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Nov 05

This Guiness ad—Bring it to Life—is marvelous and stunning. It has brought with it’s a share of criticism, however. Ignoring the usual YouTube ignorance, Ruby Pseudo, clever youth marketeer, attempts to make a point:

Yes women of the world, men are building us an imaginary, beatific, tree-lined world of wonder. We don’t have to lift a finger lucky ladies, there’s a bunch of willing white guys out there hard at work with pick axes! I know, I know, I can’t believe it either. I am the luckiest little lady alive. I’ll tell you what. I’m going to pour those marvelous men a pint instead, sit back, watch the top slowly settle and un-burn my bra. Fuck it, I’ll bake a cake too.

The reaction is based primarily on Guinness’s own description of the commercial:

The “World” ad sees a group of guys come together to bring a world to life… (Emphasis hers.)

As a feminist, I completely disagree on this issue. Just because something features only men does not automatically make it anti-feminist. Just because a commercial targets men doesn’t mean it’s demeaning or ignoring the accomplishments of women. It speaks to the masculine side of a guy’s brain and depicts a positive side of brotherhood. These guys aren’t lumps sitting in sofas, watching football and talking about all the “bitches” they wanna fuck. It’s not a violent high-octane action-sequence. They’re not even playing sports (which is basically a simulation of war). They’re actually trying to build something, to make a better world, which I can’t recall ever seeing in a beer commercial. It’s really an inspiring sequence. If there’s a male equivalent to feminism, this would be it.

(See also: We don’t need more strong female characters.)

(video via GuinnessWorld1759)

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Ya cyan’t com in.

The Specials—“You’re Wondering Now (2002 Digital Remaster)”

Rude Week: Day 2. (Previously.)

Who Cleaned the Watchmen? Corey Breen did, along with a few others. The film that the Watchmen art was shot on was done in such a way that produced a moiré pattern, even on the black layer. When they went to produce the prestigious Absolute Watchmen volume, all these dots had to be painstakingly erased while keeping all of Dave Gibbons’s original line work perfectly in tact. Sometimes I just used a thicker brush, but the lasso tool came in handy to get rid of larger areas. But as you can see, it made it a little harder to distinguish what is now the dots, and what is actual Gibbon’s line. So imagine getting rid of all these dots and lines of moire patterns! Imagine doing that, and NOTHING else for eight hours a day for six months.

Who Cleaned the Watchmen? Corey Breen did, along with a few others. The film that the Watchmen art was shot on was done in such a way that produced a moiré pattern, even on the black layer. When they went to produce the prestigious Absolute Watchmen volume, all these dots had to be painstakingly erased while keeping all of Dave Gibbons’s original line work perfectly in tact.

Sometimes I just used a thicker brush, but the lasso tool came in handy to get rid of larger areas. But as you can see, it made it a little harder to distinguish what is now the dots, and what is actual Gibbon’s line. So imagine getting rid of all these dots and lines of moire patterns! Imagine doing that, and NOTHING else for eight hours a day for six months.

Nov 04
The Stoakes-Whibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns is probably the Fuckin’ Awesomest thing I will see for the rest of the week. A knot of elves; a lawn of gnomes; an industry of villains. (via yaldabaoth)

The Stoakes-Whibley Natural Index of Supernatural Collective Nouns is probably the Fuckin’ Awesomest thing I will see for the rest of the week. A knot of elves; a lawn of gnomes; an industry of villains. (via yaldabaoth)

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So you think you’re pretty hot in your pork pie hat.

The Clash—“Rudie Can’t Fail”

(via harharhar):

This animated James-Bond–esque faux-trailer pretty much covers all of my favorite things. Stephane Coedel is good with After Effects.

Along these same lines: his intro sequence for a Cartoon Network pilot.

Yeah, this is so cool.

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AAAHHHHHHHH! Adorable droog! (via smutandeggs)

AAAHHHHHHHH! Adorable droog! (via smutandeggs)

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Nov 03
Marcus unshaved his beard for me!

Marcus unshaved his beard for me!

(via iena): No Alanis Morrisette. You are wrong. I need a fucking spoon. Oh, so you already know how to play Knifey-Spooney.

(via iena):

No Alanis Morrisette. You are wrong. I need a fucking spoon.

Oh, so you already know how to play Knifey-Spooney.

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Ha, true for me, too. (via venndiagrams)

Ha, true for me, too. (via venndiagrams)

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Nov 02
The Hairy Angler is 2009’s Freakiest Fish, as voted on by members of Oceana, a non-profit seeking to save the world’s oceans. “It is covered in sensory hairs, giving it a disheveled appearance.” The males have rarely been seen, because they’re small and act as parasites on the females. (via Oceana)

The Hairy Angler is 2009’s Freakiest Fish, as voted on by members of Oceana, a non-profit seeking to save the world’s oceans. “It is covered in sensory hairs, giving it a disheveled appearance.” The males have rarely been seen, because they’re small and act as parasites on the females. (via Oceana)

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The Atacama desert is actually where NASA conducts its test-runs for sending machines to Mars. The locations are virtually identical. There’s no moisture and no life. If you die in the Atacama, you don’t even rot. Scientists have found bodies, thousands of years old, that look as fresh as the day they keeled over. This is it. This is literally the most inhospitable place on the surface of the Earth. There are microbes in the calderas of volcanos, but there isn’t a single one here.

(via yaldabaoth)

I could see the potential here for a Romero zombie movie, since he turned them into vaguely sympathetic creatures in Land of the Dead (and I hear Diary continues the trend), I could see them migrating to a land where they can exist without decaying. Then again, that sounds like it would make a pretty shitty zombie movie.

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I’m not too into the whole American Idol craze, but damn, this guy out-and-out nails an inspiring first audition on X-Factor. (via cassielynn)

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Inspired by jeannr, loveallthis flowcharted the Beatles classic, “Hey Jude.” (via spaceships)

Inspired by jeannr, loveallthis flowcharted the Beatles classic, “Hey Jude.” (via spaceships)

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