#New York Voices

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Guys I'm so glad everyone loves hit JRWI campaign: The Suckening so much. 12 thousand notes on just a thumbnail that's so cool. Anyone think about emizel pussy-out post revival

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Cotton Tail

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Sebby faces. Why would a fish need to shave smh

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November 26, 2023 - Over 1500 American Jews with Jewish Voice for Peace and their allies blocked traffic on the Manhattan Bridge in NYC for three hours, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israeli occupation. [video]

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One of the artists commissioned to create a new work for the 1939-40 World's Fair was the sculptor Augusta Savage. A leading member of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only black woman to be so honored.

Her piece, intended to celebrate African-Americans’ contributions to music, showed a kneeling black man holding a bar of music and 12 black chorus singers representing strings on a harp, the sounding board of which was no less than the hand of God. She called it Lift Every Voice and Sing, a nod to a poem by her friend James Weldon Johnson that was later set to music and adopted as the black "national anthem" by the NAACP.

The work stood 16 feet tall and was made of plaster that had been lacquered to look like black basalt. She was paid $360 for it (around $8,000 in today's dollars) and it was placed in the courtyard of the Contemporary Arts Building, near one of the Fair’s gates. Fair officials renamed it The Harp, which Savage reportedly hated. Small metal replicas were sold as souvenirs, and images of it were reproduced on postcards.

When the Fair ended, Savage had no money to remove and store her sculpture, or to cast the large piece in bronze, as she had with other, smaller works. So, like all the other "temporary" artwork created for the Fair, it was destroyed by a bulldozer.

In 2017, a NY Times op-ed piece by the filmmaker Aviva Kempner proposed that a full-size replica of the sculpture be created and placed in front of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington. So far, there has been no movement towards carrying that idea out.

Photos: top and center, NYPL. Bottom, illustration from the book Harlem: Negro Metropolis (E.P. Dutton 1940) via The Wolfsonian–FIU.

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Grunkle Stunkle wins the Funkle Bunkle, live action edition

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via nyislanders on instagram (9.18.24)

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Was watching videos of a TMNT 2003 panel from way back in 2007 with Michael Sinterniklaas, Wayne Grayson, Greg Abbey (referred to as John Campbell), Ted Lewis, and Mike Pollock.

It was cute how Michael admitted that while the Dark Turtle episodes weren't his favorite to voice act, he really liked the interactions between Leo and Dark Leo from "DNA Is Thicker Than Water" where Leo was trying to get Dark Leo to change for the better and become good.

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MAT BARZAL | Media Availability 9/16

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I finally managed to snap a photo of this billboard. For some reason I never had my phone out whenever I passed previously.

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Lucio Fulci’s horror movies

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i’m not well

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i’m crying

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Harley quinn voice claims

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rewatched season 2 so it's time for S2 lookbook...2! (now with Jancy!)

part 1

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Thursday March 9.

Into the Berry-Verse: It's Matt Berry.

He is The Man with The Voice. Wehll have we got a post for yeou! We would love to carry off an entire introduction in the spirit of the mercurial #matt berry, but replicating his luxurious, fruity tones is an almost impossible feat, whether by text or by voice. No one has quite mastered the Fine Art of Speaking quite like Mr. Berry. He is the dashboard's very own submission for the next voice of Garfield. Or, indeed, the man who delivered possibly the finest line in television history, in the bright lights of nEwWĕ yörKę citæy. We figured we would just sit back and let the voice do the talking. 

With that, we thought this Thursday, March 9th to be a very fitting opportunity to pay tribute to one of the finest men our species has to offer. And if you need yet more #matt berry, then head over to the fandom here on Tumblr for shitposts, gifs, fanart, and, of course, excerpts of quite possibly the finest voice of our times.