#Bute Teddies

[downthetubes]

In Memoriam: Comic Artist and Writer Nick Spender

We’re sorry to report the unexpected passing of comic artist, writer and illustrator Nick Spender, whose numerous credits spanned a 40-year career

[headingalaxys-spicy]

I was wondering if I could request how the Allies would react to meeting an immortal? (Not a personification - so could be vampire, witch, mutant (kinda like wolverine he's over 200 tears old), or any other immortal being). -🪽

This one is more of a silly shit post since we all need more of that nowadays.

Hope I can at least made you giggle 🤭

America 🇺🇸

Mutant: He’ll be super chill about it as long as we’re talking about non-aggressive / passive ones like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If it’s ones trying to take over the two then saving the day for him is a must then they’ll be meeting the business end of his pistol.

Vampire: He’s no Arthur Kirkland so he won’t believe in them if there is no evidence. But, if he does figure it out then he will probably ask for the vampires help to scare the shit out of England on Halloween. He’s got to do better than using Ivan dressed as a clown this time.

Witch: If we’re talking pretty one’s like Glinda the good witch he’ll be enchanted and distracted. An ugly one like the Wicked witch of the west he will run the fuck away. (If the witch is pretty and evil yeah dude is going to need to call England for help.)

Windigo: “Fuck this shit I’m out” starts playing and all you can hear is Alfred’s scream hitting against the trees.

Alfred: “Don’t mind me Imma just grab my stuff -” He reaches for his trusted rifle so he could try and shoot at it

*Blood curdling shreik comes from the creature

“OH FUCK AHHHHHH”

Canada 🇨🇦

*For whatever the reason supernatural immortal spirits seem to like him and enjoy his company

Mutant: Matthew will be kind to it even if it’s grotesque. It’s just what’s in his gentle nature.

Vampire: Would be spellbound by ones who have a thing for drinking sweet blood.

Witch: By accident there was a coven of witches discussing and and one of the younger ones whos not as good with controlling her magic enchants him. They would likely try to keep him because: He’s super cute and he has a talking teddy bear.

Windigo: *Backs away slowly with his hands in the air* before he Usain Bolts himself away from the vicinity.

China 🇨🇳

Mutant: Said thing better be cute & then Yao can tolerate it. If not it’s getting fucking WHACKED with the WOK.

Vampire: He’ll be curious & have a plethora of questions for it. He will be hospitable and treat it to dinner so he can probe it for information.

Witch: Since Yao tends to be superstitious he’ll revere the witch and probably give her an offering of sorts. Usually this tends to be frest fruits and hot meals with the freshest ingredients that match the season.

Windigo: He’s wise enough not to linger anywhere near when he senses it’s energy. Yao knows there are somethings you simply don’t fuck with.

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Mutant: “Disgusting get this thing away from my sight.” Arthur will pull out his wand and do away with it.

Vampire: Since he’s in tune with the supernatural meeting another one of these will be a normal day for him talking to one of his enchanted friends.

Witch: Same as a vampire but he might exchange spells, potions, and magical advice.

Windigo: He went on a trip with Alfred to study and gain more information about them. Arthur ends up getting merked by the thing thanks to Alfred needing to preform “Fuck this Shit I’m Out” live.

France 🇫🇷

Mutant: “Oh hon hon ….. How…cute?” Francis will be sort of polite but will want to avoid it.

Vampire: Thanks they’re hot like Twilight Fans when the movies we’re coming out. “Bute me daddy~ hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon hon.~”

Vampire: *Grabs the holy water to scare away France*

“You’re so cute I can see you’d liked to be drenched tonight. Hon Hon HON 💕💕”

*vampire runs for its life*

Witch: He definitely tried to flirt too hard with her and Francis will end up with either losing some of his georgeous hair or he’ll end up with a decent chunck of his memory missing and be abandoned in the middle of a forest.

Windigo: “MON DIEU! WHAT IN ZE ‘ELL IS THAT?!?!”

*Runs away with a with a white flag in hand*

Russia 🇷🇺

Mutant: Ivan will either try to make friends with it or experiment on it depending on it’s level of aggression.

Vampire: Some live in fear of him others are his aquantances of his that chill with him on Halloween sometimes. Or on lonely cold nights where people are about he likes to cause some chaos.

Witch: Ivan does have relationships with ancient witches that hide within the Taiga (Boreal Forests) as well as others across his nation. They’re kinda like mentors for whenever he’s hit heavy emotional lows.

Windigo: *Steals Alfreds Boom Box as soon as it senses Ivan coming

*Oh hell naw to the naw naw naw naw* plays

Pfffffffff hahahahahha lawd I’m on my bullshit .

[asktedlane]

Ask Tedlane is open!

Welcome to the ask blog with all the teddies from the inaginative world of teddies, Tedlane! Currently 63 teddies live here, most of them are very popular around Australia. Go on, ask something! The teddies are waiting!

Teddies to ask:

Spotty, the cute dalmatian pup

Hynu, a crystal-loving little blue penguin

Bobbie, a lavender-loving purple bear...

Jasper, Spotty's brother.

Wuppy, also Spotty's brother.

Kookee, Hynu's ice-skating brother.

Wolfie, a cool husky who loves playing in the snow.

Too lazy to write info for all 63 teddies... so here are just the names.

Brownie

Gingy

Rexy

Sparkle

Campus

Oggy

Chicky

Tigrey

Roarile

Softy

Maga

Gaust

Vasher

Janjiro

Mazu

Kooka

Mika

Joey

Koa

Joey Jr

Koa Jr, Marina, Piggy, Jai, Lizzy, Orcy, Dolphie, Dolphie Jr, Superbaby, Mallary, Brack, Bute, Spotty Jr, LES, Jasper Jr, Wuppy Jr, Wolfie Jr, Giraffy, Tedly, Tedly Jr, Spot, Hykee, Koonu, Ninjy, Snappy, Exage, Red, Tigrey Jr, Greeny, Blacky, Bluey, Willy, Marty, George, Tigrey Bly, Elephy. (Note: Jrs are sons of the main teddy)

[neil-gaiman]

Hi there, I was interested in knowing who provided the voice of Mr. Wednesday in the 10th Anniversary audiobook version of American Gods. I listened to the book about a year ago and immediately thought that the voice resembled that of Ian McShane, but have been unable to find a list of who provided what characters for the audiobook. Thank you!

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. It’s the cast list for AMERICAN GODS. I think everyone is in it, except me.

FRED BERMAN ( MR. IBIS, ICEMAN, GWYDION,  SALIM )

ANNE BOBBY ( AUDREY BURTON, ZORYA P., ESSIE TREGOWAN,     VEGAS WAITRESS, EASTER )

DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS ( NARRATOR )

TIM CAIN ( MR. NANCY )

RICHARD FERRONE ( LOW KEY LYESMITH, HINZELMANN, MR. STONE, MR. WORLD)

ADAM GRUPPER ( CHAD MULLIGAN, WARDEN,  HARRY BLUEJAY, MR. WOOD )

SARAH JONES ( LAURA, BILQUIS, MAMA ZOU ZOU, WIDOW PARIS, MAMA JI, DIANE,  ZORYA U. )

PETE LARKIN ( CZERNOBOG, JACQUEL, WHISKEY JACK )

NIKHIL MAINDIRATTA   (TEENAGE SHADOW )

KATHLEEN McINERNEY ( SAMANTHA BLACK CROW, ALISON McGOVERN, SMALLEST SISTER, SQUIRREL )

RON McLARTY ( MR. WEDNESDAY )

PRENTICE ONAYEMI ( SAM FETISHER, AGASU, BLACK DEPUTY, BARON SAMEDI )

DANIEL ORESKES ( SHADOW )

PAULA PARKER ( ELDERLY WAITRESS, SHADOW’S MOTHER )

NICOLE QUINN ( WOMAN AT PASSENGER ASSISTANCE DESK, WOMAN @ AMOCO CASH REGISTER )

MAGGI-MEG REED ( MARGUERITE OLSEN, BAST,  MRS. McCABE – LAURA’S MOTHER )

YELENA SHMULENSON ( ZORYA V., OFFICER LIZ BUTE,  WAITRESS-SAN FRAN , SOPHIE )

TEDDY WALSH ( LEON )

ALAN WINTER ( PRISON GUARD – REVIEWS SHADOW’S FILE, CASHIER AT LIBRARY SALE, GAS STA. MGR., )

OLIVER WYMAN ( MAD SWEENEY, TECHNICAL BOY/FAT KID, JOHN CHAPMAN, MR. TOWN )

[technariumas]

Internet of Shit hakatonas

[English version below]

Kartu su M-LAB, Padirbtuvėmis ir Kauno Makerspace kviečiame į absurdo šventę balandžio 22-23!

Indaplovių botnet'as? Kamera iš mikrobangų krosnelės? Vibratorius, siunčiantis gamintojui duomenis apie tai, ką su juo veiki? Vyno butelis, parodantis, kiek nugėrei? Nuhakinti žaisliniai meškučiai, reikalaujantys išpirkos? Malwaru užkrėsti širdies ritmo reguliatoriai? Sulčiaspaudė, kuria negali naudotis, jeigu neveikia WiFi? Jau nebeaišku, kas yra tikras produktas, o kas -- parodija. Akivaizdu tik tai, kad vietoje realių globalių problemų sprendimo technologijų firmos renkasi kurti absurdiškus, nereikalingus, nesaugius, neveikiančius gadget'us, kurių vieninteliai monetizavimo modeliai yra vartotojų sekimas ir įkyri reklama.

Internet of Shit hakatono metu nesteigsime startupų, nekeisime pasaulio, nesivaikysime investuotojų ir neveisime vienaragių. Tiesiog kartu pasidžiaugsime atsukdami absurdo rankenėles iki vienuolikos.

Jeigu trūksta įkvėpimo: http://stupidhackathon.com, https://twitter.com/internetofshit, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ

Together with M-LAB, Kaunas Makerspace and Padirbtuves we invite you to celebrate the absurd on April 22-23rd!

A dishwasher botnet? A spying camera in a microwave oven? A dildo, surreptitiously sending the usage patterns to its manufacturer? A smart wine bottle that displays how much wine is left? Hacked teddy beards demanding ransom from parents? Malware in a heart pacemaker? A juicer that cannot be used when Wi-Fi is down?

It’s no longer clear what is an actual product and what is cruel parody. The only thing evident is that tech companies are choosing to create absurd useless unsafe malfunctioning gadgets instead of looking for solutions for the very real global problems we face. The gadgets, of course, can only be monetised via surveillance of their users and ubiquitous ads.

We shall not start startups, change the world, chase investors or breed unicorns during the Internet of Shit hackathon. Let’s simply turn up the absurd till 11, learn something and have fun.

In case you need inspiration:

http://stupidhackathon.com, https://twitter.com/internetofshit, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ

[viralhottopics]

Hoops, wheels and moose heads: playtime in the world’s most inhospitable places

How do children play in refugee camps, aboriginal reserves and places ravaged by war? Photographer Mark Neville found out

You seldom see a smile in Mark Nevilles photographs of children. Even in glorious circumstances, among the mud and smoke of a well-run adventure playground, children appear stern and serious: deeply focused on whatever business is afoot. In what Neville calls oppressed space at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya or in bomb-damaged east Ukraine they gaze into his camera quizzically, as if briefly awoken from a more absorbing inner world.

Childs Play, an exhibition opening this week at Londons Foundling Museum, brings together images from 15 years of Nevilles photography. From Afghanistan to Pittsburgh, London, Corby, Port Glasgow and the Isle of Bute, he noticed that his big, socially engaged series all featured strong images of children. These are now part of a wider campaign to raise awareness about the importance of play in childrens development.

A boy in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, 2016. Photograph: Mark Neville

Neville has previously tackled post-traumatic stress disorder, toxic waste and war, so this new topic play might seem a lighthearted departure. But he believes it is an essential survival strategy. Unstructured activity determined by the child, as opposed to educational games or sport, is about social interaction, testing boundaries and confidence. The only way we gain confidence is to test our fears. Some are social, some physical, some psychological. All get tested in the playground: its a microcosm of the real world.

New material for the show has been taken in Kenya and Ukraine, as well as in the London borough of Islington, which granted Neville access to the Toffee Park and Lumpy Hill adventure playgrounds. Neville is concerned by the lack of a national play strategy in the UK, which could lobby on behalf of such sites. If were looking at making cuts we look at Toffee Park and think, Well, surely kids can play at school, so we dont need that. It just gets crossed off. If we dont provide play, theres going to be a generation of unwell adults.

Christmas Day in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, 2010. Photograph: Mark Neville

Across the thousands of miles of territory covered in the show, common threads emerge: kids trundling hoops and wheels in Kenya and Afghanistan; girls playing mother and child; the universal appeal of water, mud, rope and string. We see children performing for the camera: there is the occasional manic grin, a hardman snarl from a pre-schooler in Pittsburgh and unexpected vamping from a girl in southern Afghanistan. We drove for a couple of hours in a tank to get to Lashkar Gah, Neville recalls. There was an outdoor class going on. I was at the back and suddenly this girl stands up and starts posing to camera like a silent movie star.

Neville has seen first-hand how, in hostile environments, play becomes an outlet, a release, a kind of therapy. It allows children to make sense of the horrors going on in the adult world and deal with them. Whether theyre the horrors of life in Islington which there are or on an aboriginal reserve in Shamattawa, Manitoba.

That reserve in Canada has become totemic for Neville a place of extreme neglect. A community of about 1,600 people living in shacks, serviced by one grocery store (which burned down last September) and accessible only by plane, Shamattawa is home to a generation of aboriginal tribes Cree, Sioux who have been completely disinherited from everything to do with their identity and their religion. The adults live without hope, so they become hopeless parents too..

The mooses head in Shamattawa, Manitoba, 2016. Photograph: Mark Neville

One image of Shamattawa shows half-dressed children in a dilapidated kitchen with a severed moose head on the floor in a puddle of congealed blood. What might be an axe handle, or the butt of a gun, lies beside it. Shamattawa has shocking numbers of child suicide. Kids see that if you kill yourself, theres a funeral and a public outpouring of attention and grief, says Neville. I was walking around and came to a little clearing in a wood. There was this graveyard of little crosses with teddy bears stuck on them, hundreds of them. I wept and wept.

In March, alongside Childs Play, the Foundling Museum will host a symposium on issues of public space and childrens rights. Neville and campaigner Adrian Voce have also put together a book outlining the mental and physical health issues associated with a lack of free play, and covering the threats currently facing spaces and facilities in the UK. It will not be commercially available, but will instead be sent out to bodies and individuals with a stake in the issue, or influence in the field.

This reflects Nevilles belief that simply taking photographs and exhibiting them is no longer enough: the images have to be disseminated in a way that might actually make a difference. Because its a fucking disaster, isnt it, the world at the moment? he says. None of us can afford to sit back and let it happen.

Childs Play is at the Foundling Museum, London, from 3 February until 30 April.

Read more: http://ift.tt/2klXNAX

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