Tip of the Iceberg: Salients answer to content

iceberg_blog @ 2006-07-12T18:41:00

2006-07-12T06:41:41Z


tip of the iceberg: maggota maggota

welcome back to the new university term. Here's a fly-whore.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-05-20T10:21:00

2006-05-19T22:22:06Z

It hurts because it's true
Wow, posting something that seems to be mocking america, that's soooooooo edgy. (The extra o's denote chasm of sar.)

iceberg_blog @ 2006-05-20T10:18:00

2006-05-19T22:18:48Z

Tip of the "I forgot to post it when published."
So, i'm already a failure as a webcomic creator. Bite me.
In other news, I have moved to New Town. Let the ghetto anger start.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-05-05T17:15:00

2006-05-05T05:15:33Z

And that's number three. Congratulations with following me on these elaborations on a common theme... (That dove's campaign is a little stupid.)

iceberg_blog @ 2006-05-05T17:12:00

2006-05-05T05:13:38Z

It's amazing how common this goiter woman is. I've seen her in two books and on dozens of website.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-04-30T17:09:00

2006-04-30T05:10:46Z

to sum up in a sentence or two: I think that this “the concepts of beauty are evil!” stuff is stupid
I find it interesting that Dove feels people should be able to be beautiful and eat their cake too. The entire point of beauty is that very few people can actually be beautiful. If everyone becomes beautiful then the concept itself won't matter. This, for those not keeping up at home, is because beauty is an important social value. You see someone who is beautiful and you instinctively know that they are worthwhile healthy breeding stock and that they play within society’s laws and codes (represented by dress, adornment, etc.) And this statement goes for men and women, just before you ask. Beauty should, by its very nature be something that we strive for and something that very few people attain truly attain. This is what keeps the concept alive, and this is what keeps the concept so virile. It is the model of the faultless human which informed and inspired many of the great works of art like Michelangelo’s David, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s body at his peak, or Wonder Woman. Without the ideal, they would not exist. Humanity loves to marvel and glorify human physical perfection. The problem many groups, like Dove, have with is its discriminatory nature. And, yes, the eternal struggle for beauty does have winners and losers, yes it is discriminatory or at least critical. Some people match the ideal person more than others do. But this is not a bad thing. Beauty as a concept serves us in our interpersonal relations and gives us something to strive for. This perfect physical specimen, this ideal, it doesn’t exist. It is an unquantifiable thing which lives in our minds, we understand it on a subconscious level. And the ideal is rich for people to mine. It should be used for self betterment. In our society, for example, the healthier you are, the generally more attractive you are. Many people go into gyms and take up exercise to look better, this shouldn’t be considered a bad reason for exercise. One of the big “ifs” about the quest for beauty is the question about age. Now, my parents generation, the baby boomers, are aging. This has created some interesting portrayals of attractiveness. Women my mothers age have been being shown as sexy since Sex and The City started, this has been carried on by Desperate Housewives and films like Cat Woman. Cat Woman was an incredibly shit film; there is no question about that. However, Hally Berry made that in her late 30’s, (she is now in her early 40’s,) and Sharon Stone who was also portrayed as very good looking, is obviously, far older than Berry. The same thing can be seen in films starring Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman or Catherine Zeta Jones. Magazines like Woman’s Day, Woman’s Weekly and Cosmopolitan, all refer to these women as young. Why? Because the Baby Boomers still think of themselves as young. The age barrier was something that they, and the people before them constructed, the people who rage against the age barrier are almost certainly aging yuppies themselves. I suspect that that the trend of portraying older women as sex symbols will continue as my parents generation gets older. The age barrier exists with the Yuppies, and as they age that barrier is dying out. Just like their parents, if you get my drift.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-04-22T22:26:00

2006-04-22T10:26:46Z

Comic from Salient 2005

Remember Act? Remember how everybody was all gaga over voting? Remember how dissapointed wewere to see that the democratic process almost failed us?

Me neither.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-04-22T22:24:00

2006-04-22T10:25:12Z

Tip of the Iceberg 03
I am finally ending my career as a hospital chef. Now I can find myself a job more suiting my talents, like a test pilot at a hammock factory. Just think of the danger pay! And the babes! I'm all about the babes that cause me to need danger pay.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-04-22T22:22:00

2006-04-22T10:23:02Z

Tip of the Iceberg 2

Today the bus driver regaled us with tales of another driver who is on our route. This driver has written off two buses, three cars, caused one of the more major power outages that have ever affected Kapiti, and he’s destroyed multiple lighting poles. He hasn’t been fired, because, apparently, he caught his boss doing something illegal (rhymes with hug juggling.) Obviously, this transport professional is now my hero.

iceberg_blog @ 2006-04-22T22:17:00

2006-04-22T10:19:00Z

Tip of the Iceberg 1
Gidday and welcome to The Tip of the Iceberg, featuring all the Salient cartoons and comics created by Nic Sando. If you’ve just stumbled drunkenly across this, I am from the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand and attend Victoria Univeristy. Judging by how well you know NZ, you can tell that funny things happen here all the time! Yep, just last week the supermarket overcharged some guy for milk by fifteen cents! We laughed, and laughed, and then reported Woolworths to the authorities. We take that shit seriously.