#Hudson East

[newyorkthegoldenage]

East of the Hudson by J. Brooks Atkinson, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, dust jacket illustrator unknown.

From 1922–1960, Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984) wrote for the New York Times, primarily as the drama critic. Here he muses about the city he loves. He would later publish a diary of a year spent living in the city titled Once Around The Sun.

Text & photo: StuffNobodyCaresAbout

[lonestarbattleship]

"Three ships who have contributed much to the history of the sea are seen together at adjoining berths in the Hudson River at New York City, U.S.A., on Nov. 9, 1945. They are left to right: RMS Queen Mary, holder of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic; the USS MISSOURI (BB-63), on whose quarterdeck the Japanese surrender was signed and USS EUROPA (AP-177), former German luxury liner and onetime holder of the Atlantic record now being used as an American troopship."

Photographed on November 9, 1945.

Shared by David Ho.

AP PHOTO: link

[longlistshort]

This artwork, painted on a door in the East Village, was created by Australian American painter Charlie Hudson.

You can also find his work on Instagram.

[curator-on-ao3]

It’s not a coincidence that after the AMPTP hired a crisis PR firm that shows from Drew Barrymore to Bill Maher to The Talk to Jennifer Hudson are or are saying they plan to return to air without their writers. Similar language of needing to care for other workers and the WGA not being the only talent that’s important suggest a concerted effort to weaken the WGA stance and depict the writers as selfish and stubborn. And, frankly, the writers dominated the PR side of things for a long time, and losing that dominance as the AMPTP has finally brought on competent help for its own messaging is exceedingly dangerous for the WGA (which is also being positioned as fissuring from within, showrunners versus regular writers). The WGA needs to move, now, even though its negotiating power has already been eroded, before the AMPTP messaging takes hold even more.

Disclaimer: I have no inside information, but the playbook here isn’t new and the WGA needs to win what it can.

[obscurevideogames]

"This spring water purifies the body!" -

Tengai Makyou Zero (RED/Hudson - Super Famicom - 1995) 

[cogumellow]

new york state of mind // new york city, usa // 2017 // ©

[ablogofcourage]

[20th-century-railroading]

MEC Monday

The early stages of power sharing during Guilford Transportation Industries attempt at ruling the northeast's rail systems is evident here as this Delaware & Hudson freight departs East Binghamton, NY crossing the Susquehanna River for points north with Maine Central power head up. November 1984

[kramlabs]

Does the Fur Trade make sense?

*Or was it Tulip’s all over again?

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Previously on Lost:

[da-riya]

I'll try out Vic3 again I think I didn't give it a fair shot on it's own terms

[rabbitcruiser]

Henry Hudson “discovered” Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there on September 11, 1609.  

[bison2winquote]

- Manjimaru, Kabuki Klash: Far East of Eden (Racdym/ Hudson Soft)

[lonestarbattleship]

USS TEXAS (BB-35) anchored in the Hudson River, New York.

Date: May 22, 1915

Special thanks to Evan Dwyer for cleaning up this photo.

source

[aryburn-trains]

The 7312, with a freshly repainted undercarriage, leads the Toys for Tots train through East Worcester en route to Cobelskill. December 8, 2007

[cantsayidont]

MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON (2021): This heady, disjointed supernatural drama-thriller is I guess Ana Lily Amirpour's take on the YA modern fantasy genre: A previously near-catatonic young woman called Mona Lisa Lee (Jun Jong-Seo), imprisoned for 12 years in a New Orleans asylum, escapes after discovering that she has the power to psychically control the minds of others. Lost in a world she barely understands, Mona falls in with a hard-bitten stripper named Bonnie (Kate Hudson), who immediately realizes she can use Mona's power for scamming and petty crime, and befriends Bonnie's 10-year-old metalhead son Charlie (Evan Whitten) while being pursued by a cop named Harold (Craig Robinson), who knows what Mona can do because she previously forced him to shoot himself in the leg.

Less deliberately sketchy than Amirpour's previous features (characters even have names most of the time!), MONA LISA is still awfully thin on plot, relying more on mood, atmosphere, and the protagonist's longing to be somewhere other than she's been; its vivid strangeness is kind of compelling, although at points the lack of direction leaves it feeling threadbare.

Of the central characters, Charlie is well-drawn, a latchkey kid who's had to develop his own strategies for giving himself the emotional regulation his mother doesn't provide, but Mona's idiot savant blankness is sometimes uncomfortable (although Jun does as well as she can with a difficult part), and the story is meaner about Bonnie than I think was really called for. Even more than in the 2016 THE BAD BATCH, I was uneasy with the film's treatment of its Black characters — none of them are killed this time, but most get battered and humiliated for comic relief — which is starting to seem like a problem for Amirpour. CONTAINS LESBIANS? After seeing Bonnie dance, Mona says she's pretty, but it's otherwise pretty hetero. VERDICT: If you catch it in the right mood, you may dig its seriocomic fever-dream vibe, but its scattershot story and uncomfortable character choices sometimes frustrate.