#localhero — Public Fediverse posts

🎉 WOW, Meta's muse is "glimmering" with a modest 30 billion parameters that can apparently run on your grandma's toaster, all under the guise of "open" and "permissive"! Because nothing says "innovation" like rebranding massive bloatware as a local hero. 🖥️✨
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model #Meta #Glimmering #Innovation #OpenSource #TechBloatware #LocalHero #HackerNews #ngated

bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) spotted on Camusdarch beach aka Bens Beach from the film local hero

#photography #photo #scotland #highland #mallaig #camusdarch #localhero #bensbeach #nature #seashore #seaweed #bladderwrack #beach #sand

"Local Hero" is a movie from 1983, telling a story of an oil-company salesman who's sent to Scotland to buy a whole town, so his company can build there a gasport. While the deal's taking its time, the man learns about the place, etc. The movie felt like a postcard from a simpler world, though I still can't say who the local hero was. Notable for Mark Knopfler's soundtrack. In one of the roles is young Peter Capaldi (a.k.a. the Tenth Doctor).

#LocalHero

The amazing village of Pennan, set on a shelf below north-facing cliffs on the north Aberdeenshire coast and still famous for its role in the 1983 film Local Hero. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/index.html

#Scotland #Pennan #Aberdeenshire #LocalHero

Still a couple of days left you can watch the Bill Forsyth film Local Hero via Channel 4 website.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/local-hero

#LocalHero #BillForsyth #Film

Bill Forsyth: "Film has given me time, my life, a space to learn and to be creative"

TAGS: #BillForsyth #Interview #FilmInterview #FilmDirector #ScottishFilmDirector #FilmMaker #ScottishFilmMaker #FilmTalk #MovieTalk #ThatSinkingFeeling #GregorysGirl #LocalHero #FilmNews #FilmIndustry #EntertainmentNews #Filmbuzz #FilmCommunity #Filmbuff #Moviebuff #Filmmaking #Moviemaking #Storytelling #BehindTheScenes #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema

URL: https://filmtalk.org/2015/08/03/bill-forsyth-film-has-given-me-time-my-life-a-space-to-learn-and-to-be-creative/

@keira_reckons The ultimate comfort film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCFhg6Q6gXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z25fWLawYtM

#LocalHero

🚨BREAKING: Local hero "discovers" UTC—solves all the world's time zone woes while simultaneously inventing the wheel and sliced bread. 🌍💪 Meanwhile, somewhere in a parallel universe, the sun still rises in the east, and no one cares. 🤷‍♂️
https://timestripe.com/magazine/blog/timezone/ #breakingnews #localhero #timezones #innovation #paralleluniverse #worldproblems #HackerNews #ngated

I know I've got a few fans of the fillum following, so:
Local Hero: BBC Radio 4 version
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bgx4
Updated to modern times a bit... No mobile reception, f'rinstance. Yes, the phone box is still there :)
If you know the film, prepare for some curveballs :)
#LocalHero #radio

So excited to share that I made the cover of my local magazine this month! :D #LocalHero

🚨 Breaking News: Local hero bewitches the internet with their groundbreaking manifesto on boycotting AI, only to be thwarted by a *403 Forbidden* error. 🎉 Apparently, AI has decided to boycott *them* first! 🚫🤖 #WhoBlockedWho
https://unherd.com/2025/03/why-im-boycotting-ai/ #BreakingNews #LocalHero #BoycottAI #403Forbidden #InternetDrama #HackerNews #ngated

The amazing village of Pennan, set on a shelf below north-facing cliffs on the north Aberdeenshire coast and still famous for its role in the 1983 film Local Hero. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/index.html

#Scotland #Pennan #Aberdeenshire #LocalHero

It's 10:30. I haven't quite finished cooking dinner. I'm a bit tipsy and fed up. It's near the end of one year and the beginning of another. Can I?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcxW_Sa0yU

#LocalHero

Prima di essere una scuola di #Monza, fu un pittore. #localhero Mosè Bianchi (13/10/1840-15/3/1904) a 120 anni dalla morte - Il Cittadino di Monza e Brianza #accaddeoggi https://www.ilcittadinomb.it/news/rubriche/ricordo-di-mose-bianchi-1840-1904-a-centoventanni-dalla-morte/

https://blabbermouth.net/news/mark-knopfler-enlists-tony-iommi-brian-may-alex-lifeson-slash-and-others-for-new-version-of-going-home-theme-from-local-hero

#MarkKnopfler
#TonyIommi
#BrianMay
#AlexLifeson
#Slash
#GoingHome
#LocalHero
#NewVersion #Cancer

The amazing village of Pennan, set on a shelf below north-facing cliffs on the north Aberdeenshire coast and still famous for its role in the 1983 film Local Hero. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/index.html

#Scotland #Pennan #Aberdeenshire #LocalHero #Sea #UndiscoveredScotland

@nminow Tip of the proverbial cap for #LocalHero and its amazing #soundtrack.

Perhaps Scotland's most famous phone box, in the beautiful village of Pennan on the north Aberdeenshire coast. The one actually used in the film "Local Hero", which was partly made in the village in 1983, was a prop placed nearby. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/pennan/pennan/index.html

#Scotland #Pennan #LocalHero #Film #Movie #Sea #Aberdeenshire #PhoneBox #UndiscoveredScotland

We're "watching" something called Local Hero, where a pair of celebs journey to various spots on the globe and compete in local shenanigans.

Lowish budget, semi-scripted, kinda reminiscent of Joko & Klaas: Duel um Die Welt.

She's actually watching something on her Handy (prolly Netflix), and I've only got half an eye on the TV, for the shenanigans. I could give a shit about the background, and galavant around #HephalumpWorld.

*looks at you*

You have a spot on your shirt.

#LocalHero #TrashTV

Lovely episode of BBC Scotland’s #Landward, available on the iPlayer, celebrating 40 years since classic Scottish #film #LocalHero was made. Including great content from key location in #Pennan in #Aberdeenshire. As well as a related segment where photographer Shabhaz tracks down red phone boxes in #Angus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mrrs/landward-2023-episode-10 #Movies #Films #FilmLocations #FilmingLocations #Scotland #ScottishCinema #ScottishFilms #Phoneboxes #RedPhoneboxes #Countryside #RuralLife

I was kind of hoping for a #TedLasso final shot that would echo #LocalHero, given the amount of red phone boxes shown but it was suitable ending that was true to the series, so no complaints.