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Franz Rogowskiat at Cannes today - he's one of the best actors of his generation. He went to a dance academy because he was barred from German acting colleges for having a visual 'disability' (Hare Lip) and it was the only way 'in' to performance. I think about that a lot.
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Watching a reaction video where someone explains they thought The Fith Element was a sequel to The Sixth Sense
'advisor to Boris Johnson'
Peer faces year’s ban from Lords bars for bullying two people while drunk
Kulveer Ranger resigns Tory whip after committee also recommends suspension from House of Lords for three weeks
www.theguardian.comcasting Andrea Riseborough is inspired
Will fashion’s flamboyant powerhouse Isabella Blow finally get her dues?
Beneath the famous hats was a prime mover in a British golden age, as a biopic is about to show
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I got rid of loads of old tech last year - it was just more stuff that cost money and I had no real attachment to
I work in design - clients are always desperate to make simple things impossibly complicated
The reviews for Megalopolis are polite, strained and respectful - lots of gritted teeth. I think it looks awful and will struggle to achieve the enthusiasm to watch it myself - although I suspect in 10 years the contrarians will call it the best film ever made. I didn't like Eyes Wide Shut either.
Last week I told a friend that the next 'thing' for design-bros would be using retro mobiles and I just saw someone on Instagram casually using a vintage Nokia.
I WAS JOKING!!!
My entire Linkedin is just a stream of comments from the design-bro community who used to post about how to do things their way and why they were 'thought leaders' - now constantly bleating about how terrible everything is and 'where did it all go wrong'?
Probably.
I read an article earlier about someone creating traffic chaos on Google by dragging a cart of 100 iPhones through a city centre.
sorry, what? Meaning 'not as good as..' or 'more destructive than'?
I made a point of not engaging in this discourse - and now I don't have to
Yes - that exactly, people say hello to me in town and I have to scroll through my dog memory bank to work out who they are!
Nice.
Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for British-born female artists
Les Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New York
www.theguardian.comno idea - it would have been later - up to the point where they left school as I recall from the conversation, which was mostly 'really wouldn't have expected him to have made much of his life'
I concur - I know A LOT about the strangers I meet on dog walks - I'm also good at spotting red flags, something the article doesn't mention. One of the guys I see regularly on my dog walk went to school with Sid Vicious, something he admitted he'd never mentioned to anyone before.
When you stand side by side at the dog park, you can reveal your true selves – but not your names | Melanie Tait
Pet owners know what it’s like to form long-lasting connections with complete strangers, but remember: what’s said at the dog park stays at the dog park
www.theguardian.comBizzare micro-connection - a friend lives in a house in St Leonards that he bought from Kelly Le Roc, who was brought up here - and she sold it to marry Stephen Segall. It's down a dingy back alley called Saxon road.
When I was about 11 my mum made us stand in the garden and wave at a plane flying high overhead because the queen was inside. (in her defence, she was a manic depressive)
When people pick up the phone and react to something they haven't had the time to hear yet
what is your biggest cinematic pet peeve?
one of mine is when characters brush teeth w/o toothpaste and suds
Part of me would be driven by curiosity and part by my late mother's voice in my ear screaming that I should go and then I'd remember how much I really, really hate that sort of thing.
Large cohort of my college/industry peers invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party this week, looking at the pics of them gurning at Charlie in a top hat... I'm sure it was fun but my idea of absolute hell. Lots of them seen to have left their personal politics at home.
What’s everyone bringing to the Bluesky potluck?
Just read that Derek Birdsall has died. One of the great designers of the 20th C. taught me (briefly) at RCA. Decent man, too. I was lucky enough to talk to to his son at Xmas and told him how much I appreciated him
Sorry - can't say that I'm impressed by the 76-year-old Queen of one of the world's richest countries grandstanding that she probably won't buy any more ink coats.
Trolling on a global scale.
Gina Rinehart demands National Gallery of Australia remove her portrait
NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira
www.theguardian.com
That reads as if it were written by AI posing as *checks notes* "One of the greatest minds of our generation"
yep - the age of limited attention spans. I read an article a few years ago about 'Australian Dipthong' - that weird vocal effect phrasing every line as a question, from Aussie soap operas because scenes were regularly filmed without the next scene being written yet
The current version is how everything gets repeated every 15 mins to accommodate add breaks
It crushes you - there are so many barriers, right from the start. I'm also very risk-averse, I have never had safety nets so typically I have had to limit my ambitions
Same across the entire creative sector, mine in particular - being a working-class professional in a majority middle-class industry has always held me back
It's sad that Gudrun Ure (Supergran) has died - but 98 is a pretty spectacular age and she had a remarkable career - here she is alongside the heavyweights in The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)
Musk tweets like someone who hasn't left his bedroom in 5 years and lives on toast and high energy drinks
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