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Paul Simon You Can Call Me Al
The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2), Warner Bros, 4
Richard Hawley Tonight The Streets Are Ours
(CD Single), Mute
Status Quo The Winner
(CD Single), Fourth Chord Records, 1
Bill Withers Ain't No Sunshine
Shades Of Soul (Various Artists), Global Television
Daniel Powter Cupid
Turn On The Lights, EMI, 1
Michael Jackson Rock With You
Michael Jackson - History, Epic
Texas Summer Son
Texas - The Greatest Hits, Mercury
Neil Diamond Cracklin' Rosie
Neil Diamond - The Ultimate Collectio, Columbia/Mca
Scissor Sisters Baby Come Home
Magic Hour, Polydor, 1
JD McPherson Your Love
Signs & Signifiers, Rounder, 011
Etta James I Just Want To Make Love To You
Etta James- The Genuine Article, Mca/Chess
The Pointer Sisters I'm So Excited
The Best Of The Pointer Sisters, RCA
10cc Good Morning Judge
The Very Best Of 10cc, Mercury
Keane Sovereign Light Cafe
Strangeland, Island, 1
Blues Brothers Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
Simply The Best Movie Album (Various), Warner Strategic Market
Noisettes That Girl
Contact, Absolute
Sly & The Family Stone Dance To The Music
Dancing In The Street (Various), Elite
I confess that I can be a bit of a cynic. When I'm tired and life is tough the cynical bit of me chews away at my belief that the world is good and that people can do great things. So when I heard all those years ago that the Olympics were coming to London, there was a bit of me that said 'so what?' Well I've been working on the Olympic Park for two weeks now and I am pretty much cured of my cynicism.
I love the fact that as you walk through the Park there are yellow, orange and blue meadow flowers all around you, and they've all come into bloom at the right moment.
I love the fact that all the volunteers like me were issued with umbrellas as part of our uniforms, and we're all now using them as parasols.
I love the fact that 60 000 people are taking part in the Opening Ceremony tonight, and they've all kept it a great big secret.
I love the fact that in the Faith Room where I'm working you can find Jews and Muslims and Christians meeting and talking and praying side by side.
The thing that I love most is that someone had a dream that the Olympics could be in the UK. But they didn't only dream it, they also made it happen.
And while all that has been going on, all round the world thousands of athletes have been training and straining to jump that extra five centimetres or shave another tenth of a second off their personal best - and not only believing it, but finding a way of making it happen.
And now the Games are here, and even though I'm only the tiniest cog in this great big machine, it's having a genuine impact on me. It's doing something for my faith. You see the opposite of faith isn't doubt. Not at all. In my experience faith and doubt can live very well together. No, the opposite of faith is cynicism. That's what's really destructive. Faith is all about being able to imagine great things, to believe that things could go well – and of course working to make those things happen. That kind of faith is hard for any of us to sustain when life is tough - and that's true for believers as much as for anyone else. But it's right at the heart of the Olympic Games. Every athlete I've met this week has it; every volunteer I've worked with seems to have it; Seb Coe has it in spades…and I'm delighted to say its rubbing off on me. I hope when we watch the opening ceremony tonight we won't just come away thinking "that was fantastic" – which I'm sure it will be. I hope we'll all come away feeling just a bit less cynical and just a bit more hopeful.
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Living & Loving each day.
Growing up with a white mom and a black dad- the different girl, the one with the different hair and skin, the one who didn't fit in with the whites, the blacks, or any other race, always trying to find who she was.
The one girl who, even as a teen, never had a boyfriend… Dealing With it all much harder than one person may think.That girl was me-
…but Now I know who I am and who I will be in the future, taking it one step at a time, rocking my way to the end, Rocking My Voice and Rocking Who I am- embracing it, and Loving it.

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Believe it or not, I had a feeling it would take decades before the work we did for MTV was explained. Sue Apfelbaum does a really nice job in the New York City 2013 edition of Red Bull Music Academy's Daily Note (download only, sorry.) Personally, I'm looking forward to other entries in Sue's research.
LOGOS: The origins of iconic images from NYC's musical history explained.
DAILY NOTE Issue #12
Red Bull Music Academy, New York 2013
Written by Sue Apfelbaum
MTV, the first 24-hour music-video network, launched on August 1, 1981, revolutionizing both music and television. The brand image that emerged with brave new visual world was a radical as what it represented. Well before Google Doodles and GIFs, founding MTV creative director Fred Seibert flouted "good" logo-design standards when he lobbied for Manhattan Design's block-lettered M and spray-painted T-V —and it's concept of mutability— helping establish the channel's personality as young, rebellious, and unpredictable.
Despite pressure to work with big-name designers, Seibert favored the unknown firm—it was cofounded by his childhood friend Frank Olinsky. Seibert and Olinsky grew up together in Huntington, Long Island, and Seibert credits Olinsky with turning him onto muisc and the revelation that cartoons are made by people. "My father was an animator and commercial artist, and he taught me how to use the tools of the trade," says Olinsky.
Manhattan Design had a tiny shop in the back of a t'ai chi studio above Bigelow Pharmacy in Greenwich Village; it was there…
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In honor of MTV's 30th, an animation frame from MTV's 1st birthday.
Illustrated by Frank Olinsky
Designed by Manhattan Design
Animation by Buzzco Associates
Soundtrack music by Bill Johnson
Produced for MTV by Alan Goodman
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Ah, the 80s.
Within minutes of getting out of the gate, Warner Amex was getting a lot of pressure to license out our logo for swag for the money we could make (it wasn't like advertisers were lining up at the beginning), we were already the hottest thing in pop culture. Our MTV programming boss, Bob Pittman, figured that was the fastest way to spell "fad," which was the last thing anyone wanted. We were in it for the long haul. So, instead, we commissioned Manhattan Design to come up with stuff we'd only give away to our closest friends and allies, and that cable operators could get for contests and giveaways in their local markets.
The hottest items? The blue t-shirt of course. But, the one most in demand, with the smallest supply was always the satin tour jacket, staple of every band in the 80s.
By the way, check out the logo on the duffle bag. Like I've mentioned before there were those who were worried no one would understand we were on TELEVISION, so please, make it BIG.0 comments Tagged: MTVposts, MTV, swag, Manhattan Design, WASEC, MTV logo, logo, branding,.
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"I Want My MTV!" from fredseibert on Vimeo.
Before "I Want My MTV!" Part 1.
I was torn.
My mentor, Dale Pon, had suggested me for my job at MTV Networks (née Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company). He was the creator of distinctive, innovative, and successful campaigns for radio stations across the United States, was a creative and media wizard, if a little, um, intense, and had worked at WNBC radio with my boss Bob Pittman, MTV programming chief. Dale had recently started an ad agency, LPG/Pon with advertising legend George Lois.
John Lack, our executive vice president, was very close to Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising agency for American Express, our half owner. My first exposure to the idea that advertising could be actually be smart came from reading founder David Ogilvy's "Confessions of an Advertising Man." (If fact, it was one of four books I gave to my young staff members.)
I wanted Dale to do the MTV advertising, convinced that only he understood how to promote media, a completely —completely— different beast from tradition consumer products. John wanted Ogilvy. They were the classy choice, and I had to admit it would make us feel, well, bigger. Better? Not so sure.
John won; he was the big boss, and Bob wasn't going to fight him on this one yet. I became the MTV point person, but that was only a little good, because we had a corporate infrastructure above us that thought they should control the communications of the networks. From the first day it was a complete struggle.
We get to the first meeting, and the account team wants to convince us (me) that they deserve the account. They wheel in their resident hipster copywriter, wearing his green and yellow satin tour jacket. He says something about Bruce Springsteen. I point out that Bruce made the decision to rock not to write ads. This relationship was not going to end well.
Our first big fight was over the logo. Big agencies, especially O&M, wanted to control everything about the marketing of a product, which often included actually creating and naming a product. That was not going to happen with us. We'd battled for months about the name (reaching the no-one's-happy compromise of MTV: Music Television) and I'd already been working on the logo with my childhood friend Frank Olinsky and his studio Manhattan Design for almost a year.
So an Ogilvy meeting happens where I tell them about the logo and why it's awesome (this is after weeks of disagreement with our company suits who succeeded in killing the thing once before we swept it out of the fire). They all stare at us silently while the senior account guy pulls out a xeroxed "Ogilvy's Rules for a Great Logo." Checking off the points one by one I proudly point out that we've broken eight of the 11 rules. Perfect for rock'n'roll network!
After that the ads they did for us generally sucked. It was bad enough they kept trying to make logo look "good," but they said nothing and lacked everything. No snap, crackle, or particularly, pop.
When it came time to do a TV ad, they came up with some thing with fancy computer generated purple grids that was supposed to be cool. I didn't really know what a "national" commercial as supposed to be (I'd only produced local radio station spots for Dale) and everyone else seemed to think it was OK, so I went along.
When it came time to make the spot I was in the production company's office (what was a production company anyhow? That's how green we were) in the Hollywood Hills and I hear the producer say to the agency, "What do you want me to do with this logo?"
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"We don't do comic book stuff here. What do you expect us to do with this piece of shit logo?!"
You can imagine the screaming match that ensued, enough to make a wrestler blush. We came to an impasse, they made their junky (expensive) commercial, and somehow I became fast friends with the producer Sherry McKenna (now, the co-founder of Oddworld).
The commercial ran, no one noticed, we fired the famous Ogilvy and & Mather, and the company reluctantly agreed with Bob and me that we engage Dale and LPG/Pon.
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,"spoken by John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the flag having a picture of MTVs logo on it. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history. Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's "One small step" quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound. At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.
Weirdest part for me is Adam Curry's line at the end: "combining the best of TV with the best of radio." There's been a line in Next New Networks' materials since we began: "combining the best of TV with the best of the web." No coincidence that Fred was involved with both.
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MTV: The Making of a Revolution, written by Tom McGrath
By the mid-1990s, a teenager who'd had his mind blown by the music video visual feast was old enough to be a damn good writer and reporter, so Scranton's Tom McGrath (now the Executive Editor of Philadephia Magazine) decided to literally write the book. MTV: The Making of a Revolution told the whole story (it's sadly now out of print, maybe since MTV: Music Television has become MTV) behind and in front of the camera.
As I remember, Mr. McGrath's reporting was fairly complete and, all in all, accurate, in and of itself often a rarity in media reporting. He made me and the work my teams did look good, which made my mother and father very happy. Me too.
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"Over the Edge with MTV"
It's funny, but for all the influence the MTV graphics have had, not much has been written about them. Probably because we were all media people, rather than directly from the graphic design community, we never really worked the press on behalf of ourselves.
But the Oscar winning animator Jon Canemaker is also a dedicated historian. He wrote his thoroughly researched story in the September/October 1992 Print Magazine about the logo and its animation ten years after the channel's debut.
You can read the original article (complete with illustrations) above. Here's the entire text:
Over the Edge with MTV
By John Canemaker
The decade-old video music channel has profoundly influenced pop culture, in part through its dealing, innovative animation.
The broadcast phenomenon known as MTV was launched in 1981 by Warner Communications and American Express with a certain amount of skepticism and worry about its potential fur success. Robert Pittman, then Warner/Amex's 27-year-old director of 24-hour cable service programming (now president and CEO of Quantum Media), had sold his corporate bosses on a concept for a video music channel "with no programs, no beginning, no middle, no end."
After a decade, there is no doubting MTV's enormous success and impact on popular culture. It has influenced fashion. graphic design, music, and movies, as weil as our attitudes about television and advertising, and even our concept of time. The idea for a TV music service was not new, hut Pittman's vision and its execution were. "We realized that almost all TV was narrative in form," wrote Pittman in the Los Angeles Times last year. "The appeal of music, however, has nothing to do with that structure. Music is about emotion and attitude—it makes you feel. It moves you. Within the creation of MTV. we changed the form of TV to fit the form of music, as opposed to trying to fit music into a narrative structure.
In opposition to the practice of the big three television networks, which broadcast a variety of fare to attract the widest possible general audience, MTV would "narrowcast," targeting an audience between the ages of 12 and 35—that is. baby boomers and the generation that came after them. The music would be their music: rock-'n'- roll, and all that that implies.
"It was meant to drive a 55-year-old person crazy," MTV Chairman/CEO [Tom Freston] told the Washington Post in 1989. Conceived as a free-form, open-ended visual showcase of rock-'n'- roll. MTV needed a graphic image that bespoke youth and anti-authority/anti-establishment attitudes, something forever-changing, ever-evolving, and totally cool—on-the-edge and in-your-face. The famous MTV logo—numerous 10-second animated station identification spots seen throughout each day for over a decade—conveys all of the above.
Constantly layered and manipulated, the basic blocky M overlapped by a thin, spray-painted TV remains the same, a logo that is now among an exclusive pantheon of instantly recognizable symbols, such as Coca-Cola bottles, Mickey Mouse, and the CBS eye.
The development of the logo and other MTV graphics, and the extensive use ol animation on MTV, was both organic and pragmatic, according to Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman, partners in the advertising agency Fred/Alan, Inc., which produces on- air promos, sales films, and network identifications for MTV, Nickelodeon, and VH-1, among other clients. Seven years ago, Seibert and Goodman were the team that defined, as Seibert recently explained, "the voice, the sound, the content, the ideas behind MTV the reasons it was important.
Both men come from recording and radio backgrounds: Seibert produced jazz records before Robert Pittman hired him in 1980 to create promotions and programming for the 24-hour Movie Channel, the Warner/Amex cable service that preceded MTV. When Seibert volunteered lo work simultaneously on the proposed music video channel, he brought on Goodman, who had run the copy department for five years at CBS Records' in-house agency, which made album covers, advertisements for radio, and "promotional films that became known as music videos."
"We grew up in a time when rock-'n'-roll was characterized by album covers, as was the culture of out generation," says Seibert. "These rovers defined what we liked to look at, as well as what we believed in. We milted to create little animated album covers for the new generation."
"The MTV logo and animation," says Goodman, "had so much to do with accidents, with ratings. and the limits of technology at the lime, rather than any artistic vision we had." For example, the 10-second running lime of the ID logos resulted from the inability, of the old 2" videotape carts (custom-altered to play in stereo) to cycle cassettes faster. Ten seconds was "interminable" to Seibert and Goodman, who originally wanted three- to four-second IDs, as short as those heard on radio.
They needed an ID that would be memorable to viewers who, in pre-electronic ratings days, wrote down what they watched on TV in a diary. "We were competing against 10, 20 channels and knew We were going to compete against 50, although they didn't exist yet," says Seibert. "We knew we had to create an MTV not for 1980, but for 1990 We had to reach out of the TV set, shake every viewer, and say 'Watch us!"
In developing the image, they considered the nature of rock-'n'-roll—always in a slate of evolution—and its audience, which is always growing up with it and out of it. A certain anti-establishment attitude was apparent among the young turks who created MTV, must of whom, like Pittman, Seibert, and Goodman, were in their twenties. "We didn't want in follow," explains Seibert. "The hell with that. We wanted to lead with our generation. Why hire some designer or art director who graphically defined the last generation? Let's create our own look."
A kinetic, out-sized symbol glimmered undefined in their imaginations, but because neither idea man could draw, Seibert and Goodman sought a graphic design studio. There was only one such place, they felt, that could make their ideas visible: Manhattan Design, a small office run by friend (Frank Olinsky and Pat Gorman) behind a Ti Chi workshop in Greenwich Village. "Their studio was as big as this table. You tell Warner Brothers and American Express that this is who is going to define their logo—they had a cow!" Seibert exclaims.
Manhattan Design produced about 500 logo designs. "They kept coming back with more." recalls Goodman. "The closest to being accepted was a squeezable musical note grabbed in the ass by a Mickey Mouse-style hand and the notes came out of the fingers. We liked it mainly because it was active. The notes were secondary. Our logo, we thought, should have action, unlike the CBS eye." Goodman had, in fact, contacted the "CBS logo policeman," who lead him a list of rules pertaining to the CBS symbol, e.g., it never moves; it never changes: and it can never be put on gym bags or hats, only on pens (or salesmen and top clients. Goodman went down the menu and said, 'We're not going to do this, we're not going to do that, we're not going to do this."
The big M design was on the bottom of a pile of the last 10 sketches submitted, with the TV originally graftitied in, punk- like. "We said that one's it. Go and develop it more, Frank came back with lots of color treatments. 'Here's one.' he'd say, 'that looks as if the M hadn't shaved and the TV was shaving cream: here's one where it's a taxi with yellow stripes; here's one with the bottom like linoleum; here's one all spattered.' We liked each one better than the last," says Goodman.
"It filled the screen and was dimensionalized from the first. It reminds us of Superman comics and the 20th Century-Fox logo. It's grand, big. The spray-painted TV implied action. There was the M and something was done to it. The shadow implied dimension and 3D image. It was more than a 2-D image. It was a logo that willingly accepted juvenile delinquency!"
At the same lime the logo was being developed, Seibert and Goodman were creating short snippets of sound to match the as-yet-undefined IDs. "For the most visually stunning network ever lo launch, we decided to make it sound-based. Build the pictures on top of it, like cartoons," relates Goodman. With no idea how the music would be used, they kept working with musicians until they liked what they heard for 10 seconds and added it to a master reel.
"Again, it was pragmatic." Goodman explains. "We're sound guys, We started in radio and we know music. TV is a talking toaster, if it doesn't sound right, who cares what it looks like." Seibert concurs: "II we put brilliant sound together with medium-to-good pictures, we'd have something great. If we put great sound with great pictures, everyone would salute."
Seibert and Goodman pinned the different versions of the MTV logo on the wall for days and thought about them. Minutes before their big presentation meeting with the powers-that-be at Warner/Amex, "we decided to use them all at once, all the time." Seibert recalls. One of the marketing heads (an older man) balked ("I hate this! It's a piece of junkl"), but he was overruled. "Running on pure adrenaline and instinct." the creative team had six weeks before launch date to come up with nine videos versions of the logo.
They chose animation as a medium for yet another practical reason. Explains Seibert, "Virtually all the videos at that time were in live-action. We knew our M had to be different to stand out." The pre-packaged sound biles were to be handed out to selected animation studios. The only problem was that Seibert and his colleagues didn't know any animators. "We knew Disney's name, that was all," he recalls. They tailed in 100 sample reels from trade paper ads and "hated one more than the other."
A few rock- 'n' -roll spots using Xerography (Xeroxed photos manipulated under the camera frame-by-frame) appeared on a reel from a small company in San Francisco called Colossal Pictures. "All of a sudden." says Seibert, "everything else was Doc Severinson and this was Little Richard. These guys had the beat! They got it! We jumped up and down. 'It can be done!'" They sought reels from other little-known independent animators, instead of large established cartoon shops, who wanted a package of spots for big bucks.
"Anything else that anyone was doing, we weren't going to do," says Seibert. Indeed, this idea became a kind of rallying cry. They surveyed the standard cel techniques used in the studios and went in the other direction- finding animators who specialized in alternative frame-by frame designs using clay, cut-out, puppets, and pastels, crayon, or watercolors on paper. "We wanted to do what everybody else was absolutely ignoring." Budgets were small and schedules tight, but the independents eagerly undertook the work, for MTV offered a rare national showcase for personal, quirky, non-traditional animation.
Colossal Pictures filtered a group of West Coast animators through their company to MTV, to join a growing number of colleagues from the East and points north, including Eli Noyes, Broadcast Arts, George Griffin, Jerry Lieberman, and Joey Album in New York, Olive Jar in Boston, and International Rocketship in Vancouver, "We wanted on-the-fringe people, like us, People we felt comfortable with," says Seibert. "To this day, we have our closest relationships with the animation community."
Ironically. "Man on the Moon," one of the most famous of the earliest animated logos, with a now-familiar electric guitar riff, was animated by Buzzco, a commercial animation studio. "At the time." says Seibert, "we shared space with Buzz Potemkin, head of Buzzco, and we liked him. We said to him we felt MTV was as big a TV event as ever happened; it was going to change TV that much. We had this idea of copying the biggest TV event in world history—the man walking on the moon—usurp it to ourselves, the juvenile delinquents of MTV," Potemkin agreed to produce the spot, which used public domain NASA footage of a rocket blasting off, cross-dissolving into stills of the 1969 landing on the moon. The American flag was cut out and various types of MTVs were substituted. The original piece, intercut with coming attractions, was 10 seconds, so Seibert and Goodman looped one of their prepackaged, free-form music pieces (a guitar solo) three times.
Over the last 10 years, the popularity of animation on MTV has been enhanced by top rock performers using the medium creatively in videos. The increased number of videos using animation, and using non-traditional frame-by-frame graphics, is a direct result of the audiovisual impact of the off-the-wall I0-second logos.
Among the more memorable videos in terms of imagery and an impressive variety of unusual animation techniques are "Sledgehammer," in which Peter Gabriel's face and body and other three-dimensional objects are pixilated; "Opposites Attract," which features Paula Abdul's tap adagio with a cartoon alley cat (modeled nostalgically on Gene Kelly's workout with Jerry the Mouse); "Harlem Shuffle." which intercuts Mick Jagger with Bob Clampett-like cartoon cats: "Hard Woman," in which Jagger appears with a computer-generated female; and "Leave Me Alone," in which Michael Jackson combines photo animation and Xerography of himself and Elizabeth Taylor in a surreal Jacksonland amusement park.
MTV's decade of continuous showcasing of all kinds of animation has been an important component in its public acceptance, which is at an all-time high. Always on the lookout lor things other people are ignoring. MTV itself continues lo compete with its own brand of on-the-edge animation.
John Payson, director of creative, and Abby Terkuhle, VP-creative, are currently responsible for all MTV on-air promotions, as well as the overall look and packaging of ongoing and new programs, contests, and image productions, including network IDs and an breaks. Their commitment to animation on MTV is strong.
"Animation is a direct line from the director's brain to the screen." says Payson. "It's become a viable adult entertainment medium. There's no limn to what the imagination ran do." adds Terkuhle, who keeps abreast of current animation designs and artists by attending international animation festivals around the world. The team produces a dozen or more logos annually, though now says Terkuhle. "we have global talents to lap into, including MTV Europe. MTV Asia. MTV Brazil, and soon," international affiliates that have been established with MTV's growing success.
Three years ago, Payson and Terkuhle look steps to develop and expand MTV's animation offerings in a number of imaginative ways. They commissioned "short form" pieces (films longer than 10 seconds) to play between videos, such as the serialized "Stevie and Zorn" by Joe Zorn, "Brute" from Britain's Mike Smith and Malcolm Bennett, and "Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions." from Henry Selick on the West Coast.
With MTV U.S. and MTV Europe, they sponsored an international competition for IDs, and, more recently, animated public service announcements addressing world problems and solutions. Over 600 entries were received, 10 of which will be aired on MTV affiliates throughout the world.
Showcased on late-night weekends is a series originally produced for Nickelodeon. "The Ren & Stimpy Show." an anarchic throwback to the wild, stretchy squashy old-Style Warners/Bob Clampett animation beloved by boomers, who have made the show an instant cult favorite.
Most provocative of the current animation projects, however, is MTV's "Liquid Television," a half hour animated variety series combining "underground animation, over-the-edge graphics, and stories from beyond the fringe." Colossal Pictures (the original MTV animation supplier, now a large and diversified animation/live action producer) shopped a proposal for an animated magazine first to HA! and then to MTV. With changes, "it was perfect for us," says Terkuhle. "sort of a melting pot of different animators showcasing what we were doing in short forms and IDs in a half-hour show."
Now in its second season, "Liquid Television." with both self-contained and serialized segments, pushes the edge in animation looks, content, and format. Techniques are dazzlingly eclectic, ranging from traditional cel, 3-D puppets, and clay, to computer paintbox. Fifty-seven different segments composed the first "Liquid TV" shows, with nine Colossal Pictures directors creating segments and 13 other directors providing more. According to the trade journal R.E.R, "All of these pieces had to be woven into a continuous tapestry of animation and sound by Colossal/Music Amex Audio Post-Production," which is based in San Francisco.
The programming is varied; there are the violent "Dangerous Puppets," who beats the Stuffing out of one another: and "Aeon flux," an action/intrigue, slick-looking cel animation serial, described as "non-stop death" by Advertising Age. "Stick Figure Theatre" presents reductions of scenes from famous movies, plays, newsreels, and music videos, performed by a forgotten troop of line drawings from "the other side of the inkwell." "Invisible Hand's" is a multi-plane animation by underground comix artist Richard Sala. "Art School Girls of Doom" uses live-action against collaged backgrounds. Clay animator David Daniels's "Buzz Box" uses the so-called "stratocut" technique, which involves slicing through a lump of clay that has sequential images inside of it. "Ms. Lydia's Makeover," by director/writer Gordon Clark, employs Macintosh Photo Shop and Quantel Paintbox to present "Eastern European expert" Ms. Lydia, who weekly enhances the physical features of well-known celebrities with a "beauty computer," and whose personal credo is "the better you look, the more you see."
"We're more into animation than special effects," Payson told Advertising Age recently. "We're more interested in animation per se—that direct line to the unconscious. We think simple, which is something I always strive for. Effects for effects sake are not what we're looking for."
"Liquid Television' is the greatest," comments Alan Goodman. "Payson is brilliant," says Fred Seibert, "and we could never produce what Abby [Terkuhle] produces. 'Liquid' is never going to get big ratings on MTV because for the general audience it's just a little too out there. But it'll do well enough, and it maintains the image MTV has to have. Even if they don'l watch it, they have to know its there, they have to know MTV is pushing the boundaries."
John Payson concurs: "One of ihe things we've had to overcome in ibis country it the perception thai animation is for kids, light and fluffy .mil Saturday morning. I like to think MTV is helping to overcome that misconception. We're able to show the potential lor this kind of storytelling. We're a small part of a renaissance, something really exciting in the industry-at-large."
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Jon Canemaker's 1992 article on MTV's graphic design included some of the original logo development I had forgotten about for 30 years, and it makes a nice companion to my first logo post. My creative partner Alan Goodman and I were interviewed, as was the Manhattan Design group that created the logo in the first place. Also, the teams put together by Judy McGrath and Abby Terkuhle are well represented with the great work they did after we left.
Our early 1980 logo choice came before the channel was even named, so we opted for a pure graphic. Manhattan Design thought it was symbolized "fresh squeezed music." We thought it was fun.
We also liked the idea that musicians (like Rick Nielsen from Cheap Trick) could interact with the logo. The network would hold onto the idea even when the logo evolved.
Finally, in the spring of 1981 we settled on a compromise name that no one really liked (really. "MTV" sounded clunky to some and reminded others of the really popular MTM production company), and Manhattan Design quickly tried to integrate the squeezable note into the call letters. Alan and I just as quickly decided we needed to go in another direction. Did I mention we needed to do it quickly?
MD partner Patti Rogoff came up with the "M". Frank Olinsky drew this "TV" because of the prevailing "new wave" design trends. "M" good, "TV" *gong*.
I barely remember this version. MD's Pat Gorman says in the article that it was because of "nervous higher ups." She could be right.
MD's Frank Olinsky spray painted the "TV", drips and all, in the Manhattan Design stairwell. The "M" was painted later when someone was worried about the big M not reading. Or something like that.
Click here for my other posts about MTV.
I came upon this photo on Flickr of the first MTV bumper sticker (part of a 1981 pre-launch promotional package that included a duffel bag, poster, buttons, and this) and a few trivia things about pricked by attention, completely aside from the fact that it was 'the first.'
The first approved MTV logo design & colors
• The logo:
Like with everything at the beginning of a venture, everyone thinks they're an expert. And when it came to the MTV logo, which broke almost every rule in the book, there were even more opinions as to what was wrong with it, and what could be changed to make it right.
In this case, there were many who believed you couldn't read 'Music Television' on the logo design. And that would be tragic; people wouldn't know what we were! So, they asked me to have the designers to "fix it." Manhattan Design came up with a decent solution, which was only used this once; expand and extend 'Music Television' BIG, for those who couldn't read.
• "On cable.":
Almost no one in America knew what cable television was in 1981, and if they did, they thought it was synonymous with HBO (or "the Home Box" as many put it); fewer than 500,000 homes could get MTV when it launched. We had to tell people where to see this weird all music television thing. Was it on CBS? Channel 13? Where?
• "In stereo":
"A television is a metal box which a crappy speaker in the side," said the company's first president.
Hard to believe, but no television sets could play programs in stereo in 1981. We were selling MTV to a generation that only wanted the quality of stereo (hell, we were that generation) and we knew it was a technological must.
We went really far to do this do. "In stereo" was one of the top "promises" we made on the air, producing hundreds of wacky promos to prove our point. Since no TV's had two speakers, we created our own kit where you could link your stereo record player to your set ("You Can Make Your TV Stereo!!!" named by Alan Goodman), which was sold locally through the cable operator (another way for them to make some dough during a time that was no so assured in the cable biz).
And the music itself. The videos came to us with an believably bad, mono, audio track; it hadn't mattered to the music companies up until then, the videos were mainly for play on international television stations, even more technically backwards than ours. Andy Setos, the head of the engineering team, went in an re-synced every single one of the clips from a stereo audio master, and, if necessary, took an LP (an LP!!) for the sync. Geez.
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Bumper sticker on my office wall, 1981
A little known fact about MTV Networks (originally called Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, a second little known fact) was that its original strategy called for the eventual launch of ten networks. They thought about games and sports, in addition to music, movies, and kids; their fourth one was to be shopping. As the company's creative director, my team went to work in the Spring of 1982.
Before Home Shopping Network there was to be ShopAmerica, the world's first all shoppping TV channel. After all, the half owner of the company was American Express; that's why they invested in cable television, after all.
There are a lot of network development levels that are too boring to go into (and the minute HSN launched it was clear how our strategy would have failed), but since I've always loved working on logos and branding I hung onto our attempts for ShopAmerica. George Lois and my mentor, Dale Pon, art directed for their agency LPG/Pon.0 comments Tagged: MTV Networks, Shopamerica, WASEC, Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company, branding, logo, Dale Pon, George Lois,.


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A new report shows almost half of South Dakota's pregnancies are unintended.
On Dec. 18, Guttmacher Institute released a new tool offering more than two dozen state-specific indicators related to unintended pregnancy.
According to Guttmacher Institute, 47 percent of South Dakota's pregnancies were unintended in 2006, with a national average of 49 percent.
Also in 2006, 72 percent of South Dakota's unintended pregnancies resulted in births, and the abortion rate was 13 percent.
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A Brief History of the Milverine
Perhaps you've seen him: The surly man skulking through the streets of Milwaukee. Once known as the Water Street Wolverine, he has now been dubbed simply, "The Milverine".
If you can capture him on film, you can guarantee the pic will be a granular, blurry shot. Never make eye contact with this manbeast.
Over the course of the last year or so, I've been able to catch him just a handful of times. This is another look at those rare glimpses of…
The Milverine.
The first time I captured him was also the best time. Never again would I get so close. I was brave, fearless even, inconspicuous in my driver's seat, acting like I was playing Angry Birds. I feel even then, he KNEW.
At times you can catch a glimpse of him from our office windows. If you're stealthy, you can get up from your desk and get him from a window. Sometimes he does a little trot-run and he's gone in a flash. You can tell it's the dead of winter in this shot because he's fully dressed, but his sleeves are rolled up a little. BAD ASS.
Sometimes you get lucky and look up and he's just RIGHT THERE. Think fast.
Other times, you miss him.
Often, in fact. He's quick, that one.
I've had to become even more ninja-esque in my attempts to catch Milvy on camera. If you look VERY closely, you can see him in my rear view mirror. Warning: Objects are closer than they appear. LOOK OUT.
And then you get that special rare moment where you scream at your friend to "Pull over, quick! It's the Milverine!" and you get a great shot from the back, WITH time and temperature as proof in the background. 69 degrees? Shirtless Milverine.
I salute you, Milverine. Your stealth is incomparable. Until we meet again, my friend.


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For more than 100 years, birders of all levels joined together to count bird species all over the United States and abroard. Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society sponsors several of these counts each year, both at Christmas and in early summer. We need help from birders of all abilities so we can continue collecting this important data.
Join other counts such as the Great Backyard Bird Count in February and Project FeederWatch from November through early April.
Summer Bird Count
SCVAS sponsors a bird count each year near the beginning of June, which covers a portion of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (same area as the Palo Alto Christmas Bird Count). As well as counting birds, groups of observers also record any signs of breeding, such as mating, nest building, or feeding of fledged young. These counts are important in documenting trends of breeding activity. Birders of all levels are encouraged to participate, and a "countdown" dinner is held the same evening.
Palo Alto - Saturday, June 7, 2014
Count birds in areas from from Skyline Drive to the bay in a circle that is centered near Stanford University. In addition to the popular birding locales in the circle, it also covers many urban areas of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Scheduled on the first Saturday in June. Please contact our Programs Coordinator at (408) 252-3740 or by email.
Winter Christmas Bird Counts (CBC)
Each December we participate in several Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) sponsored by the National Audubon Society. Organizations use data collected in this long-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations and to help guide conservation action. Read about how the data are used and about the
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Each of our four predefined count circles are divided into sectors by the count leader and teams are assigned to count birds in each sector. Counters with less experience are teamed with those with more experienced. Even if beginning birders can't identify every bird, they provide important "extra eyes" in finding birds. A "countdown" dinner (donations to cover the food are gladly accepted!) is held on the evening of the count, where groups share their results and tell tales of the day.
If you'd like to help, please contact the count leader listed below at least two-weeks before the count day or contact us.
Publication of Results
Since 2012, National Audubon Society does not charge the small participant fee to publish CBC results. Instead they now publish all CBC results online.
San Jose - Sunday, December 15, 2013
This is our longest running count. It offers many different habitats to count: shorline, woodlands, lake-side, riparian, and urban parks in areas of San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Alviso. Please contact Kirsten Holmquist before December 10 at (408) 747-0988 or email her at [email protected]
San Jose count form spare copies (these are contained in the packet that will be distributed):
• Uncommon or Rare Species Report
• Sector Summary
• Party Summary
• Party Hours and Miles Worksheet
Palo Alto - Monday, December 16, 2013
Count birds in areas from from Skyline Drive to the bay in a circle that is centered near Stanford University. In addition to the popular birding locales in the circle, it also covers many urban areas of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Many habitats are covered. Please contact Jack Cole at (408) 996-0434 or email him at [email protected]
Palo Alto participants should submit the completed copy of the Palo Alto Christmas Bird Census checklist sent to them by their regional coordinator that has the proper information filled out at the top.
Palo Alto count forms:
• Rare bird documentation form
• Census checklist (Participants should submit the copy of the bird checklist sent to them by their region coordinator. If you have to use this blank copy, you MUST first fill out the top line of each page with information obtained from your coordinator.)
Calero-Morgan Hill - Saturday, December 28, 2013
This is the only count covering southern Santa Clara County. The circle includes the Diablo Range foothills to portions of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Some specific areas of interest include Coyote Creek (including Ogier Ponds), Almaden Lake Park, Quicksilver County Park, Guadalupe Oak Grove Park, Coyote Valley, and many reservoirs. Please contact Ann Verdi at (408) 266-5108 or email her at [email protected]
Mount Hamilton - Monday, December 30, 2013
This scenic count circle includes Mount Hamilton and the San Antonio Valley. Interested counters should contact Bob Hirt at (408) 821-2732.
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CHESTERTON | As a nurse practitioner with CVS MinuteClinic, Natalie Babcock had seen her share of strep throat, bladder infections and allergy flare-ups.
But a murmur she noted echoing through her stethoscope one day last year may have saved a life and earned Babcock an accolade in the process.
The married Chesterton mom of four remembers the day she met Camie Brown "like it was yesterday."
Brown, a Liberty Township teen, was in for a routine physical.
"She was this cute, ponytailed, athletic girl who came in at the last minute for her physical," Babcock said.
Babcock and Camie's mother, Sophie Brown, chatted about their common threads as Babcock prepared for the exam.
"We started doing the physical," she said. "When I listened to her heart, that's when it all started. Her mom could read it on my face."
Babcock had Camie's mom, who also is a nurse, listen through the stethoscope.
A murmur.
Babcock couldn't clear Camie for sports activities, and she referred her for further testing.
A specialist discovered Camie had an atrial septal defect, a hole in her heart 2.6 centimeters big. And her heart was enlarged.
Doctors at Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., treated Camie, who has returned to life as a normal teen. She even went to Homecoming as part of a triple date with Babcock's son.
Babock's supervisors nominated her for a national award through CVS after hearing Camie's story and seeing Babock's history of volunteerism and positive reviews from patients.
The CVS Caremark Paragon Award recognizes the company's "best and brightest," according to CVS. It is the highest honor a colleague can achieve within the company.
Babcock and eight other employees from across the nation won.
"Natalie is a dynamic provider with excellent assessment skills who treats all her patients like family to ensure that they get the care and attention they need," said Patricia Chavez-Columbo, MinuteClinic statewide practice manager for Indiana. "Because of this, she changed the life of a young athlete. We're proud to have her on the MinuteClinic team."
Babcock was at a conference in Las Vegas when she was surprised with the news. She was flown to Orlando for the ceremony.
"I felt like a queen," she said. "They treated me like a rock star."
As part of the prize, Babcock and a guest will take an all-expense-paid trip anywhere in the world.
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Would You Like to Be Instantly Smarter?
Here's a scientifically proven way to make your home office smarter and by extension, make yourself smarter.
Ready? Get a plant. Put it nearby. Keep it alive. Pretty simple, but truthfully, effective.
The main benefits of plants seem to do with cognition and retention of information. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences conducted a "Reading Span" test to see how well office workers in performed in remembering information in rooms with plants and rooms without.
Here's an excerpt from their findings:
To test their hypothesis that plants in an office setting would lead to benefits, the authors placed some participants in an office with four plants placed around a desk, and others in the same room without plants. ... Results of the experiment showed that the participants working in the room with plants improved their performance from the first to the second Reading Span Task, while those in the room without plants did not.
In addition to the reading retention results, the researchers also found that offices with plants reported a reduction in fatigue during demanding work. It's spring, so I'll be getting some plants and maybe getting a wee bit smarter too.
A copy of the study is available from Science Direct.
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What if the plants are behind glass, say in an enclosed atrium, right next to the desk? Will that make me any smarter?
I thought the tip was going to be to drink a cup of coffee.
Sounds like we should be getting 4 plants and placing them around the desk.
And I'd love a plant in the home office. But I just kill everything. I've killed orchids and african violets. :( It's ridiculous.
I have a black thumb, but I've had REALLY good luck with snake plants in my office and home.
That said, I don't feel much smarter.
Love it! But once (and only once), when I was "doing my time" in a mind numbing & soul crushing office job, I found that my IQ jumped through the roof once I packed my supplies into a cardboard box and got the heck out of Dodge. And I took my potted plant with me!
Orchids and African violets are actually kind of touchy about growing conditions; don't make them your measurement for whether you kill everything or not! Try a crown of thorns, an aloe plant, some mint, or a good old golden pothos -- all of those thrive with indoor lighting and don't require much tending. Mint wants to be cool and moist; give it that and it'll take over all the space you let it have. The pothos wants a good soaking about once a week (I use my bathtub, and let it sit until it completely stops dripping) and will wilt to tell you when it needs more water. The crown of thorns and the aloe vera don't want much water, nor do they want to be in a window -- indirect light is good, and do the same drenching and draining as the pothos, but only when they really feel dry or the leaves are limp.
@denisegk orchids & african violets aren't easy plants! I have a green thumb -- and I can't grow those. Easiest? Clip a few pieces off an office pothos or philodendron and put them in a clear vase with water. Keep the water over the level of the roots. Done!
I like the idea hope its true.
hah! I knew I was doing the right thing when I refused to be "strongly encouraged" to get rid of my plants. They make it so much nicer in this sterile office.


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It has been quite a while since we last an mSATA solid state drive (SSD) under the microscope. It's actually only been about two years, and if you care to jump into our time machine, you can see what we had to say about Intel's 310 Series mSATA SSD in 80GB form. The idea then was the same as it is now -- to offer full-size SSD features and performance in a smaller form factor that can wiggle into increasingly thinner Ultrabooks and mini PCs like Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC). Intel's forging ahead with mSATA SSD production and just recently released its 525 Series (Lincoln Crest), essentially a smaller version of the company's high octane 2.5-inch 520 Series...
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These are certainly showing some impressive numbers give their size, both on a capacity and performance side. I like the shelf life intel is claiming too.
If those numbers hold up I am impressed.
Guess this would be cool for very small form factor builds but other than that, i don't really see the point of picking mSATA over a regular SSD especially when it is a lot cheaper.
I would have to agree with you. Its nice that money and time were invested to make these or different things but I would still keep my regular SSD in my full tower case but hey who knows that could change in a couple years or something.
My current SSD only measures to half of what this guy can put out, but I'm still too satisfied with mine to consider switching.
I hope for an SSD 120 gig near 120$ with 50.000 iops / 80.000 iops was made soon !
Paul, love the NUC + Cooler Master photo!
You mentioned that the pre-production NUC exhibited some instability. We've been monitoring this issue and find that even after the new bios update the Intel NUC, when paired with the Intel SSD and a wireless card, can overheat at a 50% duty cycle.
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"Yes," he says with his adorable smile. You sit up on your right arm, and kiss him, he kisses back. You pull away after a few seconds, and snuggle up to him. You yawn. "Someone's tired," he says with a smile.
"Just a bit," you agree with him.
"Ok, then lets go to sleep," he says reaching over, and turning off the lamp. Shortly after you fall asleep…
(((Oct. 21st 2009 7am)))
"Dad!" Hailie yells pounding on Marshall's bedroom door. You sit up yawing.
"Shit, what time is it?" you ask.
"7am," Marshall says quietly. "Shhh, the girls don't know you're here," he says pressing his finger to his lips. You nod. "Just a second Hailie!" Marshall yells getting up, and looking for his clothes. "I gotta drive them to school, and I'll be right back," he says.
"That's ok, I have to get going anyway, Jake's probably wondering where I am," you whisper.
"Aww, nooo," he whines. "Stay with me, I don't got anything to do," he whispers.
"But," you say.
"Come on," he says giving you lip.
"Now I cant say no, that was just to cute," you say with a smile. He smiles then goes into the bathroom, then comes back out and leaves the room.
"Daddy, what's going on in there?" Hailie asks you pointing to your door as you close it.
"Nothing," you say quickly.
"Dad, don't lie to me, I know someone is in there," she says.
"No ones in there. What makes you think someone is in there?" you question demanding an answer from your 13 year old daughter.
"I heard voices," she said. "One sounded like Jakes mom," she said.
"That's cause I was practicing voices for my music," you lie. For some reason you didn't want to tell her the truth, shes you daughter, shes 13, and its just odd. Plus she would get all up in your face and be all I told you so, I knew I was right about all this! You hated to be told that. You always wanted to be right.
"Daddy, you lie!" she said giving you a glare, and pointing at you. You sake your head.
"What did he lie about?" Alaina asks coming up the stairs.
"Nothing!" you say answering the question.
"I was talking to Hailie," Alaina says annoyed with you.
"Jakes mom is in there," Hailie says pointing to the door, with an evil grin.
"Ohhh go Dad!" Alaina says, holding up her hand for a hi-five.
"Alaina!" you yell. "Now you two stop this, and get ready!" you yell.
"Ok Dad, but I will find out if you lying to me. I'll just ask Jake," Hailie claims with a creepy looking smile on her face. You ignore that fact… Then after the girls get ready you take them to school.
You fell back asleep before Marshall came back. But you were woken up once he go to in the bed. You open your eyes and look over at Marshall. "Hey babe," he says and kisses you.
"Hi baby," you say kissing back. After a bit you pull away from him laying back down cuddling up to Marshall. You two go back to sleep. You sleep until about 10am. You sit up and Marshall is not beside you. Where'd he go you think to yourself. You set up, get dressed then go downstairs. The second level smells like bacon and eggs. You walk though the kitchen doors. "Something smells good," you say hugging Marshall from behind.
"Hey, sleepy. I was gonna bring you this in bed," he said sort of disappointed.
"Fine, I'll go back upstairs," you tell him. You have to go to the bathroom anyway so you go back to the bedroom, and do your thing in the bathroom. Your jeans start to feel uncomfortable so you take them off, and go to grab one of Marshalls shirts that was hanging on his desk chair, you change into just his shirt and your underwear, then get into the bed. You sit there waiting for Marshall to bring you food. You are really hungry. Soon after Marshall comes back into the room with two trays. He slowly walks over to you, and hands you one tray. "Thank you baby, this looks good," you say looking at the eggs, toast, bacon, and glass of orange juice. You pick up as piece of bacon as Marshall slowly sits in the bed. "Mmm yum," you say finishing that piece of bacon.
"Im glad you like it," Marshall says taking a drink of his orange juice. (War, the movie rude…. Jason die. Its 3am in the morning!!) You smile at him, he smiles back. You watch The Last House on the Left while you eat. You finish eating before the horrible rape scene come on.
"That's terrible!" you say angrily.
"Yeah it is," Marshall agrees. "If I found out someone did that to Hailie I would kill him!" he says angrily. He stares angrily at the TV until the rape scene is over. By the end of the movie your freaking out worried about the boy, and the good family. You're very tense and concentrated on the TV, you're even leaning closer to the TV, you're just that into it. Marshall moves brushing your hand causing you to jump. Marshall giggles.
"Damn you!" you say loudly.
"Sorry, I didn't try to," he apologizes. The family got away, which made you happy. You gigged to see what happened to the guy who raped the girl.
"Haha, microwaves are funny," you giggle. Marshall looks at you funny.
"What?" you ask spreading your arms apart. "He deserved that shit!" you yell pointing to the TV. Marshall slightly smiles, and shakes his head.
"That movie was sick," Marshall says discussed.
"Yeah, but I liked it, you know what I mean?" you ask looking over at him.
"Yeah, that rape scene is just ugh, sick," Marshall says. (MTV SUCKS!!!)
"Yeah, that's the only part I didn't like," you say.
"Anyway what happens now?" you ask looking at Marshall. He shrugs, you get half way on top of him, and kiss him. He kisses back..
"Ohhh." he says still kissing you. He flips you over so hes now on top of you… you continue to kiss, he kisses you passionately. He reaches hes hands up to your waist, sliding off your underwear. You grab his boxers and pull them off, revealing his already hard dick. You pull off your and his shirt. Then pull him down on you, causing him to slide into you, you let out a moan of pleasure. You're so glad you stayed now. He kisses your neck for a while then slowly moves down to your breasts, he sucks on your right nipple. You let out another moan as he pushes harder. You dig your nails into his back, as he pushes harder going deeper into you. He finishes with your nipple the kisses you on the lips, you kiss back, he slides his tongue in exploring your mouth. He begins to give you breathy kisses as he starts moving faster.
"Oh, God, Marshall don't… stop," you say in-between breaths. (Wayne on TV) You both start running out of breath. He gives a big thrust, you did your nails into his back and moan in pleasure. He kisses you deeply, your just about to reach your climax, he pushes in as far as he can, you let out a loud moan, as you feel him cum inside you, he slows down a bit then he collapses on top of you. Breathing heavily, a few seconds later he pulls out, and lays next to you. You both lay there trying to catch your breath. (now they talk about sex toys on TV and Im writing sex… lol wow)
"Damn," he says after a few minutes pass by. You lay your head on his chest, he puts his arm around you. "That was…wow," he says. You smile and cuddle closer to him. "Damn I fuckin love you," he says, putting his hand under your chin and lift it up so he could kiss you, you kiss back.
"I love you so much," you say and get even closer to him. You fall asleep again not long after.
The next few days were awesome, the kids all know your going out. You just missed your period, your about 4 days late so you decide to go to the gas station and grab a pregnancy test on the way home from work. On your way up to the register you see a magazine with you and Marshall on it. You're at Meleah's. You could tell cuz shes standing in the background staring at Marshall. The cover reads: 'Eminem has a new girl after 3 years' interested you pick up the magazine and by that too. You get into your car, and read the article. It was nothing bad, just sayin that you look like your Ems new girl and whatever. There was something about him getting sober too. You threw the mag, in the back of your car then pulled out your cell calling Marshall. "Ayo," he answers.
"Babe, you home?" you ask him.
"Uh, naw Im at the studio, something wrong?" he asks confused.
"No, I just need to talk to you," you say. "Can I come down?" you ask.
"Yeah sure," he says.
"Ok be there in a bit babe," you say.
"Bye," he says then hangs up.
Once you get to Shady Records, you go look for Marshall. You find him in the studio sittin on the couch. "Hey babe," he says as you walk in, he gets up and kisses you. "What's that box?" he asks pointing to it.
"A test. I might be pregnant," you say.
"Really!?" he says excided.
"Yeah," you say. "I just gotta do this test," you say.
"Ok well go do it!" he says getting excided.
"Chill," you say walking into the bathroom. You pee on the stick. If your pregnant, the stick shows a smiley face, if your not it shows an X. You come out….
"What does it say!?" he asks.
"Just relax, you gotta wait for a few minutes," you say trying to calm him down…. A few minutes pass by, and Marshall is get all excited and in your face.
"What does it say!" he says jumping. You look at him as if hes crazy…
"It…" you start. (So its like 4am, and Im done writing, guess you have to find out what the results are in the next story… haha!)


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benrussell7 said...
So, like, do we have to talk about all our thoughts again in this post? Bur, like, the short version?
My Thoughs: Amazing! But Leaked. Deathwing cool. $85$?
Spoonshark said...
Here's the short version: Lame
I saw hundreds of people who stay through L80ETC stand up and walk out after Ozzy's first song. It was disgraceful. Wasn't it bad enough I had to smell you all weekend? Couldn't you at least show some respect for a real rocker like Ozzy?
The big problem with the start of the Ozzie show, and probably the reason why so many people left, was for the first 2 songs he didn't use the screens for live video and nobody could see him. That hall was huge and when they put the video feed back it got A LOT better.
I'm a fan, but by then my feet were killing me and standing in the back bc I got there a little late and watching some canned flame footage didn't sound fun. I stuck it out and found a better place to stand though, and really enjoyed the set after they started to play the video.
benrussell7 said...
Im confused as to why I was downvoted, and why you all are talking about Ozzy Osbourne >:(


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axolotl pattern!!!!
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I made cushions you guys.
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A couple of layered shell pieces using the watercolour prints I did the other day.
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Watercolour silkscreen print onto calico. My teacher was pretty sure this wouldn't work, but I gave it a go as an experiment and it turned out much better than expected- it really looks like it's been painted onto paper! I think the only other way I'd get tone and detail like this onto fabric would be to use the digital printer, which takes way longer and is uber expensive. They only had lightweight calico in stock but I think something heavier will pick up more detail for next time. I'm pretty proud of myself for doing this; experimenting with techniques is something I really love and I haven't had a mess around doing something new for ages!
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Swansea have suffered a new defensive injury blow after Kyle Bartley was ruled out of action for three months.
The summer signing from Arsenal picked up a thigh injury in training and faces as many as three months on the sidelines.
Bartley was in contention to start at Aston Villa on Saturday for his first Premier League appearance for the club since making the move from Arsenal last month, but he is not expected back until December.
The news is a blow for Swansea boss Michael Laudrup as he is already without left-back Neil Taylor for the remainder of the season following his broken ankle.
Centre-half Chico Flores is also missing for the next three games following his red card against Sunderland.
The selection problems mean Laudrup may be forced to throw recent signing Dwight Tiendalli straight into the side for the game with Villa.