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Optical interferometers are widely used for diagnostics and metrology because of the availability of lasers with a high degree of spatial coherence. X-ray interferometry, however, has long been hampered by the lack of coherent sources. To circumvent this problem, the first X-ray interferometers used the so-called perfect crystal optics in the regime of dynamical diffraction. Due to the coherent interaction of the X-rays with a three-dimensional crystal structure, the crystal becomes an intrinsically coherent device and therefore does not require spatial coherence of the incident radiation. The classical example is the Bonse-Hart interferometer, which utilises both transmission (Laue) and surface reflection (Bragg) diffraction components.
Nowadays, the widespread availability of bright X-ray sources with sufficiently large spatial coherence, such as third-generation synchrotrons, allows researchers to observe interference by division of the wave front, similar to the classical Young's experiment. Recently a Fresnel double slit, a Fresnel double prism and a Fresnel double mirror were applied to measure the spatial coherence of synchrotron beams.
Following the successful development and application of refractive optics for high energy X-rays [1,2], we have constructed an X-ray bi-lens interferometer similar to the Billet split lens in classical optics. The schematic diagram of our X-ray bi-lens interferometer is shown in Figure 158. It consists of two identical parallel planar compound refractive lenses (CRLs) separated by a certain distance, d. Each lens produces an image of the source. When the lens split distance d is smaller than the spatial coherence length of the incoming beam, these images are diffraction limited and can be treated as coherent secondary sources. At a distance of more than twice the lens focal distance, F, the radiation cones diverging from these coherent secondary sources overlap, and interference occurs in the region of superposition (see Figure 158). Identically to the Fresnel double slit, the visibility (or contrast) of the recorded interference pattern can be used as a measure of the degree of a spatial coherence of the incident beam, or of an equivalent effective source size.
A silicon chip with a set of different linear (1D) bi-lenses was manufactured using semiconductor microfabrication technology (Figure 158b). The length of each single, individual lens was 100 µm and the aperture was 50 micrometres. The radius of the parabola apex was 6.25 µm. The compound refractive lenses were separated by a distance d = 60 µm.
The bi-lens interferometer was tested at beamline ID06. The liquid -nitrogen cooled Si-111 double crystal fixed exit monochromator (manufactured by CINEL, Italy) was used at an X-ray energy of 12 keV. The Si bi-lens chip was mounted on the microoptics test bench optics stage at a distance L0 = 55 m from the source. All measurements of bi-lens interference patterns were made in a vertical plane. The interference patterns were recorded by means of the high resolution X-ray CCD Sensicam camera with a spatial resolution about 1.3 µm (0.645 µm pixel size). The typical exposure time was 5-10 sec. during 16-bunch filling mode.
Fig. 158: a) Schematic drawing of the experimental set-up used for the bi-lens test. b) Scanning electron microscope micrograph showing a fragment of silicon bi-lenses chip. c) Image of the bi-lens foci recorded at a distance F = 35 mm shows the lenses split distance d = 60 µm.
The observed interference pattern is shown in Figure 159. The fringe spacing or peak-to-peak width of the fringes is given by = L1/d, where is the wavelength, and L1 is the distance from the bi-lens focus plane to detector plane. The measured spacing, = 6.25 µm, is in very good agreement with calculations. The quality of the fringes produced by a bi-lens system can be described quantitatively using the visibility V = (Imax– Imin)/ (Imax + Imin), where Imax and Imin are the irradiances corresponding to the maximum and adjacent minimum in the fringe system. It is easy to show that the visibility V is directly related to the source size, S, as follows:
The measured visibility was close to 40%, corresponding to an effective source size in the vertical direction of about 45 µm (FWHM).
The bi-lens interferometer presented here has major advantages over existing methods. Manufacturing of micro-slits, mirrors and prisms for hard X-rays is a challenging technological task considering the requirements to the surface and shape (edges) quality. Whereas for silicon planar lenses, the well-developed microelectronics technology is used providing superior lens quality [3]. Compared to slits, mirrors and prisms, the compound refractive bi-lens system can be used at high photon energies up to 100 keV.
Fig. 159: a) Interference pattern obtained using the bi-lens interferometer of Figure 158, recorded at a distance 4 m with monochromatic beam at energy E = 12 keV. b) Intensity variation for a line through the centre of the fringe pattern shows a visibility (contrast) of approximately 40% corresponding to a source size S = 45 µm vertically (FWHM).
The applications of the bi-lenses are not limited to coherence characterisation. They can easily be extended to coherent imaging techniques. As with a classical interferometer, the bi-lens interferometer generates two coherent beams separated in space and then coherently recombines them producing the interference pattern. One can easily insert a sample into one of the beams while they are separated. Any interaction with the beam would then induce significant changes in the interference pattern. From the new phase pattern, one should then be able to extract information concerning the nature and degree of interaction of the sample with the beam, leading, eventually, to a holographic reconstruction of the sample.
A. Snigirev (a), V. Kohn (b), I. Snigireva (a), M. Grigoriev (c), S. Kuznetsov (c), V. Yunkin (c), T. Roth (a), C. Detlefs (a) and G. Vaughan (a).
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(b) Kurchatov Instititute, Moscow (Russia)
(c) Institute of Microelectronics Technology, Chernogolovka (Russia)
[1] A. Snigirev, V. Kohn, I. Snigireva, B. Lengeler, Nature 384, 49 (1996).
[2] V. Aristov, M. Grigoriev, S. Kuznetsov, L. Shabelnikov, V. Yunkin, T. Weitkamp, C. Rau, I. Snigireva, A. Snigirev, M. Hoffmann, E. Voges, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 4058 (2000).
[3] A. Snigirev, I. Snigireva, M. Grigoriev, V. Yunkin, M. Di Michiel, S. Kuznetsov, G. Vaughan, SPIE 6705, 670506-1 (2007).

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The Six Biggest Money Mistakes [And How To Avoid Them]
Our exclusive survey identifies six common errors that could cost your family $250,000 in the long run. New Year's resolution No. 1: Stop making them
(MONEY Magazine) – Buy what you know. It's one of the great axioms of investing. And so Mitchell Marks did. Over the five years that the organizational psychologist worked for a unit of Marsh & McLennan, he accumulated 10,000 shares of the insurance broker's stock. After he left Marsh in 1993, the stock continued to outpace his other investments, and Marks never sold, even as the shares grew to account for 20% of his portfolio's value. "I knew this company," he says. Then came the thunderbolt. New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit against Marsh on Oct. 14, alleging that its main insurance business engaged in payoffs and bid rigging. The stock collapsed. Marks lost $200,000 in three days.
Marks for years had told himself he was right to put his faith and his money in a company he believed in, even though he knew prudent financial planning suggested that he diversify. It's so easy to talk yourself down similar wrong paths. Ever jump into a hot stock or mutual fund because it seemed like a smart way to boost your returns? Or swear that you're really going to start ramping up your saving—next year? Or, like Marks, have you ever bulked up on your company's stock because you believed in it? If you've never done any of these things, then by all means stop reading here. You're a perfect manager of your money, and you don't need this story. But if you answered yes at least once, then it's time to stop and take stock of what you might be doing wrong. And then make sure you don't repeat any of those mistakes in 2005.
Actually, there are six errors in particular that you should concentrate on, because they're the ones most likely to cost you in the long run. How do we know? We asked. Joining with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, we surveyed readers like you, as well as 1,000 other investors and more than 300 financial advisers, probing to identify what mistakes people are most likely to make and why. We then asked Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, and his colleagues at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University, to calculate how much these errors actually cost the average MONEY family. The results: We make, on average, two or three big mistakes over the years that could drain an estimated $250,000 or more out of our nest eggs by the time we reach retirement. (For more on the math, see "How to Keep a Million" on page 101.)
There's nothing particularly esoteric about any of these errors. Most of them originate in ordinary, understandable human tendencies—ones you're as likely to find described in Aesop's fables as in Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis. That doesn't necessarily make them easy to avoid, but it does mean you don't have to be a Wall Street genius to correct them. And as Michael Sivy points out in "Build the Goofproof Portfolio," which follows this story, once you stop shooting yourself in the foot, you've eliminated the single biggest obstacle between you and your investment goals.
You can dig deeper into the MONEY/MLIM Survey of Americans and Their Money Mistakes by going to hindsight2insight.com. In the meantime, read on, and if you're guilty of any of these mistakes, put yourself on the road to fixing them. Even if it's the last thing you do for your money in 2004, it might just be the best.
1. Not saving enough It's one of the most frequently made New Year's resolutions: I'm going to save some serious money. No wonder. Nearly half of those who took the MONEY/MLIM survey confessed that they had waited too long to start saving and investing, and more than a third said that when they did, they didn't put enough away. "Our survey results are a wake-up call to people in their twenties and thirties: Get going," says Robert Doll, president and chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.
Certainly there's opportunity. The 2001 tax law cleared the way for Americans to sock more in their 401(k)s each year through 2006—for 2005, the limit goes up to $14,000 per account holder (plus an additional $4,000 if you're 50 or over). IRA contribution limits also go up in 2005, to a maximum $4,000 (this year the $500 catch-up provision for those 50 or over remains the same). Unfortunately, most households don't come near to maxing out. The average personal savings rate is now less than 2% of income, and the average household has a net worth of just $264,000 at retirement, not including home equity. That's not going to get you very far. How come we're not doing better? Many of us still have it burned into our brains that stocks will deliver the 18% annualized returns of the '80s and '90s. So deep down, we figure we can start later and save less.
That was Talib Horne's attitude. When he started working for an educational services company in 1993, the stock market was riding high, and Horne figured he had plenty of time. He moved in with his mom and used his $25,000 salary to live it up without saving a dime. He bought a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse and vacationed in Cancún and Vegas. As his salary climbed, he moved into an apartment of his own but saved little. By age 30, he was making $45,000 but putting just 3% of his pay into his 401(k) and earning only half the matching dollars that his company offered. "My priorities were mixed up," admits Horne, now 33 and the director of the East Harbor Community Development Corp. in Baltimore. He has since mended his ways but estimates that he left $51,000 on the table by not maxing out during all those years. If he had let that money ride to age 65, he could have had an extra $600,000 if his investment returned 8% a year. Ouch.
GET IT RIGHT Between your retirement plan at work, your IRAs and fully taxable investments, you should be putting aside at least 10% of your gross income—15% if you're over 50. Anything less and you're kidding yourself. And the sooner you start, the better. Assuming an 8% return, every dollar put away at age 30 is worth more at retirement than $3 saved at age 50.
If you're not anywhere near those savings targets, resolve to start somewhere in 2005. Begin with, say, 3% of your income. Then raise that figure by a percentage point on specific dates, like next Fourth of July and then the following Christmas. (Some employers offer a service that automatically ups your 401(k) contributions at certain intervals; if yours has it, sign up.) Or resolve right now to put half of your next raise or year-end bonus into savings. Then do it.
2. Taking too much (or too little) risk A 40-year-old whose portfolio is in fixed income and cash is playing it too safe. A 60-year-old with the vast majority of his assets in aggressive growth stocks is playing with fire. That's what Greg Choban was doing, but he didn't realize it. He felt like nothing could possibly go wrong.
Back in March 2001, Choban, then 57, a former Army lieutenant colonel, retired as an information technology consultant. He and his wife Nancy had amassed a $750,000 portfolio that, along with his army pension, they figured would support them in style. The Austin couple spent the first year of retirement traveling, and Choban bought and restored a Shelby Cobra convertible. "I told my broker the only thing that could ruin my retirement was if we had a big crash in the stock market and I was to lose 20%, 25%, 30% of my holdings," recalls Choban. The broker's response: Can't happen. But with the Chobans' racy mix of assets—77% in equities and 30% of that in tech stocks—it could and did. By mid-2002, the Chobans' portfolio was down to $500,000. A financial planner rebalanced their holdings, putting 57% in fixed income, the rest in conservative stocks. Still, Choban has gone back to work for now, and he's selling his favorite toy, worth $35,000. "It's a waste of time to cry over all that spilt milk," he says, sounding Army through and through. "You just have to move forward and try to rebuild."
GET IT RIGHT To prevent the kind of mistake the Chobans made, you need to hold a mix of stocks (or stock funds), bonds (or bond funds) and cash that's neither too daring nor too conservative for a person with your goals at your stage of life. Choosing that asset allocation may be the most important investment decision you'll make for 2005, so don't hesitate to seek advice. Many professional financial planners will help you set up a portfolio for an hourly fee. For example, the fee-only planners in the Garrett Planning Network (garrettplanningnetwork.com) will work with you on an hourly basis or charge you by the plan. Expect to pay $1,000 to $2,000.
If you'd rather do it yourself, log on to money.com/tools, click on Asset Allocator, and use the Fix Your Mix calculator developed by MONEY senior editor Walter Updegrave. It requires only that you answer a few simple questions about your investing time frame and your appetite for risk, and then it tells you how to allocate to better your chances of reaching your goals without taking on undue risk. If you already have an asset mix that makes sense for you, remember that market movements will favor one kind of asset over another and, in time, they will push things out of balance. So be sure to reset the mix periodically and rebalance as necessary.
3. Overconcentration Taking too much risk often goes hand in hand with another big mistake: putting all our eggs in one basket. We tend to invest too much of our money in the stocks of our employers, the industry we work in or the company with a big operation close to our homes. We feel safer, and we figure that concentrating our investing in what we "know" gives us a better shot at striking it rich. Ironically, financial planners had warned Mitchell Marks—mentioned at the beginning of the story—that he had too much of his portfolio in Marsh & McLennan stock. But Marks decided he knew the company, and he knew better. "That investment was very good to me," he says. Until, of course, it wasn't, and his stake was nearly halved.
GET IT RIGHT To avoid the same fate, never hold more than 10% of your money in a single stock or mutual fund that holds only a small number of stocks, no matter how sure of it you think you are. Lower the ceiling to 5% for investments in your own or related industries. Don't load up on biotech, for example, if you work for a drug company. Instead, consider the stocks of oil companies, manufacturers and financial services firms, whose fates are entirely independent of the pharma trade.
4. Chasing what's hot We see our friends, colleagues and, worst of all, brothers-in-law making a bundle on a stock or a mutual fund, and we start to wonder why we should plod along with merely average investments. That's what Anera Shell thought. The Cincinnati C.P.A. had an IRA worth about $20,000 in the late '90s. She invested it in an assortment of mutual funds, where it grew too slowly for her liking. So on a bit of a whim, she put the entire balance into the stock of Yahoo. "At the time it was a pretty strong stock," she recalls today. "It had a lot of upside potential." Shell's $20,000 grew to $40,000. Then she decided to use the money in the account not for retirement but to help her husband, the crew chief for a professional race-car driver, buy a partnership interest in his team. Yahoo, of course, tanked, falling by more than half from December 1999 to September 2000. And the money left wasn't enough to make payments on the loan Shell and her husband took out to buy into the team. Eventually they needed to sell property to repay the loan, and Shell, now 35, figures she's out about $50,000 in total.
GET IT RIGHT Daily newspapers and financial magazines will soon begin the ritual of listing the top-performing stocks and mutual funds of 2004. Your first impulse may be to plow your money into the names at the top. Don't. Many studies on the subject show that last year's top performers tend to be laggards within a few years. And you never know when the fall will start. Take a cue from a far wiser Shell: "I am much less willing to listen to the hype."
5. Raiding retirement accounts Nearly half of all retirement plan participants who change jobs fail to roll over their accounts, according to Hewitt Associates. They take the dough instead, incurring unnecessary taxes and penalties for doing so. And another 25% have outstanding loans or have taken withdrawals on the job. What gives? Part of the answer lies in how itinerant the U.S. work force has become. The average worker changes jobs more than 10 times over a career, so the 401(k) balance from a single job often doesn't look like much. It's tough to envision that $5,000 or $10,000 might be worth $25,000 or $50,000 at retirement. But hey, it might make a nice down payment for a car right now.
Or better yet, a house. That's what John McGlade thought, anyway. He was 38 and working as an adjuster with Reliance Insurance outside Philadelphia in the late 1980s. He had racked up a 401(k) balance of $18,000. At the time, McGlade recalls, he was trying to buy his first house. So he emptied the account to pay his closing costs, forking over taxes and penalties to Uncle Sam. "I didn't even need all of it," he says. "And it really set me back. It was one of those things where you don't realize until 15 years later how important it was to keep the money in there." Total damage, assuming McGlade would have made 8% a year on that money, had it remained invested until retirement: about $144,000.
GET IT RIGHT The key to managing retirement assets is convincing yourself they are absolutely hands-off. If you need cash in a crunch, think about tapping a home-equity line of credit (or better yet, deferring that new-car purchase into 2006). And when you leave a job, pick up a rollover kit (nearly every broker has one). If you're too busy to bother with a rollover, and you have more than $5,000 in your previous employer's plan, leave the money where it is.
6. Overtrading and ignoring expenses Trading stocks is easy and fun, right? But frequent traders earn less than buy-and-hold investors, and they have dramatically higher costs, as Patrick James learned the hard way. A cardiovascular technician from Shreveport, La., James was bitten by the online-trading bug but good in 1999. He opened an online brokerage account with TD Waterhouse and started trading at least three times a week, sometimes more. Looking back at his records recently, James, 51, found instances when he swapped in and out of the same stock five times in two days. "Whenever I was sitting around the house, I was at the computer," he recalls. At $12 a pop, the transactions seemed cheap. And he was making money, at first. By the end of 2001, though, he was down $16,000 on his stocks and had shelled out nearly $10,000 in commissions. "It really depressed me to see how much I'd spent," he says today.
GET IT RIGHT The most frenetic traders earn only 69% of the market's return, according to Harrison Hong of the Bendheim Center, so if you invest in individual stocks, trade infrequently. If you're a fund investor, seek out portfolios with expenses that run below 1% of assets. You'll find the expense ratio listed in the first few pages of the fund's prospectus, or you can scan expenses for the entire fund universe using the mutual fund screener at money.com. Why bother? According to Hong, your best chance of owning an equity fund that lands in the top 25% of performers over the long run is to buy one that has expenses in the bottom 25%.
James, after realizing how much he's frittered away on commissions, has made his own resolution—to invest exclusively in index funds that have rock-bottom expenses. "The balance in my 401(k) is now creeping up fairly quickly," he says. "And I'm not spending money on trading—so I'm not just getting ahead, I'm staying ahead."
How to Keep a Million
Mathematically speaking, retiring with $1 million is no great feat. Say you start at age 30, make $50,000 a year and get a 3% annual raise. If you put aside 7% of your salary, raise that gradually to 10% and earn 8% a year on your investments, you'll hit $1,042,189 by age 65.
Between the arithmetic and the reality, however, lie limitless opportunities to mess up. We asked Harrison Hong of the Bendheim Center for Finance to quantify how the six biggest money mistakes might affect the million-dollar scenario above. The numbers below assume you make the same mistake year after year. In reality, says Hong, you wouldn't—but you also might make two or three different mistakes over the years. Hong estimates that for the typical MONEY family, the real cost of those errors adds up to $250,000 to $300,000.
NOTES: 1. Savings rate remains fixed at 7%. 2. Household invested in a risk-free money-market fund rather than the equity markets. 3, 4. Households that fail to diversify or that chase hot stocks underperform the market by approximately the same amount. Performance chasers were assumed to continually purchase the prior year's top-performing stocks. 5. Individual cashes out of 401(k) after 15 years with a balance of $120,000.


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WorksIn Memoriam
Jewish Poems (3) for large orchestra
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Government leaders here in Georgia boast that we're the No. 1 state in the country for business. And they're right. Our state has 18 Fortune 500 companies that alone generate over $370 billion in revenues each year. Yet with all this wealth Georgia has the ninth highest poverty rate, the fourth highest uninsured rate, and the highest rate of maternal mortality in the entire country.
According to our government, Georgians everywhere should be thriving. So why aren't we?
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With a name derived from Bernard Edward's bass guitar strings, Australian duo Flatwound launch out of the studio and into your ears with their first-class debut album released by One World Music in October. Aptly titled 'Super Space Dope Funk', the LP turns traditional funk on its head, blending it with elements of Disco, Hip Hop, Jazz, House, and Latin. A collaborative effort between two musical minds bent on originality, the truly international Flatwound Sound™ is created without sampling. Seal the airlock, strap yourself in and let Flatwound transport you into the cosmos.
Flatwound's DJ and production virtuoso Jack Prest has performed on all of the biggest stages including Big Day Out, Good Vibrations, Cockatoo Island and Pyramid Rock and many of the country's premier venues. As well as DJing with modern day funk legends Good Buddha and up and comers Horrorshow, Jack has performed alongside Public Enemy, Jungle Brothers, Mark Rae, The Herd, Koolism and TZU. Bassist/Minimoogist CJSoulman's deep musical background has seen him playing with local and international artists such as Jermaine Jackson (USA), Al Martino (USA), Marcia Hines, ABC Orchestra, Jimmy Little, Espirito, Pashalis (Greece), Dakis (Greece), Dariush (Iran) and The Nolans (Ireland). He is a founding member of the seminal Latin Jazz group, Espirito.
3 years of late nights, homemade tzatziki and Aldi chocolate went into the writing and recording of 'Super Space Dope Funk'. Incorporating their love of cutting edge and vintage technologies, the duo methodically ran vocals, instruments and sounds through a complex web of pedals, analogue devices and computers to create the refined sound they were searching for.
The lead single 'Android Funk 6', eases you down the road with a mid-tempo disco groove. The single features a massive club remix from Mailer Daemon and a slow burning late nite version. Keep an eye out for the film clip by Dead Galaxy (a.k.a. Presser from Gerling) in the coming months. Worthy of note are festival anthem 'Again' and the spacey nu-disco jam 'Moon Spread'. The album's closer 'Our Love Will Last' features vocalist Keren Minshull from the group Euphoria who enjoyed a number one hit in 1991 with 'Love You Right'.
Flatwound have twice secured the #1 slot on the Triple J Unearthed Dance Chart, going on to receive rotation on community stations across Australia including support from FBi, 3RRR, Bondi FM, 2SER, 3PBS, RTR and many others. Their debut vinyl 12" 'Tickle Me Disco', took them global receiving international support from major tastemakers such as DCUP, Faze Action, Cosmo Vitelli and AGFA. The single debuted in the Top Ten of the Juno Funky House charts and was shortlisted for the MOS Clubbers Guide to Spring 2010.
On stage, the disco funk steam train of Flatwound is a sophisticated combination of the vintage and the bleeding edge, featuring live production and fx, electric bass, v-drums, trumpet, keys and synths. Their ability to jam and improvise enables Flatwound to make sure the dance floor is firing from start to finish. A recent addition to the Flatwound live show is Dave Marsalis, on V-Drums, who has toured with the likes of Hilltop Hoods and Scribe.
To coincide with the release of ' Super Space Dope Funk', Flatwound will be touring Australia over the coming months.
Sat 16th October – Sydney – Upstairs @ Sandringham Hotel
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Well, conn season is around the corner. I'll be at NYCC on 7th Feb 2009 whole day. Taking the train in the morning and coming back that same night. In case anyone wants to meet my cell is 774 242 7422.
Benny Lava day photos
Back from SDCC '08
Just reached home. This time the conn was a bit depressing for me for various reasons, most prominently being away from my daughter Adya. But some cool stuff did happen, will post more as it crystallizes into something worthwhile 🙂
Meanwhile thanks to AD Lewis, I have two photos from SDCC.
Left To Right : Mark Smylie, Tom Pinchuk, Me, Kaushik Pal
Call for Papers – Graven Images / N.E.M.L.A.
As per A Dave Lewis ( compere extraordinaire and author of Lone and Level Sands, Some New Kind of Slaughter), Call for papers / abstracts dealing with Religion and Spirituality vis-a-vis Comic Books/Graphic Novels for not one, but two events are now open.
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By the power vested in my by the armored pundits and people who put the goat in there, I have hereby declared July 25th (fri) at San Diego Comic-con '08 as BENNY LAVA DAY. For those who came in late here is a look at "Benny Lava".
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So if you are going to be at SDCC on Friday, join me in this ode to Minor Bun Engines, Pooping Oliver and Your broter Ed who loves to be inside, wearing a Benny Lava T-Shirt. Take your pick at CafePress and proudly flaunt your Benny Lava look. ( Looks like Zazzle also stocks Benny Lava stuff).
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G. Willow Wilson ( CAIRO, AIR ) has posted about Benny Lava Day on Standard Attrition — the Vertigo creators' group blog.
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A Dave Lewis (LONE AND LEVEL SANDS, SOME NEW KIND OF SLAUGHTER) has also pitched in to promote Benny Lava Day on his blog.
Thanks A Dave — May you ninjas forever make their movements.
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While attending NYCC '08, I was approached by Luis Medina, a filmmaker who was making a documentary about [sic] "People of color in comics". While I made my views clear on that "classification" (the only part that made it into the final cut is at 02:06 on the video), it was kind of interesting to discuss about the role of race/ethinicty in the kind of stories we tell.
I stand by the views I expressed in the documentary i.e. a writer is not defined as an Indian writer or a latin american writer or a caucasian writer. There are good writers and then there are bad writers. 🙂
Watch it with an open mind and hope you enjoy it.
Comic Book Resources coverage of Graven Images
Comic Book Resources has put up a nice coverage of the Graven Images conference held at BU on the weekend of 13th April exploring religion in comics and graphic fiction.
The article contributed by Dave Moran can be read here
NYCC Panel Video
The full video of the NYCC '08 Panel on Our Gods Wear Spandex.
Panel at New York Comic Con on April 19, 2008 on the topic of Christopher Knowles' book Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes. Moderated by A. Davis Lewis, panelists include Christopher Knowles, Testament creator Douglas Rushkoff, Cairo author G. Willow Wilson, Virgin Comics writer Saurav Mohapatra and DC Comics legend Denny O'Neil. Panel discusses the archetypes of comic book superheroes, their function in modern culture and the future of the genre. Questions are also taken from the audience.
NOTE: I had a slip of tonuge and said "Holden McNeil" . I meant "Holden Caulfield". You have been warned 🙂
NYCC Panel "Our Gods Wear Spandex" on 19th Apr (Sat)
I shall be at NYCC whole day on 19th April (saturday) and in the evening I shall be on the panel "Our Gods Wear Spandex – secret history of superheroes" with Chris Knowles (the author), G. Willow Wilson (CAIRO) and Douglas Rushkoff (TESTAMENT). The panel is moderated by A. Dave Lewis (Lone and Level Sands, Some New Kind of Slaughter).
Panel Details from PW Beat:
**A. David Lewis, hot on the heels of his Graven Images conference (http://www.bu.edu/luce/calendar/religionincomics.html), will be moderating a panel on Saturday, Apr 19 at 5 p.m. in room 1E02. It's a discussion of Chris Knowles's book Our Gods Wear Spandex. G. Willow Wilson will be on the panel with Dave, along with Douglas Rushkoff (Testament) and Denny O'Neil.
Looking forward to it 🙂
"Graven Images" and "Graphically Religious"
Yay! Attended the "Religion in Comics" panel hosted by BU as part of their "Graven Images" conference yesterday. Had a whale of a time with fellow panelists Mark Smylie (writer – ARTESIA, Publisher – ASP comics), G Willow Wilson (CAIRO), Steve Ross (writer/artist – MARKED). The panel was moderated by A. Dave Lewis (writer – LONE AND LEVEL SANDS, SOME NEW KIND OF SLAUGHTER).
We had a pretty hearty discussion about how religion is portrayed in comic books and the challenges that lie in writing comics with religious and spiritual themes. One of the most interesting parts of the conference was getting to know about the reaction to India authentic in academic circles. It makes all my efforts worthwhile when people walk up to meand tell him that they really liked the INDIA AUTHENTIC stories and that it is being made into required reading in south asian studies programs 🙂 (details to come).
Later that day, I attended my first ever signing at the BU Barnes and Noble where we continued our earlier discussion in more casual setting as part of the "Graphically Religious" author meet at B&N. Here is a photo from the signing (more to come).


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The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel, written while Morrison was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own. The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola Breedlove. It takes place against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as in the years following the Great Depression. Brutal in its depictions of racism, incest, and child molestation, The Bluest Eye has remained on the often-challenged and banned books list almost every year since its publication.
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