09 AM | 25 Jul

“Astro Boy and the God of Comics” [#geekgirl]

[From this article at The Artery] “Onoda Power’s play is about the magic of creation, says Young, and Tezuka’s message was one of peace, especially coming in the years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

“You know he wanted to create something that children could love that also was a friendly reminder that violence doesn’t necessarily have to be the answer,” Young says.

That’s one of the play’s many messages too, delivered by a bright-eyed little boy robot obsessed with saving the world.

“Astro Boy and the God of Comics” runs through August 16 at the Boston Center for the Arts.”

06 AM | 09 Jan

#RIP Marina Ginestà, “…the defiant militia girl” [#geekgirl]

[Image Credit: El País/ Juan Guzman (EFE)

[As reported by El País] “Some pictures are touched by fortune, ready to become icons of an era as soon as they are developed. One such image is a photograph taken at the onset of the Spanish Civil War, depicting a dishevelled, attractive young woman with a rifle slung over her shoulder who stares at the camera with a combination of joy and defiance as she stands on the rooftop of a building affording views across Barcelona. The girl, a magnificent symbol of the proletariat’s revolutionary epic and the hopes of a people who had taken up arms, was named Marina Ginestà, and she died in Paris on Sunday at the age of 94.”