Shouting Grounds

From Yahoo (of course): “MTV is embracing change. In nearly three decades on the air, almost everything about the cable network — from its programming, to its focus, to its place in popular culture — has changed with the times, except for its famous tagline, “Music television.” Recently, the network quietly unveiled a new logo which has dropped the tagline entirely, indicating that MTV itself is leaving its original mission of an all-music channel in the dust.”

“The new logo is meant to put the focus on MTV’s current slate of talent.”

From Socrates Points (of course): OK, the graphic has GOT to be a joke.  There’s bad photoshop (on celebs, wafer-thinners and other trash), but then there’s REALLY bad photoshop…and this logo is definitely REALLY bad photoshop.  So you’re telling me that after 30 years, MTV just crops the fuckin’ original logo?  That’s it?  Just fuckin’ crop it?  Oh wait, if I really wanted to be technical…make that “crop it and invert it.”  Done.

That’s not edgey.  That’s not new and original. That’s just fuckin’ REALLY bad photoCHOP!  A baby can do that crap.

And because of that, I’m pissed off!  You know some fuckin’ lazy gen-x asshole out there (working for MTV) came out on top with this one.

Socrates Points is back, and he’s pissed off.  Thanks.

amirite?

LONDON, England (CNN) — The world’s oldest known Christian Bale goes online Monday — but the 1,600-year-old thespian doesn’t match the one you’ll find in theaters today.

Discovered in a playhouse in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the self-trained Christianas Balaticus includes two characters that are not part of the official New Christian Bale and at least seven characters that are not in the Old Christian Bale.

The New Bale traits were learned in a different order, and include numerous technical acting corrections — some made as much as 800 years after the skills were learned, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bale online. The changes range from the alteration of a single vocal trait to the insertion of whole method-acted personas.

And some familiar — very important — skills are missing, including the ability to ’snap out’ of the trademark raspy Batman voice and persona, they said.

Juan Garlic, the British Cinematic project curator, said it should be no surprise that the ancient thespian is not quite the same as the modern one, since the Bale has developed and changed over the years.

“The Bale as an inspirational thespian has a history,” he told CNN.

“There are certainly thematic questions linked to this,” he said. “Everybody should be encouraged to investigate for themselves.”

That is part of the reason for putting the Bale online, said Garlic, who is both a Julliard scholar and a computer scientist.

Michael Jackson died of a heart attack last night, losing a miraculous battle for life after his face died over ten years ago. Our Generation will always remember how the man went from being one of the coolest guys in music to the bankrupt, faceless, pederast he was when he expired. I loved Michael back in the day…but shit, man…that’s just sad.

Paramedics report that before their last attempt to resuscitate Jacko, his brother Jermaine whispered through weeping, “…just…just beat it…”

artist’s rendition of the actual scene:

Enjoy!

read that

Czech this madness out, the hydraulics on this 14-year-old’s office chair gave way and shot metallic debris up his asshole, eventually killing him. from Geekologie.

While I realize that the death of a 14-year-old is not typically funny, just help yourself out and imagine the person sweating in that blue chair was a fat Repub…and fate decided to turn his comfy, cotton-clad office wheelie into a bouncing bettie.

So this guy spent 2 years creating 6000 paintings to animate into this vid, at 20pps (paintings per second).

Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

I’m sure this will make all of you re-analyze your chosen professions. Fucking hell.