Today is a little different because I’m not pointing to a specific show or YouTube series, but a single video featuring a ridiculous amount of talent. Below is a diagram I created that demonstrates the audience who would most appreciate it:
Now allow me to do what I do and provide a little context. Continue reading
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EVAN: So today, due to lack of reader feedback, G-Town and I will be discussing a topic of his own choosing. That is, in his own words, “whether or not an artist can retract his [or her] own work.”
GORDON: It doesn’t happen often, though it’s not altogether uncommon, that we see some artist disparage his or her earlier work.
More often than not, it’s because that earlier work was pretty rough or sloppy- heck, maybe even commercialistic. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about what we see once in a blue moon- when an artist actually attacks or her own work as being wrong.
I HATE YOUR PAINTINGS!
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Tagged 3OH3!, Angus Jones, art, artist, Bonfire of the Vanities, Botticelli, Brian Welch, Damon Lindelof, deviantART, Evil Dead, Hannah Trigwell, Head, Korn, Mein Kampf, renaissance florence, Sam Raimi, Sheharzad Arshad, Sinfest, Star Trek into Darkness, Starstrukk, Tatsuya Ishida, Teresa Scott, Triumph of the Will, Two and a Half Men, webcomics, YouTube
As luck would have it, just as I was perusing the AV Club’s various articles on the US networks’ fall programming, regular CWR reader/my friend Marilyn brought a certain issue to my attention.
This fall CBS will be bringing the series Intelligence to the small screen [not to be confused with the CBC series of the same name that aired in 2005]. The following is the trailer, which I only saw half a minute of earlier because it failed to grab my attention:
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Tagged A Girl and Her Fed, books, CBS, Digital Divide, Dissident, intellectual property, intelligence, John Dixon, Josh Holloway, K. B. Spangler, plagiarism, Rachel Peng, television, Webcomic
A while ago, I showcased one of my favorite shows, American Horror Story. One of my key talking points was that AHS‘s success was going to blaze the trail for other, similarly dark and horrific shows.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the first of those has arrived.
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Today’s post is going to be a little shorter than most, primarily because I am, well, not writing this from home. Take from that what you will.
I write this because last night, while perusing Facebook, the page for CBS’s How I Met Your Mother posted an image of a certain someone [seen on the right]. The caption for the image was as follows:
A secret 8 years in the making! You just met… wait for it… the mother! Like this post if you were surprised!
http://bit.ly/10K4e18
But here’s the thing, I hadn’t seen the episode. I was busy talking about short stories with my writing group, which was swiftly followed up by reviewing the season finale of the other CBS sitcom. As the description of the image reads, this was a reveal “8 years in the making.” I may not have started the year the show came out, but I have seen every episode. That’s 183 episodes; that comes out to something like 3660 minutes, or 61 hours, or 2.5 full days of television. Continue reading
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Tagged Barnes and Noble, Bleeding Cool, CBS, comics, considerate, Damian Wayne, DC Comics, drive-by, extended previews, Facebook, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, How I Met Your Mother, internet, M. Night Shyamalan, Marvel, reveal, Saw, shame day, spoil, spoiler, spoilers, The Avengers, The Happening, the mother, The Sixth Sense, The Village, twist
I don’t think I can put into words how excited I was for this episode. Not only does my opinion about starting this all again this fall hinge on how this turns out, it also means a months-long hiatus from doing weekly TV reviews. On many nights, like tonight, I’ve had to double up on 2BG reviews and Shame Days, and it has not been fun.
Forewarning, a ridiculous amount happens in this episode, so much that my order of events probably gets really, really messed up. Please bear with me. Continue reading
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