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Maya Jama Wiki, Age, Bio, Career, Education, Parents, Reationship, Net Worth, Nationality And More

Maya Jama Wiki:- On August 14, 1994, English DJ, radio, and television presenter Maya Indea Jama was born. She co-presented Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer on BBC One with Peter and Alex Horne, and starting with the third series, she will host Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star on BBC Three.

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Jama co-hosted Trending Live! on 4Music from 2015 to 2018, Cannonball on ITV in 2017, True Love or True Lies on MTV in 2018, and The Circle with Alice Levine's first season on Channel 4. In radio, Jama co-hosted Radio 1's Greatest Hits from 2014 to 2017, ran #DriveWithMaya on Rinse FM from 2015 to 2017, and aired her own show, Maya Jama, on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020.

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Parents And Education

Jama was born in Bristol where she raised and attended Cotham School. Her mother's side of the family is Swedish, and her father's is Somali. When Jama is 19 years old, her mother Sadie gave the name Maya Angelou in honour of the American poet and writer. Jama shares a sibling with Omar. For violent offences like fights and bar brawls, Jama's father was incarcerated for the duration of her childhood. Jama decided at the age of twelve to stop visiting her father in prison, and she did so for ten years. In a 2017 interview with The Guardian, she said that she didn't really see it as a problem.

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Career

Jama relocated to London in 2012 to seek a career in the media as an actress, TV presenter, and fashion model. Jama had originally wanted to be an actress, but she later realised that it could be more comfortable as a presenter then early role models for her included June Sarpong and Davina McCall. When Jams was a teenager, she made her presenting debut by hosting the weekly music video countdown on JumpOff.TV. later worked for Sky UK on TRACE Sports. It was announced in October 2022 that Jama would succeed Laura Whitmore as the host of the ITV2 dating reality programme Love Island.

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Relationship

Between 2015 and 2019, Jama dated British rapper Stormzy, and their split served as the basis for his song "Lessons" from that year. The relationship between Jama and NBA player Ben Simmons was made public in 2021. In August 2022, the couple reportedly called off their engagement.

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Net Worth

Maya Jama's estimated net worth for 2022 is £1.5 million. Her private companies are her primary source of income. The first release of Jama's own line of face and eye masks, MIJ Masks, sold out in less than 24 hours after it was released in December 2020.

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If "Too Toxic For Your Own Good" Was a Person

Liz Cambage is one of the most dominant centers in this generation of women's basketball. Dynamic player, with great business sense that negotiated her own contracts. Many placed in the same avenue as Shaquille O'neal. As great as her presence is on the court, her career has been controversial & toxic, for reasons that still have yet to be explained by her.

Here's a summary of the WNBA all-star's career:

-Initially refused to play for the team that drafted her, the Tulsa Shock. Then, she abandoned her team during her second season.

-Signed to a team in China for $400,000, which made her one of the world’s highest-paid women's basketball players, but complained about being poorly compensated and unable to meet her mortgage payments.

-Suspended for deliberately kneeing and injuring a WNBL opponent in 2017.

-Finally returned to the WNBA in 2018 with the Dallas Wings, but demanded a trade after just one season.

-Called Nigerian players “monkeys” and told them “go back to your third world country” before an Olympic warm-up game, despite being half-Nigerian herself. Then, she was caught on video elbowing and slapping Nigerian players.

-Many people, who were on the Liz bandwagon, including me, have become fed up with her. One of those individuals included Australian basketball coach, Andrew Gaze. Word is, he never has a bad word to say about anyone.

-Signed with the LA Sparks, saying she would never play anywhere else and that the Sparks supported her in ways the Australian team never did. Recently, she left the team, with chemistry issues reportedly arising between Cambage and her teammates. Two of those teammates are Nigerian and knew exactly what she did in that Olympic warmup game.

Things finally came to a head on July 24th of this year, when Liz was overheard complaining and gripping about the team's style of play before tip off against the Las Vegas Aces. Teammates overheard Cambage’s discontent, and they began force-feeding her the ball regardless of what play was supposed to be run, sources say from Yahoo Sports. You can tell it was mostly out of annoyance.

After the Sparks' 84-66 embarrassing blowout loss, Cambage rushed to the locker room to get dressed for an early exit out of the arena. She finished the game with 11 points and 5 boards. Prior to departing the locker room, she had a message for her teammates:

“I can’t do this anymore. Best of luck to you guys.”

Can someone tell me what the heck is wrong with this person?!

All of this sounds like bullying tactics, with a mixture of a victim's mentality and a conceited attitude that is bothersome as it is unnecessary, albeit her Instagram modeling career. Its bad enough that the WNBA is being hindered by a lack of leadership, delegation and accountability from not only the executives but coaching staff as well. Now, they have to deal with toxic behavior from a talented superstar that can give so much more if her attitude wasn't screwed up.

I know people want to give her the Shaq comparisons, but at this point, she's more of a Ben Simmons to me. Is this the end of the line for the most toxic player in women's basketball? Whatever the future holds, you're better than this, Liz. PLEASE DO BETTER!

That is all.

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COMIC BOOK REFERENCES & EASTER EGGS - Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

For me personally, while Spider-Man: Far From Home is a great film, it was made even better by the many Easter eggs and comic book references Jon Watts crammed into it—especially the really obscure ones! The following is a guide to all the ones I’ve spotted along with any deviations from the source material (I will update this as more come to light). Note that owing to the convoluted and complex nature of comic books, I’ve tried to include only the most essential information regarding a character’s history and backstories.

In the comics, Aunt May has worked for F.E.A.S.T. (Food, Emergency Aid, Shelter, and Training), an organization that helps the homeless. This is alluded to in the film, with her cinematic counterpart working at a Salvation Army homeless shelter.

A poster featuring Crusher Hogan and advertising a $100 prize can be seen in the kitchen of the homeless shelter. Crusher Hogan is the wrestler Peter Parker beats in Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962), with $100 being the amount he earns for doing so. And while partially obscured, another name that’s listed could be Bone Saw McGraw, the wrestler Peter fights in the 2002 film Spider-Man.

A Piazza New York Mets flag can be seen in Peter’s room (it was also there in Spider-Man: Homecoming), indicating that he’s a fan, something he has in common with his comic book counterpart. This is revealed in Peter Parker: Spider-Man #33 (2001) in which we find out that Uncle Ben often took a young Peter to see the baseball team play.

The suitcase Peter uses bears the initials BFP, referring to Benjamin Parker (his middle name has yet to be canonically revealed), Peter’s uncle.

Ned Leeds and Betty Brant become a couple in the film. In the comics, Ned and Betty also dated each other before marrying in The Amazing Spider-Man #156 (1976). Note that the MCU version of Ned isn’t necessarily meant to be based on Ned Leeds, merely taking his name while being modeled after Ganke.

Two new characters at Peter’s school are derived from the comics. In both media, Mr Del (spelt “Dell” in the film) is a teacher at Peter’s school (he’s specifically a science teacher in the comic books). The cinematic version of Brad Davis competes with Peter for MJ’s attention. In the source material, he was a quarterback at Empire State University who went out on a date with MJ.

Far From Home sees Mysterio pretending to be a hero and tricking the public into believing Spider-Man is a criminal, which is essentially the story told in his debut issue—The Amazing Spider-Man #13 (1964). In the comics, Quentin Beck/Mysterio was a movie special effects artist and stuntman who sought a quick path to fame by trying to frame and kill Spider-Man. Though he doesn’t posses any powers, Beck’s costume contains various weaponry he can employ in combat. Parts of his suit can emit a smokescreen and hallucinogenic gas, which he often uses in tandem with his hologram projectors to disorient his foes. The crystal ball-esque helmet he dons—that he can see out of, but others can’t see into—contains a sonar device that allows him to “see” through the smoke around him. His gloves can dispel a web-dissolving acid, while his cape would electrically shock anyone who touched it.

In the film, Quentin Beck says he’s from Earth 833, while Peter’s reality is Earth Dimension 616. This follows the multiverse naming convention used in the comics. The mainstream Marvel Universe is known as Earth-616, Earth-833 is where Billy Braddock/Spider-UK comes from, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been designated Earth-199999. For those curious, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy takes place in Earth-96283, while Marc Webb’s two Spidey films are set in Earth-120703.

Though not a direct adaption of anything from the source material, the stealth suit Nick Fury gives Peter in the movie was inspired by two costumes from the comics: the black costume worn by Spider-Man Noir and the stealth costume (which has a camouflage mode) Peter develops early on in the “Big Time” (The Amazing Spider-Man #648-656, 2010-11) story arc.

In the comics, the Elementals are a group of beings that hail from another universe, each of who can control one of the elements. Hellfire has mastery over flames, Hydron can command water, Magnum is able to manipulate earth, and Zephyr has power over air. For the film, however, director Jon Watts decided to amalgamate the concept of the Elementals with some of Spidey’s classic foes.

The MCU earth Elemental takes some inspiration from Sandman. Flint Marko, having escaped from prison, hides on a beach where nuclear tests are conducted. After a nuclear explosion, he finds his body has taken on the properties of sand.

The water Elemental is based on Hydro-Man. During a battle between Spider-Man and Namor on board the U.S.S. Bulldog, crewman Morris “Morrie” Bench was knocked overboard, falling into the water just as an experimental generator was being tested. The energy from the device combined with underwater volcanic gases granted him the ability to turn his body into water. In the film, Hydro-Man’s origin story from the comics is cited by Flash as a possible explanation for the existence of the water Elemental.

The lava Elemental resembles Molten Man. Mark Raxton’s skin turned to metal after he’s covered with a liquid metal alloy that was created from substances found inside a meteor. He finds that he now has super strength, possesses skin that is highly resistant to injury, and is also able to generate intense heat, giving his body a molten form.

The air Elemental, meanwhile, could be based on Cyclone. Andre Gerard was an engineer who invented a weapon known as the Cyclone. With NATO not wanting to use his creation, he instead incorporated the technology into a suit that could create high-speed winds around him.

Despite the film not featuring direct adaptations of Sandman, Hydro-Man, Molten Man, and Cyclone, the debut issues of each character are referenced in Far From Home. When Fury and Maria Hill are shooting the earth Elemental the numbers 462 can be seen as part of a car’s number plate (The Amazing Spider-Man #4, 1963; Sandman’s first appearance), Fury’s car in Prague bears the number plate “ASM 28965” (The Amazing Spider-Man #28, 1965, which was published in September; Molten Man’s first appearance), an overturned car on Tower Bridge has “TASM 143” as its plate (The Amazing Spider-Man #143, 1975; Cyclone’s first appearance), and though not in the final cut of film—but present in the trailers—“Asm 212” can be seen on a boat in Venice (The Amazing Spider-Man #212, 1981; Hydro-Man’s first appearance).

Speaking of number plates, the one on the car Fury drives in Berlin is “MTU 83779,” a reference to Marvel Team-Up #83 published in July 1979. The issue sees Spider-Man and Nick Fury team up against Silver Samurai and Boomerang. In addition to being Cyclone’s debut issue, The Amazing Spider-Man #143 (1975) is also the issue in which Peter and MJ first kiss—hence the “TASM 143” number plate appearing on screen when Peter and MJ kiss in the film. The number plate on Aunt May’s car, unchanged from Homecoming, is “AMF 1562,” a nod to Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962). And lastly, in the post-credits scene we see the number plate of Talos’ car: “HNM 62011.” This is a reference to Hawkeye & Mockingbird #6 (2011) in which a Skrull impersonating Nick Fury is discovered.

This cinematic incarnation of MJ reveals to Peter that she knows he’s Spider-Man, with her comic book counterpart having done the same in The Amazing Spider-Man #257 (1984).

While the zombie Iron Man we see in the film was merely an illusion, there actually does exist a zombie Iron Man in the comics. This version of the character hails from Earth-2149 where all the Marvel heroes have been turned into zombies.

Though it is a newspaper in the mainstream comic continuity, The Daily Bugle is a news website in the film. Both iterations, though, have an anti-Spider-Man slant. In the Ultimate Universe, however, the publication did go digital-only, doing so in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #11 (2010). The website in the issue is dailybugle.com; in the film it’s thedailybugle.net.

In the comics, J. Jonah Jameson is the executive editor and publisher of The Daily Bugle. What’s significant about the MCU incarnation of the character is that he’s played by J. K. Simmons, who portrayed the character in Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy!

Spider-Man’s identity has been revealed in the comics—accidentally or otherwise—to members of the public several times. The MCU has Mysterio do this, but in Civil War #2 (2006) Peter himself willingly does so at a news conference as a way of showing his support of the Superhuman Registration Act. 

And while not exactly a reference to the comic books themselves, in Venice the students stay at Hotel DeMatteis, a nod to J. M. DeMatteis who has written many Spider-Man comics. Additional shout-outs to Spidey writers come in the form of signs that can be seen in the city: Calle Bendiso (Brian Michael Bendis), Calle Slotto (Dan Slott), Calle Sterno (Roger Stern), Calle Michelinio (David Michelinie), and Calle G. Convayo (Gerry Conway).

In terms of references to the wider MCU, the biggest would have to be Tony Stark’s death, which occurred at the end of Avengers: Endgame. Pictures of him, along with Captain America, Black Widow, and Vision can be seen as part of the in memoriam video a student at Midtown School of Science & Technology creates. The disappearance and return of half the universe’s population is referred to as “the blip.” Happy Hogan hands May a large cheque for the homeless shelter signed by Pepper Potts. Videos about the Snap, Wakanda, Hydra, Einstein Rosen Bridges (featuring Erik Selvig), and Iron Man can be seen as part of the in-flight entertainment. Various other heroes are also named-dropped: Thor (who’s offworld), Doctor Strange (who’s unavailable to help Fury), and Captain Marvel (Fury tells Peter to not invoke her name). We find out that Quentin Beck was the one who invented B.A.R.F., and was present backstage at MIT during Stark’s demonstration of it in Captain America: Civil War. William—who we first met in Iron Man—has joined Beck in his revenge against Stark. At one point, Fury mentions the presence of Kree sleeper cells, and that this information was top secret. And in the post-credits scene we find out that Talos and his wife, Soren, have been impersonating Fury and Maria Hill respectively during the course of the film.

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[TASK 187: BERMUDA]

There’s a masterlist below compiled of over 370+ Bermudian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Gina Swainson (1958) Bermudian - model and Miss World 1979.

Heather Nova (1967) Bermudian [Unspecified White] / Unspecified White - singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet.

Lana Young (1970) Afro-Bermudian - actress.

Jodie Milks (1971) Bermudian - actress.

Ella Bonair (1976) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - model.

Sasha Allen (1982) 1/4 Afro-Bermudian, 3/4 African-American - actress and singer.

Whitney Thompson (1987) 1/32 Bermudian, 1/32 Bahamian, 15/16 mix of Irish, Scottish, English - model.

Genesis Lynea (1989) Afro-Bermudian - actress, singer, model, and dancer.

Samantha Claude (1990) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - actress.

Jordan Claire Robbins (1990) Bermudian - actress and producer.

Sophia Kristina (1991 or 1992) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Guisti Clarke (1996) Afro-Bermudian - actress and model.

Megan Zelly (1996) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - instagrammer (megzelly).

Kaelyn Kastle (1997) Afro-Bermudian - singer.

Alyssa Dyer (1998 or 1999) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Aliana King (1999) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Rhyesheen Suragh (2000) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Ni Burgess (2000) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Samantha Warren (2001) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - model.

De-Nias Caines (2002) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Carys Zeta Douglas (2003) Bermudian [Unspecified White], Barbadian [Unspecified White], Belarusian Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Belgian, French, English, Dutch / Welsh, Irish, English - model.

Twanée / Twanée Butterfield (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer-songwriter.

Lillian Lightbourn (?) Afro-Bermudian - model and Miss World Bermuda 2014.

Joy T. Barnum (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer-songwriter.

Alyssa Rose (?) Bermudian - model and Miss World Bermuda 2015.

Rochelle Minors (?) Afro-Bermudian - model and Miss World Bermuda 2012.

Jana Lynn Outerbridge (?) Afro-Bermudian - model and Miss World Bermuda 2011.

Katherine Arnfield (?) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - model and Miss World Bermuda 2013.

Theresa Mignonne Daniels (?) Afro-Bermudian - actress.

Mia Page (?) Bermudian - singer-songwriter.

Lily Lightbourn Herbert (?) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Keana (?) Afro-Bermudian - model (instagram: justkeeky).

Erin (?) Afro-Bermudian - professional dancer and former nhl cheerleader (instagram: hillea).

Lola (?) Afro-Bermudian - rapper (instagram: lola_officialmusic).

Brixx (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer (instagram: brixxbda).

F - Athletes:

Phyllis Lightbourn-Jones (1928) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sprinter.

Phyllis Edness (1930) Bermudian - sprinter.

Thelma Jones (1932) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Debbie Jones (1958) Bermudian - sprinter.

Sonia Smith (1962) Afro-Bermudian - javelin thrower.

Nicole Jones (1963) Bermudian - cricketer.

Suzette Albouy (1965) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Linda Mienzer (1965) Bermudian - cricketer.

Maryellen Jackson (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Charlene Thompson (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Wendy Woodley (1968) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Terry-Lynn Paynter (1969) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Chevonne Furbert (1970) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jillian Terceira (1971) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - equestrian.

Dawnette Douglas (1971) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Stacey Simmons (1972) Bermudian - cricketer.

Teresa Perozzi (1973) Bermudian - boxer.

Arkeita Smith (1978) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kiera Aitken (1983) Afro-Bermudian - swimmer.

Stacy Babb (1983) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Rickelle Smith (1986) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Arantxa King (1987) Afro-Bermudian - long jumper.

Vanessa James (1987) Afro-Bermudian / Unspecified - figure skater.

Flora Duffy (1987) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - triathlete.

Melyssa James (1987) Afro-Bermudian / Unspecified - figure skater.

Cheyra Bell (1988) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Shunta Todd (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Michelle Pearson (1991) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - rower.

Dominique Richardson (1992) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Rebecca Heyliger (1992) Afro-Bermudian - swimmer.

Reuna Richardson (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jessica Cooper Lewis (1993) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - paralympic sprinter.

Akeyla Furbert (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Keunna Dill (1995) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Taahira Butterfield (1996) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Cecilia Wollmann (1998) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Maddy Moore (2000) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - swimmer.

Nicole Mitchell (?) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - cyclist.

M:

Alan Silva (1939) Afro-Bermudian / Portuguese [including Azorean] - bassist-songwriter, keyboardist, violinist, and trumpetist.

Andy Newmark (1950) Bermudian / Russian Jewish - drummer and percussionist.

Will Kempe (1963) Bermudian - actor.

David Morris (1964) Bermudian - singer and bassist.

Robert Hector (1964) Bermudian - actor.

Peter Outerbridge (1966) Bermudian [English, Scottish] / Swedish - actor.

Kenneth Amis (1970) Afro-Bermudian - tuba player.

Daren A. Herbert (1976) Afro-Bermudian - actor.

Cameron Douglas (1978) Bermudian [Unspecified White], Barbadian [Unspecified White], Belarusian Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Belgian, French, English, Dutch / Majorcan, Swiss, French, English - actor.

Collie Buddz / Colin Patrick Harper (1984) Bermudian [Unspecified White] / Jamaican [Unspecified White] - singer.

Ben Lusher (1992) Bermudian [Jewish] - singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer.

Garonde Bean (1993) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Sokoni Whitter (1995 or 1996) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Taylor Ebbin (1998) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Dylan Douglas (2000) Bermudian [Unspecified White], Barbadian [Unspecified White], Belarusian Jewish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Belgian, French, English, Dutch / Welsh, Irish, English - actor.

McKee Bond (2000) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - actor.

Giniko Liburd (2002) Afro-Bermudian - model.

Clinark / Clinarke Dill (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer-songwriter and producer.

Uzimon / Daniel Frith (?) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - singer.

Jay Blades (?) Afro-Bermudian - DJ and tv presenter.

Mike Hind (?) Bermudian - singer-songwriter and ukulelist.

Runksie / Philandro Hill (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer and producer.

Tony Brannon (?) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - singer.

Marca T (?) Afro-Bermudian - singer-songwriter and producer.

M - Athletes:

Walter Bardgett (1932) Bermudian - swimmer.

Calvin Symonds (1932) Bermudian - cricketer and footballer.

Robert Cook (1932) Bermudian - swimmer.

Eldon Raynor (1933) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Shiraz Ali (1934) Bermudian - cricketer.

Dennis Wainwright (1935) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Charles Daulphin (1936) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Penny Simmons (1938) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Jeff Payne (1938) Bermudian - middle-distance runner.

Raymond Swan (1938) Bermudian - long-distance runner.

John Morbey (1939) Bermudian - sprinter.

Richard Belvin (1941) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Dick Mallory (1942) Bermudian - footballer.

Joseph Bailey (1942) Bermudian - cricketer.

Alex Cooper (1942) Bermudian - sailor.

Sam Nusum (1943) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Clarence Parfitt (1944) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Winston Trott (1944) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Lionel Thomas (1946) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Rocky Thompson (1947) Afro-Bermudian - football player.

Gary Darrell (1947) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Roy Johnson (1948) Afro-Bermudian - boxer.

James Butterfield (1950) Bermudian - rower.

Clarence Hill (1951) Afro-Bermudian - boxer.

Clyde Best (1951) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Alan Burland (1952) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Robert Burgess (1952) Afro-Bermudian - boxer.

Christopher Nash (1952) Bermudian - sailor.

Roland Butcher (1953) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

John Nusum (1954) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Clark Godwin (1955) Bermudian - high jumper.

Dale Russell (1955) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Calvin Dill (1955) Bermudian - sprinter.

Kenny Thompson (1955) Bermudian - footballer.

Dennis Trott (1955) Bermudian - sprinter.

Noel Gibbons (1956) Bermudian - cricketer.

Mike Sharpe (1956) Bermudian - sprinter.

Renelda Swan (1957) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Peter S. Gray (1957) Bermudian - equestrian.

Roger Dill (1957) Bermudian - cricketer.

John Ford (1957) Afro-Bermudian - cyclist.

Stephen Alger (1958) Bermudian - tennis player.

Allan Douglas (1958) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Michael Watson (1958) Bermudian - middle-distance runner.

Gregory Simons (1958) Bermudian - sprinter.

Arnold Manders (1959) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Victor Ruberry (1959) Bermudian - swimmer.

Clyde Wilson (1959) Bermudian - cyclist.

Bruce Perinchief (1960) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Clevie Wade (1960) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Mark Wyatt (1961) Bermudian - rugby player.

Dexter Smith (1961) Bermudian - cricketer.

Quinn Paynter (1961) Afro-Bermudian - boxer.

Charlie Marshall (1961) Bermudian - cricketer.

Earl Godfrey (1961) Afro-Bermudian - cyclist.

Troy Douglas (1962) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Ron Davenport (1962) Bermudian - American football player.

Anthony Amory (1963) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Clarence Saunders (1963) Afro-Bermudian - high jumper.

Roger Trott (1963) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Andrew Bascome (1963) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Peter Bromby (1964) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Herbert Bascombe (1964) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Sheridan Ming (1965) Bermudian [Afro-Bermudian, Chinese] - cricketer.

Bill Trott (1965) Bermudian - sprinter.

Curtis Jackson (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Reginald Tucker (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Brian Wellman (1967) Afro-Bermudian - triple jumper.

Richard Basden (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Peter Philpott (1967) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Graham Strange (1968) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kyle Lightbourne (1968) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Albert Steede (1968) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Delano Hollis (1969) Bermudian - cricketer.

Corey Hill (1969) Bermudian - cricketer.

David Bascome (1970) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Traddie Simpson (1970) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dean Minors (1970) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Shaun Goater (1970) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

David Hemp (1970) Bermudian - cricketer.

Garvin Aparicio (1970) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Devarr Boyles (1970) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Clay Smith (1971) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dwayne Leverock (1971) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Hasan Durham (1971) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jermaine Warner (1971) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kentoine Jennings (1971) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Irving Romaine (1972) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dwight Basden (1972) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Lionel Cann (1972) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dennis Pilgrim (1972) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Timothy Figureido (1973) Bermudian - footballer.

James Celestine (1973) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Chris Flook (1973) Bermudian - swimmer.

Glen Smith (1973) Bermudian - cricketer.

Meshach Wade (1973) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Glenn Blakeney (1973) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Stanton Lewis (1974) Bermudian - footballer.

Patrick Singleton (1974) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - luger.

Daniel Morgan (1974) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Ottis Steede (1974) Bermudian - footballer.

Tim Hemp (1974) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

DeVon Bean (1975) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Janeiro Tucker (1975) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Xavier James (1975) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Ryan Steede (1975) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kwame Tucker (1976) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Aljame Zuill (1976) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kevin Hurdle (1976) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Sam Robinson (1976) Bermudian - cricketer.

Lloyd Holder (1977) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Keith Jennings (1977) Bermudian - footballer.

Blenn Bean (1977) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kameron Fox (1977) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Omar Shakir (1977) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Stephen Fahy (1978) Bermudian - swimmer.

Dennis Zuill (1978) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Damon Ming (1978) Bermudian [Afro-Bermudian, Chinese] - footballer.

Kofi Dill (1979) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Lashun Dill (1979) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jason Anderson (1979) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Michael Parsons (1979) Bermudian - footballer.

Ralph Bean (1980) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kwame Steede (1980) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Ronald Cowen (1980) Bermudian - swimmer.

Devaun DeGraff (1980) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Ricardo Brangman (1980) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Tucker Murphy (1981) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - cross-country skier.

Kijuan Franks (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

John Barry Nusum (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Khano Smith (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Arthur Pitcher (1981) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jemeiko Jennings (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kevin Richards (1981) Bermudian - footballer.

Nigel Burgess (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Stephen Astwood (1981) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jim West (1982) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Graham Smith (1982) Bermudian - swimmer.

Chris Foggo (1982) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jared Peniston (1982) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Michael Crane (1982) Bermudian - cricketer.

Zander Kirkland (1983) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

David Lovell (1983) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Steven Outerbridge (1983) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Darius Cox (1983) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jekon Edness (1983) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Oliver Pitcher (1983) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Tyler Butterfield (1983) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - triathlete.

George O'Brien (1984) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jason Davis (1984) Bermudian - footballer.

Tyrone Smith (1984) Afro-Bermudian - long jumper.

Jacobi Robinson (1984) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Domico Coddington (1984) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jason Williams (1984) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Randall Robinson (1984) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dion Stovell (1984) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Shannon Rayner (1984) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Michael O'Connor (1984) Bermudian - swimmer.

Treadwell Gibbons (1985) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Freddy Hall (1985) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jonathan Ball (1985) Bermudian - footballer.

Roy-Allan Burch (1985) Afro-Bermudian - swimmer.

Chris Caisey (1985) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Delyone Borden (1985) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Taurean Manders (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Logan Alexander (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Tyrell Burgess (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Antonio Lowe (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Seion Darrell (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Antwan Russell (1986) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Derrick Brangman (1987) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Keishen Bean (1987) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Chris Lonsdale (1987) Bermudian - cricketer.

Cecoy Robinson (1987) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Allan Douglas (1987) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Shakir Smith (1987) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Justin Pitcher (1987) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Angelo Simmons (1987) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Rodney Trott (1987) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kyle Hodsoll (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Marquel Waldron (1988) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Oronde Bascome (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Tamauri Tucker (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Stefan Kelly (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jesse Kirkland (1988) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

Dennico Hollis (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kamal Bashir (1988) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Shayne Hollis (1989) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Malachi Jones (1989) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Chris Douglas (1989) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Mikkail Crockwell (1990) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jordan DeSilva (1990) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - cricketer.

Harold Houston (1990) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Pierre Smith (1990) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Kilian Elkinson (1990) Bermudian [Jewish] - footballer.

Nahki Wells (1990) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Julian Fletcher (1990) Bermudian - swimmer.

Terryn Fray (1991) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Reggie Lambe (1991) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Cameron Pimentel (1991) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - sailor.

McLaren Smith (1991) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Casey Castle (1991) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Sinclair Smith (1991) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Tahj Bell (1991) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Roger Lee (1991) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Deunte Darrell (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Drewonde Bascome (1992) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kevon Fubler (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Micah Franklin (1992) Bermudian [Unspecified White] - squash player.

Damali Bell (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dante Leverock (1992) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Brian Hall (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jaylon Bather (1992) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Macai Simmons (1992) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dominique Mayho (1993) Afro-Bermudian - cyclist.

Quadir Maynard (1993) Bermudian - footballer.

Lejuan Simmons (1993) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Joshua Gilbert (1993) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Yusef Riley (1993) Afro-Bermudian - basketball player.

Marco Warren (1993) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Oliver Harvey (1993) Bermudian - footballer.

Jonté Smith (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kamau Leverock (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jeneko Place (1994) Afro-Bermudian - sprinter.

Willie Clemons (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Tre Ming / Wendell Tre' Ming (1994) Bermudian [Afro-Bermudian, Chinese] - footballer.

Jair Minors (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Christian Burgess (1994) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Donte Brangman (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Okera Bascome (1994) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Zeiko Lewis (1994) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Mauriq Hill (1995) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Kwasi James (1995) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Daren Usher (1995) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Onais Bascome (1995) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Chikosi Basden (1995) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Tre Manders (1995) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dale Eve (1995) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Rai Simons (1996) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Justin Donawa (1996) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Djair Parfitt-Williams (1996) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Calon Minors (1996) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Ian Coke (1996) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Detre Bell (1997) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jahquil Hill (1997) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Delray Rawlins (1997) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jahnazae Swan (1997) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Tehvan Tyrell (1997) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Liam Evans (1997) Bermudian - footballer.

Milan Butterfield (1998) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Nathan Trott (1998) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Osagi Bascome (1998) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jordan Smith (1998) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Ajai Daniels (1998) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Jahkari Furbert (1999) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Knory Scott (1999) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Quinaceo Hunt (2000) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Cejay Outerbridge (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

David Greenidge (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

B.A. Brathwaite (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Cleon Scotland (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Keith Wainwright (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Dennis Brown (?) Afro-Bermudian - footballer.

Zeko Burgess (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Charles Trott (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Gregg Foggo (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

T. Robinson (?) Bermudian - cricketer.

Charles Swan (?) Bermudian - cricketer.

Ross Roberts (?) Bermudian - sports shooter.

Steven Bremar (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Arnold Adams (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Jeff Richardson (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Donald Norford (?) Afro-Bermudian - cricketer.

Clarke Trott (?) Bermudian - cricketer.

Problematic:

Michael Douglas (1944) Bermudian [Unspecified White], Barbadian [Unspecified White], Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Belgian, French, English, Dutch / Belarusian Jewish - actor and producer. - Allegations of sexual assault.

Lena Headey (1973) Bermudian [Irish, English] - actress. - Rape apologist and incest apologist.

Mishka / Alexander Mishka Frith (1974) Bermudian [Unspecified White] / Unspecified White - singer-songwriter. - Appropriation of dreadlocks.

Joanne Tucker (1982) Bermudian [English] - actress. - Married to Adam Driver.

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hello  !   below the cut are some of my muses that i’m dying to play so if any of them tickle ur fancy or are your wanted opposites just hit the lil heart n we can plot some stuff out <333

dahlia fernandez 19 - 24, model / social media influencer - cindy kimberly.

annabelle taylor 24 - 29, helps family run chain of gyms cross country - lily james.

ivy taylor 19-24, nursing major & kind of a bitch - amalia williamson.

ainsley taylor 25-30, nurse in a big hospital  - brie larson.

veronica rossi 20 - 25, owns a diner / single mother - ariana grande.

harper ellis 19 - 24, fashion vlogger - natalia dyer / verse dependent cindy kimberly.

gia santos 20 - 25, works at a hooters / student undecided major who kinda wants to vlog  - madison beer.

alexandra bridgers 20 - 25, socialite / works with special needs children at a horse ranch - madelaine petsch.

elena cruz 28 - 33, a server at her family’s restaurant - alexandra daddario.

charlotte florentina 19 - 24, vlogger / social media influencer  - ludovica martino.

laila huang 19 - 24, aspiring singer / works at a pizza shop  - lisa manoban.

maggie adams 19 - 24, related to tristan, just inherits his money and helps around the club  - danielle campbell.

noelle chen 30 - 35, very well known fashion designer - gemma chan.

camila cortez 31 - 36, high school english teacher  - melissa fumero.

cleo ‘cj’ jansen 19 - 24, student / messy, undecided major - josefine frida pettersen.

georgie abbott 19 - 24, volunteers at a library,  journalism & psychology major  -  milena tscharntke.

roxanne brown 19 - 24, film major / takes videos of skateboarders for thrasher w zane - diamond white.

natasha wellington 19 - 24, living off her dad’s money, but she’s humble so she’s a manager at a pacsun  - nicola peltz.

daphne hughes 19-24, probably high or drunk 24/7 & a professional dancer  - haley lu richardson.

rosalie karlsson 19-24, v wealthy & a student / literature major - marilyn lima.

maxine richardson 19-24, helps manage her brothers band - abigail cowen.

yasmine gonzalez 25-30, owns a bar with her two brothers  - emeraude toubia.

nicolette gonzales 20-25, bitchy actress who doesn’t want to end up working at her siblings bar - sofia carson.

ophelia williams 20-25, model & victoria’s secret angel - sophie turner.

paisley andrews 19-24, mass communications major & blogger - thalia crawford.

carmen espinoza 19-24 rich girl with daddy issues / receptionist at moms law firm -  irene ferreiro garcia

joaquin juarez 19-24, soccer player for fc barcelona  - diego tinoco.

nikolai gervais 20-25,  world known chef - harry styles.

warren bryant 19-24, vlogger like scotty sire - nick robinson.

tristan thomas 33-38, owns a club & is the  leader of an underground shady ass gang - charlie hunnam.

dante simmons 21-26, something major / student teacher, probably fucking his professor  - keith powers.

zane bishnoi 22-27, film major / films skateboarders for thrasher w roxanne - avan jogia.

marco cruz 26-31, college dropout who now works at the apple store, alcoholic who cant stay sober  - matthew daddario.

joseph auva’a 20-25, nfl player - kj apa.

vincent gonzales 22-27, owns a bar with his brother and sister - jordan connor.

valentino gonzales 28-33, owns a bar with his brother and sister / drug dealer - peter gadiot

kaleb donahue 25-30, bachelor prince next in line for the throne - daniel sharman.

adrian karlsson 23-28, v wealthy & shady businessman kinda like don draper - bill skarsgard. 

jackson taylor 28-33, firefighter or police officer ( verse dependant ) - scott eastwood.

zachary taylor 19-24, student / music major - logan shroyer.

noah thompson 22-27, film major & just started working at warner bros - dylan o'brien.

liam moretti 45-50, carpenter / father of frankie and rex - mark ruffalo.

frankie moretti 26-31, line cook at the diner veronica owns - matthew daddario.

rex moretti 19-24, youtuber  kinda like cody ko - noah centineo.

elijah baker 32-37, special education teacher  - chris evans.

axel savea 35-39, traveling reporter  for cnn - jason momoa.

theo leblanc 21-24, nhl player on the same team as caspian - timothee chalamet.

matthias leblanc 19-24, ghost writer for major artists - maxence danet fauvel.

elliot davis 20-25, works at the music store his uncle owns / wants to start a band - bradley simpson.

jordan ali 32-37, an actor aka hollywood’s golden boy  - rami malek.

caspian brown 20-25, rich ass nhl player on the same team as theo - herman tommeraas.

maddox richardson 19-24, professional skater & in an underground band - luke hemmings.

augustus liu 19-24, in an underground band - calum hood.

milo young 25-28, drummer for a famous band - ben hardy.

diego velasquez 19-24, son of the prime minister of spain / is a big bratty asshole - benjamin wadsworth.

luca romano 20-25, owns the family car garage / mechanic - giancarlo commare.

giovanni lombardi 20-25, professional skateboarder  - ludovico tersigni.

emmett o'hare 27-32, architect who’s addicted to gambling his money away - richard madden.

nathaniel o'hare 20-25, writer who has a hard time completing his work - michel biel.

gabriel miller 30-35, owns an alcohol distribution company with his brother - chris hemsworth.

maxwell miller 24-29, owns an alcohol distribution company with his brother - liam hemsworth.

finnegan jacobs 20-25, used to play professional footie and  is now an aspiring disney animator  - harry styles.

sawyer casey 19-24, college drop out / twitch.tv streamer & pro gamer - tom holland.

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Spider-Man: Far From Home: The Screenwriters explain the Twists

This text incorporates spoilers for Spider-Man Far From Home.

Back it got here to crafting “Spider-Man Far From Home,” the screenwriters, Chris McKenna and Erik Somers, had an incredibly complex web to weave.

The movie sends Peter Parker and his superhero buddies, Spider-Man, both played with the aid of Tom Holland on category travel via Europe, but “removed from domestic” nevertheless had to grapple with the tragic catastrophe of “Avengers: Endgame,” wherein Peter misplaced his mentor, tony stark.

“Far From Home” additionally introduces Jake Gyllenhaal, an extra superhero who appears to be on abate’s facet but whom savvy comedian-e-book fanatics will automatically admire as Mysterio, certainly one of Spider-Man’s basic foes. and then there’s the rely upon unravelling character accoutrement introduced in ’s “Spider-Man: homecoming,” including Peter’s beginning accord along with his classmate MJ Zendaya.

In a fresh telephone dialogue, McKenna and Sommers whose previous collaborations include “Spider-Man: homecoming” and “ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” explained how they juggled these abounding plot aspects and got here up with a surprise end-credit score aberration that guarantees to circuit Spider-Man in a whole new course. here are edited excerpts from that conversation.

How did you arrive on the choice to acquaint Mysterio as an ally who’s working with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury?

Chris McKenna one of the hardest issues with these motion pictures is touchdown on the villain. With Mysterio, there have been models of the memoir where he was at the forefront as an out-and-out villain that Peter and Nick have been chasing around Europe as he pulled off these events, all building to this lower back legend of why he became doing it, which changed into a totally different third act. We went downloads of different anchorage.

Erik Sommers however in the end, as a result of Mysterio offers so lots in deception, it changed into a variety of herbal that it led to a chronicle structure where his whole identity changed into a deceive for a long time.

McKenna There’s going to be people accepted satisfactory with the comics who reactivity to peer right through him, however, you type of can’t be concerned about that if you happen to develop with an artifice like this. You simply ought to achievement so you might get abroad with it lengthy satisfactory so that back the show comes up, people are still having fun with the film.

Mysterio employs enough deep-cut comedian-publication references — together with a back epic involving an alternative edition of the earth — that alike super enthusiasts might locate themselves satisfied in the beginning.

Sommers That truly did aid. Any time we locate ourselves with a twist or shock exhibit of something like this, we are looking to do as lots as we can to give protection to it and abstract from it ahead of time.

McKenna What we saved asserting is that he needed to consider as a true personality, so we desired to supply him a tragic again yarn with the entire particulars of coming from an additional apple, and ensure that the Elementals he’s combating acquainted like a becoming, Avengers-stage threat. surely, it turned into all smoke and mirrors, but we desired to accomplish it as plausible as feasible, and what helped become making Nick acerbity — the battiest man on the planet — apparently fall for it.

Sommers if you consider of what Mysterio is doing as actuality a con, again a sensible con man is going to employ different individuals to help promote his lie.

within the conclusion-credit scene, we find out that Nick isn’t Nick in any respect — as a substitute, a shape-shifting alien from “Captain Marvel” has been posing as Nick Fury for the total film.

McKenna Thematically, we desired to accept as many illusions and twists as viable, and up during the conclusion of the movie, we wanted to make you question everything you’ve viewed before.

however it becomes really a concept that got here later in the manner, and it helped because if anyone within the audience had considerations with Nick fury falling for Quentin’s nonsense, it changed into a nice defence valve to accept.

How a good deal did wonder divulge to you about the big twists in “Avengers: Endgame” in case you begun penning this film?

McKenna We were like, “wait, who goes abroad? and how do they arrive back?” We didn’t basically see “Endgame” except the most fulfilling — might be if we’d common more in strengthen, we might accept fabricated a funny story about Valkyrie using a Pegasus since you really are looking to reference that.

Sommers You’re accustomed every little thing on a need-to-recognize basis.

McKenna the two important things we knew have been the -yr hole and the ramifications it could accept for the individuals who did and didn’t get blipped away. And, certainly, the tony of all of it.

The shadow that tony’s demise casts over this film nearly makes him an alternative version of Uncle Ben from the Spider-Man comic books. back chic bequeaths a magnificent reward to abate in “far from domestic,” it could as well come with a bit observe announcing, “With first-rate power comes amazing accountability.”

McKenna The different “Spider-Man” videos definitely handled Uncle Ben, and “accession” hinted at it, however, you’re appropriate: In a lot of methods, the gravitas really comes from abate’s accord with chic.

Sommers It’s affected that there likely changed into an Uncle Ben and the ache of that accident is lingering there, but this gave each person the probability to actualize a whole new accord between Peter and his mentor, Tony, and to contend with the loss of that, which is a very potent, emotional experience in his life.

within the mid-credits tag, a posthumous video from Mysterio exposes Spider-Man’s secret identity to the world. That’s principal shake-up for this personality. Why acquaint it now?

McKenna We had been challenged via the producers to come up with whatever thing that abate sacrifices through the end of this movie, and after we hit upon that as a group, it grew to become a very horrifying theory: “Oh, no, we will do this! then it’s no longer a Spider-Man film anymore!”

Sommers sooner or later, we realized that because of it afraid us, you need to run toward it.

McKenna, It’s the sort of daring manoeuvre that it grew to become assured, especially with a difficult persona like Mysterio, who’s this darkish father figure. From the grave, is he making an attempt to give abate his “I’m adamant Man” moment? It’s advance aloft him, however, is this a lesson or an abuse?

Mysterio additionally frames Spider-Man for the crimes he’s been committing, which would initiate the next movie in an extremely different region.

McKenna, We have been questioning, “Are we activity as abysmal as we deserve to at the end of the movie?” We performed with the thought that Peter is the one who sacrifices his identification out of call all over the last combat, then it appeared more wonderful if Mysterio tricks him into doing it, but any time we wrote an edition where he was being printed to the world in that fight, it felt like it beneath the achievement. So earlier than it grew to become a tag, it becomes really simply the end of the film: right as he feels he’s dispatched up as Spider-Man, he has the rug pulled out from under him once again.

Sommers We had been basically debating, should still we just show who Spider-Man is, or should we body him for whatever thing and turn him right into an abomination? ultimately, we decided that each was how to go. It’s any such triumph on the end as a result of he’s received the girl and at last, becoming a big swing in the course of the city, so we are looking to knock him down as far as possible.

The greatest surprise of the movie is that the id show is advertisement via J. Jonah Jameson, the daily adenoids blowhard who became played by way of J.k. Simmons within the common “Spider-Man” movies directed via Sam Raimi. Simmons reprises the position right here, making him the first actor from a different set of movies to join the present wonder cosmos as the same personality.

McKenna both of those ideas got here together resplendent quickly. I don’t understand if it became director Jon Watts or somebody else who talked about, “it 'll be each day adenoids, and it 'll be J. Jonah Jameson.” That concept has been lingering round due to the fact that “homecoming”: How will we insert our new version of J. Jonah?

Sommers There had already been some activity in possibly the usage of J.k. Simmons when we brought J. Jonah again, so as soon as it was decided that we have been acting to reveal Peter’s identification on the very conclusion instead of the last combat, it all fell into region very artlessly that J. Jonah would be worried.

McKenna whatever thing that had been amphibian through this complete movie changed into the thought of “false information” and how can you accept as true with everything you see? We had been toying with the conception that Mysterio would turn Spider-Man right into a villain, similar to he did within the comic books, and it acquainted like that again angry into this J. Jonah. because of the Alex Jones of the MCU.

With newspapers on the wane, it’s fun that J. Jonah Jameson has basically become a YouTube personality.

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Kardashian-Jenner drama we hope is addressed in this season of “KUWTK”

The season finale of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in December was intense; allegations of Tristan Thompson’s infidelity clouded the Kardashian family, Kanye West’s infamous TMZ outburst was discussed, the birth of Khloe’s daughter aired, and Kim Kardashian’s role in releasing Alice Johnson from prison after two decades came to light. Season 16 of “KUWTK” is set to air this Sunday, and after E! released the reality show’s trailer yesterday, the recent scandals faced by the family have resurfaced.

Keep reading to see the Kardashian-Jenner drama that has unfolded since the wrap of season 15.

Jordyn Woods and Tristan Thompson were caught canoodling

In late February it was reported that Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend and father to their child, True Thompson, was involved in a cheating scandal with 21-year-old model Jordyn Woods - longtime Kardashian-Jenner family friend and often cited as “wifey” to Khloe’s sister, Kylie Jenner.

This widely circulated report took the internet by storm and is touched on by Khloe in the trailer where she can be heard saying, "It just sucks it has to be so public. I'm not just a TV show. This is my life."

Jordyn can also be seen an a short clip of the trailer, as Kris Jenner offers a toast to Woods and Jenner likely for their Kylie Cosmetics collaboration.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting their fourth child

On an episode of Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live,” Kim confirmed that she and husband Kanye West are expecting their fourth child - and second son - together.

When asked by Cohen, “Are you working on another child?”

Kim simply responded with, “We are.”

Internet prank frames Travis Scott as cheating on Kylie Jenner

YouTuber Christian Adam’s staged a photo depicting what looked to be Travis Scott, boyfriend of Kylie Jenner and father to Stormi Webster, kissing another woman. Adam’s released a video outlining the joke, which was widely dispersed through social media, with the caption “never believe anything you see on the internet :).”

This was not well received by Travis and Kylie who both took to social media to denounce the rumors and respond to the prank.

Kendall Jenner and Ben Simmons confirm dating rumors

After much speculation regarding the relationship between Kendall Jenner and NBA star Ben Simmons, Jenner finally confirmed reports that the two have been dating “for a bit now” on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in early February. 

The Philadelphia 76ers player was not seen in the upcoming season trailer, but that is not to say that he will not make an appearance on the show.

Kanye West wants to leave Los Angeles for Chicago?

Late last year reports surfaced that Kanye West plans to leave his family behind and move to Chicago. “Page Six” quoted West as saying, "I've got to let you all know that I'm moving back to Chicago ... I'm never leaving again," to a group of high school students in his Illinois hometown.

In the trailer for season 16 Kim says, "Moving to Chicago might be my breaking point," likely referring to West’s apparent remarks.

Kourtney Kardashian admits that she has only been in love once

Kourtney seems to have drummed up a new piece of drama following the release of the new season’s trailer. In one segment of the short teaser, Khloe can be heard asking, “how many people have you been in love with,” to which Kourtney responds, “one.”

Many are speculating that Kourtney is referring to her on-again off-again relationship with Scott Disick, who is also the father of their three children.

While 35 year-old Disick is currently involved with 20 year-old Sofia Richie, this clip has provided increased anticipation for the upcoming “KUWTK” season.

This is just some of the recent Kardashian-Jenner drama, but who knows what else is in store on season 16 of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” which airs this Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on E!

You can watch the full trailer below:

[bearpillowmonster]

Spider-Man PS4 Review

 I just finished the game so here's my official review. I've been taking some notes throughout playing it so don't think I didn't have time to think it over or anything. This will be a long post so bear with me. (NON SPOILERS)

I started by wondering if I should get this game, E3 looked hype from the trailers but it never stood up front the crowd, losts of speculation from me. A few months ago I watched a video where these guys got to play it early just to share game mechanics (I think it was GameSpot or something) I know what they meant in a lot of things they were talking about now. Now here's the kicker, there's DLC. I hate DLC, never get it despite a lot of it looking cool, however I saw Black Cat as one of the DLC. I have a soft spot when it comes to Black Cat, I just have to check it out when she's involved...leading me to not only buy the game but the deluxe edition as well.

Let me start from the intro of the game. It is actually very visual oriented and easter egg filled. It explains the story of Spider-Man, where we are, and the timeline in less of a minute without saying a word. A spider drops down from the window (Pete getting powers) There's a pic of Uncle Ben and May and Peter then one of Mary Jane and Harry (they've met, been friends, graduated) Next picture has only Peter and May (Ben's death). There's a notebook with concepts for a web shooter (throwback to the 2002 movie sketches) A magazine with Norman Osborn that's labeled "Secrets" with some green nerf darts (Green Goblin is the secret (hence green darts) so not yet introduced) There's a wall of newspaper clippings with some of the villains on them (The big ones that have already been fought in this timeline) Next is a series of post-it notes but the most visible says "RENT DUE". (Peter owns his own place and is struggling) Now that's what I call an intro (it gets more epic right after but i wont spoil)

One complaint I see is the graphics. "They aren't as good as we saw at E3" or something along those lines. BOI this game has great graphics for starters and second How noticeable is the texture on a wall or a puddle compared to the actual character models? This game has a perfect excuse for toning down some ever so slightly. It runs better. It's an open world game and there's maybe one small loading screen and then this bad boy of a town is all yours, If these cutscenes were prerendered (a select few are but for the most part) then it would seem weird going from that to a loading screen. THERE ARE NO LOADING SCREENS AFTER CUTSCENES! It's straight into the action. Seamless. Having the graphics of both cutscene and gameplay match each other just enhances the experience for me so good on them! Also you can look in most windows and actually see stuff in there like computers or if the light is on or chairs/tables etc. That's next level! There are tips on the few loading screens you have (such as if you start a side mission, which I'll get to here in a minute) and they go by so fast you can just barely read the tip, it's that quick for me.

Next complaint I don't see much at all anymore but saw when this game was announced was the voice cast. Yuri Lowenthal wasn't the first pick for a lot of Spidey fans but he does an excellent job in this game like I mean they all do but you can really tell that the cast went all out for this game, it's great. Yuri even shares a name with one of the characters so yay. Also he voices older Ben from Ben 10. Even though it would be cool to have different voice actors for different suits such as Tom Holland for the Homecoming suit, Yuri does a nice job. Jameson is in this and he hosts a podcast that plays sometimes while you're swinging, that's a good modern take on him but nobody will ever beat JK Simmons just saying.

The Spiderman juggernaut that was Spiderman 2 (preferably the GC version for me) was a big game to stack against, nothing has beat it until this game in my opinion. Spiderman 2 I could get lost in just doing side missions, I would literally spend my time saving people hanging from roofs, getting mugged and car chases and still be satisfied with that game, it was that good! (also I wasn't too good at knowing what to do in games as a kid so eh) The swinging, the jumping, all felt natural and fun. This game can perhaps even beat that even with nostalgia, the web swinging is the best we've seen, it applies parkour and acrobatics and gravity and momentum to define what I say is the word to describe this game "F-L-O-W". Everything has a flow and it feels good for it to flow. It does a good job of trying to keep what everyone liked with SP2...even a few character chase sequences, which I've always hated and still do but it's still nostalgic and would probably be missed if it wasn't in there. Wallrunning is a lot simpler and easier, web shooting is a lot more fun and gives you control, lots of different variety, lots of different unlockables. Also you can actually unlock that super jump like in SP2 and I love it! You don't get stuck nearly as often, if you're swinging, you don't lose momentum if you run into stairs or a building, he goes straight into wall run mode or just swings around it, feels so good. There's actually a throwback to the Spiderman 2 train sequence where he mentions "That worked last time" when trying to use his webs to stop a train.

I made sure to give a fair amount of effort to do as much as I can in this game. I did all the landmark missions, backpacks, black cat stakeouts, collected most of the suits, unlocked every skill, tried different play styles with webbing and such. (I can actually recognize how someone's play style is different than mine when I watch because I've played it so much) You don't like the white spider suit? Well you can unlock others and play as those instead, you barely have to use the white spider suit but doesn't go without saying each suit interchangeable quirks but not making any more powerful than another. Use the environment to your advantage, there's some stealth involved here but you don't have to use it, it's actually pretty fun. You can throw trash cans and concrete mix and shock people with stuff. You can crawl in vents.

Side missions and side stuff. Are they fun? I'd be lying if I said every single one was great but there are a lot of really good ones, some even bring in certain characters that I shuttered when I saw. Backpacks were awesome because it's always a mystery where they'll be as well as what's in them, plus it unlocks a certain suit. Black Cat missions, obviously I love, get a suit out of that too. Landmarks are kinda fun, I didn't think I'd like it much but I just did it and was like "Wow that's actually a really cool shot" it makes me feel like a photographer (Have yet to try Photo mode though). But here's something cool. If you go to a side mission, it will take you out of your current situation so you don't waste time or get distracted by certain elements and puts you in a separate but same version New York and if you're in a phone call with someone and you go to do a side quest during it, Peter will say something like "Sorry about that, continue" and it will either pick up where you left off in the call or rewind a little bit so you remember. Here's something I didn't think I would see though. Minigames. Yeah...so apparently you can scan an element for it's components and you have to match the lines and then there's one for the neural interface which has you making a path from one side to another, and it's not the best but whatever, it does what it does.

The story is on par. If it were separated into a movie, it might actually work, it's of that quality. The characters are great as well, each being unique to this story without breaking their comic origin too much. Spidey actually got me to laugh quite a few times with his quips. I want to go in depth with the characters because I really like how some of them are handled but I don't want to spoil who all is in this game. The AI is pretty good, I like that it tells you if an enemy can see you and can highlight where all the enemies are by pressing R3. I even had the final boss dodging some of my attacks, I had nothing but respect for that though, no salt.

Now this game is among the greats but that goes without saying there are some aspects that could be improved upon. People complained about Quick Time Events when this was revealed and I didn't blame them but now I do because I see a few scenes that look like "Aww I wanna play that" because it was probably a scene meant for QTE but they took it out because of fan backlash (QTE is still in there but not a lot fyi). At the end Peter is faced with some decisions and that's what Spider-Man is about, we even see it at the end of the first Spider-Man movie and done masterfully. This one is done really well but I almost wish we could've played that, and made the decision for ourselves just to see what the outcome would be then go and play it again to do the other route. The problem with that is this isn't a "Mary Jane will remember that Telltale/Detroit" kind of game so putting that in right at the end would feel a bit cheap. Just like the Marvel movies, there's a post credits scene so stay tuned for that. Overall a really good game, highly recommend it and await the the DLC/sequel?. I'm over 80% done with the game after finishing the story so I might as well just 100% it and complete all side missions and stuff.

[blackkudos]

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon (born January 1, 1960) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Early life and career

He was born in 1960 in the Bronx. At the age of 7, his divorced, working-class parents got a scholarship for him and his brother to attend Walden School, a high-profile progressive private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Ligon graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in 1982. After graduating, he worked as a proofreader for a law firm, while in his spare time he painted in the abstract Expressionist style of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In 1985, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Work

Ligon works in multiple media, including painting, neon, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States.

Painting

Although Ligon's work spans sculptures, prints, drawings, mixed media and even neon signs, painting remains a core activity. His paintings incorporate literary fragments, jokes, and evocative quotes from a selection of authors, which he stencils directly onto the canvas by hand. In 1989, he mounted his first solo show, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," in Brooklyn. This show established Ligon's reputation for creating large, text-based paintings in which a phrase chosen from literature or other sources is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988), a reinterpretation of the signs carried during the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968 — made famous by Ernest Withers’s photographs of the march —, is the first example of his use of text.

Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists like Lorna Simpson, Gary Simmons, and Janine Antoni. In 1993, Ligon began the first of three series of gold-colored paintings based on Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up comedy routines from the 1970s. The scatological and racially charged jokes Ligon depicts speak in the vernacular language of the street and reveal a complex and nuanced vision of black culture.

In A Feast of Scraps (1994–98), he inserted pornographic and stereotypical photographs of black men, complete with invented captions ("mother knew," "I fell out" "It's a process") into albums of family snapshots including graduation photographs, vacation snapshots, pictures of baby showers, birthday celebrations, and baptisms, some of which include the artist's own family. Like almost all of Ligon's art, this project draws out the secret histories and submerged meanings of inherited texts and images.

For Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–93), Ligon separately framed 91 erotic photographs of black males cut from Robert Mapplethorpe's 1988 "Black Book," installing them in two horizontal rows. Between them are two more rows of small framed typed texts, 78 comments on sexuality, race, AIDS, art and the politically inflamed controversy over Mapplethorpe's work launched by then-Texas Congressman Dick Armey.

Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books.

Installation art

In 1994, the art installation To Disembark was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The title alludes to the title of a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To Disembark" functions in both works to evoke the recognition that African Americans are still coping with the remnants of slavery and its ongoing manifestation in racism. In one part of the installation, Ligon created a series of packing crates modeled on the one described by ex-slave Henry "Box" Brown in his "Narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide." Each crate played a different sound, such as a heartbeat, a spiritual, or contemporary rap music. Around each box, the artist placed posters in which he characterized himself, in words and period images, as a runaway slave in the style of 19th century broadsheets circulated to advertise for the return of fugitive slaves. In another part of the exhibition, Ligon stenciled four quotes from a Zora Neale Hurston essay, "how it feels to be colored me," directly on the walls: "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background," "I remember the very day that I became colored," "I am not tragically colored," and "I do not always feel colored." Ligon found Hurston's writing illuminating because she explores the idea of race as a concept that is structured by context rather than essence.

Neon works

Since 2005, Ligon has made neon works. Warm Broad Glow (2005), Ligon’s first exploration in neon, uses a fragment of text from Three Lives, the 1909 novel by American author Gertrude Stein. Ligon rendered the words “negro sunshine” in warm white neon, the letters of which were then painted black on the front. In 2008, the piece was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society's group exhibit, "Black Is, Black Ain't"., and appeared on the Whitney Museum’s facade in 2011. Other neon works are derived from neon sculptures by Bruce Nauman; One Live and Die (2006) stems from Nauman’s 100 Live and Die (1984), for example.

Film

In 2009, Ligon completed short film based on Thomas Edison's 1903 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the character of Tom, Ligon had himself filmed re-creating the last scene of Edison's movie, which also provided his film's title: "The Death of Tom." But the film was incorrectly loaded in the hand-crank camera that the artist used so no imagery appeared on film. Embracing this apparent failure, Ligon decided to show his film as an abstract progression of lights and darks with a narrative suggested by the score composed and played by jazz musician Jason Moran.

Exhibitions

Ligon's work has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibition include the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); the Kunstverein München, Germany (2001), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); the St. Louis Art Museum (2000); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1998); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996). A first survey of Ligon's work opened at The Power Plant in Toronto in June 2005 and traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and the Mudam in Luxembourg. The first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to Ligon's work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2011. Group shows in which Ligon has participated include the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 1993), Biennale of Sydney (1996), Venice Biennale (1997), Kwangju Biennale (2000), and documenta 11 (2002).

In 2013, Ligon started writing letters to artists whose work had made an impression on him in his life, asking if he could borrow that particular work for an exhibition. While some of the letters were sent to living artists, others are letters that Ligon would have sent those of the past, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The resulting show at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015 featured work by 45 different artists from Warhol to Steve McQueen, as well as Black Panther Party posters, press shots and footage from the Birmingham riot of 1963.

Collections

Ligon's work is represented in many public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2012, the National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the painting Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988).

In 2012, Ligon was commissioned to create the first site-specific artwork for the New School's University Center building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. The work will feature about 400 feet of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass rendered in pink neon lights, running around the top of a wall in the center’s first-floor café.

Recognition

In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work. In 2006 he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.

In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 Black Like Me No. 2, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to the White House collection, where it was installed in the President's private living quarters. The text in the selected painting is from John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me, the account of a white man's experiences traveling through the South after he had his skin artificially darkened. The words "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" are repeated in capital letters that progressively overlap until they coalesce as a field of black paint. Art critic Jerry Saltz called this work a "black-and-white beauty."

Art market

On the occasion of Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s "Artists For Haiti" charity auction at Christie's in 2011, Jennifer Aniston set a record prize for Glenn Ligon's work by purchasing his Stranger #44 (2011). At $450,000, Aniston beat Ligon’s previous record of $434,500 for Invisible Man (Two Views) (1991), realized at Sotheby's in September 2010. Untitled #1 (Second Version) (1990), a painting in which the words "I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background" repeat again and again, sold for $2.6 million at Christie' New York in 2014.

Ligon is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles; Luhring Augustine in New York; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.

Personal life

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ligon donated $30,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in September 2016.

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Stuck Inside Media Diary Week 2

New week. New movies I had never seen before. Only one was on the DVR so now it’s just like a glorified streaming guide and for that I apologize. There were three movies this week that I had seen before, but I’ve decided, because rules are important, that I won’t re-watch a movie until I watch a new one. Does this matter? No. But it has made me realize that I might be exposing my ass in the upcoming weeks, because we all lie about saying we’ve seen some movies when we actually haven’t. Not the case for this week, but it’s impending.

Sunday, March 29

Warrior, O’Conner 2011 [as of now this is available on Amazon Prime]

As a person who doesn’t really care about MMA or UFC or boxing or bum fights or bare knuckle brawls I went in under the impression that there’d probably be some kind of barrier in my way of enjoying it, despite knowing its esteemed reputation for being man-weep canon. Any movie that opens and closes with a song by The National is fairly transparent about the type of movie its going to be, despite having an extremely yolked Tom Hardy as one of the main characters. My first cry came at a very unexpected moment, especially because Frank Grillo had a significant role in making that happen (though I will say, I had no idea Frank Grillo was in this movie and about midway through I thought “man, that guy kinda looks like Grillo, but he’s kinda small and has a fashion mullet”). However, I’m a cryer, so I don’t want to set the expectation of you will cry at this you piece of shit! but you might and it’ll come out of a good place, because this movie doesn’t trick you into crying by manipulating you into it (okay, it does at one point, but it involves Moby Dick, so again, it’s kinda unexpected). It opens with “Start A War” and ends with “About Today,” a top 5 sad boy song by The National and I’ll be damned if I didn’t listen to it once a day all last week.

Better Call Saul 

“Sunk Costs”, “Sabrosito”, “Chicanery”, “Off Brand”, “Expanses”

John Getz hive, assemble.

Monday, March 30

Working Girl, Nichols 1988 [as of now this is available on HBO]

Sometime in college, I think in a detective fiction class I took, we talked about knowing a reference to something before knowing what it’s either paying homage to or directly referencing. For example: the first time I read The Long Halloween (which is a Batman comic by Jeph Loeb) I had no idea that basically everything involving Falcone is just ripped from The Godfather, because I had never seen The Godfather at that time in my life; literally the first page of the book is “I believe in Gotham City.” Or in Django Unchained when they go to Mississippi and the title card moves across the screen just like it does in Gone With The Wind (Tarantino movies are generally just long homages and references to other things, so if you need another example, just look to really anything he’s ever worked on). There’s probably a German word for this feeling of recognition and I just don’t have the energy to look to see what it would be, but I felt it while watching Working Girl in two regards. 

The first was that I didn’t realize that School Of Rock is essentially just Working Girl and when you have a realization like this, you feel kinda dumb, because you just assume everyone figured this out before you did. The second was that Joe Swanberg has tried to model his movies after Mike Nichols ones like his life depended on it and he just can’t or rather hasn’t. Also I’m not a person who was alive in the 80s and I’m sure there’s some modern day equivalent (potentially her daughter) who I defend out of some weird sense of contrarian obligation, but what’s uh, what’s going on with Melanie Griffith and her as actor?

Better Call Saul 

“Slip”, “Fall”, “Lantern” [Season 3 finale]

BCS season 3 really stepped up to the heights of Breaking Bad and I think I might like it just a little bit better than it? I haven’t watched Breaking Bad in long time, I find it pretty difficult to re-watch (it’s very fire works factory for me) so I’m sure there are some BB highs that I just don’t remember fully, but that BCS can juggle being three different shows all at the same time and do it excellently really has me taken aback. It’s like watching the Coen Brothers jump from genre to genre and not be worried about the end result.

Tuesday, March 31

Say Anything..., Crowe 1989 [as of now this is available on Hulu]

I’m unabashedly in the can for Cameron Crowe, which is a semi-embarrassing thing to admit, but whatever. I saw Aloha in theatres and watched We Bought A Zoo when it was on FX once (in real time too, so that means with commercials-this was also the only time I’ve seen We Bought A Zoo, but I think I’d do it again); you can’t hurt me. I think I kept my distance from Say Anything... for so long, because it was one of those things that I’d be annoyed at because it’d resonate with me too much, because feeling that is kinda hacky and embarrassing, but if there’s one thing that Cameron Crowe movies put an emphasis on of importance on, it’s being sincere. And I sincerely loved it (hot, HOT take). Thanks to Russillo for recommending it on Simmons’ podcast last week.

Better Call Saul

“Smoke” [Season 4 premiere]

Wednesday, April 1

The Graduate, Nichols 1967 [as of now this is available on Amazon Prime]

Sucks that this movie has been used by a certain type of dude who use it as a blueprint for their life and how they view relationships. Other than that, good job everyone. [I definitely thought it would be clever to watch this after watching Say Anything... because I just assumed Ben Braddock walked so Lloyd Dobbler could run-I was kinda right, whatever]

Hot Rod, Schaffer 2007

While April Fools Day means nothing to me I do try to watch a comedy on the day, because...eh, why not. Hot Rod is maybe a perfect comedy and I think I could spend hours talking about it. I don’t know how there hasn’t been some kind of programming that’s been done around The Lonely Island and their catalog, because it seems very obvious. 

Hot Rod with Digital Shorts played before and after and then Wayne’s World

MacGruber and you play MacGruber shorts before and after and then whatever grotesque 80′s action movie you’d want, maybe Commando

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping with Lonely Island music videos before and after and then This Is Spinal Tap

The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience sing-a-long followed by The Lonely Island pilot and  either a collection or the entirety of I Think You Should Leave

maybe this is all a lead-up to Palm Springs, a movie I have’t seen and know very little about other than they produced it and Samberg is in it

Thursday, April 2

The In-Laws, Hiller 1979

I wrote it as my letterboxd. “review” , but this thing’s 1979 funny until they go to South America and then it is actually funny. Falk is just gangbusters.

Better Call Saul 

“Breathe”, “Something Beautiful”

Friday, April 3

You Can Count On Me, Lonergan 2000 [as of now this is available on Amazon Prime]

I say this as a very big fan of his, but! Timothée Chalamet, consider yerself on notice for borrowing heavily from the Mark Ruffalo school of acting. Also, I get it now with Laura Linney, who I’ve liked before, but thought she might kind of be overrated by some people. Also, Matthew Broderick made this after Election (and also Inspector Gadget), so quite the infidelity streak for Brody, probably not a double feature.

Better Call Saul

“Talk”, “Quite A Ride”, “Piñata”

Saturday, April 4

De Palma, Baumbach & Paltrow, 2015 [as of now this is available on Netflix]

The definitive documentaries for the directors of this friend group are basically perfect in their own ways. That this is just De Palma talking about himself and his career and movies, sometimes being incredibly critical of his own work and others. He seems pretty self-aware, probably the most of that group of directors, while still coming across as incredibly cocky. De Palma is perfect for Brian De Palma. However, if anyone wanted to make a 10 hour documentary on Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, De Palma and Lucas in this style or it’s just the 5 of them interviewing each other moderated by like Fincher or someone, man....I could really go for that. (I mean if Michael Jordan can get one, why not these guys?)

The Other Director Documentaries

Spielberg, 2017 (HBO) [Interviews and retrospectives about Spielberg’s career, with personal highlights. It’s essentially Spielberg in a nutshell: big, flashy with a lot of time on particular moments that are more important to him than they are to you]

Empire Of Dreams, 2004 (Disney+) [Ostensively this is about Star Wars, and it’s made by a company-man, it says so much about Lucas, a man who hated how institutions told him what he could do so he unintentionally created one that has copied what he hates]

Heart Of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, 1991 [A truly wild ride, tells you everything you need to know about Coppola]

Italianamerican, 1974 [While a new documentary about Scorsese is probably what I covet most, he’s a pretty open book about his controversies and he’d probably enjoy talking about other people’s work more than his own-catholicism’s a helluva thing]

The Godfather Pt. I & The Godfather Pt. II, Coppola 1972 & 1974

I don’t know if I necessarily endorse watching both of these back-to-back; I guess I’m glad I did it, even if the motivation was mainly to just see if I could. Obviously these movies are important and good and are about so much more than just gangsters and thugs, but a lot of the time it just feels like eating vegetables for me. I did not grow up in a household that emphasized the importance of The Godfather so maybe that’s part of it, but I’m definitely not as dismissive of these as I used to be (though part of that could be the mental Stockholm Syndrome Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey have given me). Once I finished Pt. I, I felt like I could re-watch it; once I finished Pt. II I felt like my eyes were melting out of my head and onto my hands (this could be because I had just watched 377 minutes of a story). I will probably never do it again, unless it’s the weekend after Christmas and AMC is just going for it-at least then I’ll have intermissions every 20 or so minutes telling me to go shop at Target.

[t-baba]

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A Practical Overview of CSS Houdini — A detailed look at each part of Houdini, a group of APIs that give developers direct access to the CSS Object Model, including current browser support (quickly improving) and how its features can be used today using progressive enhancement.

Adrian Bece

Safari Now Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default, Plus Expires Local Storage After 7 Days.. — Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) has been in beta for a few months, and is now live in both the iOS and macOS builds. It introduces significant privacy changes, including cross-site cookies now being blocked by default. There is also a '7 day cap on all script-writeable storage' (including Indexed DB, localStorage and sessionStorage) which Aral Balkan suggests “effectively kills offline web apps”.

John Wilander (WebKit)

New Course: State Management in Pure React, v2 — The root of most performance and maintainability issues in large React apps is often how you manage your state. This course focuses on pure React APIs such as hooks, context, useReducer, and custom hooks.

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Embracing Modern Image Formats: Leveraging WebP in HTML and React — A thorough look at how using next-gen image formats along with the <picture> element can reduce image sizes dramatically.

Josh W Comeau

▶  The Complete AEA DC 2019 Now Online — Usually videos from ‘An Event Apart’ sessions get released gradually, but due to current circumstances they’ve opted to release them all in one go. There’s some good stuff here including excellent talks from Jen Simmons, Sara Soueidan, Aaron Gustafson and others.

An Event Apart

Chrome Releases Paused: There'll Be No Final Chrome 82 — The stable release of Chrome 81 was due to arrive last week, but this version remains in beta for the forseeable future as things are now on hiatus due to the current global crisis. Canary releases will continue shipping as planned.

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Flexbox and Absolute Positioning — Looks at what happens when you absolutely position a flex item and talks about a related bug in Firefox’s developer tools.

Chen Hui Jing

How Do You Make Video Accessible? — Lots of good reminders here on video accessibility, covering captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, transcripts, and more.

Suzanne Scacca

CSS Can Influence Screenreaders — Runs through a few examples of how your CSS can significantly change what some screen readers announce.

Ben Myers

Maintaining Performance — Dave discusses how shaving 33s off page load time (by fixing how fonts are loaded) helped him recognize some larger lessons about performance over the long haul.

Dave Rupert

31 Days of #MarchMediaMadness. New Cloudinary Challenges, Win Daily

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Customize Media Notifications and Playback Controls with The Media Session API — A look at how to customize media notifications and respond to media related events, such as seeking or track changing with the Media Session API.

François Beaufort

How to Create an Extruded Hover Effect with Box Shadows — Now this may have some performance implications, but the end result is a neat effect. The article refers to the effect as an “accordion”, but not in the UI sense.

Sarah L. Fossheim

How to Use the URL API with Vanilla JavaScript — A simple look at a lesser-known Web API, which lets you grab various bits including the hash, hostname, pathname, protocol, etc.

Chris Ferdinandi

Playing With Particles Using the Web Animations API

Louis Hoebregts

How to use the currentColor value in CSS

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Indicating Scroll Position on a Page With CSS

Preethi Sam

   🗓 Upcoming Events

StayAtHomeConf, March 29 — Online — An online conference streamed on YouTube. Has a few talks which may be of interest to a frontend crowd, including one on accessibility.

PerfMatters, March 31 - April 1 — Online — A web performance conference, which has now moved to be a virtual event, with a focus on frontend web performance with talks by internationally renowned performance developers.

FrontCon, April 1-3 August 12 - 14 — Riga, Latvia — This event has been postponed until August due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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Buttono: A Flexible Sass Mixin for Creating BEM-Style Buttons — Buttons have a consistent look across modern browers and include focus styles for accessibility.

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Uppload: A 'Better' JavaScript Image Uploader — Open source, highly customizable with 30+ plugins and can be used with any file uploading backend.

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Web Font of the Week

Ostrich Sans

Although not new, this remains a popular typeface. Ostrich Sans is a modern sans-serif font featuring long stems (or necks if you will). It's available in a variety of styles and weights — I particularly like the Black and Heavy variants. Here's the related GitHub repo.

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[blackkudosuniverse]

Glenn Ligon

Happy birthday to Glenn Ligon.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Glenn_Ligon

Glenn Ligon (born January 1, 1960) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.

Early life and career

He was born in 1960 in the Bronx. At the age of 7, his divorced, working-class parents got a scholarship for him and his brother to attend Walden School, a high-profile progressive private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Ligon graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in 1982. After graduating, he worked as a proofreader for a law firm, while in his spare time he painted in the abstract Expressionist style of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. In 1985, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Work

Ligon works in multiple media, including painting, neon, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States.

Painting

Although Ligon's work spans sculptures, prints, drawings, mixed media and even neon signs, painting remains a core activity. His paintings incorporate literary fragments, jokes, and evocative quotes from a selection of authors, which he stencils directly onto the canvas by hand. In 1989, he mounted his first solo show, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," in Brooklyn. This show established Ligon's reputation for creating large, text-based paintings in which a phrase chosen from literature or other sources is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988), a reinterpretation of the signs carried during the Memphis Sanitation Strike in 1968 — made famous by Ernest Withers’s photographs of the march —, is the first example of his use of text.

Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s along with a generation of artists like Lorna Simpson, Gary Simmons, and Janine Antoni. In 1993, Ligon began the first of three series of gold-colored paintings based on Richard Pryor's groundbreaking stand-up comedy routines from the 1970s. The scatological and racially charged jokes Ligon depicts speak in the vernacular language of the street and reveal a complex and nuanced vision of black culture.

In A Feast of Scraps (1994–98), he inserted pornographic and stereotypical photographs of black men, complete with invented captions ("mother knew," "I fell out" "It's a process") into albums of family snapshots including graduation photographs, vacation snapshots, pictures of baby showers, birthday celebrations, and baptisms, some of which include the artist's own family. Like almost all of Ligon's art, this project draws out the secret histories and submerged meanings of inherited texts and images.

For Notes on the Margin of the Black Book (1991–93), Ligon separately framed 91 erotic photographs of black males cut from Robert Mapplethorpe's 1988 "Black Book," installing them in two horizontal rows. Between them are two more rows of small framed typed texts, 78 comments on sexuality, race, AIDS, art and the politically inflamed controversy over Mapplethorpe's work launched by then-Texas Congressman Dick Armey.

Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books.

Installation art

In 1994, the art installation To Disembark was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The title alludes to the title of a book of poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks. "To Disembark" functions in both works to evoke the recognition that African Americans are still coping with the remnants of slavery and its ongoing manifestation in racism. In one part of the installation, Ligon created a series of packing crates modeled on the one described by ex-slave Henry "Box" Brown in his "Narrative of Henry Box Brown who escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide." Each crate played a different sound, such as a heartbeat, a spiritual, or contemporary rap music. Around each box, the artist placed posters in which he characterized himself, in words and period images, as a runaway slave in the style of 19th century broadsheets circulated to advertise for the return of fugitive slaves. In another part of the exhibition, Ligon stenciled four quotes from a Zora Neale Hurston essay, "how it feels to be colored me," directly on the walls: "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background," "I remember the very day that I became colored," "I am not tragically colored," and "I do not always feel colored." Ligon found Hurston's writing illuminating because she explores the idea of race as a concept that is structured by context rather than essence.

Neon works

Since 2005, Ligon has made neon works. Warm Broad Glow (2005), Ligon’s first exploration in neon, uses a fragment of text from Three Lives, the 1909 novel by American author Gertrude Stein. Ligon rendered the words “negro sunshine” in warm white neon, the letters of which were then painted black on the front. In 2008, the piece was selected to participate in the Renaissance Society's group exhibit, "Black Is, Black Ain't"., and appeared on the Whitney Museum’s facade in 2011. Other neon works are derived from neon sculptures by Bruce Nauman; One Live and Die (2006) stems from Nauman’s 100 Live and Die (1984), for example.

Film

In 2009, Ligon completed short film based on Thomas Edison's 1903 silent film Uncle Tom's Cabin. Playing the character of Tom, Ligon had himself filmed re-creating the last scene of Edison's movie, which also provided his film's title: "The Death of Tom." But the film was incorrectly loaded in the hand-crank camera that the artist used so no imagery appeared on film. Embracing this apparent failure, Ligon decided to show his film as an abstract progression of lights and darks with a narrative suggested by the score composed and played by jazz musician Jason Moran.

Exhibitions

Ligon's work has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibition include the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001); the Kunstverein München, Germany (2001), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000); the St. Louis Art Museum (2000); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (1998); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996). A first survey of Ligon's work opened at The Power Plant in Toronto in June 2005 and traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, and the Mudam in Luxembourg. The first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to Ligon's work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2011. Group shows in which Ligon has participated include the Whitney Biennial (1991 and 1993), Biennale of Sydney (1996), Venice Biennale (1997), Kwangju Biennale (2000), and documenta 11 (2002).

In 2013, Ligon started writing letters to artists whose work had made an impression on him in his life, asking if he could borrow that particular work for an exhibition. While some of the letters were sent to living artists, others are letters that Ligon would have sent those of the past, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. The resulting show at Nottingham Contemporary in 2015 featured work by 45 different artists from Warhol to Steve McQueen, as well as Black Panther Party posters, press shots and footage from the Birmingham riot of 1963.

Collections

Ligon's work is represented in many public collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2012, the National Gallery of Art in Washington bought the painting Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988).

In 2012, Ligon was commissioned to create the first site-specific artwork for the New School's University Center building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, on the corner of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. The work will feature about 400 feet of text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass rendered in pink neon lights, running around the top of a wall in the center’s first-floor café.

Recognition

In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work. In 2006 he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award.

In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 Black Like Me No. 2, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to the White House collection, where it was installed in the President's private living quarters. The text in the selected painting is from John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me, the account of a white man's experiences traveling through the South after he had his skin artificially darkened. The words "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" are repeated in capital letters that progressively overlap until they coalesce as a field of black paint. Art critic Jerry Saltz called this work a "black-and-white beauty."

Art market

On the occasion of Ben Stiller and David Zwirner’s "Artists For Haiti" charity auction at Christie's in 2011, Jennifer Aniston set a record prize for Glenn Ligon's work by purchasing his Stranger #44 (2011). At $450,000, Aniston beat Ligon’s previous record of $434,500 for Invisible Man (Two Views) (1991), realized at Sotheby's in September 2010. Untitled #1 (Second Version) (1990), a painting in which the words "I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background" repeat again and again, sold for $2.6 million at Christie' New York in 2014.

Ligon is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles; Luhring Augustine in New York; and Thomas Dane Gallery in London.

Personal life

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Ligon donated $30,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in September 2016.

[tsbrenterprises]

Ben Simmons & Colin Kaepernick Blasted By IG Model Brittany Renner, Kaepernick Made Her Pay For Her Own Flights! http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh9b367u7vfaDT5A7X

[jodyedgarus]

The Biggest Surprises From The First Week Of The NBA Playoffs

sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, assistant sports editor): We’ve had almost one full week of games in the NBA playoffs, and trends are emerging. Golden State took a 31-point third-quarter lead over the Clippers on Thursday night … and didn’t lose! So after a few early surprises, things seem to be getting back to what we expected.

One series not playing out according to seeding is San Antonio-Denver. The No. 7 Spurs beat the No. 2 Nuggets 118-108 on Thursday to take a 2-1 lead in the series. This comes as a surprise to the FiveThirtyEight NBA Predictions model, which had Denver as an 88 percent favorite to move on. The Nuggets are still favored, but just 60-40. Are you guys surprised by how this series is going?

chris.herring (Chris Herring, senior staff writer): Not all that much, no. I think I picked Denver out of respect for the season it had. But this was the one team basically everybody had questions about coming in.

I had the series going seven games, with Denver winning. It could easily be 3-0 Spurs right now.

tchow (Tony Chow, video producer): I am surprised, but I don’t think we really should be. It’s the Spurs being the Spurs again.

natesilver (Nate Silver, editor in chief): Our model doesn’t like San Antonio very much, so given their regular-season performance and home-court advantage — and Denver has a big home-court advantage — the Nuggets were pretty clear favorites. But it didn’t really like the Nuggets all that much either. They aren’t a great playoff team because their depth doesn’t really help them in the playoffs, the topline talent is not all that good, and they don’t have much playoff experience.

So I’m surprised that we had them as high as 88 percent, frankly! But not surprised that the Spurs are ahead in the series.

chris.herring: On Denver’s home-court advantage: The Nuggets haven’t beaten the Spurs in San Antonio in 14 tries now.

tchow: I am surprised because at one point in the season, our model gave the Spurs just a 4 percent chance of even making the postseason. We had a story a while back that talked about how they started turning it around (better defense, better bench production), but they were still underdogs going into this series, in my opinion.

sara.ziegler: Yeah, I had sort of counted the Spurs out a long time ago.

Let that be a lesson to me: Never count out Pop.

The experience factor really seems to be hurting the Nuggets so far. (And our model took 3 points away from them for their lack of playoff experience.)

chris.herring: Nuggets coach Mike Malone has talked about the experience factor a pretty decent amount in the past week

His young starting point guard, Jamal Murray, began Game 2 going 0-for-8. Malone was asked if he gave thought to pulling him because of Murray’s performance. He said no, in part because he needed to show his young players that he believed in them, and that he’s with them, win or lose. Murray responded by hitting 8-of-9 in the final quarter to bring the Nuggets all the way back for a dramatic win.

The win probably saved their season for the time being. But it speaks to the volatility of having such a young/young-minded club.

tchow: Murray wasn’t much better in Game 3 — just 6 points and two assists. I’m not trying to pin Denver’s failing’s this postseason all on Murray, though. All the Nuggets starters were pretty terrible in Game 3.

chris.herring: It’s a pretty big contrast between the teams.

While we’re talking about the growing pains for a young team, it’s worth pointing out that the Spurs are being led in part by youngster Derrick White, whose defense is his calling card. I think this is his first real exposure to a national audience, but he’s been playing really well for months.

tchow: White’s Game 3 performance was kind of a reminder for a lot of people who don’t watch the Spurs that he existed.

sara.ziegler: LOL

chris.herring: White’s experience has been different because of all the injuries they’ve had. But White and Dejounte Murray are going to be an annoyingly good backcourt once the team is healthy again next season. AND there’s Bryn Forbes, too.

natesilver: The whole Nuggets backcourt feels like it’s way short of championship caliber. It needs an anchor. There are lots of useful pieces you could rotate around that anchor, like Murray and Gary Harris, but without that anchor, it doesn’t quite come together.

chris.herring: It’s tough: They have a fantastic, sure-handed backup in Monte Morris, who led the NBA in assist/turnover ratio.

sara.ziegler: MORE MONTE MORRIS

Cyclones, represent!

chris.herring: He may not win a game for you. But he’s extremely unlikely to ever lose one for you, which you could argue Murray either occasionally does, or comes close to doing. Again: These are the growing pains for a young team sometimes.

sara.ziegler: On to another team that has seemed shaky at times this postseason: the Philadelphia 76ers. But they seem to have recovered from their upset in Game 1 — they’ve beaten the Nets convincingly twice in a row now. What looked different for them in Games 2 and 3?

tchow: Ben. Simmons.

natesilver: Sen. Bimmons.

chris.herring: Yeah, that sounds about right. Whether it was Jared Dudley that got in his head, or just him recognizing that he had to be more aggressive, Simmons has been a completely different player since Game 1.

tchow: Simmons had a -21 plus/minus in Game 1. Game 2 he was +23, and then +11 in Game 3 with a 31 point performance on 85 percent shooting.

chris.herring: I hate to say this, because maybe it’s premature, but I was beginning to think that the Nets could steal this series if things broke right for them.

tchow: I think a lot of people thought that, Chris. The Nets are legit and play really hard.

chris.herring: The Nets stole home-court advantage in Game 1. Were basically even at halftime of Game 2. And then get a gift rolled out on a platter for them, with Joel Embiid sitting out of a Game 3 played in their home arena, in front of a fan base that hasn’t hosted a playoff game in four years.

Thursday was their chance. And I think with the loss now, that might be about it.

natesilver: I’m in the Ben-Simmons-is-underrated camp. Yeah, he doesn’t really have a jumpshot. But he does pretty much everything else well. And there have been a lot of players throughout NBA history who have survived or even thrived without jump shots — Giannis Antetokounmpo basically does that now. The advanced stats like Simmons.

tchow: I think it’s very different for a player like Giannis to not have a jump shot than Simmons.

chris.herring: While we’re on the issue of Simmons, I think we learned that Embiid not being there might have been a help for him

For all the wonderful things Embiid does, he plays at a plodding pace.

Someone like Simmons thrives in an up-tempo environment because of his inability to shoot.

tchow: Sara, I found the hot take for next week’s Hot Takedown episode: FiveThirtyEight’s Chris Herring says Sixers are better without Joel Embiid.

sara.ziegler: LOLOLOL

Yes!

chris.herring: They might be in this series! Well, probably not: Greg Monroe was rough.

If they had more depth, they might be.

natesilver: That’s the thing about Philly. Look how bad their bench is:

Everyone’s like, “Why are these four stars such awkward fits together” — and I’ll admit that they’re a little awkward, but with a half-decent bench, it’s an entirely different team.

chris.herring: I don’t think it’s a terrible bench. And the truth is, you can stagger when you have that many stars.

But the spots in which it’s terrible … yeah.

tchow: Sixers’ bench: Who? Who? Who? The big guy. Who? and Who?

sara.ziegler:

chris.herring: That’s their issue, I think. I’m not sure Boban Marjanovic would work against every team. But he’s their backup big.

natesilver: I saw Boban at the United Airlines lounge at Newark Airport one time. He was very big and tall and sitting in a giant lounge chair and still looked very big and tall.

chris.herring: I tweeted last night that I’m pretty sure he dunked last night with one foot still on the ground.

Anyway: I want to talk more about how disappointed I am in Brooklyn

tchow: Are you just disappointed in their central A/C system at Barclays, Chris?

I promise it's no warmer than 8 degrees in Barclays Center right now. Cold as hell in here.

— Chris Herring (@Herring_NBA) April 19, 2019

chris.herring: Well, that too.

sara.ziegler: Are you disappointed that their slogan is “We go hard,” and then they didn’t?

chris.herring: They did go hard!

It’s not a question of effort with them. It never is. But I think what Nate alluded to is exactly the issue here. The Sixers’ bench isn’t great/may be bad. And the Nets’ second-best player is their bench.

natesilver: Yeah, Brooklyn’s not totally unlike Denver. Excellent depth, no playoff experience, frontline talent is meh.

tchow: Nate, they’re both small-market teams. I get it. (Queens represent!)

sara.ziegler: OMG

Tony trying to start a borough war here.

chris.herring: You generally see Brooklyn go on these massive runs in the second quarter of these games. But then after halftime, the game gets broken open, and Kenny Atkinson — who I really, really like — waits too long to call a timeout!

The Sixers went on a 21-2 (!!!!) run in Game 2 before Atkinson called for timeout. It took a 1-point deficit and expanded it to a 20-point lead for the Sixers. And then the game was over.

tchow: Maybe Atkinson is from the Phil Jackson school of letting the players figure it out on their own.

natesilver: What was the atmosphere like at Barclay’s, Chris? I think it’s one of the coolest venues in sports from an architectural/amenities standpoint, but every time I’ve gone, the fans are sort of half-hearted.

chris.herring: Last night was amazing to start the game. But I think they were sort of stunned to see the team run out of steam.

And as Tony said: I was freezing.

sara.ziegler: Well, it is a hockey rink, too.

chris.herring: So maybe the have to have the ice ready? But good lord.

My phone turned off at one point because of how cold it was.

sara.ziegler: Wow

That’s cold.

chris.herring: The atmosphere was really great. It’s good to have the playoffs in Brooklyn again. And hopefully Manhattan at some point in the next couple years. (side-eyes Knicks)

natesilver: Knicks fans should be rooting against Boston and against Golden State, right?

chris.herring: I’ve heard the same stuff everyone else has about Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving coming to the Knicks. As much as I hear it, I just have to see it to believe that it’ll actually happen.

natesilver: I think KD could leave either after a championship or a flameout. But Kyrie — yeah, he’s already flip-flopped enough that I think Knicks fans want the Celtics out by Round 2.

chris.herring: I think I’m just too conditioned to believe that nothing overwhelmingly good can happen for/with the Knicks unless there’s an enormous downside that comes with it.

sara.ziegler: LOL

natesilver: My current scenario is that they get Kyrie and also draft Ja Morant and somehow that turns into a disaster.

sara.ziegler: Speaking of Kyrie, the Celtics are making quick work of the Pacers. Indiana doesn’t seem to have quite enough offense so far to hang with Boston.

chris.herring:

tchow: I’m actually interesting to read Chris’s thoughts on this series. I remember A LOT of people were down on Boston going into the playoffs.

chris.herring: Yeah. I had some hope that this could be an interesting series.

But I also was tasked with writing an Indiana-based primer for the ESPN side ahead of this series. When I got to the “Why Indiana can win section,” I sat and stared at my screen for like an hour.

So this actually doesn’t surprise me all that much.

They simply don’t have enough offense. Or ingenuity.

natesilver: I haven’t watched much of that series; pretty much my only recollection was seeing a score that was like 76-59 in the fourth quarter of Game 1 and thinking I needed to update my contact lens prescription, but nope, that was the actual score.

chris.herring: They basically hand the ball off to Bojan Bogdanovic and say, “Do something.” Kind of like a kid who does a magic trick, but is still holding the quarter in his hand, in plain sight, for everyone to see.

tchow: Has Boston done anything to change people’s minds about their chances though?

chris.herring: No. They’re merely beating a flawed, weakened team, IMO.

tchow: That’s what I figured about Boston. The real test, if they do end up beating the Pacers, will probably come against Milwaukee.

chris.herring: In fairness to Nate McMillan and the Pacers, this was always going to be an uphill battle, because they’re playing without Victor Oladipo. It was a great accomplishment to go 21-21 this season without their star player after going 0-7 without him last season.

sara.ziegler: Yeah, they don’t really have anything to feel embarrassed about.

chris.herring: I really like Indiana, and have a soft spot for Little-Engine-That-Could sort of teams. But they need some reinvention.

They could use more firepower. But they need better schemes.

natesilver: I feel like the whole first round could use more firepower. Between inexperienced teams, teams with injury problems, teams without any star talent … it feels a little bit like spring training or something.

tchow: I agree, but it has been more interesting than I imagined.

chris.herring: A little.

sara.ziegler: Let’s talk about the other interesting series in the East: No. 2 Toronto has had its hands full with No. 7 Orlando. The Magic took the first game, but the Raptors stormed back in Game 2. The teams will face off Friday night in Orlando. Do we think the Magic have a realistic shot in this series?

natesilver: Mayyyyyybe?

chris.herring: It depends on what you define as “a shot.” I think they can get another game, potentially. I don’t think they will win the series. The Raptors responded in Game 2 the way you hoped a top-flight team would.

sara.ziegler: But the Magic are underrated, Chris!

I heard you say so.

chris.herring: Oh, they are. And not enough people know that.

But I don’t think that I ever conflated them being underrated with the notion that they should somehow beat the Raptors in a series.

tchow: Kyle Lowry responded in Game 2 the way you hoped. Chris wrote about Lowry’s Game 1 woes before, but he responded in a big way.

natesilver: Orlando is a weird-ass team, and they played very well in the second half of the season.

If you’re looking for an upset pick, I’d rather pick a weird team than a normal one.

chris.herring: If they had played competitively in Game 2, sure.

Or had a matchup they could readily exploit.

sara.ziegler: The Raptors had a 98 percent chance to win this series before the playoffs start, and now they’re all the way down to 93 percent. So things are still looking pretty good for them.

In the last series in the East, the Bucks had a little trouble with Detroit before pulling away in Game 2. But the most interesting thing to me about that game was Blake Griffin picking up his second technical foul of the series.

Blake Griffin, you’ll recall, has not actually played yet in this series.

tchow: Bucks in four. I think we can move on?

sara.ziegler: LOL

chris.herring: Yeah. That’s literally the only thing I find interesting about this series. That, and finding out how far away from the basket Giannis can dunk from.

tchow: The NBA tweet highlights of Giannis dunks have been the only saving grace of this series.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, Destroyer of Worlds pic.twitter.com/WaXh410LQo

— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) April 18, 2019

chris.herring: If and when the NBA move the first round back to a best-of-five, they’re going to use this series as evidence as why. (edited)

natesilver: I think there needs to be a mercy rule where you can concede your playoff series and get like three Lottery Balls or whatever.

sara.ziegler: OK, let’s move back to the West. The Trail Blazers are off to a great start, up 2-0 against the Thunder. Our model is surprised at this series — it had given the Thunder a 77-23 edge. Are you guys surprised?

chris.herring: Yes. I’m surprised. Maybe stupid, too.

natesilver: I mean, if Paul George isn’t himself, our model is gonna screw that series up.

tchow: He’s hurt!

chris.herring: I feel like a contrarian now, but I don’t even think he’s shoulder is the problem anymore. He shot the ball semi-decently last game.

Russ is shooting like he’s the one injured.

tchow: Our model can’t predict that Russell Westbrook will shoot 35 percent and 10 percent from 3-point range in this series.

chris.herring: EXACTLY

What I will say is that I don’t have a lot of faith in OKC if it’s simply relying on the notion that its shooting will improve.

They are shooting 16 PERCENT from three in this series.

Which, while God awful, is only a slight regression for them!

natesilver: That whole quadrant of the bracket — OKC, Portland, San Antonio, Denver — seems incredibly weak to me.

chris.herring: If OKC had a team full of sharpshooters, I could understand having more confidence.

But Russ still defends Damian Lillard as if he’s surprised that Dame can/will pull up from 35 feet.

The guy needs to be treated as if he’s Steph at this point

tchow: I don’t want to take anything away from Portland. Yes, they lost Jusuf Nurkic, but CJ and Dame have been awesome this series.

chris.herring: I came in thinking that this might be a sweep or a 4-1 series in favor of OKC. Simply thought that not having Nurkic would hurt against someone like Steven Adams. I thought CJ McCollum would struggle to find a rhythm (he’s coming off an injury and wasn’t good vs. OKC during the season). We watched Dame log 35 a night against the Thunder during the season and still get swept 4-0 during the regular season.

tchow: CJ has been

chris.herring: I didn’t think they had a great chance in this series. They had lost 10 playoff games in a row. With the exception of perimeter shooting, I thought just about everything else would be in OKC’s favor. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

tchow: If Dame wasn’t in Portland, would he still be this underrated? It feels like this is a storyline every season.

sara.ziegler: That’s a good question.

How many people regularly see him play?

tchow: Basketball nerds: “Look at Damian Lillard!”

Basketball fans: “Who this?”

chris.herring: I guess we have to define underrated.

natesilver: He was All-NBA First Team last season, no?

But, yeah, Portland has to be one of the least-watched teams in the league, or at least by people not in the Pacific Time Zone.

chris.herring: Even if you know who he is, and how great he is, I think you could objectively look at this series — and what the Blazers have done the last two years in the playoffs (0-8) — and say OKC should have been favored.

tchow: For OKC to take Game 3, they need to ____________.

And don’t say something like “play better” (looks at Nate).

sara.ziegler: SHOOT BETTER

chris.herring: … shoot better than my 4-year-old nephew does from outside of 23 feet.

natesilver: I’d say they need to play better basketball.

sara.ziegler: In the other non-Warriors series out West, the Rockets are handling the Jazz easily so far, setting up a showdown with Golden State in the second round. This has played out about as expected, right?

chris.herring: I had higher hopes for Jazz-Rockets. Am impressed with how dominant Houston has looked, but thought Utah would play better than this. Their defensive scheme has looked downright nonsensical to me

tchow: If Chris has a soft spot for Indiana, I think I have a soft spot for Utah. I love this team and wanted more out of them this series.

sara.ziegler: Utah is a very likable team.

natesilver: I didn’t expect Houston to dismantle Utah quite so thoroughly.

In fact, I think that’s the story of the first round so far. It’s a highly consequential story because the Rockets are absolutely good enough to give the Warriors a series.

chris.herring: The disappointment I feel with Utah is equivalent to how excited I am for the second round, with Warriors-Rockets.

That will seemingly be the Western Conference finals, just a round early.

natesilver: It would be quite something if the Rockets actually need fewer games to dispatch Utah than Golden State needs with the Clippers.

chris.herring: Seriously.

tchow: The Jazz just seem like a team that’s so close to figuring it out. Maybe not to a point where you think they can beat Golden State, but they’re so good in the regular season. I don’t know what happens to them in the playoffs.

chris.herring: Yeah, I sort of agree in theory, Tony.

But I think what I’ve learned is that I have to be leery of a team that relies on such a young player to be its leading scorer.

natesilver: Maybe you just need more isolation scoring in the playoffs? Or more scoring, period?

chris.herring: I remember a stat from last year: Donovan Mitchell was the first rookie to lead a playoff team in regular-season scoring since Carmelo Anthony.

I think there’s a reason we don’t see it happen much. And I think it’s even more problematic for a team built like that to have all sorts of horrible defensive breakdowns, because at that point, you know they have no shot at keeping up in a shootout against one of the best scorers in modern history.

If Quin Snyder rolls out the exact same defensive scheme that he did in Games 1 and 2, this series will end in a sweep.

natesilver: Is Mitchell … a little bit like Carmelo Anthony in that he’s taking too many shots? I mean, I guess he has to take a lot of shots with that lineup. But Utah really needs another player who can create his own shot.

tchow: What if you played a player like Royce O’Neale more? He’s +1.8 on defense (according to our model), and it looks like they do a bit better defensively with him on the floor.

chris.herring: He’s another example of what Nate is talking about, though: A guy that isn’t likely to create his own shot.

This is a team that will need to take a long, hard look at itself this summer despite how well it’s played during the second half of these last two seasons.

tchow: One obvious fix would be to get rid of Grayson Allen.

KIDDING!!!

natesilver: I also think Utah benefits from being a bit unorthodox. Rubio is an unorthodox point guard. They’re defense-first. They can play at a slow pace, although they picked up their pace a lot this year. They’re well-coached. So there’s an advantage from game-planning in the regular season. But Daryl Morey and the Rockets are going to study the hell out of the Jazz and know how to counter.

chris.herring: Some of these teams are built to play really, really well in the regular season. And there’s incredible value in that, for seeding purposes, etc.

But the inability to change your playing style when you’re forced to is often fatal this time of year.

sara.ziegler: Finally, Golden State seemed like Golden State in Game 3 of their series against the Clippers. So that panic appears to be over?

chris.herring: Hell, they seemed like Golden State in Game 2 to me!

It was just a massive collapse at the end of Game 2.

sara.ziegler: LOL

chris.herring: I actually pointed out yesterday that the game played out exactly the same way for a long while:

Steph got his fourth foul tonight with Warriors up 24. Kerr subbed him out at 8:39 in the 3Q.

Steph got his fourth foul on Monday with Warriors were up 28. Kerr subbed him out at 8:39 left in the 3Q.

— Chris Herring (@Herring_NBA) April 19, 2019

natesilver: Our model thought the DeMarcus Cousins injury was a pretty big deal. Although I think it overrated how effective Cousins had been this season.

sara.ziegler: All season, Cousins has been more about potential in our model.

But the Warriors didn’t need him early in the season, obviously.

tchow: I have nothing much to say about this series, but I do want to point readers to this interview KD gave before Game 3.

Kevin Durant goes extremely in depth on the Clippers style of defense, the overhelp, why he won’t get caught up in a 1-on-1 battle with Patrick Beverley pic.twitter.com/nOdmTDY4yi

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 17, 2019

natesilver: It’s not that they’re going to lose to the Clippers, but I do just have to wonder about a team’s mentality when they can blow a 30-point lead.

chris.herring: NBC analyst Tom Haberstroh pointed out that Steph was only averaging 19.9 points per 36 minutes this season with Boogie on the court, and that he essentially morphed into Malcolm Brogdon.

Averaged 31.4 points per 36 minutes without DeMarcus on the floor.

sara.ziegler: Wow

natesilver: I mean, part of that might be that Steph was being deferential in an effort to get Cousins feeling like himself again.

chris.herring: EXACTLY

Which … there isn’t time to do that in the playoffs.

tchow: Definitely. I think Steph went through a similar dip when KD joined too.

chris.herring: The last thing you want is Steph playing nice when you need him to be Steph.

natesilver: It does just seem kind of impossible when you have to shut down Steph AND KD and Klay. Even if the rest of the team kind of sucks.

chris.herring: I tend to think this helps them for now, but the Rockets series was one of the overarching reasons they signed Cousins — to make it so Houston couldn’t switch as much as they did on them last year

natesilver: Yeah. So in some ways, we’re back to last year’s series, which was as even as it gets. The Rockets lately are playing as well as last year. And the Warriors without Cousins are basically last year’s team.

sara.ziegler: After this matchup, will we even want to finish out the playoffs??

natesilver: Well, the Western Conference finals are likely to be an anti-climax.

tchow: LOL. Yes! I for one am very interested to see who comes out of the East to play against Warriors/Rockets.

Check out our latest NBA predictions.

from News About Sports https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-biggest-surprises-from-the-first-week-of-the-nba-playoffs/

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