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According to Angela Hartlin's support website, Body- Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRB's) "is an umbrella term for any chronic behaviour that causes a person to consistently cause physical damage to oneself unintentionally through a compulsive act in order to relieve anxiety." BFRBs are characterised by direct body-to-body contact, and is collectively grouped among Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM5).
N-acetyl cysteine comes from the amino acid L-cysteine. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein, which plays an important role in almost all biological processes. N-acetylcysteine is a pharmaceutical drug and nutritional supplement that can be found at nutrition and health food stores, commonly claiming antioxidant and liver protecting effects. It has primarily been used as a mucolytic because it breaks disulfide bonds in mucous, thinning abnormally thick mucous in cystic and pulmonary fibrosis patients. It is also used in the management of paracetamol and for sulphate repletion in conditions as autism, where amino acids such as cysteine are believed to be depleted. So then how is this relevant to skin picking disorder?
Group therapy is a shared therapeutic experience which can be engaged in on its own, or as a means of additional support to supplement primary therapy. Group therapy is usually offered to people challenged by similar issues, with the objective to increase self awareness, increase social comfort, provide support, develop skills and promote positive social interaction. Participants in group sessions find discussing their problems with those who can offer genuine empathy gives them a sense of belonging and encouragement. In contrast to individual therapy, group therapy fosters the development of multiple relationships to harness the healing power the sense of belonging has on an individual.
Liz Atkin is a London-based visual artist who has been challenged by skin picking disorder for more than 20 years. She spoke to BBC radio's Felicity Finch (interview starts at 35:15 into the recording) about her disorder and the impact her art has had on her journey to recovery. Liz grew up in an alcoholic home. She describes a childhood characterized by fear and anxiety and recalls hearing violent arguments between her parents. This may have been when the picking behaviour started to manifest itself.
Liz has discovered the healing power of expression through art, dance and theatre, which she refers to as "harnessing a creative recovery". Through intimate artworks, photographs and performances, Liz has become an active advocate for Body-Focussed Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs). Liz is open and outspoken about the distressing impact skin picking has had on her life. On her website, she talks about the intense guilt and shame people with skin picking feel about the harm they are causing to their bodies, and describes the secrecy and isolation that occurs from trying to hide the condition from family and friends.
Body-Focussed Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs) such as dermatillomania (skin-picking) and trichotillomania (hair-pulling) are common disorders, but are largely undiagnosed. As a result people who have these conditions suffer alone, ashamed, and in silence. The greatest travesty of this is that the loneliness and isolation can be prevented if there was greater awareness and acceptance of these disorders. In an age of social media and the accessibility of digital technology, raising awareness and accessing support is possible and available to more people.
Join the awareness raising revolution, help make a positive change for all affected by BFRBs by getting involved in the campaign, which runs from the 1 to 7 October 2014. One way to raise awareness is to get a BFRB awareness ribbon and wear it proudly. The green and blue ribbon has been adopted to represent this community and help us to connect to each other "in the real world".
As with any condition of the body or mind, dermatillomania does not discriminate. Celebrities are often heralded by fans as being perfect and untouchable. Yet, celebrities also experience the trials and tribulations of human emotion, and are also vulnerable to stress and anxiety. Unfortunately conditions like dermatillomania evoke feelings of shame and embarrassment in the person challenged by it, and is therefore not a condition that is publicized, especially by those in the limelight. However, in 2012, a well known singer-songwriter became one of the first celebrities to publicly admit to having dermatillomania.
One of the first and greatest hurdles to overcome to successfully be skin-pick free is to open up to someone who cares and to seek help and support. So imagine the courage it must take to stand up in from of hundreds of people, in front of a camera, and admit that you are a skin-picker. In this video clip, a brave woman named Caroline does just that.
Not only does she admit to being a skin-picker, but she also describes her skin-picking habits in detail and gives an emotional account of how skin-picking has impacted her life socially and academically. She describes the journey that so many with dermatillomania can relate to, in which the shame and guilt of her skin-picking habits drove her to engage in other destructive behaviours such as drug abuse. She describes a life spiraling out of control and failed attempts at managing her condition with therapy and support groups.
Dermatillomania or excoriation (skin picking) disorder is not a very well known condition, primarily because the behaviours that manifests in this disorder are not often shared by people who engage in them. As a skin-picker you are often riddled with shame and guilt about your behaviour, covering up the 'evidence' to protect your closely guarded humiliating secret. Ironically the secrecy often isolates you from those you care about and, ironically, prevents you from receiving the much needed support and help you need to overcome it.
Onychophagia is a behavioral disorder characterized by compulsive nail biting. It is categorized with other disorders such as skin picking disorder (aka dermatillomania or excoriation disorder) and hair pulling disorder (trichotillomania) under the umbrella term body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRB). These are compulsive habits that are automatic in nature and in its mildest forms are not perceived as socially unacceptable and therefore often not recognized by the individual as a clinical problem. Of the BFRBs, compulsive nail biting is the most socially accepted habits, viewed as simply a 'nervous habit'. It is also commonly occurring in childhood with frequency tending to decrease by adulthood. However, the behaviour is known to intensify or persist through adulthood, and the severity of onychophagia can range from a very mild presentation to behaviours that are so severe that physiological complications occur.
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This posting is misleading. Early College High School is THE NAME of a school in Costa Mesa. This school is part of the Early College High School initiative, however other schools that are part of this inititave have other names. The title of this posting should be "the Early College High School Initiative". "Early College High School" pertains to the school in Costa Mesa with that specific name. When searching for "Early College High School" a user is taken to this general site for the Early College High School Initiative, not the site for Early College High School. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 18:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
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I took a first pass at removing thepuffery in this piece, but it still has a heavy tone of celebrating schools, along with getting into non-vital specifics for certain schools, rather than giving verifiable information of general interest. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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Terrell Owens Bears Call Unlikely, But Worth TryingChicago Bears, Marc Trestman, San Francisco 49ers, Terrell Owens, Terrell Owens Bears
Terrell Owens says he's a natural fit with the Chicago Bears as he makes his plea to return to the NFL at age 39. There is a connection between Owens and Marc Trestman, the new Bears head coach.
Trestman was the quaterback coach and offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers when Owens entered the NFL in 1996. 49ers head coach George Seifert retired after that 1996 season and was replaced by Steve Mariucci.
"I played my first early years in San Francisco with [Bears head coach Marc Trestman] and shortly after that, he left to do some things," Owens said. "I haven't talked to Marc in a long while. I know he's gone on and done some things, now he's back in the NFL. So, I never really thought about it until myself and Napoleon [Harris] were talking about it earlier, but I would definitely welcome it if they would give it some serious consideration. To think about [Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall] on the other side and me on one side, that's really dangerous. I'm keeping myself in shape just for any opportunity that may come about."
Trestman left the 49ers organization after 1996 to become the quarterbacks coach with the Detroit Lions, so the time Owens and Trestman worked together was brief. But when you're 39-years-old and grasping at any opportunity to remain in the NFL, any connection is worth reaching for.
Owens has had a Hall of Fame career, catching 1,078 passes for 15,934 yards and 153 touchdowns, ranking among the Top 10 in league history in those three statistical categories. However, the six-time Pro Bowler turns 40 in December and has not played a regular season game in the National Football League since Dec. 12, 2010.
Owens suffered a torn ACL while working out as a free agent during the 2011 lockout and spent that season out of football. With no NFL offers in the 2012 offseason, he played eight games for the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League, but was released last May. The wide-receiver went to training camp with the Seattle Seahawks last summer, but he was released after catching two passes for 41 yards in two preseason games.
Owens is hoping for that reunion with Trestman to play with the Bears.
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A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Cima NanoTech, a US multinational company, have signed an agreement to jointly work on new sustainable nanomaterials, processes and devices for transparent conductors used to make cheaper and more efficient electronics and organic solar cells.
Singapore, Nov 19, 2012 - (ACN Newswire) - IMRE and Cima NanoTech are collaborating to develop new transparent conductive materials and components, based on Cima's SANTE(TM) Technology(1) and IMRE's know-how in printed electronics(2). These innovations will enable efficient conductive interfaces with high transparency, which can be developed into low cost and high performance products for displays, organic solar cells, and flexible electronics.
Conventional Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and Transparent Conductive Oxides (TCO) used in today's solar cells, OLEDs, flat panel TVs, and touchscreen displays have limitations in conductivity, flexibility, and cost. These new materials and processes that IMRE and Cima are developing will potentially enable faster response touch screens for large flexible displays and reduce production cost.
"Cima is particularly interested in IMRE's extensive electronics materials systems and device fabrication capabilities, said Mr Jon Brodd, Cima NanoTech's Chief Executive Officer (Singapore). IMRE and CIMA are working together to develop enabling nanotechnology materials, components, and processing methods to support new market applications in transparent conductors and printed electronics with SANTE, Cima NanoTech's self aligning nanoparticle network.
"We are collaborating with Cima to develop new transparent conductor applications that will lead to cheaper, flexible, more eco-friendly and sustainable products," said Dr Zhang Jie, the key scientist leading IMRE's printed electronics initiative. The research team will develop applications using novel, sustainable transparent conductor materials as an alternative to conventional ITO-based materials.
"Innovations in materials R&D are crucial in evolving today's devices into new products with tomorrow's technology. IMRE's research portfolio covers the entire printed electronics value chain that includes materials, processes, optimisation and reliability testing for integrated printed electronics prototypes. I am glad that we can present a diverse suite of capabilities in partnering Cima in the area of transparent conductors and printed electronics," said Prof Andy Hor, IMRE's Executive Director.
(1) Cima's SANTE(TM) Technology has 10 times the electrical conductivity of conventional ITO transparent conductive films and does not require photolithography, vacuum deposition, or other expensive manufacturing process steps. In addition, SANTE Technology is highly flexible to enable curved displays and thin bezel designs unlike brittle ITO films, which can crack.
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*TOP REVIEWER* timothybcat on 9/30/2014 9:30:00 PM more reviews by timothybcat
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
I have to be brutally honest and say that I think the idea behind this lipstick is hilariously absurd. Is there some woman out there who pulls on a pair of jeans and cries, "Oh dear! Now which lipstick do I wear with these? Oh me, oh my! Whatever shall I do?" Am I the only one who has never scratched her head over this conundrum? That said, this color does complement the indigo blue of jeans very well. So if you wear a dark-rinse denim jacket, this would look gorgeous with it. That's the only way I can figure the lipstick and denim would have any relation to each other.
Anyway, I am OBSESSED with it. The color is just unbelievably beautiful and flattering, and really had to describe. I've really thought HARD about it, too. Watermelon pink? Sort of, but not as bright with a little more warmth. Rose? Maybe, but not quite that pink. It makes my lips look glossy and juicy and pink in a natural shade.
It feels incredible, which is another reason I love it. It's very silky and glossy, and quite moisturizing. It's definitely going to be a go-to lipstick in the winter, but this would definitely look great with spring pastels and summer brights as well. It's very natural looking, so it would go with everything. It's sheer, so your natural lip color is definitely going to alter this color anyway. I mean, it's REALLY sheer, so I lay a lot on for the amount of color I like.
The only reason I can't give this five stars is the lack of staying power. It wears off really quickly. I really wanted to try the LQ "Sinner" lipsticks, which are full-on pigment, but I chose comfort over value. I don't have particularly pigmented lips, yet I really have to layer this on for the color to have impact. Then it's going to start disappearing as soon as you sip something. If you have really pigmented lips, you may just want to stay away. It'd be really cool if Poppy came out with a full-pigment "Sinner" version of this, though!
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*TOP REVIEWER* snowshoe73 on 8/18/2014 12:53:00 PM more reviews by snowshoe73
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse Eyes: Brown
This is a beautiful rose color that is almost MLBB. It looks fantastic, the formula is creamy and my lips feel great wearing it. It looks good with or without the denim. However, where Jean Queen--and a lot of Lipstick Queen's lipsticks for that matter--struggles is in its wear time. It's one of the poorer wearing lipsticks, requiring me to reapply every 2 hours or so. And this is without me doing anything drastic with my mouth!
This lipstick is more like 3.5 stars, but I upped it to 4 because it looks so good on me, and I don't mind reapplying that much. But for situations where lipstick wear is important, it might not be the one I reach for.
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*TOP REVIEWER* ltgee on 4/23/2014 3:08:00 PM more reviews by ltgee
Age: 36-43 Skin: Oily, Tan, Warm Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
i really love this lipstick, its a very sheer, shiny rose on my lips. unfortunately i had to return it because it has zero staying power. you literally put it on and seconds later its like your lips just suck all the color right up. its very moisturizing, has the perfect amount of shine and its the perfect MLBB color for my pigmented lips. i love everything about it, but seriously, for $20.00 plus tax this should have SOME staying power! its only 11:30 am and i've re-applied it 4 times already since 9:00 am and i have not even eaten anything yet. at this rate, the entire tube will be gone before the weeks out!
cute blue tube packaging and i can see why this would look great with "blue jeans", its a perfect color to wear every single day for a nice polished casual look.
i WANT to give it a 5 lippie but i just cant. because of the lack of staying power this gets a solid 3 lippies. if this stayed on, i wouldnt care about the price!
going to trade it in for one of the china sticks!
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*TOP REVIEWER* tigirlyly on 3/10/2014 11:24:00 PM more reviews by tigirlyly
Age: 30-35 Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Cool Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Blue
I end up getting this lippie after I purchased the gloss in Jean Queen. This lippie is a little coral/rose as compared to the gloss which is a pink on my lips. I find it's a safe color to wear on a daily basis. Wears ok, it did not survive lunch though. I will be buying more LQ lippies in the future.
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z71krystal on 11/20/2013 6:27:00 AM more reviews by z71krystal
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Green
I love this natural pink (almost soft watermelon coral) lippie! I'm always feel as though I look healthy or young with this shade. It's a great everyday color and there is something about wearing lipstick as opposed to lipgloss that makes a girl feel a little more glamorous. I found it to be moisturizing as well.
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*TOP REVIEWER* stimwink1 on 11/19/2013 11:14:00 AM more reviews by stimwink1
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Blond, Straight, Fine Eyes: Hazel
Yes I'm hooked on this line. I had read several reviews on this and eyed it at Ulta a few times and finally swatched it. I'm generally a cool tone, However, once in a while something will come out very warm toned on me. I see a lot of reviews say they got a pink or Pink/rosey color on their lips. Jean Queen actually gave me a coral/rose hue. Very pretty very wearable. This is a little more opaque than medievil or hello sailor but not a matte at all. I can wear this dressed down or up depending on my other makeup.
Yep this is $$$ but if I'm wearing it and not letting it sit in the tube I'll make that treat for myself. I am a drug store dupe queen but I have to say I am liking a lot of this line for me!
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syashimi on 10/25/2013 2:55:00 AM more reviews by syashimi
Age: 19-24 Skin: Dry, Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Other
I was on the hunt for a MLBB lipstick, so I was recommended Jean Queen. I've never heard of Lipstick Queen, and I thought the concept behind it is quite gimmicky.
I tried Jean Queen at the shop and liked it straight away! It's a bit rosy compared to my natural lip colour, but it doesn't dry out my lips, which is a major plus!
About two hours into wearing the lipstick, I realised the "shine" in the lipstick has faded and my lips looked like it had some lip stain on... which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I was expecting it to last a little bit longer.
Personally I wouldn't buy it again. So the hunt for my holy grail MLBB lipstick continues!
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*TOP REVIEWER* MaryEllen on 10/9/2013 4:02:00 PM more reviews by MaryEllen
Age: 44-55 Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Brown, Medium Eyes: Blue
Although I love Poppy and her Chinatown Gloss Pencils, I'm finding myself disenchanted with her lipsticks. This looked like a great shade for me, so I jumped to buy it. I found it somewhat difficult to apply (dragged over my lips), not at all glossy, and very drying, as I find all LQ's lipsticks to be. And although the shade is good, it's not great. I swapped it away, and I hope the other person's enjoying it. I don't see myself buying more Lipstick Queen lipsticks in the future--too drying, and the shades are not unique.
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hamelma on 10/9/2013 3:39:00 PM more reviews by hamelma
Age: 44-55 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
I read slot about this lipstick, and decided to give it a try. I love sheer lip colors, and I read a lot of positive reviews from cool-toned gals so I ordered it.
As soon as I put it on I thought " oh heck no". I couldn't wipe it off quickly enough.
It looked garish, and I didn't think it was cool toned enough. It looked to warm/reddish on me.
I have no complaints about the quality of the lippie, or the packaging.
I just didn't find it to be universally flattering.
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*TOP REVIEWER* blacksheep6293 on 8/20/2013 8:09:00 PM more reviews by blacksheep6293
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Warm Hair: Blond, Kinky, Fine Eyes: Hazel
count me a converted among the sceptics.
I would constantly walk past this boring, bland looking lipstick at my local Kit Cosmetics. there was always muuuuuuch better, more interesting trends to go by.
I had always considered MLBB lip colours to be pale concealer nudes, light pastel pinks etc...and never really grasped the concept of My Natural Lip Colour But Better, which would be a light flushed pinky rose.
I myself am a fan of Poppy King and her Lipstick Queen line, being a lipstick queen (translation: lipstick hoarder) myself.
Being a bit tired of wearing drastic colours to work- the usual being bright blue based reds to go with my 50's style wardrobe, or a pale nude to go with a smokey eye on a night out.
Realising I really had nothing to go with simple legings and tshirt days (aka casual), I decided to go on the hunt for this elsusive MNLBB.
Googling it, this was one of the photos that came up. Initially it was a lovely dusty translucent creamy rosy pink, with a shiny balmy looking texture. I had to have it. But the description said Jean Queen....thinking 'you mean that boring dirty rose LQ makes?'
I decided to look up reviews. Lo and behold, most people love it, so I lashed out without even testing it on my lips.
It has turned out to be the perfect every day colour. I'm wondering if this is going to be turning into my every day lip. Such a beautiful, effortless but flattering colour I can see suiting a huge range of colours. Happy Lipsticking!
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Witches, demons, and the supernatural have long fascinated painters and writers. These four paintings represent scenes of witchcraft at four distinct times of day. Their circular format (called a tondo) became popular during the 15th century, but was more unusual in the 17th.


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GameWatch's got some comparison screens of day, night and dusk in Yakuza 4. These images contain people, cars and buildings with varying levels of ambient and artificial light. Don't look if you're easily offended. The game's out next year in Japan. European and the US will get a localization in 3876.3
Yakuza 4 to have in-game ads
Yakuza 4 will have dynamic in-game ads thanks to a Sega-Double Fusion Japan deal, Andriasang reports. The PS3 game releases in Japan next spring, and will be awash with product tie-ins for its real-world setting, from the sound of it. Awesome. Can you make it in English now, Sega?3
More Yakuza 4 screens released at TGS
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Yakuza 4 - first movie!
IGN's posted an off-screen movie of Yakuza 4 from TGS – get it after the break. It's shot off-screen, but the quality's good. Go! First shots here.2
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And here we are. Sega's released the first screens of Yakuza 4. IGN has the lot. It's pretty. It's Japanese. It'll be released in English in about 40 years. Look!4
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It was announced a while back, but Yakuza 4 will be fully revealed next week during the Tokyo Game Show. The date of reveal, which is on the teaser website which opened over the weekend, is September 24, which is day and date with the start of TGS itself. If you want to get the […]2
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Yakuza 4 named Heir to the Legend
Sega's named the next in the Yakuza series Ryu Ga Gotoku 4: Heir to the Legend, according to Kotaku. A tiny bit of detail came out overnight. It'll feature top name Japanese actors and musicians, as ever. Actors will be mo-capped and modelled for the title. Hiroki Narimiya and Kenta Kiritani have signed on to […]9
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Album, CD, Home Normal, Music, Video
I have a new album out on the wonderful Home Normal label. Massive thanks to Ian for putting this CD out for me, and here are some lovely words from him about the release:
Wil has been a dear friend and collaborator now for many years, quite a bit before Home Normal even came into existence. We've watched in wonder at Wil's development from his electronic work as Cheju, to running his wonderful Boltfish label, and in more recent years, his super releases on the ever quality Hibernate and Time Released Sound labels. His installation work has seen him work around the UK, as well as maintaining a strong connection to South Korea, and this summer he will even be here in Japan.
'Bokeh' is one of those lovely records that doesn't really hit you straight away to be honest. That, though, is the beauty of Wil's works. From very subtle beginnings you are left to uncover wonderful variances, discovering new elements coming to the fore with each listen.
The Japanese ボケ味 ('boke-aji') relates to a 'blur quality', and has in time come to be known as a photographic technique by which 'out-of-focus' points of light are processed by certain lenses. You can get 'good' or 'bad' bokeh which often refers to the level of distraction in the image, with the good of course, enhancing the image somehow in its own mysterious way.
Indeed, bokeh is regarded as an 'optical abberation'. To steal a final quote: 'Aberrations occur because the simple paraxial theory is not a completely accurate model of the effect of an optical system on light, rather than due to flaws in the optical elements.' Isn't that a wonderful way of looking at things in life itself? As a sort of bokeh perspective. There are no completely accurate models for how we view things, and 'Bokeh' perfectly demonstrates in its own quiet way just how individual and unique our optics are.
Finally, and to nicely coincide with the idea of 'optics', Wil also created a superb video for the title track of the album. The setting for the film is an urban environment; a blurred (ok…'bokeh') vision as the watcher seems present but also quietly disconnected from the noise and rush around them. In this simple way the album is perfectly encapsulated, showing the quietude of spirit even in the most urban of environments.
Released by Home Normal on CD, in an edition of 500, 15 August 2014. Packaged in single recycled card insert placed inside 7″ locally cultivated washi cover, including unique vintage slide and photograph.
Written and produced by Wil Bolton
Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Hitoshi Ishihara (attic photograph)
Designed by togoshi + mondül
"Wil "with one L" Bolton has done another album of his gorgeous blurry ambience this week, housed in a delicate 8″x7″ sleeve that you will really struggle to file with your other records and still keep in uncompromised condition. He's reminded me of Windy and Carl before and he's immediately doing it again on the opening title track, an ethereal smudge of subtle arrhythmic chimes and gliding, unsourceable drones which gets a little glitchy and digitally corrupted towards the end.
We get various subtle variations on this theme of blurred, smoky drones and dinky chiming details over a further five tracks. 'Tremadog' throws in some crunchy static…or is it cars driving through puddles? '1887' has a feverish kind of buzzing thing going on and some new-trainers-on-lino squeaks, 'Sash' has pre-concert babblings and weird chopped up orchestra-tuning samples stretched all backwards and inside out, in 'Pentaprism' children caw like crows over a rich, droning chord that has a kind of accordion/harmonium wheezy quality to it. I'm not going to give away what happens in closer 'Moonlight (For Sophie)'. That one can be a surprise.
If you're into the droney times of the likes of Windy and Carl, Celer or Hakobune and haven't yet investigated Bolton's meticulously crafted and brittly detailed sound sculptures, here's a perfect opportunity. You might want to pick up his 'Under A Name That Hides Her' LP for a bargain £3.49 while we've still got cheap copies, too! 8/10." – Norman Records
"Il calore emozionale delle partiture ambientali di Wil Bolton (Cheju, The Ashes Of Piemonte, Anzio Green, Ashlar Le Moors) trova nella sua prima opera solista da due anni a questa parte densa profondità prospettica, veicolata da frequenze modulate, field recordings e variopinte screziature elettro-acustiche.
Nei sei brani di "Bokeh", l'artista inglese filtra il proprio romanticismo attraverso copiose trame di riverberi e screziature droniche persistenti e talora dotate di consistenza granulosa e a tratti persino distorta.
Ciononostante, le ricche texture di Bolton risultano sempre dotate di una preziosa fragilità, espressa attraverso esili filigrane armoniche, costellate da micro-suoni e loop avvolgenti." – Music Won't Save You / Rockerilla
"Fresh from the sonically fecund fields of Home Normal, Wil Bolton's Bokeh is his latest album of gently pulsing, tricked & tweaked, soothing analog/digital haze. Throughout Bokeh I hear harmonium, crystal bowls, knocks, streetscapes, glass clinks, odd analog key snatches and elsewhere heard, vague recollections of sound. From early in Wils recorded career he has used various bell like tones and chimes, to colour his compositions. In this I'm not talking healing room fairy floss, in Wils rendering, often these tones are sensitively edited and manipulated ( hear Tremadog ), playing with our notions of the previously heard, teasing and tantalising our aural library. Moonlight (For Sophie) also plays with a similar sound palette, though perhaps more lullaby like (and a smile from yours truly upon readingthis interview), and the chimes are more pronounced, pure – like starlight.
Wil always excells at warm drone too and throughout Bokeh, its tonic is ever present. 1887 is one such piece, it opens as a wet streetside location recording and then evolves into a shifting soundworld of stretched, percussive, lulling pulses. Amidst this haze, location sounds subtly enter the foreground, wheeling gulls, wet road traffic, non-specific surfaces and flitting machinations, a door? Pentaprism too explores the drone with an oddly celestial (the keys) come earthbound (a pedestrian underpass?) contradiction of sounds seguing into a keyed assertion to close – a true sound memory.
As always, the title is no random choice. Bokeh comes from the Japanese word for a blur quality or haze and in photography, can refer to the contrasting out of focus material beyond the foreground. You know those lovely nightime photos of out of focus lights through a rain soaked windscreen – bokeh. And so, musical Bokeh, offering both a current statement and perhaps an intention from earlier days – its seems to offer a perceptual renewal of all that has passed and is present with Wils art.
For this release, in keeping with the refined artistry of the music, Home Normal have released the physical edition in a card insert placed inside a 7″ washi cover with an accompanying vintage photograph and slide." – Periwinkle Hear and Now
"The Japanese ??? ('boke-aji') relates to a 'blur quality', and has in time come to be known as a photographic technique by which 'out-of-focus' points of light are processed by certain lenses.
Angelic, shimmering points of light reflect the golden blonde colours; tanned feathers, indistinct in their white, tonal haze. The light is a halo that hovers and then surrounds the field of vision. Amber flares burn against the sky, but the warmth is kind, approachable. The music reels you in slowly, with great care. The opening chimes slowly envelop, carrying the listener away on a peaceable drift, a tonal raft.
The slow tempo is just what's needed, but despite its pace there's a lot happening. In fact, the activity on "Bokeh" is off the scale. On first glance, it's ambient music in the process of awakening, pulling itself out of a heavy slumber just before the dawn. Look closer, though, and you will see a metropolis of glinting, vivid colours, like the trinity of a traffic light, looping endlessly. In '1887', you can hear the background noise as a stream of traffic, the music flowing in one direction, towards one destination.
There are subtle, small variations in the sound. It may be an irregular rhythm, brought on by a streak of notes, or it may be the gentle insertion of a field recording. The field recordings are never an obstacle or a diversion; they just reminder us of our place in the world. The music sways back and forth. She prefers to hover, never really sticks to one tone. The lovely ambient light is an out of focus light, but the crystal clear notes that climb to the front are pointed melodic shards that glint lucidly. Its background is obscured, its supple skin shaped by love. Because of its blurry background, the music leans close and whispers of mystery, placid enough, but not entirely peaceful.
"Bokeh" bursts with a soft and gentle beauty. Like a kiss it softly settles, and even though it is a temporary thrill, it never truly leaves. The music is in flux, a vanilla light speckled with golden sand, rhythmically circling. A light use of static grazes the ambient layer, and the sound of children having fun in the playground represents the ambient layer; the distortion is a tiny cut on the music, but it's also a graze on the field recording, a cut on the palm and the sting of the asphalt after accidentally falling over.
Seagulls hover, just a little higher than the drone. A heavier drone eclipses the lighter tones. Voices echo, but they remain a distant blur, a long way off, as unclear as the damp, muddied background. They could be a thousand miles away, because by this point there's a real, concrete disconnect. The outside has melted away. The music has held its promise. It's sweet escapism that blots out the many dialects and languages, takes them out of focus and replaces the old struggles with the clearer, international language of music. Bokeh is tonal honey. It has a personable nature: affectionate ambient, sensitive to the touch." – Fluid Radio
"Bokeh feels like a true "environment": ambient music that feels alive with the intelligence of nature. Wil Bolton has done quite a bit of sound work for art installations, where being sensitive to an actual environment is paramount. His compositions are often informed by visual cues (landscapes, architecture) where an initial field recording is made and then expanded upon with analogue instruments and a laptop. The fuzzy synth meditation "1887" opens with traffic, before the seagulls give another clue as to where we are (Spoiler! This one is in Liverpool). In fact, Bokeh on the whole is peppered with traffic and city sounds from various cities, inspiring serenity within a distracting urban setting.
The Japanese word 'bokeh' (say BOH-kay) refers to the way a camera lens renders the part of a photograph that is out of focus. Bolton was especially interested in parallels between the aural and the visual and between photography and sound. The abstract concept is perhaps best explained in Bolton's own video below. Oh, yeah – Wil Bolton does photography and video work, too.
Best capturing the meaning of the word, the essential "Bokeh" could go on forever without any complaints from us. Bells and bowls are struck, then echo and tumble with a meditative cadence. Bolton is very playful with his treatments of these sounds: no two bell tones cascade or resolve the same way. Beneath the bells lives a rich blend of twinkling fragments, gulls and wind, and an amorphous yet deft weaving of analogue and synthetic sounds. The single step on a high-hat cymbal deep into the track continues to intrigue.
Throughout the album, synths weave between one another like wisps of fog, and it is this ever-changing patina that Bolton is so good at. He is using loops, but none of them are timed the same, ensuring unique combinations throughout. While this seems like a simple device, the attention to detail feels molecular. "Tremadog" sounds like Four Tet's favorite kind of bells and field recordings, but the beats are left sleeping in the shade, encouraging the ever-manipulated bells to flit and stutter. "Moonlight (For Sophie)" is a lullaby for Bolton's 1-year-old niece, and gosh is it pretty. The original field recording is from little Sophie's toy telephone and rattle, which are treated with loving care as a circuitous melody cascades like starlight through a drifting curtain. The peripheral magic of this composition wonderfully captures the wonder with which we can view young children experiencing the world, reveling in another's fresh experience, never really knowing as an adult what this time in our own lives was like.
The album feels like a memory yearning to be experienced fresh, but it is always out of reach. Wil Bolton's work is truly wonderful and "bokeh" is an apt theme, playing with the idea that modeling our perception can never match how people truly experience the world. The camera lens produces visual "abberations" when elements run out of focus, but many photographic effects caught in the periphery strike us as sublime. Fire up the sensory deprivation chamber and put this one on to experience high quality ambient memories from a life you have never lived." – A Closer Listen
"L'inclinaison de Wil Bolton pour une ambient faite de bribes de guitare traitée et de field recordings aux frontières de l'onirisme a déjà été évoquée à plusieurs reprises sur ces pages. Avec son nouvel album, qui sort sur Home Normal, ce parti pris se confirme et, assurément, on s'est (définitivement ?) éloigné de l'electronica que l'Anglais prisait lorsqu'il œuvrait en tant que CHEjU.
Travaillant à nouveau sur le tintement de quelques éléments organiques et leur résonance dans le scintillement de certaines nappes, comme sur l'intégration d'éléments capturés dans son environnement (fragments de discussion, bruits de la rue), Bolton sait également tirer le maximum de la durée qu'il confère à chacun de ses morceaux (sept minutes de moyenne pour les six morceaux de Bokeh), jouant sur l'étirement des structures et leur caractère dilaté (le morceau-titre ou bien Moonlight (For Sophie). Si cette opération peut paraître un rien trop distendue (quelques passages auraient peut-être gagnés à être davantage resserrés), la beauté gracile qui se dégage de ses compositions s'avère certaine.
Au-delà de ces démarches, le Britannique peut aussi jouer sur l'oscillation de ses nappes, et faire ainsi le lien avec le titre de son album qui, en japonais, renvoie à une technique photographique de mise au point floue, dans laquelle le point ne se fait pas, restant en perpétuelle recherche de l'exacte distance. Vibrantes et hésitantes, les composantes de1887 agissent donc bien en écho de cet intitulé bien que cette figure de style ne soit pas la seule convoquée par Wil Bolton qui connaît, par ailleurs, le moyen de concocter un morceau à l'avancée plus linéaire (Pentaprism)." – Etherreal
"This new release by Wil Bolton, a sound artist whose name often appeared on this zine by means of his lovely drone-ambient outputs or for some releases he dropped by his imprint Boltfish or in the guise of Cheju, names after "bokeh", a word which refers to a well-known photographic blurring technique that comes from the alteration of the Japanese word "boke", meaning "blur" or "haze". Some photographers consider it an "optical aberration" as many "boke" could come from wrong focusing of the optical lens, but it could be intentionally added to bring out some object from background or for artistic photography. A friend of mine who has a mania for Japan and photography explained to me that "boke" is also the word to describe the mental confusion of aged people suffering from senile dementia, but even if Wil's sonorities could sound vaguely melancholic, I don't think it's connected to senility! The opening title-track seems to translate the above-described photographic 'out-of-focus' technique into sound as he blurred resounding objects such as seagulls or distant traffic noises by means of diluted atmospheric vanishing varnish and bulged clear bell-like hits and he follows a similar pattern on the following tracks where Wil slightly changes blurred elements and blurring dynamics: an indistinct chatter and a wrapping frequency which sounds like frowning on this interference on "Sash", driving rain and loooped metallic hits on the track that got named from the Welsh village of Tramadog, recurring traffic sounds, playing children and chirping birds that got wrapped into a Boards Of Canada-like sonic blister which renders a certain sense of lukewarm astonishment on the pleasantly lulling "1887", electric buzzes and other faint voices on the entrancing "Pentaprism". The final dedication to his 1-year old niece "Moonlight (for Sophie)" where he included the melody of her toy telephone and other rattles is the most tender moment of the release and could let you surmise that the sonic optical lens by which Wil filtered surrounding reality is a sort of childish reverie where the differentiations that feature the perception of adults got levelled off." – Chain DLK