Jennka

Danger Girl

I'd be really skeptical about a movie of that being any good at all though.. it would be quite a challenge to nail that tongue in cheek humour at the right level. Kind of a weird choice in Milla too.. is she supposed to be Abbey?

I guess in the right hands it could be a load of fun. Someone like Robert Rodriguez = I'm there.

The casting sounds kind of weird, in my view. Milla as the Russian? Kate is too mature to be "Abbey".

Milla's best role was the Alien girl in "the 5th Element", heh...

well Jenks, at least maybe in a place only WE know about

We, and Alice and all the lunatics around oh, it´s Friday Teri! Fridaaaay yahoo

for YOU sweets, all its missing is a horn for the horse and you'd have TO of your fave things

Gisele makes up for it all thank you she´s so precious

^Yeah - X-Men comics and maybe this forum!

And I like a bit of vociferousness in a lady, passion is sexy. So you stand up for the proper representation of fictional beings!

Oh, yes! You should have seen me when watching Twillight... this whole nonsense with sexy teen wampires is making me crazy I´m an old classic when it goes to this issue - Bram Stoker and his Dracula will always be the number one Dracula of all times - at least, HE had a style and did NOT sparkle, jesus christ

I also like wampires in Terry Pratchetts´ books, there are all kinds of them - even one photographer wampire who, after taking every single picture, dissapears for some seconds because of the light

All in all, I don´t like pre-romantized characters, no matter if they are fictional or not. But my unicorns...no, they in no way are those fluffy cute creatures people use to make image of them I mean, they killed dragons with their horns! C´mon! How cute can that be?

I love comicses too. Really much. And this forum... yeah!

aha:)

I have a lot of contact with university/MBA trained business types, and I myself am a business school graduate from a "prestigious" program. My program shared a lot of commonality with programs from the UK and France. I've also taken some courses from a liberal arts college. From experience...I just think that there are a lot of dismal cracks in the system. It's a for-profit business, and the costs are out of control. Worse, the materials, internships, and activities that we did were not structured well enough to secure long term theoretical knowledge and professional character. They were structured to keep a lot of university employees employed, though..

I have a dim view of the MBA system overall..it needs a lot of reform as do liberal arts colleges. University costs are capped in some nations (as to keep the structure leaner and more efficient) but in the US it's a real money sucker.

Today, we do have a crisis though: In the United States, perhaps 2/3rds of the workforce (and growing ) has college degrees. Not only that, but those who have college degrees typically have one to four. How much more can we stand? Will the next generation need doctorates in order to get an entry level job! ! Also, the job market is getting more and more specialized and dynamic: What you learned in college and in many jobs will become redundant in 10 years. How much of this expensive system can people take?

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There's more, I was also referring to how Universities create many nonsense majors and attempt to market them as "degree packages".

There are degrees that really do mean something: ie. Accounting, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Dental, Engineering, Computer Science, etc. But there's a ton of degrees that are kind of superfluous. ( There is also the problem of bad for profit universities with no entry standards except $$$. ) For instance, in business schools, there is a major called "International Business" that is so superficial as to be literally worthless. When I see a resume with "International Business" I scratch my head: I know what courses this person has taken and I know that they haven't really learned all that much..

I am a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and the charters offered for various business related professions (engineering, accounting, finance) beat the pants out of most university programs in terms of imparting useful academic based skills. These low cost test-based programs (ie. 18 hours of testing..) give you all the material a professional needs and they can get to it. A lot of stuff can be learned with standardized testing: Build a core curriculum, let the student do all the studying on his own time, then process them through testing...that would save a lot of time and $$. Educators can design a much expanded system for this sort of thing: It would help society. But then again, they want to keep their jobs and their cash flow..

What more to say. Yes, it´s beginning to look like that here in Slovakia as well. Here, when you hear that someone has a title in "Social Pedagogy" you know it all. The whole society needs a change. Every year, there are more and more people with degrees coming from the universities, that mostly know nothing at all about work in practice.

This type of change requires a significant change in society as well as in the political economy and governance- public and private- itself. It can't happen overnight. What you see in the pie is the result of policies that took forty years of gradual accumulation. In some ways, it is self inflicted- for instance regardless of stagnant wages, middle class Americans have still..willfully.. spent way too much money and they have done so for far too long.

There have been benefits to neo-liberalism though- it mainly accrues to the customer in the form of easy money and low, competitive prices for goods and services at the expense of wages, steady employment, and employees. But this has gone too far.

This is quite the opposite here - the goods are at high prices compared to the average salaries. And they are rising every year, much faster than salaries (which are exactly the opposite - lowering). Generally speaking, of course. It´s better in the villages, many people can cultivate many goods for theirselves and don´t have to buy them (which I find great). But in the cities, it´s a rare man who has his own garden

Very nice. I don't like the pola though, she seems a little uncomfortable and self conscious. Funny how some models never seem at ease in that situation and others, like Karolina Mrozkova (or Marina Laswick ), really seem to shine in their polas.

P. S. Haven't had time to post much lately. Hope you're well and happy Monday (well as happy as any Monday can be ).

It was a happy monday since we were having holiday in Slovakia and today it´s a hump day, and tomorrow another holiday then Friday. Whoa. This is how it could be every week

how are ya? Any plans for weekend? How is the house doing?

happy MONDAY, Jenks HOPE your doing WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

happy HUMP day to you hun

Me no, but me like it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Girl

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Hollywood management and production company Benderspink is shopping the film rights to the title. Milla Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale and Sofia Vergara are attached to play the leads, as of August 22, 2011.[3"

Jennka, I think it's Campbell's best work- It's about a trio of "spy girls".

I love Milla and Kate, but can´t imagine them playing these charas who knows, maybe they´ll be great

I seem to keep stumbling upon reinterpretations of Disney princesses at the moment. I do like this one though.

'Ariel and Flounder' in case you hadn't worked it out. Other princesses can be found on the artists deviantART page.

I think it's interesting to see how blog's seem to feed off each other these days. I follow a blog called Design You Trust where I saw this post which linked to this post on a German design blog called thaeger. This in turn linked to this post on a blog called Art-Spire which itself links to the deviantART page above. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand it means that interesting stuff does get known about quite quickly but on the other it shows a degree of lack of originality on the part of the blog writers. Of course, I guess, I can now add this post to that long chain!

I consider it a good thing, because great art needs to be spreaded wideworld I know many great things on DA were made famous by this kind of spreading - one picture even went a long way to Matt Groening! He appreciated it and suggested the artist a work for him I call that something!!

This happened everywhere with Marxist governments- with the biggest and worst being Mao's cultural revolution. The Marxists' sociological view is that human beings can be psychologically re-engineered and with that, the elimination of classes. This is only partially true..- ie. re-indoctrination can be done more easily with children and very young people. The communists take social engineering to extremist levels.

How was the German or the Soviet occupation of Slovakia compare during WW2? Which is regarded worse in Slovakia? (I'm guessing the Germans) To my understanding, a couple of Slovakian divisions were procured by the Germans for the 1942 attacks towards Stalingrad. The Germans would use anti-communist/anti-Soviet propaganda in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries as a means to recruit some men to their cause. It is quite shocking that a sizable amount- if I remember correctly, well over half a million... did in fact join the Germans after their countries were overrun ( either forced politically or through volunteerism).

I don´t know about it much, but from what I´ve heard, most people consider the Russians worse than Germans. But, you know, it was occupation, it did not matter in which colours it was... some say that Russian soldiers were more ferocious, cruel than German but many soldiers also did marry here, and made children, and stayed here for the rest of their lives.

Danger Girl

I'd be really skeptical about a movie of that being any good at all though.. it would be quite a challenge to nail that tongue in cheek humour at the right level. Kind of a weird choice in Milla too.. is she supposed to be Abbey?

I guess in the right hands it could be a load of fun. Someone like Robert Rodriguez = I'm there.

I can´t resist.... but I really can imagine Kate Beckinsale there :brows:

Oh, yes! You should have seen me when watching Twillight... this whole nonsense with sexy teen wampires is making me crazy I´m an old classic when it goes to this issue - Bram Stoker and his Dracula will always be the number one Dracula of all times - at least, HE had a style and did NOT sparkle, jesus christ

(But, yes, "sparkling" was a little bit gay!!!)

And won't mind seeng the next one at all. I take your point though, old-school vamps are best. Isn't your part of the world very rich with vampire folklore? I mean, pre-Bram Stoker, weren't they all ugly gingers with hairy palms who had to stop and count beans and couldn't walk across ice???

happy MONDAY, Jenks HOPE your doing WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

happy HUMP day to you hun

Closer to the WEEKEND YEAHHHHHHHHHH, and love your set, Coco is actually a very good dancer, did alot growing up and was in contests and such

I love Milla and Kate, but can´t imagine them playing these charas who knows, maybe they´ll be great

Natalia- tall, long haired platinum blonde, cold personality, russian (that's secretly a 3/4th evil Nazi conspirator)

Abbey- short hair dirty blonde, American (goody goody..)

Sydney- black hair, whip carrying Australian (seductress)

I've been out of the loop as far as film is concerned...but I can think of some models that would fit the look for each role well.

I don´t know about it much, but from what I´ve heard, most people consider the Russians worse than Germans. But, you know, it was occupation, it did not matter in which colours it was... some say that Russian soldiers were more ferocious, cruel than German but many soldiers also did marry here, and made children, and stayed here for the rest of their lives.

Overall, I consider the Germans in WW2 to be much worse than Stalinist Russia. The Soviets did their share of crimes, but the Germans take the cake in terms of criminality, particularly in the East- ie. crimes against the Jewish people, Russia, Poland, Yugoslavia, etc. .

When American soldiers occupied the West, many of them became affectionate towards German women and ended up marrying lots of them. To my understanding.. and ironic that fact is...well, the American military never really got along with the French population and instead preferred the defeated Germans much more.

This is quite the opposite here - the goods are at high prices compared to the average salaries. And they are rising every year, much faster than salaries (which are exactly the opposite - lowering). Generally speaking, of course. It´s better in the villages, many people can cultivate many goods for theirselves and don´t have to buy them (which I find great). But in the cities, it´s a rare man who has his own garden

You know, Jennka, when you talk about people making their own houses and stuff...Am I correct in assuming, at the same time, that this is commonplace?

In the United States the % of people that have full ownership of their homes has been roughly the same since the 1960s. The only difference is that the median home is twice the size today, and filled with gadgets. Most Americans, measured from 1930 standards, are rich today.

In 1930 John Maynard Keynes (liberal economics populizer) wrote an interesting essay about "economic possibilities for our grandchildren". It was hopelessly flawed but at the same time rather insightful. His prediction is that "in the future", innovation would ease the need for human labor and man's demand for material goods would eventually stagnate and then stand still. People would, theoretically, only need to work only 15 hours a week, and the there would be some sort of utopia on earth. Of course, he was massively wrong, and he completely neglected so many variables. Oh, consumer demand just kept on increasing.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262162490intro1.pdf

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

The insightful part is when one stops to really examine what in their lives brings the most utility and meaning- And #1 for most is usually free time, love, friends, and family by a long shot.

I seem to keep stumbling upon reinterpretations of Disney princesses at the moment. I do like this one though.

'Ariel and Flounder' in case you hadn't worked it out. Other princesses can be found on the artists deviantART page.

I think it's interesting to see how blog's seem to feed off each other these days. I follow a blog called Design You Trust where I saw this post which linked to this post on a German design blog called thaeger. This in turn linked to this post on a blog called Art-Spire which itself links to the deviantART page above. Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. On one hand it means that interesting stuff does get known about quite quickly but on the other it shows a degree of lack of originality on the part of the blog writers. Of course, I guess, I can now add this post to that long chain!

I consider it a good thing, because great art needs to be spreaded wideworld I know many great things on DA were made famous by this kind of spreading - one picture even went a long way to Matt Groening! He appreciated it and suggested the artist a work for him I call that something!!

Thanks. Makes me feel a little proud to be part of this spreading process. I notice you didn't say anything about the picture, does that mean you don't like it? I thought it was kind of dreamy.

Their are some very talented people on deviantART (quite a few with no talent too but I can live with that). Lois van Baarle, known as Loish is an artist I really admire. Here's a sample.

Her deviantART page is here... I think I'm getting the hang of this spreading process.

Oh, I almost forgot, lots of fan art on Loish's page including even more Disney princesses.

What more to say. Yes, it´s beginning to look like that here in Slovakia as well. Here, when you hear that someone has a title in "Social Pedagogy" you know it all. The whole society needs a change. Every year, there are more and more people with degrees coming from the universities, that mostly know nothing at all about work in practice.

I am supportive of College education in general (outside of the flawed structure of the MBA and some of the esoteric liberal arts degrees) for not only personal but also vocational development. For instance, I like degrees in Philosophy and Mathematics. (In fact, I am quite intimidated, as I don't have exposure to this.) Their training really shows, and these knowledge bases can be combined with technical fields to enhance thinking skills. I think that well developed academic understanding can be a very useful skill in work, but obtaining theoretical knowledge/frameworks have to be done right- as in efficiently and with the right mix of interdisciplinary focus. It's this part that students often fail to pull off.

The hard part is the fact that as the job market in economies advances, more and more university education is often needed and this can become an overly burdensome exertion of effort over one's working life.

Fabiana Semprebom got married!

^Actually I saw Twilight for the very first time a week or so ago - and it didn't bother me any where near as much as I was expecting!

(But, yes, "sparkling" was a little bit gay!!!)

And won't mind seeng the next one at all. I take your point though, old-school vamps are best. Isn't your part of the world very rich with vampire folklore? I mean, pre-Bram Stoker, weren't they all ugly gingers with hairy palms who had to stop and count beans and couldn't walk across ice???

I´ve seen the second one out of pure curiosity (is it possible for this movie to be even worse than the previous one?) and I got the answer - yes, it IS. I was petrified, shocked, stunned - and then I just switched it off and gave it to my friend. Never more.

Hm... Slovakia not really, rather Romania is rich with wampire folklore, in here we got dragons and dragon killers (Juraj the most known one), princesses, kings, peagants... but of course, people were superstitious and had a lot of "count to ten, don´t say the name" kind of things... people believed more in werevolves than wampires - because of the amount of wolves we got here. The whole folklore was more about good witches and bad witches, dragons, horses (no unicorns, though), fairies, forest fairies and nymphs, and kings and queens and princesses of course.

How about your country and folklore?