#curatorial services

[probablyasocialecologist]

Libraries have traditionally operated on a basic premise: Once they purchase a book, they can lend it out to patrons as much (or as little) as they like. Library copies often come from publishers, but they can also come from donations, used book sales, or other libraries. However the library obtains the book, once the library legally owns it, it is theirs to lend as they see fit.  Not so for digital books. To make licensed e-books available to patrons, libraries have to pay publishers multiple times over. First, they must subscribe (for a fee) to aggregator platforms such as Overdrive. Aggregators, like streaming services such as HBO’s Max, have total control over adding or removing content from their catalogue. Content can be removed at any time, for any reason, without input from your local library. The decision happens not at the community level but at the corporate one, thousands of miles from the patrons affected.  Then libraries must purchase each individual copy of each individual title that they want to offer as an e-book. These e-book copies are not only priced at a steep markup—up to 300% over consumer retail—but are also time- and loan-limited, meaning the files self-destruct after a certain number of loans. The library then needs to repurchase the same book, at a new price, in order to keep it in stock.  This upending of the traditional order puts massive financial strain on libraries and the taxpayers that fund them. It also opens up a world of privacy concerns; while libraries are restricted in the reader data they can collect and share, private companies are under no such obligation. Some libraries have turned to another solution: controlled digital lending, or CDL, a process by which a library scans the physical books it already has in its collection, makes secure digital copies, and lends those out on a one-to-one “owned to loaned” ratio.  The Internet Archive was an early pioneer of this technique. When the digital copy is loaned, the physical copy is sequestered from borrowing; when the physical copy is checked out, the digital copy becomes unavailable. The benefits to libraries are obvious; delicate books can be circulated without fear of damage, volumes can be moved off-site for facilities work without interrupting patron access, and older and endangered works become searchable and can get a second chance at life. Library patrons, who fund their local library’s purchases with their tax dollars, also benefit from the ability to freely access the books. Publishers are, unfortunately, not a fan of this model, and in 2020 four of them sued the Internet Archive over its CDL program. The suit ultimately focused on the Internet Archive’s lending of 127 books that were already commercially available through licensed aggregators. The publisher plaintiffs accused the Internet Archive of mass copyright infringement, while the Internet Archive argued that its digitization and lending program was a fair use. The trial court sided with the publishers, and on September 4, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reaffirmed that decision with some alterations to the underlying reasoning.  This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse. It leaves local communities’ reading habits at the mercy of curatorial decisions made by four dominant publishing companies thousands of miles away. It steers Americans away from one of the few remaining bastions of privacy protection and funnels them into a surveillance ecosystem that, like Big Tech, becomes more dangerous with each passing data breach. And by increasing the price for access to knowledge, it puts up even more barriers between underserved communities and the American dream.

11 September 2024

[liminal-home]

Question what is Liminal Home about? I just found this au and I'm genuinely curious

OOHH!! I'M GLAD YOU ASKED!!! There is a written summary for it that I hope gains your interest!

SUMMARY DOWN BELOW

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Even long after the Welcome Home puppet show got cancelled and PlayFellow Studio unfortunately shut down, things got dark and gloomy in the neighborhood. Despite this, Wally and his wonderful neighbors never lost hope and continued to have lots of adventures together! Didn't these adventures happen before?~~

Luckily, they don't have to be alone anymore! For the Welcome Home Restoration Project was created to help bring the wonderful joy of Welcome Home to the masses once more just as it used to in the past! They have no choice. They've found tons of memorabilia and even managed to have an exhibit open thanks to the lovely help of the Questions Answered Curatorial Services! Unfortunately, the exhibit didn't last more than a week They couldn't find the ringing, but it succeeded in stirring up the buzz again about this beloved franchise! Hopefully, soon...Wally and his friends will be able to return to the spotlight once more. That's the ultimate goal of the WHRP, and they're dedicated to achieving it! It's the only way to make it stop. They have to make it stop. No matter what.

The walls creak and the eyes are everywhere. Something remains hidden within this neighborhood. Will you uncover the truth? Or succumb to the loop...

[houghtonlib]

We’re getting into the holiday spirit and unboxing our last packages before the break. We were delighted to receive this carefully boxed shipment from Daniel Crouch Rare Books bearing a very special item: an exceptionally deluxe 16th-century wall calendar with volvelle, finely-detailed coloring and gold highlights. Pictured here, hard at work, are Michael Pasternak of our Technical Services’ End-Processing team and Early Books and Manuscripts curatorial team, John Overholt and Sara Powell. Sound on for full plywood ASMR.

[rimouskis]

omg now all i want to know is everything about your music taste. what do u like. how do u curate playlists or do u listen only straight thru albums? if you had to pick your five favorite genres and one song from each genre, what songs and genres would u pick? what genre do you feel like u listen to the least? the most ? what's the three most fascinating albums you've ever listened to. i need to know 🫧🎶

I sincerely believe the question is more “what DON’T I like”!

Alright this is a fun way to spend my Friday night in after walking 8 miles today and then doing dinner with friends ahahah so 1. Thank you for this and 2. Let’s go through this point by point:

1. What do I like? Man… I like a lot of music. I’ve gone through phases in my life: I was raised on my dad’s love of 80s/90s rock (think INXS, U2, Melissa Etheridge, Peter Gabriel), I discovered KISS FM in middle school and was a fiend for Top 50 pop then (the pussycat dolls were my everything back then lol isn’t it hilarious that I didn’t figure out I was gay until my 20s. also timbaland was consistently on my favorite songs.)

then in seventh grade I did a heel turn and got really into metal after my older cousin lent me his iPod at thanksgiving (I really liked Disturbed’s album Ten Thousand Fists)... then within the same year I did an even MORE hilarious, second heel turn and discovered K-pop, which I lived & breathed for like two years (my favorite band was SHINee; I still sometimes pop into the K-pop world to sample what’s coming out these days, though I don’t know the new generation of bands well).

THEN in high school the indie alt pop phenomenon hit and I was all in on the bands of the time… bastille, alt j, the 1975 (before they really blew up, #hipster), glass animals, lorde, walk the moon, chvrches, x ambassadors, the naked and the famous, halsey, grouplove, milky chance… like, if it was on tumblr, I was listening to it, hahaha.

Then in college I got really into alternative music, like chelsea wolfe and susanne sundfør and son lux and ms mr.

In adulthood I find that all this musical influence has meant that I like all kinds of music. I like trashy pop country. I like heavy rock. I like top 50 pop. I like rap. I like hyperpop. I like 80s synth pop. I like indie folk. I like it all, man. I have been in a pretty heavy rock era for the last, like… four, five years, though, so I think I probably primarily register as a rock listener, and if we were to get even more granular, I really love guitar-forward rock.

2. I’m a HUGE user of playlists. Spotify is the only streaming service I pay for, and I’ll pay for it for many many years, I imagine, haha.

I have over 100 playlists on there and really enjoy curating them as a little art form for myself. I rarely listen to albums, which I kind of think is too bad, because I DO think the album ~as a cohesive piece of art~ is kind of becoming a lost art in the age of streaming, and I’m not helping the cause at all.

But, on the flip side, playlist curation is a really enjoyable form of curatorial art, imo, and I deeply love and appreciate it. I love making playlists for anything and everything. One of my favorite playlist I’ve ever made is actually a reylo playlist, lol. I also made a killer Batman playlist after seeing rpattz’s batman, and I have some good old check please playlists as well. Fun fun stuff.

3. This is HARD but okay, I can do this…

Alt/indie rock: “Change For You” by Friday Pilots Club

Pop punk: “Why Do I?” By Set It Off

Electronic: “Fake” by Mystery Skulls (BUT A VERY VERY VERY CLOSE SECOND IS “DANCEFLOOR” by NOISY and Charlotte Plank)

Folk: “Leaf Off/The Cave” by José González

Rock: “Thrown Away” by VAST

Since three of those are rock/rockish offshoots (I am who I am, sorry), I’ll give you a few more divergent others:

rap would be “Boss Bitch” by Doja Cat OR “Von den fernen Bergen” by Ali As

house would be “Derezzed” by Daft Punk

disco would be “You Win Again” by The Bee Gees [my dad loves disco lol so… so do I]

country would be any and all Orville Peck [though normally my country tastes veer WAY WAY WAY trashy country pop lol sorry but it’s catchy]

and my pop pick is obviously Most Perfect Pop Song Of All Time, “Lonely Dancers” by Conan Gray

4. The genre I listen the least to is R&B, probably. I wasn’t raised listening to it and I’ve never really gained a taste for it, even though other genres I wasn’t raised listening to (country and rap, for example) DID grow on me. That being said, I really enjoy THEY., who is technically categorized as R&B.

Like I said earlier, I was really raised on rock music and I think that foundationally I am just a Rock Music Kinda Gal. I love guitars so much, man. But a close second is probably pop. Just as I was created to love guitars, so too was I created to love synths.

5. What makes an album “fascinating”? 🤔 I think this is hard, because first and foremost I am not an album listener, but also I don’t think I examine my music through a critical lens of fascination. I usually operate on a pure “how-much-straight-up-dopamine-is-being-poured-into-my-system?” scale when it comes to music, haha. Like, I’m not even primarily a listener of lyrics. I pay attention to the music first.

That being said…

Album 01 is going to be “Strange Trails” by Lord Huron. To be very, very annoying: I was into Lord Huron since their first album, and when they blew up due to a song from "Strange Trails" getting included in the TV show 13 Reasons Why, I was very annoyed because I think their sonic output shifted, and for the worse.

Anyways, I maintain that their first two albums are as close to perfect as albums get, and “Strange Trails” is what I find to be their strongest narrative album. There’s a whole storyline through the album that follows a fictional character Ben, the frontman, created. There was a comic book to accompany the album too, and I think the storyline is very lovely and I love some tragic love and magic wrapped into my music:) My favorite song off of “Strange Trails” is “Fool for Love.”

Album 02 is going to be “Bad Blood” by Bastille, which I also find to be Bastille’s finest work. Dan Smith wrote all these songs by himself in his den and—I really believe—perfectly embodied and channeled the sound of the 2010s indie moment. The entire album is so strong, and not only is it so strong that it doesn’t have any skips… even the EXTENDED version, “All This Bad Blood,” has no skips. Whatever Dan was fermenting in the lead up to “Bad Blood”’s release, it was pure gold. Nothing else quite captures the feeling of it being 2012 as much as this album. My favorite song off off “Bad Blood” is “Icarus” <3

Album 03 is going to be “Dream Machine” by Des Rocs. Des is on a one-man cocaine-fueled mission from God to bring back hard glam rock and I sincerely could not support his mission more. He constantly churns out bangers (his EPs “Martyr Parade” and “Let the Vultures In” are also worth checking out) but I found his songwriting to be simply ~exceptional~ on “Dream Machine.” I think he’s wonderful at writing evocative, classic-rock inspired lyrics that read as poetry to me:) From “Natural Born Thriller”:

Roll, thunder, roll / Riding like a freight train down on the tip of your tongue

Rattle in your bones / Shockwave ripping through the sky, in and out of your lungs

Love, lock and load / Fire in your eyes and you’re ready when the fever gonna come

Way down the road / Big wheels turning to the rhythm of the blood-red sun

Half a man and half apocalypse / The chase, the thrill, that you cannot resist

Day and night, every time / That one there is a natural-born thriller

Like MAN... that’s poetry in action to me. That’s just good writing. I also find the lyrics and storytelling of “In the Night” fantastic, and “Dream Machine” is such a perfect tone-setting, atmosphere-building track for that album to open on. It’s just one of the best constructed albums I’ve heard, full of bangers. My favorite song off it is probably “Natural Born Thriller.”

Damn that took me like two hours to get through, mostly because I got to experience the joy of scrolling through all my music and painfully selecting a few. This was delightful. Thank you, anon!

[greenandhazy]

It is genuinely so fucking frustrating to me how little respect people have for the work of historians, museum professionals, librarians, and archivists. Especially when it comes from LGBTQ people, to be quite honest, given that these fields are often home to a disproportionate number of LGBTQ people!

People will just roll up and be like “nobody is talking about [thing they only know about because of the passionate behind-the-scenes work of archivists who collected, processed, and described documents and oral histories, historians who spend months immersed in those sources and writing books and articles, and librarians who bought and catalogued those books and made them accessible to a wider public].” They go into museums and assume that everyone below the curatorial level is an unpaid volunteer and/or part-time college student as opposed to a working professional with a master’s degree. They’ll go “we need to start an archive/museum/website!” that fully already exists, with no knowledge of the amount of resources and training it takes because they haven’t bothered to look into what’s there—they assume that anything large on the scale of the Smithsonian or the National Park Service is going to be homophobic and anything small enough that it’s not a household name is nonexistent.

Yeah I’m bitter, some history people are problematic, blah blah blah. I’m not disagreeing with the general principle that LGBTQ history is still often marginalized or that we need more of it. Just… maybe start your crusade with the people who have already devoted years of their lives to making more of it?? Instead of being just another personal devaluing their labor and expertise?

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[theoxenfree]

so! interestingly about that museum I showed the curatorial assistant position for earlier, it's more of a local history museum, which, like, isn't my favorite thing in the world, but apparently it also doubles and triples as a farm and educational center for different things

apparently, the history is that a lot of the artifacts being identified once belonged to a pair of brothers who collected these things over time or something.

side eye to that, but I'll just need to research everything for myself

anyway!! I put in an application for there. there's an art museum nearby as well that I'm thinking of applying for, tho that seems more of a customer service front which ain't my vibe

[isadoraxantcs]

(MEGHANN FAHY, CIS WOMAN, SHE/HER) Oh, is that ISADORA XANTHOS? I heard the THIRTY-FOUR year old is CLASSY. But don’t let that pretty face fool you, they are also RUTHLESS. Makes sense seeing how they are a LEADER in the SOCIETY gang. penned by m.

𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐒.

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄:  Isadora Madelyn Xanthos

𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒):  Isa, Issy, Is, Sadie (only by few very close people), Ms Xanthos

𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄(𝐒):  Isa, Ms Xanthos

𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐀𝐓𝐄:  February, 13, 1990

𝐀𝐆𝐄:  thirty-four

𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑:  cisfemale

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒:  she/her

𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: dirty blonde by birth but she likes to lighten/darken it at times

𝐄𝐘𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐑: ice blue

𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐒: TBA.

𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒: TBA.

𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒: TBA.

𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍:  aromantic

𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍:  heterosexual

𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘: Pietro Niccolo Xanthos (father) & Vivienne Katarzina Adamyan (mother), Niccolo Matthias Xanthos (older twin brother), four younger brothers

𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐍:  n/a

𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒: married

𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌: you don't own me by saygrace ft. g-eazy 

𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒: serena van der woodsen (gossip girl), carla roson (elite), amy dunne (gone girl)

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘.

( + ) classy, sophisticated, regal, ambitious, charming

( - ) ruthless, manipulative, cunning, possessive

𝐁𝐈𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘.

triggers: infidelity mention tw

Born Isadora Madelyn Xanthos, Isa is the second child to Greek-American billionaire Pietro Niccolo Xanthos and Vivienne Katarzina Xanthos (née Adamyan), an socialite of French-Armenian decent. She was exposed to a rather privileged and lavish lifestyle at a very early age, which pretty much shaped her as the person she is now. However, this doesn't mean she was a spoiled brat. Her mother made sure Isadora was raised properly.

There were four more children to follow after the birth of Isadora and her twin brother. All of which were raised solely by their mother with little to no help of nannies or other services of that sort. While her husband was busy building up his business empire and ensuring that the family could carry on living their lavish lifestyle, Vivienne had slowly taken up the role of a devoted wife and mother, who made sure everyone felt equally loved and appreciated while instilling high expectations and discipline; the true epitome of a matriarch and someone young Isadora aspired to be like one day. Well, maybe minus the children since her dreams and ambitions spread as far away as possible from becoming a mother and having family of her own.

Growing up, Isadora was a needy child. Constantly getting jealous when she wasn't the center of attention, so it came as no wonder to anyone when she quickly excelled in drama classes. She was also highly competitive. Born only after five minutes apart from her brother, which should have been an indicator for her desire to be at the top from the very start of her life, she constantly felt the need to prove herself. This hidden rivalry only deepened once Niccolo picked up interest in business, which was something he had in common with their father.

Aside from focusing on keeping the family's good image, Vivienne was also dedicated to various philanthropic causes. It was often Isadora, who accompanied her at such events, considering her dad's busy schedule and the fact that she was the single girl in the family, expected to one day take up on this work. While she found most things boring, she was always fascinated by all the art exhibitions she and her mother attended in order to raise awareness of preserving the cultural diversity. As former artist, her mother had deep passion for art, which translated to Isa, whose aesthetic sense has already been established from birth.

Graduating from high school, Isadora pursued a bachelor's degree in History of Arts, followed by a master's degree in Criticism & Curatorial Practice. She also took classes in the field of International relations and Conservation of Artistic Heritage. She even did a few exchange programs throughout Europe, soaking up all that she could learn about art in all its forms. She then proceeded to assist her mother in her philanthropic work. building up valuable connections until she was able to establish her own foundation.

It was during the same time that she met her husband. They shared the same passion for art as well as for each other, which led them to make the snap decision of getting married without getting to know each other first, which in return led to them soon finding comfort in other people. It soon became like a game for them, getting on each other's nerves with their short affairs; like a drug even. Something that fueled the passion back into their marriage and reminding them of what they loved about the other and what they could never find in anyone else.

Ever a quick thinker, it wasn't long before Isadora had found a way to tie her passion for art to her own form of entrepreneurship, using her own artistic foundation in order to be dealing with copies of paintings and artifacts alike, gaining her own father's respect in the process as well as the rest of the Society's members. Maybe even some of their fear, too.

[isagrimorie]

A little bit of a soft pushback on this post. re: curatorial fandom etc on Star Trek Picard season 3– I don’t think it's pure nostalgia and fan service.

Because I don’t think the characters we revisited stayed in one place, they weren’t who they were before. Some of them were rougher than others and some have had it done well.

I know most people were happy about Picard having almost nothing to do with the elements of TNG, and I do agree some of it was refreshing but for me, Trek is a starship and a crew -- even DS9 falls on this despite being a station, and it was always a little sad Sir Patrick Stewart was reluctant to include his friends in Picard.

He might have been a big part of the draw in TNG with Brent Spiner's Data as the other big draw but Picard wasn't the only reason why people watched TNG.

I also wanted an update on Beverly, Geordi, and on Worf.

And I know it's unpopular but as a show, Picard felt incomplete without his friends. (Also, knowing Sir Patrick Stewart was riding off the high of Logan for the reasoning behind Picard it made sense now. Logan was an excellent movie!)

But Picard not keeping in touch with the people he served with and considered family, it felt disappointing. Especially since I specifically went into the show expecting Picard to have kept in touch.

Ultimately, after returning to season 1, I did enjoy aspects of Picard s1 with a lot of niggles in between because season 1 had a LOT of big ideas and 10 episodes didn't serve the story well.

There were so many good ideas there that just didn't fly and most of season 1 was spent talking with not a lot of forward momentum on both plot and character.

I think in an ideal world there should have been 16 to 20 episodes per season to round things out. Season 1 had intriguing concepts that went nowhere and the Borg were just— there. They introduced the concept of ex-Borgs and did nothing with them.

Also, it was mentioned how S1 of Picard is very close to the plot of Mass Effect -- which is okay, good sci-fi shows share similar ideas and plots all the time! It's just funny, is all but again goes to how the show should have, at least 16 episodes.

Going on to season 3:

1. I really liked Nepenthe but I was also okay with Will and Deanna professing dislike for the planet where Thad lived and died— because sometimes the place where you spent grieving and healing isn’t and shouldn’t be the same place you should be if you’re going to move on from grief. And I doubly agree that Kestra should have been discussed or shown more. This actually reminds me of a Chibnall quote where RTD taught him: It shouldn’t just be “Don’t show, tell” but it should be “Show and Tell”.

But also, Matalas should have really included a line or a scene showing Kestra was safe in the Academy. I don't care how clunky it would have sounded or the scene would've been!

2. Geordi. I love that we see Geordi with Data, Geordi was someone I missed seeing in season 1 of Picard especially in regards to Data's death because as much as Nemesis and Picard s1 & s2 would like to show it— Geordi and Data were the two best friends in TNG. And for the majority of TNG Picard held Data with a certain distance. I didn’t even realize what a missing ingredient Geordi was in Picard until I saw Geordi with Data. LeVar Burton sold Geordi's grief of losing his best friend and the possibility of getting Data back.

Also, I like that Geordi, who was a little, uh, problematic with women (he had a romantic attraction for) grow up and then learn to become a good dad to two daughters. I love that LeVar Burton specifically requested this because he was also not fond of how Geordi was written with women.

3. Beverly. I love Action Beverly and I love Gates McFadden got that, I love that she basically worked in Doctors without Borders under the Mariposa. The medical emergency organization Teresa and Rios set up in the past. But also finally addressing all the ways losing Wesley fucked her up, losing Wesley the way she did was the straw that broke the camel’s back for her. In TNG, losing Wesley was something that was never brought up again but Wesley was a big part of Beverly’s life. (To be clear, Wesley is alive but by the Time Lord-like rules set by the Traveller, Wesley and Beverly can never meet again or communicate). I love that despite not being in Starfleet Beverly still can’t help but want to help people, especially out in the border worlds outside of the Federation. It’s no wonder Seven has heard of Beverly!

I love that she figured out what was happening in the 'nebula' and how her knowledge helped save them, leading to one of the more wonderous scenes in season 3.

4. Ro Laren. But most of all I love that Ro Laren returned— and it’s such a big thing to get Michelle Forbes back, she has famously demurred a lot of attempts to get her to become a show regular. I love the button to Picard and Laren’s relationship which festered on both sides for almost 30 years. The episode where she appeared is possibly my favorite episode of all Picard.

If only money and time weren’t an issue Picard and Laren’s relationship would have been a great foil to Janeway and Seven’s. Or even Laren and Seven interacting would have been so good.

Also, Janeway is the phantom that haunts Season 3 because it feels like Janeway should have been in Season 3. Again, money and time. But man a lot of the plot stuff in season 3 would have smoothed out with Janeway in the show.

5. WORF!

This brings me to Worf, who I adored in season 3 and I am so glad we see how he is doing after DS9. I mourn the loss of Jadzia, and even though she wasn’t named, I can’t help but feel her presence was felt, even Ezri. I feel like the comment about how Worf shouldn’t be passive-aggressive, felt like a very Ezri thing to say.

But as I’ve said before, Jadzia would adore zen, white-haired Worf. She would be with him through this shenanigans. She would enjoy Worf’s mentorship of Raffi! And she wouldn’t even be fazed with Worf waxing poetic about Deanna’s advice. Jadzia would know what Worf meant.

Worf seeing himself in Raffi and truly enjoying Raffi’s company was also such a boon. I love that he passed the torch on being a Klingon badass to Raffi— a non-Klingon.

But also this heads on to one of the things I disliked -- how Raffi's story went in the first episode. I wasn't into how alone Raffi was in scenes. I wish they could have gotten Elnor as a hologram or even Seven-- just so she could bounce off someone else, and maybe even hit on why they broke up.

I do love Worf burning Raffi’s cover. Raffi hated deep-cover work, and it only made her miserable. This way, Starfleet Intelligence won’t be compelled to use her expertise this way again. He’s seen what it's done to Miles O’Brien. But also, it's the Klingon high-handedness at work and I hope Ezri verbally head-slapped him for it.

I loved the idea of a true Borg collective and community, where one becomes Borg by choice in season 2 but its been so divorced from Seven, who could have interacted more with the idea, and the Borg Queen— who had spent, in another life, a large amount of resources to get Seven back and even indulged Seven on occasion.

Season 3 isn’t exempt from this, while I adored Season 3– I do know it wasn't a perfect season and there are things it could improve on.

One of them is that Seven should be more connected to the main bad guy plot than she was. This is where Janeway should have been in the show more because the Hirogen story? Should have been Janeway's story if we are honest, the final blow to the Borg Queen? should have been Janeway's. In a way, Picard was shafted on his own show because those were all Janeway's achievements and not Picard's.

Also, I know that people are burned by the Borg being ever present but I will be sad if they never bring up the Borg in the form of the Jurati Faction of the Borg, the xBs, and some Delta Quadrant Borgs as both allies and threats in Seven's (possible, please god) show.

The Borg is a big part of Seven’s life more than it was Picard’s. I am always a little side eye when the show tries to tell me Picard has more expertise on the Borg than Seven.

So yeah, I hope Seven gets to tackle the tricksy complicated idea of xBs and Jurati Borg.

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[violant-apologia]

🌇🔮 for stones & the apologist? 👀

🌇 – Could you see your oc surviving beyond the fifth city? Would their relationship with the canon character(s) still be intact? I've gone into this a little bit before, but basically: yes! They take a bit of a break when the Apologist goes melancholy lighthouse poet mode, but they resume their affections when he's brought into the fold as Mr Bricks. In fact, the whole "the sixth and seventh cities fall in a very short timespan" thing actually brings them closer together, as the Masters are some of the only people that the Apologist even knows any more.

The Apologist's destiny is Passion (shh it's not the road ignore that it's currently the road) in which he, along with the other Masters and the Bazaar, depart for the Sun. And they're still together then!

🔮 – Do you have a future planned out for them? Or perhaps multiple? But after Passion? I think regardless of how the Bazaar's meeting with the Sun turns out, the Masters will leave its service. The Apologist will too, if regretfully.

I can imagine many of the Masters staying together as a unit while becoming reaccustomed to freedom. Plus, curator society at large would still scorn them, given their lingering changes from their time beneath the Earth. (This would be their excuse, of course, the reason going unsaid being that they've all grown to almost enjoy each other's company.)

While the Apologist had impressed a lot of humanity onto Stones before the Departure ('a lot of' is probably an exaggeration, but definitely some) in the Wilderness Stones teaches the Apologist curatoriality. He never forgets Earth, but he learns to feel at home between the stars, and lives the rest of his life out as an honourary curator.

[elainespavlding]

was that [ SARAH GUSTAFSSON ] spotted in the lobby of the infamous arconia hotel? must just be, [ ELAINE SPAULDING ] the [ TWENTY-SIX  ] year old [ CURATORIAL ASSISTANT ]. whenever i hear [ CARRY ME OUT BY MITSKI ] it reminds me of them. [ SHE/HER ] are known for being [ CONTROLLING ] and [ UPTIGHT ] but they make up for that by being [ MODEST ] and [ RELIABLE ]. they have been living at the arconia for [ EIGHT YEARS ON AND OFF ].

full name — elaine freja spaulding nickname(s) — don't even try it age — twenty-six date of birth — september 19th place of birth — new canaan, ct religion — lutheran sexuality — heterosexual education level — elaine's recently completed a master of philosophy in art history at st. andrew's (she also double-majored in art & archaeology and museum studies at princeton university for her bachelors)

residence — the arconia <3 previously: her family's estate in new canaan, and then the family's city residence in gramercy park

family — rupert spaulding (father) and fadela spaulding (mother) and then three older brothers named tristan, ralph, and hugo. finances — quite comfortable, i must say $$$$$$$$$

overview.

elaine’s family absolutely reeks of Old Money™ from all sides. rupert spaulding’s family’s wealth can be tied back to the railroads and westward expansion before eventually delving into various investments and financial services (plus there's relation to the famous wallenberg family through his mother).

her father is the acting ceo of an investment firm in new york city that her great-grandfather founded and rupert keeps a separate apartment in the city away from the family to live in during the work week because sometimes to make a marriage work you gotta put space between the two of you.

her mother fadela is from london but her wealth extends to the beginnings of bmce bank and the bank of africa. fadela is a socialite, philanthropist, and all-around nitpicker with a thousand and one life regrets.

elaine has three older brothers with the youngest of the bunch being five years older than her. elaine was something of a “miracle baby” to her parents. all her life, fadela wanted a little daughter but after three rough pregnancies, she wound up with all sons, so when their little accident happened well after they decided to have no more children, she was absolutely thrilled to find out it was a girl.

elaine was pampered and given everything a little debutante-to-be ought to have, but that lavishness came with a price. elaine was the Miracle Baby, the daughter her parents longed for, and the last thing she wanted to do was mess up the image they had for her. she had to be perfect.

that need, of course, isn't healthy! surprise! elaine experienced an adolescence marked by extreme emotional outbursts and debilitating compulsions. by the end of high school it all came to a head, but that's.... [redacted] information

once she reached adulthood, elaine has had the privilege to focus on nothing but the thing she's passionate about: art (her specialty is european art and the art of the italian renaissance). she's traveled europe and she completed her masters. now, she's back in new york to start her job as a curatorial assistant at the frick collection. her plan is to spend a couple years there before she starts working toward her phd in art history.

since the age of 18, and after The Incident and a series of disagreements with her mother, elaine's parents started to pay for a suite at the arconia for her to stay in when the need arose. whenever she's in the city, that's usually where she is.

personality traits.

positive: sophisticated, conscientious, astute, strong-willed, meticulous, practical, romantic

negative: judgmental, high-strung, standoffish, queen of too high standards, nitpicky, pedantic

misc headcanons.

elaine has taken ballet and piano lessons since she was 4 years old. she has little old russian lady trauma skjdfnskjd.

when not at work, elaine is likely at theaters such as the metrograph, the walter reade, the angelika film center, etc. so when you insult cinephiles who watch black and white european movies told from the point of view of a dog, you're insulting HER 💔

her favorite place at the arconia is the daily grind coffee bar. caffeine addiction vibes.

elaine really, really hates physical touch. it is something that has been destructive to her relationships and how she generally interacts with people.

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NY / Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet

Courtesy of the Artist and Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY

Ryan Patrick Krueger: Documents from the Closet August 5 - September 10, 2023 Opening reception: August 5, 2023, 5-8pm

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present Documents from the Closet, a solo installation of work by Ryan Patrick Krueger, curated by Samantha Box. This exhibition marks Krueger’s New York City debut, and is accompanied by a curatorial text written by Mary Lee Hodgens, artist and former Assistant Director of Light Work, Syracuse.

Documents from the Closet

Mary Lee Hodgens For their ongoing project, Documents from the Closet, artist Ryan Patrick Krueger works with a personal collection of LGBTQ+ archives, vernacular photographs, and ephemera to tell a story about grief, loss, and courage. The artist weaves together two narratives, an unflinching effort to understand personal losses and identity through an exploration that begins in the historical oppression of gay men.

In the gallery, Krueger props seven-foot-tall pine boxes precariously against the walls, balanced atop piles of dirt or sand. In size and shape, the boxes feel reminiscent of monuments, gravestones, or coffins. Each box contains a history lesson: formally elegant collages of monochromatic black-and-white shapes that Krueger punctuates with flourishes of pink, red, and the bright yellow of shipping envelopes. Collage is about finding new meaning in the juxtaposition of disparate elements. For Krueger, this process of isolating, truncating, or layering visual information allows for dialogue with the past while telling their own newer story.  

In 2011, Krueger began an eBay search using phrases such as “gay interest” and “vintage gay photograph” to hunt down photographs depicting what they describe as “tenderness, friendship, intimacy, and true love.” These photographs, including tintypes and photo booth portraits, show us men—now long gone—embracing or sometimes just mugging for the camera. Played out decades ago, these fleeting moments of connection and intimacy now feel furtive. Krueger allows us to see their process by including eBay receipts and the handwritten envelopes in which a network of other collectors of “gay interest” move and share these documents. We grieve these lives with the artist, who asks us to consider both the complexities of living a double life in pre-Stonewall America and our own human need for connection and community.

Krueger references many iconic gay artists, activists, and organizations here, including Act Up, David Deitcher, Essex Hemphill, Hal Fischer, Jonathan Ned Katz, Marlon Riggs, the Mattachine Society, and David Wojnarowicz. The artists also layers many symbols of the struggle over the documents, including a red tie, pink triangles, a locket containing the ashes of a childhood best friend, red boxing gloves, and clippings of classified ads from the pages of a defunct 1990’s LGBTQ+ newspaper.

What emerges is that Krueger’s embrace of LGBTQ+ American history allows them to stand on a timeline that faces forward. Although each box feels final and heavy with grief, there is also a sense of triumph. In acknowledging those who’ve gone before, Krueger transforms the boxes into protest banners. Furtiveness falls away, and in its place comes acceptance and yes, pride. As artist and AIDs activist David Wojnarowicz said, “To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific ramifications.”

Ryan Patrick Krueger holds a BFA in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and was formerly Digital Services Coordinator for Light Work, a non-profit artist-run photography organization at Syracuse University. Krueger has curated exhibitions and held shows nationally including Documents from the Closet at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), On Longing at MONACO (St. Louis, MO), Response Response (with Linda Kliewer in Portland, OR), and Queer Moments: Selections from the Light Work Collection (Syracuse, NY). Most recently, Krueger exhibited work in the 2022 FotoFest Biennial, If I Had A Hammer, (Houston, TX), and appeared in Aperture, Art in America, and Sixty Inches From Center.  

[theebonswan]

Margaret Stoutenborough Hubbard, ca. 1850-55

ARTIST: Harvey Jenkins

MEDIUM: Oil on canvas

PERIOD: ca. 1850 - 1855

DIMENSIONS: 35.5 × 28.6 in. (90.2 × 72.6 cm)

CLASSIFICATIONS: Portraits

CREDIT LINE: Gift of Franklin J. Gronde, in memory of his wife, Katherine Holmes Gronde, 1965

OBJECT NUMBER: 1983.554

COLLECTIONS: Portraits

Monmouth County Historical Society, New Jersey

Description

Three-quarter length portrait of an elderly woman with brown hair facing forward, wearing a black dress with white lace collar and a brooch, a black shawl, and a white lace day cap. She is sitting in a floral red-upholstered chair, and is holding a book in her clasped hands.

Curatorial Remarks

Harvey Jenkins first appeared in Monmouth County in 1849. He remained in the Middletown area until his death in 1908. A Civil War veteran, Jenkins was very active in the Red Bank post of the Grand Army of the Republic. Most of his portraits were painted before his military service. He supported himself later in life by teaching music. Jenkins portrays his subjects in a very honest manner, with special skill in depicting fabrics and lace. The Association’s collection includes a signed Jenkins portrait of Margaret Hubbard's husband Samuel (1983.555), as well as pastel portraits of Margaret Hubbard’s parents, and her daughter Rebecca, all three by Micah Williams.

Notes

Margaret Stoutenborough was born in Holmdel in 1794, the daughter of John Stoutenborough and Catherine Holmes. She married in 1818 to Samuel Hubbard, lived near Red Bank, and died in 1874.

[airmanisr]

112309 STO 005_2 by SDASM Archives Via Flickr: Painting, WASP's (Women Air Force Service Pilots, 2009 SDASM Hall of Fame (HOF) inductee portrait; Artist: Stan Stokes; Image with cartoon Fifienella angel and P-38 aircraft - -Image from the SDASM Curatorial Collection.Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum

[rblakemiller]

The Power of Market Research and Analysis in New York: Unlocking Business Success

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