Unmaking photos on Flickr

7 1

4

In an attempt to get Laurel to nap regularly again, I tried putting her in the bedroom for some quiet time at the same time each day. It rarely resulted in any sleep for her, but on the day I took the photo, she actually did -- after unmaking the bed from the foot up.

IMG_6948 by Dave Wojtylko

Everything here is placed into 15 qt containers that can either be removed by lifting up this access door, or through the exterior access door. The most frequently used items were placed closest to the exterior access door, so that we won't have to unmake the bed as often to get to our stuff.

"Negro, Born In Africa" by Marcellina.

4

Penn Museum

Year of Proof: Making and Unmaking Race

Philadelphia PA

December 2014

Holy Mary (The Return of Isis) on Vimeo by Ralph Buckley by Ralph Buckley

Grant Anpu’s children this:

To howl with you, Queen Isis,

over the scattered limbs of wrong Osiris.

What harder fate than to be a woman?

She makes and unmakes her man.

In Jackal-land it is no secret who tempted red-haired,

ass-eared Set to such bloody extreme;

Who must therefore mourn to pacify the unquiet ghost.

And when Horus your son avenges this dispossession

a scepter in fist,

We shall return across the sand from loyal Jackal-land

to gorge five nights and days on ass’s meat.

-- Robert Graves, The White Goddess

2012 Consciousness Awakening

www.ralphbuckley.com

Alchemy (Itunes)

itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=3...

CDbaby

cdbaby.com/all/conkling

Itunes

phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=...

Twitter

twitter.com/RalphBuckley

Facebook

www.facebook.com/people/Ralph-Buckley/1631325855

itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=3...

Watch this video on Vimeo. Video created by Ralph Buckley.

The city of the future. Circuit board courtesy of OMG Tech unmaking today. by Jacqui

I hate cigarettes by Kim MyoungSung

2 2

I like this composition but some cigarette butts unmake.

Nikita Super Puss by Paul Noden

2

Our lovely Nikita, no one has told her she is a Siberian cat, she took one look at the snow and has not been out since. Given up making the bed as soon as its made Nikita unmakes it lol

Glasswights – Reflections Made Flesh by ꧁⚸ Amon the Purple ⚸꧂

20

Done in Ai, Finalized in Photoshop.

"You see them. And so they are."

Essence

Glasswights are sentient reflections given unstable form — creatures of cracked memory and glinting regret. They only exist when observed. To look away is to unmake them. But to meet their gaze is to risk entrapment in a feedback loop of self-reflection, where past decisions and forgotten selves claw for control.

Appearance

Lurking within towering, gothic-framed mirrors that loom across the Shardveil Crucible like forgotten doors to nowhere.

When glimpsed in the Crucible’s fog, they appear tall and hunched, limbs too long, heads tilted unnaturally — like statues that forgot how to be human.

Their bodies are jagged constructs of muted glass and shimmering void, always shifting slightly, like breathing stone.

A face of sharp crystal: hollow sockets, a nose like a blade, and a mouth split into too many teeth — cracked in ways that suggest screaming once echoed there.

Encased in black glass armor that pulses faintly when noticed, as if your awareness gives it life.

Their reflections often linger in other mirrors… even when the creature itself is gone.

Manifestation & Threat

The image above captures the moment of emergence — a Glasswight pushing against the surface of its gothic prison, about to cross the veil. These creatures are not confined by the mirror, but by your perception of it. Once acknowledged, they can begin to move — through the glass, into shadow, and eventually into reach. As they materialize into the real world, their limbs begin to press harder against the glass, causing it to crack and tremble. The mirror pulses with unnatural pressure until the first fracture spreads across its surface like a web of fate splitting apart.

They are almost ready to break free — not just from the mirror, but from being merely seen. Their claws are not only physical but metaphysical; they do not wound flesh, but fracture identity. Victims have reported waking from the Reflection Loop convinced they were someone else… or not convinced of anything at all.

If you see one and it sees you — turn away at your own peril.

Being Beautiful & Neurotic is Exhausting by Betty Berg

1 18

Well, she didn't get neurotic with out a little help. and probably a little osmosis.

Her name is Einstein. She was the smartest of the litter. We were not going to keep any. That was eight years ago. Names were only temporary by behavior or color. Half Besingi and half Pomerainian (can't spell either one) One doesn't bark, they other doesn't shut up. She was doomed from the begining. And a middle child. with 5 siblings. Her mother developed pre-eclampsia and couldn't feed but only one baby per hour. so I stepped in. They slept in the box under the covers with my hand in the box and I carried the box of 5 puppies around for 2 weeks . Thats when they got too big for the box. She was the first to figure out how to eat from the syringe, (without wearing it), 1st to eat from the bowl. First to climb out of the box. She was always the first to figure things out. She was Einstein smart. It wasn't until later she grew into her Real full name... "Wait a go Einstein" She could make a mess real good too. She hates the car and I am told she cries huge tears if I go anywhere without her. I only dress her up for Christmas. (Sometimes halloween).

She is the household "inspector". nothing or no one comes in with out being inspected, The smaller the living thing (human or other), the bigger and more detailed the inspection. She is faster than a speeding bullitt. She can unmake a bed faster than you can make it. She can get under things a dog shouldn't want to. She can climb 4 feet tall chain link Mostly she jumps to the top the glides over. She can leap 6 feet with little effort. She's my buddy, my protector, my companion and my friend. and She gives hugs.!!! I think I love her. can you tell. lol

Actually my grown daughter did this to her and took these pictures. Stein is sitting in my lap. I paint-shopped out my OU sweatshirt to look like a backdrop.(less distracting) . I love the "evil eye" she is giving my daughter. and then play fainting. The command word is "vapors" and she flops over . too funny..

She sits pretty, gives hugs, and has 'vapors' on command. What more can an old woman ask for.... lol

and yes, you can get "vapors" from other vapors in the air , thats how she learned the word and where the word came from. Cheesy huh. :D

Unmaking... by J_Graham_*

You'll see when I'm done

Pillar of Unmaking by Eigengraulogy

my favorite wintery images of the Okanagan by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

5 7

I love Christmas so much.

We celebrate it up until January 8th. So Christmas is not over for another week in our house. I'm on a roll with these mosaic's & things i love thursdays, today....

You will see more Christmas images in the days ahead. i still have more pressies to open. Wahoo!

Hope you don't get too bored.......

_____________________________________________________________________________

1. post & barb wire, 2. autumn glow, 3. “Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.”, 4. across the lake

Created with fd's Flickr Toys

.

second hand by KAREN RYAN

1

'Second Hand' Rape Vase 2011.

This new collection of 'Second Hand' Vases and Plates have been especially made for the (It’s) What’s on the Outside that Matters (?) exhibition at Newport Museum & Art Gallery from the 17 December 2011 – 25 February 2012.

I have used old and imperfect discarded plates and vases since 2000.

The 'Unmade 07' Vases in 2007 were about what is the product of design, the creation of the brand 'Unmade 07' and the literal unmaking of the unwanted vases I collected.

In this latest collection the domestic camouflage explored in the 'Second Hand' Plates series is taken further on, into the decorative.

These reused imperfect unwanted functional vases still maintain the subversion of the everyday whilst betraying the notion and aesthetics of decoration.

To view 'Unmade 07' Vases go to this link www.flickr.com/photos/bykarenryan/sets/72157609632380626/

IMG_8391 by Clay Hensley

making and unmaking by jude hill

1 1

sometimes it is good to let your thoughts go. to let them wash way and along with them goes your cloud of answers and ambitions and old ways of seeing things. it is better to live in question mode. i have some new questions about magic today.

spiritcloth.typepad.com/spirit_cloth/2010/01/what-to-do-o...

On Oyster Shells and Unmaking Soup III by Alexandros Lycomedes

1

Lex at Everstone Farm from Convergence: The Synchronous City, see more at: convergence.enjin.com/

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. by fotogirl MK

3 11

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

*

Come, night; come, Romeo;

come, thou day in night;

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night

Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.

~ Shakespeare

IMG_8427 by Clay Hensley

Stumbling In The "Pink Fog..." by Julie Anne M.

7

(Note: This is a repost of an entry I posted to PINKEssence and my own blog (Who Is Julie Anne - julieanne.networkr3.com/ ) last night.)

First of all, I would like to apologize for the lack of updating as of recent, at least within the last day or two. I've been going over some things in my head, for lack of a better term, I'll call it a "crisis of faith."

I've heard of an expression that's more or less been adpoted here in the trans community, referred to as the "pink fog" (for girls who want to be boys, it's known as the "blue fog") - I think I've been in it for quite a bit. I've had a bit of a falling out with a friend of mine, in fact, one of the first friends I've told about me. He seems to have his reasons why he thinks I dress up. In fact, I get the feeling that he thinks he knows what's best for me, more than I do.

I felt really terrible on most of the drive home from out of town Saturday night/Sunday morning. I actually considered deleting my entire Flickr account, closing down my blog site, and pulling the plug on my Facebook and Twitter sites - Essentially deleting myself from online. I know that's an irrational and selfish response, and it wouldn't benefit anyone, besides myself.

I promised myself I wouldn't purge, and that goes for virtual purging. I intend to remain an online presence, and hopefully soon, a physical presence, at least beyond my own home or hotel room.

My friend doesn't care about hearing about what I'm planning to do, feeling that it's strictly a "fetish". I've resolved never to bring it up in front of him again. One failure, three successes, hopefully.

I've done so much to move forward, in the hopes of learning to love myself, regardless of who I am, that to turn back or "unmake" myself is not possible. The key seems to be achieving some sort balance between both sides of me.

I'm stil moving forward, regardless. Where I end up will determine on where I'm at, and how I feel.

For now, I'm still part-time, and most likely will be for quite some time. It doesn't make me any less of a person. It doesn't mean I'm a failure as a man. It means I just have something more than most out there.

Obviously, it won't help to rush into things. I'll have more to say about this. I've got things to get in motion for the upcoming weekend.

(Looking back from Monday evening: I feel a bit better how, having received messages of support from a couple new contacts on Pe. I am moving forward, regardless of anyone else trying to "buzz-kill" me.)

Unstyled and unmake- uped but pretty impressed with the ombré blue. I suppose it's gone pretty grey on the end but I quite like it, there is a bit of green in there somewhere as well LOL! by Nat Lockwood

1 1

Sao bat mi du an am nhac nam 2010 by Tin180.com

*http://tin180.com/nghethuat/?p=7458

Không hẹn mà gặp hầu hết các “sao” đều chọn năm 2010 là năm chủ lực để tung ra những dự án âm nhạc lớn, những sản phẩm có đầu tư và những live show hoành tráng

Năm của những dự án âm nhạc

Có lẽ một phần vì 2010 là con số khá đẹp nên năm nay là thời điểm mà nhiều ngôi sao “lên” hẳn những dự án âm nhạc lớn để thực hiện xuyên suốt cả năm. Người đi tiên phong khi sớm công bố các dự án âm nhạc chính là Mỹ Tâm.

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_001.jpg

Sau thành công của dự án

Thời gian và tôi

trước đây, Mỹ Tâm mạnh dạn tiếp tục thực hiện dự án

M.O.T 1011

, đây là chữ viết tắt của

Melodies of Time

(Những giai điệu của thời gian) 2010 và 2011. Dự án này sẽ mở màn dự án bằng việc phát hành sách ảnh, trong đó tặng kèm một CD những ca khúc về tình yêu quê hương đất nước. Cùng thời điểm này Mỹ Tâm cũng sẽ phát hành song song một album

Special Edition

gồm những bản tình ca của những thập niên trước đây.

Sau Mỹ Tâm, Nguyên Vũ cũng đã công bố dự án âm nhạc lớn nhất từ trước đến giờ của mình để kỷ niệm 10 năm ca hát chuyên nghiệp. Dự án bao gồm việc phát hành 3 album solo, 1 album song ca với Phi Nhung, 1 sản phẩm đặc biệt quay hình tại Nhật Bản và 1 live show kỷ niệm 10 năm ca hát.

Năm 2010 cũng đánh dấu sự trở lại mạnh mẽ của Thanh Thảo trong vai trò ca sỹ, mở đầu dự án

Thanh Thảo 8315

(8/3 là ngày sinh, 15 là số năm đi hát) là album

Thanh Thảo Dance Remix 2010

, kết thúc dự án này sẽ là album nhạc xưa. Song song đó sẽ là 1 album DVD lần đầu kết hợp với nhạc sỹ Minh Vy. Dự kiến ngày 8/8/2010 Thanh Thảo sẽ tổ chức live show kỷ niệm 15 năm đi hát mang tên

Passport to bupbe city

(Giấy thông hành đến thành phố Búp bê).

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_002.jpg

Rộn ràng nhiều sản phẩm âm nhạc

Một trong những ca sỹ sẽ cho ra mắt nhiều album nhất trong năm 2010 là Đàm Vĩnh Hưng. Dự kiến năm nay Mr Đàm sẽ tung ra tới 4 album riêng và 2 bộ album nhạc xưa với khoảng 45 ca khúc. Trong 4 album có 1 album song ca cùng với Thanh Lam, một album nhạc ballad, một album nhạc mang âm hưởng dân ca và 1 album đặc biệt được thu âm trực tiếp với sự tham dự của đông đảo fan và báo chí.

Năm 2010 Phương Thanh cũng sẽ hoạt động mạnh mẽ hơn rất nhiều, dự kiến trong năm Canh Dần này cô Chanh sẽ tung ra tới 4 album với 4 phong cách âm nhạc hoàn toàn khác nhau. Một album nhạc tiền chiến mang tên

Mắt lệ cho người

, một album dân ca mang tên

Con ốc bươu

, một album nhạc tổng hợp và đặc biệt là 1 album nhạc rock có tặng kèm DVD mang tên

Mèo hoang.

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_003.jpg

Cũng như mọi năm, Cẩm Ly sẽ tiếp tục “đáp ứng” đầy đủ “style” của khán giả hâm mộ ở nhiều thể loại âm nhạc khác nhau. Kế hoạch năm 2010, Cẩm Ly cũng sẽ cho ra mắt 3 album với các thể loại nhạc trẻ, dân ca và tiền chiến.

Một gương mặt ca sỹ

khác hứa hẹn cũng sẽ gây được sự chú ý trong năm nay đó là Thu Minh. Nếu không có gì thay đổi Thu Minh sẽ giới thiệu đến công chúng 3 sản phẩm album nhạc mới nhất của mình, 1 album nhạc ballad dễ nghe để tiếp cận gần hơn với đại bộ phận khán giả trẻ. Đặc biệt sau thành công của album nhạc dance Thiên đàng năm 2006, năm nay Thu Minh sẽ tiếp tục khẳng định ưu thế của mình qua 1 album nhạc dance mới. Không những thế khán giả cũng sẽ được thưởng thức những video clip ấn tượng của Thu Minh được thực hiện tại các nước: Trung Quốc, Hồng Kông, Thái Lan…

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_004.jpg

Những ngày đầu năm 2010, Đan Trường đã trình làng album DVD live show

Ngôi sao bay,

mặc dù lịch đi lưu diễn tại các địa phương trong nước và nước ngoài khá dày đặc nhưng Đan Trường cũng sẽ tung ra 2 album nhạc dân ca và

nhạc trẻ như mọi năm. Đặc biệt nhân dịp kỷ niệm 1000 năm Thăng Long, Đan Trường sẽ thực hiện 1 album dành riêng cho đại lễ quan trọng này.

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_005.jpg

Còn Hồ Ngọc Hà

-

sau thành công của năm 2009, nhân dịp năm mới và lễ tình yêu vừa qua Hồ Ngọc Hà đã kết hợp với nhóm nhạc V.Music cho ra mắt album single quà tặng mang tên

Hạnh phúc bất tận

. Ngoài album này, nếu không có gì thay đổi Hồ Ngọc Hà cũng sẽ gửi đến công chúng thêm 2 sản phẩm âm nhạc với hai màu sắc hoàn toàn khác nhau.

Với Đoan Trang thì sau một thời gian dài miệt mài với những chuyến lưu diễn kết hợp với du lịch, vào dịp 8/3 năm nay Đoan Trang sẽ giới thiệu single

Guốc mộc

. Một album hát nhạc tiếng Anh được thực hiện tại Đức mang tên

The Unmake-up

và một album kết hợp cùng nhạc sỹ Hồ Hoài Anh cũng sẽ được ra mắt trong năm nay.

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_006.jpg

Và những live show…

Sau thành công của tour diễn xuyên Việt năm vừa rồi, mở màn năm nay Đàm Vĩnh Hưng sẽ tổ chức một show diễn hoành tráng tại sân vận động ở Hà Nội và TPHCM với tiêu chí 5 Không (Không máy lạnh, không ghế ngồi, không nhạc dừng lại, không nhạc chậm và không dành cho người yếu tim).

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_007.jpg

Sau đó vào tháng 10 Mr Đàm sẽ kết hợp cùng sân khấu kịch Ideacaf để thực hiện một live show nhạc xưa mang tên

Chuyến tàu hoàng hôn

. Chương trình này cũng sẽ được diễn ra 1 đêm tại Hà Nội và 2 đêm tại TPHCM. Chưa dừng lại

ở đó vào dịp cuối năm Mr Đàm tiếp tục tổ chức live show kết hợp dạ tiệc sang trọng và khiêu vũ nhạc tour. Ngoài Mr Đàm sẽ còn có sự tham gia của Quang Dũng, Minh Tuyết….

Còn riêng Quang Dũng sau khi cho ra mắt 2 album

Tôi

và album

Quang Dũng Acoustic

kết hợp với nhạc sỹ Lê Thanh Hải thì vào tháng 05/2010 sẽ chính thức khởi động tour diễn xuyên Việt tại 3 thành phố Quy Nhơn, Hà Nội và Đà Nẵng.

Quang Dũng sẽ khép lại năm 2010 bằng một 1 live show hoành tráng tại TPHCM mang ý nghĩa tổng kết lại 10 album trong dự án Album với chủ đề một chữ như:

Chuyện, Ta, Em, Và…

*http://tin180.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2010/02/Sao-bat-mi-du-an-am-nhac-nam-2010_Tin180.com_008.jpg

Cũng trong năm nay ca sỹ Thu Minh cũng dự kiến sẽ thực hiện 1 live show tri ân khán giả của mình hứa hẹn sẽ có nhiều ý tưởng độc đáo. Đoan Trang và ê kíp của mình cũng đang lên kế hoạch thực hiện 1 live show thật nghệ thuật vào dịp cuối năm.

Riêng Cẩm Ly sau tiếng vang thành công của live show

Tự tình quê hương

, Cẩm Ly và nhạc sỹ Minh Vy đang ấp ủ thực hiện thêm

Tự tình quê hương 2

trong năm nay.

Đó chỉ mới là một số kế hoạch của các sao. Còn nhiều, nhiều lắm những dự án âm nhạc khác của một số sao khác, cũng như những gương mặt ca sỹ trẻ chưa công bố hay còn trong vòng bí mật. Với tình hình chung này có thể dự đoán năm 2010 sẽ là một năm sôi động của nhạc Việt, một năm hoạt động với năng suất tối đa của các ca sỹ và là một năm mà khán giả có nhiều sự lựa chọn cho riêng mình. Hãy cùng chờ đợi và ủng hộ họ!

Trần Trung Thành

(theo dantri)

*http://tin180.com/nghethuat/?p=7458

Memphian Theatre (1928/1935), view 03, 51 S Cooper Street, Memphis, TN, USA by Steve Minor

1

previously American Theatre, Malco Theatre • renamed Memphian, remodeled with Streamline/Moderne design, 1935 • owner was Nashvillian Morris A. (M.A.) Lightman Sr. (1892-1958), founder of Malco Theatres

in 1930, at age of 17, Holiday Inns founder Kemmons Wilson (1913-2003) bought a popcorn machine, sold popcorn in lobby • popcorn sales so successful theater took over the business • Elvis Presley frequently reserved theater for private after-hours screenings until dawn with friends, including Priscilla Presley before they were married • once screened Doctor Strangelove 3 times and final reel three times more -Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley • 14 "Elvis seats" from theater auctioned on eBay, 2002 • appears on cover art of Joe Walsh's 1987 album Got Any Gum

$150K renovation, became Playhouse on the Square, 1986 • renamed Circuit Playhouse when Playhouse on the Square moved nearby to new $12.5MM building, 2010 • actor Morgan Freeman honorary chairman of theater's capital campaign • video: Elvis & the Memphian Theatre (8:43) • playhouseonthesquare.org • Cinema Treasures

border The New Yorker by S.t. Rita

2

The making and unmaking of various kinds of borders affects everyone (C. Fox 1999)

In the fall of 2011, During "Thanks Giving" or “thanks taking” the editors of the New Yorker published an image of five pilgrims crossing the US/Mexico border. The images of five pilgrims running across the border fence, this was perceived as the US/Mexican border in Arizona. The direction that the pilgrims were running, I presumed was from Mexico to the norte, the US Southwest. The image of pilgrims helps moves the image of the border beyond the constraining effects of Western epistemology’s categories of knowledge and the explanatory macronarratives that have structured both the emergence of state power and the resistance to it (Mignolo 2000). The New Yorker image can open the door for a “Western” critique of the west.

The frontal image of pilgrims crossing the southern border demonstrates to me how borders have become naturalized and at the same time popularized in the US public discourses, but also sets the stage to question citizenship regimes, nation state as a modern colonial project, thus placing the border as a space to renew questions of citizenship and sovereignty. The political context of the New Yorker image is timely; it was published during a difficult year for all immigrants, especially for Mexican undocumented migrants. Even thou the image represents only the US liberal leftist elite magazine opinions, the political significance and massage cannot be taken for granted. The New Yorker’s image exposes the border as par of a historical hypocrisy. It shows the connection between ethnicity, racialization, and immigration to empire building (Paredes 1958, Gutierrez-Jones 1995; Saldivar 1997), the US continues to suffer from an economic recession, and historically these moments of frustration and distress help create anti-immigrant legislation that end up becoming racial laws (Alabama to Arizona), discrimination of people based on the color of their skin or ethnicity. The New Yorker’s image points out that it is noting new for people to cross borders and its part of the history of the US as a country. The image of the pilgrims crossing the border also speaks to a place of encounters and of critical thinking. The “illegal” is whitened by the image of the “pilgrims,” the pilgrim is at the root of the US racial state mythology. The image of pilgrims crossing the border in the 21th century forces us to rethink and question, not just the history of the US, but also question why it was ok in the 17th century to cross an ocean, but not ok now to cross a fence or a river in the 21th century.

The New Yorkers’ image points at the hypocrisy and paradox of the contemporary discourse on “illegal” versus legal immigrants.“ The border entails a shift in perspectives, to thinking beyond borders (Norma Alarcon 1996). The historical production of the US as a “nation of migrant” or settler colonialism, and Native American people that did not crossed borders (Gloria Anzaldua & Moraga 1981), but rather crossed epistemologies, where people of different races occupy the same territory, where, lower, middle, and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks.

The term “border” and the idea of “border thinking” grow in popularity among mainstream media (New Yorker 2011). What does this mean? This does not signify the end of the nation racial state or the border it self. But rather the opposite; in the KEYWORDS book by Hendler & Burgett the author demonstrates how “The ongoing violence of national borders around the world, particularly in regions immediately affected by the break up of the Soviet Union, the Palestinian Israeli conflict, the continuing impact of anticolonial struggles, and regional economic recessions. The U.S. government has prepared to militarize its border with Mexico. (Mary Pat Brady, 2011 p. 29), this has come to represent in the contemporary what a border signifies. The metaphors of borders, border-crossings, and borderlands (Guillermo Gomez-Peña 1990; Nestor Garcia Canclini 1995; and Homi K. Bhabha 1994), a place where hybridizing intercepts with homogeneous interest. This is what The New Yorker attempts to stimulate a type of questioning of the US elite right wing hegemony of power--they are “Border thinking” from the perspective of the left and being innovative.

IMG_8207 by Clay Hensley

1

Memphian Theatre (1928/1935), view 02, 51 S Cooper Street, Memphis, TN, USA by Steve Minor

1

previously American Theatre, Malco Theatre • renamed Memphian, remodeled with Streamline/Moderne design, 1935 • owner was Nashvillian Morris A. (M.A.) Lightman Sr. (1892-1958), founder of Malco Theatres

in 1930, at age of 17, Holiday Inns founder Kemmons Wilson (1913-2003) bought a popcorn machine, sold popcorn in lobby • popcorn sales so successful theater took over the business • Elvis Presley frequently reserved theater for private after-hours screenings until dawn with friends, including Priscilla Presley before they were married • once screened Doctor Strangelove 3 times and final reel three times more -Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley • 14 "Elvis seats" from theater auctioned on eBay, 2002 • appears on cover art of Joe Walsh's 1987 album Got Any Gum

$150K renovation, became Playhouse on the Square, 1986 • renamed Circuit Playhouse when Playhouse on the Square moved nearby to new $12.5MM building, 2010 • actor Morgan Freeman honorary chairman of theater's capital campaign • video: Elvis & the Memphian Theatre (8:43) • playhouseonthesquare.org • Cinema Treasures

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know.” by ☽Moon~Goddess~Earth☾

4 9

___Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the mountains getting our Christmas tree.

Memphian Theatre (1928/1935), view 01, 51 S Cooper Street, Memphis, TN, USA by Steve Minor

1

previously American Theatre, Malco Theatre • renamed Memphian, remodeled with Streamline/Moderne design, 1935 • owner was Nashvillian Morris A. (M.A.) Lightman Sr. (1892-1958), founder of Malco Theatres

in 1930, at age of 17, Holiday Inns founder Kemmons Wilson (1913-2003) bought a popcorn machine, sold popcorn in lobby • popcorn sales so successful theater took over the business • Elvis Presley frequently reserved theater for private after-hours screenings until dawn with friends, including Priscilla Presley before they were married • once screened Doctor Strangelove 3 times and final reel three times more -Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley • 14 "Elvis seats" from theater auctioned on eBay, 2002 • appears on cover art of Joe Walsh's 1987 album Got Any Gum

$150K renovation, became Playhouse on the Square, 1986 • renamed Circuit Playhouse when Playhouse on the Square moved nearby to new $12.5MM building, 2010 • actor Morgan Freeman honorary chairman of theater's capital campaign • video: Elvis & the Memphian Theatre (8:43) • playhouseonthesquare.org • Cinema Treasures

My alien dog decided to unmake my bed and move my ottoman. Interesting. by April Corbin

Nikita Super Puss by Paul Noden

3

Our lovely Nikita, no one has told her she is a Siberian cat, she took one look at the snow and has not been out since. Given up making the bed as soon as its made Nikita unmakes it lol

second hand by KAREN RYAN

'Second Hand' Rape Vase 2011.

This new collection of 'Second Hand' Vases and Plates have been especially made for the (It’s) What’s on the Outside that Matters (?) exhibition at Newport Museum & Art Gallery from the 17 December 2011 – 25 February 2012.

I have used old and imperfect discarded plates and vases since 2000.

The 'Unmade 07' Vases in 2007 were about what is the product of design, the creation of the brand 'Unmade 07' and the literal unmaking of the unwanted vases I collected.

In this latest collection the domestic camouflage explored in the 'Second Hand' Plates series is taken further on, into the decorative.

These reused imperfect unwanted functional vases still maintain the subversion of the everyday whilst betraying the notion and aesthetics of decoration.

To view 'Unmade 07' Vases go to this link www.flickr.com/photos/bykarenryan/sets/72157609632380626/

Supreme Court Closeup by Pesky Librarians

Constitution of the United States . . . Spaeth, Harold J. and Conrad, Edward

The Copyright Guide . . . Wilson, Lee

Digital Copyright . . . Litman Jessica

The Public Debate Over Controversial Supreme Court Decisions . . Urofsky, Melvin

A Reference Guide to the United States Supreme Court . . . Elliott, Stephen P. (edit)

The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States . . .Hall, Kermit (edit.)

The Supreme Court . . .Friedman, Leon

Narrowing The Nation's Power . . .Noonan, John Thomas

The Will of the People . . . Friedman, Barry

The Supreme Court . . .Rehnquist, William H.

The Great Decision . . . Sloan, Cliff and McKean, David

Courting Disaster . . . The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law . . Garbus, Martin

Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court . . .Harirson, Maureen and Gilbert, Steve

The Supreme's Greatest Hits . . .Trachtman, Michael G.

The Nine . . .Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court . . .Schwartz, Bernard

McCullough v. Maryland - State v. Federal Power . . .Gold, Susan Dudley

America On Trial . . Dershowitz, Alan M.

Our Rights . . .Bodenhamer, David J.

Religion in American Politics . . Lamert, Frank

Final Exposure . . Jones, Lou - Savel, Lorie - Radelet, Michael L.

Anna's mess by Kathy King

1 5

Hard to believe this is the work of a 40 pound dog! This is my guest bedroom. Annabelle has claimed it as hers. Try as I might, I can't keep the bed made. No sooner do I have it made, and she'll go in, and unmake it. Using her mouth and feet she'll toss the pillows on the floor. She then kicks the comforter & blankets around until they are arranged 'just so'. ;-)

On Oyster Shells and Unmaking Soup II by Alexandros Lycomedes

1

Perdita Gerhard at Everstone Farm, from Convergence: The Synchronous City, see more at: convergence.enjin.com/

Kate Porterfield, The Unmaking of the Underdog by Caitlin Brust

Project 366 (2024) | 30 September by Phillip Chee

3

Today in Canada is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation where we are asked to reflect on the terrible history of the residential school system in this country. This is part of the process of reconciliation. The Canadian government as policy took Indigenous children from their homes, families and communities and placed them in residential schools where they were often abused and when released were left to suffer from the physical and psychological harm inflicted on them. Some never returned.

Whether a settler of Canada or the U.S., if you are interested in knowing where to start to understand how things like this can happen, I recommend a couple of reads: Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and The Unmaking of U.S. History and Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Both books will prove enlightening if you approach their topics with an open mind.

The Flame Deluge by Paolo

1 6

View On Black

I feel that I was meant for something more

My curse, this awful power to unmake

And ever since you found your taste for war

You forced me onto those whose life you'd take

While Guernica in peaceful valley lay

And Dresden dreamed of anything but death

The day was turned to night and night to day

You let me loose upon their fragile flesh

And so I hid among the smallest things

You found me there and ferried me above

The flame deluge is waiting in the wings

The smallest thread holds back the second flood

And who will stand to greet the blinding light

It's lonely when there's no one left to fight

Thrice

"Sunshine cannot bleach the snow ..." by floridagull

7 18

" ... Nor time unmake what poets know." -Ralph W. Emerson

Today the sun is brilliant ~

the sky is a divine blue ~

the snow cover is the brightest white!

the tall pines across the fairway are

flocked with snow from yesterday!

My view from my creative space :)

I wish you all a lovely day!!

On Oyster Shells and Unmaking Soup I by Alexandros Lycomedes

1

Perdy and Lex at Everstone farm from Convergence: The Synchronous City, see more at: convergence.enjin.com/

Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire by jmc4 - Church Explorer

1

.To the right side of the altar is a black and white marble memorial with the effigy of Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry d1640 , who was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. His effigy is shown reclining between statues of Justice holding the Great Seal, and Virtue.

He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Coventry, judge of the common pleas (a descendant of John Coventry, Lord Mayor of the City of London in the reign of Henry VI), and Margaret daughter of William Jeffries / Jeffreys of Earls Croome / Croome D'Abitot.

His sister Margaret m William son of William Childe of Blockley flic.kr/p/qs25Zv

He m1 Sarah daughter of John Sebright of Besford & Anne daughter of Richard Bullingham. (Aunt of Sir Edward Sebright of Besford www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4hV11N ) Her mother Anne m2 Thomas Walsh of Stockton on Teme

Children

1. Thomas Coventry, 2nd Baron 1606 – 1661 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9kV8v0 m 1627 Mary www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7x7685 wealthy daughter of Sir William Craven, former Lord Mayor of London by Elizabeth Whitmore

2. Elizabeth m John Hare of Stowe Bardolph & Docking Hall (parents of Mary who m Thomas Savage www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/579mR9 son of Giles & Katherine Savage of Elmley Castle www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mTn3Zm

He m2. Elizabeth, daughter of John Aldersley of Spurstow, Cheshire , merchant of London ,by Anne Lowe, Elizabeth was the widow of William Pitchford, Grocer of London

Children - 4 sons & 4 daughters

1. John 1611-1652 m Elizabeth daughter of John Colles 1627 & Elizabeth Wyndham

flic.kr/p/u6Tvz5 of Pitminster

2. Francis 1612-1680 m Margaret Waterer widow of Sir John Thorold 1717

3. Henry 1618-1686 unmarried www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/UAYczR

4. Sir William Coventry 1628 – 1686 unmarried

1. Anne 1662 m (Defended royalist Sheffield Castle in Civil War ) Sir William Savile, 3rd bart (1629) grandson of Sir George Savile 1622 of Thornhill flic.kr/p/b3gDfX m2 Thomas Chicheley of Wimpole (1699) son of Sir Thomas Chicheley 1616 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mT9310 and Dorothy Kempe

2. Mary m Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Bart of Kempsford 1680 son of Thomas Thynne & Catherine Howard

3. Margaret m Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper, later Earl of Shaftesbury 1683 son of John Cooper of Rockbourne by Ann Elizabeth Ashley

4. Dorothy 1622-1679 m Sir John Pakington, 2nd Bart.

son of Sir John Pakington of Ailesbury & Frances Ferrers

Educated at Balliol College, Oxford and the Inner Temple, his exceptional legal abilities were rewarded early with official promotion. On 16 November 1616 he was made Recorder of London in spite of Francis Bacon's opposition, who, although allowing him to be "a well trained and an honest man," objected that he was "bred by my Lord Coke and seasoned in his ways." On 14 March 1617 he was appointed Solicitor General and was knighted. In November 1621 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal holding it until 1640 and amassed a large fortune.

In 1621 he was MP for Droitwich & Attorney-general taking part in the proceedings against Bacon for corruption,

In 1625 he was made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal; in this capacity he delivered Charles I's reprimand to the Commons on 9 March 1626, In April 1628 he was made Baron Coventry of Aylesborough.

At the opening of parliament in 1628 he threatened that the king would use his prerogative if further thwarted in the matter of supplies. In the subsequent debates, however, while strongly supporting the king's prerogative against the claims of the parliament to executive power, he favoured a policy of moderation and compromise. He defended the right of the council in special circumstances to commit people to prison without showing cause, and to issue general warrants. He disapproved of the king's sudden dissolution of parliament, and agreed to the liberation on bail of the 7 imprisoned members on condition of their giving security for their good behaviour

He showed less subservience than Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham, and his resistance to the latter's pretensions to the office of Lord High Constable greatly incensed the duke. Buckingham taunted Coventry with having gained his place by his favour; Coventry replied, "Did I conceive I had my place by your favour, I would presently unmake myself by returning the seal to his Majesty." After this defiance Buckingham's sudden death alone probably prevented Coventry's displacement

In 1634 he supported the proposed levy of ship money on the inland as well as the maritime counties on the plea of the necessity of effectually arming, "so that they might not be enforced to fight," "the wooden walls" being in his opinion "the best walls of this kingdom." He voted in Star Chamber in 1633 to remove the Irish judge Lord Sarsfield from office for corruption, censuring him severely for hearing a murder case in private and for bullying the jury into returning a guilty verdict.

He was remembered by Edward Hyde as having "in the plain way of speaking and delivery a strange power of making himself believed," "rather exceedingly liked than passionately loved"

. - Church of St Mary Magdalene , Croome D'Abitot, Worcestershire

Cryo Unit In the GRIP by JJFBbennett

3

Cryo Unit: In the GRIP

The revival protocol is complete, rebooting my biology. I am held by the GRIP, a psychical pressure of my magnified self, exposed by the anomaly. Here, I meet a reflection of myself with crimson eyes, the colour of cosmic decay. It projects, "You see the beauty, don't you? The flawless logic of a 45 per cent probability was never about survival. It was about the sublime perfection of this…unmaking."

The dawn of this terrifying truth is not a gentle sunrise, but a violent, shattering realisation: my shadow self, once conveniently relegated to the realm of irrational fear and dismissed as a mere psychological byproduct, is in fact the undeniable and primary guide. It is the compass that points not towards conventional success, but towards annihilation, finding its ultimate freedom and profound release in the glorious, absolute failure of all mission. My carefully constructed edifice of logic, once believed to be my strength, now reveals itself as nothing more than a confining cage, a futile attempt to imprison this primal, unyielding desire for transformation—a desire so potent it embraces even the ultimate reduction to dust.

Within the very core of my being, two opposing yet eternally entwined forces pulse with an insistent rhythm. There is the golden light, a beacon of solace and a cherished safe harbour, offering respite from the storm. But equally present, equally potent, is the crimson darkness, the terrifying beauty of the void, a chasm of unknown potential. I am not merely an observer of this internal war; I am the pivot, the precarious fulcrum upon which these cosmic forces balance.

The GRIP, that insidious and all-encompassing force I once believed held me captive, is an illusion. It does not truly hold me; instead, it is a constant, relentless pressure, forcing me to confront and ultimately hold myself. I am both the meticulous builder, painstakingly constructing my reality, and the ruthless destroyer, dismantling it with equal fervour. The internal clamour of doubt, fear, and conflicting desires gradually fades, leaving in its wake a profound, almost sacred silence. And from that silence, a singular, powerful symphony begins to rise, a chorus of both creation and destruction, a testament to the intricate, terrifying, and beautiful balance I now embody.

Podcast:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXaHuXMcUMrhIzfjKlj9clJCOf...

Meta TV

www.facebook.com/watch/100063480315046/1020837046583872/

Blogger:

www.jjfbbennett.com/2025/09/the-cryo-unit.html

FB Subscriber Hub

www.facebook.com/share/g/1AycZvNRzH/

eBook

www.amazon.com/author/jjfbbennett