#sylvia holland

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Fantasia: The Pastoral Symphony - Concept art by James Bodrero, Fred Moore and Sylvia Holland (c.1939)

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Concept art for Fantasia (1940) by Sylvia Holland

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Sylvia Holland - Concept production watercolors from Fantasia

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Fantasia, Original Concept Pastel Signed by Sylvia Holland

MEDIUM: Original Pastel Concept on Paper PRODUCTION: Fantasia, 1940 SIZE: 10" x 12.5" SIGNATURE: Sylvia Holland FRAMING: Framing included in Pricing SKU: CCV1641

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Sylvia Kristel, Emmanuelle (1974)

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some girlie things happened to my phone (i’m a grown-ass-man)

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♫ This Old Heart Of Mine ♫ (Redux)

♫ This Old Heart Of Mine ♫ (Redux)

Exhaustion seems to be my perpetual state of being these days … not sure if it’s roots are physical, emotional (state of the nation), or a combination of the two, but at any rate, I’m settling for a redux once again tonight.  I have played this only once, back in 2019. Earlier this evening, I was reading a transcript of a podcast, part of a fascinating series put together by Jonathan Capehart…

[llovelymoonn]

on november

nina maclaughlin the paris review: "on the first of november, the ghosts arrive" \\ emily dickinson in a letter to elizabeth holland (early nov, 1865) (via @flowerytale) \\ anna akhmatova rosary \\ philip jenks colony collapse metaphor: "november" \\ robert frost the complete poems: "my november guest" \\ ellis nightingale (@ellisnightingale) \\ @honeytuesday \\ nina maclaughlin the paris review: "the dark feels different in november" \\ l.m. montgomery anne of green gables \\ maggie stiefvater the scorpio races (via @metamorphesque) \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath (via @louisegluck)

kofi

[l-just-want-to-see]

Jason (from the Greek Iásōn, “healer”) Peter Todd (from the German Tod, “death”) - I hope you find your way out of that grave.

dc comics + The Oresteia, Aeschylus / Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde / Grief Lessons: Four Plays [tr. Anne Carson], Euripides + Batman v1 #385 / Batman: The Cult #3 / For Example, Mary Oliver / Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight #100 / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Eight, Sleeping at Last / Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth / Batman: Urban Legends #10 + ? / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / Red Hood and The Outlaws #25 / Slay the Princess / pinterest + Batman #422 / Batman #424 + Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Rainer Maria Rilke + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / @/metamorphesque, tumblr / American Teenager, Ethel Cain / Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson / interpretations of A Death in the Family + The Oresteia, Aeschylus / Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins #1 + the Haunting of Bly Manor + Red Hood and the Outlaws #23 / @/petrichara, tumblr / I Didn't Apologize to the Well, Mahmoud Darwish / Infinite Crisis: Secret Files + pinterest / Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo / Red Hood and the Outlaws #26 / The Cruel Prince, Holly Black / pinterest / Red Hood: The Lost Days / Sue Zhao / Red Hood: The Lost Days part II + Red Hood: The Lost Days #4 / I See Boats Moving, Fernando Pessoa / Oedipus the King, TV Tropes / @/devilsmoon, tumblr / Red Hood: The Lost Days + Speeches for Dr Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood / Saving June, Hannah Arrington + embroidered patch / Slay the Princess / unaligned, @/hamletmaschine + Batman: Under the Red Hood / Batman: Under the Red Hood + Batman and Robin #11 + South and West: From a Notebook, Joan Didion / The Good Fight, Ada Limón / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Grief Lessons: Four Plays, Euripides [tr. Anne Carson] / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Slay the Princess / Under the Red Hood / Slay the Princess / @/sainticide, twitter / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi + Batman: Under the Red Hood / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Ten Legs, Eight Broken, mandana on tiktok / War of the Foxes, Richard Siken + Under the Red Hood + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath / Under the Red Hood + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / @baitmeat, tumblr + Batman: Under the Red Hood (Deluxe Edition) / Origin Story, Desireé Dallagiacomo / Vive, Vive, Traci Brimhall / The Dogs I Have Kissed, Trista Mateer + Batman: Under the Red Hood + Three Jokers / Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth #9 / @/sainticide, twitter + Red Hood and the Outlaws #10 / Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, Taylor Swift / ? + Robin 80th Anniversary 100 Page Super Spectacular / Ep. 4: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth -- 'Sacrifice and Bliss', Joseph Campbell / White Knight #7 + Heaven, Mieko Kawakami / Forest Fire, Mitski / Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 2 #9 + Batman Annual #25 + Free Will Astrology, Rob Brezsny / Letter XV, @/lucidloving / Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 1: REDemption / briscoepark + The Civil War, Anne Sexton [compiled by @/lovejoyparadox here] / @/soapstore, tumblr + I Await the Devil’s Coming, Mary MacLane + Claire C. Holland / @/havingrevelations, tumblr / Meditations in an Emergency, Cameron Awkward-Rich + Deathstroke #34 / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides [tr. Anne Carson] + Red Hood and the Outlaws

[jaanii]

NOVEMBER

howards end, e.m, forster (from @metamorphesque) // persuasion, jane austen // november, gabrielle aplin // letter in november, sylvia plath // november rain, guns n’ roses // fiona apple for spin magazine, november ‘97 // a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton (from @metamorphesque) // [from a letter to elizabeth holland], emily dickinson // anne of green gables, l.m. montogomery // the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath

[cammie]

yesterday me and a mutual were having a laugh talking about who would get shackled to a 2024 remake of this movie. these are our picks!

timothy chalamet as ponyboy curtis

jacob elordi as darry curtis

christopher briney as sodapop curtis

mike faist as dallas winston

dominic fike as johnny cade

KJ apa as two-bit mathews

nicholas hoult as steve randle

cole sprouse as paul holden

jamie campbell bower as dallas’ cousin

hart denton as mark jennings

finn wolfhard as bryon douglas

madelaine petsch as cherry valance

elle fanning as sandy

millie bobby brown as marcia

mia goth as evie

hunter schafer as kathy

sydney sweeney as sylvia

holland roden as two-bit’s sister

zendaya as johnny’s twin sister made up for the movie

danny ramirez as tim shepard

alexa demie as angela shepard

diego tinoco as curly shepard

dacre montgomery as bob

joe keery as randy

david harbour as mr. curtis

cara buono as mrs. curtis

tommy howell as mr. syme

alanna ubach as mrs. shepard

molly ringwald as mrs. mathews

& jonah hill as jerry

give me and anna @ivankaramazovsgf a soundstage and $500 million cash and rest ASSURED we will have this movie on the big screen by christmas

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GRUNELLA the fortune-teller from the SYLVIA series by Nicole Hollander. Womonspace 1986

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ok sorry sorry another question!! i hope this doesn’t sound annoying but even if i’m not black i get so excited getting to talk about black artists in music because a lot of people i meet never know anything and it makes me sad because i just feel there’s so much incredible stuff. like they are really missing out and it makes me wonder if that’s why they’ll be impressed by a basic short piano solo in a kind of mediocre song like… have they never heard a jazz pianist??

(oh not a black musician but have you ever heard “uncertain smile” by the the? it’s a rad 80s song with a great jazz piano solo by jools holland that was improvised in studio)

anyway what are your top ten black female artists pre-1990? i always have a special place in my heart for billie holiday :)

if they asked me i could write a book (really an encyclopedia) about black women's impact on twentieth century music but to name just a few that have had major impact on me: nina simone, odetta, billie holiday, diana ross, roberta flack, aretha franklin, abbey lincoln, alice coltrane, tina turner, dorothy ashby, anita baker, whitney houston, gladys knight, mavis staples, merry clayton, chaka khan, celia cruz, donna summer, sylvia (robinson), the pointer sisters, carla thomas, the emotions, mahalia jackson, minnie riperton, bettye lavette, sade, gloria gaynor, carmen mcrae, dionne warwick, betty wright, sade—these are off the top of my head, i'm sure i could name more

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Righteous Dutchman

Protected his workers.

Frits Philips was a Dutch businessman who saved thousands of Jewish employees during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Frits was born to a prosperous family in the Netherlands in 1905. His father and uncle owned the Philips electronics company, founded as one of the earliest successful lightbulb manufacturers in 1891and over the next few decades branching out into other products, such as vacuum tubes and radio technology. 

A friendly, intelligent boy with a deep Christian faith, Frits attended Delft University of Technology, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering in 1929. That same year, he married Sylvia van Lennep, with whom he would have seven children.

Frits and Sylvia were introduced to the Oxford Group, a Christian organization founded by Frank Buchman, an American Lutheran minister. Buchman believed that all human problems stem from fear and selfishness, and the only way to overcome these destructive influences is to “surrender one’s life to God’s plan.” Buchman’s teachings were a strong influence on Alcoholics Anonymous and the twelve-step method for achieving freedom from addiction. 

In 1935, Frits was appointed to the board of Philips and began serving as vice-director. Meanwhile, in nearby Germany the Nazi party rose to power. Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and by early 1940 it became apparent that he would soon invade the Netherlands. At this point, most of the Philips family left the Netherlands and moved to the United States. Frits was unwilling to abandon the Philips company and workers, and he alone stayed behind to “mind the store,” successfully leading the company through the turbulent war years. 

As the boss of Philips, Frits was both liked and respected by his thousands of employees. He truly cared for them and made sure they were well paid and enjoyed good working conditions. As the Nazi occupiers began arresting, deporting, and murdering Jews, Frits immediately pledged to do whatever necessary to support his many Jewish employees. 

He separated the Jews from the rest of the workers, making sure they worked in a protected location. He gave them food rations, which became known as “Philips-prak” named after a popular Dutch meal of soup, mashed potatoes, carrots and meat. The Philips company was forced by the Nazi occupiers to contribute to the war effort, and Frits used this to protect the Jewish workers. He convinced the Germans that the Jewish workers at Philips were absolutely indispensable, and that factory productivity would plummet without them at the company. For this reason, 382 Jews were saved from deportation and continued working for Frits until the occupation ended.

In 1943, Philips factory employees went on strike to protest the Nazi occupation, and as their boss, Frits bore the brunt of the punishment: he was incarcerated in Camp Vught, the only SS concentration camp outside of Germany. After spending three months in brutal conditions at Vught, Frits was released. Now that he and his workers were being watched, Frits worried that he wouldn’t be able to protect his Jewish employees from deportation. At this point, he opened a Philips lightbulb factory in Norrkoeping, Sweden, and began transferring the Jews there, knowing they’d be safe in Sweden, a neutral country. After the war ended, Frits kept the factory open to employ Jews who’d been liberated from the camps and had nowhere to go.

Frits’ heroic activities extended far beyond Holland. In their book “Blood from a Stone” (2003), Richard Hammer and Yaron Svoray described how the Philips company, under Frits’ leadership, helped Jews throughout Europe. “Philips… did not buy into the Nazi philosophy regarding Jews. The safety, and rescue, of Philips’ Jewish employees became a major concern as the Nazi tide rolled over Europe. At its Austrian subsidiary, all the Jewish workers were sheltered, declared essential to the war effort, and all survived under Philips’ protection. At its subsidiary in Lithuania, Philips’ executives provided visas to Curacao for Polish and Baltic Jews in its employ. This despite regulations promulgated by the Nazi regime in Holland forbidding Dutch-based companies from aiding Jews in any manner, Philips managed to rescue nearly five thousand.”

As CEO of one of the Netherlands’ most successful companies, Frits received many awards and honors, including “Dutch entrepreneur of the century,” and “Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.” However the most meaningful award this heroic businessman received was “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem in 1996.

Frits Philips died in 2005, a few years after his beloved wife Sylvia. He was survived by his seven children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

For using his position and resources to save thousands of Jews from Nazi death camps, we honor Frits Philips as this week’s Thursday Hero.

Accidental Talmudist

[alwritey-aphrodite]

I wanna hear about the Disney animators who received no credit 👀 or any facts you’d like to share!

SO basically there was this group of women hired in the 30s and 40s in addition to the hundreds of women who worked on copying down the artwork frame by frame who fully revolutionized not only Disney but movie making and animation in general: Grace Huntington, Bianca Majolie, Retta Scott, Sylvia Moberly-Holland, and Mary Blair. There were more, but there’s a book written about these 5, it’s called The Queens of Animation and I highly recommend.

First, the women who traced and painted all the movie frames were never credited in the movies. They were all lumped together in the credits as the in-betweeners. The 5 who I mentioned above were kinda the big dogs in their respective jobs, at least for women, and were constantly mocked and ridiculed by the men they worked with. My favorite little anecdote about this time period is that when they were creating Fantasia, a group of women designed and drew out this beautiful pegasus scene and it was diverse. The men, who had to approve everything, said it was too feminine and reworked the scene, which ended up being so insanely racist.

Retta was the first woman ever credited as an animator, in Snow White, which was not nearly the first movie women worked on for Disney. She also made the scary dogs in Bambi!

Grace also worked as an animator, hired after Retta Scott. She was one of the women who totally revolutionized animation techniques. She was also a pilot, which is dope as hell!

Bianca brought a lot of actual feelings to the work Disney was putting out, which was mainly gag-driven before she started to work on the storyboards. Like the sappy things Disney is known for? That’s because of her! She knew what needed to be done, and when Walt saw not only how talented she is but how well the audience responded to her stories, they were going in a whole new direction.

Slyvia was the second woman in the storyboard department, after Bianca. She was the one who pushed for the original pastoral pegasus scene, and she also created a fairy segment that men refused to work on.

Mary is definitely the most famous, at least in terms of Disney fame. Her style is so recognizable and unique - she worked on Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and basically every movie that came out in this time period. She also worked on a lot of the rides - It’s A Small World was all her!!

A lot of the women only worked for a few years at Disney because of how fucking awful it was, but they all made huge impacts and I highly recommend looking into them if this interests you at all!

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“Wereld! Leef verder! Hier is een kind om je voort te duwen.”

Marja Pruis zou in De Balie in Amsterdam een lezing over Ethel Portnoy (1927-2004) geven als onderdeel van de reeks 'Publieke intellectuelen'. Wat zou ik daar graag heen willen! Waar ik eens mijn hand niet voor zou omdraaien, zijn het nu mijn (pijnlijke) voeten en mijn energie die de baas zijn. Gelukkig vond ik de tekst in De Groene Amsterdammer van deze week. Best lang geleden dat ik een van Portnoys boeken had gelezen, of zelfs maar opengeslagen. Hoog tijd.

Het Engels taalgebied mag Sylvia Plath en Ted Hughes als literair wonderkoppel hebben, wij hebben Ethel Portnoy en Rudy Kousbroek (1929-2010). Ik bewonder alle vier. Een geluk dat het huwelijk van ons Nederlandse paar (Ethel is Amerikaanse, maar vestigde zich hier voorgoed) niet zo dramatisch eindigde. Ze scheidden, Kousbroek hertrouwde, Portnoy genoot van haar vrijheid. In mijn boekenkast vullen ze samen aardig wat decimeters. Maar een bekentenis is hier op zijn plaats. Ik hield erg van haar boeken, maar ik voelde soms stiekem ook een zweem van gêne, want was hij niet krachtiger, 'intellectueler', hadden zijn boeken niet meer impact, waren zijn onderwerpen niet belangwekkender? Wie van ver komt (ik dus) en zich de wereld van literatuur en ideeën probeert eigen te maken, is vaak ambitieus op een voor de hand liggende manier: de geest is belangrijker dan het hart. Het zegt natuurlijk ook iets over wie ik was en wie ik wilde zijn. Nu is het een genot om niet langer iemand te willen zijn, maar gewoon iemand te zijn. Portnoy schreef in het Engels en al haar boeken werden vertaald door Kousbroek, hun dochter Hepzibah en anderen. Misschien is dat de reden waarom ze, afgezien van de de Annie Romein-prijs van feministisch tijdschrift Opzij, nooit een literaire prijs kreeg. Kousbroek daarentegen ontving vele prijzen en een eredoctoraat.

Ik sloeg 'Gemengde gevoelens' (1992) open, een kleine verzameling observaties, aantekeningen en aforismen en schoot heel vaak in de lach. Zo goed en zo geestig! Nu bedenk ik dat ik Kousbroek nooit geestig zou noemen. Het is haar precies gevormde luchthartigheid die zo anders uitpakt dan bij haar (ex-)echtgenoot. Voor beide auteurs gold overigens dat geen enkel onderwerp te min was om over te schrijven. Gefascineerd door de twee foto's in De Groene Amsterdammer begon ik in 'Parijse feesten' te lezen, de herinneringen aan haar vroege jaren in Parijs, aan de ontmoeting met een blonde 'knaap' in een houtje-touwtjejas, die tot haar verrassing Hollander was. Daarin vond ik nog andere foto's die net als die van Hughes en Plath een verlangen oproepen naar je eigen mythische vroege volwassenheid – die natuurlijk helemaal niet mythisch was. In 'Gemengde gevoelens' lees ik dat vrouwen niet beter zijn dan mannen. “Ze zijn precies even leugenachtig, lui, machtswellustig en slecht. Maar ik geloof wel dat zij gelijke kansen zouden moeten hebben om op hoge posten blijk te geven van die eigenschappen.”Wat ik ontroerend vond: “Wereld! Leef verder! Hier is een kind om je voort te duwen.” Gauw, gauw naar Boekwinkeltjes.nl!