the best thing about the moon and the sky and the stars is that while you can’t ever take a picture of them that does them justice……you don’t need to. they’re gonna be there tomorrow
The earliest color films, from the mid-1890s, were colored by hand, frame by frame, using tiny brushes—sometimes only a single camel hair. The work was extraordinarily labor intensive. One film-coloring workshop, run by Elisabeth Thuillier in Paris, employed approximately 200 female colorists. “I spent my nights selecting and sampling the colors, and during the day, the workers applied the color according to my instructions,” Thuillier recalled in a 1929 interview. “Each specialized worker applied only one color, and we often exceeded 20 colors on a film.”
I actually gasped at this. The color is so shocking against the grey, in the best possible way!
So I’m reading a book my mom read for her book club and she asked me to read to get a millennial opinion on, and so far it’s reading like some of those circa 2013 trying to be edgy and surreal but not quite committed to being weird enough hipster tumblr posts. But a novel. Also kinda feels like the author took the nanowrimo motto “no plot, no problem” a bit too seriously.
Also the main character has the stupidest name ever.
To be fair I’m only like 20 pages in so maybe some plot is coming.
I’m not gonna say what it is for now but it’s written by someone who has an mfa from nyu and yeah you can tell
when gerard way sings “the broken, the beaten, and the damned” and when kermit the frog sings “the lovers, the dreamers, and me” they’re talking about the same people btw
An estimated 650 million people would watch Neil Armstrong take man’s first step on the moon more than six hours later, but during the actual lunar landing, 32,933 were in the stands at Yankee Stadium on that Sunday afternoon. Ken McMullen was batting against Jack Aker with Epstein on third, a man on first and no outs.
As the umpires, according to prior arrangements, waved their arms and stopped play, an urgent voice came over the loudspeakers: “Here is a bulletin from WWDC News, Apollo 11 is 100 feet from the surface of the moon. We now switch live to the manned spacecraft center.” It was public address announcer Bob Sheppard, sharing the historic news with the crowd.
“Ladies and gentleman, your attention please,” Sheppard said. “You will be happy to know that the Apollo 11 has landed safely on the moon.“
The cheers from the crowd drowned out the final two words of his announcement, but the message displayed on the scoreboard in right-center field was loud and clear: “THEYRE ON THE MOON.”
The cheering at Yankee Stadium continued for about 45 seconds, according to the New York Times, as thousands of children waved the Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Louisville Sluggers they received on bat day.
Finally, the noise died down enough so the announcer could be understood, and he asked the crowd for a moment of silent prayer for the safe return of the astronauts. After a few seconds of silence, a recording of “America the Beautiful” played over the Yankee Stadium loudspeaker. The crowd sang and then cheered some more.
After the roughly four-minute stoppage, McMullen hit a grounder to third baseman Bobby Cox, who threw home to nail Epstein for the first out.
kinda obsessed with rain. 30 something. She/Her. maybe someday I'll be a published writer.
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