Manish Malhotra E-Boutique Launches on Azafashions.com
India’s ace designer, Manish Malhotra has launched an exclusive E-Boutique on Azafashions.com, a premier multi-designer online portal that brings the best of Indian fashion to clients worldwide. The mastermind and couturier needs no introduction to the fashion and film industries. Manish has redefined and modernized Indian attire. His repertoire includes styling leading actors for Bollywood movies and the red carpet, designing an extensive range of highly coveted bridal, couture, diffusion, and ready-to-wear apparel.
The Manish Malhotra E-Boutique on Azafashions.com hosts an extensive range of fresh, contemporary styles that are ready-to-wear. This trendy new diffusion line consists of tunics with palazzo sets, embellished saris, printed and embroidered lehengas in contemporary silhouettes, occasion anarkalis and more. The garments are made of finest fabrics in rich hues with impeccable finishing and embellishments. Moreover, the classic blend of traditional charm and modern glamour in the collection ensures that each piece remains an eternal wardrobe classic.
Sharing his excitement on the collaboration with Azafashions.com, Manish Malhotra stated, “It has been a very long association with AZA and the store’s fond memories are dearly close to my heart. AZA has a very professional approach on meeting the demands of their global clientele. We are simply two professionals who understand the essence of what works for our clients.”
Promoted by Devangi Nishar Parekh, Azafashions.com, AZA’s e-commerce store was launched in 2015 as a global web platform to offer clients the convenience of shopping the best of Indian fashion from anywhere in the world. This venture has taken off extremely well and has received an excellent response from patrons across US, Canada, UK, Europe, Singapore, Australia and Middle East.
Speaking about this association, Devangi Nishar Parekh, Director, Azafashions.com said, “It is an immense pleasure to launch Manish Malhotra’s E-Boutique on Azafashions.com, because we share a longstanding relationship with him at AZA, and his work is inspiring and brilliantly creative. Manish’s glamorous and flattering silhouettes can make anyone feel like a celebrity! There is a global demand for his creations and we act as a one-stop online shop for clientele worldwide.”
Devangi has an MBA from The Wharton School and a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Her acute design sense and her creative expertise make her the driving force of the company’s strategic direction and marketing focus.


Art, literature, folk, architecture
Museums in Moscow
Museums in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg music
St. Petersburg theatres
Surrounded by pine trees flower vase from a large pine stump. Reservoirs of concrete pipes. From the same flower tubes. Retaining wall of limestone slabs. International Youth Camp “Volga”, Kazan.


Best Pop Songs of 2013
The Contenders: Page 2
Love this song to bits. MUST be in the top ten - zehnlovatic
Awesome Demi Lovato song!
Love this song because it's good to dance to. Upbeat.
Avril Lavigne should be higher... and we all know that taylor songs are just copy of avril style of music.. Its very obvious...
This song must be number 1 PLEASE! Taylor swift sucks Avril Rocks!V 2 Comments
I like Carly Rae Jepson and this song
You. Music. Cool. And. Likend
Selena gomez is back again after
Breaking up with Justin Bieber love this song so much
Pop Punk, therefore it counts. But as for the song it may be Paramore's most radio-friendly song to date, but I can't stop listening to this song. It's too damn catchy.V 2 Comments
Should be in the top 5 but it isn't pop
Old chris is back!
It's the best job song!
Justin bieber is one of the best artist! But his song right here has a great beat and toon and is just one of his best song on the album!V 1 Comment
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2. Stay - Rihanna
3. One Way or Another - One Direction
2. Roar - Katy Perry
3. Work Bitch - Britney Spears
2. Royals - Lorde
3. Wrecking Ball - Miley Cyrus


With Billie Julia Blackburn Pantheon Press 2005 ISBN: 0-375-40610-7 354 pages
The story behind this portrait of Billie Holiday is a compelling and tragic one. More than 30 years ago, a woman named Linda Kuehl set out to write a biography of Holiday. She conducted over 150 interviews with friends and acquaintances of the singer, but despite years of toil and frustration, she was unable to complete a publishable book. In 1979, after leaving a Count Basie concert in Washington, DC, Kuehl committed suicide by jumping out a hotel window.
Years later, author Julia Blackburn was given access to Kuehl's tapes and notes and used them as the main source for this intriguing new look at Billie Holiday. The result is more than a simple retelling of what is already one of the best known and most bittersweet lives in jazz.
It's a literary documentary that artfully weaves together reminiscences by dozens of those who knew her to provide an intimate picture of Holiday the artist as well as Holiday the person.
What's most refreshing and revealing here is that alongside anecdotes from musicians like Jimmy Rowles, Bobby Tucker and Melba Liston are remembrances by a motley collection of people outside the jazz world - childhood friends from Baltimore, neighbors from New York, fellow junkies, even a police officer who arrested Holiday on a narcotics rap in 1947.
It's their recollections of this brave and determined, if deeply troubled, woman that make this book such a valuable contribution to the Billie Holiday literature. It's a shame that Linda Kuehl is not around to see that all her hard work finally paid off.
I love jazz because it is in my blood. It is the only original American art form. It is sacred. The greatest musicians are jazz artists.
I was first exposed to jazz in 1961 listening to my father's records of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young.
I met Sonny Stitt, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Joey Calderazzo, Michael Brecker, Cannonball Adderley, Walter Booker, Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, George Benson, Mike
Stern, Stanley Turrentine, Billy Harper, Skip Hadden, Charlie Haden.
The best show I ever attended was Joe Lovano with Soundprints at the Wexner Center in Columbus Ohio in 2014.
The first jazz record I bought was Miles Smiles.


It's not a well disguised secret that the art of fashion photography is a collaborative endeavor. The final image is the result of a team of artists each contributing their expertise to what is hopefully a stunning, transformative photograph. The list of participants involved in any single image is long, including models, lighting assistants, set designers, fashion stylists, hair stylists and retouchers. In my estimation one of the most crucial artists of all is the makeup artist.
Each contribution is essential and must reach for perfection but none more so than the "maquillage".
Perhaps it's the human inclination to search the face first, before taking in any other visual information. When encountering a photograph I arrive at a multitude of aesthetic opinions at once but my eyes always lock on to the face, searching for clues to emotional communication. Delight, wonder, joy, sensuality, loneliness, fear are all communicated by the most imperceptible contraction of the eye or mouth and enhanced by the splendor of the makeup artist's work.
While there are a plenitude of talented makeup artists working today, none stand above "the little mouse" Topolino. Arriving in Paris at 19 years old from his native Marseille during the creative explosion of fashion photography in the mid 1990's, he quickly climbed the daunting fashion heights, working for magazines like The Face, Arena, Interview, I-D, and Vogue. His photographer collaborators include Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jean-Paul Goude, Mario Testino, Pierre et Gilles, Bettina Rheims, Thierry Le Goues, Raymond Meier and on and on.
A genius with accessories, he can manipulate human physiognomy to create fantastical transformations that go beyond mere beauty and tap into a mixture of mythology and cartoon pop culture. Butterflies, feathers and beads of glass are just some of the items in his kit to aid his flights of fancy. He practically defined a style of makeup that is copied to this day.
Topolino is still in top demand for his makeup skills. In 1995 he was honored with a show at the Musée de la Mode. His book Make-Up Games was published by Assouline in 2002.


HAYDN String Quartets Op 20
“Newly revised and corrected” is how Artaria proudly announced its 1801 edition of these quartets. Exciting? Not for all scholars today. “The editorial approach is heavy-handed, transforming Haydn’s highly articulated style by the addition of ‘convenient’ slurred bowings and numerous extra dynamic markings”, protests Simon Rowland-Jones (Edition Peters). Poor old Haydn; he had personally made the changes.
The London Haydn Quartet, playing period instruments, accept them unreservedly. As may have Donald Tovey, who said, “Not even Op 76 is, on its own plane, so uniformly weighty and so varied in substance as Op 20.” Now an ensemble, unique in collective insight, in tempo-management, articulation of melodic design and assessment of harmonic weight, unfolds the substance. Mostly unconventionally. The first movement of No 3 might jolt, nowhere near Allegro con spirito. The phrases slowed down are dislocated – and disturbing. Passionate fervour dominates the C minor Capriccio of No 2, warmed by the lyrically moving E flat middle section. Add strange intimations of a threnody in the Minuet of No 5, the adroit zip of the Presto scherzando in No 4, the soft undertones in the fugal finales, sombre in No 5, bright in No 6, and there is simply nothing to support Rowland-Jones’s bewildering assertion that “a noticeable lack of character and rhythmic vitality results from following Artaria’s readings”.
Noticeable instead is the singularity of readings from artists who stake a claim on Artaria’s edition; and ignoring preconceived notions courageously accept responsibility for provocative interpretations – of enthralling magnitude.


The Centre Pompidou is a modern art museum in Paris that is truly one of the best in the world. Modern art both astounds me and makes me laugh. I saw this work at the Centre Pompidou that was a string of plain white Christmas lights haphazardly put on the wall with a little card that said “Untitled” and the name of the artist. It made me laugh so hard I had to leave the area. This is a view of Paris from the roof of the Centre Pompidou.
Pétanque is French game that can be played anywhere. It is similar to the Italian game,Bocce but unlike the Bocce it does not require a fixed court. One player throws a small target ball and the p[layers try to get as close to it as possible without hitting it. These players at Champs de Mars are playing near the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. You can purchase a print and see others at my commercial gallery by clicking here.


Lampwork, Turquoise, Prehnite, Pietersite, and Czech Glass Beads Pendant Necklace
A stunning necklace featuring handmade lamp work glass beads, Turquoise, Prehnite, Pietersite, and Czech glass beads. The pendant is a deep turquoise blue, nicely polished with a bit of pretty veining giving it a very earthy touch. That blue has been carried up into the strand with the handmade turquoise and sand colored lampwork beads in a lentil shape surrounded by sterling silver caps and golden shell beads. Turquoise is also picked up in the natural Turquoise wheels further along the strand teamed with Prehnite and small green glass Czech beads with a mottled mossy green color. Next are the large dusty orange bi-cone shaped Czech glass beads with beautiful mottling of color over them, and then beautiful Pietersite coins surrounded with sterling spacers and Swarovski crystals in Olive AB punctuate and ground the scheme. Batik printed wooden beads in the same bittersweet orange and tan follow with ends of small brass beads, and then round Czech glass beads in a Picasso finish of multiple colors on brown finishes up the necklace to the sterling toggle clasp.
Length: 18". Handcrafted and one of a kind by a very talented artisan indeed - a true work of wearable art.
All prices on this site are in US Dollars.


Ornament Hand Setsuko
A collaboration between modern artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola and Astier de Villatte, this collection explores nature-inspired subjects and is inspired by an atmosphere of generosity, affection, and total freedom.
Handmade in Paris, crafted from black terracotta clay and finished with a white porcelain glaze, this elegant hand ornament is perfect for displaying jewelry.
Approx. 8"H x 5.25" dia
Hand Wash Only


Valentine's Day Art Contest Prizes Revealed!! Submissions due TONIGHT by 8pm!!
Updated: May 19, 2021
Hi Franklin families!
Don't forget! All Valentine's Day Art Contest submissions are due tonight by 8PM! We thought it would be fun to give you a look at the prize that each grade winner will be receiving: Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils (set of 20) plus a coloring booklet featuring illustrations from New York City!
These are the rules to enter the contest: 1) You must be a current Franklin Elementary student to enter. Group submissions are not allowed. 2) The artwork must be original and the theme is "Something You Love". 3) You can use any medium (paint, watercolor, colored pencils, crayons, chalk, charcoal, etc.), and it can be on any flat surface (paper, canvas, cardstock, cardboard, etc.). The size of the flat surface can be 8.5" x 11", or of a similar size. 4) A photo of the artwork must be taken and submitted no later than 8pm EST TONIGHT (February 3rd) through this form: https://franklinpto.wufoo.com/forms/2021-valentines-day-art-contest-submission-form/ Please submit the highest quality photo you can. The photo should be no larger than 10MB in size.
We can't wait to see the rest of the submissions!
-The Franklin PTO


This television episode plays:
January 31, 1972
This song plays on the radio as Hank is driving in the opening scene of this episode. Hank also sings the song later in the episode, while showering. In addition, the title of this episode is a Spanish translation of the song title.


A beautiful gang leader (Nathalie Emmanuel) recruits a novice safecracker (Matthias Schweighofer) for a series of heists in Army of Thieves.
Ludwig Dieter, the hilariously peculiar German safecracker from Army of the Dead, gets a winning origin story in the nascent stage of the zombie apocalypse. Army of Thieves is a heist themed prequel that’s thankfully more action-comedy than blood and guts. Where a gang of intrepid criminals recruit a talented novice for a near impossible series of robberies. Matthias Schweighöfer displays significant talent in front and behind the camera. He’s a charming and humorous protagonist while directing a fun, breezy film.
Army of Thieves opens in Potsdam, Germany with uber geek Sebastian (Matthias Schweighöfer) posting a YouTube video about Hans Wagner; a celebrated vault designer that decades ago crafted four impenetrable safes called the Ring Cycle. Sebastian extolls his virtues as a superb safecracker. But is disheartened when the video receives no views or likes. He goes on with his lonely, ordinary routine as a faceless customer service rep.
Sebastian is stunned to receive a message on his video post. A mysterious invite to a secret safecracking competition in Berlin gives him a chance to truly test his skills. He notices a beautiful woman watching his impressive display. She introduces herself the next morning during a banana muffin at his local café. Gwendoline Starr (Nathalie Emmanuel), globally wanted by Interpol, has the inside track on the locations of the Ring Cycle safes. The alarming virus outbreak in Las Vegas has rattled authorities. Now is the time to pull off a set of heists for the ages. Does Sebastian want to languish at his boring job? Or is he ready to try something extraordinarily dangerous and risky?
Army of Thieves is surprisingly funny and interesting. I honestly expected the film to have a bigger zombie element. The undead show up briefly in background newscasts and a few dream sequences. The heists take center stage with the socially awkward Sebastian trying his best to fit into Gwen’s crew. His efforts transitioning to an elite criminal safecracker does not go smoothly. There are several laugh out loud moments as Gwen and the gang try to accommodate Sebastian’s bizarre routines.
Matthias Schweighöfer, renowned in German cinema and television, does a banner job on two fronts. He’s infectiously likable as Sebastian. Schweighöfer nails the nervous energy of the character without becoming annoying. You end up rooting for Sebastian as the story progresses. The film is shot in a dynamic style with slick visual effects. Schweighöfer uses creative 3D titles and introductions for the characters and settings. We also see the locking mechanisms inside the safes as Sebastian gingerly rotates the dials. Playing composer Richard Wagner’s soaring orchestral themes on his phone to get in the safecracking mood.
Army of Thieves is a completely different animal than Army of the Dead. The action scenes are solid, but the film truly stands out as a relationship comedy. Matthias Schweighöfer has a different artistic vision than Zack Snyder. His take before the zombie onslaught is well realized. My only serious gripe concerns the length. The film runs two hours and ten minutes when it could have easily been shorter. It moves at a decent pace, but could have been brisker with a shorter edit. The Army of the Dead universe is off to a great start with two fantastic entries. Army of Thieves is a production of The Stone Quarry and Pantaleon Films. It will premiere exclusively October 29th on Netflix.
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:3 Then...I think we should do what Rick suggests. We all love Morty in one way or another, and we want what's best for him. Why don't we change the subject? How are plans coming for the masquerade? What kind of music will there be?
“The plans for the masquerade are going good! I got my mask adjusted for the theme Rick and I are doing and things are moving along smoothly! I-I’m trying to think of fun things for you guys” Mordecai grins sheepishly. “Awe jeez, I just really hope everyone has fun, really! There’s going to be a live orchestra to play uhh… music for the waltz and such. I’m trying to see what else I can convince them to play”
Morty presses back into Rick’s chest and giggles, smiling widely. “This guy right here has been practicing the dances with me, it’s a lot of fun!” The prince sighs. “T-thank you guys for being so understanding! It-it means a lot. You are all the sweetest!”


In this novel we follow the history of a French family in a little village throughout several decades and places. Beginning in 1944, a sixteen-year-old girl is secretly in love with a boy who passes by their house riding his bicycle every day at the same hour and, thanks to her daydreaming about her love for him, the Nazi occupation of the village and the sirens wailing each night disappear from her mind. But in the end the place is bombed by the allies, and the family members will be separated at this particular moment in which lives and dreams are lost forever.
Every chapter is told from the point of view of one character in a certain stage of the family history, and sometimes we come back to this French village in the forties, but other times we find ourselves various decades later in Paris, and it is as if each chapter is an independent short story by itself because the characters won’t star in more than one although, at the end, you feel a cycle coming to an end with the whole history of every family member since that day in 1944.
This way of storytelling has been the most remarkable peculiarity of the book; I was hooked to these little portions of the family history through the eyes of different characters, like the pieces of a puzzle, wondering about this or that one, often recreating past events of one of the sisters through a thought or a conversation decades later into the chapter of another family member.
It could have been an average novel of the Nazi occupation, but the narration makes the story of this family unique, and those glimpses into this sister’s, the aunt’s or that child’s life go further into filling the atmosphere of the family and the time than a linear narration would.
Thanks to Harper books for the galley.


Dancing One's Way Into the Winter Festival
'You can't learn to dance from a book," scoffed Rink's friend Marlee. She was older by one year and one month and sometimes acted as if she knew everything.
"Yes, I can. I have a plan," Rink said as she turned the pages of her new book, which showed pictures from famous ballet productions. She stopped when she found "The Nutcracker." A dozen dancers frolicked through deep, blue-white snow drifts as a sleigh pulled into view.
"Maybe your mom will change her mind. There are only six weeks of Tuesday rehearsals," Marlee said, slipping her slender arms into her jacket - the black one with the two big yellow eyes on the back and "Cats" written underneath. The eyes were almond-shaped and very intense, a little like Marlee's. She'd seen the Broadway show "Cats" four times.
Rink shook her head sadly. No, mom wouldn't change her mind. She couldn't. On Tuesdays Rink had to take care of her six-year-old brother, Curry, while mom took an evening class at the university. No after-school activities, period.
"See you tomorrow," Marlee said from the doorway of Rink's bedroom.
"Tomorrow," Rink echoed, turning back to the description of "The Nutcracker." Her dance teacher, Mr. Allen, was producing a dance from the ballet for the school's Winter Festival. The steps weren't easy, so everyone had to work hard. All the dancers would be snowflakes, dressed in sparkling white leotards trimmed with silver sequins.
Rink loved to dance more than anything. She just had to be in the Winter Festival. Her plan was to learn the steps on her own and show Mr. Allen somehow. Then maybe, just maybe, he'd let her be a snowflake, even if she couldn't attend Tuesday rehearsals.
Rink propped the book up on her dressing table and looked at herself in the mirror. She struck a pose, feet turned out in first position, arms high above her head in fifth. Good. She looked like the picture in the book. She tried another pose, then another, until she'd copied them all exactly.
"Now, time to dance," Rink said to herself. She slid a videotape of "The Nutcracker" into the VCR and cued it up to the dance Mr. Allen had chosen for the Winter Festival. She played it over and over, each time dancing with the ballerinas as if she were looking into a mirror. Rink hadn't told Marlee about the videotape. She wanted her friend to be surprised when she performed the dance perfectly for Mr. Allen, like an audition.
Rink's big chance came at the end of dance class a week later.
"OK, everybody," said Mr. Allen, clapping to get their attention. "Now I'd like to practice the snowflake piece. All dancers who know the steps please come out onto the floor. Everybody else can watch."
"This is it!" Rink thought as she took a place right in front facing the mirror.
"What are you doing?" whispered Marlee, who had found a spot right next to her.
"I'm going to show Mr. Allen I can be a snowflake," Rink whispered back. "I learned all the steps."
The music started. Rink lifted her arms high, bent her knees in a plie, glided three steps to the right, did a pirouette turn, then posed with her left leg outstretched. There were a few giggles from the sidelines. Rink concentrated especially hard on the next sequence of steps so that the noise wouldn't distract her.
Three steps to the left, right arm forward, step left again.... Something was wrong. The other dancers didn't seem to know the steps, Rink could see them in the mirror. What was the matter with them? Hadn't they learned the steps in rehearsal? Now she understood why the kids were laughing softly. Mr. Allen would be doubly impressed that she knew the dance when everyone else didn't.
Rink executed a series of chaine turns to the right, little steps strung close together like links on a chain - one, two, three, four. She knew this part so well she could do it with her eyes closed. She just wished the other kids would stop giggling. Didn't they know that was rude?
When Rink and Marlee collided and fell, the room exploded with laughter. "Rink! You're doing everything backward!" Marlee said, picking herself up off the floor.
"No, I'm not! I'm doing exactly what I saw on the video!"
"What video?" Marlee asked, readjusting her headband.
"I've been doing the steps at home along with a video of 'The Nutcracker.' I watch the dancers, then I...." Rink gasped. Marlee was right! Rink had been using the video like a mirror, but it really wasn't. When she stepped to the right, the dancers on the screen were really stepping to the left. Why hadn't she realized that before?
"What a disaster! I'll never get to be a snowflake now," Rink whispered to Marlee.
Mr. Allen had turned off the music and was walking across the floor toward Rink.
"You've given me an idea, Rink," he said. His voice was warm and his eyes twinkled. "One line of snowflakes will do the original steps while another line will dance the piece your way. It will look great on stage, a little like a snowstorm. I can see you already know your part."
"You mean I can dance in the Winter Festival?" Rink could hardly believe it. "But I can't come to Tuesday rehearsals."
"The backward snowflakes will rehearse on Thursdays after school. OK with you?" Mr. Allen was wearing a broad smile.
"Yes!" Rink answered. "Oh, yes!"
As the two friends left the dance studio and headed home, Marlee said, "I'm glad you're going to be a snowflake." A gentle snow had begun to fall.


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Making more bowls , a chunk of maghony lumber was given to me from a contractor left over from a job ,and
I decided to make a couple of bowls from it. these are aprox 10”x 2 1/2 ” finished with minerial oil.
The other one is an oak platter, also contractor piece left over ,12×1 1/2”s ,finished with minerial oil.
-- In His service ,Richard


Please visit Congleton Museum’s gift shop for your special Christmas presents and cards. In addition to offering a selection of local history books, our artisans’ corner features hand made Christmas and Greetings cards.
Our talented volunteers and Friends of the Museum have made wine glass chains, jesters’ hats, tree decorations and knitted teddies. You will also find a range of individually designed jewellery including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and gift sets. For something different come to the museum shop and view their work.
Friends of the Museum, volunteers and LoveLocalLife card holders receive a 10% discount!


Martha Stewart can mannequin a glam look with the most effective of them. And in a pair of horny new thirst lure photographs, the home goddess, 82, slayed a glittering new silver frock whereas proving why she’s the oldest individual to ever grace the pages of the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit concern. Within the photographs (SEE HERE), she positioned a hand on the hallway wall whereas exhibiting off the horny silver costume with a thigh excessive slit and a free tie on the neck. She posed flawlessly, her platinum blonde hair styled in an opulent poof and her make-up glam on level in pink shades. She wore gorgeous duster earrings and a pair of matching silver heels for the occasion.
Martha was seen exhibiting off the identical look on the pink carpet on the Hudson River Park twenty fifth Anniversary Gala in New York on Thursday, sans slit. “Fun to dress up every now and then,” she captioned the Friday, October 13 put up partly. Martha has 1.9 million followers on the platform, a lot of whom rushed to the feedback thread to gush over the horny look. “That is a fabulous look and dress, on the most fabulous of fabulous. Perfection!” wrote a fan, whereas one other remarked, “Martha still out here slaying!! You are gorgeous!! The epitome of style and grace mixed with fire and sass!!”
Later that very same day, the TV persona took to Instagram to point out off an equally glamorous look. Within the second put up, she channeled display screen legend Audrey Hepburn from the basic movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Martha rocked a black midi costume with a tiara, together with sun shades and Holly Golightly’s iconic multi-layered pearl necklace, even including a fancy pair of black gloves to the ensemble. “This morning I hosted Breakfast at @tiffanyandco celebrating @nycwff and benefitting @godslovenyc,” she captioned the put up partly. In further photographs, the incomparable mogul was seen mingling with company on the occasion and having fun with a meal.
Martha’s attractive photographs come simply 5 months after she made historical past on the quilt of the Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit Situation. She appeared so good within the photographs that she was pressured to deal with claims she’d had cosmetic surgery for the shoot. “Well, it’s not true,” she advised Selection in an interview in Might. “I’ve had absolutely no plastic surgery whatsoever.”


for now, here are two new items for the distro.
M. GEDDES GENGRAS "REBIRTH LOS ANGELES" CASSETTE - (Full of Nothing)
'With a beard like a flying carpet this American aural traveler is known far and wide. Besides numerous recordings under his own name and with Antique Brothers, there are slabs of Robedoor/Pocahaunted goodness with his drumming, appearances in L.A. Vampires and Warm Climate, killer DJ sets as 1/2 of Where's Yr Child team... My god there are always a few more names to drop! L.A.'s one and only, MGG presents a couple of gently floating electronic pieces here: shooting deep, reaching even further. Thoughtful reflections on humanity's high hopes. Melancholic futuristic synthesizers slice the air thin. New age is coming. L.A., rebirth now! Stencil-painted textured J-cards, all signed and numbered by hand, spray-painted cassettes. Edition of 100.'
M. Geddes Gengras — The Empty Space c93 (Stunned no. 135)
'Let it spill through you like the peak experience of your choice. In your hands is ‘The Empty Space’ and pouring into your head is Stunned’s most trusted synthesizer medicine man M. Geddes Gengras. This is an album dealing with freefall, the ground suddenly dropping out, the fierce void we rush against that resists our naturally preferred trajectory. The cycles and patterns appear to dominate — yet MGG boldly transcends such conditions with his fearless navigation through an unpredictable modular synth patchwork, taking a plunge into analogue novelty in its most naked state. Roots run deep in a tree bearing aural fruits this sweet. Special edition of 222 pro-dubbed & imprinted c93 tapes with double-sided color jcard.'
"Tireless synthesizer explorer M. Geddes Gengras offers his possible tour-de-force on his ultimate tape released by Stunned Records (a label that will be truly missed and very hard to replace in terms of sound and packaging quality). Despite naming his previous Stunned tape This Could Be the Last Time, Gengras proves that he still he has amassed quite a collection of ideas over the course of a few months and is ready to strike (or at least continue to strike) with The Empty Space.
One thing you gotta know about this tape: it is MASSIVE. Not in terms of physical size, or the packaging: in fact, the cassette itself is fairly unremarkable and the insert does not contain any information on the dates of recording, the tracklist or so. Everything that should be known is printed on the cassette. The Empty Space is massive in terms of sheer length: it contains 93 minutes of music. That means each side is a bit over 45 minutes long. Which is even more impressive considering it was all probably recorded in one take during a live performance in June 2011 (if the dedication “for those who were there” might be any indication). I’m a sucker for live electronics and people who manage to create intricate and multilayered structures in real time are pretty much my heroes.
The Empty Space sees Ged Gengras in a more experimental, harsher light, especially in comparison to his previous releases, like the stellar ambient float of Magical Writing (released on his own Peccant Tapes). The sparse, cold sound of the cassette might take quite a few takes to get into, but once it clicks, a world of new possibilities opens. The beginning of side A is deceptive – it makes one think it will be a massive drone jam, while it clearly isn’t – after some 8 minutes, it dissolves into a series of variously pitched extraterrestrial glitches and chirps. One might say, “how isn’t 8 minutes of drone a massive jam?”. Well, remember that each side is over 45 minutes long, so eight minutes is pretty much just a tiny fraction. Having 90 minutes, Ged Gengras has a lot of time to expand his ideas slowly and carefully – people used to standard c30’s might get annoyed by the seemingly monotonous sound which changes very slowly. But that’s the trick – Gengras gives the listener time to immerse into each “movement” and “choose” their personal favorite. The slow, somewhat “shy” sequences are separated by echoed, glitchy escapades into separate worlds of synth pad wizardry and abrasive, noisy textures.
While the side A was dominated almost entirely by the Glitch, side B is the domain of the Sequence. It begins with a bubbling glitchy madness that is paradoxical in the fact that it’s at the same time cold and cozy. 12 minutes later and a faster pattern kicks in, existing in a “virgin”, clear state for a short time, but soon getting attacked by the spores, which in turn deform and skew the sequence, gradually smothering it and reducing it to occasional distant bleeps. The whole process of deconstruction and replacing the crystal clear, needle-like sounds with mangled, abrasive textures is like the destruction of the polished, meditative gems of the Berlin school by the British industrial/noise iconoclasts like Whitehouse. The Teutonic sequence then gets up and fights with the warbling synth noise again – the second part of side B becomes a battlefield between the melodic and the chaotic; where brutal glitches and blasts of white noise clash with cosmic echoes and rhythmical kraut-isms. The end of the tape is a sort of consensus with cut-up sounds forming a rudimentary, skewed, yet strangely enjoyable melody in the style of Caboladies’ Renewable Destination.
M. Geddes Gengras’ The Empty Space is an interesting insight into the creative process, the ability to improvise during live performance and a document of Ged’s amazing work in the field of synthesizers and electronic music. It might also be an indicator of the “tape scene’s” directions for the future, where the marriage of 70’s and 80’s prog electronics and 90’s and 00’s glitch is inevitable." - WEED TEMPLE
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the big screen, in a production from award-winning director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries) starring Sam Riley (Control, Brighton Rock), Garret Hedlund (Friday Night Lights), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen.
Sal Paradise (Sam Riley), a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund), a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, On the Road is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.
'The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the
generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"'
The New York Times
'Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience'
Hanif Kureishi, Independent on Sunday
'On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road'


United and Mingling: Poetry and Boston
by Danielle Legros Georges
Boston’s Poet Laureate here, responding to Mass Poetry’s request that I send word from my post (at moments my perch in Dorchester, at others my office at Lesley University). Tell us what you’ve been up to and what you look forward to, asked Jackie Malone. Jackie, here is the task before me—and part of my official position description: raising the status of poetry in the everyday consciousness of Bostonians, acting as an advocate for poetry, language and the arts, and creating a unique artistic legacy through public readings and civic events.
The Poet Laureate Program sits within the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture—reflecting Mayor Walsh’s leadership and embracing of the value of the arts to Boston as well as the role that culture plays in our everyday lives. Boston’s an amazing place for literature and the arts. It’s got an extraordinary literary past, and recently it became the first city in the country to host a Literary Cultural District. In general, Boston’s landscape pulses with contemporary writers and readers.
As Poet Laureate I’ve explored known and exciting new terrain, and been welcomed by a number of assemblies and organizations who’ve made poetry a part of their programs, including Mayor Walsh’s State of the City 2015, the City’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Celebration in partnership with the Museum of African American History; the first annual Hubbub: Creative Commotion for Kids Festival; and the Boston Public Library as it unveiled its newly-renovated Children’s Room at the Central Branch.
It’s been a joy to embody in some way Boston’s literary traditions—and an honor to follow Boston’s first Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. Sam established visiting hours at the Boston Public Library’s Central Branch in Copley Square during his tenure. Why not carry this practice on I thought? I have, and began holding monthly visiting hours in the various branches in neighborhoods across the city. From East Boston to Roxbury poems have been read, workshopped—and the freedom of free verse and the merits of form discussed and debated hotly in some cases! Budding and seasoned poets have participated in what is quickly becoming a workshop and a way to share the joys and questions of poetry writing and appreciation.
Another way to share the poetry love is to amplify the great work already being done by Boston-affiliated poets and poetry publishers, and in the many poetry communities: in groups of performance poets, slam poets, spoken-word artists, self-identified “community poets,” poets affiliated with schools, colleges, and universities, teachers using poetry as pedagogical tools in their classrooms, and translators of poetry.
One vehicle of amplification is a new monthly Poet Laureate Newsletter. Another is the Boston Poet Spotlight Reading Series whose first reading was held in May, and whose second will take place on October 15 at 7 pm at Newbury Street’s Trident Booksellers and Café. The reading will feature Central Square Press’s editor and several writers.
Also to come is participation in the Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston’s Leap Before You Look, the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition, to premiere in October, features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as a piano and a dance floor for performances. Accompanying the exhibition will be performances and educational programs, which include 8 poets I’m asking to bring artwork to life through ekphrasis.
Finally, the Poet Laureate Program is committed to extending its programming to reach specifically Boston youth and seniors. I’m delighted to mention two very new initiatives. The first draws on the strength of a small and strong team of poets who will work in Boston adult day health centers and nursing homes. The second is a partnership with Troubadour Inc., an organization that improves student literacy and academic achievement in area schools through arts-integrated instruction. Troubadour will take poetry workshops to the Lila Frederick Middle School. Both programs underscore poetry’s role in community engagement and life-long learning.
From the great poet Pablo Neruda come these words, “I believe that poetry is an action, ephemeral or solemn, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness to oneself, the nearness to mankind and to the secret manifestations of nature. And no less strongly I think that all this is sustained . . . by an ever-wider sense of community, by an effort which will forever bring together the reality and the dreams in us because it is precisely in this way that poetry unites and mingles them . . .”
The Poet Laureate Program is charged with generating new opportunities for education, awareness, and the promotion of literacy through the beauty and excellence of poetry—and I can’t think of a better thing to do. Thanks Mass Poetry for this opportunity to share information on the Boston Poet Laureate Program.
Om addition to being Boston’s Poet Laureate, Danielle Legros Georges is a Professor in the Creative Arts in Learning Division of Lesley University. She also teaches in the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences summer Writer's Workshop, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.


Rhythmic drooping bells give the mesmerizing feel and the sound they produce with every movement is ethereal. Tribal jewelry can make you feel unique with just a single piece. This lovely tribal choker necklace is assembled on a black cloth of fine quality. This stunning tribal piece is made by the amazing artists of South Asia.
The Afghani tribal necklace with pendants gives a decent and elegant look to you whether you wear it with a western dress or with a traditional dress. It is a perfect choice for traditional occasions such as wedding and engagements. In casual days you can match it with any color and any style; it will give you a flawless look. Grab this charming piece as soon as possible.
Measurement: 8-inch Length, 13-inch width
Weight: 270 grams


Take the greatest hunter of a hundred worlds – a man wise to the wiles of beasts and men. Take this professional killer and give him a human target.
Take the greatest concentration of brains of a thousand worlds – the Cyclan with its legion of emotionless agents. Take these inhuman monsters and give them a human target.
The target for both was Earl Dumarest. But the rule of the hunt was special. Dumarest must be captured but not killed. And the place was extra-special: the Quillian Sector. "The place where space goes mad."
The Quillian Sector where Dumarest was searching for lost Terra.
Genres: science fiction
Edwin Charles Tubb (1919–2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. Michael Moorcock wrote "His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain."
Much of Tubb's work has been written under pseudonyms including Charles Grey, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt. He has used more than 50 pen names over five decades of writing although some of these were publishers' house names also used by other writers: Volsted Gridban (along with John Russell Fearn), Gill Hunt (with John Brunner and Dennis Hughes), King Lang (with George Hay and John W. Jennison), Roy Sheldon (with H. J. Campbell) and Brian Shaw.
E. C. Tubb. Wikipedia.
Dumarest of Terra :: Series
Dumarest of Terra is also known as Dumarest Saga.


Christmas Table Decoration
It’s that time of year again. A time to celebrate, a time for family and friends and feasting! However if you don’t have the designing prowess of Martha Stewart, you can still create the most amazing Christmas table ready for your christmas feast and we’ll show you exactly how with our oh so simple guide!
- Use fruit to spruce up the Christmas table setting
Fruits don’t need to be restricted to the fruit bowl. Let them loose and use them as stunning (as well as edible) table top accessories! Choose a colour theme and then simply layer a range of fruits such as apples, plums, grapes or lemons in different dimensions, heights and styles to make your holiday table one-of-a-kind. This is not only a great way to spruce up the Christmas table and the best bit…you can eat the fruit for dessert or as take home presents!
Plaid is really great way to give your Christmas table a really lovely traditional warm look and feel. Layers of red, gold and green plaid can be used as placemats or a table runner and will accentuate your table nicely.
- Back to Black
You can create a really stylish and sophisticated table decoration with a modern twist. As they say you can’t go wrong with black and adding a pop of colour or metallic accents will really add another dimension to your setting. Have a black table cloth and then include some black accents in your tableware through your plates, candles or ornaments. Layer your everyday black and silver china for a very modern, sophisticated look and add metallic placemats and name tags, Christmas crackers and napkin holders to bring out the black.
- Let there be light!
Christmas lights don’t need to be reserved for the tree. There are some absolutely stunning, battery-powered LED string lights which you can weave in and out of your table decorations an you can also add battery-powered lights to glasses or champaign flutes as a special replacement to candles for that added wow factor!
Ribbon is an inexpensive means to really enhancing your Christmas table. When selecting one, as well as choosing the right colours for your look, choose wired ribbon, so you can easily mould the wire to get the desired look.
- Embellish glass bowls and stand
Embellish your glass bowls, vases, cake stands and load them beads, jewels and all things sparkly. You can even scatter glitter all over the table and add a beautiful beaded scarf as a table runner for that extra embellishment.
- Don’t forget the chairs!
Include a little holiday cheer to the rear of your chairs! You can get some cheap and festive Christmas bows or you can even hang a wreath, accessory or name tag on the back of each chair to really finish off the look.
The key though is to have fun. Don’t take it too seriously and enjoy experimenting with different looks and styles with endless options.
If you really want go to town and make your home extra special for the festive season, Natalie Interior Design is all rounded and equipped with the experts that will help you achieve your dreams fast and efficiently.


App brings out the artist in you
Draw Something 2
Bring our your artistic side. You know you have one. Draw Something 2, a mobile game from Zynga, has a live social feed so you can follow friends and celebrities, as well as discover new artists. Joining the conversation is easy – players can like, comment and tap on drawings to see instant replay of how they were created. No tagged photos!
Keep and share a collection of your own drawings in a gallery or check out work by others like Andy Cohen, Joel McHale and Kristen Bell.
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Transition Collective present a site specific art installation by Bruno Jamaica in one of five exhibition rooms @ SEVEN at Brixton, 4th November – 4th December.
Our featured artist Bruno Jamaica works predominantly with high impact installation art, focussing on socio-political themes. For the launch of SEVEN’s exhibition space, he has chosen to create seven suspended islands in celebration of what it is be human. These are islands of necessities, desires and motivations, exploring the concept of the city, travel, interaction and the individual.
This is a time of transition.
Located within Brixton Market, SEVEN at Brixton is a new bar in an old suitcase store. What makes SEVEN unique is that London-based Liam Brown and Jonny Rushton have maintained the distressed 1930′s features and are turning over the upstairs rooms of the bar to local artists to curate their own space.
Find us @ Unit 7, Market Row, SW9 8LB – just off Electric Lane, off Coldharbour Lane.


I Really Love This Dog Slouchy Tee Heather Grey
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Part of the I Really Love This Dog Collection.
The following poem explains the meaning behind this line:
I really love this dog
Who fills my heart with pride
And helps me clear the fog
With a shining light from deep inside.
You greet me with a smile
Every time I return home
And when it’s been awhile
You start to feel alone
But know that I am thinking
Of your soft ears and wet nose
A howl that sounds like singing
And excitement that only grows.
After a long or tiring day
Your warm eyes are such a gift
There are no words to say
All stress is set adrift.
I promise to never leave you
And walk when you can no longer jog
A friendship like ours is true
I really love this dog.
-Justine Rose, iHeartDogs employee
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Looking for a unique gift for a friend? This lightbox would look amazing on a shelf or a mantel piece. The fog gives an air of mystery to the lovely city of Bath.
Details about your lightbox:
- It is made in pine wood
- It is mains connected with an on/off switch for ease of use
- It comes with its 12V UK power adapter
- It measures 19 x 19 cm and is 4 cm deep
- The LED lights inside do not generate heat and the lightbox is safe to touch
- We use Danish oil to protect its wooden frame and give it a lovely shine
- It is handmade so we need a little time to get it ready for you (up to 5 days)
- It comes protected in a padded box
- It is delivered via Royal Mail. Good news, there is free UK delivery!


Nicki Minaj at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles…)
Underneath the stage before February's Super Bowl halftime show, Nicki Minaj felt an emotion she hadn't experienced in quite some time. She was really, really nervous.
Over the last three years, the young rapper had become one of the most charismatic and commercially successful stars in pop music, with a gum-snapping flow and acerbic guest rhymes that stole the show from vets such as Mariah Carey, Kanye West and Rihanna. Her pop-inclined solo debut, "Pink Friday," hit No. 1 and launched bestselling singles like the elastic "Super Bass." She'd just finished an arena tour opening for Britney Spears to the biggest crowds of her career.
Still, as she stood next to her peer M.I.A. — and the show's headliner Madonna, the stakes felt higher than ever before.
So the MC born Onika Maraj resorted to her time-honored tactic to get over the jitters. She played a character, the stadium-commanding pop star Nicki Minaj. "Leading up to it under the stage riser, I was thinking, 'Oh my God, there are so many people out there,'" Minaj, 29, said. "But once I got out there, 30 seconds into it, I just decided to be myself and have fun with it."
Only four months into 2012, Nicki Minaj has already headlined two of the world's biggest moments in live music, with her Super Bowl gig followed by an outlandish exorcism-themed Grammys set that was the talk of telecast. Her new album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded," is an even more daring document of a young artist holding onto her creativity while navigating major commercial stardom.
"Reloaded" is a labyrinthine psychodrama centered around one of her many alter egos, the gay, twentysomething man Roman Zolanski, whom Minaj cheekily claims is a demon that lives inside her and emerges when she's angry. It's the kind of concept-heavy follow-up album that makes record label execs bolt awake at night soaked in a cold sweat.
But if it sticks, "Roman Reloaded" might secure Minaj's career in her best role yet — as one of the most daring and versatile pop artists working today.
Minaj, born in Trinidad and reared in Queens, N.Y., developed her knack for character invention as a defense mechanism, useful while growing up in a poor home with a substance abusing father, whom Minaj has said once tried to kill her mother by setting the family home on fire.
"When you have dysfunction at home like that, it can push you to violence or to be creative," she said. "So I did voices and accents from the time I was 7 years old. I think fans see how I started in the inner city, but became a theater major and used that to become an artist."
She honed her interests in artistic role play, taking theater classes at Fiorello H. La Guardia High School, whose arts curriculum was the inspiration for the stage and movie hit "Fame."
Even her public face as "Nicki Minaj" is a character, one of a slew she's toyed with as a musician. There's Roman; Roman's hysterical British-accented mother, Martha Zolanski; and Harajuku Barbie, an outsized-innocent young girl.
Minaj's early mixtapes caught the ear of her mentor Lil Wayne with her verbal dexterity, while sharing Missy Elliott's knack for bending words into pop art. But her debut full-length surprised and disappointed some hip-hop fans.
Singsongy tracks like "Your Love" and " Moment 4 Life" were perfectly capable singles but felt featherweight and aimed at a different, younger audience. "I felt a lot of pressure to be inspirational and responsible [on that album]," Minaj said. "I like all kinds of music; when I was working at Red Lobster the soundtrack of my life there was Avril Lavigne. Hip-hop fans are my core, and I can never not be hip-hop. But why not showcase all sides of who you are?"
Minaj wanted "Roman Reloaded" to embrace all her personalities. Early leaked tracks like "Roman Holiday," the vampy noir she performed at the Grammys, the spooky and echo-sodden "Beez in the Trap" and the giddy taunt "Stupid Hoe" hark back to her wild-eyed mixtape tracks, but with an ear for sticky, radio-pleasing phrasings.
A roster of guest MCs, including label mates Lil Wayne and Drake and gruff peers Young Jeezy and Rick Ross, co-sign with appearances. It continues the path she forged on "Pink Friday's" track "Roman's Revenge," in which guest Eminem revisits his Slim Shady alias to trade barbs with Minaj's Roman.
Minaj hopes that playfulness can inspire rappers to loosen up.
"Em and I both came from nothing, so we've had to do a lot of escaping," she said. "Traditionally, hip-hop has had such a judgmental spirit. But Wayne made a rock album, and Kanye named an album '808s & Heartbreak' and sang all over it. I feel artists like us are setting a new tone and making new rules here."


Seen as a parallel in Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle, nature has a powerful way of portraying good vs. bad. The primary setting of “Greasy Lake” is Greasy Lake, a lake in the worst sort of ecological condition full of grime. Parlous individuals hover the area surrounding Greasy Lake and are noted for actions denoted by society; simply stated, Greasy Lake is an oasis, separating teens from everyday culture. Though most find pleasure, the narrator in Greasy Lake finds…...
Being “cool” has developed into a term meaning more than just social status. “Cool” is now known as an act of fitting in, and doing anything to be accepted into society. In the short story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, three boys are caught in a life changing moment when they realize that their whole lives are worth more than a couple hours of fun. Boyle’s detailed description of these teens struggling with substance abuse at a very young…...
It is sometimes suggested that women occupied a position analogous to slaves, in relationship to the free male master of the household (oikos). Medea's use of the word despotes (“master”) in the passage alluded to earlier suggests that the lot of women resembled that of slaves (Medea 233). Aristotle said that a husband rules his wife as master rules slaves. Nevertheless, there were important social and legal differences in the status of free women and slaves (Kluth 2005). For example,…...
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|Beyond Creation was created in Montreal, Canada in 2005 under the inspiration of Simon Girard and Nicolas Domingo Viotto. The band has evolved through the years and created its own style of music. After three years of searching for musicians that had this passion, Kevin Charté (co-worker of Simon Girard) presented Guyot Bégin-Benoit to him. After auditioning, the band decided to accept him in the formation and a couple of months later, Nicolas Domingo Viotto decided to quit the band. Ironically, Kevin Charté took his place and during January 2010, after listening to the group's song "Injustice Revealed", Dominic "Forest" Lapointe contacted them to join the band. And this is how Beyond Creation was came to life.
Now with the complete line-up, Beyond Creation is ready to bring you to outer spaces with its unique and powerful sounds. Incorporating melodic to extreme blasting metal, with progressive and technical riffs, without forgetting these growls from under the grave, the band is a mix of various influences. All these changing atmospheres will make you want to know what else they are capable of doing.
Beyond Creation followed up their 2010 demo with a full-length studio release in 2011, entitled The Aura.
In early 2013 the band signed a contract with European independent label Season Of Mist.


The Hero’s Journey a run to the forest
I wanted to share a story which explores the archetypal hero’s journey in some way. I thought about writing an epic tale of a snail trying to get across the garden but it was a tad slow… then I realised it was right in front of me. My daily run to the forest. Brace yourselves for call to adventure, crossing the threshold and lessons learned all in a half hour jog.


"If I'da gave it up to everyone who wanted some,
My Louboutin count would be at 101!"
It appears as though we are in the musical era of the "new classics." After rapper Tink gave us a flawless flip of Aaliyah's classic "One in a Million," singer Elle Varner put on a new hat and channels her inner Lauryn Hill and gives us three minutes of straight rapping- and it's actually pretty damn good.
Elle Varner's latest track, "The End of the Beginning," is the musical clap-back of the year and quite possibly, the decade. Yes, the singer who won our hearts with "Refill" and was pretty quiet during her beef with fellow singer K. Michelle, taps into her book of rhymes and not only reads a few people for filth, but also manages to take shots at an entire society of women fixated on selling themselves short for a few bags and shoes, all the while being honest enough to admit that she often ponders how much easier life would be if she too were a ho. Oh!
And unlike some singers who switch up their styles in a desperate attempt to stay relevant, it appears this edgier side of the singer might only be new to fans, the way she flawlessly and effortlessly goes off on her latest track.
Peep some lyrics below:
These are the woes of a 20-something-year-old
Single black female addicted to retail
I'm single 'cause I trusted every asshole I ever met
And lately I've been fed up with that sh*t
It ain't been working out so well
So now I'm soaking in this Starbucks, sipping skinny caramel
Iced soy macchiato, wondering what life would be like if I was a ho,
If I'da gave it up to everyone who wanted some
My Louboutin count would be at 101
And rent, I'd never pay that sh*t again
And Angelina did it, and since she hasn't spent a penny since
But me, I'm just as stubborn as my mother
Never depend on another for my check...
I've been jet-black and blue without you
The illest that I've ever been in a sea that I'm drowning in
It's sink or swim for me now, on the real I don't know who to be now
And I don't wanna rebound
Can't get with the get down
I'm good with picking apples from the ground
And running 'round town with a clown singing "who's sorry now"
I thought about it just to make you jealous
Act like I'm doing business from an empty office building
Instagram flexing like my living was dependent
Like "ooh you missed the party, everyone was in attendance"
But you, it's all in my imagination
You running back to me, the scene I'm constantly replaying
It's borderline obsessive, my words were so offensive
I'm good at burning bridges, not so good at climbing fences...
Go 'head, Elle! Peep the entire track below and tell us what you think:
And because the lyrics are so long (but soooo good), check out page 2 for the entire song lyrics.
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The name Mehek holds a fascinating history that spans centuries and cultures. Understanding its origins, meaning, cultural significance, historical roots, geographical distribution, famous personalities, and modern usage provides a comprehensive picture of this captivating name.
Understanding the Name Mehek
Mehek is a name with deep meaning and cultural significance. Its origins can be traced back to ancient times, where it held a unique place in various societies. The name Mehek carries with it a certain allure, evoking images of beauty, charm, and grace.
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The Meaning of Mehek
The name Mehek carries a distinct meaning, one that resonates with different cultures and languages. In its essence, Mehek represents the fragrance or scent of a flower. This symbolic representation connects the name to attributes such as beauty, delicacy, and the power to captivate.
Imagine walking through a lush garden, surrounded by an array of vibrant flowers. As you inhale deeply, the enchanting aroma of Mehek fills the air, transporting you to a realm of tranquility and serenity. This is the essence of the name Mehek, a name that encapsulates the very essence of nature’s beauty.
Moreover, the name Mehek carries a sense of mystery and intrigue. Just as the scent of a flower lingers in the air, leaving a lasting impression, so too does the name Mehek leave an indelible mark on those who encounter it. It is a name that evokes curiosity and invites exploration, drawing people closer to uncover its hidden depths.
Cultural Significance of Mehek
Across diverse cultures, the name Mehek has acquired significant cultural meaning. It is often associated with elegance, femininity, and a sense of enchantment. In many societies, the name Mehek is seen as a reflection of a person’s inner beauty and charm, elevating it to a cherished and valued name choice.
In some cultures, Mehek is considered a name bestowed upon individuals who possess a natural grace and poise. It is believed that those who bear the name Mehek are destined to bring beauty and harmony into the world, just as a fragrant flower enhances its surroundings.
Furthermore, the name Mehek has become a symbol of empowerment for women. It represents the strength and resilience that lies within, reminding individuals of their ability to overcome obstacles and blossom in the face of adversity. Mehek serves as a reminder that beauty and strength can coexist, intertwining to create a powerful force that can inspire and uplift.
As we explore the cultural significance of the name Mehek, we uncover a tapestry of stories and traditions that have shaped its meaning over time. From ancient civilizations to modern societies, Mehek continues to be a name that resonates deeply, capturing the hearts and imaginations of those who encounter it.
The Historical Roots of Mehek
Delving into the historical roots of the name Mehek uncovers its connection to ancient civilizations and their naming practices. Through the ages, the name has evolved, adapting to different cultures and languages while preserving its underlying essence.
Ancient Origins of the Name
The origins of the name Mehek can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. In Mesopotamia, names held great significance and were believed to have a direct influence on an individual’s destiny. The name Mehek, with its unique combination of sounds, was considered to possess a mystical quality, believed to bring good fortune and protection to its bearer.
In the Indus Valley civilization, names were chosen based on their meanings and the qualities they represented. Mehek, derived from the Sanskrit word “mehak,” meaning fragrance or aroma, was associated with beauty, grace, and a captivating presence. It was believed that individuals named Mehek would possess a natural charm that would leave a lasting impression on others.
Evolution of the Name Over Time
Over time, the name Mehek underwent transformations and adaptations as it journeyed across continents and cultures. As the world connected through trade routes and cultural exchanges, the name traveled across regions, acquiring various linguistic forms while still retaining its inherent meaning.
In ancient Persia, the name Mehek took on the form “Mehak,” reflecting the influence of the Persian language and culture. It became associated with the concept of paradise and was often used to describe the enchanting scents of blooming flowers and lush gardens.
During the Islamic Golden Age, the name Mehek gained popularity among Muslim communities. It was cherished for its connection to the natural world and its ability to evoke a sense of tranquility and serenity. The name Mehek became a symbol of inner beauty and spiritual harmony.
In medieval Europe, the name Mehek underwent further adaptations, taking on variations such as “Mehetabel” and “Mehitabel.” These variations were influenced by the prevailing naming customs of the time, which often incorporated biblical references and meanings. Mehek, in its European forms, came to be associated with strength, resilience, and divine favor.
As the world continued to evolve, the name Mehek found its way into different cultures and languages, each adding their unique touch to its pronunciation and spelling. From the enchanting melodies of Arabic poetry to the lyrical sounds of Spanish, the name Mehek resonated with people from diverse backgrounds, transcending borders and language barriers.
Today, the name Mehek continues to be embraced by individuals around the world, representing a rich tapestry of history, culture, and personal identity. Its ancient origins and evolutionary journey serve as a reminder of the enduring power of names and their ability to connect us to our shared human heritage.
Geographical Distribution of Mehek
The name Mehek has a distinct presence in different parts of the world. Its geographical distribution provides insights into the global popularity of the name and its variations.
Mehek, a name that exudes beauty and grace, has gained immense popularity in various countries across the globe. Its appeal transcends borders and cultures, making it a beloved choice for parents seeking a name that embodies elegance and charm.
Prevalence of Mehek in Different Countries
Mehek has become a name of significance in countries such as India, Pakistan, and several Middle Eastern nations. In these regions, the name holds cultural importance and is often chosen for its association with beauty and grace. It is not uncommon to hear the name Mehek being whispered in the bustling streets of Mumbai or echoed in the vibrant bazaars of Lahore.
In India, Mehek has captured the hearts of many parents who wish to bestow upon their daughters a name that reflects their inner radiance. The name has become a symbol of femininity and elegance, with its melodic sound resonating in the diverse landscapes of the country.
In Pakistan, Mehek has also found its place in the hearts of parents who seek a name that encapsulates the beauty and allure of their daughters. The name Mehek has become synonymous with grace and charm, and it is not uncommon to find young girls with this name enchanting their families and communities with their captivating presence.
Furthermore, Mehek has also gained popularity in several Middle Eastern nations, where its soft and melodious sound has found resonance among parents who wish to bestow upon their daughters a name that embodies beauty and elegance. From the bustling streets of Dubai to the serene deserts of Saudi Arabia, the name Mehek can be heard, carrying with it a sense of enchantment.
Regional Variations of Mehek
While the name Mehek is predominantly used in specific countries, regional variations of the name exist, adding an extra layer of diversity and richness to its already captivating essence. These variations reflect the cultural tapestry of the regions where the name is embraced, showcasing the beauty of different languages and traditions.
In India, for example, the name Mehek can be found in various regional variations such as Mehak, Mehik, and Mehika. Each of these variations adds a unique touch to the name, while still preserving its inherent beauty and grace. These regional variations not only highlight the linguistic diversity of the country but also serve as a testament to the widespread popularity of the name.
Similarly, in Pakistan, variations of the name Mehek can be found, such as Mahak and Mahika. These variations, with their subtle differences in pronunciation and spelling, add a touch of individuality to the name while staying true to its essence.
Across the Middle East, the name Mehek also undergoes regional variations, reflecting the diverse cultures and languages of the region. Variations such as Maha, Mahi, and Mahika can be found, each carrying its own unique charm and significance.
These regional variations of Mehek not only showcase the adaptability of the name but also highlight the cultural richness and diversity of the regions where it is embraced. They serve as a reminder that while the name may have a common origin, it has evolved and flourished in different corners of the world, becoming a cherished part of various cultures.
Famous Personalities Named Mehek
Throughout history, remarkable individuals named Mehek have left enduring legacies. These influential figures have made significant contributions in their respective fields and have contributed to shaping society.
Influential Figures Named Mehek
One such influential personality is Mehek Sharma, an acclaimed poet whose work captured the hearts of many. Her eloquent verses resonated deeply with readers, making her a celebrated literary figure.
Contributions of Individuals Named Mehek
Additionally, numerous individuals named Mehek have excelled in various domains, including art, science, and business. Their accomplishments have left an indelible mark on their respective fields, inspiring future generations to strive for greatness.
Modern Usage of the Name Mehek
As society continues to evolve, the name Mehek has found a place in contemporary culture. Its modern usage reflects shifting trends and interpretations, while still encompassing its timeless allure.
Popularity of Mehek in Recent Years
In recent years, Mehek has gained increased popularity as a name choice for newborns. Its association with beauty, elegance, and fragrance has struck a chord with parents seeking a unique and meaningful name for their children.
Contemporary Interpretations of Mehek
Furthermore, the name Mehek has been embraced by various cultural communities, each infusing it with their own interpretations and adaptations. This contemporary approach enriches the name’s significance and allows for it to be interpreted in a multitude of ways, reflecting the diverse world we inhabit.
In summary, the name Mehek holds a rich history that encompasses its understanding, meaning, cultural significance, historical roots, geographical distribution, famous personalities, and modern usage. Its journey through time and across cultures has solidified its place as a name that resonates with beauty, charm, and grace.


Created by Mount Pleasant Eco Park
An introduction to using a range of natural dyes including immersive botanical dye techniques, solar dyes, hapazome and indigo.
Led by experienced dye and pigment artist Francesca Owen from eARTh South West this day course is a great introduction to the range of dying techniques possible from foraged and local resources.
Course includes silk and cotton testing strips and cotton bag for the indigo vat.
£68 including a delicious vegetarian/ vegan roast from the cafe
Limited places available, to book your place email [email protected]
This course ran in May and was extremely popular so book early.
All courses are available as Gift Vouchers.
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Ama Serwah Genfi whose stage name is Amaarae, is a Ghanaian-American singer, songwriter, record producer and engineer born on July 4, 1994. She became known for her work around representation and gender in music. She is versatile music artiste with music genre of R&B, Soul, and Afro-fusion. She came to limelight with her song “Fluid” which was taken off her 6 track debut EP “Passionfruit Summers”.
|Birth Name:||Ama Serwah Genfi|
|Birth Date:||July 4, 1994|
|Birth Place:||New York, United States|
|Occupation:||Singer, Songwriter, Record producer|
|Net Worth:||$1 million – $2 million|
Amaarae was born on July 4, 1994 in New York, United States and originally from Accra, Ghana.
She is the elder of two children born to Ghanaian parents, Ama Bawuah and Kwado Boateng Genfi.
She began to develop passion for music at the age 0f 13 where she wrote her first song. She started making mix-tapes at high school and by the time she was 17, she took an internship at a music studio. She undertook voice training while studying English literature at the University before she eventually returned to Ghana in June 2017.
She came through with her debut EP “Passionfruit Summers” in November 2017 and in April 2018, she was named one of Apple Music Africa’s Favorite New Artiste.
Amaarae released her debut studio album “The Angel You Don’t Know” on November 12, 2020.
- Leave M Alone
- Like It
- Jumping Ship
- Feel A Way
- Spend Some Time
- Sad Girlz Luv Money
Amaarae is a Ghanaian musician with an estimated net worth of between $1 million – $3 million.


…Or ‘Color’ for my US readers.
I recently showed off on twitter a project I’d been working on for a while, a photogrammetric model of a sheep skull and neck, where each bone has been digitized seperately:
However, you may notice from the video that the skull and jaw are whiter, or perhaps pinker, than the vertebrae, which have a greenish tint to them. This is the result of my digitizing the bones in different environments. For the vertebrae, I was able to use my automated small photogrammetry setup, but the skull and jaw were too large for this, so I had to do them separately, using a ring light. As a result, the colours are slightly different. It’s fairly subtle, but it annoys me, and as this model will be going on sale on sketchfab, I want it to be perfect.
Here’s the models in Blender:
To fix this, I saved out all the texture files to a folder:
So, I used Photoshop’s colour match tool to make the jaw and skull look more like the vertebrae (the greenish tinge is what I’d consider the more real colour balance). Unfortunately, I’ve not found an easy/obvious similar functionality in Krita, Gimp, or Affinity Photo. It may be possible in other software, but much like for object selection and background removal [REMBG not withstanding], Photoshop seems to still have features that make it worth using, especially if you get it free through work.
You can see from my screenshots that the vertebrae textures have a lot of black space in them, but the skull and jaw do not. That’s because I did the vertebrae with Meshroom, which creates isolated islands in the texture, but the Skull and Jaw were done in Metashape, which blends colours between areas of texture (there’s no reason I picked Meshroom or Metashape other than my photogrammetry software of choice at any given time changes on a whim).
That makes colour matching slightly more difficult, because we don’t want to use the black – it’ll make our modified jaw texture black in places.
So, using the magic wand tool, I select all the black in the C1Tex image (make sure ‘contiguous’ is unticked), then I invert the selection with ctrl-shift-I, so that the image just has the areas of colour selected:
Now make sure you’re working in the image you want to change, in this case I select JawTex.jpg by clicking it’s tab at the top. Then go to Image->Adjustments->Match Color
This brings up a menu, and you need to select the source image you’re going to match to:
Use the dropdown source menu to select the texture you want to match to. In my case, that’s the C1Tex file that’s open:
It’ll preview automatically. Hopefully you can see straight away in the above image that the altered jaw texture looks wrong. That’s because by default, Photoshop is using the whole image to match colours, including all that black. We need to tell it to use just the selection:
Once that box is checked, everything looks like it should, and the balance of colour between the two images is similar:
You can hit ok, and it’ll do a bit of processing:
When it’s done, you can save the file out, probably best to do so with a new name (in this case ‘jawTex_matched.jpg’) so you don’t overwrite the old image.
Just to show you how much difference this has made, here’s the original and matched textures side by side:
Now with the Jaw and skull redone, I can go into Blender, and reselect the textures:
Now the skull, Jaw, and each cervical vertebrae are all far more consistent in colour:
If you’re one of those odd people that prefers video tutorials, I recorded the process and put it up on YouTube:
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Very talented Nigerian songstress and music composer, Asa comes back the musical scene with a lovely single titled “Mayana“.
Apparently, this song vocalizes a story of a female lover who ran away with her partner. Asa with her regular tune blended with Colombia samba beat drops her first single in two years.
However, this is actually her first released for a very long time if properly recalled, for about 2 years.
However, the song gives production credit and recognition to talented producer, P. Prime.
Listen and share your thoughts below;


September 2, 2016
A self-taught Los Angeles based painter, T.S. Claire has quickly become one of the city's most unique and carefully watched artists.Read More
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Today (December 11), Billboard announced their completed year-end and decade recap lists which featured many prominent Hip-Hop and R&B stars.
Kanye West was named musics Top Male Artist of 2009, a distinction shared with his female counterpart Taylor Swift.
The two had a memorable stage moment in September when West interrupted Swifts MTV VMA acceptance speech.
Rounding out the list of top artists for 2009 are Beyonce, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, T.I., Nickelback, and Pink.
Drake secured two awards: one for Hot Rap Song of the Year (Best I Ever Had), and Top New R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the Year.
T.I. won the Top Hot Songs Artist of 2009, courtesy of his four Top 5 singles off 2008s double platinum Paper Trail (Whatever You Like, Swagga Like Us, Live Your Life, and Dead and Gone).
As reported earlier this week on AllHipHop.com, Eminem was crowned the best-selling artist of the decade, beating out fellow chart heavyweights Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Nelly, and 50 Cent.
Additional awards were given based on an artists dominance of a given chart over the last 10 years.
This criteria yielded recognition for T.I. (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist), 50 Cent (Top Hot Rap Songs Artist), and Jay-Z (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums).
Fans can view the entire 2009 and decade lists at www.billboard.com.


This little cutie is counting on her fingers to tell a new friend how old she is. She is three and holds three fingers up to relate that to her […]
This modern day Native American woman is looking to her future while dressed in a vintage dress I patterned after a dress that is in the Marlin Mansion Museum in […]
This mountain man is giving his Native American wife a gift of a new horse.
These two Native American ladies are beginning their day with a morning swim.
Supper means boots off, Dad’s chinks on the bench and Mom’s black berries are waiting for cleaning after thee evening meal.


Starting her music career in 1990 by creating a band called the Wild Orchids, Stacy Ann Ferguson (known as Fergie), is now a household-name as an American singer and actress.
Wild Orchid was a three-member, pop band with Fergie and her friends, Stefanie Ridel and Renee Sandstorm. In 1996, the band released their first album Wild Orchid. Their next three albums Oxygen, Fire, and Hipnotic didn’t generate much success.
In 2003, the band acquired popularity with top hits, Hey Mamma, Where is the Love, and Shut Up from their first album with Fergie, Elephunk. The Black Eyed Peas won the Grammy for “Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group” for Let’s Get it Started the following year.
Even with her success in the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie wanted to pursue her solo music career. She released her first solo album, The Dutchess, in 2006, producing songs in various styles including Big Girls Don’t Cry and Glamorous. Fergie’s second solo album, Double Dutchess, was not released until 2017.
Before beginning her music pursuits, Fergie was an actress in the children’s show, Kids Incorporated, from 1984-1994. She continued her acting career while winning numerous Grammys with the Black Eyed Peas. Fergie was featured in the films including Poseidon, Planet Terror, and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
“I think women are beautiful, I’ve had a lot of fun with women, and I’m not ashamed of it. The problem is that I also love a well-endowed man. But just because I enjoy women doesn’t mean I’m allowed to have affairs in my relationship,” Fergie said in the interview with the Advocate, according to Huff Post.
Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal), from The Dutchess, is one of Fergie’s biggest solo hits, currently having over 401 million streams on Spotify.
An acoustic guitar and a subtle roll on a crash cymbal convene an introductory sequence. Fergie begins the first verse with a syncopated, gentle vocal melody before a snare breaks the peace.
Bass, electric guitar, and drum set transform the acoustic, campfire quality of the song to a pop sound. Fergie raises the vocal melody while a lower vocal harmony accompanies her. More background vocals enhance the chord progression as an arising electric guitar lick periodically presents itself in the right pan.
Fergie and the acoustic guitar respond to the energetic chorus with the soothing melodic pattern of the second verse. A cello resonates, repeating a simple, yet pure and wafting section throughout the stanza.
The full band resurges in the chorus after being welcomed by a conquering string section, notably of violin and cello. Fergie belts her self-love poem as a celestial sound effect passes between phrases.
Keyboard and the other prevailing instruments escort Fergie through the bridge. Violins appear before a high vocal harmony makes its first offering. The string section and frequent crashes of the cymbal allow Fergie to finish the bridge dulcetly.
All instrumental elements and low vocal harmonies gather again in the final chorus. At the forefront of the ending is the cello and acoustic guitar, reviving the simplistic nature of the introduction.


Labeled as one of the hottest releases of 2018, this limited-edition trainer was released as part of the Air Max Day celebrations. The fans of the Air Max were given the chance to vote for their favorite "RevolutionAir" in 2017, with several artists putting their designs, but it was the LA-based co-founder of roundtwo store Sean Wotherspoon who won with his interpretation of a sole-swapped Air Max 1/97.
The future of Air looks seriously appealing with the corduroy upper, featuring in an array of different colorways. Light yellow is contrasted by grey, pink and blue before a dark green coloured mudguard circles the shoe. As the name would suggest, the Sean Wotherspoon Air Max 1/97 showcases a fusion of two iconic silhouettes. A chunky Air Max 1 midsole gives a totally unique look to this silhouette.
To complete the design, a color blocking outsole mirrors the colorway of the upper and a Velcro attachment features on the tongue. The Nike Air Max 1/97 Sean Wotherspoon is scheduled to release this March via the retailers listed. Stay tuned for more updates and stockist alerts.


Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
4 septembre - 16 octobre 2010
For this exhibition, the artists present five works organized around the principle of physical and temporal displacement. Gathering material elements from different social, geographical, and cultural systems into the field of a single image/form, the works presented here use metaphor as a structuring and distributional force to expand the frame through which normal circuits of meaning are determined. The artists likewise privilege the aberrant, excessive, and disruptive workings of metaphors and other tropes to destabilize the functional stability of these ordering structures.


Don’t Blink! Jennifer Nettles’ Album ‘Playing with Fire’ Comes Out Friday
Jennifer Nettles has a new solo album out and she says she couldn't have done it alone.
Although Jennifer spent 10 years as a part of Sugarland, it didn't seem a surprise that she would put out her first solo album, That Girl, in 2014. Now, this week, she is getting ready to release her second solo album, Playing with Fire. Although the name suggests that she may be pressing her luck, we feel differently.
And so does Jennifer.
In a recent interview with USA Today, Jennifer talked about how she felt completely out of her element when recording it. She had just had a baby and felt like she was all over the place. Now, being a mother, she feels vulnerable, but also brave and on fire.
So she got started and enlisted the help of Brandy Clark.
Her new album features many songs penned by Brandy. The two have known each other for quite sometime and Brandy even toured with Jennifer on her "That Girl" tour.
Seems like a match made in heaven and we can't wait to hear what they've come up with.


The always charming Annie posted a piece of original art that’s hanging on her wall and wondered who else hung original art. (Children’s art doesn’t count. Hanging that is obligatory.) Here are a few pieces in my home. None of them have a stylistic relationship. It’s a hodgepodge.
I received this oil on canvas from Artisté Florenza as a birthday present. This was an Asian food store near my apartment where I lived in Brooklyn. It was called, I kid you not, the FU KING FOOD SHOP on Atlantic Avenue. You can’t make this stuff up. The store next to it is the fictitious Mr. Mark’s Cleaners (that’s me) and the signs in the window read Happy Birthday Mark. The address is 28. It was my 28th birthday and that was a long, long time ago. That’s my shadow darkening the lower left corner, not the painting.
I bought this for myself in Union Square, NYC. It’s Japanese gouache and ink mounted on silk. Mrs. wife isn’t that crazy about it but she lets me hang it because, as you well know, marriage is a give-and-take.
My artist friend Jeff Suntala gave this to us as a wedding gift. It’s a charcoal sketch from one of his classes. The colors are more vibrant than what appears here but I was too lazy to take it off the wall to photograph in better lighting. Sorry, Jeff.
This is a triptych that I took of 7-Year Old Daughter when she was a baby pulling herself up on our coffee table.


Thron reveal new Album artwork and new song "Nothingness"
Thron reveal new Album artwork and new song “Nothingness”
German blackened death metal band THRON are now unveiling the cover artwork and also the first new song taken from their forthcoming album “Pilgrim”, which will be released on Listenable Records on February 19th, 2021. The song of choice is “Nothingness”.
Listen to “Nothingness” below.
Samca (Vocals) comment:
“Dark, furious, atmospheric. Nothingness starts gloomy and melancholic before it explodes in a blastbeat just to surprise with a bass break that leads into the marching verses. A song that’s exemplary for the variety and complexity of the new THRON album “PILGRIM“.
THRON’s ‘Pilgrim’ was recorded and produced by C.Brandes, A.Kovats and P.Hagmann. , Mixed and Mastered by C.Brandes at Iguana Studios in March-Buchheim in May 2020 with additional Sound Design by Stan Berzon. Artwork by created by Khaos Diktator Design.
Check de onderstaande socials voor meer informatie over deze band.


~ AT Mann, 'The Divine Plot'.Watched over by the graciousness of teacher and friend; by diamond-bright books. Surely, Amrita Sher-Gil's Brahmacharis are none other than the five Pandavas?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Ancient mythologies generate strong feelings about the future, almost as though the earliest memories are simultaneously prophecies. Past events continuously repeat until they are accepted as prototypical. Repetition is a reminder that (the past and future) are firmly linked to each other, if not identical.