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zillyewe: dead-provocative-bro: kierthestriderrider: HEY GUYS...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:14:52 -0400

dead-provocative-bro:

kierthestriderrider:

HEY GUYS THIS DIRK/BRO COSPLAYER NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!

So this cosplayer is pretty well recognized in the cosplay community, and he’s a very dear friend of mine. This is Devin, or http://dead-provocative-bro.tumblr.com/ where tumblr is concerned. He and another friend of ours were in a wreck just a little while ago on their way home from ACEN, and while both are safe and unharmed, his car is totaled and not able to get him or our friend home. I hate asking this and I know he does too, but he cant get himself home without some help. He needs funds. I may be able to go get him but I cant without gas money to go get him. But we need donations. Devin is a super sweet person and rarely asks for anything but to have a decent day (hell he’s gone out of his way to make sure i was taken care of before himself). Even if its a buck or two, you’re helping. If you cant donate just signal boost this! Every note helps as well as every penny!

As for donating to him, he is in an area with no service or wifi. Please, if you do donate to him MESSAGE ME WITH THE AMOUNT SO I CAN CALL HIM AND LET HIM KNOW HOW MUCH HE HAS. HE CANNOT CHECK HIS PAYPAL FROM WHERE HE IS RIGHT NOW. I dont care if you’re on anon or not when you do, just let me know! His paypal email is kaitokaitofire@gmail.com . Every little bit helps as well as every signal boost! Please. This guy would do this for me and many others as well as go out of his way to help in any way he could, and he has before. Help me help him out. Thank you guys so much.

Hey guys.. just wanted to say thanks for signal boosting so far.. The deer was ok and didn’t get hit.. but The car took out a sign and did a lot of damage to the front of my car. I’m stuck few hundred miles from home… I’m sorry for asking for any help I wouldn’t usually.. but it’d be great if any of you could even just offer advice at very minimum…

Guys, this fellow helped keep me - a complete stranger - sane and happy at Otakon last year, and he actually left an impact on my life. If you can help or donate at all, please, please do - he’s a lovely person and I can’t imagine how horrible it must be to be stuck so far from home.

pajamaprodigy: nemusou: welcome to Liv’s Happy Superfun Time...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:33:03 -0400

pajamaprodigy:

nemusou:

welcome to Liv’s Happy Superfun Time Trans*/Queer Resource Giveaway!!! i’ve (almost) reached 400 followers and i figured i should do something useful with my blog if that many people are watching me have mental break downs and reblog pokemon and bubbline all day. giveaway ends June 15th, 2013!!

rules!!!!

don’t have to be following me i don’t really care all that much but it’d be nice if you want to/like my blog

sorry guys but this is for PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANSGENDER*/GENDERQUEER/AGENDERED/SOME VARIATION OF GENDER THAT IS NOT!!! CISGENDER! i’m giving away resources for those who may not have proper access.i’d be really happy if you reblog as a signal boost but make sure you COMMENT on it saying “signal boost” or something like that so that i know you’re not reblogging it for the actual giveaway

1 like and 1 reblog and that’ll be counted as 2 entries but that’s it!! i don’t think it counts as any more if you do it more than once so

have to have a valid address or po box or somewhere safe that i can send you your shit. i’m willing to ship/mail just about anywhere

don’t be an asshole!! that’s about it for rules

what you’ll win!!!

100$ worth of any resources you might need as a trans* individual!! i’ll buy you a binder, bra inserts, packer or stp, makeup, clothes, i’ll send money for hormones shots, anything worth 100$ that you might need. we’ll message back and forth first to see what you need as a unique awesome individual!!

also as a special bonus, i’m a musician so i’ll write a song for you and post it on my youtube channel! i’ll write it about anything you want (you, your friend, your lover, your pet, your favourite tv show, whatever you want)

so yeah!! happy reblogging~*~*~ if you have any questions please ask me!!

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signal boost!

signal boost!

goodmarrowtoyou: galactic-pancake: - GIVEAWAY - I’m giving...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:44:30 -0400

goodmarrowtoyou:

galactic-pancake:

- GIVEAWAY -

I’m giving away Moleskine Watercolor Large (5.3 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches), Faber-Castell: 6 PITT set in black (XS=0.1mm, S=0.3mm, F=0.5mm, M=0.7mm, C=2.5mm, B=1-5mm) and a small pocket sized notebooks (with a blank pages with nice paper quality).

- THE RULES -

You may like once and reblog up to five times.

Your askbox must be open.

Reblog this on your main or any other blog; not giveaway blog.

You don’t need to follow me, but if you want to, go ahead!

The giveaway ends on 25/05/13 and the winner will be chosen via random number generator. GOOD LUCK!

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craftyjai: ride-the-vibes: This is JASON FYLES and he goes to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:04:51 -0400

craftyjai:

ride-the-vibes:

This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you.
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG!

Local news report

PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?

Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it

He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass

He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together

Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy

He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this

45-70govt: jeszing: son these grades are unacceptable well...

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:29:28 -0400

45-70govt:

jeszing:

son these grades are unacceptable

well maybe if you’d stop eating my fucking homework dad

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devilsmadvocate: thepeoplesrecord: Got this in my email...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:01:03 -0400

devilsmadvocate:

thepeoplesrecord:

Got this in my email today:

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists - a critical source of national income - and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Sources:

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.

PLEASE REBLOG THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD GUYS. Traditional cultures in East Africa have been getting completely trampled on by the government and barely anyone seems to know or care. And this loss of land isn’t just destroying their livelihood but their entire culture. These really are issues that could actually get some backing if people just freakin’ knew about them, so PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST!

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decodethishit: lickypickystickyme: A crowded United Airlines...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:31:13 -0500

decodethishit:

lickypickystickyme:

A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.

Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS.”

The agent replied, “I’m sorry, sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these folks first; and then I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.”

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?”

Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. “May I have your attention, please?”, she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. “We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14”.

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, “F*** You!”

Without flinching, she smiled and said, “I’m sorry sir, you’ll have to get in line for that, too.”

snap snap snap

tranqualizer: s oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings: leftist-linguap...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:00:05 -0500

tranqualizer:

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oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:

leftist-linguaphile:

thatqueerchick:

EVERYONE gets niqab and burka the wrong way round in the West. And when it’s large media organisations, it’s really inexcusable.

I can admit I don’t always get these right, and that really is inexcusable. For everyone. Rebbloging because becoming educated on these differences cannot hurt.

swaggenmccracken: confusedtree: dspazdoesntcare: What the...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:31:50 -0500

swaggenmccracken:

confusedtree:

dspazdoesntcare:

What the hell did I just watch?

It’s me pretending to be a video game character what is wrong with you it’s pretty straight-forward

its funny because its so spot on

jetgreguar: laniblob: Hello. I know this is an art blog, but I...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:29:24 -0500

jetgreguar:

laniblob:

Hello. I know this is an art blog, but I have the most followers here so I’m posting this. You can unfollow me if you want, I don’t care. This man is the spouse of my grandmother, who recently, in October, had an extremely severe stroke. He means the world to her and she means everything to him. He’s been missing for two days now, and was last seen in a VERY bad part of town. He was carrying with him 10 large bottles of prescription medication (if you didn’t read the image, he’s in the latest stages of liver cancer) and possibly around 500$. His medication confuses and disorientates him. If you put the pieces together, this is obviously NOT A GOOD SITUATION. This picture is old: his hair is much shorter and grayer. We are extremely worried and I hope you will PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS if you can. Even if you are not in the area.

oh geez. guys, please boost this

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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 19:24:34 -0500

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doskoi-panda: amarilloo: amarilloo: ashelisms: piyostoria: f...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:02:56 -0500

doskoi-panda:

amarilloo:

amarilloo:

ashelisms:

piyostoria:

fwips:

/stares into the fading sun

This happened to me a lot, but there’s actually a way to save it with photoshop! If the sketch is lighter than the lineart, that is. This is how I do it:

When that happens, I flatten the whole thing.

And then click on Image > Adjustment > Levels

Then click on the darkest shade of sketch you want to get rid of. In this case, the parts I circled below.

Press OK, and there you go!

A clean and workable lineart!

I hope this helps? :D

SUDDENLY I AM STRUCK BY THIS HUGE EPIPHANY
THEN I SLAP MYSELF FOR NOT THINKING OF IT EARLIER

I… oh..

reblogging this again because I need it for homework! JOLLY GOOD

the clouds part, cherubs sing, the heavens open, at last I have seen the light, the abyss is illuminated, all is not lost

skepticalavenger: freyaluna: waterfallofbrokendreams: that-is-...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:01:58 -0500

skepticalavenger:

freyaluna:

waterfallofbrokendreams:

that-is-what-i-am:

Try it… And please share with other people too.

Im going to try thiss..

I wish someone taught me this sooner.

I don’t know if this works, but having known more than one cutter, I feel that I should share this.

semii-colon: draw a grown white cat kissing/grooming a small...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:35:43 -0500

semii-colon:

draw a grown white cat kissing/grooming a small black kitten
maybe?¿??pleaseandthank;w;

— neonmimi

—

KITTIES FOR U
because drawing cats is da bes

alsobecauseyou’remykawaiifriend

thank you so much ♥

missmurrka: naotofuuga: thegeek531: lavisant: drvalkyrie: ji...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:01:49 -0500

missmurrka:

naotofuuga:

thegeek531:

lavisant:

drvalkyrie:

jiont:

steam-powered-jetskis:

annadrawspictures:

i should have planned ahead. i’m not that great at words, i need to essay plan it the next time i need to talk about shit i hate -laughs-

anyway no one asked my opinion but here it is.

Hi there how are you

As a CG animation student, I am extremely offended that you are calling me a machine. To speak in Tumblr terms, you are completely erasing the fact that ACTUAL PEOPLE are working on this film, putting their souls into them, designing, modeling, doing those darned textures you hate so much. Thanks a lot for all the machines out there actually learning how to use this extremely complicated technology and try to give feelings to people with them. I’m currently going through five years of education to learn how to do this shit, and mind you, I’ve only started the actual 3D in my third year.

Let me tell you about 3D CG animation. If it takes a couple of clicks to create a cube, it’s gonna take you what, a week or so to sculpt an entire character (not counting 2D character design), then you have to put what we call texture on them, for that you have to “unwrap” the geometry to be able to paint on it (yeah I said paint, ain’t that a mechanical term), then you have to rig it for animation (giving it a skeleton to be animated with, this is a very difficult and very technical step), there’s also lighting, rendering, compositing, other effects like realistic hair if you choose to use it (we aren’t even taught this in school because it’s different software and takes way too long), etc. For having done all of this, let me tell you a machine ain’t doing it. You are sounding like people complaining about electronic music not being real music. The computers don’t run themselves…

At my school we all have to learn how to do all of these steps, and we can’t even do all of those professionally because it’s technically too fucking complicated to be fully qualified for every single step of production. Ain’t nobody got time or skill for that.

As for the “they all look the same” argument, I agree with you but I have to specify that CG does not necessarily have that realistic-texture-on-cartoony-design Pixar look. The big movie companies just choose them to all look the same, I don’t know why… Here are a few examples of other looks CG films could have:

Meet Buck, A student film from my school

Meet the Medic from the game Team Fortress 2

~~Meet~~ Ozo, another student film

There are plenty of short films not in the ordinary Pixar look, and I really wish they made feature films with different looks because it’s like people don’t even know that something else is possible.

You can have your bloody opinion on it and I agree that it sometimes look bland and lifeless but this technology is barely 25 years old. It’s still being developed, not only for super-realistic special effects for live-action movies, but also for more cartoony and lively animation and rendering. The great difficulty about 3D is not making it look bland and lifeless, and that takes a shitload of skill and time.

tl;dr A MACHINE AIN’T DOING IT, there ain’t no “make a pretty movie” button, and you are being very disrespectful to all the people who work on CG films.

As a fellow Animation Student who had studied both 2D and 3D animation, I wholeheartedly agree with what steam-powered-jetskis has said. OP is also pretty disrespectful to the animators, if you really want to make an 2D versus 3D argument, I strongly suggest that you did proper research on the techniques and history involved.

3D animation also does not just involve movies like ROTG, there is also Ironman, The Hobbit, Spiderman, the Avengers, which all uses CGI. for example, that scene where the camera goes around the Avengers who were looking into the distance with debris and dust falling all over the place? The surroundings are all CGI, the floor is CGI, the dust is pretty much CGI, the buildings are all CGI.

Bringing up ROTG is a bad example as despite the beautiful animation displayed, it is poorly executed. The flaw you pointed out has nothing to do with ANIMATION itself, just to do with character design.

I’m not sure what is your intention in making this post, but as you have said so yourself, plan your post better next time.

Seriously though, I wonder how OP feels about Paperman. It’s CGI film made to look like 2D drawing, that had me fooled until I found out it was CGI. I thought it retained the hand drawn quality, despite not being hand drawn.

Do people think presenting their opinions in a photoset makes it legit or something?

WE’RE LIVING IN THE FUUUTUUURRRREEEE. Resistance is futile.

I admit I had some reservations about 3D animation when it started becoming mainstream, but honestly, I’m not very often disappointed in a 3D film (Dreamworks has some real talent in their animation and design even when the script is pretty lousy). But I think what really made me throw away my inhibitions about 3D animation was video games. I remember when Final Fantasy X came out and my reaction to the graphics was “HOLY SHIT I NEVER EVEN BELIEVED THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE BUT LOOK AT THIS!”

When Toy Story came out in ‘95, I was 11 years old. My whole family was blown the fuck away. I distinctly remember my Dad going on and on about how impossible such a film seemed to him and how excited everybody should be about what’s to come. That was when I was a little concerned. I loved my traditionally animated films and cartoons so much, but at the same time, I really loved Toy Story. I started reading a lot about the production of the film, and how much trouble they went through. It took them years to get it done, and when I heard they avoided animating the human characters because it was just so damn difficult, my first thought was “I hope they figure that out one day because that would be so cool.” And now look at 3D animation. Man, they did it. They figured it out alright.

The struggle to tune 3D animation into what it is now was immensely difficult FOR REAL PEOPLE. This whole argument just invalidates all that work.

Not to mention that there are plenty of examples of bad 2D animation. Most 80s cartoons were pretty shoddy in quality. I was forced to watch the last few minutes of Digimon a few times and it was horrible, whatever character was talking was shown from their back as to not have to animate the face. Look at the old Speed Racer. Kinda terrible by today’s standards.

And while stills of old Disney look pretty, you could always tell whatever “background” object was about to be interacted with because it was brighter and stood out.

And yeah, Paperman was amazing.

bless all of you thank you so much

I used to think like OP too, for a very long time actually, until I actually started looking at the shit animators have to do, and now I’m pursuing an M.F.A. in animation. Granted, this is for both 2D, which is still my personal favorite aesthetically, and 3D animation, which is exciting to learn.

It should also be noted that I do not like gauged ears and I think they look fucking stupid and disgusting, but I’m not going to write an essay about it because I don’t want to insult everyone who likes gauged ears.

Forever21 put my art on a shirt without my knowledge. So sad.

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:13:08 -0500

Forever21 put my art on a shirt without my knowledge. So sad.:

outerspacecake:

annimate:

I’ve seen a few artists have this happen to them too. Such bullshit.

It makes me so mad when companies think they’re entitled to any artwork they see on the internet and they can slap it on their stuff without asking, ughhhhhh