Yeah, that’s right – Netflix, cheese, and “Wonderwall.” If that’s not a winning combination, I don’t know what is. Regardless, I hope you all enjoy this selection of links and…I’m sorry, but there’s more Star Wars stuff.
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The New York Times had a really great write-up on the women who helped bring the Star Wars universe to life, both on screen and off:
Kathleen Kennedy founded the group in 2012 when she succeeded George Lucas as president of Lucasfilm, putting Kiri Hart, a former film and TV writer, in charge of the unit. Ms. Hart’s first move was to make the story group entirely female, starting with Rayne Roberts and Carrie Beck. Both women had experience in film development but had also worked in other arenas — Ms. Roberts in magazine publishing, and Ms. Beck with the Sundance Institute.
Though I know some fans are divided on the latest movie, I hope this bodes well for women in future Star Wars creations.
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For those of you who have a Netflix account, myself included (though it’s really my boyfriend’s but whatever!) I’m sure you’ve noticed that the “cover art” for movies and TV shows sometimes changes. Well, there might be a reason for that:
To achieve effective personalization, we also need a good pool of artwork for each title. This means that we need several assets where each is engaging, informative and representative of a title to avoid “clickbait”. The set of images for a title also needs to be diverse enough to cover a wide potential audience interested in different aspects of the content. After all, how engaging and informative a piece of artwork is truly depends on the individual seeing it. Therefore, we need to have artwork that highlights not only different themes in a title but also different aesthetics. Our teams of artists and designers strive to create images that are diverse across many dimensions. They also take into consideration the personalization algorithms which will select the images during their creative process for generating artwork.
I thought it was an interesting discussion on how art meets algorithms.
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Want to know what cheese pairs well with your zodiac sign? Of course you do. I, for one, am kind of disappointed with the pairing I got. I’m an Aries.
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If you’re searching for some new urban fantasy or paranormal romance series to read, author Chloe Neill has a huge list! HUGE! It’s by no means a full, comprehensive list, but hopefully you find something there you haven’t read before.
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Seth Everman in YouTube is a pretty awesome musician. Seriously, I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of his videos many a time. He recently tested out a number of functions on his synth by playing “Wonderwall” by Oasis. I think the 90s boyband version might be my favorite.
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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
The Chloe Neill link actually links you to the Zodiac cheeses.
Here’s the link for her paranormal series list: http://www.chloeneill.com/?page_id=2818
Looked at the cheese/zodiac pairings and discovered that, apparently, I’m a Virgo. (I always knew zodiac stuff was full of it.)
I do love gruyere.
@Molly: Fixed! I guess I really just wanted everyone to read about cheese.
I got mozzarella, which is indeed one of my favorite cheeses.
I got Gouda, which is fine, but I preferred mine smoked.
Other members of my household got brie and Camembert, both of which we love.
Who am I kidding? We love all cheese, and generally have up to a dozen varieties in our fridge at any given time. Yum!
I’m a Leo and I’ll trade you to get Parmesan. I don’t like cheddar very much. I am however enough of a cheese fanatic that I clicked on that link as fast as i could.
Here’s a pretty comprehensive look at Wonder Woman’s live-action costumes throughout the years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjSby8SIPJ4
Yeah, I’m okay with what I got (feta) but Parm is far and away my favorite.
Emily Asher-Perrin at Tor.com has a pretty fantastic (IMO) article about ‘The Last Jedi’ today: https://www.tor.com/2018/01/10/wow-people-are-really-mad-at-poe-dameron/
I’m even enjoying the comments section, a place I avoid like the plague on most websites (SBTB excepted, obviously).
I like every cheese except Swiss and American – basically I like every cheese that isn’t processed – so I’ll take cheddar. But if you want to try something amazing, find cambozola. Trader Joe’s and Costco both have it.
Some words of wisdom from fictional women:
https://www.playgroundequipment.com/50-empowering-quotes-from-fictional-female-characters/
I would probably have picked a better quote from Leia, but – that does kind of sum up her character.
I’ve never been all that fond of brie; you have to prepare it just right to keep it from being bland. But that typifies most Pisces too; we tend to blend in unless we make an effort. Personally my favorite is Manchego; goes well with everything and especially in omelets. And yes, my Aquarian son does like his swiss.
I like the Chloe Neill Chicagoland Vampire series, but I stopped reading it because of the pricing. The Kindle prices are reasonable until book 6 or so, and then there’s one for 12.99. It’s a 3-year-old book! Either, they’re trying to make you pay the high price to continue the series or they forgot to re-set it, but either way, the books aren’t worth 12.99 to me.
Note: I will pay 12.99 this summer for the last Kate Daniels. That’s different 🙂
Feta???? For a Scorpio???
Very interesting video, but his eyes are totally scary to me. It feels like he is plotting my death!
Gorgonzola for a Virgo is ridiculous. I loved the Wonderwall video btw.