Green Book helped black travelers navigate racist terrain RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Oscar-winning film “Green Book” has spurred interest in the original Negro Motorist Guide that many African-Americans consulted when traveling in the South during the Jim Crow era. Virginia, and especially Richmond, played a key role in the book’s development. The movie depicts the African-American pianist Don Shirley’s concert tour in 1962 in the Deep South and the friendship that developed between Shirley and his cab driver, Tony Lip. The movie ends with Shirley giving Lip a copy of the Negro Motorist Guide: Green Book. The guidebook was first published in 1936 by Victor Hugo Green, a postal carrier in the Harlem section of New York. “With Green’s wife being from Virginia, he decided to make trips less humiliating and reached out to fellow mailmen all over the country,” Calvin Alexander Ramsey, an author and playwright who has done extensive research on the subject, told The New York Times in 2015. Ten of those establishments were in Richmond.
The Handmaid's Tale (wiki) The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. It has been adapted for the cinema, radio, opera, and stage. Plot summary[edit] The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States of America. Beginning with a staged terrorist attack (blamed on Islamic extremist terrorists) that kills the President and most of Congress, a movement calling itself the "Sons of Jacob" launches a revolution and suspends the United States Constitution under the pretext of restoring order. The story is presented from the point of view of a woman called Offred (literally Of-Fred). The Commander is a high-ranking official in Gilead. After Offred's initial meeting with Nick, they begin to rendezvous more frequently. Characters[edit]
Ironie et g nocide dans Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell 1De prime abord, il serait difficile de soutenir qu’un livre évoquant de manière extrêmement réaliste l’extermination des Juifs par les forces nazies pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale appartient au champ de la littérature ironique. 2De fait, le roman de Littell est un livre extrêmement sérieux quant à sa conception, s’il faut en croire les nombreux témoignages de l’auteur lui-même, qui a insisté à plusieurs reprises sur les multiples lectures et voyages qui ont été les siens en amont de l’écriture. Les détracteurs de l’ouvrage insistent même sur l’impression que l’on a parfois de fiches de travail mal digérées et comme passées telles quelles dans le roman. Je ne voulais surtout pas écrire ce qu’on appelle un roman historique, faire de ces événements un décor de théâtre devant lequel faire évoluer mes personnages. 2 3Affirmation qui active d’emblée l’idée qu’il est difficile de rendre compte du réel –a fortiori d’un tel réel – dans une œuvre fictive. Hélas non !
Dacru.be - Belgian psytrance label For Your Processing 6th January 2018 Video with 7 notes (via littleblackbox on Vimeo) This is a controller that explores how to interact with realtime graphics in Processing. With this little box, the aim is to find more tactile, playful and straightforward ways of interaction with graphics during live sessions. Read more about the project here: Source: vimeo.com 6th January 2018 Video with 3 notes Brad Tober at Processing Community Day 2017 day.processing.org/ Brad Tober is a designer, educator, and researcher whose work explores the potential of emerging code-based and interactive visual communication technologies, with the objective of identifying and investigating their relationships to design practice and pedagogy. (via Brad Tober - Processing Community Day 2017 on Vimeo) Source: vimeo.com 6th January 2018 Video reblogged from Notational with 2 notes notational: Playing with pixels. 6th January 2018 Video reblogged from Notational with 3 notes sasj:
L'art d'avoir toujours raison- Schopenhauer.doc