Congrats, Dana!
Go, ita with the art! I will try to take a look after work.
re: trigger warnings for college classes
I totally read this as "this post may remind you of college classes to traumatic effect" at first. More seriously, I was just talking to a couple of my co-workers about how two of us haven't been able to bring ourselves to watch 12 Years a Slave yet and the third just watched it the other day and cried and cried so she was glad to be at home and not in a theater.
Sorry about the buses, people who have been thrown.
I am relieved to have only one meeting today.
These pictures are supposed to contrast mainstream and edgy over decades, but when she hits decades I know more about, the less edgy she feels.
eta: Thanks, -t!
That's great, Dana!
I'm sorry the day's started badly for some.
Feminist Frank and the Hey Gurl memes should be a rare slash pairing for Yuletide.
It is a super good idea, and pretty good photos, but the costumes/hair/make-up could use some more research/experience and attention to detail, I think. But it is a student project.
So the Taurus is parked next to the garage, waiting to be cleaned out, then sent to its reward. The Jeep is now my daily driver. Now I have to learn the responses of a new vehicle and wonder if squirllyness is the result of problems with the steering or the stellar road conditions of Utah. It's amazing how many bumps there can be in a perfectly smooth road. I think the road engineers really want to design roller coasters.
the costumes/hair/make-up could use some more research/experience and attention to detail, I think. But it is a student project.
Yeah, I like the idea but I'm not sure it's very well-executed in terms of research/styling.
The simulated olde-tyme photography isn't very good either. Most of those pictures are far too sharp and clean to match the film, lighting and optics of their era.
Compare to these actual tintypes that were taken this year (including one of the last pictures of Phillip Seymour Hoffman). It was much harder to get a sharp picture with period gear.
God, that's a really haunting picture of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. He looks like he's in so much pain.
Gorgeous picture of Mark Ruffalo, though.
On the trigger warnings thing, I do think the proposed Oberlin guidelines are somewhat eyeroll-inducing, but, well, it's Oberlin. I took one class in college where we watched the rape scene from The Accused, and our professor gave us a warning and told us that, if we wanted to step out of the room at any time, it was OK, and I was VERY glad that she had prepared us and told us that stepping out was OK. (I watched the beginning of it, but then it got to be too much, so I went out in the hall until the scene was over.)
