Breitbart “News” Explains Why Coca Cola’s Multicultural “America the Beautiful” Ad Was Horribly Offensive

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Brought to you by the geniuses at breitbart.com: Why Coca Cola’s Multicultural ‘America the Beautiful’ Ad Was Offensive.

Executives at Coca Cola thought it was a good idea to run a 60 second Super Bowl ad featuring children singing “America the Beautiful” - a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity - in several foreign languages. The ad also prominently features a gay couple.

Conservatives instantly lit up social media with objections, with many vowing to boycott the soda company’s products.

“If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing ‘American the Beautiful’ in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come — doggone we are on the road to perdition,” said former GOP Rep. Allen West.

The lyrics of the song, written in 1893 by Wellesley College Professor Katherine Lee Bates [Ed. note: Katherine Lee Bates was a lesbian], ask God to grant America “brotherhood / From sea to shining sea.”

As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government. It is not a nation governed in the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. It is instead a nation governed by some all inclusive multi-cultural synthesis of the various forms of government in the world, as expressed by the multiple languages used in the Super Bowl ad to sing a uniquely American hymn that celebrates our heritage.

Here is a sample of the deranged comments:

If America is so beautiful LEARN the language!!!!

[…]

This from the same people that brought us ‘New Coke’
Chock full of dumb ideas.
America for Americans first!

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No more Coca-Cola for me. As if doing business with the nazis during world war two wasn’t bad enough, Coke is now one of those multi-national corporations that is a huge supporter of illegal immigration and multiculturalism.

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This is OFFENSIVE, DISTASTEFUL and STUPID. Goodbye to Coca Cola products. let me see how many other countries sing their national songs in different languages?? NONE. I am so sick of this f….ing Political Correctness crap!!!!!!!!

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I am so tired of socialists freaks like you trying to use Christianity as a basis for amnesty for ILLEGAL immigrants. There is nothing anti-Christian in wanting the US government to defend our SOVEREIGNTY as a nation and say that not just anyone can wander into this country and by fiat claim to be a citizen. It is not hateful to want people who immigrate here to FOLLOW THE LAW AND RESPECT THE SOVERIEGNTY OF THE COUNTRY THEY WISH TO BE A PART OF!!! It is a foolish analogy to claim I hate anyone because I believe in the God given sovereignty of this nation and the duty its sworn officials have to protect us from an invasion of those who do not respect our nation. Jesus said render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s. He did not say, let you nation be overrun by uneducated masses who big business uses for cheap labor while the taxpayers provide them with healthcare, social welfare, and education for the children. Try again somewhere else you ignorant useless troll…..

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So now Coca Cola is promoting the Genocide of American European whites !Perhaps its more fitting than they realise; coca cola is after all a toxic substance which causes damage to the body, much like how multiculturalism is highly toxic and causes damage to whatever nation its inflicted on.
Took a beautiful song that is sacred to the American people, one that we have always sung with national pride, and totally trashed it. Absolutely disgusting. I guess our national language is no longer English. Saw every degenerate represented : illegal hispanics, muslims, gays, jews. This is the new America. Drink up.

Worst ad shown in my opinion, although honorable mention goes to the one with the girl licking yogurt off the guy until the gays break it up. What was that about !?

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F*** diversity. Diversity destroys. Only UNITY “unites.” Get it?

My relatives did NOT come here to become hyphenated-Americans. They came here to become AMERICANS.

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This ad was disgusting at best. No wonder the US is rapidly assuming third world status with crap like this filling the airwaves. I could not agree more with Alan West’s comments regarding same. I seriously believe that Mr. West knows more about what makes this country great than the majority of the ‘if it feels good then do it’ crowd that’s posting here this AM.

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The ignorant, bigoted, divisive, Balkanizing comments by all of you sociopath leftists is astounding. The country is flushing down the toilet in part because you insist that all cultures are equal and ours is no better but in many ways worse. What crap. Why are all these people so desperate to come here if their culture/ country is so damn good? Celebrate your heritage and all that involves, but assimilate, learn English, our founding principles, and participate in society. Otherwise stay the f—- out. Does that offend you? Don’t care. Your sanctimonious insistence that every one bow before your God of “Diversity” and so-called “Tolerance” when in fact YOU bigots are the least tolerant most rigid ideologues.

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COCA COLA is a VERY LIBERAL COMPANY—-what do you expect——-within the company in ATLANTA—-they have all kinds of GAY GROUPS and CLUBS within the company——-

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Does moochèlle know your using her avatar? [avatar of a chimpanzee]

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This ad was very offensive and made a mockery of our country’s song! I do Mott want it sung in anything but English ever!

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The Democrats created, organized and ran the KKK, and you have the nerve to call Conservatives racists ?
,
Chew on that Sheila.

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Leftest in America think our complaints about this ad are racist. Just because someone speaks a different language does not make them of a different race. Look at the majority populations that speak French, Russian, Polish, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, etc. Our problem is with leftest and Coca Cola’s views of a multicultural America, instead of an America linked by a single unifying language, English.

[…]

Obamarx’s America…

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In Obama nation you do not need to speak English and live in the slums to get on welfare. Millions of liberals living in moms basement do not work either.

[…]

But… I don’t want to press Juan for English

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This was almost instantly my most hated ad ever. Bye Bye Coke Go peddle you corn syrup crap overseas.

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We are being erased as a free and sovereign nation on purpose.

I just can’t even…

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243 comments
1 jaunte  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 8:38:11am
“As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned*, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government.”

*as perceived by Breitbart Psychic Team 6.

2 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 8:47:01am

Soooo many troubled hearts constantly being troubled…

3 Ace-o-aces  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 8:59:46am

How dare Coke remind conservatives that non-white people exist!

4 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:01:15am

Wow. Brought up the Nazis by the third post.

Well done, Breitbart.

5 Ace-o-aces  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:06:41am

Also….

As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government. It is not a nation governed in the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. It is instead a nation governed by some all inclusive multi-cultural synthesis of the various forms of government in the world

What the fuck does any of this have to do with government? It’s an ad for carbonated sugar water for fuck’s sake!

6 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:09:39am

re: #5 Ace-o-aces

It’s worse than that!

So now Coca Cola is promoting the Genocide of American European whites!

7 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:12:11am

As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government.

The wingtards care about government now? I thought they hated government. Less government and all that. What a deranged group of people.

8 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:13:04am

Has Reince demanded that Coke apologize to his party of true American rightwingers? /

9 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:14:41am
Who knew that the Republican base was made up primarily of primal screaming bigots who, yesterday, got their undergarments in a sheepshank because Coca Cola ran an ad that suggested that a patriotic song could be translated into other languages?

- Charles Pierce

10 mr.fusion  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:15:15am

I wonder how they would have reacted had MSNBC tweeted out “right-wing going to hate multi-cultural Coca-Cola ad”

probably like this

Breitbart butt-hurt over MSNBC predicting right wing outrage over biracial Cheerios ad

11 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:18:16am

“America the Beautiful” - a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity

WTFITS? Nothing about Jesus or St. Paul in that song.

12 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:19:36am

re: #11 Bulworth

“America the Beautiful” - a >deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity

WTFITS? Nothing about Jesus or St. Paul in that song.

And it was written by a Lesbian.

13 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:23:43am

Sorry, I had to un-wingnut those quotes — a wall of purple text is just too hard to read.

14 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:24:23am

That Breitbart post is one of the stupidest things they’ve ever published. Just amazingly stupid.

15 jaunte  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:27:28am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

It won’t take long before they break their own record.

16 wrenchwench  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:29:51am

re: #10 mr.fusion

I wonder how they would have reacted had MSNBC tweeted out “right-wing going to hate multi-cultural Coca-Cola ad”

probably like this

Breitbart butt-hurt over MSNBC predicting right wing outrage over biracial Cheerios ad

Bingo.

17 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:30:21am
18 Ian G.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:31:35am

America, America, God mend thine every flaw.

Especially wingnuttery.

19 Ian G.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:34:26am

re: #11 Bulworth

“America the Beautiful” - a >deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity

WTFITS? Nothing about Jesus or St. Paul in that song.

Remember, these are the same people who think the reference to a “creator” in the Declaration of Independence means Jefferson was no different in his religious views than Bryan Fischer. Nuance is not their strong suit.

20 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:34:52am

“America the Beautiful” is “deeply Christian?” Who knew?

21 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:36:21am

Wow, the last I heard, the Constitution was the law of the land, not what these asshats think it is—some song.

22 freetoken  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:36:22am

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Because America = Christian,
“America the Beautiful” = “Christian the Beautiful”.

See how easy wingnut thinking is?

Remember, words are magick.

23 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:37:10am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

That Breitbart post is one of the stupidest things they’ve ever published. Just amazingly stupid.

Oh OK, Thank you for the promotion.

24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:37:57am

People who have no idea of what patriotism is (for example, that it is not screaming about nullification or secession every time COngress passes a law they don’t like) are the ones who cling to symbols: guns, crosses, hymns and anthems, soldiers, etc. to fill in for the lack of understanding what America is about.

25 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:38:34am

Vicious Babushka,

Wasn’t just Breitbart. Allen West didn’t like it much either. Birds of a feather flock together I guess.

happynicetimepeople.com

26 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:38:51am

Oh Coca Cola is tricksy! They’re trying to ruin Americans by reminding people that we’re more than just entitled white men. How absolutely awful.

And if it gets a fraction of the number of the people who were pissed about this to stop buy Coke? Then the Coca Cola execs were even more tricksy! They are falling for the Coca Cola company’s trap to end obesity by any means necessary, including not buying their products.

27 Timothy Watson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:39:31am

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

How long until we see some RWNJ announce a kickstarter campaign for “Freedom Soda/Pop”?

28 b.d.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:39:46am

So the MSNBC just picked the wrong ad that would set of the wingnut frenzy?

29 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:40:20am

Youtube Video

30 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:40:27am

re: #20 Charles Johnson

“America the Beautiful” is “deeply Christian?” Who knew?

Yeah it doesn’t mention God or Jesus, so where did that come from?

31 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:40:41am

re: #28 b.d.

So the MSNBC just picked the wrong ad that would set of the wingnut frenzy?

Yeppers.

32 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:40:43am

re: #4 Skip Intro

Wow. Brought up the Nazis by the third post.

Well done, Breitbart.

Funny that the original Nazis and fascists were—white. Still are, as far as I know.

WTF is this, some game of “I know what you are but what am I” bullshit?

33 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:41:32am

re: #30 CriticalDragon1177

Yeah it doesn’t mention God or Jesus, so where did that come from?

I believe he shed his grace on said country…

34 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:41:42am
“So now Coca Cola is promoting the Genocide of American European whites”

Genocide? No wonder these crazy fucks shoot their neighbors and point guns at little girls selling cookies.

“Saw every degenerate represented : illegal hispanics, muslims, gays, jews. This is the new America. Drink up.”

Have a Drano cocktail on me, asshole.

35 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:42:13am

Ironic that the first thing that came to mind when I heard they were going nuts over the commercial was a line from one of their favorite films, The Patriot:

“Your sense of freedom is as pale as your skin.”

36 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:42:29am

re: #27 Timothy Watson

How long until we see some RWNJ announce a kickstarter campaign for “Freedom Soda/Pop”?

KRAZY KOOL KOLA!11!

It’s motto can be “Let your freak flag fly o’er the home of the brave”

*headdesk*

37 CriticalDragon1177  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:42:44am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

That Breitbart post is one of the stupidest things they’ve ever published. Just amazingly stupid.

We’ll its an amazingly stupid website, and you ought to know that as well as anyone here. You’ve done what a dozen posts on them?

38 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:42:46am

re: #25 CriticalDragon1177

Vicious Babushka,

Wasn’t just Breitbart. Allen West didn’t like it much either. Birds of a feather flock together I guess.

happynicetimepeople.com

West’s bit of DERP is right there in the quoted Breitbart.com passage. Alouette covered her bases on that point.

39 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:42:47am

Conservatism is a constant state of fake outrage and political correctness.

40 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:43:35am

re: #34 Shiplord Kirel

Genocide? No wonder these crazy fucks shoot their neighbors and point guns at little girls selling cookies.

Have a Drano cocktail on me, asshole.

“White Genocide” is a common trope among White Nationalists. You see on Stormfront all the time.

41 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:43:42am

Next year they should do the same ad in the Navajo language, with the stupid #speakamerican hashtag. Keeping idiots hypertensive is one of the best things we could do in the long-term as a society.

42 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:44:24am

OH HAI TCOT!
Embedding, click at your own risk.

43 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:44:24am
So now Coca Cola is promoting the Genocide of American European whites

The Klan is strong in this one.

44 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45:04am

re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

I believe he shed his grace on said country…

And the joke’s on us in any event, because if the internet is any guide, there’s not a lot of ‘grace’ scattered about these days.

45 jaunte  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45:22am
“I do Mott want it sung in anything but English ever!”

Applesauce!

46 RadicalModerate  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45:23am

re: #34 Shiplord Kirel

Genocide? No wonder these crazy fucks shoot their neighbors and point guns at little girls selling cookies.

Have a Drano cocktail on me, asshole.

The whole “white genocide” bit comes directly from the Stormfront “bugs” talking points.

47 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45:32am

re: #41 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Next year they should do the same ad in the Navajo language, with the stupid #speakamerican hashtag. Keeping idiots hypertensive is one of the best things we could do in the long-term as a society.

And twitching, too.

Image: twitching-sheldon.gif

48 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:45:44am

This is a good trend: it shows how rabid these people are and ready to speak out against women, gays, minorities, loyal, patriotic immigrants who choose to express their love of contry in their native language, single mothers (working, schooling or staying at home), women sho use contraceptives to keep from becoming single mothers, gays, lesbians, and non-fundamentalist Christians.

Just for starters.

49 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:46:33am

What I hear in these responses is the howling, dissonant note of hysterical fear and panic. These people are scared shitless, not like soldiers in battle, but like rats trapped in a barrel.

50 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:46:33am

I’ve read a lot of dumb shit, but this may just be the dumbest of them all.

51 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:46:36am

re: #14 Charles Johnson

That Breitbart post is one of the stupidest things they’ve ever published. Just amazingly stupid.

Don’t worry, they’ll outdo themselves soon enough.

52 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:46:47am
53 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:46:57am

re: #39 Dr. Matt

Wingnut Conservatism is a constant state of fake outrage and political correctness.

Clarified. Many conservatives are quite fine without the crutch of fake outrage, but since they make less noise they get less attention.

54 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:47:05am

I said it last night and I’ll say it again:

Christians are the last people that should raise a fuss over something being translated.

55 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:47:34am

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

Because of course no Liberal has ever or will ever own a gun,,,EVER,

56 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:48:00am

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

I said it last night and I’ll say it again:

Christians are the last people that should raise a fuss over something being translated.

Yeah, did they complain about that movie in Aramaic?

57 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:48:19am

re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg

Because of course no Liberal has ever or will ever own a gun,,,EVER,

Just like NO LIBRUL has ever had a JRRB or WORKED or PAID TAXES!!11!!!!

58 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:48:41am

Speak English, Jesus!

59 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:48:47am

re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg

Because of course no Liberal has ever or will ever own a gun,,,EVER,

Except for all the mass murdering sociopaths who carry out mass shootings. Those are all liberals, don’t you know.

60 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:49:13am
As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution….

I think this made me stupid for just reading it…..

61 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:49:20am

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my well of hatred for the human race, the American Right goes and digs it a little deeper. It takes a special breed of sub-human scum to have a problem with a commercial for freaking sugar-water that dares to acknowledge that this is a nation made up of immigrants.

62 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:49:21am

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

pretty awesome that the same people who get upset over a coke commercial also just happen to be the ones who think they have with all the guns #tcot

FTF Them

63 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:50:02am

WTFITS

64 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:50:28am

THERE IS A DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA YOU STUPID ASS!!!!!!!

65 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:51:02am

Notice that this Breitbart clown also typoed the name of the song in the 3rd paragraph above.

66 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:51:14am

“If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing 𠆊merican the Beautiful’ in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come — doggone we are on the road to perdition,” said former GOP Rep. Allen West.

When liberals are offended we are told to shut up because ‘political correctness’.

When teatards are butthurt it means the country is On the road to perdition.

67 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:52:30am
68 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:52:59am
As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution

because Constishon is rittin in English American, stoopid libtards!11!!!

69 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:53:26am

Speaking of all the guns, the local gun emporium just called. My Uberti Remington Rolling Block has arrived! Heading for town to pick it up. BBL.

70 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:53:41am

re: #56 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, did they complain about that movie in Aramaic?

No, but then again they don’t really understand it, either. That’s not to say Mel Gibson is a deep-thinking theologian, because he isn’t. But he seems to have a grasp of his faith that is at least as deep as a normal public swimming pool, whereas most wingnuts’ grasp of Christianity is about as deep as a wading pool.

71 wrenchwench  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:54:49am

re: #29 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

They are all singing in English as every American must!

72 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:56:02am
re: #67 Pie-onist Overlord

“@LiberalEffects: What’s Left For The RWNJ’s To Drink? pic.twitter.com/xVPLyd5cfw” Lol, I can think of a few things… #UniteBlue #libcrib #tcot
— Liberal Logick (@LiberalLogick) February 3, 2014

Or this…..

STFU

73 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:57:04am

re: #60 Dr. Matt

good thing you already got your PhD. No way you could pass a dissertation defense now after you’ve read that. //

74 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:58:29am

The usual wingnut response to a Fake Quote:

75 Please Proceed  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:59:30am

From Slate.

Atlanta Storm was a Hoax


The fact that this needs to be debunked says so much about education in the U.S.

76 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 9:59:53am

re: #74 Pie-onist Overlord

The usual wingnut response to a Fake Quote:

[Embedded content]

FAKE BUT ACCURATE!!!

77 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:00:33am

HURR HURR!!!11 CONFIRMED. FACT!!!!!!!

78 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:02:17am

I think this photo is a fake. But it’s real.

79 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:02:46am

Yeah, but how much time is spent actually learning something?

We are so fucked.

6 new facts about Facebook

pewresearch.org

Yeah, try having 200 real “friends”.

80 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:04:17am

re: #78 Pie-onist Overlord

The photographer claims it’s real.

81 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:04:53am

re: #80 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The photographer claims it’s real.

Just Googled that, yeah it is real.

82 Ian G.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:05:04am

re: #34 Shiplord Kirel

Genocide? No wonder these crazy fucks shoot their neighbors and point guns at little girls selling cookies.

Have a Drano cocktail on me, asshole.

Note that Jews are included in his list of “degenerates”. I like it when the right’s mask slips off.

83 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:06:34am

re: #74 Pie-onist Overlord

STILL TRUE TRUE FACT

84 wrenchwench  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:07:04am


Youtube Video

Keres /ˈkɛərɨs/, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico. Each of seven varieties is mutually intelligible with its closest neighbors. There is significant diversity between the Western and Eastern groups, and these are commonly counted as separate languages.

85 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:07:45am

re: #64 Pie-onist Overlord

THERE IS A DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA YOU STUPID ASS!!!!!!!

There can’t be! God sheds His Grace on America!

This proves California is not part of America!

86 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:08:51am

Wow, I’m shocked. Shocked! This has never happened in the history of Twitter!

87 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:09:41am

I think E.C. was drunk.

88 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:10:37am

re: #78 Pie-onist Overlord

I think this photo is a fake. But it’s real.

[Embedded content]

That man’s gonna need a bigger boat.

89 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:11:01am

re: #87 Pie-onist Overlord

If he’s a wing nut he was probably high, on hate.

90 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:11:49am

re: #89 Romantic Heretic

If he’s a wing nut he was probably high, on hate.

He did apologize, though, which the real haters won’t do.

91 Mattand  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:11:50am

From the Breitbart article comments section:

Commenter and allegedly sentient mass of protoplasm GatorJim123 had this response to someone pointing out that Coke was celebrating the diversity that can be found in America:

BS, comrade. Coke was saying America should celebrate diversity. That’s a communist message and well you know it.

I swear to God, I cannot tell if this person is serious. That could easily be right out of a Colbert Report script.

92 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:12:06am

A fresh blanket.

Storm totals so far.

93 chadu  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:12:09am

re: #72 Dr. Matt

Or this…..

STFU

I regret, upding, etc.

94 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:12:56am

HURR HURR LIBRULS WHO POINTS OUT TEH RACISM IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!11!!!!! HURR HURR MARGARET SANGER WAS TEH RACISTS SO ALL TEH LIBRULS IS ALL RACISTS FOREVER HURR HURR!!11!!!!!

95 Ace-o-aces  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:14:52am

re: #94 Pie-onist Overlord

I am outraged at their being outraged about the outrage over their outrage…..my head hurts.

96 Blue Fielder  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:15:03am

re: #94 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

I was going to make an Inception joke about this, but the sheer childishness and idiocy of that tweet makes my head hurt.

97 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:15:37am

re: #90 Dark_Falcon

He did apologize, though, which the real haters won’t do.

His mother probably made him apologize.

98 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:17:57am

re: #94 Pie-onist Overlord

“LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!” she screams into the broken mirror, as mascara trails down her face.

99 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:19:04am

I’m still stuck on this word salad:

As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government.

I can’t figure out the connection between the song and our federal government.

“America the Beautiful” isn’t our national anthem.

Coca-Cola—despite its iconically American brand—is not a branch of the government, and to my knowledge is completely lacking in the power to change the Constitution or the language of government.

Speaking of, did the government suddenly switch over to operating in Senegalese or one of the other languages mentioned on VB’s other Page? ‘Cause that’s really gonna suck when I try to file my taxes.

I could pick at it further, but I have work to do and Breitbart’s stupidity & intolerance isn’t something I want to devote a larger chunk of my day to.

100 Mattand  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:19:24am

Wow. Semi-reading and trolling the comments at the Breitbart article.

Jesus Christ on Segway, I have never seen such a group of bigots so in denial about their hatred to anything that doesn’t look like Howdy Doody.

And they all vote Republican. That party is well beyond the point of no return.

FUBAR beyond belief.

101 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:19:49am

re: #98 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!” she screams into the broken mirror, as mascara trails down her face.

Little bunny foofoo hopping through the forest, picking up libs & bopping them on the head. Fearless.

The first time I called her out over a Fake Quote she sobbed U COMMUNIST!!!1!!!! and blocked me. So that’s how I got bopped on the head.

102 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:20:51am

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

Well, no, not _quite_ all the guns… ;)

103 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:21:39am
104 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:22:06am

HURR HURR THIS IS HOW ALL TEH DEMOCRATZ THINKS BECAUSE WE CAN READ MINDS PRECIOUSSSSSS!!!1!!!!!

105 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:22:35am

re: #63 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

[Embedded content]

Hey, we’ll just follow Republican policy and nullify that. So now it’s not the Nation’s food supply, it’s ours.

Go eat your gun, asshole.

106 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:22:48am

I liked this ad much better than “I’d like to give the world a Coke” ad from my childhood.

But that’s just Coke for you —Socialism all the way —from giving people free stuff to accepting non-english speaking customers …

/

107 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:25:28am

How is life in your part of the world today.

It’s bright and white here.

108 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:26:08am

re: #106 FemNaziBitch

I liked this ad much better than “I’d like to give the world a Coke” ad from my childhood.

But that’s just Coke for you —Socialism all the way —from giving people free stuff to accepting non-english speaking customers …

/

I hated that “Buy The World A Coke” ad, because, earworm. IT’S IN MY HEAD!! IT’S IN MY HEAD!!!! NOW I NEED TO STICK A POWER DRILL IN MY EAR.

109 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:26:43am

re: #104 Pie-onist Overlord

Another version of the same pic. I don’t think this one’s been altered. Approximately 0.1% less stupid.

Image: n5thThz.jpg

110 William of Orange  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:27:04am

Just announced in the Netherlands.

A tin full of marbles has been discovered belonging to Anne Frank. A girl living next door received the marbles when it became clear the Frank family had to go into hiding. The now 83-year old Toosje Kupers did not realize the marbles would be so valuable to the Anne Frank Huis.

111 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:08am

I don’t think PSH was in a very good place.

Heroin, Syringes and Prescription Drugs Found in Philip Seymour Hoffman Home: Sources

nbcnewyork.com

“Various prescription drugs, syringes and dozens of bags of heroin were found in the apartment where Philip Seymour Hoffman died Sunday morning, sources tell NBC 4 New York.

“Law enforcement sources say addiction treatment medication, muscle relaxants, an anti-anxiety drug and blood pressure medication was found in the West Village apartment where Hoffman was discovered by a friend on the bathroom floor. Some were prescribed to him, some were not, sources said.

(snip)

“An autopsy was being done Monday, but toxicology results were expected to take days. “

112 William of Orange  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:16am

re: #104 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR THIS IS HOW ALL TEH DEMOCRATZ THINKS BECAUSE WE CAN READ MINDS PRECIOUSSSSSS!!!1!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Well well, seems some of them do know how to use Photoshop.

113 blueraven  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:23am

Wow…Rasmussen has McConnell and Grimes tied for KY Senate, and the RCP average has him ahead only by half a point.

realclearpolitics.com

114 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:33am

Inspired by Erick son of Erick? TBD

California man points gun at Girl Scout at his door to sell cookies

115 Internet Tough Guy  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:48am

re: #104 Pie-onist Overlord

he still mad women can vote.

116 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:28:55am

re: #109 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Another version of the same pic. I don’t think this one’s been altered. Approximately 0.1% less stupid.

Image: n5thThz.jpg

I think yours is MOAR STUPID.

117 chadu  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:29:10am

re: #104 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR THIS IS HOW ALL TEH DEMOCRATZ THINKS BECAUSE WE CAN READ MINDS PRECIOUSSSSSS!!!1!!!!!

[Embedded content]

I like the handwriting font.

118 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:29:49am

re: #113 blueraven

Wow…Rasmussen has McConnell and Grimes tied and the RCP average has him ahead only by half a point.

realclearpolitics.com

and the tea party guy, Bevin, is ahead of them both…

119 freetoken  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:29:51am

re: #107 FemNaziBitch

How is life in your part of the world today.

It’s bright and white here.

A little chilly here, 60F, though it is mostly sunny.

120 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:30:45am

All these butthurt wingnuts remind me of this quote:

Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking to them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause the most harm to both culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people—masturbators of false culture in the manner of St Aloysius, of whom it was said in the book of the monk Eustachius that when he heard a man breaking wind with the most thundering noise he immediate burst into tears and could only be consoled by prayers.

People like that proclaim their immense indignation in public but take the most unusual pleasure in going to public lavatories to read obscene inscriptions on the walls.

In using a few strong expressions in my book, I have done nothing more than affirm en passant how people actually talk.

We cannot expect a bartender to speak with the same refinement as those who write tomes on morals and manners. There are far too many, in my considered opinion, who would like to turn the whole of the Czechoslovak Republic into a big salon with parquet flooring, where people go about in tail-coats, white ties and gloves, speak in choice phrases and cultivate the refined behaviour of the drawing-room. But beneath this camouflage these drawing-room lions indulge in the worst vices and excesses.

- Jaroslav Hasek

121 chadu  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:30:58am

semi-O/T, but it is about another SB ad…

Youtube Video

Is that the Falcon I see?

That is the Falcon I see.

SWEET.

122 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:32:47am

re: #108 Pie-onist Overlord

I hated that “Buy The World A Coke” ad, because, earworm. IT’S IN MY HEAD!! IT’S IN MY HEAD!!!! NOW I NEED TO STICK A POWER DRILL IN MY EAR.

You’ll notice, I refrained from posting the youtube.

:)

123 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:33:33am

re: #104 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR THIS IS HOW ALL TEH DEMOCRATZ THINKS BECAUSE WE CAN READ MINDS PRECIOUSSSSSS!!!1!!!!!

[Embedded content]

And yet when you ask the terrible-ass photoshopper that made that thing when the last time they voted Democrat was…

File this under ‘Reasons why I will never vote Republican’: Because Republicans constantly insult me by asserting, with no evidence whatsoever, that I vote Democrat simply because it’s Democrat and ‘based off of emotions’. No, you hypocritical shitbags, I vote Democrat because people are more important to me than money, and I get to choose between two parties, one of which thinks that the government should have a say in which plants I can and can’t smoke, and which consenting adults I can and can’t marry, and whether or not my wife should be allowed to have a say about what goes on inside her body.

There are moments, incredibly brief moments, when I entertain the notion of voting Republican for some economic reason or another. Then the nearest Republilcan opens their mouth and reminds me why I do not vote Republican.

124 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:33:44am

re: #116 Pie-onist Overlord

I think yours is MOAR STUPID.

Don’t think there are those (Ann Coulter) who would reverse that amendment.

125 wrenchwench  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:33:50am
126 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:34:21am

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

and the tea party guy, Bevins, is ahead of them both…

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Nothing would warm the cockles of my black heart more than to see McConnell sent to an ignoble retirement by the people of his state.

127 blueraven  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:35:08am

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

and the tea party guy, Bevins, is ahead of them both…

[Embedded content]

They really do not like McConnell!

128 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:35:49am

I started listing to The Bible and the Sword by Barbara Tuchman (her first published book).

She is an excellent writer.

Anyone else read it and want to tell me their thoughts?

129 Egregious Philbin  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:37:44am

Breitbart and Free Republic are full of the most angry, misguided, and joyless people in the nation. Eternally angry, close minded and racist assholes. Thankfully, it is a dying generation (nature and education are culling their ranks). This kind of crap is why I left the party, and left a few political forums, just angry, joyless, messed up losers.

130 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:40:35am

My family does puzzles over the holidays. Mostly as a way to avoid forced family fun and because all other space in the house is taken over by forced family fun.

So, we started a 2000 piece puzzle of Starry Night.

The box and the actual puzzle were printed with different color ways. Which, for Starry Night, isn’t unusual —as I understand it, no reproduction ever matches the original or any other reproduction in color.

You’ll notice it’s February and I (having been abandoned by all other puzzle manic family members) and still working to complete it.

Alone I can usually get thru a 1000 piece puzzle in a day or two. THIS ONE IS A PITA.

I feel stuck, like I can’t proceed to any other project until it is finished.

I’m actually learning a lot about the painting in the process —-his brush stroke technique —etc.

131 leftynyc  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:40:54am

Had no idea it was a Christian song. When did that happen?

132 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:41:27am

Police: 50 bags of heroin were found throughout Philip Seymour Hoffman’s home.

Investigators found roughly 50 bags of heroin and used syringes in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s West Village apartment, police told to ABC News.

This information comes one day after the Oscar-winning actor was found inside his New York apartment. Hoffman was 46 years old.

Police sources say Hoffman was found unconscious at around 11:15 a.m. Sunday on the bathroom floor of his apartment by friend and screenwriter David Bar Katz, who called 911. Hoffman was pronounced dead at the scene

133 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:41:42am

re: #131 leftynyc

Had no idea it was a Christian song. When did that happen?

It says the word “America” twice in a row, so it goes without saying.

134 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:43:58am

re: #131 leftynyc

Since the RWNJ claimed it as their very own and since they claimed the Christian religion as their very own too. //

135 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:44:47am

re: #131 leftynyc

Had no idea it was a Christian song. When did that happen?

Lots of “thy” and “thee”. Just like Jesus.

136 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:45:00am

re: #131 leftynyc

Had no idea it was a Christian song. When did that happen?

It’s also a pro-second amendment song too…..

137 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:45:37am

re: #128 FemNaziBitch

I started listing to The Bible and the Sword by Barbara Tuchman (her first published book).

She is an excellent writer.

Anyone else read it and want to tell me their thoughts?

Read it as background for our assignment in Israel. She rarely misses.

138 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:46:24am

re: #136 Dr. Matt

And if you play it backwards it says Kill all the libtards…

139 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:46:46am
140 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:47:53am

re: #139 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Glenn Beck show or Monty Python sketch, you be the judge.

141 leftynyc  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:49:00am

re: #52 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

They only THINK they’re the ones with all the guns.

142 Ian G.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:49:00am

BTW, I’d like to remind the wingnuts that this ad was brought to you by the wonderful Free Market, in which a big business decided that there’s much bigger money to be made reaching out to dark-skinned people speaking another language than there is to pander to the fading demographic groups that make up the far right in this country.

Irony is a bitch.

143 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:49:04am

re: #140 Targetpractice

Glenn Beck show or Monty Python sketch, you be the judge.

French-kissing Pepe Le Peu.

144 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:49:50am

And todays “Who, Me?” award goes too…

145 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:50:13am

So, O’Reilly got 15 minutes to interview Obama.

Hubby said Obama blamed Fox News for everything.

I thought, this is different from any other politican? I seem to remember Bush etc blaming the liberal media for much.

I didn’t watch it. Has it been discussed on any thread?

146 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:51:04am

re: #142 Ian G.

BTW, I’d like to remind the wingnuts that this ad was brought to you by the wonderful Free Market, in which a big business decided that there’s much bigger money to be made reaching out to dark-skinned people speaking another language than there is to pander to the fading demographic groups that make up the far right in this country.

Irony is a bitch.

I know!!! Coka-Cola is anything but a socialist organization.

147 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:51:31am

re: #145 FemNaziBitch

So, O’Reilly got 15 minutes to interview Obama.

Hubby said Obama blamed Fox News for everything.

I thought, this is different from any other politican? I seem to remember Bush etc blaming the liberal media for much.

I didn’t watch it. Has it been discussed on any thread?

All I recall in some older threads was that O’Reilly did the impossible. Made Fox lose conservative viewers due to being boring for 15 minutes even by their standards.

148 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:51:59am

Now Coke needs to go all the way and do a multi-lingual “God Bless the USA”.

149 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:52:14am

re: #144 Targetpractice

People were really upset about the Coke advertisement? Seriously?
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 3, 2014

RINO!!!!!!!

150 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:52:41am

re: #148 Eclectic Cyborg

Now Coke needs to go all the way and do a multi-lingual “God Bless the USA”.

I’m waiting for Coors to pay Springsteen a pile of money in order to do “Brewed in the USA” commercials.

151 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:53:07am

Hopefully Coke holds out a bit longer than MSNBC before apologizing to the RWNJs.

152 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:53:21am

re: #149 Dr. Matt

>RINO!!!!!!!

As a commenter over at TPM pointed out, Hannity had the same problem with his followers back in ‘12, when he was leading them all up to the edge of the cliff before Election Day, then was “shocked” when so many were calling him up the day after willing to jump.

153 freetoken  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:53:34am

re: #144 Targetpractice

From the man who denies most of his followers are hard-core creationists.

154 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:53:45am
155 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:53:52am

re: #144 Targetpractice

There goes his Senate career….

156 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:54:11am

re: #142 Ian G.

BTW, I’d like to remind the wingnuts that this ad was brought to you by the wonderful Free Market, in which a big business decided that there’s much bigger money to be made reaching out to dark-skinned people speaking another language than there is to pander to the fading demographic groups that make up the far right in this country.

Irony is a bitch.

The American Right doesn’t give one single shit about ‘free markets’. They just want Big Business to be regulation-free to maximize profits for the 0.0001%

157 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:54:42am

You know, if Coke was really hardcore, they would have removed the word “God” from that commercial.

/

158 Joanne  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:55:00am

re: #1 jaunte

*as perceived by Breitbart Psychic Team 6.

I think you meant Psychotic team.

159 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:55:54am

It should go without saying but I’m going to say it anyway.

Do NOT, repeat do NOT bother with the Youtube comments on the Coke ad.

160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:56:53am

re: #131 leftynyc

Had no idea it was a Christian song. When did that happen?

God shed his grace on thee?

161 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 10:57:45am

re: #130 FemNaziBitch

My family does puzzles over the holidays. Mostly as a way to avoid forced family fun and because all other space in the house is taken over by forced family fun.

So, we started a 2000 piece puzzle of Starry Night. […]

Alone I can usually get thru a 1000 piece puzzle in a day or two. THIS ONE IS A PITA.

I feel stuck, like I can’t proceed to any other project until it is finished.

I’m actually learning a lot about the painting in the process —-his brush stroke technique —etc.

I haven’t done a puzzle in ages.

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

162 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:00:59am

re: #159 Eclectic Cyborg

This is AMerica get the fock out of here if you know speak English shut up!!!1

163 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:01:23am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

God shed his grace on thee?

That’s what I thought too—apparently God belongs exclusively to Christians.

164 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:01:27am
165 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:01:41am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

I haven’t done a puzzle in ages.

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

No, other than the whole idea of impressionism is “a few strokes here, a few strokes there” …

166 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:01:48am

re: #97 Justanotherhuman

His mother probably made him apologize.

Yes, she threatened to wash his mouth out with Coke!

Funny thing. I haven’t been on LGF today and I got back from the Kroger store about a half hour ago before logging in and seeing this topic.

Now I know why they had a huge display of Coke products out with all Coke prices marked down.

And one other point to add to the great comments in this Coca-Cola outrageously outraged rage out thread. Isn’t bitching about the commercial being politically correct also a form of wingnut political correctness?

167 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:02:46am

I like Coke Zero in Vanilla and Cherry.

Guess I need to buy some more.

168 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:02:59am

Also, fuck altitude sideways.

169 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:03:15am

re: #149 Dr. Matt

>RINO!!!!!!!

Not just people, Eric. Your people.

170 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:03:30am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

I haven’t done a puzzle in ages.

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

I was suprised too when I saw Matisse’s Paper Cuts. Freaking building sized canvas. Old and ready to fall apart. The weight of the work was too much for the backing.

171 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:04:22am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

God shed his grace on thee?

“One voice, many faces”

172 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:04:23am

re: #167 klys

I watched Downton Abbey. What is all of this fuss over Coke? Someone misinterpreted a commercial?

173 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:04:25am
And one other point to add to the great comments in this Coca-Cola outrageously outraged rage out thread. Isn’t bitching about the commercial being politically correct also a form of wingnut political correctness?

No stoopid BLOCKED!!

Seriously, yes, RWNJ whining about how Coke and all the rest of us are insufficiently American is itself ‘political correctness’ but of course only American hating soshulists are ‘politically correct’.

174 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:04:28am

The sane conservatives want to pretend they’re not supporting the political environment in which shit like this has become commonplace.

The problem is, sticking your head in the sand hasn’t made the problem go away. It’s just making it worse.

175 leftynyc  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:04:59am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

God shed his grace on thee?

So they’re admitting that Jews, Muslims, Hindus - nobody else counts and any reference to G-d at all obviously means Christian? Their true colors are truly appalling.

176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:05:40am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

Because Impressionism is not so much about what you see as how you see it. That finally hit me while lying in a field in France on a hot early summer day: the heat rising up from the fields made the trees shimmer and move.

177 Charles Johnson  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:06:51am
178 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:06:53am

re: #172 PhillyPretzel

I watched Downton Abbey. What is all of this fuss over Coke? Someone misinterpreted a commercial?

I vaguely half-paid attention to the commercial. It was offensive only if you want to believe that America is for white Christians only.

I still think the TurboTax Prom commerical was the best. Because seriously, the Super Bowl is such bullshit for 95% of the country and yet we’re all corralled into paying attention to this shit.

179 SpaceJesus  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:07:29am

freerepublic.com

180 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:07:39am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Because Impressionism is not so much about what you see as how you see it. That finally hit me while lying in a field in France on a hot early summer day: the heat rising up from the fields made the trees shimmer and move.

I always thought Monet’s work looked “rained-on” and diluted. I don’t know why. Kinda like there was too much water vapor between my eye and the work. Which might be a bit like your experience.

181 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:08:29am

re: #178 klys

I would like for Coke to run the old “I’d like to teach the world to sing…” commercial. That would save a few $$$.

182 wrenchwench  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:08:38am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

I haven’t done a puzzle in ages.

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

It’s part of the Impressionist technique.

Impressionist techniques

Short, thick strokes of paint quickly capture the essence of the subject, rather than its details. The paint is often applied impasto.
Colours are applied side-by-side with as little mixing as possible, creating a vibrant surface. The optical mixing of colours occurs in the eye of the viewer.
Grays and dark tones are produced by mixing complementary colours. Pure impressionism avoids the use of black paint.
Wet paint is placed into wet paint without waiting for successive applications to dry, producing softer edges and intermingling of colour.
Painters often worked in the evening to produce effets de soir—the shadowy effects of evening or twilight.
Impressionist paintings do not exploit the transparency of thin paint films (glazes), which earlier artists manipulated carefully to produce effects. The impressionist painting surface is typically opaque.
The play of natural light is emphasized. Close attention is paid to the reflection of colours from object to object.
In paintings made en plein air (outdoors), shadows are boldly painted with the blue of the sky as it is reflected onto surfaces, giving a sense of freshness previously not represented in painting. (Blue shadows on snow inspired the technique.)

183 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:09:13am

re: #179 SpaceJesus

freerepublic.com

I see the griftathon isn’t going well.

Good.

184 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:09:27am

Also listened to God Bless You, Mr Rosewater by Kllgore Trout Kurt Vonnegut.

Bob, it was wonderful.

185 William of Orange  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:10:47am
186 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:11:34am

re: #179 SpaceJesus

freerepublic.com

“diversity” = perversity
4 posted on 2/3/2014 12:38:38 PM by fwdude


TOTALLY OFFENSIVE!
6 posted on 2/3/2014 12:39:57 PM by b4its2late


Biggest loser? Jack Daniels.
No more JD and Cokes for me.
11 posted on 2/3/2014 12:44:54 PM


Bud had a beautiful ad honoring a veteran.
I guess we will have to stop drinking Coke Zero and drink BUD.
34 posted on 2/3/2014 1:01:51 PM by FR_addict

187 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:12:00am

I guess I’ll be avoiding Twitter until it changes again.

188 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:12:46am

re: #179 SpaceJesus

freerepublic.com

heh:

Rush Limbaugh,” Hey Coke, if you believe it why not label your bottles in multiple languages.”

Some of the 2011 Olympics CocaCola cans

189 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:13:30am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

Some of the 2011 Olympics CocaCola cans

koka-kora

?

190 jaunte  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:14:06am

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

That was the Russian one.

191 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:14:34am

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

koka-kora

?

That’s Russian.

192 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:14:51am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ever hear of something called “Marketing?” Rush never heard of that term.

193 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:14:57am

Koka-Koran!

194 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:15:23am

I haven’t seen one of my best girlfriends for nearly 3 months. The weather, our health or our families have been sabotaging us.

We’ve made plans for Wednesday and are now taking bets via email as to whether it will actually happen.

195 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:15:31am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

Some of the 2011 Olympics CocaCola cans

Limbaugh being typical Limbaugh. If someone sends him a picture of a Coca-cola can from a Mexican or Chinese market that might be labeled in Spanish or Chinese he would instead just rant about the company taking part in the destruction of American culture.

196 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:16:10am

re: #190 jaunte

That was the Russian one.

They must have been running low on Comrade Cola.
;)

197 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:16:12am

re: #190 jaunte

re: #191 Pie-onist Overlord

That’s Russian.

I had this asian menu joke forming in the back of my mind, but it didn’t work.

198 Bulworth  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:16:30am

re: #183 Skip Intro

“We don’t get to pick and chose whether America should be diverse or not,” says one of the women featured in the ad on a behind-the-scenes video posted by Coca Cola, “It is diverse…..We need to celebrate all the different diversities.”

We CAN BUILD a FENCE around U.S. and moat and draw bridge with alligators on Mex border!!!!

199 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:16:39am

We are dealing with people who, like the message they projected onto the young female “liberal” voter, respond at a gut level to symbols. America the Beautiful, Cocla-Cola and English as symbols of what they feel is quintissentially American, therefore anything that diminishes that view is seen as an assault on their values.

200 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:17:34am

re: #199 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

We are dealing with people who, like the message they projected onto the young female “liberal” voter, respond at a gut level to symbols. America the Beautiful, Cocla-Cola and English as symbols of what they feel is quintissentially American, therefore anything that diminishes that view is seen as an assault on their values.

One begins to get the idea that their “values” deserve to be assaulted.
:p

201 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:17:47am
re: #189 FemNaziBitch

Rush Limbaugh,” Hey Coke, if you believe it why not label your bottles in multiple languages.”

More proof that these mouth-breathers never leave the county lines of which they were born and raised.

202 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:17:51am

203 chadu  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:19:03am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

Some of the 2011 Olympics CocaCola cans

I. Don’t. Even.

204 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:19:27am

re: #198 Bulworth

We CAN BUILD a FENCE around U.S. and moat and draw bridge with alligators on Mex border!!!!

I’ve lost track of how many comments I’ve read on the LA Times web site saying the solution to the drought is to deport all the Mexicans. Dozens of times at least, by now.

205 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:20:12am

re: #198 Bulworth

We CAN BUILD a FENCE around U.S. and moat and draw bridge with alligators on Mex border!!!!

I’d like to build a fence to keep …

I can’t get it just right with the tune—i’m not a poet

and I know it.

206 Skip Intro  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:21:02am

re: #201 Dr. Matt

More proof that these mouth-breathers never leave the county lines of which they were born and raised.

Limbaugh does take his R&R in the Dominican Republic via private jet, so he does travel from time to time.

207 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:22:04am

re: #130 FemNaziBitch

My family does puzzles over the holidays. Mostly as a way to avoid forced family fun and because all other space in the house is taken over by forced family fun.

So, we started a 2000 piece puzzle of Starry Night.

The box and the actual puzzle were printed with different color ways. Which, for Starry Night, isn’t unusual —as I understand it, no reproduction ever matches the original or any other reproduction in color.

You’ll notice it’s February and I (having been abandoned by all other puzzle manic family members) and still working to complete it.

Alone I can usually get thru a 1000 piece puzzle in a day or two. THIS ONE IS A PITA.

I feel stuck, like I can’t proceed to any other project until it is finished.

I’m actually learning a lot about the painting in the process —-his brush stroke technique —etc.

Don’t get so frustrated to the point you cut off an ear. /

A great painting by the way. It would make a hell of a puzzle. The fact that many of the colors are used throughout and the strokes go round and round the stars and moon would add to it.

And I do believe much of his work was done with palette knifes instead of a brush. That is why the paint it so thick and each swipe has the raised edges. It becomes dimensional and textural.

208 SpaceJesus  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:22:28am

The Pueblo language is so offensive. Damn Pueblo Indians coming to our country and stealing our jobs and ruining our culture.

209 chadu  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:23:12am

re: #205 FemNaziBitch

I’d like to build a fence to keep …

…the brown folk all away;
I’d like to buy the world a Coke, but it would turn us gay.

Easy-peasy.

210 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:23:49am

As you might expect…

TEH BAD CRAZY AT GLENN BECK’S SITE.

211 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:24:22am

re: #207 ObserverArt

Don’t get so frustrated to the point you cut off an ear. /

A great painting by the way. It would make a hell of a puzzle. The fact that many of the colors are used throughout and the strokes go round and round the stars and moon would add to it.

And I do believe much of his work was done with palette knifes instead of a brush. That is why the paint it so thick and each swipe has the raised edges. It becomes dimensional and textural.

Yes, palette knife. I wasn’t thinking.

It’s a bitch of a puzzle as the pieces are so small (to get 2000 of them) and you really can’t use the picture as much of a guide.

Am about 3/5 finished.

The minute detail in each piece is kinda kewl. I can almost feel the direction of the knife as it goes over the surface. It’s been the best clue so far as to the placement of each piece.

The picture is good for determiningg light and dark spaces —which are amazingly varied. I don’t think I appreciated that before.

212 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:25:17am

re: #205 FemNaziBitch

I’d like to build a fence to keep …

I can’t get it just right with the tune—i’m not a poet

and I know it.

I’d like to build a fence to keep the lesser peoples out.
The ones who think that working hard is what it’s all about.
They need to learn how the world works, especially when you’re white -
Only my work counts at all, so stay out of my sight.

213 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:25:58am

re: #212 klys

I’d like to build a fence to keep the lesser peoples out.
The ones who think that working hard is what it’s all about.
They need to learn how the world works, especially when you’re white -
Only my work counts at all, so stay out of my sight.

You win!!!

214 b.d.  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:26:06am

re: #144 Targetpractice

And todays “Who, Me?” award goes too…

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Isn’t Erick Erickson from the Atlanta area? He must be on Big Coke’s payroll

215 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:26:33am

re: #213 FemNaziBitch

You win!!!

My skill at making up random songs to known tunes comes in handy at the oddest times.

216 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:26:50am

re: #170 FemNaziBitch

I was suprised too when I saw Matisse’s Paper Cuts. Freaking building sized canvas. Old and ready to fall apart. The weight of the work was too much for the backing.

I had no idea. I’ve never seen any of Matisse’s work in person.

217 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:28:04am

re: #216 CuriousLurker

I had no idea. I’ve never seen any of Matisse’s work in person.

I was actually disappointed.

218 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:31:17am

re: #200 Feline Fearless Leader

One begins to get the idea that their “values” deserve to be assaulted.
:p

Their values are entirely subjective and superficial, which is why they cling so desperately to symbols: flag lapel pins, nativity scenes, guys who look like a cross between a biblical patriarch and a confederate colonel.

219 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:32:16am

re: #114 Dr. Matt

Inspired by Erick son of Erick? TBD

California man points gun at Girl Scout at his door to sell cookies

Now there’s an anger addict if I’ve ever seen one. You can tell he spends his days mainlining the stuff.

220 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:34:07am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Because Impressionism is not so much about what you see as how you see it. That finally hit me while lying in a field in France on a hot early summer day: the heat rising up from the fields made the trees shimmer and move.

re: #182 wrenchwench

It’s part of the Impressionist technique.

Excellent, thanks.

221 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:37:13am

re: #128 FemNaziBitch

I started listing to The Bible and the Sword by Barbara Tuchman (her first published book).

She is an excellent writer.

Anyone else read it and want to tell me their thoughts?

I haven’t read that one, but I did read March of Folly. It was excellent and I learned a lot.

222 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:40:17am

re: #221 Romantic Heretic

I haven’t read that one, but I did read March of Folly. It was excellent and I learned a lot.

Yeah, it’s also in my queue.

One can only take so much Tuchman in a year.

223 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:42:05am

re: #161 CuriousLurker

I haven’t done a puzzle in ages.

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

Part of his technique had to do with his near blindness from cataracts. He saw things the way he painted. Everything was broken into light refractions. So he saw things in small bits of light and would have to study them as such, and as he pulled back away form something he would get an image. I think his sight also had much to do with why he worked so large. Also, a major part of the whole idea of impressionism is that everything is made up of bits and pieces if you look at anything so closely as to lose the whole. Sort of like a digital image made of pixels. Blow a digital image up and all you see are little pieces of color blocks/pixels. Then as you pull back everything comes into focus by joining all the parts into a whole. It is difficult to explain in a small description. But I have always loved impressionism because of the fact that much of what we see is little pieces (cells, textures, etc.) that all join together as one when viewed from a distance. Our eyes complete a full image of all the parts of what makes everything into a whole. Digital images are very impressionistic.

224 klys  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:43:24am

re: #223 ObserverArt

Part of his technique had to do with his near blindness from cataracts. He saw things the way he painted. Everything was broken into light refractions. So he saw things in small bits of light and would have to study them as such, and as he pulled back away form something he would get an image. I think his sight also had much to do with why he worked so large. Also, a major part of the whole idea of impressionism is that everything is made up of bits and pieces if you look at anything so closely as to lose the whole. Sort of like a digital image made of pixels. Blow a digital image up and all you see are little pieces of color blocks/pixels. Then as you pull back everything comes into focus by joining all the parts into a whole. It is difficult to explain in a small description. But I have always loved impressionism because of the fact that much of what we see is little pieces (cells, textures, etc.) that all join together as one when viewed from a distance. Our eyes complete a full image of all the parts of what makes everything into a whole. Digital images are very impressionistic.

It’s like cross stitch! You make all these little squares of a color and eventually it comes together in the big picture.

You hope.

If you can count.

PS - There’s a new thread upstairs.

225 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:45:12am

re: #223 ObserverArt

Part of his technique had to do with his near blindness from cataracts. He saw things the way he painted. Everything was broken into light refractions. So he saw things in small bits of light and would have to study them as such, and as he pulled back away form something he would get an image. I think his sight also had much to do with why he worked so large. Also, a major part of the whole idea of impressionism is that everything is made up of bits and pieces if you look at anything so closely as to lose the whole. Sort of like a digital image made of pixels. Blow a digital image up and all you see are little pieces of color blocks/pixels. Then as you pull back everything comes into focus by joining all the parts into a whole. It is difficult to explain in a small description. But I have always loved impressionism because of the fact that much of what we see is little pieces (cells, textures, etc.) that all join together as one when viewed from a distance. Our eyes complete a full image of all the parts of what makes everything into a whole. Digital images are very impressionistic.

Sounds a bit like painting as a faster way to do mosaic.

226 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:47:18am
227 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:48:19am

re: #223 ObserverArt

Part of his technique had to do with his near blindness from cataracts. He saw things the way he painted. Everything was broken into light refractions. So he saw things in small bits of light and would have to study them as such, and as he pulled back away form something he would get an image. I think his sight also had much to do with why he worked so large. Also, a major part of the whole idea of impressionism is that everything is made up of bits and pieces if you look at anything so closely as to lose the whole. Sort of like a digital image made of pixels. Blow a digital image up and all you see are little pieces of color blocks/pixels. Then as you pull back everything comes into focus by joining all the parts into a whole. It is difficult to explain in a small description. But I have always loved impressionism because of the fact that much of what we see is little pieces (cells, textures, etc.) that all join together as one when viewed from a distance. Our eyes complete a full image of all the parts of what makes everything into a whole. Digital images are very impressionistic.

Yes, I’ve often wondered how much impressionism inspired the old “dots” of newspaper photographs and now pixelation.

228 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:56:27am


Cheerios!

229 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:57:15am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Because Impressionism is not so much about what you see as how you see it. That finally hit me while lying in a field in France on a hot early summer day: the heat rising up from the fields made the trees shimmer and move.

Key to this…bits of light and how light translates to color by temperature. It is the entire way a digital camera (and silver film for that matter) works. The pixels (or grains of silver) all react to the light that hits them. Each ray of light has a color heat range (Kelvin). As the light hits the CCD device which is ceramic bits, each bit (pixel) records the color. Then the little computer assigns that color to the file and records it. When you download the file and look at the image, you get that recording of every little ray of light that touch a grain in the ceramic CCD device saved as a pixel. Silver did the same thing on film. Each grain of silver was affected by the light it saw. Modern film like slide images and Kodachrome used dye that also was affected by the color of the light.

I love the science of color and how it relates to art. That is why I always was fascinated by the Leonardo Da Vinci type artists that loved both science and art. They go together even though many artists hate the study of math and physics. It all a part of nature!

230 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:58:39am

re: #180 FemNaziBitch

I always thought Monet’s work looked “rained-on” and diluted. I don’t know why. Kinda like there was too much water vapor between my eye and the work. Which might be a bit like your experience.

Yes, like you had cataracts. That is it exactly!

231 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 12:01:20pm

re: #229 ObserverArt

Key to this…bits of light and how light translates to color by temperature. It is the entire way a digital camera (and silver film for that matter) works. The pixels (or grains of silver) all react to the light that hits them. Each ray of light has a color heat range (Kelvin). As the light hits the CCD device which is ceramic bits, each bit (pixel) records the color. Then the little computer assigns that color to the file and records it. When you download the file and look at the image, you get that recording of every little ray of light that touch a grain in the ceramic CCD device saved as a pixel. Silver did the same thing on film. Each grain of silver was affected by the light it saw. Modern film like slide images and Kodachrome used dye that also was affected by the color of the light.

I love the science of color and how it relates to art. That is why I always was fascinated by the Leonardo Da Vinci type artists that loved both science and art. They go together even though many artists hate the study of math and physics. It all a part of nature!

I love color in any way I can get it.

The science makes sense to me when I learn about it, then I promptly forget it and go back to my innate “gut” emotional (artistic) understanding of it.

The whole light is both matter and energy still blows my mind.

232 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 12:01:27pm

bbl

233 aagcobb  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 12:03:48pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

and the tea party guy, Bevin, is ahead of them both…

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You know, it would be beautiful irony if McConnell was brought down by the very forces he helped unleash, but the thought of Bevins joining Paul as Kentucky’s Senate contingent is nauseating. Go Grimes!

234 aagcobb  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 12:08:41pm

re: #204 Skip Intro

I’ve lost track of how many comments I’ve read on the LA Times web site saying the solution to the drought is to deport all the Mexicans. Dozens of times at least, by now.

Yep, that will make it rain. Riiiiight.//

235 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 12:22:38pm

re: #161 CuriousLurker

The first time I saw some of Monet’s “Water Lilies” paintings in person I was shocked to see that they were enormous. Not only that, but if you tried to get close to them, then the image would dissolve into brushstrokes—you could see plenty of color & texture, but forms were completely lost.

He must’ve had to make a few strokes, step a good distance back, make a few more strokes… pretty amazing. It would drive me bananas. I wonder why he did that, forced you to move back… Do any of you know?

Seeing Picasso’s Guernica first hand at MOMA almost knocked me down.

It’s 25 ft wide. Never realized it was that large.

236 urbanmeemaw  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 1:09:24pm

re: #144 Targetpractice

He’s upset that no one was outraged about the new Cheerios ad.

237 Eventual Carrion  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 1:22:45pm

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

God shed his grace on thee?

And I hope Odin does soon because these christian fanatics are really fucking things up. Bring the Valkyries and clean house.

238 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 4:03:54pm

re: #223 ObserverArt

Part of his technique had to do with his near blindness from cataracts. He saw things the way he painted. Everything was broken into light refractions. So he saw things in small bits of light and would have to study them as such, and as he pulled back away form something he would get an image. I think his sight also had much to do with why he worked so large. Also, a major part of the whole idea of impressionism is that everything is made up of bits and pieces if you look at anything so closely as to lose the whole. Sort of like a digital image made of pixels. Blow a digital image up and all you see are little pieces of color blocks/pixels. Then as you pull back everything comes into focus by joining all the parts into a whole. It is difficult to explain in a small description. But I have always loved impressionism because of the fact that much of what we see is little pieces (cells, textures, etc.) that all join together as one when viewed from a distance. Our eyes complete a full image of all the parts of what makes everything into a whole. Digital images are very impressionistic.

I totally missed this earlier. Excellent info—thank you.

239 CuriousLurker  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 4:04:24pm

re: #235 BeenHereAwhile

Seeing Picasso’s Guernica first hand at MOMA almost knocked me down.

It’s 25 ft wide. Never realized it was that large.

Me neither!

240 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 5:26:34pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

South Africa, too. Even the title is in “another language.”

The RSA has 11 official languages. Yet the nation has not fallen into complete and utter chaos. Wonder how that works?

241 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 5:35:58pm

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

God shed his grace on thee?

I know two really cute girls named Grace. Thanks, God!

242 Swift2991  Mon, Feb 3, 2014 11:21:56pm

I got the impression all the time that they’re very similar to normal people. They actually hate the Nazis. They just believe some weird things about them. Like they were actually Socialists. No, the biggest party in the Weimar Republic were the Social Democrats! They were democratic socialists, union men, wanting things like houses for the poor and better wages for workers. It was a big social club for them almost as much as a party. The second biggest party were the Catholic Party, something like the Christian Democrats. Hitler, from the beginning, wanted war and the Final Solution. To get there he had to get power, on the streets and in the board rooms of the biggest capitalists. The “national socialism” was to get up in the polls. To pull away some socialists with the lure of absolutely no connection with Moscow. Yes, a nationalistic socialism was popular, particularly among the Brownshirts. But when Hitler reached total power, he didn’t want those elements around anymore. Their use was finished. They were all killed in the Night of the Long Knives. For class, substitute race. Socialist? Uh-uh. As “socialist” as the Tea Party, all along. These guys should get one of the good Hitler books, like the Rise and Fall, or Hitler, by John Toland. Would it help? I doubt it. These guys don’t have intellectual lives, just emotional, mostly hate.

243 Onyx99  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 9:52:54am

Funniest comment, in case anyone missed it:

Worst ad shown in my opinion, although honorable mention goes to the one with the girl licking yogurt off the guy until the gays break it up. What was that about !?

“The gays” in that case being Dave Coulier and Bob Saget from Full House, neither of whose characters were gay. They were cleaning in the ad, though, so it’s easy to sympathize with the confused caveman.


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