And then there were four

[jlh]

Before I start, I just saw the new Gap ad where they take Audrey Hepburn's beatnik dance from Funny Face and edit it to AC/DC's Back in Black and I still don't know what I think about it.

What a lame twist that had no effect. That was so fucking stupid. Whatever, Angela and Vincent just proved why they were gone. I'll miss Kayne but I think we all picked him to be the next one out. I was so pleased that Laura won; I thought she had a shot as soon as I saw the dress on her model. I knew she wasn't out because she was wibbly in the preview; that never means you're out. The producers are tricky like that!

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I'm still doing this poll, but I just saw the preview and I think what they're going to do is have all four of them do real collections (since they have to have a decoy anyway) and not decide who the final three really are until later. On the one hand, OMG! On the other hand, way to use what you have! (On the third hand, enough with the stupid ass twists.)

You know, the non-Magical Elves reality shows on Bravo aren't that great. Like, what was that show with the hair stylist? That was so lame. I know those producers did the gym show, "Workout" which was only really interesting thanks to the lesbian love drama of the gym owner and her insane biting girlfriend. Orange County Housewives or whatever? The only cool one was the now-slightly-rounded former Playboy model-ZZ Top Eliminator girl who now sells real estate and spoils her children, not only because she's still gorgeous 20 years and 40 pounds and two teenagers later, but also because it's interesting to see a person in that position who is still in her first marriage. And now they have on this Million Dollar Listing show and I don't know how much I care about that, either. Why would you be all, I'm a gay man and America sucks so I'm moving to Puerto Vallarta???!!!

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[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

It's hard to take someone seriously when they move to a country where human rights are, well, certainly not a priority, and poverty is at a devestating level, and they spend $900K+ on a resort-side home.

I mean, ferchrissakes, at least move to Canada and bring some authenticity to your argument.

Briefly;

[bhanesidhe.livejournal.com]

I saw the first two seconds and asserted myself to hate the ad out of sheer devotion and spite and found myself loving the editing job they did, as in top notch, as in decent track or not I ended up liking it. The world must be coming to an end =_=

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

We saw that Gap ad during Bones last night and my son was all, wow, she's a really good dancer!! :))

Puerta Vallarta? O_o That makes a lot of not-sense.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not the only one ambivalent about that Gap ad. Though I'm not sure why.

[greyandgrey.livejournal.com]

I thought that in this particular challenge, Kayne showed FAR more taste than Jeffrey. I mean, that poor girl Jeffrey sent out looked like a cross between a hooker and a wannabe punk-rock thirteen year old. I thought the judging was supposed to be on a challenge-by-challenge basis going along with their whole slogan "one day you're in, and the next you're out!"

Ok, Kayne's a little bit *sparkley*, but I really didn't think any of his stuff was all that tasteless.

I think Uli - love her though I do - is gone. She really does just redesign the same dress.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I think the reason Kayne was out wasn't because of taste, but because they felt he didn't really do the challenge properly because there was such a lack of white. They get pissier about people who don't do the brief than people who do a shitty job at it. They also get pissier about bad construction or boring design than things that are over designed (eg, Santino) because at least that's a point of view. They have a very clear hierarchy that they've pretty much stuck to, and when you know what that is you can usually see who will be out.

Alison, though, still a shocker.

I only voted for Jeffrey so I could see the results. Before this week I would have said Laura, and that Michael and Uli would absolutely be in the final 3, but now I'm not so sure except that Michael will be in the final 3. Everything else, who knows? But I agree with you about Uli; she'll have to step it up in the next challenge but hey, at least she finally did something that wasn't floor length!

[jlh.livejournal.com]

That guy was such an ass. He really needs to do something about all that anger. Whatever with him.

Re: Briefly;

[jlh.livejournal.com]

It's true! There was a tiny bobble in the middle, but otherwise the editing job was really fantastic. I mean, it all made a lot of sense; Audrey as the beatnik chick in Funny Face IS the iconic skinny black pant (unless you find some Mary Tyler Moore in capris on the Dick Van Dyke show) and the AC/DC was the kind of cultural dissonance that made it look new rather than retro. (Besides, I love Back in Black.) So I started out not wanting to like it, and ended up having no reason not to like it.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

That guy was an ass the entire way through the show. Ugh. Total entitlement prick. I mean, yeah, France, Germany, Canada, England, Scandanavia, whatever. But Mexico? That's enlightened? This man is on crack.

Julie thinks he just wants to be rich and sit around shtupping young Mexican boys. I can't help but think that's closer to the truth.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I like the cultural dissonance set up by the AC/DC track that makes it modern rather than retro (though that song is over 25 years old now, so I'm not sure how modern that is) and I think they did a good job at editing the dance to the music and stripping out the background. And Audrey in that scene in that film certainly is wearing the iconic skinny black pant. So strategically and technically, it totally works.

But it leaves me feeling flat anyway, even though I totally get it. I love that movie but it isn't a like, "hey you took that out of context, asshole" feeling that moves me. But I don't necessarily want to see the ad again, or see Audrey all over the city in that little outfit. Maybe I'm reacting to the garment itself, or to the Gap's inability to decide if it's mid level fashion or basics, or what the hell.

Yeah. I think my ambivalence is less about the cultural stuff going on, and more about the Gap and why the hell they're making so much noise about skinny black pants. Isn't that The Limited's job, or Banana's? Do we really feel that skinny black pants are all that revolutionary? I mean, seriously.