#wind river film review

[vestaignis]

Деттифосс самый мощный водопад Исландии и Европы, его называют «европейской Ниагарой».При ширине около 100 метров этот водопад низвергается с высоты в 44 метра. Во время паводков количество воды в водопаде может вырости в 3-4 раза и в пиковые моменты составляет до 600 м3/секунду! Кстати, в переводе с исландского Деттифосс значит Бурлящий водопад, гул его слышен на многие мили вокруг.

Водопад находится в северо-восточной части острова, в Национальном парке Исландии Йёкульсаурглювур и расположенн на кру��ной реке Йёкюльсау-ау-Фьёдлюм. Ледниковое питание реки Йёкюльсау-ау-Фьёдлюм обуславливает не совсем обычный для исландских рек буро-коричневый цвет воды, срывающейся с уступов Деттифосс. Путь к живописному творению природы лежит сквозь пустынную местность, покрытую множеством дюн черного песка.Единственным исключением является зеленый оазис на склоне холма на западном берегу, куда попадают брызги от водопада, увлажняя почву. Однако на восточном берегу совершенно иная картина. При определенном направлении ветра вы можете промокнуть до нитки от брызг. Из-за густого облака брызг дно водопада не просматривается, однако хорошо видны потрясающие базальтовые колонны, которые встречаются на всем пути с обеих сторон реки.

Однако не только своей мощью и суровой красотой известен водопад Деттифосс, но и своим участием в кинематографе - именно этот водопад "сыграл" роль в фильме Ридли Скотта "Прометей". По версии Скотта именно тут зародилась жизнь на Земле.

Dettifoss is the most powerful waterfall in Iceland and Europe, it is called the “European Niagara”. With a width of about 100 meters, this waterfall falls from a height of 44 meters. During floods, the amount of water in the waterfall can increase 3-4 times and at peak moments it reaches up to 600 m3/second! By the way, in Icelandic Dettifoss means Raging Waterfall; its roar can be heard for many miles around.

The waterfall is located in the northeastern part of the island, in the Jökulsárglúvur National Park of Iceland and is located on the large river Jökulsau au Fjödlum. The glacial feeding of the Jökulsau au Fjödlum River causes the brown-brown color of the water falling from the Dettifoss ledges, which is unusual for Icelandic rivers. The path to the picturesque creation of nature lies through a desert area covered with many dunes of black sand. The only exception is a green oasis on the hillside on the western shore, where spray from a waterfall falls, moistening the soil. However, on the eastern shore the picture is completely different. In certain wind directions, you can get wet to the skin from the spray. Due to the thick cloud of spray, the bottom of the waterfall is not visible, but the stunning basalt columns that occur along the entire path on both sides of the river are clearly visible.

However, the Dettifoss waterfall is known not only for its power and harsh beauty, but also for its participation in cinema - it was this waterfall that “played” a role in Ridley Scott’s film “Prometheus”. According to Scott, this is where life on Earth originated.

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Ursula K. Le Guin once said that “[t]o use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.” Crucially, Nausicaä imagines a new way of being in the world by radically reframing our relation to it and our understanding of it. Instead of a desert, the inhospitable environment in Nausicaä is known as the Sea of Decay. But far from a dying and deadened milieu, the Sea of Decay is in fact brimming with life. This is hardly ironic but for a dominant binary and linear ontology around life and death. The living and the dead are not fixed in a binary but bound together in an intimate, dynamic, circling dance. Decay and regeneration are two sides of the same coin. Reflecting on when he moved to the Yanase River, Miyazaki recalls, “The river was more like a polluted ditch, filled with leeches and midge larvae. I was amazed by how noble these midges were and impressed that they would live in such a place.” The Sea of Decay, teeming with life, is arguably the site of some of the most luxuriant and resplendent imagery in all of Miyazaki’s films.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

@nobeerreviews Hello 👋

For me as you're one of my oldest friends on Tumblr for these years, Especially we both didn't use the rules here to "followers" one another to build on a friendship been a very long time, but I would read and repost your traveled post which I like anyway. :))) So I would reply you tagged name me from you the post and work for it. otherwise I usually don't play this kind pass on text games. True.

1. 3 ships - I love pirate ships, I want to go kayaking, I often in night dream about being on a ship like UFO very funny lol. (Actually, I come from old school. I don’t know if my understanding is correct or not for the emerging generation’s questions between different languages. 😅😂)

2. First ever ship - I don't have any ships, I only have my shits but cute. XD

3. Last song - I mean the last song in my life : 弘一法師-李叔同 《送别》 https://youtu.be/CyQHQ1ixFto?si=HVy55vYT-Qp8rB7M

4. Last movie - 火上鍋 La Passion de Dodin Bouffant (The Taste of Things) /I saw this movie second times last week. I really love it~*

5. Currently reading - 桑塔格 ／SONTAG : Her Life And Work /Author: Benjamin Moser and many books cross reference reading them once again; lazy to put book-name list on here. sorry!

6. Currently watching - That's my secret… lol and some porn films for relaxing to be honest.

7. Currently consuming - tea, coffee, noodles & pasta were gone fast normally at studio. and then enjoy sweets or snacks usually at the coffee shop and when I get home would feed else.

8. Currently craving - A long vacation on traveling and go camping before I die.

9. People to tag - So sorry, At beginning I have told that "I usually don't play this kind pass on text games." I will not tag any friend's name here, Because I believe that if you want to know more about a person, you must have a natural collision of souls, and that kind of spark will never go out.

And

I don't easily become interested or curious about anyone unless they are very close to me. The more things you know, the more you can't help but care, the more worries you will have, and the more burden you will have on your heart. I am not running for president, mayor or village chief. As an old guy, I want to simplify my interpersonal relationships as much as possible. I don’t need to have many friends. My friends are animals, birds, insects, flowers and trees, wind and rain, mountains, rivers and seas; they are all mysteries, far more interesting than human beings. that's all. 🙏 Thank you. - Lan~*

[liesonthefloordramatically]

A wild 2023 recap post appears!

Stuff I made this year:

Fiction: Nope. Work continues to consume me.  I DID write like 33k that maybe will be publicly accessible in the future, but who can say.

Playlists: I think the only two I remembered to share were Oleander (a playlist for my Wickedness character) and the vast and the void (what it says on the tin).

RPGs: Also a nope.

Knitting: Made a shawl!  And a hat, technically, that I forgot to take pictures of.

Other stuff: Taught 5 classes, 4 of which were new preps!  Did fieldwork in Japan for the first time since 2019! Gave an hour-long talk in Japanese!  Presented on two conference panels!  Finished two academic book reviews! Survived somehow!  The period between August and December sort of doesn’t exist in my memory?  I was doing things but almost all of those things were work, so. The isolation has been wearing on me, but with the combination of A. not having any time to do anything other than work and B. for Various Reasons questioning whether I want to stay at this job, it's been really hard to build local community. I'm going to try to work on that next year, but also I'm going to have two new preps again in the fall and one of my spring classes is already overenrolled, so who knows how effective that'll be.

Media I enjoyed this year:

Books: I read 46 books this year apparently!  Top picks in no particular order: The Singing Hills Cycle (embarrassingly my jam), The Southern Reach Trilogy (shocking that it took me this long to read this), My Own Devices (even MORE shocking that it took me this long to read this), Imperial Radch (so AGGRESSIVELY my jam), She Who Became the Sun (this was a hilarious accompaniment to one of my fall classes), Camp Damascus (read this on a plane back from Japan which was An Experience), The Tale That Twines (loved the first book; the second book is even better), System Collapse (yeah, no one is surprised that I loved this).

TTRPG: Wickedness!  This was the only new TTRPG I played this year, but it was really good.

Video games: Mask of the Rose and Saltsea Chronicles, both of which I want to/should poke at more. Special nod to 13 Sentinels which we enjoyed 90% of a lot.

Manga/comics: I think the only thing I read was The JOJOLands?

Fanfic: I didn’t actually wind up reading that much fanfic this year again, in part because I was reading so many books.  A few picks, in no particular order: The Gardener (CR C2), Keys to the Castle (CR C2), Whistle Song (CR C2), pieces of (you) me (CR C2), Descriptions of a River Flowing (CR C2), Slip the Blindfold (CR C2), Heart to Heart (JJBA: JJL--PLEASE read this if you care about JJL at all), riverside beatitudes (JJBA: SDC), Fully formed, ready to run (ExU: Calamity).  Honorable mention to Asking for More (Stranger of Paradise), which is a WIP but made me laugh so hard I hit myself in the face with my phone.

Films: I actually watched like eight movies this year!  All but two of the new ones on a plane, to be fair, but.  Top picks: Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse and Shoplifters (『万引き家族』).  Honorary mention to Suzume.

TV: Finally finished Stone Ocean!  It was good!  Rowan and I are also like halfway through catching up on TGCF and it is also very good.

Podcasts:  Continued to listen to way too many of these.  Top picks: The Silt Verses, Trice Forgotten, Within the Wires (hey can we talk about the newest season? truly wild), and Re: Dracula.  Honorable mentions to The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods, 『なんかIWAKAN！』 (WHICH IS TRAGICALLY ENDING???? where am I supposed to get my chaotic Japanese gender and sexuality discussion now :(((((), Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later, Critical Role, and Worlds Beyond Number.

Music: Dessa's Bury the Lede was excellent, of course.  I also apparently listened to Maisie Peters' The Good Witch a lot (it was in my grading rotation in October). And then this past month there's been a lot of Hozier's Unreal Unearth. But a lot of my listening this year was either albums on the bus (rotating mainly between Quiet Company’s We Are All Where We Belong, Bury the Lede, yorushika’s entire discography that I can purchase, Wednesday Campanella, and various soundtracks) or putting something on loop and falling into a fugue state.  Apparently my top song of the year on Spotify was “Square One,” which I think I put on looping while grading in the spring.  My Spotify top songs list was even more inexplicable than usual this year.

Anyway, あけおめ！！！ 良いお年を！！！ (or else!!!!)

[gacmediadaily]

Does it feel like Texas is suddenly taking over the national entertainment industry?

Megaproducer Taylor Sheridan – Wind River, Hell or High Water, and now the blockbuster Yellowstone– raised in Fort Worth, is making Western culture popular again and filling rodeo arenas with city folks. 

A new force in streaming and cable

Another Texas-based player may be an even more disruptive force in the U.S. entertainment industry. 

Great American Media (GAM) is suddenly an overnight contender in the U.S. streaming and cable television space, winning regular coverage in industry flagships like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and it has the entertainment industry sitting up and taking notice for its success attracting audiences to faith and family content.

“We’re on our way to being America’s most uplifting and inspiring network,” says CEO Bill Abbott, who founded Great American Media in 2021.

Abbott follows a familiar playbook – his own — perfected over 35 years in family entertainment.

Abbott’s resume includes senior leadership roles at Fox Kids, Fox Family Channel, and ABC Family, plus more than 20 years as the architect of the Hallmark television brands. Now he has launched another TV brand in the burgeoning Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, a big community with small-town sensibilities and a dedicated and talented populace, he says.

As the engineer of the next big thing, Abbott pulled on both experience and his friends, instantly creating a crew of iconic TV stars, including Mario Lopez, Danica McKellar, Cameron Mathison, Alexa and Carlos PenaVega, and, of course, Candace Cameron Bure.

These stars are making an appearance at iconic venues across the nation for spotlight events and movie production. Carlos and Alexa PenaVega spent the day at AT&T Stadium in Dallas – right down the road from the headquarters of Great America Media – filming their upcoming holiday premiere movie. Not only is the AT&T Stadium recognizable by many, but this production further solidifies Abbott’s dedication to creating uplifting, quality content.

Today, his startup boasts over 70 million viewers and subscribers to its cable television channels and streaming service, a remarkable feat in any environment. The last three years have been some of the most tumultuous in television and entertainment history, with a record decline in cable subscribers and increasing competition among streaming services. Yet Great American Media is on the rise.

The success is a testament to early mornings, continual conference calls, coast-to-coast travel, and non-stop team building. Every Friday, Abbott hosts a company-wide review of the market and a company performance where he answers employees’ questions nationwide. One staffer describes it as a master class in cable and streaming television.

Great American Media’s Fort Worth headquarters includes production and administrative offices, while its sales and executive offices are in New York. Its member services center, a call center supporting a committed fan base, is in Phoenix.

“One of the most rewarding parts of my jobs is to read viewer emails,” says Abbott, who regularly corresponds with a group of over 25,000 loyal Great American Media Insiders. “Our viewers know what they want and it’s our job to give them a great uplifting experience free of the stress and contentiousness of their already overly complex world.”

Great American Media’s portfolio of brands now includes Great American Family, Great American Pure Flix, Great American Faith & Living, Great American Adventures, and Pure Flix TV.

As the company’s flagship cable TV network, Great American Family, features quality original movies and classic series that are inspiring and emotionally connecting. The business strategy is to align the content and convert cable viewers to streaming subscribers, a riddle many in Hollywood are attempting to solve.

Great American Pure Flix is GAM’s leading subscription on-demand streaming service and the most successful faith-based content provider of its size. A recent Financial Times story described GAM as the Netflix of faith-based content, to which Abbott responds, “Not bad company to be in after only three years.”

Great American Faith & Living features mostly unscripted lifestyle programming that celebrates family-friendly traditions every day and every season.

Great American Media is also home to a FAST (free ad-supporting streaming TV) channel with Great American Adventures, which offers both scripted and unscripted content, including cooking and do-it-yourself programs, and Great American Community, a free direct-to-consumer streaming app featuring short-form original series hosted by well-known lifestyle experts and TV stars. There is also a Pure Flix FAST channel.

“We are creating an oasis in a cultural desert,” says Candace Cameron Bure, star of many Great American Media original programs, including hit My Christmas Hero. She joined Abbott at the film’s screening on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington.

Abbott agrees, saying, “I think that the culture overall needs what we’re offering. And there is just so little content out there that serves family and faith and yet is done in a quality way. It is a very big part of what our mission is and what we do, and the demand is huge.”

Not His First Rodeo

Abbott founded Great American Media in June 2021 with backing from Dallas-based investors, including Dallas businessman Doug Deason. Abbott credits Deason with the company’s steady focus on strategy.

“After running companies that possess varying levels of leadership and judgment exercised at the board and ownership level, I know first-hand that these qualities can make or break a business, and Great American Media’s success starts with Doug in his role as Chairman of the Board,” says Abbott.

Deason, who most recently demonstrated political acumen by leading an initiative to get Texans to set aside $1 billion to expand Texas state parks and co-chaired the expansion of Dallas’ Centennial Parks.

“Without Doug’s unwavering support, vision, and courage, Great American Media would lack the ability to stand firmly behind the values conveyed in our faith and family content,” says Abbott, “and in fact, it’s quite likely the business would never have gotten off the ground.”

Deason credits Abbott, who he points out is unique among broadcasting executives, who more typically are finance types or lawyers and rarely schooled in stories, let alone moral tales. Abbott is an English and Literature graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, a foundation he puts to good use by reading every script and participating in creative development with his producers and stars.

GAM’s CEO is deeply respected in the industry and serves on the boards of the Parents Television & Media Council and the International Radio & Television Society Foundation. He was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame in 2017. 

Previously, Abbott served for two decades as a senior executive and then CEO of Crown Media Family Networks, the parent company of Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Mystery, Hallmark Drama, and Hallmark Movies Now. 

“We had tremendous success with creating a destination that was family-friendly and themed around the holidays,” explains Abbott. He is credited with creating the Christmas television genre, expanding the network’s romantic comedies, and launching its mysteries channel.

After 20 years, Abbott left Hallmark and looked to Texas to build a new network: Great American Family.

“We’re proud to say we celebrate faith, family, and country,” explains Abbott, “and we have an investor group where we all believe in the mission of family-friendly and faith-based content.”

Equipped with funding and a vision, Abbott acquired Fort Worth’s independently owned equestrian and western channel Ride TV and a music video channel called Great American Country from Discovery. This gave his fledgling dream two traditional cable television linear channels. As the company sorted through its inherited programs and shows, Great American Media was quickly rebranded.

“Now we had something to work with, and we went to work,” he explained.

The entertainment world suddenly noticed when the new GAM network acquired Michael Landon Jr.’s When Calls the Heart spin-off, When Hope Calls,” and began hiring the most well-known talent in the genre to appear in its own slate of made-for-TV movies. 

GAM also quickly established Great American Christmas premieres and seasonal rotation around Christmas, including 12 original movies in its first year. Now, they’re producing more than 20 original Christmas movies per year.

Dream Streaming

While building a traditional cable offering, Abbott heard from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the world’s largest entertainment conglomerates. They owned Pure Flix, a niche faith-based streaming video-on-demand service with a loyal fan base.

“Pure Flix had been sort of under the radar,” explained Abbott. Sony had only recently acquired the streaming service and began looking for a means of growing it. Sony executives saw the synergies between Abbott’s startup, the Great American Family channel, and their streamer and proposed a merger.

The merger enhanced both platforms’ content library and created synergies between cable and streaming services, meeting customer expectations for a fulfilling, uplifting, and inspiring entertainment experience. Since the merger, SVOD subscriptions have increased, and the customer experience has been enhanced through several platform upgrades, making the streaming service intuitive and user-friendly.

“Our brands and diversified content distribution capabilities have helped us reach substantially larger and broader audiences on each platform, creating a family- and faith-friendly streaming service unlike any other,” he added. “Our business strategy is becoming more and more clear to the industry.”

And they’re noticing. Great American Media ncluded 2023 as the fastest-growing channel on cable television, and its ad sales were up 25 percent. Under Abbott’s watchful eye, the economy balances with creative excellence, allowing the GAM channels to increasingly share the same programming vision, creating the brand synergies critical to growth. 

Great American Media’s programming and development team steers all original scripts from concept through production with an eye toward brand integrity. Abbott and the leadership team ensure every frame it controls is on brand as promised.

Great American Media has made headlines for the stars it has drawn in its first few years, including Candace Cameron Bure, Danica McKellar, Trevor Donovan, Jill Wagner, Jen Lilley, Cameron Mathison, and Jen Lilley.

In February, Great American Media announced it signed Emmy Award–winning host and actor Mario Lopez to a multi-picture, multi-year deal to star in content across the company’s vast media portfolio. Lopez will be a major part of Great American Christmas 2024. His first film in the partnership will include a holiday film starring alongside his wife and Broadway star Courtney Lopez. Lopez will continue hosting NBC’s Access Hollywood and Access Daily.

Abbott cites the dedicated Fort Worth team and the talent across Texas as a critical aspect of GAM’s success, noting that programmers and production crews work around the clock and maintain a high commitment to the brand and its viewers.

As conglomerates continue to obliterate brands, Abbott is on a mission to maintain his company’s commitment to bringing high-quality family content with a faith focus to a new heyday. 

“We are not replicating the past; we are creating a new bright future, diverse in genre and format, but all wrapped in high-quality family programming that features romantic comedies, Christmas, drama, faith-inspired lifestyles, and even drama series,” says Abbott. Mysteries are now a cornerstone of the broad programming, with Great American Mysteries’ inaugural launch, The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries: A Case for the Winemaker, starring Cameron Bure, premiering on July 25.

 “We’re about faith, family, and country,” said Abbott, “and those values can be reflected in uplifting and inspiring ways across all genres, including mysteries.”

[scumgristle]

so it's 2013. Gosling's coming of off Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and Only God Forgives; the latter's double-shot of internalized-to-the-point-of-frustrating-obtuseness (OH HAI) neo-noir. Gosling wants to impress his cool interesting new best guyfriend Refn by making something along those lines; an fetishistic art-shock fever dream marinating in sex club neon and unintentionally intentional / intentionally unintentional hilarious music cues.

"see, Nic! it's kinda like the stuff you kinda like". "dawww... sure it is, buddy."

nevermind "I'm Just Ken"; Lost River might be the most adorable thing Ryan Gosling ever did.

[holly-poly]

Nomination Clarifications #1 + 10-Hour Warning

We're now at about 613 fandoms and 3734 ships nominated. And we've currently got another 52 fandoms to look at, plus some more ships to review for already approved fandoms.

Friendly reminder that nominations will be closing in about 10 hours! If you want to see the exact time, you can take a look at this link: Countdown to nomination closing time.

If you nominated Apollo (PJO)/Percy Jackson (PJO)/Harry Potter (Harry Potter) under crossover - Fandom, please let us know which PJO source you mean - books, movie or TV show.

If you nominated Dick Grayson (DCU)/Harry Potter (Harry Potter)/Jason Todd (Harry Potter) under crossover - Fandom, we assume you meant to type Jason Todd (DCU) there since we're not aware of a Jason Todd in Harry Potter fandom, but please can you confirm in case you meant something else or another DC canon.

If you nominated Jane Banner (Wind River)/Ardelia Mapp/Clarice Starling (Clarice) under crossover - Fandom, please let us know which canon source you mean for Ardelia Mapp, did you mean the Clarice TV show for her character as well or another source like the films or books?

If you nominated Trisana Chandler/Daja Kisubo/Briar Moss/Sandrilene fa Toren (Emelan) in Baldur's Gate 3 under crossover - Fandom, did you mean that you want that Emelan ship but in a Baldur's Gate AU/Fusion or do you mean something else? If the former, that ship is already nominated under the Emelan fandom, so you could request it with the prompt of Baldur's Gate AU/Fusion in optional details but we can't guarantee anyone would create that AU rather than simply the ship in the Emelan canon setting.

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If you nominated Ray Palmer/Mick Rory/Time Remnant!Mick Rory (Arrowverse) or Ray Palmer/Mick Rory/time remnant!Ray Palmer (Arrowverse) under DC's Arrowverse, did you mean a specific time remnant character who appears in a canon episode (if so, which episode) or the general concept of a time remnant for the character?

If you nominated Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín/Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto under Naruto, did you mean for this to be a crossover - Fandom ship instead as we couldn't find Jiāng Chéng | Jiāng Wǎnyín listed as a Naruto character, only for other fandoms like The Untamed and 魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī (Cartoon).

If you nominated Jack Harper/Vika Olsen/Vika Olsen under Oblivion (2013), we're assuming one of the Victoria "Vika" Olsen's is the clone version of her mentioned on wikipedia for the film, but please can you confirm in case there's more versions of her character we're not aware of. But also which Jack Harper is this - Tech 49 or Tech 52 version?

If you nominated Sheltered Young Prince/Prince's Loyal Knight/Prince's Arranged Marriage Husband under Original Work, do you have an expectation for the gender of the knight or will any gender interpretation be okay with you?

If you nominated any ships under the fandom DCU, please can you tell us which canon you meant for each ship since that AO3 fandom tag covers multiple DC canons - did you mean DCU Comics, DC Extended Universe, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse), DC's Arrowerse, or another DCU canon?

If you nominated any ships under the fandom The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, can you let us know which ships are yours and why you nominated them under All Media Types, since usually we ask people to specify whether they mean Middle Earth – J.R.R. Tolkien or Middle Earth (Movies) or The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022). If you do want to nominate under all media types you will need to accept you may get any canon interpretation for the characters. If you want a ship with a mix of characters from different LOTR canons, then crossover - Fandom would allow you to specify what LOTR canon source for each character.

If you nominated any ships under the fandom Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, can you let us know which ships are yours and why you nominated them under All Media Types, since usually we ask people to specify whether they mean The Witcher TV, books, or games. If you do want to nominate under all media types you will need to accept you may get any canon interpretation for the characters. If you want a ship with a mix of characters from different Witcher canons, then crossover - Fandom would allow you to specify what Witcher canon source for each character.

If you nominated any ships under the fandom The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms, please can you tell us which canon source you meant for each ship since that AO3 fandom tag covers both TV and the books. We already have The Vampire Diaries (TV) in the tagset but we don't want to fold these ships into that fandom without checking which are actually for the TV show as well.

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[lost-lycaon]

Great Parks of Africa - nature film review

Whether you are considering tourism or seeking understanding about the last great wild places of the world, The Great Parks of Africa is a good place to begin your search. Each episode on the Smithsonian Channel focuses on a single wildlife reserve, each one unique and limitless in beauty. The 11 episode series also cover Kgalagadi Transfrontier and Lower Zambezi Park. 

Table Mountain National Park needs no introduction, holding the great Table that overlooks Cape Town, one of the most beautiful cities on Earth. There is much more to this sprawling park that stretches from the famous plateau, across Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, down a series of mountains dubbed The Twelve Apostles, along Chapman’s Peak Drive, the finest scenic drive in the world, ending in the Cape Peninsula to the Point of Good Hope. ‘Breathtaking’ scarcely does it justice, as it is merely a word. Swept by the frigid Benguela current, upwelling brings nutrients to the surface and creates some of the most productive and diverse oceans in the world. 

The soil quality of the land, however is poor, the winds constant, and fires frequent. The animals who live here must struggle to survive such harsh conditions, but that adversity has created the Cape Floral Kingdom, more biologically diverse than a rainforest. Wherever you stand in the heath, you are surrounded by a dozens of species of proteas, ericas, and restios. Walk a hundred meters, and you will find an entirely different community. That diversity is echoed all the way across the Fynbos, and few parks equal Table Mountain for such diversity. Take a trip down to the Cape Point, and experience the collision of two oceans, and you will know the power of nature. 

Across the country lies the more tranquil Isimangaliso National Park, a vast area along the KwaZulu-Natal coast dominated by the St Lucia Estuary. The river that flows into this wetland varies in strength, sometimes stopping entirely, allowing the ocean to flow into the estuary, creating a salty lagoon. Few places on earth can rival the sheer diversity of bird life, some of which journey here from Europe to take advantage of the bounty. Leatherback sea turtles also call this place home, and the world’s largest vegetated sand dunes are used by thousands of bird species, crocodiles, and others. The sand is unique, with high levels of titanium, which holds the sun’s heat and that energy fuels the activity of the animals that reside here. 

Hippos are present here in the hundreds, filling the estuary river down toward the ocean. At night they journey on land to graze, sometimes going into the town of St Lucia for window shopping. One resident named Vincent for his ear injury has killed people who ran into him at night. None of the residents take this personally, as Vincent’s ilk made their home in the estuary long before humans. 

The richness of this land is apparent as offshore whales can be seen in season, Humpbacks making the journey to feeding grounds and breaching constantly on the way. Brimming with elephants, antelope, and rhino, various carnivores following them, and the occasional leopard, Isimangaliso is a truly wild land.

Karoo National Park is a far more quiet place, lying far inland across two mountain ranges and receives very little rainfall. Home to true desert specialists, one can find herds of springbok, gemsbok, and the rare Cape Mountain Zebra. The spectacular mountains and rock formations make for astounding hiking, and one is bound to run into ostrich, black-backed jackal, and itinerate eland. There are more tortoise species here than any other reserve. The critically endangered riverine hare can be found here. The real riches of the park can be found by getting down on a knee - the park is a haven for succulent plants such as living stones. The bitter cold of night brings on a crystalline star-filled sky, which is perfect for star viewing. Just to the west is the small town of Sutherland, home of the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. 

The Garden Route chapter covers an embarrassment of riches, as one glides along the southern coast of Africa, battered by the ocean waves. The magnificent De Hoop Nature Reserve begins the trip, which is a treasure of a place that shelters some of the most endangered mammals in the world, including the Bontebok and Cape Mountain Zebra. The Southern Right Whale can be seen along the coast, though is easiest to find in the bay of De Hoop. Further east are the small villages of Witsand, filled with glittering beaches, Stillbaai, Mossel Bay, and George. There are stretches of wilderness between the villages, sheltered forest where the rare Yellowwood tree can still be found. The Cape Floral Kingdom covers most of the remaining undeveloped land. Plettenberg Bay adjacent to an elephant reserve and the Tsitsikamma National Park is an endless paradise. In between is the vacation town of Knysna, at foot of an estuary. Ocean life collides with the riverine forest, filled with pristine beauty. 

Augrabies National Park sits in a remote corner of northwestern South Africa along a length of the Orange River. Covering 28000 hectares, the arid park is home to the Quiver Tree and many desert tolerant species like springbok and gemsbok. Along the vegetated Orange River the Cape Clawless Otter and Caracal can be sighted. The true draw of the park is one of the planet’s great waterfalls, the Augrabies, cascading 60 meters in height into a granite basin that runs 240 meters deep. 

Kruger’s Pafuri Camp lies in the remote northern section of the Kruger National Park, and has a storied history as an outlaw region. More recently during Apartheid the Makuleke people were forced off the land into a barren region, only later negotiating a return after the first democratic elections. The Makuleke decided not to return, but to keep the land for conservation and staff the park. Today the Pafuri holds 75% of the Kruger’s biodiversity, including the Big Five seen throughout the park, but is best known for having the finest birding in the country. Over 350 species can be seen here on many safari walking trails. 

Chobe: Land of Learning covers the National Park of Botswana bordered by the Chobe River, one of the best places to see elephants. The dirt roads and occasional rustic buildings are the only sign humanity even exists, as Chobe is a true wilderness. Elephants herd here in vast numbers, at least 50000 at present. Lions, African Painted Dogs, spotted hyena, cheetah, rhino… a seemingly limitless array of mammals make this park their home. With the languid river, waterbirds such as spoonbills, ibis, storks, ducks, and other waterfowl are common. 

Part of this park is the Savuti marsh, the relic of a vast inland lake that has since dried up after the geologic plate on which Botswana sits migrated. The carnivores that patrol this area have been the stuff of legends. 

Addo Elephant National Park is the third largest game reserve in South Africa, lying next to Algoa Bay. It is best known for its great elephant herds, but also holds lions, buffalo, leopards, rhinos, and at the coast Southern Right Whales and Great White Sharks. It is also a stronghold for black rhinos, though they tend to avoid people and stay in dense thickets. Spotted hyena are common, African Painted Dogs less so. The star of the park is, of course, the African Elephant, in all its tree engineering glory. Seen with these elephants are enormous amounts of elephant dung, which is in turn processed by a very healthy population of dung beetles. Drive slow - dung beetles have the right of way. Algoa Bay also has one of the few remaining colonies of the critically endangered African Penguin. 

Hluhluwe-Umfolozi, located in KwaZulu-Natal, is a nature reserve of great historical importance. Established in 1895, it is the oldest wildlife reserve in South Africa and pioneered animal capture and sustainable utilization in wildlife conservation. At a time when the rhinoceros was being hunted to extinction, the park was a haven. Even today the white rhino has been exterminated from nearly all of its native territory. Today the park has been a true success story for many species struggling elsewhere. Elephants proliferate across the park, to the point where there are too many for the area given their penchant for uprooting trees. This would not be a problem if the elephants could migrate elsewhere, but the park is hemmed in on all sides by humans. Black rhino numbers have done as well as their white relatives, though they are still quite vulnerable. African Painted Dogs normally struggle to establish a foothold within a reserve in competition with lions and against the hostility of people. At Hluhluwe-Umfolozi, the packs have done a brisk business, hunting with wild success and breeding prodigiously enough to create emigration pressure which is released by the Wild Dog Metapopulation project. The genetic variability has been critical to maintaining Painted Dog viability elsewhere in the southern African region. 

If you are looking for tourism options, you would do well to visit Hluhluwe-Umfolozi park, combined with the Isimangaliso Park located across the N2 to the east.  

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Citizens of Cedron 2 have spoken and the spoke is resounding! “We must obliterate the windmill! If not for our generation than for all creatures who follow” exclaimed Nix Nox Blyerdell(82) who owns the Foblioborb Ranch just east of the Spoggy River. Blyerdell isn’t the only one who dreams of an awakening.....the Deputy Mayor, two city Counsellors and Pogont the Regal all back leveling the iconic wind pusher. Once considered the heart and guts of town this mill of wind has blown its course.....and in the humble opinion of this reporter.....Demolition day can’t come soon enough. Speaking of demolition, join me for my column next week when I review the classic film Demolition Man starring Stallone and Snipes.

-B.W. Meclongroose

-Cedron 2 Gazette staff reporter

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Wind River 4K UHD Steelbook Review: 4K Snow Day

This new steelbook edition of Wind River is my first chance to see the film on 4K UHD. I saw it at the Sundance Film Festival but this feels like it brings me even closer to the snowy wilderness, and I was in the snowy mountains the first time. The bright white snow coats the entire film, and you can see every flake in the flurry. The wilderness is beautiful, making the violence all the more…

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Album Review of the Week: Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine (2024)

After 3 whirlwind studio + 1 live albums between 2018-2020, Ariana Grande declared that she would be taking a break to enjoy her new life as a married woman. During those years she did a few side projects, including starring in the upcoming Wicked film adaptation. Finally, in January 2024, we get a new single - Yes, And? produced by powerhouse Max Martin. This, along with the second single We Can't Be Friends (Wait For You Love), debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 which now makes her the woman with the most #1 debut singles!

The album opens with Intro (End of the World). I usually find tracks that introduce you to the theme of the album to be a little pandering, however I think this was really well done. The first line being "How can I tell if I'm in the right relationship?" and the rest of the lyrics outline what we are about to hear very well. Not to mention she sounds amazing! Throughout this whole album, her vocals are improved from past projects - she can finally enunciate!

Bye expands on the previous track starting with some dramatic synths that almost replicate brass instruments, but not quite. The chorus is breezy and beautifully melodic. This makes me picture the photo of Nicole Kidman after finalizing her divorce to Tom Cruise, makes me want to dance around the house in euphoria.

Don't Wanna Break Up Again backtracks a little bit into the last stages of the relationship. The lyrics are very bare and honest. I enjoy the slightly elevated chill pop sound of this track and how honest it is.

Eternal Sunshine continues that chill pop sound. The choppy vocal delivery reminds me of Cry Me A River. I absolutely love the little video game noises when she says "played me like Atari". I enjoy how we get to hear some lower notes from her in the verses.

Supernatural is one of the weaker, more forgettable songs on the album for me. While it's on, it sounds gorgeous and breezy but I couldn't tell you what it sounded like an hour from now.

True Story is a standout. The strong vocals paired with the light, layered backing vocals portray an urgency. The instrumentals are much darker as well, with more tight drum sounds and warbled synths.

The Boy Is Mine is the absolute best track on this album. I love everything about it! Her vocals sound amazing throughout, the chorus is really fun and I love how the chorus hesitates just a tiny bit right as it is beginning.

The lead single, Yes And?, is a really fun dance track! I love the House vibes, and it even has a little bit of a bridge! It is certainly not prime Max Martin level but still a great lead to get people interested in the project. It is completely different than the rest of the album and appears so far into the album (as I've noticed with many other Ariana tracklists). I wanted the remix with Mariah Carey to be so good! I was hoping for a classic 8-minute Mariah remix with all new vocals.... it was very cobbled together and Mariah was not mixed well at all and not even a remix. They just shoved some Mariah vocals in there and didn't even do it well, so that was very disappointing!

We Can't Be Friends (Wait For You Love) was the 2nd (and so far - until June 7th - the latest) single. This is another one with very honest lyrics, "I just want to let this story die". Once again, she sounds gorgeous and the melody is beautiful.

I Wish I Hated You has a really beautiful wind-chimy background instrumentation, or the low end of a xylophone. The changes in tempo of the vocal delivery throughout is very interesting, I especially love the quick 'I wish I hated you'. Towards the end, you can hear a cry in her voice which really brings home the emotional aspects of the project after we have had a few fun dance songs.

Imperfect For You is another standout, something about the melody of the title really grips me and keeps me coming back to this ballad. The entire song is really relatable, everyone has their imperfections and finding the one person who will accept them all is so great!

Ordinary Things is a really sweet song about just wanting to live the ordinary moments with your significant other. The sound of the song is pretty forgettable to me, but I appreciate the sentiment and I really like the spoken word at the end by her grandmother. The perfect closer!

Overall, I feel as though the sound and production of this album is a natural progression after Positions. Even though the 13-track standard album clocks in at only 35 minutes, I really enjoy this album! It is definitely one of my favorite albums so far this year and a great progression of Grande's artistry.

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Blog Post 10 (Chapter 9 review/weekly reflection)

For this week’s reading we took a look at chapter 9 of our assigned reading which was all about typography in time and motion. While most of the chapter’s teachings used examples of film and video formats using text, it still easily applies to still image formats. Through the use of placement and order, you can determine/influence what the audience will read first to convey a message in a unique manner or in parts; however what’s really important to this chapter is pace, movement, and rhythm and how each can affect the audience. Each of these aspects allows the artist to control how the viewer consumes the information or allude towards a specific meaning, all of of which are things I will have to experiment with going forward as I am unfamiliar and inexperienced with this particular use of lettering.

To recap this week we continue our work with our TypeHike projects, where we create a promotional poster for a national park of our choice. While I am still unsure which of the two directions would be more effective, I do know which one would be more interesting if performed well and communicated effectively. After listening to Tuesday’s critique, I got an idea to create a poster design where it works both rightside-up and upside-down while advertising the Gates of the Arctic national park. Considering the prominence of the Northern Lights at this park alongside the winding rivers and imposing mountains, I thought it would be a great idea to make a composition where one side shows a mountain range with the northern lights creating a simple yet effective landscape but when flipped shows an abstract deer make of the mountains with the rivers as it’s antlers. I’m playing around with the idea alot to try and produce something that effectively conveys both, but as a backup I’m also planning a simple composition where it’s a vast distance with a hiker, using layering and fading colors to establish distance.

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The Zone of Interest: The Holocaust as Hidden Camera and Background Soundtrack

A24 MOVIE INFO The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. REVIEW: A24 The Zone of Interest a Holocaust film about Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel), the commandant of Auschwitz, opens in idyllic blackness— to the sounds of birdsong, wind, river a kind of pre-edenic landscape to wonderful…

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The Widow's Best of 2023

Jane Hobson 2023: Following such a desperate year for so many in the world this quotation by Nietzsche seems pertinent. "We have art in order not to die of the truth." So, in an effort to uplift whoever might read this, here's a somewhat curtailed list of a few of our favourite things we've seen this year. It wasn't the hottest time for live shows; we walked out of five! One every few years, maybe, but five! Disappointing. However we still managed to find some wonderful things, not all of them new. Let's begin with…

MOST SPECTACULAR: Phelim McDermott's Akhnaten at the London Coliseum. We'd been asked so many times: "Have you seen Akhnaten?" No, we hadn't but now we have and, OK, it's a Philip Glass opera (pictured above and below) but really, with a set by Tom Pye and costumes by Kevin Pollard it's a full-on feast for the senses, with the ever-inventive Gandini Juggling, choreographed by Sean Gandini, doing what they do best.

Jane Hobson BEST CIRCUS SHOW: Cirque Le Roux's thrilling and ambitious Entre Chiens et Louves – staged at Le Bon Marché department store in Paris (take note Selfridges) – took our breath away even without the sublime Lolita Costet in the cast; and Circa's Humans II at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre.

COMPANY TO WATCH: Hoops Désolé! A “crazy” six-strong troupe of artists drawn from the circus school in Quebec, Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Éloize.

Emma Kauldhar BEST DANCE: Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works at London’s Royal Opera House, with the mesmerising Alessandra Ferri, who at 59 was the same age as Virginia Woolf when she died. Another dancer with astonishing longevity is the Spanish Lucía Lacarra, now 48, who appeared in the Ballet Icons Gala at the London Coliseum.

BEST SHOWBIZ MEMOIR: Walking Through Walls by performance artist Marina Abramović; Do It For Your Mum by Roy Wilkinson, then manager of his brothers' band British Sea Power.

MOST TERRIFYING: He's done some daring things in his time and on World Circus Day Hungarian high-wire artist Laci Simet performed a sensational walk across the River Danube – 40 metres up in the wind – with only a balance pole to keep him safe.

BEST FILM: German film Afire or Roter Himmel by Christian Petzold (he’ll never let you down); Babak Jalali’s Fremont, set in a fortune cookie factory; and the Mexican film The Empty Hours directed by Aarón Fernández.

BEST ARCHIVE PIC: Josephine Baker and Dalida at L’Olympia music hall in Paris in 1968. A legendary pair!

LONGEST-SERVING FEMALE DJ: Texan Mary McCoy, who at 85 has been on the air for almost 72 years, and entered the Guinness Book of Records.

BEST DESERT ISLAND DISCS CASTAWAY: Actor/comedian/writer and so on, Adrian Edmondson; snooker star Ronnie O’Sullivan.

MOST INSPIRING: The Maricarmen dance school in Chorrillos, south of Lima, in Peru, run by retired dancer Maria del Carmen Silva, offers free classes to girls of all abilities from low-income areas.

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Never Be a Punching Bag for Nobody by indie rock musician Naomi Yang; My Indiana Muse, in which artist Robert Townsend discovers his Kodachrome muse, Helen.

FOND FAREWELL: Actor David McCallum, who, as The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’s Illya Kuryakin was an enduring heartthrob for a certain generation of girls and women. Closer to home the UK lost its leading circus director, Phillip Gandey (above), at 67, whose shows – including Cirque Surreal, The Chinese State Circus and The Lady Boys of Bangkok – were always far and away the most creative and exciting; and The Circus of Horrors – a show I reviewed more times than any other, except perhaps Cirque du Soleil – lost its co-creator and frontman, Doktor Haze (below) at 66. Along with Gerry Cottle, they were notable as two of the nicest circus men I met during my reviewing years, and are greatly missed.

LAST WORD: It wouldn't be a Widow Stanton 'Best of' without some showgirls. This picture was taken by the Argentinian photographer Luisita Escarria, who with her sister Chela, documented all the artists appearing in revues in Buenos Aires from 1958 to 2009. Their story and wondrous archive might have been lost had it not been rescued by filmmakers Sol Miraglia and Hugo Manso. Their documentary Foto Estudio Luisita will warm your heart… and fortunately both the sisters lived long enough to see it.

Compiled by Liz Arratoon