[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

...the joke being that according to their own image caption, they apparently published a publicity photo a week and a half ahead of the BBC' clearance date ๐Ÿ˜„

It's all good, I'm sure! It's a long standing business relation between the two institutions, and the photo doesn't seem to spoil anything important...

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[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago

I really hope they'll do the old fade-aroo like in classic Who...

Oh no wait โ€” after the 60th specials RTD was raving about all the past regenerations potentially being bigenerations? And 2 into 3 was always the vaguest?

...he wouldn't, would he?

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According to Radio Times,

this new version of the serial will feature a 'lost' piece of Doctor Who history โ€“ while the Second Doctor's regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) originally took place off-screen, the special edition of The War Games will depict the changeover on-screen.

and

We're also promised the new release โ€“ which will air on BBC Four and be available on BBC iPlayer โ€“ will feature "recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast".

I see you've done up the TARDIS a bit โ€” I don't like it

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, I'm not even after specific styles per se, just... modern, capital-a Art. ๐Ÿคท

On Twitter and later Mastodon there were artbots that posted images off WikiArt, and a good bunch of those were at least from post-WWII, so modern enough if not contemporary. That would really scratch a lot of my itch, but the devs went all in on one crypto scam or other...

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First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.

I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?

Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?

To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" โ€” yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.

So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.

Thanks in advance!

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First of all, yes: I'm an art snob. I'm not interested in some rando's drawings of dragons, their "badass" OC, crying airbrushed wolves or whatever. Unfortunately, that is pretty much the limits of art communities that I've been able to find on here.

I've been looking for communities here on art theory, art history and movements, contemporary artists and exhibitions, but to no avail. Don't people go to galleries and art museums, or have their own, conceptual or more hands-on art practice?

Or is it just that the threadiverse has inherited so many Reddit neckbeards that it's basically hostile to any form of aesthetic intellectualism?

To preempt suggestions of "just start your own" โ€” yeah, but I'm looking for a community more than just me going on about my preferences.

So I'm hoping somebody can tell me I just suck at searching and there are several communities just like I've been looking for. Second best result would be a handful of other art snobs going "YES! I'D LOVE THAT TOO," so we can at least co-mod a new community together.

Thanks in advance!

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 3 days ago

I've used Matrix for a long time, both on desktop and mobile, and although I'd rather be rid of electron Element is pretty hard to beat...

One issue I hadn't foreseen with Element is that it only supports one account. I recently started a new one on a non-matrix.org server, and until I've figured out how to migrate, I use Fluffychat on mobile instead.

Fluffy is real smooth too, but has its quirks that make me kind of long for Element again.

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 72 points 3 days ago

My first impression was the lead developer calling a PR for gender neutral pronouns in the documentation "personal politics". Pardon me if I'm still underwhelmed, no matter the state of the project.

haverholm

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