#the first image wasnt satire | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

alysemeadfad · 4 years ago

Text

Life Drawing

my personal experience of life drawing for the first time, we unfortunately due to corona virus could not do actual life drawings from a life model standing in front of us, we opted to draw from the royal academy life drawing model videos on you tube.

the first sketch was just the lines of the body, basically stripping back all of the skin and imagining the skeleton and where certain bones would be and whats connected to those bones, i found it easy to pick out the four main corners on the first would of been the right knee right hand left hand and left foot , marking the whereabouts of these main parts helps me figure out the proportions and i manage to fit it all on the page rather than go off or go too small.

we then started to do the main body lines around the structure, this time we were timed 5 mins, personally i was quite impressed with how well i did in the 5 mins as i was quite anxious to draw the human form

my second go in a different position was much more difficult, i really didn’t find this position easy for some reason and got it wrong many times as seen where there two arms and the proportions are really quite wack.

reference photo

this was my favorite timed one i felt like i had learnt a lot by the time we drew this one, it was timed 20 mins and the model was positioned on boxes so i did draw them in to get an idea of where to place the body, its not perfect but you can clearly see its a man lay in that awkward position.

after we all drew together i went to my space and did a couple of my own, i moved from a3 to A1 so i had more freedom and felt like i could get the proportions better on a bigger page.

Life Drawing 2

i wasn’t in for this lesson but i attended online and took part. my screen was a lot smaller than what it would be in the studio projected on to the wall so i had some difficulty with proportions more than usual.

first attempt was a non timed 5 mins in HB i started off with the main points which were, head, bum, hands, feet. i then drew the structure stripping it back to the skeleton i then drew the general shape of the body around the lines i had made, i tried to keep my lines to a minimum as i often get very sketchy and lose the shape that i am trying to achieve.

i marked the main points which were feet and hands but then i drew the body way too big and didn’t fit all of the body parts on the page. this drawing was around 2 mins timed in 6b, i used the same process as the one before. points, lines. shape

fine line drawing with cross hatching as the main technique. this one i was nervous about since it was pen and quite bold, i started off just drawing the main shape of the body, no key points, no lines just went straight in with the outline. at first i hated it and thought it didnt even look like the right shape but then i started adding tone and debth with crosshatching and darkening the lines and by the end i loved it and its one of my favorite life drawings i have done, the proportions are slightly off but other than that its really successful.

i hated this black fine liner continuous line drawing. it was awful and i hated the whole process, i kept feeling the urge to want to take the pen off the page and i could not hack the proportions at all. but on a positive note the arse is quite peachy.

this one was very rushed but its not the worst, i used a pink sharpie as it gave a different effect. the proportions are still bad but in its own way and style its quite an interesting drawing that i don’t hate to death

life drawing 3

this life drawing was on a larger scale and on a different type of paper (no idea what the paper was) we did a line drawing in fine liner, i was quite pleased with my proportions even tho i managed to not fit the legs in i was happy with how it looked in just fine liner. after we were happy with the shape we had created we went in with ink, i used a sponge to get a texture similar to the dry brushing technique we used the other week.

i feel like i lost my image by using such a thick sponge i wasnt able to get the defined lines i wanted, i was much happier with the fine liner outcome rather than when i had added the ink.

second time around we went straight in with ink, no fine liner line drawing to map out the shapes just ink. i immediately messed up hence why the head is completely deformed, the ink was runny so i made some accidental drips om the page but decided to ad more and claim it as a stylistic approach.

Life drawing 4

A3 fine liner,biro and graphite drawing

i started the drawing in biro making a sketchy style outline then adding shade with cross hatching with fine liner to make the drawing appear more three dimensional

i then used graphite to add a dark harsh shading to the outer side of the body, giving it even more dimetion than before, i am quite proud of the outcome and even tho the proportions are off it really shows my progress in life drawing so far in to the course.

Gina Beavers

Gina Beavers is an artist who lives and works in Newark, NJ. She holds a BA in Studio Art and Anthropology from the University of Virginia (1996), an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000) and an MS in Education from Brooklyn College (2005).

She creates paintings and installations from photos culled from the Internet and social media and rendered in high Acrylic relief. Series include paintings based on the creative realms of body painting, social media user’s photos of their meals, make-up tutorials, memes, and body builder selfies.

To create her three-dimensional canvases, artist Gina Beavers often works closely from photographs or Google image searches, reproducing even the smallest of details. Her reverence for the original image extends photorealism to its extreme in her reliefs of acrylic paint, pumice, and glass beads. Her work walks the line between high and low, and art and craft, while, as critic Roberta Smith once wrote, Beavers “exaggerates and satirizes the act of painting.” Favorite subjects include food, which she renders with the deflated realism of a Claes Oldenburg sculpture, and the human form, as seen in images of a body-painted Demi Moore or exaggerated six-pack torsos.

I chose to research Gina Beavers because her work on human form really intrigued me as it was not only human form it was 3D and sculptural, it also reminded me of my sculptured toe shoes by the texture and unusuality of them.

Though my work was made with toilet roll and pva glue, hers was not, it was made with acrylic paint and acrylic moulding paste, some of her larger sculptures required wood with the acrylic moulding paste to create a larger structure.

I also like her take on the human form as its not accurate, its her own interpretation, its got her own style on top of it which is key as she uses found images off Instagram and google.

Still Life

we were tasked to create a still life with found objects in the studio, my first thought since it was life drawing at the moment was human form so i bought in a bust mannequin and a mask to stand as the face

our first attempt took a matter of mins and the end result looked like a mermaid from above. but david wasnt happy with that was he . so we tried again

we started building up height and using the space around us not just the table, but after this attempt we realized we werent working as a team we were just doing our wont thing and not communicating with others so there was no flow to the matter.

so we went higher and bigger and better putting each person in a team to work on the specific area of the structure and it all started to come together.

we even added lights to give it more tone and depth

the still life no longer looked like a human form but a flow of our minds working together to create a composition that could be explored in so many ways.

0 notes

thenightsofkylo · 7 years ago

Text

Let’s pretend for a moment, that I’m going to ignore the source material and try and look at this movie from a different angle: What did Light want? I mean he started off with his whole make the world a better place, but he also wanted to impress girl but then you have some people saying he’s the image of a teenager trying to fit in idk man, such a mess.

And look at Watari, first name and last name omitted, just Watari, how stupid is that, not to mention how magical the death note is like making a page fall into the fire and just a tonne of really small stupid things.

L was so emotional, even ignoring the source material, the worlds greatest detective should not be that emotional and wave guns around and throw tantrums like is this real.

and oh boy that ending, what was Light trying to achieve, ive honestly forgotten, like he wasnt trying to get rid of L anymore, maybe he was trying to get rid of his piece of shit girlfriend.

this isnt even all the shit wrong with this movie, im just writing shit down as i think of it, it was just trash honestly, not good as an adaptation, not good as a standalone, and people are trying to justify it by introducing some bullshit subtext like its a sequel or its satire and maybe it is, maybe im too dumb to realise it, but probably not, felt like such a drainer.

ps. the soundtrack was horrible

pps. “no one has ever written my name in the notebook” says Ryuk 30 seconds after we see his name written in the notebook

#death note #Light Turner #L

2 notes · View notes

sweetlifetownsville · 6 years ago

Text

Doing A Little With A Lot: Move Over Jesus, Your Loaves And Fishes Stunt Ain't In It Against The Townsville Bulletin.

The good old Astonisher showed its going to be more of the same in 2019, sleight of hand, selective reporting and all manner of insulting idiocy same old, same including a spectacular miss this weekend not a word about one of Townsville most long standing favourite eateries bites the dust Michels On Palmer Street is no more. Bancroft boo-boo Channel 7 embraces fake news: so lacking in a sense of the ridiculous, theyre about to disappear up their own ummm kazoo. And the President turns on the pester-power: Trump throws the biggest and longest tanty in living memory ruining the holiday season for thousands of his own people. But first For those many people who have been inquiring about Mark Donnellys funeral in Cairns, it will be at 2pm Wednesday Jan 9th, at St Francis Church, Mayer Street, Cairns. Vale, mate Moving On Its climate change on Bentleys mind. Our toonist is originally a Croweater from Adelaide, and he was amazed to see the jam packed crowds on Adelaide beaches in a TV report about the ghastly weather theyre having over there. The Pie also recalls that during his time in the City of Churches, beach-going was an occasional thing and attracted only sparse crowds to the sandy shores. But Bentley believes climate change is rapidly altering time honoured Aussie pastimes, and soon, getting an all-over tan will be a thing of the past.

Speaking of Things Of The Past

This now sadly includes the much loved Michels restaurant in Palmer Street, which served its last mean on December 22nd. This is how the unexpected news was broken on FB.

It will be sorely missed by many, including The Pie, who just hung out for the lunch-time beef and burgundy pie. Ironic that the one time our local paper had the opportunity to use the word iconic almost correctly, it has completely missed this information which would be of far more interest than the iconic Sizzlers leaving town. (More on that shortly). Well That Didnt Take Long Did It? The Townsville Bulletin set the tone for the year on the very first day of 2019, Tuesday January 1, with a rib-tickling own goal with this front page.

Wow, all those people turning up for a pic, where did they all come from? Well, at least half of them from nowhere. Heres how this little piece of patronizing chicanery went down. First, a couple of weeks ago, this appeared on the Astonishers FB page.

Boy, be on the front page! And didnt that get them flocking in for their 15 minutes of fame not. Just 41 people made themselves available, including the Cowboys mascot and as many of the Bulletins staff who could be spared to avoid the embarrassment of attracting almost bugger interest.

Then the front page appeared, a cheesy tedious old trope of people spelling out the year. Many people more than 41, it would seem. But hang on, lets have a closer look.

Whats all this? This is what all this is.

fair to say that all those excited people were beside themselves behind themselves, and then in front of themselves. Now a while back, the flagship of News Corpse tabloids, Sydneys Daily Telegraph got a clip arround its corporate ears for photo-shopping pics of politicians in unflattering historical situations. As if we needed to be told that Kevin Rudd was a nazi! Pretending to be chastised, management decreed that in future, just so no one was misled, all photoshopped images in all News publications would carry the legend digitally altered.Someone at the Astonisher overlooked this, clearly wishing the few readers it has left would believe it was so widely popular that it had attracted a throng of NY well-wishers. but it seems someone suddenly realised that some arsesole like The Magpie maybe would tumble to the lie, so thinking they could squirm out of it, they really blew their foot off by belatedly posting this on their FB page. The Pie has asked before, and now asks again are they all bloody drunk down there? BTW, the relevant FB page is said to have attracted 4500 views which at a guess that would be comprised of 4458 editorial and advertising staff and their family and friends frantically revisiting the FB as often as they could. At least that was the drill when The Pie was taking Ruperts shilling. But Wait, Theres More The firsts for the year kept coming thick and fast. This story had people wondering if the paper had a cut-price Tardis operating

and that resulted in the first correction of the year.

Although it is quite possible that Messagebank Walker, send out last years media release, and true to form, the reporter just wrote it up with a thought of what it was actually saying. f they would know the difference. Another media release that went into the paper untouched and of course unquestioned could have been headlined Mission Impossible.

Hahahahaah gasp snurffle dont you just love the combination of casual impertinence and immeasurable benchmark of making Townsville Australias first mentally healthy city. This is pure Labor crackpottery at its best, and a great excuse to wring out a few more public dollars for pointless jobs for the boys and girls. Mentally healthy City steering committee? National leader in this field? Pray tell, just how is this going to be measured oh, wait, I know soon it will be announced that we have achieved the title of Australias mentally healthiest city, but we cant be told why or any details because of both privacy and Commercial in Confidence reasons. What an out and out rort. The Townsville City Council has no business stumping up a single cent for this totally obscure nonsense. And youve just gotta love that this call for a mentally healthy city is coming from one of the greatest rates-gouging, anxiety-creating, booze-binge inducing ineptocracies of posturing inadequates one couldnt create as fiction.

And all publicised in a paper that has long abrogated its traditional responsibilities in the interests bargain-basement kiddy journalism and a quick advertising quid (and hows that working for you, eh?) Yet Another Jarring Juxtaposition And it would appear that either no one checks advertising content against news content to avoid this sort of blundering idiocy.

But never mind, iditor Jenna Cairney knows how to thunder away about the really important issues affecting us during the week, it was oh, dear it was people who oh, The Pie cannot bear to utter the words, read it for yourself.

Now normally, itd be kind to let this slide, but its hard to ignore when the iditorial completely contradicts its own ramblings by actually quoting one of the few believable people who work for the paper, fisherman Eddie Riddle, who said sometimes, believe it nor not, people just catch no crabs. Crab pot theft happens less than people would have you believe.Clearly those people who would have you believe that it is rife include the iditor and the beat-up reporter of the original story. Then There Is This From comments during the week. The Magpie From the alleged files: THE TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN ALLEGEDLY ACCUSES THE POLICE OF PLANTING EVIDENCE.

So they allegedly found a shotgun, unequivocally meaning there is some doubt in terms of English, the paper means the cops could be lying and they didnt find a shotgun or else, leaving open the possibility that they planted it there and didnt find it. FFS they either did or did not find a shotgun, and if it comes down to who to believe the Bulletin or the police its no contest. The coppers should complain. And anyway, saying they found the weapon is not legally dangerous and so attract an allegedly , since no names or details of the arrested man are published. During the coming year, The Pie will be running an alleged file from the Astonisher, along with an iconic file the paper has already made a sterling start on that one. This from comments on Friday. The Magpie January 4, 2019 at 11:24 am(Edit) Had a bit of an amused warble and added this to The Pies iconic list.

Iconic is something that is immediately recognisable, usually unique, and with which one readily associates with a name, place or occupation. The Eiffel Tower is iconic, as is the Statue of Liberty, Big Ben, the Kabba in Mecca, the Golden gate Bridge, and closer to home, the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Now alas with this local departure, down south, all the front bar chat and dinner party braying will be along the lines of Townsville? Wasnt that the Sizzler place until a while back? Oh, the shame. Keeping an eye on legendary, too. A Bigger Laugh From The Big Bash Crickets bumbling sandpaper cheat Cameron Bancroft returned to the crease this week in the Big Bash league, and the commentators were so busy tip-toeing around that elephant in the room, they managed to miss a wonderful howler made by their producer.

The commentators, all ex-sporting boofs, so not much could be expected of them, unquestioningly rabbited on about Bancrofts personal attainments, especially that last one. Returned to Tame Impala as their kazoo player? They didn;t dare question the truth of the matter, but they did have a rare old yukity-yuk about it. The producer had unwittingly copied and pasted this bit of nonsense lifted from a story that was doing the rounds, and had originated guess where? The Betoota Advocate, Australias funniest satirical paper. And for the record, Bancroft has never been in the band Tame Impaler, which has never featured a kazoo player anyway. The Pie is wondering, given Bancrofts infamous South African venture, if Bunnings might not offer sponsorship. And Now Off To The Week In Trumpistan and its wall-eyed child President.

. Thats it forn this week, and the silly season is coming to a close (not that you could tell at any time from our august organ of Flinders Street West), and some very interesting snippets have been dropping into the Nest for future examination. Wer will start on them next wee, but comments are running around the clock, so have your say. And any support by way of donation for the efforts over the coming year will as always be greatly appreciated. He how to donate button is below. http://www.townsvillemagpie.com.au/doing-a-little-with-a-lot-move-over-jesus-your-loaves-and-fishes-stunt-aint-in-it-against-the-townsville-bulletin/

0 notes

relationshipadviser-blog · 6 years ago

Text

'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship

New Post has been published on https://relationshipqia.com/must-see/its-a-silent-conversation-authors-and-translators-on-their-unique-relationship/

'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship

From Man Booker International winner Olga Tokarczuk to partners Ma Jian and Flora Drew leading authors and translators discuss the highs and lows of cross-cultural collaboration

On the night of last years Man Booker International prize ceremony, two winners swept up to the podium novelist Olga Tokarczuk and her translator Jennifer Croft but a third was back at their table cheering louder than anyone. I was thrilled to bits, I still am, says Antonia Lloyd-Jones. What makes this unusual is that Lloyd-Jones is the Polish authors other translator, who has been working with her far longer, but wasnt responsible for the winning novel, Flights. With a shared purse of 50,000 at stake, was there not even the tiniest bit of envy? Were a team of course its Olga and Jennifers win, not mine, but its great for all of us who have spent years trying to popularise her books outside Poland, and its great for Polish literature in translation, says Lloyd-Jones. This was a major breakthrough after almost 30 years of work. And it has done sales of my own translations a lot of good. Nifty scheduling by the indie publisher Fitzcarraldo has meant that these include Tokarczuks Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, a quirky eco-thriller very different from Flights, which has won Tokarczuk her second Man Booker International prize longlisting. This years shortlist will be announced on Tuesday.

Its not just Polish novels that are enjoying a boost. Sales of fiction in translation were up in the UK by 5.5% last year, with sales of translated literary fiction increasing by 20%. As the UK turns inwards, caught up in an increasingly bitter fight over leaving the EU, readers are looking outwards, with literature from mainland Europe accounting for a large part of the growth. Jacques Testard, who publishes Tokarczuk, is part of a new wave of independent publishers who hope for further integration of translated fiction into the mainstream, pointing out that it is only in the UK that foreign literature is corralled into a separate compartment from that originally written in English. In France, where a fifth of all books are published in translations, youll find Balzac and Bolzano, Calvino and Carrre on the same shelf in bookshops. Its only in the Anglosphere that it gets set apart.

That separation is in evidence in the awards world, as well as the bookshop, with the Man Booker International the biggest among a host of grants and prizes for fiction in translation. How did Croft and Lloyd-Jones decide who would take responsibility for the Tokarczuk novel that eventually went on to win? Its a matter of trust, says Tokarczuk. Im definitely not the right translator for Flights, says Lloyd-Jones, but when it came to Drive Your Plow, Olga said I should do it. She joked that, at 57, she and I are more like [the eccentric narrator] Duszejko, and, well, theres some truth in that.

A matter of trust Translators Antonia LloydJones, left, and Jennifer Croft, middle, and novelist Olga Tokarczuk.

Team Tokarczuk might be close but they are not as intimately connected as the Chinese novelist Ma Jian and his translator Flora Drew, who is also the mother of their four children. Flora is the only person who has translated my books into English. She came to interview me in Hong Kong on the eve of the handover. Her Chinese was very good, so I gave her copies of my books, and said, half-jokingly, that she could translate them into English if she liked. It was a strange thing to say, but there was feeling of destiny, says the novelist. Their most recent collaboration was on China Dream, a ferocious satire charting the mental breakdown of a corrupt local government official. It was published in English last autumn but is unlikely ever to be read in the original Chinese which Ma nevertheless regards as the master copy because censorship in China is now so extreme that even Hong Kong publishers no longer dare defy the ban that has long prevented his novels from being published on the mainland.

Ma speaks little English, so he talks through Drew in life as well as work. Is it a challenge to separate the professional from the domestic? The Ma Jian I translate is a very different entity from the Ma Jian I live with, says Drew. There is never any confusion. I never feel Im translating the words of the person Ive just had supper with, or whos just taken our children to the park. Knowing him so well though means I can in some strange way become him, and write the translation not as a friend or a translator, but as Ma would if he were writing the book in English. There are times during the translation when I feel we are having a silent conversation with each other that we dont have time for in real life. Many of his books have references to places we have been together, dreams of mine that I have told him about or things our children have said.

Relationships between writers and translators are not usually so close, and not only because they can often live thousands of miles apart. Sam Taylor, a French specialist now living in the US, is also on the Man Booker International longlist with Four Soldiers, a novella by Hubert Mingarelli set near the Romanian border in the last days of the Russian civil war. He proposed the book himself to its publisher Granta. His output in the last couple of years also includes two controversial novels, Lullaby and Adle by the Paris-based Moroccan-French writer Lela Slimani. In neither case did he meet the authors before taking on the novels. I dont remember having any direct interaction with Lela on Lullaby, although she wrote me a very nice thank you email afterwards, he says. With Adle, I had a list of about 15 questions that I sent to her after translating the book (and before revising it). She answered those questions and we exchanged a few emails.

The pairing with Slimani is particularly striking in that Taylor is male, while Slimanis work is strongly sexualised and centred on the female body. Did either of them ever question whether it might be a job for a woman? Of course not! says Slimani. Littrature is meant to be universal. I write about women but I hope men can identify with my characters. And Sam understood in a very subtle way my characters and also my style, what atmosphere I wanted to instil, what music I wanted to create with my words. It is magic when you feel that someone understands and respects your work so much. When I read my book in English I always think: thats the exact word I would have chosen.

Taylor was aware of gender as a potential issue, although, he says, neither Lela nor the books female editors ever mentioned it. In the original French, all genitalia, male or female, is called simply sexe, which is a very neutral word. There are no neutral words for genitalia in English everything tends to sound either scientific or pornographic or comical so I used the word that, in each case, seemed to best fit the context. But I didnt want to be a man imposing my viewpoint or sensibility on a female protagonist and female author, so I highlighted most of those word choices in the text and asked Lela and my editors if they thought this was the right word. I dont think any of those choices were changed or even questioned, but it seemed important to put them up for discussion.

When I read my book in English I always think: thats the exact word I would have chosen Lela Slimani, left, and Sam Taylor

A novelist as well as a translator, who fell into translation after giving up a career in journalism to write books in France, Taylor doesnt take everything he is offered. I turned down the chance to translate Michel Houellebecqs Soumission because the Charlie Hebdo attack occurred a couple of days after I received the offer. I have no regrets about that, he says (the job went to Lorin Stein, former editor of the Paris Review, who has since gone on to translate two novels by Frances new enfant terrible douard Louis).

The literatures of French and English might be different, but as Taylor points out: Most European languages (and certainly French) are underpinned by a roughly equivalent set of philosophical values and a shared history. What of those languages that are the product of cultures with little common ground? The traditional answer has been that they rarely get translated, though research commissioned by the Man Booker International prize revealed the situation to be slowly improving, with a growing demand for Chinese, Arabic, Icelandic and Polish languages.

Chinese and English are as far apart as any two languages could be, says Drew. I can read a book in French easily, but after all these years, Chinese is still a struggle there are many characters I dont know, or have forgotten, classical allusions that I miss. Chinese has no tenses and is more concise than English, so meaning is often inferred through context. But although Chinese sometimes feels like a different universe, Im always surprised by how much can be translated how images and metaphors can work across cultures.

Among the initiatives that encourage a wider range of writing in translation is the new EBRD prize, which awards 20,000 to a book from the interestingly arbitrary landmass served by its sponsor, the European Bank of Research and Development (which extends from the Baltics to central Asia and the Mediterranean countries of Africa). Last years inaugural prize went to the Kurdish/Turkish writer Burhan Snmez translated by mit Hussein. This years was won by the first Uzbek novel ever to be translated into English, The Devils Dance.

Hamid Ismailov. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Its author is Hamid Ismailov, a genial 64-year-old journalist who came to London shortly after being forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 and has had a day job at the BBC ever since. He was matched with his translator, Donald Rayfield an emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian by a new translator-run publishing house, Tilted Axis, set up in 2015 to champion neglected languages. When I meet up with them in the BBCs London headquarters, their rapport is striking. I was the last person to choose for this, jokes Rayfield, but as the Russians say: If theres no fish, a crab will do.

Rayfield not only had to learn Uzbek to translate the novel, but had to bone up on Tartar, Farsi, Tajik and Kyrgyz as well. How many languages does Ismailov speak? When you speak Uzbek, the novelist quietly explains, you understand many Turcik langages and with Russian you can understand many Slavonic ones. He is a translator himself, working in both directions between Russian, Uzbek and various European languages. Several of his own novels have been translated from Russian into English, but the impossibility of getting an Uzbek novel by a banned writer into the hands of any readers at all inhibited his reputation in his mother tongue until the internet solved the problem for him. He published The Devils Dance in chapters on Facebook and it went viral through the Stans the five formerly Soviet countries in central Asia for whom his central character, the real-life early 20th-century writer Abdulla Qodiriy who was executed in 1938, was a hero. The pair are less forthcoming about a third name that appears on the novels title page John Farndon credited with translating the poetry in the novel. There was no conversation. I was somewhat taken aback by changes to my original translations, recalls Rayfield.

The difficult birth of The Devils Dance in English underlines the extent to which translation is not only a two-way but a three-way relationship, with the publisher the person who takes the financial risk as the third partner. Tilted Axis was set up by Deborah Smith partly with the prize money from her 2016 Man Booker International win for her translation of Korean author Han Kangs The Vegetarian. Smith made substantial cuts to The Devils Dance (though it still checks in at more than 400 pages). Her decision to bring in a poetry translator was in line with a time-honoured tradition in which a named poet works from a literal translation rather than the original.

Smith is better placed than most to understand the demands of cultural transposition: as translator of three novels by Han, she had to negotiate Korean systems of religious belief, family relationships and linguistic practice. She too learned the language specifically to translate the novels and found herself at the centre of a storm when her translation of The Vegetarian was challenged on the grounds of accuracy.

A scene where I had the main character close a door with her foot instead of her arm is one Korean academics like to bring up, she says. There were 67 [errors], by the way. I like to state that publicly in case anyone mistakenly assumes its something Id want to hide. The errors were corrected in later editions and Han Kangs faith in Smith is unshaken. Smith is currently living in South Korea and working on a novel by another female Korean novelist, Bae Suah, which is due to be published by Jonathan Cape next year. Shes not about to diversify into other languages just yet. Im trying to find different ways to spread the translation gospel: publishing, teaching, mentoring. Writing about all aspects of translation: the flow between languages, the discourse around it, all the people who make it happen.

Faithfulness, as opposed to accuracy, is always a difficult issue, as novelist Tim Parks concedes. I think theres usually a mistake of nuance on every page of every book. Sometimes scandalously so, he says. As an author and a translator he has experience in both directions, and he stresses that translators are often the best readers. I have a Dutch translator who keeps writing to me and telling me about the mistakes Ive made in my own books. It can be spelling or continuity, and shes always right. Just occasionally its really embarrassing, but people like that give you the chance to fix the next edition.

Parks has written that: The translator should do his job and then disappear. The great, charismatic, creative writer wants to be all over the globe. And the last thing he wants to accept is that the majority of his readers are not really reading him. His readers feel the same. They want intimate contact with true greatness. They dont want to know that this prose was written on survival wages in a maisonette in Bremen, or a high-rise flat in the suburbs of Osaka. Which kid wants to hear that her JK Rowling is actually a chain-smoking pensioner?

But translators fall into different camps, described by New Yorker critic James Wood as originalists and activists: The former honor the original texts quiddities, and strive to reproduce them as accurately as possible in the translated language; the latter are less concerned with literal accuracy than with the transposed musical appeal of the new work, he wrote. Any decent translator must be a bit of both. Or, as the cultural critic Marina Warner has put it: Should a translator respond like an aeolian harp, vibrating in harmony with the original text to transmit the original music, or should the translation read as if it were written in the new language?

The biggest disagreement we had was whether to use the word bathroom or lavatory Jay Rubin and Haruki Murakami

Its obviously a simplification, but I imagine I would be closer to the activist side of the spectrum, says Taylor, whose less aeolian approach set him at odds with one French writer, Maylis de Kerangal. Her novels French title was Rparer les Vivants, and Taylor called his translation The Heart, while the Canadian poet and translator Jessica Moore chose the more literal Mend the Living for this story of the day in the life of a donated heart as it is rushed from one person to another. The translations were commissioned simultaneously by editors in the UK and the US, and both won awards (Mend the Living scooped the Wellcome prize while The Heart won the French-American Foundation prize) but De Kerangal has ruled that Moores is more faithful to her writing and she should therefore do all her future novels: It is so fascinating to see what choices were made at every turn. The opening sentence, for example, feels completely different to me in our versions, says Moore. Even the dead boys surname is different, though interestingly its Taylor who kept De Kerangals Limbres, while Moore went for Limbeau.

According to another busy translator, Frank Wynne, problems often arise when a writer thinks they have a better command of English than they actually do. One of his worst experiences was with French film director Claude Lanzmann who was hugely intrusively involved in the translation of his 2012 memoir The Patagonian Hare. He binned the original Italian translation and redid mine line by line. He insisted on using the phrase leonine contract to mean a contract in which one person took the lions share. I didnt in the end meet him and it might have been useful if I had, so that hed gone into it with more of a sense of trust.

A translator from both French and Spanish who had novels in both languages on the longlist of last years Man Booker International and is currently based in Mexico Wynnes relationships with writers tend to be brisk. Some dont reply at all. The trouble is the more successful a writer is, the more languages there are. One of his top-selling authors, the French crime novelist Pierre Lemaitre, deals with the problem by collating questions from all his 35-40 translators into a round-robin crib sheet.

Jay Rubin, one of the four translators who have made the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into an English language superstar, says he learned early on to correspond sparingly. The worst thing I did was with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I got together with him in Tokyo and drove him absolutely crazy for a whole day giving him little questions one after another. This is not a very kind thing to do to an author.

Rubin co-translated the book Bird Chronicle with Philip Gabriel, because it ran to three volumes, and its length defeated him. Did they collaborate? The biggest disagreement we had was whether to use the word bathroom or lavatory. (Murakami ruled in favour of bathroom.) But, he says, All of us stick pretty closely to the tone and style of Murakamis writing, and thanks in large part to the simplicity of his style, the voice is pretty consistent. There arent that many ways to say Sunday was another fine clear day.

If that sounds like damning with faint praise, the compliment was returned by Murakami, when he wrote the introduction to a well-received recent anthology of Japanese short stories edited by Rubin, which Rubin himself then translated. Some [stories], of course, could be characterized as representative works, but, frankly, they are far outnumbered by stories which are not, wrote the novelist. How did that make Rubin feel? I giggled when I read that frankly, he says. But youre getting the unvarnished Murakami view of the book.

Some of his dialect I intuited. Other terms, rife with violence and obscenity, he politely translated into Italian for me Jhumpa Lahiri on Domenico Starnone

For Ann Goldstein, translating a more recent superstar, Elena Ferrante, there was no such back and forth. She had no direct contact with the author, whose true identity is a closely guarded secret. She was chosen on submission of a sample translation of a previous Ferrante novel, and corresponds with her on email via her publisher. Though the novels themselves werent written in Neapolitan dialect, the dialogue in the HBO TV adaptation partially scripted by Ferrante is. My role has been translating them so that HBO can read them, says Goldstein.

Just how difficult Neapolitan can be, even to someone steeped in Italian, became clear to the author Jhumpa Lahiri when she took on two novels by another of the southern Italian citys writers, Domenico Starnone. Lahiri moved from the US to Rome and dedicated herself to writing in the language of her host country, the progress of which she documented in a fascinating bilingual book, In Other Words. Immersion in standard Italian didnt prepare her for some of Starnones language though. Some of his dialect I intuited. Other terms, rife with violence and obscenity, were politely translated into Italian for me by Starnone himself, she has said. Lahiris working relationship with Starnone is a passionate cross-cultural conversation, which for their latest collaboration, Trick, took in Kafka and Henry James. At a public launch in London last year, an overawed fan asked if it was necessary to know so much. Not at all, replied Lahiri. For most readers, its just a story of a grandfather left in charge of his four-year-old grandson.

Starnone is now going to translate Lahiris English introduction for the Italian edition of her new Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. But she is saving the biggest challenge for herself: the English translation of her own first novel written in Italian. Dove mi trovo has already been published in several other languages. The idea of my own creation in Italian not having a life in English yet is interesting, she says. The problem is: how do I turn myself back on myself? Mentally I have to go into a place where Im two people. Is self-translation the most intimate relationship between a writer and a translator? Perhaps not. In Chinese, says Ma Jian, a soul mate is described as zhiyin someone who understands your music and that is what Flora is to me.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us

0 notes

adelaidecity · 6 years ago

Text

Dan Ilic on politics, fear and cabaret

From Le Chat Noir to the Weimar Republic, political comedy has always had a presence in Cabaret. Satirist Dan Ilic will bring politics, comedy and music to this years Adelaide Cabaret Festival with live satire A Rational Fear. When the political landscape gets bleaker and more ridiculous, its often remarked that at least comedians will have plenty of material. But for Ilic, who was in the US making satire for Al Jazeera during the 2016 election, a state of politics that verges ever further into self-parody means actual comedians are having to work harder, and dig deeper, than ever. Before and after Trump came in there was a stark difference, he says. After it became much harder to make jokes; Trump is a joke of his own, and in comedy its hard to have a joke on a joke. Rather than making the regular apples and oranges joke you have to dig a little deeper to find the jokes that people arent really touching the celery and the broccoli. Were looking at issues as a whole and finding ways to elevate or burst the bubble of sadness in other peoples lives, rather than Trump himself. [embedded content] Ilic first came to prominence through his work on the ABCs Hungry Beast, fostering an investigative yet irreverent style that pre-empted the current boom in comedy and news satire. When I first started 15 years ago there wasnt a lot of space, even when we were doing the first round of digital funding for A Rational Fear there wasnt a Daily Show-style show on Australian television, he says, and now youve got The Feed, The Weekly, Shaun Micallefs Mad As Hell, but also digital outlets like The Betoota Advocate and The Shovel. As executive producer on now-axed ABC news comedy Tonightly, Ilic played to an emerging audience whose tastes had shifted from their parents in both format and medium. Critics of shows like Tonightly and Get Krack!n often point to low broadcast ratings as a symptom of malaise in Australian comedy, but for Ilic this misses the point the real audience arent camping out in front of the TV on Wednesdays. It has demonstrably changed everybody consumes their news, social platforms have become the place where you would like your work to be distributed. One such viral success came through Tonightlys musical satirists Bridie Connell and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, who will join Ilic at Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Music and comedy is something thats always been close to my heart, weve done a lot of musical comedy, parody sketches in the past, he says of the pair, who won an ARIA for their #metoo-referencing song Sex Pest shortly after Tonightlys cancellation. Not only are they incredible songwriters but theyre incredible improvisers; theyll play a couple of songs theyve written, but then were going to take suggestions from the audience on topics in the news that week. Theyll go away while we do the rest of the show and write a brand-new song and play it at the end theyll have 50 minutes to turn around a satirical comedy song. [embedded content] A Rational Fear is a comedy panel show, kind of a bit like Q&A on crack, he says of the broader live show. Its a bunch of comedians and funny voices on stage ripping to shreds the weeks news through monologues discussions, sketches the ethos of the show is making fun of how the media makes you scared of everything. We try to find topics that the media is trying to make us scared about, and then pop the fear bubble. The idea is you come in to the show filled with anxiety, and we make you laugh at the things that the world is telling us is scary. In addition to the general setting of heightened surrealism Australian politics has operated on for the past decade, the festivals June date means Ilics panel will also be sifting through the new political landscape that will follow the yet-to-be-called federal election. Whatever the outcome, two things are certain: politicians and the media will still be finding things for us to fear, and comedians like Ilic will be digging in to find out why. Read the full Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2019 announcement here Adelaide Cabaret Festival June 7 22, 2019 adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au Header image: Helen Melville https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/performing-arts/dan-ilic-adelaide-cabaret-festival/

0 notes

daf21media · 7 years ago

Text

L.A.D.S.

Whats up tumblr its your boy! i say that like i have tons of followers, i do not, this is to the 150 of you who have been following. i use to post directly from IG but my link isnt working. so from now own im gonna be posting articles on the work i do, with the exception of the stuff i cant contractually talk about.. ill be going over the project, from shoot to edit and post some BTS when available, as well as the camera, and lenses i used. hope you guys enjoy and without further ado i bring you the first post.......

Project: Music Video

Song: L.AD.S.

Artist: The Honey Farm

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdoms

Director/Cinematographer: Douglas Ferguson

Editor: Douglas Ferguson

CONCEPT:

So a bit of back story i met THE HONEY FARM while i was in Scotland working on my documentary entitled “beats and bagpipes.” I met them through a mutual friend of theirs who i connected with on Tinder of all places. It really was fortuitous, as i was shooting this doc i kept running into alot of male artist, and couldn't find not a single female rapper and then boom i found three. Went to interview them and knew they had something, they reminded me of a female version of the beasty boys.

and its not intentional on their part its just their swag.. seriously

that was not on purpose, it wasnt till after i edited the music video that i saw the similarities between that shot and the one from the beasty boys video.

So fast forward a few months later i was coming back to Scotland, to give a lecture on being a working filmmaker and to hang out with my friends. the girls contacted me about shooting the video for this song and the concept they had and i thought it was brilliant. The song deals with Toxic masculinity LAD/BRO culture in a satirical and sometimes sadly truthful manner, as a man its hard for us to see the dumb and often hurtful things we do and say to women, and so to that effect the ladies thought it would be a good idea to do some gender reversal where they dressed as the titular LADS and they had some guys dress as ladies, the results were hilarious take a look at the full video:

youtube

While i would love to take credit and say it was the way the video was shot and edited that makes it worth watching, it was really all them, i gave very little direction and just worried more about blocking and camera position, my job was easy. the only footage that wasnt originated by me was the club footage which was shot after i came back to the states.

CAMERA/Lens:

I shot with what has become my favorite combo.

Camera Black Magic Cinema Camera 2.5k with metabones speedbooster

Lens: Sigma Art 18-35mm 1.8

Format 2.5k RAW

this is hands down my favorite and go to combo for most projects, i rarely shoot with any focal length over 35mm, with my sweet spot being between 21-28mm on cropped sensors on a full frame id be between 35-85. with my sweet spot being 35-50mm. but for the bmcc you cant get any better. Sigma has stepped its game up with its Art lens series giving you clean crisp slightly cool images from end to end. i shot in RAW because when it comes to this camera you wanna use all 13 stops of dynamic range, one of my biggest concerns while shooting were the weather conditions in Scotland which can go from sunshine to cloudy with the drop of a hat having that full dynamic range available meant that i didnt have to worry about my highlights, the trick to shooting with the black magic is really getting as much light to the sensor as possible or exposing to the right side of your histogram or ETTR:

This process allows you the best image quality and the most color range, its not something i always follow, but its good rule of dumb when shooting with this camera.

EDITING/Colorgrading

the editing of this music video unlike others i shot was fairly simple mainly because i didnt really need to any kind of special effects like you would for most hip hop music videos, i just let the images and costumes dictate my cuts, for this video thought i wanted fast cuts and for the performers to be often mid sentence.

by adding edits mid sentence it makes the audience feel like they are going on a journey and apart of the narratives being told, my first edit actually had a cut every 4 seconds but i thought it was excessive and instead went for a 4-8 second ratio.. the song is unusually long for todays hip hop standards, with most songs falling in the 2-3 minute range lads clocks in at just over 4 minutes, so my plan was really to treat the video like an action scene in a movie, it really did help with the overall flow it. The coloring process was easier. i used one of my own LUTS(Look,Up,Tables) based on KODAK KODACHROME 64

youtube

You can purchase the package from me if you like it: https://sellfy.com/p/BhI7/

and i combined it with Red Giant Universes Retrograde

but before i that i had to color correct the footage and i wanted to do it based off the final look...so in Davinci Resolve i went:

using resolves LUT feature in a node i was able to adjust the RAW footage bringing down the highlights and the shadows boosting the midtones, to create the best footage to match the final look, this was the tedious part of the whole process as it required me to toggle on and off the LUT to make sure the footage would look great and the skintones were fine.

CONCLUSION:

This was probably the funnest video i ever had a chance to shoot and look forward to shooting another with the honeys, hopefully stateside. hopefully you found this post informative ill try and keep them breath but no promises. hopefully someone reads these things. goodbye and good luck shooting.

0 notes

the-connection · 7 years ago

Link

While many saw it as a more subdued festival than usual, this year brought a promising set of female film-makers and another breakout horror hit

Sundance 2018

Sundance 2018: what did we learn from this year's festival?

While many saw it as a more subdued festival than usual, this year brought a promising set of female film-makers and another breakout horror hit

Amy Nicholson

Tue 30 Jan 2018 14.50EST Last modified on Tue 30 Jan 2018 19.27EST

Share on Facebook

Share on Twitter

Share via Email

View more sharing options

Share on LinkedIn

Share on Pinterest

Share on Google+

Share on WhatsApp

Share on Messenger

Sundance favorites: Laura Dern in The Tale, Lakeith Stanfield in Sorry to Bother You and Toni Collette in Hereditary. Composite: PR

Every January, the Sundance film festival feels like fresh start to the year. Its Hollywoods resolution to find and celebrate the stories it hopes will define the next 12 months. After a rough stretch for the industry, Sundance attendees went hunting for optimism. They found it.

Here are the five big themes, and talents, that will shape the cinema landscape in 2018 and beyond.

Consciousness matters

Garrett Hedlund and Usher, who star in Burden. Photograph: Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images

Since the first Sundance audience award was presented to sex, lies and videotape in 1989, the trophy has tended to go to fictional crowd-pleasers like Hustle & Flow, Spanking the Monkey and Love Jones. But for three straight years, audiences have been most moved by a films message. Like 2016s Nat Turner slave rebellion drama The Birth of a Nation, and 2017s Crown Heights, the true story of an unjustly incarcerated inmate, this years winner, Burden, is a real-life reenactment of racial struggle in America, here the retelling of an uneducated North Carolina man (Garrett Hedlund) trying to leave the Ku Klux Klan. A Sundance film used to mean a quirky dramedy. Clearly, audiences in Park City now think it should mean more.

The future is female

Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Kindergarten Teacher. Photograph: PR

In the same week Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman nominated for a best director Oscar, four female film-makers The Kindergarten Teachers Sara Colangelo, On Her Shoulders Alexandria Bombach, And Breathe Normallys sold Uggadttir and Shirkers Sandi Tan swept the Sundance jurys four directing prizes. (And Nancy writer-director Christina Choe scooped up the Waldo Salt screenwriting award while the grand jury prize went to Desiree Akhavans The Miseducation of Cameron Post.)

The indie festival winners of today become the major voices of tomorrow. Expect to see this years victors, and the artists inspired by their success, to use their award-winning clout to reshape the future. Meanwhile, other films in the line-up from Laura Derns wrenching performance in The Tale to the teen-girls-with-guns midnight smash Assassination Nation, which sold for a staggering $10m, show that film-makers are redefining what it means to create a strong female character plus Ophelia, new spin on Hamlet starring The Last Jedis Daisy Ridley, and Lizzie, a reframing of the axe murderess as an abused daughter who literally slays the patriarchy, insist theres also more to tell about female characters we already know.

No one dominates indies next wave

Assassination Nation, one of the biggest purchases of the festival. Photograph: Sundance Film Festival

For the first time in three decades, Harvey Weinstein wasnt at Sundance. His Miramax used to steer the Sundance brand before studio wings like Fox Searchlight decided to follow his model and outbid him, snatching up indie hits and potential Oscar winners. More recently, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon have been the biggest buyers at the fest, last year purchasing a combined 14 films. This year, Netflix bought one, and Amazon zero. All the former titans left their checkbooks at home or in Weinsteins case, didnt dare show up at all. Theres a sudden power vacuum at the center of indie cinema, which means theres room for a punchy, eccentric personality like 21-month-old Neon Films to acquire four flicks thrillers Assassination Nation and Revenge, the police brutality drama Monsters and Men, and the quirky doc Three Identical Strangers and a chance to steer this years conversation.

Its time to take horror seriously

youtube

Last year, Jordan Peeles $5m horror flick Get Out was simply the fun ticket Sundance-goers wanted to score. This year, its a quadruple Oscar nominee. Sundances midnight movie section has been building its reputation as the festivals buzziest programming for the last several years, launching hits like The Babadook and It Follows, and accelerating the careers of future Marvel directors Taika Waititi and Jon Watts. The big ticket in 2018 was Ari Asters Hereditary, which stars Toni Collette as a grieving mother haunted in her own home. Collette gives an unhinged, terrifying performance that critics are calling one of her best she literally climbs the walls. Before Get Outs success, floating a low-budget horror performance as a major awards contender would have been a stretch. But Daniel Kaluuya is now a best actor nominee. And Collette, whos yet to win a statuette herself, could chase after him.

Behold the next generation of superstars

Kiersey Clemons, whose performance in Hearts Beat Loud won her plaudits. Photograph: Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP

Another best actor Oscar nominee no one knew last year: Timothe Chalamet. In 12 months, the 22-year-old actor went from unknown kid in Call Me By Your Name to Gary Oldmans biggest competition. Sundance is where film lovers get introduced to the next major stars. Besides Chalamet, last year the favorite face was Lakeith Stanfield, who acted in three features and one short while performing his own music at parties on Main Street. Yet, Stanfields lead role in Crown Heights didnt make an impact outside the festival, and his supporting part in Get Out got overlooked amidst the films other acclaim.

This year, the prince-in-waiting of Sundance scored a wacky star part people cant miss as a telemarketer who sells his soul in Boots Rileys outstanding satire, Sorry to Bother You. Its finally Stanfields opportunity to shine outside the confines of Park City. Other rising names to watch include Kiersey Clemons, who co-stars with Nick Offerman in the musical-comedy Hearts Beat Loud, Hamilton performer Daveed Diggs, whose buddy comedy Blindspotting opened the fest to glowing reviews, trans model Hari Nef, gifted the best zingers in Assassination Nation, and barn-storming Arkansas guitarist Benjamin Dickey, hand-picked by Ethan Hawke to play the lead in his country-rock biopic Blaze. Trust Hawkes taste: hes the king of Sundance, whos been coming to the festival for 27 years and he knows the future when he sees it.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us

0 notes

ralphmorgan-blog1 · 7 years ago

Text

The original ‘Silence Breaker’ who didn’t make that cover plus more kick-ass black women.

This is the sixth edition of "This week in black women," a weekly column dedicated to signal-boosting the black women who make the world spin.

This week, I'm cheering for Atlanta's mayor-elect, Tarana Burke, and two books sure to land on your wishlist. Support these women! Pay these women! Follow them! Encourage them! Let's do this.

"We see you": Tarana Burke

In 2006, activist Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement as a way to help survivors of sexual assault and violence. More than a decade later, Burke's work became part of a pivotal national conversation about survivors and sexual predators, particularly in the workplace. For her work, Burke was recognized as part of Time magazine's collective person of the year, along with other "Silence Breakers" of the #MeToo movement.

I love the internet. Thank you @dairajean (IG) for doing what @time should have! The only #PersonOfTheYear we acknowledge is TARANA BURKE. #KThanksBye cc: @Luvvie http://pic.twitter.com/xVEjz7Oe0Y

— Yaba Blay (@fiyawata) December 6, 2017

But, to the consternation of many of her devoted fans, she was left off the widely celebrated cover. So we're here to shout you out and praise your excellent work, Ms. Burke.

"This is just the start. I’ve been saying from the beginning it’s not just a moment, it’s a movement," Burke said in an interview with Time. "Now the work really begins."

Thank you EVERYONE!! Especially all of you who rang the alarm when you thought I wasn’t being acknowledged. I couldn’t say anything!! I’m sorry. But I felt every bit of the love. Now the work REALLY begins. 💕#metoo

— Tarana (@TaranaBurke) December 6, 2017

Photo by Chirag Wakaskar/Pacific Press/Sipa USA via AP Images.

"Taking care of business": Keisha Lance Bottoms

In a narrow victory, Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected the mayor of Atlanta. There is something so encouraging and affirming about a black woman named Keisha running one of the largest cities in the country. It's a beautiful name, steeped in black girl magic, which in many circles may have drawn ire or limited her opportunities. But instead, Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected by the people to lead her city. What a time to be alive.

Keisha Lance Bottoms. Image via Vote ATL.

"Go off, sis": Amber Ruffin

Ruffin is a writer and performer for "Late Night With Seth Meyers" and uses her improv chops to help create some of the show's best moments. This week, Ruffin announced she will be hosting the 70th Writers Guild of Awards ceremony next February.

Ruffin said in her statement, "If you’re looking for hard-hitting satire on sexual assault allegations, Russia and the Republican tax plan — too bad! This is gonna be all hugs and rainbows! (The hugs will be consensual.)"

Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Lindt.

If you're dreaming of a black Christmas...

It's the season of giving, and this week, I discovered two awesome books that would make great gifts for the kiddos in your life.

The first is the "Black Queens" coloring book. It's got affirmations, encouraging quotations, and of course, ample room to color and draw.

I MADE A COLOURING BOOK 😊 http://pic.twitter.com/WrGfHBP5Np

— danielle (@graphikDesignr) December 3, 2017

The second is "Little Leaders: Bold Women In Black History." With darling illustrations and short, easy to read biographies, the book is perfect for children and the young at heart.

My debut book #LittleLeaders Bold Women in Black History ( @LittleBrownYR ) hits stores Dec 5! You can preorder now! https://t.co/cTfgITX6DQ http://pic.twitter.com/s6shzBqQP6

— Vashti Harrison (@VashtiHarrison) November 2, 2017

Final thoughts: Aisha Alexander

This country has a long way to go, but some days, it feels good to reflect on how far we've come.

My grandfather is a 96 year old Charlotte native. He wasnt the allowed to vote until he was 44 years old when the Voting Rights Act passed. This year, he voted for my mom @ViLyles who became the 1st Black woman elected to the office of mayor of Charlotte. #MondayMotivation http://pic.twitter.com/TaCY84o1H3

— Aisha Alexander (@AishaThinker) December 4, 2017

Note: We were not paid by the authors to promote the books included in this post (we would tell you!). We just think it's just awesome to see black women lifting up and celebrating other black women.

More From this publisher : HERE ; This post was curated using : TrendingTraffic

=> *********************************************** Source Here: The original ‘Silence Breaker’ who didn’t make that cover plus more kick-ass black women. ************************************ =>

The original ‘Silence Breaker’ who didn’t make that cover plus more kick-ass black women. was originally posted by A 18 MOA Top News from around

#A 18 MOA Top News from around

0 notes

sweetlifetownsville · 6 years ago

Text

Doing A Little With A Lot: Move Over Jesus, Your Loaves And Fishes Stunt Ain't In It Against The Townsville Bulletin.

Speaking of Things Of The Past

This now sadly includes the much loved Michels restaurant in Palmer Street, which served its last mean on December 22nd. This is how the unexpected news was broken on FB.

Then the front page appeared, a cheesy tedious old trope of people spelling out the year. Many people more than 41, it would seem. But hang on, lets have a closer look.

Whats all this? This is what all this is.

and that resulted in the first correction of the year.

0 notes