#alphabet city 1984

[soupy-sez]

Francis Ford Coppola, Vincent Spano, and Matt Dillon at a party for Alphabet City, New York, May 3rd, 1984, © Allan Tannenbaum

#francis ford coppola #vincent spano #matt dillon #movies #alphabet city #alphabet city 1984 #actors #pics #soupy's #allan tannenbaum #1980s #80s #new york

[schlock-luster-video]

On September 11, 1986, Alphabet City debuted in Colombia.

#alphabet city #alphabet city 1984 #amos poe #vincent spano #crime drama #1980s movies #tcm underground #crime thriller #crime film #gangster film #1980s #80s movies #black and white art #low budget film #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film #doris wishman

[fitsofgloom]

The Boy From Alphabet City

#alphabet city #vincent spano #amos poe #1984

[coochiequeens]

A woman was fired from her position at a senior shelter because she …(checks notes)….objected to the presence of a man who killed two women, threaten her AND was permitted to keep a gun! WTF

A former social worker at a Manhattan senior shelter has filed a lawsuit against her ex-employer, claiming she lost her job after she warned her bosses that a convicted serial killer had made threats against her life while she worked at the facility. 

Monica Archer was let go from her position at George Daly House, a short-term housing alternative for elderly residents in Alphabet City, even after convicted serial killer Harvey Marcelin was charged with the brutal slaying and dismemberment of a former resident. Marcelin identifies as a lesbian woman, and often uses the name “Marceline Harvey.”

The lawsuit, filed on Monday, concerned the shelter’s decision to admit Marcelin, 84, who has been placed on lifetime parole after spending 50 years in prison for the homicide and dismemberment of two women.

According to an exclusive published in the New York Post, Marcelin “made constant threats to kill” Archer and other personnel, and was permitted to keep a gun on the premises.

Archer had suggested to her supervisors that Marcelin be transferred to a facility specializing in mental health disorders, but was ignored. She had also recommended Marcelin be placed in an “appropriate setting for the serial killer who has issues that I can’t address.”

But Archer says that management continued to allow Marcelin to reside at the shelter, despite “knowing that [he] had been accused of and convicted of several murders, allegedly possessed a gun, and regularly threatened to kill staff members.”

Marcelin had also reportedly begun following Archer after she left work for the evening, leaving the social worker so frightened that she began using alternative routes to commute after work.

Despite Marcelin’s “erratic” and “dangerous” behavior, he was released from the senior care shelter to live independently. Yet Archer remained troubled by his behavior and filed a complaint against the facility with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration for exposing her to risk.

She alleges that management then retaliated against her, putting her on janitorial duty and refusing to let her work remotely.

On March 4, just one week after moving into an apartment, Marcelin was arrested for the grisly murder and dismemberment of Susan Leyden, 68, who had been a former resident at the same senior facility.

Leyden’s body was found in pieces scattered across the neighborhood, with parts being found on two separate days. Her headless torso was found by a passerby in a shopping cart blocks away from Marcelin’s apartment on March 3, prompting police to question Marcelin on the gruesome discovery. 

Two months after Marcelin was taken into custody, Archer alleges she was fired for insubordination, a move she says was punishment for raising the alarm in the first place. 

“To the detriment of the public, when [Marcelin] was placed into society in [his] own apartment, [he] allegedly murdered a former resident no more than a week later, clearly inapposite to the best interests of public safety,” the lawsuit reads.

The news that Marcelin had been charged with homicide came as “no surprise” to Archer, according to the suit. 

Prior to the murder of Susan Leyden, Marcelin was well-known to police, having been convicted in the brutal deaths of two other women on two separate occasions. 

In 1963, Marcelin was arrested for shooting his then-girlfriend Jacqueline Bonds three times inside their Manhattan apartmet. He was sentenced to 20 years to life and was paroled in 1984. After his release, he went on to stab another female sexual partner to death, stuffing her corpse in a garbage bag and then dumping it on the street near Central Park.

Marcelin was arrested in 1986 for the second murder, but was once again released on parole in 2019. At the time, he told a parole officer that he had “a problem with women.”

Prior to the murders, Marcelin was accused of attempted rape when he was just 14 years-old; the allegation was made by a girl aged 8.

A 1963 psychiatric examination conducted by three doctors at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital concluded Marcelin had “schizoid personality with sociopathic features” but was not deemed criminally insane nor psychotic. A hospital record from 1962 suggested he may have had “delusional grandiosity,” “suggestions of chronic schizophrenia” and “paranoid reaction personality.”

Marcelin began identifying as a woman while at Auburn State Prison for his second slaying, and started taking Premarin, a type of estrogen intended for post-menopausal women, after meeting trans-identified male inmate at the facility. The killer appears to treat his “male” and “female” personas as two separate entities. In an interview he gave to the New York Post earlier this year, Marcelin claimed it was his “male” persona that was responsible for his history of crime.

“Harvey’s not a good guy, he’s a tough guy,” Marcelin said, “Marceline’s nice and gentle and loving, you know, lots of laughter, fun to be with. She’s the one who’s perfectly normal.”

Marcelin appears to have become acquainted with Leyden shortly after being paroled in 2019. 

One of his many Facebook profiles reveals that he had communication with Leyden around that time, and appeared to become somewhat obsessed with her, using her photos in place of his own.

In October 2021, just months before murdering Leyden, Marcelin responded to her on Facebook with the comment, “Love personified.”

Yet a few replies made from Leyden’s Facebook account suggest that the feeling was far from mutual. 

In November 2020, Marcelin uploaded a picture of a young blond woman as his main profile photo, the identity of whom is unknown. Beneath the photo, Leyden commented: “That is not a picture of Marceline Harvey… [he] is nice but crazy… Marcaline [sic] is a freak.”

Archer was not the only woman to raise concerns about Marcelin prior to the murder of Susan Leyden. 

In July, a nurse who works intake for a shelter in the Bronx spoke to the New York Times and revealed she had great concerns about Marcelin being allowed access to the women’s section of the facility. 

Anne Brennan questioned whether Marcelin should be permitted to reside in the women’s area of the shelter, but was told by her supervisors to grant Marcelin entry.

“Apparently his feelings and identity were far more important than all the other women that were terrified of him,” she said.

Marcelin is currently booked as a “female” detainee with the New York City Department of Corrections, and is being housed at the Rose M. Singer Center — the only women’s facility on Rikers Island.

Marcelin’s next court date is scheduled for January 25.

By Genevieve Gluck Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

#Monica Archer is a hero #The George Daly House doesn’t care for the safety of its residents #manhattan #Marceline Harvey is Harvey Marcelin #Harvey Marcelin is a violent man #Rest In Peace Susan Leyden #Rest In Peace Jacqueline Bonds

[projecthipster]

We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.”

Alright, list-makers, what makes this one so hip, then?

I guess it’s partly the fact that it's anti-conformist, a celebration of creativity and soul in the face of crushing squareness in a more literal sense than ever. But it's also the fact that George Orwell took so much from We in the writing of 1984, a book that then grew so popular as to be entrenched in the very core of dystopian literature, in high school curricula, and in knee-jerk comparisons to every piece of modern political policy. The hipster appeal of We, then, is the same as that of an obscure first EP in a style that would blow up ten years later. We did it first. But did We do it better?

We (non-italicized; pay close attention to italics in this review or it’ll get confusing) mustn’t judge a book by its cover, a word I use here in the same context as “a cover song,” which is what a certain kind of cynic would say that 1984 is of We. So putting the influencees aside, what are We? Is. What is We? And actually, can the question "What is We?" tell us anything about the question "What are We?"

We begin and We begins, and mostly progresses, with the setting up of a future city-state wherein logical, scientific efficiency dictates all other aspects of life and society. Like every other dystopia, this one seems to have arisen in the wake of a nuclear war, an always convenient narrative means of reducing population to an amount that can be explained in a single system. People are designated as serial numbers. All activities are determined by a scientifically deduced Table of Hours, written in capitals like the name of God, and indeed worshipped like it. Fashion is, of course, jumpsuits. Heads are uniformly shaved. The city that serves as the solitary setting is a rectilinear grid of glass cubes that would put Le Corbusier’s wildest fantasies to shame. You get the picture: it’s the duet of collectivism and modernism extrapolated ad extremum. Glass is the material of every floor, wall, and ceiling, of course, because logic dictates that the security of having every activity be visible is more efficient than entertaining old notions like privacy. It’s a more dramatic, less believable version of Orwell’s omnipresent telescreens, but that outlines the difference between the books. Orwell wanted to frighten his readers with a vision of an eerily possible future. Yevgeny Zamyatin wanted to make them think on a clearly hyperbolic allegory. It’s also noteworthy that the denizens of Our We’s Single State get a provided hour to lower the curtains around their glass cube and have sex – a prudish, anti-logical, old-fashioned throwback to inefficient and unsafe privacy that would be forbidden in 1984 and downright traitorous in Brave New World.

Speaking of Zamyatin, we can’t talk We without talking Zamyatin. This dead author in particular can’t be dead, because the novel is so tied up in his life and circumstances. With Zamyatin as with Orwell, those who simplify the politics of novel and author down to “anticommunist” are missing a lot— most— of the nuance. In fact Zamyatin was most definitely a communist, of the first and, it could be argued, Zamyatin himself would probably argue, the purest vanguard. A Bolshevik from just about as soon as there were Bolsheviks, Zamyatin craved revolution, smuggled explosives in his apartment, was arrested and beaten by Czarist police, and published satirical fiction while disguised and in hiding on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. He made his way to England and worked as a naval engineer, just as his protagonist in We, Δ503, is…

Okay. Pause. A side note on this character’s number-name: in the original Russian, the narrator was called Д-503. Almost every English translation has rendered this as D-503, since that’s the modern Latin alphabet version of the Cyrillic letter. I started reading a translation that had the number as D, and then I had to move. When I picked up another copy from another library, that translation had the narrator called Δ-503. The introduction explained the translator’s interpretation here: Zamyatin may very well have chosen Д to designate his narrator because it was very close, typographically and in use, to Δ, the Greek Delta, the root letter of both Д and D as well as the mathematical indicator for change. The whole function of every narrator, but especially this one, whose view shapes our impression of his world and its morality, is to be changed by the events of the plot. Russian readers might pick this up with Д, but English readers are unlikely to get that from D. Thus, go back to the root: Delta-Five-Oh-Three both sounds very mathematical and scientific, and has change right there in the name. I agree with this view. So, even though D-503 seems to be the overall consensus used in the newest translations, I prefer the symbolism and slightly more esoteric touch of Δ-503. So I’ll be using that.

Anyway.

Zamyatin made his way to England and worked as a naval engineer, just as his protagonist in We, Δ-503, is the chief engineer of the Integral, a glass spaceship which represents the One State’s crowning achievement. While in England, Things Happened in Russia. Zamyatin returned home in 1917 to find himself no longer a criminal, but now an old-guard member of the ruling party who found himself increasingly at odds with the new guard of Bolsheviks. They wanted greater censorship to protect the success of what was beginning to be known as the final revolution; he believed that the freedom to write was the whole point of the revolution in the first place.

Zamyatin wrote We in 1920 and ‘21, but knew without having to ask that it wouldn’t be accepted for publication under the Lenin regime. He sent it to New York, where a few years later it was published both in the original Russian and in the first of many English translations. His secret didn’t linger long. Russian copies published in Czechslovakia made their way over the border, and Stalinist ire forced Zamyatin to flee to Paris, where he lived in poverty, making no money from his book’s moderate circulation abroad. After the much more commercially successful 1948 writing of 1984 (you didn’t think that that year title was a coincidence, did you?) We saw a slight boost in sales as Orwell endorsed it as his inspiration. His original 1946 review is interesting to read. However, by then Zamyatin was dead.

So, suffice to say, Zamyatin didn’t fear communism; he feared the corruption of communism, of any system, into self-righteous, entropic dogma, into an art-fearing, obsessively modernist pursuit of the absolutely regulated industrial machine society. It’s easy to pick up that the world of We is one that prides itself on having conquered primitive religion and focused on efficiency, to the point that the dogma of efficiency itself has become a new religion. Dissenters to the life mathematic - those who smoke, for example, or dream when they sleep, signs of the bourgeois intellectual - are publicly executed in festivals with a spectacularly showy machine that turns them into goop. All of that seems rather, well, inefficient, doesn’t it? It’d take fewer resources just to ignore those people. But the state isn’t here for efficiency; it’s here to glorify the dogma of efficiency, like a hustle culture influencer. Zamyatin critiques the new dogmatic Bolsheviks' imperialist ambitions as well. The purpose of Δ-503's big spaceship is to spread the gospel of rationality to any civilizations that may exist out in the cosmos. The Single State has (or at least, has claimed to have) cured the whole Earth of the diseases of imagination and soul, but the crusade must continue even beyond, to forcefully civilize a universe of soulful barbarians that may or may not exist.

What was probably the death knell for Zamyatin’s hope of being published in the Soviet Onion 🧅 was also my favourite passage in the book. Δ-503 insists, as per the dogma of the One State, that there can be no revolution in the city because that which established it was the final revolution. But revolutions, another character says, are like numbers. You’re a mathematician, dear Δ. So what’s the final number? Not infinity. Not an abstract concept of all numbers. A real whole number, and the last one. What is it? Of course there isn’t one. Then how can there be a final revolution? The purpose of revolutions is to correct the corruption of the existing status quo and thereby avoid the entropic decay of society. The revolution itself must be anti-entropic, and if entropy is seen in the revolutionary establishment, a new revolution must be due. That’s how you can tell the revolutionaries looking to better their world from those seeking power over it. The latter think they’ve calculated the final number.

The plot of We proceeds along the same beats as that of 1984. There’s a seductive counter-cultural woman, secret trysts, the discovery of an underground resistance, and a tragic ending to drive home the ultimate power of the dystopia. Despite that ending carrying across, though, something about We feels more hopeful, or at least, less hopeless. Without getting into spoilers, despite how much weirder the physical world of the novel is compared to Orwell’s Oceania, it plays less in the space of the mind. There’s a bit of it at the end, but it’s so straightforward and easy in its literally surgical precision of hypothetical manipulative psychology that it feels fantastical, and so not all that impactful. Because Orwell delves deeper into the psychology of dystopia, it makes the whole thing more horrifically invasive. At the same time the frightfulness of a party unwriting history and neutering language at a whim exists in a more grounded world, one where the reader feels the dust and grime of a bulldozed London, the reality that underlies the propaganda of the shining city, better than Zamyatin’s actually shining city.

One other thing I enjoyed was the progression of the prose - the book begins as a scientific series of journal entries counting towards the launch of the Integral, but as Δ-503's terminal disease of having the stirrings of a soul progresses, metaphor, offbeat rhythm, and poetic flights of prose creep.

We are We is worth reading if you enjoy classic dystopian literature, to properly fill out that pantheon of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury. But I wouldn’t say it’s one of the most essential, or the best of the field. Still, it’s interestingly written, and it gives the hipster reader a chance to play a Did It First card when discussions of dystopian books come up, which they seem to be tending to lately, for some reason.

I give this hipster book four “society is all a machine, man!”s out of five.

Project Hipster is a futile and disorganized attempt to dive into the world of things that the internet has at some point claimed "are hipster," mostly through ListChallenges search results.

This review comes from the first list, Hipster Lit: If You Haven't Read 'em, Pretend You Have.

Stay deck.

#We #yevgeny zamyatin #1984 #george orwell #dystopia #scifi #books #literature #hipster #russian literature #science fiction

[itsjustascarecrow]

just an extra list of all the horror and horror-adjacent movies i’ve seen and am planning on watching (not including shows/limited series or documentaries). mainly for my own reference and in case i accidentally lose the list on my phone, but also to share b/c why not?? 

i’m sure there’s plenty i’m forgetting b/c they’re so obvious i don’t even think about them; others i’ve forgotten due to the fog of time, and some i’m still on the fence about/not sure if i want them on the list yet (either b/c i’m not sure if they count or i just may not have any interest in the first place).

[strike-throughs for ones i’ve seen, all listed in alphabetical order and w/ the year of release (some have remakes where i’ve only seen either the original or remake, so just the relevant year is stricken through). ^ this symbol for ones i thoroughly enjoyed, two ^^ for all-time faves. * this symbol for ones i also enjoyed, just not as much comparatively. ` this symbol for ones i actively dislike.]

total: 358; seen: 308, remaining: 50

(8-1922)

the 8th night (2021) // 10 cloverfield lane (2016) // 12 hour shift (2020)^ // 28 days later (2002) // 30 days of night (2007) // 1922 (2017)

(a-au)

a bay of blood (1971)* // a bucket of blood (1959)* // a classic horror story (2021) // a field in england (2014) // the addams family (1991)^ // addams family values (1993)^ // the advent calendar (2021) // alien (1979)* // alison’s birthday (1981)^ // all the moons (2020)^ // allegoria (2022) // american psycho (2000) // american werewolf in london (1981)* // the angry black girl and her monster (2023)* // annihilation (2018) // apostle (2018) // army of darkness (1992) // army of the dead (2021)^ // as above, so below (2014)^ // the autopsy of jane doe (2016)^

(ba-bu)

the babadook (2014)^ // baghead (2024) // before i wake (2016) // beetlejuice (1988)^ // behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon (2006)^ // berberian sound studio (2012)^ // better watch out (2016)* // the bird with the crystal plumage (1970) // the birds (1963)^ // birth/rebirth (2023)^ // black christmas (1974)^ // the black phone (2022)^ // black sabbath (1963) // black sunday (1960) // black swan (2010)* // the blackening (2022) // blade (1998)* // the blair witch project (1999)* // blood on satan’s claw (1971)* // blood quantum (2020)* // blue sunshine (1977) // bodies bodies bodies (2022)^ // the boogeyman (2023) // the boy behind the door (2021) // the burning (1981)

(ca-cr)

the cabinet of dr. caligari (1920)^ // cam (2018) // candyman (1992 & 2021)^ // carnival of souls (1962) // carrie (1976)^^ // casper (1995)^ // castle freak (1995) // the cat o’nine tails (1971) // caveat (2020) // cemetery man (1994)^ // censor (2021) // the changeling (1980)^ // children of the corn (1984)* // chopping mall (1986)* // christmas evil (1980) // the city of the dead (1961) // clearcut (1991) // color out of space (2020) // coming home in the dark (2021) // the conjuring (2013) // the conjuring 2 (2016) // coraline (2009)* // corpse bride (2005)^ // the craft (1996) // creep (2014) // creepshow (1982) // crimson peak (2015)*

(da-do)

the dark and the wicked (2020) // dark august (1976) // dark night of the scarecrow (1981)^ // dark shadows (2012) // day of the dead (1985)^ // day shift (2022)^ // the dead zone (1983) // deep red (1976) // def by temptation (1990) // destroy all neighbors (2024)^^ // the devils (1971) // doctor sleep (2019)^ // don’t worry darling (2022)* // drag me to hell (2009)

(ed-ey)

edge of the knife (2018) // el conde (2023) // the evil dead (1981)^ // evil dead 2 (1987)^ // evil dead rise (2023) // the exorcist (1973)* // the exorcist iii (1990)* // extraordinary tales (2015) // eyes of fire (1983) // the eyes of laura mars (1978) 

(fa-fu)

fade to black (1980) // the fall of the house of usher (1960) // fear street trilogy (2021)^ // the feast (2021)^ // the fool-killer (1965) // the fourth kind (2009) // frank (2021) // frankenweenie (2012) // fresh (2022) // the fury (1978)

(ga-gi)

gaia (2021) // gerald’s game (2017) // get out (2017)* // ghostbusters (1984)^ // ghostbusters 2 (1989)* // ghostwatch (1992) // the gift (2000) // ginger snaps (2000) // the girl in room 2a (1974) // godzilla (2014)^ // godzilla: king of the monsters (2019)* // godzilla vs. kong (2021)

(ha-hu)

halloween (1978^ & 2018) // halloweentown (1998) // happy death day (2017) // the haunting (1963)^ // the haunting in connecticut (2009) // the haunting in connecticut 2: ghosts of georgia (2013) // the haunted mansion (2003) // heathers (1989) // hellbender (2022) // hell house llc (2015)* // hell house llc ii: the abbadon hotel (2018) // hell house llc iii: lake of fire (2019) // hell house llc origins: the carmichael manor (2023) // hell night (1981) // hellraiser (1987 & 2022) // hereditary (2018) // the hills have eyes (1977) // his house (2020)^ // hocus pocus (1993) // house (1977) // house on haunted hill (1959) // hubie halloween (2020) // hush (2016) 

(i-it)

i am legend (2007) // i am the pretty thing that lives in the house (2016)` // ice cream man (1995) // identikit (1974) // il demonio (1963) // incident in a ghostland (2018) // impetigore (2019)* // influencer (2022)* // insidious (2010) // insidious: chapter 2 (2013) // insidious: the red door (2023) // interview with the vampire (1994) // in the earth (2021) // in the tall grass (2019) // invasion of the bodysnatchers (1956 & 1978) // the invitation (2022) // it chapter 1 (2017) // it chapter 2 (2019) // it follows (2014)^ // it lives inside (2023) // it’s alive (1974) // it’s a wonderful knife (2023)*

(ja-je)

jacob’s ladder (2019) // jakob’s wife (2021) // jaws (1975)^ // jennifer’s body (2009) 

(ka-kr)

kakashi (2001) // killer klowns from outer space (1988) // knife + heart (2019)* // krampus (2015) 

(la-lu)

la llorona (2019)^ // lake mungo (2008)* // lake of the dead (1958) // the last broadcast (1998) // the last man on earth (1964) // last night in soho (2021)^ // the last voyage of the demeter (2023)* // late night with the devil (2024)^^ // leave (2022) // let the right one in (2008) // the lighthouse (2019) // little shop of horrors (1960* & 1986)^ // the living dead at manchester morgue (1974) // lokis: a manuscript of professor wittembach (1970) // the lost boys (1987) // lucky (2020)`

(ma-my)

ma (2019) // malevolent (2018) // malignant (2021)* // marnie (1964)* // mayhem (2017) // m3gan (2023)* // men (2022) // messiah of evil (1973) // midsommar (2019) // mohawk (2017) // monster house (2006) // mortal kombat (1995 & 2021^) // the mortuary collection (2020)* // mother’s day (2010) // ms. 45 (1981) // the menu (2022)* // the murder mansion (1972) // murder on the orient express (1974)^ // the mutilator (1984) // my bloody valentine (1981)

(ne-no)

near dark (1987) // nightbooks (2021)^ // nightmare (2023) // nightmare alley (2021)^ // the nightmare before christmas (1993)* // nightmare on elm street (1984) // nightmare on elm street part 2: freddy’s revenge (1985)* // night breed (1990) // the night house (2020) // night of the living dead (1968^ & 1990) // night teeth (2021) // no one gets out alive (2021) // no one heard the scream (1973) // nope (2022)^ // noroi: the curse (2005)^ // nosferatu (1922)*

(om-ou)

oculus (2013) // the omega man (1971) // the omen (1976)* // orion and the dark (2024)* // ouija (2014) // ouija: origin of evil (2016)

(pa-pu)

paranormal activity (2007) // paranormal investigation (2018) // paranorman (2012)* // pearl (2022)* // penda’s fen {from play for today} (1974) // peninsula (2020) // perfect blue (1997)* // the perfection (2019)^ // phantasm (1979) // the phantom of the opera (2004)* // pieces (1983)* // planet of the apes (1968) // the platform (2019)* // poltergeist (1982)^ // the power (2021)^ // prey (2022)^^ // psycho (1960)^ // psycho goreman (2020) // pumpkinhead (1988)*

(q)

the queen of black magic (2019)

(ra-ro)

raven’s hollow (2022) // raw (2016) // ready or not (2019)* // re-animator (1985)* // rear window (1954)^ // [rec] (2007) // red eye (2005) // renfield (2023)^ // rift (2017) // the ritual (2018)^ // rosemary’s baby (1968) 

(sa-sw)

saint maud (2019) // salem’s lot (1979) // satan’s slaves (2017)* // satan’s slaves: communion (2022)^ // sator (2019) // saw (2004) // scanners (1981) // scare me (2020)^ // scary godmother: halloween spooktacular (2003) // scary stories to tell in the dark (2019) // scooby-doo on zombie island (1998)* // scream (1996* & 2022)^ // scream 4 (2011)* // scream 6 (2023)^ // season of the witch (1973) // the sentinel (1977) // shaun of the dead (2004)^ // the shining (1980)* // shutter island (2010)* // the silence of the lambs (1991)^ // silent hill (2006) // silent night, deadly night part 2 (1987) // sissy (2022)^ // sister death (2023)* // the sixth sense (1999) // skinamarink (2023)^^ // slash/back (2022)* // smile (2022) // son (2021) // soylent green (1973) // the spine of night (2021) // studio 666 (2022)* // super dark times (2017)^ // suspiria (1977 & 2018) // sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street (2007)^

(ta-tr)

the taking of deborah logan (2014)^ // talk to me (2023)* // tammy and the t-rex (1994)^ // tenebrae (1982) // terrified (2018) // terror train (1980) // texas chainsaw massacre (2022) // the texas chainsaw massacre (2003) // the texas chain saw massacre (1974)* // there’s someone inside your house (2021) // the thing (1982)^^ // things heard and seen (2021) // they live in the grey (2022) // tigers are not afraid (2019) // tilbury (2021) // titane (2021) // train to busan (2019)^ // trick ‘r treat (2007)^

(um-us)

umma (2022) // us (2019)*

(ve-vi)

the vanishing (2018) // verónica (2017) // vertigo (1958)^ // v/h/s/85 (2023)* // v/h/s/94 (2021) // v/h/s/99 (2022) // vicious fun (2020)^ // videodrome (1983)* // the vigil (2019)* // viy (1967)^

(wa-wr)

watcher (2022) // welcome to raccoon city (2021) // wendell & wild (2022)^ // werewolves within (2021) // we are still here (2015) // we have always lived in the castle (2018) // when a stranger calls (1979) // when evil lurks (2023)^ // the white reindeer (1952) // the wicker man (1973)^ // the wind (2018) // the witchfinder general (1968) // the wrath (2018)

(x)

x (2022)^

(zo)

zombie (1979) // zombieland (2009)

#just updated/rearranged a bunch of things but ye #i guess i'll take recommendations if y'all got any?? the easier it is to access the better (and by easy i mean netflix or shudder) #or anything that's upcoming in theaters (i already forget the names of the two previews from when i saw tbp earlier this week rip) #reference! #random bullshit

[felicityhicklingviscomlvl6]

mp – female serial killers.

alphabetical order [last name].

number of female serial killers: 70

beverley gail allitt "angel of death" dob: october 4, 1968 characteristics: nurse suffering from the mental illness – munchausen's syndrome by proxy victims: 4 murders: february – april 1991 method: poisoning (insulin - lignocaine) arrested: november 1991location: lincolnshire, england, uk status: sentenced to 13 concurrent terms of life imprisonment on May 28, 1993 [https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/allitt-beverley.htm]

lyda catherine ambrose dob: 1891 characteristics: "black widow" – to collect insurance money victims: 5 murders: 1917 – 1920 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: december 1920 location: missouri/idaho, usa status: sentenced to life imprisonment. escaped from the idaho state prison on may 4, 1931. recaptured in kansas city in 1932. died in prison. [https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/ambrose-lyda.htm] amy archer-gilligan dob: october 1868 characteristics: to collect insurance money to inherit victims: 5+ murders: 1908 – 1916 method: poison [arsenic or strychnine] arrested: may 8, 1916 location: windsor, connecticut, usa status: sentenced to death on june 18, 1917. granted a new trial. pleaded guilty of murder in  second degree. sentenced to life in prison on july 1, 1919. declared insane in 1924 and transferred to connecticut hospital for the insane in middletown, where she remained until her death on 23 april 23, 1962. [https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/archer-gilligan.htm]

francisca ballesteros "the poisoner of melilla" dob: 1969 characteristics: poisoner victims: 3 murders: 1990 – 2004 method: poison arrested: june 7, 2004 location: melilla, spain status: sentenced to a term of 84 years in prison on september 26, 2005 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/ballesteros-francisca.htm]

margie velma barfield "death row granny" dob: october 23, 1932 characteristics: poisoner victims: 5 – 7 murders: 1969 – 1978 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: may 13, 1978 location: robeson county, north carolina, usa status: executed by lethal injection in north carolina on november 2, 1984 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/barfield-velma.htm]

juana barraza "la mataviejitas" ["the old lady killer"] dob: december 27, 1958 characteristics: robberies – motivated by a lingering resentment against her mother victims: 11+ murders: 2002 – 2006 method: strangulation arrested: may 13, 1978 location: mexico city, mexico status: sentenced to 759 years in prison on march 31, 2008 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/barraza-juana.htm]

martha beck "the lonely hearts killer" dob: may 6, 1919 characteristics: robberies victims: 4+ murders: 1948 – 1949 method: overdose of drugs, strangulation, shooting, and drowning arrested: may 13, 1978 location: illinois/new york/ michigan, usa status: executed by electrocution at sing sing prison in new york on march 8, 1951 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/beck-martha.htm]

marie alexandrine becker "...I can supply you with a powder that will leave no trace" dob: 1877 characteristics: poisoner – robberies victims: 10+ murders: 1932 – 1936 method: poison [digitalis] arrested: october 1936 location: liege, belgium status: sentenced to life imprisonment in 1936. died in prison in 1938 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/becker-marie.htm]

elfriede blauensteiner "the black widow" dob: january 22, 1931 characteristics: poisoner, obsessive gambler – to fuel her expensive addiction victims: 3 – 5+ murders: 1981 – 1995 method: poison [euglucon] arrested: january 1996 location: vienna, austria status: sentenced to life in prison in 1997 and 2001. died on november 18, 2003 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/blauensteiner.htm]

mary ann britland "I am quite innocent, I am not guilty at all." dob: 1847 characteristics: poisoner victims: 3 murders: march – may 1886 method: poison [strychnine and arsenic] arrested: june 1886 location: ashton-under-lyne, great manchester, england, uk status: executed by hanging at strangeways prison on august 9, 1886 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/britland-mary-ann.htm]

judias anna buenooano "the black widow" dob: april 4, 1943 characteristics: poisoner – to collect insurance money victims: 3 murders: 1971 – 1980 method: poison [arsenic] and drowning arrested: january 11, 1984 location: florida/colorado, usa status: executed by electrocution in florida on march 30, 1998 [https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/buenoano-judy.htm]

leonarda cianciulli "the soap–maker of correggio" dob: november 14, 1893 characteristics: turned their bodies into soap victims: 3 murders: 1939 – 1940 method: beating with an axe arrested: -- location: correggio, emilia romagna, italy status: sentenced to thirty years in prison and three years in a criminal asylum. died of cerebral apoplexy in the women's criminal asylum in pozzuoli on october 15, 1970 [https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cianciulli-leonarda.htm]

tammy corbett dob: october 2, 1965 characteristics: child killer – possibly postpartum depression victims: 3 murders: september 1987 – july 1989 arrested: august 10, 1989 method: blunt force, shaking [shook to death], and smothered location: macoupin county, illinois, usa status: sentenced to 20 years in prison on september 24, 1990. sentenced to life in prison without parole on february 10, 1993 [https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/corbett-tammy.htm]

mary ann cotton "mary ann cotton, dead and forgotten she lies in her bed, with her eyes wide open sing, sing, oh, what can I sing, mary ann cotton is tied up with string where, where? up in the air sellin’ black puddens a penny a pair" dob: october 1, 1832 characteristics: poisoner – to collect insurance money. victims: 1 – 21+ murders: 1857 – 1872 method: poison arrested: 1873 location: north east england, uk status: executed by hanging in Durham prison on march 24, 1873 [https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cotton-mary-ann.htm]

anna cunningham dob: 1873 characteristics: parricide, poisoner – to collect insurance money victims: 5 murders: 1918 – 1922 arrested: april 11, 1925 method: poison [arsenic] location: lake county, indiana, usa status: sentenced to life in prison without parole on one count in 1925 [https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/cunningham-anna.htm]

daisy louisa de melker dob: june 1, 1886 characteristics: poisoner, parricide – to collect insurance money victims: 3 murders: 1923 – 1932 arrested: april 11, 1932 method: poison [arsenic and strychnine] location: germiston, gauteng, south africa status: executed by hanging at pretoria central prison on december 30, 1932 [https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/de-melker-daisy.htm]

joanna dennehy dob: 1982 characteristics: "I want my fun" victims: 3 murders: march 19 – 29, 2013 arrested: april 2, 2013 method: stabbing with knife location: peterborough, cambridgeshire, england, uk status: pleaded guilty to all three murders and two further attempted murders on november 18, 2013 [https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dennehy-joanna.htm]

nannie doss "the giggling grandma" dob: november 4, 1905 characteristics: poisoner – to collect insurance money victims: 8 – 11 murders: 1920s – 1954 arrested: april 1954 method: poison [arsenic] location: alabama/north carolina/kansas/oklahoma, usa status:pPleaded guilty on may 17, 1955, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. died of leukemia in the hospital ward of the oklahoma state penitentiary on june 2, 1965 [https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm]

amelia dyer ‘you’ll know all mine by the tapes around their necks.’ dob: 1839 characteristics: the most prolific baby farm murderer of Victorian England victims: 6 – 100+ murders: 1880 – 1896 method: strangulation arrested: april 4, 1896 location: reading, england, uk status: executed by hanging at newgate prison on june 10, 1896 [https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dyer-amelia.htm]

timea faludi "black angel" dob: 1977 characteristics: nurse – murders "for mercy" victims: 30+ murders: may 2000 – february 2001 method: poison [lethal injection] arrested: february 19, 2001 location: budapest, hungary status: sentenced to 9 years in prison on december 2, 2002 [https://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/faludi-timea.htm]

irina viktorovna gaidamachuk "satan in a skirt" dob: 1972 characteristics: posed as a social worker to gain entry to the flats of her victims to steal money for alcohol victims: 17 murders: 2002 – 2010 method: beating with an axe or hammer arrested: february 19, 2001 location: krasnoufimsk, sverdlovsk oblast, russia status: sentenced to 20 years in prison on june 12, 2012 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gaidamachuk-irina.htm]

tillie gburek dob: 1876 characteristics: poisoner victims: 1 – 6+ murders: 1914 – 1921 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: -- location: cook county, illinois, usa status: sentenced to life in prison in 1923. died in prison on november 20, 1936 [https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/klimek-tillie.htm]

janie lou gibbs dob: december 25, 1932 characteristics: parricide, poisoner victims: 5 murders: 1966 – 1967 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: december 24, 1967 location: cordele, crisp county, georgia, usa status: found to be insane in february 1968 and served time in a state mental hospital until 1976. she was then convicted of poisoning the five male members of her family and received five life sentences. released in April 1999. died on february 7, 2010 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gibbs-janie-lou.htm]

bertha gifford dob: october 1872 characteristics: poisoner victims: 3 – 17+ murders: 1909 – 1928 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: august 25, 1928 location: catawissa, missouri, usa status: found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to the missouri state hospital where she remained until her death on august 20, 1951 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gifford-bertha.htm]

kristen gilbert dob: november 13, 1967 characteristics: nurse victims: 4+ murders: 1995 – 1996 method: poison [overdoses of epinephrine] arrested: july 11, 1967 location: northampton, hampshire county, massachusetts, usa status: sentenced to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, plus 20 years on march 27, 2001 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gilbert-kristen.htm]

delfina and maría de jesús gonzalez "las poquianchis" dob: delfina – 1912/maria – ? characteristics: owners of a mexican brothel victims: 91+ murders: 1950s – 1963 method: -- arrested: january 14, 1964 location: san francisco del Rincón, guanajuato, mexico status: sentenced to 40 years in prison in 1964. delfina died in prison due to an accident on october 17, 1968. maria de jesus finished her sentence and dropped out of sight after her release. it is unknown why and when she was freed [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gonzalez-sisters.htm]

gesche margarethe gottfried "the angel of bremen" dob: march 6, 1785 [bday twins!!] characteristics: poisoner victims: 15 murders: 1813 – 1827 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: march 6, 1928location: bremen/hanover, germany status: executed by guillotine on april 21, 1831. she was the last person to be publicly executed in the city of bremen [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gottfried-gesche.htm]

gwendolyn graham dob: august 6, 1963 characteristics: nurse's aide – killed patients in a lover's pact victims: 5 murders: january – april 1987 method: smothering arrested: december 1988 location: kent county, michigan, usa status: sentenced to life in prison without parole on november 3, 1989 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/graham-gwendolyn.htm]

dana sue gray dob: december 6, 1957 characteristics: robberies to support her shopping addiction victims: 3 murders: february 16 – march 16, 1994 method: stabbing, strangulation arrested: march 16, 1994 location: canyon lake, riverside county, california, usa status: sentenced to life in prison without parole on october 16, 1998 [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gray-dana-sue.htm]

belle sorenson gunness dob: november 11, 1859 characteristics: collecting life insurance, cash, and valuables victims: 13 – 42 murders: 1880s – 1908 method: poison [strychnine], bludgeoning arrested: -- location: illinois/indiana, usa status: she was never tracked down and her death has never been confirmed. [https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm]

anne marie hahn "arsenic anna"/"the blonde gorgia" dob: july 7, 1906 characteristics: poisoner victims: 5+ murders: 1932 – 1937 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: september 1937 location: colorado/ohio, usa status: executed by electrocution at the ohio penitentiary on december 7, 1938 [https://murderpedia.org/female.H/h/hahn-anna-marie.htm]

miyuki ishikawa "oni sanba" ["demon midwife"] dob: 1897 characteristics: hospital director, abuse victims: 103 – 169 murders: april 1944 – january 1948 method: infant neglect arrested: january 15, 1948 location: tokyo, japan status: sentenced to 8 years in prison. resentenced to 4 years in prison in 1952 [https://murderpedia.org/female.I/i/ishikawa-miyuki.htm]

vickie dawn jackson "angel of death" dob: 1966 characteristics: angel of death – carer? victims: 10+ murders: 2000 – 2001 method: poisoning [mivacurium chloride] arrested: february 2001 location: nocona, montague county, texas, usa status: pleaded no contest. sentenced to life in prison on october 5, 2006 [https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jackson-vickie-dawn.htm]

hélène jégado dob: 1803 characteristics: poisoner victims: 3 – 23+ murders: 1833 – 1841/1851 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: july 1, 1851 location: brittany, france status: executed by guillotine in rennes on february 26, 1852 [https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jegado-helene.htm]

genene anne jones dob: july 13, 1950 characteristics: nurse victims: 11+ murders: 1977 – 1982 method: poison [digoxin, heparin, and succinylcholine] arrested: november 21, 1982 location: san antonio, texas, usa status: sentenced to 99 years in prison on february 15, 1984. sentenced to a concurrent term of 60 years in prison on october 24, 1984 [https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jones-genene.htm]

kanae kijima "the konkatsu killer" dob: 1974 characteristics: poisoner victims: 3 murders: january – august 2009 method: poison [carbon monoxide] arrested: november 3, 2009 location: saitama, tokyo and chiba, japan status: sentenced to death on april 13, 2012 [https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/kijima-kanae.htm]

diana lumbrera dob: november 21, 1958 characteristics: parricide [her children and a cousin] victims: 4 – 7 murders: 1976 – 1990 method: suffocation, strangulation arrested: may 5, 1990 location: texas/kansas, usa status: sentenced to life in prison in texas on may 30 and june 6, 1991. sentenced to life in prison in kansas in 1990 [https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lumbrera-diana.htm]

anjette donovan lyles dob: august 23, 1925 characteristics: poisoner [to collect insurance money] victims: 4 murders: 1952 – 1958 method: poisoning [arsenic] arrested: may 6, 1958 location: macon, bibb county, georgia, usa status: sentenced to death in 1958. the board of pardons and paroles commuted her death sentence, and lyles was sent to the state hospital for the insane in milledgeville. died on december 4, 1977 [https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lyles-anjette.htm]

christine malèvre "madonna of euthanasia" dob: 1970 characteristics: "angel of death" – helped 30 terminally ill patients to die victims: 6 – 30+ murders: 1997 – 1998 method: poisoning [morphine and potassium] arrested: july 25, 1998 location: paris, france status: sentenced to 10 years in prison on january 30, 2003. sentenced to 12 years in prison in appeal on october 15, 2003. released in 2007 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/malevre-christine.htm]

mallika [k. d. kempanna] dob: 1965 characteristics: poisoner and robber victims: 6 murders: 1999 – 2007 method: poisoning [cyanide] arrested: december 31, 2007 location: bangalore, karnataka, india status: sentenced to death on april 1, 2012. reduced to life imprisonment on august 2, 2012 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/mallika.htm]

martha marek dob: 1904 characteristics: poisoner [to collect insurance money and inherit] victims: 4 murders: 1932 – 1937 method: poisoning [thallium] arrested: 1938 location: vienna, austria status: executed by guillotine in vienna on december 6, 1938 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/marek-martha.htm]

enriqueta martí ripollés "the vampire of barcelona" dob: 1868 characteristics: child murderer, kidnapper, and procuress of children victims: 10+ murders: 1902 – 1912 method: -- arrested: february 27, 1912 location: barcelona, spain status: never tried. died in prison on may 12, 1913 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/marti-enriqueta.htm]

rhonda bell martin dob: 1907 characteristics: poisoner [to collect insurance money] victims: 6 murders: 1937 – 1951 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: march 1956 location: montgomery, montgomery county, alabama, usa status: executed by electrocution in alabama on october 11, 1957 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/martin-rhonda-bell.htm]

silvia meraz moreno dob: 1968 characteristics: human sacrifices victims: 3 murders: 2009 – 2012 method: beheading arrested: march 2012 location: nacozari, sonora, mexico status: sentenced to life inprisonment [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/meraz-silvia.htm]

blanche taylor moore dob: february 17, 1933 characteristics: poisoner victims: 1 – 4 murders: 1968 – 1986 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: july 18, 1989 location: alamance county, north carolina, usa status: sentenced to death on january 18, 1991 [https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/moore-blanche-taylor.htm]

martha needle dob: april 9, 1863 characteristics: poisoner, parricide victims: 5 murders: 1885 – 1894 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: may 1894 location: melbourne, victoria, australia status: executed by hanging at the old melbourne gaol on october 22, 1894 [https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/needle-martha.htm]

hilda nilsson "the angel maker on bruks street" dob: may 24, 1876 characteristics: baby farmer victims: 8+ murders: 1915 – 1917 method: drowning arrested: -- location: helsingborg, sweden status: sentenced to death on June 15, 1917. committed suicide while in jail in landskrona on august 10, 1917. she hanged herself with a linen cloth, which she had tied to a cell door [https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nilsson-hilda.htm]

marianne nölle dob: 1938 characteristics: nurse, poisoner victims: 7+ murders: 1984 – 1992 method: poison [truxal] arrested: -- location: cologne, north rhine-westphalia, germany status: sentenced to life imprisonment in 1993 [https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nolle-marianne.htm]

aino nykopp–koski dob: 1950 characteristics: nurse, poisoner victims: 5 murders: 2004 – 2005 method: poison [overdoses of sedatives and opiates] arrested: march 2009 location: finland status: sentenced to life in prison [minimum of 12 years before likely pardon] on December 21, 2010 [https://murderpedia.org/female.N/n/nykopp-koski-aino.htm]

junko ogata dob: february 25, 1962 characteristics: abuse and torture victims: 7 murders: 1996 – 1998 method: electrocution, strangulation, and starvation arrested: march 6, 2002 location: kitakyushu/fukuoka, japan status: sentenced to death on september 28, 2005. commuted to life in prison on september 26, 2007 [https://murderpedia.org/female.O/o/ogata-junko.htm]

dagmar overbye dob: april 23, 1887 characteristics: child caretaker victims: 9 – 25 murders: 1913 – 1920 method: strangulation, drowning, and burning arrested: september 12, 1920 location: nørrebro, copenhagen, denmark status: sentenced to death on march 3, 1921. commuted to life in prison on may 25, 1921. died in prison on may 6, 1929 [https://murderpedia.org/female.O/o/overbye-dagmar.htm]

dorothea helen puente dob: january 9, 1929 characteristics: poisoner [ran a boarding house] victims: 3 – 9+ murders: 1982 – 1988 method: poison [drug overdoses] arrested: november 17, 1988 location: sacramento, california, usa status: sentenced to life in prison without parole on december 11, 1993. died in prison on march 27, 2011 [https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/puente-dorothea.htm]

mahin qadiri dob: 1977 characteristics: robberies victims: 5 murders: february 2008 – may 2009 method: suffocation and beating arrested: may 19, 2009 location: qazvin, qazvin province, iran status: executed by hanging on december 20, 2010 [https://murderpedia.org/female.Q/q/qadiri-mahin.htm]

amelia sach "the finchley baby farmers" dob: 1873 characteristics: baby killer victims: possibly dozens murders: 1900 – 1902 method: poison [chlorodyne, morphine] arrested: november 18, 1902 location: london, england, uk status: executed by hanging at holloway on february 3, 1903 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sach-amelia.htm]

kimberly clark saenz dob: 1974 characteristics: nurse and poisoner ["bleach killings"] victims: 5 murders: january – april 2008 method: poisoning [injected bloodstreams with bleach] arrested: april 1, 2009 location: lufkin, texas, usa status: sentenced to life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole on april 2, 2012 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/saenz-kimberly.htm]

tamara samsonova "the granny ripper" dob: 1947 characteristics: dismemberment, beheading, and possibly cannibalism victims: 14 murders: 1995 – 2015 method: stabbing [knife] arrested: july 28, 2015 location: saint petersburg, russia status: unfit for trial and was sent to kazan psychiatric hospital in december 2015 as she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/samsonova-tamara.htm]

felícitas sánchez aguillón "the ogress of colonia roma" dob: 1890 characteristics: nurse, midwife, and baby farmer victims: 40 – 50 murders: 1930 – 1941 method: poison or strangulation arrested: april 11, 1941 location: mexico city, mexico status: committed suicide by medication overdose before she was tried on july 16, 1941 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sanchez-felicitas.htm]

antoinette scieri "nurse scieri" dob: 1890 characteristics: poisoner victims: 6 – 12+ murders: 1924 – 1925 method: poison [herbicide pyralion] arrested: -- location: st. gilles, gard department, france status: sentenced to death on april 27, 1926. commuted to life in prison [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/scieri-antoinette.htm]

della sorenson dob: february 16, 1897 characteristics: poisoner "to get even" victims: 8 murders: 1918 – 1924 method: poison arrested: april 19, 1925 location: dannebrog, howard county, nebraska, usa status: found mentally insane. committed to the state mental asylum. died on June 24, 1941 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sorenson-della.htm]

miyoko sumida "the piranha family" dob: 1948 characteristics: to claim insurance or pension money victims: 6 murders: 2003 – 2011 method: beating, starvation, dehydration arrested: december 5, 2011 location: japan status: comitted suicide in her cell on december 12, 2012 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sumida-miyoko.htm]

maria catherina swanenburg "goeie mie" ["good maria"] dob: september 9, 1839 characteristics: poisoner victims: 27+ murders: 1880 – 1883 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: december 1883 location: leiden, south holland, netherlands status: sentenced to life in prison in 1885. died in prison on april 11, 1915 [https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/swanenburg-maria.htm]

jane toppan dob: 1857 characteristics: poisoner victims: 31+ murders: 1887 – 1901 method: poison [morphine and atropine] arrested: october 29, 1901 location: middlesex county/suffolk county, massachusetts, usa status: found not guilty by reason of insanity on june 23, 1902 and committed for life in the taunton insane hospital. died on august 17, 1938 [https://murderpedia.org/female.T/t/toppan-jane.htm]

le thanh van dob: 1956 characteristics: poisoner [to steal money and goods] victims: 13 murders: 1998 – 2001 method: poison [cyanide] arrested: august 2001 location: binh duong province, vietnam status: sentenced to death on september 1, 2004 [https://murderpedia.org/female.V/v/van-le-thanh.htm]

maria velten dob: 1916 characteristics: poisoner victims: 5 murders: 1963 – 1980 method: poison arrested: august 1983 location: kempen, north rhine-westphalia, germany status: sentenced to life imprisonment in 1983 [https://murderpedia.org/female.V/v/velten-maria.htm]

louise vermilyea dob: -- characteristics: poisoner [to collect insurance money] victims: 9 murders: 1893 – 1911 method: poison [arsenic] arrested: november 1, 1911 location: chicago, illinois, usa status: committed suicide by poison following arrest. died in december 1911 [https://murderpedia.org/female.V/v/vermilyea-louise.htm]

waltraud wagner "lainz angels of death" dob: 1960 characteristics: poisoner, nurse, "death angel" victims: 15+ murders: 1983 – 1989 method: poison [morphine overdoses] arrested: april 7, 1989 location: vienna, austria status: convicted of 15 murders, 17 attempts, and 2 counts of assault. sentenced to life in prison in march 1991. released in august 2008 [https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wagner-waltraud.htm]

jeanne weber "the ogress" dob: october 7, 1874 characteristics: baby killer victims: 1 – 10 murders: 1905 – 1908 method: strangulation arrested: may 1908 location: france status: declared insane on october 25, 1908, packed off to the asylum at mareville. died on july 5, 1918 [https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/weber-jeanne.htm]

elisabeth wiese "the angel-maker of st.pauli" dob: july 1, 1853 characteristics: child killer victims: 5 murders: 1902 – 1903 method: poison [morphine] and drowning arrested: september 1903 location: hamburg, germany status: executed by guillotine on february 2, 1905 [https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wiese-elisabeth.htm]

mary elizabeth wilson "the merry widow of windy nook" dob: 1893 characteristics: poisoner [black widow] victims: 2 – 4 murders: 1955 – 1957 method: poison [phosphorus] arrested: december 1957 location: windy nook, tyne and wear, england, uk status: sentenced to death in march 29, 1958. commuted to life imprisonment on june 1, 1958. died in holloway prison on december 5, 1962 [https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wilson-mary-elizabeth.htm]

aileen wuornos “america’s first female serial killer.” dob: february 29, 1956 characteristics: “i’ve hated humans for a long time” victims: 7 murders: 1989 – 1990 method: shooting arrested: january 1, 1991 location: florida, usa status: executed by lethal injection in florida on october 9, 2002 [https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wuornos-aileen.htm]

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Vincent Spano - Alphabet City (1984)

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On November 26, 1984 Alphabet City debuted in Denmark.

Here's some new Vincent Spano pop art!

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Dublin Uncovered - Discovering the City's Rich History and Heritage

Dublin's rich heritage and history are part of its fabric. These top tourist attractions will let you know more about the city's proud history. This former prison has been turned into a museum which provides a history of Ireland's turbulent past. This is a must see attraction. Native Americans Prior to the beginning of the 1800s, Native American tribes made their homes in the area now called Dublin. The lush landscape of the area and easy access to wildlife and water as well as its natural beauty was a great location to establish tribal communities. Ferris-Wright Park is home to several earthworks and burial mounds which date to thousands of years ago. You can also explore the farm and homestead of the 1800s. William Catlin, a famous explorer, naturalist and painter who traveled the United States in the early nineteenth century alongside Native American tribes. While his views of the Indians was more sympathetic, he offered us a glimpse of their culture and lifestyle. Vikings The Vikings created a significant impact on Dublin by constructing new structures and altering the lives of the people. Conditions for middle - and upper-class citizens were greatly improved during their time in Dublin. Chimneys became standard and glass windows were also introduced. Archaeological digs in Dublin, York and elsewhere have uncovered a wealth of details about the Vikings. The remains of the excavations were well preserved since the sites excavated at Fishamble Street were flooded, permitting the preservation of manufactured and trade items as well as dwellings for residential use (Bradley 1984). Visit the Viking Exhibition in Dublinia. There, you can try on a horned helmet and attempt understanding the Viking runic alphabet. The Viking Ship Museum also shows the visitors the experience of having to be on the Viking vessel and the dangers the long voyages were. Early Christians In the 460s, before in the 460s, when Saint Patrick began his travels throughout Ireland, a tiny Celtic church had already been built on this spot. This church was part the larger enclosure, which included a hospital, a hostel for travelers as well as a hostel. It is based on archeological evidence that suggests that the first Christian community of Dublin was prosperous. Tools for manufacturing such as needles and spindles were found, as have board games and other toys, and even the whalebone "ironing board" which was used to smooth the cloth. Grave products such as silver coins such as coin-dies, coin-dies, and leather "testers" are evidence of large volume of trade. Furthermore, a uniform system of measuring and weights has been established. The discovery of keels, stems and ship planks that were nailed to the keels suggests that Scandinavian techniques were employed in building ships.

Medieval Times The streets of Dublin are filled with history - tavern symbols, drinking jugs of ice and cow horns have been found in archaeological digs. But what would Dublin appear like in Viking and Medieval times? This animated video from the City Archaeology Team gives you an insight into the city's appearance in the medieval and Viking eras. It's amazing what occurs when you take off the surface of an modern city. Archaeologists are digging the streets of the capital to prepare for the Luas Cross City project. They've uncovered traces of history which have helped to shape the city's character over the past hundreds of years. From uncovering the site of a tanning facility from the medieval era to locating mass graves from an outbreak of cholera (which was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula) this book examines the numerous discoveries that were made. Modern Times Dublin is an excellent way to discover more about Irish tradition and history. There are numerous museums you can visit, and the city is full of historical sights. Dublin's main museums are all accessible for free, but certain museums do have special temporary exhibits. EPIC is the most visited museum in Dublin (fee). This interactive and unique experience traces the story of Ireland in the realm of literature, music and sport. It also includes fashion, politics, science, and fashion. The Guinness Storehouse is another museum worth a visit (fee). It's a fantastic place to discover more about Guinness its history and also to enjoy their famous beer. It is a great choice for families. Video credits: YouTube

#Dublin #Culture #Food #Places

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Holidays 3.11

Holidays

Alphabet Day

Daily Newspaper Day (UK)

Debunking Day

Dream Day

Frankenstein Day

Human Services Day

International Day of Startups

Johnny Appleseed Day

Key Deer Awareness Day

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maha Shivaratree (Mauritius)

Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)

National Covid-19 Day

National Day of Observance for COVID-19 (Canada)

National Dream Day

National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day

National Healing Headbands Day

National No-Code Day

National Promposal Day

National Singles Day (UK)

National 311 Day

National Wash Your Nose Day

Prime Time Day

The Snowy Day

Solo Poly Day

Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day (EU)

Wash Your Nose Day

Women Physicians Day (Canada)

World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film

World Plumbing Day

Worship of Tools Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Appreciation Day

National “Eat Your Noodles” Day

National Sofrito Day

Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day

2nd Saturday in March

American Frontier Day [2nd Saturday]

Daylight Savings Time begins/Standard Time ends (a.k.a. Spring Forward Day; US, except AZ, HI, Navajo Nation, Puerto Rico, others) [Saturday Night/2nd Sunday 2 AM]

Genealogy Day [Saturday of Name Week]

Hunahpu’s Day (Cigar City Brewing; Florida) [2nd Saturday]

International Fanny Pack Day [2nd Saturday]

National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day [2nd Saturday]

Snake Saturday (Pagan) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Cheslovian Federation (Declared; 2003) [unrecognized]

Crudaith (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (from USSR, a.k.a. Day of Restoration; 1990)

Sorrenia (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Xarbarstan (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alberta of Agen (Christian; Saint)

Angus, the Culdee (Christian; Saint)

Bela Lugosi Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Constantine (Christian; Saint)

Douglas Adams (Humanism; Saint)

Douglas Adams Day (Pastafarian)

Eulogius of Cordova (Christian; Saint)

Feast Day of Hercules/Herakles (Ancient Rome/Greece)

Nora Nicks (Muppetism)

Óengus of Tallaght (Christian; Saint)

Pythagoras (Positivist; Saint)

Sophronius of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Vindicianus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adam Project (Film; 2022)

Birds in the Spring (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Complicated, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2002)

Contrasts in Rhythm (Disney Cartoon; 1955)

Dangerous Woman, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

Donald’s Better Self (Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Film; 2022)

Fellini Satyricon (Film; 1970)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Film; 1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (Film; 1994)

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (UK TV Series; 2001)

I Will Always Love You, by Dolly Parton (Song’ 1992)

Less Than Zero, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Animated Disney Film; 1977)

Mars Needs Moms (Animated Film; 2011)

Metal Health, by Quiet Riot (Album; 1983)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1984)

The Original Soundtrack, by 10cc (Album; 1975)

Princess of Thieves (Film; 2001)

Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1851)

Robin and Marian (Film; 1976)

Robots (Animated Film; 2005)

THX 1138 (Film; 1971)

Turning Red (Animated Pixar Film; 2022)

When the Wind Blows (Animated Film; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Alram, Rosina (Austria)

Blanka, Kandid, Tvrtko (Croatia)

Anděla (Czech Republic)

Thala (Denmark)

Aigar, Ain, Ainar, Innar, Inno (Estonia)

Kalervo (Finland)

Rosine (France)

Alram, Rosina, Ulrich (Germany)

Szilárd (Hungary)

Costantino (Italy)

Agita, Konstantīns (Latvia)

Gediminas, Konstantinas, Vijolė (Lithuania)

Edvin, Tale (Norway)

Benedykt, Drogosława, Edwin, Kandyd, Konstanty, Konstantyn, Prokop, Rozyna, Sofroniusz (Poland)

Sofronie (Romania)

Angela, Angelika (Slovakia)

Áurea, Ramiro (Spain)

Edvin, Egon (Sweden)

Alberta, Albertina, Angus, Connie, Constance, Constantine, Consuela, Consuelo, Elberta, Ramiro (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 70 of 2023; 295 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 20 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Adar 5783

Islamic: 18 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 9 Ver; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 26 February 2023

Moon: 83%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Pythagoras]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 81 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 20 of 29)

Calendar Changes

Beore (Birch Tree) [Half-Month 6 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 3.29)

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 3.11

Holidays

Alphabet Day

Daily Newspaper Day (UK)

Debunking Day

Dream Day

Frankenstein Day

Human Services Day

International Day of Startups

Johnny Appleseed Day

Key Deer Awareness Day

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maha Shivaratree (Mauritius)

Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)

National Covid-19 Day

National Day of Observance for COVID-19 (Canada)

National Dream Day

National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day

National Healing Headbands Day

National No-Code Day

National Promposal Day

National Singles Day (UK)

National 311 Day

National Wash Your Nose Day

Prime Time Day

The Snowy Day

Solo Poly Day

Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day (EU)

Wash Your Nose Day

Women Physicians Day (Canada)

World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film

World Plumbing Day

Worship of Tools Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Appreciation Day

National “Eat Your Noodles” Day

National Sofrito Day

Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day

2nd Saturday in March

American Frontier Day [2nd Saturday]

Daylight Savings Time begins/Standard Time ends (a.k.a. Spring Forward Day; US, except AZ, HI, Navajo Nation, Puerto Rico, others) [Saturday Night/2nd Sunday 2 AM]

Genealogy Day [Saturday of Name Week]

Hunahpu’s Day (Cigar City Brewing; Florida) [2nd Saturday]

International Fanny Pack Day [2nd Saturday]

National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day [2nd Saturday]

Snake Saturday (Pagan) [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Cheslovian Federation (Declared; 2003) [unrecognized]

Crudaith (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (from USSR, a.k.a. Day of Restoration; 1990)

Sorrenia (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Xarbarstan (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alberta of Agen (Christian; Saint)

Angus, the Culdee (Christian; Saint)

Bela Lugosi Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Constantine (Christian; Saint)

Douglas Adams (Humanism; Saint)

Douglas Adams Day (Pastafarian)

Eulogius of Cordova (Christian; Saint)

Feast Day of Hercules/Herakles (Ancient Rome/Greece)

Nora Nicks (Muppetism)

Óengus of Tallaght (Christian; Saint)

Pythagoras (Positivist; Saint)

Sophronius of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Vindicianus (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adam Project (Film; 2022)

Birds in the Spring (Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Complicated, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2002)

Contrasts in Rhythm (Disney Cartoon; 1955)

Dangerous Woman, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

Donald’s Better Self (Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Film; 2022)

Fellini Satyricon (Film; 1970)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Film; 1994)

The Hudsucker Proxy (Film; 1994)

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (UK TV Series; 2001)

I Will Always Love You, by Dolly Parton (Song’ 1992)

Less Than Zero, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Animated Disney Film; 1977)

Mars Needs Moms (Animated Film; 2011)

Metal Health, by Quiet Riot (Album; 1983)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1984)

The Original Soundtrack, by 10cc (Album; 1975)

Princess of Thieves (Film; 2001)

Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1851)

Robin and Marian (Film; 1976)

Robots (Animated Film; 2005)

THX 1138 (Film; 1971)

Turning Red (Animated Pixar Film; 2022)

When the Wind Blows (Animated Film; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Alram, Rosina (Austria)

Blanka, Kandid, Tvrtko (Croatia)

Anděla (Czech Republic)

Thala (Denmark)

Aigar, Ain, Ainar, Innar, Inno (Estonia)

Kalervo (Finland)

Rosine (France)

Alram, Rosina, Ulrich (Germany)

Szilárd (Hungary)

Costantino (Italy)

Agita, Konstantīns (Latvia)

Gediminas, Konstantinas, Vijolė (Lithuania)

Edvin, Tale (Norway)

Benedykt, Drogosława, Edwin, Kandyd, Konstanty, Konstantyn, Prokop, Rozyna, Sofroniusz (Poland)

Sofronie (Romania)

Angela, Angelika (Slovakia)

Áurea, Ramiro (Spain)

Edvin, Egon (Sweden)

Alberta, Albertina, Angus, Connie, Constance, Constantine, Consuela, Consuelo, Elberta, Ramiro (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 70 of 2023; 295 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 20 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 18 Adar 5783

Islamic: 18 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 9 Ver; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 26 February 2023

Moon: 83%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Pythagoras]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 81 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 20 of 29)

Calendar Changes

Beore (Birch Tree) [Half-Month 6 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 3.29)

#Holidays

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PAMPHLET — CONTENT PLANNING

FRONT COVER + HERO POSTER (Heading) — Typografika 24  (Sub-heading) — The Annual Conference on Type and Typography  25 Jan — 20 Feb 2024 (Body text) — Four weeks of events including designer talks and workshops featuring: - Carol Twombly  - Jessica Hische  - Johnson Witehira  - Joseph Churchward  - Nadine Chahine  - Tobias Frere-Jones  - Verena Gerlach  - Veronika Burian 

(Caption) — AUT City Campus, Auckland  www.typografika24.com  (Iconography) — AUT, FaceBook, Instagram logos

(P1) INTRO The Annual Conference on Type and Typography: Typografika, is a highly anticipated international conference, bringing together more than 300 typographers, type and graphic designers, as well as printmakers and artists (P2) INFO As designers and artists, we want to create with expressive, engaging and readable typography that performs well across all devices.  With so many factors to take into account from typeface choice and layout through to page speed, responsive design and variable fonts, it’s hard to know how to keep up.  Over the course of four weeks, Typografika’24 will give you the full picture of what typography can and should be on web and print. Whether you’re just starting out or a seasoned pro, you’ll find heaps to learn and take away (P3) TIMETABLE — KEYNOTE SPEAKERS  Lectures by the speakers provide insight into their research and work methods. These sessions will prove to be very informative and helpful. There will also be a Q&A session at the conclusion of each session. 

(P4) TIMETABLE — WORKSHOPS There will be two different workshops offered during the conference. These are repeated twice, to include as many participants as possible. Please register your interest at the registration kiosk when you arrive on the first day. 

(P5) CAROL TWOMBLY Type Designer Carol Twombly (born 1959) is an American designer, best known for her type design. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems from 1988 through 1999, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of, many typefaces, including Trajan, Myriad and Adobe Caslon.  Twombly retired from Adobe and from type design in early 1999, to focus on her other design interests, involving textiles and jewelry. American calligrapher and type designer, a graduate from Rhode Island School of Design where her professor was Charles Bigelow. Joined the digital typography program at Stanford University, also under Bigelow. Working from the Bigelow & Holmes studio she designed Mirarae, which won her the 1984 Morisawa gold prize. Since 1988 she has been a staff designer at Adobe.  (P6) JESSICA HISCHE Letterer and Designer  Jessica Nicole Hische is an American letterer, illustrator, and type designer. She is best known for her personal projects, 'Daily Drop Cap' and the “Should I Work for Free” flowchart. She published In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector in September 2015, which gives insight to her creative process and work she has completed as a hand lettering artist. She has spoken at over 100 conferences worldwide, but splits her time between San Francisco, CA and Brooklyn, NY (P7) JOHNSON WITEHIRA Educator and type designer   Johnson Witehira is an artist, designer and academic of Tamahaki and Ngāi Tū-te-auru descent. He is the co-founder of both Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa (IDIA) and Wāhi Wairua. Since completing his doctorate in Māori Visual Art (2013), Johnson has been on a mission to bring Māori culture into all aspects of New Zealand life. He has led the development of Māori design for some of New Zealand's most prominent organisations. Other significant design projects include developing the first set of Māori alphabet blocks, co-designing the PAKU gardening tools for children and developing the first functional Māori-specific typeface. (P8) JOSEPH CHURCHWARD Artist and Type Designer  Joseph Churchward is a Samoan-born New Zealand graphic designer and typographer. He is known for having designed an estimated 690 original typefaces, many of which are in use around the world. His designs were also used in the masthead of The Evening Post newspaper. Churchward is born in Apia, Samoa, of Samoan, English, Scottish, Tongan and Chinese heritage. He founded Churchward International Typefaces in 1969. German company Berthold Fototypes subsequently distributed his fonts throughout the world. Over the span of his career, Churchward created more than 582 original typefaces. Joseph will be offering two different lectures as listed below on two different days. (P9) NADINE CHAHINE Researcher and Type Designer  Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award-winning Lebanese type designer working as the UK Type Director and Legibility Expert at Monotype. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Nadine’s research focus is on eye movement and legibility studies for the Arabic, Latin, and Chinese scripts. She has numerous awards including two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York in 2008 and 2011.  

Her typefaces include: the best-selling Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino and Palatino Sans Arabic, and Koufiya.  (P10) TOBIAS FRERE-JONES Educator and Type Designer Over 25 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina.. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type in New York City, and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program.  (P11) VERENA GERLACH Type and graphic designer  Verena Gerlach was an instructor of photography at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin in 1991 and spent 1992 doing a first-year course at Glasgow School of Art. From 1993 to 1998 she studied communication design at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and spent one year (1996) as an exchange student at the London College of Printing.  FF Karbid, FF Sizmo, and Chambers Sans are some of the few typefaces she created, Verena has her own studio for corporate design in Berlin.  (P12) VERONIKA BURIAN Type Designer  Veronika is born in Prague, originally studied industrial design in Munich and then worked as a product designer in Vienna and Milan. Discovering her true passion for type, she graduated with distinction from the MA in Typeface Designcourse in Reading, UK in 2003. Burian founded TypeTogether together with José Scaglione, today with twelve employees working around the world, one of the most important, independent type foundries. In addition to the development of tailored solutions for a variety of clients, the focus of TypeTogether’s font catalogue is on expressive text typefaces for digital and analogue media. Her typeface Maiola received, amongst others, the TDC Certificate of Excellence in Type Design 2004. Several other typefaces by TypeTogether have also been recognised by international competitions, including ED-Awards and ISTD.  (P13) MAP Illustrated map of AUT City Campus with main locations of speaker and workshop events shown (P14) OUTRO Please join us for the official launch of the conference at the Ngā Wai o Horotiu Marae (AUT Marae) 10am, 25 January 2024 (BACK COVER) WEBSITE www.typografika24.com 

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Speaker Research

Verena Gerlach: Verena Gerlach was born in Berlin and studied Visual Communication at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee.Shortly after finishing art school in 1998, she founded her own studio (fraugerlach) for graphic design, type design and typography. As well as all kinds of typographic print works and type design, Verena also art directed several video clips and worked on the typographic production for international contemporary artists.Verena gives lectures and workshops about type and graphic design all over the globe. She also works as a freelance book designer for different art book publishers.

Source: https://www.fontshop.com/designers/verena-gerlach

Source: https://www.oneclub.org/awards/adcawards/-judge/3273/verena-gerlach

Johnson Witehira: Johnson Witehira is an artist, designer and academic of Tamahaki and Ngāi Tū-te-auru descent. He is the co-founder of both Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa (IDIA) and Waahi Wairua. Since completing his doctorate in Māori Visual Art (2013), Johnson has been on a mission to bring Māori culture into all aspects of New Zealand life. He has led the development of Māori design for some of New Zealand's most prominent organisations: The Auckland City Council, TVNZ, The Auckland International Airport, and Waka Kotahi (The New Zealand Transport Authority). Other significant design projects include developing the first set of Māori alphabet blocks, co-designing the PAKU gardening tools for children and developing the first functional Māori-specific typeface.

Source: https://semipermanent.com/profiles/johnson-witehira

Source: https://semipermanent.com/profiles/johnson-witehira

Nadine Chahine: Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Nadine’s research focus is on eye movement and legibility studies for the Arabic, Latin, and Chinese scripts. She has numerous awards including two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York in 2008 and 2011. Her typefaces include: the best-selling Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino and Palatino Sans Arabic, and Koufiya.

Source: https://arabictype.com/about/

Source: https://arabictype.com/about/

Carol Twombly: Carol Twombly – born 13. 6. 1959 in Concord, USA – type designer. Studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Stanford University. 1984: is awarded 1st prize in the Morisawa type competition in Japan for he Mirarae typeface. 1988: joins Adobe and designs Adobe’s first original display typefaces (Trajan, Charlemagne and Lithos). Fonts: Mirarae (1984), Charlemagne™ (1989), Lithos™ (1989), Adobe Trajan™ (1989), Caslon™ (1990), Myriad® (1992), Viva™ (1993), Nueva™ (1994) and Chaparral™ (2000).

Source: https://www.linotype.com/606/carol-twombly.html

Source: https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/125344/nancy-stock-allen/carol-twombly-her-brief-but-brilliant-career-in-type-design

Joseph Churchward: Samoan-born graphic designer Joseph Churchward was an internationally renowned typeface designer whose work graced record covers, billboards, newspapers and popular literature such as posters and brochures around the world, both during his lifetime and beyond. He hand-created around 700 typefaces, drawing upon influences from his Pacific heritage and family. His work was well known to the international design community from the 1960s but was not prominent in New Zealand until Te Papa Tongarewa acquired his archive and held an exhibition of his work in 2009.

Source: https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6c10/churchward-joseph

Source: https://www.the10sonsofmanu.com/joseph-churchward-qsm-1923-2013/

Veronika Burian: Veronika Burian studied Industrial Design in Munich and worked in that capacity in Vienna and Milan over a few years. Discovering her true passion for type, she graduated in 2003 with distinction from the MA in Typeface Design course in Reading, UK. Veronika then worked as a type designer at Dalton Maag in London for a few years, spent some time in Boulder, USA, and then her hometown, Prague, and is now enjoying life in sunny Cataluña, Spain.Veronika Burian is a type designer and the co-founder of the independent type foundry TypeTogether with José Scaglione, publishing award-winning typefaces and collaborating on tailored typefaces for a variety of clients. She is also involved with Alphabettes.org, a showcase for work and research on lettering, typography, and type design by women, and she continues to give lectures and workshops at international conferences and universities.

Source: https://fonts.adobe.com/designers/veronika-burian

Source: https://www.granshan.com/veronika-burian

Jessica Hische: Born in 1984, Jessica Nicole Hische is a renowned letterer and illustrator originally from South Carolina. After attaining a degree in graphic design and interactive design from Tyler School of Art, she worked with design firms like Headcase Design and Louise Fili.

Source: https://www.zilliondesigns.com/blog/designer-spotlight-jessica-hische-typography-illustration/

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Hische

Tobias Frere-Jones: Over 25 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina.Tobias received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, the AIGA Medal, and most recently Cooper Hewitt’s 2019 National Design Award for Communication Design, recognizing his contributions to typographic design, writing and education.

Source: https://frerejones.com/about

Source: https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/10/09/nda-20-yrs-qa-with-tobias-frere-jones/

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Week 1- Looking at Designers Pt 2

Joseph Churchward: Born in August 1932, in Samoa, he was a New Zealand graphic designer and typographer. At the age of 15, he received an Art Distinction Award in Lettering from Wellington Technical College and shortly after began working as a commercial artist. In 1969, he founded Churchward International Typefaces, which became New Zealand's largest typesetting firm. Berthold Fototypes (a leading German Type company) accepted some of his fonts for international distribution and were soon used throughout the world. His typefaces are now digitally distributed and stand up there with the world's favourite typefaces.

Veronika Burian: Born in 1973, in Prague, Czechia, she is a type designer and the co-founder of the independent type foundry, TypeTogether with José Scaglione. She studied Industrial Design in Munich and worked in that capacity in Vienna and Milan for a couple of years. Discovering her passion for type, she graduated in 2003 with a distinction from the MA in Typeface Design course in Reading, UK. She worked as a type designer at Dalton Maag in London for a few years, spent some time in Boulder, USA and then to her hometown in Prague, and now is currently living in Cataluña, Spain. She is also involved with Alphabettes.org, a showcase for work and research on lettering, typography and type design by women. She still continues to give lectures and workshops at international conferences and universities.

Jessica Hische: Born in 1984, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, she is an American lettering artist, illustrator, author and type designer. She studied Graphic design and interactive design at Tyler School of Art, after graduating in 2006, she worked with design firms such as Headcase Design and Louise Fili. She began Daily Drop Cap, a project in which every day she created a new illustrative letter, working through the alphabet a total of twelve times. The popularity of Daily Drop Cap really kickstarted her career as a letterer and has inspired many other designers to start daily lettering projects. Her clients include Wes Anderson, The United States Postal Service, Tiffany & Co., The New York Times, Penguin Books, Target, Starbucks, American Express, and Wired Magazine.

Tobias Frere-Jones: Born in August 1970, in New York, United States, he is an established world-leading typeface designer. He received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. he joined the faculty of Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, the AIGA Medal, and most recently Cooper Hewitt’s 2019 National Design Award for Communication Design, recognizing his contributions to typographic design, writing and education. He has created some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina.

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Honorable Mentions mid 80s

1983 (5): Le Bal -- Carmen -- Heart Like a Wheel -- Scarface -- Star 80

1984 (3): Alphabet City -- Paris Texas -- Starman

1985 (6): Crimewave -- Letter to Brezhnev -- A Room with a View -- Sweet Dreams -- Tampopo -- Twice in a Lifetime

1986 (4): Brighton Beach Memories -- Down and Out in Beverly Hills -- Jean de Florette -- Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

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