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Til Death Do Us Part: Webserial

Hello! Some of you may know that I made my way back into writing through the web serial. But with my previous stories they were written out of order and the organization was a mess. I’m trying out the form again but…get this…I’m actually writing in order! The project I’m working on right now is Til Death Do Us Part. Here’s the blurb:

When she signed up for immortality she hadn’t expected it to be like this. It’s been a century and her vampire fiancée still hasn’t put a ring on it. After a much a younger family member marries Mariane starts to rethink her life. Should she hold out for the prize or is her prince charming just a dud in vampire’s clothing?

I always wondered what turnees did after being changed. Mariane is trapped in her seventeen year old body. She was willing to spend the rest of her life with her love but she REALLY expected to have his name while doing it. But that didn’t happen. Til Death Do Us Part is her story. Not only does she has to get used to the new millennium she has to deal with the dreaded mother in law.

I’ve posted the first chapter on Wattpad. You can find it here: http://www.wattpad.com/75217317-til-death-do-us-part

Ten Years Later

In 2012, I wrote about 175,000 words. I don’t think I’ve ever written that much before then. 2012 was the year I started to taking my writing seriously.

Most of this word count came from my verse, The Mondian Chronicles. This particular verse started in earnest in 2011, but I had had the idea since I was at least twelve or so.

For the longest time I didn’t know what genre TMC fit into. It wasn’t really alternate history as it didn’t deviate from any known history. No, TMC is heavily inspired by real history, but the people themselves are entirely fictional as is their world.

One of my friends mentioned it was fantasy since the world was made up. I was hesitant to call it that because honestly this world REALLY doesn’t have many fantasy elements  aside from a few appearances from dead characters that could be taken as hallucinations or dreams.

But this year I figured out what it would be: mannerpunk or fantasy of manners. I was so ecstatic to learn that there was a label for my story.

BUT anyway, I wanted to post a piece from the series here. I don’t write this or any of my other serials in order though. But this piece takes place after the main action of the 1120s when Henri, Marguerite’s father,  did away with her mother leaving her and her older sister without their much loved Maman. Marguerite is around 20 in this, having been born in 1121.

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Hey guys! I was looking over some notes for my TRW verse. A little background, it’s an alternate history where Princess Charlotte of Wales (cousin to Queen Victoria and original heir to the British throne) didn’t die and lived to become queen. I’m kind of mixing genres potentially with this series. It’s kinda gaslamp fantasy/steampunkish if that makes any earthly sense haha. It’ll be likely a mash up of the Regency and Victorian eras.

Anyway I just wrote the second piece in the series. I don’t have a title for it and I haven’t posted it anywhere else because it doesn’t really fit with the guidelines of my usual place. So I thought I’d put it here. I’d love to here what you think of it

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Guest Blogger ~ Heather Kindt

 Today we have a Guest Blogger, Heather Kindt.
Die-namite crafters!
I'm honored to share with you a cute project.
It was so simple!

I took a book making class from my local Art Museum. One of the books had a brown paper cover and some bright green thread for binding. The look wasn't bad, but I wanted to make it cute.

It only took two changes! First I covered the paper with Viva Colour's Inka Gold in Green.  I rubbed it in and buffed it until it was shiny.

With my cute new die,

I cut some adhesive-backed foil (made by Ranger).  It made a really cute emblem! I debated adding to it but I like the simple look and the fact that the cover is still nice and flat.

Thank you Heather for sharing your project!!

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One Little Word Tag

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Ali Edwards started the One Little Word (OWL) trend which many scrapbookers participate in every year.  I've done this for a number of years myself, at the start of the new year I choose a new year to help me focus on what I want for the year.

My word for 2014 is Embrace!  There are lots of things I want to embrace this year...including turning 40.  To help me remember my word and keep it in focus I created this cute little tag and will hang it in my space where I can see it.

I created the tag using Tim Holtz Distress Ink on the background paired with one of his stencils.  I added a little white Distress Paint and another of Tim's stencils for some extra texture.

Once the background was ready I cut the Rose With Leaves die from smooth white cardstock then coloured it with Bundled Sage & Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.  This created the perfect backdrop for this cute Prima stamp.

Once the tag was all put together I finished off the Rose With Leaces by adding some 'dew drops' using Viva Decor Pearl Pen in Translucent Magic.

Have you chosen a word for 2014?  If you have or will I hope you make something pretty to remind you of your word and help you keep it in focus!

Have a fabulous weekend!

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  1. Lisa so love this project....I to love picking a word but I haven't decided yet....I am going to be going through some changes and need to think hard about how those changes are going to effect your word embrace....


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Open digital mapping for assessing carbon storage in tropical peatlands

Researchers from Sydney, Australia, and Bogor, Indonesia demonstrate that tropical peatland can be mapped accurately and cost effectively using freely-available remote sensing data and open source software.

At COP23 in Bonn, the Global Peatlands Initiative and various organisations held events aiming to bring peatlands on the agenda at COP23. Peatlands have an important role in the global carbon cycle as it stores a huge amount of carbon. A small loss of peat from land clearance and mismanagement can contribute a large amount of CO2 to the atmosphere. Indonesia has one of the largest peatlands in the tropics, with an estimate of 15 million hectares. Responding to the global issue of reducing CO2 emissions, Indonesia has legislation on the protection and management of the peat ecosystem. The legislation outlined conservation areas, which depends on the thickness of peat; however, the main challenge is the lack of fine-scale, accurate maps of peat distribution and its thickness. The current peatland map in Indonesia is at a coarse scale with much uncertainty that it cannot be used to implement conservation and management regulations.

Traditional soil mapping techniques are too costly as they require many field observations, and the outputs can be too subjective. Many technologies for mapping peatlands have been tested in Indonesia, including flying sensors to detect peat from the above. However, many of the technologies are not cost-effective for large extent mapping. Researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia and Institut Pertanian Bogor in Indonesia proposed an open digital mapping methodology, making use of open data in an open-source environment, as a cost-effective and accurate method for mapping peat and its carbon stock for large areas in Indonesia. This is the first study which provided a detailed cost and blueprint for national peat mapping. The study was published in the upcoming issue of Geoderma, a global soil science journal.

This open methodology combines field observations with factors that are known to influence peat depth distribution in space. These factors are represented by multi-source remotely sensed data derived from freely-available open data: digital elevation model from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, geographical information, radar (ALOS PALSAR and Sentinel 1 data) and optical images (Landsat TM). The method makes use of advanced machine learning models to predict peat depth every 30 m on the land surface. To make it transparent, accountable, and repeatable, all mapping procedures were scripted in the R open source and free software.

The authors successfully applied this approach in mapping peat thickness and carbon stock in the Bengkalis Island, Sumatra, covering an area of 50,000 ha. The authors further provided an estimate of the cost and time required for map production, i.e. 2 to 4 months with a cost between $0.3 and $0.5/ha for an area of 50,000 ha. Obviously, there is a tradeoff between cost and accuracy. And the cost will decrease significantly with increasing area.

Researchers from Sydney have developed digital soil mapping techniques and successfully applied them for nation-wide soil carbon mapping in various countries. Some researchers from Indonesia believe that the only solution for peat mapping is to fly Lidar, a laser instrument which provides elevation of the ground surface. This study demonstrates that we can map peat thickness accurately using freely-available data, the key is that we need to use multiple source of information not just elevation.

Due to the open nature of the method (open data, and open-source), the method is scalable to the whole country and can be done in parallel by many groups. With appropriate training, various groups in Indonesia can perform this mapping procedure in a standard, and objective way. The authors envisage if done in parallel (both field work and computer modelling), utilising existing observations and collecting new observations, a high-resolution peat map (estimate of peat thickness every 30 m) for Indonesia can be completed within 2 years.

Rudiyanto, Budiman Minasny, Budi Indra Setiawan, Satyanto Krido Saptomo, Alex B. McBratney. Open digital mapping as a cost-effective method for mapping peat thickness and assessing the carbon stock of tropical peatlands. Geoderma.

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Harry Potter: Watch all the films' spells in alphabetical order

From Accio to Wingardium Leviosa.

With the recent arrival of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, JK Rowling fever is upon us once again.

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And how better to celebrate than this video, which edits together all the spells from the films in alphabetical order - from Accio to Wingardium Leviosa.

In case anyone out there thought that Pottermania was beginning to die down, a wand shop owner in Huddersfield recently said that he would only sell to real witches and wizards.

More tickets for The Cursed Child were released last week, with most selling out within minutes.

Those of us who missed out again will have to be satisfied with the collected Harry Potter and the Cursed Child scripts, which are available to buy now.

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Evan Rachel Wood reveals she is a sexual assault survivor: "I will not be ashamed"

Westworld actress says abuse was "physical, psychological, sexual".

Warning: The following article includes descriptions of sexual violence that some might consider triggering.

Westworld star Evan Rachel Wood is speaking out for the first time about surviving sexual assault.

A recent Rolling Stone profile on the 29-year-old actress includes her acknowledgment that she suffered "physical, psychological [and] sexual" abuse twice in her past.

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Although she originally chose not to delve deeper into those events, Wood later emailed an additional statement to the magazine explaining: "I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer. Not given the state our world is in with its blatant bigotry and sexism."

That email was subsequently published in full on Wood's Twitter account, and included her insistence that she will not shy away from talking about those past events any longer.

"I will not be ashamed," she wrote. "I will also not project some false idea of being completely over it because 'I am so strong'."

She continued: "It should be talked about because it's swept under the rug as nothing and I will not accept this as 'normal'. It's a serious problem.

"I am still standing. I am alive. I am happy. I am strong. But I am still not ok. I think it's important for people to know that, for survivors to own that, and that the pressure to just get over it already should be lifted."Since opening up about her experiences the actress has decided to take a break from social media, thanking her followers for sharing their own stories and reassuring them that they are not alone.

Wood is currently playing the self-aware robot Dolores in the critically-acclaimed science fiction drama Westworld, for which she has earned a Critics' Choice Award nomination.

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Azealia Banks reveals she's suffered a miscarriage: "The self-loathing bit is a real struggle"

Rapper also shades Nicki Minaj in deleted Facebook post.

Azealia Banks has revealed that she recently suffered a miscarriage.

The outspoken rapper shared the tragic news in a heartbreaking Facebook message while reaching out to her fans for guidance. That message has since been deleted.

"So I've just had a really major life event happen and I want to talk about it because this wouldn't be an Azealia Banks page without loads of oversharing right?" she wrote.

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"Anywho, I've just had a miscarriage and am pretty taken aback by it all and really confused and in shock and guilty and a bit depressed and like a failure and very ashamed.

"Has anyone else had this same experience who cares to share some words of wisdom or words of anything regarding this topic?

"The self-loathing bit is a real struggle for me at the moment so share any words here, They will be greatly appreciated. Thanks."

However, Azealia eventually removed that entire post from her Facebook feed and replaced it with a plea for the media not to trivialise something as serious as a miscarriage.

"HOPEFULLY the tabloids don't get tacky about this Azealia Banks headline. I've had a real rough 2016. I honestly need a break from the public crucifixions," she explained.

"This is a women's health issue that many others may or may not be able to relate to. Please don't f**k UP an opportunity for clear, open and beneficial discourse between WOMEN !"

Azealia also deleted a rant in which she urged rival Nicki Minaj to "slim down a bit" and "decrease [her] butt size", while disparaging Minaj by likening her to hip-hop's version of McDonald's.

That message was removed from her Facebook account too when she complained that "trolls [were] coming", although she argued vehemently with commenters who called her out for not standing behind her Nicki insults.

Azealia Banks shades Nicki Minaj

Azealia most recently made headlines for a confrontation with actor Russell Crowe, in which she claimed that he physically threw her out of a private party in Beverly Hills.

Although the musician filed a police report, the Los Angeles Angeles District Attorney's Office declined to press charges because they found Crowe's actions were "justified to prevent the imminent violence threatened by Banks".

This past spring, she was also banned from Twitter for unleashing a racially-tinged tirade against former One Direction star Zayn. Banks later apologised for attacking Zayn.

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Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch leaks under the codename Solis

And it appears to be keeping the circular theme.

Just when you thought all the leaks and fresh announcements were dominated by Apple, the internet has provided us with an interesting sneak peek at Samsung's Gear S3.

In the lead-up to its expected unveil at Galaxy Unpacked on August 2, the smartwatch's codename has been outed along with model numbers and OS details.

According to sources at SamMobile, the next Samsung watch is being developed under the codename Solis - meaning Sun in Spanish. Since the last Gear S2 used the codename Orbis - meaning circular - this would appear to be its successor.

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The source says that the new Solis watch will run the Tizen operating system, instead of Android. This will come with an updated interface that will likely take advantage of the same rotating bezel system its predecessor offers.

No other specs have been revealed aside from the model numbers: SM-R760, SM-R765, SM-R770, SM-R765V and SM-R765S - although it's suggested that the 1.2-inch display of the Gear S2 may get a size upgrade to help make touch interactions a little more easy.

More on the smartwatch will likely leak before the Unpacked event in August, when the Galaxy Note 7 is also expected to appear.

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Channel 5 leads Viacom upsurge in UK

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Channel 5’s Blind Date

Viacom has highlighted the strength of the performance of its UK channels last year, led by free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5, which delivered the largest audience growth among the country’s public service broadcasters, according to the media group.

Channel 5’s audience grew by 5% to deliver a 6.51% share of all TV viewing, the service’s best performance since 2004. The Channel 5 portfolio, including 5Star, 5USA and 5Spike, also delivered its highest share of viewing to date among the sought-after ABC1 audience segments and 16-24 year-olds, according to Viacom. The portfolio achieved a 5.58% share of this group, which it said reflected its investment in factual and documentary shows including Slum Britain: 50 Years On, produced in partnership with Shelter and natural history documentary, Alaska: A Year in the Wild.

The rebranded 5Spike meanwhile saw a 32% increase in viewing share for all individuals.

Viacom’s overall portfolio of channels achieved an 8.4% share of all TV viewers. Comedy Central grew its 16-34s audience by 11% and achieved its best year on record, while Nickelodeon grew 7% and is the number one ranked kids network in pay TV homes, the media group said.

James Currell, President for Viacom’s UK operations, said: “It speaks volumes for the strength of Channel 5’s performance last year that it gained share from its rivals and won over new audiences in the most intense competitive environment I can remember. It is clear proof our investment in reinventing Channel 5’s schedule is paying off and is contributing strongly to the overall growth of our UK business.”


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Offering a barbecue and views of the garden, Havodah in Havilah is located in Wallmannstal. Free private parking is available on site. Some units feature a seating area to relax in after a busy day. You will find a kettle in the room. All rooms have a private bathroom fitted with a bath or shower. A flat-screen TV and DVD player are available. Pretoria is 28 km from Havodah in Havilah , while Centurion is 38 km away. Lanseria (Johannesburg) Airport is 62 km from the property. дополнительная информация

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Wartburger Hof Hotel

Originally built as a Bavarian lodge and overlooking a pine forest and rolling sugar cane fields, Wartburger Hof Hotel features an on-site restaurant, and Pietermaritzburg is 30 km away. The Hotel Wartburg offers luxury en suite rooms with a TV and tea-and-coffee making facilities. The hotel’s restaurant serves a variety of German-inspired cuisine. Wooden furnishings, large fireplaces and an inviting country-style pub, all add to the tranquil, yet festive ambiance of this beautiful country hotel. The hotel is located only a one-hour drive from Durban North. Free public parking is available on site. További információk

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Fall 2016 Renovations and Updates!

Discovery Science Place is closed to the public Monday, September 19 – October 7 to complete renovations and updates as part of our 2016 “Raise the Roof” capital project!

The museum will re-open on Saturday October 8th.

Updates will include:

  • New flooring throughout all main galleries.

  • Paint, paint, and more paint!

  • Lighting throughout galleries and museum store

NEW to the Hometown Gallery

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Imagination Playground!

This exhibit includes modular parts that are easy to stack, line up and move around. Children enjoy an endless variety of play patterns including construction, pretend play, role-playing and inventing their own games.

This exhibit is partly funded by a grant from Let’s Play, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and KaBOOM! Read More Here!

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Model Train Exhibit!

Four different model trains pull passenger and box-cars through a display of mountains, streams, buildings and more. The exhibit includes constant movement, scale scenery and push-button feautures for families to enjoy.

Many thanks to the ARC of Smith County, Billy Hibbs, Jr. and the “Lucky Den 13” cub scouts for bringing this exciting new feature to the museum!

Read more about the train project history here

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The Cube

Interactive Visual Floor Display. The Cube projects an image on the floor, and as visitors approach and interact, their movements and gestures transform the projected images.


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    Our school year is off to a great start, and I’m impressed by what’s been accomplished in the six weeks since our students returned from summer vacation. At all grade levels, classroom routines are established and students are engaged in both academic and extracurricular activities. Committee work in the schools, whether pertaining to school climate, wellness or technology integration, is improving our quality of life and learning. Teachers dedicate themselves to professional development relating to Response to Intervention, literacy, and the Common Core standards, while students prepare for NECAPS, music festivals and athletic contests. Spend a moment with a Mabel I. Wilson P.E. class, the North Yarmouth Memorial School math team, Greely Middle School’s jazz band or Greely High School’s drama club, and you will be impressed by the different expressions of learning.

    One of the primary initiatives for our staff this year is our new system for teacher evaluation. In April, 2012, Maine’s legislature passed a law that will require every Maine school system to have a new teacher and principal evaluation in place by the 2015-2016 school year. Though our choice to create a new system for evaluating our teachers preceded the legislature’s work, we are pleased that our approach will help us meet the new law’s requirements. First used statewide in Delaware, in 2011 we adopted the Charlotte Danielson Framework. This is a research-based model for effective teaching that involves annual classroom observations for every teacher, every year. “Peer observers”, teachers who are trained in the area of evaluation, provide descriptive observations of their colleagues while administrators provide evaluative observations. About one third of our teachers have volunteered and attended the training to become peer observers. We appreciate our teachers’ support for this initiative. Having an evaluation system that requires us to analyze instruction, as well as student results, gets to the heart of good teaching. We believe the system provides the structures and supports to hold ourselves accountable to a shared standard of effectiveness, and to continuously improve our teaching practices.

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Thank goodness for the last scene. While watching, I started to formulate an angry, intense, and unwelcome feminist rant about how VD was ruining Elena—and possibly young girls everywhere. I didn’t want to write it, but I couldn’t see any way around it. God bless Caroline, vampire extraordinaire.

Let’s start at the end. Elena has been sired to Damon, whose blood (via Dr. Fell) made her an unintentional vampire. That’s why she can’t drink from blood bag, why she agreed with Damon in even the oddest of situations—and even why she has become so volatile: Damon told Elena that she’s more like him that she realized, and that’s why her behavior has been all over the map. Caroline and Stefan weren’t party to that conversation, but I’ll bet someone puts two and two together soon enough.

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That’s not to say that I hated the Damon/Elena sex scene. It was incredibly sexy, and I make no secret of preferring Damon to Stefan. But it didn’t feel earned, and if those two kids do get together, I want it to matter. Even before Caroline’s realization, it felt rushed: a product of Elena’s wacky uncontrolled emotions, which have been a thorn in my side since the season premiere.

Jeremy has some wacky uncontrolled emotions, too. (Isn’t it interesting that VD has come to rely on supernatural personality changes rather than organic ones?) He is, in Damon’s phrase, undeniably becoming Connor 2.0, and I suspect things will only get worse. In fact, I suspect that the hunters map is going to reveal that the only cure to vampirism is to kill a hunter with a complete mark, and Elena will be unwilling to sacrifice her little brother for her own urges. She certainly wasn’t too happy about Stefan pushing Jeremy into killing vampires.

That’s assuming she regains her real self, of course. We know from Tyler’s and Phoebe Tonkin’s attempts to de-sire the hybrids just how difficult a task that is. How would it work for a vampire? Maybe if Damon asks her to do something she simply can’t do, like killing Matt or Jeremy? Whatever the solution is, surely Stefan will find it. And hopefully he’ll resist rubbing our noses in the fact that he was right: it turns out Elena isn’t being the person she is supposed to be.

Is Jeremy? Why is he a hunter, after all? And can he be de-hunterified when/if Elena is de-vampirized? I’ve never been a huge Jeremy fan, but I like his friendship with Matt, and I’m still curious about whether he and Bonnie are still dating. If Jeremy dies, I might never find out.

Meanwhile, there’s trouble in Tylerland. Our resident galoot has decided to become jealous about Caroline’s pseudo-relationship with Klaus. The whole “fake relationship threatens to ruin real relationship” trope feels a little tired, but I’m happy for anything that brings me more Caroline.

• Prof. Shane: “Professor by day, pageant judge by other day.”

• Prof. Shane: “I’ll just follow the scent of hairspray and world domination.”

• Prof. Shane: “Did you just accuse me of mass murder in the middle of a high school pageant?”

• Damon: “Just because her dad blew up in a house with a dozen people in it doesn’t mean she should get a tiara.”

• Prof. Shane: “I must be the least intimidating mass murderer in existence.”

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• I think it’s really weird, sire bond notwithstanding, that Elena chose to go to the Salvatores’ house and not, for instance, Caroline’s.

• The excellent Buffy episode “Something Blue” came to mind while watching this. At least Damon didn’t suggest that Tyler and Caroline get married, or that anyone get the “funny syphilis.”

• Everyone looked so pretty in this episode. I loved Caroline’s peplum jacket. It went perfectly with her sassy attitude.

• Does Prof. Shane remind anyone of a cut-rate James Frain?

I feel like I should apologize for giving VD so much grief; I suspect that I should be more trusting of my favorite shows in the future. What do you all think of the revelation about Elena’s sire bond?

Four out of four least intimidating mass murderers.

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Nadim said...

Oh wow we really disagree on this one (and this season in general). I thought this was the worst episode of the season. I hated the sire revelation. I felt Elena and Damon was very earned after four seasons and found that final scene to be spectacular until Caroline's revelation. It really irritated me and made the whole sex scene srot of rape-y.Maybe it's just me.

Josie Kafka said...

At this point, I'm choosing to believe that Damon doesn't know Elena is sired to him.

ChrisB said...

Wow, Josie. My “angry, intense and unwelcome feminist rant” has been running through my head since I watched this show Thursday night. I was really looking forward to reading yours! :-)

I’m afraid that I have to disagree with you about the end. I thought the revelation about Elena being sired to Damon was a huge cop-out on the part of the writers, not to mention icky on so many levels. To the best of my knowledge, we have never had even a hint that one vampire can be sired to another. Now, it feels like a contrivance to keep the triangle alive and to make Elena’s choosing to sleep with Damon a decision that was, finally, not hers to make. I agree with Nadim; it sounds a lot like rape. Even if Damon doesn’t know, it doesn’t really matter if Elena could not make the decision from a place of free will.

Stefan’s actions this week continued to infuriate me. He is still doing everything he can to “cure” Elena, make her the girl who loves him and wants to be with him. For someone who has always espoused that people are free to make their own decisions, he is removing that ability from those around him. He wants to “fix” Elena, even if she doesn’t want to be fixed. He manipulates Elena’s brother (stop and think about that for a second), forcing him to kill (stop and think about that for a second). As a result, Jeremy is not sure if he can control himself around his sister. Great result. When Jeremy staked Stefan, I actually cheered.

By making both brothers so unpleasant, it will interesting to see where the writers take the triangle over the rest of the season. At this point, I'm hoping that Elena comes to her senses and realizes what a great guy Matt is.

P.S. Was that Gabby Douglas carrying flowers?

Billie Doux said...

I thought it was a four out of four, too, Josie. Wow. TVD keeps taking controversial plot twisting to whole new levels.

I'm sure Damon has no idea. He can certainly be devious, but I just can't believe he's capable of this level of devious. He was ready to leave the field of battle and let Stefan have Elena back. Damon wants Elena to love him for himself, not to be his slave. I did feel a bit cheated that that incredibly hot love scene was a lie -- but we've also known for a long time that Elena is strongly attracted to Damon and that if he hadn't glamored the memory of meeting first out of her, she might have moved in his direction long ago. It's not like it was, say, Klaus sire-slaving Caroline into sleeping with him, right?

And what a great episode for Caroline. Loved it.

Mark Greig said...

Sorry Josie, but I have to agree with Nadim and ChrisB on this one. The ending was a complete cop-out, followed by a slap in the face, a kick in the balls and a huge tax bill. Honestly, a sire bond? This is just the show's writers try to please everyone at once. They're giving the Damon/Elena fans what they've been after for so so long, while at the same time telling the Stefan/Elena faithful “It's okay, it doesn't count, she's sired”.

This really doesn't make much sense. If sired vampires are supposed to do everything to please their makers how come Elena still wasn't able to keep down Damon's blood after he told her to drink it? Or why she didn't feed on the college girl when he told her to? When Tyler was sired he did whatever Klaus wanted, whether he wanted to or not. I really want to believe that there is no sire bond, but I doubt that is likely. Now we are going to have to put up with an endless quest by the brothers to break Elena's sire bond.

Suzanne said...

As always I love reading your reviews! However, I am not living this season of Vampire Diaries. It was fun seeing Caroline as Columbia at the end of the episode, but I feel this twist still makes Elena look weak. Why is she the only vamp yo be affected in this way? I really hope Damon doesn't know what is going on because then it will be really creepy as everyone has mentioned.

Josie Kafka said...

What wonderful comments! I've reviewed some controversial episodes before, but I'm usually in the angry group. It's weird being on the other side.

ChrisB, it almost seems like you're talking about narrative rape--Damon isn't using Elena against her will, but the writers are. (That's my very postmodern interpretation. Don't blame me. Blame Jasper Fforde; I'm reading the Thursday Next series again.)

I feel like we'd have to rewatch some of those scene you brought up, Mark. Maybe he phrased it oddly? Because surely the writers knew where they were going.

Suzanne, I do agree that if Damon knows what's going on, that'll be a bridge to far.

PlatinumRosebud said...

I think the writers will think of a way to get out of this sired thing later on.
I agree with those that say it's pretty weird because of its inconsistencies.

Colin Peabody-Verteuil said...

I followed the episode live from France and couldn't help but notice the scandal that came with it (OMG, Twitter because Delena central) and I am also on the other side, Josie, I loved it. I love that the writers keep bait and switching us, that's why I loved the show in the first place. Whenever they make it darker and more twisted, I think it improves.

shruti said...

ChrisB, TVD mentioned about siring before. I think it was 3X06 or 3X07, when Damon tries to explain what is wrong with Tyler. He says that he is sired. The quote was something to this effect
" Sired. It means he feels loyal to Klaus because his blood made him. He seeks his acceptance. Its very rare in vampires. But may be not so in Hybrids"
So well... they did introduce the concept but it still feels like a way to keep the triangle alive. I am sure Damon had no idea she is sired though..Sigh! I soo wished Elena had finally made up her mind to go to Damon :(
Josie great review... I liked the episode a lot too though for Klaus and Caroline scenes :) Love them together. And do remember..Klaus figured it out before Caroline did :)

shruti said...

Just went back and checked... It was episode 3X06 and Josie mentioned about it in the review...

ChrisB said...

Josie -- postmodern, indeed! I have been really upset with the show for the past several episodes and I'm sure that some of that has bled into my viewing of this one. I actually watched the show again after reading your review and posting mine. My original post was vitriolic, to say the least, but I was able to see your point -- at least to a degree.

shruti -- fair enough. I had forgotten about all that. I still believe that it was a manipulation by the writers. I agree with Mark's assessment about keeping everyone happy. Unfortunately, they seem to have pissed off a great number of people at the same time!

Josie Kafka said...

Your vitrol was welcome and interesting, ChrisB--it makes me feel better for being so angry for the past few episodes. :-)

In thinking about the different reactions to this, I came to a realization about why I like this episode but disliked the earlier part of the season:

"Elena is out of control of her emotions because she is a baby vamp" felt insulting to the character. She was undergoing physical changes that affected her moods and judgment: that makes me think of tacky menstruation/adolescent metaphors. Because that conflict was internal, it felt insulting to the character's ability to manage her own existence in a way that rubbed me wrong.

"Elena is basically brainwashed, via an odd sire-bond" doesn't bother me because it's external. It's not her fault, and these past few weeks in which she's been so crazy are due to an external influence--which is harder for her to manage than an internal conflict.

Examples: if I go on a murdering rampage--that's my fault. If I'm brainwashed into doing it, that's not my fault. And I'm happy that Elena's behavior of late doesn't reflect any inherent character weakness.

ChrisB said...

That's an excellent point, Josie. I'll keep it in mind next week and try not to get so upset!

Samantha Gomes said...

I agree and disagree with you guys, lol. I don't think the sex scene was like rape. It was not at all. Or have we forgot that they would have done it a while ago if it weren't for Jeremy's unwelcome interruption? Sparks had been flying around them since she was still human in season 3. If the sire-bonding relation had to do with love and desire, wouldn't all the hybrids Klaus created wanting to be in bed with him, male and female alike?
That being said, I felt cheated, like Mark Greig said, for I also had the impression the writers wanted to please every one. Let's give everyone what they want - that's impossible and an easy way to get everyone displeased.
Let's just wait for the next episodes and see where they can go with the sire-bonding plot.

Juliette said...

Absolutely hated the ending, to the point it almost killed my VD-obsession (which might be good for my mental health!).

A whole episode of Damon and Elena doing their best impression of Lizzie and Darcy (all those longing looks) totally wasted.

A whole half-season of character development means nothing (if Elena doesn't stand up and tell Stefan that no matter whether she becomes human again or not, her recent experiences haven irrevocably changed who she is, I will stake her myself).

The show reverts to Stefan as the one she will always choose when she has free will AGAIN, which is a big problem as (unlike Angel or Bill Compton) I actively dislike Stefan (not the actor's fault, but the character is dull as ditchwater).

And there are definite uncomfortable rape-y subtexts if Elena is sired, which will be 10 times worse if Damon knows about it. Urgh and urgh again. I was really enjoying this season until those last 5 minutes. Grow up and let your characters grow up VD!

(Phew, I've ranted, I feel better now....!)

Juliette said...

Oh, and I love Klaus and Caroline together, but Klaus's hummingbird story sounds like Joey magic sex story from Friends

PlatinumRosebud said...

I agree with you, Juliette on the Klaus and Caroline thing. They look well together.
I just wish that Klaus stops making up stories about his past life. Well, let's give him some doubts about this. Perhaps Caroline will be his one an true.
But wait.... Klaus doesn't like to have an Achilles Heel. Being "the most powerful vampire" (he claims) that he is. :)

Jolyn (Netherlands) said...

Great review! Again!

I really loved this episode. What a stunt! I never saw this coming, the whole season makes perfect sense now and I think it was beautifully written.

Yeah, that sexscene didn't feel earned for me too. In that sense I was glad to know while watching it was not real. That it was calculated DOOM happening in front me, not cheap-assed writing. Still, I'm glad there was a sex-scene. (Well, first of all because yum, and) it makes the story from this point that much more tragic/interesting.

Damon took all. That dirty work just needed to be done. Nothing says The End louder than sleeping with somebody else. Damon thinks there is nothing left about Elena only Stefan once had. They now seem equals in that battle again, but thursday he is going to find out he doesn't really have Elena's heart.

Is Damon going to be able to accept the girl he has been in love with for so long did not only not fall for him too, she also only slept with him because of some rare chemicals and a misplaced sense of loyalty? That nausiating bucket of ice is going to define Damon as a character and -er- 'Delena' and the relationship between the brothers too. If Damon gives in to any temptation after he knows he is Elena's sire... it would mean war. Stefan is allready accusing his brother of rape-ish behavior and it would mean the end for Delena if Elena ever un-sires and finds out. But it's such a small and easy step to evil.... Wow. Such a gorgeous crossroads. Awesome writing.

Boy, gotta love fiction. And Caroline. Her too.

Dr. Alice said...

Wow. Definitely on the "loved it" end of the spectrum! This is the kind of twist that made me love this show! I can't wait to see what the fallout is for the characters. I was never a "yay Damon" viewer, but I really felt bad for him after this episode. I don't think he knows anything about the sire bond - he just thinks the woman he loves, loves him. Poor guy can't catch a break.

Having said that - half of me expects that the next twist in the triangle will be that she is unsired and STILL chooses Damon. I guess we'll see.

And Stefan.. Really?? Forcing Jeremy to kill??? Again, can't wait to see how this plays out with our characters.

P.S. Great review!

JK said...

HATED that ending. I've been a Delena shipper since somewhere around the first half of season two (which, to me, was about a week ago), so that revelation was like a shot to the gut. And after Stefan spent the episode acting such a...

Good news is, being a latecomer I don't have to wait a week to see where this goes. Back to the trenches...

Swoooze said...

After the previous episode where our gang of "heroes" team up to kill an innocent we now have what in my view is the worst episode of Vampire Diaries so far.

The whole sire thing is such a cop-out. They may have mentioned it happening before, but yes like others have said to me it felt like Damon has, by mistake, raped Elena there.

It means that even when Damon & Elena do get together it will forever be tainted by the fact that their first time of being together only happened while Elena didn't really want it to happen.

It seems that the show writers are just as bad as Elena and they don't know which brother they want her to be with either.

Elsewhere every character seems to be being assasinated by the writers.

Steffan continues his march to becoming totally irredeemable by turning Jeremy into a mindless killing machine. It's funny how the Elena sire thing is only being done to keep Steffan-Elena shippers happy while at the same time they are making Steffan so unlikeable that surely nobody could be rooting for him still anyway. He's flat out said he can't love her like this. Him not taking Elena's rejection of him like a man and lashing out against his brother just makes me want him to pack up and leave Mystic Falls for good.

Hopefully he takes Jeremey with him. Yeah okay Jeremy isn't acting like himself, but his character is so inconsistent anyway that it's hard to tell. But either way now we have both Gillbert's who have no control of their actions at the moment.

Elena continues to become more and more selfish too. Moving into Steffan's home after dumping him. Are you actually kidding me? What a heartless move that was. That made me cheer on Steffan when he sarcastically asked her to choose a bed and as discussed earlier, I don't even like Steffan.

Then we have Caroline. I said in the last episode's comments section that the writers made a rare mistake with her by having her character involved in the murder (and I don't think that is too strong a word) of Chris as she is usually so likeable, but now she's gone back to her bitchy season 1 persona and I hate it. Surely Damon's proved himself a vital member of the group now? This is just like Buffy when characters like Giles and Xander are still untrusting of Spike in seasons 6 and 7 despite how much he had saved their lives and proved his worth. (Let's just pretend that the Spike attempted rape thing never happened. It was terrible writing and they hated him before that anyway).

Then there's Damon. I said last week that he is the only one I could believe would be okay in the murder of Chris and it is revealed in this episode that he had no part in it at all! Well that would make me like him more, but this whole thing if Elena is so icky that I don't want them to be together right now.

Honestly that revelation at the end makes me think that this show might have jumped the shark.

Still could have been worse... At least Bonnie wasn't in it.


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Interview: Pete Brook on the Road

In 2011 writer Pete Brook took his blog Prison Photography on the road. He used Kickstarter to successfully fund his trip, and produced a number of interviews with photographers, prisoners and activists, gave six lectures and visited three prisons. Last year the project grew in to the exhibition Cruel and Unusual at Nooderlicht in the Netherlands, with a newspaper-style exhibition catalogue and an upcoming Prison Photography on the Road (PPOTR) book.

After he was safely back in Portland last fall, he and I were discussing some of what he had accomplished and what he was thinking about doing next. Fortunately for us, he agreed to an interview so I can share some of his interesting insights and ideas. It has taken a while for us to find the time to put this together, but I’m excited to share some of Pete’s reflections on PPOTR and how he sees his work as a writer and curator evolving. It is especially relevant for other photographers and bloggers as they think about producing work ‘across platforms’ and offline, and what is possible when engaging and collaborating with our community at large.

Pete Brook at Sing Sing Prison in New York State. Photo courtesy Tim Matsui.

dvafoto: I heard through the grapevine that you had an interesting experience right as you hit the road?

Pete Brook: I think you’re referring to my arrest. Before the trip began officially, I was in California. I’d been at a wedding, dancing and drinking in the sun all day. When the after-party began to die down, and being a gent, I offered to walk a couple of ladies home as they were across town and not staying at the hotel. Along the way, I took a piss on a palm tree (not so gentlemanly).

Thirty seconds later, two California Highway Patrol squad cars pulled up. I was pulled aside and told that urinating in public was an offense. I didn’t think a discrete piss on parkland at 5 am would land me in jail so I may not have taken the interaction as seriously as the officer expected.

I was on the road, had no permanent address, I was a bit merry, had no ID with me and was generally bemused as to why so much attention had fallen upon me. When asked if I would answer the officer’s questions, I said I didn’t feel compelled to do so. He took my wrist, turned me round, cuffed me and walked me to his patrol car.

The officer said, “We’ll do it your way. You could be in jail for days, weeks, months, even years.” A nonsense statement. He was reacting emotionally to the situation. Not good. He was also proving who had the power. I’m guessing it was late in his shift and he may not have had the patience for an inebriated me. I get that, but his solution, so to speak, was unnecessary and disproportionate.

I was in jail for 9 hours (as quick as they process anyone, I was told). Upon release, I was served with a court date and faced two misdemeanor charges of ‘Disorderly Conduct’ and ‘Willfully Resisting Arrest’. Just ludicrous. The court date was two weeks away, by which time I had scheduled to be in Ohio. I had to juggle my itinerary, bring all my Southern California appointments – that were to be in the last week of PPOTR – forward, and extend my research in the Bay Area.

Two weeks later, at the courthouse, I didn’t even see a judge. Not wanting to waste court time, the District Attorney threw the charges out. Common sense prevailed but not before I’d been inconvenienced.

The arrest nearly jeopardized PPOTR’s main prison visit, to Sing Sing in New York State.

Visitors to prisons must go through a criminal background check and mine flagged the arrest. So, now the New York Dept. of Corrections knew of the interaction, but had no details. I had to explain that no charges were brought and scramble for the paperwork to back up my claim. The workshop I did with the men in Sing Sing was a highlight of the trip and it would have been a sore loss to miss out.

I remain in the system. I am interviewed about the interaction by Customs & Immigration every time I re-enter the U.S. I’ve been told the record cannot be updated to include the info that there was no conviction; I’ll have to go through the same conversation every time I travel from overseas.

The experience was not great, but the irony could not have been greater. If I can get a copy of my mug shot it’ll be my press-photo for life!

Now that you’ve finished the fieldwork for PPOTR, co-curated an international exhibition, and printed a newspaper, do you think that Prison Photography the blog will change at all?

I’d like to say no, but it probably will. Not because of these projects but because more like them are in the pipeline. These emerging projects will take away from my time at the keyboard-helm.

Before I tell you about those new developments, I should say that PPOTR was designed to test the limits of the blog, test my stamina with the issues and test the reception of the public. In some ways, maybe I could or should have had the imagination to take on new formats earlier?

Directly out of PPOTR came the opportunity to co-curate Cruel and Unusual at Noorderlicht and that was a phenomenal privilege. Given how much I enjoyed that there’s no reason to draw back from activities outside the blog.

Cruel and Unusual travelled to the Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam last April and then to Photoville in New York in June. This year it will show in Ireland and Australia. There’s some logistics involved in making those exhibits happen, and Noorderlicht and Photoville are greasing the wheels with that.

I initially planned to self-publish the Prison Photography photobook for the PPOTR Kickstarter backers, but Silas Finch a non-profit photobook publisher expressed interest and I decided to make it a bigger production … and print run.

We’ve signed on the dotted line and I’m writing the text for it now. The image edit will come in the summer and we hope to release it later this year. It’s wonderful to have, again, institutional support.

A couple of photographers working on the topic of prisons have expressed interest in collaborating on books and that interests me, but it has to be right for them too. That might sound silly, but how many essays would I need to do before I became the guy who writes introductions for prison photography books? Not many! It’d be good bylines for me, but not necessarily for the photographer. As a reader, I generally enjoy photobook essays that are not about the photography per se but about the larger subject and there’s many activists, advocates and academics who can write better on aspects of the prison system than I. Perhaps one or two essays will get done in time.

Furthermore, I just agreed to curate a photography show on the East Coast in January 2014. It’ll be an entirely new collection of works with a new curatorial statement.

So, I’d say I am busy. Somewhere in that whole mix I have to be submitting copy to so I can pay my bills!

Prison Photography on the Road

Our friend Pete Brook of Prison Photography is still on the road, in the middle of a 12-week trip around the United States reporting on prisons and photographers. He funded the trip with a very successful Kickstarter campaign, which you should visit for a wealth of information about his project and the photographers and prisons he will be visiting. While he is publishing regular and remarkable dispatches and podcasts from the road, I also recommend this short documentary produced by Seattle photographer Tim Matsui as a nice behind-the-scenes peek at what Brook has been up to and the substance of his project.

Pete Brook: Prison Photography on the Road from on Vimeo.

It is very exciting to see the fruits of Brook’s labor and we cannot wait to talk with him about the project when he is home. Safe travels Pete.

Some recent stories worth reading

Over the last week or two I’ve read a number of great posts that I haven’t been able to really write about, but I wanted to make sure to forward them on. Well worth a read.

Asim Rafiqui on his blog the Spinning Head writes about (and questions) ‘dissident’ photography in the US: “The Dissenting Photographer Or How American Photographers Turn To Intelligence In Times Of Intransigence”. He profiles some interesting ‘political’ work coming out of the States, and it buttresses nicely with A Photo Editor’s recent interview with Nina Berman.

The Basetrack journalism experiment, created by Teru Kuwayama and featuring photographers Balazs Gardi and Tivadar Domaniczky, seems to have hit a final wall, with accreditation/embeds scrubbed for the final months of the project. BJP has a solid report “US Marines pull the plug on photojournalism experiment” and Wired Magazine’s Danger Room Blog covered the story as well.

Duckrabbit also has a challenging post about concerns with photographer Marco Vernaschi’s work, which has previously been called in to question. This is an important discussion and it is well worth thinking about the issues at play with the photographer, our industry and the awards we look up to. “Faking it – how to win a World Press Award but get banned from a wildlife comp for life”

The new photojournalism crowd-funding project has just launched. We’ve written a bit about the site before, especially their interview series on their blog. One of the featured proposals is Aaron Huey’s ongoing work about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which was the subject of an influential TED Talk that Huey gave last year. Pete at Prison Photography writes more about Huey’s project and his proposal: “Aaron Huey’s Pine Ridge Billboard Project and Prisoner of War Camp #344”. A great summation of the issues involved in the work, Huey’s commitment to the project and the possibilities that can come from his project being funded.

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#2,288. I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)

Directed By: Billy O'Brien

Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Max Records

Tag line: "Every Town Has Its Monsters"

Trivia: Based on the young adult novel series of the same name

2016 was a great year for horror films; instead of a top 10 list, I have a top 16, and some movies that would have made my list in previous years (Lights Out, Viral) didn’t make the cut. There were simply too many good ones to choose from, and among 2016’s most pleasant surprises was director Billy O’Brien’s I Am Not a Serial Killer, the gripping, frightening, and ultimately disturbing tale of a troubled teen who after witnessing a murder decides to take matters into his own hands.

John (Max Records) is not your typical teenager. For one, he spends a good deal of his spare time at the funeral home that his mother (Laura Fraser) and Aunt operate, and even helps out with some of the embalmings. And aside from his buddy Max (Raymond Brandstrom), he doesn’t have any friends, choosing instead to pal around with his elderly neighbor Mr. Crowley (Christopher Lloyd). In addition to all this, John is a diagnosed sociopath, and he and his therapist Dr. Neblin (Karl Geary) have discussed at length how John possesses many of the characteristics found in your average serial killer. But when his small Midwestern town is rocked by several brutal murders, a fascinated John launches his own investigation into the killings, and in the process uncovers an evil that’s more dangerous than he ever imagined.

The last time I saw Max Records, he was getting into sod fights with Carol, Judith, and all the other oversized monsters in director Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, and back then I felt, based on his performance in that 2009 movie, the young man showed great potential. With his turn in I Am Not a Serial Killer, Records proves his earlier success was no fluke, and here creates a character who garners our sympathy one minute, then scares us the next (the scene at a school dance between John and local bully Rob, played by Vincent Risso, will send a shiver up your spine). Later on, as he’s stalking his town’s resident killer, we get the distinct feeling that John is learning more about himself than he ever did during his sessions with Dr. Neblin, and the various sequences in which he actually gets involved (trying to prevent further murders) are among the film’s most intense.

Christopher Lloyd is predictably strong as the neighbor Mr. Crowley, as is Laura Fraser, who brings a vulnerability to the role of John’s mother, a feeling of helplessness as she tries to understand her son’s behavior but is unable to do so. Set during late fall / early winter, I Am Not a Serial Killer also takes advantage of its snowy landscape (it was shot on-location in Minnesota), enhancing the isolation that its lead character experiences through most of the movie (the film’s pivotal moment occurs on a frozen lake).

Truth be told, I’d love to discuss this movie in greater detail, but to do so would run the risk of spoiling many of its best surprises, and while the CGI-heavy ending was a slight disappointment, I Am Not a Serial Killer still impressed the hell out of me. I’ve seen it twice now, and I intend to watch it again as soon as I can.

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Patrick Pruitt said...

The review of this movie in the horror movie podcast made me watch it. After viewing the film, I have since read two of the sequels. Hopefully, they will continue with the series.


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