#Tony Bartl

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Native American activists under attack via cancel culture say they hope to stop woke efforts today from obliterating wide swaths of United States heritage and history.  

The Kansas City Chiefs and the Boy Scouts of America both appear to be erasing traces of their Native American heritage, according to activists and to the evidence as well. 

Also, America’s most famous Chiefs fan right now, Taylor Swift, is being hailed by some as the great woke hope who can force the franchise to cave to charges of racism and end its “tomahawk chop” chant.

Not in Our Honor, a Kansas City-based group, said it was “hopeful” that Swift would be an “ally” in their effort to force the team to end the tradition, according to media reports during the football season. 

The legacy of popular Kansas City, Missouri mayor and Arapaho tribal member Harold Roe “Chief” Bartle could be obliterated in the fallout. He is a foundational figure in the history of both the Chiefs and the Boy Scouts — at least until he’s canceled, American Indians fear. 

“It’s a woke firing squad looking to tear everything down by telling us that Native Americans and Americans need to be divided,” social media influencer Maurice the Native Patriot (@lanativepatriot), a Swinomish Indian from Washington state, told Fox News Digital in an interview last week.

“It’s become popular to think that even seeing a Native American image is racist.”

Bartle was mayor of Kansas City in the 1960s, when the AFL’s Dallas Texans moved to town. The team was renamed in honor of his efforts to land the franchise, according to the team website and many other sources. Bartle also spent much of his life in the service of the Boy Scouts. He was a champion of civil rights, according to several biographies, as well as devoted to Native American heritage. But his multicultural legacy is in jeopardy now as both the Chiefs and the Scouts are distancing themselves from their Native American roots. 

“Native American history is American history,” Tony Henson, the executive director of the Native American Guardians Association (NAGA), headquartered in North Dakota, told Fox News Digital.

“This effort to divide us comes from the ‘hate-America’ Marxist crowd that wants to tear down tradition and rebuild the United States in their own image,” Henson said. 

Yet the Boy Scouts are “looking to remove all Native American aspects of the program,” one Pennsylvania troop leader wrote in an e-mail obtained by Fox News Digital.

The troop is also said to be scrambling to create a new insignia to replace “a Native American chief/brave logo” that it’s been using “for over 60 years” to meet what the letter claims is a new directive from the Boy Scouts of America. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the organization, which refuted those claims. “There is no national mandate from the BSA to remove all Native American imagery from the Scouting program,” Scott Armstrong, national spokesperson for the Boy Scouts of America, told Fox News Digital in response.

He said local Boy Scouts troops may have “misinterpreted” guidance about dialogue with local First Nations leaders. 

“The goal is proper respect, not removal,” said Armstrong.

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Some previews of the DC comics in December 2024 (Part 1).

Action Comics #1078 Cover D David Nakayama Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #34 Cover D David Nakayama Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant

Black Canary: Best of the Best #2 Cover B Lesley 'Leirix' Li Card Stock Variant

Absolute Batman #3 Cover E:Stevan Subic Card Stock Variant

Absolute Batman #3 Cover B Becky Cloonan Card Stock Variant

Absolute Superman #2 Cover A Regular Rafa Sandoval Cover

Absolute Wonder Woman #3 Cover A Regular Hayden Sherman Cover

Action Comics #1078 Cover B Sweeney Boo Card Stock Variant

Action Comics Vol 2 #1078 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1079 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1079 Cover C Variant Jason Shawn Alexander Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1080 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1080 Cover B Variant Mark Spears Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1081 Cover B Variant Mark Spears Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1081 Cover C Variant David Talaski Card Stock Cover

Action Comics #1081 Cover D: Fico Ossio Card Stock Variant

Batgirl Vol 6 #2 Cover A Regular David Talaski Cover

Batgirl #2 Cover B Jorge Jiménez Card Stock Variant

Batgirl #2 Cover C Skylar Patridge Card Stock Variant

Batman: Full Moon #3 Cover B Francesco Francavilla Card Stock Variant

Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #3 Cover B Jamie Hewlett Variant

Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #3 Cover C:Marguerite Sauvage Card Stock Variant

Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #4 Cover B Riccardo Federici Card Stock Variant

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #34 Cover B Yanick Paquette Card Stock Variant

Batman Superman Worlds Finest #34 Cover A Regular Dan Mora Cover

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #20 Cover B Aaron Bartling Variant

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #20 Cover C Tula Lotay Variant

Batman #157 Cover B Tony Harris Card Stock Variant

Batman #157 Cover C Tony S. Daniel Card Stock Variant

Birds of Prey #16 Cover B Serg Acuña Card Stock Variant

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Gordon Baldwin (born 1932 in Lincoln) is an English studio potter.

He attended the Lincoln School of Art where he was initially studied painting under Tony Bartl; it was here at Lincoln where he was first introduced to studio potter and ceramics tutor Robert Blatherwick who influenced his work. 

Baldwin later studied at the Central School of Art and Design (1950-53) and was teacher of Ceramics and Sculpture at Eton College for 39 years. 

Baldwin was awarded an OBE in 1992 and an honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London in 2000. He was influenced by contemporary sculpture and has worked with both earthenware and stoneware. (wiki)

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Antonin Karel (Tony) Bartl (Czech/British, 1912–1998)

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ピクセルのイラストで人気のtakekiyoさんが、Novacubのイラストをツイッターで公開しました！takekiyo氏はこれまでにも、ミュージシャンのイラストを多く描いています。今回はラッセルから依頼があり製作したそうです。(すごい！) 

公開日：2018年9月12日

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GET FAMILIAR: Week of April 8, 2019

COMING SOON: Bloc Party

Release Title: Silent Alarm Live (LP)

Release Date: Friday, April 12, 2019

What To Expect: You read that right; legendary UK art punk group Bloc Party is releasing a live version of their groundbreaking debut album, Silent Alarm, this Friday. Silent Alarm is arguably one of the most influential and innovative UK albums of the 2000s, incorporating elements of punk rock and electronic music. Featuring massive hits like “Banquet,” “Helicopter,” and “Like Eating Glass,” it’s a record that experienced success on a scale that can still be somewhat hard to truly wrap one’s head around.

The album was originally recorded in 2005 with the group’s first iteration of cast members: lead singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong. The live version was recorded over the dates of their late 2018 European Silent Alarm Tour and sees Okereke and Lissack joined by new members Justin Harris and Louise Bartle on the bass and drums, respectively, and the recordings are sure to be bursting with the energy of the ravenous crowds in attendance. The new lineup also announced a North American run of the show for later this year that will see them playing Silent Alarm in its entirety for the hordes of Bloc Party fans on this side of the pond.

Don’t miss your chance to see one of the more revolutionary musical acts of our generation as they come to The Anthem on September 16th. Get your tickets now!

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LOCAL LEGENDS: WiFiGawd

Release Title: WiFi Season Vol. 2 (LP)

Release Date: Monday, April 8, 2019

What To Expect: DC rapper WiFiGawd has accomplished more in his last two weeks than most young MCs do in their entire career. He and his partner-in-crime, The Khan, co-headlined a packed-out show that helped earn them a feature in a Washington Post article. They then popped out and performed at both of Earl Sweatshirt’s recent DMV tour stops, and to top it all off, his bass-heavy banger, “You Can’t Stop Me,” was used in the series finale of Comedy Central fan-favorite show Broad City. Still, though, he wasn’t satisfied, and he announced last week that he’d be putting out even more new music today, and I can only hope that it is currently blasting through your headphones or speakers of choice as we speak.

His projects tend to stick with a consistent style and theme throughout, but that doesn’t mean that WiFi can be categorized by any particular genre or even mood as an artist. Like how he can glide on the mellowed-out beats of Tony Seltzer on their joint-mixtape, Heat Check, while still being able to flow on the trapped-out tracks of his WiFi Season tape from 2016. His new project, WiFi Season Vol. 2, will most likely follow the lead of its predecessor, but you never know what you’re going to get when it comes to WiFi. He doesn’t appear to have an off switch, putting out SEVEN full-length albums in 2018 alone, and he most definitely hasn’t shown any sign of taking his foot off the gas so far in 2019. If you don’t want to fall behind in the DMV rap game, you best plug yourself in to WiFi ASAP.

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WILD CARD: Anderson .Paak

Release Title: Ventura (LP)

Release Date: Friday, April 12, 2019

What To Expect: Anderson .Paak has always proudly claimed his California roots. His upbeat, soulful songs perfectly personify the vibrant vibes of the The Golden State, so it’s more than fitting that his first three studio albums were all named after classic Cali beach towns (2014’s Venice, 2016’s Malibu and Oxnard which dropped late last year.) The latter of the three was executive-produced by Dr. Dre and showed a more refined, classic approach to his sound, with the legendary producer’s west coast influence making itself quite apparent throughout. 

While Cheeky Andy fans everywhere have become accustomed to his cyclical album-release schedule, he surprised many when he took to social media in mid-March to announce a new album titled Ventura that would be dropping this Friday. The announcement was quickly followed by the release of the project’s lead single, “King James,” a track that sees .Paak speaking his mind on some touchy subjects while challenging society to address these topics head-on, doing all of it over an insanely funky bassline that mesmerizes listeners from the start. The uber-talented singer-drummer-everyman has added a new, insightful aspect to his songwriting that should make Ventura as potent and purposeful an album as any of the records he’s blessed us with up to this point. Get hip to .Paak’s wavy style and check out Ventura when it hits the shelves this Friday.

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Hair Hues of Radiata Stories

Here is the complete list of all the Radiata Stories characters (both recruitable and NPCs) taken from Fuck Yeah Radiata Stories​ and sorted by hair colour. There are a couple things I want to add. 

First off, while most of the characters fit neatly into one of the eight categories, there are some characters whose hair colour was more ambiguous (i.e. dark blonde vs. light brown hair). I placed them where I thought they were best fit.

Black and blue are the same category because some of the black-haired characters like Cairn have a bluish tint and technically speaking, black pigment is really just a dark blue anyway.

There are some characters who are either bald or have their head covered so you can’t tell the colour of their head hair. Instead of classifying them as bald or unknown, I classified them based on the colour of their facial hair and eyebrows. This is why Dynas is in with the brunettes instead of the baldies.

While I could have made a separate category for pink hair, I ultimately decided it should just belong with red/orange because pink is just light red anyway.

Overall, there is a wide, diverse spectrum of hair colours and not all characters fit perfectly into their respective category. So if you think certain characters are miscategorised, well that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it.

Long post under the cut.

Brown

001 | Jack Russell | Knight, Warrior | Male

002 | Ganz Rothschild | Captain, Bandit | Male

004 | Dynas Stone | Knight, General | Male

006 | Charlie Green | Knight | Male

010 | Putt Menzel | Jail Watchman | Male

013 | Gerald Nixon | Warrior | Male

014 | Caesar Wallace | Warrior | Male

022 | Gordon Napier | Warrior | Male

023 | Bruce Agard | Warrior | Male

026 | Rolec Cheney | Warrior | Male

030 | Thanos Baines | Warrior | Male

032 | Cecil Welles | Mage | Male

033 | Genius Weissheit | Mage | Male

039 | Christoph | Mage | Male

045 | Rachel (Nami Tamaki) | Mage | Female

049 | Franklin DeMille | Mage | Male

051 | Kain Garfield | Priest | Male

056 | Rocky Mayvern | Priest | Male

057 | Achilles Johnson | Priest | Male

058 | Flora Penn | Priest | Female

062 | Cosmo Doyle | Priest | Male

063 | Grant Altman | Priest | Male

065 | Miranda Neame | Priest | Female

066 | Edgar Dante | Priest | Male

067 | Clive Parket | Priest | Male

069 | Eugene Edwards | Priest | Male

073 | Iris Anderson | Bandit | Female

074 | Nocturne Reiner | Bandit | Male

077 | Alba Redford | Bandit | Male

078 | Lily Milius | Bandit | Female

079 | Flau | Bandit | Female

080 | Jared Carter | Bandit | Male

081 | Pinky Frears | Bandit | Male?

084 | Joaquel Rieman | Bandit | Male

089 | Adele Russell | Villager | Female

090 | Paul Studd | Townsfolk | Male

092 | Lyle Jefferson | Townsfolk | Male

095 | Dan Tyler | Townsfolk | Male

096 | Elef Bordor | Townsfolk | Male

097 | Ryan Blan | Townsfolk | Male

098 | Hip Dyke | Townsfolk | Male

099 | Nick Agard | Townsfolk | Male

100 | Goyle Bartle | Townsfolk | Male

101 | Butch Necker | Townsfolk | Male

102 | Sarval Fulton | Villager | Male

103 | Sunset Fulton | Villager | Male

107 | Leban Morrison | Villager | Male

108 | Mook Harris | Villager | Male

109 | Wal Irving | Villager | Male

112 | Howard Rogers | Villager | Male

113 | Astor Bostwick | Townsfolk | Male

114 | Synelia Bell | Townsfolk | Female

115 | Tony Basil | Townsfolk | Male

116 | Bran Farmer | Villager | Male

117 | Stefan Neill | Villager | Male

119 | Garcia Rooney | Villager | Male

121 | Naom | Dwarf | Male

139 | Lufa | Dark Elf | Female

140 | Coco | Dark Elf | Male

NPC | Jasne Colton | Chamberlain | Male

NPC | Reynos | Jail Watchman, Plague Victim | Male

NPC | Sarasenia | Queen of Radiata | Female

NPC | Testa | Child | Male

NPC | Theresa | Supply Store | Female

NPC | Toma | Child | Male

NPC | Lezard Valeth | MAD SCIENTIST OHOHO | Male

NPC | Brood | Alkaiko General Store | Male

NPC | Camuse | Verontier Armory | Male

NPC | Josef | Ok Hand Accessories | Male

NPC | Kira | Warc’s Daughter | Female

NPC | Lunbar | Dead End Armory | Male

NPC | Sayna | Vareth Chef | Female

NPC | Sonia | Chic Records | Female

NPC | Startis | Black Town Lottery Booth | Male

NPC | Yuri | Begin Eatery | Female

NPC | Zeke | Mysterious Creatures Inn | Male

NPC | Lauren | Mook’s Wife | Female

NPC | Louis | Travelling Merchant | Male

NPC | Mint | Tria Village Vendor | Female

NPC | Pommelie | Sarval’s Wife | Female

Blonde

003 | Ridley Silverlake | Knight, Captain | Female

012 | Elwen | Warrior | Female

021 | Aldo Winner | Warrior | Male

025 | Conrad Jefferson | Warrior | Male

028 | Carlos Monroe | Warrior | Male

037 | Ursula Cameron | Mage | Female

040 | Claudia Hamilton | Mage | Female

042 | Dimitri Lucas | Mage | Male

043 | Leona Weissheit | Mage | Female

045 | Cornelia Griffith | Mage | Female

060 | Alvin Moore | Priest | Male

061 | Vitas Young | Priest | Female

070 | Nyx Crowe | Bandit | Male

087 | Star Etoile Stern | Townsfolk | Male

131 | Clarence | Dark Elf | Male

132 | Serva | Dark Elf | Male

133 | Hyann | Dark Elf | Male

136 | Franz | Dark Elf | Male

138 | Marsha | Dark Elf | Female

144 | Mikey | Dark Elf | Male

NPC | Salute Larks | Commander-in-Chief | Male

NPC | Jorn | Child | Male

NPC | Margaret | Chambermaid | Female

NPC | Nuse | Child | Male

NPC | Ravil | Librarian | Male

NPC | Roy | Job Desk | Male

NPC | Torenia | Ghost | Female

NPC | Zion | Teacher | Male

NPC | Freija | Eisenhower Pharmacy | Female

NPC | Jasmine | San Patty Accessories | Female

NPC | Leann | Vareth Librarian | Female

NPC | Rabi | Morfinn’s Daughter | Female

NPC | Silvia | Club Vampire | Female

NPC | Sora | Sarval’s Daughter | Female

NPC | Donovitch | Earth Valley Gate Guard | Male

NPC | Stein | Boulder Frog Inn | Male

Red/Orange

011 | Gawain Rothschild | Captain, Deserter | Male 

015 | Alicia Allen | Warrior | Female

024 | David Gore | Warrior | Male

034 | Morgan Humphrey | Mage | Female

036 | Jill Kazan | Mage | Female

044 | Aidan Welles | Mage | Male

047 | Marietta Sturges | Mage | Female

053 | Anastasia Ryan | Priest | Female

086 | Elmo | Bandit | Male

118 | Yack Jones | Villager | Male

120 | Grigory | Dwarf | Male

122 | Dyvad | Dwarf | Male

134 | Chatt | Dark Elf | Male

135 | Zida | Dark Elf | Male

137 | Romaria | Dark Elf | Female

142 | Santos | Dark Elf | Male

NPC | Parsec | Fire Dragon

NPC | Robin | Belmont General Store | Male

NPC | Roche | Vareth Secretary | Female

NPC | Servia | Club Vampire | Female

NPC | Sheila | Vancoor Square Lottery Booth, Plague Victim | Female

NPC | Virginia | Peaceful Pony Inn | Female

NPC | Baade | Earth Dragon

NPC | Albert | Treasury Guard | Male

NPC | Gehrmann | Dwarf Blacksmith | Male

NPC | Oleg | Dawnbay Diner | Male

NPC | Vladimir | Triston Armory | Male

NPC | Yevgeni | DwarFun General Store | Male

Black/Blue

007 | Nina Harlin | Knight | Female

019 | Walter Stokes | Warrior | Male

072 | Sonata Fourier | Bandit | Male

177 | Valkyrie | God | Female

NPC | Cairn Russell | Captain of the Blanc Chevalier, Deceased | Male

NPC | Lucian Hewitt | Advisor | Male

NPC | Barbena | Swords and Silver Coins Inn | Female

Grey/White

009 | Patrick Davis | Jail Watchman | Male

027 | Daniel Arthur | Warrior | Male

029 | Gene Madison | Warrior | Male

031 | Curtis Agnew | Mage | Male

035 | Felix Hayes | Mage | Fema–*brick’d*

038 | Derek Quayle | Mage | Male

048 | Ernest Smight | Mage | Male

050 | Johan Pierce | Mage | Male

052 | Fernando McKinley | Priest | Male

055 | Godwin Hyams | Priest | Male

059 | Elena Richter | Priest | Female

064 | Adina Richter | Priest | Female

068 | Lulu Ritchie | Priest | Female

071 | Ortoroz Taft | Bandit | Male

075 | Herz Ashby | Bandit | Female

085 | Eon Herek | Bandit | Male

091 | Giske Terestat | Townsfolk | Male

093 | Morfinn Martinez | Townsfolk | Male

094 | Bligh Hinds | Villager | Male

104 | Keaton Schmidt | Villager | Male

105 | Tarkin Schmidt | Villager | Male

106 | Gonber Nanashiino | Villager | Male

110 | Wyze Meyer | Villager | Male

111 | Zeranium Prester | Townsfolk | Male

141 | Martinez | Dark Elf | Male

NPC | Belflower | Princess of Radiata | Female

NPC | Cross Ward | Captain of the Noire Mouton | Male

NPC | Jiorus | King of Radiata | Male

NPC | Junzaburo | Knight Selection Trial Referee | Male

NPC | Ethereal Queen | God | Female

NPC | Epoch | Job Desk | Male

NPC | Raymond | Steward | Male

NPC | Sakurazaki | Knight Selection Trial Judge | Male

NPC | Cherie | The Last Word Book Store | Female

NPC | Lantana | Blade Pharmacy | Male

NPC | Maddock | White Town Lottery Booth | Male

NPC | Nalshay | Elena and Adina’s Brother | Male

NPC | Nask | Waldo General Store | Male

NPC | Rose | Black Rose General Store | Female

NPC | Thyme | Faid General Store | Male

NPC | Warc | The Survivor Armory | Male

NPC | Daria | Nuevo Villager (Bligh’s Wife?) | Female

NPC | Saron | Sora and Sarval’s Grandmother | Female

NPC | Aegenhart | Dwarf Miner | Male

NPC | Brockle | Dwarf Blacksmith | Male

NPC | Gonovitch | Dwarf Elder | Male

NPC | Marke | Reader, Lazybones | Male

NPC | Sergei | Dwarf Miner | Male

Purple

008 | Leonard Ford | Knight | Male

016 | Dennis Tenet | Warrior | Male

017 | Gareth Walker | Warrior | Male

018 | Gregory Julia | Warrior | Male

020 | Jarvis Mondale | Warrior | Male

041 | Ardoph Rockefeller | Mage | Male

046 | Faraus Buchanan | Mage | Male

076 | Rynka Quince | Bandit | Female

NPC | Al | Steward | Male

NPC | Cody | Rynka’s Son | Male

NPC | Garbella | Levante General Store | Female

Green

005 | Natalie Nanette | Captain | Female

123 | Gil | Light Elf | Male

124 | Shin | Light Elf | Male

125 | Fan | Light Elf | Female

126 | Row | Light Elf | Female

127 | Pitt | Light Elf | Male

128 | Few | Light Elf | Female

129 | Alan | Light Elf | Male

130 | Keane | Light Elf | Female

143 | Rika | Dark Elf | Female

NPC | Hap | Light Elf Messenger | Male

NPC | Nogueira | Dark Elf Elder | Male

NPC | Zane | Light Elf Leader | Male

Bald/Unknown

054 | Dwight Hill | Priest | Male

082 | Interlude Rodriguez | Bandit | Male

083 | Solo Frankl | Bandit | Male

088 | Sebastian | Golem | Male

145 | Gobrey | Green Goblin | Male

146 | Gob | Green Goblin | Male

147 | Lin | Green Goblin | Male

148 | Brie | Green Goblin | Male

149 | Gonn | Green Goblin | Male

150 | Golly | Green Goblin | Male

151 | Den | Green Goblin | Male

152 | Ben | Green Goblin | Male

153 | Aesop | Green Goblin | Male

154 | Monki | Green Goblin | Male

155 | Gabe | Green Goblin | Male

156 | Mason | Green Goblin | Male

157 | Goo | Green Goblin | Male

158 | Donkey | Green Goblin | Male

159 | Gruel | Black Goblin | Male

160 | Ricky | Black Goblin | Male

161 | Drew | Black Goblin | Male

162 | Doppio | Black Goblin | Male

163 | Pietro | Black Goblin | Male

164 | Jan | Black Goblin | Male

165 | Marco | Black Goblin | Male

166 | Niko | Black Goblin | Male

167 | Danny | Black Goblin | Male

168 | Dominic | Black Goblin | Male

169 | Bosso | Black Goblin | Male

170 | Georgio | Black Goblin | Male

171 | Luka | Black Goblin | Male

172 | Sonny | Black Goblin | Male

173 | Giovanni | Black Goblin | Male

174 | Polpo | Black Goblin | Male

175 | JJ | Green Orc | Male

176 | Galvados | Blood Orc | Male

NPC | Aphelion | Silver Dragon

NPC | Cepheid | Wind Dragon

NPC | Kelvin | Water Dragon

NPC | Quasar | Gold Dragon

NPC | Radian | Paper Dragon

NPC | Bull | Galvados’ Follower | Male

NPC | Drago | Galvados’ Follower | Male

NPC | Ray C. Ross | President of Vareth | Male

NPC | Gabriel Celesta | God | Male

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On New Year’s Eve of 1988/89 my friends Chris, Bryan, Big John, Mark (nicknamed “Wagon Ass”), Tony, and I piled into Tony’s sister Shari’s Baja Bug with her at the wheel. Bryan and Chris shared the front seat, while Tony and I were wedged between Wagon Ass and Big John, and breathing in shifts. We were headed to a party in Springfield that Shari had heard about at an X-Piracy show (parenthetically, their guitarist Robb was the son of our second grade teacher).

The party was in somebody’s barn and adjoining RV garage. A makeshift wooden stage had been slapped together on top of hay bales in the barn and a fairly competent band was playing very tight Kreator and Nuclear Assault covers when we arrived. I was suitably impressed when they left the stage and a second band started playing. The barn’s packed earth floor made a pretty good platform for the pit and stacked hay bales made great alternate stage diving spots, keeping us off of the stage and out of the band’s hair. (It was the 80′s so there was a lot of it to worry about.)

The kegs and the coolers of Boone’s and Bartles & Jaymes were in the RV garage, between a number of chairs and couches. It was a very, very impressive setup for a small town Oregon high school bash. I still count it as one of the five greatest pits I’ve ever been in (and I was at Memorial Colosseum for the 1991 Clash of the Titans).

I’m telling you all of this to set the stage for how I met the woman I’ve been thinking about tonight. She was my first New Year’s kiss. It’s been years since I’ve thought about her but I saw the second band’s name in a YouTube sidebar and it all came back to me.

I was taking a break from flipping myself off of hay bales to “enjoy” a can of Hamm’s when a girl raced to hide behind me, looking fearfully toward the door she’d just come in through. “Hide me,” she demanded, placing her hands on the back of my shoulders to keep herself centered behind me. I remember noticing that she was clever enough to hide them under my hair as she did so.

While I was still processing this turn of events an absolutely fucking huge guy came raging into the RV garage, bleeding heavily down his face from his hairline. I didn’t know yet that even trivial scalp wounds bleed much more severely than a comparably minor injury would anywhere else on the body. As a result the situation had a sphincter-cramping gravity to it that was only amplified by the broken, bloody Boone’s bottle in his hand.

“Alright, motherfuckers!” he bellowed. “One of you sons of bitches hit me with this bottle and when I find out who I’m going to shove it up your ass!” I was standing directly in front of him so he stared down at me first and stepped closer. “Was it you?!?!” he demanded.

Confused by terror, all I could say in reply was “Me who what?” My jackass brain had said exactly the right thing, fortunately. Asking him what he had just explained at the top of his lungs was enough to confuse him enough to deescalate the situation somewhat. He stated, calmly and rather matter-of-factly, “This” as he pointed at his bloody scalp. 

“Oh,” I replied. “No, man. That was pretty shitty, though, huh?” He nodded in agreement and looked down at the bottle in his hand. His face sagged from rage to drunken melancholy.

“Why would someone do that?” he asked, sounding near tears.

At that moment the girl I’d been unwillingly hiding stepped from behind me and addressed him.

“I did it, Doug. I fucking did it. You fucked my cousin in my fucking car, Doug!”

I could see it all coming back to him and then he just nodded at her and started mumbling to himself as he turned and walked out the door. She took my can of Hamm’s and took the last drink from it. We sat down on one of the couches with fresh cans of beer a bit later and ended up making out for the rest of the night. I’ve never seen her again and nobody I asked later knew her name.

Sometimes I wonder about various people like her, who’ve flitted through my life like that, only staying long enough to give me another story.

[adambstingus]

The Yellow Birds review – Iraq war PTSD made beautiful but baffling

French director Alexandre Moors has a strong cast and excels at creating mood. Alas, his big reveal cannot dispel the fog of the Iraq war

Terrence Malicks The Thin Red Line proved that you could make a beautiful movie about war. The Yellow Birds, a Sundance premiere from French director Alexandre Moors, is the first attempt at a beautiful movie about post-traumatic stress disorder.

The most memorable parts of this Iraq war drama are those detached from the overall story. The Bible-quoting soldier pouring salt over a scorched battlefield, the decision-making when a patrol group discovers a body bomb, a pre-assault interview in which soldiers are asked if this is the most important day of their life.

Moors, whose last effort, Blue Caprice, was a spectacular and surreal examination of the DC sniper incident, excels at creating mood. He has a nose for unorthodox camera placement, shooting from the inside of mailboxes or roving around the sides of convenience stores as the painted brick walls take on an inexplicably ominous quality.

But in time Yellow Birds story threatens to ruin the whole experience. A diced-up timeline means rooting through each scene for clues, but three main characters begin to emerge. Alden Ehrenreich and his enormous, sad eyes is Pvt Bartle, who is tasked by Sgt Sterling (Jack Huston) to keep an eye on mamas boy Murph (Tye Sheridan). The kid can shoot and run fast but, the sergeant is quick to confess to Bartle, he just isnt made for this place.

This place is Iraq, with an extra layer of haze over its fog of war. During the new recruits first mission they may or may not have killed a carload of civilians. Attacks come at all times and without warning, even at a Christmas party.

Back home, Amy and Maureen, Bartle and Murphs mothers (Toni Collette, sarcastic, Jennifer Aniston, all business), worry about their boys in different ways. Bartle makes it back but spends most of his time in bed or drinking. Murphs disappearance sends Maureen on a quixotic run at the US army for more information. She carries a leather binder bursting with maps and letters to a fruitless meeting with her congressman, clinging as best she can to a semblance of hope.

Though Anistons performance is fine, her story arc is dangerously low on oomph. Watching Ehrenreich guzzle beer and hide his face in his pillow is, weirdly enough, oddly compelling. Seeing the battle-worn fighter devolve into a bratty teen in the safety of his mothers house is just about the saddest representation of PTSD put to film.

Clearly theres something no one is telling us about what happened to Murph, but the big reveal is something of a disappointment. Unless this is some grand meta statement about the complexity of war, the ending offers more befuddlement than closure. Perhaps one must accept that we shouldnt second-guess these men until we do a mind-scrambling tour against Iraqi insurgents ourselves.

Yellow Birds goes heavy on the brooding, and even though a lot of it looks gorgeous and carries the whiff of great importance it is ultimately stunted by a central event that isnt worth the mystery that surrounds it. While many sequences in Yellow Birds are striking, overall it fails to take flight.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/the-yellow-birds-review-iraq-war-ptsd-made-beautiful-but-baffling/ from All of Beer https://allofbeercom.tumblr.com/post/172440508412

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The Yellow Birds review – Iraq war PTSD made beautiful but baffling

French director Alexandre Moors has a strong cast and excels at creating mood. Alas, his big reveal cannot dispel the fog of the Iraq war

Terrence Malicks The Thin Red Line proved that you could make a beautiful movie about war. The Yellow Birds, a Sundance premiere from French director Alexandre Moors, is the first attempt at a beautiful movie about post-traumatic stress disorder.

The most memorable parts of this Iraq war drama are those detached from the overall story. The Bible-quoting soldier pouring salt over a scorched battlefield, the decision-making when a patrol group discovers a body bomb, a pre-assault interview in which soldiers are asked if this is the most important day of their life.

Moors, whose last effort, Blue Caprice, was a spectacular and surreal examination of the DC sniper incident, excels at creating mood. He has a nose for unorthodox camera placement, shooting from the inside of mailboxes or roving around the sides of convenience stores as the painted brick walls take on an inexplicably ominous quality.

But in time Yellow Birds story threatens to ruin the whole experience. A diced-up timeline means rooting through each scene for clues, but three main characters begin to emerge. Alden Ehrenreich and his enormous, sad eyes is Pvt Bartle, who is tasked by Sgt Sterling (Jack Huston) to keep an eye on mamas boy Murph (Tye Sheridan). The kid can shoot and run fast but, the sergeant is quick to confess to Bartle, he just isnt made for this place.

This place is Iraq, with an extra layer of haze over its fog of war. During the new recruits first mission they may or may not have killed a carload of civilians. Attacks come at all times and without warning, even at a Christmas party.

Back home, Amy and Maureen, Bartle and Murphs mothers (Toni Collette, sarcastic, Jennifer Aniston, all business), worry about their boys in different ways. Bartle makes it back but spends most of his time in bed or drinking. Murphs disappearance sends Maureen on a quixotic run at the US army for more information. She carries a leather binder bursting with maps and letters to a fruitless meeting with her congressman, clinging as best she can to a semblance of hope.

Though Anistons performance is fine, her story arc is dangerously low on oomph. Watching Ehrenreich guzzle beer and hide his face in his pillow is, weirdly enough, oddly compelling. Seeing the battle-worn fighter devolve into a bratty teen in the safety of his mothers house is just about the saddest representation of PTSD put to film.

Clearly theres something no one is telling us about what happened to Murph, but the big reveal is something of a disappointment. Unless this is some grand meta statement about the complexity of war, the ending offers more befuddlement than closure. Perhaps one must accept that we shouldnt second-guess these men until we do a mind-scrambling tour against Iraqi insurgents ourselves.

Yellow Birds goes heavy on the brooding, and even though a lot of it looks gorgeous and carries the whiff of great importance it is ultimately stunted by a central event that isnt worth the mystery that surrounds it. While many sequences in Yellow Birds are striking, overall it fails to take flight.

Source: http://allofbeer.com/the-yellow-birds-review-iraq-war-ptsd-made-beautiful-but-baffling/

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PODCAST: Mark Reddy.

‘Art Director’ is an unhelpful title. It has nothing to do with Art and very little to do with directing. Some think it’s about making stuff look cool, I think it’s about communicating at speed. We work in a medium people are actively trying to ignore, so we can’t hang around. Art Director’s can only communicate quickly if the understand: a) Their basic toolkit; photography, film, illustration,…

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Antonin Karel (Tony) Bartl (Czech/British, 1912–1998)

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[paranoidsoftware]

Beginnings

Everyone knows that a journey begins with the first step. A harder question to answer is when that step is taken.

Today is my first day as a full-time indie game developer, which is something I have dreamed about for two decades, but never dared to actually do. I have quit day jobs before, but somehow it was much less scary to be unemployed and do nothing than to follow a dream and risk failing. This time around I have promised myself to work on KEPLE until it can be considered a success or a failure, no more limbo! So I have definitely taken a step today, but probably not the first one.

I remember playing Crusader: No Regret with my best friend when we were kids and just being floored by the level of detail in the game: A full motion intro sequence that looked to me like a Star Trek movie, blinking consoles, pipes and levers, robots, elevators, real actors portraying rebels and villains. Everything felt real, a whole universe shipped on a shiny CD-Rom. And the first thing you saw when you started the game was this beautiful swirling Origin Logo, saying “We create worlds” and the title “A Tony Zurovec game”. 

I was hooked! I wanted nothing more than to learn how to create worlds. And I wanted to have my name up in lights like that. I can’t say precisely when that epiphany happened, but 1998 became the founding year of Paranoid Software. The company’s first major release was a game called Lex, which is currently stuck on a floppy disk somewhere (for lack of a floppy drive to read it).

Like any successful product, Lex immediately received a sequel, creatively called Lex 2: The endless war. Just like in the first game, the objective was to reach the exit of each level without stepping on any mines:

Yes Mr. Freud, those are mines.

And just like that, I got my name (and Peter’s, who did the graphics and whose last name I misspelled [sorry]) up in lights:

However, in a tragic twist of fate, Lex never left its floppy disk and thus didn’t have quite the impact on pop culture that I had hoped for. I wasn’t satisfied and I wasn’t done making games.

Now I’m finally actually making games for real for real (okay and paperwork and blogging and writing a thousand impressums). I’ll be using this blog to ramble about anything related to the process, such as news about KEPLE, the experience of working from home and handling the business side of things.

I would love it if you came along for the ride!

Cheers, Bartl