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• Commented on Loop of Disney video that rips off other Disney video
  Disney has rotoscoped since its first film, Snow White. For Snow White and for almost every film produced in the 'Golden Age', there exists a shot-for-shot live-action version. Every Disney book and scholar will tell you that these were used...
• Favorited Kako Ueda's cut paper art on Boing Boing
• Favorited Kako Ueda's cut paper art on Boing Boing
• Favorited Visualization: movie box office data on Boing Boing
• Commented on Terrific special effects reel by 12-year-old
  This kid's on his way! Kudos!...
• Commented on Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews
  Kicking the wind out of the opposition's argument by putting it up front can be great advertising. "Anywhere but Pianos", anyone?...
• Commented on John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh"
  LOL@96 'Meh' cuts to the quick (in real life anyway, not sure about internet speak... not a chatter or twitter myself). Yes, its dismissive but its not a conversation killer. It often leads to more discussion along the lines of...
• Commented on Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All Up
  This story reminds me of the racist policies enacted in Tulia, Texas. The war on drugs dropped federal dollars in this podunk town to get drug arrests up, regardless of the legality of those arrests. In Tulia, they were giving...
• Commented on Stanford Fair Use Center needs your Mannie Garcia Obama photo-alikes for Shepard Fairey defense
  @ Phikus: Austin Chronicle: Artist Cage Match: Fairey vs. Orr Obey Giant Art, Inc.'s C+D letter to Orr...
• Commented on Sketchory: 250,000 CC-licensed sketches
  A great idea so long as craftsmanship is not an issue....
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  @162... " Sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm... It naturally follows from this that Shepherd Fairey is nothing but a copyist, and can thus be dismissed by fearless, keen-eyed critics who see through all the hype." Conversely, Sarcasm, sarcasm, sarcasm.... Even though the...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  The plot thickens... Fairey is suing the AP now, though from the sound of the legal experts quoted in this article he has a weak case: "That said, some individuals have suggested that Shepard Fairey is only interested in “fair...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  @63 The Bukowski quote is just lovely. Irrelevant, but lovely. Keep praising, brother! Fairey's School of Empty Ideas and Expensive Sneakers needs people just like you to validate and intellectualize his nonsense....
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  @56: "He's in jail. Now. For graffiti. Hello?" We heard you the first time, Antonious. I think no one responded on your first post because we'll just wait for all the press releases that he and the ICA in Boston...
• Commented on Milton Glaser weighs in on Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope poster
  I agree with Glaser on Fairey's use of material which is I believe is uninspired and trite to say the least. That is not to say that appropriating other people's images is not without artistic merit. It's a means to...
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  I like the message, 'probably' included. Rock the boat! Religious zealots have been at the helm for far too long!...
• Commented on Holiday / Christmas Music: An Open Thread.
  Baby, it's cold outside by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan from 1951. IMHO, Ella's Swinging Christmas album is one of the best....
• Commented on Classical music performed by the Muppets: Ode to Beeker and the Blue Gonzo Chicken Waltz
  I love Disney's new re-branding of the Muppets too! Whoo-hoo! I am but a corporate pawn and thank you BB for being a shill. Disney is orchestrating the Muppets’s return on several fronts: TV specials, Web videos, a feature film,...
• Commented on SKULLS: the skull-a-day book
  Ooh. Pretty skull t-shirt: Geoskullz 2009...
• Commented on Soft 9/11 sculpture by Jenny Ryan
  These rock. Rock on, Jenny Ryan!...
• Commented on Top 50 drug "trips' in movies
  My bad. Head-turning baby is there @ #14. I think it deserves to be in the top 10 though....
• Commented on Top 50 drug "trips' in movies
  How did the crawling baby with the rotating head in 'Trainspotting' not make the cut? After watching that movie, I knew I would never touch heroin....
• Commented on Inside a Cuddle Party (video)
  @#39 POSTED BY MGFARRELLY "Tania seems very open-minded. What with her disdain for -White People -Big people -Old people" She wasn't stating disdain... she was predicting who would be at the party, and for the most part she was right....
• Commented on Kramers Ergot No. 7
  I love Kramer's Ergot. Sammy H.'s brainchild not only consistently showcases the best emerging talent, it pushes the boundaries of the medium. Having said that, I'll wait for the portable (and hopefully more-affordable) edition to come out. I appreciate the...
• Commented on Fake NYT hits streets: Iraq War Ends
  B...b..b...but it looks nothing like a New York Times frontpage! Where's the ruse?!?...
• Commented on HSBC's bizarre lumberjack ad
  @17, Stupid things can generate discussion too....
• Commented on HSBC's bizarre lumberjack ad
  The message is... what? Looks like ad execs are using the formula: cinematic scope + hint of irony + warm and fuzzy = our message! I can imagine just about anything dropping its logo at the end. You earned your...
• Commented on Gross cartoon art
  @18 "But from what I remember of both my own mind and the 1970's school yard, children ar not quite as blithfully 'innocent' as adults seem to doggedly portray them." True, but aren't adults feeding the flames with this kind...
• Commented on Gross cartoon art
  @11 The thing is, Itchy and Scratchy are a parody of the violence in "classic" cartoons. A notch below that would be the hyper-violent (but bloodless) parody of the same classic cartoons in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" in which a...
• Commented on Note to McCain: Overhead projector is not a planetarium projector
  McCain mentioned this item twice -TWICE!- in the debate and each time it fell flat. Sorry, but providing a million dollar learning tool to hundreds of Chicago area schoolchildren is not scandalous (certainly not, say, in a Keating 5 way)....