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Yoga for above the neck.
For some reason, older men I pass on the street like to tell me I should smile more. It's nice to be noticed so I smile sweetly, and quickly resume my previous face, whatever it was. But those men are more right than they even realize. It takes 57 more muscles in the face to frown than it does to smile. Some call it attitude. I call it exercise. If you're jumping on a revival fad, you could call it "face yoga."
Face exercises have been around for half a century, dating back to a 1959 Vogue article, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Face yoga" as it is most commonly called, has resurfaced, what with the economy reducing the amount of disposable income out there for nipping and tucking.
"The Yoga Face," by Annelise Hagen and "The Yoga Facelift" were both published a couple years ago, and the books on facial exercises have been rolling out every since. The idea is that toning and firming the muscles, as well as relieving the tension that builds in your face (think of your clenched jaw or pursed lips as your boss tells you she needs three more stories to post in the next hour …) will mean fewer wrinkles and a younger look. **
Both medical experts and yoga instructors have weighed in on whether or not it works, and most agree it can't hurt, but equating the effects to plastic surgery is, well, stretching it. Keeping these muscles fit can delay many of the effects of aging, but it ain't gonna hold 'em off.
You're also not going to see the difference overnight, although you will feel it. Yes, in the name of good research, and being just a little goofy by nature, I tried the exercises found on FatFreeKitchen.com, plus a forehead exercise I found on YouTube. My kids think it's hysterical, but I can definitely feel the muscles worked, just as I can feel the muscles throughout my body after a regular yoga session.
Yoga instructors who incorporate this into regular circuits, and those hawking books, say it takes three or four weeks to notice a tightening and firming in your facial appearance. Again, not as quick or effective as a facelift, but you can't beat the cost.
And less stress in my face could be reason to smile.
- Gaiam.com includes Face Yoga as part of personal growth.
- Carole Maggio published a DVD on advanced "facercise" which you can buy on Amazon.com.
(**Editors note: I have NEVER asked Michelle for 3 more stories in an hour.)

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For Your Roadside Viewing Pleasure: The Cabazon Dinosaurs, as seen in Pee Wee's Big Adventure!
Actually the dinos predate Pee Wee by a WHOLE bunch of years. I remember the big brontosaurus (named Dinny) from early childhood family treks to Palm Springs.
Spotting the dinosaur in the middle of absolutely NOWHERE was a very exciting event. I even have a vague recollection of the steel-wire frame before it was covered in its concrete skin, which is probably the right timeframe: construction was started in 1964 and went on for eleven years. Now the beasts sit in the middle of a cluster of six or eight buildings, and they're just a few miles down the road from a major casino. Not quite as remote as they used to be. The second dinosaur, the Rex, was added in the early 80s.
> The Cabazon Dinos at Wikipedia (with history)
> Cabazon Dinosaurs official site
(the dinosaurs are now part of a "Creationist Museum" if you're into that sort of thing)
LOVE these! And just to make the place even mor fun, the people who run the gift shop are creationists.
I remember these roadside dino's, the "brontosaurus", (which never really existed!), was the mascot for a gas/petrol brand, and there were more of those around. Those were the days, you could take your kids out to a place with this sorta fun stuff and probably did it for the price of a few hot-dogs! There was also a stegasaur, and a tricerotops with the two above. Wonder where they ended up? (Probably in Michael Jackson's back yard!) tee hee
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David Lugo
Excellent, very useful! Lots of information and in a simple format. I especially like the prayers, Saint of the day, and online giving link... I'm sure that was Fr. Henry's request :-)
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Whispering Hills East Trail is a 5 mile out and back hike with ocean views and an entrance that is tucked away in the neighborhoods of San Juan Capistrano.
Have you ever been surprised by the place you call home? We have lived in close proximity to San Juan Capistrano for 3 years now and there are still hidden gems, like Whispering Hills East Trail, that I had yet to discover. A friend hit me up about going on a hike this past Sunday morning and, determined to try out a new trail, I zoomed in on the entrance to Whispering Hills on Google Maps. Its location is unassuming, but with plenty of hills and sweeping ocean views, it ended up being the perfect hike to start our day.
My husband and I have dreams of buying a single family home in San Juan Capistrano some day. I love that city for several reasons, one of which is the laid back and agrarian feel of the community. I also dream of owning a horse in the (hopeful) future and hiking alone the hoof-stamped path of Whispering Hills East Trail pushed that dream into the forefront of my mind.
Even if you do not live in Southern California, you may have still heard of the super bloom our traditionally arid state has been experiencing. There were plenty of wildflowers during our hike on Whispering Hills, in addition to mustard grass weeds over six feet tall! My darling friend stands at approximately 5′ 4″ for reference.
The sheer amount of bright yellow surrounding us was astounding. Along the trail, there are lookout points with benches made so inaccessible by the overgrowth of weeds and flowers. As I passed by, their vacancy and the "cornfield" like nature of our surroundings left me with an eerie, apocalyptic sensation.
Whispering Hills East Trail, like so many others in San Juan Capistrano, connects to trails in Ladera Ranch as well as San Clemente. If we kept going, we would have continued our hike along Roller Coaster Ridge and Patriot trails. Alas, the life of an adult was calling and we trekked back to my car, grateful for the forgiving sun and smell of salt water during our journey.
Did you hike Whispering Hills East Trail? If so, I would love to hear from you in the comments below!
In Love, Peace, and Hiking ~ xo


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2016.12.02 | Research
A new EU-project includes a further development, distribution and translation of the Poetry Machines. Two new partners join in – a library in Norway and a library in Romania.
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An interactive Twitter installation about automated production, collective intelligence, and the value of labour and artistic production has been selected for a high profile showcase of Hong Kong video and media art from the past 30 years.
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Digital Aesthetics Research Centre (DARC) is committed to research the relationship of art and aesthetics to the culture and future development of information technology.
Digital art and aesthetical experiments in general (computer games, software art, network art, etc.) test new ways of using digital technology and are often at the forefront of technological development: for instance, what started as hacking of early computers in military research in the sixties later became computer games; experiments with artistic filters in image editing became software art and later applications for smart phones, etc...


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Top 15 Oscar winners available on NOW TV (2017)
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Oscars season is like Christmas for Sky. Not only does it have the UK rights to broadcast the ceremony locked down, its first-run deals with the major Hollywood studios means that it also have a number of this year's nominees already in the Sky Cinema line-up (hello to Hail Caesar!, Zootropolis and The Jungle Book), not to mention the picks of last year's contest. While those unable to stump up the cash for a Sky subscription were once unable to watch the Oscars live or sample the Sky Cinema catalogue, though, NOW TV now allows non-customers to do both with a £9.99 Sky Cinema Month Pass.
With no contract, it sounds like a decent VOD deal. But is it actually worth it? We round up the top Oscar winners from years gone by that are currently available on-demand on NOW TV. (For Sky customers, these are also available on Sky On Demand, as part of your Sky Cinema package.)
Inside Out – Best Animated Film (2016)
Pixar's masterful animation takes us on a tour through the head of a young girl, Riley, as she comes of age. As we move from the once-overriding emotion of joy to a mixture of sadness, anger and disgust, the resulting portrait of growing pains is both dazzlingly complex and entertainingly simple.
Max Max: Fury Road – Best Editing (2016)
George Miller's latest entry in the Mad Max series sees Tom Hardy take over Mel Gibson's role, but its success lies in another character entirely: Imperator Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron, who leads a string of female prisoners in an escape attempt from their sinister overlord, Immortan Joe. Full of practical stunts, dazzling visuals and burning with a feminist message, this is fantastic, eye-boggling stuff.
Bridge Of Spies – Best Supporting Actor (2016)
Tom Hanks is on stellar form in Spielberg's Cold War drama about James, a New York lawyer, who ends up having to negotiate the release of a US pilot from the Soviet Union – but he can't stop each scene being stolen by Mark Rylance as a Soviet spy James is hired to defend.
The Revenant – Best Actor (2016)
Proof that Leonardo DiCaprio will go to any extreme for an award, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's intense survival epic set on the fur-trading frontier of the 1820s sees DiCaprio's trapper chased through the woods, battered by blizzards and mauled by a bear. Thank goodness they gave him an Oscar for his performance, or who knows what he might have done next?
Chinatown – Best Original Screenplay (1975)
"There's something black in the green part of your eye." "Oh, that. It's a… it's a flaw in the iris."
Roman Polanski's 1974 film is a classic. That's undeniable. But it feels like a classic from 30 years earlier. That's incredible. From the moment the Bogart-like Gittes (Jack Nicholson) gets caught up in a conspiracy involving the town's water supply, the detective flick feels like a remnant of film noir's heyday brought out into the sun; most of his investigating takes place in the daylight, a bleached world of modern prosperity – and, of course, sumptuous colour.
Polanski's production design team waste no time in making the most of this updated 1930s palette. Nicholson's suit gleams white in the desert – a worthy fashion choice for a man who deals in sleaze. As he uncovers the incestuous corruption at the heart of the city – a flaw that's both born out of society and gives birth to it – the dirt rubs off. By the end of the film, his suit has gone from white to brown, to grey and, thanks to Polanski's moody lighting, ultimately black. It's that kind of detail that gives Chinatown such a unique aesthetic, simultaneously of its time and timeless.
Sense & Sensibility – Best Adapted Screenplay (1996)
Ang Lee's take on Sense and Sensibility features a stellar script from Emma Thompson, who also joins an impressive cast that includes Kate Winslet, Tom Wilinson, Hugh Grant and – most importantly – Alan Rickman in a hat as Colonel Brandon.
Breakfast at Tiffany's – Best Music (1962)
A young New York socialite takes interest in a man who moves into her apartment building downstairs in this lovely adaptation of Truman Capote's novel. Audrey Hepburn is a delight.
The Sea Inside – Best Foreign Language Film (2004)
Javier Bardem) is sensational in Alejandro Amenabar's 2004 film abotu Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish ship mechanic and poet who is left quadriplegic after a diving accident.
American Beauty – Best Picture (2000)
Margin Call. House of Cards. American Beauty. Kevin Spacey must really hate the American Dream. In Sam Mendes' 1999 masterpiece, he tears it to shreds in a sea of fast food, sex fantasies, murder and depression. A caustic, callous critique – laced with rose petals.
Back To The Future – Best Effects (1986)
Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Brokeback Mountain – Best Director (2006)
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Ang Lee's superb drama about two sheep herders who find themselves drawn to each other one night up a mountain in Wyoming. Unflinching and universal.
The Departed – Best Director (2007)
Martin Scorsese's thrilling, idiosyncratic take on Hong Kong action flick Infernal Affairs is proof that remakes can be better than the original.
Raging Bull – Best Actor (1981)
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro live up to their reputations in this superb boxing drama.
Moulin Rouge! – Best Costume Design (2002)
Swoon and sing along with this sumptuous musical epic.
No Country For Old Men – Best Picture (2008)
The Coen brothers' Western, starring Josh Brolin and Kelly MacDonald, follows a Sheriff's investigation into a psychopath's trail of killings – and the hunter who finds himself with the killer on his tail. Tommy Lee Jones has never been better as the weary lawman nearing retirement, while Javier Bardem is chilling as the pneumatic cattle gun-wielding Anton.


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If you missed any of my posts for November 2011, here are my Top 10 posts on the Art, Life & Faith blog. To give credit where credit is due, I received this idea from Michael Hyatt whose blog, Michaelhyatt.com, I regularly follow. I met Mike years ago when he was a literary agent. If you want to glean great ideas on leadership, publishing, productivity, and social media, you simply must follow his blog. I can't say enough good things about it! His writing resources are so good, I even recommend his Write a Winning Book Proposal here on Art, Life, & Faith. Michael is a wonderful man and blogger to draft behind.
Here are my top 10 posts for November 2011…
- Scott Rigsby: Unthinkable Courage (October 7, 2011)
- Is God Enough? (September 1, 2011)
- Art, Life & Faith with Wayne Forte (November 5, 2011)
- Broken Wholeness: Hope for Chronic-Pain & Depression (February 2, 2011)
- Inspire Me! Help from the Help (August 19, 2011)
- Write a Winning Book Proposal (September 20, 2011)
- Good Advice for Young Artists (November 29, 2011)
- Do It Anyway! Thoughts from Mother Teresa (March 7, 2011)
- Art, Life, & Faith with AJ DeGrasse (November 15, 2011)
- Writing a Book? 9 Solid Steps for Writing the Perfect Book Proposal (Feb. 2011)
Above, I placed the date when the blog post first appeared. A few observations…
- The top post was inspirational. Courage…something we all need more of.
- Top post categories were story, artist videos, writing, and spiritual formation.
- Most popular November posts were video-driven. (More artist interviews in 2012)
- Only 3 of the top posts were written in November.
- 2 of the Top 10 posts were written way back in February.
Here in December, I'll be offering free copies of my ebooks to my top commentors. If you'd like a copy of The Longing, I Love You Unconditionally…On One Condition, or any of my youth titles, I'd love your comments and feedback on this month's coming posts.
Question: Whether you're new or a regular here on Art, Life, & Faith, what topics or content are you interested in? What posts have you found to be useful, inspirational or helpful in your life?
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ADG / Mount Wise team bowls over opponent...
ADG has enjoyed playing the occasional summer game of cricket, but when a client invited a few of our team to play with them against the contractor, we jumped at the chance.
ADG has a close relationship with both the Mount Wise team and the contractor Mi-Space, and the game incorporated many of the other professions, including the sales agent Atwell Martin, Jubb Consulting Engineers and project managers Turner & Townsend. The whole event was set to be a competitive one!
But in the end the Mount Wise team, came out on top as victors, winning the game with 115 runs. Marc Nash took 4 wickets and scored 25 runs and Darren Jenner, both of ADG, scored 13 of the winning 115 runs. A great match and thoroughly enjoyed by all that took part.


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|2007-06-22, 12:34
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Its not dead, just resting. The Norwegian Blue does that when its pining for the fiords... oh wait, wrong line.
Seriously, this thread will probably lay nice and quiet until the english editions start arriving. No big deal on this forum since keeping the relevant data in one place is more important than necromancy.
|2007-06-22, 15:30
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It's so much fun to hear them in the previews: "Lovely Complex: ラブ★コン!"
|2007-06-26, 03:52
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Evil Little Pixie
Just discovered that there's a sequel called "Lovely Complex Plus". [*continues doing the Hale+Guu dance in the background*]
|2007-06-26, 19:55
|Link #25
so far i was able to reach upto vol. 6 for the manga but i've seen on deviantart -fan art designs for the later volumes and i must say i can't come to terms if they're spoilers or not but it's bugging me!! so if anyone has access to the later scanlations for love com. i'd really appreciate it. sho'jump here takes a long while to get in nyc.
|2007-07-20, 04:12
|Link #27
Evil Little Pixie
English or Japanese version?
I added the LoveCom com (haha ) to my friends list over on LJ a few weeks ago... my gosh, that group sure is lively. O_o They're completely dominating my friends list to the point that I can't even see "regular" friends' entries anymore without scrolling down a kilometer or so. There's some weird stuff added in (well, it *is* an open com), but for all who want the occasional LoveCom tidbit (including color scans, fanart, links to raws and scanlations..) and are members of LJ, I suggest adding them as well. A lot of the members also have some wicked neat LoveCom icons.
|2007-07-20, 10:02
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Senior Member
I saw this in a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Minnesota yesterday.
They had one copy. I only had a little time to look at it but it looks good.
Lots of little things left out of the anime are in here so there's more details
about the side characters and certain situations.
I'll probably end up getting it.
|2007-07-20, 13:16
|Link #30
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Aye... I should have specified. Its the english version (found at my local Barnes & Noble). I've avoided the scans and raws completely during the course of the anime.
However, I figure I'm safe with the english manga since its just starting and on the usual 3 month release schedule.
The only thing I suspect I'll lament is not being able to hear Otani and Risaa's fabulous Kansai-ben growls and drawls.
|2007-07-20, 13:31
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Evil Little Pixie
Seriously though, that's one thing I really miss when I go from great anime -> great manga. You no longer have the wonderful voices, theme songs, great BGM or even little things like the fluid motion of Risa spinning Atsushi and then letting go, releasing him into the sky. Another easily-overlooked thing is that the anime is in *color*, not made with ink and screentones. Let me tell you, screentones are evil... at least if you live in a desert like I do (and the adhesive melts and no longer works properly).
|2007-08-10, 12:51
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Aye, I finished reading volume one of the english edition last week. Art and situations are quite funny... enjoy the expanded storyline.
I think the only thing I miss is the sound of kansai-ben being growled.
I haven't decided whether the english translation even attempts to convey the feel of kansai-ben. Will reread with that in mind. I suppose there was some slangy talk but I will say they seemed to convey Risaa's attitude fairly well.
I think it is kind of interesting that, in the japanese scheme of things, anime exists mostly to drive the sales of merchandise (manga, figurines, DVDs, CDs, etc).
Like Risaa says.... a well-done anime almost leaves its source anime in the shadow with all the extra input (music, voicing, etc). Though I enjoy what I've seen of the manga so far, there is that bit of a nag. Hopefully the additional content mops up that feeling.
|2007-08-10, 14:30
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Evil Little Pixie
For those who've read the English version, were the characters all given some sort of southern accent? (You know, with the "y'all", "I'm fixin' to do that", just a couple examples... You want an accent, just chat with Kyuusai for a few hours. He'll kill me for saying that. )
For the record, I'm told I have a "California accent", whatever that is.
|2007-08-10, 17:14
|Link #35
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
I did it again, didn't I ..... okay, I'll blow smoke by saying it is just because we worship you and it should be obvious you belong in manga and anime
(goes to lookover vol. 1 to see how accents were handled)
Okay.... no, they didn't go southern (thank the gods). Its almost like a very mild New Jersey (or New Yorker - which I've always thought matched a bit better but I can certainly see the cultural Houston, TX connection to the Kansai region (we're here to make money)).
No actually word mangling: but a lot of dropped endings and contractions, very casual almost insolent chatter.
Examples: "I'll be hunched over, always worryin' about my height" "pretty darn slick" " "cuz it's cool, eh?" "What the hell?"
They leave the honorifics alone (e.g. Otani-kun) ... points for that. They translate Otani's insult to Risa as "jumbo-gal" rather than "Amazon" as the fansubs do ... I prefer the "amazon".
Makes me think when he encounters the girls later who ask him to "talk kansai" ... if they'll give them Brit accents or just uptown Manhattan accents. That's the only "wow you talk funny" moment I remember in the anime.
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|2007-08-11, 13:29
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: missouri, usa
Age: 32
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|2007-08-13, 14:10
|Link #38
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
Well... it isn't "scene for scene" identical, but it is nice that the adaptation to the anime was really tight. There are a few in between scenes that are additional and some of the motivation changes slightly.
I'm not going to do an obsessively detailed comparison but if you watch ep 1 with the book in hand, you'll see some differences though they're obviously for time budget management rather than a real story modification. I have heard as the manga progresses, there will be more and more "additional material" or slight changes in who does what and where.
|2007-08-17, 17:51
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: In my own little world
I'm watching the live action movie right now and need to know if life in Japan for teenagers is really like this? I want to think no and it's just overly dramatic, but I know Japan is the home of the weird. Do people really wear their hats like that and dress like that? It's so trashy even when americans do it.
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Taking the High Places in our region!!
Healing the Land! There has been a growing sense among the leadership here at Ascend Church that we are to establish the claim of Jesus over our whenua (land). We have started with the high places ...
Mt Tarawera • "Healing our History"
The Ascend Team was privileged to be the guests of Ngāti Rangitihi, close kin to our whānau and guardians of Mt Tarawera, a maunga tapu (sacred mountain) to our local hapu & iwi. We were honoured that some of their representatives joined in with us as we acknowledged Jesus, as Creator and Lord over our whenua (land)!
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Mount Athos
Mount Athos -commonly known as the Holy Mountain- is the spiritual capital of the Orthodox Christian world, consisting of 20 monasteries, 12 skites, and about 700 houses, cells or hermitages and approximately 2,000 monks. The "Garden of Virgin Mary" is the paradise of the eastern peninsula of Halkidiki! The Monastic State of the Holy Mountain is known to be the main carrier of Orthodox Christianity and holds spiritual glory and great history. It is a religious community with 1.000 years old monasteries, cells in caves or between the rocks, towers, domes, belfries, chants, etc. It is listed in UNESCO's WORLD HERITAGE MONUMENTS.
Boat cruise to Mount Athos
Even though women are not allowed inside Mount Athos, all visitors (men and women) have the opportunity to admire the magnificent monasteries from the boat. Boat cruises depart daily from Ouranoupoli (East Coast) and Ormos Panagias (Sithonia).
Following the Protocol of the monastic state, only men are permitted to visit Mount Athos. Visitors should contact Holy Executive οf the Holy Mount Athos Pilgrims' bureau offices in order to obtain a written permit, prior to their visit. This is a mandatory procedure since the number of visitors is limited to only ten permits a day for non-orthodox visitors (foreigners) and 100 for Greeks and Orthodox visitors. Women can cruise along the west coast of Mount Athos and admire that beauty of nature and the monasteries.
According to the written rules of Mt Athos, it's forbitten for women to enter by any means or stay anywhere in the monastic state. This prohibition is called avaton in Greek. Ant breach of the rule is a punishable offence, because Mt Athos is dedicated to one woman whom all the monks honor and pray to; the Blessed Mary.
Mythology - History
According to Greek mythology, the name Athos belongs to a Thracian giant. During the battle of Gods versus Giants, Athos threw a huge rock against Poseidon. The rock slipped through his fingers and fell into the sea creating a huge block of land which is now recognized as Mount Athos. However, on a different version of the story, it was Poseidon who threw the rock against Athos. The rock crushed Athos and buried him underneath. This rock is now called Mount Athos.
Up to the 3rd century B.C., there were quite a few small Greek towns in the peninsula of Athos however as years gone by these cities decayed. Thus, the area remained deserted for many centuries.
Tradition indicates that Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist encountered a stormy sea, on their way to visit Lazarus in Cyprus and they were forced to seek a shelter in a port, which is now the Holy Monastery of Ivira. The Virgin Mary, admired the wild beauty of the place and asked God to give her the mountain as a present. Then our Lord responded: "Let this place be your lot, your garden and your paradise, as well as a salvation, a haven for those who seek salvation". Since then, Mount Athos is called "The Garden of the Virgin Mary".
The first monks arrived in Mount Athos during the 5th century AD, looking for a secluded place to worship God and found their peace on Earth.
Mount Athos state
Mount Athos is a self-governed territory of the Greek state (regarding its religious aspect it is subject to the Ecumenical Patriarch), following the old customs and the bill of rights. The executive authority is exercised by the four members of Holy Supervision and the legislative authority is exercised by the twenty members of the Holy Assembly, to which all monasteries are subject. The Superior of the Holy Supervision represents the first monastery in hierarchical order and is called Protos (First) or Protoepistatis (First Supervisor). All members are elected by the monks with democratic procedures. The political leader of Mount Athos is elected by the Greek State and is subject to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Karyes is the administration of Mount Athos. It is the capital of the monastic community of Mount Athos, home of Proton (First), Holy Supervision, Holy Assembly. Karyes is a picturesque village, located at an altitude of 370 meters, in the middle of the peninsula and has a magnificent view over the eastern Aegean coasts. It's a community of residences (konaki) with workshops, shops, hostels and restaurants. There is also a police station, a local clinic and a post office at the area.
The monks follow the old Julian calendar (13 days later) and the Byzantine time (O during the sunset, apart from the monks of Monastery Iviron, who count the hours based on the sunrise). Monasteries are closed by sunset and open again at sunrise. Before sunrise, the bell of every monastery rings the bell calling his brothers to the matins.
Mount Athos' s architecture & art
Monasteries are built to the Byzantine architecture. The buildings are constructed with massive walls to create a defensive shield from pirates or other conquerors giving Athos a castle-like appearance. In the middle of the structure there is a courtyard, which includes the "katholiko" (cardinal monastery), the trapeza" (refectory), "phiale" (the basin for the blessing of the waters) and chapels. Next to the central church you will find the bell-towers and the domes. "Archontaki" is the guest room in every monastery. Also, every monastery has an "arsanas", a small port that monks have access.
The Athonian monasteries hold invaluable art treasures and had remained a cultural center for almost one thousand years. There are numerous painting collections and portable icons as well as mosaics and sculptures from the medieval years. All pieces of art are precious and unique holding a sacred story that traveled through the years.
Monasteries & sites
The offices of Holy Community and Protaton (10th century) are the most impressive buildings in Karyes. In the sanctuary lays the miraculous icon of Virgin "Axion Esti", the Virgin Mary of Mount Athos. The library contains 117 codes, lots of valuable printed books and the first Typiko (religious script) of Mount Athos, written on goat leather and signed by the Emperor Ioannis Tsimiskis.
1. Megisti Lavra
⇠ Karyes 35km (7 hours)
Megisti (Great) Lavra is the oldest and biggest monastery of Mount Athos. It was founded in 963 by the monk Athanasios Athonitis with the financial support of the emperors Nikiphoros Phokas and Ioannis Tsimiskis. The monastery is dedicated to its founder, Agios Athanasios Athonitis and celebrates on the 5th/18th of July (according to the old-style calendar of Mount Athos). Megisti Lavra is a big complex of buildings that includes the superb Tower of Tsimiskis, located on a picturesque cliff on the southeastern edge of Athos.
Tel.: +30 23770 22586, +30 23770 23761
2. The Monastery Dionysiou
⇠ Karyes 20km (4 hours)
The Monastery Dionysiou (14th century) stands on a bluff cliff in a deep wooded ravine at the western coast of Athos. The monastery was founded by Agios Dionysios, it is dedicated to the Holy Prodromos and celebrates on June 24 and July 7.
The Refectory of the monastery is also impressive and has a nice wooden door and interesting wall paintings.
Tel.: +30 23770 23687, +30 23770 23-686
3. The Monastery Dohiariou
⇠ Karyes 15km (3 hours)
The Monastery Dohiariou is located in the northern area of the western side of the Athos peninsula. It was founded close the port of Daphni towards the end of the 10th century, by a "dohiaris (a person who makes "dohia", meaning pots and fonts), student of Athanasios Athonitis. Therefore, the monastery was later called Dohiarios. Later, it was destroyed by pirates and the monks rebuilt it. The high tower was contructed in the early 17th century.
The monastery is dedicated to the Archangels Mikhail and Gabriel, a holy day celebrated on the 8th / 21st of November.
Tel.: +30 23770 23245
4. The Monastery Esphigmenou
⇠ Karyes 25km (5 hours)
The Holy Monastery of Esphigmenou was founded in the 10th or 11th century and rest on the northwestern coast of the peninsula of the Holy Mountain. The Monastery 's main church is dedicated to the Ascension of the Lord and it has eight chapels and seven exterior chapels. Esphigmenou 's Monastery has suffered of pirate raids and destructive fires various times.
Among Esphigmenou's treasures are relics of saints, the so-called cross of Pulcheria (Byzantine Empress), and a large part of Napoleon's tent, which is used as a curtain for the sanctuary door of the katholikon on its feast day. Its library contains 372 manuscripts and more than 8,000 printed books.
Tel.: +30 23770 23796, +30 23770 23938
5. The Monastery Grigoriou
⇠ Karyes 20km (4 hours)
The Monastery Grigoriou is an imposing building rising above the rocks of the southwestern side of Athos in a wonderful area between Simonos Petra and the Monastery Dionysiou. It was founded in the 14th century and is dedicated to Agios Nikolaos, a holy day celebrated on the 6th /19th of December.
The Holy Monastery was founded in the 14th century by the ascetic monk Gregorius Sinaitis. The present "katholicon" (main church) was built in 1768, in accordance to the Athonite architecture. The Monastery possesses some 279 manuscripts, other documents and approximately 4,000 printed books.
Tel.: +30 23770 23218, +30 23770 23670, +30 23770 23668
6. The Monastery Chilandar
⇠ Karyes 30km (6 hours)
The Monastery Chilandrari is in the northern part of Mount Athos. Surrounded by tall trees, it is rated as a fortress far away from the sea. Initially, in 1198, the emperor Alexios III, offered the monastery to a Serbian governor called Stephanos Nemania and his son, Ratsko, who proved to be a powerful man carrying out important responsibilities with great success.
The monastery is dedicated to the day of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary, a holy day celebrated on November 21st / December 4th.
Tel.: +30 23770 23797
7. The Monastery Iviron
⇠ Karyes 7,5km (1 and 30' hour)
The Monastery Iviron is built on a picturesque area in the middle of the eastern coast of Mount Athos at the place where Virgin Mary stopped to ask God to dedicate Mount Athos to herself.
Consequently, the monastery is dedicated to the Assumption, a holy day celebrated on the 15th of August (or 28th of August). The founder of the monastery is allegedly Ioannis Tornikios, the consultant of the emperor Vasillios II. The monastery was named after the monks (Georgians) from Iviron Monastery who were students of Athanasios Athonitis. The monastery is surrounded by two towers that were used as protection from the raids of the intruders. The one of them is placed in the courtyard (1626) and the other one in the cardinal monastery (1725).
Tel.: +30 23770 23643, +30 23770 23644
8. The Monastery Karakallou
⇠ Karyes 17km (3and 30' hours)
The Monastery Karakallou has a glorious tower is located at a picturesque area with view over the Aegean Sea at the southeastern side of Athos peninsula.
The monastery was founded in the 11th century, by a monk named Karakalas. Some people also argue that the monastery was named after a Roman Emperor, Karakalas, who had built a tower at the same place (211-217).
The monastery is dedicated to the Apostles Peter and Paul and a holy day celebrated on the 29th of June / 12th of July.
Tel.: +30 23770 23225
9. The Monastery Konstamonitou
⇠ Karyes 15km (3 hours)
The Monastery Konstamonitou is situated in a wooded area with unique natural beauty, at the northern part of Mount Athos almost one hour walk from the sea. It was founded in the 4th century either by Megas Konstantinos or his son, Konstantas, who named the monastery after himself.
The monastery was burned in the 11th century and then rebuilt with the financial support of the Emperor Andronikos.
Tel.: +30 23770 23228
10. The Monastery Koutloumousiou
⇠ Karyes 1km (10 minutes)
The Monastery of Koutloumousiou is situated in the northeastern wooded area of Athos, close to Karyes and was founded in the 10th century, though its patriarchal monastery was built in 1393. It is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, a holy day celebrated on the 6th / 19th of August. Moreover, in 1821, the leader of the Revolution in Macedonia, Emmanuel Papas, was declared as governor and supporter of Macedonia in this monastery.
Tel.: +30 23770 23226, +30 23770 23732
11. The Monastery of Saint (Agios) Panteleimon
⇠ Karyes 15km (3 hours)
The Monastery of Saint (Agios) Panteleimon, also known as the Russian monastery, is built next to the sea, in the middle of the western coast of Mount Athos.
When the monastery was founded in the 11th century, it was located at the eastern area. The present building complex was built in 1765, when the old monastery of Agios Panteleimon was transferred from Paleomonastiro to the present position. It is dedicated to Agios Panteleimon, a holy day celebrated on the 27th of July / 9th of August.
The new monastery is consisting of monumental buildings with a lot of floors, high vaults, big bells, etc.
Tel.: +30 23770 23252, +30 23770 23682
12. The Monastery of Saint (Agios) Pavlos
⇠ Karyes 25km (5 hours)
The Monastery of Saint (Agios) Pavlos is located in the southern area of the western side of Athos peninsula. It is composed of ten smaller monasteries, which are built in a short distance from the sea. Moreover, it is the only monastery that is close to the mountain Athos. Also, it is surrounded by several castles and towers.
The monastery is built around the 10th century by Monk Pavlos Xiropotaminos.
Tel.: +30 23770 23355, 23250
13. The Monastery Pantocrator
⇠ Karyes 7,5km (1 and 30' hours)
The Monastery of Pantocrator is placed at a rocky cliff by the sea, in the middle of the eastern coasts of Athos peninsula. The monastery was founded in the 14th century by the Byzantines Alexios and Ioannis with the support of Emperor Ioannis Paleologos V. The monastery is dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, a holy day celebrated on the 6th/19th of August.
Tel.: +30 23770 23253, +30 23770 23792
14. The Monastery Philotheou
⇠ Karyes 12km (2 and 30' hours)
The Monastery of Philotheou is at the same location of ancient Asclipiion, in the eastern part of Athos and nearly one hour away from the harbour (arsanas).
How to get to Mount Athos monasteries
⇠ Thessaloniki to Ouranoupolis 125km
⇠ Thessaloniki to Ierissos 111km
You can get from Thessaloniki to Ouranoupolis or Ierissos by bus, car or taxi.
Bus station KTEL: www.ktel-chalkidikis.gr | +30 2310 316555.
To reach the monasteries of the west side, you should take a boat from Ouranoupolis to Daphni port (1,5H). Port authority of Ouranoupolis
+30 2377 0 71248
To reach the monasteries of the east side, you should take a boat from Ierissos or Nea Roda, to the "arsanas" (harbour) of the Monastery Iviron. Port authority of: Ierissos [ +30 23770 22063 & 22576] & Nea Roda [ +30 23770 22000 & 22385].
Mount Athos is accessible from the sea only. The little port of Daphni in the Gulf Siggitikos and the "arsanas" of the Monastery Iviron in the Gulf Strymonikos are the only entrances.
Daphni Port authority: +30 23770 23300
From Daphni or the "arsanas" of the Monastery Iviron you can get to Karyes by bus. Distance from Karyes to Daphni: 18km (3 and 30' hours)
• Priests should have a special permit from their principal.
• The permission to the Greeks is free. However, they should first call the Pilgrim's Office in Thessaloniki [+30 2310 252575] or Ouranoupolis [+30 23770 71421, 71450] to issue the Residence Permit ("diamonitirion"), which they can pick up at Ouranoupolis or Ierissos, before they get on the boat. There is an office at the port.
Holy Community: +30 23770 23221, 23711
Holy Assembly: +30 23770 23712, 23713
Governor: +30 23770 23230
Police Karyes: +30 23770 23212
Travel to Mount Athos by:
a) Bus (Daphni – Karyes - Iviron).
b) Truck (available to visitors by several monasteries).
c) Donkey (you can find them in Karyes).
d) On foot (following the paths of Mount Athos; there are natural springs with fresh water, rich vegetation, and idyllic landscapes. Be careful not to get lost in the labyrinth paths, which cross thick woods and steep ravines.)
e) By boats from:
- Daphni to the "arsanas" (harbour) of the Monasteries Simonos Petra, Gregoriou, Dionysiou, Agios Pavlos, Nea Skiti, Skiti of Agia Anna. Also, the boat can reach Katounakia, the "arsanas" of Prodromos and Mandraki in Megisti Lavra, under good weather conditions.
- From Daphni to the "arsanas" of the Monasteries Agiou Panteleimonos, Xenophontos, Dohiariou, Konstamonitou and Zographou.
- From the "arsanas" of the Monastery Iviron to the "arsanas" of the Monasteries Philotheou, Karakalou, Megisti Lavra (Mandraki) or to the "arsanas" of the Monasteries Stavronikita, Pantokrator, Vatopediou, Esphigmenou and Helandariou.


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Ranchi, Jan. 17: Minister for science and technology Samresh Singh today accused chief minister Arjun Munda of heading a corrupt government.
Singh said he would not resign from the ministry because the BJP leadership had decided to ease out Munda by the end of this month. But if for some reasons Munda is not removed, the Jharkhand Assembly would be dissolved and the Assembly election held along with the Lok Sabha polls, he said.
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This season Barcelona have been ripping defenses everywhere apart, and the biggest factor of it is the amazing teamwork performed by Messi, Suarez and Neymar. They have been sharing the love of goals and assists which resulted in more than 115 goals scored so far this season, and season 2014/2015 is not even over yet.
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Today my babies learned a valuable lesson. Friday is our class payday. Throughout the week they earn money for good behavior and homework and on Fridays they get to withdraw their money from their "bank accounts" and purchase items from her classroom store.
Today we did things a little different. Each student hand selected an item from prize box to donate to our stocking drive. With no hesitation or resistance each one of them selected an item that they wanted, but were willing to sacrifice for a child in need. It's so beautiful to watch my students compassion and love in action!
I have struggled this week. Because my heart and soul is invested in creating change, it is hard not to become discourage when there is so much change that needs to happen. Our educational systems are so broken and the same passion that keeps me a dedicated educator also makes my heart break for my students and any and all children who suffer.
Sometimes as an educator we have to put down our grade books, stop stressing over lesson plans, and all other demands of teaching, to understand that above all else there are greater lessons to be learned. Today my babies made me proud! Along with academics they are learning to be compassionate human beings who care to make a difference in the lives of others. #room28


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"In about 2 hours 13 minutes and 14 seconds, any mention of last weekend's New York Comic-Con will be thoroughly passé," said the Beat two weeks ago in her blog. But of course I'm still writing about it, and will be for many weeks more.
But regular readers of this column know that my main interest in convention panels is not in reporting the kid of news that other comics websites would have posted within twenty-four hours after the panel took place. No, my intent is to record in detail what I witnessed that will be of lasting interest to comics fans, scholars, and historians weeks, months, and, I hope, years after the convention took place. I am a comics historian, and in this week's column I give you a panel all about the history of comic conventions in the city of New York.
On the first day of the convention, the general public is not
admitted until 3 PM. Until then, the convention is for comics professionals, retailers, and press, enabling them to interact and relative calm before the crowds arrive to clog the aisles.
The programming before 3 PM is likewise aimed at professionals. It was the Beat herself who suggested that I attend the 1 PM panel, "Phil Seuling and the New York Con." This was a good idea.
Perhaps most of you don't know who Phil Seuling is. I see that his Wikipedia entry is a mere stub consisting of a single sentence. Wikipedia's entry on "Comic Art Convention" is considerably more informative.
There had been conventions for science fiction fans since the mid-1930s, which inspired small comics conventions starting in the mid-1960s, including the New York Comicon in 1964, a one-day event with roughly a hundred attendees.
It was a Brooklyn high school English teacher named Phil Seuling who organized the first large scale comics convention, held in New York City in 1968. In 1969 Seuling held his first in his series of "Comic Art Conventions," which usually took place in New York City over the Fourth of July, and which continued through 1983; Seuling passed away the following year.
The Seuling conventions set the mold for all the major comics conventions that followed, including the San Diego Comic Con.
Inventing the modern comics convention would be enough to earn Seuling a place in the medium's history, But Seuling was also the visionary who pioneered the direct sakes market for comics distribution.
From the 1930s into the 1970s, comic books were primarily sold on a returnable basis through newsstands and in small "mom and pop" stores. (In high school, I bought my first Marvels at a small store owned by a classmate's father; in my college years I bought comics at a tiny luncheonette near Columbia University.)
But over time, probably due to the usual suspects like the rise of television, comic book sales fell from the heights they had achieved in the Golden Age, and as the decades passed, fewer newsstands carried them, and their owners realized they could make more money selling higher priced magazines. Moreover, the "mom and pop" stores were dying out, supplanted by chains. The comics industry might not have survived, had Seuling not pioneered a system by which the publishers sold their comics through distributors like himself to comic book specialty shops. This is the system with which we are familiar today, even though nowadays there is essentially only one specialty shop distributor, Diamond.
Moreover, whereas comics publishers felt they had to appeal to mass tastes through the newsstands, they could aim at dedicated comics fans through the direct sales shops. This was both good and bad: comics became a niche market, but the shops also made the rise of independent comics and lines like Marvel's Epic and DC's Vertigo possible. Thus Seuling spurred the evolution of American comic books towards appealing to an older readership and readers with more discerning, sophisticated tastes.
So Phil Seuling definitely deserves more than one sentence from Wikipedia. If you want to see what he looked like, I refer you to this entry in Mark Evanier's blog, with a photo of Seuling appearing on television's The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s alongside Elfquest co-creator Wendy Pini, costumed, as she regularly was at conventions, as Red Sonja. (You don't want to miss this, I assure you.)
I only attending the Seuling cons in their final years, and, although I was aware of their historical importance, I had the sense that I had already missed their golden age. By that point Creation was holding its own conventions in New York, notably a big one on Thanksgiving weekend, and in other cities. Between the monthly dealers' shows, several annual Creation cons, and the Seuling show, comics conventions in New York City were already losing the sense of a being special. The San Diego Con took over that aura of a special, once-a-year event, perhaps in large part because attending the San Diego Con, back in the 1980s, when it was far less crowded and hectic. was like going on a summer vacation with your friends to a gorgeous locale with perfect weather. (This was back when comics pros could actually take the time during the Con to hit the beach.)
Considering how expensive attending San Diego has become, consider this Wikipedia factoid, if indeed it is true: "That 1969 convention, held Independence Day weekend at the Statler Hilton Hotel in New York City, cost $3.50 for a three-day ticket, with daily passes at $1.50. Admittance was free with a hotel room rental, which cost $15-and-up per day."
Creation, then Fred Greenberg, then Dynamic Forces, and currently Big Apple kept the New York comics convention tradition going. But they could not afford the space for a truly major convention. Only now, with Reed Exhibitions' New York Comic Con in its third year, successfully surmounting its growing pains of the past, has the sense that New York City has a potentially world-class comics convention begun to return.
So what were the Seuling conventions like in their early years? That's what I attended the panel to find out. When I arrived, it had already begun. Milton Griepp, CEO of ICv2, was the moderator of a panel that included DC Comics president and publisher Paul Levitz; Diamond vice president (and former Pacific Comics co-founder) Bill Schanes; Greg Goldstein, recently vice president of gaming and entertainment at Upper Deck; and Michael Uslan. the comics writer who became executive producer on the Batman movies and producer of the forthcoming Spirit film.
When I came in, Milton Griepp was asking the panelists to recall their "favorite moments" from the Seuling conventions.
Paul Levitz recalled what he termed "an important point in my education." At this point, 1971, "there was no Artists' Alley, per se," but some artists would do sketches for fans. "Neal Adams was at perhaps the first crest in his career," and "I got him to do a sketch of Superman. a very, very quick sketch. . .for the enormous sum of six dollars." Levitz ran it on the cover of his fanzine, and "I got an energetic lecture from Mr. Adams educating me on the difference between original sketch purchase price and reproduction right purchase price." Levitz commented that this "has served me well in my understanding over the years, as I started to learn that original art should be returned to artists. . . ."
Schanes said that he "drove for three thousand miles" to attend Seuling's con. "I was literally a teenager, and Phil was a very imposing figure" with "big bushy eyebrows" who "looked down at you. . .as he yelled at you–with love and affection."
Schanes continued, "He scared the bejeebers out of me for years because he was such a big guy. . . ." But, as you might guess, beneath this fearsome facade, "he was really a very affectionate person once you knew him. And took us under his wing and really shepherded us. He took me into his house that night," where Schanes gazed in wonder at the "very spectacular" collection of original comics art on his walls.
Greg Goldstein agreed that Seuling "was an imposing figure" who sternly ruled his convention and his monthly dealer shows. (As a former English teacher myself, I enjoy hearing that one of my kind can be this formidable.)
It was at one of the latter, Goldstein said, that "I recall Phil being arrested because of the 'obscene comics'–quote-unquote–which were the underground comics." (An audience member later identified the comics in question as Zap #4 and Armageddon.) Goldstein continued, "that was quite an education for me, because some guy just got arrested for selling comic books."
This was like a flashback to the anti-comics hysteria of the 1950s, and as the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund will tell you, this sort of thing still happens today.
"It was very sad," added Paul Levitz. "Because he was an English teacher" the Board of Education put him "on desk duty" for "a stretch" "until he gave it up." Levitz observed, "That's what really moved him into full time distribution at that point. It was in many ways probably good for the business, because he became more of an entrepreneur as a result, but it was certainly one of the tragedies of his life." And people now and in the future will hear or read this story and be appalled and amazed at the blindness of years past towards the comics medium and those visionaries who were associated with it.
Michael Uslan sought to establish "the proper context" to explain exactly how Phil Seuling changed comics conventions. When Uslan was thirteen years old, he went to his first comics convention, which was run by a guy named Bernie. "He was in a black leather jacket with a duck tail, pompadour, and I seem to recall chains. . . .I was sure this guy was going to pull a switchblade on me if I didn't cough up the right money at the right time." And Schanes and Goldstein thought Seuling seemed intimidating!
"But back then, very few pros would come to the conventions. Stan–it was beneath him. He sent Flo Steinberg," his secretary who didn't mind interacting with fans. "Julie [Schwartz, DC editor--and a pioneer of science fiction fandom in his youth] didn't show up.. . .But the pros looked down on this, They said, 'These guys are nuts, they're fanatical,' and they kept their distance." (This, of course, is before comics fans started becoming comics professionals in significant numbers.)
"In the early days," Uslan continued, "we'd have people like. . . John Benson tell us how to behave and present ourselves, and how to dress on some occasions, He said, 'There's going to be press here. There's going to be TV cameras. . .and it's really important that people out there in the public take us seriously. . . . Let's give them the impression that we are. . serious about our hobby, and what we're doing, and our profession."
When Seuling started running cons, Uslan continued, "There was a sophistication to it. Because all of a sudden I was going to a con and Stan Lee was here, and Will Eisner was there, and Burne Hogarth [of the Tarzan comic strip] was there, and Milton Caniff [of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon] was there." This was interesting to me for a couple of reasons. Newspaper comic strips were long considered to be a superior field to comic books (like movies were vis-a-vis television, I suppose), so it's interesting that Seuling managed to persuade comic strip giants like Caniff and Hogarth to attend a convention for comic book fans. And it's also intriguing that comic book convention attendees of that time apparently would have been interested in Caniff and Hogarth as special guests. What percentage of today's comic con attendees care about classic newspaper adventure strips?
Uslan continued, "the one thing Phil Seuling really brought us as fans and as comic cons was respectability. It was respectability for the fans, it was respectability from the pros, and I think that changed everything forever."
I don't know that the mainstream media considered comics conventions respectable in the 1970s or 1980s. Even quite recently mainstream news reports on the San Diego Con often seem to belittle the attendees as a community of geeks and act as if virtually everyone comes in a wacky costume. Only now, I think, is the tone of mainstream press coverage really starting to change. But yes, it was important that Seuling brought comics fans and pros together. It's rather startling to realize there was once a gap between them that had to be bridged.
Schanes explained that in the old days, it was New York's comic con, not San Diego's, that was acknowledged as the country's greatest. Schanes was from the West Coast, "But In '71 San Diego was a very small show, and we had hundreds of people, not thousands. So we wanted to go to the mecca. We wanted to go to New York City and see the famous New York comic con. They were actually putting original artwork on the covers of the program books," something else that we take for granted now, but was a big step to take at the time.
Moreover, "we were always very, very envious, being in the West," Schanes went on. "We knew Jack [Kirby] was in Sherman Oaks [California], but. . . that's where all the [other] artists were, was in New York City."
Paul Levitz added, "Most of them were within fifty miles." Nowadays comics writers and artists for American comics live all over the country and even in Britain, But in those days before FedEx and the Internet, the American comics industry was almost entirely centered within easy commuting distance of New York City.
Summing up, Schanes told us, "it was a very zen thing to go to New York and make the pilgrimage and see all the famous people. . . ."
Then Paul Levitz expounded a theory I find quite impressive. " At dinner with Stan [Lee] about six months ago," he began, "I made the argument that everything that's going on here in comics today is his fault. . . . " Well, that's indeed true, not only in that Stan pioneered three-dimensional characterization in mainstream adventure comics, and demonstrated how genre comics could be used as a mode of personal expression, but also because without his Marvel revolution, American comics might well have virtually died out decades ago.
Levitz continued, "I think there's a domino theory of the evolution of the comic book business that takes in both Stan's work and the comic convention. . . .In the 1960s you have Stan. Julie Schwartz, really a very short list of people, starting to do comics for intelligent kids. They didn't view it as something you could do for adults. This was just, "We're going to do this for the bright kids instead of the stupid kids, because we're going to have some fun doing this.
"Egotistically, we'll all describe ourselves as being among that generation of smart kids who found this interesting, " Levitz continued (Well, of course!), "and mostly those were the smart kids who showed up at the comic conventions. Those kids are the ones who came into the business, whether they came in as marketers, distributors, publishers"–apparently alluding to Griepp, Schanes, Goldstein and himself–"working for the publisher for two minutes and then teaching a course in it and then going off on the film side"–and this is a concise description of Uslan's career– "however and in whichever fashion, and began agitating for change." Of course, though he didn't mention this, lots of these convention attendees became comics writers and artists as well.
Levitz told the audience, "We said, "Comics can be great; we want to do great comics. We don't want to be screwed like the guys before. We want to do wonderful work, and we want to make money doing it, and we want to have a good time doing it.'"
As regular readers know, I gave a lecture series at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art titled "1986: The Year That Changed Comics." Paul Levitz likewise regards the mid-1980s as a key transitional period for American comic books. "When that broke through in the early '80s from all of these forces–and it would have happened without any one individual or any group of individuals, but it happened to be the bunch of us who were there at the time who were pushing for it–you very swiftly have a quantum leap in the creative quality of what happened in American comics. What's going on here in this hall today is largely happening because of the group of people who read those books in the mid-80s. They became journalists and said, 'Of course comics can be great. I read Maus, Watchmen, Dark Knight, Elektra, Daredevil,' whatever it was that gave them the passion. 'I'm going to judge by that standard.' It's not going to be, 'Isn't it amazing that they did a comic book that makes some sense?' They said, 'Of course, this is genuine art.'
"Some came into field as creators; many became the journalists who wrote about it; many became the booksellers. We had a couple of guys up two minutes ago who were Random House salespeople who just started handling our line. They said, 'We love comics, we're happy to be doing it.' That generation really comes from all of it. The conventions brought us together. It's where we met. I walk through this hall, and I have so many friends who go back to when I was 14, 15, 16 years old, with a shared sense of purpose. We might have been on the opposite side of business deals along the way, we might have been competing companies, certainly had our share of arguments, but we all shared a very high sense of common purpose and the conventions crystallized all of that."
Schanes agreed, "It was the first gathering point."
Then Levitz summarized, "It's like, 'We're here. We're the tribe.' And he concluded, "we pulled together in all of that in a really unique fashion in American culture at that time. And we changed the culture, as a result."
Michael Uslan then said, "I'm going to take the position as the crotchety old man for a minute, which I often do. I'm elated. As I had a chance to walk around for the last hour up here, my comment was, 'Oh my God, I'm at a huge comic con and look, there's comic books. There's original artwork.' My biggest complaint has been that so many of them have gotten so big and so diluted that you can walk through endless hallways and see no comic books and see everything else but comic books." Do you suppose he could be referring to San Diego? Uslan continued, "For a comic con, especially for a New York comic con, to pull back to the roots and really get the old comics and the new comics and the art out there again is something I've been looking for for a long time, that I felt has been significantly missing." In other words, Uslan seemed to be suggesting that the current New York Comic Con was recapturing something of the spirit of Seuling's original New York comic cons.
"I couldn't agree more with what Paul said," Uslan told us. "It It goes back to what I said initially, finding out that there were other geeks like me out there,"–oh, no, not another comics person who uses this word!– "that I wasn't alone in the universe and there were people who shared this passion and shared this joy and had this thirst for knowledge in the history of the subject matter. . . ." Now that part I agree with.
"And here we sit today," Uslan continued. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is going to open an exhibit on May 7th showing how comic book superheroes have influenced fashion, and Action #1 [the first appearance of Superman] will be on display, and Detective #27 [the first appearance of Batman] will be on display, along with many other comic books." This is the exhibition "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," and I'll be attending the press preview.
"And you've got to give the credit to the comic book conventions, to the tribe," Uslan concluded, "for having gotten the message out that this is an indigenous, legitimate American art form and that this is our modern day mythology."
For Greg Goldstein, who described himself as being "a young guy who was into writing and art" in the early 1970s, it was a revelation to go to the New York Cons and see the new comics pros of that time. "Stan and Jack and those other guys were in the legendary hall-of-famers category," Goldstein said. But then there was the new generation: "There'd be Roy Thomas. . . and Len Wein and Marv Wolfman. It felt more attainable. But the whole thing felt like we were next. There were these guys; they weren't much older than us; they had the same sensibilities; they had long hair; they dressed the same way we did. And it felt like, boy, they can do it and they can do some really wonderful things in comics, and therefore we had a shot."
Returning to the subject of why comics professionals used to avoid conventions, Paul Levitz explained that "remember that as late as the late 60s, the characters in comics weren't even WASPs. They were white Anglo-Saxons. They weren't even allowed to be Protestants, much less have any sense of religion. They had no ethnicity. They had all been whitewashed into the blandest possible form, the creators, largely, too. Stan Lieber became Stan Lee." Listing other Jewish-American comics creators who had changed their names, Levitz mentioned Jacob Kurtzberg, who became Jack Kirby), Batman co-creator Bob Kahn, who renamed himself Bob Kane, and artist Eli Katz, who took the name Gil Kane. "They were embarrassed," Levitz said, apparently suggesting they feared how people would react if they knew their true ethnicity.
And then there was what had happened only a decade before: "They were recovering from the 1950s and Wertham." Levitz was referring to Dr. Fredric Wertham, the man most associated with the anti-comics crusade of the 1950s, which claimed that comic books of various sorts contributed to juvenile delinquency, and which devastated the comics industry and the lives of its writers and artists. The story has recently been retold in the new book The Ten Cent Plague by author David Hadju.
Levitz recalled that "Joe Orlando"–one of the artists at EC Comics in the 1950s, who later worked at DC–"would tell the story, when I was working for him, that in those years [the 1950s] if he went to a party and a girl was asking him what he did for living, he was an artist. If pressed, he was an artist of things for children. Maybe somewhere between his picking up the girl or his despairing of any hope of picking up the girl, he'd finally admit that he was a comic book artist." Back then comics were considered the bottom of the artistic barrel.
"The conventions have had an astounding power in all of this," Levitz continued. " " It's the first time anybody told these guys that what they did meant a damn thing. It's still has that power for some of the older ones as they get to places like San Diego and they get an Inkpot [Award from the San Diego Con], or they come here. Arnold Drake"–the recently deceased co-creator of Deadman and the Doom Patrol–"was here a year or two ago and just delighting in the fact that, 'People care about what I did? You remember who I am?'" Levitz pointed out that artist Jim Mooney, who passed away earlier this year, had not received credit on his work at DC for decades; he too finally got to meet his fans at comics conventions.
"But in the history of comics, when we start these early conventions," Levitz asserted, "these brilliantly talented people are still battered children. They really are totally unrecognized. And the conventions were a vital part in the step of acknowledging them as the artists that they are."
With the panel nearly at a close, an audience member asked if the panelists had any regrets about the old New York conventions.
Michael Uslan told an amusing story that also bore witness to just how worthless comics were considered only three decades ago. "We had a treasure trove down the shore in New Jersey: Collingswood Auction. It was a flea market. My friend Bobby and I would get my parents to take us every Friday night because . . . the guy would come in every Friday night with boxes from New York loaded with old, old, old comic books, and because they were so old, he sold them for a nickel a piece. Bobby and I returned every soda bottle we could find within three towns. We brought in the nickels, and over the course of a couple years, we walked off with literally thousands and thousands of comics dating back to 1936 that we bought for a nickel apiece."
Great, huh? But then television started to report on the New York Comic Con and the prices collectors were paying for old comics. "And the word goes out, 'comic books selling for $100 apiece,'"–which, from today's standpoint, seems cheap for Golden Age material–"and that was the end. My supply was cut off."
Paul Levitz had a different, more somber regret: "the questions I didn't get around to asking. I was too busy running tables, but the history that we've lost. I constantly say to myself, I wish I had asked this guy about that. And I'm probably still not getting around to doing nearly enough of it."
Back in the 1980s I was asked if I wanted to be part of an oral history project about the history of comics. I said yes, but it never happened. And that was back when Jerry Siegel. Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Julie Schwartz, John Broome, and, indeed, most of the giants from comics' Golden and Silver Ages were still alive.
But in my next New York Comic Con report, I'll tell you about a panel that brought together many of the surviving giants of early comics history, right here in New York City in April of 2008. But i may be tempted to write about the Iron Man movie first!
You can get David Hadju's The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America at Amazon.com here. I shall soon be reviewing it in my column "Books about Comics" in Publishers Weekly's online newsletter Comics Week.
And since I've promised to mention each week one of the books my own work appears in, how about Marvel's Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Omnibus (as opposed to the Bendis Daredevil Omnibus), which collects much of Frank Miller's work on the character, as well as an interview I did in the 1980s with Miller and Daredevil collaborator Klaus Janson? You can find the Miller-Janson Omnibus at Amazon here.
-Copyright 2008 Peter Sanderson
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