#geoff manaugh

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Spines of Interest: Niche Nonfiction Edition.

#books #book photography #nonfiction #tbr #other minds #peter godfrey-smith #owls of the eastern ice #jonathan c slaght #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #a burglar's guide to the city #geoff manaugh #listen i know i just posted these but i took an extra picture and i don't dislike it so onto the blog it goes XD #forreal i feel like the only thing not accounted for in my nonfictional interests here is knitting lolol

[geekcavepodcast]

We Have a Ghost Trailer

Kevin’s family have moved into a new home, one that happens to be haunted. That is fantastic news as Ernest the ghost has made Kevin’s family into social media sensations. Everything seems great until Kevin and Ernest become friends and decide to investigate Ernest’s past, making them targets of a government agency.

We Have a Ghost stars Niles Fitch (Kevin), David Harbour (Ernest), Anthony Mackie, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Erica Ash, Jennifer Coolidge, Tig Notaro, Faith Ford, Isabella Russo, and Steve Coulter. Christopher Landon serves as writer, director, and an executive producer. The film is based off of Geoff Manaugh’s short story “Ernest.”

We Have a Ghost hits Netflix on February 24, 2023.

#we have a ghost #netflix #niles fitch #david harbour #anthony mackie #jahi di'allo winston #erica ash #jennifer coolidge #tig notaro #faith ford #isabella russo #steve coulter #christopher landon #geoff manaugh #TGCLiz

[issela-santina]

selected passages from “Ernest” by Geoff Manaugh:

It was around this time that Frank started calling the ghost "Ernest." No one knew why until a local television reporter asked him about it on live TV. Why Ernest?

( . . . )

"I thought you said you watched the videos," Frank replied. He was wearing a polo shirt, a glass of sparkling water in one hand, disdain in his eyes. "It's because he looks like Ernest Borgnine."

Side by side comparison between the smiling, spirited, mead-colored ghost Ernest from the trailer for We Have A Ghost (left), and a black and white picture of Ernest Borgnine and his gap-toothed grin as he poses with an Oscar in his hands (right).

I can sense the casting went for vibes with this one ok like David looks nothing like his character's namesake (thankfully he doesn't have to) but he's got the spirit

#we have a ghost #david harbour #ernest borgnine #geoff manaugh

[vifetoile]

No matter what you do in L.A., your behavior is appropriate for the city. Los Angeles has no assumed correct mode of use. You can have fake breasts and drive a Ford Mustang – or you can grow a beard, weigh 300 pounds, and read Christian science fiction novels. Either way, you’re fine: that’s just how it works. You can watch Cops all day or you can be a porn star or you can be a Caltech physicist. You can listen to Carcass – or you can listen to Pat Robertson. Or both. L.A. is the apocalypse: it’s you and a bunch of parking lots. No one’s going to save you; no one’s looking out for you. It’s the only city I know where that’s the explicit premise of living there – that’s the deal you make when you move to L.A. The city, ironically, is emotionally authentic. It says: no one loves you; you’re the least important person in the room; get over it. What matters is what you do there.

In Los Angeles you can be standing next to another human being but you may as well be standing next to a geological formation. Whatever that thing is, it doesn’t care about you. And you don’t care about it. Get over it. You’re alone in the world. Do something interesting.

Geoff Manaugh, Greater Los Angeles for BLDGBLOG

#geoff manaugh #los angeles #city of angels #california #quotes #food for thought #accurate

[agentnico]

We Have a Ghost (2023) Review

The fact that Anthony Mackie manages to get taken down by an old man in this makes me question his ability in having a fighting chance as the new Captain America in the MCU. Then again, I’m questioning a lot of things about the MCU at the moment.

Plot: The discovery that their house is haunted by a ghost named Ernest makes Kevin's family a social media sensation. But when Kevin and Ernest get to the bottom of the mystery of Ernest's past, they become targets of the CIA.

Christopher Landon has proven as of recent to be very reliable when it comes to amusing horror comedies with the likes of Freaky and the Happy Death Day films with their silly quirky concepts. So Landon taking on a Casper-like ghost tale should have been a shoehorn a cheesy horror-comedy classic. However turns out this is the perfect definition of Netflix mediocrity. I mean back when Netflix only just began developing their own original content and the term ‘Netflix movie’ came about, where you’d get a straight-to-streaming movie come out which guarantees a couple of hours of entertainment yet won’t have any lingering lasting effect afterward. Literal mediocrity. Hence why the whole ‘”Netflix and Chill” term came about, since it was so easy to get distracted during Netflix movies by....other stuff, so to speak. Obviously that was a while ago and since then Netflix has managed to really improve upon its original content and partner with such creatives like Martin Scorsese, Rian Johnson and Guillermo del Toro to name a few. But then we have movies like We Have a Ghost that is that typical forgettable movie that’s destined to be lost in the endless void of the Netflix library.

For starters the movie is way too long capping over 2 hours when this should have in reality been a 90 minute feature or less. I mean it’s only based on a short story, so evidently they decided to add a lot of unnecessary sublot and baggage and its noticeable. Kind of reminds me how Warner Bros. managed to stretch out the little tiny Hobbit book into a full blown trilogy with extended editions and all. Also the movie is a genre and tonal mess. At one point it tries to be an action thriller, then a slapstick comedy and then also a deep family drama, yet it fails to do justice to any of those. The comedy never really lands, minus for the tiny cameo from Jennifer Coolidge as an eccentric medium who ends up jumping out of the window, and if you’ve ever seen Coolidge in anything before you know that her middle name is ‘eccentric’. As for the action stuff, the whole dealings with the CIA is such a tired trope that it adds no wow-factor or intrigue. And as for the family drama, Mackie is an ignorant dad so the son decides to deal with his daddy issues by treating Casper like a father. And whenever there is any chance for the movie to delve deeper into the emotional stuff, the script decides to avoid it because...well, I don’t know why. It just does. 

The only true redeeming quality of this film is David Harbour, who has to give a mostly silent and very physical performance as the ghost, being able to only show emotions through his facial expressions, and in all honestly he does great stuff with the limited material he’s given. His eyes are full of kindness and loss, and as such he’s the only main reason to see this movie, so if you like Jim Hopper of Stranger Things, you may actually find some enjoyment here. Otherwise the only purpose of We Have a Ghost is to ‘Netflix and Chill’, and I do mean in the biblical sense. Unless you don’t have a partner, and if so well then that is a completely different and upsetting matter.

Overall score: 4/10

#we have a ghost #netflix #christopher landon #2023 #2023 in film #2023 films #movie #film #movie reviews #film reviews #we have a ghost review #david harbour #jahi winston #anthony mackie #geoff manaugh #tig notaro #jennifer coolidge #comedy #adventure #horror #thriller #ghost #supernatural #tom bower #mystery

[carloskaplan]

Instance Gate by Geoff Manaugh, 2016

#geoff manaugh

[regicidal-optimism]

a home, or a bread broken - a fic by @rebelpeas for @mcytblraufest

bora in her kitchen - vincent giarrano / love like salt - lisel mueller / asoftersea / homes - kevin lucbert / ominous reassurances frog - sarah gordon / purple kisses - scott fraser / morning after ii - alyssa monks / jack white, birmingham, england - ken taylor / proletariatitty / infinite exchange - geoff manaugh

#karlnapity #mcytblraufest23 #imaginary gardens with real toads #grace dot text #grace dot art

[darkmovies]

We Have a Ghost (2023) Date de sortie : 24/02/2023 Réalisateur : Christopher Landon Scénario : Christopher Landon, Geoff Manaugh Avec : David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Di’Allo Winston

#Anthony Mackie #Christopher Landon #Comédie #David Harbour #horreur #Jahi Di’Allo Winston #We Have a Ghost (2023) #film d'horreur #cinéma #news #actualité #film poster #affiche de film

[white1x]

[nstaaf-book]

A Burglar's Guide to the City - Geoff Manaugh

#episode 120 #no such thing as hms kevin #mentioned by: anna ptaszynski #nonfiction

[moonturnips]

#lebbeus woods #manhattan #new your city #architecture #conservation architects

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Replenishing the Nonfiction Stack; or, We're Calling the Book Buying Ban a Wash, Officially.

I am not, apparently, immune to coupons for niche nonfiction that's directly up my alley (octopus minds and RUSSIAN OWLS, hello??? Thanks, bookshop!).

I thought perhaps the BURGLAR'S GUIDE would also be covered under said coupon, since it was publisher-specific (alas: it was Not, but we might as well bundle for shipping purposes). And then while I was shopping IRL for gifties I found a copy of ROOM, which has been on my list for...ever? So! Hopefully these will hold me over on the nonfiction front for a minute!

#books #book photography #nonfiction #tbr #a burglar's guide to the city #geoff manaugh #a room of one's own #virginia woolf #other minds #peter godfrey-smith #owls of the eastern ice #jonathan c. slaght #it was an FSG/Picador coupon that bookshop sent me lol #and i knew burglar's guide was also FSG but apparently the coupon was only for Specific Books on their List #(owls and minds) #so. those were impulse buys. #burglar's lowkey was too tbh #ROOM was 'if i cannot literally buy myself a room of my own right now i will purchase this book about it' #(the housing market will be the death of me i stg) #i saw a snippet from burglar's on this hellsite and thought 'ah architecture and thievery YES please' #seriously all my niche interests right here lolol #and yeah okay i really did think i was going to moderate a book ban (read 5 buy 1) #but i've been failing at that since. january. and i will not catch up at this stage :( #so we'll just call that dead to the world and pretend it didn't ever exist :) #ANYWAY PLEASE BEHOLD MY PRETTY BOOKS!!! #i had a spine shot but i didn't love what it did to the photoset composition lol #might as well post that separately here i goooo

[vfxexpress]

We Have a Ghost VFX Breakdown By ReDefine

We Have a Ghost is 2023 American supernatural horror comedy film written and directed by Christopher Landon, based on the 2017 short story “Ernest” by Geoff Manaugh. It stars David Harbour, Jahi Winston, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge, and Anthony Mackie. It was released on February 24, 2023, by Netflix and received mixed reviews from film critics. VFX Done By ReDefine

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#before and after #beforeafter #behindthescenes #breakdown #VFX Breakdown #vfx making #visual effects breakdown #visualeffectsbreakdown #Youtube

[issela-santina]

I'm quite hyped for We Have A Ghost so below the trailer is the link to the short story I found in case you want to read where it came from

#geoff manaugh #we have a ghost #Youtube

[juventudepsiquica]

O que acontece na Sicília, fica na Sicília

Em seu novo livro, a fotógrafa britânica Alys Tomlinson registra as impactantes tradições religiosas dos festivais de aldeias da Sicília e Sardenha, na Itália. Logo de cara, ficamos impactados com o uso de máscaras e adereços grotescos.

O trabalho revela certa natureza que mistura religião e paganismo, como muitas das tradições seculares ocidentais — uniões eróticas, no sentido descrito por Bataille, onde a lei prevê a própria transgressão como oferta ao humano.

"Mesmo entre as próprias aldeias, não há um acordo real sobre as origens dos festivais. Mas os diferentes rituais e tradições são todos muito específicos das aldeias em que ocorrem. Eles atraem centenas de pessoas para as ruas e há uma dicotomia óbvia entre o contexto religioso e as celebrações muitas vezes barulhentas e embriagadas", descreve Alys.

O que combina com a estética preto e branca, atemporal, escolhida pela fotógrafa.

“Gosto da sensação que o filme preto e branco dá de não saber se as imagens dos demônios ou dos bois são de agora ou de 100 anos atrás. Não há sinais de modernidade nas fotografias, o que está de acordo com a natureza misteriosa e antiga das festas e trajes”.

[Guardian via Geoff Manaugh]

#histórias #religião

[creppy99]

Short story some times ago I think it's already more then a year now but idk I found in my pc a PDF of a book called A burglar's guide to the city and I thought oh ok cool it's an anarchist pamphlet on how to shoplift and whatnot based let's read it however I discovered that it was instead a much structured and theoretical book from a man called Geoff Manaugh and it's a book which mixes architecture art history urbanism law sociology and many other things while trying to see buildings and cities and many other things with the eyes of burglars it is most of all a book on rethinking how we see space as a whole mostly in urban context and it's really interesting furthermore it's a really fun read and here is my favourite quote from the book and it's like only in the introduction there are several fantastic quotes in the rest of the book too and I think now I'm posting this comment on goodreads too

#architecture #art history #burglars #book review