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Labyrinth
1986 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Jim Henson
Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.
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That's a neat approach! It's not really the same, but it kind of reminds me of an interview they did with Michael Moschen (the guy who performed the contact juggling scene in Jim Henson’s movie Labyrinth). He talked about how difficult it was because he had to thread his arms underneath David Bowie’s, so he couldn’t actually see the acrylic ball while he was doing the contact juggling.
Monument Valley is a copy of Escher so I’m not sure your point. Or maybe it’s an order thing? Then Monument Valley is a copy of the Escher scenes from the movie Labyrinth or maybe it’s a copy of a-ha’s Take me on music video?
This really puts the 1986 movie Labyrinth in a new light, haha.
Yes it is a content farm. Your blog is called "Estimate Property on Blogspot". Some of the content is relevant, but how are (AI-written) articles like "Labyrinth Movie Interiors", "Exciting to See Aurora Alaska Northern Lights", "The offspring of explorers is the culture of acquisitions" relevant?
Also, looks like it was written by AI: GPTZero says 99% "The offspring of explorers is the culture of acquisitions" written with the help of AI. Sentences like "Data images songs and messages are possessed in networks and clouds. The culture of acquisitions has shifted from spices and metals to bytes and code yet the principle remains unchanged." are meaningless. Also telltale is no comma punctuation.
Better to ask a question about how to attract blog views on your target keywords.
Here's some things I have in my chatgpt history:
- Discussing the various stages of candymaking and their relation to the fundamental properties of sugar syrups, and which candies are crystalline vs amorphous. It turns out junior mints are fudge. Fondant is really just fudge. Everything is fudge, my god.
- Summarizing various SEC filings and related paperwork to understand the implications of an activist investor intervening in a company
- Discussing the relative film merits of the movie Labyrinth and other similar 80s kitsch movies. ChatGPT mentioned the phenomenon of "twin films" which was an interesting digression.
- Learning about various languages Tolkien invented and their ties to actual linguistics of natural languages and other conlangs
- Some dimensional analysis of volumes, specifically relating to things like "how many beans are in the jar" estimation and what the min and max of a particular weight of coins might be valued, in terms of both a par value based on a standard coin mix and outliers of, for example, old dimes that are pure silver.
- Discussion of quines in prolog and other languages, which resulted in a very interesting ChatGPT bug where it started recursing and broke when trying to write a prolog quine.
- Back of the envelope economic calculations around the magnitude of the housing deficit and the relative GDP cost for providing enough housing quickly enough to make an impact. Spoiler: it's probably unreasonably expensive to build enough houses to bring down housing prices by any significant degree, and even if we wanted to, there's not enough skilled workers.
- A number of podcasts transcribed. (I hate audio and meandering, so transcribed and summarized is perfect) I could use whisper and a python script to do this, but I'd rather let ChatGPT do the legwork, and it actually used a more modern model and method of processing than I would have naively used.
I find Github Copilot to be a really great autocomplete. I frequently write the comment at the top of a function and hit tab and it writes the whole function. This is dependent on typescript and having a relatively standard codebase but I think those things are useful on their own. You really have to limit it in terms of scope and specifics, but it lets me think high level instead of worrying about syntax.
The Doors, love the look of the film and always enjoy kicking back and listening to the music
Labyrinth, with the kids now (and Spirited away and Totoro)
David Lynch films
American Splendor, becomes more relevant with age.
When FiL passed away there were multiple buildings on their 50 acres full of stuff. Both he and MiL were only children. Everything over 200 yrs had flowed to them.
“Priceless heirlooms” weren’t of interest to anyone. Auctions led to junk dealers. There is a hopelessness in realizing that lifetimes of activity were of little value, that nobody even knew what many objects were.
I felt like the girl in the movie Labyrinth when they weigh her down w worldly possessions. There’s no way to train for it. It’s like the Kipple of Philip K Dick.
Watership Down and the Secret of Nimh were my two favorite movies as a young child in the early 80s, followed closely by the Dark Crystal and maybe Aristocats and the Black Hole.
Other movies of the time like the Rescuers and the Fox and the Hound and Labyrinth and such were a disappointment compared to these...
You’ll recall the title of this post from the David Bowie soundtrack for the 1986 Jim Henson film, Labyrinth[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(David_Bowie_song)
"Mazes are everywhere. From psychology experiments where mice scamper in search of cheese, to robotics demonstrations, to movies (Labyrinth, anyone?) and video games (Pac-Man? The Legend of Zelda? Doom?), to books and books of puzzles to be traced by finger or pencil, you’ve almost certainly encountered them at some point in your life.
What you’re reading now is not a collection of mazes for you to solve. No, this is something much more exciting. This is a collection of ideas to inspire you.
You’re about to learn how to generate your own mazes. Random mazes, unique, each one different than the one before. It’s a voyage of discovery where you never know quite what you’ll find when you crest the next hill." Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck — Pragmatic Programmers (3 / 121)
Read more: https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/introduction-f7e10850ac55
I would love to have one streaming service that includes 95% of the “regular” content. I currently pay for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, and have access to Prime Video because of the Prime membership. I think Hulu is closest to “just TV” and I would be most happy with Hulu + HBO. Realistically though, Netflix has the best selection of children’s programming that I have seen, Prime has most movies I would want, though the rent/buy model is obnoxious.
The main problem I still run into is the unavailability of content. Original Ghost Busters? Nope. Labyrinth? Nope. Seinfeld? Nope. If Netflix tried again to license everything under the sun, I would just give them the $50/month I currently pay overall for the 3.5 services I use.
Amen. One of my favourite movies is Labyrinth [1]. From 1986, the entire movie is live action with puppets and practical effects. Plus David Bowie, of course.
I could imagine one day somebody might try to remake this movie. They'd shoot it entirely in front of a green screen. The music would be compressed and auto-tuned to oblivion. I'd see it and sigh at the death of another little piece of my faith in humanity.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091369/
This beautifully written New Yorker profile is what first got me hooked on Ricky Jay. It was clipped for me by a kind coworker at Harvard’s Cabot Science Library, who thought I’d like it. She was right. I bought and devoured Ricky’s book Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, and later delighted in his brilliant show (recorded as an HBO special) Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants.
A few years after the profile was published, I got curious about Ricky’s website, rickyjay.com. I discovered that not only was there nothing on the site, but the domain itself was unregistered. Concerned that some squatter might snap it up, I registered it myself.
Over the next few years, I made several attempts to track down Ricky so that I could give him the domain, to no avail. Then I had a stroke of luck: while attending a performance of Michael Moschen (whose remarkable “juggling” skills were featured in the movie Labyrinth) at UC Irvine, I happened to recognize Ricky standing in the lobby during intermission. I introduced myself and got the ball rolling on the domain transfer, which later resulted in the site you can still see today.
A few years later, Ricky himself was performing at UCI, and my father and I had the good fortune of joining him onstage for a demonstration of card control and three-card Monte. After the show, Ricky was kind enough to sign my copy of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, as well as give me the card he’d cut neatly in half with a pair of giant scissors.
A few years after that, I learned that a young woman I was acquainted with knew Ricky well. When I told her the story of rickyjay.com, she insisted on setting up a dinner with Ricky and his wife Chrisann. Ricky recognized me from the Michael Moschen performance, and we ended up having a lovely time talking about magic, history, and various other subjects.
The last time I saw Ricky, I distinctly recall thinking that he didn’t look particularly healthy, so when I saw his name trending on Twitter I feared the worst. Alas, it was the worst. And yet, what a joy Ricky Jay was to all who knew him and his work. RIP to one of the all-time greats.
Apparently this scene from The Labyrinth is based on the heaven/hell logic puzzle he devised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReFhu8KYbmU
> Many of his logic problems are extensions of classic puzzles. Knights and Knaves involves knights (who always tell the truth) and knaves (who always lie). This is based on a story of two doors and two guards, one who lies and one who tells the truth. One door leads to heaven and one to hell, and the puzzle is to find out which door leads to heaven by asking one of the guards a question. One way to do this is to ask "Which door would the other guard say leads to hell?". This idea was famously used in the 1986 film Labyrinth.
According to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan
That's incredible. Going through the art for the first movie, I imagine in my head a movie that is much more "fantasy" (the genre) than what came out. Like something a little more Labyrinth and a little less Princess Bride (not that Star Wars is anything like those two movies, just trying to articulate)