#clifton forge

[unteriors]

Grafton Street, Clifton Forge, Virginia.

[froody]

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church.

Established 1890.

Clifton Forge, Virginia. $209k.

[porcelainapparition]

Clifton Forge, Virginia

built in 1922

[eightmoonphotos]

Peeling Walls~

ph. by August Garrett | 3/2023

(📍 Clifton Forge, VA )

[onenicebugperday]

@fnrrfygmschnish submitted: Found this enormous dead beetle lying in a parking lot (located in Clifton Forge, VA) the other day.  Not sure I’ve seen one like this before, definitely not one this big!

Hopefully the image goes through okay, for some reason Tumblr is just showing me a “photo” icon and the filename (maybe just the submission interface being wonky?)

It seems to have worked! Fairly certain this is a female eastern Hercules beetle. They often discolor after death and can lose their typical tan speckled appearance, especially if it’s very humid or it got wet.

[coldalbion]

Like Covid, climate change will force more artists away from traditional opportunities for community and inspiration. The pandemic turned drag Twitch streamer DEERE into a full-timer; as a makeup artist, her gigs vanished. So she focused on her passions: drag, horror games, and streaming. Early in the pandemic, comedian Jenny Yang created and hosted Comedy Crossing, a twice-monthly standup show streamed over Zoom from inside the game Animal Crossing. Throughout 2020, it raised more than $40,000 for Black Lives Matter. “I’m in this industry and have dedicated my life to it because I want to be part of a conversation,” she says. “To me the collective conversation is what makes life meaningful.” BOARLORD is an indie game developer who “pivoted to porn” (and Patreon) during the pandemic after working in tech, where she discovered “the naked hatred they all have for cultural production.” It was there she found her place. “I am not trying to capture the largest audience. I’m being hyper-specific, sometimes to my detriment," she says of her work. Or, to put it another way, DEERE, Yang, and BOARLORD all found their own ways of seizing the means of production, of audience-building. It's the same thing Black Girl Nerds CEO Jamie Broadnax discovered live-tweeting Scandal years earlier. “I didn’t know I was building a community,” Broadnax says. “I was tired of waiting for a seat at the table, so I built my own table.” The appeal of becoming one’s own studio head is obvious. “Take TikTok,” says Clifton. “You have teens with a more polished presence online than most companies, who have become TikTok experts seemingly overnight, and their work just keeps getting more and more professional-grade.” But in a world where everyone is a brand, no one can be a star. And influencers have discovered what porn performers already knew: Platforms are fickle. Content guidelines, corporate ownership, and payment structures can change overnight, without explanation. Much like humans have permanently altered and unsettled the natural world, online ecosystems for fans and creators have experienced rolling shocks in response to technology. Just as users find another den, it’s burned down. The story of the internet is the story of America itself: a seemingly limitless landscape transformed into a shopping mall populated by the same handful of brands, products, and voices. MacDonald tells me that what’s important about pornography isn’t what it can tell us about entertainment but what it can tell us about how platforms will treat people in the future. “Porn workers are the canaries in the coal mine. They are the first ones to be censored, demonetized, deprioritized in recommender systems, shadow-banned,” MacDonald says. And their vulnerability will soon be everyone’s. “Porn workers are at the bleeding edge of showing that if we don’t address this unilaterally and quickly, next it will be queer video gamers, and after that it will be certain political opinions, and that is alarming. That should concern everyone.” To understand how the American media landscape fractured, one must first understand the brands that forged it. According to Faris Yakob, cofounder of creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention, advertisers created the neutral “view from nowhere” voice in media. In the 19th and 20th centuries, national brands looking to grow customers wouldn’t partner with biased publications. But everything changed when ad tech arrived. “People started tagging their digital media buys so it wouldn’t appear next to topics like homosexuality, or Covid, to avoid getting into clusters,” Yakob says. “But that means that the news isn’t being funded. If you can pick and choose what topics to fund in news, you can distort what is being reported on, to some degree.”

This a fantastic article that touches on so much

[fuckyeswednesday13]

🗣Only 28 days Away USA‼️


See Wednesday 13 performing a full set of Murderdolls songs LIVE this October-December

Support from @geminisyndrome @infectedrain_official and @blacksatellite

🗣Tickets and VIPS on sale NOW through the venues.

Officialwednesday13.com

Fri 20th Oct - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Whisky

Sat 21st Oct - LAS VEGAS, NV - Count’s Vamp’d

Sun 22nd Oct - RENO, NV - Virginia Street Brewhouse

Tue 24th Oct - PORTLAND, OR - Bossanova Ballroom

Wed 25th Oct - SEATTLE, WA - El Corazon

Fri 27th Oct - ROSEVILLE, CA - Goldfield Trading Post

Sat 28th Oct - SAN JOSE, CA - The Ritz

Sun 29th Oct - SAN DIEGO, CA - Brick By Brick

Tue 31st Oct - PHOENIX, AZ - The Nile Theater

Wed 1st Nov - ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Launch Pad

Fri 3rd Nov - DALLAS, TX - Sundown At Grenada

Sat 4th Nov - HOUSTON, TX - Warehouse Live

Sun 5th Nov - AUSTIN, TX - Come And Take It Live

Mon 6th Nov - Tulsa OK- Shrine

Tue 7th Nov - LAWRENCE, KS - The Bottleneck

Thu 9th Nov - MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Skyway Theater

Fri 10th Nov - MADISON, WI - The Annex

Sat 11th Nov - JOLIET, IL - The Forge

Sun 12th Nov - BLOOMINGTON, IL - Castle Theater

Tue 14th Nov - RACINE, WI - Route 20

Wed 15th Nov - FLINT, MI - Machine Shop

Thu 16th Nov - CLEVELAND, OH - The Foundry

Fri 17th Nov - PITTSBURGH, PA - Crafthouse

Sat 18th Nov - LITITZ, PA -Mickeys Black Box

Sun 19th Nov - CLIFTON, NJ - Dingbats

Wed 22nd Nov - SPARTANBURG, SC - Ground Zero

Fri 24th Nov - WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Millennium Center

Sat 25th Nov - RICHMOND, VA - Canal Club

Sun 26th Nov - LEESBURG, VA - Tally Ho

Tue 28th Nov- Atlanta Ga - Masquerade

Thu 30th Nov -KNOXVILLE, TN- The Concourse

Fri 1st Dec - LOUISVILLE, KY - Headliners Music Hall

Sat 2nd Dec - COLUMBUS, OH - The King Of Clubs

Sun 3rd Dec - INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Hi Fi Annex

Tue 5th Dec - DES MOINES, IA - Lefty’s Live Music

Wed 6th Dec - LINCOLN, NE - Bourbon Theater

Fri 8th Dec - DENVER, CO – Oriental Theater

Sat 9th Dec - COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - Black Sheep

Art by @jonnybush

[misspeppermint2003]

33rd Painting of Dear, United Kingdom

After the portrait of Alicja Halicka-Konieczna from Servant of the People, I made the portrait of Patrick Clifton, also known as Postman Pat. He was the main character of one of UK's animated children's television cartoons, Postman Pat.

Patrick "Postman Pat" Clifton from Postman Pat - 30th August 2023

He lives in Forge Cottage with his wife Sara, their son Julian and their pet black and white cat named Jess in Greendale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom.

In November 2018, Pat was involved in a traffic collision, it left him paralyzed in both his legs and he's been bounding in a wheelchair while still having his postman job.

Beginning | Previous | Next

[mikealexandercpt]

Legion's Pulse #preworkout is so powerful, thanks to its#sciencebacked profile it even enhances the grooviness of this here lava lamp. It's true - just look at the colors man...whoa... What's even more far out? @legion is holding a 25% off sale for their products Forge AND Phoenix right now. So make sure you click either the link in my bio or try using the link below and use to the discount code MikeA to either get 20% of #legionpulse or other Legion products or use it to add along with the 25% off Forge, Phoenix or both! DUDE!!! Click here for Legion's out of sight line: https://bit.ly/3XZagtx Mike #mikelaexandercpt #mikealexanderfitness #legionathletics #legionforge #legionphoenix #northjerseypersonaltrainer #strawberryalarmclock #mikematthews #cliftonnj #nasmcpt #northernnj #northjerseylocalbusiness (at Clifton, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CphnEVOum8L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anniekoh]

Escape to the City: Fugitive Slaves in the Antebellum Urban South

by Viola Franziska Müller (2022)

Viola Franziska Müller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond. In the urban South, they found shelter, work, and other survival networks that enabled them to live in slaveholding territory, shielded and supported by their host communities in an act of collective resistance to slavery. While all fugitives risked their lives to escape slavery, those who fled to southern cities were perhaps the most vulnerable of all. Not dissimilar to modern-day refugees and illegal migrants, runaway slaves that sought refuge in the urban South were antebellum America's undocumented people, forging lives free from bondage but without the legal status of freedpeople. Spanning from the 1810s to the start of the Civil War, Müller reveals how urbanization, work opportunities, and the interconnectedness of free and enslaved Black people in each city determined how successfully runaways could remain invisible to authorities.

Slavery in the City: Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America

edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg (2017)

Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together studies from diverse disciplines, including architectural history, historical archaeology, geography, and American studies. The contributors analyze urban sites and landscapes that are likewise varied, from the back lots of nineteenth-century Charleston townhouses to movements of enslaved workers through the streets of a small Tennessee town. These essays not only highlight the diversity of the slave experience in the antebellum city and town but also clearly articulate the common experience of conflict inherent in relationships based on power, resistance, and adaptation. Slavery in the City makes significant contributions to our understanding of American slavery and offers an essential guide to any study of slavery and the built environment.

[lboogie1906]

Clifton Duncan Davis (born October 4, 1945) is an actor, singer, songwriter, minister, and author. He was born in Chicago, the son of Thelma van Putten Langhorn, a nurse, and Toussaint L'Ouverture Davis, a Seventh-day Adventist minister. He was raised in Mastic, New York, and he is a graduate of Pine Forge Academy, an African American boarding school operated by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. He holds a BA in Theology from Oakwood University and an M.Div from Andrews University. He wrote The Jackson 5's No. 2 hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1971. He appeared on Broadway in the musicals Two Gentlemen of Verona and Aladdin. He starred in the television shows That's My Mama, Amen, Madam Secretary, and many others. He has hosted the Stellar Gospel Music Awards, Gospel Superfest, and Lifestyle Magazine. He has appeared on the game shows Match Game and Pyramid and has appeared in many movies. He co-starred with singer and Broadway performer Melba Moore on her musical variety television show. He made a guest appearance on The Bobby Vinton Show, singing "I've Got the Music in Me" and "Never Can Say Goodbye". He sang the Polish lyrics with Vinton to the show's theme song, titled "My Melody of Love". A triple heart bypass survivor, Davis participated in the "Superstars" celebrity TV sports competitions of the 1970s as well as made several appearances as one of the celebrity panelists on the game show Match Game. He appeared in Scott Joplin. He made numerous appearances on several incarnations of Pyramid. He released one acclaimed studio recording on Benson Records titled Say Amen. He played the mayor of Miami in Any Given Sunday. He is a minister of a Baptist church and has operated an interdenominational ministry for many years. He has been a guest on the Trinity Broadcasting Network many times. He wrote a chapter in the book, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul. Entitled "A Mason-Dixon Memory," it recounts the racism which he experienced while he was growing up. He married Ann Taylor ​(1981⁠–⁠1991)​ and Monica Durant ​(2000 - ). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha https://www.instagram.com/p/CjSY4OyuMZU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[froody]

I grew up in Cov VA and I HAVE to know your experience riding through. I have never heard my hometown mentioned online and I presume anyone's experience was vile

Hehehe. Most of my extended family is from the Allegheny region. I would say I’m a semi-local, not a drive through gawker. But yeah it sucks ass. It’s like if Twin Peaks was set in a truly small town in Appalachia. Everyone is bizarre. Beautiful landscape. Asshole drivers. Everything is kind of seedy. Subpar Walmart. Dollar General is post-apocalyptic cavelike environment. Just a very sad town. Clifton Forge is even weirder with the catacombs.

[porcelainapparition]

Clifton Forge, Virginia

built in 1922

[eightmoonphotos]

Abandoned and Overgrown~

ph. by August Garrett | 3/2023

(📍 Clifton Forge, VA )

[fnrrfygmschnish]

Yogurt Snails are beginning to appear all across southwestish/central Virginia.

From the dark underground-ish areas below the streets of Clifton Forge...

...to the paved path through a park downtown...

...all the way over to the nearby city of Covington, sliming around under a bridge behind a deserted Applebee's.

Where will they turn up next?

[01courtreporter]

Donald Roberts Obituary - Clifton Forge, VA | Nicely Funeral Home

Nicely Funeral Home