Vanity Fair released this behind the scenes’ featurette of the shoot:
Then the real unedited version of it:
BONUS slideshow:
and PS if you have no idea wtf these videos are about, here’s the Today Show on it:
Like most, I too think its not appropriate for a 15 year old girl to be doing a topless photoshoot of any kind. The argument that it doesn’t show a lot of skin is one that misses the point by a mile. Yes, you can see more skin at the beach and yes Cyrus herself has shown more hot hot back-shoulder-and-arm action in award ceremony dresses - aren’t you clever for thinking of that. No. You’re not. The issue is about the context of such things. It’s the same reason its inappropriate for a girl to walk around in a bra and panties but notsomuch if she reveals even more skin in a bathing suit. Adults understand this.
So its by the same token that this Hannah Montana nude on a magazine cover should have been an obvious “are you fugging kidding me?” to any one of her 18million minders, handlers, agents, publicists and oh ya - parents. But whatever - the Cyrus’s say they were misled by the magazine into what the final product would actually be and are shocked and embarrassed now - okay, whatever. That’s not the point for me.
The thing I want to know why the media isn’t making a big deal about is that it’s not just that the photo is under an inappropriately sexy atmosphere, its that she looks like a thrice banged and discarded French whore.
What.. the hell… is with the pale skin, muted makeup and messy sexed hair on a gray background?? This is Tim Burton porn. I don’t get it at all.
Originally titled “The Life of Larry”, this is the original studio pitch for the series made by Seth McFarlen:
With money to make a pitch to Cartoon Network on the What A Cartoon Show, the series took a cartoonier turn. I watched this in 1996 on Cartoon Network and then again in 2001 where I said “wait ah-min-uuuute” and realized it was the same show as Family Guy.
In October 2007 I passed around this news story with the pictures of some guys who went fricken shark fishing in kayaks. I didn’t find out until today that my uncle Allen was one of the fishers!
He’s the one on the far left holding the tail and paddle:
Here’s the context from the full report in the UK Daily Mail:
Brave fishermen set a new world first when they went hunting for sharks using simple rods and paddling in kayaks.
The extreme sportsmen shunned the traditional idea of a peaceful day’s fishing when they rowed into the freezing shark-infested waters off Alaska.
The daring team of four were surrounded by 200 to 300 salmon sharks which were up to nine feet long and weighed between 400 and 1,000 lbs.
They baited their Avet 50 reels with large pieces of salmon, and managed to catch four of the sharks during their intrepid expedition near Hinchinbrook Island.
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The team, which also included Allen Sansano, Chris Mautino and Allen Bushnell were taken by a Pacific Mountain Guides charter boat across Prince William Sound to the back of Hinchinbrook Island.
“We are all experienced anglers and kayakers so either as a whole or individually, we felt confident in our personal abilities and limits,” said the captain.
“The sharks were concentrating on feeding on the Pink Salmon and I really don’t think they gave us a second thought.
“We slow trolled the bait behind the kayaks with the rods laying across our laps.
“Our biggest concerns were staying upright in the kayaks and keeping from getting tangled up in the gear and pulled over as well.
“There were so many sharks thrashing around us it was crazy. Even while fighting these fish, others were crashing the surface only feet away.”
The group’s four sharks were thought to weigh between 375 and 350 pounds and were an average of 7ft 10ins in length.
I saw Ben Steins documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, about the wall (cleverly used in an ongoing Berlin Wall analogy in the film) academic elites have constructed around science so as to bar any attempt to explain the existence of the universes infinite complexity by postulating that it was the work of an intelligent being instead of random unguided accidents
The film has already generated the expected lot of haters and then some, but I’ve yet to read an accurate beef about the movie being non-science or at all dishonest - which are the 2 claims that populate every article attacking the movie at least 37 and a half times. There is plenty wrong with the movie in its angle, presentation and delivery, so it seems all the more silly that those who have a problem with religion tampering its filthy little fingers into the purity of science are in such a stink over this film.
I’m going to run down what I observed as being good or bad in the movie, somewhat in the order of severity and in no order between good and bad. See below:
A German brass band (including Hirohito on sousaphone and Mussolini on bass drum) marches through a small German town (where everything, including the clouds and trees, is decorated with the Nazi swastika), singing the virtues of the Nazi doctrine. Passing by Donald’s house, they poke him out of bed with a bayonet to get ready for work. Because of wartime rationing, his breakfast consists of stale bread, coffee brewed from a single hoarded coffee bean, and a spray that tastes like bacon and eggs. The band shoves a copy of Mein Kampf in front of him for a moment of reading, then marches into his house and escorts him to a factory.
Upon arriving at the factory (at bayonet-point), Donald starts his 48-hour daily shift screwing caps onto artillery shells in an assembly line. Mixed in with the shells are portraits of the Fuehrer, so he must interrupt his work to do a Hitler salute every time a portrait appears. The pace of the assembly line intensifies (as in the classic comedy Modern Times), and Donald finds it increasingly hard to complete all the tasks. At the same time, he is bombarded with propaganda messages about the superiority of the Aryan race and the glory of working for The Führer.
After a “paid vacation” that consists of making swastika shapes with his body for a few seconds in front of a painted backdrop of the Alps, Donald is ordered to work overtime. He has a nervous breakdown with hallucinations of artillery shells everywhere. When the hallucinations clear, he finds himself in his bed—in the United States—and realizes the whole experience was a nightmare. The short ends with Donald embracing a miniature Statue of Liberty, thankful for his American citizenship.
Disney/pixar’s animation release timeline (after WALL-E) is:
Bolt (2008): A German Shepard version of Buzz Lightyear in that he’s spent his whole life on the set of a tv show in the style of Thunderbolt (the dog-hero show that the 101 Damations puppies watch, which makes me wonder if the name Bolt is an homage/tip off for nerds like me to notice).
His isolated life makes him think his tv powers are real and probably has some self realization story arc similar to Buzz’s after he meets a cat named Mittens and a hamster that never leaves its ball.
The Princess and the Frog (2009): Disney’s first black princess. first return to traditional 2D animation since Emperors new Groove.
Rapunzel (2010): Originally, the film’s plot revolved around two ‘romantically challenged’, real-world teenagers who are transformed into Rapunzel and her Prince by a disgruntled witch who can no longer stand happy fairy-tale endings. However, since production was halted in 2004 for major retooling, Glen Keane has “promised” that the film will revert back to the fairy tale’s “literary origins” and be less of a steaming pile of shit than what was just described.
King of the Elves (2012): Based on Science Fiction writer Phillip K. Dick’s 1953 short story fantasy about a band of elves living in the modern-day Mississippi Delta who name a local guy working at a gas station their king after he helps save them from an evil troll.
Cars 2 (2012): Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater travel the globe in a series of excuses to make more inside references and jokes about or otherwise concerning non-american made automobiles. joy.
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