Following from the last post (sorry to tarnish your Christmas spirit), decapitating penises for your nightmare’s pleasure. This is the uncensored version of a rude & trippy music video I thought you needed to be made aware of. If you’re hoping for a narrative, forget about it. Penis is all you’re getting:
Want less dick fantasy and more dick facts, hopefully this quells your appetite:
Congrats Daisy on the voice work with MukpuddyAnimation studio for the US toy-line “TheZelfs.” You sound like an angel of the second highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy.
Truly awesome work D. A few days ago, I may have sent Daisy a music video with decapitating penises in it, and she presents the world with this!!! I feel like I violated the innocent mind of a cherub.
“While taking my kids to the playground, I shot live-action footage of a grasshopper, using my iPhone. This is one of many short animated clips I’ve made for fun. I might continue this particular clip as an Insect Aviation series… who knows 🙂 My work-in-progress can be found on my blog: animatingforfun.com.”
Are you a shamelessly talented filmmaker? Create a 30 second to 2 minute short story profiling a “Shameless” personality (true or fictional) for your chance to win shameless money. But who cares about the money, just do it:
Every family has a ‘black sheep’ – but what if your entire family was a herd of ‘black sheep’? They’re Shameless – brash and brazen with no sense of boundaries, living out loud to their own soundtrack. But even though they may sometimes drive others crazy, they’re all heart. They’ve got a passion for life that we admire and endearing qualities that make us secretly love them a little more than our more conventional – and way more boring – relatives.
Your video should have a strong narrative component that highlights these larger than life characters that we all can relate to.
It is a good morning when you wake up to learn one of your favourite shows is returning with a brand new season (Premieres Sun, Jan 12 at 9 PM ET/PT). I could write an essay on how great a show SHAMELESS is, and the majority of it would be about the cast who somehow manage to convince me that their absurd and desperate situations are grounded in today’s world. Every character is fleshed out with their own personal dilemmas and ways of overcoming strife, ways that every-other show would be too politically correct to endorse.
At face value one could label this show as crude, but peppered between these rude and sometimes unnerving story arcs are some of the most well written and loving scenes between characters I’ve ever seen in a TV drama. The cast and crew of the US version of SHAMELESS have struck a certain balance of entertainment for me, I just don’t get from any other forms of show.
If I had to single out a favourite character, it would be between the hilariously unpredictable Sheila (Joan Cusack), the resourceful Lip (Jeremy Allen White), the elder sister Fiona (Emmy Rossum) when she’s taking care of business, and of course William H. Macy as Frank, doing what he does best. Child actors are spot on too.
Having said, all the dramatic irony, absurdity and rudeness is a major part of why I love this show too. Despite their low socioeconomic living conditions, The Gallaghers sure know how to party and kick ass. Yeah. …I should get paid for this shit.
British indie-pop singer Polly Scattergood’s “Wanderlust” further proves that a good song and a neat & simple concept executed-well is all a music video needs — A girl behaves seemingly randomly caught in a mesmerizing, immutable loop-cycle, before new elements are introduced giving meaning to her movements:
Her second album release “Arrows” is available on iTunes:
Husband and wife prank duo target homeward-bound airplane travelers mid cellphone conversation by awkwardly responding to whatever they say during their calls. …I feel like that sentence works but should have a comma in it somewhere… Meh.
Don’t you hate when people talk loudly on their phones in public? Why not have some fun with it and “crash” their calls!
China has successfully landed a spacecraft probe on the surface of the extraterrestrial body we call the moon — China’s first lunar rover mission, and the first robotic observer to be deployed on the moon in over 3 decades. Welcome to the next epoch of space exploration, China:
I think it goes without saying, but please, none of this Mars rover “Spirit” (2004) nonsense while on the lunar surface:
2.5 billion dollar trip to Mars — money well spent. Believe it or not, the phallic design in that panoramic picture caused an influx of visitors to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory website, causing the space agency’s servers to crash. Although the rover takes a team of NASA engineers to operate, NASA denied involvement and are sticking to the story that the rover made these calibrated maneuvers on its own. …OK.
No matter how you choose to look at the cost of space exploration, anything that furthers our knowledge of the fabric of existence is always money well spent. The more nations capable of traversing space, the better, I say. WooHoo China!
Self-alleged schizophrenic, Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man who was paid to stand feet away from high profile persons during Mandela’s memorial ceremony and flap his hands and pretend like he wasn’t getting his kicks, has been reported to have an extensive criminal record. According to South African news network eNCA, Thamsanqa Jantjie has “faced rape (1994), theft (1995), housebreaking (1997), malicious damage to property (1998), murder, attempted murder and kidnapping (2003) charges.” …What the?
The plot thickens. What this story needs is some solid investigative research — otherwise known as cross referencing — instead of going on Jantjie’s word, let’s see medical records or at least some testimonials from a few satisfied employers. Not that I care about Thamsanqa Jantjie as much as Barack Obama’s Secret Service, or South Africans who deplore his actions as a national embarrassment, but I for one would like to see some honesty come out of this blown-up story.
Taylor Mali is an educator, writer and poet who speaks with conviction. He is an advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching and has complete control over the measure of impact he wants his words to have on an audience. If anyone else on the planet was to repeat his words they would not ring with the same truths. I’m Mali’ed out, but take in his infamous “What Teachers Make” delivery and tell me he isn’t good:
Here here. Mali himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math and S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world, and his New Teacher Project has a goal of creating 1,000 new teachers through “poetry, persuasion, and perseverance.”