Tuesday Tips - “Pick A Side”
To create appeal and clarity in your figure drawing (or any character drawing), try to simplify an overall side of the body and to keep the details (limbs sticking out, face profile, body compression) to the other side. Your posing will becoming much more dynamic and interesting to look at, creating an organic asymmetry to the overall silhouette of the body.
-Norm
As we get closer to the Christmas season, I’d like to remind everyone of the following:
- Being rude to food service workers is DANGEROUS.
- Haggling with cashiers in corporate retail will get you nowhere.
- Seasonal workers are crash course trained and barely know what they are doing. They are not going to know everything or may be wrong. Do NOT call them stupid.
- Please please PLEASE read company return policies on their website.
- Please please PLEASE read ALL THE PRINT on sale signs, ads, and coupons. They are intentionally designed to mislead you.
- If you are shopping on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve or Day, or any other day or time of significance, do NOT complain to the employees that they “shouldn’t be working”. Most often, they get paid extra and want the money. But mostly because people like you want/need to shop at that time. Be GRATEFUL.
But above all:
- DON’T BE RUDE!! Patience and compassion will always get you better service, not worse.
Thank you!
Because this would be accepted by everyone if the roles were reversed. I was actually starting to like Taylor Swift too..
I’m not sure if you were aware of this, but she’s playing a character in the song and video. She wrote “Blank Space” as if she was how the media portrays her: a flighty floozy who falls in love quickly, gets controlling and jealous, then ends the relationship suddenly with a petty revenge song.
She’s well aware of this caricature and makes fun of it in the song, acting like that person… to an extreme! Living the high life with indulgences, becoming manipulative, then seeking psychotic revenge. If you watch the full video you can see her lose her mind, and she doesn’t shy away from that, doesn’t disguise it:
She KNOWS she’s reacting inappropriately, and that’s the point! While she doesn’t give herself a name like Slim Shady to create an alter ego to separate herself, she might as well.
If I hadn’t known ahead of time that she was using this song and video to mock the public’s opinion of her, yeah, I’d be upset as well. Abuse is never okay. But she’s actively acting insane to show that that’s the kind of person that (verbally, mentally, physically) abuses another.
I agree that it is problematic that more people are going to laugh about this than videos like Eminem’s “Love the Way You Lie”, but the two songs are portrayed and handled differently.
Obama joins dictators dress up club.
Yes, that is President Obama with Vladamir Putin and Xi Jinping, the president of Communist China…dressed exactly the same.
Putin looks 482053670% done.
Target opens at 6pm Thanksgiving Day this year for Black Friday
That horrible sound you heard was my soul shattering.