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PIPA Prize 2018 finalist and first-time nominee this year, avaf is the second artist interviewed for the exclusive conversation series with PIPA Institute curator Luiz Camillo Osorio. In this interview, avaf – at times a collective project, at times a solo one run by Eli Sudbrack, and always written in small letters – talks about the choice of this intriguing pseudonymous, short for assume vivid astro focus. Between Rio de Janeiro (the artist's birth town), São Paulo (a city in where he lived in for some time) and New York (where he also lived in for years), avaf gathers references from this displacement experiences, the discovery and ecstasy towards life and the other. Here, avaf comments the references to the collective's works, that incorporate ideas and images from pop culture, internet, art theory, NY's 70's/80's/90's clubs/discos, Vogue Balls, etc. The freedom of speech, the pursuit of pleasure, the body and the dissolution of authorship and normative identity notions are some of the subjects avaf addresses in his artworks – generally, immersive installations that involve the spectator in colors, lights, sounds and images. Although the visual exuberance of his projects, avaf says that, however, "the result which we expected to produce in the spectator is the calm we feel when encountering something that is intrinsically 'ours' and which defines us."
LUIZ CAMILLO OSORIO in conversation with avaf
Dear Eli, dear AVAF (Assume Vivid Astro Focus). I think it's interesting to start off by using these names. Tell us a bit about how AVAF came into being. Are there any works by Eli prior to the emergence of this duo? When you work on your own is it just a question of individual production instead of working in partnership? Are there poetic differences between your work and that of AVAF?
First of all, some important information about my background related to working collectively and using a pseudonym: I studied cinema and not art (despite having taken several art courses at Parque Lage). Unfortunately I graduated at the end of the administration of President Collor. Embrafilme no longer existed and nobody was making any films. I started to get interested in photography and moved to São Paulo at the end of 1991.
In São Paulo I enrolled on a course entitled "Fotografia e a Lucidez Irônica" ("Photography and Ironic Lucidity") (04/05 – 29/06/1992 ) with Rubens Mano at Oficina Três Rios. Rubens became my mentor: I was a student and then became his assistance. Some time after this, I did a kind of group show with him, Everton Ballardin and José Fujocka Neto: Panoramas da Imagem (Panoramas of the Image) (1992-1998). Through the Panoramas we organized discussions about the idea of photography that were expanded through exhibitions ("Novíssimos"- "Brand New"), lectures and workshops. At that time, discussions about photography were still very much limited to the medium itself and our aim was to broaden them to the visual arts (following the example of some artists: Rosângela Rennó, Paula Trope – the two were my teachers at Parque Lage, Rubens himself, etc).
In 1997 I began giving classes on the Photography 2 course to students in the final year of the plastic arts course at FAAP (Edu Brandão ran the Photography 1 course). On my course I decided not to limit myself only to photography but to talk about the plastic arts generally. An important part of my classes was monitoring the studio work with the students and I decided to evaluate any kind of work that the students brought me – not only photographic work. I began to realize that it wasn't just me who was influencing the students in our critical conversations about their work but that there was actually an exchange taking place between us; the students also "infected" me with their ideas. I then began to think about a "collective consciousness"; about people who did not necessarily live together creatively on a day-to-day basis, but who were connected by visions of the world and common beliefs.
In early 1998, I developed a series of "false" touristy post-cards of the city of São Paulo ("São Paulo Turística" – "Touristy São Paulo"). And for this series of works I created my first pseudonym: Diamantino. My aim with this series of works was that the postcards were not necessarily seen as "works of art" – I inserted them covertly into newspaper stands in the city and wanted them to circulate like "normal" post-cards – and that's why I used the pseudonym at that time.
At the end of 1998 I moved to NY to "study" photography at ICP (International Center of Photography): a mere excuse to leave São Paulo. It was the time of the Internet boom and I ended up focusing my course more on the Web. I ended up landing a job as editor of a website/calendar of artistic events. This was also a time of imminent conservatism: Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky, George Bush, 09/11. In parallel to this, in the world of the art, the cult of the "art star" or celebrity artist was exploding.
When September 11th happened, I lost my job and decided to devote myself once again to a more creative practice. However, I had already become completely exhausted with photography and wanted to explore other media. I began to draw again (a practice which I hadn't pursued since adolescence) and to visit the image section of the New York Public Library. There I selected images of different subjects. I photocopied them and traced the images using acetate sheets. These images were then scanned and manipulated using Photoshop/Illustrator. It was at this time that I embarked on a process of frequently appropriating images of flowers, architecture, design, graffiti, works of other artists, images from Pop culture, etc.
At this time I again began to think about using a pseudonym. My first intention with the pseudonym was to work with other people (always friends) under a name that encompassed us all equally. Through the pseudonym I could also question authorship (challenging the "art star" status quo of the time and supporting collective work) and copyright (since my practice at that time was focused on appropriation).
I began to develop installations which involved the spectator on a sensual level. It was important that the spectator submitted to the work and that he/she became "one" with the installation. I also began to use color as an instrument for engaging the audience: color as a device for concentrating and diffusing energy, color as a universal language, color as a mechanism for unifying people. My aim was to create an inclusive and non-exclusive space; making the spectator part of the AVAF installation. The spectator was also the centerpiece in the conception of our projects. And the use of the pseudonym is an essential tool for ensuring his participation and submission.
The name ' assume vivid astro focus' emerged from this. As I said previously, I had lost my job, I returned to a more creative practice and immediately decided to use a new pseudonym. In the process of developing this new pseudonym, I went to my favorite thrift shop near my home in NY, and a person who worked in the shop approached me and asked if my name was " Astro ". I thought it was very curious that someone should call me this given that it was not a common name. I was also intrigued by the different "pop" associations of the name: Astroboy (Japanese manga), Astro (the name of a dog from the Jetsons), Astroturf (a brand of synthetic grass), O Astro (a Globo telenovela from the 1970s), etc.
I decided that I would use "astro" as part of this new pseudonym and that I would mix it up with other words which somehow had some significance for my artistic practice. My idea was to create a somewhat "complicated" phrase which did not make "perfect" sense, and where people could easily confuse the order of the words. I wanted to somehow demand an "effort". My reference was "Exploding Plastic Inevitable", an experimental "installation" by Andy Warhol combining music, film, dance and pop art.
At this time an exhibition of record covers was taking place at Exit Art – "The LP Show", curated by Carlo McCormick. I was fascinated by the images on the sleeves but more specifically interested in the words, the titles of the albums, the names of the bands. I decided that I would go back to the exhibition to find other words that could combine with "astro". My aim was to create a "contagious" meaning, a "call to order", a phrase that touched on the idea of collective work and that other people could "adopt" this "vision of the world" (the "Truisms of Jenny Holzer, maxims inserted into electronic panels in Times Square in the early 1980s, were another important inspiration). And that is how AVAF/assume vivid astro focus emerged (always written in lowercase letters).
At the start of AVAF I adopted the position of a "one-person collective". I have always worked/work as a kind of curator/director: depending on the different projects I was involved in I invited different friends of mine to take part. The form of participation always varied. With some friends/collaborators I "infected" them with ideas for the exhibition/project and waited for their reactive contribution. On other occasions, I found a specific finished work that I thought would fit into the context of the project and introduced this work into the AVAF exhibition. At other times (unfortunately more rarely) we worked together on the production of a work for this project. I also had a Utopian expectation that other people would begin to develop AVAF works without any connection to me, without my even knowing: a kind of benevolent virus creatively infecting the lives of different people around the world.
AVAF never had a fixed group of artists but I wanted to give the energy of the collective to our practice (it was never very clear who was part of the "group") – again, one of the ways of questioning authorship and celebrity.
In 2005 I began work on a partnership with Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, a great friend of mine who I met when I went to NY in 1998. Christophe had moved back to Paris (where he was born) in 2000. We only began to work together 5 years after his move – we had never lived in the same city since he left NY. We worked "together" by email – our partnership practice was always extremely solitary in the day-to-day work of the studio. And we continued to invite other artist friends to collaborate with us.
Christophe was the only other person apart from me who was involved in all aspects of AVAF between 2005 and 2016 (when we "separated"). Nowadays we rarely work together but he also exists in a more "individual" form and develops AVAF projects without my participation.
Some years ago, soon after my "separation" from Christophe, I briefly experimented with using my name as an artistic name but I was unconvinced by it. I like the idea of using a pseudonym even when I am working alone – and of confusing the audience which never knows whether the work was done by one person, two or several. The spectator's submission to the work is also an essential characteristic of my practice and the removal of the focus from the artist's personality is an important conceptual weapon for ensuring that this happens. The spectator has always been and will always be part of the AVAF "collective".
When I began to see your work, I think the first time was some 15 years ago here at the CCBB-Rio in an exhibition about carnival curated by Alfons Hug. Thinking about this popular festival and its oblique influence on the work of AVAF was a good introduction. I say this because I see an interesting dialog between AVAF's artistic philosophy and this symbolic space of the festival, mixing vital energy and challenging norms. Where norms also have to do with instituted good taste. How do you view this?
I must confess that we always rejected two labels linked to AVAF: carnival and psychedelia. Two labels which I consider superficial and "prejudiced" in the perception of our work. Having lived so long abroad, the critical connection with carnival was generally related to my nationality ("Brazil=carnival=color"). This honestly never made much sense to me because AVAF always incorporated people of different nationalities, not just Brazilians.
Another delicate aspect related to this subject for me is that art criticism always connected color/vibrant color to carnival in a, I would say, "prejudiced" way, as if the use of color was always associated with popular culture and was never a conceptual strategy. To be perfectly frank, I had doubts about taking part in the exhibition that you mentioned and in fact I only agreed because it was the first time I had shown my work in Rio, the city of my birth.
A complicating factor is that we did two "carnival" projects after this exhibition at the CCBB: our first solo exhibition in Brazil at the Galeria Casa Triângulo in 2006 and our participation at the 28th São Paulo Biennale in 2008. Tired of endlessly hearing the same label, we decided to adopt it and develop our own version of it (a common practice of ours): reject and then adopt, "developing" our own version of the stereotype imposed on our work.
In a, let's say, reverse form, there is also a prejudice in the contemporary art world regarding popular art/culture, especially carnival. Our aim in bringing this reference inside a gallery/biennale was to cause discomfort within the status quo of the arts world which frequently seeks to represent itself as liberating.
Having said all this, yes, we do use "festival" at various times as another instrument of engagement with the audience, to guarantee its submission and make it one with our installations. As a historical reference, we were specifically interested in the club/disco environments of the 1970s/80s/90s. The festival served to encourage the public to activate the exhibition space and also to proclaim it their own. We were interested in the hedonistic qualities of the festival and the political power of awakening, through it, the awareness of its own pleasure and to encourage the spectator to fight for it. Freedom of expression, thought and desire were always present in our projects and festival always played the role of igniting these freedoms and their celebration. But it is important to remember that institutional spaces where art is shown are full of rules and restrictions, and all AVAF projects always undergo very intense periods of negotiation to get as close as possible to the realization of our ideas. The "festival" for example produced many "impasses" for these institutional environments and for this reason it worked as another important activity in our practice of destabilizing the status quo of the spaces where art is shown.
Another aspect I wanted to comment on, following up on the previous question, is the way in which your works address issues of gender, going beyond an identity problem to a transgression of the entire order of identity. Having explored this issue in your work for two decades, how do you regard the problem of gender in the visual arts?
I think the best way to address this subject is to talk about how we use gender issues within our own work. Since the start we have used the figure of the transgender person as a symbol of transgression, of challenging the status quo. "Trans" has become a metaphor of our own disruptive artistic practice (questioning authorship, identity, copyright, institutional space, talking about homoerotic desire and violence/prejudice against it, about what is expected of an artistic practice, etc). We relate the phallic "hyper-feminine" to this practice of disruption. At a certain moment we also began to associate transgender with the idea of demolition – the demolition of the everyday, of the expected, of the traditional, of comfort, of identity and even of the city and its neighborhoods. Indeed, "trans" has become a symbol of the demolition of AVAF itself: in the last 10 years we began to remix, to "demolish" and reconstruct our own works – transgender became an allegory of our own artistic practice. Trans: the goddess of demolition and reconstruction, a liberating abandonment of identity, sexuality and the body. I think it's really important to bring questions of gender into the visual arts but I think the impact of this type of discussion is somewhat limited when it's restricted to the art world. In our work we're interested in a more metaphorical approach but which nevertheless provokes thought and discussion about this issue. Unfortunately, the impact of the arts is very limited; we need more public and more inclusive environments to address everyday issues in a more effective way. Unfortunately artists often protect themselves in the "safe" environments of galleries and museums. Either way it is always necessary to discuss issues of gender and, regardless of the environment, it is invariably positive.
I see a very strong dialogue between your work and tropicalism – obviously passing through the queer aesthetic of a Carmen Miranda and the impacts of tropicamp . How do you analyze this dialog and what are your other principal poetic influences and dialogs?
Tropicalism was another label that was rejected (not as much as the others I previously mentioned) and "adopted". At a certain moment, art criticism began to connect AVAF with Tropicalia – I must admit, prior to that it wasn't a significant reference. The Tropicalia with which I most identified was that of Os Mutantes – an energetic, explosive and celebratory mixture of different musical references. As happened with the "Carnival" reference, we also decided to adopt it and propose a "counter attack" (part of our project for the 1st Athens Biennale in 2007).
But clearly many aspects of tropicalism have a direct connection to our creative process. Our concept of "infection" is extremely tropicalist and anthropophagic. The disruption of the status quo is another shared characteristic. Our appropriation of different references and the violent remixing of all this together (principally in our older works) is analogous to "Panis et Circenses". I believe I've already said a lot about these issues in my previous answers. There is, you could say, a creative connection despite never having used this relationship more "directly".
Whenever people ask me about influences, I always give the same response: influences change all the time for me. I connect with different influences through necessity and research, generally with specific objectives in mind. Influences also have different characteristics: sometimes they are visual, sometimes conceptual, and sometimes energetic. But one recurrent influence is the Vogue balls (not the magazine but the dance competitions documented in "Paris is Burning"). Since 2000 "Vogueing" has been an "energetic" reference for our projects. Vogue balls are attended by low-income, vulnerable, marginalized and socially oppressed queer communities, largely of Afro-American and Latin origin. These communities form groups known as "Houses" (such as the "House of Extravaganza") and encourage the protection and social engagement of their members. The balls (where different "Houses" compete with each other) create a "hyper real" atmosphere, a fantastical simulacrum of reality where the aim is to achieve respect and amazement through "fantasy" – a hyper real fantasy. This need to constantly surprise creates an atmosphere of maximum climax energy – based on the celebration of freedom. This overflowing, always zenith, apex energy is the most recurrent reference in AVAF projects.
Reading the AVAF Manifesto, I thought it was very interesting when you stated that obsession, curiosity, generosity and anxiety are central elements of the artistic projects produced. These are highly original, affective and sometimes contrasting tones which you articulate and seek to deploy. Tell us more about this, because it touches on the heart of our time and possible openings within.
I believe these four qualities are the reflection/drivers of our everyday practices in the contemporary world. The Internet has provided us with access to an infinite sea of research and knowledge. Smartphones and social networks bombard us with an unprecedented amount of information about the world and other people. We are obsessed with endlessly sharing our experiences. We want to know about everything all the time. We have become multi-focal and multi-connected. Our intellectual development is now multi-faceted and permeated by multi-tasking processes. Constant exposure to new and different information, every second, has broadened our range of knowledge and our capacity to absorb it. Indeed I believe it's helping us to develop a less linear and more spiral consciousness. But the absurd frequency of this absorption and the constant interest in "information" has also brought us much anxiety and obsession – emotions which unsettle us but which, on the other hand, we repeatedly use as a creative modus operandi. I think this "universal" intra-connection is important in enabling us to leave behind our egotistical worlds. It seems to me to be an indication of a more "human", more egalitarian, more generous, less individual, more hive-like, more collective future world. At the same time, all these characteristics may be contradictory, and there is a clear possibility of our sinking into an even more egotistical world. Perhaps my positive expectation is a little Utopian in relation to the Internet of connectivity – certainly our current moment has shown us the dark side of all this.
Our installations are a reflection of this world without silence and frequent explosions. However, the result which we expected to produce in the spectator is the calm we feel when encounter something that is intrinsically "ours" and which defines us. A constant inspiration for our projects is the contemplation of nature. I see our installations as a loving and energetic reflection of a peaceful, glorious, sunny day on a deserted beach, with an intense blue cloudless sky, the heat of the sun soothing your skin, the white sand cushioning your body, the transparent refreshing sea bobbing your mind, the sound of the wind making the brilliant green leaves of the palm trees gently rustle, the sound of the waves slowly coming towards us, the parakeets ceaselessly chattering. Our more recent works have sought a little more of this radiant contemplation, a maelstrom that leads us to silence. A return to nature? Perhaps.
Luiz Camillo Osorio is the Curator of PIPA Institute, PIPA's founder and Board Member. He is a Professor and current Director of the Philosophy Department at PUC-Rio. Camillo was the Curator of MAM-Rio between 2009 and 2015.


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Does NEI have a 1 year option? I always read about the 2 year one.NEI is arguably the best one
NEI has a 1 year option (or least they did, not sure about now), but the 2-year program is more surgical
Casey is a great program also
Bascom is retina heavy with Davis/Albini
Stein is anterior segment heavy
Proctor is known for anterior uveitis but they also see a good amount of posterior pathology
All second hand information though via friends and colleagues -- apply, interview, let us know
Thank you. I thought I had heard the one year is frowned upon, but I figured it was there for a reason... I wanted to pair uveitis with surgical retina so 2 years seems slightly daunting... Tho not out of the question ...Just want to correct one of the above statements.
There is no surgical NEI fellowship. The 2 year fellowship is medical retina/and uveitis and you work with Chew, Nussenblatt, Shen, Ferris, and Wen, and few other staff clinicians. Historically, they frown on the one year option. I suppose if you somehow had Uveitis experience elsewhere (foreign trained ophthalmologist etc), you could swing it, but its essentially a two year fellowship, which is what limits interest. On the flip side - the salary is nice (as is the training- obviously) andtheymake significant payments towards your loans while you are there. I forget the numbers. If you are seriously interested you should contact the current fellows and get updated information. My info is 1-2 years old. But since none of the major players have changed there ... I can't imagine the above info is any different.
Bascom Palmer (Palm Beach Gardens, not Miami): work with Janet DavisHey guys, just to revive his thread. I will be applying to uveitis this coming year, but since there are so few programs... Does anyone have any knowledge of medical retina programs that have strong uveitis training?


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This isn't strictly sewing-related, but in my last post I mentioned that I'd started a Bullet Journal to keep myself on task and so many people have asked me about it, I thought I may as well do a quick post I can direct you all to! (If you've never heard of the Bullet Journal you really should go and have a look at this video first, and maybe the official website too.)
So the first thing I did was to get myself a notebook. I went with a Moleskine large squared notebook, but you could get anything that's A5 kind of size. (If you're wondering why there are two little notebooks in the first photo as well, I bought them by accident on eBay thinking they were bigger lol, so I'm going to use them as mini Journals when taking my proper one would be too bulky). I'd definitely recommend sticking with squared paper though, it makes setting everything out so much easier. Then, as per the video, I numbered the pages and set aside a double spread at the beginning for an index.
On the next double page (and I'll do this every month), I stuck in a calendar before writing out the calendar as a list on the next page. You might not want to do this, but I've found it useful. As I know I'll want to refer to my calendar throughout the month, I added a sticky tab to the top.
Now, as much as I find my Bullet Journal interesting (seriously, I love it and take it everywhere), I'm aware that you might not want to look through it alllll, so here's a quick round up of how I'm using it.
I've got a double page task list (which will be after the calendar every month) and I check this when writing out my tasks for each day. It's also marked with a sticky tab. It's definitely helping me get things done. I feel like if I've written things down I have to do them or I'll have made a mess of my Journal, lol! I know I could have a list in my phone but I hate having it beep at me through the day and I never check it. Plus, I can just delete stuff if I can't be bothered.
I'm using my Journal to keep track of shopping lists and meal plans too. I'm starting a new shopping list for each week and just adding to it as we run out of things. Ok, so I was pretty much doing that anyway, but as it was stuck to the fridge I usually forgot to take it to the shops. Not so useful.
If you look at the top left picture you'll see a typical day or two set out (I covered up sensitive information with the kapow stickers; they're not really there!). I mark each day with a sticky tab for quick access.
I've also used my Journal to keep pictures that Eleanor does for me. I'm forever being given bits of paper by her and they usually go in a box never to be looked at again. I thought this would be a nice way of keeping her little doodles and things. Oh, and in case you're wondering, the speech bubble notes I've got stuck all over the place are to keep track of my steps each day and my sleep. I had a FitBit Flex for Christmas so I'm trying to get healthy this year!
So, sewing… I'm using my Journal to keep track of projects I'm working on, or want to do, by writing lists which I'm adding to (or doodling on) when inspiration strikes. I've also been sticking in pictures for inspiration too:
This double page was the result of a spare half an hour with a Boden catalogue, lol. A bit of spring/summer inspiration. Certainly better than cutting out pictures and stuffing them in a drawer never to be seen again. Another thing I'm guilty of.
I've also been doing little brainstorms for things like how I'd like to do my next lot of product photos for Etsy, or things I might add to my Etsy store. I've got lists of patterns I like the look of, or have read good reviews on, and I'm also going to stick in swatches of fabric with details too so I don't lose them. I think you could completely just use a Bullet Journal to organise your sewing, or any other craft, even if you weren't using it for other stuff too.
Aside from the sewing stuff, some other pages I've got in my Journal are: Books I want to read; ideas for Easter (decorations, gifts, etc.); birthday present ideas for my girls; blog ideas; craft ideas… you get the idea, pretty much my entire life is in here.
I hope those of you who asked about my Bullet Journal found this post useful. If you want to read more about Bullet Journals, then check out this blog – I found it really interesting!
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The purpose of this month's core challenge has many benefits: 1.) To sculpt and define your arms hips and waistline: 2.) To activate the muscles that are responsible for stabilizing your shoulders, core and pelvis; 3) Strengthens your core and ankles; 4.) Tones up your arms, chest, back & shoulders.
Ladies, get ready to feel the burn. :)
This exercise is an awesome booty lifter and builder. Try them. You'll love them as much as my students do. :)
To do this exercise:
1.) Lay on your back
2.)Use a mini exercise band (green - medium tension or blue - heavy tension). Place the band lightly above both knees, on the lower thigh.
3.) Bend your knees and place your feet on a wall.
4.) Create a 90 degree angle at your knees and hips by placing your hips directly u dear your knees.
5.) Lift your hips into a bridge.
6.) Lift one foot off of the wall.
7.) Reach your raised leg straight and toward your head and keep stretching the band throughout the entire exercise.
8.) Lower and lift your hips, making sure to keep your bottom squeezed, your belly button drawn in toward your spine and your ribs closed.
9.) I recommend 20 - 50 repetitions per leg. 2-3 sets.
A total body toner, the Salamander is a great addition to your body weight training program.
To perform this exercise:
1.) Start with your feet hip width apart or slightly wider.
2.) Go into a deep (frog) squat.
3.) Place your hands on the ground (keep your wrist in line with the center of your shoulders).
4.) Walk out into a high plank position (like your about to do a push-up).
5.) Bend your elbows. Keep your elbows close to your body. Keep your elbows in-line with your middle finger.
6.) Touch your right knee to your right elbow then return the leg to the straightened position
7.) Repeat the movement on the left.
8.) Crawl your hands and torso back to the frog squat opposition.
9.) Stand to complete 1 repetition.
10.) I recommend 8 - 20 repetitions 3-5 sets.
Delight In The Difficulty Of Salamander & Get Stronger.
This exercise melts your muffin top and tones your hips and thighs.
To perform the exercise:
1.) Lay on your side with your arm out stretched reaching forward.
2.) Place your top hand behind your head for support
3.) Extend both legs out beneath you.
4.) Bend your bottom knee.
5.) Connect your entire underside to the ground, no spaces.
6.) Keep your outstretched knee facing forward throughout the exercise.
7.) Lift and lower your top leg as you bring your up and over to meet the moving leg,
8.) I recommend 20 -50 reps for 3-4 sets.
Can I just tell you how much I love hill training!!!! Hill training develops more then just gorgeous legs, sculpted abs and a perky butt. :) Hill training will teach you how to perform, with grace, under pressure. Hill training is a character builder. The hill forces you to focus on one thing and one thing only - getting to the top - by all means necessary. Hill training is a super attitude changer. You always start off hating the hill; but once you've climbed it and you look back at it from the other side, your prospective changes. Your "pre-hill" negative self talk turns into powerful, positive, "post hill", self-affirmation. Wow! I absolutely love hill training! :)
Today's outdoor workout was sheer perfection; we logged 3.9 miles! We sprinkled in a few hills, hopped a round of stadium stairs all while adding a wide variety of boot camp exercises to round out our total body workout. Great job ladies. :)
New Class Schedule On Tap
View our new class schedule for the month of April.
Indoor Cycling Meets Pilates
We're excited to announce the addition of indoor cycling to our April class schedule. Stay tuned for more info on our new cycle classes. :)
Classes On Tap
View our new classes for the month of March, posted on the schedule page. :)
New Classes On Tap
Our hot new class for the new year are posted on the class schedule page. View class descriptions.
A fitness junkie from birth, Michele was destined to make exercise and healthy living her life's passion. For over 25 years, Michele has motivated many as a personal trainer, healed hundreds as a massage therapist, transformed thousands as a Pilates instructor, captivated countless as a Kettlebell competitor/coach and soothed the souls of several as a Birthing Doula. With an eye toward adventure and a lust for travel and all things active, Michele can't wait to take on the next 20 years.
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Thank you. Seriously.Originally Posted by DancingFool
Thank you. Seriously.Originally Posted by DancingFool
What's the big hurry? Don't give your ex the impression that you're a sex fiend. Be patient for however long it takes. Give her respect because this is what true love is.
After NC, she wants to reestablish friendship and a relationship with you so give it a lot of time otherwise you will push her away and she will leave you permanently. Which scenario do you want?
She's testing what type of person you are and whether or not you're a keeper. If you fail, you will lose. Tread lightly and be on your best behavior always. Be smart.
Hate to break it to ya, but if there is no physical contact at all, not even kissing or touching, you're not dating.Originally Posted by SixOfOne
You have a nice comfortable friendship.
I can understand her wanting to hold back on sex, but the thing that differentiates a romantic relationship from a friendship is physical attraction and contact.
If she won't allow even kissing or any sort of touching, then it's a friendship, at least right now.
I was going to start a new post but didnt want to have to repeat all the details. Update: my ex and I continue to see one another every week or two, always as friends only. Were both terrible communicators, and neither of us has broached the subject of whats going on here. I have no idea of what goes on in her heart and in her head, but the last time she expressed herself to me it was to say that she wants friendship only. So I have to go with that.
But Im finding this to be very difficult for me. After two weeks or so of not seeing her or communicating with her, I again start to feel that Im healing. My confidence and strength return and I feel good about life and the future. Then after seeing her, being with her, watching her leave again for who knows how long, Im blasted and unsteady and feel I have to start all over again.
My behavior during our relationship was just atrocious at times. I was needy and fearful and desperate, and I now completely understand why she lost attraction for me and interest in me. But Im working to change whatever it is in me that fosters that behavior. Im seeing a phycologist, going back to school, looking for a job etc etc and all the things people do to build a life outside of a relationship. I dont claim to be a changed man, but Im definitely a changing man. I feel its crucial to my future relationships, regardless of how this all shakes out with her.
A lot was said in response to my reference about sex in my original post. This is not about sex. Its about having hope for reconciliation, for starting again with a fresh slate, for building a healthy and sustainable relationship. If sex is included in that, well great. But none of these hopes can be realized with things as they are, with us being friends only.
I feel that her wanting to remain friends and continue seeing me as a friend is her way, consciously or not, of making it easier and less painful for her to ease out of this relationship and
move on without me in her life. Regardless of whether thats true or not, one thing thats certain is that for us to continue on this path is definitely not less painful for me. Im in love with her, and seeing her as a friend, without hope for the future, is devastating.
My friends tell me to let go of the hope that shell ever change her mind, that things will ever be different. They tell me shes being selfish, that shes using me to assuage her loneliness, that I should make it clear to her that I cant and wont continue with her this way. They tell me to break it off and walk away forever. The very thought of having that conversation with her is daunting, to say the least. Perhaps its still a matter of allowing fear to guide me, but I believe that telling her this would end it for good.
So I wonder if I should retain my hope, be patient and allow this to run its own course. Shes leaving the country for three weeks soon, so maybe an extended time of NC will help me clear my head and see the right way to go.
Alternatively, I'm thinking the smartest thing to do would be to just ask her directly 'Do you feel that there's any hope for reconciliation between us?' and hope she answers honestly.
Your friends are right.
How will you feel as her "friend" when you see her with or see social media pics of her with a new boyfriend?
Yes, you'll say "oh, that won't happen! I KNOW her, she's not interested in anyone new! I'd KNOW if that was what she wanted!" And that was said by every guy who was lurking around an ex pretending to be friends while wanting and hoping for reconciliation. It ends up being a nasty and painful surprise.
I have thought of that. I don't want to be around to see that.Originally Posted by boltnrun
I don't think it's good for you to remain fake friends with her. She knows how you feel. Time to respectfully make your exit from each others lives. Sorry it sucks but its the only way to move forward and heal.
I completely agree. The hard part is the abandonment of hope.Originally Posted by ninjabib
You are correct and there is no easy way to face it or right time to do it. The only thing for certain is the quicker you do it the quicker you can get back to happiness.


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120 pages | 2 B/W Illus.
In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in what we consider to be an urgent quest for dealing with prejudice.
We therefore seek to draw attention to the following:
This book is therefore a journey of discovery with each chapter building on the previous ones. While throughout there are particular empirical events (interviews, reconstructed ethnographic accounts and research diary entries) with their own detailed analyses and insights, they connect back to discussion in previous chapters.
Chapter 1: Distant lands and the everyday
Kati in Exia
Main events, storyline and concepts
Matt and the woman on the train
The 'getting on with life' grand narrative
Getting to the deCentred: The Moor's account
What it takes to listen to the deCentred
Chapter 2: DeCentred threads resist the expected
The problem with 'integration'
Working with children as expert agents of culture and identity
The intertwined nature of identity construction
A critical cosmopolitan, deCentred discourse of culture
Searching for hidden spaces
Chapter 3: Centred threads become blocks
Choosing to find threads
Dangerous threads: Kati and Eli
Talking to Wissaal about clothes: threads of ambivalence
Behind the scenes sense-making of threads or not threads
Kati, Eli and Matt visit 'the foreign': blocks and threads at work
Building interculturality
Chapter 4: Who are we as researchers?
Excavating our own researcher agendas
In this together
Chapter 5: Getting on with deCentred life
Meeting undergraduate students
Another unexpected deCentred thread
Connecting back to other events


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THE late '70s and early '80s was a golden era for Irish middle distance runners, milers in particular.
Ray Flynn from Longford set the current Irish mile record of 3.49:77 at the Bislett Games in Oslo in July 1982. He teamed up with Marcus O'Sullivan, Frank O'Mara and Eamonn Coughlan at Bellfield in Dublin in August 1985 to set a world record of 15.49:08 for a 4 X 1 mile relay – a record that still stands.
Indoor running is almost a sport in itself. It has a 200m track as opposed to 400m outdoors, which creates an entirely different running style. Irish middle distance runners were the stars of the early years of the World Championships. The first of those were held in Indianapolis in 1987 and Frank O'Mara won double gold in both the 1,500m and 3,000m. He won another 3,000m gold in 1991, while in between Marcus O'Sullivan claimed the same title. In spite of those achievements by others, Coughlan was the king of the Irish milers of that era.
Born in Drimnagh in Dublin, Coughlan was first coached by his father, Bill, and later joined Metropolitan Harriers, where he was coached by Gerry Farnan. He won All-Ireland Colleges titles at 1,500m and 5,000m in 1971 and was offered a scholarship to Villanova University in Pennsylvania. Under Jumbo Elliott, he won numerous American college titles and within one week in 1975, ran his first sub four-minute mile and then set a European record of 3.53:3.
It was as an indoor runner that he achieved his greatest fame and earned the nickname 'Chairman of the Boards'. Between 1974 and 1987, he won 52 indoor 1,500m and 1 mile races. He won the world-famous Wannamaker Mile at Madison Square Gardens a record seven times. He set a world record of 3.52:6 for the indoor mile in 1979 and then in 1983, became the first man ever to run a mile in under three minutes and 50 seconds indoors. His record lasted for 14 years, until it was beaten by the great Moroccan, El Guerrouj.
His time of 3.48:45 wasn't just an indoor record – it bettered Steve Scott's American outdoor record. It was the fastest mile ever ran on American soil and remained so until 2007. He still remains one of only five or six athletes to run under 3.50 on American soil. All told, he ran 83 sub four minute miles and in 1994, became the first man over 40 to do so.
His indoor achievements did not unfortunately translate outdoors. As is typical in this country, many remember him for what he did not win, rather than what he did. Twice he finished in the most unfortunate place for any sportsman – fourth in an Olympic final, in 1976 behind John Walker in the 1,500m in Montreal and in 1980 behind Miruts Yifter in the 5,000m in Moscow.
He finally struck outdoor gold in the first World Track and Field Championships in 1983. Who can blame him for raising his fist as he cruised past the Russian Dmitriyev, on the final bend to win the 5,000m. Dmitriyev finished fourth.
Eamonn Coughlan won his 5,000m gold medal in Helsinki on August 14, 1983 – 30 years ago this week.


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…FOMC leaves rates unchanged. Crazy dog threatens 25% tariffs of $200 B of Chinese goods. Populism for billionaires. Apple to a trillion. Tesla produces. Wells Fargo caught again.
Financial Review by Sinclair Noe for 08-01-2018
The Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee wrapped up a 2-day policy meeting and published a statement that they had voted unanimously to keep the target range for its benchmark rate at 1.75 percent to 2 percent. No surprise. However, the committee is widely expected to approve an increase at the September meeting and minor changes to language in the statement seem to point to another rate hike in December. Traders in the fed funds futures market are indicating a 91.4 percent chance of a September increase and a 68.2 percent probability for another move in December, according to the CME's tracker. They would come on top of previous hikes in March and June.
The statement said the labor market has "continued to strengthen," language consistent with the June meeting. However, the committee went on to note that "economic activity has been rising at a strong rate," a more bullish view than the June characterization of "solid" growth. In addition, the statement noted that household spending and business fixed investment have "grown strongly." That, too, is an improvement from June's characterization that household spending has "picked up." So, the Fed is sticking to its game plan of gradual, incremental rate hikes along with gradual incremental quantitative tightening. The Fed faces a dangerous path to normalization, but they are getting it done with no surprises to the markets.
The market seems to have plenty of shocks when it comes to trade policy – which has been all over the board. Last week, it was about the de-escalation of trade tensions with Europe; even though we still haven't seen concrete action. Earlier this week we heard that there would be fresh talks with China, then that talks with China were not happening, and then today the threat of new, bigger tariffs against China. The latest plan calls for slapping a 25-percent tariff on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods after initially setting them at 10 percent, in a bid to pressure Beijing into making trade concessions. The new,, higher tariffs could include food products, chemicals, steel and aluminum and consumer goods ranging from dog food, furniture and carpets to car tires, bicycles, baseball gloves and beauty products.
In early July, the U.S. government imposed 25-percent tariffs on an initial $34 billion of Chinese imports. Beijing retaliated with matching tariffs on the same amount of U.S. exports to China. Washington is preparing to also impose tariffs on an extra $16 billion of goods in coming weeks, and Trump has warned he may ultimately put them on over half a billion dollars of goods — roughly the total amount of U.S. imports from China last year. Now, the plan has shifted to 25% tariffs on $200 billion worth of products, with the threat of an additional $300 billion. Stocks moved higher Tuesday on hopes of improving trade conditions. Today, stocks moved lower as the negotiations got weird, again. It is possible that crazy trade rhetoric could scare up concessions, but not likely. China knows that the barking dog is chained to economic reality; the dog might tug at the collar but will not strangle itself. The crazy threats of ever-escalating conflict are becoming all too predictable. There are real benefits for both the U.S. and China in stepping back from the brink of trade war, but that path is paved with alliances, not conflicts.
Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio is proposing legislation that would make it harder for the White House to impose the sort of duties that have hit metals imports. The measure, which faces longer odds in the House than in the Senate, could be most meaningful to foreign auto makers. Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on imported autos, citing national-security concerns. Portman teamed with Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama to unveil a bill today that would give the Defense Department the power to decide whether such tariffs are justified by national-security concerns. The Commerce Department would then decide how to respond, including whether to impose the tariffs and where to set them. That would shake up the current arrangement under Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act, which Trump in March used to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.
The markets have been mainly overlooking crazy tariff talk and focusing on the strength in the economy and the profits from tax cuts. And now the Trump administration is considering a plan that would cut federal taxes on investment income, a change that independent analysts say would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Americans. An analysis earlier this year by the Penn Wharton Budget Model found the proposed cut would reduce tax revenue by more than $100 billion over 10 years. Sixty-three percent of that money would flow to the pockets of the top 0.1 percent of income earners, those who had adjusted gross incomes of at least $7.31 million in 2015, according to the Internal Revenue Service. Another 23 percent of it would go to the next 0.9 percent, those with adjusted annual gross incomes of more than $1.48 million. All told, 86.1 percent of the tax cut, or more than $80 billion, would be captured by the top 1 percent of earners, with the next 4 percent of earners receiving 9 percent of the cut. The remaining 5 percent of the cut would be distributed among the bottom 95 percent of the population. The change would allow investors to account for inflation in calculating how much they've profited off an investment, a change that would typically reduce the total amount of taxable profit. Of course, it would still have to get congressional approval, or maybe they could bypass congress. Because, nothing says populism like giving billionaires a tax cut by executive fiat.
Apple reported fiscal third quarter earnings yesterday after the market close. Today, Apple shares gained 5.8%. Apple also revealed an adjusted outstanding share count of 4,829,926,000; that factors in hefty stock buybacks and nudges the trillion-dollar per share price to $207.05. Investors had previously been looking for a share price of $203.45 to hit the record market cap. So, another day like today, and they top $1 trillion.
Tesla's second-quarter loss was wider than expected, but the company backed its prior forecast that calls for profitable third and fourth quarters. Tesla posted a loss of $3.06 per share versus estimates of a loss of $2.92 per share. Revenue of $4 billion was better than expected. Tesla had $2.2 billion in cash on hand at the end of the quarter, and expects its cash reserves to grow in the second half of the year. It also now expects to spend less that $2.5 billion in capital expenditures in 2018, far below the $3.4 billion it spent in 2017. Production, though, is many months behind schedule and the company has resorted to setting up assembly lines in temporary tent structures. Tesla said in July it was able to repeatedly hit its target of producing 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week. Tesla is now aiming for a 6,000 vehicle per week rate, which it hopes to achieve by the end of August. By the end of the year, it hopes to ramp up to a rate of 10,000 per week. Tesla shares up 8.6% in after hours.
Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $2.09 billion to settle a probe into its creation and sale of faulty mortgage loans that contributed to the financial meltdown 10 years ago. In 2005, Wells Fargo set out to double production of two types of risky mortgages, known as subprime and Alt-A. As part of the push, it loosened requirements for stated-income loans. Investigators cited tests of Wells Fargo mortgages that compared them with borrowers' tax filings, revealing that more than 70 percent of loans sampled "had an unacceptable discrepancy between stated and actual income." And Wells Fargo knew that a substantial portion of its stated income loans contained misstated income, Wells Fargo failed to disclose this information." The Justice Department said the bank even took steps to "insulate itself" from the risks posed by such loans, screening many of them out of its own portfolio and limiting its liability to third parties. In other words, they knew they had bad loans and they sold the junk without disclosing it was junk.
The Container Store's stock soared 40% today, for its biggest-ever one-day gain, after the retailer posted better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal first quarter and raised guidance.
Shares of Oracle took a dive into negative territory in afternoon trade Wednesday, after CNBC reported that Amazon will completely stop using Oracle software by 2020.
Wynn Resorts stock dropped more than 7 percent during after-hours trading, before recovering some of those losses. The Las Vegas-based company reported second quarter results that missed analysts' expectations on the top and bottom line.
TripAdvisor shares plunged more than 12 percent in the extended session after the company reported disappointing second quarter revenues.
FitBit shares were up as much as 6.42 percent in extended-hours trading, before giving up some of those gains. Fitbit posted a smaller-than-expected loss of 22 cents per share against estimates of a loss of 24 cents per share. Its top-line results also beat expectations.
Last year was a banner year for the exposure of personal information, and so far this year there has been a steady drumbeat of data breaches, so many that experts worry that people are just throwing up their hands in defeat.
Today's breach du jour – Social media network Reddit said a hacker broke into a few of its systems and accessed some user data, including current email addresses and a 2007 database backup containing old encrypted passwords.


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On Friday 14th September 2018, Johnstons of Elgin hosted its first Spring/Summer presentation in the stunning surroundings of the Palm Court at the Waldorf Hilton Hotel.
The brand, famed for its cashmere architecture and expertise, showcased a new dimension this season - a year round collection of new and cutting edge lightweight fabrications, establishing Johnstons of Elgin as a label for every season. Karen Thomson, Owner of KAM Hair and Body Spa in Lossiemouth and Matrix Educator, along with stylists from her team, were backstage to style for the show using hair products from Matrix.
Karen and her stylist Paula, created effortless, natural looking hairstyles for the show that would complement the SS19 collection, which explored three concepts; for high summer, tissue weight cashmere and mesh constructions bring a languid air to the collection. Dresses and cropped trousers in 100% cashmere are impossibly light and full, playing with extreme volume. Tissue weight blanket scarves in bold summer hues feel barely there against the skin. Karen and her stylists aim for the hair was to have it blending into one with the clothes, and the end results were stunning. Hairstyles included sleek, clean hair looks with deep side partings and lots of mirror like shine. The day was very fast paced for the stylists and the final presentation lasted two hours.
Karen Thomson, Owner of KAM Hair and Body Spa, commented,
This was my second Fashion Week and it was an absolute honour to work with Johnstons of Elgin under the stewardship of Alan Scott, the Creative Director - such a privilege to be asked to lead on the hair for their SS19 debut at London Fashion Week.


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"We Got Married" Hong Jin Young and Namgoong Min Share What Color Underwear They're Wearing
On the January 17 broadcast of MBC's virtual marriage show "We Got Married," Namgoong Min shocked Hong Jin Young when he said about their marriage, "It must be kwontaegi (a period when a marriage has grown stale)."
"Compared to the beginning, it's…" Namgoong Min started, but Hong Jin Young interjected, "You don't feel anything at all? How can you say something like that?"
Hong Jin Young shared, "I was shocked. At that time the line from 'My Sassy Girl' came to mind."
She leaned over and listened into Namgoong Min's ear, "I wore red underwear." Namgoong Min replied in surprise, "Honey, what are you saying."
Hong Jin Young asked, "Do you not feel anything?" Namgoong Min replied, "Are you mad? Why am I getting hot?"
Namgoong Min attempted to whisper something into Hong Jin Young's ear but gave up. But finally with Hong Jin Young's urging he said, "I'm wearing black underwear," making Hong Jin Young burst out in laughter.
Namgoong Min shared later, "I was extremely flustered. I think [Hong Jin Young] thought that would be a way to overcome our kwontaegi. I know she didn't approach me with that sentiment, but it was cute."
Hong Jin Young said, "What is kwontaegi? If I do things like that every so often won't it spur oppa? I'm going to make sure he's always on edge. Watch and see."
[tv]Watch Hong Jin Young and Namgoong Min Battle Their Kwontaegi on We Got Married on SoompiTV![/tv]


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1st Annual Townsend Community Center Golf Outing
Join us at the 1st Annual TCC Golf Outing on Saturday, May 19th at the Winding Branch Golf Club in Cambridge City, IN beginning at 1pm. Cost is $240 per team with four people per team. A portion of the proceeds will be donated directly back to the Townsend Community Center. Door prizes will be given away to participants! For more information, call Rancer Huntington at 765.255.2092.
To sign up, fill out this Golf Tournament Resigtration form and fax it to Dr. Lucinda M. Wright at 765.962.1143 or Rancer Huntington at 765.478.4542.
Women of Worth (WOW)
Festival of Soul
Come to the Festival of Soul Friday, June 15, 2018 at the New Boswell Brewery & Tap Room (923 North E St., Richmond) from 8pm-midnight and support Townsend Community Center, Inc. The cost is $25 per ticket. To register, call 765-373-9012 or any Townsend Community Center board member.


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Regular check-ins are a key part of an effective OKR implementation. OKRs are closely aligned with each other so progress is reflected in parent objectives - creating inaccuracies if they aren't updated regularly. That's why it's helpful to send gentle reminders to your team to check-in on their OKRs.
Notifications remind your team to check-in regularly. They can be customized. By default, Ally sends a notification to all team members every Monday at 9:00 AM in the user's time zone. If the user's time zone is unknown, the default is PST. If Slack integration is enabled, the notification will be sent through Slack instead of email.
Admins can customize the time and frequency of notifications sent to all users in Admin -> Notifications. In this section you can set:
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KUNDUZ (Pajhwok): Security forces have retreated from 10 villages in northern Kunduz province allowing the Taliban to recapture them near the provincial capital, public representatives and officials said on Wednesday, but did not provide a reason for the retreat.
They said the villages on the outskirts of Kunduz City were cleared of militants about 10 days ago during an operation. But last night the Taliban recaptured the areas, said the provincial council head, Amaruddin Wali.
He said the Taliban had been ruling Hazrat Sultan, Chaparma, Tablaqyan and Araban villages for the past four years until they were driven during an operation about 10 days ago. But the rebels recaptured the areas after the retreat of security forces.
"The security forces had successfully conducted their operations and cleared the areas of militants and we also thanked them at security meetings, but all the gains were lost," Wali said.
Another member of the council, Safiullah Amiri, blamed insecurities in Kunduz on what he called lack of coordination among security forces and their weak leadership.
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A resident of Hazrat Sultan village, Hakeem, said they fled to Kunduz City 12 days ago and were currently living in a home with four other displaced families.
"God may bring peace, so we return to our homes and fields. We demand nothing of the government except peace," said the displaced person.
Security officials in Kunduz acknowledged the retreat which they said was staged after inflicting heavy casualties on the rebels. However, they could not provide a clear reason for the move.
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I haven't watched much television lately. I catch bits of the Nightly News with my parents ("We can't miss Brian!"), some Jeopardy!, Jon Stewart and Colbert, and tidbits of VH1/MTV/Best Week Ever/Hannah Montana/South Park/random bits I find on Saturday mornings and at the gym. Obviously, one of the reasons why I haven't watched much is pretty obvious: I started blogging.
And the writers' strike.
I support the strikers 100%. I would love to march on the picket lines with them; I'd even wake up early to do so! There are all sorts of implications that will be fascinating to watch as a result of what's going on, like the fact that pilot season as we know it is basically over. Some people have criticized Jon Stewart for his diatribe on the strike his first day back at work, but I applauded it. I literally clapped my hands and squealed in my pajamas watching it. People said it wasn't funny, that he should stick to politics. But the writer's strike is entertainment politics, and he skewers the media, of which he very well knows he's a part. Of course he's going to cover it. It's his show, first of all, and he practically has an obligation to talk about it. He's in a tough situation, and he tried to get an interim deal, to no avail. Give the guy some credit, some slack. Yeah, working on either his show or Colbert's would be the shit, but it's tough: they all make it look easy. Writers are your net, your spotter, your safety valve. They are just as important to television as any other level of production, and many, many shows would not be what they are without writers. Talent and charm and improv can only work so far, and I'm amazed at what I've seen so far of the striking Daily Show and Colbert, because it doesn't feel like it's not written. Oh, I notice the differences, that's for sure: there's no Word, the interviews are longer and sometimes choppy, the timing is sometimes off. But that's ok, and I embrace it.
The funny thing about television is now that I'm done with college, where I notoriously watched little TV and what I did was either in stolen moments or very regimented, I wondered if I was going to go back to my high school days, finding all new shows to follow obsessively, back to taping and posting and scheduling my life around television. Life–and not just mine–is very different from 2003. I never use my VCR anymore. It's not that I got a DVD player or a DVR, or that I've suddenly become adept at downloading shows on my computer. It's that I don't feel that I need to tape things anymore. A few months ago, I missed the first ten minutes of House–my current show of the moment even though I had been upset with the direction it was going–but I didn't feel a sense of panic, of doom, of disappointment. Whatever, I'll catch it later on Fox.com, I thought. Exactly. That sums up everything. Even though I had to wait 8 days (goddamn you Fox), I knew I could catch it. And even if I couldn't, there would be other ways: hulu.com (pray eventually), possibly YouTube, BitTorrent and whatnot. Eventually, there would be DVDs. I wasn't doomed. While sometimes finding things isn't always easy, there is a chance, depending upon what you watch, that you can find clips of them online. This works better for current shows; anything even a year or two old (or even a few months old) isn't so readily available.
When I first got wind of the impending strike, I knew I wanted to fill my time with other things, and by and large, I have, though it wasn't planned. Now I wonder about filling in television into my current life, a problem I never had before. I was one of those people who essentially scheduled their life around television, though I always bristled at the notion. It mattered to me; so what? It didn't prevent me from doing other things. I learned this the first week of college when I tried to watch an episode of The O.C: California wasn't as interesting as the possibilities that lay outside my dorm room. After that, television became a communal experience, rarely watched in school unless surrounded by others. In fact, I purposely watched the Friends finale in a large group, so I could get the full impact. It was to mark an occasion, to make memories. Even when we watched Gilmore Girls or Studio 60 it was more to hang out, to argue and debate and analyze then it was about the shows, especially since in the case of Gilmore Girls it was to complain more often then not. When I came to college, all of a sudden all the shows that I had followed compulsively did not matter anymore. I grew irritated by them all and they fell to the wayside, not missed. I caught bits and pieces of things here and there, but I never vowed to return to my regular schedule. For I did not need television the way I needed it in high school; I had friends now, loads of them, providing me with the comedy and the drama and the heartbreak and the tension that I had eagerly, voraciously consumed just a short time ago.
There are times that I miss television. It is a natural part of modern life now, it is rhythm, it is air and automatic. I still long to get caught up in something so juicy. I know it'll happen again, just like we know this writer's strike will eventually end. I wish all the writers loads of luck. I'm with you guys, if only in spirit.
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- John said...
I remember those days of watching Gilmore Girls as a community. Carl and Ed and I always wondered why Steve kept going, long after the show jumped the shark. Perhaps WE were the ones missing out on the fun.
The same thing happened to me at college, with one exception: the re-launch of Doctor Who during junior year (which I watched mainly via my DVD recorder.) Other than that, my TV sets at college were used exclusively for DVDs and video games, while a lonely coax cable collected dust on the floor next to the wall.
I didn't think I would be such a proponent of DVR, but the thing really is amazing. Programming it is impossibly easy, and the playback looks gorgeous. Between that and On Demand, there is no incentive at all for me to watch things when they are first broadcast. The only thing I watch live anymore is MythBusters, and that's only because it plays while I'm eating dinner. I hope the strikers get a piece of these new outlets, because they really are the present reality of television (no longer the wave of the future!)
Also, it's worth noting that TV show quality has gone steeply downhill since the writer's strike, with only a handful of watchable shows across thousands of digital channels. Let's hope the writers can fix that upon their return.
- January 30, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Emily said...
That happened to me after I went to college with Gilmore Girls. I high school, I thought Rory Gilmore was the coolest girl on the planet. She read books! She was pretty! She could eat enough for an elephant and still be 103 pounds! Boys loved her! When I got to college, I hated her more than any fictional or real person in my entire life.
Because it was entirely unrealistic, and I was sick of living vicariously through a person who wasn't real and who I didn't even believe anymore as a character. Every little thing she did annoyed me, everything the writers did for HER annoyed me. I couldn't take it anymore. I could list all the things I hate about her and that awfully ridiculous banter and her and freakin' Lorelei put me through, but you already know the list.
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