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The stooges are actors who can't seem to find a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they meet three girl dancers with the same idea. Before they can jump, they meet a millionaire Broadway producer who hires them all for his next show. The rehearsal goes so well that he doubles their salary, but it all comes to naught when they discover that the "producer" is an escaped patient from Dr. Dippy's retreat.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uxaxv

This “Theater of Life” series short looks at traffic problems in Los Angeles, California, as described and experienced by Sgt. Charles Reineke, a traffic enforcement officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), the pacing of this is way too slow.

Oscar-nominated short documentary ... with bits of farcical humour that I believe was not intended as such, that suddenly takes a most unexpected turn and becomes preachy shock horror. Quite a mess.

https://youtu.be/2Uorwb6M-9A

The Potted Psalm is a disjunctive, Surrealist narrative, which progresses from the site of a graveyard, to a strange indoor social gathering, and finally back to the original locale. A coherent dramatic structure is avoided.

"That was the greatest film we've ever seen." — a solitary couple at the premiere

https://youtu.be/pCuWLMrOvqc

On the morning of September 1 [1939] the day the festival was to begin, Hitler invaded Poland. In Paris, the French government ordered a general mobilization, and the Cannes festival was called off after the screening of just one film: German American director William Dieterle’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

There arose several technical issues, such as the tarpauline cover blowing away in a storm on the day before the winners were to be announced, the reels of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious shown in reverse order, and Miguel M. Delgado’s The Three Musketeers projected upside-down

mechanized and moronic man moves towards extinction

sally wrote: ↑Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:19 pm nevíme dne… - bohumil vošahlík

Slow, artsy, maudlin,

sally wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:42 am brompton whit - betty & cyril ramsden

a languid stroll through fields of buttercups

Use Your Eyes To Reduce Stress

... trick your body into thinking you’re out of danger and that you can now safely relax. Most of us are actually out of danger most of the time, but our bodies don’t always know that in this fast-paced, maxed-out, information-overloaded, oft-polarized world we live in today.
The key here is your body. The exercises don’t require you to change your thinking in any way. When you use these techniques (i.e. "peripheral vision" or "panoramic vision"), you are activating your parasympathetic nervous system, the part of your autonomic nervous system responsible for calming you down (as opposed to the sympathetic nervous system, which kicks in when we’re in danger and/or stressed).
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The way we use our eye sits in direct relationship to the state of our nervous system. When we’re in fight-or-flight mode, our sympathetic nervous system takes over. One action the sympathetic nervous system takes is to focus our eyes and our attention on the threat in front of us, like when you’re face-to-face with a tiger — or your child who is throwing a tantrum

When your eyes are actively fixated like this, it’s called sharp central, or foveal, vision.

It’s the opposite of peripheral vision, where your eyes are relaxed and taking in large swaths of your environment, like:
— the trees, stars and clouds
— the sand, waves, horizon and ships
— a city skyline with all the human stories boxed into all those little compartments as far as the eye can see

To cultivate a more flexible autonomic nervous system — and to balance out the sympathetic response our always-on culture promotes — we need to find more and more ways to encourage parasympathetic responses throughout the day.

sally wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:42 am i adore impressionistic

Mich Eel Duck Less wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:33 pm

— the trees, stars and clouds
— the sand, waves, horizon and ships
— a city skyline with all the human stories boxed into all those little compartments as far as the eye can see

greennui wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 8:42 pm Spring-y animations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-aMBUqkWLU

sally wrote: ↑Sat Apr 23, 2022 3:10 pm
greennui are you still alive??

this was very gorgeous. very parasympathetic