![]() Over the years, “looking at the pictures” became “reading the profiles.” Gradually, I began to understand the Star Wars timeline outside of the films, which were my only source of Star Wars material up to that point. Not long after he purchased it, however, I cracked the tome open to at least look at the pictures. It was in the “for sale” shelves, so he picked it up and bought it for me – even though I was not truly interested in it at the time. Then, on a trip to the library, my father found The New Essential Guide to Characters. So I left the books sitting on the shelf, planning to dive into them when I was older and had a better chance of appreciating them. While my parents had copies of several Star Wars EU novels and encouraged me to read them, I was young enough at the time that the volumes appeared too large and adult for a child of my age to understand. Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters (the edition published in 2002), was my first introduction to the franchise’s original Expanded Universe. ![]()
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![]() I often see posts on social media asking friends and colleagues for book recommendations by female authors, authors of color, etc. If they realize that, hey, the majority of the books they're consuming have been written by men, they tend to balance that out a bit by looking for female authors they're likely to enjoy. When it comes to women authors, readers have become much more inclined to seek out a well-balanced to-be-read list. ![]() SK: Are there unique challenges to being a woman in horror or do you feel like gender is irrelevant?ĪA: I like to say that gender is irrelevant, but to dismiss gender completely would be missing the mark. ![]() Though, a few of them do tend to lean a bit more toward the category of dark thriller.ĪA: Not a lot used to terrify me, but now that I'm a new mom, spooky babies have become a bit of a weakness. ![]() SK: How are you involved in the world of horror?ĪA: I've written seven novels and two novellas, all of which can be considered horror. ![]() ![]() From Bruno Adler, ed., Utopia: Dokumente der Wirklichkeit I/II (Weimar, 1921), foldout from inside cover. Farbenkugel in 7 Lichtstufen und 12 Tönen (Color sphere in 7 light values and 12 tones), Johannes Itten, 1921. These poles, represented by the white center of the star and its black tips, contained between them endless possibilities for the study of contrasting color effects.įig. 28) unfolds and flattens Runge’s sphere in order to display its dark-light polarities on a single plane. Created in 1921, Itten’s color star (fig. ![]() 29) formed the basis of color instruction in the Preliminary Course. Johannes Itten’s reinterpretation of romantic painter Philipp Otto Runge’s color sphere ( Farbenkugel) (fig. The study of color at the Bauhaus was shaped by a diverse body of previously developed artistic, psychological, and scientific theories of color, tested and innovated through practical exercises. ![]() Each individual color is a universe in itself. Courtesy the Itten Estate, Zurichįig-16.png The kingdom of colors has within it multidimensional possibilities only partly to be reduced to simple order. Johannes Itten in Herrliberg, Germany, photographer unknown, 1923. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pour l'instant, j'ai continué à progresser dans la technique de lapeinture sur papier de soie, mais j'ai aussi travaillé l'huille et l'acrylique principalement au couteau. Et, j'ai pu appréhender l'art floral japonais (ikebana) avec une maîtresse en Ikebana qui a bien voulu m'initier durant 3 ans.ĭepuis mon retour en France, je me consacre plus longuement à la peinture et au pysanka. ![]() Durant mon séjour (7 ans) à Saragosse (Espagne), j'ai beaucoup travaillé la technique de l'acrylique sur papier de soie, encouragée notamment par un ami peintre franco-cubain. Mon année à Buenos Aires, ville très cosmopolite, m'a permis de découvrir l'art du pysanka (peinture sur oeuf) venu des pays de l'Est de l'Europe. Ainsi, à Lyon, j'ai pris des cours de modelage, afin d'appréhender les 3 dimensions, de peinture à l'huile et au pastel. Mes nombreux déménagements m'ont permis de travailler dans des cours très différents, de rencontrer d'autres personnes venues d'horizon divers, et d'étoffer ainsi mon approche artistique. ![]() J'ai commencé à "taquiner" le pinceau en 1995, à Lille, où j'ai pris des cours de dessin, pastel et huile. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pecola comes from an abusive home and goes to live with the MacTeer family while life in her own home settles down. The novel tells the story of three girls: the narrator, Claudia MacTeer, her sister, Frieda MacTeer, and their housemate, Pecola. "The Bluest Eye" is set in the town of Lorain, Ohio in the 1940s. An ugliness that goes beyond the surface of the skin and permeates into the soul still shapes our world today. Of course, the idea of a racialized ugliness never will go away, but the ways it manifests itself can change. However, re-reading the book in the last couple of weeks, it struck me how the ugliness Morrison talks about in the novel has changed since its publication. There is not much that can be said about Toni Morrison’s classic 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” that has not been said before. ![]() “Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.” ![]() ![]() ![]() With the case solved, he calls Inspector Jones and Mr Merryweather. Holmes then taps on the pavement in front of the pawnbroker's shop. After Holmes' client leaves, having given the detective a description of Spaulding, the detective decides to see Spaulding, whom he notices has dirty trouser knees. Wilson went to the landlord, who said that he had never heard of Duncan Ross, the person who formed the league. He was well-paid for several weeks of doing obviously useless clerical busywork in a lonely office, but finally one morning a sign on the locked office door inexplicably announces "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED". ![]() The next morning, Wilson had waited in a long line of fellow red-headed men, was interviewed and was the only applicant hired. He tells them that his young assistant, Vincent Spaulding, some weeks ago had shown him and urged him to respond to a want-ad offering work to only red-headed male applicants. Set in 1890, a London businessman named Jabez Wilson comes to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read big things like men,” she would say. “Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. She dictated her autobiography to women rights activist Olive Gilbert in 1850 who helped her publish it as she could not read or write. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave In 1844 she joined the Northampton Association of Education and Industry in Northampton, Massachusetts which was founded for the abolition of slavery, pacifism and women’s rights where she met William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas and several other prominent abolitionists of that time with whom she remained connected with even after the group got disbanded in 1846. She felt a calling to travel around America for the abolition of slavery and in her own words as she would say, “ The spirit calls me, and I must go.” On June 1 st 1843, Isabelle adopted the name “ Sojourner Truth” as she accepted the Methodist religion and became a travelling preacher- as her new name suggests. ![]() Sojourner Truth Adopting name Sojourner Truth ![]() She was found innocent by the court after which she took the couple to the court filing a suit of slander against them which she won again becoming a remarkable point in history. ![]() The white couple working in the cult accused Truth of poisoning Pierson. Elijah Pierson died shortly after Truth changed homes and Prophet Matthias was implicated in his death. ![]() ![]() Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum. ![]() Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations. We become more successful when we are happier and more positive. ![]() Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. No one ever succeeds without the help of others. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. ![]() If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Senior British Army leaders in North Africa quickly approve Stirling’s request, as Allied fortunes were fading. ![]() ![]() Sterling, a Scottish aristocrat, uses his family connections to gain approval from senior leaders to create a commando unit. Rogue Heroes consists of two parts: “War in the Desert” and “War in Europe.” “War in the Desert” describes the visionary genius of Stirling and the professionalism of Lewes in assembling a group of nonconformists, eccentrics, rogues, and English society elites. This elite commando unit would become the prototype for a new kind of warfare and the model for special operations forces worldwide. MacIntyre describes how Lieutenants David Stirling and John Steele Lewes paired to create Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. Rogue Heroes The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War Ben MacIntyreĬrown Publishing, New York, 2016, 400 pagesīen MacIntyre, author and writer at large for The Times in London, has delivered another outstanding book with Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain’s Secret Special Forces Unit that Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. ![]() |