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cantsayidont · 11 months ago

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February 1978. Released a year after the royal Silver Jubilee to which the title alludes, this colorful, moderately surreal, definitely pretentious Derek Jarman punk indulgence is framed by an odd sequence in which an angel (Ian Charleson) gives Queen Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) and John Dee (Richard O'Brien) a glimpse of the future, where a group of young punks — Amyl (Pamela Rooke, aka Jordan), Crabs (Little Nell, aka Nell Campbell, who could have convincingly played Helen Mirren's younger sister), Viv (Linda Spurrier), Mad (Toyah Willcox), Sphinx (Karl Johnson), Angel (Ian Charleson), and Kid (Adam Ant), along with the somewhat older and decidedly mad Bod (also Runacre) — struggle with end-of-the-world ennui and boredom that they try to fill with looting, sex, music (produced by the deranged Borgia Ginz, played by Jack Birkett, aka Orlando), mindless aggro, and the occasional recreational murder. (The story doesn't ever spell out exactly why the world is ending, but anyone living in the gloomy inflationary austerity of late '70s Britain hardly needed any elaboration on that score.)

Even if you don't recognize the various punk and New Wave figures who appear throughout, the film captures the early punk sensibility pretty well, although for all its mayhem, its aura of studied disaffection makes it rather slow-moving and occasionally dull. This seems intentional — the characters themselves are desperately bored, and while everyone's still going through the motions out of inertia or nostalgia, the point is that there is no point.

For all that, JUBILEE is still significantly less cynical than the later LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS (which also features an array of punk stars), and occasionally manages to seem strangely wistful. CONTAINS LESBIANS? There's a fair amount of gay sex, but the closest it gets to wlw is a scene where Bod and Mad do a little knife-play. VERDICT: Definitely an acquired taste, but if you have any interest in punk, New Wave, or post punk, it's essential viewing. As a companion piece, try the somewhat earlier THE FINAL PROGRAMME (also with Jenny Runacre), based on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novel, which is similar in tone and sensibility.

#movies #jubilee 1978 #derek jarman #punk #new wave #jenny runacre #toyah willcox #nell campbell #pamela rooke #jordan mooney #linda spurrier #the final programme #jerry cornelius #if you think paramore and green day are punk this may not be for you #but you might learn something #music

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where-your-eyes-dont-go · 8 months ago

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A lot of classic "psycedelic" media has an odd relationship with trans characters, where their existence is seen as inherently funny or ridiculous even if the characters themselves aren't necessarily portrayed negatively. Little Miss Dazzle from Moorcock's The Final Programme is a good example of this:

She isn't made out to be a sex-crazed villain or a confused dunce or anything like that, she isn't given anything in the way of negative traits. But she only comes up in the context of "oh its funny that people don't know she has a dick."

It's an oddity, though it seems in like with Moorcock's tendency in Programme to treat anything that isn't an Englishman's idea of "normal" as inherently trippy and surreal. A long list of the oddball attendies to Cornelius' parties include things like "Persian lesbians" and "a hunchback veterinarian" gets listed out with "warlocks" and "monks from disbanded monasteries." And that's not to mention Cornelius going from a white dude with black hair in the first book to a black dude with white hair in the second book as part of the whole "variations on a theme" thing the books are doing.

#mals says #the final programme #jerry cornelius #the cornelius quartet #michael moorcock

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deepdarkspaceblog · 4 months ago

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'The Final Programme' Is Prophetic, Literary, and Cool

'The Final Programme' is still one of the hippest and edgiest SF stories you can read. And now surprisingly prophetic. #sf #scifi #books #bookreview

The Final Programme (1968) by Michael Moorcock takes everything that is hip and cool about the 1960s and infuses it with his raw genius of imagination. While the book is part of Moorcock’s larger Eternal Champion sequence the reader requires no previous experience with it. Moorcock writes with a razor edge style laying bare the soul of his creations. Filled with moments of discomfort and unease,…

#Book Review #Jerry Cornelius #Michael Moorcock #The Eternal Champion #The Final Programme

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retroillustrates · 2 years ago

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Jerry

#artists on tumblr #digital art #jerry cornelius #eternal champion #the final programme #a cure for cancer #michael moorcock

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biggeorgeous · 2 years ago

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The Final Programme (1973)

#The Final Programme #Jon Finch

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tiniest-headcrab-art · 1 year ago

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The Hollow Knight

please click for better quality i tried really hard

#my art #hollow knight #hk #hk hollow #art #digital art #yayyy finally completed hehe #i am insanley proud of this ngl #also jesus my art programme started going slow #i added too many layers xdd #the hollow knight #idk what other tags there are gkjfhhjkg

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d8tl55c · 6 months ago

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oh boy !! ! ! ! !!! ! thANK y0u all for the kind words on my last art posts. you all get it and i was/still am so happy about it

as promised, here's some close-ups of the comic for image quality's sake, and other screenshots i rescued from the community whiteboard (and something else)

first up another sketch of mystery gender-ambiguous being. (please send me more name ideas for them if you got one- i like to hear em! (reminder it's the side character that appeared for <10 seconds in AvM Ep. 30))

a few fav scenes

emotional support cwab

they weren't meant for this purpose exactly, but i do have countless "fluffy sticks" loose in my notes and homework sheets from the school years.

papery critter.

even when i wasn't confident in fur or feathers, they helped me practice posing and create some satisfying gradients/flowing poses. (im a sucker for good tail poses) (oh yay! i found a good pic...)

and finally, little sneak peak for you for reading so far ;3

i realized that whiteboardfox is pretty great for my working needs. simple and to the point and all. feels nice with the mouse and the tablet.

so i started hashing out a big project idea just to see if it holds up and

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several hours later ...

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oh

oh man

it's a little bigger than i expected

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#--/ art #alan becker #animator vs animation #animation vs minecraft #Minecraft bed #ava the dark lord #ava the chosen one #me when the project that obviously wasn't going to be done in one night isn't done in one night: D: !?!?!?!?#kudos to whoever routed the Speedrun actual short because that one is so fun and clean and savvy #clever made up time-savers? includes orange's TNT shield-jump?? nonlethal dragon dispatch??? sweet #ithink you can see where i tried to head with this #turns out that turning up the complexity 98 notches higher makes things trickier to parse hmmmmmm?#in fact i might need some help with this one ;>v>' like a lot.#i had a bit of a story and route set up already i just... wanted to make sure everything was at least kinda there...................#we'll see #the pie joke. i was trying to categorize which foodstuffs chosen should be able to make on the fly. with their flame hands.#ex. cooking meats makes sense because flint and steel works for the same purpose (you can kill a burning animal to get cooked meats)#but baking bread or drying kelp seems way more involved or whatever -> needs a proper furnace environment #HOWEVER... i noticed that Steve can just summon pumpkin pies from his bare hands if he wants to without even a workbench. so. sure! lol.#this is scraping the surface of the minutiae i want to consider #(ALSO KUDOS to everyone who RUNS/works on all-advancements. of course. riding on your shoulders here)#final joke is that chosen didn't know how crazy this undertaking would be to learn #but dark is very literally programmable. so you could maybe just plug some TAS instructions into him and off he goes #or even more open-ended than that just give him the list of advancements + stipulations + the wiki and similar result #it'd get done but. i dont think he'd find that fun at all. prefers to write his own instructions if you see what i mean #i might be forgetting some context. it is rather late you see. please ask me questions about this! ;P #tco aa

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retrocgads · 1 year ago

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USA 1997

#USA1997 #SQUARESOFT #PROGRAMMERS WANTED #IBM #PS1 #FINAL FANTASY VII

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is-skizzleman-on-hermitcraft · 1 year ago

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20 February 2024

today’s clip is brought to you by: can’t ever have too many crafting tables

#skizzleman #hermitcraft #unrelated to that #but i’ve had my first classic programmer moment #of making a very simple mistake and spending a few hours in frustration trying to find it #and then face palming when i finally figure it out #anyways have a good day yall

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buriedintheflesh · 2 years ago

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Fear swapped Lonely!Jon and Beholding!Martin :)

They are so beautiful oml I love them so much

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#the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #tma jon #tma martin #tma jonathan sims #tma martin blackwood #mag #magpod #lonely!jon #eye!martin #buried art #finally worked out how to do colour overlays its been 2 years on this art programme and i never knew how to do it

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summeringminor · 1 year ago

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wet rat girlfaggot (honorific)

#it’s 3:20am i have to get up in 4hs. but. downloaded new drawing programme and lost all sense of time.#it’s not like it’s the last day before my final critique and I have so much yet to do ahaha #sketch #tlt art #ianthe tridentarius #ianthe the first #the locked tomb fanart #the locked tomb #locked tomb #tlt #locked tomb fanart #tlt fanart #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #ianthe #cw ianthe tridentarius

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freebooter4ever · 5 months ago

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you know when there is one person you need to have a fight with (my dad) but you cant so you find yourself subconsciously picking fights with other people -_-

yeah i need to stop that

#jrnlsht #there is a giant ache that overwhelms even the slight wound from nick being a butt over this illness #and its that my dad is acting like he just doesnt care at all #and it is crushing me #i knew we were distant but i didn't know until now that he really truly didnt care #i have to figure out a way to reconcile with that and honestly im at a loss #this is like when my dad kept canceling his visits to me or my visits to him #and i kept defending him and saying excuses #until finally my one programmer friend here sat me down and said laura you keep saying that your dad is the one person you rely on #but he hasnt been reliable for years #and i realized my friend was right #this is just an extension of that shit that happened like two years ago #but dad was always the good one who saved me from my moms abuse and i am forever blind to his failings

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codingcorgi · 10 months ago

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Days 110 to 118 of coding everyday for a year and I've gotten so much done!

I finish both of my finals the C++ and the C#. The C++ final is an adventure game and it wasn't too challenging to make honestly I had fun with it. The C# project was also fun because I got to play with microcharts when creating the statistics page to display collected data! I plan to make the C++ game more fun honestly because I can't just let it die from here. I am going to make the Android and iOS build better on the C# project. I'm really proud of myself today :)

My next adventures will be brushing up on JavaScript since I'm severely out of practice and using what I know to make my portfolio website using Blazor!