#alexandre and miguel

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a new blorbo just dropped

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hey guys, i know i haven’t posted i forever but how would you guys feel if i wrote for cobra kai? since the new season is coming out ive been reading some old fanfics and stuff and it making me want to write for cobra kai. if your interested in cobra kai give me some ideas for some upcoming one shots? ill write really anything like poly and stuff like that :)

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Classic Lit Bracket-Round Two Part Two: Don Quixote vs. The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers propaganda

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ABBY ANDERSON’S BOOK COLLECTION

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CITY OF THIEVES

written by david benioff, 2008

the main character’s name is lev, perhaps a nod to abby’s future ward

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

written by alexandre dumas, 1846

some of the story’s key themes are revenge, redemption and forgiveness.. sounds a bit familiar, abigail

THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY

written by homer, c. 8th century BC

THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA

written by miguel de cervantes, 1605

HEART OF DARKNESS

written by joseph conrad, 1899

DIVINE COMEDY

written by dante alighieri, 1321

LITTLE WOMEN

louisa may aclott, 1868

THE MOONSTONE

written by wilkie collins, 1868

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

written by mark twain, 1884

ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

written by various authors, c. 1706-1721

MEDEA

written by euripides, 431 BC

THE ROSE GARDEN HUSBAND

written by margaret widdemer, 1915

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

written by H. G. wells, 1898

WAR AND PEACE

written by leo tolstoy, 1867

ROBINSON CRUSOE

written by daniel defoe, 1719

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

written by oscar wilde, 1890

THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

written by H. P. lovecraft, 1943

THE SCARLET LETTER

written by nathaniel hawthorne, 1850

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

written by george orwell, 1949

TREASURE ISLAND

written by robert louis stevenson, 1883

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

written by charles dickens, 1859

FISHING IN UTOPIA: SWEDEN & THE FUTURE THAT DISAPPEARED

written by andrew brown, 2008

STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE

written by robert louis stevenson, 1886

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Finished this redraw of Alexandre Cabanel’s Fallen Angel with Miguel O’Hara 👀

I did this two and a half years ago with Vampire Hunter D :0 Hopefully I’ve improved a bit since then

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back by popular demand (3 people are interested :D)

classic lit authors and what abilities I think they should have

(I have a very clear preference for psychological abilities)

-abilities can be based on the plot, themes, or just the title itself. not gonna clarify which it is, but it should be self explanatory enough

Jane Austin -- Pride and Prejudice -- cupid-esque, makes people fall in love.

John Knowles -- A Separate Peace -- reads people's emotions. cannot do anything useful with the info he gets from this.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations -- midas-esque, turns what he touches into gold. (I think it would be cool if he could also turn things into liquid gold, which can harden to trap a target. however iirc gold is not very strong so... but also it's magic so anything can happen)

Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote -- tells one lie a day that one listener (intended target) will believe. It wears off the following day. Third parties are not predisposed to believe the lie.

Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence -- temporarily removes all ill-intent from a target. ALL includes both intent towards her and towards anyone else.

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451 -- literally just fire. classic elemental fire ability.

Willa Cather -- My Antonia -- one way telepathy: can talk directly into people's minds but cannot receive mental messages back. this is entirely because I hated this book so much that I wished it could just be zapped into my brain so I wouldn't have to torture myself by reading it.

George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion -- medusa-esque, turns people to stone through eye contact

Homer -- The Odyssey -- basically geoguesser. teleports people into a random location anywhere in the world. cannot choose where he's sending them. (all I'm imagining is him trying to use it in a fight and the person teleports like 2 inches to the left. then punches him.)

Sophocles -- Oedipus Rex -- gives people random personalized prophecies. never makes sense until after it's fulfilled.

Eugene O'Neil -- Long Day's Journey into Night -- I'd like to imagine this guy's got that 'illness personified' aesthetic. the ability should be something to do with disease and decay. but I care more about the visual portrayal of the character as something physically rotting. (visually distinct character design my beloved <3)

Baroness Emma Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel -- shapeshifter. I've posted about her on my main too,, I really think bsd could use a shapeshifter. That's a much more grounded sort of chaos that could lead to higher stakes situations without this whole "world ending vampires whatever fyodor's got going on."

-in all seriousness I think if Asagiri would make use of more psychological abilities or psychological threats he could have as many high stakes stories as he wants without power scaling/power creep. but that would involve writing actual mysteries in the detective story. so.-

-I'm so sorry asagiri :( -

Franz Kafka -- The Metamorphosis -- turns into a bug. same way Natsume turns into a cat.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo -- deflects attacks. Any attack that hits him inflicts that damage onto the attacker instead.

Lewis Carroll -- Alice in Wonderland -- shrinks and grows things (including himself).

William Golding -- Lord of the Flies -- causes conflict among groups. I'd like to think the mechanics of it could be interesting-- like it shows him different dialogue options [video game style!], indicating which line would cause the most conflict.

There would often be no context for why that line would cause conflict, and he has no way of knowing if the conflict will be directed at him, or just within the group as a whole. He can choose a more harmless option, or he could risk it on the big conflict option in an attempt to eliminate enemies.

George Orwell -- 1984 -- spies on set target, like a camera trained on one person. can only spy on one person at a time.

Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird -- frames a target for a crime. the reverse of Mushitaro's-- generates fake evidence for a crimes instead of removing real evidence.

Oscar Wild -- The Picture of Dorian Gray -- essentially immortality so long as one designated item doesn't get destroyed.

Niccolò Machiavelli -- The Prince -- influences targets. not strong enough to truly be considered mind control, but fairly strong persuasion. see my The Prince post where I explain so much in the tags.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- The Little Prince -- allows him to understand people. thoroughly. please please go see my the prince/the little prince post, I explain so much in the tags. I have so many thoughts about these two.

Robert Louis Stevenson -- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- compels people to act on their temptations and impulses. cannot convince people to do things they would have no desire to do otherwise.

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables -- I think it would be very funny if it just made them unrecognizable to law enforcement. not shapeshifting, just all cops cannot recognize this guy's face. (they could recognize his muscles though, as per lore accurate les mis.)

William Shakespeare -- To Be or Not To Be (I am not naming this Hamlet. strictly for vibes.) -- gives people existential crises. If they have existential crises regularly already, it doesn't do anything.

I'd like to imagine he'd use it on a character who usually comes across as relatively well adjusted and. nothing happens. Like if atsushi/kunikida/chuuya were to be targeted they'd just be like "yeah idk nothing happened... sorry man. better luck next time."

Issac Asimov -- The Feeling of Power -- ability allows him to do any math- no matter how difficult or complex- without a calculator. I'd like to think he's insist that he doesn't have an ability, he's just really good at math. basically the opposite of ranpo.

Reginald Rose -- Twelve Angry Men -- the antithesis to Harper Lee, finds evidence proving anyone innocent. or at least can prove plausible deniability.

Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sherlock Holmes -- understand in full what anyone's ability is, and what its limits, strengths and weaknesses are.

we don't have enough ability-related abilities in bsd. too much offense and defense, not enough middle ground stuff.

Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie -- turns people into 'glass', or drastically decreases their durability. doesn't harm the target in and of itself, but the target needs to leave any combat because now they can be killed in one hit.

Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman -- communicates with the dead. We're gonna need something like this if Asagiri keeps killing off characters at the rate he's currently going.

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finished Miguel O’hara as ‘the fallen angel’ by Alexandre Cabanel. this piece was sm fun to do :)

[hanzajesthanza]

Do you have book recommendations for people who love The Witcher and would like to dive into other books?

an assortment, but one i'm still chewing my way through. this is less of a list and more like a mind map or choose your own adventure, there are different paths you can take, you can weave between them... these are all merely suggestions which may influence one's future...

more sapko rahhh

aka my chosen path when starting out from the crossroads. was it the correct one. idk

first and foremost, the hussite trilogy. it has an english translation out already so there's no stopping you... well except your ability to read (it's me, i need to reread it for comprehension this time).

but actually the most underrated is non-witcher related short stories, you can find these in the maladie anthology or online. yep, they're on his site for free. (and some of the witcher ones too).

and also even more underrated is his nonfiction, because he is a funny fucker and also an informative one at the same time. piróg (essay), świat króla artura, rękopis znaleziony w smoczej jaskini. and articles he wrote for nowa fantastyka and elsewhere.

influential authors not of strictly fantasy

i say authors because he has said authors... first up on the list, however, are specific titles that he's mentioned by name as influences.

the trilogy, sienkiewicz

the big sleep, chandler

the master and margarita, bulgakov

the name of the rose, eco

already hitting hard with these. but here's more. just in case

I am the result of my readings of Alexandre Dumas, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Raymond Chandler, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, Jules Verne, Arturo Pérez-Reverte… They have created me as a writer.

I adore reading and read everything. From the authors of the so-called mainstream I would highlight the Polish historical novelists Sienkiewicz, Gołubiew and Bunsсh. And also - Hemingway, Chandler, Bulgakov and Umberto Eco. From the authors of science fiction … In the first place Stanislav Lem, then Dick, Vance, Silverberg. From the authors of fantasy I like Tolkien, Le Guin, Eddings, Zelazny and again, Jack Vance.

Favorite books? A full list would take up too much space. I will list only a few favorite authors: Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, Umberto Eco, William Shakespeare, Henrik Sienkiewicz, Erich Maria Remarque, Alexander Dumas-father, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, Mika Valtari, Arturo Perez-Reverte (...) JRR Tolkien, Roger Zelazny, Ursula Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Stanisław Lem, Jack Vance, Neil Gaimen.

As a child, I read - among others - Alexandre Dumas (both father and son), Victor Hugo, Henry Sienkiewicz, Karl May, Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling. In adolescence, I moved to Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Leo Tolstoy, Miguel Servante, Michael Sokolov, Raymond Chandler, Lewis Carroll, Stanislaw Lem, Theodore Greenwich, Carol Bunch, Antonia Golubev, Miku Valtari, Erich Maria Remarque, Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, the Strugatsky brothers. In my youth I discovered for myself - among others - Tolkien, Clive Lewis, Terence White, Howard Lovecraft, Mikhail Bulgakov, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, Stephen King, Fritz Leiber, Roger Zelazny, Ursula Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Jack Vance, Peter Bigle, Stephen Donaldson, John Crowley, Terry Pratchett. 

There are many such books [that I return to]. I sometimes joke that I read Sienkiewicz's trilogy at least once a year, because Polish is very difficult and you have to practice a lot. But the joke is not far from the truth in my case. I was raised on the "Trilogy". I have a good conversation with Marcin Wolski, also a fan and expert, when we meet, we throw Sienkiewicz quotes and riddles at each other.

Audience: Pan Andrzej, who is your favorite writer? A. Sapkowski: I have to think. (Pause.) Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway. (...) Audience: And from Slavic literature? A. Sapkowski: Bulgakov. The answer is simple: Bulgakov.

I will say maybe not about my favorite readings, but about my masters. It's Hemingway, Bulgakov, Chandler and Eco. I love them, but I know that I will never compare to them.

Secundo: comparing me to my beloved Eco, is very pleasant, but I do not like and do not want to listen to undeserved compliments.

i think that's enough to last a lifetime. several lifetimes. really just pick an author and see if they have interesting books and then read them if they call out to you

(sorry for any potential misspellings of names, i am cutting and pasting from the translated interviews, and names get translated from spanish to polish to russian to english and back again so you can understand how it might turn out weird)

fantasy

did you guys know that andrzej sapkowski literally wrote a fantasy book recs list for us all, and it's Literally One Hundred books long? and this was when i wasn't even a year old yet?

the list is even online and saved via the wikipedia article about manuscript discovered in a dragon's cave

however one hundred is a bit overwhelming. so instead, influences he's mentioned by name in interviews:

lord of the rings (about ten million times over)

amber

earthsea

the dying earth

jack of shadows

literary

the bible

greek mythology (and i would recommend the tragic plays)

dante

shakespeare

polish romanticism

arthurian legend

technically counts as both literary and fantasy but considering sapkowski's obsession with it i think it deserves to be its own thing

like with any legendary body, there's more like a collection of works and no official reading order, lol, so from what i gather and what i've been doing is reading in bits and pieces, various knight stories... but if you want more direction then just look at wikipedia for a semblance of a reading guide. but modern versions he's raved about include the once and future king and the mists of avalon so maybe start there too

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How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?

(633) 1984 - George Orwell

(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(550) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

(549) The Adventures Of Tom And Huck - Series - Mark Twain

(538) Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

(534) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(521) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(521) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

(492) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien

(488) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

(480) Ulysses - James Joyce

(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

(382) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

(380) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

(378) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Series - Lewis Carroll

(359) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot

(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell

(346) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

(334) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

(325) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

(320) Harry Potter - Series - J.K. Rowling

(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis

(317) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

(308) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James

(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

(255) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Series - Douglas Adams

(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne

(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery

(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka

(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

(232) Emma - Jane Austen

(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison

(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster

(215) Dune - Frank Herbert

(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus

(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker

(205) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(193) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

(193) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton

(193) The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

(190) The Odyssey - Homer

(189) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

(188) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

(186) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

(182) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller

(176) The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac

(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry

(172) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

(172) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

(171) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James

(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

(167) The Complete Stories And Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

(166) Ender's Saga - Series - Orson Scott Card

(165) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

(164) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James

(163) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow

(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

(161) The Hunger Games - Series - Suzanne Collins

(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery

(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

(157) Neuromancer - William Gibson

(156) The Help - Kathryn Stockett

(156) A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin

(155) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

(154) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(153) I, Claudius - Robert Graves

(152) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

(151) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James

(150) The Death Of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

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Stefania Bril desobediência pelo afeto

Stefania Bril desobediência pelo afeto (IMS, 2024) é o livro que acompanha a mostra homônima na sede paulista do Instituto Moreira Salles  a partir de 27 de agosto até 26 de janeiro de 2025. De família judaica polonesa, Stefania Bril (1922-1992), imigrou para o Brasil em 1950. A exposição e livro apresentam ao público a obra fotográfica, sua produção crítica e a atuação no campo institucional. Radicada em São Paulo, já em 1970 consolidou-se como fotógrafa e, a partir dos anos 1980, como crítica e curadora. Em suas fotografias vemos cenas cotidianas onde prevalece a irreverência, com perspectivas que propõem sutis deslocamentos na forma de olhar para uma metrópole que crescia em meio ao chamado "milagre brasileiro" - de pensamento ufanista, durante os primeiros anos da ditadura militar.

O alentado catálogo da mostra com mais de 300 páginas, traz também uma série de fotografias inéditas. É a primeira exposição individual com 160 imagens dedicada à obra da fotógrafa e crítica nos últimos 30 anos com curadoria da colombiana Ileana Pradilla Ceron,  pesquisadora sênior no Instituto Moreira Salles e do carioca Miguel Del Castillo, com assistência da também carioca Pâmela de Oliveira, o primeiro coordenador da biblioteca do instituto e a segunda pesquisadora do acervo de fotografia do IMS. 

Stefania Bril nasceu em Gdansk e viveu até a adolescência em Varsóvia.  Ao lado de seus pais sobreviveu ao Holocausto. Mudou-se para a Bélgica ao término da Segunda Guerra já casada, onde graduou-se em Química em 1950, ano este em que imigra para o Brasil estabelecendo-se em São Paulo trabalhando a princípio com pesquisas nas áreas de bioquímica e química nuclear. Começou a dedicar-se a fotografia aos aos 47 anos, quando matriculou-se na  icônica Enfoco,  escola de fotografia criada por Cláudio "Clode" Kubrusly, que funcionou entre 1968 e 1976, por onde passaram consagrados fotógrafos como Cristiano Mascaro, Maureen Bisilliat, Antonio Saggese, Dulce Soares, Ella Durst, Mazda Perez, Nair Benedicto e Rosa Gauditano entre seus professores e alunos.

Ao final dos anos 1970 Stefania Bril, segundo pesquisadores do IMS, inaugurou a crítica fotográfica na imprensa brasileira escrevendo e assinando seus textos por mais de uma década no jornal O Estado de S. Paulo e na pioneira revista Iris Foto (1947-1999). Em suas colunas, analisou boa parte da produção fotográfica brasileira e internacional apresentada em São Paulo nos anos 1980, além de ter organizado festivais de fotografia. De suma importância para a cultura fotográfica criou a Casa da Fotografia Fuji, primeiro centro cultural em São Paulo voltado exclusivamente para o ensino e a divulgação da fotografia, que coordenou de 1990 a 1992. Seu acervo, que inclui sua obra fotográfica, crítica e sua biblioteca, está sob a guarda do IMS.

A coleção da fotógrafa foi adquirida pelo IMS em duas etapas: a primeira em 2001 e a segunda em 2012. O arquivo possui aproximadamente 15.000 imagens, entre ampliações de época, negativos e cromos (diapositivos) além de farta documentação textual. Como parte das iniciativas de difusão do acervo, o IMS destinou, em 2019, a segunda edição da Bolsa de Pesquisa em Fotografia ao estudo de sua obra. A pesquisadora contemplada foi a professora carioca Alessandra Vannucci, que assina um dos textos do livro, juntamente com Ileana Pradilla Ceron (que além do texto principal também assina a Cronologia comentada), Miguel Del Castillo e do paulistano Alexandre Araujo Bispo, antropólogo, curador, crítico e educador independente, doutor e Mestre em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Além destas preciosas análises, a publicação conta com uma pequena fortuna crítica com matérias selecionadas de Stefania Bril.

Segundo a curadoria, ao não focar em temáticas como o campo da política ou dos retratos de personalidades, a obra de Stefania “questiona certos critérios tradicionais de valoração da fotografia. Sua produção mostra sobretudo o fluxo da vida, observando as sutilezas, as ironias e contradições do dia a dia, com registros de momentos lúdicos e de afeto, como pontuam os curadores: “O cotidiano, considerado um tema sem importância, é afirmado por Stefania como espaço de resistência, inclusive em meio a um contexto totalitário como os anos de chumbo no Brasil quando fotografava. [...] Pouco a pouco, revela-se, por exemplo, a posição crítica de Stefania, que enxerga a falência da cidade moderna em meio às metrópoles que fotografou, e que aposta no afeto como antídoto à violência estrutural vigente.”

O conteúdo são imagens principalmente de São Paulo, mas também de outras grandes cidades, como Nova York, Paris, Amsterdã, Jerusalém e Cidade do México. As pessoas “anônimas” que habitam essas urbes contraditórias são as protagonistas das imagens (“Eu gosto de gente, não de carros.”, escreveu a artista em 1975). Embora signos das metrópoles, como edifícios e construções, também estejam presentes, nas fotos de Stefania eles são atravessados por intervenções lúdicas, evidenciando a posição crítica da fotógrafa em relação à padronização e desumanização impostas pela razão moderna. Já na série Descanso, registra homens cochilando em seus locais de trabalho, resistindo à lógica produtivista ou simplesmente esgotados por ela, e, em outro conjunto, retrata trabalhadores que mantêm vínculos com o fazer artesanal, como pintores e músicos de rua.

Para os editores, o humor e a ironia também transparecem nas fotografias. Algumas delas trazem cenas que beiram o surreal, como a imagem de uma vaca no meio de Amsterdã; a de uma mulher carregando uma nuvem de balões no meio da Quinta Avenida, em Nova York; ou ainda a de um menino que lê um gibi deitado dentro de um carrinho de supermercado em São Paulo. Ainda na chave do humor, Stefania também mira seu olhar para as escritas das cidades, capturando cartazes, outdoors e pichações. Sobre esse caráter de sua obra, a artista escreveu: “Insisto em ter uma visão poética e levemente zombeteira de um mundo que às vezes se leva a sério demais.”

De fato podemos notar em seus registros dois segmentos importantes que nos remetem a grandes fotógrafos, como os americanos Paul Strand (1890-1976) e Walker Evans (1903-1975), seja no seguimento mais antropológico, no caso do primeiro, a afinidade vem dos retratos que revelavam seu tempo distante das chamadas celebridades, e tipológico quando pensamos neste último cujas imagens  traduziam uma concepção tipológica das cidades, quando Bril fotografa uma profusão de placas, outdoors e inscrições espalhadas por diferentes lugares. 

O livro apresenta diversos retratos feitos por Stefania Bril, que segundo os editores, sinalizam outra característica marcante de sua produção. Grande parte das imagens mostram crianças brincando e pessoas idosas, fotografadas nas ruas ou no ambiente doméstico. Há também figuras populares em seus contextos locais, como o casal Eduardo e Egidia Salles, quituteiros famosos em Campos do Jordão, cidade da Serra da Mantiqueira, onde é comum a arquitetura de estilo suíço, que acolhe milhares de turistas no inverno paulista, onde a fotógrafa possuía uma residência, e Maria da Conceição Dias de Almeida, conhecida como Maria Miné, então importante personalidade da cidade.

Ileana Ceron escreve que Stefania Bril adentrou na fotografia pelas mãos de sua amiga, a fotógrafa e artista plástica alemã Alice Brill (1920-2013) que transitava com desenvoltura no circuito moderno das artes visuais.  Segundo a curadora, ela "fez parte dos autores que, na década de 1950, construíram no país a linguagem moderna da fotografia e que tinham na cidade — entendida como o locus da modernidade — o seu objeto de investigação por excelência." 

A entrada de Stefania Bril na Enfoco foi ideia de Alice Brill. Um lugar em que, conta a curadora, "Os alunos formavam um grupo heterogêneo. Apesar de a escola oferecer bolsas de estudo a quem não tinha recursos, o seu custo era elevado, pois a fotografia permanecia uma atividade elitista, devido aos altos valores de equipamentos e insumos para seu desenvolvimento." A presença feminina era majoritária, destacando-se a paraibana Anna Mariani (1932-2022) , a belga Lily Sverner (1934-2016) e a própria Stefania Bril, "entre outras, integravam o segmento de mulheres já não tão jovens que, após terem cumprido os rituais atribuídos socialmente à mulher, como o casamento e a maternidade, buscavam dar resposta a suas inquietações culturais e intelectuais. Para as três, a passagem pela Enfoco representou um ponto de inflexão, a partir do qual adotaram a fotografia como profissão" explica Ileana Ceron.

"Como boa observadora-ouvinte que era, Stefania Bril tem olhos e ouvidos para perceber o que a cidade está falando, mapeando a dor e o insólito da vida moderna, mas também a resistência e o humor." escreve Miguel Del Castillo. "Numa imagem conhecida, que foi capa de seu primeiro livro fotográfico, um pequeno letreiro nos convida, avistado por trás de alguns tubos de concreto: “Entre”. Suas fotografias possuem camadas assim. E, no caso dessa e de muitas outras escritas urbanas, enquadradas pela fotógrafa, parecem expressar em voz alta as ambiguidades das cidades."

Alexandre Araújo Bispo, aprofunda a parte antropológica da obra da fotógrafa: "Entre mostrar-se e esconder-se, olhar e ser olhada, as pessoas negras memorizadas nos negativos de Stefania Bril indicam a multiplicidade de ser negro: a personalidade pública Maria Miné, individualizada em um ensaio, mas pertencente a uma família extensa, a velha negra Ermília em família, a mãe negra com um ou vários filhos, o homem negro de “escritório”, o jovem negro com ares de hippie e olhar idealista, os artistas negros em seu fazer poético, os trabalhadores braçais, as crianças negras de ambos os sexos. Do modo como fotógrafa algumas pessoas, Stefania sugere ter estado com elas antes, durante e depois do instante fotográfico. Suas imagens evocam um sentido de conversa com e menos um dizer sobre ou pelas pessoas. Não parece haver uma autoridade sobre o que está mostrando, mas um desejo genuíno de convivência e interação social. Em outras fotos, como as dos trabalhadores braçais registrados na ação de trabalhar, o contato social não parece ter se prolongado." 

Imagens © Stefania Bril.   Texto © Juan Esteves

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OrganizaçãoIleana Pradilla Ceron Miguel Del Castillo

Produção editorial Núcleo Editorial IMS 

Projeto gráfico Beatriz Costa 

Tratamento de imagens Núcleo Digital IMS 

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[julianalvarez9]

virgil, the aeneid x copa america

(2) Copa America Brazil 2019 Semi Final match. Photo by Koji Watanabe // (3, 6, 20 & 21) Copa America Brazil 2021 Final match. Photo by Thiago Ribeiro // (5) Angel Di Maria celebrates after scoring the first goal of his team during the final of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Alexandre Schneider // (8) Detail of Lionel Messi's boot during a semi-final match of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Alexandre Schneider. // (9) Lionel Messi controls the ball during the final of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Wagner Meier. // (11) Lionel Messi with teammates during the penalty shoot out on the Final match of the Copa America Centenario USA 2016. Photo by Tim Clayton. // (12) Lionel Messi celebrates with teammates winning a penalty shootout after a semi-final match of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Alexandre Schneider. // (14 & 15) Screencaps from Netflix's "Sean Eternos: Campeones de América" // (17) Lionel Messi during the 2015 Copa America Chile Final match. Photo by Miguel Tovar // (18) Lionel Messi prior to the final of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Buda Mendes // (23) Lionel Messi after the 2015 Copa America Chile Final match. Photo by Raul Sifuentes. // (24) Lionel Messi celebrates as he talks on his phone with his family after winning the final of Copa America Brazil 2021. Photo by Alexandre Schneider.

[mollyannice]

Books I think Jason Has Read

All Jane Austen books

Jane Eyre By Charlotte Brontë

Little Women's series by Louisa May Alcott

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hamlet by Shakespeare (although Shakespeare should be watched not read because it's a play)

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes (first in english and then after in the original Spanish)

This one will have people probably fight me about but The Chesepeake Bay Saga by Nora Roberts (The first 3 books are about 3 brothers who were adopted as teens who come home to raise their fourth brother after their Father dies in a horrible accident. The first boy was adopted after being caught trying to steal his adoptive parents car. He would have a love/hate relationship with this book series and the book series feels like an accidental mixed robin no cape AU with some Robins given different back stories)

Joke gag books (especially as Robin)

Black Beauty by Anna Seawell

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[tristantzara]

i went to a used book sale today... procured:

railroad color history: new york central railroad (brian solomon & mike schafer) — i'm not actually that into trains but it appealed to me.

the complete guide to the soviet union (jennifer louis & victor louis) — travel guide from 1980

an anthology including the big sleep (raymond chandler), "the undignified melodrama of the bone of contention" (dorothy l. sayers), "the arrow of god" (leslie charteris), "i can find my way out" (ngaio marsh), instead of evidence (rex stout), "rift in the loot" (stuart palmer & craig rice), "the man who explained miracles" (john dickson carr), & rebecca (daphne du maurier) (i already have this one..) — it's volume 2 of something (a treasury of great mysteries) which annoys me but whatever

an anthology including "godmother tea" (selena anderson), "the apartment" (t. c. boyle), "a faithful but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed" (jason brown), "sibling rivalry" (michael byers), "the nanny" (emma cline), "halloween" (mariah crotty), "something street" (carolyn ferrell), "this is pleasure" (mary gaitskill), "in the event" (meng jin), "the children" (andrea lee), "rubberdust" (sarah thankam mathews), "it's not you" (elizabeth mccracken), "liberté" (scott nandelson), "howl palace" (leigh newman), "the nine-tailed fox explains" (jane pek), "the hands of dirty children" (alejandro puyana), "octopus vii" (anna reeser), "enlightenment" (william pei shih), "kennedy" (kevin wilson), & "the special world" (tiphanie yanique) — i guess they're all short stories published in 2020 by usamerican/canadian authors

an anthology including the death of ivan ilyich (leo tolstoy) (i have already read this one..), the beast in the jungle (henry james), heart of darkness (joseph conrad), seven who were hanged (leonid andreyev), abel sánchez (miguel de unamuno), the pastoral symphony (andré gide), mario and the magician (thomas mann), the old man (william faulkner), the stranger (albert camus), & agostino (alberto moravia)

the ambassadors (henry james)

the world book desk reference set: book of nations — it's from 1983 so this is kind of a history book...

yet another fiction anthology......... including the general's ring (selma lagerlöf), "mowgli's brothers" (rudyard kipling), "the gift of the magi" (o. henry) (i have already read this one..), "lord mountdrago" (w. somerset maugham), "music on the muscatatuck" (jessamyn west), "the pacing goose" (jessamyn west), "the birds" (daphne du maurier), "the man who lived four thousand years" (alexandre dumas), "the pope's mule" (alphonse daudet), "the story of the late mr. elvesham" (h. g. wells), "the blue cross" (g. k. chesterton), portrait of jennie (robert nathan), "la grande bretèche" (honoré de balzac), "love's conundrum" (anthony hope), "the great stone face" (nathaniel hawthorne), "germelshausen" (friedrich gerstäcker), "i am born" (charles dickens), "the legend of sleepy hollow" (washington irving), "the age of miracles" (melville davisson post), "the long rifle" (stewart edward white), "the fall of the house of usher" (edgar allan poe) (i have already read this one..), the voice of bugle ann (mackinlay kantor), the bridge of san luis rey (thornton wilder), "basquerie" (eleanor mercein kelly), "judith" (a. e. coppard), "a mother in mannville" (marjorie kinnan rawlings), "kerfol" (edith wharton), "the last leaf" (o. henry), "the bloodhound" (arthur train), "what the old man does is always right" (hans christian anderson), the sea of grass (conrad richter), "the sire de malétroit's door" (robert louis stevenson), "the necklace" (guy de maupassant) (i have already read this one..), "by the waters of babylon" (stephen vincent benét), a. v. laider (max beerbohm), "the pillar of fire" (percival wilde), "the strange will" (edmond about), "the hand at the window" (emily brontë) (i have already read this one..), & "national velvet" (enid bagnold) — why are seven of these chapters of novels....? anyway fun fact one of the compilers here also worked on the aforementioned mystery anthology. also anyway Why did i bother to write all that ☹️

fundamental problems of marxism (georgi plekhanov) — book about dialectical/historical materialism which is published here as the first volume of something (marxist library) which is kind of odd to me tbh

one last (thankfully tiny) anthology including le père goriot (honoré de balzac) & eugénie grandet (honoré de balzac)

[katpuos]

Miguel O’Hara as Alexandre Cabanel’s the Fallen Angel 🧎

[mylittledarkag3]

How many have you read out of the hundred?

Me: 64/100

Reblog & share your results

1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

2. "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

4. "1984" by George Orwell

5. "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

6. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez

7. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

8. "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger

9. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy

10. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

12. "The Odyssey" by Homer

13. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

14. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

15. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

16. "The Iliad" by Homer

17. "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley

18. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo

19. "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes

20. "Middlemarch" by George Eliot

21. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde

22. "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

23. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

24. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

25. "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo

26. "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells

27. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

28. "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer

29. "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

30. "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

31. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

32. "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

33. "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

34. "The Trial" by Franz Kafka

35. "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen

36. "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

37. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

38. "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

39. "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

40. "Emma" by Jane Austen

41. "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe

42. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy

43. "The Republic" by Plato

44. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

45. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle

46. "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

47. "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

48. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka

49. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

50. "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

51. "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell

52. "The Plague" by Albert Camus

53. "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

54. "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

55. "The Red and the Black" by Stendhal

56. "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

57. "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand

58. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

59. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

60. "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak

61. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle

62. "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins

63. "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

64. "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson

65. "Ulysses" by James Joyce

66. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe

67. "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray

68. "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett

69. "Walden Two" by B.F. Skinner

70. "Watership Down" by Richard Adams

71. "White Fang" by Jack London

72. "Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys

73. "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne

74. "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

75. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" by Margaret Fuller

76. "Women in Love" by D.H. Lawrence

77. "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig

78. "The Aeneid" by Virgil

79. "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

80. "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

81. "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

82. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

83. "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

84. "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler

85. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

86. "The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

87. "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov

88. "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

89. "The Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

90. "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

91. "The Clue in the Crumbling Wall" by Carolyn Keene

92. "The Code of the Woosters" by P.G. Wodehouse

93. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

94. "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

95. "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller

96. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

97. "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown

98. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

99. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon

100. "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells

[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens