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ashmouthbooks · 1 year ago

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EARTH IS MISSING! / EVERYONE'S WORLD IS ENDING ALL THE TIME

this spring I entered the Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition held by the National Library of Scotland. The theme this year was climate change. I didn't win any of the categories (I certainly didn't think I'd win any of the Craft categories, but I thought I had a decent shot at the Creative categories) but I am very happy with how my binding came out anyway!

under the cut is the details of the binding and the process that went into it, plus a full list of the texts included.

this is a modified 3 piece bradel binding - a 3 piece bradel is usually made with leather spine with the spine attached to the textblock and the front and back covers added on after. there's another variety of a 3 piece bradel case where the spine and boards are assembled with a thin piece of paper to later be covered with a bookcloth. I wanted to use some leftover misprint cardstock I had (the same stuff I'd previously used to make paperbacks) and I wanted to print the titles directly onto the covers and spine (specifically I wanted to overprint the titles to imitate the existing misprint), and in order to fit it through my printer I had to have it in three pieces. so I assembled a bradel case as if it were to be covered with a cloth, only the cardstock I was using to assemble the case would also be the cover material.

everything I used to make this book was recycled or reused, with the exception of the greybeards which were new (I didn't have any rescued book boards from secondhand books at the time). the text paper is recycled eco-craft paper, the endbands are re-used macramé cords wrapped in green wrapping paper that came from a gift bag, and as mentioned, the cover material comes from a misprinted running sheet.

a few process photos of getting the case together:

in terms of content, I took care that not only should the binding fit the theme of climate change - by using recycled and reused materials - but the text inside should also fit the theme. there were a lot of considerations there because I could easily have just bought a copy of something like Greta Thunberg's speeches and rebound them, but I wanted the texts to be something that made sense to me. so I went and looked at the SFF magazines I read for climate fiction and essays, I looked for academic papers, and I looked on Gutenberg for older pulp fiction relating to climate change. once I had a selection of texts I pared them down to two categories, fiction and non-fiction, and decided the most fun way to bind them would be as a tête-bêche with fiction on one side and non-fiction on the other, and this then informed how the binding would physically turn out - the modified 3 piece bradel.

here is the full table of contents for each side of the book:

EVERYONE'S WORLD IS ENDING ALL THE TIME and other writings

A Climate of Competition: Climate Change as Political Economy in Speculative Fiction, 1889–1915 by Steve Asselin Published in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, SF and the Climate Crisis (November 2018), pp. 440-453

A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment by Sherryl Vint Published in the MIT Press Reader, 20th July 2021

The climate is changing. Science fiction is too. by Eliza Levinson Published in The Story, 30th June 2022

’Not to escape the world but to join it’: responding to climate change with imagination not fantasy by Andrew Davison Published in Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 375, No. 2095, Theme issue: Material demand reduction (13 June 2017), pp. 1-13

Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at Communicating Climate Change through the Novel by Eline D. Tabak Published in RCC Perspectives, No. 4, COMMUNICATING THE CLIMATE: From Knowing Change to Changing Knowledge (2019), pp. 97-104

Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the anthropocene by Arkady Martine Published in Uncanny Magazine issue 28, May 7, 2019

EARTH IS MISSING! and other stories

Earth Is Missing! by Carl Selwyn in Planet Stories (1947)

Climate—Disordered by Carter Sprague in Startling Stories (1948)

Climate—Incorporated by Wesley Long in Thrilling Wonder Stories (1948)

A Being Together Amongst Strangers by Arkady Martine in Uncanny Magazine (2020)

You’re Not The Only One by Octavia Cade in Clarkesworld Magazine (2022)

Why We Bury Our Dead At Sea by Tehnuka in Reckoning Magazine (2023)

#my binding #bookbinding #Elizabeth Soutar Bookbinding Competition #recycled materials #reused materials #climate fiction #climate action

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extrabeurre · 1 year ago

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Gala Québec Cinéma 2023: les nominations

Animé par Jay Du Temple, le 25e Gala Québec Cinéma sera diffusé le dimanche 10 décembre prochain à 20h sur les ondes de Noovo et Noovo.ca, en direct des studios Grandé de Montréal. Le Gala Artisans, animé par Fabiola Nyrva Aladin, aura lieu le 7 décembre à 19h30 au Studio TD.

Voici la liste complète des nominations:

IRIS HOMMAGE Rémy Girard

MEILLEUR FILM Arsenault et Fils | La maison de prod — Stéphanie Morissette, Charles Stéphane Roy Babysitter | Amérique Film — Martin Paul-Hus, Catherine Léger ; Phase 4 Productions — Pierre-Marcel Blanchot, Fabrice Lambot Falcon Lake | Metafilms — Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil ; Onzecinq — Dany Boon, Jalil Lespert ; Cinéfrance Studios — Julien Deris, David Gauquié, Jean-Luc Ormières Le plongeur | Sphère Média — Marie-Claude Poulin Les chambres rouges | Némésis Films — Dominique Dussault Noémie dit oui | Productions Leitmotiv — Patricia Bergeron Viking | micro_scope — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw

MEILLEUR PREMIER FILM

MEILLEURE DISTRIBUTION DES RÔLES Nathalie Boutrie — Nathalie Boutrie Casting | Arsenault et Fils Marilou Richer — Marilou Richer Casting | Les chambres rouges Lucie Robitaille, Dandy Thibaudeau — Casting Lucie Robitaille | Viking Annie St-Pierre, Antoinette Boulat | Babysitter Brigitte Viau — Casting Brigitte Viau | Le plongeur MEILLEURE DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE André-Line Beauparlant | Viking Sylvie Desmarais| Bungalow Mathieu Lemay | Le plongeur Laura Nhem | Les chambres rouges Colombe Raby | Babysitter

MEILLEURS EFFETS VISUELS Marc Hall — A.A. Studios | Babysitter Marc Hall — A.A. Studios, Alex GD — RGB124 | Farador Marc Hall — A.A. Studios | La cordonnière Marie-Claude Lafontaine, Simon Beaupré — Alchimie 24 | Viking Mathilde Vézina-Bouchard | Mistral spatial

MEILLEUR SON Sylvain Bellemare, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Pierre Bertrand | Viking Olivier Calvert, Stéphane Bergeron, Martyne Morin | Les chambres rouges Olivier Calvert, Luc Boudrias, Yann Cleary | Le plongeur Stephen De Oliveira, Séverin Favriau, Stéphane Thiébaut | Falcon Lake Daniel Fontaine-Bégin, Luc Boudrias, Henry Jr Godding | Arsenault et Fils

MEILLEUR FILM DOCUMENTAIRE Dear Audrey | Réalisation : Jeremiah Hayes | Scénario : Jeremiah Hayes | Office national du film du Canada — Jeremiah Hayes, André Barro, Annette Clarke Gabor | Réalisation : Joannie Lafrenière | Scénario : Joannie Lafrenière | Tak films — Line Sander Egede Geographies of Solitude | Réalisation : Jacquelyn Mills | Scénario : Jacquelyn Mills | Rosalie Chicoine Perreault, Jacquelyn Mills Je vous salue salope : la misogynie au temps du numérique | Réalisation : Léa Clermont-Dion, Guylaine Maroist | Scénario : Léa Clermont-Dion, Guylaine Maroist | La Ruelle Films — Eric Ruel, Guylaine Maroist Rojek | Réalisation : Zaynê Akyol | Scénario : Zaynê Akyol | Metafilms — Sylvain Corbeil, Audrey-Ann Dupuis-Pierre ; Zaynê Akyol

MEILLEURE DIRECTION DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE | FILM DOCUMENTAIRE Geoffroy Beauchemin | Humus Nicolas Canniccioni, Arshia Shakiba | Rojek Joannie Lafrenière | Gabor Jacquelyn Mills | Geographies of Solitude Maude Plante-Husaruk | Au-delà des hautes vallées MEILLEUR SON | FILM DOCUMENTAIRE Mélanie Gauthier, Jeremiah Hayes, Isabelle Lussier | Dear Audrey Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis, Eric Shaw, Jean Paul Vialard | Au-delà des hautes vallées Andreas Mendritzki, Jacquelyn Mills | Geographies of Solitude Jean-François Sauvé, Martin M. Messier, Bruno Pucella | 305 Bellechasse Catherine Van Der Donckt, Jean Paul Vialard | Au-delà du papier

FILM S’ÉTANT LE PLUS ILLUSTRÉ À L’EXTÉRIEUR DU QUÉBEC Cette maison | Embuscade Films — Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Réalisation : Miryam Charles | Scénario : Miryam Charles | La Distributrice de films — Serge Abiaad Dounia et la princesse d’Alep | Tobo — Judith Beauregard | Réalisation : Marya Zarif, André Kadi | Scénario : Marya Zarif | Maison 4:3 — Chantale Pagé Falcon Lake| Metafilms — Nancy Grant, Sylvain Corbeil ; Onzecinq — Dany Boon, Jalil Lespert ; Cinéfrance Studios — Julien Deris, David Gauquié, Jean-Luc Ormières | Réalisation : Charlotte Le Bon | Scénario : Charlotte Le Bon | Sphère Films — Ariane Giroux-Dallaire Katak le brave béluga | 10e Ave Productions — Nancy Florence Savard | Réalisation : Christine Dallaire- Dupont, Nicola Lemay | Scénario : Andrée Lambert | Attraction Distribution — Xiaojuan Zhou, Maison 4:3 — Chantale Pagé Viking | micro_scope — Luc Déry, Kim McCraw | Réalisation : Stéphane Lafleur | Scénario : Stéphane Lafleur, Eric K. Boulianne | Les Films Opale — Christian Larouche, Sébastien Létourneau

#gala québec cinéma

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kudosmyhero · 5 months ago

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Birds of Prey (vol. 2) #6: Two Nights in Bangkok, pt. 2 - Heart of Pain, Life of War

Read Date: July 04, 2023 Cover Date: January 2011 ● Writer: Gail Simone ● Penciler: Alvin Lee ◦ Adriana Melo ● Inker: Jack Purcell ◦ J.P. Mayer ● Colorist: Nei Ruffino ● Letterer: Steve Wands ● Editor: Janelle Asselin ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

● Shiva makes this look frighteningly easy ● daaaamn Huntress is getting beat to a pulp… ● daaamn Huntress turning it back around… ● Iron Owl ● pacing of the fight seemed a bit off, but it’s a good story ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: {none available… dammit}

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_Vol_2_6)

Fan Art: Hawk and Dove - coloured by Ayhe

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 15

#dc #dc comics #my dc read #podcast recommendation #comics #comic books #birds of prey #oracle #barbara gordon #fan art #fanart #podcast - batgirl to oracle #huntress #black canary #lady blackhawk

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nofatclips · 5 years ago

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Off The Wall, an episode of the series What Happened To The Babysitter? by Patrick Boivin [Making of]

#short #short film #episode #patrick boivin #mecha #valérie gagnon hamel #drunk mums #camille parent #valerie gagnon hamel #steve asselin #stephane tanguay #miro gal #miroslav gál #romeo bulte boivin #roméo bulté boivin #sandrine bulté #liam heneghan

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les-proliferations-malignes · 5 years ago

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Festival des Musiques Innovatrices / Saint-Etienne (1987-2014)

1ère édition / Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, du 1 au 5 décembre 1987 : Pierre Bastien - Hans Reichel - David Moss - Didier Malherbe / Youval Micenmacher - Jean-Claude Asselin & Le Bugnazourdin - Look De Bouk - Chris Newman & Janet Smith - Daunik Lazro / Michel Doneda / Ninh Le Quan - Gestalt et Jive - Steve Beresford - Jan Steele & The Ziz! Quartet

RIP Hans Reichel

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fromthe-point · 5 years ago

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ECHL Transactions | Oct. 4

Adirondack Thunder Michael McNiven, G || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3] Conor Riley, F || signed contract, added to training camp roster Hayden Verbek, F || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3] Antoine Waked, F || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3]

Atlanta Gladiators Samuel Asselin, F || assigned by Providence Justin MacDonald, F || released from contract Tommy Marchin, F || assigned by Providence [10/3]

Brampton Beast Cam Bakker, D || released from PTO Matthew Barnaby, F || released from PTO Jake Ringuette, D || released from contract

Greenville Swamp Rabbits Jeremy Helvig, G || assigned from Charlotte (AHL) by Carolina (NHL) Chris Nell, G || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Indy Fuel Alex Krushelnyski, F || added to training camp roster Sam Kurker, F || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Kalamazoo Wings Chase Van Allen, D || ECHL rights relinquished

Kansas City Mavericks Jeremy McKenna, F || recalled by Stockton (AHL) Nick Schneider, G || recalled to Stockton (AHL) by Calgary (NHL) [10/3] Mario Vrab, G || signed tryout agreement, added to training camp roster

Newfoundland Growlers Lucas Bombardier, F || released from PTO Alex Carlson, D || released from PTO Sean Kacerosky, D || released from PTO Michael Kapla, D || assigned by Toronto (AHL) Josh Lafrance, F || released from PTO Nathan Perry, G || released from PTO Jimmy Soper, F || released from PTO

Norfolk Admirals Brandon Halverson, G || signed contract, added to training camp roster Matt Ustaski, F || signed contract, released from PTO

South Carolina Stingrays Steve Johnson, D || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Utah Grizzlies Patrick McGrath, F || loaned to Colorado (AHL) Yuri Terao, F || assigned by Colorado (AHL), released from PTO

#echl #ahl #hockey #t:info #s:transactions #s:prospects

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architectnews · 4 years ago

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MSO Play/Pause, Montréal

MSO Play/Pause, Canadian Performance Room, Quebec Home, Montréal Architecture Images

MSO Play/Pause in Montréal

Feb 16, 2021

Play/Pause

Design: Studio Jean Verville architectes

Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada

Architect Jean Verville explores a world where architecture, theatricality, and playfulness come together to imagine a hybrid proposal where sensory perceptions are called upon to transgress the limits of three-dimensional form, and where living spaces seem freed from their reality.

Throughout the process, the clients – creators and actors Sophie Cadieux and Mani Soleymanlou – through their creativity, their mastery of the collaborative dimension inseparable from theatrical work, and their talent for improvisation, adopt the architect’s playful approach with passion, rigor, and sensitivity. Assisted by his accomplice, architect Tania Paula Garza Rico, director of his eponymous studio, Verville creates whimsical staging, incorporating the presence of creature-allegories.

In front of the photographer’s lens, the architects and their clients engage in this exercise with enthusiasm, humor, and unpredictability. With this raw material, Verville performs digital manipulation to produce images that raise questions about the illusory banality of habitability.

« An extraordinary creative experience, from the first meeting to this final staging… I constantly giggle as I look back on that day! » Mani Soleymanlou

Adopting the creative universes of its occupants, their personalities, and their particular needs as the narrative scheme, the MSO project consists of a complete volumetric reconfiguration, making it possible to generate an artistic creation as well as a living space adapted to the daily reality of the two artists and their son. Inside a narrow house, located in a Montreal residential neighborhood, a scenographic promenade unfolds to the full height of the building.

Having to meet the needs of family life, but also subtracting them at times in order to create a work environment that strengthens concentration and creativity, the spatial reorganization conceals the functions in a succession of ordered volumes completed by ten scenic pauses. The central space, pierced by an openwork steel structure extending over twelve meters in height, abolishes the original hierarchy in a dynamic segmentation, while the monochromy of greige tones unites the whole into a monolithic entity.

« At every moment we discover something new, a new cut, a new line. It’s a tremendous gift. » Sophie Cadieux

« But where is my room? » Oscar

Aiming at an effective cohabitation of domestic and professional activities, permeability to family life, and a spatial distribution providing a level of individual privacy, the proposal takes advantage of decompartmentalization to consolidate the feeling of unification in its vertical deployment and to metamorphose the legibility of the whole.

To minimize alterations to the existing building, selective subtraction of floor areas frees the core of the space to accommodate the new vertical progression, gradually unfolding over the three floors of the house in a succession of ten versatile and multifunctional platforms. These ten scenic pauses establish a new spatial organization. The metallic structure, with perforated steel surfaces and walls, is juxtaposed with a series of stages and raised platforms – sometimes it offers a small scene, and sometimes a seat – to draw fluid limits that privatize spaces while creating visual porosity.

Meeting the requirement of functional adaptability while minimizing the need for furniture, the new system of spatial organization engages unusual interactions in order to facilitate the personal and creative appropriation of the sub-spaces it shapes. Fragmented by metal screens and low walls, and punctuated meandering, the scenic pauses offer new points of view in space and new perspectives on the presence of others. The imposing metal assemblage, which also consolidates the project’s structural integrity, is capped with a skylight, that measures 2.5 meters by 2.5 meters, which maximizes the natural light by diffusing it to the ground floor.

The light, filtered by the metal surfaces and walls, multiplies the projections of shadows cast to mark space with graphic lines, opposing their presence with the spatial boundaries, and offering a continual dance of geometric shadows that play on the monochrome canvas. Both refined and expressive, the proposal constitutes an assemblage that partitions volume and light in order to envelop the place in a mysterious aura contributing to the theatricality of the proposed experiment.

Jean Verville, Ph.D. art Architect and professor at the School of Architecture at Laval University, Jean Verville calls upon play, humor, and self-mockery in his professional practice as well as in his teaching approach. A playful creator, it is with apparent lightness and casualness that he presents his thoughts on relationships with domestic space, as well as on the role and capacity of architecture to transform everyday life.

Observing with amusement the impacts of popular culture, Verville invites individual appropriations that underline the attributes and omnipresence of architectural space. Celebrating the multiplicity of perceptions, his deliberately imperfect digital collages shape baroque fantasies where the discernment between architecture and personal imagination is disputed in order to evoke traces of childhood, like doubt about the veracity of images as well as the plausible banality of ordinary life.

MSO Play/Pause in Montréal, Quebec – Building Information

Design: Studio Jean Verville architectes

MSO Year(s) of construction: 2020 Use: Creation and living space

Number of housings: 2

Number of floors: 3 Area: 147 sqm

The house Levels: 3 Area: 115m2 Number of bedrooms: 4

The studio Level: 1

Area: 32m2

Team studio Jean Verville architectes Jean Verville, architect Ph.D. art (lead architect) Mani Soleymanlou and Sophie Cadieux (actors, playwriters, and directors) Tania Paula Garza Rico, architect (studio director) France Goneau (artistic advisor) Rémi St-Pierre, architect (technical director) Samuel Landry Camille Asselin Alexandre Meloche Clara Tardif Alex Lamontagne

Bahia Burias

Contractor: Pierre Aubin

Costumes: Elen Ewing

Images: special collaboration Studio Jean Verville Architectes + Félix Michaud, photograph

MSO Play/Pause in Montréal, Quebec – Building Information

Design: Les Architectes FABG

Photographer: Steve Montpetit

Quai 5160-Maison de la Culture Verdun, Montréal information / images received 010221 from v2com newswire

Location: Verdun, Québec, Canada

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allbestnet · 8 years ago

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

China Road by Rob Gifford

Hot Commodities by Jim Rogers

Me, Inc. by Gene Simmons

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff and Leland Purvis

The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger by Bud Labitan

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur by Stuart Skorman

Life Without Lawyers by Philip K. Howard

The Productive Programmer by Neal Ford

Crash Proof 2.0 by Peter Schiff

Rapt by Winifred Gallagher

Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton

A Bull in China by Jim Rogers

Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston

Seeing What Others Don't by Gary Klein

Flex: Do Something Different by Ben Fletcher and Karen Pine

Cambodia's Curse by Joel Brinkley

Conspiracy of the Rich by Robert Kiyosaki

The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port and Mina Samuels

#book recommendions #derek sivers

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colleenfrakes · 8 years ago

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I won’t be tabling at Emerald City Comic Con this year, but I’ll be participating in the Lightning Comix panel!

Mar 02, 2017, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Room TCC 301

Language: English

Presenters: Kelsey Smith, Claire Scott, Kristen Edwards, Matthew Murray, Colleen Frakes and Melanie Cassidy

Diversify your comics readers advisory with an infusion of indie comic suggestions that highlight underrepresented artists and perspectives. Six librarians will each share twenty of their favorite indie comics, graphic novels, zines, and web comics for a total of 120 speedy Ignite-style reviews in less than one hour! Attendees will receive an annotated bibliography zine of all titles and get a chance to peruse selections from up-and-coming artists.

The indie comics I’ll be reviewing AT LIGHTNING SPEED are:

Rough Age by Max de Radigues

Cycles by Beth Hetland and Kyle O'Connell

Freddy Stories by Melissa Mendes

What You Don't Get by Anne Thalheimer

Castle Waiting by Linda Medley

Fresh Romance vol 1 editor Janelle Asselin

Bingo Baby editor Jason Lutes

Pale Fire by MK Reed and Farel Dalrymple

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories by Julia Wertz

SuperMutant Magic Academy by Jillian Tamaki

The Collected Deep Girl by Ariel Bordeaux

A Home for Mr. Easter by Brooke A. Allen

Monsters by Ken Dahl

Hopeless Savages written by Jen Van Meter, various artists

By Crom! by Rachel Kahn

Aya by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie

Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod

Cat Rackham by Steve Wolfhard

Only Skin by Sean Ford

Picture This by Lyndra Barry

Hope to see you there! -Colleen

#ECCC #eccc 2016 #library comics #lightning reviews #colleen frakes

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De vuelta de la locura de Paris Photo, os cuento aquí mi experiencia de una semana larga y tan corta a la vez, pasada corriendo cerca del Sena… Esto es solo un relato, cada cual que ha estado en París tendrá el suyo.

Un año mas, y se repiten las palabras del año pasado por las mismas fechas: las ganas de encontrarse con caras conocidas, la intención de comprar menos libros, de evitar la ansiedad, de disfrutar de Paris y sus exposiciones. Pasa el tiempo y la ciudad sigue siendo tan atractiva, un nudo emocional, gigantesco “hub” para los amantes de la fotografía y los fotolibros. Para mi, lejos de Hondarribia, es una vez más la oportunidad de ver a los amigos, de echar de menos a otros que no han podido venir, de conocer caras nuevas, de hablar de la colección en San Telmo y los nuevos proyectos.

París es mucho París, y la oferta cultural es inabarcable, además de la propia feria. La lista de exposiciones imprescindibles ya daba vértigo antes de llegar. Sophie Calle, Penn, Sibidé, Dragana Jurisic, Albert Renger-Patzsch, El MoMa en la Fundación Vuitton, Dada Africa, Clément Cogitore en Le Bal, el Palais de Tokyo, Paysages Français en la Bibliothèque Nationale etc, etc…sabía que iba a sufrir por no poder ver todo. Y así fue.

Sin contar los innumerables eventos organizados alrededor de la feria, como Photo Saint-Germain, o los pop-up de galerías o editores… En cuanto a la feria, este año ( un año mas…) iba con el firme propósito de no caer en la tentación pletórica de Offprint, y casi casi lo consigo…

Polycopies no se puede evitar, para que ir a París si no ?… Desde hace 3 ( o son 4 ya? ) años, el barco Concorde-Atlantique es el mejor sitio de la ciudad para ver y hablar de fotolibros, y encontrarse con conocidos y amigos, muchos, con o sin libro nuevo.

Empecé el maratón parisino en el siempre interesante Palais de Tokyo, muy cerca de donde estaba hospedada, viendo una exposición de la francesa Camille Henrot, videos o instalaciones, a punto de caer en su río de oro. La visita ha resultado menos intensa que la del año pasado, pero este otro Palais siempre vale la pena ( y su librería ! )

Visité el día de la inauguración los pasillos alfombrados del Grand Palais, como visitas un museo, entre admiración, deseo y frustración, pero también con estoicismo, entre tesoros vintage y simpáticos VIPs ( Patti Smith comisariaba un espacio, con buenas fotografías ). Obras de Jungjin Lee ( fabulosa ), Hosoe, Masao Yamamoto, Miho Kajioka ( con el enorme placer de saludarle a los pocos días! ), un precioso Adam Fuss en la galería Fraenkel, la estupenda presentación de Astres Noirs en la East Gallery, impecable Dieter Appelt en Galerie Françoise Paviot, Nathalie Boutté en Yossi Milo y Magnin, el Trump l’oeil de Mishka Henner… Espectadora afortunada, aunque no lo suficiente para adquirir las obras, pero saber que están ahí me basta. Y añado que hacer la visita con mi amigo Patrick Maille, saludar a Kazuma Obara o a Vita y Boris Mikhailov es una gran alegría.

Pasé mas tiempo esta vez viendo galerías que editores, por no caer en la tentación, (que me pareció algo menor este año), aunque ver la lista de nominados al premio Aperture es obligado, y agotador por la presencia masiva de gente. Tres filas para acceder a Steidl, o la cola días más tarde para la firma de Alec Soth en Mack es señal de buena salud para esas editoriales o la afición al fotolibro, menos para mi, ya mareada a esa hora…

Luego la primera de muchas visitas al barco de Polycopies, para saludar, y vuelta a casa.

Jueves. La exposición de Albert Renger-Patzsch en Jeu de Paume ya estuvo en Madrid, pero no tuve ocasión de verla allí. Magnificas y sobrecogedoras sus fotografías de bosques o paisajes. Renger-Patzsch ya había inventado muchas cosas que se han visto mucho más tarde.

Y de ahí otra vez al barco, donde vi a más amigos, entre ellos Christer Ek, o Juan Cires, y como ya es habitual, mucha presencia española. En la mesa de Dalpine, Sonia había recibido ya A Google Life, de Olga Bushkova, libro ganador del premio a mejor maqueta en Fiebre Photobooks. Montse Puig e Israel Ariño, (el con una bella exposición en el Grand Palais de la mano de Galerie Vu ), los Anómalas, ya tenían desplegados sus libros, los japoneses de Zen Photo atraían a cualquiera con sus joyas exóticas… El Tipi de Andrea Copetti ya rebosaba de ediciones independientes, y en el piso de abajo, mas exotismo con libros rusos, turcos o rumanos, entre otros, de lo mas apetecibles. Caes en la tentación…

Esa tarde se abría Offprint, pero yo me fui a la inauguración de la exposición My own unknown, de Dragana Jurisic, en el Institut Culturel Irlandais, con presentación de la gran artista con Natasha Christia. Una bella exposición de la fotógrafa “ex Yugoslava” afincada en Irlanda, todo un lujo que te permite París esos días.

Y otro visita también a la exposición “Jeune”, en el Crous de la rue des Beaux Arts, dentro del marco de Photo Saint-Germain, otro evento en el famoso barrio “Rive Gauche”, con muchas exposiciones programadas. Allí exponían Bérangère Fromont y Joseph Charroy, entre otros. Como también lo hacía Léa Habourdin en el espacio mágico de Deyrolle, en rue du Bac, con Everything becomes nothing again. Correr y correr para no perderse nada, así es la vida del “foto drug addict” en París.

Dormir, y recuperar fuerzas…

Viernes. Visita a la fabulosa exposición de Sophie Calle, y su invitada Serena Carone en el no menos fabuloso Musée de la Chasse et la nature, en rue des Archives. Beau doublé, Monsieur le Marquis , comisariada por Sonia Voss, es un recorrido entre bestiario y autobiografía, y mucho más.

Me gusta mucho el trabajo de Sophie Calle, su vida ofrecida con humor y poco pudor, pero con una gran delicadeza y sensibilidad. Maravilla de equilibrio entre el drama y la ligereza, entre lo absurdo, lo crudo, lo tierno y lo tan real. Sus obras instaladas en los salones del “Hotel Guénégaud” del siglo XVIII, construido por Mansart, entre marcos dorados, muebles antiguos y sala de armería, es una experiencia irrepetible que solo os puedo recomendar si pasáis por París antes de que acabe la exposición, el 18 de febrero 2018. He tenido además la suerte de visitar la exposición con mi amiga Annakarin Quinto, y de encontrarme allí con Magali Avezou, de archipelago projects ( que luego no vería en Offprint, desgraciadamente ) y Amak Mahmoodian. Un muy gran recuerdo.

Por la tarde por fin llegué a Offprint, en la rue Bonaparte. Fue una visita demasiado corta, en parte para evitar tentaciones, y porque quería seguir más tarde el maratón. Allí unos cuantas paradas para ver a Tiane Doan na Champassak y sus ultimos libros, a Maya Rochat ahora en Self Publish Be Happy, a Kominek con la muy esperada publicación de Bryan Schutmaat, al adorado Stephen Gill. Sergej Vutuc, Patrick Frey, vistazo a Spector books, y ponerse los antifaces para no ver mas.

Desde ahí vuelta al Marais, donde Steve Bisson presentaba las novedades de Urbanautica, con el libro de Andrés Medina entre ellos. Bisson es un hombre de mucho gusto, y sus ediciones nuevas son libros sencillos de aspecto pero interesantes y con un acabado de mucha calidad y delicadeza. Andrés no ha podido estar en París, pero Río estaba en buen sitio.

Cerca de allí se encontraba el Paris Vintage Photobook, donde se habían juntado varios libreros que este año no estaban ni en el barco ni en el Palais, como Claude Lemaire, de L’Ascenseur Végétal de Burdeos, o Clément Kauter, del imprescindible Plac’Art, Dirk K. Bakker, Zarbie Books, Ofr, y alguno más. Llegué solo a tiempo de saludar a Claude, con frustración o alivio… Un lugar lleno de deseo y peligro.

No habia acabado el día, y la galeria Temple, de Anna Planas y Pierre Hourquet presentaba The Hobbyist, con Lotte Reimann haciendo lecturas de su libro Bis morgen im Nassen con experiencia virtual de la exposición de Winthertur.

Y ya acabé el día en la galería -libreria In Between, de Luigi Clavareau, otro templo de la fotografía japonesa en París, donde había una fiesta con firmas de los nuevos libros de Koji Onaka, de Morten Andersen y de la gran Emi Anrakuji, con presencia del librero de Lisboa, estrenándose como editor, Rui Ribeiral. Precioso libro el de Emi, del que espero volver a hablar aquí.

Conocí por fin a Colin Pantall, que llegó a Paris con cajas de su nuevo libro All quiet in the home front, para firmarlos en Polycopies, desde el stand del Tipi. Colin es un gran tipo, y es emocionante ver como habla de su relación padre-hija y lo que ha supuesto para el.

Ya no quiero aburrir a nadie y solamente diré que el sábado volví al Grand Palais donde Kazuma Obara firmaba Exposure en su version editada por RM. Ya he hablado en el blog de este trabajo de Kazuma, siempre exquisito de sensibilidad y honradez, sobre el accidente de Chernobil. La nueva edición sigue teniendo la misma exigencia, tanto por parte del autor como por la de la editora.

Todavia no he hablado de los premios de Aperture a mejor libro del año, que ha ganado la gran fotógrafa Indú Dayanita Singh, con Museum Bahvan, editado por Steidl. Caja ( hecha a mano ) de libros- leporello, museo portátil, precioso objeto de una artista que siempre ha valorado el libro en su trabajo. El premio a mejor primer libro fue, sin sorpresas, a Monsanto, de Mathieu Asselin, editado por Actes Sud y Verlag Kettler, un enorme e impresionante trabajo de investigación sobre las consecuencias del uso de los productos químicos del gigante agroalimentario Norteamericano, que se ha podido ver este verano en Arlés. Hay que resaltar la mención especial a La Grieta, de Carlos Spottorno, ( con guión de Guillermo Abril ) editado en España por Astiberri, mezcla de fotolibro y novela grafica, un híbrido dentro del mundo de la fotografía. New realities: Photography in the 19th Century ganó el premio al mejor catálogo, publicado por el Rijiskmuseum/Nai, Amsterdam, una gran retrospectiva de los inventores de la fotografía, con una bonita cubierta homenaje a Anna Atkins. Todos premios merecidos y esperados…

Ese sábado acabé el día con una cena organizada por los editores de la Gould Collection, Russet Lederman, Laurence Vecten y Yoko Sawada, honrando la memoria de Christophe Crison, gran coleccionista y amante de la fotografía, el cine y la literatura. La Gould Collection reune a un gran fotógrafo con un autor literario, el segundo libro, It don’t mean a thing juntando a Saul Leiter con Paul Auster. Una gran reunión de photobooks freaks de muchos horizontes, hablar con el grande Brian Griffin y Delphine Bedel y conocer a Miho Kajioka, arigato !

El domingo llovía. ¿Que mejor que ir a la BNF, biblioteca nacional de Francia? Llegar hasta su puerta fue largo y frío, aún bien acompañada, (verdad, Antonio Pérez Río ? ) pero la espera valía la pena, para ver la exposición Paysages Français, Una aventure photographique, enorme retrato de Francia en mas de mil fotografías y 160 fotógrafos, tanto franceses como internacionales, Koudelka, Basilico, Brotherus, Anne Immelé…. Ya no hubo tiempo para volver a Offprint antes del cierre…

Si fui el lunes a la Fondation Vuitton a ver la exposición Being Modern: MoMa in Paris. La modernidad llegó a Nueva York venida de Europa, con las maletas llenas de obras maestras, si bien luego los Norteamericanos nos devolvieron su carga bien digerida. Muy buena exposición la de Vuitton, con bastante fotografía también ( bonita serie de fotos anónimas, Atget, Walker Evans, Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall… ).

Con la suerte de poder quedarme un poco más, pude escuchar también el lunes la conferencia que dieron Debi Cornwall y Lewis Bush en el Centro de la Universidad Columbia de Paris, con el titulo Photography in the age of Global Surveillance and Perpetual Wars Dos trabajos muy interesantes en los tiempos que corremos, el libro de Debi, Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay, estaba en la lista Aperture a mejor primer libro. Lewis Bush está a punto de publicar su nuevo trabajo, The shadows of the state: Mapping, spying, democracy.

No pude ir a Le Bal, ni ver la exposición de Irving Penn, ni muchas cosas mas… Acabo este maratón con la exposición de Malick Sibidé, Mali Twist , en la Fondation Cartier. De Sibidé ya se ha escrito y visto mucho, yo he disfrutado de los vintage y de la banda sonora.

Fin del twist à Paris… Vuelvo a casa con más libros de lo que debería, menos de lo que quisiera, y muchos buenos momentos. Más, si se puede, en noviembre del año que viene. Gracias por leer hasta aquí !

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#ParisPhoto #Vuelta de París

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westernmanews · 8 years ago

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SOUTHWICK, Mass. (The Westfield News) – At the Annual Town Meeting on May 16, voters in Southwick voted in favor of accepting the $1 million for the CPC (Community Preservation Committee) to use towards preserving North Pond.

While the $1 million helps North Pond supporters and Franklin Land Trust inch closer to officially preserving the property, there is still a good amount of money that needs to be raised.

The latest appraisal for the 144-acre North Pond property was estimated at about $5 million. According to Mary Lynn Sabourin, the Director of Philanthropy at Franklin Land Trust, around $3.1 million has been raised.

With a lot of the money raised being from grants and state funding, Sabourin emphasized just how important the vote was at the Annual Town Meeting.

“I think the vote at town meeting really told us that folks in town are finding this to be a really important project and they’re really getting behind it,” said Sabourin. “I think the momentum is really only going to increase from now until December.”

When talking about December, Sabourin is referring to the fact that Franklin Land Trust’s request to extend the deadline to raise the $5 million was accepted by the property owner. Franklin Land Trust and North Pond supporters have until December 31, 2017 to raise the last $1.9 million.

Sabourin noted that time isn’t being wasted as there are a number of fundraising events taking place all summer.

On June 2nd, there will be a Band Jam event at Crabby Joe’s Restaurant, starting at 6 p.m. This event consists of a spaghetti and meatball dinner costing $5, followed by live music from Steve Piper and Cold Shot. Organizers are also encouraging anyone in the community to bring their instrument and “jam” with the live entertainment. A $10 cover charge will be taken at the door, and all proceeds and raffles will be donated to Save North Pond.

“Folks should come out and enjoy the music, have a good time and know that they’re supporting North Pond,” said Sabourin.

The next opportunity to raise money brings people outside for the North Pond golf tournament on June 11 at Edgewood Golf Course.

The tournament starts at 1 p.m. with registration beginning at Noon. It costs $95 to play, which includes green fees, golf cart, prizes, and a buffet dinner. Some of the prizes include a car from Curry Honda if someone gets a hole-in-one, and also a prize to be named later for an individual who gets their ball the closest to the pin on a specific hole.

After the tournament has concluded, a dinner and a silent auction will occur at the Fox Den Restaurant.

Sabourin said that roughly $20,000 was raised at the last North Pond golf tournament in the fall, and the goal is to exceed that number.

People can register to play by calling the Franklin Land Trust office at 413-625-9151.

The last fundraising opportunity to note is still a work in progress. Bob Asselin, a Southwick resident and North Pond supporter, wants to have a food truck for the summer to raise money for North Pond.

Asselin said that the truck would be located right by Whalley Park on Hudson Drive, and is planning on having it open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Asselin is hoping to find 12 volunteers to run the food cart. If anyone is interested in volunteering, contact Asselin at 413-221-3019. All volunteers will then be required to take a one-day food safety course that is required by the Town of Southwick Health Department.

Asselin said that once the food cart is underway, the hope is to raise $1,000 a week towards Save North Pond.

Environmental police: It’s okay to operate jet skis on North Pond

Southwick annual town meeting passes all articles

Lawmakers push to help preserve North Pond

#Western MA news #westernmanews

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kudosmyhero · 11 months ago

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Birds of Prey (vol. 2) #5: Aftershock, pt. 1 - Two Nights in Bangkok

Read Date: May 01, 2023 Cover Date:November 2010 ● Writer: Gail Simone ● Penciler: Alvin Lee ◦ Adriana Melo ● Inker: Jack Purcell ◦ J.P. Mayer ● Colorist: Nei Ruffino ● Letterer: Steve Wands ● Editor: Janelle Asselin ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● Creote and Savant are adorable in a… kind of scary way? ● I’m a sucker for moody silhouettes

● considering these women are bad-ass fighters, I doubt their fingernails would look so perfectly manicured… ● wow… Dinah went weird, fast ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Creote, Savant, and Oracle reach a touching understanding. Savant, just having found out that Creote loves him, hugs Creote while Oracle checks in with her team. Having just handcuffed White Canary, the Black Canary requests that Lady Blackhawk flies her to Thailand. However, Huntress informs them that Lady Blackhawk will not be flying anywhere tonight, after their recent battle. Oracle orders the release of the Penguin. Huntress does not like this idea, but Oracle promises that they will take him down later. Black Canary then announces that she is quitting the team. White Canary assures Black Canary that Sin will be safe "with them". The Huntress decides that she will be following Black Canary, however. Meanwhile, Oracle, Creote, and Savant head back to the newly-built Kord Towers - the Birds of Prey's new headquarters! The Canaries hop on a plane that White Canary had waiting and head off for Thailand. In the hospital, Hawk is healing up fast while Dove waits at his side. A dream of his brother, coupled with a mysterious note, may give Hawk the sense of purpose that he has been trying to find since coming back. Also in the hospital, Lady Blackhawk wakes up and Huntress fills her in on Black Canary's actions. They, of course, immediately leave for Thailand to find her. When they get there, they are greeted by a group of unfriendlies that tell them they were not invited by their mistress - Dinah!

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_Vol_2_5)

Fan Art: Huntress- original by gattadonna

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 13

#dc #dc comics #my dc read #podcast recommendation #comics #comic books #birds of prey #oracle #barbara gordon #fan art #fanart #podcast - batgirl to oracle #huntress #black canary #lady blackhawk

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Birds of Prey (vol. 2) #4: Endrun, pt. 4 - Impact Fracture

Read Date: March 07, 2023 Cover Date:October 2010 ● Writer: Gail Simone ● Penciler: Ed Benes ◦ Adriana Melo ● Inker: Ed Benes ◦ J.P. Mayer ● Colorist: Nei Ruffino ● Letterer: Steve Wands ● Editor: Janelle Asselin ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read:

damn, midwifery be tough

shiiiiiit, midwife is having a REALLY bad day!

training begins at 24 hrs old. okay…

overhead rain shot done very nicely

Savant can’t conceptualize time? interesting…

yassss Black Canary back from certain defeat!

Cobblepot you bastard

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Synopsis: {none available… dammit}

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_Vol_2_4)

Fan Art: BIRDS [of] PREY Commission by taguiar

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 12

#dc #dc comics #my dc read #podcast recommendation #comics #comic books #birds of prey #oracle #barbara gordon #fan art #fanart #podcast - batgirl to oracle #huntress #black canary #lady blackhawk

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kudosmyhero · 1 year ago

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Birds of Prey (vol. 2) #3: Endrun, pt. 3 - Whistling Past the Gravestones

Read Date: January 31, 2023 Cover Date:September 2010 ● Writer: Gail Simone ● Penciler: Ed Benes ◦ Adriana Melo ● Inker: Ed Benes ◦ Mariah Benes ● Colorist: Nei Ruffino ● Letterer: Steve Wands ● Editor: Janelle Asselin ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● Penguin is dreaming, isn’t he ● While Penguin has his wet dream, the rest of the Birds of Prey regroup. This is fresh after they all attacked police in order to escape and had Black Canary’s secret identity exposed to the media. ● Gregory Chasco, the kidnapper Black Canary took out in Iceland. Police there say he was hit with some sort of punch in the chest, some kind that makes the heart explode in a number of hours without leaving a mark. Dinah is one of the people who know this technique. ● Hawk is also trying to figure out how the woman they fought in the alley, how her blade cut his skin. ● A tank bursts into the lounge. Oracle didn’t hear them on police radio because the cops have gone rogue and will shoot to kill.

● Oracle is having trouble with the computers in the Batcave. The security has gone offline. ● Savant and Creote are in the Batcave with her somehow. They were both dead. ● Meanwhile, Penguin keeps drifting in and out of consciousness from blood loss. ● Hawk gets hit by a dart from their adversary in white and is hurt badly ● There’s a note on the dart reminding them that one of them dies every hour or innocent people die in their place ● Back at the Batcave, Oracle realizes the video feed in which she saw Savant and Creote die was a fake. As they carry Barbara out to the car, Savant tells her that he will expose everyone’s secrets. ● Dinah prepares to face the White Canary. She tells the rest of the Birds of Prey that she loves them. Huntress tells Dinah to kill her if she can. ● As Dinah fights her, she figures out who she is. But does she know who is funding all of this? ● Damn but Penguin looks evil in that last panel! ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: {none available… dammit}

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_Vol_2_3)

Fan Art: Huntress colors by MARCIOABREU7

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 11

#dc #dc comics #my dc read #podcast recommendation #comics #comic books #birds of prey #oracle #barbara gordon #fan art #fanart #podcast - batgirl to oracle #huntress #black canary #lady blackhawk

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kudosmyhero · 1 year ago

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Birds of Prey (vol. 2) #2: Endrun, pt. 2 - The Rage of the White Canary

Read Date: January 09, 2023 Cover Date:August 2010 ● Writer: Gail Simone ● Penciler: Ed Benes ◦ Adriana Melo ● Inker: Ed Benes ◦ Mariah Benes ● Colorist: Nei Ruffino ● Letterer: Steve Wands ● Editor: Janelle Asselin ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers

Reactions As I Read: ● It's been a minute since I read issue 1. Argh, and there's no synopsis and I didn't take reaction notes back then. I'll just have to see if my memory gets jogged. ● (pg 2) I mean, these women all look great, but I can't help but think how unguarded their femoral arteries are considering their lives of fighting crime. Do you know how fast a person bleeds out from a wound to the femoral artery? Fast. ● Poor Penguin. I'm sure he'll be fine, though. ● this White Canary is cool as a cucumber

● Lethal hair accessories. Cool. ● Fishnets do look amazing, ngl. ● Oof, hopefully Dinah didn't lose any teeth there… ● Narrative: She's not Shiva. You never feel Shiva's emotions when she hits you. This lady seems to hate my guts. ~ curiouser and curiouser ● If looks could kill… ● Hawk and Dove are here along with Lady Blackhawk (I forgot she's from WWII and misplaced in time) ● Hawk didn't expect that… ● Hawk has a big handful of her hair, though. Is that why his name is Hank? Geddit? Hank … of hair… nevermind. Ahem. ● Meanwhile, Oracle hears a news bulletin about a Gregory Chasco dying of wounds apparently undetectable by medical science. ● Oops, the bulletin named "former Justice League member the Black Canary" is the cause of death. ● The Channel 8 chopper has eyes on Black Canary now ● Oracle yells in the intercom: "Black Canary! Quit fighting! Get out of there!" ● 12 squad cars and a police chopper are on the way. Oops. ● Before White Canary leaves, she says: "One of you will die every hour for the next six hours. You choose. Or I will." ● GCPD ain't playin'. ● Before they can decide on whether to be shot or to surrender, Penguin regains consciousness enough to tell the women weakly, "My place. Get us to my club. Safe there." ● Fight or flight? Canary chooses fight and unleashes her canary cry ● omg, Oswald has a facefull of Dove's tits and he's living for it 😂😂

● Oliver Queen was mayor of Star City? Huh. I'm not up-to-date on my Green Arrow lore. ● new person calling in to Oracle… Brian Durlan a.k.a. Savant a.k.a. Creote? ● the coloring of Oracle's eyes up close is gorgeous ● "Savant is dead, Oracle. He's dead." ● Oh, so this Creote is a different person. And he's blaming Savant's death on Oracle. ● Oh, fuuuu… I hope Barbara has a good therapist. ● Penguin needs a hospital ● "softly pillowy bosom" - hahah! ● the crew runs into a random tv set up in an alley, where another news bulletin has breaking news of Black Canary's true identity. Oh shit. ● is White Canary the child who was "abandoned"? That would explain some of the hatred… ● the girl's name is Sin and she was almost adopted by Black Canary ● Oracle: "I am the grid." Badass mode unlocked. I mean, she was always a badass. But now it's badderass. ● 👏👏👏👏

Synopsis: {none available… dammit}

(https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Birds_of_Prey_Vol_2_2)

Fan Art: Black Canary and Huntress by spidermanfan2099

Accompanying Podcast: ● Batgirl to Oracle - episode 09

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