#matt boyden

[forensicated]

I wish we had seen this side of Craig more often!

(as opposed to this side of Matt 🤣🤣)

[marleneoftheopera]

Holiday Audio/Video Gifts!

For the holiday season, here are some audio gifts from various shows and one Phantom video! The link to them is here and the info is below the cut:

Happy holidays and I hope you are all having time for some rest!

Audios

POTO

Jon Robyns, Paige Blankson, Joe Griffiths-Brown, Kelly Glyptis, Matt Harrop, Adam Linstead, Francesca Ellis, David Kristopher Brown, Maiya Hikasa August 22, 2023; London

Tim Howar, Harriet Jones, Nadim Naaman, Lara Martins, Nicholas Garrett, Arvid Larsen, John Ellis, Valerie Cutko, Kelsi Boyden March 19, 2023; Greece

Josh Piterman, Corinne Cowling (u/s), Danny Whitehead, Katy Hanna (u/s), Ross Dawes, Kris Manuel (u/s), Sophie Caton (u/s), Paul Ettore Tabone, Georgia Ware October 17, 2019; London ​Matinee.

Jeremy Stolle (u/s), Samantha Hill, Greg Mills (u/s), Michele McConnell, Richard Poole (u/s), Tim Jerome, Ellen Harvey, Christian Sebek, Kara Klein, Scott Mikita (u/s) March 9, 2013; Broadway Matinee performance.

John Owen-Jones, Deborah Dutcher, Matthew Cammelle, Bruce Montague, Charles Shirvell, Margaret Mary Kane (u/s), Janet Murphy, Jeremy Secomb, Lucy Middleton January 5, 2002; London

Love Never Dies

Tam Mutu, Celia Graham, David Thaxton, Daniel Dowling August 25, 2011; London Tam Mutu's last performance.

Les Miserables

Christopher Jacobsen (u/s Jean Valjean), Stewart Clarke (Javert), Katie Hall (Fantine), Will Callan (Marius), Lulu-Mae Pears (Cosette), Amena El-Kindy (Eponine), Luke Kempner (Thenardier), Claire Machin (Madame Thenardier), Dejan Van der Flyert (Enjolras), Alex Shaw (Gavroche), Clohe Sullivan (Little Cosette), Tom Hext (Grantaire/Majordomo), Adam Pearce (Bishop/Claquesous), Ellie Ann Lowe (Factory Girl), Jordan Simon Pollard (u/s Foreman/Bujon), Matt Dempsey (Bamatabopis/Lesgles), Annabelle Aquino, Hazel Baldwin, Emily Olive Boyd, Ben Culleton, Matt Hayden, Sam Kipling, Anouk Van Lake, Harry Lake, Ben Oatley, Jonathan Stevens, Phoebe Williams, Ollie Wray September 28, 2023; London 15,000th show in London and the 5th show for the new company.

Sunset Boulevard

Nicole Scherzinger (Norma), Tom Francis (Joe Gillis), David Thaxton (Max von Mayerling), Grace Hodgett Young (Betty Shaefer), Ahmed Hamaad (Artie), Tyler Davis (Sheldrake), Charlotte Jaconelli (Johanna), Jon Tsouras (Cecil B. de Mille) September 28, 2023; London

Rebecca

Laureen Jones (I), Richard Carson (Maxim de Winter), Kara Lane (Mrs Danvers), Sara Harlington (Beatrice), Neil Moor (Giles), Piers Bate (Frank Crewley), David Breeds (Ben), Alex James Ward (Jack Favell), Shrley Jameson (Mrs Van Hopper), Nicholas Lumley (Colonel Julian) September 27, 2023; Off-West End

POTO Video

Ian Jon Bourg, Olivia Safe (u/s), Kyle Gonyea 2001; Hamburg, Germany VOB files. One of the most legendary Phantom's opposite one of the youngest Christine's!

[augustusaugustus]

Past Tense

I found some old character/pairing lists on my long-defunct journal and they amused me so I am reposting them here.

Main thoughts: I have no idea why I thought I was most like Vicky, I like June a lot now, and 2024 me really wishes that there was way more Jim/Anyone than there is.

2011 Fandom Survey

Favourite male: Rod Skase. Always. He had so much innate ability, but he always cocked things up because he was too busy trying to look good. Favourite female: Viv Martella. She was such a brilliant character. She was in the show back when female officers were still a rarity and she dealt with the male characters' doubt in her abilities by showing, time and time again, that she could cope with anything the job threw at her while retaining her sense of humour and ability to care. Least favourite: Ugh, so many of the post-shark-jumping characters and the awful changes made to formerly-good characters. I'm going to run with the changed version of John Boulton, though, because the proper John Boulton was one of my absolute favourites and they absolutely ruined his character by making him into something else entirely. In a way, it was good that they killed him off (although HOW they killed him off was also ridiculous), because it hurt to watch such a fantastic character being so utterly ruined. Thank goodness Rod went out in a way that was perfect for who he was, staying in character from beginning to end. Who resembles me: Vicky Hagen. Three more characters that I like: Frank Burnside, Cass Rickman, Roy Galloway. SO MANY MORE. Favourite ship: Skase/Boulton. Pre-ruining of Boulton, thankyouverymuch.

2009 Favourite Characters List

CID * Rod Skase (duh) * John Boulton * Roy Galloway * Tom Proctor * Frank Burnside * Jack Meadows * Ted Roach * Alan Woods * Liz Rawton * Viv Martella * Alistair Grieg Uniform * Taffy Edwards * Matt Boyden * Steve Loxton * Reg Hollis * Yorkie Smith * Cass Rickman * Vicky Hagen * Nick Klein * Dale Smith (as he was the first time around) * Andrew Monroe * Gina Gold * Sam Harker * Bob Cryer * Derek Conway * Gary Best * Jim Carver (as in old-time Jim, not drunk!Jim)

2006 Fandom Survey

Favorite "Characters": Rod Skase, John Boulton, Tom Proctor, Gary Best, Frank Burnside, Mike Dashwood, Reg Hollis Least Favorite "Characters": June Ackland, Debbie McAllister, a large proportion of the cast that came in the couple of years following the Great Sun Hill Barbeque Favorite Ships: Rod/John, Rod/Tom, Des/Reg, Nick/Smiffy, Cass/Vicky Ships that make me nauseous: Oh God, the Dave/Jenny/George rubbish. Also anything that paired together people who had worked together for years without showing any interest in each other. Names commonly involved with this? Jim, June, Tony & Polly.

2002 Fandom Survey

Favorite Pairings: Skase/Boulton Skase/Proctor Boulton/Proctor Meadows/Monroe Stamp/Ashton Klein/Smith Hagan/Boyden Pairings I’m dying to write: Klein/Smith Pairings I’m not keen on reading: Jim/Anyone

[sunaleisocial]

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

New Post has been published on https://sunalei.org/news/with-programmable-pixels-novel-sensor-improves-imaging-of-neural-activity/

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

Neurons communicate electrically, so to understand how they produce such brain functions as memory, neuroscientists must track how their voltage changes — sometimes subtly — on the timescale of milliseconds. In a new open-access paper in Nature Communications, MIT researchers describe a novel image sensor with the capability to substantially increase that ability.

The invention led by Jie Zhang, a postdoc in the lab of Matt Wilson, who is the Sherman Fairchild Professor at MIT and member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, is a new take on the standard “CMOS” (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology used in scientific imaging. In that standard approach, all pixels turn on and off at the same time — a configuration with an inherent trade-off in which fast sampling means capturing less light. The new chip enables each pixel’s timing to be controlled individually. That arrangement provides a “best of both worlds” in which neighboring pixels can essentially complement each other to capture all the available light without sacrificing speed.

In experiments described in the study, Zhang and Wilson’s team demonstrates how “pixelwise” programmability enabled them to improve visualization of neural voltage “spikes,” which are the signals neurons use to communicate with each other, and even the more subtle, momentary fluctuations in their voltage that constantly occur between those spiking events.

“Measuring with single-spike resolution is really important as part of our research approach,” says senior author Wilson, a professor in MIT’s departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), whose lab studies how the brain encodes and refines spatial memories both during wakeful exploration and during sleep. “Thinking about the encoding processes within the brain, single spikes and the timing of those spikes is important in understanding how the brain processes information.”

For decades, Wilson has helped to drive innovations in the use of electrodes to tap into neural electrical signals in real time, but like many researchers he has also sought visual readouts of electrical activity because they can highlight large areas of tissue and still show which exact neurons are electrically active at any given moment. Being able to identify which neurons are active can enable researchers to learn which types of neurons are participating in memory processes, providing important clues about how brain circuits work.

In recent years, neuroscientists including co-senior author Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor of Neurotechnology in BCS and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a Picower Institute affiliate, have worked to meet that need by inventing “genetically encoded voltage indicators” (GEVIs) that make cells glow as their voltage changes in real time. But as Zhang and Wilson have tried to employ GEVIs in their research, they’ve found that conventional CMOS image sensors were missing a lot of the action. If they operated too fast, they wouldn’t gather enough light. If they operated too slowly, they’d miss rapid changes.

But image sensors have such fine resolution that many pixels are really looking at essentially the same place on the scale of a whole neuron, Wilson says. Recognizing that there was resolution to spare, Zhang applied his expertise in sensor design to invent an image sensor chip that would enable neighboring pixels to each have their own timing. Faster ones could capture rapid changes. Slower-working ones could gather more light. No action or photons would be missed. Zhang also cleverly engineered the required control electronics so they barely cut into the space available for light-sensitive elements on a pixels. This ensured the sensor’s high sensitivity under low light conditions, Zhang says.

In the study the researchers demonstrated two ways in which the chip improved imaging of voltage activity of mouse hippocampus neurons cultured in a dish. They ran their sensor head-to-head against an industry standard scientific CMOS image sensor chip.

In the first set of experiments, the team sought to image the fast dynamics of neural voltage. On the conventional CMOS chip, each pixel had a zippy 1.25 millisecond exposure time. On the pixelwise sensor each pixel in neighboring groups of four stayed on for 5 ms, but their start times were staggered so that each one turned on and off 1.25 seconds later than the next. In the study, the team shows that each pixel, because it was on longer, gathered more light, but because each one was capturing a new view every 1.25 ms, it was equivalent to simply having a fast temporal resolution. The result was a doubling of the signal-to-noise ratio for the pixelwise chip. This achieves high temporal resolution at a fraction of the sampling rate compared to conventional CMOS chips, Zhang says.

Moreover, the pixelwise chip detected neural spiking activities that the conventional sensor missed. And when the researchers compared the performance of each kind of sensor against the electrical readings made with a traditional patch clamp electrode, they found that the staggered pixelwise measurements better matched that of the patch clamp.

In the second set of experiments, the team sought to demonstrate that the pixelwise chip could capture both the fast dynamics and also the slower, more subtle “subthreshold” voltage variances neurons exhibit. To do so they varied the exposure durations of neighboring pixels in the pixelwise chip, ranging from 15.4 ms down to just 1.9 ms. In this way, fast pixels sampled every quick change (albeit faintly), while slower pixels integrated enough light over time to track even subtle slower fluctuations. By integrating the data from each pixel, the chip was indeed able to capture both fast spiking and slower subthreshold changes, the researchers reported.

The experiments with small clusters of neurons in a dish was only a proof of concept, Wilson says. His lab’s ultimate goal is to conduct brain-wide, real-time measurements of activity in distinct types of neurons in animals even as they are freely moving about and learning how to navigate mazes. The development of GEVIs and of image sensors like the pixelwise chip that can successfully take advantage of what they show is crucial to making that goal feasible.  

“That’s the idea of everything we want to put together: large-scale voltage imaging of genetically tagged neurons in freely behaving animals,” Wilson says.

To achieve this, Zhang adds, “We are already working on the next iteration of chips with lower noise, higher pixel counts, time-resolution of multiple kHz, and small form factors for imaging in freely behaving animals.”

The research is advancing pixel by pixel.

In addition to Zhang, Wilson, and Boyden, the paper’s other authors are Jonathan Newman, Zeguan Wang, Yong Qian, Pedro Feliciano-Ramos, Wei Guo, Takato Honda, Zhe Sage Chen, Changyang Linghu, Ralph-Etienne Cummings, and Eric Fossum.

The Picower Institute, The JPB Foundation, the Alana Foundation, The Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research, the National Institutes of Health, HHMI, Lisa Yang, and John Doerr provided support for the research.

[jcmarchi]

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/with-programmable-pixels-novel-sensor-improves-imaging-of-neural-activity/

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

Neurons communicate electrically, so to understand how they produce such brain functions as memory, neuroscientists must track how their voltage changes — sometimes subtly — on the timescale of milliseconds. In a new open-access paper in Nature Communications, MIT researchers describe a novel image sensor with the capability to substantially increase that ability.

The invention led by Jie Zhang, a postdoc in the lab of Matt Wilson, who is the Sherman Fairchild Professor at MIT and member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, is a new take on the standard “CMOS” (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) technology used in scientific imaging. In that standard approach, all pixels turn on and off at the same time — a configuration with an inherent trade-off in which fast sampling means capturing less light. The new chip enables each pixel’s timing to be controlled individually. That arrangement provides a “best of both worlds” in which neighboring pixels can essentially complement each other to capture all the available light without sacrificing speed.

In experiments described in the study, Zhang and Wilson’s team demonstrates how “pixelwise” programmability enabled them to improve visualization of neural voltage “spikes,” which are the signals neurons use to communicate with each other, and even the more subtle, momentary fluctuations in their voltage that constantly occur between those spiking events.

“Measuring with single-spike resolution is really important as part of our research approach,” says senior author Wilson, a professor in MIT’s departments of Biology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), whose lab studies how the brain encodes and refines spatial memories both during wakeful exploration and during sleep. “Thinking about the encoding processes within the brain, single spikes and the timing of those spikes is important in understanding how the brain processes information.”

For decades, Wilson has helped to drive innovations in the use of electrodes to tap into neural electrical signals in real time, but like many researchers he has also sought visual readouts of electrical activity because they can highlight large areas of tissue and still show which exact neurons are electrically active at any given moment. Being able to identify which neurons are active can enable researchers to learn which types of neurons are participating in memory processes, providing important clues about how brain circuits work.

In recent years, neuroscientists including co-senior author Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor of Neurotechnology in BCS and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and a Picower Institute affiliate, have worked to meet that need by inventing “genetically encoded voltage indicators” (GEVIs) that make cells glow as their voltage changes in real time. But as Zhang and Wilson have tried to employ GEVIs in their research, they’ve found that conventional CMOS image sensors were missing a lot of the action. If they operated too fast, they wouldn’t gather enough light. If they operated too slowly, they’d miss rapid changes.

But image sensors have such fine resolution that many pixels are really looking at essentially the same place on the scale of a whole neuron, Wilson says. Recognizing that there was resolution to spare, Zhang applied his expertise in sensor design to invent an image sensor chip that would enable neighboring pixels to each have their own timing. Faster ones could capture rapid changes. Slower-working ones could gather more light. No action or photons would be missed. Zhang also cleverly engineered the required control electronics so they barely cut into the space available for light-sensitive elements on a pixels. This ensured the sensor’s high sensitivity under low light conditions, Zhang says.

In the study the researchers demonstrated two ways in which the chip improved imaging of voltage activity of mouse hippocampus neurons cultured in a dish. They ran their sensor head-to-head against an industry standard scientific CMOS image sensor chip.

In the first set of experiments, the team sought to image the fast dynamics of neural voltage. On the conventional CMOS chip, each pixel had a zippy 1.25 millisecond exposure time. On the pixelwise sensor each pixel in neighboring groups of four stayed on for 5 ms, but their start times were staggered so that each one turned on and off 1.25 seconds later than the next. In the study, the team shows that each pixel, because it was on longer, gathered more light, but because each one was capturing a new view every 1.25 ms, it was equivalent to simply having a fast temporal resolution. The result was a doubling of the signal-to-noise ratio for the pixelwise chip. This achieves high temporal resolution at a fraction of the sampling rate compared to conventional CMOS chips, Zhang says.

Moreover, the pixelwise chip detected neural spiking activities that the conventional sensor missed. And when the researchers compared the performance of each kind of sensor against the electrical readings made with a traditional patch clamp electrode, they found that the staggered pixelwise measurements better matched that of the patch clamp.

In the second set of experiments, the team sought to demonstrate that the pixelwise chip could capture both the fast dynamics and also the slower, more subtle “subthreshold” voltage variances neurons exhibit. To do so they varied the exposure durations of neighboring pixels in the pixelwise chip, ranging from 15.4 ms down to just 1.9 ms. In this way, fast pixels sampled every quick change (albeit faintly), while slower pixels integrated enough light over time to track even subtle slower fluctuations. By integrating the data from each pixel, the chip was indeed able to capture both fast spiking and slower subthreshold changes, the researchers reported.

The experiments with small clusters of neurons in a dish was only a proof of concept, Wilson says. His lab’s ultimate goal is to conduct brain-wide, real-time measurements of activity in distinct types of neurons in animals even as they are freely moving about and learning how to navigate mazes. The development of GEVIs and of image sensors like the pixelwise chip that can successfully take advantage of what they show is crucial to making that goal feasible.  

“That’s the idea of everything we want to put together: large-scale voltage imaging of genetically tagged neurons in freely behaving animals,” Wilson says.

To achieve this, Zhang adds, “We are already working on the next iteration of chips with lower noise, higher pixel counts, time-resolution of multiple kHz, and small form factors for imaging in freely behaving animals.”

The research is advancing pixel by pixel.

In addition to Zhang, Wilson, and Boyden, the paper’s other authors are Jonathan Newman, Zeguan Wang, Yong Qian, Pedro Feliciano-Ramos, Wei Guo, Takato Honda, Zhe Sage Chen, Changyang Linghu, Ralph-Etienne Cummings, and Eric Fossum.

The Picower Institute, The JPB Foundation, the Alana Foundation, The Louis B. Thalheimer Fund for Translational Research, the National Institutes of Health, HHMI, Lisa Yang, and John Doerr provided support for the research.

[musicarenagh]

PEARL Delivers On "Go!" PEARL's latest release "Go!" is a dreamy, easy-listening track that will make you feel like you're wandering in the woods on a misty day. The song, which is a part of the upcoming EP by the singer-songwriter, draws strongly from the styles of Sylvan Esso, BANKS, and London Grammar. [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/4R47C6yEQZhswA0LSDDSvH[/embed] PEARL's vocal performance on "Go!" blends a unique combination of delicacy and strength. Her cadence has a lightness to it that nearly seems like a whisper and is reminiscent of early 2000s shoegaze music. Despite the song’s airy atmosphere, there's a lyrical depth and emotive quality to the words. Each phrase carries a personal weight and genuine emotion, enveloped in a blanket of dreamy synths and sparkling guitars. The chorus builds with an intensifying energy that uplifts and carries the listener away. According to PEARL, "Go!" was written on a rainy day while still snuggled up in bed, fresh off a restorative walk through the forest. This inspiration is felt throughout the track, with its lyrics steeped in the natural world. The general feel of the single is about embracing the outdoors, and finding comfort in people rather than places. "Go!" is a beautifully crafted piece of music, with an introspective and poetic sound that PEARL effortlessly delivers. It's a tune that will make you desire for a leisurely stroll in the woods and the freedom of the unknown. The track is a fantastic teaser for PEARL's upcoming EP, and fans can expect more of this beautifully emotive sound from this promising artist. Produced by Matt Ingram and co-written with Matt Ingram and David Boyden. Follow PEARL on Facebook, Instagram and Website.

[andrewlloydwebber]

The cast for the Sydney Harbor non replica production of Phantom (directed by Simon Philips, different than the Restaged Tour) has been announced.

CHRISTINE DAAE Georgina Hopson THE PHANTOM Joshua Robson RAOUL, VICOMTE DE CHAGNY Callum Francis CARLOTTA GUIDICELLI Naomi Johns MONSIEUR FIRMIN Michael Cormick MONSIEUR ANDRÉ Martin Crewes MADAME GIRY Maree Johnson UBALDO PIANGI Paul Tabone MEG GIRY Kelsi Boyden

Ensemble: Lachlan O’Brien, Tod Strike, Lachlan O’Brien, Raphael Wong, Daniel Macey, Matt Heyward, Elliot Baker, Johanna Allen, Sarah Bakker, Benjamin Clark, Jack Connor-Rowan, Andrew Coshan, Emma Dawson, Sarah Dimas, Pedro Donoso, David Duketis,Jack Evans, Trina Farrelly, Keane Fletcher, Lewis Francis, Allie Graham, Giselle Graham, Caitie Hawkins, Tianna Koolloos, Elisha Zion Lee, Michaela Leisk, Josephine Lonergan, Imogen-Faith Malfitano, Douglas McRae, Sarah Murr, Annabelle Rosewarne, Amelia Sanzo, Megan Schoenmaker, Andy Seymour, Bree Stephens, Maddison Toomey, and Georgia Wilkinson

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[krystaltheartist]

21.2.22

Assignment: The Copy Readings: In praise of Copying by Michael Boon To Do: analyse the synonyms for COPY Engage with the materiality of an object in the chau chak museum. The way the material adds meaning to the object, the medium, the way its born out of history. Appropriation. Reinvent the appearance through an object, it can be ironically represented. Sometimes an echo or copy becomes an illegible blur that becomes an original. Pull apart the original, re-arrange elements Plato’s philosophy: Our reality is an illusion Vibratory copy (physical), reproductive (biological) and imitation (social). Examples of art works that copy: -Lisa Reihana’s In Pursuit of Venus -Victor Vasendy Catch (copy with a variation) -Emma White’s powerboard -Joseph Sima’s Double Landscape -Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille>Manet’s Olympia (changed the gaze of the nude woman out to viewer)> Yasumasa Morimura Portrait (adds ethnicity, more facial features of the maid) -Duchamp’s Fountain: urinal - changed the context -Meret Oppenheimer ‘Object’, cermaics covered in fur (transformed) -Chojiro’s Chawan Raku Tea bowl>Contemporary Tea bowl. A copy of the idea **Sarah Lucas’ angel made of cigarettes.  **Christopher Madden: diff angled mirrors, images of hands meeting at a centre point, the thumbs seem like a claw/crustacean. Makes us think about it- a reflection is a copy. MIRROR. You can take the original image of something and distort it to change the way the audience views it.  **Matt Stone’s Fruit Sculptures- cut up and changed AND Adam Hillman makes us read the oranges as a geometric abstract form. He cuts them and rearranges them. We always define things back to its normal state, but transforming it shifts our perceptions and our job as artists is to transform what the viewer is seeing so they can think in new ways and act in new ways.  **Green living design: pegs of wood (alone they are simple but a swarm makes it interesting). Singular VS multiple (vivaterra.com) -Unknown: phonebooks, replicated, completely transformed into a sculpture- connected and paint spilled over.  **Tony Feher’s bottles of blue liquid, the level of liquid changes. The bottles are copied. Feher’s ‘it didn’t turn out the way I expected it to.’ he takes a small object like an oyster shell and multiplies and rearranges it.  -Ron Mueck’s Boy: take a small object> enlarge it to emphasise his fragility. Expansion of objects emphasise their qualities. It can be empowering. -Blanche Tilden’s Parallel: neclace that repeats its process and form. **Annie Boyden Varnot: repetition of technique as a copy, works well for pieces about endurance or meditation, virtuosity (you gain command of the piece) -Walter McConnell A theory of Everything -William Cobbing’s The Kiss Vs Constatin Brancusi’s The Kiss -Ai Wei Wei Sunflower- millions of ceramic sunflower seeds- the unimaginable number of copies, the swarm, there’s a tension between the individual form and the multiplicity of the form -Jake and Dinos Chapman’s The Sum of All Evil Vs Hieronymus Bosch’s The Last Judgement (he involves McDonalds and Natzi stickers). 2D > transformed to 3D heightens visceral and emotional experience.  -Traditional Chinese Blue and White Ware Vs Gerry Wedd’s ceramic blue and white thong. Traditional technique is used to talk about colonialism, empire, power. Similarly Lei Xue’s bent cans in blue and white traditional Chinese ceramic -Yee Sookyoung Kintsugi (broken and given new life with gold) Vs Traditional Moon Jar (complete unbroken traditional). IDEA> recreate an object (a copy) in ceramic, break it and give it a new meaning. **Penny Byrne’s Guantanomo Bay Souvenirs recreated and given chains Vs popular figurines  **Rui Sasaki’s Liquid sunshine/ I am a pluviophile- replication of process and gesture. It uses motion sensors, gathering of viewers in a gallery space.  -Deborah Czeresko’s Meat Chandelier> copy as a fake -William Delvoye’s truck: taken gothic architecture and transformed it into a contemporary practise to create a truck.

[lecameleontv]

L’acteur Sam Ayers est né le 29/12/1957 à Youngstown (Ohio, USA) sous le nom civil Samuel Bielich III. Il a également utilisé le pseudo Sam Ayres dans sa carrière professionnelle.

Compte Instagram - 

Enfance : Il a grandi à Merrimack (New Hamphire, USA). A son lycée, il excelle en tant que quarterback. Puis il rejoint l'Université de l'Etat de Memphis. C'est là qu'il découvrira sa vocation, tout en jonglant avec petits boulots, études et baseball. Enfin, il s'installe à New-York.

Famille : 1998 : Mariage avec l'actrice Robin Trapp 1999 : Naissance de sa fille Alexis Ann.

Carrière : Il choisi de prendre le nom de sa mère (Ayers) pour se faire un nom dans le métier. Il commence par apparaître dans des séries-TV alors qu'il est encore étudiant. A New-York, il devient acteur professionnel sous son pseudonyme Ayers, avant de partir en Floride, recruté par les Studios Universal pour le Wild West Stunt Show. En parallèle, il apparait toujours à la TV, au cinéma et au théâtre.

En 1995, il déménage à Los Angeles, et devient aussi cascadeur pour les séries TV. Et en 1996, il devient le nettoyeur Sam pour la série Le Caméléon.

Sa filmographie : 2015 : - Roanoke search for the last colony (TV) --- Boyden Sparkes - Newark Ave. --- Harry Queen 2012 : - Wedding Day --- Even Mason - Bigfoot County --- Travis - General Education --- Samson 2008 : - An American standard --- Mr Packard - Exavt bus fare --- le conducteur du bus - Caught in the action (TV) --- Boss / Johnny Raga 2001 : - Le Caméléon : Island of the haunted (TV) --- Sam, le nettoyeur (non crédité) - Not another tee movie --- Paramedi (non crédité) - Angels don't sleep here --- David Roy 1998 - The Lion's Den --- Cop n°1 1997 - The Reel --- un messager 1995 - Bad Boys --- un détective 1990 - Quick Change --- Commandant de l'ESU

Séries-TV : 2021 - The ‘Cue --- Ep. 1.01 2016 - Powers --- Riotor (Ep. 2.02) 2013 : - Conan --- Notre Dame Coach - Raising Hope --- Matt 2012 : - Grey's Anatomy ---  un détective (Ep. 8.20) - Happy Endings --- officier de police (Ep. 2.13) 2011 : - Castle --- le barman (Ep. 4.04) - Los Angeles : Police Judiciaire --- Eddie Russ - Esprits Criminels: Comportement Suspect --- Detective Sykes (Ep. 1.05) 2010 : - Happy Endings --- un officier de police (Ep. 2.13) - Justified --- Jimmy, le Bartender 2009 : - Meteor : Path to destruction --- Capitaine Finnegan - Monk --- le portier (Ep. 7.15) - Terminator : the Sarah Connor Chonicles --- travailleur n°3 (non crédité) - Saving Grace --- Morton Yearly (non crédité) 2008 : - The young and the restless --- un garde - Tout le monde déteste Chris --- auctioneer - Des jours et des Vies --- George (10 782, 10 789 et 10 809) 2007 : - Urgences --- Mike Murphy (Ep. 14.09) - Dirty Sexy Money --- Raymond Pulaski 2006 - Dr [H]ouse --- homme (épisode 3*05) 2005 : - Numb3rs -- FTRA homme attaqué / vendeur News (2007) / CAL SCI vigile (2009)  (épisode 1*06)           (épisode 4*03) - Medical Investigation --- assistant médical 2002 : - Boomtown --- un policier (non crédité) - She Spies --- garde Big-Butt - 24 heures chrono --- Agent Jeff Breeher (Ep. 1.15 et 1.16) / officier du NYPD (Ep. 8*01) 2001 : - Alias --- Anton (2005) / garde armé n°2 (2004) / Homme au téléphone (non crédité) - V.I.P. --- Stanley / Shady Guy - Angel --- Démon Tough Guy (épisode 3*03) 2000 : - Malibu, CA --- un garde - Martial Law --- garde de Strode 1996 - Le Caméléon --- Sam, le nettoyeur (jusqu'en 2000) 1995 - SeaQuest DSV --- un garde 1994 : - Thunder in paradise --- un soldat - Fortune Hunter --- Nigel 1992 - Superboy --- Andrew

Cascadeur : 1995 - Pointman --- (Ep)

sources : imdb et gettyimages

[oceanjar]

sorry if this gets way too detailed lol but i love all ur book recs nd im looking to beef up my tbr pile so im asking u :) what r some upcoming/recently released sff books u look forward to reading? they can also be ongoing series idc im just looking for stuff thats recent

its no problem at all! i love talking about books and i really enjoy hunting through my own unnecessarily large tbr to answer asks such as these :] so lets go:

*note: italics are series

1. the poppy war - r. f. kuang (final book nov)

2. the midnight library - matt haig (oct)

3. a girl made of air - nydia hetherington (sep)

4. the once and future witches - alix e. harrow (oct)

5. the bone shard daughter - andrea stewart (first book sep)

6. house of dragons - jessica cluess (first book may)

7. dark shores - danielle l. jensen (third book 2021)

8. stealing thunder - alina boyden (first book may)

9. granted - kendra thomas (first book may)

10. incendiary - zoraida córdova (first book apr)

11. foundryside - robert jackson bennett (second book apr)

12. race the sands - sarah beth durst (apr)

13. so this is love - elizabeth lim (apr)

14. black stone heart - michael r. fletcher (first book apr)

15. paternus: rise of gods - dyrk ashton (final book jun)

bonus: first books of really good fantasy series that have already finished: the shadow of the wind -  carlos ruiz zafón, the queen of blood - sarah beth durst, strange the dreamer - laini taylor, the crimson queen - alec hutson, the ninth rain - jen williams

[365goalsfor365days]

2019 Bucket List

1. Become a Homeowner 2. Get a new mattress 3. Become a first aid instructor 4. Become a CPR instructor 5. Get a position in Labor and Delivery or Postpartum 6. Write a legal will and get it notarized 7. Complete the Neonatal Resuscitation Program 8. Obtain a regular drivers license 9. Write a legal advance directive and get it notarized 10. Get a passport 11. Complete ACLS certification 12. Pay off provincial student loan completely 13. Get a new couch 14. Get a tattoo 15. Get a British Bulldog (Winston) 16. Crochet a viking hat 17.Crochet comfy boot slippers 18. Make melted crayon guitar art (JK) 19. Sew a teddy bear 20. Sew a dress 21. Make a quilt 22. Start a scrapbook 23. Make cold process soap 24. Complete Grad Photobook 25. Complete wedding scrapbook 26. Crochet Christmas stockings 27. Make a Wonder Woman apron (JH) 28. Crochet a hooded owl blanket 29. Crochet a coaster set 30. Fold 1000 origami stars 31. Crochet a Hogwarts baby blanket 32. Crochet a black cat blanket with hood (KS) 33. Fold 1000 origami butterflies 34. Make a mobile of 1000 origami cranes 35. Design my own deck of cards 36. Complete wedding photobook 37. Make homemade lip balm 38. Make a geode bath bomb 39. Make carved wood or burned wood personalized wine box (ME) 40. Swap customized keychains with Daniel 41. Sew matching aprons for me & Daniel 42. Make a cross stitch quilt (CB) 43. Make a Lion King cross stitch (JK) 44. Make wine glass winter scene candle holders 45. Make a Little Mermaid Apron (JM) 46. Make a carved or burned wood "It's Always Tea Time" Mad Hatter Tea Box 47. Crochet a Spiderman blanket (LS) 48. Crochet a Legend of Zelda blanket (CW) 49. Make jazz guitar print art (SS) 50. Adopt an otter 51. Donate 5 items to the Ronald McDonald house 52. Participate in a charity walk/run 53. Donate 5 items to the Terra Centre 54. Run a Hogwarts Running Club race 55. Adopt a polar bear 56. Make my own cookbook 57. Make all the recipes from The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook 58. Make crepes 59. Make "Curious Confection" Disney drink 60. Make "Siren's Song" Disney drink 61. Make "Glass Slipper" Disney drink 62. Make "Belle of the Ball" Disney drink 63. Make all the recipes from the I Quit Sugar cookbook 64. Make homemade fried chicken 65. Make caramel apple jello shots 66. Make the Grey Stuff from The Beauty and the Beast 67. Make homemade California rolls 68. Make all the recipes in the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook 69. Make candy apples 70. Bake a baked Alaska 71. Cook lobster 72. Make tiramisu 73. Bake Boston cream pie 74. Make homemade basil pesto 75. Roast pumpkin seeds 76. Finish my red recipe book 77. Bake lemony blueberry cheesecake bars 78. Make Sims Bouillabaisse (in real life) 79. Make Sims Goopy Carbonara (in real life) 80. Make Mexican tostadas 81. Make 365 new recipes 82. Cook every single recipe in a cook book 83. Make all recipes from the Swap & Drop Diet Cookbook 84. Do a chopped competition with Daniel 85. Make fruit sushi 86. Make "Sleep Cycle" Disney drink 87. Make "False King" Disney drink 88. Make "Ohana Colada" Disney drink 89. Make all recipes from the Cooking Light Global Kitchen cookbook 90. Make Sims Porcini Risotto (in real life) 91. Have a meal at Bistro Praha 92. Go to Dinner Theatre 93. Eat at Cafe Bicyclette 94. Have lunch at Ampersand 27 95. Eat at Cafe Linnea 96. Eat at Earnest's at NAIT 97. Go on a gelato date 98. Have dessert from the Italian Bakery Edmonton 99. Eat at the 3 Bananas Cafe 100. Eat at Dorinku 101. Try a Po'Boy 102. Eat deep fried ice cream 103. Eat at Have Mercy 104. Have lunch at the Harvest Room at Hotel MacDonald 105. Have dinner on the Edmonton Queen Riverboat 106. Try La Poutine 107. Have breakfast at Under the High Wheel 108. Have dessert at Block 1912 109. Eat at Uccellino 110. Go out for hungover breakfast the morning after a party with friends 111. Read "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Lawson 112. Read "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen and watch the movie 113. Read "Blood, Sweat, and Fear" by Eva Lazarus 114. Read "It" by Stephen King and watch the movie 115.  Read "Labor Day" by Eleanor Henderson 116. Read "Three Day Road" by Joseph Boyden 117. Read "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins and watch the movie 118. Read "They Left Us Everything" by Plum Johnson 119. Read "The House Girl" by Tara Conklin 120. Read all 36 books from the Dear Canada series 121. Read "My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir" by Mark Lukach 122. Read all 54 books from the fictional Magic Tree House Series 123. Read “13 Reasons Why” by Jay Asher and watch the series 124. Read “Dolores Claiborne” by Stephen King 125. Read “We Need To Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver 126. Read all 51 books from the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series 127. Read “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” by Mary Roach 128. Read “The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients Lives” by Theresa Brown 129. Read “Working Stiff: by Judy Melinek and TJ Mitchell 130. Read “Every Patient Tells a Story” by Lisa Sanders 131. Read “The Night Shift” by Dr Brian Goldman 132. Read “Wenjack” by Joseph Boyden 133. Read “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks 134. Read “Weird Edmonton” by Mark Kozub 135. Read “11/22/63” by Stephen King 136. Re-read Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events series 137. Read all 20 Royal Diaries books 138. Read all the books from the Dear America series 139. Read “End of Watch” by Stephen King 140. Read “I, Ripper” by Stephen Hunter 141. Read “Happyface” by Stephen Edmond 142.  Read “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie 143. Read “The Mighty Miss Malone” by Curtis 144. Read “In The Unlikely Event” by Judy Blume 145. Read “Church of Marvels” by Leslie Parry 146. Read “My Secret Sister” by Helen Edwards 147. Read “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Annie Barrows 148. Read “The Book of Negroes” by Lawrence Hill & watch the movie 149.  Read “The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly” by Matt McCarthy 150. Read “Nerd Do Well” by Simon Pegg 151. Read “Wild” by Cheryl Strayd and watch the movie 152. Read “I Am Malala” by Malala Yousafzai 153. Read “The Book Thief��� by Markus Zusak and watch the movie 154. Read “Welcome to Nightvale” by Joseph Fink and listen to all podcasts 155. Read “1984” by George Orwell 156. Read “Nightmares!” by Jason Segal and Kirsten Miller 157. Read “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” by Stephen King 158. Read “Finders Keepers” by Stephen King 159. Read the Little Old Lady Series 160. Read “Mr Mercedes” by Stephen King 161. Read “Left Neglected” by Lisa Genova 162. Read “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King 163.  Read “Bringing Adam Home” by Les Standiford 164. Read “Carry On” by Rainbow Rowell 165. Read “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande 166. Read “A Spy Amongst Friends” by Ben Macintyre 167. Read “Still Alice” by Lisa Genova and watch the movie 168. Read “Five Days at Memorial” by Sheri Fink 169. Read “Canada” by Mike Myers 170. Read “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo 171. Read “Quiet: The Power of Introverts” by Susan Cain 172. Read “The Haunting of Sunshine Girl” by Paige Mckenzie 173. Read “Dirty Jobs” and “Second Hand Souls” by Christopher Moore 174. Read “My Sister’s Keeper” and watch the movie 175. Read “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” by April Genevive Tucholke 176. Read “Four Past Midnight” by Stephen King 177. Read “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland” by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus 178. Read “Anya’s Ghost” by Vera Brosgol 179. Read “Trauma” 180. Read “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” by JK Rowling and watch the movie 181. Read “This is That Travel Guide to Canada” 182. Read “The Trouble with Goats and Sheep” by Joanne Cannor 183. Read “Tough Shit” by Kevin Smith 184. Read “Tales of Beedle the Bard” by JK Rowling 185. Read “The Trouble with Alice” by Olivia Glazebrook 186. Read “The 100 Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating” by Alisa Smith & JB MacKinnon 187. Read “At Home in Old Strathcona” by Gwen McGregor Molnar 188. Read “The Tumbling Turner Sisters” by J. Fay 189. Read “The Dangerous Animals Club” by S. Tobolowsky 190. Read “The Book of Speculation” by E. Swyler 191. Read “The Nurses” by Alexandra Robbins 192. Read “Shine Shine Shine” by Lydia Netzer 193. Read “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel and watch the movie 194. Read the EC Wells series 195. Read “Scrappy Little Nobody” by Anna Kendrick 196. Read “The First Phone Call From Heaven” by Mitch Albom 197. Read “Hope’s Boy” by Andrew Bridge 198. Read “The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August” by Claire North 199. Read “The House At the End of Hope Street” by Menna Van Praag 200. Read “Home” by Harlan Coben 201. Tour the Saskatchewan Science Center 202. Visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 203. Visit the Atomic Bomb Dome in Japan 204. Visit the Dead Sea of Saskatchewan (Little Manitou) 205. Tour the Royal Canadian Mint 206. Visit the Eskimo Museum in Churchill 207. Visit Prime Berth Fishing Museum in Twillingate 208. Go to the Barbie Expo in Montreal 209. Visit the Acadian Historical Village in Caraquet 210. Visit the Tokyo National Museum 211. Visit the Owl Café in Akhabara 212. Go to the Tokyo Studio Ghibli Museum 213. Visit the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg 214. Visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 215. See a Sunset Retreat Ceremony at the RCMP Heritage Center in Regina 216. Visit the Canadian Museum of History in Quebec 217. See Head-Smash-In Buffalo Jump in Fort McLeod 218. Visit the Shinjuku Goen National Garden in Japan 219. See Niagra Falls 220. Visit the Gopher Hole Museum in Torrington 221. Visit Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada in Toronto 222. Visit the Royal Ontario Museum 223. Do the Underground Tour at Bell Island’s Mine Museum 224. Visit the Samurai Museum in Japan 225. Visit Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Winnipeg 226. See a show at the Regina Globe Theater 227. Visit the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax 228. Visit the Canadian Museum for Human Rights 229. Visit the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa 230. Visit the Fort George National Historic Site of Canada at Niagara-on-the-Lake 231. Go to Science North in Sudbury 232. Take a photo with the Hachiko statue in Tokyo 233. Go to the national Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo 234. Visit the Amsterdam Cheese Museum 235. Visit the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Japan 236. Catch all Fourth Gen Pokemon Go Pokemon 237. Catch all Second Gen Pokemon Go Pokemon 238. Catch all Third Gen Pokemon Go Pokemon 239. Successfully do winged eyeliner 240. Have a yard sale 241. Grow Lavender 242. Go scuba diving 243. Go rock climbing 244. Go through the Edmonton Corn Maze 245. Attend a Superstore cooking class 246. Bowl a 100+ game 247. Catch a fish 248. Dye my hair blonde 249. Go ice fishing 250. Tour Candy Cane Lane 251. Find 5 Geocaches 252. Go paintballing 253. See the stars at an observatory 254. Go on a double date 255. Can something with mom 256. Play through Fran Bow 257. Visit Dr Woods House Museum 258. Grow parsley 259. Go on a bike ride around Telford Lake 260. Solve a Rubik’s cube 261. Grow oregano 262. Pick berries from a berry farm 263. Host a holiday dinner for family 264. Plant a Tree 265. Skip rocks with Daniel 266. Do yoga outside at sunrise 267. Go horseback riding 268. Go to the Deep Freeze Festival 269. Learn how to edit photographs 270. Get a hot stone massage 271. Pose for a nude painting 272. Complete a 642 Things to Draw Journal 273. Be in a boudoir photoshoot 274. Get ears pierced again 275. Learn Under the Sea on xylophone 276. Learn calligraphy 277. Go roller blading 278. See a moose in the wild 279. Learn Over the Rainbow on ukulele 280. Pick a pumpkin at Upick 281. Build a fire 282. Complete Wreck this Journal 283. Build a sandcastle 284. Build a snowman 285. Complete a 1000 Piece Puzzle 286. Get all Pokemon Go medals 287. Try a sensory deprivation chamber 288. Sew all badges on my camp blanket 289. Sign a petition 290. Camp at Elk Island Provincial Park 291. Tour the Alberta Legislature Building 292. Go apple picking 293. Go hostelling in Nordegg 294. Photograph a robin 295. Photograph a blue jay 296. Go to the ballet 297. Go to a hot spring in winter 298. Plant a Fairy Garden 299. Fully decorate apartment for Halloween 300. Go to another TWOS Dark Matters Night 301. Go to the Muttart Conservatory 302. Play through Beyond Two Souls 303. Watch an outdoor movie 304. Go to the John Walters museum 305. Body paint with Daniel 306. Take a class at the Greenland Garden Center 307. Go Canoeing 308. Play a game of chess 309. Play laser tag 310. Have a girls night 311. Go to a drop in class at the Art Gallery of Alberta 312. Send out Christmas cards 313. Reach level 40 of Pokemon Go 314. Visit the Reynolds-Alberta Museum 315. Go on a Canmore Cave Tour 316. Get a couples massage 317. Have a game night at Table Top Café 318. See a live show at the Roxy 319. Shoot a Gun 320. Juggle 3 balls 321. Pick a door lock 322. See a Rapidfire Theater show 323. Dance on my balcony with Daniel as it gently rains 324. Go to a driving range 325. Write a love letter 326. Go to a U of A varsity game 327. Go to the new Royal Alberta museum 328. Go to a hockey game 329. Go to a football game 330. See the Nutcracker Ballet 331. Play at Breakout Edmonton 332. Complete a coloring book 333. Go peddle boating 334. Visit the Alberta Aviation Museum 335. Visit the Jurassic Forest 336. Play slots at a casino 337. Go skating 338. Try to escape The Cabin at Escape City 339. Complete my Sims challenge 340. Get a BBQ and have a BBQ with friends 341. Tube down the Pembina river 342. Get a facial 343. Take a class at Purdy’s Chocolates 344. Do a "Disney Love" photoshoot with Daniel 345. Grow a carrot plant 346. Fit size 6 pants 347. Do 100 consecutive push ups 348. Hold Kala Bhairavasana (yoga) 349. Hold Sirsasana (Yoga) 350. Do 100 Consecutive Sit Ups 351. Reach goal weight of 120 lb 352. Walk 20 000 steps for 3 consecutive days 353. Attend a drop in spin class 354. Buy and eat only local food (produce, meat, etc) for 30 consecutive days 355. Try hot yoga 356. Hold Crow Pose (Yoga) 357. Complete 12 months to a healthier you challenge 358. See a movie at Princess Theatre 359. Go to the Edmonton Film Fest 360. See a movie and have dinner at the VIP theatre 361. Watch Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 Musical and Art Movies 362. Watch the Rotten Tomatoes Top 200 Movies of 2018 363. Watch Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 movies of 2017 364. Watch Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 Documentary films 365. Watch Rotten Tomatoes Top 100 Comedy Movies

[forensicated]

Matt and Craig sitting in a tree....

[kinesiologic]

2018 Reading Challenge: October Update

The oldest book on your to-read list: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

A favourite book from primary school: The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

A favourite book from intermediate school: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

A favourite book from middle school: East by Edith Pattou

A favourite book from high school: The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A favourite book from undergrad: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

A favourite book from Master’s: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

A favourite book from PhD: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

A favourite book from post-doc:

A Nordic noir: The Snowman by Jo Nesbø

A novel based on a real person: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

A book set in a country that fascinates you: City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

A book about a villain or superhero: 1984 by George Orwell

A book about death or grief: Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke

A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym: To Kill a Mockingbird by (Nelle) Harper Lee

A book of poetry: The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

A book that is also a stage play or musical: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

A book about feminism: A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan

A ghost story: City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

A borrowed book: What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A book about or involving a sport: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by John Krakauer

A book by a local author: Linger, Still by Aislinn Hunter

A book with your favourite colour in the title

A book with alliteration in the title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A true crime  

A book about time travel: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

A book on a topic that you know nothing about

A book with a weather element in the title

A book set at sea

A book with an animal in the title: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

A book you own but haven’t read yet: The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas

A book with song lyrics in the title

A book about or set on Hallowe'en: The Bone Mother by David Demchuk

A book with characters who are twins: Winter of the Gods by Jordana Max Brodsky  

A book mentioned in another book: Harry Potter by JK Rowling (Mentioned in #19 and #39; and last year’s read: Heart and Brain)

A book that intimidates/scares you  

A childhood classic you've never read: Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers

A book published in 2018: A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

A past GoodReads Choice Award winner: The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

A book set in the decade you were born

A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to

A book with an ugly cover: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

A book that involves a bookstore or library

A bestseller from the year you graduated high school

A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place

A book tied to your ancestry: Second Space by Czesław Miłosz

A "big thinking" book: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden

An allegory

A microhistory: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

A book about a problem facing society today: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté

A book recommended by someone else: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh * Recommended by the clerk at the London Review Bookshop

Even more books ...

Chile and Easter Island by Lonely Planet 

Great Britain by Lonely Planet

Dragonbane by Sherrilyn Kenon

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas  

A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas  

Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

Beast by Paul Kingsnorth

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

The Map and the Clock edited by Carol Anne Duffy and Gillian Clarke

The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

The Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein

Richard II   by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part I   by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Richard III by William Shakespeare

The Inviting Life by Laura Calder

Octopussy by Ian Fleming

The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

Healthy-ish by Lindsay Maitland Hunt

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness 

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness 

Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

Managing Chronic Pain: Therapist Manual by John D. Otis

Managing Chronic Pain: Patient Workbook by John D. Otis

Learning ACT by Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes, & Robyn D. Walser

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association

[augustusaugustus]

12.82 Unlucky in Love

BOULTON: You know, we can work together on this. You tell me what you get, I’ll do the same… It’s not a competition, is it, Matthew? BOYDEN: Oh yeah?

Oh, it’s always a competition, and Matt knows it! He wins this time around, as well, much to John’s displeasure.

[teddybearsims]

get to know me tag<3

Thank you for tagging me boo @ughplumb

1) Rules: tag 9 people who you would like to know better.

@bellaasims @blarffy @furiouslydecaffinated @theothersim and @ anyone else, i dont know lots of ya but i would love to see more of these around <3 

Relationship Status: single

Last Song I Listened To: Random - G Eazy (hypeee!)

Last Book Read/Listened To: Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (amaazinggg)

Favorite Color: light blue

Top Three Shows: oh godd um The Walking Dead, How I Met Your Mother, Van Helsing, The OA ...i legit can go on forever i need to stop pls

Top Three Characters: hmmmmmm ted from himym, all of @theothersim​‘s chars & axel from van helsing TV show on netflix bless him

Top Three Ships: hmmmmmm zero & matt (theothersims), blue & matty (bratsims), salem & august (blarffy) <3333333333

2) Rules: BOLD the statements that are true for you!

APPEARANCE:

I am 5'7" or taller

I wear glasses 

I have at least one tattoo

I have at least one piercing

I have blonde hair

I have brown eyes

I have short hair

My abs are at least somewhat defined

I have or have had braces

PERSONALITY:

I love meeting new people

People tell me that I’m funny

Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me

I enjoy physical challenges

I enjoy mental challenges

I’m playfully rude with people I know well

I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it

There is something I would change about my personality

ABILITY:

I can sing well

I can play an instrument

I can do over 30 pushups without stopping

I’m a fast runner

I can draw well

I have a good memory

I’m good at doing math in my head

I can hold my breath underwater for under a minute

I have beaten at least 2 people in arm wrestling

I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch

I know how to throw a proper punch

HOBBIES:

I enjoy playing sports

I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else

I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else (was but im out of highschool now ;_;)

I have learned a new song in the past week

I work out at least once a week

I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months

I have drawn something in the past month

I enjoy writing

FANDOMS ARE MY #1 PASSION

I do or have done martial arts

EXPERIENCES:

I have had my first kiss

I have had alcohol (only puked once! :D)

I have scored the winning goal in a sports game

I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting

I have been at an overnight event

I have been in a taxi

I have been in the hospital or ER in the past year

I have beaten a video game in one day

I have visited another country

I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts (logic and g eazy killed me)

RELATIONSHIPS:

I’m in a relationship

I have a crush on a celebrity

I have a crush on someone I know

I have been in at least 3 relationships

I have never been in a relationship

I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them

I get crushes easily

I have had a crush on someone for over a year

I have been in a relationship for at least a year

I have had feelings for a friend (and then later found out she liked me too but it was too late.....rip)

MY LIFE:

I have at least one person I consider a “best friend”

I live close to my school

My parents are still together

I have at least one sibling 

I live in the united states

There is snow right now where I live

I have hung out with a friend in the past month

I have a smartphone

I have at least 15 CD’s

I share my room with someone

RANDOM SHIT:

I have breakdanced

I know a person named Jamie

I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce

I have dyed my hair

I’m listening to one song on repeat right now 

I have punched someone in the past week

I know someone who has gone to jail

I have broken a bone (MANY actually)

I have eaten a waffle today

I know what I want to do with my life (i know what i want but will i achieve??)

I speak at least 2 languages 

I have made a new friend in the past year

[rjstotland]

100 Novels That Make You Proud To Be Canadian

My two favourite novelists are Leo Tolstoy and Haruki Murakami. One of them is Russian and the other is Japanese. As a proud Canadian, I’m curious what makes Canadian literature unique. I’m also curious what you can learn about the essence of being Canadian by digging into the great pieces of Canadian literature. I found a list compiled by CBC called 100 Novels that make you proud to be Canadian. As I go through these books I will try to answer those questions.

Here is the list:

419 by Will Ferguson

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews

​A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, trans. Derek Coltman

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche, trans. Patricia Claxton

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Away by Jane Urquhart

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

Bear by Marian Engel

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart

Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo

Certainty by Madeleine Thien

Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant

Creation by Katherine Govier

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen

Essex County by Jeff Lemire

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

February by Lisa Moore

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt

Fruit by Brian Francis

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai

Galore by Michael Crummey

Generation X by Douglas Coupland

George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke

Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King

Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Holding Still for as Long as Possible by Zoe Whittall

How to Make Love to a Negro without Getting Tired by Dany Laferriere, trans. David Homel

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

Kamouraska by Anne Hébert, trans. Norman Shapiro

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway

Kit's Law by Donna Morrissey

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci

Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Neuromancer by William Gibson

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

Room by Emma Donoghue

Ru by Kim Thuy, trans. by Sheila Fischman

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor

Skim by Mariko & Jillian Tamaki

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson

Still Life by Louise Penny

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson

Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb

The Amazing Absorbing Boy by Rabindranath Maharaj

What We All Long For by Dionne Brand

The Antagonist by Lynn Coady

The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis

The Birth House by Ami McKay

The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill

The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston

The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

The Double Hook by Sheila Watson

The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami

The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy

The Lesser Blessed by Richard Van Camp

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches by Gaétan Soucy, trans. Sheila Fischman

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

The Outlander by Gil Adamson

The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke

The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

The Time in Between by David Bergen

The Wars by Timothy Findley

The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan

Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan

Whale Music by Paul Quarrington

What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin