from the Red Library: Creaks
Pink Fuzzy Bunny posted the rather wonderful USC Optical Sound Effects Library – "Classic movie sound effects on optical and magnetic tape from the 30's to the 80's, all carefully restored, catalogued and posted on the Internet Archive."
Community member wubbie absolutely loves posters, especially movie posters! So they built a cloud based service that allows anyone to stream over 3,500 movie posters to their device for the most epic and love and movie art ever!
Chappell Roan @ Hollywood Palladium 11/18/2022 by Justin Higuchi, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jus10h/)
Over in Ask MetaFilter, member The Adventure Begins is looking for music recommendations similar to Chappell Roan's "Hot To Go" aka "high energy synth pop bops by girls". Come share your suggestions and see what others have recommended!
Photo by Pamela Carls, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/irisdragon/)
The kite "wars" are heating up in Brazil to the point that law is having to get involved. Yes, you read that sentence right, chavenet created a post that has the details!
A screenshot from the adaptation
Citizenk took the time to remind us of an old, yet incredibly ambitious project, Blade Runner: the Aquarel Edition. It's a shot by shot recreation of the movie, but done in watercolors and it is stunning to see.
Monotype print using a selfmade gelli by aab_art via r/printmaking on reddit
Monotypes are "undergoing a revival of sorts thanks to the Gel Plate which has made it very easy for the beginner (like me!) to make their own prints and papers." Art_Pot posted Monoprinting with the Gel Plate with a pile of getting-started links and some examples. Nice!
collage using image by Colin W, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
kensington314 asked an interesting question about how to have "26 guns melted down or otherwise destroyed in Southern California," and Iris Gambol has a great in-depth answer, while xedrik reports on his solution for a similar situation.
detail from movie poster for Cats Of Malta
"I just posted paduasoy's "six films about cats, with no cat death" list. You can see the films via the hashtag #CatFilms ... Donate $25 to MeFi and I'll post six films on a custom theme of your choice, too!" In the Mefi fundraising thread, DirtyOldTown offers to do that thing he does so well. 💖
If you ever go to the planet Jupiter, try and swing by Earth on your way out. Europe's JUICE spacecraft recently did just that, as noted in a post by bq, and the photos are lovely!
Bats like living in churches for a numbers of reasons, though their presence can present problems. Hence the Bats in Churches project, focused on the UK, and as highlighted by paduasoy's post!
Love word puzzles and looking for something new? Then please allow Horace Rumple to point you towards Gisnep, a new daily word puzzle by MeFi's own ironicsans!
collage by mefi staff
It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
image via pixabay.com
Is it okay to date or marry your chatbot? jenfullmoon posted Give up dating or just date a bot.
Gorogoa game artwork
derbyshire is looking for fun puzzle video games to play as a family.
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