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Love a good hardcore hardtail, always fun to ride the NS. And yes, I do love the colour.
One of my favourite tracks in Wellington. No jumps, no berms, it's not fast. But it is super narrow and tight, got to watch your bars and pedals the whole way down. It's good honest mountain biking.
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Fore Street is arguably the most interesting and eccentric street in Exeter. From the top, on a sunny day, there is a tremendous view down the street and across the Exe valley towards the Haldon Hills. Once it was full of grocery stores, butchers and bakeries, along with hat and clothes shops, two cinemas and two churches and a mission hall. Now there is a plethora of fast food outlets, boutiques, a small department store, a fancy dress shop, a tattooist, a used book shop, another selling used CDs and DVDs, two printers and three or four outdoor pursuit shops.
He didn't notice me but I noticed him, flaunting those feet like he didn't care Those socked feet, totally vulnerable were now within my grasp.
Another portrait addition to my on going series focused on people who I call Eccentrics. This man was a vendor selling small horns at a local Renaissance festival. 5x7 oil on panel.
a certain degree of eccentricity seems almost to be a pre requisite for a market stall holder in london.
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
Many of the sand dollars cast onto the beach have these barnacles attached. Though the barnacles can live on (attach to) other hard surfaces, they show "a distinct preference to attach to other forms of marine life, including mollusk shells, exoskeletons of crustaceans and the eccentric sand dollar. . ."--The Beachcomber's Guide to Seashore Life of California, J. Duane Sept.
Note that the name "eccentric" for the sand dollar does not refer to personality or behavior as in humans, but to the off-center pattern on what is typically a radially symmetrical animal.
Steps in the garden at "Brief", the bungalow and garden built by the eccentric former soldier and landscape artist, Bevis Bawa, inland from Bentota in southern Sri Lanka.
I would like to congratulate Bristol City Council, First Bus...or whoever it was that erected this stunning new piece of transport architecture on Bristol's Stoke Hill. As you can see the complete anthropometric range is covered...from the long leggy persuasion to those whose bottoms are in close proximity to the ground. I would suggest, however, that seat belts be provided since slopey sitting leaves you leaning to port. Of course, that is it! Celebrating Bristol as a Port City....brilliant thinking chaps! Oh, and that is me...just taking a selfie and checking the verticals.
Coral Castle is a stone structure created by the Latvian American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951) north of the city of Homestead, Florida in Miami-Dade County at the intersection of South Dixie Highway (U.S. 1) and SW 157th Avenue. The structure comprises numerous megalithic stones (mostly limestone formed from coral), each weighing several tons. It currently serves as a privately operated tourist attraction. Coral Castle is noted for legends surrounding its creation that claim it was built single-handedly by Leedskalnin using reverse magnetism and/or supernatural abilities to move numerous stones weighing many tons and carving them.
According to the Coral Castle's own promotional material, Edward Leedskalnin was jilted by his 16-year-old fiancée Agnes Scuffs in Latvia, just one day before the wedding. Leaving for America, he came down with allegedly terminal tuberculosis, but spontaneously healed, stating that magnets had some effect on his disease.
Edward spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view him while he worked. A few teenagers claimed to have witnessed his work, reporting that he had caused the blocks of coral to move like hydrogen balloons. The only tool that Leedskalnin spoke of using was a "perpetual motion holder."
The grounds of Coral Castle consist of 1,100 short tons (1,000 t) of stones in the form of walls, carvings, furniture and a castle tower. Commonly referred to as being made up of coral, it is made of oolite, also known as oolitic limestone. Oolite is a sedimentary rock composed of small spherical grains of concentrically layered carbonate that may include localized concentrations of fossil shells and coral. Oolite is found throughout southeastern Florida from Palm Beach County to the Florida Keys. Oolite is often found beneath only several inches of topsoil, such as at the Coral Castle site.
The Coral Castle remains a popular tourist attraction with various pop culture speculations regarding how Leedskalnin was able to construct the structure and move stones that weighed many tons. The Coral Castle site states that "if anyone ever questioned Ed about how he moved the blocks of coral, Ed would only reply that he understood the laws of weight and leverage well." He also stated that he had "discovered the secrets of the pyramids", which of course could be interpreted in either esoteric or engineering terms.
I've stayed a few times recently in the wonderfully eccentric Mullaghmore House in Omagh (literally the birth place of Sam Neill - his mother gave birth in the kitchen).
The attic room - through the door on the left in this picture - is supposed to be haunted. The fact that there is a peculiar (but actually quite benign) statue standing outside sort of adds to the spooky atmosphere...
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. W 728. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Green-eyed beauty Jean Peters (1926-2000) flashed across the screen in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Peters did not want to be turned into a sex symbol. She preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women. After just seven years as a bright star of 20th Century Fox, she joined in the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes, and became his second wife.
Jean Elizabeth Peters was born in 1926 in East Canton, Ohio, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Diesel) and Gerald Peters, a laundry manager. Her father died when she was ten years old. Her mother owned a tourist camp on the outskirts of town and there was enough money around to send Jean to college. She went to college at the University of Michigan and later the Ohio State University, where she studied to become a teacher and majored in literature. A campus popularity contest she won ended her plans as an English teacher because it came with a trip to Hollywood and a screen test. In short order, "Miss Ohio State University" was offered a seven-year contract at 20th Century-Fox with a starting salary of $150 a week. It was announced that in her first film I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (Lloyd Bacon, 1947), she would play an "ugly duckling", supported by "artificial freckles and horn-rimmed glasses". After being picked by Darryl F. Zanuck to co-star opposite Tyrone Power in the studio's splashy big-budget swashbuckler Captain from Castile (Henry King, 1947), Jean came to the attention of Howard Hughes. She discreetly dated him for the remainder of the decade and continued to live an unpretentious lifestyle, rarely seen in public and eschewing the Hollywood nightlife and parties. A self-confessed tomboy, she rarely wore make-up in private and preferred to dress in jeans rather than glamorous gowns. She and her mother lived in a smallish bungalow in Bel-Air, paid for by Hughes. After relative success in her second feature, Deep Waters (Henry King, 1948) opposite Dana Andrews, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the prissy roles she was assigned in her subsequent efforts. She was no shrinking violet when it came to defending her interests: she refused outright to appear in Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, 1948) - a part she thought as "too sexy" - and Sand (Louis King, 1949). As a result, the studio, frustrated by her stubbornness, put her on suspension. She returned to farm life in Ohio, but was back in New York in 1951 to be screen-tested by Elia Kazan for the epic biopic of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan, 1952), shot on location in Mexico with Marlon Brando in the lead.
Fox wisely used Jean Peters during the next few years for similarly unglamorous outdoor roles, notably as the titular heroine of Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur, 1951), and a tempestuous girl living in the Georgia swamps in Lure of the Wilderness (Jean Negulesco, 1952). Then followed a gum-chewing dame innocently involved in espionage in Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953). Fuller said he thought Peters had the right blend of sex appeal and the tough-talking, streetwise quality he was seeking. Then she was Burt Lancaster's Indian squaw in the hard-hitting Western Apache (Robert Aldrich, 1954). She got good notices in all of these films and was now recognized as a major star. As a result, she was cast in the prestigious Film Noir Niagara (Henry Hathaway, 1953), opposite Joseph Cotten and Marilyn Monroe (both of whom she befriended), and the Spencer Tracy Western Broken Lance (Edward Dmytryk, 1954). Under a new contract with Fox, Jean was now no longer in a position to refuse an assignment and, though basically unhappy with her part in Three Coins in the Fountain (Jean Negulesco, 1954), the picture proved to be one of her most popular pictures to date. Her next film, A Man Called Peter (Henry Koster, 1955) starring Richard Todd, was to be her swan song. Following a 33-day marriage to Stuart Warren Cramer III, a Texan oilman, which ended in a whirlwind divorce, Jean finally married Howard Hughes in a secret ceremony and left public life for the next 13 years. She never gave interviews and retreated to an isolated hilltop mansion above the Santa Monica Mountains. In 1969 she resurfaced, studying for a degree in sociology at UCLA under an assumed name. When Jean's marriage to Hughes ended in June 1971, the actress settled for the relatively modest sum of $70,000 a year and happily waived any further claims on the estate. That same year she got married for the third time, to 20th Century-Fox vice-president Stanley Hough. Her screen career was briefly resuscitated when she was cast in the miniseries Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (Boris Sagal, 1976) and she was last seen in an episode of Murder, She Wrote (1984). She devoted her final years to charitable causes and never spoke in public about her years with Howard Hughes. Jean Peters died of leukemia in 2000 in Carlsbad, California.
Sources: I.S.Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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This is a tea room in Greenwich,London. I love the fact that they have made the style without real effort but mix all kinds of colour, texture together and u got such the gorgeous combination.
Washing windscreens in Rome. She was happy to have her portrait taken and we contributed to her day's takings.
Pigment print on paper by PHUNK and Keiichi Tanaami during Superfluous Things : Paper exhibition at SAM @Tanjong Pagar Distripark.
The eccentric, eclectic, technicolor garden entrance to the Papermoon Diner in Baltimore. It's a great place to eat and my kids loved it when we visited in August. They loved looking at everything on the walls.
In one or two countries the date is written eccentrically, with month coming before day. Thus today's date would be 3.14.23 rather than 14.3.23. In such countries today is Pi Day.
Here the lovely Ama Pipi, a British athlete, is helping us to mark said Pi day. (I took her photo ten years ago, so she looks rather older now.)
French postcard by Sonis, no. C. 1781. Photo: Disney. Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006).
American actor Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile actors in today's Hollywood. He made his film debut as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). With his dark, intense eyes and highly defined cheekbones, he shot to fame as a teen idol in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). He is now best known for his many wonderful collaborations with director Tim Burton, and for his flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of Carribean franchise. He likes to play freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society. Depp has been nominated for three Oscars and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor.
John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 16 (or 15 - the sources differ), after his parents divorced. The brooding teenager fronted a series of music-garage bands, including the punk rock/New Wave band The Kids, which opened for Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, and The B-52's. When he married Lori Anne Allison (Lori A. Depp), he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to support himself and his wife during slack times in the music business. When he visited Los Angeles with his wife, he met actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting. This culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. He played a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon (1986), starring Charlie Sheen. In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher as Officer Tom Hanson, who goes on an undercover operation by posing as a student in crime-ridden Los Angeles-area high schools in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). After numerous roles in teen-oriented films, Depp spoofed the genre as 1950s teen rebel 'Cry-Baby' Wade Walker in John Waters' tongue-in-cheek Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990). The film received positive reviews from critics, but did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release. It has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name which was nominated for four Tony Awards. That year, Depp also started his great collaborations with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990) with Winona Ryder and Christopher Lee.
Following the film's success, Johnny Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in such features as Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis in this drama about a dysfunctional family. He rejoined with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994), a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. Then he played a newly-orphaned accountant in the surrealist Western Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995), and an undercover FBI agent in the fact-based crime drama Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997), opposite Al Pacino. Depp appeared as Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's trippy adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). The same year he teamed up again with Burton in Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane. With Chuck E. Weiss, Depp turned the Central Nightclub in Los Angeles, into the famous Viper Room at 8852 Sunset Blvd. The building was once owned by infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel. It's also the place where River Phoenix passed away on 31 October 1993. Depp closed down the Viper Room for two weeks after Phoenix's death and he also closed it on every 31 October until 2004. That year, he ended his ownership of the Viper room when he signed it over to Amanda Fox, the daughter of his missing partner in the club, Anthony Fox. Depp also once co-owned a restaurant/club in a former cinema in Paris called Man Ray (named after the avant-garde artist), with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and British musician Mick Hucknall.
Johnny Depp has played many different and often bigger-than-life characters in his career. He played a fact-based one, Insp. Fred Abberline in From Hell (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, 2001). He stole the show in the finale to Robert Rodriguez's Mariachi trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), opposite Antonio Banderas. In that same year he starred in the marvelous family blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off: the charming, conniving and roguish Capt. Jack Sparrow. He based Sparrow on rock legend Keith Richards and the Looney Tunes character, Pepe Le Pew. The film's enormous success included an Oscar nomination for Depp. Depp was again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as kind-hearted Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie, who penned the children's classic Peter Pan, in Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 2004), with Kate Winslet. He appeared as the notorious second Earl of Rochester in the British film, The Libertine (Lawrence Dunmore, 2004) opposite John Malkovich. Depp collaborated again with Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005), and the stop-motion animation Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Later followed Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton, 2007), Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) and Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 2012). Depp reprised the role of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates sequels Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006), At World's End (Gore Verbinski, 2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011), which were again major box office successes.
Off-screen, Johnny Depp has dated several female celebrities, and has been engaged to Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983, but divorced her in 1985. Depp has two children with French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis: Lily-Rose Melody (1999) and Jack (2002). He married actress/producer Amber Heard in 2015. Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in May, 2016. She was granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order against Depp in relation to a physical altercation between the couple, which resulted in Heard filing for divorce in the first place. Heard was granted $7 million as part of the former couple's divorce, which was finalised in 2017. Depp has struggled with alcoholism and addiction for much of his life. Depp has stated that he began smoking at age 12 and began using alcohol and drugs shortly thereafter. In July 2018, Depp was sued for allegedly punching a crew member twice in the ribs during a foul-mouthed tirade. Court documents stated that the actor "reeked of alcohol" and took drugs on set. According to IMDb, Johnny Depp resides in France, Los Angeles, and an island he owns in the Bahamas. He divides his time in France between Meudon, a suburb of Paris and a villa in Plan-de-la-Tour, an hour outside of St Tropez in Southern France. He also purchased Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home. Depp is intensely protective of his private life. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) is one of the few televised interviews he's granted. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Despite this massive success (or maybe as a result), Depp's career suffered a downswing after a string of critical and commercial flops. Films like The Tourist (opposite Angelina Jolie), Dark Shadows (a rare misstep with Tim Burton) and The Lone Ranger failed to connect with audiences and critics alike and left many to wonder when Depp's career would recover." It did. In recent years, Depp reprised the role of the Mad Hatter in Alice Through the Looking Glass (James Bobin, 2016), reprised his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 2017), and he was seen in the blockbuster Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (David Yates, 2018), written by J. K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne. Depp is set to return as Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts film, which is scheduled for release in November 2020.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
VSCO Film - Provia 100
I saw this guy approaching, and just managed to get my camera out and get the shot away before he rode past. I suppose I could have had him cycling away from me, however one wouldn't have seen his eccentric bearded face with flat cap!
Storm Tower.
The eccentric inventor Miguel de Sande (yes, that's right, the grandfather of the same naturalist Nathaniel de Sande) built this snow-white (once, it was) tower during his search for new sources of energy. Miguel wanted to tame the power of lightning, and direct it to perform tasks necessary for people, such as lighting or fuel for airships. Residents of the surrounding villages twirled their fingers near their temples, because it seemed to them an incredible and dangerous occupation. However, every time during a thunderstorm, the inventor zealously ran around his devices , pressing switches, and occasionally laughing, especially when lightning struck one of the antennas on the tower.
It is said that Miguel had almost solved his difficult task when another, but extremely powerful, storm swept over the hills. A powerful wind broke many of his unique devices. His records were destroyed and scattered all over the area. Miguel disappeared himself without a trace during this storm. People say that he was picked up and carried away by the wind. Or, maybe he fell into despair from many unsuccessful attempts and left his business...
Who knows?
I was depressed that they did not have a freak show at the fair this year. But I was more then compensated by having a chance to witness my very first clown ministry!
Mountain State Fair
Fletcher, NC
~Usually when I can't come up with something for the topic I just skip it, however today I was sure this would be an easy one . . . boy was I wrong!! I tried, I really really REALLY did.
ODC2: Eccentric
Nikon D700 & 50mm lens
Where would we be without our eccentrics? Here resteth Major Peter Labelliere, who departed this life in 1800 at the age of 75 – and who insisted on being buried vertically, head first.
This headstone marks the spot. It’s on Box Hill – one of Surrey’s finest beauty spots which offers stunning panoramic views across the Weald towards the south coast of England.
Labelliere, who lived in nearby Dorking, chose to be buried head first “because, as the world is turned upside down on Judgement Day, only I will be the correct way up”.
Not only that, but apparently he also asked that his landlady’s two young children should be allowed to dance on his coffin, to demonstrate that funerals weren’t sombre affairs. According to the National Trust, which owns Box Hill, this wasn’t felt to be in the best possible taste; only the boy complied, while the little girl merely sat on the coffin!
Don'y let age catch up to you. Dress as you please! Enjoy yourself! Show off! Do not take heed to the old adage of "dressing your age."
Life is too short to do otherwise :)
French postcard, no. 2009.
American actor Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile actors in today's Hollywood. He made his film debut as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). With his dark, intense eyes and highly defined cheekbones, he shot to fame as a teen idol in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). He is now best known for his many wonderful collaborations with director Tim Burton, and for his flamboyant pirate Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of Carribean franchise. He likes to play freakishly eccentric outcasts whose oddities are misunderstood by society. Depp has been nominated for three Oscars and has won the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Actor.
John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 16 (or 15 - the sources differ), after his parents divorced. The brooding teenager fronted a series of music-garage bands, including the punk rock/New Wave band The Kids, which opened for Iggy Pop, Duran Duran, and The B-52's. When he married Lori Anne Allison (Lori A. Depp), he took up the job of being a ballpoint-pen salesman to support himself and his wife during slack times in the music business. When he visited Los Angeles with his wife, he met actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to turn to acting. This culminated in Depp's film debut in the low-budget horror film, A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), where he played a teenager who falls prey to dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger. He played a supporting role as a Vietnamese-speaking private in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon (1986), starring Charlie Sheen. In 1987 he shot to stardom when he replaced Jeff Yagher as Officer Tom Hanson, who goes on an undercover operation by posing as a student in crime-ridden Los Angeles-area high schools in the TV series 21 Jump Street (1987). After numerous roles in teen-oriented films, Depp spoofed the genre as 1950s teen rebel 'Cry-Baby' Wade Walker in John Waters' tongue-in-cheek Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990). The film received positive reviews from critics, but did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release. It has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name which was nominated for four Tony Awards. That year, Depp also started his great collaborations with director Tim Burton, playing the title role in the romantic dark fantasy Edward Scissorhands (1990) with Winona Ryder and Christopher Lee.
Following the film's success, Johnny Depp carved a niche for himself as a serious, somewhat dark, idiosyncratic performer, consistently selecting roles that surprised critics and audiences alike. He continued to gain critical acclaim and increasing popularity by appearing in such features as Lasse Hallström's What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Juliette Lewis in this drama about a dysfunctional family. He rejoined with Burton in the lead role of Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994), a biographical film about one of history's most inept film directors. Then he played a newly-orphaned accountant in the surrealist Western Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995), and an undercover FBI agent in the fact-based crime drama Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell, 1997), opposite Al Pacino. Depp appeared as Hunter S. Thompson's alter ego in Terry Gilliam's trippy adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). The same year he teamed up again with Burton in Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton, 1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod Crane. With Chuck E. Weiss, Depp turned the Central Nightclub in Los Angeles, into the famous Viper Room at 8852 Sunset Blvd. The building was once owned by infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel. It's also the place where River Phoenix passed away on 31 October 1993. Depp closed down the Viper Room for two weeks after Phoenix's death and he also closed it on every 31 October until 2004. That year, he ended his ownership of the Viper room when he signed it over to Amanda Fox, the daughter of his missing partner in the club, Anthony Fox. Depp also once co-owned a restaurant/club in a former cinema in Paris called Man Ray (named after the avant-garde artist), with Sean Penn, John Malkovich and British musician Mick Hucknall.
Johnny Depp has played many different and often bigger-than-life characters in his career. He played a fact-based one, Insp. Fred Abberline in From Hell (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes, 2001). He stole the show in the finale to Robert Rodriguez's Mariachi trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), opposite Antonio Banderas. In that same year he starred in the marvelous family blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), playing a character that only the likes of Depp could pull off: the charming, conniving and roguish Capt. Jack Sparrow. He based Sparrow on rock legend Keith Richards and the Looney Tunes character, Pepe Le Pew. The film's enormous success included an Oscar nomination for Depp. Depp was again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as kind-hearted Scottish novelist James Matthew Barrie, who penned the children's classic Peter Pan, in Finding Neverland (Marc Forster, 2004), with Kate Winslet. He appeared as the notorious second Earl of Rochester in the British film, The Libertine (Lawrence Dunmore, 2004) opposite John Malkovich. Depp collaborated again with Burton in a screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton, 2005), and the stop-motion animation Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, 2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Later followed Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton, 2007), Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton, 2010) and Dark Shadows (Tim Burton, 2012). Depp reprised the role of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates sequels Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006), At World's End (Gore Verbinski, 2007) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011), which were again major box office successes.
Off-screen, Johnny Depp has dated several female celebrities, and has been engaged to Sherilyn Fenn, Jennifer Grey, Winona Ryder and Kate Moss. He was married to Lori Anne Allison in 1983, but divorced her in 1985. Depp has two children with French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis: Lily-Rose Melody (1999) and Jack (2002). He married actress/producer Amber Heard in 2015. Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in May, 2016. She was granted a temporary domestic violence restraining order against Depp in relation to a physical altercation between the couple, which resulted in Heard filing for divorce in the first place. Heard was granted $7 million as part of the former couple's divorce, which was finalised in 2017. Depp has struggled with alcoholism and addiction for much of his life. Depp has stated that he began smoking at age 12 and began using alcohol and drugs shortly thereafter. In July 2018, Depp was sued for allegedly punching a crew member twice in the ribs during a foul-mouthed tirade. Court documents stated that the actor "reeked of alcohol" and took drugs on set. According to IMDb, Johnny Depp resides in France, Los Angeles, and an island he owns in the Bahamas. He divides his time in France between Meudon, a suburb of Paris and a villa in Plan-de-la-Tour, an hour outside of St Tropez in Southern France. He also purchased Bela Lugosi's Los Angeles home. Depp is intensely protective of his private life. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) is one of the few televised interviews he's granted. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Despite this massive success (or maybe as a result), Depp's career suffered a downswing after a string of critical and commercial flops. Films like The Tourist (opposite Angelina Jolie), Dark Shadows (a rare misstep with Tim Burton) and The Lone Ranger failed to connect with audiences and critics alike and left many to wonder when Depp's career would recover." It did. In recent years, Depp reprised the role of the Mad Hatter in Alice Through the Looking Glass (James Bobin, 2016), reprised his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 2017), and he was seen in the blockbuster Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (David Yates, 2018), written by J. K. Rowling and starring Eddie Redmayne. Depp is set to return as Gellert Grindelwald in the third Fantastic Beasts film, which is scheduled for release in November 2020.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Voldemars Irbe (1893-1944) was popular in society with his eccentric appearance and behavior: a man with a long beard and hair, he always walked barefoot, even in winter. Most of the year he was wandering around the cities of Riga, Jurmala and Tukums, painting incredibly fast, as he used to say, "working at one separate picture for as long as it is possible to tirelessly stand on one leg."
Voldemārs Irbe (Partridge) - 'Irbīte' (Little Partridge) had seen as the first persistent pastel painter in Latvian art. Irbe was killed nearby by shrapnel on the last day of the WW2 Battle for Riga in 1944.
Sculptor Andris Vārpa.