Last time I went to the movies, the audio was too quiet and the person behind me took an actual phone call during the beginning of the movie. Then the people in front of me loudly crinkled food bags for 25 minutes. The theater feels more and more like a cursed place.
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Stan Horaczek
@stanhoraczek
Executive gear editor at Popular Science and Popular Photography. My tweets don't represent the brands. Photographer. He/him. Self-driving human.
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When you brain is messed up in the specific way mine is, every single drug commercial is basically just like, “Here’s a big list of horrible diseases you have right now so you should probably start worrying about all of them.”
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fuck the wizard game
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I think Chuck Mangione has my favorite Grammy performance. The whole band is obliterated on coke, playing too fast and then randomly too slow. The solos are unhinged. Just perfect.
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A very hipstery young man is sitting in the Sam’s Club cafe. He’s drawing intently on his iPad, constantly undoing and signing with his hands in his hair as he strives for perfection. A quick glance at the screen reveals that he’s drawing a nude anime woman with enormous breasts.
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It seems like the US realized this balloon was there, then took the time to figure out what it was, why it was here, and what we should do about it. Then we did it. Conservatives are mad we didn’t immediately panic and attack it like a toddler with a shotgun.
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A guy from my high school posted a really long analysis condemning Biden for the whole Chinese balloon situation on Facebook and then got on his bike in -5 temps to ride to his job because he has too many DWIs and isn’t allowed to drive anymore.
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Hey here’s something not-stupid about the balloon.
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Just in time, the full explainer!
Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems
thedrive.com/the-war-zone/w
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The Nikon F3/T would be the perfect 35mm slr if it wasn’t for that stupid flash mounting method. I wish there was a titanium FM3a.
These are the things I think about when my son is at a bowling charity event and I’m trying to stay awake to drive him home.
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Bane (the band) did a cryptic social media post today and I would be so happy if it meant they were playing shows again. I saw that band for the first time in the ‘90s and dozens more times before they broke up. It was fun every single time.
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I once applied to teach intro to digital media at state college. I have a fancy degree in it, but I also had like 15 years experience. They hired an academic with exactly zero actual experience in the field so maybe it’s not surprising that AI can pass college classes now.
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“White dudes love wearing shorts when it’s cold” jokes are so funny, especially considering that people with spectrum disorder (like my son) often have sensory issues that affect their thermal perceptual thresholds. What a hilarious manifestation of a disability!
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That’s Tik Tok’s US headquarters. They can’t get regulated if they’re up there. A brilliant business loophole.
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Am I allowed to ask people on here to go follow me on Instagram? I’m trying to post stuff over there and I’m gonna lose interest again if I don’t get a steady stream of positive feedback. instagram.com/stanhoraczek/?
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I’ve only closely paid attention to Congress when I needed to for work. But if you just check in randomly on what they’re up to, it’s wild. It’s like “Today the House is having a vote about whether or not they think America is good.” Today’s was “Is socialism bad?” Great work.
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Here’s my early review of the new HomePod. In short: It’s very good as long as you’re committed to Apple’s ecosystem. I was impressed by the sound, especially in a stereo pair.
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Compared to the 2017 version, Apple has dropped the price $50, rearranged the internal speakers, improved its smarthome chops, and added a few clever functions that make it worth considering. trib.al/prU9E1V
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The best advice I have to give is that if you find something you’re truly passionate about, don’t try to make money off of it. People will tell you to that you shouldn’t do something you’re good at for free and those people are wrong.
What’s the over/under on A24 putting out a high frame rate movie that begins the wholesale film nerd migration to “smooth, high-framerate movies are actually good”? Gotta happen by 2025, right?
I’m open to suggestions.
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I’m photographing some death metal bands that are playing a show in a wrestling ring this weekend and I’m trying to decide what gear to bring and what color wrestling trunks to wear.
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I see lots of people arguing about whether it’s cool to edit #film photos. It’s fine. Do whatever. Here’s a finished image and the original scan. Hasselblad 500 CM, 150mm f/4, Kodak Ektar 100.
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A local photographer (who is both a bad photographer and a bad person) recently reached out to me. He was angry that I shot a charity event for free. “It’s not professional.” Sorry you couldn’t make any cash off the kids with cancer, bro.
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Peacock just put up the new season of extended Super Fan episodes of The Office and I’m looking forward to this weekend when I can half-watch them several times while doing other stuff.
It’s funny to hear that AI will “solve” humanity’s problems. Agriculture and industrialized farming took us out of the food chain and countless still starve. I’m sure the AI that can come up with chili recipes and draw anime portraits will fix everything. “Progress” doesn’t exist
Chrome is like, “Did you really want to go to eBay.com? Or did you actually want to go to a specific eBay page that you went to four months ago to look at an auction that no longer exists? I’ll just finish typing that 200-character URL for you. See ya!”
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Remember when you used to accidentally somehow “turn on sticky keys” because you pressed a weird combination of buttons on your computer’s keyboard? I do. The pop-up was so stressful. I wonder if anyone ever actually knew what that meant.
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I didn’t have any chicken broth this morning, so my chicken is currently in the slow cooker with beef broth instead. I guess you could say I’m venturing into experimental cuisine.
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I feel kinda dumb for not having scammed anyone out of a bunch of money with some lazy crypto scheme.
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I posted cropped versions of these photos on Instagram. Here are the full frames. Shooting live bands on film is fun in a sadistic way. Kodak Portra 800 (pushed some random amount.) #film
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Pitch for the DC comics movie universe: The bad guy is still a clown and he’s even madder than before and hooooo boy its causing some problems.
I think my favorite “for you” twitter posts are the ones where people are like “OK so I guess I’m going to have to write a review of [whatever pop culture thing]” but the tweet has very little interaction and no one actually cares about what they say.
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I’ve listened to this a bunch of times already today and it has me convinced that I would have been a much better jazz musician if I had done a lot of cocaine. So many tempos. So much bouncing.
I refuse to learn what Jeffrey Starr is and if any of you tell me, we’re not friends anymore.
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The X-T1 is a joy of a camera to use and it’s a lot of fun with vintage glass.
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I *think* this is a fair price...if not, feel free to make an offer. Also, I found some adapters (OM, M4/3, m42, Nikon F) and yet another charger I don’t need (a 2-bay charger that charges via usb). It’s all yours, don’t need any of it. twitter.com/mikepadua/stat…
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The older I get, the more I hate the idea of luxury goods. If million dollar cars don’t exist, maybe people wouldn’t feel the need to have evil amounts of money. “My car budget is a million dollars. Oh, there’s no car that costs close to that much? Gimme 90 Honda Civics I guess.”
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I never really thought Twitter was that bad but apparently I was just missing out on all the tragically stupid shit on here until this Discover thing happened. What the fuck are people doing out there?
If we find a way to live longer, we’re just going to have to work more because the world is a backwards place. I’m looking forward to the correction toward shorter lives that are generally more awesome.
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For nearly two years, tech CEO Bryan Johnson has been using his body as a science experiment. He’s spent more than $2 million a year on a mission to not only slow down the aging process, but to stop and then reverse it, organ by organ, exam by exam. trib.al/fujj7Jb
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I like this tweet because the guy in the picture looks like me posing for my first day of 7th grade in the oversized JC Penney clothes that my mom bought me.
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Uniqlo is getting serious about bolstering its streetwear cred trib.al/1DyZhNn
Any time I take a selfie with my fancy camera gear, it wants to focus on my beard. This was 7 hours into a 12-hour wedding shoot last year. The guests threw confetti as the couple walked down the aisle.
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This is the best interaction I have ever had on a Facebook photography group.
