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Showing posts with label bearbrick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bearbrick. Show all posts
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Monday, 26 March 2018
Excruciating - Ricky Gervais Meets Gary Shandling
I have much admiration for @rickygervais' obviously genuine animal rights activism, so I didn't want to like this @deep_beige article as much as I did. The petulant conflating of "criticism" & "censorship" by highly privileged people is beyond tiresome https://t.co/N2jOEJ6RrC— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2018
I always remember Ricky Gervais banging on about animal welfare as five hundred infant mammals were genocided in Gaza in 2014. If we can't respect human welfare I don't think animals are going to take a higher importance, and believe me I'm not happy about factory farming methods at all.
When Glen Greenwald tweeted the above I read the article first and saw a lot that resonated with me. I then searched for the episode of Rickey Gervais meets.., that it refers to and it's one of the most excruciating interviews I've ever come across, though I suspect Gary Shandling is a Zionist Supremacist, because even I can think of no reason that Ricky Gervais is hostile to Jews.
That said, Gary Shandling taught me an awful lot in a short space of time. I particularly like his words on bravery and courage.
Doing things that scare us are mostly rewarded by the universe.
Saturday, 29 March 2008
Bearbricks and Banal
There's a genre of Youtube video uploads with young, specifically doe eyed Asian girls staring into the camera or miming to Karaoke which I come across a few months back and then saw subverted over at Asi's, with a youthful American guy doing a very funny parody. You can check out the definitive curator of these Youtube uploads called mingming19, although I don't feel inclined to post the latest development which is a eurotechnopop (annoying nosebleed) variant that makes me feel a wee bit ill.
But what I do find interesting is the crossover of the Youtube visual to T Shirts pictured above which Gustavo and I came across last week at Xidan. I like this and I think its more interesting that the inspiration is citizen generated and shifts from digital first to the real world after. Note the 'BEARBRICK' in the young girls hand which is huge out here and across Asia at the moment.
But what I do find interesting is the crossover of the Youtube visual to T Shirts pictured above which Gustavo and I came across last week at Xidan. I like this and I think its more interesting that the inspiration is citizen generated and shifts from digital first to the real world after. Note the 'BEARBRICK' in the young girls hand which is huge out here and across Asia at the moment.
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