http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160808_contest-690.jpg
The rankings overall for that contest, with the whale crushing the guy on the desert island were lower than usual. I don't think that's because less funny people entered the contest. I think it's due to the difficulty of captioning the particular image.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
has any ilxor ever won? has any caption posted here ever been finalist?
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
Ahem
Well, the same one i posted
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
Was it that swimming pool one? I forget the name.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
Six bullets/ nine lives cat mouse one iirc
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Ah, right. Golden.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/170213_contest-690.jpg
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 08:58 (seven years ago) link
Tempting but I've a new suit I'm trying to fit into
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:08 (seven years ago) link
suit/fig leaf I spose
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:14 (seven years ago) link
Who's 'mom'?
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:17 (seven years ago) link
Show's yer pie.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:19 (seven years ago) link
Actually its a shepherd's pie
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 10:37 (seven years ago) link
The shitty new yorker cartoon captions tumblr is killing it with this one
http://68.media.tumblr.com/36fea9606d1e176e3d27c65ac86125f4/tumblr_ol0kp0o5zs1qfvz38o1_400.png
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/delrayser/status/828711097729445888
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Yep
― Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:10 (seven years ago) link
xp I've never seen that tumblr, thank you for this amazing gift.
http://68.media.tumblr.com/eef073a0cf2d8c8d730d1f8edf14b46f/tumblr_ojmj9xKyd01qfvz38o1_400.png
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
an engaging takedown of NYer cartoons on noah berlatsky's site:http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2012/10/new-yorker-cartoons-a-legacy-of-mediocrity/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 11:52 (seven years ago) link
takedown is in principle a noble project but needed a LOT more hard work than that guy put in
― mark s, Monday, 17 April 2017 12:28 (seven years ago) link
when truman capote worked as an office boy at the new yorker, one of his jobs was taking proposed cartoons out of the envelope and carrying them to the cartoon editor's office
when TC quit they discovered vast numbers of cartoons slipped behind some furniture in his office, which he had hidden there in his secret role as unofficial pre-editor of cartoons (so that the actual editor wouldn't look at them and approve them)
― mark s, Monday, 17 April 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
What an assholee..
― Mark G, Monday, 17 April 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
ha!
mark you're right of course. i didn't mind that it's a takedown on technical/artistic merits rather than a journalistic expose (though that would have been great too) but yes i would have liked more explanation about what constitutes a bad "line" (for example). however i find it.. what.. salutary - in french i want to say "roboratif" - to be reminded of the essential frivolousness that lurks as girders beneath the new yorker's project
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link
--and which, in so-called comedy particularly, masquerades as Great Truth
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 17 April 2017 13:20 (seven years ago) link
it's an unavoidable consequence of (non-ideological) structural pressures i think
i: mag come out weekly (4793 issues and counting) ii: the cartoon sit within articles w/o being illustrations of them or in any way connected
over the long haul the selection effect is going to be away from the world-shattering undermining of all the readers' verities, bcz they need the reader to (a) carry on reading the article being interrupted by the cartoon and (b) buy the new yorker again next week (primarily for the articles)
― mark s, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:03 (seven years ago) link
also i like roz chast's drawing style that guy can fuck off
basically my theory is that the quiddities and agonies of the new yorker reader afre a direct consquence of
― mark s, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
… AND MANIFESTATION OF week-on-week sub-editorial decisions under pressure abt the mag's page furniture
― mark s, Monday, 17 April 2017 14:14 (seven years ago) link
point off for like tired notch-notch, wink-wink routines
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 17 April 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Everything is terrible but my cousin’s 9-year old daughter Alice has been quietly and masterfully slaying the @NewYorker’s caption contest and it’s pure delight. pic.twitter.com/Lhzmq7Pnsb— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 4, 2018
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
if your picture is a subway sandwich replacing a subway train, there's not much work the caption needs to do.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 5 April 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest
https://i.imgur.com/tIae9Vk.jpg?1
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:24 (five years ago) link
"i dont care what google maps says"
― lee guacamole (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
"Are you finished with that beer?"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:10 (five years ago) link
"All I'm saying is if it's global warming why is my beer still cold?"
― Ctrl+Alt+Del in Poughkeepsie (fionnland), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
too good to win, per uszh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
also right in the wheelhouse of our one-size-fits-all ringer: "This is normal."
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
Guest Comic By Steve Bannon Entitled 'The Rising Floodwaters Of Immigration'
― imago, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:51 (five years ago) link
the new one-size-fits-all is "I’ve thought this through and talked to colleagues — and I’ve re-considered"
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 08:57 (five years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/aad8w3.jpg
"i continue to be unhappy regarding the state of the subway system"
― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Saturday, 12 January 2019 08:24 (five years ago) link
"Did you know that there's a bear hidden in the Toblerone logo?"
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
"Let me know if you see anything that people believe doesn't exist. Like Donald Trump's sense of humility."
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
“Holy shit, do you see that?! It says ‘W A R P’ on the snow”
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
yes he slept over and no its not any of your business anymore
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 11:55 (five years ago) link
I've always thought of the SkiFree monster as a metaphor for the inevitability of death.
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Press 'F' to pay respects go faster than the monster and escape.
― the battering ram's rolling (snoball), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:19 (five years ago) link
Darraghmac ftw
― Mark G, Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Def
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Saturday, 12 January 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
did anyone else here get a spam email from the "founder" of this contest - who has quit the new Yorker and set up his, er, own captioning contest? surely it's a massive breach of whatever privacy policy the NYer has for him to abscond with the mailing list for his own purposes!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
christ, what an asshole
― brownie, Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
ha
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
"Asshole. You just HAD to tell him he was looking a little mangy..."
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link