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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. 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. Thank you again for supporting the original designer and creator of the Die Hard Advent Calendar - everyone else is just a copy 😉 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)

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. Faking bodily perfection – in particular among women – has a long and sordid history, too. Did you know women in ancient Athens actually stuffed their clothes so they looked like they had bigger breasts and butts? They bound and smoothed flabby bodies. They wore wigs when necessary. They faked it. There are two types of people; those that believe Die Hard is the best Christmas movie, and those that are wrong. The Die Hard inspired Advent Calendar Proves This 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.Make it feel like Christmas is getting near by watching Hans Gruber fall off of Nakatomi Plaza for 25 straight days! These calendars were completely designed by me and are made by me in my garage shop in MD.

Standing with Bruce Willis, celebrating an enduring icon and his invaluable contributions to cinema.But I avoided the discussion around it at the time, because wasn’t it obvious? Was it really worth my spoons? 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! 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.