#Bales2025FilmChallenge of September 22: #fall

Hail the New Puritan (Charles Atlas, 1987)

"Those flowers, take them away;
they’re only funeral decorations.
This is The Fall and this is a drudge nation.
Your decadent sins will wreak discipline.
You puritan, you shook me.
I wash every day.”
– The Fall, New Puritan (1979)

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#autumn #CharlesAtlas #TexAxile #LeighBowery #MichaelClark #MarkESmith #BrixSmithStart #GlennBranca #TheFall #cinemastodon #film

American football man, the worst nuisance on the beach, kicking sand in faces.

Limp noodle man: "Hey! Quite kicking Gen AI / LLM in our faces!"

Girl: "Surveillance Capitalism is the worst."

#meme #CharlesAtlas #TheInsult #KickingSand #GenAI #AI #ML #LLM #SurveillanceCapitalism #Capitalism

American football man, the worst nuisance on the beach, kicking sand in faces.

Limp noodle man: "Hey! Quite kicking Gen AI / LLM in our faces!"

Girl: "Surveillance Capitalism is the worst."

#meme #CharlesAtlas #TheInsult #KickingSand #GenAI #AI #ML #LLM #SurveillanceCapitalism #Capitalism

Our next piece is an episode of PBS’s series “Alive! From Off Center” from 1987 featuring the Charles Atlas directed “As Seen on TV” (https://youtu.be/xGhFx9xUqyQ?si=pJVpT3xGZm3K6SXo) a modern vaudevillian adventure starring Bill Irwin
#LaEsoterica #AliveFromOffCenter #AsSeenOnTV #CharlesAtlas #BillIrwin
As Seen On TV - Bill Irwin

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But why was #CharlesAtlas famous in the first place? It turns out he owes his fame to a photographer called Edwin Townsend, whose specialty was taking erotic nudes of muscular men for the underground trade. In 1925 Townsend's Atlas nudes caused a sensation on the New York scene

Charles Atlas wasn't always big and strong looking. As a teenager he was skinny, weighing just 97 pounds (44 kg). In fact, he claimed the story of the 97 pound weakling who gets sand kicked in his face in the advert was autobiographical.

10 things you might not know about Charles Atlas:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2018/10/30-october-charles-atlasbodybuilders-day.html

#CharlesAtlas #BirthAnniversary #Bodybuilding #Facts

30 October: Charles Atlas/Bodybuilder's Day

Bodybuilders day is celebrated on the birthday of Charles Atlas, the Italian-American bodybuilder best remembered as the developer of a body...

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