Word: blings
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...invented so many new techniques they had to create a bunch of new names for them. As effects supervisor John Gaeta itemizes them in the forthcoming book The Art of Speed Racer: "'Faux lensing' toward a 'Photo Anime' film format (including designer shape de-focus, infinite depth of field, bling and super-bling flare enhancements and candy-inspired 'Techno Color')." You can tell that everyone had liberated fun making the film; it feels like the group effort of Mensa kids let loose in the paint store. More than the story of the Racer family, Speed Racer is the visual autobiography...
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...also teaches a class on lyrics at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles, recounted an instance in which she asked her students to write without mentioning partying, drinking, bad relationships, “bling bling, or how fly they were.” On the day that the assignment was due, no one had written anything, because they claimed that they didn’t know what to write...
...their expensive cars, caressing their “Dougie” hairstyles, and hitting up the club—where they further caress their “Dougie” hairstyles. In between are token hip-hop video screenshots: the rappers’ faces complete with shades, grillz, and bling juxtaposed with scrolling close-ups of well-oiled legs. Hos in short denim skirts and stilettos do the “Dougie” dance, there are shots of rims, and a recent rap-video favorite appears: a little boy, dancing and donning bling and a strategically placed...
...stemmed from Sarkozy's triumphant state visit to London last month, where his sober demeanor impressed a French public that has wearied of his taste for flash. The "re-presidentialization" of his image seemed to be winning back many of the conservative voters turned off by Sarkozy's earlier "bling-bling" persona; Elysée officials felt they turned the corner after the right's drubbing during nation-wide municipal elections last month...