#crossings

[derangedrhythms]

Vikings, from ‘Crossings’

#vikings #crossings #film and television #hauntings

[vinyl-artwork]

Herbie Hancock – Crossings (1972) Artwork by Robert Springett.

#Herbie Hancock #Robert Springett #Crossings #jazz #1972 #1970s

[roguecanoe]

Together Again

#hello from the hallowoods #hfth #hfth spoilers #hfth 132 #crossings #riot maidstone #walter pensive #tw death #tw ghosts #i've never cried this much while drawing #but i felt like i had to draw this now or i would never #like drawing is how i cope i guess? #hope you enjoyed #even if it is sad #at least she's not alone #ye!

[thelibrarywaltz]

nothing gives me the same dopamine hit of shopping like going to the library and walking out with an armful of new books

#libraries #Crossings #Alex Landragin #Make Something Up #Chuck Palahniuk #Still Life #Sarah Winman

[aniaticdk]

Mini spoiler for the finished work

#my art <3 #art #ninjago #nothing to do #ninjago art #ninjago movie #artists on tumblr #ninjago oc #ninjago original character #ninjago morro #ninjago son of zane and pixel #crossings

[jazzdailyblog]

Buster Williams: The Legendary Bassist Who Set the Groove

Introduction: Buster Williams is a name synonymous with excellence in jazz bass playing. Born eighty-two years ago today on April 17, 1942, in Camden, New Jersey, Williams has established himself as one of the most versatile and sought-after bassists in the world of jazz. With a career spanning over five decades, Williams has collaborated with some of the biggest names in jazz and continues to…

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#Al Hibbler #Buster Williams #Crossings #Gene Ammons #Herbie Hancock #Jazz Bassists #Jazz History #McCoy Tyner #Miles Davis #Mwandishi #Nelson Boyd #Oscar Pettiford #Sonny Stitt

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Buffy Summers and Max Guevara being similar again, in Buffy using tonfas in the Buffy book here "Crossings" (though it's spelled wrong there. LOL) and Max using them in the Dark Angel video game. And they're surely both using them for their non-lethal capabilities.

#parallels #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #dark angel #max guevara #buffy #btvs #james cameron's dark angel #x5 452 #max #as i've said a million times: these two would be best friends #buffy book #buffy tie-in book #crossings #dark angel video game #thank you dark angel video game for teaching me about tonfas #because when i picked this item up when i played this game back in the day i was like 'what the heck is a tonfa?' so i looked it up #so i'll always associate tonfas with the dark angel game for that reason. and thus when i read about buffy using them in this book #i couldn't help making the connection to dark angel

[carltonlassie]

Man I just finishes reading Alex Landragin's Crossings and it's so fascinating how he uses eyes as a channel for one soul to cross to another body. In the book, if you let someone truly gaze into your eyes wholly without reservation, the one who possesses the knowledge of "crossing" can cross into the other person's body, with their memories intact in addition to the other person's memory.

But what's interesting is that the way Alula does her crossings. Majority of the time, she sets out by telling the other person the entire story of her lifetimes. Only after she's done so, she makes her crossing. The storytelling is not necessarily needed; one simply has to look into another person's eyes and can take their life away from them. But she tells her life story, and if we think about it. Think about the oral traditions and how human memory is not preserved in monuments but in the stories that others tell about you. Your "reputation" or notoriety. Even if you die, if your story is told to someone who matters, you continue to live on. At funerals we recount the memories we've of the deceased with the company. We laugh and cry at those memories as if the person is also there to do the same.

Do we trust a stranger long enough to look into their eyes. Do we ever sit down and listen to a stranger's whole life story. Mathilde has grown old and was not able to make a crossing because nobody wants to look an old woman in the eyes nor do they care to sit down and listen to her stories. Back then we had elders tell us wisdoms and ancient stories of the village or clan. Now do we bother to sit down and listen?

In that sense, crossing feels like a metaphor for your stories living on inside another person. (But ofc in the book the person literally lives on in another person's body, mentally and all). Idk it was rather an interesting read, and the book is structured so that I can also read in a Hopscotch way, following the page numbers at the end of each chapter. So I'm going to do that because wow!

#crossings #book

[admirabletimes]

#france #urban #retro #aesthetic #photography #architecture #crossings #minimal #intersection #Alsace #elsass #travel destinations #travel photography #europe travel

[lovefya]

CROSSINGS: EXPRESSIONISM & COGNITIVISM IN ART

A Special installment on view at The Metropolitan Museum until Feb of 2023 is by Robert Colescott, One of his best-known works, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook (1975), portrays prominent black agricultural chemist George Washington Carver as the Revolutionary war hero, surrounded by Aunt Jemima-like cooks and banjo playing black figures, at once mocking the mythmaking of white American forefathers and hateful stereotypes of African Americans. The masterpiece, according to their site, explores ongoing resonances between past and present artistic expressions—specifically, modern and contemporary responses to Emanuel Leutze’s epic Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). In exploring both works of art we can discover expressionism and cognitivism in art.  

Crossings by Robert Colescott : The MET Museum Oct-Feb 2023

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)  By: Emanuel Leutze

EXPRESSIONISM. Expressionism is a philosophy of art that conveys the inspiration of artists by their emotional experiences in their creativity to produce art that the audience can perceive as well. During the 20th century, expressionism took on a more cognitive turn. Sigmud Frued’s psychoanalytic theory became a big influence on the thoughts surrounding art.

COGNITIVISM. The theory of Cognitivism, also called aesthetic cognitivism, presents art as a special way of knowing the world. Cognitivism is the theory that art can indeed teach us as an experience of enhanced expression and cognitive understanding from its aesthetic value. The use of imagination in creating and exploring art increases our brain development. 

ART IS A METAPHOR. One main objective to discovering art is to find its meaning. In Crossings, the artist places the trailblazing scientist, inventor, and African American hero George Washington Carver at the helm of a boatload of Black stereotypes. In the picture of Crossings we find the abstract relation between the symbolic representations and we are able to compare it to the original piece which is a given objective reality. 

ART IS AN EXPERIENCE. Art is collaboration between the artist and the viewer. This collaboration is an experience of expression and thought. Art is a mental experience of communicative and imaginative expressions. The experience we gain from exploring the artwork of Crossings is the discovery of a new point of view - evoking patriotic feelings in some viewers, conflict and struggle in others.

ART IS VALUABLE. Expressionism and Cognitivism place the artist at the center of the world and give them power and value. Both artists created value in their work of displaying history with expression and thought. Exposure to the art gives us vivid imagery of communication. We gain more insight into the real history and we see it from a whole other point of view. Colescott’s groundbreaking work is powerful and valuable as it reflects the lasting impact artists have.

EXPRESSIONISM & COGNITIVISM IN ART. When expressionism and cognition are combined in art, it becomes a very powerful tool. Expressionism and its cognitive influences to art have so much to offer us as we dive deep into the picture physically, emotionally, and spiritually. In exploring expressionism and cognitivism in art we seek understanding of vivid symbolic communication, we experience the art in our thoughts and emotions, and lastly we discover just how valuable the art is.  

~Jones

Philosophy of the Arts -UNCG -Spring 23

REFERENCES

Crossings - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Colescott | Art for Sale, Results & Biography | Sotheby’s

Why Is That Art?: Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art: Barrett, Terry

#crossings #lovefya #blackart #expressionism #cognitivism #philosophyofart #artcritics #artblog #blogger #robertcolescott #metmuseum

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

#Mom can you pick me up I'm scared #That siren song is playing again #But wouldn't it be neat to dye spin weave sew knit crochet tat #OMG save me #Hobbies #Textile Arts #Crochet #Knitting #Weaving #Spinning yarn #Cross Stitch #Quilting #Never has Grandma Iris' voice been so loud in my head #(Miss you forever Grandma Iris)

[catchymemes]

#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #dank memes #dark humor #tweet #twitter #animal crossing

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

#israel #palestine #among us #red cross #geneva convention

[thelibrarywaltz]

Read in April 2024:

The Key To Deceit (Electra McDonnell #2) by Ashley Weaver -> audiobook 🗝️ ☆☆☆☆

This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ⛓️‍💥 ☆☆☆½

Crossings by Alex Landragin 🪬 ☆☆☆

Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell #3) by Ashley Weaver -> audiobook 🌊 ☆☆☆☆

No 5 star reads this month sadly. I was a bit disappointed by Crossings, which had an absolutely brilliant concept, almost a puzzle box of a novel (it can be read straight through as 3 loosely connected short stories, or read in a specific page order that jumps around to make one complete novel) and a fascinating premise but left me feeling zero emotional connection or sympathy for literally any of the characters.

Even though its writing felt a bit repetitive at times, it was incredibly enlightening to read This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed about the gun culture and need for self defense and defense of those practicing nonviolence surrounding the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s - a piece of history I had never heard anything about before. And it was quite satisfying to finally get to the book that’s been on my TBR the longest - since 2019!

Finally, the wonderful thing about not doing any specific reading challenges this year is that I’ve had the time to reread several favorites and finish more books in those series (like the rest of the Winternight Trilogy after rereading The Bear and the Nightingale). I’d wanted to reread A Peculiar Combination and The Key To Deceit last year before the third Electra McDonnell book, Playing It Safe, came out, but I was so tied up in trying to do so many prompts I never got around to it. Now I’ve caught up on the series and only have to wait a couple more weeks before book 4, Locked in Pursuit, comes out. (side note: how cute are those series covers!)

I have to admit, becoming an audiobook listener at work comes with new challenges. Like being up on an 8 foot ladder spreading fireproofing caulk with my earbuds in when the two lead characters FINALLY kiss after almost 3 whole books… and trying not to have a whole face journey about it in case anyone walks by 😂.

… that being said, I would LOVE more audiobook recommendations with delicious slow burn sexual tension! I’m here for the emotional escapism from the construction site 😎

#april reads #2024 reads #books #bookblr #booklr #The Key To Deceit #Playing It Safe #Electra McDonnell #This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed #Crossings

[parhe1ion]

if you’re gonna introduce me to something new you have to defeat my 7 evil ex hyperfixations

#bleating #1k #10k #for anyone curious what my seven are: warrior cats animal crossing dimension 20 minecraft puppet history lego monkie kid & captain laserhaw #and the something new my friends are introducing me to is metalocalypse #50k

[philsmeatylegss]

I don't think people truly understand the gravity of Rafah being bombed.

There is nowhere left to go.

The lowest cost is $5,000 USD to flee to Egypt. There has been people paying over $10,000 USD.

That is the only option

Pay or die.

Rafah was the only place in Palestine promised not to be bombed. That promise is broken.

1.5 million people have nowhere to go!

Reminder, if possible, please donate to the PCRF, ANERA, Islamic Relief, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Doctors Without Borders, and all other trusted organizations.

#rae’s rambles #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #rafah #rafah crossing #rafah border #save rafah #rafah under attack