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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Congratulations, January 1949 Graduates of Brooklyn's Samuel J. Tilden High School!
We would like to congratulate the January 1949 graduates of Samuel J. Tilden High School who got their diplomas sixty years ago today.
Pages from the yearbook . . .
Poem by Flora Cohen . . .
The theme, by Bernard Schacter . . .
Principal Abraham Lefkowitz's message to the grads . . .
Staff of yearbook The Classic . . .
"What a Life" . . .
Senior Diary (features final semester events like Dewey's election as President). . .
Class celebrities . . .
Looking back . . .
Special congratulations to our mom, Marilyn Sarrett . . .
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Labels: 11203, 1949, Brooklyn, commencement, East Flatbush, graduation, Samuel J. Tilden High School, Tilden High School
Adding It Up: We review the February 1, 2009 Sunday New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review for February 1, 2009 is 24 pages.
The cover has no ads. Since other sections of the paper, including the front page, now have ads, we think ads would be a good idea here.
Page 2: Big ad for The New York Times Almanac with The Editors' "Up Front" column. Sorry, counts as no ads.
Page 3: Table of contents page has side ad for Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (a competitor of Dumbo Books!).
Page 4: Letters page has bigger side ad for Delta Trade Paperbacks' Polly Evans.
Page 5: First inside review page has little side ad for Delacorte Press.
Page 6: Little side ad for Other Press. (Notice the caps: we are not just trying not to name a competitor!)
Page 7: No ads.
Page 8: No ads.
Page 9: Nada.
Page 10: Nope.
Page 11: No ads.
Page 12: Bupkis.
Page 13: Nice pic of Joseph P. Kennedy, but no ads.
Page 14: Zilch.
Paga 15: Nothing in the way of ads.
Page 16: No ads.
Page 17: No ads.
Page 18: No ads.
Page 19: Nothing.
Page 20: No ads.
Page 21: Finally, big side ad next to paperback best sellers list. Wait, it's for The New York Times Store. Sorry, this doesn't count. Again, no ads.
Page 22: Okay, we have on the left side two real ads for University of Virginia Press and, oh, wait, it's The New York Times store again. And on the right, going down the page, a little box for the memoirs of a psychoanalyst that is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, just like Dumbo Books books! Then the book exchange with three classified ads (two "books wanted," one "printing related services") and then a larger ad for. . . The New York Times Store. Well, it is for a book.
Page 23: Essay page has no ads. What would Sontag do?
Page 24: Full-page ad in the back. Bauman Rare Books comes through again! Thanks, fellas! You are indeed a rare find.
Adding it up: Generously, two and one-third pages of ads out of 24 pages.
We are sending a dozen cannolis to the Times display advertising department so they will have something to keep their energy up this week.
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Labels: 10036, advertising, bad economy, depression, New York Times Book Review, publishing a book review as a public service, recession, Sam Tanenhaus
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Small Press Publisher Dumbo Books of Brooklyn, Converting to a Bank Holding Company, Announces Its Split into a "Good Publisher" and a "Bad Publisher"
Today we are issuing the following press release:
BROOKLYN, N.Y., January 29, 2009 - Small press publisher Dumbo Books of Brooklyn today announced that pending approval of its application to the Federal Reserve to convert into a bank holding company so that it will be able to accept deposits and be eligible for federal bailout funds, it will immediately split itself into a "good publisher" and a "bad publisher" in order to isolate toxic assets that could drive the company into bankruptcy and financial ruin.
Dumbo Books, the "good" publisher, will accept government bailout funds and refuse to lend any money to anyone.
Dumbo Books of Brooklyn, the "bad" publisher, will publish books by Brooklyn hipsters and Tao Lin's friends.
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Labels: 11201, bank holding company, bankruptcy, banks, Brooklyn, Brooklyn hipsters, Dumbo Books, Federal Reserve, hipsters, Tao Lin's friends
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sunday Afternoon in Williamsburg: Paping Pop-Up Theatre at Desert Island
Due to the severe cold today, the MGMT concert at the McCarren pool was canceled since the band would have had to wear clothes. The seven-block walk with this wind-chill factor would have been too much for us at our advanced age anyway.
Luckily there was something suitable for all ages a lot closer, at our favorite friendly neighborhood comic book store, the fabulous Desert Island. At 4 p.m. they were hosting a puppet show. Yay! With some real little kids in attendance.
The Pop-Up Theatre show was presented by Paping, the delightful comic zine masterminded by John Mejias, whose art is inspired by his experience as an art teacher at a Bronx elementary school. This was the troupe's inaugural performance of this three-act play, and we are here to tell you it was a triumphant debut.
The puppets here were flat cut-outs of people and animals, often featuring movable limbs - or not - drawn in that highly-patterned way that Mejias has made the trademark of his tales of life around kids in the New York City public schools. Everything went off without a hitch, except when the script called for a hitch.
John (Mr. M) - who, by the way, in real life also organized the famed Paping Soap Box Derby - narrated everything, but the other characters in the autobiographical slice-of-life also spoke their lines in distinct voices of other members of the troupe. Between each act was some appropriately wistful or whimsical musical interlude.
The first act, "The Dog Lost," was a non-shaggy dog tale wherein our art-teacher hero, trying to figure out what to have for lunch at his appointed hour of 10:15 a.m. (too early for pizza since they haven't fired the ovens, too soon for eggs again since he'd just had breakfast two hours before), is confronted with a lost, sick or confused dog and some kids looking toward him - he's a teacher, after all - to do something about the situation.
As the Facebook invitation noted, "While the show contains no curses, nudity or bloodshed, children are in danger of finding out that public school teachers don't always know what they are doing."
The second act, "Victimless Crimes," explains what happens when all the parents in the school impress their kids - and sometimes the school secretary - with the repeated admonition, "If anyone hits you, hits them back." (Fortunately, the big kid we punched in the jaw in fourth grade at P.S. 203 had a Quaker mom.) And what happens when a principal tries to control one of those totally wild kids and meets with the boy's large angry grandfather and his two large angry friends. Early retirement was the perfect denouement.
The piece de resistance, the third act tour de force (we saw Sen. John Kerry on TV today so that must explain the French) "Where Theres Smoke Theres Smoke" - we might have been too nearsighted to see any apostrophes in the jaunty title card - features a mysterious P.A. announcement, a "not too bad, not too good, fun art class," a fire drill, a hysterical first-grader with a fish stick in his mouth, plus boys on a roof pelting the school's students (and us, the audience, with eggs.
Oh, and smoke. Lots of smoke. Unexplained smoke. But everything was quite neatly left unexplained throughout the show. The little kids liked it, the hipsters liked it, the few old poople [sic] liked it, the performers' relatives loved it. ("Did you see the arms? I made them," said the woman standing next to us. "Good work, Mom," said the woman behind her.)
Good work, Mr. M and the entire Paping Pop-Up Theatre troupe. We hope you sold a lot of books after the performance. And, as always, good work, Desert Island. People, go buy some comics and books there.
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Labels: 11211, Desert Island comics, John Mejias, Paping, Pop-Up Theatre, puppet show, Williamsburg
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Saturday Night in Williamsburg: Opening Reception for Nathan Kensinger's "Abandoned Brooklyn" at UnionDocs
Having spent thirty winters in Florida, Phoenix and California, we tend to hibernate in New York when the wind-chill factor drops below 20 degrees. For those of us born in the Truman administration, a January Saturday night means looking forward to diet hot cocoa and reading the Sunday New York Times online. Inside.
But tonight we made an exception and put on our thermal underwear so we could see the talented filmmaker and photographer Nathan Kensinger, whose Abandoned Brooklyn exhibit opened with a reception and screening of his documentary Covered Tracks at UnionDocs, a documentary arts collaborative whose space is a convenient if brisk seven-block walk from Dumbo Books HQ here in windswept Williamsburg.
Despite spending over an hour feeling as though we had been packed in olive oil into a vacuum-packed Angelo Parodi can, braving the cold for a crush of wall-to-wall hipsters was worth it for this kickoff of a new season of UnionDoc's Documentary Bodega screening series. We knew it would be from having seen Kensinger's Brooklyn waterfront photos last summer during one of our warm-weather treks to the Grand Army Plaza central library.
Gothamist said of the artist and this new exhibit:
Nathan Kensinger is an urban explorer, filmmaker, location scout and photographer. Illegally accessing areas that normal folks don't usually see, his photos give everyone a glimpse at what's inside the restricted areas. His work has landed in the Brooklyn Museum and Library in the past, and now he has a new show about to open at Union Docs called "Abandoned Brooklyn," which shows "the rapid pace of development along the waterfront has been reshaping many old industrial neighborhoods" in the borough.
And from our friends at Gowanus Lounge:
[Nate's] work explores off-limits parts of the urban landscape. For the last five years, he has been documenting the industrial neighborhoods of New York City. His documentary "Covered Tracks" - which explores an abandoned homeless city underneath Manhattan - is currently screening at festivals around the country including Slamdance, The Boston Underground and Rooftop Films.
In 2008, his photos of Brooklyn's endangered industrial waterfront were exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and in a solo show at the Brooklyn Library titled "Twilight on the Waterfront: Brooklyn's Vanishing Industrial Heritage."
We were one of the last people who could stuff themselves into a space clearly not designed for so many Brooklynites with so many layers of clothing. After paying our suggested $5 donation (OK, they let us get away with four singles, all we had outside of a twenty), we somehow made our way to the photos on the south wall and soon found ourselves pinned in a tight spot.
Luckily, we were standing up against a gorgeous photo of an abandoned hangar from Floyd Bennett Field, near where we grew up (P.S. 203, where in 1962 we were in the first sixth-grade class to graduate the former K-8 school, is still the Floyd Bennett School) and which we passed all the time on our bike and on sometimes daily car trips to Rockaway - back in the day when the Air National Guard and other units still flew planes we could see from our house.
(In the late 1970s Floyd Bennett Field was home to the New York Avant-Garde Festival, where we once witnessed a woman dressed as a giant penis being asked to take off her "obscene" costume by a harried National Park Ranger - by then it had become part of Gateway National Recreation Area - sighing that he was "just doing my job.")
At 7:30 p.m., everyone was asked to sit down on the floor if possible - for us, it was definitely not, due to space limitations, but only art and wall were behind us - and a member of the UnionDocs collective thanked us for coming and introduced the evening's two documentaries. The first was a short piece directed by Joe Pacheco that shows Kensinger at work exploring an abandoned sanitation depot on Kent Avenue.
It was fascinating to see Kensinger in action (though we noticed he moves very deliberately, since as he says, the floors or ceilings in these abandoned spaces can give way suddenly due to rot) and to hear him expound on the beauty of these not-so-bare ruined choirs. The Kent Avenue sanitation depot has memos on the bulletin board dating back to 1987, and at times it looks like the place was left hurriedly. . .
Covered Tracks is a wordless, starkly beautiful look at the abandoned rail tunnel under Riverside Park and the rest of the west side of Manhattan. People used to live here, and we remember them from the 1980s when we'd spend most summers and some autumns staying with our BFF on West 85th and Riverside and hang out a lot in Riverside Park a few blocks down by the Boat Basin. They were mostly middle-aged guys and their girlfriends and had pretty neat spaces; one guy we recall (Doug?) used to sell books on Broadway.
Anyway, trains run through that tunnel again - Covered Tracks ends with a shot of an affluent-looking little kid on what seems like an Amtrak passenger car - but the remains of the Mole People and other residents of the tunnel and tracks are evident: photos of "family" life down there, forlorn old dolls, discarded clothes and cooking supplies. Kensinger's cinematography makes good use of shadows, allowing us to speculate on the lives lived and lost there. (Holy moley, at one point we see a human skull in profile!)
After the films, we all sat (some of us stood) frozen in place if not in temperature, as Nathan Kensinger answered a few questions about his work and how he came to explore these abandoned spaces. He says that when he goes to a city, like Paris, he tends to look for thse kind of places rather than tourist attractions - perhaps because they tell him more about everyday life, and death. Memento mori.
The backyard to UnionDocs was opened up after the Q&A and we managed to move again (we're glad we're not all that claustrophobic), and having been hemmed in by hipsters for so long, we were grateful for the cold night air as we made our way back to Dumbo Books HQ, where for once we were grateful that we are living all alone in a huge seven-bedroom house which will never be part of abandoned Brooklyn.
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Labels: 11211, Abandoned Brooklyn, Brooklyn, documentaries, Floyd Bennett Field, Joe Pacheco, Kent Avenue, Nathan Kensinger, photography, Riverside Park, UnionDocs, Williamsburg
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Sunday Afternoon in Williamsburg: El Puente's 22nd Annual Three Kings Day Celebration Show
We've just come back from El Puente's fabulous 22nd annual Three Kings Day celebration and a terrific afternoon of drama, music and dance at the Grand Street Campus High Schools.
Thanks to El Puente's Theresa Doherty, we got mailed our tickets while we were still in sunny and warm Phoenix earlier this week, because otherwise we couldn't have gotten in along with the hundreds of others into the campus's nicely-appointed auditorium for the 1 p.m. show.
We got there early (all of us were asked to bring a donation of a can or box of nonperishable food for to the Southside Mission Food Pantry to help to support its
life-saving work) and although we skipped an audience and photo session with the Three Kings, we did watch the kids 12 and under pose with them and receive brightly-wrapped gifts, courtesy of the Hispanic Federation and Councilmember Diana Reyna.
As we settled down to our seats with little ones on both sides of us, we admired the auditorium's murals and then focused on the sneak preview of the revived PBS Kids show Electric Company, an episode featuring high-tech prankster Manny Spamboni, played by the multi-faceted Dominic Colón, theater director of Teatro El Puente, who wrote today's show and directed it along with Piper Anderson, El Puente's arts coordinator.
This was the fourth year in a row Colón and Anderson wrote and directed the show (this year, with help from Sasha Dobos-Czarnocha), and it was funny, fast-moving, and filled with young talent. First, Frances Lucerna, El Puente's executive director, introduced the afternoon show (a second show is at 5 p.m.), giving us a little history about the 22 years of Día de los Reyes celebrations and thanking the Community Preservation Corporation and other sponsors of the event.
Then El Puente founder and president Luis Garden Acosta spoke, in both Spanish and English, about the ideals of community and how, in these difficult economic times, it's necessary to continue the fight for freedom and justice of the United States' own King, Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we celebrate tomorrow. At the mention of the next day's inauguration of President Barack Obama, the crowd applauded enthusiastically.
Finally, the house lights dimmed, and the show - "Latinoman, Defender of the Barrio" - began. It was an incredibly professional production, from the evocative sets to the flashy and well-styled costumes to the acting and amazing choreography.
The show was in the tradition of The Wizard of Oz and other fantasies involving adolescents who are magically whisked into an alternate reality and discover that the home they grumbled about was indeed the best place of all.
Rey (played by the talented Jose Morales), is a cranky adolescent who tells his sister, abuela and abuelo that he wants no part of the Three Kings Day holiday beloved by his much-missed late mother -- Rey says his friends think that his family celebrates January 6 because they're cheap and like to buy bargain gifts -- but once Rey gets transported into the world of a comic book superhero, Latinoman, thanks to his grandfather's present, he learns to appreciate his family and community's traditions.
With a giant Latinoman comic cover looming above (it looks remarkably like the work of Jack Kirby), Rey discovers himself in the very weird city of Billyburg, where the Mayor (Sean Carvajal) is a green-haired, chalk-white-faced, purple-gloved amalgam of the Joker and Michael Bloomberg, who plots to stop the traditional So'sida residents from celebrating Three Kings Day (their anti-traditional No'sida adversaries tend to wear outrageous hipsterish outfits) and get rid of the people's champion, superhero Latinoman.
The whole show works on several levels. For the kids, there is robust, rollicking comedy, but for some of the adults, the satire is sharp (the Joker-like Mayor, with the help of his aide Conalisa Lies [Rose Rivera], schemes to quickly get the City Council to let him keep his control over the city forever). Latinoman (Chris Then), in both his superhero outfit and in his secret identity as the laconic Tino, who befriends Rey, is refreshingly low-key.
The varied choreography by Ros Nash and Arkadiusz "Erock" Lesniak -- from very young kids dressed as angels accompanying Rey's now-angel mother (Nikaury Acosta, who earlier does a nice turn as Rey's abuela) in "on Angel's Wings" to amazing b-boying in several dances, including "Heroes vs. Evil: The Battle for 3 Kings," set to Hans Zimmerman's "Introduce a Little Anarchy" from the Dark Night soundtrack but reminiscent of the fight scenes in the campy 1960s Batman TV show - is so stunning that even the few squawling babies fell silent.
The lesson that one's community, culture and traditions are important goes down easily, and even a cynical adult never feels this production talks down to kids or skirts being saccharine. The show is never less than vibrant, even in its more serious moments, and it builds to a celebratory conclusion as Rey is transported back home to Brooklyn, now more than ready to join in his family's Three Kings Day celebration with his worldly-wise grandfather (author and co-director Dominic Colón).
The cast and crew and everyone associated with El Puente's Three Kings Day show well deserved the enthusiastic applause as they took their bows. It's wonderful that our community has so many talented people, young and not-so-young, who must have worked very hard for weeks to put on this production enjoyed by the hundreds of people there. Thanks to all.
It may be a little late, but ¡Feliz Día de los Tres Reyes Magos!
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Labels: 11211, Dominic Colon, El Puente, Frances Lucerna, Grand Street Campus High Schools, Latino heritage, Luis Garden Acosta, Southside, Teatro El Puente, Three Kings Day, Williamsburg
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Friday Night in Tempe: Changing Hands Bookstore presents "Paperback Dreams" Film & Discussion on Future of Indie Bookstores
For the second Friday evening in a row, we headed for everybody's favorite Arizona bookstore, Changing Hands, to see a fascinating film, Paperback Dreams, and a discussion afterwards on the future of indie bookstores and Changing Hands' important role in the culture of metro Phoenix. It was another of the many wonderful events at this Tempe mainstay. (And given the subject of the one-hour documentary, the struggles of two venerable Bay Area bookstores, we stress the "stay" in "mainstay.")
We hurried over as best we could from Apache Junction after dinner, but getting to Tempe's McClintock Drive store just five minutes before the 6 p.m. starting time for the film, we saw that the room was full. But then we were told they'd be moving the screening out on the bookstore floor because of the huge crowd, which to us looked like about a hundred people.
The screen was brought out and lots of chairs set up. We sat in the back row but had a great view of the film and the discussion afterwards with bookstores owners Bob Sommer and Gayle Shanks and marketing director Cindy Dach, as well as the cool poster from Indie Bound on the back wall.
Rachel came up after everyone was seated, welcoming us to the "oldest and largest independent bookstore" in our community. All of us got hands stamped, good for discounts at various local stores and bars that night. Rachel suggested that a good book to go with the movie was Larry McMurtry's Books, an account of the adventures in bookselling by the Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning writer. After a little trouble, Paperback Dreams began, and for a quick hour we got the story of two years in the life (and death) of two great indie bookstores, Cody's and Kepler's.
We loved both stores when we were living in Silicon Valley for several months during the winter and spring of 1998 although we went to Kepler's on Camino Real just a few times and Cody's on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley just once (a trip we remember well because our rear-view mirror fell off midway there and had to be fixed in Oakland).
You can find great stuff on the film's website on both Cody's and Kepler's. As Bob Sommer said before the screening, Cody's on Telegraph Avenue played an important role in the Berkeley Free Speech movement of the 1960s (Mario Savio even worked there for a while!) and served, as the film showed, as not just a meeting place but an emergency first aid station during the beatings of students by police.
Both stores were focal points in the changing of a culture. Paperback books, really really cheap, played an important part in the counterculture, not just for literature but for ideas. As college students, we carried around worn copies of books by Marx, Engels, Marcuse, Fanon, Mao, Du Bois, Mailer, Baldwin, Germaine Greer, Simone de Beauvoir, etc. as well as our Pynchon, Plath, D.H. Lawrence, Vonnegut, Hesse, Albee, Pinter, Salinger, Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Wolfe et al. literary books and teachers assigned us Future Shock, The Greening of America, The Population Bomb, The Story of O and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. We talked in an interview with The Written Nerd about the indie bookstores in Brooklyn and Manhattan where we spent many spellbound hours in our teens and twenties.
But it's not 1969 or even 1975 anymore. Reading habits have changed, the Internet is omnipresent, and chains (what Gayle called "the B stores") and big-box stores (Wal-Mart, Costco, etc.) that use ultra-cheap books as loss leaders have made the indie bookstore an endangered species. Paperback Dreams shows Andy Ross of Cody's and Clark Kepler facing dwindling crowds and sales, financial woes, and a culture in which their once-loyal customers have cheated on them with Amazon.com and other online retailers.
We're betting Fred and Pat Cody and Roy Kepler would not be starting their legendary bookstores today but doing something else to benefit society. As Paperback Dreams shows, they were valiant idealists who struggled against bigotry and ignorance (Kepler's was bombed by neo-Nazis who thought the store was un-American) but managed to thrive by being part of a vibrant group of people in the Bay Area who wanted to change the world one book at a time.
The equally idealistic Andy Ross's opening of a megastore branch on San Francisco's Stockton Street in 2005 seems, in retrospect, like a very noble fool's errand. We remember during the community campaign to resuscitate Kepler's, there were those who were skeptical (though they're not shown in the film).
Anyway, the film has some amazing clips of historical events, readings with famous writers, and talks with ordinary book-lovers whose lives were changed by their hours in Kepler's and Cody's, and it ends on an uncertain but hopeful note. Paperback Dreams is definitely worth seeing.
The long discussion following the film was fascinating. Gayle and Bob said that while others viewed the film You've Got Mail as a romantic comedy, to them it was kind of a tragedy when Meg Ryan's indie bookstore is imperiled by Tom Hanks' family's chain. However, even the chains are suffering, and Borders may be close to bankruptcy; they couldn't succeed on Mill Avenue in a space that Changing Hands had looked at when they left the street, and one suspects CH might have thrived there, since they are an important part of the community.
That was evident in the comments of many in the audience, some of whom were taken to the store as little kids and "grew up" there and who are now loyal customers.
It's understandable that people might be price-sensitive. Cindy related that when they had their Harry Potter celebration, they ran out of books and went over to Costco to get some more. Costco, which receives a price break on books which they use as loss-leaders to bring people into their stores, charged them retail what they (as retailers) had to pay Scholastic for the books. So the competition between indie bookstores and big-box stores isn't exactly fair.
There was much talk about "buying locally." That said, Bob agreed that it might be understandable that someone in east Mesa (or, like us, out in Apache Junction) might not want to spend the gas money and enlarge our carbon footprint by driving 15 miles to Changing Hands when they could get a book on Amazon. Of course, you can't browse the shelves on Amazon, meet friends there, or get out of the house...
The discussion included lots of interesting history about Changing Hands, why they left Mill Avenue after the 1980s heyday (too many football games on weekends that scared off customers, terrible parking). One person in the crowd summed up most people's feeling about Changing Hands when she called it "a gathering place" that is important in a metro area like Phoenix (which Cindy said was "an awful place" in terms of culture when she arrived 22 years ago).
It seemed funny when Gayle said she didn't know how many people would show up for the screening of Paperback Dreams. She thought it might be as few as half a dozen and she could take them all out for a drink next door afterward. Needless to say, with about a hundred in the crowd, we were on our own when the discussion ended - though thanks to our hand stamps, we could get discounts ourselves!
Thanks to everyone at Changing Hands for a great evening. And Bay Area indie bookstores are indeed surviving, as this story in the San Francisco Chronicle attests:
Defying conventional wisdom, and despite what you hear every time a landmark bookstore closes - Stacey's on Market Street is the latest example - independent bookstores are thriving in San Francisco.
And, thank our lucky stars, at least one independent bookstore is thriving in Tempe.
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Labels: 85283, Bob Sommer, Changing Hands Bookstore, Cindy Dach, Cody's Books, Gayle Shanks, Kepler's Books, Paperback Dreams
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2007 Mazda MX-5 Miata Values
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2007 model year changes
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I think so.It looks like the sequel to Man of Steel is apparently been greenlit. And, they've been teasing for Justice League Superman in the black and white costume.
The Justice League is probably picking up with Superman still being "dead" in the beginning. Not the first time a black and white costume has been used by Superman. The black suit is probably worn by a Clone or android duplicate? It's been mentioned in several mediums that Superman tended to have duplicate robots of himself who could act in his place. The Justice Lord Superman wore black and white? In the animated Doomsday movie, Superman wore a black and white suit while he was recovering in the healing tank in the Fortress of Solitude. They also mentioned that at some point in the Justice League movie, Superman will be sporting a more traditional, "colorful" suit and the trademark curl in his hair.
Wow...I wonder if Sony realizes how stupid their ideas are. Spiderman into mudrunning? Snap Chat and Dubstep? They do realize he was supposed to be a nerd hero right?
Well to be fair making him a kid does present challenges to portraying the character in the modern era.
Yeah but does it really? I know being a kid now is much different than when I was in highschool and such...only a few years ago But still it feels like they are going with what's trendy and itl age badly in a month.
The cast of Teen Wolf has been in high school for the past 6 seasons. I think I saw somewhere Tom Holland just turned 20. If they portray Spider-man in his senior year, it could work. Though, from what I'm hearing, adding more characters, I have to wonder if they have thought it through the about adding so many characters. They confirmed that Zendaya is playing Mary Jane Watson.There has been so many different things done with Superman its hard to keep track. DC did a lot of stuff with their Elseworlds and parallel universes.
Going back to the Sam Raimi movies, he got it right. Kicked the movie off with Peter being in his senior year then moving on to the college which made it a bit easier for Peter to engage in his webslinging heroics. How are they going to justify Iron Man being in the movie? Is the Spider-Man movie taking place before Captain America: Civil War? Or after events of Civil War? It would be kind of odd to have an origin story taking place after the character has already appeared in a movie prior to the release of Spider-Man's solo movie.
Speaking of the Symbiote..I kind of wouldn't mind seeing Agent Venom at some point. Maybe Agent Venom vs. Frank Castle and then the two teaming up.
Is there a version of Agent Venom that doesn't involve the Venom symbiote? I could swear that was just a codename Flash Thompson used, even without having any connection to the symbiote. But unless this is going to lead into the Sony-led Spider-Verse type of spinoff series, I wouldn't count on it. But then anything could happen, really.
Meh I still like the thought
I understand. I do love him being on the team in Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors. I ship the hell out of Spidey and White Tiger.
*fistbumps for having the same ship*
I think the problem with Spider-Man being a nerd hero in this day and ages is that nerds are widely accepted and embraced by society more so than they were in the 60s. I could probably make a joke about nerds for nerd roles and Big Bang Theory though. So you have to look for other marginalized social groups, and that way leads to goth Spider-Man and no one wants to see that. I think that's why the Amazing Spider-Man movies tried to make him a general outsider (but suffers from not having any real reason for him to be ostracized).
I think its at the point where kids get ostracized just beacause. They single out one kid and just harass and bully them.
Well they have him living in what looked like a fairly nice place with his aunt, yet he's so poor he can't even afford a computer and has to dumpster-dive? I mean, I can't speak for every state in the country, but aren't there organizations out there that make sure any student who needs a computer gets one? It just added an unnecessary complication to his backstory that makes no sense rather than adding anything substantial.
Most organizations like this are dependent upon household income. If his aunt can afford even an okay-ish apartment in NYC, she likely brings in too much money to be able to buy him a computer, and it's very likely, since again it's in NYC, that they're barely making ends meet, so saving up to get him one isn't an easily achieved dream. I'm in a similar position IRL, and I live in MD. I make too much to get help from most programs, but I can barely keep food on the table and a roof over our heads.
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The Palestinian court decided to suspend the elections also because of a legal challenge filed on behalf of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, who would not be allowed to vote.
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Crosses and Cross Artwork by Dorsi
A Little History of My Art Journey
Most of my close friends and family know that in addition to being a writer I am also an artist. I have been a commercial artist for over 30 years and been actively doing art since I was 5 years old. Art has been my best friend through many trials and tribulations in my life.
Over the years my art has surfaced in many different ways - and the Cross Series is one way that it surfaced several years ago after I lost both my parents. God gave me an outlet - my art - and through grief and pain some of my most beautiful artwork was produced during that period.
The Cross Series was done using Adobe Illustrator CS2 software. There were many late nights spent at the computer learning, tweaking and creating. It was a wonderful, restorative and healing period for me.
I hope you enjoy the Cross Artwork Series. I have a Zazzle store that I am working on that you can actually buy just about anything under the sun using these images (including US Postal stamps with these designs) It is a work in process. These images are copyrighted but if there is a special project you want to use them for feel free to contact me.
In addition to adobe illustrator and graphic design I am also a painter and currently work as a photographer. My mediums have included oil, watercolor, acrylics, pastels, pen and ink, charcoal, clay and even recycled materials. I believe my creative gifts are God given and seek to use them for His glory.
God bless and I hope you enjoy the artwork. Please also feel free to visit my other hubs on artwork that I have done:
"He is Alive" - Cross Artwork Series
He is Alive - The Inspiration
"He is Alive" was inspired by my belief that Jesus and God are alive and vibrant in our lives. The colors represent the beauty of God and the fire of God that lives in us through Him. I used a lot of colors because this is the way that I see God - full of life and brilliance. The symbols on the sides of the cross are actually people dancing around God with joy (some people interpret them as crosses but they actually represent people dancing) If we allow God into our hearts He can be a very active and living daily part of our life. The way we treat people and the love we show them shows the world that "He is Alive" - through us.
"He is Alive" - Cross Artwork Series (Screen Saver Version)
The screen-saver version of "He is Alive" was created for use as a desktop screen-saver. I was honored when it was also used one year for an Easter Service multi-media presentation at Mission Springs Community Church in Fremont, Ca. Although my artwork is copyrighted please feel free to copy and paste this version if you would like to use it as a screen-saver on your computer. If this artwork speaks to you then please be blessed by using it.
This digital art was created with Adobe Illustrator CS2 software (as all the prints in the series were) - but an interesting side note is that the background for "He is Alive" was actually a picture of the sky that I took one day with my camera phone. The sky looked like it was on fire that day and I merged the photo into the background of the cross.
"The Fruits of the Spirit" - Cross Artwork Series
As I think about all the things that the cross signifies to me, I realize that not only is God alive but that he is our provider, sustenance and the very food that we should be feasting of. "The Fruits of the Spirit" is inspired by Gods provision in our lives and the unending feast we have when we have Him in our lives. He provides a bountiful feast of love, forgiveness and joy when we allow Him to take control of our lives. We never face famine with Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit indwelling in our lives.
"One with God"- Cross Artwork Series
Some people think this is a rather strange rendition of the cross but for me "One with God" actually represents the holy state of marriage. When we get married we become one with Christ and can rejoice that there is a third party to help keep us together in our commitment. Although my marriage has had many rough patches I believe that because of the presence of God in our lives He is what has held and bound us together. "One with God" is a little edgy but isn't that what marriage is all about sometimes?
"He is our Jewel" - Cross Artwork Series
You'll notice that the cross "He is Our Jewel" has not only jewels but also blood splatters.
For me the cross not only represents Jesus dying on It but it also represents the treasure we have in life. Suffering , pain and love all walk together with us throughout life. Through the cross however we have the most ultimate jewel we could ever obtain - forgiveness.
Many people think well I don't need to be forgiven! But we all do. We all do things wrong at some point in our life and need to ask for forgiveness. Sometimes we are stubborn and hold onto grudges but God can't work with us if we never admit that we have problems and need help.
We all need that treasure that God has waiting for us - the free gift of Forgiveness.
The Evergreen Cross - Cross Artwork Series
The Evergreen Cross was inspired by my love of the garden stories in the Bible. God constantly shows me amazing things about life through my garden. When both my parents died and my life seemed over, God gave me the inspiration to create a garden in my yard. Through that garden I began to see that life went on and that things that died were not always as they seemed. I began to be renewed through the new life that came out of the dirt and this inspired me to be creative again through the use of color, texture and smell. Gods gift of art surfaced in that garden and I saw that God is evergreen and always showing us new ways to grow.
Jesus may have "died" on the cross but He gave us "new life" by doing so.
"He Loves Us So Much" - Cross Artwork Series
Remember making those cute love letters with all those XOXO's attached at the end by your name? Maybe you still even add those in your correspondence as an adult. "He Loves Us So Much" was inspired by the love that God has for us and the love letter he sent us via the Holy Bible. He loves us so much that we could never ever begin to even imagine the depths of his love. He could write XOXOXO's across the globe and it still would never match the amount of love He has for us - so much love that he sent His only son to die for our sins so that we could be forgiven for our sins. Although many people get offended by the word sin and don't think they have that attribute, just look around you. None of us are perfect, we all fall short but God is always there loving us no matter what and that is what inspired "He Loves Us So Much" -because He does.
"Tough Love" - Cross Artwork Series
As the years have gone by and I have grown in my relationship with God, I have begun to realize that suffering and love often walk hand in hand. Knowing that Jesus died on the cross so that my sins could be forgiven reminds me that Gods love for me must be an ultimate kind of love to make that sacrifice for me. Could you imagine sending your only son onto a cross to die a horrible death so that some miserable people that didn't even appreciate it would be saved?
Because that's exactly what God did for us. He sent someone he loved to die for us so we could have his ultimate love and forgiveness. "Tough Love" is what I call it. And whenever I want to have a pity party because my life seems so unfair I think about what God did for me - and that at the very heart of the cross lies Love, bound together with the nails and thorns of suffering.
"Wings of Freedom" - Cross Artwork Series
Although some people only think of suffering when they think of Jesus dying on the cross, I also think of the freedom that His dying on the cross represents. Through His death God gave us freedom to have a fresh start. He always gives us second chances...and more...and more..because He wants us to be the best we can be. He never gives up on us. We have freedom through Him to be whatever we want, to have free will, to paint on our own canvas of life. "Wings of Freedom" was inspired by the beautiful freedom we have with God. Using butterflies reminds me that we can change from hairy caterpillars to beautiful butterflies through Him. God formed us, sin deformed us and God transforms us!
(Thank-you for viewing my artwork and I hope you enjoyed it)
Poll on the Cross Series and God
Did this artwork and writing help you see God in a different light?
Wow, you are indeed an accomplished artist. Your interpretation is revealing. The story behind doing this is very interesting. Yes I saw God little differently from the point of art.
Dorsi, I absolutely love what you've done here! I never would have thought to take something like the cross and convert it to an art form like you have done. Absolutely amazing - and inspirational! I really like the "Evergreen" rendering as it shows that you know how to use the various attributes of Illustrator's functions and apply them with an artist's eye. The stroke volume in the piece or the decision to not use a stroke speaks to me as an aspiring artist. Very well done!
The farmers around by us place crosses in the fields each spring to bless the harvest and they are just like little pieces of art as well. Interesting images Dorsi, thanks.
I love art very much. These all beautiful. Good work, Dorsi. You are very talented artist. I really appreciate your art work. Vote up.~prasetio
Outstanding and glorious artwork.
The artword here is great!
Absolutely gorgeous artwork with an astounding amount of heart!
You are truly gifted, Dorsi.
Very beautiful work.
This is wonderful idea you had there. Really outstanding artwork. Thank you for sharing.