Art, Television, and Books..oh my
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shadowkat1. Completed my watercolor, which is partially a self-portrait. (I'm the old woman getting robbed, although I didn't - I turned around in time and deposited the glare of death. It had happened in March, the day before my birthday, and the kid looked exactly like the one in the watercolor. My point in the watercolor is the "ICE Agent" is arresting a poor young woman but ignoring the white boy trying to rob the older woman, while a little girl is trying to warn the older woman about both. But she's oblivious.)
I'm branching out a bit with my artwork and trying to tell more of a story, as opposed to just recapturing what I see.
I don't know why, but I've been on a drawing and watercoloring streak since roughly 2022. Maybe it's in response to my father's death? (He was an artist who ached to draw people and never got the chance. Or maybe it's just what is working for me now? I don't know. Rick Rubin states that the Source of us all of all life - that flows around us, sends things to everyone, the most sensitive among us channel it into art to communicate it to others. Or something along those lines in his book Creation of Being, similar to the Artist Way, but less preachy and more meditative. According to Rubin - these messages don't just go to one person, so if you can't do anything with it, someone else will, and everyone will process the same messages differently. A perfect example is Rubin and Julia Cameron, they both got the same idea, but went about expressing it in different equally valid ways.)
Also on the edgy art front - of social justice is RE "Becky" Burke. Who, you may or may not recall, was the UK woman who got detained by US ICE in Seattle, when she couldn't get into Canada on her Visa. She had a horrible experience with ICE and has chosen to record it in art and comic book format, which she's posting on her Instagram account at the moment.
2. Television
* Finished watching The Pitt on MAX, it has a 15 episode arc, each episode is one hour of a fifteen hour shift. Possibly the most realistic medical drama that I've seen. People are equating it with ER, or the most realistic since ER. (It's actually more realistic than ER, ER had a tendency to fall into melodrama at various points, this one less so, and it also went home with the Doctors, this one doesn't, and it wasn't broken down like 24 (which isn't realistic - well not unless you think you can drive across LA in a second). And it takes place in Pittsburgh, ER was Chicago.)
What reminds me a lot of ...is a series I hadn't gotten a chance to see, but read about. It's a UK medical drama entitled... This is Going to Hurt which is based on "The series is an adaptation by the real-life Kay himself from the author's hit non-fiction book, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor."
Michael Crichton conceived of ER based on his experiences as an intern and resident at a Chicago hospital. Then he died not long after the pilot aired, and John Wells took over. John Wells and Noah Wyle (Doctor Carter from ER) are behind The Pitt. New Amsterdam was also based on non-fiction book - 15 Patients, about a doctor treating himself and various other patients, while he has cancer, at a major city hospital - in which he's the administrator.
I'd like to see This is Going To Hurt - but alas it's not available to me, also it is a comedy or dramedy.
I bring all of that up - because, Michael Cricton's Estate headed by his Widow is suing Wylie and Wells for creating the PITT, which they consider a clone of ER.
It's not. I watched the premier of ER and first three episodes back to back with the Pitt, and while there are loose similarities? They are in most medical dramas. I hope they get thrown out of court on their greedy little asses. (Michael Crichton was yet another problematic human, whose writing was often better than his political world view.) These types of copyright lawsuits annoy me. See #1 - where I state we all get similar ideas. Also people borrow from each other all the time. Add to that? Crichton died shortly after the pilot of ER, he wasn't that involved. And it's not like they don't have other properties, which Crichton actually was involved with. Jurassic Park?
* All caught up on Daredevil (Diseny +) which is very uneven writing wise, although it has always kind of has been? Episode 6 is better than the last handful of episodes. But it could be tighter. >Heather Glenn, the therapist, is kind of annoying, for a brilliant therapist, you'd think she'd be more savvy about a few things, and more unnerved by Fisk, not to mention the psychopathic client. I think she's drawn to dangerous men. I miss Electra and Karen. I liked Matt best with Electra and Karen. Although I think Karen will be back. That said, her scenes with Matt are kind of steamy. But their romance went a bit too quickly for my taste.
I do like how they used Bullseye, and the Matt/Fisk relationship remains interesting, as does the Vanessa/Fisk relationship.
Also, I rather liked Episode 6.
It's an interesting twist that Daredevil jumps in front of Fisk, while he's dancing with Heather, taking Bullseye's bullet. I think it shocked Fisk, Vanessa, Bullseye, and Heather. Also surprised me.
But apparently Daredevil figured out that Fisk was innocent and trying to just take out Bullseye for being a vigilante, not because he had hired him - no that had been Vanessa, which is equally interesting.
Why did Vanessa hire Bullseye, and did Kirsten - Matt's partner know about it? Matt had thought she'd been the last to order a round, not Foggy. But Foggy was - because he was celebrating, he knew he was going to win his case. So Vanessa took him out? What was that case about?
That's what isn't working with the series - the plotting could be tighter. I keep getting lost in the cases of the week, and losing the through thred.
But the emotional bits worked, I'm king of loving it that Heather is now in the position of worrying about Matt surviving. I don't see them lasting, Heather won't be able to handle his dual life any better than Karen did.
* The Residence not to be confused with the Medical Drama "The Resident". This is the new Shonda Rhimes, mystery-comedy series - that is similar in style/tone to Knives Out verse, except features a Black Female Detective, who is brilliant in much the same way that Daniel Craig's character had been. It's parlor room style mystery - my favorite. Where someone is murdered. It was clearly someone among the guests and residents, and the trick is to figure out who before they all leave. The setting is the White House, sometime in the future, the President is gay, and references are slyly made to how the new President has had to bend over backwards to fix the colossal mess of the last President.
Sample dialogue?
Hollinger: Wait, we have the FBI, CIA, National Park Service, Secret Service, and Homeland Security at our disposal, and you call the MPD? I wouldn't call the MPD to find my dick.
National Park: Ahem, Captain Dokes of the MPD is here.
Captain of the MPD: You can't find your dick?
Hollinger: We have the Australian Prime Minister, his best friend, the Australian diplomat, and Hugh Jackman. It's a big deal. Because somehow the previous administration managed to piss off the Australians, and you have to do something really shitty to piss off the Australians, so we're working over time to fix that mess. This is part of that.
Detective: Hugh Jackman?
or
Detective: You have to shut down the white house.
President: Uhm, let me think, no. It could cause a global crisis.
Detective: But - how will we find the murderer?
President: That would still be a no.
Australian Prime Minister and Associates burst into the room.
Detective lifts the birding glasses.
Everyone: What are you doing?
Detective: Why is the Australian Prime Minister wearing the murder
victim's shirt?
President: Okay, that's it. Lock down the white house.
That's the first episode. I was admittedly circumventing it because I can't watch things about the White House or the Presidency at the moment? But this isn't really about it? Oh it's satirical, but not in that way? Also the President isn't well nuts.
3. Reading
I gave up on Station Eternity, and whatever I was reading by Cat Rambo, and started Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler in paperback instead. It's much better. (The difficulty with the Kindle - is there's a lot of less than stellar or bargain basement books on it. I think I was getting tired of the writing.) So far it is pretty good, I like the writing narrative style of a dairy.
Finished Six of Crows via audiobooks. The audiobook is quite good. Moved on to the sequel. It's not like the series - so you can read or listen to it without fear of spoilers. The first book ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger. So you kind of need to read both.
Also? I found out that the book "The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman" finally got its sequel, The Ladies Guide to Utter Ruin. Goodman is an Australian Author (Melbourne based) and an Academic. (She does tend to write in the formal style of an academic, which may or may not be a selling point for you. It turned me off a bit - but that's only because I read and write exceedingly technical and dry content for a living, and desire a break from it in my pleasurable reading materials.) I'll probably snag the sequel, when I get the chance, her first book was among the few that I finished in the past few months that wasn't an audio book.
I'm branching out a bit with my artwork and trying to tell more of a story, as opposed to just recapturing what I see.
I don't know why, but I've been on a drawing and watercoloring streak since roughly 2022. Maybe it's in response to my father's death? (He was an artist who ached to draw people and never got the chance. Or maybe it's just what is working for me now? I don't know. Rick Rubin states that the Source of us all of all life - that flows around us, sends things to everyone, the most sensitive among us channel it into art to communicate it to others. Or something along those lines in his book Creation of Being, similar to the Artist Way, but less preachy and more meditative. According to Rubin - these messages don't just go to one person, so if you can't do anything with it, someone else will, and everyone will process the same messages differently. A perfect example is Rubin and Julia Cameron, they both got the same idea, but went about expressing it in different equally valid ways.)
Also on the edgy art front - of social justice is RE "Becky" Burke. Who, you may or may not recall, was the UK woman who got detained by US ICE in Seattle, when she couldn't get into Canada on her Visa. She had a horrible experience with ICE and has chosen to record it in art and comic book format, which she's posting on her Instagram account at the moment.
2. Television
* Finished watching The Pitt on MAX, it has a 15 episode arc, each episode is one hour of a fifteen hour shift. Possibly the most realistic medical drama that I've seen. People are equating it with ER, or the most realistic since ER. (It's actually more realistic than ER, ER had a tendency to fall into melodrama at various points, this one less so, and it also went home with the Doctors, this one doesn't, and it wasn't broken down like 24 (which isn't realistic - well not unless you think you can drive across LA in a second). And it takes place in Pittsburgh, ER was Chicago.)
What reminds me a lot of ...is a series I hadn't gotten a chance to see, but read about. It's a UK medical drama entitled... This is Going to Hurt which is based on "The series is an adaptation by the real-life Kay himself from the author's hit non-fiction book, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor."
Michael Crichton conceived of ER based on his experiences as an intern and resident at a Chicago hospital. Then he died not long after the pilot aired, and John Wells took over. John Wells and Noah Wyle (Doctor Carter from ER) are behind The Pitt. New Amsterdam was also based on non-fiction book - 15 Patients, about a doctor treating himself and various other patients, while he has cancer, at a major city hospital - in which he's the administrator.
I'd like to see This is Going To Hurt - but alas it's not available to me, also it is a comedy or dramedy.
I bring all of that up - because, Michael Cricton's Estate headed by his Widow is suing Wylie and Wells for creating the PITT, which they consider a clone of ER.
It's not. I watched the premier of ER and first three episodes back to back with the Pitt, and while there are loose similarities? They are in most medical dramas. I hope they get thrown out of court on their greedy little asses. (Michael Crichton was yet another problematic human, whose writing was often better than his political world view.) These types of copyright lawsuits annoy me. See #1 - where I state we all get similar ideas. Also people borrow from each other all the time. Add to that? Crichton died shortly after the pilot of ER, he wasn't that involved. And it's not like they don't have other properties, which Crichton actually was involved with. Jurassic Park?
* All caught up on Daredevil (Diseny +) which is very uneven writing wise, although it has always kind of has been? Episode 6 is better than the last handful of episodes. But it could be tighter. >Heather Glenn, the therapist, is kind of annoying, for a brilliant therapist, you'd think she'd be more savvy about a few things, and more unnerved by Fisk, not to mention the psychopathic client. I think she's drawn to dangerous men. I miss Electra and Karen. I liked Matt best with Electra and Karen. Although I think Karen will be back. That said, her scenes with Matt are kind of steamy. But their romance went a bit too quickly for my taste.
I do like how they used Bullseye, and the Matt/Fisk relationship remains interesting, as does the Vanessa/Fisk relationship.
Also, I rather liked Episode 6.
It's an interesting twist that Daredevil jumps in front of Fisk, while he's dancing with Heather, taking Bullseye's bullet. I think it shocked Fisk, Vanessa, Bullseye, and Heather. Also surprised me.
But apparently Daredevil figured out that Fisk was innocent and trying to just take out Bullseye for being a vigilante, not because he had hired him - no that had been Vanessa, which is equally interesting.
Why did Vanessa hire Bullseye, and did Kirsten - Matt's partner know about it? Matt had thought she'd been the last to order a round, not Foggy. But Foggy was - because he was celebrating, he knew he was going to win his case. So Vanessa took him out? What was that case about?
That's what isn't working with the series - the plotting could be tighter. I keep getting lost in the cases of the week, and losing the through thred.
But the emotional bits worked, I'm king of loving it that Heather is now in the position of worrying about Matt surviving. I don't see them lasting, Heather won't be able to handle his dual life any better than Karen did.
* The Residence not to be confused with the Medical Drama "The Resident". This is the new Shonda Rhimes, mystery-comedy series - that is similar in style/tone to Knives Out verse, except features a Black Female Detective, who is brilliant in much the same way that Daniel Craig's character had been. It's parlor room style mystery - my favorite. Where someone is murdered. It was clearly someone among the guests and residents, and the trick is to figure out who before they all leave. The setting is the White House, sometime in the future, the President is gay, and references are slyly made to how the new President has had to bend over backwards to fix the colossal mess of the last President.
Sample dialogue?
Hollinger: Wait, we have the FBI, CIA, National Park Service, Secret Service, and Homeland Security at our disposal, and you call the MPD? I wouldn't call the MPD to find my dick.
National Park: Ahem, Captain Dokes of the MPD is here.
Captain of the MPD: You can't find your dick?
Hollinger: We have the Australian Prime Minister, his best friend, the Australian diplomat, and Hugh Jackman. It's a big deal. Because somehow the previous administration managed to piss off the Australians, and you have to do something really shitty to piss off the Australians, so we're working over time to fix that mess. This is part of that.
Detective: Hugh Jackman?
or
Detective: You have to shut down the white house.
President: Uhm, let me think, no. It could cause a global crisis.
Detective: But - how will we find the murderer?
President: That would still be a no.
Australian Prime Minister and Associates burst into the room.
Detective lifts the birding glasses.
Everyone: What are you doing?
Detective: Why is the Australian Prime Minister wearing the murder
victim's shirt?
President: Okay, that's it. Lock down the white house.
That's the first episode. I was admittedly circumventing it because I can't watch things about the White House or the Presidency at the moment? But this isn't really about it? Oh it's satirical, but not in that way? Also the President isn't well nuts.
3. Reading
I gave up on Station Eternity, and whatever I was reading by Cat Rambo, and started Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler in paperback instead. It's much better. (The difficulty with the Kindle - is there's a lot of less than stellar or bargain basement books on it. I think I was getting tired of the writing.) So far it is pretty good, I like the writing narrative style of a dairy.
Finished Six of Crows via audiobooks. The audiobook is quite good. Moved on to the sequel. It's not like the series - so you can read or listen to it without fear of spoilers. The first book ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger. So you kind of need to read both.
Also? I found out that the book "The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies by Allison Goodman" finally got its sequel, The Ladies Guide to Utter Ruin. Goodman is an Australian Author (Melbourne based) and an Academic. (She does tend to write in the formal style of an academic, which may or may not be a selling point for you. It turned me off a bit - but that's only because I read and write exceedingly technical and dry content for a living, and desire a break from it in my pleasurable reading materials.) I'll probably snag the sequel, when I get the chance, her first book was among the few that I finished in the past few months that wasn't an audio book.
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