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Mad Cave Studios announces Key Promotions and New Additions to its Leadership Team

Mad Cave Studios announces Key Promotions and New Additions to its Leadership Team #comics #comicbooks

Mad Cave Studios has announced a series of momentous promotions and new hires stepping into 2025. These developments reflect the company’s commitment to excellence across all departments as it continues to grow. Leadership Promotions Allison Pond has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing. Since joining Mad Cave Studios in 2020, Allison has played a pivotal role in the company’s growth.…

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Belgravia Jewel Box | Design by Studio Ashby. Photography by Kensington Leverne.

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Mocky - Overtones for the Omniverse - from 2021, minimalism to psychedelic soul to neo-exotica, played by a small orchestra

Following up his score for the japanese Netflix Anime series “Carole & Tuesday”, Mocky returns to album mode with his new orchestral opus “Overtones For The Omniverse”. Just days before the first Covid lockdowns, Mocky brought a 16 person orchestra comprising of his usual who’s who of underground talent into LA’s Barefoot Studios (and into the same room where Stevie Wonder recorded “Songs in the Key of Life”) to record a pile of scores he had come up with during his previous year’s sabbatical in Portugal. The result is a stunning orchestral album recorded in 36 hours in one or two takes straight off the written page. Shunning the “possible perfection” of today's recording techniques, Mocky looked back as a way to find an alternate future. The album runs the gamut from Steve Reich infused minimalism overlaid with Dorothy Ashby style harp runs (“Overtures”) to atonal analogue synth sounds over Martin Denny style percussion (“Bora!”). There's a classic Mocky crooning number that gives a Jim Henson-esque take on the state of “Humans” and the album as a whole captures Mocky's skill of bringing together the joyful energy of a unique cast of LA collaborators.  Featuring: Randal Fisher / Flute, Vicky Farewell / Piano, Vocals, Harry Foster / Bass, Vibraphone, Tubular Bells, Vocals Joey Dosik / Organ and Glockenspiel, Vocals, Guillermo E. Brown aka Pw / Percussion, Vocals, Jhan Lee Aponte (TossTones) / Percussion, Vocals, Timpani, Paul Cartwright / Violin, Molly Rogers / Viola, Gabe Noel / Cello, Contrabass, Liza Wallace / Harp, Coco O. / Vocals, Mocky / Compositions, Drums, Vocals, Roland Sh-1000 O for the O Choir : Nia Andrews, Leslie Feist, Moses Sumney, Durand Bernarr, Eddie Chacon

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“Barbenheimer”—the collective celebration around the release of the Barbie and Oppenheimer movies—has collided with the wedding industrial complex. That’s not a joke. According to a Variety story this week, people are planning on taking their friends and family, prenuptials, to see the two films as a double feature. People who aren’t getting married are planning similar movie-watching marathons. It’s the kind of viral cultural moment marketing teams dream of. It also feels like a sign of the end times.

This sense of dread doesn’t stem from the public’s collective yearning to absorb stories about a Mattel doll and the development of atomic weapons at the same time. It’s because this weekend promises the kind of “let’s all go to the movies!” hype (and box office haul) that cinemas haven’t seen since before the Covid-19 pandemic shut theaters down—and it’s happening as Hollywood is going on strike.

This week, WIRED rolled out a series of stories detailing what we believe the future of entertainment might entail. The purpose was to look at how all aspects of culture, from books to video games to YouTube, could be impacted by advancements in technology. As we worked on it, though, something happened: Contract talks between Hollywood studios and the writers and actors unions began to break down. One of the major sticking points in those negotiations was the use of artificial intelligence in movie- and TV-making. Suddenly, as Madeline Ashby wrote in her essay this week, the world was in the midst of Hot Strike Summer.

Then, Hot Strike Summer slammed into the Barbenheimer moment. Once the Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, called for a walkout, stars could no longer smile on red carpets without looking like scabs. The stars of Oppenheimer walked out of the film’s London premiere when the strike began. The cast and filmmakers behind Barbie, which premiered before SAG called for a strike, voiced their support. Soon, “This Barbie Is Now on Strike” became the headline, transforming one of the world’s most well-known figurines into Norma Rae. The marquee at my local theater in Brooklyn listed both movies alongside the phrase “Atomic Kenergy,” while The New York Times asked, “Can I Watch ‘Barbenheimer’ Despite the Hollywood Strikes?” (Short answer: Yes.)

To that end, the strikes will not affect Oppenheimer or Barbie’s opening weekend box office numbers. Earlier this week, AMC Entertainment reported that some 40,000 people had bought tickets for both films, and together they’re estimated to make around $150-200 million domestically, with Greta Gerwig’s send-up of the Mattel doll bringing in a bigger chunk than Christopher Nolan’s historical drama about the man behind the atomic bomb.  

But what matters is what happens after this weekend. By all accounts, Hot Strike Summer seems poised to last beyond one season. Even before SAG went on strike, studio sources were telling reporters that the plan was to let the strike “drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.” In response to that, actor Ron Perlman took to social media to say “listen to me, motherfucker—there’s a lot of ways to lose your house.” He later walked that back, but when Hellboy enters the chat, you know it’s not going to end gently.

The longer writers and actors are on strike, the bigger the hole next summer or the summer after that, when the movies that would be filming right now aren’t ready. (Deadpool 3 and the sequel to Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One, for example, are both currently on hold.) Cinemas have been bouncing back in the years since Covid restrictions were lifted and people began feeling comfortable in movie houses again. A lackluster year brought on by a dearth of films could prove detrimental.

Yesterday, Comic-Con International began in San Diego. Typically, or at least before the pandemic, the event has been full of panels with flashy stars promoting their next big movie or TV series. As long as SAG is on strike, those celebs won’t show. Some attendees will likely welcome the event’s return to its comics roots, rather than the Hollywood hype-fest it has become. But no matter what happens, it will be unlike any Comic-Con in recent memory. Maybe a little less plastic, but not fantastic.

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From Architectural Digest –

A sunburst ceiling fixture by Studio Ashby’s shop, Sister, illuminates the foyer. Plinths allow the homeowner to display a changing array of sculptural works.

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Joe Turner - Boogie Woogie Country Girl (1956) (Joe Turner and Orchestra featuring Van "Piano Man" Walls) Doc Pomus / Reginald Ashby from: "Corrine Corrina" / "Boogie Woogie Country Girl"

Jump Blues / Boogie-Woogie / R&B

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Personnel: Big Joe Turner: Vocals Van "Piano Man" Walls: Piano Frank Heywood Henry: Saxophone Wilbur de Paris: Trombone Connie Kay: Drums

Produced by Ahmet Ertegun / Jerry Wexler

Recorded: @ The Coastal Recording Studio in New York City, New York USA on November 3, 1955

Released: March, 1956 Atlantic Records

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Harold Burrage - Messed Up (1957) Willie Dixon from: "Messed Up" / "I Don't Care Who Knows" (Single) "Harold Burrage: Messed Up! The Cobra Recordings 1956-58" (2001 Compilation CD)

Rhythm & Blues

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Personnel: Harold Burrage: Vocals / Piano Jody Williams: Guitar Harold Ashby: Saxophone Willie Dixon: Bass Odie Payne: Drums

Recorded: @ The Cobra Studios in Chicago, Illinois USA early 1957

Released: May, 1957

Cobra Records WestSide Records (2001 Compilation)

Harold Burrage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Burrage

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Studio Ashby, Belgravia

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Art by Lakin Ogunbanwo (Design by Ashby - Sophie's Home)

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Omari Ashby and Tyker Phillip performed a creditable cover of Olatunji's Engine Room to close the tent when the headliner failed to show. Here they are still buzzing from that jam. Omari has been associated with Kaiso House for more than ten years, starting off doing artwork for flyers and newspaper ads for the calypso tent. He has MC'd shows for TUCO, hosting Kaisorama, Extempo shows and Rapso Explosion production. Started with MC'ing at Kaiso House in 2019. He's never performed in the tent as an artiste. He describes working with Tyker as pleasant and describes her as bringing a youthful energy to the hosting of the tent performances. Tyker is pumpkin vine family and I met her for the first time on the night I showed up for to photograph the calypsonians and she was gracious about my absolute and embarrassing ignorance of her. I blame her mom, Roxanne Herbert. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. #calypso #kaiso #tent #music #Carnival #singer #performance #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #tuco #kaisohouse #portofspain #queensparksavannah #motherofallcarnivals #2023 The Calypsonians 2020 began as an attempt to survey and record in portraits the calypsonians working in tents during each year's Carnival season. It is an imperfect record, dependent on the willingness of individuals to participate and tents to accommodate the project. The first photographs were made in 2020 with visits to five calypso tents. During the pandemic, it was continued in 2021 and 2022 with photos done in an office at the studios of WACK TV during streaming sessions hosted by the station. (at Queen's Park Savannah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQt0zJuScy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Blewcoat School, London | Design by Studio Ashby. Photography by Kensington Leverne.

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Mortal Kombat 11 - Shang Tsung,Night Wolf,Terminator T-800,Sindel,Joker,...

Mortal Kombat 11 is a fighting video game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC. It is the eleventh installment in the Mortal Kombat series and the sequel to Mortal Kombat X. The game was released on April 23, 2019 for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. It releases May 9 on Nintendo Switch. In October 2020, it is announced that the game will be entitled to a Playstation 5 version as well as Xbox Series under the name of Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate. Kombat Pack #1 notably added Spawn, a character from the comic book publisher Image Comics created by Todd McFarlane, the Joker, a character from the comic book publisher DC Comics and The T-800 from the Terminator3 films. Keith David once again plays Spawn 20 years after the end of the animated series Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997-1999). The Joker is portrayed by Richard Epcar, who also voices him in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (2008) and Injustice games (2013-2017). As for the T-800, if he retains the features of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his voice is that of comedian Chris Cox (in) in the game3. The game marks the historic return of Christophe Lambert, twenty-five after the first Mortal Kombat film. The pack also marks the return of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa who takes over the role of Shang Tsung after the 1995 film Mortal Kombat and the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy in 2013. As for the T-800, if he retains the traits of 'Arnold Schwarzenegger, his voice is that of comedian Chris Cox in game 3. The game marks the historic return of Christophe Lambert, twenty-five after the first Mortal Kombat film. The pack also marks the return of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa who takes over the role of Shang Tsung after the 1995 film Mortal Kombat and the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy in 2013. The Aftermath pack notably adds the character of Alex Murphy / RoboCop, played by Peter Weller thirty years after the movie RoboCop 2 released in 1990.  The pack also adds Fujin and Sheeva, played by Matthew Yang King and Vanessa Marshall respectively. The Kombat Pack 2 notably adds the character of John Rambo, played once again by Sylvester Stallone who plays the role in the five Rambo films between 1982 and 2019, i.e. thirty-seven years. The pack also adds Mileena and Rain, played by Kari Wahlgren and Dempsey Pappion respectively. Released on November 24, 2020, the Klassic MK Movie Pack includes new appearances for Raiden, Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade, using the voices and appearance of Christophe Lambert, Linden Ashby and Bridgette Wilson, who voiced the characters in the Mortal movie 1995 fight.

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