NY Press does it again.
Gross.
Happy belated Thanksgiving.
Ugly.
Kseniya
Matt Carman
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Rachel
Ugly is a collection of ugly pictures, writing, and film. It addresses a range of ugliness, primarily including things that fall on either side of this spectrum.
The main goal is to discover things that are unintentionally and thus genuinely ugly.
Please feel free to submit your suggestions and thoughts to ugly.tumblr at gmail dot com.
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SITES WE LIKE:
FLOP HOUSE
PS DISASTERS
EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!
CAKE WRECKS
YAHOOANSWERS
SEXY PEOPLE
AWFUL TATTOOS
FAILBLOG
PHOTOBASEMENT
Winkers - Put your ass-crease to work!
Posted by Matt Carman via tipster Lucas Chute.
Because both take place primarily in a confined space? And both feature a rooftop scene and a drug dealer? They’re the same movie, basically.
To be fair, I do like both, very much. But I would not start a recommendation of The Room with, “Well if you like Kevin Smith’s sharply critical dialogue spoken by people who don’t sound like they’re trying to swallow half a ham steak, and scenes that follow one after the other in a logical pattern to create a cohesive whole, then you’ll love…”
Posted by Matt Carman
Tyra Banks: Only slightly less popular than Rapist’s House of 10 Corpses.
Part of the storefront display at a “family fun center” in Watertown, NY.
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Kids! Open really wide. How will you survive?
Yeesh. The NYC subway is hard to deal with sometimes, but it’s better than being talked to like a child prostitute. Thanks, Philadelphia! (City of Daddy Love?)
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Remembering Patrick Swayze: The Good, The Bad, and his friends at Ugly.
92Y Tribeca in New York recently presented a Swayze Days of Summer film series, with some of his more popular/acclaimed films (Dirty Dancing, The Outsiders) and the pulpy parts (Road House, Steel Dawn). It was a great celebration of his work and his love of acting, no matter the project. As we’ve seen from Donnie Darko, he was always able to laugh at himself a little bit.
He seemed incredibly classy (stayed committed to his wife through all his decades of heartthrobdom!), and if you’ve seen the instructional video Swayze Dancing, you know he loved his mom more than anything. Sweet guy.
Artist SD Elliott showed these fantasy portraits of Patrick Swayze at a group show in Portland earlier in the year. The above image, Mount Swayze, is available on eBay.
Posted by Matt Carman
From Google’s cache of the Wikipedia entry for blindness. I stumbled into this while feeling around for more information about the book and movie, but then I jus tok of my glases cuz i was bein a lay-z tard.
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“ Every day since I created him, every day since I pushed him through the uterus of my mind, I have thought of him.
A choice quote from 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye - a ‘rather dismal’ (according to a recent court ruling) piece of literature that was intended to be a sequel/parody/commentary on The Catcher in the Rye.
Slate does a nice overview of it - saving you the trouble of actually reading the thing (you’d have to order it from the UK anyway). The most outrageous part is probably the following:
To reinforce the idea that Salinger’s teenager is now an old man, California gifts him a urological problem: References to his full bladder are many and close between, and C’s continence fails him on more than one occasion. Not wishing to completely unman C, California drops in a revolting sexual tussle with a voracious young woman: “I roll harder and faster and I feel my erection roll with me, but still the animal is there, pushing into my mouth,” C tells us.
Ugh.
Leave JD alone!
Posted by Ksen.
nevermindthebolex: I meant to post this last week, indeed awesome.
“These are pretty awesome.
In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.
In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies.
See some more of them here.”
These are the most interesting movie poster re-imaginings I have seen since the Polish ones that were making rounds a few years back. I think the fact that with some these the person hasn’t even seen the film, makes them even better.
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