“no homo” children’s adaptations of the quishmael marriage scene always manage to be the funniest things I’ve ever read
All things considered, pretty fair youth adaption, for work that was coded/self-censored by the writer. It retains the key line of dialog for instance.
Also, what a world we’re in, where we casually described fict couples, ships if you will, with smoshed up versions of their names.
Melville would spin with mixed emotions. I think he’d cry with joy at the openness and acceptance. But he’d possibly hate what he’d perceive as a real degradation to the english language.
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Another swing illustration Usually I do my drawings on one layer (paper), but this time was different because I had to seperat the character from the background for a potential animation. Also can’t get enough of blue and pink combinations. #illustration #drawing #animation #storytelling https://www.instagram.com/p/CJyD_kGjG6d/?igshid=q53yczkl1im1
The potent power of inclusive storytelling can not be expressed enough. For people privileged enough to see themselves reflected on TV, movie screens and magazine covers in a positive and nuanced light, it is easy to dismiss the impact of media representation. Shout to Ava DuVernay and her Company AFFRM for promoting voices from all backgrounds and seeing the beauty and value of diversity in storytelling. We’re honored to have them as an official partner of Blackout Music & Film Festival. Join at Blackout Music & Film Festival this Saturday: http://bit.ly/1NviXBK and Read the Articles Below:
“Long before “Selma” came along, its director, Ava DuVernay, was working to help distribute films with black themes through the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement. As she said in 2011, explaining why independent black artists needed the organization, “No one is ever going to care about their film except the people it’s made for, which is, black folks.” On Wednesday, hoping to raise awareness of AFFRM’s distribution label, Array, Ms. DuVernay enlisted more than 40 black filmmakers to share insights and advice via Twitter. Using the hashtag #ARRAY, the “Rebel-a-Thon” began in the morning with Debbie Allen, among others, and has progressed throughout the day with veteran and newcomer directors alike taking turns every hour or so” Continue Reading The New York Times article: http://nyti.ms/1JbRfLA
“And that is just so important, not only because she called out Hollywood for a status quo that refused to give such complex roles as that of Annalise Keating to women of color, but that she called out Hollywood for a status quo that refused to give such complex roles to a woman who is almost in her 50’s. Ageism and racism still run rampant in America today, something that has come to the forefront of American consciousness in the wake of the controversy surrounding the 2015 Oscars nominees, and for Davis to call that out in her speech was truly beautiful. How To Get Away With Murder does something that very few other shows are doing on TV right now, and to have a lead like Davis makes it even better.” Continue Reading Bustle’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1MO0thB
“The auteur, and Paste’s 2014 Film Person of the Year, invites you to join her community of film artists, film advocates and film lovers who want to experience true diversity both in front of and behind the camera.” Continue Reading Paste Magazines Article Here: http://bit.ly/1KkPzzz
“I started writing this movie some 10 years ago as an impulse because I didn’t really my story out there in the culture. I didn’t see myself reflected back at me in the films I love or the stories that resonated for me. I tried to put myself in the culture. That can be difficult when, along the way, there’s really nothing there to tell you that you belong there. If you don’t see yourself in the culture, please put yourself there, because we need you. We need to see the world from your eyes” Justin Simien Wins the Award for Best First Screenplay at the Spirit Awards. Watch His Full Speech Here: https://youtu.be/JpBPTVejG2w
“I am keenly aware of how we as women (and most specifically women of color) are presented and portrayed in media and how we present ourselves. And here was my mama from almost 30 years ago on the surface doing something that often snags me in videos today but why did I feel differently about it?” Continue Reading Tracee Ellis Ross’ Article Here: http://bit.ly/1hB34Qz
“Black Women Are Leading a Cultural Movement through TV” For Harriet:http://bit.ly/1h4JAmq
“We need stories for and about black youth. We need stories where they are painted in the same light as their white counterparts. “I turned to books to figure out how to navigate life and relationships,” said I.W. Gregario, a founding member of the We Need Diverse Books campaign. As a result of not seeing her identity as an Asian woman represented in the literature she loved, she says she became self-hating. We live in a society that sees black kids as both less innocent and older than white children. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that “black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent.” The U.S. Department of Education revealed in a report that black children face discrimination as early as pre-school. This systemic dehumanization has life-altering results in the case of, say, Dajerria Beckton who was tackled at a pool party, or the life-ending case of Tamir Rice” Continue Reading For Harriet’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1MHfHWX
“Even before his tragic death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson, though, Brown’s chances of being seen—or seeing himself—as a hero were already limited. The image of a young black man, prostrate in the street, is one we’re much more accustomed to seeing in Hollywood movies than we are a black man working to save humanity. Marvel Studios, the folks behind Iron Man and The Avengers, recently announced they’d be releasing Black Panther—their first black superhero movie—in 2017. It’ll be the kind of film Michael Brown saw very little of in his lifetime. It’s hardly a surprise that many people of color were thrilled by Marvel’s announcement, or that the Internet recently erupted in jubilant conversation around the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer—which opens on a black man dressed as a stormtrooper. There are huge portions of society, including the more than 50 percent that are women, who are starved for this kind of representation in our grandest forms of entertainment” Continue Reading Bright Ideas Magazine’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1EFp4hU
“I am a storyteller. I write movies, short stories, and poems. I’ve spent years trying to understand the ways that narratives underscore society, how the stories we create, retell, and amplify influence our thinking, our actions, our ways of life. I cannot tell you how many times someone has had a pre-packaged idea of me before I even opened my mouth or entered a room. These people had a “black woman narrative” already constructed and were waiting for me to fulfill it. When I didn’t, they appeared confused. I just breathed and existed. But sometimes, even doing that is cause for violence and brutality. Because narratives of black beasts, black demons, of black criminals are so strong, that just breathing, and existing, might get you killed” Continue Reading Indiewire’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1E8nyKC
Don’t Miss Our Storytelling Panel at Blackout Music & Film Festival Featuring Actress Tracee Ellis Ross, The Blacklist Founder Franklin Leonard, Actor Mo McRae, Entertainment Tonight Co-Host Kevin Frazier, Director Justin Simien and More. Presented by CBMA, the Panel Will be Moderated by Indiewire Editor-In-Chief Dana Harris. The Panel Will Center on the Importance of Diversity in Media Representation, the Power of Visual Storytelling and the Need to See the World We Live In Reflected on Screen: http://bit.ly/1NviXBK. Join Us Next Saturday at The GRAMMY Museum and Check Out these Insightful and Compelling Articles Below:
“We need stories for and about black youth. We need stories where they are painted in the same light as their white counterparts. “I turned to books to figure out how to navigate life and relationships,” said I.W. Gregario, a founding member of the We Need Diverse Books campaign. As a result of not seeing her identity as an Asian woman represented in the literature she loved, she says she became self-hating. We live in a society that sees black kids as both less innocent and older than white children. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that “black boys can be seen as responsible for their actions at an age when white boys still benefit from the assumption that children are essentially innocent.” The U.S. Department of Education revealed in a report that black children face discrimination as early as pre-school. This systemic dehumanization has life-altering results in the case of, say, Dajerria Beckton who was tackled at a pool party, or the life-ending case of Tamir Rice” Continue Reading For Harriet’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1MHfHWX
“Even before his tragic death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson, though, Brown’s chances of being seen—or seeing himself—as a hero were already limited. The image of a young black man, prostrate in the street, is one we’re much more accustomed to seeing in Hollywood movies than we are a black man working to save humanity. Marvel Studios, the folks behind Iron Man and The Avengers, recently announced they’d be releasing Black Panther—their first black superhero movie—in 2017. It’ll be the kind of film Michael Brown saw very little of in his lifetime. It’s hardly a surprise that many people of color were thrilled by Marvel’s announcement, or that the Internet recently erupted in jubilant conversation around the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer—which opens on a black man dressed as a stormtrooper. There are huge portions of society, including the more than 50 percent that are women, who are starved for this kind of representation in our grandest forms of entertainment” Continue Reading Bright Ideas Magazine’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1EFp4hU
“I am a storyteller. I write movies, short stories, and poems. I’ve spent years trying to understand the ways that narratives underscore society, how the stories we create, retell, and amplify influence our thinking, our actions, our ways of life. I cannot tell you how many times someone has had a pre-packaged idea of me before I even opened my mouth or entered a room. These people had a “black woman narrative” already constructed and were waiting for me to fulfill it. When I didn’t, they appeared confused. I just breathed and existed. But sometimes, even doing that is cause for violence and brutality. Because narratives of black beasts, black demons, of black criminals are so strong, that just breathing, and existing, might get you killed” Continue Reading Indiewire’s Article Here: http://bit.ly/1E8nyKC
EXCITING: Blackout Music & Film Festival’s #SayHerName Voices For The Cause Music Showcase Will Live Musical Performances By Lalah Hathaway, V Bozeman and PJ! Join Us at The GRAMMY Museum on Saturday, August 29 for Live Musical Performances, Movie Screenings, Panels and a Signature Artist Showcase. Tickets Available Here: http://bit.ly/1NviXBK
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The thing with telling “cliche” stories, but with representation, is… these stories aren’t cliche for us.
Picture this. The people at the table next to you have been getting chocolate cake as a dessert for YEARS. After every meal, they get a chocolate cake. Now, it’s been years, and the people at that table can barely stand chocolate anymore. They want maybe a cheesecake. Or lemon mousse.
But your table? Has NEVER had chocolate cake. Mousse is also good, but you are SO hungry for that chocolate cake, cause you never had it before, and it’s brand new for you, and you’ve been watching the other table eat it for YEARS.
That’s what’s like getting a “cliche” story that’s representative. Has it been done a million times before? Yes. Has it ever been done for US? Well… no. Maybe it’s the 500th chocolate cake in existence, but all the other chocolate cakes weren’t meant for us (girls/PoC/queer folk/disabled folk/etc)
So it being cliche is not a bad thing. You may not want chocolate cake anymore. But we want our slice too.
My story describes a young girls fantasies, the inner desire of a woman about the bloom. The garden signifies the lovers thirst for freedom and by natures alluring essence they discover a whole new unspoken language ______________
Little girl, so pure and true. Did not yet know of a woman’s bloom.
Unspoken words, seductive gaze; she captures his attention with her ways.
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The Garden Of Eufloria, Photography By Danniellajaine, Produced By @ian_hencher Featuring @sorcha_verey Beauty & Hair-Syling Ian Hencher Clothing from @fairycave
Whilst the costumes imply a period story, their motives suggest something much more intimate underneath the lacy white frills. I played the quite observer, a wallflower. I couldn’t resist glancing through my window at the story which unravelled before me, as did the soft cream ribbons from her floral blue dress.
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Whispering lips, he catches a glimpse; blindly he follows into the depths.
His fantasy, her snow white skin; passion blossoms from within.
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The Garden Of Eufloria, Photography By Danniellajaine, Produced By @ian_hencher Featuring @sorcha_verey & @ian_hencher Beauty & Hair-Syling Ian Hencher Clothing from @fairycave
Let us delve into “The Garden Of Eufloria”, A passionate fairytale, taking you into a euphoric fantasy of a time when the sweet taste of love and the intense rush of human attraction was our natural sin. _____________
Wandering boy, playing it coy. Impervious treasures; his favourite toy. _____________
The Garden Of Eufloria, Photography By Danniellajaine, Produced By @ian_hencher Featuring @ian_hencher Beauty & Hair-Syling Ian Hencher Clothing from @fairycave
Enchanted girl, wrapped in lace, in all her beauty and all of her grace; I learnt her dance to match her pace, to follow her through this mysterious place. Breathing light onto my eyes, she reminded me of the days I was as a child; For within the light, a gifted surprise, the days my heart ran truly wyld.
Secrets Of The Glen, By Danniellajaine Featuring Natalie Philips In Promotion For Mermaid Sanctuary Designs (Whimsical Handcrafted Headpieces & Accessories) Keena Make-up Artist, North Wales
We all saw it coming sooner or later amidst a changing panorama of retail market conditions. Sears will close 59 stores across Canada after seeking court protection from its creditors in a move to restructure itself, but will this be enough?
For over a decade Sears has been suffering the test of time in the retail sector, having entered the 21st century without a solid plan to fight the competition, and the new online platform for retail distribution.
I remember the shopping experience even before Sears acquired Eaton in Canada in 1999, back when the Toronto flagship store downtown at Yonge and Dundas represented an important landmark for the pre-eCommerce era.
Today Sears is folding after a series of bad decisions made in their American HQ by the top management team, which failed to understand the modern market model of the new century. They blame it on Amazon but the mistakes started to happen twenty years ago, before the online shopping giant became a sensation.
How does such big brand name miss the target?- some may ask in a bit of confusion. One part of the answer can be found in the lack of vision of the company in understanding the market, the absence of storytelling, but most importantly the customer and its needs.
Here’s a list of mistakes Sears collected through the years:
lack of multimedia strategy and innovation
no significant digital platform to sell their products online
old design store which provided a look and feel of early 90s
same old brands and lack of new ones (aka stale style)
weak new logo and branding strategy
worn out management
All in all we cannot only blame business disruptors like Amazon for Sears’ failure to understand the market, but surely the archaic methodology of interfacing towards customers has contributed to its demise. Blame the old school marketing department that prefers relying on numbers rather than listening the true needs of the shoppers out there.
That’s the very same marketing department that constantly believed paper and flier ads were still a thing. Boy, they were wrong. Mailboxes constantly stuffed with pamphlets and seasonal catalogs failed to engage the Millennial generation (and became a nuisance for homeowners), but rather appealed to the same old crowd of customers for the past decades.
However shopping habits evolved with the competition selling different products to different crowds. Sears failed to understand their marketing strategy had a foot stuck in the 20th century. They dismissed storytelling to engage buyers and kept selling the very same products the competition had at cheaper prices.
It’s sad to see such iconic brand slowly fading to black, but new commerce platforms are emerging willing to listen customer first and most importantly willing to adapt to changing times.
Currently writing a mermaid story so expect to see a lot of mermaid poses from me for a little while. Here’s a set of storytelling poses for an injured/ill merman being nursed to health by a human.
If you’re using poses 1, 3, and 4 in shallow water, I recommend using the TOOL mod to match the angle of the shoreline. I made them for flat ground since every water lot has a different slope so it would have been impossible to accommodate them all.
the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think there’s something very revealing about bad media that you don’t get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between what’s actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if it’s particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the author’s skills are with the story they’re trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like you’re discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget you’re turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!
Participating in Dracula Daily has reminded me of how throughout the initial portions of the novel the Count repeatedly makes back-handed references to the fact that he’s a vampire, seemingly for absolutely no reason other than to fuck with Jonathan, and it’s strengthened my conviction that you can’t have a faithful modern adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula unless Dracula is just constantly spouting shitty vampire puns – which everyone around him unaccountably fails to pick up on – like a gaunt, bemoustached Hannibal Lecter.
I love the idea that Dracula has gotten bolder and bolder with his puns over time because either a) nobody ever picks up on it until it’s too late, or b) he realizes that people are ironically less likely to suspect him the more obnoxious he is about it.
In a modern retelling, you’d absolutely have them sit down across from each other, Dracula dropping all of the vampire puns, Harker looking into the camera like Jim from The Office, and then when the truth is revealed, it’s impossible to convince anyone because he spent so much time being dismissive of all the weird habits.
Also, Van Helsing tries to take down a different vampire at one point and it turns out to be a regular goth
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