Mark Goodman

The photographs were taken between May 2017 and March 2018 in central Austin, Texas at the Hope Outdoor Gallery graffiti park--the grounds of a condo project that failed after the foundation cracked and the nearly completed structure was razed in the mid-1980s, leaving behind a concrete ruin. The unpainted 9x7-inch plaster SkullBot head seen in these pictures was made by the public-artist, The Impossible Winterbourne, who installed it on March 25, 2017, against the front of a 24x18-inch rectangular concrete pad capping a four-foot high anchor pier, located at the second terrace of the site's four levels. That same day, the artist adhered eight other SkullBots and faces around the park (at this writing, five survive) and announced to the world, "Feel free to decorate them"--although, no invitation was needed. Every surface of the gallery has been covered and recovered with innumerable layers of paint. This particular SkullBot has been spray-painted by unknown hundreds of people, everything from a random spot to a complete redo, sometimes within minutes of each other, and never left untouched for more than a few days. Certainly, no one has eyeballed every incarnation of the head's painted transformations, but this sequence of photographs taken at irregular intervals over eleven months present one SkullBot's changing face in chronological order.

Death Mask

Haideh Moghissi

Saeed Rahnema

Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries. A comparative, multi-ethnic study, based on over two thousand interviews, Diaspora by Design examines Muslim populations that have settled in Canada, Britain, Iran, and Palestine. Utilizing hard socio-economic data as well as qualitative analysis, the authors show the remarkable diversity and divisions between Muslim immigrant populations along urban-rural, cultural, class, and gender lines. They argue that integration is a two-way exchange that requires a readiness on the part of the host society to remove barriers that prevent the full social and economic participation of immigrant populations. Extensively researched and thoughtfully provocative, Diaspora by Design is a much-needed work that provides an accurate and dynamic depiction of the lives of Muslim immigrants away from their homelands.

Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond

Diaspora by Design

Alan Hunter

Nina Blackwood

Martha Quinn

In this “highly entertaining snapshot of a wild-frontier moment in pop culture” (Rolling Stone), discover the wild and explosive true story of the early years of MTV directly from the original VJs. Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and Martha Quinn (along with the late J. J. Jackson) had front-row seats to a cultural revolution—and the hijinks of pop music icons like Adam Ant, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, and Duran Duran—as the first VJs on the fledgling network MTV. From partying with David Lee Roth to flying on Bob Dylan’s private jet, they were on a breakneck journey through a music revolution. Boing beyond the compelling behind the scenes tales of this unforgettable era, VJ is also a coming-of-age story about the 1980s, its excesses, controversies, and everything in between. “At last—the real inside story of the MTV explosion that rocked the world, in all its giddy excess, from the video pioneers who saw all the hair, drugs and guitars up close. VJ is the wild, hilarious, addictive tale of how one crazy moment changed pop culture forever” (Rob Sheffield, New York Times bestselling author).

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