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Take Me Home Tour
Brisbane Entertainment Centre 20/10/13
I was in the front row pretty much right in the middle. I got so lucky and am very grateful. I had the best night ever :)
All photos taken with Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX30V
Lovebytes - Digital Spring.
Part of UNQUIET : Art and music events at Sheffield's Central Library
Sat 24 March 11am-4pm
Sheffield Central Library, Surrey Street, Sheffield.
Sheffield Central Library provided the venue and inspiration for a spree of artistic interventions, impromptu performances and creative workshops:
Sheffield Library's documentation from Unquiet (requires Flash):
Reactable
The Reactable is a revolutionary new electronic musical instrument, designed to create and perform the music of today and tomorrow. It combines state of the art technologies with a simple and intuitive design, which enables musicians to experiment with sound, change its structure, control its parameters and be creative in a direct and refreshing way - unlike anything you have ever known before.
Juxtavoices
Juxtavoices is a large 'antichoir' under the direction of composer Martin Archer and writer Alan Halsey. The group includes many familiar faces from Sheffield's leftfield music, poetry and visual arts scenes. Although the group performs structured scores, no fixed pitches are ever notated, and the group uses improvisation to shape the detail of the scores as the music progresses. Both trained and untrained voices are included. As well as playing "normal" concerts, the group is to be found in various unexpected public places, and at poetry / text events. For this event, Juxtavoices have created 2 special pieces for performance: one in suitably hushed tones inside the main library, and one utilising the rich acoustic of the adjacent stairwell.
20Hz by Semiconductor
05.00 minutes / HD video installation / 2011
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
20Hz is a Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Audio Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.
Co-commissioned by Arts Santa Monica + Lighthouse for the Invisible Fields Exhibition at Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona. 2011-2012. Supported by the British Council.
Catalyst
This sound installation in the Lending Library presents a series of collaborative works by a number of Sheffield based writers and sound artists.
In 2011 composers from the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS) were asked to produce a work drawing on Brian Eno's concept of 'ambient music' - music that could be subtly diffused into the atrium space at Bank Street. These compositions were played throughout the day and the writers spent an hour free-writing in response to them. These initial responses were then developed into poems by the writers and then were recorded reading their poems. These sound recordings formed the source material for a new series of compositions - in some cases settings of the poems themselves, in others more abstract manipulations of the source material.
Catalyst is a collaboration involving Bank Street Arts' Poet in Residence Angelina Ayers; writers on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University; Bank Street Arts Resident sound artist Ian Baxter and fellow composers working from the USSS.
Animation/Pixilation Workshop
Children's Library session beginning 11am, 12pm, 2pm and 3pm (4 x 45min workshops)
Age 6+ Free. Book in advance / places are limited.
To book a place email - kidsandteens.library@sheffield.gov.uk
or tel. - 0114 273 4734
Come and have a go at animating...Yourself! Pixilation is an exciting form of animation where everyday objects and humans are the made to do extraordinary things such as disappear into walls, change into other people, fly, get eaten by black holes and ice skate on carpets!
In this workshop you'll learn how to make use pixillation to create animated films. You and your parents or carers will also find out how to film animation at home using your home computer, a webcam and free software. No experience or equipment necessary - just bring yourself! The workshop is led by Melvyn Turnan - you can see his films at www.melmation.com
Places are very limited, so please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
Sssh! There's going to be a FREE secret film show for kids at 1PM, somewhere in the Library...
Are spy pigeons and lost mechanical aliens your kind of thing? Do you know a cat who belongs to Simon? (or is it a Simon who belongs to a cat?)...
You can only find out the secret location for this screening when you collect a free golden ticket from our information desk in the Winter Garden. Make sure you get there early, it's first come first served and there are only a few places available for this extra special, hush hush event for those in the know. The films are suitable for any age but children must be accompanied by an adult.
These films are 100% guaranteed to totally amaze you... here's a sneak preview of what you will see...
The Lost Thing by Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan (Passion Pictures, Australia 2011). This film won an Oscar for best short animated film in 2011. A boy finds a strange creature on a beach, and decides to find a home for it in a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to.
Pigeon Impossible by Lucas Martell. This amazing bagel bite-sized adventure was 5 years in the making. It's the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase?
Love Over Goldfish by Janet Jennings and Jon Harrison. Have you ever seen a movie that is upside-down from beginning to end? Well the star of this film has, he's lived it! He's a goldfish and this is his life story. Love Over Goldfish was filmed in Sheffield, see if you can spot any familiar locations (but don't get a crick in your neck;)
Thanks to all the staff at Sheffield Libraries for hosting this event.
Special thanks to:
Emma Croft, Sarah Hogan, Martin Dutch and Andrew Milroy at Sheffield Libraries, Martin Archer and Juxtavoices, Ian Baxter (Catalyst), Sergi Jordà (reactable), Sheffield University Sound Studios, Passion Pictures, Lucas Martell, Flatpack Festival, Amber and Joab Harrison
Technical wizards: Darren Chouings (Prism), Melvyn Turnan (Melmation), Richard Bolam (RB Digimedia).
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK
On this beautiful day I walked through the snow and enjoying the sun.
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ISO200; 1/1000s, f10 at 60mm (Nikkor 24-70mm 2.8)
MAN FOUND DEAD IN THE WAITAKERE RANGES.
Yesterday the police authorities received intelligence that a man had been found lying dead in the scrub about two miles from Swanson, on Sunday, by a settler named Peter Hansen, who was looking for cattle. Mounted-Constable Kelly was despatched from Auckland yesterday to ascertain particulars. He went to the place and examined the body, which had no marks of violence upon it. A handkerchief was lying near the body, and on searching deceased's pockets he found a pair of spectacles and a case, and a penknife. The man appeared to have been dead for days, and the body was found lying 300 yards from the track leading to Swanson. The body was conveyed to Swanson. Mr. Michael Kavanagh, of the Falls Hotel, Henderson, identified the body as that of Thomas Forrest Bell, who called at the hotel on the 26th or 27th ult., and remained for the night. He left on the following morning about 9.30, taking a rug with him, saying he was going gumdigging, but he appeared very feeble, and complained of his side being bad, and said he had just come out of the Costley Home. On leaving the hotel he went in the direction of Swanson. Deceased was formerly a settler in the Henderson Valley, where his wife and family reside with her father. Bell was about 45 years of age, and suffered from defective eyesight. As above stated, Bell was formerly an inmate of the Costley Home. When the Committee met there on Wednesday week, he wanted them to send him out gum-digging. The Committee refused, and said that he had better stop where he was. He left the Home on the following morning of his own accord, and that was the last the authorities of the Home heard of him till his remains were found.
Dr. Lewis will make a post-mortem examination of the body, and Mr. Bollard, J.P., will hold an inquest to-day, at Swanson.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18930704.2.22
An inquest took place yesterday at Swanson, before Mr. J. Bollard, J.P., and jury, on the body of Thomas Forrest Bell, who was found dead in the scrub two miles from Swanson. The following witnesses were examined :—Messrs. Peter Hansen (who found the body), Michael Kavanagh (who identified it), Russell (deceased's father-in-law), Moss (master of Costley Home), Dr. Bond, and Miss Cantwell. The postmortem examination of the body showed that death arose from acute inflammation, and congestion of the lungs. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, and with a rider attached to the effect that there was no blame attachable to anyone.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH18930705.2.24
FOUND DROWNED.
A WOMAN'S END.
About seven o'clock this morning, two men who were passing up the Queen-street Wharf saw what was apparently a dead body floating in the harbour, about eighty yards to the westward of the Queen-street Wharf, midway between the Northcote ferry jetty and the first western tee. They soon ascertained the remains to be those of a drowned woman, and on the police being informed, the body was taken to the Morgue to await identification and the usual inquest.
The unfortunate woman who came by her death in the harbour appeared to have been in the water for two or three days. The woman seemed to have been about 40 years of age. The body was poorly clad, and on the feet were a pair of Blucher boots with nails. No clue to the identity of the body had been obtained this morning, but it is supposed that the woman belonged to some of the gumfields up the river, and had fallen into the harbour during one of her visits to town.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18940604.2.15
An inquest was held this afternoon at Gleeson's Hotel, Customs-street, on the body of the woman found floating in the harbour yesterday. The remains had not been identified, and a verdict of "Found Drowned" was returned.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18940605.2.39
A poor woman, drunk no doubt when she fell in, was found drowned in Auckland harbour. But the Harbour Board won't take ordinary precautions for the safety of life on the wharf until the Chairman or the secretary are fished out some fine day by the water police. However, our common 'drunks' don't seem to count.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO18940609.2.8
A MYSTERY SOLVED.
Auckland, June 11.
Yesterday afternoon a gumdigger, named George Armstrong, residing at Lucas's Creek, called at the Water Police station, and requested to be shown the boots, bodice, and other portions of the dress of the woman recently drowned in the harbour. He was taken to the morgue by Constable McDonnell, and he fully identified the articles, as belonging to a woman who had resided with him for seven years, named Mrs Margaret Donnelly, a widow, aged 35, a native of Ireland, and having no friends in the colony. On Saturday, 23rd May, they came to town to sell gum. They remained in town all day, and at 7 p.m., they went to the Northcote ferry tee to go back by the steamer to Northcote. Deceased said she had forgotten a parcel and would go back for it. He replied to come over by the next boat, but if it rained to stop till next day. That was the last he saw of her, and as she did not turn up he thought she had gone away. She had, he states, been drinking, but was not drunk when he last saw her.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THA18940612.2.21
Plot 32: James Forrest Bell (40) 30/6/1893 – Gumdigger – Inflammation of lungs – Swanson (Pres.)
Margaret Donnelly (35) 23?/5/1984 – Widow – Drowned (Noncon.)
Anglican divisions M and N are what is known as ‘Potters Fields’, they were used to bury some of the people whose families were unable to afford funeral costs, were institutionalised or unidentified at the time of burial. These plots were common graves with many having several individuals interred in each. They were narrower and closer together and, because they were not paid for, permanent grave markers were not permitted to be erected.
It is now no longer known where either Anglican Division M or N starts let alone the rows or individual plots which have now been protected by ghost gums, native trees & flax.
However it is believed that Division M starts closest to Waitakere View Rd & that single rows were used for both areas.
Costley Home for the Aged Poor
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Image of Costley Home
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Day 1 of "Your Muslim Neighbour" Week
Direction plays an important role in the life of a Muslim in many different ways: whether physically, as Muslims around the globe pray towards the same sacred location or spiritually by using Islam to guide them to what's good and to steer away from the bad.
Note: I don't intend to impose my views on anyone or start any debates. I just aim to shed some light on a topic (Islam) that is very misunderstood in the world today. But I'd love to hear your perspective/comments, because I believe with good communication, we can break down barriers and understand one another as people
Italian postcard by Bromostampa, Milano, no. 148.
Seductive Italian actress Virna Lisi (1936-2014) appeared in more than 100 film and TV productions and was internationally best known as a tempting blue-eyed blonde in Hollywood productions of the 1960s. But she proved to be more than a pretty face. Later she had a career Renaissance with three-dimensional character parts in various Italian and French. A triumph was her portrayal of a malevolent Catherine de Medici in La Reine Margot (1994) for which she won both the David di Donatello and the César awards.
Virna Lisi was born as Virna Lisa Pieralisi in Ancona, Italy in 1936. Her brother, Ubaldo, later became a talent agent. Her sister was actress Esperia Pieralisi. Virna began her film career as a teenager. Two Neapolitan producers (Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce) discovered her in Paris. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio/The Line of Steel (Carlo Borghesio, 1953-1958). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta/Napoli Sings (Armando Grottini, 1953) and the successful four-episode film Questa è la vita/Such is Life (Luigi Zampa a.o., 1954), with the popular Totò. Her looks were more valued than her talent in some of her early films, like in Le diciottenni/Eighteen Year Olds (Mario Mattoli, 1955) with Marisa Allasio, and Lo scapolo/The Bachelor (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1955) with Alberto Sordi. She incarnated more demanding roles in Il cardinale Lambertini/Cardinal Lambertini (Giorgio Pastina, 1954) opposite Gino Cervi, La Donna del Giorno/The Doll That Took the Town (Francesco Maselli, 1956), the Peplum Romolo e Remo/Duel of the Titans (Sergio Corbucci, 1961) featuring musclemen Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott as the two legendary brothers, and Eva/Eve (Joseph Losey, 1962) starring Jeanne Moreau. In the late 1950s, Lisi played on stage at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and appeared in 'I giacobini' by Federico Zardi, under the direction of Giorgio Strehler. During the 1960s, Lisi played in stage comedies and she also participated in some very popular dramatic television productions. On TV, she also promoted a toothpaste brand, with a slogan which would become a catchphrase amongst the Italians: "con quella bocca può dire ciò che vuole" (with such a mouth, she can say whatever she wants).
In the 1960s, Hollywood producers were looking for a successor to Marilyn Monroe and so Virna Lisi made a dent in Hollywood comedies as a tempting blue-eyed blonde. She first starred opposite Jack Lemmon in George Axelrod’s satirical How to Murder Your Wife (Richard Quine, 1965). At IMDb, reviewer Mdantonio takes his hat off for her performance: “What most everyone fails to mention in the comments is the incredible skill of Virna Lisi. She is a natural mixing it up with Lemmon, (Claire) Trevor and the other veterans like she had been making movies for years. I have watched many movies in my day and I must say that Virna Lisi is right at the top, not only in beauty and sexuality but in carrying her role as good as anyone else could have. Ms. Lisi, my hat is off to you.” She also gained attention with the March 1965 cover of Esquire magazine on which she was shaving her face. The following year she appeared in another comedy, Not with My Wife, You Don't! (Norman Panama, 1966), now with Tony Curtis. She also starred with Frank Sinatra in Assault on a Queen (Jack Donohue. 1966), with Rod Steiger in La Ragazza e il Generale/The Girl and the General (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1967), and twice with Anthony Quinn, in the war drama La vingt-cinquième heure/The 25th Hour (Henri Verneuil, 1967), and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer, 1969). To overcome her typecasting as a sexy, seductive woman, Lisi sought new types of roles and found these in such Italian comedies as Le bambole/Four Kinds of Love (Dino Risi a.o., 1965), Signore & signori/The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Pietro Germi, 1966) and Le dolci signore/Anyone Can Play (Luigi Zampa, 1968), and Roma bene (Carlo Lizzani, 1971) with Senta Berger. At AllMovie, Robert Firsching reviews Signore & signori: “Pietro Germi's funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about village life. The film centers on three stories exposing the sexual secrets of the Italian town of Treviso. (...) Signore e Signori won the Best Film award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.”
In the early 1970s, Virna Lisi decided to focus on her family, husband Franco Pesci and her son Corrado, born in 1962. In the later 1970s, she had a career renaissance with a series of major Italian films, including the Nietzsche biography Al di là del bene e del male/Beyond Good and Evil (Liliana Cavani, 1977) starring Dominique Sanda, Ernesto (Salvatore Samperi, 1979), La cicala/The Cricket (Alberto Lattuada, 1980), and I ragazzi di via Panisperna/The Boys of the Via Panisperna (Gianni Amelio, 1989) with Andrea Prodan and Mario Adorf. Prodan’s brother Luca is the singer of an Argentinean band, which later made a song for Lisi. A Brazilian rock band, Virna Lisi, is even named after her. Her greatest triumph was the French film La Reine Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994) in which Lisi played a malevolent Catherine de Medici, ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations of incest. Karl Williams writes at AllMovie about the film: “The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi).” For her magnificent portrayal, Lisi won not only the César and Best Actress award in Cannes but also the David di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar. From the late 1990s on, she did several successful dramatic TV productions, including L'onore e il rispetto/Honour and Respect (Salvatore Samperi, 2006) with Gabriel Garko and Giancarlo Giannini. In 2002, Lisi starred in Il più bel giorno della mia vita/The Best Day of My Life (Cristina Comencini, and her final film was Latin Lover (Cristina Comencini, 2015), which was posthumously released. In 2014, she passed away in Rome at the age of 78. Virna Lisi was married to architect Franco Pesci and they had three grandchildren: Franco, Federico and Riccardo.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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I am considering a new occupation. Taking up professional Pole Dancing. Only hurdle is, amongst my friends and acquaintances of many nationalities, I don't know any. Perhaps my first step would be to join the Polish Club.
I certainly hope they speak the same language as I (if you know what I mean)
March 17, 2012 - (L- R) Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Niall Horan from the band One Direction - One Direction in Concert at WIOQ's iHeartRadio Theatre in Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA, famouspix.zenfolio.com/p105242967
March 17, 2012 - (L- R) Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Niall Horan from the band One Direction - One Direction in Concert at WIOQ's iHeartRadio Theatre in Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA, famouspix.zenfolio.com/p105242967
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww One Direction very cuteeeee '.' Rite ?
You see that ? =p~
Now I'm falling in love with them heuheu T T
Really like What makes you beautiful ~~~♥
I can't belive * shy *
You don't know you're beautiful ♥