Aloe Blacc, the voice of Avicii's worldwide smash "Wake Me Up", has released his own acoustic version with a video anthem to the dreams of undocumented immigrants.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Colorlines adds, of the video:
Directed by Alex Rivera, the video includes appearances from Agustín Chiprez Alvarez, who is also a day laborer, Margarita Reyes, who was deported as a child along with her mother, and Hareth Andrade Ayala, who is fighting to halt her father’s deportation.
Andrew.framptonAnd this is why the world sucks.
The claim "resolves all claims of psychiatric injury specific or due to continuous trauma from applicant's employment at UC Davis." The incident that resulted in the $38,055 settlement happened Nov. 18, 2011, on the UC Davis quad during a demonstration opposing tuition increases. On the widely circulated video, Pike is seen dousing protesters for about 15 seconds with orange pepper spray. Pike was suspended with pay afterward. According to a database of state worker salaries, he earned $119,067 in 2011, the last year for which figures are available. More than 17,000 angry or threatening e-mails, 10,000 text messages and hundreds of letters were sent to Pike after the video went viral, according to the police union. Pike repeatedly changed his phone number and e-mail address and lived in various locations. He left the campus police force in July 2012.Pike's payout is more than that paid to each of his dozens of victims.
Andrew.framptonActually saw the commercial yesterday. It was awkward and more than a little mean spirited. It portrayed the younger women as shallow and dumb, while the "protagonist" abuses them because they are between her and the men she wants to sleep with. The gender politics of it all are immensely fucked up. From practical standpoint, if you are left uncomfortable and a little skeezed out by a commercial trying to sell you something, THEY ARE DOING IT WRONG.
Copyranter has just posted an ad for Cougar Life that was banned by the Australian Advertising Standards Board (ASB) for depicting violence that “is not justified in the context of the service being advertised.”
    
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Looks like Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin Jr. got himself a steal. Teammate and All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman knows the score.
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Andrew.framptonZUBAS! Also, That "Bermuda Triangle" poster left me seriously wondering what they REALLY did to that poor quarterback.
It’s a slow Tuesday for NFL news. Seems like a good time to revisit the iconic campy posters of the ’80s by the brothers Costacos. As least those they did for NFL players. Nuts to those other sports. If you’re old enough, there’s a chance you might have had one on your wall. Sorry if it was Don Majkowski.
In case you wanted an oral history of the aesthetic, SB Nation had a great longform piece earlier this year.
Andrew.framptonOh Chels, the Pats need to get better with their cheating. They are starting to repeat themselves in their old age.
You're looking at a screengrab from last weeks' New England win over the Saints, shared by the Globe's Ben Volin. On a New Orleans field goal attempt, rookie tackle Chris Jones is pushing Will Svitek into the offensive lineman. It's the same illegal move, with the same two players, that got the Pats flagged against the Jets last night. This was a designed play, and the Jets reportedly knew it was coming—and alerted officials to look for it.
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“All right, everyone, places please! Corgis, enter when you hear the drum roll and watch that first step. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnd…”
Britain’s Attitude Magazine held its annual awards in London on October 15, and the recipient of this year’s Legend Award was none other than god herself, Cher, who released her 25th studio album, Closer to the Truth, last month.
“I think this is the first one of these awards that I’ve ever accepted,” Cher told the raucous crowd of mostly gay men. “I always get a little bit nervous when someone wants to give you like a lifetime achievement award, because then somehow your lifetime means it’s over and you have to go home and knit or something like that. And I’m just not ready to do that.”
Cher talked about how gay men have been a part of her life since childhood, crediting her stunnnning mother for being way ahead of her time. “I was nine years old,” she explained. “And my mother had these two friends that came over, and the first time I saw them—they were hairdressers, of course—but the first time I saw them, they came cha-chaing into our front door… In the beginning, I actually thought that gay was code for fun.” [Ed. note: gagging]
The Oscar/Emmy/Grammy-winning icon went on to share a little real talk about the gays, whom she referred to as “my friends.”
“Gay men especially, they either love you or they don’t even notice that you’re on the planet,” she said, which elicited a collective squeal from the audience. “I think what you guys like is a strong woman who’s having a breakdown constantly. And that certainly is me. Judy Garland’s got nothing on me.”
Let’s be clear, the only person who could throw shade on Dorothy without alienating the gays is Cher. Not Babs, not Madonna, not even Liza (who, at this point, is probably like “Judy who?”). Cher can do no wrong, because she’s been shutting shit down for the past 800 years. Everyone SHNAPOUTOFIT! and bow down.
Boy howdy, the ability to take selfies in Wind Waker HD is the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?
Andrew.framptonI could get behind this. Literally and figuratively.
Andrew.framptonI really really like this for exceedingly mathy reasons.
In a new photo spread, Ducati Motorcycle has some fun with gender roles commonly seen in “sex sells” themed moto ads. Dubbed “Manigale,” the photo spread is a throwback to old magazine ads and pinup calendars that typically feature scantily clad Playboy bunnies perched atop some serious hardware. This time around, they redid the shoot with “men from around the shop.”
In all honesty, we’re a fan of real men recreating ads and this shoot has all the tongue-n-cheek-n-grease that one could ask for.
This photo shoot may be from last year, but it didn’t stop it from sparking a race around the internet. Check out more photos at Asphalt & Rubber.
It's been a terrible day so far. So God bless LSUFreek for creating this gif, which will bring us all back from the precipice of despair. This is truly humanity at its best.
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Andrew.framptonCool!
A reader provides some great professional insight to the thread:
After reading the Dish for a couple of years and subscribing this year, I was pretty excited to see a thread that I had some knowledge of. One of the reasons that I read the blog is the seemingly endless reader expertise on almost any subject. Even though expertise is not something that I would claim, I have worked in this field my entire adult life.
The clip of “The Big Bang Theory” that you embedded to is not a clip with no laugh track added; it is a clip with laughs removed. You can hear the laughter briefly when it overlaps a line of dialogue. The clip is a great example of an actor’s technique of “waiting on the laughs”. They briefly delay their next line so that the audience laughter doesn’t make the next line difficult to hear. Done with skill and expertise, a cast can create a rhythm that enhances the comedic timing of a show. In this clip when they removed the laughs the pauses between the line deliveries destroys the timing and causes the actors and the scene to appear awkward and unfunny.
I have been involved in sit-coms for over 30 years and currently have several friends and a nephew who work on “Big Bang”. This is a funny show that has a live audience which genuinely laughs at the jokes. Even if it is edited to be a bit louder or quieter, or even if the laughs from the first take of a scene are applied to a different take, the laughter is real and drives the actor’s performances.
In the ’90s I worked on the HBO series “Dream On”.
At the time there were no single-camera sit-coms being made other than ours. There were no sit-coms without laugh tracks other than ours. Despite the lack of laughs, we were a critical and audience hit. At some point FOX bought the rights to the network airing of “Dream On” but they were uncomfortable with a sit-com with no laugh track. They added one and it was a total debacle. The actors were not waiting for laughs, the timing was destroyed the jokes made un-funny and the show was quickly cancelled.
In the last few months I have worked a few days on “Anger Management,” which is shot with multiple cameras and made to look like a show before a live audience. There is no audience other than a couple dozen writers and producers who watch the filming and laugh at their own jokes. This option for filming a “live audience” sit-com is problematic because there are no independent judges as to whether or not a joke will make a non-involved audience laugh. The writers have a vested interest in their jokes inciting laughter and even if their laughter is actually recorded it tends to sound forced and fake. Most of the laughs are applied by an editor.
Bolonik reviews two new sit-coms; she doesn’t like one and likes the other. She notices less the laugh track in the one she likes and suggests that all laugh tracks be done away with because she notices more the laugh track in the un-funny show. It seems that she is objecting to the quality of the show not if it has a laugh track added. The actual problem with sit-coms is that comedy is very hard to write. Every week Hollywood employs somewhere around two thousand writers and on any day there aren’t more than maybe a hundred good writers in the entire country. Trying to pin her dislike for a show on the laugh track misses the point. It is just a bad show.
Andrew.framptonShit, I need to watch it again.
In downtown San Mateo, Calif., an unsuspecting tree has been yarn bombed, transforming it into a great blue squid.
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Andrew.framptonSadly, I am totally doing this once I am done with class in December.
