Old Joe: "That must have hurt... You know there's another girl that works here on the weekends?"

Joe: "Jen."

Old Joe: "Yeah... less letters."

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Did this a few days ago.  

My attempt at Jack Skellington from "Nightmare Before Christmas."

Images of the disaster.  Options for donations towards the victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Edited by Jason Angelone

Music by Jason Angelone

Laurel & Hardy stencil by Aaron Lockwood.

Approx 15"x9".

Photography took at Takashi Murakami's exhibition in the palace of Versailles, France. (2010)

Photography took at Takashi Murakami's exhibition in the palace of Versailles, France. (2010)

(Last winter, this exhibition of modern art in such historic place create controversy in France. Personnally, i like the contrast!)

Was Walt Disney a racist? There are a lot of speculations and rumors in Disney tales. Was he involved with the Nazi party? Did he make some distasteful comments for people of the Jewish faith? I have always felt particular about Disney myth, whenever I write my animation reviews . What facts I do know are evident in Disney animated cartoons : 

• American Jewish Congress lobbies Disney to remove Jewish stereotype from "The Three Little Pigs." ( Hear it on Eric Molinsky's podcast, " Disney's Jewish Problem ")


• "Fantasia" had a Black Centaur named Sunflower that has since been cut out of versions of the film


• Illiterate African Americans and Jim Crow were characters in "Dumbo"


• "Song of the South" is so controversial, it has YET to be released on U.S. home video

Racism In Disney Shorts 

Was there racism in Disney shorts? In 1929's " The Opry House ," Mickey Mouse dresses like a Hasidic Jew. In 1933, the Big Bad Wolf dressed up like a Jewish peddler in the Academy Award winning, " The Three Little Pigs ." There have been more rumors in Disney hating the Jews over the years, but he did have Jewish employees such as the Sherman Brothers . Whereas disgruntled employees stated he hated the Jews. It would seem most of these rumors stemmed out of the Animators Strike in 1941. 

Animated Cartoons 

Disney's financial and critical success of shorts paved the way for feature length animated cartoons . Walt Disney's third film, "Fantasia," did not find as much success as its predecessors. There were issues with European distribution, or perhaps it was related to Sunflower. The original screenings of "Fantasia," up until 1960, feature aBlack Centaur polishing hooves and primping the Caucasian Centaurs . There is no Sunflower in Disney parks or merchandise, now just a myth of racism in Walt Disney movies. 

African Americans were also poked at in other feature length animated cartoons such as "Dumbo." In Disneystudios at this time, the Animators Strike was also going on. To help costs, "Dumbo" took a different artistic path, and it starts off with the " Song of the Roustabouts ." It features a massive group of illiterate, shadowy, African Americans singing a work song as if they were back on the plantation. Check out some of the lyrics: 

• We work all day, we work all night/We never learned to read or write


• When other folks have gone to bed/We slave until we're almost dead


• Boss man houndin'/Keep on poundin'

This isn't the only scene of racism in "Dumbo" towards African Americans. Walt Disney allowed a character to be called Jim Crow. Jim Crow was also a system of laws that was used to keep African Americans as an inferior race in the Southern United States from post Civil War up until 1960. In fact, when "Dumbo" premiered, there were still mass lynch mobs in the United States. 

Racism in Cartoon Movies 

Jim Crow laws also crept their way into other Walt Disney cartoon movies , like "Song of the South." James Baskett, who played Uncle Remus in the film, won an honorary Academy Award (first African American male to receive one) but couldn't even attend the premiere in Atlanta since it was a racially segregated city under Jim Crow law in 1946 . 

"Song of the South" would eventually cause a ruckus with the NAACP . Cartoon movies like " Roger Rabbit ," sometimes get flack for mixing animation with live action. "South" only uses the animation to illustrate Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus Tales." One of the Disney animated cartoons was called the " Tar Baby ," which could teach a moral about how Br'er rabbit was a trickster, but the term "Tar Baby," is racially offensive. 

"Song of the South," didn't have much life before it became shunned in Disney history. Even though the song, " Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah " got an Academy Award in 1947, the cartoon movie faded into taboo history. The Walt DisneyCompany has never released it to home video in the U.S. It seems that Disney is still too worried of their image being viewed by children as racially insensitive. 

Walt Disney a Racist 

Despite all of my research, I couldn't find any clear cut evidence that Walt Disney was truly racist or Anti-Semitic. Granted, there was some racism in Disney animated cartoons during his tenure at the studio, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Walt was. Wouldn't that mean that Seth Macfarlane and/or Roger Ailes are racist for everything in "The Family Guy?" Neil Gabler brings up Walt Disney as " guilty by association ," in his Los Angeles Times article, along with other great facts about Disney's political views. 

I like to think that things got a lot more sensitive as I was growing up in the 80s. I remember watching a lot of the classic Disney and Warner Bros shorts on tv, but years later they would be edited. Scenes of characters shooting themselves in the head, playing "black face," or comically portraying Asians or Native Americans have all seriously changed due to television censors. So if you want to get the real day for the lost Golden Age animation, search for banned cartoons on YouTube. 

References: 
This Day in Disney History - In Disney 
All Cartoons Are Racist - Animated Cartoons 
The Walt Disney Family Museum - Walt Disney 
100 Greatest Cartoon Movies (w/ review) - Cartoon Movies 
Straight Dope's "Was Walt Disney A Fascist" - Racism in

I think i found my cat....

Danielewski

Will Navidson was a sad photographer

DECEMBER 21st, 1996 cite cat quote

How did Mark get a PDF copy of THE50YEARSWORD

If HOuse of leaves was ever a film, christopher Nolan Would be my choice for director

I don't own the rights to this photo - I used it as an Icon for an audio post before I learned the ins and outs of hitrecord, sorry!

My Love ACEO

Watercolor, graphtie, ink, and colored pencil on illustration board
2.5"3.5"

Picture by St-Takla.org / just liked it and add it here

Finding treasure - you lose consciousness.

Finding a woman – you lose your  mind.

Finding truth - you lose faith.

And only when you lose everything – you find freedom.

Picture is not my own.It is downloded by here: http://ashayaa.deviantart.com/art/Red-gothic-Rose-77861885 It is not  part of my poem, i just liked it and add it here.

Welcome to the black witch tower,

where I hide my strength and power,

here I make my wonderful spells,

with my creatures and magical smells.

If you like my tower-stay,

and if you don’t-just go away,

once you stay, I will blind,

your curious and hungry mind.

My tower is the place exciting,

you will want more delighting,

my spells enchant your soul and heart,

and once you come,I know you’ll  back!

List

1. Read We Disappear

2. Interview Scott Heim to see his ideas on #3

3. Brainstorm ideas for a sequel

4. If #2 goes well, write #3

5. Learn Icelandic

6. Get up with Sigur Ros to see if they would be willing to contribute to the soundtrack again

7. You get the idea.

"Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it" Taken from Brokeback mountain, painted by pencil.

props to mollypeach for the picture

I learned to read with the classic Disney tale, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."  When my parents said it was time for bed, I would get ready for story time and put my pajamas on.  Then, my younger sister and I would snuggle up next to my mom on the floor and she would pull out the book.  I was three years old, unable to read, but the story was so engrained in my memory that I knew every part by heart.

My sister, who was a little one year old at the time, only cared about the pictures.  She would want to flip through the pages quickly, while I enjoyed the story part more.  My mom would shorten “Snow White” occasionally because of Lauren whining, or if it was late, and would take parts out.  I knew exactly what these parts were.  I would always say, “You skipped a part!  Go back!”

When my mom would read, she would use her finger to point to what word she was reading.  I would follow her finger as it dragged across the page, desperately wanting to know what all of the letters meant.  I would pretend to read, but I really was just reciting the story.  Over time, I connected what I saw on the page to the words that I spoke; then, I was the one who would read for story time.

One of my Favorite painting ever. This drawing came up to my head when i was looking to all the amazing painting from Disney World, so i decide to make mine but in a skateboard.

This is a Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe finger candle light picture that I did for fun.

This is a picture of supermodel Victoria Silvstedt that I made with two pictures of her.

This is a Harry Potter Quidditch picture that I did for fun.

This is a Harry Potter breakneck picture that I did for fun.

This is a picture of Harry Potter and his Godric Gryffindor swrod that I did for fun.

This is a picture of Harry Potter and his wand that I did for fun.

This is a rock and roll picture of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint that I did for fun.

This is a Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter pictiure that I did for fun.

This is a Daniel Radcliffe blue picture that I did for fun.

This is a collage of different Optimus Prime pictures I did for fun.

This is a Daniel Radcliffe happy 14th birthday picture I did for fun.

This is a full movie project I did for fun for my second and last college motion graphics class that I used various motion graphics projects to put this together.

I found this trailer to this new documentary that is supposedly going to shed light on the American Media and the lines of individual privacy....