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Jack Malebranche's Androphilia: A Manifesto
Jack Malebranche's Androphilia: A Manifesto
Jack Malebranche (Jack Donovan)
Androphilia: A Manifesto
Baltimore, Md.: Scapegoat Publishing, 2006
Near the end of Androphilia, Jack Donovan writes "It has always seemed like some profoundly ironic cosmic joke to me that the culture of men who love men is a culture that deifies women and celebrates effeminacy. Wouldn't it make more sense if the culture of men who are sexually fascinated by men actually idolized men and celebrated masculinity?" (p. 115).
He has a point there. As Donovan notes, homosexual porn is almost exclusively focused on hypermasculine archetypes: the lumberjack, the marine, the jock, the cop, etc. (I am going to employ the term "homosexual," despite its problematic history, as a neutral term to denote same-sex desire among men. I am avoiding the term "gay," for reasons that will soon be apparent.) So why are homosexuals, who worship masculine men, so damn queeny? Most straight men (and women too) would offer what they see as the obvious answer: homosexuals are not real men. They are a sort of strange breed of womanly man, and it is precisely the otherness of masculine men that attracts them so. This is, after all, the way things work with straight people: men are attracted to women, and vice versa, because they are other. We want what we are not. Therefore, if a man desires another man then he must not be a real man.
What makes this theory so plausible is that so many self-identified homosexuals do behave in the most excruciatingly effeminate manner. They certainly seem to be not-quite-men. Donovan thinks (and I believe he is correct) that it is this womanish behavior in homosexuals that bothers straight men so much – more so, actually, than the fact that homosexuals have sex with other men in the privacy of their bedrooms.
Donovan objects to effeminacy in homosexuals as well, but he sees this effeminacy as a socially-constructed behavior pattern; as a consequence of the flawed logic that claims "since we're attracted to what's other, if you're a man attracted to a man you must not be a real man." Having bought into this way of seeing things, the "gay community" actually encourages its members to "camp it up" and get in touch with their feminine side. They think they are liberating themselves, but what they don't see is that they have bought into a specific set of cultural assumptions which effectively rob them of their manhood, in their own eyes and in the eyes of society.
Donovan argues, plausibly, that homosexual attraction should be seen as a "variation in desire" among men (p. 21). Homosexuals are men — men who happen to be attracted to other men. Their sexual desire does not make them into a separate species of quasi-men. This is a point that will be resisted by many, but it is easily defended. One can see this simply by reflecting on how difficult it is to comprehend the homosexuals of yore in the terms we use today to deal with these matters. There was, after all, unlikely to have been anything "queeny" (and certainly not cowardly) about the Spartan 300, who were 150 homosexual couples. And the samurai in feudal Japan were doing it too — just to mention two examples. These are not the sort of people one thinks of as "sensitive" and who one would expect to show up at a Lady Gaga concert, were they around today. It is unlikely that Achilles and his "favorite" Patroclus would have cruised around with a rainbow flag flying from their chariot. These were manly men, who happened to sexually desire other men. If there can be such men, then there is no necessary disjunction between homosexuality and masculinity. QED.
In essential terms, what Donovan argues in Androphilia is that homosexuals should reject the "gay culture" of effeminacy and reclaim masculinity for themselves. Ironically, gay culture is really the product of an internalization of the Judeo-Christian demonization of same-sex desire, and its insistence that homosexuality and masculinity are incompatible. Donovan wants gays to become "androphiles": men who love men, but who are not defined by that love. "Gay men" are men who allow themselves to be defined entirely by their desire, defined into a separate segment of humanity that talks alike, walks alike, dresses alike, thinks alike, votes alike, and has set itself apart from "breeders" in fashionable urban ghettos. "Gay" really denotes a whole way of life "that promotes anti-male feminism, victim mentality, and leftist politics" (p. 18). (This is the reason Donovan often uses "homo" instead of "gay": gay is a package deal denoting much more than same-sex desire.) He argues that in an effort to promote acceptance of men with same-sex desire, homosexuals encouraged others to regard them as, in effect, a separate sex — really, almost a separate race. "Gay," Donovan remarks, is really "sexuality as ethnicity" (p. 18). As a result, gay men have cut themselves off from the fraternity of men and, arguably, trapped themselves in a lifestyle that stunts them into perpetual adolescence. Donovan asks, reasonably, "Why should I identify more closely with a lesbian folk singer than with [straight] men my age who share my interests?"
Many of those who have made it this far into my review might conclude now that Androphilia is really a book for homosexuals, and doesn't have much to say to the rest of the world. But this is not the case. Donovan's book contains profound reflections on sexuality and its historical construction (yes, there really are some things that are historically constructed), the nature of masculinity, the role of male bonding in the formation of culture, and the connection between masculinity and politics. This book has implications for how men — all men — understand themselves.
Donovan attacks head-on the attempt by gays to set themselves up as an "oppressed group" on the model of blacks and women, and to compel all of us to refrain from uttering a critical word about them. He attacks feminism as the anti-male ideology it is. And he zeroes in on the connection, taken for granted by nearly everyone, between gay culture and advocacy of left-wing causes. Androphilia, in short, is a book that belongs squarely on the political right. It should be no surprise to anyone to discover that Donovan has been busy since the publication of Androphilia writing for sites like Alternative Right and Spearhead.
Donovan himself was a part of the gay community when he was younger, but never really felt like he belonged. He so much as tells us that his desire for men is his religion; that he worships masculinity in men. But it seemed natural to Donovan that since he was a man, he should cultivate in himself the very qualities he admired in others. His desire was decidedly not for an "other" but for the very qualities that he saw, proudly, in himself. (He says at one point, "I experience androphilia not as an attraction to some alien opposite, but as an attraction to variations in sameness," p. 49).
Donovan is certainly not alone. It's natural when we think of homosexuals to visualize effeminate men, because those are the ones that stand out. If I asked you to visualize a Swede you'd probably conjure up a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Nordic exemplar. But, of course, a great many Swedes are brunettes (famous ones, too; e.g., Ingmar Bergman). The effeminate types are merely the most conspicuous homosexuals. But there also exists a silent multitude of masculine men who love men, men whom no one typically pegs as "gay." These men are often referred to as "straight acting" — as if masculinity in a homosexual is necessarily some kind of act. These men are really Donovan's target audience, and they live a tragic predicament. They are masculine men who see their own masculinity as a virtue, thus they cannot identify with what Donovan calls the Gay Party (i.e., "gay community") and its celebration of effeminacy. They identify far more closely with straight men, who, of course, will not fully accept them. This is partly due to fear ("is he going to make a pass at me?"), and partly, again, due to the prevailing view which equates same-sex desire with lack of manliness. The Jack Donovans out there are lost between two worlds, at home in neither. Loneliness and sexual desire compels such men to live on the periphery of the gay community, hoping always to find someone like themselves. If they have at all internalized the message that their desires make them less-than-men (and most have), then their relationship to masculinity will always be a problematic one. They will always have "something to prove," and always fear, deep down, that perhaps they are inadequate in some fundamental way.
Androphilia is therapy for such men, and a call for them to form a new identity and group solidarity quite independent of the "gay community." On the one hand, Donovan asserts that, again, homosexuality should be seen as a "variation in desire" among men; that homosexuals should see themselves as men first, and not be defined entirely by their same-sex desire. On the other hand, it is very clear that Donovan also has high hopes that self-identified androphiles will become a force to be reckoned with. He writes at one point, "While other men struggle to keep food on the table or get new sneakers for Junior, androphiles can use their extra income to fund their endeavors. This is a significant advantage. Androphiles could become leaders of men in virtually any field with comparative ease. By holding personal achievement in high esteem, androphiles could become more than men; they could become great men" (p. 88).
Is Jack Donovan — the androphile Tyler Durden — building an army? Actually, it looks more like he's building a religion, and this brings us to one of the most interesting aspects of Androphilia. Repeatedly, Donovan tells us that "masculinity is a religion," or words to that effect (see especially pp. 65, 72, 76, 80, 116).
A first step to understanding what he is talking about is to recognize that masculinity is an ideal, and a virtue. Men strive to cultivate masculinity in themselves, and they admire it in other men. Further, masculinity is something that has to be achieved. Better yet, it has to be won. Femininity, on the other hand, is quite different. Femininity is essentially a state of being that simply comes with being female; it is not an accomplishment. Women are, but men must become. If femininity has anything to do with achievement, the achievement usually consists in artifice: dressing in a certain manner, putting on makeup, learning how to be coy, etc. Femininity is almost exclusively bound up with being attractive to men. If a man's "masculinity" consisted in dressing butch and not shaving, he would be laughed at; his "masculinity" would be essentially effeminate. (Such is the masculinity, for example, of gay "bears" and "leatherman.") Similarly, if a man's "masculinity" consists entirely in pursuing women and making himself attractive to them, he is scorned by other men. (Ironically, such "gigolos" are often far more effeminate mama's boys than many homosexuals.) No, true masculinity is achieved by accomplishing something difficult in the world: by fighting, building something, discovering something, winning a contest, setting a record, etc. In order for it to count, a man has to overcome things like fear and opposition. He has to exhibit such virtues as bravery, perseverance, commitment, consistency, integrity, and, often, loyalty. Masculinity is inextricably tied to virtue (which is no surprise — given that the root vir-, from which we also get "virile," means "man"). A woman can be petty, fickle, dishonest, fearful, inconstant, weak, and unserious — and still be thought of as 100% feminine.
A woman can also be the butchest nun, women's lacrosse coach, or dominatrix on the planet and never be in any danger of someone thinking she's "not a real woman." With men, it's completely different. As the example of homosexuals illustrates, it is quite possible to have a y chromosome and be branded "not a real man." Masculinity, again, is an ideal that men are constantly striving to realize. The flip side of this is that they live in constant fear of some kind of failure that might rob them of masculinity in their eyes or the eyes of others. They must "live up" to the title of "man." Contrary to the views of modern psychologists and feminists, this does not indicate a "problem" with men that they must somehow try to overcome. If men did not feel driven to make their mark on the world and prove themselves worthy of being called men, there would be no science, no philosophy, no art, no music, no technology, no exploration.
"But there would also be no war, no conflict, no competition!" feminists and male geldings will shriek in response. They're right: there would be none of these things. And the world would be colorless and unutterably boring.
As Camille Paglia famously said, "If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts." She also said "There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper." What this really means is that given the nature of men, we can't have Mozart without Jack the Ripper. So be it.
It should now be a bit clearer why Donovan says that "masculinity is a religion." To quote him more fully, "masculinity is not just a quality shared by many men, but also an ideal to which men collectively aspire. Masculinity is a religion, one that naturally resonates with the condition of maleness. Worship takes place at sports arenas, during action films, in adventure novels and history books, in frat houses, in hunting lodges" (p. 65).
Earlier in the book he writes: "All men appreciate masculinity in other men. They appreciate men who are manly, who embody what it means to be a man. They admire and look up to men who are powerful, accomplished or assertive. . . . Men respectfully acknowledge another man's impressive size or build, note a fierce handshake, or take a friendly interest in his facial hair. . . . Sportscasters and fans speak lovingly of the bodies and miraculous abilities of their shared heroes. . . . While straight men would rather not discuss it because they don't want to be perceived as latent homosexuals, they do regularly admire one another's bodies at the gym or at sporting events" (p. 22). None of this is "gay," "latently gay," or "homoerotic." This is just men admiring manliness. One of the sad consequences of "gay liberation" (and Freudian psychology) is that straight men must now police their behavior for any signs that might be read as "latency." And gay liberation has destroyed male bonding. Just recently I re-watched Robert Rossen's classic 1961 film The Hustler. In the opening scene, an old man watches a drunken Paul Newman playing pool and remarks to a friend, "Nice looking boy. Clean cut. Too bad he can't hold his liquor." No straight man today would dream of openly admiring another man's appearance and describing him as "nice looking," even though there need be nothing sexual in this at all.
Of course, there is something decidedly sexual in androphilia. The androphile admires masculinity in other men also, but he has a sexual response to it. An androphile may admire all the same qualities in a man that a straight man would, but the androphile gets turned on by them. Here we must note, however, that although the straight man admires masculinity in men he generally spends a lot less time reflecting on it than an androphile does. And there are innumerable qualities in men (especially physical qualities) which androphiles notice, but which many straight men are completely oblivious to. In fact, one of the characteristics of manly men is a kind of obliviousness to their own masculine attractiveness. Yes, straight men admire masculinity in other men and in themselves — but this is often not something that is brought fully to consciousness. No matter how attractive he may be, if a man is vain, his attractiveness is undercut — and so is his masculinity. Men are attractive — to women and to androphiles — to the extent that their masculinity is something natural, unselfconscious, unaffected, and seemingly effortless. Oddly, lack of self-consciousness does seem to be a masculine trait. Think of the single-minded warrior, uncorrupted by doubt and introspection, forging ahead without any thought for how he seems to others, unaware of how brightly his virtue and heroism shine.
What all this means is that androphilia is masculinity brought to self-consciousness. To put it another way, the androphile is masculinity brought to awareness of itself. It is in the androphile that all that is good and noble and beautiful in the male comes to be consciously reflected upon and affirmed. It is in androphiles like Jack Donovan that the god of masculinity is consciously thematized as a god, and worshipped. Masculinity is a religion, he tells us again and again.
Now, I said a few lines earlier that lack of self-consciousness seems to be a masculine trait. If in androphiles a greater self-consciousness of masculinity is achieved, doesn't this mean that androphiles are somehow unmasculine? Actually what it means is that they are potentially hyper-masculine. It is true that we admire unselfconscious figures like Siegfried or Arjuna, because they seem to possess a certain purity. But such men are always ultimately revealed to be merely the plaything of forces over which they have no control. Greater still then a naïve, unselfconscious purity is the power of an awakened man, who consciously recognizes and cultivates his virtues, striving to take control of his destiny and to perfect himself. This is part and parcel of the ideal of spiritual virility Julius Evola spoke of so often.
The difference between Siegfried and Arjuna is that the latter had the god Krishna around to awaken him. Krishna taught him that he is indeed a plaything of forces over which he has no control. But Arjuna then affirmed this, affirmed his role in the cosmic scheme as the executioner of men, and became the fiercest warrior that had ever lived.
Most men unconsciously follow the script of masculinity, pushed along by hormones to realize the masculine ideal — usually only to find the same hormones putting them in thrall to women and, later, children. Androphiles consciously recognize and affirm masculinity, and because their erotic desires are directed towards other men, they have the potential to achieve far more in the realm of masculine accomplishment than those who, again, have to "struggle to keep food on the table or get new sneakers for Junior." Thus, far from being "unmasculine," androphiles have it within their power to become, well, Overmen. Androphiles have awakened to the god in themselves and other men. There is an old saying on the Left Hand Path: "There is no god above an awakened man." There is also no man above an awakened man. So much for the idea that a man's love for other men is a badge of inferiority.
Implicit in the above is something I have not remarked on thus far, and that Donovan does not discuss: the duality in the masculine character. It is a rather remarkable thing, as I alluded to earlier, that testosterone both makes a man want to fight, to strive, and to explore — and also to inseminate a woman and tie himself down to home and family. Of course, without that latter effect the race would die out. But it is nevertheless the case that men are pulled in two directions, just by being men: towards heaven and towards earth. To borrow some terms from Evola again, they have within themselves both uranic and chthonic tendencies. Modern biologists have a way of dealing with this: they insist that all of life is nothing but competition for resources and reproduction. Thus, all of men's uranic striving, all of their quest for the ideal, all of their adventures and accomplishments, are nothing more than ways in which they make themselves more attractive to females. This is sheer nonsense: nothing but the mindset of modern, middle-class, hen-pecked professors projected onto all of nature.
The truth is that men strive to realize the ideal of masculinity in ways that not only have nothing to do with the furtherance of the species, but are often positively inimical to it. Perhaps the best and most extreme example of masculine toughness one could give is the willingness of the samurai to disembowel themselves over questions of honor. Men strive for ideals, often at the expense of life. Masculinity has a dimension that can best be described as supernatural — as above nature. Women are far more tied to nature than men are, and this (and not sexist oppression) is the real reason why it is almost exclusively men who have been philosophers, priests, mystics, scientists, and artists. It is woman's job to pull man back to earth and perpetuate life.
One way to look at androphilia is that it is not just the masculine come to consciousness of itself, but the masculine ridding itself of the "natural." This "natural" side of the man is not without value (again, without it we would go extinct), but it has almost nothing to do with what makes men great. The androphile is free to cultivate the truly masculine aspects of the male soul, because he is free of the pull of the feminine and of the natural. This has to have something to do with why it is that so many great philosophers, artists, writers, mystics, and others, have tended to be androphiles. In 1913, D. H. Lawrence wrote the following to a correspondent: "I should like to know why nearly every man that approaches greatness tends to homosexuality, whether he admits it or not: so that he loves the body of a man better than the body of a woman — as I believe the Greeks did, sculptors and all, by far. . . . He can always get satisfaction from a man, but it is the hardest thing in life to get one's soul and body satisfied from a woman, so that one is free for oneself. And one is kept by all tradition and instinct from loving a man."
The androphile, again, is masculinity brought to consciousness of itself — and in him, it would seem, much else is brought to consciousness as well. For what else are science, philosophy, religion, art, and poetry but the world brought to consciousness of itself? These things — which are almost exclusively the products of men — are what set us apart and make us unique as a species. Human beings (again, almost exclusively men), unlike all other species, are capable of reflecting upon and understanding the world. We do this in scientific and philosophical theories, but also in fiction, poetry, and painting. Some of us, of course, are more capable of this than others — capable of achieving this reflective stance towards existence itself. And it would seem that of those men that are, some carry things even further and become fully aware of the masculine ideal that they themselves represent. And they fall in love with this. Sadly, androphile writers, artists, poets, etc., have often bought into the notion that their desire for other men makes them unmasculine and, like Oscar Wilde, have shoe-horned themselves into the role of the decadent, effeminate aesthete.
I think that when Donovan describes masculinity as a religion this is not just a desire to be provocative. I think he does experience his admiration for men as sacred. If this is the case, then it is natural for men who feel as he does to insist that such a feeling cannot be indecent or perverse. Further, it is natural for them to wonder why there are men such as themselves. What I have tried to do in the above reflections (which go beyond what Donovan says in his book) is to develop a theory of the "cosmic role," if you will, of the masculine itself, and of the androphile. I believe Donovan is thinking along the same lines I am, though he might not express things the same way. He writes at one point:
Masculinity is a religion, and I see potential for androphiles to become its priests — to devote themselves to it and to the gods of men as clergymen devote their lives to the supernatural. What other man can both embody the spirit of manhood and revere it with such perfect devotion? This may sound far-fetched, but is it? If so, then why? Forget about gay culture and everything you associate with male homosexuality. Strip it down to its raw essence — a man's sexual desire for men — and reimagine the destiny of that man. Reimagine what this desire focused on masculinity could mean, what it could inspire, and who the men who experience it could become. (p. 116)
There is much else in Androphilia that is well-worth discussing, though a review cannot cover everything. Particularly worthy of attention is Donovan's discussion of masculinity in terms of what he calls physical masculinity, essential masculinity, and cultural masculinity. Then there is Donovan's discussion of masculine "values." These really should be called "virtues" (especially given the etymology of this word — mentioned earlier — Donovan his missed a bit of an opportunity here!). The language of "values" is very modern. What he really has in mind is virtues in the Aristotelian sense of excellences of the man. Donovan lists such qualities as self-reliance, independence, personal responsibility, achievement, integrity, etc. He starts to sound a bit like Ayn Rand in this part of the book, but it's hard to quarrel with his message. The book ends with a perceptive discussion of "gay marriage," which Donovan opposes, seeing it as yet another way in which gays are aping straight relationships, yearning narcissistically for society's "approval."
This is really a superb book, which all men can profit from, not just androphiles. If one happens to be an androphile, however, one will find this is a liberating and revolutionary work.
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White Guilt IV: Auschwitz and Hiroshima
No. 316: Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
The Second World War was almost certainly the last total war humanity will be able to tolerate. The necessity for restraining maximal violence henceforth links the world in a global community; all wars posterior to WWII are so to speak civil wars. The most urgent problem of the new millennium is how to deal with those who deny their membership in this community to the point of being willing to wreak "mass destruction" on it if given the means.
Prior to 9/11/2001, the consequences of WWII were, and residually still are, worked through ethically, politically, and esthetically in what we call postmodernism. The hobbling of the postmodern(ist) subject, which occurs in a number of superficially distinct modes, is the interpersonal equivalent of the hobbling of the national "subjects" on the global stage. The deconstruction of central authority, however liberating it may be to those who define themselves as its victims, is an act of ideology, or in other words, of resentment, complicit yet denying its complicity with this authority. The confused nature of this gesture reflects postmodernism's failure to articulate the double lesson of the war epitomized in the title of this Chronicle: Auschwitz, the ultimate act of asymmetric violence, and Hiroshima, the ultimate act of reciprocal violence. In one case, a group of non-combatants was singled out for annihilation; in the other, great violence was inflicted upon the adversary's population in order to force surrender. Although their simultaneity is not altogether coincidental, the two phenomena have very different moral valences. Yet in their mutual implication the role of each has not been easy to sort out. On 9/11, history performed the task for us.
For a number of years I considered "Auschwitz" to be the sole point of origin of postmodern ethics, esthetics, and politics. This is not unreasonable as a first approximation, but the characteristic postmodern attitude of white guilt can be understood only by introducing"Hiroshima" as a second independent variable.
I therefore propose the following model:
Auschwitz makes illegitimate all de jure forms of asymmetry: colonialism, segregation, apartheid; we may call this political egalitarianism.
Hiroshima has two consequences. First, since it makes total war henceforth impossible, it gives rise to strategies of proxy wars, containment, MAD, and the removal of the chief focus of competition from the military to the commercial sphere; we may call this political realism. This strategic phase comes to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989-91. Second, it provokes a sense of guilt toward its victims, despite the fact that Japan was the original aggressor in the war. This is the beginning of the characteristically postmodern phenomenon of white guilt, which becomes the basis of a political movement only when the opposition to the war in Vietnam conflates Auschwitz with Hiroshima, "excess" power with asymmetry.
That Hiroshima rather than Auschwitz is white guilt's point of departure may not be obvious. Until the end of the Cold War, the "realist" heritage of Hiroshima remained dominant; only after Vietnam did its "guilty" legacy began the inexorable conquest of its present strongholds: academia, the "helping organizations," the entertainment world, the media. By the time white guilt truly came into its own in the post-USSR world, its link to the end of WWII had been obscured by time.
This model makes clearer the split between the two modes of political atonement that emerged from the war. Both egalitarianism and white guilt challenge the legitimacy of asymmetrical relations: the former, the de jure relations encountered in colonialism and racial segregation, the latter, the de facto differences that inspired the more recent trends of affirmative action and political correctness. The differences between the finite, objectivist attitude of political egalitarianism and the open-ended subjectivism of white guilt are traceable to their different historical sources.
That the Holocaust would inspire a postwar sense of guilt in Germans and their willing and unwilling WWII allies is understandable enough; the connection of white guilt to Hiroshima requires further explanation. The most prescient and insightful demonstration of this connection is no doubt the 1959 Duras-Resnais film Hiroshima mon amour, one of the indubitable masterpieces of the New Wave. Conceived a little over a decade after the end of WWII, this film poses the esthetic and ethical necessity of transforming the war's aggressors into victims.
The film depicts a French actress' brief affair with a Japanese businessman in Hiroshima, where she is making a pacifist film. It begins (after its famous opening of the lovers' bodies in the shower) with a lengthy documentary sequence in both Hiroshima's hospital and its museum, where we witness, presumably through the actress' eyes, both surviving victims and evidence of the bombing, including a filmed Japanese reenactment. As she recounts her visit in voice over, she insists that she has "seen everything" in Hiroshima; her lover repeats that she has "seen nothing," implying that only the victims themselves could "see" the bombing and its effects. Neither in this sequence nor elsewhere in the film is there any indication that the bombing ended a war between the US and Japan, let alone that this war began with a sneak attack by the Japanese.
We also learn in the course of the day that during the war as an adolescent living with her family in the central French city of Nevers (the resemblance to "never" is surely not coincidental), the actress had had a love affair with a German soldier, with whom she hoped to return to Germany after the war. But the soldier is killed by French partisans, and the girl finds him dying on arriving at a rendezvous; after the Liberation, her hair is shorn and she is confined in a cellar for several months by her parents as punishment for consorting with the enemy. On her release from the cellar, she leaves Nevers for Paris; since then, she has never returned to Nevers nor told her love story to anyone but the Japanese man, who expresses pride in being the only person to have heard it.
The film not only portrays the Japanese as victims of the bomb; the sole representative of Germany too is a victim. Early in the film we are given, in a quick flashback, a glimpse of the soldier's hand lying on the earth, a memory inspired by (and matched to) her Japanese lover's hand in the same position on the bed as he sleeps. Although the actress is now married, we hear nothing of her husband. The German is the one man she has truly loved; the Japanese is so to speak his reincarnation.
Hiroshima mon amour portrays the conversion of the losers of the war into its victims through the eyes of a citizen of a defeated nation that ended up on the winning side. On a number of occasions, lifeless Nevers is contrasted with lively postwar Hiroshima. In the couple's long nocturnal walk that is the climactic sequence of the film, shots of the actress walking through Hiroshima's streets are intercut with shots of Nevers that display the city as a ghost town populated only by dark, empty, sinister buildings. If victorious France has lost its soul, through the sacrifice of Hiroshima, defeated Japan has been reborn. In the film's final sequence, the two lovers meet for the last time in the actress' hotel room the night before her departure from Japan. In the exchange that concludes the film, she tells him "You are Hiroshima" and he answers, "And you are Nevers, in France." The characters have no other names in the film. But whereas he takes the name of an injured but reborn city, she continues to bear the name of her native town abandoned long ago, a name chosen for its temporal emptiness.
After making his reputation in 1955 with Nuit et brouillard, the first commercial documentary of the concentration camps–in which the word "Jew" is never mentioned, although yellow stars are visible in one or two shots–Alain Resnais became a consecrated artist with a film in which the only representatives of the Axis powers are powerless, innocent victims. Yet Hiroshima mon amour's esthetic power attests to its ethical power as well; this is the beginning of a postwar sense of guilt whose object is not any specific national violence, German or Japanese, but that of the human species–our own. The implicit moral message of Hiroshima is that identification with the defeated adversary-as-victim is the only true road to peace; now that humanity has demonstrated its potential for self-destruction, the self's own violence is the chief danger that must be controlled.
Omitting the enemy's violence from Hiroshima mon amour is not tantamount to claiming that it did not exist, but simply that it is absent from the life of the (victorious) subject. If we permit ourselves to think beyond the film's historical amnesia to the war itself, the impression we are left with is that, regardless of who began the fighting or of what would have happened had the starters been the winners, the final, victorious act of violence was the only one that has not been part of a reciprocal exchange and must consequently be the unique focus for our guilt. The violence we must avoid above all is the unanswered "excess" that defines (real or symbolic) victory, whether in the A-bombed Japanese cities or in firebombed Dresden, scene of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969). The bearer of white guilt must even identify with the adversary–a phenomenon clearly in evidence in Hiroshima–as a means of denying complicity with the violence exercised by his own society on his behalf.
White guilt in Hiroshima mon amour is still in its lyric phase, more focused on pitying the adversary-victim than on condemning one's own side–such condemnation is not, however, altogether lacking, notably in the sequence devoted to the heroine's confinement. This guilt remains confined to a personal ethic and cannot inspire a political program other than a generalized pacifism. The first genuine political movement of white guilt was occasioned by the Vietnam war. The educated class, spurred by the military draft, which threatened it with active participation and possible death, condemned the American war effort not merely because we were employing "excessive" means of violence as at Hiroshima, but above all because we were now playing the role of the Nazis at Auschwitz. (Remember "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many children did you kill today?") The free-floating humanitarian sentiment of Hiroshima mon amour, where the violence of the bomb could be denounced only by forgetting recent history, had mutated into a circumstantial denunciation of our role in this new, "asymmetric" war.
Although white guilt as a motivation to political action derives from both Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Hiroshima mon amour suggests the primacy of the latter over the former. No word of allusion to the fate of the Jews could be permitted, lest the German soldier-lover and by extension his Japanese counterpart be implicated in it. Hiroshima mon amour gave narrative form to the legacy of Hiroshima: the divorce of the condemnation of violence from the question of ends, and consequently from history. Once this step had been taken, it was only a matter of time until, in a war less clearly justified than WWII, the opprobrium of Hiroshima would make common cause with that of Auschwitz.
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Nicolas is the Founder & Chief Editor of Asia Power Watch. A 20-year veteran of Asia-Pacific business, finance & economics research, he is the Founder & CEO of Asia Intelligence Advisory, an economic & strategic intelligence consulting firm. He is also an Adjunct Professor of strategic & business intelligence and geoeconomics of the Indo-Pacific, and a speaker in various conferences, workshops and seminars.
Plurilateralism as a weapon of economic hegemony in the Asia-Pacific. The case of RCEP
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On March 17, 2021, Asia Power Watch founder & editor Nicolas Michelon was invited by Brazil's Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) to give…
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Review: Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
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Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, #4) by Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels #4
Published by Ace on May 25th 2010
[box style="rounded" border="full"]A very exciting story. Very powerful forces are finding their way to Atlanta which have the power to bring plagues and make shifters crazy, especially male shifters. Kate will need to fight this danger alone if she wants to protect all her shifter friends. Meanwhile, sexual tensions and hurt feelings between Curran will peak when misunderstandings lead to make up sex. [/box]
You have to admire and fear a writer that will go to darker places with an Urban Fantasy. There will be happenings that will start bringing Kate to the attention of more people who will connect the dots to figure out her lineage. Will friends be willing to turn against Kate for to turn her over to Roland?
In Magic Bleeds, we have two pressing storylines. The first being something is bringing plagues to Atlanta and using shifters to get things started. And all the witness give a different description of the person involved. Kate is called out to investigate a bar on the outskirts of town, where a fight has ended in death. When Kate gets there, she realizes the body is quickly breaking down into a plague which is almost sentient in nature. It's trying to spread. She exhausts herself trying to draw magical symbols to keep the plague contained until the Order's technical people can arrive for clean up. No matter how fast she writes the symbols, the plague keeps trying to find a way out of the protection spell.
An ancient presence has decided to destroy Atlanta for fun…and for Kate. They are using shifters as both puppets and as plague bringers, and they can control any males. Kate realizes that she needs to keep Curran, Jim and the others away, which doesn't go well with the overprotective, macho shifters.
The ancient presence also has focused on Kate and her connection to Roland. Like the People, they can control the undead, but unlike the people, the are controlling undead mages and still using their magical abilities. With centuries of experience over Kate, Kate might just be in over her head against someone she should call — family.
More importantly, in this story the sexual tensions between Kate and Curran will come to a head. Kate lost the bet in the last book when Curran found where she, Jim and his people were hiding out. Kate was supposed to make Curran dinner — and serve it naked. Kate makes dinner, but Curran never shows. When she call the keep to find out if he is alright, she is told that Curran doesn't wish to speak to her. While her first inclination is to storm the keep and kick some lion butt, she fears she is just setting herself up for further humiliation if she gets tossed out or worse, finds Curran there with another woman. So Kate crushes the fragile dreams she has been weaving about a future with Curran and ignores him for as long as possible. But it is hard to ignore a pissed off Beast Lord, especially when he finds you out with another man. Was the whole thing a misunderstanding or was Curran truly setting Kate up for a long, hard fall?
I definitely have been enjoying this series more reading it rather than listening to it, but oddly enough, I still hear the narrator in my head as far as Kate's voice. Strange how that works. Kate always gets into a fix during these stories, but in this one there was a lot of nail biting over the plague-bringer and I don't want to give away too much on that for anyone just starting the series.
Kate is also in over her head with this nemesis. They are much more powerful and Kate has to keep most of her friends out of the line of fire or they will be used against her. I really couldn't figure out how she would survive this one.
There is a huge connection between them and Kate and Roland. Those around Kate are starting to pick up on Kate's magic and connecting some dots to Roland. She knows her father would be pissed after raising her to keep her head down and don't get close to anyone that she now allows people close and has put herself out there enough to save her friends so they are guessing her connection to Roland. The big question is whether any of those who know will betray Kate or will they stand beside her? I can't wait to read more.
The tension here between Kate and Curran is as nail biting as the rest of the story. There was a lot of he said/she said screaming about whose fault their non-dinner was and finally Kate breaks down and confesses that his attentions made her think she might someday have all those things she never let herself believe in — home, husband, family, love, and Curran not showing for their date broke her heart. And she wanted nothing more to do with him. They both smart people and eventually started questioning why the other was so vehement that they were there and the other didn't show. But still I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for somebody to make a move. Come on! These two really made you wait for it.
I can't wait to get to the next book, but I will have to since I have a huge list of books to review and try as I might to keep the list light for the upcoming holidays, another and another keep getting snuck in. I do want to get back to this at the first opportunity since I am becoming addicted.
"So now you dislike me? Ironic, considering you pulled the plug on us."
"I pulled the plug? You stood me up, you arrogant asshole!"
"You ran away!" He moved toward me. "I deserve an explanation."
Slayer left its sheath almost on its own. It was the fastest draw of my life. One moment empty space lay between us and the next my saber jumped into my hand. "You deserve nothing."
Gold rolled over currant's eyes, so briefly that had I blinked, I would've missed it. His face gained a slightly bored expression. "Do you honestly think your toothpick can hurt me?"
"Let's find out."
"Let's not." Jim stepped between us.
Curran looked at him. His voice rasped with the beginning of a snarl. "What are you doing?"
"My job."
He had lost his mind. Curran was hovering on the verge of violence and Jim had just made himself into a target.
"Jim, you want to step back."
Jim remained rooted to the floor.
Curran's gaze fastened on me, the gold burning scaling hot. Like looking into the eyes of a hungry lion and realizing I was food. My body locked, tiny hairs on the back of my neck rose on their ends, and inside me a tiny voice whispered in desperation, "Don't breathe and he might forget you're there."
I flicked my saber, warming my wrist. "Your headlights don't scare me."
Jim squared his shoulders. "You can't do this. Not here and not now."
Curran's voice slid into icy calm. "Be very careful, or I might start thinking you're telling me what to do."
If Curran ordered him to move, and Jim refused, it would be a challenge. Curran would have to fight his own chief of security and his best friend. They both knew it. That was why I was on the receiving end of Curran's alpha stare. If he leveled it at Jim, there would be a fight.
I sidestepped. Jim moved with me. I stared at the ceiling and growled.
"Cute." Curran said.
Die. "Why don't you come over here and I'll show you cute."
"I'd love to, but he's in the way. Besides, you had your chance to show me anything you wanted to. You'd just run away again."
For the love of God. "I didn't run away. I made you your damn dinner, but you didn't have the decency to show."
Jim's eyebrows crept up. "Dinner?"
Curran's eyes blazed. "You took off. I smelled you. You were there and then you got cold feet and ran. If you didn't want to do this, all you had to do was pick up the phone and tell me not to show up. Did you actually think I'd make you serve me dinner naked? But you didn't even bother."
"Hey!" Jim barked.
"What?" Curran and I said at almost the same time.
Jim looked at me. "Did you make him dinner?"
He'd find out sooner or later. "Yes."
Jim turned on his foot, went out of the room, and shut the door behind him.
Alright, then.
"He thinks we're mated." Curran moved forward, too light on his feet for a man of his size, his gaze locked on me–a predator stalking its prey. "In the Pack, one doesn't stand between mates. He's being polite. He doesn't realize you broke it off."
"Oh no. No, I didn't break it off. You had your chance and you blew it."
Curran's mask cracked. "The hell I did."
All of the pain and anger of the past month smashed into me. Having him near was like ripping the dressing off a raw wound. Words just came tumbling out and I couldn't stop them.
"So it's my fault? I made you your bloody dinner. You didn't show up. Just couldn't pass up a chance to humiliate me, could you?"
Curran bit the air as if he had fang. "I was challenged by two bears. They broke two of my ribs and dislocated my hip. When Doolittle finally finished setting my bones, I was four hours late. I asked if you called and they said no."
He'd sunk enough gravity into that "no" to bring down a building.
"If you were late, I would've turned the town inside out looking for you. I called you. You didn't answer. I was so sure something happened to you I dropped everything and dragged myself to your house. I came to check on you with broken bones and you weren't there."
"You're lying."
Curran snarled. "I left a note on your door."
"More lies. I waited for you for three hours. I called the Keep, thinking that something happened to you, and your flunkies told me that the Beast Lord said he was too busy to speak to me." I was shaking with rage. "That in the future I should address all of my concerns to Jim, because His Majesty declared that he didn't want to be bothered with talking to the likes of me anymore."
"That phone call happened in your head. You're delusional."
"You stood me up and then rubbed my nose in it."
Something hissed behind the frosted glass in the main hall.
Curran lunged toward me. I should've thrust straight through him. Instead I just stood there, like an idiot.
He clamped me to him, spinning us so his back faced the glass.
The glass wall exploded.
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Danny McBride asks $1.85 million for Hollywood penthouse
The one-bedroom unit overlooks the Hollywood Sign and Hollywood Hills through a two-story wall of glass.
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Danny McBride is looking to hightail it out of Hollywood, putting his penthouse loft on the market for $1.85 million.
The comedy actor and creator of "Eastbound & Down" and "The Righteous Gemstones" paid $1.435 million for the place back in 2008. It's not his first time offering the property; five years ago, he put it up for rent at $7,999 a month.
The one-bedroom unit sits atop the Broadway Hollywood, a 96-unit building built in 1928. In the bright open floor plan, a two-story wall of glass takes in views of the Hollywood Sign and Capitol Records building.
Designed as a live-work space, the 2,149-square-foot condo holds a media room, dining area, stainless steel kitchen and a pair of marble bathrooms. A staircase ascends to a lofted bedroom that expands to an outdoor terrace with a fireplace.
Atop the building, there's a gym and rooftop pool lined with cabanas. Other amenities include two parking spaces and 24-hour valet service.
Deedee Howard of the Agency holds the listing.
McBride, 43, starred in the comedies "Hot Rod," "Pineapple Express" and "Tropic Thunder" before creating, producing and starring in three shows for HBO over the last decade: "Eastbound & Down," "Vice Principals" and "The Righteous Gemstones," which is currently renewed for a second season.
Three years ago, he sold a gated compound in Hollywood Hills West for $3.5 million, The Times previously reported.
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Get SNASM2 on your Saturn too!
Why, it's even taller than a Mega Drive/Mega CD/32X tower!
Yesterday I mentioned the SNASM2 development kit for the 32X, which I read about on ASSEMbler Games. After further research I found there was a whole range of SNASM kits for many different consoles!
You can get the original SNASM kit for the SNES and Mega Drive, and the SNASM2 for the Jaguar, 32X and Saturn. The Saturn version was advertised for $3,000 (£1,885), but you can pick one up here for just $399 (£250)!
Here is a news report about the SNASM2 from September 1995, with lots of words I don't understand:
"Integrated with Mirage is a new version of the Sega Saturn debugger software called SNASM2.1 - also supplied by Cross Products. SNASM2.1 is the latest version of Cross Products' real-time PC-based debugger.
New features include comprehensive search facilities in source, memory, and disassembly windows; symbol completion; support for GNU C++ qualified function names; a SNASM2-to-GNU COFF converter; and a standalone COFF loader utility. Working with Mirage, SNASM2.1 lets programmers debug code on the PC while code is being tested on a production Sega Saturn with real-time CD emulation. The full development environment, including the Mirage CD-ROM Emulator, the CartDev interface, SNASM2.1 software, a PC SCSI card and modified production Sega Saturn, is available now for under $8,000."
The producer of the SNASM2, Cross Products, was based in Leeds. It was then bought out by Sega in August 1994, and then sold to Imagination Technologies in September 2001.
Unfortunately I've never had any success programming on old systems. I did manage to program a Matrix computer simulator for the ZX Spectrum in BASIC, however. It had random letters and everything!
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The Trout Gallery is a hidden gem located in the Weiss Center for the Arts on the campus of Dickinson College. This fine arts museum houses the college's impressive collection of art, from ancient through contemporary, and features rotating exhibits. It is an excellent resource for the local Carlisle community as well as a great spot for visitors to view art that can't be seen anywhere else.
Since opening in 1983, Dickinson's collection has grown to over 6,000 works with considerable holdings in works-on-paper. Highlights of its ever-growing collection include prints by a number of major Modernist artists, 19th century American and European prints, European and Asian decorative arts, African ethnographic material, bronze statues, and antique coins and artifacts. The gallery's two exhibition spaces feature changing exhibits throughout the year that range from across the globe in almost every medium imaginable. The entrance level gallery houses selections from the museum's permanent collection while the lower-level gallery features temporary exhibits often on loan from other museums.
The Trout Gallery hosts Twilight at the Trout on select Thursday evenings. Guests are invited to stop by for an evening visit where they can enjoy an informal art chat with student educators and experience a highlights tour of the current exhibition.
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Bradford ARC has never been a Club to stand still. The Club operates a 5-year rolling Forward Plan which helps identify, budget and plan for future improvements. This page details some of our recent developments.
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The first phase of work on the weir has now been completed and the Club is now able to use the water. Bradford ARC would like to thank everyone for their supportive messages and the amazing financial assistance to keep rowing in Bradford on the River Aire. The Club was pleased to host its first event of the season – the War of the Roses – Veteran scratch event on the 23rd April followed by Bradford Sprint Regatta on the 25th June and Bradford Autumn Regatta on the 10th September.
August 2016 "I am Team GB"
The Club hosted an open day on Saturday 27th August as part of "I am Team GB", our nation's biggest ever sports day. Lots of interested people came and joined our barbeque, and talked to rowers of all ages, and looked round our Club. If you then think that rowing is for you we will give you all the details of our next Learn to Row course. The fun starts at midday. For directions to the Club click on "Where to Find Us" on the "Contact Us" tab.
2016 – Weir Damage
Weir Collapse Jan 2016
When the water started to recede after the Boxing Day flood it became apparent that the weir had suffered extensive damage and on 15th Jan part of the weir crest collapsed. The Club set in motion the emergency repair process and were very appreciative of the support – both moral and financial – received from so many sources.
2015 – Boxing Day Floods
On Boxing Day the Clubhouse – for the first time ever – was flooded with approx 50cms of water inside damaging gym equipment etc and over a metre in the boatsheds causing damage to boats. The Club rallied round and turned out in force so that the gym was back in operation within 3 days.
Inside Barry Wood boatshed 26 Dec 2015
Clubhouse 26 Dec 2015
2015 – Club Status
In December 2015 the Club received confirmation from the Charities Commission that it had been awarded Charity status.
During the year the Club has undertaken a major reconstruction of itself and its constitution so that it is now owned and run by a company limited by guarantee which is described as a "parent company" or simply "BARC". This was to enable it to seek charitable status and make it possible for the Club to be run in a more modern way. The parent company now owns and runs a trading subsidiary (Bradford Amateur Rowing Club (Trading) Ltd) ("BARC Trading") and also a separate company Hirst Weir Ltd ("HWL") which currently owns the weir.
2014 – Improving Hirst Weir
There has been a weir at Hirst Mill on the River Aire for more than 750 years. Whilst it no longer provides power for a mill it now provides a particularly picturesque length of slack water suitable for the sports of rowing, canoeing, fishing and recreational walking and cycling.
The weir is owned by Hirst Weir Limited (HWL) – a company limited by guarantee with charitable aims of maintaining the weir to support the sport of rowing and other recreational uses.
In the July 2012 floods the weir suffered significant damage and emergency repairs carried out.
Hirst Weir now requires improvement works to ensure its continuity.
2011 – The Barry Wood Boathouse
Sunday July 30th 2011 saw the official opening of The Barry Wood Boathouse and the naming of all the new boats.
The Barry Wood Boathouse honours a man who has dedicated much of his life to Bradford Amateur Rowing Club, both on and off the water, including being Club Secretary and President. He now takes care of all the day to day behind the scenes work as Facilities Manager. Club Captain, Celia Hickson, and Rowing Development Manager, Julia Markham, then proudly named and christened the new boats. As we know, the Sport England grant was offered specifically to fund boats for Women and Juniors. In honour of all the hard work and effort Julia has put in over the last few years, both as RDM and for the countless hours spent working on the grant application, the new Women's Eight now deservingly bears her name. As the man who dedicates so much of his time, enthusiasm and experience to the Club's fast growing Junior Section, Hugh Scott now has a new quad proudly named after him.
Many other boats were named following suggestions from Club members and it's been an altogether great achievement and occasion in the history of Bradford Amateur Rowing Club!
2011 – New Boatshed!
The Club is currently working on a project to further increase participation amongst women and girls, and has been awarded grants in excess of £127,000 towards this. This project will see the building of an additional boatshed and the purchase of boats and oars specifically designed for use by women and juniors. It will also increase the quality and quantity of coaching at the Club by funding members to attend courses to gain coaching qualifications.
2009 – New Coxless Quad!
In October 2009 Bradford ARC became the first rowing club to benefit from Sport England's new Small Grants funding programme launched in April 2009. The Club received a grant of £8634 to purchase its first coxless quad sculling boat complete with 4 pairs of oars.
The Club has a thriving junior membership, which continues to grow year on year thanks to a dedicated coaching team who put in hours each week coaching, planning and attending competitions. The Club takes juniors from age 11 through its links with local schools and taster days.
The boat and oars provided by the grant will be used to sustain participation amongst Junior-16's and older in training and competition, and promote excellence at regional level rowing competition.
2002 – Essentially New!
In 2002 the Club and other river users benefitted from a Community Club Development Programme (CCDP) grant, a government initiative to support community based clubs. The funding provided essential restoration work to Hirst Weir, without which rowing on this stretch of water would no longer have been possible, and refurbishment and enlargement of the Ladies changing rooms which were not compliant with Sport England guidelines.
Year 2000 – Project Oarsome!
2000 saw the Amateur Rowing Association (now British Rowing) launch Project Oarsome, a scheme designed to increase junior participation by linking clubs with local schools. Bradford ARC joined the scheme in 2001 linking with Titus Salt School and bringing in a fleet of boats for junior beginners. The project has been very successful at bringing junior members into the Club, and has developed links with Beckfoot School, Bingley Grammar School and St Joseph's College. As the junior squad has grown both the Club and external funders have contributed to the purchase of additional boats and oars.
1999 – Extended Facilities!
Club members (with some professional help) built an extension to the Clubhouse in order to relocate the men's changing rooms, which also meant that the gym facilities could be extended and improved.


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The Best and Worst of Viral Marketing Campaigns Are Named by Tomer Garzberg in Business Review Australia
San Diego, CA, May 11, 2011 --(PR.com)-- In the May issue of Business Review Australia, Strongman Digital Marketing Director Tomer Garzberg names the best, the worst and the downright ugly in viral marketing campaigns.
Companies like Burger King and Blendtec have struck Viral Marketing gold, while others such as Sony and GM haven't fared as well, Garzberg finds. He also finds that the "Queensland Tourism: Best Job in the World" was one of the best. "An incredible campaign that included the posting of job ads all over the world, for someone to win a role at a job on the Great Barrier Reef. Over $70 million in publicity was generated," Garzberg says in the article.
Meanwhile, GM was an epic fail. Garzberg says, "Although most of the shreds of evidence are long gone, some websites have preserved the best of GM's campaign backfire. GM wanted people to create their own ads of the company's (then) new car, the Chevy Tahoe. What resulted is a collection of pro-environmental ads, which were naturally anti-SUV."
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An Evening with Life Magazine Photographer Bob Gomel, hosted by Filmmaker David Scarborough
December 3, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST Free
Dec. 3, 2020. 7PM EST
Atlanta ASMP member and former national board member Mark Green will moderate: An evening with Bob Gomel and David Scarborough
Bob Gomel is an icon in our industry, and an ASMP legend. ASMP Life Member Michael Hart says:
"Bob was a LIFE Magazine photographer in the '60s, and had numerous covers. His LIFE cover of Eisenhower's casket lying in state, shot remotely from the Capitol dome, is a classic, and was the first time a camera had been mounted in the Capitol Rotunda. He has a photo of Malcolm X taking a photo of Cassius Clay at a lunch counter that is in The Library of Congress. He played football with JFK at Hyannis Port while covering him for goodness sakes! My wife Sharon always refers to him as 'The most interesting man in the world."
He has been an ASMP member for 57 years, which is likely the longest membership ongoing. He founded the Houston Chapter, and, was active in the early days of the New York chapter.
The headline in a recent Albuquerque Journal article read: "Bob Gomel's Photographs Compel Even after 40 Years." The renowned LIFE photographer has documented many of the great moments and personalities of contemporary history. Articles and books have chronicled Bob's adventures, including Art Buckwald's "Leaving Home", Yoko Ono's "Memories of John Lennon", "Arnold Palmer: A Personal Journey," "Malcolm X", by Thulani Davis, Dick Stolley's "Our Century in Pictures". His work is exhibited at The Monroe Gallery, Santa Fe and the Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta.
Bob will share some of his iconic images and the stories behind them in this meeting done via Zoom.
David Scarborough is a Houston based photographer and entrepreneur. Over dinner one evening he proposed an idea to Bob, to produce a documentary film about some of his iconic images and the stories behind them.
Says David "The history Bob witnessed is important. So are the effort and creativity necessary to make extraordinary images of these historic moments. Many of the images are made even more powerful by Bob's perspective on how they were created. I convinced Bob to reflect on his work for LIFE magazine in the 1960s and his subsequent career in a documentary film".
The documentary project came together quickly. David chose to record the videos in 4K on two iPhones in a two-shot setup. The recordings began with a discussion of the Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston fights. The project quickly gained momentum, as David executed his vision for the project, and the stories of more of the epic photos came to life.
Bob says, "The decade of the 1960s was historically powerful. We witnessed so much — from the terrific to the terrible. I'm grateful that David remains interested in the history of the 1960s and that his documentary helped share my perspective on the extraordinary events of the decade and on my life as a photographer."
David will talk about the technical aspects of the shoot and his vision, and both will take questions.
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The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Sir Mike Okiro, has congratulated the new Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba on his appointment.
Until his appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, Abba was the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Charge of Zone 7, Abuja.
Okiro, a former Police IG, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, advised the new police chief to rise up to the challenges of his new appointment.
He noted that as a tested officer who had held various Command positions in the Nigeria Police Force, he has no doubt that Abba would bring new perspectives in the search for solutions to the security threats confronting the nation.
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