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La survivante
Quick one
i made a thing (title isn't *100%* accurate but i tried my best)
(also the frans hals painting i shopped if anyone wants to use it)
i'm actually devastated that this film about artist exploitation was "remastered" using AI. several scenes did look good but those were few and far between and absolutely did not make up for the blatant AI oversmoothing, eye/face fuckery, etc. i mean i'm glad i got to see it on the big screen and all but i wish they had shown the 200px version you used to be able to watch on youtube.
The best quality a fictional man can have is being deeply, pathetically, wretchedly in love with someone, I think
just gonna plug this fan restoration here - dr. saperstein restores a lot of original footage and uncensors those ugly bird mattes throughout the film, which were edited in last-minute to conceal any trace of the "Swan Song" label (of which Death Records is a subsidiary), as the copyright for Swan Song Records was nabbed by Led Zeppelin a mere five months before the film's release.
The restoration itself has some video editing/color grading issues but they're not too hard to get past
you can read more about the whole debacle here
phantom of the paradise for free on the internet archive my love
UPDATE update: coughing fits worsened. went to the hospital. got a chest x-ray, no sign of pneumonia. been put on antibiotics, so that's good at least. but now everything's pitched UP a few cents and tone quality is affected whereas it wasn't before, everything on my right has gone from being muffled to sounding like a shitty bitcrushed mp3 >:'D
been in zombie mode for what feels like eons but this is just the rotten egg icing on the sardine cake. at least it's not covid but it is swine flu which is Not Fun Either. everyone else in my family is on the mend
i hate being sick this is driving me nuts CHIRP CHIRP SQUAWK *peck* *peck* CHIRP SQUAWK CHIRP CHIRP *peck* *peck* peck* CHIRP SQUAWK
my family and i have been fighting a nasty bronchial infection for the past week and a half and today i woke up with an earache from sleeping on my side
AND NOW EVERYTHING IN MY RIGHT EAR SOUNDS A HALF-STEP LOWER THAN IT SHOULD BE
i can't listen to music because it sounds exactly like this
like i'm bummed but it's also extremely funny