https://img.assets-d.propublica.org/v5/images/20230819-Thomas-Koch-Lead.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fm=webp&fp-x=0.4981&fp-y=0.4488&h=1333&q=75&w=2000&s=30000a509bc6605ba8308d28f43c417a
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 22 September 2023 15:38 (eleven months ago) link
nothing about this photo makes me happy
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 15:40 (eleven months ago) link
Well, David Koch being dead brings me a glimmer of hope for the guy on the left.
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:07 (eleven months ago) link
Who are these three?
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:08 (eleven months ago) link
Documentarian Ken Burns in the middle, don't know the other two.
― nickn, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:10 (eleven months ago) link
It's conservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, beloved by many PBS documentary maven Ken Burns, and dead conservative billionaire activist David Koch. Who, to be fair, funded a lot of Burns docs, which doesn't make this so surprising. Just a gross glimpse of how the sausage is made.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:12 (eleven months ago) link
And in the background is a person thinking "Get me the fuck away from all these assholes."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
context: https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:19 (eleven months ago) link
I'm not typically one to complain about US politics infecting ILX threads, but I feel like we could leave it off this one.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:27 (eleven months ago) link
Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:36 (eleven months ago) link
not at all
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:37 (eleven months ago) link
tbh i think people outside the US are more likely to know what the ken burns effect is than who ken burns is.
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:38 (eleven months ago) link
that has to be Bohemian Grove, yeah? by the redwoods in the background
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:43 (eleven months ago) link
xpost Do they know it as "the Ken Burns effect"?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:50 (eleven months ago) link
His widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019).
How this fella from the Public Broadcasting Service has avoided international acclaim is beyond me.
― pplains, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link
Now I've googled it I had no idea it was called that.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:56 (eleven months ago) link
Is his face really that well known in the US?
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:57 (eleven months ago) link
I thought he was great in Harold & Maude.
― pplains, Friday, 22 September 2023 16:57 (eleven months ago) link
More familiar with the Kenny Burns effect tbh
https://files.ekmcdn.com/footycards/images/nottingham-forest-kenny-burns-scotland-250-97269-p.jpg
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 22 September 2023 16:59 (eleven months ago) link
xpost Do they know it as "the Ken Burns effect"?ā Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 22, 2023 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ā Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 22, 2023 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect#Use_by_Apple.
i don't actually know if more people know the name of the effect than know who ken burns is. both numbers are pretty close to zero in the UK.
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:06 (eleven months ago) link
I know Ken Burns' films, there is a (fre-to-air) PBS channel over here which shows them pretty much in a loop. No idea what the guy looks like though.
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:12 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, I guess it makes sense that his face may not be recognizable; unlike, say, David Attenborough or something, he's not in his docs. I realize his stuff is mostly focused on American history and culture, but his brand is so high profile here I guess I assumed his name would be at least a little familiar in passing elsewhere.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:40 (eleven months ago) link
I had to look up the pic to see that it was Ken Burns. I knew the other two assholes, obvs.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:43 (eleven months ago) link
it's not just that he focuses on american history and culture. people all over are interested in that. it's that he focuses on it in precisely the way that makes it appropriate to invite him to a koch brothers retreat. the overseas market for that is not huge.
― š šš¢šØ (caek), Friday, 22 September 2023 17:48 (eleven months ago) link
ken burns is how i know who mary chesnut is
― mark s, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:57 (eleven months ago) link
she looks like this: https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/styles/squarish/public/thumbnails/image/Mary%20C.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 22 September 2023 17:58 (eleven months ago) link
Here's Fred Schneider, August Darnell, and Joey Ramone.
https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/380423141_689240946573879_6733012020200262108_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=49d041&_nc_ohc=p1l5XLnfTXcAX_0AUjo&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AfDgvZ8ytloDl6PzOGIMuAuR1psUGJUl2Juktlx32w-ngQ&oe=65129083
― peace, man, Friday, 22 September 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
That's more like it.
― I Left My Harp In Sam Frank's Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:03 (eleven months ago) link
Gracias to peace man for putting nest in instead of expecting us to just know
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:06 (eleven months ago) link
*names
I doubt I'm the first to say this, but young Ryan Gosling looks eerily like young Macaulay Culkin.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 18:21 (eleven months ago) link
Ken Burns is pretty well known in the UK if you like Serious Telly - I watched the Civil War with my parents as a teenager, and the BBC have fairly recently shown the country music and vietnam series. Iād never recognise his face though.
― Madchen, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:16 (eleven months ago) link
"Serious Telly" is the best phrase I've heard all day.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:17 (eleven months ago) link
Serious Telly Savalas
https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/lKnU2kC4j2i1uzqWZcvGSDBX9mk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/telly-savalas-kojak-color-5c01fb5e46e0fb000161404f.jpg
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:30 (eleven months ago) link
Serious Telly
https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/a/v/e/r/avery_sid_5_1981_424272_displaysize.jpg
XP Goddamnit
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
Lol c. Grisso. Someone was gonna get there.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:43 (eleven months ago) link
https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/TellySavalas.170583.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:45 (eleven months ago) link
Danny Torrence and a couple muppets
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― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:38 (eleven months ago) link
looks like Jack already got to Waldorf
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:41 (eleven months ago) link
Kudos for knowing which one was which!
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:56 (eleven months ago) link
Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 20:59 (eleven months ago) link
Celebrities including front row L to R Helen Worth, George Michael, Julie Waltesr, Sue Cook, Sade, Danielle Westbrook and Jenni Faulkner attends the appeal press launch and photocall for "The Rainbow Trust" at the Oak Room, Maridien Hotel, Piccadilly (2003) pic.twitter.com/uPRzCTyNj9— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) July 6, 2023
― soref, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:10 (eleven months ago) link
this may have been posted at the time, but in case it wasn't
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtU0MPhWQAAdwYG?format=jpg&name=900x900
― soref, Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
Cliff Richard, Captain Tom and Russ Abbott(?) for non-UK ILXors.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:50 (eleven months ago) link
(xp) Gary Rhodes, Paul Young, Linford Christie, Chris Eubanks, Tony Hadley are also there.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 October 2023 19:53 (eleven months ago) link
captain sir captain on his final fatal barbados trip, pictured with his smiling assassins
― mark s, Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:08 (eleven months ago) link
captain sir captain packing some heat in that pic, had he been at russ's viagras?
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 12 October 2023 20:52 (eleven months ago) link
aka Evil Under the Sun
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:03 (eleven months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_Ft7YpWEAAR5-J?format=jpg&name=medium
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:23 (ten months ago) link
Haven't a fucking clue who those people are tbh.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:26 (ten months ago) link