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bazz-b · 4 years

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THE MEGA RP PLOTTING SHEET / MEME.

First and foremost, recall that no one is perfect, we all had witnessed some plotting once which did not went too well, be it because of us or our partner. So here have this, which may help for future plotting. It’s a lot! Yes, but perhaps give your partners some insight? Anyway BOLD what fully applies, italicize if only somewhat.

MUN NAME: Thomas/Tom AGE: +25 CONTACT: IM, Ask, Discord

CHARACTER(S): Bazz-B, King Baraggan Louisenbairn, Kurosaki Ichigo, Ichibei Hyosube

CURRENT FANDOM(S): Bleach

BLEACH FANDOM(S) YOU HAVE AN AU FOR: I have an ATLA and LOK AU for Bazz-B, but no Bleach AUs for external muses

MY LANGUAGE(S): Passable Japanese, Survivable Italian, Fluent English

THEMES I’M INTERESTED IN FOR RP: FANTASY / Science fiction / Horror / WESTERN / ROMANCE / Thriller / MYSTERY / DYSTOPIA / ADVENTURE / MODERN / Erotic / Crime / MYTHOLOGY / Classic / HISTORY / RENAISSANCE / MEDIEVAL / Ancient / WAR / FAMILY / POLITICS / RELIGION / SCHOOL / ADULTHOOD / CHILDHOOD / APOCALYPTIC / GODS / Sport / MUSIC / Science / FIGHTS / ANGST / Smut / DRAMA / etc. (what Bazz-B wants is reflected in italics)

PREFERRED THREAD LENGTH: one-liner / 1 para / 2 PARA / 3+ / NOVELLA.

ASKS CAN BE SEND BY: MUTUALS / NON-MUTUALS / PERSONALS / ANONS.

CAN ASKS BE CONTINUED?: YES / NO only by Mutuals?: YES / NO.

PREFERRED THREAD TYPE: CRACK / casual nothing too deep / SERIOUS / DEEP AS HECK.

IS REALISM / RESEARCH IMPORTANT FOR YOU IN CERTAIN THEMES?: YES / NO.

ARE YOU ATM OPEN FOR NEW PLOTS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.

DO YOU HANDLE YOUR DRAFT / ASK - COUNT WELL?: YES / NO / SOMEWHAT. (usually but I need to catch up at the moment)

HOW LONG DO YOU USUALLY TAKE TO REPLY?: 24H / 1 WEEK / 2 WEEKS / 3+ / months / years. /DEPENDS ON MOOD AND INSPIRATION, AND IF I’M BUSY I

I’M OKAY WITH INTERACTING: ORIGINAL CHARACTERS / a relative of my character (an oc) / duplicates / MY FANDOM / CROSSOVERS / MULTI-MUSES / self-inserts / people with no AU verse for my fandom / CANON-DIVERGENT PORTRAYALS / AU-VERSIONS.

DO YOU POST MORE IC OR OOC?: IC / OOC.

ARE YOU SELECTIVE WITH FOLLOWING OTHERS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.

BEST WAYS TO APPROACH YOU FOR RP/PLOTTING: You can IM me or send an ask, but the tumblr messaging systems SUCK so I encourage y’all to add me on discord and then just go ham. I’ll only turn down a plot if it’s OOC for Bazz-B, but otherwise I’ll usually try anything. If it’s not working out I’ll typically let you know, but I’m game for most things.

WHAT EXPECTATIONS DO YOU HOLD TOWARDS YOUR PLOTTING PARTNER: Honestly, not a lot. You can be as invested or as chaotic as works for you. You get the urge to suddenly write a specific theme? Hit me with it. The urge goes and you lose interest, that’s fine. Four weeks later and the muse hits you again LETS DO THIS.

WHEN YOU NOTICE THE PLOTTING IS RATHER ONE-SIDED, WHAT DO YOU DO?: I don’t typically struggle with this issue. If anything, I’m the lackluster end of the plotting side. I typically run things through Bazz-B as their happening, rarely looking forward. Unless there’s an overarching story we’re specifically working towards I’m pretty weak sauce. Sorry people!

HOW DO YOU USUALLY PLOT WITH OTHERS, DO YOU GIVE INPUT OR LEAVE MOST WORK TOWARDS YOUR PARTNER?: I’ll typically propose an idea and then see where our muses take us. If my partner needs a rough road map, I’m happy to negotiate what we’d each like to see happen. Generally speaking I let Bazz-B take the wheel.

WHEN A PARTNER DROPS THE THREAD, DO YOU WISH TO KNOW?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - And why?: If you want to drop a thread, I’m completely fine with it. The only reason I’d want to know is so I don’t start panicking and think that I forgot to reply you your latest response to it.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY LEAD YOU TO DROP A THREAD?: If I lose the thread, or if I think it’s reach a natural conclusion. I don’t typically abandon one in the middle on purpose.

- WILL YOU TELL YOUR PARTNER?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.

IS COMMUNICATION IN THE RPC IMPORTANT TO YOU? YES / NO.

- AND WHY?: I don’t require a constant, nor deep level of communication, but it’s important to voice concerns. People tend to internalize problems until they become these big ordeals. A friendly message every now and again can save everyone a lot of drama later.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH ABSOLUTE HONESTY, EVEN IF IT MAY MEANS HEARING SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT YOU AND/OR PORTRAYAL?: I BEG for negative feedback. Even if you feel like your nitpicking, it’s the number one thing I crave from writing partners. Tell me what you dislike and I can work on it.

DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE SUCH SITUATION IN A MATURE WAY? YES / NO.

WHY DO YOU RP AGAIN, IS THERE A GOAL?: To tell a story. Bazz-B is my primary muse, and his entire tale is so interesting to me. The foundations of his identity are flawed and I want to explore that as much a I can, throw him into as many situations as possible and watch him evolve.

WISHLIST, BE IT PLOTS OR SCENARIOS: My left arm for an entire roster of Sternritter, of course. Bazz-B and Liltotto surviving after the war. A reality where Bazz-B finds happiness and acceptance in himself. A healthy bond with a Shinigami.

THEMES I WON’T EVER RP / EXPLORE: I’ll not write rape, it’s understandably triggering for a lot of people and writing it glorifies it, I think. Also racism in a real world setting? I’ve come to terms with it in regards to Shinigami and Arrancar, but they’re fictional groups. I wont engage with it outside of that. Finally, trans-phobia. If a guy like Bazz-B doesn’t engage with that sort of vile nonsense, none of you should either.

WHAT TYPE OF STARTERS DO YOU PREFER / DISLIKE, CAN’T WORK WITH?: Starters that provide a setting and a purpose are great. The sort of starter that turns it back at the recipient with something akin to “Why are you here” are confining. Also, if in the starter your muse is already pushing away mine.. Bazz-B might just nope outta there.

WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE MOST?: Despite my main muse being Bazz-B (or perhaps in favour of it) I typically write as old men cemented deeply in their ways. Yamamoto Genryuusai Shigekuni, King Baraggan Louisenbairn and Ichibei Hyosube are just some examples. Bazz-B kinda fits the bill too.. I GUESS.

WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE LEAST?: Cold, distant, dispassionate sorts. I could never write as the likes of Ishida, Ulquiorra, Haschwalth, etc. They’re all very nuanced characters, they just don’t mesh well with me.

WHAT ARE YOUR STRONG ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: I typically respond lightning fast, my last two weeks or so a poor example of that. I’m passionate, you’ll not find another person so desperately in love with Bazz-B as this fool. I’m easy-going, you can take as long as you want and I’ll still be ready to rumble.

WHAT ARE YOUR WEAK ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: Tumblr confuses the hell out of me, I don’t understand a lot of lingo and the big CARDINAL LAWS of writing. I struggle with scene transitioning and limb placement, and my tags are a mess.

DO YOU RP SMUT?: YES / NO/ DEPENDS.

DO YOU PREFER TO GO INTO DETAIL?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH BLACK CURTAIN?: YES / NO.

- WHEN DO YOU RP SMUT? MORE OUT OF FUN OR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?: What I want and what Bazz-B want are wildly different things. This man is planting a flag in the middle of bonezone whether I agree or not. I commonly write smut because it’s what Bazz-B wants, but I prefer to do it for development.

- ANYTHING YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RP THERE?: I am personally the most vanilla dude you’ll meet. I can google things but it might not translate very well.

ARE SHIPS IMPORTANT TO YOU?: YES / NO A characters growth should never be locked to a specific person, but exploring a character in isolation can only get you so far. As people, we grow from one another. Romance is a key factor in formulating a person’s ideals, but that’s no the only form of ship. The eventual friendship between Bazz-B and Liltotto and Giselle is one of the most interesting things to me. A romance surviving Silbern is incredibly powerful in my opinion. The bond of a teacher and a student. There are so many situations that force a character to change how they would typically react.

WOULD YOU SAY YOUR BLOG IS SHIP-FOCUSED?: YES / NO. More and more I’ve been thinking that I’ve been writing Bazz-B in more ships, but that is not the blog’s focus. Ultimately I’m exploring the character of Bazz-B, and that just happens to be inclusive of ships. Some of my most active writing partners also happen to be muses that Bazz-B has excitedly/begrudgingly/unexpectedly fallen for.

DO YOU USE READ MORE?: YES / NO / SOMETIMES WHEN I WRITE LONG STUFF.

ARE YOU: MULTI-SHIP / Single-Ship / Dual-Ship — MULTIVERSE / Singleverse.

- WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO EXPLORE THE MOST IN YOUR SHIPS?: Individuals who challenge Bazz-B, who force him to rise above what he is, what he thinks he should be. Who tear down complacency and demand better of him in all ways. Whether overtly, intentionally, whatever!

ARE YOU OKAY WITH PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS?: YES / NO. - If you come to me and sell me a story, I’m in. I’m easily swayed by visual art, written lyrics (my ears don’t work so good with music for some reason) and themes.

► SECTION ABOUT YOUR MUSE.

- WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOUR MUSE INTERESTING TOWARDS OTHERS, WHY SHOULD THEY RP WITH THIS PARTICULAR CHARACTER OF YOURS NOW, WHAT POSSIBLE PLOTS DO THEY OFFER?: Bazz-B is a fun guy to taunt, and to cause havoc with. But he’s more than just a hothead, you can read any one of my many rants if you wanna find out about that. With a plot to kill God spanning 1000 years, a burning fury and misguided ideals dragged through the mud of “the lesser of two evils”, he’s a real party trick.

- WITH WHAT TYPE OF MUSES DO YOU USUALLY STRUGGLE TO RP WITH?: Muses who, from the start, wish to disengage with Bazz-B. I understand it might be in character, but both Bazz-B and I are gonna struggle to engage if there’s not some allowances made.

- WHAT DO THEY DESIRE, IS THEIR GOAL?: His ultimate goal is the death of Yhwach. In a perfect world that would coexist with a Quincy victory over the Shinigami, vengeance for genocide. But he’ll take the former over the latter.

- WHAT CATCHES THEIR INTEREST FIRST WHEN MEETING SOMEONE NEW?: Style, first and foremost. If a Quincy had modified their Wandenreich uniform he’s gonna take notice and make some judgement calls. The rest comes after.

- WHAT DO THEY VALUE IN A PERSON?: Honesty to themselves, and a drive to survive. Not to be buried by what’s expected of them, or what they should do. Free will is one of the fundamental truths of the world.

- WHAT THEMES DO THEY LIKE TALKING ABOUT?: Motorbikes, Pop-culture, Fashion, Movies, Himself.

- WHICH THEMES BORE THEM?: History, loyalty beyond all else, the importance of leadership and hierarchy, lectures of all kinds.

- DID THEY EVER WENT THROUGH SOMETHING TRAUMATIC?: His family was burned alive by the man who claimed to be their God. Entering a war on the losing side, his kind facing extinction. Hiding in the shadows, surrounded by a extremist military cult.

- WHAT COULD LEAD TO AN INSTANT KILL?: After a certain point in his life, it’s really only Hollows that should fear indiscriminate murder. Unless you threaten his fragile peace, or claim Yhwach was just.

- IS THERE SOMEONE /-THING THEY HATE?: Bazz-B hates Hollows, and any Quincy loyalists that stand by Yhwach post-Aushwalen. Anyone who saw the true colors of their progenitor and still deluded themselves into thinking him right.. it’s disgusting.

IS YOUR MUSE EASY TO APPROACH?: YES / NO. - Best ways to approach them?: Stoke his ego and you’re usually set for a good few hours.

SOMETHING YOU MAY STILL WANT TO POINT OUT ABOUT YOUR MUSE?: Nothing you cant already find on one of my many ramblings about that greatest Quincy that every lived, Bazzard ‘Bazz-B’ Black!

CONGRATS!!! You managed it, now tag your mutuals! ♥

Tagged by: @equipollency (I got a phantom notification so I rolled with it)

Tagging: @diepower + @zombiequincy + @verzinken + @cheonsaaui + @bleachsthetic + @senboago + any other quincy reading this

#meme: answered #I dunno who has done this so take a mass quincy tag

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aiqc · 7 years

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TV MEME: Day 11 - A show that disappointed you

TV MEME: Day 11 – A show that disappointed you

Gotta love the easy ones. I could go with the go to easy ones: The 100, Stargate: Atlantis, The Originals, Battlestar Galactica, Lost Girl, Arrow, How I Met Your Mother, The Last Ship. There are so many to choose, it’s almost unfair, but I’m gonna go with a recent disappointment. Keep it topical. Supergirl. Oh, this show. It could have given me everything I’ve wanted for so long. It could’ve been…

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Gotta love the easy ones. I could go with the go to easy ones: The 100, Stargate: Atlantis, The Originals, Battlestar Galactica, Lost Girl, Arrow, How I Met Your Mother, The Last Ship. There are so many to choose, it's almost unfair, but I'm gonna go with a recent disappointment. Keep it topical.

Supergirl.

Oh, this show. It could have given me everything I've wanted for so long. It could've been a contender. Here's the thing I love Supergirl. Kara Zor-El was the first superhero I ever encountered in that terrible-amazing 80s movie. I've loved her for so long and like a lot of members of the Superfamily, she gets overshadowed by Clark. That's fair, he's Superman, he's a DC staple and icon, but unlike the Batfamily, the Superfamily and Wonderfamily get less traction. So for me, a Supergirl stan~ I was so so happy about a show about my favourite girl. And for a while it looked like it was doing okay. It wasn't going to be ground breaking tv, it's a comic book show, and while it started off doing a lot of great things, as soon as it moved to The CW things started to implode.

I'm not saying the first season was without fault, because no show is. It could have had more POC actors and characters. James and J'onn were the only ones, both black men in key positions for the story, but it had no others. There were no women of colour at all and there was no LBGT+ characters. It also opened with a "no homo" joke that there really wasn't a need for, the writing of the James/Lucy relationship really did nothing for James' character(isation). The writing was standard with key moments of greatness in which it used the themes presented by the narrative of the show to highlight things like:

illegal alien immigration, get it? Because they're actual aliens! Ha ha!

refugees (the Syrian refugee crisis was at a high point in the news during season one)

the way black people, black men especially (because there were no black women on the show at the time), have to act in public/professionally to get respect and acknowledgement

the way women have to act in public/professionally to get respect and acknowledgement

the socio-economic differences a black man has to deal with in comparison to a white woman

the layers of complexities within a blended family

various moments about sisterhood and how complicated that relationship can be

All of this was discussed under the overall theme of the show, which was: girl power. Not a surprise since the show is called Supergirl and it was about Supergirl and Kara Danvers. It was about her heroic arc and trying to find her own way outside her cousin's shadow. It was about her trying to balance her everyday life and her superhero self. It was about the bonds of sisterhoods and how they're not always easy to traverse. It was about being an outsider, an immigrant, a refugee, with passing privilege in a world that's xenophobic and racist. It had a romance! Our romantic lead was a black man, who was struggling with his own growth and identity. James "Jimmy" Olsen is a staple in the Superman mythos and the show did the same The Flash did with the West family and cast a black actor in a previously white dominated role making it near impossible to write him aside. It had another black man in a position of power and mentorship with his own complicated backstory. It brought in the Lanes, in the shape of Lucy and Gen. Lane! I love the Super-Lane relationships! Our main, and frankly forgettable antagonist was Lex Luthor Lite, but at least they tried. Cat Grant, our other mentor, was a guide post in terms of (white) feminism and confidence. The main conflict towards the end of the season was why does the world need Supergirl when it has Superman and it did a commendable job answering that question.

And then season two came. Look, I don't want to blame it all on the change of network from CBS to The CW, but wow, you can't really look at it, see the changes that happened almost immediately and not go: well shit, The CW strikes again.

First thing first, Calista Flockhart left the show, because she made it clear in season that if the show moved to Vancouver from L.A. she wouldn't go with it. Fine, bye Cat. I liked her fine, but I wasn't going to miss her. Cat was a good mentor Kara in season one, as she helped Kara find her confidence, but I found people put more importance on Cat's influence on Kara than say other more influential and equally important people in Kara's life. Also they introduced Snapper Carr as Kara's work mentor and made him a Latinx man. I found that to be a great change, because hey! more representation, and Snapper was a bit better in terms of the kind of mentor Kara needed as a journalist. Cat was the person telling Kara: don't apologise for being a girl, which is a great message, but Cat was also the person telling Kara to sabotage another relationship to get what she wanted. (White Feminism TM.) Snapper is the person telling Kara: you gotta work had to be good journalist. This, in my honest opinion, was a good change.

It also brought in Superman. A tricky choice, the thing everyone was worried about and hilariously this was what worked out fine. Tyler Hoechlin did a great job with Clark and they even mildly explained the hilarious non-age difference. Clark is meant to be like 20 years older than Kara in this universe, Tyler Hoechlin is definitely not 20 years older than Melissa Benoist, he looks like he's barely even five years older, but a throwaway line about Kryptonian ageing on Earth and cute enough chemistry can handwave a lot of tiny nitpicks. (Though I don't know why they didn't just get Tom Welling back ;) ) And it brought in the Luthor family in the shape of Lena and Lillian Luthor, which it was excellent choice to have Supergirl's Luthor ally (and maybe future antagonist; Lena's a Luthor they're gonna play this angle and if they don't they should. Remember Tess Mercer? What a great arc.) and current villain be both women. It included Miss Martian as a minor character, played by Sharon Leal, a black actress, finally bringing in a WOC into the show, whose own story about identity and choice and morality was great, if quickly shoved aside.

One last thing it did that well before we start the quick downward spiral on how this show broke my heart. Maggie Sawyer. Maggie is a cop. Maggie is also a lesbian and in a relationship with Alex. Now, I have no problem with Maggie herself, or her character, or her relationship with Alex. I love the show went this route with Alex and Maggie. This is some of the LGBT+ representation the audience wanted. I will agree with the criticism that the relationship felt a little rushed but hey, tv, ya know. My problem lies in the casting. Floriana Lima is a beautiful woman. She lights up the screen. She's what some people call spicy white. A white person who can pass for brown, partially in part because she's Italian and hey, Hollywood has absolutely loved casting Italians as Latinx or other brown minorities. Lima could even be mixed, and she doesn't need to tell us if she is, but as it stand just saying she has Italian heritage means she's white. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. This would have been fine, except Maggie was also said to be a Latinx woman (from Nebraska).

As a Latinx woman this burns. It burned more when I kept seeing people defend this because they were okay with the LGBT+ inclusion, so who cares if the WOC in the WLW relationship was being played by an ambiguously tan white woman? Well, I care! They should have cared too, but hey, racism and shitty production choices doesn't matter until it affects the white parts of fandom. I'll get to that in a second, but first. Being Latinx is an incredibly messy and complicated thing. It's not a race, we come in all different colours, but the majority of Latinx who get to break into Hollywood are either white latinx, pass for white, or harness the latinx stereotype Hollywood likes and make bank on it. I would have been way happier had they cast a white latinx instead of an actress who had the "right" stereotypically conceived look what they think a Latinx person is. I would also told them to do better, because there's a whole world out there of non-white latinx who deserved a shot.

But the Maggie/Alex relationship because huge in fandom and it carried a lot of people through in season two even after the erasure a WOC and of a black man's storyline, because Supergirl fandom is incredibly transparent.

Now, let's get to the show's other main problem that was foreshadow and yelled about since the season two premiere by, you guessed it, POC, namely black, fans of the show. The "slow" erasure of James Olsen as the show's main male romantic lead. Ah, let's go back to the beginning... well, end of season one. Where after a season of immediate mutual attraction, some childish jealousy, a few breakup, a couple makeup, some very cute flirting, James and Kara get to have it. Their moment. The moment that's been building up since Kara walked into James' office at Catco and went: oh shit he's hot. They kiss! And because of the drama of television, the kiss get interrupted and Kara has to go save the world. Classic superhero stuff! But hey, we had season two coming! And the show was moving was to The CW, where they were/are doing a pretty great job with the interracial relationship between Barry Allen and Iris West! Things were looking good! So what if they had brought in Mon-El to create intergalactic drama?! Intergalactic drama is good for a show with aliens! James and Kara were gonna be the Lois and Clark of National City! Magic was in the air!!!! Crops were growing! Skin was clear! etc etc

And then they broke them up in the first episode of season two a mere 12 hours after their Big Moment in canon having them state: oh it felt forced.

Can you say WTF? Because I can and I did.

Did you see what happened? Do you see it above? Where I'm going with this?

I bet you do, you guys are smart.

The CW's strikes again. The CW's habit of listen to a fandom when it shouldn't and it's preference for anti-hero angsty white male leads strikes again.

Let's hit the fandom point first because it's easy and fastest to explain: racism. It really is as simple as that. From the get go, for however much people talk about diversity, representation, equality, a lot fandom is incredibly racist, internalised or not, and usually they're very loud. In season one you could tell, you ignored it because the show seemed committed to telling the love story of James/Kara but you could tell. Maybe some people had no legitimate interest in their romance or felt their chemistry was off, but it was interesting to watch as throughout season one a lot of fandom would happily ship Kara with every other white person on the show and not with James. Shortlist: Cat (SuperCat was an incredibly transparent ship for all it's WLW activist. White lgbt+ feminism strikes again. Strike Two.), SuperLane (a ship I would be all for, and was all for, but again incredibly transparent for same reasons as before), Winn (who Kara from the first episode showcased she had no interest in romantically), that random character Melissa's IRL husband played. And while James/Kara had a strong following, it was a following that kept being drowned out by the other loud voices in fandom who had no interest in a black man being the main romantic lead of the darling white girl superhero fave. And I say this as someone who LOVES Kara Zor-El/Danvers/Kent.

So The CW, a network well know for listening to it's fandom and pandering to it (see Arrow, see The Vampire Diaries, see Supernatural) did what it did best. Now, because of James Olsen, played charmingly on the show by Mechad Brooks, is part the Superman mythos it was pretty hard to completely erase him in one go. He's Superman/Clark Kent's BFF, he's an aspiring and award winning photojournalist, he's a good guy. So they gave him a heroic arc as The Guardian to appease fans. Could have been great if outside a short 3-5 episode run we actually saw that arc develop throughout the season. You may ask why all this happened? Why didn't we see this arc for James really develop, who would now be put in position as Kara's romantic lead?

We've arrived at point two: it's preference for anti-hero angsty white male leads strikes again. Mon-El. Oh, a name I never thought I'd hate so much.

I'm not going to go into his entire story arc in season, because I don't care about the character, what's important to know is that his entrance into the show effectively turns season two into: Mon-El's journey as someone who tries to be a hero to impress a girl so she likes him more. Bonus: he's an ex-slave owning prince of a misogynist planet, who lied about who he was until his mom and dad showed back. So yes, the show changed Kara's romantic lead from a black man who struggles with his identity and wants to help people because he's inspired by the heroes around him to: a white man who lies to get the girl until he can't anymore, but it's okay, he's a better person now because she made him better. I cannot. And then it gets worse, because it's not bad enough that Mon-El surplants James' position in the show. He steals what should have the last arc of the show about Kara vs Lillian Luthor vendetta against aliens on Earth, something that was set up in the early half of season two, and is also a big overall theme of the show into Mon-El's mom wants to take over Earth and hates his new girlfriend. This isn't like in season one where it's militant Kryptonians who Kara cared about as members of family and she has to make a choice between her new and old world, an internal conflict within her. It's about her boyfriend's mom being an evil dictator who thinks slavery is a good idea an thinks Kara is not good enough because she's Kyprotian. And sure this could have worked, if it hadn't been framed around Mon-El's struggle and choices and if the overall insult and dismissing of the POC and LGBT+ characters of the show hadn't been victims to this storyline. As Mon-El gains more and more screen time, James loses screentime, Maggie loses screentime, Alex and Kara's relationship loses its central position in the narrative.

The thing is, though, a lot of this could have been avoided if the writers and producers of the show had stepped and protected their characters. If they had stuck to their guns with James as their romantic lead, if they had stuck with Kara's journey being more important another white man who's struggling with his faux heroism. The Flash has done with the Iris West and the rest of the West family, as well as Cisco. They have protected their POC characters and actors. It can be done on The CW. I've seen it. But they didn't with Supergirl and essentially made the same mistake Arrow did when it listened to a certain sector of its fandom and ended up sacrificing story and character for quick praise. Something that ended up backfiring on them big time, because fandom is mercurial and when they realised that the show had essentially become about Mon-El they kept Maggie/Alex on the backburner and made Kara's story all about her feelings towards Mon-El.

I'm not going to get into the Kara/Lena debate too deeply because the show was never going to go there, and as much as fandom loved the idea of it, it also used it the "possibility" and white women loving white women "activism" as a way to excuse James' erasure from the narrative. It certainly didn't help when at Comic-Con the cast insulted that subsect of fandom, but the fact that it wasn't until then that people called the show "bad about representation", um. Well, let's just say some people stopped watching the show once they realised they didn't care about non-white actors or characters.

Supergirl's season two honestly slowly dismantled everything that could have been truly great about the show. It took a show about one my absolute favourite superheroes, who struggles with being an immigrant, who is surrounded by people who struggle with their identity, who want to be and do good, who are minorities and made it into a show about another white man who's looking for redemption in someone else's heroism. All this while actively dismissing their LGBT+ and POC audiences and characters. It stopped being a show about inclusion and started excluding all the minorities that used to feel represented by the show. What a disappointment.

I really hope the show redeems itself somehow, but I just don't see it happening. But if the DCMU could give me Superman/Batman: Apocalypse I'd really really appreciate.

#supergirl #tv meme #tv talk

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williamroy1 · 4 years

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if every body asks me what i think of gucci, i think of them as a chic and conventional italian leather brand. But, again in 2017, the logo took on a more present day method for one among their campaigns. Promoting their new watches, gucci recreated the classic arthur fist meme on instagram. This publish broke gucci out in their traditional bubble, making them a more “down to earth” brand. Meme gucci

barkbox

aside from having a separate committed meme account or a single meme campaign, a few manufacturers which includes @barkbox have totally transformed their instagram account to a meme account. Barkbox is a month-to-month subscription service imparting dog products, offerings, and reviews. As a substitute of having just cute canine images with their merchandise on their feed, the team at barkbox determined to make their instagram account greater fun and relatable for his or her followers. Meme barkbox

for lots manufacturers, such as barkbox, their content material may be repetitive. People don’t need to maintain seeing advertisements. This particular way of advertising leaves a stronger impact for a capability mid- or backside-funnel target audience who might be interested by the brand within the future. On twitter:

popeyes

wondering again to 2019, one of the matters i recollect is how loopy humans went after the viral popeyes chook sandwich. Instead of it being a brand initiative, the meme motion turned into honestly commenced by the audience first. In view that anybody turned into speakme about it, whether or not in actual life or thru social media, extra people want to try it and see the hype themselves. Eventually, the chook sandwich sold out, and popeyes got $23 million in free advertising and marketing. Meme popeyesmeme popeyes

apparently sufficient, after knowing all of the loose marketing from its fans, popeyes seems to choose up on the meme developments as well. When the infamous $one hundred twenty,000 banana duct-taped to a wall artwork by way of maurizio cattelan at artwork basel miami became a meme, popeyes (in conjunction with many other brands) have accompanied as properly. Meme popeyes artwork basel

entrepreneurs who didn’t use memes well.. Michael bloomberg simply recently, mike bloomberg’s team has contracted some of the biggest meme accounts on instagram to put up subsidized content material to sell his presidential campaign. Simply scrolling through the feedback on the various posts, but, matters didn’t go as planned…

meme bloomberg

one aspect to maintain in thoughts in terms of meme marketing: humans want to peer natural and fun content in place of forced marketing. Bloomberg’s progressive political marketing campaign additionally pushed for a brand new set of regulations for instagram. Simply hours after the ones memes surfaced on instagram, the organization changed its marketing guidelines to require political campaigns’ subsidized posts from influencers to use its branded content commercials device that adds a disclosure label of “paid partnership.” #oops

using gifs in advertising

what's a gif? Gifs are described as “a lossless layout for image documents that supports both animated and static photographs.” in different words, gifs permits for a chain of photographs or a clip of a video to be endlessly looped. Gifs can preserve attention and generate engagement higher than static photographs due to the dynamic motion. They're specially beneficial for sprucing up emails or stories. Marketers & brands who’ve used gifs properly

in electronic mail:

kate spade

kate spade gif

this gif is successful due to the fact movements hold the attention transferring, highlighting the helpful functions of each product in succession, without feeling too scattered or overwhelming. In this case, the gif is helpful as it we could moves talk louder than phrases; the gif tells the tale visually, in preference to verbally explaining the multi-capability of every product individually. Lyft

lyft gif

this gif inside one among lyft’s emails in addition shall we the picture tell the tale. The iphone mock up without problems allows the person to assume the consumer revel in of the product in their very own hand. The succession of photos also successfully conveys how brief and seamless the method of calling a automobile is, and quells any confusion about the way it works. Boden

boden gif

this gif by means of boden enhances the messaging of the sale nearly via actually displaying the action of “jogging out.” despite the fact that the gif doesn’t show a bodily product boden sells, the viewer can tie the physical sensation to the intellectual concept. It also efficiently indicates that these days has the most important reward with the aid of displaying the movement on the most important cup, however there are two different small options. One element to don't forget when the use of gifs in emails is that gifs boom e-mail loaded weight, which ends up in slower down load speed, that can in flip lead to a lower engagement. On instagram:

any other wonderful use of gifs in marketing of insta tales. Gifs are obviously eye-catching and draw attention to a sure region of the display screen. Instagram tales lets in for interactive cta’s like “swipe up”, “link in bio”, “giveaway” to add greater life to commonplace directives or compel users to maintain tapping via the memories, as in this case from buffy:

every other way to apply gifs on instagram is to create custom gifs to your emblem and upload them to the tales library. This lets in for accelerated brand awareness, as users can seek your logo in instagram story stickers and use branded gifs (pix of products, slogans, or the emblem) inside the content material they create. A really perfect use case of that is with ritual, who created their very own gifs, including a shifting pill and slogans like “take your nutrients.”

there are not many failed examples of gifs (they're an easy win!), but a few matters to preserve in mind whilst you using gifs:

they must incorporate simple, remoted actions which are smooth for the eye to follow

stray far from text heavy content and preserve it greater visually-centered

live consistent together with your branding: the use of themed colorings, adding emblems where relevant, and so on. The usage of emojis in advertising and marketing

what's an emoji? By way of definition, an emoji is “a small virtual photo or icon used to specific an concept, emotion, and so forth.” the emoticon has its starting place in email lower back in 1982 as a way for pc scientists to express sentiment inside text that might be examine in exceptional connotations. Many years later, we have loads of emojis inside reach on our keyboards, serving the identical reason: to make content appear more animated and conversational. It’s no wonder that companies have concept creatively on a way to use emojis to talk to their audiences, but how a hit are these tries at relatability? Do they blur the line between informality and professionalism? The research shows that there are numerous blessings to using emojis in advertising and that using them properly increases person interplay throughout several structures. Emoji utilization information

studies display that the use of emojis definitely influences the following metrics:

25. Four% growth in engagement rate on twitter

57% boom in likes on fb

33% boom in remarks on fb

fifty six% growth in open charge in email

three ways using emojis can help your messaging

boosts reminiscence

a look at found that participants who received messages with emojis scored better on memory exams than those who obtained the same messages without emojis. Those consequences advocate that using emojis can make a message more memorable for the recipients. The additional context the emoji presents about the difficulty count number reinforces the words which strengthens the memory. Emojis also are a shape of chunking, the psychological process wherein the thoughts divides big portions of data into smaller devices (chunks) which can be less difficult to maintain in reminiscence. Whereas it can take several words to carry a certain idea, emoji can do so in just one character. Saves area

as noted inside the preceding point, emojis do the work of numerous phrases in a single individual. This helps your messaging because numerous e-mail and social media interfaces have character limits with a view to cut off a title in cell or certain desktop views. This indicates a person won't view the whole thing of your message, and could, consequently, be less possibly to have interaction with it. Emojis can grasp their interest and permit for a extra entire difficulty line in fewer phrases. Seems friendlier

within the aforementioned take a look at on emojis, researchers found that members who chatted on line with an expert who used emojis rated the professional as both friendlier and more ready, compared to contributors who chatted with an expert who did no longer use emojis. This is useful to recall when designing internet site chatbots, and replying again to feedback on instagram or facebook: including a sprint of emoji personality makes the user experience like they are speakme to a real human. 3 pointers on a way to use emojis in advertising

cater in your audience

as with every advertising practice, the most essential issue is to realize your audience. In case your business enterprise is an older or historically formal enterprise, like finance or regulation, using informal language can cast off out of your brand’s reputation. In case your enterprise has a younger audience, use of emojis could improve brand recognition as it fits the way they talk. Some sensible guiding questions while identifying what to use are: how does your target audience usually communicate? What do they anticipate from the groups they have interaction with? Healthy the issue & sentiment

the maximum natural way to use emojis is to choose one that aligns with the concept you're speakme about. As an example, pottery barn makes use of the watch emoji to remind customers that time is ticking for their ultra-modern furniture sale:

pottery barn emoji

similarly, tynker uses the yellow college bus emoji for a lower back to school promo:

emoji tynker

in these examples, the emoji grabs the reader’s interest and gives a feel of the situation rely right now. A tactic you could use is jogging break up assessments with emails, trying exclusive emojis with one-of-a-kind sets of subscribers and seeing which bring the message nice. Take a look at the consumer revel in with the aid of email provider

ultimately, keep in mind that every electronic mail issuer presentations textual content in another way. In the chart beneath, all of the e-mail customers with the inexperienced test mark show emoji with out troubles, which includes maximum of the massive email customers like gmail, yahoo!, and hotmail. Outlook. Com and iphone/ipad every so often translate the symbols into the word “emoji.” take into account that after the usage of more recent emojis released from ios updates, any users who haven’t also updated ios will no longer be able to view the photograph. Outlook 2003 doesn’t guide emoji in any respect. In those times, a ▢ will show up. Email company emoji

additionally, don't forget that each provider patterns emojis slightly otherwise to be steady with their formatting. While viewing your e mail on a cellular tool, the emoji show is based on what the device helps. Cellular devices also exchange the style of the emoji to align with the appearance and sense of their interface. Email issuer emoji

e mail company emoji

how no longer to apply emojis in advertising and marketing

exercise moderation

the motive of emojis is to beautify your messaging. Make certain Digital Marketing Agencies in Miami to now not go so overboard with emoji use that what you are attempting to mention ends up extra hard to recognize. Word this case underneath of chevy doing a press release in all emojis that gets misplaced in translation. It turned into intended to be a a laugh deciphering undertaking, however keep in mind that on social media, customers tend to scroll and skim- whatever too effortful or time ingesting will lose their interest. Chevy emoji

it become intended to be a amusing interpreting task, but remember Digital Marketing Agencies in Miami the fact that on social media, users tend to scroll and browse- some thing too effortful or time consuming will lose their attention. Wrap up

memes, emojis, and gifs are reasonably-priced (almost unfastened) and easy gear for entrepreneurs to spice up their campaigns. A good way to seem more personable and desire for higher engagement, brands are making use of the ones tools for extra in their social marketings. But, before publishing the ones campaigns, marketers need to definitely recognize the real meanings at the back of sure references, and no longer overuse some of those new trends.

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Binge! The Food Feasts of Art History

As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young by Jan Steen

An Artist’s Cornucopia of Gorgeous, Strange and Sometimes Grotesque Artworks Featuring Edibles

Let the feasting begin. As many of us prepare for, or are already in the midst of, this season of holidays, parties and fun, we decided to feast with our eyes first with a totally binge worthy showcase of food feasts of art history! It’s an artist’s cornucopia of gorgeous, strange and sometimes a little bit gross artworks featuring edibles.

Solo Feast

Annibale Carracci’s The Bean Eater is a depiction of a rough and tumble character sitting down to a hearty meal. With eyes looking directly outward, there’s an implied expectation that you, the viewer, are sharing his space and the dining hour, perhaps at a table across the way.

The Bean Eater by Annibale Carracci

The Potato Eaters

A dark and coarse supper from the Post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters is unlike the painter’s colorful landscape masterworks. The artist focused on the poverty and realness of peasants at table. In a letter, Van Gogh describes:

“You see, I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk, who are eating their potatoes by the light of their little lamp, have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labor and — that they have thus honestly earned their food. I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ours — civilized people. So I certainly don’t want everyone just to admire it or approve of it without knowing why.”

The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh

Eat Like an Egyptian

Courtesy Wikimedia Commons

Egyptian hieroglyphs depict agriculture at its most ancient. Food was a mainstay of tomb decorations because who wants to get hangry in the afterlife? One tomb features a couple at work planting and harvesting. Other paintings show figures in similar moments of farming. Still others depict servants processing with platters of fish, fruit and game.

It also turns out grains, despite art to the contrary, made up the bulk of the Egyptian’s diet from 3500 BC to 600 AD, with little meat and surprisingly little fish as well considering, well, the Nile.

Ancient Egyptian painting featuring figures with food: platters of fish, bushels of grapes, and game

Another ancient painting from the nearby Indus River Valley shows a female figure enjoying the fruits of (likely) someone else’s labor as she accepts a beverage from a standing attendant.

Painting from the Indus River Valley Civilization, which started in 2500 BCE

Sacred Feast

Dim mood lighting almost obscures the action of Caravaggio’s 1601 painting depicting the Supper at Emmaus. The central Christ figure has just nonchalantly revealed himself to his dining followers and they — arms outflung, lurching out of chairs–start to freak. That means getting up from a table carefully set by the artist.

Notice how Caravaggio heightens the drama (and shows off his skills) of the moment by placing the fruit basket in the foreground over the edge of the table.

Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio

Last Suppers

As one of the most prominent stories of Western Christianity, the Last Supper has been featured in hundreds of artworks throughout the ages. Visual earmarks of the subject matter usual include Christ at the center of the tableau surrounded by his apostles, but even that is subject to change with plenty of artistic license thrown in for good measure.

Last Supper, Mosaic in Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo

With Tiles

Early Christian mosaic depictions like those in Ravenna, Italy show a Last Supper not situated to a particular setting. The scene is simply cordoned off with a decorative border around the action. Christ is not in the center but on the far left, accentuated with a bejeweled halo and adorned in blue drapery.

Scale and perspective, obviously, were details the artists were still working on AKA wow, that’s a big fish. But having been made in the 6th century AD, we are cutting these tesserae artists some slack.

The Last Supper by Andrea del Castagno

Last Supper by Domenico Ghirlandaio

With Variations

Artists like Andrea del Castagno, who painted his Last Supper in 1447, and Domenico Ghirlandaio, who did his some thirty years later in 1479, both placed Christ on the viewer’s side of the biblical dinner table, though they altered which position Christ faced.

This visual trope didn’t set any historical trends. But there’s much to note in these altarpieces including how trippy del Castagno’s backdrop of marble panels appear and wondering what Ghirlandaio meant by his inclusion of all those strangely huge birds in the background arches of his Last Supper.

Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Setting Standards

It was Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance version of the Last Supper that really set the standard when it comes to historic iconography and presentation of the subject. He was the only Ninja Turtle to do a painting of the Last Supper that survives to date. Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael have none to their names. Leo’s visual language would influence generations of artists and plenty of 21st century memes.

And definitely not a Last Supper?!

Feast at the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese

Last Supper by Veronese, detail of jester

Last Supper by Veronese, detail of drunkards

Last Supper by Veronese, detail of underage drunkards

Veronese came almost a century after Leonardo. He definitely upped the ante when it came to production value. His Last Supper appears in a much more splendid setting than Leonardo’s and also included a ton of extras…who almost got him strung up for heresy during the Inquisition.

Yup, Veronese’s “buffoons, drunken Germans, dwarfs and other such scurrilities” along with apostles carving up lamb (that would be St. Peter) and picking their teeth with forks were harshly critiqued and questioned by officials.

Change it up…fast

Veronese though turns out to have been quite a pivot master. He simply made a few adjustments to the painting and asserted that the Last Supper wasn’t a Last Supper at all. No, this is a depiction of the Feast in the House of Levi. Totally different, judges. Toooooootally different. Subject closed. Neck of artist, saved.

There’s a Squash on Your Face

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose name this writer always confuses with saltimbocca (points though because that’s a food?), painted portraits of people as food. A set of eyebrows become strands of wheat. There’s a cucumber for a nose. Fish tails do the duty of a goatee. You get the gastronomic picture.

Food fetishist, a little imbalanced, or simply painting what his 16th-century Italian audience were into? It’s most likely the latter according to most scholars. Renaissance peeps loved riddles, puzzles and the strange, and Arcimboldo’s paintings are an edible array of all three.

Autumn by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

The Most Sumptuous of All

When it comes to paintings that really put the ‘feast’ into the food, we have only to look one place: the Dutch Republic. Dutch painters in Antwerp in the 1640s developed the still life style of pronkstilleven, which is Dutch speak for hella food feast. Also, perhaps more literally translated as ostentatious, ornate or sumptuous still life.

The Feasts

Pronkstilleven by Carstian Luyckx

Enter the lobsters, the meat pies, the fowl and fish, the oysters, the piles of glowing fruit, the gorgeous goblets and tankards of ale, and the stultifying curls of lemon peel. Enter the diversity of foods, vessels, gleaming glass, table settings and rich drapery.

Enter the not-so-everyday abundance as painted by dozens of Flemish artists with haute cuisine foremost in their minds including Frans Snyders, Adriaen van Utrecht, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Nicolaes van Verendael, Alexander Coosemans, Carstian Luyckx, Jasper Geeraards, Peter Willebeeck, Abraham van Beyeren, Willem Kalf, Osias Beert, and Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts.

Banquet Still Life by Abraham van Beyeren

A Table of Desserts by Jan Davidsz. de Heem

Still Life with Lobster by Jasper Geeraerts

Banquet Still Life by Abraham van Beyeren

Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine by Osias Beert the Elder

Pronkstilleven by Petrus Willebeeck

Eat and Learn

The pronkstilleven isn’t just about the eating extravaganza. There’s a moral to the story. It goes something like “you’ll never fill that hole in your life, no matter how much you stuff yourself.”

It could possibly be put a bit more eloquently in terms of the high genre of vanitas paintings, in which the empty or overturned glasses depicted speak to the vacant feelings inside that only moderation and temperance — not displays of wealth — can satisfy. The ostentatious spreads you see serve as warnings to not put your life in service to material things…despite inclusion of all the material things.

Pronkstillevens with a Side of Weird

But leave it to the artists to go a little off the rails with a theme. So from fancy snacks and highbrow eats, we go to:

Food feast, the menagerie edition! Also ew…who would eat a peacock?!

A Pantry by Adriaen van Utrecht

Food feast, the strange pets edition! Also ew…why is your dog smaller than the lobster on the table?!

Banquet Still Life by Adriaen van Utrecht

Food feast, the put-the-turkey-back-together edition! Also ew…why did you put the turkey back together and put it on the table on top of his own parts-made-into-pie self?! We know Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII did a swan version of this in The Tudors (super bootleg clip if you want to see for yourself) and we still don’t care.

Food feast, the monkeys-need-to-eat edition! Also yay…the monkeys-need-to-eat edition? Did you know there is an entire painting genre called singerie devoted to depicting monkeys dressed up and doing human things…like having parties and feasting? The Dutchman Nicolaes van Verendael made several including the one you see here.

Feast of the Monkeys by Nicolaes van Verendael

The Butcher and the Baker

Less look at my bling and more men and women at work, there are several Dutch masterworks riffing on the historic “pre-processing” of comestibles. That includes depictions of market stalls and butchers and food mongers prepping their wares.

Market Scene on a Quay by Frans Snyders

Kitchen by Adriaen van Utrecht

Cook at a Kitchen Table with Dead Game by Frans Snyders

Fishmonger’s Stall by Adriaen van Utrecht

Raid the Pantry

The Spanish have a food-in-art genre going strong as well, dating back to the 1600s. The bodegón tradition hit its stride with Baroque painters like Velazquez, Juan Sanchez Cotan, Zurbaran and Luis Melendez. It encompasses still life paintings depicting kitchen items plus food and drink, found in pantries or wine cellars, which is where the term derives.

Bodegón by Juan Sánchez Cotán

In contrast to the Dutch tradition, bodegóns are presented simply, almost austerely. It is about the everyday, not the exceptional. There’s no banquet table set. These bleak “meals” are displaed on spare wood blocks or stone shelves. This is the cook’s prep table, with animals waiting to be skinned and fruits and vegetables in the raw.

Bodegón by Juan van der Hamen

But the vanitas thread loops these two still life genres together, with the Dutch cautioning the excess and the Spanish evoking mindfulness of the meager or lean times, when inner faith and fortitude must do the heavy lifting.

Bodegón by Francisco Zurbarán

What cannot be denied is the surreal look of the bodegón, which are often cast in shadows and set in peculiar places, but that simply serves to make them all the more notable.

Let’s Eat!

Diego Velazquez vibes with the bodegon tradition on several canvases including Old Woman Frying Eggs and The Lunch. Though the vibes are at different ends of the spectrum. The latter painting is way up and the former piece is way down. But food is the thing that unites them.

The Lunch by Diego Velazquez

Old Woman Frying Eggs by Diego Velazquez

Wholesome Orchard Bounty

From a handful to a basketful, Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne displayed apples and oranges in numerous ways in his equally numerous still life paintings. A jelly maker’s dream, Cezanne’s fruity canvases also bridge two -isms of art (Impressionism and Cubism) with their often disorienting lines of perspective and emphasis on planes.

Still Life with Seven Apples by Paul Cezanne

The Basket of Apples by Paul Cezanne

Cake, Cake and More Cake…Also Pie

For close to fifty years Wayne Thiebaud has taken edibles as a painting subject. Certainly not his only subject but cakes, pies, gumballs, hot dogs and ice cream cones do grace more than several of his brightly colored canvases.

The compositions mostly echo the neat rows of a food counter or assembly line, perhaps harking back to Thiebaud’s teenage experience working at Mile High and Red Hot, a Long Beach, California cafeteria in the 1930s.

Cakes and Pies by Wayne Thiebaud

Pie Counter by Wayne Thiebaud

Naughty Foodie

Will Cotton’s career as a painter is all about exploiting food cravings. His works depict landscapes of cupcakes, candies and melting ice cream and skies of cotton candy. He ups the sexy quotient by sometimes including nude and semi-nude figures — including celebs like Katy Perry — frolicking and lounging in his candy lands or adorned with the sticky foodstuffs itself.

Crown by Will Cotton

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Meat Joy

Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 performance “Meat Joy” featured choreographed dance, scantily clad men and women participants, much writhing, body paint, and raw meat. Schneemann, a leading feminist artist known for her provocative, somewhat brutish works, performed the modern masterwork in London and New York to agog audiences.

Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

Canned Food Drive

Andy Warhol first presented these 32 individual canvases in 1962, putting the works side by side just as if they were actual cans of soup on a grocery store’s shelves. Each canvas represents a different flavor of Campbell’s soup that Warhol hand-painted and hand-stamped with an eye toward the mass-produced ads the artist was inspired by.

Untitled by Feliz Gonzalez-Torres

Poignant Candies

In corners, around columns, in stairwells–Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ untitled candy performance-cum-changeable-sculpture pieces have been placed in humble settings across numerous museum floors worldwide. Visitors to the installations are invited to take a piece of the work…and the rest is up to them. Consume the candy. Keep it forever. Throw it away or pass it to a friend. The underlying message of the work harks back to the dark days the AIDS epidemic and the diminishing pile of candy represents those lost (or forsaken) to the disease.

Courtesy Michael Parker

Squeeze My Citrus

Artist Michael Parker, best known for his Cali land art installations, prompted visitors at his 2015 Juiceworks show to squeeze piles of gorgeously arranged citrus fruits using dozens of ceramic tools he’d made.

Courtesy Salad for President

Salad for President

Artist and salad activist Julia Sherman, author of the blog Salad for President, created rooftop garden installations at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and MoMA PS1 in New York in 2014 and 2015. Guest artists were asked to make salads from the produce Sherman grew, which included more than 50 heirloom herbs, vegetables and edible flowers.

Floor Burger by Claes Oldenburg

Inflatable Snacks

No binge-worthy food feast art history round-up would be complete without the Floor Burger by Claes Oldenburg. It is the epitome of modern art in food…or would that be modern food in art? You can’t eat it but you could definitely jump on this supersized junk food. Though the risk is museum banning you for life. #tradeoffs #worthit

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