Did you guys know the “Sickos” artist made a Sicko thats a WGA screenwriter on strike (said comic artist is a The Onion satirist comic artist and his name is Stan Kelly)
i don’t think “flex” is a strong enough word for whatever the last three minutes of my life was
That was one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen.
That’s because Marahute was animated by none other than Glen Keane, who storyboarded this magnificent sequence as well. He’s the legendary animator behind Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and Tarzan. Glen is famous for his extraordinary dedication to bringing his characters to life. For the Rescuers Down Under, he thoroughly studied eagle anatomy, and here are a few of his notes.
sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry
there is a disk. it is 12 inches in diameter, it is made of copper, plated with gold. there is an inscription— “To the makers of music – all worlds, all times” on its surface. it lies on the space probe, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, to explore interstellar space beyond our solar system.
it contains human existence.
116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled “Home.” it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.
it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.
it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.
the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.
but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.
with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don’t know if they would understand it.
in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.
bearing a disk with a little inscription etched by hand on its surface.
Radiolab did an episode with Ann Druyan, the creative director of the Voyager Interstellar Message project that produced these discs and selected what to put on them. She tells the story of their conception and the selection process.
One of the sounds on the record is the sound of Ann Druyan’s brainwaves, recorded as she thought about the man she fell in love with over the course of the project, which if discovered and interpreted by some far-flung species hundreds of millions of years from now, will make her and Carl Sagan’s love story humanity’s most enduring.
can someone who knows about you/thou divide in shakespeare help me out bc I just skimmed through all of horatio and hamlet’s interactions to find that hamlet consistently refers to horatio as “you” in act one, but starting with his very heartfelt speech in act 3 scene 2 praising horatio, he consistently uses “thou” until the end of the play (which does, sadly, imply that “o, I could tell you— but let it be.” is not actually directed at horatio…) more interesting to me is that horatio only ever uses “you” to refer to hamlet until after hamlet has died, when we get “goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” does this have to do hamlet with hamlet being dead? or?? what are the general connotations of you/thou at this time (bc I know it has changed over time). why did the changes happen as they did or does literally none of this matter ?
OMG this is actually such a fun literary quirk of Early Modern English, and it adds a LOT of subtext to those interactions!
So, in Early Modern English (the dialect of the time period— it is NOT “old English”, that’s an earlier form of language so different from our current way of speaking you would not be able to interpret it) “you” is a FORMAL address, “thou” is INFORMAL.
Using the “formal you” is a sign of respect and deference, but also an indication of distance. It’s a way of being polite. So when Hamlet is is using the formal “you” in act one it is a politeness, but as the plot goes on he switches to thou to illustrate the depth of that relationship, as “thou” (the “informal you”) is the form of address used between people who are CLOSE with each other— family, good friends, lovers. It is clear that they are close enough for hamelt to address him that way, and the switch can also be viewed as an appeal to their closeness as Hortaio becomes further and further involved in hamlet’s plot.
Now Horatio’s side of this is actually the more interesting one.
You are absolutely right, hortaio uses the formal “you” the entire time hamlet is alive on stage. This is appropriate, given their differing statuses, hamelt is a prince, and using “you” formally is basically like calling someone “sir”. “You” is how you address your boss, people with high social standing than you, and just people you don’t know very well. It’s slightly at odds with hamlet’s very easy way of addressing Horatio, but as hamelt is the one with higher social standing it makes more sense for him to be the one pushing the informal address while horatio continues to speak semi formally.
The part that makes it so much more interesting though is the switch after hamlet’s death, because that really adds to a heartbreaking moment. Basically what that’s meant to tell the audience is that hortaio is mourning hamlet as a friend, and a person he was close with, not as a prince. It’s kinda a break in the more distant, appropriate way of speaking we’ve seen from this cautious scholarly character so far, he’s breaking down, and he’s lost his FRIEND, he’s just watched someone very important to him die, and the switch in formality emphasizes that. It’s no longer about hamlet’s social standing, it’s about what hamlet meant to him
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