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myxomycota · 11 months

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Stemonitis sp. by John MacKay

#stemonitis #john mackay #myxomycota #slime mold #slime mould #forest floor #mycology #myxomycology #fungi #ecology #forestcore #myxomycetes #trypo #trypophobia

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basicallyanotherwitchesthing · 2 months

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Calum McLaren, Andrew Livingston, Gail MacFarlane and Lorraine Griffiths - Strange Tales Of Scotland - Lang Syne - 1980 (illustrations by John Mackay)

#witches #storytellers #occult #vintage #strange tales of scotland #lang syne #calum mclaren #andrew livingston #gail macfarlane #lorraine griffiths #john mackay #tales #strange tales #scotland

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denimbex1986 · 5 months

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'Believe it or not, fantastical Doctor Who episode The Giggle actually has some basis in real history – well, up to a point...

The third and last of the show's 60th anniversary specials opens in Soho, 1925, where Charles Banerjee (played by Charlie de Melo) is unwittingly stepping inside the domain of the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris).

The visitor is looking for a test subject and selects Stooky Bill, a puppet, despite the Toymaker's protestations that he's separating Bill from his 'wife' Stooky Sue and their 'babies'.

Banerjee, we discover, is in the employ of one John Logie Baird (John Mackay, who played the same role in Russell T Davies' ITV drama Nolly), who is on the cusp of inventing television. Using the head of the dummy, the Scottish engineer is successful in his efforts to transmit a televised image between rooms in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street, London.

Of course, little does Baird suspect that his work has been corrupted by the Toymaker – oblivious, Baird is hailed as a genius and pioneer, with the end results of the Toymaker's work only making themselves apparent almost a century later, in 2023.

Though the real Baird didn't source his test subject from an omnipotent, extra-dimensional being – at least as far as we know – Stooky Bill did in fact exist...

Baird first devised a basic television system in 1924 – it used a spinning disk with 30 lenses to send moving pictures as electrical signals. The lenses picked up light from an object, and a device changed this into an electrical signal sent by radio waves. At the receiving end, a similar spinning disk with a light recreated the image of the object.

Baird's system was not able to televise human faces, because they had inadequate contrast, so he used the head of a ventriloquist's dummy – nicknamed "Stooky Bill" – whose brightly painted face had greater contrast. The lights illuminating the subject also generated so much heat that Baird couldn't use a human for testing – as seen in The Giggle, Stooky Bill's painted face eventually became cracked by the heat.

The puppet's unusual nickname came from Scots vernacular, with "stooky" or "stookie" being another word for plaster-cast and also being used to refer to a foolish person.

Doctor Who portrays Bill as having a 'family', but there is no evidence that Stooky Sue and the babies ever existed in reality – although Baird did use another male dummy, named "James", in his experiments.

John Logie Baird began giving public demonstrations of television in 1925 and 1926, even demonstrating the world's first colour transmission in 1928. A year later, in 1929, his company Baird Television Development Company Ltd. made the first television programmes officially transmitted by the BBC.

Baird died, aged 57, on 14th June 1946 – a blue plaque marking his first demonstration of television sits at 22 Frith Street, Westminster, London.'

#John Logie Baird #The Giggle #Doctor Who #60th Anniversary #Stooky Bill #Russell T. Davies #Charlie de Melo #Charles Banerjee #Neil Patrick Harris #The Toymaker #John Mackay #Nolly #Baird Television Development Company

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letterboxd-loggd · 2 years

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Simple Men (1992) Hal Hartley

September 10th 2022

#simple men #1992 #hal hartley #robert john burke #bill sage #karen sillas #elina löwensohn #martin donovan #mark chandler bailey #chris cooke #damian young #holly marie combs #jeffrey howard #joe stevens #john mackay

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milliondollarbaby87 · 2 years

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Living (2022) Review

When a man who had just been going through the motions within his life finds out that he is dying, he will eventually try and feel alive again! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *LFF 2022 Preview Screening* (more…)

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diioonysus · 3 months

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fans + art

#artist is i think l gerard #this post is going be kinda hard to find some of the paintings and artist because they are cut off but im trying my best #artist i cannot find #i love another by abraham solomon #adele meyer mrs carl meyer by john singer sargent #cant find this artist #cant find artist nor painting #artist is franz von persoglia #i think this is anselm feuerbach #princess elena pavolovna belosselsky-belozersky by christina robertson #cant find artist or painting name #portrait of madame fanny leontine gronkowska by barbara mackay #artist is frederick warren freer #princess mathilde bonaparte by edouard-louis dubufe #the japanese fan by elizabeth reynolds finley #the painting is called blue dress but i cant find the artist #leaving the ball opera by pedro pierre ribera #elegant lady with a fan by ludwig knaus #idle thoughts by auguste toulmouche #can't find artist or painting #marie madeleine mazade by maurice quentin de la tour #cant find anything on this one #portrait of mrs. francis stanton blake by julius le blanc stewart #artist is jean francois portaels #artist is august schoefft #mary frances mackenzie by frank dicksee #artist is jan adam kruseman #can't find anything on this #artist is sir william blake richmond #artist is jean de la hoese

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mrmousetolliver · 1 month

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The Hustler (1926) by John Henry Mackay published under his alias Sagitta In a blurb for the 1985 reprinting, Christopher Isherwood wrote that the novel "gives a picture of the Berlin sexual underworld early in this century which I know, from my own experience, to be authentic." It depicted the social world of "young men who prostitute themselves in Berlin, without much concern for their own sexual identity or that of their clients".

#classic #style #gay #gay artist #vintage #gay history #weimar republic #the hustler #john henry mackay #gay literature

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gmzriver · 1 year

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Peter Pan (2003) headers.

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espumaqantica · 2 months

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Drama Tailors. Proper Cloth. Amidé Hadelin. Dignito. Spier and Mackay. John Lobb.

#menswear #mnswr #styleforum #mensfashion #spier and mackay #spier & mackay #Drama Tailors #dignito #Amidé Hadelin #proper Cloth #john lobb

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crisisofinfinitemultiverses · 1 year

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Avengers 1 (2023) by Jed MacKay & Carlos Villa

Cover: John Tyler Christopher (variant)

#Avengers #Vision #Jed MacKay #Carlos Villa #John Tyler Christopher

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politicaldilfs · 12 days

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Florida Governor DILFs

Bob Graham, Bob Martinez, Jeb Bush, Charley Eugene Johns, W. Haydon Burns, LeRoy Collins, Buddy MacKay, C. Farris Bryant, Claude R. Kirk Jr., Doyle E. Carlton, Millard Caldwell, Fuller Warren, Rick Scott, Daniel T. McCarty, Wayne Mixson, Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles, Charlie Crist

#Bob Graham #Bob Martinez #Jeb Bush #Charley Eugene Johns #W. Haydon Burns #LeRoy Collins #Buddy MacKay #C. Farris Bryant #Claude R. Kirk Jr.#Doyle E. Carlton #Millard Caldwell #Fuller Warren #Rick Scott #Daniel T. McCarty #Wayne Mixson #Reubin Askew #Lawton Chiles #Charlie Crist #GovernorDILFs

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myxomycota · 10 months

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Stemonitis sp. by John MacKay

#john mackay #stemonitis #myxomycota #slime mold #slime mould #forest floor #mycology #myxomycology #ecology #forestcore #myxomycetes #macro photography #microbiota #protists #fungi #nature photography

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pedroam-bang · 6 months

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11.22.63 (2016)

#2016 #film #series #TV show #television #11.22.63 #George MacKay #Bill Turcotte #Sarah Gadon #Sadie Dunhill #James Franco #Jake Epping #Chris Cooper #Al Templeton #Daniel Webber #Lee Harvey Oswald #John F. Kennedy #time travel

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denimbex1986 · 5 months

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'Following Wild Blue Yonder's terrifying foray to the edge of the universe, it looks like the third and final Doctor Who 60th anniversary special will treat us to a puppet show.

Neil Patrick Harris's much-teased Toymaker is set to make his grand entrance this weekend. Returning showrunner Russell T Davies hasn't been as secretive about this one – we know who the villain is, for one - but details have been scarce nonetheless.

The BBC has released new images of the episode, however, hinting at what's to come for David Tennant's Time Lord and Catherine Tate's Donna Noble.

The images also give us a glimpse at the episode's cast, including a puppet who could give the Wild Blue Yonder's doubles a run for their money.

Coronation Street's Charlie De Melo will star as Charles Banerjee. Not much else is known about the character other than his name, but he doesn't look too thrilled to be in the Toymaker's presence above.

John Mackay (Judy) has also joined The Giggle's cast as inventor John Logie Baird. Interestingly, it's not the first time Mackay has played the real-life figure - he was also Baird in Davies's ITVX drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter.

The BBC has also released an image of Jemma Redgrave, who is back as Kate Lethbridge Stewart – and who might even be getting her own spin-off.

Kate is one of the founders of UNIT, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, and a familiar face to Doctor Who fans.

Not only will she star in The Giggle, but the character is also expected to return during the Fifteenth Doctor's first season.

UNIT scientist Shirley (Ruth Madeley) will also be back, joined by Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim.

The teaser trailer released over the weekend did give us a glimpse of the Doctor's encounter with Harris's Toymaker (a character first played by Michael Gough in 1966).

"We meet again – the Time Lord and the Toymaker... one final game!" he says.

It also teased Tennant's regeneration, with Gatwa taking his place in the TARDIS control room.

Let's hope he gets there in one piece.'

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milliondollarbaby87 · 1 month

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Femme (2023) Review

When Jules suffers a truly horrific homophobic attack it destroys his life and everything he thought he knew about himself. Trying to build himself back up he encounters Preston his main attacker in a gay sauna … ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Femme (2023) Review

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guerrilla-operator · 11 months

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ROXY MUSIC

#roxy music #bryan ferry #brian eno #art rock #glam rock #pop rock #phil manzanera #andy mackay #paul thompson #john porter #progressive rock #art pop #new wave #soft rock #synthpop #sophisti pop #rock #pop

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