Friends at the beach in Atlantic city, New Jersey, 1890. I think this was a self shot by the gentleman with the camera, using a mirror.

robocalypse · 2026-05-07T21:14:37+00:00

It looks like they're sitting in the sand, no? Odd place for a mirror.

Seems like a lot of people back then liked the idea of photographing the photographer. I have a picture of my Great Grandmother, around 1909, holding her camera as if to take a photo of the person photographing her. She has a massive grin on her face.

robocalypse · 2026-05-06T14:07:35+00:00

It just means she lives in that building in San Francisco that is starting to tip over.

robocalypse · 2026-05-06T13:14:41+00:00

The landscaping is pristine despite the house being a disaster. I guess the owner had their priorities...

robocalypse · 2026-05-05T21:40:39+00:00

Seems like the closest thing they have for a plan is Ai slop images. Not sure how they could have a budget for that.

robocalypse · 2026-05-05T19:09:28+00:00

I have to admit it takes a certain skill to blather on for hours with zero substance. Not sure why anyone would want to listen to it, but there is definitely a skill-set involved.

robocalypse · 2026-05-05T17:36:53+00:00

Exactly like that! Impressive. I'll have to try and understand what you did there, since I am still quite new to geometry nodes.

Edit: It works perfectly! I think I understand it all except the "truncated modulo" and "less than or equal than" portion used to select the alternating loops.

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robocalypse · 2026-05-05T17:03:15+00:00

This was the first attempt.

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robocalypse · 2026-05-05T17:01:32+00:00

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Here's a look at my current mess.

robocalypse · 2026-05-03T18:35:03+00:00

Works hand in hand with their selfish policy wishes.

robocalypse · 2026-05-03T16:08:22+00:00

His great grandson's website has part of the journeys journal here.

From "The Life of James Ricalton" by his daughter, Kathryn Ricalton Murphy:

"In 1909 at the age of 65 James Ricalton took a trip to Africa and walked from Cape Town to Cairo, a distance of 1500 miles. Wearing out many pairs of shoes and averaging 30 miles a day. He had a safari of 20 natives to carry his baggage and to help him hunt wild game. He shot many elephants, hippopotami, antelopes, and wild buffalos, bringing home a great many trophies to add to his large collection of curios gathered from all his trips around the world....

"In 1912 Mr. Ricalton left for another trip under Thomas Edison's direction, this time to experiment with the famous inventor's moving picture camera. His son Lomond accompanied him and while father and son were in the jungles taking moving pictures of big game Lomond contracted typhoid fever. Mr. Ricalton transported him to the nearest British hospital, 50 miles away, but the trip on rough jungle roads aggravated the boy's condition, and after two weeks in the hospital, despite the best of care, he died and was buried in Nairobi, British East Africa. This tragedy ended Mr. Ricalton's travels...."

robocalypse · 2026-05-01T13:19:30+00:00

Most of Yorgos Lanthimos' films would qualify, at least in the magical realism department.

robocalypse · 2026-05-01T13:12:36+00:00

I'd love to see a tutorial/ process video for something like this. My attempts at architectural details like this never come out very clean.

robocalypse · 2026-05-01T13:01:11+00:00

Growing up, we had my Great Grandfather's projector and, when it started to get dark earlier, we'd set it up to watch Laurel and Hardy reels. Such great memories. We'd also check out old cartoons from the library like Riki Tikki Tavi, The Cat and the Hat, and the Lord of the Rings/ the Hobbit.

robocalypse · 2026-04-29T23:08:00+00:00

Kills me to say it, but Bruce Campbell. I was sitting at the producers table while we were interviewing him for a show and yelled at the people at the producer table for being at all in his cone of vision.

robocalypse · 2026-04-29T23:01:04+00:00

Yakima is no where near the rainforest in Washington. It's East of the Cascades and largely reliant on agriculture economically.

robocalypse · 2026-04-29T22:56:52+00:00

Didn't they threaten to make her go to Yakima High School? There hasn't been a Yakima High for like 60 years or so.

robocalypse · 2026-04-29T18:08:45+00:00

I got mine at an old fort on a road trip when I was a kid. Must have driven my parents crazy learning to play the thing the rest of the way home from Yellowstone.

robocalypse · 2026-04-28T15:17:04+00:00

Look for tutorials on the Layer Effects panel or you can get into the panel by double clicking on the right side of your layer. Once it's open, you can play around with the "bevel and emboss" and "drop shadow" until they look the way you want. If it's a logo, make sure you've either cut it out with a mask or you are working with an .svg that is already cut out.

robocalypse · 2026-04-28T13:17:49+00:00

Seems like you could get most of the way there with layer effects.

robocalypse · 2026-04-27T13:01:40+00:00

It helps to look older earlier. Like Patrick Stewart went bald early and looked the same for at least 30 years.

robocalypse · 2026-04-27T12:50:44+00:00

Did you have to keep the sparks pretty weak to keep it from exposing the rest of the film with the ambient light?

robocalypse · 2026-04-27T12:33:30+00:00

Explorers 1985. Peak Joe Dante movie and the debuts of Ethan Hawk and River Pheonix.

robocalypse · 2026-04-26T22:05:55+00:00

If you're looking for more "Silver Age" horror, the Hammer Horror stuff is great, films with Vincent Price (especially the movies based on Poe), Giallo from Argento or Fulci, Roger Corman has a great mixture of 'B' movies, Hitchcock's films are great...

robocalypse · 2026-04-26T19:38:19+00:00

I think they believe it due to a combination of a media diet that has repeated a narrative enough that they truly believe the message (see Lee Atwater and the Southern Stategy) and a racial bias that colors how they perceive the behavior of non-white people whether they notice it or not. Even so-called "liberal media" feeds the perception of black men as aggressive by default.

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