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Mar 24, 2016 4:04PM
“Sky” trailer - starring Diane Krueger and Norman Reedus
What is this depressing shit? Homegirl kills her husband and becomes a working girl doesn’t seem so romantic. And they cut right to her bludgeoning the old man to death. Usually you have to show more than one scene of the abuse or something, to establish a history of abuse. In this trailer, the old man just wants some sex that night, but she is repulsed by him and kills him. It doesn’t make any sense, like it’s out of the blue.
And then she becomes a prostitute and picks up some scary looking dudes like Norman Reedus.
Is this the misery of being a woman? I dunno, them French women sure think their life is this dramatic. They got a German playing a French woman, and a chinky-eyed redneck playing the lead white knight. It’s a topsy turvy world.
Mar 24, 2016 3:31PM
First press release photo of the Amazonian Warriors from upcoming “Wonder Woman” film starring Gal Gadot. Looks so bad. No wonder Hollywood was so hesitant to make it. There isn’t much you can do without making it look cheap or sleazy. This genre was parodied to death in 1970s and 80s in porn. Oh well. Girrrrrllll power?
Mar 21, 2016 4:09PM
Mmmm. Just a warning though: Olivia Wilde don’t look so good unless she got tons of make-up. Trust me. As for the bush and nipples, it’s possible this is another example of computer generated nudity because homegirl was already pregnant, so it’s probably all saggy and shit.
Mar 18, 2016 5:06AM
Damn, Louis CK shot this on Harding Univ. campus. Man, that’s some SERIOUS acting and drama. They were already rehearsing this scene way back then. He was already complaining about how he had to fund this stuff himself, had a little studio blocked off on campus. I recognize the set. But, man, this is a STRANGE show. Maybe it’ll be a good reference for actors.
Mar 17, 2016 12:53PM
“Father Figure” - By George Michael
I think it’s just me, but I find it HILARIOUS that this beautiful homosexual man taught a generation of straight men how to be straight. Mind you, this would have been BEFORE he came out as gay. Tell me culture isn’t weird.
Mar 17, 2016 3:52AM
Viewers who think Borat is making fun of foreigners don’t get it’s actually making fun of the subjects. In this case, American dating, through the exaggerated and stereotypically racist views of foreign dating, you see how strange even American dating is. You have to go to a damn dating school or counselor to learn how to get with American women! Imagine that!
Mar 17, 2016 3:36AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lisa-frank-tarot-deck_us_56e863d0e4b0860f99dab0b3
Kitsch factor over 9000. For those that didn’t grow up in the 1990s, Lisa Frank brand art was plastered all over binders and folders and pencils, etc., during the start of school sales. I’m going to assume nowadays education has gotten so shitty, students don’t buy binders, folders, pencils, or other basic school supplies anymore, replaced by smartphones and laptops.
Anyway, it looks like Lisa Frank rolled out some tarot cards. The artwork is actually unisex, but was always preferred by girls. I always thought the art style was trippy cool. I think I had a few Lisa Franks folders myself in elementary school.
Mar 16, 2016 10:37AM
LOL. Noice. How come there’s no poking fun at weaves (or too easy)? Or is it that these particular black women are bragging they have natural hair?
Mar 15, 2016 3:42AM
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/feminist-frequencys-anita-sarkeesian-announces-new/1100-6435504/
Ugh. Man, privileged white men really are clueless aren’t they? What the hell does feminist politics have to do with Gamespot, a video game news source? If it weren’t for Anita Sarkeesian being a product of nepotism, this wouldn’t even get any buzz. Trust me, she’s gotta be someone’s daughter or something in order to get this much press. There are more articulate or vocal “feminists” out there that theoretically look better (more marketable) and have better viewpoints, but this girl gets shit ton of money and publicity.
This seems to be something only white men do, in an apologist sort of way. My reasoning is they want to attract more minority women into their sausagefest, thus a brown skin female gets all their funding. Sounds accurate? Just like they get tired of making Wonder Woman white woman, so they maker her “exotic” so that ethnic women fall for their propaganda. Just watch, even in Ancient times, Wonder Woman falls for a convenient white guy that looks like Chris Pine. Tell me how that’s plausible.
Anyway, political correctness sometimes doesn’t play out the way it’s suppose to. Maybe one day men will try to invade an industry that has historically been dominated by women, outside of giving birth of course. Don’t want to get too extreme. LOL
Mar 15, 2016 1:57AM
Spot on. LOL. These cats know what’s going down in the modeling “industry”.
Mar 14, 2016 9:23AM
I haven’t been watching Walking Dead (I don’t have cable), but Carol and Maggie are turning out to be their local white women bad-asses next to Michonne.
Mar 14, 2016 9:03AM
This nigga high as fuck, but he sure as hell articulates female entitlement.
Mar 11, 2016 7:32PM
I dunno, playa. This advice is only for minority men who want the whitest of white women. It shows you don’t have any self-respect if you’re ice breaker is to cut yourself down right away. Means you’re putting the white women too high on the pedestal. I never had any problem “hooking up” with white women other than being myself. There are white women out there that are actually quite chill, you know, practical non-superficial white women.
I’ve never seen any white women bend over backwards to impress non-white men, other than say pulling strings with their vast network of informants/spies and placing subliminal messages into mass media, stalking, etc., anything insane rather than using common sense. Those white women fail from the start. The white women that do succeed with non-white men just do it.
Mar 10, 2016 12:15AM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/%E2%80%98hot-mug-shot-guy%E2%80%99-jeremy-meeks-leaves-prison-starts-modeling-career/ar-AAgABYQ
LOLOL. You cannot make this shit up. Remember that “hot mugshot” guy? Well, he’s out of prison now and he’s starting his modeling career. This is like the plot of a sitcom or something.
Mar 9, 2016 9:55PM
Women who are self-conscious about being taller than men are over-thinking it. It’s funny here, but reality is, men don’t care as long as you put out and are with them. I’m 5 feet 10 inches and women who are taller than me still have this issue, yes I’m speaking from personal experience, which doesn’t make any sense to me.
Mar 9, 2016 9:31PM
Japanese maid cafes. (shudder) That’s creepy. If you’re going to go oogle at women, the women should at least resemble sexually mature adult women. This is so creepy, the women look like something between pre-teen and teenage girls but never adult women. At the least, if I go to a stripclub where a whore grinds her sweating crotch on me or gyrates her pussy in front of my face, that’s a true adult context and the woman is a woman and I as a man don’t feel creeped out or guilty.
Note: when Buzzfeed asks which maid is most popular, the other maid agrees it’s Ayame, the one you see in the thumbnail. Hmm, does it have something to do with her looking the most sexually mature, like an adult female?
Mar 5, 2016 8:47PM
http://slutever.com/slutevers-to-do-list-for-life/
Very amusing. It’s like a list a more mature teenage girl would make. That’s the point, of course, because the list is by Karley “Slutever” Sciortino for a Petra “Hairy Bush” Collins’ book about teenage girls.
The art direction deserves an award unto itself. It’s really kitsch.
Feb 28, 2016 6:17PM
“Come What May” - Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman from movie “Moulin Rouge”
Beautiful.
Feb 23, 2016 1:21PM
I’m so confused. Are they Jews? Middle Easterners? Hollywood? There’s a “hint” of cultural uniqueness, but they sure don’t act or sound “unique”. Disney.
Feb 23, 2016 10:53AM
“The Boy Is Mine” - Brandy & Monica
Remember this? It’s so hot. Still sounds good to this day.
Feb 22, 2016 2:59PM
The interracial love is the “happening” thing on AMC right now. Check out Rick and Michonne of “Walking Dead”. The two most bad-ass characters from the start of the series and only now have they fucked. They’re so alike.
Feb 21, 2016 9:20AM
So to summarize why pickup artists do what they do (male or female), it’s because they’re delusional.
So like an FBI profiler might tell a psychotic tormentor, “Stop running, if you want to ultimately get caught.”
In layman terms, that hard-to-get shit has a timer, and eventually it just comes off as sad.
Feb 21, 2016 9:08AM
Hayley Quinn participates in TED Talks cult. Kinda depressing.
Feb 21, 2016 4:57AM
Tsk, tsk, Hayley Quinn. Mission control, we have contact. So painful to watch. She’s all superficial and shit with her “old friend” JT Tran, until he wraps his arm around her, and she cringes. But I thought you two were old friends. So that’s how I know they haven’t been intimate with each other. And also that her facade may not be what it seems. As the “interview” progresses, she continues to lean away from JT. Shit’s built-in. This video actually does make JT look like a good guy. It’s not like what he’s saying isn’t the truth or basic common sense. But the reality is, these white women crave the attention and validation and JT is just another factor in this age-old high-school forever industry. Stay keen, kids.
Feb 20, 2016 7:46AM
That’s how it’s done, girl! All it takes is a little courage. Note, this black girl asks EVERY ethnic male, and even the black men are all awkward and shit, it seems like they’ve never been hit on by a girl before. So this video dispels not only the black-men-as-hyper-sexual-potent-gods-in-Murica, but also shows that if you’re a black girl in America (or anywhere for that matter), the only thing stopping you from getting a little some-something is yourself. Go get ‘em, girl.
Feb 16, 2016 6:02AM
Interesting. Can Nigerians marry a white man? I think they already know the reasons why and why not.
But this does lead me to contemplate Hollywood shamelessly making a “Pretty Woman” sequel that stars a sexy black Nigerian female and an older wealthy white man. You know you want to, Hollywood.
Feb 16, 2016 5:50AM
Wow, I’m surprised by the answers, it’s heartbreaking. But it is relative after all. Most these Nigerian women would rather, I paraphrase, “suffer but live comfortably”. No one would say that if they didn’t already live in very bad conditions.
Feb 13, 2016 10:51AM
Dulce Sloan knocks it out the park. She’s no Wanda Sykes, but it’s still very unique humor. When she got to the part about gay men grabbing her breasts all the time and that if they do it, they better have sex with her, that’s when I knew it’s going to be funny.
Feb 12, 2016 1:26AM
All you young people who want to get into the YouTube business, here’s your chance: The Fung Bros. are hiring!
However, they did leave out some stuff, so let me supplement this opportunity with some needed advice.
1. Make sure you have some money saved up. Odds are, you don’t live in New York, so they’ll make you relocate. You’ll need a sufficient amount of money to live off of if they don’t compensate you with a stipend or wage.
2. Make sure you understand the basics of your legal rights for the content you will be producing for them. Odds are, The Fung Bros. will end up getting all copyright to the content you produce, whether you’re a cameraman, graphic designer, extra in a skit, etc. So ask about your rights, what your compensation is, etc. Don’t work for free. DON’T SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS YOU CLEARLY UNDERSTAND IT.
3. Make sure you have a place to live. You better have some friends or family that will let you crash at their place. If not, New York has very expensive cost of living, so that’s why rule #1 is important. You need to have that rent money or somekind of funds to live off of.
4. Ask a lot of questions. It doesn’t make you look stupid. You don’t want to be left out in the snow, homeless and starving. This is a horror story you always hear about on the news. Understand that this is never a guaranteed rise to fame and fortune. Have a plan. Get a round-trip air ticket instead of one-way. Make sure your family knows where you are. Be smart.
Other than that, hopefully The Fung Bros. are reputable enough that they can hook you up. But be smart about it. And good luck!
Feb 11, 2016 12:33AM
Is Chelsea Handler going to become the new Joan Rivers? Maybe. She’s been doing a lot of these nude selfies and stuff lately, still looking AMAZING at her age. Seems like she’s trying to make up for lost time, trying to have a career she should have had when she was younger. But maybe that’s what makes her cooler than other comedians. Also, she banged 50 Cent.
Feb 10, 2016 9:52PM
There are male models out there too. Here’s a good series featuring the realities of being a male model. It’s not like the Zoolander movies.
Oct 4, 2012 3:24PM
I have to agree with Star Jones on this one. Anderson Cooper isn’t as deserving of his own show as Ellen Degeneres (simply because she has that “it” quality). Who knew being “gay” could be such a gimmick to climb the media ladder? Next, we need to see a gay black rapper host a comedy show preaching Zionism. Anderson Cooper is just another entitled rich white man, but maybe he doesn’t see it that way.
Oct 3, 2012 10:26AM
See, ladies and germs, this is why I don’t watch any of the Twilight movies. Poster for Breaking Dawn (part 2) is trying too hard to be X-Men or something epic.
Oct 3, 2012 10:07AM
http://www.examiner.com/article/good-internet-model-managers
I kinda deduced this on my own.
Sep 29, 2012 12:40AM
This will be one controversial post, but I’m going to spill the beans on how to spot a flakey model. “Flake” is a term coined by “the industry” to mean any model that doesn’t follow through with shoots. It can be for any number of reasons, ie, the model isn’t real, model is irresponsible, immature, etc.
How to spot a flake model (where the photographer can be the victim or damsel in distress)[[MORE]]
1. Make first contact, then engage and observe. This is important because you want to correspond and eventually work with a live person (isn’t that the goal?) Sometimes, any one model can actually be represented by a shady network of cohorts or scammers. This is why you need to use extra intuition to detect this. When you make first contact with a prospective model, and she isn’t agency-represented, it is logical that it would be direct contact and that she is the one corresponding.
Some indicators that she may not be who she claims to be is in the way she “talks”. For example, be most weary of younger models, those that are 18 or 19. This is a known technique in the adult industry where there is a constant mention of the model’s age. The model’s agent (or pimp) will mention this upfront. It’s kinda like if you’re an undercover cop, the first thing you say is that you’re not.
And if you’re aware of modern stereotypes, pay attention to how the correspondence goes. If this teenage model talks like an airhead, odds are she’s not a genuine model. If she doesn’t have the business etiquette or sense to have proper correspondence, then she’s definitely not professional. This is actually a good point, I’ll note later.
Pay attention to forum-speak and other venues where these people interact. You got a lot of fraudulent members in the community posing as multiple personalities, either out of immaturity or cunning scam. Once in a while, they will slip, and they will “talk” as themselves as their sock puppet model. Or they will use a similar catch phrase, or mention something familiar. There might be photographers posing as their models, or vice versa. There might be the “poppa bear” old man photographer that pimps out his little stable of daddy-issued teen-looking models. Be weary of the criminal boyfriend that will rob you. Be weary of the network of hardened feminist strippers. Not to sound paranoid, but just know that it exists and pay attention. The likelihood of trouble isn’t high if you do your due diligence.
Also, look for membership signup dates. Flaky models sign up very recently, then disappear into thin air. Sometimes it’s a bot, sometimes it’s a troll. You just have to keep it in the back of your mind.
2. References - You can either take every reference’s word about the model as fact, or at face value, or be more vigilant and assume that if this model’s circle of friends are grifters or confidence tricksters. References should not have any kind of bias. Logically, any of the model’s references that has worked with her more than once should be a little fishy. And there will always be hearsay. If you really need to survey the model’s references, make sure you’re asking a diverse selection and then make an educated evaluation.
3. Proper grammar and spelling. It’s just good business sense and practice. It’s just tied into practicality. If she can’t read, she can’t add, then she can’t take orders, what else might she have trouble with… drama? Granted, she doesn’t need to be an English scholar, but effort matters. Manners is also a plus.
4. Personal biases. Let’s be real. If a model is a racist and only wants to shoot with a certain ethnicity of photographers, and you’re not it, then she’s not going to favor your business. If she has any preconceptions of creepy old pervy rapist men taking away her innocence, then odds are, she won’t show up. This is some very matter of fact stuff.
5. Immaturity - If she thinks she’s a princess just because she’s been told that her whole life and then she realizes she actually has to work to get paid, then that disillusionment might have her vision of reality crumbling. It’s not enough to just be pretty, because to monetize it requires skill… and maturity.
6. Money - It could be #1 on the list, but sometimes you want to think that a model understands how the money flows back and forward, between model and photographer. If a model doesn’t get x-amount of money and that’s the sole purpose of her business interaction with you, then odds are, she won’t show up. She’ll drop her obligation with you (a planned shoot) for someone who offered her more. The sad truth is that most Internet models are in it just for the money. So keep that at the top of their priorities.
Those seem to be the standout ones I can think of in a glance. If all fails, use your best judgement. Like most animals, if you don’t want to engage anything you already perceived as a threat, you wouldn’t engage them anyway. So a model that doesn’t want to work with you anyway, but saw that you were offering money, will no-matter-what NEVER work with you. That’s just the way it is.
However, to end it on a positive note, thank goodness you didn’t get stabbed or robbed, or killed, and ended up on the evening news accused of being a rapist. That, and there are plenty of open-minded and willing models out there wanting to be your muse. You just have to find them. Or in a blue moon, they’ll find you.
Sep 26, 2012 11:03PM
I didn’t pay too much attention. First it was an article about Flava Flav mistaking Country Pop Princess Miley Cyrus for Gwen Stefani, then she’s making appearances on Two and a Half Men. Someone’s trying TOO hard. This usually means it’s the end of her career. Usually, a starlet will have staying power if she just sticks to one demographic. I have no idea who Miley Cyrus is trying to appeal to now. Did her “faithful” fans change their tastes or what? She’s going to try singing like Rihanna next?
It’s an interesting thing to observe… and to dissect. Maybe we will be seeing an Asian female popstar rise to fame, otherwise Miley wouldn’t be grasping at straws like this.
Sep 26, 2012 6:31PM
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/26/14114021-hong-kong-playboy-tycoon-offers-65-million-to-find-husband-for-lesbian-daughter?lite
Get this: Hong Kong tycoon will pay ANY man out there $USD 65 million to “seduce and wed” his lesbian daughter.
This is his daughter (the one on the right that looks like Brandon Lee) with her lesbian lover (who looks like Yoko Ono).
Alright, playas, get them seduction skills and baller skills up and ready, time to make some money!
Sep 24, 2012 8:49PM
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-told-maria-shriver-she-was-%E2%80%98perfect-wife%E2%80%99-and-he-was-still-%E2%80%98turned-on%E2%80%99-by-her-after-admitting-to-love-child.html?_esi=1
Let’s get real. This is quite possibly one of the UGLIEST Hollywood couples out there. And Arnold is bragging about get hisself a 20-year-old honey after his “split” with Maria. Get real. Arnold may have contributed to the definition of male machismo in the past 40+ years to all the beanpole losers, fatherless dopes, and latent homer-sexuals, but the man isn’t exactly a “beautiful” man. The best 20-something tang he’s getting is in the form of, wait for it…
Snooki will go down on ANYONE. Let’s get real. The thought of a former action hero, such as Arnold, in ANY sexual context NOW is pretty gross. And I rest my case by you just looking up what the mother of Arnold’s love child looks like. It’s the world we live in and it’s superficial, shallow, stupid, and most importantly pretentious. This German nigga got swag (that’s from Arnold’s Korean press agent).
Sep 12, 2012 10:32PM
On today’s recycled beauties:
After someone mentioned randomly how horrible the film “Ishtar” was, I had to look it up to see what the fuss was, then a beautiful face caught my eye.
Isabelle Adjani, one of the cast members of Ishtar.
Well, seems this “look” carried from the 1980s all the way through the 1990s with the likes of Sophie Marceau, Monica Belluci
All French. Just shows that beauty can be recycled.
Sep 12, 2012 7:15PM
My god! I was flipping through the TV channels and there’s that mutt-face on PBS, Benjamin Franklin! Jesus jumping jehosephat!
Sep 11, 2012 10:43PM
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/kate-winslet-nude-empower-women_n_1642846.html
Jimmy Cameron’s “Titanic” is coming out on Bluray in all sorts of editions: 3D, 2D, boxed, etc.
We know the scene. That’s actually James Cameron drawing her, by the way.
Check it out at Amazon.com:
Sep 10, 2012 11:28PM
Anonymous:
actually light skin is something koreans are positive about. they prefer light skin to tanned skin, and actually hyuna got a lot of hate during Bubble Pop where she wore fake tan. and circle lenses are very popular in korea too, have you not heard of ulzzangs? big eyes, milky skin and long hair is korea's ideal type of beauty.
Sep 10, 2012 4:29AM
Halle Berry as a “white woman”. This is bad. Very bad. Where’s Shawn and Marlon Wayans for sideline commentary? I find it hard to believe the Wachowskis are using the “makeup” as an excuse to bring back blackface and yellowface. Granted, I hear that there are even some Asians playing whites, but the whites playing Asians is god awful caricatures. There’s no going around it. Asians with their “crooked, chinky eyes” still have a symmetry and aesthetic look. The white actors in yellow-face look like they’re melting or literally retarded. So, there it is. That’s how white people see Asians.
Sep 10, 2012 12:53AM
Okay, before I lose my train of thought for tonight, regarding Hyuna, the Korean pop star featured along Psy in YouTube sensation music video Gangnam Style. It’s just my personal opinion, but I do not find her very attractive simply due to all that work done to her face, especially her eyes. This is a common trend overseas where the Asian women are getting their eyes “widened” to appease American standards of beauty, aka “the white standard”. Her skin even looks like it was lightened. Looking now like an alien. Then you hear her “sing”. If you want to represent “Koreans”, why not look “Korean”. To me, that boggles my mind. I guess she’s Gungnam styo after all.
Sep 7, 2012 4:44PM
Ned Flanders has a sense of humor. Some women will think he looks like Marlon Brando or Hugh Jackman, some will think he looks like That Yellow Bastard from Sin City, but Uncle Terry thinks himself David by Micolangy. Thems the beans, ladies and gents, that’s how you gits teh wimmens. You have to put the time and effort into your body like Uncle Terry.
Sep 1, 2012 11:09PM
The lovely Fiona Horsey. One of those beautiful faces (and bodies) that just pops up sometimes in random movies.
Sep 1, 2012 3:42PM
Anonymous asked: HAHAHA… so now you’re on a beach shooting a model with a NEX-7 in one hand while tweeting on your iPhone with the other hand!! That’s swag!! Do you actually look thru the viewfinder when you shoot? I always thought you’d be just using the LCD screen.
Kesler: haha, I rarely use the view finder, mostly the LCD.
Joke or not, the LCD of any DSLR is quite practical and exists for that sole purpose if it didn’t drain the battery so dang fast. And if you get a profession DSLR, you add on a gigando battery (let alone price!) just to power those unlimited shoots.
Aug 31, 2012 12:47AM
http://blog.angryasianman.com/2012/08/theyre-making-video-game-called-whore.html
Woooo. No.
Team Bondi, the video game developers behind hit PlayStation 3 “L.A. Noire” is working on a similar game taking place in 1930s Shanghai which is currently titled “Whore of the Orient”.
I know the Australians don’t have much opposition when it comes to race relations there, but in the modern world, a title like that can’t be very exotic anymore let alone politically correct. I’m sure, back in the glory days of silver cinema, that’s what got white men hooked on “Asian Dragon Lady”, but nowadays, hopefully, there has to be more to liking a woman than tokenizing her ethnicity.
But on the bright side, which is always the excuse, now they can cast all sorts of whorey Asian American Los Angelos talent to play whorey Asian prostitutes of yesteryear. Get to work, hos!
SMDH. No win situation.