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California Continues to Rewrite the Rules of Design
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series on the history of graphic design and social activism in California, with a focus on Los Angeles, published in partnership with KCET Artbound.
For good or ill, California is always a barometer of our collective future: a mashup of global cultures, a cradle of new technologies, the gathering place of political storms and social movements and a harbinger of climate change's impacts. It's the state where cults are founded, stars are born, and limits are tested.
Like the émigrés who fled the dusty air and outdated ideas of the East Coast and Europe for the clean air and sunshine of California, artists and designers in the state found their voices by breaking from modernist traditions and embracing the light, color, and playful attitude of the West Coast. The visual language that has emerged from the Golden State continues to rewrite the rules of design through the unrestrained use of color, stylistic hybridity, and the juxtaposition of high and low culture.
Midcentury Modernist Space Age Design
Graphic design can be broadly understood to include everything from billboards and poster art to album covers, book jackets, film titles, menus, and street signs. The advent of digital design has further expanded its scope. April Greiman, the transmedia artist who used the computer to craft a new aesthetic in the 1980s, felt the term "graphic design" was too limiting. After she became head of the California Institute of the Arts' design department in 1982, she lobbied to change its name to "visual communications."
April Greiman's largest work, a public mural called "Hand Holding a Bowl of Rice," can be seen at the Wilshire Vermont Metro Station in Los Angeles. (image via Wikimedia Commons)
California's graphic design history can be traced back at least to the late 19th century, but the postwar period saw an explosion of creativity. The state's growing population, revitalized industries, and consumer optimism led to the creation of a new, modern lifestyle that was exported globally. Midcentury California was a hub for experimentation, innovation and style: surf and hotrod culture, aeronautics and engineering, plastics and atomic energy, Barbies and fast food. It was the time of wacky Googie-style coffee shops and gas stations, with cantilevered roofs and starbursts designed to catch the eye of passing motorists; and the Case Study House Program, which would, wrote Arts and Architecture editor John Entenza, use "many war-born techniques and materials" to rethink the private home. It was this fascination with the future and its promise that seeped into the aesthetics of the day.
Disneyland opened in 1955, with the Space Age-themed Tomorrowland delivering what Walt Disney described as "a living blueprint of our future." Its Googie-inspired architecture, rides and exhibits, and space-travel imagery showed the possibilities to come.
Disney animator Mary Blair created the whimsical design and color scheme for "It's a Small World." The ride was created for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.
Like many California designers, Blair was inspired by Latin America, whose proximity to California influenced much of the region's look and feel. In 1941, she joined fellow Disney Imagineers for a three-month tour of South America, later capturing the spirit and color of those places in her concept art for classics such as Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan.
With the rise of commercial aviation came a golden era of travel — and of travel posters. California-based illustrators like Stan Galli and Fred Ludekens used vibrant colors and romantic images to persuade the Mad Men-era leisure class to go on glamorous getaways.
Color and pattern were boldly employed in environmental graphics. Marion Sampler, the longtime head of the graphics department at Victor Gruen and Associates, became one of the first African American architectural graphic designers in Los Angeles. He's best known for designing the stunning, kaleidoscopic stained-glass dome at the South Coast Plaza shopping center in Costa Mesa in 1973. He also designed architectural graphics for Joseph Magnin specialty stores, the Beverly Hills Civic Center, and the Pacific Design Center.
Psychedelic Graphics
From tie-dyed clothes to the liquid-light projections at live concerts, the 1960s were soaked in color. John Van Hamersveld's iconic "Endless Summer" movie poster, with its high-contrast silhouettes of surfers melting into the blood-orange sand, yellow sun, and hot-pink sky, laid the groundwork for a generation of designers. Van Hamersveld went on to create album covers for the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Grateful Dead.
John Van Hammersveld, "Endless Summer Poster" (November 8, 2010 copy) 112 x 84 inches (image courtesy the artist)
San Francisco was the hotbed of '60s counterculture, and it's where rock poster artists, notably Victor Moscoso, Wes Wilson, Alton Kelley, Stanley Mouse, and Rick Griffin, used condensed and distorted hand-drawn lettering, complementary colors, and elements of collage to evoke the visual chaos of the concerts, the rebellious ethos of the counterculture, the hallucinatory effect of psychotropic drugs, and the political and social instability of the times. Moscoso had studied color theory under Josef Albers at Yale, where he learned to juxtapose colors at opposite ends of the color scale to create a "buzz of confusion" for the viewer.
Meanwhile, the Light and Space movement took hold in Southern California, with artists like John McCracken, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Helen Pashgian, Lita Albuquerque, and James Turrell combining minimalist sculpture with bold solid colors that capture California's unique light and sense of space.
Colby Posters
Colby Poster Printing Company, the family-owned, all-manual LA print shop, cranked out posters from 1948 until 2012. Their signature fluorescent colors and woodcut typography announced upcoming concerts, mariachi shows, boxing matches, political campaigns, and movie premieres. Colby made strong use of the split fountain or rainbow roll, a color printing technique developed in the late 19th century and re-popularized by The City of San Francisco Oracle, the 1960s psychedelic underground newspaper. The flashy, attention-grabbing posters were affixed to telephone poles and fences, and meant to be readable from the window of a moving car, the bright colors visible in the sunshine.
Colby Posters had a large impact on Los Angeles street style. Artists including Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Daniel Joseph Martinez, and Eve Fowler commissioned work from them. LA-based artist and graphic designer Brian Roettinger channeled Colby Posters and the punk scene of the '80s and '90s in product packaging for the bands No Age and Liars. So too did Julia Luke, in the rainbow-gradient graphic identity for the Hammer Museum's inaugural Made in LA biennial in 2012.
Rainbow Connections
In 1978, San Francisco gay rights activist Harvey Milk tapped artist-activist Gilbert Baker to design a symbol of empowerment for the queer community. Baker created the rainbow flag as a symbol of hope to replace the pink triangle, which Nazis had used to identify gay prisoners. Baker's original flag had eight colors; pink and turquoise were dropped the following year.
Gilbert Baker's flag at the GLBT Museum (image courtesy Gerard Koskovich)
In an autobiography, the Wichita native recounts how he, like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, traded a sepia-toned life in Kansas for San Francisco's color and diversity. He knew how color could shock: the provocateur showed up at a 1990 pride parade as "Pink Jesus," fully covered in pink body paint, wearing only an American-flag loincloth and tied to a cross with a sign that read "Martyrs for Art."
This June, a newly rediscovered segment of Gilbert Baker's original 1978 flag was returned to San Francisco and donated to the GLBT Historical Society Museum and Archives. The rainbow flag was also added to the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection in 2015. Baker refused to trademark the flag so that it could be free for anyone to use. Multiple designers have updated it in recent years, adding new stripes to be more inclusive of queer people of color and trans people.
The LA 1984 Olympics
California designers have long drawn inspiration from Mexico and Central and South America. Muticolored Saltillo serapes and Mayan huipils, the Mexican muralists of the post-revolutionary 1920s and 1930s, Luis Barragán's pink walls: these have all been touchpoints for California design.
Influential LA designer Deborah Sussman began her career in the office of Charles and Ray Eames, where she collaborated closely with Alexander Girard and developed an interest in Indigenous cultures and folk art, particularly of Mexico. When she was tasked with conceiving the design identity of the LA 84 Olympics, she looked to the work of American graphic designer Lance Wyman, who created the design strategy for the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games. Wyman created a logo with curvy lines radiating from the '68 Olympics logo, color-coded pictograms and other visuals inspired by Mexico's Indigenous history.
1984 Olympics (images courtesy Sussman/Prejza)
(photo by Annette Del Zoppo)
Sussman, with her husband, architect Paul Prejza, and architect Jon Jerde, created a "kit-of-parts" visual alphabet that could be adapted for each venue. Street banners and pylons used a bright palette (magenta, vermillion, aqua, and chrome yellow) inspired by Sussman's travels in India, China, Japan, and Mexico.
Like in Mexico City, LA's games were held at repurposed structures scattered across the city. Sussman's environmental graphics served the purpose of placemaking and wayfinding, helping visitors navigate LA's sprawl while giving the city a cohesive visual identity that celebrated its diversity.
The graphic design industry as a whole was slow to warm up to computers as not just tools of design, but sources of new aesthetic possibilities. April Greiman saw their potential early on, buying the newly released 1984 April Macintosh to layer images and text and break from the formal grid. Greiman, who had studied at the legendary Basel School of Design, referred to the California New Wave design movement she helped usher in as "the Swiss school on acid."
In 1986, Greiman guest-designed an issue of the influential Design Quarterly magazine. The issue, entitled "Does It Make Sense?," unfolded into a three-by-six-foot poster and contained a life-size, nude self-portrait surrounded by images and text, all made with MacDraw. Greiman's posters and magazine covers, and her collaborations with artist and designer Jayme Odgers, went on to influence Wired magazine's early covers and the GeoCities-era Web aesthetic.
Desktop publishing forever changed the graphic design profession, and Berkeley-based digital type foundry and magazine Emigre led the charge. Founded in 1984, coinciding with the birth of the Mac, husband-and-wife team Rudy Vanderlans and Zuzana Licko were pioneers of digital type, with hundreds of independent foundries following in their footsteps.
Color, Light, and Designing Today
April Greiman, in an AIGA interview, recalled how LA's sunsets inspired her use of color. "I remember being mesmerized every day around sunset when this golden light, this pink gold light, would just drape the whole city. It was spiritual … I ended up doing some early work, even corporate work, in bright colors and DayGlo orange."
Shortly before her death, Deborah Sussman told an interviewer she was inspired by "the colors of the fading and then bright sunset sky behind the poplars and eucalyptus trees" in her garden.
The color and light of California, and the work of past designers, continue to influence.
Jackie Rivera, "Life Life Now" (image courtesy the artist)
The LA-based spatial designer Adi Goodrich, co-founder with director Sean Pecknold of Sing-Sing Studio, is known for her bold use of shapes and colors in all of her wide-ranging projects, and cites Mary Blair as an inspiration. For example, an art installation called "A Perpetual Sunset" for an Instagram office is made up of cascading rainbow arches flanked by lavender palm fronds that ends in an LA sunset.
The Grammy-winning graphic designer Lawrence Azerrad also draws from LA's colors, and cites Sussman as a major influence. While working with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on their album art for 1999's Californication, he wanted to evoke the colors of '70s psychedelic rock posters. The album cover shows a swimming pool that contains the fiery orange of an LA sunset, while the sky is made up of an upside-down picture of blue water taken near the Santa Monica Pier.
Or check out the work of Jackie Rivera, a Santa Rosa-based designer and artist who draws from the colors of her California upbringing, Latinx heritage and '70s art and design in her lettering and illustrations for the LA Times' "Latinx Files" newsletter, commercial work for Snapchat and Facebook, and more. She reflects a new generation of designers who infuse the colors and cultures of California into their work.
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The Memorial Arch commemorates those who served in World War One. The arch bears the names of those who enlisted from the Wagga district.
In the midst of the World War One from as early as 1916, there had been a proposal for a Memorial Arch to honour volunteer soldiers. The proposal gained momentum when the servicemen returned after the War. A plan was finally prepared to construct a monumental archway entrance to the memorial gardens in 1925. The Victory Memorial Gardens Arch was finally completed at a cost of £1700 and was officially unveiled amid great fanfare on Anzac Day 1927 by Major-General C. F. Cox.
WAGGA, Monday. A great crowd assembled before the memorial arch this afternoon. Major-General Cox unveiled the memorial arch, which bears the names of all soldiers who enlisted from the Wagga district. The Rev. J. G. Wheen, president-general of the Methodist Church of Australia, dedicated the arch to the memory of the soldiers. Returned soldiers afterwards marched to the Strand Theatre, where a united memorial service was held, the Rev. J. B. Galloway (Presbyterian) presiding. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. G Wheen (Methodist) and the Rev. C. T. Debenham (Anglican).
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Live from Comic Con 2014 we have just uploaded new High-Res images showcasing the new Gentle Giant LTD Jumbo G.I. Joe ARAH line up.
Check out all the new round two Gentle Giant SDCC 2014 G.I. Joe Jumbo images after the jump.
Dreamwalkeroso from over at Gentle Giant LTD was nice enough to stop by and offer the fans a Q&A session for Gentle Giant LTD!
GG on a GI Joe site?
Could this be because you guys are doing a vintage 1980's 12" GI Joe ARAH line? Like the 12" vintage Kenner Star Wars line? There have been persistent rumors for a while now that this was in the works, and if it is, I could not be happier....The SW line is fantastic, and a Joe line could be even better, depending how it is done.
It would be interesting to see how you would go about it, construction-wise...Retain the full articulation of the 1980's figures, with the Oring intact, or go with some kind of static 5 POA line? personally, I would like a direct 12" translation, starting with the ORIGINAL 13 figures from 1982, even in straight arm form.
I can't wait to see what SDCC 2014 has to offer.
Holy hell, that is exactly what i was hoping for. EXACTLY.
I'm in! Credit card limits be damned!!!
Not really interested in this. Interesting idea and glad they are doing something.
If they are totally blown up O-ring style figures I'm in as long as they're quality.
There's Grunt in the photo as well... haha awesome!
holy crap look at those! I'm gonna have to get a second job. Too freaking cool! Looks like they even have all their gear too!
wow I can't wait to see close ups of them. It's gonna be like the 80's all over again.
edit: are they making them straight arm ? I can't tell but Zap almost looks like its straight arm.


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Video -- Grandma Regina Brave 'You Keep us Strong with your Prayers'
Grandma Regina Brave was arrested during the militarized police raid on Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock on Feb. 23, 2017. She was among the first of 45 arrested, and has been released. Listen to her words.
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Photos: Military Assault on Oceti Sakowin and Rosebud Camps, Standing Rock
Militarized police needlessy ripping open tipi above.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol helicopter hovered overhead most of the day.
U.S. military assault on Oceti Sakowin and Rosebud Camps, Feb. 23, 2017
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Mohawk Nation News 'Women Titleholders Give Notice'
WOMEN TITLEHOLDERS GIVE NOTICE
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MNN. Feb. 24, 2017. The world watches in horror as the US military commit atrocities at Standing Rock to try to kill the water defenders for a private pipeline. Automatic weapons are pointed directly at us. The presence of the military force is to continue the genocide of our people.
The kohtihon'tia:kwenio, the women title holders of great turtle island, give notice. We are obliged to preserve and protect the land for the future generations.
We are mandated to inform the invading aliens and their agents to respect our freedom to live and travel throughout our lands without hindrance.
We come from creation. We survived mass murder in the biggest holocaust in all humanity, chemical and biological warfare, starvation, physical and mental torture, lies, ignorance and genocide by statute.
The US, Canada and Mexico are fabricated private colonial corporations that are squatting on our land. They are banking "franchises" of Europe, not governments, who have illegally divided up our lands and resources. They can never become sovereign on our land.
Only we have sovereign authority. We have ancient agreements and alliances among all our people.
The Charter of the United Nations requires respect for the principles of equal rights and self-determination. Differences are to be resolved peacefully.
The franchises are violating the internationally recognized standards for respecting political rights of the People as set out in the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, UN Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and other international legal instruments.
General Assembly Resolution 1541 [XV] requires the informed consent of the people before they are included in another state; and the International Court of Justice affirmed this principle in the Western Sahara case. We are not and will never become part of the colonial states that are squatting on our land.
OCETI CAMP AT STANDING ROCK.
According to Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Sections 1 and 2, every people have a right to a nationality. No nation can change another nation's identity by imposing foreign legislation. Our travel, trade and commerce must be unhindered throughout the Americas known as the Western Hemisphere, which we call great turtle island.
Ignoring our perspectives on us, our land, resources, air, water and all life are universally recognized as illegal.
The squatters cannot arbitrarily turn anybody into subjects of their corporation without our knowledge or consent.
We shall freely traverse all our lands, pass and re-pass by land or inland navigation or by air onto all our territories. Taxes, duties and all fees are illegally extracted from us by these foreigners. We shall hunt and fish anywhere on our territory.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides that no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their life or freedom. The US must immediately stop threatening, murdering and detaining us, contravening the internationally recognized principles of fundamental justice.
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been adopted by a majority of states. We are equal to all others and have a right to full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
We demand the settler corporation immediately disarm and stop detaining, murdering, torturing, raping, robbing us, harassing and charging us in their illegally imposed Admiralty law of the seas judicial system. They must bring their concerns to the proper traditional onkwe'hon:weh governments.
WOMEN AND MEN EVERYWHERE CAN STOP THE BRUTALITY.
Torture is premeditated, systemic and scientific meant to break down our dignity, our social fabric and foment terror within the people.
Puppet tribal and band councils imposed by the corporation are treasonous.
Canada, US and Mexico and other colonial franchises must cease and desist violating the authority of the land owners of great turtle island.
Our duty is to protect our physical integrity and legal rights.
Threats, murder and torture have no place in the internal or international relations of any peoples. The principles of the great peace and teh'io:hateh [Two Row Wampum], are the true laws of onon'ware:keh;
We demand the corporation immediately vacate great turtle island.
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gall and the others jumped on their horses to meet the enemy head on without fear. They fought for the generations to come.
Jimi Hendrix sings about fighting for freedom: "You got my pride hanging out of my bed. You're messing with my life, so I brought my lead. You're even messing with my children, and you're screaming at my wife. Get off of my back f you want to get out of here alive. Freedom, that's what I want now. Freedom, that's what I need now". http://www.vevo.com/watch/jimi-hendrix/Freedom/USQX91502874
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Goooal! Faculty vs. Student Soccer Game to be Held Feb. 19
This is the first year Men's Soccer and Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club have joined forces for a joint-fundraiser.
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Kristen Conklin, News Editor-in-Chief
The Faculty vs. Student soccer game sponsored by Men's Soccer and Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club will take place Feb. 19 on the soccer field from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
"Teaming-up with the Men's Soccer team to host a faculty and student soccer game benefits everyone," Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club sponsor Stephanie Vaughan said. "It helps to fulfill our goal of unifying and celebrating different cultural experiences and traditions. And even more importantly, it promotes building team spirit and school culture of pride."
Senior Diego Cruz, secretary of Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club, and club member senior Paul Gomez came up with the idea to collaborate with Men's Soccer for this fundraiser.
"Diego and Paul suggested that we have a teacher vs. student soccer game," Vaughan said. "We all thought it was a great idea, so I let Diego take the lead on this project. At a later meeting, Diego reported that coach Hamlett agreed to having a soccer game. I later spoke with coach Hamlett to confirm a date and we proceeded from there."
According to Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club president senior Mahogany Revada, the Faculty vs. Student soccer game will help the club raise money for a future trip to Italy.
"Italy is a place [for people] to expand because most people in our club are from other places," Revada said. "We need to have more fundraisers. We really don't want to pay out of pocket."
Cruz said Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club "wants to celebrate diversity" during the Faculty vs. Student soccer game.
"In the club we have people from everywhere, all over the world," Cruz said. "We're trying to break those chains because sometimes people are [close minded]."
At the Faculty vs. Student soccer game, teachers and students can purchase concessions and t-shirts to support Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club and Men's Soccer.
"Teachers and students should attend the game to show their support," Vaughan said. "They should expect to see teachers and students playing soccer together; having fun; embracing our rich diversity and promoting school pride."
For those interested in participating in the event, a sign-up sheet will be released prior to Feb. 19. Faculty vs. Student soccer game tickets can be purchased for $3 on School Cash. On the day of the event, tickets will be sold at the gate for $4.
For those interested interested in joining Cultural Heritage Appreciation Club, meetings take place in the library Wednesdays after school from 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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All contracts made by the legislative authority of a village shall be executed in the name of the village and signed on its behalf by the mayor and clerk. Except where the contract is for equipment, services, materials, or supplies to be purchased under division (D) of section 713.23 or section 125.04 or 5513.01 of the Revised Code, available from a qualified nonprofit agency pursuant to sections 4115.31 to 4115.35 of the Revised Code, or required to be purchased from a qualified nonprofit agency under sections 125.60 to 125.6012 of the Revised Code, or, during the period of emergency declared by Executive Order 2020-01D, issued on March 9, 2020, when the purchase is for personal protective equipment necessary to respond to that emergency, when any expenditure, other than the compensation of persons employed in the village, exceeds fifty thousand dollars, such contracts shall be in writing and made with the lowest and best bidder after advertising once a week for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the village. The legislative authority may also cause notice to be inserted in trade papers or other publications designated by it or to be distributed by electronic means, including posting the notice on the legislative authority's internet web site. If the legislative authority posts the notice on its web site, it may eliminate the second notice otherwise required to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the village, provided that the first notice published in such newspaper meets all of the following requirements:
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Toronto, Day 364
By Alyx Dellamonica | May 15, 2014 - 11:59 am | May 15, 2014 True Stories, Uncategorized
Kelly and I spent our last night in Vancouver in a place downtown; I remember the view, but can't remember which hotel it was. At dawn, we headed back to the eerily empty Woodland Drive condo for the last time. It would never look that way again–we sold it to a flipper who knocked out a wall, ripped out the floors, painted everything white, and put in stainless steel appliances. Every trace of us, twelve years of cozy domesticity and bohemian paint choices, was about to be wiped away.
(Or not. Our neighbor Missy had hung a going away present on our door. She's not the only one from the building we're still in touch with.)
Anyway, we went in. Minnow was wedged onto the countertop between the fridge and the stove. I can't remember where Rumble was sleeping. We packed them into the Furrari, apologizing profusely, and cabbed to the airport with all our bags.
I remember security made us pull them out of the cage to check for threats and boobytraps. Nobody enjoyed that.
We checked a ton of luggage. Everything we'd need for the stretch between landing here and the arrival of the truck full of our remaining stuff, many weeks later. We'd bought a massive thing meant for hockey equipment, sort of a monster gym bag with wheels, and filled it with just enough kitchen stuff to let us to cook real food.
My grandmother was still alive.
I had wrapped up a draft of the novel I'm still rewriting, the better to concentrate on the transition. I was also smack in the middle of teaching an intense and productive group of novel-writing students for UCLA. As all of this happened, I was writing a dozen critiques every other week.
We took off, we flew, we landed. I don't remember much about the flight. Peter Watts had agreed to pick us up so that the cats could be ferried directly from the airport to their new home, no fuss, no muss. It was a relief to see they'd survived the flight; Minnow was already unwell. He brought an air mattress in case our bed didn't arrive.
(Our bed didn't, in fact, arrive.)
It took awhile to get oriented. We needed replacements for the well-used things we'd got rid of in Vancouver, stuff we'd been wanting to upgrade for years, stuff that would have cost more to ship than it was worth. I remember repeated daily trips out into the neighborhood in search of furniture places, lighting stores, housewares places. The guy who was supposed to have our bed delivered the day we arrived completely flaked–and there was unpleasantness over the refund. In the end we grudgingly resorted to Ikea.
It was spring, and now that it's spring again I see that we had just missed the cherry blossoms, magnolia, and forsythia. Right now the city is all abloom. I remember being wonderstruck by my first sight of groundhogs, at Fort York. I had to go looking for bluejays and cardinals, because my neighborhood is largely sparrow-starling-pigeon turf, and I found them at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. I made friends with Lake Ontario, and there discovered I would still be able to shoot cormorants, swallows and great blue herons to my heart's content.
I don't remember a lot of specific emotions, except gratitude for the friends who helped, in big ways and small: Peter, Keph and Linda especially. There was just so much going on, so much to do.
The elevators were a constant source of drama. The rented condo was brand spanking new, so there was a move-in coordinator tasked with ensuring that everyone had an elevator when they needed one. She was a bit scattered and disorganized, and Kelly had many frustrating conversations with her. Also! The elevator fix-it people were on strike citywide, so security dudes were camped out in the elevators, to ensure that the tenants didn't push buttons improperly or jam doors, and thereby break them.
They broke all the same, though–fortunately–never when we were getting big heavy objects delivered. Some guys moving in on the eighth floor had to heft everything they owned up a back stairwell.
Our rented condo was also so new that Canada Post wasn't even delivering there yet. I had to make a weekly commute out to Leslieville and hike down past a cement factory to try to cajole envelopes from UCLA and TOR, along with forwarded Vancouver junk mail–Art supply sale at Opus! You are preapproved to borrow ludicrous amounts of money at blindingly stupid interest rates! Arts Club Theater wants You!–out of posties who had been snowed under by mail from the apartment buildings sprouting up all over downtown. The building was so new that the common areas weren't finished, and the view out of my window all summer was of guys working, at a desultory pace, on the building courtyard.
I remember being amazed that here in Ontario, stores of various kinds closed for Victoria Day. Grocery stores! Home Depot! Restaurants! Had we time travelled? Were we back in the Seventies?
So there was chaos and dislocation and excitement and the occasional burst of OMG, what have we done? and an ongoing quest for a coffee roaster whose beans compare with the ones we were buying at Elysian and Revolver. Eleven months later, we packed it all up and did it again, in miniature, hopping east and north to this new place. About which you've already heard much and will hear more, much more!
Today, I just feel lucky that it went so well.
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After twenty-two years in Vancouver, B.C., I've recently moved to Toronto Ontario, where I make my living writing science fiction and fantasy; I also review books and teach writing online at UCLA. I'm a legally married lesbian, a coffee snob, and I wake up at an appallingly early hour.
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Though I love to play all sorts of different sports myself, when it comes to watching I'm definitely most passionate about The Fastest Sport In The World, hockey, and The Biggest Game On Earth, soccer. And when it comes to soccer, in particular, I feel that sometimes it's important to have your priorities straight. Sometimes you just have to know when it's time to rearrange your whole schedule in order to watch each and every game of the World Cup or European Championships. In fact, I'd say few things in life are as clear, simple, straightforward and obvious.
After watching the Dutch crash out of the EURO 2008 Soccer Championships a little earlier today, I decided that I had no choice but to, once again, write about the agony of being a Dutch soccer fan.
Sad news today: One of the 2 or 3 greatest players to ever play the game of hockey has announced his retirement. Yes, at the age of 40 Mario Lemieux is calling it quits. Lemieux, like Gretzky, made watching the NHL (and international tournaments like the Canada Cup) an absolute joy back in the 80's and early-90's. But, personally, my favorite Mario memories are definitely from December 2000 to May 2001 when, after 3 years of retirement and at the relatively ripe old age of 35, he made one of the greatest comebacks in professional sports history, not only guiding the Penguins to the Eastern Conference Finals and just barely missing the Stanley Cup Finals, but also becoming the leading scorer in the league from the time of his comeback until the end of the season.
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Facing down racism: lessons and learning
These questions finish up the Facing down racism series, where Black people and People of Color help pull back the curtain on how harm caused by microaggressions, blatant racism, and harm within the industry can be rectified.
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In the final article in our Facing down racism series, we share additional insight from marginalized voices in the advertising industry.
The previous articles focused on experiences and apathy. In this installment we look to the future, examining how real change can happen, and how to focus on improving the industry from the inside out. The racism that these interviewees have experienced won't disappear with reform, but the industry can ensure that the future is better for all People of Color and marginalized people with change now.
These accounts are from Elisha Smith-Leverock, a director based in Germany with frequent work in the UK [ESL]; an anonymous Agency Strategist, who works internationally [AS]; Jaiden James, a Creative Strategist, who works in Germany and the UK [JJ]; Rachel Hoffman an Agency Producer based in Germany [RH]; Monika Martinez, a Creative Producer specializing in fashion based in Germany and the USA [MM]; Anissa Carrington a freelance designer and Art Director based in Germany [AC]; an anonymous Creative Strategist working internationally [CS]; Katharina Hingst, a director working in Germany [KH]; Lorena Maza, an international consultant [LM]; Affa Osman a creative consultant and Casing Director in Germany and the UK [AO]; and an anonymous Social Media Manager [SM].
Answers have been edited for length and clarity.
What lessons do you hope the industry learns now that people say they are willing to listen?
ESL: I hope that the industry will not only listen but actually hear what is being said. It's for the good of this industry. There are amazing initiatives out there created by marginalized groups that are offering valuable insights, including plans and actionable next steps. The industry should take that guidance and put in the work.
AS: The industry should be aware that everything we're saying has already been said, and has been repeated for years! If they are only starting to listen now, they're actually quite late to the party. If this is you, educate yourselves and please do not burden and tokenize the few Black employees and colleagues while going through this process.
Understand that educating yourself on how to combat a racist system, and how to derive sincere and sustainable actions from it, is incredibly hard work. We are talking about a racist world order that has been built over centuries and affects all areas of life – not only our advertising bubble. Anti-racist work is deeply personal, deeply existential, and therefore deeply difficult.
Black people should not be burdened with changing the system. It is a kind of violence to ask a victim of systemic oppression to provide the remedy to the disease. Racism is not a Black people problem. Racism is a white people problem. That is where the responsibility and accountability should lie.
To argue with me, and to argue with Black people, when discussions of experiential and systemic racism come up is a tactic to protect white people and establish whose intellectual contributions are valuable. -AO
JJ: Companies have a long way to go. Now that companies are observing their practices critically, I hope they take a long look in the mirror in order to understand their own complicity and why their company culture allowed bigotry to thrive.
RH: Above all, our industry needs to understand that performative action is not helpful. White advocates must continue their activism offline and off-hours. They need to be active and follow up with actions raised by People of Color.
Don't advertise your allyship, be that ally in your space. -KH
Additionally, People of Color must be allowed to tell their own stories. Our industry should deliberately bring PoC onto projects. This moment should not rely on PoC to do educational work. Many are tired after years of being ignored and do not have the energy to convince their colleagues, supervisors, or clients who assume that the advertising industry doesn't have a problem.
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MM: We have to recenter the conversation within our own circles.The industry must learn to include the voices of the people who are most affected by racism and other intersectional systemic oppression. Actions and conversations surrounding racism often become dominated by white, male, and elitist people, which results in moving the focus from Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to white people.
The industry must have equal representation across board and management and in creative roles.
Black people should not be burdened with changing the system.-AS
AC: For a start, I hope a lot of people take a long hard look in the mirror and reflect on their past actions (or inaction) in the face of racist aggressions. Realizing you aren't free from racial biases, no matter how liberal you think you are, is a necessary first step.
KH: I am really hoping that the industry is willing to do more than just listen. While it is an incredibly important first step, listening has to be followed up with action. This action needs to be an immediate response to what people are asking for in order to enable real change within institutionalized racism.
Don't advertise your allyship, be that ally in your space. Show up and support this movement every day, not just on social media, but at home, at work, on public transport, pass it on to your kids, create space for real change in ad campaigns that shape what we consider normal. Question the norm, at every point. It's our time to change the narrative on screen and in real life.
LM: The first step is to start with yourself. We have to fight sexism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and all other kinds of discrimination in the industry as well.
AO: White people within the industry need to stop arguing with me about something that they have never experienced. There is often an instinct within white people to argue with me about my experiences with racism. All this does is keep white people comfortable. To argue with me, and to argue with Black people, when discussions of experiential and systemic racism come up is a tactic to protect white people and establish whose intellectual contributions are valuable.
The advertising industry has been using Black culture and aesthetics for years, and now it's time to offer Black creatives, directors, and photographers the opportunity to truthfully express their point of view. -RH
The industry should nurture talent and make creative education accessible and attainable for people, especially those who aren't from means.
Optics matter and we need to question how much we have done to actually and actively fight systemic racism. If you view antiracism as a phase, do you understand that you're part of the problem? Before the industry accepts that this will be a constant dismantling of biases, they can't do the heavy work of undoing the system.
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Is there something else you want the industry, (and white people working in adland,) to know?
ESL: First, I want them to realize that answering questions like these is a hugely emotional endeavor that goes to the core of who we are as people. Know that we, as PoC, are not sharing these experiences for your benefit, so that you can tick all the boxes and feel like you have done a good deed. Nothing will be fixed until white people develop real compassion and understand that we, as human beings, are all in this together. None of us will be able to fully fix the problems in adland until we have fixed our collective problems, period.
Anti-racist work is deeply personal, deeply existential, and therefore deeply difficult. -AS
AS: I love the sentiment of Audre Lorde, [a Black American writer, feminist, and activist, known for her poetry and essays], who stresses that there is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. So, although the most pressing subject right now is race-related, we should never forget that it is always interwoven with issues of gender, education, capital, access, ableism, religion, etc. This type of understanding is about centering the most marginalized and not some self-help activity for white people.
Be an unconditional ally. Do not support the movement with strings attached. -KH
I also want to share this quote I saw on social media: "None of your faves are unproblematic. None of your friends are unproblematic. You are not unproblematic. There is literally no point during the process of learning about social justice, unlearning internalized bigotry, and dismantling systems of power when you magically become enlightened and unproblematic. The end does not exist. There is no tangible finish line. There is only endless, arduous work. It's hard, but it needs to be done."
There is often an instinct within white people to argue with me about my experiences with racism. All this does is keep white people comfortable. -AO
JJ: I just want to ask what took this long? Anybody could see marginalized folks were not truly a part of the industry. The constant erasure is shocking and disturbing. Where do we go from here?
RH: The advertising industry has been using Black culture and aesthetics for years, and now it's time to offer Black creatives, directors, and photographers the opportunity to truthfully express their point of view.
MM: I want people to know that this is not just about racism. Black cis women, Black trans women, Black femmes, and Black gender non-conforming people are fighting multiple wars waged against us, professionally and personally.
We are fighting sexism and classism too. I urge us all to make the difficult commitment of linking these systems together. Without intersectionality, we are betraying a vision of justice for all BIPOC - in and out of creative industries.
Also, stop using #Blacklivesmatter to promote or sell your brand, agency, or product.
AC: Just because you don't experience or notice racism at your workplace doesn't mean it is not there. It probably just means you're part of the problem.
None of us will be able to fully fix the problems in adland until we have fixed our collective problems, period. -ESL
KH: Advertising is not open heart surgery; it's ok to make mistakes. It's ok to not know things because they haven't been on your immediate radar. Learn our language and respect the labels we have chosen for ourselves. If you are corrected, don't see it as an insult or an attack, take your ego out of the equation, and recognize that we all want the same thing.
And last, but not least: be an unconditional ally. Do not support the movement with strings attached. I want all people to be open to changing your mind in order to see the beauty in the unfamiliar.
There is literally no point during the process of learning about social justice, unlearning internalized bigotry, and dismantling systems of power when you magically become enlightened and unproblematic. -AS
AO: I do not want you to "invite me to the table." That implies you already have ownership of the table, and I am allowed to sit as a guest. Instead, make impactful changes. Make the effort to change white culture from the inside.
SM: I want people to know that they need to actually hire People of Color and Black people in leadership to create sustainable change within the company.
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With last year showing us that paid content is on its way out, and a more organic version of social is making a comeback, Christina Miller, Head of Social at VMLY&R, says brands will need to shift their social strategies to stay relevant. But how can they offer consumers the authentic experience they crave? And what are the costs of social platforms trying to imitate their more successful competitors?
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Author: Danny Smith
Danny Smith is a writer and malcontent, Contributing Editor of Paradise Circus.
We all know that Birmingham isn't shit. We've spent nearly 20 years telling people, showing the world, and often undermining our case. In our new book we lay out the ineffable reasons why we say 'Birmingham: it's not shit' and attempt to eff it. It's a great buy, and has this festive content in it.
I'm not going to argue that the German Market isn't shit. Its shiteness is self-evident and widely talked about. It's easy to slag it off, so first I will. There are crowds of people with no idea how to act or move in crowds. There's the eye-damage from stray umbrella spokes. And there's overpriced tat and foul tasting sweets sold from the same five or six stalls repeated over and over again. Over and over again like a twisted parody of the shops in your pisshole suburb's high street. The high street that you've just come from on a bus that manages to be both clammy with condensation and uncomfortably full of coat. To drink, there's headache beer and migraine wine liberally over-served to once-a-year drinkers. The weather is almost consistently a mixture of sleet and hail, so perfectly calibrated for its bleakness it's enough to make you believe in an intelligent creator; and that he hates us.
Pissing it down at the german market
For the longest time, people loved the German Market. To all Brummies it's 'The German Market' no matter how hard the PR hacks push its real name, or how large they print the words on the banner. People would meet after work, parents would bring their kids, and hating it became akin to labeling yourself Scrooge McBastard and filming yourself buggering an elf on a shelf. But hate it I did. It's unfair to label me a contrarian because that would imply some reactionary element, I'm not a contrarian, I'm just a weirdo.
But the German Market lost its shine. The prices, that were always a little high, carried on inflating while peoples' wages were stretched a little further. Its popularity grew but the infrastructure to support it lagged. The local shops came to resent the two full months of having a carnival full of office drunks on their doorstep, and there's only so many wooden croaking frogs you can buy your other half for Christmas before they start pissing in your morning coffee.
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Silence the trumpets and with muffled drum
We love to send Danny Smith into the heart of the action. The big heart , obviously. But this time he's sent himself. Here are some direct live What's Apps from up town, where he's now wrangling kids for the day job.
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[9:02 am, 29/07/2022] Danny Smith: Being in town is weird, uncomfortable… This is exactly how I felt when Diana died… Everybody caring so much and me not giving a solitary shit… Civic pride is odd, what have we actually got to be proud of? The same bars and restaurants as every other major city… Highest portion of kids on free school meals (Northfield)… Knife violence… Homelessness… University's that have essential priced out local students and now are funded by foreign students? I'm tired of celebrating how mediocre we are… Great things happen in Birmingham despite of the city and these should be celebrated like any flower that can grow between the cracks in concrete.
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Jobs Not Fair
We fancied getting a real insider's view of the Commonwealth Games, so we suggested our Contributing Editor get in there. After failing to qualify for anything he had to get a day job, and then not give it up.
Elmore Leonard once advised that you should start a book by describing the weather, but fuck him, I'll start what I want any which way I want. The weather Friday was grey, not necessarily overcast, not not anything, a void of a day, rain that was that spiteful invisible mist I've only ever experienced in Birmingham. I literally woke up screaming the night before but despite all that I was feeling good.
The city centre these days seems smaller, blander. More like a place that people seem to be traveling through rather than arriving. Maybe there is less in it now that I want to see, or maybe the chain stores and brands just get folded on top of each other in my head to save space. There's a lot of building work finished or in the process of finishing, between the paving slabs you can still see the sand that escaped the appetencies' broom. It all has the furtive hurried air of someone who's changed the sheets in case the date goes well.
The library opens earlier but at ten minutes to eleven there is a smatter of people waiting for the upper levels to open, there is a standing flag for the Jobs Fair with a man in a suit directing people. I'm here mostly because the Jon's banged their fists on the desk and demanded "get me Commonwealth content", but it was also suggested I go at the last appointment at the jobcentre. As I'm early I head on down to the "Book Browse" and, well, browse the books. Come eleven, I'm directed to the elevators, I head up the escalators, the man in the suit stops me
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Music promoters have hitherto only interpreted Birmingham in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" Danny went to speak to someone who thinks the new boss doesn't have to be the same as the old boss, it can be a democratically elected representative of an autonomous collective.
There is a spectre haunting this interview – the spectre of Birmingham Promoters.
A few years ago, when most people at gigs had never washed their hands, Birmingham Promoters had a near monopoly of smaller gigs in some of our best venues.
Then came the Brum music scene's rejection of the man running it; called out publicly for misogyny and sexual assault back in 2021, after the rumours and whispered warnings from victims and friends to other women finally got heard. Since then, Birmingham Promoters has scrubbed its presence off the internet, its not clear they or the company (BPL Events LTD) has been doing or whether they actually received the £115,759 granted to them by the Cultural Recovery Fund. Birmingham Promoters seems to be more gone than the R-rate.
Now that we're pretending the pandemic is over and the music scene in Birmingham begins to brush itself off, get its hands dirty, and get back to its feet, you have to wonder who will fill the gap. Mark Roberts says he has part of the solution.
Seeing advertisements for Birmingham Co-Operative Promoters and their inaugural event The Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism Party I knew I had to speak to him. Mark arrives on time and instantly buys me a drink. Tall and slender he suits the vintage vibe he gives off, the maroon leather jacket matching his deep red Dr Martens, despite looking like a hippy, he politely asserts his turn at the bar when the bartender asks 'who's next' in a situation many would demurely acquiesce.
During the interview he is animated and eloquent and sometimes leans down towards the recorder when he wants to talk to you, the reader directly.
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Hi, wire acts
There are eight million stories in the naked city. Danny Smith is always up for naked stories, so we sent him to the city. Turns out that this particular Commonwealth Games launch didn't have any of the nudey volleyball.
The couple behind me have been talking since I arrived. Their accent is a cut glass received pronunciation I associate with a old flat mate from Kent, who would need putting to bed after two glasses of wine and once offered me money to wash his work clothes because he didn't know how and did not want to learn. It's getting close to seven and the full moon hangs in the sky with a buttery soft light that, coupled with the crowd's excitement, adds to the atmosphere. The crowd is mostly families, a solid block of expensive walking anoraks and friendly dad beards.
Tonight is the start of the Birmingham Festival 2022, a nebulous collection of art events being held by organisations with the patience and resources to get through the byzantine application process. Tonight is acting as the beginning of the Commonwealth Games apart from the multiple 'countdown beginning' and other photo opportunities
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Author Danny SmithPosted on 23 March 2022 24 July 2022 Categories identityTags commonwealth games, CWGamesLeave a comment on Hi, wire acts
Welcome to Freedonia
Mask on, gloves off. As covid restrictions drop, and we head into 'normal' (whatever that is), we wanted to see if normal was, normal. We sent our 'normal' correspondent Danny Smith to see if the pubs are on track, or lost without trace. We did not pay him billions of pounds.
In the 1933 film Duck Soup an incompetent huckster becomes leader of a tiny country through borrowed wealth and inherited money and proceeds to bumble it into war and potential ruin.
Why mention that?
No reason.
Welcome to 'Freedom Day' where the only thing stopping you acting exactly how you want is common decency, and to paraphrase Voltaire – common decency ain't that common.
Long Live The Local
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We all know that Birmingham isn't shit. We've spent nearly 20 years telling people, showing the world, and often undermining our case. We lay out the ineffable reasons why we say 'Birmingham: it's not shit' and attempt to eff it.
We've compiled 50 of the biggest things, places, people and feelings that delight us about the second city. Jon Bounds, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith will take you down Dale End and up The Ackers. If you want to find out more about Aston Villa's sarcastic advertising hoarding, the Camp Hill Flyover, or even come with us on a journey up the M6 and find out why all of our hearts leap when we see Fort Dunlop, then come, meet us at the ramp.
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Author Danny SmithPosted on 4 May 2021 30 November 2022 Categories culture, historyTags Birmingham: It's Not Shit, book, Foka WolfLeave a comment on Birmingham: It's Not Shit – The Book – Buy Now
101 Things Birmingham Gave the World. No. 99: Gynaecology
I can't speak for other social strata or areas, but in a working class home in Birmingham if you ever start a sentence "I'm not a…" Dads in other rooms will bound over furniture and push small children out of the way to run in and say "I'm not a gynaecologist, but I'll have a look," and then walk away with a giant shit-eating grin.
As well they might if they knew of long time resident of Birmingham Lawson Tait. Lawson is known for a few things: his strong anti-vivisection views, his demonstrating the link between cleanliness and mortality rates before the theory was generally accepted, but, maybe most famously, he is known as one of the fathers of modern gynaecology. Lawson, born Robert Lawson, is responsible for pioneering a bunch of lifesaving lady bits operations and kick-started a field of medicine that has kept women healthy 'down there' ever since. Any friend of the vulva is a friend of mine.
He was also responsible for the appendectomy, so if you ever had to have a few weeks off school and got to eat ice cream to recover, you have Lawson to thank. Wait, that could be tonsils? Who knows? I'm not an otolaryngologist… but I'll have a look
No, that doesn't work.
Author Danny SmithPosted on 31 July 2020 8 July 2020 Categories 101 Things Brum Gave The WorldTags Lawson TaitLeave a comment on 101 Things Birmingham Gave the World. No. 99: Gynaecology
Danny Smith: Inn Dependance day
A pint without the boys in a pub full of not much noise because loudness increases the chances of shouting and more droplets of virus in the air. Is that living alright? We send Danny Smith, the canary in our covid coal mine, into town as pubs open their doors for the first time in god knows how long. Will he get irate about the R-rate?
I'm in a Wetherspoons and things are not going well. In the Before Times being in a Wetherspoons was usually a pretty good indicator of how well things were going in general. The binary state of being in or out of a Wetherspoons nearly always correlates to 'not so great' and 'going well'. But now, on this historic day? It's both a historic and personal failure – and there's a sheet of paper here with evidence.
To be honest it didn't start well. I was dropped off on the Smallbrook Queensway and the first thing I see is Snobs with its windows boarded up*. It's a sobering sight – literally – but also like the ravens of the Tower of London, if Snobs ever closes for good Birmingham falls. There is no reopening sign on the boards, just a note directing deliveries to next door.
Heading south I see the Old Fox has had a refurbishment and somehow earnt the qualifier "sly" into its name. It's closed too, which is probably how it earned its new name. Opposite, the Hippodrome lies dormant. Stripped of the livery of show posters and lights it looks corporate and dead. As I write this the entertainment industry has still yet to receive any support from the government despite it hugely important to both the financial and emotional well being of the country. Some cunts need their names up in lights so people know who's to blame.
The Dragon Inn is a Wetherspoons and this early in the day I was reluctant to go in. I'm here in town to cover the opening of Birmingham pubs after over 100 days closed, the longest enforced closing of public houses in this country since, well, ever. Given, the founder of The Wetherspoons chain, Tim Martin's close ties to the government and headlines at the start of the lockdown, it'd be impossible to talk about pubs reopening without going to one, but not my first one, and not here. Before it was a 'spoons, the Dragon Inn was an O'Neill's, an O'Neill's I worked at four two years before it closed. I worked the last shift: good memories dust my mind like fresh snow and are too dear to me to sully them with that ruddy faced scarecrow's dirt wellingtons.
The bars in the Arcadian are all closed and my thoughts flash to all the lower division footballers and dental technicians sitting at home on Saturday night bereft of places to sell them mid-range wine and forgettable cocktails.
OK, I thought, I'll start at the Bull Ring Tavern, a place notorious for being where nights end, not start. Often maligned for the perceived quality of its patrons, I've always found it nothing if not friendly. And the clientele is self editing: the sort of person that drinks there is the sort of person that doesn't care about what type of person people think drink there (if you see what I mean). So it's devoid of lower tier footballers and dental technicians.
As I get close a woman with a high ponytail, smoking over the top of a disposable face-mask, dramatically sidesteps in front of the door: "We're full love" she says, and I become the only person in history to be knocked back from The Bull Ring Tavern**.
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Author Danny SmithPosted on 5 July 2020 6 July 2020 Categories cultureTags clickbait, covid, Politics, pubs, WetherpoonsLeave a comment on Danny Smith: Inn Dependance day
Danny Smith: Non-essential
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Her voice is mournful, an acapella lament closer to a wail than a dirge. I don't speak the language but it vibrates with loss and a pleading sorrow. The lady has lines on her face chiseled in by the pain in her voice. She's wearing a hijab and blue nitrile gloves. Another glove is stretched over the McDonald's cup she is collecting money in. The cup sits in front of the empty crate she is sitting on, head back to allow the long notes of fragile misery to escape her body.
Opposite the queue for Poundland trails down the street in impossible perspective like an Escher print.
During the last three months I think we've all had the fantasy of when lockdown ends, a shared utopian vision of happiness in the streets, greeting our neighbours and strangers with warm hugs and handshakes. Sunlit pub gardens full of smiles, and cider with ice in.
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Have you ever wondered if you could cook an apple crisp on an outdoor smoker or grill? Or better yet, if you could attain smoke flavor without owning a smoker?
The answer to both of those questions, my friends, is yes, yes you can.
Two weekends ago we made grand plans that involved taking the kids out to the scenic Columbia Gorge area to go apple picking. This would, of course, also involve sipping on apple cider, maybe even some fritters, and perhaps even hit up a pumpkin patch. I imagined some frolicking and happy kids and fall foliage. It was going to be one of those perfect fall weekends, like the ones you see your friends posting all over Pinterest and Facebook. Except that didn't happen.
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We wouldn't be getting our picture perfect fall apple-picking weekend. But that didn't mean we couldn't eat like it.
The sun eventually made an appearance and we decided to fire up the grill, and, using apples we already had in the house, decided to make one of our most favorite fall desserts ever – apple crisp. But instead of baking in the oven we cooked it on the charcoal grill. We've played around with cooking desserts on the smoker and grill for years and we love it, especially for apple crisp. It gives it a nice smoky outdoorsy element while also thoroughly cooking the sweet apple filling and allowing the topping to get nice and crispy.
You can also easily cook an apple crisp in your smoker, set to 350-375 degrees (similar to what you would cook it in an oven at), but I find this method is an excellent alternative for those who may not own a smoker but still want to add some mild smoke undertones. We've done it both ways. Lately I've been a bigger fan of this method. I find the topping gets crispier. The most important thing to note with a grill (especially a charcoal grill) is that it is difficult to maintain a consistent temperature, so keeping a grill thermometer inside to monitor the temp is a good idea.
All you need is some wood chips. You can buy them pre-bagged and cut up, or you can just cut your own from any hard wood. That's what we did here, with oak.
Then prep your grill for indirect cooking. For a refresher on direct vs. indirect cooking see here. Once your grill is ready to cook add 2-3 wood pieces or wood chips.
Then place your baking dish on the indirect heat side, covered with aluminum foil (and make sure it's a dish that can withstand high heat! We like cast iron for this. The inside of the grill got up to 500 degrees on the indirect side, so use a dish that can handle heat). The foil helps to protect any ash from any flare-ups getting into your dish. You don't want your apple crisp tasting like ash (take it from me! We've made that mistake and it ended up making our dish taste like ash, not smoke! Oops). So loosely cover it for the first 15 minutes, until the fire has mellowed out a bit, then finish it uncovered to help the topping get nice and crispy.
As far as the actual apple crisp recipe, Ina Garten can do no wrong with her Old Fashioned Apple Crisp as far as I'm concerned. I just love the combination of lemon and orange zest and juice she adds to the filling. The only problem with this recipe (if you can call it a problem) is that it's MASSIVE! It's meant for a large group, not a family of four (even a family of four with HUGE appetites). So after years of making this recipe and trying to adjust the measurements (and also reduced the sugar content by more than half, I don't think it needs it), we finally found proportions perfect for four people. No leftovers here.
Bonus: The kids love to help with the mixing!
They will also patiently guard the grill so nobody steals the apple crisp when it is unattended.
Hey, don't mess with a hungry four-year-old who's about to have grilled apple crisp for dinner. Did I say dinner? I meant dessert.
(I'm totally lying; we actually ate it for dinner.).
We may not have gone apple picking that weekend, but nobody was disappointed after this meal.
Did you know you can cook an apple crisp on the outdoor grill? Did you know you can also add smoke flavor by adding wood chips to your grill (without needing a smoker)? Smoked Apple Crisp is a simple and delicious fall dessert cooked on a grill. And the portions are perfect for four people. Apple crisp recipe adapted from Ina Garten's Old Fashioned Apple Crisp.
Preheat and prepare grill to indirect heat. Add 3-4 wood chips to the coals when coals are ready.
Cut butter into small cubes then place in freezer while other ingredients are being prepared.
In a large bowl, mix together all of the topping ingredients (except butter). When butter is very cold add it to the mix and cut the butter into the mix using a fork (could also use a stand mixer for this, but it works fine with your hands and a fork). Mix together until the mix is crumbly and the butter resembles the size of peas.
Transfer the mix to the freezer until ready to pour over the filling.
In another large bowl, mix together all filling ingredients. Transfer to your baking dish (remember this is for four portions, so we used a smaller dish. 10x5x2 inch oval cast iron pan works well (approx 1 qt capacity). You can find the exact pan we used below in notes.
Sprinkle the apple mixture with the topping mixture and cover with foil.
Place on grill on indirect heat for 15 minutes. Remove foil, and then continue cooking on the grill for an additional 15 minutes, or until the mixture is bubbly and topping is crispy. Add wood chips as you see the flame die down, every 15 minutes or so for a handful of wood chips.
Serve warm with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Notes: We adapted the original recipe in several ways, including reducing the size to feed four hungry bellies. Please note if you're cooking on a hot outdoor grill to use a pan that can withstand high heat. We like cast iron for this and we used this exact dish for four portions. We also reduced the sugar, as we didn't find it was necessary. It's a winner every time!
One satisfied smoked apple crisp lover. No apple picking required.
*Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links for the cast iron dish you see in the picture. That means I receive a small commission if you purchase this dish through amazon. By purchasing through these links you are supporting this site so that we can continue to share more grilling and smoked love! I only recommend products we use (often!) and love dearly. And this pan is da bomb.
I love that story!!! It's totally the way our days go sometimes! I get this great Norman Rockwell idea in my head about the perfect day out and then life happens and the kids turn into….well, kids! I'm going to make Hubs make an apple crisp on the grill….it looks amazing!
Ha! Yes, definitely try it! It's so fun on the grill.
Thanks 🙂 And sometimes unplanned things end up way better than the planned ones!!
I hope you get a chance to try this apple crisp. It's so fun on the grill!
This is a brilliant idea! I totally have got to get a smoker for our next 'big' purchase. This looks amazing!!
Thanks 🙂 And if you ever do want to make the plunge into the world of smokers and need some advice please feel free to reach out! We have 4 different smokers right now (crazy!!), and would be more than happy to give you some recommendations!!
Ooh I'd never thought to make a dessert like this on the grill! I love the photos of your kiddo, and totally get the scenario of dog taunting madness. Boys! We will definitely be giving this apple crisp a try.
Smoked apple crisp?!?! OMG, this looks amazing!
Smoked flavor? Apple crisp? SIGN ME UP!
What a fabulous idea! I love the thought of the smokiness that grill adds to the dessert!
This is an awesome idea! I would've never thought to put a crisp on the grill! Genius! I can only imagine how flavorful this was! It looks like a recipe that would be awesome to make at a Halloween party tonight! 😉 Thanks for sharing!


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Q: How to copy the given files only and not all the in the directory I am trying to create a customized file copier that it takes, source folder, destination folder and an array list containing some file names. Then the copier copies the files in the ArrayList, with the same structure.
I could achieve it by copying only if the file name is the same as a element in the array. But it creates all the folders, no matter if the target file does not exist in them.
public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO code application logic here
        File source = new File("D:\\Documents\\A X");
        File dest = new File("D:\\Documents\\A X Sample");
        ArrayList<String> myFiles = new ArrayList<String>();
        myFiles.add("Tohi - Rooh.mp3");
        try{
            copyDirectory(source, dest, myFiles);;
        }catch(IOException e){
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }

    }
    public static void copyDirectory(File sourceLocation , File targetLocation, ArrayList<String> array)
    throws IOException {

        if (sourceLocation.isDirectory()) {
            String[] children = sourceLocation.list();
            for(String element : children){
                if (array.contains(element)){
                    File fileToCopy = new File(sourceLocation, element);
                    //System.out.println(fileToCopy.getAbsolutePath());
                    targetLocation.mkdir();
                }
                //if (!targetLocation.exists()) {
                //        targetLocation.mkdir();
                //}
            }

            for (int i=0; i<children.length; i++) {
                copyDirectory(new File(sourceLocation, children[i]),
                        new File(targetLocation, children[i]), array);
            }
        } else {
            if(array.contains(sourceLocation.getName())){
                InputStream in = new FileInputStream(sourceLocation);
                OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(targetLocation);

                // Copy the bits from instream to outstream
                byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
                int len;
                while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0) {
                    out.write(buf, 0, len);
                }
                in.close();
                out.close();
                //System.out.println("File copied from " + sourceLocation + " to " + targetLocation);
            }
        }
    }

So I want it to stop making useless blank folders, and only make them if they hold a target file from the array.
Any idea ?

A: I have a method that copies a file to another location. Maybe it helps
private
void copyFile(File source,File destination) throws IOException
{
    InputStream is; OutputStream os;
    try
    {
        is=new FileInputStream(source);
        os=new FileOutputStream(destination);
        byte[] buffer=new byte[1024];
        int length;
        while((length=is.read(buffer))>0)
        { os.write(buffer,0,length); }
        is.close();
        os.close();
    }
    catch(NullPointerException e){}
}

And if you wanna check wether a file exists, try to read from it and it will throw an error if it doesn't exist.

A: You are calling your method copyDirectory for each children of your sourceLocation. A way of correcting it (not the only or the best) is saving the files you want to copy and are in the sourceDiretory on a List. For example:
[...]
if (sourceLocation.isDirectory()) {
    String[] children = sourceLocation.list();
    // List to save the name of the files you want to copy
    List<String> foundFiles = new ArrayList<String>(array.size());
    for(String element : children){
        if (array.contains(element)){
            // If the file you want to copy are in the sourceDiretory
            // add its name to the list
            foundFiles.add(element);
            targetLocation.mkdirs();
        }
    }
    for (String foundFile : foundFiles) {
         copyDirectory(new File(sourceLocation, foundFile),
                    new File(targetLocation, foundFile), array);
    }
}
[...]

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