IF YOU RECALL: The self proclaimed feminist, Lena Dunham, came to the very public and disgusting defense of her friend, Murray Miller, when he was accused of pedophilia and sexual assault. The rape accusation was brought to light during the height of the powerful #MeToo Movement. Dunham was often outspoken in her support, although feigned, toward the #MeToo Movement.
The woman that Murray Miller had assaulted was African American Actress Aurora Perrineau. At the time of the rape in 2012, Aurora was only 17 years old while Miller was 35. Upon hearing the accusations toward Miller, Dunham came out to discredit Aurora’s assault account in an attempt to publicly shame her about divulging this information.
In her “apology” Dunham admits to LYING about having “insider knowledge” of the situation that would prove Miller’s innocence. Reading Lena Dunham’s apology is quite maddening, because it was more an attempt to gather public pity toward herself than to apologize to Aurora. She attempts multiple times to make herself the victim in this narrative, blaming society instead of her inability to sympathize and believe a sexually assaulted Black Woman.
All the white #Metoo activists need to be against her. They need to demand her show gets taken away, stop any deals or productions. This is disgusting racist and I’m sick of seeing her fucking face.
It still surprises me at how few people have seen Freak of the Week, and I love sharing it with friends because of the inevitable, “How the hell have I never seen this?” look of awe drawn out on their face.
And man, it really is gorgeous.
Directed by Juanjo Guarnido, it took the team about a year of hard work to hammer out this bloody masterpiece (which you can learn about in his video here) using a combination of 3D animation with the power of college interns skill of a team of artists to painstakingly re-draw the 3D elements they wanted in 2D frame-by-frame, not to mention the post processing and… everything else.
Even though it came out in 2014, it doesn’t seem to have ever garnered the attention it truly deserves.
I really wanna drive this point home, so to give you an idea, Ghost by Mystery Skulls, animated by MysteryBen27 has 18,147,263 views. Freak of the Week has only 2,271,121 views at the time I’m writing this. That’s fucking depressing for something so … phenomenal. I want more of this, and hell, maybe you do too. But we’re not going to see anymore simply because the right people haven’t seen it. In fact, it failed to reach a respectable level of Internet Popularity®, Juanjo himself even described it in the comments section as having ruined him because of how little attention it got.
So if you’re reading this and you’ve got some connections with a TV network or something, consider pulling some strings to get this video spoon-fed to the masses, because people ought to see this. I’m sure Juanjo would be all too happy to oblige. And hell, if you wanna buy the art book, you can get the link here for about $50.
Now, maybe you recognize the former Disney animator Juanjo Guarnido for his other work: Blacksad.
Which is a comic set in the late 1950′s about a hardboiled private investigator published originally by Dark Horse Comics that does… y’know, the …
… noir investigator …
… aloof ladies man…
… badass …
… detective story thing.
That I haven’t yet read but I TOTALLY NEED TO.
Look,
I guess I’m bringing up Freak of the Week because I was reading the comment section and, man, it kinda got me down.
Some of the best things things out there just haven’t been seen by the right people, I guess. But I suppose it’s also a depressing statement on the culture of the internet that the video makes.
This is depressing. If you haven’t watched this video yet PLEASE do, I was in awe and fell instantly in love with it when I first saw it and just assumed something is fantastic and detailed would become an Internet hit …
Apparently not.
Well it should be, I hope this gets to the right people and the video gets the attention it rightfully deserves.
Sincorazon15 