#The Royal Standard

[insidecroydon]

Mystery as Fullers exit three Croydon pubs in unseemly hurry

In the second part of his review of the hospitality trade in the borough (yes, dear reader, we sent him on a month-long pub crawl), KEN TOWL explores the reasons for one of London’s biggest and best-loved brewers’ sudden departure from its Croydon pubs. Photos by SIMON BENTLEY New Standard: the management of this Fullers pub only found out it had been sold when they received the new owners’…

[skrunklyartblog]

Studio Practice

Studio Trip to The Royal Standard, Liverpool 

Within the first few weeks of the module, as a group we visited the artists studios of The Royal Standard. In this post I aim to analyse how this trip influenced my understanding of the function of Artist Studios, and how they in turn effect the work of an artist. 

WARNINGS: no warnings applicable 

Starting the guided visit at TRS, we entered through the main doors at the front, where amenities such as a café, toilets and gift shop were available, each section accessible via ramp with moderate spacing from an accessibility stand point. We were introduced to Elizabeth Challinor, whose professional description and roles can be found HERE  . As a curator and artist in the Liverpool area, alongside a volunteer for TSR, she held both the understanding from an artists perspective and an industry perspective to navigate us on the importance of similar studios and their availability. 

Looking through the current contemporary installation allowed us as a group to make the bridge from the beginning of the practice of the artist, and the final product the public have access to, working almost in reverse from the end goal to the production process and the support structures behind it. 

We then had the opportunity to stop in a communal space for the practicing artists, decorated with some chairs and a loom, here we were informed on the process, price points, availability and importance of artists studio spaces. 

The waiting list to gain access to a space in this facility is an extremely long one, but this is as a result of the well known name of the company, the space provided and competitive pricing of its facilities. Artists have always traditionally moved to more reasonably priced areas, but due to a clash in infrastructure and resources with the gentrification* of well networked areas, to rent out space in cities such as Liverpool can come with ever less reasonable budgets for art students. The importance of reasonable pricing alongside being in an area of good resource and connectivity was further emphasised by similar facilities provided to Fine Art students at LJMU. 

The ability to maintain a part time or full time job is very important to a vast majority of individuals in the arts, so having a studio space that is easily commutable would further promote active engagement with their practices. This importance was further enhanced by the 24 hour availability of the building, meaning it was flexible to all different work shifts. This is where the facilities at LJMU lack support; although there are reasonable purpose for time constraints on the university building  (staffing, safety etc), with being further exposed to different functions of artists studios, I believe a block of 9am-5pm for studio work to lead to a less functional and proactive stance in work, especially from a group of majority young students who will need to undertake part time jobs to support their studies. Whether this is an issue that is possible to resolve I am unsure, though with the new perspective from TRS on the adjustments made for artists, it is now a barrier that I had yet to observe. 

By the end of the external visit to TRS, I had further explored the necessity of art studio space and the extent of which such services are desired in my home city. Before the trip I had not fully understood the demand for artist studio space, but by observing how individual artists explore their own creative outputs and methods, I can understand why a space not liable to damage or confines, more surrounded by an individuals practice can promote a relationship between artist and their creativity. 

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*Gentrification -  “the process by which a place, especially part of a city, changes from being a poor area to a richer one, where people from a higher social class live” (Cambridge Dictionary)

[future-crab]

It's been said before, it will be said again, but it's still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to be indicative of A Serious Problem With the Way We Tell Queer Stories makes being a queer person making queer art deeply stressful

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The Ark Royal flying the Royal Standard in the Channel, 1587 by John Bentham-Dinsdale

[cookiecomics]

🔍 Zoe's Persona Attribute Analysis: 🔍 (Repost from Twitter)

My assessment of what different persona attributes say about the characters and character arcs of the user:

[princessanneftw]

“Thank you for welcoming him so warmly… in spite of him being a sailor.”

Princess Anne thanks the Royal Hospital Chelsea for welcoming her “stand-in” Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence when he attended the Founder's Day Parade on her behalf two years ago.

[enchanted-keys]

Fumi Kaneko and William Bracewell in The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet 2022)

[gotticalavera]

I imagine the ZukAang (with Fem!Zuko x Aang) was completely a surprise to the Fire Nation when the evidence was present.

Their relationship developed so slowly and tenderly that when the Councilors wanted to present their sons as future consorts for F!Zuko... Aang hung around the palace like it was a second home and F!Zuko always had flowers in her hair on Aang's days.

[shannonsketches]

also REALLY love that super's manga continues the old manga's relationship between Vegeta and his title of Prince as something he's distant/passive with and it's either only brought up by other characters or when he's having a self-worth breakdown

shout out to Toya/Toriyama for using Toei's "I'm the Prince of All Saiyans!" as a line Vegeta throws out when he's intentionally trying to annoy his opponent, I laughed very hard about that

[sweet-treat]

ok trying to accurately cosplay him is actual hell oh my go

[koipalm]

king of hearts

[insidecroydon]

Bowie tribute night at The Royal Standard, Sheldon St, Mar 30

Continue reading Bowie tribute night at The Royal Standard, Sheldon St, Mar 30

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Straight people make a shitty bland romcom? No one bats an eyelash. A gay bland romcom? Well that's the death of queer media and obviously anyone who likes it is trying to appeal to straight people

[recurring-polynya]

In the content you have come to expect from this blog, I wish to talk about the hamburger in the Royal Realm. I will not beat around the bush. Here it is:

I spend a lot of time agonizing about whether or not they have various foods in Soul Society, usually based on age of introduction to Japan, and my own feeble attempts extrapolate which cultural forces do or do not exist, but this one feels very straightforward: there is no way they have hamburgers in Soul Society.

Wait, no, I am going to roll that back slightly, because I think it is the nature of Joe Shinigami to smuggle any kind of anything small enough to be stuffed into a shihakushou back through a senkaimon, so it's not like there has never been a hamburger in Soul Society. Kensei looks very much like a burg man, and he's probably published instructions for how to make one in his cooking column, but I can't bring myself to believe they are more than a rare and very expensive novelty. Also, as is the way of Soul Society, no matter how carefully you source your ingredients which time-tested recipe you follow, it will come out subtly and indescribably wrong.

And yet! Kirio seems to have mastered the art! Or has she? As becomes evident in this subsequent shot, there is something deeply wrong with this burger: it appears to be roughly the same height as Rukia and probably twice the weight.

The Royal Guard is known for innovating, and I'm so interested in this-- is Kirio trying out new foods for their reishi-holding capacities? Did she make this for Ichigo in particular, because it would otherwise be rare for her to encounter someone who has actually eaten a burger before? (Presumably Renji, who knows everything about the World of the Living, might also have some feedback). Where did she find out about burgers? The Royal Realm is basically the Los Alamos of Soul Society. It's not unthinkable that they figured out how to get Food Network up there.

I am so mad that we didn't get to see the full footage of everyone's trip through every stage of the Royal Realm. Did Kirio make Byakuya the Giant Hamburger? You know that Byakuya doesn't approve of anything invented or introduced to Japan after the Tokugawa Shogunate, but I feel like he would have great respect for anything he encountered in the Royal Realm. What I am saying is that I think it would be great if post-TYBW Byakuya gets into hamburgers with the signature intensity with which he pursues all of his interests.

PS: For full disclosure, the giant burg is anime-only. Presumably it got the Kubo seal of approval. But guess what he drew originally! (answer below the cut)

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Henri IV with his Mistress by Louis-Nicolas Lemasle

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (French, 1784-1844) Louis VII Takes the Standard at Saint-Denis, 1840 Chateau de Versailles