Cutscenes looking worse than the game itself? I don’t know about that. In fact, I can’t remember the last game I played that would fall into this category.
Superhero movies snubbed no more
I’m not one for paying particular attention to the Academy Awards, but even I had to do a double-take when it was announced that Black Panther earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Not that I think it doesn’t deserve it, it indeed does, and it is a fantastic film. It’s just that these types of movies never seem to make the final list of nominees.
No longer can superhero movies be classed merely as summer blockbusters and be relegated to specific award categories as they have been in the past.
That was the assumption, anyway. Between 2009 and this year, superhero movies still didn’t receive much attention from the academy in its biggest categories. That’s the entire lifespan of Marvel’s current Cinematic Universe — a total of 22 movies passed over. Genre films have largely been relegated to the science categories, including Visual Effects.
— Black Panther is the first superhero movie to earn an Oscars Best Picture nomination by The Verge
It’s taken a long time for these movies to be recognised and hopefully, we will continue to see a broader range of films being nominated for Best Picture in the future.
I had no idea about the “Firefall” that occurs at El Capitan at this time of year.
“Firefall” occurs when the setting sun reflects off of Horsetail Falls at a certain angle, making the waterfall emit a fiery orange glow. It is highly dependent on environmental factors: If the skies are cloudy, that orange light will not hit the east side of El Capitan—the vertical rock formation where the falls are located— and the phenomenon won’t occur.
— Viral photos show Yosemite’s “firefall” phenomenon glowing in California
The pictures of this are just amazing.
Just realised that my bookmarking web app Commonmarks shares the same name as CommonMark, the strongly defined Markdown format. Time for another name change me thinks. I’m open to suggestions. 😉
I dare you to find a better picture of the moon than this one. I also think I have found myself a new wallpaper for my iPhone’s home screen.
Kurt Harden’s hunt for the perfect album continues. I have to say, this is fast turning into a great playlist for Apple Music or Spotify. 🎵
Cup of coffee on my desk. Pen and paper ready. Text editor open.
My three essentials for weekend hacking on code.
Dark to light
After years of using Solarized Dark as my preferred colour theme for coding, I’m starting to find that I’m now preferring a lighter themes for when I’m writing code. Solarized Light for Sublime Text and Bluloco Light for VS Code.
Solarized Dark is still my preferred color theme for the terminal though.
The perfect album
Sent a few suggestions this morning for the perfect album to my buddy Kurt in Ohio. Suggestions included Bloc Party, Oasis, Massive Attack and Eric Clapton.
Anyone else care to chip in with suggestions for the perfect album?
Michael Wade reminds us that slow can be more.