Welcome to: If Male Superhero Costumes were Designed Like Female Superhero Costumes!
Aaaaa I dunno. I got tired of guys having no idea why girls find female superhero’s costumes kinda sexist, so I, um, made this?
My main goals were: 1) Make it so the first thing you think of when you look at them is sex, whether you want to or not. 2) make it so that any male human who looks at this feels really uncomfortable. 3) make it funny, because, well, it’s kinda hilarious really.
Not trying to start a war here, just wanted to poke a bit of fun.
So, here you go menfolk, welcome to being a girl who likes comics.
Really what commentary do I need to add to this?
this is pretty relevant to my current illustration assignment XD
See, I don’t know. Am I weird if I think these costumes are actually pretty cool?
So you want to be a poster designer…
(by Dr. Mosnter, via reddit)
Fun Math Games - Monty Hall and Nim
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Behind it is another dimension. A dimension of goats. A dimension of cars. A dimension of counter-intuitive probability tricks with which you can astound your friends. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into: The Math Games Zone.
I’m tired of people saying that Black Widow’s suit in the film is impractical, thus it’s only there to make her look sexy, so let’s take a look at her suit and Clint’s suit side by side.
As you can see, it’s the same general make. Tight-fitting to promote agility, dark colours to aid stealth, and made to accommodate their personal weapons of choice. The material looks rather similar in both, so I’m assuming the suits give them the same amount of protection.
If we’re going by some sort of exposure factor, Clint’s suit is much more revealing. He’s got a lot more skin showing.
The only difference I’m seeing here is that Natasha has breasts and Clint doesn’t.
So basically, when people call Natasha a slut/kank based on the “flimsy” suit that she’s wearing but see no fault in the fact that Clint is wearing what looks to be very similar materials, all I’m hearing is, “She has boobs, so she must be a slut/skank.”
In short, get the fuck out of my fandom.
This.
Blair Thomas - Hard Headed Heart
I got the chance to see the amazing Blair Thomas perform Hard Headed Heart at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.
Heard Headed Heart is made up of three of the artist’s solo pieces.
Second, he performs his interpretation of “Saint James Infirmary” —which features unique marionettes, a story scroll, and live jazz orchestration which Thomas provides as a one-man-band with the help of a loop pedal.
If you think Saint James Infirmary sounds exciting, you’re in luck! A performance of the act has been filmed and put online by Banners and Cranks, a traveling Cantastoria festival developed by Clare Dolan (who is also the Chief Operating Philosopher of the Museum of Everyday Life
Watch Saint James Infirmary in 3 parts right here!
Third, Mr. Thomas performed one of the most amazing works of moving-object-theatre I’ve ever seen. “The Blackbird” is based on Wallace Stevens’ book of poetry “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” The Blackbird is made of four side-by-side story scrolls which are backlit and double as shadow screens. Art is painted on the story scrolls in such a way that, at times, the four images form one panorama, at other times, each scroll is a panel in a living comic book. The rhythmic shifting and scrolling of the images creates an animated feel. Meanwhile, Thomas interacts with the images on screen using his own shadow, shadow puppet figures, and even shadow puppet speech balloons. Stevens’ poetry is presented in occasional text boxes so that the only sound is the beautiful and contemplative background music created by the band Aurea.Images of The Blackbird are hard to come by online, but Blair Thomas sells a very unique book, hand-printed, made with photos of the show in action as well as transparent pages, poems, and an audio cd hidden in the cover, that tries to capture the feeling of the show.
Of course, nothing can compare with seeing these performances in person. So I highly recommend you look to see where Blair Thomas and Hard Headed Heart are going to strike next, and get yourself some tickets.
Your name and username.
Where you’re from.
Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
What’s the bug, that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
Be a wizard or a vampire?
How old are you?
Is it cold where you are?
What is your favorite color?
Do you have freckles?
When is your birthday?
What was the last thing you drank?
Would you rather: Have a million dollars or a million friends?
Eat a taco or a quesadilla?
Be a shark or an elephant?
Do you speak a second language? Say something in it.
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Choose a book and read a passage from it.
Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?
Where do you live?
Where do you wish you lived?
Read the following words: Abrasion, Charm, Cinnamon, Demeanor, Elixir, Epiphany, Fermented, Heterodox, Iniquity, Labyrinth, Leisure, Mannequin, Mermaid, Pandemonium, Phoenix, Quidditch, Quintessential, Spice, Talisman, Unicorn, Warfare, Whiskey, Winter, Zest.
Which do you say?: Chips or crisps? Jam or jelly? Rubbish or trash? Elevator or lift? Soda or pop? Pants or trousers? Taxi or cab? Mobile or cell phone?
Do you have a phobia? If so, do you know its scientific name?
Read the following tongue twister: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
Werther —or— A Dark Knight at the Opera
Werther
Read on to learn about history, tragedy, romance and Batman in this fully-illustrated article featuring cartoons and comedy.
Werther (Ver-tur) is an opera by 19th-century French composer Massenet (Massa-nay) based on an epistolary novel (a novel made out of mailed letters, like Dracula) by 18th-Century German author Goethe (Geuh-tuh).
The story is simple:
A gloomy man named Werther falls in love with a lady named Charlotte, but she’s already promised her dead mother that she’d marry a guy named Albert instead. Charlotte and Albert get married ten minutes in and then everybody cries for an hour. Then Werther shoots himself. The end.
Before I show you my cartoons or discuss the opera, I think you should know the back-story behind this play.
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| Romanticism |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther when he was 24. At the time, he had a mad crush on a woman named Charlotte Buff, and used his book to vent his emotions. Goethe had considered himself a member of the Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement, which would later form the basis of the Romantic movement, which deemed everything natural sublime and exalted the extremes of emotion —including angst and depression as well as joy.
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| Werther Fever |
Later in life, Goethe would grow to hate Romanticism, calling it “all that is sick.” He wrote that, “If Werther had been a brother that I had killed, I could not have been more haunted by his vengeful ghost.” Though he also understood that every young person deserves to have an emo phase, saying, “It would be sad if a person didn’t have a time in his life when he felt as though Werther had been written exclusively for him.”
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| Science! |
France, 1887.
100 years after Goethe gave it up, French composer Jules Massenet is still clinging onto Romanticism even as it’s falling out of fashion (its arch-nemesis, Realism, is much more in vogue). He was a big fan of talented Germans (he had a flaming art-crush on Wagner) and it was only natural that Massenet turn Werther, the flagship of Sturm und Drang, into an opera. At 45, Massenet had already made about 17 operas so it’s naturally pretty good music. He had some trouble getting it performed at first, and halfway through he decided to rewrite it for a baritone, rather than a tenor (the tenor version is still the most common). Still, when it finally premiered in 1892, Massenet made bank.
Minnesota, United States, 2012.
120 years later, Thomas Boguszewski and sits in on a preview of Werther at the Minnesota Opera in Saint Paul. He draws some funny cartoons.
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| “This opera is about love..” |
—Now I know where Baz Luhrmann stole the opening scene for Moulin Rouge.
Soon the actual set appears and it’s pretty nice. It’s a slim, sparse set in front of a large photographic backdrop of Industrial-Revolution Germany. There are smokestacks rising above the horizon and heavy clouds. The gloomy grayscale of the backdrop is offset by the little island of color that Charlotte and her siblings inhabit.
In this opera, Werther is quite the Romantic philosopher. His first song is an ode to the glory of nature, then he sings a tribute to the innocence of children, then he sings about falling in love with Charlotte because she takes such good care of her younger siblings.
(Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to get somebody to fall in love with you, learn to be good with kids.)
At first I just sat and sketched pictures of characters and scenes that I like.
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| Werther at Charlotte and Albert’s wedding. What a sad fella. |
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| Charlotte’s sister had a good costume and played the part of a kid well |
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| Werther met Charlotte and Albert in July, and by Christmas, he’s decided to kill himself over them. |
Werther sends a letter to Albert asking to borrow some pistols, using a cover story of “I’m going out of town and need them for protection.”
Instead he takes the gun, wanders the streets, and prepares to kill himself while dramatic music plays.
This dramatic music made my day.
Because sitting in the opera, I was listening to THIS:
In the end, Werther locks himself in his room. He has taken all the letters down from his wall and thrown them into a pile in the corner. He has also scrawled “Liebe oder Tod” (Love or Death!) in huge script on the wall.
Werther sits in the corner with his pistol. Charlotte knows what he’s about to do and is coming to stop him, but she’ll never make it in time. Werther raises his gun, prepared to fire into his own chest.
Suddenly…
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