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Read on to learn how you can help share Amos’s story with Black students at historically Black colleges and universities. With a gorgeous and astute design from lauded creatives Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA medalist) and Joe Newton, as well warm and charismatic portraits of Kennedy at work by Aundre Larrow, Citizen Printer also celebrates the printmaking process of one of our most exuberant artists. To Be Young, Gifted, and …

ALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTI really enjoy tracking down self-portraits from retro sci-fi artists.

Hard Times of 1975 is a lovely film about the unlovely sport of bare-knuckle boxing. Walter Hill’s first directorial effort, the movie came out in the 1970s nostalgia boom, and its cinematographer, Philip Lathrop, shot it in a dark, dingy glow; its surface seems coated with an old Kodachrome’s antique glaze. Its first scene could have come out of an early-1930s Warner Bros. road film: A lone man stands in …

Perfume PossePerfume Presents Heya Posse, March and I were chatting in the comments of my Boucheron Serpent Boheme post in August a little about how special Perfume ... Perfume PossePerfume Presents

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, …

Some time in the La Sals for Joan's birthday. Read More ... Continue reading Birthday in the La Sals at PMags.com.

'Driving into some pole/because a ditch seems too final,/too obvious, too ironic'

I haven’t done one of these for a while. These two American interurban scenes cry out to be modelled. And this if you had the room. Fremo modular layouts in HO can be enormous! This would be an interesting railway to model. And prototypes for everything. These pictures are dedicated to the ESNG treasurer. (If you know, you know.) And a little humour to round off this post.

Today is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is 'Prioritising Mental Health in the Workplace'. Clare Gerada reviews a study showing that doctor suicide rates, particularly for females, exceed those of the general population. The post New meta-analysis confirms high suicide rates amongst doctors #WMHD2024 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Many have noticed a key time coincidence. The last few centuries have seen both a rise in many lamentable changes to key social practices and norms, and also a great rise in the influence non-traditional social structures on our lives, including both more capitalism and more government. They suggest: the second trend caused the first, and thus that the first might be reversed by reversing the second. That is, with …

Seen around North Conway recently

A while ago I was watching a Canadian YouTuber who (as a sidebar in a much longer video) was objecting to the idea that Australia is bigger than Greenland… he just went, “Um, haven’t you seen them on a map?? There’s no way!” I guess some YouTubers are provocatively wrong about things to farm engagement but that wasn’t this guy’s schtick, he was just genuinely brainwashed by Mercator maps. Anyway, …

We were in London for a short visit this weekend and, between us, went to a few notable pubs that we never visited while living there. The Boleyn Tavern was infamous for being the West Ham pub because it was close to the former Upton Park stadium. Regularly boarded up or closed ahead of particularly tasty fixtures, it wasn’t the sort of place we ever felt the need to go. …

Chipping away at my River Wye pike target or just enjoying chasing pike! Less than ideal conditions, red and rising, but one fish lost to a hook-pull & one landed, 10lb 5oz - bleak livebait doing the trick.

Thursday 10th October 2024 Readers will know I like to get out and about and see what’s actually happening on the road as well as on the tracks when commenting. Something I wish more managers and especially senior directors of transport companies would do more often so they can take informed decisions based on real world experience. When I first wrote about what is now a widespread adoption by First …