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Nina Fletcher Little: Bridging the Worlds of Antiques and Folk Art
By Ruth Wolfe
The activities of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, and of the other antiquarians and folk art enthusiasts with whom they were associated during their sixty years of collecting, may be viewed as part of a much larger movement toward the discovery of an authentic American tradition in literature, music, architecture, and the visual arts. In the period between the world wars, the search for cultural identity had accelerated among American intellectuals, who were keenly aware that many of their fellow citizens still possessed a neo-colonial mentality, admiring everything European (and especially English) and disdaining the creative accomplishments of their own people. For those whose memories do not reach back to the first half of this century, it is difficult to comprehend the widespread lack of esteem for American art. James Thomas Flexner described the situation in universities and museums in the 1930s, when he began writing about American art and artists:
This was confirmed by Edgar P. Richardson's observation that when the College Art Association published a suggested bibliography for an ideal art library in 1929, it included a mere forty titles relating to American art.[2]
If universities and museums disdained the works of academically trained American painters and sculptors, they totally ignored the vast array of vernacular productions that have come to be known as American folk art. In the absence of scholarly attention, folk art has been a field dominated by collectors of great variety whose personalities and interests shaped the way the material was thought about, presented, and exhibited.[3] Jean Lipman, herself a major collector and the author of the first important book on American folk painting, devoted the October 1945 issue of her magazine Art in America to "Research in American Art," calling for increased scholarship in all areas, but especially in folk art: "The serious study of folk art is still in its initial phase. Within the next decade wider research, exhibition and publication will undoubtedly reconstruct many of our unknown primitive masters and clarify the sources, the characteristics and the basic style of folk art."[4] Nina Fletcher Little, working in the best traditions of the scholarly antiquarian, answered the call; of all the early collectors, none would contribute more to the serious study of folk art.
Nina Fletcher and Bertram K. Little (known to their friends as Nina -- rhymes with Carolina -- and Bert) began collecting antiques soon after they were married in 1925. What began as a practical approach to home furnishing developed into a pastime they shared for the rest of their lives. For Nina Little, collecting also became an engrossing intellectual pursuit. She admitted that she loved "being the old detective,"[5] and she systematically researched the objects she and her husband acquired. She did extensive fieldwork, using the tools of the genealogist and local historian to comb family trees, probate records, account books, diaries, period newspapers, and other primary sources for clues to the identities and working practices of early New England artists, craftsmen, and their customers. In all of these activities, Bert Little was an enthusiastic and supportive participant, editing her manuscripts and often helping her with research. In the early thirties, Nina Little began writing regularly on such antiquarian topics as ceramics and restoring old houses. In 1938 she was recruited by editor Homer Eaton Keyes, who had been cultivating writers and setting high standards of scholarship for The Magazine Antiques since he founded it in 1922. Thus began a long association that resulted in her writing more articles for Antiques than any other single author.
Nina Fletcher Little won national recognition as a serious student of American art in April 1947, when her monograph on the eighteenth-century limner Winthrop Chandler was published as a special issue of Art in America. At the same time she curated a Chandler exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum -- the first ever devoted to a New England folk painter. In 1951 the scholarly establishment recognized Nina Little's expertise by inviting her to the College Art Association's annual meeting to speak on early American decorative wall painting. This was also the subject of her first book, published in 1952 in conjunction with exhibitions at Old Sturbridge Village and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. "I know of no one more tireless, no one who has contributed more through her field work and research than Nina Fletcher Little," wrote Marshall Davidson in the foreword to the book. "Here she provides a body of fresh information, gathered with uncommon skill and energy, that will be of lasting service to others in their search for a broader understanding of American civilization and of American art."[6] She continued to publish until the mid-eighties, and her lifetime output of some 150 articles, books, and exhibition catalogs immeasurably expanded understanding of the cultural context in which the folk art of New England was created.
When they first began collecting, the Littles pursued typical antiquarian interests -- blue-and-white Staffordshire, lighting devices, clocks -- and participated enthusiastically in the collectors' clubs that sprang up in Boston in the 1930s, groups like the Rushlight Club and the China Students' Club. In 1937, needing more space for their growing family and collections, the Littles acquired Cogswell's Grant, an early eighteenth-century house on a tidewater farm in Essex, Massachusetts, for use as a summer retreat. The Littles' antiques and folk art eventually filled both their year-round home in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Cogswell's Grant, where they concentrated on furnishings and decorative objects of the same period as the house, looking especially for antiques from Essex County, and always for things in a style they considered suitable for informal, country living. The Littles died a few months apart in 1993, and in accordance with their wishes, the collection at the Brookline house was sold at auction and Cogswell's Grant and its contents became the property of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA). The picturesque house, which will be opened to the public in 1998, is a tangible link to a now legendary era of American folk art collecting, the only site where a major, pioneering collection of folk art can be seen in the setting for which it was assembled.
In her collecting autobiography, amusingly titled Little by Little (referring both to the collection and the way in which it grew), Nina Little remembered the thirties "as a stimulating decade when money was often scarce and buying frequently curtailed, but opportunities for discovery were unlimited and made 'antiquing' a continuously exciting experience.... "[7] She also recalled that "from 1935 on, I made annual pilgrimages to shows in New York and other places, and in addition to catching up on all the current antiques gossip, I was able to make many gratifying additions to our household furnishings." In New York Mrs. Little frequented antiquarians Harry Shaw Newman of the Old Print Shop and Charles W. Lyon, as well as Harry Stone, who had the only uptown gallery specializing in primitive paintings. The Littles had collected a few maritime paintings, which appealed to them because Bert's Salem, Massachusetts, ancestors had engaged in various branches of overseas trade. Once Cogswell's Grant was restored and furnished, they began to seek out other types of American pictures. Those that interested them were, according to Mrs. Little, "still offbeat in conventional antiquarian circles and were variously referred to as primitive, naive, unschooled, or folk." The Littles had seen the gallery of American primitive portraits that was opened in 1940 as part of the Fruitlands Museums on the Harvard, Massachusetts, estate of Clara Endicott Sears: "There, for the first time in New England, a permanent museum collection displayed to the public a large group of controversial pictures that had recently been brought out of hiding in local attics and barns." On Fifth Avenue in New York, the Littles discovered the Folk Arts Center, founded in 1928 in conjunction with the League of Nations' International Commission on Folk Arts. Under the direction of Elizabeth Burchenal, an expert on folk dance, and her sister Ruth, the Center's approach was similar to today's material culture studies and emphasized the interrelationship of folk arts, crafts, music, dancing, and folklore. Board members included art world figures like sculptor and collector Elie Nadelman and dealer Edith Gregor Halpert, as well as anthropologist Franz Boas. In 1941 the Littles began attending the Center's "institutes" (lecture programs) and lent textiles and paintings to several annual exhibitions. When the Burchenal sisters died in the fifties the Center closed, but Mrs. Little remembered it "as an exciting introduction to the folk arts field, an area of Americana in which we were still neophytes."
In 1948, when they attended the first of the New York State Historical Association's Seminars on American Culture in Cooperstown, New York, the Littles began in earnest a fruitful "crossover" to the folk art field. Nina Little wrote that at Cooperstown "the whole background of folk culture -- its arts, crafts, music, oral history, and folklore -- first came to life for me, awakening my interest in a hitherto unexplored territory of collecting and research." The year 1954 found Mrs. Little becoming directly involved with American folk art as a consultant to Colonial Williamsburg, where a new museum was being built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to house the folk art collection formed by his late wife in the 1930s with the help of dealer Edith Halpert and Holger Cahill, the brilliant art critic who organized the first important exhibitions of American folk art. Mrs. Little's reputation for scholarship made her the obvious choice to prepare a catalog of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection (AARFAC), which had never been thoroughly documented. During two years of travel, research, and correspondence (she wrote 675 letters), Nina Little made good use of her carefully honed research techniques, uncovering much new information and attributing many previously "anonymous" works in the Rockefeller collection. She was also able, through quiet diplomacy, to arrange the return of some of the finest pieces from Mrs. Rockefeller's original collection to the new museum. These included the Hicks Peaceable Kingdom acclaimed by the French artist Leger as the greatest painting he had seen in America;[8] The Twining Farm, Hicks' great scene of his Quaker boyhood; and Baby in a Red Chair, which has proved the most popular single painting in the collection. When Mrs. Rockefeller had given her collection to Colonial Williamsburg (her husband's pet project), her advisor Edith Halpert had strenuously and logically objected that an essentially New England and Pennsylvania collection did not belong in the South. Halpert successfully lobbied for some of the best examples to remain in New York as gifts to the Museum of Modern Art, of which Mrs. Rockefeller was a founder. Several years later, in a change of collecting policy, the Modem sold the Rockefeller pieces to the Metropolitan Museum. In her correspondence, Nina Little reveals that she networked with all the aplomb of an "old boy," securing an entree with David Rockefeller through her fellow New York State Historical Association trustee Stephen Clark. In a private interview with David, she persuaded Mrs. Rockefeller's son that the Williamsburg collection would not be complete without the works at the Metropolitan and he quickly arranged the purchase.[9]
Working with AARFAC brought Little face to face with the "problem of folk art," which seems to perplex everyone who approaches the subject. Part of the problem is the name itself. An exhibition in 1924 at the Whitney Studio Club simply called it "early American art." Holger Cahill had used "primitives" to describe the paintings he selected for his 1930 Newark Museum exhibition, switching to "folk" for a 1931 sculpture show at Newark and for "American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, 1750 - 1900," the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition that canonized the term. Artist Alexander Brook claimed that he persuaded Edith Halpert and Holger Cahill to switch from "primitive" to "folk art" after he told them about a lecture by the collector Dr. Albert Barnes, who insisted that "primitive" art could be created only by primitive peoples.[10]
In 1950 Alice Winchester of The Magazine Antiques, who was keenly interested in folk art, published a "symposium in print" entitled "What Is American Folk Art?" Thirteen experts proposed a variety of definitions and terms, among them non-academic, popular, pioneer, artisan, amateur, genre, naive, and the all-encompassing Americana. Nina Fletcher Little wrote that "the study and classification of non-academic American painting has now progressed beyond the point where one heading can satisfactorily be used to cover the whole subject. And I like the generic term 'folk art' rather less than some of the others because to me the word 'folk' connotes a European class which had no counterpart in rural America."[11] In her own writing she seldom used the term "folk art," preferring "provincial" for early painters like Ammi Phillips and Winthrop Chandler, and "country arts" for the many objects in her diverse collection.
Little was forced to grapple with a definition of folk art in the introduction to the AARFAC catalog; according to her son Jack, this occasioned a double crisis. The first came when her text was sent to the Rockefeller office in New York for final approval; to her dismay the public relations department "spiced it up." Little then rewrote the Rockefeller rewrite until she arrived at something both could live with.[12] Her original manuscript is still in her files; in it she attempted to draw distinctions between academic art and folk art as they developed in Europe, and to show how folk art was transformed by the American experience. This text lacks some of the clarity of her other writing, reflecting her difficulty with the subject. What is important is that the published version, which is not signed, does not reflect either her characteristically understated style or her thinking about folk art. At the end, a brief paragraph mentions Edith Gregor Halpert and Holgar [sic] Cahill, "both of whom assisted [Mrs. Rockefeller] in assembling this Collection."[13] This provoked the second crisis: Another Rockefeller son, Nelson, who was a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, felt that the Modern, Cahill, and Halpert had not been given sufficient credit in the catalog. At his insistence, each catalog had inserted a four-page addendum that included a bibliography of Cahill's and Halpert's publications on folk art. For the meticulous Nina Fletcher Little, the implication that her book had been carelessly prepared was galling. Her distress over the entire affair was only partially offset by the near-universal acclaim that greeted the catalog, especially from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who declared it "beyond praise...exquisite in every detail."[14]
The Rockefeller project brought Nina Fletcher Little into contact with virtually everyone of the postwar period who was interested in American folk art. Bert Little had assumed a more public role in 1947 when he became the director of SPNEA, a post he held until his retirement in 1970. Together the Littles became sought-after lecturers at such gatherings as the Williamsburg Forums, the Antiques Collectors' Weekends at Old Sturbridge Village, and the Cooperstown Seminars on American Culture. As the Littles became better known, so did their collection. Photographs of individual objects were often included in Nina's publications, and the Littles were always generous with loans to exhibitions. In 1969 AARFAC asked to exhibit their collection. Perhaps as a reaction to the self-promotion of other prominent collectors, the Littles insisted that the exhibition should not be a projection of their personalities, but that it have a theme of its own: "Land and Seascape as Observed by the Folk Artist."
By 1976 the Littles were besieged with requests for loans to the many exhibitions held to celebrate the Bicentennial, none more influential than "The Flowering of American Folk Art," organized by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester for the Whitney Museum of American Art and presented in 1974, two years before the Bicentennial (and exactly fifty years after the first exhibition of American folk art at the Whitney Studio Club). The Littles loaned nineteen paintings, carvings, and textiles to "The Flowering," which traveled to Richmond and San Francisco and inspired a spate of bicentennial surveys of folk art all over the country, many in areas where indigenous folk art had not previously been investigated.
In 1980 Jean Lipman updated her 1950 book Primitive Painters in America, 1750 - 1950, with another exhibition at the Whitney, "American Folk Painters of Three Centuries." Reflecting the advances in scholarship from the early days when virtually all folk artists were anonymous, the accompanying book consisted of biographical essays on thirty-five artists whose life stories had been reconstructed. There were five essays by Nina Fletcher Little and five by Jean Lipman, a reminder that the work of discovering American folk artists' identities and biographies was largely the achievement of these two women.[15] In the years following the Bicentennial, a new generation of researchers found in Mrs. Little an unfailing source of information and encouragement. Increasingly they consulted her, and there was no greater affirmation of their work than to gain her approval of their attributions and other research.
Just three years after "The Flowering" exhibition had popularized American folk art as never before, a great debate erupted among the longtime devotees of folk art and a new generation of folklorists and students of material culture. The scene was the 1977 Winterthur conference, where folklorists attacked the aesthetic approach of the early collectors. The very notion of art was called into question, as well as the validity of making evaluations of "good" and "bad" art based on arbitrary aesthetic standards -- especially standards set by one group or culture sitting in judgment on another.[16] (The same objections had already been raised in connection with exhibition and study of the primitive arts of non-Western peoples, whose discovery and appreciation has paralleled that of American folk art.)
Since the 1970s academic circles have experienced much of the kind of revisionism expressed at the Winterthur conference -- yet another symptom of the disillusion and anti-establishment tenor of the post-Watergate, post-Vietnam era. Some of the folklorists' criticism was justified. The fact that American folk art had been consistently ignored by academic art historians deprived it of rigorous critical analysis. For fifty years it remained the province of collectors and dealers, who had little time or inclination for serious research and study. The folklorists quite correctly challenged everyone working in the field to be more careful about preserving what they called the "context" of folk objects. What they chose to overlook was the fact that had it not been for the early collectors very little eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American folk material would have survived for enjoyment or study.
The scholarly antiquarian Nina Fletcher Little was unique among the pioneering folk art collectors -- for her the folklorists' concept of context had always been paramount. "Although artistic appeal is always a prominent factor," she wrote, "documentary background is an important element to me, as my personal interest in folk painting combines both the historical and the aesthetic approach."[17] The urge to preserve, so clearly expressed in the Littles' involvement with SPNEA, was at the heart of their collecting philosophy: "I've always tried to preserve every little bit of family history or tradition that could be counted on as accurate," she said, "because I feel it isn't just owning the pieces to put in one's rooms, but one has a responsibility to preserve properly the early history and the historical and family connections of the pieces one has.... "[18] Of all the early folk art collectors, Nina Fletcher Little was by far the most meticulous in documenting her collection, both with a personal cataloging system and her regularly published articles, written in a spare, elegant style that is the epitome of New England understatement.
Nina Fletcher Little's special contribution was to bridge the worlds of American antiques and folk art, bringing the antiquarian's passion for the past to the study of folk art. She combined a keen appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of an object with a determination to discover everything possible about the historical and social context in which it was created -- who made it, when and where, how it was used and by whom. For her there was no contest between object and context: she honored both.
About the Author
Ruth Wolfe has been an independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer in the field of American antiques and folk art. She holds a B.A in history from Smith College. A former executive editor of Art in America, she has written for Art News, Art in America, Art & Antiques, Architectural Digest, Portfolio, Ms., and New England Antiques Journal. She worked with Jean Lipman on the exhibitions The Flowering of American Folk Art and American Folk Painters of Three Centuries. She served as a consultant for Three Centuries of Connecticut Folk Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, and as the consulting curator for A Passion for the Past: The Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little at Cogswell's Grant at the Museum of American Folk Art. She is a biographer for the Shaker painter Hannah Cohoon.
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The above text was reprinted in Resource Library on November 5, 2009 with permission of author and the American Folk Art Museum, which were granted to TFAO on September 24, 2009, and October 6, 2009, respectively.
This article appeared in the Summer 1997 issue of Folk Art. A similar article appeared in the September - October 1996 issue of American Art Review. Both articles pertain to an exhibition, A Passion for the Past: The Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little at Cogswell's Grant, that was on view at the Museum of American Folk Art through July 6, 1997.
Resource Library wishes to extend appreciation the author, Mareike Grover and Tanya Heinrich of the American Folk Art Museum, and Shana Herb Johannessen for their help concerning permissions for reprinting the above text..
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[SINGAPORE] After a stellar run in 2016, iron ore has hit a rough patch. The prospect of a slump below US$50 a metric ton is now back in view after the longest losing streak in more than five months as investors, analysts and miners spar over the impact of additional low-cost supply.
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Hello World,
It feels like a while since I last wrote one of these; Christmas has been and gone, and the Winter is starting to fade away, and the beginnings of Spring are upon us. So without further ado, let's dive straight in…
Work is progressing steadily the last couple of months. A few weeks ago we had three separate parts, The Menu's, The basic gameplay, and the hangar scene; Now all three have been combined into one playable part! It's still quite a way off being finished, but here's where we're at so far..
All efforts this last couple of weeks have been on creating new media assets for background scenery around the arena. The picture below shows the current progress (The white cube in the middle is just a placeholder, marking out where the Arena will go)
If you are interested in hearing more about the development side of things, there is a Snakerunner DevLog >here<
The next tasks, once the scenery is finished, will be to get the challenges working, progressing through the levels, and getting the rest of the menu system working.
Best Night Light:
Lot's of Best Night Light news this month. There seems to be no stopping our popular night light app!
Firstly, barely a week into the new year, we reached 200000+ downloads! We feel like rock stars! 😊
Secondly, plans are afoot for a new update for Google Play and Amazon. This update sees the introduction of soothing background sounds and some new colour sets for the lava lamp as well as the usual bug fixes.
The third and possibly most exciting thing this month is that work is underway preparing for releasing Best Night Light on the iOS store!
Keepy Uppy King
Boom!! Straight in at the top of the Keepy Uppy King score board!! Congratulations to LargeGorilla85397 on their astonishing score! beefycfc is now in 2nd, and the12thplaya is in 3rd!
If you've not tried Keepy Uppy King, then feel free to download it free, from Google Play!
And that's all we have time for this month. I hope to see you all in the next update around the end of April.
Until next time..
New 'Best Night Light' Update is out today!
Best Night Light Update
Today we have rolled out a new version of Best Night Light to the Google Play store*. This update contains mostly bug fixes but we have managed to squeeze in a couple of additions for you all!
The first new thing is the option to remove the bokeh particles from the Lava Light. (The bokeh are the little white circles which move across the screen). There have been a couple of requests for this feature, so we have added it 🙂
The second new thing, isn't really a new thing at all. It's the welcome return of the Trophies! There are 6 to collect, but what exactly you have to do to unlock them is hidden.
Best Night Light is available from the Google Play Store, click the link below…
* Amazon App Store update coming soon. iOS release coming soon.
September news update…
Hello World!
As the last few hours of September tick away, Autumn is well and truly upon us. The weather has changed like the seasons, and a whole new batch of really awesome TV shows will soon be upon us.
It's been quite a hectic time here at WotC towers. We've been trying to keep up with all the various Game and App events taking place all over the world. Sadly we hadn't attended any this year, but a few of our associates did and the social medias were full of exciting tales and brilliant photos.
We have plenty of news of our own however, so without further ado, let's get on with it.
The first, and most exciting bit of news we have this month, is that we have a new game just going through the last phases of beta testing.
Keepy Uppy King is the classic playground game of keepy uppy on your Mobile! It's simple to pick up and play, but it takes real skill and practice to master it.
It uses the Google Play Services High Score Board to keep track of scores, and see how you're doing against your friends!
In fact, as soon as I have finished this blog post, I'm going to have another go at the Beta myself and try and take back 1st place! Which was snatched away by BeefyCFC earlier on today.
It's all in the hands of the beta testers now. Assuming no huge show stopping bugs are found, we're hoping to have it released in the next few weeks! So stay tuned for more news as it happens! If you wanted to join our beta team, please drop an email to email@example.com
Unfortunately, progress on Night of the Endless Dead has not been so forthcoming. Although we have a great selection of models to use for the players and zombies, we are having a spot of bother getting them to animate properly.
We have a couple of ideas to try and I'm sure we'll be back on track soon, but for the time being this game is being put on a back burner.
Whilst the animation problem is being worked on, all focus is now on getting Snakerunner completed. For those who don't know, Snakerunner is a re-imagining of the classic snake game, in 3d, with spaceships!
The video above is taken from an earlier version intended for PC, the Mobile version has a completely redesigned UI to make it easier for touch screens.
We have been working on this game on and off since 2003! And depending on how well received it is on Android and iOS, we're considering making a PC version afterwards and distributing it on Steam! (But this is a long way off yet!)
The last thing we have been working on this month is Best Night Light. Our Night light app has now been downloaded over 170,000 times! Making it our most successful app by far.
The biggest changes to this are in preparation for the forthcoming iOS release, but there are also one or two other changes/bug fixes.
The biggest one of these is removal of the trophies. This is only a temporary measure while we look into a trophy system which doesn't require quite so many permissions as the Google Play Services one, as there seemed to be a few users who really objected to this.
That's nearly all the time we have I'm afraid, but before you go, here's the usual round up of the bestest and funniest things from the internets from this month.
Watch as the guy from Dark Souls 3 picks fights with any and all and then rolls to evade attack!
This branch of game not letting a broken shutter spoil their day.
Side quest cat made us all chuckle.
The er, the er, that's all folks! Or at least for this month! I'll be back next month with another fun packed news update!
Until next time..
August News Update
Hello World,
Here's the August news update from the Warriors of the Cucumber. The eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed the absence of last month's update, I can only apologise for that and as of next month I've employed the services of Les (Chimpo Gigglefish from the Beta Test Team) to assist me in the writing of these posts.
It's certainly been a busy few months for us, with a major update released for Best Night Light as well as getting the models ready for our upcoming zombie shooter, Night of the Endless Dead! But more news on this later.
And so without further pause or hesitation, on with the news…
In July we released a new update for Best Night Light. This update contained a whole stack of new features, many of which had been suggested by users, as well as bug fixes, and more modern UI and other general improvements.
Don't worry Kindle owners, this update will be coming to the Amazon App Store soon.
We're happy to say that this month Best Night Light reached the 150,000+ downloads mark! I'd like to personally thank each and every one of you guys and girls out there who have downloaded it 😊
Here are some of the nice things people have said about our app.
"Brilliant for late night feeds and nappy changes for my son when I've left our mains nightlight on holiday"
– Ember Phillips ★★★★★
"I love this app"
– Elizabeth Poe ★★★★★
"Use this app every night for my son"
– Julie Morgan ★★★★★
"Best I've found"
– Buck Town ★★★★★
"Started using it on a camping trip and loved it. Just enough light to see without being a distraction."
– Elaine Bonnell ★★★★★
If you want check out the update for yourself, then click the link below!
Talking of success, I'm also happy to announce our first game on Android has been downloaded over 600 times now!
If you haven't already played it, then why not give it a go? It's free to download, just click the link below.
Over the last few months, the bulk of the work on Night of the Endless Dead has been designing and planning, and getting media ready. Below is a small selection of the Zombies which we'll be using for target practice!
There are still a few zombies to get ready and test, but we're hoping that soon we'll have something playable ready for testing.
More news as it happens, stay tuned 😀
Also this month, we got a mac! It's only an i5 Mac Mini but it's all ours 😀 The team need a while to figure it all out, and there is a few legalities involving the iOS App Store to investigate, but we hope that we will be releasing our entire back catalogue for iOS asap, starting with Best Night Light in the not too distant future 😀
And finally, here is a round up of the best and funniest things we saw on the social medias this month
This is quite funny to watch, It's a video of Google's Deepmind AI learning to walk.
Poor Mario 🙁 This isn't how I remember the game, lol
This is so true
This is a great use of AR to bring an extra dimension to a great game. Real life Mario Kart anyone?
And that brings us to the end of another fun packed and exciting news update! See you all again next month
Until next time
Best Night Light News
News about the update
I know we said we were aiming to have the Best Night Light update finished by the 1st of July, but sadly that day has been and gone and still we sit here in the dark musty corners of WotC towers coding away into the small hours.
I'm happy to say that all the hard work is paying off though and we have a very nice update shaping up for you.
We'll announce the release on all the usual social media channels as soon as it's live in the stores. But realistically we are looking at probably another two weeks yet before its finished
Other news
I'm also happy to announce that Best Night Light is currently installed on over 30,000 devices across the globe! That's as many people as fit in our local football stadium! It's nice to see so many people are using our app and leaving (mostly) positive feedback on the reviews.
We've also not forgotten about the fantastic prize giveaway we have planned to coincide (more or less) with the release of the new Best Night Light update! More news about this soon!
June News Update
Hello World,
Well, June certainly been a month for exciting news what with Apple announcing iOS 11 and a plethora of other beautifully sleek but hideously expensive hardware, and the E3 over in Los Angeles which saw lots of exciting new games and consoles announced. We're all PlayStation here at WotC Towers, so the news of a new XBone isn't as earth shattering as it is to some, but Bethesda's announcement of Fallout 4 VR is something which caused sweaty palms and palpitations!
Who knows, when next year's show season rolls round again, we may even have a stand there?
Anyway, enough blue sky thinking, on to the here and now…
We recently ran a survey for users of Best Night Light, allowing us to find out a little bit more about them and giving them a chance to voice their opinions on how we could make Best Night Light better.
We had an overwhelming response. The survey helped reinforce the general feedback we'd already got from users reviews and emails we've received.
Work is now well underway on the update. Starting first with an overhaul of the look of the app, to make room for new timer controls on each of the light modes and to give Best Night Light a fresher more modern appearance.
We're hoping to have the update finished and released on July 1st, so stay tuned for more news about that as it happens. If you can't wait then maybe join our team of beta testers by sending an email to us >here<.
We were also happy to have "Online Junction" feature Best Night Light on their YouTube channel. It's a simple preview of what to expect from the app from installation through to using the various modes.
I'd like to thank Sangeeth Kanna who recorded the video and brought it to my attention.
This game started out as a "Game in a Week" challenge, before it was overcomplicated beyond all recognition by our resident ideas guy. It's an endless zombie shooter where you have to fend off waves of putrid undead and try and stay alive as long as possible (Ammo and zombies permitting 😝 lol).
This was the first thing we've ever posted about online with a #ScreenshotSaturday hashtag. It seems to have been received well by the Indie Developer community.
We're hoping it will be a fun packed zombie slaying fest for you all to enjoy. Although it won't be our usual PEGI 3 rating!
Those of you who do visit our Facebook page will probably have noticed the new store we have. From here you have way access to all our titles split into groups by platform.
I'd also like to thank all of the exciting new followers we have! Thanks to the hard work of Dave, who selflessly spent hours glued to social media channels spreading the word! (Its's work Boss, honest!)
Thanks to his diligence however, we're happy to welcome aboard…
Extra special congratulations to Valentina Hincapié (@valena_95) for being our 100th follower on Twitter 😊
And also James Wilde for being the only new g+ follower!
We'll try and keep your feeds full of funny and inventive stuff 😀
For those of you who haven't yet followed us, then what are you waiting for? Here are some handy links to follow to get to the relevant pages 😀
Since I originally wrote this post, our Twitter following has increased further (Currently at 224 followers!) So I would also like to Welcome Beard Studios (@BeardStudiosDev) as our 200th follower
Best of the web
Talking of funny and inventive stuff, here is this month's round up of the little clips which made us chuckle or just plain impressed.
I think this is a brilliant idea. I cannot say how much I would like to have a triple screen setup like that for my monitor!
We're all very excited by this sneaky glimpse of something new (and very retro looking) from the Atari stable
Well, that brings me to the end of another information packed news update. All I have left to do now is to finish a few graphics and get it all uploaded to the website.
I hope you'll join us again next month for more news and updates from here at the Warriors of the Cucumber. 😊
Until next time
May News Update
Hello World
Welcome to the May news update from the Warriors of the Cucumber.
The last few weeks have been lovely and sunny, with only the occasional bout of rain (I do live in the UK mind, so the rain at least is not unexpected, lol). The kind of weather that my Mum would make me go outside and play rather than sitting around the house coding on my old ZX Spectrum.
Fortunately, I'm much older and wiser now, and I have a laptop so I am free to do both 😊 Lol
Fortunately, I'm much older and wiser now, and I have a laptop so I am free to do both 😊 Lol
It takes a surprising amount of time to write one of these blogs, and (much to the boss' dismay) they are seldom quite finished when the deadline rolls round. The is it seems an awful lot more work involved in writing apps and games than just programming
This last few months have been an exciting delve into the realms of networking, marketing, and more recently web optimization and trouble shooting when I had to turn my hand to fixing the website during it's downtime (but more on that later).
So, let me apologise for this update being a little late, and without further ado, on with the news
We have recently upgraded our website to allow HTTPS connections to help keep our visitors safe and secure. You'll notice we now have a little padlock icon somewhere near the address bar of your browser (It depends on which browser you're using).
This means that whenever you are connected to our website all traffic to and from will be safely encrypted. 😊
Thanks to SEOSiteCheckUp.Com we have also given the website a thorough going over to optimize it not only to improve how easy it is to find our stuff online, but also to speed up the website to make your experience here better.
Unfortunately, as is often the way with these things, it led to a few hours of down time on the website (For the technically knowledgeable out there, apparently our new CDN, intended to speed up our website, was incompatible with the SSL certificate we're using) but it's all back up and running now.
Our night light app, Best Night Light is by far our most successful app having been downloaded over 115,000 times on Google Play alone. As a big thank you to the users of Best Night Light, we recently thumbed down through all the reviews looking at what we can change to make it better for you.
Here are some of the ways we are looking at improving it already…
- A few people have been asking for the timer to be added to the other two light modes, which we have done. We are also looking at making the range of timer values bigger.
- New lava lamp colour modes.
- Trophies! trophies to share with your friends.
- A few people have complained about the adverts we use at the bottom of the screen, so in the new update we're planning on giving you not one, but two different ways to remove the banner advert!
- We are also trying to reduce the size of the next version after someone complained the app was too large :/ We've done a few technical things to make the app smaller, but have also added new features which may make it larger.
And sadly, a couple of things people have asked for which haven't made it to this update.
- Screen-casting, sadly this is not possible to add at the minute.
- Background sounds/music.
We've also got a survey to be circulated later in the week, so if you could fill that in it would help us tremendously.
As part of our ever growing web presence, we've opened up an official Warriors of the Cucumber Pinterest account.
We plan on using Pinterest as a handy place to show and share Images demonstrating our software, like this.
And this.
Click >Here< to go to our page, and please follow us and share our pins.
Cool stuff from the web
A new feature for this news update, as we see funny, cool, or otherwise interesting stuff from around the web, we like to share it.
Here are some of our favourites from the month.
This finger gun shootout from "Tales of the Borderlands", which reminds me very much of a similar shootout in a very old film called "Blackbeard's Ghost". Which, if you haven't seen already, you should as it's very funny.
I just couldn't stop laughing at this slightly surreal video. If only Giraffe Theft Auto was an actual game! 😀 Lol
And with that, it brings us to the end of another fun packed and exciting news update. I hope to see you all again next month. (Or perhaps I should say later this month now, lol)
April News Update…
Hello World
It seems spring is well and truly upon us here in the UK, for the last few days now the skies have been blue, the road sides are alive with daffodils and tulips, and the wildlife seems to have woken up from its winter slumber.
The first thing I need to do is apologise for the lack of news and updates from us for the last couple of months. This has been caused mostly by a lack of news worthy news and update worthy updates. Although we have been busy with various things, it's taken us a while before we've had anything really to show you! We shall try hard to be more interesting in the upcoming months.
The upside to this is that this update is bursting at the seams with news and stuff 😃
Work with Snakerunner is progressing slowly. Most of the User Interface has now been completed, there is still a couple of bits to finish and some extra polish to be added with things like button animation and extra sound effects.
It was hoped that there would be a video to demonstrate the UI but as I write this, it's not yet been finished so here are some screen grabs of it to whet your appetite. Keep your eyes peeled though, as I'm sure it will be in the May update along with other exciting Snakerunner news! I can tell you however, that it is working properly with the new Samsung S8 super widescreen 18.5:9 aspect ratio although testing and fixing this did take up a day or two.
There has also been some time spent planning how to allow us to expand Snakerunner in the future with downloadable "Level Packs", each featuring several new Tournaments, Challenges and levels to play!
There is even talk of a Snakerunner prize giveaway to celebrate its release, with a selection of prizes! Although nothing has been finalised yet, so as always follow us on Facebook, Twitter and G+ for more news as and when it happens 😊
Over the last couple of months, we have been going through our existing apps and games with a fine-tooth comb trying to weed out any remaining bugs and making sure that everything is as secure and up to date as we can.
Already this year we have pushed out updates to fix bugs in 'Best Night Light' and 'Colour Name Quiz Advance', and we are currently working on a recently discovered bug in 'Percentage Resolution Tool'. These updates have purely been bug fixes and there have been no new features added this time round.>/p>
If you have found a bug in any of our software, or have any suggestions or comments/criticisms then please get in touch with us >here<
We are really proud of our night light app. It has now been downloaded over 100,000 times from Google Play and Amazon! We're so happy with it that we even submitted it to the Amazon UK Developer Spotlight competition, the prize being our app being featured prominently on the amazon app store and in various amazon social media. So, fingers crossed 😊
Here are some of the nice things you people have said about Best Night Light.
Great app! Very versatile
– Randa Leonard
I use the night light when going to bed late so I don't wake the wife with a bright light in the eyes. It is great just enough light so you don't trip over something in the dark.
– Elton Hill
I really loved it!It helps me when ima sleeping I've had the worst nightmares you could ever dreamed of 😢And I'm only 10 But this is a award winning Night light Ps.The glitter one us the Best!
– Josie Jokez
Very useful, good timer, doesn't waste a ton of battery
– Chaselyn Nielsen
Love love love!!
– Destiny Woodruff
There is also a new update to Best Night Light in the works. A few people have written to us asking for the timer function to be added to the Mood and Lava lamp modes, so that's exactly what is going to happen. 😃 We are also looking into adding a few extra lava lamp colour schemes as well!
We are hoping that this latest update will be live on the Play Store and Amazon App Store at some point in May.
If you are a user of Best Night Light, then keep your eyes open, as we are going to be running a prize giveaway to celebrate the apps success!
It's not too often that we feature some of our Windows software in the blog, but during our searches of YouTube one of us turned up this Video Tutorial for our 'Bitmap Font Creator' and how to use its output in the GameMaker Studio!
GameMaker Studio (v2 now available!) is a simple and intuitive Drag and Drop game development environment, created by 'YoYo Games'
Our pool of test devices has increased recently with the addition of not only a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, but also an Apple iPhone 7 plus! We're happy to report that so far none of our apps to date have had any problems running on the curved screen of the Edge!
All our software is tested on as wider range of devices as possible, we have a selection of in house devices (Both android and iOS, tablet and mobile phone) as well as a team of dedicated beta testers who subject apps and games to a vigorous period before general release.
Sadly though, we are having to say goodbye to our bottom end Android test device. The Game Creators (The awesome people behind AGK, the language we use to write mobile software with) have decided to drop support for older ARM v6 cpu's and below; So although our minimum spec for Android is still 2.3.3, it's time to say good bye to the faithful Samsung Galaxy Y.
And that about wraps up this post. I'll be back about this time next month (hopefully) with another (hopefully) fun packed and entertaining insight into what's new and exciting in the world of the Warriors of the Cucumber.
Until next time.


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Medium Assault Pack 40ltr- DPM by Kombat Tactical. Primarily designed as piece of tactical luggage, the sleek looks, durabilty, and last but by no means least, pure functionality and comfort of the thing, have seen it embraced by those looking for an everyday backpack. The padded airflow back and waist strap help to make heavy loads that bit more bearable but that's not it! See point 1, for instance. There are 3 of these dotted across the top of the pack to accommodate the drinking hose of your aqua bladder should you choose to use one. Additionally it'll keep you comm. cables in check! The hose can also be secured using the d-rings on the front of the shoulder straps(point 1 on back view). These can be used to attach tactical carabinas and hang items that you need fast access to. Point 2,3,4 show the position at which the zip stops.The reasoning behind this is that this military/tactical style backpack is designed..and made...to hold serious amounts of kit. Less zip, less chance of breakage which in turn means longer life for the military bag you worked hard to buy. It also features compression straps(point 5 and 6) to keep your belongings secure, especially handy if you use as an everyday laptop bag or to prevent your eggs breaking coming back from the supermarket! Outside of the generous main compartment are two external pockets with rubberised lining to offer a high degree of water resistance. The exterior also features molle straps so you can add extra molle pouches and stuff them full of ammo, first aid kit, whatever, if you want to use it as a tactical airsoft/paintball bag. It's also the right size to take on as hand luggage .With heavy duty shoulder straps, waist belt and zips it's probably a bad product for us to sell because it'll never need replacing but good for you because you'll get you moneys worth!
- Padded airflow back system
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- 2 x front utility pockets
- Large front molle Velcro ID platform
- Heavy duty zips
- Molle webbing made from the same body 600D Tac-Poly material
- UK PVC ID patch with tactical carabiner
- Adjustable waist strap
- Padded and adjustable shoulder straps
- Velcro tabs for aqua bladders or radio equipment
- Side compression straps and carry handle
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NORTH MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) — Thousands of students in South Florida have taken part in school walkouts as a way to protest the lack of an arrest in the Trayvon Martin killing at the hands of a volunteer neighborhood watch captain.
All of them remained peaceful except for one and North Miami Beach police released surveillance video Tuesday of that incident which took place at a Walgreens located at 1501 NE 163rd Street.
According to North Miami Beach Police, between 400 to 500 students from North Miami Beach Senior High School took part in a student protest Friday, March 23rd when as many as 100 of those students swarmed the Walgreens around 10:40 a.m.
Surveillance video released by police Tuesday showed the students flooding through the front doors of the business.
The school Assistant Principal is also seen in the video trying to stop the students from continuing to flood into the store and telling the ones inside to get out.
Some of the students ransacked shelving displays and broke some merchandise, valued at approximately $150, according to North Miami Beach police.
Police and Walgreens have yet to determine if any store items may have been stolen.
The video does not show the ransacking or any theft.
Police are using the video to identify the students involved in the criminal mischief investigation.
Interim Police Chief Larry Gomer stated, "Our police department fully understands that our country was founded on free speech and we agree that all people have a right to peacefully march in protest. We will even help with law enforcement duties to facilitate such orderly demonstrations. However, criminal acts will not be tolerated. This instance crossed that line, and will not be tolerated now or in the future. We all understand that this is a very emotional issue but when our businesses or our community are negatively impacted by anyone breaking a law, we will enforce those laws without question."
It's not clear if any charges will be filed.
Imagine that, I can't believe it took this long for somthing to happen! Seems like little Trayvon Martin isn't the honor roll and upstanding saint we thought he was!
Wow your a p.o.s. How can you compare the actions of a bunch of morons to a boy that's dead.
:rolls eyes: Why do i live in the stupid state?
@Atheist…Please leave asap…Better yet ,drp dead..
I have been a worker for the civil rights cause for over 45 years…march on Washington..UN Viet Nam…etc. so I doubt I would qualify as a bigot.
What I am seeing looks like the old white lynch mobs being whipped up.
Police do not usually publish why they don't arrest people, that is the reason the facts are delayed.
Rev Sharpton is an embarrassment to civil rights movements and justice. He is showing he can whip up a crowd thereby sowing their ignorance.
We fought real injustice, not political tom foolery.
And this is a suprise to whom??
Leaving a bag of burning dog doo is mischief. This was outright theft and vandalism, and the amount of damage and theft was reported to be more than $1500, not $150.
Hey what a coincidence…. they're looting and stealing and they all look like Obama's son!
You know your a coward when:
You can make a rascal slur and not post your full name.
What the hell is a "rascal slur' ??…
That's the way cowards roll. So stupid they forgot to put the other "b" at the end of their name. Figures.
A man of mixed race shoots a person of color it turns out this young man was unarmed but he did attack the mixed race person several witnesses saw him bashing the mans head on the curb. This innocent kid turns out to be a 6″3 thug with a checkerd past. I agree somethings wrong and the grand jury should rule soon as I really don't know what happened But somehow this is a Race issue? Now their is looting and threats of violence. This is beyond reality and destin for disaster
This is how the NMB students shows support to the young Martin… by vandalism. The neighborhood and the businesses in that area are struggling and please don't ask why, just watch the video. No wonder when school's out, NMB police (patrols cars) are visibly seen in the area. Students that were involved should be held responsible for their stupidity. It's embarrassing for the others who are genuinely working hard to find justice for the young Martin.
The students used to fight by the Home Depot once a week after school.
@ aunt blabby can read through the typo? let me try to correct it so the simple minded can comprehend "Racial Slur"
It's sad to see such a bigoted person wish me to drop dead. Did your sky god command it? If you wish to have an intellectual debate let me know but I doubt your able to speak rational (hints the fact you prefer personal attacks then actual hard data to prove your stance).
Cheers 🙂
Can you read through the typo? ***
Doubt your able?
Again your grammar is lacking..
The correct word is you're as in you are…..
Keep Zimmerman Free
Wow! That is SHOCKING!!!!
I can't believe that even made the news…
With some of these comments by some of the lower class of people, I can see some unnecessary rioting brewing. Why don't you people grow up! This is not a forum for you to air your racisms! It's sickening to see that hatred is so strong btween the races, Especially at a time when someone was killed (alledgedly) because of it. This is a shame in this day and age…GROW UP!!!
` Wow This happened Days Ago Move On And Dont Blame All The Kidss Also It was Under 80 Kids
the L.A. riots of the '90's were said to have abated by ron paul after the beginning of the month welfare payout. look to the days to come before the 1st of the month for civil unrest, esp. the night before.
They didn't take anything. So pretty much what they did was occupy the store not unlike a lot of other nonviolent protests. There was some damage to a shelving unit, but we don't know if it was by accident. I hardly call that looting.
People who dress like thugs need to be shot and leave our world
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Tara challenged us a little this week with our Gallery theme.
Simply she said Tomorrow. I always think my pictures are a little simplistic to the theme and I am sure this week is no different but I did know straight away what picture I wanted to use.
This is me this week at just over 35 weeks pregnant, my tomorrow (not literally but upcoming) will involve so many new tomorrows, being a mummy to 2, being a mummy to a little girl and cross fingers being a mummy to a non special/disabled child.
I can't wait for my tomorrow, how about you?


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Nick Marics threw a complete game for the Eagles with two strikeouts, a walk and allowed three earned runs.
rdup>PERTH AMBOY 5, SOUTH PLAINFIELD 3:ƒ Pitcher Alex Vasquez allowed three hits and struck out 10 in a complete game for the Panthers (1-8). Perth Amboy rightfielder Carlos Perez went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI.
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Marciano went 2-for-5 and also pitched seven innings, allowing no earned runs to get the win. Senior Brian Schroeder came on in relief in the eighth to get the save.
Frost also drove in the tying run in the fourth. For Piscataway (4-3), junior Danny Neiper had an RBI single and Kyle Vito went 2-for-4 with a run scored.
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Spotswood first baseman Brian Smith's second-inning grand slam highlighted the day. Shortstop Cody Pace chipped in with two hits and two RBIs.
First baseman Nick Boyler of South River was 2-for-3 and plated the Rams' lone run with a double.
rdup>DUNELLEN 8, PERTH AMBOY TECH 1:ƒ Sophomore pitcher Frank Zurla went 2-for-4 with three RBIs, and senior centerfielder Owen Harshney added two hits and three runs scored for Dunellen.
Zurla went the distance, allowing one unearned run on three hits.
Ray Ciqude scored Perth Amboy Tech's run when Mike Setrzyck was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
rdup>SOUTH AMBOY 12, PISCATAWAY TECH 11:ƒ The Governors trailed 10-3 after three innings, but a seven-run fourth tied the game and then a Pete Carroll double drove in the winning run in the sixth.
Dylan Brown started off the sixth for the Governors (3-1) with his second triple of the game. Carroll's double drove in Brown to produce the final score.
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Kyle Fuentes and Riley each had three hits for the Governors. Fuentes also drove in two and scored twice. Brown added two RBIs.
rdup>TIMOTHY CHRISTIAN 13, RANNEY PREP 3:ƒ T.J. Janho earned his first win of the season, going all five innings and allowed just a single earned run. Janho (1-1) struck out nine, issued four walks and allowed three hits.
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rdup>LINDEN 1, ELIZABETH 0:ƒ The Tigers managed to score a run in the third, and that was all the offense starting pitcher A.J. Ortiz needed.
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rdup>BLAIR 6, RUTGERS PREP 1:ƒ Mike Mento struck out 10 and scattered five hits in a losing effort. He surrendered just one earned run. Mento's first-inning RBI single accounted for Rutgers Prep's lone run.


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Sorry but if I'm holding your kite & you start clowning around like that I'll probably just let you bite the dust... I double dare you!RickI wrote: ↑Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:55 amI posted these hand signals in 2002 on here, as no one else was really proposing a uniform set of signals at the time. There have been some bad kite accident related to miscommunication so the need was obvious. I borrowed some from diving and common sense.
The clenched fist basically means to hold, and people seem to get it. I then follow with my flat hand extended outward pushing down signaling to put the Kite down. However it's important to go over the stuff in advance of your session to remove any doubt. Yelling shouldn't be relied upon alone nor should you use inexperienced non-kiters for help. Past accidents reinforce the reasons why not.


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