![]() ![]() The reception of Inherent Vice has included predictable comparisons with The Big Sleepand reiteration of the story of Raymond Chandler’s don’t-ask-me reply to Howard Hawks’s appeal for clarification as to who killed the chauffeur. But someone steeped in Pynchon isn’t the best judge of the success of the movie of Inherent Vice: whatever one’s views about the relationship between a film and the material from another medium on which it’s based, what’s on screen needs to be self-sufficient to the extent that it’s intelligible without reference to the original. The interesting, enthusiastic review of the film in this week’s TLS strongly suggests that, if one is as well informed about the Pynchon oeuvre as the reviewer Paul Grimstad, Anderson’s adaptation of the novel may be richly rewarding. I’ve not read any Pynchon but he is, according to Wikipedia, ‘noted for his dense and complex novels’ so Anderson may well have been faithful to the spirit of the original. Inherent Vice is based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon and the first attempt to adapt this author’s work for the screen. The plot thickens very quickly and there’s no point my attempting a synopsis: I couldn’t without stealing someone else’s. Shasta Fay asks Doc to help thwart a plot by Wolfmann’s wife and her lover to have Mickey abducted and committed to an insane asylum. Her new lover, Mickey Wolfmann, is a wealthy real-estate developer in the town. One evening, his ex-girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth pays Doc an unexpected call. The place is (the fictional) Gordita Beach in Los Angeles, where Doc Sportello inhabits an infirm-looking beach house. ![]() (There is a ship involved in the story.) It means something that will unavoidably break down – ‘eggs break, chocolate melts’. The title, by the way, is explained – by the voiceover narrator of the film – as a term that occurs in the small print of marine insurance policies. It does, though, raise the question of how meaningful enjoyment of a film can be if you’ve only a hazy idea of what’s been going on. I enjoyed the film a lot – 149 minutes in Paul Thomas Anderson’s company pass more quickly than five in Christopher Nolan’s. This is a shaggy dog story in which individual moments, or even episodes, make sense but their relation to each other is a different matter. Watching Inherent Vice in its entirety is a bit like watching a two-and-a-half-hour trailer. Instead, the two minutes set the basic scene, adumbrate the narrative complexity and give a flavour of the wit of the performers and the dialogue. Many trailers verge on summarising the story of the whole film. The trailer had an undoubted highlight: when someone hits ‘Doc’ Sportello – the stoner private eye who is the film’s protagonist – on the back of the head with a baseball bat, Joaquin Phoenix does a beautifully funny, split-second double-take before falling to the ground but I think the convoluted plotting of Inherent Vice is the main reason why the trailer as a whole is so unusually good. The experience of the whole movie hasn’t caused me to think any of these were bad reasons for being on its side and I still am. ![]() Inherent Vice has also quickly gained an aura of incomprehensibility: it was nice to think, as someone who often fails to understand a plot that hasn’t been remarked upon as Byzantine, I might be in good company this time. ![]() The cast includes plenty of talented actors. The film is written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The trailer was the most enjoyable I’d seen for ages. I looked forward to Inherent Vice for several reasons. ![]()
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I'll go with a new guy William Maz- The Bucharest Dossier.Ģ. Dan Fesperman?, Joseph Kanon?, Paul Vidich? hmmm…. Judas 62, Charles Cumming (US pub 2022)Ģ. Two great books in the world of American espionage, which I hadn’t enjoyed much of before this year, and I’m glad an Englishman pointed me in the right direction.ġ. I also can only answer #2, but I got a lot of great reading inspiration from the Shipman best spy author list and would probably put The Soul of Viktor Tronko just above A Firing Offense. I can only answer (2) but it the best spy book I read that was published before 2022 has to be Ben Macintyre's The Spy and The Traitor it's a cliche but it really does roll like a film – and should be made into one. Relevant and even if you're somewhat knowledgeable in this area, will probably give you many angles you weren't aware of. I'll go with the non-fiction The Red Web (about the internet and surveillance in Russia) by our own Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. I haven't read a lot of spy books this year in general, but I had at least a couple of candidates for “before 2022”. I am only about two-thirds of the way through, but for best spy books in 2022, I will go with the ever-excellent Mick Herron's Bad Actors.Ģ. I didn’t read an enormous amount of pre-2022 spy fiction this year, but I think my vote would go to Paul Vidich’s ‘ The Mercenary’ which I enjoyed immensely.ĭifficult, but here goes: My favorite spy book, published in '22 was Paul Vidich's THE MATCHMAKER.…a wonderful cold war story told in lean, clean fashion…reminiscent of Ambler, it had everything I love about espionage fiction.Ī number of contenders for best spy books read this year and published before, but I'm going with David McCloskey's DAMASCUS STATION….meaty and visceral, it put me into a world I know little about…if there's a better ‘debut' espionage novel out there, I've yet to read it.Ģ – 2022 is the year I broke my Mick Herron duck so I'll go with Slow Horses.ġ. Not very original! An honourable mention for Conway’s excellent ‘The Survivor’, which was a coin toss loser for the title. ![]() Because although we know how it will end, we still enjoy the ride.įor me, my best spy novel of 2022 novel is Mick Herron's ‘ Bad Actors’, I’m afraid. Pre 2022, I'm going for Frederick Forsyth's Day of the Jackal if we can stretch the definition. Managed to be serious but with a truly sad undertone. Check out the best 125 spy writers ranked according to Tim Shipman Martin Paulīest spy books of 2022 I'm going to say Tom Bradby and Yesterday's Spy. ![]() I enjoyed getting to know Jonas Merrick in Gerald Seymour’s The Crocodile Hunter but nothing was better for me than a re-read of Big Bear Little Bear by David Brierley, whose work is reminiscent of both Vidich and Kanon. I’m about to do Simon Conway’s The Survivor and also excited about Tom Bradby’s Yesterday’s Spy.Ģ. They’re a short nose ahead of Mick Herron’s Bad Actors, where Mick brilliantly tackled my world of politics. Both were hugely atmospheric, based on a fascinating premise grounded in fact, tight, taut, and packed an emotional punch. I can’t separate Paul Vidich’s The Matchmaker A Spy in Berlin and The Berlin Exchange by Joe Kanon. The best spy books published in 2022 is a tough category as we are being treated to some very high-quality work at the momentġ. I add the Amazon link so you can read the reviews before deciding to buy.) ![]() (Whilst I have added Amazon links below and yes we do earn a small cut from each purchase, we would love it if you could purchase these books from an independent bookstore. If you are looking to join a community of other spy book fans then do come and join us over at the Spybrary Community. Warning, Spybrary does not accept any liability for bankruptcies or divorces that may occur as a result of you browsing this list of the best espionage novels! So if you are looking for spy book recommendations, then read on. What is the best espionage novel you have read this year that was published before 2022?.What is the best spy book you have read that was published in 2022?.We asked our spy book readers two questions. Spybrary is a ‘by spy fans for spy fans' production so it is in that spirit that we asked our own Spybrary Podcast listeners and community members to reveal what were their best spy books of 2022 with a twist. It is that time of year once again when book critics and reviewers are asked what are the best spy books of the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pruning plant foliage can improve plant help. Ornaments attract more visitors to your nursery. Pricing your plants too high inhibits sales. If your plants sell quickly, your prices may be too low. Sneaking up on bugs with your net helps you catch them.ĭouble-clicking a pot will show what seed you planted. 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Vine = 4 in total: 1st beside algae at the top left of island, 2nd on the right of 1st vine, 3rd at the left entrance of the cave, 4th at the stairs on the right of the islandĪpple = In the tree only after the apple seed (beside the dead tree) has been planted Strawberries = In the garden only after you have planted the seeds and fertilised the land, together with rhubarb and blueberriesīlueberries = In the garden only after you have planted the seeds and fertilised the land, together with strawberries and rhubarb Rhubarb = In the garden only after you have planted the seeds and fertilised the land, together with strawberries and blueberries Rose = Beside the Kraken (also where cotton and black orchid are) Pond Water = A pond will fill during rainy weather at the south east of the islandĬactus = Drag an adult south of the crafting house (also where earth and sand are)īlack Orchid = Beside the Kraken (also where cotton and rose are) Reeds = Left of the big tree at the east of the island (also where needle grass is) Spider Web = At the memorial area for deceased villagers (northeast of island, near red earth)īamboo = In between built hut and water wheel Needle Grass = Left of the big tree at the east of the island (also where reeds is)Ĭotton = Beside the Kraken (also where black orchid and rose are)Īlgae = North west of the island (near the wheatgrass) Wheat Grass = North west of the island in between the sea and pond (near the algae) Wheat = Drag an adult to the patch of yellow grass south of the cave Red Earth = South of the memorial area for deceased villagers (northeast of island, near spider web) Magic = Use a rope to the cracks when it appears and an adult will go down and extract it Sand = Drag an adult south of the crafting house (also where earth and cactus are) Lava = Drag an adult to the tiny rock at the intersection of the lava (in between the love shack and crafting house)Īir = Drag an adult to the mini typhoon where the fire pit is (only when the typhoon appears) Water = Drag an adult on the buckets on the right of the research areaįire = Either pick up pieces of burnt wood near the fire when it appears, or drag an adult to the dry wood pile on the left of the research area then pick up the pieces of burnt woodĮarth = Drag an adult south of the crafting house (also where sand and cactus are) Children can help to gather fruits from the garden but that's about all. Note that only adults can extract these resources. Here is a list of things you can find or craft. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time of the fire, the military records center and a nearby one for civilian records had been merged into the National Personnel Records Center. “The building, 728 feet long, 282 feet wide, six stories high, presents an impassive façade to the world with its rather bland curtain wall of glass and aluminum.”īuilt for the Department of Defense in 1956, the facility was later turned over to the National Archives and Records Service, then part of the General Services Administration. Louis suburban community of Overland where the building rises on a seventy-acre site,” they wrote. ![]() “The sheer bulk alone makes a strong impression on the viewer, and the vast scale tends to overwhelm the quiet St. Stender and Evans Walker wrote in a 1974 article in The American Archivist titled, “The National Personnel Records Center: A Study in Disaster.” “Its size is difficult to comprehend, even when one is inside,” Walter W. If the records center was meant to inspire awe, mission accomplished. More than anything, it highlights the monumental, ongoing effort to reclaim the history that, at the time, seemed irretrievably lost. It echoes to this day - in the struggles of families seeking to document the achievements and sacrifices of loved ones, or to bury them with full military honors and in the efforts of conspiracy theorists, still searching for proof of a nefarious plot behind what government investigators long ago wrote off as most likely the careless act of a single man. ![]() It is an event that dogged untold veterans, forcing them to fight once more - this time for benefits, medals and recognition they’d earned. ![]() ![]() I designed a new hire career fair with multiple tables showcasing different products, complete with a passport for trainees to collect stamps. I also designed a blended learning solution that leveraged subject matter presenters and accommodated people having distributed locations and start dates.įor a manager role, in addition to a 30-60 day onboarding plan for myself, and created a list of equipment, software, subscriptions, and additional resources needed to begin creating videos for the company.įor a program manager role, I was tasked with creating an innovative onboarding program to teach new full-time staff about company products. I delivered that presentation to a group including the hiring manager, additional managers, and team members. For this project, I designed a pitch deck to garner buy-in from stakeholders on the solution. For a consultant role, I was tasked with creating an innovative plan for employee onboarding for new contractors and full-time employees. ![]() Then, start doing those right things again.Īs I’ve progressed into higher-level roles, the projects have become more time intensive and elaborate. Begin with a new LinkedIn announcement stating that the position you previously accepted is no longer in play and ask for assistance finding a new role. If you find yourself in a position where you have announced your new role and the offer is rescinded, formally restart your job search. Plot, scheme, and relaunch your search.If you don’t take a moment and process your emotions, they will come out sideways at just the wrong time. If your job offer is rescinded, take time to feel your feelings before moving forward.When changes to your start date or any aspect of the job offer become apparent, evaluate that information alongside other data you have about the role and projected start date. When the conditions of the job offer change, reassess.The act of thinking through that possibility will help ease your anxiety. When accepting a job, consider your next steps if the offer falls through.Then, after you work at least a day and as long as a week at your new job, update your LinkedIn and announce your new role. During that time, especially an extended wait, continue to talk to other companies, apply for additional positions, and interview. I suggest keeping your social media accounts in job-searching mode until you start your new role. Rethink your standard operating procedure for what to do when you receive a job offer.Here are suggestions for you to consider: ![]() Even so, remember to act in your own best interest just in case the role does not pan out. Remember, in most cases, accepting a job will lead to you starting to work for that company shortly thereafter. and now I had lost 2 months of job searching time and had to restrategize and restart my search. The assurances became less frequent, and less convincing, until I got a call from the recruiter with apologies because the role was not actually happening. Of course, I'd already announced that I had a new role and taken y LinkedIn profile out of job search mode, so I lost a couple of months of job search time waiting for a start date to materialize. The longer I waited, and the fewer updates I heard, the less confident I was the job would happen. ![]() I asked if this role was really going to happen, and I got sufficient assurances that the job would, indeed, start within a month or two at the latest. She assured me there were no real concerns that I would start, but it was more when. They were going to hold off on my start date until numbers had come in from the first quarter. A few days later, I talked with the hiring manager and learned more. A week before my start date, I got a call from the recruiter for the role telling me that there would be a delay in my start date-and he wasn't sure how long. I was excited to have a two week gap between when I accepted the job offer and my start date. I learned that lesson after announcing a job that I had accepted and not yet started-and later learned that the company had not yet notified internal candidates that they hired someone external. I didn't mention the company's name at this time since I had not yet started. Soon, I did my "hooray I got a job-more details later" on LinkedIn. After a disjointed, a little all over the place hiring process, and an offer that took a couple of weeks to come to fruition as promised, I happily accepted and had a start date of mid-March. ![]() I was very excited about the opportunity, and happy that my job search-which was then clocking in at about 5 months-would be over soon. 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Taught by a leading design professional, the Adobe Illustrator short course provides you with a comprehensive basic knowledge of the field of computerised. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first was 1982’s Quest For Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. In the 1980s, two films came out, both of which went to great lengths to try and imaginatively and credibly depict prehistoric human life. Nevertheless, the prevailing colonial mindset he inhabited led him there. So, while aspects of the ‘generic savages’ in The Savage State are probably appropriated from Native American cultural imagery, Cole did not consciously intend to depict Native Americans as prehistoric. Therefore, they might serve as models for pre-historical imagery. Unfortunately, the political conditions on America at the time meant that European settlers, of which Cole was one, believed that the Native Americans were less ‘civilised’ than Europeans. However, in the 19th century, before archaeology of pre-historical sites, there was little knowledge or understanding of what pre-historical communities in Europe might have been like. In his writings, Cole made it clear that he intended the human settlement to be European. These had been largely eradicated from the Hudson River region, where Cole worked. It’s unlikely that Cole had any experience of actual native communities. You should know that Cole also painted scenes from his friend James Fennimore Cooper’s novel The Last of the Mohicans. It does look like Cole’s ‘savages’ reference aboriginal North American life. The figures in the picture are tiny, and we can barely see them, never mind understand any details. Instead, Cole meant to show ‘the origins of modern society’. They do not represent any specific ethnicity. You can see them off to the right in a small encampment. There are indications of human ‘savages’ in the picture. ![]() In The Savage State, primeval humans live in a sublime landscape of swirling sky and rough terrain. We will use this as a starting point to consider how artists and filmmakers depict pre-history. Here I want to isolate The Savage State as a distinctive and possibly unique painting of pre-history. I will return to The Course Of Empire in another article. Cole’s series follows a coherent narrative, tracing the story as a primeval community develops into a vast empire, then falls into decadence. In it, he protests the ruin of the landscape by ‘civilisation’ (a theme he returns to in other paintings). The Savage State is part of Cole’s series The Course of Empire, five paintings depicting the rise and fall of an imaginary city. In The Savage State, Cole imagines a world before human civilization.Ĭole is best known as America’s first great landscape painter, founder of the Hudson River School. It is a remarkable painting that seeks to depict a primeval scene. I digress.Ĭloser to our topic, British-American Thomas Cole painted The Savage State in 1833. (Actually, Claude got other painters to paint the people). See, for example, Landscape with Narcissus and Echo it’s clearly about the trees and the clear golden light, not about the mythical figures. Of course, there are plenty of paintings which are pure landscape, but it is rare for an artist to depict an explicitly prehistoric scene.Įven the spectacular painter of light, Claude Lorraine, felt obliged to add human narratives to the landscape. Given that pre-history predates most of what we might consider urban society, it stands to reason that depicting pre-historical scenes would be about landscape and nature, and humans within that. Fortunately, a handful of artists have actually tried to do this.įirst, painting. As you’ll see, it takes a lot of imagination to conjure up what ‘caveman world’ might have been like. ![]() In fact, even the idea that writing is the mark of civilization ignores the sophisticated oral and visual cultures which never developed writing because they really didn’t need it.Īnyway, for the purposes of this article, the term pre-history really is about history it’s about what popular culture has long referred to as the ‘caveman (and cavewoman)’ era. We made a lot of visual art, architecture and jewellery, for a long time before writing appeared. This is a long time! But be careful not to imagine that prehistoric humans lived like animals. It is the long period between the use of the first stone tools (3.3 million years ago) and the invention of writing (9000 – 3400 BCE). Pre-history is different: the term means history before recorded information. Jurassic Park is not pre-history, it just has dinosaurs. How to artists and filmmakers depict pre-history? You might be surprised to find that it is actually very uncommon for them to try to do so. Gillian McIver By Thomas Cole – Explore Thomas Cole, Public Domain, Thomas Cole’s The Savage State, The Clan of the Cave Bear and Quest for Fire Part of the series ‘A History of the World in 16 paintings, and the films they inspired’ Here I feature Thomas Cole’s The Savage State Artists and filmmakers depict pre-history: the art of imagining the unimaginably real ![]() ![]() “In some cases it’s the trails and in other cases it’s the structures on the trails like stairwells and retaining walls.” “Several parks in Big Sur that have been damaged by the last two major fires – the Basin and the Soberanes – and because of those, a lot of our trail systems have been damaged. Additionally, the parking lot at the main entrance of the park is slated for realignment, which will improve the accessibility of the restroom and picnic areas. A Park’s trail team has been working to repair and re-open the extensive trail system on the east side of Highway 1. ![]() The McWay Falls resource protection project is one of a number of ongoing efforts to repair damage in Big Sur caused by fire, rain and increased visitation. The project, which officially began in early November, is expected to be completed by March. “In addition to that, when fires come through areas, a lot of times the non-native vegetation that was being suppressed by native vegetation is able to gain a foothold.” “In the past, the whole area was coastal shrub vegetation,” said Frey, about that kind of vegetation that is lower growing and closer to the ocean and is trying to be restored there. A home that was there in the late 1930s to the 1960s brought with it non-native trees and vegetation to the area. About a half mile of the trail is also being rehabilitated by de-compacting the soil and planting native vegetation in order to return the area to its natural state. Both will guide visitors to the safest parking locations from which the Waterfall Overlook Trail can be accessed. Jeff Frey, environmental scientist for California State Parks, Monterey District, said that because of the increase in usage of the park and unauthorized access and damage to its sensitive natural and cultural resources, new fencing and new signage is being installed. ![]() Traffic and stormwater runoff has also destabilized about 500 feet of coastal bluff above the falls on the west side of the highway. Increased visitation to the park has resulted in erosion along Highway 1 as visitors seek access to the Waterfall Overlook Trail. The trail to McWay Falls, an iconic waterfall viewed by tens of thousands of visitors each month in Big Sur’s Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, is getting revamped.Ĭalifornia State Parks officials recently announced they have undertaken a resource protection project at the park in an effort to improve public safety and protection of the natural and cultural resources surrounding the popular waterfall. ![]() |
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