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Effie Trinket
Elizabeth Banks wins Best On-Screen Transformation at the MTV Movie Awards!
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Congratulations Elizabeth!
This was the best! Too funny!
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Elizabeth Banks arriving at the 'Late Show with David Letterman'
Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) looked lovely arriving at the Late Show with David Letterman to promote her new film What to Expect When You're Expecting. I can't wait to see her movie! Looks really funny.
Love her shoes.
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New #EffieAnswers: Elizabeth Banks' Reaction to Getting the Role
Here's the latest installment of Elizabeth Banks' video blog #EffieAnswers. In this episode she discusses her reaction to getting the role of Effie and who she first called about it.
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Elizabeth Banks on The Ellen DeGeneres Show & at 'The Hunger Games' Red Carpet
Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinket) appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote The Hunger Games!
Oh my goodness those nails!
It's was actually the black carpet! LOL! That lucky Sarah got to kiss Lenny, Liam and Josh! AHHH!
Thank you Lili!
Elizabeth Banks has a crush on Woody Harrelson
When Elizabeth Banks (who wore her own version of a girl-on-fire dress by Atelier Versace to The Hunger Games Premier) sat down to talk with Moviefone, she revealed not only that she bleached her eyebrows for the role of Effie, but that she is "enamored" with Woody Harrelson.
It really was so much fun. I'm enamored with Woody Harrelson. And I don't know how much he committed to it but I committed to creating a lot of story [between Effie and Haymitch] out of nothing, frankly. Because there is nothing going on. We don't really talk to each other. But I was committed to creating a physical relationship onscreen. We're always sitting next to each other. It's like we're a team, but we hate each other." Later she added, "Elizabeth Banks has a full-on crush on Woody Harrelson. Effie definitely has a crush on Haymitch, but Haymitch does not like Effie. That's what I'd say is going on."
I guess we'll just have to wait and see if Harrelson returns the love, or keeps mum on the topic. Banks also dished on Effie's wardrobe – which she sees as "very Christian Dior haute couture from the '40s" – as well as her inspiration for Effie's Capitol accent, and her thoughts on Jennifer Lawrence as an actress. Read the entire interview here.
Elizabeth Banks Sharing Insights on Effie
Today Elizabeth Banks posted some photos, on her website, of the elaborately decorated nails she had as Effie Trinket. Banks is also giving away two sets China Glaze Limited Edition Capitol Colours Collections to fans that show her the best Effie-inspired nails, with full details here.
Earlier in the week Banks also announced her new vlog called #EffieAnswes, where she'll be answering fans questions about the Hunger Games and portraying Effie. View her video announcement of it after the break
New Effie Trinket Pic, Olympic Hunger Games Training
Glamour reveals that Olympic archer Khatuna Lorig trained Jennifer Lawrence in archery for The Hunger Games. "She shot about 100 arrows a day on an Olympic-style bow. Her technique was great!"
Also new: The makeup for the movie worked on a very large scale-
3. The movie used 35 full-time makeup artists. And there were more than 450 wigs on set to create the Hunger Games look, according to Linda Flowers, the movie's hair director. For her freaky look as Effie Trinket, above, Elizabeth Banks was airbrushed with pale pink foundation and had a different eye makeup design for each outfit. Katniss was lower-maintenance—it took only about 20 minutes a day to create her signature braid
Elizabeth Banks Wanted Effie's Clothes to be Torturous
As if wearing those agonizingly towering heels wasn't enough, Elizabeth Banks went to even greater pain-staking lengths to properly carry out her role as Effie Trinket.
"Everything you see on Effie is purposeful, nothing is whimsical," said Banks. "As an ambassador for the Capitol I wanted to make it clear Effie is oppressed, so all her clothes are constricting, corseted uncomfortable."
She went on to say that, in the movie, "I wear crazy shoes that you would never be able to spend a 12-hour day in – I wanted her to be tortured by her clothes."
Elizabeth Banks went from sporting rigid, spandex-tight clothes to the extremes of taking sandpaper to her skin and throwing in some latex to make it appear as if she had truly undergone plastic surgery.
"We sandpapered my skin," admitted the actress. "We wanted to show that Effie has a cracked veneer, that perfection doesn't exist in the Capitol – it's actually become hideous. We layered latex and used tricks of the camera and the lighting. I like to say I was a little fearless, definitely."
Wow. Talk about dedication to accurately playing your character! I would have never even thought of sandpapering my skin, let alone actually done it!
Did Elizabeth Banks take it too far? Or do you approve of her efforts to match as much as possible the effervescent, Capitol-manufactured District 12 escort, no matter how radical?
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MTV: Elizabeth Banks can't wait to see the 'Hunger Games' Arena Scenes & More!
Elizabeth Banks (Effie Trinkett) talked to MTV's Josh Horowitz about what scene she can't wait to see in the Hunger Games! PLUS she secretly wanted the role of Effie when she initially read The Hunger Games!
"I'm really excited to see the actual Games," she gushed.
Yes, Elizabeth Banks wants to see the armed and dangerous tributes tearing each other limb from limb just as much as the rest of us do…but, you know, not out of psychotic bloodlust or anything. Instead, Elizabeth described the character-driven importance of the whole arena scene—and noted that, in the context of the Games, even the "bad guys" have their own complex emotional journey to take.
"I'm really excited to see how that all plays out," she said.
And what are the scenes of her own that she can't wait to see in their final form?
"The Reaping, for sure," she said. "The Reaping is amazing. We get to see a heroine step forward and show herself for the first time."
Not to mention that Elizabeth is wearing one of the most interesting of her weird and wonderful Effie Trinket costumes during said scene—which our fashion-hungry fandom can't wait to scope out in painstaking detail. And based on Elizabeth's description, it sounds like a lot of the film's actors will be excited to see the Reaping…even the ones who were, technically, already in attendance.
"It was a really remarkable scene to shoot, and it was a really difficult scene to shoot," Elizabeth said, going on to explain that the Reaping was filmed on a day when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. And for the extras called upon to play would-be tributes, the weather was bad news: "We had all these young kids there, just dropping like flies."
Oh yeah, I can't wait to see the arena! Well, actually EVERYTHING!
More of Elizabeth's interviews with Josh after the break! She's Team Peeta!! I love her. She is the PERFECT EFFIE!!
Elizabeth Banks Talks Effie's Inspirations
The Insider spoke to Elizabeth Banks recently about her vivacious character Effie Trinket and her favorite 'Effie' outfit.
Insider.com: Were you prepared for the level of fandom The Hunger Games attracts?
Elizabeth Banks: Going in, I really wasn't. Obviously, I am now [laughs]. It's all anybody wants to talk about. I knew the books were great, I knew the characters were great and I knew Katniss was an amazing heroine, so I knew we had the goods and now it's just a matter of whether people come see it. And I think they will – this is a really great movie. It'll be wild to see people's reactions to something as beloved as Suzanne's books.
Insider: The Effie costumes look amazing and you've spoken about the difficulty of navigating in them. Did you run for sweatpants at the end of every day?
Elizabeth: [laughs] Absolutely! Although it wasn't actually sweatpants because it was 105 degrees on set almost every day. It was so hot, I actually got heat exhaustion when we shot The Reaping – which I'd never experienced before. It was pretty crazy. It was more like, "How little clothing can I put on?" It was all about slip dresses.
Insider: Do you have a favorite Effie ensemble?
Elizabeth: My favorite Effie ensemble is the green hair outfit – I just love the puffy sleeves. We really played with proportions. It's all these tiny, tiny, tiny waists and then something big elsewhere – sometimes it's the sleeves or the hips, the shoulders, the collar or the bustle. I love that green outfit, it's the best.
Read the rest of Elizabeth's interview at The Insider!
She got heat exhaustion during The Reaping! I can't wait to see all of Effie's outfits!


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While the air outside was frigid, attendees were fired up—and it was contagious! The scene was vibrant and engaged. Activists, young and old, were there with a common agenda: to learn, to share, and to make a difference in the fight for equality.
I was personally moved by the session I attended on "Fighting Back Against a Global Anti-Gay Agenda," which was especially poignant in light of the recent horrific murder of LGBT rights activist David Kato in Uganda. The program detailed the devastating impact American evangelicals and clerics are having in exporting their hate to other countries.
I also attended on the highly informative session titled "The 1964 Civil Rights Act: Our Path to Dignity and Equality." Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Todd Fernandez provided a beyond-comprehensive overview of how the Act has evolved and how it applies to the LGBT community.
Finally, we all left the screening of the film "Bullied: A Student, a School, and a Case that Made History" a little tearful and a lot more motivated. The film chronicled the case of a gay student who faced discrimination, violence and outright ignorance—and how he learned to stop being polite and sue for his rights and the rights of others.
I asked my fellow Avalonians what they got out of the conference, and here's what they shared:
Allison gave a big thumbs up to the Academy for Leadership and Action session she attended on "Effective Organizational and Campaign Planning." She says: "It was an incredible hands-on session that included working as a group to develop a strategy for a hypothetical campaign using SWOT analysis and power mapping. It was fascinating to work with the group (most of whom do community organizing on an ongoing basis) and to see a campaign from an organizer's point of view in an incredibly in-depth way."
Barb especially liked the session "Responding to Myths about LGBT People." Participants worked in small groups to dissect and refute anti-LGBT statements made by the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Justice Scalia. Using a framework provided by the moderators, each team presented their arguments, to which the moderators added their own supporting data and research.
Will remarked that the most disturbing fact he took away from the conference was that the attempted suicide rate among transgender adults is 41%. On a more optimistic note, he found the session on "Changing Minds of Conservative/Evangelical Christians," which explored avenues for more effective communication with this community, to be highly insightful and encouraging.
Thank you to everyone at the Task Force for giving us the opportunity to participate in this energizing event! Our eyes are wide open, we have thawed out, and we are ready to get down to business for equality.

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Gyllenhaal Zipped-Up In A Love-Hate Lanvin
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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal poses in the press room at the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in an aqua and black leopard print dress adapted from Lanvin's Summer '09 collection. The dress was also featured in Vogue Magazine's January issue. Maggie has the legs for the runway version, but she has formalized the gown with a floor grazing length and belt. Gyllenhaal's playful frock seems to have polarized people in a love-hate moment. Getty Entertainment bloggers are split. Thumbs up or down on Gyllenhaal's in Lanvin?


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Hartnett's Fearless 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs Predictions
Any goalie can catch fire and carry a team to glory, one key injury can suddenly decimate the hopes of a legitimate Cup contender and an unheralded player can step forward and have the series of his life.
Sharks Score 4 Times On 26 Shots; Islanders Lose
Matt Nieto and Jason Demers scored first-period goals, and the San Jose Sharks made the most of 26 shots against the New York Islanders in a 4-3 victory on Friday night.
Sharks Take Over In Third Period, Finish Off Devils
Matt Nieto scored the go-ahead goalat 6:20 of the third period and Alex Stalock made 21 saves and the San Jose Sharks defeated the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Sunday.
Islanders Snap 10-Game Skid With Shootout Win Over Sharks
Kevin Poulin kept the struggling Isles in the game long enough for their top line to give the team a much-needed win.
Biron Starts For The Rangers On Saturday Night Against Red-Hot Blues
Goaltender Martin Biron looks to stop the bleeding when the Rangers take on the Blues on Saturday night at Scottrade Center.
Not A Typo: Rangers Embarrassed By Sharks, Lose 9-2 In Laugher
Tomas Hertl scored four goals, Matthew Nieto had his first NHL goal and added two assists and the San Jose Sharks beat the New York Rangers, 9-2, on Tuesday night.
Hartnett: Moore's Return To Rangers Is The Feel-Good Story Of Summer
Despite everything he's been through, Dominic Moore's desire to play the game of hockey hasn't been extinguished. It's the kind of story that will grab your heart and not let go.
Rangers Sign Center Dominic Moore To A One-Year Deal
Dominic Moore and the Rangers agreed a one-year deal on Friday.
Bobrovsky Earns Vezina Trophy, Rangers Goalie Lundqvist Does Not Repeat
Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets beat out Henrik Lundqvist of the Rangers to win the 2012-13 Vezina Trophy.
Kings Will Host Sharks For Game 7 Showdown After 2-1 Loss
Joe Thornton got San Jose off to a fast start with a power-play goal in the first period and TJ Galiardi added a goal in the second to help the Sharks force a decisive seventh game.
Kings In LA For Pivotal Game 5 Against Sharks
Kings goalie Jonathan Quick sometimes seems to be the only obstacle between San Jose and the Western Conference finals while the Sharks dominate much of their 2-2 series with the defending Stanley Cup champions.
Hartnett: Fearless Predictions For The 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs
Who's ready to lift the Stanley Cup? Sean Hartnett gives you a full breakdown of the 2013 NHL Playoffs.
Hartnett: Tortorella's Methods Are Proven; 'New' Rangers Can Play To His Tune
John Tortorella's system requires a certain type of player. The "new" deeper Rangers fit Tortorella like a glove and proved it by beating the Penguins 6-1.
Hartnett: Rangers Admit To Botching Offseason By Giving Up Picks For Ryane Clowe
The Rangers, who are currently in ninth place, are hoping that rugged winger Ryane Clowe's tenacity can help them climb up the Eastern Conference ladder.
Rangers Acquire Rugged Left Wing Clowe From Sharks
In danger of missing the playoffs a year after coming within two wins of getting to the Stanley Cup finals, the Rangers bolstered their offense on Tuesday night by acquiring rugged Ryane Clowe from the San Jose Sharks.


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Snapshot: Salva Lopez
With a background in graphic design, Salva Lopez (a Barcelona based artist) explores desolate scenes, abandoned arenas, and vast lands. See my favorite photos after the jump!
Claw World: Futura's "Future-Shock" at Valmorbida
For most, Fashion's Night Out is a time to schmooze with other fashion lovers while sipping cocktails. This year, Futura's exhibition was an alternative activity at Valmorbida NYC.
Christoph Gielen's Look at (Un)sustainable Development
Christoph Gielen's bird's eye snaps of varied man-made sprawl has something entrancing about it, right? The German born, New York based photographer aims to trigger a reevaluation of our built environment, begging the question of what kind of development can be considered sustainable.
Steven Miesel for Vogue Italia: The Future Faces of Plastic Surgery?
Around my house as a kid, fashion magazines were about as abundant as take-out menus. That was mostly Vogue and Elle and Bazaar - it wasn't until I was much older that I could start appreciating the obscure shit, like W or any of the European editions.
CLAW World: Analogue Digital Series by WBK
Without the innovative thoughts and vivid imaginations of a select few, we would still be watching black and white television or tugging at uncomfortable corsets. Australian artist Works By Knight developed his "Analogue to Digital" series to pay homage to notable modern innovators.
Snapshot: Jacques Dequeker's 3D Editorial
Brazilian born photographer Jacques Dequeker is a self-taught fashion photographer widely know for his futuristic, technicolor-ed photos. Find yourself some 3D glasses for the full impact of this editorial.
CLAW WORLD: "Leave the Beef on the BBQ" Group Art Exhibition
Nothing brings people together like music and art. San Francisco's Guerrero Gallery is using the latter to bring together graffiti artists and lovers from all generations. "Leave the Beef on the BBQ" is a group exhibition that will showcase the tags, burners and murals of some of the world's greatest.
CLAW World: PIRACY by Micro Pagano and Moreno De Turco
No matter how much we love getting stuff for free, piracy is taking money out of the pockets of musicians. Artists Micro Pagano and Moreno De Turco chose to recycle CDs (remember, those things that people used to buy to listen to music?) and make them into anti-piracy art. Very cool stuff!
CLAW World: Artist Bryan Lewis Saunders's Drug Induced Self-Portraits
Every artist draws inspiration from somewhere. Check out Bryan Lewis Saunders's work: self-portraits created under the substance of various illicit substances.
CLAW World: Design Inspiration
Please welcome Claw, a legend in her own right with a an extensive catalog of knowledge on fine art and street art over the last several decades. We are thrilled to see what she'll be whipping up as the Art & Design voice in "Our Girls" roster!
Snapshot: Cindy Sherman's Disguises
Cindy Sherman transforms herself into different characters in staged environments that challenge the role of women whether it be in the work force, media, or society at large. Take a peek at one of her distinct transformations.
Karmaloop Fam Jose Obando Featured in Phillips de Pury & Co. Staff Show
People! Check out our buddy Jose Obando's work on ArtInfo.com -- his photographs, a mixed media piece titled 1st of the Month and the "minimalism meets the munchies" sculptural piece, Suspect #3.
WIGS Real: Claw Money Short Film
Claw's story is no urban legend -- it's the real deal. We've looked up to and respected this graffiti writer turned apparel mogul since day one, so when WIGS posted its short film on Claw Money we took notice.
Jeffrey Campbell x Karmaloop Coming Soon (& HMN ALNS Lookbook!)
Prepare your eyeballs for the first ever Jeffrey Campbell x Karmaloop capsule collection! Yup, you heard us -- a set of some futuristic Frankenstein kicks that only the freakish mind of our shoe buyer Joe Farese and the always over-the-top Jeffrey Campbell could dream up.
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Graphic designer Dinah Fried's Fictitious Dishes series might just be the perfect Monday amusement for any of you literary folk. The clever RISD student captures memorable meals from beloved books... Can you guess which each one is from?


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Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Celebrates the Life of Dr. Gordon MacLachlan
Emeritus Professor of Biology at McGill University, former Vice-Principal (Research) and Dean of Graduate Studies (1980-1990) Gordon MacLachlan passed away in early March, 2013. A professor at McGill University from 1962 to 1998, he is fondly remembered by fellow faculty members, students, friends and family. An obituary appeared in the Montreal Gazette on March 16. We celebrate Dr. McLachlan's life and his contributions to the University and our deepest condolences are extended to Dr.
Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Awards (GREAT Awards)
In 2009, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, in consultation with the Faculty Deans and Associate Deans, introduced the Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel awards (GREAT awards) program. The University added an annual budget of $300,000 ($150,000 from the Provost's office plus $150,000 from GPS) to the now defunct Alma Mater Travel Grant Program in order to expand its mandate and support graduate student travel and research dissemination.


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Performers at the event will include Rusty Metoyer & Zydeco Krush, the Our Lady's School Show Choir, Ted Nelson and Father Richard & the Holy Mountain Bluegrass Band.
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This is a recap of the High Heel Recovery Clinic recently offered at Backbone and Wingspan
which incorporated stability ball exercises, and balance point movements.
Bodily wisdom of the sacrum being the keystone to spinal support and enlightening information about the intricacies of the sole of the foot were also given.
Are you struggling in the midst of an abusive relationship with your strappy stilettos?
The High Heel Recovery Clinic is not about abstinence!
We want to give you the tools to keep looking fabulous..... just without all the pain!
When I posted a notice on the Backbone and Wingspan Facebook page
about the studio's first High Heel Recovery Clinic in April, one woman responded,
"They're not trying to get us to stop wearing them, are they?"
I answered, "Absolutely not!"
Our intent is to give you imagery, exercises, and movement experiences that you can recreate while you are walking or standing in your shoes that better support your body so that your weight doesn't all fall forward into the ball of your foot, but can balanced across the entire foot surface.
I started out the clinic by having people look at the soles of their own feet (some sole searching) to identify the three parts of the foot which are the ball, the arch, and the heel.
I related that the heel is three-dimensional - that feeling and imagining your heel as a sphere - like the ball pictured here - has the potential to grant you a much more spring-like support and shock absorption than imagining your heel as flat.
Another teacher then took the floor (so to speak), - taking the floor -literally- is part of what can come across to anyone who experiences pain in terms of walking or standing; to "take the floor" is imagining not feeling separate from the surface upon which you are standing, but letting the floor, whether it be the kitchen floor or the dance floor - come up to meet those searching soles seemingly separated from the earth underneath by your fabulous, but sometimes treacherous high heels -
We imparted some wisdom concerning a key part of the spine - the sacrum.
The sacrum is the keystone of the spine
(which if you think of your body as needing the kind of support that an architectural structure would need)
the weight of the spine and ribs and head, rather than having to be hiked up, can be instead suspended on the sacrum in a similar way in which the keystone arch of a building could be imagined as the legs coming up into the pelvis and at the center of the pelvic support is the weight-bearing, but able-to-shift sacrum.
We identified the location of the sacrum by showing on one of the teacher's bodies, (who teaches a form of Pilates at Backbone and Wingspan which has a lot of back-strengthening elements) that the two dimpled areas at the top of the pelvis (one person I worked with recently said, "Oh yeah, I've seen those on my boyfriend's back - those dimples are so cute...") that in between those two dimpled areas is the sacrum, that keystone to spinal support.
I include above three images of the sacrum to show its size, its relationship to the tailbone, and its location as being between the two pelvic bones. I show the plaster cast of the sacrum that we have in the studio next to the black release balls to illustrate that the sacrum is not flat.
Participants were then taught the
High Heel Workout
in which exercises were performed on a stability ball, (first with the body laying down and eventually coming to kneeling).
Hamstring-strengthening, low-back-releasing, and spinal-stretching movements bring the body to a state of empowered ease.
Teachers related more imagery to the high heelers (which included feeling the ribs like fish gills) moving the clinic attendees to experience the breath as being integral to the support of the body, and how when the ribs expand with the breath that it gives the body access to the deep wrap of the abdominals.
Backbone and Wingspan teachers
then got the attendees back into their high heels, taking their experience to the next level with techniques which allowed them to feel their weight differently in their shoes and to put into practical use the subtle strengthening they received in the stability ball work.
We brought home to the high heelers the experience of what was promised in our press release and promotional flyers:
showing you innovative ways to strike that challenging balance between a comfortable shoe experience and a fabulous fashion expression.
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Good Questions: Home Office S.O.S.?
Hello AT, My home office needs help.
1. It's directly across from the bed, so I see it as soon as I open my eyes in the a.m. It's got to be really cheerful looking. The yellow is Farrow & Ball's Hound Lemon. Maybe too dark?...
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2. I recently added this white-and-purple chair in a bid to break up all the wood. Is it working?
3. I am a writer and need more storage for books: the dictionary stand, sturdy though it is, is too small (and I mostly use an electronic dictionary). I prefer vintage wood bookshelves, but would more wood be just too much?
4. I need brighter lighting. There's no overhead wiring, so a hanging
fixture is out.
5. The mannequin, a gift from my late mother, must stay, but I could lose the hats. Perhaps I could paint it? It's a bit tattered and stained. Also, how do I manage art on these walls with all the moldings?
6. I need a mirror in this space, but something less flimsy than this cheap one would be great.
Any ideas would be most welcome!
Thanks! Joy
Dear Joy,
Despite your need for storage and "pulling together", your office has a great sense of style. We particularly like the white chair and the sweet lemon on the wall.
Two things we'd advise. One, get something for the floor so that the office space is more boundaried and set off from the rest of the room. A simple rug or wool or sisal will do and a darker color than the floor will provide contrast. Two, for the mirror, go to Pottery Barn for affordable (they have many sizes) and go to King David on 23rd street to get anything you want.
Anyone else?
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To me, the desk is just crying out to be painted white.
And maybe the file cabinet replaced with a painted metal one.
This looks like such a fun place to decorate. Great job on the chair. I love how it relates to the molding. If you ever do decide to change the walls, a light silvery/lavender/blue would look great.
I agree - maybe the trim white, as well to brighten and cheer up the space. The yellow isn't so bad and I think highlighting the trim will really glam it up, as well.
Hello AT, My home office needs help.
1. I think the yellow just looks dark because of the dark furniture.
2. While I do love the chair, it doesn't work with the desk. Is there anyway you could get a new desk? One of those clear acyclic desks would look really nice (if someone has a link.)
3. How about getting vintage wood ones and painting them white or some other light color? Or if you got a new desk, I would paint the dictionary stand white and have the vintage wood shelves stay wood. :\
4. I do like anglepoise (sp?) lamps on desk, especially I think the nice clean look would make your office look less cluttery. But I am not sure if that would be enough light. How about a cleaner desk lamp and a floor lamp behind the dictionary stand?
5. I love the mannequin. I think you should lose the hats and the little notes and just keep it very simple. It's okay if it is a little tattered.
As for art, I would place it inside the molding. Get three big frames (at least 11X14) with a mat for a picture about 8X10, three similar photos that speak to you. And hang them in a trio. Dick Blick has some cheap frames with mats.
Or I would use a bulletin board for behind the computer and two pieces of art in the other ones.
6. I think a standing mirror would look great and go with the mannequin and would seem less crowding.
I would check out See Jane Work for ideas. They have some great stuff that really easily lighten up a dark place.
I love your home office. I like the color, I like the wood giving warmth and the white chair with the lovely upholstry look quite well put together. I think your design sensibilities are in the right track. Don't paint the desk white and don't change the file cabinet in metal - it would make the space look colder, which I am sensinsing is something you'd rather stay away from. I agree with the first comment to have a small rug under the chair - a sisal with a nice leather edging would look lovely. I see that the pattern of wood if different and sorto divides the room, but I think the rug would also bring it all together. Love the wall color and regarding artwork, I would put 3 frames same size (as the one you have hung in the middle) and put them one on top of the other - especially on the framing behind the tiny bookcase. In the middle one above your desk the most is 2 on top of each other....
You know what, actually, I think the best thing for your space is to just give me that chair. ;)
I absolutly love that yellow!!!
Paint the trim, it will make the wall pop. If you arent using the dictionary stand, can the manequin sit atop that? Almost a tall art pedastal?
Then either tack the existing mirror centered inside the left hand moulding - The moulding willl act like an exagerated frame - I have a cheap kmart mirror i was going to trash until i propped it in the spot and realised the moulding framed it nicely (I put a small vanity table under mine - you could put a short bookcase)
If your worried about more wood, what about some of the umbra floating shelves that have been posted here before?
I love this office so much just the way it is! The only things I would change are the very small print on the wall and the mirror.
The dictionary has got to stay. It adds gravitas. Good luck painting that trim, if you decide to. You can goop that up so fast it's not funny. Put the mirror on the inside of a closet door where it belongs. The dummy just might be what makes that space you, so decorate it as you wish. (No double entendre intended.)
I'd move the desk so it's in front of the window. If you don't need a desk with drawers, get a lighter glass and metal table or desk (Ikea sawhorses and top) A nice rug under the desk/chair would define that space as work.
Then, build low bookcases along the other wall, painted the same color as the wall. Maybe one could be more like a seat, with a hinged top and storage underneath, and a cushion on top.
And if you're waking up to look at a work station, think about getting a screen to section that part of the room off, otherwise you'll feel like you're never away from work.
What I really want to see is a big white bookcase in that corner to lighten things up and add a little height. And maybe re-cover the mannequin in white fabric?
I like the yellow, but because of the lighting, it looks darker and greyer in the photo than it really is. Therefore, you need more light. I also love the soft look of the wall trim matching the wall. Because of the light color, the trim stands out well without being too intense. Better lighting should bring out the effect even more.
Your chair made me smile. Don't know why, but I like it for that.
I love the motley feeling that comes from the mix of painted wood and natural wood. I'm not sure that white painted bookshelves are a good idea, since they tend to show dust more than other furnishings. Painting something else white might be a better idea to maintain the feel if you go for wood bookshelves. If you're reliable about dusting, the white bookshelves are an easy solution tho... make your decision based on what you will keep up.
The mannequin does not really stand out or help add character to the space right now. Better lighting for her is where I'd start. Then improve the color balance on the accessories if lighting doesn't improve things enough. She's really quirky and fun, so only get rid of her if you discover you loathe her. I wouldn't recover her, since that style is a classic department store look for a reason. Very easy to change her appearance, and she'll never clash with what she wears.
1. Agree about the need for a rug to demarcate space. I think that will make the biggest difference.
2. Personally I don't like the chair...but maybe with a rug the look would be more appealing...
3. Staring at a wall. If I can avoid it, I always like positioning my desk so I'm not staring at a wall. I'd also prefer not being able to see the screen of the monitor from my bed... Could you turn your desk so that it is perpendicular to the wall? Your back to the window? It might make the space cozier.
4. Bookcase. I love glass-fronted book cases. Maybe replace your dictionary stand with a taller larger bookcase. That would have room for the dictionary and the mannequin on top.
5. Lighting. I'd add a task-light and use the current lamp (or something smaller) as ambient cozy light for the corner of the room.
I adore this wallcolour, even with the slightly greyish cast, I think that's what makes it work with the lavender of the chair.
I like the chair with the existing desk, but I would paint the wooden filing cabinet white, and put some beautiful knobs on it (Anthropologie has great ones). I think this will help to tie in the chair.
RE the lovely mannequin, I would take everything off her, then find a beautiful silk scarf that incorporates the yellow, lavender, a bit of white, and some browns/neutrals and have a bit of fun tying it around her neck. Keeping it very simple will allow you to look at it and remember your mom in the nicest of ways.
RE the mirror: Perhaps something with a chunky white painted frame would work? Or maybe gold gilded?
RE the storage: Perhaps a low built in bench or storage cabinet that you could put a cushion on top of? Something similar to the LACK bookcase from IKEA (but on it's side)
If you're thinking of adding curtains, something like this could be beautiful and help to further tie in the colours
I also agree with the rug idea a few others mentioned.
OK, must tear myself away from the computer now. Have fun designing such a beautiful room!
I do love that chair there. It's somehow very evocative of some feeling, but of what I can't precisely say. It makes me think differently about such chairs and wonder how one would look and feel in my place.
I think the mannequin is too cluttery there, even if it didn't have all that stuff on it. Unless it inspires you while you're working, I'd move it.
I love those walls.
Perhaps paint some of the 'negative' space so they look more like frames? And I do think you need furniture of different shades of color - it can be wood, just a different shade of wood.
OK, Joy, there you have it: paint the desk, don't paint the desk, move the desk, replace the desk, paint the walls, paint the trim, leave the walls alone, paint the file, don't paint the file, replace the file, paint the bookshelf, don't paint the bookshelf, replace the bookshelf, move the bookshelf, build a bookshelf, recover the mannequin, paint the mannequin, leave the mannequin as is, move the mannequin, spotlight the mannequin. The chair makes the room, the chair isn't working, send the chair to jgee. Got that? Good! OK, who else has a problem?
Actually, Joy, you can go in any of several directions, you just can't go in every direction, and certainly not all at the same time. Your wall color is fine, and your trim is interesting enough without the fancy paint job, so leave the walls alone. Sure, plain, square panels might be OK accented with white paint--I say might--but with your room's re-entrant corners, & 3 panels at that, a contrasting paint job will likely take your room way beyond "cheerful" into out-of-control-manic. Now I don't know about you, but when I'm trying to write, I have a hard enough time concentrating without an hyperactive paint scheme screaming "Look at ME!" No, plain one-color walls are good, especially with such a handsome, sophisticated color.
Still, handsome or not. I wouldn't call your wall color "cheerful", not, at least, judging by what it looks like on my monitor. Not, as I said, that it's unattractive. In fact, it looks very good with the warm wood tones of your desk & file. And it also looks fresh & crsip with the your white chair & its contrasting upholstery. So far, so good.
The problem comes with the the relation between the straight-arrow, no-nonsense style of your desk/file/bookcase, and the flirty, curvaceous chair. Individually, they're fine, and they each work equally well with the walls, but together, they remind me of Joe DiMaggio & Marilyn, and you know how well that turned out. One or the other has to go.
If you decide to scratch the cheerful bit and go in for Serious Writing, send Marilyn to the other room, get a dark-wood chair & the biggest most serious, square-framed mirror you can afford and hang it--don't lean it--dead center above the desk for a big architectural effect. If you can't afford a big-deal mirror new, find a big old multi-pane window in a rough chipped-paint finish, get yourself a glass cutter & cut up a few of those cheap mirrors & fit them into the panes, send the little picture to the other room with the chair, add a serious rug, switch the file & the bookcase, ditch the hats, put the mannequin on the file with a small uplight below her, get a better lamp in a dark bronze & presto, you're Doris Kearns Goodwin.
If you'd rather be Marilyn, or you want to go the cheerful route, then it's the dark wood tones that need to hit the road, so make a tailored cover for the table out of yellow--real yellow, not dirty yellow--fleece. Yellow velvet or yellow felt or canvas would also be attractive, but fleece is easy to toss in the wash. Make a big gusset right in front for your legs, & inverted pleats at the corners, then add a big border at the bottom edge--maybe a double line of white sew-on tape, maybe (if you're feeling ambitious) a Greek key design. Basically, ask yourself: What would David Hicks do?, and if you don't know, look him up. If you're not up to painting your wood file & shelves--buy white metal ones--files are like $19 at KMart--and do the same thing as above with the mirror, but this time it's shiny white except for the corner panes, which you spray--lightly--with translucent auto paint in whatever the blue counterpart of Candy Apple Red is. The white lamp can stay, but you probably need a real working lamp anyway, so get one in white. Add a grass rug & bind it in blue, or if you've taken a pass on sewing the Greek key border on the tablecover, paint the Greek key border in dull blue & white on the rug. This time, the little picture can stay, and so can the hats. And now you're all set to write like Anita Loos.
At any rate, whatever you decide to do, the first thing is to decide which approach you want to take: Joe or Marilyn. Then it's just a matter of getting rid--in the visual sense, not in the yard-sale sense--of anything that doesn't contribute to that particular aesthetic. Basically, you want to follow the method Michelangelo used when he began roughing out a sculpture from a giant block of white marble. As he explained to the Pope, "It's easy! The finished sculpture already exists inside this block, so all I have to do is get rid of everything that doesn't look like David."
Thank you, all, for your excellent suggestions. I'll be busy this weekend trying them out.
One general, puzzling question: when you have a large desk like this, what scale works for a lamp? To me this one looks too small. I tried CB2's Bauhaus lamp (http://www.cb2.com/family.aspx?c=120&f=3795 -- it's great in person) but it seemed too big. Maybe a counterpoise is the answer, although task lamps don't offer the ambient light i also crave. There once was a Tolomeo lamp with a translucent shade, but I can't find it anywhere.
The room gets lots of nice natural light during the day, so I perhaps I can manage just with task lighting.
Why not hang two long mirrors to the left and right of the desk (in the center of each molding panel)? Basically, flank the desk with two mirrors for balance and paint it white, get a white filing cabinet that can fit under the desk (better yet, paint a small filing cabinet bright yellow to relate to your walls and put it under the desk), and you are done.
RE the light fixture, the pipe in the corner provides a perfect camouflage for a cable... you could easily put a hook in the ceiling and hang a globe style light fixture and then just run a white cable behind the pipe and plug it in behind the desk. A hanging lamp would show off the wonderful height of the room. I would go pretty big, and opt for a globe style to counteract the squareness of the desk.
I agree that painting the trim white will make this space look amazing... it is such a classic look and will tie into that beautiful white chair you have.
A suggestion about lighting... pick out any lampshade you like (drums look really nice like this, i did it in my living room and everyone who comes over just loves it), then get a really long corded socket from a lighting store (like the ones on Canal St, which is where I got mine, IKEA also makes them), then put a swag hook in the ceiling by where you want the lamp to hang, and one all the way in the corner. attach the lampshade to the socket and swag the cord.
hopefully you have a little extra of that delicious paint color so you can paint the cord that color where it hits the wall (obviously, leave the rest white so it blends with the ceiling). plug the other end into an outlet and voila! fantastically gorgeous and extremely affordable pendent lamp.
I also really love the idea of putting the mannequin on the dictionary stand. It really elevates it to an art status that way :)
Good luck! Please send in after photos!
I have no advice on any of your points, unfortunately, but I think the chair looks EXCELLENT.
i'd advise dealing with the wire clutter in some manner (i.e. hooking it underneath the desk.)
but otherwise i really like your home office!


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I'm using 1.04b on my 1.1.1 iPhone, and think I might have found a bug:
For some reason, when I have contacts with multiple phone #s (both marked as mobile, in my case), the first number Search displays is all numbers, instead of being formatted. For example, the phone book has both numbers shown properly, as (xxx) xxx-xxxx, but Search displays it as
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Not sure why it's doing that? I checked the phone # in the iPhone contacts, it's displayed correctly there, no 1 or +1 in front of the area code. (One of my contacts had that, and when I edited it to take it out, Search showed it formatted correctly after that.)
I also have one contact with 2 phone numbers, one mobile/one home, and both display as XXXxxxXXX, instead of (xxx) xxx-xxxx.
(Does all that make sense? LOL)
EDIT: I solved this by going into the Outlook contacts and formatting each phone # properly, and now it displays every phone number as (xxx) xxx-xxxx, as it should.
edit: BTW, I sync my contacts with Outlook. ALL of them in Outlook have the phone # as XXXxxxXXXX (no spaces, no dashes, no area code delimiter), and the iPhone automatically displays them as (xxx) xxx-xxxx. However, in Search, it does not display them that way unless I go into the Outlook contacts and manually change the phone # to look like that.
Also, when I bring up a contact, and click the phone # to dial it, it calls the number (as it should LOL); when I end the call, it goes back to Search, but it goes to the main screen, instead of back to the search results or contact info. Would be nice to go back to the contact.
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Unfortunately Search doesn't yet re-format numbers, it just pulls them straight from the phones database, so however they're stored is how they're displayed for now.
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I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'd use this app as soon as it's integrated into the stock app, Phone, where an icon to tap will bring out the keyboard and will start the search.
Using a different app to see the contacts list is a little messy for me.
Unfortunately that would be a potentially dangerous way to do go about it. It would be extremely time consuming, and limiting to modify the existing phone application.
Search will always be a stand alone application. What's the thing which bugs you most about it being separate?


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I have to make referrals sometimes. I [try] to connect [couples] with a Christian attorney who is still going to hopefully reflect Christ's values through their family law process. I have also been incredibly blessed to get the phone call sometimes a couple years later where a client says, "You know what, we didn't get divorced. We did go to counseling, and the marriage is great." That is the most awesome news you can ever get.
CW: We have spent a lot of time discussing divorce. What about before the marriage? What are your thoughts on prenuptial agreements?
SB: It's a good question. Prenuptial agreements are simply a legally binding contract entered into by husband and wife before a marriage takes place. In most states [for the prenuptial] to be valid, that prenuptial agreement requires that each spouse have separate legal counsel - their own attorneys.
By nature, it raises this situation where in the weeks and days leading up to the wedding, the couple becomes adversaries. They are negotiating against each other to gain the upper hand, either directly or through their attorneys.
To me, that prenuptial agreement is undermining the foundation of the marriage from the get-go. It's as if you are going to build a nice new house, and you start to put cracks in the foundation intentionally, so the foundation is weak.
Marriage is supposed to be a commitment of 100%. I think that is reflected in the book of Genesis where marriage is described as husband and wife becoming one flesh, which implies the spiritual, physical, and emotional unity - oneness. A prenuptial literally comes between the spouses. It's as if they are saying rather than be 100% committed to each other, they are going to be maybe 95% committed to each. They are going to keep some things separate. They are going to have a plan for when the marriage crumbles later, an easy escape that is already charted, and they will know where they are going to stand in that.
I know this would go against the counsel of most attorneys, but I really honestly feel as a Christian attorney that prenuptial agreements are destructive of marriage, and Christian couples should think twice. If they are not ready to give 100% of everything to the other spouse, then why are they even getting into that marriage relationship?
Amazingly, I felt like I was kind of alone in giving this kind of advice as a Christian attorney. Recently, I found out -- you mentioned Pope John Paul II earlier in this interview -- this has actually been fairly well established in Catholic practice for a long time. A lot of Catholic attorneys are very uncomfortable with prenuptial agreements. I didn't know that, and I was really encouraged to find out that I wasn't alone after all.
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A few months ago I read through a Reddit thread waxing nostalgic about a Magic block about to rotate out of standard called "Innistrad." Players were especially fond of the top-down approach to the block, but were also enthusiastic about how the designers blended the approach with gameplay. I am unsure if the term "top-down" is standard in this context, but for magic designers it means to focus on story and theme and let those elements drive mechanics. The other way around would be considered bottom-up. Unaware of these terms until relatively recently in my career, I would definitely consider myself a bottom-up designer. Especially considering my overexposure to heavy top-down design that dictated poorly thought-out mechanics with unfortunate and unintentional effects. What made Innistrad so good was not just that it had great top-down design, but that it married it with great bottom-up mechanics, both of which complimented each other and made the other better. Innistrad, and this Reddit thread, also helped me appreciate the influence top-down design has in games, and that it can enhance good mechanics rather than juxtapose them.
How Plants vs Zombies and Starcraft are Basically the Same Game
What PvZ has in common with Starcraft, and a lot of other classic, economic real time strategy games is its economy ramp. In every stage (with some exceptions) you begin building a Sunflower, and as sun comes in you build more and more Sunflowers. Eventually you have quite the sun-farm, powering a zombie killing machine. What conflicts with your building of this huge, sun-farming machine is of course the zombies. These guys just don't want to give you the time to build your farm the way you want. There is, however, a super under-appreciated plant that let's you ramp your sun super fast (probably too fast) and I feel inclined to defend him since he is secretly the best plant in the game. It is of course, the Potato Mine.
The Right Mentality
Apparently I wrote a very similar post on my DOTA blog about losing. I think I may actually like this one more. Either way, this is a cheap way for me to update. I hope to get back to both of these blogs soon.
Jeff's post inspired me to write about something that I learned a while ago and what I think is critical information to, not only getting better at games, but getting better at anything.
I started working at Relic (Company of Heroes, Dawn of War) in 2008 in the QA department after leaving Electronic Arts. The most recent experience I had with RTS was actually Warcraft 3 and the original DOTA. I was semi-competitive in Warcraft 3, but I never really got good, and I also never really played solo. After working at Relic for about a year I became pretty close with the balance guys and they really opened my eyes to what it takes to get good at a game. The most important thing, above practice, is the right mentality.
Accepting Loss
One of the lessons I have learned as a game designer, that I appreciate the most, is learning that loss is part of getting better. Not only does losing increase your skill at a game, it increases your understanding of the game. Achieving the right mentality around loss is an extremely hard process and it requires getting over our own ego, or at least accepting that not all losses mean as much as we think they do. Once a player has the right mentality with regards to loss, he grows so much faster than before, and achieves a higher understanding of the game he is playing. This understanding is an invaluable asset for game designers, improving our ability to analyze and refine the mechanics of our games.
Progression versus Progression
Progression by now is no longer considered a buzzword, and it certainly isn't new. It is however, an extremely important element in both the mobile and free-to-play spaces. Progression is especially important in free-to-play because in order for these games to make money they need to engage the player over long periods of time. The longer a free-to-play game keeps the player interested, the more likely they are going to spend money in that game. In this article I am going to compare the traditional free-to-play progression model against Clash of Clan's and explain why I like SuperCell's version better.
I definitely plan to get back to part 2 of my relationships article, but for now I really want to gush over one of my favourite board games. I bought Smallworld as a Christmas gift for two of my friends, and taught them how to play it over the holidays. It took only about ten minutes to explain the rules and after a single game they were fully on board, requiring almost no clarification on the rules. This is testament to the intelligent design decisions made by Days of Wonder's designers. There are three things that I find exceptional about this game, and I am going to tell you about them.
Gameplay Relationships Part One: Weapon Relationships in Shooters
Game balance is often treated as something different, or complementary to core gameplay design. This is wrong. Balance forms relationships which are part of what makes up core gameplay. Weapon balance, vehicle balance, character balance, unit balance, economic balance. These are all informed by, and inform the core gameplay of a game. This is why game development is so difficult. You can't develop these things modularly in a vacuum and snap them together in the end. The most compelling games weave relationships together elegantly, but obtaining this elegance is a long, complicated process.
In order to understand the balance of a game we need to move one step higher to relationships. Specifically in this article I am going to discuss weapon relationships.
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Darts, a White Board, and Iteration
Iterative design is not my favourite thing in the world. It's not that I think it can't make a good game, but it is extremely time inefficient and usually the result of a lack of confidence in one's design. It is also the result of communal design, which usually lacks focus, but under the right circumstances can create something quite engaging, such as DOTA. This is the story of my iterative design — DartNations 3: 2 "The Dartening."
At work we have a white board and a bunch of nerf suction darts. In a game studio there can be down time; waiting to compile, waiting for a server to return, etc. Naturally the nerf darts are going to get a lot of play. Throwing darts at a blank board isn't all that entertaining, so I began to draw games on it. The first that I can remember was poker. I drew a bunch of squares up with cards on them and everyone tried for the highest hand. There were a few instant problems with that. The first being that you can get five of a kind with five darts, the second and far bigger problem is that the end game comes very quickly. The moment someone gets five of a kind, you are pretty much done. To improve this I changed the game to Yahtzee. Numbers in squares were drawn on the board and players would aim for the best score they could. It worked better than poker because the ultimate score was harder to achieve, gaining a longer end game. Yahtzee didn't hold our attention for long though, and thus was born "DartNations."
With the recommendation of a co-worker I have been playing a lot of 10000000 recently. It is a puzzle game for iOS where you match blocks to defeat monsters in a dungeon. There are a couple of critical design decisions that make this game incredibly addicting, and easy to reengage.
The two most important features I feel are its slightly random nature, and the fact that sessions remain short even as the player's score increases over time. I've been addicted to a couple player-versus-game puzzle games over the years. It started on Gameboy with Tetris and Revenge of the Gator Pinball, continued onto the PSP with Lumines, and now has landed here on iOS with 100000000. The problem with the previous games was that the better you got at them, the longer you had to play to come anywhere close to beating your previous score.


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What an incredibly stupid idea. The housing market is still in freefall in these areas and somebody has the bright idea to reduce the conforming loan limits? Have your reporters even been shopping in the high cost coastal areas? If they had they'd find that it is difficult to find a small single family home in a decent neighborhood even within the higher conforming loan limits.
What makes more sense – reduce the loan limits in other areas of the country where $417,000 buys a ridiculous sized mansion compared with what you could get in Manhattan or SF (a studio).
I totally agree with the previous comment, now is not the time to lower loan limits.
Too funny… can you say "close that door! wheres the horse?"
Boraxo has it completely right. Just as homeowners are trying to get relief from their upside down properties in the form of lower rates/better household cash flow, certain idiots decide to lower the conforming loan amounts. Sounds like the investor quoted in the article has only his own wallet in mind.
Avalanches killed at least 37 individuals Tuesday inside a remote northeastern province of Afghanistan and officials feared the death toll would rise.
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He said ladies and young children were amongst the dead and at the very least six others were injured.
The Badakshan governor, who was stranded by the avalanches, was taken by helicopter to neighboring Tajikistan, which was less complicated to reach than nearby regions of Afghanistan.Afghans have been suffering through a brutal winter with bitterly cold temperatures and heavy snowfall.
Although a sequel for "The Muppets" has been greenlit, one particular star who was integral to bringing the franchise into the new millennium will not be a component of it, reports Collider.
Jason Segel told the site he will not be signing up for yet another round with Kermit and Co. "It's true [that I will not be within the sequel]," stated Segel, "but it is entirely amicable. My goal was to bring the Muppets back and I did that, leaving them in very great hands." Segel said he wants "to pursue far more human-related projects," adding, "All I wanted to do was to set the stage for them to do whatever they wanted. I'm confident I'll return in some capacity right here and there, but that was half a decade of my life. 5 years of hard work. I am prepared for a little puppet break."
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"Ben Marcus is one of the most stunningly original and profoundly unsettling writers of his generation. His subtle kinks of syntax, his daring choices of individual words and combinations of them, which seem a quarter tone out but somehow wholly right, the reiterated concerns – a pervading sense of guilt, the surrealism of sexuality, dangerous but necessary generational relationships – do not make for easy reading. That is not to say that he is a difficult writer; merely that he deals with strong emotional material in a unique and experimental style. Reading Marcus is liable to induce a kind of literary vertigo."
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"Marcus's early writings strike me as extraordinary feats of transposition; their goal appears to be to create a linguistic simulacrum of a new medium or unknown dimension of being, in which familiar words and scenarios take on radically different kinds of implication, of weight or lightness, as if the laws of gravity had suddenly changed."
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"Ben Marcus achieved the startling visions of his first story collection, "The Age of Wire and String," and the novels "Notable American Women" and "The Flame Alphabet" largely by placing the reader in strange and unfamiliar worlds that turned out to be our world after all. The stories of his new collection, "Leaving the Sea," still contain peculiar linguistic and perceptual tics, but he has added to his arsenal narratives that are less relentlessly unfamiliar, less rigorously dis-enchanted, populated by characters full of longing and visible regret…"
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""Leaving the Sea" includes some of the best stories I have read in years. If you haven't yet read Marcus, "Leaving the Sea" is a magnificent, and magnificently discomfiting, place to start."
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We are ushering in the new year with one of the best literary magazines on this side of the ozone layer. We are so thrilled to be hosting Tin House, as well as these fine Tin House folk:
BEN MARCUS (Leaving the Sea, The Flame Alphabet, etc)
ALEXANDER MAKSIK (A Marker to Measure Drift, You Deserve Nothing)
KELLY LINK (Pretty Monsters, Magic for Beginners, etc)
8 pm at the corner of Second St. and Avenue A. 2A in the upstairs bar. As always, there will be $4 whiskeys on special for you all and there will be some books to peruse and purchase in the back.
Visit http://www.tinhouse.com/
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 7:00 P.M., City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco
Ben Marcus reads from
Leaving the Sea: Stories
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From one of the most innovative and vital writers of his generation, an extraordinary collection of stories that showcases his gifts—and his range—as never before.
In the hilarious, lacerating "I Can Say Many Nice Things," a washed-up writer toying with infidelity leads a creative writing workshop on board a cruise ship. In the dystopian "Rollingwood," a divorced father struggles to take care of his ill infant, as his ex-wife and colleagues try to render him irrelevant. In "Watching Mysteries with My Mother," a son meditates on his mother's mortality, hoping to stave off her death for as long as he sits by her side. And in the title story, told in a single breathtaking sentence, we watch as the narrator's marriage and his sanity unravel, drawing him to the brink of suicide.
As the collection progresses, we move from more traditional narratives into the experimental work that has made Ben Marcus a groundbreaking master of the short form. In these otherworldly landscapes, characters resort to extreme survival strategies to navigate the terrors of adulthood, one opting to live in a lightless cave and another methodically setting out to recover total childhood innocence; an automaton discovers love and has to reinvent language to accommodate it; filial loyalty is seen as a dangerous weakness that must be drilled away; and the distance from a cubicle to the office coffee cart is refigured as an existential wasteland, requiring heroic effort.
In these piercing, brilliantly observed investigations into human vulnerability and failure, it is often the most absurd and alien predicaments that capture the deepest truths. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.
Ben Marcus is the author of Notable American Women and The Age of Wire and String. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. The recipient of three Pushcart Prizes, a Whiting Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.
Daniel Levin Becker is reviews editor of The Believer, the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard, 2012), the translator of Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure (Melville House, 2013), and the youngest member of the Oulipo – ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or workshop for potential literature founded in 1961 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. He lives in San Francisco.]]>
Sunday, January 19th @ 7:30pm
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From Ben Marcus, one of the most innovative and vital writers of his generation, comes an extraordinary collection of stories that showcases his gifts — and his range — as never before. In these piercing, brilliantly observed investigations into human vulnerability and failure, it is often the most absurd and alien predicaments that capture the deepest truths. Surreal and tender, terrifying and life-affirming, Leaving the Sea (Knopf) is the work of an utterly unique writer at the height of his powers.
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For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect, (I Peter 1:18,19 NIV).
Jesus traded in His life so that you and I could receive ours. To Him, you and I were the prize – the treasure. But that's not all. He's made it possible for me to do a little bit of trading as well. I've traded in my pain for purpose, my hurt for hope, my mess for my message, my worry for trust, my soul sickness for spiritual health, my shame for forgiveness, my captivity for freedom, and the list goes on. What an abundance of treasures – much more valuable than an electric can opener or set of mixing bowls.
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Dear Lord, thank You for redeeming me! I have traded in my mourning for laughter, my weeping for rejoicing, my sickness for healing, my guilt for freedom, my sin for righteousness, my fear for faith, my weakness for Your strength, my insecurity for Your boldness, my inadequacies for Your supply. What a deal!
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Published at 11:30, Thursday, 07 June 2012
If anyone has been missing their daily dose of royal action over the past 24 hours, fear not.
For many of us, four days of constant flag waving and Queen watching just aren't enough.
And if you have missed out on any pomp and circumstance over the past few hours, don't forget the Trooping The Colour is due up in a few days...
For me, it has all been far too much.
I tried to avoid as much of the Diamond Jubilee extravaganza as possible. And I was annoyed at how anyone who didn't buy endless amounts of Jubilee tat, or take part in a street party or watch endless hours of boring TV was somehow committing an act of treason.
Since when have you had to be a royalist to be patriotic?
I was surprised at how heartened and uplifted I was to see so much bunting and so many Union flags hanging off houses, fences and gates and planted in gardens.
It would be great to see so much pride and decoration for St George's day next year.
I have to say that top prize for the best display of red, white and blue has to go to the good folk of Lonsdale Terrace, on the hill into Whitehaven.
I noticed it on my way to the town's Festival.
I had a marvellous weekend away from all the Jubilee-tastic happenings (especially all the televised stuff) enjoying festivals great and small at Whitehaven and Ireby.
For once, the rain stayed away from both events, though Whitehaven was affected by the poor weather that hit those down south over the weekend.
Some of Sunday's air display fly-overs had to be cancelled as downpours in the south kept planes grounded.
But the Red Arrows did make it and provided the highlight of the day for me and thousands of others.
Their astonishing close-formation display had the huge crowd spontaneously ooh-ing and clapping – even though there was no chance of the air-devil pilots hearing the applause.
Sad to say, the day was marred by a lack of buses for the park and ride scheme when the festival came to a close.
We and scores of others, including youngsters and toddlers, waited an hour to be ferried back to our cars.
Then two arrived at once!
Some people had even resorted to catching a taxi.
Why Reays couldn't have arranged for more buses to be available when the display ended at 5pm I don't know.
At least it wasn't raining.
Hopefully next year will see more buses on duty.
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