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Because women, in many cultures – and in the history of many cultures – are seen as commodities. As objects. Their worth is measured in beauty. Whether you’re selling me your idealized form yourself or someone else is doing it, the sad fact is that pushing these types of fake bullshit on us is part of a larger history of commoditizing people. And yes, blah-blah people can be sexy in many! Different! Ways! – yes, that’s wonderful. People are sexy. But *this* type of representation of “sexy” doesn’t look like actual bed-time sexiness any more than your typical porn movie actually looks like you and your partner(s) getting it on. I than added 2mm high lettering for the numbers (1 counting up to 25, and later 25 counting down to 1). And just so it was more obvious "Nakatomi Plaza" and a logo in SVG imported into TinkerCAD (adjusting the extruded height). The lettering is raised higher than the rest of the surface to facilitate two color printing, on a single color extruder. But why? Why all the faking? Why did women have to look perfect in person, or at least perfect in the marketed pin-up? Fun fact: if you decide to buy from me you are buying an ORIGINAL Nakatomi Plaza Die Hard Advent Calendar. I'm like the Banksy Picasso of pop culture tchotchkes for the holidays. I have a lot of copycats out there this holiday season. When I started to try and figure out what a pin-up calendar of characters from my books would look like, I came up a blank, because my characters aren’t selling their bodies. They aren’t meant to be singular sexual objects, or actresses (or actors). They’re meant to be people. People who aren’t owned.

This is really what the pin-up is about. It’s about ownership. Inciting desire. Making people think they can own a thing by going out and seeing the actress at work, or hiring her for a show. It’s selling the desire for ownership. It was in staring at that picture that I became angry again at the idea that pin-up calendars were being used to support literary foundations. Because it was in that moment that the whole complicated hand-wringing I’d seen so many do in support of the calendar just fell apart for me. At the end, McClane says "You got a warranty for this (Holly's watch, a gift from Nakatomi Corporation)?" to which Holly laughs. Die Hard is an 80’s movie, one with a core emotional conflict that centered on real social change happening at the time – women moving into executive positions who had begun out-earning their husbands. Where was the place for men, in a world like that? How did you define being a man, when it wasn’t through being a bread-winner? What does it mean to be a dude when there are no more monsters to fight and your wife is a CEO?I created the Die Hard Advent Calendar for the first half to convert the second half over the holidays. A grand plan to unite the world. I'd love if you could help spread the mission and joy this year after a couple of rough ones (amiright?!).

As news spreads about Bruce Willis's battle with frontotemporal dementia, we are deeply moved by his enduring legacy in the film industry. With our Die Hard Advent Calendar, you can bring home a piece of Willis's history and celebrate his lasting impact on the world of entertainment. Each piece of this calendar is meticulously crafted to capture the essence and thrill of the iconic Nakatomi Plaza's fall scene, allowing you to relive the magic of cinema once more.It turns out that the other Playboy playmate featured in the film is the one who shows up topless in the film, interrupted as she and a colleague are getting it on in a spare office. Even if the non-action parts are a tad slow in comparison, that is more than compensated by so many things that makes Die Hard so brilliant. Thank you again for supporting the original designer and creator of the Die Hard Advent Calendar - everyone else is just a copy 😉 I watch Die Hard at least a couple of times a year; it’s one of the best written films out there. But there were always two moments in the film that confounded me from the very start, even when I watched it as a kid. There’s a moment when John McClane is upstairs in the floors under construction, and he’s trying to figure out how to get the attention of the police even though the phone lines are cut. During this high tension scene, the camera’s attention swoops with John’s to the building across the way, where a naked woman is talking on the phone, and the camera holds there for a few seconds while he watches her, open mouthed. Right after this moment, he hits the fire alarm to call the authorities, so I figured that somehow this scene was meant to show us his thought processes – hey, other people in the buildings next door have phones. What other way do we have to communicate? – in addition to being a general male-gazey moment for the audience. But what she’d actually done is take her clothes off, not to be pin-up sexy, but to be real about what bodies which have survived three types of cancer actually look like. She’d had reconstructive surgery on her breasts, which were missing nipples. There was a broad scar across her belly from her hysterectomy. More scars on her legs, her arms; there was loose, stretched skin from rapid weight loss related to her illness. And though her face was carefully made up as any pin-up’s would be, her body showed us a much realer picture; her body carried the record of what she’d been through. Hers was the body of a person who’d been through the shit and survived it, not a body we were invited to own.

You can add a little fun to your Christmas season with one of these advent calendars. / Daniel Brandt of Brandt Builds (formerly Leatherhead Laser Works)

Shipping from the shop owner’s garage in Maryland, the handmade Die Hard advent calendar has an estimated arrival time ranging from around nine to 16 days from the time it’s ordered.

And in this society of enslavement and subservience, in a culture of people as things, courtesans and hetaera and the like also understood the importance of marketing. It’s why they faked their looks with cosmetics and sewn-up hair, and plush butts. Because they knew they were only as valuable as their perceived worth as sexual objects, or, at least, desirable objects that the 1% could fight over. I want to give credit to the TRUE Original-original designer of the die hard advent calendar. That is the Redditor who made this post! For one thing the action is explosive and consistently exciting, and the cinematography is astounding being very inventive and colourful. John McTiernon(The Hunt for Red October, Last Action Hero) directs briskly and efficiently, and the pacing a vast majority of the time is exhilarating. After coming off a long period researching slavery in antiquity for my new series, it’s very difficult for me to go all rah-rah empowerment when I see folks trying to make perfection and/or subservience sexy. There’s too much horrifying history behind that. I hadn’t much thought about the annoying literary pin-up calendars in a while – not since January, when Justin at Staffer’s Book Review brought it up again as being intensely problematic. As I told Justin at the time, it was one of those low-level annoyances I’ve learned to live with over the years. I try to save my ire for the truly egregious things these days. I only have so many spoons.

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