Josiah

@powersurf.bsky.social

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PDX. Designer. Theme park fan. Sometimes seminarian.

A 1995 ad for Ohio Art's Zender. The blue device hovers in front of a brick wall. It has a black keypad on the right and several buttons on the left (one of them labeled "ZEND"). The tiny screen reads "MEET ME."
A still from the Steam hardware announcement showing someone playing a 2D screen game on a big floating virtual screen within a full-color environment.
A list of features of the Samsung Galaxy XR. It lists Refresh rates: 60 Hz, 72 Hz (Default), 90 Hz (Up to, upon service request).
The character Geroge Bluth (Jeffrey Tambor) from Arrested Development is in an orange prison jumpsuit. Subtitles at the bottom in yellow read "There's a good chance I might have committed some light…" and the punchline has been changed to "SCI-FI" with black-outlined white Impact font.
An image from the first webcam on isportlandburning.com showing a large column of smoke right in the middle of the city.
A gif of Indiana Jones, in the rain, shouting, "that belongs in a museum!"
An Oh No comic entitled "Pitch." In the first panel, a beret-wearing pink character hands a yellow squiggly, organic shape labeled "thing" to a monotone gray character who says "I love it." In the second panel, the gray character says "but lets get rid of the unusual bits" as all the curves and squiggles are being cut off the thing, making it more rectangular. In the final panel, the gray character continues, "so it fits with everything else" as it stacks the newly-rectangular yellow "thing" in a pile of similarly rectangular multi-colored things. The artist from the first panel looks on and exclaims "oh no."
A banner for the movie Alien: Romulus. A black/red duotone image shows a person with a shaved head and a facehugger attached to their face. They are gripping the tail in their struggle. The title sits on the left in white.
A still of Jared Leto from Tron: Ares. He looks through a clear panel of a black helmet with glowing red flourishes. In the trailer his character is oddly referred to as "biblically strong."
“Right now you’re changing your ad creative every six months when it should be done every six seconds,” he said of the efficiencies video tools like Luma brought. And on the studio side, “Why are you making 5 movies a year when you should be making 50, you should be making 100?” “This changes the economics,” he added, “so drastically.”
Mario from Super Mario Sunshine wears F.L.U.D.D, a blue and yellow water-spraying jet-pack on his back.
Michael Jackson and several backup dancers are dressed in suits and hats for the Smooth Criminal video. Feet together, they all lean their entire bodies over to an impossible 45-degree angle and then back to standing.
The new Walt Disney animatronic from "Walt Disney - A Magical Life" at Disneyland. The figure is donned in a gray suit and stands in a replica of his office.
A tweet from @mikeerre quoting the US DHS showing a militarized clip reel accompanied by the quote (from Isaiah 6) "Here I am, send me." Mike comments: Beyond blasphemous! Jesus people must publicly resist the idolatrous attempts of this administration to justify its policies in "christian" language and imagery.
A graph from Down Detector showing the last 24 hours. There is almost 0 reports of outages except for the last 10 minutes or so when it spikes to almost 500 reports.
A new drawn map/layout for the Cars ride coming to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. In the lower right is a new character (an aged green truck character that appears to be a park ranger). It sits next to a small banner reading "Welcome to Piston Peak."
A LEGO model of the Balrog showdown scene from Lord of the Rings. The Balrog’s LEGO whip is positioned in such a way that it looks like he’s urinating on a tiny LEGO Gandalf.
An announcement of Jonny Ive and Sam Altman’s new venture “io.” At the top it reads “Sam & Jony introduce io.” Below that is an awkward portrait of the two. It is black and white. Both men look airbrushed to the point of being synthetic. Jony is slightly behind Sam with his head cocked to the photos right and his left hand pm Sam’s left shoulder. Sam stares into the camera. Not to editorialize alt text, but let the listener understand this is perhaps the most awkward tech promotional photo I’ve ever seen. Below the image reads “May 21, 2025. This is an extraordinary moment.”
The cover for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. Kirby is in the center of the cover art, surrounded by four friends. They are on top of a yellow star which is on top of a blue checkered background. The logo sits on top while a red band of game information sits on the right side.
A collection of travel stickers themed to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Left to right top to bottom: an oasis sticker featuring a mace, a Discovery Island sticker featuring the Tree of Life, a Harambe Wildlife Reserve with an Oryx, Anandapur with the Forbidden Mountain and train silhouette, Dinoland USA with the Dino Institute and styracosaurus silhouette, and finally a Valley of Mo’ara sticker with a knockout Banshee silhouette.
A long line of director-style chairs. The line fading into the horizon is blurry. The back of the chair in front reads MICHAEL EISNER.
A long line of director-style chairs with names on the back. The ones in the back are blurry and the one in front reads Ronald McDonald.
A screenshot of the Dr. Seuss instagram account. On the left is the main image of Sam-I-Am and Guy-I-Am walking with green eggs and ham. Someone has added text to the image that says "They ate."
A hand holds a Switch case styled like a giant yellow Donkey Kong Country Game Boy cartridge.
Graphic for the Steam Spring Sale 2025. A banner notes that it's running March 13 – 20th @ 10 AM PT. The graphic shows an illustrated sci-fi adventurer and robot companion looking at a green-tinged alien landscape with a large clamshell-like plant that appears to be opening.
An answer from ChatGPT: In the book, it's explained that InGen controls the dinosaurs' diets by making them dependent on a specific lysine supplement. Without regular doses, the dinosaurs would theoretically lapse into a coma and die. This was a built-in failsafe to prevent them from surviving in the wild if they ever escaped. However, the movie does not include this concept. The film instead focuses on the idea of controlling the dinosaurs through genetic engineering (like making them all female) and the physical barriers of the park.
An excerpt from NPR's report on Duolingo's recent stunt where they faked the death of their mascot Duo: It started with a video of his resurrection: Duo (or at least a person disguised as him) climbs out of the coffin in which he had been laid to rest just weeks earlier, hops out of a truck bed and walks down the street as if nothing has happened.
Two stacked frames from the music video What Would Walt Day. In the top frame, Tyler Dean McDowell melodramatically paints a picture while wearing a crisp white shirt and ball cap. In the bottom of the frame the painting is revealed to be weary, broken, exhausted, grieving Walt Disney sitting in a chair.
A cover for The Sesame Street 1976 Calendar: A Bicentennial Celebration featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. In a spoof of the painting The Spirit of '76, Ernie, Bert, and Grover are dressed up like revolutionary war soldiers, marching in front of a crowd of other Muppets. Ernie and Bert play drums, while Grover (with a bandage on his head) plays the flute.
An old bottle of Digestive Advantage Daily Probiotic gummies. The logo is a simple serif font in purple letters.
Stefon Meyers as played by Bill Hader on SNL.
A Google AI Overview result for how to create a timer in Figma Slides: "Create a timer using text. 1. Type the time you want to count down in HH:MM:SS format 2. Select the text layer 3. Press Start"
Matt Frewer as The Cat in the Hat in In Search of Dr. Seuss. He is dressed as the cat with a furry black suit, red bow tie, and the trademark red and white hat. Frewer stands with his hands clasped over his chest with the thumbs up. This mirrors a pose of a painting he’s standing in front of which is the real Cat in the Hat as drawn by Dr. Seuss.
A 16-square matrix showing different 90s aesthetics. The x axis is Chaos to Order and the y axis is Naturalism to Futurism. Starting from the top-left, the aesthetics are: Row 1: Cyperpunk Classic, Factory PoMo, Cyper Corporate, Neon Brutalism Row 2: Wonka PoMo, Festival Marketplace, Utopian Scholastic, Mall Deco Row 3: Whimsical Mystical Gothic Celestial, Global Village Coffeehouse, Memphis Jr., Casual Soft Home Row 4: Grunge Corporatism, Rainforest Chic, Frasurbane, Zen-X Someone has made the unfortunate choice of setting "Naturalism" in the Papyrus font.
The poster for Invasion America. The title is at the top, “Invasion” is in all caps, and “America” is lowercase. A animated young man in a loose shirt and jeans appears to be leaping or being taken up by an area of light in front of a starry background.
An image showing the different items included in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Limited Collector's Edition. This includes a model of a plane, a flight bag with patches, a collectable retail box, an instruction sheet for assembling the model, a logo pin, flight tags with game code, collectable lithograph, and letter to the fans.
A page from the Pepsi rebrand document showing how the new Pepsi brand seemingly produces gravitational pull in the same way large planetary objects bend space and time.
Concept art from Universal Epic Universe's Dark Universe land. Guests enter through the ruins of a wall. Sparse, dead trees line the walk. A large mansion looms in the distance.
A splash screen from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It reads, "Dawn of the Final Day: 24 Hours Remain."