#robert yang

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That Lonesome Valley by Robert Yang

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British Lads Hit Each Other With Chair

[lemongrablothbrok]

Ahem...

Interesting choice of words there, Bobby...

(source: NME interview with Robert Plant from 3/17/1990, reprinted in "The Ultimate Music Guide: Page & Plant" by Uncut Magazine)

[ban--tam]

yangtober day 21: dusty “just cause jessica's already dancing with jean robert, it doesn't mean you have to sit this song out!” “hey... since i'm your senior, shouldn't i at least get to lead?”

[isomorphismes]

“the Yang-Mills equations are nonlinear, therefore there is little hope of finding a closed-form solution.” Such a statement seems plausible. Linear differential equations with constant coefficients are the only differential equations for which a general solution is given in closed form. As often occurs in life, however, the exceptions to the rule are sometimes more interesting than the rules themselves. Let us digress from quantum physics to the motion of water, where British shipbuilder John Scott Russell noticed a solitary wave in a canal in August 1834. Neither Airy nor Stokes accepted this observation, yet in 1895 Korteweg and de Vries found an equation for a wave travelling in shallow water in one direction: u̇ + 6•u•uₓ + uₓₓₓ = 0. The KdV equation is easily solved by restricting from two independent space-time dimensions (x,t) to a single dimension x−λt — a frame matching the speed λ of a travelling wave.

Mikhail Ilʹich Monastyrskiĭ, Riemann, Topology, and Physics

[weclassybouquetfun]

Oscars tonight,

but while the awards are preparing to be handed out, who are the red carpet fashion winners?

Spoiler Alert: Disappointingly, not Colman Domingo who has been killing all awards season. This is too moderate for me.

He still looks tremendous, though.

It's Eugene Lee Yang of NIMONA!

MORE FASHION

Ryan Gosling (with sister and parents)

(Ken) Kingsley Adir

(Ken) Ncuti Gatwa

(Ken) Scott Evans

(Ken) Simu Liu

Cillian Murphy

Robert Downey Jr.

Double dating with Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky

SOCIETY OF THE SNOW Enzo Vogrincic

Bradley Cooper - I love the flared pants

Matt Bomer

Omar Rudberg (in Prada)- hate, hate, hate, hate. You don' have your tits out at the Oscars. That's a Golden Globes thing!

Sterling K. Brown (love the sash effect)

Teo Yoo (Past Lives)

John Magaro (Past Lives)

Ramy Youssef

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Dominic Sessa in Tom Ford

Christian Friedel (Zone of Interest)

Milo Machado Graner (Anatomy of A Fall)

Mamoudou Athie

Taylor Zakhar Perez in Prada. Love the cornsilk.

[sanicsmut]

It's just homophobic that there's so little posts in the tedfield tag

Let my boyfriends kiss each other for fuck's sake

[getincentstyle]

Yang Zi for her birthday photoshoot wearing Robert Wun Fall/Winter 2024 Haute Couture

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Nimona

Movies watched in 2023

Nimona (2023, USA)

Directors: Nick Bruno & Troy Quane

Writers: Robert L. Baird & Lloyd Taylor (based on the graphic novel by ND Stevenson)

Mini-review:

This was so f**king good. What a groundbreaking, creative, original and incredibly fun movie. It's honestly mindblowing how much world building and character development the film manages to pack in just 90 minutes. And gosh, Nimona and Bal are (anti)heroes for the ages, there's no doubt about that. As for the animation, I have to say I've never seen a movie that looks quite like this. I love that most animation studios have begun to push their boundaries after the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, cause thanks to that we're getting absolutely stunning movies. Also, on top of the amazing animation and characters, the movie delivers a powerful message that feels painfully timely in this day and age. Seriously, I will never stop thanking Annapurna and Netflix for saving this from oblivion when Disney decided to cancel the project (most likely over its wonderful gay content). I really hope Nimona reaches the audience that needs it the most, and I'm so so so glad it finally made it to our screens, cause it's definitely worth the wait.

[hasellia]

Okay so I was scouring jojowiki.com as usual and it says there that Diego's dinosaur form is based on an outdated record of a Utahraptor, and I don't know anything about them but I have a slight suspicion they were found in Utah.

I dunno just thought it was funny how to the point the name is. "it's a raptor in Utah, let's call it Utahraptor"

You blame Jim Kirkland over on his twitter for naming them that.

But yeah, "[Place name]saurus [place name]ensis" is a meme in the paleocommunity for a reason. (The word "ensis" meaning "from [place name]".) Image souce: Adam-Loves-Dinosaurs.

I think Utahraptor is probably the most famous one. When another large dromeosaur was found in Dakota, DePalma felt it natural to smash the usual dromeosaur suffix of "raptor" with the prefix of [Place name] to name Dakotaraptor.

A dinosaur not many realise was intended to be named after a place is Mamenchisaurus. (Source: Cervente on Tumblr)

It was discovered in (yes I'm using Wikipedia's text) Mǎmíngxī (马鸣溪 'horse-neighing brook') by Yang Zhongjian (楊鍾健), grandfather of Chinese Palaeontology. However, Yang wasn't from the area and mistook the intonation for the locale name. So he ended up calling it (馬門溪龍屬), from Mǎménxī (马门溪 'horse-gate brook').

That's probably the most fun one I can think of, but the others are like...

Koreacertops. Aegyptosaurus. Argentinosaurus. Patagotitan (Patagonia). Chilesaurus (Chile, but apparently it sounds like "dick" in latin countries?) Edmontosaurus (Canadian province, Edmonton). Albertosaurus (Candadian province Alberta, named after Princess Louise Carolina Alberta... named after Prince Albert). Gondwanasuchus (A crocodile actually, that was found in São Paulo, you know where, which USED to be part of the supercontinent Gondwana). Adamantisaurus is named from the same formation the croc was found, Adamantina.

Probably the most common kind of argument on the internet regarding dinosaurs at the moment is names and... IMO, it's not worth it unless it's REALLY bad or a bit mishandled, like Kuru kulla or Mamenchisaurus. But then, that's what the ICZN (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) is usually for.

Anyway, Thanos is the worst dinosaur name in current use. Grapes, I need your Brazilian Portuguese expertise to write a strongly worded letter to Rafael Delcourt and Fabiano Vidoi Iori on good naming conventions. Obrigado Uva!

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Artists’ Book Display for June, 2023 

We’re back! The Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives are currently open for Banff Centre staff, artists, and participants, and we’re excited to continue sharing our artists’ book collection. We have more limited hours and fewer staff than previous years, so we’re going to be changing out the display every month, instead of every week. 

Bathroom Contemplation. Haegue Yang. Berlin: Wiens Verlag, 2013.

Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear. Amy Guggenheim. Self-published, 1994.

Head Paintings. Robert Fones. Toronto: Coach House Books, 1997.

Little Sermons Series. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Ian Gardner. Lanark, Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1982.

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That Lonesome Valley

That Lonesome Valley is a short retro-style gay romance game / visual novel about walking, sheepherding, and kissing.

by Robert Yang (https://debacle.us)

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Nimona (2023)

My rating: 8/10

That bit with the statue, I mean. Dude.

[graphicpolicy]

Nimona gets an official trailer

Nimona gets an official trailer #animation #netflix #movies

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. But what if she’s the monster he’s sworn to destroy? A little anti, a little hero. Nimona, based on the comic by ND Stevenson, debuts only on Netflix June 30.

[earmuffsforgirls]

"... which leads into how this game plays on the "locker room / shower" genre of gay male porn. For the uninitiated, the basic fantasy is this: imagine you're a dude who just finished doing something manly, like Sports or something, and now you're showering with other naked dude(s). Then someone compliments a body or notices "something", one thing leads to another, and then latent man-on-man lust boils over into risky semi-public sex acts.

Older gay men understand this in a tradition of cruising and gay bathhouses, while younger gay men might narrativize it more as a reversal of bullying dynamics in high school gym. Above all, the locker room is understood normally as a place of danger, where you could be discovered or outed or beaten for "looking at someone the wrong way" even if you were just minding your own business -- and there's nowhere to hide, not even in your own clothes.

So as a porn genre, it is basically a fantasy about everyday consent and safety. Not just the consent to have weird exciting uncomfortable sex on a tile floor, but also the consent to be able to shower and use public facilities While Being Gay. What if we actually did what homophobes are so irrationally afraid of us doing?"

I love this game and his blog post about it makes me insane. How does he do it.

[marcovaleyeah]

29.07.2023

#Mira-Marathon

Cartoon Name: Nimona (2023); Production studios: Annapurna Pictures, Annapurna Animation; Director by: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane; Screenwriters: Marc Haimes, Pamela Ribon, Lloyd Taylor, Keith Bunin, Troy Quane, Robert L. Baird; Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed, Eugene Lee Yang, Frances Conroy, Lorraine Toussaint; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: 1 hours 39 minutes;

"Nimona" is a cartoon that tells the story of Knight Ballister, the main suspect in the murder of the Queen, who meets Nimona, a dangerous and mysterious creature. It's an exciting adventure story with well-written characters and beautiful animation.

My rating: 9/10