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As you probably know, I love Red Squirrels and always try to spend as much time as I can in their enclosure at the British Wildlife Centre when I visit. Although I see them regularly, it was lovely yesterday to be close to them and be able to watch them eating out in the open rather than in the wire cages their food is normally in. There are so many good reasons to go on one of the BWC's photography days. The light was quite challenging because the bright sun created very strong contrasts and shadows ... but then it wouldn't be me if I didn't have something to moan about, would it? :)
With hearts and minds united, our dreams we will achieve
What do you see? What do you see?
See the moon and the stars, look how far we have come
Look around at our faces, they shine brightly in the sun
With our hopes and dreams, imagine what tomorrow it may bring
What do you see
Theme song from Singapore 44th National Day Parade 2009
Reaching out, reaching up!
NO PP, KISS (Keep it simple stupid)
No Photoshop, No Retouching, No HDR, SOOC
As the sun sets on a perfect day to start June off right and a "code blue" day to boot in Chesterton/Porter, a hot van train on the NS Chicago Line crosses over and charges west for what looked like Park Manor Yard along the Toll Road near Englewood in Chicagoland.
Jackson Blvd
Porter, IN
June 01, 2017
As seen in music video ALIVE
Today, 4th of may, is the anniversary of the death of Adam Yauch, died in 2012, R.I.P.
I came across the BB some days ago and discovered the music video ALIVE, where BB are dressed in unicolor. Well, perfect for a LEGO replica!
And although I'm not a BB fan, I just recently got their book. Kind of a memoir, told by the two remaining members and guest authors.
As Bethel Friends of Canines put out a Facebook call for volunteer dog walkers, this handsome stray showed up at the kennel to help out.
As long as I can remember Lego has been my favorite toy - its versatility and the possibilities for creativity are unrivaled, it‘s really sturdy for the most part (as many parents who regularly step on it in the dark can probably confirm) and it can teach you a lot about geometry, construction and design while having fun experimenting and playing!
So - despite me not having access to a lot of Lego pieces at the moment - I still wanted to take a couple of macro/close-up shots to celebrate the practical, simple and elegant design of this incredible invention!
Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 75 mm F 2.8" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
As I was walking by noticing this very brightly painted red fully restored classic convertible , it became apparent that everyone was watching the full moon rise above the harbor cranes.
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As I've found on previous trips, these are significantly rarer than the Citroen/Renault vans - given the size of the market for such vehicles here it's odd that Peugeot didn't make a proper offering in this sector.
As I was taking photos of the outside of the church building, a man drove up to the church, got out of his car, and asked me if I would like to see the inside of the church building. He had arrived to set up for an upcoming service. This kind gentlemen, J. Newell Floyd, gave me a tour of this lovely church. This photo was taken from the balcony in the back of the church. In the ceiling, you can see a portion of what the historical marker for the church refers to as the "sanctuary dome." For a brief history of the church, please see the next photo.
“As the Father Loves me, so I also Love you. Remain in my Love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my Love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in HIS Love.” John 15:9-10
MEDITATION
"The Lord Jesus gives His followers a new commandment - a new way of LOVE that goes beyond giving only what is required or what we think others might deserve. What is the essence of Jesus' new commandment of LOVE? It is a LOVE to the death - a purifying LOVE that overcomes selfishness, fear, and pride. It is a total giving of oneself for the sake of others - a selfless and self-giving LOVE that is oriented towards putting the welfare of others ahead of myself." www.dailyscripture.net
PRAYER
"Teach us, good Lord, to serve YOU as YOU deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do YOUR will; through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Prayer of St Ignatius of Loyola)
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Dear you, love such as tidal, advance and retreatback, wave and waves but never be static.
The green algae grow on top of reef, the groove-shaped reef , over times was impact by sea water. It's an unique landscape at northeast coast of Taiwan. During the year the green algae reef may seeing every March thru April at low tide. Lao-mei, Shy-Men township, Taipei, Taiwan. (DSC_9478BBBQA)
As promised, here are some better pictures of my 2009 Tonner Maleficent doll. With each passing day, I love her more and more. When you have the opportunity to really arrange and fan out the fullness of her outfit, you just cannot help but be impressed. The amount of detail that went into her just becomes more and more apparent.
At some point, I think I will have to have a staff made for her, as that would really elevate her to a whole new level.
Unfortunately, we got rid of the dark cherry armoire that was the background of choice for my doll photos, so I have to make do with a plain white wall now...
As usual with my large-scale models, I've added some functionality. The doors can be opened and the spare tyre, normally stowed behind the cab, can be lowered.
Austrian postcard by B.K.W.I. (Brüder Kohn, Wien). Feodor Chaliapin as Don Quixote
Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873–1938) was an international sensation and is considered as the greatest Russian singer of the twentieth century, as well as the greatest male operatic actor ever. The possessor of a large, deep and expressive basso profundo, he was celebrated at major opera houses all over the world and established the tradition of naturalistic acting in operas. The only sound film which shows his acting style is Don Quixote (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1933).
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Шаля́пин, or Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin) was born in 1873, into a poor peasant family in Omet Tawi, near Kazan, Russia. His childhood was full of suffering, hunger, and humiliation. From the age of 10, he worked as an apprentice to a shoemaker, a sales clerk, a carpenter, and a lowly clerk in a district court before joining, at age 17, a local operetta company. In 1890, Chaliapin was hired to sing in a choir at the Semenov-Samarsky private theatre in Ufa. There he began singing solo parts. In 1891, he toured Russia with the Dergach Opera. In 1892, he settled in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), because he found a good teacher, Dmitri Usatov, who gave Chaliapin free professional opera training for one year. He also sang at the St. Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral in Tbilisi. In 1893, he began his career at the Tbilisi Opera, and a year later, he moved to Moscow upon recommendation of Dmitri Usatov. In 1895 ,Chaliapin debuted at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre as Mephistopheles in Charles Gounod’s Faust, in which he was a considerable success. In 1896 he also joined Mamontovs Private Russian Opera in Moscow, where he mastered the Russian, French, and Italian roles that made him famous. Savva Mamontov was a Russian industrialist and philanthropist, who staged the operas, conducted the orchestra, trained the actors, taught them singing and paid all the expenses. At Mamontov's, he met in 1897 Sergei Rachmaninoff, who started as an assistant conductor there. The two men remained friends for life. With Rachmaninoff he learned the title role of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, which became his signature character. Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyse a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was scheduled to appear. When Chaliapin became dissatisfied with his performances, Chaliapin began to attend straight dramatic plays to learn the art of acting. His approach revolutionised acting in opera. In 1896, Savva Mamontov introduced Chaliapin to a young Italian ballerina Iola Tornagi, who came to Moscow for a stage career. She quit dancing and devoted herself to family life with Chaliapin. He was very happy in this marriage. From 1899 until 1914, he also performed regularly at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. The couple settled in Moscow and had six children. Their first boy died at the age of 4, causing Chaliapin a nervous breakdown.
In 1901, Feodor Chaliapin made his sensational debut at La Scala in the role of the devil in Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito under the baton of conductor Arturo Toscanini. Other famous roles were Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky's opera, King Philip in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos. Bertram in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable, and Ivan the Terrible in The Maid of Pskov by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His great comic characterizations were Don Basilio in Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Leporello in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Giovanni. In 1906, Chaliapin started a civil union with Maria Valentinovna Petzhold (also called: Maria Augusta Eluchen) in St. Petersburg, Russia. She had three daughters with Chaliapin in addition to 2 other children from her previous family. He could not legalize his second family, because his first wife would not give him a divorce. Chaliapin even applied to the Emperor Tsar Nicholas II with a request of registering his three daughters under his last name. His request was not satisfied. In 1913, Chaliapin was introduced to London and Paris by the brilliant entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev. He began giving well-received solo recitals in Paris in which he sang traditional Russian folk songs as well as more serious fare, and also performed at the Paris Opera. His acting and singing was sensational to the western audiences. He made many sound recordings, of which the 1913 recordings of the Russian folk songs Vdol po Piterskoi and The Song of the Volga Boatmen are best known. In 1915, he made his film debut as Czar Ivan IV the Terrible in the silent Russian film Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy/Czar Ivan the Terrible (Aleksandr Ivanov-Gai, 1915) opposite the later director Richard Boleslawski. Fourteen years later, he appeared in another silent film, the German-Czech coproduction Aufruhr des Blutes/Riot of the blood (Victor Trivas, 1929) with Vera Voronina and Oscar Marion.
Feodor Chaliapin was torn between his two families for many years, living with one in Moscow, and with another in St. Petersburg. With Maria Petzhold and their three daughters, he left Russia in 1922 as part of an extended tour of western Europe. They would never return. Ther family settled in Paris. A man of lower-class origins, Chaliapin was not unsympathetic to the Bolshevik Revolution and his emigration from Russia was painful. Although he had left Russia for good, he remained a tax-paying citizen of Soviet Russia for several years. Finally he could divorce in 1927 and marry Maria Petzhold. Chaliapin worked for impresario Sol Hurok and from 1921 on, he sang for eight seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His debut at the Met in the 1907 season had been disappointing due to the unprecedented frankness of his stage acting. In 1921, the public in New York had grown more broad-minded and the eight seasons were a huge success. According to Steve Shelokhonov at IMDb, Chaliapin was the undisputed best basso in the first half of the 20th century. He had revolutionised opera by bringing serious acting in combination with great singing. His first open break with the Soviet regime occurred in 1927 when the government, as part of its campaign to pressure him into returning to Russia, stripped him of his title of 'The First People’s Artist of the Soviet Republic' and threatened to deprive him of Soviet citizenship. Prodded by Joseph Stalin, Maxim Gorky, Chaliapin’s longtime friend, tried to persuade him to return to Russia. Gorky broke with him after Chaliapin published his memoirs, Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer (Maska i dusha, 1932), in which he denounced the lack of freedom under the Bolsheviks.
The only sound film which shows Chaliapin's acting style is Don Quixote/Adventures of Don Quixote (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1933). He had also starred onstage as the knight in Jules Massenet's 1910 opera, Don Quichotte, but the 1933 film does not use Massenet's music, and is more faithful to Miguel de Cervantes' novel than the opera. In fact there were three versions of this early sound film. Georg Wilhelm Pabst shot simultaneously with the German language version also English and French versions. Feodor Chaliapin Sr. starred in all three versions of Don Quixote, but with a different supporting cast. Sancho Pansa was played by Dorville in the German and French versions but by George Robey in the English version. Benoit A. Racine at IMDb: "These films (the French, English and German versions) were an attempt to capture his legendary stage performance of this character even though the songs are by Jacques Ibert. Ravel had also been asked to compose the songs for the film but he missed the deadline and his songs survive on their own with texts that are different from those found here. The interplay between the French and English versions is fascinating. Some scenes are done exactly the same for better or worse, some use the same footage, re-cut to edit out performance problems, while others have slight variants in staging and dialogue. (The English version was doctored by Australian-born scriptwriter and director John Farrow, Mia's father, by the way.) Even though the films are short and they transform, reduce and simplify considerably the original novel, they still manage to carry the themes and the feeling that would make Man of La Mancha a hit several decades later and to be evocative of Cervantes' Spain." In the late 1930s, Feodor Chaliapin Sr. suffered from leukaemia and kidney ailment. In 1937, he died in Paris, France. He was laid to rest is the Novodevichy Monastery Cemetery in Moscow. Chaliapin was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6770 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. In 1998, the TV film Chaliapin: The Enchanter (Elisabeth Kapnist, 1998) followed. His son Boris Chaliapin became a famous painter. who painted the portraits used on 414 covers of the Time magazine between 1942 and 1970. Another son Feodor Chaliapin Jr. became a film actor, who appeared in character roles in such films as the Western Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west/Buffalo Bill (Mario Costa, 1965) with Gordon Scott, and Der Name der Rose/The Name of the Rose (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1986), starring Sean Connery. His first wife, Iola Tornagi, lived in the Soviet Union until 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev brought the 'Thaw'. Tornagi was allowed to leave the Soviet Union and reunited with her son Feodor Chaliapin Jr, in Rome, Italy.
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Benoit A. Racine (IMDb), Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
As of September, 2018, much of the "Secret Sidewalk" has been demolished to make way for housing. Glad I could capture this historic relic before it is converted to condominiums.
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TIPTOE AS ONE
“Look at my new Tutu”
Susa 5 shouted with
A voice of delight
“It is pink and sweet
It has glittery things on it
Which shine very bright”
“My skirt is like wings
When I spin around
It lifts me up
And makes a ruffling sound”
“It’s soft like feathers
It’s not too heavy
Not even an ounce
And when I tiptoe
It has a gentle bounce”
“It has a funny name
Which I dare not to speak out loud
It makes me giggle
Wearing it makes me proud”
“ It looks childish on you
It is to outspoken
It disturbs my view”
“It bursts my bubble of imagination
Instead of bleaching in
You jump out”
Was Susa’s 6 condemnation
“You can have a tutu as well”
Susa 5 kindly replied
“A tutu goes with everything
and everyone
It will look good on you
I can already tell “
“We can be a duet
Tiptoe as one
Holding hands
It can be a joyful day
Swirling a pirouette
As if in a tutu ballet”
“No” Susa 6 hardhearted replied
“It is too colourful and too loud
We will step out of joint
I don’t want to be part of your pink cloud”
“The tutu is a grieving element
It bullies and lacks respect
Others become paralyzed bystanders
It simply has that effect”
“Listen to me
I say it once
And very clear
Take off that tutu
Stop being a pioneer”
“Only when you blend in
And past the reviewers’ test
You can take a role on this chessboard
And have a legal protest”
“You must have been approved off
Have created at least a thousand things
Not too forthright
Preferably sweet and average
And wait for what the future brings”
“Don’t have an opinion
Then you might win a prize
Refrain from comment
Stay within the context
Here the judges are extremely wise”
“But before that time
Sit back and be quiet
Take your seat at the last row
Only admire and don’t riot”
“Learn this song
And sing it loud
When you do that
You make me proud”
“One, two, three, four
We don’t want your Tutu War
One, two, three, four
We don’t want your Tutu War”
“I’ve one more thing to say”
Six claimed with authority
“The rules are unique
In here you’re minority”
“You’re not allowed to speak
My art is better then your art
My art is strong and meaningful
Next to my art your art
Is empty and weak”
“But” Susa Five whispered soft.
“I only want to learn to love
My criticism is not to kill you off”
Her whisper became a silent cry
Six already moved on
Five didn’t dare to ask why?
But she kept her tutu
Worn it with pride
And just hoped
That one day
Six would join her side