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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 9h

In 1960, the San Francisco Giants conducted a goodwill tour in Japan, playing several exhibition games including the “Meeting of the Ages” game in Osaka against the Nankai Hawks.

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 3d

R.I.P. The magnificent Diane Keaton. We’ll miss you so.

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 5d

Walt Disney's First Silly Symphony - "The Skeleton Dance" (Public Domain)

YouTube video by Laughing Place

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 7d

Byrne

Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 7d

Bowie

Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 7d

Basquiat

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 7d

Paul Thomas Anderson's celebrated family drama and political thriller is far from the "apologia for radical left-wing terrorism" its conservative critics claim it is.

Right-Wingers Are Getting Mad at (and Misunderstanding) 'One Battle After Another'

Conservative critics and commentators like Ben Shapiro are complaining about, and misunderstanding, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 8d

Kurt Cobain in Rome, Italy.
(1994)

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 10d

How Jamie Hewlett called out the comics industry with ‘Tank Girl’

How Jamie Hewlett called out the comics industry with 'Tank Girl'

A look at how Jamie Hewlett feels about 'Tank Girl', the anarchic comic series he made his name with, compared to his more successful work in Gorillaz.

dangerousminds.net

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 15d

‘The Simpsons’ all-new movie arrives July 23, 2027.

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Yam Laranas @yamlaranas.bsky.social · 16d

Black and white + shadow and light.

#iphone #Lightroom

Black and white photo of a New York City street with tall brick buildings, sunlight streaming through trees, and a person walking along the sidewalk with long shadows.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 16d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 15d

Chase Infiniti and Leo DiCaprio behind the scenes of ‘One Battle After Another’. It’s an enthralling and thought-provoking powder keg of a film. See it in 70mm or IMAX if you can.

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 16d

Warner Bros deserves the kind of "winning just for making it" credit which usually only benefits Netflix, but essentially half of what Leonardo DiCaprio used to bring on that initial Fri-Sun frame means that ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER now needs spirational legs (which it will hopefully/probably get).

'One Battle After Another' Tops Box Office With Low (For DiCaprio) $22M Weekend

WB deserves the kind of “winning just for making it” credit which usually only benefits Netflix, but essentially half of what Leo used to bring in that initial Fri-Sun period means the film *needs* as...

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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 18d

The visually spectacular new preview highlights all the different people, places, and things you'll see, beyond merely "Hey, James Cameron made another Avatar movie!"

'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Trailer Aims to Pass The "Yes, And...?" Test

The visually spectacular new trailer, released today, emphasizes all of the different “stuff” you'll see beyond merely “Hey, it's another Avatar movie!”

scottmendelson.substack.com

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Mark Chilcott @markchilcott.bsky.social · 19d

Draw! #montypython #art #watercolours

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 18d

Nico & Andy Warhol (1966)

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21d

Man Ray was a painter, photographer, gizmo-maker, draftsman, filmmaker, chess-set designer, writer, poet, editor, publisher, adman, cartographer, prankster. He also had a habit of inventing niche art forms—one of which is now on display at the Met.

We’re Still Living in Man Ray’s Shadow

A show at the Met reveals not just the wonders of the artist’s rayographs—photographs taken without a camera—but the relentless creativity of the man himself.

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Oric Scott De Las Casas @oricscott.bsky.social · 22d

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 26d

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.