#chuck stewart

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Nina Simone by Chuck Stewart 1958

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Nina Simone in Central Park, 1958.

Photo: Chuck Stewart via imgur

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Pharoah Sanders, November 1966

Photo: Chuck Stewart

RIP Pharoah Sanders (1940-2022)

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Today We Honor Chuck Stewart

Chuck Stewart, one of the most prolific and admired photographers in jazz — an intimate chronicler of many of its icons and milestones, including the historic recording session for John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” — over a distinguished career that spanned more than 70 years.

“Chuck was born in Henrietta, Texas and raised in Tucson, AZ where his family moved to seek more opportunities. On his 13th birthday, his mother gave him a 616 Box-Brownie camera to try his hand at photography. The next day, the famed mezzo-soprano Marian Anderson visited his school in Tucson. He took pictures of the event and sold them to students and teachers and earned $2.00. This was a great financial leap from a 25-cents a week allowance. His career was born.

Chuck worked the New York City music scene in the early fifties capturing notable jazz luminaries representing Latin jazz, big band, bebop, cool jazz, and more, as well as bands and vocalists representing rock n’ roll, rhythm and blues, pop, country, Broadway, film and television. Chucks archives contain 800,000 negatives with a large inventory being jazz musicians from the 50’s to late 90’s.

Chuck was the only photographer at the historic recording session of John Coltrane’s album “A Love Supreme.” Oddly, his photos weren’t used for the album cover. However rare and unseen photos from that session now reside in the jazz archives of the Smithsonian Institution for anyone to see. Majority of the images used in the John Coltrane’s “Chasing Trane” Documentary and James Brown HBO Documentary are Chucks.

When the Beatles first toured America, Chuck toured with them but asked to be reassigned after being pinched and poked too many times by fans. “There are no black Beatles. Why are you grabbing me?” I protested. ‘You’re with them and that’s good enough for us,’ fans retorted.” - via chuckstewartphotograhy.com

CARTER™️ Magazine

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Pharoah and John at the Ascension session, 1965

photo Chuck Stewart

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John y Alice Coltrane por Chuck Stewart

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Eric Dolphy by Chuck Stewart, 1964,

Gelatin silver print, 17/100 

Bank of America Collection 

© Chuck Stewart Photography LLC/Fireball Entertainment Group

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Happy 80th Birthday too the original (Jumpin Jack Flash) Keith Richards, while others of your age are possibly in Care homes , thinking about a new hip operation. You have just released a new album that's No 1 all over the World. And next year with the Rolling Stones are performing live in the USA covering 20 + Gigs. You are one of the last remaining stepping stones of the Afro American Bluesman that travelled to Chicago from the Delta. The epitome of cool style and dress , one of the coolest Cats on this planet. 🎸🎙🎵✌️

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dan and blair being paralleled to mike and tracy from the philadelphia story is so evil because you'd expect them to change the ending and not have the woman end up with her abusive ex but they do just that

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Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day is celebrated annually on January 31. Art can touch our souls and make a lasting impact. Whether it’s a piece of music or a painting, it can broaden our horizons and inspire us in many ways.

History of Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

It was undoubtedly a creative and artistic person who created this day that shines a spotlight on the importance and power of art. We often don’t realize the impact art can have on our hearts. It can inspire, motivate, guide, and touch us in more ways than we can imagine.

Art has been around for a very long time. Several archaeologists found the first artifacts of human art, which date back to the Stone Age. Since then, art has developed over the years and is appreciated for a variety of reasons. Inspire Your Heart with Art Day is celebrated by various art organizations and strives towards appreciating all forms of art.

Many associate art with paintings only but it comes in many forms and it almost always inspires or touches your heart. Inspire Your Heart with Art Day is the perfect day to take a closer look at a piece of art to understand what the artist is trying to communicate. With an open mind, you can allow it to inspire you and change your perspective on many things. Art satisfies our basic need for harmony and balance, and it brings people together. Art also acts as an important form of communication that bridges the language barrier. Art can really go a long way in making a social impact on our lives.

On this day, it is a nudge to let your heart be inspired by paintings, books, music, movies, drama, e.t.c., whichever form of art draws your interest.

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day  timeline

1504 Statue of David

Michelangelo completes the sculpture of David.

17th Century Sir Isaac Newton’s Color Wheel

Newton invents the color wheel, which allows artists to observe the most effective color complementation.

1889 Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night”

Van Gogh paints his famous Starry Night while at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole.

1912-1948 Art in Olympics

Art is part of the Olympics and medals are awarded for painting, sculpting, music, architecture, and literature.

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day FAQs

What are the genres of art?

The genres of art keep evolving. Some of the traditional categories of art include literature, visual art, graphic art, plastic arts, and the decorative arts.

What can be called art?

Art is an object or experience created through an expression of skill or imagination. Over the years, there have been many different things that have been encompassed under the umbrella of art.

What is the highest form of art?

While art comprises many genres, literature is often regarded as the highest form of art.

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day  Activities

Attend a live theatre performance

Share your art with others

Read a book

Theatre actors put in a lot of effort to perfect their acts. Everything from their voices, to acting, to building confidence. A live theatre performance has no retakes and actors have to get it right the first time around. Attend a live performance to appreciate the hard work and talent.

Have you been secretly painting, or writing a song, or even a short story? Well, it’s time to put it out there. Share your art with your family or friends. It may inspire others to dive into the world of art as well.

Books are a great way to expand your knowledge on varying subjects, even if it is fiction. A fictional novel set in a different country can open up your mind to new cultures. Let your imagination run free when you pick up a good book to read.

5 Fascinating Facts About Art

The Mona Lisa

A museum for spoons

Tallest statue

Oxford dictionary’s definitions

Leonardo Da Vinci was ambidextrous

The Mona Lisa painting became immensely popular only after it was stolen.

Lambert Castle in New Jersey is home to a massive collection of spoons.

The tallest statue in the world, the Statue of Unity in India, measures 597 feet in length.

The Oxford dictionary has 12 definitions of the word art.

Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other.

Why We Love Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

It helps you to express yourself

Art offers different perspectives

Art encompasses many genres

Art is an excellent way to express oneself. Many times, we can’t express ourselves in our daily lives and tend to bottle up those feelings. Art can help you release pent-up emotions via paintings, books, music, e.t.c. It allows one to truly be themselves.

Through art and the perspective of the artist, we are exposed to many different viewpoints. Appreciating art encourages our brain to think differently, to understand why a piece of art was created, and to learn the story behind it. Art can help you put many things into perspective and help overcome unresolved issues.

Art is not just paintings, it goes well beyond that. Art encompasses a multitude of genres such as writing, singing, dancing, cooking, films, and more. With a plethora of options available, it’s easy to find inspiration.

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Republicans are retaliating against a newly-revived Democratic plan to curb climate change by blocking a bill they previously supported that would provide healthcare to veteran victims of burn pits and Agent Orange, a chemical weapon used during the Vietnam War.

This shocking development, which has sparked the ire of progressives and Democrats, spans back to last week when Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. torpedoed a Democratic-led bill – dubbed "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" – that would pour billions into clean energy initiatives aimed at curtailing climate change. Instead, Manchin at the time said he wanted a slimmed-down version of the measure geared more toward lowering the cost of healthcare. "I would not put my staff through this – I would not put myself through this – if I wasn't sincere about trying to find a pathway forward to do something that's good for our country," the centrist Democrat said last week.

But on Thursday, Manchin completely reversed course, striking a reconciliation deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that includes $369 billion in climate and clean energy provisions. The unexpected about-face has shocked Democrats and environmental justice advocates alike and could amount to the biggest climate change legislation the nation has ever seen.

Still, climate advocates have argued that the measure is largely inadequate in addressing the full scope of global warming.

"The few details released this evening suggest this deal will prop up fossil fuels and promote the various false climate solutions beloved by industry," Food & Water Action Executive Director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. "More subsidies for dirty hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear energy are not climate action, they are the opposite."

John Noël, Senior Climate Campaigner at Greenpeace USA, echoed that the measure "fails to address the out-of-control fossil fuel industry causing the climate crisis."

"Millions of people die every year as a result of fossil fuel air pollution, and we cannot afford any fossil fuel expansion if we're going to avoid a climate catastrophe," Noël said. "Marketing a 40% reduction in emissions over 8 years while increasing fossil fuel leasing and a handshake deal to streamline permitting for fossil fuel infrastructure does not add up."

Shortly after Manchin's reversal, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reported that Republicans will now whip against a formerly bipartisan bill, dubbed the "CHIPS Act," meant to boost U.S. manufacturing. This is in addition to the GOP's newfound opposition to making servicemembers who contracted dozens of medical conditions overseas eligible for healthcare subsidized by Veterans Affairs. Supporters of the measure have argued that the bill is long overdue, as Roll Call reported.

On Thursday, Republicans officially delayed the veterans' bill with a filibuster, arguing that would allow for profligate fiscal spending that contravenes predetermined budget caps. The GOP's sudden opposition to the law comes after the party widely backed a nearly identical bill that contained a subtle tax provision.

"It's about Congress hiding behind an important veterans care bill a massive unrelated spending binge," said Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn.

After the vote, liberals and veterans' advocates immediately condemned congressional Republicans for playing politics at the expense of veterans.

"Congratulations @SenToomey You successfully used the Byzantine Senate rules to keep sick veterans suffering!!!! Kudos!" tweeted comedian Jon Stewart. "I'm sure you'll celebrate by kicking a dog or punching a baby…or whatever terrible people do for fun!!!!!"

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., likewise called the GOP's move "an eleventh-hour act of cowardice."

"Republicans chose today to rob generations of toxic-exposed veterans across this country of the health care and benefits they've earned and so desperately need," he tweeted. "Make no mistake—the American people are sick and tired of these games."

Republican Senators have been accused of “sentencing veterans to death” after they blocked the passage of a landmark bill that would finally give US service members sick and dying from toxic exposure to burn pits access to the healthcare that they need.

Democratic lawmakers, veterans and advocates including TV host Jon Stewart spoke out in a highly emotional press conference on Thursday morning as the bill that had been expected to become law by the end of the week was suddenly derailed by the Republican party.

“This is total bullshit,” shouted Senator Kristen Gillibrand. “They have just sentenced veterans to death.”

On Wednesday, the SFC Heath Robinson Honoring our PACT Act collapsed in the US Senate when dozens of Republicans who previously backed the bill unexpectedly changed their minds and decided to vote against it.

The bill received just 55 of the needed 60 votes to pass a cloture motion on Wednesday, as just eight Republicans voted to move it forward. A staggering 25 of those who voted against it had voted to pass the same bill just one month earlier.

Back on 16 June, the Senate had overwhelmingly voted to pass the bill, with Senators voting 84 to 14 in favour of expanding healthcare access to thousands of veterans who had served the US overseas.

But now, with the Senate scheduled to go on a month-long recess on 5 August, thousands of veterans in desperate need of healthcare and disability benefits have now been left high and dry for even longer.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told The Independent on Capitol Hill on Thursday that he is “going to give our Republican friends another opportunity to vote on this Monday night."

Much of the blame for sabotaging the bill’s passage was levelled at Senator Pat Toomey who – ahead of the vote – spoke out against the bill and said that he wanted to add an amendment on provisional spending.

Speaking at Thursday’s press conference, Rosie Torres – cofounder of BurnPits360 and the wife of veteran Le Roy Torres, who has a rare terminal condition caused by burn pits – told the senator that more veterans will die because of him.

“Senator Toomey, how many veterans are going to die because of you?” she asked. “Please explain to us: what is an acceptable amount of deaths?”

Ms. Torres branded the Republican Senators who switched their votes “25 villains” as she said the veteran community “demands answers, we deserve justice."

Mr. Stewart, who has been lobbying the government to pass the bill, slammed the “abject cruelty” of the GOP lawmakers who had voted no and warned them that delaying passing the PACT Act is costing lives. He hit out at the Senators who plan to go on recess next week when the veterans who are sick and dying don’t have time to wait.

“They’re not on Senate time. They’re on human time. They’re on cancer time,” he said. “Don’t you have families? Don’t you have people who are deciding how to live their last moments?” he asked the lawmakers.

Mr. Stewart singled out Senators Toomey, Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell as he pointed out the hypocrisy of the lawmakers who claim they support veterans but voted against the PACT Act.

He read out one particular tweet posted by Mr. Scott on Wednesday where the Florida Republican showcased photos of him giving out care packages to service men and women – the very same day he voted against the bill.

“I was honored to join @the_uso today and make care packages for our brave military members in gratitude of their sacrifice and service to our nation,” read the tweet.

Mr. Stewart mocked the tweet saying “There’s a beautiful picture."

"Did you get the package? I think it has some M&Ms in it and some cookies,” he mocked.

He also impersonated Mr. McConnell’s voice as he revealed that one month earlier he had told veterans “we’ll get it done."

“Mitch McConnell yesterday flipped,” he said, referring to the Senator’s sudden decision to then vote no to the bill.

Mr. Toomey, meanwhile, “won’t sit down” with the veterans he is impacting while he claims that he has the backing of several veterans groups.

“Pat Toomey claims that he has veteran groups behind him,” he said.

“I call bullshit – these are the veteran groups,” he said gesturing around at the multiple veterans and representative from veterans groups who had gathered at the press conference to condemn the bill’s stalling.

“They’re all here. They don’t stand behind you in fact you won’t let them stand in front of you,” he said, branding Mr. Toomey a “fucking coward."

The TV host said that – after he has spent more than a decade lobbying the US government first for 9/11 responders and then for veterans – he is “used to the hypocrisy” and “lies."

“The Senate is where accountability goes to die. They’re never losing their jobs. They’re never losing their healthcare.”

He added: “This is an embarrassment to the Senate, to the country and to the founders and to all that they confess to hold dear. If this is America first then this is America fucked!”

When asked for his reaction to Mr. Stewart’s comments, Mr. Toomey replied: “That’s not worth responding to.” His office directed The Independent to his tweet on Wednesday where he said he was trying to solve a “budget gimmick."

“Tonight, the Senate voted to give us the chance to fix a completely unnecessary budget gimmick in the underlying text of the PACT Act. This gimmick allows $400B in spending completely unrelated to veterans care,” he said.

“We can easily fix this tonight, and there is no reason we cannot do so NOW. This simple fix would not reduce spending on veterans in the underlying bill by a single penny. It’s wrong to use a veterans bill to hide an unrelated slush fund.”

When asked for comment, Mr. McConnell’s office referred The Independent to his comments on the Senate floor where he said that he supports the “substance of the bill” but that lawmakers first need to “fix the underlying accounting issue."

In March, the bill was renamed after the late Sgt. Heath Robinson who died in May 2020 from a rare cancer caused by breathing in toxic fumes from burn pits while serving in Iraq in the Ohio National Guard. He was 39.

His mother-in-law Susan Zeier choked back tears on Thursday as she branded the Senators voting against it “reprehensible” while dresssed in her late son-in-law’s army jacket. Just one month earlier she had symbolically taken off the jacket saying that she no longer needed to “carry” Heath “on her shoulders” after the Senate passed the bill.

The 16 June vote had been celebrated by veterans, their families and advocates who have spent years battling for the US government to take the issue of burn pits seriously – as the passage meant it seemed certain that the bill was weeks away from becoming law.

The bill was sent back to the House for a final vote where it passed with a 342-88 vote on 14 July. Because of a minor technical fix the House made, the Senate was required to vote on it again before it could be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

But – between one month and the next – dozens of Republican Senators decided that they no longer supported expanding healthcare and disability access to US servicemembers and decided to change their vote.

Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester slammed the move on the Senate floor on Wednesday night. “This eleventh-hour act of cowardice will actively harm this country’s veterans and their families,” he said.

“Republicans chose today to rob generations of toxic-exposed veterans across this country of the health care and benefits they so desperately need. And make no mistake, more veterans will suffer and die as a result.”

Under the legislation, 23 cancers, respiratory illnesses and other conditions will now be presumptively linked to a veterans’ exposure to burn pits while on deployment overseas. This means service men and women who have returned home from serving their country and developed one of these conditions will be given automatic access to healthcare and disability benefits.

It will also fund federal research on the impact of burn pits on the nation’s troops. An estimated 3.5 million servicemembers and veterans are estimated to have been exposed to burn pits and airborne toxins while serving the US overseas, according to the Veterans Affairs (VA).

During America’s post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, huge open-air pits were used to burn mountains of trash including food packaging, human waste and military equipment on US military bases. Thousands of US service members returned home from deployment and developed health conditions including rare cancers, lung conditions, respiratory illnesses and toxic brain injuries caused by breathing in the toxic fumes from the pits.

But, until now, the burden of proof has always been on veterans to prove their condition is directly caused by this toxic exposure. In September 2020, a senior VA official testified before Congress that almost 80% of disability claims mentioning burn pits were rejected between 2007 and 2020.

In the last six months, the President has made tackling the issue of burn pits a higher priority and repeatedly urged lawmakers in the House and Senate to pass legislation to support veterans. During his State of the Union address in March, said that he believes his son Beau Biden may have died as a result of toxic exposure to burn pits during his deployment to Iraq.

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Jon Tester (D-MT) United States Senator

Here are my thoughts on Sen. Tester at the press conference about the Senate’s passage of Toxic Exposure Legislation.

Look at that belly on Jon. So hot. Let no one tell you other wise Jon.

Why does Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) get a hug from Jon and not me? Maybe because my boner would get in the way.

My theory of anyone standing next to Jon gets hotter as I want to fuck Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Then I see him with out Jon... noodle city.

Hell... even Sen. Gillibrand and Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) stand next to Sen. Tester get more fuckable. Then again, I wanted to fuck Sen. Boozman before this. Sen. Gillibrand, not so much.

Same goes for Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) as he looks fuckable next to Jon. Seeing pics by himself, not so much.

What? Even Jon Stewart gets a hug.

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MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR, May 30, 1962

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ThanksKilling (2007)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

ThanksKilling is barely a movie. It lasts just over an hour, and those sixty minutes are like bamboo spikes beneath your fingernails. It’s bad enough the cast is uniformly atrocious, the special effects are pathetic and that the film is never funny or scary, but you can just tell no one involved in the making of this film was even trying. As if their lack of effort would somehow translate into comedy gold. This brutality is available on DVD for purchase. That's a crime.

Five high school students (played, of course, by actors in their mid to late 20’s) become the targets of Turkie (voiced by Jordan Downey), a 510-year-old foul-mouthed bird hell-bent on killing all white people in retaliation for the pilgrims’ treatment of Native Americans.

This is the kind of soul-crushing comedy that’s made to be intentionally bad, which means it’s about as pleasant as snorting a bowl of boiling gravy. Only the worst of idiot filmmakers - the ones devoid of all sense - believe that cult classics can happen on purpose and they always fare about as well as a vegan doing overtime at a slaughterhouse. Anyone can gather up their friends, tell them to bring their Z-Game and spend 12 minutes writing a script. The difference between director Jordan Downey and someone as untalented as say… Tommy Wiseau is that one has passion, the other has only disdain for the audience. Picking up a camera and shooting something like ThanksKilling takes no skill whatsoever, as the film demonstrates numerous times. It thinks it’s spoofing holiday-themed horror movies but it can’t even manage that, leading me to believe no one involved in the production of this long-cold pail of vomit has ever even SEEN the likes of Halloween, Black Christmas, Prom Night, My Bloody Valentine or April Fool’s Day. You won’t find a scene where a cellphone fails to operate, the killer is hiding in the back seat or the characters split up when they should be locking the doors. This film is not clever enough to make fun of those tropes. Instead, it delivers puns so painful they feel like punches in the throat. The jokes are excruciating. They're also obvious. None of them are clever and are delivered with all of the grace of a Girls Gone Wild video. In fact, the beginning of the film is kinda like one, as we are served up a platter of unappealing, shameless and pointless nudity. Each aspect of this picture is enough to make you want to set yourself on fire and then jump in a tub of rotting hog intestines in the hopes of returning as a vengeful ghost to haunt everyone involved in this film’s production until the day they take their own lives.

Any sane person would look at the so-called “selling points” advertised on the DVD cover of ThanksKilling and recognize that a mistake has been made, that garbage belongs in the bin with all of the moldy potato skins rather than the shelf. For those, like me, who do not have a sense of self-preservation, a new level of hatred awaits them. The intensity with which I regret having watched ThanksKilling can hardly be expressed by words. (On DVD, February 2, 2018)

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Is this the greatest rock band ever? The Faces would get some votes.

SONG OF THE DAY - Thursday, January 11, 2024