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[thaoworra]

After ten great years with Innsmouth Press, DEMONSTRA is now out of print, and the rights have reverted back to me. Thank you to everyone who took the time to support the wild idea of Lao American Lovecraftian speculative poetry in a time when no one thought it could fly! It's been a great journey, and I especially want to take the time to thank Vongduane Manivong for her amazing art for the project! It made a difference!

[vongduane]

Art vs Artist 2022

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info sheet for ban + technical reference sheet

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Global CAS Challenge (93: Laos)

Kham Manivong

Age: Adult

Aspiration: Party Animal

Traits: Cheerful, Glutton, Good

shoes

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[vongduane]

🌿🌸🍃Still sitting on the easel. Have an awesome Sunday everyone!

#oiloncanvas #workinprocess

🔻My IG: - https://www.instagram.com/Art_by_vongduane/

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From the Archives: This collection from NAHM (Ally Hilfiger and Nary Manivong), still to this date, remains one of the prettiest I've ever shot. . #jaymarroquin #fashion #fashionweek #newyorkfashionweek #nyfw #style #runway #runwaymodel #runwayphotography #designer #collection #readytowear #newyork #NAHM — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3k1KLnH

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SUPER MODEL PROFILE | SHANINA SHAIK

Shanina Shaik is an Australian model of Pakistani and Lithuanian ancestry.

In her debut season during the Autumn/Winter 2009 season Shanina, walked over 8 shows in New York City. She opened for Yeohlee and even appeared at the finale for Project Runway.

Since her debut in New York in 2009 her career quickly escalated walking and working for big fashion houses and top brands around the world like Chanel, Philip Plein, Victoria Secret, Yeohlee,Shipley & Halmos, Abaete, Mara Hoffman, Lorick,Trovata, Richie Rich, Betsey Johnson, Catherine Malandrino, Gerlan Jeans, Nary Manivong, Rachel Antonoff, Susan Woo,Bebe by Kardashian, Emu Australia, Iodice, opened Jason Wu, and also walked for Ruffian, KevorkKiledjian, Charlotte Ronson, Nanette Lepore, Diesel, Oscar de la Renta, L'Wren Scott, Tom Ford, Blumarine, Atsuro Tayama, Maiyet,Vivienne Westwood,, Stella McCartney, L. A. M. B. and more.

She has graced the cover around the globe for Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, L'officiel, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, Ocean Drive, Koncierge, Island Time, Keen, Gritty, InStyle, Fashion, Marie Claire, Emirates Woman, Sunday, Womens Fitness, Womens Health, Style and more.

Shanina, also appeared in Campaigns and Catalogues for Macy's, Alloy, Avon, Intermix, Urban Outfitters, Lovable, Burda Style, Spiegel, Free People, Bloomingdales, J. C. Penney, Seafolly, Otto, Shop Bop, Sasha Samuel and Ann Taylor. Her advertisements include Aéropostale, Cotton On, Olay New Look, Burneo Chocolate, Body & Bath Works 'Dark Kiss' fragrance, Edward Joseph, Imari by Avon, General Pants Co.,  Bonds, Bauhaus,Matrix Hair Biolage and more.

Shanina got engaged to her boyfriend of eight months Gregory “DJ Ruckus” Andrews in December 2015. They married in the Bahamas on April 2018. They separated in June 2019, and Shanina filed for divorce a month later after a year of marriage.

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Rien ne sert de courir, il faut partir à point! 

Préparer un voyage à pédales ne se fait pas en quelques minutes en moulinant les pieds et les poignets. Thibaut Manivong et Nazrawi Habte, nos deux tintins-reporters, ont interrogé Laurent Lanners, professeur d’éducation physique au Collège Saint-Michel pour s’en faire une idée.

Thibaut Manivong : Quel type d’entrainement conseilleriez-vous à côté de ceux proposés par l’école ?

Laurent Lanners : Alors, il faut savoir que le vélo est un sport d'endurance. Avant tout, il faut développer les capacités d'endurance. Tout est bon à prendre : se balader, se promener un petit peu, aller courir, aller nager ou évidemment faire du vélo. L’endurance est une capacité qui se développe petit à petit et elle est primordiale pour le projet vélo. L’entrainement est donc indispensable.

TM : Mais ça ne fait pas tout...

LL: Non, évidemment! Il y a également tout ce qu’il y a autour qui est important. Prenez par exemple le vélo en lui-même. Vous pouvez avoir toute l’endurance du monde, si vous avez un vélo mal réglé, une selle mal ajustée, des pneus dégonflés ou un poids de 25kg sur votre vélo, vous n’avancerez pas! 

Nazrawi Habte : En parlant de vélo justement, conseillez-vous un modèle VTT pour le projet?

LL: Normalement, nous n’irons pas chercher les courbes ou les sentiers techniques. On roulera sur des sentiers roulants mais on ne restera pas non plus uniquement sur la route. On ira également sur des chemins de campagnes. D’où la question : vaut-il mieux prendre un VTT ou un VTC (Vélo Tout Chemin)?  Ça se discute. Mais une chose est sûre : ce qu'il faut surtout privilégier, c'est un vélo sur lequel on se sent confortable.

NH : Du coup, quelles sont les grandes différences entre un VTC et un VTT?

LL : Le VTC a la particularité d’avoir une conduite relativement élevée, qui est plus confortable au niveau des épaules ou de la nuque. Un VTT est surement un peu plus robuste et a un amortisseur un peu plus costaud. Pour ce qui est de la conduite précise du vélo sur le VTT, on est plus en position couchée ce qui est un peu moins confortable. Mais encore une fois, c'est un peu à voir selon chaque profil. Si l’on prend uniquement en compte le revêtement, il est clair que le VTC devrait suffire.

TM : Vous l’avez déjà dit, les réglages et l’équipement adéquats du vélo sont indispensables. Mais les catadioptres sont-ils nécessaires ?

LL : Quand vous faites du vélo, la visibilité est fondamentale. La sécurité, c'est la visibilité.Au plus vous aurez de choses qui vous permettent d'être vus de la circulation (même si l’on évite le plus possible la circulation), au plus vous serez en sécurité.

NH : Que pourrait-on ajouter au vélo?

LL : Il y a des petites choses pratiques, des petites languettes réfléchissantes que vous pouvez mettre sur le vélo. Celles-ci vous permettent d'améliorer très largement la visibilité des conducteurs.Il ne faut pas hésiter non plus à rajouter de petites choses qu'on a la maison sur son vélo.

TM : Parlons du déroulement du projet en tant que tel. Qu’en est-il de la nourriture? Que voudriez-vous voir comme alimentation durant les 3 jours?

LL : Il faut savoir que tout est prévu dans le projet en termes de ravitaillement. Il y a des haltes durant lesquelles on reçoit des boissons, de l’eau, du jus et tout ce qui est sucré pour tenir le coup! Personnellement, vous ne devez rien apporter, parce que tout est fourni.

NH : Le sucre est donc important...

LL : De façon générale, quand on fait une activité d'endurance on a besoin de sucre lent. Il y en a beaucoup dans les pâtes et dans ce que vous mangerez chaque soir (surtout les féculents). Il vous faut emmagasiner de l’énergie qui sera utilisée de manière prolongée. A côté de ces sucres lents, on peut aussi prendre des Snikers par exemple. c'est très bien si vous êtes en manque sur le moment. Mais il faut savoir que cette réserve va s'épuiser rapidement. Donc l’important est de de vous assurer que vous avez l’énergie et l’eau nécessaire durant la journée. Le soir, le tout est de bien manger!

NH : Et de bien s’étirer? Que devrions-nous faire en termes musculaires après une journée de vélo?

LL : Là, où vous aurez le plus mal, c'est aux fesses! Passez des heures sur une selle, ça fait assez mal! Malheureusement, on ne peut rien y faire. Il n’y a qu’une solution : faire du vélo régulièrement. Plus on en fait, plus la douleur disparaît.Pour le reste, au niveau des muscles, ce sont les jambes qui travaillent le plus. Donc un petit étirement des quadris et des ischios fera du bien le lendemain. Vous éviterez les courbatures. Il ne faudra pas plus. Ce projet-ci n'est pas un projet dans lequel on demande de l'explosivité. Ce n’est pas comme si je vous demandais de faire un 400m et que vous n'avez pas l'habitude. Dans ce cas, le lendemain, vous auriez certainement très mal. Par contre, si je vous demande de courir calmement 20 minutes vous aurez beaucoup moins mal. C’est à l’image du projet vélo. Les fibres musculaires ne vont pas se casser comme c'est relativement lent.

Mais, même si c’est lent, le mental a toute son importance, non?

Oui, c'est capital! Il y a des personnes qui n'auraient même pas imaginé terminer le projet vélo au départ ou après le premier jour. Et pourtant, ils sont portés par leurs professeurs, les autres élèves et l'ambiance. En arrivant à la fin, ils ressentent une joie immense! C’est donc ce mental qui leur a permis d'y arriver. Nous, entre profs, nous faisons très attention à ça. S’il y a une petite fatigue, on vous permet de vous installer sur un tandem (tiré par un professeur ou un élève motivé). Ça permet de diminuer l’effort et ensuite de remonter sur son vélo. On n’est pas là pour vous détruire. Le but est de porter tout le monde jusqu’à la fin. C'est une épreuve avant tout de mentale.

Interview réalisée par Thibaut Manivong et Nazrawi Habte - 3T8

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Off-duty Nashville officers save trapped couple

Off-duty Nashville officers save trapped couple

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MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. – As the tornado touched down, the young couple sprinted for the basement.

Windows exploded. Framed pictures jumped off the walls and shattered. A terrifying sucking sound enveloped their Mount Juliet house as part of the roof blew off.

Tyler Manivong, 26, and his wife, Sabrina, 24, made it downstairs with their German shepherd, Stitch. But they freaked out when they…

[thaoworra]

Laomagination, the inaugural exhibit of the SEALIT Center, is now open at the NEW RULES space in North Minneapolis.

The Mission of the SEALIT Center is to “promote the growth of experimental and non-traditional Southeast Asian literature, interdisciplinary art, and theater-performance arts in diaspora in the US.”  

In this exhibit over 55 examples of art from Lao American artists based in Minnesota and across the US are presented, including Aloun Phoulavan, Nor Sanavongsay, Kinnary Phimpadubsee, Kulap Vilaysack, Vongduane Manivong, Loy Khambay-Correa, Sydney Viengluang, Steve Arounsack, Camino, Lydia Worrall, and the work of Amorn Setthithorn. A special exhibit by artists from the Subverted Fairy Project is also featured including the work of Xee Reiter, Riawa Thomas-Smith, and others.Artworks are presented in four themed core areas of “Re-imagined Traditions” “Recovering Inner Histories” “Laotowns Envisoned” and “Laopocalypse Now” exploring how diverse artists from a culture grounded in principles of reincarnation engages with the idea of a “final” end of the world scenario.

This is a first-time proof-of-concept initiative for the SEALIT Center, but draws on over 20 years of award-winning experience among over 20 artists and performing groups in Minnesota.Originally planned for one month, we were able to negotiate a longer exhibit as our lead artists including acclaimed theatre artist Kaysone Syonesa to display key textual, visual, video, and performance works reflecting the first 20 years of the Laomagination movement. Almost 20 supporting artists will also present art classes or workshops, editing sessions, performances, film screenings, or just community conversations for almost 40 events anticipated in the community during this period.

This exhibit was funded thanks to funding from the Asian Pacific Endowment, Forecast Public Arts, the Joyce Foundation, the Rhizome Foundation, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council of Minnesota. Technical support from the Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota also made this exhibit possible. As one of 11 regional arts councils in Minnesota, MRAC is funded by an appropriation from the Minnesota Legislature, the Legacy Amendment Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, and by The McKnight Foundation. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. In November 2008, Minnesotans passed the Clean Water, Land & Legacy amendment to the Minnesota Constitution, which created the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Proceeds from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund “may be spent only on arts, arts education and arts access and to preserve Minnesota’s history and cultural heritage.”

Laomagination runs until June 30th, 2019. New Rules is open Monday – Thurs 11-7pm, and Friday 10 -3pm at 2015 N Lowry Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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BDRPWriMo Task #16: TV Soundtrack -- Music In Just Trust Me

So, I was gonna do ten songs but I ran out of interest so here’s just two. I’m gonna re-do this task as just a part two of last years, where The Robinsons were a tv show lmao.

But I wanted to post this bc I did work hard lmao

so here’s 2 songs in the fake tv show Just Trust Me

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 Just Trust Me is an American TV show produced by Netflix. Franny is one of the show’s co-producers, along with fellow Seoul Hanoi’d band member Mary Xiong, and several other Southeast Asian Americans connected to entertainment. 

Just Trust Me is loosely based on the lives of Franny Sor Robinson, Mary Xiong, and Lydia Manivong, a Lao-American director and screenwriter who grew up in the same small Georgia town as Franny Robinson.

The show is set in the current day though, not the 90s, which is when Franny was growing up.

The five main characters are:

Zoey Vongvilay - a Lao-American girl whose mother immigrated from Laos and whose father is the first-generation son of Lao refugees; the character is played by a Canadian actress who is mixed Lao-Chinese-Vietnamese. Lydia Manivong’s life provided a lot of inspiration for the character.

Serey Sim/Nielson - a Cambodian-American girl whose biological parents both immigrated from Cambodia, but they divorced and her biological father isn’t in her life. The character has a white American step-father (whose last name she legally takes in season 3 when she surprises her family with the name change on a visit home from college) and step-brother, and a biracial little sister. She is played by a Cambodian-Burmese-American actress. This character is based heavily on Franny, with some key differences

Franny is biracial, her biological father is white

Franny’s real life step-father, who adopted her and IS her father as far as she is concerned, IS white but he is from Switzerland, not the US

Franny has two step-brothers, not just one, and has no younger half-siblings

Her mother didn’t immigrate by choice, she was a refugee resettled to America in the 70s, but since the show takes place in the 2010s-2020s, that had to be updated so it would make sense for the mother to have a teenage daughter

Song Bee - A Hmong-American girl whose parents immigrated to the US, her mother as a child, her father in his 20s. She is played by an actress of mixed Hmong-Thai-Indonesian-Pakistani-white background. Parts of her are inspired by Mary Xiong

TaShana “Shayna” Brewer-Pham - A girl with a Jamaican immigrant father and first-gen Vietnamese-American mother. Franny was insistent that one of the main characters be biracial. Originally, it was going to be Serey’s character (her original name was Serey Nielson, a nod to Franny’s husband’s first name being Cornelius), but when the Japanese-black actress auditioned for what was supposed to be a recurring character with no specified ethnicity named “Julie”, the writers, one of whom was black-Vietnamese herself, wrote TaShana for her.

George ”Fitzy” Fitzpatrick VI - A boy who is fifth generation Japanese-American on his mother’s side, and even more Irish-American on his father’s side. He was a recurring character in the first season and was moved to main in the second. He’s played by a biracial Japanese-white actor.

Setting: Originally, a small town in Texas, then, in season three, when the main five move on to university, largely in Austin with scenes in their hometown as well.

Premise: Just Trust Me is a comedy-drama about five young Texans of diverse backgrounds as they struggle with identity, expectations, stereotypes, school, part-time jobs, romance, and social lives. There are subplots involving many other characters, but the main 5 are in every episode.

Franny’s character in the show: Ary Meas/Aunty Ary, Serey’s aunt, is played by Franny Sor Robinson. She is a recurring character (usually in 3-5 episodes every fourteen-seventeen episode season) and is usually there to bail Serey out of trouble with her mother (Ary’s sister), or who Serey tests out sharing major news with. Ary is eccentric and a bit of a disaster, but a disaster who loves her niece. She always has a new suitor, and has been married and divorced since the series began.

Theme song: Geraldine by Avett Brothers

  1: Episode 1x01: San Rafael

  Song: Jeas Cyclo by Yol Aularong

  The scene opens with Serey pedaling furiously on her bicycle, at an ungodly speed with her backpack on. She almost hits an armadillo but shrieks and swerves out of the way and not long after she’s back on course, she hears a car engine rev and laughter. She looks over her shoulder and rolls her eyes and groans because coming up behind her are the biggest assholes in school. They drive recklessly and speed through a muddy puddle, splashing mud all over her, and startling her off her bicycle and into a ditch. She looks up into the camera and spits out ditch water and dirt. 

  Serey flicks some mud off of her and hops back on the bicycle. 

  Cut to school and Serey beelines for the girls’ bathroom. As the song fades out, another student appears from out of frame with some clothing folded up in her hands. 

  “Brought your real clothes!” She chirps. 

  “Thanks, Zoey.” Serey sighs, drying her hands, then she begins stripping right there in the main part of the bathroom and changing outfits. 

  The true Franny story: [from an interview given at an event premiering the first episode] “We lived pretty close to my high school, so even if we could afford cars for my brothers and I, I probably would have bikes before it got to be winter anyway. But some people really hated me, like really hated me, so I’d been run into ditches like Serey, yeah. It got to the point where I’d keep my real nice clothes at Daniel’s — Daniel Maitland, my partner in Dara & Danny — at his house, and call him every night and tell him what outfit pack for tomorrow. That went on for a school year, until those kids graduated.”

  Why Franny chose this song for this scene: “I wanted the first song the viewer heard to grab them and let them know what kind of show this was, like who it was a show about. It’s about Southeast-Asian-Americans living in the South. They are influenced equally by pop music they listen to with their friends, the indie music they discover on Spotify alone in their rooms, the country music playin’ at restaurants in their towns, and the music their parents and grandparents brought with them from Asia. So I wanted the Asian influence to smack everyone’s ears in the face. 

  2: Episode 3x05: George Not Straight

  Song: The Cowboy Rides Away by George Strait

This is the episode where George “Fitzy” Fitzpatrick comes out as ga to his conservative Catholic parents. He’s at a Mexican restaurant on karaoke night in their hometown during fall break with his parents and the rest of the Core 5, and the actor that plays Fitzy actually sings this song. In the scene, Fitzy sings his karaoke song but he keeps looking between his parents, his friends, and the Latino man who is a recurring character (Jose Ruiz) and was Fitzy’s ex boyfriend. 

  Jose broke up with Fitzy in season two after Fitzy refused to come out to his conservative family. Jose respected his decision but also asked that his decision to not want to be a secret be respected as well, and ended the relationship. 

  Before he can finish the song, Fitzy just trails off and sighs and stands there on stage, frozen. He looks dead at his parents as the karaoke track continues on and says into the mic. “Mom...dad…”

  Serey gasps, TaShana mutters ‘he isn’t…’, and Song goes ‘he is!’

  “I’m gay. I love men.” And drops the mic and calmly walks off stage, into the throng of tables, and his four best friends scurry out of the restaurant behind him. 

  The original song plays while they’re running to the pond in their favorite spot in the woods, and they jump in the water in their clothes and splash each other, they’re having fun!! But Fitzy’s expression flits between joy and anxiety as he plays with his friends like they’re kids again

  Franny, on this episode: I’m queer. I came out as bisexual before I even knew that there was a word for what I was. I told my family “I feel about girls the same way I feel about men.” They accepted me, but they were worried about me. We were from a conservative, rural area, and was already a woman of color you know? But I knew kids at my high school - White kids, black kids, Asian kids, Hispanic kids, whose parents were ultra conservative. And some of those parents loved their kids more than their wrong opinions, but others were like Fitzy’s. Like, I had a black male classmate that was kicked out of his home for being gay sleeping in my bed with me for two weeks until he moved on to the next friend’s house, becasue he had nowhere else to go. Queerness is not exclusive to white people and neither is homophobia. Serey’s character has always been openly bisexual, like I was by her age when the show started, and for our families it wasn’t a big deal. But we wanted to represent multiple queer narratives, not just one. 

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Last post for #FridayThe13th “Maybe you’ll see The young Phi Kowpoon as a sweet phi, Weeping by her banyan tree, selling soup to strangers. Alas, her vermicelli is always cold as a dead white worm But you can taste a marvelous hint of mint green as jade, Juice from coconuts pale as a ghost’s forgotten bones And red, red curry reminding you of doting Mae. Be kind, tip a few extra kip, It’s how she’s spending her afterlife.” Excerpt from “5 Flavors by poet Bryan Thao Worra. “The Phi Kowpoon” art by Vongduane Manivong http://ift.tt/2z83bM1

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[vongduane]

👋😊It's been a while🌿🌼🌷🌼🌷🍃