#Jennifer Liao

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #811 - A Big Fat Family Christmas

[zonetrente-trois]

[teenagedirtstache]

[burlveneer-music]

Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra - another Sun Ra tribute album from Red Hot Org, and what a list of contributors:  Georgia Anne Muldrow, Laraaji, Laurie Anderson, Jlin, Sexmob, Moor Mother, Secret Chiefs 3, Terry Riley, the Arkestra's centenarian leader Marshall Allen, and more

Cover Artwork by Lorna Simpson Courtesy of the Artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York with special thanks to Jennifer Hsu and James Wang from Lorna Simpson’s studio Publishing: All Sun Ra compositions: © Enterplanetary Koncepts (BMI) This is the fourth in a series of albums dedicated to the music and spirit of Sun Ra. Red Hot’s mission is to promote diversity and equal access to healthcare. The Sun Ra series is focused on Climate Justice and advocating for the basic human right to a healthy environment. Special thanks to Irwin Chusid and the Sun Ra Estate. Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association extend special thanks to Jim Newman and Jane Ivory for their support of this recording. John Carlin thanks David Harrington for helping elevate Sun Ra to his rightful place as one of the great American composers of the 20th century. Thanks to: all the artists who participated; kronos quartet / kronos performing arts association team: Janet Cowperthwaite, Mason Dille, Dana Dizon, Sarah Donahue, Reshena liao; Lorna Simpon’s studio, Jennifer Hsu, Chuck Mitchell, King Britt, 3db, Renee Dossick, Amy & Conwy Phillips, Brandon Stosuy, Shaun MacDonald, Linda Brumbach, Mark Christman

[proton-wobbler]

Round 1, Poll 54

Oriental Stork vs Arabian Babbler

sources under cut

Oriental Stork Propaganda

"it's very fashionable, you understand. iconic wading bird elegant figure. the red eyeliner and the black beak. Very Classy."

This stork was historically found in Japan, Manchuria, Korea, and Siberia. It was extirpated from Japan and the Korean Peninsula, but in 2007 there was a report of a hatchling in the wild- the first time in 40 years.

As these birds were largely impacted by the growing rice industry and use of pesticides, there has been a push for rice to be organically grown so the storks have a chance to successfully breed.

Arabian Babbler Propaganda

"I spend lots of time in the Desert and see them around a lot!"

"in Hebrew, they are called ""Zanvan"" which means ""Tail haver""! They have a habit of lifting their long tail up and wagging it a bit like wagtails :) Also I often see them in the morning and they are so cute that they almost make living in the middle of the desert worth it despite the giant camel spiders everywhere."

They have private sex. We still don't know why because it's typically the main mated pair doing this, so it's not like it's a competition thing. They just like to be private.

Guys they are So Complex with their social grouping, I would need an entire post to describe them. They've been studied as a particularly altruistic species with many helpers to the breeding pair.

Image Sources: Stork (u7 Liao); Babbler (Itamar Donitza)

(the private sex thing is from a book: The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman)

[sinterhinde]

Glory on the artist: Vita Sleigh

I make drawings which combine detail with mixed-media texture; most often I use a combination of watercolours, coloured and graphite pencils, sometimes combining digital elements. I have an interdisciplinary practice which spans illustration, writing, activism and research. I am interested in what can be told of the outside through coming to know the shape of the inside: my work explores interior worlds, often visiting themes of gender, queerness and queer relating, human-nonhuman interactions and experiences of injustice. I also come back to enduring inspirations such as folklore, psychoanalytic theory, and the sea. I am currently studying an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at Birkbeck University. Illustration commissioners have included The History Press, Popshot and Firewords poetry journals, and Unbound. Publishers of my written work include Animals and Society Institute, Vegan Feminist Network and Dark Mountain Project. (vitasleigh.com)

I found Vita Sleigh's work through a conversation between Tom White from Fruit Journal and Maria Sledmere and Colin Herd.

Sleigh's essay Making Oddkin: Relationships in the Cracks is a brilliant piece that can be found on their website and in the Spring '22 issue of the Dark Mountain Project (theme: confluence).

The essay investigates fluid sociality, non-monagamy, and is book-ended by reflections on the binaries that starve us of knowing each other and the world. They weave together a beautiful range of poetic, politics, and portraits of their own relationships - I pray a book is in the works I would buy several copies.

They also have a linktree that includes a page of polyamory and anarchic relationship resources. I haven't check them out yet but appreciate the signpost a lot.

As a side note to myself, I need to make Glory on Donna Haraway and Bayo Akomolafe also. I've been tired a lot at the moment and am absorbing more than excreting (...)

Sleigh's essay on non-human pain Nonhuman Consent: On Touching Other Animals provoked me to reflect on my own relationship to my ex-vegetarianism/veganism and consent around the cats and dogs in my life:

Recently, to better understand the experience of the animals I interact with, I have been trying to imagine what it’s like to do what they do, and how they experience it. For example, I watched dogs in a busy street being stroked by passers by – what are they experiencing? Pleasure? Shock and surprise? Irritation? Violation, even? Certainly, this will be different for each individual and probably at different times, too. (veganfeministnetwork.com)

Sleigh's methodology of imagination as tool for understanding also reminded me of the conversation around Feminist Philosophy of Mind, 2022, ed. Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny.

I'm thinking specifically of Amy Kind and Janine Jones' comments on the limits of imagination as empathy in particular power structures: Kind's essay in the anthology examines the gender bias in the Turing Test and Jones' examines the failings of white empathy. Kind also made a reference to Sam Liao's exploration on the right not to be imagined - although I haven't read this work so can't comment but am very intrigued to see how it would apply to human-animal empathy methodologies. Linked below:

Feminist Philosophy of Mind is not yet available to b u y online, but I'm linking the discussion below:

Sleigh's visual art is just fucking gorgeous. They are organic and fluid forms that really embody the artist's ethos as a being. Each subject seems celebrated individually in their stylised world - I particularly resonate with their hybrid jellyfish figures and they remind me of my utopic visual 'interruptions' of figures born from whale hearts.

Sleigh's drawings can be found on their website and @ their IG: vitasleigh

[thiagowdr]

From S01 (Origem) - Jack Bender, Brad Turner, Jennifer Liao Jeff Renfroe - 2022. ★★★☆

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5.5 / 10

Título Original: End of Days, Inc.

Año:  2015

Duración: 82 min

País: Canadá

Dirección: Jennifer Liao

Guion: Christina Ray

Música: Maria Molinari, Rohan Staton

Fotografía: Ben Lichty

Reparto: Mark O'Brien, Paulino Nunes, Carolyne Maraghi, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Janet Porter, Anna Ferguson, Yulia Petrauskas, Mark Robinson

Productora: Believerville Productions

Género: Comedy; Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3476464/

TRAILER:

[hallmark-movie-fanatics]

SHANNON CHAN-KENT AND SHANNON KOOK MIX BUSINESS AND PLEASURE IN ‘A BIG FAT FAMILY CHRISTMAS’ A NEW, ORIGINAL MOVIE PREMIERING DECEMBER 2, ON HALLMARK CHANNEL

Tia Carrere and Jack Wagner Also Star 

Part of the Network’s Annual “Countdown to Christmas” Programming Event

STUDIO CITY, CA – November 3, 2022 – Shannon Chan-Kent (“You,” “Good Trouble”) and Shannon Kook (“Nancy Drew,” “The 100”) collaborate to write a heartfelt Christmas editorial in “A Big Fat Family Christmas” a new, original movie premiering Friday, December 2 (8 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Channel as part of the network’s annual “Countdown to Christmas” programming event. Tia Carrere (“Wayne’s World,” “AJ and the Queen”) and Jack Wagner (“When Calls the Heart,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”) also star.

Liv Chang (Chan-Kent), a photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, lives a low-key life. She has curated what she believes to be the perfect life for herself – a little less Chinese and a little more American. As a social media influencer, she even goes by the name Liv Rose. Her family, on the other hand, represents something a bit more loud, proud and Chinese. They are the infamous Chang family, responsible for throwing the biggest, annual holiday block party in the neighborhood. Their party is a celebration of Chinese American culture, which Liv finds to be over the top. She has managed to keep her family a secret until she is forced to partner with Henry (Kook), a new coworker, to cover her family’s annual celebration. Liv and Henry work closely together to capture the story behind The Changtastic Party and, in a moment of fun, almost ruin it by losing all the donations from the community. Liv’s resolve to make things right for her family and the community forces her to overcome her resistance to her heritage and open up to her followers for help; ultimately helping her find herself and true love in the process.

“A Big Fat Family Christmas” is A Sepia Films Production in association with Ray of Light Entertainment. Marguerite Henry is executive producer. Roberts and Tina Pehma are producers and Amber Ripley is line producer. Jennifer Liao directed from a script written by Justine Wetzell- Chang and co-written by Blaine Chiappetta.

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

A Sugar & Spice Holiday directed by Jennifer Liao will be Hallmark’s first Asian-American led Christmas movie

Premiering December 2020, the movie follows Suzie, a rising young architect who returns to her small hometown in Maine for Christmas, where her Chinese-American parents, Pete and Mimi run the local Lobster Bar.

Following the loss of her beloved grandmother who was a legendary baker in their community, Suzie is guilted into following in her grandmother’s footsteps by entering — you guessed it — the local gingerbread house competition. Teaming up with an old high school friend Billy, who grew up to be quite a catch, “Suzie must find the right mix of sugar and spice to win the competition, and perhaps find some love in the process.”

In addition to featuring a predominantly Asian-American cast the writer and director of the TV film are Asian-American as well. 

[eastasiansonwesternscreen]

In addition, Lifetime has greenlit A Sugar & Spice Holiday, its first holiday movie centered on a Chinese-American family. Jennifer Liao is set to direct with Eirene Donohue writing. Casting is currently underway on both movies, with production set to begin this month.

A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY

Suzie, a rising young architect, returns to her small hometown in Maine for Christmas where, her Chinese American family runs the local Lobster Bar. Following the loss of her beloved grandmother who was a legendary baker in their community, Suzie is guilted into following in her grandmother’s footsteps by entering the local gingerbread house competition. Teaming up with an old high school friend Billy, who grew up to be a catch, Suzie must find the right recipes and mix of sugar and spice to win the competition and perhaps find some love in the process. A Sugar & Spice Holiday is produced by Brightlight Pictures and executive produced by Nancy Bennett, Shawn Williamson and Jamie Goehring, directed by Jennifer Liao and written by Eirene Donohue.

[zonetrente-trois]

[scapingfromchoices]

and that's the tea.

[bookaddict24-7]

New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (February 8th, 2022)

___

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams

Across A Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

No Filter & Other Lies by Crystal Maldonado

Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie

Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli

Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon

You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen

Lulu & Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela Velez

Cold by Mariko Tamaki

Golden Boys by Phil Stamper

Pixels of You by Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota, & J.R. Doyle

Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow

___

New Sequels: 

A Spark Within the Forge (An Ember in the Ashes Graphic Novel Prequel #2) by Sabaa Tahir, Nicole Andelfinger, & Sonia Liao

___

Happy reading!

[einaudis]

december in movies (pt. 3) [27/31]: a sugar & spice holiday (2020) d. jennifer liao "Love is the secret ingredient."

[robinschwartz]

Banner at Photoville: I am grateful for my #AmeliaAndTheAnimals series presentation to be included in the 10th year anniversary banner. Thank you Jaime Curator @jaime_permuth wrote: "For the past ten years, curating the i3 Lecture Series for the Masters in Digital Photography Program at the School of Visual Arts was a great joy and an important aspect of my professional life. I’m so pleased to have curated an exhibition of seventeen wonderful artists who are all past presenters of the series. The exhibition titled “On Turning 10: An i3 Family Album” opens on September 18th in Brooklyn as part of this year’s edition of Photoville. Featured artists: Jon Henry, Richard Renaldi, Tommy Kha Gabriel Garcia Roman, Elinor Carucci, Valerio Spada, Robin Schwartz, Lissa Rivera, Pixy Liao, Lucas Foglia, Tema Stauffer, Gerald Cyrus, Inbal Abergil, Cecilia Paredes, Muriel Hasbun, Jennifer McClure, Chris Verene." @photoville @jmcclurephoto @renaldiphotos @elinorcarucci @murielfoto @temastauffer @lucasfogliaphoto @chrisverene @aperturefnd @this.is.amelia (at Photoville) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVilezLpV8v/?utm_medium=tumblr