#mfa michael

[fromtenthousandfeet]

Documentaries!

Michael D. Ratner, friend of Scooter Braun, made Jungkook’s new documentary about Golden. Here’s his bio from imdb.com:

Michael D. Ratner is the founder and CEO of OBB Media, a vertically integrated content studio that is defining how a new generation of viewers consumes programming. At 26, Ratner launched OBB Media in 2016 and has led the company through explosive growth alongside co-founder and COO Scott Ratner. Michael most recently was named to the Goldman Sachs Top 100 Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2023, and has previously been recognized as one of Variety's New Leader Creatives and a member of Forbes 30 Under 30.

Michael D. Ratner oversees all five verticals of OBB Media, including the recently launched OBB Studios. As the lead creative on OBB's marquee projects, Ratner has created, directed and produced many critically and commercially successful films & TV shows, receiving a Grammy nomination for Justin Bieber: Our World; amassing over 1.5 billion views with Kevin Hart's Cold As Balls; fostering dialogue around mental health awareness with Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil; and pairing content with commerce in Hailey Bieber's Who's In My Bathroom?. Most recently, Ratner produced the Netflix Original, Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa.

Additionally, Ratner is an entrepreneur and investor behind some of the fastest growing companies in the entertainment and consumer sectors, including Hailey Bieber's rhode skin. He has transformed how talent builds and grows their businesses, most recently partnering with Bieber to launch her beauty brand. Ratner is the founding partner of rhode skin, which has become an industry powerhouse, crossing the eight-figure revenue mark in its first eleven days of sales, accumulating over 1 million waitlist sign-ups, and recently expanding internationally. Ratner is the chairman of Myron Arthur Holdings, which focuses on investing in and advising media, entertainment and consumer brands. Ratner received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA from NYU Tisch.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

And here’s the bio for what made Jimin’s FACE documentary:

A Samsung phone + a mini tripod 😂

[lboogie1906]

Jonathan Michael Majors (September 7, 1989) is an actor. After graduating from Yale University with an MFA in acting, Majors rose to prominence for starring in the independent feature film The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2020 he gained notice for starring in Lovecraft Country, for which he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award.

He has since portrayed Nat Love in the western The Harder They Fall (2021), Jesse L. Brown in Devotion (2022), and a boxer in Creed III (2023). Since 2021, he has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as different versions of the character Kang the Conqueror.

He was born in Santa Barbara County, California, and spent his early years living with his mother, who is a pastor, his older sister, and younger brother on the Vandenberg military base, as his father was in the Air Force.

He secured his first onscreen role in When We Rise while still a student at Yale. He appeared in his first feature film role as Corporal Henry Woodson in Hostiles. More roles followed, in White Boy Rick and Out of Blue. He appeared in three other 2019 film releases: Captive State, Gully, and Jungleland.

In 2020, he starred in Da 5 Bloods. He debuted in Loki as “He Who Remains”. In 2021, he starred as the lead actor in The Harder They Fall. In 2023, he starred in Magazine Dreams and co-starred in Creed III. He portrayed Kang the Conqueror and several other variants of the character in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. He is set to appear in Loki season 2, Avengers: The Kang Dyn, and Avengers: Secret Wars. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[grandhotelabyss]

That “Language and Leonard Michaels” article which you mentioned recently on Substack got me thinking about precision in writing. I tend to agree with Duffy’s qualms about MFA writing (he calls it illiterate), but he also seems to be missing the point somewhat when he starts breaking down some sentences written by Anthony Doerr. His criticism is that Doerr’s language is bad because of its imprecision: his metaphors are tangled, and he often mistakes the actual meaning of words. Would the solution to this be a “return” to a Flaubertian search of the mot juste? Or maybe imprecision is not the real issue? Woolf’s metaphors are also imprecise, Lawrence is repetitive and circumlocutory, Lispector had “bad” grammar. How valuable is precision, the mot juste, and a good use of grammar? Isn't it misguided to judge a novel "line by line", as if it were a poem? I think the MFA illiteracy is more architectural and imaginative than grammatical! Which is why I can't find the middlebrow XXth century fiction Duffy praises in his article any better than Doerr.

Sorry for the long ask, I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this.

I don't think precision is the question exactly. Doerr is bad, and bad in a characteristic way, because he is trying to amass a hyper-specificity in description that collapses under its own weight of ponderous pseudo-originality. He descends from Flaubert's fetish for the detail observed as if anew. I agree you can't dismiss a novel by plucking bad sentences. But that was the first sentence! If the writing is unobtrusively bad, as with Somerset Maugham's clichés (speaking of midcentury middlebrow), that can be forgiven; obtrusive badness, self-impressed badness, writing that seems to smirk at its own profundity, is something else. It's the smug tone of this brand of literary fiction that offends, and I do prefer something like the pseudo-Biblical style of a Steinbeck as somehow more naively sincere, if we're still talking middlebrow. Ironically, though, a reader kindly sent me a characteristic Michaels story for inspection, and I also found its assay of the high style totally overblown, similar to some Harold Brodkey stories I've read: epigoni trying to do Saul Bellow, who beautifully twisted grammar, and failing. Bellow, Woolf, Lawrence had energy, which is more important than precision or good grammar, and what it precisely expressed was their vision, their way of seeing the world. This can't be imitated. It's hard to convey why a style succeeds or fails in any given writer's hands. I wouldn't write a rulebook because great writers will break the rules. Bad ones will break them too, but they'll still be bad. There is an X factor, a je ne sais quoi, a "point of madness," or whatever in great writing that exceeds what can be taught, explained, or legislated. But you know when it's not there.

[fairfieldthinkspace]

The Lived in Interior — Living a sustainable lifestyle

Hollie Sutherland, NCIDQ, LEED AP, MFA Interior Design

Assistant Professor, Interior Design

Interior Designer, Hollis Interiors

What is it sustainability and why should you care? Let me offer my perspective as a residential interior designer with experience both practicing and teaching the profession of interior design with a focus on sustainability. 

Sustainability is good for your health. It touches your life and contributes to your health and wellbeing—the air you breathe, how you live in your home, and the materials you use, reuse or discard. These ideas evolved the definition of a sustainable building beyond energy and water efficiency. There is a richness and progression of the definition of sustainability that brings us to the idea of a sustainable lifestyle. 

Here is a quick guide to the evolution of sustainability: 

Late 19th century: Preserve natural habitats. Activist, preservationist, and founder of the Sierra Club 1892, John Muir understood humans place in the natural world, and that we are a part of nature, not above it. 

Mid-20th century: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), a sustainable building approach, focused on preserving natural resources and building smarter. 

Early 21st century: William McDonough, author of Cradle to Cradle, refers to nature, a perfect system. It teaches us how to design products emulating the life cycle of nature and eliminating waste. 

Mid-21st century: Two new sustainable building systems evolve, adding a humanistic perspective to sustainable design.

Three rating systems provide a blueprint for a sustainable building. In addition to LEED, there is the Well Building Standard and Living Building Challenge. New concepts such as attention to nutrition, growing your own food, exercise, access to nature and daylight, awareness of mental health issues and living in a sustainably built home, are all addressed in a sustainable lifestyle. These ideas influence designed spaces. A fundamental question is “How do you want to live in your home, and what does that look like and feel like to improve your health and wellbeing?”

In my view, sustainability is a lifestyle. Views to nature, a home gym or yoga space, access to daylight, a bed mattress made without chemicals, eliminating VOC materials (without harmful chemical content), repurposing materials such as antiques, eating healthy food or using materials that are certified sustainable—even your cleaning products—are all strategies applied to creating a sustainable home or building. A step beyond the original purpose of the LEED sustainable building approach—using the principles of the sustainable rating systems, the way you design and experience your home, can improve your comfort and contribute to your health.

To learn more about sustainability, consider reading about the Living Building Challenge and Well Building Standard, the two new sustainable building resources with a humanistic perspective. Additionally, Biophilic Design is a discipline that teaches how to bring nature into our homes in physical and interpretive ways. 

To get started, do a complete critical analysis of your home and list everything that does not support your health, and in fact causes stress. 

Recommended reading: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, (2002) by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Also, Nature Inside: A Biophilic Design Guide (Browning & Ryan, 2020), and 14 Patterns of Biophilic Design, Improving Health and Well-Being in the Built Environment. Annette Stelmack’s Sustainable Residential Interiors is also a one stop book for a sustainable education. Wherever you start, it is worth your time to establish a sustainable lifestyle, and create a home that not only supports your health, but also the environment.

[aliveafterparadise]

About The Project: "Still Alive, After Paradise"

I have a project to propose for the apocalypse. It's called, "Still Alive, After Paradise."

The premise is very simple: Lucifer, the son of God, and Michael, the great daemon of the Inferno, team up to take down God Himself, Elohim Most High. It's a very long run but the scales are about to tip.

Can God survive? Or is the 7th reign of the angels about to begin?

What I'm Doing to Make this Project a Reality:

I'm writing a book series called "Still Alive, After Paradise" that follows the long arc of Helel (Lucifer) and Mikha'el (Michael), with the intent of making an adult queer erotic series where the couple is already together and fully intends to/does win

Working with artist-friends to create the blueprint for the character apperances

Mapping the potential to enhance the experience with an adult visual novel game, giving players the chance to play with relationships and characters

What I'm looking for to Make this a Success:

Interested 'Bible fanfic' community members who enjoy angelology, the occult, and queer erotica

Social and financial support to complete the book and find an agent and/or self-publish (though I will be sharing parts of it to build the hype up)

To start a new fandom with hot, Castlevania-style characters who just want chaos all the time (especially Lucifer and Michael)

And, Who the Hell am I?

I'm a queer Black artist in the Western US that puts on community events and helps with theater management. I have a shiny, overpriced MFA and have been writing on places like FF.net and here since 2008.

I have everything up with a limited preview on my website here, Alive After Paradise. While I will do the bulk of sharing there, I will periodically post to here and Archive of Our Own under the #supernatural tag the more erotic parts as we make progress :).

Thanks for taking an interest. I can't wait to share more soon.

[finishinglinepress]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Confessional by Fletch Fletcher

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CONFESSIONAL is a sequence of #poems pulling at the raw emotions, the regrets and mistakes, the parts of ourselves we rather leave buried. Dig them up and question the ties of family, religion, tradition, love, your own mind, and how much of you is your choice or the choice of others. Steer clear of 835, as there must be parts of each of us, some hurts or joys or secrets, that must be kept to ourselves.

Fletch Fletcher is a poet, a science teacher, a brother, and a bunch of other random things that may or may not help you understand him. He was lucky enough to work with and learn from amazing poets while getting an MFA in Poetry at Drew University. Fletcher’s first collection, Existing Science (2021), was published by Assure Press.

PRAISE FOR Confessional by Fletch Fletcher

“We are creatures of secrets,” Fletch Fletcher writes, each page of this book a “space of white / that is my confessional.” These self-interrogations of one who laments a father’s absence, “the impotence of prayer,” and the loneliness of the outsider, who imagines “the sound the sky made / when it first saw the ocean fill itself” and “dawn through ruffled eggshell drapes,” are informed by both a Beat sensibility and the turbulent romanticism of Goethe. Fletcher leans toward affirmation, remembering “untilled plains, / clean and free / of headstones” while recognizing that “confession and storytelling are both true / to the soul if not always / to the tongue.” Confessional is a disturbingly raw and profoundly tender sequence.

–Michael Waters, author of Caw

In the vital candor of Confessional, Fletch Fletcher unmasks the heart nearly deadened by myths of masculinity, measures the weight of blood, lays bare depression’s loneliness, and reveals how the self can be an ocean that fills itself, that inhales primal fear and shame and then push[es] a breath to a gale // into other lungs. Indeed, these are poems whose witness transforms the breath; read them with a pen in hand. Fletcher exhumes truth from the saltwater-soaked soil of buried knowing and asks himself, and us: Do you remember how you felt / when your skin was open sky, / untilled plains, / clean and free / of headstones? I cannot wait for you to read this book.

–Darla Himeles, author of Cleave

Fletch Fletcher has utilized an intimate and soul shattering vehicle, the confessional, to transform the raw energy of life lived into poetry. “…it must be true first that confession is an energy before you / can understand how laws work…so I marked and measured and buried mine / let them seep slowly.” You are holding the book of a poet who feels to the very depths of his being; a poet who does the shadow work of digging and surfacing to write poetry that is ecstatic in its seeing.

–Roberto Carlos Garcia, author of What Can I Tell You? Selected Poems(Flowersong Press)

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[degenderates]

y’all have to understand that i am not normal about white angel by michael cunningham. i’ve read it many times, twice now for different writing classes. which is my major. i live in the town where michael cunningham got his writing mfa. i was drawn to this town because of the university’s mfa program. the white angel statue in the story is inspired by a statue in a cemetery i frequent. i read that story and think of supernatural, not just tangentially, but for real. supernatural consumes my life. i go to the cemetery and i think of white angel. i go to the cemetery and think of superna

[rachelspoetrycorner]

Atlas (2005) by Kay Ryan

In Episode 151, Rachel brings a poet who's somewhat of an outsider.

Rachel: So, Kay Ryan's got the accolades, for sure. But she is not somebody with an MFA or a PhD. She also is not particularly active in the poetry community. She's said that she does not typically read poetry because, quote: “Like eucalyptus trees, they poison the soil beneath them so nothing else can grow there.” [laughs]

Griffin: [laughs] Wow. Hey, you weren't fucking kidding.

I had always thought that you could either be incredibly specific in your writing (with the consequence of limiting or making virtually impossible open and varied interpretations), or you could be sneaky and vague (resulting in an infinite amount of possible interpretations). But Kay Ryan said: No. Just like Atlas, I can hold both at the same time and pull it off. And she was right.

If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Michaels Soul Connections, from 27:40 - 32:49

[fashionbooksmilano]

Fabric of a Nation

American Quilt Stories

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2021, 239 pages, 25 x27cm,

120 color illustrations, ISBN  978-0878468768

euro 60,00

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Made by Americans of European, African, Native and Hispanic heritage, these quilts and bedcovers range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tell

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than 400 years, the 58 works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Artists include: Faith Ringgold, Sanford Biggers, Irene Williams, Bisa Butler, Harry Tyler, Harriet Powers, Marie D. Webster, Marguerite Zorach, Dorothy Phillips Haagensen, Rachel Cary George, Florence Peto, Creola Pettway, Susan Hoffman, Molly Upton, Nancy Crasco, Agusta Agustsson, Edward Larson, Michael James, Virginia Jacobs and Carla Hemlock.

01/01/23

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[itsawritblr]

Re: Beetlejuice 2

I agree. I think it's going to be very much not good. Not everything needs a sequel, and this is one of those things. I feel Warner Brothers is banking on nostalgia to put butts in seats at the expense of something good. The fact that Seth Grahame-Smith's who wrote one script in 2011 that was rejected, saying this about it in 2021: "It’s funny, when I had met with Tim about it last, and we’re talking about five years ago at this point, the reason that it’s so hard to get going is because so many people love it and because there are 10 million ways to get that sequel wrong and four ways to get it right. It’s such a very fine needle to thread that I certainly like, didn’t get it there, on the script side. I didn’t thread the needle. There are things that were cool and some interesting ideas. I’ve certainly emotionally moved on from it and just said, 'If it happens someday, it happens.' Yeah. Michael Keaton is just as relevant as ever and, and Tim Burton is just as relevant as ever, but you have to have both of those people excited about something to do it. I couldn’t get it there personally, as a writer, but maybe somebody else can."

But he's credited as the screenwriter for the sequel? To me that does not bode well. Keaton's old. Maybe they'll de-age him with CGI. Burton hasn't done anything original (with the exception of two things: Corpse Bride and the remake of Frankenweenie) since 1994's Ed Wood; everything since then as been based on books or other source material. All in all, I won't be seeing this in the theater unless it really blows people out of the water. I think it will do okay opening weekend, but after that it'll fade away +/- be another example of "Hollywood is out of ideas".

Grahame-Smith's publisher, Hachette, sued him for half the advance for a manuscript he gave them because, in essence, it was so bad it didn't live up to the quality they expected.

Imagine your writing being so shitty that your own publisher sues your ass?

So I do not have any confidence in his ability to produce anything near the quality of the original, even working with other screenwriters.

That quote is great. Thanks for posting it, I've never seen it before.

I agree with you completely on both Keaton and Burton. And I also won't see it in theaters unless the reviewers are glowing.

But then, I've seen a movies with enthusiastic reviews and hated them.

Hollywood could walk into any decent-sized library and find material to adapt, if Hollywood knew what a library was. As for screenwriters with original ideas, my impression is young writers -- and I can speak for those I've met who have MFAs -- are taught how to write in very specific, pre-programmed formulas that are "popular." Screenwriters never seem to study classic movies made before 2000; never heard of "Sunset Boulevard" or "The Third Man." I tried to get a young screenwriter to watch "A Man for All Seasons," and he said it was too long and boring.

Anyway, I'm ranting now.

Thank you for the Ask and your reply, anon.

[lboogie1906]

Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Key & Peele (2012–2015) and co-starred in Playing House (2014–2017). He spent six seasons as a cast member on Mad TV (2004–2009) and has made guest appearances on the US version of Whose Line is it Anyway? He appeared alongside Peele in the first season of Fargo in 2014 and had a recurring role in Parks and Recreation from 2013 to 2015. He hosted the US version of The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet (2005–2008), and hosted Game On! He has had supporting roles in several films, including Horrible Bosses 2 (2014), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Don't Think Twice (2016) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). He has provided voice work for The Lego Movie (2014), the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2015–2022), Storks, The Angry Birds Movie (both 2016), The Star (2017), The Lion King remake and Toy Story 4 (both 2019), and Pinocchio remake (2022). Also in 2015, he appeared at the White House Correspondents' Dinner as the Key & Peele character Luther, President Barack Obama's anger translator. Key and Peele produced and starred in Keanu. In 2017, he made his Broadway debut in Meteor Shower. He appeared in The Prom (2020) and Schmigadoon! (2021). He was born in Southfield, Michigan, the son of Leroy McDuffie and Carrie Herr. He was adopted at a young age by a couple from Detroit, Michael Key, and Patricia Walsh. His brother was comic book writer Dwayne McDuffie. He attended the University of Detroit Mercy, earning a BFA in Theater, followed by an MFA in Theater at Pennsylvania State University. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, he was a brother of Phi Kappa Theta. He was married to actress and dialect coach Cynthia Blaise (1998-2017). He married producer and director Elisa Pugliese (2018). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFtmZSrkq8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[coccyodynia]

things:

i went home the other weekend and didn’t steal any pills, as much as i thought about it, so thats kind of cool i guess

i got a very fun and cool tattoo yesterday, its a woman swinging an axe with that line i wrote a few years ago - “i swing and i dont miss”

i am seeing a The Plot In You tonight with justin

we’re planning on hanging out before the show too but the weather is gonna be shitty so who knows, he’ll probably flake out at this point

we’re also planning on going to chicago in a month but im concerned i wont be able to afford it idk. i just stashed away $250 for it but i wouldn’t be surprised if i had to dip into that before then

we’re on okay terms right now. its been a huge rollercoaster as usual but he still wants to keep me around in some type of way i guess bc he’ll respond or say shit like ‘i’m always here for you’

ive been dissociating a lot still but im practicing the skills to get a handle on it

ive officially stopped caring about anything at my job, i just dont give a fuck at all anymore

if i start caring again it will probably kill me, at least considering the rate we were going before 

i had a friend OD twice in the last week or so and im literally just bracing myself to lose another person to fent

its been almost a year without michael now and im still really heartbroken about

i can tell ive started letting my apartment/kitchen get bad again and it’s upsetting me but i feel paralyzed about it

one of my best friends is having a really tough time too and we keep messaging each other little check-ins even though neither of us have the capacity to really support or help the other person in any meaningful way

ive just been way too tapped out lately, and it has been affecting my health for quite awhile

my weight seems to be stable now or at least kinda, i lost 50 lbs and last week for the first time in awhile it didn’t go down when i got on the scale

my parents and grandma all made comments about how they can tell ive lost a lot of weight since i saw them last (6 weeks or so ago?)

my mom has been telling me “youre not eating enough calories” which i think gave me whiplash considering up until now my entire life shes been insistent that i eat too much

my financial situation is really about to get fucked up since im not teaching this summer, so i will lose that income for a few months ($800/month)

im pretty nervous they wont ask me back to teach in the fall bc the head of the department doesnt really like me

i got great evaluations from my students tho! at the end of the semester, two of my students asked if i would be comfortable with giving them a hug and i got emotional

i helped one of my students get into their first gallery show in NY and im just so fucking proud and excited for them

another student had made me a little embroidered camera patch for my bag 

im still very much thinking about applying to graduate/phd programs in the fall

there’s about 5 programs im interested in, but none of them are local so i’d have to move pretty far if i were accepted

im going to re-apply to university of denver for the MA emergent digital practices program

i applied to there in 2021 and was accepted but i wasn’t offered enough financial aid since i applied after the priority deadline so i’ll try it this fall and see what happens

im still dreaming about going to Brown for their digital writing/cross-disciplinary writing and art MFA but it's such a pipe dream

i also found a fascinating phd program at duke but they're not accepting applications this year?

i want to write and photograph more but by the end of the day i am so incredibly burnt out that it seems more like a chore than an outlet

i really wish there was a way for me to just quit my job and take some time off before going into another job

anyway therapy is back to once a week and sometimes 2x a week just depending on how well i handle things

my mom is still being the worst person ive ever met and im really trying to disconnect from her/the family as much as i can

she just spent $500 on a plane ticket so she can go spend a week with the guy she was engaged to in college

she sucks so much and i hate her 

anyway that’s all

[i-had-bucky]

get to know me 🌻

tagged by @kananjarus thank you for tagging me!

do you make your bed?

nope, never. it doesn't even have sheets tbh because they never stay on

what’s your favourite number?

i loathe all numbers

what is your job?

online writing tutor

If you could go back to school would you?

lmao i'm still IN school at the moment. i'm getting a second master's. i'm ALMOST done with my MFA in creative writing. i think honestly i might be done. i'm tired out.

can you parallel park?

nope! can't drive.

a job you had that would surprise people?

hmmm. i haven't had too many adventurous jobs, honestly. probably the 8 hours i worked at dairy queen before i got fired for getting ice cream all over the place.

do you think aliens are real?

yep! just don't think they look like what people conceive of 'life' looking like. life based on other elements would be completely different!

can you drive a manual car?

can't drive at all.

what’s your guilty pleasure?

i refuse to feel guilt for any pleasure! life is too short. i will play cringe video games and watch anime until i die. But in the spirit of the question, i consistently watch digimon.

tattoos?

I have 8 of them. My favorite is the one of my novel's main character in wolf form on my forearm. Second fav is the mighty nein logo from CR.

favourite colour?

purple!

favourite type of music?

I'm not sure i have a favorite type. My playlist has pretty much every genre on it. I think I gravitate towards the like folksy rock stuff?

do you like puzzles?

yes! i just finished a lord of the rings puzzle.

any phobias?

spiders. heights. water i can't see the bottom of.

favourite childhood sport?

softball! it was great. i had a lot of fun.

do you talk to yourself?

constantly

what movie(s) do you adore?

oof long list. uhhhh star wars, lord of the rings, jurassic park, interstellar, X-men, Michael (1996), Godzilla (all of them), Lisa Frankenstein, D&D: Honor Among Thieves, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Sing 2, Land Before Time, Homeward Bound, Moana, The Lion King...i could go on.

coffee or tea?

tea forever

first thing you wanted to be growing up?

a wolf. then a paleontologist during my dinosaur phase. then an archaeologist because i enjoyed digging.

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Passwortfreie Sicherheit

Passwörter stellen für Unternehmen ein hohes Sicherheitsrisiko dar. Durch Passwortdiebstahl können Angreifer oft unbemerkt in Unternehmenssysteme eindringen und einen hohen Schaden anrichten. Im Trend liegt deshalb die passwortlose Authentifizierung. CyberArk zeigt, worauf Unternehmen bei der Implementierung achten sollten, vor allem auch hinsichtlich der genutzten IAM-Lösung. Jeder kennt es: Die Erstellung eines neuen Passwortes ist ein lästiger Prozess, da es beispielsweise mindestens acht Zeichen lang sein, Groß- und Kleinbuchstaben, Ziffern und Sonderzeichen enthalten muss. Es ist aber ein notwendiges Übel, da Passwörter immer noch zu den beliebtesten Zielen von Angreifern gehören. Als Alternative zu dieser unkomfortablen Passworterstellung und -nutzung gewinnt derzeit die passwortlose Authentifizierung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Passwortlose Authentifizierung Das Konzept der passwortlosen Authentifizierung gibt es zwar schon seit Langem, aber erst seit Kurzem wird diese Technologie verstärkt aktiv genutzt. Dabei gibt es verschiedene Verfahren – Beispiele sind die Nutzung von QR-Codes, SMS-Nachrichten oder USB-Keys. Die passwortlose Authentifizierung basiert auf demselben Prinzip wie digitale Zertifikate, die öffentliche und private Schlüssel verwenden. Zu den Vorteilen einer passwortlosen Authentifizierung gehören ein verbesserter Benutzerkomfort und eine höhere Sicherheit, da passwortbezogene Risiken eliminiert werden. Auch der Aufwand für die IT wird reduziert: Passwörter, die zurückgesetzt werden müssen, gehören damit der Vergangenheit an. Klar ist aber auch, dass es auf absehbare Zeit kaum möglich sein wird, alle Passwörter zu ersetzen. Viele Legacy-Systeme, die tief in der IT-Infrastruktur verankert sind, erfordern nach wie vor Passwörter. In vielen Bereichen können Unternehmen aber durchaus von den Vorteilen des passwortlosen Weges profitieren. Allerdings sollten sie dabei einige wichtige Punkte beachten. Unternehmen müssen sich vor allem darüber im Klaren sein, dass der Erfolg einer passwortlosen Strategie von der Auswahl der Authentifizierungsfaktoren abhängt, die auf die Anforderungen des Unternehmens und der Benutzer abgestimmt sein müssen. Von essenzieller Bedeutung ist dabei die Implementierung einer adäquaten IAM-Lösung, die folgende Leistungsmerkmale aufweisen sollte. - Zero Sign-On: Die erste Säule einer echten passwortlosen Lösung ist eine Zero-Sign-On-Funktion, die starke kryptografische Standards wie Zertifikate verwendet und Benutzeridentitäten mit zusätzlichen Informationen wie einem Fingerabdruck verknüpft. - Integration und Unterstützung von FIDO2: Fast jeder Anbieter von Identitätslösungen unterstützt die FIDO2-Web-Authentifizierung (WebAuthn), die für die erfolgreiche Etablierung passwortloser Prozesse ein wichtiger Faktor ist. - Sicherer VPN-Zugang für Remote- und Hybrid-Benutzer: Eine wichtige Sicherheitskontrolle für die Authentifizierung von Remote- und Hybrid-Benutzern ist die Verwendung einer adaptiven MFA, wenn sie über ein VPN auf ein Unternehmensnetzwerk zugreifen. - Self-Service-Funktion für den Austausch von passwortlosen Authentifikatoren: Für ein echtes passwortloses Erlebnis ist die Implementierung einer Lösung wichtig, die den Benutzern die Möglichkeit bietet, passwortlose Authentifikatoren mit den entsprechenden Sicherheitskontrollen selbst zu registrieren, zu ersetzen und zu löschen. „Wie bei jedem sicherheitsrelevanten Projekt sind für Unternehmen auch bei der Umstellung auf einen passwortlosen Prozess eine detaillierte Strategie und Planung sowie Partnerschaften mit etablierten Anbietern unerlässlich. Diese sollten vor allem ein ausgewiesenes Know-how in den Bereichen passwortlose Authentifizierung und IAM besitzen“, erklärt Michael Kleist, Area Vice President DACH bei CyberArk. „Allerdings müssen Unternehmen auch immer bedenken, dass die passwortlose Authentifizierung nur ein Teil des Sicherheitspuzzles sein kann. Letztlich gewährleistet nur eine umfassende und vollständig integrierte Identity-Security- und Zero-Trust-Strategie eine zuverlässige Gefahrenabwehr.“     Passende Artikel zum Thema   Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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NY / &&&2

&&&2 January 6, 2024 – February 18, 2024  Opening Reception: Jan 6, Saturday 6-8PM  A talk with the artists will be scheduled in February

Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York is pleased to present &&&2, a bi-coastal exhibition that serves as both a survey and sequel to the collaborations of Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty.

Ten years ago, the artists initiated a series of meetings to talk about materials and techniques, based on their mutual interest in using photographic imagery to destabilize traditional art categories like painting, printmaking and sculpture.

The meetings resulted in an artist’s book titled &&&, in which the three artists imagined themselves as a fictional industrial supply firm. For Greenberger & Greenbaum & Cutler &, the fictional company had a veneer of prestige. For these capitalist outsiders, a corporate symbol of joint commercial enterprise was almost tantamount to success.

The book was released at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair in 2013 in both a mass market paperback and a boxed, limited special edition print series based on swatch sample catalogs. The intention of the project was lost on nearly everyone, but a few key people became aware of the artists’ positioning themselves as a small movement.  This included the photography curator Dan Leers, who organized a show and catalog of their work, Beyond The Surface: Image as Object, at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center in 2014. 

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of &&&, Sun You has invited Greenberger & Greenbaum & Cutler to mount an exhibition at TSA in Brooklyn, NY. There will also be a simultaneous version of the show at Ditch Projects in Springfield, OR.  The exhibitions at both artist-run spaces feature a backdrop that wraps the gallery with deconstructed pages from the original &&& book, over which the artists have installed works from 2013 and 2023.  The original book is also exhibited, as well as a new portfolio of prints (&&&2) to celebrate ten fruitful years of collaboration, hand wringing and friendship 

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. Selected exhibition venues include KANSAS, New York; Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York, Higher Pictures, New York; New York; Marianne Boesky, New York, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steve Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Michael Jon & Alan, Miami, The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; Socrates Sculpture Park; Long Island City and Stems Gallery, Brussels. Recent projects include a solo presentation with Lyles & King and solo exhibitions at Galerie Pact, Paris and Super Dakota, Brussels.

His work has been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, BOMB Magazine, ArtReview and Interview Magazine, among others. Ethan is a co-founder and editor of thehighlights.org and his writings have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Wax Magazine, BOMB, Paper Monument and others. He has also curated and co-curated multiple exhibitions at venues including The Suburban, Chicago; Lyles & King, New York and Super Dakota, Brussels. Greenbaum is the recipient of the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, the Silver Art Residency, The Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne’s Workspace Residency, LMCC’s Workspace Program, The Robert Blackburn SIP Fellowship, The Socrates EAF Fellowship, The Edward Albee Foundation Residency and The Barry Schactman Painting Prize. He received an MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.

David Kennedy Cutler is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Cutler received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Essex Flowers, New York; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia and Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany. Cutler has performed in various spaces in New York including Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Essex Flowers, Printed Matter, Halsey McKay, Derek Eller Gallery, and Flag Art Foundation, and internationally at the Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, among others. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College and The RISD Museum, and his artist’s books are included in the libraries of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker and Modern Painter, among others. Cutler is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, NY and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton. 

Sara Greenberger Rafferty produces image-based works in paper, plastic, glass, metal, fabric, and video. Her work is driven by an ongoing examination of contemporary and mid-20th century visual culture and considers the ever-changing implications for photographic images in the digital era. She’s also into comedy. 

Ditch Projects is a nonprofit artist-founded, artist-run studio, exhibition, and performance space providing contemporary art experiences in Springfield, Oregon. As a collective of artists and professionals committed to exhibiting experimental artists from diverse backgrounds, Ditch Projects provides opportunities for cultural exchange between experimental contemporary art and our local community, acting as an integral voice within contemporary art discourse in the Pacific Northwest. Since its founding in 2008, Ditch Projects has featured over 145 exhibitions and 275 artists. Growing organically out of the concerns of its artist members, Ditch provides contemporary visual arts practitioners with an opportunity to test out new ideas, processes, and approaches they might not otherwise attempt in a comparable urban center. Over the past decade, the primary focus of the artist collective has been on the production and presentation of new works by regional, national and international artists, with a consistent 10-12 solo, two-person or group exhibitions per season. Past exhibiting artists have included internationally renowned practitioners such as Amy Yao, Diana Thater, Scott Reeder, Laura Owens, Jessica Jackson Hutchinsons, and Vito Acconci, along with regionally acclaimed artists such as Ralph Pugay, Amy Bernstein, Lisa Radon, Tannaz Farsi, James Lavadour, and Kristen Kennedy. Exhibitions at Ditch Projects have been reviewed in Art Forum, Frieze, Art in America, and the New York Times. Ditch Projects has received grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation, The Miller Foundation, the Ford Family Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commision, the Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Community Foundation, and the WLS Spencer Foundation.