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chiang mai, thailand
1972
schoolgirls
yuparaj wittayalai comprehensive high school
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Firstly I'm running quite behind with commenting, sorting photos and loading but hopeful I'll get back on track so please bear with me!
I'd had a bee in my bonnet about taking some photos of butterflies for a while so planned a trip to Leeds tropical house in Roundhay Park - it was really warm/humid... and steamy... so had a real battle with my lenses!
There weren't a huge amount of butterflies and unfortunately none close enough to try out my Raynox closeup lenses so had to use my 70-300mm and crop in a bit - wish I'd taken note of what all the butterfly types were - maybe one was a Zebra? Will perhaps look up and post info later
[explore no. 152 on 24/4/12]
Every once in awhile you come across a face that is absolutely a delight...something about this ladies face..I personally love this shot
Now clocking in at an impressive 22 years old and STILL going strong around Derbyshire, it is a regular workhorse on schoolbuses, shopper services and even the 17/A!!
13 passes University of Derby on the 983 from Spondon Asda to Duffield.
Milwaukee Road FP45 3, SD45 13, and SD45 7 at Bensenville, Illinois on an unknown day in February 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
So as (some) of you know today is my 13th birthday! I am so happy I had a GREAT day! I also got some pretty cool gifts from my family! Well 13 means, I can (legally) create a Facebook (although I already have one that I created in late November XD) Now I can sign up for any website & stuff like that cause you have to be "13". Ha, ha well I had a great day & I hope you did too!
Shadows of a perfect weekend. Nothing to complicated this week, just a shot of the view we had over a very relaxing easter weekend ( complete with shadows and a pelican)
L’année 2015 nous a tous plongé dans l'horreur des attentats perpétrés par des terroristes si jeunes. Dans l’immense majorité des cas, la motivation religieuse est un prétexte ; on sait que leur connaissance de l’islam est très superficielle. La motivation est bien ailleurs...
A gauche de cette toile numérique, vous pourrait observer notamment la représentation de la violence comme je l’ai ressenti, le profil d’un terroriste avec une arme à feu et juste en dessous un minaret qui a basculé par désaccord afin d’éviter les amalgames.
A droite une victime qui a le cerveau morcelé après avoir été manipulée pour le Djihad ou violentée lors des attentats. Elle est fière de vivre sans contrainte comme tous ceux qui étaient là ce soir du 13 novembre 2015 au Bataclan, en terrasses, dans la rue…
Leather Blouse.......Milan lable ( second hand Ebay )
T-shirt........................Krisp
Jeans.......................George clothing ( Asda )
Trainers...................George clothing ( Asda )
My sister passed away on July 16th of last year - her 30th birthday. I replace the Facebook banner on her memorial page on the 16th of every month in her memory. So that's what this is all about... :)
Guess who has a gorgeous bunch of tulips? I make no apology for the tulip macros which will most likely appear in a few days!
Many thanks to Lou for the tulips, they are so pretty. x
ARRIVA Buses Wales VDL Commander 2513 - CX05 AAN calls at a bus stop in Mostyn Broadway while operating route 26 Llandudno Circular. This new route is interworked with route 13, with each vehicle on an inbound 13 doing a 26 before returning to Prestatyn as a 13... simple! This bus is due to transfer to the Bolton depot of ARRIVA North West following the introduction of new vehicles into Bangor for the 5, but as can be seen was clinging on to its Welsh existence on the first day of the new buses.
13/100 square
3/10 botanical
The last of the flowers on the Cape Chestnut tree in Kirstenbosch Gardens.
I initially posted a picture of my view from work for todays pic but then kicked myself for not being very creative with the daily shot so I deleted it and spent half an hour trying to get arty with an egg and some forks. I soon realised I didn't have the patience to balance said egg on forks so opted for the nearest thing, my phone. Ta Daaa!
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Benji & Lara have been here for the last couple days.
That means I try not to take photos with 365 in mind, just shots of whatever strikes my fancy during the day if I have a camera handy.
Today we just hung out.
It was good.
Yeah. I guess I like telling people random stuff about myself, so here goes. Read if you dare!
#1. I love music and I'm pretty sure I couldn't live without it. It can make me happy or sad or inspired or impressed or interested (and probably more words starting with an 'i'). I love making it, I love listening to it, I love exploring it and learning about it. I could quote so many songs to express my love for music, but wont.
#2. I tend to babble. Especially when I'm talking or writing about something that I care about, like environmental affairs or something I know a lot about. Or about myself, which is precisely what I'm doing here!
#3. My favorite TV show is Monty Python's Flying Circus (A.K.A. Owl-Stretching Time) and my favorite movies are the Monty Python movies. I quote them too much. (go boil your bottoms, sons of silly persons! I fart in your general direction!)
#4. My favorite band is Queen and I wish Freddie Mercury was alive so I could go to a Queen concert. My favorite musician is Bob Dylan and I'm going to his concert in ReykjavÃk in May, no matter what anyone says. Freddie Mercury and Bob Dylan, along with Chris Martin, are on the top of my list of people I want to meet :)
#5. I sing a lot when I'm home alone.
#6. When I see movies I love or hear music I love, even read books I love, I tend to Google them and consequently knowing everything about them.
#7. I like jewelry.
#8. I smile a lot and I laugh a lot, but I feel silly doing it in self portraits. So I guess you Flickrites haven't really seen it...
#9. I'm stubborn as hell.
#10. I wore glasses for 10 years, but now I have contacts.
#11. I like (and need) attention. That may be one of the reasons for my 365 project. There, I admitted it!
#12. I am such a tedious know-it-all sometimes!
#13. I love Iceland. I'm so damn lucky to live here, it's amazing. Breathtaking. Fantastic, phenomenal, majestic, magnificent, mindbogglingly wonderful. :D
There.
Day 77 of 366
BWW Day 4
This looks so different in PC than in my MacBook. Everything does >.<
This was explored, at #57 when I noticed it!
WOMADelaHugh Ramapolo Masekela(4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer. He has been described as the "father of South African jazz." Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and "Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number 1 US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass".
Masekela was born in KwaGuqa Township, Witbank, South Africa to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker.[3] As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners.[3] At the age of 14, after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet, from Louis Armstrong, was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter's Secondary School now known as St. Martin's School (Rosettenville).
Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masekela the rudiments of trumpet playing. Masekela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of his schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa's first youth orchestra. By 1956, after leading other ensembles, Masekela joined Alfred Herbert's African Jazz Revue.
From 1954, Masekela played music that closely reflected his life experience. The agony, conflict, and exploitation South Africa faced during the 1950s and 1960s inspired and influenced him to make music and also spread political change. He was an artist who in his music vividly portrayed the struggles and sorrows, as well as the joys and passions of his country. His music protested about apartheid, slavery, government; the hardships individuals were living. Masekela reached a large population that also felt oppressed due to the country's situation.[8][9]
Following a Manhattan Brothers tour of South Africa in 1958, Masekela wound up in the orchestra of the musical King Kong, written by Todd Matshikiza.[10]King Kong was South Africa's first blockbuster theatrical success, touring the country for a sold-out year with Miriam Makeba and the Manhattan Brothers' Nathan Mdledle in the lead. The musical later went to London's West End for two years.
At the end of 1959, Dollar Brand (later known as Abdullah Ibrahim), Kippie Moeketsi, Makhaya Ntshoko, Johnny Gertze and Hugh formed the Jazz Epistles, the first African jazz group to record an LP. They performed to record-breaking audiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town through late 1959 to early 1960.
Following the 21 March 1960 Sharpeville massacre—where 69 protestors were shot dead in Sharpeville, and the South African government banned gatherings of ten or more people—and the increased brutality of the Apartheid state, Masekela left the country. He was helped by Trevor Huddleston and international friends such as Yehudi Menuhin and John Dankworth, who got him admitted into London's Guildhall School of Music. During that period, Masekela visited the United States, where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte. He briefly moved to London in 1960 and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama,before securing a scholarship to attend the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he studied classical trumpet from 1960 to 1964. In 1964, Makeba and Masekela were married, divorcing two years later.
He had hits in the United States with the pop jazz tunes "Up, Up and Away" (1967) and the number-one smash "Grazing in the Grass" (1968), which sold four million copies.He also appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and was subsequently featured in the film Monterey Pop by D. A. Pennebaker. In 1974, Masekela and friend Stewart Levine organised the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa set around the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match.
He played primarily in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on recordings by The Byrds ("So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Lady Friend") and Paul Simon ("Further to Fly"). In 1984, Masekela released the album Techno Bush; from that album, a single entitled "Don't Go Lose It Baby" peaked at number two for two weeks on the dance charts.In 1987, he had a hit single with "Bring Him Back Home". The song became enormously popular, and turned into an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement and an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela.
Also in the 1980s, Masekela toured with Paul Simon in support of Simon's album Graceland, which featured other South African artists such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Ray Phiri, and other elements of the band Kalahari, with which Masekela recorded in the 1980s.[28] He also collaborated in the musical development for the Broadway play, Sarafina!and recorded with the band Kalahari.
Massachusetts, 26 June 2013
In 2003, he was featured in the documentary film Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. In 2004, he released his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, co-authored with journalist D. Michael Cheers,[31] which detailed Masekela's struggles against apartheid in his homeland, as well as his personal struggles with alcoholism from the late 1970s through to the 1990s. In this period, he migrated, in his personal recording career, to mbaqanga, jazz/funk, and the blending of South African sounds, through two albums he recorded with Herb Alpert, and solo recordings, Techno-Bush (recorded in his studio in Botswana), Tomorrow (featuring the anthem "Bring Him Back Home"), Uptownship (a lush-sounding ode to American R&B), Beatin' Aroun de Bush, Sixty, Time, and Revival. His song "Soweto Blues", sung by his former wife, Miriam Makeba, is a blues/jazz piece that mourns the carnage of the Soweto riots in 1976.[32] He also provided interpretations of songs composed by Jorge Ben, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caiphus Semenya, Jonas Gwangwa, Dorothy Masuka and Fela Kuti.
In 2006 Masekela was described by Michael A. Gomez, professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University as "the father of South African jazz."[33][34]
In 2009, Masekela released the album Phola (meaning "to get well, to heal"), his second recording for 4 Quarters Entertainment/Times Square Records. It includes some songs he wrote in the 1980s but never completed, as well as a reinterpretation of "The Joke of Life (Brinca de Vivre)", which he recorded in the mid-1980s. From October 2007, he was a board member of the Woyome Foundation for Africa.[35][36]
In 2010, Masekela was featured, with his son Selema Masekela, in a series of videos on ESPN. The series, called Umlando – Through My Father's Eyes, was aired in 10 parts during ESPN's coverage of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The series focused on Hugh's and Selema's travels through South Africa. Hugh brought his son to the places he grew up. It was Selema's first trip to his father's homeland.
On 3 December 2013, Masekela guested with the Dave Matthews Band in Johannesburg, South Africa. He joined Rashawn Ross on trumpet for "Proudest Monkey" and "Grazing in the Grass".
In 2016, at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim performed together for the first time in 60 years, reuniting the Jazz Epistles in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the historic 16 June 1976 youth demonstrations.ide 13