#parad shoes

[monscrow]

SHOE UPDATE!!!

so, i decided to paint some shoes to celebrate revenge's 20th anniv, pride month(/hj), manifest mcr5, and just bc i honestly wanted to lmao

i finally finished them >:D in total it took me like, ~10 hours? something like that? i did finish them in less than two days(one of them being a school day) so there's that, almost pulled an all-nighter on a school night bc of it (i fell asleep during chem class) AHJSJQNAN

anyways, here they are

they're the first shoes i've ever painted and tbh i'm pretty proud

also enjoy the cat cameo + ankle reveal LMAO

[kisielzmozgu]

took inspo from someone on pinterest and did my mcr shoes B)

[ruinedholograms]

Nowhere (1990)

[ducktracy]

The Ducktators is a fascinating little cartoon, though not a particularly enjoyable one. It’s very hard to watch nowadays but your review makes its strengths as animated propaganda very clear. As always, a very nice review. Also, sorry to bring him up, but I always thought the racist stereotype Japanese duck was supposed to be Hideki Tojo (Hi-duck-i Tojo?).

THANK YOU FOR THE KIND WORDS!!! that really means a lot! absolutely, it's not a short i revisit for obvious reasons, but i'm almost glad for that "fresh pair of eyes" point of view because it definitely allowed me to view its directorial strengths much more clearly. in terms of pure cinematography and directing alone, it really shows that Norm McCabe had a lot of potential to be a great director if he wasn't bogged down so much by shoehorning topical references (ie propaganda) into his cartoons! like, this is a crazy shot

it is an extremely fascinating watch to see how they play on the psyche and psychology of the audience. cartoons are manipulative! i know this from working in them! i don't mean that in a bad way, but objectively: cartoons manipulate emotions of the audience and inspire them to laugh, to cry, to be scared, to be triumphant, they manipulate where you're supposed to look or how you're supposed to ingest--or NOT ingest--the information. it's almost comparable to a magic trick. even the most inconsequential, silly, stupid, "nothing" cartoon you can imagine has some sort of subliminality in it dictating how you are interpreting the information on screen. i'm being hyperbolic with my wording and i swear i don't mean this in a Dale Gribble conspiracy theory way LOL. it's just a fact! and it's so fascinating to me! and propaganda cartoons are really at the zenith of seeing how these subliminalities and playing on the psychology of the audience works. obviously, not always (and really, seldom) for the better, but it's very neat to study and see how that is accomplished. it makes for a very fascinating deep dive

I HAD ASSUMED FOR THE LONGEST TIME IT WAS A TOJO CARICATURE TOO.. i've gotten some conflicting information. cartoon wise, i plucked the voice credits from Keith Scott's book, who bills him as a Hirohito caricature, Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald's book just labels him as "a Japanese duck"--i've been getting a bunch of conflicting research, and it evidently seems that historians themselves are in conflict as to the extent of Hirohito's role in the war. i assumed that for the purposes of the cartoon, the duck was Hirohito since it seems he was considered one of the leaders of the Axis Powers, which is of course what the short hinges on. that, and that he was Emperor, whereas Tojo just reported to him. the general consensus seems to be that Tojo took the majority of the blame (obviously, given that he was hanged)--the website of the National WWII Museum points out that Douglas McArthur and Harry Truman seemed hesitant to charge Hirohito with war crimes since they were scared of a retaliatory uprising, given that he was the Emperor, and so publicity instead fell on Tojo.

I TYPED ALL OF THIS OUT BUT I SEEM TO BE PROVING YOUR POINT LOL Tojo seemed to be much more active on the militant side and received more publicity, so i guess that technically would make him a candidate... but given that Hirohito was at the very tip top and considered the reigning Axis leader for Japan, my assumption was that it was him for the purposes served by the cartoon. it'd probably make more sense for it to be Tojo though if he was more directly involved on the military side... that, and it's clear there's a little bit of a divide in power between the Tojo/Hirohito duck and the Hitler and Mussolini duck, but i also assumed that was a byproduct of the clear resentment directed towards Japan, and was just them jumping at any chance they could to belittle and humiliate them. riding on the catharsis of making such a big figurehead seem small and weak and easy to pummel and all that. (it also doesn’t help that the extent of caricaturing is “uhhhhh Japanese people have squinted eyes and big teeth right?”, both Tojo and Hirohito wore glasses and so that’s really the only visual clue… but i guess the duck also has a military cap that probably would be most associated with Tojo)

any historians who are obviously much more equipped to answer this, i welcome any corrections! it's obviously been a bit since my last World History class and i am genuinely embarrassed i can't give a more concise answer :')

[dozydawn]

Sugar Plum Silk Ballerina Shoes by Pavilion Parade.

[daguerreotyping]

Magic lantern glass slide entitled "Man in His Strength" depicting a very fit fellow running in very small shorts, c. 1890s

[hotwaterandmilk]

HOSHINO RURI | POP UP PARADE Good Smile Company 2023

[coolestclowns]

They're dorks, they deserve to dress up they deserve to be stupid they deserve to have fun they deserve to laugh they deserve to be nerds they deserve to dance together they deserve the world. They're my dorks.

Plain version

How would u feel if i told you this is what inspired this drawing

[shartfinz]

currently in Texas do you guys want to see my fish shoes I bought (because I don't have wifi to post art with)

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

Willow honey you HAVE to stop letting people wear shoes on your bed

[f1archives]

Alex Albon, Zhou Guanyu & Pierre Gasly chatting before the drivers’ parade - Baku, September 2024 (📷 Williams Racing)

[maxedes]

so looks like the other shoe just dropped.

translation:

„very chill (/s), ralf schumachers boyfriend is following the rassemblement national, several smaller & bigger extemist right wing politicians and a french right extremist fraternity - thats gonna be fun in the gossip magazins in the coming days“

„hahahha he just liked marine le pens playlist for the 2022 election because there are only gay bangers on there, what can you do“

„ok wow: "student, come to defend your beliefs" - that of a far-right student association that felt censored in february 2023 because the university did not allow its event with french neo-nazi stanislas rigault. étienne 'liked that'“

[p0is0n-is-th3-cur3]

Walmart had some off brand converse on sale for 5 bucks so I got them to paint so here’s my tbp shoes

[swallowtail-ageha]

While we laugh as though broken

Aim for the end, through thick and thin

[ruinedholograms]

Smile (1990)

[kirider]

[01/07/2023]

Eyestrain pallette for eyestrain pants, fair