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November.14.
This was one of those humbling moments where you realize that food is really hard. We found this recipe for pizza bites a while ago and we really wanted to try making them for dinner because they looked incredible. MOST of them were delicious and even though they came out really ugly we still love them.
USC School of Dramatic Arts production of Great Expectations, Mar. 1-4, 2018, at the McClintock Theatre. © 2017 Photo by Craig Schwartz for the USC School of Dramatic Arts
"La" means pass in Tibetan. Every pass one can think of in Ladakh is called Something-or-other La. There's a Shingri La, but not as far as I know a Shangri La. There is also a Kanji La, which must be popular with Japanese. "Rohtang" apparently means "pile of dead bodies", because the hazardous nature of the journey meant that this was not an uncommon phenomenon in former times. It is still hazardous despite constant maintenance during the summer months. Throughout the long winter the road is closed. The human figures depicted are road workers. They break large chunks of granite into small pieces suitable for road repairs using simple hand tools, hammers and chisels etc. in return for what most people in the West would consider a pittance, but many of them are from poorer parts of India such as Bihar and Jharkand and because the wages are lower in their home states they are only too happy to help alleviate Ladakh's shortage of unskilled labour. Uphill trucks frequently belch out pungent exhaust fumes as depicted in the photo. The fumes go all over the workers time after time as they sit by the roadside chipping away at rocks in a manner reminiscent of nineteenth century jailbirds. (I don't know why I mentioned jailbirds, as nobody reading this is likely to know a jailbird). They are apparently completely unfazed by all this fume inhalation: different sensibilities, different expectations, I guess. I once read a bleeding heart article in a German magazine which expressed great shock and horror about the conditions endured by the workers, but that's India!
The layout here at Shun Tak Centre makes it hard to get down. I can guess I want to be down there (although there is no signage to that effect), but some one way escalators and placing the escalators in different places on each floor make it hard to access what you can see.
Hey, count me, like, in!
John Trundle High Walk, The Barbican Estate, City of London, London, UK
City of
London
School for
Girls
Open
Days
Great Expectations (1934)$14.00
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Directed by: Stuart Walker
Cast:
Phillips Holmes - Pip
Henry Hull - Abel Magwitch
Jane Wyatt - Estella
Florence Reed - Miss Havisham
Alan Hale - Joe Gargery
Walter Brennan - Ship Prisoner
Synopsis:
This 1934 Carl Laemmle production of Charles Dickens'great novel is reverent, well acted, and generally faithful to the author's vision. Henry Hull is particularly exceptional as a boorish but affable Magwitch, and of course Jane Wyatt (Estella), Phillip Holmes (Pip), and Florence Reed (Miss Havisham) all play their roles with heart and dignity.
As Hollywood is wont to do, the film makers modified Dickens' original ending to make it less sombre. Though this hardly ruins the picture, it does detract a bit from the story's inherent power. Even so, this version of Great Expectations is more than satisfactory, and well worth watching for anyone who ever wondered, like Pip, if they would ever find their destiny...or their love. (amazon.com)
The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
Corporate Commands, 2005
Project documentation in five digital frames
Each is: 10 (height) x 13 (width) x 3.5 (depth) inches
Courtesy of The Institute for Infinitely Small Things
Agency: Art and Advertising
September 19 – November 8, 2008
Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, curators
Sometimes puzzling, sometimes provocative, works in advertising media by artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Jeff Koons to 0100101110101101.ORG have both delighted and disturbed audiences that are sometimes left to wonder exactly what it is they’re seeing. Indeed, artists have used the media of advertising to communicate content that often defies viewers’ expectations and frequently challenges them. Agency: Art and Advertising is an exhibition that explores artists’ use of advertising media as sites for works of art (as opposed to the more conventional use of advertising for the promotion of work) as well as its subject. The exhibition, curated by Kevin Concannon, PhD, and John Noga, will focus on works of art in and about advertising media from the 1960s to the present.
Artists themselves, who were largely critical of commercial culture when this “ad art” phenomenon first flourished in the 1960s, are now often ambivalent about –or even embracing of –the commercialism they once critiqued. Others simply choose to use advertising media in order to extend their reach beyond conventional contemporary art audiences. Agency: Art and Advertising examines the history of art in advertising spaces –and art that addresses commodity culture through the appropriation of advertising –as it has evolved over the past 50 years.
Stop and Stare
In conjunction with the exhibition, AGENCY: Art and Advertising, shown inside
the McDonough Museum of Art there are nine captivating works that are on view
outside the Museum’s walls. Dotting the Youngstown metropolitan area are
billboards featuring gigantic images created by artists Geoffrey Hendricks,
Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. These
spectacular images line the sky, compelling the public to stop and stare.
Agency: Art and Advertising
Catalog is available in the museum office or through our gift shop.
Exhibition Sponsors
Anonymous
Frank and Pearl Gelbman Charitable Foundation
Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Lamar Advertising of Youngstown, Inc.
Toby Devan Lewis
Ohio Arts Council
Innis Maggiore
McDonough Museum of Art
Tuesday through Saturday, 11-4pm
Wednesday 11am-8pm
Free and open to the public.
call 330.941.1400
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USC School of Dramatic Arts production of Great Expectations, Mar. 1-4, 2018, at the McClintock Theatre. © 2017 Photo by Craig Schwartz for the USC School of Dramatic Arts
Arms hairy,
Legs too.
Alas! God forbid!
A lady like yourself?
Ashamed, aren’t you?
How dare you demand
To not want to be plucked,
Pulled,
Pinched?
Don’t you enjoy
The redness that lingers long after?
The tears that well up in your eyes?
Don’t you enjoy
Walking out,
Like a figure of
Porcelain perfection,
Like you weren’t just
Biting your lip in pain,
Holding back a scream?
Listen, love,
Of course you’re beautiful
But only when
Changed,
Twisted,
Forced,
Into their ideas of perfection.
My darling, please, body hair
Is a man’s thing.
A lady like yourself?
It is your job to be
Thin,
Sweet,
Delicate,
Polite,
Lovely,
Motherly,
Hairless;
Perfect.
It is not that hard.
Is it?
USC School of Dramatic Arts production of Great Expectations, Mar. 1-4, 2018, at the McClintock Theatre. © 2017 Photo by Craig Schwartz for the USC School of Dramatic Arts
...waiting for the show to start.
I drove to Winston-Salem this past Sunday to see my absolute very favorite musician, Jim Malcolm (also the former singer in Old Blind Dogs). He is a brilliant Scottish folk singer and all around amazing. I took a few videos during the concert which I will post a link to once I get them online.
Check him out!
okay, I've got one video up so far:
USC School of Dramatic Arts production of Great Expectations, Mar. 1-4, 2018, at the McClintock Theatre. © 2017 Photo by Craig Schwartz for the USC School of Dramatic Arts