Articles by klu9 on NeoDB

#TIL about James Wong Howe, Hollywood cinematographer, active 1917-1975

One of the most sought after cinematographers in Hollywood & twice Oscar-winner, he pioneered use of wide-angle lenses, deep focus, low-key lighting (& invented the crab dolly), helping usher in the style later known as *film noir*.

• JamesWongHowe
• Cinemastodon
• Hollywood
• Cinematography
• ChineseAmericans
• OscarWinners
• FIlmNoir
• TIL

Latest NeoDB /Eggplant changes: collections on Home

NeoDB/Eggplant.place has been updated, lots of graphical changes. But one, display of collections on Home page, not great for me.

• NeoDB

The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961) & other UK scifi of the 1950s & 60s

I loved The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)(henceforth TDTECF): end of the world scifi, "journalism procedural" (if that's a thing) with a dollop of the kitchen sink drama realism of late 50s/early 60s UK cinema. 5 star…

• 1950s
• 1960s
• SciFi
• Horror
• UK
• Film
• Movies
• Monsterdon

Some info re NeoDB Articles crossposted to Mastodon

I'm still learning NeoDB features & interaction/federation, seeing what happens when I try things like crossposting an article. Re a NeoDB article (NeoDB > Feed > Compose > New Article) crossposted to Mastodon On Mastodo…

• NeoDBtips
• NeoDB
• Mastodon
• ActivityPub

Of course you can open Mastodon posts on NeoDB!

You know how you can input the URL of a Mastodon post from another instance into your own instance's search box to see the post displayed on your own instance (& thus interact with it: favourite, boost, reply etc)? #TIL you can do that with a Mastodon post on #NeoDB . I don't know why I hadn't realized or tried this earlier!

• NeoDB
• Mastodon
• Fediverse
• ActivityPub
• TIL
• NeoDBtips

Lots added to #MondayActionMovie Collection

Re the NeoDB collection for the #MondayActionMovie watch party: https://eggplant.place/collection/3dbcisTUvJzKp2CDrx7XiC Added another year of films (2024), based on @SesameSquirrel@mastodon.social 's watch party calend…

• MondayActionMovie
• WatchParty
• NeoDB

#ReMonsterdon watch party start times around the world (Northern Hemisphere daylight savings version)

An article with #ReMonsterdon start time images so I can link to them from elsewhere.

• ReMonsterdon
• WatchParty

#Monsterdon links

I kept putting more & more info in the description section of the #Monsterdon watch party collection here on NeoDB / Eggplant.place, then cut a lot because it was getting super long. But maybe I went too far. So here's a…

• Monsterdon
• MonsterMiru
• WatchParty
• MonsterdonDoubleFeature