Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio.
Magic!
Goodnight.
Dr. Thrasher is on post book tour hiatus
"As I begin to make my own acquisitions, I often think about how people are obsessed with one corner of Black cinema. But there are three other corners that people are not touching. What lies ahead for me is asking why people aren’t chasing these films?"
Tracy Morgan: "New York City that's where King King died... and we told Godzilla you next motherf*cker. You, the three headed monster, the flying turtle, all y'all can all get it."
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“I don’t do this embroidery stuff with the intention of being in the fashion world, I do it with the intention of being an artist. I try to bridge the gap and let people know that embroidery is art, and fashion is a way for people to get into my stuff.“
This has long been my issue with fabulation in archives- people really want to through away the "critical" part, the piles of papers, the Hartman research methodologies, and go straight to the making stuff up part. This is just fiction!
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
Peter Whitewood
Reminds me of this project 🙄
Dorothy Berry
okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go
"I think about how people are obsessed with one corner of Black cinema. There are three other corners that people are not touching. What lies ahead for me is asking why people aren’t chasing these films?"
@812filmreviews spoke w/ Maya Cade abt the continuing mission of the Black Film Archive:
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An interview with the brilliant Maya Cade, the pioneer behind the Black Film Archive.
Earlier this year, ProPublica received handwritten letters from children who have been held at the Dilley detention center.
We'll let their words speak for themselves.
(Published February)
If you want to see what one of the leading light skinned bookwomen of today has to say about thee leading light skinned bookwoman of yore, my review is live in the latest issue of @bibsocamer.bsky.social's journal
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In honor of the Feast of All Saints of North America and of the communal joy of the city of New York, I'd like to introduce you to St. Raphael of Brooklyn and the beautiful cathedral he founded
www.oca.org/saints/lives...
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Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
BREAKING: The UK Government confirms that Bluesky will be INCLUDED in the ban on social media for under 16s.
The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”
James Baldwin parceled out into AI-selected therapeutic memes, stylized via a typewriter interface: the “people-centered” AI future made possible through $500M in philanthropic funding. Without such technological advancement, we’d have no other means of accessing Baldwin quotations!
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
