It's pretty great living in IL-3 and having a a rep who's cool as hell, get their ass Delia

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdvo...

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

He just retired but Joey Votto is a no brainer

Be part of our team! Media Burn is hiring our first ever development staff person. Read on if you'd like to work with our growing nonprofit and this is your skill set! https://loom.ly/MDof9X0

I owe my career to this format and I think everyone should go to a used bookstore and buy one today.

Botching the 1848 revolution

michelle yeoh photographed flying over the iconic hollywood sign while suspended from a helicopter for national geographic, 1998

yeah it's extremely funny because the people who are extremely insistent that their politics are revolutionary spend all their time trying to not to get in trouble which ensures that that existing power structures literally have to exert no force at all to pacify them

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Danny McBride (!) has a book of short stories coming in June

I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.

Join us at the Music Box on Feb 1 for "In Another Light: Cinema of Memory." It is in partnership with @allarvickfund.bsky.social and @chicagofilmarchives.org and curated by Agata Zborowska. Tickets: https://loom.ly/IS5DsLQ

RIP Sly Dunbar (1952-2026)

My friends, I have a new issue of HEAD CLOG available. This one's 48 pages, with pieces on James Benning, Grigori Kozintsev, Harkat Studios, and of course, lots and lots of stuff about stag films. Send $5 cash to HEAD CLOG / PO Box 25008 / Chicago, IL / 60625 and I will mail you a copy forthwith.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Hope this was a part of the Freddy trade, @johndemarsico.bsky.social let me buy you your first spotted cow

This morning, across all social media platforms, folks are coming out in droves to prove how much they suck at liking art.

holy fuck it’s real

The Quiet American Pete Turner, 1958

The Bears are still absolute frauds

Sez you

Turns out Walt Whitman saw Bari Weiss coming some 150 yrs ago. His description of hacks: "kept-editors, spaniels well-train'd to carry & fetch, creatures of the President, creatures of would-be Presidents... , the lousy combings and born freedom-sellers of the earth."

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Checkin my Wikipedia entry for accuracy

"what's coming" - Tell me what's coming. What's specifically coming? Cmon Kreskin.

In 1989, French newspaper Libération asked 700+ filmmakers from around to answer just one question: "Why do you film?", the answers they received varied from several pages long to just a few words, here's some of them.

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Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

Wait, Norman Podhoretz was still alive?

More on SAIC's scummy treatment of Video Data Bank chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movi...

RIP Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the best to ever do it. A brilliant provocateur, an artist of the highest order, forever eager to mash genres, someone who wanted more and better for queer people, someone not afraid to stand against the tide and be proven right again and again. Thank you. ♥️

Dec 18, 7pm CT, online! In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Cook County Hospital doctors strike, join Media Burn and Kartemquin Films for a virtual screening of the doc HSA Strike ’75 + a discussion with filmmaker Judy Hoffman and doctor/activist Howard Ehrman. Tickets: https://loom.ly/-i_CypU

“Blackhawks Xmas Party,” a roll of mag-striped 16mm from the Frank Koza Collection depicting the 1975-'76 Chicago Blackhawks playing hockey against a gaggle of Sesame Street Muppets, has been 'liked' by over 34k people via our social media accounts.

U Chicago, then SAIC, now DePaul - are there any schools in Chicago that aren't being run into the ground by insane imbeciles?

😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.

An 82-year-old George Cuckor trying to pronounce 'Tsui Hark' (written as the Mandarin 'Xu Ke' on the card) before presenting Tsui with Best Director for All the Wrong Clues at the 18th Golden Horse Awards.

My friends, I have a new issue of HEAD CLOG available. This one's 48 pages, with pieces on James Benning, Grigori Kozintsev, Harkat Studios, and of course, lots and lots of stuff about stag films. Send $5 cash to HEAD CLOG / PO Box 25008 / Chicago, IL / 60625 and I will mail you a copy forthwith.

More on SAIC's shameful treatment of the Video Data Bank.

Is anyone here affiliated with UC Berkeley and have a CalNet login? Would you like to do a favor for your ol' pal Dan? (Trying to get at a piece in their digital collections, vaulting over the walled garden, etc)

Part of the crisis of modern cinema might be that we struggle to make cinematic the miserable, screen-driven life that is the new normal. Life has betrayed cinema, in that sense. But of course the fundamentals remain true but our filmmakers just aren't searching, they're tinkering with the screen.

The director of Video Data Bank and two other staff members were removed by the administration at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where VDB is based. There are questions about the survival of this legacy institution for video art on the eve of its 50th anniversary.

CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026. amianet.org/resources/mo...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Studs’ Place: The Lost Sitcom That Put Working-Class Life on TV. Our latest blog post by scholar and guest author Jason J. Nebergall offers an analysis of how Studs Terkel's radical, working-class ethos was translated into the emerging television medium. Read more at: https://loom.ly/JDD26kA

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