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Extraction 2 (2023): “I’m not giving up on him.”

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Extraction 2 June 16th, 2023

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Ooc: I'm adding this absolute badass to my muse list! Dm me or send memes to interact!

Nik Kahn

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Chag Chanukah Sameach

Ma’oz Tzur

Sung by Inbar Lavi and Jake Epstein, whom starred together in Hallmark’s 2021 movie “Eight Gifts of Hanukkah”, which is where this clip is from.

This traditional Chanukah song is sung by some after the lighting of the Menorah. The Bailey family typically has Richard and Jasmine sing the song together after lighting the Menorah on the eighth night; This year, Aslihan sang the song instead. The link to learn more about the history of Chanukah is linked in the song title above; The transliteration and English translation of the song is beneath the read more. 

Hebrew Lyrics:

מָעוֹז צוּר יְשׁוּעָתִי לְךָ נָאֶה לְשַׁבֵּחַ תִּכּוֹן בֵּית תְּפִלָּתִי וְשָׁם תּוֹדָה נְזַבֵּחַ לְעֵת תָּכִין מַטְבֵּחַ מִצָּר הַמְנַבֵּחַ .אָז אֶגְמוֹר בְּשִׁיר מִזְמוֹר חֲנֻכַּת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ

רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה חַיַּי מֵרְרוּ בְקֹשִׁי בְּשִׁעְבּוּד מַלְכוּת עֶגְלָה וּבְיָדוֹ הַגְּדוֹלָה הוֹצִיא אֶת הַסְּגֻלָּה .חֵיל פַּרְעֹה וְכָל זַרְעוֹ יָרְדוּ כְּאֶבֶן בִּמְצוּלָה

דְּבִיר קָדְשׁוֹ הֱבִיאַנִי וְגַם שָׁם לֹא שָׁקַטְתִּי וּבָא נוֹגֵשׂ וְהִגְלַנִי כִּי זָרִים עָבַדְתִּי וְיֵין רַעַל מָסַכְתִּי כִּמְעַט שֶׁעָבַרְתִּי .קֵץ בָּבֶל זְרֻבָּבֶל לְקֵץ שִׁבְעִים נוֹשַׁעְתִּי

כְּרוֹת קוֹמַת בְּרוֹשׁ בִּקֵּשׁ אֲגָגִי בֶּן הַמְּדָתָא וְנִהְיָתָה לוֹ לְפַח וּלְמוֹקֵשׁ וְגַאֲוָתוֹ נִשְׁבָּתָה רֹאשׁ יְמִינִי נִשֵּׂאתָ וְאוֹיֵב שְׁמוֹ מָחִיתָ .רֹב בָּנָיו וְקִנְיָנָיו עַל הָעֵץ תָּלִיתָ

יְוָנִים נִקְבְּצוּ עָלַי אֲזַי בִּימֵי חַשְׁמַנִּים וּפָרְצוּ חוֹמוֹת מִגְדָּלַי וְטִמְּאוּ כָּל הַשְּׁמָנִים וּמִנּוֹתַר קַנְקַנִּים נַעֲשָׂה נֵס לַשּׁוֹשַׁנִּים .בְּנֵי בִינָה יְמֵי שְׁמוֹנָה קָבְעוּ שִׁיר וּרְנָנִים

חֲשׂוֹף זְרוֹעַ קָדְשֶׁךָ וְקָרֵב קֵץ הַיְשׁוּעָה נְקֹם נִקְמַת דַם עֲבָדֶיךָ מֵאֻמָּה הָרְשָׁעָה כִּי אָרְכָה לָנוּ הַיְשׁוּעָה וְאֵין קֵץ לִימֵי הָרָעָה .דְּחֵה אַדְמוֹן בְּצֵל צַלְמוֹן הָקֵם לָנוּ רוֹעִים שִׁבְעָה

Transliteration:

Mah-ohz tzoor yeh-shoo-ah-tee leh-kha nah-eh le-shah-bay-ah-kh Tee-kohn bayt teh-fee-lah-tee veh-sham toh-dah neh-zah-bay-ah-kh Leh-ayt tah-kheen maht-bay-akh mee-tzahr hah-meh-nah-bay-ah-kh Ahz, ehg-mohr beh-shir miz-mohr kha-noo-kaht hah-miz-bay-ah-kh

Rah-oht sah-vah nahf-shee beh-yah-gohn koh-khee kah-lah Kha-yai may-reh-roo veh-koh-shee, beh-shee-bood mahl-khoos ehg-lah Oo-veh-yah-doh hah-geh-doh-lah hoh-tzee eht hah-seh-goo-lah Khayl pah-roh veh-khol zah-roh yahr-doo keh-eh-vehn bim-tzoo-lah

Deh-veer kohd-sho heh-vee-ah-nee veh-gahm sham loh sha-kah-teh-tee Oo-va noh-gays ve-hig-lah-nee kee zah-rim ah-vah-deh-tee Veh-yayn rah-ahl mah-sakh-tee kim-aht sheh-ah-var-tee Kaytz bah-vehl zeh-roo-bah-vehl leh-kaytz shee-vim noh-sha-tee

Keh-roht koh-maht beh-roh-sh bee-kaysh ah-gah-gee ben hah-meh-dah-tah Veh-nee-heh-yah-tah loh leh-fahkh oo-leh-moh-kaysh veh-gah-ah-vah-toh nish-bah-tah Roh-sh yeh-mee-nee nee-say-ta veh-oh-yayv sheh-moh mah-khee-tah Rohv bah-nahv veh-kin-yah-nahv ahl hah-aytz tah-lee-tah

Yeh-vah-nim nik-beh-tzoo ah-lai ah-zai bee-may khash-mah-nim Oo-fahr-tzoo khoh-moht mig-dah-lai veh-tim-oo kohl hah-sheh-mah-nim Oo-mee-noh-tahr kahn-kah-nim nah-ah-seh nays lah-sho-shah-nim Beh-nay vee-nah yeh-may sheh-moh-nah kah-veh-oo shir oo-reh-nah-nim

Kha-sohf zeh-roh-ah kohd-sheh-kha veh-kah-rayv kaytz hah-yeh-shoo-ah Neh-kohm nik-maht ah-vah-deh-kha may-oo-mah hah-reh-shah-ah Kee ahr-kha hah-sha-ah veh-ayn kaytz lee-may hah-rah-ah Deh-khay- ahd-mohn beh-tzayl tzahl-mohn hah-kaym lah-noo roh-eem shiv-ah

Translation:

O mighty stronghold of my salvation, to praise You is a delight. Restore my House of Prayer and there we will bring a thanksgiving offering. When You will have prepared the slaughter for the blaspheming foe, Then I shall complete with a song of hymn the dedication of the Altar.

My soul had been sated with troubles, my strength has been consumed with grief. They had embittered my life with hardship, with the calf-like kingdom's bondage. But with His great power He brought forth the treasured ones, Pharaoh's army and all his offspring Went down like a stone into the deep.

To the holy abode of His Word He brought me. But there, too, I had no rest And an oppressor came and exiled me. For I had served aliens, And had drunk benumbing wine. Scarcely had I departed At Babylon's end Zerubabel came. At the end of seventy years I was saved.

To sever the towering cypress sought the Aggagite, son of Hammedatha, But it became [a snare and] a stumbling block to him and his arrogance was stilled. The head of the Benjaminite You lifted and the enemy, his name You obliterated His numerous progeny - his possessions - on the gallows You hanged.

Greeks gathered against me then in Hasmonean days. They breached the walls of my towers and they defiled all the oils; And from the one remnant of the flasks a miracle was wrought for the roses. Men of insight - eight days established for song and jubilation

Bare Your holy arm and hasten the End for salvation - Avenge the vengeance of Your servants' blood from the wicked nation. For the triumph is too long delayed for us, and there is no end to days of evil, Repel the Red One in the nethermost shadow and establish for us the seven shepherds.

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Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Tyler Rake - Fandom, Extraction (2020) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tyler Rake/OC, Tyler/Ovi Characters: Tyler Rake, Esme Drummond/Rake (OC), Ovi Mahajan Jr, Nik Kahn Summary:

Broken and bleeding. Weathered and in tatters. Two damaged and weary souls find one another when they least expect it. Wrong place, wrong time. Yet both powerless to stop it.

This has all the current chapters. There’s many more to come. I have four other chapters finished and more started LMAO. Don’t ask me where the motivation comes from, because I honestly have no idea. I’m self isolating because I’m immune suppressed and trying my best to avoid Covid19. So writing Tyler it is!

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Image courtesy of Five Car Garage. 

PLAN ForYourArt: January 25–31

Thursday, January 25

MORE ART HERE, Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica), 12–6pm. Through January 28.

Teen Hip Hop Workshop with DJ Survive and the Inner City Dwellers, Cypress Park Branch Library (Cypress Park), 4–5pm.

Botany Bay Series: Plant Science for Gardeners & Citizen Scientists - January, The Huntington (San Marino), 4:30–5:30pm.

designLAb Public Reception: Italian Style: 1930s - 1980s, Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood), 5–9:30pm.

Kim Schoen: The Hysteric's Discourse, Young Projects (West Hollywood), 5–9:30pm.

Suzanne Wright, Pomona College (Claremont), 5–9pm.

Rap on Border: A Public Conversation, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 5–8pm.

Reilly Rhodes on Winslow Homer, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6pm.

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb: On Cuba and Collaboration, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 6:30–8pm.

Guided tour: Edgar and Norma Coronado, Self Help Graphics & Art (Downtown), 6:30pm.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica), 7–9pm. $65. Through January 28.

Talk: Curator Walkthrough of "A Universal History of Infamy" with Pilar Tompkins Rivas, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7pm.

At land’s edge presents Set Hernandez Rongkilyo, Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Los Angeles (Koreatown), 7–9pm.

Gifts of the Spirit: Prophecy, Automatism and Discernment, Vibiana (Downtown), 7 and 9pm.

Charlemagne Palestine: CcornuuoorphanossCcopiaee  

aanorphansshhornoffplentyyy, 356 Mission (Downtown), 7–10pm.

LECTURE: Thomas Hutton, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown), 7pm.

Film: Free Screening | The Chi, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

FeM Synth Lab How-To: Humanize Your Synths, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–9:30pm.

Suzanne Hudson presents Vija Celmins, ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena), 7:30pm.

​Twin Engines Performance Series: Brian Getnick and Christy Roberts, PØST (Downtown), 8pm. $5–10 suggested donation.

Friday, January 26

RUSSELL TYLER: Altered State, Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–7pm.

Combat Shock, 4864 W Adams Blvd (West Adams), 6–9pm.

Le château des destins croisés, Château Shatto (Hollywood), 6–9pm.

In Conversation: Alternative Art Spaces with Brooke Kellaway and Libby Werbel (PMOMA), SBCAST (Santa Barbara), 6–7pm.

stARTup Art Fair LA, The Kinney (Venice), 7–10pm. Through January 28.

The Pain of Others, Ghebaly Gallery (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Hayden Dunham: Canary for the Family, Club Pro Los Angeles (Downtown), 7–11pm.

Together We Plan!: Community Activism In 2018, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–9:30pm.

Joseph Holtzman: Seven Recent Paintings, Bel Ami (Chinatown), 7–10pm.

2018 PEN Emerging Voices Welcome Party, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (Hollywood), 8–10pm.

GUIDED TOURS with Davie Blue, Human Resources (Chinatown), 8pm. Through January 28. $10 suggested donation.

The Music of WADADA LEO SMITH, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm. $18.

Judith Butler: The Materiality of Mourning in the work of Doris Salcedo, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $10–20.

Saturday, January 27

Talk: Gallery Course: Italian and Northern Renaissance Art, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 8:30am.

Ranch Clinic - Container Gardening, The Huntington (San Marino), 9–10am.

Talk: Responding to Sarah Charlesworth: Creative Writing Workshop with Karen Holden, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am.

Basic Auto Care Clinic, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 10am–1pm. $20–25.

Finding Autonomy and Connection through Contact Improv: Jen Hong, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 12–3pm. $30.

BEND, BLOW & GLOW I, Museum of Neon Art (Glendale), 12–7pm.

Johanna Breiding: The Rebel Body and Making Social, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 1–4pm.

Native Seeds: Food Preparation / Sun Cookies, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 1:30–4:30pm. $60–75.

Pascual Sisto: INSIDE OUT, Five Car Garage (Santa Monica), 2–5pm.

SYMPOSIUM: PUBLIC PERFORMANCE, UCLA (Westwood), 2–5pm.

Cassils | Nik Kosmas | Lesley Moon | Elliot Musgrave: The Language of the Body: Art, Physical Practice & Intersectional Action, ltd los angeles (Mid-City), 2pm.

Live Free or Die: Artist Talk with Soyoung Shin and Juliana Wisdom, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm.

Demystifying Dim Sum with Chefs Susan Feniger and Kajsa Alger, The Huntington (San Marino), 2pm.

Women’s Center for Creative Work: Live Free or Die, The Huntington (San Marino), 2–4pm.  

Ruben Ochoa Artist Talk, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 2:30–5:30pm.

Vija Celmins, Matthew Marks Gallery (West Hollywood), 3–5pm.

Beyond the Ordinary: A Conversation with Three Conceptual Artists from Argentina, Getty Center (Brentwood), 4pm.

Tokens of Affection: Valentines by Corinna Cotsen, Craft in America Center (Beverly Grove), 4–6pm.

Lyle Ashton Harris Book Signing + Discussion with Walead Beshty, Charles Gaines, and Amelia Jones, Arcana Books on the Arts (Culver City), 4–6pm.

Origins, Downtown Labs (Downtown), 4–7pm.  

Joan Horsfall Young: Cottages, Anne M Bray: Road Trip, and Fielden Harper: Continuum, TAG Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–8pm.

Simone Forti: Time Smear, The Box (Downtown), 5–8pm.

The Gallery @ Michael’s, Michael’s (Santa Monica), 6–8pm.

PETER WU: Or, the Modern Prometheus, Held & Bordy Gallery, Windward School (Mar Vista), 6–9pm.

MELTING POINT: MOVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY CLAY, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 6–9pm. $12.

Martin Soto Climent: Temazcal, Michael Benevento (Koreatown), 6–8pm.

Chad Attie: The Last Island, The Lodge (East Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Closing Reception for Aztlan: A Sense of Place, dA Center for the Arts (Pomona), 6–8pm.

Right at the Equator and Relax Shadeans, Depart Foundation (Malibu), 6–9pm.

Art Event 2018: Enter the World of Warhol, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 6pm.

ANNEX, M+B (West Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Closing reception: Cell, Share, Swivel Chair, Monte Vista Projects (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Closing Reception for Taking Up Space, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles (Downtown), 7–10pm.  

Music: The Music of East L.A., LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

ALARM WILL SOUND: 1969, CAP UCLA (Westwood), 8pm.

Winter Exhibitions Opening Celebration, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 8–11pm.

Life's not fair and people don't act right, BBQLA (Downtown), 8pm–12am.

Centennial Bash, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 8pm. $25–45.

Sunday, January 28

Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 11am–5pm. 

Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt, ICA LA (Downtown), 11am–6pm; The Act of Doing: A Conversation with Skip Arnold, 3–4pm.

Brought to Light: Revelatory Photographs in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Collection and Crosscurrents: The Painted Portrait in America, Britain, and France, 1750–1850, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 11am–5pm.

Pelotas Oaxaqueñas/Oaxacan Ball Games: Photographs by Leopoldo Peña, Fowler Museum (Westwood);12–5pm;  talk, 2pm.

Cecily Brown: Rehearsal and Midori Hirose: Of The Unicorn (and the Sundowner Kids), Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 12–5pm.

Grin & Bear It!: Decorate your very own handmade bear workshop, 356 Mission (Downtown), 1–4pm.

Dan Levenson: SKZ Monochrome Diptychs, American Jewish University (Bel Air), 2–5:19pm.

I can call this progress to halt book launch and screenings, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (Hollywood), 2–6pm.

Around The Table:Recipes and Stories from The Lark in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 2pm.

LECTURE: Rebecca Matalon: Welcome to the Dollhouse Walkthrough, MOCA Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood), 3pm.

Miguel Gutierrez // I am sitting on my aura, we live in space (Mid-City), 3–6pm.

Nina Könnemann: Que Onda, Gaga (MacArthur Park), 3:30–6pm.

TALK WITH CULTURAL ACTIVIST TASOULA HADJITOFI, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 4pm.

Closing reception: Pouya Afshar: En Masse, ADVOCARTY's THE SPACE (Downtown), 4–7pm.

Robert Irwin: Site Determined, The University Art Museum, CSULB (Long Beach), 4–6pm.

Latin Jazz - LIVE !, dA Center for the Arts (Pomona), 4–5pm.

Music: Crossroads School EMMI Chamber Ensembles, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 6pm.

Monday, January 29

Window Dressing, Cerritos College Art Gallery (Norwalk), 4–6pm.

This, Not That Lecture: Sarah Whiting, UCLA (Westwood), 6:30pm.

Talk: Wu Bin's Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Stranger Landscapes: Films by Pia Borg, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm.

Tuesday, January 30

Outcasts: Prejudice and Persecution in the Medieval World, Getty Center (Brentwood), 10:30am–5pm. 

Family Day - Word Play, The Huntington (San Marino), 11am–3pm.

JIM MORPHESIS artist lecture, Kellogg University Art Gallery (Pomona), 12–1pm.

Dance Girl Dance, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

After Concretism: Audiovisual Experiments in Brazil, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7–9pm.

How To Have Hard Conversations: Step 2, Constructive Conflict Communication at Work, Home and Everywhere In Between, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7–10pm.

READINGS: Some Favorite Writers: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Talk: Conversation with Award-winning Costume Designer Mark Bridges, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Camille Henrot, ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena), 7:30pm.

Wednesday, January 31

Christodoulos Panayiotou: The Paradox of Acting, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Skip Arnold | Stanya Kahn | Kalup Linzy Jumana Manna | Mickalene Thomas Film screening organized by Mariah Garnett and Aimee Goguen, ltd los angeles (Mid-City), 8pm.

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An Announcement from THE READING ROOM

21 JUNE 2019

You might have noticed that we haven’t announced any new events in  the last months. When we started The Reading Room in 2015 we were freshly graduated from art school and looking to create a platform for reading and learning within our community.

The series started  small, but always central to it was the spirit of bringing our local community into fruitful contact with new and exciting ideas. Since then  we have invited 33 artists, researchers, theorists and scientists from  the Netherlands and abroad to share their insights and passions with us in open-ended, intimate discussions.

We have organized an  amazing 30 (!) reading sessions and workshops in collaboration with our partners at STROOM Den Haag and iii. With topics as diverse as they were challenging; from ‘media archeology’ to ‘the edges of the  voice’. In 2017 we started an effort to trace the ephemeral exchanges taking  place in The Reading Room through a kind of informal interview/discussion process. This secondary project quickly took form as The Relay Conversations, which are now a significant body of 12 online micro-publications written in tandem with our guests.

We’ve decided that now is a good time to take a moment to reflect on what we’ve accomplished with this initiative and consider future momentums. For the moment we won’t be organizing The Reading Room as a regular series any longer. However the format, the community, and the ideas will continue onwards as The Reading Room itself becomes more nomadic and more dynamic.

For now, we end the formal series with thanks. Our thanks go to all those who have  participated in The Reading Room and have therefore helped to create the foundation for these beautiful encounters. We thank you for your ideas, your curiosity, your enthusiasm. We also want to thank the instrument inventors initiative, for  producing and making possible this amazing journey. A huge thank-you goes to our funders Stroom Den Haag and Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie for making it financially possible to bring so many guests to The Hague.  Finally, a special thanks to our guests: Eric Kluitenberg Sher Doruff Toni Pape Rick Dolphijn Iris van der Tuin Wybo Houkes Jamie Allen Will Schrimshaw Charlotte Farrell Thijs Witty Maciej Ożóg Marco Donnarumma ArchipelagoLab Yvonne Volkart Julia Bee Christoph Brunner Alanna Thain Nik Forrest Nishant Shah Lila Athenasladova Marcel Cobussen Andrej Radman Yvonne Förster Jaime del Val Warrick Roseboom Joel Ryan Raviv Ganchrow Douglas Kahn Cramer Florian Rebekka Kiesewetter Joana C-q Alessandro Ludovico Amelia Groom Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman

Until next time, The Reading Room facilitators Jonathan Reus, Sissel Marie Tonn & Flora Reznik https://instrumentinventors.org/the-reading-room-comes-to-a-close/

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Demo Jam, a game show-style event where AppExchange partners demonstrate their technology in three minutes in front of a live audience that votes for their favorite demo, began at Salesforce in 2015 as a webinar series. In 2016, there were a handful of live sessions at Dreamforce. In 2017, we expanded to eight, and in 2018, there were even more.   Dreamforce 2019 was back with 11 Demo Jams and 51 partners. The winners of each Demo Jam across Dreamforce faced off in the Mega Demo Jam. One partner emerged victorious, winning their respective Demo Jam and then beating out all of the other winners in the Mega Demo Jam. See that winner below, along with the amazing partners that joined the fun, fought hard, and came out with some awe-inspiring demos. Winners throughout the week came back to compete for the big prize in the Mega Demo Jam. Not only did it include the biggest demo battle of the year, but it also featured special guests and tons of wild and crazy antics.   Hosts: Jeff Grosse, Joshua Hoskins, and Amanda Nelson Demos from the winners at Dreamforce 2019: Mogli SMS - MEGA and Salesforce.org WINNER Dun & Bradstreet - Beyond Apps winner Xactly Incent - Sales winner Jitterbit - Developer winner FormAssembly - Customer Service winner OwnBackup - Admin winner Copado - Finance winner CloudSense - Commerce winner Mogli rapping at the Mega Demo Jam Here's more of the Demo Jams at Dreamforce 2019, including the competing partners, livestream replays, and the amazingly entertaining hosts. Salesforce.org had two exciting Demo Jams focused on Salesforce Foundation partners. These partners help nonprofits and higher education organizations, and demonstrated how they do it in three minutes or less.   Hosts: Aleksandra Milcic Radovanovic, Mark Adcock, and Shirin Birjandi Demos from: DonorSearch - WINNER Classy Fonteva RallyBound KnowWho, Inc. Exponent Partners  DonorSearch wins the first Salesforce.org Demo Jam of Dreamforce 2019 Hosts: Joanna Iturbe, Tal Frankfurt, and Shirin Birjandi Demos from:   Mogli SMS - WINNER Enrollment RX TargetX iWave Gravyty   Winning Flow solution Consent Capture being demoed at the Salesforce Labs Demo Jam There’s more to AppExchange than apps. This Demo Jam covered components, bolts, Lightning data, flows, and more. Customers learned how to build and extend Salesforce in ways you never thought possible.   Hosts: Nik Panter, Ines Garcia, and Holly Rushton Demos from: Dun & Bradstreet (Lightning Data) - WINNER 7Summits (Bolt) Coveo (Component) Vidyard (Component) Appirio (Bolt) Dun & Bradstreet wins the Beyond Apps Demo Jam with their Lightning Data solution Out of the thousands of apps on AppExchange, the majority of solutions are sales-related. While it was tough to pick just five, we showed how to extend Sales Cloud and your Salesforce experience for your sales army in this Demo Jam.   Hosts: Adam Olshansky, Stephanie Foerst, and Miriam Kahn Demos from: Xactly Incent - WINNER DocuSign NC Squared NICE InContact Icertis Xactly Incent wins the Sales Demo Jam Development just got easier with AppExchange solutions for developers. From data backup to data uploads, to gauging the health of your Salesforce org and more, we covered it all with this developer-focused Demo Jam.   Hosts: Kerry McClauss, David Giller Demos from:   Jitterbit - WINNER Prodly Moover Elements.Cloud Odaseva Jitterbit wins the Developer Demo Jam Service Cloud and Field Service Lighting are important tools in the customer service agents’ toolbox, but so are AppExchange solutions. These service-related apps demonstrated how to save time, boost productivity, and run your entire customer service experience in Salesforce.   Hosts: Leyna Hoffer, Sandi Nuss Zellner, and Miriam Kahn Demos from: FormAssembly - WINNER Accounting Seed Aircall Fujitsu GLOVIA OM Natterbox Accounting Seed about to go on stage in the Customer Service Demo Jam Fight inefficiency and boost productivity by automating, streamlining, and accelerating every department. Here are five apps that do just that, in this exciting battle of the admin app demos.   Hosts: Jarrod Kingston, Monica Sandberg, and Holly Rushton Demos from:   OwnBackup - WINNER Formstack TaskRay Conga Conga demoing at the Admin Demo Jam If you were seeking ways to do more with Salesforce in the world of financial services or revenue operations, look no further than this Demo Jam. We showed five partners' finance-related solutions in three quick minutes.   Hosts: Gordon Lee, Barbara Christensen, and Hana Mandapat Demos from: Copado - WINNER PayPal Rootstock FinancialForce NewVoiceMedia Copado wins the Finance Demo Jam Did you know Commerce Cloud solutions are now on AppExchange? Now you can do more with Commerce Cloud than ever before, so we got excited about the next e-commerce move with this Demo Jam.   Hosts: Rebe De La Paz and Roy Gilad Demos from: CloudSense - WINNER Adyen BloomReach SessionM Zenkraft The big crowd at the Mega Demo Jam   Salesforce Labs are free apps built by Salesforce employees. They are unmanaged, open source packages that are ready for customization.   Friday, 11/22 at 10:30 a.m., AppExchange Theater, Moscone West, first floor Hosts: Charly Prinsloo and Sharon Klardie Demos from: Consent Capture (Flow) - WINNER Digital Store (Flow) In-App Guidance Eventforce Dunning & Collections Brunch Dreamin A bonus Demo Jam, Brunch Dreamin, featured the fearless leaders of the Community Conferences held around the globe. These hard working, event-planners-as- a-second-job, had three minutes to demo how they run their conferences. The winner was Down Under Dreaming Sydney. For even more Demo Jam fun, watch past Demo Jams and see the participants' apps right here on AppExchange at appdemojam.com.

[whumpypepsigal]

Extraction 2 (2023): “It’s pretty difficult to let someone you care about die.”

[sugarmoonaki]

i mentioned to my dad i used to have bad sleep paralysis. i was surprised to find out he also had sleep paralysis. almost every night for him. in ojibwe-cree, it’s called nik-kahn-nas. my kookum (grandma) would tell him to smudge and walk around after having it. interesting.. it’s probably hereditary.

[maevns]

tagged by @kestrels // thanks so much lexi!! ♡

nickname: lynsie. zodiac: cancer. height: 5′11. last thing i googled: ‘amazon uk’ (i love the uk editions,, okay??). favourite music artist: the 1975. song stuck in my head: 'today has been ok’ by sleeping at last. last movie i saw: the corpse bride. what am i wearing right now: abercrombie hoodie & jeans. why did i choose my url: because kady grant is so strong & important, and i feel like she doesn’t get enough recognition <3 do i have any other blogs: okay,, so i have like, 30+ saved urls, but none that i use actively.  what did your last relationship teach you: i haven’t been in a relationship yet, but i know from living vicariously through characters while reading books that it’s important to stay true to yourself, and that you should never let the counterpart to your relationship demean or hurt you (or your feelings). religious or spiritual: i’m an atheist,,,, so... spiritual lol. favourite colour: pastel pink and/or black. average hours of sleep: def 6-7, but it can vary from time to time. lucky number: (running through the) six (w/ my woes). favourite characters: mare barrow, maven calore, noel kahn, aria montgomery, noah czerny, aaron warner, elise warren, anna chevalier, camille preaker, amma crellin, noah shaw, mara dyer, sydney sage, adrian ivashkov, rhysand, feyre archeron, hassan, amir, kady grant, hannah donnelly, nik malikov, etc. (lol).  dream job: illustrating children’s books, or designing book covers for a publishing company. 

tagging: @lilycallouway, @alohomra, @fierceds, @softalina, @cresceant, @mavencalore, @lilycolloway, @rykesmeadow, @rhysahd, @aaronwarner, & @vildeleins ♡

[fassanda]

Jacksons Eindejaarslijstje

Naam: Jackson

Leeftijd: 57

Beroep: host

Beste gerecht in 2019 (waar, wat, wie?): alle eten bij Morrison en alle gerechten bij Snoop en Martha's Potluck dinner party

Meest memorabel moment van euforie onder invloed in 2019?: komt eraan

Meest aangename verrassing in 2019?: beide dochters(Morrison en Texas) gelukkig en weer als host bij een deur van een club mogen staan, Lovelee dus

Ik heb voor het eerst ....... In 2019?: me een schoonmoeder gevoeld en mogen meewerken aan een item in Man bij Hond over mij

Beste reis(spot) in 2019?: Limburg

Beste collabo(s) in 2019?: Ed Sheeran... vul maar in... Lovelee en ik en Degenerates en ik

Beste aankoop in 2019?: telefoonhoes met koordje

Meest hinderlijke social mediapersonality in 2019?: allemaal

Top social mediapersonality in 2019?: die make up dame Nikkie, Donnie

Beste televisie/YouTube programma uit 2019?: Freddy en z'n kookprogramma. The Daily show, de diva in mij. James Corden, Pisnicht

Beste influencercampagne uit 2019?: Tim Hoffman, Sahil Amar Aïsa , Ruby Deelen/Cathelijne Blok, alles wat deze mensen doen is Top !

Domste influencercampagne uit 2019?: allemaal

Domste Vice artikel uit 2019?: er bestaan geen domme artikelen... gewoon niet lezen wanneer het je niet aanstaat.

Beste klantenservice in 2019?: kut

Nepste klantenservice in 2019?: kut

Beste podcast uit 2019?: Sword and scale, liars, my dad wrote a porno, the New Yorker, the writerś voice, Yous & Yay, new emotions, Song exploder, Dirty John... too many

Beste meme uit 2019?: doe ik niet aan

Beste Instagram(profiel, post) uit 2019?: Willie party altijd!!

Gemiste kans in 2019?: eigen podcast

Beste artikel in 2019?: fb posts van nik tijger, Opinie: Wat is eigenlijk de traditie van Zwarte Piet?(Leeuwarder Courant) Amsterdam is het lichtend baken van neoliberalisme (het Parool) Johan Fretz

Beste expositie in 2019?:  schaam me maar geen enkele gezien maar blijf geobsedeerd door Joseph Klibansky

Grootse deceptie in 2019?: ziek zijn,  het overlijden van Keith Flint , Jules Deelder en Rosario van Will&Grace.  Amsterdam

Het meest hoopvolle in 2019?: Dat ik nog leef !

Persoonlijke overwinning in 2019?: klein acteerrolletje in korte film

Gezelligste feestje in 2019?: oud en opnieuw en mtv/Viacom en Spielraum in Radion

Gezelligste festival in 2019?: Appelsap

Beste #hashtag?: stillredlips

Nepste #hashtag?: alle # met bv LV, Gucci en je hebt het niet eens

Beste concert in 2019?: Tuurlijk optreden van de Opposites op Appelsap

Tofste clips uit 2019?: geen enkele

Meest belabberde clip(s) in 2019?: allemaal

Beste film(s) uit 2019?: Joker, Bohemian Rhapsody, Toy Story 4: Huilen om een doos speelgoed

Beste documentaire uit 2019?: Diego Maradona, Justify INXS, When they see us

Beste boek uit 2019?: everything is fucked, judas en boek van Tim wat ik nog ga lezen

Muzikale hoogtepunten uit 2019?: Chaka Kahn, Post Malone

Muzikale dieptepunten uit 2019?: van Maan tot Famke en alles ertussen

Nepste bitch in 2019?: Madonna, Peter R. de Vries, Donald Trump

Beste bitch in 2019?: Kim Kardashian

Doelstellingen voor 2019?: Beter worden

Uitkijken voor ....... in 2020?: Donald Trump en in een positieve note : Peter van Vught

[artsvark]

Music, comedy take centre stage at National Arts Fest

A Midsummer Nights Dream The Ballet – Mahlatse Sachaneas Oberon with his fairies.

Arts and entertainment lovers should keep their eyes peeled for a series of early booking opportunities for this year’s National Arts Festival.

For the first time, popular shows will enjoy a limited release ahead of the 9 May online box office opening and full programme reveal. This will allow festival-goers a chance to secure some top shows and start shaping their Festival experience. Details will be released on social media.

National Arts Festival

To date the Festival’s main programme has been announced and fans are currently digesting numerous reasons to make 2017 a big Festival year.

SERIOUS ABOUT COMEDY The National Arts Festival is tearing up the comedy stage this year, starting with international comedian Stephen K Amos on the opening weekend. The globe-trotting laughter master will perform his new show WORLD FAMOUS on 2 & 3 July only. Tickets are now available so fans should grab them while they’re hot.

Together with the Brighton Fringe, the National Arts Festival has brought IT’S ONLY BIRDS to the 2017 Festival; Louise Reay’s trail-blazing language experiment in non-verbal communication. “You’ll understand it but won’t know why”, says Chinese-speaking Reay, who was recently won awards in Brighton and at other World Fringe Alliance events in Adelaide and Edinburgh.

Home-grown talents John van de Ruit (Spud) and Ben Voss (Beauty Ramapelepele) are reunited for a savagely funny look at all that is wrong with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in MAMBA REPUBLIC. Topics such as fees must fall, state capture, online dating, the economy, sport, technology, casual racism, an alternative national anthem, and even the most unusual football match in living memory, are given the once over by the duo. Succeeding its predecessors Green Mamba (2002) and Black Mamba (2005), the show will run from 2-8 July.

Trailing endless accolades and endorsements from international festivals– including the Brighton and Cape Town Fringe 2016, the UK’s The Pretend Men will present POLICE COPS; an action-packed hour of adrenaline-fueled physical comedy, cinematic style and uncompromising facial hair. Runs daily throughout the Festival.

There’s also the return of the ever popular VERY BIG COMEDY SHOW (5 July), a one-night only comedy gala evening, produced and emcee’d by Rob van Vuuren. This year’s show will include Loyiso Gola, Tats Nkonzo, Mojak Lehoko, Alan Committie, Louise Reay, Nik Rabinowitz and Virgil Prins. Expect to see plenty more exciting comedy reveals and familiar names as the Fringe programme goes online.

MUSICAL GENIUS LIVE It’s an exciting year for music on the Festival’s Main stages as Featured Artist, Neo Muyanga, leads the charge through a programme filled with tradition, innovation and experimentation.

Muyanga’s solo work, Solid(T)Ary Work, promises a survey of the tradition of protest song in the global south: moving swiftly between the chanted chorales of Soweto and Salvador to the laments around the squares of Tahrir and Meskel, the presentation is a musical contemplation of modes of resistance in a world hit by flux. Muyanga will also present a collection of songs and music through a trio comprised of Andre Swartz, Peter Ndlala and Eastern Cape-born artist Msaki.

Msaki, recently nominated for a South African Music Award (SAMA), also performs with her band the Golden Circle in PLATINUMb HEART, an exploration of trauma and its ability to ossify, alienate and elude one into thinking one is coping. “The heart merely becomes numb as we move on to the next #trending issue without a chance to mourn or the time to heal,” says Msaki.

THE STANDARD BANK YOUNG ARTIST FOR MUSIC in 2017, Abel Selaocoe, celebrates a much-anticipated return visit to South Africa after an extended time spent playing on top international stages. Abel’s Festival offering will explore the virtuosity of the cello and his diverse musicianship ranging from Debussy’s poetic and vivid Cello Sonata to James Macmillan’s spiritual reflective music – ending with foot stomping klezmer and African style inspired pieces. Catch him on the 5 & 6 July only.

Off the back of the release of their debut number 1 charting collaboration, Kahn Morbee and Karen Zoid will present one concert only (3 July) of WE COULD BE DIVINE their new collaboration and a song writing process Kahn describes as “organic and effortless”. Festival audiences are well advised to book now for what is sure to be an early sell-out show.

Another Festival favourite is the GALA CONCERT; taking place on the closing weekend of the Festival this year (8 July) it will feature the Cape Town Philharmonic, conducted by Richard Cock, with soloists Abel Selaocoe (cello) and Luis Magalhães (piano).

Double platinum selling a cappella group The Soil will present two concerts on 30 June and 1 July. Defined as ‘Kasi Soul’, their music is a blend of contemporary township style and an eclectic mix of urban contemporary, fusing beat box and soul. This show has been opened for limited bookings, visit the box office to check availability.

RAGTIME PLUS (1&2 July) is an informative and highly accessible programme about ragtime music. Presented in France and Switzerland to great audience and critical response, it’s an ongoing and ever-evolving project, which changes as creator Liza Joubert finds different pieces and new information to present to different audiences.

The debut production by the award-winning Charl du Plessis Trio, BAROQUESWING, returns from sold out tours in Europe and the Far-East, to perform in a series of Grahamstown concerts with famous melodies from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Bach’s Air on a G String and Musette and Minuet from Notenbüchlein für Anna Magdalena, amongst others (29 and 30 June).

THE CHILDREN’S CONCERT is a great way to introduce children to music and the orchestra with a relaxed and interactive concert of popular classics and South African favourites – children can meet the musicians in the National Youth Wind Orchestra, and a few familiar (or unfamiliar) instruments. Catch it on the 7 July.

Another inspiration to children – and adults – everywhere is Pendo Masote, a 13-year-old violinist who will play with a small string ensemble. Born into a richly musical environment, Pendo is proof that classical music has a bright future. See him perform on 29 and 30 June and 1 July.

Jimmy Nevis whose hit songs include Elephant Shoes, Heart Boxing, Balloon, 7764, Misscato, All About It, and his breakout new single Don’t Wanna Fight will perform on 30 June only.

A journey through time and place, exploring new genres for the violin such as film and gaming music, is how Naomi Tagg describes NEOLEKTRA. “I wanted to break away from classical ideas of the violin and to present it in a light that was accessible to many more listeners than just the classical world,” says Tagg. Made up of 5 string players, a DJ/synthesist and a percussionist audiences can expect a dramatic show, that pushes boundaries, and disrupts our ideas of where instruments traditionally fit in. Two concerts only on 3 & 4 July.

Together with the Standard Bank Jazz Festival, the National Arts Festival 2017 presents Desmond and the Tutus and Opposite the Other in a Double Bill. Desmond and the Tutu’s have been touring their infectious shape-shifting brand of kwela-indie-punk for just on ten years. The band’s latest album Enjoy Yourself won the SAMA for Best Rock Album in 2016. Other highlights on the Jazz stage include Judith Sephuma, James Morrison Quintet (Austraila) Estafest (Netherlands), Michael Pipoquinha (Brazil), Marcus Wyatt’s BOMB SHELTER BEAST, Africa Mkhize and Kyle Shepherd among others.

While front man Sam Burger has, over the past years, established a solid YouTube following with over 200,000 hits, the band Opposite the Other was only founded in late 2015. Since then their star has risen fast. Their performance at Rocking the Daisies 2016 saw them voted one of the Top 20 acts at the festival and their first single Ride Away organically reached the Top 10 on the Spotify Global Viral 50 Chart (peaking at #8). Notably it also made its way into the Top 10 in the US and Top 5 in both Australia and New Zealand.

The double bill with Opposite the Other is on 29 June, whilst Desmond and the Tutus play their own gig on 30 June.

Early bird shows now open for booking can be found at https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/events/

Music, comedy take centre stage at National Arts Fest was originally published on Artsvark

[tujarzz]

Imogen Jennifer Heap (/ˈɪmədʒᵻn ˈhiːp/; born 9 December 1977)[2] is an English singer-songwriter and composer. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. She has produced four solo albums. Her 2009 album, Ellipse, was a North American chart success that earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical in recognition of her technical and engineering work on the record.[3] In 2010 she received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.[4]

Publishing administrator Downtown Music Publishing represents the works of Imogen Heap.[5] After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Modern took to Rondor Music. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at eighteen to independent record label Almo Sounds.[7] Modern and Mark Wood formed Modernwood Management, and managed Heap until 2006, when Modernwood was dissolved. Wood continues to manage the artist via his new company, Radius Music.[8]During 1996, Heap began working with an experimental pop band called Acacia, which featured her future collaborator Guy Sigsworth and was fronted by the singer Alexander Nilere. While never a full member of the band, Heap was a guest vocalist (as a counterpart to Nilere) and contributed to various Acacia single and album tracks. One Acacia song, "Maddening Shroud", would later be covered by Frou Frou.[9]Modern asked Dennis Arnold to place Heap in the line up in the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London organized by Harvey Goldsmith. Heap performed four songs between sets by The Who and Eric Clapton.  Heap's debut album, iMegaphone (an anagram of "Imogen Heap") was a mixture of self-penned and self-produced tracks, alongside tracks co-written and produced with established producers such as David Kahne, former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, and Guy Sigsworth. The album was released in 1998 internationally via Almo Sounds, to favourable reviews comparing Heap's angst-filled songs to work by PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Chrissie Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, and Annie Lennox. Promotion for the record included a tour of America and performances around Europe. Three singles were commercially released in the UK: "Getting Scared", "Shine" and "Come Here Boy". "Oh Me, Oh My" was sent to US radio stations in place of "Shine".Heap's early success was soon replaced by problems. Almo Sounds cut funding for UK promotion and gave Heap a deadline to deliver songs for her second album. Upon delivery of the songs, she was told that they lacked "hit potential". It was announced that the record label would be sold to Universal and its artists moved to other labels or released. Heap was one of the artists who was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract. [10]iMegaphone had, however, been licensed from Almo Sounds to Aozora Records in Japan, who eventually re-released and re-promoted the album in January 2002, featuring "Blanket" and "Aeroplane" (a Frou Frou remix/remake of one of her B-sides, "Airplane" of the Shine single released in 1998). The album featured new packaging, all-new artwork, and a previously unavailable hidden track, entitled "Kidding", recorded live during her 1999 tour.Copies of the original Almo Sounds release remain rare. A Brazilian label, Trama Records, currently claims to hold the license to the record and has started re-printing copies of the album in limited quantities. The album was released digitally on the US iTunes Music Store in early 2006. After achieving commercial success with her work with Guy Sigsworth as the duo Frou Frou and her second solo album, Speak for Yourself, Heap was able to secure the re-release of iMegaphone.In the gap between the end of promotion for iMegaphone internationally and the re-promotion, Heap had also begun to think about her second solo album, and had started writing songs, both solo, as well as working with Guy Sigsworth; however, as she was without a record deal, the songs were shelved. During the time when she was unsigned, Heap appeared on two UK singles, "Meantime" (a track written by her former Acacia colleagues Guy Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere for the soundtrack to the independent British film, G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time) and "Blanket" (a 1998 collaboration with Urban Species). In 2000, Heap sang on two tracks of the album You Had It Coming by Jeff Beck.2002–2003: Frou Frou[edit]Heap had kept in contact with Guy Sigsworth (who had co-written and produced "Getting Scared" from iMegaphone) and this led to the pair of them establishing the collaborative project Frou Frou.The initial concept for Frou Frou was Sigsworth's, and the project was to have been an album written and produced by her with each track featuring a different singer, songwriter, poet or rapper. Heap explains that Sigsworth invited her over to his studio to write lyrics to a four-bar motif he had, with one condition – that she include the word "love" somewhere. The first line she came up with was "lung of love, leaves me breathless", and the Details album track, "Flicks" was born. A week later, Sigsworth phoned Heap up again, and together they wrote and recorded the future single "Breathe In".Throughout the process, Frou Frou work was an equal partnership, with Heap and Sigsworth making equal contributions to writing, arrangement, production and instrumental performance and Heap handling all of the vocals.In August 2002, they released the Details album and singles "Breathe In", "It's Good To Be in Love", and "Must Be Dreaming" (although the latter two were not commercially available). The album was critically acclaimed, but did not enjoy the commercial success that they had been hoping for until 2004 when the song Let Go became a hit from the Garden State soundtrack.In late 2003, after an extensive promotional tour of the UK, Europe and the US, the duo were told that their record label, Island Records would not be picking up the option for a second album.Heap and Sigsworth remain firm friends, and have worked together since the project, including their temporary re-formation in late 2003, when they covered the Bonnie Tyler classic, "Holding Out for a Hero", which was featured during the credits of the movie Shrek 2 after Jennifer Saunders' version in the film. Frou Frou saw a resurgence in popularity in 2004, when their album track "Let Go" was featured in the film Garden State, the soundtrack of which won a Grammy award.In a 2005 interview Heap said of Frou Frou "(it) was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous — just one of those wonderful things that happens. But there was never a mention of a second record from either of us, and not uncomfortably. We're just both kind of free spirits. I love to work with a lot of different people, but I was also just gagging to see what I could do on my own. But I'm sure in the future, Guy and I will get back together to do another record, or to record a few songs together."[11] In December 2003, Heap announced on her Web site that she was going to write and produce her second solo album, using her site as a blog to publicise progress.Heap set herself a deadline of one year to make the album, booking a session to master the album one year ahead in December 2004. She re-mortgaged her flat to fund production costs, including renting a studio at Atomic Studios, London (previously inhabited by UK grime artist, Dizzee Rascal), and purchasing instruments.At the end of 2004, with the album completed, Heap premièred two album tracks online, selling them prior to the album's release – "Just for Now" and "Goodnight and Go".In April 2005, The O.C. featured the vocoded-vocal track, "Hide and Seek" in the closing scenes of their season two finale. The track was released immediately to digital download services, such as iTunes, in the US, where it charted and on the UK Billboard charts where it was #22. The track was released to iTunes UK on 5 July 2005 (the same day as the UK airing of the season finale) and entered the official UK download chart. The song has since been certified gold by the RIAA.Heap released the album on her own record company, Megaphonic Records. The album was titled Speak for Yourself.Speak for Yourself was released in the UK on 18 July 2005 on CD and iTunes UK, where it entered the top 10 chart. The initial 10,000 physical copies pressed sold out, distributed through large and independent record stores and Heap's own online shop.In August 2005, Heap announced that she had licensed Speak for Yourself to RCA Victor (Sony BMG), for the album release in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The album was released in November 2005 and débuted at #144 in the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In concert, Heap performed solo, controlling the sound through her laptop, as well as singing and playing the piano and array mbira.She returned from the US, already having sold over 120,000 copies.Heap also announced, on her return to the UK, that she had signed a deal for the album to be released internationally, as well as re-promoted in the UK, with a new imprint of Sony BMG, White Rabbit, run by former Sony BMG UK A&R vice president Nick Raphael. The deal meant that the album could have the promotional backing provided by a respected major label, whilst Heap retained sole control and the team she established for Megaphonic Records.Speak for Yourself was re-released on the label on 24 April 2006, ahead of a full promotional push on 15 May, a week after the second single, "Goodnight and Go", was commercially released in the UK.In August 2006, Heap performed a set at the V Festival,[12] where it was announced that "Headlock" was to be the third single to be lifted from the album, and released on 16 October 2006 in the UK.In late September and early October, Heap embarked on a tour of the UK, holding a competition on MySpace for different support acts for each venue, before touring throughout Canada and the US in November and December. This was her first tour of North America that included a band, incorporating upright bass, percussion, and support acts Kid Beyond and Levi Weaver on beatbox and guitar, respectively. In December 2006, Heap was featured on the front page of The Green Room magazine.On 7 December 2006, Heap received two Grammy nominations for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, one for Best New Artist and the other for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for "Can't Take It In". Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse, Heap posted vlogs, or VBlogs as she called them, through YouTube.[13]She used these to comment on the album as well as update on its release. The album's release was pushed back multiple times. These included Heap being asked to perform at the annual event PopTech in October 2008. During the event, she premiered one of her album's songs, "Wait it Out".Heap announced on her Twitter page that Ellipse's first single would be "First Train Home". On 17 August 2009 Heap made the entire album Ellipse available for live streaming via her webpage.Ellipse was released in the United Kingdom on 24 August, and in the United States on 25 August.On 15 January 2010, Heap accepted the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for her engineering work on Ellipse.2011–2014: Sparks & hiatus[edit]On 14 March 2011, Heap started work on her forthcoming album, Sparks (then unnamed), as fans sent in nearly 900 "sound seeds", or samples of everyday sounds such as a "dishwasher door", a "bicycle" or a "burning match". Heap says the concept for this album will be to record one track over a two-week period every three months. Each song and video will be released immediately. According to her website, the album will be completed in roughly three years.[14]The first song, initially entitled "#heapsong1" and later retitled "Lifeline", premiered worldwide on 28 March 2011 via Ustream[15] along with a live remix by Tim Exile. "Lifeline" was released on 30 March 2011 as a digital download from Heap's website and via iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers. Released alongside this was a 12-page 3DiCD package (a 3D virtual CD) including crowd sourced (and paid for) images, the instrumental version of the song, the "seeds and solos only" version and "heap speaks seeds and solos" - an-18-minute commentary by Heap on how the sounds and solos were used in "Lifeline".On 6 May 2011, Heap tweeted that she and deadmau5 were working on a collaboration. The song is titled "Telemiscommunications" and is included in deadmau5's sixth studio album, Album Title Goes Here.[16][17][18]On 9 September 2012, Heap wrote and released a track, "Someone's Calling", recorded especially for use as a ringtone.[19]List of #heapsongs[edit]heapsong1 is entitled "Lifeline" and was released on 30 March 2011. The song is a tribute to the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.heapsong2 is entitled "Propeller Seeds" and was released on 5 July 2011. The song was recorded using 3D audio effects and headphones are recommended for listeners to get the full effect.heapsong3 is entitled "Neglected Space" and was released on 17 October 2011. The song incorporates concepts, people and sounds from a lab organized by the Clear Village Charitable Trust to restore a walled garden in Bedfords Park.[20]heapsong4 is entitled "Minds Without Fear" and was released on 21 October 2011. It was the first song to be featured on the 2011 Indian show, The Dewarists.heapsong5 is entitled "Xizi She Knows" and was released on 24 January 2012. It is the sixth song off the forthcoming album overall.[21]heapsong6 is entitled "Me, the Machine" and was originally to be the 6th single released. It was performed live on 22 April 2012. The song premiered along with the film, Love the Earth, as part of Earth Day 2012.heapsong7 is entitled "You Know Where to Find Me" and was performed live in A Room for London on 22 June 2012. It was released on 2 November 2012 as the sixth single from the album.[22]"Telemiscommunications", a collaboration with deadmau5, will also be included in the album, as stated on her official website.[23] It was featured in deadmau5's 2012 album >album title goes here<, and released as the fifth single from the album on 25 February 2013."Entanglement" was originally to be included in the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 but was rejected."Climb To Sakteng" and "Cycle Song" are two instrumental heapsongs used for the soundtrack of the documentary film The Happiest Place, A Journey Across Bhutan.[24][25]"The Listening Chair" was performed live in the Royal Albert Hall conducted by American composer Eric Whitacre on 29 August 2012.[26]"Run-Time" is a collaboration with Intel UK and RjDj to create a Jogging App that will be released along with the new album in the following year.[27]"The Beast" is a last-minute addition to the album.Heap has stated that there will be 14 tracks on her fourth album. The title of the album is revealed as Sparks and was released on 18 August 2014.[28]In the Sparks box set, the Heapsongs are labelled in production order as:Lifeline – heapsong1Propeller Seeds – heapsong2Neglected Space – heapsong3Minds Without Fear – heapsong4Xizi She Knows – heapsong5You Know Where to Find Me – heapsong6Telemiscommunications – heapsong7The Listening Chair – heapsong8Entanglement – heapsong9Cycle Song & Climb to Sakteng – heapsong10Me the Machine – heapsong11Run-Time – heapsong12On her Sparks vblog #5, she announced that she will take hiatus after the birth of her baby thus she won't tour promoting Sparks at least for a year.