WE DO NOT FIX WHAT IS NOT BROKEN, DISNEY.
Stewart, smart as always on the Merida princess thing…
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London-based designer Sophie de Oliveira Barata creates some of the most jaw-droppingly awesome prosthetics we’ve ever seen.
Sophie comes from an art background, with a first class honours degree at London Arts University where she studied Special Effects prosthetics for film and T.V. She then went on to work for 8 years, as a sculptor making realistic looking, bespoke prosthetics for amputees at one of the leading prosthetic providers. She worked in all areas sculpting fingers, toes, partial feet , partial hands, bespoke liners and leg and arm covers for amputees. In her spare time she made more experimental art work in this medium, before setting up her own studio.
Known as The Alternative Limb Project, Sophie works as a specialist consultant with other prosthetists and produces both artificial limbs that look completely realistic as well as limbs created using imaginative ideas provided by the clients themselves. “She can interpret your ideas and create a unique design that will reflect your interests and personality.”
As you can see here, Sophie’s work is truly astonishing. As well as being completely functional prostheses, these amazing limbs are also unique works of art.
Each of her designs offer a sense of individuality, allowing the customer to express their personality through their synthetic appendages. The artist says, “Having an alternative limb is about claiming control and saying ‘I’m an individual and this reflects who I am.’”
Visit The Alternative Limb Project website to learn more about Sophie’s awesome work and check out more of her creations.
[via My Modern Metropolis]
May 16, 2013
i-need-fucking-sleep asked: I hate it when you point out fictional characters don't have autonomy, and the argument just stutters and blats. Which is what happened this argument. Why is it so hard for people to register or understand fictional characters aren't real people with real feelings, and it needs to be pointed out?
Yeah, it’s eird.
I suspect it is no actual confusion about what’s real or not. I think it’s some sort of subconscious evasive maneuver for criticism triggered by some sort of confirmation bias. (Not that I’m free from confirmation bias).
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013
psdo:
Gina Carano is a name a lot of people talk about when they talk about the possibility of Wonder Woman in a DC live action movie. I haven’t seen her acting (Fast and Furious 6, Haywire), but she is a former American Gladiator and an honest-to-God champion MMA fighter on top of being built like an Amazon goddess IRL. Good lord, can you even imagine? I’m going to see if any of her stuff is on Netflix. If she can act she’s fucking perfect.
Gina Carano is a name that my muscular lady googlin’ fingers know by heart.
She also has this warrior face, with the strong greek statue like nose bridge… together with a proper director she could burn the house down as wonder woman. DC! In all your theatrical releases, you have yet to give us a major female super hero (Silverstone’s Batgirl doesn’t count)! Bring it! Marvel is kicking your ass on that front!
May 16, 2013
petermoorhead-photography asked: I had a similarly pointless "debate" with someone who, despite not having read a single sentence on UX or UI design in their entire lives, insisted that their preference of putting 50+ applications in a dock with size 16 icons could be just as efficient as the solutions supported by countless studies, and then got incredibly aggressive when I in my exasperation pointed out that they couldn't seriously expect me to take their opinion seriously. People are just idiots sometimes.
I had similar pointless “debates” all my life. My parents very early on promoted critical thinking and objective analysis in me, so I very early on became a “arrogant smart ass” or “oversensitive whiner” depending who in my proximity you asked. :/
May 16, 2013
petermoorhead-photography asked: I hate when people have those bizarre attitudes about the false sanctity of opinions. Contrary to popular belief; opinions are not equal in value. When a person who hasn't bothered to self-educate on a given topic expects their opinion to be weighted equally with that of someone who has dedicated a significant proportion of their time to the research and publication of literature on the subject, it's beyond ignorant; it's outright insulting. I'm legitimately offended on your behalf.
It’s amongst the most infuriating things I know. It is a universal failure, that makes people do, say and believe the most wrong things ever in regards to any issue and allows them to refuse to listen and change.
It especially infuriates me, when people not only ruin their own view of things by that but also think they should spread their ignorance, interject in debates and talk people out looking for something objectively true.
May 16, 2013
firaja asked: Again, our views differ, because I believe that sexualization is fluid and the concept itself can differ depending on how a person sees it. If you take the nude female body, for example, you can portray it as being artistic, or you can portray it as being pornographic or hypersexualized. And even if it is portrayed by the creator in one particular way, each individual person viewing it might see it differently. You think her outfit is hypersexualized, and I think it’s artistic. That’s all.
Sexualization is in the eye of the beholder… SEXUALIZATION IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER????????
Wow, you really have no clue. I’m not trying to be insulting. You know what I’m insulted. Very much so, because you now wasted my time my energy and my good will by pretending you have anything to add to a subject you did not even bother to read the fucking wikipedia page for, not to mention gain any real understanding of it.
And then this pretentious bullshit of defending women and their sexuality and in the end you are just another subjectivist who doesn’t want anything to resolve.
This “opinion” bullshit of your’s is what provides sexist assholes everywhere the escape route to avoid changing anything. Fuck this, seriously. You need to get your act together, you need to learn what you are talking about or you need to go out of the way. You are arguing for the sexist establishment here, if you like it or not.
And you do not do it on my blog anymore. My time, energy and good will for you are spent. Bye.
May 16, 2013
itsworsethanthat asked: I'm glad you called-out the issue of whether 'opinions' can be contradicted. It strikes me that, politically, we'd all be a lot better off if we treated opinions as what they are: simple statements of what people believe, but don't wish to justify. I.e. they are either what we used to call arguments, or they are prejudices. As you imply, 'being wrong' is really what is at stake - we may be allowed 'opinions', but we are also obliged to stand behind them when challenged. GJ.
. I’d like to add that we are obliged to defend our understanding but look forward have them changed. It’s kinda useless to defend one’s own views against the truth. ;)
May 16, 2013
firaja asked: Again, our views differ, because I believe that sexualization is fluid and the concept itself can differ depending on how a person sees it. If you take the nude female body, for example, you can portray it as being artistic, or you can portray it as being pornographic or hypersexualized. And even if it is portrayed by the creator in one particular way, each individual person viewing it might see it differently. You think her outfit is hypersexualized, and I think it's artistic. That's all.
Sexualization is in the eye of the beholder… SEXUALIZATION IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER????????
Wow, you really have no clue. I’m not trying to be insulting. You know what I’m insulted. Very much so, because you now wasted my time my energy and my good will by pretending you have anything to add to a subject you did not even bother to read the fucking wikipedia page for, not to mention gain any real understanding of it.
And then this pretentious bullshit of defending women and their sexuality and in the end you are just another subjectivist who doesn’t want anything to resolve.
This “opinion” bullshit of your’s is what provides sexist assholes everywhere the escape route to avoid changing anything. Fuck this, seriously. You need to get your act together, you need to learn what you are talking about or you need to go out of the way. You are arguing for the sexist establishment here, if you like it or not.
And you do not do it on my blog anymore. My time, energy and good will for you are spent. Bye.
May 16, 2013
firaja asked: You're talking to me like I'm unintelligent and uninformed on "correlations, causality, sexualization, criticism, sexism and depictions of women in media" when really we just have different opinions. Just because I see things differently doesn't mean that I'm wrong or misinformed. Last time I checked, opinions can't be wrong. You don't see me treating you like an idiot for having a different perspective.
I apologize, that was rude of me.
The thing is, I don’t think we have a difference of opinion. I think we have a different understanding of how things work and therefor how we should classify them. It’s just that at least one of us, but maybe both have the wrong understanding of things.
Our “Opinions” are mutually exclusive. So at least one must be wrong.
Sexualization is not a question of opinions, like if shell fish is tasty. There is an objective answer to the question we are debating.
And I very much think, that you see things wrong, because you are misinformed and use faulty reasoning. If your reasoning would be solid and the premises you stand on would be based on solid information, then I think you would reach similar conclusion to mine.
But of course my reasoning could be equally wrong and information equally useless. But there is no “we are both not wrong here”.
May 16, 2013
firaja asked: I don't believe that the two are totally different things. Different in a way, yes, but still fundamentally similar. My point is that you need to get the "men created this character in revealing clothing for their pleasure/objectification therefore it is a bad design" out of your head. By saying that, you're just perpetuating the sexist connotations behind it. Even if the outfit were designed by men (which it wasn't), that doesn't mean that it's meant to be sexualized. (1/2)
And since when does something need to be meant to be sexualized, in order to be sexualized? You obviously do not know how that works. And you think pointing to sexist connotations perpetuates them? Okay, so you also do not know how criticism works.
There is just too little overlap in the way you think the world works and how I think the world works for us to continue here. You really need to get some fundamental things about correlations, causality, sexualization, criticism, sexism and depictions of women in media straight and I’m not the one to help you there. Sorry.
May 16, 2013
firaja asked: That's just throwing all men into a general category and being sexist towards men. Some men realize that women wear the clothing they wear because they want to, and not for the pleasure of other men- and you cannot say that the character designers at Irrational Games are that type of man or not. In closing, I feel like debating with you is pointless, so I'm probably going to leave it at this. Also I have no idea what PSDO's tumblr is so I still don't know your reason behind disliking her design.
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May 16, 2013
caramelzappa asked: (Bioshock Infinite Spoilers-ish) I think the weirdest thing about Elizabeth's clothing design is that it is clearly designed to be attractive, and a lot of the camerawork is clearly in male gaze territory, yet if you've finished the game you know that the implications there are pretty darn gross.
Gross. Yes. Very much. I don’t think it reflects on the maker’s perspective on sexuality between Elizabeth and Booker and what implications that would have in regards to the relation between the two.
I believe that they just did care more about male-gaze cleavage in trailers and screenshots, then about not having these super gross implications in the end. But even that is a very KIND view on the issue.
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