Going Viral... with a kiss!

Going Viral with a kiss - what a way to go!

It started not with a kiss but a hole bunch of kisses between strangers - not by chance but cleverly arranged by an American clothing company Wren promoting it's Fall '14 collection. Next the kissing of strangers went viral and if you visit Youtub you can find a number of videos on just this theme - this is the one I like the best

Produced by Project Q, a website dedicated to the lives of queer women in New York and apparently  launching this spring.

An ad with an Attitude

London-based, Savile Row-trained tailor Sir Tom Baker carries a reputation in the world of suits .. mens I take it ? 

 

 

 

But hey one might wonder just who carries off dressing in his suits the best !

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to finde something"

There is looking for the meaning of life, looking for love, looking for trouble - hopefully the "good kind" ! We can make each other look good or ridiculous for that matter. We can look each other up or look away when we happen to meet on the street. We can keep looking or we can stop ... there is a hell of a lot of ways to look, but really not so many not to...

So I say it's ok to look. It's impractical or almost impossible not to! Maybe its ok to look even if you are not looking to find ?

You might ask where I'm going with all this looking around .... are we looking for new good reads in the world of f/f fic? I guess that's something to look for but at the moment not something I seem to find at the usual hunting grounds on "Atheneum", "The Academy" or with the" Uber ect." Why might that be ? Has every good pen turned to selfpublishing to make a dollar. Is the ebook business taking our free reads ? I don't mind paying to feed my reading habit or the mouths that feed the pens I'm addicted to but I guess that there is the reads that I'll pay for with my "reading time" and the quality reads that I'll spend money on.... ok this was really not the road I wanted to go down with this post.

What I did want to do was to look ... not to find just to look... and maybe you want that too ... if not just look away!

"Clair Underwood" or Robin Wright is a classy act with a minimalistic wardrobe! But I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of the devious master plan she and Frank orchestrates in "House of Cards". As for love I don't know ... this marriage is surely a devoted one, but I do get the impression that the devotion is more of a business plan than one of LOVE ... but who am I to judge ... LOVE comes in many colours, shapes and forms ... and I say it's up to you to look for the kind that suits you!

“Am I really the sort of enemy you want to make?” - Claire

Now who is up next ? How about something with a little less self restraint, a more emotional act but still a woman with a mission .... MacKenzie McHale graduate from Cambridge, executive producer of NewsNight and the voice in the ear of TV-anchor Will McAvoy. 

You might chose to believe that Mac spend a few years in Peshawar on the Afgani-Pakistani border reporting as a self imposed penance for cheating on Will ... and telling him, but I do find it hard to "see" her live in action shooting footage with bearded men with loaded guns... but that's the storyline we are feed. On the other hand it really doesn't matter much what you believe as long as Mac believes in her project to move Will and NewsNight to a new level on the US-news scene..... and in her ability to win Will back!

So this is The News in the American way - and love as in a reversed fairy tale - the princess fights her way through a countless number of tests and punishments ... it's almost SM-like to see what Will - her cuckold lover - throws at her. Unfortunately Will is not the only one with an axe to grind with Mackenzie. The HBO producer / writer Alan Sorkin do give her an almost unbelievable dumb dialogue to perform at times ... but hey we are looking not listening!

I'm sorry to say that I've found no subtext at all in "House of Cards" or "Newsroom" so if you want to take a look at the women mentioned above don't go looking for a "close" female friend ! But when it comes to the act of looking it really doesn't matter much what team you play for ... it's just looking ... you know!

If team play matters to you, you might take a look at the Swedish film "Kyss Mig" - don't look for the surreal beauty of the US-female protagonists, but this is the "real thing" as in falling in love and coming out with your ..... soon to be stepsister ... ok that might sound a little over the top for you but it's really all right. We are talking stepsisters as in parents remarrying late in life.  

 

In the not too long line of lesbian themed films this is a class act and what's more it "feels" mainstream ... as in playing for an All American team.... I'm not going to mention that the women are not just "holding hand" ....

Look around even if you are just looking and not Looking to find!

"Money doesn't smell"

The waste resources of the internet informs me that when the Roman Emperor Vespasian ordered a tax on public bathrooms way back when, he explained this to his son with the words "Money doesn't smell". Apparently this was his way of saying

“If you see an opportunity to make money – use it!

It has taken quiet a while for lesbians to be included in mainstream commercial advertising but we are getting there.

This might not be fan fiction but it's fiction all the same !

If you are wondering about the product ... follow the dress closely !

And along the same lines ... follow the girl, look out for the car...

 The Clio is not the only car with a Lesbian behind the wheel ... it you prefer Toyota try this.

One might ask if a Toyota is really sexy ... ok I'm not going to question your taste in cars but lets move back to the fun of buttons ... as in Levis 501...

...... now don't get ideas ... keep those jeans on it's not time for bed just yet ... lets just surf on for a bit to calm the nerves...

Lets end this in our own world .... an ad for same sex marriages !

Sport is for every one ... no mater what team you play for!

Sochi ... Sochi ... who, what, where ... ? No one would know anything about Sochi if it wasn't for the Winter Games 2014! How was the games ? Where the snow white ? The athletes better than ever ? I don't know. I'm not into winter sports except perhaps for Short Track Speed Skating ... I can't do it but it sure is fun to watch!

So why spend time on Sochi ... I won't but I'll let you have this video from XXL a Norwegian outerwear company the title is "Airport Love". It's a commercial with a message... sport is for everyone, no matter what team you play for! I can sympathise with that message.

"Another Story" by The Head and The Heart

Not every story ends on a good note. Especially not lesbian themed stories from way back when .... but times has changed and today we may experience happy endings not just in every day life but also on screen, in novels with lesbian protagonists and of course in our online LesFic reading be it Fan Fiction or not. 

And even if I'm all for enjoying the happy ending and even seek to promote just that kind of lesfic  reading I found the music video for "Another Story" worth watching not just for the tune but for the storyline too. So if you don't mind a trip back in time and can appreciate a journey from good times through tragedy and into the future. Then take out 5 minutes of your busy reading schedule for this.

If you find a familiar face in this video I'm told that Troian Bellisario who plays Spencer Hatsings on "Pretty Little Liars"features prominently.

"She Said, She Said"

If your main interest lies with the written word this might not be of interest to you, but I always thought that it doesn't hurt to spread ones wings now and again, so why not enjoy a couple of well dressed women but don't miss the footwear ;-). You might pick up a hint on how to put a pair of heels to good use!

This is a commercial disguised as a lesbian-divorce-tehmed comedy staring Marisa Tomei and Elodie Bouch directed by Stuart Blumberg who wrote "The Kids Are Alright", and the product advertised ? Well ... see for yourself you might find a designer dress here and there ... (Co’s spring 2013 collection).

Look up "SheWired"'s comments on the commercial here.

SHE4ME

Enjoy a moment of equality

SHE4MarriageEquality (SHE4ME) is a short video set against a song called “She” by Jen Foster reworked specifically for this video. You can download Jen Foster’s song “She” for free 

SHE4ME was directed by Nicole Conn, who is known for "Claire Of The Moon",  "Elena Undone" and "A Perfect Ending".