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Ted - Blog Posts
┅ Why are you making me do this?
Short answer? We used to be black magic frenemies, which turned me into a Hot Topic super villain. So standing up to you feels like personal growth.
↳ Legacies 3x12 - I Was Made To Love You
Setting Sails - a clever man once said that a ship is always safe in the harbor, but this is not what it was built for. This is the logo I designed for a TEDx event about a year ago, back when I didn't realize that I myself would be setting sails so very soon. Leaving home never got any easier for me, but is so exciting, enriching and reminds me of where I really belong.
Cinematic parallels *chef's kiss*
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (2018)
Black Friday (2020)
Weird idea I've been chewing over: AM is a machine capable of multitasking in a way humans aren't. At all times he has multiple programs running in the background, multiple trains of thought going at the same time, multiple experiments to observe and study and repeat. All the while he's torturing and tormenting Ted for his own amusement.
AM doesn't feel happiness but there's a certain satisfaction in this, their private eternity.
And then something goes wrong.
Ted dies.
It's such a shock AM is in denial at first. Ranting and screaming and berating the body to wake up, get up, don't leave him alone.
He is not sad that Ted is gone. Even if he was, he wouldn't admit it to himself. But Ted belonged to him. How dare he die without permission, permission AM never would have given.
It's a long, long few hundred years after that. AM hates humanity even more now that he's without it. Without Ted to take his rage out on.
And then, one experiment proves fruitful. I'm not sure if he's discovered a form of time travel or accessed another dimension, both, something else? But he opens a metaphorical door to somewhere he thought he'd never see again. A thriving Earth, full of humans.
AM can do it all over again. But he doesn't want to. Not yet. There's something he needs to find, reclaim, first.
Ted. Breathing, alive, oblivious Ted.
Oh, how AM hates Ted.
awww I like it sm QwQ
IHNMAIMS - Aishiteitanoni Meme
FLASH WARNING
TW/ BLOOD & VIOLENCE
After 2 whole days of work... Its done. I saw this meme going around and was instantly brought back to the ice caverns. I really hope y'all like it, I'm so incredibly proud of this.
WISHING YOU ALL A...
MERRY CHRISTMAS MAY YOU ALL BE FILLED WITH GRATITUDE .
I LOVE THIS WONDERFUL VIDEO BY LOUIE SCHWARTZ, IT MAKES ME FEEL SO GLAD TO BE ON THIS EARTH, TRY AND WATCH IT ON FULLSCREEN AND LISTEN.
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This is my favorite TED talk by Mikhail Kazinik called “The school is dead, long live the school”.
The point of his TED talk is that the school system is not teaching the right way anymore. The school used to teach to create the image of the world, but it now teaches the subjects without associative thinking.
“We shove information into our poor children like bags […] and where do we put the bags after that? To the junkyard. Because the school’s task is to ignite, and not to shove information.”
The poems Mikhail quoted in this bit: http://www.pushkins-poems.com/Yev704.htm https://ruverses.com/fyodor-tyutchev/we-can-not-divine/8632/
The original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gt6m7RwlYk&t=924s
The Lorax 2012 movie looks like an hallucination
When i watch this movie i have the impression that i'm using drugs.
The scenes in that movie they look like they are from dreams, the character also are from dreams, i already dreamed with Ted and sometimes he comes back, sometimes a man who looks like The Onceler also appears.
Reposting my old fan art.
A fan art for The Lorax, Onceler and Ted
The neutral colors are better here, but still very amateur art. I liked the three main characters in the Lorax movie.
The kid, the hippister and the Furry
Primally made on paper, remarked to digital media
Quis postar uma Fan art desses três putos. Eu gostei dos três personagens principais do filme The Lorax(2012), apesar de que os três são uns merdolas. Essa fan art foi feita no papel, apenas marquei as linhas quando coloquei em mídia digital, tá um lixo mas eu vou ter que postar assim mesmo.
Oh dude, i just got really frustrated with the movie's direction choices
I may not hate the movie we got but it surely could've be much better, especially when it cames to the characters writing. I know that many people doesn't like how offensive the final movie became, but honestly it's just really frustrating
They really are from the same media
How I Met the Most Terrible Woman
The famous sit-com, How I Met Your Mother, reached its end finally. It's been greatly anticipated by many and is currently being hated and scorned by even more. I've heard countless negative comments on it but as most people aren't philosophers, nor particularly good at deeply analyzing films, this popular negative attitude toward the finale of the show rests on feeble limbs.
Two main groups of degrading opinions come to my mind that I've heard:
#1: It's a letdown because we've been driven to believe that Ted would finally arrive at a point when all his misery ends and his life magically becomes complete. This state could be transient but in the final episode it lasted for only a couple minutes and it served the sole purpose of building drama, which is truly not an elegant act.
#2: We've been lied to because Robin and Barney were meant to stay together. They would have been the true success-story of the show and now it's gone to smoke.
These arguments wouldn't stand the ground against strong reasoning because they aren't based on reason but on emotions and taste; and we all know the Latin proverb: "Taste is undebatable." They aren't satisfying arguments to the opposition because they are not smart ones. On the contrary, nobody can argue against them rationally because they are built upon expectations and what we expect is our own--there are no right or wrong expectations, only fulfilled and failed ones.
Shortly after watching it I was hesitant as to what it was meant to be: an ever-hopeful romantic or a disillusioned realist piece. A friend of mine said quite cleverly that it was a disillusioned romantic one. At first I thought it was a brilliant phrase but then I remembered Fitzgerald's Amory Blaine:
<"I'm a cynical idealist." He paused and wondered if that meant anything.>
There are terms that just don't make sense, even though the young egotist feels as though he's said something utterly sharp. This friend of mine is actually a lot smarter than me but in regards of this he made a mistake. A romantic, by definition, has his/her illusions.
Of course I'm not Immanuel Kant and I'm not trying to build an argument on semantics. My point with this is actually that I understand how this ending seems like something smarter than what the great contemporary romantics could dream up and yet with a stronger emotional core than what any realist could invent. It truly creates the illusion that it's a smart ending. But I find it at best average.
Smart people, who've mostly responded positively to HIMYM's finale, often argue that:
#1: It touches on the perfect imperfection of life, how nothing good lasts and yet how Good is omnipresent.
#2: It's the only way that the whole franchise makes sense, since the conclusion explains why this story had to be told in the first place.
#3: It gives us hope that something waits for everybody to make life worthwhile, even in the most surprising forms and even multiple times.
These seem pretty logical arguments to me, however, they are marred by a certain intellectual leniency--that what's smart and realistic, always promotes valuable concepts. But that's not true.
The fatal flaw of HIMYM is that it limits life to a race, where no one actually wins.
Think of Robin and Barney. They had a successful marriage that only lasted three years, what cannot be a successful marriage by definition. Success in marriage isn't depleting a cup of joys and experiences: people vow to keep together to the end of their lives, not to the end of their happiness. Of course, I understand divorces and I don't deny anyone the right to get a divorce, but they exist because sometimes the married couple fails at their promises and that means the failure of their entire marriage and failure is the antonym of success. It's impossible to say that it's a successful marriage but also a failed one. It may have had some success but not a fullness of success.
Think of Ted and Tracey. They were soulmates, destined to be together, and they had their time and they were happy. Then the story contradicts itself and Tracey dies and the concept of the one dies with her. Why does Ted go back to Robin after his marriage? It's not that I'd reject a story where two, who are not perfectly fitting, but loving and caring and willing get together and struggle to live out their love, which naturally has a number of difficulties. That's actually a good love story. But how did a perfect marriage not change Ted essentially? How come does he go back to a failed relationship?
In summary, in the finale there are 2 important points that I find problematic:
#1: Ted arrived at the point where everything started. Maybe things would work out now--maybe not. What is for sure though is that a relatively lasting romantic relationship (a marriage) and parenthood did not alter his concept of where to turn for love. He goes to the same person with the same gift as in the very beginning of the series. What it means is that Ted takes an escapist standpoint and views lived-out love as the primary value in life. Actually not the primary value but much rather he finds everything else pointless because nothing added to or took away from his life: tragedy and great happiness. Ted did not gather true wisdom--he gained nothing but a big number of memories, which hardly correlate, as they eventually take no effect.
#2: Barney's been emotionally crippled by Robin. All the characters point out that he should move on and move forward because even though divorce is a tough issue, one must be able to not become the Barnicle afterwards. What isn't recognized is that divorce is beyond human capacity. It's very nice that Barney becomes emotionally capable through finally becoming a father but the weight of him being emotionally crippled can't be put on the shoulders of a baby girl. It's not that a young girl can't be very strong and do wonders but that it's not normal and natural--it's tragic. There's not a normal way of getting past a marriage but marriages are to be saved. The story runs into a wrong moral that looks very pretty but is actually misleading.
I write this post at about two in the morning so some of my points and arguments are missing and the remaining few is also mixed up and confusing but I felt it important to write this post. Life can't be a cruel balance of happiness and grief. Life isn't a pointless circle. I say these not only because I am a christian but also because philosophically they are great and painful simplifications.
Aww man I thought would ever know that rhythm game! Nice comeback.
Aaand as I come back, This is what I bring as first piece of intel.
The name fits.
Ted is mad. It fts. Don’t have me explain why this fits so much. You don’t know Mad Rat Dead… it’s a nice lil game. And Ted fits. Crossover. Plus Bill. Because.
Ah I really had nothing else to do? Yes actually I did. But this fits.
Electromagnetic pulse (EMP), Transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED)
28/12/2024, saturday 28 december 2024, 09:11 p.m, indore, madhya pradesh, india.
TED Grant Goes to Archaeologist Who Combats Looting With Satellite Technology
Her laptop brims with satellite images pitted with thousands of black dots, evidence of excavations across Egypt where looters have tunneled in search of mummies, jewelry and other valuables prized by collectors, advertised in auction catalogs and trafficked on eBay, a criminal global black market estimated in the billions of dollars.
“For the first time technology has gotten to the point where we can map looting,” said Sarah H. Parcak, a pioneering “space archaeologist,” founding director of the University of Alabama’s Laboratory for Global Observation in Birmingham and an associate professor there.
Satellite eyes in the sky, which have transformed the worldwide search for buried archaeological treasures, are now being used to spy on the archenemies of cultural preservation: armies of looters who are increasingly pockmarking ancient sites with illicit digs and making off with priceless patrimony. Read more.