#Matthew Bede Murphy

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Strippers with Flowers

Matthew Bede Murphy

2023

#strippers with flowers #2023 #Matthew Bede Murphy

[the-great-british-blorbo-off]

The Great British Blorbo Off Begins Shortly....

Thanks everyone for waiting so patiently while I take my time sorting this all out! I'm pleased to announce that I've decided on everyone that will be in the tournament, and we will be starting next Monday (16th)! So, here's how it's going to work:

There are 128 characters overall, and I have split them into 4 brackets with two rounds each.

I will be posting 8 polls (1 round) a week, and will reblog them in the middle of the week and at the end of the week.

Once we get down to one character left from each bracket, they will go against each other in semifinals until only two are left.

Winner becomes the new queen of England <3

If anyone that submitted a character has a specific image of them they'd like me to use, feel free to send it over. If you've submitted a character from a book then I will just be using the front cover of the book they're from as their image, so let me know if there's a TV/film version or certain cover you'd like!

Brackets are below the cut! As always, feel free to send an ask if you're confused about anything :)

(Also let me know if there's any repeated characters or errors, had a few formatting issues before uploading so I apolgise if anything is messed up)

BRACKET 1:

Round 1:

Miss Jane Marple (Miss Marple) vs Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Austin Powers (Austin Powers) vs Jade (Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age)

Dudley (Street Fighter) vs Daisy Steiner (Spaced)

Danger Mouse (Danger Mouse) vs Lady Penelope (Thunderbirds)

Malcolm Reed (Star Trek: Enterprise) vs James Bond (James Bond)

Archie MacDonald (Monarch of the Glen) Vs Lemon (Bullet Train)

Edward Hyde (The Glass Scientists) Vs Maurice Moss (The IT Crowd)

David Ward (I Am In Eskew) Vs Arthur Dent (A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Round 2:

Gordon the Big Engine (Thomas and Friends) Vs Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin (Kingsman)

Walter Heath (The White Vault) Vs Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Skull (Lockwood and Co) Vs Jeremy Usborne (Peep Show)

Matthew Vandham (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) Vs Raihan (Pokemon Sword and Shield)

Diana Cavendish (Little Witch Academia) Vs Katherine 'Kitty' Higham (Ghosts)

Leo Fitz (Agents of Shield) Vs John Constantine (DC Comics)

Gnomeo (Gnomeo and Juliet) Vs Bertie Wooster (Jeeves and Wooster)

Jamie Fraser (Outlander) Vs Lexie McTavish (Monarch of the Glen)

BRACKET 2:

Round 1:

Jonathan Sims (The Magus Archives) Vs Laszlo Cravensworth (What We Do in the Shadows)

Nia (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) Vs Daisy (Downton Abbey)

Gwen Cooper (Torchwood) Vs Arthur Lester (Malevolent)

Robert (Genki Elementary Japanese) Vs Aled Last (Osemanverse)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) Vs Avril Bradley (Gosick)

Newt (The Maze Runner) Vs Jacob Frye (Assassin’s Creed Syndicate)

Captain Hastings (Hercule Poirot) Vs Lynda Day (Press Gang)

Amelia Hughes (Infinity Train) Vs Heathcliff (Limbus Company)

Round 2:

Alice Cartelet (Kin-iro Mosaic) Vs Billy Kane (Fatal Fury)

Ropafadzo "Ropa” Moyo (Edinburgh Nights) Vs Steve Fox (Tekken)

Alex Rider (Alex Rider) Vs Pietre Carvel/Arby (Utopia)

Professor Layton (Professor Layton Series) Vs Robert EO Speedwagon (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Bede (Pokemon Sword and Shield) Vs Ferb Fletcher (Phineas and Ferb)

Jessica Albert (Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King) Vs Dirk Gently (Dirk Gently’s Hollistic Detective Agency)

Jo Grant (Doctor Who) Vs Evelyn Carnahan (The Mummy)

The Last Constable (Fallen London) Vs Edmund Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)

BRACKET 3:

Round 1:

Tangerine (Bullet Train) Vs Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)

Red Guy (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared) Vs Paddington (Paddington)

Cuno (Disco Elysium) Vs Luke Triton (Professor Layton Series)

Hobie Brown (Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse) Vs Robin Hood (English Folk Legend)

Mary Sera (Detective Conan) Vs Emma (Emma: A Victorian Romance)

Jay Cartwright (The Inbetweeners) Vs Shellington (Octonauts)

Noone (The Sound of Nightmares) Vs Matthew Crowley (Downton Abbey)

Balthazar Cavendish (Milo Murphy’s Law) Vs Cammy White (Street Fighter)

Round 2:

Horrid Henry (Horrid Henry) Vs Ivor the Engine (Ivor the Engine)

Tim Bisley (Spaced) Vs Ignis Scientia (Final Fantasy XV)

Axl Low (Guilty Gear) Vs Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)

Marnie (Pokemon Sword and Shield) Vs Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)

Mason Greyback (Wizards of Waverly Place) Vs Clarice Bean (Clarice Bean)

Agatha Christie (Bungou Stray Dogs) Vs Gromit (Wallace and Gromit)

Lila Pitts (The Umbrella Academy) Vs Mina Harker (Dracula)

Kieren Walker (In the Flesh) Vs Thomas the Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends)

BRACKET 4:

Round 1:

Peppa Pig (Peppa Pig) Vs Martin K Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins) Vs Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place)

Alec Hardy (Broadchurch) Vs Thomas Nightingale (Rivers of London)

Hammer/Hannah (Fable 2) Vs Anthony Lockwood (Lockwood & Co)

Iris Wilson (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles) Vs Miss Eliza Scarlet (Miss Scarlet and the Duke)

Karen Kujou (Kin-iro Mosaic) Vs Marrick Tremayne (The Bedlam Stacks)

The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who) Vs Jonathan Harker (Dracula)

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman) Vs Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

Round 2:

Hugh Anthony Disward (The Mystic Archives of Dantalian) Vs Nathan Young (Misfits)

William "Duke" Wellington (Miss Scarlet and the Duke) Vs George (The Famous Five)

Jonathan Joestar (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) Vs Dio Brando (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space 9) Vs Tori Spring (Osemanverse)

Winston Smith (1984) Vs Strangelove (Metal Gear Solid)

Wheatley (Portal 2) Vs Herlock Sholmes (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles)

Lucy Carlyle (Lockwood & Co) Vs Wallace (Wallace and Gromit)

Mr Blobby (Noel’s House Party) Vs Tracy Beaker (The Story of Tracy Beaker)

#polls #tournament poll #tournament bracket #uk #tournament #i'm not tagging every fandom but feel free to reblog and recruit your fellow fandomers

[acehotel]

A Brooklyn Country Boy: An Interview with LAND Gallery Artist Rudy Bansraj

Rudy Bansraj is an artist, illustrator and Brooklyn native with a love of animals, family and his sweetheart Valerie. He was also one of the very first artists to work with artist and co-founder Matthew Bede Murphy of LAND Gallery. As part of Inside Job — a monthly artists’ series led by LAND Gallery’s Sophia Cosmadopoulos — Bansraj talks about going to coffee shops with his grandmother, drawing little prayer hands and watching The Golden Girls.

LAND Gallery is a nonprofit art studio celebrating and supporting the work of adults living with intellectual disabilities.

Sophia Cosmadopoulos: Hey Rudy, please introduce yourself! Rudy Bansraj: My name is Rudy Bansraj, I live in Bay Ridge.

SC: Yes, I have been to your house before! It was so fun. Tell me about where you live.

RB: My house has five clients and five boys. My girlfriend Valerie lives there too.

SC: Valerie! Can you tell me about her?

RB: I met her when I was a little younger, I met her when I was eighteen. When I was eighteen I started going out with her. We started going out for a while. We went to the park and we just hang out with a bunch of friends and them, that’s how I met her.

SC: And you have been dating ever since?

RB: I was only eighteen! And since, I met her parents, there goes the answer. I was sitting by the park, minding my business and there goes the Greek girl, going around the corner.

SC: Another Greek! What do you like to do together?

RB: We watch The Golden Girls and we watch Good Times, you know, stories like that we watch. And we watch Little House [on the Prairie] with Laura Ingalls [Wilder], we watch Little House. We watch Mama’s Family, you know, everything we watch. Little shows we like to watch. I am enjoying that show. We go to the car dealership in the neighborhood over here. And then we go to the deli to buy my sandwich, we go for a walk sometimes, we go to the movies, I enjoy myself. I am very happy.

SC: And tell us the story about you coming to LAND.

RB: LAND was a little funny trick because by Friday I was leaving the day treatment center. I went to day treatment and I talked to Matthew Murphy and he hired me. That’s how I got to LAND. I went to beg him, I went to beg him with my two hands, I said, “Can you just take me?” and he said, “Come to LAND and give me the paper!” I was leaving the next day on Monday morning.

SC: Right, the famous story you always tell! You were one of the first artists Matthew started LAND with! And you come full time still? RB: I come full time.

SC: What do you like to do when you are here at LAND? RB: I clean up the bathroom and I clean up the sink and I do every little thing. And I go to my doctor’s appointments sometimes. I am being responsible and I gotta go to all my doctor’s appointments.

SC: Yes, you are very helpful at LAND and responsible. But what about your artwork?

RB: My artwork is kinda tricky sometimes. I like to draw animals. Animals make me happy every day.  When I go home I see all these animals on TV that are stranded and all these things. So I have a little story about the animals, they are stranded and I feel sorry for them. That’s why I like to draw animals. I would like to have animals but I can’t have them in my apartment because they are not allowed. So I draw them instead. This is when I first started drawing them.

SC: Right, and what are your favorite animals to draw? RB: I draw the little dogs. The monkeys and the gorillas and the tigers and the lions and the goats and everything. I am having curried goat for my birthday next week, my friend brings the music and everything. And we are having stewed chicken also for my birthday. I like to draw trees and things, lots of things. Little trees and praying hands and everything.

SC: What’s behind the praying hands that you draw? RB: That’s just a little thing I always does, you know, I just draw them. That’s how I learned how to draw myself. I just look at my hand and draw it out. When you go to church you see all those little praying hands in church, you know? All those things, so I draw them. They have certain objects in them, sometimes birds, sometimes Jesus.

SC: You talk a lot at LAND about your childhood and your memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Can you tell me more about that?

RB: My childhood was all about me and my grandmother. We would go to the coffee shop and we sit there and play with toys and all those things. So, I still have my little hobbies, cars are my hobby, I have those cars in my room. Also, I love my darling mother, she hatched me. My darling mother is doing pretty good, I have to call her tonight. Her name is Mrs. Molly, M-O-L-L-Y, Molly Bansraj. And my sister Diane, I have a lot in common with my sister Diane because when I was in trouble, she always bails me out. She started to take care of me when I was a little younger. She would take me to the doctor and take care of myself. Diane is the only girl that I love the best. Diane is the one I depend on.

SC: Yes, you have a great relationship with your family, especially Diane and you visit her often in Florida! You always talk about being a rascal when you were a kid, what would you do?

RB: My childhood, I used to run away from home and everything. I used to go to the neighbor’s house and play with the pipe water and all those things. I go outside by the faucet and open all the water and all these things. I used to hang out with all the neighborhood kids. I would go to the neighbor’s house and spend the whole day there. I was a Brooklyn country boy, I had shorts up to over here, and a pair of socks, I had.

SC: A Brooklyn country boy! Where did your nickname “Rudy” come from?

RB: That’s my grandfather’s name. That’s my grandfather. Instead of putting my name Haresh, they call me Rudy instead.

SC: And music was a big part of your upbringing, right? RB: Oh, I had a lot of music. I listen to all the records. I used to play music when I was a little boy, I played all these songs. I used to play music when I was little so I have all my tapes and all the Indian music I still have. I listen to Haathi Mere Saathi. I just sing and listen to the music. I play a lot of Indian music, it’s part of my culture. All my life I have been playing music, since I was a young kid.

SC: Yes, I love watching you listen to music and dance in your chair. Is there anything else you would like people to know about you, Rudy?

RB: I try my best every day. I come in here every day. I sit in the back and I think about a lot of things. I am quiet and I listen to the radio. That’s how I am. I talk to my friends. I listen to a little Indian music.

SC: Thank you Rudy, it’s been a real pleasure talking with you.

#Rudy Bansraj #land gallery #artist #interview #nyc #Sophia Cosmadopoulos #ace hotel new york #inside job #yes

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Sparrow

“There is a tendency to call any small bird a sparrow, meaning that much of Old World lore about sparrows may not in fact be specifically associated with a bird of the true sparrow family. This doesn’t invalidate the large body of cultural lore associated with sparrows, however.

“Sparrows appear in classical poetry and sacred texts as positive birds. The Roman poet Catallus wrote a series of poems about his lover’s relationship with her pet sparrow, culminating in a poem of mourning entitled ‘Lesbia’s Sparrow’ that outlined her grief at the death of her beloved bird. Sappho’s poem ‘Hymn to Aphrodite’ describes the goddess’s chariot as being pulled by sparrows (although some translations give the honor to doves instead). This may be an example of the sparrow’s subsequent association with love and affection. In the Gospels of Like and Matthew, Jesus refers to sparrows. In Luke 12:6 he points out that five sparrows may be sold for a mere two pennies, but that does not make them worthless in the eyes of God. In Matthew 10:29 he states that two sparrows may be sold for a single penny, but not a single sparrow falls to the ground without God’s knowledge. Both these examples use the sparrow as a demonstration of a small and apparently insignificant part of the natural world that is still recognized as valuable by a Creator.

“In his Ecclesiastical History of the English People (circa 731 CE), the Anglo-Saxon historian and theologian Bede compares the life of a man to a sparrow flying through a house in winter: While inside, the sparrow is safe from the winter storm and elements, but once outside again he vanishes into the darkness from which he came. The statement is couched in a discussion about conversion to Christianity, perceived as a comforting philosophy when human life is like the sparrow in the allegory, emerging from the unsure darkness and returning to it again.

“The sparrow’s omnipresence (again, possibly because the word can refer to any number of small brown birds) also demonstrates the tendency to associate something overly familiar with something vulgar. The sparrow was sometimes used as a symbol for the lower classes in European iconography, as opposed to more noble birds that represented the nobility. That vulgar association also translated to a n association with lewdness, possibly also a reference back to the connection with Aphrodite, goddess of love.

“That familiarity can be seen in the use of the sparrow in Egyptian hieroglyphs, too. The symbol doesn’t represent a sound and has no phonetic value; instead, it is a determinative that is paired with words to identify something as small, narrow, or bad.”

-Birds: Spiritual Field Guide - Arin Murphy-Hiscock

#Birds a Spiritual Field Guide #ymmv #sparrow

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Huge thank you to all who made it out to Christian Berst Gallery for LAND’s 10 Years in a Day celebration. We are so humbled and grateful for the overwhelming support!

#LAND studio & gallery #Christian Berst Art Brut #10 year celebration #Matthew Bede Murphy

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Me and Murray

Me and Murray-The  tale of the accidental discovery of a forgotten Brooklyn artist.

#Murray Guzik #matthew bede murphy

[bigandstrong]

09/01/14

#nyc #minimal wave #matthew bede murphy

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#Matthew Bede Murphy #mind map #2024 #studio #brooklyn #artists on tumblr

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#Sketchbook #Matthew Bede Murphy

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#plein air #oil #prospect park #Matthew Bede Murphy #landscape

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I love drawing my fellow strap hangers on my way to and from work. I’ve filled 5 small sketchbooks since 2020 w quick studies conducted from a safe distance.

#matthew bede murphy #subway series #sketchbook #strap hanger #portrait

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Pull up a chair , let’s catch up

#matthew bede murphy #street photography

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#Matthew Bede Murphy #oil #fractals #2023 #prospect park

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#matthew bede murphy #painting of a sketchbook #sailor #shelter gallery #nyc #exhibition #36x30

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#matthew bede murphy #sketchbook #2023

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#foro italico #boxer #1928-1936 #matthew bede murphy