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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Fine Press Friday!

Our Limited Editions Club Shakespeare series keeps giving us more artists to look for in our collection! This week we found Carmen, by Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) illustrated by French-born American painter and illustrator, Jean Charlot (1898-1979), published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, in 1941 in an unstated limited edition of 1500 copies signed by the artist. We learned about this edition because of the post we did a couple of weeks ago on Charlot’s illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3.

Mérimée’s 1846 novel about the eponymous Romani beauty, is most popularly well known from Georges Bizet’s famous opera of the same name, which is based on Part III of Mérimée’s story. The action is set in 1830s Andalusia, but Jean Charlot’s illustrations gives the story a Mexican flavor. Charlot worked mainly in Mexico and was a member of the Mexican Muralist Movement, sharing a studio with Fernando Leal who is considered to be one of the first Mexican Muralists. It was after the Mexican Revolution (1910-1917) that the new government sought to use murals to educate the public on social justice issues. From a young age, Charlot was fascinated by Mexican art and pre-Columbian artefacts and his mature work reflects this fascination, including in these illustrations.

The thirty-seven multi-layered color lithographs, which Charlot drew directly on the printing matrix, feel like miniature frescoes. Charlot laid down quick marks to color large areas of the image, which layer in overlapping color to give the image a lively energy. One could easily imagine one of the illustrations used as a page header as a mural above a doorway, signaling a transition. Or, one of the larger full-page illustrations as a mural on a large wall. I am taken by how these illustrations function well in both architectural and book spaces. The book is architecture.

The lithographs were printed by Charlot’s friend Albert Carman in New York and the type is 18-point Linotype Bodoni printed by Aldus Printers in New York. . The paper was made by the Worthy Paper Company, was watermarked with the name of the book and the covers are wrapped in a vibrant hand-blocked color silk.

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usafphantom2 · 2 years

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Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 243 Pilots and Ground Officers on Emirau Island South Pacific September October 1944.

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Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 243 Pilots and Ground Officers on Emirau Island South Pacific September October 1944.

Back Row, Left to Right:Richard H. Lewis, Donald E. Johnson, Edward H. Carman, James L. McCullough, William R. Knowles, Robert M. Acker, Miles Brown-Murfreesboro, TN. (Material), Jack W. Kahler (Instruments), Ralph Martin-Atlanta, GA. (Engineering), Stanley J. Roy-Cleveland, OH. (Adjutant), Milton W. Dennison-Harrisburg, PA. (Ordnance), James T. Pierce-Weymouth, MASS. (Asst. Engineer), David E. Bridges (Engineer Section), Rowley (Operations), Harold A. Clemetsen.

Third Row, Left to Right:Donald L. Hooper, Anthony A. Yukna, Herbert N. Ahrens, Badgely A. Elmes, Ernest P. Cole (Intelligence), Robert L. Waters, Phillip B. Anderson, Commander Joseph W. Kean, Executive Raymond F. Kennedy, Robert M. Heublein, Charles E. Allen, James E. Renshaw, Marvin B. McElhiney, William Carlisle

Second Row, Left to Right:Howard B. Corbett, Roy M. Brennan, William F. Moore, Edward W. Jensen, Leo R. Currie, Warren C. Child, Conway M. Andersen, Augustus Duryea, Harold C. Grogan, Eugene Hafeman, Roy J. Comstock, Barney E. Hill,

Front Row, Left to Right:John Hockman, John F.Lent, Robert J. Carrol, Joseph Baker, James R. Brown, Mario M. Finnochio, William G. Albert, Lawrence H. Brandon, Richard F. Gross, Robert J. Blewett, Edward F. Conlin.

Absent Day of Photo: Vance A. Lahey, Jack R. McKinney, Dr. Larue Wiley, MD, vmsb243.com/extraphotos.htm

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hjtheroofer · 12 days

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Frank Zappa - Live in Barcelona 1988 (Full Show - Remastered - Stereo)

Frank Zappa – sintetizador, guitarra, teclados, voz

Ike Willis – sintetizador, guitarra, guitarra rítmica, voz

Scott Thunes – sintetizador, bajo, voz, minimoog

Bobby Martin – teclados, saxofón, voz

Chad Wackerman – batería, voz, percusión

Ed Mann – percusión, marimba, vibráfono, percusión

Mike Keneally – sintetizador, guitarra, guitarra rítmica, voz

Bruce Fowler – trombón

Walt Fowler – sintetizador, trompeta, fliscorno

Kurt McGettrick – saxofón, saxofón barítono, clarinete

Albert Wing – saxofón tenor

Paul Carman – saxofón alto, saxofón barítono, saxofón soprano

#youtube #barcelona 1988

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 9 months

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"L'Ouest vient à l'aide de l'Est," La Patrie. July 25, 1943. Page 2, 4 & 11. --- Page 2: Un geste admirable de nos fermiers de l'est du pays, qui se produisit il y a environ 20 ans, est aujourd'hui rendu au centuple. Il y a 20 ans les fermiers des prairies se voyaient acculés au désastre à cause du manque de main- d'œuvre et nos fermiers allèrent dans l'ouest aider aut récoltes. Cette année la même situation se produit, mais dans l'est du pays cette fois. Les fermiers de l'ouest, ayant terminé leur semailles, viennent à l'aide de nos cultivateurs et participeront à nos récoltes. Puis ils retourneront chez eux à temps pour leurs récoltes à eux. Ci-dessus, un fermier de l'ouest qui vient d'arriver dans l'est.

La pénurie d'hommes de ferme force madame John Dresser à récolter elle-même les cerises de son verger.

Richard Cockle, de Larose, Saskatchewan, s'arrête un moment pour causer avec le fermier John Dresser, de Grantham. Le jeune Cockle est venu donner un coup de main à ce fermier de l'est pour s'occuper des récoltes.

Richard Cockle, de Larose, Sask. conduit un tracteur sur une ferme de l'est. Se souvenant de l'aide qu'allaient leur porter les fermiers de T'est du pays, il y a vingt ans, les fermiers des prairies viennent remettre maintenant la politesse et se sont rendus en groupes nombreux pour aider nos fermiers surchargés d'ouvrage et incapables de voir seuls aux récoltes, à cause du manque de main-d'œuvre.

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Page 4: Ce jeune fermier de Couent est remis an secours d'un fermier de l'est du pais, durement atteint par la pénurie de main d'ouevre. Avant de commencer la journée, le jeune homme requit des explications de son patron temporaire, au sujet du travail qu'il devra exécuter.

De jeunes ouvrières aident aussi les fermières dans leur travail. Ici, deux jeunes citadines sont allés passer leurs vacances à la campagne chez des cultivateurs, au lieu d'aller dans un endroit de villégiature. Tout en prenant le bon air et en se délassant par un changement de travail, ces jeunes filles se rendent utiles à leur pays.

Sur la ferme, a toutes sortes de travaux et ce jeune fermier de l'ouest venu dans l'est du pays pour aider les cultivateurs, qui manquent de main d'ouvre, fait de tout. Il est occupé ici a traire une vache pour envoyer ensuite le lait a la grande ville. Suite à la 11e page. --

Page 11: Ces deux jeunes gens, H-A. Scott, de Carrott River à gauche est Carman Weir, de Prince-Albert, Sask., sont venus aider leurs camarades de l'Ontario, où la pénurie de main-d'oeuvre agricole se fait sentir durement. Ils répètent en sens contraire le geste que faisaient il y a quelque vingt ans les fermiers de l'est, qui allaient aider les fermiers des prairies.

Voici un jeune fermier de L'ouest occupé à la récolte sur une du Canada. Quand les récoltes seront terminées ferme de l'es du dans l'Ontario et le Québec, il retournera à à temps dans les prairies pour faire la récolte du blé.

Johnny Freddruik s'est rendu dans la province de Quebec pour travailler sur la terre et aider aux récoltes en attendant que celles des prairies soient prètes.

Cas jeunes fermiers de l'ouest répètent le geste des gens de l'est et c'est à leur tour maintenant de venir dans les provinces d'Ontario et de Québec pour aider aux récoltes. On les voit ici dans une petite station de chemin de fer en Saskatchewan, attendant le train qui les conduira dans l'est.

Ci-contre, un jeune fermier de l'ouest qui se sont très à l'aise au volant d'un tracteur sur une ferme de l'est. Il fait partie du groupe nombreux des fermiers de l'ouest venus aider les fermiers de l'est.

#prince albert #larose sask #farming in canada #farm workers #agricultural workers #agricultural crisis #labour shortage #manpower shortage #canada during world war 2 #harvest time #alternative service #battle for food #farm service

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atlanticcanada · 1 year

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Rural N.S. residents want solutions to frequent temporary emergency room closures

Seventy-eight-year-old Albert Johnson has lived in Middleton, N.S., for more than 50 years, and has always relied on medical care at the Soldiers Memorial Hospital just a five-minute drive from his home.

“For years, we had a normal ER. We’d go there for all kinds of emergencies,” he said. “But in the past few years, we’ve had a tremendous problem.”

That problem: frequent temporary closures of the hospital's emergency department (ED).

After reopening Wednesday following a four-day shutdown, the Nova Scotia Health (NSHA) temporary closure website now states the ED is closing at 1:30 p.m. every day until further notice.

It's a big concern for Johnson, who has COPD and a heart condition.

“I don't know if I’d survive a 30-minute, 35-minute drive to Kentville. And they're very, very busy in Kentville,” said Johnson.

Area Residents have now banded together, creating a Facebook group and are organizing a rally Monday at 10 a.m. to call attention to the issue.

“We're stressed out, people are afraid,” said Carman Kerr, the Liberal MLA for Annapolis.

Kerr has been going door-to-door, gathering signatures for a petition he plans to present at the spring sitting of the legislature, calling on the provincial government to come up with a plan to keep the ED open.

He says he has 1,000 signatures so far.

“Right now, there seems to be documents floating around on different issues in health care, but there isn't a specific strategic plan on results here in Annapolis,” said Kerr.

“If Middleton is reduced hours, where do we go next? There’s an anxiety there if Annapolis is closed, and Middleton is suffering from [limited] hours and closures, what do we do next?"

“And when you have an emergent situation, and you know it will take an hour and a half for you to reach a centre, that causes a high level of anxiety and stress."

It's not the only rural area struggling with ED closures.

In Sheet Harbour, N.S., the emergency department at Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital has been shut down all this month. Residents there are also trying to get answers.

Friday, there were 10 hospital emergency departments temporarily closed in the province -- out of 38 in total -- and some aren’t scheduled to reopen until Monday.

“It's a big deal, it's interconnected with all kinds of different systems,” said Karen Foster, the Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada at Dalhousie University.

Foster says ED closures are not only a health risk to residents, but they can pose a threat to a rural community’s future.

“You're probably not going to move somewhere where there's no hospital or no emergency room, it definitely does hurt communities,” said Foster.

“If a new business is going to move in and employ a lot of people, business owners want to know there’s emergency facilities nearby, especially if they’re doing any kind of dangerous work, and a lot of the most dangerous occupations are concentrated in the most rural communities,” she said.

“There’s been research done that talks about how it makes people feel when their community loses [an] institution, and it makes people feel like their community is dying,” she adds.

The province’s recent announcement on measures to ease the strain on Nova Scotia’s emergency departments did not directly address the subject of rural ED closures.

Friday, health minister Michelle Thompson said the province is working on providing alternative places for care, such as urgent treatment centres (UTCs) or collaborative emergency centres (CECs).

She also said the recruitment of emergency physicians is a priority for health-care facilities throughout the province.

“So ongoing, we continue to look at the assets of communities and the needs of communities,” she said.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/LwtMuWT

#new brunswick #prince edward island #nova scotia #news #politics #canada #CTVAtlantic

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longliverockback · 3 years

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Zappa The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life 1991 Barking Pumpkin ————————————————— Tracks Disc One: 01. Heavy Duty Judy 02. Ring of Fire 03. Cosmik Debris 04. Find Her Finer 05. Who Needs the Peace Corps? 06. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 07. Zomby Woof 08. Bolero 09. Zoot Allures 10. Mr. Green Genes 11. Florentine Pogen 12. Andy 13. Inca Roads 14. Sofa #1

Tracks Disc Two: 01. Purple Haze 02. Sunshine of Your Love 03. Let's Move to Cleveland 04. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling 05. “Godfather Part II” Theme 06. A Few Moments with Brother A. West 07. The Torture Never Stops, Part One 08. Theme from “Bonanza” 09. Lonesome Cowboy Burt [Swaggert version] 10. The Torture Never Stops, Part Two 11. More Trouble Every Day [Swaggert version] 12. Penguin in Bondage [Swaggert version] 13. The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque 14. Stairway to Heaven —————————————————

Paul Carman

Bruce Fowler

Walt Fowler

Mike Keneally

Ed Mann

Bobby Martin

Kurt McGettrick

Scott Thunes

Chad Wackerman

Ike Willis

Albert Wing

Frank Zappa

* Long Live Rock Archive

#FrankZappa #Frank Zappa #Paul Carman #Bruce Fowler #Walt Fowler #Mike Keneally #Ed Mann #Bobby Martin #Kurt McGettrick #Scott Thunes #Chad Wackerman #Ike Willis #Albert Wing #The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life #Live #Jazz #1991

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kennyebell · 5 years

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The album TREES was CHILDHOOD’s fourth release, our first full-length CD, and the last record I made with the band.

It was recorded during late 1989-early 1990 at two now-legendary studios, BLUE JAY RECORDING in Carlisle MA and FORT APACHE STUDIOS in Boston.

At BLUE JAY we had been tracking with our longtime producer/soundman Bill Carman for the latter part of 1989 and LIONS & TIGERS was one of the songs we were most excited about.

During that summer we were invited to play live on WBCN for their Boston Emissions program, a kind-of “Live At The BBC” show hosted by Albert O that featured up and coming Boston bands.

It was a real “lightning in a bottle” performance for us and the small studio audience and radio crowd were treated to one of the best live CHILDHOOD performances ever captured – it also became clear as we were listening to the tapes that LIONS & TIGERS had an urgency and tone that perfectly captured the intended atmosphere of paranoid angst we were going for – and we immediately decided to scrap the studio version and include the live version on the album instead.

The track was remixed for TREES by Bill Carman but no overdubs or additional cleanup were needed, this is CHILDHOOD as we sounded onstage at that time.

#lionsandtigers #wbcn #weloveandmissyouscott

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goalhofer · 2 years

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2021-22 Wichita Thunder Roster

Wingers

#4 Andrew Shewfelt (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

#16 Billy Exell (Thunder Bay, Ontario)

#18 Carter Johnson (Gimli, Manitoba)

#19 Stephen Johnson (Moncton, New Brunswick)

#21 Jay Dickman (St. Paul, Minnesota)

#29 Brayden Watts (Bakersfield, California)

#72 Peter Crinella (East Longmeadow, Massachusetts) A

Centers

#22 Tyler Jeanson (Carman, Manitoba)

#23 Brady Fleurent (Biddeford, Maine)

#34 Matteo Gennaro (St. Albert, Alberta)

Defensemen

#2 Sean Allen (Puslinch Township, Ontario) A

#12 Cam Clarke (Tecumseh, Michigan)

#24 Carson Vance (Tempe, Arizona)

#27 Garrett Schmitz (Red Lake Falls, Minnesota) C

#28 Dean Stewart (Portage La Prairie, Manitoba)

#96 Nick Minerva (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Goalies

#1 Jake Theut (Washington Charter Township, Michigan)

#30 Evan Buitenhuis (Burlington, Ontario)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Kansas #Celebrities #Canada #Ontario #Michigan #Massachusetts #Minnesota #Maine #Alberta #Manitoba #New Brunswick #New Jersey #Nova Scotia #Arizona

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funmedia101 · 3 years

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The Fires of Calderon is Book One in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lindsay Cummings’s epic Balance Keepers series. These exciting fantasy-adventure books are full of magic, mystery, friendship, and humor, and are perfect for fans of books like Brandon Mull’s The Candy Shop War or the Unwanteds series by Lisa McMann.

Bestselling author of the Skeleton Creek series Patrick Carman describes The Fires of Calderon as “fast paced and packed with adventure,” and Peter Lerangis, bestselling author of the Seven Wonders series, says, “Wow!”

With themes of friendship, self-discovery, and courage; both boy and girl main characters; fierce creatures to battle; a mystery to solve; and a boarding school that could be described as Hogwarts Underground, there’s something for every reader to enjoy in this contemporary—and fantastically imaginative—spin on the classic A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

When eleven-year-old Albert Flynn follows a mysterious map deep into the woods, and then under the woods, he discovers he’s a Balance Keeper—someone with special magical skills for keeping harmony in fantastical underground worlds. Together with his teammates Leroy and Birdie, Albert must master his magical talents in time to stop the fires in the Calderon Realm from destroying New York City above.

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sarahduckw · 5 years

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Lighters Up!!

A few nights ago I was thinking about bands I’ve seen live.

Turns out it’s a weird list. I’ve put them, roughly, in the order of seeing them.

I’ve included when/where notes, some details are sketchy.

As always, a link to the Spotify playlist is at the bottom. ⬇️

These were when I was a kid. I feel like I’m probably missing a couple from my youth.

Love Crucified Arose - Michael Card

Sunday’s On The Way - Carman

Heart Of The Matter - Bob Bennett

These were all at the Ohio State Fair, with my older brothers and his friends, except VG, I think that was just me and my brother.

High Enough - Damn Yankees

I Remember You - Skid Row

Headed For A Heartache - Winger

You Better Think Twice - Vince Gill

Teen concert for Billy Graham Crusade 1993

Light A Candle - Whiteheart

She opened for either Steven Curtis Chapman or MWS, I can’t remember.

Seize The Day - Carolyn Arends

MWS was the headliner both times

Go West Young Man - Michael W. Smith (x2)

In Nashville, with my family

Independence Day - Martina McBride

Opened for MWS in the early 90’s, headliner in the late 90’s

Jesus Freak - dc Talk (x2)

Middle band 1st time, headliner 2nd

Free Ride - Audio Adrenaline (x2)

At Grace Polaris with dad

41 Lawnmowers - Billy Crockett

John The Revelator - Phil Keaggy

I’ve seen AJ twice, both at Polaris Amphitheater, once with a high school friend a few months after graduation, David Ball opened. The 2nd time with dad in the early 2000’s, Sara Evans opened.

Thinkin’ Problem - David Ball

Suds In The Bucket - Sara Evans

Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson (x2)

Punk Rawk Show - MxPx at Vineyard Columbus

Gasoline - Skillet at Vineyard Columbus

Both at Polaris Amphitheater with my younger brother

Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes - Jimmy Buffett

Fire and Rain - James Taylor

Headliner, Audio A was one of the opening bands

The Great Adventure - Steven Curtis Chapman

Did You Mean It - Third Day at Vineyard Columbus

A Flowery Song - Five Iron Frenzy probably at Vineyard Columbus

Opened for Audio A

Supertones Strike Back - The O.C. Supertones

Anna Thema - Stavesacre probably at Vineyard Columbus

Butterfly - Seven Day Jesus at Vineyard Columbus

B.C. - Plankeye probably at Vineyard Columbus

Ooklah The Punk - Ghoti Hook probably at Vineyard Columbus

At Grace Polaris with mom and Abby(?)

Lucky One - Amy Grant

Polaris Amphitheater with siblings early 2000’s

Livin’ On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

Diamond In The Rough - Jennifer Knapp at Vineyard Columbus

Overjoyed - Jars Of Clay at Vineyard Columbus

Superman - Luna Halo at Vineyard Columbus

random festival in Chillicothe 2007

Cornerstone - Day Of Fire

Son Of God Tour in 2014, Grace Polaris with mom, dad and Abby

Free To Be Me - Frances’s Battistelli

Your Great Name - Natalie Grant

You Love Me Anyway - Sidewalk Prophets

Remind Me Who I Am - Jason Gray

The Maker - Chris August

Soar - Meredith Andrews

Buckets For Bullet Wounds - House Of Heroes at Vineyard Columbus

You Alone - David Crowder Band at Vineyard Columbus

Ohio Stadium 2016

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

Schottenstein Center 2016

Sister Christian - Night Ranger

Head Games - Foreigner

Rock Of Ages - Def Leppard

First time opened for Foos, 2nd and 3rd headliner

Kiss This - The Struts (x3)

Best concert we’ve ever been to, hands down

Long Road To Ruin - Foo Fighters

Opener for The Struts

Set To Attack - Albert Hammond, Jr.

Headliner

Feathers So Hollow - Vesperteen

#music #playlist

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aysias-uniblog · 6 years

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Adshead, J. 1991. Lectorial on 'classicism' (December) presented at the University of Surrey,for a Master of Arts in Dance Studies unit.

Anderson, J. 1986. Ballet and modern dance: A concise history. Princeton: Princeton Book Company

Banes, S. 1987. Terpsichore in sneakers: Post-modern dance. Hanover, N.H.: Wesleyan University Press.

California Ballet Company. (2010). Ballet in the Romantic Era. [online] Available at: https://californiaballet.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/ballet-in-the-romantic-era/

Carman, J. 2014, a return to CLASSICISM, Dance Media LLC, dba Macfadden Performing Arts Media, LLC, New York.

Collins Paperback Dictionary. 1995. Great Britain: HarperCollins

Debney, L. 1993. Giselle (Coralli/Perrot, 1841; Petipa). Guildford, England: National Resource Centre for Dance.

Donna (2010). Martha Graham & Modern Dance. [online] Angelfire.com. Available at: http://www.angelfire.com/zine/donnamford/graham.html

Foster, Susan (n.d.) The Signifying Body: Reaction and Resistance in Postmodern Dance. Theatre Journal. [Online] 37 (1), 45-64.

Kraus, R. and S.A. Chapman. 1981. History of the dance in art and education. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Leary, K. (2018). Awakening of Humanity Within the Framework of Classicism by Adrian Danchig-Waring. [online] The New York Public Library. Available at: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/07/30/awakening-humanity-framework-classicism-nyc-ballet-adrian-danchig-waring

Lee, C. 2002. Ballet in western culture: A history of its origins and evolution. MA, USA: Allyn and Bacon.

Pedro, R. (2018). CLASSICISM AS MANIFEST IN CLASSICAL BALLET.

Pedro, R. (2018). KDB123 Dance Legacies - Lectorial 3.

Pedro, R. (2018). MODERNISM: AS MANIFEST IN MODERN DANCE AND THE JAPANESE DANCE BUTOH.

Pittsburgh University. (2018). [Blog] The Early Modern - Doris Humphrey. Available at: https://www.pitt.edu/~gillis/dance/doris.html

Reynolds, N. ed. 1979. The dance catalogue. New York: Harmony.

Royal Opera House (2015). Ballet Evolved: The Evolution of Pointe Work. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=510WnZQUgac&t=281s

Scholl, T.J. 1991, Rebuilding the academy: Twentieth-century classicism and the modernization of Russian ballet, Yale University.

Tate. (2018). Postmodernism - Art Term | Tate. [online] Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/postmodernism

Vam.ac.uk. (2016). Romantic Ballet - Victoria and Albert Museum. [online] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/r/romantic-ballet/

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longliverockback · 3 years

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Frank Zappa Zappa ′88: The Last U.S. Show 2021 Zappa ————————————————— Tracks Disc One: 01. We Are Doing Voter Registration Here 02. The Black Page [new age version] 03. I Ain’t Got No Heart 04. Love of My Life 05. Inca Roads 06. Sharleena 07. Who Needs the Peace Corps? 08. I Left My Heart in San Francisco 09. Dickie’s Such an Asshole 10. When the Lie’s So Big 11. Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk 12. Sofa #1 13. One Man, One Vote 14. Happy Birthday, Chad! 15. Packard Goose Pt. I 16. Royal March from «L’Histoire du Soldat» 17. Theme from the «Bartok Piano Concerto #3» 18. Packard Goose Pt. II 19. The Torture Never Stops Pt. I 20. Theme from «Bonanza»

Tracks Disc Two: 01. Lonesome Cowboy Burt 02. The Torture Never Stops Pt. II 03. City of Tiny Lites 04. Pound for a Brown 05. Beatles Medley 06. Peaches en Regalia 07. Stairway to Heaven 08. I Am the Walrus 09. Whipping Post 10. Bolero 11. America the Beautiful —————————————————

Paul Carman

Bruce Fowler

Walt Fowler

Mike Keneally

Ed Mann

Bobby Martin

Kurt McGettrick

Scott Thunes

Chad Wackerman

Ike Willis

Albert Wing

Frank Zappa

* Long Live Rock Archive

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theconservativebrief · 6 years

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The lighting in Timberland’s new pop-up store is supposed to mimic daylight. Like the lighting in a reptile tank.

This measure is in place to keep over 2,000 live plants happy, including 10 full-sized birch and ficus trees, as well as ferns, moss, and a large variety of what a press release calls “native New England plant species.” (No offense at all to New England, but New York City is not part of it. The Mid-Atlantic region is sexy in its own right!)

The new, invasive species–covered Timberland, located at 511 Fifth Avenue, a 20,000-square-foot retail space owned — for the next 96 years — by Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties, will be open until January. When it closes, in January, the plants and trees will supposedly be re-planted throughout New York City. In January.

I visit it on a Monday morning with two friends and the intention (and assignment) of answering the question: “What does this have to do with buying a pair of shoes?”

The Fifth Avenue store is effectively Timberland’s testing ground for “experiential retail,” a trend my colleague Chavie Lieber described last week as, “brands offer[ing] experiences with the goal being less about a shopper purchasing a brand product and more about the brand purchasing a shopper.” Timberland, the outdoor footwear brand whose sales tripled when it was endorsed by rappers DMX and Biggie Smalls in the ’90s, did five pop-ups last year and seven this year, all designed by an in-house creative team, but this one is the pinnacle: It will be more or less the final word on the question: “Does having living plants in a brick-and-mortar store work?”

Should Timberland have living plants in its 70 stores nationwide? Are living plants worth the floor space, care, and reptile lighting?

Boots among plants at Timberland’s new concept store. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

I am not told how much this store cost, but I am told that the plants were brought in by botanic design company Greenery NYC, which offers “green your office” services with packages starting at $5,000 (this one includes design, installation, and “between 8 and 15 medium to large office plants,” so go ahead and do the math if you feel like passing out). The Greenery also sends someone to water 511 Fifth Avenue’s two thousand plants every day, as well as swap out and rehabilitate plants that get too stressed out by being in a Timberland store.

Obviously, the idea of the plants being stressed makes me want to volunteer all of my vacation days and health benefits to the plants. The plants are great. Love the plants. I suspect they are going to definitively fail their test of being “worth it.” The plants are supposed to remind you of being outside, and being outside is something you need different shoes for, but there is such a tenuous connection between that process and actually buying a several-hundred-dollar pair of boots that I can’t imagine the conversion rate justifies the plants’ expensive little lives. (Sorry, my guys!)

The plants are great. Love the plants. I suspect they are going to definitively fail their test of being “worth it.”

But it’s cool: 511 Fifth Avenue is also a test for bringing online “hype” culture into the real world. A section of the store is cordoned off for “special drops,” like the brand’s collaboration with — maybe you can guess? — Kanye West creative director Virgil Abloh’s luxury and streetwear brand Off-White. (The collab launched last December.)

And this area is situated next to the store’s two “Instagrammable” experiences. The first is called the Rain Room — not to be confused with the Museum of Modern Art’s famous Rain Room, arguably the genesis of all Instagram-oriented museums and restaurants and retail locations. It is a room in which sounds of rain are being played over hidden speakers, not quite loud enough to tune out the sounds of the indie pop mix playing out in the main store. Physically, rain is represented by a ceiling covered in LED icicles, such as those you might see hung from suburban porch eaves at Christmastime. Spiritually, rain is represented by a white neon Timberland logo surrounded by a dozen convex circular mirrors of varying sizes, such as those you might look out for if you’re trying to rob a convenience store or a Claire’s Accessories.

Ashley Carman, in Timberland’s “Rain Room.” Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

I ask my friend, Verge reporter Ashley Carman — the most famous Instagram personality I know in real life — to pose for a photo, and she does, and she looks beautiful. Can you see her feet? No. Would someone who is trying on a pair of Timberlands see them in the selfie they took in one of these mirrors, and thereby show them off to their Instagram followers by posting it? No, they would not. The Rain Room photo doesn’t meet Ashley’s personal bar for Instagram grid photos, and she points out to me that she already has a photo from Yayoi Kusama’s famous, sparkly infinity room I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, hosted at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea in 2013. She is not above Instagram-bait at her institutions of high art or culture or buying stuff, she emphasizes, and has eagerly fallen for it literally dozens of times, but this won’t cut it.

In the back corner of the store, there is a huge backdrop of a wintry forest, taken by Dutch photographer Albert Dros, and a plastic box about 8 feet long and ankle-high, inside of which swirls about 14 pieces of fake snow. This is the Snow Room. On the floor, there is a printed-out image of snow with Timberland boot footprints in it. You’re supposed to try on a pair of Timberlands and then walk on the footprints to see if you’d like to wear the Timberlands in snow.

I ask Ashley to pose in the Snow Room. From an Instagram perspective, this photo is beyond useless. (From a friendship perspective, it’s nice. A souvenir from our day together.)

During the 40 minutes we spend at 511 Fifth Avenue, we have a nice time. We see one European tourist take a selfie in a Rain Room mirror, and it’s hard to say if the feature would normally be more popular: The Rain Room is objectively lazy and bad, sure, but we also visit it during setup for the Columbus Day parade and have to show a cop both our business cards and a series of emails to prove that we have an appointment on this block. The store is an empty green wonderland. A vaulted-ceiling playground for pals, and one European tourist.

Bevan Bloemendaal, Timberland’s vice president of global creative services, assures me the reaction has been positive: “We’ve seen lots of friends snapping photos in the weather elements, which was exactly what we hoped for. [The] beauty of these pop-ups is that they give us a chance to test and learn — to expand upon what’s working, and maybe forgo other pieces.”

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Timberland’s new Fifth Avenue concept store, where plants eat up mimicked daylight.

When Timberland launched 511 Fifth Avenue earlier this month, its global brand president Jim Pisani wrote, “For 45 years, Timberland has inspired people to step outside — to pursue the outdoors with passion and purpose … With this new space at Fifth Avenue, we set out to create a haven where the community can experience the beauty and power of nature, right here in the city.”

Sure? I mean, why not? Rain and snow and 2,000 plants are all part of nature. This is probably the first idea you would have if you were compelled to come up with a way to make buying a hiking boot into an experience. (Not to be pedantic, but another example of a place where you can experience the beauty and power of nature, right here in the city, is a park.)

Timberland’s new store promises “an emotional connection” to the brand, as a supplement to a transaction with the brand. This is what consumers want, VP of global brand marketing Argu Secilmis argues. He’s not wrong, exactly. All of us make purchase decisions based on emotions. And I do feel an emotional connection to 511 Fifth Avenue, mostly because I had to run up against the police state to get there — and won! — and because it represented a weird Monday field trip for three friends who typically sit at desks and will take what they can get, regarding adventure.

Beautiful Christmas decorations that represent rain. Kaitlyn Tiffany/Vox

But are young people buying Timberlands because of an emotional connection with trees and fake snow and the suggestion of the great outdoors and the promise of an acceptable Instagram post? Or are they buying them as a fashion statement stemming from an emotional connection to a 30-year history of Timberland boots and hip-hop style, which this center city pop-up seems to deliberately elide? Hm.

When I ask Bloemendaal about this, he points me to Timberland’s tagline, “Born in the woods, raised in the city,” and says I’ll see the city element represented by an upcoming collaboration with British high-fashion workwear designer Christopher Raeburn. “As we look to the future of the Timberland brand, we see a lot of excitement around the notion of connecting our passion and the power of nature with the energy of fashion.” He promises Timberland is just getting started.

As it stands, this store is gorgeous, and its Instagram experience rooms are terrible, almost rude. They show the hand of the people who made them, who clearly assumed that “designated photo area” is all it takes to make a moment warrant a post, and all it takes to trick a young, social media–using consumer who has no taste or discernment and who doesn’t know why they’re spending their money.

What does any of this have to do with actually buying Timberland’s shoes? Almost nothing. This is where the term “window dressing” comes from. It’s window dressing that you can idly appreciate or deliberately ignore, whenever you happen to go to 511 Fifth Avenue with the already-set intention of buying some boots.

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