Old Women Who Paint On Their Walls. I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU A STORY about three old women. Their art is an extraordinary sort. And it is by accident that they and their creations have come to light. I have long been interested in what is generally known as "Outsider Art", "Naïve Art" or "Art Brut" - i.e. art which is made by those not formally trained in any artistic discipline, who mostly do not consider themselves "artists" as such. This isn't an easy genre to define by its very liminal nature, but the creators of it fascinate me. So it is with these old women. First we have Enni Id (1900-1992) who lived in the community of Padasjoki in Finland. Photo: still from La Sérénité sans carburant - Un film de Marie Famulicki Second comes Bonaria Manca, born in 1925 in the small community of Orune in Sardinia. Photo credit above : Roberto Loru Bonaria is reluctant to sell her paintings as she feels that the work has soul and therefore should not be separated from her.
La Sérénité sans carburant - Un film de Marie Famulicki Nadia. A Boy to Be Sacrificed. Isle of Lesbos: Anne Lister's Journals. : Anne Lister's Journals Anne Lister was an upperclass Englishwoman from Halifax, West Yorkshire. She lived from 1791-1840, and would not be particularly notable except that she left behind her diaries, and along with describing her daily activities, these journals also describe her romantic relationships with women.
Not "vaguely romantic", but clearly passionate and sexually-involved affairs that she pursued exclusively with women, throughout her life. Anne's coded journals might have gone unexplored had not Helena Whitbread invested six years of her time carefully exploring and decoding them. Helena's book, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840, offers the diaries as fascinating story of the "everyday" life led by an early 19th century lesbian. Engrossing reading, to say the least. Anne died unexpectedly at 49, from a fever contracted while traveling in Russia. Journal Entries Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax] Cutting curl papers half an hour ... Excerpts from 1822. Bio. Jay Rosen Jay Rosen has been on the journalism faculty at New York University since 1986; from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department. He lives in New York City.Download the short bio (HTML)Download the short bio (No HTML)Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003.
In July 2006 he announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project was OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post. Rosen is a former member of the Wikipedia Advisory Board. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For? As a press critic and reviewer, he has published in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and others. Grab Jay’s Bio with HTML. Muhammad iqbal shikwa. Jacob M. Appel. About. About Jen McCreight Before we touch on anything else, remember this: McCreight is always Right. It rhymes. If you ever meet me in person and actually pronounce my name correctly, you'll get a thousand bonus points.
Anyway, I'm mainly just some sarcastic gal with a lot of strong opinions. I just graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana with a double major in Genetics and Evolution and a minor in Psychology. Yeah, good ol' Indiana - I've lived here my entire life, though I consider myself a Chicagoan. Other than being a giant biology nerd, I'm also really active in the atheist movement. I'm liberal, pro-choice, a huge supporter of gay rights, and oddly obsessed with human sexuality. In my nonexistent free time, I like painting and drawing, golfing (8 handicap, woo!) About the Blog Blag Hag was created on March 11, 2009, mostly out of boredom. I haphazardly picked a name based on a bad pun just so I could get started.
Tazeen Ahmad. Candyboots: kick it!!! Kevin Allison. Writing and Whatnot | Jenny Noa. The Underground Grammarian - Richard Mitchell. The mystery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui | World news. On a hot summer morning 18 months ago a team of four Americans – two FBI agents and two army officers – rolled into Ghazni, a dusty town 50 miles south of Kabul. They had come to interview two unusual prisoners: a woman in a burka and her 11-year-old son, arrested the day before. Afghan police accused the mysterious pair of being suicide bombers. What interested the Americans, though, was what they were carrying: notes about a "mass casualty attack" in the US on targets including the Statue of Liberty and a collection of jars and bottles containing "chemical and gel substances".
At the town police station the Americans were directed into a room where, unknown to them, the woman was waiting behind a long yellow curtain. The woman was standing there, pointing the officer's gun at his head. Whether this extraordinary scene is fiction or reality will soon be decided thousands of miles from Ghazni in a Manhattan courtroom. Siddiqui was also an impassioned Muslim activist. "Who are they? " About haidee » haidee merritt - From the back of the book: Haidee S. Merritt is a self-proclaimed realist. Her collection of cartoons spans a period of more than a decade, starting out as nothing more than a few doodles and growing to represent a lifetime of personal struggles and experiences. Don’t get me wrong, she’s not dead.
Quite the contrary, she is living day in and day out with Type 1 diabetes. Death would be like recess to a third grader. Haidee has a BA in Literature and Classics from the University of Washington in Seattle but has studied throughout the world. She now resides in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, across the bridge from her studio in Kittery, Maine. There’s no doubt I’m a late bloomer (I overheard my Mom saying so to my first boyfriend). However, I am riding high atop the latest craze, proud as punch to be on the cutting edge for once.
In case you haven’t heard, diabetes isn’t just a disease, it’s a lifestyle. In my naiveté, I really thought the hard work was done. Shami Chakrabarti. Early life[edit] She studied Law at the London School of Economics, at one point acting as a research assistant to Leonard Leigh who wrote a paper on the British approach to terrorism and extradition; the paper was published in early 1997.[3] After graduating with a Bachelor of Laws, Chakrabarti was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1994.[2] In 1996, she started working as a barrister for the Home Office. On 10 September 2001, she joined the human rights organisation Liberty.[7] Chakrabarti is an alumna of the British-American Project, which promotes Anglo-American relations.[8][9] Liberty[edit] After working as in-house counsel, Chakrabarti was appointed director of Liberty in 2003.
Chakrabarti is a frequently invited contributor to BBC Radio 4 and various newspapers on the topic of human rights and civil liberties. She was also shortlisted in the Channel 4 Political Awards 2006 for the "Most Inspiring Political Figure" award. Andy Burnham controversy[edit] Damian Green[edit] Shami Chakrabarti. Bradley Secker; photojournalism, multimedia, portraits and documentary images. Humans of New York. Evelyn Coke, Home Care Aide Who Fought Pay Rule, Is Dead at 74 - Obituary (Obit) Wislawa Szymborska.
WHEN Wislawa Szymborska won the world's top literary prize in 1996, her friends called it the “Nobel disaster”. This was not just because she had spent an uncomfortable night before the award ceremony in the bath: the bathroom was the only part of her quarters in a grand Stockholm hotel in which she could manage to turn on the light. Nor was it the “torture” she felt in having to make a speech—one of only three she had given in her life. The real disaster was the trauma of fame and fortune.
It was years before she could publish another poem. Her fans' delight in her Nobel prize was mixed with disappointment that it had rendered her mute. Like many Poles who survived the war, Ms Szymborska readily accepted communism in early life, seeing it as a salvation for a ruined world. Her ironic and individualistic spirit was ill fitted to the grey conformity of “people's Poland”: the Nobel citation said she wrote with the ease of Mozart and the fury of Beethoven. Scepticism was her watchword.