The smile of someone who knows he’s bout to make y’all ANGRY with a serve like this. WHEEEEEW! #CriticsChoice pic.twitter.com/ju8Xsp33Uh
— House of Xpression (@AdrianXpression) January 12, 2020
The color of the dress is a coincidence, but you can see why Warren supporters are liking this tweet!
That’s Billy Porter at the Critics Choice Awards, per Vogue:
Billy Porter knows how to make an entrance. Since his dramatic arrival at last year’s Met Gala, the Pose star has continued to dominate the red carpet in theatrical fashion—making his 2020 award season debut in a suit-gown hybrid with a white feathered train at the Golden Globes last week. Keeping up the momentum, the Tony Award-winning actor took the blue carpet at the Critics’ Choice Awards tonight in a seafoam green Hogan McLaughlin jumpsuit with a flurry of hand-painted butterflies adorning his chest and arms.
“Billy’s intention [was] to embrace freedom,” explained groomer and the artist behind the designs, Anna Bernabe. “Butterflies represent a personal metamorphosis. The multiple butterflies [all over his body symbolize] the numerous transformations and rebirths one goes through during a lifetime.” According to the pro, the application to Porter’s neck, chest, and back took over an hour…
And that reminded me about the most interesting toy I saw written up from this year’s CES, in the Washington Post:
Temporary tattoo printer: Prinker
Temporary tattoo technology hasn’t changed much in recent years. You can buy them, order custom designs online or print your own on special paper at home. But a new device called the Prinker makes temporary tattoos mobile for spontaneous people who don’t want to commit to forever ink. The handheld printer can apply cosmetic-grade ink to the skin in black or color just by quickly passing it once over the chosen body part. Images are selected from a companion app, or you can add your own. It can only print graphics up to an inch wide, so a full tattoo sleeve would take a while, but the only limit on the length of a tattoo is the length of your body. While the final product doesn’t smudge or fade much, it does wash off easily with soap and water.
Cost is $269, available in mid-2020.
At that price point, there’s gonna be a Prinker in every strip-mall nail salon by the 2020 holiday season. (And probably in a lot of middle schools / afterschool enrichment programs, too, as a ‘learn to code’ gimmick to keep kids interested.)
smike
Wow! I’ve never seen such a dusty comment thread.
Frist?
frosty
Really! Where is everybody? And why am I here at 3:30? My alarm is set for 4 hours from now!! For just three more weeks, though, and then I have a retirement party and I don’t have to set the alarm any more. Right? Right??!!??
smike
Right you are. The bath robe, your friend, it is.
Steeplejack (phone)
@frosty:
The overnights have been dead for the last month or so. Dunno why. Used to be you could always get BillinGlendale or NotMax involved in a conversation about something.
When you retire you will find that it takes a while for your previous routine to fade out. I was self-employed and work-from-home for years before retirement, and it still took a long time for the “9 to 5” to loose its grip.
Aleta
@frosty: Right. As long as you renounce making appointments for 7:30 or 8 a.m. before you abandon all setting of the alarm.
Amir Khalid
@smike:
I guess they’re all tuckered out after that long Dear WaterGirl thread about pieing and banning. So tuckered out they wouldn’t come out even for a post featuring a dude in a dress.
Steeplejack (phone)
Let’s have some late-night music: Stan Getz, “Sweet Rain.”
Aleta
Bill Evans – Like Someone in Love
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: Quite a hideous frock, IMO.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Aleta:
Bill Evans, “Re: Person I Knew.”
Aleta
Catherine Russell – Early in The Morning
opiejeanne
@Betty Cracker: I don’t think it did anything for him. The gown was wearing him, more than he it.
opiejeanne
The prinker sounds pretty cool.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid: Technically, it’s a jumpsuit, not a dress.
But, yeah, I usually love Porter’s choices, it’s just that particular bodice style is haaaard to carry off. Also not the best color for him, IMO.
Love the painted butterflies, though! — I’ve always been too cowardly to get a tattoo, but the allure of a high-quality temporary adornment is strong.
Betty Cracker
@opiejeanne: It looks like a 1990s bridesmaid dress to me, but I know nothing about fashion.
Anne Laurie
I did wonder if it would be a popular ‘toy’ at retirement communities… I don’t think I’m the only Old Person, from before body ink was an art form easily available to ‘respectable’ folk, who’s intrigued by the idea of a non-permanent, non-invasive brand.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Betty Cracker: I have to agree. The flow of the basic lines are good, but I’ve never been a fan of that style of stiff bodice. And that it’s too wide for his shoulders only makes it worse.
Anne Laurie
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I had a dear friend who referred to reinforced bodices like that as ‘dessert trays’. The cut on Porter’s top gave me a flashback — but not in a way flattering to Mr. Porter, alas.
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone): Beautiful
Chet Baker ~ Every Time We Say Goodbye
youtube.com/watch?v=vP02sgYrHsw
Steeplejack (phone)
Ahmad Jamal, “Dolphin Dance.”
Aleta
Chet Baker – Dolphin Dance
Steeplejack (phone)
@Aleta:
That is good.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Aleta:
Don’t make me go full Hancock!
Got sidetracked on Ahmad Jamal. Tranquility and The Awakening, both albums, are sublime all the way through.
“Tranquility.”
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
The ultimate: “Stolen Moments.”
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone):
Catherine Russell w/ Fred Staton –
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone): This is beautiful. Thanks.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Anne Laurie: Dessert tray is a good description. The first time I encountered one, I called it a fruit bowl. It stood so far out from the skin that anyone tall enough could have looked directly down the bodice and seen everything.
Aleta
@Steeplejack (phone): wow.
I was trying to figure where I also heard that, don”t know, but I found this, two flutes.
Stolen Moments – Hubert Laws feat. Elena Pinderhughes
sab
I can’t wait to read Tom & Lorenzo on this jumpsuit. What shoes did he wear?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Aleta:
The original: Oliver Nelson, “Stolen Moments.” My favorite jazz song. I Go back and forth between Nelson and Jamal.
Mousebumples
❤️ Billy Porter.
I believe he originated the role of Lola, in Kinky Boots on Broadway. (with music by the awesome Cyndi Lauper)
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Mousebumples: He did, and he won a Best Actor Tony for Lola.
I showed a friend a freestyling video that Porter was hosting, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chris Jackson. My friend said, “I don’t know if you know who Billy Porter is….” Completely unaware of Porter’s Broadway background. I just let him go into professor mode, as he knows well that I know nothing about pop music.
I’m saving Porter’s Lola pics for a future conversation. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s, too.
satby
@Steeplejack (phone): @Aleta: I’m usually asleep overnight, but I have missed the overnight music threads, so glad to see one back. It’s a nice thing to wake up to. And a nice change from all the emotionally charged threads.
RedDirtGirl
@Anne Laurie: I am a huge fan of the temporary tattoo and am known as the tattoo lady among my friends’ offspring. A tattoo life hack: after application, give it a quick spray with dry shampoo. It will look great for a week!
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack (phone): A full Hancock is the best Hancock.
henrythefifth
Don’t Catholic priests wear stuff like that all the time? I mean, not as colorful (although lots of white, red and black).