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no shade y’all but how do I get out of the “Pinterest coded-Substack is like reading the morning paper-wannabe Carrie Bradshaw-fake intellectual princess babygirl thought daughter” algorithm… not everyone is meant to be a philosopher! where are the stories? the book and film reviews? the well researched essays on global feminisms? the poetry and prose??? I need more of that!
Move along folks… no ‘AI’ to be seen here! :)
(Note: This 4 second scene took 1 year and 3 months to animate.
Hayao Miyazaki was adamant that this scene from Studio Ghibli's The Wind Rises (2013) had to be hand-drawn without using any CGI effects.
It took animator Eiji Yamamori 15 months to complete. At 24 frames per second, that's a total…
The Loneliness No One Talks About
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