Love it. The first mini calculator.
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This news item is actually fiction by David Cronenberg, right?
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This is so Meta Internet.
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first against the wall when the climate revolution comesā¦
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Thank you!
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So they are filming (I think) either avengers or maybe Black Panther, but Iām fairly sure itās avengers) a couple of blocks from my office, so I have to drive by the set. Itās on Auburn Ave., which if you know anything about ATL, you know itās the historic heart of the black community here. I drove by the set Monday, and they were building awnings on some of the buildings. I drove by this morning - one of them says Harlem on itā¦ so how weird is it that in filming in whatās supposed to be the black community of NYC, they settle on the black community of ATL?
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NYC is sadly not film friendly for location shooting when it comes to permits and what isnāt allowed as far as set deocrations, effects on site, etc.
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The very exact location where the filming is happening, actually. The cross street is now ā139th Streetā! I think itāsā¦ Bell maybe? But I canāt remember off the top of my head.
I just found it super-ironic that one historically black neighborhood became the stand in for another oneā¦
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Really? Is that new, because I know that both Spike Lee and Scorsese did lots of filming there over the yearsā¦ and arenāt all the netflix marvel shows filmed on location?
Weāre working to attract the industry, so low taxes, probably relatively easy permitting process, etc. I swear to god, literally EVERYTHING is filmed here now. I canāt spit intown without hitting a movie set!
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I know back in the 80ās John Carpenter filmed very very little in NYC for Escape from New York because they would not allow him to dirty up the streets for shooting.
But poking at IMDB it looks like they do a lot of location shoots so good for that.
Seattle isnāt a stand in city so much anymore but Vancouver BC still is and it is normal to have to walk around film shoots there.
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Wow. With the huge John Lewis mural and everything?
This is the corner of Auburn and Jesse Hill, although I may have been standing on Bell when I took the picture.
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I know right? I have no idea if that will make it into the film, but it would be interesting if it did. Lewis is so connected to downtown Atlanta by now, that it would be weird to see that mural in a fictional harlem! But maybe notā¦
I couldnāt think of that cross street, I wanted to say Bell, but thatās the next block closer to the King center,etc.
I do love that street, even when driving to my office and I get stuck behind the street car that no one is riding in!
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As I recall, Larry Cohen used to film quite a bit in NYC in the '80s, but he never relied on elaborate sets, so that could be the issue.
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Wow. That woman is a survivor.
Unrelated, except itās an Alaska survival story:
Max Hirschbergās 1200 mile bicycle ride from Dawson YT to Nome AK during the winter of 1900.
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she was a total rockstar! and her coat was super cute, too. (girl crushing on her)
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