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I'm not here for politics but for movies, art & humor. If those are the focus of your acct I'll probably follow. I'll likely also post about the mindf*ck of getting older.

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · Nov 24

This is the mood I come to social media to find. Not politics and what's wrong with the world. So if I don't follow back, it's bc I see a lot of politics on your acct.

Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · Nov 20

Peanuts

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4h

It seems Schneider's height in inches (63) matches his IQ.

Image of Rob Schneider with 5' 3" in text over the image. Five feet three inches equals 63 inches.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4h

That 1912-opened hospital is actually in Oakland (and it later became affiliated with UCSF). But I was born at UCSF about 4 years before Schneider was born in SF and I remember there were specific children's services there if not called a children's hospital until later. But still, Schneider is...

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 16h

Luv this.
Keep this in mind, anyone who feels repressed:

Philosophy Quotes @philosophors.bsky.social · Aug 15

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

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Philosophy Quotes @philosophors.bsky.social · 1d

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Kahlil Gibran

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

#Photography offers the chance to shoot and view complexity in both color or #b&w: in b&w, complexity of geometry; in color, contrast of complementary hues and boldness of intensity. (But also notice geometric complexity in color scenes!) Images taken in #California (2), #Boston and #Switzerland.

Black and white image of the twisting rails of a small roller coaster ride at a carnival.

Color image with the left half a yellow bare wall with a diagonal shadow through it, the right half a brick wall with an arch in the bricks inside of which is a bright green door. It's a sunny day and the colors are bright and bold

Black and white image of about one quarter of a round manhole cover filling about two-thirds of the image vertically and almost halfway across the image, with the rest of the image a concrete sidewalk with shadows of thin bars (of an unseen fence) falling across the entire image diagonally from upper right to lower left. There is a thin line in the concrete going straight across the image about one-third of the way down from the top.

Color image of a railway station (though you can't really tell) waiting room with about 9 people inside looking every which way, one in the distance might be a nun. They are seen through a row of three sections of window divided by bright red dividers rising from a low wall also the bright red color. The image is taken at a slight angle so the red wall/waiting room is slightly diagonal across the image.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

FYI: both these images are in Boston, 1998. The b&w image is somewhere around the old "Combat Zone" neighborhood, the color image is Beacon Hill. The neighborhoods themselves being contrasts. B&W taken with a vintage Kodak Brownie camera (127mm film), the color is #35mm transparency (Kodachrome?).

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

A #photography teacher (1980s) said: in #b&w the eye goes first to the most complex geometry or brightest highlight; in color, to the boldest or most contrasting color. #Boston #filmphoto

Black and white image of a corner storefront with a pillar rising in front of diagonal steps behind it.

A residence entry (slightly below sidewalk level) with a bright red door.

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

A photography teacher: "don't try to capture everything. Move closer."

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

A photography teacher (1980s) said, in b&w the eye goes first to the most complex geometry or brightest highlight; in color, to the most contrasting color.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

Hm, both. When I lived in my hometown San Francisco (I moved out years ago) I always liked to shoot portraits outdoors (with maybe sometimes a soft fill flash) because the SF light is most times diffused with a light fog or thin clouds. But studio lights were fun to control and sculpt with. So...

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

I can't help think the main reason the "Ocean's" (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen and apparently Fourteen) movies exist is because probably Clooney said to his friends, "Let's hang out and party and laugh and make a few million each and be pampered on the set. What the heck, let's take advantage!"

George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt standing together looking into the camera.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, life is bitter and unfair, but at least life is short.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 2d

After watching this movie, I raved in a tweet at how nearly perfect a film it is, and that even the dog gave a brilliant performance. I'm so glad Cannes awarded him! (I didn't know there even is a Palm Dog award until your post.)

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 2d

I woke up like this the other day. I dunno what happened during the night.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 2d

At some point I had "Husbands" on my list of personal Top 10 fave movies. Maybe still.

("Your hand is on my hand" 🤣👍)

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Scene from John Cassavetes film "Husbands"

YouTube video by DeRevolutionibus

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 3d

I fear that they'll make him look like a kook like in Ed Wood. He was a serious actor for about 30 years before Dracula, appearing in Shakespeare, Broadway (in productions other than Dracula), started acting companies, many films, etc. And not unattractive.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 3d

1897 film by Edison of the Lurline Baths (1894-1936) near downtown San Francisco that was filled with seawater piped from the ocean about 4 miles away. Initially pumped part way, then gravity sent it the rest of the way.

www.loc.gov/item/00694240/

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

In googling for a pic of the card, I learned that they have that. How great of Criterion: they understand the entire experience of a film and honor it.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

Both had advantages: with b&w I could maybe be more experimental & free; with color I had to train my eye to see exactly what I wanted.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

I'm ok with both. Different moods. But I often shot b&w in the film days because I would develop it myself so I could take a lot more exposures, maybe even of the same thing to try slightly different angles & etc. With color film, which I had to pay to have processed, I'd have to be more exacting.

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

His autobiography is a wild read. One page "I did this movie," the next page "I f'd this person."

60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

I saw Polyester with the Scratch & Sniff card. (Castro Theatre, San Francisco) I kept it for awhile but lost it eventually.

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣🤣 Divine knew the score.

Craig Carlisle @creggster.bsky.social · 5d

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60+ Learning to be old 🤯 @over60m.bsky.social · 4d

The episodes of Wild Wild West with Michael Dunn were hands-down the best episodes. 👍