#Alan Forbes

[depravednotdeprived]

By artist Alan Forbes

[brokehorrorfan]

AFI's All Hallow's E.P. returns to vinyl on October 4 via Craft Recordings in association with Nitro Records. Priced at $30, the 1999 album is celebrating its 25h anniversary.

The four-song EP is pressed on 10" vinyl with two color variants: Spectral Pink and Lantern Light (AFI webstore exclusive). Alan Forbes' cover art has been recolored with fluorescent ink. A 10x20 coffin-shaped blacklight poster is included.

Pre-order AFI's All Hallow's EP.

[warhead]

[ampd]

[1999.10.05] AFI - All Hallows E.P.

CD, Nitro Records - 15829 2

Art direction by Jamie Reilly. Illustration by Alan Forbes.

[neondragonfly]

[gameofthunder66]

True Blood (2008-2014) tv series

-(started) watchin' Season 3- 5/16/2024- 4 stars- on Max

68% Rotten Tomatoes

[trash-bats]

I was blown away by @fragmentsofemily ‘s STS show outfit - all of the lace, the perfectly executed leaves on the dress in red lace, the leaves & branches, and even the leggings evoking the imagery of the Girl’s Not Grey mv - and I had to try drawing it. This is a messier sketch than I would have liked, but the drawing plate is pretty full this week and I wanted to just bust this out in one sitting. I hope everyone going to the show stays safe and has an amazing time 🖤

[downthetubes]

Creating Comics: Revisiting the original Robot Archie, by E. George Cowan and Alan Philpott

We take a quick look at the original Robot Archie, co-created by E. George Cowan and Alan Philpott

[makingqueerhistory]

Do you have any resources on transgender history? What about drag culture and its origins?

Yes absolutely! Though, it depends a little on what you are looking for, if you are looking for individual stories:

Amelio Robles Ávila

Dana de Milo

Karl M. Baer 

Zinaida Gippius 

Social Men

Jackie Shane

Holly Woodlawn 

Carmen Rupe 

Claude Cahun

Victoria Arellano 

Zdeněk Koubek 

Jeanette Schmid

Lou Sullivan 

Eleanor Rykener 

Coccinelle

Dawn Langley Hall 

Elagabalus

Billy Tipton  

Alan L. Hart 

Maryam Khatoon Molkara

Dwayne Jones

Rita Hester

Sir Ewan Forbes 

Kristina King of Sweden 

Marsha P. Johnson 

As for more overall looks at transgender history here are some books I enjoyed:

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender Kit Heyam

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film Tre'vell Anderson with Angelica Ross

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Sarah McBride with Joe Biden

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World Tomás Prower

[transterrorweek]

Trans Terror Week 2024

We’re back! Trans Terror Week 2024 will run November 24-30th.

Between Twitter dying and busy mods (@solomontoaster and @manicpixiedreamjop once again), we are not going to have much of a presence on Twitter this year, though we will be keeping tabs on it. Your best chance at getting a quick response will be one Tumblr!

The rules are the same a last year, detailed on our FAQ page (for the mobile accessible FAQ go here). 

Rules and Reminders:

This event is for anyone who is trans, nonbinary or is currently questioning their gender. Our goal is to uplift trans content creators in the Terror fandom and we encourage cis creators to show their support for their trans compatriots.

There is NO restriction on type of content: art, fics, edits, playlists, videos, everything is welcome!

November 24th is also for Creator Spotlights, make a post highlighting your works and we’ll give you a boost!

Please tag your works #transterrorweek/#transterrorweek2024 and/or ping us @transterrorweek to make sure we see your stuff! This applies to both Tumblr and Twitter.

Fics can also be added to the Ao3 collection. Simply search for “Trans Terror Week” when posting your fic or follow the link on our blog. Our FAQ has instructions for posting anonymously.

Prompts:

This years prompts are the result of three semesters of grad school study and research on the part of one of the mods. As always, full details on the prompts can be found on our prompts page:

Day 1: Staged Otherness | Trans Performers - Fanny & Stella

Fanny & Stella cross dressed both onstage and in their personal lives during the 19th century.

Day 2: Kabloona |Trans Explorers - Jan Morris

Jan Morris was the first* trans person to ascend Mount Everest as a journalist accompanying the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition. *as far as I know

Day 3: "Herodotus and Oral History" | Trans Historians - Leslie Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg is the author of the pioneering trans history text Transgender Warriors.

Day 4: "Identification of a Senior Officer" | Trans Military Officers - Chevalière d'Éon

Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon, was recognized as a woman by King Louis XVI, who furnished her with a new wardrobe.

Day 5: "Learning About Sea Ice" | Trans Scientists - Alan L. Hart

Alan L. Hart pioneered the use of x-ray photography for tuberculosis diagnosis.

Day 6: Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge | Trans Titlebearers - Sir Ewan Forbes

Sir Ewan Forbes of Craigievar was the 11th Baronet of his family’s barony from 1968 until his death in 1991.

Day 7: "You Do Not Belong Here" | Trans Activists - Loren Cameron

Loren Cameron was a trans activist and photographer, known for photographing nude trans bodies.

[phoenixflames12]

So after a time of travelling- never travel to Richmond on a 6 Nations match day at Twickenham, I managed to see Churchill in Moscow at the Orange Tree. After coming home and collapsing on the beanbag that's serving in lieu of a sofa, I'm going to try and get my thoughts in order.

Allam's Churchill is WONDERFUL! Witty, dry, terrifying, desperate, a complete aristocrat who is utterly lost when Stalin's Georgian peasant roots come to the fore. What's absolutely hilarious is Peter Forbes really hams this up and plays Stalin with a West Country/Cornish accent- it's absolutely wonderful.

The hilarious moments of Alan Cox who plays Archie Clerk Kerr the Russian ambassador and Jo Herbert who plays Sally Powell, the translator from the RAF, trying to nanny him and Churchill going 'NO! I WANT A GRAMAPHONE THAT WORKS! I WANT TO DRINK VODKA AND TALK!' whilst Allam is all the time channelling the underlying authority and gravitas needed to play the great man. The Orange Tree is a tiny space, theatre-wise. Allam fills it so completely.

Another two moments I loved were Churchill signing Svetliana Stalin's copy of David Copperfield (her monologue at the end will break you, it broke me) and the friendship (comradship) between the two translators (Sally Powell and Olga Dovshenko- played by Elisabeth Snegir). They are just trying to do their jobs- trying to give all the information they can to these two great men, but all the time they're having to play by the goverment line and then at the end, they're thrown out. It's up to Allam and Forbes to try and figure out just how these two men from completely different worlds would communicate when the fates of their countries and the western world is hanging in the balance and the diplomats look on in despair.

Do go, if you can. Or buy a ticket to the livestream. God bless you Orange Tree for continuing to stream your shows and making them accessible for those who can't make it to London. God bless you.

[girlactionfigure]

Seeing how Hamas supporters are being welcomed in Western countries, had me wondering about the opposite: how were Western people treated in Gaza?

Here are some of the findings:

2004:

4 French civilians and their Palestinian colleague, were kidnapped by the Abu-Reish Brigades.

3 foreign church volunteers, a British, an Irishman and an American, were kidnapped by a Palestinian terrorist.

2005: 

3 British civilians, Kate Burton and her parents, were kidnapped by the Brigades of the Mujahideen. After their release, the terrorist who held them captive was warmly welcomed by a Palestinian crowd (including several Hamas terrorists). 

Dion Nissenbaum (an American Journalist), and Adam Pletts (a British photographer), were kidnapped by a Palestinian terrorist.

A Dutch school principal and an Austrian deputy were kidnapped by a Palestinian terrorist. 

2006:

Fox News channel journalists, Olaf Wiig and Steve Centanni, were kidnapped by the Holy Jihad Brigades. They were released after being forced to convert to Islam.

Two French journalists and one from South Korea, were kidnapped in Gaza by Palestinian terrorists.

2 Italian ICRC workers, Claudio Moroni and Gianmarco Onorato, a Palestinian terrorist.

2007:

A Peruvian AFP journalist, Jaime Razuri, was kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists, and held in captivity for a week.

A BBC reporter, Alan Johnston, was kidnapped by The Army of Islam, and held in captivity for more than 100 days.

2011: 

The pro-Palestinian activist Vittorio Arrigoni, was kidnapped and executed by The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima. 

A note for the LGBTQ community: in 2021, Forbes piblished an article ranking the most dangerous place for LGBTQ to travel. Regarding Gaza and the West Bank, they stated: “In the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, the anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is taken very seriously, with homosexual acts resulting in up to ten years in prison”.

Do you think that some of the Western Hamas supporters would at least stop supporting them, knowing all of that? 

The sources, as always, are attached below.

Sources: 1. Footage reports regarding the incidents: https://youtu.be/ZLz2Sa6LxNY?si=H4eiDBca9JXz0xxe

[cursemyexistences]

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danny, she/her

୨ৎ 21, gemini, sweetest girl in town

୨ৎ caroline forbes & paris gellers love child

୨ৎ girlblogger, angel, academic (know-it-all)

୨ৎ love reading, math, shopping, working out, skincare, ballet, coffee, and sleeping

🎧 lana del ray, chet baker, cigs after sex, gregory alan isakov, hozier, johnny cash, led zeppelin, mitski, smashing pumpkins, the neighborhood

📖 crime and punishment, eileen, pride and prejudice, metamorphosis, the secret history

i’d love to be mutuals!

DNI nsfw or ed blogs i will report u :(

[citizenscreen]

Director George Marshall watches as Alan Dinehart examines Sara Haden in a trial scene from THE CRIME OF DR. FORBES (1936)

[justforbooks]

Sir Kenneth Grange

A giant of 20th-century design whose products – from food mixers to lamps and trains – became staples of British life

Kenneth Grange, who has died aged 95, was the leading British product designer of the second half of the 20th century. Even if unaware of his name, most people in Britain are familiar with his output: the Kenwood Chef food mixer, the Kodak Instamatic camera, the Ronson Rio hairdryer, the Morphy Richards iron. These everyday objects are part of all our histories. Grange was also responsible for the restyling of the InterCity 125 high-speed train and the 1997 TX1 version of the London taxi.

He was a tall, handsome, ebullient man, a joker with that element of inner moral purpose often found in the designers of his postwar generation. He grew up imbued with a determination to make the world a better place visually, his emphasis always on functional efficiency. Grange was a master at reassessing usage, but he also viewed design in terms of sheer enjoyment. He wanted us to share in the surprising grace of the experience as the 125 train comes hurtling down the track.

When he set up his own design consultancy in 1956, Grange was one of just a handful of designers operating in the world of what were then quaintly called consumer goods. Many of his early commissions came via the Council of Industrial Design (now the Design Council), a governmental body set up with the remit of improving national design standards. Grange’s commission to design Britain’s first parking meter, the Venner, introduced in 1958, came via the council. So too did his introduction to Kenneth Wood, proprietor of the firm in Woking whose domestic products were marketed as Kenwood. Grange’s clean-lined and user-friendly Kenwood Chef food mixer became a housewives’ status symbol of its time.

Like his near contemporary Vidal Sassoon, Grange came from a non-artistic background and had a similarly innate sense of visual style. Both men were quintessentially 1960s talents, Sassoon with his geometric haircuts, Grange with a succession of urbane modern products for a new, self-consciously fashionable age. He became a prime designer for the growing market in “portable accessories”: pens for Parker, cigarette lighters for Ronson, the melamine and smoked perspex Milward Courier shaver which, in 1963, won the Duke of Edinburgh’s prize for elegant design (now known as the Prince Philip Designers prize). Did Prince Philip himself use it? Grange insisted that he did.

In 1972 Grange joined four of the rising stars of his profession – Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby��and Mervyn Kurlansky – in founding the ultra-modern design group Pentagram. This was a multidisciplinary consultancy described by Grange as “a one-stop shop” providing specialist services in graphic design and advertising, architecture and – Grange’s own area – product design.

Pentagram became the bee’s knees of design consultancies: ambitious, professional, intelligent and jaunty. It attracted loyal clients, including Reuters, for whom Grange designed the Reuters monitor, a state-of-the-art computer terminal and keyboard, superbly well engineered in heavy silver aluminium sheet.

Through the 70s Grange was occupied with the most high profile of his design commissions: the aerodynamics, interior layout and exterior shaping of the nose cone of British Rail’s High Speed Train (HST). The InterCity 125 was a key element in BR’s strategy to woo passengers away from cars and planes and back on to the trains. However the first HST prototype they came up with was, in Grange’s opinion, “a lumpish, brutish thing”.

He realised he could only improve the appearance by first tackling the aerodynamics. On his own initiative (and at his own expense) he spent a week at night working with a consultant engineer at Imperial College London, where there was a wind tunnel. In the course of these experiments they developed a number of new ideas, getting rid of the buffers, hiding the couplings in the underside of the nose cone, and giving the train a more futuristic look.

It was launched in 1976 with its radical, dynamically angled nose design. Grange was always careful to give credit to the expertise of the engineers he worked with. All the same, it was his major triumph and a lasting symbol of the best of mid-20th-century British design. The HST – still in use today on selected passenger services after almost 50 years – transformed the public experience of travelling by train.

He was born in east London, the son of Hilda (nee Long), a machinist, and Harry Grange, an East End policeman. Kenneth was brought up in what he once vividly described as “a bacon-and-eggs kind of house”, respectably furnished with a three-piece suite and flowery curtains, the dominant colour being brown. Nevertheless his parents supported his chosen career in what was then termed “commercial art”. During the second world war, the family had moved to Wembley in north London, and Kenneth won a scholarship to Willesden School of Art and Crafts where, from the age of 14, he studied drawing and lettering.

These basic skills gave him the entree to a succession of architects’ offices: Arcon; Bronek Katz and R Vaughan; Gordon and Ursula Bowyer; and, from 1952, the remarkably versatile architect and industrial designer Jack Howe – all of these were modernists and prime movers in the postwar campaign to rebuild Britain using newly available materials and techniques.

Grange took part in the 1951 Festival of Britain, working alongside Gordon and Ursula Bowyer on the Sports Pavilion for the South Bank exhibition. For so many of Grange’s generation of designers – including Sir Terence Conran and my husband, David Mellor – the festival would be a lasting inspiration. As Grange later recollected: “You couldn’t walk a step without seeing something unlikely – the cigar-shaped Skylon, the huge Dome of Discovery, extraordinary metal sculptures, waterfalls that twisted and turned. Nothing was like anything I had ever seen before.”

Where much of British design was still craft-based, dominated by ideas that went back to William Morris, Grange felt the fascination of machine production. He was excited by the sleek designs based on new technology beginning to infiltrate Britain from the US, describing the moulded plastic Eames chair for example as “a rocket ship exploding into our narrow world”. I remember being impressed on my first visit to his house in Hampstead, north London, to find him the possessor of not just one Eames lounge chair but three.

Grange’s natural resilience stood him in good stead through the 70s and 80s, those lean years for designers when British manufacturing lost its way and, as he described it, “unbridled accountancy became the new dynamic in British industry”. He was glad of foreign clients, especially enjoying working in Japan where the innate Japanese awareness of design delighted him. An especially successful commission was a sewing machine designed for the Maruzen Sewing Machine Co in Osaka, to be marketed in Europe. On trips to Japan he started what became a considerable collection of beautiful wooden geisha combs.

Pentagram itself was flourishing, moving in 1984 from Paddington to larger and more stylish premises in a renovated dairy in Notting Hill. At this period it employed more than 80 designers and assistants in different disciplines, and the communal dining room became an ever-welcoming talking shop, a gathering point for London’s design world of the time. I remember some marvellous parties at Pentagram, including the celebration of Grange’s marriage in 1984 to Apryl Swift.

For Grange himself the 1980s brought increasing public recognition. In 1983 a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Boilerhouse at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

At this point he was already being lauded as Britain’s most successful product designer. He was made CBE in 1984, and knighted in 2013. In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art and in 1986 became master of the elite group of Royal Designers for Industry. Success never spoilt him. He had a streak of self-denigrating humour and retained a kind of boyish innocence, as if he could hardly believe his good luck.

The sheer challenge of the job had always been his driving force. After his retirement from Pentagram in 1997, after 25 years as a partner, he and Apryl embarked on a project of their own, converting an ancient stone-built barn in the remote countryside near Coryton in Devon into a spectacular modern home with a spiral staircase of highly ingenious modular construction. Completion took five years; Grange commuted weekly between London and Devon, travelling on his familiar High Speed Train.

In 2011 the Design Museum held a retrospective, Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern. He continued to design into his 80s. Late commissions included the perfect men’s shirt for the fashion designer Margaret Howell; an updated range of classic lights – the Type 3, Type 75 and, in his 90th year, the Type 80 – for Anglepoise, for whom he had been made design director in 2003; and a really comfortable collection of chairs for elderly people. General levels of design for the aged population made him angry. “Where is the decent modernist care home?” he would ask.

Typical of Grange’s zany 60s humour was his design of a man-shaped timber bookcase that converted to a coffin, the ultimate exercise in recycling. “If I ever pop my clogs, it’s books out and me in, with the lid fixed, up to the great client in the sky.”

Two earlier marriages ended in divorce. Apryl survives him.

🔔 Kenneth Henry Grange, designer, born 17 July 1929; died 21 July 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[chussyracing]

What is happening in the world of motorsports?

Ducati won MotoGP constructors after Bagnaia won in Thailand

Williams added yellow color to their livery for Mercado Libre sponsorship

Marko has been yapping that Mark Webber has been in contact with Red Bull for potential seat for Oscar

But also Zak Brown and Helmut Marko had like. A lil beef over media about Lando and his mental health (tbh I didn’t read further into it I just hope they all disappear)

Oh and Marko also said that Red Bull will choose Max’s teammate for 2025 at the end of this season

Speaking of Oscar, he appeared in Australian Forbes in category 30 under 30

And Franco was on the cover of Forbes Argentina!!

Also McLaren lodged a right to review for the penalty Lando got in COTA, the penalty got rejected like everyone expected, because they didn’t bring any new or substantial facts for the decision making

On the other hand there are reports from Craigh Slater (I probably butchered the name I am sorry) that the drivers meeting sparked a fire debate about overtaking rules, track limits and having a nose first in the apex, so FIA basically admitted there is a gap in the regulations that Max is using to his favour and they will close it up, so the overtaking rules will change from Qatar onwards

Franco mentioned he probably won’t have an F1 seat until at least 2026 despite rumours that Red Bull and Sauber both were looking into his contract options (probably for VCARB in Red Bull’s case)

Jock Clear reported that Ferrari didn’t change the flexibility of their front wing to resemble those of MCL and Merc (I am not convinced but ok)

Alonso officially gets his 400th start in F1 today (he also missed out on Thursday aka media day because he is sick)

George had to get checked in medical center after his FP2 crash which was worth about 30G

After COTA promoters got fined for track invasion, they are now looking to fix another thing – track limits (there is a word about installing gravel traps like they did at Red Bull Ring)

Fun fact from the FP1 session featuring all the rookies: Robert Shwartzman got a 5 places grid drop penalty for the next race he enters (if ever) for overtaking under double yellow flags

Horner said that Yuki will be testing RB20 at the end of the season in Abu Dhabi (but who knows)

McLaren brought major floor upgrade to Mexico but only for Lando so far

Alan Walker apparently published his Charles Leclerc remix in a new EP Neon Nights (I am not even kidding)

George’s upgraded floor (the one he broke in COTA) won’t be available until Brazil at least

There is a rumour Valtteri is in talks to become Mercedes’ reserve driver (he will be put on the shelf next to Mick help)

Bruno del Pino joined MP Motorsport in F3, while Matias Zagazeta will join DAMS in F3

Lia Block is racing in F4 for ART in Monza this weekend

American Express is now F1’s official partner, so it will appear at GPs next year

Jaguar and Nissan both breached the cost cap in FE (they will miss the first half day of testing and received a financial fine)

Nikolas Tombazis confirmed it wasn’t just McLaren (who admitted they did further changes to their rear wing) that was hit with clarifications and had to change up their design a bit

Max and Checo got a… couple of the year award?? Um?

Charles became a jet fighter pilot, the footage will come out on 3rd November on canal plus

Last but not least, happy belated birthday Roscoe Hamilton!!