As most Hollywood productions collapsed during the unprecedented circumstances surrounding the global pandemic, The Mandalorian stayed on course, and it’s currently on track to deliver its second season on Disney+ in October. However, much of season two was already being filmed as the first season was still captivating audiences, breaking records, and later, going on to score a sizable amount of Emmy nominations. In short, the show got very lucky as a good bulk of the season was in the can before the pandemic reared its head in March 2020.

With season three officially greenlit, fans are understandably concerned that The Mandalorian won’t be so fortunate this time as productions are still facing uncertainty. Fortunately, showrunner Jon Favreau is putting those fears to rest. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Favreau confirms that season three is still on schedule, and he’s confident that the unique filmmaking process for The Mandalorian will allow production to chug along just as smoothly as it did for season two.

The fact that the set is much more contained is a benefit, because you can limit the number of people. A lot of the people controlling it are doing it remotely from what we call the Brain Bar, which is a bank of gaming computers, essentially. The amount of people near the camera could be much smaller than [usual]. We also shoot a lot outside, which is helpful, too. We build to a moment in filming more like an animated production, where we have a lot of storyboards, a lot of discussions and scouting in virtual reality. We use cinematic tools in VR much the same way we did for The Lion King and The Jungle Book. A lot of times the actors you are seeing on the screen aren’t actually there on set.

Favreau is referring here to The Volume, a state-of-the-art soundstage that’s filled with LED screens powered by the same game engine that brings Fortnite to life for millions of players. The Volume was featured prominently in the behind-the-scenes series, Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, and it’s truly a remarkable filmmaking tool that produces photo-realistic sets and lighting in a matter of seconds. Numerous scenes in The Mandalorian that appeared to be shot outdoors were actually created in The Volume.

Granted, the technology is a less intimate process that requires an astonishing amount of pre-visualization work, but it’s practically tailor-made for a time when filming with a skeleton crew is a life-saving necessity.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

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“Turkey in the Straw” is an American folk song dating back to the early 19th century. Originally popularized by fiddle players, the song grew in popularity among vaudeville and minstrel shows that featured blackface performers, inspiring explicitly racist versions of the song. The song known in modern contexts as the song associated with ice cream trucks.

Origin

The song dates back to the 1820s (song below). Based on the earlier British traditional song “The (Old) Rose Tree,” the song “was brought to America’s colonies by Scots-Irish immigrants who settled along the Appalachian Trail and added lyrics that mirrored their new lifestyle.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtFvRFeGcQ4

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Racist Versions

In the 1830s, George Washington Dixon, a minstrel performer, popularized the song’s melody with the song “Zip C**n” (song below, left). NPR writes, “Set to the familiar tune and referencing a blackface character who, as Johnson wrote, was ‘the city-slicker counterpart to the dimwitted, rural blackface character whose name became infamous in 20th century America: Jim Crow.'”

In 1916, Columbia Records released another version of the song that features more racial slurs. Harry C. Browne’s song “N*gger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!” was recorded in March 1916 (video clip featuring the song below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6RcYxDc7s

Association with Ice Cream

In the 1890s, the Regina Company sold music boxes that were popular in ice cream parlors. One of the songs included in the music boxes was “Turkey in the Straw.” As the parlor transitioned to trucks, ice cream vendors used the song as well.

As the connection between the song’s racist history grew in the public consciousness in the mid-2010s, pressure on ice cream vendors to ditch the song increased. On June 18th, 2020, the Good Humor ice cream company, known for its products association with ice cream trucks released a statement about the song in an Instagram They wrote:

Good Humor does not tolerate any form of racism or hate. That means acknowledging the painful origins and history behind common ice cream truck songs, like “Turkey in the Straw.”⠀
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Good Humor has not owned ice cream trucks since the 1970s. We did not create this or other jingles and do not use this song in any advertising materials. However, as a leader in this industry, we want to use our influence to help stop these songs from being played in ice cream trucks immediately.⠀
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“Turkey in the Straw” is an old folk song that gained popularity in 19th century minstrel shows. Its melody was coopted for multiple adaptations with highly offensive, racist lyrics. Ice cream trucks across the country have historically played the melody from “Turkey in the Straw” and other minstrel songs, and these same melodies can be heard to this day. While the racist associations of “Turkey in the Straw” are not the only part of its legacy, it is undeniable that this melody conjures memories of its racist iterations.⠀ ⠀
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We are actively working on a plan to end the use of any songs connected to racism by independent ice cream trucks. This is just one step we’re taking to fight for racial justice and equality.⠀ ⠀ ⠀
We look forward to sharing more soon.

On August 13th, 2020, Good Humor released a new ice cream truck jingle by producer Rza on YouTube. The post received more than 311,000 views (shown below). Good Humor and Rza made the song free for use, encouraging ice cream vendors to stop using “Turkey in the Straw” and instead use the new song.

Japanese MAD Videos

“Turkey in the Straw,” well-known as “Oklahoma Mixer” (Japanese: オクラホマミキサー) in Japan, is also familiar to Japanese people because almost all Japanese people have danced with this song in their school days since this song is used in school education program. Therefore, similar to Mayim Mayim and Can-Can, this folk song have been introduced in pop culture for many times. Among those instances, the most used version in this video remix fad on NND is taken from KONAMI’s shoot ’em up video game Fantastic Journey (Japanese: 極上パロディウス, Gokujō Parodius), which was included in 2007 released title Parodius Portable (shown below, right).

On NND, the early MAD videos using this song had been uploaded since 2009. However, even one of them featured Shuzo Matusoka, those videos didn’t get much attention. Then, this song became really popular on NND in February 2011 by several MAD videos featuring popular TV anime series in that season including Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Infinite Stratos, Squid Girl, etc… Among them, the video below “OklahoMadoka Mixer” had been watched over 500,000 times.

Those succeeded videos uploaded in early 2011 led to a substantial increase in popularity of the series. As of April 2012, the amount of videos related to this series on NND is more than 300.

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Untitled Goose Game became an indie sensation this year, as gamers were delighted by the opportunity to be a mischievous goose wreaking havoc on a small village with goose shenanigans.

However, one couldn’t help but wish at times you could do goose stuff with your goose friends in a multiplayer mode. Happily, that will be a reality next month when they drop a free update for Untitled Goose Game on September 23 that will allow for a local two-player mode that will let you terrorize the village with two geese, letting friends and families tag team the villagers to steal things and make them miserable.

It’s a free update across all platforms, with the game also launching on Steam and Itch.io for the first time. The update also arrives just in time for those who are preordering the physical edition of the game — complete with a vinyl record — that will release on September 29.

So, for those who have been resigned to playing with their friends or loved ones at home by taking turns being a horrible goose, it is finally your time to shine together and bring the villagers to their knees with clever theft and trickery. Given part of the task of the single player mode is finding ways to distract people so you can steal things, the two-player mode figures to really open up opportunities.

Source: https://uproxx.com/gaming/untitled-goose-game-two-player-mode-details/

Aminé’s got a gift for working with unexpected collaborators on his projects. From employing Charlie Wilson on his debut album to having Young Thug pop up on his single “Compensating” (but not in the video), Aminé knows how to bring the surprises pretty consistently. His latest eye-catching collab features Luke Steele (of Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun) delivering his signature vocals over “Hello.” The Portland rapper released the new track just two weeks after his “sophomore-ish” LP, Limbo.

The song features some braggadocious raps from Aminé while Steele offers the jittery chorus of “Hel-el-el-el-lo” over a similarly glitchy beat that sounds like nothing the Portlander has tried in the past. “Shoppin’ so much that my arm gettin’ stretch marks,” he brags on the second verse. “Stuntin’ like a winner but I treat her like a sweetheart.” As a late introduction for listeners who may have missed his first three projects, it’s a catchy, though off-kilter way for him to say, well, “Hello.”

Last week, Aminé celebrated the release of Limbo with a live performance on YouTube featuring a full band playing the album in its entirety. You can check that out here.

Listen to Aminé’s ‘Hello’ featuring Luke Steele of Empire Of The Sun above.

Source: https://uproxx.com/music/amine-hello-luke-steele-empire-of-the-sun/

Roger Stone is said to have drafted tweets in 2016 for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump that were sympathetic to Russia and the country’s president Vladimir Putin.

The finding, outlined in a bipartisan report published Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, sheds new light on the actions of the Trump campaign ahead of the 2016 election.

An excerpt from the report, which contains more than 1,300 pages, details an email from Stone that contained “eight draft tweets for Trump” concerning Russia.

“Many of the draft tweets attacked Clinton for her adversarial posture toward Russia and mentioned a new peace deal with Putin, such as ‘I want a new detente with Russia under Putin,’” the report states.

The email is just one of many revelations in the report, which describes a Trump campaign eager to accept help from the Kremlin.

Stone’s drafted talking points have troubled lawmakers in light of other findings, including the close relationship between Trump campaign chairman Paul Mananfort and accused Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik.

The report also says the Trump campaign was aware that emails released by WikiLeaks, which included those from fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager John Podesta, came from Russian government hackers.

“While the GRU and WikiLeaks were releasing hacked documents, the Trump Campaign sought to maximize the impact of those materials to aid Trump’s electoral prospects,” the report said. “To do so, the Trump campaign took actions to obtain advance notice about WikiLeaks releases of Clinton emails; took steps to obtain inside information about the content of releases once WikiLeaks began to publish stolen information; created messaging strategies to promote and share the materials in anticipation of and following their release; and encouraged further theft of information and continued leaks.”

And while Trump told the special counsel in a written statement that he did not recall discussing WikiLeaks with Stone, the report found that “Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about WikiLeaks and with members of his campaign about Stone’s access to WikiLeaks on multiple occasions.”

The report also found that the Trump campaign learned one hour prior to its publication that the Washington Post was preparing to release the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape. In response, Stone used an intermediary to ask WikiLeaks to “drop the Podesta emails immediately” in an effort to hijack the news cycle and dampen the tape’s impact.

Although Stone was convicted in November for numerous charges, including lying to Congress and witness tampering in relation to the Russia probe, Trump commuted his sentence last month.

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Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter based in Seattle, covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

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Democratic National Convention: Day 1
Tune in on Monday, August 17 from 9-11 PM ET for the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, where we’ll hear from the many Americans who are rising up to take on the crises facing our country.

Featuring: Former First Lady Michelle Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Rep. Jim Clyburn, Convention Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, Rep. Gwen Moore, Former Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Doug Jones, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

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“Lose Control”, also known by its lyric Music Make You Lose Control, is a 2005 song by American rapper Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop. In 2020, the song gained significant popularity in memes, particularly as a part of the Dancing Triangle trend.

Origin

On May 27th, 2005, American rapper Missy Elliott released “Lose Control,” the first single from her album The Cookbook. The hip-hop single peaked at number three position of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA. On January 19th, 2017, the song was uploaded to Missy Elliott’s YouTube channel, where it received over 41 million views in three years. On Spotify, the song had over 107 million streams as of August 18th, 2020.

Music make you lose control, music make you lose control
Let’s go! Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

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Starting in July 2019, the song started trending on TikTok in dance videos. The earliest viral dance TikTok using the song was posted by TikTok user katiefeeneyy on January 19th, 2019, and received over 582,700 likes in two years (shown below, left). The song became viral on the app after on July 16th, 2019, TikTok user aquajock_h2bro posted a dance video that received over 1.4 million likes in one year (shown below, center). On July 19th, 2019, popular TikTok user Charli D’Amelio posted a video using the song, which received over 636,400 likes in one year (shown below, right).

As of August 18th, 2020, over 140,000 videos using the song were posted on TikTok.

In memes, the song was primarily associated with the Dancing Triangle videos and partly with related IDK I’ve Never memes by extension. On February 11th, 2020, Twitter user @melancholyhill posted a Dancing Triangle video set to the song (shown below), gaining over 1.1 million views in six months and starting the trend.

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— ₍ᐢ. ̫ .ᐢ₎ (@melancholyhill) February 11, 2020

In the following months, the song received spread via Dancing Triangle memes on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Following the viral spread, memes referencing the song appeared in various communities; for example, on May 29th, 2020, Redditor air-bonsai posted a Your Honor meme referencing the song that received over 41,400 upvotes in three months.

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The Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat will square off in the 4-5 series in the Eastern Conference, and for those who enjoy watching basketball teams who seem to relish the opportunity to get into brawls, this series is a godsend. Miami and Indiana are two tough, nasty squads, and even if they go about scoring points in different ways, both take pride in their ability to defend and their commitment to never backing down. There’s also the whole Jimmy Butler-T.J. Warren thing, which seems like the sort of beef that could bubble over in a playoff series.

The series between these two squads tips off on Tuesday afternoon, with Game 1 beginning at 4 p.m. EST on TNT. Before that begins, though, we identified a pair of areas — one for each team — that should determine which team is able to come out on top.

Indiana Pacers: Will they be able to make twos?

One thing that Indiana really loves to do is take a whole lot of twos. No team in the league has made more twos than Indiana, only two teams (the Spurs, coached by someone who hate threes, and the Knicks, a team of power forwards) have attempted more, and while they’re 11th in two-point field goal percentage (52.9 percent), the sheer volume they’ve taken means that no team has scored more points via twos than Nate McMillan’s bunch.

The issues with this are twofold. One is that Domantas Sabonis is out, and he is capable of just cooking dudes from inside the three-point line. Sabonis attempted 12.6 twos for the team per game and connected on 56.5 percent of them — the only other players who attempt at least 12 twos a game and connect on at least 56 percent of them this season are the two MVP favorites (Giannis Antetokounmpo, LeBron James), the Sixth Man of the Year favorite (Montrezl Harrell), and Zion Williamson.

The other issue is that Miami does not let teams take twos. Funny enough, they mirror the Pacers pretty nicely: Third in the league in two-pointers allowed and first in two-pointers attempted on defense. Despite being 15th in two-point field goal percentage allowed, they give up so few attempts that only Toronto and Milwaukee have allowed opposing teams to score fewer points from inside the arc.

Indiana’s offense banks on taking and making twos. No team attempts fewer threes, and it will be interesting to see if McMillan switches things up and tells his guys to let it fly if Miami’s interior defense puts the clamps on them. It will be a legitimate war inside the arc, though, and the Pacers really need to make sure they win it.

Miami Heat: Can they continue to crack the Pacers’ three-point defense?

Teams don’t hit a whole lot of threes against the Pacers. On the year, teams are connecting on 34.1 percent of their triples against the squad from Nap Town, the fourth-lowest mark in the entire league. There aren’t many teams in the league that take more pride in what they can do on the defensive end of the floor than Indiana, and over the course of the entire season, they’ve been absolute hell to score against — they’re sixth in the NBA in defensive rating, with the only squads ahead of them being the ones that you normally think of when you talk about the league’s elite defensive unites.

Their opponents in the first round, however, are one of the team’s elite three-point shooting units. Miami loves to let it fly and is outstanding at hitting from deep, coming in ninth in the league in three-point attempts and second in three-point field goal percentage at 37.9 percent. Their best player, Jimmy Butler, has shot the ball terribly from deep, but unlike his previous situation in Philly, the Heat have realized this isn’t a huge deal as long as you surround him with marksmen. As a result, the team has four players in their rotation who connect on at least 40 percent of their threes and a collection of extremely capable shooters beyond them.

Miami built a team where there are so many options to get hot that someone is inevitably going to have a good shooting game most of the time. Indiana is quite good at not allowing that to happen, although in the three games that they played against Miami this year outside of their seeding game finale in the Bubble, the Heat connected on 38.7 percent of their triples, with Duncan Robinson (14-for-31, 45.2 percent) especially getting hot from deep. Unsurprisingly, Miami went 3-0 in those games.

The Heat are the favorites to win this series, in large part due to their ability to get scorching hot (no pun intended) from deep. Indiana will do everything it can to take that way. If Miami’s shots fall, that will not matter.

Source: https://uproxx.com/dimemag/heat-pacers-nba-playoff-preview-x-factor/

Phoebe Bridgers (who celebrated her 26th birthday yesterday) was forced to get creative with performing during the pandemic, and she did so with a “world tour” that consisted of performances from various “venues” around her home. She actually managed to sneak in an in-person performance right before the coronavirus shut everything down.

She participated Versus Creative‘s “50on50” series, which has performers play for small audiences in large venues. Bridgers played her show at a mostly empty Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in March, performing “ICU” and “Halloween.”

Nate Auerbach, partner at Versus Creative and co-producer of 50on50 with the LA Memorial Coliseum, told The Fader, “For 50on50, we aim to work with artists who we feel should be playing stadiums. As an LA native, Phoebe Bridgers is the kind of artist that we want to see perform a hometown show for a packed Coliseum someday. I could not think of a better artist to launch this new series with us. We were so lucky to have filmed this right before everything locked down. For the people there, it was their first time hearing Phoebe’s new music, and probably their last time seeing a live show for a very long time.”

Watch Bridgers’ performance above.

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