Mike Anton

@mdotanton.bsky.social

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a mirthless chuckle (he/him)

An IMAX film camera on a tripod, one of the cameras used to film The Odyssey. To the right, a placard which reads: THE IMAX FILM CAMERA It's traveled from the ocean floor to outer space, and from nature documentaries to Holywood blockbusters. Since making its debut nearly 60 years oga, the IMAX Fim Comera has remained a cinematic icon. The higest-resolution motion picture camera in the world, shooting on MAX 15-perf 65mm fim and delvering unparalleled depth, clarity and detail, it provides filmmakers with powerful storyteling tools and audiences with rich, immersive experiences. A FILM BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN THE ODYSSEY 07.17.26 SHOT ENTIRELY WITH IMAX FILM CAMERAS Witness the greatest journey ever taken, . in the greatest format ever imagined.
White male dipshit in sunglasses, wearing a black Wendy & Lucy shirt under a blue checkered flannel, stands in front of a giant prop recreation of the Trojan Horse in front of the AMC at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles
Image on a soon-to-be 70mm screen reading UltraCinenatheque 70 at the Aero
A glass display for Jackass: Best and Last featuring a white suit, red tie, and red Chuck Taylors purportedly worn by Johnny Knoxville at the AMC Burbank 16
Area man wearing black wire frame glasses with a giant blue light burst over one lens thanks to a flash he did not ask for, wearing a blue shirt with grey jacket, holding a white fountain drink with a red Coca-Cola bottle on it, with a similar small order of popcorn. Some Cherry Coke is getting sucked up the straw. Cute, right? Right…?
Eight multi-colored toys are being stuffed into a toy brown door frame and cannot fit, in a clip from the Simpsons, which shows that because of the number of illnesses Mr. Burns has, they all cannot fit through the door to kill him, causing Burns to declare himself invincible
A black sign overhanging at a covered Burbank parking lot with a left arrow and AMC and IKEA and a right arrow
Jurgen Klopp's, Liverpool's previous manager, leans back with his hands behind his neck, with "i want to fucking die' written in yellow across his black trackie
Dropped a red pin on a Google Map image near Temecula, CA, referencing a bit so old I am scared to look it up
A profile picture of second grade Mike with a red polo shirt, red glasses, and colored lasers in the background, somehow on top of another profile picture of second grade Mike, with the three dots alongside, threatening to send some bullshit into the chat
A book titled “A Guide to Zuni Fetishes and Carvings,” white text on a blue-green box, set on an orange-and-white tile, with an animal totem dead center. Double entendres on “fetishes” yer know.
A green midsize bus with purple ‘scratch marks’ on the side, used for an AEW Revolution entrance video, parked by the LA Convention Center, next to the Staples/Crypto.com Arena
A black razor by Schick, on white with an orange highlight, touting the power of FOUR blades. It protects even after 2400 strokes!
Light blue text on the white IHOP Kid’s Menu showing in lines how to draw the fabled “Cool S,” which is an S that kind of looks like a crystal? This one is hard to alt, I’ll be honest.
A Dark Mode Truth Social post from the actual president of the united states, Donald J. Trump (@realDonalldTrump) digitally screaming “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”
White guy in a grey sweatshirt with a red and blue I Voted sticker gives a big thumbs up for completing his civic duty. In the background are too many fucking Criterions.
Basquait’s Obnoxious Liberals painting, featuring a boxy person in black with “NOT FOR SALE” written, like a t-shirt, raising a fist, while wearing an interpretation silver eyes like glasses and a black top hat with “Obnoxious Liberals” written above
A gigantic purple geode with sparkling innards. Mmmm innards.
A faded green crayon drawing of the classic “dick and balls,” two circles attached to a long oval cut at the top to form a head, on a grey slab concrete. Advantageously a water bottle leaked towards the tip. Found art, children’s park, Los Angeles
Very loud rock music blares in competition with a PA announcer running down the stats and history for a group of troops, who are marching decently in fatigues, in front of two tanks, as the frame tries to avoid showing how few people are there. At one point there is a cut to show a hetero family of five lazing on a sparsely filled green area, presumably for throngs to be standing, but more closely resembles the 3:15 acoustic set on an offshoot Lollapalooza stage after the edibles have kicked in.
From a profile of Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslov in Intelligencer: This has created, in the first year or two of his moguldom, a rearguard action of resentment and resistance within the industry - hence a largely unfriendly narrative (drowned out by chants of "Pay your writers" in a speech he made during the writers strike; hoisted for a critical—”
The Providence Friar mascot, with its horrifying giant face, skates on the ice at a game, with black boot-like skates, a white, body-length tunic, and black head scarf/cape combo. A stealer of souls.
An image of a teenage girl sticking out her tongue, wearing a grey tank and a black zip-up hoodie, is the same profile picture for two different bsky accounts in my follower list, named “Alexah” and “Alexandrinaa”
Max Fisher, wearing a white dining coat and black bow tie, walks out of an elevator holding a carton of bees from the Rushmore Beekeepers club, which he probably founded, in order to prank his friend turned nemesis. The Who’s “A Quick One While He’s Away” would be playing over non-diagetically.
FEATURING: Downhill (1927), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), The Lady Vanishes (1938), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Suspicion (1941), Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954), The Wrong Man (1956), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972)
Six boxes of faces, four are purposefully obscured. In the bottom left is an exceptionally doofy photo of myself, with an expression of “yeah?” And among my loved ones is Tom Gulitti’s photo from his Twitter account circa 2013.
A very rude text on iMessage to Ryan Lambert at 8:48 PM reading “Post on bluesky dipshit.” We are friends.
2000s-era New York Yankee Luis Sojo is poised to throw a baseball in his right hand during practice in an otherwise empty Yankee Stadium. In front of the blue seats, Luis wears the full navy blue warm-up button up top and the trademark pinstripe pants. His teeth are clenched as if saying “eeereh!”
I am the 128,420th person to join Bluesky, making me a top 10% poster. Apparently that makes me an elder. I posted through the poster strike.
Tiffany Amber-Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski from Saved the Bell, posed against a light purple background, wearing large, circular earrings and a floral print tank top. She is the early 90s incarnate.
Four images from The Simpsons episode “Bart Gets An Elephant” from season 5 episode 17. Top: Stampy the Elephant walks into the Republican convention among cheering throngs with Republicans with banners reading “we want what’s worse for everyone” and “we’re just plain evil.” Bottom: Reverse, as Stampy heads into the Democratic convention to angry people yelling at the stage, with “we hate ourselves” and “we can’t govern!” written on their banners.
A Lego Brick Separator, in orange, photographed against a white background. Designed to get you out of fucking up a Lego build, it has a lever design and different build elements from sets built on it to get you out of sticky situations.
A used, pink-framed Band-Aid of the Disney character Moana, in a floral dress and red halter, is stuck onto a beige dome cover on a children’s playground set.
Photo of Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye, posed with a white robe falling off her left shoulder just before she attempts to do her signature move: suffocating a man with her thighs
Sonic, the blue 16-but hedgehog, stands on a floating pillar, avoiding the brown pendulum hanging under Dr. Robotnik’s aerial egg-like flying vessel at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog’s Green Hill Zone, Act 3.
Screenshot of an email, white text on a black background, from Biden for President. Just under, the header, “Catastrophic,” then, “All eyes are on this campaign. Michael —“
A plastic bag containing the “PONY-O” ponytail hair product, which is a flat, black object at the bottom of the bag. Above is a 4-step diagram of using the rubber hair tie.
A thumb, painted red with a green smiley sticker, holds a golden bell with a goose flying atop.
A herb grinder
Man City player Doku’s studs driven deep into Liverpool player Mac Allister’s chest in City’s box. VAR check said no penalty for the 99th minute offense.
My most listened to albums are Bluey’s Dance Mode at 407 plays, and Bluey the Album at 318 plays. BeOOOP!
My Apple Music Replay of 2033: Bluey at 1,674 minutes, Wilco at 1341, Kacey Musgraves at 1283, Billy Bragg at 1107, Billy Joel at 972. The bottom four are on my kid’s Goodnight playlist.
“The Mean Street Posse,” Shane MacMahon’s stable of friends “from the mean streets of Greenwich, CT.” Features three white guys in sweater vests, looking hard.
A photo of Michael Jordan wearing the white 1992 “Dream Team” USA Basketball jersey. USA is in block lettering, with red above and blue below. It’s pretty freakin’ sick. Done tread on me, etc.
Renée Zellwegger in Empire Records, wearing a black sweater and suddenly thrust in front of a microphone to sing “Sugar High” in order to help sabe the store with a rooftop fundraiser at the film’s climax
The Architect from The Matrix Reloaded, sitting in a grey three-piece suit with a red tie, close-cropped white hair and beard, seated in front of dozens of monitors.
A pink, presumably citrus (?) Japanese-sold beverage named Mets, with the logo lightly styled like the New York baseball team, for some reason
A jubilant Hillary Clinton basking in her Pokémon Go joke on the campaign trail in 2016
Adam “Rico” Henrique, and his glorious mustache, posted as a play on RICO charges
Five-year-old? Mike, with one arm out asking someone off camera “okay??” with an extreme amount of sass, holding a plush 101 Dalmatian in front if a pen filled with sheep.
Before a match begins, AEW superstar Kenny Omega point out a sign at ringside which reads: Support Trans Kids. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
A terribly cropped image of Marlon Brando as Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now muttering “the horror, the horror.”
Cartoon dog in a tuxedo with wide eyes, tongue on the floor, and rear elevated, as if horniness itself can defeat gravity
Copy from a Variety article from AMPTP’s side that essentially is saying SAG-AFTRA are the bad guys who don’t understand the ramifications of a strike. To wit, I say, “lol.”
An image of bombed out London after a nuclear bomb, from the 1984 film Threads, about post-Apocalypse life.
Hank Scorpio smiles with confidence while wearing Homer’s jacket, backwards