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Unlike some other Asian countries, Japan isn't known for its spicy cuisine. In fact, for all its unique flavor, Japanese food has very little heat at all. And that's sort of the story of the shishito pepper…except for when it isn't. This is a bright, flavorful sweet chili with little to write home about in terms of spiciness. But like the Padrón pepper (from which it may likely take its roots), there's a fiery punch every so often where a shishito breaks the norm and turns up the dial. It makes them a ton of fun to eat, and they have grown immensely popular as a quick-to-cook appetizer or side.
How hot is the shishito pepper?
With a range on the Scoville scale from 50 to 200 Scoville heat units, the typical shishito is sort of like a rounding error of hotness above a zero-heat bell pepper. Meaning – they aren't hot at all…most of the time. It's sort of a warm pulsing light simmer, very much under the radar. In terms of our jalapeño reference scale, the typical shishito pepper is 13 to 160 times milder. Though, there's a catch.
One out of every ten to twenty shishito peppers will rev the engine just a little further. They don't reach even mild jalapeño heat, but it's enough to catch you by surprise. Padrón chilies have a similar "Russian roulette" tendency, and they both add a level of playfulness to the eating experience that most foods can only dream of.
What do shishito peppers taste like and look like?
The typical shishito is slender, two to four inches in length,thin-walled, and slightly wrinkled. It has a bulbous end to the pepper that some Japanese say looks like a lion's head. In fact its name speaks to its shape. Shishito is a mash-up of two Japanese words: shishi for "lion" and tōgarashi for "chili pepper". Think of the giant lion heads in Japanese parades and festivals and you'll see it.
Shishito peppers do look a lot like Padrón chilies, and they can be mistaken for one another in markets. To tell them apart: Padrón peppers tend to be a little more stocky and a little less wrinkly. Shishito also tend to be a little shinier.
The taste is where shishito peppers make up for their near total lack of heat. These are flavorful sweet chilies: grassy and citrusy with a slight hint of smoke. Compared to the Padrón, they aren't as earthy or nutty, so if you're choosing between the two for grilling, consider these taste variations against the other foods you'll be pairing it with.
How did shishito peppers become native to Japan?
How chili peppers ended up anywhere outside of the Americas is typically a story of exploration centuries ago. It's likely the shishito has its roots from the Padrón which is native to Spain (again, the looks). And the Padrón likely ended up in Spain in the 16th century from South America. The Japanese soil mixed with continued growing of the mildest peppers in the lot likely converted the taste and heat to what we have today.
How are shishito peppers typically used?
With their thin walls, these chilies are growing fast in popularity as grilling peppers. Char-grilled or fried with a little olive oil and sea salt and you have a very tasty appetizer chili with a little bit of extra flair, given the one-in-ten heat jump. Their grassy flavor also makes them an excellent chili for stir-fry, and they also work quite well as a tempura vegetable.
With their thin walls, these chilies aren't optimal for stuffing, but that hasn't stopped many chefs from exploring what's possible here too.
Where can you buy shishito peppers?
The good news is that, due to their growing popularity, these chilies are popping up in many grocery stores, especially gourmet grocery stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joes. If you're looking to grow these chilies, you can pick up shishito pepper plants and seeds online and often at your local nursery.
Once you try them, you may find yourself hooked on shishito peppers as a tasty out-of-the-box alternative to the typical vegetable side. And as a quick appetizer, they are a lot of fun to make and eat. Don't be surprised if they become more of a staple than you first expected.
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Once again, I'm trying to get back into the habit of meditating. Or maybe just into the habit, since I've never quite made it firmly stick.
Two things are helping this time, though. One is telling myself that it's okay to just go for ten minutes: I don't need to push to increase that to fifteen or twenty or thirty. Maybe once I'm really and truly in the habit of ten minutes every day, but not until then; it's a lot easier to declare "for crying out loud, it's only ten minutes" and then just sit down than it is to mark out a longer block of time.
The other is akin to the epiphany I had some years ago about balance. I stopped thinking of it as a state (I am balanced) and started thinking of it as a process (I am balancing) — which had the effect of making me better at balancing, because I no longer thought of any deviation from the center as failure. It's just part of the process of balancing, and the rest of the process is bringing yourself back to center.
Same thing here. Meditating isn't the state of having my mind clear and focused on my breathing. It's the process of noticing when my thoughts have wandered, and bringing them gently back to my breathing. At least in mindfulness meditation — I don't have much experience with other kinds. I've started thinking of it as bicep curls for my brain, strengthening my mindfulness every time I return my attention to my breathing. Except that bicep curls are an effort, and this isn't supposed to feel like heavy lifting; the metaphor breaks down after a while. Even so.
Less than ten minutes later. Maybe someday I'll get back to longer stretches, but for now, ten minutes is a good workout.
It's also worth trying to do things you do several times a day mindfully, it works as practice for 'proper' mindfulness meditation. I find mindfully making a coffee, then later mindfully losing the coffee, both work for me, because they are short, frequent, and happen every day without fail. Even if I don't do all the coffee making and losing in a day, a few give my brain some respite, which helps stop it resembling a whirling dervish crossed with a bee visiting flowers.


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Julieanne Ehre is the founder and the director of Pivot Arts. She both leads the organization and curates and produces the Pivot Arts Festival, Pivot Arts Podcast, and site-specific works. Julieanne directs Pivot Arts' incubator program in partnership with faculty and staff at Loyola University Chicago where the incubator is housed. As part of the program, she has developed multidisciplinary works by over 25 artistic groups including Issac Gomez's La Ruta which premiered at Steppenwolf Theater as well as the hip h'opera, The Rosina Project, and the nationally acclaimed theater company, Rude Mechs' Not Every Mountain both of which premiered as part of the Pivot Arts Festival. She has produced discussion events with artistic and civic leaders including Senator Richard J. Durbin. Ehre was listed as one of "50 People Who Perform for Chicago" by New City Stage in 2019 and 2022. Ehre served as the NEA/TCG New Generations "Future Leaders" Fellow at the Goodman Theatre where she served as Producer on Latino Festival, New Stages Series and conceived of and produced the Goodman's Artists Talk series — producing discussions with artists such as Philip Seymour Hoffman. At the Goodman, she focused on International Initiatives including the Global Exploration of Eugene O'Neill with the Wooster Group, Ivo van Hove and other world-class artists. Julieanne recently traveled to Poland on an exchange between theater professionals with the Center for International Theatre Development based in Baltimore. She served as a delegate to the Santiago a Mil Festival in Chile and the ITI World Theater Congress in Xiamen, China through Theater Communications Group and was the Co-Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee for Chicago's 48th Ward. As the Artistic Director of Greasy Joan & Co. for five years, she won an "Abbey Award" from the Arts and Business Council for the organization's strategic planning. At Greasy Joan, she directed and produced critically acclaimed and premiere adaptations of classic plays and worked as a freelance theater director. Ehre holds an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College.

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ALBANY, New York, Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Competition among the key players in the global automotive LiDAR market is expected to rise at a significant rate in the coming years, notes Transparency Market Research. Leading players in this market are focusing on employing advanced business development strategies with which they can offer better products and services to their customers. Mergers, collaboration, expansion, and innovation are some of the key strategies used by the players operating in this market. The presence of a large number of small and large players is also expected to increase the competition among the players. Some of the prominent players have been analyzed and include Robert Bosch GmbH, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Continental AG, Denso Corporation, and Delphi, LeddarTech.
Transparency Market Research in its recent report on the global automotive LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) market analyzed that this market is likely to accumulate a revenue of US$2 bn by the end of 2026. As per the projection made, the market is likely to progress at a staggering CAGR of 35.0% over the forecast period from 2018 to 2026.
Based on location type, the bumper and grill segment is anticipated to lead the automotive LiDAR market in the forthcoming years. When solid state LiDAR is applied on bumper and grill, it helps in cost reduction as compared to mechanical LiDAR that is there on the roof. Automotive LiDAR also provides better navigation without disrupting the appearance of the vehicle. In terms of geography, Europe held half share in the overall market in 2017. This growth is attributed to the increased awareness about safety and rise in death rate in the region. However, during the forecast period, North America might offer lucrative growth opportunities and take up the leading position in the market. This might happen, as the key manufacturers in automotive LiDAR are present in this region.
Globally, the demand for electrical and highly connected cars has increased at a significant rate, which has boosted the demand automotive LiDAR. With that, understanding for safe driving for both drivers and passengers has also grown drastically, which has increased the demand in the automotive LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) market. In addition, various government organizations are also taking the necessary steps to ensure better safety of their people. The number of cases related to road accidents has increased drastically, providing a fillip to automotive LiDAR in this market.
Moreover, the introduction of advanced technologies and persistent efforts made by the manufacturers operating in this market has further augmented the growth of automotive LiDAR. Use of advanced technologies will help in collecting accurate and high precision detection on a real-time basis. All the above-mentioned factors are expected to drive the demand in the global automotive LiDAR market.
Even though the demand for automotive LiDAR has increased substantially in the past couple of years, few restraining factors persist that might obstruct the growth in this market. One of the key factors is the lack of awareness about the advantages of LiDAR systems that might obstruct the growth in this market. In addition to the high cost of components used in these systems such as navigation system, laser scanners, and high-resolution 3D cameras systems are likely to hamper the market's growth. However, the rising demand for autonomous and connected cars can stoke the demand for automotive LiDAR.
The information presented in this review is based on a TMR report, titled "Automotive LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) Market (Location - Roof, Headlights and Taillights, Bumper and Grill; Application - Adaptive Cruise Control, Automatic Emergency Braking, Semi-autonomous Car, Autonomous Car; Vehicle Type - Passenger Vehicle, Commercial Vehicle; Image Projection - 2D, 3D; Type - Mechanical, Solid State; Range Type - Short Range, Medium & Long Range; Sales Channel - OEMs, Aftermarket) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2018 - 2026."


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President of BakerTriangle San Antonio
As President of the San Antonio division of BakerTriangle, Mike Sireno leads the growth efforts within the South Texas market. Mike entered the drywall business in 1982 as a carpenter apprentice and has held the role as foreman, estimator and project manager before joining BakerTriangle in 1997. Mike worked his way up in the Houston office and became President of the San Antonio division in 2004.
Mike has been involved in several leadership roles withing the industry including the 1999 ABC Central Texas Chair, 2017 AGC San Antonio Chapter President, UTSA CIAC Vice President, and serves as a mentor on the AGC/Bexar County Mentor Protege Program. Mike received the 2003 Austin AGC Associate Member of the Year Award and the 2018 San Antonio AGC Bubba Moeller Award for Outstanding Service.
Mike has been married to Kari for 30 years and has a daughter, Abbey, and a son, Jacob and four grandchildren.
Mike enjoys hunting fishing and golf, but his latest passion (besides drywall of course) is making beer. Mike has been an avid home brewer for 20 years. You will find him working on developing new recipes or brewing for his brewpub on the weekends. In 2020, he officially opened Dos Sirenos Brewing in San Antonio.
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Q: DjangoTemplate + Javascript - How to compare javascript variable with django multiple values How to compare javascript variable "var1" with django multiple values. If a answer is ok, program should say ¡very good!
Django + Javascript:
<script>
var var1 = document.getElementById("userAnswer").value;
        if (
            {% for textEUS in question.textEUS.all %}
                var1 == {{ textEUS }}
            {% endfor %}
        ){
            alert(¡Very good!);
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only Django:
    {% for textEUS in question.textEUS.all %}
        {{ textEUS }}
    {% endfor %}

only Javascript:
<script>
function tocorrect(){
        var var1 = document.getElementById("userAnswer").value;
        if (var1 == "answer"){
            alert(¡Very good!);
        }
}
</script>

A: What you're trying to do isn't possible the way you're trying to do it. This is the order of things:

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*Django renders a page using the django template language. This page might consist of HTML, javascript, and text really. All of the django tags, filters, variables have been assessed and processed at this point. For example:

    {% for textEUS in question.textEUS.all %}
        {{ textEUS }}
    {% endfor %}

will have turned into a list of text.

*The page rendered above is sent to your users browser

*In the browser, the page is loaded, and javascript is executed, but at this point there are no more django template-tags etc.

The key point is:
You can't expect django template tags to 'run' at the sametime as your javascript. One happens on the backend, the other on the frontend.
You can however set a javascript variable using the django template language in the backend, and then use it in the front-end:
<script>
var var1 = document.getElementById("userAnswer").value;

// create a variable called textEusAll, this is completed in the backend
// before the page is sent to the user
var textEusAll = [
     {% for textEUS in question.textEUS.all %}
         "{{ textEUS }}"{% if not forloop.last %},{% endif %}
     {% endfor %}
]

// use plain javascript for stuff happening in the front-end
if (textEusAll.includes(var1)) {
    alert("¡Very good!");
}
</script>

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'Don't you have kids you're supposed be looking after?' commented a social media user.
Fans of Kourtney Kardashian have criticized her for ignoring her three children while going on long trips. Kardashian is currently enjoying the summer with her much younger boyfriend Younes Bendjima in Egypt.
The 38-year-old, who shares three children, Mason, 7, Penelope, 5, and Reign, 2 with ex-Scott Disick, posted several pics of her vacation on social media, which featured Kourtney in a string blue bikini with her shirtless beau in the crystal blue ocean, riding camels, and visiting the pyramids.
Commenting on her getaway photos, that featured none of her kids, fans did not go easy on the mum-of-three. A user comment on Twitter reads, "It's becoming sad that the kids are being raised by the nannies more and more. All for fun, but when u have 3 kids this is a bit much. Sad."
Another wrote on Twitter, "You're always off with your bf now, Scott's always off doing Scott. Who has the kids? My whole perception is sadly changing. I feel bad 4 them."
An Instagram user even called her a "horrible mother" and wrote, "You are a horrible mother. I hope your kids turn on you. Mason will see all the pictures of you and your little boy. Too bad your plane didn't crash because they would be better without you in their lives."
A Twitter user noted, "Kourtney Kardashian really thinks she's like 20 years old travelling the world and leaving her kids at home lmao smh."
"Don't you have kids you're supposed be looking after instead of travelling with your fame leeching toy boy," read another comment.
Previously a report in People Magazine that the Kardashian is enjoying her time with Bendjima. A source close to the reality TV show told the outlet that Kourtney "likes her relationship with Younes, because it's all fun and play."
The source added, "Kourtney had the best trip. She likes going to exotic places with him. They already have another trip planned. She seems very happy."
Sharing more about her exotic Egypt vacation, the insider shared, "They are visiting historic sites like the Pyramids of Giza. They have also enjoyed the north coast's Hacienda Bay and the beaches."


A local councillor is to submit a proposal that would see a seven-figure sum granted to restore a Stillorgan swimming pool.
Glenalbyn Swimming Pool closed abruptly in 2013 due to safety concerns and has yet to reopen.
Cllr John Kennedy will bring the proposal before the Dundrum Area Committee of the council on Monday, January 28.
He will also bring forward a proposal for a new athletics track facility at the Dundrum South Dublin clubhouse at St Thomas' in Tibradden.
He said: "The Government Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund (LSSIF) represents a minimum of €100 million and Glenalbyn Swimming Pool and the athletics track facility at the Dundrum South Dublin clubhouse would both qualify for such funding support.
"Both projects are included in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Three-Year Capital Programme but funding uncertainty associated with the council's recent acquisition of Dun Laoghaire Harbour has led to a question mark surrounding the progression of various capital projects in the near future.
"Therefore I think it is important that the council applies for whatever Government funding is justifiably available for these two projects."
Locals have held a number of protests calling for the pool to reopen.
"At a recent demonstration organised by my party colleague Cllr. Barry Saul in relation to Glenalbyn that I attended and addressed, it was evident that a great many residents in Stillorgan would like to see the much-appreciated swimming pool facility return after being abruptly closed after decades of operation in 2013," said Cllr Kennedy.
He added that he believed a figure in the region of €3.8 million would be sufficient to complete the project.
The Stillorgan rep said the athletics track would also be beneficial to the area.
He said: "I expect such a project would significantly raise the bar in terms of supporting the competitiveness of athletes from South Dublin in future Olympic Games and other championships.
"It is crucial that the Dublin Rathdown constituency receives its due allocation from the €100 million LSSIF fund and the funding request for these two projects deserves the wholehearted support of local politicians when raised during upcoming Dundrum Area Committee business."


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I'll go ahead and say it: London has better food than Paris
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I spent the last couple of weeks in London and Paris with my girlfriend. I'd been to both cities plenty of times before, so instead of trying to see all of the major museums and tourist sites, we adopted a new approach to the trip: "Eat our way through Paris. Drink our way through London."
It was an obvious choice: Paris is known as one of the culinary capitals of the world, and London is perhaps best known for its pubs. But a few days after leaving Paris, we stopped at Borough Market on London's South Bank, and I ordered a roast pork sandwich from one of the booths.
"Holy shit," I said. "This is the best thing I've had all trip."
As the week continued, I realized virtually all of my meals in London were better than all of my meals in Paris. And not just on this trip: I have yet to have a meal in Paris that I've been truly wowed by. Ever. Sure, the coffee's great. But for Christ's sake, a croque monsieur is just grilled ham and cheese. My mom made that shit for me when I was five if she was in a rush.
London, on the other hand, has long been declared a culinary wasteland. Images of gloppy mounds of starchy potatoes and overcooked meat smothered in gravy — which they often more accurately just call 'brown sauce' — are what travelers usually think of when they think of London. Often, you'll hear the cliche, "You can find good food in London, but you can't find good British food."
There are a few reasons this is unfair. First of all, what is and isn't British food is changing over time. As much as the Brits often hate to admit having a foreign influence, they were once the rulers of half the planet, and cultural exchange goes both ways. Tikka masala, a standard Indian staple here in the United States, was actually probably invented in Britain. And coronation chicken, a curried dish created for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, tastes more 'Indian' than it does 'British.'
So you don't get to say, "There's great Indian food in London," but not count it towards London itself. If you do, you can't count any dishes with a foreign influence towards other great international cities like New York. What's New York cuisine without pizza? (Pizza, incidentally, is one thing London is flatly not able to do well. As one New Jerseyan said to me in London, "I love the food here, but I cannot get a good fuckin' slice of pie.")
"It's only in London that you find every conceivable style of cooking. When it comes to what's new in cooking, to innovative cuisine, it's all happening in London."
Second, a lot of the people saying London's food sucks are getting that food in a pub. London is chock-full of pubs, and while the trend of gastropubs is on the rise, they're not typically known for their food. And while all food should to some extent count towards a city's score, I think pub food should get a little less weight. Here in DC I usually know what the quality of food is going to be when I order in the bar: It's just there to soak up the alcohol.
Paris, on the other hand, has gotten lazy. Don't get me wrong — Paris is way ahead of most cities on the strength of its wine, cheese, and bread alone. But it's kinda coasting otherwise. I felt the same way about Parisian food as I felt about a lot of the art in its many museums. I know I'm supposed to like this, but really, I'm just bored.
My girlfriend and I hopped from cafe to restaurant, cafe to restaurant, and we just couldn't find a particularly good meal. Maybe I've just been unlucky every time I've been to Paris. Maybe I've been in the wrong neighborhoods. Maybe I've lacked a proper tour guide. But even following the suggestions of Parisians has led to just okay food.
And while as of last August London had a total of 69 Michelin stars to Paris's 101 — a restaurant with 3 Michelin stars is considered among the best in the world, and Michelin-rated restaurants are usually very expensive — I would argue that high cuisine does not a good food city make. Because eating is universal. If the poor and middle classes can't eat there, what's the point?
On top of this, it's usually the poor who are preparing our food. In America, as is often pointed out by Anthony Bourdain, many of our best line cooks are poor immigrants who couldn't afford the dish they're making for others. As such, I give stronger weight to delicious food from a pushcart or a dive joint, simply because the standard is so much higher for haute cuisine.
I'm not alone in thinking this. One of the world's best chefs, Joel Robuchon — a Frenchman, nonetheless! — has argued that London rather than Paris should be considered the culinary capital of the world.
"Why?" Robuchon said in an interview with the London Evening Standard, "Because it's only in London that you find every conceivable style of cooking. When it comes to what's new in cooking, to innovative cuisine, it's all happening in London."
So, by the power vested in me by Matador Network, I'm calling it: London has better food than Paris.
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«Circus performance» about Crimea
The leader of the extremist organization «The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People», banned in Russia, Refat Chubarov decided to draw attention to himself. He called on his supporters to cross the border with Crimea on May 2 at the «Chongar» checkpoint as part of the «March of dignity» campaign.
According to Chubarov's idea, the «March of dignity» should become an action of non-violent resistance, which will allow international organizations to express their support to Ukraine on the issue of Crimea belonging. The action is also intended to support Crimean Tatars who are allegedly persecuted by the Russian authorities.
Refat Chubarov also said that the organizers plan to appeal to other countries and international organizations to take part in the «March». The participation of the OSCE Special monitoring mission in Ukraine, PACE, the OSCE parliamentary Assembly and the NATO parliamentary Assembly is planned. The proposal to join the action will be sent to the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.
Refat Chubarov has long been known for his hostile rhetoric against Russia. In 2018, he stated that Moscow should give Kiev the bridge over the Kerch Strait as compensation for the «occupation» of Crimea. In addition, Chubarov proposed to celebrate at the official level the 450th anniversary of the Moscow burning so as to mark the anniversary of the Crimean Khan Devlet-Giray campaign to Russia in 1571.
According to experts and observers, «The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People» goes through a deep crisis. It was almost completely deprived of funding. The Crimean Tatar propaganda channel ATR, owned by Lenur Islyamov, is on the verge of closure. In fact, the «national» Crimean Tatar battalions fled.
Chubarov just tries to draw attention to himself and the «The Mejlis». Oblivion is a bad luck. And there may be some public relations disaster. After the statement of Chubarov Ruslan Balbek, state Duma Deputy from the Crimea, recalled his previous experience of organizing such actions. According to him, «Chubarov decided to remind the Crimeans about himself and put a broken record about the «March to the Crimean Peninsula». As the experience of recent years has shown, all these marches took place no further than neutral territory, and each time there were less and less participants. Last time Chubarov came to the border of Crimea with twenty supporters. Having chanted anti-Russian slogans a hundred meters from the Russian border checkpoint, the «protesters» failed to attract any attention.
The march on May 2 is also likely to turn into an «internal action» in the area of the Ukrainian side of the Chongar Peninsula. It is possible, of course, that the actions of Ukrainian extremists are aimed at Russian security forces which will have to stop the illegal march along the Crimean road. And then international community will report that Russia «suppress freedom and punish cruelly the peaceful Crimean Tatars».
By the way, the Crimean Tatars themselves warned Chubarov against rash actions. The head of the Crimean regional national and cultural autonomy of the Crimean Tatars, Eyvaz Umerov, said that any actions aimed at violating the Russian border will be stopped. According to him, the march is intended to «throw a certain number of people on the bayonets» to return the topic of Crimea to the information agenda. However, the Crimean Tatars are not going to respond to such provocations. They are well aware that the Ukrainian government, as well as the odious Chubarov, does not care about the Crimean Tatars. They are only interested in their own selfish goals.
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Ukrainian-American relations are in a deep crisis...


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Q: Return an entire table according to value selected by user in Excel I have a cell configured with a drop-down list, from which the user would pick an option. Depending on what the user selects, I want a table to be displayed in a given part of the Excel file.
This table has three columns and some 15 rows, with the corresponding headers.
I tried with VLOOKUP and INDEX, but they are not working, as they only returns one value.
Let's suppose the drop-down cell is in tab "Data", cell A1. The table is in tab "Table", from cells A1 to C16. I'd like the returned data to be displayed in any part of tab "Data".
Any advice will help.

A: You can do this using a combination of the Offset, Indirect, Row and Column functions as well as the Vlookup, with the lookup listing the location of the first cell in the table for each value in A1.  For example, the Vlookup looks for the value in A1 in the columns G:H, and returns the text description of where that table starts.  The Indirect changes the text string to a reference to that location, and then the Offset returns the value a certain number of rows or columns away.  The formula entered where you want the data table to be displayed is:
=OFFSET(INDIRECT(VLOOKUP($A$1,$G:$H,2,FALSE)),ROW()-3,COLUMN()-2)

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Q: SQL JOIN query create duplication with PostgreSQL I have an issue with my SQL query, I try to join two tables, but as result have duplicated lines.
There is my database schema:
# messages
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :request

# requests
has_many :messages
belongs_to :expense

I have an polimorphic association between my expenses and requests tables.
And this my query:
Expense.
  joins('LEFT JOIN requests ON expenses.id = requests.integration_id').
  joins('LEFT JOIN messages ON requests.id = messages.request_id').
  where('expenses.id IN (?)', @expenses_id).
  select('DISTINCT messages.user_id AS user_id').
  group('messages.user_id, expenses.id')

I get all expenses duplicated when I try to joins messages table.
What happen?
EDIT:
With this query is same result:
Expense.
  joins('LEFT JOIN requests ON expenses.id = requests.integration_id').
  joins('LEFT JOIN messages ON requests.id = messages.request_id').
  where('expenses.id IN (?)', @expenses_id).
  select('DISTINCT messages.user_id AS user_id').
  group('messages.user_id')

EDIT 2:
When I try this:
Expense.
  joins('LEFT JOIN requests ON expenses.id = requests.integration_id').
  count(:id)
#=> 45

But when I join messages
Expense.
  joins('LEFT JOIN requests ON expenses.id = requests.integration_id').
  joins('LEFT JOIN messages ON requests.id = messages.request_id').
  count(:id)
#=> 93

A: OK I think I know the problem:
Rail's ActiveRecord will translate the field result into the model's attributes, and ignore anything outside. So let's say you have model A with attribute b, c, d. And your join result is:
 | b | c | d | e | f |
 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |

Then you group by b and e
 | b | c | d | e | count(f) |
 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1        |
 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2        |

This will create 2 records since the query result returns 2 rows, but they are exactly the same when translate into model A (b = 1, c = 2, d = 3).
In your case, message.user_id is the field causing this.
Remove it from group clause will fix the problem, but I don't know for sure what do you want message.user_id to be used for.

A: For solve this issue, I needed adding specific select on my JOIN. Because, when I JOIN the messages table, I get many messages with same request_id.
SELECT messages.user_id, SUM(expenses.total_in_home_currency)
FROM expenses
INNER JOIN requests ON expenses.id = requests.integration_id
INNER JOIN
  (SELECT DISTINCT(messages.request_id), messages.user_id FROM messages) messages
  ON requests.id = messages.request_id
WHERE expenses.id IN (76)
GROUP BY messages.user_id


Christian Drug Treatment and Rehab Blog: WWII Film Focused On PTSD - "Let There Be Light"
Did you ever go through a box of old photos or home movies? Sometimes when you look closely at these "treasures" you are able to learn more about what life was like many decades ago. You might even learn of some "closely held secrets." You may see photos or film of an uncle, aunt, parent or grandparent you never knew.
Monday was Memorial Day. A day when United States citizens honor all who have served in our military, remembering particularly those who died in battle or as a result of a battle injury. There were many stories of veterans covered by the media outlets and some of those stories focused in on our active military and retired military who now suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We have talked about PTSD here on our blog.
In all of the news coverage this week, we came across a very interesting story that was carried on MSNBC.com Entertainment. The headline read: "Can World War II Film Long Hidden By The Army Aid Today's Veterans?"
"Some soldiers in the film suffered visible tics, shook uncontrollably, stuttered badly, and in worse cases, couldn't walk or talk due to their wartime experience. Others appeared fine externally, but were battling nightmares, memories of combat, and other issues."
We learned that the film was suppressed until 1980. And now it has been restored by funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation and for the next three months you can freely view the whole film here.
Today society is more open about discussing mental health issues and what are often co-occurring disorders like addiction. But for some reason many who suffer from PTSD and addiction "still struggle with acceptance and treatment issues" according to Ron Honberg, director of policy and legal affairs for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
We invite you to view a short news clip from MSNBC.com.


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Trump, Brexit, and the Rise of Authoritarian-Populism
Wasserstein Hall 1023 , Cambridge , MA
Please join us in welcoming Professor Pippa Norris from Harvard's Kennedy School for a discussion on "Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Constitutionalism." Professor Norris will discuss the theory that polarization over the cultural cleavages that divide social liberals and social conservatives in the electorates and how these values translate into support for Authoritarian-Populist parties in the U.S. and Europe.
Pippa Norris is the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
In 2012 she established the Electoral Integrity Project, an independent research project supported by the Australian Research Council and other foundations and partners. She directs the research team based at the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The project focuses on why elections fail, why this matters, and what can be done to strengthen integrity. EIP works with local teams of researchers in Mexico, Russia and India, as well as with international agencies including UN women, UNDP, the OSCE and EU, the Australian Electoral Commission, IFES, the Carter Center, ACEEEO, UN-DPA, USAID, and International IDEA. This award winning research project has generated a series of policy reports and outreach commentary, as well as scientific datasets and scholarly books.
She has published almost fifty books. This includes Pippa Norris and Alessando Nai (Eds) Election Watchdogs: Transparency & Accountability (New York: Oxford University Press June 2017), Pippa Norris Why American Elections are Flawed(Cornell June 2017), and Pippa Norris Strengthening Electoral Integrity (New York: Cambridge University Press Aug 2017). Her current research focuses upon a new book, Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Authoritarian-Populism (with Ronald Inglehart, Cambridge University Press, 2018) and an edited book on Fake Elections? Voter Inclusion and Security in America (2018).
Prior to joining Harvard in 1992, she taught at Edinburgh University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and Philosophy (Hons) from Warwick University, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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Boston's "Underground Mural Project" Opens With 11 Artists
October 31, 2017 Artists
"I love transforming a raw space for everyone to discover. It's the best feeling to see people enjoying themselves in front of my art," says artist Cey Adams in Boston as he finishes his "LOVE" mural in a letter style recalling the funky late 70s.
Cey Adams. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
At the start of September Adams and 10 other artists joined the Underground Mural Project to transform 150,000 square feet of walls and pavement in a park here, curated by Street Theory Gallery, a creative studio founded by Liza and Victor 'Marka27' Quiñonez. The 8-acre public underpass located between Boston's South End and South Boston neighborhoods has been leased to a privately owned company that has turned it into "an active urban park, cultural attraction and parking amenity", now named Underground Ink Block.
Ewok-MSK. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Our thanks to photographer Todd Mazer who shares some of his images with BSA readers today from the event. Todd also conducted an interview with painter, muralist and graffiti artist Rob "Problak" Gibbs, a native of Roxbury, a neighborhood in the southern part of Boston. As participant in the project, community arts advocate, and a lifetime Boston citizen who believes strongly in the power of public art, graffiti, and HipHop culture, Poblak offers a unique perspective to the Underground Mural Project.
Todd Mazer: In your origins as a writer you have spoken about the importance of outdoor classrooms like Peters Park what are your hopes that a place like the Underground at Ink Block can be a catalyst for?
Problak: I hope that the Underground at Ink Block can be a catalyst for the next generation of graffiti writers, muralist and landscape artist to be inspired to take what we contributed to the space and add on to the practice. If our times are documented the stories can be told better through a variety of disciplines artist come to the table with.
When a place like the Underground exists, up and coming artist can work on creative ways to contribute towards a venue that exhibits community art for the people of greater Boston at a world wide scale. The Underground can be a bridge that takes anyone (young or old) on an adventure through the creative process of an artist that may have work in that space.
VyalOne. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Todd Mazer: As an artist, activist and architect/educator how have you discovered the importance to expand your skill set in order to create opportunity for your own and others artistic endeavors?
Problak: I discovered how important it is have to have a variety of ways to tell your story. Pose2 always told us "your only as good as your last piece" and Kem5 added " and the people you place yourself around" When that whole phrase is combined positioned my mind in a place to have my skill set be in a good position to always grow.
"Walking the talk" confidently comes from paying dues. Dues that range from humble beginnings to bad experiences that I learned the greatest lessons from. Expanding my skill set opened up new doors to meet and build a variety of relationships with other artist who too are skilled and tackle tasks through creative problem solving. The more skill you have the less you'll find yourself saying NO to a majority of the challenges you'll get approached with.
HOXXOH. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Todd Mazer: As a follow up more specifically could you offer some insight from 91 til infinity… in other words how has your involvement in AFH (Artists For Humanities) shaped your actions and given you perspective on the importance of this new space?
Problak: LOL from 91 til………..
My involvement with AFH is very instrumental to what I do because the creed we practice in our studio has become the DNA to my life's work. I grew up around a small nit of artist who are gifted and who challenged me along our journey. That small crew grew into the organizations leadership. The ethos has evolved and revolved off of our actions. We took responsibility for our own learning and shared that practice with a large amount of youth for the past 25 years.
Don Rimx . Problak . Marka27. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
The importance of this new space is that concept of giving space and opportunity for a genre that is powered by energy in this city that is untapped. An energy that has the interest of the youth and the ability to challenge them to think, digest, seek their own truth and hopefully contribute. Sometimes you have to be exposed to or shown the examples to develop your voice. This space could serve as a megaphone to help project it. The examples are the trailblazers who show everyone in the space what's possible.
Todd Mazer: Why is it so important to artistically reclaim overlooked spaces?
Problak: It's important to "Add to" vs. reclaim because with all due respect to the city's architecture, I view these spaces as a series of blank canvases embedded inside of what I would compare to the city's respiratory system. The work we do would breathe life into these spaces so that the city would not have to hold its breath and encourage others to do the same. These spaces can be landmarks and spark the next mind to be great or be that picture worth a 1000 words that would speak to the generations to come.
The participating artists include: Vyal One, Imagine, Cey Adams, Don Rimx, Marka 27, Problak, Ewok MSK, Thy Doan, Upendo, Percy Fortini-Wright and Hoxxoh. Our thanks to Todd Mazer for sharing his photos and interview with BSA readers.
Marka27. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Ewok-MSK . Thy Doan. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Thy Doan. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Perci Fortini-Wright. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Imagine876. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Upendo. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Problak . Vyal . Marka27. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Having fun at the block party. Urban Art Park. Beantown, Boston. September 2017. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Underground at Ink Block from National Development on Vimeo.
February 10, 2017 Artists
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening :
1. Kahbahbloom: The Art and Story Telling of Ed Emberley
2. Fintan Magee / The Exile
3. Amuse.126.Big Walls
4. EWOK – MSK
BSA Special Feature: Kahbahbloom: The Art and Storytelling of Ed Emberley by Todd Mazer
"How he sustained himself artistically was by being restless and trying all these new styles and new ways and not getting stuck in the same thing," says Caleb Neelon about the children's book illustrator Ed Emberley with 60 years of storytelling through art– and really it is a lesson well learned by most artists.
On the other hand, it often is helpful if you have one style that you are known for, particularly when you are trying to cut through the clutter and capture people's attention. Perhaps the best lesson is to be restless and to embrace change.
Special props to Todd Mazer for intuitive use of editing, sharp observation, and unobtrusive storytelling of his own; making this video resonate with viewers.
Fintan Magee / The Exile
"Inspired by the youth inside the Azraq refugee camp artist Fintan Magee transported the image of one young Syran girl to East Amman," says the descriptor at the bottom of the screen. This brief glimpse gives you an idea of the scale of displacement of people in this country.
Amuse.126.Big Walls
"Large scale mural work is very powerful and captivating to its audience. To allow me to come in and to paint a predominantly graffiti-based approach and to literally plaster my name onto a side of a building is amazing," says Chicago based Amuse.
EWOK – MSK
Ewok shows his considerable illustration skills in this commercial for an art supply manufacturer.
A Quick Look at Wynwood Walls of Change 2015
December 8, 2015 Artists
Among the various events at this years' Miami madness called Basel were the multiple projects that intersect with Street Art in the Wynwood District. Walls of Change brought new large scale murals and installations from fourteen international artists who have all done art in the streets at some stage of their career and represent some of the better known as well as a few up-and-comers.
Case Ma'Claim. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
The corporate sponsored program curated by real estate CEO Jessica Goldman Srebnick of Goldman Properties also debuted The Wynwood Walls Garden, a new space that cleverly added instant height to the scene by stacking shipping containers on top of each other.
Our thanks to Todd Mazer for sharing these fresh images for BSA readers to see what new pieces captured his eye at the installation. The invited list of artists includes Case (Germany), Crash (USA), Cryptik (USA), el Seed (France), Ernest Zacharevic (Singapore), Fafi (France), Hueman (USA), INTI (Chile), The London Police (UK), Logan Hicks (USA). Pichi & Avo (Spain), Magnus Sodamin (USA), and Alexis Diaz (Puerto Rico).
Case Ma'Claim. Detail. "Walls For Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Pichi & Avo. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Logan Hicks. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
El Seed. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Hueman. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Cryptik at work. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Cryptik. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
The London Police at work. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Ernest Zacharevic's Miami collaboration with photographer Martha Cooper. Mr. Zacharevic recreated Pablo Picasso's 1958 sculpture "Bull" and placed it a scene from Ms. Cooper's photo of children at play taken in 1978 in The Lower East Side of Manhattan. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Ernest Zacharevic. Detail. "Walls of Change" at Wynwood Walls 2015. Miami, Florida. (photo © Todd Mazer)
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El Mac Brings Electricity to Creativity at Northeastern University
May 27, 2015 Artists
El Mac, the LA based aerosol Caravaggio has just illuminated a university wall in Boston with a portrait of his wife as alchemist, a glowing vision completed on the side of Northeastern's Meserve Hall this month in time for Spring graduation.
El Mac (photo © Todd Mazer)
"The meeting of art and sciences is key to this campus," says Todd Mazer, who lives in the city and who spent a lot of time with the artist while he painted, shooting incredible photos of the process. The image based on a photo of Kim presents a perfect marriage of symbols for the university, but also may refer directly to the artists' personal lineage, he confides.
"Mac's father went to Northeastern and studied Engineering where he met Mac's mother, who was an artist going to MassArt at the time," he explains, "so the lightning, which is science, and the brush, which is art, just may represent his parents. In his distinctive style that includes scientifically chilling paint cans in a cooler with ice, El Mac renders an heroic, comely, and gentle figure even on this rough surface using a circular patterning that appears alternately mechanically digitized or smooth as a Vermeer, depending on your angle and distance from the work.
Even the starry sky may be a reference to his father, we learn, because of his father's history with things astronomical. "Also the stars above could be of significance too because although Mac was born in LA he moved to Phoenix because his father was pursuing a career in the space program."
On breaks from plowing through 150 or so cans of paint, El Mac also took time to see art at his dad's Alma Matter, poking inside the Museum of Fine Arts, Todd tells us. "He mostly painted but since he was just across the street from the MFA it was on his mind and when he got some small windows of time he would head over there," says Mazer.
"It was nice to see him get off the lift and put down the iced out cans and catch some inspiration from a different surface. I remember him with a pencil and a sketchbook in front of a sculpture and just like earlier in the day at the wall I got a sense he was somewhere he belongs."
Our sincere thanks to Todd for sharing these images with BSA readers.
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Jaybo Monk's Maiden Voyage to The East Coast
July 8, 2014 Artists
Today we go to Boston to see a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, where painter and artist Jaybo Monk is painting live for the summer party benefit. The Berlin based Monk has deep roots in Street Art and graffiti but now describes himself primarily as a painter who loves the process even more than the end result. An artist who is not afraid of changing his style, many of his paintings feature a shattering and fragmenting of reality, placing his dis-formed figures on planes and pulling them apart and recombining them, evoking for us the work of artists such as Francis Bacon, Anthony Lister, and even Egon Schiele.
Jaybo Monk. Working at a SoWa Studio in Boston. (photo © Todd Mazer)
While in Massachussetts he coordinated/collaborated/ worked with photographer Todd Mazer, who organized for him and El Mac to paint live at the fundraiser and both artists, along with Augustine Kofie, contributed works to be auctioned for MFA's benefit. You may recall the collaborative Conversations show that Monk did with Kofie in 2012 which truly enhanced the work of both artists.
While visiting The City on a Hill Monk also had a solo show Traces of Nothing at The Boston Button Factory and practiced his collaborative in-the-moment style with hosts and other artists on the scene for a couple of other events. "Since I moved to Boston it's been very important to me to create a dialog here with artists I met in Los Angeles," explains Mazer, who shares with BSA readers some images he shot of Jaybo's visit and tells us about some of the activities and people on the scene.
"This was Jaybo's first visit to the East Coast and I had been talking to him about coming out here and he was into it," says Mazer. "It was also really important to us both that he got a chance to link up with the Boston art community so we got to spend time with artists like Caleb Neelon, Kems, and Dana Woulfe – and I was glad that he got a chance to collaborate with Kenji Nakayama."
In addition to taking part in SOWA First Fridays, where people got a chance to see a room full of unfinished works in an open studio environment, Mazer helped organize a well attended pop-up solo show at Liquid Art House entitled Sole Delay. Mazer says Jaybo exhibited a few new works from his studio in Berlin as "quite a few pieces made completely in Boston."
"Jaybo worked in the SOWA art studio of artist Adrienne Schlow who along with Matt Greer, Kenji Nakayama and my sister Allison Mazer helped make the day-to-day tasks, challenges and missions possible," says Mazer. Listening to his descriptions and seeing the rhythmic poetry of the lighting and composition of his photos, you know that Mazer was at ease with his subject, perhaps because the subject is at ease with himself.
The pop-up show had a relatively short timeline for preparation and the team was working up until the opening bell to prepare the space. Luckily, Boston crowds are fashionably late to an opening so they could catch their breath. "It felt a little quiet and I was thinking 'maybe I rushed things too much' but then people kept coming and coming and coming and I was like 'Yeah Boston!'" says Mazer.
The shows were a big success, but for Mazer, it was the collaborative open-studio environment that really showcased the qualities of this artist that he relished the most. "Witnessing Jaybo's process has so often left me mesmerized, anguished and inspired by his fleeting envelopements, so it was really special to create an environment where others got to experience how much of a razors edge his work lives on," he says.
Jaybo Monk. Solo exhibition "Traces of Nothing". (photo © Todd Mazer)
Jaybo Monk. Live painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Summer Gala. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Jaybo Monk solo exhibition "Traces of Nothing" is currently on view at the Boston Button Company and will be up until July 14.
Chris "Daze" Ellis in Dialogue with the Collection at The Addison
The NYC Graffiti Artist joins Whistler, Homer and Pollock at The Addison
Currently the Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts is hosting New York 1970s graffiti writer DAZE in Street Talk: Chris Daze Ellis in Dialogue with the Collection. At the exhibit opening a few weeks ago, a number of New Yorkers, including other writers and bombers from that period, friends, family, a few historians and curators took the trip to Andover to see Mr. Ellis receive recognition for his contribution to the graffiti art canon as well as to give witness to how his evolution as studio artist continues. Today photographer, writer, poet, and alchemist Todd Mazer takes BSA readers to the show and talks to Daze about his personal route through NYC to this station in MA. Daze (photo © Todd Mazer)
Inside a historic museum which houses one of the most significant collections of American Art a wide range of patrons gather. Some are still learning how to tie their shoes while others have likely built a lifetime of things with out the aid of an internet tutorial look on at works that seem to speak universally. What they are gazing upon is Street Talk: Chris "Daze" Ellis's exhibition featuring his recent work in a dialogue with the Addison Gallery of American Arts expansive collection.
Daze (photo © Todd Mazer)
One observer is Maria Muller, Deputy Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. "I feel like the practical need to work quickly on the trains in his early career seems to be reflected in the dynamic style and sense of motion and speed in his images."
As Daze gets mobbed up for photo ops in front of his piece entitled "View to the Other Side", he reflects upon his identity and the initial spark that has led up to this moment. "People don't realize when I was painting trains that it wasn't a cool thing to do and it wasn't socially acceptable," he says.
"I began painting in 1976 after meeting a bunch of writers at The High School of Art and Design in New York. I was learning things in school but this was something outside of art school that was completely unconventional that I found incredibly creative and exciting. It is something that still fascinates me to this day. There is something very addictive about it."
This graffiti addiction seems to be spreading to museums as well. Since 2011's "Art in the Streets" exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Los Angeles, which was billed as "the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art", more museums have begun to embrace this movement. Current exhibitions like "City as Canvas: The Martin Wong Graffiti Collection" at the Museum of the City of New York and the Addison's "Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the 80's" also both prominently feature the work of Daze, for example.
Allison Kemmerer, The Addison's Curator of Photography and Art after 1950, explains what is bringing these two worlds together. "One of the strengths of the Addison's collection is its wealth of urban imagery from all periods and in all media."
"Daze's drawing from the vocabulary of both the contemporary world of graffiti and street art and the tradition of urban realism, this is exactly what attracts the Addison to him. We are always mindful of the continuum that exists between historic and contemporary art and the way objects speak back and forth to each other across media and time."
Daze. Detail. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Daze's journey to lead up to this point has clearly been an evolving process. "Almost all my paintings now are a mixture of mediums, each medium has it own characteristics and its own kind of history attached to it and you have to be patient to be able to deal with and find a way for them to all coexist in one picture frame. I had to work with them for a long time separately before I felt like I could combine them and come up with something that looked new.
As Daze has matured as an artist, he has also discovered there is more to being a successful artist than just painting a ruggedly pretty picture. "The art world was and still is a really hard place to navigate through and some people are able to do a better job at grasping it then others," he explains.
"I think in a lot of cases collectors have a lot more power with museums than even artists and play a very important role in all of this, somebody like John Axelrod who is very passionate about this art form, has the ability to start dialogs with these museums and I'm grateful he's chosen to amplify voices like mine."
From left to right Sean Corcoran, Jayson TERROR161 Edlin, DAZE, and Charlie Ahearn (photo © Todd Mazer)
As the crowd begins to thin out, Daze expresses the magnitude of this personal milestone "Even at a young age, I was always going to the library or museums so now it's kind of mind boggling having my work in them because I still remember what it felt like to be that kid walking through the Brooklyn Museum."
Daze having a word with Jackson Pollock. (photo © Todd Mazer)
Our special thanks to Todd Mazer for sharing his take on this this story with BSA readers. To learn more about Todd's work, please click HERE and check him out on Instagram.
Street Talk: Chris Daze Ellis in Dialogue with the Collection
May 3 – July 31, 2014
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, Massachussetts
Fun Friday 12.14.12
December 14, 2012 Artists
Hey bro and sis! Here are some of our favorite picks for the weekend around the global way as we head into the final holiday and New Year beauty that we hope everyone is surrounded by. Happy 7th night of Hanukkah to the Jews, and Happy ongoing holidayz to the Christmas and Kwanzaa and Solstice people.
1. 215 "Orgullecida" (Barcelona)
2. "Kids Eat For Free" at Tender Trap (BKLN)
3. Fresh Low-cost Original Silkscreens at "First Worldwar in Silkscreen" Group Show (BKLN)
4. "Graffuturism" at Soze Gallery (LA)
5. "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets", Photography by Imminent Disaster (BKLN)
6. "Snap Back…" Rime and Toper at Klughaus (Manhattan)
7. New2 at White Walls (San Francisco)
8. Dave Kinsey "Everything at Once" at Joshua Liner (Manhattan)
9. Brett Amory at 5 Pieces (Switzerland)
10. RISK: The Skid Row Mural Project by Todd Mazer (VIDEO)
11. Swoon's Konbit Shelter in Haiti (VIDEO)
215 "Orgullecida" (Barcelona)
French Street Artist C215 has a new solo show titled "Orgullecida" at the Montana Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. The artist has been for awhile using a lot of color with his multilayered stencil work – expanding his established vocabulary bravely in a way that most artists are too afraid to do. His portraits are placed well, are individually hand-cut, and sprayed with a sense of the humanity he's always giving center stage. This show is now open to the general public.
A one color stencil from an earlier period by C215 on the streets of Brooklyn, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A detail from a more recent C215 (© and courtesy the gallery)
For further information regarding this show click here.
"Kids Eat For Free" at Tender Trap (BKLN)
A phrase lifted from restaurant franchises that serve food like you are livestock at a trough, "Kids Eat For Free" is a mini survey of train riders who know the back sides of the country well. Under the moniker of The Superior Bugout, curator Andrew H Shirley continues to explore fresh talent from the emerging margin, and this group exhibition features work by North Carolina's NGC Crew. Now open, and don't forget the kids!
For further details regarding this show click here.
Fresh Low-cost original Silkscreens at "First Worldwar in Silkscreen" Group Show (BKLN)
The best way to support your local artist is to give their stuff as a Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanza/Soltice present. No kidding. Everybody wins. Tonight a show of original silkscreens at totally reasonable prices is at Low Brow Artique in Bushwick. For tonight's opening of their silk screen print show where you'd be able to purchase prints for $20…yes you read it right $20 bucks buys you art from 25 artists – many of them with work on the street – from Sao Paulo, Brooklyn, Buenos Aires and Berlin. Participating artists include: Selo, Markos Azufre, Hellbent, El Hase, ND'A, XOXU, Daniel Ete, Salles, Baila, Anderson Resende, DOC, SHN, XILIP, Serifire, Vero Pujol, Marquitos Sanabria, Diego Garay, Desastre, and Head Honcho.
Head Honcho. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Salles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
"Graffuturism" at Soze Gallery (LA)
This is like an exclamation point for the end of the year. No kidding.
POESIA, founder of Graffuturism, the term and website, continues to explore the depths of "Progressive Graffiti" or, as it was previously known, "Abstract Graffiti". With great intelligence, passion and an acute eye for detail, POESIA brings to the forefront the importance and beauty of this emergent new direction that is impacting the Street Art and graffiti scene (with ramifications for others).
"Graffuturism" opening tonight at Soze Gallery in Los Angeles and promises a smart-headed visual feast of shapes, patterns and color from a mini-galaxy of talent from all over the world. Perhaps more significantly, it's a bit of a decentralized movement that has been centralized for you. The artists list includes: 2501, Aaron De La Cruz, Augustine Kofie, Boris "Delta" Tellegen, Carl Raushenbach, Carlos Mare, Clemens Behr, Derek Bruno, Doze Green, Duncan Jago, DVS 1, El Mac, Eric Haze, Erosie, Franco "Jaz" Fasoli, Futura, Gilbert 1, Greg "Sp One" Lamarche, Graphic Surgery, Hense, Hendrik "ECB" Beikirch, Jaybo Monk, Joker, Jurne, Kema, Kenor, Lek, Marco "Pho" Grassi, Matt W. Moore, Moneyless, O.Two, Part2ism, Poesia, Rae Martini, Remi Rough, Samuel Rodriguez, Sat One, Sever, Shok-1, Sowat, Steve More, West and Will BarrasSoze Gallery in Los Angeles .
Also New York chronicler and enthusiastic lover of the graff/street art scene Daniel Feral will be there with a special edition of the Feral Diagram in glicee prints, and a couple other formats (salivate). An ambitious exhibition like this is rare and not easy to come by so if you are in Los Angeles you must go.
El Mac on the streets of NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For further information regarding this show and to read a great essay for the show written by Daniel Feral click here.
"Dark Corners, Savage Secrets", Photography by Imminent Disaster (BKLN)
Self-appointed moral custodians (mostly white men) have traditionally hampered the exploration of sexuality in formal art history and the academic canon of what gets celebrated and revered continues to evolve more quickly now. The sea change that modern social liberation that was once revolutionary is now a given, but the debate of the appropriate role of sex and sexuality in the arts is far from over. We may have just quashed one Trojan horse of social conservatism in the White House, but the radical right wing has pulled the center pretty far in the last decade and some have even said there was a war on women launched legislatively throughout 2012. So we are pleased to tell you about fine artist and Street Artist Robyn Hasty AKA Imminent Disaster, who has a new show in collaboration with Alex Pergament entitled "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets". Furthering her exploration of photography Ms. Hasty has semi-retired her now well known hand cut paper pieces and lino prints on the street and traded the cutting knife for the camera. With this show of photographs, sculptures and performance art she's aiming to tear apart the inhibitions associated with the sexual act. "Dark Corners, Savage Secrets" opens tomorrow at Weldon Arts Gallery in Brooklyn.
Imminent Disaster and Alex Pergament (exclusive photo for BSA © courtesy of the artist)
"Snap Back…" Rime and Toper at Klughaus (Manhattan)
Freshly snapping back to New York from their successful truck trip to Miami, Klughaus Gallery brings Brooklyn natives RIME and TOPER for their new exhibition titled "Snap Back – Dangerous Drawings About New York". The storytelling show features illustration and painting inspired by personal stories. Says RIME. "This show aims to tap into our life experience coming up in New York." Show opens Saturday.
Rime and Toper shown here with Dceve in NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
New2 at White Walls (San Francisco)
The White Walls Gallery in San Francisco are fortunate to host Australian artist New2 with his solo show titled "In One Hand a Ghost, The Other an Atom". New2's work on the streets is complex and dynamic with aerosol, but his handcut collage work for the gallery is moreso somehow – maybe because of a painstaking process of arranging thousands of hand cut pieces of paper. This show opens on Saturday.
New2. Detail of one of his hand cut paper pieces. (photo © courtesy of the gallery)
New2 on the streets of San Francisco. (photo © courtesy of the gallery)
Also happening this weekend:
Dave Kinsey with "Everything at Once" at the Joshua Liner Gallery in Manhattan. This show is now open to the general public. Click here for more details.
Brett Amory at the 5 Pieces Gallery in Berne, Switzerland opens on Sunday with his solo show "Lil' Homies". Click here for more details.
RISK: The Skid Row Mural Project by Todd Mazer (VIDEO)
Art in the Streets from MoCAtv
Swoon's Konbit Shelter in Haiti (VIDEO)
Street Artist Swoon is looking to return to Haiti to build more shelters for people in the rural part of the country. This video gives a great look at the families and community who are helped. You also can participate by donating to the Kickstarter campaign to help Swoon make it happen.
Size Matters: INSA Kills Biggest L.A. Free Wall
May 17, 2012 Artists, California, L.A., Los Angeles, On the Street
The great thing about a California King Size mattress is you can fit six people on it comfortably. Five if you need to accommodate beer, corn chips, coffee cake, and a bong.
The point is California is a quintessential long-ass big-ass state that rivals many entire countries in terms of the size of the overall economy, the miles of beach, quantity of Mexicans, and metric tons of silicone injections. That's why it hardly surprises us when Daniel Lahoda reports that recently his LA Freewalls project crossed the 100th wall mark and that INSA just completed the biggest project so far. Clocking in at 9,300 square feet, the Street Artist covered more space with paint than the Kardashian sisters use preparing for a poolside photo shoot. But these results are spectacular and the scale is quite fitting for this city.
Our thanks to collaborator and photographer Todd Mazer, who doesn't just capture the action here. He rhapsodizes with it before revealing the full project at the end. Enjoy the largesse.
INSA (photo © Todd Mazer)
INSA. Wow, that's a big set of cans. Which ones would you take? (photo © Todd Mazer)
INSA (photo © Daniel LaHoda)
INSA had a mission to complete on the walls of this building. He also has a philosophy and a work ethic when doing his craft. Click on the link below to read how he came about to see this project completed:
http://www.insaland.com/blog/mission-to-la/
Shots from LALA Opening – LA Freewalls Moves Inside
April 28, 2012 Artists, California, Gallery, Los Angeles
LALA Gallery in downtown Los Angeles had a well attended inaugural show last week to realize physically something that had up to this point been a dream for Street Art fan and champion Daniel LaHoda. With names like How & Nosm, Cryptik, Cern, Shepard Fairey, and Dan Witz among others on display (and in the flesh) the gallery welcomed many of the LA Freewalls crowd inside and off the street where they were less likely to wander into traffic – A good move considering the refreshments that many of the clamoring crowd appeared to enjoy as they milled around the gargantuan outdoor rooftop gazing upon the glowing orbs of Cern One punctuating the LA night.
Talented photographer and BSA collaborator Todd Mazer was on hand during the opening and sends some original inside photos for BSA readers to get a sense of the raw industrial space and environment.
Cern One Balloons (Photo Todd Mazer)
Cern One (Photo Todd Mazer)
Dale VN Marshall (Photo Todd Mazer)
How & Nosm (Photo Todd Mazer)
Cryptik (Photo Todd Mazer)
Askew ONE (Photo Todd Mazer)
LA + Auckland Honor Askew One, Graffiti and Street Artist
April 23, 2012 Artists, Auckland, California, Features, L.A., Los Angeles, New Zeland, On the Street
It's not often that a major city gives a spotlight to a graffiti / Street Artist and issues a formal proclamation about it, but that is exactly what happened Saturday in Los Angeles. AskewOne, a native of one of LA's sister cities, Auckland, New Zealand , was honored by the City as his new mural "Under the Influence" was unveiled as part of the LA Freewalls Project.
"It's much more likely in this city that a graffiti artist will be arrested than be recognized for positive contributions to the community", as LA Taco reports, but really when you consider the major inroads that the LA Freewalls Project has made into the dialogue around the value of Street Art in LA's local politics, it can't be entirely surprising. It probably helps that the image itself incorporates the American flag into the composition– sort of disarms that whole negative rant that some politicos use when lumping Street Artists together with other social scourges like drug addiction, domestic terrorism, and the Ice Capades, doesn't it?
Askew One for LA Freewalls Project (photo © Todd Mazer)
"AskewOne is one of the world's preeminent public artists, and one of the most accomplished contemporary graffiti writers," says Daniel LaHoda, who spearheads LA Freewalls and who also hosted the inauguration of the new LALA gallery Saturday night with many of today's best known Street Artist's work on the walls. According to an official press release, the now famous LA mural moratorium will soon be lifted and "Kamilla Blanche, Senior Deputy for Arts and Culture, and the Director for Sister Cities, is excited about the possibilities to expand Los Angeles' place as the national epicenter of public art."
BSA is very pleased to be able to share with you these images of the new piece as shot by photographer Todd Mazer.
To learn more about Los Angeles Sister Cities Program click here.
"Wrinkles" Revisted, Revealed : JR New Mini-Doc
February 7, 2012 Artists, California, Los Angeles, On the Street
A year ago on BSA and Huffington Post we brought you the new installation by French Street Artist JR on the streets of Los Angeles called "Wrinkles in the City".
At the time the installation was still unveiling on walls across a swath of LA, greeting morning commuters and puzzling image-conscious plastic surgeons in the city of angelic youthfulness. The city was anticipating the soon-opening "Art in the Streets" exhibit at The Museum of Contemporary Art, and the artist himself had just garnered a TED prize.
Today we get a look at the new mini-documentary about the "Wrinkles" series and learn much more about the people featured in the gargantuan images plastered on walls everywhere. A sensitive portrayal of the subjects, the pacing of the doc allows stories to unfold before you. Following the video are images of the LA street show by Todd Mazer and Jaime Rojo.
JR Los Angeles (photo @ Jaime Rojo)
JR Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JR Los Angeles. LA Freewalls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JR Los Angeles. LA Freewalls (photo © Todd Mazer)
See our article of JR "Wrinkles in the City" with great photos by Todd Mazer on the Huffington Post HERE
Anthony Lister Talks to BSA : Analysis and Constant Consideration
September 29, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Features, Florida, Interview, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, NYC, On the Street, San Francisco, Street Talker Interview, Venice Beach
"I'm like a hairdresser I guess."
Painter Anthony Lister is also a Street Artist. His surreal pop and celebrity culture-infused abstractions are candy encrusted apples which may have something sharp inside. Many are figurative studies and wire frames bending wildly into characters who cavort and mock with blunt swipes of color, overlaid by costumed sexual role play… or is that a personal projection? Did I mention elegance, defiance, wit? Wait, there is so much here! Truth is, his work can be a cock-eyed psychological tempest, jarring to the head, strangely sweet.
Anthony Lister in Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A decade of discovery under his superhero belt, Mr. Lister continues to analyze and build his creative practice and it always includes work inside the gallery and outside on the street. He's currently preparing for his solo show in Sydney called "Bogan Paradise" at Gallery A.S. At the same time he's part of a group show with a gaggle of his Aussie expats on view at 941 Geary in San Francisco for "Young and Free", including Kid Zoom, Dabs & Myla, Dmote, New2, Ben Frost, Meggs, Ha-Ha, Reka, Rone, Sofles and Vexta. Not to mention his participation in our show last month in Los Angeles at C.A.V.E. with Thinkspace, "Street Art Saved My Life : 39 New York Stories".
The artist took some time recently to talk to Brooklyn Street Art about his practice;
Brooklyn Street Art: How much of one of your painted portraits is autobiographical? In other words, what portion of Mr. Lister is super hero, super model, furtive schoolboy, or Homer Simpson?
Anthony Lister: I don't really think about myself when I paint. My figurative works are more like reflections of characteristics I absorb from real life day to day.
Brooklyn Street Art: If you were to wear colored glasses, which color do you think you would most likely screen the world through?
Anthony Lister: Pink, like John Lennon.
Brooklyn Street Art: Francis Bacon said, "The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness." Would you drink that cocktail?
Anthony Lister: Nice words. I agree.
Brooklyn Street Art: What role does analysis play in your creative process when bringing a painting to fruition?
Anthony Lister: Analysis is the outcome of considered processing. Constant consideration is crucial.
Brooklyn Street Art: A big piece you did on Metropolitan in Brooklyn – you reworked that face a couple of times over a period of months, producing what appeared as a slowly morphing image. Were you covering up tags, or were you unhappy with the original, or maybe combating the effects of age with a little nip and tuck?
Anthony Lister: When I re-work street paintings I think of it like I am a hairdresser. When something is in the public it has a different existence to something living privately in a residence. I'm like a hairdresser I guess.
Brooklyn Street Art: You have spoken about your work as reality, or a reaction to realities. What realities are you depicting these days?
Anthony Lister: I just finished a body of work for a solo show in Sydney. This next body of work is about contemporary Australian culture. The exhibition is titled "Bogan Paradise."
Brooklyn Street Art: When you consider the Street Art scene that evolved around Melbourne, how would you characterize its nature in a way that differentiates it from the work in other cities around the world?
Anthony Lister: No different. This whole street art thing has sprung up post the turn of the digital revolution so it is on the Internet quick and the artists who inspire others and the ones who are easily inspired are constantly swimming in the same aesthetic pools of consciousness. Not to mention that most of the prominent artists travel lots so it is easy to see work of the same artist in multiple cities around the world at the same time.
Brooklyn Street Art: The titles you give your gallery pieces are entertaining, instructive, illustrative. Do you ever want to place a placard near a piece you've done on the street – just to make sure the message gets across?
Anthony Lister: No. My street practice is less thoughtful and therefore needs less commentary.
Brooklyn Street Art: When is a painting complete?
Anthony Lister: When it tells me so.
Anthony Lister in Manhattan (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Lister in Miami for Primary Flight. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Lister in Los Angeles. LA FreeWalls (photo © Todd Mazer)
Anthony Lister in Los Angeles LA FreeWalls (photo © Todd Mazer)
Cry me a rainbow, Anthony Lister in Los Angeles. LA FreeWalls (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Lister in Venice Beach CA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anthony Lister in San Francisco for Young and Free at 941 Geary (photo © Andrius Lypia)
Want to see more work? Just "Lister" it.
www.anthonylister.com


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