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Highlighting some of the most exciting new voices in cinema, New York Japan CineFest presents two nights of short films by emerging Japanese and Japanese American filmmakers.
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Part of Citi Series on Asian Arts and Culture.
Complex x Complex
Dir. Miyuki Fukuda. 2015. Japan. 25 mins.
Eighth grader Yui longs to be a grown-up. She considers armpit hair the symbol of adulthood, so her classmate Takeo—who has the thickest underarm hair in the class—becomes her idol. Is it love? A coming-of-age story about puberty, love, and halting conversation.
Vita Lakamaya
Dir. Akihito Izuhara. 2015. Japan. 8 mins.
In the woods, every creature is sleeping. Listen carefully to their quiet breathing. It's the sounds of this innocent world that called "Vita lakamaya"....
Dir. Yoshimi Itazu. 2015. Japan. 28 mins.
The earth shook. The sea roared. And then...
There is a small solitary house standing by the seaside. A pigtail-braided girl has been living alone since that fateful day. Mail is no longer delivered, yet she hangs the laundry to dry as usual. A delicate fable of hope and rebirth in a cruel and gentle world after an unnamed disaster.
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Dir. Mizuki Kiyama. 2015. Japan. 5 mins.
We are made up of two symmetrical parts: the left and the right. Not only our bodies but also our mentality, consists of twin elements, such as instinct and intellect, or the objective and subjective. These dual qualities make up a whole person. This animation humorously explores this fact, which we often take for granted.
Little Shimajiro
Dir. Isamu Hirabayashi. 2015. Japan. 9 mins.
In a small, quiet forest, an energetic boy named Shimajiro falls into a hole. The residents of the forest gather to help him, but young Shimajiro only ends up hurting them. But when Shimajiro encounters great kindness, he is able to find kindness within himself.
Dir. Yu Sato. 2016. Japan. 4 mins.
A robot wakes up among heaps of trash in the deep recesses of a dark alley. With no recollection of what happened before or after he was thrown away, will this robot try to return home to the family he worked for?
Nothing You Need to See
Dir. Keigo Ito. 2015. Japan. 4 mins.
This hand-drawn animation focuses in on what we look at in everyday life. Set on a fantasy train representing a kind of mental landscape, a young man shuts himself off from the outside world by reversing his face so he does not see anything, while another man silently stuffs garbage into the face.
In the Clock
Dir. Shizuka Abe. 2015. Japan. 9 mins.
He is a clock work toy. His work is performing in front of the clock every 3 hours. One day, he meets the doll who is on the music box.
In 2012, the year he took the reins of power, China's President Xi Jinping spoke of "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation," as part of his speech on the "Chinese Dream." As President Xi pursues that vision in various ways and newly-minted U.S. President Donald Trump promises to "Make America Great Again," many believe the two powers are destined for conflict. Why is this? According to distinguished scholar and historian Dr. Graham Allison, the world is witnessing a potentially dangerous iteration of what historians call the "Thucydides Trap," a period when a rising power like China is able to challenge the ruling global power — in this case, the U.S. Allison's new book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?, argues that in the history of geopolitics this is the 17th instance of the "Trap," and that most of the previous instances have resulted in war. Are a rising China and a Trump-led United States destined for conflict? What are the pathways to peace — the roads that lead these great powers away from the "Thucydides's Trap"?
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Dir. Bunji Sotoyama. 2016. Japan. 30 mins.
Aoi is a high school student living with her father, Kazuo, who suffers from depression. Kazuo is unable to run his sushi restaurant due to his illness, leaving Aoi no choice but to succeed her father to save the restaurant. She turns to a magical baseball pitch to find her fate.
"Sakurada" Zen Chef
Dir. Hirokazu Kishida. 2016. Japan. 13 mins.
A documentary exploring the final 100 days of renowned 2 Michelin-starred kaiseki restaurant in Kyoto, Sakurada, after the sudden announcement to close its doors. Through Chef Isuzu Sakurada's "retirement," the film probes the connection between the world-view pursued by Japanese cuisine in Kyoto and the spirit of Zen.
The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere
Dir. Mickey Duzyj. 2016. USA. 19 mins.
In 2003, Japan was plunged into economic darkness, and people needed a ray of hope. They found one in Haru Urara, a racehorse with a pink Hello Kitty mask and a career-long losing streak.
Broken Memory
Dir. Tomoko Mikanagi. 2016. Japan. 4 mins.
Miki Orihara, principal dancer with the Martha Graham company, performs a solo she choreographed for herself against a backdrop of skyscrapers at sunset.
I & Myself
Dir. Hisanori Tsukuda. 2017. Japan. 5 mins.
Mizuho came to Tokyo to make her dream a reality, but things have not been going well for her. She finds herself thinking, "What did I come to Tokyo for...?" Depressed and on her way home one day, she is stopped by a lady, who, to her astonishment, is another version of herself.
Dir. Jonathan Minard & Scott Rashap. 2016. USA. 14 mins.
An infant's life is transformed by a new technology.
Dir. A.T. 2015. Japan. 5 mins.
A girl encounters an android on the street. Unnerved by the experience, she decides to follow the android to give it a "message."
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly denounced the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — the "Iran Deal" to dismantle that country's nuclear program — and said he would withdraw from the agreement. Just days after the inauguration, Iran conducted missile tests, drawing a warning from President Trump that Iran "was playing with fire." Relations between the two countries have remained contentious, and the escalation and potential for conflict are causes for concern. Against this backdrop, Iran holds its presidential elections on May 19. President Hassan Rouhani and the reformists in Iran won the 2013 vote on a promise to improve Iran's economy and integrate more broadly with the global economy — aligning with the aspirations of Iran's restive and politically active young population. Further complicating matters, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is expected to step down in the near future, and there is much speculation about his successor and its implications.
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Tyrone Racket-Castor is a teenage Sim living in Twinbrook. His mother, Beverly Castor, had an affair with Bill Racket and got pregnant by him. When Tyrone was born, his mother abandoned him to save her marriage and his father took him in. Tyrone did not like living with his father, but it was better than nothing. When Tyrone turned 15, he moved out of his dad's house and bought his own house at 39 Sweetwater Loop. The house wasn't cheap but he knew the owner and they gave him a deal, knowing of his tough situation. Tyrone slowly became a frugal mooch because he was so tight on money. He decided to get a job at "Always Studious Bookstore" which he worked hard at and quickly got promotions. When he finally decided it was time to find a date and make some new friends, he stumbled across the gorgeous Jade Greenwood who lived down the road. The duo clicked and soon started dating. Prom was coming around the corner and Tyrone was prepared in advance. At the prom, Tyrone became the prom king! Tyrone then noticed he was not making enough profit so he used his old guitar and took up the guitar skill. He usually played at the Twinbrook Plaza until curfew, after his homework and job were completed. Tyrone's playing got so much attention that he became a 3-star celebrity! He still lives in his little house however, not letting the fame go to his head.
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- Tyrone is a teenager living alone.
- Tyrone is an A student.
- Tyrone is afraid of not being able to become a sports superstar when he is older.
- Tyrone has:
- 10 points in the Athletic Skill
- 1 point in the Cooking Skill
- 9 points in the Guitar Skill
- 8 points in the Handiness Skill and the Logic Skill
- Tyrone did hate his mother, Beverly, because she abandoned him, but recently he has tried to be nicer with her.
- Tyrone does get along with his half-brother, Jeffrey, though.
- Jeffrey is not aware of Tyrone being his half-brother.
- Tyrone got most of his facial features from his mother, while he got his hair color from his father.
- Tyrone lives down the street from his mother, but his father lives across town.
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- Tyrone's Toddler skills (Walking, talking, and potty training) were taught to him by his grandmother.
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- Tyrone lives across the street from Kat Hunter and Buck Green.
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- Tyrone learned how to drive from Holly Greenwood.
- Tyrone owns a Big Lemon car.
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Here's the thing about Emily Blunt: Everyone likes her. Young men like her, middle-aged women like her, teenagers like her. The Canadian crooner Michael Bublé, in the three years he dated Blunt, reportedly liked her enough to write the hit You're My Everything about her. That in itself could make someone dislike her. But it doesn't.
Honestly, I can't think of another young actress who is so darn likable. She doesn't get on anyone's nerves, she doesn't have irritating tics. The idea that she's 29, gorgeous, and magnetically talented could inspire a least a little cattiness. But no. The fact that she's married to the poster boy for All-American adorableness, The Office's John Krasinski, might ratchet up the envy, or coat her in saccharine cutesy-ness – but again, no. (It's miraculously not even annoying that they got married, in July, 2010, at pal George Clooney's place in Lake Como, Italy.)
The really amazing thing is, Blunt's best-known character, Emily in The Devil Wears Prada, is kind of a bitch. But instead of making us want to hiss at Emily for being nasty to enormous-eyed Andrea (Anne Hathaway), Blunt makes us believe that Emily gives Andrea exactly the kick she needs to grow up. As well, reviews of Blunt's last movie, The Adjustment Bureau, co-starring Matt Damon, could not say enough about how refreshing it was to watch well-matched lovers create genuine chemistry.
In Toronto a while back to promote two new films, Blunt's likeability beam was on high. When the projector failed during a screening of the upcoming Your Sister's Sister, many in the crowd stood up to take cellphone photos of Blunt simply sitting in her seat. And when she stepped on stage with director Lynne Shelton ( Humpday) and co-star Mark Duplass for a Q&A, she was everything they wanted her to be: collegial, modest, funny, sharp. (She also has a comedy due in April, The Five-Year Engagement, produced by Judd Apatow.)
But guess what? When I talked to Blunt in person about her current movie, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallstrom ( Chocolat) and co-starring Ewan Macgregor, which opens on Friday – when I finally got her alone, in real life, she was … damn it, she was delightful. She was fizzy, like old-fashioned fireworks, or lemon soda. Everything she said made me either laugh out loud or grin at her like a schoolgirl with a crush.
In Salmon Fishing, Blunt plays Harriet, a mysterious attaché for a sheik with a dream: to irrigate a desert valley and stock the rivers for sport fishing. She enlists Macgregor's Fred, a mild-mannered government fisheries expert, and the project catches the eye of Bridget Maxwell (Kristen Scott Thomas), the British Prime Minister's spokeswoman, who's desperate to generate some goodwill in the Middle East. Naturally, complications ensue and love blooms.
"It's perfect writing," Blunt says. "It's that British humour that I really love, full of charm and real wit, and it's actually how people speak to each other. Nothing was on the nose, it was all suppressed. The love story was more of a gently arcing friendship. I love that you see a relationship blossom, rather than just, in the first scene, people are dropping drawers and getting at it."
Salmon Fishing gives Blunt another crack at what is fast becoming her specialty: credible cleverness. "The woman with a brain," she says, laughing. "As if that's a character detail, like being blonde." She enumerates a couple of tropes that she's noticed in that kind of script: "It will say, 'She walks with determination.' No, 'She walks with purpose.' Or, 'She's a deliberate person.' " She laughs. "I didn't even go to college, and people still think I'm smart. It's a miracle."
Blunt grew up in London, the second of four siblings. "I'm so fiercely protective of my siblings. They break me in two if they're going through something," she says. "I find that bond very emotional. We go on trips together, share a bed, laugh into the night. They're all in the U.K., though; I find that hard." Her mother Joanna was an English teacher, and her father Oliver, a high-profile barrister.
"I didn't intend on being an actress," Blunt says. "I was involved in school plays, and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything I had some kind of crazed desire for. I was going to go to university and study modern languages. I've always loved them." She chuckles at herself. "I thought I'd be a translator for the UN." But when she was 17, one of her school plays went to the Edinburgh Theatre Festival, and an agent snapped her up. Her first film, My Summer of Love, which was completely improvised – "I was 20," she says. "I was terrified" – netted her the Evening Standard British film award for most promising newcomer, and she was off. "Acting was sort of a love that crept up on me," Blunt says. "Now I'm completely in love with it. I feel unfathomably lucky."
In 2008, Hathaway introduced Blunt to Krasinski. "I don't really want to talk about my relationship, but I will say I knew very, very instantaneously that I wanted to be with John," Blunt says, then laughs again. "There're many girls very angry with me because I got him. I hear that all the time. He has no idea that people think he's glorious. That women on the street talk to me about my husband, and very openly." She puts on a flat American accent: " 'Gad, I'm so jealous, I love him.' It's weird. I like it, actually. It's very genuine. They're genuinely like, 'You really picked a good one.' I say, 'I know.' He's awesome."
As winners of the likeability lottery, the couple isn't hounded much. "I mean, maybe there's more of an awareness, going out, that people might look at you, they might want to take a picture and say hello," Blunt says. "And there might be some men following you with cameras. But it's not an issue for me. I'm usually photographed doing the most boring things ever, like shopping for groceries or sweating coming out of a yoga class. It's never interesting. We have our fun behind closed doors, really." Big grin there. "That's the way to do it. Shut the door, keep it on the inside."
So how many languages does Blunt speak, anyway? "I speak Spanish, really badly," she answers. "And now, thanks to Salmon Fishing, a tiny bit of Mandarin." (Her character interacts with Chinese engineers.) "But I only know how to talk about sandstone walls and water pressure. I can't even say, 'How are you?' "
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A nice easy read centred on a maids experiences working for the painter Vermeer and his family in 17th century Holland. An interesting and well told story.
Johannes Vermeer painted the Mona Lisa of the North called 'Girl with Pearl Earring' which is controversial just the same. It has many issues as her identity was unknown, and her mysterious gaze and sensual look draw people's interests.
The first thing I noticed when I first saw the painting was her wide set eyes and I was wondering what was the colorful thing she has on her head. I was stupid not to think that it was a turban! haha
When I found out that there is a novel interlocked with it, I definitely put it to my list.
I've been contemplating long enough on how many stars I would give this book. These are the points I considered:
1) I like arts.
2) I hate girls being molested (and how society often sees women weak).
3) Plot
4) Timeframe of the story
5) Relatable character
6) How the story was delivered
Chevalier did not rely on dialogues, it was very minimal. Instead, she trusted descriptions and long narrations. She's very good with it; she used very intricate descriptions that gives detailed imageries to the readers. I also like the symbolisms she used in the story.
Girl With a Pearl Earring is such a beautifully written book with a compelling story. I find the story about young Griet working for Johannes Vermeer fascinating. How Tracy Chevalier used the painting of Girl with a Pearl Earring to weave such a fantastic story. Griet is just an ordinary girl, needing to work after her father had an accident and how her life changed after she came to the Vermeer household. it's not an easy position, it's only Johannes Vermeer that she's not having a problem with. And, I love that it doesn't turn out to be a cheesy forbidden love story. It goes deeper than that. I just love this book.
Girl with a Pear Earring is a great historical fiction book. It allows students to learn what it was like to live in those days. This book would be for an upper level grade. I would say 7th or 8th grade would be the best.
Although I agree with some reviewers that the plot itself is neither surprising nor original, I really enjoyed The Girl with the Pearl Earring. The method of story telling through the eyes of the young and naive maid, Griet, brought an otherwise simple tale to life for me.
This was a fast read that was entirely pleasurable, even if I normally don't appreciate stories told in the first person. I enjoyed the author's writing, how she subtly captured Griet's feelings and the tensions within the Vermeer household and Griet's relationship with her own family.
A nice flight of fancy concocted from a classic painting. Well done!
For a while it seems that it will be... an artist romance. Tracy Chevalier steers her novel deliberately close and tacks abruptly away. The book she has written, despite a lush note or two and occasional incident overload, is something far different and better... [Instead, it is] a brainy novel whose passion is ideas.
Chevalier's exploration into the soul of this complex but nave young woman is moving, and her depiction of 17th-century Delft is marvelously evocative.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0452282152, Paperback)With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton
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Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is the story of 16-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius, even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil. An Independent Bestseller Winner of the 2000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award! Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.… (more)
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text: Top-five prospects for the 2013 NFL Draft *Indicates underclassman 1. QB Tyler Wilson (6-2, 218) Blessed with a strong arm and considerably more mobility than the man he replaced as Arkansas' starting quarterback, Ryan Mallett, there was quiet optimism in the scouting community that Wilson (pictured above) would do well in 2011 -- his first full season at the helm. After all, he'd appeared in a total of 13 games over the previous three seasons (eventually was given a medical redshirt in 2008) and had fared reasonably well in 2010 (34 of 51 for 453 yards and four touchdowns/three interceptions) when pressed into considerable duty once Mallett went down to injury. That said, few were bold enough to suggest that Wilson would explode onto the SEC scene like he did last season, completing 63.2% of his passes for 3,638 yards and 24 touchdowns against just six interceptions. For his efforts Wilson was the first Arkansas quarterback to ever earn First Team All-SEC honors from conference coaches and the media. The trick http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/blog/rob-rang/19799754/2013-nfl-draft:-arkansas-preview


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The butcher's shop in Botesdale was my grandad's, his name was Last but my grandmother's maiden name was Grimes. My grandfather ran the buisness with his family for many years. My grandmother's family came from Hockwold and Methwold. My grandmother's family had a butcher's shop in Hockwold.
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IL could really do with some guitar/speaker cabinet responses in the downloader or installer BTW, if anyone from IL happens to read this. Hardcore totally is not good. I'd almost go as far to say it's a waste of harddrive space and data bandwidth.
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The Darkness
A car skiddin into the bushes
why didnt he just stay beside his car??
The car trundled along the road, heading off into the darkness, the rain pounding against its hood. Dan was perched behind the steering wheel, not really sure where he was anymore, trying to see past the rain, which was getting heavier and heavier, making it almost impossible to see anything.
The car began to skid, screeching off into the bushes surrounding the roadside.
Dan crawled from the overturned car, blood streaming down the side of his face, his body engulfed in pain. He tried to pull himself up but he couldnt manage it, so gave up and just lay in the darkness, staring at the sky- waiting for his body to recover. After around ten minutes, he made another attempt, summoning all of his strength he managed to get to his feet. Steggering for a few moments, he managed to prop himself against a tree.
"What do I do?" he thought. Then there was a rustling sound to his right hand side, followed by the sound of footsteps. He shouted for help, but no sound escaped his lips as the footsteps faded into the darkness.
Without thinking he began to follow them, even though it led him into pitch black darkness, illuminated only by the pale moonlight. Half an hour later he was still staggering around, looking for some sign of life, the pain in his body becoming more and more intense. He continued to walk, slowly getting farther and farther from his car.
Then he collapsed.
He woke up about an hour and a half later, squinting into the darkness, trying to gauge his surroundings. He was in a room, how he got there he did not know, his head was bandaged, still poundin but bandaged. Saved(but by what exactly).
He lay for a few minutes more, trying to think how he had ended up in the room, but he couldnt picture anything after he had crawled from the wreck that used to be his car. Standing up, he limped around the room, his eyes becoming accustomed to the darkness, he looked for some possibel source of light,(he was in luck) an ancient lamp lay in the corner, he edged towards it(his legs burning fom the pain, almost bringing him to tears) and manged to switch it on, filling the room with a dusty light.
The room was totally empty, except from the bed, the lamp, Dan(obviously!) and about fifty years worth of dust. Then a wailing sound split the silence, echoing around the small tomb of a building, sending shivers up Dans spine.
Not really sure he should, Dan stepped forward towards the sound, pushing the door open and string into the darkness it revealed. He began to walk to the right, his footsteps reverberating on the stone walls surrounding him. He reached a door which looked as though it was going to fall off and squeezed past it, another empty room, but with a huge oak door at the opposite side, he approached it apprehensively, a droning sound reaching his ears as he got closer. His hand grasped the doorknob, but he stopped. Do I really want to open this? he questioned himself (apart from wanting to know the noise, not really) but curiosity got the better of him.
The door was pushed open moments later, revealing a huge spiral staircase, the noise getting louder as he began to walk down them, it was like a chanting sound, then he reached the end of the steps.
And in the room?
Well for a start it was more of a huge stone cave than a room, and it was packed with people(never mind a cat, there was no room to swing a mouse or even a piece of a mouse, which lay on the floor in a mousetrap, the legs a few inches away) all of whom were chanting(what they were chanting is anybody's guess, but it was a chant). Dan tried to move closer to the front.
As he moved the full size of the room hit him like a train, making himm realise he was way out of his depth, he tried to move backwards, heading for the exit, his way was blocked, he spun round, two huge men(they must be wrestlers he thought) were blocking off the staircase- never mind the staircase they were blocking half the room.
Why did he have to follow those footsteps ?
They dragged him to the front, to a man whom i can only guess was the leader, who put his hand up. The chant changed instantly, this time a lot clearer.
"One of us, One of us, for all eternity and beyond" was echoing around the room as they all moved in towards Dan.
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BURBANK, Calif. (AP) Adventures by Disney is adding eight new destinations to its list of family tours, including Alaska, the Galapagos Islands and South Africa.
Other new trips include Italy and Switzerland (Stresa, Zermatt and Lake Lucerne); Boston, Newport, R.I., and New York City; Sorrento and Florence in Central Italy; Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and San Francisco; and Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The South Africa trip includes Capetown and a safari at the Kapama Game Reserve.
The new itineraries will be available beginning in the spring of 2009.
Also new next year will be a more luxurious version of the standard itinerary on the South Africa and Yosemite trips. These Disney Signature Trips will offer upgraded accommodations, amenities and special events.
The company will also be offering some of the same trips as last year, with itineraries that include Western Europe, the Czech Republic and Austria, Costa Rica, Peru, China and Australia.
Prices are based primarily on when you book and when you travel. Vacations start at $2,429 per adult (based on double occupancy) for the seven-night "Spirit of America" tour of Philadelphia, Washington and Williamsburg, Va. Early booking rates may be available when booking at least 90 days in advance, discounted to $2,129 on the same itinerary.
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The political stress on the Prime Minister has been extreme of late - so much so that he feels compelled to take the unusual step of spelling out his intention to serve a "full third term" if elected, but not a fourth.
The prime factor in this is his longrunning feud with Gordon Brown over the date Mr Blair will quit Downing Street and allow the Chancellor to bid for the leadership. This stand-off has now reached intolerable proportions, with every signal, hint or perceived slight on either side igniting a furious battle between Blair and Brown allies.
Asked this week how the matter could be resolved, one senior Cabinet minister replied: "Only by giving them a revolver and putting them in a room together."
Significantly, the Chancellor was not informed of Mr Blair's decision to have elective surgery until last night - though I gather that some No10 insiders knew beforehand, which may account for his senior team's anxious mood this week.
Medical experts note that today's procedure is routine and could be done at any time, which might make one wonder why he opted for it now. But had the PM suffered a further irregular heart beat like last year's, and ended up being taken to hospital unexpectedly, the impact would have been far worse
The politically fatal pictures of Michael Heseltine being carried helpless into hospital ended his leadership hopes, and are images burned into every ambitious politician's memory. At least this way Mr Blair is seen to be taking control of his fate.
Some of his closest Cabinet allies warned this week that the Chancellor was still plotting to move against him, and that Mr Brown would seize any chance to put back the election until next October - giving him space to move against the Prime Minister if Iraq spirals out of control. Mr Blair is thus attempting to set a timetable which will act as a corset on Mr Brown's ambitions.
He has made clear he does not trust Mr Brown to complete his domestic reforms. And he is determined to win the referendum on the European Union constitution - a replacement battle for entering the euro, something he is highly unlikely to achieve.
On Iraq, however, Mr Blair remains vulnerable on whether his judgment is still worthy of the electorate's trust. Because he has traded so heavilyon his personal beliefs about joining America in the war, responsibility for its consequences presses down especially hard on him.
That is one of the main reasons he is so determined to remain in office, and so resistant to being removed before Iraq has achieved the beginnings of stability. But this is a battle on two fronts.
On the first, he can still make a strong case that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein and that it was an unacceptable risk, after September 11, 2001, to leave his brutal rogue state unchallenged.
On the second, he is in more dubious territory, as shown by his halfapology this week for selling the war on the grounds Saddam possessed actual weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Blair insists he believed the assessments of the British security services, which deemed it likely Saddam had some stockpiles. But these assessments were far from being as concrete or unconditional as he suggested at the time.
The same problem haunts him over this newspaper's revelations that Britain was informed of the Pentagon's war preparations at a time when no decision had officially been made. Though perhaps unsurprising, this was not revealed at the time - indeed it was denied. Again, lack of candour returns to haunt Mr Blair.
These errors of judgment would matter less if Iraq were beginning to find peace - but that is not the case, nor likely to be so soon. As a result, prominent critics such as the BBC's John Humphrys, in his Today Programme interview this week, feel that they have a public mandate to act as prosecutors towards the Prime Minister.
Mr Blair is adamant that he can and will defend his record, and thinks he will be able to do so more effectively now he has moved to end speculation about his career intentions. But he has gambled away a considerable amount of the public's trust.
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THE moron who attacked ex-England goalie Chris Kirkland live on TV was banned
from matches for three years when he was just 16.
Leeds United yob Aaron Cawley, now 21, took part in a terrifying riot in 2007
which saw disabled opposition fans pelted with missiles.
On Friday night, millions of viewers saw him run on to the pitch and floor
Sheffield Wednesday keeper Kirkland with a two-handed shove to the face.
He then slipped over before scurrying back into the crowd, smirking with fans
as they celebrated their side's equaliser.
Thousands named and shamed him on the internet after the bad-tempered game,
which ended 1-1.
Cops said yesterday they have identified the offender but have yet to find
However, brazen Cawley bragged on Facebook: "Chris Kirkland don't want to
press charges — that is proper result that is!"
When he was told he could still face prosecution, he replied: "Tell someone
who gives a f***."
Cawley, of Cheltenham, Gloucs, was part of a mob which invaded the pitch at
Elland Road when Leeds were relegated from the Championship in 2007.
They headed for 1,500 Ipswich away fans, cornering wheelchair-bound supporters
as they hurled coins and bottles into the stands.
Cawley — who has been pictured with former Leeds star Robbie Keane — was
barred from every ground for three years with 12 other fans. However, he was
later caught breaching his ban THREE times.
Police said yesterday they were also hunting other hooligans at Friday's match
at Hillsborough, where hoardings were pulled down and seats thrown.
Detective Inspector Mark Monteiro said: "With the public's assistance we have
identified the offender who is suspected of assaulting the goalkeeper.
"We are dealing with the complaint by the player and taking statements and
making inquiries to locate and arrest the offender. We are also using CCTV
footage to identify suspects responsible for other offences."
Kirkland, who won one cap for England in 2006, received treatment but finished
the game. The FA said yesterday it will investigate.
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10 best NM towns for young families
NerdWallet.com took a look at the best towns in New Mexico for young families.
It took into consideration public education, cost of living and the town's economy. Here's the Top 10, with town notables provided by NerdWallet.com.
10. Milan (suburb of Grants, Cibola County): Affordable homes, population growthPHOTO: John Phelan, Wikipedia
9. Silver City (Grant County): One of National Geographic's "Adventure Towns," great hiking, plethora of art galleries and studios
8. Carlsbad (Eddy County): Low unemployment rate, great nearby recreation
7. Portales (Roosevelt County): Retail hub, good nearby recreation, plenty of public parksPHOTO: Wordbuilder, Wikipedia
6. Clovis (Curry County): Retail hub
5. Rio Rancho (Sandoval County): CNNMoney named it one of the best places to live twice in the past five years and Hewlett-Packard and Intel have added nearly 2,500 jobs in the past few years, according to NerdWallet.com
4. Artesia (Eddy County): Plenty of public parks, good nearby recreation
3. Edgewood (Santa Fe County): Town doubled in size between 2000 and 2010, according to NerdWallet.com
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But I don't think memories are quite as short as the media mavens would have us believe. I haven't heard anyone protest about these strikes in conversation at all, and no one has challenged my pro-strike opinions. It all puts me in mind of the old trick we used to play on trueblue Tories at university. We'd ask these puffed-up popinjays, full of noblesse oblige, whether they would have supported every single standpoint the Conservative Party had taken since 1840. All too often these poltroons would bray: "Certainly!" Whereupon we could point out that this meant they would have objected to the repeal of the Corn Laws, and the Reform Acts of 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928. In other words to any real free trade or universal suffrage.
It's the same with the current fulmination over unions "swinging to the Left". Without the actions of unions such as Unison and the RMT there's little chance of preserving in the long run the kind of improvements in pay and conditions that have been won by working people over the years of struggle since the Tolpuddle Martyrs first leaned across a five-bar gate to discuss how slim their pickings were.
Unison's workers may not be the most disadvantaged - that dubious distinction belongs to the silenced hordes of largely immigrant workers who labour for unscrupulous contractors, keeping the city's hotels and offices clean - but their willingness to strike is crucial if the lot of the worst off in Britain is to continue to be improved.
If you want to see what the situation is like in a society where the union movement has been thoroughly emasculated, look no further than Dubya's Land of the Free, where malnutrition, illiteracy and disease are still endemic among the urban poor.
For the love of dogAccording to a new survey carried out for the PDSA (People's Dispensary for Sick Animals), the lot of the nation's pet dogs and cats is not a happy one. These sad beasts are increasingly suffering from being overweight and gum diseases, the result of their lazy and indulgent human "friends" serving them mushy pet foods and their own junk-food leftovers. Apparently, four out of five dogs more than six years old now suffer from some form of gum disease.
Personally, I find the whole canine culture, particularly in London, a source of nothing but nausea and disgust. It's quite clear that the vast majority of people who own dogs have neither the inclination to exercise them properly, nor the will to adequately remove their natural waste products.
The vast amount of money spent by councils to inform dog owners of their obligation to clean up after their pets seems to have had no noticeable effect, the streets are just as full of little coiled excrescences as they always were. I've never heard of anybody being busted for dog-poo offences.
The truth is that the English far prefer dogs to children - it's the only explanation of why the latter are condemned to trudge to school in the faeces of the former. If this inversion of ordinary moral sentiment were to reversed, dog owners would not only have to get a proper licence, but also pass a series of tests showing that they could scoop-a-poop to perfection, as well as control their hounds in public. Needless to say, affidavits would also have to be sworn committing the owners to so many allotted hours of dog walking per week.
One of the most heartening aspects of the collapse of human civilisations is the re-emergence of appropriate canine behaviour. In the ruins of devastated cities, dog packs made up of the most refined breeds will once again hunt with savage ferocity.
It's a thought which always comes to my mind whenever I witness the absurdity of a professional dog walker taking his or her moneyed pack for a troll in Hyde Park. After all, what could be a more grotesque indictment of the current condition of humanity when after 100,000 years of us selectively breeding them, we're paying through the nose to get people to take dogs out for a piss?
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The absurd Countess of Wessex (aka Sophie Rhys-Jones) who last week blasted a breach in protocol by asking HMG?s man in Kenya to tote her bags, has now advertised for a ?lady?s maid?. Applicants are reminded that the Royal Household is an ?equal opportunities employer?, but given her Ladyship?s propensity for using diplomats as porters, surely this means that all the Wessexes? domestic staff will be expected to excel in other walks of life? On this basis I look forward to Sir Paul Smith taking up position as Prince Edward?s valet, Nigella Lawson being retained as housekeeper and David Coulthard taking the wheel of their Royal Highnesses? sedate Daimler.
Lest anyone imagine that I consider myself too lowly to be of use to these world-class epigones, I hereby announce that I shall be applying for the vacancy of Wessex Poet Laureate. My first offering will be a thoroughly modern rap called ?Public Relations Enemy No 1? for which I expect to receive the customary hogshead of chilled Chardonnay.
How London's short-sighted failed the Eye testWell done David Marks and Julia Barfield, the couple (both professional and personal) who designed the London Eye. Now Lambeth Council have agreed to extend the giant Ferris wheel's lease for 25 years, perhaps all those who poured scorn on the project will kindly shut up.
Remember, it was the Eye that very largely made up for the ridiculous debacle of the Dome in millennium year; it is the Eye that has become a major part of what sells London as an attractive destination to foreign visitors; it is the Eye that has come to characterise our city as a place capable of creating and sustaining the kind of technological marvels usually associated with the US or - gasp! - continental Europe. It is also the Eye which has finally and definitively placed the Thames riverside at the heart of our experience of the urban landscape.
Ever since the decline of water transport in the 19th century (and the catastrophic pollution of its waters), the river has been a kind of immense municipal gutter which the population turned their back on. Now we have a veritable esplanade of entertainments, stretching all the way from Tate Modern to the Eye.
Surely the way forward would be to demolish Terry Farrell's disgusting speculative office building (currently tenanted by MI6), and reinstitute the old Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens?
Away with the secret society, I say - let everything be visible from the all-seeing Eye.
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@greg23Locale: Colorado
First mountain goats in Washington and now beavers in Belarus.
I'll just make of movie of this sweet fellow…
Leave them critters alone.
@ngatelLocale: Southern California
I thought this was a Jeff Foxworthy joke. I think the article about Wendy Williams, below the beaver story, losing 20lbs was more interesting.
@rockymtbikerLocale: Michigan
I was fly fishing a few years ago & my son starting yelling that there was a beaver swimming next to him in the river. I was like "sweet, what does he look like?" and then a few minutes latter this submarine like critter came cruising next to me leg up river, within inches of my thigh. He came up for air and started smacking his tail on the water several times & circling my position in the river. I later found out that this was a territorial warning thing. I felt lucky he didn't attack & now with this story I am even more thankful.
Critters in nature are out to survive, at all costs. You can't go running for cover with every sighting of every critter in the woods, but you surely need to be very smart and careful just the same…
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A Shattered BeginningMature
Chapter Two
A Shattered Beginning
(Years ago)
I was ten years old when I ran away from home. It wasn't really a home though. My parents were, abusive. I won't go in to the details, but I didn't stand for it forever. I had lived in the Daisy Commonwealth before I traveled south, away from the horrific life my parents had for me.
I was lonely, starving, and weary when I met with the steep slopes of Raider's Peak. It was there, that a gruff and abrasive band of raider's found me and took me high in to the cave structures near the top of the peak. I was forced to work for them as a slave of sorts, cooking, cleaning, sharpening their weapons after every time they pillaged a nearby town.
However, it came to my surprise that they never violated my virginity. Maybe they were simply waiting until I was older, but I always gave them the benefit of the doubt when I heard their life stories. Every one of them used to be a successful man or woman, living happily in towns or in the big kingdoms spread across the continent. It was when business didn't go as planned, or misfortune turned its gaze upon them, or some other destructive force bind them, that caused them to turn to the life of pillaging and piracy.
They ended up being more of a family to me than my parents ever were. That's not to say they were a good influence on me, of course. But, I actually was okay with staying there and assisting them with my servitude, so long as they took care of me in return, and they did. It was a livable life, the life of a bandit. One that I no doubt would have picked up eventually myself if it wasn't for the man that showed up when I was thirteen years old, claiming to be the one to lead the raider's to riches never heard of. I remember his sly smile. I hated his smile.
"More possum roast?" I offered a fellow raider. Everyone was huddled by a blazing fire in the heart of the cave that was our home. We were dining on several different meats the hunter's had brought in.
"Oh I really shouldn't," he smacked his gut and shook his head.
"Nonsense! Raiding towns and villages is hard work isn't it? You have to keep your strength up!"
"Bah!" he bellowed, changing his mind. "Another pound or two, sure!"
"Excellent!" I hastily refilled his plate. "Here you go."
"My thanks, Tenshi," he took the plate back.
"Tenshi, your cooking gets better and better every day!" another raider called out.
"A toast!" the leader of our raider group, Grayl, raised his goblet high in the air. "To friendship, good fortune, and the continued accumulation of the riches we once so verily deserved!" Cheers bounced off of the cave walls. "Tomorrow night, we will strike again. A town to the northwest has been untouched by our liberation so far. It's time we made our first visit!"
"Let's do it!" Everyone was having such a good time. Until that man made his entrance, right then and there.
"Have you pitiful fools finished your incessant cheers?" a voice echoed from the mouth of the cave. Every one of us turned with hardened, furious faces at the single man standing in the middle of the cave entrance. "I've come to take command."
"BAHAHAHAHA!" the entire cave was in an uproar. Many who were standing fell on the ground they laughed so hard at the man's proclamation. Grayl chuckled as well and stepped forward toward the man.
"Who do you think you are, whelp?" he questioned the man as wrapped his fingers around the hilt of his axe hanging at his side.
"My name is Rayvelle," the man answered.
Rayvelle would end up being the worst influence my life ever experienced, as if a life with bandits and thugs wasn't bad enough. He was as manipulative as he was heartless. He cared not who he harmed, just so long as his will was made a reality. He always bore that sly smile, one that just made me want to smack it right off of his face. His eyes always pierced in to my body, and every time I felt insecure and violated when he gazed at me. If I could read his thoughts, I wager I would fine nothing but deceit and perverted intentions.
"Rayvelle?" Grayl repeated. "Well Rayvelle, I'll be the one to interview you for your job application." Grayl drew his axe and swiftly swung it toward Rayvelle. The sound of metal clashed as Rayvelle blocked his swing with a sword of his own. They stared each other down, holding their weapons strongly against each other. Thunderous cheers and battle shouts boomed against the cave walls. All of my fellow bandits shouted.
"Grah! Tear him apart!"
"Rip him to shreds!"
"Make him suffer!"
"Grr! Show this mongrel who the real boss is!"
"Throw his carcass down the peak for the wolves!"
Rayvelle grinned at Grayl. "Violence so soon? We only just started this interview!" he remarked.
"Hah!" Grayl spat. "Next question!" He twirled around and attacked his side. Rayvelle blocked and the metal clanged again. They traded attacks, blocking each blow they attempted on each other. Every time their weapons met, the clashing sound made the bandits cheer and shout. Raveylle came down at Grayl's head. Grayl turned his axe horizontally and blocked his strike. They held their position again.
"I heard your group was the most feared, hated, and ruthless on this peak," Rayvelle cocked his head slightly. "But if this is the best you can do then perhaps I've applied at the wrong corporation."
"Wrong answer!" Grayl roared. He slid his axe head toward the blade of his sword, catching it and bringing it down to the ground. Grayl elbowed him across the face and kicked the arm holding the sword next. Rayvelle let go of his sword momentarily and took the momentum he received from Grayl's blow, spun around and threw a small knife he had concealed under his forearm at Grayl's leg.
The throwing knife stuck in his leg. Grayl growled and stepped back in slight pain. Rayvelle rolled forward and retrieved his sword. He jabbed at Grayl, but Grayl knocked his blade to his side with his axe, reared his head back and smashed it against Rayvelle's head. The bandits watching the fight threw their hands up and cheered.
Rayvelle took three steps back and shook his head, dazed. Grayl let out a deep throated growl as he swung his axe at Rayvelle's head with full force. Rayvelle deflected his attack in to the air above his head, quickly cut a large gash in to Grayl's arm holding the axe, spun away and finally slashed his side as well. Grayl dropped his axe after feeling the pain in his arm. He bent down to try and pick up his axe with his other hand.
Rayvelle rolled back to back over Grayl, spun around and cut his arm clean off. Grayl roared in pain and fury, turned to Rayvelle and charged him. The shock of losing his arm, and his own raging fury blinded his ambitions. Without even realizing it, he ran directly in to Rayvelle's outstretched sword, impaling himself. He managed one last glare in to Rayvelle's eyes.
"Any more questions, boss?" Rayvelle cocked his head again and donned his typical smile. Grayl exhaled his final breath. Rayvelle pulled his sword out of his chest and he collapsed on the cave floor, his wounds oozing blood.
"Excellent," Rayvelle pulled out a cloth and wiped the blood off of his sword. "I believe your silence means I got the job."
I placed my hands over my mouth in shock. Grayl was a hardened fighter, but Rayvelle took him down with almost no trouble. Just like that, the leader of my bandit group, the one I considered more of a father than my real one, was dead. I shakily looked around at my family of ruffians. Every one of them was in as much shock as me. Many had their mouths wide open, others wide eyed. Their loud cheers and shouts had completely disappeared, and the cave was so quiet that we heard a single cricket faintly chirp from under a pebble.
Rayvelle turned to all of us, showing his disgusting smile. "Oh please," he gently shook his head. "Don't be so sentimental. Your leader dragged you along on raids that paid but a mere fraction of what I shall lead you toward. For you chose this life to get rich at the cost and despair of others, correct? So, I will be the one to bring you riches beyond your puny imaginations. Does um," he looked at Grayl's corpse, then quickly looked back at us. "Does anybody have an issue with that?"
Everyone was quiet. In the end, their occupations got the better of their sentimentality. Overnight, everyone, including me, accepted the promise of fortune and silently agreed to let Rayvelle become our new leader.


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Montalvo's Art on the Grounds program is envisioned as a platform for artists to present art works in the context of a 175-acre public park. Montalvo is home to diverse range of native and non-native plant and tree species, and includes a redwood and live oak forest, an expansive grass lawn, and a succulent and cactus garden. Its diverse buildings encompass a Mediterranean-style villa built in 1912, outdoor and indoor theatres, and the Lucas Artists Residency Commons building and studios. Artists are encouraged to experiment with innovative models of artmaking in the public sphere and consider novel ways of engaging with Montalvo's varied grounds and publics.
Works produced through the Art on the Grounds program range from sculptural objects to time-based performance events and experiences, durational projects developing out of community engagement activities and workshops, sound works, and interventions. Works on view are often displayed in association with exhibitions in the Project Space Gallery. During the summer, Montalvo celebrates its annual Art on the Grounds exhibition opening with an art party featuring live music, food trucks, and performances. Beginning in late 2010, Montalvo began acquiring a small number of select permanent sculpture works that now form part of its permanent collection.
Art on the Grounds is open for public viewing during Montalvo's normal park hours, Monday-Thursday, 8am-5pm and Friday-Sunday, 9am-5pm.
Broken Wing
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Broken Wing (2004) is a bronze work that represents objects, often taken for granted, that are depended upon as part of our daily routine - like a wing ...
Control Tower
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Cameron Hockenson's environmental artwork is concerned with the vernacular landscape and issues of biocultural diversity. His sculptures and site-specific installations address place as an outgrowth of ...
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The Creekside Studio is an outdoor environment designed for communal gathering, art making and engaging with nature. This new space at Montalvo was produced by landscape architect ...
Curiosity Fieldstation
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Fieldworks Collaborative (Trena Noval and Ann Wettrich) invites casual walkers, hikers and nature enthusiasts who frequent Montalvo's woodlands to assemble, curate and share objects of wonder ...
Double Bench (Basics)
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Basics is an ongoing body of work exploring abstracted notions of form, space and utility, based on a constructive logic of additive 2 x 4 wooden studs ...
Fountain of Life
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This blue tendril-like water fountain combines cartoon-like features with abstract biomorphic shapes that evoke living forms like plants and bodies. While LA-based artist Kenny Scharf often uses ...
From Within, So Without
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Upon arrival in the Lucas Artists Residency Program, Ali Naschke-Messing was immediately drawn to the enormous Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) on the Great Lawn and was inspired ...
Honey Tangle
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Hymns and Verses
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Japanese Rock Garden Meets Petanque
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Continuing her interest in graduations within circles and concentric circles, Ijichi has created an outdoor installation which blends the concept of a Japanese Rock Garden with the ...
Mapping Biointimacy
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With engineering by Johnny Chen and Art OkadaDid you know that grizzly bears used to live in Montlavo's woods? Have you ever wondered which trees are ...
By Steven Siegel
Over a three-week period beginning September 2005, Steven Siegel created this monumental sculpture, Stories of Katrina, on the front lawn by the Bunya Pine tree, and a ...
"O California, best beloved land"
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California artist Ann Weber transforms the ordinary medium of cardboard into impressive large-scale sculptures reminiscent of pods, gourds and organic spires. "O California, best beloved land" was ...
By Steven Simon
Steven Simon's sculpture is both a functional series of benches and a text-based intervention on the Great Lawn. Spelling out the word "Place," Simon's benches ...
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Sweet Tweet
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Tell Tale II
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Coiling down from a tree on Montalvo's grounds, Tell-Tale II is an enormous braid made from newspaper, cotton, plastic, and tape. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm ...
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Through a select juried process, Bay Area artist Christopher Loomis was commissioned by Montalvo Arts Center in the fall of 2015 to conceive and create a new ...
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Using appropriated language taken from mid-20th-century pop culture, movies, and novels, Wiese's sign-based sculpture features a rotating series of texts, including pick-up lines such as "Here ...
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