#Brooker Creek

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(Polly E. Perkins, “Woodstork Portrait”, 2022 from Ferman Center for the Arts)

24 Hands is a printmaking collective of Florida Gulf Coast printmakers founded by Marjorie Greene Graff. The group has regular exhibitions throughout the year at various locations in the area.

Recently a group of their artists were showing work at The Ferman Center for the Arts, on the University of Tampa’s campus. Below are a few selections from that exhibition.

For more information on Polly E. Perkins, whose work is in the first image, check out her Instagram.

Linda Dee Guy, "Botanical Shroud", 2021, acrylic, Inkjet print, Goldleaf on canvas

Linda Dee Guy, "Nucleus", 2021

Linda Dee Guy, "Seascape", 2021

For more work by Linda Dee Guy, check out her website and Instagram.

Serhat Tanyolacar, "Untitled", 2020, Laser engraved relief print

Serhat Tanyolacar, "Untitled", 2020, Laser engraved relief print

For more work by Serhat Tanyolacar, check out his website.

Ry McCullough, "Meditations in Orange", 2021, Pochoir, serigraphy, gouache, watercolor, vinyl, gaffers tape on okawara

For more of Ry McCullough's work, check out his website and Instagram.

Currently at Brooker Creek Preserve's Education Center in Tarpon Springs is Nature Inspired, another exhibition of work by the 24 Hands collective.

From the exhibition-

For “Nature Inspired”, the artists visited Brooker Creek Preserve in March 2022 and March 2023 to strategize the exhibit and hike around the Preserve. Their love for Brooker Creek and nature has been inspiring and their work represents a variety of approaches from comical to realist to aesthetic abstraction. The exhibition includes prints by: Holly Bird, Saumitra Chandratreya, Tyrus Clutter, Elizabeth Coachman, Marjorie Greene Graff, Mary-Helen Horne, Stephen Littlefield, Ry McCullough, Polly E. Perkins, Christine Renc-Carter, and Rachel Stewart.

Below is work from the exhibition by Mary-Helen Horne. You can also find her work on Instagram.

Mary-Helen Horne, "Floating on Air", 2023, Monoprint with drypoint, relief and pochoir

Nature Inspired has been extended until 8/13/23. It's a great show and a chance to check out the natural surroundings that helped create the work.

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Smoothies at Keystone farm market then a nature hike in Brooker Creek Reserve

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Lin'ajah Brooker: Recovery operations continue for missing child swept away into Chester Creek in Delaware County, Pa. - WPVI-TV

* Lin'ajah Brooker: Recovery operations continue for missing child swept away into Chester Creek in Delaware County, Pa.  WPVI-TV * Search for 6-year-old swept away by Chester Creek now a recovery mission: officials  CBS Philly * Rescue effort ended after child swept away by Pennsylvania creek  Yahoo! Voices * Crews resume search for child who fell into Delco's Chester Creek  NBC Philadelphia * ‘Extremely sad day in Chester’: Search becomes recovery operation for missing 6-year-old girl swept away by swollen creek  The Delaware County Daily Times http://dlvr.it/T4Zlb7

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Search and rescue mission in Delaware County ongoing after child falls into Chester Creek

CHESTER, Pa. (CBS) — A search and rescue mission is ongoing in Chester after a 6-year-old girl fell into Chester Creek, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The family has identified the child as Lin’Ajah Brooker. Officials told CBS News Philadelphia they received a 911 call reporting that a child fell into Chester Creek on Saturday.  Initial reports from police indicate two girls were playing by…

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#Delaware County #Rescue #Water Rescues

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Brooker Creek Preserve, Tarpon Springs Explore the untouched wilderness of Brooker Creek Preserve, a sanctuary in Tarpon Springs that offers solace to nature lovers.

#NatureEscape #ExploreFL #BrookerCreekPreserve #TarponSpringsAdventures

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Brooker Creek Preserve, Tarpon Springs

Discover the hidden gem of Tarpon Springs at Brooker Creek Preserve, where peaceful trails and breathtaking scenery await.

#TarponSpringsTrails #TarponSpringsNature #ExploreFL

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#tampa bay area #artwork

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Brooker Creek Preserve, Tarpon Springs Step into the serene beauty of Brooker Creek Preserve, your ultimate nature escape in Tarpon Springs.

#FloridaWildlife #BrookerCreekPreserve #TarponSpringsNature

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SALE IMAGE: Chad Harrod DATE: 08/01/2023 ADDRESS: 500 Brooker Creek Boulevard MARKET: Oldsmar ASSET TYPE: Industrial ~ ACRES: 11 BUYER: JD Warmack Woodlands LP SELLER: Harrod Properties - Chad Harrod SALE PRICE: $22,300,000 SF: 130,000 ~ PPSF: $172 NOTE: A Colorado Springs-based developer, JD Warmack Woodlands LP, bought a 130,000-square-foot warehouse in Oldsmar for $22.3 million from Harrod Properties. The facility received funding from Pinellas County's Employment Sites Program to attract employers for the long term. #Miami #RealEstate #tradedmia #MIA #Oldsmar #Industrial #JDWarmackWoodlandsLP #HarrodProperties #ChadHarrod

#Miami #RealEstate #tradedmia #MIA #Oldsmar #Industrial #JDWarmackWoodlandsLP #HarrodProperties #ChadHarrod

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Thistle por Annie Wood Por Flickr: Brooker Creek Preserve - Tarpon Springs, FL

#Brooker #Creek #Preserve #05 #2016 #May #nature #nature lovers #Brooker Creek Preserve #Brooker Creek #flower #thistle #wildflower

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Arts Annual 2022 at Creative Pinellas- Nathan Beard

More on Nathan Beard from the Creative Pinellas website–

Nathan Beard creates in St. Petersburg, FL and serves as Assistant Curator at Dunedin Fine Art Center. He also serves as Painting Faculty at DFAC and Adjunct Drawing Instructor at St. Petersburg College. His recently introduced Traveling Commission program – based on his Pond’s Edge series and available locally, nationally and globally – helps him connect with and collaborate more directly with his clients and collectors, with projects completed in Colorado, Maine, Georgia and Florida to date. Contact Nathan directly to discuss the process and possibilities at [email protected].

After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State University in 2001, Beard worked in galleries and as an Art Consultant in Denver, CO for seven years. He grew up on a dairy farm in western New York. Prior to his university studies, Beard lived in Egypt for one year as an exchange student and, upon his return, worked as a cowboy in Wyoming for two years. He has exhibited extensively since 2013, including Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Gallery 221/Hillsborough Community College, Olivet Nazarene University, Morean Arts Center, Dunedin City Hall Gallery, JADA Art Fair (Miami), and Brooker Creek Preserve. Beard’s work is in a number of private and corporate collections, including Parkview Medical Center, Great Bay Distributors, B2 Communications, MHK, Penny Hoarder, Osprey Properties, Sabal Trust and Tampa Bay Title. In January 2020, several of Beard’s large paintings were selected to serve in the Arts in Embassies program at the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador.

#nathan beard #creative pinellas #arts annual 2022 #painting #florida art shows #florida artist #pinellas county art #art shows #art #pinellas county

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Hiking at Brooker Creek Preserve

Hiking at Brooker Creek Preserve near Tampa offers a glimpse of Old Florida along three different trails - the interpretive Friendly Trail, the 9+ mile equestrian trail, and the Wildlands Hiking Trail at the main entrance to the Preserve. Learn more now.

Brooker Creek Preserve north of Tampa covers 8700 acres of pristine wilderness and helps protect the Brooker Creek watershed. Home to hundreds of species of animals, insects, and native plants, hiking at Brooker Creek offers a glimpse of Old Florida. There are three different trails for hiking at Brooker Creek Preserve – the 1.75 Friendly Trail, the 9+ mile equestrian trails, and the Wildlands…

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#Brooker Creek Preserve #hiking #nature #nature preserves #nature trail #Tampa #Tampa Bay #visit tampa

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Performances of Stuff Tim Wrote Himself (+ with others)

THE POET SHOWS

Chrimbo Bimbo 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSXmndZXVis

Edinburgh Comedy Live 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Z-ZFCRohQ&t=1280s [with The Horne Section]

Knock2Bag 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8bwIiOLr4

Edinburgh and Beyond c2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKE7XmfsBIg&list=PLYuILPWZo7KObT6pNgoaj7394ziaaAxCK&index=5

Comedy Shuffle 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8J-qzYOYCc

Up the Creek 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgHNLtY1k6g [intro’d by Mark Watson!]

POETRY PERFORMANCES NOT IN SHOWS

Monday (for The Samaritans): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OU8aC8hUQ&list=PLYuILPWZo7KObT6pNgoaj7394ziaaAxCK&index=2

Ghosts (for the Pleasance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbdCgeoPU2g

Siblings (for The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/stage/video/2014/aug/12/tim-key-poem-edinburgh-festival-single-white-slut

Latitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSknpdhkMI

Royal Wedding (for The Guardian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8iBZ5nQgxw

Tim Key. With a Strong Quartet. On a Boat (2010):

Waterloo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrarrHCyurw

Promo vid: https://vimeo.com/16308708

BBC Promo: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-11742401 (video doesn’t work)

Poems / short films on Tim’s director’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM4YzVnrjoW4IauCEt5N1Lg/videos

Poems / short films on Tim’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/timkey25/videos

POETRY NOT QUITE PERFORMANCES

Reading poems to advertise the book: 

Rules of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKr6N9G8II0

Joint Account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3wbYy3LDw

Fraud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKycWCqQbuk

Paragliding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX2X79UtDCU

Audiobook recording 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOpX1BSwjJ0

With Alex Horne in 2005: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL_vheiBY0E

POETRY ON CHARLIE BROOKER SHOWS

Deal or No Deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjTwh6s53c

Taliban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUw_Qg09K2Av

Banker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7EJnQ_5ex8

Politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WEcv-NBA4Y

Bwand and Woss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPnmBZsoro

TV ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZltkBOA13C0

Asteroids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DASt63SDrMg

(maybe there are more)

FILMS

Wonderdate (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jDV2rBnU0&t=1s

Comic Relief (2017): [link?]

The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island (2007): https://vimeo.com/182136995

The Amazing Hedge Puzzle (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4n3vpp9yaY

Woodland Rain (date?): https://vimeo.com/19832218

TV

Cowards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VwxfgVap3s

Freeze (pilot?): https://vimeo.com/254707985#_=_

RADIO

Lasties with John Kearns (2021): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010p29

Tim Key’s Late Night Poetry Programme and Christmas Poetry Programme (2012-2020 [so far...]): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pn5pl

Tim Key Dives into Daniil Kharms and That’s All (2016): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072n5xc

Sunday Afternoon at Home with Tim Key (2014): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03sb8b0 [link needed] ; Clip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q84ln

Tim Key’s Easy USSR (2013): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03h30gb [alt link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uE_kv9Y408]

Tim Key and Gogol’s Overcoat (2012): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nt3y0

Tim Key’s Suspended Sentence (2011): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0128pyh

From Fact to Fiction (2009): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcVvgWkZ6TE

Cowards (2007-2008): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fbl37

All Bar Luke (2006-2009): https://archive.org/details/allbarluke

OTHER STUFF

Alex Horne’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRmnYfTzS-OAJ4wjcOUOR8g

In Knock2Bag Presents...The Moth House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6zxT3Qbxg

In The Lockdown Lock-In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6veEshKErs4

#tim key #links

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TV & MOVIES 2020

Too late, no one cares, and yet...

TELEVISION 

I May Destroy You (BBC)

2020 was a good year for re-watching the previously agreed highlights of TV drama – I Claudius, The Singing Detective, Sopranos, The Wire – but I May Destroy You is conspicuous for being the most ambitious of the two modern dramas on my list. Thankfully, Michaela Coel’s series is good enough to represent for the whole artform, a story about race, rape culture and trauma told in a way that feels both new and true.

That it feels so unexpected while exhibiting all the qualities of classic drama is a real lesson in what has yet to be revealed, in TV and in life.

Schitts Creek (CBC/Netflix over here tbh)

In this world of tolerant small business owners we may be largely stuck with each other, but we may also be reassured that our pairings and partings will play out with a degree of crude kindness.  That the kindness is still leavened with that crudity right up until the end only serves to make it more palatable

It’s not hard to see why this show has been welcomed into so many homes over the past couple of years, or why queer households would feel particularly welcoming. Hint: it’s not just Moira’s outfits, great as those undoubtedly were.

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)

Surprisingly not a fantasy though its setting may as well be Middle Earth for all I know about football. The trick here is that the show takes Ted’s non-toxic, collaborative approach to coaching seriously while also making sure that the other characters aren’t just foils to his working method.  

This is true even when these characters frustrate his best efforts but, crucially, Ted’s efforts never frustrate this complexity.  In fact if anything his approach tends to foster it, which makes for a rewarding dynamic for viewers and antagonists alike.   Crucially, the jokes were just about good enough to register this as a comedy, rather than a twitter thread. 

Or maybe I’m just happy that I finally learned the name for that unnerving sensation (it’s semantic satiation, in case you were wondering). 

Dating Around (Netflix)

It is January 2021 and I would now gladly suffer the worst moments in the second series of Dating Around – the watery banter about healthy cocktails, sure, but also the ultra-dull one-sided polyamory man – if it meant getting to go out and talk to people and feel the air cool against my skin in fresh company.

Strictly Come Dancing (BBC)

Bill Bailey’s victory is the final triumph of the boomers, as prophecised by Bobstradamus, but the future was still here. Sometimes it looked brassy and fun. Sometimes it looked queer. Sometimes it looked a bit glitterfash, if we’re honest. It was all there on the screen though, reflected rather than obscured by the baldness of the victor.

Cheer (Netflix)

As self-proclaimed alternatives to gang culture go, this one provides the most aesthetically satisfying trauma. This does not make watching it any easier - that bit with the broken ribs! - and we should be thankful for this discomfort if we hope to remain human.

The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)

It’s not so much that the first episode is slow, more that it shows how much the series relies on Anya Taylor-Joy to make its dramas seem tangible.

No matter how intently Beth Harmon gazes across it, the ordered conflict of the chessboard is ultimately no protection from the disordered chaos of the world.  It starts to look like a convincing and worthwhile end in itself over the course of this limited series, and if Harmon’s support group never quite attain the same status they remain amusing and interesting even at their most underwritten. 

The Trump Show (BBC)

A documentary that painted a picture of the outgoing, game show president so absurd and dispiriting that Charlie Brooker made a weird Gus Van Sant version of it instead of writing any good jokes for his piss-awful Death to 2020.

What We Do In The Shadows (FX/the BBC over here, innit)

“Guillermo.”

Limmy’s Homemade Show (BBC)

It’s always good to see Limmy back on telly but the internet is where he’s from, and his Homemade Shows successfully married the deranged hall of mirrors feel of his Vines to the more traditional craft of his previous work for broadcast.  It’s a rare treat for a TV show to put you so totally in someone else’s personal mental world, but watch out - that wee guy above might just haunt you.  

MOVIES

Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)

A great film for fans of harsh lighting and sweat-stained faces. For whole minutes at a time, Uncut Gems makes this combo seem like a road to transcendence.

I look forward to Adam Sandler making another critically acclaimed film in ten, maybe fifteen years.  In the meantime, there’s always Hubie Halloween. 

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)

An angry couple asked me what I made of this tale of booze-wrecked, salt blasted isolation on the way out the door. I sometimes wonder how they are doing now that the lobster has had time to go very cold indeed.

First Love (Takashi Miike)

Miike knows this gangland ballad well enough to have some fun with it, which might be why there were at least three images that made me laugh with surprise in the first ten minutes alone

First Love’s protagonists are another story though, and if the pace slowed after the first act then that only seems fair – they needed time to work out what sort of world they were fighting their way through if they were to have any chance of surviving in it.

Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)

A supremely unstable movie, where the relationships and power dynamics depicted are every bit as unsettled as the tone and genre of the film itself.

Some of these shifts bring pure pleasure (”Who is he?” “And what’s  going with her?”) but the sound of knives being sharpened can always be heard in the distance.  The alert viewer will leave the film still hearing those sounds when the credits have finished. 

Mank (David Fincher)

Fincher’s work has never really got under my skin and I don’t give a shit about awards season but there should be an Oscar for looking disdainful and wounded in a circus outfit and this film should win it.

Amanda Seyfried is amazing, because of course she is.  As Karen in Mean Girls she played someone totally oblivious to the joke and make it work; here, she plays someone more interesting than the joke and makes that work too.

Gary Oldman, meanwhile, plays a version of himself who has slightly more noble thoughts when drunk.  The movie as a whole threatens to wash over you in a wave of silver images, but this seems fitting for a story that is so concerned with the lies the screen can sell you.   

Fireball: Visitors From a Darker World (Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer)

Like what survives of its subjects, this film - and indeed Werner Herzog’s ongoing career - is a fragment of another world embedded in dullest modernity.

David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)

Speaking of which: David Byrne, ladies and gentleman!  

The urge to reach out in Byrne’s work has always existed alongside the urge to lock yourself up in an immaculately articulated bunker, and that tendency is acknowledged here by way of a monologue about how the version of ‘Everyboy’s Coming to My House’ sung by a Detroit choir exhibits none of his latent misanthropy.  This is a concerted effort to convey a sort of rational, collectivist sense of social inclusion through banging tunes and careful dance moves; that it never loses sight of where or who we are right fucking now is to its credit (”Say his name”).

Ema (Pablo Larraín) 

Another arty movie about the magnetism of bodies moving in time, this time dedicated to a Ballardian re-imagining of the family unit that played like a distressed, slow motion soap opera.   

I watched this the same weekend that I watched American Utopia and they made for an excellent one-two.  Post punk vs. reggaeton, clean suits  and exhausted smiles vs. neon animal print and glib arson, a chaste hug vs. neon-strobed fucking.   There is nothing so easily laudable as American Utopia’s weathered liberalism underpinning Ema, but if its protagonist’s refusals and enticements are initially bewildering, the movie has a logic to it that slowly burns its way into your brain in time for the the climax. 

Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)

A film that wanders away from itself so often that I sometimes lost track of what I was watching.  Is it an essay on Trump's America and Black Lives Matter? A war movie that knowingly addresses issues of imperialism and race more directly than most? A eulogy for an actor who has only just passed away? A film about the strengths and limits of male friendship? A series of confessions from a soul that has been soured by a lifetime of guilt and pain?

This is the film's strength and occasionally its weakness too, but honestly, given the choice between too much of this stuff and too little I know where my heart lies.

The Studio Ghibli streaming explosion (Various)

Hayao Miyazaki’s aesthetic is well designed for times like these.  It’s easy to indulge in yet also stern and parental, enchanting but shot through with environmental horror and an awareness of how the world’s weight my sit on your shoulders. 

There were other pleasures to be found by sifting through the Ghibli catalogue dump, of course.  Finally watching Whisper of the Heart was a treat, but the real prize was getting a proper feel for Isao Takahata’s filmography for the first time.  From the free-roaving animal balls to the fairy tale etchings by way of the living, breathing comic strip, each of his movies works to find a shape for itself.  Some of these shapes are more to my taste than others - I’m still not wild on Pom Poko, alas! - but none of them were easily digested or forgotten, not even in a year where it was easy to forget what you’d had for breakfast by the time you got to lunch.  

#Movies 2020 #IV2020

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#brooker creek