The “What If” Archetype: 2 True Post-Apocalyptic Heroes
The Hunger Games and other modern fare feature post-apocalyptic heroes. An overview and some real-life examples from literature appear here.
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"Educated models are in. This may sound improbable. In the film “Zoolander”, male models are portrayed as so dumb that they play-fight with petrol and then start smoking. But such stereotypes are so last year."
— The beauty business is being transformed as brainy models and a global talent pool change the catwalk. (via theeconomist)
(via theeconomist)
"Educated models are in. This may sound improbable. In the film “Zoolander”, male models are portrayed as so dumb that they play-fight with petrol and then start smoking. But such stereotypes are so last year."
— The beauty business is being transformed as brainy models and a global talent pool change the catwalk. (via theeconomist)
(via theeconomist)
"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."
— Ira Glass (via nefffy)
(via nprfreshair)
Rebel Archetype in Multicultural Literature
Toni Morrison and Sherman Alexie use teen heroes with definite Rebel qualities to engage and inspire the reader.
Actual photograph of GOP presidential nominee hopeful Ron Paul. [Yahoo! Politics]
Those hands are way too young! I’m smellin’ some photoshop dust all over this one.
Photoshop? More like Microsoft Paint.
“I’m proud of the fact that I pay a lot of taxes.”—
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, who is also proud that, percentage-wise, he pays significantly less in taxes than the average American — or even other millionaires.
Somewhere, sociologically aloof Republicans are muttering to themselves “Man, this Mitt Romney dude is sociologically aloof.”
Pixel Politics is BACK!
…with a surprise!
Do your Wednesdays feel joyless and empty now Parliament’s in its summer recess? Does 12 o’clock pass without event, leaving you deflated and depressed?
Prime Minister’s Questions is every political nut’s favourite time of the week and we all deserve to enjoy it whenever we want.
With that in mind, Pixel Politics has come up with PRIME MINISTER’S QUESTIONS: THE GAME. Play as the prime minister in this satirical, retro style game as he faces his weekly grilling from Her Majesty’s Opposition.
To play, just right click on the “pppmqs.zip” file you downloaded and unzip the folder. You can then play by double clicking “pmqs.exe”.
