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THE WINDSHIELD WIPER:

Satire segments

Search for love in modern age

How we’re kept apart

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Ebony magazine covers from 1963

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MET Gala 2024, "The Garden of Time".

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In addition to Ebony's post, Adam Hearn shared photos of his Mistoffelees cover debut in Cast 12 of the Oasis of the Seas, 04 January 2023.

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Ádám Bodorics – Brass and Ebony Bauernwehr

This custom crafted Bauernwehr by specialist bladesmith Ádám Bodorics is a fine way to complete your landsknecht kit with a unique and fetching blade suitable for war and camp. The tough and rigid blade of well tempered steel is sharpened and mirror polished – the blade also has a very thick blade spine to ensure it has outstanding durability. The bolster and riveted nagel are steel and the grip is a composite with a hidden and riveted blade tang surmounted by grip scales of ebony and completed with chiseseled brass framing strips. Included is a wooden scabbard which is bound in leather and throrougly embellished with brass. Included is a utility byknife and pricker which neatly fit into integrated slotted compartments on the scabbard. Below are Ádám’s own thoughts on his custom creation:

Bauernwehrs, the dagger-sized relatives of Messers, took a variety of forms utilizing several different construction methods. Details on this set place it firmly into the middle of the 16th century in style.

The blades are forged and ground from 80crv2 high-carbon steel, heat-treated to 54-56 HrC. A shared feature is the heavily tapered tang surrounded by a chiseled brass strap, which detail is taken from an unpublished original studied in a private session. The Gabon ebony grip slabs sit on the frame, with the gap between the slabs and the tang filled with adhesive. This method is taken from surviving frame-hilt sidearms of this and later eras – as it seems universal to frame-hilt pieces from the areas of modern-day Poland, Turkey and Iran, I don’t believe more Western pieces would be constructed differently. All grips are secured by tubular rivets which are peened, as I have no trust in simple pins.

The principal blade has a short false edge and simple filework on the spine. The bolsters are decorated with filework with the vestigial guard taking the shape of a stylized flower. The Nagel is also fileworked with diagonal lines, matching the scabbard’s finial. It is peened on the other side of the bolsters. The byknife has a simple flat triangular cross-section and brass bolsters with simple geometric decor on it. Normally I find it easier to rivet on the bolsters first and grip slabs after, but thorough study of a surviving frame-hilt knife showed tool marks clearly showing a different order of operations, so this time it was grip slabs before bolsters.

The pricker is also heat-treated, making it somewhat usable for honing, but my experience and the number of un-heat-treated originals strongly imply that they are much less specialized tools. In a pre-modern setting, without all the comforts we are used to, having a pointy, stiff but non-sharp piece can have a variety of uses from simply punching holes to undoing stubborn knots in arming points. The sheath has goat parchment linings for each blade, which are covered and held together by vegetable tanned leather dyed black by iron-acetate. For bonding the pieces and layers I only used hide glue. The entire piece is reinforced and decorated with a hand-wrought brass sheath frame. While these and similar frames are somewhat rare in reproductions, there are multiple surviving originals ranging from even simpler ones in iron all the way to the sculpted and gilt ones on Holbein daggers. A rather eye- catching detail is the strap around the mouth of the bypiece subsheaths, emulating the puff and slash style of period clothing. While most of the originals I’m aware of in this style are on daggers, there’s plenty of evidence for it’s use on Messers and adjacent sidearms. For suspension, there’s a pair of brass tubes on the back for a leather thong for vertical carry on a belt. The frame is held in place by friction provided by the tight fit around the sheath.

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reread the scarlet and ivy books lately and they were actually so dark, what the heck. there were so many attempted murders and successful kidnappings, bullying and arson and abuse, codependency and unhealthy coping mechanisms, etc etc. the way that the twins' trauma was handed throughout was really freaking effective (i've got a full list of every time scarlet's is brought up), and i loved the way every character was handled. the development was there, the twists were incredible, and it gave me a sort of nostalgia that's put me in a really good mood. ofc eleven-year-old me would be into the most morbid kids' book in existence, but hey, i still am now, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Good Luck, Studio Rehearsal Photos

From Mercury Theatre twitter

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Good Luck, Studio Q&A Highlights (25 Oct 2022)

Highlights from Good Luck, Studio's livestreamed Q&A on 25 October 2022, 10pm. The full replay is up on @/wiltscreative on Instagram. Enjoy xx

Do catch Good Luck, Studio on tour if you're able to! They're currently playing in the Salisbury Playhouse (Salisbury) and afterwards going to the Yvonne Arnaud (Guildford) in November.

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wednesday addams wrote my immortal (real)

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A snippet of the bows for Oasis cast 12, c. 4 August 2022 (filmed by erica.renee45).

DevinRe Lewis Adams as Tugger, Samuel Wright and Rina Punwani as Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Connor Dyer and Emma Breton as Gus and Jellylorum, John Neurohr as Skimbleshanks, Ebony Jayne Kitts as Victoria, Lindsay Gaspar as Grizabella, Caroline Eby as Sillabub, Taylor Bryant as Jenny, Luke Stone as Alonzo, Henry Rhodes as Mistoffelees, Raphe Gilliam as Munkustrap, and Hakim Rashad as Deuteronomy.

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Ebonee Davis by © Doug Adams

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Adolescent intuition, murder on the rise

Make an easy million and blow it in a night

Tell me that I’m pretty?

Tell me that I’m nice?

I know you can see it in my eyes

You can see it in my eyes…

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Instagram story - December 1, 2022

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The last double show day White Cat Solo in Cast 12 of the Oasis of the Seas was performed yesterday (27 January 2023), and Sam Bateson, Cast 13 Mistoffelees, was there to capture part of Ebony Jayne Kitts as Victoria doing her thing.

Closing night is today!

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Ádám Bodorics – Ebony Grip Hidden Tang Messer

This beautifully balanced and custom-crafted Messer by specialist swordsmith Ádám Bodorics feels like a natural extension of the hand and its well-tempered and sharp blade slices quickly, cleanly and decisively. The guard and riveted nagel are of steel and the grip is finely carved from smoothly polished fine ebony wood which is directly riveted to the blade tang. The sword is matched with a wood-core scabbard which is lavishly embellished with steel fittings in a landsknecht inspired style. A hanging chain and belt loops allows for it to be worn on the belt. Below are Ádám’s own thoughts on his custom creation:

The large variance in Messers and related sidearms make them a great medium for experimentation and theoretical designs. With this ebony-hilted piece, I intended to create something completely new based on sources mainly from between 1520-1540. In the 16th century, knifelike sidearms undergo several changes, one of them being the increasing regularity of hidden tangs. Illustrations from the period sometimes show rather complex grip shapes that would be complicated with a full-tang construction, but a hidden or a frame tang makes them much more trivial. In this case, I went for a hidden tang and a one-piece ebony grip.

The light, curved blade is ground from 51crv4 high-carbon steel and is heat-treated to 50-52 HrC. While the shape favors cutting and slicing, the tip is subtly reinforced. The spine visibly thickens in the last few milimeters, and the edge angle gets a bit more obtuse. I spotted this detail first on a heavily curved Kriegsmesser from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, but I noticed it elsewhere as well since. The proper tang is relatively short, not an uncommon detail on 16th century specimens.

The short cross with it’s finials is based on a pair of illustrations by Monogramist HD from 1545, and so is the approximate shape of the Nagel. The cross is slid down along the blade and is affixed in place by the triple-fullered, hand-forged and filed Nagel. The most striking part of the Messer is the grip carved and filed from a single piece of Gabon ebony including a shape following pommel type CC2. This is the most theoretical part as well. If we define CC2 pommels as having a complex bottom profile (as opposed to the simple curve of type CC1), then there are plenty of illustrations showing non-metal grip ends matching the type, from Dürer, Beham, etc. If we limit the definition to the somewhat architectural type done by Sumersperger and the makers of several early 16th century pieces, then we even have an existing piece where the shape is part of the organic grip, all the way back in the late 13th century (NDK-1123-2, shown in Cahiers LandArc 2017 N24, pg2). The swirl of the “beak” is present on several sources as well, from a very basic version by Hans Sebald Beham’s “Peasant at the marketplace” through a richly decorated swirl painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in “Judith with the head of Holofernes” all the way to the dizzying all-metal Kriegsmesser by Melchior Diefstetter in Vienna. I aimed at a relatively simple shape that would be still above the one on the Beham woodcut.

The scabbard is based on the already-mentioned illustrations by Monogramist HD. It has a wooden core, a black leather cover and several steel fittings. The largest of said fittings emulate the puff&slash fashion of the time. This detail is found on surviving scabbards of the period, not just in art. The suspension is by a length of handmade mild steel chain and a metal belt loop as in the inspiring illustration. Monogramist HD shows both Messers in a right-side, edge-up carry position – as this is without parallel in the period, I set the scabbard up for a more conventional, left-side, edge-down carry position.