Jill Bell

Jill Bell is an American lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer.
Biography.
A graduate of UCLA and Otis/Parsons, Bell is a graphic artist who creates custom lettering, logotypes, titles, fonts and handwriting for advertising, entertainment, packaging, and publishing. Before establishing herself as a freelance artist, she worked as sign painter in a shop, and for Saul Bass. She also creates original, one-of-a-kind, fine art pieces that frequently feature alphabets and lettering.
Bell has created fonts for most of the major type foundries including ITC (International Typeface Corporation), Adobe Systems and Monotype Corporation. Her fonts include: Gigi, Smack, Carumba, Hollyweird, Bruno and Swank. She has also designed and produced proprietary fonts for companies including Loehmann's, Enesco, GSW Worldwide, the Navicor Group and Nestlé.
Jill Bell's work has appeared in various shows, annuals and books, and has been written about in newspapers, journals and magazines ("How, Step-by-Step, Letter Arts Review, Review, Tupigrafia, Publish, Creation Numerique," etc.). Her work can be seen in the following books:
and in other books on type and lettering.
She has spoken at numerous schools, universities, professional organizations and conferences such as Seybold, ATypI, TypeCon, AIGA, TypoBerlin, NY TDC (Type Directors Club), and was the keynote speaker at TypoTechnica 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany. She was a Maestro (judging calligraphy, speaking and teaching) at the Delphic Games in Jeju, South Korea in September, 2009.
Bell judged TDC2 2002, the type design contest of the Type Directors Club, and Linotype's Type Design Contest in Bad Homburg, Germany in 2004.
Bell publishes the monthly "Letter News Newsletter," an informative monthly e-newsletter which contains information about any and all aspects of lettering and typography.


Rough and Rowdy Ways

Rough and Rowdy Ways is the 39th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 19, 2020, through Columbia Records. It is Dylan's first album of original songs since his 2012 album "Tempest", following three releases, one a triple album that covered traditional pop standards. The album was recorded at Sound City Studios in January and February 2020. The session musicians included all of the current members of Dylan's Never Ending Tour band alongside other musicians, such as Blake Mills and Fiona Apple. The album's sound was described by critics as Americana, folk, blues, and rhythm and blues.
"Rough and Rowdy Ways" was preceded by the singles "Murder Most Foul", "I Contain Multitudes" and "False Prophet"; "Murder Most Foul" became Dylan's first song to top any US "Billboard" chart. The album was universally praised by critics, described as being one of Dylan's best works and placing highly in many year-end album lists, including the top spot on four lists. It peaked at No. 1 in more than ten countries and No. 2 in the United States and Australia.
Background.
The recording of "Rough and Rowdy Ways" closely followed the end of the fall 2019 leg of Dylan's Never Ending Tour, during which he had introduced two new band members: drummer Matt Chamberlain (who replaced the outgoing George Receli) and guitarist Bob Britt (who had previously played on Dylan's Grammy Award-winning 1997 album "Time Out of Mind"). Several critics described the shows on this tour as Dylan's best in years. Tony Garnier, Dylan's bass player since 1989, concurred. When asked in an interview in 2021 if there was anything he wanted to share about his 30+ years of playing with Dylan, Garnier responded, "The last gigs we did before the pandemic hit were, I think, the best shows ever...It's the most incredible band that he has now...By the time we got to the Beacon Theatre in New York, it was just incredible. It was so good. And I talked to people who had seen Bob for years and people who've worked with him and fans who've seen him, and they'd tell me after that last tour...that ended before we recorded this record, people thought it absolutely was the best shows that they'd seen, and I agree...just the best, really the best, Bob gigs that I've been involved with".
Writing.
It is not known when Dylan wrote the songs for "Rough and Rowdy Ways" although it is possible, as with his previous album of original material, "Tempest", that he may have been working on them with his band during soundchecks on the last tour before they went into the studio to record. Musically, it is one of Dylan's most diverse albums. It mixes acoustic folk songs ("I Contain Multitudes", "Black Rider", "Mother of Muses", "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)") with electric blues stomps ("False Prophet", "Goodbye Jimmy Reed", "Crossing the Rubicon"), a torch ballad ("I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You"), and a couple of unconventional songs that are more difficult to classify ("My Own Version of You", "Murder Most Foul"). Some of the music was apparently written in the studio: as drummer Matt Chamberlain explained in an interview, "(Dylan) might have like a reference point for a groove or a feel and then we'll just kind of jam on that. And then he'll start trying to sing over it, and then he'll get on the piano and add some extra chords and we'll kind of work out the arrangement, and the next thing you know we've tracked the song".
"Rough and Rowdy Ways" has been referred to by critics as one of Dylan's wordiest and most lyrically dense albums (in addition to being his longest song temporally, "Murder Most Foul" has the highest word count of any Dylan song) as well as being one of the most cohesive. The "referentiality" of the songs (most obvious in "Murder Most Foul", which features a litany of song titles, but also evident in "I Contain Multitudes", "My Own Version of You" and others) has been much commented upon. The songs on the album also feature many overlapping themes, such as the process of creating art, the role of the artist in society and the purpose of art through the ages (from classical antiquity to the present day), the assassination of political figures, and religion, death and the afterlife. When asked in an interview about the striking lyric, "I sleep with life and death in the same bed", in the song "I Contain Multitudes", Dylan denied that the line was written in reference to his own mortality: "I think about the death of the human race. The long strange trip of the naked ape. Not to be light on it, but everybody's life is so transient. Every human being, no matter how strong or mighty, is frail when it comes to death. I think about it in general terms, not in a personal way".
Recording.
The 10 songs on "Rough and Rowdy Ways" were recorded in January and February 2020 at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. The sessions for the album were engineered and mixed by Chris Shaw who had previously engineered and mixed Dylan's albums "Modern Times" in 2006 and "Love and Theft" in 2001.
The core band for these sessions consisted of the latest iteration of the Never Ending Tour band, which had just played together across the United States for the first time for a total of 39 shows. In addition to Matt Chamberlain, Bob Britt and Tony Garnier, mentioned above, the group included Never Ending Tour band mainstays Charlie Sexton on guitar and multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. The sessions also featured contributions from "additional musicians" Blake Mills, Fiona Apple, Benmont Tench, Alan Pasqua and Tommy Rhodes. Fiona Apple and Alan Pasqua both played piano on the nearly 17-minute "Murder Most Foul", the only track on which either musician appears, and recorded their parts in a single day. "I told Bob I was really insecure about it", Apple relayed in an interview with "Pitchfork", "and he was really encouraging and nice. He was just like, 'You're not here to be perfect, you're here to be you'".
When asked in an interview how much "latitude" he had on what he played, guitarist Bob Britt responded, "You just play what fits the song. It is all guided by Bob, it may happen quickly or it may take a while to get it to where he likes it. It is really a beautiful process to watch how he crafts a song". Drummer Matt Chamberlain has similarly described the recording process as spontaneous: "(Dylan)'s so last-minute, in-the-moment about the way he makes his records. It's almost like playing with a poet jazz musician because he's just always changing it up; anything can happen at any time, things can just get trashed and we'll do a whole new version of a song. He's amazing".
Blake Mills, who serves as a "sort of in-house producer" at Sound City, is believed by many to have made a substantial impact on the overall sound of "Rough and Rowdy Ways." Mills wrote on Instagram on the day of the album's release that working with Dylan was "the one thing I have always dreamt of doing, and it turned out to be better than the dream", and posted videos of himself playing instrumental versions of seven of the "Rough and Rowdy Ways" songs solo on guitar. Dylanologist Trev Gibb concluded that "the album would have in no way been as musically elegant without his parts, if indeed these are the parts he played".
In a Reddit "AMA" session in 2021, Mills expounded on Dylan's process during the recording of the album: "One thing that was incredibly inspiring for me about those sessions was witnessing how incredibly dedicated (Dylan) is to the story in the song. Everything we did was in the interest of that, and he's kind of the only arbiter of when he's doing it and when it's not quite there yet. It's not always an immediately knowable thing, sometimes you gotta sleep on something you're happy with for a day or two before you realize it's not where it ultimately needs to be. There were a lot of lessons in 'letting go' for me, working on that album". When asked about Dylan's approach versus more "modern" approaches, Mills added, "As for 'modern' vs 'classic' approaches to record making, all I can say is there were some BOLD things we did and got away with on those sessions that nobody hears. I don't mean effects or auto-tune or anything like that. We were all inspired by 'old' sounds and 'old' methods, but HOW we got those sounds and the methods we used were not by any means 'classic' or 'correct'".
Release and promotion.
The first indication in the press that Dylan had been working on an album of new material came via an interview with actress Gina Gershon, a longtime friend of Dylan's, on an episode of the "Life is Short with Justin Long" podcast that premiered on March 3, 2020. Gershon told Long, "I guess [this] was like two months ago. ... [Dylan] was at his studio in L.A. ... He read me some lyrics he was writing and he was all excited. He was like, 'Do you want to hear this?'...I was thinking, 'Oh my God, this is so cool'. You could see why he still loves doing what he does. He was excited".
On March 27, 2020, the single "Murder Most Foul" was released unannounced, Dylan's first original song distributed since 2012. On April 17, 2020, "I Contain Multitudes", a second single, was released. "Rough and Rowdy Ways" was officially announced on May 8, 2020. The album's third single, "False Prophet", was released on the same day. On June 11, 2020, Bob Dylan's YouTube channel revealed the full track list for the first time only eight days before the album's release. "Rough and Rowdy Ways" was released as a double album on June 19, 2020, with the entirety of the second CD and the entirety of the last side of the vinyl edition dedicated to "Murder Most Foul".
Dylan only consented to one interview, with historian Douglas Brinkley, to promote the album. In a transcript of their wide-ranging conversation, which appeared in "The New York Times" on June 12, 2020, Dylan discussed the composition of the "Rough and Rowdy Ways" songs (which he claims were written in a "trance state") and offered his thoughts on everything from the COVID-19 pandemic ("Maybe we are on the eve of destruction. There are numerous ways you can think about this virus. I think you just have to let it run its course".) and the killing of George Floyd ("It was beyond ugly. Let's hope that justice comes swift for the Floyd family and for the nation".) to his favorite songs by The Rolling Stones and the Eagles.
Packaging.
The album cover features a color-tinted version of a black-and-white photograph taken by British photojournalist Ian Berry in 1964. On assignment from the "Observer", Berry was tasked with capturing images of "black culture in England" when he snapped a picture of a well-dressed couple dancing while a man leans on a jukebox behind them. The location is a "long-defunct underground club on Cable Street in the East London town of Whitechapel". Describing the album cover in "Rolling Stone", music journalist Andy Greene wrote that "the image crackles with intrigue and romance". The only text to appear on the cover is the album's title, which is widely believed to be a reference to the 1929 Jimmie Rodgers song "My Rough and Rowdy Ways".
The inside covers of the vinyl album and the CD both feature a cropped, colorized version of a famous photograph of Rodgers and the Carter Family that was originally taken in Louisville, Kentucky on June 10, 1931. The back covers of both the vinyl album and CD releases feature a cropped and partially sepia-tinted black-and-white photograph of John F. Kennedy, a portrait taken by Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr., that was originally used to promote the single of "Murder Most Foul" upon its release in March 2020. The vinyl album sleeves contain additional images of the artwork used for the "I Contain Multitudes" and "False Prophet" singles that are not included in the CD artwork.
Critical reception.
"Rough and Rowdy Ways" was met with widespread critical acclaim, and earned Dylan his highest ratings since "Love and Theft" (2001). At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 95 based on 25 reviews, making it the second highest-rated album of 2020 (behind only Fiona Apple's "Fetch the Bolt Cutters").
Reviewing for "The Daily Telegraph" in June 2020, Neil McCormick hailed the album as "one long, magnificent ride for his most loyal fans" and declared, "The wise old poet has stirred up a cryptic cauldron of truths and clues, philosophy, myths and magic." Anne Margaret Daniel, reviewing for "Hot Press", said ""Rough and Rowdy Ways" is a record we need right now, and it will endure." Mikael Wood, in the "Los Angeles Times", said the album "rolls out one marvel after another". Writing for "Slate", Carl Wilson called the release Dylan's best in "many years, maybe decades" for the breadth of its cultural references and the depth of Dylan's lyrics and songwriting. Jon Pareles, chief music critic for "The New York Times", labeled the album a "Critic's Pick," describing its songs as "equal parts death-haunted and cantankerous", rivaling "the grim, gallows-humored conviction of his albums "Time Out of Mind" (1997) and "Love and Theft" (2001)".
Sam Sodomsky, in a 9.0/10 review at "Pitchfork", wrote that the vaudevillian spirit that ran through "Love and Theft" and "Modern Times" (2006) is mostly limited to the "Frankenstein"-themed "My Own Version of You" and that Dylan's "biting, absurdist humor is not the focus. There are no distractions; he speaks carefully, quietly, earnestly. It results in a gorgeous and meticulous record. The lyrics are striking—dense enough to inspire a curriculum, clever enough to quote like proverbs". "Exclaim!"s Kerry Doole gave the album a perfect rating of 10, praising its allusions to "old blues songs, Shakespeare, classical mythology ('Crossing the Rubicon'), the Bible and pop culture", drawing literary parallels between Dylan's work and that of authors Don DeLillo and James Ellroy, and asking "why intellectual references are so rare in contemporary music". Writing for "The Telegraph India", Jaimin Rajani said this release brings respite and diversity. Ken Tucker of NPR's "Fresh Air" gave the release a positive review for its musical diversity.
In his Substack-published "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau said that the album's impact is "muffled" by some "indistinct" songs, namely "Black Rider" and "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You", but declared, "The decisive musical achievement on Dylan's first album of originals since 2012 is establishing the aged voice that flubbed his Sinatra albums as the sonic signature of an elegiac retrospective".
Although not released as a single, the penultimate track, the nine-and-a-half minute "Key West (Philosopher Pirate)", inspired substantial critical commentary. "Rolling Stone" ranked it the second best song of 2020 and placed it seventh on a list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century". In an article accompanying the latter list, music journalist Rob Sheffield extrapolated from the impressionistic lyrics a narrative about "a grizzled outlaw, hiding out in Florida, hounded by his memories". Authors Adam Selzer and Michael Glover Smith have drawn thematic parallels between "Key West" and Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's "Over the Rainbow" and Dylan's own "Murder Most Foul", respectively. Historian Douglas Brinkley, who conducted the only interview with Dylan to coincide with the album's release, described the song as "a beautiful piece of art," adding that "Dylan knows it's my favorite on the CD".
In addition to being widely acclaimed by critics, "Rough and Rowdy Ways" and its individual tracks have also been highly praised by many of Dylan's fellow artists including Neil Young, Keith Richards, Joan Baez, Robert Plant, Chrissie Hynde, Nick Cave, Phoebe Bridgers, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Sharon Van Etten, Wilco, Ann Wilson, Elvis Costello. and Margo Price.
Commercial performance.
"Rough and Rowdy Ways" was the best-selling album in the United States the week it debuted (although it charted at No. 2 behind Lil Baby's "My Turn" due to streaming and individual track sales), with 54,700 equivalent album units. This made it Dylan's highest-charting album on the "Billboard" 200 in more than a decade. It also marked his seventh consecutive decade of charting top 40 albums, making him the only artist to date to accomplish this feat.
The album additionally debuted at No. 1 on "Billboard"'s Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk albums charts. On the latter list, Dylan extended his record as the all-time leader with eight No. 1 albums, dating to the chart's 2009 inception. Dylan also topped "Billboard"'s Artist 100 chart on July 4, 2020 to become the "top musical act in the U.S." for the first time in his career (dating to the chart's launch in 2014). At 79-years-old, he is the "most-senior act" to ever top this chart.
Track listing.
All tracks written by Bob Dylan.
Personnel.
Musicians
Additional musicians
Engineers
Artwork


Tina Leser

Tina Leser (December 12, 1910 – January 23, 1986) was an American fashion designer. Part of a generation of pioneering sportswear designers, Leser was particularly known for her global influences.
Personal life.
Tina Leser was born Christine Buffington. Her birth parents was Mary Edith Cox and Charles Buffington. Cox arranged Leser's adoption with her cousine Georgine after she and her husband, Charles Shillard-Smith, spent months wintering in California. Her name became Christine Wetherill Shillard-Smith in Philadelphia. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia, and the Sorbonne in Paris. Leser made her debut in Philadelphia in 1929.
Tina married marine biologist Curtis Leser in November 1931 and the couple moved to Honolulu, where Curtis worked for the Academy of Science. Tina took up spearfishing and diving with Hawaiian locals. In 1936, the Lesers divorced, but Tina decided to keep Leser as her professional for the remainder of her career.
In 1948, Tina Leser married James J. Howley (1920-2012). The couple had one daughter. In 1949, Leser and Howley took a round the world honeymoon that helped to develop Leser's international aesthetic. In 1982, the Long Island home of Leser and Howey was burglarized. Two million dollars worth of art and silver were stolen, including a Picasso and a Monet. The thieves were caught.
Leser's mother, Georgine Shillard-Smith, founded the Gulf Coast Art Center. Leser was president of the organization from 1952 to 1954. The Gulf Coast Art Center closed in 2009.
Career.
Leser opened a speciality store in Honolulu in 1935 called Tina Leser Gowns, located across the street from the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Until it closed in 1942, the store sold resort wear, primarily playsuits and coverups, designed by Leser that she created with the help of a French dressmaker. Fabrics used included sailcloth, Hawaiian and Filipino fabrics. Her client base included celebrities as The Dolly Sisters and Joan Crawford. The exposition allowed to sell her designs to department stores Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue. After the Attack on Pearl Harbor, she was required to close the shop and leave the island.
Encouraged by Edna Woolman Chase and Carmel Snow, Leser met with buyers at Saks Fifth Avenue who purchased 500 playsuits from Leser. Leser briefly ran her own company in New York from 1941 to 1943. Her 1941 collections included Hawaiian palaka fabric, hand painted fabric, and menswear. At that time, her business was headquartered at 1 West 47th Street in Manhattan. A 1941 article describes her salon as having "hand-painted satin drapes and sea-shell chairs."
From 1942 to 1952, Leser designed for the Edwin H. Foreman sportswear company. While working with Edwin H. Foreman, Leser introduced harem pants, dhoti pants, and toreador pants as "at home" clothing for American women.
In 1952, Lesser again founded her own company, Tina Leser Inc., which she headed until her retirement in 1964. The headquarters were at 550 7th Avenue in Manhattan. During this phase in her career, Leser promoted hand painted Hawaiian print, sarong-type play clothes, and cashmere dresses.
From 1949 to 1953, Leser organized the Tina Leser prize for Japanese designers.
Leser's celebrity clients included Joan Crawford, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, Audrey Hepburn, and Kim Novak. Leser designed costumes for the 1950 film "Born to be Bad". Star Joan Fontaine said "the only acceptable art of the film was my wardrobe designed by Tina Leser." Leser also designed the costumes for the 1946 Broadway musical "Park Avenue".
Tina Leser died on January 23, 1986.
Legacy.
Liz Claiborne's began her career as a model and sketch artist for Tina Leser. From Leser, Clairborne learned "that being a designer meant hard, long, interminably long hours of work..."
Tina Leser's work is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, and Kent State University Museum,


The Featherstones

The Featherstones are a record production and songwriting team from Baltimore, Maryland consisted of Justin, Christopher, William, and Matthew Featherstone.
History.
In 1997, The Featherstones created their production company with their father Lurenda Featherstone and began working with local artists Mystory and the singing group Everidae. While performing in a talent show hosted by "The Baltimore Times" at Security Square Mall, The Featherstones had the opportunity of meeting Sisqo of the singing group Dru Hill. It was there where he first heard them sing an original song written and produced by The Featherstones. He was so impressed that it led to The Featherstones first full production credit in 2002. "I Should Be..." both written and produced by The Featherstones was the lead single performed by American singing group Dru Hill from their third album "Dru World Order". The single "I Should Be..." went on to reach number 25 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
For years The Featherstones paid their dues, honed their craft, and weathered the inevitable storms of the music business. In 2013, they were contacted by their publisher to work with Kevin Gates on his album "Stranger Than Fiction". While making the track, "Smiling Faces" they were trying to make something unique that stood out but wouldn't overwhelm it. They also just wanted to create a record that matched Gates' personalized and versatility. Ever since then, they have good chemistry and have been working with each other.


Robert L. Green

Robert L. Green (c. 1922 – July 1997) was the fashion director for Playboy Magazine from the 1950s through the 1970s. He was made Vanity Fair's best-dressed man of the year for 1972.
 He died in July 1997, aged 79.


Orbital piercing

An orbital piercing is a combination of two ear piercings connected by one piece of jewelry. Usually located in the helix region of the ear, an Orbital Piercing can be done anywhere on the body including your earlobes. This piercing is not to be confused with an industrial, a conch piercing or double cartilage piercing.
Process.
A professional piercer will have a sterilized hollowed gauge needle, a captive bead ring for jewelry, and a pair of pliers.
The piercer will take a marker and mark the placement of where you want your piercing. They will then take the hollow gauge needle and insert it through the marked position. With the needle still inserted in your ear the piercer will take the captive bead ring and slide in the hollow part of the needle, gently pulling the needle through the rest of your ear with the captive bead still in the needle. Once the jewelry is placed correctly in your ear, the piercer will repeat the process again, except this time they will not insert a new captive ring. Using the second hole that was just made, the piercer will take the bead ring in the first hole and place it through the second hole. They then close the ring until there is very little space left for the bead to fit in the ring. Once the bead is placed and secured in the ring, the piercing is completed.
Aftercare.
Wash your hands on a regular basis and use a cotton swab dipped in warm water and sea salt solution to remove any crust from the piercing and to keep clean from any infection. You will want to repeat these steps 3-5 times a day for the next 2–3 weeks. It is best if you sleep with a pillow that has a hole, such as a travel pillow, for greater comfort.
If your piercing is swollen for more than 2 weeks, starts seeping red, black or green colored fluid, bleeds continuously, or causes any problem with your hearing it is advised to call your piercer. In severe cases, see your doctor or go to a hospital.


Sir, You Are Being Hunted

Sir, You Are Being Hunted (alternatively titled Madam, You Are Being Hunted) is an open world survival horror stealth video game developed by Big Robot for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. An alpha version of the game was made available on 19 August 2013. The final version was released on 2 May 2014.
Gameplay.
In "Sir, You Are Being Hunted", players have to survive from 'Hunters' (robots dressed as Victorian gentlemen) who are trying to track down and kill them, whilst attempting to escape from an island. Players are required to scavenge towns and villages for items such as food and weapons to help them survive whilst collecting parts of an exploded machine in order to escape the island. If the robots find a part, they set up sentries around it to defend it from the player. The game's enemies utilise dogs and balloons in order to find the player.
The island played on is procedurally generated, meaning that every playthrough will generate a different landscape. It is populated with villages, towns and other areas where the player can find essential supplies.
Robots.
As of "The February update", nine AI robot models are in-game; the upper-class Hunter, middle-class Squire, lower-class Poacher, along with the Dogs, Scarecrows, Bog Monster, Balloons, Riders, mechanical-horse riding fox-hunters, and the Landowner, a huge, aristocratic robot.
Development.
After "Sir, You Are Being Hunted" had been in development for six months, a Kickstarter campaign was launched in November 2012 to crowd fund the game, with a £40,000 goal. Funding ended in December, with a total of £92,551 raised towards game development. This amount fell short of the £100,000 that would allow character creation and customization, but Big Robot stated that they would "endeavour to get some aspects of it into the game."
Big Robot founder Jim Rossignol said that the development team wanted to make a game that was "desperate and scary, but without being straight-faced," and "kitschy but with a genuine underlying threat." Jim stated that the team "had a vision to take what was kind of bleak and frightening about the British landscape and put it into a game", going on to say that they had focused heavily on audio in the game, describing it as "one of those differences that people won't really notice explicitly while they are playing but they will get a lot back from it."
In May 2013 new gameplay videos showcased mountain biomes which had recently been added. These biomes are remote mountainous and rocky areas away from lootable buildings.
Marketing and release.
In April 2013, two gameplay videos were released, showing a developer playing an early version of the game.
Kickstarter backers were allowed to play an alpha version of the game before the full release, with it being reported that around 900 players had early access.
On 19 August 2013, the alpha version was made available for Kickstarter backers and purchase through Steam or the Humble Store.
On 1 May 2014, chap hop artist Professor Elemental released the song "Being Hunted" as a cross-promotion with the game's release date on the following day.
Reception.
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.


Ernest Archer

Ernest Archer (26 July 1910 – 27 July 1990) was a British art director. He won an Oscar and was nominated for another in the category Best Art Direction.
Selected filmography.
Archer won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and was nominated for another:


Sudhendu Roy

Sudhendu Roy (1921–1999) was a noted Indian film director, art director and production designer in Hindi cinema, most known for his realistic art direction in auteur Bimal Roy's films, like "Sujata" (1959), "Madhumati" (1959) and "Bandini" (1963), and glitzy work in films Subhash Ghai's "Karz" (1980) and "Karma" (1986) to Yash Chopra's "Silsila" (1981), "Chandni" (1989) and "Lamhe" (1991). He won the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction thrice for, "Madhumati" (1959), "Mere Mehboob" (1964) and "Sagina" (1975).
He also directed Hindi films like "Uphaar" (1971) and "Saudagar" (1973), both of which were India's official entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Early life.
Sudhendu Roy was born and brought up in Pabna (now in Bangladesh), where his father Puranchandra Roy was a lawyer by profession from East Bengal, who was also a writer and even took part in the freedom movement, and wanted his son to study law, young Roy had other plans, so he took his admission fees to join a law college in Kolkata, and ran away from home, never to go back.
Career.
A self-taught man, he started his career as a commercial artist. He struggled for some years, and later joined Bengali cinema in Kolkata as an art director. After meeting, Parimal Roy, brother and cameraman of film director, Bimal Roy, he did "Anjangarh" (1948) produced by New Theatres and directed by Bimal Roy. The film was a commercial success and thus started a collaboration which lasted the rest of Bimal Roy's film career. In the following years he worked with directors like Tapan Sinha and Hiten Choudhary. Finally Bimal Roy left Kolkata in early 1950s, and shifted to Hindi cinema, he too shifted base to Mumbai as a part of his team, making his debut in Hindi cinema with "Biraj Bahu" (1954), "Madhumati" (1958), "Yahudi" (1958), "Sujata" (1959) and "Bandini" (1963), after this Bimal Roy died in 1966, though made a small film "Benazir" (1964).
At the peak of his career as an art director, he was offered, "Uphaar" (1971) by Tarachand Barjatya of Rajshri Productions, the film was based on Rabindranath Tagore's story "Samapti" and had Jaya Bachchan in her first solo lead. Later it was chosen India's entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This was followed by "Saudagar" (1973), based on Bengali story, "Ras" by Narendranath Mitra and starring Nutan, Amitabh Bachchan and Padma Khanna as leads, the film was not a commercial success, but received much critical acclaim, and also became India's entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His two others films, based on his own stories, "Sweekar" (1973) and "Jeevan Mukt" (1977). Lastly, he made a romantic comedy, "Aap Ki Khatir" (1977) with Vinod Khanna and Rekha as lead, featuring hit song, "Bombai se Aaya Mera Dost".
Thereafter, he continued working as a production designer for the next two-decade, cross genres and collaborating as new generation of film directors, Subhash Ghai and Yash Johar, in films like "Don" (1978), "Karz" (1980), "Shakti" (1982), "Karma" (1986), "Chandni" (1989), "Agneepath" (1990), "Lamhe" (1991) and "Darr" (1993).
Personal life.
While working in film industry, he befriended noted art director Ganesh Basak, who worked on Bimal Roy's film, "Do Bigha Zameen" (1953) and "Nagina" (1986). Later Roy married his sister Krishna. Out of their three children, his youngest daughter, Sharmishta Roy is also an art director in Hindi cinema, and assisted him in her early career, before starting independently, receiving Filmfare Award for "Dil To Pagal Hai" (1998), "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" (1999), "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham" (2002). and the National Film Award for Best Production Design for "" (2003). His son Krishnendu runs an animation studio, and one daughter, Sumona, lives in Canada.


REVTeX

REVTeX is a collection of LaTeX macros which is maintained and
distributed by the American Physical Society with auxiliary files and a user support guide, as part of a “REVTeX toolbox.” REVTeX is used to submit papers to journals published by the American Physical Society (APS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), and the Optical Society of America (OSA). REVTeX is accepted by a few other technical publishers as well.
REVTeX was created by APS to support its authors in the editorial process and to facilitate the production of APS journals. Subsequent to REVTeX’s original release and APS’ success with this electronic
publishing program, a collaborative effort of the APS, AIP, OSA, and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) was initiated to coordinate a revision to REVTeX and to AASTeX (used by AAS authors). The result was a version of REVTeX that APS, AIP, and OSA authors could use, with minimal impact to authors who submitted to multiple scholarly journals.
REVTeX is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License.
History.
The REVTeX project was begun in 1986, when the American Physical Society was exploring how to support standardized electronic submission of scientific papers. They launched the initial version of REVTeX in 1988, naming it after an abbreviation of the Physical Review journals and the TeX typesetting system. According to APS, by the early 1990s, REVTeX submissions accounted for around 25% of submissions to APS journals.
Version history:


John Rushby

John Rushby (born 1949) is a British computer scientist now based in the United States and working for SRI International. He previously taught and did research for Manchester University and later Newcastle University.
Early life and education.
John Rushby was born and brought up in London, where he attended Dartford Grammar School. He studied at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, gaining his computer science BSc there in 1971 and his PhD in 1977.
Career.
From 1974 to 1975, he was a lecturer in the Computer Science Department at Manchester University. From 1979 to 1982, he was a research associate in the Department of Computing Science at the Newcastle University.
Rushby joined SRI International in Menlo Park, California in 1983. Currently he is Program Director for "Formal Methods and Dependable Systems" in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI. He developed the Prototype Verification System, which is a theorem prover.
Awards and memberships.
Rushby was the recipient of the 2011 Harlan D. Mills Award from the IEEE Computer Society.


Verilog-A

Verilog-A is an industry standard modeling language for analog circuits. It is the continuous-time subset of Verilog-AMS.
History.
Verilog-A was created out of a need to standardize the Spectre behavioral language in face of competition from VHDL (an IEEE standard), which was absorbing analog capability from other languages (e.g. MAST). Open Verilog International (OVI, the body that originally standardized Verilog) agreed to support the standardization, provided that it was part of a plan to create Verilog-AMS — a single language covering both analog and digital design. Verilog-A was an all-analog subset of Verilog-AMS that was the first phase of the project.
There was considerable delay (possibly procrastination) between the first Verilog-A language reference manual and the full Verilog-AMS, and in that time Verilog moved to the IEEE, leaving Verilog-AMS behind at Accellera.
The email log from 2000AD can be found here.
Standard Availability.
Verilog-A standard does not exist stand-alone - it is part of the complete Verilog-AMS standard. Its LRM is available at the Accellera website. However, the initial and subsequent releases can be found here, with what will probably be the final release here since future work will leverage the new net-type capabilities in SystemVerilog. Built-in types like "wreal" in Verilog-AMS will become user-defined types in SystemVerilog more in line with the VHDL methodology.
Compatibility with the C programming language.
A subset of Verilog-A can be translated automatically to the C programming language using the Automatic Device Model Synthesizer (ADMS). This feature is used for example to translate the BSIM Verilog-A transistor models, which are no more released in C, for use in simulators like ngspice.
Code example.
This first example gives a first demonstration of modeling in Verilog-A:
`include "constants.vams"
`include "disciplines.vams"
module example(a,b,c,d,e,f);
 parameter real R = 1m;
 parameter real C = 1u;
 parameter real L = 1u;
 parameter integer gain = 2;
 input a;
 output b;
 inout c,d,e,f;
 electrical a,b,c,d,e,f;
 analog begin
 // Modelling lumped elements
 //Resistor
 V(c,d) <+ R*I(c,d);
 //Inductor
 // Multiple current or voltage assignments are accumulated
 V(c,d) <+ L * ddt(I(c,d));
 //Capacitor
 I(e,f) <+ C * ddt(V(e,f));
 // Simple amplifier
 // Voltages are referenced to ground if no second node is given
 V(b) <+ gain * V(a);
 end
endmodule
This Verilog-AMS example implements an ideal diode, by defining the current through the branch (a,c) depending on voltage at branch terminals (a), (c), and the ambient temperature of the simulated circuit:
// Ideal Diode
module diode (a, c);
 inout a, c;
 electrical a, c;
 parameter real IS = 1.0e-14; // User-configurable saturation current
 real idio;
 * Calculate nonlinear current through diode depending on
 * - thermal voltage $vt (at ambient temperature of simulated circuit) and
 * - voltage between terminals
 analog begin
 idio = IS * (limexp(V(a,c)/$vt) - 1);
 I(a,c) <+ idio;
 end
endmodule
For a simple DC voltage source, the branch voltage is set to the constant (DC) value:
// DC Source
module vsrc (p,n);
 parameter real dc = 1.0;
 inout p, n;
 electrical p, n;
 analog begin
 // Assign constant DC voltage at each time step:
 V(p,n) <+ dc;
 end
endmodule
A sine voltage generator can use the built-in "sin()" function:
// A Sinusoidal Voltage Source
`include "constants.vams"
module vsin (p,n);
 parameter real amplitude = 1.0;
 parameter real freq = 50.0;
 parameter real phase = 0.0;
 inout p, n;
 electrical p, n;
 analog begin
 V(p,n) <+ amplitude * sin(`M_TWO_PI * freq * $abstime + phase);
 $bound_step(0.1/freq); // demand at least 10 points per cycle to avoid aliasing issues
 end
endmodule


Keith Wilson (production designer)

Keith George Wilson (19 September 1941 – 6 July 2011) was a British production designer. He began his career at AP Films, working as an art assistant on "Fireball XL5" (1963) and later Gerry Anderson productions. He created sets for "" (1975–77) and "Star Maidens" (1976).
Wilson died on 6 July 2011.
Awards.
Wilson won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for the TV film "Stalin" (1992) and was nominated for Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries or a Special for "Great Expectations" (1989). He also received a CableACE Award for Art Direction in a Dramatic Special or Series/Movie or Miniseries for "The Old Curiosity Shop" (1995).


Skaff Elias

Skaff Elias is a game designer.
Career.
Skaff Elias was at Wizards of the Coast working on "" since the early days of the company. He was one of the designers for various "Magic" sets, including (December 1993), (March 1994), (June 1994), (November 1994), and (June 1995), Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the .
Elias did the main design work for the "Chainmail" miniatures game. Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on "Dungeons & Dragons", which was never published because Hasbro folded up the "D&D" computer rights into Hasbro Interactive and then sold them to Infogrames, leaving Wizards with no rights to publish "D&D" computer games.
He co-authored the "D&D" manual "Miniatures Handbook" (2003).
Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.


Hometown Story

 is a 2013 life-simulation video game for the Nintendo 3DS directed by Yasuhiro Wada, produced by Toybox Inc. and distributed by Natsume for North America, Rising Star Games for Europe, and Spike Chunsoft for Japan.
Gameplay.
The main character is in charge of running a shop inherited from their deceased grandmother. The player is capable of arranging and stocking the shelves of their shop to their preference and can eventually expand on the size of the shop. In a similar vein to the Harvest Moon series the player is able to interact and befriend various townspeople. The town that the player resides in will consist of ten people at first and eventually build its way to one hundred non-player characters that the player can meet depending on their actions over the course of the story.
Development.
The game went under the codename of "Project Happiness" and was described as being a game to spread happiness. Wada stated that the game would take place within the "Harvest Moon" universe, but will be an overall different experience. The game was released for the Nintendo 3DS and iOS in 2013, but the iOS version does not include the entire content of the game, because Wada wanted it to be a more compact experience. The game was released on October 22, 2013 in North America. Rising Star Games published the game in Europe May 2014, as the creator Yasuhiro Wada confirmed during the Gamescom.
It was featured at E3 2013.
Reception.
"IGN" gave the game a 5.0 out of 10, praising the graphics and soundtrack, but noting that the unclear conditions to unlock cutscenes are frustrating, as well as the controls. The Metacritic score is 47 out of 100.


Edith Mahier

Edith Mahier (1892 – 1967) was an American artist and art instructor who was instrumental in helping develop the talent of the Kiowa Six during their studies at the University of Oklahoma. In 1941, she won the commission to complete the post office mural for the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts at the Watonga, Oklahoma facility. In her later career at OU she created a division of the arts department dedicated to fashion and even designed motifs for a clothing line developed by Neiman Marcus.
Early life.
Edith Albina Mahier was born on December 14, 1892, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Henry and Maud B. Mahier. She came from an artistic family. Her sister Frances would later serve as the curator of the Louisiana Art Museum in Baton Rouge and design clothing. Her brother, John would run a pottery factory in their home town called Forest Studios. Mahier attended Sophie Newcomb College, the women's college affiliate of Tulane University, studying under Ellsworth Woodward and graduating 1916. Following her graduation, she worked as an illustrator at the "New Orleans Item". In 1917, Mahier was hired as an art teacher at the University of Oklahoma (OU) for the salary of $80 per month. In 1919, when Tulane created the Bachelor of Design degree, Mahier and other prior students whose work was of special merit were retroactively awarded the degree. She later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts under George Bridgman.
Career.
Mahier, who was known as "Eli" to her students, taught while continuing to create her own artwork. In 1918, her painting "The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow" was singled out for acclaim during an exhibition of Southwestern artists and her exhibited works were selling. By 1919 she was running the art department during Oscar Jacobson's absence and in 1921, she was appointed as artistic director for the university magazine. In 1924, the museum that would later become the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art held a solo exhibit of her artwork, and soon after she took a leave of absence to study abroad. She was asked to exhibit at the Paris Salon in 1925 and was the first American and first woman to study fresco at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze.
In 1926, Mahier met with Susie Peters and two Kiowa artists, Spencer Asah and Jack Hokeah. The following term, Asah, Hokeah and their fellow artists, Stephen Mopope and Monroe Tsatoke were admitted to a special program at the university and Mahier became their teacher, critic and mentor. Since the Kiowa artists did not meet the entrance requirements and Jacobson was convinced their natural talent needed only coaching, Mahier allowed them to use her office as a studio and gave them a balance of criticism and encouragement. She was forbidden to give instruction on abstract techniques, perspective, or shading, but guided them with discussions about anatomy, including the question of whether Indians had six fingers, and comments about rhythm and design elements. Between semesters, the boys returned to the reservation to work, but returned in January 1927, accompanied by Lois Smoky. By the fall of that year, they were joined by James Auchiah. Exhibitions of their work at the Denver Art Museum and on a tour in Czechoslovakia soon earned the group the name of the Kiowa Six, critical acclaim and enduring fame. Their work showed in the U.S. Pavilion at the 1932 Venice Biennial, the only year Native American artists have shown in the U.S. Pavilion.
By 1935, Mahier had become an associate professor when she was honored by inclusion in the volume "American women", along with 8 other OU faculty women and around 6,000 women from throughout the nation who had earned recognition in their fields. She began teaching a two-year fashion drawing course in 1938 when the university created a new five-year degree program, Art for Industry, which became the Fashion Arts curriculum in 1941 under her direction. She and her sister, Frances Mahier Brandon, were instrumental in bringing Native American design to fashion, after they presented research on various tribal motifs to Stanley Marcus head of Neiman Marcus. The designs were later featured in "Vogue", and the March issue of "Holland's Magazine", when Neiman Marcus developed a fashion line around the motifs.
That same year, Mahier won the federal commission to paint a mural for the post office mural project for the U.S. Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts at the Watonga, Oklahoma facility. She was the only Oklahoma woman to paint murals in Oklahoma as part of the project. Her painting, "Roman Nose Canyon", shows Cheyenne Chief Henry Roman Nose in the center of the painting with a rifle, accompanied by his family and other Cheyenne. Behind the chief is a Conestoga wagon with settlers who have stopped for water in the rugged canyon terrain, painted with bright oranges and reds. The artwork was controversial for the local Southern Cheyenne tribe. Chief Red Bird criticized the depiction of Chief Roman Nose, saying that the painting made him "look like a Navajo" and complained that the breech clout was too short and the feathers were worn too far forward on his head.
Mahier founded and became the faculty advisor of a fashion fabrication organization called "Shadowbox", in which students and manufacturers could work together on innovations. In the 1950s, her Fashion Design curricula was moved to the home economics department, when she was transferred there. She completed her OU tenure as the head of the fashion and textiles department, retiring in 1963. Thereafter, she moved to Natchez, Mississippi, where her sister resided.
Death and internment.
At the time of her death, Mahier was living in the Williamsburg (Bahin House) which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Mahier died December 2, 1967 in Natchez, Mississippi and was buried at Roselawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


Maxim (Australia)

MAXIM Australia is the Australian edition of the United States-based international monthly men's magazine "MAXIM". It is known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models. Largely covering men's lifestyle topics and popular culture, "MAXIM" is currently the only monthly men's magazine title in Australia.
History and profile.
Following the closure of "Ralph" and "Alpha", Australian "MAXIM" was launched by Nuclear Media under editor-in-chief Santi Pintado, former editor of "Ralph". The first issue was published in August 2011 featuring Jennifer Hawkins on the cover. The magazine is based in Sydney.
MAXIM TV.
In 2014, the series "MAXIM TV" launched on ONE HD based on the men's magazine, hosted by James Kerley and Lana Kington. A second season hosted by Kerley and Kristy Hocking began in 2018 on 7mate.
MAXIM Australia HOT 100.
Each year since 2012, the Australian edition of "MAXIM" has released the MAXIM HOT 100. The winners and their corresponding ages and the year in which the magazine was released are listed below.


MyHDL

MyHDL is a Python-based hardware description language (HDL).
Features of MyHDL include:
MyHDL is developed by Jan Decaluwe.
Conversion examples.
Here, you can see some examples of conversions from MyHDL designs to VHDL and/or Verilog.
A small combinatorial design
The example is a small combinatorial design, more specifically the binary to Gray code converter:
def bin2gray(B, G, width: int):
 """Gray encoder.
 B -- input intbv signal, binary encoded
 G -- output intbv signal, gray encoded
 width -- bit width
 @always_comb
 def logic():
 Bext = intbv(0)[width + 1 :]
 Bext[:] = B
 for i in range(width):
 G.next[i] = Bext[i + 1] ^ Bext[i]
 return logic
You can create an instance and convert to Verilog and VHDL as follows:
width = 8
B = Signal(intbv(0)[width:])
G = Signal(intbv(0)[width:])
bin2gray_inst = toVerilog(bin2gray, B, G, width)
bin2gray_inst = toVHDL(bin2gray, B, G, width)
The generated Verilog code looks as follows:
module bin2gray (
 B,
 G
input [7:0] B;
output [7:0] G;
reg [7:0] G;
always @(B) begin: BIN2GRAY_LOGIC
 integer i;
 reg [9-1:0] Bext;
 Bext = 9'h0;
 Bext = B;
 for (i=0; i<8; i=i+1) begin
 G[i] <= (Bext[(i + 1)] ^ Bext[i]);
 end
end
endmodule
The generated VHDL code looks as follows:
library IEEE;
use IEEE.std_logic_1164.all;
use IEEE.numeric_std.all;
use std.textio.all;
use work.pck_myhdl_06.all;
entity bin2gray is
 port (
 B: in unsigned(7 downto 0);
 G: out unsigned(7 downto 0)
end entity bin2gray;
architecture MyHDL of bin2gray is
begin
BIN2GRAY_LOGIC: process (B) is
 variable Bext: unsigned(8 downto 0);
begin
 Bext := to_unsigned(0, 9);
 Bext := resize(B, 9);
 for i in 0 to 8-1 loop
 G(i) <= (Bext((i + 1)) xor Bext(i));
 end loop;
end process BIN2GRAY_LOGIC;
end architecture MyHDL;


Michael Talbot (musicologist)

Michael Owen Talbot, (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British musicologist and composer.
Talbot is a former Professor of Music at the University of Liverpool. An expert in Italian baroque music, Talbot has authored monographs on Antonio Vivaldi and Tommaso Albinoni, and is an editor of the scholarly journal "Studi Vivaldiani". He is also active as a historicist composer, and a member of the "Vox Saeculorum" society.
Talbot's expertise has been called upon in instances where the authenticity and/or provenance of works has been questioned, including the discovery of the possible Vivaldi work "Andromeda Liberata".


Who Are You Now (album)

Who Are You Now is a studio album by Madison Cunningham, released on August 16, 2019, through Verve Forecast. It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Americana Album.


Trevor Williams (designer)

Trevor Williams (3 March 1931 – 14 February 2008) was an English film and television production designer, most noted for his work in Canadian and American productions.
Born in Harrow, he moved to Canada in the 1960s and worked on CBC Television productions before moving to Hollywood, where he was a set designer and art director on shows such as "Dark Shadows", "Little House on the Prairie" and "The Night Stalker". He received two Emmy Award nominations for his work on "The Hunchback" and "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale". In film, he won the Genie Award for Best Art Direction or Production Design at the 1st Genie Awards for his work on "The Changeling". He was a nominee in the same category at the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978 for "The Silent Partner", and at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 for "The Amateur".


Russell cord

Russell cord is a finely corded fabric, generally constructed with a cotton warp and worsted weft (filling). Two or more warp threads are woven together to form the cord, thus the cord lines run warp-wise. Russell cord is visually similar to a very narrow-waled corduroy called pincord, but it is heavier and more sturdy. It is usually woven using 40% cotton and 60% wool (or similar compositions depending on the weaver). It is mainly used in the making of high quality black academical dress, as well as clerical dress and legal dress in the United Kingdom. It is woven using thicker strands so is heavier than princetta.
Russell cord is a hardwearing fabric and generally keeps its shape for many years, unlike cotton or polyester which creases easily.


Sue Clowes

Sue Clowes (born 31 October 1957) is an English textile and fashion designer known for the collection that launched Boy George and Culture Club in 1981.
Childhood and early life.
Sue Clowes (Susan Ellen Patricia Clowes) was born on 31 October 1957 in Islington, London, England to William Reginald Clowes and Ellen Atkins.
Education.
Clowes attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts to study textile design and screen printing.
Career.
Textiles and fashion.
In 1979, Clowes began her career selling her printed clothing on a stall at Camden Lock Market.
Jon Baker helped her expand when he bought everything she had on her stall to stock his shop Axiom in The Great Gear Market, King's Road. She opened a shop in Kensington Market and began manufacturing clothes and accessories.
Throughout Clowes's career, music and musicians have radically influenced her work: Culture Club approached her to design a collection for the group to sell in the shop The Foundry in Ganton Street where George O'Dowd (later widely known as Boy George) worked as a window dresser. Clowes created a cultural cocktail of offbeat imagery with religious undertones. Her idea portrayed in the Culture Club look was that wherever you are in the world, whatever your culture or religion "we are all part of one club called the human race".
The Flesh and Steel collection of winter 1983 of printed silver crosses was worn by Jonny Slut of Specimen. Susanne Bartsch, an event producer provided early exposure for British designers with a series of shows in New York and then Tokyo. Clowes took part alongside other 1980s designers, including Leigh Bowery. In May 2010, Boy George was portrayed on film by actor Douglas Booth in the BBC2 drama documentary "Worried About the Boy". The actors wore original vintage pieces in the film by Clowes. In April 2012, Kylie Minogue wore one of Sue Clowes vintage t-shirts for the Anti Tour.
Research and development.
Clowes moved to Italy in 1987, and became involved in wearable technology or "smart clothing". Clowes worked in an academic team called Grado Zero Espace, with Italian engineers and scientists, to pioneer clothing that incorporated technology. These garments won awards from "Time" and "Popular Science". She also worked on the project of shape-memory alloy named Nitinol to obtain the first woven fabric. Clowes worked on the team that researched and developed a jacket padded with Aerogel. The jacket called Absolute Zero was taken on an Antarctic expedition.
For Corpo Nove, Clowes researched Stinging Nettle fibres which were woven to produce jeans. She gave a conference at the Eden Project and at the European Textile Network Conference on "New Technologies and Materials".
Journalism.
Clowes wrote articles for an Italian magazine called "N9VE" and interviewed Aliona Doletskaya (editor of the Russian "Vogue"), Sir James Dyson (vacuum cleaner magnate), Steve Pyke (MBE photographer), Dr. Pierre Brisson (head of European Space Agency Technology Transfer), and Sir Timothy Smit (creator of the Eden Project, Cornwall, England) among others.
Recent work.
Clowes is an External Examiner for University of Wales Examination Board Commission Assessments of students attending a BA programme in "Fashion, Design and Costume" at Accademia Italiana Moda in Florence and Rome. She re-launched the Sue Clowes brand in 2012 together with her daughter Marta Melani. The original Sue Clowes outfits from the Culture Club years will be on show in the V&A Museum "Club to Catwalk" exhibition from July 2013 until February 2014.


Victoria Day (album)

Victoria Day is Melissa McClelland's fourth album. The album was released in 2009 in Canada by Six Shooter Records.
Track listing.
All songs written by Melissa McClelland, except "A Girls Can Dream" written by Luke Doucet & Melissa McClelland and "Money Shot" written by JD Ormond.


Malvika Raj

Malvika Raj (born 1984) is an Indian artist and fashion designer. She works in the Madhubani style of art. As a Dalit, she has used art to express her experiences with caste-based discrimination in India, and uses traditional techniques to express themes relating to Dalit identity and the Buddhist religion.
Life.
Raj is from Patna, Bihar, and studied at the Northern India Institute of Fashion Technology in Mohali, Punjab. Belonging to a Dalit family, she credits her family and her father, in particular, for educating her about Dalit leadership, politics, and history in India, and about the close links between Buddhism and Dalit identity.
Career.
Raj initially worked as a fashion designer in Delhi, but returned home to Patna for health-related reasons. While recuperating at home, she trained in Madhubani techniques with artist Ashok Biswas. She also learned traditional motifs and imagery used by Dalit women who made art in the Madhubani style in their homes, while visiting Samastipur in Bihar to continue her training.
Raj's work is inspired by traditional Madhubani art, which originated from her home state of Bihar and was primarily created by women on mud walls, using rice flour paint in their homes. Raj's work focuses on an aspect of Madhubani art called 'Kobhar' (translating to 'honey forest'), and traditionally consists of images from nature used to decorate walls for wedding ceremonies. Speaking of her experiences in discrimination while studying Madhubani art, Raj said, "Historically, the Tantric subset of Madhubani art has been something that only the Brahmins have been allowed to work on. During my trip, I met a Tantric artist and when I asked him if he could teach me the style, he outright refused because I’m a Dalit. When I replied to him saying that I could just study the technique enough and teach myself the art form, he said bad fate would befall me. Caste is so deeply entrenched in everyone’s minds that even a local Dalit artist asked me not to paint in the Tantric style because he feared for my life."Raj's work accordingly uses Madhubani techniques and styles, but her imagery draws from political and social aspects of the historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Dalits as a result of the caste system in India, from Buddhism and the history of Dalit conversion to that faith, as well as from Dalit political leaders and social reformers like B R. Ambedkar, and Savitribai Phule. She also paints scenes depicting Buddhist imagery, including events from the life of the Buddha. A portrait of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar made by Raj is on display in Edinburgh University. Raj has described facing opposition for her subversion of religious themes in Madhubani art. Raj's work has been exhibited in India, at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi. In addition to art, Raj is also an entrepreneur who designs clothing which bear Madhubani motifs, and she also teaches rural woman to paint on dresses. Her work has been used as illustrations in articles on contemporary Dalit politics and identity in "Outlook", and "Live Mint." Raj has recently illustrated 'Savitribai Phule and I’, a book authored by Sangeeta Mulay.


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Exploding cinema

Exploding Cinema is both the name for a London-based film collective and the name for regular short film screenings that the collective organises.
Overview.
Anybody can screen their film at the Exploding Cinema; the programme is totally open access, on a first come - first shown basis. Between 1992 and 1999, the group put on over 80 events in 21 different venues showcasing around 1300 films by 700 film makers.
Film maker Asif Kapadia profiled Exploding Cinema in a 30 minute program for BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
History.
The Exploding Cinema was founded at the Cooltan Arts Centre, a squatted suntan lotion factory in Brixton, South London in 1991. The Cooltan was an underground arts complex with a theatre, gallery, practical workshops and regular raves. The original group was mostly film makers and the earliest shows were made up of their own films and performances.
From the early 1990s onwards, the collective became the key agent in the resurgence of underground cinema in Britain. Through screenings, events, agitation and propaganda they developed and inspired a new popular movement of independent live cinema and D.I.Y. filmmaking. Over twenty five years the group has screened thousands of unfunded no-budget films/videos in pubs, squats, clubs, microcinemas and cafes. They staged one off shows in disused factories, ships, museums, car parks, roofs, a circus tent and an outdoor swimming pool. Internationally they have staged shows in Ireland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Malta, North America and Australia.
An offshoot of the group operated in Amsterdam.


Back Track

Back Track is a first-person shooter that was released for Windows PC in 1998 and for the Game Boy Advance in 2001. It is notable for being the first 3D shooter to be released on the Game Boy Advance (along with "Doom").
Story.
Domingoaniax, an evil alien, has built up a large invasion force on the dark side of the Moon. The player assumes the role of special agent Jim Track, who has to rescue the 110 kidnapped humans and defeat Domingoaniax's droid army.
Game Boy Advance version.
Multiplayer.
BackTrack's multiplayer mode has six deathmatch arenas, each playable as a standard 20-point deathmatch or as a 4-point round-robin. Both modes support up to four players via a link cable.
Reception.
IGN praised the game for its solid framerate, but noted that the story at times "Doesn't work", and that the humor was "groan-worthy". The game was panned in the press for being mediocre in comparison with other FPS games released around the same time. It had an average rating of 56% on GameRankings.


Deepali Noor

Deepali Noor is an Indian fashion designer. She was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She was involved in advertising and modelling before joining the fashion industry.
Achievements.
Deepali has won several awards for her work. She won the Vijay Award for Best Costume Designer for her work in the film Madrasapattinam in 2012. She was also nominated for the same award for her work in Nanban (film) in 2010. She also won the Ananda Vikatan award in the year 2012 and the Norway Tamil Film Festival Awards for Best Costume Design in the year 2011 for her work in Madrasapattinam.


Eric N. Shook

Eric Nelson Shook is a game designer.
Career.
Eric Shook is a graphic designer and author. Shook was an old friend of Gary Gygax, and began with TSR in the Dungeon Hobby Shop days. When Gygax was expanding Greyhawk in the early 1980s, he brought in Shook and Rob Kuntz to help manage the new work.
Shook was later the Vice President of Kuntz's Pied Piper Publishing.


Tetsuya Nomura

 is a Japanese video game artist, designer and director working for Square Enix (formerly Square). He designed characters for the "Final Fantasy" series, debuting with "Final Fantasy VI" and continuing with various later installments. Additionally, Nomura has led the development of the "Kingdom Hearts" series since its debut in 2002 and was the director for the CGI film "".
Early life.
Nomura's father influenced his interest in art and games early on, creating little drawings and unique Sugoroku board games for him. Nomura started drawing at the age of three years and developed his own Sugoroku games during his elementary school years. As a child, he spent much of his free time playing baseball, swimming, fishing and building fortresses. When he was in middle school, his father told him that an era of computers would come and bought him his own computer. Nomura played "Legends of Star Arthur: Planet Mephius" on it and started creating his own video games by learning programming. He first tried a Nintendo product with the tennis and ping-pong variant of the Color TV Game console and later borrowed a Family Computer in high school. Around that time, "Dragon Quest" became Nomura's favorite because it surprised him and introduced him to video games with story elements. His art teacher in high school pointed him towards the works of "Final Fantasy" illustrator Yoshitaka Amano. Nomura also created his own manga during class and intended to do this as a profession although he ultimately abandoned the idea. Nomura went to vocational school to learn magazine and advertising artwork. Nomura then looked for an advertising job at a publishing company. However, he eventually applied to Square after he had seen a job advertisement with a drawing by Yoshitaka Amano.
Career.
1990s.
In the early 1990s, Nomura was hired by Square and at first worked as a debugger for "Final Fantasy IV". Some time later, the company's staff was divided and he was placed in the team in charge of "Final Fantasy". After he had received some training by artist Tetsuya Takahashi, Nomura designed the monsters for "Final Fantasy V". At that time, each "Final Fantasy" developer had their own plan book as a compilation of ideas to present to the director of a game. While the others typed their plan books at the computer and then printed them out, Nomura wrote his by hand and attached many drawings which impressed director Hironobu Sakaguchi and event planner Yoshinori Kitase. Nomura then became the graphic director of "Final Fantasy VI". For this game, he conceived the characters Shadow and Setzer as well as their background stories. Their designs were reused from some of Nomura's abandoned concepts for "Final Fantasy V". Following several smaller projects, Nomura was asked to be the principal character designer of "Final Fantasy VII" in replacement for Amano. Nomura drew the game's characters in a stylized and super deformed way and came up with the idea for the "Limit Break" attacks. He also took part in the making of the story and had a hand in plot elements such as Aerith's death. In 1998, Nomura worked on both "Parasite Eve" and "Brave Fencer Musashi". He then designed characters and monsters for "Final Fantasy VIII" in what he described as his "actual style of drawing", working alongside art director Yusuke Naora to realize the more realistic approach to the game's graphics. Additionally, he wrote the character's background stories and was the battle visual director in charge of designing fight sequences. Afterwards, Nomura worked on several different projects for Square, for example as a character designer of the 1998 fighting game "Ehrgeiz" which also used characters from "Final Fantasy VII".
2000s.
Nomura was the character designer for 2000's beat 'em up "The Bouncer" before he returned to the "Final Fantasy" series in the same capacity with 2001's "Final Fantasy X". He worked with the staff so that the characters' clothes would be identical in full motion videos and in-game scenes, unlike in "Final Fantasy VIII", In February 2000, he started working as the director of "Kingdom Hearts" with the production team consisting of over one hundred members from both Square and Disney Interactive. Nomura first heard of the game during a discussion between Shinji Hashimoto and Hironobu Sakaguchi regarding the use of the character of Mickey Mouse in a video game. He was inspired to work on "Kingdom Hearts" by Nintendo's platforming game "Super Mario 64". After discussing with the Disney staff, Nomura convinced them to use original characters with him as the character designer. The game's protagonist, Sora, became his favorite character he had designed so far. Following "Kingdom Hearts", Nomura worked once again on the "Final Fantasy" series with "Final Fantasy XI" and "Final Fantasy X-2".
For the "Compilation of Final Fantasy VII" metaseries which featured new titles based on "Final Fantasy VII", Nomura was once again the character designer. A sequel to "Kingdom Hearts" started development around the completion of "Kingdom Hearts Final Mix", an international version which added more foreshadowing elements regarding the series' plot. Nomura continued his work on the series with ' for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. He had originally planned to work directly on the PlayStation 2 sequel "Kingdom Hearts II". However, desire from fans to play the original game on a portable console resulted in the creation of "Chain of Memories" which would bridge the gap between "Kingdom Hearts" and "Kingdom Hearts II". Afterwards, Nomura was the director and lyricist for the CGI animated film ' which was released in 2005 in Japan. This marked his film debut, and he redesigned the characters as well. Nomura joined the film's crew after producer Yoshinori Kitase called him and eventually became the director because of his attachment to the character of Cloud Strife. He split the role of directing with Takeshi Nozue.
"Kingdom Hearts II" was released in 2005, resolving the elements foreshadowed in the first game's secret ending. As a result of being set a year after previous titles, Nomura was careful to make the plot accessible to newcomers. After Square Enix had finished development of the updated version "Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+", Nomura was approached by Disney which expressed interest in a sequel. He said "We have various ideas, but we're not at the point where we can say that." Wishing to stop using the character of Sora temporarily, Nomura instead wanted to continue the series with games that explained different subplots. This resulted in the creation of "Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days" for the Nintendo DS in 2008 which explored events that set up the story of "Kingdom Hearts II". In mid-2007, Nomura mentioned a desire to create a spin-off Kingdom Hearts game on a mobile platform and wanted it to play slightly differently from other titles in the series. The resulted was "Kingdom Hearts Coded", a game set after the events of "Kingdom Hearts II", which was later remade for the Nintendo DS in 2010.
In the meantime, Nomura was also responsible for the main character designs and orchestration of "The World Ends with You" for the Nintendo DS. In 2009, he was also the main character designer of "Final Fantasy XIII". The graphics capabilities of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 compared to previous consoles allowed Nomura to use more complex elements in the character designs than before, such as Lightning's cape and detailed facial features. This in turn meant that the art team had to do much more work for each character or area than in previous games. Nomura did not take an involved role in the creation of the non-playable characters. In 2008, he was the character designer of "Dissidia Final Fantasy". The game was originally envisioned by Nomura as a "Kingdom Hearts" spin-off featuring a cast of Disney characters. He later felt uncomfortable with the Disney characters fighting each other and instead opted to use "Final Fantasy" characters. Nomura was responsible for the character designs, which changed much of the look and style of Amano's illustrations.
2010s.
In 2010, Square released "Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep", a prequel of the first "Kingdom Hearts" that explained scenes shown in "Kingdom Hearts II" and its updated version. In early 2011, Square released a follow up to "Dissidia" titled "Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy". The game carried several ideas Nomura had ever since early development, such as the inclusion of new characters and new gameplay mechanics. For 2011's "Final Fantasy XIII-2", Nomura only created the new characters' faces as other staff members designed their clothes. Once the "Kingdom Hearts coded" remake was released, Nomura and his companions had already thought about creating "", a game that would set up the events of "Kingdom Hearts III". The game was released for the Nintendo 3DS owing to the team's positive reaction to the console's quality. Nomura confirmed that he would be considering what he called an "HD Technical Test" in order to commemorate the series' tenth anniversary and to entice players new to the series. This occurred on March 3, 2012 in the form of a premiere event where footage from the game, including its full CGI introduction sequence, was showcased to celebrate the game's release. In May 2012, Nomura revealed he was working as the director of a new "Kingdom Hearts" game that had yet to be announced by Square Enix. He was directing "Final Fantasy XV" which originally entered production as "Final Fantasy Versus XIII" shortly before its announcement in May 2006. Nomura left his position of director on "Final Fantasy XV" following "changes in development structure" by Square Enix in December 2013. After his departure from "Final Fantasy XV", development of "Final Fantasy VII Remake" began, with Nomura directing the project and other key members of the original "Final Fantasy VII" development team, Kitase and Kazushige Nojima returning as producer and scenario writer. At E3 2015, "Final Fantasy VII Remake" was announced with Nomura confirmed to be the director of the game. Nomura designed the "Torna" organization for "Xenoblade Chronicles 2", finally working with Tetsuya Takahashi again who had wanted to work with Nomura for over 20 years since it was decided Nomura would work on "Final Fantasy VII" instead of "Xenogears".
In 2019, Nomura also contributed to "Final Fantasy XIV"'s third expansion "Shadowbringers." The raid series Eden (featuring elements of "Final Fantasy VIII)" features a character named Gaia, along with bosses designed by Nomura.
Style and influences.
Nomura considers Yoshitaka Amano one of his biggest inspirations when doing artwork. His four "seniors" Hironobu Sakaguchi, Yoshinori Kitase, Hiroyuki Ito and Tetsuya Takahashi were also described as major influences. He even compared Sakaguchi to something "like a godly figure" during his early days at Square. At that time, Nomura was also taught the basics of game design by Ito. He told Nomura never to stick to existing concepts but rather to reuse just specific ideas and explained concepts such as ease of control and effortless accessibility of magic spells. Ito's work as a battle system designer inspires Nomura when thinking of the gameplay system for the "Kingdom Hearts" games. When designing characters, Nomura wants their names and outfits to be related with their personalities. An example occurs in "Final Fantasy X" where the protagonist Tidus was given a colorful uniform in order to reflect his cheerful personality and to contrast with the previous moody "Final Fantasy" characters. His name as well as Yuna's, another character appearing in the game, also have a common theme, the former being Okinawan for "Sun" and the latter Okinawan for "night". Various characters such as Squall Leonheart and Lulu are given multiple accessories, making the games more challenging for the programmers. When directing "Advent Children", Nomura explained how the film was different from Western films due to the lack of direct answers from the plot. He added that he wants viewers to interpret certain scenes themselves and then discuss them with friends as another way to enjoy the film. The same occurs within the "Kingdom Hearts" series where the scenes that show unknown characters are left to the player's imagination until the following scene reveals it.
Accolades.
Nomura received the "Excellence in Visual Arts" award by the International Game Developers Association for his work on the first "Kingdom Hearts" game, alongside Shinji Hashimoto. In IGN's "The Top 100 Video Game Creators of all Time" Nomura was listed at number 84.


Innerworld

Innerworld is the first full-length studio album by synth-pop band Electric Youth. The album was released in Canada by Last Gang Records and in the rest of the world by Secretly Canadian on September 30, 2014.
NPR premiered the album via their "First Listen" program on September 20, 2014.
The album was recorded in Toronto and Los Angeles and was produced by Electric Youth. Vince Clarke and Peter Mayes provided additional production and Mayes also mixed the album.
The album artwork features Electric Youth's Austin Garrick and Bronwyn Griffin, as painted by English painter Paul Roberts.


Gustavo Cadile

Gustavo Cadile is an American/Argentinian fashion designer.
Biography.
Born and raised in Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Gustavo Cadile is of Italian descent. His great-grandfather, Enrico Dell' Acqua was an influential Italian textile industrialist both in Italy and in Argentina. Captivated by his grandfather's knowledge and eye for fabrics and his mother's eccentric European sensibility, Gustavo dreamed of becoming a designer.
Gustavo attended the International Fine Arts College in Miami where he graduated with a Fashion Design Degree. He worked for Neiman Marcus organizing shows and sales. To pursue his dream of becoming a designer, Gustavo traveled to Italy where he lived for three and a half years working for famous designers in Milan and Rome. However, as a young designer, the excitement of New York beckoned to him. He worked for Perry Ellis, the epiphany of classic American Sportswear, as well as with Oleg Cassini's bridal collection.
In 2007 Gustavo Cadile launched his namesake label and has been growing ever since. In 2015, he introduced his bridal label with much success. He interweaves Italian artistry with Argentinian imagery to create uniquely beautiful gowns and cocktails dresses. His creations are made with the finest fabrics and manufactured in New York City.
His gowns have been worn by many celebrities such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kelly Preston, Geena Davis, Anjelica Huston, Kate Walsh, Gloria Estefan, Emily Ratajkowski, Reese Witherspoon, Demi Lovato, Kim Kardashian, Emily Deschanel, Giuliana Rancic, Elizabeth Hurley, Ashley Judd, Sofia Vergara, Julianne Hough, Laura Prepon, Jamie Pressly, Emmanuel Chriqui and Eva Longoria, among others. His collections can be found at Saks Fifth Avenue and many boutiques and specialty stores in America.
Gustavo Cadile has been recognized for his craftsmanship and quality, as well as for designing elegant feminine dresses receiving, therefore, the New Emerging Designer Award in 2007 at the Gold Coast Awards in Chicago . He was nominated in 2008 and 2009 for the Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award and in 2013, he was awarded the Fashion Group International Award in Miami.


National Film Award for Best Production Design

The National Film Award for Best Production Design is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1979, at 27th National Film Awards as National Film Award for Best Art Direction, and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Malayalam (5 awards), Bengali (3 awards), Kannada, Urdu, English, Marathi (two each), Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani (one Each).
The award renamed as National Film Award for Best Production Design from the 57th National Film Awards in 2011.
Winners.
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:


Vic Fair

Victor Fair (18 March 1938 – 24 February 2017) was an English designer of cinema posters known for his risqué work for low budget 1970s English films.
Early life.
Victor Fair was born in Chadwell Heath, Essex, on 18 March 1938. His father is noted as being a instrumental industrial designer for Ford in Dagenham who died when Victor was aged four.
At 16 years old, Victor left school and got a job in London as a messenger boy for the Hector Hughes design agency and attended life drawing classes at St Martin's School of Art in the evening. After Hector Hughes he worked at the Dixons agency.
In the mid-1950s, Fair started his national service in the British Army when he served in Cyprus during the EOKA guerrilla campaign. He could have avoided service, having previously suffered from tuberculosis and other medical conditions, but saw his enlistment as an opportunity to get away from a claustrophobic home life with his mother and sister where he was the man of the house as a result of his father's death. One of his jobs in the army was to search villages for weapons but he was more often to be found sketching the natives.
Death.
Fair died on 24 February 2017 from the effects of Alzheimer's disease and diabetes. He was survived by his wife and two children.


Carolyn Cowan

Carolyn Cowan (born 1960) is a London-based yoga teacher and psychosexual and relationship therapist. Prior to her career as a therapist, she was a fashion designer and photographer. During the 1980s, she earned acclaim as a makeup artist in the pop music video industry. She taught body painting at the  University of the Arts London for over 20 years. Most recently (2019) Carolyn founded and launched a new form of yoga, Kundalini Global, in answer to the rapidly growing and profound need for yoga to become more inclusive and serve a wider demographic
Early years.
Cowan was born in 1960, the eldest of three children of fashion photographer John Cowan and Syddy Cooper. She grew up in Chelsea, London and was exposed to fashion at a young age, often posing as a child model for her father. In 1964, her parents divorced and her mother eventually married a broker at Lloyd's who took care of the family financially. Cowan has said that the loss of her father led to depression and eventually contributed to substance abuse.
During that period, John Cowan leased his studio at 39 Princes Place to Michelangelo Antonioni for interior and exterior filming of the film "Blowup". His photographic murals are featured in the film. He also shot the title stills for "2001 A Space Odyssey".
From age 11 to 16, Cowan attended a Catholic boarding school, which she has called "a horrible experience," due to the abusive staff. During that time, she would often escape to the city to take art courses at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a way "to get out of school." When she was 16, she left school and moved to London with her then-boyfriend, music composer Hans Zimmer.
Early professional life.
While in her early 20s, Cowan met members of the Italian group Krisma, a new wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser. The lead singer of the band, Moser, allowed Cowan to paint her face for shows. Soon Cowan was doing body painting and wanted to become a makeup artist.
When she was 22, she sold her clothes to buy a train ticket to Milan to pursue a career in fashion. Her first job was working for "Italian Vogue".
She returned to England and worked in the pop music video industry. She would eventually work with such personalities as Bryan Ferry, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, who were part of the booming 1980s video music industry. She also worked with singer Steve Strange.
Turmoil and David Bowie's intervention.
By the time Cowan was 28, her life of excess was taking a toll. She was addicted to drugs and alcohol. During the summer of 1991, while in Dublin to do David Bowie's makeup for a video, Cowan said her life changed dramatically. "David Bowie took one look at me, hung-over, red-eyed and incoherent, and told me I was in trouble. Cowan said Bowie encouraged her to stay sober and attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. By 31 July 1991, she had given up smoking, drugs and alcohol and changed her line of work and focused on photography.
During a 2011 interview, Cowan said that people sometimes need to reach a point of no return to grow and change. "Unless you hit something like depression, illness, death or addiction there is no change. The moment you jump off that metaphorical cliff into the darkness you can always recognize other people who have done the same."
Photography.
During the early 1990s, Cowan began a career as a photographer. Among her first jobs was an Ilford Photo-sponsored trip to India to photograph nomads. While there, she was exposed to Hindu spirituality and Sikhism, which would later fuel her passion for yoga and meditation. "I preferred this idea of choosing your experiences and transformation, that you can have all your past and drama and that could be your mountain on which you stand. Like the root of a tree that you become."
Cowan has been acclaimed for her photography, which includes nudes and family portraits.
“Today we are so defined by the exterior, labels and what we wear. Clothes hide and mask who we really are. But if you take it away we are nothing else but ourselves. I am fascinated by bodies, regardless one being skinny, not skinny, fat, obese, wrinkled, aged or young. There is beauty in absolutely everything, even in a nude body, which is not perfect as none of us are. There is beauty in human vulnerability."
In her photography, Cowan said she strives to show the "magical spark" inside her subjects. "When I take a picture of someone it is always about redemption, a way of liberation if you prefer."
Psychosexual and Yoga Teacher.
Cowan's professional life is now largely focused on her work as a psychosexual and relationship therapist. She is a member of the College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists (COSRT) and accredited with the National Counselling Society (NCS). She works in all manners of addictive behaviours and sexual dysfunction, including working with same-sex couples, pre- and post-natal relationships, and sexual issues.
Cowan is one of a growing number of sex therapists who do not believe in the traditional concept of sexual addiction. Going against current assumptions and trends, she debunks the idea that sex addiction is real. Instead, she says, the current concept of "sex addiction" is a belief system, supported by faith, moral conviction and religious principles, that represents an attack on sexuality and its expression. It was originally devised, as a system, in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis, and does not support recovery from trauma, an abusive background, mental illness, etc. in its concepts and applications, she says. Cowan believes that labeling behaviors as sex addiction asserts a false, dangerous myth that undermines personal responsibility.
Cowan is also an international Kundalini yoga teacher. She said she discovered yoga in India and is heavily inspired by Hindu spirituality. During an interview with British Vogue, Cowan said, "yoga builds confidence, connections and friendships. It eases loneliness, gives you faith in yourself. By attending a regular class, you join a community and a worldwide tribe; with yoga as a part of your focus you can go on to train as a teacher, empowering yourself and changing the lives of others."
In 2019, she was named among the top 16 yoga teachers in London.
In addition to her therapy practice, she also provides training for the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction as well as sexual compulsion, compulsive porn, shopping, gambling and cutting through her Mastering the Addictive Personality Teacher Training course, which certifies the practitioner to work in prisons and rehab centers. Cowan explores addiction and anxiety through the lens of trauma, shame and abuse rather than the widely accepted 21-step disease model. Her other workshops focus on topics such as shame, the anatomy of posture and hormones, female arousal and menopause.
Cowan has produced numerous DVDs about vegetarian cooking, conscious pregnancy, overcoming addictive personalities and the art of meditation. She was also a contributor for TabooZapp, an app that is designed to support mental health, identity, well-being and confidence in youth. She is currently preparing to self publish a new book on Kundalini Global.
She has contributed her expertise to a variety of magazines and digital outlets including The Guardian, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Psychologies, Women’s Health, The Sun (United Kingdom), i news, Natural Health Magazine, and Woman’s Own. She has also has written feature articles in Planet Mindful and Yoga magazines about Kundalini yoga and menopause.
Kundalini Global.
In 2019, Carolyn founded Kundalini Global in answer to the rapidly growing demand for yoga to become more inclusive and serve a wider demographic, and after she stepped away from Kundalini yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan in 2014. As well as teaching Kundalini Global classes, in 2020 Carolyn began offering Kundalini Global teacher training. Kundalini Global and its teachers adhere to the view that yoga has the power to deal with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, negative history and physical responses to trauma in the body.
Personal life.
Cowan lives in South London and has two children, Louis and Isadora.


Dennis E. Wisnosky

Dennis E. Wisnosky (born 1943) is an American consultant, writer and former chief architect and chief technical officer of the US DoD Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of Business Transformation. He is known as one of the creators and initiators of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, a standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts.
Biography.
Dennis E. Wisnosky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. and received his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in management science from the University of Dayton, and a master's in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
Wisnosky joined the US Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Ohio in 1971, where he headed the computer and information services. In 1976 he became manager of its ICAM program. In 1986 he founded Wizdom Systems and became its chief executive officer. In August 2006 he was appointed chief technical officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)).
As of 2013 he left DoD to lead the standards implementation process for FIBO, the financial industry business ontology that is a joint effort of The Enterprise Data Management Council in conjunction with the Object Management Group.
He has received numerous honors for his work, including in May 1997, "Fortune" magazine recognized Wisnosky as "one of the five heroes of manufacturing", the Federal 100 Award in 2007, the Award for Excellence in Government Leadership in 2012 and more.
Work.
Wisnosky has made contributions in the fields of information technology (IT) consulting and training, including business process reengineering and enterprise architecture. His specialty has been deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their "As-Is" state of inefficiency to their "To-Be" state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives.
Integrated computer-aided manufacturing.
Dennis E. Wisnosky and Dan L. Shunk are recognized as co-founders of the ICAM program, which they founded in 1976. This program started as U.S. Air Force funded program for Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing, and was brought about by the "needs and pressures in state-of-the-art technologies, economics, increasing human limitations, aerospace design and manufacturing complexity, computer developments, and competition from abroad."
In the 1980s Joseph Harrington focusses CIM on the manufacturing company as a whole. Harrington considered manufacturing a "monolithic function". This book discussed how the functions could interact as a seamless whole. Harrington was helpful to Wisnosky and Shunk in designing the USAF's ICAM program in the mid-1970s, and their work, in turn, influenced Harrington's second book".
Group vice president, entrepreneur and CEO.
Beginning in 1980, until asked to join the DoD, Wisnosky was a director and then an officer in public companies, and then founded and successfully exited, a series of his own companies – the Wizdom companies. These organizations specialized in delivering the products and services to manufacturing industries in the areas of robotics, factory control systems and business process reengineering.
Chief technical officer.
As chief technical officer, Wisnosky was responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) – the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.
As chief architect, Wisnosky ensured that the federated architectures of the BMA fully support the department's vision, mission, strategy and priorities for business transformation, and that each tier of the overall architecture is clearly defined with appropriate focused accountability aligned to the management structure of the DoD. He verifies that the BEA and component architectures remain consistent and compliant with the federal enterprise architecture (FEA), and will support and collaborate with the DoD components to unify architecture planning, development, and maintenance through a federated approach. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DoD chief information officer. He was the first to introduce service-oriented architecture (SOA) and to the business mission area (BMA) and has established and led an enterprise approach to delivering BI based upon semantic technologies.
Books.
Wisnosky has published books and papers in the fields of BPR, semiconductor processing, information technology, robotics and factory controls, management, SOA and semantic technology. He is the originator of the funnel visualization of enterprise control networks. He authored or co-authored 7 books. His book, "Overcoming Funnel Vision", published in 1996, won critical acclaim . His book, "DoDAF Wizdom", written in 2004, remains the definitive how to guide for successfully building enterprise architectures using the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
Speaker.
Regarded to be a technology visionary and an entrepreneur who can engineer and deliver products, he is a frequent speaker on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies. As a private citizen, he has testified before subcommittees of both the U.S. House and Senate on U.S. productivity issues and the quality of American work life.
Publications.
Wisnosky has published over 100 papers, and Wisnosky has authored or co-authored 7 books, in the fields of management, computer science, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture, Knowledge Management, computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), electronics, computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) and the Semantic Technologies/Web. Books:
Articles, a selection: