#sep 9th 2001

[thewaferofchaos]

[the-tzarina-alexandra-paracosm]

I just drew some characters from what is going to be a rewrite of that fanfic from 2019 but as an original work

Since the story took place in contemporary times even the first time around, I decided to place it in Romania because placing it anywhere else felt arbitrary (ie served no """worldbuilding""" purpose at all).

The action begins sometime in 2014/2015 and ends in late 2019 (again, I decided upon this year because that's the year when I wrote the first version)

Close-ups and details

Laurențiu

(RO)

Data nașterii: 26 feb 1991

Ocupație: programator, designer web

Hobby-uri: jocurile video (mai ales cele cu împușcături), creerea de mod-uri pentru respectivele jocuri, arhivarea digitală, muzica rock și metal, filmele horror clasice, "dezbaterile" pe diverse forumuri și secțiuni de comentarii

(EN)

Date of birth: 26th February 1991

Occupation: programmer, Web designer

Hobbies: video games (especially shooters), creating mods for the respective games, digital archiving, rock and metal music, classic horror movies, "debates" on various forums and comment sections

Mădălina

(RO)

Data nașterii: 7 sep 1991

Ocupație: contabilă

Hobby-uri: colecționarea de antichități și obiecte de kitsch, moda (gotică, punk, vintage, etc), istoria comunismului, muzica rock și punk, filmele de epocă și documentarele despre criminali, romanele gotice și detective

(EN)

Date of birth: 7th of September 1991

Occupation: accountant

Hobbies: collecting antiques and kitsch objects, fashion (goth, punk, vintage, etc), the history of communism, rock and punk music, period dramas and true crime documentaries, gothic and crime novels

Andriy (Андрiй)

(RO)

Data nașterii: 9 nov 1990

Ocupație: brutar

Hobby-uri: cântatul la vioară, muzica clasică (dar și ce mai aude la radio), festivalurile și competițiile culturale și muzicale, filmele de acțiune și comedie, jocurile video (mai ales multiplayer), plimbatul prin oraș și călătoria

(EN)

Date of birth: 9th of November 1990

Occupation: Baker

Hobbies: playing the violin, classical music (but also whatever he hears on the radio), culture and music festivals and competitions, action and comedy movies, video games (especially multiplayer), walking around town and travelling

Teodora

(RO)

Data nașterii: 30 aug 1989

Ocupație: logoped, consilier școlar

Hobby-uri: grădinăritul (la bloc fiind, se rezumă la plante în ghiveci, mai ales flori), gătitul, plimbatul prin oraș cu bicicleta, ieșirile și excursiile, romanele și filmele romantice, teatru radiofonic

(EN)

Date of birth: 30th of August 1989

Occupation: speech therapist, school counsellor

Hobbies: gardening (living in a flat, she only keeps potted plants, especially flowers), cooking, cycling, strolling through the city, outings and trips, romance movies and novels, audio plays on the radio

Tiberiu

(RO)

Data nașterii: 7 sep 1991

Ocupație: om de afaceri

Hobby-uri: petrecerile de orice fel (în cluburi, acasă, la grătar etc), mersul la meciuri, concerte etc împreună cu prietenii, muzica pop, de petrecere, electronică, ieșirile în natură, pescuitul, înotul

(EN)

Date of birth: 7th September 1991

Occupation: businessman

Hobbies: parties of any kind (in the club, home, at a barbecue, etc), going to see sports matches, concerts etc with his friends, pop, "party" and electronic music, trips in nature, fishing, swimming

Răzvan

(RO)

Data nașterii: 13 mar 2001

Ocupație: elev (ulterior student)

Hobby-uri: istoria antică (mai ales a Egiptului), construirea de machete și rezolvarea puzzle-urilor, colecționarea de pietre, călătoria, cărțile de non-ficțiune (dar și romane fantasy și benzi desenate)

(EN)

Date of birth: 13th March 2001

Occupation: high-school (and later, college) student

Hobbies: ancient history (especially of Egypt), building miniature models, solving puzzles, collecting rocks, travel, reading nonfiction books (but also fantasy novels and comics)

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The relationships between characters:

Mădălina, Tiberiu and Teodora are siblings

Laurențiu and Răzvan are brothers

Laurențiu and Andriy are beloved mutuals online friends within relative visiting distance

Laurențiu and Mădălina get into a romantic relationship pretty early into the narrative

Teodora would absolutely find somebody like Andriy to be her type (and vice versa)

[k00293410]

Artist Research

Elizabeth Peyton:

An American contemporary artist that works with painting, drawing and print best known for her small scale, intimate portraits. She attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and since has had much success and many exhibitions; Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection (April 22th 2009- January 4th 2010), Since 2000s: Printmaking Now (May 3rd- Sep 8th 2006), Drawings from the Modern, 1975-2005 (September 14th 2005- January 9th 2006), Contemporary: Inaugural Installations (November 20th 2004- July 11th 2005), Drawing Now: Eight Propositions (October 17th 2002- January 6th 2003), New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings (October 25th 2001- January 8th 2002), About Face: Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated books (May 21st-June 5th 2001).

Kiss, 2019; Hanyu(Yuzuru Hanyu), 2018; Ariadne Auf Naxos, 2012-2018.

Marlene Dumas:

A south African artist currently based in the Netherlands. From 1972-75, she attended Cape Town University where she studied Visual Arts. She's lived and exhibited work in the Netherlands since 1976, and exhibited internationally since 1978. Dumas represented Holland in the Venice Biennale and in 1996 the Tate Gallery exhibited a selection of her works on paper.

She works with painting, collages, drawings, prints and installations. She's associated with portraits, despite her work redefining the definition of portrait as she captures the deeply emotional psych of a person rather than just being surface level. She uses varying themes in her work: race and sexuality, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.

Stern, 2004; Genetic Longing; De gele vingers van de kunstenaar (The yellow fingers of the artist), 1985.

Judy Chicago:

Chicago born feminist artist, Judy Chicago's work has had a great impact on the women's rights movement. Her most notable piece of work being 'The Dinner Party', but she'd executed other exhibitions before the grand debut of the Dinner Party in 1979. In 1967, she worked with fireworks in an attempt to soften and feminize the California landscape. She helped establish the feminist art gallery, Womanhouse, in L.A. In the beginning of her professional work, she exhibited sculpture and abstract painting but her installation, The Dinner Party, is what gained her her reputation. It was a means of bringing attention to the success of overlooked women in a large, mixed-media art installation that worked with ceramics, embroidery, weaving and text. She worked collectively with dozen's of volunteers and assistants to make this happen, and focused on traditional, feminine associated hobbies such as pottery and needlework. When it debuted in 1979, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, it caused controversy within the United States. In 2002, the Dinner Party was acquired by the Brooklyn Museum.

[vsaidthat]

Afghanistan .... Talibanistan....Kabrastan........

After watching the events unfolding from Taliban taking over Kabul to Government formation by the Afghan war lords on the same day of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, ironically, clock has gone back full circle to the same position as on 9th Sep 2001 with the Taliban Terrorists ruling Afghanistan and US Forces back in the barracks remembering the loss of nearly 3000 US citizens.

Trying to understand this gigantic event in the middle east affecting entire Asia has made me to revisit the events of the past two decades after the 9/11 attack on the US soil, which was the only such event after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Since then, we have four US presidents taking the "Global war on Terror" narrative to the entire world, bombing the Tora Bora caves, killing many Afghan citizens, funding the governments in Kabul, all in the name of bringing democracy to Afghanistan, has yielded less than anticipated. Today we neither have a democratically elected government leading Afghanistan nor Terrorism fully decimated as was promised to the world for two decades.

According to Joe Biden, who is in charge of things from Jan 2021, there was no other way for the US to exit from Afghanistan, without having trouble and made clear, this was inevitable as per his understanding and blamed his predecessor for the failures of his chaotic withdrawal process. President Obama could have claimed the US victory and left Afghanistan after elimination of Osama Bin Laden, the key master mind of the 9/11 attacks, in a military operation executed in Pakistan, that did not happen, but US continued supporting Pakistan as part of war on global terror operations, this has resulted in Pakistan taking advantage of global support far too long and allowed the Taliban leaders to regroup and trained them with military warfare in various cities in Pakistan. Both UN and global powers had a blind spot for such nefarious activities, even though India has raised these issues in various forums for Global action against Pakistan.

It is very clear now that the US thinktanks did not clearly understand the ground situation and believed the partners in crime, the Pakistan military leaders. During the two decades followed after 9/11, Pakistan not only supported Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Mujahedeen groups by giving them training, funding and providing arms, all taken from the US and EU countries in the name of humanitarian support. US leadership was and is never serious about tackling the real issue of Global terrorism by controlling the clandestine support of Pakistani ISI to these terrorist elements, instead ignored any proof of such involvement. With UN and International organizations not caring for the reality, Pakistan was given a free pass for creating and supporting the radical extremists who are brainwashed with religious identity.

Even now, when Taliban has taken over Afghanistan, it is the Pakistan's ISI chief, Faiz Hameed, who landed in Kabul before the government formation and ensured the Haqqani group leaders were at the helm of the affairs of the new ruling establishment, sidelining the earlier names prominent in the intel reports and media discussions. Pakistan's military involvement in attacking the Panjshir resistance movement led by Ahmed Massoud and Amrullah Saleh is very much evident with more and more details of the Pakistan soldiers are out in the news media across the world, this not only proves the point that US is not interested or effective in handling the situation again and left it to the rouge elements of Pakistan to trample the rights of the religious minorities and women. The new ruling team of Taliban has only men with no women representation in any form, also did not give any or enough representation of the minorities from Afghanistan, the lone Tajik and Uzbek representatives are who lived their entire life in Pakistan and got trained by the ISI and will only serve their masters in Rawalpindi GHQ.

Post US and NATO forces withdrawal from Afghanistan in such haste and chaotic manner, the middle east region which also has a critical geo-strategic location has again become the playground for these extremist and terrorist groups and turned a country with majority of the population born post 9/11, seen a western lifestyle and some level of peace and democracy it into Talibanistan. Having proposed BELT and Road initiative planned route from Afghanistan to middle east to Europe and also eyeing the rate earth minerals in the region, China is the second nation after Pakistan who have started diplomatic engagement by recognizing the Taliban regime and also had senior leader level talks in Beijing and offered humanitarian support to Talibanistan.

With a looming drought condition and no real economic activity happening in the new Talibanistan an Islamic emirate, the citizens are left high and dry with choices of either to become refugees in other countries willing to take them or join the ranks and spread the radical extremism. In both cases, I do not see any progress in the living conditions, which only means the land will soon become a Kabrastan (place for the dead). With no big/rich nations taking any interest in such a catastrophic event which may impact all the continents with the refugee population at their borders are making a blunder again. Hope for some sane voices take some serious actions and make things right again.

[ashley1oseda-blog]

Ernesto Neto

 Cuddle on the Tightrope

NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER

Apr 12th – Sep 9th 2012

Dallas, 2001 Flora Street

[auddityy]

Can you tell us more about YOUR personal astrology? I’m way interested in you but I’m too shy too come off of anon so apologies for being a rando creeper.

sep 5 2001 2:56pm rolesville NC

sag rising jupiter in cancer = mad annoying [as a kid]

mars in sagittarius + under own bound rulership = hirsute and literally tried to be a man at one point

ascendant ruler averted to ascendant = aversion is "invisibility" in the chart and ascendant ruler is the source of your identity so in relation to the trying to be a man deal, that's like not knowing the source of your identity

also mars not recieving its ruler jupiter in cancer (bc cancer is mars' fall) = actively rejecting one's own identity/body (cancer as a sign is particularly associated with the body)

9th ruler sun in 10th house of public image = known for astrology, astrology as career

10th ruler mercury in 11th house conjunct mc = known via greater social groups such as social media

saturn in 7th square to sun = disagrees acutely on something intellectual with romantic partner

i notice that jupiterian influence in the chart (ascendant, moon, sun, etc with jupiter dignified) leads to a very broadened music taste. you might have to have a 5th house contact to jupiter to activate that i'm not sure

more i could say but its not very interesting

[k-hiphop-trash]

SMTM participant facts

BILL STAX

He participated in Show Me The Money 3.

He debuted in 2001.

His previous artist name was Vasco. He got this name from the Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gamma.

In July 2011 he married model Park HwanHui, 10 years younger than him. They have a son together.

In December 2012, he and Park HwanHui got a divorce due to religious differences.

He graduated in Journalism in the University of SeJong.

His real name is 신동열 (Shin DongYeol).

He is from Seoul.

He was born on December 18th 1980.

BLACK NUT

He participated in Show Me The Money 4.

He is known for his disses.

He had to apologize in many occasions due to his lyrics.

He debuted in 2008.

His real name is 김대웅 (kim DaeWoong).

He is 173cm.

He was born in January 1st 1989.

BRYN

She is the only female in the crew.

She is a rapper.

She is the oldest member.

She has her own place and studio.

She speaks English.

She is dating Panda Gomms.

She was born on February 26th 1998.

Her real name is 최란 (Choi Ran).

She participated in Show Me The Money 6, but was eliminated in the 3rd round.

CHANGMO

Hangeul:  창모

Real name: Ku Chang Mo ( 구창모)

He was born May, 31 1994 in  Jeongseon, Gangwon

He is rapper and producer

He plays the piano

He sings

He released his debut album M O T O W N on March 18, 2016

He has collaborated with artists like The Quiett, Jessi, Suran, Hyorin and Primeboi

Dok2 and The Quiett felt they could be of helpf for Changmo, so they decided to contact him

He is the first South Korean artist to be nominated for the BET Award

His collab with Hyorin, “Blue Moon” topped charts as the best man-woman collab

He participated in Show Me The Money 3 but was eliminated early on the show.

C JAMM

He participated in Show Me The Money 3.

He participated in Show Me The Money 5 and ended up being a runner up. He lost against BeWhy.

He has a Maltese dog.

He is really close with BeWhy.

He was born in Incheon. Later on he moved to Jeju were he lived for a few years. This is why he sometimes speaks with a Jeju dialect.

He has a younger sister.

He chose his name because the slang used for cocaine was cjam. He added the double m to make it more unique.

CJamm teached BeWhy how to rap.

He is a member of $exy $treet crew.

He was born on February 28th 1993.

His real name is 류성민 (Ryu SeongMin).

GIRIBOY

He participated in Show Me The Money 3.

During the 3rd round in SMTM3, every other contestant avoided CJamm and him, and so they went 1vs1. He was eliminated in this round. Thanks to Tablo’s proposal he was brought back to the show later on.

He likes basketball.

He studied in the International University of the Arts.

He is well known producer.

In all of his songs he leaves his signature “G.R.BOY”, spelled in English.

He was a producer with Xitsuh in School Rapper. Their team was the winner with Young B.

His real name is 홍시영 (Hong SiYeong).

He is 178cm.

He is from Seoul.

He was born on November 24th 1991.

HASH SWAN

Hangeul:  해쉬스완

Real name: Han Deok Kwan ( 한덕광)

He was born March, 12 1995 in Seoul

He is 161 cm

He has a lot of tattos on his arms, hands and neck

He debuted in 2015

He participated in SMTM5 and SMTM6

He was third and final signed artist of Ambition Musik

He was suggested by both Hyo Eun and Changmo

He didn’t give an answer until a month later (he was receiving a lot of love calls from labels because of Show me the money

He has collaborated with artists like X.Q., MC Gree, Crucial Star and DayDay

KEEM HYO EUN

Real name: Kim Hyo Eun (김효은)

He was born July, 29 1993 in Seoul

His stage name used to be Kenny Raw

He was the first to release a record under the new label, titled ‘My Ambition EP’ in October, 2016

He has collaborated with artists like Sous Chefs (Owen Ovadoz and pH-1), Dok2, DPR Live and Groovyroom

He participated SMTM3 and SMTM5

In SMTM5 he proved to be an introverted person who barely spoke, which made Superbee to mock him

JAYMOON

His real name is 문지원 (Moon JiWon).

Hi was born on January 9th, 1995.

He participated in Show Me The Money 6

In SMTM6 he passed the cypher, but he was not chosen for any of the teams.

LOCO

Hangeul:  로꼬

Real name: Kwon Hyuk Woo (권혁우)

He was born December 25th 1989 in Seoul

He is 175 cm

His nickname is Gochoo

He studied Economics in Hongik University

He speaks English

In College he would drink a lot before shows and people would call him crazy, that’s why he chose his stage name, “Loco”, which means “crazy” in Spanish

Gray and him went to the same university (Hongik Unviersity) and got close because of that

His stage name used to be Demaine, which Gray chose  for him.  However, he thought it was too plain and simple, and he also thought his personality was also plain and simple, so he changed it

He used to stutter when he was younger and it became a serious problem for him while growing up. At that time he came to know hip hop and he found it amazing how rappers express their inner thoughts freely

He was inspired by Kanye West and CB Mass, whom he listened to with his friends

He and his friends decided that they also wanted to compose and they formed a group called “Satgotbong” (which is why his instagram is “Satgotloco”), this was the name of the sauna that was located in their neighborhood. They all had the idea that if they were to do shows like any other rapper, it would be boring, so they decided to wear those particular clothes that they used in the saunas while making their shows

He debuted on Sept 4, 2012 with the single “See the Light”

He went through a fake contract before participating in SMTM

He won the first season of Show Me The Money

At the time of participating in Show Me The Money, he had little experience due to his young age and didn’t have much to talk about but, after wining the show, he went through lots of things which helped to discover more about himself, find a right tone and write more lyrics

He appeared in Happy Together and SNL Korea

He was producer, along with Jay park, in Show Me The Money 4

He is part of the VV:D crew, along with Crush, Elo, Zion T. and Gray

He auditioned to be part of BTS, but he wasn’t chosen

He appears in Jay Park’s Mommae MV

He appears in Zico’s Tough Cookie MV

He has collaborated with artists such as Jay Park, Elo and Gray, Dean, DPR Live and Crucial Star

He appeared in Immortal Songs Season 2

He released his mini album, Locomotive, in November 28.2014

He has recently released an album, ‘Bleached’

He won a Melon Music Award in the “Best OST” category for his track “Spring Is Gone by Chance,” which was on “The Girl Who Sees Smells” OST

Loco has previously said that he lost eight Kilograms of fat because when he had taken a photo with Jay Park and a few others behind the scenes at a Jay Park concert, he thought he looked like a pig and that inspired him to lose weight

His song ‘Hold Me Tight’ was supposed to be Jay’s song, but he gave it to Loco

‘Thinking About You’ was supposed to be a title track of Jay’s album but Jay handed it over to Loco because he thought the song would fit better on Locomotive

He has  done his enlistment

He is part of an anti smoking campaign, along with Jay

He likes Descendants of the Sun

NO:EL

His real name is 장용준 (Jang YongJoon).

He was born on May 30th 2000.

He is from Seoul.

He went to St. Paul Preparatory School.

He is friends with Young B.

He is shy.

His father is Jang JeWon, a politician member of the Korean National Assembly (Chairman of Busan City Hall).

He likes the band Oasis.

He participated in School Rapper. He was in team Mad Clown and during the first round he received a lot of praise from the producers, Swings even said that he would contact him to sign him in his label (although according to YongJoon this never happend).

Despite all the praises he got in the show, he only appeared in the first episode, from then onwards he was censored and he left a couple of episodes before the show ended.

He had to leave the contest due to a controversy that came out concerning Jang YongJoon. He allegedly asked a friend of his to beat his mother and told a girl that offered sex through Twitter that he would pay for it.

He participated in Show Me The Money 6. He was eliminated during the fire round.

He would have picked team CoDean.

His ideal type is a pretty girl.

He likes BlackPink and Red Velvet.

He is good friends with MC Gree.

He likes the clothing brand thisisneverthat.

He spends his money as he earns it. Specially in food.

He dropped out of school because it didn’t motivate him and he was tired of studying.

He says that he can imitate YoungB.

He is been a fan of rappers Yankie and Tablo for a while. He likes sentimental rappers. He likes the song “Thank You For Breathing” by Tablo.

He would like to work with Beenzino.

He joined Indigo Music on march 14th 2018.

OWEN OVADOZ

His Korean name is Kim Hyunwoo and his English name is Owen Kim.

He was born on October 13 1991.

He was born in Seoul but moved to New Jersey.

He went back to Korea in 2005.

He is 178cm.

He likes and plays videogames like World of Warcraft.

He played basketball.

He is a Christian.

He studied English in the University.

He has a nostril piercing.

He has several tattoos: Make it, rain and drops on the middle and index finger of his right hand, Fort Lee New Jersey, 201 and praying hands on his neck.

He participated on SMTM3 and SMTM4.

He was contacted by Naflla after seeing him on SMTM3.

He has a duo with pH-1, called Sous Chefs.

His track City was produced by Groovy Room and the MV includes recordings of fans around the world.

His track 11 in the morning was produced by Groovy Room and mastered by The Quiett.

The Quiett helped him producing his firt album, P.O.E.M.

He has collaborated with artists like Dumbfoundead, Ja Mezz, Paloalto, Okasian and Giriboy.

Before being a rapper, he wanted to be a vet.

His brother is a producer.

He lives in the studio. (This is from an interview in 2016, so it might have changed).

PUNCHNELLO

His real name is 이영신 / Lee Young Sin.

He was born on 28th May 1997.

He was born in Anyang, Kyonggi-Do.

He is signed in HIGHGRND.

He is 162.5 cm.

He debuted on September 8th, 2016 with "Lime”.

He appeared in Show Me The Money 6 as a contestant.

He was eliminated during the battle against MyunDo because they got a tie and were requested to perform another song. Punchnello couldn’t concentrate and didn’t rap anything. He explained later on that it was due to his mother being ill and her conditioning worsening at the time.

He participated on the song “Show Me The Money” with other eliminated rappers such as Penomeco and Olltii.

During the interview with the eliminated artists he explained that his mother was doing well.

He loves cats and has one.

SIK-K

In hangul: 식케이

Also: Young Hot Yellow

His real name is Kwon Min Sik

He is Yelows Mob’s leader

He was born on February 26 1994

He released his first mixtape (Lonely Sound) in 2011

He is part of the crew OTC (Outside the Circle)

He is in H1ghr Music Records

He speaks English well

He moved to Vancouver in middle school

He was part of a Vancouver based crew in 2011

He currently atends Sejong University

In 2015, he joined Show Me The Money 4 and  made it to the TOP 16 in Team AOMG but was eventually dropped out of the line-up

He likes artists like Drake and Wiz Khalifa

He would like to collaborate with Taeyang

He wasn’t expecting the Eung Freestyle to become so famous, he feels really thankful about that

His favourite food is sushi

SWINGS

He is the CEO.

His real name is 문지훈 ( Mun Jihun).

He was born on October 14th 1986.

He is from Seoul.

He is 175cm.

He was in UPT and Brand New Music, until he founded Just Music in 2011.

His debut album was “Punch Line King”, released in 2007.

He used to be in Hip Hop group, Uptown.

He participated and won Show Me The Money 2.

He was a producer in Show Me The Money 3.

He studied English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University.

He has suffered obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety and stress since he was really young. When in 2014 he started his military service, this problems became worse and he had to leave in 2015, after 11 months of service instead the 24 you are supposed to do in South Korea.

He is dating 임보라 (Lim BoRa).

He appeared as a producer in School Rapper.

He has 2 dogs: 문돈까 (MoonDonka) & 문싣니 (MoonSidney).

Woo Won Jae

His stage name is Munch (뭉크).

His real name is 우원재 (Woo WonJae).

He was born on 26th December 1996.

He is 1,69cm.

He participated in Show Me The Money 6. He was passed by Tiger JK and continued to impress the judges due to his lyrics and rap style.

He was in team Tiger JK & Bizzy in SMTM6.

He was third place in SMTM6.

He was eliminated before he could perform “We Are” with Loco and Gray. The song is available worldwide in many platforms such as iTunes and Spotify.

He is part of the street art crew Plutonic Seoul.

He attends Hongik University.

He met Loco and Gray (AOMG) at Hongik University and all three of them were part of a crew called “Brainswords”.

Gray used to tutor him and said he is a hardworking student who always finishes his homework.

He has a few tattoos: a skeleton on his hand, that same arm tattooed, and a branch on his neck. The neck tattoo was done by the same artist that tattooed Dean, C.Jamm and Zelo.

His trademark beanie style became a trend after he appeared in SMTM6.

His lyrics are about his life experiences and personal situation.

He is good friends with Olltii.

He was called a demon rapper during SMTM by the other contestants, and was compared to Ignito, the rapper he chose for the 1vs1 battle.

He started rapping 1 year prior to SMTM6.

He stated that he chose rap above other music styles because is the one that adapts the most to what he wants to tell.

He was portrayed as someone without a lot of expression during SMTM, but he himself said that he actually smiles quite often, although he also said that he is not very good at celebrating things.

WOODIE GOCHILD

He participated in SMTM6 as part of Jay Park & Dok2′s team

He has the septum piercing (Idk if it’s fake)

He’s part of the Ytc4 life crew

He’s the youngest in H1gher Music

He became known in SMTM6 because of his pigeon like noises and his energy (he couldn’t stay still and kept dancing everywhere).

He was a dancer during Boi B’s “Horangnabi” performance in SMTM.

YOUNG B

He is a rapper.

He participated in Show Me The Money 4. During the cypher Seo ChoolGoo yielded the mic so he could rap, even though that meant that ChoolGoo himself wouldn’t have time to freestyle.

He participated in Show Me The Moeny 5, but was eliminated during the 1vs1 battle.

He is friend with NO:EL.

He is from Seoul.

He lives alone in a studio apartment, although his dog lives with his parents.

He attended Shindongshin Information Industry School.

According to B-NOM, he refers to Bumby as “Yaah Yoo TaeHyun!”.

He participated in School Rapper and he is the winner of the season.

In School Rapper he was in team Giriboy and Xitsuh.

He signed with Indigo Music, a label created by Swings.

He was born on January 12th 1999.

His real name is 양홍원 (Yang HongWon).

He participated in Show Me The Money 6.

In SMTM6 he was part of team CoDean. He was eliminated against Nucksal and Jo Woo Chan.

This artists will be posted on their correspondent crew profiles in the future. For now, due to lack of information on the crew or the members they will be featured in this post.

This are only artists who participated in Show Me The Money at some point (all seasons and all episodes, even if just one)

[ruthpastor46]

Firvale School Mayhem to Impact on Secondary School Place Applications Across Sheffield

Local / Sheffield Sep 26, 2018 - 02:16 PM GMT

By: N_Walayat

On Tuesday of this week there was literally mayhem on the streets of Sheffield, not because of a protest movement or out of control football fans but one of out of control secondary school 'children' running amok, fighting outside a Sheffield secondary school, Firvale Academy on Owler Lane. It took the deployment of over 40 police officers including a dog team and a police helicopter to bring the situation back under control as the following video from a popular Sheffield facebook page illustrates.

This comes at probably the worst time of year for the school, as Sheffield's children along with their parents will be busy deciding on applications for secondary school places. Which means all those in the catchment area for Firvale school will be deeply concerned about the dangers of sending their children to this school which is already notorious for outbreaks of violence.

All of this looks set to further intensify the rampant fraud in school places, where parents desperate to escape the consequences of sending their child to schools such as Firvale engage in fraud to send their child many miles away to schools towards South of the city such as High Storrs and Silverdale, both of which are heavily oversubscribed.

A crisis which prompted the construction of several new schools on the borders of the high school place demand areas such as Mercia especially to take the pressure off Silverdale and High Storrs which have literally been swamped by over subscription, even after doubling their intake.

Mercia Academy, Carterknowle Road Construction

The following housing market centric map illustrates why Mercia school was built were it was, right on the very tip of Sheffield's affluent Green Zone and thus expected to take the pressure off of Sheffield's top ranking state schools, Silverdale and High Storrs that remain heavily over subscribed, and likely will continue to remain so due to lack of a track record at the new school.

Sheffield's Best Schools

So in the countdown to the 31st October school applications (online 18th October) deadline, students and their parents will be scouring Sheffield secondary schools performance league tables in making their application choices. However, the league tables can from time to time prove highly misleading as many of Sheffield's 38 or so Secondary schools / Academies for whatever reasons tend to exhibit volatility in performance from year to year. Therefore a currently high ranking school may not mean that the same level of performance will continue in subsequent years as it may have been subject to special measures, therefore a better methodology in the ranking of schools is to evaluate performance in terms of trend.

The following graph represents Sheffield's Top 18 Secondary schools out of a total of 38 rated in terms of consistency in attaining high rankings in the school league tables from 2001 to 2017 for 5 A-C GCSE Results.

The graph shows schools ranked as a percentage attaining 5 GCSE's at A-C, the grading system changed for most schools in 2017 to Attainment 8 Score, so data has been normalised as a % of top scoring school.

For another year the the top two rankings are taken by Independent schools, with the third being a Catholic faith school. Whilst Silverdale School (Academy) continues to rank as Sheffield's best state school in terms of consistency of trend, closely followed by Westbourne and Tapton Academy despite both scoring higher than Silverdale School for 2017 but rank lower due to higher volatility in results.

The next 2 state schools are High Storrs and King Ecgbert with little difference between the two. With Bradfield in 9th place which is probably the last of consistent schools.

The trend chart continues with fairly similar rankings for the next 3 schools, 10th Handsworth, 11th King Edward VII and 12th Meadowhead Academy. With the remaining 6 schools all ranking similar to Meadowhead.

Overall 2017 was a good year for Sheffield's schools as most managed to improve their GCSE results, with several new schools appearing on the scene as Sheffield city council finally got around to addressing the crisis in Sheffield's school places by building new schools, though of course which will lack any track record.

The bottom line is Sheffield's school places crisis is NOT over, schools such as Silverdale, High Storrs and Tapton will remain heavily over subscribed because that is where parents want to send their children to, and not many of the existing schools such as Firvale nor the newly built Mercia or Astrea. Though under the misguided assumption that sending their children to a good school will as if by magic break the cycle of under performance that tends to blight their local catchment area secondary school, likely encouraged by clueless ivory tower academics periodically producing studies that the mainstream press eagerly regurgitate which tend to state that affluent parents tend to hog places at Sheffield's best school:

The Star - Pupils from posh suburbs hog Sheffield’s best school, report reveals

Children in Sheffield’s poorer suburbs are having to travel further to get into higher performing primary schools – while those in wealthier areas are likelier to attend one on their doorstep.

The fact that so many good schools have overlapping areas of influence in the wealthiest neighbourhoods helps to explain a lot the persistent advantage in those neighbourhoods, including high house values, over time.

Studies that are ignorant of the fundamental fact that it is the affluent parents who are responsible for the existence of the good state schools in the first place! For if it were a question of funding then the school league tables would be in reverse order as on average affluent schools tend to receive about 30% less per pupil than the schools in less affluent area schools. Instead what academics recommend is a recipe for disaster, one of of turning ALL of Sheffield schools into bottom ranking schools, ALL under performing, forcing affluent parents to ultimately take the leap into private schooling, leaving behind literally a city wide waste land of schools that no parents want to send their children to!

Therefore good schools are good because the parents of children in affluent areas tend to spend a lot of time, money and effort on their children's educations, so parents who don't do the same traipsing their children half way across the city are NOT going to reap any significant benefit, not unless they also do what the parents of affluent school children do in respect of their education. All that will happen is an erosion in the performance of the good schools results as we have been witnessing with Silverdale School.

Nadeem Walayat

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33 Middle School Vocabulary Words Adults Still Get Wrong

Culture

Reader’s Digest EditorsSep 24

Think you have a strong vocabulary? See how many of these common 8th grade reading words you can recognize when some of history’s greatest authors use them.

Wanton

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Wanton (adj.) Showing no care for the feelings of others; out of control. As in: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.”  —William Shakespeare, King Lear (Not to be confused with a similar 8th grade vocabulary word: wonton, as in the soup. Check out these surprising words invented by Shakespeare.)

Citadel

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Citadel (n.) A fortress that commands a city; a stronghold. As in: “She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken.” —John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Blasé

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Blasé (adj.) Showing a lack of interest; affected boredom. As in: “Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.”  ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls (Putting the word in the context of an 8th grade vocabulary: I may be a bit blasé, but I can still pass notes to any 9th grader I want.)

Tawdry

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Tawdry (adj.) Cheap and gaudy in appearance. As in: “The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.” ―Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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The 15 New York Shows You Need to See This October

Here, we spotlight 15 of the exhibitions that we’re most excited to see this month, from the first museum solo show of Toyin Ojih Odutola to the New Museum’s intergenerational exploration of gender, to a mad retrospective from a former New Yorker now based in Bali.

“Fictions” at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Sep. 14–Jan. 7 • 144 West 125th Street

Installation shot of Genevieve Gaignard's work in "Fictions" at the Studio Museum. Courtesy of the Studio Museum.

“Fictions” is the fifth iteration of the “F” series, initiated by the Studio Museum in Harlem director Thelma Golden in 2001 as a way of demonstrating the museum’s commitment to showing and supporting the careers of artists of African descent working in the United States. This year’s edition highlights 19 emerging black artists, including Genevieve Gaignard, Allison Janae Hamilton, and Paul Stephen Benjamin, who present their own narratives—from video installations to paintings—that respond in poetic and powerful ways to the current political climate. —CL

Toyin Ojih Odutola at the Whitney

Oct. 20 • 99 Gansevoort Street

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Representatives of State, 2016-17. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Wall of Ambassadors, 2017. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

In her first solo museum show, “To Wander Determined,” Ojih Odutola presents recent work that traces a fictional narrative surrounding two aristocratic Nigerian families. The Nigerian-born, New York-based artist is known for her distinctive figurative works—from paintings to charcoal and ink drawings—that deftly depict the complexities of skin color. —CL

Ashley Bickerton at FLAG Art Foundation

Sep. 23–Dec. 16 • 545 West 25th Street, 9th Floor

Installation image of Ashley Bickerton, The FLAG Art Foundation, 2017. Photography courtesy Steven Probert. 

In Bickerton’s 1998 painting The Vlaminkos, we’re introduced to three characters. Laxmi is chain smoking, listening to a Walkman, and playing a Game Boy. Sally is blissful, posing in a half lotus position, entirely nude. Meanwhile, Roger is bound and trussed, wearing a Nazi armband and a Donald Duck mask. It’s one of the more incendiary moments in the bold career surveyed here, a lurid brain-purge from an artist who, once a New York star, now indulges his wildest fantasies in Bali. —SI

Nicolas Party at Karma and Gallery Met

Karma: Sep. 24–Nov. 5 • 188 East 2nd Street

Gallery Met: Sep. 26–Dec. 2 • Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center

Nicolas Party, Portrait, 2017. Photo by Thomas Müller. Courtesy of the artist and Karma, New York.

Nicolas Party, Sunset, 2017. Photo by Thomas Müller. Courtesy of the artist and Karma, New York.

The Swiss artist’s pastel murals and paintings, done in a graphic style with crisp edges and soft textures, are often inspired by art historical greats. Party is currently featured in two New York venues: At Karma, he presents signature works, like portraits of stoic human figures, magical landscapes, or still lifes of ripe fruit, while at Gallery Met, he presents an encompassing installation, titled “Dinner for 24 Sheep,” which is inspired by the opera now premiering, Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel (which includes live sheep on stage). —CL

Yayoi Kusama at the Judd Foundation

Sep. 23–Dec. 9 • 101 Spring Street

Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY-NETS [AAKN], 2016. © Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore; Victoria Miro, London; YAYOI KUSAMA Inc.

It might come as news that the Japanese artist and the American Minimalist were close friends in New York, approving of each other’s respective work, writing letters, and trading art. As we recently reported, Judd and Kusama even collaborated together, in a sense, on the latter’s surreal furniture piece, Accumulation No. 1 (1962). The idea behind this new installation of Kusama’s “Infinity Net” paintings at Judd’s former home and studio had been discussed before his death in 1994; over two decades later, it’s a reality. —SI

Judith Bernstein at The Drawing Center

Oct. 13–Feb. 4 • 35 Wooster Street

Judith Bernstein, Cabinet of Horrors, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Judith Bernstein, Trump Genie, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

For five decades, Bernstein has dauntlessly tackled sexism and war through paintings and drawings, often depicting giant penises and personifications of male genitals. In “Cabinet of Horrors,” the artist presents a new, commissioned body of work—including drawings, large-scale murals, and vintage piggy banks—that she began after the election of President Donald Trump last November. The Drawing Center will also be handing out free political buttons designed by the artist. —CL

Katie Stout at R & Company

Sep. 26–Oct. 26 • 82 Franklin Street

Installation view of Katie Stout at R & Company. Courtesy of Joe Kramm/R & Company.

In “Side Dish,” the young Brooklyn-based designer presents a smattering of her playful ceramic lamps—sculptural forms of buoyant female nudes in fiery colors, with gilded lips and nipples. Notable, too, are Stout’s enormous new marble tables, and the custom wallpaper that lines the space, also featuring frolicsome naked ladies in rainbow colors. —CL

William Wegman at Sperone Westwater

Sep. 5–Oct. 28 • 257 Bowery

William Wegman, Twisted Hope, 2001. Courtesy the Artist and Sperone Westwater, New York.

William Wegman, Parcheesi, 1998. Courtesy the Artist and Sperone Westwater, New York.

While his reputation is forever linked to touching, comedic portraits that humanize Weimaraners, Wegman’s career actually contains multitudes: video and conceptual experiments, drawings, and paintings that incorporate collaged postcards. While a handful of recent shows in New York have explored those lesser-known facets, this time it’s all about the dogs, with around three decades of never-before-exhibited 20x24 Polaroids of the artist’s famous canines. —SI

Heidi Hahn at Jack Hanley

Oct. 12–Nov. 12 • 327 Broome Street

Heidi Hahn, The Future is Elsewhere If it Breaks Your Heart) #1, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery.

Hahn’s figurative paintings of women typically depict them in soft, wispy brushstrokes, lounging beneath trees, curled up in bed, or reading books. “These paintings are about women and their interior lives,” she says of this show of new work. “These women are almost without history but entirely aware of the part they have had to play in it through art history and through the male gaze.” Hahn conveys the psychological burdens of her subjects, deploying emotional scenes through thoughtful use of color and the physicality of paint. —CL

Claes Oldenburg at Pace

Oct. 13–Nov. 11 • 537 West 24th Street

Claes Oldenburg, Shelf Life Number 8, 2016-17. © 2017 Claes Oldenburg. Photo by Kerry  Ryan McFate. Courtesy of Pace Gallery.

It’s a big deal when a giant like Oldenburg showcases fresh sculpture after a pause of over a decade. But in some ways, it’s not big at all—in terms of scale, that is. While he’s entered the popular imagination (along with Coosje van Bruggen) for public renderings of massively oversized shuttlecocks and clothespins, “Shelf Life” is intimate, with 15 diorama-style installations of handmade objects. (Also promised: a series of “mouse shopping bags.”) “This new body of work,” notes Pace’s Arne Glimcher in a statement, “with its nostalgia for the past and its optimism for the future, marks the beginning of a new period” for Oldenburg, now 88. —SI

“Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” at the New Museum

Sep. 27–Jan. 21 • 235 Bowery

Diamond Stingily, Kaa, 2016 (detail). Courtesy the artist and Queer Thoughts, New York.

Justin Vivian Bond, My Barbie Coloring Book, 2014. Courtesy the artist.

As contentions around social, political, and sexual identity abound, this timely exhibition engages artists who are fostering a more expansive and inclusive understanding of gender in contemporary art and culture at large. Gathering together over 40 artists from various generations—from emerging talent like Diamond Stingily and Sable Elyse Smith to established names like Mickalene Thomas and Simone Leigh—the show rejects a binary understanding of gender, and also considers the critical roles of race, class, sexuality, and disability. —CL

Gilbert & George at Lehmann Maupin

Oct. 12–Dec. 22 • 536 West 22nd Street and 201 Chrystie Street

GILBERT & GEORGE BEARDOVER, 2016. © Gilbert & George. Courtesy the artists and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.

When is a beard more than just a beard? For the famed, inseparable British performance duo, facial hair gets conceptual in a series of large-scale works. Apparently, their interest was piqued by the hirsute young hipsters in their own London neighborhood. Here, Gilbert & George—clean-shaven in real life—reimagine themselves with psychedelic whiskers that turn into fences, monsters, and fall foliage. —SI

Rachel Rossin at Signal

Sep. 29–Oct. 22 • 260 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn

Courtesy of Rachel Rossin.

Courtesy of Rachel Rossin.

This young New York artist’s forays into virtual reality are stunning and strange (and refreshing, given what can seem like a very male-heavy genre). Here in Bushwick she’ll present new VR work, as well as Plexiglas sculptures (that find her melting and contorting the transparent material), and a series of what Rossin is terming “aquarium computers.” “They’re sealed glass tanks filled with mineral oil, in which active, single-board computer hardware is floating, along with fans, LEDs, and monitors,” explains gallerist Alexander Johns. “Rachel has a voracious curiosity for how things work that extends into the art she makes. It’s exciting to see her apply new technologies to an ongoing process of self-discovery and understanding.” —SI

Graham Collins at The Journal Gallery

Sep. 23–Nov. 4 • 106 North 1st Street, Brooklyn

Installation of Graham Collins at The Journal Gallery. Courtesy of The Journal Gallery.

Collins is a slippery artist. He’s made wood-and-glass assemblages that promote a kind of elegant, battered, monochromatic Minimalism—but when he showed at this Brooklyn gallery two years ago, he presented enormous sculptures made from above-ground swimming pools. This time, we get something completely different: Collins’s latest body of work includes wild, collage-style paintings (pieced together from snippets of other people’s found canvases), and a range of spindly bronze sculptures.  —SI

Carolee Schneemann at MoMA PS1

Oct. 22–Mar. 11 • 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City

Carolee Schneemann, Meat Joy, 1964. Courtesy of MoMA PS1.

Carolee Schneemann, Nude on Tracks, 1962-77. Courtesy of MoMA PS1.

The beloved feminist pioneer will enjoy her first retrospective this October, looking back on a prolific and diverse six-decade career. Schneemann is often popularly associated with her 1975 performance work Interior Scroll—during which she removed a long strip of paper from her vagina while standing naked on a table—but this show will serve to represent the breadth of the artist’s wide-ranging career. Beginning with paintings from the 1950s and assemblages from the ’60s, it highlights innovative video, performance, and installation works through which she dealt with the sexism of art history and taboos around the female body. —CL

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