#wire drop tbt.

[spriintbuurst]

beep boop have a thing

[streetknown-archive]

anyway vera weighs a good 350+ pounds because of the titanium plating on her legs + titanium bones in her legs. when dex is dragging her body out of the landfield for goro he mentions how she’s much heavier than she looks and that’s why her weight is so high. she purposely chose to make the plating heavy because jumping down three stories and making the ground shake with her landing makes her feel powerful as hell... and also, crushing skulls and pinning people down with those legs is extremely easy.

[itsnotpatsy]

WIRE DROP. MMMMMM THAT USERNAME. Come bother Trish!!!

[shewalked]

ims  are  open  ...  wire:  mj_md  ...  discord:  voice of a nightingale#1984.

[veratok]

[shefightslikeagirl]

TBT - Emilie Autumn’s MAD TEA PARTY, published in Orkus Magazine [No.1 | 2008].

For full transcribed recipes, read more, or visit our (new!) Asylum Bakery page.

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Highly Doubtful Teacake with Very Suspicious Creme

What makes this teacake so very “doubtful” is the addition of fresh lavender, the historical meaning for which is “distrust”. So be careful whom you share it with…

Teacake Ingredients: 1 cup milk 3 Tbsp. fresh chopped lavender flowers 2 cups all-purpose flower 1 ½ tsp. baking power ¼ tsp. salt 6 tbsp, butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs

Grease and flour a loaf pan, and no, I won’t tell you what size because it won’t matter anyway. You’re going to use whatever pan you have, and I’m not holding that against you, I do the same. Half of my recipes were created entirely out of being on the road touring, and really needing to make tarts, but having not the proper equipment. Baking is an adventure, so do treat it as such.

In any case! After greasing and flouring, kindly preheat your oven to 325 degrees F. In a small saucepan, heat the milk, adding the chopped lavender and bring almost to a boil, then remove from heat and let steep until cool.

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together in a bowl. In another bowl, thrash the butter about until its light and creamy and gradually add sugar, then eggs, one at a time, thrashing even more until the whole mess is light and fluffy and much prettier than you ever imagined raw eggs ought to be. Add flour mixture and lavender milk alternating between each addition, and mix until batter is just blended, no longer.

Spoon the flowery goodness into your mystery loaf pan and bake four 50 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Leave your cake to cool in the pan 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool. When completely cooled, dust with confectioners’ sugar and garnish with sprigs of fresh or candied lavender. If you don’t know how to candy lavender, then read ahead on the section on candying rose petals and you’ll get the idea. Serve with a dollop of Very Suspicious Creme.

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Creme Ingredients: 8 oz. cream cheese 1 Tbs. heavy cream ½ tsp. fresh chopped lavender flowers 3 tbs. confectioners’ sugar 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Blend the cream cheese with the heavy cream until smooth and fluffy. Add in the lavender, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla, beating until silky and very suspicious looking. Serve with Teacakes of all sort, but especially highly doubtful ones.

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TEA TIPS: When serving tea to your guests, be sure to present a variety of sugars. Piping tiny frosting flowers onto heart-shaped sugar lumps and displaying rock candy sugar in various colors will set your table sparkling! Save some for the rats…

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Cyanide Tea Scones with Clotted Cream

Ah, sweet cyanide…what can we say about cyanide? You surely know it’s historical impact as a popular ingredient of both murder and suicide. But did you know that cyanide is derived from almonds? Being my personal flavour, you’ll see a somewhat excessive if not altogether inappropriate use of it in the following recipes. And as for the clotted cream, well, that sounds bad enough. Doesn’t it?

Scone Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour 4 tsp. baking powder ½ cup sugar 1 tsp. salt 8 Tbsp. very cold, unsalted butter, cut into ¼ inch cubes 1 cup milk 6 black teabags of the best quality you can find, I prefer Twinings 2 eggs, beaten ½ tsp. pure almond extract ½ cup sliced almonds 1 Tbsp. cream ¼ cup sugar ¼ cup finely chopped almonds

Preheat oven to 400°F. In a chilled glass bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Using your fingers if you know what you’re doing or a pastry blender if you don’t, cut in the bits of butter until the crumbly mess is the size of smallish bees. Set the bowl into you refrigerator or out in the snow while you carry on. In a small saucepan, bring milk almost to a boil. Add tea bags, cover, and brew 5 minutes. Remove tea bags and cool. Beat in the eggs, almond extract, and sliced almonds. Gradually add tea mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just combined, no more.

Turn dough out onto a floured baking sheet and pat into a circle. Slice the dough into 16 triangular wedges. Alternately you can use heart shaped baking pans like the one I used here. Either way, brush dough with cream and sprinkle generously with sugar and chopped almonds. Bake 20 minutes or until golden, always best to sit right by the oven the first few times you try out a new recipe just to verify that everything’s going along as it should. Your oven is a unique creature you really should get to know, because no two are alike. Once done, cool scones on a wire rack. Serve with The Asylum’s Own Clotted Cream. Makes 16 scones.

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Clotted Cream Ingredients: ½ cup cold heavy cream 3 Tbsp. confectioner’s sugar ½ cup sour cream ¼ tsp. almond extract

In a chilled bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form, and don’t think you can’t do this by hand, because you can. As the cream begins to stiffen up, sift in the confectioner’s sugar. Gently fold in the sour cream, and almond extract, and voila! Clots galore! Chill until use. This fluffy topping for scones and crumpets is also called “Devonshire Cream,“ but it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it…clots clots clots clotty clots…

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Marzipan Leeches & Plague Rats

Yes, more almonds…but that is hardly important when it is merely a delicious modeling tool for some truly gourmet bonbons. Marzipan rats will charm your guests, marzipan leeches will horrify them. Just let them wait until you’ve given them all names…

Ingredients: 1 package (8 oz.) Marzipan (baker’s almond paste, available everywhere) ¼ cup confectioner’s sugar 2 Tbsp. Amaretto liquer 1 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 thin-tipped paintbrush

To begin with, open your Marzipan and cover it with a damp cloth as it likes to dry out and then what have you got? Next, add a bit of the cocoa powder to a few drops of the liquer and mix it with the paintbrush, experimenting with ratios to achieve a palette of lovely browns that you can use to accent your rats and leeches. Sprinkle some sugar onto your hands and work surface and you’re ready to begin a life-changing adventure!

Leeches: Leeches can be sculptured in myriad ways, but I will explain my method as a mere example.

Roll a small ball of dough until it becomes a rope, then roll the rope between your hands until it is thinner at one end.

Curl the rope to make your leech, posing him in whatever manner you find suitable, keeping in mind his station and lineage.

Roll two tiny balls of dough for the eyes, and attach them to the top of your leech’s head, then make an indentation within each eye with a very small object.

After waiting at least 30 minutes to let the leeches dry, use your cocoa-liquer mixture to paint stripes and details onto your leech, and place him in a bonbon paper to be displayed proudly in your best leech jar.

Plague Rats:

Roll the rat’s body from a small ball of dough into an oval with one end pointed for the nose.

Roll two little dough bits into ear shapes and press them into the sides of your rat’s head in an appropriate spot.

Roll a thin snake of dough and attach to the rat’s body, curling it over his back for the tail.

Using the wooden end of your paintbrush, make the indentations for the eyes.

After waiting at least 30 minutes to let the rat dry, use your cocoa-liquer mixture to paint shadows and details onto your rat, and place him in a bonbon paper to be displayed proudly on your tea table.

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Cucumber Hatred Tea Sandwiches

If revenge is a dish best served cold, then this is the dish they were talking about. The Historical meaning of basil is ‘Hatred’ and these delicate finger sandwiches are loaded with it…who’s cool as a cucumber now?

Ingredients: 8 oz. cream cheese, softened 3 Tbsp. cream ½ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. black pepper 3 Tbsp. fresh chives, chopped 6 slices wheat bread 6 slices white bread 1 English (seedless) cucumber 1 Bushel of fresh basil leaves (approx. 24)

Beat together the cream cheese and cream until smooth. Add salt, pepper and chives, blending well. Spread 1 slice of wheat bread and one slice of white bread with cream cheese mixture. Arrange a layer of cucumber slices on the wheat bread and top with basil leaves. Place white bread slice on top and smash sandwich down ever so gently with a rolling pin. Trim crusts, and cut into triangles. Repeat with remaining bread to make 24 hate-filled sandwiches.

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Rose Petal Poison Sandwiches

Poison? Well, not if you go into your garden and pick yourself some fresh, chemical free petals. Otherwise, you’ll get sick and the sarcasm will be lost…

Ingredients: 6 oz. sweet butter packed in fresh rose petals overnight, softened ¼ cup confectioners’ sugar 1 cup fresh, clean rose petals (from your garden, pesticide-free) ½ sliced almonds 12 slices white bread

To assemble one sandwich, spread two slices of bread with rose scented butter. Sift sugar over buttered sides of bread. Arrange a layer of rose petals, followed by a layer of almonds. Top with the other slice of sugared, buttered bread, and press down with rolling pin. Trim crusts and cut into triangles, hearts, rounds to suit your fancy. Sift sugar over sandwiches and top each with a candied rose petal (petals dipped in beaten egg white and rolled in granulated sugar, then dried until crisp). Repeat with remaining ingredients to equal 24 sandwiches.

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Royally Mad Tea

A standard British Royal Tea is served witha  glass of champagne and one o’ sherry. Call me crazy, but for my Royally mad Tea, I prefer champagne and absinthe. 

I do hope your Tea Party was to die for.

From the Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, - EA

[marcaccettaseminars]

Together we could break this trap We'll run 'til we drop, baby, we'll never go back Oh, will you walk with me out on the wire? • • • • • • • @springsteen #BornToRun #NowIsTheTime #WvUnited #brucespringsteen #theboss #motivation #leaders #unity #wvfamily #tbt #throwbackthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/B_WAUz2FdAF/?igshid=6dlozs489edu

[seigyokus]

Translation+lyrics below the cut!

esの憂鬱 es no Yuuutsu Melancholy of es

Arisugawa Homare (CV: Toyonaga Toshiyuki) Mikage Hisoka (CV: Terashima Junta)

溜息ついて　あなたまた Tameiki tsuite anata mata With a sigh, you begin to toy around 

退屈と戯れ Taikutsu to tawamure With boredom once more.

暗い予感落としていた Kurai yokan otoshite ita A dark premonition fell before my eyes

運命の後をつけたんだ Unmei no ato wo tsuketanda So I chased after fate itself.

物言わぬ影に誘い込まれて Mono iwanu kage ni sasoi komarete Tempted by an unspeaking shadow--

突きつけられた殺人 Tsuki tsukerareta satsujin A murder was thrust before us.

声を潜める真実と Koe wo hisometa shinjitsu to The whispered truth, the footprints left behind,  

残された足跡だけが Nokosareta ashi ato dake ga and nothing else--

静かに　語りかけるよ Shizuka ni katari kakeru yo They quietly speak to us, 

憂いた言葉で Ureita kotoba de in grief-ridden words.

張り巡らされた嘘 嗚呼 Hari megurasareta uso Aa Ah, a web of lies,

謎に朧な 陰縫い Nazo ni oboro na kagenui And the faintly embroidered outline of a riddle.

秘密明かすように Himitsu akasu you ni These words have a faint fragrance to them--

そっと香る言の葉 Sotto kaoru kotonoha as if they're divulging their secrets to us.

擦り切れてた悲しい愛が Suri kireteta kanashii ai ga Ah, the two accomplices

嗚呼、仕組んだ共犯 Aa shikunda kyouhan brought together by a tragic, worn-out love

今は　優しい夢を Ima wa yasashii yume wo Are now in the midst of a gentle dream.

暴かれてちった真実 Abakarete chitta shinjitsu The truth, now exposed and scattered away,

残された足跡だけが Nokosareta ashi ato dake ga the footprints left behind, and nothing more--

静かに 語りかけるよ Shizuka ni katari kakeru yo They quietly speak to us,

憂いた言葉で Ureita kotoba de in grief-ridden words.

全てをあざ笑うように Subete wo azawarau you ni A mirage bewitchingly shimmers,

妖しく光る　陽炎 Ayashiku hikaru kagerou as if it were sneering at everything.

終わらせてあげる Owarasete ageru At the very least, let me end it for you

せめて自分の手で Semete jibun no te de with my own hands.

さよなら　嗚呼無情 Sayonara Aa mujou Farewell-- Ah, how heartless, how cruel.

TL Notes/comments:

no that is not a typo there are actually 3 u's in yuuutsu bc it's yuu-utsu, im sorry it looks like that

tbt the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya amirite

ALSO the lyrics tie pretty deeply into the event play so if you don't want spoilers, go watch the lil chibi play and come back!!! I wrote up a lil personal reference sheet idk if that helps 

退屈と戯れ - k this confused me a little but I did what i could LOL 

暗い予感落としていった - otosu means 'to drop' aka either implied you're the one who dropped it or someone did it. but i tl'd it as if it were transitive or passive bc fuck if i know what im doing!!!!!!!!! just tryna sound flowery Bro... 

THO perhaps it's a reference to the handkerchief that was plopped right in front of Toujou Shiki (Hisoka) on that windy day that led to this whole mess of a murder-mystery.

秘密明かすようにそっと香る言の葉 - just wanted to say: MAN THIS TIES RIGHT INTO THE STORY, the fragrance left behind on the bookmark/handkerchief is how Shiki figured out the murder.

張り巡らされた嘘 嗚呼 - 張り巡らす means 'to be spread out' like a wiring system, irrigation system, or 'to be stretched out'. so i took some creative liberties and just wrote 'web of lies' bc that is (1) spread out like a _____ system and also (2) pretty damn stretched out. fuck spider webs tbh. 

ALSO i styled 'ah/aa' as 嗚呼 bc, (1) why tf not (2) the only reason why I started tling this song was because the last line was Aa Mujou, and i immediately thought of lovelive and then i went and relistened to the entire song's lyrics and fELL HEAD OVER HEELS FOR THE CONTENT (3) technically this is a taisho era song so i'm allowed 2 toss in a little ye olde time japanese y/n??? y-yes?

謎に朧な 陰縫い - i couldn't really hear this line over tosshi very passionately crooning his line, and I also wasn't sure which kagenui they were referring to? if I even heard it righT!!!!! bc 影縫い is some ninjutsu technique where u throw shuriken to presumably stop someone in their tracks iirc, and 陰縫い is a japanese embroidery technique where you only embroider the outline of a shape. so uh I went very very very loosely with the second one and left the japanese lyrics in kana because, well, fucK if i know what im doing!!!!11.... 

after reading the event story/watching the play i'm 90% certain it's the embroidery one... After all, kusanagi's (the girl that got murdered) name was embroidered on her handkerchief and that ended up being a pivotal clue in deducing who her murderer was. 

uhh I left my dumb debating commentary there so u can laugh @ my ridiculous thought process. aka, don't try to tl shit without reading every available thing first LMAO

声を潜める真実 - lit. the truth, which makes you lower your voice. tl’d as ‘whispered’ because Aesthetic

擦り切れてた悲しい愛が / 嗚呼、仕組んだ共犯 / 今は 優しい夢を 

‘accomplice’ i interpreted as the kusanagi sibling pair. it’s heavily implied that miss kusanagi was okay with being killed by her ‘beloved older brother,’ kusanagi shizuma (azuma’s character). 

yasashii yume sounds like a very very poetic way to say ‘resting in peace’, which kinda ties into the whole ‘miss kusanagi didn’t want to get married off to souma kyouichi (tsumugi) and chose death at the hands of her brother’ thing instead 

THIS is all personal interp, so feel free 2 take the lyrics however tf u want

陽炎 - i tl'd as mirage instead of heat haze just bc it sounded better

last line i shoved in yet another def for mujou bc i wanted it to be drawn out just a little bit more so it'd sound a little more lyrical

overall, I wasn't sure which phrases were combine-able or not so i kinda just combined them willy nilly as i saw fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha! ha! ha! 

also OH MY GOD ENTIRE LAST STANZA IS FRM SHIZUMA (azuma's chara)'S PERSPECTIVE, im in Pain

anyways I just wanted 2 tl this for fun bc it's been a while since I worked on anything flowery, and bc I just really love this sONG

[thebiggaylion]

Excision @ EDC Orlando 2015

Hey all!  Remember when I said the guy behind The Big Gay Lion is a real procrastinator?  Well, that’s NOT what happened this time, he promises.  He is a perfectionist, and sometimes gets caught up in the technical minutia of things, and that caused this post to be delayed... well, several weeks!  But the kinks have been worked out, decisions have finally been made, and here we are, so let’s get into it.

My second year of EDC Orlando would be my first year visiting a stage other than Kinetic Field for a full set.  Sure, I swung by Circuit Grounds my first year, but only to visit and see what it was like.  Calvin Harris and Tiësto were closing out Kinetic Field at EDC Orlando in 2015 on Day 1 (Friday), and I wasn't feeling it that year.  I saw Excision would be playing during that same time at Circuit Grounds, so I decided to see him (and Flux Pavilion) that night.  Boy, was I super happy about that decision!

YouTube | Facebook | Instagram I recorded this video just after his opener.  The bass drop is so low, my microphone could hardly pick it up! Antiserum & Mayhem - Brick Squad Anthem VIP https://soundcloud.com/antiserum/bsavip

Download High Res (19.6 MB) | Download Low Res (2.8 MB) Took this set of Burst Photos to get a feel for the lighting.  Better representations to follow below!

Download High Res (35.7 MB) | Download Low Res (5.3 MB) I loved his visuals, but the shape of the screens didn't exactly fit properly.  The fire color palette was very appropriate!

YouTube | Facebook | Instagram X gon' give it to ya!  Decided I should switch back to video to get a better sense of what he's throwing down.  This is about 40 minutes into his set. Excision & Space Laces - Destroid 7 Bounce VIP https://soundcloud.com/excision/destroid-7-bounce-vip

YouTube | Facebook | Instagram I love how the performers are dancing.  It's very whimsical against this harsh electronic sound! Destroid 1: Raise Your Fist by Excision, Downlink & Space Laces https://soundcloud.com/dubstep/destroid-1-raise-your-fist-by

YouTube | Facebook | Instagram THE REASON I CAME, ladies and gentleman:  Live Wire! Excision - Live Wire https://soundcloud.com/excision/live-wire

YouTube | Facebook | Instagram Raise that BPM, yaaaasss!!  Also, R.I.P. Vine. :( Excision - Live Wire https://soundcloud.com/excision/live-wire

Download High Res (42.2 MB) | Download Low Res (6.3 MB) One of the only selfies I took my first year (2014) was under one of these art installations of LED trees.  The Burst I took that year did not include a color transition, so I decided now was a good of a time as any to record one!

Download High Res (26.8 MB) | Download Low Res (4 MB) One last burst before the set is over! EDIT:  Whoops, wrong thumbnail!  Fixed!

And that's all I got from the set!  Hopefully this #TBT was worth it!  Now that he's got the process down on how to go about everything technical, hopefully we can make these posts more frequent!  Love ya'll, see ya next time!  🏳️‍🌈🦁❤

EDIT:  The animations weren’t working because the while the thumbnails were of right dimensions, they were too large when it comes to file size.  I’ve edited the thumbnails that needed it to be about 3 seconds long, which I figure I’ll use going forward if something needs to be a bit smaller than the original.  The “Download High Res” and “Download Low Res” links will always have the full set of animated images, so don’t forget to check those links out if you wanna see more loopy goodness!

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[giancarlonicoli]

As they say in Hollywood, it took brothers Mark and Jay Duplass a decade working in the film industry to become an overnight success.

"My brother and I struggled for 10 years making bad pieces of art until we hit that first $3 movie that got into Sundance [Film Festival]," Mark Duplass tells CNBC Make It.

That seven-minute short film, "This is John," shows a man coming home and struggling to record the perfect voicemail message. It's remarkably painful to watch. Mark is the sole actor in the film, and his brother, Jay, is the director. Released in 2003, the film cost the brothers $3 (for the mini digital videotape on which it was shot) to produce.

Also, an example of the $3 short film here. This was our 1st one at Sundance:

Yet it launched the careers of the Duplass brothers, who have gone on to direct 10 feature films, create (write, produce and direct — in various combinations) multiple television shows and produce more than 40 movies, as well as act, Mark tells CNBC Make It.

"This is John" "was the worst-looking and worst-sounding film ever to play at the festival," Mark said in a 2012 piece he penned for Newsweek. "There was a dead pixel in the middle of it. It looked like a home movie, but it won pretty much all the awards that year, and it signed us to our big [talent] agencies and got us our first major script deal."

      Photo by Jason LaVeris Jay and Mark Duplass

A few highlights of the Duplass brothers' career since then: Younger brother Mark, 41, has appeared in "The Mindy Project" (on Fox and then Hulu), and older brother Jay, 45, was on the Amazon Prime show "Transparent." The HBO series "Togetherness," which the brothers co-directed and in which Mark starred, ran for two seasons before being cancelled in 2016. The brothers wrote comedy feature film "Jeff, Who Lives at Home," which was released in 2012 by Paramount Vantage (a now defunct division of Paramount). And in February, Netflix announced it had acquired worldwide rights to four upcoming movies from the Duplass brothers.

JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME is one of the things I'm most proud that @jayduplass & I made together. And I hear it's streaming on Amazon @PrimeVideo for free if you wanna check it out.

If "This is John" excelling at Sundance was an inflection point in the Duplasses' careers, it followed a less auspicious milestone — the brothers had just badly fumbled what they thought was their best shot at producing a feature film.

"The low point for me and Jay was very clear," Mark tells CNBC Make It. The brothers were in their 20s, living in Austin, Texas, at the time, he says. "We were struggling as artists, running an editing business that was making a little bit of money, but not too much — working as freelance editors to keep ourselves afloat, as well." The video editing business, which the Duplass brothers had started in 1996, charged $5 an hour to cut movies, according to a 2015 Wired profile.

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Then, the brothers got a decently large commission to shoot a documentary for a local start-up. They hired a director of photography and a camera operator, according to Wired, and set to work on the film "Vince Del Rio."

"We took $70,000 — everything we had made — and we put it into making a feature film," Mark tells CNBC Make It. "And it was terrible. It was unsalvageable.

"And so that was really the hardest thing," Mark says. "Because it's hard enough thinking, 'I can't get the money to make my movie,' but then thinking, 'I got the money to make my movie, and I'm not good enough' was really bad."

"Vince Del Rio" was about the struggles of a runner from South Texas. "In hindsight, it was a rip-off of Rocky," Mark wrote in Newsweek.

The problem, the brothers determined, was that they were not being themselves. "One day as we were sitting on our dilapidated couch, watching 'Fargo,' and wondering why we couldn’t be as cool as the Coen brothers," Mark wrote in Newsweek, referring to the Oscar-winning 1997 film by Joel and Ethan Coen, "[we] realized something — we were trying to be like other filmmakers. We were completely denying our own instincts. And we realized we’re actually kind of funny people at parties and in conversations. Why did we try to make an overly serious sports movie that we knew nothing about?"

So the Duplass brothers went back to their roots. They dropped the highly produced and expensive production style they had spent their savings on with "Vince Del Rio" and returned to a comfortable do-it-yourself aesthetic they had developed making movies about everyday topics growing up in the New Orleans suburbs in the 1980s. The result was Sundance darling "This is John."

It's #NationalSiblingDay - backyard party-time!

Stud. Muffins. #TBT

"We broke down our whole system of filmmaking. We picked up our parents' video camera, and Jay held it, and I acted in it, like we did when we were 8 and 12 years old," Mark tells CNBC Make It. "And we filmed a 20-minute take of the story of a guy trying to perfect the personal greeting of his answering machine and having a nervous breakdown, which was funny and tragic and all the things from our life. And it cost $3. And that was our first movie that got to Sundance."

The agony of a man trying repeatedly to record a greeting on his voicemail in "This is John" was similar to frustration the Duplass brothers were feeling when they made the short film, Mark says. "Here we were with our lives in hilarious desperation, and there was going to be no lighting crew, no sound guy, no nothing. It’s going to look and sound like shit, but we were going to make a movie," Mark wrote in Newsweek.

The experience taught the Duplass brothers that authenticity is more important than fancy gear. "We still make movies with that ethic: You need to learn who you are. And the most important thing in the whole world is your story and your performance. You can spend a ton of money, and what you will end up with if you’re not careful is an extremely well-polished turd," Mark wrote in Newsweek.

And that success came just in time — otherwise the brothers might have given up on filmmaking.

"I think at that low point, we were very close to quitting," Mark tells CNBC Make It. "And I think if we hadn't had success quite soon after — with that $3 short film going to Sundance, getting an agent, and from there we were just on the run — I think it is a good chance that we might have quit or done something else, gone back to graduate school and tried to figure out how to teach or something like that."

To this day, Duplass Brothers Productions, the Los Angeles-based production company the Duplasses founded, has created a niche of producing, writing, directing and acting with a very specific "quirky and empathetic approach to storytelling," as it is described in the 2018 release from Netflix announcing their four-movie partnership. It's earned them a reputation as pioneers of "mumblecore," a kind of modern, low-budget film production that revolves around dialogue (as opposed to plot) and is centered on the relationships of people in their 20s and 30s.

I love this guy's head.

Duplass Brothers Productions declined to share specific revenues with CNBC Make It. But big box office isn't the Duplass brothers' brand of success. (For context, the first movie the brothers produced with a studio — "Cyrus" by Fox Searchlight in 2010 — cost $7 million to make and brought in $7.4 million in ticket sales, according to Wired. By comparison, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," released the same year, had a $68 million budget and grossed over $300 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.) The Duplasses even turned down an offer from Marvel Studios, the cinematic superhero giant that is home to the likes of "Iron Man" and "Avengers: Infinity War."

"Yes. There was a moment where Marvel was interested in us taking on one of their properties. It would have been a $150 to $180 million budget and about three years of our lives," Mark told New York Magazine's Vulture in March. "To be a little Sundance filmmaker tapped by Marvel felt incredible. But the amount of stuff we could make over those three years, the relationships we could forge with younger filmmakers..."

And movies are no longer the Duplass brothers' only source of income. In 2017, the brothers launched an advertising company, Donut, which makes branded content and commercials for both television and online for the likes of Amazon, Lyft, Levi's and Snapchat, a representative for the Duplass brothers tells CNBC Make It. They also just released a book, "Like Brothers," in May.

ok it's official, you can buy our book now (please

Brands turn to the Duplass brothers for the same aesthetic that has become their trademark in producing films and television shows. “Mark and Jay capture that human condition that we can all relate to. They capture how messy life really is. A lot of other people just try to polish and perfect it and water it down,” Sean Ohlenkamp, the creative director for Amazon’s in-house creative agency D1, told Fast Company.

The business model for how the brothers produce ads is the same as it is for films.

"Our model is, nobody knows anything. So what you need to do is make a lot of things cheaply upfront, and be able to chase that creative. So what we’re offering a lot of people is, hey, rather than spending X on one spot, let’s spend X on five or six smaller versions, and then we’ll start testing them and seeing what works," Mark told Fast Company. “That’s what our Netflix model was based on, honestly ... We’re not gonna make you one movie — we’re gonna make you four little ones. And we’ll let the zeitgeist decide what blows up. And that humility has helped us as creators and seems to be lacking almost everywhere, honestly.”

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Success is something the Duplass brothers have built gradually and steadily. And that's a strategy Mark Duplass recommends to anyone looking to launch their own innovative career.

"I would say if you have a dream — and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels — the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps," Mark tells CNBC Make It. "For us, in the filmmaking world, that meant our first $3 movie that went to Sundance, then we made a $100 short film out of that ['Scrapple,' 2004]. From there, we made a $10,000 feature ['Puffy Chair,' 2005] from borrowed money. Then we made a $50,000 feature ['Baghead,' 2008] that had like a genre element to it."

Building your career in microsteps has the benefit of giving you a sense of independence, says Mark. "You're always in control and self-empowered," he tells CNBC Make It.

And when you are operating from a place of being in control, you will make authentic decisions.

"When it does come time for someone to offer you either money or to offer to purchase your company, you're in the perfect position to know that, 'Well, I have full autonomy. And I can do this without your money or your purchase.' And when you send that signal to people it makes them even want you more," Mark says. "So then you're in the lovely position of a) I can continue to do this thing independently or b) I could bring in this private equity investor, but I don't need them. And when they sense that, that's when you really sort of have the power to continue doing what you really want to do."

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Mark Duplass says the other benefit is that anyone can use this strategy, even those who are, like the Duplass Brothers were decades ago, small fish in a big pond.

"The reason I recommend this sort of microbrick campaign of just building it one step by one step is that it's the only thing I know how to do. And I find that most people who are looking for advice were in the same position that I was in — from nowhere, no connections, didn't feel particularly intelligent, well spoken, or good looking, just swimming around in the land of the B-minus with no connections and no one to help me. That's where this advice really plays," Mark tells CNBC Make It.

"If you're graduating top of your class from [University of Southern California] film school and your father's last name is Spielberg, you don't really need to listen to me, but if you're not — and I suspect most of you aren't — I find that self-reliance really is the key."

— Video by Andrea Kramar

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