teamwork...

[askerian]

... I love waking up with the first sentence of an elusive scene already running through my head, just waiting for me to grab on and unspool.

*writy writy writy* hay gaiz guess where itachi is :D





edit: what the shit did I just watch.

It's an ad for a car. Tropical settings, beach and palm trees, three black guys playing around with cantaloupes (haha look i'm pregnant-type.) they put things in wheelbarrows and race each other...

to a big, brand-new family car where three extremely white, model-pretty, swede-blond women are waiting. Then they load the women's big car to show off how much stuff it can handle. With big goofy smiles on their decidedly-not-model-pretty faces.

I tried very hard not to take it as "look, ma, we're running around being gophers for rich white women and we love it!". I failed. Why the fuck wouldn't one of the guys be white, or one of the women be black, OR BOTH. I have no idea. Nooooo idea.

Oh yeah, the women were pregnant (hey, it's a FAMILY car). So when I pointed out the racism (and my mom agreed) my oh so lovely father pointed out that to him it looked more like white women being porked by black dudes. frrrrrrrrrrgh.

I want to write Karui killing things for some weird and unfathomable reason. :/

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[phantomshade]

...oh curse you and your taunting! *is going to spend the rest of the day mentally debating where Itachi is because she can't decide)

[phantomshade]

And yeah, commercials like that always annoy me, even though we don't really get too many obvious ones in the US these days. I can't remember the last time I saw a luxury car commercial with a black person who wasn't a celebrity driving the car.

[askerian]

*cackles a little bit*

♥ Hopefully i'll have stuff to post in a few hours.

[phantomshade]

I really hope so. If I have to deal with the suspense for more than a day I'll probably have an aneurysm (normally I'd last longer but this is on top of Kishi's BS).

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

my oh so lovely father pointed out that to him it looked more like white women being porked by black dudes.

Which is a pretty damn racist message itself. Here in the states we'd call that race-baiting, and while I won't say such an ad would never make it to TV, it would never stay there for long before outrage pulled it down.

[askerian]

I'm not even going to pretend my father isn't racist and didn't mean it in terms of "why the hell would a rich white woman even defile herself like that and why would they show an interracial family on TV my god who wants to see that shit" because, you know, he totally did mean it that way.

For me, the fact that the black dudes got in the car with the women at the end of the clip was the only thing that made it a little less racist, by implying they were part of the trip. (it sure didn't entirely fix the whole mood of the ad, but, you know. at least they didn't stay behind waving happily as they were left in the dust...)

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! I wasn't trying to say anything about your dad just there -- only about the ad itself. In the states, especially (but not exclusively) in the south, the image of a black man pegging a white woman was an extremely emotionally charged one. And if that's what your dad saw in the ad, then that's doubtless what the ad-makers intended, on one level or another.

A black man could be lynched to death just for 'eyeballing' a white woman, or even for being suspected of doing so. And in case anyone over here tries to tell you that's old hat and isn't a problem any more... John McCain lost the Republican nomination in 2000 largely because Bush's campaign spread rumors in the Southern states that he had an illegitimate child with a black woman. A similar thing cropped up in the 2008 election, when a white woman tried to throw a wrench in Obama's campaign by inventing a story about a black Obama supporter who attacked her and mutilated her face. So uh... it's still pretty messy, over here.

[askerian]

He saw it in the ad because he's a racist dickwad that way. XD; But maybe they thought they were talking about diversity and how multiracial couples were yayhappy. (in that case though, get at least one black chick in the lot! hell, even an Asian one! ... a dark-haired Italian?)

I didn't know that about McCain. @__@ WTF guys.

[kylara.livejournal.com]

hay gaiz guess where itachi is :D

In Sasuke's pants!

Or... not. This is Teamwork, after all. Can't wait to see what you came up with. ♥

[askerian]

In Sasuke's pants!

Man, but I wish. XD

♥

[gothicstargrl.livejournal.com]

*jawdrop re: description of commercial* What. The. Hell. That certainly reinforces my decision to change my career path from "commercial/advertising design art monkey" to "illustration-making art monkey"! And I thought US advertising was bad. JFC. (Aaand now I can see how some of my more headdesk-inducing, failtastic classmates will be employed someday. *eyeroll of despair~*)

*writy writy writy* hay gaiz guess where itachi is :D

...setting up a nursery for his future niece/nephew? :D

Wrong, I know. XD;;; I just got this mental picture of him very intently trying to assemble a bassinet. Or one of those little music-playing mobiles that hangs above the crib. (Ooh! One that plays lullabies that Mikoto used to sing to him and Sasuke when they were itty-bitty! And thus, he unintentionally traumatizes his sibling for the zillionth time. "I don’t know why you’re so upset--remember how you would go right to sleep after that song, little brother?" "Kinda hard to see that memory over the one of you STABBING OUR MOM TO DEATH." "...You always focus on the negative, don’t you.")

[askerian]

;_; problem being illustration jobs don't make much money. I've got a friend in that field and man does she have a hard time.

*lovepets*


I'm cackling so hard, you have no idea. This chapter is going to get so many crack omakes. SO MANY.

... anyone want to write me one, I won't stop them. |DDDD

[gothicstargrl.livejournal.com]

Heh, neither do entry-level graphic design jobs, if you can even find one. There are like nine designers for every one available position, and they tend to pay even less than an average teacher's salary. (Even web designers are having a hard time finding anything that doesn't have crap like "you need at least ten years of experience and the ability to code with twenty different languages for twelve different platforms, and we want it done five minutes ago" in the job description. DX)

Either way, I'm likely going to be freelancing and living off of peanut butter and instant ramen for the first five years or so after I graduate, so I might as well go with the one that I actually enjoy doing and/or is somewhat less tainted by concentrated levels of fail. ...Oh god I just cynic'd myself out. Someone remind me again why I decided on art as a career. D: Especially since I still have thumbnail sketch homework to do for two different classes. *procrastinates moar*


...Speaking of procrastination. *plans crack omake doodles!* >XD

[wakikaki.livejournal.com]

*spits coffee everywhere*

I just got an image of Naruto leaning against the door frame, watching Itachi paint the nursery and saying "Dude, are you sure you know how to paint?"

"Do you see these nails?! Do you know how hard it is to achieve this level of perfection with a miniature paintbrush? And don't even get me started on the havoc a kunai can wreak on them! I'm always having to cover up chips..."

"Oooookay, dude. I'm going to back away slowly now and go say some manly stuff at Sakura's stomach so the kit doesn't end up like it's uncle."

[shewhoflies.livejournal.com]

What a strange ad. What's the selling point? Why would they film something like that? What do racial issues have to do with a car; why bring it up; what were the PR guys smoking? ...yeah, something like that.

That aside, good luck with your writing! :-D

[askerian]

The selling point is "hey, you can fit three guys and three pregnant girls and an army of cantaloupes in that thing and then go on vacation in a sunny place! family cars = yay!" But oh man the unfortunate implications. The racial issues weren't openly brought up, it's just... yyyyeah. DX

[venia.livejournal.com]

Itachi is....ALIVE MWAHAHAHA. I had forgot! :D
If I were him and played hide and seek, I would be behind a tree truck in the forest of the exam, watching Sasuke being nice to Naruto in the river, or just watching Sakura (alone, to be taken as hostaaage before they get baaack) Err. But That's why I'm not him after all!XD;

Car ads make me go 'hmph. yeah, because we WANT to be like that.'
Ads in general annoy me. It was already bad before; it became even worse when we did 'The language of advertising' at uni. I haven't stopped snorting at them ever since lol.

[charcoalcat.livejournal.com]

Itachi is... playing poker with Waldo and Carmen! ♥ ♥ ♥

Fantastic feeling, having a troublesome bit of your fic silver-platter itself for you. It gives you enough grief most days, it owes you one every once in awhile.


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...I knew there was a good reason I'd stopped watching television. Thank you, I need a little validation every few years.

[flourite-roses.livejournal.com]

wth, that commercial should be BANNED! Out of every country and site!! D< idiot racist commercial makers...