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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 30

1554 – Sir Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d.1586); the English courtier and poet was one of the leading lights of Queen Elizabeth's court and a model of Renaissance chivalry. His Apostrophel and Stella is one of the great sonnet sequences in English and was inspired by his love for Penelope Devereaux, even though he later married Frances Walsingham. Lest one confuse Renaissance "love" and "marriage" with the modern versions, it should be pointed out that Penelope Devereaux was 12-years old when Sidney fell in love with her, and that Frances Walsingham was 14 when she was married to the 29-year-old courtier. Marriages were arranged then and not made in heaven, more a real estate transaction than a spiritual love match.

Sidney, himself, was in his teens when the Huguenot writer and diplomat Hubert Languet fell in love with him. Languet was 36 years his senior, lived with him for a time, and, when they parted, wrote passionate letters to him weekly. In his youth, Sidney was strongly attached to two young men, Fulke Greville and Edward Dyer, and wrote love verses to them both, a point not lost on gay John Addington Symonds when he wrote Sidney's biography.

Sidney died in battle at the age of 32. According to the story, while lying wounded he gave his water-bottle to another wounded soldier, saying, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine". This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble character.

1864 – Died: Major General Patrick (Ronayne) Cleburne (b.1828), who was an Irish American soldier, best known for his service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Born in County Cork, Ireland, Cleburne served in the 41st Regiment of Foot of the British Army after failing to gain entrance into Trinity College of Medicine in 1846. He emigrated to the U.S. three years later. At the beginning of the Civil War, Cleburne sided with the Confederacy. He progressed from being a private soldier in the local militia to a division commander. Cleburne participated in many successful military campaigns, especially the Battle of Stones River and the Battle of Ringgold Gap. His strategic ability gained him the nickname "Stonewall of the West".

According to Randy Shilts ("Conduct Unbecoming"), the Major General might have earned the "Stonewall" appellation for less martial reasons. According to Shilts in his bestselling Conduct Unbecoming the Major General was a 'life-long bachelor' and wrote of the great love of his life:

Cleburne's relationship with his twenty-two year old adjutant, Captain Irving Ashby Buck, drew the notice of the general's colleagues. Cleburne's biographer John Francis Maguire wrote that the general's 'attachment' to Buck 'was a very strong one' and that Buck 'for nearly two years of the war, shared Cleburne's labors during the day and his blankets at night.' Buck himself wrote that the pair were 'close and confidential. I habitually messed with him and shared his tent and often his blankets."

Prior to the campaigning season of 1864, Cleburne became engaged to Susan Tarleton of Mobile, Alabama. Their marriage was never to be, as Cleburne was killed during an ill-conceived assault (which he opposed) on Union fortifications at the Battle of Franklin, just south of Nashville, Tennessee, on November 30, 1864.

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1869 – Konstantin Somov (d.1939) Russian Artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. He was the son of a curator at the Hermitage, and he attended the St Petersburg Academy of Art from 1888 to 1897, studying under the Realist painter Il'ya Repin from 1894. Somov was homosexual, like many of the World of Art members.

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In 1897 and again in 18989 he went to Paris and attended the studios of Filippo Colarossi and of Whistler. Neither the Realism of his Russian teachers nor the evanescent quality of Whistler's art was reflected for long in Somov's work. He turned instead for inspiration to the Old Masters in the Hermitage and to works of contemporary English and German artists, which he knew from visits abroad and from the art journals.

Following the Russian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States, but found the country "absolutely alien to his art" and moved to Paris. He was buried at the Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois Cemetery.

1874 – Winston Churchill, British prime minister and statesman (d.1965). He was Britain's wartime prime minister whose courageous leadership and defiant rhetoric fortified the English during their long struggle against Hitler's Germany. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat," he stated upon becoming prime minister at the beginning of the war. He called Hitler's Reich a "monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime." Following the war, he coined the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the barrier between areas in Eastern Europe under Soviet control and the free West.

In his wonderfully entertaining and informative biography of W. Somerset Maugham, Ted Morgan tells how Maugham once asked Churchill whether it was true, as the statesman's mother had claimed, that he had had affairs with other young men in his youth.

"Not true!" Churchill replied. "But I once went to bed with a man to see what it was like."

The man turned out to be musical-comedy star, Ivor Novello.

"And what was it like?" asked Maugham.

"Musical" Churchill replied.

Another famous story goes that when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, he was woken one freezing February morning by a Downing Street aide bearing the shocking news that a male Tory MP had been caught having sex with a naked guardsman in St James’s Park.

Noting that it had been the coldest night of the winter, Churchill is said to have remarked: "Makes you proud to be British."

1900 – On this date, Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, wit and raconteur died (b.1854); Prison, after his conviction for "gross indecency," was unkind to Wilde's health and after he was released on May 19, 1897 he spent his last three years penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. He went under the assumed name of Sebastian Melmoth, after the famously "penetrated" Saint Sebastian and the devilish central character of Wilde's great-uncle Charles Robert Maturin's gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer.

Nevertheless, Wilde lost no time in returning to his previous pleasures. According to Lord Alfred Douglas, Robbie Ross "dragged [him] back to homosexual practices" during the summer of 1897, which they spent together in Berneval. After his release, he also wrote the famous poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Wilde spent his last years in the Hôtel d'Alsace, now known as L'Hôtel, in Paris, where he was notorious and uninhibited about enjoying the pleasures he had been denied in England. Again according to Douglas, "he was hand in glove with all the little boys on the Boulevard. He never attempted to conceal it." In a letter to Ross, Wilde laments, "Today I bade good-bye, with tears and one kiss, to the beautiful Greek boy. . . he is the nicest boy you ever introduced to me."

Just a month before his death he is quoted as saying, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go." His moods fluctuated; Max Beerbohm relates how, a few days before Wilde's death, their mutual friend Reginald 'Reggie' Turner had found Wilde very depressed after a nightmare. "I dreamt that I had died, and was supping with the dead!" "I am sure," Turner replied, "that you must have been the life and soul of the party." Reggie Turner was one of the very few of the old circle who remained with Wilde right to the end, and was at his bedside when he died. On his deathbed he was received into the Roman Catholic church. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900.

Wilde was buried in the Cimitiere de Bagneaux outside Paris but was later moved to Père Lachaise in Paris. His tomb in Père Lachaise was designed by sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, at the request of Robert Ross, who also asked for a small compartment to be made for his own ashes. Ross's ashes were transferred to the tomb in 1950. The numerous spots on it are lipstick traces from admirers.

The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitals. They were broken off as obscene and kept as a paperweight by a succession of Père Lachaise cemetary keepers. Their current whereabouts are unknown. In the summer of 2000, intermedia artist Leon Johnson performed a forty minute ceremony entitled Re-membering Wilde in which a commissioned silver prosthesis was installed to replace the vandalized genitals.

Note: As a general rule, this site does not list persons' death dates - unless their death was something out of the ordinary, a reason for them to be remembered, or because we don't know their date of birth. However, Oscar Wilde desreves special treatment. His name is referenced in this collection of brief biographies far more than any other person. His life, trial, and death had a world-wide effect on gay history.

1955 – Kevin Conroy was an American actor and voice actor (d.2022). He is best known for his voice role as the DC Comics character Batman on the 1990s Warner Bros. television show Batman: The Animated Series, as well as various other TV series and feature films in the DC animated universe.

Due to the popularity of his performance as Batman, Conroy went on to voice the character for multiple films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner, the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham video games, and in fall 2019 he will play a live action Bruce Wayne in the Arrowverse adaptation of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Conroy was born in Westbury, New York. Conroy was born into an Irish Catholic family which moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was about 11 years old. He moved to New York City in 1973 when he earned a full scholarship to attend Juilliard's drama division, studying under actor John Houseman. While there, he roomed with Robin Williams, who was in the same group as both Conroy and Kelsey Grammer.

After graduating from Juilliard in 1978, he toured with Houseman's acting group The Acting Company, and the following year he went on the national tour of Ira Levin's Deathtrap.

Filmreference.com listed Conroy as having been married, and having a child, though an interview with The New York Times in 2016 stated that he was single. He also said that he was gay.

In the 2016 interview with The New York Times promoting the animated adaptation of The Killing Joke, Conroy revealed that he was gay. As part of DC Comics' 2022 Pride anthology, Conroy wrote "Finding Batman", a story that recounted his life and experiences as a gay man. It received critical acclaim upon release. He was married to Vaughn C. Williams at the time of his death.

Conroy made an effort to conceal his homosexuality throughout most of his career. He spoke in "Finding Batman" about the discrimination he faced once potential collaborators and employers found out about his homosexuality. Conroy has said that on multiple occasions he had been removed from consideration for acting jobs due to his sexual orientation.

1995 – The first US. government-sponsored advertising targeting gay men debuts on the eve of World AIDS Day when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases a public service television announcement cautioning men to have “smart sex.”

Today's Gay Wisdom: The wit of Oscar Wilde

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

There is no sin except stupidity.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Only the shallow know themselves.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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freylaverse · 1 year

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I told @hedonicghost I’d draw Pei if they drew Pei.

Anyway Ashby Santoso is so brave for dating her. Not the forbidden love thing. The fact that she’s so. Could you imagine going on a date with Pei? My heart would stop. She’d smile at me and I’d keel over.

#wayfarers series #gapei tem seri #the long way to a small angry planet #the galaxy and the ground within #wayfarers

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unclefredandjohnnierutter · 8 months

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#31: Labyrinth of Lies

You ate the seeds. I wanted to keep you safe, but you did and there is nothing I can do. They know you know!

A Nancy Drew inspired playlist 🧿 // listen here

🏺↓ tracklist and more down below ↓ 🏺

Featuring:

Poulaki Xeno - Kiki Fragkouli

The State of Dreaming - MARINA

I, Carrion (Icarian) - Hozier

Little Sunflower - Dorothy Ashby

Psyche - Love Spirals Downward

Cassandra - Florence + The Machine

The Sensual World - Kate Bush

As Above, so Below - TomTom Club

Persephone - Cocteau Twins

Fallen Fruit - Lorde

Sowing Seeds - The Jesus and Mary Chain

Kamia Den Miazi Me Sena Matia Mou - Giannis Ploutarhos

Chimaera - Tamta

The Devil - BANKS

Where the Water Clears the Illusion - Melody’s Echo Chamber

Minotaur - Thee Oh Sees

Genres include acoustic guitars and harps, greek tunes, and mythology inspired songs for persephone, part time queen of the underworld

Its nice to be back in a museum! Nancy should just go around from museum internship to museum internship. This time through the whole underground set thing finally made sense to me, its still ridiculous and everything but I understand the in game explanation at least

#playlist #lie #labyrinth of lies #ccpt23 #cluecrewplaythru #nancy drew games #catching up on things #job interview soon

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eyepool · 1 year

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The world seems relentlessly weird because we are failing to tell powerful stories about it. We are not failing to tell powerful stories about it because it seems relentlessly weird.

... Storytelling evolves, indeed it must evolve, because the world evolves. And the nature of that evolution is exactly of the sort that is required to accommodate changes in the world itself. It’s a cousin of Ashby’s law of requisite variety: only increasingly varied stories can accommodate increasingly varied realities.

... We are on the threshold of a world defined by computational processes, procedurally generated realities, and yes, procedurally generated text and image streams as a base layer coating. As Drew Austin argues in Goodbye Horses, we are entering a world where the infrafictions themselves comprise informational wallpaper. Lorem Ipsum texts leveled up in coherence to be indistinguishable from our own more primitive fictions. But the amount of raw information (or noise) being injected into reality is not significantly higher.

We can narrate this. The question is, how?

—Venkatesh Rao, “Tessellations for the End of History”

This is a very abstruse yet fascinating essay. Much of Rao's writing I bounce off of, but this one I almost get. Anything that ties together tesselations, cellular automata, Tetris, J.G. Ballard and storytelling is worth puzzling(!) through. 🧐

#writing #philosophy #mathematics #tessellation #jg ballard

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jefferyryanlong · 6 months

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Infinite Pau Hana - November 1, 2023

"reflections"

Hour 1

Prester John - Animal Collective The Way I Deux - Little Wings Autumn Leaves - James Moody So Far Away - Carole King California - Joni Mitchell I'll Follow the Sun - The Beatles Monsters - Band of Horses Yesterday's Dreams - Freddie Hubbard In a Japanese Garden - Oliver Nelson Sunday Morning (live) - The Velvet Underground Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed

Hour 2

Ride into the Sun (Demo) - The Velvet Underground Old Friends - Simon and Garfunkel Bookends Theme - Simon and Garfunkel I Drew My Ship - Shirley Collins Time - Tom Waits Moon Dreams - Miles Davis In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra It Was a Very Good Year - Gabor Szabo Nap Song - Kikagaku Moyo I Know It's Over - The Smiths Jack the Ripper - Colin Meloy In My Room - The Langley Schools Music Project Songs from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: "Cuckoo!" - Choir of Sownside School, Purley Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan

Hour 3

Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez Catch the Wind - Donovan There's a Small Hotel - Dorothy Ashby Baby Daughter - Jeff Majors I Dream a Highway - Gillian Welch First of the Gang - Zee Avi Love in Vain - The Rolling Stones

KTUH FM - 90.1 FM Honolulu, 91.1 FM North Shore. ktuh.org

#playlists #infinitepauhana

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goalhofer · 7 months

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Famous May 23, 2023 birthdays:

Barbara Barrie Harnick (American actress & writer), 92

Joan Collins Gibson (British actress & writer)(pictured), 90

Rod Thorn (American basketball player & coach), 82

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (American Catholic cardinal), 74

William Showalter III (American baseball player & manager), 67

Drew Carey (American actor & tv host), 65

Clarence Ashby III (American actor), 63

Melissa McBride (American actress), 58

Gary Roberts (Canadian hockey player), 57

Brian Campbell (Canadian hockey player), 44

Ryan Coogler (American movie director)(pictured), 37

Rosanna Crawford (Canadian biathlete), 35

Aaron Donald (American football player), 32

Lena Mayer-Landrut (German singer), 32

Katharina Schmid (German skier), 27

Sam Timmins (New Zealand basketball player), 26

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ginnappv · 9 months

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BLACK EARTH RISING: Showcase Edit 02: 9’55 from STUDIO AKA on Vimeo.

One of two montage edits of the work we created for this BBC/NETFLIX series.

Edit 02 (9 mins 55 seconds):

We were invited to create four sequences, totalling nine minutes of animation, as well as the main titles for this live-action drama. Produced, written, and directed by BAFTA award winner Hugo Blick and produced by Abi Bach (The Honourable Woman), Black Earth Rising is set against the background of the prosecution of international war crimes and the West’s relationship with contemporary Africa.

The animation sequences depict events around the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath, imaginatively interpreting violent and tragic events; events where, as one character puts it— “words would fail ” The story centres on Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel), who works as a legal investigator in the London law chambers of Michael Ennis (John Goodman). When Kate’s adoptive mother Eve (Harriet Walter) takes on a case prosecuting an African militia leader, the story pulls Michael and Kate into a journey that will upend their lives forever. Studio AKA director Steven Small designed beautifully rendered hand-drawn sequences to be inserted into four episodes in the eight-part series.

Along with a team of animators, Small drew references from a wide array of source materials, using a combination of 3D, rotoscoping and simple hand-drawn line artwork to create these impactful images portraying graphic events. The resulting imagery is captivating and powerfully wrought.

Steve Small says of the project:

“The opportunity to make imagery for writing as incisive as Hugo’s is rare. The sequences needed to resemble broken memories, be spare in their look and only say what needed saying; generating a fragmented quality that gathers the drawing and artwork together with its restless and unsettling style.” Client The Forgiving Earth Limited Executive Producer Greg Brenman Producer, Writer & Director Hugo Blick Producer Abi Bach Animation Production Company Studio AKA Animated Sequence Director Steve Small

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burketm · 10 months

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ACCENTS & HOMETOWNS .

001. despite basically living in massachusetts his whole life, having been born in and raised just outside of boston, ELIJAH DOES NOT SPEAK WITH A TYPICAL BOSTON ACCENT. even though he's moved to basically every part of the state, from lee to ashby to needham, and even as far east as provincetown and as far north as salisbury, he considers marblehead his hometown. when elijah and their siblings were still very young, their family would also take regular summer trips to new york and vermont to stay with extended family. none of the four kids stayed stagnant enough to really absorb one type of speaking and keep to it for their whole lives.

002. ORDER OF HOMETOWNS - born in boston but taken to their then-home in needham until elijah was about 2, moved to lee until he was about 5, moved to provincetown when he was 7, moved to ashby when he was 10, moved to salisbury when he was 12, and finally moved to marblehead when he was 14. (i also drew a map under the cut, the blue star is where to start following the purple arrows!)

#「 ☠ 」 » HEADCANONS. ⋮ ━━ ˗ˏˋ THE UNKNOWN IS THE REALM OF INFINITE POTENTIAL. ˎˊ˗

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vm4vm0 · 10 months

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slowthai - Yum from Crowns & Owls on Vimeo.

Written and Directed by Crowns & Owls

ProdCo: Noir Producer/EP: Javier Alejandro Line Producer: Theo Hue Williams Co producer: Ella Kenny Assistant Producer: Katie Hackett Production Assistant: Rebecca Cassin DOP: Jack Exton 1st AC: Mike Linforth 2nd AC: Ky Brasey Trainer / Driver: Mari Cruz 2nd Unit DOP: Will Reid & Jacob Ray Tracking: Dan Lobo Pires Gaffer: Greg Probert Best Boy: James Leech Spark: Tom Parkinson Spark: Matt Simmons Spark: Dan Burns Spark: Leyt Said Grip: Jem Mortan Grip: Ian Jones Grip: Steve Morgan Production Designer: Lyndon Ogbourne Art Assistants: Tristant Beint, Guy Water , Sophie Simpson, Jem Hidanko, Ed Thomas, : Raph Simpson 1st AD: Ty Hack 2nd AD: Rowan Hutchings Runner: Anna Patterson Runner: Maggie Curwin Runner: Cairn Mckenna Casting Director: Hannah Ashby Ward @Lane Casting Assistant Casting Director: Steph Coles @Lane Casting Intimacy Coordinator: Robbie Taylor Hunt Costume design: Frankie Noller Styling Assistant: Alana Newton Styling Assistant: Drew Smith Hmu Artist: Karla Quinoniz-Leon Hmua Assistant: Cheryl Basoko Hmua Assistant: Catherine Munoz Hmua Assistant: Maria Toniolo Hmua Assistant: Soraya Phipps Grade: Tim Smith @ No8 VFX: Pendulum (Big thanks to Ryan!) Rewind Sequence Post: Paume Editor: John Holloway @ Edit Egg Titles: Elliot Elder @Uncanny Bodybuilder: Amanda Dann Hallway Cast: Mikhael Amitaye Hallway Cast: Osh Kupicinskas Hallway Cast: Caterina Danzico Hallway Cast: Shakirudeen Alade Hallway Cast: Elletra and partner Hallway Cast: Cherella Hallway Cast: Maria Anouk Running Woman: Jaz Rubin Running Woman: Jadeane Nicole Running Woman: Kareen Brown Running Woman: Yaiza Mujica Running Woman: Olivia Rowe Running Woman: Julia Varela Running Woman: Tia Xiao Running Woman: Alama Tour Running Woman: Suzanne Eleven Running Woman: Akti Konstantinou Big Thanks Lewis Levi & Method! Roles & Socials Artist: @slowthai Director: @crownsandowls ProdCo @noir.productions Producer/EP: @javieralejandroxldn Line Producer: @theohuewilliams Co Producer: @peachyellz Assistant Producer: @kthackett_ Production Assistant: @rosemesomebex DOP: @jack_exton_ 1st AC: @mikelinforth 2nd AC: Ky Brasey Trainer / Driver: Mari Cruz 2nd Unit DOP: @thereids @jcobray Tracking: @dlp_films Gaffer: Greg Probert Best Boy: James Leech Spark: Tom Parkinson Spark: @matt.jrs Spark: Dan Burns Spark: @saidleyt Grip: @jem_morton Grip: Ian jones Grip: Steve Morgan Production Designer: @lyndonogbourne Art Assistants: @tristan_beint Guy Water , Sophie Simpson, Jem Hidanko, Ed Thomas, : Raph Simpson 1st AD: @tyyhack 2nd AD: @rowanhutchings Runner: @annapatterson_ Runner: @maggiecurwin Runner: @cairnmckenna Casting Director: @Hannahashbyward @LaneCastinglondon Assistant Casting Director: Steph Coles @Lanecastinglondon Intimacy Coordinator:@robbietaylorhunt Costume design: @frankienoller Styling Assistant: @alananewton_ Styling Assistant: @drewcharsmith Hmu Artist: @karlaqleon Hmua Assistant: @ch3rrrry Hmua Assistant: @catherine.sarria Hmua Assistant: @mariatoniolomakeup Hmua Assistant: @sorayaphipps.mua Grade: @timotheous @no8dln VFX: Pendulum @pendulum.vfx Rewind Sequence Post: @Paume.p Editor: John Holloway @Editegg Titles: @uunccaannyy Bodybuilder: @andreadann01 @uglymodels Hallway Cast: @contact.creatives Hallway Cast: @zebedeetalent @caterinadanzico Hallway Cast: @caterinadanzico Hallway Cast: Shakirudeen Alade @aplmodelmanagement Hallway Cast: Elletra and partner Hallway Cast: @chellachella @aplmodelmanagement Hallway Cast: @mariaanouk @aplmodelmanagement Running Woman: @jazrubin Running Woman: @lenis_digital Running Woman: Kareen Brown Running Woman: @ultravividpink Running Woman: Olivia Rowe Running Woman: @bodylondon_ Running Woman: @tiaxiao @immmodels Running Woman: Alama Tour @contact.creatives Running Woman: Suzanne Eleven Running Woman: Akti Konstantinou @atmospherefaces Running Woman: Julia Costa @atmospherefaces Running Woman: Kate Ivory Jordan @atmospherefaces Big Thanks Lewis Levi & Method!

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pop-punklouis · 11 months

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Who were your bandom crushes back in the day? Mine were Jack Barakat, John O’Callaghan, Jaime Preciado, and Alan Ashby.

my url back in the day was alltimejackalow so shdjdk but yeah jack, alex gaskarth, john o, oli sykes, tay jardine, cameron hurley, andy biersack (still to this day soz), christofer drew

#grey

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watching-pictures-move · 11 months

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Movie Review | Mortal Kombat (Anderson, 1995)

I wouldn’t call this a childhood favourite by any means, but it was certainly one I saw a bunch of times as a kid and not since, so that fact that was on Tubi and threatening to leave in a few days was good enough reason to give it a rewatch after all these years. One scene that I more or less remembered was the one where Johnny Cage punches Goro in the… you know… and the chase and fight that ensues. And the reason I remembered this was not just the scene itself but that, seeing it as a child on a CRT television of not extravagant size and likely at the mercy of poor reception, I’d imagined at the time that I’d actually seen Goro’s … you know… flailing about during the chase scene. And that after seeing the movie, when I drew a little doodle of Goro, I sketched out his… you know… And I don’t remember if I drew this doodle at school or at home, but let me tell ya, whoever saw it was NOT happy! Anyway, that’s my little trip down memory lane.

As for the movie, I suspect a lot of this comes from the source material, which I’m only vaguely familiar with (I’ve played some of the games at arcades and family friends’ houses, but never owned any myself), but the tournament plot and trio of heroes with an Asian lead seem greatly indebted to Enter the Dragon. There’s some logic behind this calculation, as Enter the Dragon was tasked with selling the concept of martial arts cinema to American audiences, so it would make some sense to use its template when trying to sell the concept of video game movies, which had only been around for a few years prior. I will say that I appreciated that, unlike some of the movies that followed where Hong Kong stars tried to cross over, the movie actually lets Robin Shou be charismatic and funny. I suspect because he wasn’t a big star and didn’t have any major baggage, there was no need to try to package him into anything specific. I also appreciate that the other heroes, Linden Ashby (the aforementioned puncher of Goro in the… you know…) and Bridgette Wilson actually hold their own in the action sequences, which was not true of at least one of the heroes in Enter the Dragon (John Saxon, I love ya, but c’mon), and that Ashby gets to be a doofus in exactly the right measure to allow for self deprecation and humour but not undermine the movie with self awareness. There is a baseline of respect you ought to pay the material here and I think this movie pulls it off. And you round out the cast with Christopher Lambert, who kinda nails the subtly exotic qualities of his character, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who plays the role with a good deal of menace. Also, for some reason I got real excited when I recognized Peter Jason, despite the fact that the movies I remembered him most clearly from, Trick or Treats and Texas Lightning, are not good. Sometimes “hey, it’s that guy” provides a certain frisson.

I will say that while I liked looking at the outdoor scenes, because there are temples and vines and greenery and sand and sun and what have you, I did not like looking at the indoor scenes, which are lit in strong, kind of dark colours calibrated to a level I found unpleasant on the eyes. For some reason, there’s a lot of maroon in this movie, which did not make for a pleasurable viewing experience. That being said, despite the wonky CGI, this is shot on film and there are actual sets so maybe I shouldn’t complain so much. I will also note that unlike pretty much every other Paul W. S. Anderson movie I’ve seen, the action scenes here actually work as action and not inert, self contained exercises in framing and movement. Sure, you can feel that some of the scenes feel like Shou is moving at half speed so the American stuntmen can keep up (or at least it does if you’ve seen Tiger Cage II… what a movie *chef’s kiss*). But unlike Anderson’s other movies, where ridiculously overpowered heroes engage in totally arbitrary back and forths before the confrontation is resolved in the lamest possible way, the action scenes here evoke a sense of actual struggle for the heroes and as a result, some semblance of progression. The movie on the whole plays like slick, energetic hackwork (take a shot every time a variation of the awesome techno theme comes on the soundtrack), but Anderson, like Zack Snyder, seemingly turned out his most enjoyable movie before he really developed a distinct style.

#film #movie review #mortal kombat #paul w.s. anderson

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feliciagarrivan · 1 year

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The Female Gaze: Exposing The Other History of Photography

This new book focuses on giving pioneering women photographers their place in the annals of the art. Words by Chloë Ashby

About two-thirds of the way through her engaging new book, Emma Lewisdescribes the subtle yet significant distinction between ‘seeing’ and ‘looking’. Photographic theory, she writes, has typically focused on the latter, which positions “making or regarding photographs as an acquisitive act, and the subject as a spectacle”. Bringing ‘seeing’ into the equation introduces a different dynamic: “It suggests that behind the act of photographing is an intention to understand and, perhaps by extension, a will to help the viewers themselves feel understood.”You could say that Photography: A Feminist History shares the same intention. Flick back to the introduction and Lewis (an assistant curator of international art at Tate Modern) acknowledges attempts to restore women’s names into the history of photography. But she asks, beyond the “genteel lady hobbyists” and the “gung-ho pioneers”, where are “the working-class women who set up studios to make ends meet” and “the ordinary folk quietly recording their communities because they knew that no one else would”?

It’s the stories of these photographers (each of whom identifies as a woman, trans or gender nonconforming) that Lewis sheds light on. The stories that didn’t make it into the traditional account of photography because they didn’t fit with the neat and tidy definition of history and progress.

Photography: A Feminist History is an account of roughly 200 years of photography told from a feminist perspective. Divided into ten chapters, it charts the landmarks in photography and women’s rights, culture and politics, as well as how they have overlapped and shaped the images photographers have taken and our interpretation of them.It would be easy for a book structured in such a way, by thematic essays and profiles, to feel choppy and rushed, but this one is nothing if not considered. From documentary photography and art as activism to the family album and social media, Lewis thoughtfully maps photographic developments and “the messy business of feminism”.

“For many of the individuals in this book, producing images was a means of understanding who they were and their place in the world”

The profiles see Lewis zoom in on 75 key practitioners. Early on we read of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg, who ran a successful photography studio in Oslo in the early 20th century, and whose private portraits provide insight into their beliefs surrounding gender, sexuality, and conformity. Then there’s Florestine Collins, who began taking photographs in 1909 at the age of 14 to support her family and went on to open a studio from her living room (in part to avoid becoming a servant for white families and enduring long hours, poor pay and the threat of harassment).

While many chose not to emphasise their gender in their images, some forms of photography were particularly suited to tackling it, not least photomontage. Together with Lee Miller and Cindy Sherman, Hannah Höch is among the more familiar names found within the pages of the book. The Dadaists used the technique of fragmentation to critique the commodification of women’s bodies: “By depicting female bodies only in parts (a gymnast’s torso, a model’s stocking-clad legs, a mother’s arms cradling a baby) they drew attention to the multiple identities that women ‘should’ occupy as healthy, productive citizens, sex objects and nurturers.”

Each character study is accompanied by an image, and a highlight is Lucia Moholy’s portrait of her then-husband, Hungarian painter and photographer László Moholy-Nagy. The black-and-white photograph blurs out his palm, which is raised in front of the lens, and focuses on his bespectacled, smiling face, a mix of highlights and shadows.

As Lewis writes: “It is not only an illustration of how the camera can compress depth but is also, perhaps, symbolic: his gesture dismissive, pushing her away while pulling him into focus.” The work Moholy did on the couple’s photograms and texts went unacknowledged until she revealed the true nature of their collaborative relationship in Moholy-Nagy, Marginal Notes (1972).

For many of the individuals in this book, producing images was a means of understanding who they were and their place in the world. Joan E Biren, known as JEB, taught herself photography because, as Lewis writes, she had a “visceral” need to see a reflection of her reality. The first image she ever saw of two women kissing was the one she took of herself and her lover, Sharon.“I wanted to see it,” she said.

Finnish photographer Elina Brotherus’s autobiographical series Annonciation (2009-13) sets out to counter the lack of visibility around infertility, while Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra’s frank yet tender series New Mothers (1994) shows the often-harsh realities of motherhood.

Of course, photography has its limits, and shortly after describing that subtle yet significant distinction between ‘seeing’ and ‘looking’, Lewis quotes the cultural critic and public intellectual Susan Sontag: “Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.” And so, Lewis asks, how do we reconcile these limitations with the responsibilities of the photographer and the viewer towards the subject?

Like the business of feminism, the answer is sprawling and complex. But this book offers clear and cogent guidance by encouraging us to “not simply look at the photograph, or indeed its maker, but instead to try and see”.

https://elephant.art/the-female-gaze-exposing-the-other-history-of-photography-17102021/

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Oscar Peterson Trio - JAZZ LIVE at the INTERNATIONALES JAZZFESTIVAL BERN (1986) Switzerland

Oscar Peterson Trio - Jazz LIVE at the INTERNATIONALES JAZZFESTIVAL BERN (1986) Switzerland

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Track List:

1 "Falling in love with love" by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart 2 Interview 3 "Love Ballade" by Oscar Peterson 4 Interview 5 "But beautiful" by Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen 6 "Soul Petite" by Oscar Peterson 7 "Carnival" by Oscar Peterson 8 "Satin doll" by Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington 9 "Take The "A" Train" by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington 10 "Lush life" by Billy Strayhorn 11 "Caravan" by Irving Mills, Juan Tizolo, Duke Ellington

Personnel:

The Oscar Peterson Trio: Oscar Peterson, piano; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, acoustic double bass; Martin Drew, drums. + guest Milt Jackson, vibraphone.

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Oscar Peterson (Jazz Live)

Oscar Peterson is something more than a pianist synthesis between Art Tatum and Bud Powell, as many biographies classify him. It is evident that in addition to that, plus the influences of Hank Jones, George Shearing and James P. Johnson, give a pianist with enough personal traits to be considered a separate case. His prodigious instrumental capacity and the extraordinary development of a particular concept of the trio, are enough arguments to verify the capacity and quality of a musician who has achieved with the 88 keys of the piano, an expressive force, a rhythmic power, and a sense of absolutely extraordinary blues. His childhood was surrounded by music: father and his two older brothers played the piano and the organ, and he started playing the trumpet until tuberculosis advised him to give up wind instruments. At fourteen, he won his first amateur piano contest and thereafter he studied the piano of Teddy Wilson, his first major influence. Art Tatum crossed his path and given his musical memory, he was able to retain the complexity of Tatum's pieces and have the ability to reproduce it with absolute and remarkable fidelity. In 1944, he joined the Johnny Holmes band, one of the most famous in Canada. In 1949, while Norman Granz was traveling in a taxi on his way to the Montreal airport, he overheard him and after contacting him, he signed him to a contract for his famous Jazz at the Philharmonic, an itinerant group that counted their Jazz Live performances all over the world. Oscar Peterson made his JATP debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in September 1949 and the audience was mesmerized by his astonishing speed on the piano. There were two very intense years from there, with which he had the opportunity to play in all formats and with all the great jazz musicians of the time. In 1951, he formed his first trio with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Irving Ashby, soon replaced by Barney Kessel. The trio earned their own space within Norman Granz's organization and a little later, to silence the criticism that Peterson would not be as fast on piano with the rhythmic support of drums instead of a guitar, he hired the drummer , Gene Gammage, later replaced by Ed Thigpen. That change caused the three-voice dialogue of the musicians to become a brilliant but linear monologue. Oscar Peterson signed in 1964 for the MPS label and from the long stays that the pianist spent in the mansion of his new producer, Hans Georg Brunner-Shewer, some memorable sessions emerged that seemed infected with the exuberant serenity of the German Black Forest. , in whose environment they were recorded. The four volumes of the «Exclusively For My Friends» series were especially important, and in particular the album titled: «My Favorite Instrument». In 1973, Peterson returned with Norman Granz with whom he again recorded numerous studio sessions, live concerts, participation in festivals, 'All Stars' meetings, in duets, trios, quartets, etc. His abundant and excellent discography continues to this day, despite the fact that in 1993 he suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body and made him fear, if not for his life, then for his creative ability in his career, but his moral integrity and his physical strength, although logically with some decline, has brought him back to music for the enjoyment of his many followers. Oscar Peterson passed away on December 23, 2007, at his residence in Mississauga, Ontario (Canada). Read the full article

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Nancy Drew Dossier #2:

Resorting to Danger!

“Well. Now that people seem to be all done slinging mud at me, I think I’ll go take a bath in some.”

A Nancy Drew inspired playlist // listen here

↓ tracklist and more below ↓

Featuring:

Trouble in Shangri-La - Stevie Nicks

Hypocrates - MARINA

Money, Money, Money - ABBA

Canto De Ossanha - Dorothy Ashby

Glamour Profession - Steely Dan

Timebomb - Beck

Automatic - The Go-Go’s

Magazine - Bloodbath64

What A Way To Wanna Be! - Shania Twain

Coconut Water - Milk & Bone

Genres include songs for your next facial series, bomb disarming music, and premium luxury waiting room vibes

I enjoyed this playthrough so much! Its just so fun and straightforward and i couldve played it for five more hours tbh and I’m so sad about ship of shadows :((( i dont remember seeing the trailer before for whatever reason but i want to go to a haunted ship pls :(( her inteactive resurrect the dossier series you cowards do it do it

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NaNoWriMo 2022: Day 29

Here have a Sketch of Miss Matilda Murray-Knight (blonde) and Lady Gerry Starling (brunette) when they’re in their 30s. I drew this one earlier in the evening. Matilda’s gender expression changes a few times over the book but she’s usually more masculine and Gerry is butch the whole time.

The excerpt is from earlier in the month even though I did write a little today. Today’s piece was from Matilda’s mother’s perspective. Instead I wanted to share the part when Matilda goes to live with Gerry, Paul, and Mort.

Gerry and Paul’s marriage was a business arrangement. Basically so Paul could inherit his family home he had to marry a woman from his class. Paul Starling is a gay man and he didn’t want to marry a straight woman. So he chose to marry Gerry, who is a lesbian. I imagine this probably happened often a long time ago. They are legitimately friends but not romantically/sexually interested in each other.

They’re supposed to represent one way gay people may have worked around/within a system that was not built for them. There are other relationships in the novel like female husbands marrying female wives and The Boston Marriage as well. Matilda participates in both of these relationships over the course of her life. She’s also Gerry’s primary girlfriend for part of the novel too. This novel covers most of Matilda’s life since she’s the titular character.

Day 29 Word Count: 574 Words

Word Count Total So Far: 82,438 Words

Excerpt:

Rosie was surprised that I had left with the Starlings and Sir Highwater. Lord Young went with Ashby back to London as we were headed for The Starlings’ country manor, Radclyffe Heights. Lord Starling chatted pleasantly and leaned all over a stoic Sir Highwater. He smiled ever so slightly under his mustache. It was clear to me that the hummingbird-like Lord Starling was the center of Sir Highwater’s world. He patiently shook his head and never uttered more than a word or two in response to Lord Starling’s babbling brook. Mostly the husband and wife talked back to each other.

Gerry smacked her husband lightly on the knee when she laughed at something he said, “My God, Paul, poor Tilly here shall think us perverse!”

“She still wanted to come with us. Ashby was sure she was one of us. I’d bet my most beautiful dress she is.” He returned and then offered me a smile. “Now tell us, dear, you’re among family- I’m almost certain. Do you like women or men? Both is also an acceptable answer.”

“Aww, Paulie, You’re going to scare the girl by being so direct.” Gerry defended me, she even took my hand and I let her. I liked the weight of her hand in mine; it was reassuring. “You don’t have to answer him, if you don’t want to, Matilda. Keep him guessing; it’s more fun that way.” She winked to me.

“Women; Lord Starling, when I am dreaming it’s always about women.” I finally said it aloud and Gerry slapped me on the back.

“Hell yeah, Tilly, is there any other way to live?” She seemed extremely pleased to hear me so to the boys.

“Forgive me, darling, but I’m hardly surprised. I thought you reminded me a little too much of my handsome wife for you to think otherwise. But, really, sweetheart, I’m glad that your sister let us take you with us.”

“I’m nineteen. I’m not a child anymore.”

“Escaping a bad marriage proposal?” He asked in sympathy.

“No, I never debuted. Mama was afraid I’d embarrass her and Papa because I only got worse as I got older. The boyish nature I had wasn’t just a rebellious girlhood fancy for me; it was who I actually am.”

“Worse? Tilly, Tilly, no, honey; you got better with age. Don’t let their narrow minded thinking force you into being someone that you’re not. You’ll waste your precious life languishing in pain and misery for the rest of your days. Life is not all suffering. Not even for people like us. Don’t let anyone try to convince you otherwise.” Gerry replied, her lip curling into a smile. Sir Highwater also smiled under his mustache.

“Don’t you worry a thing, dear. You’re safe with us; we’re your friends.” He winked at me. I was surprised. That was the most I had heard him speak at one time.

“We’ll fight anyone who tries to hurt you, Tilly. Welcome home, darling!” Lord Starling cried sweeping his hand out the window, to present the magnificent Radclyffe Heights; the ancestral seat of the eccentric Starling family. It was a true castle and befitting the grand old families who carried out their lives there for the last few centuries.

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