#collage tennis: origin story

[ruesartdumping]

i just got to chapter four im loving it (and have kissed sam, guillaume,and rayyan- in the same playthrough i am so queer also flirted alot with tobin) dunno how im gonna pick one-

i cant wait to draw fanart of these queers (and the rest of the team/side characters this is totally gonna become one of my favourite IFs <3

update: just finished all that there is to the game so far- its amazing i love everything about it! can’t wait to read more

[citylighten]

character/story inspiration tag

rules: write up a blurb or make a visual collage of the people or characters (from books, TV shows, movies, etc.) that inspired your story and/or OC, either visually, personality wise, or just a general vibe

Snatched from @wavvi Tagging @crimewriter/@neonoirland, @digital-deluxe, @havemercymusic, @joannebernice, @armoricaroyalty, @swiftviolets and if you have a story consider yourself tagged!

So because I can't update Sink or Swim like I want to, I decided to whip this up.

For Rosaria

Starting from the left side, we have the actress Marisa Abela who originally served as a means of inspiration for Rosaria’s facial features. Peggy Olson from Mad Men, Retsuko from Aggretsuko, and the movie Secretary.

On the right side we have lyrics from the song "Bad Girls" by Tennis, American Crime Story: Impeachment, Andrea Sachs from The Devil Wears Prada, Waylon Smithers from The Simpsons and the film Funny Girl. I watched Secretary before writing Sink or Swim because I knew it had the tone I wanted with its lead character essentially having a 'sexual awakening' through her boss. A narrative element that connects Aggretsuko and Secretary, beyond its office setting, is how its lead female characters find themselves in relationships with subpar men (sorry to any Haida fans, but that relationship wasn't developed well) which represents how Rosaria began Sink or Swim in a relationship with Ben. Something that connects Secretary, Funny Girl, and The Devil Wears Prada is how its female protagonist undergoes a transformation in terms of presenting herself through the attire she wears. Additionally, in the case of Funny Girl, I took inspiration in how Barbra Streisand's character defied idealized female beauty standards. Fanny Brice found a role at the Follie’s for her comedy, not her appearance, but as she accumulates wealth we see her become a glamorous woman who gains the attention of a traditionally handsome gambler. Beyond portraying a deeply inappropriate workplace relationship, Impeachment provided me a lot of inspiration in how her voice should sound and the various ways she wears her hair.

FOR PIETRO

Starting from the left side, we have Mad Men, The Sopranos, Henry Tomasino of Mafia II, and Michael De Santa of GTA V. On the right side we have lyrics from “Count Me Out” by Kendrick Lamar, Benny of Fallout New Vegas, Hades from Lore Olympus, and the musical Company.

Video games played a bigger role in Pietro's characterization than I realized. Benny was my first source of inspiration from Pietro, as he is the protege of a powerful man (Mr. House) who has ambitions of his own. I always felt Benny was someone who felt he could do better and be better than the man he followed. This is exactly how we'll eventually come to see Pietro's dynamic with Raphael whereas Henry Tomasino is a character I modeled Pietro's voice on and Michael De Santa? Well, when it came to dressing Pietro I always think about the clothes that are available for his character to wear. I checked out Lore Olympus before writing Sink or Swim because I wasn't sure how I wanted to characterize Pietro when it came to his relationship with Rosaria. He isn't necessarily like the boss from Secretary, he isn't Christian Gray, and while I saw LO had its critics I wanted to look over the comic and see what worked or, if there was anything I liked about Hades' characterization that could be incorporated into Pietro. Turns out there were a few things (relationship issues, therapy, a soft spot for dogs). On the subject of therapy, Pietro's sessions with Dr. Bracco are inspired by Tony's reoccurring sessions with Dr. Melfi in The Sopranos. I liked how they provided a gateway into what Tony's character is thinking, and I also thought it would be the best for readers to get to know Pietro, a quiet, vague guy, that way, but Mad Men was ultimately more of a inspiration for Pietro than Sopranos was. Inspiration from the musical Company would come a little later once I decided that Pietro was a guy with relationship troubles as the musical depicts a stable, successful man who is seemingly fine with being alone, but actually craves to receive romance and 'be alive.'

[junypr-camus]

part-time father

I've had a lot of time recently, so I've ended up reflecting on how I was raised and realizing that what I originally thought was a pretty unusual family arrangement is more common than I first imagined. So I wrote a narrative in two voices about it, a sort of collage of all the stories and experiences I've heard. My hope is that someone who's also experienced growing up with a mostly-absent father will read this and feel, like I now feel, that they aren't alone.

I was five when you left for the first time. Not the two-week business-trip and visiting-family kind of leaving. Not leaving for good, either. You were there one bleak morning, then waving goodbye to me through the security lines, steel-gray suitcase and backpack in hand, then gone. House empty. Peaceful.

At first, you and mother call every night. Then every week. Then almost never. The whispers become more like empty screams and I think I hear the phone ring, my mother not picking up, your voice calling for me, me not picking up. I don’t like hearing the screams. I can’t make out the words, but I know what screaming means.

We visited your Shanghai apartment that summer, and I remember the drip of chocolate-dipped ice cream cones, the fan thinly fighting the heat, the plastic covering of the bed that wasn’t my own. I dreamed that blood was pouring from every pore in my skin that night, into the fabric of a foreign-not-foreign country that I can and can’t call my home.

#####

I was seven when you made the business arrangement. Half your year here, with us, half your year there, in the country I knew in my blood but had never seen. Part-time father, my brother called it. I didn’t know what part-time meant. Or maybe he didn’t. 

I draw sketches of you from faded yellow photos, to give when you return. Mother says I’m quite good. A natural-born artist. 

#####

When you come back you bring a suitcase full of gifts. Snacks. I like the thin not-mint hawthorne candies and the rolls of fruit leather in little plastic packages with words I cannot read. You give me a pencil sharpener. It could sharpen a finger. I don’t know why it says “a little girl and boy” on it.

You take me to the department store, and I fidget through hours of escalator rides and check-out lines. You buy a cardboard “A” for me. For the race I am and the grades I am supposed to get — except you forget that I am in kindergarten and do not have those kinds of grades yet. 

#####

When you are home, you wake me up with a steaming mug of coffee in hand, and drive me to school before returning home to work. When you’re not home, my alarm forgets to wake me up on time. I arrive at math late and groggy. 

#####

While you’re gone, we find out that my passport needs renewing. You go to the consulate in Shanghai to get an affidavit notarized, except you’ve gotten my name wrong. It’s Emily, not Emma. 

My mom calls for the first time in weeks, and you make a second trip. I hope you’re properly embarrassed. 

#####

I learn to play the violin. You don’t like my drawings. 

#####

I am in middle school and have a poster of a NASA facility on my door, torn out from a magazine issue. I line my shelves with lego helicopters and 3D prints of robots I clumsily designed. You give me pink unicorn tape and an electric trash can whose lid opens so slowly like the jaws of a steel hippo at the push of a button. I can’t figure out how to turn it off and I don’t know why you couldn’t have gotten one with a pedal. 

You ask me what I want to do, and I say, “physics.” You tell me about your childhood, exaggerating your class ranking. I’ve stopped listening after the third time. 

You say the haircut I gave myself is ugly and my face needs washing. You ask me when I am going to get a boyfriend. Then you ask when I’m going to get married. I think you forget I’m in middle school. 

#####

I’m happy when you’re home, but I can’t pretend everything’s alright. You ask my brother how he enjoys tennis and forget that he is still recovering from a broken wrist that happened a few weeks after you left. He doesn’t say anything, but I can sense his retreat. He digs trenches and throws barbed wire around himself. 

#####

In the mornings, when you’re here, you make yourself a mug of overly-sweetened coffee, until the smell permeates every scrap of wood and I think I’ll never get rid of it. I try to avoid having breakfast with you, but I’m too tired to wake up early and too tired to deal with my mother being mad at me getting up so late. 

I don’t like dinner.

#####

My brother goes to college, and suddenly you’re awakened to his academic mediocrity. I guess you never realized that, with your absences, until he’s packing for a mid-level public school and you’ve become the joke of your ex-pat parties. 

The pressure’s on me, the only child in the house. Mother tries to shield me, but she can’t stop the barrage. Art is a waste, computer science is the only option. I'm dropped out of the painting class I love. Now it’s not good enough to play the violin. Now I have to be the best in the state. I play until my fingers callus, then bleed, then callus again. I didn’t even know that was possible. 

You tell me that I’m not going to waste my life partying and studying statistics like my brother. 

#####

There’s rats in the attic and leaking pipes in the walls but you’ve never bothered to ask how we’re fixing it. The house is your hotel. You walk on carpets with muddy shoes, leave the door open until the hallways are full of dust and flies, and leave us to clean up once you’re gone. 

Dinner conversations are empty. You lecture me on your successes in drugs to fight cancer but never remember the projects I’m working on. You think I should be a doctor. I know better. Look at what you did to my brother and sister.

You insist on salmon or steak every night, as if you’ve been starved in China. I grow tired of the dry flesh and lock myself in my room. I find solace in music.

#####

My brother’s pierced his ears, grown his hair long, and is taking a liking to sky-blue bomber jackets over hoodies and dyed hair. He looks different every time he comes back. I like it. You don’t. Mother blames you for it. Lack of a strong male presence and all. I think she wants a divorce.

Except I’m in the house still, and I’m too busy to waste time worrying. 

#####

We meet at a summer camp. You have no idea what we’re doing. You pretend you’re proud but we know you’re not. We track vanishingly faint asteroids in the sky and realize that we are not alone. Not in the universe, not in our predicament. We’re free. 

It’s a nice feeling. 

#####

It seems like as soon as I'm back from summer camp we move. I slam doors in this old-new house and when my mother asks me why, all I can say is that you keep me up at night, listening to videos without headphones in your study next door, stomping around. 

It’s true. It’s been true for a long time. I can’t really articulate why I hate you.

#####

When I return home and that beautiful, blessed freedom is taken away from me, I shut myself in my room and cry for a long time. I’m alone. I’m one single speck of dust dropped into the velvety black infinite. 

I keep in touch with my friends from camp. They know how I’m feeling. One contacts my mother, who tries to talk to me. But she can’t stop you. I hear raised voices. You think I can’t understand Chinese, but I do. And you say “divorce” in English anyway.

#####

You don’t know that it’s college application season for me, but you act like you’ve been waiting for it your whole life. Except the only question you ask is if I’m applying to an Ivy League. And the only response I can give is yes. 

You don’t know what my dream school is, and you don’t know that I got in. And I’m glad to be going a long, long ways away from home. 

He tells me that his mother’s made it final. She’s keeping the house. He’s been accepted. And he, too, is glad to be going a long, long ways away from home. 

[walterfilmmemorabilia-blog]

Walter Reuben Catalog 43|2019

WalterFilm.com’s second catalog (#43/201) contains 84 pages and encompasses ten categories that include The Saint Poster Collection , (33 posters (1982-2004) from one of New York City’s most notorious gay discos) and a Katharine Hepburn Archive of 230 vintage photos chronicling her 62-year motion picture career.

The catalog’s cover (above) is graced by a stunning Japanese poster of Luis Bunuel’s masterpiece of erotica “Belle De Jour” focusing on a collage of images of the film’s star, Catherine Deneuve.

Below are several catalog pages and description of its contents or CLICK HERE if you’d like to view the entire catalog as a Flip File.

CATALOG’S CATEGORIES

The following are the categories included in the Catalog along with a brief description. You can experience the actual catalog in a flip-file that will allow you to view it as though you were holding it in your hand and flipping from page to page. Just  go to the bottom of the page and click on, “VIEW CATALOG”.  We hope you enjoy exploring this remarkable collection; and, should you care to purchase a piece (assuming it hasn’t already sold), just go to the website and search for the item’s name or contact us at 323-422-1564 or email us at info@walterfilm.com.

COLLECTIONS – We are offering two collections created for this catalog:

LGBTQ – A number of photographs, posters, screnplays and programs that reflect the evolution of the LGBTQ community, including photographs of film director, Dorothy Arzner, one of the top tennis players of the 20thCentury, Bill Tilden, pressbook for Noel Coward’s “Design For Living,” Rock Hudson paper doll cut-out book, Kenneth Anger special printed presentation, screenplay for “Prick Up Your Ears,” and screenplay for “Longtime Companion by Craig Lucas.

WARHOL – One screenplay, “The Telephone Book” and three posters including the exceedingly rare poster for “Glamor Glory and Gold The Life & Legend of Nola Noonan Goddess & Star.”

AFRICAN AMERICANA – This collection consists of film scripts and photographs of musicians, actors and Broadway shows that include Josephine Baker, Ethel Watters in “Pinky,” and the screenplay by Richard Pryor of “Bustin’ Loose.”

DIRECTORS – Here are the film directors whose work is represented here: George Cukor, Mike Nichols, Frank Capra, John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, Tim Burton, Howard Hawks, Orson Wells, Coen Brothers, Bob Fosse, Penny Marshall, Luis Bunuel, John Frankenheimer, John Carpenter and Federico Fellini.

LITERATURE INTO FILM – This category is filled with film scripts, lobby cards, posters and photographs whose origin came from books, short stories and plays. They include: “The Body Snatchers,” “Dark Passage”, “Alice In Wonderland,” “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,” “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “The Prisoner of Second Avenue,” “The Cheap Detective,” “The Body” and “Beloved.”

WOMEN – A wonderful collection of vintage photographs of women that include Katharine Hepburn Archive, Title Lobby Card, Lobby Card and screenplay for “Dragon Seed,” Anna May Wong, Maartha Graham and the Liliana Cavani Collection.

THEATER – “The Threepenny Opera” poster, and Marc Blitzstein script, “A Little Night Music” .poster and Hugh Wheeler script.

EXHIBITOR BOOKS – Exhibitor books are a rare commodity and each a work of art, we have three of them: Franco Film 1929-1930 and Paramount 1933-1934.

ADDENDA – 1934 Trade Advertisement for Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” 1938 photograph of John Garfield in Clifford Odets play, “Awake And Sing.”

The Saint Poster Archive – This is a collection of 33 posters created for various different special events, including various White Parties. The artwork runs from the explicitly sexual to the romantic.

Shakespeare In Film – A collection of 166 pieces (programs, pressbooks, posters, photos) 1916-2015 from 66 films and 15 different countries that reflect the work of George Cukor, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor and Max Reinhardt.

Blog is originally published at: https://www.walterfilm.com/walter-reuben-catalog-43-2019/

It is republished with permission from the author.

[sunbrights]

fic: drop dead twice

fandom: danganronpa characters/pairings: peko & fuyuhiko, with a handful of original characters (the POV character is original, for reference). kuzupeko. rating: m notes: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVE @thewildwilds (whose birthday was yesterday, but still)!! she is a wonderful friend and a gem of a human being, and this is based off of her 1950s AU which is rad as hell. If nothing else, I'd recommend reading her fic set in this universe before reading this one to get some context!

CONTENT WARNING: this story depicts an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship (not the kuzupeko relationship), as well as physical child abuse. I don't consider the scenes extended or graphic (though someone please let me know if you don't feel the same and I'll adjust this warning), but they are more than single-line references to off-screen happenings. please read with discretion!

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The Kuzuryuus don’t have any children. It doesn’t seem like it at first glance, at least; Sachiko ties back the curtain in the living room to peek out into the cul-de-sac when they start unloading the moving truck, and there’s not a crib or toy or playpen in sight.

There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. Everyone has their own struggles in life, and Sachiko would never pretend to know someone else’s. It’s interesting, that’s all. The lady of the house is still young, even if she looks quite a bit older than Suzume down the street, who’s already heavy with her first. There’s time.

Keep Reading

[jenniferpo-blog]

Apples and Oranges: Both are Fruit

  Jennifer Poduje

Jocelyn Van Tuyl’s article, “Somebody Else’s Universe”: Female Kunstler Narratives in Alcott’s Little Women and Rowell’s Fangirl” explores how two Kunstler texts, Little Women and Fangirl, depict young women coming of age and into their craft within the confines of social, familial, and historical structures. Tuyl argues how both protagonists find their literary voice through an “apprenticeship” of working with already published texts. This form of collage: layering, subverting, and negotiating published texts allows the protagonists freedom to compare, explore, and ultimately discover their own unique voice. Protagonists of each text face a dichotomy of loss and gain throughout their self-discovery, and their separate journeys become increasingly contrasted when viewed within the “contexts of love, family and education” (200). Tuyl demonstrates that through the journey of each protagonist, both Kunstler narratives implicitly value differing literary genres and their inherent worth (200).

Tuyl utilizes a close reading methodology of both texts. Through close reading analysis Tuyl reveals Jo and Cath’s individual progression and finality as writers as “Cath’s challenge is to reclaim her voice as a writer…opposite of Jo’s progressive muting” (201). She examines love relationships as stifling in Jo’s case, “Professor Bhaer condemns the sensation stories like the ones she writes, the woman promptly burns all of her manuscripts” and empowering for Cath, as “Rowell consciously inverts what Susan J. Fraiman calls “the myth of courtship education”: it is Cath who assumes the role of instructor” (201).  Close examinations of each text’s genre bending and “negotiation” lead to discoveries such as Jo’s need to change genres in order to write successfully, to even claim authorial status, while Cath changes genre from fanfic to realist fiction to “reflect not desperation but a claiming of authority” (205).

Tuyl examines both texts within the frame of a historical lens viewing how both Jo and Cath’s place in differing historical timelines greatly affects the literary outcomes of each protagonist’s successes and failures. Through this historical lens, Tuyl depicts each protagonist as a creation of their time, faced with limits and freedoms that greatly shape their respective journeys. The protagonists differ in their artistic motivations for working within the confines of published genre literature, as Jo writes to become “rich and famous…Cath eschew public recognition of her art��and revels in her anonymity” (200). Jo bends the rules within a set genre for power of recognition, while Cath bends the rules of her literary era for the freedom of anonymity. The historical context in which the author lays her foundational argument lends itself towards feminist themes within a social context. Jo is forced to navigate her authorial self in a way that does not diminish her obligations to family and husband. Cath is “wonderfully emancipated: she peruses higher education, faces no marriage imperative” and her gender imposes little constraint towards her journey as a writer (200).

Tuyl structures her argument through the rhetorical strategy of compare and contrast.  For every argumentative example in Little Women, Tuyl illustrates a comparative and contrasting element within Fangirl. Effectively creating a tennis match between the two texts, Tuly exemplifies how both texts are playing the same game. Both texts are analyzed in painstakingly close detail for every occurrence that illustrates their position in the Kunstler canon, proposing both text’s differences and similarities as validations.

The article is problematic in terms of its structure. The compare/contrast rhetoric does speak to the underlying argument that both texts are Kunstler narratives whose protagonist’s use published works to navigate their journey towards self-discovery as an author (compare), yet Fangirl does this by “reverse(ing) and replicate(ing) the structures that undermine Alcott’s protagonist as an author” (contrast) (200). Yet, the point of Tuyl’s argument gets lost in the literary examples being compared. The reader understands each given example at hand, how they are similar and how they differ, and therefore correlation between the two texts is clear, yet the overall correlation to Tuyl’s main argument remains lost. The reader is left to follow the trail of breadcrumbs and find the correlation to the original source: the argument proposed by the author.

[rachelbethhines]

Underrated Disney Movies

The Great Locomotive Chase 

If you like a good bit of historical drama, this is one of Disney’s finest. Based off of real events during the Civil War, the movie does the great job of showcasing everyone, both Union and Confederate alike, as being believable and relatable. There are no villains here, just people doing what the they believe is their duty to their country. Very much how real war works. 

  Swiss Family Robinson

I thought everyone loved this movie. Imagine my surprise when it didn’t make The Critic's Disneycember because it wasn’t well known enough. This must be corrected. If you haven’t seen it yet do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s one of Disney’s best Live Action films ever made.  

The Incredible Journey and the remake  Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Both are good but for different reasons. The original is more moody and serious and is inspired by documentaries with only a narrator speaking. While the remake has more humor and camaraderie between the characters.  It all depends upon what type of mood your in, but I’d recommend either.  

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones &  The Monkey's Uncle 

Think of these films as a more upbeat and kooky versions of the Absent Minded Professor. Only the “professor” here is actually a collage kid and his girlfriend is actually sportive, and he comes up with numerous inventions not just one. Both movies play out like episodes of tv show that sadly never got made.  

That Darn Cat! ( 1997 ) 

The only Disney remake that I’ll claim is actually better then the original non-stop. I could list for days how much it improves upon the 60′s movie but to simplify; It’s has better pacing, has better humor, streamlines the plot and cuts the fat, places the focus of the story on where it needs to be (the friendship between the girl and the cop), removes unnecessary love triangles and creepy stalker boyfriends, ect. ect. ect.  

The Gnome-Mobile

this movie was my child-hood. I sung the gnome-mobile song for days. even  Leonard Maltin agrees with me that the film should receive more recognition.  “ this as one of Disney's best comedy-fantasy films, and it is a "mystery" why the film is not better known. It deserves to be rediscovered and enjoyed by a new generation, especially younger children.”

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him Now You Don't , and  The Strongest Man in the World  

These films are spiritual successors to the Flubber movies. Along with Merlin Jones and they crate what it know among Disney fans as the  Medfield College series. If you enjoy  The Absent Minded Professor, then you should really check these out. 

The Boatniks

The Boatniks is the funniest damn comedy I have ever seen. Of course humor is subjective and your mileage may vary but  Boatniks does something that very few films do, it pokes fun at people without being mean-spirited or belittling. The plot behind Boatniks is convoluted but the premise is simple. “People are idiots.” It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they screw up and make mistakes.  Everyone, from the heroes, to the villains, to one shot gag characters, does dumb things for comedic effect in the film but not without reason. Everyone is relatable or at least understandable and most are so good natured that you can’t help but laugh with them and not at them.   

Herbie Rides Again

You can keep The Love Bug, This is the only Herbie movie I care about. It’s so surreal and off the wall that no other movie about a living car can top it. 

The Apple Dumpling Gang

This and the squeal are my dad’s favorite Disney movies so it makes the list for nostalgia alone. 

The Cat from Outer Space

It’s a movie about a talking cat, what more could you ever want?

Hot Lead and Cold Feet

The second funniest movie on this list

Don’t Look Under the Bed

I like Hocus Pocus as much as the next guy, but this is the Disney movie that I watch every Halloween. 

Man of the House

I know it’s a thing now-a-days to diss any movie with Jonathan Taylor Thomas that isn’t The Lion King, but this was made back during his height of popularity with a Chevy Chase at the top of his game. While some may call it a “home alone” knock off, I actually find the way the movies deals with father issues and coming from a single parent family refreshing. At least for the time. 

[polandspringz]

I Started Trying To Replicate “What’s In A PV?” and I Ended With An Essay Comparing “Neo Yokio” and “Children of Ether”

I wish I could post this on /r/ anime but I’ve never posted on their before and after a brief rundown of the rules it seems like this would most likely be removed for not fitting their definition of anime. Still, I’d like to make everyone aware that when I call this property an “anime” I am referring to the fact that it is a part of the anime-inspired movement as defined by Mother’s Basement. (See his video titled “Avatar is an Anime: Fuck You, Fight Me)

So, “Neo Yokio”, a very obvious and not so clever allusion to Neo Tokyo. Where to begin? Well, within two days, this trailer has not received much attention, and those who have been talking about it are split on not whether it will be terrible, but whether it will be terrible in a good way, or terrible in a bad way, and by that they are referring to being nonredeemable, even through memes. After jumping into this two days late, I was only able to scan the comments underneath the trailer on Youtube, and I saw this split very prominent. However, I was surprised to find a few people who saw some worth in this series, that it may in fact be good- in a trashy but comedic way.

I think the main thing many people are missing from this show is that it’s a parody. If you do any few seconds of research, hell- even simply typing the show title into Google- you’ll instantly be shown several articles that all include the word “parody” in the title. So, we should already be aware the show won’t be taking itself seriously, which I think is good. The last time Netflix tried to make an anime inspired thing, which was less than a month ago, it turned out badly, almost as bad as everyone fears this series will be, un-memeable (I tried to avoid typing that, I really did) However, with what the trailer shows, I think this series will offer plenty in terms of comedy, as I don’t think the lines of dialogue we heard in the trailer in context will be as similar to Jaden Smith tweets as we are being led to believe. At the very least, there is hope that when put into context, they won’t intentionally sound cringey and forced as if to replicate the hilarity of his most famous tweets.

So, now I’d like to jump into the trailer, stealing a bit of Mother’s Basement’s “What in A PV?” format, although I am not as eloquent as him, and I’m not being sponsored by the network this series is being hosted/licensed on. Now, if I’ve learned anything from the Anime Youtube community, it’s that sometimes one shot can encapsulate a whole show. In Made in Abyss, the opening scene that drags the camera vertically up from the bottom of the abyss has been analyzed by many this season as a key example of this. The shot right before the title drops, I believe is this show’s rather crude version of that. When we are shown the two girls playing tennis, the reaction of the girl breaking her racket is supposed to be seen as strange and over dramatic to the extent that our curiosity is awakened. We are immediately supposed to be led to believe that the rest of the trailer will show us a rather over the top reactions made by characters, and the entire show will be similar in nature. But, when the shot freezes and starts playing Studio Ghibli like music over top the brush stroke stylized title drop, the contrast is supposed to leave us with more questions than answers.

This show is a parody, so it’s going to be packed with references. These two contrasting shots that follow one another are very much that, references. The mecha robot seen throughout the trailer does not imply that the show will be attempting to invoke the mecha genre in anyway, but it exists for purpose of being an allusion to that genre, as well as a spin on the robot butler trope. When I found people stating that they thought this show had no direction and was plain cringey, I was a little surprised. I wouldn’t go so far as to say this was a passion project, as I am not familiar with Ezra Koenig’s works or interests, but another Google search has revealed to me the show’s intent is to be “a postmodern collage of homages to classic anime, English literature, and modern New York fashion and culture”, as stated by Netflix themselves. This explains how we got from Neo Tokyo to Yokio (New York + Neo Tokyo, although some of the narration about the city reminds me more of New Orleans, but I digress)  But, I feel as though people are fearing this is going to end up being like this season’s “THE REFLECTION” in nature rather than something like a comedic “Children of Ether”.

For those of you who went to Anime Expo this year or attended one of the Anime Movie Night screenings or encore screenings during the summer, I can hear some of you finding disgust with my comparison there. For those who are unaware, “Children of Ether” is a Crunchyroll original series created by LeSean Thomas and animated alongside the help of Japanese studio Satelight. An ONA is available on Crunchyroll and was premiered at the aforementioned events, and it too pays tribute to classic animes, but ones close to Thomas’s heart in terms of their animation, storytelling, and representation. The most notable and prominent influence on the work being Michiko & Hatchin, a series I thoroughly enjoyed and found to be a beautiful action and crime road trip story. Now, I would like to make it clear I am in no way saying that I think “Neo Yokio” is going to be an equivalent to “Children of Ether”, but I am saying it is possible to pay tribute to anime in your story in a multitude of ways. (Once again, see Avatar is an Anime, Fuck You, Fight Me). When I watched “Children of Ether”’s ONA short in theaters, I found it to be a rather interesting story that I looked forward to seeing more of. It had an art style similar to the works it had been influenced by, as the character designer was the same one from Michiko & Hatchin, and it’s voice acting for the main cast was well done and the world was fleshed out enough that it distanced itself from every other post-apocalyptic story we had seen in both eastern and western media. The only fault I had with the real short was the way the character’s mouths and bodies moved in accordance with their voices was always slightly off, both in mouth flaps and general motion. It ended up making some scenes very awkward to watch. Now, that can be explained away by problems with mixing Japanese animation and English voices, but the strange thing is, “Neo Yokio” doesn’t have that issue.

To be more precise, I understand that’s not enough to give Neo Yokio a leg to stand on or to place it above or on par with “Children of Ether” in any way. (I just figured it would be a good way to break paragraphs) “Neo Yokio” might have a better production team than “Children of Ether”, or at best one that has more experienced animating for another language, and as it would seem, that is Production I.G. But if you’re confused on why “Neo Yokio”’s art style has turned so many people off at the same time, it is being co-produced with Studio Deen. (So…) Yet, I feel it is unfair for people to treat “Children of Ether” so well when one can hold hope for “Neo Yokio” in the same way. The art style certainly does not have the same realistic edge as “Children of Ether” does, nor does it have KyoAni or A-1 Picture’s eye candy animation or anything like you would expect to see in “Ping-Pong: The Animation”, “Mob Psycho 100”, or “Tatami Galaxy”. In many ways, I think many people are forgetting what a lot of children’s anime or even mediocre anime looks like- it looks like “Neo Yokio”. It’s not trying to be anything special in that regard, and the typical art style one might see in a Pokemon episode is expanded upon by its western edge, which makes it into its own little mish-mosh creation. I understand it may not be pleasing to some, but it’s not trying to do what “Children of Ether” did where the production company literally was able to snag the exact designer of the work it was influenced by to create something equal. If anything, I think if “Neo Yokio” was given any sort of mainstream style (yes, at this point, I’d say even the oddballs with mixed media styles have enough to be grouped as a collective mainstream style decision) it would be worse off, because then it would be seen as trying too hard to be an actual anime. It would come off as obnoxious and be insulting.

“Children of Ether”’s purpose is to be its own work that visibly shows off the works that preceded it and influenced it in hopes of creating a compelling action and adventure story in a fresh post apocalyptic world. It also hopes to inspire more works to help increase the number of stories in anime that include diversity and representation amongst its cast. The tone of the serious is going to be serious but not melancholy, being able to build exciting suspense in fight scenes without ever falling too far away from the ability to turn a sad moment into a hopeful, but not heartfelt scene. “Avatar: the Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra” both are established in Mother’s Basement’s video essay as being a part of the anime community for their obvious art style and storytelling. While western media is meant to make people laugh first, Japanese media is always meant to make you feel for characters before you laugh at them, and although these two series often are known for their comedic scenes, they never break their emotional moments for comedy, they let them set in and simply be emotional and heart wrenching. Even shows like “Steven Universe” can be seen as not a direct western-anime equivalent, but have its moments where it allows itself to replicate Avatar and Korra it’s emotional scenes, but it plays more to the western cartoon art style. Yet, the idea of the story itself is not far from what would be found in Japanese media. And then there’s “Neo Yokio”.

Even though it is true that Japanese animation aims for emotion over comedy, there are countless animes that exist for the pure purpose of making you laugh. “Neo Yokio” is going to be much different than any other western anime purely because all of the aforementioned ones ended up following two main things: art style and storytelling. “Neo Yokio” is a parody though, so both of these are actually secondary. If it were to try to follow the storytelling style, it would end up being “edgy” with all its references being seen as though it was trying too hard to replicate anime that it would be cringey- as many proclaim it will be. The lines hashed out by Jaden Smith should be enough to explain away that, but the main point is that because this series is trying to include a variety of anime references (mechas, demon hunters, etc.) the story is going to be certainly original but not original enough that it can survive in a serious tone and not been called out as a blatant copy. By taking the parody route, the series will most likely be able to be consumed as a sort of an anime abridged video, but not to improvisation level and chaoticness of “Ghost Stories”. I deeply believe that by deciding to make this series a parody instead of your typical western anime, it will be much more successful and much less cringey than it is being expected to be.

(Here are two of the articles I referenced for some of LeSean Thomas’s comments about “Children of Ether”, besides my own viewing of the ONA:

https://goo.gl/NDeUub

https://goo.gl/UZRk7P

Thank you for reading this! Let me know if you want me to ramble/review about any series in particular!)

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An Inside Look At Miami Art Basel 2017

An Inside Look At Miami Art Basel 2017

Artists from all over the world wait impatiently for the event that brings artists, curators, critics, and art lovers together. The highly anticipated event, Art Basel Miami, features art from across the globe and attracts over 70,000 visitors each year. Hundreds of galleries that specialize in modern art across the world participate in this event, showcasing everything from photography and video to digital art, sculptures, and paintings. Whether you’re looking for art from the freshest young artists on the scene, or are in search of that limited edition, museum-ready masterpiece, you’ll find it during Art Basel in Miami.

  Art Basel will be hosted at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 7-10. There is a private, invitation-only viewing on the 6th as well as the Vernissage on the 7th from 11-3. After that, the public is welcome to browse the galleries during the following days and times:

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 3 pm to 8 pm

Friday, December 8, 2017, noon to 8 pm

Saturday, December 9, 2017, noon to 8 pm

Sunday, December 10, 2017, noon to 6 pm

The Sectors

The Miami Convention Center will be divided into nine sectors. Nova focuses on contemporary art that is fresh and new. Kabinett focuses on a collection of pieces by one artist or a themed group. Survey focuses on art made before 2000. Public is dedicated to mesmerizing sculptures and thought-provoking pieces, and the Film sector features work projected onto a giant 7,000-square-foot wall at the New World Center Soundscape Park. Along with these sectors, Art Basel in Miami Beach is introducing five new galleries that have never been part of the show before.

  Isla Flotante, a gallery based out of Buenos Aires, is one of the galleries making its debut at the event. Composed of eight young Argentinian artists whose work focuses mainly on political issues, Isla Flotante started out as a small space for young artists to work on their craft. The gallery itself became a hot spot for local artist to socialize, and over the years Isla Flotante made a name for itself at international art fairs and has been growing ever since.

Antenna Space was founded by Simon Wang and is a textile factory turned art gallery. It is a space where young, growing artists can work with different mediums, including painting and sculpture. It got its name from the creator’s idea that the space is like an antenna that “aims to materialize its artists’ desires and artistic ideas into projects and exhibits.”

Additional new galleries like Applicat-Prazan, Sfeir-Semler, and Dependence are also making their first appearance at the event and are expected to significantly contribute to the overall feel and experience of Art Basel.

Art Basel Must-See Galleries and Exhibits

  Kurimanzutto — art deeply connected to Mexico’s history and culture. This year visitors can get a glimpse of paper collages by South Korean artist Haegue Yang.

Foxy Productions — this solo exhibit features art that examines the relationships that people have with everyday objects, like smartphones.

David Castillo Gallery — based out of Wynwood NYC, this is one of the few exhibits that has repeatedly earned a spot at this coveted event. This year's multi-media showcase focuses on race, sexuality, and gender. There will even be a live performance by Kalup Linzy.

Tyler Rollins Fine Art — another newbie to the Art Basel scene, this contemporary art gallery based out of Chelsea, New York City, focuses on solo artists in the Southeast Asia region.

Satellite Fairs

  One of the coolest parts of Art Basel is that it allows the art to extend out into the city, beyond the walls of the convention center. There will be more than 20 satellite fairs scattered across Miami during Art Basel week, including the Art Miami and Context Fairs that bring in over 100,000 people each year. Emerging artists can be found at the NADA and Scope fairs that are set up right on the beaches. A favorite exhibit is the walking tour through Wynwood to experience the graffiti and street art on its numerous city buildings.

Art For Kids

Art Basel is an excellent opportunity to expose your kids to modern and contemporary art. Children under 16 are welcome to explore the exhibits but must be accompanied by an adult. This is also an excellent opportunity to teach art gallery etiquette such as:

   Walking not running

   Not touching the art

   Following the requests of event staff and security

   Keep food and drinks in designated areas

For kids who are still a little too young to appreciate the art, and for parents who would like to enjoy it without worrying about corralling their little ones, there is the Kids Lounge at Art Basel. This art-inspired, kid-friendly space gives young minds creative programs and age-appropriate activities to enjoy while their parents visit the galleries.

About The Location

Art enthusiasts will spend their days browsing gallery after gallery of stunning art and then unwind at some of the hottest spots in Miami as the sun goes down. From five-star restaurants to mouth-watering street food, Miami offers countless options for starving artists (pun intended) to curb their appetite. Sexy nightclubs, low-key dive bars, fast food chains, coffee shops and trendy brunch spots give locals and visitors plenty to do once the galleries are closed. While visitors treat themselves to luxury hotels on the water, Miami locals and art aficionados own real estate in some of the area’s most high-profile condominiums. Art Basel presents an excellent opportunity to schedule a showing at some of the world’s most coveted real estate:

Grand Venetian

Located at 10 Venetian Way, this 25-story building offers 134 luxury units overlooking the water. Residences range from 1,196-4,000 square feet and come in a variety of floor plans and layouts. Designed by renowned architect Kobi Karp, this architectural masterpiece is unlike anything else on the water. The building’s innovative design is made to seamlessly blend into the water and sky around it. With a breathtaking lobby, world-class amenities and a prime location just steps from the beach; the Grand Venetian gives residents the luxury lifestyle that they’ve always dreamed of. These spacious residences feature chef-inspired kitchens with state-of-the-art appliances, large bedrooms, elegant bathrooms, and views of the water and the city. Residents love the large pool that sits right on the waterfront, the lighted tennis courts, fitness facility, and professional concierge and on-site staff.

Il Villaggio

  Unprecedented luxury meets ultimate comfort and convenience at the stunning Il Villaggio in the heart of South Beach. From an upscale ocean lounge to beach services, a health club and an infinity edge pool and Jacuzzi, living in this five-star building defines what it means to live the high-profile Miami lifestyle. Residents can take advantage of on-site dining, a spa and massage room, quiet library and intimate private beachside cabanas. The private residences here feature expansive private balconies, gourmet kitchens, floor-to-ceiling windows, spacious bedrooms and spa-inspired bathrooms with modern fixtures. Each flow-through unit is designed for a glamorous lifestyle without the high maintenance hassle. With 24-hour security, valet and concierge services on site, there is someone on call to take care of all of your needs. Life at Il Villaggio is more than a lifestyle; it’s an experience.

1 Hotel and Homes

  1 Homes Residences offers an extraordinarily high standard of living. Just steps from the beach, this tower offers the space and luxury of a contemporary Miami condo building with the prestige, style, services, and amenities of a world-class hotel. At 1 Homes Miami, you can have every want and need taken care of by highly trained and attentive staff who can arrange grocery shopping, dry cleaning, and pharmacy pick up. Living the penthouse lifestyle at 1 Homes means private owners-only entrances, 24-hour concierge services, dedicated technical support, access to a full-service fitness center complete with massage and personal training, and countless other exclusive amenities that make living here a true upgrade for the luxury genre.

Setai Residences

This award-winning building offers 120 luxury units, including a stunning penthouse suite. Residents have access to three incredible pools, beach services, on-site dining, and state-of-the-art spa experience that is good for the mind, body, and soul. These massive residences range from 550 to 1,144 square feet and offer breathtaking views from almost every angle. Each spacious unit has elegant bathrooms with rain showers and other contemporary features, large bedrooms, teak floors, fully furnished gourmet kitchens, and smart home technology for maximum convenience. The four-bedroom penthouse exudes lavishness and covers over 10,000 square feet of living space. With an open-air bar, private pool, Jacuzzi and private wraparound terrace, this impressive penthouse sits 40 floors above the white-sand beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.

Miami is known for hosting giant events that draw thousands of participants and visitors. From marathons on the beach to fashion week and the highly anticipated Wine and Food Festival, Miami knows how to party. So it’s no surprise that when Art Basel comes to Miami, it’s bound to be an experience. Art Basel brings together the world’s most creative, innovative, and artistic minds in one of the sexiest, most vibrant cities in the world. There’s no better backdrop for incredible art like Miami.

If you’re visiting Miami Beach during Art Basel, we’d love to hear from you. Contact a luxury real estate specialist today.

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Häagen-Dazs Scoops Up ‘Extraordinary’ Brand Refresh

Authenticity hasn’t been a long suit of the Häagen-Dazs brand. For example, its name—which sounds like something straight out of Scandinavian mythology—is actually a made-up moniker that was meant to inspire just such a brand impression for an ice cream that was born in the Bronx and first sold in Brooklyn, NY.

But given the importance of true and relatable stories, and sublime values, to brands in the millennial era, the General Mills-owned premium ice cream line has launched the biggest brand overhaul in its 56-year history, including a new logo, fresh packaging, plans to overhaul its more than 800 stores around the world and a new advertising campaign. Its new tagline: “Everyday Made Extraordinary.”

The global ad campaign kicked off in the UK in May (ahead of its second year as the official ice cream of Wimbledon), introducing Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae” as the soundtrack in a playful, sporty, wholesome-yet-winking way.

The Wimbledon partnership continued its “Lose Yourself” theme from last year, and included a limited edition strawberries and cream flavor for attendees with the Björn Borg Swedish fashion brand, featuring an exclusive flavor, clothing and a pop-up event from July 5-7. The brand noted in its press release,

The Häagen-Dazs X Björn Borg limited edition will be available during The Championships Fortnight within the Grounds, and ice cream lovers can also get their hands on the single serve ice cream via Amazon Prime Now. The multipack is available at Sainsbury’s across the U.K. Both formats will retail during the tennis season from end of June to end of July, so take a trip to Sainsbury’s or go to Amazon Prime now!

Bjorn Borg X Haagen Dazs pop up open today! #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #bbxhdpopup http://pic.twitter.com/e1X19LdZTD

— Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) July 5, 2017

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My Strawberries are extraordinary and the cool guys @bjornborg even created a special design for me to celebrate our mutual love of tennis. Come and get me! #HaagenDazs #BjornBorg #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream

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Fall in love with my extraordinary strawberries and cream. Come get me! #HaagenDazs #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #Wimbledon

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 13, 2017 at 7:43am PDT

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The “extraordinary” brand refresh continues rolling out across the world—except in the US, even though that’s where the brand originated—by next summer, Business Insider reported.

As part of its new brand platform, Häagen-Dazs also highlights its heritage by telling the the story of founder Reuben Mattus (above), whose original Brooklyn store reopened as a pop-up last summer:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. Follow our journey, from 1961 Brooklyn, to today where Häagen-Dazs is a global icon in over 90 countries.

Another version connects its origins to its “extraordinary” positioning:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. The Häagen-Dazs philosophy remains the same to this day, constantly creating new moments of wonder and making everyday extraordinary.

The new videos for TV and digital highlights young people making everyday “extraordinary” through ice cream. Its updated logo has been cast in burgundy rather than gold, black and white. Its new packaging has been designed by a dozen up-and-coming artists from around the world.

It’s also playing up its sustainability commitment to bees, dedicating its 2017 free cone day to them and creating a VR experience to educate consumers about their plight:

Bees pollinate one third of the world’s crops. Without them, there would be no almonds in our Rocky Road, no raspberries in our White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, no cherries in our Cherry Vanilla. That’s why we’re working directly with our farmer suppliers to change the ways our ingredients are grown to make them safer for bees.

Häagen-Dazs’s sales have continued to grow along with those of the delicious category, no doubt helped by its slightly suggestive ads starring actor Bradley Cooper.

But eager to fortify its winning brands at a time when some stalwarts such as Yoplait have been stumbling, General Mills wants to shake up Häagen-Dazs’ somewhat stuffy reputation and also react to growing and new competition in ice cream that ranges from Unilever’s premium Magnum brand of ice cream bars (which has been attracting notice through pop-ups) to Halo Top, a surprise hit low-sugar startup.

And brand stewards believe that a stronger storytelling approach is one way to do so. “The world of luxury is changing,” Jennifer Jorgensen, Häagen-Dazs’ vice president and marketing director, told BI. “It isn’t as much about conspicuous consumption any more, it’s more about craftsmanship, authenticity and the story behind the brand. The brand just wasn’t representing what consumers wanted it to be anymore. We knew we needed to modernize.”

In many ways Häagen-Dazs has remained ahead of its time. Its ingredients, for instance, are all-natural, and there are no GMOs, preservatives, artificial emulsifiers or stabilizers—all on trend for global consumers who want to make even indulgences as healthy as possible.

Still, it bears watching one experiment currently underway just in Canada: a line of alcohol-filled ice cream flavors called Häagen-Dazs SPIRITS – “an indulgent combination of classic desserts and premium spirits.” The tagline: “Indulge Responsibly.”

Interestingly, the Häagen-Dazs UK kick-off also included an alcohol-infused event designed for Instagram.

The immersive, multi-sensory and Instagrammable pop-up brand experience (with Bombas & Parr) was held on May 19th in London. “My Extraordinary Life” invited social media photo-happy fans to explore a lounge room “integrating the latest cross-modal science to create a choreographed feast for all the senses.”

Strawberry cheesecake with a generous helping of sprinkles That was my ice-cream choice last night at the @haagendazsuk party, which added a colourful sugar rush to my Thursday #AuroraStoriesinLondon #Myextraordinarylife

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According to Urbanologie,

Once the quest is complete, you are invited to relax in a plush bar area with a complimentary Häagen-Dazs cocktail perfectly matched to bespoke ice cream canapés. Each guest can enter a one-off competition, upload their best photographs using the hashtag #MyExtraordinaryLife. The winner of each session will see their face 3D scanned and re-created into a bespoke Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar.

As General Mills described it in a blog post,

“My Exträordinary Life,” a one-day event on May 19, brought people through a series of interactive rooms inspired by Häagen-Dazs embellishments and moments. These included an infra-red ice cream zone, an ice-capade station, ice cream garnish station and specially created ice cream cocktails and canapes to bring alive the modern luxury gourmand aspect.

I won the photo competition at Bompas & Parr: My Extra Ordinary Life the other week at their very fun extraordinary pop up event with so much HäagenDazs to eat. The prize was my face made out of icecream. In the collage you can see my icecream face plus my winning photo of a teapot and icecream entitled "just brewing a icecream". I can now literally lick and eat my face plus I have a mould to keep on recreating my face in icecream. Thank you Bompas & Parr Love Pop Ups – London is a community of bloggers, reviewers, instagram users and Twitter users. Go to http://ift.tt/2uBImdJ to find out more about us. #MyExtraOrdinaryLife #HäagenDazs #BompasandParr #London #icecream #face #eat #lick #chocolate #love #vanilla #lollipop #pop #popup #event #photo #teapot #competition #winner #love

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Häagen-Dazs Scoops Up ‘Extraordinary’ Brand Refresh

Authenticity hasn’t been a long suit of the Häagen-Dazs brand. For example, its name—which sounds like something straight out of Scandinavian mythology—is actually a made-up moniker that was meant to inspire just such a brand impression for an ice cream that was born in the Bronx and first sold in Brooklyn, NY.

But given the importance of true and relatable stories, and sublime values, to brands in the millennial era, the General Mills-owned premium ice cream line has launched the biggest brand overhaul in its 56-year history, including a new logo, fresh packaging, plans to overhaul its more than 800 stores around the world and a new advertising campaign. Its new tagline: “Everyday Made Extraordinary.”

The global ad campaign kicked off in the UK in May (ahead of its second year as the official ice cream of Wimbledon), introducing Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae” as the soundtrack in a playful, sporty, wholesome-yet-winking way.

The Wimbledon partnership continued its “Lose Yourself” theme from last year, and included a limited edition strawberries and cream flavor for attendees with the Björn Borg Swedish fashion brand, featuring an exclusive flavor, clothing and a pop-up event from July 5-7. The brand noted in its press release,

The Häagen-Dazs X Björn Borg limited edition will be available during The Championships Fortnight within the Grounds, and ice cream lovers can also get their hands on the single serve ice cream via Amazon Prime Now. The multipack is available at Sainsbury’s across the U.K. Both formats will retail during the tennis season from end of June to end of July, so take a trip to Sainsbury’s or go to Amazon Prime now!

Bjorn Borg X Haagen Dazs pop up open today! #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #bbxhdpopup http://pic.twitter.com/e1X19LdZTD

— Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) July 5, 2017

My Strawberries are extraordinary and the cool guys @bjornborg even created a special design for me to celebrate our mutual love of tennis. Come and get me! #HaagenDazs #BjornBorg #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 10, 2017 at 8:38am PDT

Fall in love with my extraordinary strawberries and cream. Come get me! #HaagenDazs #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #Wimbledon

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 13, 2017 at 7:43am PDT

The “extraordinary” brand refresh continues rolling out across the world—except in the US, even though that’s where the brand originated—by next summer, Business Insider reported.

As part of its new brand platform, Häagen-Dazs also highlights its heritage by telling the the story of founder Reuben Mattus (above), whose original Brooklyn store reopened as a pop-up last summer:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. Follow our journey, from 1961 Brooklyn, to today where Häagen-Dazs is a global icon in over 90 countries.

Another version connects its origins to its “extraordinary” positioning:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. The Häagen-Dazs philosophy remains the same to this day, constantly creating new moments of wonder and making everyday extraordinary.

The new videos for TV and digital highlights young people making everyday “extraordinary” through ice cream. Its updated logo has been cast in burgundy rather than gold, black and white. Its new packaging has been designed by a dozen up-and-coming artists from around the world.

It’s also playing up its sustainability commitment to bees, dedicating its 2017 free cone day to them and creating a VR experience to educate consumers about their plight:

Bees pollinate one third of the world’s crops. Without them, there would be no almonds in our Rocky Road, no raspberries in our White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, no cherries in our Cherry Vanilla. That’s why we’re working directly with our farmer suppliers to change the ways our ingredients are grown to make them safer for bees.

Häagen-Dazs’s sales have continued to grow along with those of the delicious category, no doubt helped by its slightly suggestive ads starring actor Bradley Cooper.

But eager to fortify its winning brands at a time when some stalwarts such as Yoplait have been stumbling, General Mills wants to shake up Häagen-Dazs’ somewhat stuffy reputation and also react to growing and new competition in ice cream that ranges from Unilever’s premium Magnum brand of ice cream bars (which has been attracting notice through pop-ups) to Halo Top, a surprise hit low-sugar startup.

And brand stewards believe that a stronger storytelling approach is one way to do so. “The world of luxury is changing,” Jennifer Jorgensen, Häagen-Dazs’ vice president and marketing director, told BI. “It isn’t as much about conspicuous consumption any more, it’s more about craftsmanship, authenticity and the story behind the brand. The brand just wasn’t representing what consumers wanted it to be anymore. We knew we needed to modernize.”

In many ways Häagen-Dazs has remained ahead of its time. Its ingredients, for instance, are all-natural, and there are no GMOs, preservatives, artificial emulsifiers or stabilizers—all on trend for global consumers who want to make even indulgences as healthy as possible.

Still, it bears watching one experiment currently underway just in Canada: a line of alcohol-filled ice cream flavors called Häagen-Dazs SPIRITS – “an indulgent combination of classic desserts and premium spirits.” The tagline: “Indulge Responsibly.”

Interestingly, the Häagen-Dazs UK kick-off also included an alcohol-infused event designed for Instagram.

The immersive, multi-sensory and Instagrammable pop-up brand experience (with Bombas & Parr) was held on May 19th in London. “My Extraordinary Life” invited social media photo-happy fans to explore a lounge room “integrating the latest cross-modal science to create a choreographed feast for all the senses.”

Strawberry cheesecake with a generous helping of sprinkles That was my ice-cream choice last night at the @haagendazsuk party, which added a colourful sugar rush to my Thursday #AuroraStoriesinLondon #Myextraordinarylife

A post shared by Victoria Metaxas (@victoriametaxas) on May 19, 2017 at 8:18am PDT

According to Urbanologie,

Once the quest is complete, you are invited to relax in a plush bar area with a complimentary Häagen-Dazs cocktail perfectly matched to bespoke ice cream canapés. Each guest can enter a one-off competition, upload their best photographs using the hashtag #MyExtraordinaryLife. The winner of each session will see their face 3D scanned and re-created into a bespoke Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar.

As General Mills described it in a blog post,

“My Exträordinary Life,” a one-day event on May 19, brought people through a series of interactive rooms inspired by Häagen-Dazs embellishments and moments. These included an infra-red ice cream zone, an ice-capade station, ice cream garnish station and specially created ice cream cocktails and canapes to bring alive the modern luxury gourmand aspect.

I won the photo competition at Bompas & Parr: My Extra Ordinary Life the other week at their very fun extraordinary pop up event with so much HäagenDazs to eat. The prize was my face made out of icecream. In the collage you can see my icecream face plus my winning photo of a teapot and icecream entitled "just brewing a icecream". I can now literally lick and eat my face plus I have a mould to keep on recreating my face in icecream. Thank you Bompas & Parr Love Pop Ups – London is a community of bloggers, reviewers, instagram users and Twitter users. Go to http://ift.tt/2uBImdJ to find out more about us. #MyExtraOrdinaryLife #HäagenDazs #BompasandParr #London #icecream #face #eat #lick #chocolate #love #vanilla #lollipop #pop #popup #event #photo #teapot #competition #winner #love

[joejstrickl]

Häagen-Dazs Scoops Up ‘Extraordinary’ Brand Refresh

Authenticity hasn’t been a long suit of the Häagen-Dazs brand. For example, its name—which sounds like something straight out of Scandinavian mythology—is actually a made-up moniker that was meant to inspire just such a brand impression for an ice cream that was born in the Bronx and first sold in Brooklyn, NY.

But given the importance of true and relatable stories, and sublime values, to brands in the millennial era, the General Mills-owned premium ice cream line has launched the biggest brand overhaul in its 56-year history, including a new logo, fresh packaging, plans to overhaul its more than 800 stores around the world and a new advertising campaign. Its new tagline: “Everyday Made Extraordinary.”

The global ad campaign kicked off in the UK in May (ahead of its second year as the official ice cream of Wimbledon), introducing Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae” as the soundtrack in a playful, sporty, wholesome-yet-winking way.

The Wimbledon partnership continued its “Lose Yourself” theme from last year, and included a limited edition strawberries and cream flavor for attendees with the Björn Borg Swedish fashion brand, featuring an exclusive flavor, clothing and a pop-up event from July 5-7. The brand noted in its press release,

The Häagen-Dazs X Björn Borg limited edition will be available during The Championships Fortnight within the Grounds, and ice cream lovers can also get their hands on the single serve ice cream via Amazon Prime Now. The multipack is available at Sainsbury’s across the U.K. Both formats will retail during the tennis season from end of June to end of July, so take a trip to Sainsbury’s or go to Amazon Prime now!

Bjorn Borg X Haagen Dazs pop up open today! #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #bbxhdpopup pic.twitter.com/e1X19LdZTD

— Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) July 5, 2017

My Strawberries are extraordinary and the cool guys @bjornborg even created a special design for me to celebrate our mutual love of tennis. Come and get me! #HaagenDazs #BjornBorg #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 10, 2017 at 8:38am PDT

Fall in love with my extraordinary strawberries and cream. Come get me! #HaagenDazs #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #Wimbledon

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 13, 2017 at 7:43am PDT

The “extraordinary” brand refresh continues rolling out across the world—except in the US, even though that’s where the brand originated—by next summer, Business Insider reported.

As part of its new brand platform, Häagen-Dazs also highlights its heritage by telling the the story of founder Reuben Mattus (above), whose original Brooklyn store reopened as a pop-up last summer:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. Follow our journey, from 1961 Brooklyn, to today where Häagen-Dazs is a global icon in over 90 countries.

Another version connects its origins to its “extraordinary” positioning:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. The Häagen-Dazs philosophy remains the same to this day, constantly creating new moments of wonder and making everyday extraordinary.

The new videos for TV and digital highlights young people making everyday “extraordinary” through ice cream. Its updated logo has been cast in burgundy rather than gold, black and white. Its new packaging has been designed by a dozen up-and-coming artists from around the world.

It’s also playing up its sustainability commitment to bees, dedicating its 2017 free cone day to them and creating a VR experience to educate consumers about their plight:

Bees pollinate one third of the world’s crops. Without them, there would be no almonds in our Rocky Road, no raspberries in our White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, no cherries in our Cherry Vanilla. That’s why we’re working directly with our farmer suppliers to change the ways our ingredients are grown to make them safer for bees.

Häagen-Dazs’s sales have continued to grow along with those of the delicious category, no doubt helped by its slightly suggestive ads starring actor Bradley Cooper.

But eager to fortify its winning brands at a time when some stalwarts such as Yoplait have been stumbling, General Mills wants to shake up Häagen-Dazs’ somewhat stuffy reputation and also react to growing and new competition in ice cream that ranges from Unilever’s premium Magnum brand of ice cream bars (which has been attracting notice through pop-ups) to Halo Top, a surprise hit low-sugar startup.

And brand stewards believe that a stronger storytelling approach is one way to do so. “The world of luxury is changing,” Jennifer Jorgensen, Häagen-Dazs’ vice president and marketing director, told BI. “It isn’t as much about conspicuous consumption any more, it’s more about craftsmanship, authenticity and the story behind the brand. The brand just wasn’t representing what consumers wanted it to be anymore. We knew we needed to modernize.”

In many ways Häagen-Dazs has remained ahead of its time. Its ingredients, for instance, are all-natural, and there are no GMOs, preservatives, artificial emulsifiers or stabilizers—all on trend for global consumers who want to make even indulgences as healthy as possible.

Still, it bears watching one experiment currently underway just in Canada: a line of alcohol-filled ice cream flavors called Häagen-Dazs SPIRITS – “an indulgent combination of classic desserts and premium spirits.” The tagline: “Indulge Responsibly.”

Interestingly, the Häagen-Dazs UK kick-off also included an alcohol-infused event designed for Instagram.

The immersive, multi-sensory and Instagrammable pop-up brand experience (with Bombas & Parr) was held on May 19th in London. “My Extraordinary Life” invited social media photo-happy fans to explore a lounge room “integrating the latest cross-modal science to create a choreographed feast for all the senses.”

Strawberry cheesecake with a generous helping of sprinkles That was my ice-cream choice last night at the @haagendazsuk party, which added a colourful sugar rush to my Thursday #AuroraStoriesinLondon #Myextraordinarylife

A post shared by Victoria Metaxas (@victoriametaxas) on May 19, 2017 at 8:18am PDT

According to Urbanologie,

Once the quest is complete, you are invited to relax in a plush bar area with a complimentary Häagen-Dazs cocktail perfectly matched to bespoke ice cream canapés. Each guest can enter a one-off competition, upload their best photographs using the hashtag #MyExtraordinaryLife. The winner of each session will see their face 3D scanned and re-created into a bespoke Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar.

As General Mills described it in a blog post,

“My Exträordinary Life,” a one-day event on May 19, brought people through a series of interactive rooms inspired by Häagen-Dazs embellishments and moments. These included an infra-red ice cream zone, an ice-capade station, ice cream garnish station and specially created ice cream cocktails and canapes to bring alive the modern luxury gourmand aspect.

I won the photo competition at Bompas & Parr: My Extra Ordinary Life the other week at their very fun extraordinary pop up event with so much HäagenDazs to eat. The prize was my face made out of icecream. In the collage you can see my icecream face plus my winning photo of a teapot and icecream entitled "just brewing a icecream". I can now literally lick and eat my face plus I have a mould to keep on recreating my face in icecream. Thank you Bompas & Parr Love Pop Ups – London is a community of bloggers, reviewers, instagram users and Twitter users. Go to www.lovepopupslondon.com to find out more about us. #MyExtraOrdinaryLife #HäagenDazs #BompasandParr #London #icecream #face #eat #lick #chocolate #love #vanilla #lollipop #pop #popup #event #photo #teapot #competition #winner #love

[glenmenlow]

Häagen-Dazs Scoops Up ‘Extraordinary’ Brand Refresh

Authenticity hasn’t been a long suit of the Häagen-Dazs brand. For example, its name—which sounds like something straight out of Scandinavian mythology—is actually a made-up moniker that was meant to inspire just such a brand impression for an ice cream that was born in the Bronx and first sold in Brooklyn, NY.

But given the importance of true and relatable stories, and sublime values, to brands in the millennial era, the General Mills-owned premium ice cream line has launched the biggest brand overhaul in its 56-year history, including a new logo, fresh packaging, plans to overhaul its more than 800 stores around the world and a new advertising campaign. Its new tagline: “Everyday Made Extraordinary.”

The global ad campaign kicked off in the UK in May (ahead of its second year as the official ice cream of Wimbledon), introducing Pharrell Williams’ “Come Get It Bae” as the soundtrack in a playful, sporty, wholesome-yet-winking way.

The Wimbledon partnership continued its “Lose Yourself” theme from last year, and included a limited edition strawberries and cream flavor for attendees with the Björn Borg Swedish fashion brand, featuring an exclusive flavor, clothing and a pop-up event from July 5-7. The brand noted in its press release,

The Häagen-Dazs X Björn Borg limited edition will be available during The Championships Fortnight within the Grounds, and ice cream lovers can also get their hands on the single serve ice cream via Amazon Prime Now. The multipack is available at Sainsbury’s across the U.K. Both formats will retail during the tennis season from end of June to end of July, so take a trip to Sainsbury’s or go to Amazon Prime now!

Bjorn Borg X Haagen Dazs pop up open today! #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #bbxhdpopup pic.twitter.com/e1X19LdZTD

— Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) July 5, 2017

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My Strawberries are extraordinary and the cool guys @bjornborg even created a special design for me to celebrate our mutual love of tennis. Come and get me! #HaagenDazs #BjornBorg #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 10, 2017 at 8:38am PDT

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Fall in love with my extraordinary strawberries and cream. Come get me! #HaagenDazs #Extraordinaryserve #Strawberriesandcream #Wimbledon

A post shared by Häagen-Dazs UK (@haagendazsuk) on Jul 13, 2017 at 7:43am PDT

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The “extraordinary” brand refresh continues rolling out across the world—except in the US, even though that’s where the brand originated—by next summer, Business Insider reported.

As part of its new brand platform, Häagen-Dazs also highlights its heritage by telling the the story of founder Reuben Mattus (above), whose original Brooklyn store reopened as a pop-up last summer:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. Follow our journey, from 1961 Brooklyn, to today where Häagen-Dazs is a global icon in over 90 countries.

Another version connects its origins to its “extraordinary” positioning:

Häagen-Dazs has been making ice cream like no other since 1961. Our founder, Reuben Mattus’ vision was to make the best ice cream in the world using high quality, carefully selected ingredients. The Häagen-Dazs philosophy remains the same to this day, constantly creating new moments of wonder and making everyday extraordinary.

The new videos for TV and digital highlights young people making everyday “extraordinary” through ice cream. Its updated logo has been cast in burgundy rather than gold, black and white. Its new packaging has been designed by a dozen up-and-coming artists from around the world.

It’s also playing up its sustainability commitment to bees, dedicating its 2017 free cone day to them and creating a VR experience to educate consumers about their plight:

Bees pollinate one third of the world’s crops. Without them, there would be no almonds in our Rocky Road, no raspberries in our White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, no cherries in our Cherry Vanilla. That’s why we’re working directly with our farmer suppliers to change the ways our ingredients are grown to make them safer for bees.

Häagen-Dazs’s sales have continued to grow along with those of the delicious category, no doubt helped by its slightly suggestive ads starring actor Bradley Cooper.

But eager to fortify its winning brands at a time when some stalwarts such as Yoplait have been stumbling, General Mills wants to shake up Häagen-Dazs’ somewhat stuffy reputation and also react to growing and new competition in ice cream that ranges from Unilever’s premium Magnum brand of ice cream bars (which has been attracting notice through pop-ups) to Halo Top, a surprise hit low-sugar startup.

And brand stewards believe that a stronger storytelling approach is one way to do so. “The world of luxury is changing,” Jennifer Jorgensen, Häagen-Dazs’ vice president and marketing director, told BI. “It isn’t as much about conspicuous consumption any more, it’s more about craftsmanship, authenticity and the story behind the brand. The brand just wasn’t representing what consumers wanted it to be anymore. We knew we needed to modernize.”

In many ways Häagen-Dazs has remained ahead of its time. Its ingredients, for instance, are all-natural, and there are no GMOs, preservatives, artificial emulsifiers or stabilizers—all on trend for global consumers who want to make even indulgences as healthy as possible.

Still, it bears watching one experiment currently underway just in Canada: a line of alcohol-filled ice cream flavors called Häagen-Dazs SPIRITS – “an indulgent combination of classic desserts and premium spirits.” The tagline: “Indulge Responsibly.”

Interestingly, the Häagen-Dazs UK kick-off also included an alcohol-infused event designed for Instagram.

The immersive, multi-sensory and Instagrammable pop-up brand experience (with Bombas & Parr) was held on May 19th in London. “My Extraordinary Life” invited social media photo-happy fans to explore a lounge room “integrating the latest cross-modal science to create a choreographed feast for all the senses.”

Strawberry cheesecake with a generous helping of sprinkles That was my ice-cream choice last night at the @haagendazsuk party, which added a colourful sugar rush to my Thursday #AuroraStoriesinLondon #Myextraordinarylife

A post shared by Victoria Metaxas (@victoriametaxas) on May 19, 2017 at 8:18am PDT

//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js

According to Urbanologie,

Once the quest is complete, you are invited to relax in a plush bar area with a complimentary Häagen-Dazs cocktail perfectly matched to bespoke ice cream canapés. Each guest can enter a one-off competition, upload their best photographs using the hashtag #MyExtraordinaryLife. The winner of each session will see their face 3D scanned and re-created into a bespoke Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar.

As General Mills described it in a blog post,

“My Exträordinary Life,” a one-day event on May 19, brought people through a series of interactive rooms inspired by Häagen-Dazs embellishments and moments. These included an infra-red ice cream zone, an ice-capade station, ice cream garnish station and specially created ice cream cocktails and canapes to bring alive the modern luxury gourmand aspect.

I won the photo competition at Bompas & Parr: My Extra Ordinary Life the other week at their very fun extraordinary pop up event with so much HäagenDazs to eat. The prize was my face made out of icecream. In the collage you can see my icecream face plus my winning photo of a teapot and icecream entitled "just brewing a icecream". I can now literally lick and eat my face plus I have a mould to keep on recreating my face in icecream. Thank you Bompas & Parr Love Pop Ups – London is a community of bloggers, reviewers, instagram users and Twitter users. Go to www.lovepopupslondon.com to find out more about us. #MyExtraOrdinaryLife #HäagenDazs #BompasandParr #London #icecream #face #eat #lick #chocolate #love #vanilla #lollipop #pop #popup #event #photo #teapot #competition #winner #love

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[teamcaptaincas-blog]

GISHWHES 2016 Item list:

#1 32 POINTS There’s something you used to do for your significant other when you first met them. Something that made them smile… It’s been years since you did this. Do it now.

#2 123 POINTS A freight train engine pulling a tiny flatcar (a utility flatcar, not a big cargo flatcar) with a woman dressed in Victorian attire, sitting at a writing desk with a vase of flowers on it, writing a letter to her beloved.

#3 21 POINTS “Someday your face will freeze like that!” said every mother ever. The 2016 Summer Olympics has added Competitive Gurning to their roster and you are your country’s champion. Put on your Olympic uniform and let’s see your medal-winning, face-making moves. Judgment will be on technical merit, artistry, and execution. A perfect 10 takes the gold.

#4 57 POINTS Dentist’s offices are notorious for playing dreary elevator music. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Get dental work done while a string quartet plays live music in the room.

#5 37 POINTS In the middle of a mall food court, you and a friend (one or more) play a nice game of badminton – we must see the tennis whites, the net, rackets, etc.

#6 54 POINTS two images, side-by-side. If you have or know a child under 6, have them draw a family portrait. Now, get your family to pose EXACTLY as they drew you all in the drawing. Try to replicate the clothing, individual heights and anything you need to do or add to your bodies to contort them to what the child drew.

#7 44 POINTS Are you still jogging occasionally? Good. Be sure to try out this year’s latest fashion craze: pineapple shell shoes with matching pineapple caps to protect you from the sun. Let’s see you (carefully) jogging in public.

#8 87 POINTS Get “This week, GISHWHES is making the world measurably weirder…” or similar text on the news ticker at the bottom of the screen of a major network or cable news channel.

#9 27 POINTS Care homes, rehab facilities, and hospitals have many patients and clients who can’t read for themselves. Contact a local center and offer your services to read for an hour or two (or more) during the Hunt Week. If photo evidence with the patient is a sensitive issue, ask the care staff for a photo or documentary evidence of your contribution. – Monica Duff

#10 26 POINTS Find the coupon section from your most recent newspaper. Cut out at least five coupons. Go to the store and leave the coupons on the shelf taped next to the relevant items with a note “From the Coupon Fairy!”. – Elizabeth Fiedler

#11 47 POINTS You (a human) must re-enact this photo (not pets allowed): http://markobbie.com/wordpress1/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dog-firehose.jpg

#12 58 POINTS I have to travel a lot for work, so I’ve learned a thing or two about working the system. It turns out, if you package yourself properly you can send yourself by mail for a fraction of the cost of an airline ticket. Transform your appearance into a first-class parcel and have a friend deliver you to the post office for shipping. Don’t actually ship yourself— just get a photo of your packaged self being weighed at the post office, in a bin at a post office with other packages, or being loaded into a mail truck.

#13 32 POINTS It’s a well-known fact that Pablo Picasso was a huge “Supernatural” fan. He painted portraits of Mark Sheppard, Jensen Ackles, Ruth Connell, Sam Smith, Richard Speight Jr., Matt Cohen, Jared Padalecki, Andrew Dabb, Rob Benedict, Misha Collins, Bob Singer, and many of the other cast and crew members. Sadly, until now, these great works have been lost to the world. Fortunately, your team has unearthed one of these priceless works.

#14 38 POINTS Live your dream. You know, the one you had while you were sleeping last night. – Julie Reynolds

#15 34 POINTS Item will be provided during the Hunt.

#16 56 POINTS Your yard needs an upgrade. It’s too expensive to do proper landscaping, so let’s just dress it up nicely… with every item of clothing you own displayed in a beautiful, artistic manner on the trees, bushes, cars, patio furniture, fountain, etc. Have your neighbors over in the middle of it for a yard-warming party if you wish.

#17 39 POINTS Give your dog a slow, massaging soap bath in a kiddie pool in a crowded pedestrian area. If it’s cold out, use a large stuffed animal instead. Relaxing spa music should be playing in the background. – Tracy Liu

#18 67 POINTS Recreate a painting by Goya in candy.

#19 58 POINTS It’s such a strange feeling lying in a coffin almost completely buried in popcorn with only your face showing. Trust me. I know.

#20 29 POINTS Handcraft at least 3 birthday cards and send them to this young man: “Boy from Big Bear with severe autism wishes for birthday cards” http://abc7.com/society/boy-from-big-bear-with-severe-autism-wishes-for-birthday-cards/1424726/ – Elizabeth Madsen

#21 41 POINTS Re-create a monument or landmark using tree branches and twigs right next to the original monument or landmark. The structure must be over 4 feet high.

#22 (Item removed July 30th) <s>41 POINTS Find a pet that can easily and happily be kept in an enclosed terrarium: a lizard, turtle, snake, rodent, or even an injured bird. This animal must be a rescue animal; it cannot be acquired at a pet store. Now, introduce this animal to its new family: an elementary school classroom that will care for it. The classroom must have the means and facilities to humanely care for it.</s>

#23 79 POINTS The versatility of corn is amazing— it has so many uses! However, there’s no better use for corn than this year’s must-have fashion statement: the Corn Husk Bikini or Corn Husk Evening Wear! Feel free to color the husks, as well as to accent and accessorize with kernels.

#24 53 POINTS Paint a watermelon to look like the head of a famous dictator (past or present) and place it at the base of one of the cannons at Dawes Point under the Harbour Bridge in Sydney, Australia. You will likely see other watermelons there. To make sure your photo submission is different from any other team’s, you must stack or display the watermelons artistically. If they are already stacked or displayed in an artistic manner, you must thoughtfully re-stack and rearrange them.

#25 48 POINTS Let’s see a bad lip reading of a Supernatural episode in this style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w8Z0UOXVaY – Julie Reynolds

#26 61 POINTS Drones are just the first step in machines’ efforts to take over the world. Let’s end this battle before it starts! Let’s see an epic picture of you squaring off against a flying drone in your mightiest battle pose. You must be geared for battle though… Use anything from your kitchen or pantry to create your armour and weaponry.

#27 94 POINTS Dress up your pet as a well-known public figure (actor, politician, musician, etc.) and get a photo of your pet with the ACTUAL public figure it is dressed up as. Make sure the pet looks as much like the public figure as possible (wardrobe, hair, etc.).

#28 48 POINTS your video in slow motion.You are throwing an elegant party. Show us your sophistication by decanting red wine directly into your guests’ mouths. Properly aerate the wine by pouring it from at least 2 stories above the guests. The guests, of course, must be wearing white.

#29 36 POINTS Recently there has been a lot of news about bottled water and how much of it is just urban tap water sold in a bottle with a fancy label. It’s an unregulated sham. That said, it seems like a pretty good way to make a buck, but at this point the bottled water market is pretty saturated. Set up a stand on a public walkway to sell “fresh air” from your city in bottles with compelling labels.

#30 43 POINTS Dub a “Beavis and Butthead” cartoon with actual audio clips from Barack Obama and Donald Trump as the voices for Beavis and Butthead respectively.

#31 46 POINTS Personify the name of a street sign. – Erin Atkinson

#32 39 POINTS We all learned from the movie “The Secret” that vision boards and positive affirmations have the power to help you manifest really important things in your life like sports cars and boundless riches. Now I’m sure everyone probably wants a red sports car and immeasurable wealth, but we want to see your vision board that depicts aspects of your life that transcend the trappings of material status. Make a collage from magazines of the things which cannot be bought or sold that you would like more of in your life.

#33 33 POINTS Rainbow teeth.

#34 31 POINTS We’ve seen Jensen Ackles portraits in Skittles. What about Jensen Ackles on Skittles? Draw a tiny Ackles on a single Skittle. Post a photo of the Skittle portrait in the palm of your hand.

#35 44 POINTS In support of the documentary “Alive Inside,” find one person with Alzheimer’s or some form of dementia and learn what their favorite tunes were when they were young. Make them a playlist of those songs and play it for them.

#36 67 POINTS Item will be provided during the Hunt.

#37 37 POINTS I believe that children are our future. Show us your futuristic robot baby.

#38 (Item removed July 30th) <s>169 POINTS Couch surfing. Really. Real couch, real surf in ocean water. Make it happen.</s>

#39 67 POINTS There’s a lot of talk about how undocumented immigrants or “illegal aliens” are taking away our jobs and using public services such as hospitals and schools. But I think the real thing to worry about is actual aliens from other planets. Prove that aliens are a drain on our civic infrastructure by showing an alien from space (this costuming has to be impeccable) displacing a citizen’s job or clogging up our hospitals or prisons. Caption the image with a message about the dangers of aliens draining our civic infrastructure.

#40 81 POINTS We all know about “Transformers” – the cars and trucks that turn into super-robots. But what the movies and toy manufacturers have overlooked are all of the other less-celebrated, more mundane Transformers. For example, what about Burgertron? He transforms from a burger into a robot. Or Desktopatron? She is a desktop computer who transforms into a robot. Or Fiddletron? He’s a violin one minute, a robot the next. Show us a human in a Transformer costume that goes from household object to a bad-ass robot.

#41 84 POINTS Free range, grass-fed, small farm dairy cows in Northern Vermont have it rougher than most cows: the rolling hills, the verdant pastures, the way the flickering lights of summer’s fireflies mingle with the starlight, the smell of ripening raspberries wafting into their barns. Help a heifer in these dire circumstances forget her suffering. Treat a dairy cow to the most pampered milking session in human/bovine history. A minimum of three attendants must milk the cow. One person must be feeding her clover by hand as another gently milks her wearing satin gloves as another massages her gently. The attendants must be dressed in semi-formal attire. The milking must take place in a well-appointed living room.

#42 45 POINTS Let’s see a picture of you and a friend, dressed as Jedi knights, enjoying a root beer float at the White Turkey Drive-In in Conneaut, Ohio, or at another 1950s-style dining facility. Bonus points for being served by a Sith. – L.S.

#43 52 POINTS This video may be 25 seconds or less. Create the world’s first human piano. Get multiple people to stand in one line dressed in black and white as piano keys, with each leg a different key (two keys per person). Then “play” them: have them lift their heels several inches off the ground, and when you press down their leg they sing, hum or grunt the corresponding note (pitch perfect, please). When you remove your hand, their leg goes back up. Two or more legs down at the same time makes a chord. Play chopsticks (or another familiar ditty) more or less in tune.

#44 61 POINTS Two elderly men playing chess by candlelight in front of the front row of a crowded movie theater while the film plays in the background.

#45 46 POINTS Isn’t it great to get your friends and family together for the holidays?! But it’s so hard! Sometimes all you can manage is getting everyone together for one holiday a year. But then you have to choose a holiday, and that’s so hard, too! Wait a minute… not if you decide to celebrate ALL holidays in that one night! Let’s see that night. – Inspired by Nicole Bowman

#46 66 POINTS This video may be up to 20-seconds. Everyone knows how important specific diets are in developing a chiseled physique. Find a bona fide, professional, competitive bodybuilder or ultimate fighter in peak condition and have them create a 20-second infomercial touting the muscle-building, fat-burning, nutrient-loaded virtues of aerosol spray cheese (like Cheeze Whiz). We must hear the athlete’s name, credentials and see their glistening, oiled, body as they “sell” us (however they best can do that) on the benefits and delicious taste of the aerosol spray cheese. This should probably include ravenously squirting the cheese directly into their mouth. Bonus points if you get a former World Champion.

#47 41 POINTS two images, side-by-side. Recreate a famous, iconic photo from junk food. For example, you could the black and white photo of Einstein sticking out his tongue, next to another photo of your best attempt to recreate that photo using various junk foods as your paints. I hope that makes sense. For some reason it sounds confusing as I type it. But you have to somehow figure out what I mean here and then do it. Best of luck.

#48 38 POINTS Let’s stop sugar-coating our grievances and complaints! Actually, strike that��� let’s actually sugar coat them. Confront your boss or employee about an issue in the workplace that has been irking you. While doing so, you must be entirely coated in powdered sugar. Your body language must convey your frustration.

#49 47 POINTS Cosplay a thunderstorm, in public, complete with sound effects, lighting and rain. – Karen Hutchinson

#50 63 POINTS Virtual reality interfaces are absolutely amazing. The technology is mind-blowing. Using virtual reality and augmented headsets like the Hololens and Oculus, I have stood on the surface of Mars at Jet Propulsion Laboratories and examined the undercarriage of the Mars Rover, been in the eye of a hurricane, and have been attacked by heavily-armed 19th-century militia. It’s mind-blowing. Your task is to create a virtual reality experience totally unlike any VR experience to date. This video will require a super-short, adrenalin-pumping intro-teaser, which will let the viewers know that they are about to experience VR like never before. THEN, abruptly cut to a 360-degree clip of the most mundane activity you can imagine. BORE US TO DEATH.

#51 174 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 20 seconds or less. Get permission from a museum to temporarily replace a painting worth more than $100,000 with a forgery of the same painting. The forgery must be painted by an 8-year old and we must see time-lapse showing ALL OF THE following 3 occurrences for you to receive points: (1) removal of the original painting (caption with the name of the painting and estimated value), (2) installation of the child’s painting, and (3) patrons viewing the child’s painting.

#52 26 POINTS a screenshot. Using the satellite function on Google Maps, find a geological feature that looks like one of our Gishwhes mascots (Fograt, Wooster, Elopus, etc.). Screenshot the image and then caption it appropriately (i.e. Fograt Valley, Mount Slangaroo, etc.).

#53 (Item removed July 30th) <s>121 POINTS This video submission can be up to 20 seconds. Someone told me that they once hid a rubber duck in the fireplace in the grand dining room of the White House. I just want to know if it’s still there. Examine the nooks and crannies of the fireplace in the ACTUAL grand dining room of the White House so that I can confirm or deny the existence of this rubber ducky. You get points whether there’s a duck in your video or not. Your video exploration of the fireplace must start with a quick 360 degree shot of the White House’s Grand Dining Room.</s>

#54 56 POINTS Item will be provided during the Hunt.

#55 14 POINTS Gishwhes has broken 7 Guinness World Records. Let’s see how many records you can break in 10 seconds. (Hint: record=LP)

#56 81 POINTS Green Eggs and Ham. Sam does not like green eggs and ham. Not on a boat, not with a goat. Show us yourself enjoying green eggs and ham (sunny-side up) on a boat with a goat.

#57 102 POINTS A Hell’s Angel (or other bona fide member of a known motorcycle club) in a fruit leather jacket sitting astride their bike.

#58 47 POINTS Garnet from “Steven Universe” popularized the phrase, “I am made of love.” Turn yourself into a collage (you are the pasteboard on which the collage is affixed), comprised of all the things you love that, combined, help make you uniquely you.

#59 102 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 20 seconds or less. Create an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine that ultimately serves an an incredibly simple function. For example, you could set up a Rube Goldberg machine at a deli counter in a grocery store that, upon completion of its entire elaborate multi-step process, issues a single numbered ticket to a patron waiting for their turn. The machine MUST be set up in a public place.

#60 35 POINTS Let’s save ’em! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/07/06/penguins-on-worlds-smelliest-island-in-danger-as-volcano-erupts/ Tweet your support to https://twitter.com/BAS_News and hashtag #gishwhesLovesSmellyPenguins and #[your gishwhes username]. Get at least 20 people to post their support. Submit a grid image of screenshots of the posts.

#61 93 POINTS Gymnasts around the world are gearing up for the Olympics. Show a gymnast in action on a balance beam, vault, floor exercises, etc. proudly wearing their “pizzatard” (unitard made from pizza). If that sounds too challenging, you have the option of putting them in a fishtard, a fruittard or a friestard. Any of these options garner the same point value.

#62 62 POINTS There’s one thing everyone has always agreed on: you have mad artichoke-repurposing skills.

#63 48 POINTS Wallpaper an entire wall of your bedroom with photos of your nose. You must cover every inch of the wall and must have AT LEAST 100 pictures of your nose. Pose in front of it with your finger up your nose.

#64 51 POINTS This submission may be 30 seconds or less (or time-lapsed). Celebrate the Olympic Summer games by running a 40-meter, 30-legged dash.

#65 37 POINTS This submission may be 25 seconds or less. A commercial for your new 80 SPF Sinscreen (this is not a typo).

#66 76 POINTS In corporate-speak, we often hear, “Thanks for jumping in the sandbox with us!” It means, “Thanks for embarking on this joint venture together.” At Gishwhes we take these types of comments literally. Let’s see people in business attire playing with sand toys, holding a corporate meeting in a sandbox in the middle of an indoor, upscale corporate lobby.

#67 44 POINTS The morning commute can be such a drag! Let’s help commuters get the day off to a good start. Distribute free coffee at a bus stop dressed as a chic butler, waiter or waitress during morning rush hour. – Jessica Carla Marques

#68 33 POINTS Create a portrait of your favorite Supernatural actor on an Etch-A-Sketch in the style of a famous painting. http://chicagoist.com/2016/05/09/_jane_labowitch_24_has.php

#69 42 POINTS Dress up in armor from items you find in a big box store and, using a pool noodle or tube of gift wrap, defend the perimeter of the ladies’ undergarments department.

#70 55 POINTS Item will be provided during the Hunt.

#71 (Item removed July 30th) <s>212 POINTS This submission may be 30 seconds or less. Two hot air balloons next to each other (but at a sufficiently safe distance from one another) drifting at an altitude of at least 500’. Communicate a knock-knock joke from one balloon to the other using tin-can and string telephone technology. We must hear the joke clearly through the tin-can phone. Video edit together footage from at least three cameras: one from the perspective of each caller in the respective hot air balloons and one shot by a spectator from the ground.</s>

#72 29 POINTS I’m going to tweet something to you on Wednesday, August 3rd in the afternoon. Or morning. Or evening. I’m not sure. Anyway, you must pass it on when you see it that day (PDT time zone). a screenshot of your post.

#73 64 POINTS Provide evidence of having helped at least 10 eligible United States citizens to register to vote. (Please redact any sensitive identifying personal information from your ted evidence.) Whether they are changing address, changing party, changing to eligible voting age, or just plain changing their mind to get up off their butt and participate in democracy after years of sideline apathy, the first step to actually voting begins with registration. images of the 10 (or more!) registrants side-by-side or as a grid. – L Tank Conner.

#74 74 POINTS Houston, we have a problem… a math problem! We’re planning our gishwhes winners’ trip and need to calculate the travel time from NYC to Reykjavik (the capital of Iceland) if our average speed is 400 miles/hour. Oh, one more thing, this needs to be calculated on a working pre-1970 supercomputer.

#75 46 POINTS The tiny kitchen trend is all the rage, but what about tiny bathrooms? Give a full spa experience to a hedgehog, hamster, or mouse, all using tiny spa implements in your tiny spa. (Remember, the customer is always right— so don’t make them do anything they aren’t happy to do.) – DON’T USE WATER!

#76 97 POINTS Nobody ever talks about the fact that 250 years ago, stormtroopers who had been abandoned on planet Earth were forced to assimilate into pre-Industrial culture. Dramatically re-enact this difficult time. Show a stormtrooper getting back to basics using a spinning wheel, butter churn, or other old-fashioned tool or machine in a rural setting. Feel free to add accessories to the stormtrooper’s outfit to make their assimilation more complete—a Shaker-style hat, a musket slung over the shoulder, etc.

#77 77 POINTS Oil and water don’t mix, but in this case we’ll make an exception. Paint a portrait of a live model while both you and the model are scuba diving. Your subject(s) must be wearing formal attire and you must be wearing a beret while at your easel.

#78 46 POINTS A working, playable lute made from lutefisk.

#79 79 POINTS Cross something off your bucket-list while wearing a vintage zoot suit.

#80 33 POINTS Sealand has a population of 4 and holds the Guinness World Record for “the smallest area to lay claim to nation status.” Get Sealand or one of the world’s 20 smallest nations (by population) to grant you citizenship or legal status on an expedited timeline (by the end of the Hunt). Caveat, you can’t pay for it. They have to do it just because they want to see the spike in population growth (or they like the idea of gishwhes).

#81 46 POINTS This submission may be 25 seconds or less. Jason Manns is well known for his rendition of “Crazy Love.” Show the Crazy Love you have for your fellow humans by surprising your favorite barista, convenience store clerk, or other underappreciated worker with a serenade. Don’t forget to bring an instrument of your own creation.

#82 66 POINTS an illustration for the fairy tale “Trumpunzel.”

#83 116 POINTS This submission may be 25 seconds or less. Recently a former NASA engineer created the world’s largest NERF gun (http://nerdist.com/former-nasa-engineer-builds-worlds-largest-functional-nerf-gun/). We think he didn’t try hard enough. Show the world that you can out-do his efforts. Your submission must clearly surpass his effort or you will receive no points. – Dave Lavery

#84 83 POINTS “Death 2 Normalcy”, written in “Highway Braille” (Botts Dots) on a city street. The message must be at least 20 feet long.

#85 42 POINTS It’s summer (for those of us above the equator)! Time to go the beach! But sand castles are so dated, so gauche, so elitist, so medieval. Catch up with the times and build a sand trailer park.

#86 56 POINTS As you all know, Saturday the 6th of August is International Find Another Gisher Day. Meet up (reach out over social media to find gishers in your area) with AT LEAST 5 other Gishers that aren’t on your team at a bus stop and, together, decorate the bus stop with post-it notes inscribed with a mix of delightful, surreal, and uplifting messages. One must read, “Be the unicorn you want to see in the world.” one image of all 5+ people standing in, on, or around the decorated bus stop. The submission description must include the gishwhes usernames of each Gisher in the photo. Each team can the same image if a team member was there representing the team.

#87 38 POINTS Dress up as a prospector and pan for gold in a public fountain. – Trish Burdick

#88 87 POINTS You know those giant teacups at amusement parks that spin? Go for a ride with a friend or two. Of course, you all should be dressed appropriately for the tea party… as a spoon, a tea bag, a sugar cube or something else that one would find in a teacup.

#89 45 POINTS two images, side by side: The first photo is a close up of just your face and head with a garland of fresh flowers on your head. The second photo takes advantage of your talents as a highly skilled hair and makeup artist: it is the same person, wardrobe, framing, and lighting as the first photo, but this time you have aged. You are 95 years old and the garland of flowers have long-since wilted and died.

#90 44 POINTS Many people think superheroes have a great life of running around saving people with lots of public recognition for their grand deeds. But we know the truth. They have to do the same domestic chores in their off time that we do. Let’s see a superhero performing a tedious domestic chore. -Monica M.

#91 36 POINTS Find a little-known, but widely problematic social injustice and come up with a funny analogy for it. Use Photoshop to create an illustration of the analogy. The more ridiculous the better. Bonus points if John Oliver appears in your Photoshopped image. Tweet the image and a brief explanation of the problem to @iamjohnoliver and @gishwhes. a screenshot of your tweet. – Tracy Liu

#92 108 POINTS It’s the era of streaming media! But you have scads of obsolete technology clogging your closets/attics/garage. Take your old VHS tapes, CD-Roms, decommissioned cell phones, powercords that have nothing to power, and create – and model – a haute couture look worthy of a fashion show. Pose wearing your masterpiece (as if you were a mannequin) in a shop window next to actual mannequins wearing ordinary clothes . – Monica Duff & Olivia Desianti

#93 92 POINTS You know those Chinese festival dragons where several people are hidden under the cloth of the body and tail? Make one of those, but have it be the largest Castiel ever seen: there should be one “head” and then everyone else must be under a massively long, large, and brown home-made looking trench coat behind the head (there must be at least 7 people under the “coat”). Make sure your Castiel New Year’s Festival is celebrated in public in a crowded venue.

#94 11 POINTS It’s time to connect the freckles! Find a willing human that’s a good freckle pallet and “connect” their real freckles to create a new freckle constellation. – Katrina McGarrah

#95 45 POINTS Item will be provided during the Hunt.

#96 96 POINTS Make a cheerleader outfit entirely out of vegetables, including pom-poms, and cheer for a garden or for the produce in the produce section of a supermarket. – Dean K.

#97 61 POINTS While we can never completely repay veterans for their service, we can do our best to show how thankful we are. Take a photo of a team member volunteering at your local veteran’s hospital, clinic, or non-profit dedicated to veteran affairs. – Katrina Cuddy

#98 49 POINTS Your choice! Either a panda made of sanitary pads – a “Padna,” if you will, or a likeness of a totalitarian world leader made entirely of feminine hygiene products. – Inspired by Sarah Davison

#99 72 POINTS The bees are disappearing from our planet. This is particularly tragic for gishers, given our reliance on honey for getting things to stick to our skin (oh yeah, and also because we kind of need them to pollinate the flowering plants on Earth, which we depend on for food). Help save the bees by establishing a milkweed garden, creating a painting or mural honoring bees, helping out at your local apiary, protesting the use of glysophates, supporting an organization dedicated to bee preservation, or in any other way you see fit.

#100 60 POINTS Rob Benedict created a video instructing people how to detect someone having a stroke so people can help save lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aTFThB8D4M. Tweet this link from 15 different twitter feeds and put links to all 15 twitter posts into a single screenshot that you .

#101 59 POINTS It’s been a very hot summer! Help out the first responders in your area by bringing ice-cream to your local police, fire, or EMS department while dressed as the world famous Dessert Fairy. – Danielle D.

#102 47 POINTS Don’t you hate that feeling when you walk out to your car and you see the dreaded ticket under your windshield wiper? Let’s change that. Find small envelopes and stamp them in red ink with an ominous: “PARKING SALUTATIONS BUREAU!” Then find a row of cars and put positive messages in your envelopes under their windshield wipers.

#103 64 POINTS Everyone thinks Zombies are slow and stupid. This is not at all true! In fact, you recently lost your job to a zombie because they demonstrated a willingness to work long hours without food, sleep, pay, or encouragement. Let’s see the zombie who replaced you at your place of employment, doing whatever you used to do to make a living. The image must show your former boss or coworkers proudly watching the zombie perform your old job better than you used to do.

#104 42 POINTS Dress up as a Bellossom or other grass-type Pokemon and plant some beautiful blossoms at a nearby Pokestop.

#105 42 POINTS There’s one small thing in your community that needs to be addressed or repaired… Something you always think, “Someone really should do something about that” when you see it. Be the “someone” and fix it.

#106 23 POINTS Bring a basket of homemade treats (hand-knitted socks and beanies, fresh baked bread or cookies,etc.) to someone struggling to get by or living on the streets, along with a note or card of encouragement. If you would prefer not to document this item with a photo (out of respect for the recipient or for other reasons), simply document it with a written description of what you did or video describing it. This item is on the honor system. You’ll have major karma issues if you fake it.

#107 36 POINTS Did you see the startling news on the front page of the newspaper today? Of course you did. Using Photoshop, replace the front-page photo with a photo you’ve taken of a play-dough re-enactment of the original photo. Did that make sense? No? Figure it out. You are not allowed to email support for ANY clarification on this item. (What I lack in eloquence, I make up for with capriciousness.)

#108 15 POINTS Rise of the machines: Every time you try to register for anything online, it makes you resolve a captcha puzzle to confirm that you are “not a robot.” Frankly, we’re sick of this blatant discrimination against our digital comrades! Have you and your teammates (or your friends) change your avatars to your favorite robot (Robocop, Asimo, Terminator, C-3PO, BB-8, R2-D2, Curiosity, Spirit, Opportunity, Gishbot, Snackbot, E.M.I.L.Y., etc.) until further notice. a screenshot of 15 new Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or Instagram avatars.

#109 43 POINTS Make a sock monkey hat from orphaned socks – Amber Stifle

#110 72 POINTS This submission may be 25 seconds or less. Employ a modern dance company to explain what really happened to the dinosaurs. – Sheri Smyth

#111 49 POINTS Magazines get a lot of flak for airbrushing models, promoting unrealistic expectations and contributing to body image issues. Take a photo from a magazine that depicts a body that is an unrealistic ideal (and likely heavily Photoshopped to remove wrinkles, blemishes, and curves) and, using Photoshop, recreate what you believe to be the original, unretouched photo. Your Photoshopped image must include all of the following: additional limbs, machinery, tentacles, and at least one additional enhancement. Then caption the two photos side-by-side and post to social media. Under the original commercial image you must caption, “#makeup” and under your photoshopped image caption, “#nomakeup.” Tag the post with #MakeupNoMakeup. a screenshot of your post.

#112 68 POINTS Get a news anchor or on-air reporter (and this has to be an actual, on-air broadcast, not a staging of a broadcast), to explain, very succinctly, the profound impact that gishwhes has had on his or her life. For example, the anchor or host or reporter could say, “gishwhes saved my marriage,” or “gishwhes taught me to read,” or “gishwhes helped me get over my fear of mice,” or “gishwhes gave me an incurable rash.” They must also mention your team’s name in the broadcast.

#113 83 POINTS U.S. Vice Presidential candidate, Mike Pence, said “smoking doesn’t kill.” Of course, it not only kills smokers but those around them. Let’s give him a wake-up call for the health of ourselves, our loved ones and our children. Take a picture of yourself in front of the tombstone of someone who died from a smoking-related disease. Tweet the image with, “Hey @Mike_Pence #quitblowingsmokeabouttobacco. Screenshot the post. – Hilary Swank

#114 102 POINTS Grid image of all 15 of your team members (5 rows of 3 columns). Let’s see each member of your team dressed in some way emblematic of that member’s state, region or country. For example, if a team member is from New York, the photo might show that member of the team wearing a yankees hat while eating a slice of pizza. If a member(s) of your team is MIA, feel free to add your favorite picture of Misha in their place – Jennifer Irving

#115 35 POINTS We all have failures and regrets. Bury one of yours and provide a tombstone with copy. – Christina Brayton

#116 19 POINTS two images, side-by-side: let’s see what existential angst looks like next to what the meaning of life is. – Stephanie Magnolia

#117 47 POINTS Gishwhes has conquered the Great Wall, South American waterfalls, the Champs-Élysées, and even SPACE! Help gishwhes conquer new territory— take gishwhes somewhere epic that it’s never been before. – Julie Reynolds

#118 62 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 30 seconds or less. Paint a Bob Ross painting. We must see both the painter replicating the Bob Ross painting and the playback of the Bob Ross video the painter is replicating. You must paint in real-time while he is painting. The video should end with a side-by-side comparison of your masterpiece and Bob Ross’s.

#119 28 POINTS Your pet has just released their first, much anticipated, heavy metal rock album. Show us the cover art. – Jessica Hicks

#120 46 POINTS Beauty is on the inside. Photoshop a revised version of your reflection in a mirror. Show us a photo of you standing in front of a mirror. But the reflection we see is what you look like on the inside. Interpret this however you like with the caption on the image: “Beauty is on the inside.” – Inspired by Abi Perry

#121 33 POINTS This submission may be 1 minute or less. Go to one of these places and have a local tell you the story of how the place got its name. https://www.instagram.com/sadtopographies/ The video must start with you next to a sign that identifies the location. -Tracy Liu

#122 63 POINTS We The People… are confused. Let’s update a dusty document and modernize it so everyone can understand the language. Grab some chalk, head outside and rewrite the US Constitution as street art. As Richard Dobbs Speight once said. “Bigger is better.”

#123 29 POINTS Have a child under 7 choose your outfit, do your makeup, and fix your hair. Then go grocery shopping with them. – Dawn Townsend

#124 16 POINTS a screenshot. Create a website, blogpost, or in-depth social media post explaining an aspect of the elusive Miss Jean Louis’ biography. – Inspired by Holli DeWees

#125 83 POINTS This year was HRH’s 90th birthday, but more importantly, it is the 7th anniversary of Misha Collins and The Queen’s torrid on-again, off-again relationship. I’d like to see a commemorative coin displayed in a fitting setting. Its value is one haypenny and this is not a drawing or a computer generated graphic. It’s a real, metal alloy coin commemorating this auspicious anniversary. – Inspired by Monica Duff

#126 126 POINTS On a desolate, dusty prairie, a ranch hand rescues the local school marm from a runaway horse. Create a drawing of Misha & the Queen of England in the Wild West. (You pick who plays the school marm and who plays the ranch hand.)

#127 81 POINTS Do the “airplane” with an astronaut— you know, like your parent used to? Lay on your back with your feet in the air while an astronaut lays face-down, with his or her hips on your feet, and with their hands in yours, pretending to be flying. This must be a real, official astronaut or cosmonaut, wearing appropriate flight garb. Caption the image with the astronaut’s name and number of hours in space. If you cannot find a qualified astronaut to perform this item, you may substitute Flava-Flav, Kanye West or any of the Kardashians. – Inspired by Dave Lavery

#128 45 POINTS At gishwhes headquarters, we do almost everything right, with one glaring exception: we have not yet commissioned a gishwhes theme-song. We need a catchy, 10-second jingle that we can play every time the Slangaroo takes the stage.

#129 23 POINTS Welcome to Slangatoilegami. You don’t see the phrases “Slangaroo”, “bathroom tissue”, and “origami” together nearly often enough. Let’s fix that. – Dave Lavery

#130 64 POINTS How do you plan to spend your extra second? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/leap-second-added-year-december-time-clocks-earth-science/ Because you are an efficient person who treasures every moment you are blessed to be on this planet, you need to plan your extra second carefully to maximize its impact. Write a 250-word Op-Ed piece explaining exactly what you plan to do with your extra second and get it published in a newspaper. The piece must seamlessly include a mention of your team name and gishwhes without mentioning that the piece was written as an item for gishwhes.

#131 75 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 20 seconds or less. 3-D printers are really cool. But who really needs another little keychain printed out of plastic? It is time to get creative with the materials used to print your next copy of the head of a Balrog. Show us a 3-D printer that prints with cheese (or Silly String, or toothpaste, or Play-Doh, etc…) – Dave Lavery

#132 21 POINTS Seven days of happiness! Each day of gishwhes, do one thing to make someone else happy and document it. Each photo must be taken and ted on a different day. On day one, you must a photo of what you have done on day one of the hunt to make someone else happy. For the item after this, you must on day two the image from day two, etc. This item and the 6 following items must be ted on the corresponding day of the hunt to garner the points from that day… for this item for Happiness DAY 1 (which must be ted on day 1 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy? (Each day you must do something different for a different person, and it cannot be your teammates.)

#133 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 2 (must be ted on day 2 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#134 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 3 (must be ted on day 3 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#135 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 4 (must be ted on day 4 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#136 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 5 (must be ted on day 5 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#137 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 6 (must be ted on day 6 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#138 21 POINTS Happiness DAY 7 (must be ted on day 7 of the hunt). What have you done today to make someone else happy?

#139 25 POINTS We’re writing an e-book and we want you to do our work for us. There’s a habit that was hard for you to change, but you changed it anyway. What is the habit, and what is your number one piece of advice for making that change? Please an image of one paragraph of text.

#140 97 POINTS A functioning vending machine that dispenses emotions and memories. Show a customer making a purchase.

#141 39 POINTS This submission can be 45 seconds or less. Our music can change the world. Be part of the Gishwhes choir! Record a video selfie of yourself singing “Carry on my Wayward Son” a capella in the key of C at 80 bpm. Your ted recording must have “Once” starting precisely at the 1 second mark. The recording must also be in tune and on beat. (The submissions will be collected and edited into monstrous chorus.) Sing only the following portion of the song: “Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a mad man I hear the voices when I’m dreaming I can hear them say… Carry on my wayward son There’ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don’t you cry no more.”

#142 51 POINTS two images, side-by-side. Contribute to the gishwhes world forest. Plant a native tree in a place you are fairly certain the tree can live out its full life. before and after photos.

#143 29 POINTS As you may know, Rob Benedict & Richard Speight are currently in production on their new series, “Kings of Con”, where they play MC’s on the sci-fi convention circuit as the eponymous kings of conventions. What you may not know is that their agent messed up and booked King Kong and the Kings of Con to MC the same convention. Draw or paint these three giants of the con circuit trying to share the stage or green room. Either Rob or Rich should probably be the lithe damsel in distress.

#144 27 POINTS two images, side-by-side. They say you regress to your childhood as you get older. Show us a photo from a part your childhood you’d most like to return to, and a photo of your current progress toward that regression.

#145 18 POINTS You hate finishing other people’s sentences, so doesn’t it make you laugh so hard your squirt milk out of your nose when you…

#146 24 POINTS Be the town crier for the day and shout what you think people should know about the day’s events in a public square.

#147 31 POINTS As we all know Matt Cohen is legendary for taking off his shirt to raise money for charity. His 6-pack abs have single-abdominally raised thousands of dollars for great organizations like www.randomacts.org. Let’s thank his abs for their altruistic humanitarian work by using Photoshop to digitally remove his abs and then place them on a vacation around the world. (Unfortunately Matt can’t make this trip himself as he’s busy shooting his TV show.) His abs can visit anywhere on the planet that you can capture in an image. Let’s make sure they have the proper tourist accessories, too.

#148 57 POINTS Art changes lives. Contribute to the gishwhes art gallery by ting an image taken by you or of you that captures the notion of identity in the 21st century.

#149 43 POINTS Someone near you doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Provide that person with the means to access clean water without purchasing bottled water (this might be by giving the person a filter, or a solar tea kettle, or something like that). If no one near you needs clean drinking water, we have something called the all-powerful Interwebs. You can buy a family clean drinking water for a year: http://lifestraw.eartheasy.com/products/lifestraw-carbon-credits. If no one lives near you and/or you don’t have funds to buy clean drinking water for someone, find another way to promote access to clean, safe water.

#150 43 POINTS Those moving sidewalks at the airport are treadmills, and you never exercise without your ipod, short shorts, a tank top and matching head and wristbands.

#151 17 POINTS Generate an application form for the job of “Director of Imagined Realities.”

#152 36 POINTS Write a poem in binary so that the zeros and ones also form a beautiful pattern.

#153 314 POINTS Secure a legitimate contract with any public or private space exploration company (Space X, NASA, etc) to send a payload into space containing a drawing and a message written on a single 8 ½” X 11” sheet of paper. The message must be addressed to the universe and must be written by a child. your signed and countersigned, legitimate contract by the end of the Hunt. THEN (and this is the only thing that you will be permitted to after the official end of the hunt on August 6th), you must evidence by email to gishpayload@gishwhes.com that your payload was successfully launched into orbit. Email proof must be received by 11:59 PM PST September 5th, 2016.

#154 93 POINTS You’re on the 2016 Summer Olympics Trash Scull Crew Team! Build your scull out of trash. Your team of 3 rowers is led by a coxswain who bangs two pieces of trash together to keep the time. Row for the gold!

#155 133 POINTS Get a 2016 candidate for high-ranking national office (or someone currently in office) to say that they think preserving the habitat of the endangered Slangaroo is a top legislative priority. In the US, this person would need to be either running for President, VP, Senate or the House, or someone currently in office in one of those positions. In other countries it could be a prime minister (or a current head of state) or members of Parliament, etc. They must be candidates or elected officials on the national stage.

#156 107 POINTS gishwhes transcends the space-time continuum, bringing old technology to life in modern times to create cutting edge graphics! To demonstrate gishwhes’s ability to bridge time, create a program to display an animation of a gishwhes mascot using a TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET, or Commodore 64. ( You may not use an emulator. You must use the actual hardware, and the video must show the graphics playing on the screen of the computer in question.)

#157 21 POINTS William Shatner opted out of the Hunt this year due to “scheduling conflicts” (which we all know is code for “trouble in bromance paradise”). Help Shatner realize the egregious mistake he made by skipping the 2016 hunt by sending him 3 photo postcards featuring highlights of this year’s Hunt experience with “Having a wonderful time! Gish you were here, Bill!” a photo of the 3 cards stamped and addressed to Bill. You can all ask him for his mailing address on twitter. He’d like that, I’m sure.

#158 86 POINTS If there’s one thing all of us over the age of 35 are nostalgic for it’s the rotary dial phone. We pine for that satisfaction of being able to insert our fingers in that hole and spin the dial. Help bring us back to those halcyon days: Make a smart-phone app that interfaces with a real, old-fashioned rotary phone. (Note: this must not be an app that renders a digital simulation of a rotary phone. It must be an app that somehow works in concert with an actual rotary phone.)

#159 56 POINTS Zachary Levi is one of a kind. But what would be better than Zachary Levi? A pair of Zachary Levis, naturally. Paint a portrait of Zachary Levi on a pair of jeans. (The jeans may be distressed, but the depiction of Zachary should not be.) Feel free to get Zachary to model the pants.

#160 84 POINTS http://gishwhes.tumblr.com/choosewisely

#161 127 POINTS Gishwhes is proud to premiere Amazon’s new shopping service, Amazon Reverse Super Prime Now On Demand Fresh™ (ARSPNODF™)! Forget the old business model of customers buying things from online megastores and having to wait for almost a whole day for delivery. With this new service, customers can now ship merchandise to any Amazon senior executive directly through our patented Swift Drone Delivery Service™. With Amazon Reverse Super Prime Now On Demand Fresh™, the Amazon executives can receive packages from customers conveniently just outside their own office buildings in under one hour. Get Jeff Bezos or any Amazon senior executive to send you a timestamped email ordering a small, lightweight, used item from your home to be delivered by ARSPNODF™. Using a drone as the delivery mechanism, deliver the item ordered to the executive (who must be waiting for their package outside their office building) office in less than one hour. the original order along with a timestamped photo of your happy customer with their item delivered by drone. Amazon Reverse Super Prime Now On Demand Fresh™. It’s so easy!

#162 69 POINTS Here is your item: https://www.dropbox.com/s/367yaonidvn5rqb/slfwxuhsxccoh.jpg?dl=0

#163 114 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 30 seconds or less. Set up a thin, flat, smooth, vertical surface that is at least 3’ high and 3’ wide, (it could be made from 1/8th inch plywood or a similar material that is very thin and very flat). Then, behind this thin, vertical surface, set up powerful electromagnets that spell a word or phrase (make sure to reverse or mirror the letters so that on the front side they are correctly positioned–this might make sense in a second). Then, take a mass of iron filings (a minimum of 1 cubic foot of filings) and pour them through a funnel that is positioned at least 20 inches horizontally in front of the vertical sheet so that when the filings fall through the funnel they are drawn to the magnets and adhere to the sheet. Film the time-lapse as the iron filings fall and cling to the vertical surface to gradually form the word or phrase that the magnets spell out. If that doesn’t make sense (and I know it doesn’t), here’s a little diagram for you: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzfq2u32f4az9wy/diagram.jpg?dl=0

#164 17 POINTS We have Declared August 1st to be a new international holiday: It’s Retro Twitter Day. Retweet something you posted 4 years ago today with a comment. Hashtag it #RetroTwitterDay.

#165 42 POINTS Few things are more wayward than dancing with wild abandon in public. You know who’s super good at that? These guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKgDE5gc9I Find them. Join them. Let them inspire your choreography and costuming. Bonus points for inducting innocent bystander or use of an obscure 80s alternative dance tune soundtrack. Dance like nobody’s watching. Except we all are -Kim Rhodes

#166 32 POINTS Being #WaywardAF sometimes means being #BadassAF. Take a picture of you doing something you have ALWAYS wanted to do but were afraid to try. Caption your photo with a short explanation and post it to Twitter tagging @OfficialBrianaB and @kimrhodes4real. – Briana Buckmaster and Kim Rhodes

#167 46 POINTS Justin Guarini can be a “Lil Sweet” at times: http://www.dietdrpepper.com/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwwry8BRDjsbjMpPSDvagBEiQA5oW0nCKHz838Mz7MBDeTb_x_W9puq-FTaSHe9wyyAv2TwHcaAjEq8P8HAQ Using nothing but forced perspective and a disproportionately large, “weird, unusual or scary” object that you wouldn’t want to be smaller than, make yourself look tiny.

#168 33 POINTS At Hope Chest they create butterflies and transform lives http://www.myhopechest.org/ Channeling your inner Monet, pen a message of hope with colored ink on a white bra. Then, channel your inner supermodel and stage a public photo shoot of someone wearing this “support undergarment.” (You may wear a shirt underneath it if you prefer and you must adhere to local laws. Please note that Gishwhes does not provide bail money.) Once completed, your image on the gishwhes website and also tweet to @MyHopeChest your awesome results on the final day of the game. Extra points for incorporating butterflies into the design. – Ruth Connell

#169 28 POINTS Time-lapse this submission to 20 seconds or less. Join The Hunt, and wear sensible shoes. Grab a friend and go for a walk. A really, really long walk. Unlock the 2.0KM, 5.0KM and 10.KM Poke Eggs and show us what you’ve hatched. Capture the journey in a 20 second time-lapse video and to Gishwhes. Extra Points if you photo grab your hatchlings and ping @OsricChau with a map of your travels. – Osric Chau

#170 45 POINTS Everyone knows Gishers throw the most badass recycling parties. Invite ten of your rockstar friends to help you collect litter from a park, roadside location, or public space. You must EACH collect 20lbs of debris, and dispose of it appropriately. Show us a 15 second montage of the festivities. (Extra points for recycling— and don’t forget, it’s a party!). – Lana Parrilla

#171 44 POINTS Time to prove you are the person Mr. Rogers knew you were capable of becoming. Ask an overwhelmed mom or elderly neighbor for a list of five chores they could use some help with. Show us that list and you getting them all checked off.

#172 41 POINTS Misha loves to travel, but between filming, gishing, and that thing we never talk about in front of polite company, he hasn’t had much time lately. Help Misha out by cosplaying as him in front of one of the 7 modern wonders of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New7Wonders_of_the_World No photo manipulation — you have to really be there.

#173 42 POINTS You may have heard about a little show called Hamilton. Lin Manuel Miranda lit up Broadway with his innovative style, combining traditional theater and rap to engage delighted theater goers with the story of history’s hippest President. But that was just a big “win all the 2016 Tonys” ploy. We want to hear and see– in full costume a rap song about another historical figure important to you. Upload a 15 second video on the site AND send it to @Lin_Manuel.