Werdsmiffery

Sitting too close to the screen

[gobblechopstv]

[misscaptaincanuck]

relationship goals tbh

[hellotailor]

The feminist critique is in the air now. If my rendition of Black Panther wasn’t created by that critique, it breathed the same air. I can’t really kill off or depower women characters without grappling with Gail Simone. I can’t really think about how women characters are drawn anymore without thinking about the women in Bitch Planet, and how they seem drawn beyond the male gaze. This is why criticism is important. The job of criticism isn’t to interrupt or encourage commercial prospects. (“Batman vs Superman smashes Box Office, despite critic complaints!”) Criticism should push our imagination and help us understand what is actually possible in art and, I’d argue, even what is moral. Through much of my time collecting comic books I never took much issue with how women were drawn. I had a vague sense that there was something about, say, the reworking of Psylocke that bugged me. But I simply didn’t give it much thought. It never occurred to me, for instance, to ask whether a superheroes pose was anatomically possible. It never occurred to me to ask why a super-hero would have DD cup-size. Was that for her benefit, or for mine? I never asked. The feminist critique of comics has made “not asking” a lot harder. That, in itself, is a victory. The point is not to change the thinking of the active sexist. (Highly unlikely.) The point is  to force the passive sexist to take responsibility for his own thoughts.

The Feminists of Wakanda,  Ta-Nehisi Coats (via hellotailor)

[werdsmiffery]

The first time I met him was at a urinal at a nightclub in St. Paul. There he was, and I said, "Hey, what's up?" And he answered, "Life." One word: "life." And I can't say that we went on to be pals. But we did record a lot at Paisley Park, and he became comfortable enough to grace us with his presence, not bejeweled and not dressed up. He'd be wearing maybe his jammies and sweat pants or maybe a pear of jeans and sneakers. He could sort of just hang out. He may have been a little more normal than he would've liked people to know. That's the treasure that we got, to be able to sit in the big atrium where you're taking a break and Prince shuffles by in his slippers and makes some popcorn in the microwave. My sister's a disc jockey, and he would pass by and say, "Tell your sister hi for me." People like to paint him as a reclusive this or that; I think he was genuinely truly, truly shy. But one thing says a lot about him: I was there making a solo record a few years later, and I got a message that said that my friend had just died. I was truly rattled, and the next time I went back into the studio, he had filled it up with balloons. Now I'm gonna cry.

Paul Westerberg Remembers Prince: 'I Can't Think of Anyone Better' | Rolling Stone

[nevver]

Collections

[waitwhatpod]

KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY. (Machine Man #2, 1978.)

[theavc]

Today is the 10-year anniversary of the “Shoes” video

It may not seem like it, but 2006 was a different time. The concept of viral fame didn’t really exist yet. Even the creators of YouTube hadn’t quite figured out what it was for. (They thought it was going to be place where you could easily access “big, newsworthy footage,” like Janet Jackson’s nipple slip.)

It was into this online Wild West that comic and actor Liam Kyle Sullivan uploaded his massive hit “Shoes.” The folks over at Noisey interviewed Sullivan to get his thoughts on “Shoes” a decade after its birth.

More at avclub.com

[werdsmiffery]

Were we ever so young

[guardian]

“I find it hard to sleep without you.” —Pittsville, Maryland 2014

Using the publicly available GPS information embedded in Twitter feeds, photographers Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman photograph the exact location where Twitter users tweet. They caption the pictures with the tweets, and the result is funny and sad and poignant. Geolocation is published by Flash Powder Projects | See more photos at The Guardian

[docwsb]

The original Batman series & BatLabels

[spookybearghost]

Schrödinger’s boys

simultaneously back in town and not back in town until observed

[heythatsmyleg]

[brightwalldarkroom]

“Someone sits on the shore and tells him how the waves have been there long before Bill existed, and that they’d still be there long after he’s gone. Bill looks out at the water and thinks of all the wonderful things he will do with his life.”

(It’s Such a Beautiful Day!, 2012)

[thelunarboy]

the one white man who could never disappoint me

[cinegasmic]

summary of mad men

[yajifun]

Mount Fuji, falcon and eggplants (Ichi fuji ni taka san nasubi) / Eisen

RISD MUSEUM

一富士二鷹三茄子　渓斎英泉　

[theavc]

David Bowie called MTV out on its early exclusion of black artists

In 1983, David Bowie released his mega-selling Let’s Dance album and handily proved he could not only survive but thrive in the MTV era. Tracks like “Modern Love,” “Let’s Dance,” and “China Girl” logged plenty of hours on the cable channel in those days, but the black artists who had so strongly influenced Bowie’s music were notably absent from the station. This frustrating discrepancy led to a rather tense conversation that year when Bowie sat down to chat with original MTV VJ Mark Goodman. In the wake of Bowie’s death, the decades-old clip has been getting some additional attention, as it still makes for riveting viewing today. As was his nature, Bowie is calm and well-mannered when making his case to Goodman, making sure to mix in some praise with his criticism

More at avclub.com

[keyframedaily]

Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973).

Poster by Richard Wells via Film on Paper.

[gwengold]

[elegantmess-southernbelle]

If you don’t remember having these to watch your favorite episodes of your favorite shows and dreaded your mom/dad/legal guardians taping over it with something that bored you senseless, you have never known true dread.