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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Katherine Johnson — Mathematics to the Moon

Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.

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Bullet Space

Bullet Space
Formation1985; 41 years ago (1985)
Headquarters292 E 3rd St.
New York City, New York, U.S.
Coordinates40°43′16.2″N 73°58′47.2″W / 40.721167°N 73.979778°W / 40.721167; -73.979778
LeaderAndrew Castrucci

Bullet Space is a legalized squat, artists' collective and art gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City, founded in 1986 by Andrew and Paul Castrucci, among others. In 2009, it was legalized by the city.

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The building at 292 East Third Street on the Lower East Side in Manhattan was squatted in 1986.[1] Featuring living spaces as well as a gallery and exhibition space, Bullet Space shows politically oriented street art.[1] It became an art gallery. The collective's Your House Is Mine artists' book, from 1992, collects thirty-three signed silkscreen prints made in the aftermath of the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot, with artwork from David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Sandra "Lady Pink" Fabara, and Lee Quiñones, writing from Miguel Algarín, Chris Burden, Martha Cooper, Allen Ginsberg, Cookie Mueller, Public Enemy, and Andres Serrano, and has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty, and the Walker Arts Center, among others.[2][3] In 2009, it was the first of the East Village squats to become legalized by the city.[3]

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Framed pictures
Artworks on Bullet Space second floor hallway

The gallery has housed or exhibited artists including:

References

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  1. ^ a b "Design for a Difference: Andrew Castrucci Interviewed by Chris Molnar". Bomb Magazine. November 22, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Moynihan, Colin (January 29, 2010). "A Tenement Transformed Tells the Lives of Its Squatters". City Room. The New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Lamothe-Ramos, Annette (November 18, 2011). "The "Mob" Exhibition Is Opening at Bullet Space". Vice. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  4. ^ Ferguson, Sarah (February 11, 2016). "John Farris, Bohemian Poet Who Chronicled Life On The Lower East Side". Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  5. ^ "Wrong Place for the Right People". Archived from the original on January 15, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  6. ^ "John Farris - Last Poems". Sensitive Skin. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  7. ^ Molnar, Chris (March 13, 2021). "The Wrong Side Of History". The Shadow. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  8. ^ Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Geoffrey (May 2010). "And One More Thing". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
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Bullet Space

Bullet Space is a legalized squat, artists' collective and art gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City, founded in 1986 by Andrew and Paul Castrucci, among others. In 2009, it was legalized by the city.

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Bullet graph

A bullet graph is a variation of a bar graph developed by Stephen Few. Seemingly inspired by the traditional thermometer charts and progress bars found in many dashboards, the bullet graph serves as a replacement for dashboard gauges and meters. Bullet graphs were developed to overcome the fundamental issues of gauges and meters: they typically display too little information, require too much space, and are cluttered with useless and distracting decorations. The bullet graph features a single, primary measure (for example, current year-to-date revenue), compares that measure to one or more other measures to enrich its meaning (for example, compared to a target), and displays it in the context of qualitative ranges of performance, such as poor, satisfactory, and good. The qualitative ranges are displayed as varying intensities of a single hue to make them discernible by those who are color blind and to restrict the use of colors on the dashboard to a minimum. Bullet graphs can be created in R (programming language) using the bulletgraph() function developed by Marco Torchiano. Below is an example of R code using the bulletgraph() function to create a black-and-white and colored bullet graph. For each example: The thick, horizontal center line represents the actual value. The thin, black vertical line represents a target value. The colored or grey scale bands represent ranges, such as poor, average, and good. Bullet graphs may be horizontal or vertical and may be stacked to allow comparisons of several measures at once. More information about bullet graphs can be found in the book Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few.

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Shoot 'em up

Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or, chiefly in Japan, STGs) are a subgenre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of character movement, while others allow a broader definition including characters on foot and a variety of perspectives. The genre's roots can be traced back to earlier shooting games, including target shooting electro-mechanical games of the mid-20th-century, but did not receive a video game release until Spacewar! (1962). The shoot 'em up genre was established by the hit arcade game Space Invaders, which popularised and set the general template for the genre in 1978, and has spawned many clones. The genre was then further developed by arcade hits such as Asteroids and Galaxian in 1979. Shoot 'em ups were popular throughout the 1980s to early 1990s, diversifying into a variety of subgenres such as scrolling shooters, run and gun games and rail shooters. In the mid-1990s, shoot 'em ups became a niche genre based on design conventions established in the 1980s, and increasingly catered to specialist enthusiasts, particularly in Japan. "Bullet hell" games are a subgenre of shooters that features overwhelming numbers of enemy projectiles, often in visually impressive formations.

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Space Pen

The Space Pen (also known as the Zero Gravity Pen), marketed by Fisher Space Pen Company, is a pen that uses pressurized ink cartridges and is able to write in zero gravity, underwater, over wet and greasy paper, at any angle (including upside down), and in a very wide range of temperatures.

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TOPIC OF THE DAY

Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which heavyweight champion was known as the “Brown Bomber”?

Joe Louis.