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video essays about horror, fear and dread

• Films That Feel Like Bad Dreams
• The Nightmare Artist
• Fear of Big Things Underwater
  
• Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House
• House of Leaves: The Horror Of Fiction
• Monsters in the Closet: A History of LGBT Representation in Horror Cinema
• The History of Insane Asylums and Horror Movies
• The Saddest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen
• Fear of Forgetting
• Slender Man: Misunderstanding Ten Years Of The Internet
• The Real Reason The Thing (1982) is Better than The Thing (2011)
• The Bizarre Clown Painting No One Fully Understands
• The Little Book of Cosmic Horrors
• The Disturbing Art of A.I.
• Fear of Depths
• Goya’s Witches
• David Lynch: The Treachery of Language
• The True History That Created Folk Horror
• The Existential Horror of David Cronenberg’s Camera

a few more and the youtube playlist are below the cut. as always feel free to share your recs as well!

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Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.

Vice

Friendly reminder that GIMP does pretty much everything Photoshop does, and it’s 100% free. Fuck DRM and the license culture, we have plenty of open source options available to us as a consumer.

• Lightworks is a freeware video editor on par with Premiere
• Blender is an excellent freeware 3D renderer,possibly better than After Effects
• Lightzone to replace Lightroom
• Inkscape to replace Illustratr
• Audacity to replace Audition (I also received a free version of Pro Tools with my Scarlett Solo audio interface)

If Adobe is going to be greedy shitheads, then fuck ‘em. Don’t use their stuff. Freeware can be just as good, if not better, than Adobe CC.

reblog to save a digital arts major

Reblog to save an artist.

oh jEEZ

I will keep saying this: GIMP sucks butts.

- Medibang Paint and Fire Alpaca for more cartoon style illustration

- Krita for painting

- Clip Studio Paint (not free, but often on sale and cheap even at full price) is better than PS for art and I’m about to cut adobe entirely. Even does some photo editing.

- Paint Tool SAI (again, not free but cheap) old but good, there’s a ton of hacked copies around too. Not hard to get for free.

- Open Tunez for animation.

I’m currently using Affinity Photo and it’s a great Photoshop alternative. One time fee only and it’s not really expensive, plus supports PSD formats. Free trial available too!

Davinci Resolve for video editing is amazing as well! :)

Another great art program to include in the list is the completely free, no download, browser recreation of photoshop, Photopea! It has the potential/customizability to be as robust as a full copy of photoshop while also being perfectly accessible to anyone looking to just do some quick edits with no strings attached.

Also, heads up to anyone using it,

As of July 5th 2021, Audacity is now considered a potential spyware security risk,

so please approach it with caution and do some research on the situation as things progress.

cybzilla:

artist friends please accept this link to my scans of morpho: fat and skin folds by michel lauricella- also if you find it as helpful as I do please consider buying a copy for yourself!

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Castle In The Sky (1986)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Only Yesterday (1991)
Porco Rosso (1992)
Pom Poko (1994)
Whisper of the Heart (1995)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)
Spirited Away (2001)
The Cat Returns (2002)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Ponyo On A Cliff From The Sea (2008)
The Secret World of Arrietty/The Borrower Arrietty (2010)
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

If any of the links stop working, please let me know so I can fix it.

For Castle In The Sky, wait for the free user button to be clickable and it will send you to the video.

how do I not share this, though (HIGHLY RECOMMENDING HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE IT’S MY FAVORITE)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
The Wind Rises (2013)

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lmaonade:

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it’’s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i’m not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i’m talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it’s literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

i truly believe that knowing how to cook is a basic survival concept and the fact that so many people can’t even make simple dishes is depressing as hell this is the sorta thing that should be taught at a young age. being able to take the ingredients you have around your home and turn them into a meal is like, essential and will make life so much better. you don’t need to be a high end chef you just need to understand some things that can be easily taught… but then again maybe the education system is playing a roll against this and ultimately they want you to grow up to rely on mcdonalds for dinner. i don’t know. please learn how to cook for yourself if you’re able. i’m not asking you to hunt for specific ingredients to make some expensive youtuber’s “best” recipe but if you know the basics of cooking you can do a lot with cheap canned ingredients. cooking can be affordable i promise you just need to learn how to make do with what you can get

Can anyone point me towards resources that teach those basics cus I would LOVE to teach my child this stuff but i dont know how to cook

not comprehensive but heres some:

internet shaquille’s basics but especially:

• making rice
• making scrambled eggs
• making oatmeal
• levels of cooking meat
• using & storing vegetables with recipes in the description (this one has a bit of Sassiness directed at people who dont like vegetables but the content is solid)

food safety + a recipe to demonstrate

how to learn to cook (just a list of subtopics, no actual tips)

• cooking techniques playlist
• how to cut x

basics with babish s1 & 2, but particularly:

• freezer meals,
• weeknight meals,
• kitchen tools (although the specific suggestions are pretty expensive even with the lower end scale items the basic categories are solid, and you can evaluate what items you will realistcially need - eg. if you dont need to read temp for steaks etc the temp reader will not be relevant) &
• kitchen care (mid-high advanced home cooking)

basic knife skills

picking the right pan for each recipe

j. kenji lopez-alt’s tips and tricks playlist

egg recipes

a little more complicated, involved, and longer than any of the rest of these but good breakdown of flavor & how and why to use the basic seasoning/flavor profiles

and then recipe channels representing various cuisines:

• j. kenji lopez-alt (various)
• marion’s kitchen (southeast & east asian, western/asian fusion)
• maangchi (korean)
• future neighbor (mostly korean)
• the western supermarket playlist of chinese cooking demystified (more recipes available but these are accessible if you dont have “specialty” ingredients)
• family recipes playlist by made with lau (chinese)
• not another cooking show (various)
• cooking with boris (bear with me here i know he does it exaggeratedly humorously but a lot of them are actually solid and beginner cook friendly. mostly slavic/russian)
• you suck at cooking (also falls into the intentionally humorous category but most of the recipes are pretty solid anyway)
• how to cook that (baking, also does debunking videos of viral cooking hacks - breaks down the reasons the hacks dont work, pretty important to understand those basics imo)
• internet shaquille (various)
• babish culinary universe (various)
• i REFUSE to recommended joshua weissman because he is fucking insufferable but if you want you can try if you can deal with it, the techniques/recipes seem fine for the most part

again definitely not a comprehensive list but it touches on most of the basics

afro-elf:

i’ve done it! like a fucking idiot, i’ve done it! i split the alt black babe mixtape into ten mini-tapes. no one asked me to do this. i did not need to do this

anyway!

the head honcho - the alt black babe mixtape: all 385 or so songs

for fun babes: the party bangers, stuff you can twerk to (includes bey, bree runway, kelis)

for loud babes: the loud, sweaty songs (includes rico nasty, straight line stitch, big joanie)

for ethereal babes: the songs that are there to help you float off in your mind (includes fka twigs, mereba, spellling)

for sad babes: self-explanatory (includes willow, arlo parks, fefe dobson)

for chill babes: songs to relax to, great for wash days (includes the internet, kennie, nao)

for goth babes: and also the vampires (includes adia victoria, moor mother, light asylum)

for folksy babes: folk and country folk and bluesy folk yee-yee (includes rhiannon giddens, kaia kater, kimya dawson)

for quirky babes: all sortsa sounds in here to embroider your converses to (includes janelle monae, santigold, brittany howard)

for classic babes: sounds from the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, etc (includes sister rosetta tharpe, skunk anansie, tina turner)

for poetic babes: we love a lyricist (includes noname, jamila woods, esperanza spalding)