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The folk-pop duo released their first and only album in 2019, but revived a few selections during Oberst's residency at Los Angeles' Teragram Ballroom The folk-pop duo Better Oblivion Community Center, helmed by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst, made a surprise reunion on Thursday night at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles. The venue has been hosting weekly shows as part of the Conor Oberst and Friends residency since early March. Bridgers’ special appearance at this week’s concert marked their…

Being punched in the face by a mixed martial arts world champion will ruin your work day. But, that’s exactly what happened to Oscar-nominated Jake Gyllenhaal when he and UFC superstar Conor McGregor brought the reimagined Road House to life. Now streaming on Amazon Prime, Gyllenhaal heads the cult classic reboot as Dalton, a rough and tough ex-UFC combatant hired as a bouncer at a Florida-based bar. Meanwhile, McGregor’s Knox has been hired on to send the pesky Dalton back where he came from. The movie builds toward a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeConor McGregor has admitted that Meryl Streep’s negative take on mixed martial arts motivated him to give his best performance in Prime Video’s forthcoming movie, Road House.In 2017, while accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes, the Devil Wears Prada actor, then 67, declared: “Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll…

It would be easy to dismiss a new Road House – the shoes left by a gritty, sweaty Patrick Swayze in the pulpy 1989 action film are hard ones to fill; sequels and remakes tend to tip the fine balance of good-bad that defined so many films from that period into straight-up bad. Plus, the Road House remake from The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman is (controversially) bypassing theaters and headed straight to streaming via Amazon Prime Video – by now, given the deluge of disposable content, a dubious distinction for…

Jake Gyllenhaal’s remake of Road House rode into Austin for the SXSW Film Festival on a wave of minor controversies. The film’s director, Doug Liman, took shots at Amazon Prime Video for deciding not to give the movie a proper theatrical release. It will be available to those with a Prime Video subscription beginning on March 21. That brouhaha prompted Gyllenhaal to step in and say that Amazon was alway clear in its intent to go streaming with Road House, even though he respected Liman for defending their film, and…

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxingSign up to our free sport email for all the latest newsFans have gotten their first glimpse at Conor McGregor’s acting debut, after the trailer for Amazon Prime’s Road House was released on Thursday (25 January).The remake of the 1989 action film, which starred Patrick Swayze, will be released on 21 March, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role and McGregor as an antagonist named Knox.Upon the release of the trailer,…

Mapping pixel positions to geographic coordinates using Landsat metadata and RasterioPhoto by GeoJango Maps on UnsplashLocation, location, location! Not just a housing market cliché but also incredibly important to remote sensing. Whether it’s for monitoring environmental changes, analyzing urban development, or tracking crop health, precise geolocation is crucial. We need to know the exact coordinates of objects in satellite images to ensure accurate analysis and interpretation.So, we’ll explore how to plot coordinates…

Streamline Landsat scene downloads with the landsatxplore Python packagePhoto by NASA on UnsplashLandsat satellites are among the most commonly used sources of Earth observation data. They have been providing high-quality images of the planet’s surface for over four decades. However, manually downloading these images can be tedious! Fortunately, with the landsatxplore package, you can easily download and process Landsat scenes with a few lines of code.We will explore the landsatxplore package and walk through the steps to…

Improve your technical and communication skills, learn to write readable code and start writing about anythingPhoto by Mimi Thian on UnsplashWhen I first started writing, I could hardly code. My little Python experience came from university projects. At the same time, I thought I was a great writer! Now looking back, I cringe at some of my earlier articles.This shows me that writing tutorials has improved both my technical and communication skills. Ultimately, it has made me a better data scientist. I want to share my…

How to deal with multiple spectral bands, large pixel values and skewed RGB channels when visualising satellite images(source: SWED)Satellite images contain an abundance of information. The downside is that it is not straightforward to visualise them. The data differs from normal images as they can have:Over 12 channelsLarge pixel valuesSkewed pixel valuesWe will discuss these key considerations. We then factor them into a Python function that will give you flexibility when combining the RGB channels. Specifically, it…