kateordie:

I got a box from The Boxtrolls.

Awhile ago, amazing stop-motion animation studio Laika sent out care packages in support of their film Paranorman. Awesome and interesting folks got boxes featuring real animatronic puppets used in the film. They came in coffins, in dirt, and you had to dig them out. I was enthralled. A massive fan of their film Coraline and of stop-motion in general, I was giddy over this clever, joyful, interactive gesture.

Today, I got my very own.

The Boxtrolls is Laika’s next film, and I couldn’t be more excited. I opened the personally-dedicated packaging to find a whole treasure chest of goodies related to this next project - a secret map to the city of Cheesebridge, where it’ll take place, a decoder box with a cipher (!!!) message, a wonderful letter, some stickers of the awesome art on the box, and an actual manhole cover used in the film. I own a prop!

I was excited for The Boxtrolls, but now I’m positively giddy. Thank you so much, you clever, wonderful wizards.

vanehwasreal:

ok so I was reading about the tv series Hannibal when I found this. this is the hannibal that deserves a tv series let’s be real

nsfwfishdinner:

TCAF spoils.

YESSSS!!

ananthymous:

radiomaru:

My new book SECONDS is out July 15. Preorder it now wherever books are sold!!!

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/212682/seconds-by-bryan-lee-omalley

Yup yup

nerdgerhl:

I feel like there are probably too many people just scrolling past this so let’s go through everything that’s going on here. 

1. With Roger’s voice actor standing off camera, Bob Hoskins acts into empty air and frantically sawing at his handcuff, continually looking up and down at different visual marks of various depths. Look at the slow pan up of his eyes in gif 4, and then the quick shift to his side. Think about how, on set, he was looking at nothing. 

2. Starting in gif 2, The box must be made to stop shaking, either by concealed crew member, mechanism, or Hoskins own dextrousness, as he is doing all of the things mentioned in point 1. 

3. In all gifs, Roger’s handcuff has to be made to move appropriately through a hidden mechanism. (If you watch the 4th gif closely you can see the split second where it is replaced by an animated facsimile of the actual handcuff, but just for barely a second.)

4. The crew voluntarily (we know this because it is now a common internal phrase at Disney for putting in extra work for small but significant reward) decided to make Roger bump the lamp and give the entire scene a constantly moving light source that had to be matched between the on set footage and Roger. This was for two reasons, A) Robert Zemeckis thought it would be funnier, and B) one of the key techniques the crew employed to make the audience instinctually accept that Toons coexisted with the live action environment was constant interaction with it. This is why, other than comedy, Roger is so dang clumsy. Instead of isolating Toons from real objects to make it easier for themselves, the production went out of its way to make Toons interact more with the live action set than even real actors necessarily would, in order to subtly, constantly remind the audience that they have real palpable presence. You can watch the whole scene here, just to see how few shots there are of Roger where he doesn’t interact with a real object. 

The crew and animators did all of this with hand drawn cell animation without computerized special effects. 1988, we were still five years out from Jurassic Park, the first movie to make the leap from fully physical creature effects to seamlessly integrating realistic computer generated images with live action footage. Roger’s shadows weren’t done with CGI. Hoskin’s sightlines were not digitally altered. Wires controlling the handcuff were not removed in post. 

Who fucking Framed Roger fucking Rabbit, folks. The greatest trick is when people don’t realize you’re tricking them at all. 

maudelynn:

jeremy-ryan:

Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Yoda get a visit from Kermit & Miss Piggy on set of “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980)

May the 4th Be With You!

drlectah:

_{What do you want ?}

baedirin:

I spent the entire afternoon cleaning my house after I watched this, and can’t STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS EPISODE. AHHH. 

sassy-canadian-princess:

eclarewasalreadytaken:

Paying Off Debt 101

Years old but I still laff every time

ladyzayin:

Ko no mono preview for those like me who were looking for it. ^^

OMG, THE FLAMING WHEELCHAIR!!! That doesn’t look like Freddie in the chair at all though. What’s going on?!

deviantart:

languidness:

joyouscatus:

You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves?  This is recent.  As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).

This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery.  Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission.  This is disrespectful and appalling.

EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.

BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.

THEY SOLD IT TO A THIRD PARTY ROYALTY-FREE.

http://www.deviantart.com/submit/agree

We appreciate the rallying of the community around the rights of this artist. Rights and ownership of artwork are an important cause which we do not take lightly. To clarify:

DeviantART does not retain any ownership nor right to ownership of any artwork posted to deviantART. The point of question in our Submission Policy is one which gives us the right to present the artwork you submit to deviantART on deviantART. As stated in our Submission Policy, “Artist at all times retains all right, title and interest in and to the Artist Materials provided by Artist hereunder (including, without limitation, the copyrights in and to the Artist Materials), subject to the non-exclusive rights in the licenses granted to deviantART under this Agreement.” Thus, artwork posted to deviantART may be used in promotional material for deviantART (with all due credit for the work included), but never for non-deviantART commercial purposes, and never without express recognition of the original artist. The artist also always retains the right to remove the work from deviantART at any time, if they so choose.

By the same token, because we do not retain any ownership of artwork submitted to deviantART, we cannot license it to others either (be it individual or company) without the express permission and written agreement of the artist. From section 5 of our Submission Policy: “deviantART will contact Artist in writing about any individual commercial uses of Artist Materials instigated by deviantART.” If deviantART had been involved with this situation in any way, the artist would have been contacted in writing long prior to any commercial use of the artwork. 

We assure you that we had no involvement of any kind in this incident. Again, we appreciate the passion with which the art community has come together regarding these circumstances, but as with all things, we’re always on the side of the artist. 

nbchannibal:

Jack’s just like, “Oh, HELL no.”

I hope this is a Pushing Daisies reference.

spikedkanine:

the-real-seebs:

mercurialmalcontent:

lysikan:

mercurialmalcontent:

silascaptor:

coffeeandcuteboys:

girldoesnothing:

adu101:

piranhapunk:

languidness:

joyouscatus:

You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves?  This is recent.  As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).

This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery.  Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission.  This is disrespectful and appalling.

EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.

BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.

THEY SOLD IT TO A THIRD PARTY ROYALTY-FREE.

http://www.deviantart.com/submit/agree

woah oops deleting my deviantart account

*instantly puts logo on my best pictures*

6. Payment Unless otherwise agreed between Artist and deviantART in a writing from deviantART, the license granted to deviantART under this Agreement is royalty-free.

DeviantArt you literal piece of shit

Uh what

That’s not okay

yo okay this is REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT and imma be deleting my DA very soon because of it.

Do we have a copyright person in the house? I’m pretty sure that this isn’t correct and that that wording is necessary for DA to be able to display anything at all. (Legalese sure is weird!)

Most of it is as you say, however there are subsections 3 d and e which look questionable, however part 5 explicitly indicates that DA will get permission from thee artist before making a third party deal, which the Hot Topic thing would come under. So no, the artist did NOT give Hot Topic the right to use their art through this agreement.

Thank you! (Also thank you to the anon who also pointed out part 5.)

So dA remains shifty but not necessarily at fault, the artist certainly isn’t at fault, and Hot Topic is definitely a thieving piece of shit.

Folks, please stop spreading panicky bullshit like this around before you find an informed opinion on it first! If you aren’t familiar with legalese you’re pretty likely to misinterpret it, especially if you fly off the handle at the first questionable thing you come across (like a bunch of people in this reblog chain did).

Okay, I’m not a lawyer or anything, but:

Giving a license to deviantArt to display your art royalty-free does not, in and of itself, give them a license to sell it to other people. Or for other people to use it royalty-free. Basically everyone (including tumblr) will have some kind of thing saying you’re giving them license to display your work, or else they can’t host it for you.

Maybe there’s stuff somewhere else in their agreement that allows them to license it to Hot Topic or something, but unless Hot Topic actually is deviantArt, a license granted to deviantArt does not give Hot Topic anything.

Seriously, I can’t even understand how anyone could think that the quoted text gives an unrelated third party rights to use the work.

Oh wow. This is the first time I’m hear about Hot Topic doing this kind of bullshit. =/

But yeah— I’m pretty sure everyone’s going to rain HELL on DeviantArt if it turns out they can do something as under-the-table as giving Hot Topic permission to snag peoples deviations and sell them on shirts. But It doesn’t look like that’s the case hopefully (according to the above poster & the actual TOS).

It really needs to be clarified for the mass majority to understand what powers the third-party companies would have. 

Edit: I re-read the page again to see if they were more specific about what a 3rd party can and can’t do AND…

“12. No Liability for Third Party Use. DEVIANTART DISCLAIMS ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY FOR ANY THIRD-PARTY USE OF THE ARTIST MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE ON THE DEVIANTART WEBSITE BY THE ARTIST PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. ARTIST SHALL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR SEEKING RELIEF FOR ANY UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ARTIST MATERIALS BY A THIRD-PARTY, AND NOT FROM DEVIANTART. THIS MEANS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT IF ANOTHER PERSON OBTAINS ARTIST MATERIALS FROM DEVIANTART (WHETHER OR NOT WITH DEVIANTART’S PERMISSION), AND USES THOSE MATERIALS IN A WAY NOT AUTHORIZED BY THE LICENSES GRANTED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT ARTIST WILL SEEK REDRESS OR RECOVERY FROM THE OTHER PERSON AND NOT FROM DEVIANTART, AND THAT ARTIST WILL NOT HOLD DEVIANTART RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR SUCH UNAUTHORIZED USE.”

Which basically means: “Hey, we just host the images. If anyone associated or associated with us stole this image to be an asshole, we didn’t tell them it was allowed or acceptable.”

So, Yeah. Hopefully every learns not to have knee-jerk responses to things like this anymore. 

The only ones who should be attacked in this case is Hot Topic themselves.

haanigram:

mean-cannibals:

because buster was the hero our show deserved, just not the one we needed right then

this is the best hannibal comic i’ve read in a long time and it’s about a fucking dog

robdelaney:

bobbycaputo:

This Teacher Asked Her Students to Write to an Author. Kurt Vonnegut Wrote Back This

In 2006 Ms. Lockwood, an English teacher at Xavier High School, asked her students to write a letter to a famous author. She wanted them discuss the author’s work and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was the only one to write back and his advice is worth reading. 

Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

Kurt Vonnegut

This made me cry. I’m reading Mother Night right now. I love him so much.