#Diana Schmitt

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

✨ National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) is celebrated in April. The first Arab American Heritage Day was celebrated on October 25, 1992. NAAHM celebrates the heritage and culture of Arab Americans and Arabic-speaking Americans. It also recognizes the contributions of Arab Americans to the United States, including:

🌙 The history of Arab migration to America 🌙 The diversity within the Arab American community 🌙 Important customs and traditions 🌙 The fight for civil rights and social justice

✨ NAAHM also serves as a time to: 🌙 Combat Anti-Arab bigotry 🌙 Challenge stereotypes and prejudices

✨ In 2023, the president declared April National Arab American Heritage Month. However, I felt it necessary to recognize Arab American Heritage Day this year, too. I'm Palestinian 🇵🇸, but growing up, I never saw that word printed on a page, never saw it recognized as a nationality in novels or newspapers. We're here. We exist. We will not be erased, ignored, or silenced.

✨ In celebration of these voices, here are a few books by Arab and 🇵🇸Palestinian authors to consider adding to your TBR.

🌙 A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum 🌙 Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Woman From Tantoura by Radwa Ashour 🌙 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat 🌙 Crescent by Diana Abu Jaber 🌙 Salt Houses by Hala Alyan 🌙 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 🌙 As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 🌙 Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi 🌙 Silence is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar 🌙 The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Exhausted on the Cross by Najwan Darwish 🌙 Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited by Kareem Rabie 🌙 My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh 🌙 Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd 🌙 Among the Almond Trees by Hussein Barghouthi 🌙 Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (edited) by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean 🌙 The Book of Ramallah (edited) by Maya Abu Al-Hayat 🌙 Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine (edited) by Samer al-Saber and Gary M. English 🌙 Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy al-Asheq 🌙 Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh 🌙 Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance (edited) by Ahmad Qabaha and Rachel Gregory Fox 🌙 The Dance of the Deep-Blue Scorpion by Akram Musallam 🌙 Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands by Sonia Nimr 🌙 The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt 🌙 Evil Eye by Etaf Rum 🌙 A Child in Palestine by Naji al-Ali 🌙 Murals by Mahmoud Darwish 🌙 Farah Rocks by Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Halal Hot Dogs by Suzannah Aziz, illustrated by Parwinder Singh 🌙 Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine by Rifk Ebeid, illustrated by Lamaa Jawhari 🌙 The Olive Tree Said to Me by N. Salem 🌙 Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah 🌙 Don't Read The Comments by Eric Smith 🌙 Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe 🌙 Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa 🌙 The Lady of Tel Aviv by Raba’i al-Madhoun 🌙 Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family by Najla Said

[sciencelings-arts]

after about half a year since I got the lineart commissioned, I finally finished doing the colors for my girls! All set in the fantasy cycle where they’re all based off of humanoid mythical beings. They’re arranged from earliest colored to latest. If anyone wants info on any of them I would be happy to infodump everything about them. 

@cindersart THANK YOU FOR DRAWING THEM SO GOOD I LOVE THEM IN YOUR STYLE

[science-lings]

Eyes are the window to the soul

if you can recognize which OC which eyes belong to I will officially be proud of you. Seperate pictures under the cut.

[thewomanwhowatchedchristmas]

The Borrowed Christmas (2014)

This movie is full of accidental cringe.

The premise is that John Dale (Jeff Rose), a wealthy, single man, walks into a rental shop, owned and ran by Anne Weston (Sherry Morris). He says that he wants to rent a Christmas. She thinks he’s joking, but she plays along, asking for details. He requests all the trappings of a “Norman Rockwell Christmas” including a wife and five children. He then writes a huge check and says that if she needs more, he’s good for it. Anne struggles to wrap her mind around the idea while her teenage employee Jimmy (Craig Bryant Belwood) goes on about how crazy John is.

Anne takes the challenge seriously and goes to John’s house to interview his staff for more information. Bridget (Diana Schmitt), the housekeeper, and Martha (Doris Collier), the cook, help and are involved throughout the whole ordeal. At first, Anne plans to hire actors for the family, but between it being Christmas and a measles outbreak in child actors, the actor’s gild falls through. Jimmy lives in the local orphanage (because of course he does) so they decide he can be the oldest son and the rest of the kids can come from the orphanage, too. Anne eventually runs out of options and decides to be the wife herself. Jean (Tess Smith), Cynthia (Bailey Rossetti), Willie (Chance Caeden), and Lettie (Charlotte Rose Evans) come in to be the other four children. They stay for about 24 hours, starting the afternoon of Christmas Eve. John is blown away by all of it and deeply touched by all the small details Anne includes.

Aside from the premise being insane and renting children from an orphanage being ethically disgusting (they were offered pay for their acting, but they all refused, calling it their gift to Mr. Hale), the acting in this movie is terrible. The only ones who were okay were the children. All of the adult actors were phoning it in a little too hard. It was painful to watch. Overall, 1 star.

[krispyweiss]

Al Schmitt Dies at 91

- Studio wizard is credited with working on more than 150 gold and platinum albums

Al Schmitt - “the most honored and awarded recording producer/engineer of all time,” according to his family - died April 26.

He was 91; no cause was given.

“The world has lost a much loved and respected extraordinary individual, who led an extraordinary life,” Schmitt’s family said in a statement.

Schmitt worked on more than 150 gold- and platinum-certified albums.

“A legend. An icon. A friend,” Capitol Records said in a statement. “Al was not only the most celebrated and decorated engineer, but also the most beloved.”

He took home 23 Grammy Awards in a career that found him working with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Diana Krall, Dr. John, Natalie Cole, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Spirit, Toto and innumerable others.

“Today sounds a lot less good,” Toto’s Steve Lukather tweeted.

That’s because Schmitt had “the best ears in the biz,” per a tweet from Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson. Steve Perry eulogized him as “one of my biggest heroes.”

A contemporary of Les Paul, Schmitt “personified everything Les devoted his life to do,” the Les Paul Foundation said in a tweet. “They admired each other very much.”

Schmitt remained active well into his ninth decade and worked with the Mavericks on their En Español LP in 2019.

“It was a great honor of our career,” the band said.

Alan Parsons, who engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, called Schmitt “an inspiration to us all ... a true genius of sound.”

4/27/21

[incorrect-aubreyad-quotes]

Mrs. Williams: Diana, I didn't raise you to embarrass me like that

Diana: You didn't raise me

Mrs. Williams: That's what I just said

[sweetheartofsecondlife]

The Loft 10/9

A mellow Friday evening with some mellow tunes. 

Ron Brown - You Are Not Alone Dorado Schmitt - Topsy Gábor Szabó - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) Susan Wong - Close To You Fapy Lafertin - Brazilian Melody Romane - Indigo Jimmy Rosenberg - Nature Boy Susan Wong - Blame It On the Boogie Ray Charles - How Long Blues Django Reinhardt - St. Louis Blues Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come Greyboy - La Jolla Susan Wong - California Dreaming Diana Krall - Too Marvelous For Words The Cook Trio - Besame Mucho The Jazz Masters - That Rainy Day Susan Wong - Killing Me Softly With His Song Café Lounge - The Loco Motion (Aloha Cafe Version) Biel Ballester Trio - Atomic Gypsy Swinging Gonzalo Bergara - Buenos Aires Susan Wong - Fly Me To The Moon The Hot Club Of San Francisco - Dont' Bother Me Django Reinhardt - Brazil Dinah Washington - It's a Mean Old Man's World

[rhinocerosproject]

Sewing Circle Participants

Sewing Circle Participants

Thank you to everyone who participated in sewing the rhinoceros! We could never have finished it without you. You are forever in our hearts.

Deanna Cruise                   back

Juliana Pennington            shoulder

Yue Yang Caigla Zou          back

Yuen (Jessica) Chen           back

Kelly White                         shoulder

Athena Johns                     leg

Antoinette Barton               head

Erica Lipshultz                   rump

Marc Fletcher                    back left foot

Siobhan Cassidy               front right leg

Elisa Li                               head

Harry Yu                             head

Beth Thomas                     snout

Erica Barajas                     forehead

Vivian Romney                  shoulder

Zoe Walker                       head

Amy Khalmann                 rear flank

Alina Hayes                      feet

Janice Wood                    rear flank

Barb Bakun                      head

Andi Wong                       rear flank

Sarah Stein                      back, thigh

Chloe Marrinstein            head, foot, outline, da booty

Sadie Marrinstein            thigh

Amanda H. Johnson       head, foot, outline 

Kaila Wood                     head, foot, outline

Leah Johnson                 head, foot, outline

Ani Mukerji                      back leg

Inka Mukerji                    back leg

Winnie Ding                    rear flank

Jennifer White                back feet

August White                 back feet

Neve Schmitt                 head

Michelle Schmitt            head

Sigrid                             foot

Leah Anderson              foot

Mary Kenny                   rump

Isle Oritt                         rump

Olga                              back leg

Dustin                           rhinobum!

Linnea Furlog                head

Pam Deluco                  rear leg, haunch, elbow, letters

Jeff Thomas                  back

Bryan Barkley               rear

Mary Wheeler               back top flank

Teri Gardiner                tail hair, rump, belly, ridge of back

Robin Hill                     rump

Darcy Padilla                stomach

Emily Clark-Krasner     rear

Yuen Chen                   leg

Jodi Connelly                back

Noah Greene                belly

Ryan Meyer                  belly and back

Arielle Rebek                belly

Muzi LaRowe                eyes

T. Blackmon                  bottom

Bettina Pauley               tail

Allyson Feeney              rump

Mark Baugh-Sasaki      back foot

Dox Lorax                     haunch

Kelli Rae                        rump

Cesar Rubio                  unknown

Ho Yan Nip                   unknown

Frank Merritt                all over, circles, edges, hindquarters, shoulder, rump, dark purple bottom edge of shoulder armor, behind the ear

Kim Miskowicz            rump, right foot, rear/rump

Julia Langer                buttocks

Jonathan Coignard     buttocks

Suzanne Gore             haunch

Kelly Wang                  from hip to buttock

Steve Rasmussen       rear leg

Bob Rocco                  rump

Odysseus Wolken       upper rump

Juliette Langley           lower rump

Fehim Haelzic              crown/forehead

Leyla Haelzic               crown/forehead

Tanja Gels                   head

Lisa Ekstrom               from right leg, forehead

Eva Walker                  front leg

Sara Wright                 eye

Karrie Hovey               shoulder

M. Dym                       a wrinkle on the head

Amy M. Ho                  front foot, forehead

Dave Lyons                 just below eye

Mel Day                       forehead

Heather Peters            ear

Helen Hiebert              butt

Alyssa Casey              neck, horn

Vanessa Gingold         rump

Mary V. Marsh             front right toe, ear

Antonio Guerra            letra C

Jenny Phillips               hands

Ingrid Rojas Contreras hoof

Maia Wachtel                 lines on the back

Roli Douglas                  the top line

Noga Wizansky              rump

Suzanne Forester          border line

Cindy Steiler                 face

Alexa Boromo               behind

Amber Hoy                   back

Melody Dalton              back

Cheyenne Dalton          rear feet

Elizabeth Boyne            ear

Teddy Midler                front foot

Drew Cameron            face

Cathy DeForest            front left hoof

Leah Korican                face

Mayumi Hamanaka       r - text   

Dana Zed                      shoulder

Erin Sheanin                  knee

Alisha Funkhouser        front foot

Debbie Walker              unknown

Nancy Marriner            tail

Summer Om                face

Eraden Wordal Chesh  face

Isle Oritt                       knee

Mary Grace Tate          toe

Sophia Auen                face

April Marriner               tail

Charlotte Semmes       snout

Andre Chevonier          foot

Jane Cassidy               foot

Kellen Rhoda               foot

Meiasha Gray              border

Samantha Bankston    back foot

Winship Varnes            hindquarters

Miranda McFarland      belly

Susan Paigen               nose

Kevin Holmes               ear

Jackie Wallowheng       plants

Beta Heist Morello        edge

Elaine Todd                   nose and edge near nose

Lori Chambers              back foot

Mickie McCormic          foot scales

Jeremy Logan                ear hair

Brook Craddock            mythical horn!

Morning Hullinger          toe jam back foot, shoulder flank, final inner

C.C. Chaya                    scales

Lolli Jacobsen                back

Sarah Crews                  rump

Connie Burket                ears

Debbie Divine                rear leg

Martha Rhea                  hindquarters

Donna Sandberg            along the top of the back shoulder and letter H

Pam Morgan                  back

Ruth Cathcard Rake      front leg and letter R

Gretchen Boyum           front leg, front foot

Rachel Butler                 front leg

Lucy Butler                    front leg

Bill North                       butt, ground, back right foot

Caroline Stoll                 head

April Engstrom              back right leg/hip

Connie Wilson              close to face

Gloria Gonzalez            hind foot

Judy Nease                  chin

Alleigh Weems             horn

Lyndsi Weems             back foot

Karla Prickett               rump

Jennifer Baker             back

Kent Manske               spots

Susan Tuoley              back foot and butt

Susan Paigen             nose

Christina Steinbrecher       pfrandt (lower leg)

Yeqi Song                    legs

Yuan Luo                     legs

Jenny Chin (Kuan-Jen)    legs

Jingying Liang             back leg

Jianguyin Reng           back leg

Beth Abdallah             back flank

Rebecca Redman       back leg

Michael Seidel            kidney lining

Rita Hsing                   head

Sandy Lee                  back

Chelsea Herman        back

Marie Kidd                 right front foot

David Kidd                 right front foot

Amy Whitcomb          rump

Bob Carpenter           nose

Barbara Carpenter     nose

Cynthia Beecher        ear

Leteb Beecher           ear

Susan Sweet             ear

CK Itamura                hamhock

Dionne Thornton       front left foot, butt edge

Robert Wuilfe            da booty

Gina Ching                front foot

Jordan Juel               front foot

Anne Ingraham         front foot

Michelle Waters        butt

Elizabeth Addison     foot

Lydia Nakashima Dagarod        shoulder

Linda Joy Kettwinkel                 snout

Peggy George          butt

Maryly Snow            scales

Zelisa                       back end

Scott Partch            back end

Chin Cox                 head

Hada Marshall Booth            head

Eduardo Arenas       leg

Luna Gomez            head

Sauita Patel             gog (back)

Brian Lease             back leg

Islonia Hasbrim       frente

Guadalupe Portillo             espalda

Queen Krubally       back

Bridget McCraken             back

Margaret Coston     back

Kathleen Murphy     belly

Julie Grigoryan        ear

Joyce Subel            border

Yatit Maidorh          head

Omer                      head

Alon                        head

Rooek                     head

Eli                           head

Posja Mahushwai            neckline

Talia                        nose

Ella                          ear

Jonathan                nose

Nancy Brunn          back

Sabina Brunn         ears

Judith Fast            back

Lindsey Stoll          hoof

Emily Marks           head

Victor Vargas          chin

Britt-Marie Alon      horn

Al Bloch                  horn

Alyssa Flores          horn

John Hoffmeyer     border

Madison Cockrum             head

Anthony Murillo      border

Sheri Simons          front legs

Emily Matherson     face

Hana Jones             hoof (back foot)

Angela Kirchebel     bottom left corner border,

                                 small area of right foot, scales

Adele Etcheverry Sheets        upper border rear and rear of Rhino

Leslie Jurado            back leg, hoof scales

Jaime Muñoz            shoulder

Aiden Ginn                back leg

Sheecid Lopez          border and back leg

Sophy Hock              shoulder

Nancy Scott Patton            rump

Hana Beaty                  shoulder, back leg

Eric D’Alessandro        lower jaw

Betsy Copeland          leg and hoof

Kylie McCloskey         horn

Dellanira Carrillo          butt

Jose Llamos                hoof (back foot)

Timothy Clancy           forehead

Kobley Benjamin Mona        shoulder

Alicia Ramirez              foot

Kim Green                    upper thigh/butt

Francesca Figone        left back

Josette Stokes             shoulder

Mercedes Yatta            foot

Luis Medina                 booty

Shane Geoge               face (under eye)

Ellen Baird                    foot

Daria Booth                  shoulder

Adria Davis                   backside

Johnny Bruno               back foot

Brianna Warren             leg

Adrienne Glatz              forehead

Mallory Frucha              bum

Kelly Weber                  front and back legs

Carissa Duggan            booty

Jasmin Gonzalez          foot

Francis Newsom           rear end

Shari Maxson Hopper        shoulder

Veronica Brenck            butt

Marie Fox                     rump, front foot, back foot

Chloe Taylor                 root

Marissa Winslow         rump/tail

Shai Porath                 head

Linda Bea Miller          tummy

Tom Seoul                  rump

Kathleen Ritchie         unknown

Sue Bottom                front leg

Lisa Chu                     forehead

Anne Ingraham           hind foot

Chris Voisard              rump

Jane McLaughlin        front foot

Malinda Thompson    rear leg

Mallory Nomura Saul        tusk and back

Judy Shintani             tummy and rump

Kevin Austin               top of nose, bottom of horn

Claudia Molley           top of head, behind ear

Kate Oltmann             butt

Amanda Bosma         wrinkle on face

Xittaly Vasquez           back leg

Emily Murray               torso wrinkle

Julia Albo                    border

Miriam Hassman         neck/face

Ryan Patton                back left leg

Alexa Weber                chin and left front leg

Jiovanny Soto             forehead

Jenny Harp                 lower back

Steven Garen              nose/head

Tallulah Terryl              leg

Johanna Arnold          back

Sean Olson                 muzzle

Emma Spertus            back

Chris Challans            loin, belly

Susan Kanowith-Klein        rump

Christina Aumann       eyelashes and forehead

Ruth Souza                 misc dorsal area

Phuong Pham             booty

Laurie Crogan             shoulder-scales

Lorna Turner               armpit

Eva Hausam               chin wavy lines

David Reiman             shoulder

Lanqin Wang              forehead

Camryn Travis            belly

Jennifer Munnings     eye/cheek

Brooke Sommers       belly

Katie Gallagher          ribs

Sariah Gonzalez        forehead

Anthony Isenhour      shoulder

Berenika Boberska    the bottom!

Taylor Hoogsteden    hip

Carmina Ellison         sideburns

Nicole McHale           shoulder blade

Preeva Tramiel           back leg

Jessica Bernhardt     front leg

Milldrid Thompson    ear

Sharon Robinson       front leg

Timiza Wagner           back leg

Bobbie Jeffery            rear of body

Joanne Landers          ear

Sylvia Stanger            front leg

Paula Landers            back leg

Charlotte Jacobs        front leg

Mavis Brown               front shoulder

Cheryl Batrato            haunch

Kathy Goldmaker        shoulder

Liz Matthews              back leg above the foot

Sailee Pawar               back leg

Andrea Fleiner            belly

Marina Taniform         leg

Andres Taniform         leg

Rose Nguyen             ribs

Marco Chavez           ribs

Lily May Larson         cheek

Rachel Williamson    back leg

Cheryl Zuur               above the eye

Kathy Willis               hindquarters

Martha White            hindquarter

Artemis Koren          head

Anika Sykora            tummy

Irene Floyd                hindquarter

Ming Zhou                head

Max Koren                front leg

Dinah Irino                 ear

Maya                          leg

Morgan Carter            head

Ava Kasim                   the hinney

Isabella Anderson       back

Ian Kussi-Gillu            shoulder

Viyada Satyapan         upper front back

Mahvash Salehpour    back hip

Christina Bayley          back foot

Pam Schwartz             left leg

Lynn Koolish                back leg

Sandra Duncan            front hoof

Emily Rosenberg           right leg

Gina Dixon                    back leg

Tamara Sommerfield     neck

Diana R. Reton              rear leg

Candace Kling               shoulder

Cindy Jacomette            head

Nicki Hitz Edison            front leg

Toru Sueto                     front left leg

Jeanne Sueto                under eye, along lower jaw

Linda Goss                    rear hip

Kim Meuli Brown           back ribs

Michael Chin                 chin

Kasla Melton                 right back leg (pierna derecha)

Vanessa Herrera            right back thing

Wendy Brown                back leg

Jack Fleig                      front leg

Amanda Fleig                front leg

Shobitha                       belly

Sasha                           back

Marilyn                         rear haunch

Caden Jo Hartdegen            head/neck

Yolanda Araujo            unknown

Meredith Payn            unknown

Tiffany Hartdeger        unknown

Richard                       cheek

Hanna Peacock          shoulder

Juan Manuel Gutierrez        rear hip

Paola Valencia             head

Jesus Castillo              head

Diego Barregan            shoulder

Hernandez Irvin            belly

Cindy Simmons            cheek

Ginna Sierra                  upper leg 

Carole Walters-Cook     face

Angela Etsey                 back leg and thigh

Victor Navarro IV           V neck

Elizabeth Finkler           ear

Jennifer Lu                   lower tummy

Kylee Dougherty          neck

Jada Wong                  stomach

Kerwin Azores             back knee

Hugo Jimenez             head

Becca Wong                neck

Breanna Estrada          unknown

Candaces Perrault       shoulder

Kevin Liu                      belly and front of leg plates

Michael Huang Mil      back leg

Natalie Diazza             chin hairs

Eliza Villa                     dorsal neck

Steve Dellicalpini        in that neck tho!

Michelle van Eyken     right flank

Leslie McLaughlin       shoulder circles

Angela Acosta            front leg

Allison Acosta            front shoulder circle

Rebecca Bui              upper back leg

Barbara Post              back foot

Irene Caravajal           back leg

Gabrielle Koizumi       neck

Clayton Bavor            front leg

Ava Eui                      front leg

Judy Diamond           upper shoulder

Mhanna Kutras           front leg

Liam                           neck

Leona                         neck

Leana Olliffe                stomach

Patti Samuelson          right leg

A. Manley                     neck plates

Donna King                  right shoulder

Becky Leech                right hindquarters

Raymond Mueller         front left leg

Timmy                           shoulder

Asher Fleig                    front leg

Julia                               back leg

Nicole B                        chest

L. Hum                          hind leg

Alice Schwegman        shoulder

Gail Blackmarr             unknown

Christina Truong          neck

June Dao                     scale

Ellie Reese                   a rear leg

Susan L. Goranson     left rear leg

Marci Ariagno             breast shield

Maya                           unknown

Diane Mestu               head

Claudia Havah            back leg

Mickey Guffin              right upper hind leg

Annalise Sailen            unknown

Jennifer Schaeffer       front right leg

Mia                              rear leg

Joe Ranish                  right shoulder

Ann Ranish                 rear leg

Anthony                      left leg

Leslie Nobler               neck

Anne Trickey                back leg

Maris Kaplan               neck fold and front shoulder

Paula Bohan                neck fold

James Brooks              neck

Amanda Briggs            back right foot

Andrew Briggs             back right foot

Miriam Briggs              back right foot

Willow Yamaden          cheek

Sarah Bartman            neck

Bridget McMahon       flank

Amy Brown                jowl

Vanessa Dion Fletcher        jowl

Denera Gains             unknown

Justin Gains               unknown

Kurt Salinas                stomach/inner thigh

Randall Harrison         upper mid bicep

Ivy Moya                      back foot

Pam Lonero                 breast plate

Molly Olsen Roush      shoulder/neck area

Brook Olsen Roush     shoulder/neck area

Susie Miller Roush      shoulder/neck area

Reyhon Ertekin            unknown

Torres Leck                  shoulder

Anna Banancks           shoulder

Emily van Engel           front leg

Silvia Eckert                cheek

Davis Watson              breastplate

Debachree Ghosh       breastplate

Jessica Jane Jennings       cheek

Kimberly Ann Piper      shoulder

Alisa Murray                cheek

Jennifer Hill                 breastplate

Susan Ady                   cheek

Chris Washburn          neck

Janet Ady                    flank

Louise Horkey             border

Nupur Kamat              front shoulder

Tamela Holmes            ear

Tameyah Holmes         cheek

Ruth Tabancay            upper leg

Teddy Midler                shoulder

Jerry Majors Patterson        cheek area

Susan Afell                  eye area

Elaine Todd                 neck

Senator Jordan           cheek

Meadow                     unknown

Lori Chambers            neck

Josephine Tumova      neck

Fynn Tuma                   chest

Diana Dominguez        chest

Jason Godeke             neck

Cristina Mathews        belly and front right leg

Jody Alexander           neck, chest

Elaine Todd                 belly circles

Raquel Marquez          belly

Josslyn Robles            chest

Rhea Rynearson          shoulder

Valerie Frey                  shoulder

Aidan Parker      ��         shoulder, right shoulder

A. Parker                      right shoulder

Seraphine Ries            belly

Lid. C.                          belly

Jamelie                        whiskers

Carolyn Schneider       upper shoulder

Josh Morsell                lower front shoulder

Lia V. Wilson                middle breast

[aesterea-archived]

Yo do u have book recommendations? Any good horror stuff or books u think everyone should read?

i don’t read specifically for horror? but i have endless recommendations in the general sense. here are a few, listed regardless of genre/intended age groups, and excluding books that are already very popularly recommended:

howl’s moving castle — diana wynne jones (the book is very different from the movie. it’s like a completely different story)

where the mountain meets the moon — grace li

a monster calls — patrick ness

the scorpio races — maggie stiefvater

the graceling trilogy — kristin cashore

the winner’s trilogy — marie rutkoski

entwined — heather dixon

the mark of the dragonfly — jaleigh jones

the lost children  carolyn cohagen

uprooted — naomi novik 

the song of achilles — madeline miller

the blind assassin — margaret atwood

le petit prince (the little prince) — antoine de saint-exupéry

oscar et la dame rose (oscar and the lady in pink) — éric emmanuel schmitt

the master and margarita — mikhail bulgakov

love in the time of cholera — gabriel garcia marquez

the tale of desperaux — kate dicamillo

[shoewave]

Canjam Jams

Canjam is a one of a kind experience. Organised by Head-fi, these annual events are a unique space where audiophiles and their favourite manufacturers gather from all over the world to see, touch and hear the latest and coolest gear.  For just those two days, you’ll be able to find yourself talking to the Japanese amp engineers one minute, and trying out Polish custom earphones the next. It’s a feast for the ears. But that raises the question - as we look for gear to listen with, what do we listen to? 

Even in the very lively public space of Canjam, the act of listening to a track remains quite individual. I couldn’t help but wonder, what are the songs flowing through cables and drivers all over the room? For us audiophiles, what is the song we choose to press play on? So I went around Canjam Singapore 2019 and asked: 

“When you have your favourite setup, what’s the first, go-to, favourite song you play?” 

Below you’ll find responses from attendees, engineers, brand reps and distributors. Some interpreted this to mean test tracks, while others shared with me their favourite jams. The question phrasing is admittedly clunky, but I was hoping to get at that feeling where you listen to a song, and something clicks inside your heart. About that feeling when you unbox that latest buy and pick your first song to play for maximum pleasure. It’s not an easy thing to put into words, and after all, everyone has their own version of it. Nonetheless, I hope you’ll find this insightful in some way, and my heartfelt thanks goes to all those below who were kind enough to talk with me. In no particular order:

(Spotify playlist here)

Marco, Focal/Absolute Sound: Soulwax - Is it Always Binary. “And Queens of the Stone Age is good too.” With a background in producing electronic music, the pacing and beats on this Soulwax cut are something he really digs and listens for.

Megane, Focal: Diana Krall - Temptation, for the vocals, and Jennifer Warnes - Rock You Gently for that deep bass.

Kenneth, Focal/Absolute Sound: The Reddings - The Awakening Part 1. “Especially that bass slap.” He’s not one to pigeonhole himself into a single genre, but if he had to pick one this would be it. They usually leave the album on a loop for demo, so it’s one the whole crew’s gotten pretty familiar with, and for good reason - it’s an absolute banger. He also recommends the subsequent songs on the record: Doin’ It which has vocals, and I Want It for a slower mood. “But ultimately,” he adds, “if you don’t enjoy the song, what’s the point right?”

Lovin, Wired for Sound: Nobuo Uematsu - The Man with the Machine Gun (Distant Worlds Orchestral Version) “If the headphone can play this song without any problems, I’ll buy it.” He likes how the song takes you through the whole spectrum. Fast, slow, quiet, loud - all in 3 and a half minutes. He was kind enough to let me listen to it on his player, and it really gave my IEMs a workout. A very dynamic, energetic piece.

Takatoshi Seto, Acoustune: He responded instantly - ONE OK ROCK. Asked which song exactly, he had to think for a bit, then decided on one of their latest releases, Stand Out Fit In. 

Andreas Schmitt, InEar: He paused, deep in thought. “Ok, you know what are...classics?” Then looked me deliberately in the eyes as he listed each of the following: Adele - Hello, Yello - Limbo, Klaus Bedelt - He’s A Pirate, Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Berliner Philharmoniker), Herbie Hancock - Cantaloupe Island. 

Antony, Music Sanctuary: At first he took it to mean test tracks, but when I rephrased and asked him what puts a smile on his face, what he jams out to, he just lit up and responded with Twenty One Pilots - Fairly Local. Such bass power. 

Ito-san, Kumitate Lab’s engineer: He truly had a tough time deciding, as he will have a set of as many as 20 to 30 songs for tuning each IEM model he makes, and that each set is unique and diverse with songs stretching across decades and genres. I then asked if there’s a song that shows up more than most, or that he keeps coming back to, and after much thought and some banter with his colleagues in Japanese, he replied that there is one song he likes to use to test dynamic driver bass specifically - Yonezu Kenshi’s 打上花火 (Uchiage Hanabi). “If the bass is not tuned correctly, you can hear it in the rumbling.” For bass-treble balance, he listens to BUMP OF CHICKEN - ファイター (Fighter). Just a note, this song isn’t available on Spotify for me, so it isn’t in the playlist, but it is uploaded on youtube here . 

Kyo, Final Audio: “Ah...hmm...I think you may not know this singer...she is not really famous outside Japan.” He really enjoys female vocals - no surprise that he’s with Final then - and his first pick is MACO - Love for enjoyment, but also for testing because it’s usually on the top of his recently played list anyway.

Chingan, Final Audio: Lady Gaga - Always Remember Us This Way. This song is what’s on rotation for now, he likes to listen to the wide soundstage and fine details within. 

Albert, fellow attendee: Hailing from Indonesia, Albert shared that Hoff Ensemble - Hva Skal Hende Nå is one of his Top 3 songs to listen to. They’re a Norwegian band, and this album is aptly titled Quiet Winter Night. 

Piotr Granicki, Custom Art: FIBAE Black, the single-BA-that-does-not sound-like-one, went through over 20 iterations, and I decided to ask if there was a go-to song Piotr would use through that long tuning process. Like Ito-san, he had a tough time settling on one, saying that he tries to keep a big variation so that you know the IEM will handle a wide variety of things well. But, he kept coming back to Cane Hill - Singing in the Swamp. He would listen out for “this point about 30s in, where with just a drum beat, everything changes, and it becomes really loud.” Interestingly, unlike Ito-san, Piotr keeps more or less the same set of tracks in rotation across his models, so he can compare across his lineup more easily. I do wish I’d asked him though, whether listening to Singing in the Swamp gives him flashbacks of late nights at his workshop tuning up the FIBAE Black. Oh well, maybe next Canjam.

Herbert Zheng, Moondrop: Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, Mitsuko Uchida on piano. “Hey, she was actually very pretty when she was young,” says Herbert as I point to the album cover on Spotify. Classical music is the genre he mainly enjoys, but he chuckles and shares how working in the audio industry has messed with his listening habits. “We try to tune for the general audience, so we will look at everything in a customer’s playlist and just listen through the whole thing.” Which for him meant a lot of mandopop, since in China most western music and streaming platforms aren’t available. After all the pop though classical is still a mainstay in his playlist, alongside some J-pop nowadays (looking through the playlist, he actually recognised Uchiage Hanabi, though he knows it by the chinese pronounciation of the characters - da shang hua huo.) For this concerto he stressed that one has to listen to all three movements - though the first and third are his personal favourite. 

Sam Roney, Dekoni Audio: Sam’s was the quickest response on the list, immediately shooting back with Moloko - Sing It Back. “Snare-heavy” in his words, it’s an energetic track that would do well on the dancefloor - the Boris Dlugosch mix is an instant banger.  

Tal Kocen, Dekoni Audio: Tal took a bit longer to decide, but eventually said that he would come back to Fleetwood Mac. “Rumours, that whole record, you know?” If he had to pick one song off it, it’d be Fleetwood Mac - The Chain. A classic. 

Masuda Masanori, MASS-kobo: It took a couple rounds of translation, but after he understood the question, he immediately replied with Jen Chapin’s Jesus Children of America, pulled out his player, connected it to his model 404, gesturing for me to listen. I do, and it’s gorgeously full and vivid. He uses this song as a tester when he builds each of his amps, but it’s also one he enjoys. It turns out he got the CD with this song from Jen Chapin herself, decades ago when an engineer in LA introduced him to her. “Very rare, that time only released in USA, not in Japan. I also visited the recording studio where they recorded this album, showed them my amps, and the engineers there were very impressed,” he says, grinning. 

And that rounds it up...with no Hotel California at all, make of that what you will. Thanks again to the above folks for taking the time to entertain my questions. Even with all the high-end gear on show, one of the most valuable things at Canjam is always the community, the people, the conversations you have. It was wonderful getting all these different perspectives on audio and hearing how people enjoy their music. In the course of all these conversations, unavoidably the age-old question arose from time to time: are you using your gear to listen to your music, or using music to listen to your gear? Maybe even both? In the end we all agreed it’s a personal thing. You listen to what you like, you find tracks that work for you, whether you’re tuning an IEM, testing cans at the store, or just laid back at home. In that sense I admit that asking people to pick just one track is unfair. As many of the people listed above mentioned, one song isn’t going to cover all your moods, all the frequency ranges. 

But in this case, it’s not about the perfect track, but rather the perfect moment. It’s that that song or album or band that sticks out in your memory. Maybe it’s only with a specific setup, or it could be any old headphone, whichever. The music that when you first heard, or hear it now, just makes something click inside, you know? Just gives you that feeling of rightness. 

I remember fondly what that feels like for me, and I wanted to know how it was for others, hence this playlist. 16 different ‘peak listening experiences’, so to speak. What’s yours? 

[memestarsblog]

Diana Zur Löwen Geschätztes Vermögen

Diana Zur Löwen Geschätztes Vermögen Diana zur Löwen wurde in Butzbach, einer Stadt in Hessen, geboren. Im Jahr 2019 schloss sie ihr Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Universität zu Köln mit einer Bachelorarbeit zum Thema "Erfolgskriterien für Product Placement auf YouTube" ab. Sie absolvierte eine von der Industrie- und Handelskammer akkreditierte Projektmanagement-Ausbildung sowie ein Projektstudium im Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in Cambridge. 2018 gründete sie zusammen mit einem jungen Programmierer und Eventplaner die Codesign Factory, eine Beratungsfirma, die sich auf Social-Media-Themen für mittelständische Unternehmen spezialisiert hat. Zurzeit ist sie Geschäftsführerin. Sie und Aya Jaff haben das Unternehmen nach einer kurzen Zeitspanne - weniger als ein Jahr - wieder verlassen.

Diana Zur Löwen Geschätztes Vermögen Im Alter von 14 Jahren begann sie zu bloggen, und mit 16 begann sie, Online-Filme zu drehen. Auf ihrem YouTube-Kanal wurde Zur Löwen zunächst durch ihre Beiträge über Mode bekannt, in denen sie Fundstücke aus Secondhand-Läden präsentierte. Ab etwa 2019 haben die Kanäle von Zur Löwen ein neues Profil. Sie führt nun häufig Interviews mit Politikern, wie Philipp Amthor und Jean-Claude Juncker, und erklärt häufig das politische Thema, das behandelt wird. Gemeinsam mit der bayerischen Sozialministerin Kerstin Schreyer setzte sie sich dafür ein, dass junge Menschen eine Ausbildung als Beruf ergreifen. Nach eigenem Bekunden hat die "Fridays for Future"-Bewegung einen Einfluss auf die Veränderung ihrer Programme gehabt. Auch die Umweltkatastrophe wird in ihren Beiträgen thematisiert. Außerdem diskutiert sie über politische Themen in Europa, Geldangelegenheiten und sexualisierte Gewalt. Sie moderierte eine Podiumsdiskussion mit vier Frauen, darunter Franziska Giffey, Bundesfrauenministerin, und Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, Geschäftsführerin von HateAid, am 15. Oktober 2020 im Rahmen des "Aktionstages gegen digitale Gewalt" der Initiative "Stärker als Gewalt" des Bundesministeriums für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend.

Diana Zur Löwen Geschätztes Vermögen Diana zur Löwen ist laut Medienberichten eine der bedeutendsten und erfolgreichsten Influencerinnen in Deutschland. Auf ihrer Instagram-Seite wird sie als "Star mit Sex-, Flirt- und Partytipps" bezeichnet. Das ist nur deshalb erlaubt, weil sie mehr als 500.000 Abonnenten hat. Seit 2018 wird sie auch immer wieder gegrillt und gefragt, ob sie sich politisieren wolle. Der Ideologieexperte Wolfgang M. Schmitt hält zur Löwen für einen jener Influencer, die sich als "pseudopolitisch" ausgeben, aber "dezidiert nicht journalistisch arbeiten", sondern "lediglich ihre gefilterte 'Persönlichkeit' mit Lifestyle-Politik " und "im Glanz des Ruhms Politikerinterviews anprangern". In einem Videointerview, das zur Löwen im März 2020 auf Instagram postete, machte der Afrika-Korrespondent des Handelsblatts Wolfgang Drechsler unwidersprochene Bemerkungen über "den Afrikaner", die auf Twitter für Empörung sorgten. Nach den Reaktionen auf Twitter, wo ihr auch Rassismus vorgeworfen wurde, zog sie das Video zurück. Daraufhin wurde sie beschimpft und war Gegenstand eines Shitstorms. In einem Videointerview, das sie 2021 für Today gab, sprach sie über einen "Briefkasten voller Hass-Mails" und über Hass im Internet. In diesem Zusammenhang räumte sie ein, dass sie einen Fehler begangen hatte und sich um Wiedergutmachung bemühte.

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[sciencelings-arts]

I got a lineart commission from @cindersart and I couldn’t resist coloring it lol. Gwen and Diana have never looked better!

[science-lings]

You have made me curious. Please tell me about your oc's! What are their names? Why? Are they from a specific fandom or from a world of your own making? What do they look like? What is thier favorite fruit/color/food/drink? You made a spidersona a while back, right? Have you developed them more or have you moved on? (Sorry theese are a lot of questions at once you don't have to awnser all of them if u don't want to lol)

Okay so I have a great many main ocs so I’ll make little intros for them that answer each question lol

also here’s a link to the masterlist that might be more helpful and less rambly lol, it also links to art of the characters if you’re interested:

OC MASTERLIST

First of all, we have Rosalia (Rose) Scarlett Dawn who has healing powers, she (or at least her main design) started out as the spidersona you mentioned, but she evolved beyond even marvel oc territory lol. I draw her the most, she’s the one with red fading into white hair and sectoral heterochromia/ gold eyes, you can probably find her very easily on my art account @sciencelings-arts. Her image is also what I use as the icon for my writing account @sciencelings-writes which was a commission I got done for her last Halloween. She has become a very different character, although I still really vibe with her spidersona origins. She exists in the marvel universe as a SHIELD agent that does her best to use her powers for good but once SHIELD falls she works for Tony Stark and the Avengers as their on-call medical professional as she is kind of the expert in weird shit like injuries and sickness that originate from magic or alien stuff. Her sister Artemis also works for SHIELD as a field agent and does not have powers. Their relationship is kinda complex and depends on the universe that they’re in, like my original series is set in a bunch of different universes as I don’t want to constrict myself with just writing fantasy or sci-fi or whatever. Anyway Rose is a lesbian with underestimated powers and all that kind of shit. She’s fruity, they say an apple a day keeps the doctor away but she is the doctor and she will consume any apple within her eyesight. 

Second of all, this one will be shorter, Andromeda Starling, Basically her parents were scientists for hydra and she found out and ran away, resulting in her getting lost in space and gaining shapeshifting powers that evolve from partial shifts like gills and wings to full transformations like turning into a dragon because she wants to. She’s a sapphic asexual and is endgame with Rose, Her image is on my art blog (linked above) and my rarely used OC blog @sciencelings-ocs, After her transformation, her blood turned purple and her eyes turned purple and all her hair turned a cold white. She actively avoids going to earth and is the basic lone wolf type that comes across as mean but it’s mostly due to trauma and mental illnesses. She kicks ass and has no idea how to talk to people. She likes space fruit and actually knows how to cook space food. 

Next, we have Adisa Crow AKA Doctor Plague who is Rose’s nemesis, She got her powers from trying to recreate Rose’s powers within her and it going very wrong. Her powers can reverse other character's powers and skills, whether that’s a direct opposite like making a fire-themed character control ice or whether it’s just twisting the power against them, like making Andromeda’s shapeshifting uncontrollable as her power normally relies on her focus and complete control. But her powers come with a price as they are constantly affecting her, giving her hallucinations and manipulating her thoughts and emotions drastically. She wears a plague doctor mask when in full supervillain mode. She and Rose have a full friends to lovers to enemies to friends kind of arc as when she is released of her powers she might be forgivable with a whole lot of therapy. She only drinks Redbull and coffee. 

speaking of therapy, next we have Alexandria Iriklitis. She’s a superhuman therapist with a magic voice. She mostly uses her voice to manipulate emotions but it’s powerful enough to levitate objects and break glass, and even bring down buildings and stuff. She has very colorful hair and very solid black geometric tattoos all over her body. She’s not normally a fighter type of character but she does appear as a peacock siren bard in the fantasy au and that comes with having wing arms and a big dramatic peacock tail. She is the only emotionally stable one usually but she’s not perfect and although it takes a lot to rile her up, she can lose her shit and no one should be within fifty miles of her when that happens. 

Next, we have Ma’at Ramses who is a necromancer goth mom who adopts death kids that are ostracised from the normal magic organizations. She has a magic sword hilt that shifts into different weapons at will and a magic helmet that resembles an Egyptian pharaoh's crown that gives her extra abilities. She’s constantly in contact with the dead and her mission is to give them peace but more and more keep coming to her for help and no matter how much she works, she is never finished.  She constantly feels the rage from the dead that need to be avenged and it takes tremendous control to not take it out on the people around her. Eventually, she figures out that those feelings are not her own and she can control how much they affect her and she becomes a much less angry person. She’s kinda morally gray as she has no qualms about things like murder of she decides that the person really deserves it. She really hates injustice and doesn’t just sit around for people change and you know, heavily bigoted politicians just disappear sometimes, that’s just how life is. 

Next is Diana Schmitt, a mutant who can control the heat of objects (mostly metal and glass) and the molten outcome. She’s heavily scarred on half of her body including her face and she’s missing an arm and a leg that she replaced with layered metal and glass prosthetics. She’s trans and sapphic because I can’t make cishet characters to save my life. She uses her powers to make weapons and tools as she has big blacksmith energy. also, she's six feet tall and super buff. She's the whole gentle giant type and is super friendly. Her scars and limb loss are from a malicious attack with ice which causes her to hate any kind of cold and even makes ice a trauma trigger for her. She hates the winter and tries her best to avoid cold places. She is immune to incredibly high heat and has literally slept inside of a volcano with a magma blanket. cozy. 

Lastly (I think) we have Guinevere (Gwen) Kaimana. She’s an actual mermaid. and a Pirate. She can control the sea and temporarily turn her tail into a skirt over fishnet tights covering human legs. When out of the water she has to take special care to be very hydrated. She can faint if lacking enough water in her body.  She has Polynesian tattoos on her arm and torso that glow white in the dark but only when it’s very dark like when she’s very deep in the ocean. She wields dual scimitars (those curved pirate swords) and is bisexual. She has a very unearthly energy and is basically a myth to the people on land, but on the seas, she’s known as the Queen of the Seas and is feared by the people who don’t know her. She has big found family energy with her crew and mostly just focuses on saving sea life and causing trouble for the us military because she thinks it's funny. They tend to overreact and try to find her and “bring her to justice” but they can never find her, no matter how much they search. Before becoming a pirate she had spent several unaging decades in isolation in the ocean before she was willing to associate with people again. Sometimes she gets confused by current events and technology when she visits the land but she hates showing it. 

[dermontag]

Reiche wollen Statussymbole Jeff Bezos liegt mit Superjacht voll im Trend Von Diana Dittmer 05.02.2022, 09:02 Uhr Das Geschäft mit Luxusschiffen boomt. Noch nie wurden so viele Jachten verkauft wie in der Pandemie. Ultrareiche sind dank Niedrigzinspolitik und Börsen-Boom seit der Corona-Krise noch viel reicher. Top-Verdiener wie Amazon-Gründer Bezos stehen vor einem Luxusproblem: Wohin mit dem Geld? Regisseur Steven Spielberg hat sich vergangenes Jahr eine größere gegönnt, der russische Oligarch Roman Abramowitsch hat auch eine neue, und Amazon-Gründer Jeff Bezos will die allergrößte. Sie heißen "Seven Seas", "Solaris" oder "Y721", sie sind top-exklusiv und stehen bei vielen Superreichen ganz oben auf der Wunschliste: Superjachten. Wie das Datenunternehmen VesselsValue berichtet, wurden im vergangenen Jahr 887 solcher Schiffe verkauft. Das ist ein Anstieg von 77 Prozent zum Vorjahr, im Vergleich zu 2019 sind es sogar mehr als doppelt so viele. Der Outdoor-Trend in der Pandemie bestätigt sich damit auch im Luxus-Segment: Der Club der Superreichen steht auf schwimmende Domizile, die Palästen gleichen. Aus heiterem Himmel kommt das nicht. Laut VesselsValue ist ein Haupttreiber für den Boom der Wunsch nach Erholung in der Pandemie. Menschen suchen Abstand und Sicherheit. Frei nach dem Motto: "Buy a boat, corona can't swim" (Kaufe dir ein Boot, das Virus kann nicht schwimmen), wie "Boat International"-Chefredakteur Stewart Campbell den Trend im vergangenen Jahr gegenüber der BBC kommentierte. Dazu vergrößert eine Jacht auch auf angenehme Weise den Bewegungsradius bei Lockdowns. Goldrausch in der Pandemie Weiterer wichtiger Treiber ist die außerordentliche Vermögenszunahme bei den Ultrareichen in der Pandemie. Den Luxus von Sicherheit und Bewegungsfreiheit können sie sich seitdem noch leichter leisten. Die gestiegene Nachfrage hat zwar auch die Preise für Schiffe nach oben getrieben, aber dank boomender Börsen und der Niedrigzinspolitik der Notenbanken haben viele Superreiche in den Corona-Jahren mehr Geld gescheffelt denn je. Auch die jüngsten Börsen-Turbulenzen machen da keinen großen Unterschied. Allein die zehn reichsten Milliardäre, zu denen Unternehmensgründer wie Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk und Mark Zuckerberg oder Investoren wie Warren Buffet gehören, haben ihr Vermögen laut Oxfam in der Corona-Krise von 700 Milliarden US-Dollar auf 1,5 Billionen Dollar verdoppelt. "Für Milliardäre gleicht die Pandemie einem Goldrausch", kommentierte Manuel Schmitt von Oxfam Deutschland jüngst. Und wer nicht über genügend Geld verfügt oder gerade nicht flüssig ist, dem helfen günstige Kredite bei dem Plan "soziale Distanz zu kaufen", zitiert Bloomberg einen Vermögensverwalter. Die Geldschwemme hat einen Wettstreit um Statussymbole entfacht, der aber auch schon mal absurde Blüten treibt, wie das jüngste Großprojekt von Amazon-Gründer Bezos zeigt. Auch der zweitreichste Mensch der Welt nach Tesla-Chef Elon Musk ist unter die Hobbymatrosen gegangen. Er lässt derzeit bei einer niederländischen Reederei sein Traumschiff bauen. Kosten: angeblich 500 Millionen Dollar. Größer kommt nicht unbedingt weiter Mit einer Länge von 127 Metern und viel Komfort und Hightech, wie Insider berichten, ist die "Y721" nicht weniger als Anwärterin auf den Titel größte Segeljacht der Welt. "Solaris", das neue Schiff von Oligarch Abramowitsch, war zum Vergleich teurer, aber mit 140 Metern erreicht es angeblich nicht einmal die Top 10 der aktuellen weltweiten Luxus-Flotte. Das Problem mit Bezos neuer Jacht: Er kommt mit ihr erstmal nicht so richtig weiter. Sein Dreimaster ist dafür mit 40 Metern zu hoch. Eine historische Brücke in Rotterdam, die 1878 erbaut und nach deutschen Bombardierungen im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1940 wieder aufgebaut wurde, versperrt den Weg zur offenen See. Weil die gigantische Jacht nicht unter der Koningshaven-Brücke hindurchpasst, hieß es zwischenzeitlich, sie werde für die Durchfahrt abgebaut. Die Kosten übernähmen die Reederei und Bezos. Der Bürgermeister von Rotterdam hat das mittlerweile dementiert. Auch wenn eine Lösung erstmal noch nicht in Sicht ist, dürfte Bezos am Ende wohl doch auf der Gewinnerseite stehen. Denn ein Ende im Wettrennen um größere, schnellere und teurere Jachten ist so bald nicht zu erwarten - auch wenn die Zinsen steigen und die Kurse an den Aktienmärkten fallen sollten. Superjachten werden zwar normalerweise nicht als Investitionen angesehen. Aber die Nachfrage ist immens, die Preise werden in absehbarer Zeit nicht sinken. Neue Schiffe zu bauen, dauert Jahre. Die Materialien sind wegen der Lieferkettenproblematik knapp und wegen gestiegener Rohstoffkosten teuer. Auch Arbeitskräfte sind rar und der Gebrauchtmarkt leergefegt. "Es ist eine großartige Zeit, ein Jachteigner zu sein", zitiert Bloomberg Sam Tucker von VesselsValue. "Diejenigen, die vor einem Jahr gekauft haben, könnten jetzt potenziell mit Gewinn verkaufen, nachdem sie eine ganze Saison kostenlos eine Superjacht genossen haben." Da muss Bezos erstmal hinkommen. Im Zweifelsfall nimmt er seine Ersatz-Jacht. Er hat nämlich ein weiteres Schiff namens "YS 7512" beim Hersteller Damen Yachts in Auftrag gegeben.