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which_chickMaking the rounds is Pixar's new short Purl.
It's about women in the workplace, using a pink ball of yarn as a stand in for feminine whatsis. Okay, fine.
I'm pretty OK with it as a short. Nice, timely topic that I would really have liked for us to be DONE WITH BY NOW but since we're not done with it, we might as well look at it again. *sigh*
Some of the things I absolutely loved... the companywide opinion of Purl shown with the staff meeting powerpoint visuals. Damn, they were great. Loved them. LOVED them.
The knitting textures on Purl's desk features are great. The purple desk cloth pattern is an actual stitch pattern and it looks great. Even when she knits herself a man suit, it's definitely stockinette.
But at 2:16 in, when round ball Purl goes to the water cooler to tell her handicrafts joke about spiders... no. No. Why do spiders weave their webs? Because they don't know how to crochet. It's supposed to be a joke that falls flat, so I get that it's not very funny. But then the one water cooler guy is like "Is that a sport or something?" and Purl says "Like with the needles.." and she looks like she is pointing at her coffee cup which shows knitting needles and not a crochet hook. Crochet is not done with needles. Crochet is done with a single crochet hook.
Gah. For fuck's sake, nobody in the development of the project noticed this? Nobody?
It's almost as bad as the damn Quilted Northern commercial showing "quilting" with upside-down knitting needles. Or, for what it's worth, Call The Midwife with their knitted granny squares, Season 2 Episode 08.
Granny squares are a crochet product. If you google granny square, the first things that come up are videos telling you how to make them. You need to know it's called a granny square, so I guess that's a thing. I tried googling "yarn squares" and the first thing that came up was granny squares. So if you'd even tried, Call The Midwife, you would know. *sigh*
My point here is that it is not that hard to find a reliable source of information regarding what tools and techniques are needed for which handicraft sport. And it matters. It matters a lot.
Getting the joke wrong on Purl, where you have chosen a pink ball of yarn to represent all wimmins in the workplace, and particularly to represent PIONEER SPECIES women who go into hostile environments and grow and set seed and by their very existence change the environment and the culture for second wave succession species women... that hurts. Get the jokes right. They matter. Be respectful of your source material and do your due diligence to get it fucking right.
Real Purl, the character who knits herself a Man Suit in the bathroom stall so that she can function in a hostile workplace and MAKE IT BETTER FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER HER, she would know the fucking difference between knit and crochet. She would never confuse the two or be unsure what tools did what craft.
Animated Purl, who is written and made by someone who works in visual storytelling, came to life in the brains and minds of an entire group of people, none of whom are aware that crochet is done with hooks.
It's like this, in a different genre...
This is clearly a pinup-style, model-is-gay piece of artwork pimpin' off the western aesthetic. It's kind of wrong, but it tries really hard and has provided endless amusement for the horsey set, so in a way... it's still winning.
Guy is fine, boots are fine, he's carrying a rope that could possibly be used for ropin' something. Iffn I was him, I might be wearing a damn glove and a shirt but I do understand why he is shirtless. However... the saddle is not the appropriate saddle for ropin' anything.
It's an English saddle, not at all a roping-appropriate saddle. Roping saddles have A HORN upon which you dally the lasso because you are not strong enough to hold onto a lassoed cow after you have done lassoed it. If you THINK you are strong enough to hold onto a lassoed cow, I would like to watch you try. :)
After the cowboy throws a good loop and catches either the horns or the hind feet of the steer, the end of his lasso gets dallied onto the saddle HORN (which is wrapped with, like, innertube for a grippy wear surface) and the horse (which is substantially bigger and stronger than you) actually holds onto the lassoed cow.
This is pretty obvious if you've ever watched, like, ten seconds or so of team roping. Here is the clip you need, watch immediately after it starts, that right there is the dally, where the rope is wrapped around the (rubber-encased) horn of the saddle.
Careful observers will note that each and every one of the guys is wearing a glove on the dally hand because rope moving at speed can do BAD THINGS to naked hands. I'm not even going to expect you to see the fairly robust rear cinches on these rigs because they keep the saddle from flipping up in the back when the rope is dallied... but that's also a thing that says ROPING SADDLE to me.
It wouldn't have taken much for the pinup picture to be a BETTER shirtless guy roping picture. Glove on the dominant hand, proper saddle. A couple of googles of roping horse video...
*(You are constantly irritated, where are your pearls?) First off, I am not an oyster. Secondly, they're on the back of my knit stitches. (See, that's a good knitting joke that understands its source material and uses it appropriately and effectively.)
It's about women in the workplace, using a pink ball of yarn as a stand in for feminine whatsis. Okay, fine.
I'm pretty OK with it as a short. Nice, timely topic that I would really have liked for us to be DONE WITH BY NOW but since we're not done with it, we might as well look at it again. *sigh*
Some of the things I absolutely loved... the companywide opinion of Purl shown with the staff meeting powerpoint visuals. Damn, they were great. Loved them. LOVED them.
The knitting textures on Purl's desk features are great. The purple desk cloth pattern is an actual stitch pattern and it looks great. Even when she knits herself a man suit, it's definitely stockinette.
But at 2:16 in, when round ball Purl goes to the water cooler to tell her handicrafts joke about spiders... no. No. Why do spiders weave their webs? Because they don't know how to crochet. It's supposed to be a joke that falls flat, so I get that it's not very funny. But then the one water cooler guy is like "Is that a sport or something?" and Purl says "Like with the needles.." and she looks like she is pointing at her coffee cup which shows knitting needles and not a crochet hook. Crochet is not done with needles. Crochet is done with a single crochet hook.
Gah. For fuck's sake, nobody in the development of the project noticed this? Nobody?
It's almost as bad as the damn Quilted Northern commercial showing "quilting" with upside-down knitting needles. Or, for what it's worth, Call The Midwife with their knitted granny squares, Season 2 Episode 08.
Granny squares are a crochet product. If you google granny square, the first things that come up are videos telling you how to make them. You need to know it's called a granny square, so I guess that's a thing. I tried googling "yarn squares" and the first thing that came up was granny squares. So if you'd even tried, Call The Midwife, you would know. *sigh*
My point here is that it is not that hard to find a reliable source of information regarding what tools and techniques are needed for which handicraft sport. And it matters. It matters a lot.
Getting the joke wrong on Purl, where you have chosen a pink ball of yarn to represent all wimmins in the workplace, and particularly to represent PIONEER SPECIES women who go into hostile environments and grow and set seed and by their very existence change the environment and the culture for second wave succession species women... that hurts. Get the jokes right. They matter. Be respectful of your source material and do your due diligence to get it fucking right.
Real Purl, the character who knits herself a Man Suit in the bathroom stall so that she can function in a hostile workplace and MAKE IT BETTER FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER HER, she would know the fucking difference between knit and crochet. She would never confuse the two or be unsure what tools did what craft.
Animated Purl, who is written and made by someone who works in visual storytelling, came to life in the brains and minds of an entire group of people, none of whom are aware that crochet is done with hooks.
It's like this, in a different genre...
This is clearly a pinup-style, model-is-gay piece of artwork pimpin' off the western aesthetic. It's kind of wrong, but it tries really hard and has provided endless amusement for the horsey set, so in a way... it's still winning.
Guy is fine, boots are fine, he's carrying a rope that could possibly be used for ropin' something. Iffn I was him, I might be wearing a damn glove and a shirt but I do understand why he is shirtless. However... the saddle is not the appropriate saddle for ropin' anything.
It's an English saddle, not at all a roping-appropriate saddle. Roping saddles have A HORN upon which you dally the lasso because you are not strong enough to hold onto a lassoed cow after you have done lassoed it. If you THINK you are strong enough to hold onto a lassoed cow, I would like to watch you try. :)
After the cowboy throws a good loop and catches either the horns or the hind feet of the steer, the end of his lasso gets dallied onto the saddle HORN (which is wrapped with, like, innertube for a grippy wear surface) and the horse (which is substantially bigger and stronger than you) actually holds onto the lassoed cow.
This is pretty obvious if you've ever watched, like, ten seconds or so of team roping. Here is the clip you need, watch immediately after it starts, that right there is the dally, where the rope is wrapped around the (rubber-encased) horn of the saddle.
Careful observers will note that each and every one of the guys is wearing a glove on the dally hand because rope moving at speed can do BAD THINGS to naked hands. I'm not even going to expect you to see the fairly robust rear cinches on these rigs because they keep the saddle from flipping up in the back when the rope is dallied... but that's also a thing that says ROPING SADDLE to me.
It wouldn't have taken much for the pinup picture to be a BETTER shirtless guy roping picture. Glove on the dominant hand, proper saddle. A couple of googles of roping horse video...
*(You are constantly irritated, where are your pearls?) First off, I am not an oyster. Secondly, they're on the back of my knit stitches. (See, that's a good knitting joke that understands its source material and uses it appropriately and effectively.)
