#Rio Marx

[justanothersimsblog]

Oh Julio, I wouldn't be happy if I were you. You just stole Seraphine's clothes from the hot tub. You're likely to get in trouble.

But might as well see some updates from your family:

I guess Julio's mom, Rosaline, has broken up with her old beau and has set her sights on Guy. Not sure that's a good idea.

WHY did the relationship end though? Oh I'm GLAD you asked. Turns out Rio had a baby with Esmarelda, as in Rosaline's sister!

[bresiltropical]

Brasília e Rio de Janeiro em L’homme de Rio (1964) Philippe de Broca

[russadocachorrobranco]

Roberto Burle Marx. Avenida Atlantica, Copacabana. Atlantica (Atlantic) avenue, Copacabana district.

Роберто Бурле Марш. Проспект Атлантика, Копакабана.

[alchamiwa]

[martinogolter]

http://www.martinogolter.com/martinogolter/tropiques.html#images-3

[kathleenkern]

ESMA Museum and Site of Memory

The Armed Forces of Argentina installed the first ESMA (School of Navy Mechanics) institutions in 1975. Despite the name, the military/security state always intended to use them as clandestine centers for the torture, interrogation, rape, illegal detention and murder of people whom they deemed not worthy of membership in society. They accomplished all these atrocities with the help of U.S. tax…

[thisisyourdriverspeaking]

Seeing as it's race week, I thought I'd bring back my motorsport number ones posts & look at the number one songs when the F1 drivers were born... but this time with US number one songs. Enjoy.

Fernando Alonso (29th July 1981) - Air Supply - The One That You Love

Lewis Hamilton (7th January 1985) - Madonna - Like A Virgin

Nico Hulkenburg (19th August 1987) - U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

Daniel Ricciardo (1st July 1989) - Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number

Valtteri Bottas (28th August 1989) - Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting

Sergio Perez (26th January 1990) - Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?

Kevin Magnussen - (5th October 1992) - Boyz II Men - End Of The Road

Carlos Sainz Jr - (1st September 1994) - Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You

Pierre Gasly - (7th February 1996) - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day

Alex Albon - (23rd March 1996) - Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me

Esteban Ocon - (17th September 1996) - Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)

Max Verstappen - (30th September 1997) - Mariah Carey - Honey

Charles Leclerc - (16th October 1997) - Elton John - Candle In The Wind 97

George Russell - (15th February 1998) - Usher - Nice & Slow

Lance Stroll - (29th October 1998) - Monica - The First Night

Zhou Guanyu - (30th May 1999) - Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

Lando Norris - (13th November 1999) - Santana & Rob Thomas - Smooth

Yuki Tsunoda - (11th May 2000) - Santana & The Product G&B - Maria Maria

Logan Sargeant - (31st December 2000) - Destiny's Child - Independent Women

Oscar Piastri - (6th April 2001) - Shaggy & Rayvon - Angel

All added to the playlist from before 😊

[havendance]

As a bonus, because this is something I've been thinking about more recently, my top 10 read female authors (number in parentheses is their rank on my locg stats):

(5) Devin Grayson - 149

(6) Gail Simone - 140

(18) G. Willow Wilson - 79

(27) Marguerite Bennet - 60

(33) Kim Yale - 46

(36) Kelly Thompson - 45

(39) Mariko Tamaki - 44

(52) Kelly Sue DeConnick - 29

(72) Christy Marx - 20

(74) Louise Jones simonson - 20

(I've been logging bombshells as the issues instead of the individual episodes because that makes the most sense to me, otherwise, Bennet would be in the top 10!)

And the Top read female interior artists:

(30) Fiona Staples - 55

(33) Nicola Scott - 53

(95) Jill Thompson - 30

(105) Laura Braga - 28

(156) Emanuela Lupacchino - 20

(163) Bilquis Evely - 19

(165) Carmen Carnero - 19

(168) Sandra Hope - 19

(197) Emma Rios - 15

(257) Elena Casagrande - 11

I think part of the difference here is just how much harder it is to be a prolific comics artist, but it still feels notable.

[water-mellie-seeds]

100+ members!?!?

............. . Yep ^^

Maybe not 100+ ACTIVE members but. Yep. Here's our latest count...... go!

6 under A (ADMIN, ALAN, AMITY, ANGIE,ANN, AUBREY)

2 under B (BASIL, BRANDON)

15 under C (C, CAINE,CALLUM,CATRA,CHARA,CHEL-C, CHIA, CHOCO, CHRISTINE, CIRI, CLARA, CLYDE, COCOA, COLBIE, COXIN)

1 under D (DARCY)

4-5 under E (EEF, ENA, ENTRAPTA, ETHAN LEE, ESPER)

1 under F (FERN)

4 under G (GARY, GENO, GLASS, GREGORY)

2 under H (HERO, HL)

2 under I (IZIA, IV)

4 under J (JACKIE, JAX, JILL, JOAN)

13 under K (KALE, KANE, KAM, KARMA, KEL, KEN, KID, KIRA, KITTY, KOKO, KRIS, KYLIE, KIKI(LOOP)

5 under L (L, LAKE, LAZULI, LONNIE, LUCIFER)

19 under M (M, MABEL, MAE, MAL, MARCY, MARI, MARIE, MARS, MARSHALL, MARX, MATTIE, MAXIE, MELON, MIJO, MIKA, MIMI, MINA, MUSTARD, 🔪)

4 under N (NAPSTA, NASTASIA, NIKO, NEIL)

0 under O, 0 under P, 0 under Q

6 under R (RALSEI, RAY, RAZ, RED, RIO, ROX)

19 under S (SAL, SALLY, SEVEN, SIMON, SISYFRIN, SKEVIN, SOKKA, SONIA, SUNE, SPEC, STAR, STARWALKER, SUNNY, SWEETHEART, SYSFRIN)

7 under T (TIM TAM, TOBIAS, TOKO, TORRIN, TRAVIS, TRENT, ☕️)

1 under U (UNKNOWN)

2 under V (VANELLOPE, VIXXXXX)

0 under W

1 under X (X)

0 under Y and 0 under Z

[plastolux]

etel.design

(ENG/POR) Brazilian Modernism was such a fruitful movement.

Rio Rocking Chaise by Oscar Niemeyer and his daughter Anna Maria Niemeyer, designed 1978, was photoshooted side by side with this outstanding Burle Marx painting.

Photo from

@brazilconnectiongallery

[tomoleary]

Miguel Covarrubias “Hollywood's Malibu Beach Scene” Source

“Mid-left is John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore are sitting with George Arliss and Helen Hayes who is holding a baby. Below left are Miriam Hopkins, Lilyan Tashman, Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis with hands behind her head, Joan Crawford, and Leslie Howard. In the middle, Dolores Del Rio, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Schenck, Samuel Goldwyn, Joan Blondell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with his arms up, Sylvia Sydney, Mary Pickford, Gary Cooper, and Douglas Fairbanks. On the right, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Cecil B. Demille, Claudette Colbert, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Charlie Chapman, Fredric March, Marie Dressler, Gene Fowler, Nancy Carroll holding a beach ball, Howard Hughes, George Raft, Louella Parsons, Harpo Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Schnozzle Durante with his hands up, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Ernst Lubitsch, and Wallace Beery.”

[bresiltropical]

Edifício Capanema, Rio de Janeiro 1937-1945

[seekingstars]

To The Film Industry in Crisis - Frank O'Hara

Not you, lean quarterlies and swarthy periodicals with your studious incursions toward the pomposity of ants, nor you, experimental theatre in which Emotive Fruition is wedding Poetic Insight perpetually, nor you, promenading Grand Opera, obvious as an ear (though you are close to my heart), but you, Motion Picture Industry, it’s you I love!   In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. And give credit where it’s due: not to my starched nurse, who taught me how to be bad and not bad rather than good (and has lately availed herself of this information), not to the Catholic Church which is at best an oversolemn introduction to cosmic entertainment, not to the American Legion, which hates everybody, but to you, glorious Silver Screen, tragic Technicolor, amorous Cinemascope, stretching Vistavision and startling Stereophonic Sound, with all your heavenly dimensions and reverberations and iconoclasms! To Richard Barthelmess as the 'tol’able’ boy barefoot and in pants, Jeanette MacDonald of the flaming hair and lips and long, long neck, Sue Carroll as she sits for eternity on the damaged fender of a car and smiles, Ginger Rogers with her pageboy bob like a sausage on her shuffling shoulders, peach-melba-voiced Fred Astaire of the feet, Eric von Stroheim, the seducer of mountain-climbers’ gasping spouses, the Tarzans, each and every one of you (I cannot bring myself to prefer Johnny Weissmuller to Lex Barker, I cannot!), Mae West in a furry sled, her bordello radiance and bland remarks, Rudolph Valentino of the moon, its crushing passions, and moonlike, too, the gentle Norma Shearer, Miriam Hopkins dropping her champagne glass off Joel McCrea’s yacht, and crying into the dappled sea, Clark Gable rescuing Gene Tierney from Russia and Allan Jones rescuing Kitty Carlisle from Harpo Marx, Cornel Wilde coughing blood on the piano keys while Merle Oberon berates, Marilyn Monroe in her little spike heels reeling through Niagara Falls, Joseph Cotten puzzling and Orson Welles puzzled and Dolores del Rio eating orchids for lunch and breaking mirrors, Gloria Swanson reclining, and Jean Harlow reclining and wiggling, and Alice Faye reclining and wiggling and singing, Myrna Loy being calm and wise, William Powell in his stunning urbanity, Elizabeth Taylor blossoming, yes, to you and to all you others, the great, the near-great, the featured, the extras who pass quickly and return in dreams saying your one or two lines, my love! Long may you illumine space with your marvellous appearances, delays and enunciations, and may the money of the world glitteringly cover you as you rest after a long day under the kleig lights with your faces in packs for our edification, the way the clouds come often at night but the heavens operate on the star system. It is a divine precedent you perpetuate! Roll on, reels of celluloid, as the great earth rolls on!

[atlasparrichada]

Duque de Caxias Square Roberto Burle Marx Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948

[la-semillera]

Hedda Sterne, Saul Steinberg, Robert Burle Marx, y Lina Bo Bardi, en el Retiro dos Bandeirantes, Rio, Septiembre, 1952

[bubblegum-blackwood]

13 Books Tag Game

Tagged by @mothmage 🖤

1) The last book I read:

Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen. This is a book of poetry I read for my Intro to Poetry class - it deals heavily with grief, having been written in the aftermath of the death of the author's brother, and if you like free verse, concrete poems, or stream-of-consciousness-like verse, this would definitely be something to check out. Also Othello by William Shakespeare :3

2) A book I recommend:

If We Were Villains by ML Rio! It's about a bunch of theatre kids going to an arts conservatory to study Shakespeare. People fuck, people do drugs, people get murdered, and like half the cast is gay and repressed about it. The prose is really vivid, and overall, I'm just super impressed with the story and the characters Rio created!

3) A book that I couldn’t put down:

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. I know this is a Vampire Chronicles blog so that seems rather obvious but I truly was captivated by this book. Checking it out from the library was one of the best decisions I ever made.

4) A book I’ve read twice (or more):

I'm going to cheat for this one and do a play instead: Hamlet by William Shakespeare. I first read it in school in junior high, then again on my own my sophomore year of high school, and I've flipped through it several times since then. As much as I love other Shakespeare plays like Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet, I never seem to run out of things to say about Hamlet. It's just so rich.

5) A book on my TBR:

Ohhhh soooo many sdljkfklfjasklfsjlkjfskl. But my friend gifted me Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth for my birthday and I figure I should get around to it at some point 😅

6) A book I’ve put down:

A year or two ago, my mother came home from Target with Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris by Anne and Christopher Rice, because she saw our goth mom's name and figured I'd appreciate it since I like the Vampire Chronicles. It's not the first in the series, and I was having a hard time connecting to these random new characters, so I closed the book after a few pages and it's been sitting untouched on my bookshelf ever since 😅

7) A book on my wish list:

Every year for my birthday and Christmas I ask for one or two Shakespeare plays because I want to collect the full set (of all the ones I'm interested in LOL). Next on the list is The Comedy of Errors.

8) A favorite book from childhood:

Ummmm I'm trying to think. I have an abridged version of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott that I read several times in fifth and sixth grade, so I'll go with that. (hilariously, I remember almost nothing about the plot of the book now)

9) A book you would give to a friend:

I'll go with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen because that is currently the book that I have been badgering my bestie to read lol

10) A book of poetry or lyrics that you own

The aforementioned Ghost Of but also Girl's Guide to Leaving by Laura Villareal, also something I read for my poetry class, and also something I would totally recommend!

11) A nonfiction book you own:

So many, mostly for school. Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions by Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Feree (3rd edition) is something I bought for my sociology of gender class a few semesters ago, and I would highly recommend! It is very enlightening and full of interesting facts.

12) What are you currently reading:

Blood Canticle by Anne Rice! It's wacky as fuck but you know what, I'm actually enjoying myself. I just haven't gotten very far because I'm super busy with school this semester so I haven't had as much time to read for pleasure sadtoad.jpg

13) What are you planning on reading next?

The next play my Shakespeare class is reading is The Taming of the Shrew, so I guess technically that sfdasffasdf. For VC, I'll move on to Prince Lestat after finishing BCan.

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