By Benjamin Noys
It is a transparent and concise consultant to the existence and paintings of the French highbrow Georges Bataille, top often called the writer of the distinguished erotic novel, the tale of the attention. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a author out of step with the dominant highbrow traits of his day - surrealism and existentialism - and exhibits that it was once his very marginality that accounted largely for his next value for the post-structuralists and the counterculture, in Europe and within the United States.Treating Bataille’s paintings as a complete instead of focusing, as different stories have performed, on elements of his paintings (i.e. as social thought or philosophy), Noys’ learn is meant to be delicate to the desires of scholars new to Bataille’s paintings whereas even as drawing at the newest examine on Bataille to provide new interpretations of Bataille’s oeuvre for more matured readers. this can be the 1st transparent, introductory interpreting of Bataille in English - demanding present reductive readings, and stressing the diversity of disciplines laid low with Bataille’s paintings, at a time while curiosity in Bataille is transforming into.
Read Online or Download Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers) PDF
Best literary criticism books
Our sensory relationships with the social and organic global have altered noticeably because of contemporary advancements in net and different cellular communique applied sciences. We now examine a display, we contact both the monitor or a keyboard in line with what we see and, one way or the other, a component of our sensory presence is transmitted in other places.
"Starts off as a manifesto yet turns into richer and extra suggestive because it develops. "—The big apple SunWith exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson freed from all of the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and exhibits the poet involved with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory.
Ivre de romans de chevalerie, Don Quichotte se rêve lui-même en chevalier errant. Il agit dans un monde entièrement imaginaire, littéralement enchanté. Si personne ne s'oppose à ses croyances, le "sous-univers" dans lequel il vit par rapport à los angeles réalité de sens commun peut cohabiter sans heurts avec d'autres "sous-univers".
Charting the intersection of aesthetic illustration and the cloth stipulations of city house, town due to the fact that 9-11 posits that the modern city offers an important context for reassessing theoretical matters regarding narrative, identification, domestic, and private precarity. within the years because the September eleven assaults, writers and filmmakers have explored city areas as contested sites—shaped by way of the present discourses of neoliberalism, native land protection, and the conflict on terror, but in addition haunted via a lack within the panorama that registers loss and prefigures destiny risk.
- Action et Réaction. Vie et Aventures d'un couple
- Georges Bataille (Critical Lives)
- The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
- Hart Crane's Poetry
- Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West (Masters of Chinese Studies)
Extra resources for Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers)
Whether Bataille intended the images he chose to be read seriously or not, and whether they are objects for a potential theory, these alternatives are dissolved THE SUBVERSIVE IMAGE 37 in sovereign laughter (as we will see in Chapter 3). ’27 He is right in that Bataille can be very serious about laughter and is not a writer of jokes, but Sartre’s own philosophical ambitions mean that he cannot experience the laughter in Bataille. He does not recognise that Bataille can be funny, whether intentionally or otherwise.
To put the will to political use fascism mutilated 42 GEORGES BATAILLE Nietzsche’s writings by repressing the elements ‘that Nietzsche incontestably experienced as an end not as a means’ (VE, 191). What fascist and Nazi readings consistently failed to read in Nietzsche, even the most ‘sophisticated’ readings like that of Bäumler, was the ‘pathos-laden experience’ (VE, 191) of the eternal recurrence. It was the eternal recurrence that threatened the politico-philosophical concept of the will to power with an experience that was ‘too-free, too-complex, too-rending’, an experience which literally tore apart the will as a unitary entity.
The strange beatific grin on the face of the torture victim may not be joy before death but the result of the administration of opium used to prolong or relieve the suffering of the victim (TE, 205). There is an undecidable moment where the grin is indistinguishable from a grimace. This undecidable moment undoes Bataille’s claim for a direct access to the ‘sacred horror’ of eroticism. Rather than having direct access Bataille is forced to interpret the image, and no image, including this one, can offer direct access to the impossible.


Tea Infuser with Pink Rhodonite Carved Dragon Charm
A 2in tea infuser ball with a beautiful carved pink rhodonite on the end. The charm on this infuser is carved into a wonderful dragon motif.
You will receive one of the two shown here.
Perfect for any tea drinker! The charms act as a counter balance to the infuser so you will never again have to fish for your tea-filled infuser when the chain slides in after the ball!


Double Crisp Linens
This weaving kit includes all the yarns needed to weave these Double Crisp Linens that were designed by Christine Jablonski for Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2023.
Among the many things to love about weaving are easy projects that look complicated. These woven towels are the perfect fit for this situation, and we are offering lots of color choices to boot!
This is the perfect project to try your hand at weaving with two heddles!
Weave Structure: Plain weave with two heddles
Yarns: 8/2 Variegated Cotton
Equipment needed: Rigid Heddle Loom; 21” weaving width; two 10 dent heddles; 1 shuttle
Finished Dimensions: three towels 18" × 30" hemmed
Instructions needed: Easy Weaving with Little Looms Spring 2023 pages 77 and 82. Available from Long Thread Media.
This kit includes all yarns needed to weave these towels. The pattern can be found in the Little Looms magazine noted above. You will need to purchase this magazine if you don't already own a copy.
Photos by Matt Graves
You can find more weaving patterns by Christine Jablonski on her Etsy page SoulSpaceArt.


Experience a truly royal service during a visit to Hotel Imperial. Luxurious and uniquely furnished rooms and imperial suites make a stay in the heart of Vienna a truly unique experience. The hotel is famous for both its discretion and impeccable service.
Hotel Imperial's regal past is reflected in the opulent and luxurious design of its interiors. The hotel was originally built as the Viennese residence of Prince of Württemberg in 1863. Today, the interiors still reflect the palace's original splendour, making the Hotel Imperial, Vienna event spaces some the finest in the capital. For an elegant dinner or an exquisite cocktail at the bar, Hotel Imperial is a must for all visitors to the city. Known for its culinary excellence, highlights include the famous Imperial Torte and Opus restaurant, which serves the finest Austrian cuisine.
Centrally located within the city centre, the Vienna State Opera and St. Stephen's Cathedral are a short walk away, making it the perfect base for an event in Vienna. Small and intimate meeting rooms make the perfect location for elegant meetings or seminars, while larger events and conferences take place in Salon Imperial. Gala dinners and banquets are truly unforgettable in these regal surroundings, where guests enjoy impeccable service coupled with the finest cuisines Vienna has to offer.
A wedding reception at Hotel Imperial is without equal in the city. The luxurious and opulent rooms create a romantic and elegant event. The bride descends the marble staircase and shimmers underneath crystal chandeliers and high stucco ceilings that radiate old world elegance. Uniquely, a personal butler is by the bride's side throughout the day to escort her and attend to anything that she needs.
Vienna is the cradle of classical music and the capital of balls, enjoying a 200 year old tradition of these events. Known for its famous waltzes, enduring traditions and courtly splendour, over 450 balls are held annually. Friends and lovers of classical music are also treated to unforgettable concerts at the hotel as part of the Bösendorfer concert series.
A hymn to those who worship the extraordinary, at this noble and refined hotel you will enjoy life at its best.
The sumptuous surroundings of the Hotel Imperial were originally created in 1863 as the residence of the prince of Wrttemberg. The palace on the Ring Boulevard was transformed into the Hotel Imperial for the universal exhibition in 1873. For over 130 years the Hotel Imperial has sat regally on Vienna's Ringstrasse, providing guests with the chance to look back on its eventful history.


When Cindy Johnson tells people what she does for a living, there's usually a lot of explanation involved.
That's mostly because she's one of the few people in her line of work.
For the past 20 years, Johnson has worked as an artist at Applied Imagination, a small company that specializes in architectural models and structures set to scale for botanical train displays using natural elements found in the woods.
"I loved this stuff from the first time I laid eyes on it and I still do," Johnson said.
It's the only company that specializes in this kind of artistry. They have clients all over the country, including the Chicago Botanical Garden, The Biltmore, New York Botanical Garden, United States Botanical Garden and most notably to those who live in Cincinnati, the Krohn Conservatory.
Go behind-the-scenes with the artists at Applied Imagination in the video above.
Applied Imagination has been an integral part of Krohn Conservatory's holiday show for nearly 30 years, depicting Cincinnati neighborhoods and buildings in model size structures.
This year a new piece is on display that Johnson spent weeks crafting in honor of the conservatory's 85th anniversary. It's also one of the biggest projects she's ever completed.
In the beginning
Landscape architect Paul Busse started Applied Imagination in 1991. Busse, an avid train enthusiast, was installing private train gardens as a side job in the backyards of homes around Cincinnati for several years. Then he decided to make it a full-time job.
"Applied Imagination was born from the culmination of my father’s love for architecture, landscape architecture, gardening, plants, as well as trains," Busse's daughter, Laura Dolan, said. Combining all those mediums turned into the Applied Imagination that we know today."
The Krohn Conservatory heard about Busse's work and hired him to make an installation for their holiday show. Busse gathered natural materials from the grounds of the conservatory and made an elaborate 10 x 5 foot music box. It became an iconic part of Krohn's holiday show that lasted for nearly 15 years.
Applied Imagination's installation continued to grow over the years.
"It started slowly with a piece here and a piece there and now it fills the entire room. And it’s just remarkable," Krohn Conservatory assistant manager Mark House said.
The conservatory was the first company to commission Busse in his new endeavor. Ironically, it's also where Johnson would get her big break a few years later.
During a visit to Krohn Conservatory's holiday show, Johnson was admiring that same music box installation when she ran into Busse as he was working on the train garden. As an artist, she admired it's detailing and knew she had to introduce herself.
"I asked for a job on the spot," Johnson said.
Two decades later, Johnson is still working her dream job.
"I haven't lost that enthusiasm yet," she said. "I love seeing these things come together."
Over the years, Applied Imagination's involvement with Krohn Conservatory has grown not only in size, but also popularity.
"It was very important to our annual holiday show, as important as the poinsettias I would say," House said.
Busse's involvement with the holiday show has dwindled over the years since his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease. In 2017, his daughter took over ownership of the company.
"It's something that’s so incredibly special to the family and everyone involved who works here and of course the visitors that see these installations year after year," Dolan said. "I felt it was very important to carry on the business for as long as I can and hopefully someday I can pass it on to someone special."
Busse lives within steps of his company's workshop in Northern Kentucky, so when he's able to meet, his former employees still seek his input.
"I don’t think he necessarily expected to retire, but unfortunately life sometimes throws us curve balls," Dolan said.
A 'new' Krohn for Krohn
Applied Imagination primarily works on holiday displays, which means planning begins nearly a year in advance. By the time the displays are set up for the public to view, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours are put into the creation of a single model.
"At any given time we’ll have two to three to four different clients’ work going on," Johnson said. "It’s organized chaos. That’s what it looks like year round."
Over the past 27 years, Applied Imagination has created models of several iconic Cincinnati structures like Procter & Gamble, Mt. Adams incline, the "Painted Ladies" of Columbia Tusculum, the Western & Southern building, The Roebling Suspension Bridge. They've also included National Park structures as part of this year's exhibit.
But in light of Krohn's Conservatory's 85th anniversary celebration, both companies wanted to do something special. They decided to make a new and improved model of the conservatory that was bigger and better than previous ones.
The task wasn't easy to start.
"We had to invent ways of holding up the structure and making it out of transparent material," said Johnson, who also created the last model more than a decade ago.
This project was very different than others because of the need for it to be transparent, like the conservatory itself. After finally locating a flexible plexiglass, Johnson created an inner and outer skeleton for the structure so visitors would be able to see through it as though they are looking into the windows of the conservatory.
Johnson incorporated the branches of a dead orange tree from the conservatory and used it for the detailing of the outer decor.
Johnson's favorite feature of this new model is the stained glass entryway in the front.
"This one is way cooler than the old one because we have more room to work," Johnson said.
It took her hundreds of hours and lots of late nights to complete this project on deadline. But the chaos isn't anything new for a veteran like Johnson. She thrives on the constant flow of creative energy in the workshop all year round.
"When we’re all working on something different and there’s just something fabulous on everyone’s desk, you can’t beat that feeling," she said. "I don’t understand why everyone doesn't want to do this."
Starting in January, she and her coworkers will be ready to start the process all over again.
If You Go...The Krohn Conservatory's annual holiday show runs through Jan. 6, 2019. Tickets for adults are $7 and children (ages 5-17) are $4. Children 4 years old and under are free.


It can be a struggle to translate the details of a design vision into the browser. Creating bitmap images, icons, and graphics can be time consuming and result in inconsistency and difficulty with managing updates. Scale-able vector graphics (SVGs) might be just what you’re looking for.
SVGs are now supported on every modern browser and mobile device, and usage is on the upswing, but most people only use them for icons. Most developers and designers don’t realize how powerful and useful SVGs are. From scale-able images to full-blown web applications, SVGs fit many needs.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
- The importance of understanding the capabilities of SVGs and how developers and designers can improve the quality of designs created in the browser
- Through an understanding of SVG capabilities you will know how each layer of Illustrator is rendered through SVGs in the browser
- You won’t learn about SVG font icons; you WILL learn about how to efficiently export SVGs so your team won’t curse your name. With SVGs you can render each design layer directly in the browser
- Apply filters, lighting effects, gaussian blur, and animations, all directly through the use of this file format. Get exactly what you want in the browser
- Plus a few favorite tips/tricks about SVG elements and attributes


Madonna Posters is radically right and makes a outstanding wall decoration, this item dimension is 11 x 14 inch and the price is $74.99. If you're trying to discover top recommended Madonna Posters with inexpensive price, this poster is the luxury deals for you.
Type: Stretched Canvas Print
Dimension: 11 x 14 inch
Madonna Posters is consists of the use of typeface and fonts to create pretty works of art. This poster is chapters and even complete image flow over in each other without any non-literal clue. It is very glossy and you can see the details clearly, it is a useful procure for anyone. This item ships within 2-3 business days in durable reliable tubes. Madonna Posters is based on the idea that putting all your commitments on glowing paper instead of keeping them in the position will make you more tasteful. We have all the latest fun and exciting this produce related to entertainment! The color of the item is best seen on lustrous light. The pattern of this one is grandiose because is thick and doesn't pierce exceedingly easily. This produce is worthy and evoke empathy and each of them matures as they are afforded with challenges and surprising revelations. Madonna Posters is expansively repetition and excrutiating detail of each item outlined in the first few chapters.


Barry first found music when he borrowed his sister's record collection when he was about eight and was hooked. When Caroline started it was a new beginning, and he listened to all the stations, but Caroline was his favourite by far. Later he became a singer in a band, then started doing discos when he was 18. He joined Caroline in 1977, touring the country with the Caroline Roadshow for 10 years, having great fun. Barry helped with tender trips and worked on the Ross Revenge in '84 and '85. ...
Manage episode 269033574 series 5496
By Afropop Worldwide. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
North African music receives very little coverage in the United States. There are no high-profile mixes of recent Tunisian underground dance music from hip DJs, and no young Algerian musicians with major distribution deals in the U.S. So we decided to explore what exactly is going on today in this part of the world. We trace the origins of some of the region’s most interesting current music to the banlieues of Paris, like raï ’n’b--a new autotuned and synth-heavy offshoot of raï. We also explore the Gnawa reggae movement, which finds common ground between Sufi trance and the message of Marley. Returning to familiar traditions, we present a live recording of Kabyle mandoleplayer Hamid Ouchène from Montreal’s Nuits d’Afrique festival, backed by a group of Montreal-based musicians with origins throughout the African continent. We next turn to the North African metal scene that developed during Algeria’s civil conflict to meld Berber folk music with black metal. Finally, we check out the new chaabi revival. Produced by Jesse Brent. [APWW #692] [Originally aired in 2014]


South Side Ballroom
Created by AEG Live Concerts
1135 S. Lamar St.
Dallas, TX 75215
Indie rock trio Foster the People make atmospheric, psychedelic, and dance-oriented pop. Formed in Los Angeles in 2009, the band features keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Mark Foster, bassist Cubbie Fink, and drummer Mark Pontius....
A spectacular new live production featuring music from all fourteen pink floyd studio albums plus a dazzling new light and laser show. Having performed to over one million fans around the world since it's first show in Liverpool, England in January 2011, Brit Floyd - The World's Greatest Pink Floyd Show, returns to North America from March to June 2014 to perform DISCOVERY, a stunning new three hour chronological musical journey spanning the entire recording career of Pink Floyd from 1967 - 1994....
|04/29||8:00 pm||Foster the People|
|05/01||9:00 pm||Trampled By Turtles|
|05/18||7:30 pm||Brit Floyd|
|06/11||8:00 pm||Everclear Soul Asylum Eve 6 & Spacehog|
|07/11||8:00 pm||Everclear with Eve 6 and Soul Asylum|
|07/12||8:00 pm||Lindsey Stirling|
|08/22||7:30 pm||Panic at the Disco|


About / Contact
The Upstate of South Carolina has been home since I was 12 years old. My artwork generally reflects the beauty of the State from the mountain views to the coast as well as the local scenes around Greenville. The flowers, the markets, the trees and old buildings are too charming to resist. Using these inspirations I study light and it's amazing restorative effect using oil paint, brushes, palette knife, canvas and wood.
My work has been shown at Open Arts Studio on Main Street, GCCA's City of Women Exibit (winning honorable mention) as well as other local art markets over the past several years.


Entertainment Equals Steve Martin's Comedy Squared For The Stage. Squared For The Stage.
By Dave Irwin
A LADY BEHIND me at the Arizona Theatre Company's opening of actor/comedian/writer Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile saved me a lot of work. Standing up after the 90-minute romp, she said to whoever she was with, "Well, that was cute."
Not brilliant, hilarious or bad. Cute. Cute, like a dog you don't mind petting but wouldn't want to own. Not a condemnation, but at best a damning by faint praise. Make no mistake--if you enjoy Martin's sly and smart style of humor, this is a fun presentation. If you're looking for a rich exploration of ideas, rather than a very light comedy of set pieces and one-liners, you'll be disappointed.
The play imagines a fantastic meeting between Pablo Picasso (Jos Viramontes) and Albert Einstein (Michael Santo) in a Parisian bar in 1904 before either became famous.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile belongs to a modern theatre sub-genre: comic fantasy wholly dependent on recognition of the famous author/star's prior work for its own context. Other examples include Kurt Vonnegut's Between Time And Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5, and Jane Wagner's vehicle for Lily Tomlin, The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe. These are not works intended to stand anonymously on their own merits. They require a prior knowledge of Vonnegut's novels, Tomlin's panoply of characters or Martin's own comedy career for us to fully appreciate the humor. This particular sub-genre also takes advantage of the opportunity to bend reality so that cosmic things can happen to make a point, or better yet, get a laugh.
Underlining our expectations, when Santos enters the bar as Einstein, he moves just as we would imagine Martin himself entering, in Roxanne or The Jerk. Anyone familiar with Martin's work can hear him delivering lines throughout the play. As the comedy develops, no one would have been at all surprised to see the Spanish painter and the Swiss patent clerk suddenly become a couple of Czech brothers, twisting in unison at the bar and saying together, "We are two wild and crazy guys!"
Martin's script includes a funny break of stage conventions regarding order of appearance, just enough swearing during Picasso's entrance to get our attention, lots of small laughs and even a few big ones.
Directed by David Ira Goldstein, the production never forgets that it's a staged performance for a paying audience, and it delivers the goods with broad mugging and exaggerated punchlines. The sumptuous set, designed by Bill Forrester, is beautifully detailed, enhancing the level of fantasy, especially towards the end of the play when the arrival of a visitor from our end of the century requires pyrotechnics and Las Vegas lighting.
Santo plays Einstein with a tempered smugness, a man who has figured out the mechanics of the universe but is unsure if you can earn a living from that. Viramontes portrays the fiery passion of Picasso as a counterpoint to Einstein's self-assured smirk. Both serve their characters well. In the supporting roles, Gerald Burgess as barkeep Freddy, Roberto Guajardo as Gaston, the play's Everyman with bladder problems, and Deborah van Valkenburgh as Germaine, Freddy's waitress/girlfriend and the voice of female perspective, seemed most in tune. Stephanie Shine in multiple female roles, David Orley as know-it-all Schmendiman (a send-up of Martin's early stand-up comedian persona), Jared Sakren as the art dealer Sagot, and Kelland Lindsey as the Visitor round out the cast.
Perhaps if Martin, who holds a master's degree in philosophy, had explored the more cerebral implications of this imagined meeting along with the comedic, Picasso At The Lapin Agile might seem less of a trifle overall. As it stands, it's a pleasant and tasty bon-bon, but nothing meaty.
Arizona Theatre Company's Picasso At The Lapin Agile, directed by David Ira Goldstein, continues through October 3. Tickets range from $19 to $28, available from the ATC box office at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., and at all Dillard's ticket outlets. Half-price adult and $10 student rush tickets are available for all performances, one hour prior to curtain at the ATC box office only. Some performances are audio-described and/or ASL-interpreted. For reservations, call 622-2823. For information only, call 884-4877. All performances are at the Temple of Art and Music, 330 S. Scott Ave.
Home | Currents | City Week | Music | Review | Books | Cinema | Back Page | Archives
| © 1995-97 Tucson Weekly . Info Booth


Friends in Oaxaca, I will be giving a week long workshop titled “Hacía una imagen poética” from the 2nd of December at Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. The Centre can offer accommodation for the artists living Outside Oaxaca.
I’m glad to share that The body and other small tails. Performance at the State Museum of Contemporary Art collections is traveling and opening on Friday November 25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete. The exhibition is dedicated to the body and performance art through the presentation of photos and videos, and installations resulting from actions and from exhibitions that took place in recent years at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and compose a significant part of the museum’s collection.
Some of the work I created in 2013 ” Becoming and Image” exhibition will be in show.
On Friday 25th of November I will be presenting at ARTspaceMexico gallery a new installation and live performance titled “INspiration” – (ALIENTO in spanish).
In preparation to the live performance I wrote a little text:
Respiration can be the deepest photograph of my emotions.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I invoke the images woven around the inner wall of my body.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I’m syncing my internal with my external image.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I’m closing my eyes and picturing behind the surface.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I’m tensing my body and releasing my vision.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I’m giving light to the darker side of my memory.
While I’m photographing my breathing, we can all listen to the voices of all the images stored inside my cavities.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I have the tendency to become mechanical but the creative impulse will help me to break the program.
While I’m photographing my breathing, my mind becomes a bit dizzy and the focus becomes my pure uncertainty.
While I’m photographing my breathing, I stop anticipating my stimulus and the entire activity become more unpredictable.
My photographic capacity is built-in to the anatomy of my body.
The PhotoPerformer (Mexico City 2016)
During this workshop we will study and practice the creation of a “poetic images” through individual and collective actions.
We will discuss the “pose” as a concept of transformation from action to image, from movement to stillness.
I will introduce the “poetic image’ as a gesture of expression of our imagination… a connection with and internal visualisation…
Looking forward to share some actions, images and thoughts with Gabriela Gonzalez (founder and director of HYDRA) and Eugenia Macias (researcher and expert of contemporary photography).
A selection of videos part of STILL_MÓVIL exhibition will be presented at the 25th edition of Panorama Festival in Rio de Janeiro. The Exhibition is titled Corpo Visto and is held at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brazil between the 3rd and 20th of November.
Looking forward to be presenting at the Ex Teresa a ‘live training’ with a group of Collaborators. As we will keep on training… this can only be a work in progress…
I’m looking forward to work with professional movers and introduce them to the PhotoPerformer philosophy.
Is The PhotoPerformer going to move or the professional Dancers going to reach stillness?
The experiment will last 10 days.
Wednesday 5 October 2016 / 1.30pm – 4pm / Free / Booking Required
A round table discussion with Manuel Vason and members of the Documentation Action Research Collective (DARC)
Join Manuel Vason and members of the DARC collective for talks and presentations on the practices, aethetics and ethics of co-creating performance documentation, performance photography and photo performances.
This summer Manuel Vason was in residence with the multi-faith women’s group and choir Migrant Artists Mutual Aid (MaMa) and the transmutable voices team (performer/director Jennifer Verson, artist/psychotherapist Lorena Rivero de Beer and and social psychologist Pamela Mastrilli) and co-created a series of photo performances exploring new aesthetics of citizenship.
Manuel Vason returns to Liverpool on 5th October with members of DARC collective to discuss the theories, processes and challenges of creating the ethical document.
DARC is a collective of artists who believe that the documentation of other artists’ work is not just preservation but a creative act in itself.
“we are INSIDERS we CARE we UNDERSTAND performance we have a CONNECTION with you already we KNOW you you KNOW us we are part of the COMMUNITY you TRUST us our documentation is an ART form we have a THEORY (even if we’re unsure what that is at present!) this isn’t just WORK it’s an EXCHANGE…’
Manuel Vason is an internationally reknowned photographer working closely in and between the fields of photography and performance.
‘I consider my practice as a life long commitment to explore the correspondence between Photography and Performance Art. I believe in photography as an efficient instrument to articulate the human condition, to test new codes of behaviour, to criticize how we shape knowledge, to provoke innovative thinking. I believe in the photograph as…a place where contradiction, ambiguity and paradox are not only tolerated but encouraged.’
The event is free, however booking is required. Reserve your place at Open Eye Gallery, call +44 (0)151 236 6768 or email email@example.com.
Looking forward to share some thoughts and ideas with a group of thinkers and students at the University of Evora. Apparently the result of the debate/exchange/discussion will be collected into a publication.
For more information or for participate please click here


12 Tuesday July 18 2017 Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Our People SELWYN TIMES Dearna Doglione Passing on confidence to aspiring Dearna Doglione, 20, of Rolleston has spearheaded Christchurch’s first hui for women in theatre to help resolve gender imbalance in Canterbury’s theatre industry. She spoke to Georgia O’Connor- Harding How does it feel to have helped put together the first Christchurch Hui for Women in Theatre? I think at first I found the idea daunting of bringing together a large group of women that I have looked up to, been inspired by and watched be phenomenal on stage and backstage. But once we started meeting I realised it wasn’t about who organised it, it was about women getting together talking about their issues and supporting each other. Tell me about some of the research you did while studying at the National Academy Of Singing and Dramatic Art? The general idea I found was not enough women stories were being told that were not about a man’s journey and the women being a side-character. I was finding that in shows on stage and I realised there was a reason behind this – there were not enough female playwrights, directors, producers or artistic directors. How do you find the Canterbury theatre scene? Auckland has multiple theatres and underground theatres – theatres that have the opportunity to put on work that they might not think will actually sale. There is this misunderstanding that work about women intrinsically will not sale because it is not what done. But you look at Songs For Nobodies starring Ali Harper that is on at The Court Theatre now. It is a one-woman show that is selling and doing amazingly. It is written by a female starring a female about the lives of 12 different women. I think it is evidence enough in itself. There is Steel Magnolias coming up at The Court Theatre in August. It is starring four of The Court Theatre’s staple performers and is about the bond a group of women share in a small-town community. Would you like to see more shows like this in the area? EMPOWERING: Rolleston performer Dearna Doglione has helped organise the first meeting in Christchurch with other women in theatre to address gender imbalance. PHOTO: WENDY RILEY Yes, this show is an exception. It is amazing to see a show that is being led by four powerful, amazing, talented females. You would just hope it had a woman’s voice in direction but you can’t have everything at once. What were some of the actions that were decided upon at the hui? Our two main things that came out of it was an idea of a mentorship programme for young women coming into the industry to not face the same things we know happen. To have another woman mentor who has gone through the industry and knows what is okay and what is not and teaching them how stand up for themselves and how to be brave – not get pushed around in the industry. The other outcome we discussed was searching for parity of pay backstage, on stage and at an artistic level. What is generally the difference of pay between men and women in the industry? We want to research this. From my research in the general workforce a woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job. If we do not enact a change to this, the International Labour Organisation estimates the wage gap will not close until 2086. That is not okay. What we are saying is there should be a base rate. Are you feeling optimistic for theatre in Canterbury after having this meeting? I am. Because when we get together we realise we are all feeling the same way and going through the same hardships and we are not going to stand for it anymore. We had women including myself just out of drama school and we have seasoned professionals who know the game. The industry is already tough as it is, it must be difficult to have this on top of everything? We had a lot of stories from women at the meeting of just things in the rehearsal room of not being treated the same as their male counterparts, or when it came to booking a job they were treated differently - it was horrible to hear. ROllEStOn’S Only REGIStERED REtIREMEnt vIllaGE 2 BEDROOMS from $400,000 WoodCroFt EstAtE oFFErs YoU: PEACE oF Mind: • 30 years experience in the retirement industry • A statutory supervisor and a compliance manager • An investment with 100% capital gain • A village that the residents own FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call Corinne on 021 821 683 or 03 421 7796 Email: firstname.lastname@example.org 34 kEndon drivE, rollEston www.manorgroup.co.nz
SELWYN TIMES Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi Tuesday July 18 2017 13 performers Tell me about your work you are doing in Rolleston? I teach singing lessons. I only have three pupils. I like to keep it to a small amount so I can put my time and effort into them. I also teach them basic piano skills. We pick a song they like and then one I think they need to work on. One girl sings music from fantasy film Moana and also something from musical Fiddler on the Roof. Do you think there is room for theatre to grow in Selwyn? Totally, I want to start up drama classes when my schedule isn’t crazy. There are so many parents keen to get their kids into drama. It is not just about singing and acting, it is about confidence and teaching kids they have a voice and they can use it. I used to teach swimming and I taught so many kids who had no confidence in themselves. How was training at NASDA? NASDA is a very full-on degree. They talk about “NASDA life” – it becomes all engrossing. I graduated last year and now work there part time in assisting operations- such as stage managing and helping out with costumes. What are your personal goals as a performer? I want to be able to make a living in this industry. Whether that is overseas or nationally. This year I am focusing on myself as a person and next year I am going hard at auditioning. NASDA is such a full-on world that once you leave it you have changed so much as a person and need to take time to find where you sit in the world. My end-goal from the moment I applied to NASDA was to play Elphaba in Wicked. Tell me about your favourite show at NASDA The Collective? That show was the first time I felt like I knew what acting was. I hadn’t done a full-length play before. This is the first time I got to build a character and follow her through the whole play. It was the first time I worked with a director who wasn’t my teacher. I was treated as an actor not a student. It was with amazing Christchurch acting director Melanie Luckman who inspired me. She inspired the idea for the mentorship programme because she is a powerful lady who I have looked up to before meeting her. Now we are friends and I take donuts to her child. Did you grow up here? Yes, I went to Rolleston School and Lincoln High School. I was a very shy person up until mid-high school when I decided I wanted to be an actor. Do you think the arts helped put yourself out there? Totally, that is why I want to have a drama programme out here. I always felt more confident as a character than as myself until I realised I had something to offer as myself. I want to pass that lesson on to anyone I can. Navel Oranges Loose Product of New Zealand$ 3 Wattie’s Baked Beans or Spaghetti 420g (excludes Meat and Flavours) $ 3 99 $ 10 99 49 Fresh NZ Quality Mark Prime kg Beef Mince kg NescafE Cafe Menu 10 Pack ANY 3 FOR Schweppes Sparkling Soft Drink 1.5 Litre $ 6 49 Villa Maria pk $ 1 99 ea NEW! M&Ms, Twix, Mars, Snickers or Milky Way Single Bar 35-55g 99ccccccea Quality Bakers Nature’s Fresh Bread 700g $ 2 99 ea PASSION: Dearna Doglione as Elisabeth Hauptmann with Emiliano Pereyra as Brecht in her favourite performance The Collective. She played the role while studying at the National Academy Of Singing and Dramatic Art. SILVER DOLLAR come and enjoy the new lunch menu QUIZ NIGHTS Every Wednesday from 7pm. Ring to book a table. • Indoor outdoor & mezzanine dining areas • Large sheltered & sunny courtyard • Extensive lunch & evening menu selection to suit everybody’s tastes • Large range of wine, tap & bottled beers • 2x courtesy vans available 871 Jones Rd, Rolleston | Ph 347 0386 | www.silverdollarbar.co.nz Speight’s 24 Pack 330ml Bottles $ 32 99 pk www.foursquare.co.nz Private Bin 750ml (excludes Pinot Noir and Syrah) $ 11 99 ea facebook.com/FourSquareNZ Specials available South Island only from Monday 17th July until Sunday 23rd July 2017 or while stocks last. Wine and beer available at stores with an off licence. Wine and beer purchases restricted to persons aged 18 years old and over.
11 New Listing/Open Home Open Home
13 New Stage Now Open Home sites fr
15 This Week’s Rolleston ThURsday


Art on the Ave is an Annual Event started in 2011. It supports local artists and provides visibility to small businesses within the East Sprague Business Corridor inside the Sprague Union District in Spokane, Washington. Artists are hosted by businesses between Napa and Madelia Streets each year on the last Saturday each September from noon to 6 pm. You will see a variety of art mediums, a kid zone with emerging artist show, interactive art, and live music to name a few.
Art on the Ave is planned and produced completely by volunteers of the East Spokane Business Association (ESBA), a non-profit 501 (c)(6) organization, by those that live in and shop our in our beautiful Sprague Union Business District, local business owners, as well as, our business sponsors. All sponsor funds, entry fees, and donations are used to pay for event advertising, promotions, and all other event costs.


If you love music, the first week of October has quite a few festivals going on in DC and the surrounding areas.
Everyone loves a good festival full of awesome artists, food, beer, activities, and good people. Each of these festivals can offer all this and more. Regardless if you’re going to see your favorite artist or band perform, or looking to expand your taste in music, these festivals won’t disappoint.
Don’t spend this weekend sitting at home. Dance and sing your heart out to Carly Rae Jepsen and Betty Who, go wild at an early St Paddy’s Day celebration, or float down the river with awesome music playing at Sleepy Creek!
All Things Go Fall Classic – Oct. 6-7
This two day music festival happens at the historic Union Market. The festival will feature artists like Maggie Rogers, Billie Eilish, Carly Rae Jepsen, Betty Who, and more. Your ears will be satisfied from the diverse selection of musical artists, but your stomach will love the wide variety of food vendors that will be at the festival. One day tickets are $65, and two day tickets are $95.
#FrayLife Tip: Besides the awesome music and food, the festival will have other fun activities. In years past, there were slow motion photo booths, virtual reality lounges, and spray paint walls.
Festy Experience – Oct. 5-7
The 9th annual Festy Experience will take place at Infinity Downs in Arlington. Greensky Bluegrass, Rubblebucket, Railroad Earth, Sam Bush Band and other artists and groups will perform. Festy Experience makes for the perfect weekend full of good music, craft beer, delicious food, and fun outdoor activities. One day tickets are $56 and a weekend pass is $166.
#FrayLife Tip: Get your exercise in before having fun at the festival with the Burn 5K – 10K Run. Another fun outdoor activity that will be at the festival is disc golf!
Halfway to Shamrock Fest – Oct. 5
Who says you can’t celebrate St. Paddy’s day a wee bit early? This fest is a pre-celebration for the big Shamrock Fest in March. The lineup features DJ RI5SE, EPX, Chris Styles, and an Irish music band, The Shamrogues. The venue is Union Stage and doors open at 8 pm. We can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday night then to have an early celebration of St Paddy’s Day! Tickets are only $19.99.
#FrayLife Tip: Get the VIP ticket which includes everything in the main ticket plus bottomless beer, separate beverage service, VIP entertainment, and heated tents.
Sleepy Creek Fest – Oct. 5-7
A just under two-hour drive is nothing when there’s a fun time to be had. Sleepy Creek HarFest is a three-day music festival in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia that boasts local and national musical artists, bonfire parties, food, jam circles, parades, and crafts. A few artists and bands that will be at the festival are Larry Keel Experience, Pap & Po, Kick & Banjo, and Strung Like a Horse. A Friday-Sunday ticket is $75.
#FrayLife Tip: When you’re not listening to music, feel free to hit the water. You are allowed to go in the river and creek at your own risk. This event is also BYOB, so make sure you come prepared!
If you go to any of these festivals, make sure to show us the awesome time you’re having by using #FrayLife on social.
View More Articles By Briana Florez


Katja-Susanne and Sascha, both from Germany, traveled to the Spanish island of Mallorca for their engagement session. Mallorca is the largest in the Balearic Islands archipelago of the Mediterranean Sea. The couple love the island and plan to relocate there permanently in the future, with Sascha having already made the move. Manuela from FORMA Photography recalls:
“We met Katja-Susanne and Sascha after arriving in the beautiful little village of Sa Coma on the east coast of Mallorca. Sa Coma is embedded in between a beautiful sandy beach and Punta de n’Amer, a peninsula of about 500 acres. The area is a natural reserve: nature in its purest form. The beautul scenery, amazing evening sunlight and the couple’s obvious love for each other made our job easy that day!”
When I first saw these images I was convinced this was film photography, but actually Manuela and Martin from FORMA explained that they use lightroom presets that emulate old Fuji film. We love!
Photography: FORMA Photography


Lite’s Review Room: DIFF – “Under African Skies”
The Dallas International Film Festival is in town and we’ve been sending out people to see every movie possible. Our Queen of the Silver Screen Julie Fisk headed out for a Documentary on Paul Simon.
Under African Skies
This is the final weekend you can take part in the 2012 Dallas International Film Festival. Your last chance to see films that otherwise might not enjoy a large theatrical release, like one of my favorites, “Under African Skies.” This is a documentary about the production of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and its controversial release in 1986.
“Graceland” for many was just a feel good record that introduced us to great South African artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but it stirred a controversy around the world. Paul Simon recorded with South African musicians despite a United Nations cultural boycott on the country. This led many to accuse Paul Simon of ignoring the horrors there and of poaching off the talented musicians he met.
Simon has always insisted that he was welcomed by those artists & that the songs they created were collaborations. Whatever the actual motives were, the response to “Graceland” is legendary and it’s wonderful to see video of Paul Simon first meeting these musicians and their jam sessions. It’s strange then, that the only real downfall of “Under African Skies” is Paul Simon himself, who today seems nothing like the enthusiastic young man we see in the 1980’s.
He still sounds good when he sings, but otherwise seems tired and distant. The South African artists are what save this movie, because the joy that emanates through their music is as infectious today as it was 25 years ago. They are also the reason I’m giving “Under African Skies” a B. You can find the show times and look over the other movies screening this weekend at www.diff2012.dallasfilm.org.
More stories From The New 103.7 Lite FM
- MTV Unveils Full VMA Performers List including Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd & More
- Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Had A Dance Party, And The Video Is Adorable!
- Promise of Peace Community Gardens #OkraPaooloza
- Actress Lucy Liu Is A New Mom!
- Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down
- DWTS: First Married Couple Will Compete This Season
- Watch 103-Year-Old Rangers Fan Toss First Pitch
- VIDEO: Guy Annoys Girlfriend With Puns At IKEA
- What Pop Superstar Is Kylie Jenner Sitting With At The MTV Video Music Awards Sunday?
- Jealous! Look Who’s Performing At Courteney Cox’s Wedding!


Coloring Pages Spanish New Euro Print Co 1500×1322
Coloring Pages Spanish is one of the design ideas that you can use to reference your Coloring. There are a few images that have been published on January 24, 2018, which you can use as a consideration in the article Gallery of Coloring Pages Spanish.
If you are helped by the idea of the article Coloring Pages Spanish, don't forget to share with your friends.
Article Coloring Pages Spanish may be associated with coloring pages in spanish, coloring pages in spanish with words, coloring pages spanish, coloring pages spanish alphabet, coloring pages spanish numbers, spanish animal coloring pages, spanish christmas coloring pages, spanish coloring pages, spanish coloring pages pdf, spanish culture coloring pages, spanish food coloring pages, spanish greetings coloring pages, spanish thanksgiving coloring pages, may be you are looking for so that more references, not just the article Coloring Pages Spanish.
Coloring Pages Spanish this possible during your search, you are not wrong to come visit the web cosmo-scope.com. Coloring Pages Spanish is one of the pictures contained in the category of Coloring and many more images contained in that category. Published by admin on . for personal use only.
License: some right reserved, and if the copyright of photo in this site is belongs to you, and then you want to remove it, please report to us and we'll remove it soon.


Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Verdi's greatest songs of love and desire
With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside
Thank you for your understanding.
Love is the motto of the 1998 New Year's Eve Concert.
And who wrote better music about love than Mozart and Verdi?
Maestro Claudio Abbado has chosen two of the best Mozart interpreters of our day, Christine Schäfer and Simon Keenlyside, for this traditionally meaningful event.
Marcelo Álvarez from Argentina, compared by some to a young Domingo, sings highlights of the tenor repertoire, and Italian Primadonna Mirella Freni tops the occasion with a breathtaking performance of the "Letter" scene of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin.


Nikita Fomin Russian Autumn Flowers
Ivan Myasoedov - Magnolia in Berlin, 1920s
GorchakovArtem aka Artem Gorchakov aka Ghor (Russian, b. 1982, Astrakhan, Russian Federation) - Poppies, 2012 Paintings: Watercolors, Ink
Don’t fuck with Viktor Nikiforov.
(I pray silently that my english is correct - maybe not - sorry for that :/ - no, seriously, tell me if it’s wrong)
(Look, look ! I have a graphic tablet & a new stylus :D)
not pictured: the window i was throwing clint out of.
question: why was he hanging around in his boxers with a bow??? because hes clint.
alternatively, ‘i got shot with cupid’s arrow and all i got was this lousy hospital visit.’
Vintage rose postcards, 1959—1969
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962), Magnolias. Pencil and oil on canvas, 32 x 55.8 cm.
☆ . ･ * ･ . ☆Pink Flower Tip Piping☆ . ･ * ･ . ☆
Please credit me if you repost!
Pavel Tchelitchew (Russian, 1898-1957), Anemones, 1932. Oil on canvas, 74.5 x 50 cm.
Artist A. Kalashnikov, 1963
by Vladimir Zhdanov
Elena Zemlyanitsyna (Russian, 1889-1941), Autumn Bouquet, 1916. Pencil and tempera on paper laid on cardboard, 69 x 101 cm.
Viktor was so adorable when he was young, I had attempt to draw him (anyone interested in the final result??)
The Morning of the Rose Bush - Olga Belakovskaya
Oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches


Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, Dynasty 25-Dynasty 26
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Meroe (Beg. West), West 766
Overall: 1.5 x 1.1 x 0.7cm (9/16 x 7/16 x 1/4in.)
Medium or Technique
Not On View
One scarab glazed. Pierced. Recumbent sphinx with nefer signs and sun disk in front and above its back, pseudo-signs behind it..
From Beg. West 766. 1923: Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition


What is Outcasts about? Outcasts is a Young Adult fantasy novel about four enhanced teens who try to discover their origins. Lest people think, “Oh, another Fantastic Four ripoff”… not so! It’s more of an examination of the why as opposed to the how. And while there’s no shortage of action, it also focuses mainly on the individual relationships within the group. We have the MC, Mitch Kessler, who transforms to a gargoyle only when he’s angry. (He learns to control his transformation process later on in the story). He has a relationship with Callie, who’s a gender switcher, and she’s confused as to which gender she’ll end up as. Neil is a rock-man… ’nuff said. And Mitch’s best friend, Joe, is a spinning top. He can run and spin at high speeds, making him very effective as a crime fighter.
The plot concerns the Outcasts uniting under the US government’s aegis, breaking up- most of the the public doesn’t trust them, while some elements are indifferent to them- and then uniting again is when, ostensibly, a black-ops group, tries to kill them. Along the way, Mitch re-examines his relationship with Callie, decides he wants to stay with her, and he also tries to help his friends realize who they are. There is a HFN ending… and a sequel.
What inspired this story? I wanted to get away from the usual punch-’em-up teen type of superhero novels. I’ve done those in the past and liked writing them, but I wanted to approach this novel from the perspective that our MC and his friends don’t like their powers or want them, and that they’re shunned by society for being what they are. For the record, I’m straight and married, but I have a lot of LGBTQI friends who are discriminated against simply because they are LGBTQI- no other reason. Discrimination in any form, religious/racial/orientation, is just plain wrong. I don’t push that as an agenda in the novel, but it comes out quite clearly. I don’t believe in spouting polemics. That’s a sure way to turn any reader off. But if they can identify with the characters, in this case Callie, they’ll get a better picture of how reality is.
Tell us a little about you, who is J.S. Frankel? I was born in Toronto, Canada, long ago, and in my mid-twenties, I moved to Japan to work as an ESL teacher. Eventually, I fell in love with my wife, Akiko, and we got married many moons ago. We have two sons, and perhaps that’s helped to shape my writing and my outlook on life. I divide my waking hours teaching ESL and writing, and writing, while not a full-time gig, takes up a lot of time. The rest is for my family, movies, and food! Oh, and I love music videos… they provide great inspiration for my books!
How can we read Outcasts? The book is available on Amazon. Oh, and you can also check out my novels as ExtasyBooks (links below).
Yesterday I asked indie filmmakers on Twitter to share their movies that are currently available to watch on Tubi TV for free! As I hoped for, we got a really diverse mix of independent films that really showcases that there is something available for everyone. Here are 5 indie flicks that you can watch tonight…
The Inevitable Death of the Crab Director: Ahcitz Azcona Starring: Costanza Andrade, Ahcitz Azcona, Ricardo Niño, Jesus Hernandez, and Yuriria Munguia. Description: An anonymous death threat to entrepreneur Carlos against his family in Mexico leads to the discovery of a high-level political corruption racket. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV
Wheat Soup Directors: Gerald Saul & Brian Stockton Starring: Shaf Hussein, Sandi Happy, Gord Wilson, Leonard Cyrman, Mike Benny, and Bob Campbell. Description: In a post-apocalyptic future, a wheat farmer embarks upon a journey and encounters a variety of unusual characters, while traveling across the land. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV
Noah’s Shark Director: Mark Polonia Starring: Jeff Kirkendall, Tim Hatch, Jamie Morgan, Samantha Coolidge, and Ryan Dalton. Description: A televangelist and his team set out to find the fabled Noah’s Ark, but discover it is guarded by an ancient curse and a deadly great white shark. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV
The Mix Director: Chris Mollica & Greg Townsend Starring: Chris Mollica, Brian Silliman, and Cyrina Fiallo. Description: Would you kidnap a man for stealing your cookies? Sal, the hapless owner of a home grown cookie company places his hopes for financial and personal success in the hands of the enigmatic Joshua Vandersteem. After the deal goes bad, Sal is forced into desperate action. Relationships are tested, feelings are hurt and ultimately blood is drawn. Can Sal redeem his misdeeds or will this be the way the cookie crumbles? (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV
My Best Friend’s Famous Directors: Kevin Ignatius Starring: Nick Psinakis, Mindy Sterling, Ryan O’Neal, Anne Akhila, and Darryl Gudmundson. Description: An insecure New Yorker moves to Los Angeles and grapples with jealousy when his less-talented best friend becomes a star on a hit television show. (Source: Tubi) Click here to watch on Tubi TV
What recent indies have you watched on Tubi TV? What is your favorite platform to watch indies on?
We recently connected with indie film producer Mark Stolaroff, who also happens to be the founder of No Budget Film School. He chatted with us about his latest flick, The Last Days of Capitalism.
Who? The Last Days of Capitalism was written and directed by Adam Mervis, the screenwriter of 21 Bridges (which was produced by the Russo Brothers and starred Chadwick Boseman), and National Champions (starring J.K. Simmons, Uzo Aduba, Timothy Olyphant, and many others). Unlike those studio films, Last Days was made on a micro-budget ($40k) and produced by long-time indie producer Mark Stolaroff (the founder of No Budget Film School) and Kenny Harrison, who was a classmate of Adam’s at Florida State University. The cast of two is comprised of veteran actor Mike Faiola (Awkward) and newcomer Sarah Harper. It was shot by AFI grad Bethany Michalski and edited by filmmaker David Au. The music was scored and collected by Alexander Burke, co-founder of the band Magnolia Memoir. This was Adam’s feature directorial debut. It was released by Indie Rights Movies.
What? Last Days is about a wealthy man who has been holed up high above Las Vegas in a penthouse hotel room for nearly a month, clearly suffering from some unnamed trauma. His night with a mysterious young woman turns into several nights, as he discovers that she is more than a match for him intellectually. She, too, is intrigued and while she initially stays because he is paying her, the two begin a complex relationship that could turn into something more than just lustful desire. But both have secrets, and getting to the bottom of those—without the inevitability of money getting in the way—will be a challenge. Despite the title, Last Days is NOT a political film.
Where? Last Days was shot in 10 days in Las Vegas, entirely in a penthouse hotel room high above the city. We had no permits to shoot in the room, and somehow managed to sneak all our equipment up the elevator without anyone asking any questions. I mean, it’s Vegas, and a lot of crazy stuff happens there, so I don’t think anyone cared. The cast and crew drove up from Los Angeles, where everyone is based. We loaded Adam’s brother’s Suburban up with gear and caravanned to Vegas.
When? The film is set in the present and was shot in September 2019. It was completed in March 2020 and premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival, right before COVID shut everything down. It ended up playing a number of film festivals—virtually—winning several awards. It was released by Indie Rights Movies in November 2021. It is currently 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Why? Director Adam Mervis got what he likes to call “The Typical Hollywood Screenwriter Treatment” on 21 Bridges, where the writer (and original creator) of the film has no control over the project. He wanted to make something that was entirely his own, so he adapted a play he’d written for the screen, something that could be made on a small enough budget that he wouldn’t get stopped from making it.
How? The Last Days of Capitalism can currently be seen on Amazon Prime, Google Play, and YouTube.
Friend of My Hollywood Dream, writer, mental heath advocate, and independent filmmaker David Creighton is working on a new short animated film with a very deep and meaningful message and is looking for help via Kickstarter to get the film seen.
Summer Turns to Fall is a very personal animated film dedicated to suicide prevention. Based on a poem originally published in Creighton’s anthology Mania, Mirth, Melancholy, the film “weaves a story of heartache, captured with haunting sound and animation. Its stark black and white animation shows the heartache of the survivor, while the narrator’s monologue captures the lasting pain he lives with.”
Why did I donate? And why should you consider donating? I’ve known David for a long time, you may remember his weekly wrestling recaps, or his views on movies. He is one heck of a writer, and has used his disability, and his mental health struggles to not only become stronger, but to be an advocate for others and to use his stories, and more recently short movies, to express express these struggles.
I’ll also let David tell you in his own words why you should consider donating; “Like many, I have lost too many friends to suicide. I have been suicidal during my own life. I know how hard it is. I know deeply depressed people think the world will be better off without them. I hope this short film can shine some light on the pain suicide leaves behind. If this film can change one person’s mind, it will be more than worth making, crowdfunding or no.”
The short film itself is almost complete, but getting it seen can be a difficult uphill battle. Per the Kickstarter page, funds raised from the campaign will go towards film festival entry fees and associated costs. A few good festivals could get the message of the movie out far and wide. To make a donation towards Summer Turns to Fall, head over here.
What is your book, The Cutting Edge, about? The Cutting Edge is a spiralling tale of Rochelle, a young girl who strives to overcome adversity. One of loss and pain, determination and anger. Rochelle experiences a life cast in shadow by bereavement, but she has a big dream, to win Olympic Gold. It’s a deeply moving story, where fate deals the hand, full of friendship, rivalry, setbacks and triumphs. Rochelle is a misfit, and an outcast but, above all, a survivor.
What inspired this story? The inspiration for this story came from my own love of skating. I wanted to write a story that was inspirational and show that it is possible to overcome adversity even when the odds are stacked against you. The story was character led from the beginning and told through the eyes of Rochelle, as she grew from a young child to a woman.
Tell us a little about you, who is S.J. Gibbs? My love of reading and writing started at a very young age and as a teenager I would often be found with my nose in a book and I used to read under the bedclothes with a torch after my father used to turn out my bedroom light. After leaving school, in my spare time, I wrote short stories for my own pleasure. Reading was still my passion.
In 1987, my first daughter was born and diagnosed with profound cerebral palsy. This prompted me to start writing a novel about the struggles of bringing up a daughter with a severe disability. However, I was forced to stop work on this when the emotions involved in the project became too much for me.
At the beginning of 2015, my writing began in earnest, after I joined a local writer’s group. Here I found a new love of writing fiction. I undertook The Writers Bureau Creative Writing Course, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The Cutting Edge is my debut fictional novel. I live in a West Midlands village in England, with my family and my dog.
How can we read The Cutting Edge? The Cutting Edge is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.
In the past couple months there has been an extraordinary boom of independent films available to watch on YouTube for free. These flicks are AVOD (ad supported video on demand), so the filmmakers are still getting paid- please do not watch or support bootlegs! Here are 5 indie films that are available to watch right now on YouTube.
Evil at the Door Director: Kipp Tribble Starring: Andrea Sweeney Blanco, Bruce Davison, Sunny Doench, Robert Felsted Jr, Scot Hamm, and John James. Description: One night every year, there is a drastic rise in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence. (Source: Terror Films) Click here to watch on YouTube
Killer Concept Director: Glenn Payne Starring: Cody Bishop, Coley Bryant, Casey Dillard, Caleb Hall, and Maddie Ludt. Description: Three creatives team up to write a screenplay chronicling a string of murders in their town, but one of the three may be closer to the story than the others realize. (Source: V Movies) Click here to watch on YouTube
The Misguided Director: Shannon Alexander Starring: Katherine Langford, Caleb Galati, Steven J. Mihaljevich, and Jasmine Nibali. Description: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. (Source: Indie Rights Movies) Click here to watch on YouTube
The Eve Director: Ritchie Filippi Starring: María DiDomenico, Al Thompson, Evan Bass, Miranda Noelle Wilson, and Rick Estabrook. Description: Friends head off to the remote island of Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate New Year’s Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year. (Source: MYT Horror) Click here to watch on YouTube
Trap Director: J Horton Starring: Allen Perada, Alonzo F Jones, and Ashton Blanchard. Description: A brutal abduction goes from bad to worse when one of the kidnappers falls in love with the victim. (Source: J Horton) Click here to watch on YouTube
What movies are you watching on YouTube? Leave us a comment to let us know!
We recently connected with genre actor/producer Jeff Kirkendall on Twitter and were lucky to be able to chat with him about Return to Splatter Farm, an indie horror flick that he wrote and co-directed.
Who? Return to Splatter Farm is a sequel to the 1987 movie Splatter Farm. That original film was produced by brothers John and Mark Polonia, along with their friend Todd Smith. I wrote the first draft of Return to Splatter Farm, and Mark Polonia added additional material which was included in the final shooting script. The two of us co-directed, while Mark handled the bulk of the camera work, as well as the editing chores. Prior to this production, I had appeared in numerous feature films Mark had directed for his company Polonia Brothers Entertainment (PBE).
The Return to Splatter Farm main cast was made up of many PBE regulars, including Danielle Donahue, Marie DeLorenzo, Nico Bryant, Tim Hatch, James Kelly, James Carolus, Ken Van Sant, Jennie Russo, Jamie Morgan, Drew Patrick, and popular model/scream queen Mel Heflin. I starred as (an older version of) the character Jeremy, who was the killer in the original 1987 film. The DVD and streaming distribution was handled by Wild Eye Releasing, a company that has released many past PBE movies.
What? The original 1987 film was about twin brothers who spend a summer with their eccentric aunt on a rural Pennsylvania farm, unaware that her handyman Jeremy is a serial killer who stores the body parts of his victims in the barn. In Return to Splatter Farm a distant relative named Bobbi inherits the farm and travels there with some friends to determine what to do with the place. On the way they stop at a general store where some locals discourage them from visiting the place, calling it the “Death Farm”, referring to the unsolved murders which occurred there over 30 years ago. But the group doesn’t heed the warnings and continue on their way. Little do they know that a now grown-up Jeremy still resides at the old farmhouse, and that he has dispatched countless unlucky folks over the years. And keeping with his murderous tendencies, he now hunts down Bobbi and her friends one by one. Can the local sheriff save them? And will anyone survive?
Where? As mentioned, the story takes place at a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Our goal was to find a place that resembled the location used in the original film as closely as possible. And fortunately, Mark was able to locate such a farm not too far from where he lives in Wellsboro, PA. The outside of the building was very similar looking to the one in the original movie, and also the owner hadn’t lived there in awhile, which suited our needs perfectly. And we had many other buildings (barns, storage sheds, etc.) and open fields to work with as well. For all but one afternoon (when we filmed the store scene) the cast and crew were at that farm location.
When? Return to Splatter Farm takes place approximately 33 years after the events of the first movie. We filmed the sequel over a week during Summer 2019, and it was released in the United States on DVD and various pay streaming platforms in November 2020. Following this, it went on to play on the free streaming channel Tubi. There is even a VHS version available for collectors of that format.
Why? I had previously directed several of my own short films and features, and as mentioned acted in many PBE movies. Mark Polonia and I were on a break during the filming of his feature Amityville Exorcism, and I asked him if he would ever consider producing a sequel to Splatter Farm. He said he would and shared some ideas. It turned out his ideas were similar to my own, so when I returned home from Pennsylvania I began working on a script. I surprised him with the finished draft a few months later and he really liked it. And a couple of years later we went into production together on it.
I was motivated to write Return to Splatter Farm because of my admiration for the first film. It has become an indie horror cult classic over the years, and I thought it was amazing that three teenagers with minimal resources could not only produce a feature back in the 1980’s, but also get it distributed nationally on VHS as well. Splatter Farm is a quintessential home-made, shot-on-video (SOV) example of what can be done with sheer determination and lots of imagination. And as for story, it is a compelling tale mixed with potent shock value that keeps one watching from beginning to end.
I wanted this sequel to be an entertaining standalone slasher movie, as well as a plausible continuation of the story. This was achieved by bringing a fun group of characters to the old farmhouse for a legitimate reason, where Jeremy is alive and well. For viewers new to the franchise it will be something of a mystery who the killer is, whereas fans will know his identity and have an idea what he’s up to. And speaking of kill scenes, I intentionally wrote each one to be as unique and different as I could in order to make the movie fresh and memorable. My personal favorite moments include one where Jeremy makes use of a flare gun, and a scene involving an 80’s boombox. And I would also mention there are several nods to famous 1980’s slasher films sprinkled throughout the movie. This was done because I’m a big fan of the genre and the films of that decade in particular, and I’m hoping other fans will enjoy these moments as well.
How? Our film Return to Splatter Farm can be seen on the streaming platforms Tubi TV, Amazon Prime, Vimeo and Google Play, among other places. It is also available on DVD and VHS from various major retailers.


Grease is my favourite movie because it’s fun to watch and everything’s great about it. I love the funny moments when Kenickie said Rizzo had the personality of a wet mop and when Doody threw pie at Eugene. I love it when Danny laughs and when Doody said Frenchy looked like a beautiful blonde pineapple. It was funny when Kenickie put a frog in Patty’s bag. Sandy was full of surprises when she changed into a greaser. It was like she was a whole different person. It was like she turned into the female version of Danny. Frenchy gave Sandy a makeover, because Sandy wasn’t getting enough respect from a lot of people, especially
Danny. It was funny when Doody, Sonny, and Putzie shown their butts on camera, they mooned the camera. Jan liked the Ipana toothpaste commercial and she sang it before Marty threw a stuffed tiger at her. Frenchy got her nickname from french smoking. Grease is a great movie, and I’ve watched it a lot of times.


The newest freelance writing jobs reviewed and handpicked by a professional freelance writer most positions let writers work from home all jobs pay. Freelance writing jobs 167,263 likes · 1,933 talking about this a freelance writing community featuring daily job leads, informative tips and articles. These jobs will help you get your foot in the door and grow your writing career and an understanding of being a freelance writer- making money online. Want freelance writing jobs if you're looking to make a living as a freelance writer, start by browsing these websites. Freelance writing jobs for writers who want to get paid new writing jobs are researched and handpicked by a professional freelance writer. 586 creative writing freelance jobs find your next opportunity on simply hired new jobs are posted every day.
20 ways to find freelance writing jobs (as a beginner) by i did extensive technical and creative writing for my previous company but it was all considered. 301 freelance creative writer jobs find your next opportunity on simply hired new jobs are posted every day. Freelance creative writing jobs in staffordshire find freelance jobs at freelancedcom, the #1 freelance social network freelance jobs in. Freelance creative writing jobs find freelance jobs at freelancedcom, the #1 freelance social network freelance jobs in 300+ categories and 200+ countries.
Find creative writing freelance jobs online at guru search and apply for jobs that interest you browse work opportunities now. Showcase and discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries. Getting your first freelance writing jobs so you’re trying to get your first freelance writing gig so i received 100 euro for some creative web copy around.
Lists of paid freelance writing jobs - remote writing jobs, writing jobs online, on-site jobs, etc. World's largest website for creative writing jobs find $$$ creative writing jobs or hire a creative writer to bid on your creative writing job at freelancer 12m+ jobs. We're looking for a great creative writer - freelance to join our team at kingdomworks studios.


The Gottingen Gutenberg Bible is available online at Gutenberg Digital.
This year marks the 600th anniversary of the birth of Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of letterpress printing.
A digital version of the 1454 Gutenberg Bible, printed on 1,282 pages, can be read online or on CD-ROM. The site also includes the painting manuscripts used to illustrate the Gutenberg Bible.
To access a page, select a book of the Bible, then click on the image. A full-screen reproduction appears, with colorful artwork adorning the margins of the page.
Disabled and gay
Bentvoices is a site serving and reflecting the community of disabled gay men.
The site bills itself as "the biographical voice of cripgay men," but it also covers disability art and culture, gay and straight.
Among the features are memoirs, fiction, poetry and art.
Go West, surfer
The West features music, audio and video for people interested in the American West.
The multimedia site looks at the 22 states that make up the West, delving into the art, history, geography and culture of the vast region.
A continuous Web radio program features country-western, Native American and classic rock music. There also are talk shows, events and contests carried around the world.
WORLD WIDE WEB:
Join Diane Ackerman for a chat about how humans experience the world through their five senses. How each individual describes a scent, taste or image may be different from what another person would say. Find out more at 1 p.m., at webmd.com
Chat with members of the Dwarves garage band who were major players in the Seattle grunge explosion and the Gilman St. punk renaissance. The Dwarves have been regarded as the hardest band on the scene, 8 p.m., at yahoo.com


When Tyrone Smith was growing up in North Philly, he said the Gay Paree was the only bar where the gay community could enjoy jazz music “without being bothered.”
Smith, an active board member of various LGBTQ organizations in the city, said he is finally seeing growth in the LGBTQ community.
“Now that I’m in my 70’s and see that now people can be jazz artists, they can be out, they can be who they are,” Tyrone Smith said. “It’s magnificent to me.”
The William Way LGBT Community Center hosted the country’s first LGBTQ jazz festival, OutBeat, over a series of four days and 35 events, this past weekend in Philly.
The festival included a wide variety of local and emerging artists, performances and panel discussions, highlighting intersections between sexual orientation, gender identity, jazz history and jazz culture.
“We started working on OutBeat about a year ago and we’re so happy with how it’s turned out,” said Karen Smith, a volunteer coordinator and percussionist who performed at Friday’s event.
The opening kickoff reception began at a small intimate setting with buffet style food and refreshments in the Mark Segal Ballroom at the William Way Community Center located in the “Gayborhood.”
It opened with a conversation between Nate Chinen of the New York Times and six-time Grammy award nominated pianist and jazz artist, Fred Hersch, and ended with a duo performance by vocalist and pianist Dena Underwood and vocalist Jaye Sanders.
Jaye Sanders expressed her excitement to perform at the Billy Strayhorn Tribute, an honorary figure in the LGBTQ community of jazz culture. She and her partner Underwood were both asked to contribute performances, along with 30 other local performers to Friday’s special tribute at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street.
“I’m excited about OutBeat,” Sanders, a Philadelphia native, said. “This is the first time ever, and I’m so glad Philly is hosting it. Philly is remarkable and full of so much talent.”
Sanders, a singer, songwriter and vocal instructor, has been involved in music for over 22 years, but has only been involved in jazz for about three years when she began to collaborate with Underwood.
“I learned a lot from Dena,” Sanders said. “She studied jazz whereas I was always alternative, gospel, R&B and classical music. The love for music definitely brought us together, the love for expressing our gift to people who want to enjoy it and want to feel our energy to make them feel better.”
Sanders said how the jazz community has inspired both her and Dena’s music and experiences within the LGBT community.
“Jazz is the genre of music where you can be totally free,” Sanders said. “It’s limitless. So many colors, so many ideas, so many sounds, so many emotions that are so allowed in this genre, it’s crazy. Especially compared to classical which is so strict. If I could, without getting in trouble, I would compare jazz to being queer, lesbian, transgender or gay.”
For Sanders, jazz has grown into a tangible representation of the community and given the community an anthem of sorts.
“We are considered the peculiar ones, the ones that are not of the common and I particularly look at jazz music as that,” Sanders said. “Jazz is like the rebel genre of music and its bada– just like we are. We embrace beauty and exude light, just like jazz music does.”
Karen Smith said that as she has gotten older and grown in the LGBT community, she has watched the jazz scene in Philly has grown as well.
“I am so happy to see now that young people who are able to go to school and be educated in the field of jazz music can still be who they are,” Karen Smith said. “I think it speaks to the fact that music is universal and I’m so pleased that in my lifetime I’ve come to see this.”
Even though there has been growth in both the jazz and LGBT communities, Tyrone Smith said there is still a long way to go, evident in the attack on a gay couple in Center City two weeks ago. The couple was assaulted and sent to the hospital, as a result.
“I think that as we move forward with these kinds of things we must also remember that we’ve got to be not only social, but we’ve got to be political!” Tyrone Smith said. “I think that as we move forward as a community, we can’t just be social beings, we got to be political beings, and we’ve got to be all those things that make us a wonderful community that we desire to be. I don’t think we’ve reached the promise land yet in our vision, but at least we’re on the right road.”
Alexa Zizzi can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org
What a wonderful read! Glad to see such a talented writer covering a great event!


I’ll be the first to admit that Jeremy Jordan’s character on Supergirl, Winn, isn’t exactly the best. Sure, he’s kind of whiny and cliche but he–okay, he’s the least developed of the bunch and you could see that lovesick best friend plot line coming from a mile away. However, the actor behind Winn’s puppy dog-eyed character is quite the charmer. In fact, maybe he could woo Kara Danvers if he used those pipes on the show.
Some people know Jordan from his time on the heartbreak that was Smash, or maybe even from the movie of the musical The Last Five Years, but those who don’t obsess over Broadway and musicals like I do may see him as a nobody and that’s a real shame because he is fabulous.
Just listen to some of his (many) songs on YouTube.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like romantically pairing Kara and Winn on Supergirl, but I’ll cheer for his character just for the sake of the actor. Besides, we know Melissa Benoist can sing from her time on Glee, so the two could have a duet on the show and HOW CUTE WOULD THAT BE?
Now go get lost in a Jeremy Jordan YouTube cycle.
Supergirl airs Mondays on CBS at 8PM EST.


This messy bun hat is fun to crochet, and the puff stitch makes it interesting. Crocheted with bulky yarn, it comes together very quickly.
This is a really fun messy bun crochet hat pattern. You can make it with either a flower or a bow. It’s easy to do even as a beginning crocheter; my daughter made this one when she was in sixth grade as one of the first projects she tackled.


ON NOVEMBER 25, 1976, The Band —a legendary rock group made up of Canadian and American musicians who cut their teeth on the U.S. “chitlin’ circuit” before backing bluesman John Hammond, Jr. and collaborating with songwriting icon Bob Dylan during one of his most fertile creative streaks— decided to call it quits.
Citing the stress of life on the road, the brazenly unfashionable group, with the help of famed concert promoter Bill Graham, threw themselves an over-the-top send-off at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom featuring catered Thanksgiving dinner for 5,000 and a marathon, career-spanning concert that found the versatile, eclectic roots-music combo joined onstage by more than a dozen invited guest musicians — including Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and others.
Captured for posterity on 35mm film by director Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz is often hailed as perhaps the finest concert documentary ever made.
However, that’s due in great part to the majesty of the show itself, which in hindsight has provided the blueprint for virtually every other star-studded rock and pop event held since. Three decades on, The Band’s reputation as pioneers of the Americana genre continues to grow, fueled in no small part to that film and its accompanying soundtrack.
No one recognizes the impact of that once-in-a-lifetime gathering of musical talent as much as Kris “Jellyroll” Gloer, an Atlanta-based singer and guitarist who turned his passion and respect for The Band into one of the fastest rising tribute bands on the U.S. club, theater and festival scene today.
The Last Waltz Ensemble is a talented, eight-piece touring unit which uses that 1976 concert as a springboard for celebrating the shared musical legacy of Dylan, The Band and their extended musical family. Far from a slavish recreation of that group’s signature sound, Gloer and company pay tribute to The Last Waltz by putting their own respectful spin on the songs performed that fateful night, as well as related material by the key participants.
And, in a nod to the communal vibe of the original event, they often welcome guest musicians to join them onstage for certain songs, adding an air of unpredictability and excitement to many of their road gigs. (In a simple twist of fate, yours truly will sit in at this Thursday night’s Savannah show.)
Gloer spoke with us by phone from his Atlanta home. Read the complete interview at connectsavannah.com.
Who came up with the idea for this band, and what actually spurred its formation?
Kris Gloer: Back in 2004, some friends and I threw a Thanksgiving weekend tribute to the songs of The Last Waltz. It was designed to be interactive and involve some other guest musicians. We chose 14 songs from the movie and gave a few to each guest. So many folks came out we did it once more in 2005 in a much bigger venue. We sold out that room as well, so we booked six shows in places like Athens, Raleigh, Charleston and Chattanooga. Four sold out, and these days our lives are kind of consumed by this project. We averaged about 100 Last Waltz Ensemble shows in each of the past two years.
Are you starting to get a little sick and tired of The Last Waltz?
Kris Gloer: (laughs) Well, we quickly realized we had to expand the setlist. Now we have about 50 songs — including ones by The Hawks (the earliest incarnation of The Band, which backed Toronto rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins), Dylan songs he did without The Band, and songs they’ve both covered. This keeps things fresh. So, we’re not tired at all, because there’s a wealth of material tying into the concept.
How would you describe what made The Band so unique to someone who’s never heard them?
Kris Gloer: When you look at the songs Dylan wrote during that time, you immediately realize they were the original exploration of what became known as alt.country. I’d say it’s the most fit and finished music you’ll find — especially lyrically.
You’re celebrating an event that gathered musicians from a couple generations. That gives you guys a hell of a lot more material to work with than just Dylan and Band songs.
Kris Gloer: The songs we’ve most enjoyed adding to our set were played at the original concert, but didn’t make the final cut of the movie. The full show went on for five hours! Dylan played songs like “Hazel” and “She Acts Like We Never Have Met”. I’ve always been open to us learning more songs written by guests from the original show. In that way, our concerts could expand into something like a rock & roll version of A Prairie Home Companion — a revue of Americana music from that era by massive group of influential artists.
Without the convenient name recognition of The Last Waltz, do you think this band would have been as much of a success?
Kris Gloer: A lot of people respond to our group because of the name. They get immediately what it implies. But there are fans of Dylan or The Band that don’t really know much about The Last Waltz. I’ve been surprised we’ve turned a lot of casual fans on to the history of the concert and the movie. There’s a large group of people out there who’ve always wanted to hear these songs live on the same night. We’ve just put as many into one show as we can, and people seem to have a blast.
You’re not trying to duplicate or copy the group’s sound, correct?
Kris Gloer: Right. Some of our arrangements are really true to the originals, but some are great departures. We don’t claim to be a reenactment of any sort or to play specific roles on stage. We leave the whole thing open to experimentation.
How much farther could this group go?
Kris Gloer: I don’t know. It’s still growing. We’ve had a lot of milestones in a relatively short span of time. When you look at Dark Star Orchestra, which plays the music of the Grateful Dead, I think our show is much more expansive and easier to relate to by a wider group of people than say, Deadheads. However, Deadheads are the best fans in the biz! They’re great to have on board, but we appeal to people from 18 to 65 across all kinds of demographics. Families can see us and old Deadheads can too, and both groups will find a lot to enjoy. As long as we keep approaching this with a creative zest, it’ll remain interesting.
Have you met anyone yet at one of your shows who claims to have been at the real Last Waltz?
Kris Gloer: Our show brings out private memories from people. Hundreds of folks have e-mailed me their personal stories about Dylan or Band shows they attended back in the day — or pilgrimages to Big Pink (the house in Saugerties, N.Y. where Dylan and The Band secretly recorded 1967’s fabled Basement Tapes). The hair is standing up on my arm as I tell you this, because I’ve heard so many heartwarming tales. That just goes back to our conditioning as humans and our need to share the things we admire and respect and love.
So, if this group decides to stop playing live, will you throw your own “last waltz” and invite all sorts of musicians who’ve influenced and worked with you over the years?
Kris Gloer: Yeah. That’s be great! Maybe Martin Scorsese would be available. I don’t know, though. I hear he’s been a little busy.
Well, maybe you could find a young director who idolizes Scorsese and wants to do their own filmic tribute to his directorial style!
Kris Gloer: (laughs) That’d be amazing! (laughs) That would be the ultimate example of life imitating art imitating art imitating life. Or something like that. (laughs)Where: Live Wire Music Hall When: 10 p.m., Thurs., May 1 Cost: TBD Info: myspace.com/lastwaltzensemble, myspace.com/livewiremusichall


Browsing English by Journal
Now showing items 1-1 of 1
Reading Victorian rags: Recycling, redemption, and Dickens's ragged childrenIn Victorian Britain rags were not only associated with the inadequate clothing of the poor, they were also viewed as a valuable commodity, widely collected for recycling into paper. This essay examines rags as simultaneously despised and precious objects, tracing the connections between Victorian accounts of poverty, the industrial recycling of rags into paper, and the redemption narratives created by Charles Dickens about rescued children. A supporter of Ragged Schools and champion of rags recycling, Dickens drew on the idea of the transformation of dirty rags into clean paper in his representations of ragged children. To him, the recycling of rags indicated the civilizing forces of modernity, and reading Dickens's representations of ragged children in this context reveals how cloth recycling became a paradigm for society's duties towards destitute children. This essay explains Dickens's juxtaposition of ragged children with references to rag-dealing in his novels; by this means he suggested that street children, like their ragged clothing, were capable of being purified and transformed into social usefulness.


Most Popular Titles With Title Matching "Bella"
1. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Votes: 521,004 | Gross: $57.60M
2. Bella and the Bulldogs (2015–2016)
30 min | Comedy, Family
Follows a perky head cheerleader named Bella whose life in Texas takes an unexpected twist when she becomes the new quarterback for her school team, the Bulldogs.
3. La bella y las bestias (2018– )
60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The series revolves around Isabela León (Esmeralda Pimentel), a beautiful young girl whose parents were murdered by a group of white-collar criminals when she was a minor. After reaching ... See full summary »
6. Bella Mafia (1997 TV Movie)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama
Starting in Palermo, Italy, 1977 - The ups and downs of a mafia family opposed to drug trade until the men are murdered and the widows take over.
7. Mostly Martha (2001)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
When a headstrong chef takes charge of her equally stubborn 8-year-old niece, the tensions between them mount... until an Italian sous-chef arrives to lighten the mood.
Votes: 7,320 | Gross: $4.16M
12. Che bella giornata (2011)
97 min | Comedy
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral... See full summary »
13. Bella addormentata (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
14. La bella gente (2009)
98 min | Drama
While Suzanna and her husband have just moved into their private property for the summer, it is shocked by a scene of violence they witness on the way races.
17. Ma che bella sorpresa (2015)
91 min | Comedy
A romantic professor Guido is left by his love - his life seems to be pointless. A physical education teacher, his former student tries to help him to go back on track, convincing his parents to move to Naples to be closer to Guido.
19. Bellas de Noche (2016)
92 min | Documentary
An honest portrait of five women who go through the night looking for other possibilities of beauty, while discovering the passing of time, lost youth, the mirage that is fame and the chance for happiness.
20. La bella vita (1994)
97 min | Comedy
Bruno and Mirella get married in 1989 and live in the little town of Piombino seems to be a bed of roses. After a while Bruno gets the sack, while Brunella takes up with a local tv idol, ... See full summary »
21. Bella Donna's (2017)
95 min | Comedy
After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.
22. La moglie più bella (1970)
108 min | Crime, Drama
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and ... See full summary »
27. Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rome, 1905. Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to ... See full summary »
28. Farewell Ella Bella (2018)
80 min | Drama
For Ella (24), the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her... See full summary »
29. The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)
95 min | Comedy
Alla fine del '600 nel napoletano sotto la dominazione spagnola, il mugnaio Luca cerca di arrabattarsi per non pagare le gabelle che impone Don Teofilo, il governatore, con il consiglio di ... See full summary »
31. La più bella serata della mia vita (1972)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
35. Bellas de noche (1975)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Boxer Germán Bronco Torres loses his license, and works as bouncer at the cabaret El Pirulí, where he falls for the waitress Carmen, and befriends of the pimp El Vaselinas, who lost a bet ... See full summary »
39. Ciao Bella (2007)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mustafa Moradi is aching to find a girlfriend. On the other end of the city, Linnea is desperately searching for a guy with style, courage and a burning passion.
TV-14 | Short, Comedy
Bella Thorne and Mae Whitman star in Disney's latest live-action adaptation of an animated movie. Because the world needs that.
41. Zendaya & Bella Thorne: Something to Dance for/TTYLXOX (Mash-Up) (2012 Video)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Music
The official music video page for 'Something to Dance for/TTYLXOX' (Mash-Up) by Zendaya and Bella Thorne.
42. Bella's Story
Drama | Post-production
Young Bella lives in a bad situation and wants to go to college to become a journalist. From tragic beginnings this young girl finds a way to realize her dreams but not with out facing some very hard truths.
43. Bella Donna (1923)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
44. Life Is Beautiful (1979)
101 min | Drama
Antonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars,he falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d Oliveira Salazar ( Ornella Muti) . He ... See full summary »
46. Bellas durmientes (2001)
Lawrence, a renowned writer, comes to Santiago to spend a winter course. There, by his colleague Elijah, finds a very special house on the outskirts of the city, run by a secretive and ... See full summary »
47. Bella Vita (2013)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Can a region surrounded by land produce world class surfing waves? Internationally acclaimed surf-filmmaker, Jason Baffa (singlefin: yellow, one california day, one beach) documents surfer,... See full summary »
48. Cosa Bella (2006)
15 min | Short, Drama
A young married woman's life takes a radical turn when, what she thinks is a passing sexual encounter with her beautiful college roommate, turns into a life altering love affair.