Skateboarder, (possibly California?) 1970s

Thomasin Mckenzie

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Daily Kokkoro #545 [Princess Connect! Re:Dive]

Lana Condor

Cigar butts in gallstone sauce.

Dreams – prompt by notahotshot [2636×5472]

New planets by sodaabo

Samantha Irvin

Helmut Newton style portrait – prompt by serilblue [1526×3072]

Longing by Elaine Ho

Space welder by artist Sergei Borisenko

Nuthatch by artist Gabriela Wasiewicz

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Qingdao, China

Splash of Paint [2304X4096]

Milan , Italy.

To the Space by Render Dream

Singularity Age by artist Dan Delion Reiner

Meeting by SENSETUS

Happy Birthday to Pamela Anderson who turns 56 today! (Pic from the early 1990s)

Maria Gavrish (left) congratulates her friend Elena Kovalenko, who defeated her during the breaststroke swimming competition at the USSR Championships in Moscow, 1956

Persian Carpet celebrating the successes of Soviet space travel, made by members of Iranian Tudeh Party (ca. 1965)

Designer in Supreme Court ruling cited client who denies making wedding site request

A Colorado web designer who the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples cited a request from a man who says he never asked to work with her.

Starry Night by Satoru Wada💙✨

Gwen Stacy from Spiderman by Caterpillarcos

Hazy evening in the canyons of Utah [OC][3851 x 5776]

Hooligans by me

French Horn by Travis Anderson

No Return [3440×1440]

The Last Starfighter

The Last Starfighter: Directed by Nick Castle. With Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Lance Guest, Dan O’Herlihy. High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

Recently released by Arrow Video in 4k / HDR and originally released in 1984 this film still holds up by ever measure that I could apply to it. The music is still unique and interesting, the plot is captivating, and the special effects are obviously from the beginning of the CGI era, but they still look great.

The basic story is that a young man in a trailer park so far away from civilization that there’s no light pollution from city lights gets good enough at a video game that an alien organization takes note and recruits him to be a Starfighter. There’s a bunch of trailer park shenanigans, including a 80’s era trope of a young kid looking at playboy magazines, but for the most part this is a timeless movie that’s going to hold it’s appeal for a long time. I remember as a kid myself being freaked out by the clone’s freaky face, the laser drilling into the spy’s head, and being moved by the “victory or death” chant.

It’s definitely a kid safe concept, but there’s a whole bunch of un-kid safe stuff like the playboy and brain laser thing.

I get some very strong Wing Commander vibes from most of the in space stuff, not sure if WC did that intentionally or if they were both in the same genre. It wasn’t until the end of the film that we get a good sense of just how large the GUNSTAR really is. 10 stories? it’s huge!

The disk comes with some pretty cool special features:

interview with Catherine Mary Stewart, the main female character
interview with composer Craig Safan: intention to stay away from star wars music sounds
interview with writer Jonathan Betuel: struggle to stay away from star wars concepts, “bigger’s not better, emotional works every time”
interview with special effects supervisor Kevin Pike
interview with sci-fi author Greg bear about CGI production: he has a emotionally gushing explanation of the computer generated graphics and the company that made them “Digital Productions”
interview with arcade game collector Estil Vance on reconstructing the Starfighter game, which never actually came out.

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Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores [3440×1440]

Fly with Gwen from Spiderman ATSV by Yugoro

Melyssa Ford

Cargo Transporters by Ivan Laliashvili

Marin by jazzybaby

Herman Hermit by Pablo Munoz Gomez

Jedi by Lily Lopez (me)

Ophelia Station by Maciej Rebisz

Selena Gomez

Space Horror by Mathew O [3840 x 2160]

Zendikar Incarnate by Lucas Graciano [1800 x 1332]

And that is destiny fulfilled

Barge by Ailantd Sikowsky

Flight of the Protostar – A Star Trek Fan Production (2023)

Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill ending permanent alimony

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure that will overhaul the state’s alimony laws, after three vetoes of similar bills and a decade of emotional clashes over the issue.

‘Cesspool of Corruption’: Dems Reintroduce Bill to Impose Supreme Court Term Limits

“Our Founding Fathers intended for lifetime appointments to ensure impartiality,” said Rep. Ro Khanna. “The decision today demonstrates how justices have become partisan and out of step with the American public.”

This is why we can’t have nice things