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[baiuzensenn]

Nobody:

Jannik Sinner: (Smile)(Couldn’t help giggling)(tried to refocus and serve again)(failed)(giggled again)(ok now let’s get it serious) ACE—

[pheere]

LIQUID_LIGHT: DROP_1 1999 Lighting fixture, plastic, hardware

DESIGNERS Constantin Wortmann, b. 1970 Benjamin Hopf, b. 1971 Büro für Form, Munich

MANUFACTURER Next, Germany

PHOTOGRAPHY David Steets

This ceiling lamp, from a series of four fixtures designed by Constantin Wortmann and Benjamin Hopf, appears to ooze from above.

[lobbycards]

Pope Joan (Die Päpstin), German lobby card. 2009

[passion-of-arts]

DER SPITZNAME | HD Trailer (German)

"Der Spitzname" aus dem Jahr 2024 ist eine Fortsetzung der Filmreihe, die mit "Der Vorname" aus dem Jahr 2018 begann. In dieser Komödie planen Anna (Janina Uhse) und Thomas (Florian David Fitz), zu heiraten und laden ihre Familie zu einem Kurztrip nach Tirol ein. Anna hat überraschend Karriere als Schauspielerin gemacht, während Thomas kurz vor einer Beförderung steht, aber eine Sensibilitätsschulung bestehen muss.

Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst), Thomas' Schwager, ist schlecht gelaunt und hat heimlich seinen Job als Literaturdozent verloren. Seine Frau Elisabeth (Caroline Peters) bessert heimlich die Haushaltskasse mit Bitcoin-Handel auf. Thomas' Mutter Dorothea (Iris Berben) ist mittlerweile mit René (Justus von Dohnányi) verheiratet, der ein überfürsorglicher Vater der Zwillinge aus einer Leihmutterschaft ist.

Neben den Eltern reisen auch ihre Kinder, Cajus (Jona Volkmann) und Antigone (Kya-Celina Barucki), mit. Bald sorgt die Dynamik der Familie dafür, dass die geplante Hochzeit ins Wanken gerät.

[thebookinheritance]

On Writing

Rediscovering Stephen King's "On Writing" after a 6-year hiatus. From pandemic reflections to an EMBA class, join me on a journey of embracing creativity, facing fears, and the disciplined pursuit of writing. #StephenKing #OnWriting #WritingJourney

6 years of avoidance A friend gave me Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft in 2018. The timing was ironic: I was in the midst of a self-inflicted professional fall-out triggered by my former blog. Soon after, I made the decision to put my career over my voice. I hid On Writing at the back of one of my bookshelves. It was a painful reminder of what might have been. Then the pandemic…

[janniksnr]

Jannik Sinner celebrates winning the final match of the Terra Wortmann Open 2024

📸: GETTY IMAGES

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Florian David Fitz as Thomas Böttcher Der Vorname (2018) // dir. Sönke Wortmann

[homestuckreplay]

The Wizard of Atari-Sega-Nendo 🧙🎮

On page 1056 of Homestuck, John Egbert thinks that his new Serious Business Goggles make him ‘look way cooler, like one of the kids from SPY KIDS’. Fletcher Wortmann, in an extended piece of meta on Homestuck that I will read in full when the timelines match up, describes the comic as ‘Suda 51’s game adaptation of David Lynch’s remake of Spy Kids 3D: Game Over’.

Today I rewatched the movie Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (2003), a formative movie for my own childhood, and it is absolutely a John’s Movies movie.

Spy Kids 3D focuses on a new virtual reality video game with the very on-the-nose title Game Over, which in-universe is the biggest and most immersive video game ever made, created by a mysterious entity ‘The Toymaker’ who is unavailable for interviews. The OSS spy organization has figured out this game is nefarious during its beta test period, just before its official release. The Toymaker has promised a sort of Ultimate Reward of riches beyond one’s wildest dreams to anyone who can beat Level 5, however, Level 5 is unwinnable, and the Toymaker plans to trap every kid who plays the game inside it. As one of the OSS agents frames it, ‘you control the youth, you control the future of the world’.

The movie’s protagonist is Juni Cortez, and as this is his third adventure, he’s confident in the protagonist role. He’s left the OSS and has become a hardboiled private investigator looking into petty crimes – it’s obviously played for comedy, but he’s clearly in charge of his own life and certain about what he does and doesn’t want. He’s very different to John Egbert in this way, but John watching this might envy Juni’s assertiveness and his clear belief that he should be taken seriously.

The biggest connection to John’s other movies is the theme of family. It begins with biological family – Juni is playing the game to save his sister Carmen, not unlike John playing Sburb to save his dad – but is later expanded to include friends and allies from the Cortez family’s previous adventures. Juni also has a grandpa who he’s able to summon into the game, who gets some incredible NPC powerups and shows up unexpectedly to help Juni when he’s struggling, not unlike John’s dynamic with Nannasprite. The movie introduces an intergenerational conflict, with Juni’s grandpa wanting to find the Toymaker and confront him, and Juni believing this isn’t safe and that escaping the game and shutting it down is the only solution. In the end they overcome this, and family in its broad definition wins out – just as it does in every single movie that John has on a poster.

Spy Kids 3D deals with the boundary between the physical and digital worlds, and the ways they’re increasingly becoming entwined. In the game, Juni interacts physically with coins, powerups and a hovering question mark. He has nine lives, and if he loses them all, it’s game over with no restarts. When he fights in an arena, the stands are populated with PlayStation 1-quality NPCs. And at the end of the movie, the game enemies enter the physical world as the Toymaker escapes, and Juni and his sister Carmen have to put on 3D-style glasses in order to fight them. Of course, this ‘digital bleed’ a common theme in media from at least the 1990s onwards, so it doesn’t uniquely share this with Homestuck.

Spy Kids 3D is also harsher on gamer culture than Homestuck is, and seems to come to the conclusion that digital worlds can’t replace real. The movie begins with the fictional US President and former head of the OSS stating that he prefers his current job to his former, because the ‘perception’ that he’s running the world means more to him than the ‘reality’ of doing it. Two ‘Programmerz’ of the game appear as cool, black-clad Matrix-style guys, and have their avatars removed to reveal stereotypical computer nerds underneath. And when Juni’s co-players show up in person, having previously only met each other in-game, it’s ‘revealed’ that Mr Strong isn’t actually strong, Mr Smart isn’t actually smart, and Mr Cool isn’t actually cool.

At the same time, the movie is filled with stupid gamer references – its first frame proclaims it ‘A Digital File by Robert Rodriguez’, a character is named Rez in order to make the joke “Hi, Rez”, a character claims to have got into the game ‘on a beta tester’s visa’, after falling into lava a character says ‘I saw all my points flashing away before my eyes’, and when a character is threatened, another steps in to say ‘you have to go through me first, Game Boy’. In perhaps the movie’s most famous line, Demetra, the girl Juni likes, gets a Game Over screen, and Juni says ‘I never even got her email address’.

I wonder what business a movie filled with jokes targeted towards gamers has in making fun of gamers. Juni’s co-players didn’t even change themselves that much in game – they didn’t present as older, or a different gender, or have wild superpowers. Entering the game just gave them the confidence to be slightly better versions of themselves, overcoming judgments based on physical appearance and others’ existing perceptions of them. At a tight 84 minutes, the movie definitely could have added extra scenes to give a little more characterization to the gamers Juni plays with, but in the final showdown Juni is only fighting alongside his real life friends and family. His internet friendships aren’t seen as important, and in that way the movie is very different to Homestuck.

In the game, Juni falls for another player named Demetra and even gives her the extra lives he collected – but she turns out to be a holographic game construct placed to deceive and mislead the players. When she betrays Juni, she says ‘I’m sorry, Juni. But it’s in my programming’. Just a scene later, she’s able to overcome her programming and hold open a portal for the real players to escape. She perhaps more than anyone else represents this blurred boundary, and while she doesn’t appear outside of the game, she reminds me of WV exploring perhaps his first taste of free will after arriving on Earth.

My big criticism of Spy Kids 3D is that the game doesn’t feel coherent; it’s hard to tell what its plot or objectives are beyond ‘reach Level 5’, and while the individual gaming scenes are cool they don’t necessarily feel like part of the same game. In their November 2009 Q&A, Andrew Hussie states that Sburb’s system, mechanics, universe and goal are the elements they’ve had planned since page 1 of Homestuck, and it shows. I don’t think Robert Rodriguez or his team were as focused on this element.

So, if there is a connection between Spy Kids 3D and Homestuck – which, given John’s explicit Spy Kids reference, is not out of the question – I have a few predictions. First, Juni at one point has to fight another player, Arnold, who wants to win the game to save his family from poverty. I think Sburb will also try to pit its players against one another, putting them in a situation where one player can save a family member at the cost of another. Next, The Toymaker wants Juni and his friends to reach Level 5 and is secretly trying to help them, because he wants Juni’s grandpa to find and confront him. I’m going to be very suspicious of any NPC or game construct in Sburb that seems too helpful, because they might have ulterior motives for wanting John to succeed, and that includes Nannasprite. Finally, at the end of the movie, Juni’s grandpa is reluctant to return to the real world, where he has less power and agency due to being in a wheelchair (although he later changes his mind, finding power in his real life too). Eventually, John and his friends will get the chance to escape the Medium, and one of them may be reluctant to do so. Their lives aren’t great outside of the game, and they have access to theoretically infinite alchemy within it as they advance to the late game, so it’s easy to imagine one of them being tempted to stay.

As a high grossing and child appropriate movie, Spy Kids 3D doesn’t have the freedom or flexibility with its storytelling that Homestuck does, nor is it able to explore its themes in as much depth. But it’s fast paced and funny, and relatable to a kid playing video games in the 2000s. I agree with John - in his suit and serious business goggles, he does look like a spy kid, and if he can find time to rewatch this movie in between alchemizing and imp slaying, it might help him with his current situation.

Movie Rating: 9/10

[isalabells]

„Wenn man mal zurückschaut – Titel sind das eine, das ist die Belohnung, ist natürlich das, was man vorzeigen kann. Aber wenn ihr später mal aufhört und zurückblickt, sind's eigentlich die Menschen, die Momente, die bei euch hängen bleiben werden. Uns hat's 'ne Riesenfreude gemacht zu sehen, was aus dieser Mannschaft geworden ist. Wie sie zusammengewachsen ist, wie jeder an das Ziel geglaubt hat, wie ihr alles dafür getan habt. Und ich glaube, das ist ein wahnsinnig wichtiger Prozess für euch. Für jeden von euch, vor allem für die jungen Spieler. Ihr werdet das später sehen, dass diese Weltmeisterschaft euch wahnsinnig viel gebracht hat. Egal, ob das jetzt Weltmeister ist oder Dritter oder Vierter.“

Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen (2006), dir. Sönke Wortmann

[lesser-known-composers]

Erich Zeisl (1905-1959) - Sechs Lieder für mittlere Stimme

1. Nachts (Joseph von Eichendorff) 2. Die Nacht bricht an (Hermann Lingg) 3. Ein Stündlein wohl vor Tag (Eduard Mörike) 4. Schrei (Walther Eidlitz) 5. Stilleben (Ephraim Lessing) 6. Der Weise (Wilhelm Busch)

Annika Sofia Westlund, mezzo-soprano & Nora Elisabeth Wortmann, Klavier

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[charlitosalcaraz]

HALLE, GERMANY - JUNE 25: Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan is the champion of the Terra Wortmann Open 2023.

(Photo by Thomas F. Starke/Getty Images)

[subtile-jagden]

Richthofen while in Jasta 2 with comrades Stefan Kirmaier, Hans Imelmann and Hans Wortmann.

[lobbycards]

Pope Joan (Die Päpstin), German lobby card. 2009

[sincaraz]

why does the terra wortmann website not list jannik as playing tomorrow but flashscore does