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batllethinker · 9 months ago

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The national team submissions masterboard

Overview: A look into the dynamics of our national teams

Spain:

Doms: Jenni, Ona, Aitana, Irene P, Sandra

Subs: Alexia, Mapi, Misa, Laia C, Leila O, Laia A, Salma, Athenea, Mariona, Patri, Cata, Eva N, Lucia, Pina

England:

Doms: Millie B, Mary E, Alex G, Millie T, Coombsy, Lucy S, Rachel

Subs: Lucy B, Keira, Esme, Leah, Georgia, Ellie, Hannah, Beth E, Beth M, Fran, Lauren, Ella, Lessi, Missy Bo

Sweden:

Doms: Magda, Olivia, Frido, Amanda, JRK, Linda S, Amanda N, Sofia J, Caroline, Elin, Rebecka

Subs: Hanna B, Asllani, Lina H, Stina, Nathalie, Filippa, Jonna, Anna S, Matilda V, Stina B, Julia Z, Emma

Australia:

Doms: Mini, Lani, Emily VE, Tameka, Kyah, Emily G

Subs: Macca, Sam, Ellie, Steph, Charli, Clare, Mary, Kyra, Chloe, Teagan, Caitlin, Hayley, Courtney N

Oranje:

Doms: Sherida, Dominique, Shanice, Merel

Subs: Danielle (Switch), Lynn, Viv, Lieke, Jackie, Jill, Damaris, Esmee, Daphne, Kerstin

Germany:

Doms: Melanie, Popp, Svenja, Lina, Sara, Linda, AKB

Subs: Obi, Jule, Giulia, Merle, Klara, Laura, Sydney, Lea, Feliciats, Sjoeke, Sara D

Ireland

Doms: Denise O’Sullivan, Louise Q, Courtney Brosnan, Caitlin H, Diane C, Niamh F, Heather P

Subs: Katie M, Megan Connolly, Amber, Claire O’R, Abbie Larkin, Izzy Atkinson, Lucy Q, Ruesha L, Grace M, Jamie F, Megan Campbell, Kyra Carusa, Anna P

Canada

Doms: Cloé L, Adriana L, Janine B (switch), Kadeisha B, Allysha C, Melissa Dagenais, Ashley L, Bianca SG, Nichelle P, Kailen S, Desiree S, Shelina Z

Subs: Jordyn H, Quinn, Jessie F, Sab, Julia G, Marie-Yasmine, Amanda A, Simi, Tanya, Gabrielle C, Sydney C, Rylee F, Vanessa G, Anna K, Devon K, Clarissa L, Marie L, Jordyn L, Lysianne P, Emma R, Deanne R, Jade Rose, Jayde R, Zoe B, Victoria Pickett, Olivia S, Sarah S, Evelyn S, Sura Y

Norway

Doms: Ada (switch), Ingrid, Maren M, Guro P, Guro B, Maria T, Tuva H

Subs: Guro R, Frida, Caroline, Aurora, Vilde, Thea, Celin, Julie B, Lisa N, Elisabeth T, Sophie H

Scotland

Doms: Lisa E, Kirsty S, Rachel C, Jenna F, Lee G, Jenna C, Hayley L, Jane R

Subs: Sam K, Erin C, Kirsty H, Nicola D, Sandy M, Sophie H, Leah E, Christy G, Jamie-Lee, Brogan H, Jennifer S, Amy R, Chelsea C, Fiona B, Martha T, Claire E, Lauren D

USA

Alyssa Naeher (Dom), Jane Campbell (Dom), Aubrey Kingsbury (Sub, Jane), Casey Murphy (sub, Alyssa)

Tierna Davidson (sub, Andi), Emily Fox (sub, Alex), Naomi Girma (sub, Alex), Casey Krueger (Dom), Jenna Nighswonger (sub, Crystal), Emily Sonnett (sub, Lindsey), Sam Staab (switch)

Sam Coffey (Dom), Hal Hershfelt (sub, Andi), Lindsey Horan (Dom), Rose Lavelle (sub, Lindsey)

Crystal Dunn (Dom), Catarina Macario (Sub, Lynn), Alex Morgan (Dom), Trinity Rodman (sub, Hatch/Sofia), Jaedyn Shaw (sub, Abby D), Sophia Smith (sub, Becky), Mallory Swanson (switch, Christen)

Ashley Sanchez (sub, Hatch/Sofia), Ashley Hatch (switch, Sofia), Becky Sauerbrunn (Dom), Abby D (Dom), Lynn W (Dom), Olivia Moultrie (sub, Becky), Alyssa Thompson (sub, Christen), Midge Purce (sub, Alex), Kristie Mewis (sub, Lynn), Sav DeMelo (switch, Jane), Andi Sullivan (Dom), Alana Cook (sub, Sofia), Sofia Huerta (Dom), Tobin Heath (Sub, Christen), Christen Press (Dom)

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loelett · 1 year ago

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"Clothes of all kinds fascinated him, not for their beauty but for what he thought they meant. He wore jeans and sweatshirts like Daniel; he wore cable-knit sweaters and workmen's brogans, leather windbreakers, and mirrored sunglasses pushed up on his head. He wore tailored suits, and dinner jackets, and white tie and tails when the fancy suited him; his hair was cut short one night so he looked like any young man down from Cambridge, and left curly and long, an angel's mane, the next." - Queen of the Damned

which outfit out of these is your favorite?

um um um oh god. armand jeans and sweatshirt is really cute to me i love him being comfie... he's literally copying daniel what a thief! i'm choosing to interpret this as armand following daniel to every store he goes to and buying exact copies of his outfits to wear out bc he's a freak

#asks!

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spoilertv · 1 year ago

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wewerecore · 2 years ago

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The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour - 001 05/18/23 Defy TV 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST Filmed at the Good Time Theatre at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania

SEGMENT ONE (NINE MINUTES):

- The program opened with a standup at the commentary booth. Sudu Upadhyay welcomed the Defy TV viewers to the inaugural episode of The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour and introduced his broadcast colleague "The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko told viewers it's opening week at Dorney Park, the best amusement park this side of Larryland.

- An opening video intro of CORE highlights aired set to "Black Swan Lake" by Janko Nilovic.

Titus Alexander vs. Prince Ahmed Titus Alexander defeated Prince Ahmed with the Chaos Theory. (3:55)

- A video aired which showed an older gentleman in a dark blue denim jacket over a flannel shirt and matching dark denim jeans as he fed ducks from a metal pail along the banks of Harveys Lake. The gentleman spoke of how great pro-wrestling has been to his family, how blessed he is to have this beautiful ranch right outside of Dallas, Pennsylvania. The man introduced himself as Franz Von Trier, the patriarch of the Von Trier family. Franz said that he and his sons have been so fortunate to have the support of the entire Back Mountain area as they packed the Anderson Sports and Health Center at Misericordia University in downtown Dallas, Pennsylvania every week for the last twenty years. As the camera zoomed in on a lovely ranch home over his shoulder, Franz said these next few weeks he'll be introducing his boys, his wife Dottie, and the entire Von Trier family to the fans of COal REgion Pro-Wrestling.

SEGMENT TWO (SEVEN MINUTES):

Giant Baba Yaga (with UltraMantis Black) vs. Portia Giant Baba Yaga defeated Portia with the Russian Leg Sweep. (4:11)

- A video aired which opened with a wrestling mat being rolled out over a gymnasium floor. The video highlighted three wrestlers as they put their amateur skills on display against opponents. As the video progressed, the wrestlers began to include elements of the professional wrestling style into their offense and really punish their overmatched opponents. The wrestlers then introduced themselves. Shaw Mason, graduate of the John Carroll University wrestling team and professional wrestler. Hunter Holdcraft, former member of the Augustana College wrestling team and professional wrestler. Timothy Bosby, 2022 Tennessee All-State wrestler, current Memphis Wrestling Internet Champion, and professional wrestler. The video closed with the text - folkstyle. Coming Soon.

SEGMENT THREE (NINE MINUTES):

- A video package aired recapping the emergence of Kerry Morton and his faction. The video opened with Kerry Morton covertly swapping his early entrant number in the Coal Region Rumble with his father Ricky Morton’s later number. Then we saw Kerry Morton menacing then CORE matchmaker Sad Badd at the Bloomsburg Fair about young talent not being booked. Next was a clip of Kerry Morton, Nick Wayne, Starboy Charlie, Marcus Mathers, Brogan Finlay, Billie Starkz, and Kenzie Paige attacking Christopher Daniels and Ultimo Dragon after their Senior Division match. Highlights of their 5-on-5 elimination match at Thanksgiving Tussle ’22 aired next. A clip from Co-Op Weekend where the group attacked and bloodied Sheepherder Luke and Mike Jackson aired in black-and-white.

- After the conclusion of the video package, Prince Nana appeared on screen for the first edition of his new interview show, The Throne Room. Nana welcomed his guests, Starboy Charlie, Marcus Mathers, and Brogan Finlay, to the set. The three detailed their frustrations with trying to push wrestling forward when promoters and fans always looked to the past. They discussed their issues with CORE creating an entire division solely to prolong the careers of the already over the hill wrestlers. They touched on the negative effects of putting microphones in front of sad, geriatric retreads that belittle and criticize young talent. Prince Nana mentioned that all great factions in wrestling need a name, legendary groups like The Embassy or The Mogul Embassy all had iconic names, Nana wanted to know what their name was. The three admitted they hadn’t yet settled on a name, that they had been more focused on action than messaging, but now that they have established themselves and buried the fossils, they are open to suggestions. Prince Nana encouraged the fools at home to write in with their suggestions and a P.O. Box flashed on the screen.

SEGMENT FOUR (SEVEN MINUTES):

Billie Starkz and Kylie Paige vs. Zayda Steel and Adena Steele Billie Starkz and Kylie Paige defeated Zayda Steel and Adena Steele with the Tombstone from Starkz on Steele. (4:36)

- After the match we are sent to the CORE news desk for the Coal Region Roundup hosted by Daphne Oz. Daphne Oz announced an upcoming CORE live event called The Panic In Pillow Park to be held on June 10th at Pillow Park in Pillow, Pennsylvania. Daphne said the main event has already been signed as Titus Alexander, who we saw earlier in the show, will be taking on Kerry Morton. The show will also see the debut of the folkstyle faction of Shaw Mason, Hunter Holdcraft, and Tim Bosby in a six-man tag match. Oz next confirmed reports that CM Punk had been present at the recent CORE tapings at Dorney Park to visit friends. Daphne Oz moved on to rumors that Ari Daivari's TrustBusters organization were looking to form a reserve team on the independent circuit, and said that the CORE booking office had recently received a video from the TrustBusters that addressed this topic.

- A video aired which showed TrustBusters member and butler JeeVeS K as he finished fluffing the pillows on an immaculately made California king bed inside a lavish master bedroom. JeeVeS K said that at the behest of Ari Daivari, he is preparing these "barracks" for the TrustBusters Reserve, an elite group of independent professional wrestlers that will be standing by should the TrustBusters need to bolster their manpower as they continue to grow and expand. JeeVeS K said that the first group will be arriving momentarily, and after a month of intense training in the finest facilities in the world, the TrustBusters Reserve will make their debut in CORE this summer.

SEGMENT FIVE (EIGHT MINUTES)

Something/Nothing: (Jake Something and Vincent Nothing) with UltraMantis Black vs. Trace Parker and Tom Mitchell Something/Nothing defeated Trace Parker and Tom Mitchell with the Sitout Powerbomb from Something on Mitchell (5:13)

- During an instant replay of the match, Larry Zbyszko asked the audience to indulge him for a minute and called for the camera to cut to the announce desk. Zbyszko talked about the not so veiled shot Starboy Charlie, Marcus Mathers, and Brogan Finlay took at him. Zbyszko warned Finlay that his father in his prime couldn’t beat Zbyszko, and that Brogan is literally half the man his father was. Zbyszko said he had a suggestion for a name for the faction, how about The Born Losers?

SEGMENT SIX (FOUR MINUTES):

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- A brief interview with Raychell Rose and Queen Aminata aired where they announced their Defy TV debut next week on The Great Pro-Wrestling Adventure Hour.

- Sudu Upadhyay signed off until next week.

Upcoming Shows:

CORE Pro #116 The Panic In Pillow Park 06/10/23 Pillow Park - Pillow, Pennsylvania 01. Titus Alexander vs. Kerry Morton The debut of folkstyle (Shaw Mason, Tim Bosby, and Hunter Holdcraft) and much more!

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shipwreckedcomedy · 1 year ago

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Catch a digital ticket to Scriptwrecked 3 - Nothing to Say - while you can!

NOTHING TO SAY by Taylor Brogan

When old friends Bridget and Nick reconnect in Los Angeles, they try to make sense of all the ways their relationship has (and has not) changed.

FEATURING Ryan W. Garcia Sinead Persaud Daniel Rashid Tom Truax Olivia Scott Welch Mary Kate Wiles and Aaron Zelman

#scriptwrecked #nothing to say #taylor brogan #ryan w garcia #sinead persaud #daniel rashid #tom truax #olivia scott welch #mary kate wiles #aaron zelman

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soylazaro · 2 years ago

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NIKE x MADDEN from BRENDAN VAUGHAN on Vimeo.

director BRENDAN VAUGHAN dp HTAT HTUT ep JON BROGAN producer JULIETA GILBERT production coordinator LIZETTE DE LOS SANTOS, JOEL GARAY

creative & production STEPT STUDIOS

head of creative OLIVIER AGOSTINI account executive CLAIRE SOMMER account manager SYDNEY MANERS creative director PAUL PRUDHOMME, SHREYA CHOPRA copywriter STEVEN STENHOLT

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giasesshoumaru · 4 years ago

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“I’ve never had anyone try to kill me before.”

“Well, the important thing is, they didn’t.” - Henry Brogan and Danielle “Danny” Zakarewski (Gemini Man)

#gemini man #henry brogan #danielle danny zakarewski

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boysbygirls · 6 years ago

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Jade Danielle Smith captures Beckett Hammond at SUPA Models for our AW18 issue ’The Dreamers’. Fashion by Nathan Henry. Grooming by Fabio Vivan. Interview by Brogan Anderson.

See the full Issue 14 preview

Beckett wears top by Kenzo, roll neck by Lanvin and trousers by Phoebe English.

#beckett hammond #jade danielle smith #boys by girls #bbgissue14 #the dreamers #nathan henry #hidden dragon #supa models #fabio vivan #brogan anderson #kanzo #lanvin #phoebe english

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roadswim-collective · 8 years ago

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THE MANY WORLDS OF JOANNA MILKWEED- FOREWORD

by Daniel Brogan

Joanna Milkweed, sculptor, producer, co-creator of Dan the Can Man, died last year at the age of 104 at her home near Wenvoe, surrounded to the end by a faint air of mystery.

A photograph from her last public appearance, at the BAFTA children’s awards ceremony, in London, in the year 1998, shows Joanna sitting at an angle to her colleagues.

At the Grosvenor, over a landscape of napkins and wine bottles in silhouette, Milkweed’s husband, the producer Bill Kenzie, along with animator Clayton Morgan, looks toward the lit stage. Around the shadowy table, lesser colleagues incline the same way. Their smiles are fixed, they look anxious, expectant.

Joanna is looking elsewhere. Her chair is turned so that she is at a right angle to the stage, to the spotlight, to the hallowed space where the announcements and the speeches are made. One hand hangs limp between her knees, the other holds a champagne flute. Her gaze is unreadable. There is a darkness either in or around her eyes that reminds one of cigarette burns.

Born in the Rhondda Valley in 1961 and educated at Saint Martins College, Joanna Milkweed was always looking elsewhere. In all but the most posed of shots, her eyes consistently fail to meet the camera. In this picture, taken in August 1998, the tendency reaches its geometrical conclusion. She is at 90 degrees to the ceremony.

Minutes after the shot was snapped Joanna and her colleagues won their second award of the night. Dan the Can Manhad already won best animation, Bill accepting the trophy from the writer Michael Rosen, and now Zum4 Entertainment – formed by Joanna, Bill, and Clayton – was about to be named Best New Independent Production Company.

Less than a year later Milkweed divorced Kenzie and went on to sell him all the rights to their creation, the perennially popular delivery man Dan, his yellow truck, and his whole motorway corridor world.

Milkweed never made another programme. Her withdrawal from public life was abrupt and total. She went away and never came back.

Joanna had been active in film and television design for 20 years at this point. From the start, she was determined to work in animation and soon made her name. Her gift as an artist appeared to combine two different elements, the intricacy and detailed beauty of her model work on the one hand, on the other a certain looseness or wildness of the imagination. Milkweed’s best work contained equal parts of each tendency, working together, eccentric visions sculpted into perfect scale models.

Joanna Milkweed designed and built a glorious variety of miniature worlds for dozens of different projects through the 80s and into the 90s. A lot of her work was done in fantasy and sci fi settings – a library in a university on an icy moon of Saturn, the interior of a smashed up block of flats in a post-apocalyptic city, a war torn village in the Dark Ages. Her eye for detail brought all these strange scenes and more to vivid life.

Milkweed also worked in children’s television, creating memorable sets for popular series like Mr Tweedyman,Samson and Gwynn, and The Shimmers.

“Joanna always brought something extra,” recalls Miles Brierley, who hired Milkweed to work on his long-runningAquarius 3000 series (1986 – 1993) and again on the one-off special Tarvin’s Future (1994).

“No matter what the project was, you knew that if you got Joanna Milkweed in you were going to get something really very special.

“Joanna’s stuff was just so imaginative, and so beautiful, she actually took what we were doing to another level. Certainly in the early days of Aquarius, before we’d found our voice, Joanna’s models were the best reason to watch the damn show!”

In 1995, while pregnant with her first child, Joanna conceived the initial spark that led to the creation of Dan, the vending machine resupply driver whose adventures still entertain children to this day.

Ex-husband Bill Kenzie, though often derided, has written movingly about this moment in his posthumously published memoir Just the Delivery Man:

“Joanna was suddenly hungry, after feeling sick all day, so now I tried to tempt her with different food possibilities. It’s quite difficult to predict what will tempt the appetite of a pregnant woman. I offered soups and salads, biscuits and chocolate, various sundries from the back of the cupboard. All in vain.

“Finally, in desperation rather than in hope, I blurted the word: McDonald’s? And Joanna rewarded me with an ironic grin, as was her way. I went to hunt for the car keys.

“We were still living in Newport at this point, much to our distress. The new house in Roath was ready for us to move into, had been since May. We’d hoped to be in and settled well before now, with Joanna’s bump so big and round. Moving house is stressful, as is having a baby. Trying to do the two at the same time though? An absolute hellscape. Which may seem an overstatement but to those who have never had to try it, I’d simply say – try it!

“Being pregnant brought out the anxious, worrying side of Joanna. It didn’t help that it was such a difficult pregnancy. I remember thinking, well, thanks a lot Mother Nature. Thanks for making this a lot more difficult than it strictly had to be. And of course it was Joanna who bore the brunt. I felt so sorry for her, we had so many ups and downs. My own temperament is much calmer, more simply optimistic.

“If you ask most of my friends and colleagues to describe me in a few brief words, you’d probably find a lot of variations on Laid back, including So laid back it’s a wonder he doesn’t fall flat on his back. It’s true, I’m naturally relaxed almost to a fault. People start to find it annoying, my lack of urgency. I know Joanna found it annoying. I guess we were at different poles emotionally, as in so much else.

“I suppose I felt at some level that my influence would help her chill out a little. Looking back, it seemed to have the opposite effect, giving Joanna a target for her fears, her irritation, and her many frustrations. I don’t think either of us was very easy to live with, we were still young and were both quite extreme personalities at that point. But different extremes, Joanna and I – opposite poles. We had our moments though, which I’ll never forget, and would never want to forget. They made us who we are.

“While eating her Quarterpounder Meal in the car, her first solid food since the bout of uncontrollable vomiting on Wednesday afternoon, we looked across the car park at the panorama beyond, the M4 motorway snaking its way through Newport, heading west through a pink sky to the sunset. And I remember, will never forget, Joanna putting my hand on her bump to feel our child moving in there, nearly ready to meet us, and listening at the same time as she told me about this idea she’d had, it had just come to her now, the first stirrings.

“It was an idea for a show, a show of her very own. About all this – and she pointed with her Coke cup at the world outside our car. Joanna’s words, as I felt the baby kick, I’ll never forget, all those lights just coming on, all starting to shine, all those tiny lives. Her own eyes were shining, and I told her so. That was the moment Dan the Can Man was conceived. Three weeks later our beautiful baby Dylan was born.

“As I say, we had our moments.”

Joanna had never originated a show, had always worked for hire on other people’s projects. Now she worked with Bill and their university friend Clayton to create a pilot episode, on the strength of which the BBC commissioned a series of six 10-minute episodes, aimed at a 4-8 age group. The first series aired in March 1996 and was an immediate hit.

Parents began calling the BBC to ask if there were plans to release Dan the Can Man on video or DVD. Something about Joanna’s creation – and it was Joanna’s really, before it was anyone else’s – made it hugely popular right from the off, and well beyond its intended age group.

A hastily commissioned second series, of 12-episodes, was an even bigger hit. The series, like Teletubbies and Rastamouse before it, seemed designed to tempt cultural commentators. There were countless columns and thinkpieces in the broadsheets, while the tabloids kept up the hunt for innuendo well beyond the point of reason.

It was assumed that Dan the Can Man, despite the good-natured simplicity of the stories themselves, said something…or represented something…perhaps reflected something. No-one seemed quite sure but trying to define it – that was the thing that kept the columnists and the panellists going.

A piece in The Guardian called it the first post-Fordist kids’ show. The Times called it Trumpton on a zero hours contract. A writer for the Daily Mail bemoaned the show’s strenuous attempts to tick every last diversity box. Art critic Brian Sewell called it a drearily faithful depiction of our current atomisation and malaise, while on the same Radio 4 panel show, comedian and activist Mark Thomas asserted that it’s like Brecht or something – and we’re all Dan the Can Man now.

Joanna Milkweed, quoted in 1997: “Ultimately it’s about a little man called Dan who goes round filling up vending machines with soft drinks, and all his little adventures on the way.”

Licensing deals were signed. There was merchandise, the figures first, then the bedsheets and backpacks. Zum4 Entertainment was formed. Money began to flow. At the centre of the whirlwind stood the central trio, Jo and Bill and Clay. They each had an area of expertise: Joanna made the sets, the models and the puppets, Clay animated them, and Bill sold the finished product.

They were a team, a family. They had trust and they respected each other. Then Joanna walked away. She left behind her company, her lucrative creation, her career in TV, her life in London, and her husband. She was 41.

The two children, Dylan and Hazel, Joanna kept with her.

Milkweed bought a house near Cardiff and they lived there together, just the three of them, until the children grew up and left home. Joanna never remarried, never – as far as we can tell – embarked on another romantic relationship.

Bill Kenzie remarried twice, was divorced twice, and died at the age of 66, having turned Zum4 into an internationally successful company, while paragliding in Crete.

After Milkweed’s return to Wales in 1999 all invitations to collaborate on projects were refused, offers of work were ignored. Old acquaintances and friendships were left behind, until no-one seemed to have any idea what had become of her.

Miles Brierley regards the loss of Joanna’s gifts to the world of film and TV as “a bloody tragedy.

“I would have loved to work with Joanna again, she was quite, quite unique. I did pester her for some years with projects, inviting her to come to the studios to look at what we were doing.

“At first she just replied with polite refusals but after about three years of me periodically pestering her with offers of work, she began replying in the form of these funny postcards she’d made herself, some cryptic picture on the front. Usually stuff like derelict phone boxes with weeds growing through the little windows. Old pubs rotting away.

“Once there was a broken television set, old tube style, smashed screen, in the middle of a messy bit of muddy wood somewhere.

“I thought, yes, well, okay. I get the picture. It’s a no, isn’t it?”

For the next 63 years, until her death last year and the opening of her house to the public earlier this year, Joanna succeeded in staying beneath the margin of the world’s notice.

The one exception to Milkweed’s absence from the public stage occurred in the year 2000, when papers carried the report of a 42 year old woman arrested for breaking and entering a storage unit in Stroud. Joanna Milkweed admitted robbing the unit repeatedly over two months, emptying it of almost all its contents before a dog-walker spotted her and called the police.

Milkweed told officers that everything she had taken – which comprised all the sets, vehicles, clothes, and puppets she’d ever made for Dan the Can Man – belonged to her. The owners of the unit, Zum4 Entertainment Worldwide, declined to press charges and Joanna kept the models. They were obsolete anyway, production of the show having moved from stop motion animation to 3D computer design, in order to keep up with international demand. Bill Kenzie told a reporter, “All she had to do was ask.”

All this is a matter of public record. These are the bare facts in the case of Joanna Milkweed, as they would appear to any casual researcher. The questions they raise are many. The most obvious are: Why did Milkweed abandon her success, her creation, and her marriage in 1999?Was it for the same or at least a related set of reasons? Why did she turn her back so completely on her profession and the friends she’d made? How or why did a previously prolific artist with an astonishing work rate subdue her creative energy for the rest of her life?What did she do with her imagination, with her her hands, for the latter 63 years of her life?

In brief, whatever happened to Joanna Milkweed?

These questions are not easily answered. A woman addicted to privacy makes a difficult subject for a biographer, and I can’t pretend to be suited for such a tricky task. My role is that of an editor, or perhaps an assembler would be more accurate. What I have assembled are simply fragments of Joanna. The writer who eventually takes on the challenge of the supremely elusive Milkweed has my respect and my sympathy. I look forward to reading the finished product.

This book aims to answer just one question: what did Joanna do with all the models she stole from the lock up?

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