Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?
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
https://scontent.fhio2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/387179717_864864485005050_7146567757922299724_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5614bc&_nc_ohc=AX6F6O5bVTgAX89oBnt&_nc_ht=scontent.fhio2-2.fna&oh=00_AfCJfDdpwschzMcwYgO-5wPujrwSCzsWvdWjyXoy0w40lA&oe=652CEB14
― 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
Sammy Hagar on the right, guy on the left looks familiar.
― nickn, Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:27 (ten months ago) link
The pizza slice is nice touch.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:29 (ten months ago) link
wise elder Sammy Hagar lecturing Layne Staley from Alice In Chains about Cabo or some shit
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:30 (ten months ago) link
I thought maybe it's the guy from Anthrax.
― nickn, Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:33 (ten months ago) link
wow wow wow A+
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2023 00:17 (ten months ago) link
'Listen here my man in the box, stay away from dope! I'll hook you up with my tequila, muy primo...'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 November 2023 01:20 (ten months ago) link
double whammy of a twitter post plus not really unexpected but I just really liked this pic
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder laying down rhythm section tracks in the studio in 1981 pic.twitter.com/hEOOEiFjwC— Bass Magazine (@BassMagOnline) November 29, 2023
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 19:38 (nine months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MfRUZ3e.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 30 November 2023 23:13 (nine months ago) link
Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you nauseated all the same.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Friday, 8 December 2023 21:32 (nine months ago) link
The body language in that photo is instructive, Kissinger is leaning forward and Harrison is leaning back.
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Friday, 8 December 2023 23:19 (nine months ago) link
https://www.steviewonder.es/images/Prince-Stevie.jpg
Wonder, Prince, McConaughey
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 December 2023 18:04 (eight months ago) link
baby, everything is alright alright alright, uptight uptight uptight, outtasight outtasight outtasight
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Friday, 29 December 2023 16:37 (eight months ago) link
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ16X45S_rIeuJ1TgbOzc-VhYnPaTjo41GQbNgkxuqMQRliPviEkOn3wBzWiIhKOq9zmAC8nUcNMkZSyATd5-n5lhCUSxVWCYRCYfxKos8BugO4aTjSs_3jiboF_ghFkOQP3UUHYqVKuc484anOvUvpb8nGtpdta1LLqPbxmw1VI5WwlrsNAi6af1qelc3/s1024/472_8731c4ff9f342e03897723345a49ef09_t.jpeg
Beatle Paul and Chita Rivera
― Josefa, Friday, 2 February 2024 22:23 (seven months ago) link
Sorry!
Carl Weathers & Robbie Robertson from the Goodnight segment to their 1988 SNL episode
https://i0.wp.com/onesnladay.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1-30-1988_1.06.10.00.jpg?quality=89&ssl=1
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 February 2024 23:10 (seven months ago) link
xp awesome!
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 February 2024 02:03 (seven months ago) link