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lapisnev
@lapisnev

like yeah they haven't fulfilled their original purpose of allowing you to keep a CRT warmed up without burning in an image in about two decades but it annoyed me that we went from "computers are Contraptions that do Whimsical Things like dinging and playing back animated GIFs and making a whole lot of clatter to remember a few megabytes of information" to "everything with a CPU in it is a Device and it must look flat and abstract and be able to turn on and off instantly and anything fun it might do is a waste of power so by the way we pumped it full of ads and subscriptions"


eramdam
@eramdam

idk about Linux but I know Windows basically killed screensavers but macOS still has a "culture" of screensavers and it rules:

  • just last year, in macOS 14 Sonoma they introduced those "wallpaper+screensavers" combo that animate when the screen is locked and morph back into a wallpaper when you unlock. It's delightful. video
  • the next version of macOS is already goated IMO because there's a screensaver/wallpaper combo that's entirely programmatic paying an hommage to classic Mac OS source

Also also if you want more cool screensavers, the xscreensaver (Linux/macOS only) collection has some great ones, including reproduction of classic Windows screensavers Microsoft cannot be bothered to include anymore.


hkr
@hkr

what the fuck are you talking about?

The same .SCR files from After Dark circa 1991 still works on your Windows 11 machine! You can still make screen savers! Sure screensavers are off by default in windows, because again their purpose has been diminished with recent technology, but no one took anything from you. All you have to do is type "Screen Saver" into your windows start search and it pops up.



MayaGay
@MayaGay

I just watched Altman's Popeye last night and was struck by her performance. Sweet and funny and weird and kinda messed up, all in one, all over the other.

Her collaborations with Altman are the stuff of legend. Buffalo Bill and the Indians. McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Brewster McCloud. 3 Women. Nashville. That alone would be worthy of any Hollywood royalty status. But on top of that you have The Shining, Time Bandits, Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. And who can forget Suburban Commando? She was always a light on the screen, and if you haven't had a chance to watch her series Faerie Tale Theatre now is as good a time as any to catch up.

She wasn't really treated right by Hollywood, not really. Her willowy earnestnest and doe eyed zeal wasn't seen for the magic that it was in her time. Much has been said about Kubrick's treatment of her on The Shining set (and the fact she gave such a phenomenal performance is only a testament to her skill as an actress) and her self exile from the film industry in the years after. But I want to share something director Guy Maddin shared on Instagram a couple days ago:

Happy Birthday, Shelley Duvall! In 1996, I worked with Sunday birthday girl Shelley Duvall on a movie called Twilight of the Ice Nymphs. What an astonishingly warm and wonderful person she was! Pure delight, generous with laughter and stories (Kubrick! Altman!), and alarmingly friendly with everyone she met, from crew members on set to the countless Manitoba folk we met on the many road trips we took deep into the countryside after she extended her stay by a few weeks when shooting wrapped. I rode shotgun while she took the wheel and decided where we would go -- and we went everywhere possible in this vast province. Careening wildly down the highway, she was frequently overwhelmed by how big and blue our skies were and, suddenly rolling down her window, with one of her dozen disposable cameras joyously fired off shots straight up at that azure prairie dome, chucking the spent cameras into the back seat as they filled with images. (I picked up the developed photos later, hundreds of them, all blue and nothing else!) She loved it up here, and we all loved her! On set, Shelley once wished out loud that someone would make a movie with "just time- lapse clouds." Production diarist Caelum Vatnsdal included this wish in his account of the shoot. Years later, my filmmaker friend Andy Smetanka read Caelum's diary and decided to make the cloud movie for Shelley. He asked his Finnish friend Jarmo Saari if he would compose a score, and he did! His work for Theremin and glass harp is beautiful! And so here it is! Shelley's film! Just in time for her birthday. The full 10-minute version linked below. Andy: "I wish more movie ideas turned into movies as effortlessly as Drifting Clouds--a product of housebound COVID restlessness that refreshed my ties to Jarmo (a Finnish national treasure!) and to two of my favorite Winnipeggers, Guy and Caelum, who unwittingly set things in motion a quarter-century earlier. What better way to present this collaboration, finally, than as a fond birthday wish to the woman who inspired it.

One of the greatest American film actresses. Rest in peace.


 
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