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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening :
1. Roti “To the New Ukraine” 2. Getting “GREASY” with Narcelio Grud
3. Mr. Toll from DEGA Films 4. NDA from DEGA Films
5. “I Can See You” in Iraq
6. Experimenting with Projection Mapping
BSA Special Feature:Roti “To the New Ukraine”
From Chris Cunnigham comes this short version of a documentary that follows French Grafiti artist ‘Roti’ as he works on his most ambitious project to date, we get a glimpse of an untold side story in Ukraine’s revolutionary struggle.”
From the man who showed us how to paint with discarded fruits and vegetables, we see a sweetly crude painting with the one thing that is keeping the world running while simultaneously killing it. Narcelio takes on the sticky stuff and gets greasy.
Mr. Toll from DEGA Films
In a category all his own, Mr. Toll sculpts with his fingers the ironic and the naturally beautific (warning: may not be a word). Over the last 3 or 4 years, you could say prolific. The 3-D is a welcome variation, and surprisingly easy to overlook as a possible adornment deliberately placed there by a building owner.
N’DA from DEGA Films
Hard won street cred can sometimes be achieved one character at a time, no matter how brutishly plain or comically pequeno. What a character N’DA is! Painter, wheatpaster, illustrator, idiosyncratic outside artist – don’t underestimate and don’t overlook this one.
“I Can See You” in Iraq – A film by Sajjad Abbas
Translated as “I can see you” the giant eye placed on the top of this building is a way that was Street Artist Sajjad Abbas wanted to keep Iraqi politics on their best behavior. Even though he got permission from the government to install it, soon enough it had to come down because some people thought it had to do with the Freemasons. Here he offers an unvarnished direct recording of the installation and de-installation, less documentary than document.
Experimenting with Projection Mapping
From computational designer Lukas Z here is a fun example how much you can do with projection mapping and some pin tape these days on the street. Our forays into the projection world over the last 5 years tell us that this is one small example of the possible, but this is well realized.
A big spoon full of sugar – that’s what keeps the sweetness in the appearance of these two public art bus stop pieces from MP5 in Italy. Once assessed, you may see the bitter critique of modern norms that are portrayed in festive sunny tones.
First is the frantic anxiety ridden magpie who is waiting nervously for the bus, so terrorized by time, so worried of missing the worm, so fearful of being pecked by an angry bird boss.
Below is the second pleasantly bright and flat scene of the mask-wearing role-playing go-getting company man. Sadly, he is so conditioned to react to reward that unless he dons his fake façade and dangles his own carrot he cannot rapidly chase those highly valued results.
And what are those results, exactly?
MP5 says the title of the the project is TEMPUS FUGIT, which is meant to reflect on the precariousness of our lives, liberty and the meaning we give to time.
Afghanistan is not the first place you think of when someone says Street Art scene and Kabul would certainly be sort of low on your list of urban art festivals to check out, but surprisingly it has both. These are a couple of the revelations we had earlier this month when BSA welcomed three 20-something artists to tour the streets of Brooklyn – and meet one of our own homegrown Street Art duos in their studio.
Abul Qasem Foushanji, Ommolbanin Samshia Hassani, and Sayed Mohebullah Ramin Naqshbandi were all good sports despite the brutishly cold February day – in fact Sayed had a fairly light jacket on because he said it gets as cold or colder back home in Mazar-i Sharif where he is a painter and student who has tried his hand at stencil work.
Qasem and Samshia both grew up in Iran, so it made sense that they were excited when we began the tour by checking out the large mural done by Iranian émigrés and brothers Icy & Sot, who now live in Brooklyn. While Arthur, our astutely amiable co-host from the State Department, helped keep the mini-van warm and free of parking tickets, their escort/interpreter Mr. Aziz walked up and over the snowbanks with us while we checked out works by a number of graffiti and Street Artists all around the North Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
The Central Asian country of Afghanistan has historically eschewed modern art as being unacceptable and much art was destroyed by the Taliban in the last few decades for being un-Islamic.
With such a restrictive atmosphere it was good to learn that Qasem plays bass in a thrash metal band, does sound installations and has experimented with abstract expressionism – something that would have been unheard of in the 90s. “In the early 2000s when the Taliban left the country, there was nothing,” he says as he observes a gradual building of hope in the creative community.
As the sun went down we were welcomed into the vast office and studio of Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeal, who together comprise the Brooklyn based Street Art collective better known as Faile. Having just walked the same streets where the Patricks began many of their experiments at the turn of the century, it was a great opportunity for the guests to see what a world-class art making studio looks like, to ask questions, and to share some stories about how the scenes on streets of Brooklyn and Kabul differ.
Speaking about their early days of illicit art posting, McNeal explains “You’d go out and you get to the wall and it’s quick,” he says with a snap of the fingers. “You’re not taking the time, necessarily, to think. And then you finish it up and get away from it and you came back to see it the next day. There was something loose in it, where now everything gets very tight and refined,” he says as he gestures to the large artworks in progress across the tables and the floor of the studio.
“Yeah, it’s changed a lot over time,” says Miller about the street art scene, especially in the area of Williamsburg that has become a high-rent playground for professionals and well-heeled college kids. “Real estate, gentrification, a lot of those things have played into it in a lot of places like here and Barcelona where you used to see a lot more things on the street, it doesn’t really exist.”
One thing we learned is that Shamsia doesn’t even usually feel that she can go on the street in Kabul to create her work because she fears berating words, insults and possibly worse from people who don’t think a woman should be doing such a thing. And would never go out after dark. “It’s for the boys to go out at night. I wish to do so also but I am a girl. It is dangerous,” she says with regret, but is determined to use her art to advocate for the rights of girls and women in whatever way that she can.
One project she calls “Graffiti Dreams” is comprised entirely in her imagination and on her computer – where she creates virtual street art scenes on buildings she has photographed as a way to at least paint walls in her mind. “That’s nothing, but for me it is everything because I can do graffiti somehow.” She took out her iPad to show McNeal some of her renderings.
After British graffiti artist Chu held a one-week graffiti workshop for nine artists in Kabul in 2010 where the concept of graffiti and street art was introduced from a Western perspective, Shamsia and other young artists took the art form to heart.
She has traveled internationally in the last few years meeting other artists and sometimes collaborating with them like Tika from Zürich, Berlin’s Klub 7, and the well known Los Angelelino Street Artist El Mac, with whom she did two collaborations now on display in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and in Brisbane, Australia.
McNeal asked Samshia, “How did you get exposed to graffiti?,” and Samshia talked about the workshop with Chu and how it affected her.
“I thought if I did graffiti then I could introduce art to the people,” she says, “Because no one goes to exhibitions and galleries – only some very important people are invited to exhibits. And I thought that I could put art in the street for all people and maybe they have never seen that there is this art.”
“How do you get spray paint there?” he followed up.
“There are very bad quality spray paint there,” she replies with a smile. “These are just for color to put somewhere. It’s not really for painting. The color drops a lot, and I’m not changing the size of the caps. Sometimes I do the small details with small brushes because the spray can is not able to do very thin lines.”
“That’s cool though,” McNeal encouraged, “ because that will inform your style and the way that you work.”
As one of the first graffiti artists in Kabul, Shamsia is also unusual because most practicing artists of any discipline are men – and women face resistance to their participation in many roles, including as an artist on the street. Now an associate professor at Kabul University where she leads workshops to teach students how to use aerosol spray to create art, Ms. Hassani created a festival this December to highlight graffiti and Street Art as an art practice.
Her own work features stylized women in blue burqas, fish, and calligraphy that references poetry. As often happens, the definition of graffiti and street art are slightly different in Afghanistan than they would be in western cities like London and New York, often closer to what might be called murals or community walls.
For now she is planning a new program when she returns to Kabul University in the spring.
“Another graffiti workshop is coming too for some children who have no parents. They are often very small girls and they have no parents and I want to help them and have a workshop for them,” she explains about her desire to provide restorative healing through art in a city torn by war. “I will start to teach a new subject, making characters, because there is nothing like that right now. I would like to add characters, because everyone likes characters. I would like to teach some technical steps, some secrets of how to make them.”
The night ends with tea, cookies, and conversation in a warm living room and the artists talk about some of their projects, internet service, social media, and other ways that society is evolving and what they hope for art in Afghanistan. As he describes his work future projects Sayed says would like to create politically themed messages for the street. Qasem talks about a culture-jamming project creating a false college course advertisement that may also be humorous. Then in a flash, the visit is over, numbers and emails are exchanged and they get ready to go back out in the cold.
In 2012 Shamsia collaborated with Los Angeles based Street Artist El Mac on two murals in Sai Gon, Vietnam. The first mural was painted in September of 2012 in front of Sàn Art, an artist non-profit contemporary art organization in Sai Gon. The second mural, also painted in Sai Gon was unveiled in Brisbane, Australia at the Asia Pacific Triennial in December 2012.
The figure in the center is a portrait of Shamsia by El Mac from photographs that he took of her. The writing that surrounds the portrait is a poem by Ms. Hassani which she integrated with her own designs. The poem reads:
پرنده های بی وطن ،همه اسیرن مثل من ،صدای خواندن ندارن
Birds of no nation
Are all captive
With no voice for singing
Today we jump right in to the warm Honolulu waters for a swim before padding barefoot up to the painted walls of Pow! Wow! where photographer Martha Cooper is waiting camera in hand and looking for a fly swatter to smack down a camera drone that is buzzing around her head and getting in the way of her shots.
Here’s part deux of some of Ms. Cooper’s pics from PW 2014, beginning with an aquatic version of the sort of poker-playing canines popularized by illustrationist and painter Cassius Marcellus Coolidge about a hundred years ago that still persist in the offices of law firms and investment banks today. This large scale variation is by street humorist Ron English.
Photographer Martha Cooper just returned to New York from Hawaiian paradise and the 5th Pow! Wow! Festival, which this year featured an unprecedented number of artist that some estimate at 100.
Naturally with a herd that big, you’d have to be a regular cattle hand with a camera to capture all of the action, but the fast moving Cooper collected a number of images that we can share here with BSA readers over the next couple of days, along with her notes on the experience.
Kaka’ako is the name of the neighborhood where most of the murals are located and Ms. Cooper compares it to the Miami site that also has hosted a large number of legal walls for the last few years. “It’s a Wynwood-type neighborhood but with a longer, more esteemed history,” she says, and “Like Wynwood it’s slated for development.” For example a library that many of the local Hawaiian artists painted will soon be torn down to make space for condos. Good thing Street Artist Gaia and Vhils were there to bring some of the local historical and mythological elements, including portraits of Hawaiian royalty.
An interesting aspect of this event, and there were many, was the pairing of many artists on walls to combine and merge their styles to create new works. “There were a surprising number of unusual collaborations at Pow! Wow!,” says Martha. “Some were odd mashups like Tatiana Suarez and Woes, and Buff Monster and Nychos seemed like a good match. I think it must have been challenging for the artists. Cope & Indie also asked Buff Monster and 123Klan to collaborate on their wall.”
Another trend this year: Elvis. “Elvis is big in Hawaii,” Martha remarks, and she says it is because of his celluloid records in addition to his vinyl ones. “He made three movies in Hawaii,” and she mentions the Elvis mask that Wayne White made as a good example of Presley magic on the tropical island of Honolulu. “I especially liked the way Madsteez incorporated existing graffiti into his wall because he made good use of the corrugated iron surface which was difficult to paint on but it had a nice patina when finished.” Interestingly, Madsteez gave his blue Elvis an eye patch that mimics the artist’s own worldview.
Insa is one of the first GIFFITTI artists – and his wall with ROID for Pow! Wow” recalls the typography and graphic style of commercial 1980s TV shows like Miami Vice and the New Wave as interpreted by MTV. The resulting GIF is a funny simple animation that somehow brings the nostalgia alive. Looks like paradise from here!
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1up, Bishop203, Bradley Theodore, Cash4, Deekers, El Sol 25, Hiss Keeley, Kevin Cyr, King Amsterdam, Ludo, Mosco Clandestino, Not Art, ROA, Royce Bannon, Smells, Sweet Toof, Trap Art, and Zimer.
“This ia a southwest inspired Earth spirit,” he tells us. ” The spirit is holding a burning sage , and in the place of smoke a rainbow is emerging. It is said when we burn sage, cedar, sweetgrass etcetra, it gives shape and color to our prayers and intentions. This is an Earth prayer made with vapors and raw energy under an intriguing Los Angeles sky.”
We’ve got the bundle of sagebrush smoking already and it is turning the whole building into once clerestory of peace. Happy Saturday everybody.
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening :
1. TOOFLY in Miami 2. 8 Artists, One Day in La Perla
3. UNO in Bolonga, Italy 4. Phlegm / Run / Christiaan Nagel in London
5. Surplus Candy
BSA Special Feature: TOOFLY in Miami
“There is a different dynamic that takes place when women get together and paint or build or create something,” explains Queens born Toofly as she scales the ladder in Miami during Art Basel this year. The short by Alexandra Henry gives voice to the artist, designer and organizer as she describes coming up in the 1990s wall painting surrounded primarily by dudes. Now as she moves to a different stage and embraces her Ecuadorean roots, Toofly is joined by a new generation of women who are laying claim to the street and adding their voices to the conversation.
8 Artists, One Day in La Perla
An overcast day in Old San Juan is still better than a sunny one inside an office cubicle, ya herd? Here’s a gently rolling survey of a community called La Perla, who in one day received new gifts bestowed from Alexis Diaz, Faith47, Axel Void, Filio, Inti, Conor Harrington, Poteleche, and Franco Jaz. Captured by Tost Fims, it is free of so many of the video making conventions of Street Art film-making that it may be pulling the genre in a new direction.
UNO in Bolonga, Italy
UNO and Matteo Talone take wheatpasting to a new very long expanse in Bologna, hand coloring meters and meters of pop inspired black and white image/text patterning for the Cheap Festival.
Phlegm / Run / Christiaan Nagel in London
A teaser for a series of films (Last Breath) that will be made documenting the beautification of soon-to-be demolished buildings in London. Touring the remains of structural decrepitude is not new, but doing so artfully like this is.
A new video from Nick Heller features a tour from the recent abandoned house takeover on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The outdoor gallery is the one we visit most and NYC is always front and center in our heart even as we branched out to about 100 other cities and towns last year. Outdoor Gallery – New York City is also the name of the brand new book by photographer and writer Yoav Litvin, who has spent the last couple of years shooting New York streets and meeting many of the artists who make the painting and wheat pasting that characterizes the class of 2014.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Chris Stain.
Published by Ginko Press, the large 235 page hardcover features nearly 50 street artists / graffiti artists whose work you see here regularly (with the exception of two or three) along with comments and observations from the artists about their practice, their experiences, and the current Street Art scene primarily in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
When Yoav told us of his hope to publish a book last year we offered whatever advice we could – but primarily we advised him to stick to his vision and not to let anyone discourage him. A true fan of the scene, he has worked tirelessly to do just that and now he can share with you a personal survey and record of many of the artists who are getting up today in New York.
Outdoor Gallery. New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Joe Iurato.
“Outdoor Gallery – New York City grew organically to embody my process of exploration and discovery on the streets of New York City. It is a creation that was born out of love for New York City streets and their people, and focuses on artists as leaders with a unique and necessary role in a society that aspires for freedom and change,” says Litvin in his introduction, and throughout the book you can sense the respect he has for the art and the dedication he has put into this project.
Careful to let the artists speak for themselves, he presents their work without commentary and with ample space given for expression. Using primarily his own photos, it is carefully edited and presented as an uncluttered and measured overview of each artists work.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Jilly Ballistic.
For us it is a proud moment to see someone’s dream realized after so much effort and dogged determination – especially in a scene whose challenges we are well familiar with. No one knows how hard it is to make something happen unless they do it themselves. So congratulations to Yoav for sticking to his vision and having the fortitude to finish this and thanks to him on the behalf of the artists whom he is helping to receive recognition for their work as well.
To that end, you are invited to the big launch party this Saturday at 17 Frost in Williamsburg. We’ll be there and we hope you can make it out for a great New York Street Art family reunion. You can’t miss the entrance, it’s been newly smashed by El Sol 25, Bishop 203, Royce and some other people we can’t remember right now but who will remind us as soon as this goes up ; ) .
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Gilf!
You can find out more about it on the Facebook Event Page, but we understand there will be a newly debuted video from Dega Films, a special tribute to Army of One, and a full show of new works from many of the artists in the book, including;
Adam Dare, Alice Mizrachi, Army of One / JC2, Astrodub, ASVP, Billy Mode, Bisho203, Bunny M, Cern, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Cope2, Dain, Dirty Bandits, El Sol 25, Elle Deadsex, Enzo and Nio, Free5, Fumero, Gaia, Gilf!, Hellbent, Icy and Sot, Indie 184, Jilly Ballistic, Joe Iurato, Kram, Lillian Lorraine, LNY (Lunar New Year), Miyok, ND’A, OCMC, OverUnder, Phetus88, QRST, Russell King, Shin Shin, Shiro, Sofia Maldonaldo, The Yok, Toofly, and Veng RWK.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Icy & Sot.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by Hellbent.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Art by QRST.
Outdoor Gallery – New York City by Yoav Litvin. Front and back cover art by Bishop203, LNY, Alice Mizrachi, QRST, Gilf!, Cern and Icy & Sot.
Below is a look at behind-the-scenes of the making of the mural for the cover of the book.
Whose voice gets to be heard, and at what cost? It’s an ongoing battle with companies and politicians and citizens fighting to control the radio airwaves, broadcast television, cable providers, news outlets, the Internet. In the conversations that take place on walls in public, the struggle is just as strong and often as vehement. We just aren’t happy when somebody else gets the mic if we can’t grab it and rock it too.
A couple of recent visual disruptions of Street Art installations have us thinking about the need to be heard at the expense of an artist’s work mostly because we learned about them both within a few days of each other. Maybe it was the amount of time and labor that went into the walls, or maybe it’s because it can still be shocking even when you know it goes along with the rules of the street.
It’s always been part of the game; once you put it on the street you must be prepared to let it go, even though you secretly hope it will ride a while. Without doubt it will be buffed, slashed, ripped, taken, crossed out, tagged over, and deteriorated by the elements. If you’re going to play, you might get played and most artists know it and accept it.
The Houston Street wall in Manhattan has become a touchstone for many a graffiti and Street Artist over the last few decades thanks to its early beginnings as a canvas for artists like Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf and because as Soho and the Bowery gentrified most available walls disappeared. Now its an honor to get chosen to do your thing on the wall, even as it often provides a stage for the the still breathing battle between some graffiti writers and the rest of the Street Art making world.
Before the latest painter finished her piece last week, Maya Hayuk found her eye crossing color jam geometry had some unexpected collaboration. It’s not the first time Street Artists have been hit by graffiti on this wall; Shepard Fairey’s installation famously got hit so heavily that holes were literally punched into the wall, and Swoon’s community collabo with the Groundswell kids got wrapped with a thick belt of throwies last fall.
Hayuk tried to shrug it off like a champ and uttered a few terse words – but ultimately recovered her poppy patterning and finished the wall victorious.
The new tagging on Hayuk’s wall brought a fussilade of opinions, wizened philosophical observastions and bromides on social media, including this sampling from Instagram:
“Ever since Banksy month these toys having been running rampant” @phillip_s
“We love your work. Forget the jealous ones” @christianguemy
“It sucks that the work wasn’t even finished buuuut you paint something on the street you run the risk of it getting dissed/painted over. End of story” @jaackthebeard
“That’s too bad, but sadly part of the life of a work on the street. Still an absolutely beautiful piece though.” @denverstreetart
“Someone who wants pristine work that persists is always free to paint privately on canvas. The chaos and struggle of the image on the street is part of what makes graffiti awesome. This doesn’t strike me as a spoiler bomber and their throwie looks great on the piece. There are no tears in street art. I know what its like to have someone hit up your piece. You can get good with it, go over it, or move on.” @zoharpublishing
“Wow. What is wrong with people” @erromualdo
“So rude! It’s just takes one a/hole. Looking great anyway” @lisakimlisakim
After completing the new wall and taking a bow, it was hit again. This time harder.
The tags are mostly unreadable to the average public passerby, but it is not those people who these additions are usually speaking to but rather to their peers. So the collaboration is insistent, and in some way perfectly New York.
The other sanctioned wall we’ve been thinking about is in Rochester – still in New York State, but close to the border of Canada and near Lake Ontario. Faring Purth took a long time to finish this long limbed lady throughout the autumn months, enduring wayward comments, praise and sometimes harsh words from this upstate community who liked yelling things out their car (and school bus) windows as they drove by. “I received equally supportive and hostile attention from the public while I was painting her. It was a new experience in more ways than I can count,” she says of the mural that measures 12 feet high by 125 feet long,
Ultimately the religious contingent who had badgered previous visiting artists in Rochester over perceived thematic threats to family values tagged the face of her “Etty” and put a rudimentary cross in her hand when Faring had gone a way. This was a different sort of diss. It wasn’t a turf battle, it was a theological one and more broadly, it was about community norms. As in the case of Hayuk, the aerosol writer may not even have been addressing the artist or even known who she was. They may have been just striking a victory for the Lord against the evil of the art. Who knows?
Also like Hayuk, Ms. Purth decided to repair her work.
“I fixed her. Or rather, changed her, before hitting the road. She’s different now, it taught me a great deal. So finally, stitches and all, here she is.”
There is no real end or summation to this story and these two recent examples are merely a fraction of the works that get tagged or crossed out every day. It is interesting to note that although the motivations were different for the people who defaced the mural art, the aerosol tool used to express their opinion was the same. Additionally let’s all recognize the sublime irony that we are perilously close to using the word “vandalism” in this article.
But in a way, it is still about having a voice and using it, however edifying or injurious. The continuous cycle of constructive and destructive, adorning and scarring, speaking and silencing, is likely to continue as long as artists create in the street. As long as people have a need to be heard, they are going to find a way to get their voice out there.
Ludo is on the street right now in New York putting up his combinations of pretty and violent work, and he’s happy to be here. Thursday he will be ready to welcome you at his show at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea entitled “Fruit of the Doom”, which he says is sold out. We caught him putting up his newest pieces in Little Italy and in Bushwick that present the oppositional sides of man’s darker nature with natures generous beauty.
“People either love my work or hate it,” said Ludo yesterday about the images of nature perverted by weaponry and the growing militarism of society.
“I like this,” he declares.
It’s good to see that after many campaigns of culture jamming in cities around the world and despite his gradual climb to popularity and commercial success, Ludo has the same attitude he had when wheat pasting with us one windy day in 2010. “Certainly street art is a bit of sociology,” he told us then, “I mean you try to grab what you can from the society and incorporate it into your work and then take it back out to the streets with your personality in it.”
Madrid-based Street Artist Spidertag is one of the new crop of young artists using yarn in their work; a genuine departure from aerosol and wheatpaste that once was an anomaly is now widespread enough to call a trend. Let’s call it New Folk Street Art – at least until next week when someone coins another term.
He’s done his share of aerosol bombing, but perhaps because one of his first loves was sculpture, Spidertag was looking for a new way to do interventions back in 2008. Coupled with an interest in abstract and geometrical design he began to experiment with materials that he could physically manipulate to sharpen shapes… and to interact with.
Pounding nails into walls of abandoned buildings (and many other surfaces) was very satisfying and he began constructing and defining spaces with yarn around the iron post constellations. It was a good way to study in geometry and space and one that he continues to experiment with . After discovering the abstract geometrics and symbol-based work of fellow Street Artist and urban interventionist EC13, Spidertag knew he had found a kindred spirit to work with to call out, create and define spacial and planular dimensions in the man-made and natural environment.
Today we look at community garden space Spidertag was drawn strongly to in downtown Madrid in the neighborhood of Lavapies, and the squatted garden called Solarpiés. “This is an abandoned place in the city center that was squatted by local people. Like many empty lots I saw in New York, people in my area have converted it into a free urban garden,” he says.
Brooklyn Street Art:You have done installations in abandoned places with nails and yarn previously. What characteristics are you looking for when selecting your next wall? Spidertag: The location is almost everything to me. I look for special places that inspire me. That´s what I think Street Art is all about.
Brooklyn Street Art:You speak about a new minimalism in your work – Does this refer to the amount of empty space that complements the occupied space? Spidertag: More or less, yes. It´s about being more simple in the creation and composition. With this artwork, I think that I have started a new era for my work. What I´m doing now is more like the red parts of my piece; less of the green….
Brooklyn Street Art:Who are some of your favorite artists whose work influences this direction for you? Spidertag: More than being influenced by other artists I would say I was more influenced by my collaborations with other street artists, especially EC13 that have brought me to this place.


|XXXVI Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics||2-8.07.2017|
|VI School on Geometry and Physics||26-30.06.2017|
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Quantum integrable systems and torsion free sheaves on algebraic varieties
I will talk about the correspondence between quantum integrable systems and algebro-geometric spectral data. The most important ingredient of these data are spectral sheaves --- torsion free sheaves of special kind on algebraic varieties. I will also discuss how explicit is this correspondence, in particular, could we produce integrable systems starting from spectral data, even if the spectral variety has dimension greater than one. Part of the results in the talk are joint work with Igor Burban (Cologne) and with Herbert Kurke (Berlin).
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The town of New Mills is set in an area of spectacular natural beauty standing above a natural rocky gorge, known as The Torrs, where the River Sett joins the River Goyt.
Taking its name from a medieval corn mill which was established sometime before 1391, and later rebuilt, the area became known as 'newmylne'. By the late sixteenth century the name New Mill had become the place name for the small hamlet that had grown up around the mill and later evolved into New Mills with the building of cotton mills during the 1780s.
The town is now home to a wide range of independent food retailers and has a good selection of restaurants, cafés and pubs. The Torrs Riverside Park - the park 'under the town' - extends to two miles and is a superb place to walk, picnic and learn about the natural and industrial history of the area.
The park links to the Sett Valley Trail, Goyt Way and Midshires Way as well as to longer national trails, although until 1999, the route towards Cheshire along the Goyt Way was interrupted by what The Guardian newspaper described as' the last inaccessible place in England'. The solution came in the form of the £550,000 Millennium Walkway, an innovative 175-yard aerial walkway spanning the otherwise inaccessible cliff wall - the walkway won numerous awards for its stunning design, was showcased on national TV and also featured on a Post Office stamp marking the millennium.
Other walks and trails around the area include the Town Trail - a short walking trail beginning at the heritage centre and the Trespass Trail, which commemorates the mass trespass of Kinder in 1932 - a major catalyst to the creation of today's national parks. This circular trail starts at New Mills Heritage Centre and follows much of the original route taken by the trespassers.
Linked to the Torrs, the Sett Valley Trail is the two and half miles recreational trail leading to Hayfield, a small picturesque village situated at the foot of Kinder Scout. The Peak Forest Canal towpath links with hundreds of miles of footpaths and allows easy access to the 16 locks of Marple, as well as to the restored Bugsworth Basin, while High Lee Hall and Park is an attraction recreation area with gardens, woodland, a recently planted orchard and large playground.
New Mills Heritage and Information Centre is is open daily 11am-4pm (except Mondays) and is fully accessible for disabled people, with light refreshments, shop and toilet facilities available.
- Children welcome
- Parking with charge
- Public toilets
- Telephone (public)
Map & Directions
From Stockport take the Lower Bredbury sign and follow the Marple, Strines route into New Mills.New Mills is served by two railway stations and several bus servicesAccessible by Public Transport: Newtown station is 0 miles away.

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PROPONENTS of education technology have made remarkable promises over the past two decades: that by 2019, half of all secondary school courses would be online; videos and practice problems can let students learn mathematics at their own pace; in 50 years only 10 mega-institutions of higher education would be left; or that typical students left alone with internet-connected computers can learn anything without the help of schools or teachers. Then in 2020, people around the world were forced to turn to online learning as the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools serving more than 1 billion students. It was education technology's big moment, but for many students and families, remote learning has been a disappointment. When the world needs it most, why has education technology seemed so lacklustre? Educational software has a long history, but throughout there have been two major challenges.
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Begnas Lake is a serene freshwater lake situated in the Pokhara Valley of Nepal. Located about 15 kilometers (9 miles) east of Pokhara city, Begnas Lake is one of the prominent attractions in the region and offers a tranquil escape from the bustling city life.
Nestled amidst lush green hills and terraced fields, the lake spans an area of approximately 3.5 square kilometers (1.35 square miles) and reaches a maximum depth of 10 meters (33 feet). It is fed by water from the Rupa Lake and other nearby streams, adding to its pristine and clear
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For "overnight guests" at police lockups throughout the state, bread and water are no longer on the menu.
Prisoners with taste might find the Greenwich police station less distasteful once dinner is served. Spaghetti and meatballs or beef stew is standard fare; the Colonial Diner cooks the meals.
Those eating behind bars in West Hartford, Enfield or Meriden probably will have an easier time recognizing where their meal is coming from. An Egg McMuffin is breakfast, a couple of McDonald's hamburgers are lunch and dinner. Soda or a cup of coffee washes it all down.
For suspects on the go, TV dinners are served at the South Windsor police station. Guests in South Windsor's lockup wake up to "Great Starts" breakfast meals from Swanson's, complete with eggs, hash browns and sausage. At night, they go to sleep digesting Hormel "Top Shelf" boneless rib dinners.
The packaged food is stored in the station; officers simply pop them into a microwave oven at mealtime. Better yet, at bedtime everyone's bound to get plenty of sleep -- caffeine simply isn't served. Prisoners sip apple or orange juice through tiny straws from the same small juice-box containers grade-school pupils tote in their lunch boxes.
"This saves time," South Windsor Officer Scott Custer said. "We don't have to busy the patrol officer carting dinners back and forth."
Officers at most police stations across the state make food pickups each day for the inmates detained in their jail cells. Many have special accounts with a fast-food restaurant, such as McDonald's or Burger King. Others pick up meals from the closest restaurant or diner. And some, such as South Windsor, rely on a microwave oven to heat up prepared meals.
Waterbury prisoners have meals delivered to them. From -- get this -- a caterer.
That's right, Michael Anthony's Pizza & Colangelo's Catering delivers meals to the Waterbury Police Department; an officer
places the order the previous night.
Breakfast is not served. But the lunch and dinner menu consists of a meat, vegetable, potato, bread and butter and coffee, said the station's quartermaster, John Clifford. The service is put out to bid once a year.
Landing in Hartford's Lafayette Street jail may not be so bad for the stomach, either.
"It's supposed to be a balanced meal controlled by a dietitian," said Jim Gasecki, chief fiscal officer for the Hartford Sheriff's Department.
A typical breakfast might include apple juice, hot cereal and a pastry. For lunch, baked ham, candied sweet potatoes and black-eyed peas. And for dinner, oven-fried chicken, rice and mixed vegetables, said Karen Randall, a spokeswoman for Canteen Corp., a South Carolina-based food service for correction centers.
In Glastonbury, the police department goes a bit further than most stations to fill the culinary requests of their guests.
"If there's a special need, we'll find it," Glastonbury Cmdr. Thomas Hayes said. "Whatever their need is, if a person really wanted a grinder, we'll try to get it. We try to do what's reasonable."
"We would not let you have filet mignon. But if someone wants two cheeseburgers or a salad, we'll get it for them. We try to be accommodating."
Avon police also give their prisoners a choice of food -- from Abdow's Restaurant. "We ask them what they want," Avon's Capt. Paul Olson said. "They're not getting a $20 meal -- even though it is Avon."
For many years, McDonald's Big Macs and Egg McMuffins were the bill of fare for Bristol's detainees. Now, officers send out for hamburgers and fries from the Golden Key diner across the street from the station.
"It's much more convenient," Bristol's acting Chief Daniel Ahearn said. "The agreement is that the food will be on the counter waiting when an officer stops by to pick it up. At McDonald's, we would have to wait for the food to be prepared. Our officers are busy."
For anyone expecting to be serving time on Christmas Day, Bristol may be the most sought-after spot. Turkey and ham are served.
Many stations, including Vernon, West Hartford, Enfield and Meriden, have come to rely on McDonald's restaurants. They are open late, and on holidays.
It's not uncommon for a Vernon cruiser to pull up to a drive-through window outside McDonald's, order four hamburgers and four coffees to go, then drive off without paying. The driver waiting behind the cruiser often looks on increduously, bad-mouthing police for getting free meals.
"It happens all the time," Vernon Lt. Brian Smith said. "People think the cops are getting food for nothing because they don't see money being exchanged." What they don't know is that the burgers and caffeine are going to feed the inmates -- and that the department puts a check in the mail.
Unless prisoners have dietary problems, West Hartford doesn't alter its McDonald's menu, Officer Jeff Glaude said.
"Lots of times you get junkies who complain," Glaude said, "but they're going to get sick on whatever you give them."
Police in Meriden once relied on several local establishments. "But as they went out of business," Meriden Sgt. Lenny Caponigro said, "it got to be too much of a hassle." Now the police take out McDonald's meals three day times a day, billed to the department.

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“Search your heart. Find what brings you joy, in whose company you are most serene. Be there, be fully there.”
Note: This is the first of a collection of drafted blog posts I've written throughout the late spring, summer and fall seasons. These have been revisited and I will continue to share in order of seasons. Ty for being here xo.
It’s been a while since I’ve properly written on here and updated you all. It seems that as this year continues, we’re all struggling to maintain some sort of sanity. I’ve continued to work tirelessly at a job where I feel like I am both running the place and running away from it. As days go on and the physical labor and emotional demand of the job takes it toll on me, I self-soothe, isolate and recharge, in order for me to show up as my best self the next day… and the day after that… again and again and again.
One day I’m going to miss all this: the hustle and grind, the confusion, the running around, the being in a million places at once to being nowhere, the meeting so many people and talking to so many people, to being tired and exhausted, uninspired and demotivated, reassured and uplifted, tired yet grateful.
It’s the few regulars and heart-to-hearts I have with these people who cast the light I give out right back at me, which fuels me and makes me feel okay.
I feel very lucky to have gotten to this point in my life. I often think back on the past four years it’s taken me to get here — from that day in late June four years ago where I packed my life and belongings into my car and set out for Los Angeles (or a friend’s couch in Orange County). I spent those first two years living on couches to friend’s extra rooms in cities I didn’t know, getting over a heartbreak, plunging myself into every work opportunity, music and show — anything that excited, thrilled me, and made me feel most alive — just to find myself and create some semblance of feeling like I belonged here.
I’ve spent the past decade second-guessing every move I made, even if I was always following the music and the writing and the shows and the artists who gave me their confidence. The truth is, I didn’t have it in myself. And it took me years of getting over breaking my own heart, navigating a new city, learning how to take care of myself, to grow up, to dealing with all sorts of personalities, weeding out so many people, only to realize that I’ve had it in me all along.
“She’d never been held so tightly by anything in life,
than by the coolness of the damp morning,
And the orange glow that bathed her
During the lovely hours.”
I submitted something new for the first time in what feels like two+ years since the last time I did, and it made me feel damn good, because I realized:
- how damn qualified I am when I find something I actually want and know;
- how all my years of doing grunt work and hustling and freelancing and not really knowing what I was doing interviewing artists and writing for publications with no pay all while being passionate for the art and the music and the story made me work my ass off writing, creating, producing social media content, etc.
- how passionate I am about the environment, women’s health, wellness, etc. because this pandemic and a damn heartbreak years prior showed me and forced me how the hell to take care of myself, self-soothe, and really own myself and my light.
Sometimes it just takes a little looking back to realize how far you’ve come and how much you’ve done to remember just how powerful you are, and always have been.
Early this July, I was able to finally return to live music and catch a slate of live shows, week after week, from artists I love in the community.
I would like to thank Kate Earl, a longtime musician and singer-songwriter who I have looked up to for the past decade, and her brother Johnny, for always instilling their confidence and encouragement in me. In the words of Johnny:
“You have it all Rachel! You have the talent and the beauty and I know if you just get over this blockage, you would really shine. I refuse to see you fail. And if there’s anything I’ve learned from my sister, it’s that you’re only getting older. Your time is now.”
For so long, I was an ambitious little dreamer kid who always kept to herself and didn’t realize the value and impact her own friends and family had on her. I’ve been blessed, and the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve learned to treasure, value and make time for my loved ones.
To the friends and family at home whom I’ve grown up with who make me feel my most loved and supported: I don’t get enough time with you throughout the years, but the bond we’ve built and shared through our most formative years will always stay with me.
For my friends in LA for reminding me just how beautiful this life is, to my “birds of a feather,” 500 Days, barista friends and family, to my circle for our laughs, drinks, impromptu “hot pot and sake” nights and eats, and my fellow artists, for how our art and music and writing are free and selfless, and how we remember that things are supposed to be fun, and we should keep it fun.
And for Rue: we shot a damn commercial and it was so unexpected and these opportunities have just fallen on our laps just with us being us, even if we haven’t been working on anything for months on end. That says a lot. And moreover, the friendship and inspiration and life you’ve given me when I felt like I was losing it has meant a lot.
I’ve come a long way since my first golden hour shoot at 25.
Take note of the spaces you’ve been in, the opportunities you’ve been given, the energy you emit and the energy you attract.
I’ve always believed and have been told there’s something about me that draws people to me. It’s a shame to realize I haven’t quite fully realized that in my day-to-day life — that I’m caught in this cycle and blockage of doubt, disbelief and fear, even when I feel the most confident and self-assured I have ever been in my life. The routines I’ve set, the lifestyle I’ve adapted, and the two years+ neglect to follow my heart and my dreams, wholeheartedly, have messed with my natural rhythm + flow.
I’ve worked in many places and environments where the work you would do wasn’t properly recognized, celebrated or validated. As I’m training new people and bringing on new projects, I’ve found I am more candid in recognizing people’s work, openly celebrating and validating it.
Those are the kind of words and encouragement I wish I heard because I knew I worked hard and showed up for every single job. I realize my light and leadership doesn’t go unnoticed. I want my team to feel validated. It’s recognizing we’re all in this together to make the show/shop happen.
This is teamwork. I’ve thrived in teamwork my entire life. Early days of dancing, my decade as a cultural dancer, my involvement in clubs and organizations in school, my writing and words and interviews highlighting an artist’s work, and the work I do everyday to run this coffee shop.
What’s my next chapter? I don’t know. But I’ve had this culmination of my journey, forever enmeshed and shared and enjoyed with all those I’ve crossed paths with.
Don’t lose momentum. Keep sharing your light.
With love and honesty, always,
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The renowned entertainer James Caan and model Ingrid Hajek have a kid named Alexander James Caan.
Alexander James Net Worth
What is the Net Worth of Alexander James in 2022?
James, net worth of 2022 is $20 million, according sources. James’ acting profession has brought him wealth. He also invested in business ventures, which increased his financial worth.
Wikis of Alexander James
|Full Name:||Alexander James|
|Birth Date:||April 10, 1991|
|Profession:||Entertainer, and model|
Early Life of Alexander James: Born, Age, Parents, Education
What is Alexander James Age?
On April 10, 1991, Alexander James Caan was born in the US. He was born in the year 2019 with the astrological sign of Aries, and he is 28 years old. His parents are James Caan and Ingrid Hajek. Scott Caan, Tara A. Caan, James Arthur Caan, and Jacob Nicholas Caan are his four siblings.
Alexander is a native-born American who is Caucasian. His academic record and college studies are not publicly available. However, we believe he might have attended a renowned American university for his schooling.
Body Measurements: Height,Weight
What is Alexander James Height?
It is unknown what Alexander’s height and weight are. He is about 5 feet 8 inches tall, according to our estimation. Alexander is an attractive young man who is tall and trim. He also has dark blonde hair and gray eyes.
Relationship Status: Single
There is no information on his relationship or extramarital affairs. It’s impossible to determine whether Alexander is single or in a relationship because he hasn’t talked about it. We don’t know anything about his present marital status as a result. Alexander seems to be by himself, or he could be keeping something from us.
Nothing about Alexander James Caan’s past employment has been disclosed. He gained fame, nonetheless, as James Caan’s son. He might be working to support himself on a daily basis. No information about his professional background is accessible due to his guarded profile.
His mother, a Puerto Rican model, is one of his parents. She hasn’t said anything further about her background in the workplace. On the other hand, his father is a well-known actor best known for his roles in The Glory Guys and El Dorado, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. His appearance in The Rain People helped him become well-known in the 1970s, and he also appeared in movies including Brian’s Song, Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Freebie and the Bean, Rollerball, Funny Lady, and others.
Married Parents’ Lives
His father, James Caan, has been married four times; the fourth marriage has been filed for divorce, but no judgment has been rendered in that case. James wed Dee Jay Mathis in 1961. In 1964, Tara Caan, their daughter, was born. In 1966, the couple decided to get divorced because it seemed like their marriage was not working. After that, he started dating models and actors, but all of his relationships ended abruptly. James was a career-high hottie who was one of the undeniably handsome hunks to fantasize about. Later on, he dated Sheila Marie Ryan, formerly of Elvis Presley. They got married in 1976, but got divorced the following year. The couple’s son Scott Caan was born the same year they got married and is also an actor.
After over ten years, James wed Ingrid Hajek, his third wife, in September 1990. In 1991, Alexander James Caan, their son, was born. The marriage did, however, end in divorce in 1994. One year after divorcing his third wife, James wed Linda Stokes, his fourth. Their two sons are James Arthur Caan, born in 1995, and Jacob Nicholas Caan, born in 1998. They were a happy pair, despite reports in the media to the contrary. The couple filed for divorce in November 2009, citing irreconcilable differences as the cause, but the marriage was already on the edge of ending. James is the proud father of five children and four grandkids, despite his rough history, and he treasures any chance to spend time with them.
- On April 10, 1991, he was born in the US.
- He doesn’t have a job or a net worth, but he does get financial support from his father.
- One of his generation’s most well-known actors is his half-brother Scott Caan.
- James Caan, an actor well recognized for his work in The Glory Guys and El Dorado, is his father.
- Model from Puerto Rico who hasn’t disclosed any information about her origins, Alexander’s mother.
- He dated Sheila Marie Ryan, a former flame of Elvis Presley.
- They got married in 1976, but got divorced the following year.
- His son was born in 1991 after he wed Ingrid Hajek, his third wife. Nevertheless, their union also ended in divorce.

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By Gan Matthews, NEWS 9
Plans are being made to begin building a new bridge in Norman that would lead to the University North Park Development. A new Embassy Suites Hotel will also be built off the new stretch of road.
The 283-room hotel and conference center is nearing completion and Norman had planned to own and operate the conference center, using $15 million from a Tax Increment Financing arrangement. Recently, hotelier John Q. Hammons offered the city an alternative plan that included using almost half of that money instead to build an overpass on Rock Creek over Interstate 35.
"I think he's persuaded that the overall development of the TIF will...benefit from improved traffic flows, and I think he's persuaded that it would also be beneficial to his development to have less congestion throughout the area," Norman Mayor Cindy Rosenthal said.
The Mayor said Norman experiences major traffic problems north and south of the area, problems that an overpass would relieve.
"Our biggest concern was in the encroachment into our actual land, because we have very long parking as it is now," said realtor Sallie Vawter.
Norman said land acquisition will be to the north, leaving the businesses alone.
"I think it would be inconvenient during the construction, but I think overall it would be a good thing," Vawter said.
According to the arrangement, Norman would not own or operate the conference center.
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I write this Wednesday morning as the results of the 2022 Midterm Elections for Congress remain undecided.
The U.S. Senate is tied at 48-48—the winning political party will need 51 senators to control the legislative agenda in that chamber. Currently the upper chamber membership is tied at 50-50 and Vice President Kamala Harris can cast the tie breaking vote for the Democrats.
In the House, the total vote tabulation at the moment is Democrats 178, Republicans 199. The majority party requires 218 representatives to pass its measures. The Democrats currently hold a slim 220-212 majority.
Regardless of which party ultimately captures either chamber, beware the actions of Congress during the Lame Duck Session that begins next Monday.
The danger coming between November 14 and when the new Congress convenes at noon January 3, is the unbridled incentive to pass controversial legislation Congress was reluctant to pass for fear of voter rejection.
Those defeated delegates in both the House and Senate now have no such compunction to withhold a vote that otherwise would evoke blowback from their constituents.
SCRAP THIS LAME DUCK
This long-term practice should end. It risks defying the message that voters sent on election day. Delegates have two months between the next week and when the new Congress begins in January to act malevolently.
America voters cast ballots and there should be no legislative action at all between election day and the start of a new Congress.
We dare not risk the likelihood that disgruntled losing Senators and Representatives will pass legislation that voters made clear they did not want.
It’s time to ground this lame duck permanently.

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The Denver Broncos jumped from No. 15 up to No. 11 in USA TODAY Sports’ post-draft NFL power rankings. Here’s the explanation for Denver’s big jump:
Bradley Chubb headlines what looks to be an impact draft. New QB Case Keenum is apparently already winning over the locker room. They’re back.
The Broncos are the second-highest ranked AFC West team and the fifth-highest ranked team in the AFC. Only the Pittsburgh Steelers (No. 9), Jacksonville Jaguars (No. 8), Los Angeles Chargers (No. 6) and New England Patriots (No. 2) are ranked higher in Denver’s conference.
These power rankings are much more logical than ESPN’s post-draft power rankings, which has the Broncos dropping from No. 19 down to No. 21. The network’s commentary with the ranking doesn’t offer much of an explanation for the drop:
Defensive end Bradley Chubb fell into the Broncos’ lap at fifth overall, and if he pans out, the tandem of Chubb and Von Miller could be devastating to opposing quarterbacks. The Broncos ranked 22nd in sacks last season, but they pressured quarterbacks at the third-highest rate.
So Denver’s pass rusher got a lot better, but they’re worse off after the draft? That’s such a strange explanation from ESPN.
We’re sticking with USA TODAY: the Broncos are trending upward.

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BOCA RATON, Fla. — An assertive President Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney Monday night of taking an unclear and vacillating approach to foreign policy, saying such confusing signals would embolden the nation’s enemies in a time of continued threats.
Romney responded by brushing aside the attacks, saying they failed to address the serious challenges — and opportunities — the country faces as the Middle East convulses in widespread upheaval.
The two men wasted no time tangling in the opening moments of their third and final presidential debate, a session devoted to national security and foreign policy.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, consistent with the earlier debates, took a more moderate stance than he has in much of the campaign.
He praised Obama for the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, but said the country “can’t kill our way” to a solution in the Middle East. He said the answer is greater economic opportunities and the spread of freedom.
Obama immediately went on the attack, citing Romney’s earlier Cold War-style rhetoric and suggesting Romney wanted to institute a 1980s foreign policy to go along with a social policy from the 1950s and economic policies from the 1920s.
“Every time you’ve offered an opinion,” the president said bluntly, “you’ve been wrong.”
Seated side-by-side at a wooden tabletop and facing the moderator, CBS’ Bob Schieffer, each candidate hoped for a breakthrough while avoiding any misstep that could assume outsized import in the campaign’s final, crucial stretch.
The 90-minute session on the campus of Lynn University in South Florida was seen as favoring Obama, at least starting out. He is the nation’s commander in chief, with the gravitas that confers. Moreover, he can boast, as he has throughout the campaign, of several major accomplishments, including the killing of bin Laden, keeping his pledge to end the war in Iraq and laying out plans to end America’s increasingly unpopular engagement in Afghanistan.
Just ahead of the debate, the Obama campaign broadcast a new TV spot highlighting the withdrawal from Iraq and plans to bring troops home from Afghanistan. “It’s time to stop fighting over there and start rebuilding over here,” the ad stated, tying an economic argument to the president’s foreign policy message.
In the past few weeks, however, Obama has been thrown on the defensive on foreign policy, once considered his strongest suit, as the administration offered an evolving series of explanations for the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans died in the assault, details of which are still hazy.
Despite that opening, Romney has not been terribly sure-footed when he strays from his campaign’s central focus on the economy. He staged a poorly reviewed summer trip to Europe and Israel, puzzled even some Republicans by calling Russia the nation’s top strategic foe, and has been burned by attempts to capitalize on the controversy over Benghazi, including a factual misstatement in last week’s debate.
The debate followed a pair of outings that saw vastly different performances by Obama, who faltered in his first face-to-face meeting with Romney, then came back aggressively in the second.
Romney’s commanding Oct. 3 performance in Denver rallied Republicans and forestalled a possible Obama runaway; the president’s comeback on Long Island last week reassured Democrats and averted panic in his party, though it failed to recoup the momentum Obama lost after his poor initial showing.
With just 14 full days of campaigning left, the two men are running neck-and-neck in national polls, even as the president continues to hold a small edge in the state-by-state electoral vote contest.
The topic of Monday night’s debate was a break from the campaign’s recent focus on abortion, birth control and other issues aimed primarily at women voters, who are seen as potentially the decisive bloc on Election Day.
The differences between the two candidates on foreign policy, however, have been marginal, with both sides magnifying them to suggest a greater separation than exists. Throughout the campaign, for instance, Romney has criticized Obama’s timeline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan but, at the same time, indicated he would adhere to the plan to bring them home by 2014.
He has repeatedly criticized Obama for not doing more to secure stability in Syria and Libya, but has not said whether he would consider committing U.S. troops as part of a peacekeeping force in either nation.
Romney has mainly painted his foreign policy vision in broad strokes, saying he would pursue a policy of “peace through strength” — a Republican standby since the days of Ronald Reagan — and seek to preside over “an American century.”
More than 67 million people tuned in to the first debate, and the viewership was nearly as large for last week’s follow-up. The audience for the final session in Florida was expected to be smaller, due in part to the topic — foreign policy is not a top-of-the-mind issue for most Americans — and competition with “Monday Night Football” and the deciding game of baseball’s National League Championship Series.
Regardless, the debate was significant as the last chance for voters to see the two presidential hopefuls side-by-side and engaging in a relatively free-flowing, unscripted exchange. It also represented the last major chance the candidates had to appeal to voters who have yet to make up their minds and, perhaps more importantly, to excite their supporters and motivate them to turn out for the Nov. 6 election.
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Here it is almost February and time to figure out what I’m going to do and where I’m going to be for this Summer.
In the meantime I have been keeping busy. I’ve spent some time with Nick and Jennie, the other Camp Hosts. I went to their rig for New Year’s Eve. We had some wine and snacks, played cards and celebrated midnight (in New York) with a Champgne toast.
The Holidays took it’s toll on the waist, with all the sweet stuff that I had on hand. Even a few pounds is too much to keep on. I am most tempted when I get bored, so I have been keeping the hands occupied. Before Christmas it was Loom Knitting gifts. In the Christmas decor is a small doll that my mother had made, so I thought that I would try to make one. The result is a doll made out of muslin with an armature inside with polyester fill around it. She is about 10” and her arms and legs can be bent. She also has yarn hair. In addition to the doll I have also been creating a wardrobe for her.
Of course, she needed panties. I also crocheted a coat.
She also needed nightgowns, The one with the scotties is like one of mine.
She has a robe that matches one that I made for myself.
I made a pair of overalls and a jacket and hat from left over fabric from the bench that she is on.
Then there is a blouse, coulots, (sp ?), and a scottie skirt.
She even has a camp host uniform made from sweatshirt material
and she has a crocheted blanket that goes with a larger baby blanket.
On my days off this past week, I thought that I would check out Bodega Dunes State Campground. There are some beautiful beaches along the coast as well as some great surf.
Below is what one of the Camp Host’s site looks like.
The week before I checked out the campground at Lake Salono County park. There, there are three levels rising up from the river. (no pics)
One of my other options is to possibly find an RV Park to rent a space and find a JOB. I’m not sure that is something that I want to do, but it is an option.
I am currently the only camp host until February. Nick and Jennie left last Thursday. I will certainly miss them. We made a good team.
I guess that I will close for now. I have to go lock the front gate soon. I hope that you all are staying warm and dry.
Thanks for visiting
Susan and Angel

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