleep Token was performing a ritual on the grounds of the ArcTangent Festival located at Fernhill Farm, Compton Martin, England. Their set was 40 minutes long starting at 17:00 (5:00PM) local time on the Bixler Stage.

A full setlist is at this time unknown, but what is known is that it was heavily made up of tracks from the forthcoming album Sundowning. Here is a list of songs that there is video evidence of having been performed this night.

The Night Does Not Belong to God The Offering Dark Signs Nazareth Blood Sport

It is very likely that tracks such as "Higher" and "Sugar" were also on the setlist but as to the order or certainty, this curator is unable to say.

Photographic imagery captured by FinnP Photography [FB]

Additional photographic evidence by Nick Sayers [IG]

Photographic imagery by Austin Isaac Peters [IG]

This curator has put together a playlist of the videos from this ritual available on YouTube.

If you or someone you know were in attendance at this ritual, know the proper setlist, and feel inclined to share such details, this curator would be happy to have such information. Please contact the archive by direct message on this site or by emailing sleeptokenarchive@gmail.com. Such knowledge is worth having and this curator would be grateful.

[theguywithaplan]

List of Films Turning Ten (10) Years Old in 2025

American Ultra (stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart as stoners).

Ant-Man

Avengers: Age of Ultron (pretty short Age, if you ask me...)

Beasts of No Nation (stars Idris Elba as a warlord).

The Big Short (the favorite movie of the most annoying guy you know).

Black Mass (stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger).

Bridge of Spies (directed by Spielberg, written by the Coen Brothers, and stars Tom Hanks. What more could you want?)

CHAPPiE

Cinderella (the live-action disney remake)

Creed (the successor to the Rocky movies

Crimson Peak (a gothic horror movie from Guillermo del Toro).

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (a horror movie from Spike Lee).

The DUFF (stands for Designated Ugly Fat Friend).

Ex Machina (the AI movie with Oscar Isaac).

Fant4stic

Fifty Shades of Grey

Focus (a pretty decent crime drama with Will Smith and Margot Robbie).

Furious 7

The Good Dinosaur (the rare misstep for Pixar).

Goosebumps (starring Jack Black as R. L. Stine).

The Green Inferno (a cannibal movie from Eli Roth).

The Hateful Eight (the eighth movie from Quentin Tarantino).

Hitman: Agent 47 (based on the video games).

Home (the DreamWorks movie starring Sheldon Cooper and Rihanna).

Hotel Transylvania 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2

Inside Out (one of Pixar's best)

Insidious: Chapter 3

It Follows (a fantastic horror movie).

Jem and the Holograms (I'm so sorry that you guys had to go through this).

Jupiter Ascending (an honest to god underappreciated sci-fi movie from the Wachowskis).

Jurassic World

Kingsman: The Secret Service (look up the church scene with Doom music. Thank me later).

Knock Knock (an erotic thriller starring Ana de Armas and Keanu Reeves)

Krampus

The Last Witch Hunter (a strange passion project from Vin Diesel).

Mad Max: Fury Road (greatest movie ever made, don't at me).

Magic Mike XXL

The Martian

Minions

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

The Night Before (a really fun Christmas movie with Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Pan (a really terrible Peter Pan adaptation with Hugh Jackman).

Paper Towns (based on the John Green novel of the same name).

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

The Peanuts Movie

Pitch Perfect 2

Pixels (Pac-Man's da bad guy...?)

Poltergeist (the remake)

The Revenant (Leo DiCaprio got his Oscar, and all he had to do was get mauled by a bear).

Room (Brie Larson won an Oscar for this. Deserved).

Run All Night (Liam Neeson post-Taken).

San Andreas (not based on the GTA game.)

Sicario (Denis Villeneuve does not miss)

Southpaw (a boxing movie with Jake Gyllenhaal).

Spectre (the James Bond movie... it was just okay).

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Spy (a shockingly good spy comedy with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham).

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Steve Jobs

Straight Outta Compton (starring Ice Cube's son as Ice Cube).

Taken 3 (how were there three of these??)

Ted 2

Terminator Genisys (I'll defend Salvation, but not this).

Tomorrowland

Trainwreck (an Amy Schumer comedy. Approach with caution).

Vacation (a reboot of the National Lampoon Vacation movies).

The Visit (the movie where M. Night Shyamalan finally decided to stop sucking).

[gatutor]

Denis Morgan-Joyce Compton "Cena de Navidad" (Christmas in Connecticut) 1945, de Peter Godfrey.

[octuscle]

Really awesome work with Justin Bieber. Is it possible to use a chronivac program or a luggage to live an alternative live of justin drew bieber?

The case you get looks pretty used. Cheap imitation leather. Lots of suitcase stickers. Most of them super old-fashioned. Pan Am… TWA… Damn, how long have these airlines been out of business? According to the luggage tag, the suitcase definitely belongs to a John Daniel Bieber. And the last address is the YMCA in San Francisco.

The contents of the suitcase are absolutely great. Everything you need for the next flower power party. From the 70s boots to the comb for an afro hairstyle (which you don't have), it's all there. Yes, the suitcase smells musty and the polyester shirts reek of sweat. But you can wash them all. You'll have a look at it tomorrow. But for tonight, it's enough for you to put on one of the cool chains. Looks great. But now you're tired and you have to get up early tomorrow. So you go to bed and fall asleep almost immediately.

It's 7 a.m. when you are woken up by noise in the dormitory. Blimey, he's already getting up at this time?!?!?!! A group of backpackers pack up their things and noisily leave the dormitory. If you're already awake, you might as well piss. You jump out of bed naked and shuffle towards the washrooms. Peter is standing next to you. Also naked except for his sunglasses. And except for a joint in his mouth. He lets you take a drag. Okay, the wake-up call wasn't that bad… Nevertheless, you go back to bed slightly stoned and sleep until your morning boner wakes you up almost painfully. You always get the best erections after smoking weed.

You look in your suitcase for reasonably clean clothes, get dressed, pick up your guitar and head towards Union Square. The bourgeoisie are about to break for lunch, so you can get a really good deal. Thank goodness you have enough time to grab a coffee at Compton's Cafeteria on the way.

JD has had the most success with young female office workers. But there were also plenty of younger and older men who were his fans. His guitar case quickly filled up with coins and dollar bills. Tonight he and his buddies would be able to have another hot evening. And who knows, there might even be enough for tomorrow and the day after…