For me, as someone who works as a freelance graphic designer (and who really doesn't have much of a problem with this specific example), it's not about any one singular 'hey design me/us something for free! if you win, maybe you'll get compensation worth 1/10th of what the rate would be if it was a contract!'…

Hell, I remember when I was at university one of my profs was Gary Taxali, and Google wanted him to do a series of their 'doodles' for exposure.

I work as a freelance graphic designer, and for the most part I agree with what you're saying.

I wasn't aware people disliked Hudsucker Proxy. It's a fantastic movie. You know, for kids.

The Guest is a fantastic film. Although, I'm not sure how much of that is Barrett's script, or Wingard's direction.
Beyond just being enjoyable for the story, acting, usual bullshit, I also really liked that it was able to feel like something from Carpenter's heyday as a director, without being too 'look at how retro…

I don't really think there will be another next big great director of horror. Everything has become too fragmented as far as what self-described horror fans consider 'horror'. I see a lot of comments on horror websites from people that only think something is 'horror' if there's a lot of gore and dismemberment.…

How so? not disagreeing, just curious.
Like "See, Hannibal. You *can* cook a delicious meal without using long pig."?

"I read the news and I hear some of the things that people are saying
about women, reproductive rights, or blacks, or the LGBT community, and
I’m mortified. If there are still people who think like that, then the
people who create our entertainment and market our entertainment are
cognizant and aware of them and have…

The Descent is his high-water mark, but, I dunno, I really enjoy Centurion and Doomsday as ridiculous action movies. They take a lot of flak, but personally I'll take them over most major studio offerings from the last 10-15 years when it comes to mindless entertainment.

I'd like to see a spin-off where Will gets a home redecorating show. "This is my design" could be his catch phrase.

I assume it's Chilton's hubris at work. If you believe that you're in control, and Hannibal can't do anything to you, why not let him cook for you? I mean, choice of proteins aside, it seems like the guy is pretty good at it.

I think it's Eric's attempt to show that he disapproves of a message without actually contributing anything.

And I also think (especially in the case of the Batman cover), at what point are artists not allowed to stylize their figures? Unrealistic proportions seems more problematic to me as an art style approaches or tries to approximate realism, but for something that's clearly exaggerated and stylized, who cares?

So the Magic Mike movies were successful because they represented male power fantasies?
Muscle definition -being cut- has nothing to do with health, and actually, for a lot of people, lowering body fat percentage enough to be cut is very unhealthy (because muscle definition is about how little body fat you have, not…

Except that even in supposedly 'progressive' ad campaigns, it's all just marketing to demographics.
Look at Dove's "campaign for real beauty". They don't care about women's self-esteem, they care about getting money from women who don't like or respond to, ad campaigns that promote unrealistic/unobtainable standards of…

Aren't they just body-shaming women with athletic or naturally slim bodies?
Hell, an acquaintance of mine does power-lifting (it's seriously god damn insane how much she can squat/bench), and her thighs are more slender than the 'shopped Lara Croft.

The end point is that Patrick Duffy wakes up and realizes it was all just a dream.

Yep. I think some people make the assumption that those working in art or design roll out of bed at noon, break out a few lines of blow, dick around for a few hours creating, spend the rest of their day in their Scrooge McDuck gold-dubloon-pool, and their evenings socializing with 'hip' media / art people.
Really,…

Artists/designers don't usually get royalties for album artwork, it tends to be a flat fee, and really isn't that high - I'd say anywhere from 2-5K, *maybe* closer to 10K if it was a really high profile performer who wanted to hire an equally high profile artist/designer.

Can someone clear something up for me?
Are the titles mentioned in the article actual, genuine, earnestly meant, weird-fetish erotica, or are they just written by someone looking to make an easy buck writing lazy satire of fetish erotica?