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Sunday, 18 May 2014 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm (AWST)
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100 Women Connect is an informal event where you can come meet the 100 Women Advisory Committee, members and other like-minded people. Venues and locations for this get together will change each month, in May we will host the event at FIVE Bar in Mount Lawley.
Come join us in a relaxed atmosphere to find out more about the 100 Women Giving Circle and the people behind it. New members to the giving circle are encouraged to come to pick up their membership packs in person.
This is a free reoccurring monthly event, RSVP is required to assist with venue arrangements.
Cash bar available, budget around $25 if you would like a glass of wine and a nibble.
We hope you can join us!
100 Women encourages the responsible consumption of alcohol. Have fun, but plan ahead so you get home safely.
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FIVE Bar
560 Beaufort St
Mount Lawley,
Sunday, 18 May 2014 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm (AWST)
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Forum Theatre
Part of the 'Theatre of the Oppressed' and created by Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal, Forum Theatre is an applied drama technique and participatory theatre practice created to empower audience individuals to determine social change. Lead by an oppressive political and social background, Boal's efforts consisted in establishing a dialog between audience and stage with the aim of exploring the real needs and issues of his community. The theatrical act by itself is a conscious intervention, a rehearsal for social action based on a collective analysis of shared problems of oppression.
From time to time, Immersive Theatre is holding an Intensive Forum Theatre Workshop designed for artists and creatives from all walks of life, teachers and educators, social and cultural activists, charities representatives and anyone who is going to benefit from a deep insight into applied drama techniques.
Participants are being equipped with solid knowledge of the Forum Theatre technique and participatory theatre practices. In addition, they have the chance to explore means of devising dramatic content and narratives and gain 'on site' experience in facilitating creative programs for education purposes.
Other skills: conflict management and reconciliation, cross-cultural communication, negotiation and team building.
How it works: We called it Intensive Forum Theatre Workshop because we are committed to guide our participants through the whole process of creating and managing a forum theatre play, including the production of an actual piece of work to be delivered in front of the audience. This is why our workshop is suitable for established groups and as residency in theatres, organisations and companies. Full assistance is provided for research, writing the script and artistic direction.
The role of applied drama
Immersive Theatre is making use of Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre and other means of creatively interrogating contemporary concerns by placing individuals and communities at the core of the cultural production. Applied drama is closely related to present-day questions about the politics of context, place and meaning of social relations, and by working with drama techniques brings into focus matters of identity and belonging. This contextual theatre practice is intended to address the concerns of local audiences and participants, while theatre becomes the medium by which the society can be changed through the collective exploration of ideas.
The role of participation
By participating, audiences are enabled to make decisions, to address critically the issues presented to them and to reflect on the social life within a safe environment offered by the theatrical design. Moreover, immersing in different situations has an unequaled power to entertain. Imagine playing an online computer game, where the success of a task depends on the collaboration with an unknown player. Computer games are known for their property to entertain, to raise self-confidence of the players in the skills they are acquiring and to provide a safe social and cultural environment where different individuals create an ideal community. Now imagine a similar design, but in a real space, with people you can see and interact closely. Imagine how human interaction can intensify the experience and boost the proliferation of skills and knowledge while participants are enjoying a highly entertainment activity.
Theatre as representation
As one of the finest ways to understand and experience societies, communities and people, theatre empowers and represents at the same time. Contemporary practices, such devised theatre and applied drama can act as prompters of the community voice and endorse the most fundamental issues that impact on our daily lives.
Nothing but a real story made in real time!
An exciting story about the challenges of leaving the home country after being exposed to a repressive political system and trying to understand the traces left upon you while assimilating a new culture. An exploratory play about the feeling of "living in between" , about the challenges of being a foreigner, about the difficulty of translating your thoughts even when speaking perfect English and many other issues referring to the "immigrant state".
By interviewing Romanian exiles and expats/immigrants collecting their stories and by immersing into an intensive creative workshop, we designed a source playbased on real events. However the story is not yet completed. Within the format of a traditional forum theatre event, the audience will have the chance to witness live testimonies of Romanians, to develop the content by direct interaction and role-playing situations and to participate in the creation of a new narrative with a different and surprising ending. Therefore the performance is never the same!
Exile is a platform for interaction and intercultural exchange.
Read more about Forum Theatre
Performance language: English
Cultural animators: Natalia Carata, Orsika Klara Pavai, Alin Balascan, Andrei J. K. Niven, Alex Negru, Oxana Nico.
Facilitator: Anca Doczi
Artistic Direction: Cristian Luchian
This event was made possible by support from Romanian Cultural Centre in London and Rich Mix

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Kirsten Dunst & James Marsden: 'Bachelorette' in Brooklyn
James Marsden and Kirsten Dunst walk around the set of their new movie Bachelorette on Wednesday (September 21) in Brooklyn, New York.
The two were joined by Isla Fisher, who co-stars in the comedy about three friends asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule in high school.
Kirsten chatted with USA Today earlier in the month about her other film, Melancholia, and also explained she's comfortable with her level of fame.
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My daughter is 7 and she was recently put on Prozac for depression. She's been on it for about 3 weeks now and her behavior was getting worse and worse. She's acting like she's had 20 cups of coffee, then melting down and crying and screaming, then eventually crashing and falling asleep. So now we have taken her off it, because apparently she was already on the lowest dose so we don't need to taper. I'm worried about withdrawal symptoms and wondering when her system will be fully cleared from the medicine. She has 2 psychiatrists but they are rarely available and they don't answer my questions very well. I am in the process of finding her a new psychiatrist but in the mean time thought I'd try to reach out and get some opinions. I feel pretty worried and don't know what to expect with her going off all medication. Is there a chance she could crash even worse and become suicidal?
Question about a child going off of Prozac???
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- 6 Mar 2016 by camilleta
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- prozac, depression
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"Factors that influence Prozac withdrawal:
There are various factors that will influence your withdrawal period from Prozac. If you have been on the medication for years and are taking a relatively high dosage, it may be more difficult to quit than if you were only taking it for a few months. Generally, the longer you are on a medication, the more difficult it will be to quit, but there are other factors that influence withdrawal as well.
1. Time Span
How long have you been taking Prozac (or generic Fluoxetine)? If you have been taking the medication for longer than a year, it is going to be more difficult to come off of than someone who has only taken it for a few months. The time span that you took a drug is always going to influence the withdrawal process.
2. Dosage (10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg, 60 mg)
Generally Prozac is prescribed as one of four dosages. The range is from 10 mg all the way up to 60 mg. Someone who is taking just 10 mg is likely going to have an easier time coming off of the medication than someone who had been taking 60 mg.
Time span along with dosage plays a huge role in influencing withdrawal. Someone who takes 60 mg for a period of 5 years is going to struggle more with coming off of the drug than someone who took 20 mg for 8 months. Typically the greater the dosage, the more you will need to focus on a gradual tapering process.
3. Physiology
The phrase "everyone is different" holds true when it comes to medication withdrawal. Although two people may experience the same or similar symptoms, one person may have a more difficult time coping with them. For one individual the dizziness and headaches may cause them to panic and/or lead to "panic attacks."
For another person experiencing dizziness may bother them, but may not elicit a panic response. Individuals with better familial and social support, healthier habits (e.g. diet and exercise), and more self-awareness will likely have an easier time withdrawing from Prozac.
4. Cold turkey vs. tapering
It is much easier to quit Prozac cold turkey than other SSRI medications. I have successfully quit this medication cold turkey with no major withdrawal symptoms. Individuals that have been on this medication for a long period of time and/or at a high dosage should still use a tapering method of withdrawal. It is never advised to quit "cold turkey" unless you are on an extremely low dose.
Note: In comparison to most antidepressants, fluoxetine has a long half-life. In other words, Prozac stays in your system for a longer duration than other drugs after stopping. This is beneficial when it comes to withdrawal because SSRI's with a short half-life tend to produce the most extreme withdrawal symptoms.
Prozac Withdrawal Symptoms: List of Possibilities
The withdrawal symptoms that you will experience coming off of Prozac may not be the same as someone else. Everyone has a different reaction to medications as well as how their body responds and readjusts to life without the drug. Some people may experience very minimal withdrawal symptoms, while others may be plagued by seemingly everything on this list.
Agitation: Many people report feeling agitated, restless, and irritable while coming off of Prozac. This is a result of how they are feeling without the calming serotonin that was increased while they were on the medication. Now that they are coming off of Prozac, they experience somewhat of a polar opposite to relaxation.
Anger: Some people report feeling extremely angry and/or exhibit outbursts of rage while coming off of Prozac. With this medication, it is less common to feel extreme anger than other medications, but some people may get really upset. Very little things can trigger anger because the person withdrawing is going through a lot.
Anxiety: Since this medication helps calm a person down by treating both anxiety and depression symptoms, it is no wonder that they experience anxiety while coming off of the medication. Even if the person didn't have a "chemical" imbalance before taking Prozac, they will have one after coming off of the medication as a result of withdrawal. The serotonin system will eventually reset itself back to homeostasis.
Blurred vision: People have reported weird effects from withdrawal on their vision. Some individuals experience blurred vision, while others see "floaters" (or small objects floating in their field of vision). Your vision is likely not affected in any way by the medication, but it may take your brain to readjust and thus recover from the withdrawal-induced vision changes.
Confusion: It is common to experience confusion and/or subtle amnesia when withdrawing. Extreme confusion is uncommon, but being slightly confused in addition to slowed cognition is all part of the process.
Crying spells: The emotional upheavals that you may experience while coming off of Prozac may feel unbearable. This may result in crying spells as a way to release some of the pain that you are experiencing. Just know that it is normal to cry as a result of the emotion that you are experiencing – it is uncontrollable emotion.
Depersonalization: Some individuals report feeling unlike their natural selves during withdrawal. They may feel like they have transformed into a zombie or that their "true self" will never come back. This is called "depersonalization" and is a result of brain chemistry changes and going through major withdrawal. Rest assured that you will eventually return to normal over time.
Depression: Feeling depressed while withdrawing from Prozac? This is because you were taking it to treat depression. When you stop taking it, you are going to feel depressed because your brain is no longer inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin. Even if you already have depression, withdrawing may make symptoms worse and more extreme.
Dizziness: As with all SSRI's, Prozac withdrawal may result in dizziness and/or vertigo. This is a common symptom that will eventually subside. Try not to freak out – there is not something more extreme wrong with you, it's just medication withdrawal.
Emotional numbing: It is common to feel emotionally numb as a result of withdrawal. This numbing makes some people feel like "zombies" or that they have zero emotions and contributes to depersonalization-like symptoms. This is something that I experienced to a degree with Prozac.
Fatigue: You may feel extremely tired or fatigued all day. The lethargy may be so extreme that you may have a difficult time completing various tasks. As weeks pass, you will eventually recover and begin to notice that your energy levels are starting to return to normal.
Headaches: You may experience minor or very intense headaches when quitting Prozac. It is not always easy to deal with them, but most of the severe headaches should subside within a couple weeks. The longer you are off the drug, the less severe these typically are.
Inability to concentrate: Withdrawal may lead to some people experiencing ADHD-like symptoms. You may not be able to concentrate in school and/or during work projects. It may seem as though no matter how you try, focusing on tasks is a lost cause. Your concentration will eventually return, but it will take time.
Insomnia: Some people are unable to fall asleep at night during withdrawal. Although tiredness is extremely common, so is insomnia. People may stay up well into the night just wishing that they could somehow fall asleep. It is the emotional upheavals and anxiety that keeps people awake.
Lightheadedness: In addition to dizziness and headaches, many people report feeling lightheaded during withdrawal. This actually may contribute to some people feeling dizzy – just know that it will eventually fix itself.
Memory problems: Many individuals have reported having memory problems and/or reduced capacity to remember things upon withdrawal. This is something that I've personally experienced and it's certainly not fun. Do your best to cope with your memory impairment, it will eventually return to normal functioning.
Mood swings: One moment you may feel angry and you may quickly transition to feeling sad. The next hour your may feel aggressive and/or extremely anxious. As your brain recalibrates itself, you are going to experience changes in mood. Do your best to cope with whatever you experience.
Muscle pain: Many individuals report body aches, muscle weakness, and various muscular pains. These can be difficult to deal with, but know that they are only temporary.
Nausea: It is common to experience nausea, and in some cases, flu-like symptoms. The nausea may be extreme enough to trigger vomiting.
Night sweats: You may experience profuse sweating while you sleep. This is basically your body's attempt to restore itself. Prozac affects us not only on a mental level, but also physically.
Panic attacks: This medication typically helps people with panic attacks, so when they come off of it, the panic may be way worse than when they initially started the medication. People may freeze up in social situations and/or randomly experience panic. This is a result of the brain being in a hypersensitive state and low serotonin levels.
Stomach pain: Feeling stomach cramps and pains is pretty common during the early stages of withdrawal. This is just your body's way of readjusting to life without the medication.
Suicidal thoughts: There are black box warnings on all antidepressants forewarning people about potentially experiencing suicidal thoughts. When you come off of a major antidepressant, it is common to experience suicidal thoughts. Many drug companies may hide this little fact, but having suicidal thoughts and urges during withdrawal is extremely common. Do whatever you can do recognize that these will likely subside in intensity over time. However, if you are unable to cope with these thoughts, be sure to seek immediate professional help.
Tiredness: You may want to sleep all day and just stay in bed. The tiredness may be so extreme that you may think you have something wrong like chronic fatigue syndrome. You do not have chronic fatigue – you are going through withdrawal. It may take a lengthy period of time before you return to normal energy levels."
Source: mentalhealthdaily
Prozac Withdrawal Duration: How long does it last?
There is no clear-cut answer for how long withdrawal from Prozac is going to last. It may take one person a few weeks to feel nearly 100% recovered from the symptoms, while it may take another person several months before they feel 75% recovered. There is no telling how long you are going to experience withdrawal symptoms. I personally barely experienced any withdrawal from Prozac, but it took me over a year to psychologically recover from Paxil withdrawal.
Most people in various discussion forums that have used the medication will suggest that it takes a fairly lengthy period of time, while others may suggest that withdrawal is very short term. It is best to ignore everyone and just realize that withdrawal will eventually come to an end. It may take you considerably longer than other people and in some cases it may take considerably less time than what other people are reporting – each experience is unique.
When coming off any antidepressant, do your best to stay socially involved in the community, interact with family and/or friends, and make sure that you do things to help take your mind off of the symptoms that you are experiencing. Various healthy activities include: exercising, getting sunlight, eating healthy foods, and socializing. Try to not dwell on the symptoms even if they seem overwhelming – they will eventually pass. Stay busy, keep your head up, and realize that time heals all emotional wounds.
Thanks, this was really helpful!
I am happy you feel that way and you are welcome.-
Hi Camilleta-
As a mother I empathize with your situation. I found it a bit unnerving that a child was prescribed Prozac. To put a 7 year old on Prozac and not be available for the child or parents borders malpractice.
I am glad you are seeking a new psych doctor. You may want to seek a children's therapist/psychologist to work with the psych doctor.
You know your child better than anyone. You should be able to tell by her behavior how she is doing coming off the drug. You may want to call her general doctor if she has one or if things get worst take her to the emergency room. No one knows how she is going to react coming off the Prozac abruptly.
My thoughts are with you and your family.
Thanks so much. Unfortunately, I won't be able to tell how bad the withdrawal is, since her usual behavior involves a lot of the possible withdrawal symptoms. But hopefully we can get through the next few weeks and by then we will have a new and better psychiatrist..
Hi Camilleta-, my name is Liz, I agree with janiebme, it is a little unnerving to put a child on Prozac, and not monitor her very closely. Alot of times, drugs that they give to adults for one reason has the complete opposite effect on children (paradoxical effect). I took Prozac several years ago, I started feeling better so one day, I just quit. I would not do that now, knowing more about meds and need for tapering off, but I had no ill effects at all. Just kept on going. But your child as young as she is, who knows how she will be affected. I would contact your pediatrician and explain what is going on and maybe he/she can give you more detailed info, and explain psych docs are never available to you. Maybe your pediatrician can make a difference there as well. If there seems to be an obvious problem, get her to an ER. Best wishes, and good luck!! Let us know how she does.
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Duke Ellington's Collages & an invitation
Which gets me thinking about my post below - is anyone interested in doing a travelling journal illustrated/collaged via 1001 Journals ?
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It has an interview with Danny Gregory. I'd love to start off a journal of drawings again. I've been neglectful of it.
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Strange day slighly oppresive earlier but hazy now moving into almost an Autumnal feel. But its warm in London I hear on the phone !
I am feeling slightly under the weather so made my favourite comfort food. Roast lamb and roast organic potatoes and veggies from my organic box. With a sprinkling of oil, harissa and rosemary. Followed by apple crumble, I shall now retire to bed in in the pages of O Douglas - John Buchan's lesser known sister. I was talking about her recently which made me pick her up off the shelves and take towards bed.
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You can't do anything with kindness. If you do, it's not kindness anymore, but the imposition of an expectation. Our expectations are implicit judgments that may be hidden to us, but obvious to everyone else. This is a subtle and persistent characteristic of our thoughts and feelings. When we are motivated by our own thoughts and feelings, we give people inducements to think and feel like we do. We want them to be like us. But sharing our egocentric thoughts and feelings is not kind. And believing our egocentric thoughts and feelings is most unkind to ourselves.
more here Moma Zen
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I had breakfast here a couple of months ago. Slowly working my way through a to do list this morning.
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I'm selling books on Amazon mostly to clear out some space, also my tastes have changed. I've got books that remind me of past lives which aren't really me any more. The good thing is that I've rediscoved a whole load which I'd kind of got lost in the house. So I reread Grace Paley this afternoon, a collection of womens' biographical essays and I'm hunkering down to bell hooks next. I've got to go to the library !
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Refound poet David Morley's blog
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Cool interview with Linda Woods of Visual Chronicles.
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"There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good." Storypeople
I am home. I feel I've been away months. I'm disappointed to find that Edinburgh is still being ripped up for a tramway system (I'd hoped that I'd imagined that nightmare and when I got back it would be all back to normal) and dubious planning developments.
I feel I've been on a very long journey. Ot Azoy ! is a crash course in Yiddish at SOAS in a week. I'm amazed but I feel I've made enormous progress in a week and actually feel I have a chance to actually learn the language. I now realise that the feeling that I had no facility for languages has more to do with the bad way we we taught languages at school than any actual bearing in reality.
Next year there is a three week course in the summer in Paris and I'm terribly tempted to go. All my fellow students were interesting and varied and participants came from all over Europe, Norway, Sweden, Romania, Austria, as well as the UK. My only criticism being that the singing session where this non musical person cheerfully sang Yiddish songs badly and enjoyed it often ran over cutting the possible time to chat to participants from other classes. I found in the evenings my brain kind of fell apart into a sort of dazed fitfulness and so got up at 6am ! to do my hame arbeit with my brain fresh. The last time I got up at 6am to do work was when I wrote my first film script.
It feels right to do this and it makes no sense (many students are learning Yiddish as their grandparents spoke it - mine didn't - it was a total accident that I ended up in a Yiddish class one autumn evening with no idea what to expect).
BUT all the great things I have achieved have had a strong streak of at once feeling right to do and at the same time very illogical and making no sense. We have to listen to the non-sense and follow it.
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Day three of my Yiddish Summer School. I'm sitting struggling with Hebraic letters along with the other beginners. We doggedly copy weird pictograms over and over (metaphorically with our tongues protruding). We try to encourage each other - Tes I mutter looks like a 'cat tail', Fey to another student is a 'Swiss Roll' yes with icing on the top... Gimel is a girly high heel shoe, Nun is like a flat sensible shoe worn by nuns... only another 35 or so to master...
But you know my brain has needed this workout. Sunday and Monday I was knackered but today I feel ALIVE ! Learning, growing - I can feel my brain expanding and knowledge filtering through. Its a good feeling. The school is very international with students from Riga, Sweden, Norway, Romania, Czech Republic, South African exiles. A small contingent from Scotland and my teacher from Edinburgh.
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I'm currently in London for a course at SOAS and house sitting for a friend's mother. She left me instructions on how to use the shower - away from the taps ! doorlocking and security and strict instructions not to let Leo-the-cat from next door in as he pees on the beds.
On Saturday I went with a lives-in-London friend to a party in a pub in Battersea. A treck but seeing the amazing 1930's building up close at night was incredible. Mysterious lit trains trunded past this great hulk - which apparently isn't being redeveloped as some rare birds have taken up residence in it.
At the gatecrashed party I spoke to a German woman who was also in London house sitting for her Aunt. Her duties included, waiting for the plumber (4 days) and 1. feeding indoor cats 2. feeding outdoor cats (less expensive cat food) and 3. feeding the local foxes with different food in the garden. Only in Britain !
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Yesterday after meeting a friend for breakfast I walked from Islington to the Thames via the towpath of Regents Canal. It was such a lovely day (I got sunburned my face and neck are all red - gone to Superdrug for sunscreen today). I was able to see narrowboats negotiating locks, single mother moorhens anxiously supervising moorchicks, geese and even some fish in the canal. I saw several groups of kids in canoes - I think various holiday schemes to keep the blighers off the streets and out of mischief. I stopped off in Victoria Park Hackey for coffee and cake before taking up my route. The towers of Canary Warf soon came into view and in Wapping many swish flats made out of former warehouses. It was difficult to find a path along the waterfront as often developments had cut it off. I made it to the Tower (yay ! loos!)and decided that as I'd been walking about 4 hours I could now take a bus along the Strand.
Regents Canal history - linking doodad doesn't seem to be working.
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Yesterday at South Bank - lunch and then looking at the crocheted coral exhibition - rain then came and thunder and I sat outside under and umbrella. Small children squeeled ran through a fountain and one stood in the fountain under and umbrella. I suppose the universal desire to play whatever the circumstances must be admired !
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A chance to use large format studio camera and lighting more info here at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Was going to walk along Regents Canal yesterday but the rainy weather and wind (more like November than August) mean't I stayed in doors and read The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon instead. About the 'frozen chosen' in Sitka. Chabon imagines what would have happened if the proposed resettlement of Jews had happened in Alaska. A imagined place where they speak Yiddish and the street names are redolent of the places they fled from. I feel I've been very very far away.
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There is something really compelling about this photo - NY 1942 - its so rare to see colour photos of this period.
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I'm filling myself up with them. (An Artist Date is a tool developed by Julia Cameron in the Artists Way book, whereby people go off for a block of time weekly on their own to have fun - normally for about two hours). I find them the most difficult thing to persuade some students to do. They sound so pointless, indulgent, counter productive, surely to be more creative one should work more?
But I find that without them 'productivity' of a creative kind or otherwise dries up. We need the input and stimulus to have the building blocks for creativity. Art as Julia Cameron writes is an 'image using system'. We need to go out and fill ourselves with images to have something to express. This is true of every art form. Even for people who are 'not creative' it makes them happier, cheerful, more interesting and more passionate and centred. All this just for a spot of fun, a dolup of pleasure, a scoop of indulgence.
I'm just about to cross the road and go and read magazines for free in Borders - a favourite artist date.
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from Islington to Charing Cross via pastries in Exmouth Market and the British Museum. I found a tiny exhibition there of Japanese Photobooks. Which was somewhat synchronous as I've been thinking about photography books a lot. In fact many synchronicity have been happening recently - I've made a conscious effort to relax and open up.
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I went to meet Alicia Devine the playwright, director and performer of this play ( and costume designer !) tonight for a drink. I ended up meeting more of the cast and crew and going out in the torrential rain for a meal. I've just rolled back in half a bottle of white later.
Just to say that its a lovely piece lyrical, moving, and earthy. On at the Roxburghe - off Charlotte Square at 5.30pm each day.
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such a driech day only thing is to hole up in a cafe and try and keep warm!
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CV: What's the best advice you've received about the creative process?
TN: Not sure if anyone ever really told me this, but the best advice I can think of is to get comfortable spending a lot of time alone. Also, don't let anyone else hold the keys. If the galleries aren't liking what you make, come up with your own way of showing your work. If you can't get an agent, make the movie yourself and post it online. If you can honestly stand behind the work you're making, you can find an audience for it -- most of those gatekeepers are there to screen out the people who aren't committed. When you give other people the keys, you give yourself an excuse not to make the work, and then you might as well just go to a baseball game.
Tucker Nichols interviewed at Cecil Vortex
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SFgirlbybay via loobylu - lapped up pics as I'm planning a brief trip there myself later this year.
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knitting hints included in the comments.
WWMDD - what would Madame Defarge Do?
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I haven't been to the commercial galleries in Edinburgh for about two years. Going to see the Perpetua Pope gave me the impetus to visit 3 on Dundas St where a large number are located. Highlights include Willamena Barnes Graham prints at the Open Eye Gallery and Barbara Rae at The Scottish Gallery in the next room to Perpetua. There was a great book about her on display at the gallery with an interview where she explained her working methods and how a stay in the US changed her style fundamentally after getting the space to create on the floor instead of vertically.
After cake and coffee at Glass & Thompson - yum!
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Saw Loving Burns last night at the Roxburghe - a beautiful play, written, directed and performed by Alicia Devine. Tickets tonight are still the half price previews so if you go down today only £4.50 at 5.30pm.
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The next movie I write will be Jurassic Park 4: ADAMZOIC, in which a group of committed Creationists sneak onto a dinosaur-infested Island in an attempt to prove that humans and slavering proto-avian carnivores can live in harmony, as in Eden. The film will be 3 hours long; will feature multiple variations on the theme of Cute Naked People being disembowelled while trying to sing hymns; will include at least one incidence of punning, based on the words "pray" and "prey"; and will end when the sole survivor realises the error of her ways, embraces the Power Of Darwin, and spontaneously evolves a set of wings to escape.
Then gets shot down by Jeff Goldblum: Avenger Of Maths.
All super-wealthy producers wishing to negotiate the rights to this nugget of Cinematic Genius; please contact me via gold-plated postcard.
People who want to work in comics – who by-and-large are a broadly intelligent, creative, expressive bunch – have a fatal flaw. It's called Meeting The Editor, and it's a spine-encrusted descent into horror, bladder malfunction and sweaty stinky palm-dripping terror. I've seen people – good people, people who have confidently faced-down muggers, overzealous cops and the words "Honey, I'm Pregnant" without so much as a flinch or ruffled coiffeur – transform into quivering protoplasmic armpit-squirting jello at the very notion of approaching an editor at a Convention. I've seen the most herbally-chilled of artists, Jesus-like in appearance and temperament, become snarling rabid kamikaze atomic lunatoids at the merest whiff of a negative portfolio review.
I have no particular advice for people in this situation because, frankly: it is awful. The editor in question probably doesn't want to be bothered by you, and in all probability you will have to go through it a half dozen times before you get anywhere. You've still got to do it: sorry.
But I do have a personally shaming story which might make you feel a little better, in the How Not To Do It sense:
At the last Big Con I went to – which is always a trying experience for a misanthropic arsehole with Personal Space issues and a general unwillingness to pay more than $5 for a grease-saturated hippo's pizzle unconvincingly called a Hot Dog – I was determined to meet This One Important Guy. Oh, I had a bunch of other stuff going on too, but He was the central goal. I'd done a bit of work for him over the previous months, I'd even met him in passing the year before, and now I was going to Step Up And Be Counted. I was going to be witty, to engage him in conversation, to casually refer to the stuff I'd done already and to oh-so-discreetly – cooler than a penguin's prick – mention I was In The Market For More. I'm a realist – I knew I wasn't going to walk away from the conversation groaning under the weight of an exclusive contract printed on the Turin Shroud – but it's important, I understood, to Be Known. And by fuck I'd make him remember my name or die trying.
Except this bloke was never at the booth. No matter how much I lurked around it like a necrophile in a cancer ward – waiting… waiting… – he just never appeared. The other guys at the booth, exhausted from the "I'm sure he'll be here sometime" routine, started giving me the kind of glassy stares normally reserved for that Bloke-In-A-Trenchcoat-Outside-The-Playground, but Oh No: I Would Not Be Moved.
Until – courtesy of all the Nervous Beers I'd been chugging – my bladder screamed "Priority" and carried me merrily to the bogs.
I pissed. I shook. I zipped. I turned to wash my hands like a good ConCroup-Avoider (it didn't work), and looked up to find… you guessed it: The Guy. My Guy. That One Bloke, standing at the sink beside me.
Eyes meeting. Polite smile. Flickering recognition.
I could not, in all conscience, not say hello; because if I didn't do it then it would be too weird to do it later. So I grabbed this poor bloke's hands – still wet – and Did The Talk.
Understand: he'd spent all weekend being harassed by people like me. He'd been stalked by a constant train of wannabes and semibes – like a pack of wolves in XXL T-Shirts – and the one solitary perfect Zen space of solitude and peace he could enjoy in the whole mouldering meatfest of the Convention – the crapper, the shithole, the pisspot, the Porcelain Temple – was right now being violated by this moist-fisted Brit with bad hair and a pre-prepared speech.
He was charming. He smiled and nodded and asked questions, and politely hid the look of revulsion as he rummaged for his pot of alcohol hand-gel and drifted back into the crowd. He was, above all, a Nice Bloke.
I didn't hear from him for six months.
Moral of the story: there's a difference between hunger and desperation. Wait 'til your hands are dry, kids.
There's been an interesting confluence of two news stories over the past few weeks, which jointly spatter the UK's international reputation with the bumsoup of Corruption and Racism. Huzzah.
First: the Expenses Row. The fucking oh-god-make-it-stop Expenses Row.
Yanqui readers, you don't know how lucky you are. We've had this shit in our headlines for weeks, and it's lingering like a fart in a spacesuit. The short version – if the Brit contingent will forgive me (or at least hold-off from the kneejerk desire to plunge corkscrews into their optic cavities at the mere mention of the whole colon-ejecting mess) – is that British politicians, shock horror, have been fiddling their expenses for years.
See, the state pays these floppy-haired placental violations a juicy range of monetary yumyums so they can afford to travel from their bumblefuck constituencies down to Parliament; to fill their homes with platinum-wool sofas and TVs made of melted diamonds; and generally facilitate the difficult job of showing-up in London once a week to shout "hear, hear" in the House of Commons. All this, of course, under the extremely difficult circumstance of Already Getting Paid An Enormous Salary.
So one of the broadsheets got hold of the list of all the ridiculous shit these people had been claiming for, and the Nation's been wringing its collective hands ever since. The problem, if you go with the Big Angry Flow, is the sheer galloping shamelessness of some of the claims. We've got one guy, for instance, who persuaded the Expenses Committee to contribute to the cost of his ornamental floating Duck House. Really. We've got a whole sequence of our Highly Principled Moral Leaders claiming tax-breaks and mortgage relief on "second homes", which they then fill with expensive tat (also claimed-back) and promptly sell for a massive profit. We've even got a member of the Cabinet, ha, who claimed-back the cost of a pay-per-view porno then blamed it on her husband.
One bloke, I'm not kidding, attempted to claim for the cost of his moat. Welcome to British politics.
Put in those terms, you can understand why people are pissed. And it's here that the second story, to Britain's Shame, kicks in. See, the fucking Expenses Row – which isn't a row, really, but a gestalt spasm of antiestablishment revulsion – has been blamed for disillusioning voters so much that they wound-up electing two of the neo-nazi turdmonkeys from Lord Haw-haw's tumour-riddled sphincter, better known as the British National Party, into the European Parliament. "A protest vote", the pundits are saying, "in response to a general dissatisfaction with the Political System."
I can't help feeling some voters are just racist wankers who don't deserve the vote, personally, and that's as complicated as it gets; but I concede the Expenses Thing didn't help.
Anyway: in my considered opinion we've been looking at it all wrong. It's not like the politicians were breaking any rules. They had carefully and intelligently tested the system to see exactly how much they could get away with, then proceeded to get away with it over and over again. That's not corruption, it's common sense. I couldn't give two shakes of a dolphin's pickled prick whether my Glorious Leaders have moats, duck-fetishes, elephant-shaped nuclear sextoys or an addiction to distilled Unicorn bollocks: as long as they're clever, open-minded, know the system well enough to get Good Shit out of it, and don't chew gum with their mouths open.
The "Expenses Row", through my eyes, is final evidence that My Elected Masters are Smart And Human – like the rest of us, yes?
Either way, it's not a fucking excuse for voting for the Evil Racist Dickwits.
…People who don't deserve to be fluent in a second language.
You know the kind. Barely sentient pigshitters with all the ambition of a prolapsed toad and the social graces of a misanthropic leper, who by dint of having mixed-race parents, or growing-up in Outer Cockizstan, or whatever, have access to a whole raft of careers, resources and easily impressed chicks.
And here's me, in a foreign country, functionally incapable of doing anything with a Verb Table except make bad jokes about Verb Chairs, and struggling with the simplest of conversational staples á la: "Waiter, my paella is still staring at me and you smell like a chorizo."
It's not fucking fair.
Or, er… No esta un carnaval erótico. I'm totally getting there.
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For the third straight year and nineteenth in total, the Saskatoon Hilltops are national junior football champions. The Hilltops beat the Westshore Rebels 37-25 to capture the 2016 Canadian Bowl.
Logan Fischer ran in the first touchdown of the game for the Hilltops, one of two on the day for the running back, who was named offensive player of the game.
Josh Ewanchyna also hit the end zone twice, including a full field kick-off return touchdown. Jason Price caught the other touchdown.
On the defensive side, Hilltops linebacker Cody Peters was named the defensive player of the game.
The victory makes it three straight Canadian Bowl wins after taking the 2014 and 2015 game.


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New rules from the Canadian Direct Marketing Association (www.cdma.org) go into effect in January 1998 and "recognize that marketing on the Internet is different" and demands different guidelines, said John Gustavson, CDMA president.
Under additions to their code of ethics, member marketers must now have consumer consent before sending marketing e-mail and must tell consumers what information is being gathered in response and how it will be used, a rule that applies to click-through data.
Consumers must also be able to remove their names from e-mail lists and easily decline to have their information collected.
Compliance with the rules is mandatory for the group's 650 corporate members, which account for 80% of Canada's $8 billion direct marketing industry. Serious or repeat policy violators will be expelled from the self-regulating association, which has overseen Canada's direct marketing industry since 1967.
"That's a pretty big stick" to use against direct marketers that don't take the measures seriously, said Mr. Gustavson.
For some months now the privacy policy has been in place on a voluntary basis with several major interactive marketers, including Columbia House Canada Online (www.columbiahousecanada.com) and Sony Music Canada's Celine Dion Online (www.celineonline.com).
"We consider [the policy] a good marketing tool," said Ken Schafer, Sony Canada's director of consumer technology. "We're building [brand] loyalty around the artists. People will just leave the site if they're not happy about their privacy."
Sony's Celine Dion site receives 700,000 hits a month but only about 3% to 4% of visitors follow the link to the privacy policy from the home page, said Mr. Schafer, who wouldn't disclose the number of users. "Perhaps just knowing [the privacy policy] is there is enough for consumers to be satisfied," he added.
Instance of questionable marketing prompted Canada's direct marketers to begin developing the new policy earlier this year.
At stake is consumer confidence in online marketing, said Mr. Gustavson.
"Far too often marketers were collecting and transferring information without the knowledge of consumers," he said. "We think that's fundamentally wrong-information should not be collected on the Net in a hidden fashion."
Non-member direct marketers aren't bound by the policy, although the industry group expects the new rules will influence others to adopt standards for online marketing.
The U.S.'s Direct Marketing Association also recently adopted rules that require members to remove from lists the names of consumers who wish not to be contacted


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The Lady Gaga Workshop invitations are as lavish and wily as the singer turned Santa Gaga herself. Creative Director Evelio Mattos and the design teamed received direction from Barneys New York and quickly adapted a 3D mock-up complete with functioning pop-up details. They wanted to emulate Gaga in the most basic form: "an iconic Barneys' facade literally exploding with an unexpected Gaga visual spectacular," according to Luxcrux.
The invitations exhibit the performer's latest project with Barneys. The pop-up aspect is fun and it's almost as if the invitation itself is a gift. Only a select few will receive the Lady Gaga Workshop invitations but all will be able to attend the show. Design Packaging, Inc. was challenged to design and create and deliver the invitations in just eight weeks and the result will certainly have lucky fans going gaga.
Extravagant 3D Invitations
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- By: Felicia MoursalienNov 26, 2011
References: luxcrux
References: luxcrux