ah, kathy griffin. she sure is proud of her emmys. ;-)
a while back, I was thinking something along the lines of "maybe ordinary people, like me should do the NOH8 thing." - people would do it themselves in their own unique way....but i dont know how to make a website, so eh. thought it could be interesting.
there might already be a site like that, but i haven't found it.
Actually not only are celebs doing the pictures, but regluar people too. You can go on the site and make an appointment to go and take a picture. My friend and I have been trying to find a time to go and do it. Another kind of non celeb is Chole, Ryan from Flipping Out, daughter has done a picture. I love the site because it has celebs and everyday people taking pictures. The youngest person to take a picture was 9 days old!
Really!Isn’t that kind of like using Hitler as the poster boy for the Jewish Defense League?I can just see how his publicist spun it – “This way the next time you drop the F-bo
mb you can just point to this photo and say “I didn’t mean it like that.Also if you do it I’ll hire you some Asian prostitutes.”
I think he deserves a second chance, he behaved like the biggest a****** in the world, but since then he has apoligize, he appeared in a GLAAD ad, and now in the NO H8 campaing. In a way he is living proof that people can change.
I think you're using your "Hitler" references a little too loosely.
The man was fired and publically called to task by anyone with vocal chords and has done nothing but apologize profusely about it which is all that you can as of any human being.
He volutarily went to sensitivity training even though he has played a gay character before and I don't believe for a minute that he's some homophobic arse that folks make him out to be because beyond that one moment in time, there is no evidence of him being anti-gay.
There is no excuse for using the word but once you've said it and apologized for it and tried to make amends for it, what the hell else is their left to do? In my mind it is no different than folks using the word "gay" as an insult. It comes from thoughtlessness and ignorance but it's not the end of the world and it's not like you can't just talk to people about language and actuall have folks learn something.
Has put his Money and Time where is mouth is to back up that apology as well (which is a lot more then can be said for a whole lot of other straight, male actors who are a lot more famous and who have been observed using the word F@GGOT!)
I'm no apologist for Isaiah Washington. He was fired and appropriatedly taken to task. But enough is enough.
But if every man who ever used the word F@GGOT is just like "Hitler" then we gays might as well pack it in already and get ready for the massive pending genocide.
It's an ugly word and no one wants to be called it in anger or as an insult but it's a reality of life. You're going to hear that word if you live in the real world and any gay man who has lived to be 30 without having someone say that word in their presence is not living in the real world.
I find the reaction to Isaiah Washington to be more than a bit OTT.
If he wants to show his support to the LGBT community by participating in this campaign or donating his time and money to other causes I say "Good for him".
I really wonder about his sincerity. I have seen entertainers use him as an example of uppity gays being too, too sensitive, that's what him calling someone 'fagot' means in the eyes of far too many. If this mitigates that, then he is doing good by us.
Being out is not"being an activist." It is being honest. Unfortunately it's such a rare commodity in this world that honesty often seems like activism.
Call it peer envy if you wish (I'm a photographer myself), but I find the series to be... ummm... boring. I like the idea and maybe couldn't do it better myself, but having countless people, celebrities or not, repeat the same concept with the same background on pretty much the same wardrobe.... how much positive impact can it have to ACTUALLY stop the hate? And how much creative value does it have?
If I had a saying on this, I would have tried to capture each celebrity on it's own enviroment and convey the "No H8" message trough his/her unique character... not by mass producing the same pic over and over and over.
Just saying !
By the way, here goes some shameless self-promotion, as an excuse to qualify the previous statement: http://www.modelmayhem.com/pics.php?id=740879
Actually, in the "creativity" line, I really like the small, individual touches in some of the photos (or not-so-small, in Kathy's case...). Kathy Griffin with her Emmies. Meghan McCain holding a small elephant. Bryan Singer making an 'X' over his mouth with his fingers. Michael Emerson in handcuffs. Jack Mackenroth with a clear, almost invisible clothes hanger. It's the neat little personal details--admittedly ones that many people would miss--that help make each picture, at least these celebrity ones.
I have not forgotten what an ass I.W. was and I cringed the first time I saw his NOH8 picture. OTOH, as far as I can tell, he has STOPPED making homophobic remarks or trying to rewrite history after his last attempts failed big time.
I care more about what kind of person he IS than what he was, and am reserving judgment on whether he has truly changed for the better.
I have to admit, I don't actually know most of the celebs in the ads but the pics are great, l loved bryan singers eyes and the funny steve-o pics specially.
heh
ah, kathy griffin. she sure is proud of her emmys. ;-)
a while back, I was thinking something along the lines of "maybe ordinary people, like me should do the NOH8 thing." - people would do it themselves in their own unique way....but i dont know how to make a website, so eh. thought it could be interesting.
there might already be a site like that, but i haven't found it.
Non celebs too
Actually not only are celebs doing the pictures, but regluar people too. You can go on the site and make an appointment to go and take a picture. My friend and I have been trying to find a time to go and do it. Another kind of non celeb is Chole, Ryan from Flipping Out, daughter has done a picture. I love the site because it has celebs and everyday people taking pictures. The youngest person to take a picture was 9 days old!
I love this campaign but…
Isaiah Washington!!!
Really! Isn’t that kind of like using Hitler as the poster boy for the Jewish Defense League? I can just see how his publicist spun it – “This way the next time you drop the F-bo
mb you can just point to this photo and say “I didn’t mean it like that. Also if you do it I’ll hire you some Asian prostitutes.”
Isaiah Washington
HITLER? REALLY?
I think you're using your "Hitler" references a little too loosely.
The man was fired and publically called to task by anyone with vocal chords and has done nothing but apologize profusely about it which is all that you can as of any human being.
He volutarily went to sensitivity training even though he has played a gay character before and I don't believe for a minute that he's some homophobic arse that folks make him out to be because beyond that one moment in time, there is no evidence of him being anti-gay.
There is no excuse for using the word but once you've said it and apologized for it and tried to make amends for it, what the hell else is their left to do? In my mind it is no different than folks using the word "gay" as an insult. It comes from thoughtlessness and ignorance but it's not the end of the world and it's not like you can't just talk to people about language and actuall have folks learn something.
Has put his Money and Time where is mouth is to back up that apology as well (which is a lot more then can be said for a whole lot of other straight, male actors who are a lot more famous and who have been observed using the word F@GGOT!)
I'm no apologist for Isaiah Washington. He was fired and appropriatedly taken to task. But enough is enough.
But if every man who ever used the word F@GGOT is just like "Hitler" then we gays might as well pack it in already and get ready for the massive pending genocide.
It's an ugly word and no one wants to be called it in anger or as an insult but it's a reality of life. You're going to hear that word if you live in the real world and any gay man who has lived to be 30 without having someone say that word in their presence is not living in the real world.
I find the reaction to Isaiah Washington to be more than a bit OTT.
If he wants to show his support to the LGBT community by participating in this campaign or donating his time and money to other causes I say "Good for him".
I know but
Being out is not "being an activist." It is being honest. Unfortunately it's such a rare commodity in this world that honesty often seems like activism.
I don't know 80% of these
Hmmm... Boring
Call it peer envy if you wish (I'm a photographer myself), but I find the series to be... ummm... boring. I like the idea and maybe couldn't do it better myself, but having countless people, celebrities or not, repeat the same concept with the same background on pretty much the same wardrobe.... how much positive impact can it have to ACTUALLY stop the hate? And how much creative value does it have?
If I had a saying on this, I would have tried to capture each celebrity on it's own enviroment and convey the "No H8" message trough his/her unique character... not by mass producing the same pic over and over and over.
Just saying !
By the way, here goes some shameless self-promotion, as an excuse to qualify the previous statement: http://www.modelmayhem.com/pics.php?id=740879
Eye of the Beholder
Actually, in the "creativity" line, I really like the small, individual touches in some of the photos (or not-so-small, in Kathy's case...). Kathy Griffin with her Emmies. Meghan McCain holding a small elephant. Bryan Singer making an 'X' over his mouth with his fingers. Michael Emerson in handcuffs. Jack Mackenroth with a clear, almost invisible clothes hanger. It's the neat little personal details--admittedly ones that many people would miss--that help make each picture, at least these celebrity ones.
Then again, I'm a fan of Easter eggs.
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Cautious optimism and willingness to forgive
I have not forgotten what an ass I.W. was and I cringed the first time I saw his NOH8 picture. OTOH, as far as I can tell, he has STOPPED making homophobic remarks or trying to rewrite history after his last attempts failed big time.
I care more about what kind of person he IS than what he was, and am reserving judgment on whether he has truly changed for the better.
Loved it!!!
I have to admit, I don't actually know most of the celebs in the ads but the pics are great, l loved bryan singers eyes and the funny steve-o pics specially.
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