#david coker

[jazzdailyblog]

Randy Brecker: A Life in Jazz and Beyond

Introduction: Randy Brecker is a name synonymous with innovation, versatility, and virtuosity in the world of jazz and beyond. As a trumpeter, composer, and arranger, he has left an indelible mark on jazz, fusion, and popular music, blending technical prowess with a deep sensitivity to melody and harmony. From his pioneering work with Blood, Sweat & Tears and the Brecker Brothers to…

[zsakuva]

Hello!! Even though it's absolutely irrelevant, I thought I'd ask anyway since you seem the best person to answer the question(s) I'm about to ask:

First of all, I am someone who has listened to/ is open to listening to most types of music. But these days I feel like I'm falling behind in music genres such as ambient, folkkore or soundtrack annd much more.

On the other hand, it would be hard not to realize that you listen to these genres religiously in the short time I was able to use Discord!! So you kinda get the point of me asking this question specifically to you 🦉

So, let's ask you, King Crumpet, do you have any suggestions?, or important stuff you want to talk about? Let your people be cultured too!!

I normally consume soundtracks of things that I've played/watched before, and many are nostalgic for me. But I tend to listen to music that helps with my work, so I curate my playlists when I'm searching for a specific theme or mood. I also listen to my 'Discover Weekly' and 'Release Radar' semi-regularly to find new songs, so the artists in total are ALL over the place.

So in no particular order, I'll list off soundtracks that help my brainstorming/writing (bear in mind I don't listen to the whole soundtrack, just pieces that fit what I need):

MOVIES/TV SHOWS/ANIME

Game of Thrones - Ramin Djawadi

House of the Dragon - Ramin Djawadi

The Hunger Games movies - James Newton Howard

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Bear McCreary

The Wheel of Time - Lorne Balfe

The Untamed - Hai Lin

Tales From Earthsea - Tamiya Terashima

Psycho-Pass - Yugo Kanno

The Sandman - David Buckley

The Bourne Trilogy - John Powell

Oppenheimer - Ludwig Göransson

VIDEO GAMES

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Jeremy Soule

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Jeremy Soule

Final Fantasy XII - Hitoshi Sakimoto

Final Fantasy XV - Yoko Shimomura

Horizon Zero Dawn - Joris de Man

Moss - Jason Graves

Pine - Tumult Kollektiv

Detroit: Become Human - Nia Fakhrara; Philip Sheppard; John Paesano

MISCELLANEOUS BUT NOTABLE ARTISTS

Yuki Kajiura

Gareth Coker

Nobuo Uematsu

Two Steps From Hell

Howard Shore

Jia Peng Fang

Will Savino

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (normally renditions of video game soundtracks like Tomb Raider II)

Hans Zimmer

Loreena McKennitt

Mark Eliyahu

Yutaka Yamada

[queerliblib]

Doing what we do best on this World AIDS Day: sharing stories that need to be heard.

“All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South” by Ruth Coker Burks and Kevin Carr O’Leary.

“How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS” by David France.

“Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP" New York, 1987-1993” by Sarah Schulman.

♥️

[morhath]

Oh I’m very very interested in your nonfiction book recs 👀

EDIT: ykw I'm gonna make this a little more organized

I listed a bunch in this post (the last question) but lemme see if I have any additions because I know I was kinda trying to keep it short when I wrote that. (But that being said, that post is the Top Faves Of All Time, so go for those first.)

Freaky medical shit I also liked:

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase (I just read this a few weeks ago and OOUUUGGHHHHHH IT'S LITERALLY JUST. LIKE THE RESPONSE TO COVID.)

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Political shit I also liked:

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change by Janelle S. Wong

History I also liked:

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle

The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives by Bryant Simon (between those two you can tell I was on a bit of a "workplace tragedies caused by lax regulations and bad management" kick)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (I think everyone knows about this book, including it for completeness)

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story Of The First Women In The Space Race by Stephanie Nolen

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke (this is nowhere near as fun and cute as you'd assume from the title)

Memoirs I also liked:

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton (I read this before I really got into nonfiction and it was WILD, I tell people about it all the time)

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui (this one is a graphic not-novel-I-guess-memoir)

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Other:

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud by Elizabeth Greenwood

A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller

Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

AND here are a few on my TBR that I'm really excited for! I decided not to categorize them because they're almost all history:

Silk and Potatoes: Contemporary Arthurian Fantasy by Adam Roberts

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer (I am actually partway through this right now but in a bit of a dry/confusing section)

The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist by Carol A. Stabile

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell (have just barely started this)

Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 by John Waller

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by Lady Hyegyeong

Miss Major Speaks: The Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste by William M. Alley, Rosemarie Alley (I'm in the middle of this but it's surprisingly, um. not exciting.)

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames

Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It by Joslyn Brenton, Sinikka Elliott, Sarah Bowen

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Medieval Gentlewoman: Life in a Gentry Household in the Later Middle Ages by Ffiona Swabey

Hitler's First Victims: The Beginning of the Holocaust and One Man's Fight to End It by Timothy W. Ryback

I am soso normal and have very normal interests that are not at all grim :)

[aliusfrater]

whats ur favorite dd run. i only read the mark waid one me thinks

my favourite run like entirely based on the one that had the best split between like mind blowing, story, art, character etc etc for me specifically was the bendis/maleev one in volume two. bendis is suchh a hit or miss writer methinks and i love maleev to the moon and back. like i am so fond of him as a person and artist. but i genuinely wouldn't recommend it to anyone that hasn't read waid or something in volume one first. alex maleev is also the only(?) person that worked on a daredevil comic that ive interacted with online. and i have multiple times. i will mention this every time i get to talk about him. besides the point but second place is irvine/coker's daredevil: noir and third place is ann nocenti and fourth place is soule because he made mike murdock a real boy, introduced sam chung, and i'm biased and fifth place is david mack's stuff which is actually with bendis/maleev at first place if i group them under the 'volume two' column. anyway. maleev art below:

and david mack:

[mybeingthere]

Peter Coker, RA (British, 1926-2004)

‘One of the foremost realist painters in England … Coker will be remembered for the refreshing nature of his astringent vision, for his consummate mastery as a draughtsman, painter and etcher, and as a proud and vigorous inheritor of a great artistic tradition.’ (Frances Spalding, Independent, 20 December 2004)

Peter Coker was born in London on 27 July 1926. He first studied at St Martin’s School of Art (1941-43; 1947-50), and began to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy from 1950. Though he was a contemporary of John Bratby and Edward Middleditch at the Royal College of Art (1950-54), his work related only briefly to the raw figuration of the Kitchen Sink School. This was signalled by his paintings of a Leytonstone butcher’s shop which were included in his highly successful first solo show (Zwemmer Gallery 1956). His development as a landscape painter originated in his first encounter with the canvases of Gustave Courbet on a trip to Paris (1950). By the mid 1950s, he was an established landscapist in the French manner, working from the motif on the coasts of Normandy (1955) and Brittany (1957), and drawing inspiration from such contemporaries as Nicholas de Stäel. Later in the decade, he revived the spirit of Barbizon in his paintings of Epping.

Coker moved with his family to Manningtree in Essex (1962), and added occasional appearances at Colchester School of Art to teaching at St Martin’s. Nevertheless, he concentrated on his work, and made time for painting trips to France, the North of England and Scotland. He held solo shows at the Zwemmer Gallery (1960s), the Thackeray Gallery (1970s) and Gallery 10 (1980s), and continued to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy. He was elected an Academician (ARA 1965, RA 1972), and had his early images of the butcher’s shop presented at the RA in one of an increasing number of public retrospectives (1979).

From 1972, Coker made several visits to Bargemon, Provence, during which he gradually accepted the character of the South of France, and integrated its startling light and colour into his established palette and handling. Late in the decade, he applied this approach to an ideal motif, in beginning a series of paintings of the garden of the Clos du Peyronnet, Menton. Following the death of his son Nicholas in 1985, he stayed at Badenscallie, Ross-shire, Scotland. There he began an impassioned series of landscapes, extended on subsequent visits, which focussed on salmon nets drying at Achiltibuie. These reaffirmed his essential identity as ‘a northern painter’, which had actually become more strongly emphasised by his contrasting achievement of painting the south. The many studies and paintings inspired by both Mediterranean France and the West of Scotland comprised important elements of such recent retrospectives as that of drawings and sketchbooks at the Fitzwilliam Museum (1989) and that of paintings and drawings at Abbot Hall Art Gallery (1992).

In October 2002, Chris Beetles mounted a major retrospective of the work of Peter Coker and, at the same time, launched the artist’s authorised biography. The beautifully produced hardback book, with over 250 illustrations, contains contributions from Richard Humphreys (Tate Gallery), John Russell Taylor (The Times), and David Wootton (Chris Beetles Ltd). The book includes a comprehensive biography and chronology, essays, appraisals of his work, a catalogue raisonné and lists of his exhibitions and sketchbooks.

While the monograph and retrospective were being planned, it seemed that the artist’s career might have been drawing to a close. However, the joint project revived his energies significantly. This was manifested by a range of new work, which was shown at Chris Beetles Ltd during spring 2004. The motifs are mostly familiar, being drawn from existing sketchbooks, and range across France and encompass Britain. Yet the handling was freer than ever, and the palette more vibrant – accomplishments of which Peter was justifiably proud. This display was complemented by an exhibition of recent Parisian subjects, touring to Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield.

Peter Coker died in Colchester, Essex, on 16 December 2004.

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Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/ paste this ask to your favorite mutuals 💌

Thank you @idleblatherings 😊

Tonight's playlist is titled "stargazing in bed", and here are the next five up...

[doormouseetcappendix]

Best Films Of 2023 41-50

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem directed by Jeff Rowe

Scott Pilgirm Takes Off directed by Tomohisa Shimoyama, Moko-chan, Akitoshi Yokoyama, Rushio Moriyama, Takakazu Nagatomo, Kenji Maeba, Takuya Fujikura, & Takakazu Nagatomo

Kazizi Moto: Generation Fire Raymond Malinga, Simangaliso ‘Panda’ Sibaya & Malcom Wope, Shofela Coker, Nthato Mokgata & Catherine Green, Tshepo Moche, Pious Nyenyewa & Tafadzwa Hove, Terence Maluleke and Isaac Mogajane, Ahmed Teilab, Lesego Vorster, Ng'endo Mukii

Thanksgiving directed by Eli Roth

V/H/S/85 directed by David Bruckner, Scott Derickson, Gigi Saul Guerraro, Nathasha Kermani, Mike P. Nelson

Luther: Fallen Son directed by Jamie Payne

The Creator directed by Gareth Edwards

Make My Day directed by Takahiro Tanaka, Kentarō Fujita, Tatsuji Yamazaki, Kohei Sugatani, Grace Chen, Mntn Chang, Yuichi Abe

Landscape With Invisible Hand directed by Cory Finley

No One Will Save You directed by Brian Duffield

[cranberrymoons]

url playlist tag game

thank you @sleeplittleearth for the tag! i did one of these about a month ago so putting together a second, different playlist was fun but also took me a while 😅 here's my half-dad-rock music taste! i'm gathering them like a dragon hoard in this spotify playlist

cruel to be kind – spacehog rip off – t rex angie – the rolling stones northern sky – nick drake betty – taylor swift everywhere – fleetwood mac run away – lola coker rebel rebel – david bowie you and me – alice cooper mama werewolf – brandi carlile oh sweet nuthin – the velvet underground oye como va – santana nothing but the water – grace pottter & the nocturnals she's the one – bruce springsteen

also i feel like i've done a bunch of these this week and trying not to double/triple tag anyone means i'm running out of people 😭 but if you want to do it, please just say i tagged you because i want to see your music taste!!!

[rattlinbog]

Books Read in 2022

January

The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan 

The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine 

February

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #6) by Ransom Riggs 

Eifelhelm by Michael Flynn 

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer 

March

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (reread)

The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley

April

The Parted Earth by Anjani Enjeti 

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar 

Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy 

The Last Blue by Isla Morley 

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler 

All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South by Ruth Coker Burns

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

May

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (reread)

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 

LaRose by Louise Erdrich

A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York by Cindy Amrhein 

June

Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties by Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman

These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Dubois 

Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez 

A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske 

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

July

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Wanderers by Meg Howrey 

A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

Calypso by David Sedaris

My Antonia by Willa Cather 

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe

English Animals by Laura Kaye

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

August

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman (reread)

The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross 

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

September

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak 

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Country Roots: The Origins of Country Music by Douglas B. Green

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream by Conor Dougherty

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson (reread)

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys: The Real Story Behind Peter Pan by Andrew Birkin

The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

October

A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates

The Reddening by Adam Nevill

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

November

It Happened in the Smokies... A Mountaineer’s Memories of Happenings in the Smoky Mountains in Pre-Park Days by Gladys Trentham Russell

Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks 

Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres 

I Was Told There’d be Cake: Essays by Sloane Crosley

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

December

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (reread)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (reread)

Mrs. Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

[randomrabbidramblings]

Hey there! Before Sparks of Hope came out, I already knew I was gonna love it obviously (because I love the first game) so I kinda "went dark" and tried to avoid any content about it for several months before the game's release so I wouldn't get spoiled on stuff. But I think there were some dev interviews and the like being released around the hype cycle, which of course I didn't read at the time for those reasons. Now that I've beaten the game and all, I always like to learn more about the thoughts that went into my favorite games, so I was wondering if you knew of any interesting articles, interviews, videos, etc. Like for instance I believe it was you who shared that article about positive fan reception to the Phantom (whom they cleverly made sing because they were under orders that the Rabbids couldn't TALK) giving them the confidence to have all the Rabbids speak now. So you seemed like a good person to ask.

No pressure though! Otherwise I was just gonna start combing backwards through the Mario + Rabbids and Ubisoft Milan twitters looking for stuff.

Sure! Here some things I found interesting!

This is from last year, so I believe about when the game was just announced.

This one too:

Davide Soliani explains how Sparks of Hope was developed (interesting because it takes off more from the DK DLC intstead of the first game):

New-ish interview regarding the soundtrack:

I shared this video last week, but I propose it again in case you've missed it. It involves the game, food and puppets. It makes sense in context I swear.

Lil trivia: the Mario + Rabbids series was first tought without Nintendo's knowing:

And dulcis in fundo the Instagram page of one of the concept artists who made the Wardens' backstory portraits and is currently posting avery single one of them:

https://www.instagram.com/fabiopochet/?hl=it

Bonus: intervew with Augustine Chemelle the voice of Phantom (I tought I just imagined this video, but here I found it again!):

[iironwreath]

playlists [crow]

part one crow (instrumental) dicentra rosenthal crow/dicentra crow/dicentra pt.2

tracklists:

part one:

going to hell - the pretty reckless

seize the power - YONAKA

judas - lady gaga

yeah right - evanescence

nightmare - halsey

hellfire - jonathan young (disney cover)

the point of no return/down once more - phantom of the opera

you should see me in a crown - billie eilish

king - foreign figures

raging on a sunday - bohnes

the devil you know - blues saraceno

faith - ghost

ghost myself - DIAMATNE

burn it all down - PVRIS

good in red - the midnight

the outsider - MARINA

the underground - meg myers

somewhere I belong - linkin park

howl - florence + the machine

new skin - VERITE

glorious purpose - natalie holt, loki

marching with giants - black math

instrumental:

a fiery attraction - jamie christopherson

vivaldi: la stravaganza - antonio vivaldi

silent woodlands - gareth coker, ori and the will of the wisps

beyond hill and dale... - mikolai stroinski, the witcher 3

curious feeling of falling - thomas newman

string quartet no. 61 - joseph haydn, kodaly quartet

melting waltz - abel korzeniowski, penny dreadful

deal's changed - arcane

first meeting - rob lane, klara ketelaars, the chamber orchestra of london

the forbidden fruits of eden - AURORA

babbie's daughter - caroline dale, david gilmour

fire and ashes - mathias rehfeldt, bulgarian symphony orchestra

dicentra rosenthal:

inferno - rain paris

in the middle of the night - elley duhé

violent minds - VUKOVI

don't blame me - taylor swift

devil's circle - lana lubany

amorous waltz - dominik scherrer

two evils - bastille

the music of the night - phantom of the opera

crow/dicentra:

graveyard - halsey

bad girl - daya

playground - bea miller

devil like you - gareth dunlop

I wanna be yours - arctic monkeys

moderation - florence + the machine

rule the world - skott

trust nobody - king princess

oh my god - adele

salt and vinegar - lights

after dark - mr.kitty

beneath a moonless sky - phantom of the opera

darkness at the heart of my love - ghost

bring me to life - evanescence

not gunna get us - t.A.T.u.

get out - YONAKA

sibylla - harry gregon-williams

exhale inhale - AURORA

handmade heaven - MARINA

take me to church - hozier

all of me - scala & kolacny brothers

crow/dicentra pt.2:

eve - precious pepala

the fruits - paris paloma

oh, lover - royksopp, susanne sundfor

hover like a GODDESS - WILLOW

this hell - rina sawayama

cigarette - the beaches

bad medicine - bon jovi

choke - BONES UK

soul sucker - ellise

king of the damned - palaye royale

life eternal - ghost

so good right now - fall out boy

can I get it - adele

ANYWHERE BUT HERE - PVRIS

gajendra - WILLOW, Jahnavi Harrison

from persephone - kiki rockwell

to be loved - askjell, AURORA

[artbookdap]

Details and page spreads from 'Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces' on view through Feb 18 (ie, Saturday!) at @themuseumofmodernart ⁠ ⁠ This 184-page paperback is an archival deep dive with fresh interpretations of the legendary New York gallery and cultural laboratory that catalyzed collaboration among Black artists and their counterparts of diverse backgrounds.⁠ ⁠ Just Above Midtown, or JAM, was an art gallery and self-described laboratory for experimentation led by Linda Goode Bryant that foregrounded African American artists and artists of color. Open from 1974 to 1986, it was a place where an expansive idea of contemporary art flourished and debate was cultivated. The gallery offered early opportunities for artists recognized as pivotal figures in late-20th-century art—including David Hammons, Butch Morris, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady and Howardena Pindell—as well as a nonhierarchical approach to art that welcomed artists without stylistic proscription.⁠ ⁠ Pictured here:⁠ 1. Janet Henry (obscured) and Linda Goode Bryant at Just Above Midtown, Fifty-Seventh Street. December 1974. Photograph by Camille Billops. Courtesy the Hatch-Billops Collection, NY.⁠ 2. Suzanne Jackson, Talk, 1976.⁠ 3. Gylbert Coker and David Hammons at Just Above Midtown, Fifty-Seventh Street. December 1974. Photograph by Camille Billops. Courtesy the Hatch-Billops Collection, NY.⁠ 4. Detail of photo of Senga Nengudi performing Air Propo at Just Above Midtown/Downtown, Franklin Street, 1981.⁠ 5. Detail of photo showing Barbara Mitchell (center right) and Tyrone Mitchell (far right) at the opening of the exhibition Synthesis, November 18, 1974. Photo by Camille Billops.⁠ ⁠ Catalog edited with text by @t.jeanlax & @taboadanumberthree Text by @ericguybooker @brandoneng__ @doctorkelliejones Yelena Keller, Marielle Ingram, @ellerustle ⁠ Interview with @lindagoodebryant by @thelmagolden⁠ ⁠ #justabovemidtown #jam #LindaGoodeBryant #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CosKKzROQ8_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ethanbondick]

Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation Receives Humanitarian Award

On November 14, 2023, the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation received the Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award at a ceremony held at the Pentagon. Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation recognizes the sacrifices of military heroes by providing financial support to ensure their children receive a college education.

Since 2002, the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation has supported over 3,000 students with $74 million in college scholarships, supplemental grants, and educational counseling. The foundation also works with corporate donors to offer internships and career placement services.

The Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Distinguished Civilian Humanitarian Award recognizes those who have demonstrated their passion for supporting humanitarian needs for members of the US Armed Services. Established in 1996, the award honors philanthropists Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher, who actively supported military and veteran non-profits, including the Fisher House Foundation.

Christine Wormuth, Secretary of the Army, presided over the ceremony. David A. Coker, the President of Fisher House Foundation, which provides 96 comfort homes where both military and veteran families can reside for free while their loved ones receive treatment, provided the address.

According to Secretary Wormuth, the Children of Fallen Patriot Foundation helps lift the financial burden of Gold Star families to ensure surviving children receive adequate financial and educational support in line with Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher’s dedication to service. David and Cynthia Kim, founders of the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, reiterated their goal to provide financial assistance to 25,000 Gold Star students who lost a parent in the line of duty. It also reflected their two-decade journey, and they remain proud of every recipient.

[originalharmonysalad]

Norman Rockwell Museum: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine (June 8, 2024 through October 27, 2024)

This exhibition explores the unforgettable art and satire of MAD, from its beginnings in 1952 as a popular humor comic book to its emergence as a beloved magazine that spoke truth to power and attracted generations of devoted readers through the decades. MAD’s influence and cultural impact will be explored in this landmark installation, which features iconic original illustrations and cartoons created by the magazine’s Usual Gang of Idiots—the many artists and writers who have been the publication’s mainstays for decades.

These include Sergio Aragonés, David Berg, Paul Coker, Jack Davis, Dick DeBartolo, Mort Drucker, Will Elder, John Ficarra, Kelly Freas, Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Martin, Nick Meglin, Norman Mingo, Antonio Prohías, Marie Severin, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Sam Viviano, Richard Williams, and Wally Wood. The art of next generation visual humorists, including Emily Flake, Drew Friedman, Peter Kuper, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, C.F. Payne, Tom Richmond, and Dale Stephanos, will also be on view.

[insideoutvietnam]

New Fisher House Under Construction at the Little Rock VA

Little Rock, Arkansas, June 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ground was broken today for a Fisher House supporting the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System in Little Rock, Arkansas. It will be the first Fisher House built in the state.  Dr. Carolyn M. Clancy, VHA Assistant Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs; David A. Coker, president of Fisher House Foundation; and…