#WASP-193 b

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An article published in the journal "Nature Astronomy" reports the identification of the exoplanet WASP-193 b, a gas giant whose diameter is approximately 1.5 times Jupiter's but with a mass that is only one-seventh of Jupiter's. A team of researchers led by Khalid Barkaoui of the University of Liège, Belgium, used the WASP-South telescope of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) collaboration to locate WASP-193 b and then study its characteristics with other instruments. The combination of this exoplanet's mass and density is really difficult to explain since no theory of planetary formation leads to a planet like this.

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Astronomers have discovered a new planetary oddball beyond the solar system that is as fluffy and light as cotton candy.  The extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" named WASP-193 b is around 1.5 times the width of Jupiter but has just over a tenth of the solar system gas giant's mass. This makes it the second-lightest planet in the exoplanet catalog, which contains over 5,400 entries. Only the Neptune-like world, Kepler 51 d, is lighter than WASP-193 b. Located around 1,200 light-years from Earth, WASP-193 b orbits its star at a distance of around 6.3 million miles, which is about 0.07 times the distance between Earth and the sun. That means it completes an orbit of its sun-like star, WASP-193, in just 6.2 Earth days.

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Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

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Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered a huge, fluffy oddball of a planet orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery, reported today in the journal Nature Astronomy, is a promising key to the mystery of how such giant, super-light planets form.

The new planet, named WASP-193b, appears to dwarf Jupiter in size, yet it is a fraction of its density. The scientists found that the gas giant is 50 percent bigger than Jupiter, and about a tenth as dense — an extremely low density, comparable to that of cotton candy.

WASP-193b is the second lightest planet discovered to date, after the smaller, Neptune-like world, Kepler 51d. The new planet’s much larger size, combined with its super-light density, make WASP-193b something of an oddity among the more than 5,400 planets discovered to date.

“To find these giant objects with such a small density is really, really rare,” says lead study author and MIT postdoc Khalid Barkaoui. “There’s a class of planets called puffy Jupiters, and it’s been a mystery for 15 years now as to what they are. And this is an extreme case of that class.”

“We don’t know where to put this planet in all the formation theories we have right now, because it’s an outlier of all of them,” adds co-lead author Francisco Pozuelos, a senior researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia, in Spain. “We cannot explain how this planet was formed, based on classical evolution models. Looking more closely at its atmosphere will allow us to obtain an evolutionary path of this planet.”

The study’s MIT co-authors include Julien de Wit, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and MIT postdoc Artem Burdanov, along with collaborators from multiple institutions across Europe.

“An interesting twist”

The new planet was initially spotted by the Wide Angle Search for Planets, or WASP — an international collaboration of academic institutions that together operate two robotic observatories, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the south. Each observatory uses an array of wide-angle cameras to measure the brightness of thousands of individual stars across the entire sky.

In surveys taken between 2006 and 2008, and again from 2011 to 2012, the WASP-South observatory detected periodic transits, or dips in light, from WASP-193 — a bright, nearby, sun-like star located 1,232 light years from Earth. Astronomers determined that the star’s periodic dips in brightness were consistent with a planet circling the star and blocking its light every 6.25 days. The scientists measured the total amount of light the planet blocked with each transit, which gave them an estimate of the planet’s giant, super-Jupiter size.

The astronomers then looked to pin down the planet’s mass — a measure that would then reveal its density and potentially also clues to its composition. To get a mass estimate, astronomers typically employ radial velocity, a technique in which scientists analyze a star’s spectrum, or various wavelengths of light, as a planet circles the star. A star’s spectrum can be shifted in specific ways depending on whatever is pulling on the star, such as an orbiting planet. The more massive a planet is, and the closer it is to its star, the more its spectrum can shift — a distortion that can give scientists an idea of a planet’s mass.

For WASP-193 b, astronomers obtained additional high-resolution spectra of the star taken by various ground-based telescopes, and attempted to employ radial velocity to calculate the planet’s mass. But they kept coming up empty — precisely because, as it turned out, the planet was far too light to have any detectable pull on its star.

“Typically, big planets are pretty easy to detect because they are usually massive, and lead to a big pull on their star,” de Wit explains. “But what was tricky about this planet was, even though it’s big — huge — its mass and density are so low that it was actually very difficult to detect with just the radial velocity technique. It was an interesting twist.”

“[WASP-193b] is so very light that it took four years to gather data and show that there is a mass signal, but it’s really, really tiny,” Barkaoui says.

“We were initially getting extremely low densities, which were very difficult to believe in the beginning,” Pozuelos adds. “We repeated the process of all the data analysis several times to make sure this was the real density of the planet because this was super rare.”

An inflated world

In the end, the team confirmed that the planet was indeed extremely light. Its mass, they calculated, was about 0.14 that of Jupiter. And its density, derived from its mass, came out to about 0.059 grams per cubic centimeter. Jupiter, in contrast, is about 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter; and Earth is a more substantial 5.51 grams per cubic centimeter. Perhaps the material closest in density to the new, puffy planet is cotton candy, which has a density of about 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter.

“The planet is so light that it’s difficult to think of an analogous, solid-state material,” Barkaoui says. “The reason why it’s close to cotton candy is because both are mostly made of light gases rather than solids. The planet is basically super fluffy.”

The researchers suspect that the new planet is made mostly from hydrogen and helium, like most other gas giants in the galaxy. For WASP-193b, these gases likely form a hugely inflated atmosphere that extends tens of thousands of kilometers farther than Jupiter’s own atmosphere. Exactly how a planet can inflate so far while maintaining a super-light density is a question that no existing theory of planetary formation can yet answer.

To get a better picture of the new fluffy world, the team plans to use a technique de Wit previously developed, to first derive certain properties of the planet’s atmosphere, such as its temperature, composition, and pressure at various depths. These characteristics can then be used to precisely work out the planet’s mass. For now, the team sees WASP-193b as an ideal candidate for follow-up study by observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

“The bigger a planet’s atmosphere, the more light can go through,” de Wit says. “So it’s clear that this planet is one of the best targets we have for studying atmospheric effects. It will be a Rosetta Stone to try and resolve the mystery of puffy Jupiters.”

This research was funded, in part, by consortium universities and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council for WASP; the European Research Council; the Wallonia-Brussels Federation; and the Heising-Simons Foundation, Colin and Leslie Masson, and Peter A. Gilman, supporting Artemis and the other SPECULOOS Telescopes.

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Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

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Astronomers spot a giant planet that is as light as cotton candy

Astronomers at MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and elsewhere have discovered a huge, fluffy oddball of a planet orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery, reported today in the journal Nature Astronomy, is a promising key to the mystery of how such giant, super-light planets form.

The new planet, named WASP-193b, appears to dwarf Jupiter in size, yet it is a fraction of its density. The scientists found that the gas giant is 50 percent bigger than Jupiter, and about a tenth as dense — an extremely low density, comparable to that of cotton candy.

WASP-193b is the second lightest planet discovered to date, after the smaller, Neptune-like world, Kepler 51d. The new planet’s much larger size, combined with its super-light density, make WASP-193b something of an oddity among the more than 5,400 planets discovered to date.

“To find these giant objects with such a small density is really, really rare,” says lead study author and MIT postdoc Khalid Barkaoui. “There’s a class of planets called puffy Jupiters, and it’s been a mystery for 15 years now as to what they are. And this is an extreme case of that class.”

“We don’t know where to put this planet in all the formation theories we have right now, because it’s an outlier of all of them,” adds co-lead author Francisco Pozuelos, a senior researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia, in Spain. “We cannot explain how this planet was formed, based on classical evolution models. Looking more closely at its atmosphere will allow us to obtain an evolutionary path of this planet.”

The study’s MIT co-authors include Julien de Wit, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and MIT postdoc Artem Burdanov, along with collaborators from multiple institutions across Europe.

“An interesting twist”

The new planet was initially spotted by the Wide Angle Search for Planets, or WASP — an international collaboration of academic institutions that together operate two robotic observatories, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the south. Each observatory uses an array of wide-angle cameras to measure the brightness of thousands of individual stars across the entire sky.

In surveys taken between 2006 and 2008, and again from 2011 to 2012, the WASP-South observatory detected periodic transits, or dips in light, from WASP-193 — a bright, nearby, sun-like star located 1,232 light years from Earth. Astronomers determined that the star’s periodic dips in brightness were consistent with a planet circling the star and blocking its light every 6.25 days. The scientists measured the total amount of light the planet blocked with each transit, which gave them an estimate of the planet’s giant, super-Jupiter size.

The astronomers then looked to pin down the planet’s mass — a measure that would then reveal its density and potentially also clues to its composition. To get a mass estimate, astronomers typically employ radial velocity, a technique in which scientists analyze a star’s spectrum, or various wavelengths of light, as a planet circles the star. A star’s spectrum can be shifted in specific ways depending on whatever is pulling on the star, such as an orbiting planet. The more massive a planet is, and the closer it is to its star, the more its spectrum can shift — a distortion that can give scientists an idea of a planet’s mass.

For WASP-193 b, astronomers obtained additional high-resolution spectra of the star taken by various ground-based telescopes, and attempted to employ radial velocity to calculate the planet’s mass. But they kept coming up empty — precisely because, as it turned out, the planet was far too light to have any detectable pull on its star.

“Typically, big planets are pretty easy to detect because they are usually massive, and lead to a big pull on their star,” de Wit explains. “But what was tricky about this planet was, even though it’s big — huge — its mass and density are so low that it was actually very difficult to detect with just the radial velocity technique. It was an interesting twist.”

“[WASP-193b] is so very light that it took four years to gather data and show that there is a mass signal, but it’s really, really tiny,” Barkaoui says.

“We were initially getting extremely low densities, which were very difficult to believe in the beginning,” Pozuelos adds. “We repeated the process of all the data analysis several times to make sure this was the real density of the planet because this was super rare.”

An inflated world

In the end, the team confirmed that the planet was indeed extremely light. Its mass, they calculated, was about 0.14 that of Jupiter. And its density, derived from its mass, came out to about 0.059 grams per cubic centimeter. Jupiter, in contrast, is about 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter; and Earth is a more substantial 5.51 grams per cubic centimeter. Perhaps the material closest in density to the new, puffy planet is cotton candy, which has a density of about 0.05 grams per cubic centimeter.

“The planet is so light that it’s difficult to think of an analogous, solid-state material,” Barkaoui says. “The reason why it’s close to cotton candy is because both are mostly made of light gases rather than solids. The planet is basically super fluffy.”

The researchers suspect that the new planet is made mostly from hydrogen and helium, like most other gas giants in the galaxy. For WASP-193b, these gases likely form a hugely inflated atmosphere that extends tens of thousands of kilometers farther than Jupiter’s own atmosphere. Exactly how a planet can inflate so far while maintaining a super-light density is a question that no existing theory of planetary formation can yet answer.

To get a better picture of the new fluffy world, the team plans to use a technique de Wit previously developed, to first derive certain properties of the planet’s atmosphere, such as its temperature, composition, and pressure at various depths. These characteristics can then be used to precisely work out the planet’s mass. For now, the team sees WASP-193b as an ideal candidate for follow-up study by observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

“The bigger a planet’s atmosphere, the more light can go through,” de Wit says. “So it’s clear that this planet is one of the best targets we have for studying atmospheric effects. It will be a Rosetta Stone to try and resolve the mystery of puffy Jupiters.”

This research was funded, in part, by consortium universities and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council for WASP; the European Research Council; the Wallonia-Brussels Federation; and the Heising-Simons Foundation, Colin and Leslie Masson, and Peter A. Gilman, supporting Artemis and the other SPECULOOS Telescopes.

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Hallan planeta gigante liviano a 1,232 años luz de la Tierra

Un equipo de científicos del @NASAWebb aún no han encontrado una explicación de cómo un cuerpo tan extraño, esponjoso y antiguo puede existir en el universo como el exoplaneta 'WASP-193 b' que es tan liviano como el algodón de azúcar.

Agencias/Ciudad de México.- Un equipo internacional de astrónomos dirigido por Khalid Barkaoui, de la Universidad de Lieja (Bélgica), publicó recientemente el descubrimiento de un exoplaneta que es 1,5 veces más grande que Júpiter y con solo el 1% de la densidad de la Tierra. El exoplaneta, denominado ‘WASP-193b’, fue descubierto a 1,232 años luz de la Tierra. Su densidad, de 0.059 gramos por…

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Well, next time you’re in New York City,go to this NY playlist and feel the city vibes like never before. Enjoy!

001 Sesame Street '12' And Pinball Animation song 002 Handsome - Ride Down 003 Blondie - Dreaming 004 Sonic Youth - Kool Thing 005 Luscious Jackson - Citysong 006 Joan Armatrading - Heading Back to New York City 007 Lou Reed - Hold On 008 Helmet - Rollo 009 Late Show with Colbert and the Humanism theme song 010 Heavy D & The Boyz - Now That We Found Love ft. 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OST - C.H.U.D. main theme 041 Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think 042 Peter Criss - Blue Moon Over Brooklyn 043 The Beach Boys - The Girl From New York City 044 Bob Marley - Reggae On Broadway 045 Black Anvil - My Hate Is Pure 046 Motorhead - Ramones 047 Echo and the bunnymen _ empire state halo 048 Cerebral Ballzy - Downtown 049 Harlem- Suicide 050 Cyndi Lauper -  Girls Just Want To Have Fun 051 Marvels Daredevil - Opening Titles theme song 052 Fleetwood Mac - The City 053 3rd Bass - Brooklyn-Queens 054 Anthrax - Only 055 RAMONES - Cabbies On Crack 056 Unsane - Rat 057 Daryl Hall - NYCNY 058 Love Bug Star Ski & The Harlem World Crew - Positive Life 059 Pist.On - Grey Flap 060 The Sex Pistols-New York 061 Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life 062 Los Straitjackets - Brooklyn Slide 063 De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays 064 THE DRAMATICS - Blame it on New York City 065 Aerosmith - Rats in the Cellar 066 GG Allin - NYC tonight 067 The Brooklyn Bronx & Queens Band - On The Beat 068 Le Butcherettes -  New York 069 New York Dolls - Subway Train 070 Laurie Anderson - The day the devil 071 Marvels Jessica Jones - Opening theme song 072 Skull Snaps - My Hang up Is You 073 Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately? 074 Blondie - In the Flesh 075 Agnostic Front -  City Streets 076 Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman 077 Charles Bradley -  Aint It A Sin 078 Liquid Liquid - Cavern 079 Bill Withers - Harlem 080 Cherry Vanilla - The Punk 081 Ace Frehley  - New York Groove 082 Rolling Stones - Harlem Shuffle 083 Seinfeld Theme song 084  Beastie Boys - Stop that train 085 Boney M -New York City 086 Biohazard - Five Blocks To The Subway 087 MOD - Rally (NYC) 088 Herb Alpert - Manhattan Melody 089 Nazareth - new york broken toy 090 Fishbone - Sunless Saturday 091 Mortician - Necrocannibal 092 Fantomas -  The Godfather 093 Joe Jackson - Steppin Out 094 Sick Of It All - Insurrection 095 Paul Simon - Boy in the Bubble 096 The Shangri Las - Leader Of The Pack 097 Tombs - V 098 NINA HAGEN - New York, New York 099 The Cure - NY Trip 100 Cameo - Word Up 101 Rollins Band - Disconnect 102 Luke Cage: OST - Theme song 103 GEORGE BENSON - On Broadway 104 Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim 105 Law & Order SVU  Intro Theme song 106 Le Tigre - My My Metrocard 107 Leonard cohen_First we take Manhattan 108 Prong - Snap your fingers,snap your bra strap 109 Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll from Loaded 110 Tito Puente - 110th St And 5th Avenue 111 NICOLE feat Timmy Thomas - NEW YORK EYES. 112 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Broadway rhythm 113 White Zombie -  Super-charger heaven 114 Plasmatics -  Monkey Suit 115 Cats on Broadway - The Overture 116 Roy Ayers - We Live In Brooklyn, Baby 117 The Vibrations - Ain't No Greens In Harlem 118 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Coney Island Whitefish 119 Mel Torme - Broadway 120 Helmet - Biscuits For Smut 121 Swans -  Better Than You 122 Madball - Pride (Times Are Changing) 123 The Damned Things -  Handbook for the Recently Deceased 124 Handsome - Needles 125 RUN DMC - Beats To The Rhyme (Instrumental) 126 Jane's Addiction - Underground 127 Vision Of Disorder - Loveless 128 The Ronettes - Be My Baby 129 Marnie Stern - East Side Glory 130 Televison - See No Evil 131 Madonna - Into The Groove 132 Lunachicks - Subway 133 Type O Negative - In Praise Of Bacchus 134 Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street 135 Quicksand - Fazer 136 IGGY POP - Dont Look Down 137 Surfbort - Back to Reaction 138 Marvels The Punisher - Opening theme song 139 Blondie - The Hardest Part 140 Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman 141 Agnostic Front - Police State 142 RAMONES - 53rd & 3rd 143 FEAR - new yorks alright if you like saxophones 144 Lydia Lunch    - Spooky 145 Native New Yorker - Odyssey 146 Little River Band - Statue Of Liberty 147 Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side 148 Motherlover (feat. Justin Timberlake) 149 Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem 150 Luscious Jackson - Ladyfingers 151 The Cars - Hello Again 152 Stetsasonic - Talkin All That Jazz 153 Kajagoogoo - Big Apple 154 David Bowie - Andy Warhol 155 Voices Of East Harlem - Wanted Dead Or Alive 156 Talking Heads    - Life During Wartime 157 Joe Strummer - Love Kills (Sid and Nancy: Love Kills SOUNDTRACK) 158 Galt MacDermot - Cotton Comes to Harlem 159 Unsane - D-Train 160 The Warriors OST - The Warriors Full Theme Song 161 Biohazard - Black and White and Red All Over 162 WILLIE WOOD & WILLIE WOOD CREW - WILLIE rap 163 The Cult Sonic Temple New York City 164 Andrew W.K.- I Love New York City 165 BT Express - Peace Pipe 166 Baby Shakes -Turn It Up 167 Public Enemy - A Letter to the New York Post 168 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Tales of the Old New York The Rock Box 169 Chicago - Another Rainy Day In New York City 170 Brooklyn Nine Nine - Main Title Theme 171 Cro-Mags - These Streets 172 AC/DC - Safe In New York City 173 Gogol Bordello - AVENUE B. 174 RUN DMC - Hard Times 175 Breakfast Club - Right On Track 176 Foo Fighters -  I Am a River 177 Cameo - New York 178 Ratt - 7th Avenue 179 Dr. Boogie - Get Back To New York City 180 Frank Sinatra - New York, New York. 181 PRINCE  - All The Critics Love U In New York 182 The Rising - Bruce Springsteen 183 The Night Flight Orchestra - 1998 184 Necro - Tough Jew Instrumental 185 TOM WAITS - Midtown 186 Scorpions - The Zoo 187 Stevie Wonder - Living For The City 188 Leeway - Mark of the squealer 189 Nuclear Assault -  Cold Steel 190 Fantomas -  Rosemary's Baby 191 Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. 192 Hanoi Rocks - 11th Street Kids 193 Patti Smith - Piss Factory 194 Moondog - Fog on the Hudson - On the Streets of New York 195 RAMONES - Something To Believe In 196 Neil Diamond - Brooklyn On A Saturday Night 197 Immolation - Despondent Souls 198 John Lennon - Just like starting over 199 PJ Harvey - you said something 200 Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man 201 John Cale - The philosopher 202 Bee Gees - Stayin Alive (Saturday Night Fever) 203 Suzanne Vega - Luka 204 Gorilla Biscuits - New Direction 205 Whodini - Escape (I Need a Break) 206 Agnostic Front - More Than A Memory 207 Beastie Boys - Helllo Brooklyn 208 Foreigner - Love on the Telephone 209 Gargoyles TV show Original Theme 210 Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps 211 Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby 212 Ramones - Rockaway Beach 213 Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome 214 Nico - These days 215 Swans - The Sound Of Freedom 216 Billy Joel - 52nd Street 217 XTC - Statue of liberty 218 Overkill -  Hello From The Gutter 219 Twisted Sister - Come out and play 220 Kiss - Deuce 221 Skinless - Savagery 222 Rob Zombie - Dragula 223 Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five - New York New York 224 Ric Ocasek - Rockaway 225 Ministry - Lieslieslies 226 Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King 227 Iron Fist - intro 228 BPD - South Bronx 229 INXS - Calling All Nations 230 Pyrhhon - Liberty at the ashes 231 Shelter - Civilized Man 232 James Brown - Don't Tell It 233 Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna 234 GSH -17th Street 235 Helmet - Iron Head 236 Salt-N-Pepa - Expression 237 Alice Cooper - BIG APPLE DREAMING 238 Profanatica - Ordained In Bile 239 John Coltrane - Grand Central 240 PRINCE  - Lady Cab Driver 241 Lou Reed - NYC Man 242 KISS - Naked City 243 Brutal Truth - Ordinary Madness 244 Quicksand - East 3rd St. 245 Teruo Nakamura And The Rising Sun - Manhattan Special 246 Herbie Mann - Turtle Bay 247 The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Its Just Begun 248 Prong -  Whose fist is this anyway? 249 Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night 250 Biohazard - Failed Territory 251 Brian Eno - Over Fire Island 252 Mutilation Rites - Axiom Destroyer 253 RATM - Renegades Of Funk 254 Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' for You 255 Whiplash - Last Nail in the Coffin 256 Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse 257 The Rods - Too Hot to Stop 258 Lalo Schifrin - No One Home 259 David Shire - Manhattan Skyline 260 The Doors - Strange Days 261 WASP - The Headless Children 262 Budos Band - Black Venom 263 Roy Clark - Twelfth Street Rag 264 Guerilla Toss - Human Girl 265 Cecil Taylor - Steps 266 Heartbreakers - Born To Lose 267 They Might Be Giants - Where Your Eyes Don't Go 268 Frehleys Comet - Into the Night 269 West Side Story Act I -  Something's Coming 270 Sleater Kinney - Far Away 271 The Clash - Gates of the West 272 Betty Davis - nasty gal 273 Crumbsuckers - Beast on my back 274 SOD - Pi Alpha Nu 275 Led Zeppelin - custard pie 276 Insect Ark - In the nest 277 Sweet Tee - On the smooth 278 Virgin steele - American girl 279 Hugo Montenegro - Moog power 280 Laura Branigan - hot night 281 Chad Mitchell - The other side of this life 282 Vanilla Ice - Ninja rap 283 ELF - First avenue 284 Pro-Pain - Voice of rebelion 285 Simon & Garfunkel - the 59th street bridge song 286 RIOT - Fight or fall 287 Ramones - Teenage lobotomy 288 Gang Starr - The place we dwell 289 Billy Joel - All you wanna do is dance 290 Manowar - Fighting the world 291 Manic Street Preachers - Patrick Bateman 292 Ray Parker - Ghostbusters 293 Futurama theme song 294 Sick of it All - Alone 295 Anthrax - NFL 296 Street trash OST - Viper theme 297 PJ Harvey - good fortune 298 Don Cherry - Awake Nu 299 The Contortions - dish it out 300 Sonic Youth - Disappearer 301 Sonny Rollins - East Broadway run down 302 White Hills feat. Jim Jarmusch - Illusion 303 Fishbone - Ugly 304 Jeffrey Lewis - Sad screaming old man 305 Debbie Harry - Jump, jump 306 Cro-Mags- From the grave 307 John Lennon - New York City 308 R.E.M. - Leaving New York 309 Escape From New York OST - Main Title song 310 Type O Negative - Everything Dies 666 Richard Marx - Remember Manhattan

I reckon my New York playlist could reach 350 songs! Can you help me? Add your own songs. Bring it!

[drunkcomicbookrants]

ROBERT KIRKMAN AND THE END OF AN ERA

Walking Dead was the first comic book I read.

Before that, I mostly knew comics from 90s cartoons I watched when I was a kid. 

I would read about comics on wikipedia and get excited, the fact that Spider-Man and the X-Men shared the same universe was REAL NEAT in a way that I couldn’t quite explain, the idea of Big Events like House of M and Secret Wars was REALLY COOL to me, but I didn’t actually know how to go about reading those. I bought a couple issues off ebay, I wanted to like comic books, but I didn’t have enough context to really get into it. I had no idea that comics came out every Wednesday, or that there were options outside of MArvel and DC.

I was in college, working a shitty retail job, with a manager who saw through the veil. Life is meaningless, we’re all gonna die, humans are caterpillars with wasp eggs in our brain.

(this was before zombies or superheroes were cool, yes I know how hipster that sounds, whatever it was the early oughties)

So when this coworker pitches WALKIND DEAD to me I am ALL EARS. He tells me to check out the first trade paperback. I didn’t know what that meant, but I went to BARNES AND NOBLE because that was still a thin. This was the description on the back:

(I just dug this out of my closet, feels weird man)

and yes I know how edgelordy it seems now, but back then THIS GOT ME, this tapped into a frustration or frascination or SOMETHING that nothing else ever had in the same way

SO YEAH I GO AHEAD AND BUY THOIS FOR NINE DOILLARS AND NINETY NINE SENCSE

I read that first trade, which in hindsidght collects the first 6 issues, and then I’m at a loss. How to read more?? I wait for the next trade, and the next trade. I would go into barnes and noble every couple months and check if the next book was there (again, this was before I knew what I was doing, before everything was shoved down your throats, back when Walking Dead was something that nobody else heard about, yes I know I sound like a grouchy old man)

At this point I’m living in the cornfields of Lancaster county. I’m like 19, not sure if I should drop out of college or not.

I decided to Google the author Robert Kirkman, and I found out he wrote a bunch of other books. He wrote Wolfman and Brit and Battle Pope, the list goes on. WAIT A SECOND YOU CAN JUST BUY COMIC BOOKS OFF THE INTERNET?

So down the rabbit hole I go. Of course I stumble upon INVINCIBLE which is THE BEST SUPERHERO COMIC IN THE UNIVERSE so I start picking up those trades. This leads me to other trades, I read through WATCHMEN and DARK KNIGHT RETURNS and ULTIMATES and NIGHTLY NEWS. It’s all fuckin really exciting because these are some of the first comics I’ve read, and I’m going in completely fucking blind. HERE HAVE A NEW ART FORM WHY NOT READ JUST THE BEST THINGS FROM HISTORY HERE THEY ALL ARE AT ONCE

At this point it’s like 2009 and I’ve graduated college, I live in Maryland now, and maybe I’m going through some shit and one day when I’m getting a California Tortilla burrito I decide to step into a comic shop

“uhhh I’ve been getting the Walking Dead trades and the Invincible collections, I’ve read up to this point, how do I start reading the single issues or whatever you call them?”

Fucking honestly great job @bigplanetcomics​ in Silver Spring MD. Super welcoming to a newbie, and honestly helped me through some shit

They point me to the single issues of Walking Dead and Invincible. For a while I go there monthly, pick up the single issues, get my hair cut at Floyds, and eat a burrito for lunch. I start picking up other issues, the habit is certainly forming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfKOmygkr4

This doesn’t mean anything to you but that is a TIME IN MY LIFE that I guess I’m being nostalgic about now. This was how I discourved comic books, mixed in with learning how to be an adult in a city that didn’t feel like home

Eventually I move to Virginia, it’s 2012 now and at this point I’m going to Big Planet Comics Vienna every Wednesday (that’s when new comis books come out, WHO KNEW, honestly they don’t tell you that and THEY REALLY SHOULD). I’m still picking up WALKING DEAD and INVINCIBLE, but I’m also picking up pretty much any new #1 that comes out, for better and often for worse

if you hand me an old issue of WALKING DEAD or INVINCIBLE right now, I can tel you what was going on in my life when that issue came out. What girl was I dating, what was I doing at my job, where was I eating lunch on Saturdays. Again, not super interesting to other people, but for me each issue is a window into my life that month, it’s 22 pages of who I used to be

The point I want to make but haven’t yet is that these books lead me to OTHER BOOKS. Robert Kirkman was always very open about WAlking Dead being a GATEWAY DRUg: “The Walking Dead, although I love it, is far from the best comic being published today.” so without Walking Dead, I would not have read PRETTY DEADLY or ALEX + ADA or RESIDENT ALIEN or EAST OF WEST or SQUIRREL GIRL or MS MARVEL or LUMBERJANES

Fast forward a few years, through some fuckin chapters in my biography, it’s 2016 now and I’m about to move to California. This is going to sound dumb but I only cried twice when I was moving. Once when I said goodbye to the girl I thought I would marry, and once when I asked for my pull list from Big Planet Comics for the last time.

Before I move to California, one of the first things I do is look up the local comic shop. I find one that’s between my apartment and my job. I go there the first Wednesday after I move, and I’ve gone there every Wednesday since then.

Whatever else is going on in my life, picking up my books on Wednesday has been a part of the routine for the last 10 years or so. And for that entire time, WALKING DEAD and INVINCIBLE have been with me through it all.

SO FUCK ME RIGHT when Robert Kirkman stabs me through the heart and tells me that INVINCBLE is ending. THAT LAST ISSUE IS like jumping ahead 50 years and looking through a photo album of the best friends you made in college, living life, finding meaning, and moving on without you. RYAN OTTLEY’s art has been a part of my ACTUAL FUCKING LIFE for so long that MY EYES AREN’T SURE WHAT TO DO WITHOUT HIM (other than to buy Spider-Man).

But Walking Dead is still going strong, right? WRONG. Extremely recently, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn PULLED A FAST ONE ON US and ENDED WALKING DEAD without announcing it ahead of time.

I bought issue 193, thinking it was a regular issue. It was not. It was the end.

I had no idea this was coming. 

And as part of that issue, one of the characters made this speech:

PLEASE UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH OF A MOMENT THIS WAS FOR ME

this was the excerpt I read in barnes and noble when I was 19 living in Lancaster not sure if I should drop out of college, passing through the years of monthly comic shop trips by myself in Maryland, through Virginia and lending out books to anyone who would listen, to California where my comic shop now has palm trees and I now have gray hairs and eye crinkles

Since I started reading Walking Dead and Invincible, zombies became overdone, superheroes went from “Jessica AlbaFantatsic Four movie” to Avengers Endgame. I went from terrified 19 year old to crinkly-eyed 33 year old. It’s hard not to look back on that transition and not feel.... sad

Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard and Ryan Ottley you sons of a bitches. I know it’s basic to like zombies and superheroes now, but YOU GOT ME THROUGH SOME THINGS and I honestly feel... thankful for the time we spent together. I know you’re working on other stuff now, and I’m excited for it. I’m also excited about other books like GIDEON FALLS and EAST OF WEST and PAPER GIRLS and SAGA. But I’m going to mourn this end of an era.

tl;dr: Invincible and Walking Dead are over. So are my twenties.

[blackdieselcinema]

Movies I Saw In 2018 (July - December): 159 - 302

Everything else I saw (for the first time) last year. 

July 159. Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, 2017, USA) 160. Aloys (Tobias Nölle, 2016, Switzerland/France) 161. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher, 1958, USA) 162. Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, 2018, USA) 163. Before I Wake (Mike Flanagan, 2016, USA) 164. ‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara, 2001, USA/France) 165. Annabelle: Creation (David F. Sandberg, 2017, USA) 166. Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949, USA) 167. Resolution (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, 2012, USA) 168. Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Rafi Pitts, 2003, France) 169. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller, 1961, USA) 170. Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010, USA) 171. Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2017, USA) 172. Road Games (Richard Franklin, 1981, Australia) 173. Mirror, Mirror (Marina Sargenti, 1990, USA) 174. Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018, USA) 175. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, 2005, France/South Korea) 176. Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara, 2007, Italy/USA) 177. Hotel Artemis (Drew Pearce, 2018, UK/USA) 178. Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017, France/South Korea) 179. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (David DeCoteau, 1988, USA) 180. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018, USA) 181. Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, USA/UK/Germany) 182. The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco, 2014, France/USA) 183. Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963, USA) 184. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018, USA)

August 185. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA) 186. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Danny Steinmann, 1985, USA) 187. Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Seijun Suzuki, 1963, Japan) 188. Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2017, UK/Canada/USA) 189. Evil of Dracula (Michio Yamamoto, 1974, Japan) 190. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin, 1986, USA) 191. 47 Meters Down (Johannes Roberts, 2017, UK/USA/Dominican Republic) 192. The Meg (Jon Turteltaub, 2018, China/USA) 193. Ruin Me (Preston DeFrancis, 2017, USA) 194. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson, 2018, USA) 195. The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980, Canada) 196. Demons (Lamberto Bava, 1985, Italy) 197. The Ranger (Jenn Wexler, 2018, USA) 198. Summer of 84 (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018, Canada/USA) 199. The Cleaning Lady (Jon Knautz, 2018, USA) 200. Braid (Mitzi Peirone, 2018, USA) 201. Piercing (Nicolas Pesce, 2018, USA) 202. Rock Steady Row (Trevor Stevens, 2018, USA) 203. Blue Sunshine (Jeff Lieberman, 1977, USA) 204. Ravers (Bernhard Pucher, 2018, UK) 205. One Cut of the Dead (Shin'ichirô Ueda, 2017, Japan) 206. Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (Michael Mort, 2018, UK) 207. What Keeps You Alive (Colin Minihan, 2018, Canada) 208. Upgrade (Leigh Whannell, 2018, Australia) 209. Hell Is Where the Home Is (Orson Oblowitz, 2018, USA) 210. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D. Krzykowski, 2018, USA) 211. Bodied (Joseph Kahn, 2017, USA) 212. Terrified (Demián Rugna, 2017, Argentina) 213. Anna and the Apocalypse (John McPhail, 2017, UK/USA) 214. Open 24 Hours (Padraig Reynolds, 2018, USA) 215. The Field Guide to Evil (Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes, 2018, New Zealand) 216. The Dark (Justin p. Lange, 2018, Austria) 217. The Golem (Doron Paz, Yoav Paz, 2018) 218. Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018, France) 219. Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, 1985, Hong Kong) 220. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018, USA)

September 221. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988, USA) 222. The Legend of Boggy Creek (Charles B. Pierce, 1972, USA) 223. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018, USA) 224. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017, USA) 225. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018, USA) 226. Tango & Cash (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1989, USA) 227. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 1998, USA) 228. The Predator (Shane Black, 2018, USA/Canada) 229. A Simple Favour (Paul Feig, 2018, USA) 230. Kwon Ji Yong Act III: Motte (Byun Jin Ho, 2018, South Korea) 231. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017, France/Belgium) 232. Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988, Hong Kong) 233. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990, USA/Italy/UK) 234. Best F(r)iends: Volume 1 (Justin MacGregor, 2017, USA) 235. Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018, USA) 236. Truth or Dare (Jeff Wadlow, 2018, USA) 237. SuperFly (Director X., 2018, USA)

October 238. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, Belgium/USA) 239. Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson, 2018, USA) 240. The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr., 2018, USA) 241. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018, USA) 242. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo, 2018, South Korea) 243. Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2018, Japan/France) 244. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France) 245. Blind Beast (Yasuzô Masumura, 1969, Japan) 246. Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley, 2018, USA) 247. Fido (Andrew Currie, 2006, Canada) 248. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018, France/Mexico/Switzerland) 249. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018, France) 250. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018, USA/Mexico) 251. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018, USA) 252. Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018, USA) 253. Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple, 1988, UK/France/USA) 254. Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 2018, USA) 255. Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018, USA) 256. Dead Pigs (Cathy Yan, 2018, China/USA) 257. The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018, Indonesia) 258. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018, South Korea) 259. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber, 2018, USA) 260. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018, USA) 261. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Gan Bi, 2018, China) 262. Halloween (David Gordon Green, 2018, USA) 263. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018, USA) 264. Deadly Games (René Manzor, 1989, France) 265. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957, UK) 266. Been So Long (Tinge Krishnan, 2018, UK) 267. Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018, USA) 268. Hell House LLC (Stephen Cognetti, 2015, USA) 269. Parents (Bob Balaban, 1989, Canada/USA)

November 270. Satan’s Slaves (Joko Anwar, 2017, Indonesia/South Korea) 271. Errementari (Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017, Spain/France) 272. Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018, UK/USA) 273. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (Anthony Hickox, 1989, USA) 274. Wildlife (Paul Dano, 2018, USA) 275. Blood Punch (Madellaine Paxson, 2014, USA) 276. Think Like a Man Too (Tim Story, 2014, USA) 277. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018, USA) 278. The Princess Switch (Mike Rohl, 2018, USA) 279. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016, France/Germany) 280. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977, USA) 281. Thumper (Jordan Ross, 2017, USA) 282. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017, UK/Ireland/USA) 283. Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., 2018, USA)

December 284. The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To, 1993, Hong Kong) 285. A Bramble House Christmas (Steven R. Monroe, 2017, Canada) 286. Love in a Puff (Ho-Cheung Pang, 2010, Hong Kong) 287. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018, USA) 288. The Christmas Chronicles (Clay Kaytis, 2018, USA) 289. Gnomeo & Juliet (Kelly Asbury, 2011, UK/USA/Canada) 290. Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 2018, USA) 291. Honeymoon (Leigh Janiak, 2014, USA) 292. The Story of Yonosuke (Shûichi Okita, 2013, Japan) 293. Aquaman (James Wan, 2018, Australia/USA) 294. Christmas Presence (Steve Davis, 2017, UK) 295. You Might Be the Killer (Brett Simmons, 2018, USA) 296. 6 Balloons (Marja-Lewis Ryan, 2018, USA) 297. Bumblebee (Travis Knight, 2018, USA) 298. Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall, 2018, USA) 299. 13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick, 2004, USA) 300. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989, Japan) 301. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (David Slade, 2018, USA/UK) 302. Dumplin’ (Anne Fletcher, 2018, USA)

Cheers, Andrew

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January - June 

[emunenen]

Makao Bora

New Post has been published on http://www.makaobora.co.ke/?p=14069

King Mombo by Paul B. Du Chaillu [ebook]

Contents:

CHAPTER I I leave New York for Africa—Narrow quarters on the schooner—Our cargo—Out of sight of land—The sea and all that therein is—A storm brewing 1

CHAPTER II A storm at sea—A tempest-tossed little bird—Fine weather again—Fight between a swordfish and a whale 10

CHAPTER III The Sargasso Sea—The northeast trade-winds—Dolphins and bonitas—New stars come into view 17

CHAPTER IV The “Doldrums”—Fierce heat of the sun—Strong local currents—The southwest trade-winds—Huge sharks all around us 22

CHAPTER V Crossing the equator—The southeast trade-winds—The equatorial current—The Gulf Stream—Struck by a tornado—Land in sight—Africa at last—The great forest 28

xCHAPTER VI Wandering through the forest and learning the country—I reach King Mombo’s village—Received by the king—His fear of witchcraft—Visits my dwelling and receives presents from me 35

CHAPTER VII Superstitions of King Mombo—Visits to the house of his idols and his ancestors—A strange meal followed by a strange dance 41

CHAPTER VIII Bad luck of Mombo’s village—Ascribed to witchcraft—Arrival of a great medicine-man—His incantations—The accused sold as slaves 50

CHAPTER IX King Mombo gives me the stick “Omemba”—I leave the village on a hunting trip—Parting injunctions—A herd of hippopotami 55

CHAPTER X Sounds of human voices—I encounter Regundo and his wife, slaves of King Mombo—Other slaves—Hunters and warriors of Mombo 63

CHAPTER XI Wonder of the natives at my Waterbury clock, magnet, matches, and music-box—Character of Mombo’s plantation 72

xiCHAPTER XII King Mombo’s plantation—Work of the slaves in clearing and cultivating the forest—Strange village of the slaves—Houses of the spirits—Regundo’s account of witchcraft and its punishment—Ovengua 79

CHAPTER XIII The native dogs—How they hunt their own game when they are not fed—Their ways of attack—Their usefulness to their masters in war-time—Oshoria’s story 87

CHAPTER XIV A great hunting-feast—“Roondah”—Different viands of the menu—Speeches at the banquet—Music and dancing—A weird forest scene in the torchlight 95

CHAPTER XV A talk with King Mombo’s slaves—Why slaves do not run away—Various features of the traffic—The cannibals of the interior—My daily occupations 104

CHAPTER XVI The animals of the forest—Five kinds of apes—The ngina or gorilla—His great strength and fierceness—How he attacks man and other animals—Oshoria’s account of him 116

CHAPTER XVII The other apes of the great forest—Oshoria tells about the nshiego mbouvés—Capture of a baby “man of the woods”—His mother killed—Correspondence of the different apes with the various human races 124

xiiCHAPTER XVIII Angooka, the medicine-man—His strange appearance—Eavesdropping—I overhear the conversation of the slaves—They talk among themselves about the Oguizi 131

CHAPTER XIX News brought that gorillas are near by in the forest—The dogs got ready for the hunt—Their names—A grand hunting council—Regundo’s wise advice—Cautions to be observed 134

CHAPTER XX We start after the gorillas—Cautious walking through the forest—The dogs find the ngina—Yells of the monster brought to bay—He slaughters two of the dogs—Taunts of the hunters—Shot through the heart at last 142

CHAPTER XXI Singular sight in the forest—All kinds of animals fleeing in one direction—A terrible ant—The bashikouay army—Attacked everywhere at once—How I escaped the tormentors 153

CHAPTER XXII A journey to the elephant country—Serious annoyance from flies, wasps, and mosquitoes—In the midst of a drove of hippopotami 158

CHAPTER XXIII Mudbanks covered with crocodiles—How they stalk their prey—An unsuspecting boar suddenly swallowed up—Habits of the huge creatures 164

CHAPTER XXIV Difficulty of making our way—Fallen trees and dense thickets—Our meat gives out—Looking for koola trees—A meal of their nutritious nuts—Their importance to the traveller in the forest 171

CHAPTER XXV Lost in the forest—A herd of elephants lures me on—Separated from my hunters—Two nights on the ground and one in a tree—Found at last—Joy of the men 178

CHAPTER XXVI The elephant hunting-ground—The beautiful prairie skirting the forest—The welcome sky and sun and stars after the forest gloom—Hunting elephants by moonlight—Three large herds—Narrow escape of Oshoria and myself—Death of the huge tusker 193

CHAPTER XXVII The killing of a second elephant—How bull elephants fight—The contest for the leadership of the herd—Oshoria’s graphic account of a battle royal witnessed by him—Return to the plantation 206

CHAPTER XXVIII Departure from the slaves’ plantations—Arrival at King Mombo’s—A warm greeting from the old king—His sacred promise never to part with his slaves—Farewell to him and his people 214

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[lilyabsinthe]

By 1895, the 1890s “look” for day wear had fully defined itself. In contrast with the relatively static 1880s, styles gave emphasis to a more flowing silhouette that suggested mobility and constant movement. More significantly, in response to the rise of the “New Woman,” we begin to see a proliferation of day styles intended for various specific activities, many of them occurring outside of the home. One of the most profound fashion trends of the 1890s was the development of day wear that was suitable for the workplace. More and more women were taking up newly emerging opportunities to work outside the home and thus there was a need for practical day which was answered by the waist/jacket/skirt combination. Women were also now participating in sporting activities in increasingly numbers to include tennis and golf. And finally, one cannot overlook the radical (for the time) styles that emerged in response to the growth of bicycling- both for sport and as a practical method of transportation.

The “X” Silhouette

In terms of style elements, no matter the outfit was, they all tended to follow, more or less, the X-silhouette (or hourglass figure) characterized by a combination of the wasp-waist created by corsetry along with A-line skirts and bodices that widen out towards the top with large gigot sleeves. In short, big on the top and bottom and narrow in the middle.

The Ideal

  Below are a few examples of the variety of day wear that was extant:

Day Dress, c. 1895; Daughters of the American Revolution Collection

In the above picture we see an extremely LARGE set of gigot sleeves, each one almost as large as the bodice front. While the waist is not a severe wasp-shape, it still is structured and defined by the corset underneath and as such, measures 21 1/2 inches. The skirt has clean lines, simply flaring outwards and the bodice features a front with shirring. The basic fashion fabric is a wool tweed combined with shirred silk crepe and velvet trim.

 Below is another example only this time, the bodice is a solid piece that matches the rest of the dress:

Day Dress, c. 1895; August Auctions

Close-Up Of Front

Upper Bodice And Collar

Side Profile

Rear View

Close-Up Of The Rear

Once again, a basic day dress style only with the bodice being completely made of the same fabric as the skirt. The striped cotton fabric makes for an interesting visual effect combined with the collar, cuffs, and waist belt in a black velvet.

However, this was not the entire picture…with the New Woman going off to work outside of the house, there was a need for more practical day wear and this was reflected in such styles as the “walking suit” or “tailormades”:

Walking Suit, Jacques Doucet, 1895; Victoria & Albert Museum (T.15&A-1979)

Three-Quarters Front View

Rear View

Three-Quarters Rear View

Three-Quarters Front View

  Waking Suit, 1892; Metropolitan Museum of Art (1982.82.6a, b)

Side Profile

Rear View

For the top, women’s suits either consisted of a separate jacket and waist or a a faux waist/jacket that were actually one unit. This idea can be seen first seen during the 1880s but it wasn’t until the 1890s that one sees this style pushed further as can be seen with this example:

Walking Suit, 1892; Metropolitan Museum of Art (C.I.53.72.9a–c)

Front Close-Up

Side Profile

Rear View

The lines on this suit are very clean and the overall effect is very plain except for the soutache on the front and back of the jacket and cuffs as well as running all the way around the skirt hem. The jacket is cut so that it’s mostly open with wide lapels accentuating the top along with the puffed sleeves- the sleeves are relatively undeveloped but this example was made in 1892 before the gigot sleeve trend had set in. What is especially striking about this example is that one can also view the waist separately from the suit:

The Waist- Front View

The Waist- Rear View

Finally, we come to the most extreme example of the women’s suit: the bicycling suit:

Cycling Suit, 1896; Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009.300.547a, b)

Rear View

Skirt Top Detail

Cycling Suit, c. 1896; Philadelphia Museum of Art (1980-110-1a–d)

This is a relatively tame example of the cycling suit in that while the skirt was shorter (essential for clearing the bike chain while riding), it was still a skirt. Later, this style would also feature bloomers, an even more practical garment for riding. Below are some more examples:

C. 1897- The individual in the picture does not appear to be happy.

Besides “suits”, bicycling clothes could also consist of separate skirts and jackets or simply waists and skirts.

The Delineator, September 1896

The same basic outfit worn for bicycling was also practical for other activities such as golf:

Vasser Students Playing Golf, c. 1895

Besides suits, skirts, and jackets, sporting activities also had an effect on other items of women’s clothing such as sweaters:

Women’s College Sweater, c. 1895; DAR Collection

Women’s Sweater, c. 1895; Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009.300.1111)

Yes, you see that right- sweaters with gigot sleeves! In some circles, this would be considered scandalous- no bodice whatsoever. 🙂 And of course, the logical combination was for the sweater to be worn with a skirt…

Sweater & Skirt Combination; Metropolitan Museum of Art

In terms of fashion, the 1890s spawned a wide variety of styles intended for various activities outside the traditional home and while this may seem somewhat tame by today’s standards, it marked the beginning of a major shift in the roles of women in society and we begin to see an increasing number of women pursuing public life, whether through desire , necessity, or a combination of both and it’s a process that’s still playing itself out to this day.

In future installments, we’ll be taking a closer look at day styles of the mid to later 1890s where we see the gigot sleeve grow to sometimes absurd proportions and the subsequent reaction. Stay tuned! 🙂

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1890s Day Wear, Part 3 By 1895, the 1890s "look" for day wear had fully defined itself. In contrast with the relatively static 1880s, styles gave emphasis to a more flowing silhouette that suggested mobility and constant movement.

[netmassimo]

Un articolo pubblicato sulla rivista "Nature Astronomy" riporta l'individuazione dell'esopianeta WASP-193 b, un gigante gassoso il cui diametro è circa una volta e mezzo quella di Giove ma con una massa che è solo un settimo di quella di Giove. Un team di ricercatori guidato da Khalid Barkaoui dell'Università di Liegi, in Belgio, ha usato il telescopio WASP-Sud della collaborazione Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) per individuare WASP-193 b per poi studiarne le caratteristiche con altri strumenti. La combinazione tra massa è densità di questo esopianeta è davvero difficile da spiegare dato che nessuna teoria sulla formazione planetaria porta a un pianeta come questo.