#i love this country so much

[o-craven-canto]

The Italian Ministry for Tourism has just launched a new advertising campaign to attract international visitors to the country -- a 9 million € campaign that reimagined Botticelli’s Venus as “virtual influencer”, by photoshopping her head on stock photographs of a model -- which looks like this:

The campaign was very criticized, for starters, for being almost entirely made out of Shutterstock images rather than original material, though from what I understand this is common practice (and that the vast majority of the 9 millions were not spent in production, but in legal fees). However...

The dearly-paid stock images were not used as they are, but exchanged between the developers through WhatsApp and downloaded from there, losing much of their quality.

The English translation is dubious enough (”come to live italian”??), but apparently the German one was even worse! Names of cities that also happen to be common words were machine-translated into such gems as Garderobe, Toast, Geschlossen (”closed up”), and Rasen (”lawn”). Rather than fix the translation, the whole German subsite was simply deleted, leaving only the English and Spanish translations online.

The hybrid English/Italian slogan was commissioned by a government controlled by the same right-wing party that just proposed a law that would ban the use of any language but Italian in any public communication, under threat of a fine up to 100,000 € (!)

One of the pieces of stock footage used in the ads does not show any place in Italy, but a wine cantina in Slovenia.

The campaign announced their website and associated social media profiles before registering them, with the obvious results that they were all squatted within minutes. The main one, opentomeraviglia.it, was bought for 5€ by an (unrelated) marketing firm and now displays a header saying: “Rest easy, we of Marketing Toys took care of it” (narrowly beating another potential buyer who planned to make it redirect to Pornhub instead).

It’s beautiful, so beautiful. <3

[wwillywonka]

"A lie?" "An error."

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

[ryllen]

do u know that even the size of the different size of vegetables at another country amazed me because from where i came from they are all smaller and scrawnier

[majubengel]

RedHawk!

[cupiidzbow]

FUNNY LOVE!💋🌟💝🌺🌼✨ [ sona uses he/him ]

[offdensen]

Dr. Leonard McCoy + Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

[wellhellothereem]

quick drawing because I FINALLY PLAYED IN STARS AND TIME!!!! (only the demo BUT am planning to buy it hehehehoohoohaha)

For now my favourite characters are Odile and Bonnie!!!! (and also the star who I think is called Loop because of the design <33) (<< Also I love stars)(also funny I say that since I completely changed the design in my drawing SHBABAI just had to give them long sleeves..)

Also doodle:

[hungriestheidi]

Franco Colapinto to drive for Williams in FP1 at the 2024 British Grand Prix, marking the first time in 23 years that an Argentinian participates in an F1 Grand Prix Weekend.

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

[dottyistired]

kabosu should receive a shrine, like faithful pets hachiko and tama before her. her story brought awareness to the plight of rescue animals in japan, encouraging people to adopt. her meme status abroad caused the shiba inu's international popularity to skyrocket: the world has a newfound adoration for this beautiful, smart, functional breed present throughout millennia of japanese history, in part thanks to her.

perhaps kabosu-sama could be enshrined as a spirit goddess of rescue animals to honor her humble beginnings. or as a good natured trickster spirit as a nod to those feisty-looking photos of her that launched her to fame? or longevity, perhaps pet longevity specifically, due to her extraordinarily long and happy life, dutifully cared for every day until the end as we should for all humans and pets alike.

[pinkflipphonez]

hbd 2 our fave boobs! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

[crabussy]

I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my life and. I just feel like crying over that fact. a few years ago I was sure I’d be an anxious miserable wreck for my entire life but now I wake up and I love the world and I promise one day you will too. please keep going please hold the world tight. you will giggle at something silly with a stranger. a staff member at a place you frequent will smile when they see you. an elderly person will look at you gratefully for helping them. you’ll cry about stupid stuff and laugh about it later. you’ll drink cold water during a hot day and it will be the best sensation ever. being alive is the best thing I’ve ever experienced.

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo has a lot of love for his comics, constantly rereading them (mainly for the art) and overall having a lot of sentimental value for them, especially because reading them is something he likes to do when he’s just existing in a space with his family.

And then the Shredder happens. And then the invasion happens. And then life in general happens. And, suddenly, most of Leo’s comics are either too damaged to fix or gone entirely.

But it’s fine! He’s growing up, so he doesn’t need them anymore. So what if it’s one more bit of childhood lost? It’s fine - it’s fine.

Enter Mikey.

Mikey, who is so, so empathetic and cares so, so much about his family - he notices, and he decides to do something about it.

Unfortunately, most of the comics are vintage, and completely unavailable in any form but digital.

Good thing Mikey is an artist.

So over the course of a month, Mikey secretly takes the time to painstakingly recreate Leo’s favorite Jupiter Jim volume. It’s hard, matching a style like that with only grainy online scans to go off of, but he manages.

He gives it to Leo on a mundane day, out of the blue, with a sunshine smile on his face.

Now- Mikey does all this secretly.

But Leo is very, very perceptive, especially in regard to his brothers hiding things from him. So of course he finds the unfinished work in progress comic about three days in.

He does NOT cry. He doesn’t.

Just as he doesn’t cry when Mikey presents him with the finished thing, nope, not a tear in sight.

His eyes are just wetter than normal as he gives Mikey the absolute biggest hug he could possibly give.

(And if Mikey finds the fridge and pantry always stacked with special ingredients only found in specific parts of the world whenever he so much as mentions wanting to try them, that’s neither here nor there.)

[happyheidi]

Dolly Parton posing for portraits before a performance in Detroit, 1977. // edit of this post

[drrav3nb]

SUMMERTIME (1955) (dir. David Lean)

I was thinking of the first evening I came here. First time I saw you, you were wearing that yellow tie. I don't want to forget any of it. Not a single moment. I don't think I ever shall.

[starrcrossrose]

OKAY WELL SINCE EVERYONE IS POSTING THEIRS (/lh)

Have a silly turtle cowboy in a dust storm! I made this a while back for a friend’s bday and I still like how it came out 🤠

[cupiidzbow]

if you hate her you will die and go to hell 🩵