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I met a moose near Oxbow Bend one morning at September's end.
With majesty he calmly stood,
face to the sun, back to the wood.
The autumn air was thick with dew.
The river steamed like witch's brew.
He crossed the river in the haze and left me in a dreamy daze......
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The cleansing of 46th. Street, New York City
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Nancy Wells works in a wide variety of media. She is a painter, sculptor, digital artist, photographer, printmaker, doll-maker and poet.
Nancy has exhibited her work widely in the New York metropolitan area, and Jersey City as well as abroad in Russia, Brazil, Alaska, Korea and Sweden. She now has her studio and lives in North East Pennsylvania right on the Delaware River. She continues to exhibit her work in upstate New York and Pa. As one of the early residents of 111 First Street in Jersey City, she was very active in many of the activities and exhibitions that took place in that infamous building until its demise in 2005.
Some of the places she taught were the School of Visual Arts in NYC, The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan Graphics, The Henry Street Settlement, the Morris Museum, the Jersey City Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, the Museum of Natural History, Hartwick College, and Hostos College.
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111 first street. From Paris to Jersey City, They Showed No Love.
a Branko Documentary Film
In the area of Jersey City NJ, for about 20 years, existed a warehouse building where artists had about 130 art studios. The artists left in 2005 and the building was demolished in 2007.
This movie only deals with the art, presented by the artists.
This documentary is a historical document of a very important part of Art in America.
Screening on:
2-23-2012
1:00 PM
Jersey City Library
Biblioteca Criolla, 4th. Floor
472 Jersey Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07302
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111 First Street (a Branko Film), Trailer
111 Jam Band (a Branko Film). Unedited
Faizulla Khamraev (a Branko Film)
Maria Benjumeda, Flamenco and Bulerias at 111 First Street
American Watercolor Movement, Live at Coney Island. A Branko Film (Unedited)
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Newborn baby photographed in the studio.
Nikon D2x, Photogenic powerlight 1250DR, Larson 4x6 softbox, Larson 42x72 reflector.
See more of my Colorado Springs newborn photos.
To learn how to create beautiful and natural-looking studio photos of babies and children, see my book Don't Say "Cheese!," available on Amazon in print or for the Kindle.
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Garbage freight cars. These haul the non-metal garbage pieces of stuff that gets processed in the nearby scrapyard. Lots of automobiles scrapped there, so these are full of upholstery, plastic, rubber, and other crap.
All shots in this set were taken along various freight lines in Queens & Brooklyn.
The latest ones were shot earlier this year during the research & creation of a graffiti book by Joseph Anastasio. If you'd like a well put-together compilation of current graffiti on and along NYC's B&Q rails, grab ahold of a copy of his latest book Brooklyn Queens Freight.
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Latin Collector - The Movie DVD
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West Indian Parade (Photo Book)
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111 First Street Movie - Online Download
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ExaltaSamba em Newark US DVD
Marcos & Geraldi DVD
Jinsop DVD
Jinsop Rodriguez DVD
Brasfest DVD
Latin Collector - The Movie DVD
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West Indian Parade (Photo Book)
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111 First Street Movie - Online Download
Before The Fame DVD
ExaltaSamba em Newark US DVD
Marcos & Geraldi DVD
Jinsop DVD
Jinsop Rodriguez DVD
Brasfest DVD
Latin Collector - The Movie DVD
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Tattoo: "Life is here now,
there is no here after
so make it burn, always
with the hardest flame."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray: "Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”
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Marcos & Geraldi DVD
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Brasfest DVD
Latin Collector - The Movie DVD
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Sleeping newborn twins. Nikon 2Dx. See more Colorado Springs newborn pictures.
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running for president in 2012, as a member of the tea party.
times square, nyc
NY Daily News: Despite his efforts to be taken seriously, reporters pelted the Naked Cowboy with questions such as: Will he endorse Fruit of the Loom or Hanes? Is he wearing a codpiece? Does he feel like just another dishonest politician since he's not actually naked in Times Square?
When asked where his underwear was, the Times Square staple did not smile.
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Anabel sus quince anos (Libro Español) Spanish
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Rollei introduces the 6008 Professional in 1988 (ends in 1992)
Rolleiflex 6008 Professional
Rollei HFT 80mm Lens, Planar, f/2.8,
Rollei 45 Degree Prism Finder, (Rollei #97814), gives an upright and unreversed image, can be rotated.
Rollei Film Magazin 6000, 120/6x6cm.
Rollei 6000 Film Magazine Insert (Rollei #98004)
120 Kodak 400 Portra Color Film. B&h does developing for $6.
10 Volt NiMH Battery, upgraded w/ 1600mAh new replacement pack, gives about 1000 shots. It powers the Film Motor, Exposure Meter and Len's Diaphragm.
Rollei R 1.5, Size VI Skylight Filter
Rollei Size VI lens cap
Optech Strap (a big plus in comfort)
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As the girls were exiting a Beauty Pageant's training session, I asked them to enter the hotel's swimming pool to record some video of them.
While I was finishing the video part, all the other photographers had been hastily called, and walked in desperate into the pool area.
I was carrying a late 1930's Rolleiflex with some Agfa expired film, and they all had the latest Nikons, Canons, etc.
I told the girls to form a line, on the side of the pool, and as I was going to take the photo, all the other photographers ran to the opposite side of the pool, and kept on screaming for the girls to look their way.
I hand signaled the first girl, to keep looking at me, until I could take the shot.
This photo became a poster and a centerfold.
And a lot of photographers got caught sleeping that day, by an old Rolleiflex.
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Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Source: The British Museum.
From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC
This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the 'Great Death Pit', one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The other is now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia. It was named the 'Ram in a Thicket' by the excavator Leonard Woolley, who liked biblical allusions. In Genesis 22:13, God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, but at the last moment 'Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son'.
The 'ram' is more accurately described as a goat, and he reaches up for the tastiest branches in a pose often adopted by goats. Goats and sheep in the Near East were among the earliest animals to be domesticated. They were an everyday feature of agricultural life and are regularly depicted by artists in many different ways.
The figure had been crushed flat by the weight of the soil and the wooden core had perished. Wax was used to keep the pieces together as it was lifted from the ground, and it was then pressed back into shape. The ram's head and legs are covered in gold leaf, its ears are copper (now green), its twisted horns and the fleece on its shoulders are of lapis lazuli, and its body fleece is made of shell. Its genitals are gold. The tree is covered in gold leaf, with golden flowers, the whole supported on a small rectangular base decorated with a mosaic of shell, red limestone and lapis lazuli.
The tube rising from the goat's shoulders suggests it was used to support something, most likely a bowl.
iraq's ancient past: rediscovering ur's royal cemetery
University Pennsylvania Museum Archaeology Anthropology
Source: University Pennsylvania Museum Archaeology Anthropology
Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery tells the story of the discovery and excavation of the Royal Cemetery at Ur in modern-day Iraq. The collection includes the famous gold and lapis lazuli bullheaded lyre, a "Ram in the Thicket" sculpture, as well as Lady Pu-abi's headdress and jewelry from ca. 2650-2550 BCE. The story of the excavations at Ur as well as the archaeological and historical context of the finds offer insight into this ancient civilization through its Royal Tombs.
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In the 1920's, the Royal Cemetery of Ur excavations became one of the great technical achievements of Middle Eastern archaeology and now represents one of the most spectacular discoveries in ancient Mesopotamia. Deep within the site lay the tombs of the mid-3rd millennium BCE kings and queens of the city of Ur, famed in the Bible as the home of Biblical patriarch, Abraham. The tombs date to the period known as Early Dynastic IIIA (2600-2500 BCE), a high point in the history of Sumerian culture.
The renowned excavator of the cemetery was British archaeologist C. Leonard (later Sir Leonard) Woolley. In all, Woolley uncovered some 1800 burials. He classified 16 as royal based on their distinctive form, their wealth, and the fact that they contained the burials of household servants, male and female, along with clearly high-ranking personages.
The tomb of a royal woman name Pu-abi was intact and its contents typical of the wealth found throughout the cemetery. Like the other royal tombs, it consisted of a chamber set at the bottom of a deep pit accessed by a ramp. (Woolley dramatically dubbed these "death pits" because of the human "victims" they contained.) The vaulted chamber, made of limestone rubble, lay at the northeast side of the pit. It measured about 9 feet by 14 feet, with the ceiling 5 feet above the floor. Pu-abi's body--identified by an inscribed cylinder seal found at her breast--lay on a wooden bier in the chamber.
She wore an elaborate headdress consisting of gold leaves, gold ribbons, strands of lapis lazuli and carnelian beads and a tall comb, along with chokers, necklaces, and large lunate-shaped earrings. Her upper body was covered by strands of beads made of precious metals and semiprecious stones that stretched from her shoulders to her belt. Ten rings decorated her fingers. A diadem or fillet made up of thousands of small lapis lazuli beads with gold pendants depicting plants and animals was apparently on a table near her head. Two attendants were in the chamber with Pu-abi, one crouched near her head, the other at her feet. Various metal, stone and pottery vessels lay around the walls of the chamber.
While Pu-abi's tomb was intact, most of the other royal tombs were not. Some of the tomb chambers had been destroyed by the intensive digging of later graves in the proximity of the royal tombs, leaving only the pits. Others had been looted by grave robbers in antiquity.
Much surrounding the Royal Cemetery remains puzzling, not least of which is the extraordinary burial of retainers with the royal figures. Nevertheless, the artifacts from the tombs not only provide us with a glimpse of Sumerian society and material culture of the time, but they include some of the most spectacular examples of Sumerian composite art in a range of precious and semiprecious materials as well.
As provided by Iraq's first Antiquities Law, established in 1922, the artifacts were divided between the excavators and the host country. They are currently housed in the British Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and the Iraq Museum (Baghdad).
Iraq's Ancient Past features the unique artifacts from Pu-abi's tomb, which constitute the core of the Museum's holdings from the excavations. It includes her personal jewelry, as well as finds from the tomb chamber and burial pits. Additionally, the exhibit includes some of the more striking and important artifacts from other tombs such as a large wooden lyre with a gold and lapis lazuli bull's head; a silver-covered, boat-shaped lyre with a statuette of a rampant stag; and the world-renowned "Ram-in-the-Thicket," a statuette of a goat standing and nibbling the leaves of a tree or bush.
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