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burlveneer-music · 4 months

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Ordnance Survey - Turas - music in the orbit of the Ghost Box/Clay Pipe binary sun, incorporating field recordings from ancient burial sites in Ireland

Turas (Journey) is the most ambitious Ordnance Survey record to date. The field recordings used on Turas were captured with both analog and digital devices at passage and wedge tombs across Meath, West Cork, Wicklow, Connemara and Roscommon. To make use of the tombs' acoustics, elements like percussion were recorded in the tombs and through the process of re-amplification (playing pre-recorded material back in the tombs), this 3000 year old reverberation became a major part of the sound world that the listener experience. Turas is an electronically mediated journey that allows these historical sites to become an important collaborative factor in the creative process. Guest collaborators include Roger Doyle (Piano), Garreth Quinn Redmond (Violin), and Billy Mag Fhloinn (Yaybahar.) Recorded and Produced by Neil O'Connor between May 2021 and July 2022 at the National Concert Hall Studios, Ballferriter, Co.Kerry, Willem Twee Studios, Den Bosch, Holland and at historical sites around Ireland. Instruments Piano, Bass, Drums, Shakers, Bells, Tambourine. Synthesizers Moog Voyager, Moog Opus Three, Korg Mono Poly, Roland Juno 60, Roland JX3P, Sequential Circuits Pro One, Sequential Circuits Prophet 4 & 5, EMS VCS3 Modular Synthesizers Make Noise Shared System Plus, Serge System, ARP 2500 Test Equipment Rhode & Schwarz Oscillators x 12, Rhode & Schwarz Octave Filter x 3, Hewlett-Packard 8005A Pulse Generator, Hewlett-Packard 8006A Word Generator, Hewlett-Packard 3722 A Noise Generator, Hewlett-Packard 3310B Function Generator, EG&G Parc Model 193 Multiplier/Divider. Recording Equipment Revox A70, Tascam Model 80, Uher Monitor Report, Sony TC-40, Zoom H4 Garreth Quinn Redmond (Violin) Billy Mag Fhlionn: Yaybahar Roger Doyle (Piano) Artwork & Layout: Gavin O Brien Supported by Final County Council & The Arts Council of Ireland

#Bandcamp #Ordnance Survey #experimental #hauntology #ireland #2023 #Scintilla Recordings #electronic #field recordings

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paciano · 1 year

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A behind the scenes look at a recent short narrative project I did lighting on. #GinRummyShort written and directed by @suzannebaird9 . DP: Jay Redmond 1st AC: @rorybrennan Gaffer: @mopix926 Key Grip: Neil Kelly Grip: @jaredhasissues Art Dept: Michael Merryweather https://www.instagram.com/p/CqT4YtZPn_I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#ginrummyshort

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streetglider · 2 years

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Wheelchair Edit Wheelchair Wheelchair Type: Vehicle Place of origin: Earth Used by: Humans First seen in: The Dalek Invasion of Earth Memorable moment A wheelchair was a chair mounted on wheels used by disabled or injured people. History Among those who required a wheelchair were Dr. Judson, (TV: The Curse of Fenric) Jeremy Winterdawn, (PROSE: Falls the Shadow) Alexander K. Bridgeman, Udentkista, (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People) David Merrison, (PROSE: But Once a Year) John Lumic, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel) Rona Bellows, (TV: Last Christmas) Jackie MacLean (TV: For Tonight We Might Die) and Dortmun. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) When Channing abducted the Third Doctor from Ashbridge Cottage Hospital, he transported him in a wheelchair; however, the Doctor used the wheelchair to escape. (TV: Spearhead from Space) Having been sent back to Event One, the TARDIS appeared to provide the newly regenerated Fifth Doctor with an electric wheelchair to help him get around. (TV: Castrovalva) The Second Doctor was wheeled around in a wheelchair in front of Peri by Shockeye to see if she recognised him. (TV: The Two Doctors) Hugh Curbishley pretended to need a wheelchair to keep his wife Clemency Eddison from leaving him. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp) Neil Redmond used a wheelchair after his car accident in France in 2004. (AUDIO: Uncanny Valley) Owen Harper used a wheelchair after forgetting how to walk thanks to Amira Hussein. (AUDIO: Iceberg) Amfetriti used a wheelchair to disguise her nature. (AUDIO: Cryptobiosis) Rex Matheson used a wheelchair to make his way to the hospital exit. (TV: The New World) By 2018, an elderly Umbreen made use of a wheelchair. (TV: Demons of the Punjab) In an alternate timeline in which the British Empire had conquered Earth with Dalek technology, the Sixth Doctor was confined to a wheelchair after his legs had been cut off for attempting to escape. (AUDIO: Jubilee) In an alternate reality created by Mister Heart, Patrick Spate used a wheelchair. (PROSE: Framed)

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reelbigchip · 3 years

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I know you are, but what am I?

do you ever just. listen to they might be giants. and. y

#i really hope this finds its extremely niche target market #the target market is me #unctuous robot makes me go insane #took the concrete lyrics from the art book excerpts 😏 i like it so so much #torchwood #big finish #my art #neil redmond #nj #uncanny valley #they might be giants #unctuous robot #my murdered remains #eyestrain #tmbg time #wood #tmbg

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tasksweekly · 4 years

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[TASK 201: SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS]

In celebration of June being Caribbean American Heritage Month, there’s a masterlist below compiled of over 80+ Kittitian and/or Nevisian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK - examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

Cicely Tyson (1924) Afro-Nevisian - actress and model.

Susan L. Taylor (1946) Afro-Trinidianian / Afro-Kittitian - editor and writer.

Joan Armatrading (1950) Afro-Kittitian - singer and guitarist.

Ellen Cleghorne (1965) African-American, Afro-Kittitian - actress and comedian.

Michelle Gayle (1971) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - singer, actress and author.

Alison Hammond (1975) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - presenter.

Angela Griffin (1975) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian / English - actress and presenter.

Corinne Bailey Rae (1979) Afro-Kittitian / English - singer.

Rhea Bailey (1983) Afro-Kittitian / English - actress.

Melanie Liburd (1987) Afro-Kittitian / English - actress.

Laura Mvula (1987) Afro-Kittitian / Afro-Jamaican - singer.

Keisha White (1988) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - singer.

Pippa Bennett-Warner (1988) Afro-Jamaican, Afro-Kittitian - actress.

Lady Leshurr (1989) Afro-Kittitian - rapper.

Damaris Lewis (1990) Afro-Kittitian - model.

Wendy St. Kitts (?) Afro-Kittitian - singer.

Ngozi Paul (?) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian / Dominica - actress, writer and director.

F - Athletes:

Nicola Adams (1982) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian, French, British - boxer.

Virgil Hodge (1983) Afro-Kittitan or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Tiandra Ponteen (1984) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Phoenetia Browne (1994) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Brittney Lawrence (1995) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Dakota Mills (1997) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Quinn Josiah (2000) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Carley Uddenberg (2000) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Leon Herbert (1955) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - actor, director, writer and producer.

Robbie Gee (1964) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - actor.

Michael Boatman (1964) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - actor.

Simon Webbe (1978) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - singer.

Devon Anderson (1987) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - actor.

Leeon Jones (1993) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - actor.

Burt Caesar (?) Afro-Kittitian - actor, broadcaster and director.

Tevin Wallace (?) Afro-Kittitian, Afro-Trinidadian - actor and model.

E-Carter / Eric Carter (?) Afro-Kittitian - rapper.

Santoy / Santoy Barrett (?) Afro-Kittitian - singer.

Louis Hanley (?) Afro-Kittitian - singer.

Tifferny Cyanne (?) Afro-Nevisian, Montserratian, Irish - model (Instagram: tiffernynco).

M - Athletes:

Ces Podd (1952) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Elquemedo Willett (1953) Afro-Nevisian - cricketer.

Bert Bowery (1954) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Derick Parry (1954) Afro-Nevisian - cricketer.

Victor Eddy (1955) Afro-Kittitian - cricketer.

Desai Williams (1959) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Livingstone Bramble (1960) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - boxer.

Derek Redmond (1965) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Keith Arthurton (1965) Afro-Nevisian - cricketer.

Gary Smith (1966) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Des Hazel (1967) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Dean Walling (1969) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Stuart Williams (1969) Afro-Kittitian - cricketer.

Carl Tuckett (1970) Afro-Nevisian - cricketer.

Bobby Bowry (1971) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Keith Gumbs (1972) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Lutel James (1972) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Sagi Burton (1977) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Brian Quailey (1978) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Adam Newton (1980) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Calum Willock (1981) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Erasmus James (1982) Afro-Kittitian - American footballer.

Tesfa Robinson (1985) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Atiba Harris (1985) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Jason St Juste (1985) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Matthew Berkeley (1987) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Patrece Liburd (1988) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Ryan Robbins (1988) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Micah Richards (1988) Afro-Kittitian / Unknown - footballer.

Antoine Adams (1988) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Febian Brandy (1989) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Brijesh Lawrence (1989) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Zephaniah Thomas (1989) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Michael Nottingham (1989) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Aaron Moses-Garvey (1989) Afro-Kittitianor Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Kieran Powell (1990) Afro-Nevisian - cricketer.

Jordan Bowery (1991) Afro-Kittitianor Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Jason Rogers (1991) Afro-Kittitian - sprinter.

Romaine Sawyers (1991) Afro-Kittitian / Unknown - footballer.

Rowan Liburd (1992) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Omari Sterling-James (1993) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Raheem Hanley (1994) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Theo Wharton (1994) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Jacob Hazel (1994) Afro-Kittitian- footballer.

Harry Panayiotou (1994) Afro-Kittitian / Greek Cypriot - footballer.

Alain Sargeant (1995) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Jerry St. Juste (1996) Afro-Kittitian / Dutch - footballer.

Warren Hazel (1996) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - sprinter.

Jeremiah Louis (1996) Afro-Kittitian - cricketer.

Marcus Rashford (1997) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Raheem Somersall (1997) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Daniel Bowry (1998) Afro-Kittitian or Afro-Nevisian - footballer.

Romario Martin (1999) Afro-Kittitian - footballer.

Mikyle Louis (2000) Afro-Kittitian - cricketer.

Kareem Queeley (2001) Afro-Kittitian - basketball player.

Problematic:

Bertil Fox (1951) Afro-Kittitian - convicted murderer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) African-American, Puerto Rican, Afro-Nevisian - sexual assault allegations.

Mel B (1975) Afro-Kittitian or Nevisian / British - said in an interview that she slept with a co-star, named them but didn’t get their permission.

Akil Grier (1992) Afro-Kittitian or Nevisian - charged with rape.

#kittitian fc #nevisian fc #poc fc #fc list #rph #task: 201 #task: saint kitts and nevis

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surrealistnyc · 4 years

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A Spark in Search of a Powderkeg

Rebellion is its own justification, completely independent of the chance it has to modify the state of affairs that gives rise to it. It’s a spark in the wind, but a spark in search of a powder keg.

André Breton

If only one thing has brought me joy in the last few weeks, it began when the matriarchs at Unist’ot’en burned the Canadian flag and declared reconciliation is dead. Like wildfire, it swept through the hearts of youth across the territories. Reconciliation was a distraction, a way for them to dangle a carrot in front of us and trick us into behaving. Do we not have a right to the land stolen from our ancestors? It’s time to shut everything the fuck down!

Tawinikay (aka Southern Wind Woman)

The toxic cargo carried in Canadian pipelines, whether it be tar sands oil or fracked liquid natural gas (LNG), is, according to all serious climate scientists, a major, perhaps even decisive contribution to global warming, i.e. ecological catastrophe. Meant to fuel industrial expansion, the pipelines have themselves become fuel for revolt. Designed to move these dirty fossil fuels from one location to another, they are a crucial element in normalizing the dubious paradise of unlimited growth in awe of which all obedient consumer/citizens are supposed to genuflect. In what the colonial mapmakers have called British Columbia (BC), resource extraction has always been the name of the game. However, the emergence in February of this year of a widespread oppositional network ranging from “land back” Indigenous warriors to elder traditionalists and from Extinction Rebellion activists to anarchist insurrectionaries was heartening. Railways, highways and ferries were blockaded, provincial legislatures, government administrative offices, banks and corporate headquarters were occupied. The catalyst for this rebellion was a widespread Indigenous uprising that refused the illusory promises of reconciliation. Together, these rebel forces disrupted business as usual in solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Big Frog clan of the Wet’suwet’en tribal house.

As objective chance would have it, the primary Indigenous land defense camp is situated not far from the same Hazelton, B.C. area to which surrealist Kurt Seligmann and his wife Arlette had journeyed in 1938. During that time, they visited Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en villages, marveled at the imaginative power of the totem poles and ceremonial objects, made field notes, shot 16mm film, collected stories and recorded mythic histories. Now, in 2020, growing numbers of these same Indigenous peoples have been threatening to bring the Canadian economy to a grinding halt. Unwilling to be bought off by corporate petrodollars or mollified by a legal system that has never done anything but pacify, brutalize, or betray them in the process of stealing their land, Indigenous peoples passionately fought back against the forces of colonial law and order in a radical whirlwind of willful disobedience and social disruption. One action built upon another in creating a rolling momentum that seemed unstoppable. When one railroad blockade would be busted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), another would spring up in its place elsewhere extending the frontlines of the battle all across the continent. Then the debilitating Covid-19 virus arrived to compound the damage that had previously been done to the capitalist economy by the incendiary virus of revolt. The resistance of these Indigenous communities against the pipelines concerns all of us, worldwide, since they are on the front lines of the struggle to prevent cataclysmic climate change.

In the future, a key question will be whether Canadian authorities can successfully put the genie of Indigenous rebellion back in the colonial bottle of “reconciliation”. As surrealists, we hope they will not, and we stand in solidarity with the unreconciled insurgent spirit of defiant Indigenous resistance. A new reality is to be invented and lived instead of the one that today as yesterday imposes its environmental miserabilism and its colonialist and racist hierarchies. As surrealists, we honor our historical affinity with the Kwakwaka’wakw Peace Dance headdress that for so long had occupied a place of reverence in André Breton’s study during his lifetime before being ceremoniously returned in 2003 to Alert Bay on Cormorant Island by his daughter, Aube Elléouet, in keeping with her father’s wishes. With this former correspondence in mind, we presently assert that our ongoing desire to manifest the emancipation of the human community as distinctively undertaken in the surrealist domain of intervention is in perfect harmony with the fight of the Indigenous communities of the Americas against globalized Western Civilisation and its ecocidal folly.

Surrealists in the United States: Gale Ahrens, Will Alexander, Andy Alper, Byron Baker, J.K. Bogartte, Eric Bragg, Thom Burns, Max Cafard, Casi Cline, Steven Cline, Jennifer Cohen, Laura Corsiglia, David Coulter, Jean-Jacques Dauben, Rikki Ducornet, Terri Engels, Barrett John Erickson, Alice Farley, Natalia Fernandez, Brandon Freels, Beth Garon, Paul Garon, Robert Green, Maurice Greenia, Brigitte Nicole Grice, Janice Hathaway, Dale Houstman, Karl Howeth, Joseph Jablonski, Timothy Robert Johnson, Robin D.G. Kelly, Paul McRandle, Irene Plazewska, Theresa Plese, Michael Stone-Richards, David Roediger, Penelope Rosemont, LaDonna Smith, Tamara Smith, Steve Smith, Abigail Susik, Sasha Vlad, Richard Waara, Joel Williams, Craig S. Wilson

Surrealists in the UK: Jay Blackwood, Paul Cowdell, Jill Fenton, Rachel Fijalkowski, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Merl Fluin, Kathy Fox, Lorna Kirin, Rob Marsden, Douglas Park, Michel Remy, Wedgwood Steventon, Frank Wright, the Leeds Surrealist Group (Gareth Brown, Stephen J. Clark, Kenneth Cox, Luke Dominey, Amalia Higham, Bill Howe, Sarah Metcalf, Peter Overton, Jonathan Tarry, Martin Trippett), the London Surrealist Group (Stuart Inman, Philip Kane, Timothy B. Layden, Jane Sparkes, Darren Thomas) and the surrealists of Wales (Jean Bonnin, Neil Combs, David Greenslade, Jeremy Over, John Richardson, John Welson)

Surrealists in Paris: Ody Saban and The Surrealist Group of Paris (Elise Aru, Michèle Bachelet, Anny Bonnin, Massimo Borghese, Claude-Lucien Cauët, Taisiia Cherkasova, Sylwia Chrostowska, Hervé Delabarre, Alfredo Fernandes, Joël Gayraud, Régis Gayraud, Guy Girard, Michael Löwy, Pierre-André Sauvageot, Bertrand Schmitt, Sylvain Tanquerel, Virginia Tentindo, Michel Zimbacca)

Surrealists in Canada: Montréal (Jacques Desbiens, Peter Dube, Sabatini Lasiesta, Bernar Sancha), Toronto (Beatriz Hausner, Sherri Higgins), Québec City (David Nadeau), Victoria (Erik Volet), the Ottawa Surrealist Group (Jason Abdelhadi, Lake, Patrick Provonost) and the Inner Island Surrealist Group (as.matta, Jesse Gentes, Sheila Nopper, Ron Sakolsky)

The Surrealist Group of Madrid: Eugenio Castro, Andrés Devesa, Jesús Garcia Rodriguez, Vicente Gutiérrez Escudero, Lurdes Martinez, Noé Ortega, Antonio Ramirez, Jose Manuel Rojo, María Santana, Angel Zapata

Surrealists in Sweden: Johannes Bergmark, Erik Bohman, Kalle Eklund, Mattias Forshage, Riyota Kasamatsu, Michael Lundberg, Emma Lundenmark, Maja Lundgren, Kristoffer Noheden, Sebastian Osorio

Surrealists in Holland: Jan Bervoets, Elizé Bleys, Josse De Haan, Rik Lina, Hans Plomp, Pieter Schermer, Wijnand Steemers, Laurens Vancrevel, Her de Vries, Bastiaan Van der Velden

Surrealists in Brazil: Alex Januario, Mário Aldo Barnabé, Diego Cardoso, Elvio Fernandes, Beau Gomez, Rodrigo Qohen, Sergio Lima, Natan Schäfer, Renato Souza

Surrealists in Chile: Jaime Alfaro, Magdalena Benavente, Jorge Herrera F., Miguel Ángel Huerta, Ximena Olguín, Enrique de Santiago, Andrés Soto, Claudia Vila

The Middle East and North Africa Surrealist Group: Algeria (Onfwan Foud), Egypt (Yasser Abdelkawy, Mohsen El-Belasy, Ghadah Kamal), Iraq (Miechel Al Raie), Syria (Tahani Jalloul), and Palestine (Fakhry Ratrout)

Surrealists in Prague: Frantisek Dryje, Joe Grim Feinberg, Katerina Pinosova, Martin Stejskal, Jan Svankmajer

The Athens Surrealist Group (Elias Melios, Sotiris Liontos, Nikos Stabakis, Theoni Tambaki, Thomas Typaldos, Marianna Xanthopoulou)

Surrealists in Costa Rica: Gaetano Andreoni, Amirah Gazel, Miguel Lohlé, Denis Magarman, Alfonso Peña

Surrealists in Buenos Aires: Silvia Guiard, Luís Conde, Alejandro Michel

Surrealists in Australia: Anthony Redmond, Michael Vandelaar, Tim White

Surrealists in Portugal: Miguel de Carvalho, Luiz Morgadinho

Surrealists in Bucharest (Dan Stanciu), Mexico (Susana Wald), and the Canary Islands (Jose Miguel Perez Corales)

Postscript: During the process of gathering signatures for the above declaration, we were inspired to see its uncompromising stance against white supremacy and police repression reflected in the brightly sparkling flames of the Minneapolis uprising that lit a powder keg of pent-up rage and incited an earth-shaking eruption of spontaneous rebellion in the streets of America. It was only fitting that in solidarity with the uprising about police brutality kicked off by George Floyd’s execution/lynching at the hands of the police, anti-racism protestors in the United States would take direct action by beheading or bringing down statues of Christopher Columbus, genocidal symbol of the colonial expropriation of Native American lands. (Guy Girard, Michael Löwy, Penelope Rosemont, and Ron Sakolsky, June 18, 2020).

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tabloidtoc · 5 years

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National Enquirer, May 6

Cover: Dying Angelina Jolie leaves $116M fortune to son Maddox and other kids don’t get a dime

Page 2: Elton John collapses and needs wheelchair as lifetime of hard partying and wild sex catches up to him

Page 3: Dolly Parton’s secret battle with mental illness

Page 4: High-flying Tiger Woods shuns bedridden brother Kevin

Page 5: Shrinks tell all about Tiger Woods comeback

Page 6: American Idol ratings hit rock bottom and it will be cancelled, relapse fears for Paula Abdul after her dad’s death, Hoda Kotb’s Today show takeover plan exposed

Page 7: Queen Elizabeth won’t let Meghan Markle touch the royal jewels, Prince Harry’s vain wife Meghan Markle plans post-baby body work

Page 8: Lori Loughlin moves out on husband Mossimo Giannulli because she blames him for prison predicament, cheating college moms Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman have turned on each other

Page 9: Wendy Williams single and ready to mingle, Tom Cruise may be facing the legal fight of his life with a bombshell case threatening to shake Scientology to the core

Page 10: Hot Shots -- Kate Winslet on set of Ammonite, Busy Philipps and Michelle Monaghan and Whitney Cummings, Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka

Page 11: Mariah Carey puts back on 40 lbs, dippy Madonna drags kids to Kabbalah

Page 12: Straight Shuter -- Chelsea Handler has yakked nonstop while promoting her latest book but her lips are sealed about former BFF Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon, Jennifer Lopez treated a fan meet-and-greet poorly, Queer Eye are expanding with a spinoff featuring gay guys throwing weddings in small towns

Page 13: Pamela Anderson is terrified of another sex tape leak this time with Julian Assange, Julian Assange’s outrageous antics while in the Ecuadorian embassy in London

Page 14: True Crime

Page 17: Real Life

Page 18: Cover Story -- Dying Angelina Jolie leaves $116 million to son Maddox, other kids lose out to teen who took her side against Brad

Page 20: How to save more money this year

Page 21: Katie Holmes dumpbed by Jamie Foxx again

Page 22: Health Watch, Ask the Vet

Page 25: Bette Midler caught out without makeup or a wig looking nothing like the Divine Miss M, Ryan O’Neal selling off a prized portrait of late partner Farrah Fawcett to ensure his drug-addict son Redmond never gets his hands on it

Page 28: Goldie Hawn buys her own ring to make Kurt Russell say yes, pot keeps Maury Povich and Connie Chung’s 35-year marriage on a high, Hollywood Hookups -- DWTS pros Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson married, Dina Lohan’s online boyfriend Jesse Nadler has dumped her over jealousy issues, Naomi Campbell has ditched boytoy Liam Payne because she got bored

Page 30: Katy Pervy blow-up sex doll has Katy Perry on the warpath, Johnny Depp lying low as Amber Heard cried abuse

Page 32: Brave Alex Trebek prepares for the end, aching Ozzy Osbourne backs out of tour, medical emergency sidelines Morrissey, Mick Jagger is worried about his health and will take his physician on the road when the Rolling Stones resume touring

Page 42: Red Carpet Stars & Stumbles -- Sophie Turner, Priyanka Chopra, Brie Larson, Rita Wilson

Page 45: Spot the Differences -- Ron Perlman, Sander Thomas and Oliver Hudson in Splitting Up Together

#tabloid #angelina jolie #maddox jolie #maddox jolie-pitt

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halleeducation · 5 years

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COME AND PLAY WITH THE HALLÉ, SEARCHING FOR DINOSAURUMPUS

It’s that time of year, a slight lull for half term before it all goes mad with our Come and Play with the Hallé run. This year we have 11 Come and Play concerts in Manchester, Derby, Stoke on Trent (Hanley) and Nottingham but during this run, we are also looking at concerts for younger children. It seems to me that at Key Stage 1 there’s very little specific concert performance opportunities available so this summer term we’ve decided to dip our toes in this very rewarding but I reckon, artistically neglected, sector.

In recent years I have had the pleasure to work with a wonderful children’s writer, Tony Mitton. Tony is an award-winning author with over 60 published books to his name. A few years ago to fill a slot in our Christmas schedule - ‘The Snowman’ family concerts, I composed Dinosaurumpus which was based on Tony’s award-winning children’, s book, Bumpus-Jumpus Dinosaurumpus. This the Hallé performed to a family audience back in 2015 but to my mind there was always the possibility that this piece with its participatory element would work in a schools’ concert and because it was aimed at the 5-7 age range, why not build a concert programme around it for that age group. This we have done and combining it with the wonderful skills Hallé Designer and animator, Peter Naish, concert presenter, Tom Redmond and conductor, Jonathon Heyward, we think we’ve got a wonderful experience awaiting a lot of ‘dinosaur-hungry’ children in next moth’s concerts.

Further details can be found on the Hallé website:

https://www.halle.co.uk/searching-for-dinosaurumpus/

This year’s Come and Play concerts are built around the 50th anniversary of the moon landings. How that makes me feel old - I can remember watching the whole thing in black and white on my parent’s TV!

Our concert, called ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ contains music from Dvorak to John Williams via Richard Strauss, Gustav Holst and Frank Sinatra or should that be Tom Sinatra or Frank Redmond!!

This year the children will join in with the Blue Danube waltz and a Come and Play favourite, Tito Puente’s, Ran Kan Kan. In terms of the songs, we have again collaborated with our good friends at Out of the Ark: One Step on the Moon by Mary Green and Julie Stanley and another of my collaborations with Nottingham-based, Neil Bennison, keeping the space theme: ‘Galactic Groove’. I can’t wait for it all to get going!

We start in the Victoria Hall, Hanley on Tuesday 12 June.

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From Alan Bennett to Unforgotten: how Alex Jennings became the most chilling man on TV

“Next time, spare us the Hannibal Lecter schtick.” So said DI Sunny Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar) to killer GP Tim Finch (Alex Jennings) in Sunday night’s finale of the superior ITV whodunit Unforgotten.

It wasn’t just one of the most memorable lines of a mesmerising series but also an apt comparison. This was a doctor who had abused his position of trust; a manipulative multiple murderer who displayed the cold-blooded cruelty of a sociopath; who spooked viewers and on-screen adversaries alike as he sat in prison-issue clothes, calmly detailing his sickening crimes, a sly smile of satisfaction playing across his lips.

It’s testament to Jennings’ chillingly charismatic turn that he bore comparison to Anthony Hopkins' Oscar -winning big-screen bogeyman. And all the more impressive that Jennings conveyed Finch’s unsettling secrets without any scenery-chomping histrionics or even on-screen violence. This was a slow-burning performance of rare subtlety. One of a group of four old schoolmates who’d rented a country cottage for Millennium Eve, Finch initially seemed the least likely suspect to have murdered local teen Hayley Reid, then buried her body under the central reservation of the M1. Predatory TV presenter James Hollis (Kevin McNally), swindling salesman Pete Carr (Neil Morrissey) or homeless, bipolar artist Chris Lowe (James Fleet) all behaved more erratically and looked better bets.

As the six-part drama unfolded, though, Jennings’ sinister creation gradually moved front and centre. We heard how Finch had violently threatened an elderly patient. His traumatised first wife Derran (Siobhan Redmond) insisted he’d mentally, physically and sexually abused her, with the Polaroids to partially prove it.

His daughter Emma (Jo Herbert) began to realise her father wasn’t as even-tempered as he appeared. His meek, mousy second wife Carol (Amanda Root) was in denial yet knew deep down that something was badly amiss. Finch was arrested on suspicion of murder in the penultimate episode but Sunday’s finale delivered a queasy twist. The “trophies” found in his cellar - a pair of knickers, a scrunchie and a necklace - didn’t belong to Hayley Reid as detectives had assumed, but to another, earlier missing girl.

In hypnotically intense police interview scenes, Finch impassively confessed to more murders - on the gloriously prosaic proviso that he got a cup of tea first. By the time the credits rolled, we knew he was a serial killer who had claimed at least five adolescent female victims, probably many more. His horrifying lack of remorse even contributed to heroine DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) taking a sabbatical from the force. From his self-contained body language to the unconvincing way he called people “mate”, from his rural leisurewear to his reptilian movements, at first Finch’s villainy was hard for viewers to put their finger on. He just felt... not quite right. With his 6ft 2in frame, dancing blue eyes and enigmatic smirk, Jennings eventually revealed the true monster beneath the Barbour jacket and false bonhomie. Showing Lecter-like levels of self-regard, Finch was quick to point out the difference between paedophilia and hebephilia. He took time out to discuss the nature vs nurture debate. “I’m pretty much a textbook psychopath,” he confessed, barely batting an eyelid. “Above average intelligence, superficially charming, zero empathy.” Brrrrr. Don’t have nightmares.

Unforgotten was Jennings’ second show-stealing TV performance so far this year. He had already attracted rave notices in the BBC’s hugely entertaining dramatisation of the Jeremy Thorpe affair, A Very English Scandal As Liberal MP Peter Bessell, confidante and right-hand man to Hugh Grant’s rakish Thorpe, Jennings had one eyebrow permanently raised in amusement at his leader’s antics. Jennings was wonderfully wry as the womaniser, chancer and closeted homosexual who ultimately testified against his friend at trial - only to be castigated for having already sold his story to The Sunday Telegraph.

Coincidentally enough, it was in Grant’s defining role that Jennings himself almost found film stardom. He was originally cast in the lead role of hapless Charles in Four Weddings And A Funeral, only for financing to fall through. By the time the production got back on track, the goalposts had moved. “Bugger,” as Charles would doubtless say. Before this breakout year, 61-year-old Jennings was best known for roles as real-life royals. He has played both Richard II and George III. Opposite Helen Mirren in 2006 film The Queen, he gave an unexpectedly empathetic portrayal of Prince Charles. More recently, he stole scenes as the side-burned, scheming Leopold I of Belgium in ITV’s lavish costume romp Victoria.

This arrived on our screens at the same time as his excellently oily, embittered turn as David, Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) in hit Netflix epic The Crown . Like the rest of The Crown’s roles, Jennings’ part has now been recast with an older actor and admits he “won’t like” watching his replacement. “I was attracted to Unforgotten partly because it meant not playing a member of the royal family,” he cheerfully says. “And wearing modern clothes, which I never do. I had to de-posh myself. I’m not posh at all, actually, but I’ve sort of acquired this poshness as the years have gone on. And I have done a lot of posh.” Born in Essex and an alumnus of his local comprehensive in Hornchurch, Jennings is indeed no toff. Instead, he does actual acting. He mastered the Leeds accent to portray playwright Alan Bennett in 2015 film The Lady In The Van, opposite Maggie Smith in the title role. “I grew up revering Maggie and Alan,” he says. “I have to pinch myself that we’ve become friends.”

Three years earlier, he played the writer on-stage in Untold Stories, based on Bennett’s childhood. “Alan was on at me not to be too plaintive or cosy,” Jennings recalls. “He doesn’t want to be seen as the sort of Wind in the Willows, moley kind of person some people think he is. He wanted me to be tougher with it.” Lady In The Van director Nicholas Hytner, with whom Jennings has a longtime collaborative relationship, ranks Jennings among the pre-eminent actors of his generation and has hailed him as “a John Gielgud for the 21st century”.

With his greying curls, care-worn features and subversive twinkle, Jennings has a face that lends itself perfectly to period roles. He has also inhabited other real-life figures, including former US president George Bush Nazi architect Albert Speer, Dad’s Army actor John Le Mesurier and composer Benjamin Britten. He has said the key to playing such roles is to act, not impersonate becaue the characters “mustn’t become Spitting Image puppets”. Before the screen royals and rogues, Jennings enjoyed a stage career remarkable for both its versatility and success. A revered regular with both the RSC and the National Theatre, he’s a three-time Olivier Award winner for Too Clever By Half, Peer Gynt and My Fair Lady, making him the only actor to have won in the drama, musical and comedy categories.

Whether it’s on-stage or in supporting screen roles, Alex Jennings has spent more than three decades being consistently brilliant. He has earned this late-life flowering as one of our most compellingly creepy TV actors. Let’s hope that Unforgotten’s Doctor Death is just the latest in a long line of meaty parts to get his teeth into. And on that thought, we’re back to Hannibal Lecter again...

Credit: By Michael Hogan 2018 Telegraph.co.uk; London

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