I guess thats why some black actors only play the dude type characters in a film, you know the loud up front attitude problem, black panther talkback types, because they understand the innate rub off between character perception and perception of the actor, by the plebian public ? who seem incapable of distinguishing the two ? Having said that most holywood characters white or black seem so narrow and riven with ridiculous stereotype its hard to swallow any of them. Will Smith and Samuel L Jackson only seem to accept such roles that make them look good, perhaps Billy Dee Williams aka Lando showed them why never to be the bad guy ? obviously jackson is better than smith by quite a way but still not great in my book. But I’m sure both have turned to directors at some point and said could we make my character say this or act like that or be a bit more like this, because I dont feel comfortable with these lines and such ? And thats how you end up with actors playing the same person in 20 films.
self irony or not theres something I hate about the vindaloo song and video ? but remember dear keith, waving shit culture in the air and calling it shit, is also gaining it some strength ? so … is such a concept diminished by the creation of this video or empowered by it ? often not mentioning something at all, is the best way to do it down and make it disappear, add no mass to the concept either way. Which of course im failing at, by mentioning it here ? god I’m losing it, easy targets, fish in a barrel and all that jazz … talking of ‘fish in a barrel documentaries’ :
Those facist religious ‘the bible is the truth manual of the universe’ idiots, are pretty easy targets :)
Apparently vindaloo makes him a comic genius ? by support of this cultural trash, he’s a degrader of british culture > the vindaloo video is a hymn to ignorance and filth, which preyed on the mentality of the weak at it’s release, to deliver internationally the most crass presentation possible of british culture. You can’t make money of the back of taking the mickey out of chav and ignorance culture on the one hand (ie your chav king documentary) and then laud it up in a song for profit like “vindaloo” on the other ? well actually you can … it just involves a certain kind… of special blindness, hypocrisy has got some real travel in it, as you can sell both sides of the coin, after all in order to sell one side you have to research the other anyway, so you may as well sell both.
I know your saying… hey… chill guy… its only ‘froth’ ? but… it’s froth that lines the pockets of the obsequious, it’s the kind of filth, that winds me up immensely, and Mr Allen himself doesn’t resist getting wound up by things ;) so why… should I ? The Allen family tribe, hasn’t done itself any favours in my eyes with its activities generally, lily being a bad case in point, living her life in the media eye ? thankfully now she’s married and may have some kids, we will hear bloody less of her ? but I doubt it … knowing that lot. Because famous people in general don’t seem to realise how damaging it is to culture, to have the populace focussed on such crass pointless faces and the false worship of idols with their idiot viewpoint’s, supplied in over-zealous quantity by the media with it’s ‘z grade’ and up, plebrity focussed obsession, seems to reinforce a “news” market(read “NOT NEWS”), of such tripe obsessed… media consumers. As such the celebs keep thrusting themselves in our faces.
And this product was the creation of supposed figureheads in their fields, Damien Hurst ? matt Lucas ? David walliams ? really grubby rubbish in my opinion. how low will intellect sink. OK lets leave Vindaloo behind and remind ourselves of why the media and fame set are irritatingly smug prigs, in case you’d forgotten? who play the self irony card ? if only to further their perception, within the eyes of the audience ?
damn … I can’t actually hate him … fuck ((maybe the Diana documentary was marginally redeeming ? especially if he depleted al fayed of some money in the process ?) And no doubt there is and will remain some conspiracy over it, and no doubt Mossad might have been involved considering her next big proposed campaign was going to be “Israel – Palestine” which she might have had an impact on like landmines or something, but Mossad wouldn’t stand by if that were her cause, because they dont have any rules about what they will and wont do in defence of Israel ((Hence the nicked and abused passports in the Mossad Dubai assassination) did Mr Vague stand up for us as a nation over that ? it went pretty quiet pretty quickly ? and are all dual nationality Israeli / British citizens likewise able still to abuse or be abused in our name ? by ‘helping’ Mossad in this way ? and if so perhaps they should be stripped of dual citizenry ? make a bloody choice).
But to be honest it’s just as likely if not more so that fame and power convinces people they can ride in cars at 100kmh through a tunnel and not wear seatbelts ? and that the driver can drink a couple of ricards and still be fine travelling that fast in what is a confined tunnel whose set speed limit is 45kmh ? all things are plausible in this case. The only real weird stuff that remains surround the paparazzi guy who was found burnt to death in his car in a field and how his office was raided and two people shot after his death and computer equipment and files taken ? that’s remains weird, note though it might not have been related to Diana’s death but it is a bit weird ? Note that really famous people can’t have ordinary deaths ? they have to die in a conspiracy, whereas when we lowly scummers die its just chalked up to something like a heart attack, drink driving, lack of seatbelt wearing, drug abuse, suicide etc ‘we dont get to have a conspiracy theory about us, because ‘WERE JUST NOT DAMN IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO DESERVE ONE’ and because no one cares or gives a shit either way … lol :)
And to be honest though I didn’t fall for her doe eyed dewy eyed confessional interviews (Martin Bashir another man to be annoyed by ?) to the camera and her public draw, she was a woman not to be messed with, who had a weakness for celebrity friends and bedding sports stars and famous people, but she led the celebrity set and all those millions of propagandised people, who loved her, but didn’t really know her, Diana’s demographic of acolytes was a powerful group, and she could use that to change anything she showed an interest in. And to be honest land mine banning is a major achievement that can’t ‘wait for the pun’ be undermined ? apologys i know its bad one.
onward with MR allens works … OH shit his chav king documentary, makes me like him a little, because it’s the right side of a funny piss take, tongue in cheek etc :s bugger
perhaps hes attempting to make up for “Vindaloo” ? lets face it just his deliberate pronunciation of “Metro” … “Pole” hotel ? and the taste of ‘yellow’ did make me laugh ;), and the concierge? do people like that still exist ? who either grew special with age or was probably renowned for it, throughout his career, is the most remarkable character find from a humour perspective :) I almost spat my cup of tea over the keybaord, at that dialog.
Reminded me of an aging scruffy street lounger, I saw today who was of similar voice style to this concierge, sidling up to a pal of mine to blag a rolly, but was further enhanced by humorous uncontrolable interjecting of coughing, and pitch variation like he hadn’t used his voise for a year, that had to heard to be believed. I had to practically bury my face in my efete class large cup of latte and snorkel it into my system whilst grinning, just not to offend the poor guy, as normally i’m pretty sensitive when it comes to people who through perhaps no fault of their have issues. But sadly I found it difficult to control myself, which normally I can manage very well with, but the guys demeanour was so natural and unconsciously hysterically funny my natural smirk, grin and whole body was doubled over with a humour corpsing heaving response that could barely be contained.
god the Davina advert for neutrogena that plays before it is another reminder of how hideous celebs are from a personality perspective.
maybe im being mean ? but hell we have to be mean now again, otherwise no-one ever learns to moderate their behaviour and the unjustifiably forceful ego’s continue to grow.
oh strangely… vindaloo… crops up in the video below to > how weird ? life’s symbols repeating themselves, for some reasons… Keith’s … is a curry ? here he is using his emotional 80’s jobbing actor, class rant tirade routine to intimidate an admittedly weak array of pseudo intellectual table guests who probably threw around dull ideas, vocabulary and attitude he no doubt wasn’t keen on, at least here he is showing some character of some sort, the child that wants attention through tantrum perhaps ? but just like the chav king documentary, Keith as you clearly put it (No Doubt from personal experience) at the end, sometimes the stereotypes that are perceived about us or placed upon on us Keith, we somehow subconsciously like to offer back to a world, thats expects such behaviour and personality from us, and this is a sign of insecurity, because were attempting to subconsciously please the external group and its narrow projections of us.
then later below, he is thinking he’s doing some wonder act ? by offering his vote to an Afghan person or something, no doubt some media pleb celeb campaign that was promoted and he felt worth jumping on board with, but notice the effect of money, and the media life twisting the natural person he once was, into some kind of middle to upper class hypocrite, god what life does to us is nasty, and I guess being some horrendous forceful personality hes no doubt lived so much he’s changed too many ways to retain full integrity over the years ? the media can do that to you…
global village ? wt! fuck… that’s serious propaganda those media whores put out, your ancestors fought for you with their vote… Keith, not so you can give it away to some fucker in another country, regardless of how fucked up our democracy is ?
(I agree with you, that the pint of voting has become to little over the years… I personally like to think of UK democracy as : a popularity contest to vote in the new face of ‘fucking this country, in new and special ways once every four years’)
Anyway you should never have been convinced of this shite voting campaign, but I guess working in the media, your viewpoint and pc quotient, is set for you ? if you want to work with the pc liberal set (though I think you rebel against it a bit least did do), after all you probably have to sign up to some of the crap, or they think your not hip or something ? and you lose media favour and therefore work ? Keith come back to some sort of independent strength and thought and don’t be influenced by others in your media scene. Your rebelistic cantankerousness has a use, as long as it doesn’t dwell within the confines of ego and self, and works to a purpose.
Oh heres Keith acting too, though that whole robin hood revisited thing left me cold pretty much, I’m sure he probably shines compared to some of the cast ? I think i got to old to be interested in fictional stories anymore really, I think i’ve worn that fictional story gene out.
strangely every time I think of anyone in the Media : I imagine… there lips uttering the words “Ok Lovey” and kissing each other on the cheek everytime their within ten metres of each other by regulation, in some transgender internationally effected, effete we own a second home in France how about you ? kind of way ? And this is all it takes, to kill them off in my imagination, Second home abroad Keith ? probably not, but I know a lot of the media set, love a bit of it, it’s so dirregeur for the PC wealth liberal set to displace a native somewhere else, with their oversized ill earned wages, and their astronomical first home property values that have multiplied absurdly with little work on their part (thats what people pressure does for you), like some end game scenario, of shit monopoly on this tiny isle, enabling them to buy up foreign peoples local housing stock, in front of their poor young native children’s eyes. But I digress …
And worse the bastards have affected most of the british populace, to act the same way, As though the Imperial British Standard Handshake (IBSH as i like to abbreviate it) was not enough of a gesture of affection ? Perhaps additionally reserving a ‘my brother’ Hug in the social equipment bag, in case of dire social need, was not thought sufficient? Nowadays we all get thought of, as Howards Hughes freak obsessives, if we don’t comply with these new social greeting regulations, complied with by the public as if they’re were some new european directive, on double cheek kissing imported from the continent? so much so that I myself find myself falling in line with this enforced regime, otherwise I now look cold and old-fashioned ?
I’m mean if we could restrict it, to we all have to greet, ‘of age young attractive people of the opposite sex’ in this manner… then ok it’s not too intolerable. But really I’m happy not do it at all, if only to guarantee warding off, the panoply of fuckers that reach for it by default, as soon as they surface on the horizon of my personal space, like some leaping fawning harpy. Yet if you want a job in the media, it’s no doubt an unspoken hardcore requirement ? which if you fail to commit to your ostricised into last place, like an ‘a cup’ in a wet t-shirt competition. I blame sexually questionable people and actor’s from the 70’s for it, which are pretty much the same group? really they were an incestuous lot, who probably took it to the extreme of sleeping with each other, just to maintain functional work relationships ?
To be honest the more I view YouTube videos of him, I feel for him, like a tired donkey trying it’s best at the beach, to get through another day in the media fame life. when you’ve existed, the length of time he has in the media scene, your bound to have gone back, on and over yourself a few times during the years.
Change change blah blah and all that jazz … I peter out … but sometimes I wish celebs, would disappear from view a little faster than they do. and preferably not to be deified either due to sheer age ? As long as there not committing conspiracies against the masses, a quiet life for them is a fine thing as Mr Allen knows ?
I think my friend my summarised Keith Allen really by saying … and I quote :
“Like him ?”
“Well he’s just Keith Allen really isn’t he ?”
maybe im trying to binarise my likes and dislikes too much, leaving Keith in limbo is an ok decision in this situation ?
just like buying a barn in farmville, the latest exploitation craze from the more agressive sellers of animals and pets in SL is to charge for consumables to keep them active, battery’s or food, etc and if you don’t well take a look at the image below to see the teary unfed zombie pony’s.
look here at this great post from someone who has been through the process and worked out what the issues with mesh are
all the text below is from the link above at Lorelei Armstrong website and he makes some very valid points about the new mesh features of SL and the crippled limitations, the text below in bold is my respsonse to the issues as a person who works in the 3D realm content :
Mesh Problems.
Mesh is not a perfect world. Some of the problems relate to the fact that it is so new and its capacities will grow with time. For instance, at the moment mesh avatar creators are confined to the armature (skeleton) underlying the basic SL avatar. This skeleton is manipulable to a degree, but if you want to be a mesh spider you may have to wait a while.
Other issues:
1. Adding a script to a mesh object will make the prim count explode. This is based on the fact that a script places a heavy burden on SL’s servers. This is true of any scripted object. The controversy that has arisen is that LL chooses not to represent this burden when the scripted object is made of regular prims and/or sculpties, but have chosen to burden mesh. Weighting mesh in this way will likely kill the possibility of certain mesh vehicles and many, many interesting mesh builds and devices.
There is no reason for this ? its effect will limit mesh use
2. The larger the mesh, the higher the prim count. This is another rather dreadful choice from LL, and is a terrific disappointment to building and tree creators. We finally have a prim size increase to 64m and gorgeous big builds are going to be punished. There may be a balance to be had, cutting larger mesh objects into smaller pieces and finding a prim count “sweet spot,” but the purpose of having larger prims doesn’t apply to mesh so much as creators may have hoped.
as per usual this is going to create more buggering around on creators parts unecessarily, prim size has very little effect on server cost or render time, meshes that are used should be the same prim cost whether 4m or 64m in size, again no proper reasoning behind this.
3. The great ability to make a mesh have physical properties, like being able to walk through doorways and walk on floors? Right, that increases the prim count. Want to keep the prim count down? Don’t define a physics shape for your mesh, set your mesh to phantom, and define the physics shape with regular prims (get a good 100% transparent alpha texture— you’ll need it).
Without proper physics cages associated for hardly any extra cost whats the point ? the whole problem with sculpty already is no proper physics or collision.
4. Mesh is one-sided. Imagine looking inside a shape that has a regular texture on the outside and a 100% alpha on the inside. This is due to something called “normals” that tell the system which way light is reflecting off an object and yielding an image. At present they can only go one way. If you want two sides, you have to make two sides. This, of course, increases the prim count.
two sided is more realistic to the physical world but not providing two sided normals means prim cost will be less efficient for lots of things
5. Linking increases prim count. This one is rather infuriating, because mesh is set up to practically require linking to regular prims (see #3). But link a mesh into your regular prim build and watch the prim count of the whole thing go up. Building creators will likely be stuck having to use packaging systems, just as they do when using phantom prims in a build. However, see #1. Rezzing a compound object with the rezzing script in the mesh for final positioning may cause a temporary prim count so high that your customer can’t rez the build.
linking to other prims im not sure why that should increase prim beyond the prim count of the two objects themselves ?
5. Mesh cannot be flexible.
nice feature to have but points 1-4 are more important
6. Mesh avatar faces do not animate.
nice feature to have but points 1-4 are more important
7. Creating mesh requires use of an outside 3D modeling program. I use Blender. Learning Blender is *#&$@&$*@#.
do decent sculptys already ? then that isnt an issue
8. Turning to the very dark side, the potential for vast quantities of mesh to be uploaded into SL from outside libraries is huge. There might be massive intellectual property law violation ahead. Yes, you have to have payment information on file with SL before you upload mesh (so they know who you are), and you have to pass a dorky little quiz about IP issues written by LL’s lawyers to protect them from exposure before you can upload mesh (hint— you can’t fail the quiz). But there are an astonishing number of ways around these flimsy barriers. And that’s not to mention the copybot exploits within SL itself, which are an unaddressed plague.
that will have to be content owner based policing as is currently the case
*Don’t bother trying to upload a mesh at a tiny scale and then scaling up. Doesn’t work. But do be ready to see the prim count of your mesh increase as it grows larger.
Posted by Lorelei Armstrong at 12:59 PM
they remove sims from existence without providing a way of people backing them up ?
this work is for instance now gone from second life permenently only this video remains, linden does not understand the value placed into the virtual world by the users.
AOL and yahoo bye bye, Yahoo the idea that you didnt accept microsofts offer of $31 a share hahahahaha, you thought you had something better on the table ? there is currently no core value in your searchpage, the shareholders of yahoo must hate that $31 a share was offered, and now theyre looking at $13.48 a share to be honest next year it will be $7.49 and the year after half again the year after until it dribbles out, clutching on to a dwindling base of search users gets you nothing in the long run. and aol’s portal webpage offering is likewise doomed. Microsoft dodged a bad buy there in my opinion, plenty of tech giants have bought over-valued companys, luckily some purchasers like google can seemingly get away with wasting money ? on smaller companys that are over-valued, but then perhaps they themselves are over-valued ? though that seems less likely ?
And for the record bye bye myspace except as a band fan site portal, because myspace finally realised that the only way to add proper core value to sustain their site was to focus on the music element, but how long will that sustain them, the social element is of limited value, and if you have critical mass like facebook you still cant presume you wont lose it, as I beleive that any social network offering could be trumped by a better website offering, and the interest in facebook can eventually fade.
very few silicon ceo’s have vision enough to sustain bigtime growth. and unless you physically make things or can transact value from your website, or are able to continuosly write great software your worth is always destined for decline.
Perhaps the moral in the tech industry is “Keep running or you will be run over eventually” ?
Europe as per usual needs more power more control to create the euro wide parity for it to function and deliver on its promises, in other words it needs to take your remaining national sovereignty and democracy and dissolve it further in the european bath acid, otherwise it cant make the euro thing work ? sounds like the line a gambler spins when turning to the wheel one more time, to win back all its losses.
The united states of america is one country divided into states, and europe should not attempt to emualate that model, as really the philosophical idea of a states of the europe, is totally different its about taking tons of different countrys with seperate and independent national identity’s and trying to force them willing or not into one country, fundamentally impractical, and bound to lead to huge trouble, and civil unrest. And fundamentally the way every government of europe has attempted to copy everything america espouses or beleives in, has been obscene to observe.
Though of course europe declares any state dropping out of the european project must face the threat of the possibility of civil unrest according to the pro europeans politicians’s in brussels. to be honest this grand facist ideological superstates of europe thing is beginning to stink of rank ego in my opinion. Its not far from there to one world government, which will basically enable the boot to be firmly be planted in the face of humanity forever. Resist people … peace is stable and limitedly porous and controlled borders people, always has been always will be.
People are tribal they like their national identitys, and this is something europe fears.
