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Ok so ive been driving my m6 for little over a year now but im fairly new to the online community. Always came around to see other cool bimmers but never registered. Im here today with a problem!!!!:mad::mad::mad: lol anyways ive grown accustomed to the common problems that come along with the M like the red shutdown control message.. Engine malfunctions..etc.. but this completely stumps me:tsk: I took my car down to Center Bmw in Van nuys and they told me that my car had no problems and they cleared the fault codes... two days later im driving and ALL of my Control message lights are back on! yes ALL of EM. Anyways.. i've included pics of the Error messages and one of the car for eye candy:thumbup: ANY help or enlightenment would be greatly appreciated:thumbup:
Could be battery and/or alternator related !!!
Agreed, probably battery or alternator. If it's the battery make sure you have the new one registered.
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One Born Every Minute - Who's had a Forceps delivery?(283 Posts)
Mum of 3 fortunately all text book natural un aided deliveries.
I've just watched tonights One Born Every Minute and the forceps delivery, I am stunned!
The midwife seems to be putting her back into it, dragging the baby out, is that okay for the baby? How is it possible the baby isn't born with neck injuries?
Also mom, doesn't having 2 metal tongs inside you not shred and bruise you?
Tell me please, I was totally grimacing as if I were there.
My DS got stuck early on, and MW told me he was already too low for a CS so it was the big scary forceps only. When the consultant came in, I'd managed to shift him a bit, and was adamant they weren't coming anywhere near me with those things. I got him almost all the way out, but as he was crowning, he kept pushing himself back in with his hand, that was stretched out by his head. I ended up with an epi and forceps - they didn't pull at all, just held his head so he couldn't push himself back in between contractions. He was out in one big push and was fine. Wasn't very keen on the MW but the consultant was fantastic, and did a really good job.
I gave birth 2.5 weeks ago and insisted on a c section instead of Kielland's forceps. I was induced at 14 days overdue. I got to fully dilated without much trouble, but baby was still high up in my pelvis and back to back. My contractions weren't succeeding in moving him much and the pain was constant and unbearable. It felt like my pelvis was splitting. After 20 hours of active labour, I was told it would have to be an assisted delivery and only when I asked was I told this meant Kielland's rotational forceps to turn him.
I had read about these forceps due to a terribly sad case where a baby girl had died after botched use during delivery. I refused consent and asked for a c section, which was granted. The emcs went well and recovery has been very straightforward.
I have wondered since whether I did the right thing - going against medical advice based on a tragic story in the media and a bit of googling. It turned out that against expectations, baby was massive - 11 pounds 9 ounces. It seems likely that this would have decreased the chance of successful use of the forceps and increased the possibility of trauma to baby. In any case, I would much rather have an abdominal scar which is healing well and has been mostly painfree, to risking my bladder, bowel and vaginal function with these forceps. Some of the stories on this thread are awful, and I'm counting myself lucky that this didn't happen to me.
Samarcanda. I have no idea if you're a Dr or not but I'm 100% sure you're not an obstetrician. So you did what four weeks obs and gynae placement in your 4th year at med school? One week of which was spent on labour ward.
As someone who does work on a busy labour ward and has done for ten years and has taught numerous Drs how to conduct forceps deliveries I can promise you you're talking utter bollocks.
And a lscs is major abdominal surgery.
My second Cs last April , was delivered by forceps , her poor little face was so out of shape , the surgeon explained she was in a funny position,
I had forceps, I had black bruising on my inner thighs down to my knees, the woman doing it had one leg up on the bed and a nurse standing behind her and she shook he was tugging so much, the pressure was unreal (no pain due to mobile epidural) and I screamed 'your going to break my pelvis'
My mum has had 3 children and been at all her grandchildrens births but the trauma of seeing forceps made her so upset for so long after she needed some councelling.
I am glad I had it done and no lasting effects, My only problem was we went from pushing stage to 10 people in room and no one told me what was happening, they didn't have time to get me to theatre and did it in delivery room. They
Forceps are a good thing and there is a place for them in modern obstetrics , I had a very traumatic delivery with my first baby , and spent 31 hours in labour , as I had preeclampsia in the last three weeks of my labour , an induction was planned at 39 weeks , I was taken into hospital a day before labour was due to be induced on christmas eve , and promptly went into early labour on the morning of the 23rd December,
The first 12 hours was basically just spent walking around with the pain in my back peaking every five minutes , this set the pattern of the entire labour terrible back ache and no stomach pain at all !
About nine hours before the birth my waters went , and the whole labour changed metre from then onwards , the staff realised from the looking at the waters , they were a dark green colour , that my baby was distressed so a drip was set up to increase the contractions and about an hour before birth whilst nearly fully dilated a pudential nerve block was set up , forceps were used for the entire length of second stage and Ben was born 12. 47 pm on Christmas eve weighing 4,5 kilos nearly ten pounds , he was bruised heavily around the cheeks but over wise no problems at all , very glad I was spared the pain of pushing to safe guard both my blood pressure and a distressed baby .it was a mid cavity delivery i found out later.
I had forceps delivery and it was brutal. I was shoved so hard up the bed that they had to pull me back down to continue!
Baby came out with purple rings on his eyes and was cut and bruised for weeks after. He was desperate to suck constantly and I think he must've had one heck of a earache poor little mite. I took him to a baby cranial chiropractor to help realign his spine.
It twisted my pelvis so much that it hurt to stand and took 2 years to heal. I also needed Physio to help tone up the anal sphincter and although it improved, it's never been the same since.
I have a medical condition (multiple sclerosis) which studies show increase the likelihood of an assisted delivery. For this reason, and because of the MS fatigue, I want a c section next time. I'd rather repair for 6 week than 2 years!
Rather than banning forceps why not just discuss the risks of different approaches with women prior to the birth? Instead of ramming the 'natural is best' down their throats and refusing to discuss anything else in case it scares them. Then they can make their own decision ahead of time, isn't it called 'patient centred care', which is seemingly considered best practice in everything apart from childbirth?
I was delivered by forceps, gash in the head mum lots of stitches by a junior doctor doing their first forceps in 1977. I suppose someone has to be the unlucky victim but mum went private with my brother so she knew he would be delivered by a consultant. She still thinks it was better than a section (my dad didn't drive at that point for one thing). Me I was lucky and had 2 natural births with no intervention.
Not read whole thread but my DS was forceps delivery 15 months ago.
I had a 4th degree tear, pph, episiotomy which tore also. I felt every second of it and can honestly say it was the worst experience of my life. I felt like I was being torn in half (which basically I was).
The forceps bruised my DS face and ear, but worse, he had 3 neck vertebrae out of line that a chiropractor had to fix and he will have to see for the rest of his life to keep things lined up.
My insides are torn to bits and I'm waiting for surgery to fix things before I can have another child. I am still in pain daily, from a direct result of forceps. They may have saved my son's life (he needed resus immediately) but a C-section would have as well, with perhaps less damage to both of us.
I have been told since by 2 different gynae consultants that I should never ever give birth naturally again and that I am promised a ELCS and have this in writing.
So injuries do happen.
I totally disagree Karasmummy. My DD was stuck during delivery and the consultant used forceps to turn her and I pushed her out. Yes the episiotomy was painful and I still have some pain from the scar 4 weeks later, but if they hadnt have used forceps to turn her I would have had an emergency c section. In my opinion the forceps were better than major surgery.
I had forceps and episiotomy, it was horrendous and left me fecally incontinent and my bits look like something from a horror film, forceps should be banned i now know they are notorious for causing incontinence etc. I am making a formal complaint to the hospital, the big male doctor was less than gentle and my lo looked like she'd been in the ring with tyson, luckily she is fine now unlike myself. I will never have another baby!!! If id have known the lasting affects i wouldn't have had one.
cleo - The NHS public patient info on forceps deliveries is here - www.nhs.uk/Planners/pregnancycareplanner/Pages/Ins trumentaldelivery.aspx
All it says about risks to babies is "Forceps can leave small marks on your baby's face, but these will disappear with time." This thread alone proves there is often a lot more damage than this to babies, myself included.
And there is no mention at all of pelvic floor damage to mothers. If that's not playing down the risks, I don't know what is.
All the more surprising when this NICE document, p 242 - www.gserve.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/IntrapartumCa reSeptember2007mainguideline.pdf
- finds that babies born by assisted vaginal birth (forceps or ventouse) are MORE LIKELY to have trauma (physical damage) than those born by CS.
Of course mothers who have had CS's can have incontinence issues too. They are just much less likely to have them. See here - www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/10940/29336/29336.p df - page 49.
And really, common sense kicks in here. Childbirth is the main cause of female incontinence. The greater the pelvic floor trauma, the more likely longterm damage is. CSections avoid this trauma.
Of course, the huge problem with ALL info about CSections is that emergency CS's and elective CS's get lumped in together. The vast majority of Csections are emergencies - carried out because the mother or most commonly the baby is in serious danger. They are therefore much more likely to suffer all kinds of complications after birth than a healthy mother and baby.
NICE stats also make no allowance for the fact that some poor women will have CS's after instrumental intervention has failed. There is going to be pelvic floor damage for those CS mothers that is never an issue for planned Csection mothers like me.
This is where people's habitual inability to distinguish between association and cause comes in. Are mothers more likely to die after a CS than a vaginal birth? Yes. Mothers will be having emrgency CS's because they have a life threatening condition in the first place.
To illustrate - heart operations have much greater post-op mortality rates than operations for ingrowing toenails. However, stopping all heart operations in the expectation that cardiac patients would stop dying would obviously be stupid.
Poor information about childbirth is rife. It's appalling. It disempowers women and contributes to post birth trauma. The NHS patient info about forceps delivery is woefully inadequate.
Prettybird - Sad article yes but don't think the CS actually killed her. The article talks about obesity etc and the health of the mother being a primary factor in US death rates and you can see from the piture that the poor woman was clearly very overweight.
Please stop claiming to be a doctor. Or if by some bizarre chance that is what you are, please discuss your ideas around this topic to a colleague so that they can explain things to you.
Damage following a forceps delivery is very sad.
Even more sad is death following a cesarean section Jim Scythes speaks speaks after wife's death in childbirth
gloyw - incontinence is also a problem for mothers who've had c/s too!
And where is your evidence that the risks of forceps are 'hugely downplayed' or that the risks of c/s are 'often exaggerated'. And by whom?
How about all the mothers in this thread who have talked about having had forceps deliveries that were OK?
It's the usual thing: you only know about those people who complain or have issues with the birth. I don't go about telling people that ds was delivered using forceps because to me it wasn't a big trauma.
In fact, when I went to see a physio about some (minor) problems I was having, I told her initially that I had had a natural birth (becuase it was vaginal and not a CS). It was only having gone through other infomration that I said "oh, it was forceps," "oh, I was induced" (waters had broken more than 24 hours beforehand). I thereofre had 3 out of the 3 risk facotrs for damage (the 3rd being the fact that ds was over 4kg - even though they had predicted a small baby as my bump was small and neat).
I was a forceps baby, and have permanent nerve damage to my face - nothing major or disabling, but a lazy eye and a bit of a droop on one side of my face. Forceps can damage babies beyond a 'few marks' and mild bruising.
I had a CS for my 1st, and it was a wonderful experience, from which I recovered very quickly. Without exception, every other mother I know who had a forceps delivery found it brutal and traumatising and had difficult recoveries. Some of them are still having pelvic floor and continence issues over a year later, not to mention pain from episiotomy scars.
People are right to point out there are different kinds of forceps, and different kinds of forceps delivery. Right too to point out there are a few circumstances where forceps are the only option.
However, I feel that while the risks of a CS are widely circulated (and sometimes exaggerated, in fact), the risks of a forceps delivery to mother and child are hugely downplayed.
Pelvic floor damage to women is simply not taken seriously enough. Some of my friends have been left shocked at the level of pain and damage caused to them which is considered to be fairly normal during a forceps delivery. Many of them had longer stays in hospital than I did after my CS due to the severity of their injuries, and the fact they needed catheters to be kept in for days.
Yes, a forceps delivery is a bit cheaper than a CS on the day. But we never factor in the aftercare or the effects of a forceps delivery. If a baby is left bruised and in pain for the first few days of its life, if it makes successful BF-ing hard to establish, if the mother takes months to heal and is left scarred and traumatised - if they need physio or surgery to deal with incontinence - well, let's hope saving that few hundred pounds on the day was worth it.
I'm incredibly glad that forceps are often used instead of abdominal surgery.
There's NO WAY I'd have wanted a C/S with my first child.
None of the many women I know who've had a forceps delivery would have preferred a c/s.
"Looking at the single case with your experience as a professional doctor is what will give you the real risk/reward ratio".
Were you being sarcastic samarcanda?
You only have to look at the shameful history of obstetrics in the US and Europe to know that a huge amount of obstetric practice has been incredibly damaging to women and babies - routine episiotomy, scopolamine births, routine use of forceps, restraints and lithotomy. And all done by individual doctors delivering babies year in year out, utterly convinced that their way was the 'right' way.
If doctors spent more time watching and listening to mothers in labour and let it inform their practice they'd do far less damage and far more good.
Waht I object to about Samarcanda is her desire to ban forceps - despite the fact the the evidence does not support it. These are research studies done by doctors, not accountants. (In fact, one of them, an 18 year follow-up study, did find that there was an improved IQ for boys extracted by forceps rather than ventouse - but it didn't try to impose the use of either - rather just the need for experinece use. And no, it wasn't dones in Turkey - it was doen in the UK).
It is a Catch 22 situtation - forceps are a safe alternative in practiced hands - but if you don't allow people to use them, then no-one can get the experience or to maintain their expertise. And part of that is observing forceps being used (which is why I am glad that my own birth expereince helped a trainee)
The other very sad thing I have found (which my father often reminds me) is that the US's maternal and neonatal morbidity rates are far higher than they should be, given the US's relative wealth. Not a model we really want to follow.
Mistakes do get made in medicine - doctors are human beings and not infallible. I have a friend whose daughter was born profoundly handicapped and with a life expectacvny of less than a year following a uterine rupture which was not diagnosed. However, I am not going to exptrapolate from that that everyone should have a ELCS.
Ds' own birth was apparently stragihtofrward - so aboslutely no indicactions of the need for a CS (quite apart from my strong desire not to have one). (With hindsight) the midwife made a mistake in getting me to push while I was in transition (first time labour, I didn't know any better so did I was told) resulting in maternal exhaustion - and a baby stuck half way down/up the birth canal. Ventouse was not an option. How else was he going to get out?
Smamrcanda's logic of banning forceps would either mean that all births would have to be ELCS (as you can't always predict which ones will cause problems) or that babies like ds would die or risk sever damage because he would remain stuck - becasue even if I had had an emergenecy CS, forceps would still have had to be used to get him back up the birth canal - either that, or hack me to bits .
As it was, I have a gorgeous ds - and if I had been able to get pregnant again, was told that subsequent births would have been a doddle (OK, not quite in those words )
(there's a reason why women die MUCH less of childbirth now than in Victorian times, it is because they GO TO THE HOSPITAL to give birth !!!,
Er no - you only have to look at the US maternal mortality rates to know that this isn't so. In Victorian times hospitals had much higher mortality rates because the Drs went from handling cadavers to attending pregnant woment. Semmelweiss pointed this out, and was ridiculed; his work was only accepted after his death. Coming back to today: where is MRSA a problem? At home? I don't think so. In hospital - yes.
The major reason for improved rates of maternal mortality now are more likely to be better health in the woman, better ante-natal care, better public health e.g. clean water & sewerage, plus anti-biotics to fight infection.
because i am in the medical profession i know that i can pull out every sort of studies... i'm sure i can get some turkish based clinical studies that prove that forceps are actually good for the baby's brain development.
Looking at the single case with your experience as a professional doctor is what will give you the real risk/reward ratio.
You continue being sarcastic and annoying , i really don't mind if you want to go through forceps deliveries for all your babies... infact, good luck with it !!
however as i feel sorry for you and whoever else gets brain washed by the tons of CHILDBIRTH politics going on...and being the aromatherapy doctor that you say I am, i will now provide my experience in the backstage of a hospital (of course gathered watching House and ER on TV!):
first of all there are very few cases that medical professionals cannot forecast in terms of outcome for something like childbirth, we are not talking about some experimental organ transplant, if you have done a repetitive job every day for 20 years, you know that the situations where you are really caught by surprise are minimal.
Furthermore, somebody in the numbers rooms make tons of fancy spreadsheets with all the reports of single patients outcomes... this is the reason why the whole healthcare system these days is based on probability based PROTOCOLS...that are decided NOT by medical professionals but by Accountants on the basis of the budget that they are given
probabilities.. if you have ever gambled in the stockmarket or at a casino, you will know they mean NOTHING and are a recipe for disaster.
The pre-assesment of a patient (in phase 1 of labour and during antenatal care) will allow the medical professionals to allocate the patient to a certain probability based protocol. If your baby is back to back, you do not have much fluid, you have failure to progress, your anatomy is slightly odd for a certain size baby, you will fall in a score of X%... this is the probability that with the that specific hospital protocol you and your baby will have X% probability of complications, morbidity, mortality etc....
accountants have these tables... they meet every year and look at their money and decide... can we afford to reduce that x% of patient distress, risk, discomfort etc ?
now if you are in a well funded hospital, or in private care, or in a country where the healthcare system is actually well managed (not the case of the UK unfortunately) they might say YES... but if you are in your average NHS hospital... where understaffing is a routine and cost pressure always a must, then their answer is gonna be WE ACCEPT THAT X% RISK.
This is unfortunately the reason why there are less c sections in UK hospitals and more forceps deliveries than anywhere else in the civilized world. THis is also the reason why there are LESS EPIDURALS and more emphasis on how natural the birth has to be.... if we can cut costs on pain relief for women in labour, WHY NOT? there are many other areas that require more urgent funding. after all isn't it written somewhere : "woman, you will give birth in pain???" .
THEY KNOW these practices are more risky and quite barbarians for the women and can be avoided, BUT the accountants prefer to allocate money elsewhere.
a lot of doctors within the NHS have been fighting these practices (which by the way come from USA where healthcare is managed as a business!) quite strongly within hospital politics because although they provide a great way to meet ends, they are really often NOT in the best interest of the patient.
there is however little a doctor can do, patients can and should do more to be their own advocates instead of falling in the traps of ideology... where everyone fight because homebirths are cool (there's a reason why women die MUCH less of childbirth now than in Victorian times, it is because they GO TO THE HOSPITAL to give birth !!!, not because of forceps, cause those were already used in the middle ages!)
sadly patients are often caught in the politics and are misinformed ....
USHY, good point about the comparison... of course an easy vaginal birth is much better and a c section ! :D I'd sign up to it anytime.... the difference is that one is an uncertain event, the other one is quite liekly togo as planned.
Interesting that when asked to supply evidence, Sam supplies quotes the Daily Mail
As a trained medic, I thought she might have been able to provide more reserach based evidence, such as this. In particular, I like the intorduction
In recent years the Cesarean Section (CS) rate has risen and there has been a gradual decline in instrumental delivery. This trend is seen in many countries, possibly due to concerns over neonatal and maternal safety, medico-legal issues as well as fewer clinicians skilled in forceps use 1 . This may reflect a perception of the practitioner that caesarean section has less morbidity. However this has not been supported by evidence 2 .
It does go on to disucss the need for trained practioners.
I am really sorry that Sam's cousin was brain damaged. I don't now if there was negligence involved or the doctor was not sufficeintly experience - or if the alterantive might have been that he would have died if they had waited to do an emergecny caesarain. Things do go wrong
However, research suggests that the alternative of more caesarians is more dangerous across all births than use of forceps by appropriately trained doctors.
In my case, ventouse couldn't be used because ds was still too high (I was aware enough to ask). I did not want a caesarian. What alternative was there??? (and ironically enough, from what I have since learnt, they wo uld probably have had to to use forceps to get him out even if I had goen for a caesarian as he was mid-cavity )
As an aside re training - I am also glad i was able to offer a "training" opportunity to an SHO, who was observing that day, so she was able to watch a successful forceps delivery being carried out
Mean stiches !!!!!!!
I had forceps with ds2 and no tears or stocked!!!!!!!!! Not sure what that says about me. Also had vontous ( no idea how to spell it) with ds1and again nothing black well tunnel must spring to mind !!!!!! Lol what else can I do
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From the first minute, right back Steve Cherundolo and defender Jay DeMerit and a few other players were up to speed. Some of their teammates weren't, and didn't respond when Emile Heskey touched a ball into the space vacated by Oguchi Onyewu for Gerrard to collect and stab a shot past Howard.
Falling behind so early forced the Americans into taking more of the attacking initiative, which they will likely need to do in their second game against Slovenia, which downed Algeria, 1-0, to take over first place in Group C. If anything, Slovenia is even tougher defensively than England, which had to replace Rio Ferdinand with Ledley King for the World Cup, and then had to replace King at halftime.
What the U.S. did well against England, tracking and containing Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard, and harassing James Milner out of the game in the 30th minute, is a function of intensity and focus, and not so much about tactics and role assignments.
Though both played well overall, central defensive partners DeMerit and Onyewu were occasionally out of sync. DeMerit chose his moments to step into midfield shrewdly, making sure there was cover, either from Onyewu or another teammate. There were also breakdowns on Carlos Bocanegra's side, where he needed help to contain two or more opponents, and didn't always get it.
First-game jitters can be blamed for some of the poor play, and a change or two in personnel will likely be implemented to face Slovenia, which as the pivotal second match has always been the one most likely to determine the U.S. fate. With three points in hand, Slovenia could set out to get at least a point and throw up barriers to shut down the U.S. attack.
Yet if it beats the USA, Slovenia advances, period, full stop, regardless of what happens later in the day when England plays Algeria. The Slovenians will surely have noted the U.S. tendency to start slow and fall behind, so the early minutes Friday might be just as crucial, and potentially damaging, as those during which England scored.
Slovenia could come out strong to get a quick goal, or stalk the Americans before ratcheting up the pressure in a game where one goal might be enough to win. In any case, the match will be a tense, nerve-wracking 90 minutes that not all of the American players seem prepared to handle. Even while battling back to tie England, the U.S. needed seven saves from Howard and a few other key plays to prevent a second goal.
No matter who Bob Bradley selects and where they play, the Americans can't be distracted. The buildup and hype leading up to the England match roiled around history and cultures and 1950 and Joe Gaetjens and the Premier League; this week is just about one game and the points, and pride, at stake.


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A poem is just a poem Until you invoke the divine. Then it's a prayer. Stanzas are just stanzas Until you add music. Then it's a song. A voice is just a voice Until we sing together. Then we're a chorus. A heart is just a heart Until it joins another. Then it's a family. A life is just a life Until it finds meaning. Then it's an example. An idea is just an idea Until it's put in motion. Then it's a movement. A breath is just a breath Until we breathe in greatness. Then it's inspiration. The world is just the world Until we transform it. Then it's history. A poem is just a poem. Until it's read.
The pattern that holds my body together-
Is giving in to entropy. Heavenly bodies sag,
creases remain along the laugh lines,
bones crack at dawn that slips by too fast.
I forget the time.
The relationships that hold life together
are fading away. Friends and family are gone,
marriages split along the fault lines.
A card sits in a drawer that I bought for
I can't remember who.
The ideas that hold the country together
have been broken. News is entertainment,
idiots throw mud across the party lines.
We admired stars and heroes once—
I don't know when.
The hope that unites the planet
has been torn apart. War is life,
soldiers and civilians die on the front lines.
I am either an 'Us' or a 'Them'—
I don't know which.
All the atoms that bind the universe
are expanding. The nodes of a graph
pushed apart, stretching the lines,
until they break, snap, or crunch—
No one knows what.
All the forces that pull us apart
leave a hole. Let me stuff the space
with infinite things, things that matter,
until I become you or you become me,
and we know no time.
Instructions for my Funeral
Take my money, and charter a boat. Sail out on a warm clear night, under a full moon. Treat it like a wedding party After the bride and groom have left. Invite all the people who have me in common To forget about what's on shore for a while. Order plenty of pizza and champagne. Tell everyone to bring their guitar. Make sure there is lots of singing, Hugging of strangers, and lovers sneaking away for kisses. You can say nice things about me if you want, But I would rather you say nice things about each other So that everyone knows all the ways they are loved While still alive. Celebrate each other until morning (You might want to order coffee as well) And when the sun rises (I promise it will), Hold on to each other. Live a moment of Beautiful Awful Truth And toast the unnumbered days you have left.
Poem: Breath by Breath
What would happen, If we popped open the stoppers to our souls, And let compassion for the whole world in? And I mean the *whole* world: Starving children, Euthanized dogs, First-time orgasms, The sheer magnitude of war, The irrational hatred of the sound of other people chewing, The birth of deformed children, Really great fucking music, Unbridled passion, Art beyond words... Would we cry uncontrollably Until the earth is a tropic of tears? Would there be orgies in the streets, Jumping up and down on yellow couches, Impulsive declarations of love and Unlimited eternal puppies? Perhaps we would go mad: Tear our eyes out after seeing too much world And walk in never ending circles, Pulling at our hair and mumbling about antennas. Would we all sit around as if stoned, Contemplating the beauty in each paint chip and beetle, Acutely aware of each tick of the clock? Would our houses be full of the needy, No one be lonely, hunger be gone, And reality TV disappear forever? I can't see it happening, honestly. No one can handle that much humanity all at once. It's better, then, to rely on each other, my love. Let's prick each others' hearts, just a little; Create a bit more closeness with each kiss, A bit more understanding with each conversation, A bit more love with each look in each others' eyes, And instead of letting the world rush into us, Let's let our compassion overflow to the world in a trickle, Starting with each other, breath by breath.
The End of Being Pretty
Tell a young girl that good looks don't matter.
Tell a young man that making money doesn't matter
when the world is screaming the opposite.
Tell a middle-aged woman that she will lose the advantage
she was never allowed to admit, but enjoyed nonetheless
when she reaches The End of Being Pretty.
Tell me people will appreciate my intellect.
Take me seriously.
Listen without needing to give advice.
Tell me that when I become a "Handsome Woman,"
dancing and singing,
I won't embarrass myself.
Wait until people find out
I'm not as nice as they think I am.
Or as innocent.
Ah, the baseball players become younger every year.
Can I still wear this dress?
Do I need to change my lipstick shade?
Not yet.
Next year, maybe.
For now, I'll only flirt under candlelight.
A Taxonomy of Reasons to Get Up in the Morning
To Be
Be happy [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Reasons for Living]
Be yourself
Be someone's hero
Be what happens
Be your best self [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Oprah Tropes]
Be a shoulder to cry on
Be a good _______ (dad, mom, sister, brother, friend)
Be kind
Be alive
To Do
Do what you love [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Lies We Were Told When Young]
Do your thing
Do your hair
Do a happy dance
Do it. Just do it.
Do what others won't
Do whatever you have to
To Get
Get a job [SEE ALSO: Make Money]
Get lucky [SEE ALSO: Make Love]
Get your shit together
Get a grip
Get out of jail
Get through your shit [SEE ALSO: Get your shit together]
Get out of that meeting
Get married [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Consequences of Falling in Love]
Get fired [SEE ALSO: Take this job and shove it]
Get your heart broken [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Consequences of Falling in Love]
To Go
Go ahead and do it already [SEE ALSO: Take a chance]
Go ahead and cry already
Go to Paris in spring [SEE ALSO: Go fall in love, Make love]
Go fall in love [SEE ALSO: Take a chance]
Go tell her you love her [SEE ALSO: Take a chance]
Go on [SEE ALSO: Keep on truckin', Keep going]
Go crazy [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Consequences of Falling in Love] [SEE ALSO: Keep sane]
Go far
Go fast
Go to hell and back [SEE ALSO: Get through your shit ]
To Make
Make money [SEE ALSO: Get a job]
Make love [SEE ALSO: Go to Paris in Spring]
Make Babies [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Consequences of Making Love]
Make someone smile
Make trouble
Make a difference [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of Lies We Were Told When Young]
Make that meeting [SEE ALSO: Keep your job]
To Keep
Keep it real
Keep on truckin' [SEE ALSO: Keep going, Go on]
Keep it together
Keep your job [SEE ALSO: Make that meeting]
Keep sane [SEE ALSO: Go crazy]
Keep living [CROSS REF: A Taxonomy of the Consequences of Getting Out of Bed in the Morning]
Keep going [SEE ALSO: Keep on truckin', Go on]
To Take
Take a chance [SEE ALSO: Go fall in love, Go tell her you love her, Go ahead and do it already]
Take your turn
Take someone to a party
Take someone's hand in yours
Take a punch
Take this job and shove it [SEE ALSO: Get fired]
Take a good look at yourself
Poem: Straight Shooter
He would make a colorful character in a comic book:
Cue stick in one hand, cigarette in the other, and eyes that sink your heart.
He stalks the table with an economy of movement, seeing shots that no one else sees.
He would make a typical character in a Heinlein novel:
Tall, dark, sharp, and competent.
He transmits the beauty of his movements into geometry on felt.
He would make a perfect character in a Tarantino film:
Brooding, intense, protective, and loyal.
He points his stick at the 2, and nods to the corner pocket with confidence.
He makes a good friend, to those that know him:
You would let him pack your parachute.
He judges character as quickly as he can judge a table.
He would make a great hero, in this complicated world:
If he could un-remember the experiences he wishes hadn't made him but did.
I sit in the corner, sipping my drink, seeing the man that he doesn't see.


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Ppl With Wavy Hair Think Its Curly. Am I the only one who's annoyed by this?
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Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11:32AM
Well to me wavy is actually any S pattern at all and curls are ringlets and Os. Like Shirley Temple. So actually IMHO there are type 4s that are "wavies" (like my hair is actually just really little S shaped waves) and type 3s who I wouldn't call "curlies". And that's how I see it. One of the benefits of going natural and accepting my natural kinky texture is not having to be envious of anyone else's texture.
The whole kinky curly wavy thing is confusing. People are still trying to put their hair into a box they wish it belonged to becuase of this confusion. Not gonna point any fingers but there are still people with clear lovely kinks 4B straight up who are gonna insist they have some 3C hair. There are gonna be people who you might think are wavy who want to be called curly. There are people who think any texture whatsoever is "kinky" or "curly". Eh.
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how do you ponytail?
Wow, it's been a while since I posted a thread! So I want to know about your ponytail technique, and I would love to see some pics :love10:. I'm at work right now so I don't have pics, but I will try to take some later.
So do most people do a high or low ponytail? Do you just throw it back, or do you comb the top part straight?
I can tell when I've been slacking on my protein, because my hair looks so blah in a ponytail. The top part will just straighten out when I pull it back. I usually go for a high pony, but when it gets longer I like a low pony with a side part from time to time.
My hair is pretty long (almost waist length when straight) and I don't like how my hair looks at all in a curly ponytail. I only wear a curly ponytail if Im going to be home but on the rare occasion that I do wear it to go somewhere, it's a high ponytail. I brush the front of my hair all into the ponytail so that its smooth and then slick down the strays with some gel. I get alot of shrinkage so the actual ponytail just ends up looking like a poof in the back of my head.
I do like wearing a ponytal when I straighten it though because I feel like the smoothness in front flows well with the smoothness of a long, straight ponytail in back. Hope that makes sense!
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nobody has an interesting twists on the ponytail, huh? all i have is the same old boring one on my way to yoga. i was hoping for some inspiration.
I don't have pictures.. But i use this technique: Curly Hair Trick
It works great for me.! :thumbright:
I just throw it up, but more often than not I opt for the messy bun!
Messy bun here too....
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i used to wear nothing but ponys. low ponys, high ponys, middle ponys, side ponys... lol.
now i mainly wear my curls loose. but my fave go-to lazy day style is the messy bun. i pineapple at night and in the morning i modify the pineapple into a bun by twisting the scrunchie once around as if tightening the ponytail but not quite pulling all the hairs through.
if i want to get fancy with it, i pull out some curls around the face. (pic is from valentine's day)
and actually, my new thing is two low ponys. you know, pigtails. sorry, no pics. i wear them loose or bunned (a la princess leia). it's fun and funky. :)
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my top bun, sure looks like a sticking out ponytail or like an attachment, lol
So jealous of all this hair you ladies have! I feel like the pony I pictured is my only option. I love a good messy bun as well. Can't wait till my hair grows out.
i hate how poofy my hair looks in a pony so i just do a messy bun
your pics look gorgoes i normally do a messy high bun. a tip to help with the fizz/puffyness, i always have a bit of oil on my hairs when im pulling my hair back. and somtimes put same on my ends as im pulling my curls through my elastic. somtimes i leave it in a pony sometimes i do a messy bun. if im going out or somthing ill leave my bangs out. its quick and easy and you can really see my curls :D
Gah. I can't wait till I'm long enough for a pony again. It's getting long enough that I hate feeling it on my neck when I run! Maybe by the time it's 90°...
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I used to wear my hair up every single day (messy bun, high pony, low pony). Even when I wore my hair "down," I was constantly taking it in and out of a low pony in some odd attempt to control frizz haha. Then I got a job in the real world and decided I needed to learn to wear my hair down... and chopped it off to my chin.
Right now when I work out, I pull the top half up into one pony, and then do a second pony on the bottom. It's really not a good look.
My hair is currently too short for anything but a ponynub. When it was longer I found that my density (high) always pulled my fine hair waaay down and gives me what a friend called (pardon my French) "the b*tch ponytail/bun." So I learned a trick:
I gather up the bottom 2/3 of my hair with one elastic, usually a small clear "no tug" one, and put it into a ponytail at whatever height I like. I was raised in the 80's, so higher is better. Then I take the top 1/3 of my hair, the stuff around the crown and face, and sort of fluff it up to keep the curl, maybe add extra product at the roots for height, and use a second elastic to add that *loosely* to the whole ponytail. It can take some fiddling to hide the break, but it is worth it for a ponytail that doesn't look like someone is yanking my whole scalp back. If I want a bun, I then wrap the whole thing up, messy or tight.
Looking forward to having longer hair again...
now we're talking, bosanbo. i may give that a try.
bosanbo, I'm intrigued by your technique! Can you post a pic of what this double pony looks like?
Not on my own hair, it's too short ATM. But it can vary wildly, from "not skintight" around my face (what I like) to a Brigette Bardot poof! I got the idea from a friend, who is a MUA/hair guru. I said I love a bit of poof, but the lower half of my ponytail always drags it down. She said... just use two hair elastics. Ding!
A lot of women do the "poof" by teasing the crown and pinning that back, then making a single ponytail. I don't want a big ol' crown poof (my head is already kind of pointy), I want more volume evenly around my hairline, so I take that whole front hairline area and leave it out, then kind of tease/puff it gently like I'm making a poof, but instead of pinning it (I hate looking at the pins or rolling onto them in yoga!) I just use an elastic to anchor it to the pre-existing ponytail. I leave the top on kind of looser so it covers the "break." It's never pulled down by the lower one, so far!
On me it kind of winds up like this: http://www.weddingsalon.com/blog/wp-...ponytail2.jpeg
I just don't slick it down as much on the sides, either. If I tried to do this look with a single ponytail, the weight would instantly drag it down. So... two sections it is. The bottom one has to be very firmly anchored!
LOL, am I making sense? Glad this is helpful to people.
My hair is too short right now, but I love low loose romantic ponys. I don't like tight anything though. As a child it felt uncomfortable and my heart shape face looks better with a bit of volume in the frame. I'm not a high pony kind of girl. I'm just not that perky?
Like this, except I have a tighter curl pattern:
Oy, that's how I want my hair to look in a ponytail... Fine hair = no jumble of romantic curls...
Ooh, that's how I want my hair to look, too - except I need about 6 more inches of growth to get there!! I am suffering through the horrors of growing out my hair so that I can eventually have that low, long, romantic ponytail.
bosanbo, thank you for the link and for the explanation. I don't think I can use it now, as my hair is too short to ponytail like that (I get a pony puff instead, which I HATE), so I'm doing lots of twisted, messy buns for now. But I will definitely try your technique when I get enough length!!
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WOW – Work Of the Week – James Rosenquist "Marilyn"
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James Rosenquist
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With the recent passing of James Rosenquist, Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art is dedicating this week's Work Of the Week to the icon and pioneer of Pop Art.
James Rosenquist started his career as a sign painter of commercial billboards, which is often reflected in his large-scale paintings through a flat, uniform, and graphic style. Much of his inspiration was drawn from the advent of large-scale advertising and mass media. The bright hues and precise renderings convey the new, clean, and sterile environments so often used in advertising. However, while on the surface, his works appear to suggest the American Dream of the 1950's and 1960's, an underlining message addresses the potential issues American society will confront, and be confronted with, during this emergence of the thriving economy of the postwar.
One of Mr. Rosenquist's most famous painting, F-111 is an 86-foot-long commentary on the duality of Americana in 1965 at the height of the Vietnam War. 23 panels juxtaposed a mushroom cloud, a smiling girl, a bomber jet, a beach umbrella, among others. Debuting at the Leo Castelli Gallery in NYC, the piece caused a sensation in the art world.
Another well-known work is Marilyn Monroe I. Measuring 7' 9" x 6' ¼", this large-scale oil and spray enamel on canvas is a tribute to the sex symbol, created shortly after her sudden death in 1962. Through this work, Rosenquist took upon himself to share with his viewers a more sophisticated message – one that consisted of more than the usual glamourous image of Marilyn Monroe so many artists have utilized. The imagery we are so accustomed to associate with the movie star was transformed, and Rosenquist chose to present her in a manner that denied the immediate recognition, while preserving her coquettishness. One must observe the piece very closely to understand who it is the viewer is confronted with. Monroe's face is divided into six panes removing her instant recognition, however, Rosenquist demonstrates a unique ability to transmit her spirit. All of Monroe's features, her eyes, lips and hand, have been fragmented and placed together in an incoherent manner, with bold lettering painted on top in the same disjointed configuration.
Clearly visible, but also in a fragmented manner, is the Coca-Cola logo, but on closer inspection, overlaying letters of Marilyn Monroe's name also become apparent. James Rosenquist, being very familiar with the force of branding, mass-production and popular culture, was able to draw attention to the idea that Marilyn Monroe was as important to commercialism and industry as any every day products such as Coca-Cola, drawing upon the message beyond her as a person, but as Marilyn Monroe packaged in the mass media and marketed based on her sex appeal. Rosenquist's painting of Marilyn Monroe is one of countless others painted by his contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning, that attest to the increasing power of mass media and its impact on art production during the 1960's.
The Marilyn lithograph became available in 1974 and was published by Petersburg Press Inc. in an edition of 75. It is housed in the MoMA and Tate, among many other prominent collections.
Rosenquist was born in 1933 and passed away in New York City on March 31st 2017 after an illustrious career, which cemented him as one of the most important and influential American artists of our time.
Frank Stella
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Frank Stella (b. 1936), an American minimalist and geometric abstract expressionist is known for producing works emphasizing the picture as object rather than as representation. He has said: "a picture is a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more." Stella's works do not have a clear reference to the world, they are compositions of the basics of the elements of art and geometry. Color, line, and form are what inspire him.
The Sinjerli Variation Series of six lithographs, was published in 1977 by Petersburg Press in New York, seven years after the artist's first retrospective at MoMA. Aged 41, at the time, he was the youngest artist to receive such an honor.
The Sinjerli Series is derived from Stella's original painting Sinjerli I of the Protractor Series, dated from 1967 to 1970. The inspiration of the Protractor Series, in addition to the names of the works, came from the circular shape of cities from the ancient civilizations of Asia Minor. Sinjerli was a city of the Ancient Anatolian people of the Hittite Empire, which reached its height in the 14th century BC. It is located at the foothills of the Anti-Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey. The fortified citadel of Sinjerli was outlined by an almost perfect double walled circle, which connected with the geometric inspiration of Stella's body of work.
Each Sinjerli variation is composed of two semi-circles, or protractors and positioned to the left of the sheet, slightly lower than midlevel. Each lithograph is composed of elaborate patterns of intersecting circular forms, arranged in a manner that removes any indication of depth. While at first, the form is seemingly symmetrical, the interweaving of the arcs also gives the illusion of unending line-work.
For the series, Stella made use of bright and vibrant colors. The hues are not tinted as a flat application, but rather have a painterly texture and this result was accomplished by a three-step process. The first step required the deposition of a toned ground, the result of a broadly drawn plate, also known as "full crayon." Secondly, a looser, textured drawing was applied, the "smear crayon." Finally, the finishing touch was a high gloss glaze, named "loose crayon."
Today, Frank Stella continues to live and work in Manhattan and commutes to his studio in Rock Tavern, NY on the weekdays. His most recent retrospective took place at the Whitney in NYC from October 30, 2015 to February 7, 2016.
Claes Oldenburg
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Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects.
Many of Oldenburg's works depict 'mundane' objects and, at first, they were ridiculed before being accepted by the art world – but they were also defined "brilliant", due to the reaction that the pop artist brought to a 'tired' abstract expressionist period.
The purpose of Oldenburg's art is to uncover the mystery and power of commonplace objects by morphing their scale, shape, and texture, embracing what he calls "the poetry of everywhere". As source of inspiration, the artist always uses things made and utilized by human beings. Used, out-of-date or simply banal, they look rescued from oblivion by the artist. While recreating objects, Oldenburg alters their specifics, transforming them through changes in material, scale, context and exaggerations of forms that lend them more than one identity.
This week's Work Of the Week, Geometric Mouse Scale E "Desktop", is a great example of Oldenburg's personal way of making art.
As in Oldenburg's other artworks, this image blends high and low art, but is more personal. The artist has even suggested that the Geometric Mouse is his alter ego, stating that he first took the subject of the mouse from one of the most iconic and popular characters ever: Mickey Mouse. The mouse is an extremely recurring subject in Oldenburg's body of work. It is considered his artistic symbol par excellence, for his typical humor and use of obsolete objects and iconic characters as main source.
The concept/name of the mouse 'desktop' also plays on the concept of fast paced movement toward technology in today's world, but is a nod to the past of how fast the world is actually moving. The Desktop Mouse can also be seen by today's generation as a play on a computerized mouse on the old style green mouse pads. A mouse on a mouse pad.
By deforming and decontextualizing the object, Claes Oldenburg helps it to become estranged, so that we are finally able to look at it in a different perspective: as a work of art. This happens because the artist believes that this object possesses a certain aesthetic quality, stemming from its appearance, and therefore displays it for the appreciation of others.
Oldenburg has said himself that "If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it".
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Robert Longo
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Robert Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Long Island.
Although Longo extensively studied sculpture during his years as an art student, drawing remains his favorite form of expression. The sculptural influence prevails in his drawing technique, as his "portraits" have a distinctive chiseled line that seems to give his drawings a three-dimensional quality.
Longo had a childhood fascination with mass media: movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continue to influence his art to this day.
About four years passed before Longo turned the vision of a man shot in the back into a monumental series of drawings. He produced about 60 Men In The Cities between 1979 and 1982. Taking in also the rock star poses popularized by music videos of the 1980's, the preppy men's clothing and the rise of Wall Street, these pictures embody the spirit of the age in a way that few works ever manage to.
Fascinated by the arrested gestures of the figure, which reminded him of the spasmodic movements of punk musicians and fans, to achieve these gestures, Longo invited his friends to the rooftop of his Manhattan apartment, tied ropes around them, and pummeled them with tennis balls and other objects and made them over-react to loud noises, while he photographed their reactive movements. The images were then projected on to paper, and Longo drew over them in great detail.
Those friends included the fellow fine artist Cindy Sherman and Larry Gagosian. Today, both Sherman and Gagosian are towering figures within the art world, yet 35 years ago their future, as well as Longo's, was far from assured. "Robert shot us in free fall, looking like we were dead" Sherman recalled in 2009. "A feeling of force and energy emanates from these photographs. Now I see their choreographic aspect. I see youthful optimism. Creating these poses became a sort of dance, and I think that's why I remember having such a good time".
These aggressive movements of men and woman in business attire, have an elegance and grace that is entirely unexpected. They are protective reactions and exaggerated gestures that have here been turned into a choreography, a ballet, if you will. The movements are fresh and vital, full of energy and life. They document an essence of human motion, boiled down to pure expression.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns is one of the most acclaimed and influential American artists of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns grew up wanting to be an artist. He studied briefly at the University of South Carolina before moving to New York in the early Fifties. After a visit to Philadelphia, with his good friend Robert Rauschenberg, to see Marcel Duchamp's painting, The Large Glass (1915-23), Johns became very interested in his work. Duchamp had revolutionized the art world with his "readymades" — a series of found objects presented as finished works of art. This irreverence for the fixed attitudes toward what could be considered art was a substantial influence for Johns.
Johns' richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets in the late 1950's, led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete. Johns laid the groundwork for both Pop Art and Minimalism. Today, his prints and paintings set record prices at auction.
In 1958, gallery owner Leo Castelli visited Rauschenberg's studio and saw Johns' work for the first time. Castelli was so impressed with the 28-year-old painter's ability and inventiveness that he offered him a show on the spot. At that first exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art purchased three pieces, making it clear that Johns was to become a major force in the art world.
This weeks Work Of the Week is Jasper Johns' Target With Plaster Casts.
Targets by Johns, feature a depiction of an actual target that is, for all practical purposes, utterly interchangeable with the real thing. However, unlike the flag or the numbers, which are also familiar images from this period of the artist's career, the flat target is simultaneously representational and abstract (a number or a flag can never be divorced from its status as a familiar sign). This makes the target susceptible to even more ambiguities.
The target allowed Johns to explore a familiar two-dimensional object, with its simple internal geometric structure and a complex symbolic meaning. He was attracted to painting "things the mind already knows", and claimed that using a familiar object like the target freed himself from the need to create a new design and allowed him to focus on the execution of the painting.
Johns worked on this target with a sort of deadpan irony to test what one expects a work of art to do. A painted target automatically negates the use of a real one, and its use is lost. It stops being a sign and becomes an image, where the center is not more important than the other circles that form it.
Meanwhile, the "plaster casts" on the top part of the artwork represent bits of the human body (foot, nose, face, hand, ear, penis, heart, breast, and lungs) set in their boxes. They are transformed in exactly the opposite way. Their anonymity makes them like fossils or even more, like words, signs that stand for classes of things. One would like to see them as elements of a portrait, but they cannot be read in that way. They are images turning into signs.
And so, in Target With Plaster Casts, two systems of seeing are locked in perfect mutual opposition, the sign becoming a painting and sculpture becoming a sign.
These kind of works by Jasper Johns were extremely new to the museum goers and art lovers, especially at a time in which the art world was searching for new ideas.
Over the past fifty years Johns has created a body of rich and complex work. His rigorous attention to the themes of popular imagery and abstraction has set the standards for American art. Constantly challenging the technical possibilities of printmaking, painting and sculpture, Johns laid the groundwork for a wide range of experimental artists. Today, he remains at the forefront of American art, with work represented in nearly every major museum collection.
Alex Katz
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Alex Katz is an American painter of portraits and landscapes. He started working on these themes during years dominated by non-figurative art, which he always strongly avoided.
As for his portraits, the people he depicts are colleagues that surrounded him during his career, members of his family, friends or neighbors. Alex Katz's portraits are always very recognizable. They are all characterized by an unmistakable flatness and lack of detail. Color and light play a central role in his works and the design of his pictorial reality always appears with sharp, clear edges.
Well known for his many portraits of his wife and muse, Ada, Katz has also dedicated himself to printmaking and freestanding sculptures of cutout figures painted on wood or aluminum. This is the case of this week's Work Of the Week, Ariel.
Ariel is a three piece aluminum cut out set, created after a painting and a screenprint that he did in 2016 of the same name, that depicts a woman in three different perspectives in a sequence. This idea, the theme of variation, is very important to the artist. According to Katz, he was the first artist to start using the technique of repetition in his works, before the other artists of the time. He even says that Warhol took this concept from him. His studies on repetition start with a work called Ada Ada, which is one of his earliest work, and continue until today with this week's Work Of the Week, Ariel.
One can see how Katz's highly graphic depiction of his subjects adds a strong sense of individualized personality to his paintings, and his attention to details, particularly when it comes to fashion, firmly characterizes the work in his own unique aesthetic.
Alex Katz' works convey a surprisingly seductive detachment from his emotions and personal references. For example, Ariel is a recurring subject in his most recent works. But who is Ariel? Is she someone relevant to the artist or is she only a model? The answer, in the end, is not important. These portraits do not own a clear narrative – it is not important for the viewer to know the person or the story behind the artwork. What Katz tries to emphasize is actually the beauty of the subjects. The use of gentle colors, the emphasis of fashion details in his paintings turn the coldness of the sharp lines, lack of detail and flatness into an artwork warm for the viewer to enjoy.
In many ways, both conceptually and technically, the art of Alex Katz can be considered to be the bridge that gaps the traditions of abstraction and figurative art.
Takashi Murakami
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Son of a taxi driver and a housewife, Murakami grew up in Tokyo, then attended Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, the country's most prestigious arts institution. He holds a Ph.D. in Nihonga – the refined hybrid of European and traditional Japanese painting that was invented in the late 19th century. Nihonga paintings are employed to render likenesses of bouquets and landscapes, in accordance to traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials, to suit the influx of European tourism and an export market to the West.
Prior to 1868, Japan's Meiji period, the word for "fine art" did not exist in the Japanese language. It was only after this time that the country imported this foreign "art" notion and created a vocabulary for it. The blurring of high and low, of West and East, remains characteristic of Japanese society.
Takashi Murakami is the one that, better than any other Japanese artists, has been able to incorporate all the cultural contradictions and influences of Japan that even today permeate the Japanese society. He is one of the most well-known Japanese contemporary artists.
Murakami aligns himself with the geeky, obsessive fans and collectors of the Japanese manga, anime and animations, whose name is 'otaku'. By combing Nihonga painting with otaku aesthetic, merging tradition with contemporary, he has literally changed the face of Japanese art. Some years ago Murakami elaborated a theory under the clever rubric "Superflat", linking the flat picture planes of traditional Japanese paintings to the lack of any distinction between high and low in Japanese culture. On stylistic grounds he grouped together some traditional artists of the Edo period (1603-1868) with the creators of modern-day animated films, arguing that there were important formal similarities in the flatness of their work. Now, having analyzed Japanese pop culture aesthetically, he is turning his scrutiny to the function that superflatness might be serving in contemporary Japanese society. Superflat can be described as a flattening process that conveniently released both the artist and the viewer from grappling with the contradictions of Japan's wartime experience as predator and victim and postwar status as economic rival of, and political subordinate to, the United States.
Murakami maintains that respectable Japanese artists largely ignored the horrors of World War II and the humiliations of the postwar occupation, relinquishing the subjects to the 'otaku', who transported these tough realities into the realm of cartoon fantasy. In many of the classic manga and anime stories the plot revolves around a bomb or radiation device that devastates Tokyo. "I thought: why does otaku culture so many times have an explosion that looks like an atomic bomb? I was trying to find out why otaku people are always repeating the same scene and why I was so interested in it myself". He concluded that otaku raised "a mirror" to a reality that the larger culture preferred to ignore. In childlike animated forms, anguished truths were stripped of their historical context.
This week's Work Of The Week, KiKi With Moss, is from a two parts suite consisting of Kiki and his counter partner KaiKai. KaiKai and KiKi loosely translate into good and evil or the Angel and Devil. These characters have come to be seen as avatars of the opposing aspects of Murakami's own character and they can be interpreted to be his ultimate self-portrait.
KiKi With Moss and KaiKai With Moss, 2004
Murakami's work embodies some interests that extend far beyond Japan. It's a blend of fantasy, apocalypse and innocence. He speaks about important themes such as the atomic bomb, the war, the issues that are affecting Japanese culture and society past and present, the relationship between the Western world and Japanese culture – and he does it through colorful, cartoon-like characters that at times have smiling faces and mesmerizing flowers, and at times have disturbing jagged teeth like fangs, making the cute violent. It's all the disparate elements combined that speak to the moment and reveal a deeper meaning to a culture that Murakami sees as divided, confused, confident and progressive. A culture full of hope for the future, but one that needs to remember and embrace its past.
Keith Haring
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Keith Haring was born on May 4, 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He started developing a love for drawing at a very early age, learning basic cartooning skills from his father and from the popular culture around him, such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney.
Though many associate the artist Keith Haring with his seemingly innocuous images of barking dogs, crawling babies, beating hearts and flying saucers, his work often tackled social justice issues – from nuclear proliferation, to AIDS, to the environment to racial and income inequality.
In April 1986, Haring opened his first Pop Shop, a retail store in Soho selling T-shirts, toys, posters, buttons and magnets bearing his images.
Pop Shop prints were released as a set of four individual pieces or one quad of the different images.
While his human figures generally depict people and players in society, human figures depicted upside-down, like the one in Pop Shop II, are usually B-boys and B-girls, the dancers of hip-hop, doing the iconic move in which they spin on their head. Figures contorting in backbends or jumps are also depictions of break dancers, some of the most iconic cultural figures of the New York City of the 1980's.
In the Pop Shops, Keith Haring always kept imagery accessible and easy to understand, in order to grab the eyes and minds of viewers and get them both to enjoy themselves and to engage with important concerns.


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Windows CardSpace provides users with a simple, consistent and secure way to authenticate to applications. Passwords are made redundant by taking advantage of public key cryptography and presenting the user with a set of cards to represent their digital identities. These identities can be provided by the user and by third parties (e.g. banks, employers, government). CardSpace has privacy features, protection against phishing, and support for multi-factor authentication (e.g. smart cards). By utilizing open, standard web and web service protocols, it can be used with any web or web service application, regardless of platform, with minimal effort from the developer. With .NET Framework 3.5 comes an improved UI and the ability to use CardSpace over http as well as https. This session covers both CardSpace fundamentals and the new features.
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TORONTO, June 11 (Reuters) - Canadian employers are less inclined to add jobs than they were just three months ago, according a survey released on Tuesday that cast doubt on whether a hiring boom seen in May will be sustained.
A net 9 percent of Canadian employers expect to add jobs in the third quarter, with the biggest gains seen in the transportation and public utilities sector, the study from staffing company Manpower Inc showed.
That was down slightly from a net 12 percent three months earlier.
The seasonally adjusted number, based on a survey of 1,900 Canadian employers, also represents a drop from the net 12 percent of employers who expected to hire in the same quarter last year.
"The curvature on our trend is going down," said Byrne Luft, a vice president with Manpower Canada. "We had gains in 2012 but it's again heading more into negative territory."
The quarterly Manpower survey measures the difference between employers who say they will add jobs and those planning to cut positions, adjusting the numbers for seasonal changes.
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Alabama is among five states that saw double-digit gains in the number of 16-and17-year-old driver deaths last year, according to a government report released Tuesday.
That information, which was based on the first six months of 2012, was released Tuesday by the Governors Highway Safety Association compared the number of deaths in 2012 to the same period in 2011. Overall, young teen driver deaths rose to 240 from 202 – a 19 percent jump. The report looked at 16- and 17-year-old driver fatalities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
In Alabama, there were three teen drivers who died in car crashes during that period in 2011, according to the 14-page report. That number jumped to 12 in 2012, placing the state alongside Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, who each reported double-digit losses.
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FS: Changing up my fishstock. ***SOLD***
I'm changing up the fishes in the tank. This is what I've caught so far;
3 harlequin rasboras
5 glo lite tetras
6 white cloud minnows
$12 for all, pick up in Forest Hills
They are all very colorful and healthy, in fact too healthy and feel they are too big in my 50.
These are incredibly healthy and beautiful fish for anyone with space for them - especially the white cloud minnows.
I'll take all the HR you can catch.
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Wait a minute, I get a bunch of guppies and THEN I notice that white clouds are for sale? Argh.
need this all gone by weekend.
Currently overwhelmed with pfr srhimp frys. Will throw in 3 along with the fishes.
how about some PFR frys but hold the fish lol
You know I have a lot of frys for you, fishes are going down the toilet by Sunday.
Ah, don't flush them. If no one wants them, give them to the Petland on Austin St near your place.
Eek, flushing?
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