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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| 2Spot Communications Co., Ltd. | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Bangkok , Thailand |
| Key people | Kris Nalamlieng (CEO and Managing Director) |
| Products | Fashion Accessories Gifts Entertainment |
| Website | www.2spotstudio.com |
2Spot Communications (also known as 2Spot Studio) is a character-design company based in Thailand. 2Spot was founded in 2004 and is the first character studio in Thailand that combines character design, licensing, mobile applications, merchandising, and retail.[1] Kris Nalamlieng, son of former Siam Cement CEO Chumpol NaLamlieng, is the managing director of 2Spot.[2] As of 2010, 2Spot has developed more than 20 characters sets, 1,000+ products, and 3,000+ digital content materials (i.e. mobile wallpapers and screensavers).
2Spot Communications has been featured on numerous television programs including Bangkok Post's PostScript[3] and Thailand's Morning Talk TV.[4]
In April 2012, it has a now-defunct mobile app named ShopSpot only available to Apple iOS. It is unknown when it was shut down.[5]
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2Spot has created over 200 characters,.[2] The four most popular ones are Biscuit, Bloody Bunny, P4, and Unsleep Sheep.
2Spot offers a full line of service for licensing partners, including product design, sourcing, packaging design and short animation development. 2Spot is currently exporting digital and promotional licenses in Asia, Europe, and America.
2Spot clients include FlyCell (USA), Kaga Electronics (Japan), ACE Communications (France), Zoobe (Germany), Moffy (HK), and Sony Ericsson (Thailand).
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2Spot Communications (also known as 2Spot Studio) is a character-design company based in Thailand. 2Spot was founded in 2004 and is the first character studio in Thailand that combines character design, licensing, mobile applications, merchandising, and retail. Kris Nalamlieng, son of former Siam Cement CEO Chumpol NaLamlieng, is the managing director of 2Spot. As of 2010, 2Spot has developed more than 20 characters sets, 1,000+ products, and 3,000+ digital content materials (i.e. mobile wallpapers and screensavers). 2Spot Communications has been featured on numerous television programs including Bangkok Post's PostScript and Thailand's Morning Talk TV. In April 2012, it has a now-defunct mobile app named ShopSpot only available to Apple iOS. It is unknown when it was shut down.
Studio Ghibli Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオジブリ, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Jiburi) is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. It was founded on June 15, 1985, by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft's assets. It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has expanded its portfolio to include various media such as short subjects, television commercials and two television films. The studio's work is highly acclaimed by both critics and audiences and has been recognized with numerous awards. Their mascot and most recognizable character is Totoro from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, a giant spirit inspired by raccoon dogs (tanuki) and cats (neko). Among the studio's highest-grossing films are Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl's Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Studio Ghibli's major awards across organizations include two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, one Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, one BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, one Golden Bear, three Animage Grand Prix awards and six Japan Academy Prizes. Four of the studio's films are among the ten highest-grossing Japanese feature films; Spirited Away is fourth, grossing ¥31.68 billion in Japan and over US$380 million worldwide. In 2026 the Studio Ghibli was awarded the Princess of Asturias Award in the category of "Communication and Humanities".
Blue Sky Studios, Inc. was an American visual effects and computer animation studio, which was based in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was founded on February 22, 1987 by Chris Wedge, Michael Ferraro, Carl Ludwig, Alison Brown, David Brown and Eugene Troubetzkoy after their employer, Mathematical Applications Group (MAGI), one of the visual effects studios behind Tron (1982), got sold to Vidmax Canada and eventually closed. Using its in-house rendering software, the studio created visual effects for commercials and films before dedicating itself to animated film production. It produced 13 feature films, the first being Ice Age (2002) and the final one being Spies in Disguise (2019). Blue Sky Studios became a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation in 1997 through its VIFX division's majority-stake acquisition of the studio and became the principal animation studio of 20th Century Fox from 2002 until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. Disney closed down Blue Sky on 10 April 2021 and absorbed its library and IPs into 20th Century Animation. Ice Age and Rio were the studio's most commercially successful franchises, while Robots (2005), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), The Peanuts Movie (2015), and the aforementioned Spies in Disguise were among its most critically praised films. Scrat, a character from the Ice Age franchise, was the studio's mascot.
Kuromi (Japanese: クロミ) is a mascot character owned by Sanrio and the darker counterpart to My Melody. She debuted in the 2005 anime series Onegai My Melody. She is presented as a rebellious character with a criminal streak and a hidden girly side. The creator of her character design is unclear, with Onegai My Melody studio Studio Comet and Sanrio having two different claims as to her designer.
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.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.