#emma willard

[antis-hero]

Rewriting Emma Willard: Female Education—Not Feminism

Today is the 237th anniversary of Emma Willard's birth—happy birthday Mrs. Willard!

Emma Hart Willard was born on February 23, 1787, in Berlin, Connecticut. She became one of the most influential women in early American history—even being praised by a few of the country’s Founding Fathers—because of her work to open more formal educational opportunities to women and girls. Founder Thomas Jefferson received a letter from her on the topic of her petitions for female education, to which he wrote a short response stating: “…the subject is of great importance and of lamentable deficiency in this country…” and he was “…happy to see it brought before the public so ably and eloquently by mrs Willard, to whom he tenders his respectful salutations, and best wishes for success…”. John Adams, wrote back to her as well, telling her that “The Female Moiety of Mankind, deserved as much honour Esteem, and Respect, as the Male. The duties of Allegiance and Obedience, are reciprocal in a family; as well as in the State—and similar limitations, and Restrictions are applicable to both”. Her crowning achievement is the Troy Female Seminary, in Troy, New York, which is known as the Emma Willard School today. To keep this post brief, I’ll skip most of the biographical information and get to her motivations.

According to her great-great grandson, Amherst Professor Edward S. Belt, her motivations were “…rooted in patriotism and duty to country”, which fits with her own statements. In her “Plan for Improving Female Education” she appeals to the New York legislature by pointing out that encouraging and funding formal education for women, as they did for men, should be part of the government’s duty, as, to her, it would “…promote the present and future prosperity of the nation…”. She continued: “…it is through the mothers, that the government can control the characters of its future citizens, to form them such as will ensure their country's prosperity”. Here is not only a good example of Willard’s patriotism, but her belief in what we call Republican Motherhood: a popular concept in early American history that argued that women could support republican government as good mothers who prepared the next generation to be good citizens like her and their father. This concept was also behind the actions of her younger sister, Almira Lincoln Phelps, who supported Willard’s advocacy for women’s education and became a teacher herself.

However, though she is known as an advocate for women’s rights, Willard was not an advocate of women’s suffrage (while her sister was vocally opposed to it). In fact, one of her students was a young Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who once asked her if she would lend her support to the suffrage movement, to which Willard declined. In reading what people today have written about Willard, I see many argue that she did this strategically to avoid jeopardizing efforts to educate women and that she must have been secretly supportive of votes for women. This sort of thinking has been said about her appeals to God, patriotism, and choice in logic in her “Plan for Improving Female Education” as well. This idea is incorrect, however: Emma Willard was not a secret feminist who was restricted by her time, she was simply not a feminist. In an 1848 letter to the first leader of the French Second Republic, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l’Eure, on the creation of a new French government after the French Revolution of 1848, she argues that female influence was a valuable force that could and should be harnessed to be used in politics, but that a “wise politician” should “guard against it becoming an opposing force”.

Her plan, which she begins with the statement “…I maintain, in direct opposition to the Socialists…”, first states that the only natural government is found within the family unit. In keeping with that tradition, Willard came up with the idea of a body of female representatives that focused on issues that were proper for them, listing “commerce, war, and foreign relations” as subjects that would not be covered by the female group. Instead, she charges the female council with the tasks of the “religious, moral, and intellectual training” of children and the community, the care of the poor, the promotion of public morality, and the education of women beyond primary school. She ended her letter with the statement that her plan respected the union of the sexes and God. I recommend reading the letter yourself if you want to better understand her views, but it’s clear from this that Willard does not fit with our or her time’s standard for feminists, as she doesn’t believe in the same sort of equality that feminists do/did. I wouldn’t call her an anti-feminist, or true anti-suffragist, either, as she didn’t participate in these movements and her ideas are much different than what I see in antis. Whether we like it or not, Emma Willard was not a feminist, and to try and rewrite her as such erases a part of her, and other women’s, story.

Links to her work:

“Plan for Improving Female Education”, 1819.

History of the United States, or Republic of America, 1847.

Letter to Dupont de l'Eure, April 1848. Found on page 246 of Volume II.

[nordleuchten]

I know that this was intended as a joke, but ever since reading it, I can not stop asking myself: what was La Fayette’s taste in music?

And to be honest, there is not much to be found in his letters, Memoirs and the writings of his family and friends. I searched for the words song/music/tune/melody/piano/singing/voice/concert/opera and there was not really much turning up.

La Fayette wrote to John Adams on February 22, 1786:

(…) However Strange it Appears, if they will Give up the forts, or let us Have the pleasure to Walk into those formidable Works on our Saratoga tune of Yankee doodle.

“To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 22 February 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0091. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 182–183.] (02/13/2024)

I am pretty sure that I read somewhere else that his son later wrote, that La Fayette liked indeed the popular song “Yankee Doodle” and he even ordered his marching band to strike up the song after the Battle of Yorktown was won.

Jules Germain Cloquet has a passage in his book where he writes:

Whenever an author of his acquaintance had a new dramatic piece represented, Lafayette felt pleasure in going to the theatre with his children. He sometimes attended benefit representations, and always preferred the French national theatre and the Italian opera to any other theatre. He also went to balls or concerts given for the benefit of the poor and of refugees, and made it a point to accept invitations to patriotic banquets (…)

Jules Germain Cloquet, Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette, Baldwin and Cradock, London, 1835, p. 251.

Seems like La Fayette most often had a “reason” to go to these sorts of entertainments instead of just enjoying himself. But the opera seems to be something he truly valued. When he was in London as a young man he also attended the Opera and chatted with General Clinton shortly before the performance started. There is also a letter by Emma Willard that, in part, talks about the two of them visiting the opera. Willard wrote to her sister Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps from December 7, 1830:

I must now tell you, how it was that we spent the evening together. It was at the Opera Francais, usually called the Grand Opera. You will remember that he told me he had not been at a theatre since the revolution, and the first time he did go, he would go with me. One evening before had been appointed, and failed from the illness of one of the performers. It was the evening before last that we finally went [December 5]. I expected that the people would have cheered him as he entered. But he was in a citizen's dress, and went with a determination, as it appeared, not to be known.

Emma Willard, Journal and Letters from France and Great-Britain, 1833.

So, opera most likely.

what do you think Lafayette or Hamilton’s favorite music artist/ band would be?

That's a hard one. I'm thinking that Lafayette would love the indie music scene and Hamilton would love the bassy type of music.

[melishatweedy]

MISTAH TWEEDEH!: A life he wished for but didn’t get:

Willard Tweedy, a simple man, a farm, a wife, a brew and a shotgun.

Little is really said in the books about his life. However his family have been chicken farmers for generations - as we see in the film and the books - and he wants to continue egg farming, it’s all he’s ever known. We see in Mrs Tweedy’s Chicken Pies for the Soul that his uncle was killed by a chicken, which is his first glimpse of knowing the chickens are more than just “stupid creatures”. I feel like this is his only real “smart” moment. He built a fucking pie machine and didn’t know what it was. Like mate.. name’s on the boxes surely..

He’s clearly in love with Melisha, we see it in their wedding photo, the way he speaks to her, the way he questions his own sanity for her. Man’s devoted and I don’t blame him lol. There’s the slight emotional abuse with the name calling, but I absolutely hate it when they say she’s physically abusive etc.. She’s not. Yes she kicked his arse but she’s not physically abusive. Also, there’s hints that there’s still that spark between them, and I stand by my point that they were in love at one point, and they married for love (and a business prospect). (I also love the theory of the him being her beard.)

He’s clearly the comic relief of the first film, similar to Dr Fry in the second. However he’s not just the poor little abused husband people make him out to be. He’s in fact worse than Melisha to the chickens. You see him kicking and throwing ginger into “solitary confinement”, which in the real world a chicken would last mear hours -if that- before dying. He also picks them up by the neck, whereas we see Melisha (apart from handling Edwina, but she was about to be killed) picking them up by their bodies (CR:DOTN). No wonder they’re not laying eggs, they’re being handled in such ways! ALSO HE PUT A LIVE CHICKEN IN THE PIE MACHINE BOY I SWEAR TO GOD-

Anyway, my conclusion: he comes from a poor background, a farmers background and that’s all he knows, it’s all he’s ever known. He’s just as bad as Melisha when it comes to the chickens. He’s most likely seen how his father and grandfather treated the chickens and carried it on. Learnt behaviour. They’re both as bad as each other but he’s maaainly the reason the chickens aren’t laying any eggs. My theory is that after their divorce he remained in Yorkshire but moved away, has a little flat and is a farmhand on another farm, as it’s probably all he has experience wise. Hope your little flat is cosy, king!

[king-plutos-typewriter]

Now you see me, now you don't

Listened to "Ghost" by Confetti and I had a vision.

Behold my children! I drew this like almost a year ago now but forgot to post it.

[potato-lord-but-not]

2023 Art Battle Masterpost

BRINGING THIS BACK BB ITS THE ANUAL BATTLE TO THE DEATH !!

I’ll start making polls tomorrow so enjoy this sneak peak while ya wait !!

Round 1

LEFT BRACKET:

Cluster vs Celestial Bis

Jon Sims vs Homoerotic Sword Moment

Gwen vs Danny

Sun & Moon vs Ode to Intimacy

Jack Met vs Siblings

Frankenstein vs Nick Bears in Trees

Will Wood vs William Woodiam

Ineffable Husbands vs Death of the Author

Bi Vampire vs 6up 5oh Moist

Mac vs Eclipse Sapphics

Yellow Wills vs Todd & Dirk

Dirk Gently vs DnD Bears in Trees

Gonzalez vs Hobie

Nick & Charlie vs Ode to Hunger

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde vs Rincewind

Tighnari vs Krummi

RIGHT BRACKET:

Me vs The Hottest Bisexuals

Maladict vs Irradiated

August vs Blue Wills

My Wife vs Will Doodles

Ankh-Morpork Streets vs Mike Crew

Crowley vs Purple Wills

Tiffany vs Gay Wizard

Shatter vs Adora

Mostly Harmless vs Dorian Gray

H2G2 Designs vs Demon & Angel

Moist & Adora vs Pink Wills

Pavitr vs Willard

Ankh-Morpork Polycule vs Emma <3

Trans Zombie vs Gay Yearning

Moist vs Vimes

Pav vs Jhariah

Round 2

Celestial Bis vs Homoerotic Sword Gays

Gwen vs Ode to Intimacy

Siblings vs Frankenstein

Will Wood vs Death of the Author

6up 5oh Moist vs Eclipse Sapphics

Yellow Wills vs Dirk Gently

Hobie vs Ode to Hunger

Rincewind vs Tighnari

Hottest Bisexuals vs Irradiated

Blue Wills vs My Wife

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Purple Wills

Tiffany vs Shatter

Mostly Harmless vs Demon & Angel

Moist & Adora vs Pavitr

Ankh Morpork Polycule vs Gay Yearning

Moist vs Pav

Round 3

Homoerotic Sword Moment vs Ode to Intimacy

Siblings vs Death of the Author

6up 5oh Moist vs Dirk Gently

Ode to Hunger vs Rincewind

Hottest Bisexuals vs Blue Wills

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Shatter

Demon & Angel vs Moist & Adora

Gay Yearning vs Pav

Round 4

Ode to Intimacy vs Death of the Author

Dirk Gently vs Ode to Hunger

Hottest Bisexuals vs Ankh Morpork Streets

Moist & Adora vs Gay Yearning

Round 5

Ode to Intimacy vs Ode to Hunger

Ankh Morpork Streest vs Gay Yearning

FINAL ROUND

Ankh Morpork Streets vs Ode to Hunger

OUR WINNER !!

ANKH MORPORK STREETS IS THE ART OF 2023 ‼️‼️

thanks for voting girlies ;^)

[publicdomainreview]

Susan Schulten on the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://t.co/Jo1Tzs0rPI #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2024

[todaysdocument]

Telegram to President Woodrow Wilson from Jane Addams and Other Women Regarding the Deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Series: Subject and Policy Files File Unit: Appeal of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst for admittance for visit, English Suffragette

This telegram petitioned the Department of Labor and their decision to deport Emmeline Pankhurst, a British suffragette. The authors wanted the board to reconsider and maintain "America's devotion to liberty."

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO.FD. 283 139 extra 10:25 p.m. Sa, Chicago, Ill., October 18, 1913. The President. Whereas, the Associated Press reports to the American public that Mrs. Pankhurst's deportation has been ordered by the board of inquiry at Ellis Island and, Whereas, such action is in direct violation of the traditions and customs of the United States which has always been hospitable to the political offenders and revolutionists of all nations, and, Whereas, our sister republic, France, is at the present moment sheltering Christabel Pankhurst, Now, therefore, be it resolved: That we, the undersigned women of Chicago, protest against this flagrant violation of our long established public policy, and, Be it further resolved: That we respectively petition the Department of Labor in reviewing the case of this distinguished English woman to reconsider the decision of the Board of Inquiry and to admit Mrs. Pankhurst; thus maintaining the high traditions of America's devotion to liberty and right of free speech. (Signed) Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Bowen, Mary Rozette Smith, Mary McDowell, Margaret Dreier Robins, Harriet Taylor Treadwell, President Chicago Political Equality League; Margaret A. Haley, Business Representative Chicago Teachers' Federation; Ida L. M. Furstman, President Chicago Teachers' Federation; Mrs. Harriet S. Thompson, Director Chicago Political Equality League; Edith A. Phelps, Anna Nichols, Laura Dainty Pelham,

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO. Sheet 2- Chicago, Ill., Octo. 18, 1913. to the President. Stella Miles Franklin, Kathleen Hamill, Mary Foulke Morrisson, Anna Monroe, Edith Wyatt, Caroline Packard, Leonora Pease, Secretary Socialist Women's League; Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, Marion M. Griffin, Margaret B. Dobyne, Mary E. Galvin, Judith W. Loewenthal, Agnes Nestor, E. Beatrix Dauchy, Belle Squire, Anna Willard Timneus, Emma Steghagen, Grace Wilbur Trout, Florence Holbrook, Catharine Goggin, Mary Anderson, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Esther Dresden, President Young Women's Suffrage Association; Amy Walker, Francis Harden, Anna Harden, Catharine Goggin, Mary V. Donoghue, Wilma Rhinesmith, Julia Donoghue, Serina Hayes, May E. Brown.

[alldancersaretalented]

Dancers that won both finals and titles in the same year at TDA:

Minis:

2014: Kayla Mak (Westchester Dance Academy)

2015: Avery Gay (Master Ballet Academy)

2019: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

2021: Kelsie Jacobson (Larkin Dance Studio)

2021: Kya Massimino (Stars Dance Studio)

2023: Malia Scott (Larkin Dance Studio)

2024: Sylvie Win Szyndlar (Club Dance Studio)

Juniors:

2012: D'Angelo Castro (Dance Town)

2014: Emma Sutherland (Prodigy Dance and Performing Arts Center)

2017: Brady Farrar (Stars Dance Studio)

2018: Ava Wagner (Larkin Dance Studio)

2018: Kiarra Waidelich (The Rock Center For Dance)

2019: Keagan Capps (The Pointe PAC)

2021: Cami Vorhees (Evolve Dance Complex)

2021: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

2022: Kylee Casares (Stars Dance Studio)

2023: Fiona Wu (Yoko's Dance)

Teens:

2014: Julian Elia (Elite Danceworx)

2015: Payton Johnson (Jean Leigh Academy of Dance)

2019: Ruby Castro (Dance Town)

2021: Brady Farrar (Stars Dance Studio)

2023: Crystal Huang (The Rock Center For Dance)

2023: Ian Stegeman (Woodbury Dance)

Seniors:

2011: Bianca Melchior (Elite Danceworx)

2012: Jenna Johnson (CSPAS)

2016: Taylor Sieve (Larkin Dance Studio)

2017: Simrin Player (Club Dance Studio)

2018: Morgan Higgins (Denise Wall Dance Energy)

2018: Lucy Vallely (Westside Dance Project)

2019: D'Angelo Castro (Dance Town)

2019: Findlay McConnell (Elite Danceworx)

2019: Vivian Ruiz (Stars Dance Studio)

2021: Jaxon Willard (CSPAS)

2021: Alex Shulman (Danceology)

2022: Brianna Keingetti (Columbia PAC)

2023: Sam Fine (Stars Dance Studio)

2024: Sierra Drayton (Elite Danceworx)

[alliluyevas]

for my beloved followers interested in mormon polygamy name discourse, i have compiled and presented a list of the children of four different 19th century mormon polygamist men, ranging from 30 to 66 children. I included middle names when I could find them and the children are listed in chronological order of their birth.

Brigham Young:

Elizabeth, Vilate, Joseph Angell, Brigham Jr., Mary Ann, Emma Alice, Luna Caroline, John Willard, Brigham Heber, Edward Partridge, Oscar Brigham, Hyrum, Joseph, Moroni, Mary Eliza, Ella Elizabeth, Alva, Alma, Fanny Decker, Emily Augusta, Marinda Hyde, Clarissa Maria, Jeanette Richards, Zina Presendia, Evelyn Louisa, Hyrum Smith, Caroline Partridge, Ernest Irving, Nabby Howe, Willard, Eudora Lovina, Mahonri Moriancumer, Emmeline Amanda, Shamira, Alfales, Brigham Morris, Phoebe Louisa, Jedediah Grant, Arta DeChrista, Joseph Don Carlos, Louisa Wells, Susa Amelia, Lorenzo Dow, Miriam, Albert Jeddie, Feramorz Little, Alonzo, Josephine, Clarissa Hamilton, Charlotte Tallula, Ruth, Phineas Howe, Lura, Daniel Wells, Rhoda Mabel, Adella, and Fanny van Cott

Heber Kimball: 

Judith Marvin, William Henry, Helen Mar, Roswell Heber, Heber Parley, David Patten, Adelbert, Charles Spaulding, Henry, Brigham Willard, Sarah Helen, David, Margaret Jane, Abraham Alonzo, Isaac, Solomon Farnham, Samuel Chase, David Orson, Prescinda Celestia, Murray Gould, David Heber, Joseph Smith, Augusta, Cornelia Christine, John Heber, William Gheen, Susannah, Samuel Heber, Joseph Smith, Harriet, Newel Whitney, Willard Heber, Jacob Reese, Jonathan Golden, Horace Heber, Rosalia, Albert Heber, Lydia Holmes, Jedediah Heber, Hyrum Heber, Enoch Heber, Peter, Daniel Heber, Ann Spaulding, Sarah Maria, Jeremiah Heber, Mary Melvina, Andrew, Alice Ann, Eliza, James Heber, Joshua Heber, Washington, Mary Margaret, Moroni Heber, Sarah Gheen, Joshua Heber, Eugene, Wilford Alfonzo, Franklin Heber, Lorenzo Heber, Abbie Sarah

Joseph F. Smith:

Mercy Josephine, Sarah Ellen, Mary Sophronia, Leonora, Hyrum Mack, Donette, Joseph Richards, Alvin Fielding, Heber John, Joseph Fielding Jr., Alfred Jason, Rhoda Ann, David Asael, Edna Melissa, Minerva, Albert Jesse, George Carlos, Alice, Robert, Julina Clarissa, Willard Richards, Elias Wesley, John Schwartz, Franklin Richards, Emma, Emily Jane, Lucy Mack, Calvin Schwartz, Zina, Rachael, Jeanetta, Samuel Schwartz, Andrew Kimball, Ruth, Edith Eleanor, James Schwartz, Jesse Kimball, Asenath, Martha, Agnes, Silas Schwartz, Fielding Kimball, and Royal Grant

Parley Pratt:

Parley Parker Jr., Nathan, Olivia Thankful, Susan, Moroni Llewellyn, Alma, Helaman, Nephi, Julia Houston, Belinda Marden, Cornelia, Agatha, Abinadi, Lucy, Ether, Mormon, Mosiah, Malona, Lehi Lee, Henriette, Marian, Omner, Teancum, Mary Wood, Moroni Walker, Phoebe Soper, Isabella Eleanor, Sarah Elizabeth, Evelyn, Mathoni

also who had the best name taste and who had the worst

[sallypolpetta]

I have other headcanons

New Melisha and Fry stuff let's go

Melisha and Willard's was an arranged marriage. He loved her, but she didn't love him back. I also headcanon that she never had relationships prior to her marriage with Willard.

When she met Fry she fell in love for the first time. At first, she didn't even understand she was in love, she coulnd't believe it.

Fry was insecure about his appearance until he met Melisha. He gained more confidence from her compliments.

Fry had a girlfriend during some of his university years, but they broke up after two years.

Melisha likes rings and Fry sometimes buys her an expensive ring for her.

Since in my AU they are actually in love, Melisha hates when someone accuses her of being a gold digger, and Fry hates when people think that Melisha is just a trophy wife. They truly love each other in my fiction (too bad they didn't go that route in the actual movie).

Melisha will never admit it, but she loves hugging her husband while sleeping.

When Melisha told Fry about what happened in the first movie, he tried to help her using his psychology degree. He felt bad for her and wanted her to feel better. He is a very supportive husband and he is always there for Melisha.

Regarding Melisha's daughters, Emma Jane looks like her mother a lot, with the same blue eyes and tall height. Her hair is slightly lighter than Melisha and Willard's. Little Vanessa looks more like Fry, with the same dark and curly hair and a similar skin tone.

My grammar sucks.

[antis-hero]

Emma Willard’s “Picture of Nations or Perspective Sketch of the Course of Empire”, 1836.

Link to the larger version

[thequietabsolute]

Top Artists — Medium Term (6 months)

Felbm

Radiohead

Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Kate Bush

Nick Drake

Midlake

Paul Simon

Simon & Garfunkel

Slowdive

Boards of Canada

Canary Room

The Beatles

Fionn Regan

Beach House

Leonard Cohen

hemlock

Vashti Bunyan

Clara Mann

Bob Dylan

The Smiths

ABBA

Grouper

David Bowie

The Clientele

Jessica Pratt

Olovson

Bill Callahan

Laura Marling

Rachel Grimes

Chet Baker

Belle and Sebastian

Sibylle Baier

Aldous Harding

Cocteau Twins

Acetone

Connan Mockasin

Fleetwood Mac

Cornelia Murr

John Martyn

Julie London

Sea Oleena

Sufjan Stevens

Meg Baird

Shannon Lay

Van Morrison

Pink Floyd

Caroline Says

Sun Kil Moon

Maxine Funke

Fairport Convention

that spotify stats page

Top Tracks — Long Term (years)

Calla — Canary Room

4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: IV. Morgen! — Richard Strauss, Jonas Kaufmann, Helmut Deutsch

6 Melodies, Op. 4 - 6 melodies, Op. 5: Allegretto — Fanny Mendelssohn, Beatrice Rauchs

Long Before Us — Rachel Grimes

Sandalwood I — Jonny Greenwood

Stabat Mater: 1. Stabat Mater — Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

Thaïs / Act 2: Méditation — Jules Massenet, Joshua Bell, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton

Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55 No. 4 — Antonín Dvořák, Alisa Weilerstein, Anna Polonsky

Elegy No. 1 in D Major — Giovanni Bottesini, Andrew Burashko, Joel Quarrington

The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan (Arr. for Cello and Piano) — Camille Saint-Saëns, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott

Julie With - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

wallingford bossa — hemlock

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73: No. 1, Zart und mit Ausdruck — Robert Schumann, Sol Gabetta, Hélène Grimaud

By This River - 2004 Digital Remaster — Brian Eno

Just When You Need Yourself Most — Oberhofer

Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro — Giacomo Puccini, Renée Fleming, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Bleecker Street — Simon & Garfunkel

House of Woodcock — Jonny Greenwood

Shaker — Acetone

All The Time — Acetone

Jazz Suite No. 2: VI. Waltz II — Dmitri Shostakovich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Kalendar Prince (Excerpt) — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Riccardo Muti, Philadelphia Orchestra

Christine — Canary Room

Me at the Museum, You in the Wintergardens — Tiny Ruins

Valse sentimentale, Op. 51, No. 6 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Josef Sakonov, London Festival Orchestra

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso — Ludwig van Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff, Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner

Deux Arabesques, L. 66, CD 74: I. Première Arabesque — Claude Debussy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Green Bus — The Innocence Mission

Lucida — Thomas Bartlett

Introduction et Allegro, M. 46 — Maurice Ravel, Oxalys

Two Thousand and Seventeen — Four Tet

When It Rains — Felbm

Lake Effect — Canary Room

Candy Says — The Velvet Underground

Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, TH 48: II. Valse — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko

Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6, Heft II: No. 14, Zart und singend — Robert Schumann, Jonathan Biss

Magnolia — J.J. Cale

day one — hemlock

Return From The Ice — Acetone

Requiem in D minor, K.626: 6. Benedictus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Willard White, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

River — Terry Reid

Where Should I Meet You? — Canary Room

This Night Has Opened My Eyes - 2011 Remaster — The Smiths

Brother — Vashti Bunyan

Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude — Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma

Sweeten Your Eyes — The Clientele

Knickerbocker Holiday: September Song (Arr. by Paul Bateman) — Kurt Weill, Daniel Hope, Jacques Ammon, Zürcher Kammerorchester

Funicular — Felbm

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jenő Jandó

Sensuela — Column

[bio-occultist]

Emma Willard, The Temple of Time

Temple of Time, detail

[publicdomainreview]

"The Temple of Time" (1846) by Emma Willard.⠀

From our essay by Susan Schulten exploring the pioneering work of Emma Willard (1787–1870), a leading feminist educator whose innovative maps of time laid the groundwork for the charts and graphics of today: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/emma-willard-maps-of-time

[piapiatoss]

Mengulas Film Terbaik dari Festival Cannes

Festival Film Cannes adalah salah satu acara perfilman paling bergengsi di dunia, yang setiap tahunnya menarik perhatian para sineas, kritikus, dan penonton dari seluruh dunia. Sejak didirikan pada tahun 1946, festival ini telah menjadi platform untuk menampilkan karya-karya terbaik dari berbagai negara dan budaya. Artikel ini akan mengulas beberapa film terbaik yang pernah diputar dan dianugerahi penghargaan di Festival Cannes.

1. La Dolce Vita (1960)

Disutradarai oleh Federico Fellini, "La Dolce Vita" adalah sebuah mahakarya yang meraih Palme d'Or pada tahun 1960. Film ini menggambarkan kehidupan jurnalis Marcello Rubini di Roma, yang terjebak dalam dunia glamor dan hedonisme. Dengan gaya sinematik yang khas dan narasi yang mendalam, "La Dolce Vita" tidak hanya menjadi tonggak dalam karir Fellini tetapi juga dalam sejarah perfilman dunia.

2. Apocalypse Now (1979)

Karya epik Francis Ford Coppola ini mendapatkan Palme d'Or pada tahun 1979. "Apocalypse Now" adalah film perang yang diadaptasi dari novel "Heart of Darkness" karya Joseph Conrad. Film ini mengisahkan perjalanan Kapten Benjamin Willard dalam misi untuk membunuh Kolonel Kurtz yang dianggap gila. Dengan sinematografi yang memukau dan eksplorasi mendalam tentang kengerian perang, "Apocalypse Now" menjadi salah satu film terbaik sepanjang masa.

3. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Disutradarai oleh Quentin Tarantino, "Pulp Fiction" memenangkan Palme d'Or pada tahun 1994. Film ini terkenal dengan struktur naratifnya yang tidak linear dan dialog yang tajam. Menggabungkan beberapa cerita yang saling terkait, "Pulp Fiction" menampilkan ansambel pemain bintang seperti John Travolta, Uma Thurman, dan Samuel L. Jackson. Film ini tidak hanya menghidupkan kembali karir beberapa aktor tetapi juga menetapkan standar baru dalam genre film kriminal.

4. The Tree of Life (2011)

Film yang disutradarai oleh Terrence Malick ini memenangkan Palme d'Or pada tahun 2011. "The Tree of Life" adalah sebuah eksplorasi filosofis tentang kehidupan, keluarga, dan alam semesta. Dengan visual yang indah dan narasi yang reflektif, film ini dibintangi oleh Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, dan Sean Penn. "The Tree of Life" mendapatkan pujian luas karena keindahan sinematiknya dan kedalaman tematiknya.

5. Parasite (2019)

"Parasite" karya Bong Joon-ho meraih Palme d'Or pada tahun 2019, menjadikannya film Korea Selatan pertama yang meraih penghargaan tersebut. Film ini mengisahkan tentang dua keluarga yang berbeda kelas sosial dan bagaimana kehidupan mereka saling terkait dengan cara yang tak terduga. "Parasite" mendapatkan pujian karena kritikan sosialnya yang tajam, pengembangan karakter yang mendalam, dan twist yang mengejutkan. Film ini kemudian juga memenangkan Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik, menjadikannya fenomena global.

6. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

Film Prancis yang disutradarai oleh Abdellatif Kechiche ini memenangkan Palme d'Or pada tahun 2013. "Blue Is the Warmest Color" adalah kisah cinta yang mendalam antara dua wanita muda, Adèle dan Emma. Film ini dikenal karena penggambaran emosional yang kuat dan penampilan luar biasa dari para pemerannya, Adèle Exarchopoulos dan Léa Seydoux. "Blue Is the Warmest Color" mengeksplorasi tema-tema identitas, cinta, dan penemuan diri dengan cara yang intim dan jujur.

7. The Piano (1993)

"The Piano" yang disutradarai oleh Jane Campion memenangkan Palme d'Or pada tahun 1993. Film ini mengisahkan seorang wanita bisu, Ada, yang dikirim ke Selandia Baru bersama putrinya untuk menikah dengan seorang pria yang belum pernah ditemuinya. Dibintangi oleh Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, dan Anna Paquin, "The Piano" menampilkan cerita yang memukau dengan visual yang indah dan musik yang mengharukan. Film ini juga meraih banyak penghargaan lainnya, termasuk Academy Awards.

Festival Film Cannes telah menjadi ajang untuk memperkenalkan karya-karya sinematik yang luar biasa dari berbagai belahan dunia. Film-film yang memenangkan penghargaan di Cannes sering kali menjadi tonggak penting dalam sejarah perfilman dan memberikan dampak besar pada budaya populer. Dari kisah cinta yang mengharukan hingga eksplorasi filosofis tentang kehidupan, film-film terbaik dari Festival Cannes menawarkan berbagai pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.