#public eye

[pedropascallme]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5SD3RBr2it/?igsh=NmViYTZiaGZmaGUy in case you still haven't seen :D

Thank you!! I hadn’t seen the full thing this is wonderful <3 posting this so everybody else who might’ve missed it can see!

(Also leaving my personal opinions in the tags just to clarify where I stand because I’m so tired of everybody being weird about Damien specifically throughout this whole thing)

#hehe send me asks #smosh #damien haas #shourtney #smoshblr #I think that everybody blowing up at him is so…I mean #first of all unfair to him and to Shayne and Courtney who are clearly some of his closest friends #but also just. generally speaking super infantilizing and not necessarily aware that like #this is a grown man who not only has more to think about than his friends getting married #which he likely knew about way WAY before any of us did #obviously #but also he’s autistic and thus processes cues and reactions differently #and everybody is like WHA WHY DIDNT HE POST WHY ISNT HE BEING SUPPORTIVE #as if Damien isn’t generally pretty private about a lot of his personal life especially when it involves other people in the public eye #but especially since this is like #his best friend getting married to his other very close friend I feel like it would be obvious that this is something he would celebrate #privately and among the friends involved #anyway that’s my two sense please let him rest he’s like one of the busiest people in the cast and clearly loves his friends so much #**cents oops it’s late #and I don’t blame him for wanting to make this something special that he celebrates with them away from the #incredibly judgy #public eye

[mariocki]

Alfred Burke puts on his best policing face as Parisian detective Inspector Maron, in Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!: The Billion Franc Mystery (1.6, ABPC, 1957)

#fave spotting #alfred burke #overseas press club exclusive! #the billion franc mystery #1957 #classic tv #public eye #abpc #an obscure series‚ even by the standards of pre 1960s telly. OSPC was a coproduction between Ardleigh Films and Associated British Pathé #(they of the famous news reels‚ and themselves a subsidiary of Associated British Picture Corporation). a year or two later and this #would probably have been made in house by ABC themselves‚ but the franchise was only a year old at this point and still finding its feet #the concept is simple but promising: each week‚ a member of the Overseas Press Club of America (a real and still extant organisation) tells #a tale from their careers‚ an unusual instance or shocking event that makes for good tv. these tales are true! says the narrator in the #show's opening moments‚ and these ppl exist! frankly that's something i take with a large grain of salt; whilst some stories certainly have #direct factual origins (there's an episode about a catholic priest going undercover with a gang of street toughs which ends with footage of #the actual figure that inspired the ep) but others are highly questionable (the first‚ about a Norwegian resistance fighter who has plastic #surgery and takes the place of a relatively high ranking nazi officer; i feel like that's something that would be better known‚ yknow??) #this ep is about a nazi plot to destabilise the French franc just prior to ww2; quite believable and certainly the nazis did dabble in #producing counterfeit money‚ tho the examples i found online all relate to pound sterling or latterly the us dollar‚ not the franc) #our journalist of the week is played by Lee Patterson‚ a minor film star in british b movies at this point‚ with swooningly handsome Anton #Diffring (who had fled nazi persecution himself) as the villain. Alfie's part is pretty small‚ he's just the french cop keeping every one #in sight and letting events play out (cue some wonderful Alfie cheshire cat grins). Patterson (and maybe Diffring) got to fly out to actual #real Paris to film some location work and establishing shots (a benefit of making a series about the OSPC was that they arranged flights #for cast and crew). poor Alf didn't get a holiday tho; his scenes are conspicuously studio based‚ even when he's meant to be on the banks #of the Seine... #so yes‚ a fun little series‚ even if (so far) the wide scope of potential stories does seem to favour ww2 stuff. good luck finding a copy #tho; it took me months of trawling to find a reasonably priced 2nd hand copy (Amazon currently have a copy for £79.99 which.. for 2 discs #is kind of insane). a victim of the price gouging which seems to have affected some of the lesser known network titles since their #dissolution. sad times for the fan of painfully obscure old tv.. if I ever learn how to make things be on a computer‚ tho‚ I'll happily #share

[potatotalksculture]

Watch Lindsay Ellis and Contrapoints also: why canceling JKR is more than just cancelling

To observe that canceling someone is a try to retrieve the power over some narrative is probably nothing new. And we’re talking about JKR here, of course.

As I’m watching the newest video essay by Contrapoints, I’m remembering all the other essays about cancel culture and about JKR and canceling her specifically. Those were brought to us, among many other, by the internet intellectual royalty: Contrapoints and Lindsay Ellis, who’s lengthy essay about a personal struggle this specific case of canceling causes and how it’s so much complex than just saying “this gal said this. this gal bad. let’s cancel”.

Contrapoints opens her second essay about the JKR case with the recollection of a similar case that was about Anita Bryant and took stage in the 70s. If you don’t know this story, just watch the first like 15 minutes of Contra’s video [link below] as this is my main source of information about this case anyway. In this section of the essay Contra draws a parallel between sending death threats, feces and others, some a bit less harmful, things to Anita Bryant per physical mail. As much as I find this crass and do condemn this kind of behavior, I kind of can see where is it coming from. Please do not cancel me, yet.

Narratives are about control and about people. Michel Foucault talks in, if I remember correctly, one of his lectures about the production of truth. Or truths, whatever the English translation says. I’ve read it in German. The production of truth is a process of creating sentences that are considered truth by some or many or even make it into the common sense. Gay rights are a good example for this process: once it was widely believed that “the homosexuals”, as every news reporter cited by Contra drawls in the original audio, were perverts, living astray from the laws of nature or rather the christian world order. It was common sense to either ostracise them or “heal” them. Nowadays we know, don’t we????, that homosexual people are people (see what the news reporters were doing in the 70s with their use of the language?), who are part of the normal life and do not need to be “fixed” because there was nothing wrong with them in the first place. This a paradigm shift that occurred party because enough people have fought for enforcing this truth in the place of the old one. It was produced. And this is nothing pejorative about it.

But before homosexual people had the power over the narrative regarding themselves, they were very f. much discontent about the way other people spoke about them. This discontent was one of the forces that put them in a position of fighting for their rights. And part of this fight was reclaiming the narrative and so being able to shape the way they were talked about, so that the way the society views them follows. And changing any dogma spread in a society, carved into a stone of common sense is not an easy task. So sometimes it requires stronger tools than writing a letter to your representative. That’s were protest come in. And sometimes - poo.

If you’re living in a democratic country and are not happy with what the politicians in your government do while being payed with your tax money, you have the possibility to take to the streets. But what do you do when it’s not a politician but an other public figure that is the one causing your irritation. How do you protest a pop star? An entrepreneur? A writer? You can put up a banner or two. You can try to shout out your dissatisfaction during a march or a demonstration, preferably a one regarding a subject your dissatisfaction is connected to. Like the people including paroles critical of Anita Bryant during demonstrations for rights for homosexual people. But what if the person you want to protest is so present, so powerful, so loved by the society, that you feel practically powerless in your fight to express your own irritation caused by their actions? How many “JKR is wrong” marches could there have been? Enter the cancel culture. And before cancel culture was a thing - poo.

In the case of JKR, and I cannot stress enough the fact that I am focusing on her case and not the cancel culture as a general phenomenon… In the case of JKR, as Lindsay Ellis expressed it well, one is dealing with an extremely influential figure. She shaped and still is shaping minds of oh so many children. Probably everyone living in the realm of western culture knows who she is. So how do you express your discontent with her actions? You can’t ship some feces to her doorsteps. It’s too 70s. You cancel her. In this case the act of canceling is an extreme act of call to arms in the fight of trans people for their narrative and so their rights. It’s not about people wanting you to burn HP books and not play Hogwarts Legacy. This is not the point here. It is rather about using any possible mean there is to make the public aware that, what JKR is saying and so representing and so normalizing with her f. huge presence in the public opinion, is wrong, hurtful, twisted, turned, irresponsible and hateful. And a single not well known person does not stand a chance in a fight for their right to, first, publicly express their anger about the statements of JKR. There is an imbalance of power: a private trans person with a Twitter account doesn’t have the same power in the public sphere as a world renowned writer with a Twitter account. In other world: the Tweets do not have the same range. So you need more than one person tweeting the same thing to overcome this first imbalance. Then the fight for the range starts: how many people will support which side. Who will win the public debate? It’s not exclusively on Twitter now. It’s everywhere. News articles, podcasts, video essays, views, buys, complete run through a, downloads, streaming hours… numbers, numbers, numbers. How many people are on which side. So the call to canceling JKR is, at least in my opinion, a cry for help that has been resonating in the public sphere for a few years now. By keeping the conversation surrounding JKR being a f. TERF is putting the discussion of the current narrative regarding trans people in the public spotlight. And maybe, just maybe, if enough people get behind respecting the very human right to being perceived in a way that is in accord with their own truth, it might become ok to play Hogwarts Legacy. But as long a Joanne is being vocal and relevant, the canceling will continue. And maybe, if there is some justice in the world, there will be some feces at her doorstep some day.

Trans women are women.

Trans men are men.

This is the truth.

___________ Footnotes: [1] the first video of Contapoints regarding Joanne [2] the second video of Contrapoints regarding Joanne [3] the first video of Linsday Ellis regarding Joanne [4] the second video of Linsday Ellis regarding Joanne

#cancel culture #cancelling #JKR #jk rowling #terf #contrapoints #public debate #public opinion #trans rights #gay rights #lgbtq+ #video essay #essay #writers of tumblr #Twitter #public eye #harry potter #hogwart legacy

[oldshowbiz]

Long-running British television series Public Eye

#public eye #uk #nice design

[steelcirclecosplay]

Billboard for the Atomic Wrangler.

The Teef Huntas let me pose with their Power Fist. Also, I traded them some cattle teeth from my sister-in-law’s cattle for some handmade soap.

The ghosts of the old NCR linger.

It's all in a day's work when you're a good good neighbor.

It's good to be a good good neighbor.

A Red Rocket mega truck stop run by the Public Eye.

#wasteland weekend #fallout #fallout new vegas #atomic wrangler #teef huntas #power fist #NCR #goodneighbor #red rocket #public eye

[dandelioninajungle]

I’m in bed trying to sleep and it just occurred to me that fat phobia is so deeply entrenched in ways that we don’t even really think about it.

Law of averages says what - most femme presenting people are considered “plus sized” by fashion and media? And the majority of those people are in relationships, are desired and desirable.

How many fat femme people do you see in relationships in the public eye? And I’m not talking about where the famous person themselves is fat; even though that’s pretty fucking rare too. Yet just using maths, some of these famous people *must* prefer (and I don’t mean fetishise) fat women.

So why don’t you see them with them?

Shame? Stigma? (Are those two the same thing, I never know?)

Just not really meeting anybody fat because it’s a weird dating pool?

I don’t even know what point I’m trying to make with this, it’s just something that occurred to me and now I’m curious.

#thoughts on a postcard #fatphobia #desire #public eye #blog #rant

[kadythethief]

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

if you play media out loud from your phone or whatever in a train or bus or tram or whatever

you are literally the worst

#train ride #public service announcement #public transportation #public transport system #public transit #transport news #transportation #rail transport #air transport #trains #transportservice #transport technology #manners #etiquette #public eye

[funsimplethings]

#icarly #Jennette McCurdy #i'm glad my mom died #im glad my mom died #child star #no one wants to be a child star #spotlight #growing #mistakes #public eye #trapezoidmouth #child stardom

[thisbluespirit]

Caroline Blakiston in Public Eye episode “Nobody Kills Santa Claus.” (ABC, 1965)

#public eye #gif #caroline blakiston #frank marker #alfred burke #1960s #drama #<3 #(who would of course later be #mon mothma #but not yet) #my gifs #this ep is visibly not in great condition when watching #so i'm v relieved these actually came out this well #anyway #a rare time when she wasn't evil #or at least a bit amoral

[paolabehmer]

Trying to embroider words.

#embroidery #fairfashion #public eye #clothes #theater

[mariocki]

@thisbluespirit

Apparently Alfie insured himself against more twins??

#alfred burke #enemy at the door #public eye #classic tv #press #interview #???? #incredible

[madelgard]

Michael Pennington being insufferable and arrogant and also stunning in Public Eye (1971).

#he is AMAZING in this and I love him #Alfred Burke #michael pennington #public eye #strong jerjerrod vibes also tbh

[british-character-actors]

Happy birthday, Alfred "Frank Marker" Burke.

A fantastic character actor, mournful of face, with a gaunt appearance. Aside from his career in theatre, he had the good fortune to play a career defining role for 10 years on TV.

Burke's performance as Marker, a shabby, cantankerous, belligerent, and painfully honest private enquiries agent, was glorious. A character who grew as the series went on, the writers must take much credit for Public Eye but, Burke was Marker.

He had a long career and worked with many greats, including Bette Davis, in The Nanny.

Burke ended his career in the Harry Potter universe playing Professor Armando Dippet, but it's as Marker he'll be remembered.

One other performance, which was very memorable, was in an episode of Tales of the Unexpected called The Flypaper. I won't spoil it for you. Check it out.

Alfred Burke (28 February 1918 – 16 February 2011)

#Alfred Burke #Frank Marker #Public Eye #The Nanny #Bette Davis #british character actors #character actors #Tales of the Unexpected

[downthetubes]

Keith Page’s Alternative TV Viewing

Finding it increasingly difficult to find anything worth watching on modern television, comic artist and writer Keith Page finds it more interesting to go back to the dramas of the 1960s through to the 1980s

Finding it increasingly difficult to find anything worth watching on modern television, comic artist and writer Keith Page – creator of The Adventures of Charlotte Corday, Strawjack and Hancock – The Lad Himself, with Stephen Walsh – finds it more interesting to go back to the dramas of the 1960s through to the 1980s.  “There was a far wider selection of themes, sharp scripts and no ‘agendas’ or…

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#Honor Blackman #Keith Page #Nigel Kneale’s Beasts #Out of the Unknown #Public Eye #Quatermass #Supernatural #The Avengers #The Man in Room 17 #The Sandbaggers

[tenth-sentence]

It was to be the first authenticated full-term pregnancy after in vitro fertilisation, though there were earlier claims to keep the possibility in the public eye.⁶⁹

69 For example, a claim by Professor Bevis of Leeds University in July 1974. Speaking at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association, he declared that there was at least one test-tube baby alive in Britain, and two elsewhere in Europe. He declared himself surprised at the ensuing publicity, despite having told a CIBA Foundation symposium the previous year that 'the mass media are hysterically interested in embryo transfer'. When pressed, he announced he was withdrawing from the field, and that he had refrained from publication to protect the children. He was not heard from on the subject again. See Anon., "Test-tube baby alive and well in Britain', The Times, 16 July 1974; Packard, 1978, pp. 189-90; Wolstenholme, 1973, p. 95.

"Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture" - Jon Turney

#book quote #frankenstein's footsteps #jon turney #nonfiction #authentication #full term #pregnancy #in vitro fertilization #ivf #public eye #professor bevis #leeds university #70s #1970s #20th century #british medical association #britain #europe #ciba foundation #embryo #test tube baby

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

#Doctor Doom #Public Eye #Joey Cavalieri #Art Nichols