Why I've always been a monarchist.

The Philokalia is the scientific manual for understanding the psychology of man (in its true definition).

Ran across a hair-raising line by sixteenth-century writer John Foxe—“Not to understand what was done before we were born, is to live always as children”—and I think the complete lack of curiosity most people have towards the past is one reason everyone is now twelve.

The obvious end game is that the internet and computers are mostly dead in terms of real content. Why put any effort into anything and post it online to get hoovered up by AI companies? AI has made be so much less interested in computers to be honest. The future is offline.

From: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992), dir. Alexander Petrov, Sverdlovsk Film Studio

[1] An allowance may be made for what is certainly the best code of conduct in existence: sqlite.org/codeofethics.html 😉😅 4/4

Hannah Mullane for the @BBC: "Do you think filmmakers could be left behind if they don't embrace new technology like AI?" Justine Bateman: "(Laughs) It's the total opposite. You will absolutely be left behind if you're using AI. You completely stop your forward momentum as an artist by using AI, because you're going, 'Eh, I'm done thinking imaginatively about progressing within my skillset. I'm going to jump off that and start using something that regurgitates stolen work from other people.' You'll go forward creatively, if you don't use AI. You'll do the opposite if you use AI." Link below.

English explorer John Smith, famous for his involvement in establishing the Jamestown colony in America in 1607. His coat of arms featured the heads of three Ottoman soldiers whom he beheaded in duels while serving as a mercenary in Transylvania during the Long Turkish War.

DAYBREAK EXPRESS (1953) Shot by D.A. Pennebaker over 3 days in New York City using four rolls of 16mm Kodachrome film. The footage sat untouched in his closet for 5 years until he figured out how to edit it and create a projection print. Music by Duke Ellington. Pure magic.

Ieșiți din idolatria performanței! Starețul de la Darvari spune că ne sfințim înfățișându-ne lui Dumnezeu așa cum suntem „Te sfințești arătându-te lui Dumnezeu așa cum ești”, a spus Protos. Arsenie Irimiea de la Schitul Darvari. „Și, când faci aceasta, se întâmplă două lucruri. Unu: Ieși din idolatria performanței. Veniți la mine toți cei osteniți și împovărați, zice Tata, și Eu vă voi odihni pe voi. Păi, dacă eu sunt performant, nu mă încadrez!” „Ieșiți din idolatria performanței!” i-a îndemnat pe credincioși Protos. Arsenie Irimiea. „Ce faci? Idolatrizezi efortul propriu și te biciuiești continuu cu ambiția.” tinyurl.com/3djj75nv

Indeed Unreal Engine is moving to Left-Up-Forward coordinates everywhere, starting with UEFN, and coming to UE5-6 in an incrementally-adoptable way through UI settings and C++ helper functions/macros to ease the transition. This will align Unreal with Y-Up, right handed standards of USD and glTF. Why? Because future 3d tools and ecosystems will be increasingly interoperable and standards-based. There are a lot of missing standards we’ll need to propose, and Team Unreal will be far more successful proposing new things if we adopt and add to existing standards and conventions. The USD-glTF-Maya-Houdini quadrant is the center of mass for complex code-art-pipeline tooling that is highly sensitive to coordinates. (Flipping coordinates when exporting from AutoCAD or Blender is easy enough; changing a movie vfx pipeline is not). Coordinates based on project settings sound like a have-it-your-way compromise but are a combinatorial mess when projects are a mix of code modules and content packages from many independent authors. The best time to make this change would have been 1995, but I believe the second best time is now with the launch of Scene Graph in UEFN.

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai: Egypt shuts it down, confiscates its property, and evicts monks en.protothema.gr/2025/05/29/…

OTD: April 21, 753 BC - the legendary city of Rome was founded! It may have seemed like an irrelevant small town at that time, but it was going to change and shape the trajectory of world history! Happy 2,778th birthday to Rome!

I have never regretted a walk

Racing driver Gene Hackman in 1983

John Cassavetes: “People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics. You end up making a film that is all tricks, no knowledge of life. If we can capture a feeling of a people, then we made a good picture.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/s… #screenwriting

🏆 Emanuel Gyenes is the Original by @motul 𝕎𝕀ℕℕ𝔼ℝ 🥇 After winning the category in 2020 at the first Saudi Arabian edition, he's back on top! 👏 #Dakar2025 #Dakarinsaudi #Motul #OriginalByMotul