#Madeline M. Gentry

[fantasticalleigh]

LEIGH'S RIDICULOUSLY BIG TBR/TBW LISTS

like i mentioned before i am too busy/hesitant to actually consume a lot of new media (or at least be able to focus on it) so i'm critically behind on so much stuff. don't judge me pls :S lmao

anything in bold is something that i've begun but not finished :P tagging @snow-in-the-desert bc you expressed interest in seeing the lists!

TO READ:

The Love Hypothesis - Ali Hazelwood

The Hurricane Wars - Thea Guanzon

Winter's Promise - Christelle Dabos

The Stand - Stephen King

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Work - Louisa May Alcott

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes

Dr. Sleep - Stephen King

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Last Duel - Erik Jager

Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

The Great Mortality - John Kelly

Dead by Sunset - Ann Rule

Dracula - Bram Stoker

It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth - Zoe Thorogood

The Great Influenza - John M. Barry

The Monster of Florence - Douglas Preston

The Lottery and other stories - Shirley Jackson

Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry

White Noise - Don DeLilo

Icebreaker - Hannah Grace

She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran

This Thing Between Us: A Novel - Gus Moreno

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler

^^ This is an incomplete list--I know there are others but these are the books I've bought over the past couple years and have not yet finished/ready. They are stacked on my desk and around my room, silently accusing me of neglect. I wither in shame. The rest of the list escapes me currently. This also doesn't include the tbrs currently on my e-reader since I can't remember where it is to see what's on there.

MOVIES/MEDIA TO WATCH:

Any Adam Driver movie that isn't on Netflix (House of Gucci, Annette, Paterson etc.) I have seen the Last Duel, Blackkklansman, This is where I leave you, Marriage Story, White Noise, Frances Ha and a few others). I know Ferarri is in theaters right now but I've kind of developed a phobia of theaters since 2020 :S

a ridiculous number of documentaries/video essays on youtube that I do not have the energy to go look for right now

Fall of the House of Usher (I love Mike Flanagan's work but I'm still hooked on Midnight Mass and Daddy Father Prewitt)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (I know everyone was obsessed with this and I meant to watch it but I was reading the Turn of the Screw when it came out and didn't want to get spoiled for it so I avoided it like the plague and finished the book but never got to watching the show)

Blue Eye Samurai

The Beguiled

Ugly Betty (I'm actually on season 2 and it's charming and funny but holy shit the amount of body shaming/slut shaming/ homophobia in this show. definitely a product of its time.)

Anne with an E

Fleabag (never finished it but thought it was amazing)

What we do in the shadows (have seen all but the most current season)

Reservation dogs

The Batman (2023)

Black Swan

The Crown

Band of Brothers

Demon Slayer

Whiplash

Wolf of Wall Street

Birds of Prey

Downton Abbey

Peaky Blinders

Nimona

Drag me to Hell

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Queen Charlotte (halfway through but haven't finished. i hate things that make me cry when i watch them so i have to be in a very specific mood to watch emotional heavy things)

Lady Bird

The Banshees of Inisherin

BARBIE (*ducks thrown rocks* I'll get to it, i SWEAR) (but i'm amazing at avoiding spoilers at this point i still know very little about the movie)

Men

Pearl

The Invisible Man

The Turning

Succession

Suspiria

Promising Young Woman

Shiva Baby

Luca

The Green Knight

Licorice Pizza

Bullet Train

The Menu

Women Talking

Knives Out + Glass Onion (*ducks more thrown rocks*)

Paddington 2!!!!

SHadow and Bone (honestly I lost almost all interest in reading/watching this once I heard the hot villain dies. BOOOO)

Carol

That one newish show with Adam Scott that looks super liminal and sci fi i can't remember the name

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Oppenheimer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

M3gan

Turning Red

Everything Everywhere All At once

Nope

Barbarian

Just like the book list, I'm sure there's many other titles I'm forgetting to put here. I actually have branched out and watched a fair amount of new movies this year so i'm going to keep it going! and here's one more list just because this is fun

Stuff I watched or read in 2023 that I loved/recommend (with the caveat that not all of this came out in 2023): (and i'm not including obvious stuff like Spider man across the spiderverse)

White Noise

Don't Look Up

Living in the Time of Dying (documentary on Youtube. It is HEAVY on existentialism and the science/data on the current state of climate change. This WILL ruin your day so I'm warning you now. Definitely don't watch it today. This really affected me and I cried for a long time after watching this but it is incredibly important to keep in mind.)

Blackkklansman (i had to watch this with the volume on the lowest setting bc of all the n words being dropped so frequently lmao but goddamn this was so good and funnier than i expected.)

DIMENSION 20: Burrow's End!!!!! As well as The Unsleeping City season 1. Neverafter and A Crown of Candy are probably at the lower end of the list but I still love them. (thank you to @rogueimperator for cluing me onto how amazing D20 and Dropout are. <3 this is a whole new world lol)

Midnight Sun :)

7. Christine and the Queens - Redcar les adorables étoiles Full show on Youtube. I was supposed to see him live in October but he got injured and had to cancel the rest of his tour :( but this album and the video are incredible! Slight warning for semi nudity.

8. Game Changer on Dropout. he's been here the whole time!

9. The 1975 live at Madison Square Garden. I was lucky enough to see them twice this tour with my twin sister and we had an absolutely amazing time. They always put on amazing shows and this particular tour/their latest album meant so much to us. Even our younger brother has come with us for some of these shows so it's something we all share. (Last time they came to Chicago in 2022 the venue was too small so they didn't have the House set with them so we didn't get to see it in action until this year) Sex and The Sound will always be the perfect closers for their shows and I get so emotional every time I hear them. Core memories for sure.

10. Puss in Boots: the last wish. this seems like another obvious answer that i probably could have left off but this gets an honorary mention because our family cat was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer in August, and we had to put him down very soon after that diagnosis. We spent an agonizing week tending to him and cherishing every last second we could get with him. I've been fortunate enough to never experience the death of a pet until this year, and i almost wish we didn't have any pets at all because I've never felt such excruciating grief. He was a fat, grumpy orange boy with beautiful yellow stripes and a little yellow mustache. I was trying to distract myself and found this movie on Netflix and watched it, then recommended it to my sister (who is actually Thomas's owner but we all shared him) though I warned her the movie did deal with themes on mortality. We all watched it together the night before his final vet visit and Tommy was there with us on a comfy pillow. I hope he approved of the movie, because now any time I think of Puss in Boots i think of him. <3

I could add more to this but my eyes are tired and I'm wired up from coffee. I know this is long as hell so sorry but I had fun making it! I'll probably keep coming back to this post in the future to cross out what I've watched.

#leigh speaks

[shawnahanel]

The Waiting Game (Diptych), Twenty Minutes and Fourteen Days (Single Images), Madeline M. Gentry

It has been one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. In this year we have done a lot of waiting. Waiting for a test. Waiting for a cure. Waiting in social isolation. Waiting in self-quarantine. Waiting for this all to be over. While much of the pandemic has been a year of unknown timing, The Waiting Game depicts two measurable intervals of time many have faced in the past year, Twenty Minutes, and Fourteen Days.

#Madeline M. Gentry #Seven Layer Take

[digitalwork1-blog]

Pilates Machine And Winsor Pilates Equipment

Pilates developed his fitness techniques consequently of what he himself experienced while growing up in Germany near the finish of the 19th Century. During those times, many practitioners used specially invented apparatuses and claimed that what they offered could cure illness. As you've seen in Pilates'own writings, he quite strongly sided with this particular fundamental concept, although he also disagreed strongly with the specifics that others offered.

Pilates'first generation of students in New York, many of whom were dancers and choreographers, subsequently opened their very own studios. They continued teaching Pilates'method with their very own personal stamp; most became legends in the 20th Century, such as Romana Kryzanowska, Joe Grimes,Kadıköy reformer pilates Eve Gentry, and Ron Fletcher. More recent students of Pilates'methodologies, such as for example Moira Stott (now Stott-Merrithew) in Canada, Joan Breibart and Elizabeth Larkam in the US, have begun an irreversible evolutionary trend in the 21st Century world of Pilates'instruction.

Pilates'original exercise systems dedicated to core strengthening with simultaneous spinal and limb stretching. STOTT PILATES aims in the 21st Century to offer a more progressive kind of exercise, incorporating modern awareness of the human body and the more recent discoveries in exercise science and spinal rehabilitation. Stott's trainings have evolved to incorporate more pelvic and shoulder girdle stabilization exercises, as well as focus on more anatomical concepts of neutral spine and pelvis. Moira herself studied and apprenticed with Romana Kryzanowska at the New York studio founded by Joseph Pilates.

Joan Breibart co-founded The Institute for the Pilates Method in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1991, along with Michele Larsson and Eve Gentry. Although initially conceived of being an organization that could offer instructor training in Pilates'methods, it has since become quite innovative in expanding Pilates'methods making use of their own. Chapters 6 and 7 with this Part III give attention to Standing Pilates and Circular Pilates, two of Joan's primary evolutionary focuses. After moving her organization to New York City, and renaming it the PhysicalMind Institute, her organization continues to train 1000s of current Pilates'instructors. Along side many others, she continues to boost Pilates'assist modern awareness of biomechanical issues during vertical and horizontal exercises.

Elizabeth Larkam is a recognized innovator and developer of Pilates-based protocols for orthopedic, spinal and chronic pain diagnosis and treatment. She began her study of Pilates'techniques in 1985 while teaching dance at Stanford University and was another student of first generation Pilates'teachers Ron Fletcher, Eve Gentry and Romana Kryzanowska. A co-founder of Polestar Pilates Education, Elizabeth is a Master Teacher with Balanced Body University conducting courses throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since 1992, Elizabeth has created a large number of instructional DVDs for fitness, therapeutic, education and home markets.

Another Master Teacher in Balanced Body University's programs is Madeline Black. Having caused some of the greats in the Pilates and dance world --- Romana Kryzanowska, Eve Gentry, Marika Molnar and Irene Dowd --- she's herself become one of the 21st Century leaders in extending Joseph Pilates'legacy through her own innovative studies of movement. She specializes in integrating concepts and techniques, and evolving new methodologies and approaches, from Pilates, Gyrotonics, yoga and other movement systems. The authors of this very book are happy to possess received our certifications in Pilates from Madeline Black in 1993 when she was teaching for Joan Breibart's PhysicalMind Institute at her very own San Francisco Studio M location (now in Sonoma County).

Elizabeth Larkam and Madeline Black are just two of the notable listing of 21st Century stars in the evolutionary development of Pilates'based fitness education. Both these women are Mentors in the Passing the Torch Program produced by Balanced Body and themselves coach advanced teachers and trainers in the Pilates industry. As program director of Balanced Body Pilates in Sacramento, California, Elizabeth developed instructional videos due to their equipment, both large and small. Although one other notables stated earlier also use firms that produce noteworthy Pilates'equipment, props, and training materials, Balanced Body deserves a unique mention here, and not merely because we ourselves have used and taught with Balanced Body equipment.

On October 19, 2000, Balanced Body and its founder/owner Ken Endelman won a U.S. Federal trademark lawsuit. Ken and his company were both sued by Sean Gallagher for trademark infringement, because Gallagher had purchased the trademark in 1992 and Ken among others was building and selling Pilates'inspired equipment. In a nutshell, the consequence of that lawsuit was that Pilates, like other generic fitness names such as karate or yoga, would no more qualify for trademark infringement protection. Anyone from that moment on could use the name Pilates for the creation and offering of exercise services or equipment.