“Say It Ain’t So” by weezer. #loop
this is so fucking cool wtf
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“Say It Ain’t So” by weezer. #loop
this is so fucking cool wtf
I was so ready to reblog this, even before I realized it was a Vine instead of .gif. Hashtag unmute.
Hey fellas I’m starting an all art blog over @shedonkadonk pls follow and I plan on getting more art on the road, no longer shall I be rusty
my boss: *giving me critical instructions* you got that?
me: ya
me (in my mind): you make a loop de loop and pull, and your shoes are looking cool :) you go over and back, left to righ
Into The Spiderverse took 100% of its critically acclaimed visuals from comic books and street art and while there are obvious in-universe reasons for this it can’t be ignored that BOTH of these are traditionally seen as “lowbrow” populist art forms, here celebrated for their inherent beauty, complexity and sociopolitical importance. In this essay I will-
Where’s the essay OP
Not a full essay but lemmie tell you. Spoilers below.
Why does Miles stop at a time-sensitive moment to paint one of Peter’s suits when he’d probably want to get going as quickly as possible? Three reasons.
One, on a character level Miles is about to go into the scariest endgame fight he’s been in the entire movie. Taking the time to make the costume his own, to take this little part of the old Spiderman’s legacy and probably get some encouraging words from Aunt May is important to pysch himself up enough to do this.
Two, suiting up for the first time is an important rite of passage in superhero comics. It represents the character deliberately taking on the role. Miles has been wearing a kid’s costume because he feels like a kid trying to take on the role of a hero. By putting on a real costume, his own costume that he designed, he is becoming his own hero.
Three, his costume is an extension of his art. He uses spray paint to alter it, and we see little drips and splatters in the costume’s design. Miles is a street artist and his spider-suit is a street artists’s creation.
Miles’s street art and his coming into his own as Spiderman are directly linked in the narrative in a way that’s too perfect to be accidental. His costume is made with spray paint. He’s bitten while painting a mural. He uses his spider-powers to put a sticker where his dad can’t find it. Jefferson doesn’t like Spiderman’s methods or Miles’s art. But in the end, he’s willing to work with both. And street art is the shared history Aaron, Jefferson and Miles all have even if they ended up on three drastically different paths.
Miles paints murals, throws stickers up on street signs, etc, both as self-expression and an expression of love for his city. It’s that same love for his home that makes him Spiderman, the city’s protector. His vigilante heroism and his illegal art are expressions of exact same thing.
And comics! This movie loves the language of comics!
It loves the humor in seeing the words float in the air around the characters! It loves stylized human figures and kirby dots and dynamic transitions! It loves the way comics tell stories (note that every time a characters is narrating their backstory in Into The Spiderverse it switches to comic format, doing highly comic-specific things like having three characters telling their stories side by side.)
Miles reads Spiderman comics in-universe and they’re what helps him understand what’s happening. How many people who worked on this movie do you think read a comic at a formative age and saw themselves in it, in some way?
Of course, if I’m going to talk about the “language” of comics or the “language” of street art I can’t ignore the fact that these two art forms have influenced each other immensely over the years, joyfully borrowing from each other at every opportunity.
im watching a girl on the bus put on lip balm.
her hair is rained on and pulled into a tiny loop on the back of her head.
i feel connected to her because we are both wet and wearing lipstick and heavy shoes
she is pulling sunglasses out of her backpack and pulling a piece of hair off her face. she is sliding a pin against her head.
she moves her hands like someone is watching. I think we all do this.
I wonder if
girls are poetic because we simply are or because someone is always watching us. being a voyeur makes me feel less innocent.
but still I wonder what she is reading. i wonder if the lipstick she’s wearing is her favorite or if it’s just the one she had in her pocket today. i wonder who she is going to meet tonight.
When she’s getting off the bus she smiles at me and i feel at ease. i want to tell her she is beautiful but I remember that every time a stranger told me I was beautiful it has made me feel uneasy. so I watch her go and I am grateful
“I wonder if
girls are poetic because we simply are or because someone is always watching us.”
Having gay parents must be horrible
I mean you either get twice the usual amount of dad jokes or get stuck into an infinite loop of “go ask your mom”
i thought this was gonna be really rude or something but it ends up that dad jokes, is the ultimate burden of our society. bless
I feel this on a spiritual level
I’ve watched this on loop a good 50 times and as a musician I can confirm this to be 10000% true
i’m taking a tv writing course and my prof used to work. for 4kids. so my weeb ass has to sit there and listen to him talk about how his team improved foreign series….. meanwhile my inner monologue is just joey wheeler’s garbage brooklyn accent dub voice saying “SHADOW REALM! SHADOW REALM! SHADOW REALM!” on loop like some existential nightmare
his name is alan and he’s most proud of his work on winx club
The Eternal Struggle 📺
The loop
the sped up intro of OITNB I’m crying