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Circle of Love (La Ronde) (1964) Roger Vadim

January 15th 2023

[scenephile]

I like when you come here, because you need me.

[focsle]

Next journal adventure will be that of Benjamin Boodry, 2nd mate on the Arnolda.

He was a career whaleman, first going to sea at age 12/13 on the Willis 1840-42, which his brother William was captain of. Two years later in 1844 his brother died while on a whaling voyage at age 32 of ‘brain fever’ at Rio de Janeiro. 

Benjamin continued going to sea and rising through the ranks of a whaleship, becoming a boatsteerer on the 1846 voyage of LaGrange, and 2nd mate on the 1852-55 voyage of Arnolda.

After that, in 1856 he got married at age 28 to 22 year old Mary Washburn. A mere two months after their marriage he was off again on another 4 year voyage aboard the Fanny, this time as captain.

In 1861 they had their first child, Frederick. Unfortunately Frederick died a few months after his first birthday. In February of 1863 Benjamin also died very young at the age of 35 of Endocarditis. At that point Mary was 6 months pregnant with their second son. That child was born at the end of June and was named after his father. Mary would remarry a man named Charles Barstow two years later, have a final daughter named Jane in 1868, and Mary would live well into her 80s.

[rabbitcruiser]

Carbide & Carbon Building, Chicago (No. 1)

The Carbide & Carbon Building is a 37-story, 503 feet (153 m) landmark Art Deco skyscraper built in 1929, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It was converted to a hotel in 2004.

The building was designed by the Burnham Brothers (the firm launched by Daniel Burnham's sons Hubert Burnham and Daniel Burnham Jr.) as the regional office of Union Carbide and Carbon Co.. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 9, 1996.

The building was transformed into the Hard Rock Cafe's Hard Rock Hotel Chicago from 2001-2004. The $106 million conversion was directed by Lucien Lagrange & Associates. The hotel began hosting guests on January 1, 2004 and after its bar and restaurant were completed, it celebrated its grand opening on April 21, 2004, The current hotel capacity is 383 guest rooms and 13 suites. The Hard Rock Hotel closed on December 1, 2017, and reopened in 2018 as the St. Jane Chicago Hotel, named for Nobel Peace Prize-winner and noted Chicagoan social activist Jane Addams.

The exterior of the building is covered in polished black granite, and the tower is dark green terra cotta with gold leaf accents. The use of stylized representations of leaves on the building's exterior was an intentional reference by the architects to the prehistoric origins of subterranean carbon deposits in the decay of ancient plants. The ground floor was specifically designed to display the products of Union Carbide and Carbon's subsidiaries. The lobby features black Belgian Marble and Art Deco bronzework trim. The exterior base is black granite with black marble and bronze trim, whereas the central shaft is clad in dark green and gold terra cotta and the greenish cap (which looks from a distance like malachite but is not) is trimmed in gold leaf.

According to popular myth of the era, Burnham Brothers supposedly designed the building to resemble a dark green champagne bottle with gold foil at the top. Beginning on November 16, 2007, the gold-leaf tower was permanently illuminated at night, which further encouraged this urban legend. The design of the building has been compared to architect Raymond Hood's American Radiator Building in New York City, which allegedly inspired this one. According to an article in the April 1930 issue of Western Architect, the high profile of the Carbide & Carbon Building project allowed the Burnham Brothers to secure a commission for the Cuneo Building, another proposed skyscraper of contrasting colors; that was planned for the northeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street in mid-1929 and was intended to be 657 feet or 60 stories tall. However, the Stock Market Crash of October 1929, followed by the Great Depression, forced cancellation of the Cuneo Building proposal along with many other architectural projects. Thus, the Carbide & Carbon Building was the practice's last major commission before the Great Depression ended, by which time the firm had become Burnham & Hammond.

Source: Wikipedia

[anyskin]

Luxurious, exuberant and dramatic, the Carbide and Carbon Building is a metaphor for the sumptuous décor of 1920s America. The Chicago landmark is located at 230 N. Michigan Avenue. The facade is composed of luxurious polished black granite, green and gold terra cotta and gold leaf with bronze trim. The building, which was built like a green champagne bottle with gold foil according to urban legend, (that's real 24k gold foil on top of the building) in 1929, is an example of Art Deco architecture designed by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of architect Daniel Burnham. The gold accents continue all the way down to street level. This is a building that simply refuses to be ignored. Union Carbide was the inventer of the dry-cell battery and the Eveready brand. It was the home to the Hard Rock Hotel and was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 9, 1996.The building was transformed into the Hard Rock Cafe's Hard Rock Hotel Chicago from 2001-2004. The $106 million conversion was directed by Lucien Lagrange & Associates. The hotel began hosting guests on January 1, 2004 and after its bar and restaurant were completed, it celebrated its grand opening on April 21, 2004. The current hotel capacity is 383 guest rooms and 13 suites. The Hard Rock Hotel closed on December 1, 2017, and reopened in 2018 as the St. Jane Chicago Hotel, named for Nobel Peace Prize-winner and noted Chicagoan social activist Jane Addams. This building's planned twin tower a block away was cancelled in 1929. It was to be called the Cuneo Building.

[livlepretre]

This is a great ask set—I’d love to hear about 12, 13, and 24!

12. favorite character to write about this year:

Well, I think the obvious answer is Queen Elena– because how is it possible not to love her? She embodies one of my very favorite tropes, which is the human coming out victorious against what should be the unconquerable inhuman, and doing it by hook and by crook. I’ve had ample opportunity to write about this with FE, and Elena hasn’t even played her biggest cards yet, so I am thrilled with that. It’s kind of a wild ride writing someone who keeps so many secrets and leaves so much unsaid, and yet is such an internal person, with everything kept under the surface. She’s also wonderfully tragic, and recklessly brave, and has a lot of mythic elements that tease the at the dichotomy between her fragility as a mortal and this palpably terrifying larger than life quality I’ve always imagined her to have. 

Other than Elena– Stefan and Marcel have both been great fun. Well, I say fun. Imagining what Marcel and Elena’s dynamic would be like stretched the limits for me pretty far, since they never catch wind of each other canonically, but Marcel is just so cool under pressure–  a lot like Elena, actually. I didn’t intend for them to have such an intense connection, that just completely wrote itself. 

And as for Stefan! He didn’t make too many appearances this year, but when he did my heart was basically in shreds. There’s something incredibly satisfying about writing the helpless downward spiral he and Elena are stuck on. 

13. favorite writing song/artist/album of this year: 

Gosh, there are a lot of songs I listen to A LOT when I write, or when I’m trying to amp myself up to write– aaand this is quickly becoming a really long answer, but FE requires a lot of mood music! 

Never Met a Girl Like You Before by the Insects– I heard this song for the first time probably in the spring of 2016, around the time I started publishing FE. I knew as soon as I heard it that this is the sound of the fic, the hazy, claustrophobic, out of control, sure to be a doomed and passionate affair feeling of the fic. This song literally sounds like an obsession to me.

All My Heart by the Mynabirds

Because the Night by Garbage and the Screaming Females

There is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths

Handle with Care by Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins

Like a River Runs by Bleachers 

The Only One by Holly Miranda

Apocalypse by Cigarettes After Sex

Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You, Baby by Cigarettes After Sex

Gallery Piece by of Montreal

Sweet Dreams by Emily Browning

Vampire Smile by Kyla LaGrange

Home by Daughter

In the Pines by Widowspeak

All in White by the Vaccines 

I Always Knew by the Vaccines (honestly this is when I know I’m down the rabbit hole too far lol) 

I Don’t Want Love by the Antler

Make It Without You by Andrew Belle

Generals by the Mynabirds

24. favorite fic you read this year: 

Without a Doubt @innermostplanet‘s The Hangman’s Hands. It’s an MCU fic picking up from the end of the first avengers movie, “Thor and Loki never make it back to Asgard. Now S.H.I.E.L.D. is stuck with the world’s most hated war criminal on their hands and everyone wants a piece - unless they can find a way to get rid of him for good.” Jane/Thor and also Jane/Loki, in a way that gives satisfying weight to both. 

I can’t speak highly enough about this gem– it’s one of those stories that leaves me breathless, reeling from the dark beauty of the prose, the thoughtful, often painful, insights into the characters, and just the scope of how very far the story goes from where it begins. I’m a sucker for like… all of the tropes employed, and the writer often threw all of my assumptions as a reader against me in a savagely thrilling way. I learned a lot about writing fic from this, too– about how to shape a long narrative, about how threads of plot and character development can be resolved, and maybe what the point of writing a fic even is, at least for me. 

Thank you for the ask @mercurialobsession! 

[kornkidd]

Posted @thecosmicevolve This Monday, January 24, after a 30-day journey into space, Webb arrives at its final destination. A dream realized? Not yet. This is what happens next. Although it’s too small and dim to see with the naked eye, look out at night and Webb will be out there. It’s currently in the constellation of Monoceros, slightly east of Orion’s Belt. Webb has journeyed a million miles/1.5 million kilometers from Earth to what’s known as the second Lagrange point (L2). This is a very important position in space relative to Earth. What will Webb do now? With the mechanical unfolding of the observatory complete, the engineers got on with aligning the mirrors. Remotely moving each of the 18 primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror out of their launch configuration, they tinkered with the curvature of each mirror segment to set the overall shape of Webb’s primary mirror. NASA says it could take until April 24 to align the 18 hexagonal gold-covered beryllium segments to create Webb’s primary mirror. “This telescope is not ready out of the box and the first images are going to be ugly – it’s going to be blurry,” said Jane Rigby, Webb Operations Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, at a press briefing in January. Engineers will effectively have 18 images that need to be stitched together into one telescopic image. It’s going to be exacting work. “We start with the mirrors off by millimeters and we're driving them to be aligned to within less than a size of a Coronavirus – to 10s of nanometers,” said Rigby. “It’s a very deliberate process that is time consuming.” Once that process is over by mid-March or May then we get answers of the universe with the help of @nasawebb . Via @thecosmicevolve #nasawebb #nasajpl #nasagoddard #jameswebbspacetelescope #webbtelescope #thecosmicevolve #thebigbangtheory #theoreticalphysics #theuniverse #unfoldtheuniverse #hubble #hubbletelescope #hubble30 #hubbleclassic #hubblespacetelescope #constellation #observatory #spacetime #spacescience ##europanspaceagency ##canadianspaceagency #Webb #jwst #JamesWebb #telescopes #bigbang #unfoldtheuniverse #spacetelescope #spaceexploration #bigbangtheory https://www.instagram.com/p/CZIH7vIO266/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Another one bites the dust…Term ends 1-10-21 #Just_Say_NO_To_2020_Retentions

Gee IDK, I think it’s kinda important he was never a Judge before being in control of our Highest Courts. He was simply a DHS Attorney; in 2004 Henry appointed him to Civil Appeals, 4 years later he became Supreme Court Justice. I don’t subscribe to their bullshit the voters retained him in 2008 and in 2014 since most voters don’t do their due diligence to seek history, (if they even vote) we just assume they got there the right way, not sneaking in the back door.

2004 – Present: Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court

2000-2004: Judge, Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals

1988-1989; 1999: Attorney, Oklahoma Department of Human Services

1987-2000: Attorney in private practice

1984-1986: Assistant district attorney, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

1982-1984: Assistant dean, Marquette University[1]

https://ballotpedia.org/Tom_Colbert

https://www.ok.gov/elections/Election_Info/Election_Results/index.html

O CJ C Score: 14% https://okciviljustice.com/tom-j

Appointed by: Governor Brad Henry

Retention date: October 7, 2004

According to the blurbs…

OCJC Profile. Chief Justice Tom Colbert, the first African-American to serve on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, was born in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Sapulpa High School, earned an associate’s degree from Eastern Oklahoma State College in 1970, and a bachelor of science degree from Kentucky State University in 1973. While at Kentucky State, Justice Colbert was named an All-American in track and field. Justice Colbert served in the United States Army and received an honorable discharge in 1975. He earned a master of education degree from Eastern Kentucky University in 1976 and taught in the public schools in Chicago. Justice Colbert received his juris doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in 1982. He was an Assistant Dean at Marquette University Law School from 1982-1984 and an Assistant District Attorney in Oklahoma County from 1984-1986, before entering private law practice at Miles-LaGrange & Colbert from 1986-1989. Justice Colbert continued his practice under the name Colbert and Associates from 1989-2000. He also served as an attorney for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services from 1988-89 and in 1999. In March of 2000, Justice Colbert became the first African-American appointed to the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals. He served as Chief Judge of that Court in 2004. On October 7, 2004, Governor Brad Henry appointed Justice Colbert to the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Justice Colbert is a member of the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Oklahoma Bar Association, and the Tulsa County Bar Association. He participates in the Track & Field Masters Level, a mentoring program for young men, and a summer reading program for children, and is a frequent speaker at schools.

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SIX from paddy wilkins on Vimeo.

A man with obsessive-compulsive disorder finds a moment of clarity.

A Paddy Wilkins Short

Bob Stephenson /Dad Quinn Friedman /Son Alex Wilson /Mom Wolf At The Door /Music Composition Adeline Wilkins, Joey Indrieri /Associate Producers Sean Lagrange /Editor Taylor Black /Colorist Jordan Meltzer /Mixer Paul Stula /Sound Recordist Jess Sluder /Production Designer Sven Kamm /Assistant Director Keith Pikus /Director of Photography Writer/Director /Paddy Wilkins

Special Thanks /Jane Wilkins, Adeline Wilkins, Matt Ellis, Vavine Tahapehi, Simon’s Market Venice, Matt Aselton, Alex Kemp, Scott Brown, Thomas Leisten Schneider, Geoff Hounsell,

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[cynicinafishbowl]

An outtake from Politics and Profanity

Chapter 6 is now online, http://archiveofourown.org/works/9367256/chapters/22059380, and as I’ve intimated in the notes, the meeting of Mary and Fitzwilliam was very different in its original iteration.

This scene was first conceived of before I read @amarguerite‘s treatise on why we should all be at least low-key shipping Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam, and so in the universe wherein this scene exists, the two of them are excellent chums, but nothing more. Slightly more to the point, LORD TRISTAN DIDN’T EVEN EXIST AS A CHARACTER WHEN I WROTE THIS. It has no impact on the outtake whatsoever, but still. What was I thinking? This was a scene which flew into my head, more or less fully formed, just about as soon as I came up with a premise for a Pride and Prejudice modern AU.

In this iteration of the universe, Mary is in her final year of undergraduate engineering, and so is about 22 or 23, and engaged in an entirely different major. Stepping past the significant gap in age and life experience that caused, I have since made Mary a 26 year old PhD candidate because I really wanted her to be the most abominable bluestocking. Also in this iteration of the universe, while the two of them are excellent chums, Elizabeth doesn’t know the particulars of Fitzwilliam’s study etc. 

I apologise in advance for the fact that this outtake isn’t quite up to scratch in terms of tone and the slight Mary-Sueish undertones which crop up occasionally and all of the horrific maths computing jargon. There’s a reason it didn’t make it into the fic.

Fitzwilliam was interrupted by something on Elizabeth’s side of the call. He had been mid-sentence when he heard a horrified 'Nooooooooooooooooooooo!' followed by 'Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck! Fuck right off! No! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck me!', each 'fuck' punctuated by the sound of someone hitting a table. 

"Is everything alright on your end?" he asked hesitantly. 

"I'm not entirely sure," Elizabeth responded slowly. "My younger sister just went dead pale and then the profanity started. Now she just looks murderous."

"Which younger sister?" he enquired, knowing that a plurality existed.

"Mary, the eldest."

"Is she alright?"

"Are you alright, Mary?" Elizabeth asked, mouth away from the phone. 

"What the fuck do you think?" Fitzwilliam heard her forcibly ejaculate. 

"It would seem not," Elizabeth relayed.

"Dare I ask what's wrong?" he continued. 

"I'll just put you on speaker," Elizabeth said into the handset. Away from it, she said, "I'm putting it on speaker, Mary. Try to be civil." She pressed speaker, put down the handset and said "Go."

"Miss Mary Bennett, hello."

"H,." Mary responded curtly, not really having time for pleasantries. "Who might you be?"

"Evelyn Fitzwilliam, at your service. Might I enquire as to what troubles you?"

"I'm working in MatLab, on a five line inverse Lagrange fucking interpolating polynomial, and my code won't fucking compile."

"Have you checked brackets?" he asked.

"I'm not a moron," Mary replied acidly, "that was the first thing I checked."

"Would you take issue if I were to come by and take a look at it?" he asked.

"Lizzie here,"  Elizabeth interjected, "correct me if I'm wrong, but you're an ex-military civil servant. When last I checked, mathematical coding was not really part of the skill set."

"I've actually got a PhD in applied mathematics, which I got, studying by distance whilst on duty. I'm a civil servant because I got back just as Fitz was elected, he asked me to join, and since I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, I thought why not?"

"Mary again," Mary put in, "what is your level of experience with MatLab?"

"You wouldn’t even understand some of the stuff I can do with MatLab."

"How soon can you get here?" she asked with a hint of desperation she didn't even bother trying to hide.

"I'll be over in five minutes. Try not to set fire to your computer before then. Ladies, I shall see you shortly."

The call was ended, and Elizabeth, noting the still murderous glint in Mary's eyes, did what she thought safest and removed her sister's laptop from her immediate reach. The moment the offending screen was no longer in view, Mary relaxed visibly. "Say, doesn't he work with that Tory MP you dislike so intensely?" she asked with nary an expletive.

"He does," her elder sister replied, "only unlike the Right Honourable Member for Pemberly, he isn't a complete twat. He's actually quite nice."

"Well he purports to know the ways of the Matrix Laboratory, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt."

True to his word, Evelyn Fitzwilliam knocked on the door of Elizabeth’s office five minutes after ending the call, five minutes being the time required to make one's way from his office to hers.

She opened the door to see Mr Gardiner giving him the disdainful eye - a look which told its receiver that the reason they weren't getting the evil eye was simply the fact that they weren't deemed enough of a threat to deserve it.

Elizabeth invited him in, gave Mary her computer, and sat down at her desk to formulate arguments for Mr Gardiner’s inevitable 'why is some Oxbridge tory arsefuck visiting your office?' discussion. 'He's a friend' probably wouldn't stand.

Fitzwilliam meanwhile walked over to Mary, who wheeled the chair she was sitting in out of the way (she had been sitting for so long that she didn't think standing was a good idea) and leaned over in front of her laptop.

"Beautifully set out code," he noted. Mary raised her eyebrows as if to say ‘fucking duh’. "So what do you study?" he asked, continuing to scroll and scrutinise.

"Engineering."

"Because that was a specific answer."

"Geotechnical."

"Are you enjoying it?"

Mary smiled, because more commonly the follow-up question was either 'what is that' or 'dear god, why'. "It's great."

"Are you planning to take an honours year?"

"Of course."

"Have you landed on a thesis topic yet?"

"I was thinking something to do with offshore mining or drilling. Maybe seismic survey or the like."

"You're in fourth year?"

"Yes. Honours will make it an even five."

"Which university are you at?"

"UCL."

"Ok, I've found your problem. Your brackets were indeed correct. Your problem was a typo in a variable name. If I fix that," he deleted a character and replaced it, "this should," he clicked 'run', "compile." It did.

"Excuse me," said Mary, her face devoid of expression. She stood up, opened the door leading to the small balcony Elizabeth's office included, closed it behind her and began screaming profanities. Elizabeth was about to go outside to see if her sister required a hug or large volume of hard liquor when Mr Gardiner called for her.

“I’ve got this,” Fitzwilliam said, picking up Mary’s coat from the back of her chair and opening the balcony door. “Have fun with Ghengis.”

“Thanks, Evelyn,” Elizabeth said, heading for the door to Mr Gardiner’s office.

“Why the fuck is that little Tory prick here?” he asked, getting straight to the point.

“He’s helping my sister with some engineering coursework,” Elizabeth replied.

“Is that some kind of euphemism for something?” Mr Gardiner asked with obvious distaste.

“No it is not, and if it were, I can’t imagine what for. He is legitimately assisting Mary with her tertiary study.”

“And you’re not… you know…” Mr Gardiner raised his eyebrows a couple of times in implication. Elizabeth thought it adorable that he couldn’t bring himself to ask whether or not she and Evelyn were engaging in the horizontal tango, when he seemed to have no filter on his mouth whatsoever.

“No,” she replied, brow furrowed. “Is there implication that we are?”

“No. Just checking.”

“Well if that’s it, I’d appreciate being able to check that my sister hasn’t jumped off the balcony. Now wasn’t the best time.”

“What’s she doing here?”

“It’s half past seven on a Friday evening. We’re helping our sister move this weekend. You know, unless there’s some last minute emergency someone needs a reaming out over,” Elizabeth said with some trepidation. She really hoped she would be able to help Jane move, because she hadn’t seen her sister since the wedding.

“No. Fuck off,” Mr Gardiner said with what was almost an affectionate smile. “Enjoy the manual labour. If we’re lucky, no-one will fuck up while you’re gone.”

They both snorted at that. “See you on Monday, Edward,” Elizabeth said, walking back to her office, and out onto the balcony where she saw Fitzwilliam with sitting (impeccable suit and all) against the wall next to Mary, who had just been crying, with his arm around her. “Am I missing something?” Elizabeth asked.

“She hasn’t really slept this past week. Emotions are running a bit high. She needs a nap and she’ll be fine,” Fitzwilliam said, standing up and offering a hand to pull Mary up. “MatLab tends to do that to you.”

“Come on Mary. We can head off now,” Elizabeth said, mouthing ‘thank you’ to Fitzwilliam. “Pack up your computer and I’ll we’ll be off in a second.”

Mary walked inside, wiping her eyes and Elizabeth turned to Fitzwilliam, who spoke first. “It’s fine. It was actually nice to use the skills I spent seven years attaining.”

Elizabeth clapped him on the shoulder. “You, sir, are a prince among men.”

He bowed slightly in response. “One does what one can.” They returned to Elizabeth's office where Mary was packing her comically large laptop into an even more comically large laptop bag. He kissed Elizabeth on the cheek and said “I’ll see you on Monday.” To Mary, he said “Mary, it was an absolute pleasure to meet you. If you run into any other problems, don’t hesitate to give me a call.” He handed her a business card and was on his way.

Once he was out of the office, Mary turned to Elizabeth and remarked wistfully, “They certainly don’t make them like that in geotech.”

And as a special bonus for those of you who have had to engage in coding for university study, an exchange which I was going to work into the fic somewhere:

“You should see what I can do with Python or C.”

“Shut up now, I’m starting to get aroused.”

[rabbitcruiser]

Carbide & Carbon Building (No. 1)

The Carbide & Carbon Building is a 37-story, 503 feet (153 m) landmark Art Deco skyscraper built in 1929, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It was converted to a hotel in 2004.

The building was designed by the Burnham Brothers as the regional office of Union Carbide and Carbon Co. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 9, 1996. It was transformed into the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago from 2001-2004. The $106 million conversion was directed by Lucien Lagrange & Associates. The hotel began hosting guests on January 1, 2004 and after its bar and restaurant were completed,it celebrated its grand opening on April 21, 2004. The current hotel capacity is 383 guest rooms and 13 suites. The Hard Rock Hotel is set to close on December 1, 2017, and will reopen in 2018 as the St. Jane Chicago Hotel, named for Nobel Peace Prize-winner and noted Chicagoan, social activist Jane Addams.

Source: Wikipedia

[bonjourdelph-blog]

Ecouter sur Jane Austen

“ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” Pride&Prejudice

Tu pourras écouter ci-contre les émissions de Matthieu Garrigou-Lagrange, La compagnie des oeuvres/auteurs, sur Jane Austen.

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-compagnie-des-auteurs/jane-austen

[keepingupwithkyla]

Operation Disney - prep (3/26/19)

In true Kyla style, I am blogging about the preparations. We don’t actually get on the plane headed for Disney until tomorrow morning, but, we have to meet at the high school at 3:20 AM. So, I’m going to meet Jane and Lucy down in Lagrange to catch a few winks before we have to leave to go to the high school. Today is a day of laundry, packing and cooking for Tom for while I’m gone.

[rrbondgalleries]

A guide to Shows and local art galleries Oct. 22-29 at Louisville

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The faces of famous people now appear in artworks in the exhibition “Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art” opening in Louisville’s 21c Museum Resort. June 20, 2017 Kathryn Gregory/CJ

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A guide to local art galleries and shows Oct. 22-29 in the Louisville area   

849 Gallery in the Kentucky College of Art + Design.  849 S. Third St. “Charge! ,” an exploration of the consumer-dominated civilization, featuring the work of photographer Brian Ulrich. Ends Nov. 17. 

Art Council of Southern Indiana.  820 East Market St., New Albany. “Photo Mix.” Ends Nov. 11.

B. Deemer Gallery.  2650 Frankfort Ave. “Passages,” paintings by Carolyn Hisel. Ends Nov. 7.

Barr Gallery.  Indiana University Southeast, 4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany. “Hook, Line and Singer,” by Miri Phelps. Ends Oct. 29.

Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.  2499 Forest Hill Drive, Clermont, “Beneficial Insects,” by Joanne Price.  Ends Oct 31.

Chestnuts and Watches Gallery.   157 E. Main St., New Albany. “On the Street,” by Bussert Photography; and “Rhythms and Flows,” by Kristen Warning. Ends Nov. 11.

Corner Café Gallery.  9307 New Lagrange Road. Don Burchett. Ends Nov. 15. 

Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.   572 South 4th St. “Italia Con Amore,” photographic mosaics in Umbria, Tuscany and Le Marche by Dobree Adams. Ends Oct. 27.

Cressman Center for Visual Arts.  100 E. Main St. “Overshadowed,” a collaborative, experimental exhibition which examines the assembly point between pictures, landscape and astronomy. Ends Oct. 28.

The Filson Historical Society.  1310 S. 3rd St. “Recognizing the Indescribable: Paintings by Gloucester Caliman Coxe.” Ends Dec. 15.

Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery.  815 W. Market St. Sculptures and glass creations by Ann Klem. Ends Nov. 11. 

Gallery 104.  104 E. Main St., La Grange. Louisville Photo Biennial “Oldham County, A Perspective in Black & White,” Ends Nov. 12. 502-222-3822, . 

Garner Narrative Contemporary Fine Art.  642 E. Market St. “Home Sweet Home,” photography and installation. Ends Oct. 27.

Harrison County Discovery Center.  233 N. Capitol Ave., Corydon. “Auto Indiana.” Ends Nov. 27.

Huff Gallery.  Spalding University, 853 Library Lane. “Comics: Jay Leisten and Friends” by Marvel and DC comic book artist Jay Leisten along with many others. Ends Oct. 29. 502-273-4436.

Hyland Glass Gallery.  721 E. Washington St. “False Light,” by Laurie Blayney, combined imagery from observations in protests, rallies and gatherings. Ends Nov. 30.

Jane Morgan Gallery.  4838 Brownsboro Center. “Alla Prima.” Ends Nov. 11.

Kaviar Forge & Gallery.  147 Stevenson Ave. Opening Oct. 27, “Artists in Their Midst.” Reception, Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m. Ends Dec. 30.

Kentucky College of Art + Design.  Spalding University, 845 S. Third St. “Pep Boys,” by Brian Ulrich. Ends Nov. 9.

Kentucky Derby Museum.  704 Central Ave. “Winner’s Circle,” featuring this season’s Kentucky Derby winner, Always Dreaming; “It’s My Derby,” featuring hats and fashion of the Kentucky Derby and also “The best Race, a 360°,” immersive media experience which takes you into the heart of the Kentucky Derby. “Person o’War: The Legacy.” Ends Dec. 31. D. Wayne Lukas exhibit, featuring items in the Hall of Fame Trainer’s series, four Kentucky Derby decorations and four Kentucky Oaks decorations will be on display. Ends Oct. 2018. .

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.  Leslie H. Spetz Custom Framing, 2400-C Lime Kiln Lane. Photographs of the Louisville Ballet, Sam English. Ends Oct. 31. 

Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft.  715 West Main St. “Victory Over the Sun: Poetics and Politics of Eclipse.” Ends Dec. 3.

Kentucky Watercolor Society Gallery.  Brownsboro Center Arcade. “Celebrate the Holidays.” End Jan. 5.

Kore Gallery.  Mellwood Art Center, 1860 Mellwood Ave. “Made You Look” by Karen Terhune, Mike McCarthy and William M. Duffy; “Light, Shadows, and Color” by Anil Vinayakan. Both finish October 29.

Lenihan Sotheby International.  3803 Brownsboro Road. “Summertime.” Ends Oct. 31.

Moremen Moloney Contemporary.  939 E. Washington St. “Gold of Africa” by international photographer Adam Shulman. Ends Nov. 18. 

Muhammad Ali Center.  144 N. Sixth St. “In the Shadows,” photography exhibition by Howard Bingham. Ends Jan. 21, 2018. “Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.” Ends Jan. 8, 2018. “Available Light: Louisville Through the Lens of Bud Dorsey ” Ends Jan. 2, 2018.

Paul Ogle Art Center.  Indiana University Southeast, 4201 Grantline Road. Collection of artwork by artists of this Wonderland Way Circa 1920-1937. Ends Jan. 2020.

Paul Paletti Gallery.  713 E. Market St. “Finding Heaven in a Holler,” by Shelby Lee Adams. Ends Dec. 31. 

PYRO Gallery.  1006 E. Washington St. Opening Oct. 26, “…and afterwards…, an Exhibition of Reminiscence,” by fabric artist Bette Levy. Reception, Oct. 27, 6-9 p.m. Ends Dec. 9. 

Swanson Contemporary. 636 E Market St. “Aluminature,” by Jenny Zeller. Ends Oct. 28. 

Tim Faulkner Gallery.  1512 Portland Ave. “In Tens: A Single Century into Live,” paintings by Margaret Archambault. Ends Nov. 4.

Zephyr Gallery.  610 E. Market St. “PROJECT 19: The Extended Gaze,” by Nhat Tran, Vian Sora along with Tiffany Calvert. Ends today, Oct. 22. “PRHBTN,” works by local musicians who utilize styles, procedures, and content explored in public art, street art, graffiti, pop-art, social networking, graphic arts and much more. Ends Nov. 19. 

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Los imperdibles de Mutek Buenos Aires

Luego de una espera de 7 años, este fin de semana vuelve Mutek Buenos Aires. El festival internacional de creatividad digital nacido en el año 2000 en Montreal, Canadá, ha visitado Norte América, Sudamérica, Asia y Europa, y este año cuenta con ediciones en Montreal, México, Barcelona, Tokio, Buenos Aires y una primera edición en Dubai.

El festival apunta a la originalidad y a una muy interesante diversidad de contenidos, ramificándose en shows en vivo, DJs, experiencias audiovisuales, VR y Laboratorios sonoros con charlas y talleres. Tendrá su base en el hermoso CCK y eventos satélite en Cróbar y en el Centro Metropolitano de Diseño.

Con el foco puesto en propuestas vanguardistas, el festival durará 3 días y estará dividido en varias secciones: DIGI_LAB, con charlas y talleres durante el día; el VR Salon, donde se podrán experimentar instalaciones de Realidad Virtual; PLAY, con shows en vivo y DJ sets; A/Visions, con shows audiovisuales; y los eventos especiales NOCTURNE, en Cróbar, y el cierre de EXPERIENCE en el Centro Metropolitano de Diseño.

Para guiarte en un festival tan amplio, en Rocktails no sólo te damos nuestros elegidos imperdibles para cada sección, sino que también te armamos la agenda diaria.

VIERNES 22

Empezamos a las 17hs, en la Sala 504 del quinto piso del CCK, para presenciar cómo el Gurú Argentino de los Sintetizadores Ernesto Romeo presenta en sociedad una de las creaciones modernas más imponentes del mundo de la síntesis: el Arturia MatrixBrute.

De allí, y siempre en el CCK, nos vamos a la divina Cúpula, en donde a las 18hs se presentará una interesantísima sociedad audiovisual: luego de una exitosa presentación en el Sónar, Pablo Reche vuelve a encontrarse con Diego Scagni para crear una presentación audiovisual a partir de fuentes analógicas de audio y video, procesándolas en vivo hasta lograr texturas audiovisuales ambient.

De allí, podemos darnos una vuelta por la Sala Sinfónica, en el 4º piso, y experimentar la presentación de Realidad virtual “How can I ease your mind without lying”, de Simon Wilkinson aka Circa69 (UK), que todo indica detonará muchos cerebros. Mirá un adelanto:

Y después de un merecido descanso para recuperar energías, el plato fuerte del viernes: los legendarios Bruno de Vincenti y Microesfera, pilares de la electrónica argentina, nos presentan su proyecto Cubecatz, en el que conjugan sintetizadores analógicos y sistemas modulares en un viaje que nos llevará desde las texturas ambient hacia el deep techno, sazonado con las visuales artísticas de Dolores Lagrange.

SÁBADO 23

Arrancamos con todo, reencontrándonos con el gurú Ernesto Romeo y con Klauss, banda pionera de la escena electrónica latinoamericana, que comparte con su hermano Lucas Romeo, Francisco Nicosia y Pablo Gil. Si alguna vez quisiste ver en acción (y en muy buenas manos) los sintetizadores y máquinas de ritmo más importantes de la historia, TENÉS que estar a las 18 hs en la Cúpula del CCK, y ver cómo los integrantes de Klauss dominan con sapiencia y maestría un verdadero arsenal analógico: MiniMoog D, EMS Synthi AKS, Sistema Modular Moog, Pro One y los Roland Jupiter 8, Juno 60, SH 101, TB303 y TR909.

Después de tamaña panzada sintetística (?), a las 19hs nos movemos a la Sala Argentina del CCK, a disfrutar y maravillarnos con la instalación de luz y sonido Spacetime Helix, presentación de Michela Pelusio (Italia) & Glenn Vervliet (Bélgica), que utiliza instrumentos opto-acústicos y la superposición de la luz cinética con el sonido para crear una espiral que se eleva al infinito. Spacetime Helix promete una experiencia visualmente impresionante (con reserva de entradas desde el sitio del CCK, o a jugárselas a buscar el remanente dos horas antes de la función).

Y por si esto fuera poco, a las 21hs, en la Plaza Seca del CCK, el maravilloso y sorprendente Chancha Via Circuito se presenta en plan full band. Cualquier descripción de Chancha Via Circuito dirá que Pedro Canale hace “cumbia electrónica”. No le crean mucho. La Electrónica latinoamericana hecha carne y groove. Imperdible. Ah si, hoy, ya, ahora: entren en Spotify (o su plataforma predilecta) y escuchen el delicadísimo Amansara.

A descansar un rato. A cenar. Tal vez dormir una siesta (?) y prepararse para el único evento pago del Mutek Buenos Aires (entradas en Ticketek). Cróbar recibe, entre otros grandes artistas, al Sr. Mathew Jonson, presentando un set con mucho hardware y mucho mucho groove. Este muchacho te hará bailar con MUY buena música. Ah, ¿no me creés? OK, chequeá:

  DOMINGO 24

Para liquidar el finde, previa reserva de entradas, enfilamos a las 15hs para el Centro Metropolitano de Diseño, a ver al ecuatoriano Nicola Cruz, que nos deleitará con su DJ set orgánico, andino, latinoamericano, con visuales de su compatriota Fidel Eljuri, y ya nos quedamos bailando toda la tarde hasta que termine el set house de la artista británico-japonesa Maya Jane Coles. Todo esto como parte del EXPERIENCE, presentado por Red Bull Music Academy.

Programón de fin de semana. Ah si, salvo la noche en Cróbar, TODO ES CON ENTRADA GRATIS.

¡A disfrutar del Mutek Buenos Aires!

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Website Mutek en Buenos Aires

Página de Facebook Mutek en Buenos Aires

Direcciones:

CCK, Sarmiento 151, CABA

Cróbar, Marcelo Freyre S/N, Paseo de la Infanta, CABA

Centro Metropolitano de Diseño, Algarrobo 1041, Barracas, CABA

Entradas en venta acá

Entradas Experience presentado por Red Bull Music Academy acá.

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