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The Daily Dad — Mar 23, 2024

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Walmart Brings the Popular MacBook Air With the M1 Chip to Its Shelves 💭 This is interesting for two reasons. First, this is the first Mac that Walmart has tried to sell, and it looks like Apple is producing it exclusively for them. Second, $699 for an M1 Air is a fantastic deal… frankly, getting the base M1 for $300 less than a base M2 makes the M1 a no-brainer. The M1 has a slightly slower SoC and a significantly faster SSD, so I wouldn’t even consider the M2. (The M3, on the other hand… particularly a 15” model… that would be tempting.)

“We’ve done our job”: Baldur’s Gate 3 devs call off DLC and step away from D&D ❝ Larian boss says BG3 is "a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end."

Man banned from Buc-ee's 'for life' after bringing service duck to store ❝ During the video, an employee comes over to tell Wood that pets aren’t allowed in the store, though Wood explains that Wrinkle is a service animal.

Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, Announces Cancer Diagnosis 💭 It’s of course sad that she has cancer. But even sadder is realizing that this news is going to validate conspiracy theorists of all kinds… they can be wrong 100 times in a row, but if they eventually, accidentally get one right, just one time… look out.

Vanderpump Rules’ Raquel Leviss sues Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval over revenge porn 💭 It feels like the case against Ariana is tenuous at best, but she might actually be able to nail Sandoval if she can convince a jury that she was unaware she was being recorded.

Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content ❝ OpenAI claimed it’s “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data. An “ethically created” large language model and a giant AI dataset of public domain text suggest otherwise.

Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default 💭 Oh come the fuck on. Who cares?

A24’s Problemista is a surreal fairy tale about finding the people who truly see you ❝ A24’s Problemista — in theaters nationwide March 22nd from writer / director Julio Torres — is a breathtakingly honest and beautiful fairy tale.

How Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted ❝ The hot new thing in proselytizing is an app that allows Christian conservatives to collect data on whole neighborhoods of potential converts.

R.I.P. M. Emmet Walsh, character actor extraordinaire ❝ Walsh, who appeared in Blade Runner, Knives Out, Blood Simple, and hundreds of other movies and shows, was 88

DNA tests like 23AndMe and Ancestry are laying bare the frightening extent of incest in the US - including woman who discovers her ex-lover was her BROTHER ❝ The prevalence of incest in the US is far more common than previously thought, with research including common genealogy tests putting the rate at one in 7,000.

Olivia Munn shares breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy procedure 💭 Holy shit, Munn! Yee-fucking-ikes! I did not see that one coming… hope she’s okay.

The end of the MrBeast era ❝ Jimmy Donaldson warped YouTube in his image — but YouTube is warping him back

Robert Downey Jr. has finally won his first Oscar ❝ More than 30 years after first being nominated for Chaplin, Robert Downey Jr. has brought home his very first Oscar

3 Body Problem is the kind of TV epic we need 💭 I call bullshit on this and every positive review I’ve seen. I tried to remain hopeful, but this Weiss/Benioff travesty is everything I feared it might be —shallow, only vaguely interested in the book’s characters/ideas, as disappointing as Game of Thrones— and even less— the performances are uniformly mediocre, except when they actually suck. It’s clear now that the first few seasons of GoT were entirely due to a series of elaborate flukes and Maisie Williams’ charm.)

'Y2K' Review: A 1999 Teen Nostalgia Comedy Turned Computer Zombie Film ❝ Jaeden Martell and Rachel Zegler star in Kyle Mooney's amusing for a while but ultimately listless satirical sci-fi disaster comedy.

A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree ❝ Verbal Verdict is the best use of generative AI I’ve seen.

Hours after denying Paula Abdul's accusations, American Idol producer hit with fourth sexual assault lawsuit ❝ Abdul sued American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe for sexual assault. He is asking the case be “dismissed in its entirety.”

The Science Behind Ozempic Was Wrong - The Atlantic ❝ The weight-loss effects of GLP-1 drugs have little to do with the gut.

The reeducation of Tom Sandoval continues on Vanderpump Rules 💭 Is there anyone anywhere who actually wants to see T-Sandy grow into a fully-functional human? His role in this life is Creepy Dick #2 —because as it turns out, he actually wasn’t the #1 guy in the group— and I’m not interested in any other form of him.

19 Common Phrases Invented By TV And Movies 💭 It’s weird to think that there are a significant number of people out there who don’t already know most of this shit.

Is Justin Timberlake the pop star anyone wants? 💭 Dear media: figure out your stance. Either Gen Z is utterly broke and focused on mindlessly grazing on Mom’s Spotify and YouTube accounts, or Gen Z is a thriving economic force whose tastes will determine the success/failure of any entertainer over the age of 35. It can’t be both. Also, I find it hilarious that someone thinks Justin Fucking Timberlake has ever been masculinity’s standard bearer.

MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make ❝ It all started because I wanted a better keyboard for my Vision Pro. I had no idea that, in looking for one, I’d accidentally create the hybrid Apple computer of my dreams. As I quickly discovered after working on the Vision Pro daily, you can get by without an external trackpad, but a keyboard is

Dodge debuts the 2024 electric Charger Daytona, with 670 horsepower ❝ A "Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust" makes this EV as loud as a V8 Hellcat.

Megan Fox's Ex, Brian Austin Green, Says 'Love Is Blind' Star Can't Compare 💭 Holy shit, an unimaginable day has arrived: I agree with Brian Austin Green! ‘Cause Chelsea, girl, are you fucking kidding…?

Abortion meds can now be sold in drugstores. Here’s why that’s so important. ❝ Some actually good news about Americans’ abortion access.

'Big Brother' Star Memphis Garrett Files to Divorce Christmas Abbott 💭 I dislike both of them, so this is a big ol’ 🤷‍♂️

Music Is TikTok's Past. Sounds May Be Its Future ❝ More Universal Music songs are disappearing from TikTok as the two companies fail to reach new agreements. Sound clips are ready for their big break.

ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs 💭 A research paper demonstrating the use of ASCII art to circumvent the behavioral/topical restrictions placed on ChatGPT and similar LLMs. It’s kinda hilarious, kinda scary, and an important step in showing everyone how little we understand these systems.

This Is Spinal Tap at 40: the note-perfect rock satire still goes up to 11 ❝ Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner made a 1984 classic that ingeniously straddles the ‘fine line between stupid and clever’

Driving at ridiculous speeds should be physically impossible ❝ Reckless speeding is epidemic in the US. This simple technology could save tens of thousands of lives.

A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day ❝ There is a complex chain of companies buying access to WordPress and Tumblr posts through a company called SocialGist.

It’s Like Death Stranding, But For Real [Update] ❝ With a sequel to Hideo Kojima’s transport sim in the works, the humble 'bokka' has gone viral again

Who fakes cancer research? Apparently, lots of people. ❝ Faked cancer data is the latest sign of science’s fraud problem.

Bravo has another major Vanderpump break-up on its hands 💭 …and now the #3 guy has to have his headline. (Yes, this means Schwartz is #1. I’m as surprised as you are.) Honestly, Jax and Brittany could both disappear up their own asses and I wouldn’t care. Won’t stop me from watching The Valley, though, because their misery amuses me.

Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series ❝ Apple has announced its latest sci-fi series for Apple TV Plus, an adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

Dark Forces Remastered makes a classic Star Wars shooter feel fast and fluid ❝ A faithful but generous repackaging of LucasArts' early Doom-alike.

Why Merriam-Webster says it's OK to end a sentence in a preposition | CBC Radio ❝ In a post on Instagram last week, Merriam-Webster has found itself dividing commenters by asserting that it is permissible for a sentence to end in a preposition. Peter Sokolowski from Merriam-Webster weighs in to the debate.

New regulation could stop abusers from stalking via connected cars ❝ FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is proposing to expand on the Safe Connections Act to require connect-car makers include protection for survivors of domestic abuse.

Annie Lennox, Wendy and Lisa Working Together on Trio Project ❝ Wendy and Lisa revealed that they are writing new music with Annie Lennox, asking the audience if anyone has a 'band name' for their project.

Liam Neeson's Naked Gun Reboot Moves Forward, Lands 2025 Release Date - IGN 💭 This is either going to be a triumph of unconventional casting and franchise rebooting, or the dumbest fucking idea anyone ever had.

Tattle Life: The influencer gossip forum where thousands vilify online creators ❝ Tattle Life users speculate about influencers' lives, spout rumours, make hateful comments about them, and judge their life decisions.

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toastandhoodies · 3 years

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Aaron 1 year today. 22nd April 2020

#lovely aaron #aaron dingle #i love him so much #writer sue mooney

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papermoonloveslucy · 4 years

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SAX APPEAL

June 28, 1846

On June 28, 1846, musician / inventor Adolphe Sax filed 14 patents for his new invention: the saxophone. Initially crafted from wood, Sax's instrument flared at the tip to form a music-amplifying bell. Although the saxophone quickly became popular with French army bands, the Belgian-born Sax spent decades in court trying to fend off knockoffs and made only meager profits before his patents expired in 1866. US production began in 1888 when Charles Conn of Elkhart, Indiana, started manufacturing the instruments for military bands.

Lucille Ball had briefly played the saxophone as a child. When the “I Love Lucy” writers discovered this they asked Lucy if she could still play. She replied “No, but give me a week.” By the time rehearsals for “The Saxophone” (ILL S2;E2) started she knew enough to get by. In fact, she practiced so much that she played a little too well and had to consciously remember to play the wrong notes. Writer Madelyn Pugh later said,

“As for Lucy playing the saxophone – she was a writer’s dream. No matter what we asked her to do – ride a lawnmower, jump on a trampoline, walk on stilts – she never said ‘No,’ just 'Give me a few days to learn it.’"

In his autobiography, A Book, Desi Arnaz said,

“We could’ve had Lucy fake playing the xylophone and the sax, while someone off-camera did it, but it wouldn’t have been as funny as Lucy struggling to do it well herself.“

Lucy demonstrates her musical skill for Ethel on her newly rediscovered saxophone. She toots out a halting, off-pitch version of “Glow-Worm.” "The Glow-Worm” is a song from Paul Lincke’s 1902 operetta Lysistrata. She claims that she was in the marching band in high school.

It isn’t long before the whole building knows that Lucy has rediscovered the saxophone!

Ralph Brady of the Desi Arnaz / Ricky Ricardo orchestra has a solo riff (his ‘audition’) at the start of the scene at the Tropicana and is then asked to go to the office and make the deal. Of course, in reality Brady had been with the band all along but the show hoped viewers wouldn’t recognize him.

This frees up his chair for the next candidate - Lucy! She dresses and talks like a stereotypical ‘hip’ musician of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Lucy Ricardo picked up the sax again in “Lucy’s Club Dance” (S3;E25)…

and in “Ragtime Band” (S6;E21), although in that episode “Sweet Sue” is the only song Lucy can play, not “Glow Worm.”

Lucy Carmichael played the sax in 1964′s “Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show” (TLS S2;E19) while a skeptical Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) looks on.

Lucy Carter played the sax during the talent portion of the Secretary Beautiful Pageant in “Lucy Competes with Carol Burnett” (HL S2;E24).

Bandleader Phil Harris has not one, but two sax players (Ted Nash and Jack Kelso) in his orchestra when he appears on a 1974 episode of “Here’s Lucy”.

Rudy Vallee ‘plays’ the sax in a 1970 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Or does he?

In 1971′s “Lucy and Her All-Nun Band” (HL S4;E8), Lucy Carter subs on sax for a sick sister.

In that episode, she gets a lesson from Freddy Martin, a saxophonist and bandleader who first gained national attention in 1940 and continued on through the 1970s leading one of the most popular bands of the Big Band Era.

Lucy Barker wants to pass on her love of the saxophone to her granddaughter (Jenny Lewis) on an episode of “Life With Lucy” (1986).

When Lucy Barker pulls the saxophone from the trunk, the audience immediately applauds remembering when Lucy Ricardo played sax on “I Love Lucy.”

When Becky reads the inscription her grandmother had placed on her saxophone for her, she at first reads “made in Elkhart, Indiana.” Conn and Buescher both made saxophones in the city of Elkhart. Founder Gus Buescher was first employed by Conn until he broke off to become their main competition. Buescher became the main supplier of student-grade saxophones to the H&A Selmer Company, which later joined with Conn. The Buescher brand was retired by Selmer in 1983.

At the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown, New York, iconic items of Lucy Ricardo’s include her precious saxophone.

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dancingwithunicorns1206 · 4 years

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Week 4 Writers

Monday 20th January - Jo Maris

Tuesday 21st January - Isobel Cameron

Wednesday 22nd January - Lesley Clare O'Neill

Thursday 23rd January (7pm) - Linton Chiswick

Thursday 23rd January (8pm) - Sue Mooney

Friday 24th January - Dawn Harrison

Duncan Foster is the director for the whole week.

#emmerdale #emmerdale writers

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gokinjeespot · 5 years

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off the rack #1283

Monday, October 14, 2019

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to one and all. Thank-you for reading this. The Jee Gang gathered for a turkey dinner yesterday with the littlest 2-month-old Ashton being passed around like a hot potato because he was tired and cranky. His mom got him settled but you couldn't hear his tiny cries for the raucous noise from his cousins. The kids took over the larger formal dining room now that they outnumber us old folks. It was a nice big family affair.

Gwenpool Strikes Back #3 - Leah Williams (writer) David Baldeon (art) Jesus Aburtov (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). Gwenpool tries to save herself from cancellation by holding a "Contest of Champions" in this issue. Guest stars galore. This thing is so much fun.

Catwoman #16 - Joelle Jones (story & art) Laura Allred (colours) Saida Temofonte (letters). I'm glad I checked the credits on this issue since I said that I was going to let this cat out after reading last issue. I will always read a book by Joelle Jones even though this one had me befuddled with some jumping back and forth in time and the added "Year of the Villain" thing. I am curious to find out Catwoman's decision.

Loki #4 - Daniel Kibblesmith (writer) Oscar Bazaldua (pencils) Oscar Bazaldua & Victor Olazaba (inks) David Curiel & Carlos Lopez (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). I love a good trickster. Loki uses a good one to defeat Nightmare. I like this Loki.

Detective Comics #1013 - Peter J. Tomasi (writer) Doug Mahnke (pencils) Keith Champagne & Christian Alamy (inks) David Baron (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). It's Batman versus Mister Freeze as the super villain tries to resurrect his dead wife. Batman's flame thrower costume is a cosplayer's wet dream

Doctor Doom #1 - Christopher Cantwell (writer) Salvador Larroca (art) Guru-eFX (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This was a pleasant surprise. The art caught my eye but the story is really good too. There's no sign of the good guy Sorcerer Supreme from a while ago. Just good old fashioned arrogant Victor. He scoffed at a new technology to reverse global warming and is accused of being jealous of it because it was invented by Reed Richards and Tony Stark. When disaster strikes, Latveria is blamed and Doctor Doom sacrifices himself for his country. The mystery is who framed him and I will keep reading to find out.

Web of the Black Widow #2 - Jody Houser (writer) Stephen Mooney (art) Triona Farrell (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). What the!? Two Black Widows? Doctor Doom isn't the only one being framed for murder. I liked the clever cut-out on Nat's bathing suit.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #11 - Saladin Ahmed (writer) Ze Carlos (art pages 1-8) Ig Guara (art pages 9-20) Dono Sanchez-Almara with Protobunker (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Miles must solve the super hero's dilemma of saving a family member or a stranger's life. His decision leads to a confrontation with the Prowler. Is it Uncle Aaron? I can't wait to find out.

White Fox #1 - Alyssa Wong (writer) Kevin Libranda & Geoffo (art) Israel Silva (colours)

VC's Joe Sabino (letters). Another Agent of Atlas super hero gets her origin story told. She's based on Korean folklore. It was very well done and almost makes me want to read the new team book. There's also a peek at the Future Avengers by Alyssa Wong (writer), Ale Garza (art), Dono Sanchez-Almara with Protobunker (colours) and VC's Joe Sabino (letters). They're an Asian version of the Young Avengers but these guys used to be Hydra agents in training. Read on if you're wondering what turned them into good guys.

Age of Conan Valeria #3 - Meredith Finch (writer) Aneke (art) Andy Troy (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I wish the art inside was a nice as the Jay Anacleto cover.

Marvel Action Spider-Man #9 - Delilah S. Dawson (writer) Fico Ossio (art) Ronda Pattison (colours) Shawn Lee (letters). The Black Cat gets caged as the kids finally work together and start to treat each other with respect. Next, things get even darker as Venom attacks.

Batman 100 Page Giant #1 - There are five superb stories in this $4.99 US one-shot and you'll feel like you just read five $3.99 comic books when you hit the last page. The only story that was disappointing was the Batwoman story mainly because she was fighting a lame villain named Lord Death Man. It was written by Steve Orlando, who has never impressed me. The other four stories more than make up for it though, especially Scott Snyder's lengthy contribution. This book is a steal at twice the price.

The Amazing Spider-Man #31 - Nick Spencer (writer) Ryan Ottley (pencils) Cliff Rathburn (inks) Nathan Fairbairn (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). More hints are given to the secret identity of the super villain Kindred. Definitely related to Norman Osborn. That mystery is the only thing keeping me reading this book. As if the waters weren't muddy enough, the guy in the straight jacket isn't even Norman. I hope we don't get strung along too much longer because there will come a point where I say screw it, I don't care anymore.

Batman Universe #4 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Nick Derington (art) Dave Stewart (colours) Josh Reed & Tom Napolitano (letters). I don't mind this time traveling if it means that we see Batman and Green Lantern team up with Jonah Hex. The chase is on as Vandal Savage gets his hands on his prize. I know I've said that I don't like time travel and Vandal Savage, but this is a Bendis book and I'm a sucker.

Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy #2 - Jody Houser (writer) Adriana Melo (pencils) Mark Morales (inks) Hi-Fi (colours) Gabriela Downie (letters). I think the Floronic Man chowed down on Swampthing and Ivy is next on his menu. Well, it's Harley to the rescue and the girls seek help from a fellow super villain to see what's wrong with Ivy. I'm reading this because it looks so pretty.

Powers of X #6 - Jonathan Hickman (writer) R.B. Silva & Pepe Larraz (art) Marte Gracia & David Curiel (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). The house is built and the power has been connected for a new X-verse. Jonathan Hickman has managed to make mutants relevant again for me. There are a half a dozen new mutant books coming out in the next six weeks starting with X-Men #1 hitting the racks October 16. I'll be reading them all to see how I feel about them but I can't imagine that they'll be all worthwhile.

Event Leviathan #5 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Alex Maleev (art) Josh Reed (letters). I'm curious to find out who Leviathan is but it's not going to have a big impact on me since I'm not a huge DC fan. I'm sure DC fans might be able to suss out the secret given the Manhunter clue in this issue but I'm going to have to wait until next issue when all is revealed.

Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity #1 - Kami Garcia (writer) Mico Suayan & Mike Mayhew (art) Richard Starkings of Comicraft (letters). I love new and different takes on iconic characters and this one is a killer. Harleen Quinzel is Doctor Harley Quinn, GCPD profiler, who is working a 5-year-old cold case of the murder of a hospital employee. Meanwhile there are other new murders landing on her desk. The writing is tight and the characterisations are vivid, helped by the beautiful art. Mico's black and white art chronicles the present while Mike's gorgeous colour art handles the flashbacks. DC's Black Label imprint is well worth checking out if you're a mature reader. This mystery not only looked good but made me feel good after I finished reading. I can't wait to find out what happens next.

Contagion #2 - Ed Brisson (writer) Stephen Segovia (art) Veronica Gandini (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). I know I said that I wasn't going to read any more of this 5-issue mini but this was on the racks with the awesome Power Man and Iron Fist cover so I snagged one after I finished reading all the others for the week. This issue was better thought out and the story flowed smoothly. Ben takes Sue, Reed and Johnny to Doctor Strange for help and the two of them go back to Yancy Street to contain the infectious bad guy. Danny and Luke are there helping the first responders and a couple of surprise super heroes show up too. The villain is briefly subdued but Doc Strange and Power Man succumb to the disease at the end. Uh-oh. The next issue teaser has Jessica Jones so that's reason enough for me to want to read it.

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robron-til-the-end-of-time · 5 years

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Who wrote this ep?

Sue Mooney. Someone else relatively new.

She can fuck off, this is terrible.

Vics story really is showing up the good from the bad. The good writers are proving themselves great, the bad are really being brought up short.

#vics sl #writers

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foreverrhapsody · 5 years

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doing my catching up bit and

it’s lovely to see some writers returning to Emmerdale after being away for years and years

(i’m looking at you Sue Mooney and Matthew Westwood)

#i'm not making any comments about quality #matthew's written for bb!christopher robert #and sue wrote for teenaged!tearaway!aaron #emmerdale #rhapsody has feelings about soap operas #so i have feels #the nebulous soap gods #some day owen lloyd-fox will come back and write andy's return i hope and i pray #classic emmerdale

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smittenwithsugden · 5 years

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2019 - January

2019 Writers Top 3: Sue Mooney wrote her first episode, No top 3 yet, but Jane Pearson wrote 4 episodes, a lot in one month

2019 Directors Top 3: No Top 3 yet, they all did 4 episodes, firs time directing for Jordan Hogg

Robron episodes January: Robron 6, Aaron 8 (2 alone), Robert 9 (3 alone)

Robron episodes 2019: Robron 6, Aaron 8 (2 alone), Robert 9 (3 alone)

(If you want anything else let me know)

(Masterpost, December 2018, February 2019)

Keep reading for the detailed month overview

1st: Writer Jo Maris | Director Ian Barber | Double episode

2nd: Writer Lesley Clare O’Neill | Director Ian Barber

3rd: Writer Jane Pearson | Director Alan Wareing | Aaron | Double episode

4th: Writer Bill Taylor | Director Alan Wareing

7th: Writer Jo Summerscales | Director Alan Wareing |

8th: Writer Kirsty Halton | Director Duncan Foster | Double episode

9th: Writer Lesley Clare O'Neill | Director Duncan Foster |

10th: Writer Martin Fustes | Director Duncan Foster | Robert (1 ep) | Double episode

11th: Writer Sarah Hooper | Director Ian Bevitt | Aaron

14th: Writer Linton Chiswick | Director Ian Bevitt |

15th: Writer Linton Chiswick | Director Ian Bevitt |

16th: Writer Jo Summerscales | Director Ian Bevitt |

17th: Writer Paul Roundell | Director David Beauchamp | Double episode

18th: Writer Sue Mooney | Director David Beauchamp |

21st: Writer Maxine Alderton | Director David Beauchamp | Robron

22nd: Writer Maxine Alderton | Director Tim Finn | Robron

23rd: Writer Sarah Bagshaw | Director Tim Finn |

24th: Writer Karin Young | Director Tim Finn | Double episode

25th: Writer Andrew Kirk | Director Jordan Hogg | Robron

28th: Writer Jane Pearson | Director Jordan Hogg | Robert

29th: Writer Jane Pearson | Director Jordan Hogg | Robert

30th: Writer Peter Kerry | Director Jordan Hogg | Robron

31st: Writer Isobel Cameron | Director Peter Rose | Robron | Double episode

#robron #emmerdale #emmerdale writers #emmerdale directors #monthly wd #january 2019 #original

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orbemnews · 3 years

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Emily Ratajkowski Is Selling an NFT at Christie’s In an effort to re-establish “authority” over the usage of her likeness, Emily Ratajkowski, the model and writer, is minting a nonfungible token, or NFT, which will be auctioned at Christie’s on May 14. The piece will be titled “Buying Myself Back: A Model for Redistribution.” As Ms. Ratajkowski chronicled in a widely read essay published in The Cut last fall, she’d been surprised to find out, in 2014, that a nude photograph of herself was hanging in the Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue. As part of his “New Portraits” series, the artist Richard Prince had taken one of her Instagram photos and printed it on a large canvas, priced at $90,000. Ms. Ratajkowski tried to buy the piece but a Gagosian employee bought it for himself. After contacting Mr. Prince’s studio directly, though, she was able to obtain a second “Instagram painting” of herself, featuring a photo from her first appearance in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. She had been paid $150 for the shoot, she wrote, and a “couple grand”when the issue was published. She and her boyfriend at the time bought the piece for $81,000; when they broke up, she paid her ex $10,000 for a smaller “study” that Mr. Prince’s studio had given her. The image attached to the NFT is a digital composite showing Ms. Ratajkowski, photographed in her New York apartment, posing in front of the Richard Prince painting that hangs in her Los Angeles home. (To remind: a nonfungible token is the metadata associated with the image file, allowing the file to be bought or sold like a physical piece of art.) Instead of cash-based currency, NFTs are purchased using cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Ethereum, and the transactions are permanently recorded on the respective currency’s blockchain, which functions like a ledger. Ms. Ratajkowski is using the platform OpenSea to add her NFT to the Ethereum blockchain, but her NFT will be for sale in U.S. dollars, and the fund transfer will happen “off-chain,” a Christie’s spokeswoman said. There is no reserve, or starting, price on the piece. In March, after the artist Beeple’s $69.3 million NFT sale at Christie’s, talent agents started encouraging their celebrity clients to participate in the NFT “money grab,” Ms. Ratajkowski said in an interview. Brands and cryptocurrency brokers contacted her directly, she said, offering her 20 percent to 60 percent of profits for an NFT featuring her likeness. “I had this bad feeling in my stomach about that way of approaching it,” she said, so she decided to develop her own project — following another prominent model, Kate Moss. As Ms. Ratajkowski browsed NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, Foundation and SuperRare, she came across bouncing smiley-face GIFs and 3-D renderings, thinking to herself: “Why are they NFTs? They don’t need to be NFTs.” Because an NFT is less about the image itself and more the concept of ownership over a digital file, Ms. Ratajkowski realized the medium could be an effective way to make a statement about ownership — by appropriating Mr. Prince’s appropriation of her photo. “As somebody who has built a career off of sharing my image, so many times — even though that’s my livelihood — it’s taken from me and then somebody else profits off of it,” she said. Every time her NFT is resold, she will receive an undisclosed cut. “To me, this digital marketplace is a way to communicate this specific idea that couldn’t exist in a different way.” Mr. Prince, who did not respond to messages sent through Gagosian and his studio manager, has been using other artists’ work in his own work since the 1980s, and he made a name for himself by taking photos of existing photographs. His work has long been controversial, and Ms. Ratajkowski is not the first subject to take issue with the “New Portraits” series of Instagram appropriations. In 2015, Selena Mooney, the founder of the erotic website SuicideGirls, sold $90 copies of a piece by Mr. Prince that features one of her Instagram posts, with proceeds going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group. “If I had a nickel for every time someone used our images without our permission in a commercial endeavor I’d be able to spend $90,000 on art,” Ms. Mooney wrote on Instagram. Another subject, the sex educator Zoë Ligon, told Artnet she felt “violated” by Mr. Prince’s use of her selfie in 2019. Mr. Prince has also been sued at least five times over copyright infringement relating to the “New Portraits” series, The New York Times has reported, including two high-profile lawsuits filed by two photographers, Donald Graham and Eric McNatt. Mr. McNatt claimed that Mr. Prince misused a photo of Kim Gordon he shot for Paper magazine. According to court documents, he was paid between $50 and $100 for the shoot. The art critic Jerry Saltz, who called “New Portraits” “genius trolling” in a 2014 review, worked with Kenny Schachter, an artist and art-world gadfly, to produce an NFT of the disputed Kim Gordon image in early April. Ms. Gordon chimed in and wrote that she wondered if Mr. McNatt “will sue you too?” on Mr. Schachter’s Instagram post. Casey Reas, an artist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who has dealt in NFTs for five years, noted they could be of particular appeal to content creators, whose images are so often replicated far beyond their control. “With things in the physical, material world, ownership is pretty clear, but with digital files, it’s always been sort of a fuzzy area,” he said. “NFTs allow one person to have clear, public ownership over a digital thing, like an image or a video.” However, those pieces of media can still go viral. “The work itself is not scarce,” Mr. Reas said. “That image can still circulate around the internet, but ownership is the thing that the NFT allows somebody to claim.” Like a physical painting, the original artist still retains copyright; unlike a physical painting, every time an NFT changes hands, the original artist gets royalties. To Ms. Ratajkowski there’s another potential dividend: moral justice. She said that after her article was published, models started reaching out to discuss “not just their image being used, but their bodies being misused, and used for profit in ways they didn’t consent to,” she said, a topic she explores in an upcoming essay collection, “My Body,” which Metropolitan Books is planning to publish in October. Across fashion, film and the art world, she added, young women are made to “feel like they don’t need to be paid properly.” And she said cryptocurrency experts warned her: “People are going to use your image in NFTs in one way or another, so you might as well make one.” Source link Orbem News #Christies #Emily #NFT #Ratajkowski #Selling

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