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jesuisperdu: trailer for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film, La...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:15:41 -0600

jesuisperdu:

trailer for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s latest film, La Danza de la Realidad

mkupperman: Robot Grampa. michael kupperman has a tumblr!...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:54:14 -0600

mkupperman:

Robot Grampa.

michael kupperman has a tumblr! raddical

halfpregnant: <3 pretty excited about todays show….....

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:48:43 -0600

halfpregnant:

<3

pretty excited about todays show….. pretty excited

mañana

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:11:41 -0600

mañana

theeternalbroom: EAR CRUSH #3: RESIN CUM TOUR KICKOFF (MAY...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:11:09 -0600

theeternalbroom:

EAR CRUSH #3: RESIN CUM TOUR KICKOFF (MAY 17th)

https://www.facebook.com/events/153645701480952/

The devious NO,MIKE and myself will be performing this event.

coelacanthart: // comic 8 // life status update //

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:58:00 -0600

coelacanthart:

// comic 8 // life status update //

blackgirlsbirthedtheearth: thepeoplesrecord: The troubling...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:07:55 -0600

blackgirlsbirthedtheearth:

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

I BEEN sick of this shit. It burns me UP to hear white people say that sweet brown shit.. and now this? This man just saved these girls lives and you make a joke of it? White people aint shit.

And I keep thinking about Anton Dobson too, about how he saved his sister. You wouldn’t know that from the media attention he gets with that auto tuned song. It overshadows the real situation to makes black people look like idiots.

I can’t.

i told someone at work that sweet brown reminded me of my mom in a sweet sincere way and they laughed and responded “thats fucked up” ignorant people make me sick

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Tue, 07 May 2013 22:25:36 -0600

holzers: HOLY FUCK

Tue, 07 May 2013 22:14:47 -0600

holzers:

HOLY FUCK

blooddrunk915: gnarly caligaphry

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:20:10 -0600

blooddrunk915:

gnarly caligaphry

churchofsatannews: A Master Passes: Ray Harryhausen...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:48:30 -0600

churchofsatannews:

A Master Passes: Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013)

We mourn the passing of one of the true geniuses of fantastic cinema with the death of Ray Harryhausen. His brilliant achievements in stop-motion animation and visual effects brought to life creatures from history, mythology and imagination with an uncanny sense of detail which breathed vitality and character into them to fascinate and inspire viewers as well as many of the leading filmmakers of the present.

His first solo effort, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953), launched the international giant monster boom of the 1950s. His final film, CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981), had a cast full of stars and featured one of his most atmospheric scenes in the realization of the Gorgon, Medusa. In between are many excursions into worlds of wonder that will surely stand as testaments to this great artist so long as cinema lasts.

Click on the image to visit his official web site, and if you have not seen his work, you are in for an abundance of pleasure. Start with JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963), with the iconic bronze giant Talos as well as the skeleton army which rises from the teeth of the slain Hydra, and then go on from there. You will be entranced!

Hail Harryhausen!

—Magus Peter H. Gilmore

this bike is a pipe bomb - a hundred dollars

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:29:00 -0600

this bike is a pipe bomb - a hundred dollars

sonatinacomics: Shipping Sonatina #1 & Sonatina 2 to THREE...

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:35:33 -0600

sonatinacomics:

Shipping Sonatina #1 & Sonatina 2 to THREE random winners.

Must reblog this post to enter.

Ends Saturday May 11th.

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176 pages of comics.

Work by: Aidan Koch, Alex Degen, Andy Burkholder, Argel Brown, Austin English, Blaise Larmee, Chris Andersen, Dane Martin, Dylan McKeever, Dunja Jankovic, Jason Overby, Julie Delporte, Leslie Weibeler, Maré Odomo, Mark Hensely, Michael Litven, Patrick Keck, Sarah Ferrick, Scott Longo, and Sophie Yanow

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*International winners (outside US) will be asked to pay shipping or decline.

Both comics are available for purchase here.

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:01:17 -0600

coelacanthart: comic 7 sometimes i look at computer screens and...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:09:59 -0600

coelacanthart:

comic 7

sometimes i look at computer screens and i see my reflection

sometimes i look at computer screens and i imagine the people on the other side and their lives

sometimes i look at computer screens and i wonder if the people on the other side think about me

…comic ocho at my art place

ifhellwillhaveme: Cloud Rat // Magnolias

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:26:36 -0600

ifhellwillhaveme:

Cloud Rat // Magnolias

kingtrash: band prank

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:48:32 -0600

kingtrash:

band prank

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:02:44 -0600

lester brown’s art is so good

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:36:31 -0600

lester brown’s art is so good

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:29:02 -0600