What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore
I actually just wrote a paper on this!!
The short of it is, yes, that's exactly what happens. There's no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you'd be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!
In film class we learned that you need to record the silence in a room for at least two minutes or so and save it before you start shooting there. This is called "roomtone" and is done so you can put it into every bit of artificial silence later- if your editor decides it's best to cut the sound so there will be a longer gap between lines of dialogue, for instance, the artificial silence in between will sound weird to the viewers and break their immersion, because it isn't the silence of that room as they're been hearing it so far.
Room tone is also useful to overlay if you need to re-record any lines later or that kind of stuff, I think, but. I didn't listen THAT much in film class
This is pretty much why active noise cancelling works too!
I recall reading about a performance of some kind whose first "sound" involved a sudden, heavy, oppressive silence, and they arranged that by artificially creating a noisy roomtone---before the performance started, before people were coming into their seats even, the speakers were already outputting a soundscape of white noise, electronic hums, air vent noises, et cetera, so when the audience was all seated and the performance started, the sudden cutoff of all the existing noise made a major contrast that got everyone's attention without so much as a sound.
Oh my god so true bestie
Joke aside, Japan actually is the country with the lowest murder rate (if you don’t count countries that are cities or micro-states like Andorra, Liechtenstein etc.).
concept: a facemask that says "Vaccinated But I Don't Trust Y'all"
This is puzzling the living hell out of me. If you're vaccinated you literally don't need to trust anyone. That's the whole point.
you know, i was just gunna ignore this, and let you be a ignorant on this, but since I’m a frontline healthcare worker, it’s going to bug me if i don’t tell you exactly how incorrect this statement is.
1. Yes, being vaccinated adds a great layer of protection against covid. The vaccines, overall, are extremely effective, in that they allow for 90-95% protection against some of the primary covid strains. Meaning that for many people who are vaccinated, they don’t have to necessarily put their full trust in others to also be vaccinated.
HOWEVER:
2. I cannot emphasize this enough, but BEING VACCINATED IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING 100% FULLY PROTECTED, ESPECIALLY NOT FROM COVID VARIANTS. Being vaccinated is not a bullet-proof shield against covid. You CAN still catch the virus, even if you’re fully vaccinated, and while for many people, vaccination will prevent them from experiencing severe symptoms if they catch, you can absolutely still get infected (even without symptoms) and still spread the illness to others.
NOT TO MENTION:
3. The covid vaccines, while effective, do not protect against many of the variant covid strains we are currently dealing with, and while the vaccine does offer protection against some of those variant strains, it doesn’t protect you as efficiently from them. My coordinator is a prime example. She is fully vaccinated, and has been since they first became available to frontline healthcare workers like us. However, she caught a variant strain of covid and experienced a horrific, month-long illness that she is still trying to recover from (months later) and that she will likely suffer with for years to come. Every classic covid symptom, she had it. Every symptom that persists past covid’s resolution (like brain fog, shortness of breath, etc...) she’s still experiencing. Upon antibody testing, they found she did develop full antibodies to the vaccine like she was supposed to; but they also found that after she caught the strain, she developed antibodies from that particular strain that were different than the vaccine antibodies she’d already developed.
Just because you are vaccinated, even fully, does not mean you are 100% safe, especially if other people around you aren’t fully vaccinated, or if they’re jackasses and are lying about their vaccination status just to take their masks off. You can absolutely still catch covid and its variants if you’re vaccinated; you can absolutely suffer the full extent of that illness even if the chances are reduced; and you can absolutely still asymptomatically carry the virus and/or its variants, and transmit it to others.
The vaccine is extra protection, and I’m so happy we have it. I’m thrilled to be vaccinated. I do feel safer; but I’m not letting that feeling of safety lure me into being careless. Being vaccinated is not a green light to ignore proper safety or to trust that others have your safety in mind. Despite what y’all want to think, this pandemic is still happening. People are still catching covid and its variants, and they’re dying from it. I’ve seen it in my hospital to this day.
Think of the vaccine like the seat belt in your car. That seat belt is critical and it has saved countless lives. But it’s not a guaranteed safety measure, and it doesn’t give you the freedom to drive like a maniac just cause you’re wearing it. Your seat belt also doesn’t guarantee that others aren’t going to hit your car in a way that’s so damaging your seat belt can’t help you. Having the seat belt on will absolutely make you safer!!! But it doesn’t mean you’re 100% protected from the dangers of a crash.
So no, even if you’re vaccinated, if you want to take your mask off, you’re still having to place your trust in others that they are vaccinated too. If you’re vaccinated and don’t want to wear a mask, you still have to trust that other people aren’t just being lying assholes and potentially still exposing you to covid and/or its variants, and thus enabling you to potentially carry and/or transmit it.
So don’t be stupid. Don’t blindly trust that every fucker out there without a mask is following proper CDC guidelines and is fully vaccinated and that you’re totally safe. You’re safer, if you’re vaccinated, for sure. Just like you’re safer in your car if you wear a seat belt. But that doesn’t mean you get full reign to be careless. We are not yet to a point of effective herd immunity for covid. Wear your mask. Wear your seat belt.
‘Legally Blonde’ Originally Ended With Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair Getting Together
By Greta Bjornson, July 8, 2021
[…] In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, screenwriters Kristen Smith and Karen McCullah and Legally Blonde star Jessica Cauffiel opened up about the alternate endings they imagined for Legally Blonde, including a musical number that never saw the light of day. […]
“The first ending was Elle and Vivian in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands,” she shared. “The insinuation was either they were best friends or they had gotten together romantically.” […]
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What?!!😲 How do I get to the timeline where the movie ends like that?
We were robbed 😭😭😭
But also this happened, one of the writers in response to someone posting this article (she is credited as a writer of the film)
And I’m looking at this woman’s resume, her specialty is flaming heterosexuality. So, I tend to believe her on this and think we should take issue with her being a writer who would never have thought to give us that ending, not for a second.
I mean, She’s The Man????? If that movie didn’t get a gay ending…
@thundergrace exactly my thoughts! The movies Karen McCullah co-wrote all have so much potential for being queer, yet none are. Like you said, “She’s the man” - the gay practically writes itself, and Julia Styles’ character in “10 things I hate about you” would have been perfect as a lesbian.
Also, I just can’t believe the actress, Jessica Cauffiel, who said the thing about the alternative endings would lie in an interview with the NY Times.
Karen McCullah was in the same interview (probably not in person, but maybe on a zoom call or something). She could have contacted the actress and/or the NY Times during or after the interview, and asked them to clarify or correct the answer. Instead she chose to reply via tweet to everyone who tweeted about the article? Seems strange to me.
The interview made it clear that they did try different endings for the movie with test audiences and that they changed their plan. Also, the actress just said that they “imagined” alternative endings, including the musical number and the possibly gay one. She never said the gay ending was actually written or filmed. So who knows? Could it be that the team imagined these alternative endings in a meeting or during an evening on the couch with wine and snacks without hetero-Karen being invited?
Anyway, as long as a twitter account that claims to be Karen McCullah is the only source saying “the actress is incorrect” (whatever that means), I’ll go on believing that someone during the making of the movie suggested “hey, what if we end it with Elle and Vivian as girlfriends?” and someone else said “Sounds fantastic! Don’t tell Karen though, she’s just gonna say no.”
😂🌈
https://time.com/6077666/black-widow-scarlett-johansson/
Spoilers ahead for the Black Widow movie. Careful.
But this one article does make some damn good points. This is the kind of discussion we deserve. The future is female.
‘Legally Blonde’ Originally Ended With Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair Getting Together
By Greta Bjornson, July 8, 2021
[…] In a lengthy interview with the New York Times, screenwriters Kristen Smith and Karen McCullah and Legally Blonde star Jessica Cauffiel opened up about the alternate endings they imagined for Legally Blonde, including a musical number that never saw the light of day. […]
“The first ending was Elle and Vivian in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands,” she shared. “The insinuation was either they were best friends or they had gotten together romantically.” […]
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What?!!😲 How do I get to the timeline where the movie ends like that?
I’ve lived a lot of lives, but I’m done running from my past.
BLACK WIDOW
2021 | dir. Cate Shortland
Hey, remember late last year when everyone (in Australia) lost their shit over a Sydney production not casting a nb/trans person in the role of Hedwig and harassed the ousted lead actor online so badly he had to put himself under suicide watch? Well, as it turns out they did cast a nb actor - that same actor who put themselves on suicide watch after being bullied online - they just were not ready to be out yet.
So not to be a fandom old about it, but you know how there’s that big debate over whether or not LGBT roles have to be played by LGBT actors? Many more of them are played by LGBT actors who for whatever reason are not ready to be out yet (or ever.) And it’s truly none of your business.
Adding to this, there are a ton of reviews for the film version of Hedwig on Letterbox that gave it 1 star solely on the premise that it “wasn’t written by non-binary people”.
Cut to earlier this month and both John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask have come out as non-binary.
Just because a person isn’t out, doesn’t mean they are cis/straight.
Wynonna Earp cast two cishet women as a lesbian/bisexual couple. Since then, both of them have come out as not straight (I don’t believe either of them have ever labeled themselves but their words seem like they’re both pan to me) and Dom is gender fluid and nonbinary. Both of them have credited their roles and the welcoming LGBT+ fanbase show as helping them realize they weren’t straight. Those roles helped them see past heteronormativity and explore their own identities.
Stop demanding personal information from actors and creators. If the representation is problematic, let’s talk about it. But if they’re doing a good job at portraying LBGT+ issues and people and relationships, let them live their lives in peace.
This is just like the situation with the short story “I sexually identify as an attack helicopter,” by Isabel Fall, a story exploring gender, sexuality and violence, which used the transphobic copypasta as a title in the same way many members of the LGBTQ community have reclaimed some pejoratives over time. The author didn’t give out much personal information and so the internet piled on, accusing her of being transphobic. The author was recently revealed to be a trans woman who stopped her transition because of how she was treated and spoken about by members of her own community and other critics on the internet.
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The first is the who had meme with the caption “who had the ocean is on fire for July 2021?”.
The second is a screenshot of a tag that reads, “# I’m sorry WHAT”.
The third is a picture of the Gulf of Mexico. There is a circular fire on the surface of the ocean, surrounded by a light blue-green ring. There are four large boats spraying water from a distance.
The fourth is a screenshot of three news tabs. The first headline from ‘Gizmodo on MSN.com’ posted two hours ago reads, “Not to Alarm Anyone, but the Gulf of Mexico is on Fire”. The description following it reads, “As a record-breaking heat wave scorches the Pacific Northwest, down south in the Gulf of Mexico the ocean literally caught on fire Friday. Just another totally normal day in these firey end times.”
The second headline is from The Guardian posted two hours ago that reads, “ 'Eye of fire’: Gas leak sparks huge blaze on ocean surface off Mexico.” The description following it reads, “Flames that raged near a Pemex oil platform took more than five hours to extinguish”.
The third headline is from Yahoo posted two hours ago which reads, “ 'Ocean on fire’: Flames erupt in Gulf of Mexico after gas pipeline ruptures”. The description following it reads, “ A fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico erupted after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company. Footage of the fire - appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames - went viral on 2 July before the fire was extinguish roughly [ one hundred and fifty ] yards from a drilling platform in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula”.
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