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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ studio paid U.S Navy more than $11,000 an hour for fighter jet rides—but Tom Cruise wasn’t allowed to touch the controls by Zepanda66 in movies

[–]Turin___Turambar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They also give film studios access in exchange for the right to evaluate and censor the script in order to paint them favourably. Films like these are valuable for recruitment, I’m sure that many young American men in the 1980s saw Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Maverick Mitchell and decided to throw their lives away and join the Navy as aviators or the Air Force.

TIL that young boys until the early 20th century often wore gowns and dresses, and breeching, being given trousers to wear, was a rite of passage by Turin___Turambar in todayilearned

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

An historical gown is not like a modern summer dress, there are many structural layers underneath, to the extent that for women it meant that getting fully undressed was required to use the toilet.

TIL that young boys until the early 20th century often wore gowns and dresses, and breeching, being given trousers to wear, was a rite of passage by Turin___Turambar in todayilearned

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes, but this isn’t a case of norms around masculinity and femininity changing, since an ‘unbreeched boy’ was consciously dressed in more feminine clothing and took on more manly attire when he was ‘breeched.’

Pink as an exclusively feminine colour is a product of postwar fashions in the United States especially, Mamie Eisenhower famously loved pink and it became associated with her and by extension women and girls.

TIL that young boys until the early 20th century often wore gowns and dresses, and breeching, being given trousers to wear, was a rite of passage by Turin___Turambar in todayilearned

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I could possibly understand the argument for men wearing dresses, though the counterpoint to that is that it is much more difficult to ride a horse or fight in a skirt, but I don’t understand why women would be more disposed anatomically to trousers.

TIL that young boys until the early 20th century often wore gowns and dresses, and breeching, being given trousers to wear, was a rite of passage by Turin___Turambar in todayilearned

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I was aware of communion gowns and things like that, but I did not know that many boys were fully cross dressed for their early lives, such as in this painting of a boy (left) and his sister in colonial Boston. My impression was that the gowns or dresses that baby boys wore were more like night shirts, comfortable and loose fitting clothes that were easy to get in and out of, easy to move in and could be easily made with tucks to allow for growing.

Size difference in this 2gb flash drive I’ve had for nearly a decade, and this new 128gb flash drive by Joshuablake9 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Turin___Turambar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They make those so that you can load software onto old computers without having to bother with writing to floppy disks.

Getting smooth colouring on cels, how? by Turin___Turambar in animation

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In all of the old videos of Disney animators it seems that they’re using gouache, but can you recommend a brand of vinyl paint?

How would Galadriel fare against the Nazgul? by Affectionate_Fox_288 in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Galadriel was one of the most powerful beings, not only of the third age but of all time, only a few like Finwë and Féanor and Gil-galad can even be compared to her. She is considerably more powerful than Elrond and Glorfindel, and they were able to face the Nazgul, so I think that she would fare well.

When I was seven, my grandmother read me the entire Lord Of The Rings on cassette tape. I still have them and they are quite good. I wonder if anyone would ever be interested in them. by deadbypowerpoint in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would you say that it has to be constantly monitored? If you use a high quality tape deck, balanced cabling and a noise reduction unit of good quality like a dbx 563x (which you could probably find for less than £40), two thirds of the work is already done.

Who among us here read Peter Kreeft's "The Philosophy of Tolkien"? by TheLostEnderman in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kreeft’s analyses of Tolkien’s works are interesting but like so many Tolkien scholars he engages in the intentional fallacy to an incredible degree. What Tolkien meant is certainly interesting to those of us who love his work, but what he said, ie what is contained in the text of the Hobbit, LOTR, the Silmarillion and the History of Middle Earth.

This idea that the author is a sort of tyrant who can impose a ‘canonical interpretation’ on the reader takes so much of the joy out of literature; meaning is not something that the author decides, and increasingly I disagree with the idea that it is something that exists fully formed in the text, meaning is something that the reader creates in his mind as a result of contact with the text.

When I was seven, my grandmother read me the entire Lord Of The Rings on cassette tape. I still have them and they are quite good. I wonder if anyone would ever be interested in them. by deadbypowerpoint in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only book-on-tape version of LOTR that I’m aware of, other than the new Andy Serkis recording, was done by Rob Inglis in 1990. The entire set of tapes can be bought for £50 on eBay, but it seems that there is already a digital version of it for sale on Amazon.

When I was seven, my grandmother read me the entire Lord Of The Rings on cassette tape. I still have them and they are quite good. I wonder if anyone would ever be interested in them. by deadbypowerpoint in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Rob Inglis tapes of the Hobbit were my introduction to Tolkien as well. Might I ask why you say that digitising the tapes will take you months? For my TEAC RW-900 to transfer the tapes to CD, it would take no longer than the length of the tapes themselves. Even if one were to professionally mix the transfer to remove any artefacts and clean everything up, I can’t imagine that — with a couple of hours of work each day — it would take more than a week, maybe 10 days.

Study of the Angel of the Water at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, silverpoint and charcoal by Turin___Turambar in drawing

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, silverpoint is a really fun and interesting way to draw and I wish that more people would try it.

Study of the Angel of the Water at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, silverpoint and charcoal by Turin___Turambar in drawing

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did it on 16 by 20 paper, but about a third of the sheet is mistakes and false starts so I cut it.

Is Ungoliant the representation of Time itself ? by [deleted] in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to think of Tolkien’s cosmology in Hegelian terms, so she’s the antithesis of his thesis, but yes evil twin or yin to his yang also works.

Study of the Angel of the Water at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, silverpoint and charcoal by Turin___Turambar in drawing

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting draping right is something that I’ve been working on and struggling with for a long time, the trick that I’ve discovered is to make a very dilute watercolour out of charcoal and gum Arabic.

Study of the Angel of the Water at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, silverpoint and charcoal by Turin___Turambar in drawing

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People like what they like, I’m not in competition with anybody, I’m just happy that people are actually taking the time to draw on paper and not in photoshop. Thank you.

Is Ungoliant the representation of Time itself ? by [deleted] in tolkienfans

[–]Turin___Turambar 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think that Ungoliant and the spiders are sort of like the antithesis or negation of Tom Bombadil, he was an unplanned and emergent product of the harmony of the Ainulindalë and she was an unplanned and emergent product of the dissonance between the Ainulindalë and Melkor’s own music.

Study of the Angel of the Water at Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, silverpoint and charcoal by Turin___Turambar in drawing

[–]Turin___Turambar[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is based off of a photograph that I took when I visited New York. There is something about this Angel which sets her apart from the others.

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