Microsoft Clip Art was a source within Microsoft Word that supplied general pictures for the document. In 2014, the Clip Art section was removed and replaced with Bing for online photo-searching.
Layers were an especially popular fashion choice in the 2000s. A staple look was the long-sleeved/short-sleeved combination, found on many characters in television and film.
Indigo children, according to a pseudoscientific New Age concept, are children who are believed to possess special, unusual, and sometimes supernatural traits or abilities. They are sometimes also referred to as crystal children orstar children.
The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and the release of several films in the 2000s. According to experts, indigo children’s nature and abilities range from their being the next stage in human evolution, in some cases possessing paranormal abilities such as telepathy, to the belief that they are more empathetic and creative than their peers.
Chad, Matt & Rob were a group of filmmakers based in Los Angeles known for their short films, posted on YouTube, that blended comedy with horror, adventure and sci-fi.
Their most notable works include a series of Prank Gone Wrong found-footage videos and a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure style films known as Chad, Matt & Rob’s Interactive Adventures.
Trance is a genre of electronic music that emerged during the early 1990s and carried in popularity into the mid-2000s. Although it is a genre of its own, trance liberally incorporates influences from other musical styles such as techno, house, pop, chill-out, classical music, tech house, ambient, and film music. Vocals are also a common feature, typically performed by mezzo-soprano to soprano female soloists.
Trance was arguably at its commercial peak in the second part of 1990s and early 2000s.
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000). Their following studio album Meteora continued the band’s success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.
In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1.
Linkin Park has sold over 70 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.
Microsoft Solitaire is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game of the same name, also known as Klondike.
Microsoft has included the game as part its Windows product line since Windows 3.0, starting from 1990. The game was developed in 1989 by an intern. The card deck itself was designed by Macintosh pioneer Susan Kare.
One common concern with the game was the potential loss of business productivity by employees playing Solitaire. Studies conducted as a result of this concern revealed that playing the game can actually boost productivity.
Box Tops for Education is a program founded by General Mills to help support education and better America’s schools. Founded in 1996, schools all over the country began clipping Box Tops and earning cash to buy the materials they needed.
By 2004, over 82,000 schools across the nation participated in Box Tops, earning more than $100 million.
TheNokia 3310 is a GSM mobile phone announced on September 1, 2000. The phone sold extremely well, being one of the most successful phones with 126 million units sold worldwide. The phone is still widely acclaimed today, and has gained a cult status due to its durability.
On 14 February 2017, it was reported that a modernised version of the 3310 would be unveiled at the 2017 Mobile World Congress by HMD Global Oy.
A nightmare before Christmas? Our copy of Elsie’s Hallowe’en Experience, an 1888 collection of children’s stories from author Mary Dow Brine, was apparently given as an Xmas gift in 1908.
It’s not as strange as it sounds—the work does contain a couple of Christmas stories in addition to the titular tale of a spooky Halloween sleepover. Still, with Halloween just around the corner, it seemed an appropriate time to share this curious little volume.
Note the archaic spelling of Hallowe’enin the book’s title, with the apostrophe betraying the origin of the word as a contraction of All Hallows’ Even[ing]. This spelling largely fell out of favor after the 19th century.
Prodded by Cap’s novel-art thoughts, here’s my favorite Rt novel/cover – Before the Invid Storm. Purchased from a mall Waldenbooks in Wausau WI in 1996. The last original Rt novel in the series w dynamic new art commission. (Cap has or used to have the orginal lineart/rough for the piece; jealous.)
Besides being an enjoyable read w associated fannish memories, I appreciate that it, as a pop-cultural artifact, is – as I said in a tweet last year – “ofandthe end of an era.”
Daniel Kaluuya gives an outstanding performance as Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton in the film Judas and the Black Messiah, but can the film do justice to Hampton’s radical politics?
Our focus on Black films continues with this week’s FFR episode on Julie Dash’s landmark 1991 release Daughters of the Dust, a daring film of remarkable beauty, rich with meaning and emotion, whose influence is still keenly felt today.
This week we kick off a month of episodes focusing on work by Black filmmakers with a look at Dee Rees’ outstanding 2011 debut Pariah, a film about the experiences of a young gay Black woman that captivates with its remarkable authenticity.
This week, we’re joined by Kat Spada from the @90210blaze podcast to talk about the incendiary revenge thriller Promising Young Woman! We cover the look of the film, its examination of “nice guys,” that shocking ending, and more.
We passed through turnstiles to talk TENET for this week’s FFR! Join us as we discuss the film’s protagonist The Protagonist, its alluring aesthetics, its globe-hopping, time-twisting plot, and whether or not it all adds up to a good movie. Listen now!
Consumption isn’t a shortcut to character and morality goes well beyond fandom. That’s modern culture in a nutshell.
Consumption isn’t activism and we should be glad - because if consumption was activism, then your entire positive contribution to the world would be cancelled out by exactly one person having a different hobby.
This reminds me a lot of a concept I’ve seen a lot in American Christianity, especially evangelical/fundamentalist Protestantism, which is the idea that the only criteria for being “saved” is expressing belief in Jesus and God. You don’t need to do good things, you don’t need to show compassion and kindness to others, you don’t need to help the less fortunate—you just need to believe in Jesus and essentially (from an outsider perspective) perform your faith according to social expectations.
Given how culturally Protestant* (and specifically evangelical) the US is, and how American many fandom spaces can be, I have to wonder how much of this “consumes the right media = good person, consumes the wrong media = bad person” idea is just this same ugly concept repackaged and rebranded with leftist terms. I don’t think people who do this are intentionally recycling the Christian rhetoric they were raised with—I think they may not even be aware that that’s where their thinking comes from, because when the culture you’re raised with is still the dominant culture of where you live it’s hard to fully shake it off. But the point is that I absolutely think cultural Christianity has a big impact on a lot of social justice discourses even when the people discussing have actively distanced themselves from the religion.
