Arkadin

Great job. This works really well.

> "lofi home recordings with no electronic elements and harmonically complex"

Yielded a bunch of things I would have expected but after 5-6 'dig deeper' clicks there were lots of interesting artists I hadn't heard of before.

> "contemporary classical with no electronic elements and small chamber arrangements"

Lots of interesting results I hadn't heard of before.

> "obscure indie bands associated with Olympia, WA formed in the 1980s"

Very good list. Does the time/location-bound results very well.

I think it's a good companion to sites like RYM as a middle ground between 'best of' ratings lists and personally curated lists.

Spend a month in Alaska in August. That should recalibrate your perception of magic hour sufficiently to allow you to enjoy modern movies.

Why would a former US army sniper have interesting insights into war in Ukraine? Unclear on both what a sniper’s perspective would bring to the discussion and why US army combat xp would be relevant to a war where the US army is not deployed.

Why not just use the standard Voight-Kampff test?

A big difference is that the prints degrade and viewing conditions varied greatly. If you were watching Lawrence first run on 70mm print at large theater with the projector lamps cranked it was borderline religious experience. But if you weren’t in a big city and caught the end of the second or third run or a 35mm print with lamps at normal levels 4k on a newer tv is almost certainly better.

Non-special edition Star Wars was also available on VHS from same vintage as LD, but the thx remaster vhs version was best analog version imo. Although I fondly remember the taped off tv vhs versions I grew up watching. Fan versions of theatrical versions are amazing!

IMO website equivalent of this is cinephile forums/trackers. You will get tons of high quality recommendations and find interesting non-mainstream content.

Compounded by moving away from massive dvd back catalog to limited streaming options. Not only are the recommendations worse but there is significantly less for them to recommend.

Penguin was in the UK and they didn’t publish for the US market and weren’t distributed in bookstores until much later.

The article talks about the other publishers in the US doing the same thing at the time. Anchor wasn’t the first to publish ‘quality’ paperbacks, they just had the largest impact on the US publishing industry due to combination of distribution in bookstores, cover design, and catalog curation.

I believe every photo on iPhone 13 pro is enhanced.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/have-iphon...

You're right though that this isn't a "perfect example of computational depth of field" as the background leaf looks far enough away where you could have achieved the effect optically on iPhone sensor with right aperature. That being said the blurring does look unnatural to me as it is not even across the background leaf despite similar distance from lens. It's not clear cut though.

Love The Counselor. The screenplay was also published in book form and is worth reading with or without having seen the movie.

Supporting testimony from the Warren Commission:

"I would say that as compared to other Marines receiving the same type of training, that Oswald was a good shot, somewhat better than or equal to--better than the average let us say. As compared to a civilian who had not received this intensive [military] training, he would be considered as a good to excellent shot."[1]

"Characterizing the four-power scope as 'a real aid, an extreme aid' in rapid fire shooting, Sergeant Zahm expressed the opinion that the shot which struck President Kennedy in the neck at 176.9 to 190.8 feet was 'very easy' and the shot which struck the President in the head at a distance of 265.3 feet was 'an easy shot.'"[1]

Note that Oswald hit 2/3 shots.

[1]https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-repo...