Oh I love NC Wyeth’s work.
nicoThe Odyssey by N.C. Wyeth (1929) hard to find good quality photos/scans of these but I like this looser, more impressionist Wyeth
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Drone crashes without an air traffic control is the Jetsons future nobody dared imagine.
The Washington PostDoorDash was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to commercially operate a drone delivery service. The company said that in a 2025 pilot, the drones could deliver in an average of 25 minutes. https://wapo.st/4fvxO58
Bully ‘em till they cry uncle.
VGC"We’re going to cautiously move this forward" - Sony says it hears the PlayStation disc backlash but will continue its plans. CFO Lin Tao said its focus was on trying to "engage the gamers" in "the future digital ecosystem". www.videogameschronicle.com/news/were-go...
Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?
G. Willow WilsonWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Another great adaptation of The Odyssey is Bob Dylan's "Isis". She said, where ya been? I said, no place special She said, you look different, I said, well, I guess She said, you been gone, I said, that's only natural She said, you gonna stay? I said, if you want me to, yes
Odyssey related: it’s funny that people say the movie doesn't look Greek even if it was shot in Greece because people have tourism-brain ideas about the “Mediterranean” when that’s not the whole Med all the time, obvious if you see some Greek or Italian films, or ignore its own climate problems.
Ketan JoshiIt is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
One of the things about Nolan’s Odyssey that it doesn’t get credit for is that it speaks about veterans issues while highlighting the sufferings of people they were fighting against. Whereas in the real world, you can’t talk about the war in Iran without mentioning Iranian civilians killed.
The Tennessee HollerSEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Hegseth: “We’ve got Americans coming back from overseas in coffins from a war they lied us into.”