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Because today is a winter day in Santos, Brazil, that looks a lot like a summer day, i decided to post this shot from the last summer.
Diagonalmente colorida.
Porque hoje é um dia de inverno em Santos, Brasil, que se parece muito com um dia de verão, eu decidi postar esta imagem do último verão.
Smiley definition:
Funny beach sculpture: Sands of humour.
ODC - Diagonal
I found diagonals everywhere at this construction site at the Public Works Yard, but what caught my eye were the metal zig-zag braces on this end wall/
Actor's cut of the proceed - An actor's version of royalty fee prior to modern day contracts.
Movie house
The architectural firm Rapp and Rapp, famous for its theater buildings, designed the Italian Renaissance-style building. The building was variously described by the newspapers as being of the French Renaissance or Northern Italianate style. The Paramount was considered, at its opening, to be the largest and most lavish theater for a city the size of Portland. Originally opened as the Portland Publix Theatre,[2] a vaudeville venue in March 1928,[3] the name changed to the Paramount Theater in 1930, as the owners had a contract to run Paramount films locally. The building continued to show films until 1972, after which it hosted concerts.
Visitors were greeted by a 65-foot (20 m) high "Portland" sign above the Broadway Marquee, which contained approximately 6,000 theatrical lights. The sign read "Paramount" from 1930–1984. The theatre was designed with many foyers and lobbies. The main entrance to the auditorium boasted huge French-paned windows facing east and south, covered with velvet drapes. The walls were covered with mirrors and marble, and the floors were covered with expensive carpets. The furnishings had been purchased from a French museum and private collections. The concessions stand was made of marble and stretched nearly half the length of the main lobby. It was described as the "longest candy counter in the West."[citation needed]
The lobby was lit with huge crystal chandeliers. Nearly $35,000 had been spent on them. The largest had a span of nearly 8 feet (2.4 m), weighing over 1700 pounds and containing 181 lights. Currently, the largest chandelier has 137 candle bulbs, and the smaller ones each have 124 bulbs.
The top row of the balcony seats was six stories above the stage. Small staircases from the main lobby led to the balcony area which contained men's and ladies' lounges. The men's lounge was equipped with fireplaces, telephones, radios, phonographs and attendants. The women's lounge was furnished with dressing tables, mirrors, maids and hairdressers. There was also a self-playing Louis XV Ampico-Knabe grand piano in ivory and gold on the bridge over the lobby.
The walls of the auditorium were elaborately decorated with murals and near the front of the stage, small balconies were hung with drapes which hid the pipes from the $46,500 Wurlitzer organ. This four-manual organ console was mounted on an elevator and could be raised to the level of the stage at the touch of a button.
The seating capacity of the theater was said to have been 4000 seats by the newspaper ads of the day.[4] The ads promised "An acre of seats". Actually, the seating capacity was approximately 3000.
The ceilings were of a special design. The ceiling panels were suspended from the roof of the building and jutted out toward the sides of the auditorium, leaving a small cove next to the wall. A series of electric light bulbs were set in the hollow, not visible to the audience. Their glow fell on the patrons indirectly, giving the effect of space and freedom.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall and Heathman Hotel.
The orchestra pit could hold a 30-piece orchestra. There was also a "flying" stage which could be raised or lowered or moved about above the main stage. -wikipedia
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For ODC-Square. I don't suppose these kernals are truly square, but they sort of look it to me. Stretching the topic.
Views from the windows of my office in Zhongguancun, Beijing, China.
Taken with a GF1 and a Holga Tele lens.