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Mural entitled "Theater of Life" by Careth Arnold aka @carethca, seen in the 1400 Block of 5th Way in the Rosemary District of Sarasota, Florida.
Mural entitled "Born Modern" by SPAGNOLA aka @dustinspagnola, seen at 6430 North Cahuenga Boulevard in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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This creation is entitled “Charleston Mansion.” This mansion is an example of antebellum architecture which typifies the homes along the battery of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. The mansion has three floors flanked by galleries, a large attic with a dormer window and is crowned with a belvedere from where one can view Fort Sumter across Charleston Harbor. It has a private balcony on the third floor as well as a two-story solarium at the back of the house. The mansion is 22 inches wide, 21 inches in length and 27 inches tall and is landscaped with lush shrubbery, flowers and palmetto trees.
I'll try and get around to see you today, but it will be from daughter's computer in Cambridge, Ontario. If I can't get around today, I'll definitely be around tomorrow.
From my set entitled “Jamestown”
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In my collection entitled “Virginia: Beach, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown: May 2008”
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In my photostream
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia
Jamestown (originally also called "James Towne" or "Jamestowne") is located on the James River in what is currently James City County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The site is about 40 miles (62 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean and the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and about 45 miles (70 km) downstream and southeast of the current state capital city of Richmond. Both the river and the settlement were named for King James I of England, who was on the throne at the time, granted the private proprietorship to the Virginia Company of London's enterprise.
The location at Jamestown Island was selected primarily because it offered a favorable strategic defensive position against other European forces which might approach by water. However, the colonists soon discovered that the swampy and isolated site was plagued by mosquitoes and tidal river water unsuitable for drinking, and offered limited opportunities for hunting and little space for farming. The area was also inhabited by Native Americans (American Indians).
The 3 points of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown are linked by the National Park Service's scenic Colonial Parkway.
The 3 points of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown are linked by the National Park Service's scenic Colonial Parkway.
Despite inspired leadership of John Smith, chaplain Robert Hunt and others, starvation, hostile relations with the Indians, and lack of profitable exports all threatened the survival of the Colony in the early years as the settlers and the Virginia Company of London each struggled. However, colonist John Rolfe introduced a strain of tobacco which was successfully exported in 1612, and the financial outlook for the colony became more favorable. Two years later, Rolfe married the young Indian woman Pocahontas, daughter of Wahunsunacock, Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy, and a period of relative peace with the Natives followed. In 1616, the Rolfes made a public relations trip to England, where Pocahontas was received as visiting royalty. Changes by the Virginia Company which became effective in 1619 attracted additional investments, also sowing the first seeds of democracy in the process with a locally-elected body which became the House of Burgesses, the first such representative legislative body in the New World.
Throughout the 17th century, Jamestown was the capital of the Virginia Colony. Several times during emergencies, the seat of government for the colony was shifted temporarily to nearby Middle Plantation, a fortified location on the high ridge approximately equidistant from the James and York Rivers on the Virginia Peninsula. Shortly after the Colony was finally granted a long-desired charter and established the new College of William and Mary at Middle Plantation, the capital of the Colony was permanently relocated nearby. In 1699, the new capital town was renamed Williamsburg, in honor of the current British king, William III.
After the capital was relocated, Jamestown began a gradual loss of prominence and eventually reverted to a few large farms. It again became a significant point for control of the James River during the American Civil War (1861–1865), and then slid back into seeming oblivion. Even the Jamestown Exposition of 1907 was held elsewhere, at a more accessible location at Sewell's Point, on Hampton Roads near Norfolk.
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her consort Prince Phillip inspect replica of Susan Constant at Jamestown Festival Park in Virginia on October 16, 1957
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and her consort Prince Phillip inspect replica of Susan Constant at Jamestown Festival Park in Virginia on October 16, 1957
Beginning in 1893, 22.5 acres of the Jamestown site were acquired by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. A crucial sea wall was built in 1900 to protect the shoreline near the site of James Fort from further erosion. In the 1930s, the Colonial National Historical Park was established to protect and administer Jamestown, which was designated a National Historic Site. The U.S. National Park Service acquired the remaining 1,500 acres (6.1 km²) of Jamestown Island through eminent domain in 1934.
For the 350th anniversary in 1957, Jamestown itself was the site of renewed interest and a huge celebration. The National Park Service provided new access with the completion of the Colonial Parkway which led to Williamsburg, home of the restored capital of Colonial Williamsburg, and then on to Yorktown, the other two portions of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle. Major projects such as the Jamestown Festival Park were developed by non-profit, state and federal agencies. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Prince Philip attended. The 1957 event was a great success. Tourism became continuous with attractions regularly updated and enhanced.
The two major attractions at Jamestown are separate, but complementary to each other. The state-sponsored Jamestown Settlement near the entrance to Jamestown Island includes a recreated English Fort and Native American Village, extensive indoor and outdoor displays, and features the three popular replica ships. On Jamestown Island itself, the National Park Service operates Historic Jamestowne. Over a million artifacts have been recovered by the Jamestown Rediscovery project with ongoing archaeological work, including a number of exciting recent discoveries.
Early in the 21st century, in preparation for the Jamestown 2007 event commemorating America's 400th Anniversary, new accommodations, transportation facilities and attractions were planned. The celebration began in the Spring of 2006 with the sailing of a new replica Godspeed to six major East Coast U.S. cities, where several hundred thousand people viewed it. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip joined America's festivities on an official state visit to Jamestown in May 2007.
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Mural entitled "Forward Momentum" by Jen Wrubles aka @wrubles seen on the wall of the MadLab Theater at 227 North 3rd Street in Columbus, Ohio.
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Robin Williams" by @cobreart located at Market Street and Golden Gate in San Francisco, California.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Long Live" by Johann Avendano aka @johann_art, seen at 318 NW 25th Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Hey guys been loving Damian Marley's song entitled "Africa Must Wake up" try listening to it and you'll know how interesting it is. (sorry i cannot put link from the youtube since its temporarily blocked here)
This is also taken in Bacolod at Gaston mansion's backyard. it was an incredible place! old yes, you might even say quite haunted if you get to see the huge house and the statues but so much colors and spots for unique photos so here's one coz the instance i saw the leaves i hastly sat there and prepared posingc: and Yes this is a photo of myself although my darling karlalu helped took the photo for me c; never really maximized the use of tripad when we were there since we focused more on the places we visited, meet ups with friends and the delicious foods not to mention their chicken and butter scotch! :) there are some pics on the comments :)
We are now preparing stuffs for the 3rd issue of Ecoseedmagazine. And for those who wants to see the previous issues,here's the link so take a tour! c; We have also decided to make two volumes per issue so that means 2 magazine release every month. We would also want to thank all the photo contributors! we'll get back to you guys once your photos are featured on any issues that we'll be releasing with your credits on it! And for anyone of you who wants to be a part of this big step to a whole new portal just drop a msg. c; xoxo and God bless the world :)
In this allegory entitled "Divine Grace and Human Works", at centre is a gloriously depicted Angel directing a farmer's attention to the Sun.
The story being told here is that without the Sun, the farmer's labour achieves little. Just as the Sun is needed to grow the farmer's crops, God's Grace is needed to bring forth and sanctify the spiritual works of men.
This fresco also commemorates Saints Clare of Montefalco, Benedict Joseph Labre, Lawrence of Brindisi and Giovanni Battista De Rossi. All of them were canonized by Pope Leo XIII in 1881. They are the four persons in the background depicted with haloes here.
[ There are notes with more information on each embedded in the image; they are viewable only on a PC. ]
The inscription "Gratia Dei et Contentione Voluntatis Excellentiam Virtutis Adipiscimur" very roughly translates as God's Grace Brings Excellence.
Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican Museums; July 2019
Entitled: Jade Belt Bridge & boat, Summer Palace, taken on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Peking, China [c1924] SD Gamble [RESTORED] A few spots and other minor defects removed, contrast and tonal adjustments, with a final Sepia addition.
The Sidney D. Gamble collection at Duke University continues to be a wealth of images that are both artistically compelling as well as providing a window into the past. It remains one of my personal favorites. Link here:
library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble/
The Jade Belt Bridge 玉帶橋 (alternatively also known as the Camel Back Bridge) is probably the most famous of several bridges on the grounds of the old Qing Summer Palace. Thousands of contemporary tourist photos of it flood the net as its beauty remains timeless despite nearly two and a half centuries. Note, it should not be confused with the much older and longer Precious Belt Bridge, another span that was built during the Tang and restored in the Ming, that is located near Suzhou.
According to Wiki:
"The Jade Belt Bridge (simplified Chinese: 玉带桥; traditional Chinese: 玉帶橋; pinyin: Yù Dài Qiáo), also known as the Camel's Back Bridge, is an 18th century pedestrian Moon bridge located on the grounds of the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. It is famous for its distinctive tall thin single arch.
The Jade Belt Bridge is the most well-known of the six bridges on the western shore of Kunming Lake. It was erected in the years 1751 to 1764, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and was built in the style of the delicate bridges in the country-side of southern China. It is made from marble and other white stone. The ornate bridge railings are decorated with carvings of cranes and other animals. The clearance of the arch was chosen to accommodate the dragon boat of the Qianlong Emperor. As the Kunming Lake inlet to the neighboring Yu River, and when during special occasions, the emperors and empress and their dragon boat would specifically pass under this bridge."
Entitled: Kidnapped Girls, Foochow, China [1904] Attribution Unk [RESTORED] I did simple spot corrections, contrast and tonal adjustments and added a cool tone, similar to the old selenium effect on bromide paper.
The picture was found in the Edward Bangs Drew Collection held in the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University. The accompanying information stated:
"Kidnapped girls, Foochow, Found hidden in a junk by customs inspector. These girls would have been sold for slaves. Chinese characters on mount, left of image." The info also stated that the scene was in Fuzhou, Fujian Sheng, China.
However, those Chinese characters printed on the mount tell a slightly different story:
"Kidnapped male and female children, totaling forty one, being held in foster homes, Lam Hing Lan Company, Recovered from ship in open seas. Customs detention of 23 kidnappers ."
If one examines the photograph closely, it become rather evident that several of the children are indeed, boys (by their clothing and hair styles). Only 27 of the supposed 41 child victims appear in the picture.
The selling of children into a life of servitude was not uncommon in China, as slaves were owned by many wealthy families. Poor families often looked upon it with a benign fatalism as a child sold into slavery was still better than a child starving to death. However, quite a few unscrupulous people kidnapped their neighbor's children to fuel this sad economy. The kidnapping and selling of children (and even adults) continues to be a lucrative business in China, to this day.
From my set entitled ‘Sumac”
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In my collection entitled “The Garden”
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sumac (also spelled sumach) is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice often used in juice.
Sumacs grow in subtropical and warm temperate regions throughout the world, especially in North America.
Sumacs are shrubs and small trees that can reach a height of 1-10 meters. The leaves are spirally arranged; they are usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves. The flowers are in dense panicles or spikes 5-30 cm long, each flower very small, greenish, creamy white or red, with five petals. The fruits form dense clusters of reddish drupes called sumac bobs.
Sumacs propagate both by seed (spread by birds and other animals through their droppings), and by new sprouts from rhizomes, forming large clonal colonies.
The drupes of the genus Rhus are ground into a deep-red or purple powder used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine to add a lemony taste to salads or meat; in the Turkish cuisine e.g. added to salad-servings of kebabs and lahmacun. In North America, the smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), and the staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), are sometimes used to make a beverage, termed "sumac-ade" or "Indian lemonade" or "rhus juice". This drink is made by soaking the drupes in cool water, rubbing them to extract the essence, straining the liquid through a cotton cloth and sweetening it. Native Americans also used the leaves and berries of the smooth and staghorn sumacs combined with tobacco in traditional smoking mixtures.
Species including the fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica), the littleleaf sumac (R. microphylla), the skunkbush sumac (R. trilobata), the smooth sumac and the staghorn sumac are grown for ornament, either as the wild types or as cultivars.
The leaves of certain sumacs yield tannin (mostly pyrogallol), a substance used in vegetable tanning. Leather tanned with sumac is flexible, light in weight, and light in color, even bordering on being white.
Dried sumac wood is fluorescent under long-wave UV light. Mowing of sumac is not a good control measure as the wood is springy resulting in jagged, sharp pointed stumps when mowed. The plant will quickly recover with new growth after mowing.
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Entitled: Men Laden With Tea Sichuan Sheng China JUL [1908] EH Wilson [RESTORED] Very little retouching except for a few scratches and spots. Minor contrast and sepia tone added. The original resides in Harvard University Library's permanent collection, and can be found using their Visual Information Access (VIA) Search System by using the title.
Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson was an explorer botanist who traveled extensively to the far east between 1899 and 1918, collecting seed specimens and recording with both journals and camera. About sixty Asian plant species bear his name. One of his most famous photographs (above) has repeatedly been mistakenly attributed to another legendary botanist (Joseph Rock) who was also working in Asia.
From Wilson's personal notations (with misspellings as is):
"Men laden with 'Brick Tea' for Thibet. One man's load weighs 317 lbs. Avoird. The other's 298 lbs. Avoird.!! Men carry this tea as far as Tachien lu accomplishing about 6 miles per day over vile roads, 5000 ft."
I suspect that Wilson made a mistake; either miscalculating a conversion from Chinese Imperial to European weight measure, or that he believed an inflated figure offered him by a less than honest native. However, others purportedly shared the same beliefs that some porters did in fact, carry upwards of 300 pound loads. In a rare 2003 interview with several retired former porters, still alive and in their 80's. They stated that while the average was really more between 60-110 Kg; they acknowledged that some (only the very strongest) could shoulder a superhuman 150 Kg load; someone like Giant Chang Woo Gow, or one of his kin, perhaps? An excerpt about that interview:
"The Burden of Human Portage
As recently as the first decades of the 20th century, much of the tea transported by the ancient Tea-Horse Road was carried not by mule caravan, but by human porters, giving real substance to the once widely-employed designation ‘coolie’, a term thought to have been derived from the Chinese kuli or ‘bitter labour’. This was particularly true of smaller tracks and trails leading from remote tea-picking areas to the arterial Tea-Horse routes, both in Yunnan and in Sichuan. Perhaps because this human portage played a less economically significant role than the large – sometimes huge – yak, pony and mule caravans, and perhaps because there is little or no romance attached to the piteous sight of over-burdened, inadequately-clad and under-nourished porters hauling themselves and their massive loads across muddy valleys and freezing mountain passes, less information is available to us concerning tea porters than about tea caravans.
Fortunately some black-and-white images of these incredibly wiry, tough, hard-bitten men have come down to us from Sichuan, as well as at least one 150-year-old French-made lithograph from Yunnan, in addition to some rare oral accounts describing the immense difficulties these hardy wretches had to face. In the latter category, as recently as 2003 China Daily carried an interview with four former tea porters in Ganxipo Village, near Tianquan County to the southwest of Ya’an. Now in their 80s, these veterans recall hard times before the completion of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in 1954 when they would carry almost impossibly heavy loads of Sichuan Pu’er tea over a narrow mountain trail across the freezing heights of Erlang Shan (‘Two Wolves Mountain’) to Luding and onwards, across the Dadu River, to the tea distribution centre at Kangding.
According to 81-year-old former tea porter Li Zhongquan, tea was carried by human portage all the way from Tianquan County to Kangding, a distance of 180km (112 miles) each way on narrow mountain tracks, much of the way at dangerously high altitudes in freezing temperatures. According to Li, an able-bodied porter would carry 10 to 12 packs of tea, each weighing between 6 and 9 kg. To this had to be added 7 to 8 kg of grain for sustenance en route, as well as ‘five or six pairs of homemade straw sandals to change on the way’. The strongest porters could carry 15 packs of tea, making a total load of around 150 kg (330 imperial pounds). ‘The grain lasted no longer than half the journey’, Li remembered, ‘and you had to replenish your food supply at your own expense’. As for the multiple pairs of straw sandals: ‘these would be worn out quickly, as the mountain path was extremely rough’.
To make the portage of such heavy loads possible, and to help guard against the ever-present danger of overbalancing and falling into one of the many deep ravines skirted by the narrow mountain trail, tea porters carried iron-tipped T-shaped walking sticks both to assist in struggling over the steep, rocky path, and to rest the load on, without taking it off their backs, when they paused for breath. A surviving section of the old stone path near Ganxipo Village bears testament to the almost unimaginable difficulties faced by the tea porters in the past; small holes dot the stone slabs of the path at regular intervals of a pace or so, indicating where, over centuries and perhaps even millennia, the porters struck the rock with their iron-tipped sticks as they made their laborious way to and from Kangding.
It is possible to identify the T-shaped walking-and-support sticks used by the tea porters in black and white photographs from a century or more ago, including one taken by the American explorer and botanist E.H. Wilson, who helpfully appends the information: ‘Western Szechuan; men laden with “brick tea” for Thibet. One man's load weighs 317 lbs [144 kilos], the other's 298 lbs [135 kilos]. Men carry this tea as far as Tachien-lu [Kangding] accomplishing about six miles per day over vile roads. Altitude 5,000 ft [1,500m] July 30, 1908’.
For the tea porters of Ganxipo Village, the hardest part of their journey was the climb over Erlang Shan. The precipitous mountain trail was so narrow that it was only wide enough for one person to pass at a time. According to Li Zhongquan: ‘one misstep, and you were gone – we had our sandals soled with iron to get over the mountain’. Li also remembers when: ‘one of us was sick and fell dead on the mountain top in winter. We had to leave him there until the snow thawed in spring, when we carried the body down home’. The porters carried tea from Tianquan to Kangding, and returned with loads of medicinal herbs (especially Cordyceps sinensis of Chinese caterpillar fungus), musk, wool, horn and other Tibetan products. The four porters interviewed in China Daily did not know for sure when the tea portage trade had started in Ganxipo, but Li was certain that ‘my grandpa’s grandpa was a porter as well,’ and that the whole village had offered porter services for generations."
Source: www.cpamedia.com/trade-routes...l-perspective/
Just walking for a few kilometers on a flat surface with 40 Kg worth of material on your back, I can attest is already exhausting. To imagine tripling that weight, walk for over 180 kilometers over mountain trails, and breathe rarefied air? I wouldn't say it's downright impossible, but highly improbable. I too, would agree that it was likely only exceptions rather than the rule.
The individuals entitled to display the service flag are clearly defined in 36 USC § 901 which reads:
"A service flag approved by the Secretary of Defense may be displayed in a window of the place of residence of individuals who are members of the immediate family of an individual serving in the Armed Forces of the United States during any period of war or hostilities in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged."
Mural entitled "Heartland" by Rafael Caro, Lauren Neely, and Erica Parker, seen on the side of the Egyptian Café hookah bar
at 6265 Carrollton Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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I entitled this one "Third Time's the Charm" because the background letter is from the Depression era and the author is explaining how she has run into financial difficulty but is following new job leads, so to please not close her account. The numbers are from an old cash register wheel and her crown is hand-cut from a vintage tin. Her wings are from a rice wing butterfly (Idea stolli). 8x10
Entitled: A Family In Lanchow, China [1944] Fr M Tennien [RESTORED]. I did the usual spot and defect removal, adjusted contrast, and added a sepia tone. Overall there was very little needed to do for this very well maintained image.
Another photograph from the extensive holdings of The University of Southern California's Internet Mission Archive taken by a Father Mark Tennien, a cleric from one of the religious missions in Lanzhou (then known as Lanchow). Again, the mission statement of the archive is as follows:
"The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean. The photographs reveal the physical influence of missions, visible in mission compounds, churches, and school buildings, as well as the cultural impact of mission teaching, religious practices, and Western technology and fashions. Indigenous peoples' responses to missions and the emergence of indigenous churches are represented, as are views of landscapes, cities, and towns before and in the early stages of modern development."
Lanchow, or as now known, Lanzhou 蘭州, has lived under a variety of names in the northwest Gansu province, and is probably one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in China. It was also one of the key cities on the northern leg of the the famed silk road. At the crossroad of many cultures, it was the home to the Qiang people when it fell under Qin rule in the 6th Century BC. Thereafter a steady stream of invasions and dynastic shifts allowed it to be ruled by a variety of foreign cultures and nations (including Tibet, which should give those who claim that Tibet was always a part of China some more history to try to rewrite). During the volatile warlord period of the 1920-1930s, Lanzhou was an important transfer point for Soviet communist influence and support into China.
Father Tennien, on 28 SEP 1944 wrote:
"This is a photograph of a family in Lanchow. The women wear square amulets hanging from their necks. The ornaments on their dresses are of solid silver. The family is wearing hats and heavy coats."
The clothing on the family in the picture is unique but shows similarity to both that of tradition Qiang and Tibetan cultures, however there seems to be a bit of Mongolian thrown in as well. I personally am not well versed with any of the Chinese ethnic minorities (officially 56 are recognized at last count) to know the subtle nuances such as cultural difference in dress. If there is anyone out there that knows who or what ethnic group these people belong too, please speak up and educate the rest of us.
An exhibition entitled "China's First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors" is at the World Museum in Liverpool from 9 February 2018 to 28 October 2018.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my permission.© Degzi. All rights reserved.
Mural entitled "Time is Too Short" by Mez Data aka @mezdata for the Big Walls Big Dreams mural festival sponsored by Up Art Studio, seen at 1502 Sawyer Street in Houston, Texas.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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The eye-catching metal sculpture entitled Arria which sits next to the A80 near Cumbernauld.
The sculpture was created by Andy Scott who did the Kelpies at Falkirk and she is named after Arria Fadilla, mother of Roman Emperor Antoninus who ordered the construction of the Antonine Wall in this area.
Strangely enough when I looked up the name 'Arria' it shot back another woman from ancient rome with this name who's actions were seen as characteristic of the 'examples of virtue'. But supposedly she wasn't the basis for the name but the emperors mother was.
When i first heard the name I though about an aria in an opera and thought she looked a bit like an opera singer doing her bit but what do I know.
I think she is meant to be modeled around a mermaid and the two large swooping arcs are inspired by the original name for Cumbernauld, "comar nan allt", which means "coming together of waters" in Gaelic. (source:www.bbc.co.uk)
One thing is for sure, she certainly has a well proportioned figure. Easily seen it was a guy who designed it.
The seventh photograph in the series is entitled “Creation of Luke” and is based upon Michelangelo's most famous section of his fresco in the Sistine Chapel, The Creation of Adam. It is believed by many art historians that Michelangelo's work rivals only Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in popularity and fame.
The Creation of Adam was completed in circa 1512 and depicts God's creation of Adam. In the Christian faith, Adam is believed to be the first man (Eve was believed to be the first woman). The image of the near-touching hands of God and Adam has become one of the most iconic images of humanity and has been reproduced countless times, including of course my newly created work. In my recreation, God had been replaced with Darth Vader and Adam with Luke. It is my belief that Luke's transition into a Jedi; although guided by Obi-Wan and Yoda, was strongly influenced by his various encounters with his Father and "Creator", Anakin; more commonly know by his Sith name, Darth Vader.
The scene I have used to help with my recreation is the infamous lightsaber duel on Bespin; specifically Vader and Luke's encounter in the ventilation vents of Cloud City. It is at this point in the Empire Strikes Back that Vader reveals himself to Luke with one of the most well known lines in movie history; "... I am your Father..." Although I have had to play with a few details; like the direction of the scene, I thought this particular point in the film fit perfectly with the theme of Michelangelo's work. I hope you agree.
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Italian postcard (reproduction). Portrait by Nanni. This card refers to Garbo's silent depiction of 'Anna Karenina', entitled: Love (1927). In 1935 she did a sound version too.
Swedish Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was one of the greatest and most glamorous film stars ever produced by the Hollywood studio system. She was part of the Golden Age of the silent cinema of the 1920s and was one of the few actors who made a glorious transition to the talkies. She started her career in the European cinema and would always stay more popular in Europe than in the USA.
She was born as Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm. When she was 14 her father died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and to work as a clerk in the department store PUB, where she also would model for newspaper ads. She photographed beautifully. Her first film aspirations came when she appeared in two short film advertisements, Herr och fru Stockholm (Ragnar Ring, 1920) and Konsum Stockholm Promo (Ragnar Ring, 1921). They were seen by director Erik Arthur Petschler who gave her a small part as a bathing beauty in his comedy Luffar-Petter (Erik A. Petschler, 1922). From 1922 to 1924, she studied at Dramaten, the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. She met Mauritz Stiller, who was Sweden's foremost filmmaker in the early 1920s. He trained the 18-year-old in cinema acting technique and gave her the stage name Greta Garbo. Stiller cast her in a major role opposite Lars Hanson in Gösta Berlings Saga (Mauritz Stiller, 1924). This dramatisation of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf was internationally successful and made Greta a minor star. On the strength of Gösta Berling, she was cast in the German prostitution and depression melodrama Die Freudlose Gasse (G.W. Pabst, 1925), in which she co-starred with the legendary Danish star Asta Nielsen.
And then Hollywood called. Louis B. Mayer invited Stiller to work for MGM when Gösta Berlings Saga caught his attention. On viewing the film, Mayer admired Stiller's direction but was unimpressed with Garbo's acting and screen presence. Stiller insisted on bringing his protégé to Hollywood, thus, Mayer contracted her as well. Garbo’s relationship with Mauritz Stiller came to an end as her fame in Hollywood grew and he struggled in the studio system. In 1928 Stiller was fired by MGM and returned to Sweden, where he died soon after. Garbo retired in 1949 after making some screentests for a never realised film project. She abandoned Hollywood and moved to New York City. She would jet-set with such personalities as Aristotle Onassis and Cecil Beaton, and spent the rest of her time gardening flowers and vegetables. In 1954, she was given a special Oscar ‘for her unforgettable performances’, and in 1999 the American Film Institute ranked her as the fifth greatest female star of all time.
Sources: AllMovie, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Travelling to a touristy place is fraught. Loud, entitled and obnoxious are some of the keywords which spring to mind. Places like Skara Brae, which is just a collection of holes in the ground among narrow paths on a miniscule site, are overwhelmed by their fame. When a tourist coach turns up…
Imagine my dismay at rushing the 5 miles or so from the Ring of Brodgar only to be beaten to the intersection by a coach! I was crestfallen. My tactic of beating the hordes to the intersection at Glencoe wouldn't work here. Like an episode of The Kumars at No. 42 it was a question of "did you take the A965 and A967 or come straight up the B9055 to the B9056"? The coaches take the A-road. I'm a traveller. I was on the B-road — the interesting one — so at East Aith on the Loch of Skaill I had to give way to my nemesis.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is worse than a coach load who paid too much and expects preferential treatment. They've got 15 minutes here so push, push, push…Good counsel from the experienced reception was to just pop in for a cup of tea. In fifteen minutes, they'll be gone. True enough, unless another concertinas in behind them. You still need to make a point of inserting yourself into the gap!
Ah, that's right, I'm here to go "ooh, aah" at these holes in the ground. Don't get me wrong, the romantic story of the discovery of Skara Brae and a peek into this history is not just ticking a box on a bucket list. But by now I'm over being enfeebled by awe in the face of antiquity. I'm more interested in the everyday of some human ancestor getting about meeting their needs and surviving. We know they did because we are here. Had they failed, QED, there'd be no one to admire their works.
These are structures numbered 9 and 10. Said to be the oldest they are recognised as being from an early phase of population on this site. Wait a while. We'll get to the more complex stuff in a moment. Remember I observed this isn't a big place!
Mural on vinyl entitled "Melting" by Joe Van Wetering on a building at 1415 South Wabash in the Wabash Arts Corridor of Chicago, Illinois.
Mural entitled "Origami Dream Boat" by samE.hues aka @sam3hues seen in St Petersburg, Florida.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Quest" by CERA aka @cera_streetart for Wabash Walls seen on an underpass of the Sagamore Parkway at 9th Street in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Surf's Up" by ABYS aka @abys_osmoz for the SHINE St Petersburg Mural Festival, seen at 1732 3rd Avenue South in St Petersburg, Florida.
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Kool Cats" by Bimmer Torres, Ratha Sok, and Thien Tao for Rise Above Colorado seen at Quebec & Colfax in Denver, Colorado.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Electric Toucan Genie" by @klonism seen at 3015 Blake in the RiNo area of Denver, Colorado.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Creative Whirlwind" by Kevin Ledo aka @kevinledo for The Raw Project, seen at the Calvary Christian School at 951 NW 136th Street in Miami, Florida.
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Polaroid SLR 680
Impossible Project Color 600 Pioneer 3.0
Third image of a series shot during an art project entitled "Greffe"
Mural entitled "Anything for Selena" by Mauricio Ramirez aka @mauriciopaints seen at 603 South Fifth Street in the Walker’s Point area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Entitled Playboy Marfa and created by artist Richard Phillips, the controversial art piece was formerly located in Marfa, TX but was moved to Dallas in the Spring of 2014 when the Texas Department of Transportation deemed it illegal.
i considered entitling one before and the other after, but it was too hard to decide which would be which!!!
this one should probably be entitled "Freak Occurance" and the other "That's more like it"
Mural entitled Sun Goddesses, a collaboration by artists Fin DAC aka @findac and Kevin Ledo, in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Mural entitled "Stand Tall" by Stefen Thelen aka @mr_super_a, seen on the façade of the Prudential building at 180 North Stetson Street in Chicago, Illinois. The mural is 24 stories tall.
Mural entitled "Battle Alley Sharks" by Tone Gomez aka @sketchy_Tony for his artistic endeavors, painted for 414 Day, seen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The artist uses another name, @heartbreaksandhennessy, for other purposes.
The figures represent Milwaukee sports teams. Top center is the Green Bay Packers--Football, then going clockwise, the Milwaukee Wave--Soccer, Milwaukee Admirals--Ice Hockey, Milwaukee Bucks--Basketball, and Milwaukee Brewers--Baseball.
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Oasis" by CAV aka @raw.sol seen at 40 NE 24th Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Deep Ellumphants" by Adrián Torres aka @adriantorres_art, seen at 3601 Main Street in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Our Roots Say That We’re Sisters" by Mauricio Ramirez aka @mauriciopaints seen at 725 North 13th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Livvy in the Sky" by @ryantovakatz seen in the Weisman Park Playlot at 911 West Oakdale in the Lakeview area of Chicago, Illinois.
Released by Pangea Seed for their 2014 print suite entitled "HOME: A Fine Art Print Suite for Threatened Ocean Habitats"
Title: “Kelp Magic”
Edition Size:100 (signed & numbered)
Print Details: Fine-art Giclée print on coldpress watercolor paper
Dimensions:18” x 24”
Printmaker: Hero Complex Gallery
Our thoughts:
As Californians, kozy and I were honored to be given the Kelp Forest habitat as part of PangeaSeed’s “HOME” print suite, which seeks to bring attention to various threatened marine habitats around the world. As divers who spent a good amount of time floating happily through these radiant forests that can be bursting with life, it is a pleasure for us to depict this ecosystem with kozy’s painting. Its an ecosystem that only exists along the pacific coastline of the Americas, and along California in particular - where it comes into heavy contact with human activity. Over the last several hundred years the kelp forests, which practically lined the entire coast of California have dwindled down to mere pockets because of human hunting. It began with fur traders hunting sea otters nearly to extinction by the early 1800’s, not knowing that sea otters kept the sea urchin population at bay. The explosion of sea urchins (who like to feed on the holdfasts of giant kelp) caused a massive decline of the forests, which were the main protective environment a majority of species along this coast. Visit the link to find out more about how you can help protect this ecosystem!
Entitled "Seeds of Change" the mural graces a concrete barrier in Watertown, Massachusetts. Appropriately it is located between a restaurant and an Armenian food store/bakery.
Mural entitled "Changes" by Cameron Moberg aka @camer1sf for Mural Mania, seen at 701 South Main Street in South Bend, Indiana.
The artist states: "@crysmo is my muse for everything in life. Literally, everything. My bestie since 96. She is the example of what it means to “be the change” in our household. She loves me and my sons exceptionally well. She’s constantly setting an example for us on how to love better, how to converse better, and how to serve one another better. I’ll get better at painting you baby, I promise. But it’s really an impossible task. You’re too striking. ❤️"
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