#Evelyn Munro

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DELEGATES OF THE DAY - Alice Evelyn Munro (Brazil) and Hasan Gucluyildiz (Turkey), 1959

The Recorder, January 15, 1959

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Helen Norville - A Woman Who Can Laugh! Even at herself! 😉

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Who else cannot stop smiling watching Helen watch a comedian parody her on the telly? Her cackles were so joyous and infectious, and demonstrates the good humoured nature, when she’s in the mental health headspace to support it.

Helen’s impressionist is played by Nicolette Minster, and didn’t Nicolette give it her all! She nailed Helen’s on-camera brashness and exaggerated Helen’s volatility to the extreme, which thankfully Helen was flattered and delighted by!

The late 1980s and early 1990s was an incredible period of time for women on Australian comedy television, lovingly parodying other women in the media. Over at The Big Gig on the ABC, Jean Kittson brought to life her character of Veronica Glenhuntly; very clearly inspired by the ABC newsreader Mary Delahunty. Some of Nicolette’s body language whilst playing Helen also reminds me of Jean’s very wild and loose flight attendant character too. I met Jean in 2018 at my local library!

Turn over to Fast Forward on Seven, and a certain actress was doing her lions share of female media personality parodies; Ms Marg Downey, our very own Evelyn Walters! Marg was a small screen star during this time, and a household name. Her hilariously deadpanned performances as the SBS Lady demonstrated just what an extraordinary talent she is. As each season went along, the SBS Lady’s movements became more stiff, to the point where Marg wouldn’t even blink.

Throughout her time on Fast Forward and The D Generation, she also parodied journalist Jana Wendt. The drawl of her voice, the hand up to her cheek and the tilt of her head made her look and sound frightfully like Ms Wendt. In a 60 Minutes piece from 1989, Mike Munro showed Wendt Marg’s impersonation, and Ms Wendt was that impressed that she gave Marg a rating of a “good solid eight and a half” out of ten! Looks like our Marg was a talent to be reckoned with even in the real 1980s!

Have you seen Marg’s impression of Jana Wendt? If you haven’t, treat yourself to a viewing session on YouTube and see for yourself how incredible Marg has always been!

(Images sourced from Google or screenshot from YouTube videos)

Some Clips Of Interest:

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Who is your favourite companion in 2025? Masterpost

After a long and frustrating hiatus we are back with our annual popularity contest! Propaganda submissions will be open up until the final via this form

ROUND 2

Day 1

Ace McShane vs Grace Holloway

Jamie McCrimmon vs Chang Lee

Susan Foreman vs Harry Sullivan

Polly Wright vs Kamelion

Martha Jones vs Adam Mitchell

Bill Potts vs Mickey Smith

Missy vs Handles

Bernice Summerfield vs C'rizz

Narvin vs Tamsin Drew

Frobisher vs ARC

John and Gillian Who vs Abslom Daak

Weeping Angel vs Maxwell Edison

Irving Braxiatel vs Serena

Fitz Kreiner Chris Cwej

Iris Wildthyme vs Patience

Shalka Master vs Tom Campbell

Day 2

Jo Grant vs Mike Yates

Sarah-Jane Smith vs Sergeant Benton

Barbara Wright vs Victoria Waterfield

Tegan Jovanka vs Sabalom Glitz

Nyssa vs Ben Jackson

Wilfred Mott vs Karvanista

Ruby Sunday vs Nardole

Yasmin Khan vs Ryan Sinclair

Charley Pollard vs Helen Sinclair

Evelyn Smythe vs Hex Schofield

Alice Obiefune vs Josie Day

Kroton vs Anji Kapoor

Wolsey vs The Mortimer Family

Roz Forrester vs Hector

Dorothy vs Barusa

Mary Shelley vs Alison Cheney

Day 3

The Brigadier vs Katarina

Romana II vs Mel Bush

Leela vs Zoe Heriot

Dodo Chaplet vs Romana I

Clara Oswald vs Inston-Vee Vinder

River Song vs Kate Stewart

Dan Lewis vs Graham O'Brien

Molly O'Sullivan vs Mark Seven

Oliver Harper vs Cass Fermazzi

Gabby Gonzalez vs Shayde

Sharon Davies vs Izzy Sinclair

Cindy Wu vs Child Master

Business Woman vs Ruth Leonidas

Cinder vs Trix MacMillan

Sam Jones vs Compassion

Alan Turing vs Susan Who

Day 4

Liz Shaw vs Peri Brown

K9 vs Sara Kingdom

Vislor Turlough vs Ian Chesterton

Mags vs Steven Taylor

Adric vs Vicki Pallister

Rory Williams vs Amy Pond

Jack Harkness vs Rose Noble

Lucie Miller vs Tania Bell

Valarie Lockwood vs Bliss

Erimem vs Liv Chenka

Rose-the-cat vs Fey Truscott-Sade

Destrii vs Hattie Munroe

Badger vs Claudia Marwood

Peter Summerfield vs Marie

Andy Davidson vs John Lennon

Brian the Ood vs Emma

ROUND 1 (group stage)

all the tournament regulars will automatically proceed to the next round, the seeding groups are just so I can gather data to decide matches for the next rounds. all nominees are up for elimination.

Day 2

Seeding Groups:

Group 1

Liz Shaw

Mike Yates

Jo Grant

Sarah-Jane Smith

Harry Sullivan

Group 2

Leela

K9

Romana I

Romana II

Group 3

Adric

Nyssa

Tegan Jovanka

Vislor Turlough

Kamelion

Group 4

Peri Brown

Mel Bush

Ace McShane

Grace Holloway

Chang Lee

Group 5

Fitz Kreiner

Compassion

Anji Kapoor

Sam Jones

Group 6

Alison Cheney

Iris Wildthyme

Izzy Sinclair

Frobisher

Group 7

Kate Stewart

Clara Oswald

Handles

Bill Potts

Nardole

Group 8

Yasmin Khan

Ryan Sinclair

Graham O'Brien

Dan Lewis

Ruby Sunday

Elimination Groups:

Group 1

Tamsin Drew

Anya Kingdom

Mark Seven

Valarie Lockwood

Narvin

Group 2

Bret Vyon

Sabalom Glitz

Missy

Canton Everett Delaware III

Grant Gordon

Inston-Vee Vinder

Karvanista

Rose Noble

Group 3

Jayne Kadett

Majenta Pryce

Rose-the-cat

Abslom Daak

Alice Obiefune

ARC

Group 4

John Jones

Hattie Munroe

Weeping Angel

Child Master

The Squire

Group 5

Claudia Marwood

Hector

Marie

Trix MacMillan

Ikalla

Rosie Taylor

Group 6

Jack McSpringheel

Peter Summerfield

Ruth Leonidas

Dorothy

Sibling Different

Group 7

Cinder

Anna

Badger

Barusa

Gunievere Winchester

Group 8

Shalka Master

Dormouse

Susan Who

Tom Campbell

Romana (Battle for the Universe)

Day 1

Seeding Groups:

Group 1

Susan Foreman

Barbara Wright

Ian Chesterton

Vicki Pallister

Steven Taylor

Group 2

Katarina

Sara Kingdom

Dodo Chaplet

Ben Jackson

Polly Wright

Group 3

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

The Brigadier

Sergeant Benton

Group 4

Charley Pollard

C'rizz

Evelyn Smythe

Lucie Miller

Group 5

Liv Chenka

Helen Sinclair

Hex Schofield

Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej

Group 6

Mickey Smith

Adam Mitchell

Jack Harkness

Martha Jones

Group 7

Wilfred Mott

River Song

Amy Pond

Rory Williams

Elimination Groups:

Group 1

Oliver Harper

Erimem

Antranak

Mags

Alex Campbell

Group 2

Bliss

Cass Fermazzi

Molly O'Sullivan

Tania Bell

Sheena

Group 3

Duh

Gillian and John Who

Dave Lester

Sharon Davies

Angus Goodman

Maxwell Edison

Group 4

Shayde

Ly-Chee the Wise

Olla

Chantir

Destrii

Fey Truscott-Sade

Group 5

Josie Day

Kroton

Ssard

Cindy Wu

Gabby Gonzalez

Grayla

Group 6

Irving Braxiatel

Larna

Patience

Penelope Gate

Zeleekhà

The Mortimer Family

Group 7

Serena

Milena

Business Woman

Catherine Broome

Roz Forrester

Wolsey

Group 8

Splinx

Antimony

Brian the Ood

Koschei

Andy Davidson

Emma

Group 9

Alan Turing

Mary Shelley

Claudia Winkleman

John Lennon

Jules Verne

Peter Cushing

links to previous tournaments

[annathemcuandstlover]

My Headmates:

🏹 - Me (Anna/Aurora)

🏳️‍🌈 - William 'Will' Byers-Barton

🍫 - Cassandra 'Cass' Byers-Rogers-Barton

🧇- Eleven 'El' Hopper-Byers-Barton

🪓 - Joyce Byers

☀️ - Apollo

📸 - Jonathan Byers

🪩 - Lily Byers

🎀 - Olivia Byers

👮‍♂️ - Jim Hopper

💘 - Tessa Barton

🎯 - Tatum 'Tate' Barton

🐻 - Frank Zhang-Barton

🔮 - Erica Maximoff-Barton

👟 - Peter Maximoff-Barton

👿- Jude Verus-Barton

👹 - Edward 'Eddie' Munson-Barton

💚- Sophia Beck-Barton

♐️- Linden Beck-Barton

🐦 - Lila Barton

💙 - Abigail 'Abby' Barnes-Rogers

🧸- Zoey Barnes-Rogers

🍷- Karla Barnes-Rogers

🗡- Erica Barnes-Rogers

💦 - Mabel Flores-Barnes-Rogers

💋- Lillian 'Lily' Barnes-Rogers

🇺🇲 - Charlotte 'Charlie' Rogers

🌑 -Edward 'Ed' Carter-Rogers

🌚 - Mara Carter-Rogers

📼 - Mindy Meeks-Martin

🐜 - Scott Lang

🐝 - Hope Van Dyne

❤️- Isabella 'Izzy' Lang

💜- Cassie Lang

🦋- Katniss Lang-Van Dyne

🔥 - Leo Valdez-Lang

🩷- Piper McLean-Lang

☠️ - Nico Di Angelo-Lang

🐦‍🔥 - Jean Grey-Lang

🦢 - Addison 'Addie' Grey-Lang

🚲- Dustin Henderson-Lang

💎- Hazel Levesque-Lang

🐞- Cordellia Flores-Lang

🎉- Sprite Lang

🍦- Erica Sinclair-Lang

🤱-Janet Van Dyne

🧪- Henry 'Hank' Pym

🐦‍⬛- Cecily Wilson

🔫- Nancy Wheeler

🛡️- Michael 'Mike' Wheeler-Rogers

🍨- Steve Harrington

🔱- Perseus Jackson-Sweeney

🤡 - Benjamin 'Ben' Glenroy

🗒- Rowan Glenroy

🕵‍♀️- Mabel Mora

🎬- Oliver Putman

🇮🇪- Glen Stubbins

🚀 - Katarina 'Kat' Quill

💫 - Noah Quill

🧲 - Artemis Xavier-Lehnsherr

📎- Juliet Xavier-Lehnsherr

📘- Taylor Xavier

🧠 - Charles Xavier

📕- Evelyn Xavier

⛓️- Lexianna Lehnsherr

📚- Charlotte Xavier-Lehnsherr

🏃- William Maximoff-Lehnsherr

🧿 - Scott Summers

🕶 - Avery Summers

⛸️- Betty Drake

⚡️- Ororo Munroe

🕷- Phoebe Parker

🖌 - Rachel Elizabeth Dare

🌩- Thalia Grace

☄️ - Kingo

🏖- Vera

❤️‍🔥- Augustine

🌞- Vivian

🌌 - Adriana

🌬- Ophelia

🖤- Druig

⚔️- Lucius Verus

🪞 - Bianca Verus

🪭 - Cecilia Flores

🤴- Nikolai Lantsov

👨‍🏫 - Gary Grooberson

👻- Trevor Spengler

🌊- Poseidon

💄- Aphrodite

🩶- Bellona

🧨- Josephine 'Josie' Allerdyce

👑 - Emerpor Geta

🐒 - Emperor Caracalla

Banner: by @moodboards-and-magic

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Museum for Art in Wood (Part 5)

The last of my posts about the Museum for Art in Wood! This is the set of things that made me or my companion say, This ought to be a SFF book cover, or a story prompt, or some other speculative fiction type-thing.

For instance, every single thing on this shelf is a SFF story. By Fabrice Micha: 370, Sculpture and 632, Castle. By Michael Mode: 636, Akbar's Delight. By Michael Mocho, 505, Satinwood Hollow Form; 635, Box; and 467, Sentinel.

These two ought to be Yuletide fandoms: A Collection of Goblets, Chalices, and Spirit Vessels from the Seventeen Peoples of the Eight Inner Worlds by Stephen Mark Paulsen, which is incredibly hard to photograph but the official photo is hardly any better??

And Desert Winter on Marquard IV, and Twelve Sacred Objects Exposed by the Storm by the same artist; fortunately the official photo is pretty decent because mine is not worth looking at.

Self Portrait by Michelle Holzapfel. This one feels very like a book cover (and actually has an artist statement at the link!).

I was going to put this one in "Sculpture" and then I saw the title: Post Nuclear Vessel by Ron Kent.

Ditto except that it's The Shedding Skin of Evelyn Mind by Jay Heryet.

I was so enamored of the spiky nature of the one on the front left that I didn't notice it was matches until my companion pointed it out; I was thinking mouths or viruses. (It's called Art Object to be Destroyed by Hilary Pfeifer, Dennis Carr, and Neil Scobie.) And I think the one on the right is a spaceship, though the artist Rolly Munro calls it Oceanic Angel. (I don't know what the one in the back left is.)

Interactive by Andrew Potocnik made me think of if n-tailed foxes shed all their tails at once. (The components are arranged differently in the website picture, basically parallel.)

That sure is a Space Burger, by Hap Sakwa.

I'm delighted to say that my companion pointed out the picture on the left below as something from Star Wars. And it is actually titled Vader Box #3, by Stephen Hughes. (Just visible to the right is the gas giant it's flying around, Strata by Grant Vaughan.)

This is a Great Fairy Fountain, was my first thought. But it genuinely belongs in this section: it's titled Grapefruit to the Moon, by Steve Madsen, and it does open up (pictures at link).

This is somewhere between War of the Worlds and a beetle. (Dancing Tryclops by Michael Brolly.)

Finally, this is incredibly charming and I'm glad the website picture is decent because there wasn't room for me to get one: Time Standing Still by Po Shun Leong and Bob Stocksdale.

And now I'm finally done, woo!

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MASTERLIST

A masterlist of muses that I have played throughout the years, that I am always willing to play. I do need to go over some of the FC's and probably make some changes since this list is YEARS old. But I will do that and update it!!

Abigail ‘Abbi’ Abrams FC: Victoria Justice 

Addison Smollen FC: Kendall Jenner 

Allison ‘Alli’ Ortiz FC: Madison Beer 

Amelia ‘Mia’ Abrams FC: Torrey Devitto

Ana Flores FC: Camila Mendes

Angelina Rose FC: Clemence Posey

Apollo Kona FC: Roman Reigns

Augusta ‘Gwen’ Porter FC: Hailey Baldwin

Avery Smollen FC: Kylie Jenner

Bailey Allwood FC: Katherine Langford

Bethany DuPont-Hunter FC: Rachel Bilson / FC: Crystal Reed

Benjamin DuPont FC: Theo James

Blaise Zabini FC: Keith Powers

Bleau St. Claire FC: Val Mercado

Braelyn Carter FC: Alycia Debnam Carey 

Caleb Kyriakos FC: Tom Austen

Callie Haverford FC: Gigi Hadid

Cameron Bartell FC: Natalia Dyer

Cathleen ‘Rey’ Murphy FC: Paige / Saraya Jade Bevis

Chasity Dean FC: Troian Bellisario

Clara Spencer FC: Alexis Ren

Connor O’Brien FC: Cody Saintgnue

Cooper Brozene FC: Joel Kinnaman

Cyrus Morgan FC: Scott Speedman

Daphne Greengrass FC: Pia Mia

Darya Smirnov FC: Taylor Hill

Davina Pace FC: Carmella Rose

Dawson St. James FC: Finn Wittrock

Dean Munroe FC: Jake Gyllenhaal

Demi O’Connor FC: Jessica Lowndes

Destiny Savvin FC: Eiza Gonzalez / FC: Salma Hayek

Dev Ambrogino FC: Nathan Parsons

Diya Gupta FC: Naomi Scott

Dorian Porter FC: Justin Hartley

Dylan Boyer FC: Olivia Wilde / FC: Odeya Rush

Eden Hunter FC: Danielle Campbell

Elizabeth Rush FC: Hayley Atwell

Evelyn Perez FC:  Bruna Marquezine

Genivive ‘Ginny’ Kennedy FC:  Alicia Vikander

Gracie Abernathy FC: Nicola Peltz

Harleen Quinzel FC: Margot Robbie

Hudson O’Connor FC: Charlie Hunnam

Hunter Munroe FC: Kit Harington

Irina Savvin FC: Claire Holt

Isabella Martinez FC: Naya Rivera  Christian Serratos

Isobel Garcia FC: Jackie Cruz

Ivy Hartley FC: Maggie Duran

Jack Collins FC: Tom Holland

Jalessa Myers FC: Jade Thirlwall

Jayden Munroe FC: Leigh Anne Pinnock

Jayson Hunter FC: Dominic Sherwood

Jennifer Martinez FC: Diane Guerrero 

Joanna ‘Joey’ Martell FC: Marie Avgeropoulos

Judith Grimes FC: Daisy Ridley 

Karina Smirnov FC: Irina Shayk / FC: India Eisley

Katherine ‘Katy’ Abernathy FC: Katie Stevens

Katya Ambrogino FC: Ariel Winter

Keith Newman FC: Travis Mills

Kimber Rhodes FC: Karla Souza

Layla Abernathy FC: Emily Kinney / FC: Candice Swanepoel

Leah Douglas FC: Nathalie Emmanuel / FC: Amandla Stenberg

Lee McBride FC: Dan Stevens

Lilliana ‘Lily’ Rey FC: Bella Thorne Luca Hollestelle

Lorelei Ambrose FC: Imogen Poots

Maddox Young FC: Amadeus Sarafini

Madison Nolan FC: Ashley Greene

Makenna Dean FC: Shelley Hennig

Mateo Fiore FC: Theo Rossi

Matheus Silva FC: Chay Suede

Matty Dodson FC: Cody Christian

Maximus ‘Mac’ Porter FC: Austin Butler

Melanie Rhee FC: Lauren Cohan

Mickey Wolfe FC: Troye Sivan

Natalia ‘Talia’ Smallwood FC: Emily Ratajkowski

Nate Ballard FC: Randy Orton

Nikolai Savvin FC: Joseph Morgan

Paige Stabler FC: Madison Davenport

Pansy Parkinson FC: Nona Komatsu

Parker Mercer FC: Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Phoenix Dattolo FC: Avan Jogia

Piper Romero FC: Maia Mitchell / FC: Giza Lagarce

Priyah Jacobs FC: Alysha Nett

Psyche FC: Sophie Turner

Rami Armand FC: Zayn Malik

Reagan Powers FC: Allison Williams

Rhea Lockhart FC: Julianne Hough

Richard Thorne FC: Jon Hamm

Rose Granger-Weasley FC: Madelaine Petsch

Ryan O'Brien FC: Cam Gigandet

Samantha ‘Sammie’ Barker FC: Arden Cho

Sergei Savvin FC: Max Riemelt

Sierra Tsu FC: Dichen Lachman

Stella La’ei Kona FC: Nikki Reed

Sunshine ‘Sunny’ Jacobs FC: Dove Cameron 

Sydney Pearson FC: Zendaya 

Tanya Dash FC: Khole Kardashian Bree Kish

Teegan O'Brien FC: Lili Reinhart

Titus Kona FC: Jason Momoa

Tobias Graves FC: Travis Fimmel

Trent Lancaster FC: Andrew Lincoln

Valentino De Luca FC: Dominic Cooper

Veda Patil FC: Priyanka Chopra

Wyatt Cahill FC: Ryan Guzman

Xavier Waters FC: Don Benjamin

Zion Waters FC: Ricky Whittle

Zoe DiMarco FC: Bex Taylor-Klaus / FC: Ruby Rose / FC: Ash Stymest

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Medirite Pharmacy from Talya Galasko on Vimeo.

Dir Cut

Director: Talya Galasko Producer: Irfaan Fredericks Production Company: Sketchbook Studios Agency: 99c Client: Medirite DOP: Jason Prins 1st AD: DeVilliers Fourie Art Director: Warren Gray Soundman: Sarah Faye de Muynk Wardrobe: Erin Simon MUA: Evelyn Gambe Post-production: Tassyn Munro @ Pretty Neat Editor: Alex Fynn Colorist: David Grant @ Refinery VFX: Declan Manka Final Mix: Juice audio

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Norman McLaren

Norman McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland, on April 11, 1914. He had two older siblings, a brother named Jack, and a sister named Sheena. At 21, he went to Russia for a vacation, which solidified his communist beliefs, much to his father's dismay who had funded the trip hoping to change his mind.

At the age of 22, McLaren left Stirling to study set design at the Glasgow School of Art. While there, he joined the Kinecraft Society and began experimenting with various filmmaking styles and techniques. It was at the Glasgow School of Art where he met Helen Biggar, and together they created films outside of school, aiming for national recognition.

In his early film experiments, McLaren would scratch and paint directly onto the film stock due to limited access to a camera. One of his earliest surviving films, Seven Till Five (1935), was influenced by Eisenstein and showcased a formalist approach.

McLaren's film Camera Makes Whoopee (1935) further explored the themes of Seven Till Five, inspired by his new Ciné-Kodak camera. This allowed him to create various 'trick' shots using pixilation effects, superimpositions, and animation to capture the essence of an art school ball.

Both of McLaren's early films received awards at the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, where John Grierson, a fellow Scot and future NFB founder, served as a judge.

In 1941, Grierson invited McLaren to move to Ottawa and join the National Film Board. McLaren's main tasks were to establish an animation studio, train Canadian animators, and create promotional films. Upon his arrival, he collaborated with American director Mary Ellen Bute on two films called Spook Sport and Tarantella. One of his notable works was a promotional film called Mail Early, which reminded Canadians to send their Christmas cards on time. McLaren also contributed to Allied propaganda documentary films by creating animated shorts and maps. He later worked on a series of animated French songs called Chants Populaire in 1943. In 1944 and 1945, McLaren produced a similar series in English called Let's All Sing Together.

By 1942, the demand for animation at the NFB had grown rapidly, and McLaren struggled to keep up. Grierson then asked him to recruit art students and form a small animation team. However, this task proved challenging as many students had enlisted in the war. McLaren managed to find recruits from the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the Ontario College of Art, including talented individuals like René Jodoin, George Dunning, Jim McKay, Grant Munro, and Evelyn Lambart, who would become his future collaborator. McLaren trained these emerging animators, and together they worked on various projects such as cartoons, animated cards, and propaganda documentaries. In January 1943, Studio A, the NFB's first animation studio, was officially established with McLaren as its head.

Throughout his time at the NFB, McLaren created a total of 70 films. Some notable works include Begone Dull Care, Rythmetic, Christmas Cracker, Pas de Deux, and the Oscar-winning Neighbours. Neighbors is particularly remarkable for its powerful combination of visuals and sound, delivering a strong social message against violence and war. McLaren's talent and dedication were recognized with awards such as the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Blinkity Blank. In fact, McLaren chose Blinkity Blank as his diploma piece when he was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

McLaren collaborated with UNESCO during the 1950s and 1960s to develop educational programs focusing on film and animation techniques in China and India. His series of "Animated Motion" shorts, created in the late 1970s, serve as a valuable resource for learning the fundamentals of film animation.

His legacy -

McLaren's legacy lives on through various tributes and honours. The National Film Board paid tribute to McLaren by naming its Montreal headquarters the Norman McLaren Building. Additionally, the borough of Saint-Laurent, where the NFB is located, is named a district after McLaren. In 1979, the Edinburgh Film house dedicated two seats to McLaren and Grierson. McLaren was also the focus of the short animated documentary "McLaren's Negatives" in 2006. The NFB celebrated the 65th anniversary of NFB animation in the same year with a retrospective of McLaren's restored classics and a new DVD box set of his complete works. Furthermore, in June 2013, the NFB released the "McLaren's Workshop" app on iTunes, allowing users to create films using McLaren's animation techniques. In June 2018, a ballet titled "Frame by Frame," inspired by McLaren's life and work, was staged by Robert Lepage, principal dancer Guillaume Côté, and the National Ballet of Canada. McLaren's influence has even reached filmmaker George Lucas, who has acknowledged McLaren as an inspiration for his own work.

Credits -

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Thoughts on the writer's writer's writer, Henry Green?

Never read him, partly due to your epithet. All one ever hears about is his technique. Is technique enough? I don't like the "writer's writer" phenomenon. This article on writer's writers—with a list of examples pretty evenly divided between people I haven't read and people I don't like, plus a handful to whom I don't think the term applies, since they're obviously major, popular, or both (Sebald, Bolaño, Knausgaard, Munro, Angela Carter)— quotes someone on Green saying,

W. H. Auden, Eudora Welty, V. S. Pritchett, Rebecca West, and John Updike have all described him, at various times, and in various ways, as the finest novelist of his generation, yet he never enjoyed either the commercial success or the literary fame of contemporaries such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Christopher Isherwood

But e.g. Christopher Isherwood, whose technique is impeccable anyway, created Sally Bowles, both a well-rounded fictional character and almost a new archetype of her century. To me, as both writer and reader, that is impressive! I'm probably being unfair and should just read Green, but, since you ask, this is why I haven't so far.

[wearelondonhq]

mw female characters?

june moone, dinah lance, helena bertinelli (dc comics), lorna dane, kitty pryde, emma frost, jean grey, ororo munroe, rogue, viv vision, america chavez, mj watson (marvel comics), allison argent (teen wolf), cosmo the space dog, meredith quill, sylvie laufeysdottir, hela odinsdottir, jennifer walters, peggy carter, agatha harkness, valkyrie, maggie lang, queen ramonda, riri williams, shuri, maria stark, okoye, nakia, the dora milaje (marvel cinematic universe), laena velaryon, baela targaryen, rhaena targaryen, rhaenys targaryen, aemma arryn (house of the dragon), tess servopoulos, marlene, ellie williams (the last of us), rosalie hale, victoria, esme cullen, leah clearwater (twilight), allison kerry, leah hunter, corbett denlon, christine nelson, melissa nelson, angelina acomb (saw), veronica lodge, hermione lodge, cheryl blossom, polly cooper, evelyn evernever, alice cooper, mary andrews, midge klump, just to name a few! members, feel free to add on!

[falsegod]

okay they’re closing book depository on the 26th so i’m gonna make one last order. give me names of books i MUST read

what i like: fantasy/ya— the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, the hunger games, the martian, ve schwab, recently i’ve been reading some brandon sanderson

popsci/nonfiction — anything by randall munroe, astronomy/neuroscience/math, i also LOVED catch and kill by ronan farrow and fear by bob woodward

what i don’t like:

sally rooney, anything too adult (i didn’t like where the crawdads sing for example). in general i like books that have a storyline and a plot, and not just focus on relationships between characters

hit me!

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Showdown 2k24: Round 2

Everyone has been split into groups of 16 roughly by how well known they are and seeded within those groups to determin matches. There will be 16 polls posted every day (so two of the groups) except Friday. At the end of the round groups will be paired up and re-seeded ready for next time

the submission form for contestant propaganda is still open, you can find it here.

ROUND 1

Day 4

Mary Shelley vs Ikalla

Claudia Winkleman vs Cinder

Hector vs Sibling Different

Ruth Leonidas vs Susan Who

Alan Turing vs Peter Summerfield

John Lennon vs Dorothy (The Wonderful Doctor of Oz)

Tom Campbell vs Barusa

Peter Cushing vs Alison Cheney

Brian the Ood vs Penelope Gate

Hattie Munroe vs Gabby Gonzalez

Splinx vs Grayla

V.M.McCrimmon vs Patience

Andy Davidson vs Dormouse

The Squire vs Weeping Angel (Origins)

Cindy Wu vs Guinevere Winchester

Child Master (The Then and the Now) vs Koschei

previous and future days under the cut

Day 1

Jamie McCrimmon vs Sergeant Benton WINNER: Jamie McCrimmon

Vicki Pallister vs Zoe Heriot WINNER: Zoe Heriot

Barbara Wright vs Steven Taylor WINNER: Barbara Wright

Victoria Waterfield vs Sarah-Jane Smith WINNER: Sarah-Jane Smith

Jo Grant vs The Brigadier WINNER: Jo Grant

Ian Chesterton vs Leela WINNER: Leela

Liz Shaw vs Polly Wright WINNER: Liz Shaw

Dodo Chaplet vs Susan Foreman WINNER: Susan Foreman

Charley Pollard vs Mark Seven WINNER: Charley Pollard

Cass Fermazzi vs Molly O'Sullivan WINNER: Molly O'Sullivan

Oliver Harper vs Liv Chenka WINNER: Liv Chenka

C'rizz vs Lucie Miller WINNER: Lucie Miller

Iris Wildthyme vs Anya Kingdom WINNER: Iris Wildthyme

Erimem vs Bliss WINNER: Bliss

Hex Schofield vs Helen Sinclair WINNER: Helen Sinclair

Tania Bell vs Evelyn Smythe WINNER: Evelyn Smythe

Day 2

Bill Potts vs Nardole WINNER: Bill Potts

The TARDIS vs River Song WINNER: The TARDIS

Wilfred Mott vs Jack Harkness WINNER: Wilfred Mott

Amy Pond vs Martha Jones WINNER: Martha Jones

Clara Oswald vs Rory Williams WINNER: Clara Oswald

Ruby Sunday vs Rose Noble WINNER: Rose Noble

Kate Stewart vs Canton Everette Deleware III WINNER: Kate Stewart

Missy vs Donna Noble WINNER: Donna Noble

Bernice Summerfield vs Marie (Alien Bodies) WINNER: Bernice Summerfield

Chris Cwej vs Business Woman WINNER: Chris Cwej

Roz Forrester vs The Mortimer family WINNER: Roz Forrester

Rosie Taylor vs Compassion WINNER: Compassion

Fitz Kreiner vs Serena WINNER: Fitz Kreiner

Badger vs Wolsey WINNER: Wolsey

Sam Jones vs Claudia Marwood WINNER: Sam Jones

Homunculette vs Anji Kapoor WINNER: Anji Kapoor

Day 3

Ace McShane vs Mags WINNER: Ace McShane

Romana I vs Nyssa WINNER: Nyssa

Romana II vs Ryan Sinclair WINNER: Romana II

Graham O'Brien vs Mel Bush WINNER: Mel Bush

Vislor Turlough vs K9 WINNER: K9

Chang Lee vs Tegan Jovanka WINNER: Tegan Jovanka

Inston-Vee Vinder vs Grace Holloway WINNER: Inston-Vee Vinder

Peri Brown vs Yasmin Khan WINNER: Yasmin Khan

Frobisher vs ARC WINNER: Frobisher

Duh vs Josie Day WINNER: Josie Day

Ssard vs Chantir WINNER: Ssard

Gus Goodman vs Izzy Sinclair WINNER: Izzy Sinclair

Rose-the-cat vs Abslom Daak WINNER: Rose-the-cat

Majenta Pryce vs Maxwell Edison WINNER: Majenta Pryce

Kroton vs Ly-Chee the Wise WINNER: Kroton

Fey Truscott-Sade vs Destrii WINNER: Destrii

[archietransdrews]

an inexhaustive list of riverdale names that are too Touched to be real, wherein alliteration draws attention to the fact that they were intentionally designed rather than earnestly given: archie and artie andrews, jughead and jellybean jones, kevin keller, toni topaz, felix featherhead, dilton doiley, moose (later marmaduke) mason, waldo weatherbee, geraldine grundy, lerman logan (<3), penny peabody, chuck clayton, britta beach, munroe 'mad dog' moore, edgar and evelyn evernever, fangs fogarty, agent arthur adams, holden honey, percival pickens, darla dickinson, ben button, terrence and tabitha tate...

show that won't let you forget it's a show! comic that won't let you forget it's a comic!

ok i do just kind of have to archive this analysis of the 'poem' made out of the names of dolores' classmates in lolita on this blog bc like. riverdalecore! mcfate, artistic artifice, room numbers and street signs and town names that signal the otherwise invisible touch of an author's hand because they correspond too perfectly to already-existing texts to be random!!!

[jerepars]

A summary of my live reactions:

So is the whole Serpent thing like…over? Now that their “King” is at an elite prep school? After the writers pushed that storyline so hard for so long?

Since when are Jughead and Moose chummy enough that they would hug at prep school? You can’t give us reunions like this without context of their previous relationship.

“I think I overestimated the financial pull of your pectorals.” WHO WRITES THIS SHIT

We really still have to deal with Edgar? This isn’t considered boring and overplayed yet?

Soooooo you can’t relate to Jughead because you’re a spoiled rich kid?

Nancy Drew’s bobby pin saves the day! Literally!

Let me guess, Jughead’s going to be too strong willed to lose the challenge, and that’s going to cause a huge problem with Brett.

That Archie/Mary argument might be the one of the only scenes this season that I haven’t cringed over.

Isn’t this why Riverdale is supposed to have the Serpents? To deal with these people putting kids on the streets? They’re just a non-existent happy hobby gang now?

Stolen drug money put to good use…is still stolen drug money, Red.

OoOoOo Donna won that round. Nice.

“He bought a rocket?!” “Nope, he’s been building one.” LOL WHAT

And they’re supposed to be strapped to the front of it? LOLOLOLOL WHAT

It would have been better if Betty said “who’s the bitch now?” after clubbing Evelyn in the head

So Betty puts on a beret and that’s supposed to make her seem like she’s in charge to these cultists?

Wait, Archie was just going to live on his own before Mary’s change of heart? Because that’s what a kid who’s been through as much trauma as him in the last few years needs? WTF.

Ah, yes. Poor Moose paying the price. Because the WASP-y bully kid didn’t get his way.

[madebyleftovermuses]

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men’s Eyes

Not liking the way Veronica is treating Cheryl. It’s a stupid presidency for school. Calling her trash over it

WHO THE FUCK IS MAD DOG?!

Thank you, Alice for telling Jug about the seizure 

Archie is such a snowflake!!

Is he seriously about to create a football team? 

Why do people want shoes?! and the warden? 

So, not Ethel.

The fuck?! poor Mad Dog

Welp, they found the hatch and realized how hard core Dilton was

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!

And here we go playing football and the Vixens show up and football is forgotten because jailed teenage are horny fucks

Archie has a little fight in him

FUCK YOU, HIRAM!!

Of course, Cheryl would become a bit shady

And of course, Evelyn Evernever is shady as fuck

Who the fuck is this warden?!

So, I’m pretty sure the parents created the Gargoyle King in high school. just saying

The fuck, Ben?!

Sooooo, Ethel and Ben were in a relationship in some weird kind of way? Okay

[autoacafiles]

So who in totals travelled with the doctor? I know we saw donna, but what other companions are there?

This is gonna be a big one, so *Takes a deep breath* In his first incarnation, the First Doctor started his travels with his granddaughter Susan, accidentally taking her school teachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. Along his travels, people would come and go, including Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Oliver Harper, Dodo Chaplet, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright.

In his second incarnation, the Second Doctor would continue his travels with Ben and Polly, taking on Jamie McCrimmon, who would stick with him through his life. Along the way, The Doctor would also travel with Victoria Waterfield and Zoe Heriot. It was during this time that The Doctor would also meet Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, who would become an important figure during his most of his lives.

In exile is his third incarnation, the Third Doctor was forced to work with the Brigadier as UNIT's scientific advisor. Working initially with Liz Shaw, Mike Yates and John Benton, he would finally be able to travel again, first with Jo Grant, and later Sarah-Jane Smith.

In his fourth incarnation, continuing to travel with Sarah-Jane Smith and joined by Harry Sullivan, the Fourth Doctor would go on to travel with Naomi Cross, Leela of the Sevateem, Margaret Hopwood, two models of the robot dog K9, "Anne Kelso", Romana in two of her incarnations and Adric.

In his fifth incarnation, The Doctor continued travelling with Adric and took on Nyssa of Trakken and Tegan Jovanka, who he had met towards the end of his previous incarnation. Along the way, he would also travel with Marc, Thomas Brewster, Hannah Bartholomew, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown and Erimem.

Still travelling with Peri in his sixth incarnation, The Doctor would travel with others including Frobisher, Evelyn Smythe, Charlotte Pollard (retroactively under the guise of Mila due to already travelling with his Eighth Incarnation), Flip Jackson, Constance Clarke, Melanie Bush and Hebe Harrison.

Continuing to travel with Mel in his seventh Incarnation, the Doctor would go on to be joined by Ace McShane, Bernice Summerfield, Hex Schofield, Sally Morgan, Lysandra Aristedes, Mags, Raine Creevy, Elizabeth Klein, Will Arrowsmith, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester, though ultimately ended up travelling on his home.

The Eighth Doctor would find himself starting afresh, briefly meeting Grace Holloway and Chang Lee, before going on to travel with Izzy Sinclair, Fitz Kreiner, Charlotte Pollard, C'rizz, Mary Shelley, Lucie Miller, Tamsin Drew, Molly O'Sullivan, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair, Tania Bell, Andy Davidson and Bliss.

The War Doctor would go on to make a point of travelling alone, never taking on a travelling companion during his life.

Though he would continue travelling alone for much of his life, the Ninth Doctor would finally yield and take on Rose Tyler as a companion, and later Adam Mitchell, Captain Jack Harkness and Tara Mishra

In his tenth incarnation, The Doctor would continue travelling with Rose, though would later go on to travel with Mickey Smith, Martha Jones, a returning Captain Jack, Donna Noble, Gabby Gonzalez, Cindy Wu, Anya Kingdom and Mark Seven.

The Eleventh Doctor would start his travels with Amy Pond, going on to take on Rory Williams, Alice Obiefune, John Jones, ARC, The Squire, Abslom Daak, The Sapling, Valerie Lockwood and Clara Oswald.

Clara Oswald would continue to travel with the Twelfth Doctor, who would go on to travel with Hattie Munroe, Nardole and Bill Potts.

In her Thirteenth Incarnation, the Doctor would spend her entire incarnation travelling Yasmin Khan, being joined by Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien and Dan Lewis.

Throughout many of their lives, The Doctor would constantly meet River Song, though on many occasions would be forced to forget their encounters to preserve the web of time.

And with that, I'm taking a nap - Dev~