You know...die Maschinenmensch/the Machine Man (Metropolis by UFA and Parufamet; 1927)? Mae Clarke starred in a sound film later on instead (she was Elizabeth in Frankenstein by Universal, 1931) and I thought of her first but looked up Helm instead.
There is “working well”, and then there is “overworking”. Warning your employees that they need to become “ambitious” and overwork themselves to support your executive goals is a warning sign of Christmas Carol proportions.
Or whatever similar story you prefer. There are many.
“In the future, wealthy industrialists and business magnates and their top employees reign over the city of Metropolis from colossal skyscrapers, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the great machines that power it.“
In 100 years humans are the same.
One last trip on the schwebebahn to take us to the hauptbahnhof to catch the train to Mönchengladbach. If you’re into train travel I highly recommend a trip to Wuppertal to ride on this unusual public transport system. #travel#trains#germany#RetroFuturist#metropolis
As I hope you've already discovered, the Fediverse is nothing like Twitter/𝕏. There is no algorithm automatically forwarding your posts to those who might be interested in them. Also, even though Mastodon has introduced full-text search, it's only slowly picking up.
Instead, the key to post visibility and discoverability is using hashtags.
If you're using OpenSim, and you aren't sure what to tag, here are some recommendations. If I mention a tag explicitly, it most likely already exists.
First of all, of course, #OpenSimulator and #OpenSim. You may use either, but I recommend using both.
Then there's #Metaverse. The OpenSim community has used that word for some 15 years already. Besides, it helps demonstrate three things to those who search for it. One, "The Metaverse" isn't dead. Two, it wasn't invented by Zuckerberg either. Three, it can be done and has been done without a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs. (If you want to write about Zuck's worlds, use #Horizons or specifically #HorizonWorlds instead.)
I myself also use #VirtualWorlds, and so do some Second Life and OpenSim users.
If you write about a grid or mention it sufficiently, tag it. #OSgrid, #Kitely, #3rdRockGrid, #Groovyverse, #CraftWorld, #Bridgemere, #DorenasWorld, #Dereos, #ArtDestiny, #DiscoveryGrid, #BarefootDreamers, #Neverworld, #Astralia, #AviWorlds, #EtheriaGrid, #TheGridThatShallNotBeNamed (you know which one I mean) etc. This should include dead grids such as #Metropolis.
Sometimes things might get complicated, for example if there's a popular abbreviation or acronym for a grid. In that case, feel free to tag e.g. both #AlternateMetaverse and #AMV or both #GreatCanadianGrid and #GCG. It really only gets complicated with #WolfTerritories, #WolfTerritoriesGrid, #WTGrid and #WolfGrid, all four of which have been used by Lone Wolf himself.
In addition, if you actually write about a grid, you might want to use #Grid. Not so much for fleeting mentions.
Of course, #Hypergrid if you mention that.
Events usually come with their own official suggestions for social media hashtags. This year, for example, we've already had #OSG16B for OSgrid's 16th birthday, #OSFest2023 for OpenSimFest (#OpenSimFest or #OSFest) and #HIE2023 for the Hypergrid International Expo (#HypergridInternationalExpo, #HIE or #HIEOpenSim). The OpenSimulator Community Conference is always shortened to #OSCC, and the year is always two-digit, e.g. #OSCC23. And let's not forget #CornflakesWeek.
Other things worth tagging include OpenSim's own mesh bodies: #RuthAndRoth for the whole project, #Ruth2 and #Roth2. #RuthToo and #RothToo or even #RuthTooRC3 and #RothTooRC1. #LuvMyBod. #Max, #Maxine and #Maxwell.
Some more examples for OpenSim-related tags I've used before: #OAR, #HGSafari, #MadeInOpenSim, #ArcadiaAsylum, #LbsaPlaza, #WrightPlaza, #EventPlaza, #Clutterfly, #OpenSimWorld, #BakesOnMesh (feel free to yoink this one, Second Life users), #FirestormViewer (ditto), #PBR (ditto), #LSL (ditto) and #OSSL, #ZHAO (ditto) and #khAOs, #SFposer, #DreamGrid, #Sim, #SimBuilding (good for talking about how a sim is built)... You could also reference what I call #TheGreatGridDyingOf2022.
More generally, there are tags such as #Avatar/#Avatars, #VirtualArchitecture, #VirtualTravel and #VirtualClothing/#VirtualFashion. And if it's related to education, #VirtualWorldsEducation would be the tag.
I've heard good things about the new Barbie movie. Google TV decided to slap it in my face, so I took a look, then I realized that someone was yanking my chain.
$30 to buy.
$25 to rent.
Twenty-five fucking dollars to rent!!!!!!!! I'm not paying this.
Let me tell you what's going to happen. I'm not paying this now. So when am I going to watch it? It is going to fall out of my head, and I'm going to watch it whenever I happen to watch it... maybe never.
The film industry can cry a fucking river about how everybody is "unfair" to them. As far as I'm concerned, all their wounds are self-inflicted.
I'll just rewatch Metropolis, for free, or maybe The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, or some oldie that does not hold a gun to my head and ask for my wallet.
Hollywood: "OMG! He's going to watch something for free. Is he serious??? Let's clutch our pearls and gasp in unison! The cheekiness!!!!!"
A statue honoring Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' on the grounds of The Babelsberg Studio (near Berlin), which was the first large-scale film studio in the world and the forerunner to Hollywood. It still produces movies to this day. #Metropolis#FritzLang#film
@ThomHartmann
I am SHOCKED you've never heard of "#Metropolis", probably THE most famous silent film of all time.
TO THIS DAY, there are questions of how Lang achieved his amazing special effects using 1927 technology.
The full film was destroyed in a studio fire in the 1940s, but a global project in the 90s scoured the Earth for prints to reassemble the full film (which you can watch online for free. Just Google: "watch metropolis 1927".)
Early birthday present from my family.
(my birthday is the 23rd. Got express shipping to make sure it delivered to my door)
So excited to look at beautiful robots.
Robots 1:2 is a photography book of the collection at Vitra Design Museum.
Picured is the first and last robot in the book (details in alt text). I've always been interested in these early tin robots
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag is sort of an art book and a sci-fi narrative/(fantasy)American roadtrip.
Haven't read anything by him yet, but I fell in love with the illustrations. So excited to explore his world
Third is Anime Arcitecture - Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities by Stefan Riekeles (more in next post)
I really tried with the alt text but am kinda guessing a lot
Did I want Anime Arcitecture just bc it featured Metropolis... Maybe.
It is a beautiful hardcover featuring early drafts, storyboards, original background paintings and exclusive material from some pivotal sci-fi anime movies - Akira, Patlabor: the Movie, Patlabor 2: the Movie, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Tekkonkinkreet, Rebuild of Evangelion
I do wish it also had Steamboy and Memories, but I am so excited to deep dive into these sci-fi worldbuilding notes
Our trip to the world of Metropolis has officially been cancelled: Sam Esmail’s adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film has been scrapped, our sister site Deadline first reported....
Sam Esmail’s Metropolis Sci-Fi Series Cancelled Amid Ongoing WGA Strike (www.yahoo.com)
Our trip to the world of Metropolis has officially been cancelled: Sam Esmail’s adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film has been scrapped, our sister site Deadline first reported....