#Jim Halliday

[fractualized]

I present a collection of normie Jokers (aka how Joker might look if he never fell into the vat), with the following parameters:

no masks/prosthetics

all adults grown into Joker face

limited rehashing of TKJ (only including versions I felt had different vibes)

1) Joker as Arthur Wilde — Joker (1975) #5, Irv Novick

2) Unnamed former lab assistant and struggling comedian — The Killing Joke, Brian Bolland

3) Joker disguised during "Death in the Family" — Batman (1940) #427, Jim Aparo

4) Joseph Kerr in the "Going Sane" storyline — Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #66, Joe Staton

5) Unnamed TKJ-esque husband — JLA (1997) #35, Mark Pajarillo

6) Unnamed worker drone/comedian — Batman: It's Joker Time #3, Bob Hall

7) Jack the criminal in "Lovers and Madmen" — Batman Confidential #7, Denys Cowan

8) Unnamed mobster (at times known as Jackie, Sonny, or Hap) in "Case Study" — Batman: Black & White (Vol 2), Alex Ross

9) Unnamed criminal in Joker's own mind — The Brave and the Bold (2007) #31, Chad Hardin

10) Eric Border, Arkham Asylum orderly — Batman (2011) Annual #2, Wes Craig Batman (2011) #36, Greg Capullo

11) Alby, corrupt businessman — Detective Comics (2011) #27, Bryan Hitch

12) Unnamed amnesiac from the "Superheavy" storyline — Batman (2011) #48, Greg Capullo

13) Jack Napier in the White Knight series — Batman: White Knight #2, Sean Murphy

14) Unnamed comedian — Batman: Gotham Nights (2020) #9, Neil Edwards

15) Jack Oswald White — Flashpoint Beyond #5, Xermanico

16) Darwin Halliday, chemist and head of Halliday Industries in "The Bat-Man of Gotham" — Batman (2016) #134, Mike Hawthorne Batman (2016) #135, Jorge Jiménez

(Once again, thanks to @distort-opia for assistance!)

[gen-is-gone]

EDA Writer Tournament Masterpost

THE FINAL ROUND IS NOW LIVE.

This post will continue to update as the tournament continues. All polls and related info can be found under the tag, 'EDA writer tournament'. The Final is now live, and will run until about 1PM MT, Thursday, 03/02.

Kate Orman VS Mark Morris VS David A McIntee (there was a tie in the preliminary)

Lawrence Miles VS Dave Stone

Paul Magrs VS Terrance Dicks

Lloyd Rose VS John Peel

Paul Leonard VS Jonathon Morris

Paul Cornell VS Micheal Collier

Jacqueline Raynor VS Simon Messingham

Trevor Baxendale VS Mark Michalowksi

Mags L Halliday VS Colin Brake

Jim Mortimore VS Mark Clapham

Simon Bucher-Jones VS Gary Russel

Paul Ebbs VS Steve Lyons

Peter Anghelides VS David Bishop

Justin Richards VS Steve Emmerson

Nick Walters VS Lance Parkin

Stephen Cole VS Simon A Forward

ROUND TWO:

Kate Orman VS Paul Leonard

Lawrence Miles VS Paul Cornell

Jacqueline Raynor VS Paul Magrs

Trevor Baxendale VS Lloyd Rose

Mags L Halliday VS Peter Anghelides

Jim Mortimore VS Justin Richards

Lance Parkin VS Simon Bucher-Jones

Stephen Cole VS Steve Lyons

ROUND THREE:

Kate Orman VS Mags L Halliday

Lawrence Miles VS Justin Richards

Lance Parkin VS Paul Magrs

Stephen Cole VS Lloyd Rose

SEMIFINAL:

Kate Orman VS Paul Magrs

Justin Richards VS Lloyd Rose

FINAL SHOWDOWN:

Kate Orman VS Lloyd Rose

Happy Voting!

[coinhaber]

Versal Network: Sınır Ötesi Kripto Ödemeler

Versal Network, Merkezi Olmayan Ödeme Hizmetine Başladı

Versal network PayPal'ın eski teknoloji liderleri Jim Nguyen ve Nas Kavian tarafından kurulan bir şirkettir. Bu şirket açık Sui blok zinciri üzerinde hizmet vermeye başladı. Bu merkezi olmayan küresel ödeme ağı, dünya genelindeki işletmelere sınır ötesi işlemleri kolaylaştırmayı hedefliyor. Six Clovers'ın kripto ödeme sistemlerini kullanarak, kullanıcılar artık küresel ölçekte dijital para birimi işlemleri gerçekleştirebilecekler. Versal Network, Sui blok zinciri üzerine inşa edilmiş olup merkezi olmayan bir yapıya sahiptir. Nitekim geleneksel finansın inovatif bir birleşimini temsil etmektedir.

Versal Network, Six Clovers ve Sui Blok Zinciri İşbirliği

Six Clovers'ın CEO'su Jim Nguyen konuyla ilgili şunları söyledi: "Sui ile bir sonraki milyar kullanıcı için zincir üstü dijital varlıkların gücünü ortaya çıkarma vizyonumuz gerçekleşiyor. Bunu yapmanın yolu, blok zincirini soyutlayarak ve müşteriler için altyapıyı görünmez hale getirerek yerleşik e-ticaret ile Web3 ticareti arasındaki boşluğu kapatmaktır." Six Clovers API'nın sunduğu sorunsuz entegrasyon sayesinde işletmeler, Versal Network'ün gücünden yararlanarak stablecoin'ler ve Merkez Bankası Dijital Para Birimleri kullanarak gerçek zamanlı ödemeleri kolaylıkla gerçekleştirebilecekler. Sui blok zinciri ekosistemi, Versal Network'ün yanı sıra diğer önemli bileşenleri de içermektedir. Bunlardan biri, itibari para kullanarak SUI jetonlarının satın alınmasını kolaylaştıran bir platform olan Transak'tır. Ayrıca, eski Meta Platforms çalışanları tarafından kurulan bir katman 1 blok zinciri olan Halliday HQ, başarılı bir finansman turunun ardından Eylül ayında 2 milyar dolarlık bir değerlemeye ulaştı.

SUI Blockchain: Kesintisiz Sınır Ötesi İşlemler için Mükemmel Ekosistem

Six Clovers, yeni bir ağ olan SUI Blockchain'i duyurdu. Bu ağ, sınır ötesi kripto ödemeleri için tasarlanmış bir ekosistem sunuyor. SUI Blockchain, Mayıs 2023'te başlatıldı. Son 30 gün içinde saniyede 1.007 işlem gerçekleştirecek şekilde üst noktaya ulaştı. SUI Blockchain, Rust programlama diline dayanan Move programlama dilini kullanarak hızlı işlemler yapıyor. Bununla beraber anında işleme ve ölçeklenebilirlik özellikleri var. Ayrıca SUI'ye sahip bir Layer 1 blok zinciri olarak kendini öne çıkarıyor. SUI Blockchain, proof of stake mekanizması kullanıyor. Maksimum 10 milyar SUI token arzına sahip. Bu tokenlerin 'ü yatırımcılar tarafından satın alınabiliyor. SUI'nin 24 saatlik işlem hacmi 2,53 milyon dolar. Ayrıca 7 günlük işlem hacmi 17,76 milyon dolar olan 11,65 milyon dolarlık TVL var. Binance borsası, SUI'yı Launchpool aracılığıyla kullanıma sunarak onun ilgisini çekti. Tron'un kurucusu Justin Sun, Binance CEO'su Changpeng Zhao'yu cevap vermeye teşvik ederek Binance'e 56 milyon dolarlık TrueUSD istikrarlı para yatırdı. Daha sonra Sun, Binance'e geri ödeme yaparak SUI tokenlarını TUSD likidite havuzuna yeniden tahsis etti.

Kripto Sınır Ötesi Ödemeler ve Havaleler

Kripto para birimleri, havale ve sınır ötesi ödemelerde gelecekte büyük bir rol oynayacak. Küresel havale piyasası 2026 yılına kadar 930 milyar dolara ulaşacak. Ayrıca kripto para birimlerinin benimsenmesi için büyük bir fırsat. Geçtiğimiz yıl Uluslararası Ödemeler Bankası ve Uluslararası Para Fonu gibi kuruluşlar, merkez bankası dijital para birimlerini (CBDC'ler) içeren sınır ötesi işlemler üzerinde deneyler yapmışlardır. CBDC'lerin gelecek on yıl içinde dünya çapında 213 milyar doları aşması bekliyoruz ve bu da sınır ötesi ödemeleri önemli ölçüde artıracak. CBDC'ler, sınır ötesi ödemeleri artırmak için potansiyele sahip gelişmeler arasında yer alıyor. Bu dijital para birimleri, merkez bankaları tarafından oluşturulup veriliyor. Kripto para birimleri ile benzerlik gösteriyor.       Read the full article

[larryland]

REVIEW: "Ragtime" at the Mac-Haydn Theatre

REVIEW: “Ragtime” at the Mac-Haydn Theatre

[il3x]

#jim halliday

OH wait that's the guy from rp1 right?

i don't really have any analysis on this but. parallels :)

[veryslowreader]

The Great Stink of London by Stephen Halliday 

Another Year

[mymanylives]

black and white: The Newsroom

[ofhouseadama]

this is for the ones who stand, for the ones who try again for the ones who need a hand, for the ones who think they can

[lovehurried]

TAG DROP  •  Sloan Sabbith (2/3)

SLOAN SABBITH  &  mackenzie  ‘ mac ’  mchale. SLOAN SABBITH  &  charlie skinner. SLOAN SABBITH  &  james  ‘ jim ’  harper. SLOAN SABBITH  &  margaret  ‘ maggie ’  jordan. SLOAN SABBITH  &  neal sampat. SLOAN SABBITH  &  leona lansing. SLOAN SABBITH  &  kendra james. SLOAN SABBITH  &  gary cooper. SLOAN SABBITH  &  reese lansing. SLOAN SABBITH  &  elliot hirsch. SLOAN SABBITH  &  wyatt geary. SLOAN SABBITH  &  rebecca halliday. SLOAN SABBITH  *  verse 000.  ( undetermined ) SLOAN SABBITH  *  verse 001.  ( childhood )

[fractualized]

Zdarsky’s run on Batman ends soon, thoughts? 🎤

lmao I feel like I could either toss out a dismissive one-liner or rant for like a dozen paragraphs. Guess I'll go with the latter.

We'll, I'm certainly not going to miss him at the helm. I read Batman: The Knight, and even though I agree with the criticism of the end, it showed competent storytelling with a good emotional core, which is the most basic of standards, but let's be real, this is comics, I'll take competent any day. And when his Batman run started, I had caught up on Snyder-King-Tynion Batman and was excited to follow a run in real time.

I'd say I stopped having a good time when Bruce got sent to the alternate universe. Penguin faking his death was fun. Bruce being pursued by a dramatic robot version of himself was fun. Bruce again fretting about protecting the family was… par for the course. Calling back to Zur-En-Arrh didn't bug me because I hadn't read that full storyline yet, so it felt like a gateway to digging back into lore. Bruce surviving a fall through the Earth's atmosphere was too fucking ridiculous but the kind I can look past. (Imagine you're a DC writer. You have the idea: lol what if Batman got out of this by surviving a fall from the moon. You have opened that door in your mind. Do you have the will close it or would you be like FUCK IT LET'S DO IT?)

The Red Mask universe, however, dragged any momentum at that point to a stop, and I honestly don't care enough to dig deep into all the reasons why, which I guess gets at the core of what was wrong with the Red Mask universe. (Skeleton Jim Gordon was the most interesting thing but he was just a temporary side effect or something? Whatever.)

But, of course, since I'm a Joker fan, Darwin Halliday was a major sticking point as the most boring Joker to never joke. Nearly everything Zdarsky did with Joker was a major sticking point.

It still drives me crazy that from Snyder to the Zdarsky run, we had a Joker who tried to force Bruce both away from the batfam and Selina and back to basics multiple times, so their battle could be one-on-one again. We had a Joker who, after Bruce left him to die, was notably depressed and suicidal at the end of Joker 2021. He is still that way at the start of The Man Who Stopped Laughing.

And you could follow from that with the basic beats of what Zdarsky did. You could say Joker is disillusioned with his relationship with Batman, and that's why he turns to Zur-En-Arrh, a real Batman. But no, everything has to be too fucking complicated. We have do yet another retcon of so much other stuff and say that Joker always was looking for Zur. And we have to a weird take on Three Jokers because people were really biting at the bit to get a real answer within canon like a decade after Johns wrote that nonsense?? I don't know, I don't do marketing research, but I'm pretty sure if they just quietly never addressed it, it would be fine.

And the freaking Captio stuff. Ugh. UGH. I really just. I feel like this is a product of overthinking. "Well, Batman is so thoroughly trained, it only makes sense that Joker had at least some of the same training to beat him." No. Fuck that. We don't need that. Joker rivals Batman out of sheer audacity. I like that it doesn't really make sense that a clown pushes him to the limit. I like the juxtaposition of Bruce having to do so much training and learning to survive, but Joker is a cockroach revived by the narrative. I like Joker being a plague and a mystery that Batman cannot resolve. I like Joker being essentially absurd. No, it doesn't make sense, but he's here to stab you out of love and you better know how to dodge.

So much of Batman comics now are not about telling a fun Batman story. They're stories about Batman stories, just circling back and cannibalizing each other into a total fucking mess, and putting the city on the brink of destruction so much that those stakes no longer have meaning. There has to be a writer out there who wants to get back to just telling a smaller action/detective story that makes the reader give a shit about what's happening instead of feeling like maybe they're just not getting it, like they missed homework.

And I say that as someone who started reading Morrison's full run when Zdarsky's started so I could have the Zur background. I had to pause when Morrison's writing got to be too much (for the bad reasons!). I intended to jump back in again, but then Zdarsky's run nosedived and the effort no longer seemed worth it.

Especially when everything paused for Gotham War. Jesus Christ. The only good thing to come out of that was Rosenberg's second Red Hood issue. But speaking of Gotham War, I do wonder if there'll be an article years from now that will reveal Zdarsky had to deal with too much editorial fiat. He had to interrupt his Zur story not only with the badly executed Catwoman plot and the Knight Terrors, but cram in a Three Jokers explanation.

And speaking of Rosenberg, I can't end without mentioning that because he started TMWSL around the same time Zdarsky started on Batman, and they both had their protagonists dealing with other versions of themselves, man, there was such potential for a crossover event. Me and my pals had lots of fun theories about how these series would converge, because the idea that they wouldn't seemed ridiculous. There were two Jokers in TMWSL, and at the same time in Batman #131, Halliday seemed to have created three of them. I didn't like Halliday, but still, what did that mean? It would be ridiculous for those developments to be unrelated, right? RIGHT?

Joke's on us, as usual. 🤪

[rainydayscribbling]

I was hyperfixated on RP1 and James Halliday for a while… still really like Jim but I‘ve moved on to other hyperfixations. Will do an art drop soon

[gen-is-gone]

EDA Writer Tournament Update

Okay, so thank you to everyone who voted in the preliminary round! The actual tournament starts tomorrow, with sixteen bouts in round one. The polls will will last for twenty-four hours apiece, every other day, culminating in a final showdown on Wednesday, March 1st. The round one brackets will be:

Kate Orman VS Mark Morris VS David A McIntee (there was a tie in the preliminary)

Lawrence Miles VS Dave Stone

Paul Magrs VS Terrance Dicks

Lloyd Rose VS John Peel

Paul Leonard VS Jonathon Morris

Paul Cornell VS Micheal Collier

Jacqueline Raynor VS Simon Messingham

Trevor Baxendale VS Mark Michalowksi

Mags L Halliday VS Colin Brake

Jim Mortimore VS Mark Clapham

Simon Bucher-Jones VS Gary Russel

Paul Ebbs VS Steve Lyons

Peter Anghelides VS David Bishop

Justin Richards VS Steve Emmerson

Nick Walters VS Lance Parkin

Stephen Cole VS Simon A Forward

[sophie-e-b]

Here she is! The brand new video for Hypnotized. Shot in the iconic Barrowland in Glasgow with 100 dancers helping me articulate my feelings through the medium of dance. Ever was it thus. Shot by the ever-brilliant Sophie Muller, make up and hair by lisalaudat1, styling by Tamara Cincik Work and I’m wearing a fabulous latex creation by Atsuko Kudo.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Hypnotized” 

Director: Sophie Muller 

DOP: Robbie Ryan 

Production Company: PRETTYBIRD 

Co-Founder / Exec Producer: Juliette Larthe 

Head of Production: Fiona Bamford-Phillips 

Head of Music Videos/ Exec Producer: Chris Murdoch 

Service Company: LS Productions 

Producer: Sam Barber 

Production Manager: Jack Cowhig 

1st AD: Remo Catani 

3rd AD: Luke Keogh 

Runner/Driver: Graeme King 

Runner: Imogen Bristow 

Work Experience Runner: Ralph Owen 

Work Experience Runner: Lily Owen 

Camera Assistant: Florence Gilbertson 

Lighting Desk Op: Gary Edby 

Lighting Tech: Adam Thayers 

Lighting Tech: Alastair Lees 

Lighting Tech: Ricky Smith 

Grip: Davey Logan 

Grip Trainee: Theo Logan 

On-site Rigger: Jim Stinson 

Choreographers: Frankie Mulholland & Kirstin Halliday 

Hair & Makeup Artist: Lisa Laudat 

Photographer: Kevin J Thompson 

Lead Dancers: Mhari Burley, Kieran Burns, Sgaire Wood, Yasmin Singh, Oliza Howieson, Kathryn Fraser, Samatha María, Connor Totten, Peter Clark, Liam McGrath 

Edit & Grade: Sophie Muller 

Artist Management:  Kat Rullach & Derek Mackillop @ Wallace Productions 

Record Label: Cooking Vinyl

[clampart]

Photographs from the Collection of Steven Gelston

January 9 – February 29, 2020

Opening reception: Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00 – 8:00 pm

ClampArt is pleased to present “Photographs from the Collection of Steven Gelston,” an exhibition of exclusively black-and-white prints of nearly all male figurative imagery collected over the past thirty-five years.

Steven Gelston grew up surrounded by art. His parents were intelligent and curious collectors of art who purchased works by largely living artists of their own generation still within attainable means. The collection came to include pieces by artists such as Josef Albers, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, and Larry Rivers, among many others. Gelston’s parents possessed strong aesthetic tastes and enjoyed researching the artists who caught their attention. Gelston’s mother led art tours for other women in the community through the museums and galleries of Manhattan. She also organized the annual art show in her town, which included works by often very well-established figures. Eventually she pursued her master’s degree in art education at New York University and went on to teach elementary school art classes. After retiring, she worked as a docent at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Gelston’s family’s appreciation for art and artists rubbed off, and his first purchase of art for himself was an impressive, signed, limited-edition Claes Oldenberg print which he acquired while still an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The sophisticated and playful conceptual print graced the walls of his dormitory room.

Eventually Gelston began collecting WWI and WWII posters (combing his love for history), but his first acquisition of a photograph would not be until 1985 during a trip to Key West, Florida. There he acquired two prints by an artist named Chuck Pearson, and it was then that his passion was unleashed. Slowly and thoughtfully, Gelston began researching and buying photographs of primarily male subjects by living artists of the day. Not at all a trophy hunter going after the biggest and most recognizable names, Gelston instead followed his eye and purchased works to which he responded personally.

After years of assembling his collection of photographs, a friend pointed out the fact that the faces of all of the models were cropped out, turned away, or otherwise obscured. After that time with this in mind, Gelston knowingly acquired a photograph titled “Ivan Ivankov, Gymnast, Belarus” by the then up-and-coming artistic duo Anderson & Low, which pictures a shirtless athlete looking up at the lens of the artists’ camera with his arm reaching across just the lower half of his face.

Amusingly, Steven Gelston likely will cringe at all of the attention paid to him, but ClampArt’s exhibition is meant to honor his true appreciation of art and his ongoing support of young, developing artists who rely on such generous patronage.

Gelston is passing on the baton of custodianship for these wonderful works of art, and it is now an opportunity for others to live with and care for the photographs he lovingly singled out for his own enjoyment over the course of many years.

The exhibition includes prints by now well-known photo-graphers such as Anderson & Low, Bill Costa, Wouter Deruytter, Jim French, David Halliday, Annie Leibovitz, Harriet Leibowitz, Blake Little, Dianora Niccolini, Len Prince, Karin Rosenthal, and Joe Ziolkowski, in addition to younger practitioners including John Kenny and Sebastian Perinotti.

© Chuck Pearson, Man with Snake, n.d., Gelatin silver print (Edition of 5), 10 x 10 inches

© Annie Leibovitz, Tribute to Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company [Chanterelle Menu], 2007, Gelatin silver print, 11 x 13.5 inches

© Blake Little, Three Elbows, 1992, Toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 25), 16 x 20 inches

© Anderson & Low, Ivan Ivankov, Gymnast, Belarus, n.d., Toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 25), 20 x 16 inches

[isfjmel-phleg]

Hi Rebekah!! As you also love Mysterious Benedict Society (and have excellent taste in books in general) I was wondering what your thoughts on Trenton Lee Stewart's other book (The Secret Keepers) are. Would you recommend it? Is it as Good as MBS/good in a different way? And who are your favourite female character(s) in the Wodehouseverse (since it's Psmith Pseptember, and Leave it to Psmith features one of my person favourites, the lovely Eve Halliday!)?

Hi, friend!

It's been a long time since I've read The Secret Keepers, although I keep meaning to reread. But I do recall enjoying it. Not as much as The Mysterious Benedict Society, of course, but MBS is exceptional. But The Secret Keepers has a similar style, a similar puzzle-solving emphasis and sense of adventure, a similar atmosphere of anxiety in the world caused by the villain, and a likeable hero. There's much less of a central strong friendship throughout (Reuben is frequently working on his own), but the relationships he does have are well-drawn. I'd recommend it.

I am very fond of Eve Halliday, of course, probably mostly because she's the one I've had cause to analyze the most. But I also like what little we see of Mike's wife Phyllis, and his sister Marjory. Molly Scott in the short story "Playing the Game" is in the same vein as Wodehouse's trickster types. Sally Nicholas in The Adventures of Sally is a sweetheart. Joan Valentine and Aline Peters in Something New are something like an alternate Eve and Phyllis. There are probably more (Jill in Jill the Reckless? Ann Chester in Piccadilly Jim?), but I haven't read much Wodehouse in a long time!