I am very excited to say that I am currently working on a huge personal project that has been simmering away in the back of my mind for over a decade. Let me introduce you to 'ESKATON' a dark scifi unverse that combines the grimdark flavours of Warhammer 40,000 with old school scifi themes. This is an ongoing project that will eventually be released as a hardback artbook. Keep your eyes peeled for more over the coming months.

A Feast For the Birds -  Concept Sketches + Digital Painting by Thomas Elliott

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Maxwell Alexander Gallery's 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition.

Opening on Saturday, October 15th, 2022 in Los Angeles, California is Maxwell Alexander Gallery's 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition.

"In the year 2012 we set off on a journey to create a better gallery experience: a gallery focused on artist wellbeing and building museum quality collections for collectors.  Our vision was clear from the beginning – to only show quality art, never filler.  We always knew we would be a destination, non-reliant on tourist support.  However, we never imagined the impact and disruption that we would bring to the American fine art scene in just 10 short years."

Featuring works by artists Thomas Blackshear, Eric Bowman, Scott Burdick, G. Russell Case, Len Chmiel, Kim Cogan, Nicholas Coleman, Glenn Dean, Mick Doellinger, Josh Elliott, Teresa Elliott, Danny Galieote, David Grossmann, Logan Maxwell Hagege, Brett Allen Johnson, David Kassan, Michael Klein, Joshua LaRock, T. Allen Lawson, Susan Lyon, Jeremy Mann, Serge Marshennikov, Ed Mell, Eric Merrell, John Moyers, Terri Kelly Moyers, Howard Post, Grant Redden, Billy Schenck, Matt Smith, Tim Solliday, Joseph Todorovitch, Kim Wiggins, and More.

Artwork is available through a lottery system - To learn more and see more artwork, visit Maxwell Alexander Gallery.

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Blue Valentine — Thomas Raggi

—note: it’s been so since i wrote something for måneskin…please please request something because i wanna write for them but have no ideas

—TW: stealing hehe, fluff | thomas raggi x fem!reader

—summary: After a party the reader meets a boy with a motorcycle

—words: 1.3k

THE WORDS IN ITALICS ARE LYRICS OF THE SONG ‘BETWEEN THE BARS’ BY ELLIOTT SMITH

You end up leaving with regret. You don't want to go back to the party. In addition, the effects of alcohol are beginning to dissipate: You tremble with cold and your head throws you atrociously. Arms crossed in a vain attempt to comfort and venture randomly into the street. There are not even cats, it seems that you are alone. Footsteps resonate in silence.

“Drink up baby,

stay up all night with the things you could do,

you won't but you might…”

You take the opportunity to sing, just to warm up.

“The potential you be that you never see,

the promises you'll only make. Drink up one more time,

and forget all about the pressure of days.

Do what I say and I'll make you okay,

I'll drive away the images stuck in your head…”

The coolness of the street and the dull noise of cars in the distance take a weight off your shoulders. You feel strangely lighter. Maybe because you are far away from the party, or perhaps because you're disappointed.

“People you've been before that you don't want around anymore…” A second voice is added to yours. “They push each other and won't bend to your will, I'll keep them still.”

The voice is clear and suave. You immediately turn around to see a slender silhouette wedged against a black motorcycle a few metres away. Same black shirt that reads joy division same face. He's the boy with the red chipped guitar

“You have a pretty voice” he compliments. “Why didn't you go on stage earlier?”

“I don't sing in public.” You bite your lower lip, unsure of his intentions. After all, you don't know him.

“It's a shame.” He detaches himself from the machine and advances nonchalantly a few steps, hands in his pockets.

“I didn't hear you with the noise there was,” you said.

“I know, it was hell, we couldn't play.” You remembered how his bandmates were angry at everyone, voices louder than the strings of the guitar, the bass.

“Are there many of you?” You say, trying to convince him that you didn't really pay attention to the small improvised stage, but you remembered every face that was up there with him.

“Yeah, I have bandmates”

“Oh, so you're a real artist?” He smiles and seems to understand a joke that escapes.

“Not you?” It's your turn to smile.

“ It´s not my field.”

“I would say that…” He tilts his head and pretends to think. “Are you writing?”

You nod your head and then sniff. The freshness is starting to feel serious, if you don't go home soon, you'll get cold. “What betrayed me?”

“I don't know, I guessed it as soon as I saw you.” He says and glances back at his motorcycle. “How do you get home?” He asks without giving up his half-smile, a child's smile.

A sigh leaves your lips. “I'm supposed to spend the night with a friend, my father is coming to pick me up in the morning” a tone so bleak that he raises his eyebrows.

“Did you leave the party early?”

“I was fed up.” You rub the floor with the tip of your boot. “It's only one o'clock in the morning.”

Your gazes meet, and you can already tell the next question he's about to ask, and you already know the answer you would give him.

“Do you want to go for a ride?

[...]

The wind caressed your cheek and dragged the scent of his jacket. A fragrance, both intriguing and luxurious, you could recognize the notes of wood.

As you held him by the waist, the engine roared to life, and the motorcycle surged forward , carrying you both into the night. The cool breeze whipped against your face, ruffling your hair and awakening your senses. The city lights straked past, creating a blur of colors.

On his back you could feel the vibrations of the mototcycle beneath you, the ehythmic rumble resonating through your body. It was a thrilling sensation. Yet, being with him, it felt oddly liberating.

Your breath feels upside down, it makes you forget that you have no idea where he is taking you, forget that you don't know the time he will bring you back. Everything is fine, for the moment. You want to laugh, dance and sing. The feeling of speed reminds you of cycling without hands when you were younger.

When we descend, the stars are reflected on the river that runs along Verona. Thomas - that's his name - takes a bottle of white wine out of the trunk of his motorcycle. So you walk in the cool night, bottle in hand. He doesn't think about the small size for a wine or the fact that you don't drink. He doesn't tease you, he's not heavy like all the others are. He drinks quietly, from time to time, observes and listens and you imitate him.

Most of the noise comes from the nearby cafes and bars.

He proposes that we rent a boat to cross the river. I accept but warn him that you don't know how to swim. He makes no remarks, he is not surprised. And even if you knew how to, you doubt that there will be people renting at this hour.

“I will save you if you fall, " he just answers by catching the oars on each side of the gondola. There’s no one there. You can’t help the feeling of stealing.

So you sail on the shore. The noise of the city fades and the crickets are singing. Fireflies appear. They form dozens of small lights that are all reflected in Thomas' eyes. His eyes whose intensity is close to the abyss. You don't see the end. It's beautiful, it's undeniable.

He is calm too, and his half smile is similar to that of a child. You have never seen anyone like this boy before. His smell embalmed the air again and you want to fill your lungs with it. He is still stoned, which dilates his pupils in an exaggerated way. He begins to hum a melody and the sound of his voice transports you elsewhere.

“Are you writing song right now?” He asks suddenly.

“It happens sometimes” You said, keeping your eyes closed.

“Give me a title you wrote.” His voice is getting closer.

“Blue Valentine.”

“I love it” His breath is mentholated and your eyelids remain closed. “What is it about?”

Now you feel him distinctly, his smell. It surrounds you like a halo, you bathe right in it: you are in Paradise. And the sound of his voice, it is almost made up of material, you can almost feel it.

“From a slightly chaotic girl. Of a love that is not enough.” You refuse to open your eyes, you don't know why, you have the impression that they are welded. His face on yours. A warm breath hugs your cheeks. You feel it very close, very close.

“And what is the last verse?” He moves his lips while talking, and touches yours.

“The bread will be my redemption.” His lips gently and voluptuously crush on yours. You can feel a smile and wonder if it's about the kiss or if he's making fun of the last verse.

An electric current runs through and gently ignites. His lips are delicately sweet. The contact does not last more than a second but it is enough to turn your head. Colors dance under your eyelids, his mouth is like two petals. He marries mine perfectly. So perfect that it's almost unreal.

Your eyes are open: he is only a few centimeters from you and his look is so intense that you feel something melting. His face is too perfect, he's too close, you are going to erupt. His blonde locks, his smell is too stunning, even his Adam's apple seems to make you look.

Without a word, Thomas leans in once again, capturing your lips in a deep, passionate kiss. The world around you fades away as you lose yourself in the electric embrace. It feels like a spark igniting a fire within you, a rush of emotions surging through your veins.

As the kiss lingers, you feel a warmth spreading throughout your body. It's not just the physical contact but also the emotional connection that seems to be growing stronger with each passing second. In this moment, you forget about the regrets and disappointments of the party.

When you finally break apart, a sense of exhilaration and wonder lingers in the air. You both catch your breath, your eyes locked in a gaze that speaks volumes. The electric energy continues to crackle between you, fueling an unspoken desire for more.

Who is this boy and what is he doing? You look at each other like this for several seconds that seem endless. And finally you put a word about the sensation that passes through you: electric.

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❄Round 9 - Winter - Summary❄

❄Families Lopez Hansen-Wiggins Hudson O'Donnell O'Donnell II O'Donnell III Neetor Turner Rossellini Rossellini II Rossellini III Barnes Neetor Neetor-Blondeau Phillips Grimsbane Grimsbane II Reid Phillips II Volden ❄Population 576 (Multiplier x 12) ❄Unlocked Downtown, which unlocks: - Athletic career, once a stadium is built; - Military career, once a Military Base is built; - Slacker (Freelancer) career; - Artist career, for any Sim who sells 5 Masterpieces; - Show Business career; - Journalism career; - Architecture career, for Sims with an Art degree; - Ability to sell items from the Build/Buy Catalogue; - Ability to visit Hobby and Witch Lots; - +5 CAS Sims; and - +5 to the Sim Multiplier. Services (due to population size), including: - Maid; - Butler; - Repairman; - Gardener; - Exterminator; - Nanny; and - Adoption service. 9 6 12 CAS Sims ❄Relationship Changes Elliott Hansen-Wiggins x Daisy Hudson (Dating) Megan O'Donnell x Oak Hudson (Dating) Gracie O'Donnell x Jonty Sawyer (Going Steady) Charlie O'Donnell x Stephen Neetor (Engaged) Robin Murphy - now Rossellini (Adopted) Talia Rossellini x Freddie Reeves (Dating) Verity Rossellini x Stephanie Barnes (Married) Frost Grimsbane x Emma Allen (Married) Nimue Grimsbane x Thomas Reid (Engaged) Conrad Phillips x Lucas Turner (Dating - Affair) Ivar Volden x Genevieve Bolton (Married) ❄Nooboos Born Paige and Noah O'Donnell (Twins) Georgia Neetor Logan Reid Bonnie Volden ❄Community Lots: 15 Birch Alley Playground Kyle's Craftables (Owned by Kyle O'Donnell) Rank 7 Rossellini's Robotics (Owned by Pietro Rossellini) Rank 7 PlantSim Produce (Owned by Ash Hudson) Rank 8 Witchy Wearables (Owned by Iris Grimsbane) Rank 5 Monique's Miniatures (Owned by Monique Wiggins) Rank 5 Conrad's Curios (Owned by Conrad Phillips) Rank 6 Grilled Cheese Diner (Now Owned by Talia Rossellini) Rank 6 Wildflats Peninsula School (Part-Owned by Beth Neetor) Rank 6 Wildflats Peninsula Fire Station Main Street Park Wildflats Peninsula Town Hall Tiki Bar (Owned by Evan O'Donnell) Rank 3 Wildflats Peninsula Police Department Art Gallery (Owned by Charlie O'Donnell) Rank 0 [Main Street Apartments]* *Not really a community lot, but owned by the town and rent goes into the tax pot.

Leslie Phillips, who has died aged 98, was a light comedian of the old school, closely associated with a roster of smooth-talking cads and lady-killers in the series of Carry On and Doctor films he graced from the late 1950s onwards.

He first coined his trademark phrase “I say, ding dong!” as the lubricious Jack Bell in Carry On Nurse (1958) and made the simple greeting “hello” sound like a frolicsome, impure invitation, earning him the nickname “King Leer” and lending itself to the one-word title of his immensely entertaining autobiography (2006).

He became a national Sunday lunchtime institution on BBC Radio’s The Navy Lark, in which he appeared as a hopeless lieutenant on HMS Troutbridge – alongside Stephen Murray, Jon Pertwee, Tenniel Evans, Heather Chasen and Ronnie Barker – between 1959 and 1977. It was never clear – deliberately so – whether he was a simpleton or a crook in this company of Royal Navy undesirables on the recommissioned frigate stationed off Portsmouth.

Despite his louche and carefree acting persona, Phillips was an ambitious and hard-working artist who in the late 60s toured the world in his own West End hit, The Man Most Likely To... – he rewrote Joyce Rayburn’s play, took the lead, produced and directed it.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in his mid-70s and featured in several major films, including George Cukor’s Les Girls (1957), with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall, Sydney Pollack’s Out of Africa (1985), Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun (1987) and Roger Michell’s Venus (2007), playing an old thespian alongside Peter O’Toole and Richard Griffiths.

His prodigious work-rate derived from his impoverished background in Tottenham, north London, where from an early age he was the family breadwinner. His suave and polished persona was as much a creation as that of Terry-Thomas or Rex Harrison, and it gave his acting an edge of seditious malice, an air of unofficial naughtiness.

With the confidence that came from being told frequently he was a good-looking lad he developed a taste for fast cars, high living and beautiful women when the money rolled in. For a time he was the highest earning actor on the West End stage, and joined the Ibiza crowd in the 70s, keeping a house there in a colony of artists and writers that included his great friend Denholm Elliott.

He was married three times and had a long relationship (between the first and second marriages) with Caroline Mortimer, the daughter of Penelope Mortimer and step-daughter of John Mortimer, both writers.

This was all a far cry from his humble beginnings as the third child of Cecelia (nee Newlove) and Frederick Phillips, a maker of cookers at Glover & Main in Edmonton. The family moved from Tottenham to Chingford, by the river Lea and on the fringes of Epping Forest, in an attempt to improve Frederick’s health, but he died of a chest illness in 1935, and Cecelia, spotting an advert in a newspaper, packed her son off to the Italia Conti school to train as an actor.

Phillips had shown talent in plays at Chingford school and soon supplemented his income from delivering papers and singing at weddings and funerals in All Saints Church, Chingford, by playing a wolf – his stage debut, in 1937, aged 13 – in Peter Pan, starring Anna Neagle, at the London Palladium.

After a spell as a cherub in a stained glass window in Dorothy L Sayers’s The Zeal of Thy House at the Garrick, he returned to the Palladium for the 1938 production of Peter Pan, now playing John Darling in a cast led by Seymour Hicks (“vile”, according to Phillips) as Captain Hook and Jean Forbes-Robertson (“lovely”) as Peter.

By the time he was called up in 1942, he had sung in the children’s chorus at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and acted with John Gielgud and Marie Tempest in Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s – the start of a long association with the producers Binkie Beaumont and HM Tennent – and Vivien Leigh and Cyril Cusack in Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma at the Haymarket.

Everyone in the business liked him, and this would stand him in good stead after the second world war. He sounded posh enough to gain a commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, transferring to the Durham Light Infantry, where he was put in charge of the Suffolk transit camp at Chadacre Hall, before being invalided out in 1944.

His first post-demob job was in the box office at the Lyric, Hammersmith. He played Guildenstern in Hamlet at Dundee rep, and discovered his talent for light comedy in a stint at the York rep. His first major West End role was in a sentimental comedy, Daddy Long Legs (1946), at the Comedy (now the Harold Pinter).

The first of more than 100 film appearances came in Lassie for Lancashire (1938). The Hollywood adventure of Les Girls could have led to a latter-day C Aubrey Smith-style career in California, but he preferred London and Pinewood Studios – he was the last living actor to have worked there when they opened. He was also in the cast of the first live BBC broadcast from Alexandra Palace in 1948 – Morning Departure, set on a wartime submarine with Michael Hordern – and played his first BBC television lead in 1952 in My Wife Jacqueline (opposite Joy Shelton), a pioneering but mediocre (he said) sitcom about married life, broadcast live from Lime Grove in six 30-minute episodes.

Over the next 10 years he established himself in the Doctor films as the philandering consultant, Dr Tony Burke, and in the Carry Ons, usually stuck on Joan Sims. He followed the huge stage success of the superb farce Boeing-Boeing (taking over from David Tomlinson in 1963) with the first series of Our Man at St Mark’s on television, in which he played an eccentric new village vicar. When his affair, while still married, with Caroline Mortimer became public, he was no longer deemed suitable as a clergyman, and was succeeded in later series by Donald Sinden.

Opening at the Vaudeville in 1968, he played 655 performances as the upper-class lounge lizard Victor Cadwallader in The Man Most Likely To… and later toured to Australia (where one audience member in Adelaide was reported to have literally died laughing), New Zealand and South Africa, defying the cultural boycott and working in the townships as well as the commercial theatres.

He played in another “saucy” comedy, Sextet, at the Criterion in 1977 (Julian Fellowes was also in the cast), and then led a hugely successful revival of Ray Cooney and John Chapman’s Not Now, Darling at the Savoy in 1979, followed by another world tour.

Phillips said that he at last broke his own mould when cast by Lindsay Anderson as a dithering, weak-willed Gayev in The Cherry Orchard at the Haymarket in 1983 (Joan Plowright played his sister), and he went even further in a brilliant revival by Mike Ockrent of Peter Nichols’s lacerating comedy Passion Play at the Leicester Haymarket, and then Wyndham’s in the West End, in 1984. In 1990, he popped up unexpectedly in The Comic Strip and, also on television, in Chancer, which launched Clive Owen, playing Owen’s scheming boss.

There was now no pattern or predictability as he entered the last phase of an astonishing career. He played the professor in another Chekhov, Julian Mitchell’s rewrite of Uncle Vanya, August, with Anthony Hopkins at Theatr Clwyd, Mold (1994), and then joined the RSC to play a fruity saloon bar roué of a Falstaff in Ian Judge’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1996) on the main Stratford-upon-Avon stage and, in the Swan, a cynical hotelier in Steven Pimlott’s discovery of Tennessee Williams’s “lost” fantasia, Camino Real. Also in 1996, he played a frisky old Sir Sampson Legend in Love for Love by William Congreve at the Chichester Festival theatre.

On the Whole, It’s Been Jolly Good was the appropriate title of a Peter Tinniswood one-man play he took to the Edinburgh Fringe in 1999, reverting to more raffish type as Sir Plympton Makepeace, a bitterly “dumped” Tory MP from the Shires with no good to say of anyone: “That woman with the loud voice … I think she was the PM but to me she looked like a power-mad swimming baths attendant.” His last stage appearance came as an ageing judge with a back problem in John Mortimer’s Naked Justice at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2001.

In the new millennium he had good TV roles in Monarch of the Glen and Miss Marple. An excellent television version of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy, adapted by William Boyd (2002), had him in the role of Gervase Crouchback, father of Daniel Craig’s anti-heroic Guy, and he regained his dog collar in Nigel Cole’s charming movie Saving Grace (2000), starring Blenda Blethyn. For the Harry Potter films he voiced the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts.

In 1997 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Evening Standard, and 10 years later another from the Critics’ Circle. In 1998 he was appointed OBE, and in 2008 CBE.

Phillips married the actor Penelope Bartley in 1948, and they had two sons and two daughters. They divorced in 1965, and in 1982 he married the actor Angela Scoular; she took her own life in 2011. Two years later he married Zara Carr, and she survives him, along with his children.

🔔 Leslie Samuel Phillips, actor, born 20 April 1924; died 7 November 2022

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"Cyborg" / Sept. 2019.

Digital media.

Personal piece. An excellent if extremely creepy rendition of a cyborg.

"Had this idea in my head for ages and found the time to get it out. Really wanted to focus on getting a traditional/classical look to the figure and juxtapose that with scary dystopian sci-fi elements. Think it came out alright?" —Thomas Elliott

Thomas Elliott is a traditional and digital artist based in Nottingham who works for Games Workshop. A gallery of his work is available on Artstation.

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Paladins Artists founders Steve Martin, Andy Somers and Wayne Forte walk us through the first year of the agency and it's future 

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An special appearances from: BSE's Laurie Jacoby, AGI's Nick Storch, Ineffable's Thomas Cussins, Reliant Talent's Heath Baumhor & Frank Wing, FPC's Scott Leslie, Billboard's Dave Brooks, First Avenue's Nate Kranz, AC's Ted Heinig, Nederlander's Jamie Loeb, Vector's Brian Penix, TM's Pattianne Tarlton, AEG's Jason Bernstein,  DSP's Dan Smalls, Jim Runge, Goldenvoice's Elliott Lefko, Works Entertainment's David Britz, Historic Theatre Group's Rick Hansen, Rocks Off's Jake Szufnarowski, LN's Michael Belkin, ICM Andrea Johnson, Warped Tours' Kevin Lyman, Tobin Centers' Aaron Zimmerman, The Pabst Theatre Groups Gary Witt and Matt Beringer, and RCA's Nick Light

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Top Beatport Best New Trance (Main Floor): December

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2023-12-01 GENRES: Progressive House, Trance (Main Floor) Tracklist : 1. Derek Ryan - Radiate(Extended Mix) 2. William Silva - Favourite Lullaby(Thomas Nikki Extended Mix) 3. Marlo Mercy, Elliott Bloodray - Lost Secret(Elliott's Legend Remix) 4. Roger Shah, Omar Vinyl - Freedom(Archers Extended Remix) 5. PITTARIUS CODE - Reality(Extended Mix) 6. Casepeat - Jebudo Island(Extended Mix) 7. Driftmoon - Melody Express(Extended Mix) 8. Techno Cats - FE!N(Original Mix) 9. Prototype - Soundpiercing(SUPERSTRINGS Extended Remix) 10. Aerium, Avalon 62 - Eneabba(Extended Mix) 11. Komakino - Outface(Fukkk Offf 150 Bpm Remix) 12. Sam Laxton - Butterfly(Extended Mix) 13. Re:Locate, Paul Mads - Where Would You Be Without Me(Original Mix) 14. Jordan Grace, Harshil Kamdar - Love Again(Extended Mix) 15. Scot Project - M2 (Extended Mix) 16. Petr Vojáček - Blue Sky(Original Mix) 17. Escea - See You Again(Extended Mix) 18. Read the full article

Top Beatport Best New Trance (Main Floor): December

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2023-12-01 GENRES: Progressive House, Trance (Main Floor) Tracklist : 1. Derek Ryan - Radiate(Extended Mix) 2. William Silva - Favourite Lullaby(Thomas Nikki Extended Mix) 3. Marlo Mercy, Elliott Bloodray - Lost Secret(Elliott's Legend Remix) 4. Roger Shah, Omar Vinyl - Freedom(Archers Extended Remix) 5. PITTARIUS CODE - Reality(Extended Mix) 6. Casepeat - Jebudo Island(Extended Mix) 7. Driftmoon - Melody Express(Extended Mix) 8. Techno Cats - FE!N(Original Mix) 9. Prototype - Soundpiercing(SUPERSTRINGS Extended Remix) 10. Aerium, Avalon 62 - Eneabba(Extended Mix) 11. Komakino - Outface(Fukkk Offf 150 Bpm Remix) 12. Sam Laxton - Butterfly(Extended Mix) 13. Re:Locate, Paul Mads - Where Would You Be Without Me(Original Mix) 14. Jordan Grace, Harshil Kamdar - Love Again(Extended Mix) 15. Scot Project - M2 (Extended Mix) 16. Petr Vojáček - Blue Sky(Original Mix) 17. Escea - See You Again(Extended Mix) 18. Read the full article

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The flag you’ve spotted in the distance is no illusion – we’re finally releasing another episode on Black Sails 🏴‍☠️🏝️⚓ (emojis for pirate flag, island, anchor)

This month, we’re training our spy glasses on Season 1, Episode 2. Whether it’s tits or fruit, our main focus is VALUE – we’ll be digging into how ideas around value operate within pirate stories with their tropes of buried treasure, gold coins, and treasure maps. And as always, we’ll be exploring the influence of Empire on how worth is ascribed to the objects, places, and people of Nassau. 🗺✖️💰

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So pour yourself a shot of rum and join us over on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your podcasts ☠️🦜⚔️⛵🌊︎︎

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📼 Preread text (Rowan Ellis, https://youtu.be/SMFll3aIbmo)

Primary Sources:

📺 “Black Sails” (2014-2017) (Robert Levine and Jonathan E. Steinberg) 📚 “Treasure Island” (1883) (Robert Louis Stevenson) 📺 Kunst und Krempel (1985-present) (BR Fernsehen)

Secondary Sources:

📚 “Why We Love Pirates” (2020) by Rebecca Simon 🎮 “The Last of Us” (2013) (Naughty Dog) (Sony Computer Entertainment) 📜 Jeffries, Stuart. “Woke the plank! Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?” (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/04/woke-plank-pirate-ships-diversity-democracy-cornwall-exhibition)

🎞️ “Pirates of the Caribbean” (2003-2017) (dir. Gore Verbinski, Rob Marshall, Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 📜 Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Jeff Nathanson) 📼 “Jonathan Ross Interviews Keira Knightley part 1” (goldenultra, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJ_atmr4c0&t=284s) from 4:43. 🎞️ “Cutthroat Island” (1995) (starring Geena Davis) (dir. Renny Harlin, 📜 Robert King, Marc Norman) 🎞️ “Romancing the Stone” (1984) (dir. Robert Zemeckis, 📜 Diane Thomas) 🎞️ “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981) (dir. Steven Spielberg, 📜 Lawrence Kasdan) 🌐 The Bechdel Test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test) 📺 Game of Thrones (2011-2019) (David Benioff and D. B. Weiss) 🌐 Mr Scott (https://black-sails.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Scott) 📼 “Don’t be creepy, Emma Thompson” (verilybitchie, https://youtu.be/acccffJnr5A)

Recommendations:

🪧 SAG-AFTRA on why the strikes are imperative for the survival of the acting profession (https://www.sagaftra.org/were-fighting-survival-our-profession) 📜 FAQs for Influencers (https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/influencer-faqs)

Lili’s recommendations: 🎞️ “Little Shop of Horrors” (1986) (dir. Frank Oz, 📜 Howard Ashman) 📼 “The Musical That Changed Disney: Little Shop of Horrors” (Dreamsounds, https://youtu.be/esiADqA2FXU)

📱Social Media Handles📱:

IG:     https://www.instagram.com/liliannapod/ Twitter:     https://twitter.com/liliannapod Tumblr:    https://www.tumblr.com/blog/liliannasprereadmediathek

🎹Intromusic🎹: "Wall" by Jahzaar, licenced under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)  

🎹Outro Music🎹: “Waterbeat” by DJ Lengua, licenced under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

🎹Transition Music🎹: “Page Turns, Book Close” by Pixabay – Pixabay “Counting Me Shillings” by Pixabay – Pixabay “Sea Waves” by Pixabay – Pixabay “Sound Effect Seagulls” by ScottishPerson – Pixabay “Chest Opening” by Pixabay – Pixabay “sword against sword” by Pixabay – Pixabay “Apple Bobbing in a Gymnasium” by Pixabay – Pixabay

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The first thing you need to know about the image above is that it is a painting, not a photograph. 

The second thing you need to know is that the painting, which depicts a real gathering that took place about five years ago, hangs in an invitation-only, rustic-for-the-rich resort that belongs to real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. 

And the third thing you need to know is that the person seated second from the right is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 

This week, my colleagues Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski reported a hell of a story revealing that for more than two decades, the justice accepted a slew of luxurious trips from Harlan that included hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of flights on private jets, weekslong vacations to southeast Asia and a cruise on a superyacht in New Zealand. 

For a man that has publicly painted himself as a relatable, everyday American who comes from “regular stock” — preferring “RV parks” and “Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that,” as he relayed in an interview for a documentary about his life — Thomas appears to enjoy the luxuries of international tourism.

But travel tastes aside, the issue at the heart of my colleagues’ story this week is that Thomas failed to disclose the expensive trips Harlan hosted. They don’t appear on Thomas’ financial disclosures, where justices are required to list most gifts, Justin, Joshua and Alex report. “The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court,” they write.

Ethics experts and current or retired federal judges interviewed for the story said that by accepting the trips, Thomas has broken long-standing norms for a judge’s conduct; failing to report the jet and yacht travel may also be a violation of disclosure law. 

“When a justice’s lifestyle is being subsidized by the rich and famous, it absolutely corrodes public trust,” said Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer who served in presidential administrations of both political parties and now works at the watchdog group CREW. “Quite frankly, it makes my heart sink.”

There’s been an overwhelming public response since we published the story on Thursday morning. A number of Democratic lawmakers have already called for reform. Among them is Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is influential for its role in vetting and confirming Supreme Court nominees. Durbin said his panel is calling for an “enforceable code of conduct” for justices. 

“The ProPublica report is a call to action, and the Senate Judiciary Committee will act,” Durbin said.

In a statement, Crow acknowledged that he’d extended “hospitality” to the Thomases “over the years,” but said that Thomas never asked for any of it and it was “no different from the hospitality we have extended to our many other dear friends.”

Thomas did not respond to a detailed list of questions from our reporters. The Justice instead issued a public statement on Friday, referring to Harlan and Kathy Crow as “among our dearest friends” for more than 25 years. 

“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have businesses before the Court, was not reportable.”

I urge you to read the story in full, if you haven’t yet. But there’s one more piece of information I want to share about that painting. One of the summer getaways Thomas has visited most often is Harlan’s exclusive resort, known as Camp Topridge, located in a remote corner of New York’s Adirondacks. The justice is known to have stayed at the resort nearly every summer for more than 20 years. 

The painting depicts a scene that took place there a few summers ago. Next to Thomas, on the right side of the image, sits Crow, who commissioned the artist Sharif Tarabay to paint the image. On the left sit lawyers Peter Rutledge, Leonard Leo and Mark Paoletta. 

ProPublica reported about Leo in August of last year — he’s the co-chair of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. At the time, our investigation revealed a Leo-led group had recently received a donation worth $1.6 billion, which is the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S. history. Leo himself is regarded as one of the prime architects of conservatives’ efforts to reshape the American judicial system, including the Supreme Court.

Of course, we don’t know what the men discussed at the resort. But the reporters did learn that the guests of Camp Topridge can only visit if they’re invited, and they pay nothing during their stay. 

As Justin, Joshua and Alex write, guests at Topridge enjoy its “more than 25 fireplaces, three boathouses, clay tennis court and batting cage, along with more eccentric features: a lifesize replica of the Harry Potter character Hagrid’s hut, bronze statues of gnomes and a 1950s-style soda fountain where Crow’s staff fixes milkshakes.”

In the painting, five men sit in a semicircle while Thomas and Crow hold cigars. Behind them is a statue that resembles the sculpture “Hail to the Sunrise,” which depicts an unnamed Native American man and was erected in Massachusetts in 1932 “In memory of the Mohawk Indian.” The Mohawk people are part of the Iroquois Confederacy; their homeland includes the area where Camp Topridge now sits. 

Historians have argued that the framers of the U.S. Constitution were influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy’s federalist principles. The painting may prompt you to wonder what influences Clarence Thomas.

Logan Jaffe

Pro Publica