6/12/2023 0 Comments Air Logic by Laurie J. Marks![]() ![]() ![]() Out of these, I refined the various districts of the body, the pose, and the balance of black and white (in pencil). Here are some extremely tiny details - you can see them to the left of my thumb in the photo above. Laurie asked for the eponymous paper Dancing Jack - but the details were still to be worked out.Īs usual, I began by reading the book, sketching elements that appealed to me, seemed thematically central, suggested movement, and would suit both the shape I was working in (the Dancing Jack instead of the rectangle of a book cover, since the commission was for the figure himself). It is such a beautiful, enchanted, flowing tale. But she is taken hostage on a renegade riverboat and is forced to travel against the current, toward the past, where a lost king, lost friendship, and lost power offer danger and hope for the plague-devastated land.ĭancing Jack is officially available on 18 March 2023, but you can pre-order it now via Kindle and Smashwords. Memories of loss drive Ash of Ashland to take her dog and leave her farm, to seek out the fate of her brother’s children. Now back in print, from the acclaimed award-winning author. Here is the scratchboard Dancing Jack I designed for Laurie J Marks’ classic fantasy of mysteries and magic, automata and riverboats, is out of print no longer! ![]()
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![]() The executives’ corruption, lies, revenge, and abuse he discovers is terrifying. Enough that McDaniel is going for it again, writing a new IT: The Secret World Of Modern Banking series but bringing in Filipino artist Heubert Khan Michael, best known from drawing Vampirella comics, to draw the second series.īank Information Technology expert Evan Adonis works at the nexus of the bank’s communications and data networks. ![]() Posted by Rich Johnston, Įarlier this year Scott McDaniel, Marvel and DC Comics artist best known for his work on Daredevil and Nightwing, launched his own comic book series, writing and drawing IT: The Secret World Of Modern Banking for little-known publisher BlackBox Comics with a title that seemed to fight against the action adventure expected but tapped into global concerns regarding the world and the people who really run it all.Īnd it was a modest hit. ![]() ![]() ![]() If all those repeated "two"s don't drive the idea home, there's always the term "double-consciousness" to do it for you (which DuBois really did invent, by the way).ĭuality doesn't just mean having two personalities, though. In case you can't tell, this passage reinvented the concept of duality for the black American. That is, to understand what it means to be both American and black at the same time. If you're going to write the intellectual manifesto for the black American, why not start with a super bold statement? Du Bois more or less begins the first chapter of his book with this main problem and primary gift of every black American: the ability to understand two points of view simultaneously. ![]() One ever feels his two-ness,-an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." ![]() It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. "After the Egyptian and the Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,- a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Speak novel![]() ![]() ![]() The White Book also extends a hand to the dead, as the narrator addresses her mother’s firstborn daughter, who lived only a few hours, imagining a world in which the infant heard her mother’s desperate command-“ Don’t die. Here, the living long to speak with the dead and the dead with the living, but the divide is uncrossable. Human Acts takes place during and after the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, during which hundreds, possibly thousands, of students and other civilians protesting the coup d’état that installed the dictator Chun Doo-hwan were killed by the South Korean military. ![]() The reader, like the characters themselves, experiences a loneliness so profound that it verges on physical sensation: a wrenching desire to mend these broken connections. Characters cut off from communication-by death, by time, by life’s other cruelties-often address unreachable interlocutors, struggling to be heard, yet only Han’s reader is there to listen. All three books stage conversations hauntingly out of joint, severed dialogues that yearn toward impossible completion. What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean writer Han Kang to appear in English pose these questions with an uncompromising starkness. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Vivian maiers![]() Reception Critical response įinding Vivian Maier has an approval rating of 95% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 100 reviews, and an average rating of 7.50/10. Upon release, the film received critical acclaim, and won various awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 87th Academy Awards. It was shown in cinemas, and was released on DVD in November 2014. ![]() The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2013. News articles began to come out about Maier and a Kickstarter campaign for the documentary was soon underway. Maloof had purchased a box of photo negatives at a 2007 Chicago auction, then scanned the images and put them on the Internet. The film documents how Maloof discovered her work and, after her death, uncovered her life through interviews with people who knew her. ![]() She carried a camera everywhere she went, but Maier's photographic legacy was largely unknown during her lifetime. Maier was a French-American woman who worked most of her life as a nanny and housekeeper to a multitude of Chicago families. Finding Vivian Maier is a 2013 American documentary film about the photographer Vivian Maier, written, directed, and produced by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, and executive produced by Jeff Garlin. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Matrix by lauren groff![]() exposes the complexity of being a woman living in a world where men make all the rules, regardless of the era. But there are instances where allusions are not enough, and she is graphic, leaving little to the imagination when discussing death and sickness. Her allusions to female pleasure - such as masturbation and oral sex - are done as stealthily as her allusions to heinous actions such as rape, almost like a whisper that you might miss if you're not paying attention. Her use of short but not entirely quick sentences, particularly at the start of the novel, is a tricky way of pacing a story that is written in such a formal tone. ![]() The novel's prose is well constructed and filled with strong imagery that will remain embedded in your subconscious days later. ![]() ![]() Eschewing direct dialogue and traditional chapters for a three-part structure, the story starts slow but then picks up the pace, barreling through Marie's years at the convent. The writing itself is a demonstration of power. With masterful wordplay and pacing, Groff builds what could have been a mundane storyline into something quite impossible to put down. ![]() It has sisterhood, love, war, sex - and many graphic deaths, all entangled in a once-forgotten abbey in the English countryside. an inspiring novel that truly demonstrates the power women wield, regardless of the era. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Tease cd reiss![]() ![]() She’d cut them to look like a bomb pop, a fudgesicle, and one of the double flavor jobbies that had two sticks you broke in half and shared with your sister if you had one. ![]() The bottoms were shaped like Popsicle sticks and the tops, which reached into the night sky, were living trees. Jessica Carnes exhibited three sculptures thirty feet high that could only be accommodated by removing pieces of the modular ceiling and making the sky visible above them. itted pullovers with the names of the war dead. Borofsky was still counting from one to a billion in ball point pen. ![]() Star Klein put out a bucket of meat encased in Plexiglas. Lynn Francis was still doing huge, photorealistic canvases of branded stuffed animals. The space was so big, I stopped looking for Kevin and looked at the work. The lighting was flat, warm, and consistent, flattering the people in it. The vast space was chopped up by permanent-looking temporary partitions that still left enough room for huge sculptures. Reiss Colwell (Jonny Freeman) was left completely thrilled in recent EastEnders scenes when Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy) had a change of heart over the status of their relationship. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Only connect em forster![]() ![]() Connection, after all, is the opposite of alienation. In the best-case scenario, someone would read my books or this column and feel seen and less alone. I got it tattooed on my left wrist after I’d published a memoir to remind myself that whatever someone’s reaction might be to my work, the most important thing was connection. I seek understanding of others and, by extension, of myself. ![]() I use it to remind myself that the motivating force behind everything I do – writing, speaking, feeding the cat – is connection. Over the years, it has become something of a mantra for me. In that book, Forster writes about connecting our inner and outer lives as well as understanding each other as individuals beyond class or social divides. It’s a maxim made famous in his masterpiece Howards End. The tattoo in question is E M Forster’s quote ‘Only connect’. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Broadway by Fran Leadon![]() The lobby sculpture includes Woolworth counting nickels, Gilbert holding a model of the building, Gunwald Aus, the structural engineer, measuring a girder. Horace Walpole, who built a Gothic “castle” at “Strawberry Hill” and wrote The Castle of Otranto (1765), could have set his action here. The lobby is clothed in Skyros veined marble. Rising 792 feet without setback, it soars only the Seagram and CBS Buildings have the combination of articulate architecture and massing to achieve similar drama. ![]() Once much maligned for its eclectic Gothic detail and onetime charcoal Gothic crown, this sheer shaft is one of New York’s most imposingly sited skyscrapers. Façade restored, 1977-1981, Ehrenkrantz Group. Woolworth Building (offices), 233 Broadway, bet. ![]() ![]() The pacing of Wicked and the Wallflower is spot on. Wicked and the Wallflower had all my favorite elements: a fierce “ruined” heroine who picks locks, a broody protective love interest, and the space that allows these characters to breathe. Soon, Devil’s carefully laid plans are in chaos, and he must choose between everything he’s ever wanted…and the only thing he’s ever desired. All he must do is turn the plain little mouse into an irresistible temptress, set his trap, and destroy his enemy.īut there’s nothing plain about Felicity Faircloth, who quickly decides she’d rather have Devil than another. The Wallflower Makes a Dangerous Bargain…īastard son of a duke and king of London’s dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and the spinster wallflower is everything he needs to exact a revenge years in the making. ![]() She’s seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won’t accept a marriage without it. When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees-on one condition. ![]() ![]() I know I don’t normally review adult romance titles, but it’s a genre I’ve been slowly getting into more and more. People had be recommending this book to me for months, but I finally got to it and I’m so glad I did. What started off as a review that would never see the light of day, turned into me needing to share. ![]() Wicked and the Wallflower was so good I stayed up until 2 am reading. ![]() |