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MUSEO SPIRAL.
Spectrum: Examining today, searching for the future.
Hoy visite varias galerías de arte. Me gustaron mucho.
* Hara Museum. Time Present.
* Museo Spiral. Spectrum.
* 4 galerías privadas.
Tokio. Japón.
Guillermo García Rodríguez
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Title / Titre :
Master Farmer Lewis Winterburn and three men examining potatoes on a conveyor belt during the potato harvest /
Le maître agriculteur Lewis Winterburn et trois hommes examinant des pommes de terre sur un convoyeur pendant la récolte
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : 1930-1960
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 4365189, 4365251
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Location / Lieu : Unknown / Inconnu
Credit / Mention de source :
Canada. Department of Manpower and Immigration. Library and Archives Canada, e010950952 /
Canada. Ministère de la main-d'oeuvre et de l'immigration. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, e010950952
Star Trek- The Menagerie , “Return to Talos IV”
youtu.be/v5XBfgPy43A?t=2s The full feature.
The Menagerie Review: February 8, 2014 by neoethereal
As the only two-part episode in The Original Series, “The Menagerie” also cleverly serves as a re-telling of the very first Star Trek story ever filmed, “The Cage.” This week on The Uncommon Geek, I examine all of these episodes in full detail, highlighting their connections to other aspects of the Trek mythos. As well, I take a look at the ground broken by Gene Roddenberry concerning the nature of reality, decades before movies like “The Matrix” challenged the perception of our everyday world.
Equipped with little more than a shoestring budget and massive constraints on time with which to work, Gene Roddenberry and his Star Trek production team had to get extremely creative in order to make the show work. Nowhere, in my opinion, is that more evident than here in “The Menagerie,” an entry that served the purpose of buying the production team time to properly finish subsequent episodes, and as well, afforded Gene Roddenberry a unique opportunity to re-tell the story he had wanted to get on the air all along, “The Cage.”
This episode begins with the Enterprise having been called out of its way, to Starbase 11. Confusion arises when the starbase’s commanding officer, Commodore Mendez, reveals to Captain Kirk that the base never sent any message to the Enterprise. Spock claims to have received that message, which puts Kirk into the difficult position of whether to trust the starbase computers, or the word of his first officer and friend.
It turns out that Captain Christopher Pike, the former commander of the Enterprise, who was recently crippled and disfigured in a terrible accident, is on Starbase 11, and suspicion arises that perhaps he relayed a message to Spock. When Kirk finally gets to see Pike, however, he realizes that it would have been impossible for Spock’s former commanding officer to have done this, for Pike is now wheelchair bound, and his communication with others is limited to electronic beeps that fill in for “yes” and “no.
While Kirk and Mendez wrestle over the truth, Spock executes a daring and clever plan to hijack the Enterprise, taking Captain Pike with him. It goes to show just how dangerous an opponent someone as smart and calculating as Spock can be when he puts his mind to it. Spock sets the Enterprise on a locked course for Talos IV, a planet which the ship visited on a past mission under Christopher Pike, and a planet that invites the death penalty upon any Starfleet officer who goes there
The secret file on Talos IV, and the article of General Order 7
I personally find the idea of a death penalty being associated with Talos IV to be somewhat dubious; although there is a very good reason why Starfleet wants the existence of the Talosians kept secret, I find it hard to believe that if the Federation is capable of having a death penalty, that it only applies to one law. It may just be a grand bluff, and indeed, there is some evidence to that effect later in the episode. Regardless, breaking General Order 7 is a serious offense, and Spock is if nothing else, putting his career and livelihood on the line.
Kirk, of course, isn’t going to sit by while his ship is abducted. He and Mendez make a daring attempt to chase the Enterprise in the Shuttlecraft Picasso, knowing full well that while they would never catch up, they would appear on the Enterprise sensors. Kirk gambles his life on the fact that his friend Spock would not leave him to die in the void of space, as the shuttle runs out of fuel. Kirk’s illogical gambit causes Spock’s plan to unravel, and he surrenders himself to custody, pleading guilty to every charge leveled against him. However, Spock has locked the Enterprise into a course for Talos IV that cannot be broken, which will potentially extend the death sentence that is on himself, to Kirk as well.
The court martial that proceeds against Spock is highly unusual; as mentioned, Spock pleads guilty without defense, but through some legal technicality, manages to arrange for the court to hear out his evidence as to why he went through with his illegal actions. Given that Kirk is presiding over the hearing, and that the crew has little else to do but wait until they reach Talos IV, I get the lenience, but I am not sure what real court would remain in session to examine evidence for someone who just admitted their guilt. Or admittedly, maybe I just don’t know enough about legal proceedings.
Spock’s evidence, as it turns out, is a transmission from Talos IV, beamed directly to the Enterprise, which details the vessel’s first trip there under the command of Captain Pike. Of course, this transmission is the original Star Trek pilot, “The Cage,” and from this point on, “The Menagerie” consists almost entirely of footage from that episode.
Aside from some really goofy tech dialogue, and incomplete characterizations, “The Cage” holds up surprisingly well. We get to see that Jeffrey Hunter’s Captain Pike is a darker, colder man than James Kirk; he is someone whose decisions and responsibilities as a commander are weighing on him heavily, and he is nearing the point of considering resignation. Pike’s first officer is only referred to as Number One (played by Majel Barrett), who is an amazing example of a strong female role for 1960’s television, but unfortunately her character had to be discarded by Roddenberry when the studio forced him to choose between keeping his strong, logical female, or his alien Spock. Roddenberry ended up giving Spock Number One’s cold, emotionless, logical persona, and thus the Spock we know and love was born.
It really is a shame that NBC put so much pressure on Roddenberry to alter his concept of women in the 23rd Century; aside from Number One, the other female crew members of the Cage-era Enterprise also seem to be on equal footing with the men, and there isn’t a mini-skirt in sight. Of course, this reviewer by no means, from an aesthetic point view, objects to how the women of the Enterprise look in said mini-skirts, but cheekiness and my own red-blooded male impulses aside, the female officers in Starfleet should have been offered the same, more professional uniform as the males. Unfortunately we would have to wait until The Motion Picture to see more fairness in the way men and women are presented in Star Trek.
When Enterprise finds evidence of human survivors on Talos IV, from a doomed expedition many years ago, Pike, Spock, and an away team beam down to investigate. What at first seems like a wonderful discovery of lost, homesick men, turns out to be just an elaborate, life like illusion created by the Talosians. Pike is abducted when he is lured in by the only true human survivor from the crash, Vina, whom he is extremely attracted to.
Pike is subjected to a variety of illusions crafted by the Talosians, in order to foster cooperation, as well as to strengthen his attraction toward Vina. Vina is presented to Pike in a variety of forms; as a damsel in distress on Rigel VII, as a wife in the countryside on Earth, and as a primal, animalistic Orion slave woman, all in an attempt to make him submit to his situation.
However, Pike is every bit as stubborn as Captain Kirk, and certainly has a darker, more furious edge to him. When he discovers that primitive, base human emotions such as hatred, and anger, block out the Talosian’s illusions and their telepathic abilities, he mines that weakness long enough to take one of them captive. Once the illusion is broken, the Enterprise crew find out that their attempts to break Pike out from his underground cage with phaser fire were actually working, but all along they weren’t able to see it.
The Talosians had, thousands of centuries ago, devastated their planet and their civilization with war. They retreated underground, where their telepathic abilities flourished, but their physical bodies and their technology atrophied. They had apparently been testing various species for many years, looking for a suitable slave race to use for rebuilding their world, but none had shown as much promise as humanity.
However, when the away team threatens to kill themselves with an overloaded phaser, and as well when the Talosians finish screening the Enterprise‘s records, they realize that humans would rather die than be enslaved, and would be too violent to keep in captivity. With of course, the sad exception of Vina, who in reality is too badly disfigured to live a normal life outside of Talos IV.
(I once heard a suggestion that Vina could be repaired using the transporter. I don’t think 23rd century transporters were sophisticated enough for that, plus, there wouldn’t be an original, unaltered version of her pattern to reference.)
The ending of “The Cage” leads us to the final moments of “The Menagerie,” where it is revealed that not only have the Talosians been transmitting a signal to the Enterprise, but even Commodore Mendez himself has been one of their illusions all along!
It is also revealed that Spock’s only intention was to take Captain Pike to Talos IV, so that the crippled starship commander could live out the rest of his life as a healthy, happy man with Vina. Even Kirk seems to relent that it is better to live with an illusion of health and happiness, than a reality of living as a useless vegetable. That Commodore Mendez was an illusion, and that Starfleet sends a signal to the Enterprise, apparently excusing their violation of Talos space, seems to let Spock off the hook. Perhaps too easily in fact; despite acting out of nothing but loyalty to his former Captain, and despite that the way he enacted his plan was done in such a manner as to put the blame only on himself, Spock seems to get out of his predicament with apparently no trouble at all. We can make a guess that perhaps this incident is why he doesn’t receive a promotion or command of his own until years later, but there is nothing spoken on-screen to that effect.
We are also left to ponder about how much of the incident was real at all. Since the Talosians can apparently project their powers through subspace, one wonders just how long they conspired with Spock, and also, how much we see of Mendez was real or an illusion. My guess is that the Mendez we see at the base was real, and what goes onto the shuttle with Kirk was the illusion, but unfortunately, again, there is little to back that up. What we do know for sure is that the Talosian’s powers are not to be trifled with, and it is truly for wise for Starfleet to give them a wide berth.
Despite some problems with logic and consistency, “The Menagerie” is an entertaining, fascinating episode that shows original series Trek at some of its most interestingly cerebral. Gene Roddenberry’s first pilot examines the nature of reality decades before The Matrix did, and asks the questions: What is real? How does one define their purpose, their reality? Is our reality just relative, defined only by experience? Is there a such thing as an absolute reality, or only what our senses perceive, or for that matter what they think they perceive? This is smart, ahead of its time writing for the 1960s.
Through the tragedies that befell both Vina and Pike, we must also question the quality of human life, and the value we place on it. Is it worth staying alive if you can’t function? If your brain is sound but your body is broken, can you still truly live? Speaking for myself, I certainly would despise the existence that Captain Pike is forced to endure in his wheelchair. I’d rather be dead than live that way. I’m not sure how I would react exactly to being forced to live in an illusion, but it is certainly preferable to a reality of uselessness and immobility. Besides, is our everyday life not just an elaborate series of deceptions spun before our very eyes; maybe not as powerful as a trick of telepathy played by an alien race, but an illusion nonetheless?
For even provoking these thoughts, and much more, “The Cage,” and by extension, “The Menagerie,” are what I consider among the best of Star Trek’s purely cerebral stories about human nature. It is imaginative, thoughtful, and quite engaging.
Doug giving me a few tips to hel pwith my skiing form at TSVi on a wind hold day where all we could ski was the beginner hill.
"Captured Gear: Hospitalman James E. Stanley, a corpsman attached to the 1st Platoon of M Company, 3d Battalion, 1st Marines [M/3/1] examines a North Vietnamese helmet and entrenching tool that the platoon found after overrunning an enemy bunker position on Hill 512, southeast of Khe Sanh (official USMC photo by Lance Corporal J. V. Kinnaird)."
From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
As part of their Dada World Fair, City Lights Bookstore hosted ‘Dada's Tangled Roots’, an afternoon of readings examining the seminal influences upon Dada by key 19th century poets, playwrights and writers.
This afternoon of readings examining the seminal influences upon Dada by key 19th century poets, playwrights and writers. The event took place Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 3pm at the Weinstein Gallery, on Clementina Street in San Francisco.
Presenters included Peter Maravellis of City Lights Bookstore, Jim Nisbet and Kim Gill reading from Baudelaire, Fabrice Florin and Priscilla Wheeler from Pataphysical Studios reading from Alfred Jarry, Will Alexander reading from Lautréamont, Robin Walz reading from Raymond Roussel, and Andrew Joron reading from Paul Scheerbart, Garrett Caples reading from Mallarme, and Kit Schluter reading from Marcel Schwob.
Learn more about the Dada World Fair.
See what we read at the Tangled Roots event:
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Three years into the Trump administration’s “America First” approach to foreign policy, the president’s repeated criticisms of alliances, muddled messaging, and policy confusion have placed the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific alliance systems under strain.
On October 29, scholars from the Brookings Institution, Institute for European Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the Asan Institute discussed the impact of these policies on America’s allies and examine the shifting geopolitical dynamics. How do U.S. allies perceive the U.S. commitment to these decades-long relationships? How have European and East Asian countries adjusted their approaches to the United States and to their neighbors? As the deepening U.S.-China rivalry has developed into the new norm, how do our allies view their role in their respective regions and their security interests in this framework? What are the implications for regional security and cooperation?
The trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific dialogue provided strategic analysis of evolving alliance structures, delved into the future of U.S. relationships in Europe and the Asia Pacific, and examined the implications on regional conflict management, especially with respect to the Korean Peninsula.
Photo Credit: Paul Morigi
Item is a photographic glass-plate transparency; part of a set of colour-tinted transparencies depicting life in Japan ca. 1910, including scenery, street scenes, workers, farming, fishing, silk production, stone carvers, wood carvers, metal workers, potters, and artists.
"Viet Baby: A month-old Vietnamese baby is examined by Navy Lieutenant John Hackworth, flight surgeon of Marine Light Helicopter Squadron 167 [HML-167]. Hackworth is part of the Medical Civic Action Team from the Marble Mountain Air Facility. The team visits the village of Kui Kim Son three times weekly, averaging 20 patients each visit (official USMC photo by Staff Sergeant J. J. Tolarchyk)."
From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
My second Photo Walk Aarhus - this time with the very liberal theme "Rule of thirds" - I didn't apply it. Instead, I went around the Marselisborg Castle gardens, scraping together whatever subject I could with my 35mm on a very cloudy April's day.
In trying to explain the apparent decline in the
reflectivity of ice in northern Greenland, Adjunct Professor Chris Polashenski ’07 Th’07 ’11, left, and Thayer PhD candidate Carolyn Stwertka, right, analyzed dozens of snow-pit samples.
This photo appeared in Lab Reports in the Winter 2016 issue of Dartmouth Engineer magazine.
Photograph by Lauren Farnsworth.
Some nice Sunny Early-Springtime days brought Bumblebees out of their hibernation. Of course they were avid for the rich pollen of Goat Willow! Docile and gentle as Bombus terrestris is, she even examined Yours Truly's finger... (see inset).
Those deutonymphs of Parasitellus fucorum, a Bumblebee Mite, are not dangerous to the health of Bumblebee. Unless, of course, there are so many of them that she can't fly. The mite nymphs stay with young Queen Bumblebees during the Winter as they hibernate in burrows in the soil. The Mites live on what they can find in the Bumblebee nest, and they are particularly fond of grains of pollen, which they suck empty of their protein content. There's not a great deal known about the exact relationship of Mite and Bumblebee... Fascinating subject, I would think!
Incidentally: these are two different Bumblebees, one photographed in the Hortus Haren, the other along the Hoornsedijk.
Had my knee checked today - more than two years since it was fractured. I got some exercises to strengthen some of the muscles that support my knee - and had some xrays to see how much arthritis I'm deallng with.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Beauty, grace, class and an effervescent personality, is it any wonder why Cheryl Ladd remains one of Hollywood’s favorites. Cheryl has come a long way from her days as one of Charlie’s Angels. From television to movies, Broadway and now author for Cheryl Ladd, the best is yet to come.
Ladd is known as one of Hollywood's most talented stars and beauty queens, born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota. Cheryl's parents were of German descent, the second daughter of Dolores, a waitress, and Marion Stoppelmoor (1929–2001), a railroad engineer. She married fellow actor David Ladd, with whom she had a daughter, Jordan. She took his surname as her own, which she kept after their divorce. She has been married to music producer Bryan Russell since 1981, and has a stepdaughter, Lindsay Russell.
Ladd initially came to Hollywood in 1970 to begin a career in music (she was known as Cherie Moor when she was the singing voice of Melody on Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats animated series). She soon began to land non-singing roles in commercials and episodic television - including guest appearances on shows such as The Rookies, The Partridge Family and Happy Days. The Charlie's Angels series made her an overnight star, and Ladd took the opportunity of her sudden popularity to further pursue her musical interests, guest-starring in musical-comedy variety series and her own TV specials, performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl XIV in January 1980, and releasing three albums, enjoying a Top 40 Hot 100 single and a Gold record. In September 2000, Ladd starred on Broadway, taking over the title role from Bernadette Peters in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. She played the role until January 2001, when Reba McEntire took over.
Following Charlie's Angels, Ladd remained a familiar face on television and has starred in more than 30 made for television films, including a coveted role as Grace Kelly, the Philadelphia heiress who became a Hollywood glamour girl and then a European princess, in a biopic that was begun shortly before Kelly's death. She also starred in some of TV's top rated movie's and was voted time and time again as one of Hollywood's most beloved stars with such movies as: Kentucky Woman, Deadly Care, A Death In California, Romance On The Orient Express, Jekyll and Hyde (A Love Story), Crossings, Bluegrass, Changes, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, The Fulfillment of Mary Gray, Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back, Dancing With Danger, Every Mother's Worst Fear, plus feature films such as Now and Forever, Purple Hearts, Millennium, Poison Ivy (featuring Drew Barrymore, who later starred in the film adaptations of Charlie's Angels) and Permanent Midnight. Ladd had the lead role in the television series One West Waikiki (1994–96), and made guest appearances in other TV shows such as Charmed, Hope and Faith and CSI: Miami. From 2003 until the show's cancellation in 2008, Ladd played Jillian Deline, the wife of the lead character Ed Deline (James Caan), in 28 episodes of the television drama Las Vegas.
While still on the series Charlie's Angels, Ladd developed and starred in the ABC telefilm, When She Was Bad (also starring Robert Urich), which dealt with the harsh realities of child abuse. At that time, no one was saying anything about this horrific epidemic going on in our country, says Ladd, an ambassador for Childhelp USA - one of the largest national, non-profit organization dedicated to research, prevention and treatment of child abuse. I wanted to bring this issue to the forefront of people's minds. During her spare moments between projects, Ladd is a tireless humanitarian. In addition to being awarded the Woman of the World Award from Childhelp USA in 1987, Ladd also had the honor of becoming the first woman to receive the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Humanitarian Award by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club for her continuing philanthropic endeavors. She also speaks out on her being a Born-Again Christian and her Faith in Jesus Christ whenever she can.
In 1996, Ladd published a children's book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship. In 2005, she published Token Chick: A Woman’s Guide to Golfing With the Boys, an autobiographical book which focused on her love of golf. For several years, Ladd hosted a golf tournament sponsored by Buick.
On April 17, 2010, Ladd, along with her co-angel, Jaclyn Smith, accepted the 2010 TV Land Pop Culture Award; for Charlie's Angels.
In 2010, Ladd filmed a TV movie titled Love's Everlasting Courage for the Hallmark Channel, which aired on October 1, 2011. That same month, she guest starred on NCIS in the show's ninth season episode Thirst as the love interest of medical examiner Dr. Donald Ducky Mallard. In December 2011, she guest starred in an episode of Chuck, playing Sarah Walker's mother, in the shows 8th episode of season five.
Currently Ladd is appearing in national 30-second spots for an educational campaign for women about the importance of seeing a doctor at the on set of menopause. Over the last thee years, research suggests a nearly 30% drop in the number of women who have visited their doctors due to Menopausal issues. Launched by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Ladd is the figurehead of this awareness initiative, hoping to drive women to a new online resource, www.talkingtoyourdoctor.com .
An avid golfer, Ladd plays whenever time allows sporting a respectable index of 14. When she's not on the golf course, Ladd keeps herself busy developing new projects and has also written a children’s book with her husband of over twenty years, Brian Russell. The book, The Adventures of Little Nettie Windship, teaches the value of good citizenship, and championship.
Ladd's focus, however, remains on her acting. I think it would be great fun to do a sitcom, she says, I'm one of those actors who is always looking to the next challenge.
Blue Man
Star Trek The Exhibition @ The Tech museum
San Jose, Ca.
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This came from the PHAT (The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury) project. The image I started with was over 16000 pixels wide and was just a sea of noisey stars. Looking at it, you'd think you were looking at a section of our Milky Way because so many individual points of light are visible.
Usually, stars in other galaxies are more of a fine mist or cloud-like structure with only supernovas ever standing out as their own entities. Not so with Hubble's close up of Andromeda. And with two filters, 417W and 814W, I was able to produce a color image. Because 814 is infrared, I ended up selectively darkening the reddest areas to create visual interest and contrast. Otherwise, it would just be a sea of bright orange and blue specks.
A larger version is available here: www.geckzilla.com/apod/m31_phat_B15_crop.jpg
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Doug giving me a few tips to hel pwith my skiing form at TSVi on a wind hold day where all we could ski was the beginner hill.
Title: Examiners Office Staff
Creator: Unknown
Date: February 7, 1912
Part Of: Hardinge Bridge Construction, India
Series: Album 4, Hardinge Bridge Construction, India
Place: Paksey, Bangladesh
Description: This photograph is from the third album in a set of eleven albums documenting the construction of Hardinge Bridge over the lower Ganges River at Sara, India (now Paksey, Bangladesh) on the Dhaka-Kolkata railway line. Sir Robert Gailes was the chief engineer for construction of the steel railroad bridge.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print; gelatin silver, part of 1 volume (75 gelatin silver prints); 24 x 29 cm on 30 x 41 cm mount
File: ag1991_0812x_3_32_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
For more information and to view the image in high resolution, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/eaa/id/1803
View the Europe, India, and Asia: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints Collection
The Trail of the Earthquake
Copyright 1906
American Journal Examiner
Sunday American & Journal
CAPA-17097
National Register of Historic Places, No. 92000382, 1992
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmark No. 178, 8/17/77
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The Herold-Examiner Building
1111 S Broadway.
Downtown, South Park, Los Angeles, CA
Julia Morgan
On February 26, 2011, we were invited by the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation (LAHTF) to preview the newly restored Belasco Theater on Hill Street, in the South Park neighborhood of Downtown Los Aneles. Ordinarily, "adaptive reuse" is a dirty word to a hard-core preservationist, but the rennovations made to the Belasco are sensitive to the architecture, and give new life to an otherwise vacant building. Working with the LAHTF and the Los Angeles Conservancy, the owner of the Belansco has created a wonderful, and vibrant entertainment complex. Restored to Department of Interior standards, and adapted for a multitude of uses, this theater is destined to become a new Los Angeles hot spot.
The story goes that Edward Doheny, who lived just southwest in Chester Place, wanted a theater closer to his residence. At the time, many of the older theaters on Broadway were in decline and beginning to turn burlesque. On land owned by his oil company, he commissioned Morgan, Walls, and Clements to create two new venues -- the Belasco (HCM-476) with a close space designed for plays, and the Mayan (HCM-460), for musicals. The theaters were completed and opened in 1926 and 1927 respectively. They Mayan took on a pre-columbian theme, while the Belasco incorporaes several different Spanish themes, including: Churrigueresque, Spanish Renaissance, Moorish, and Gothic. Doheeny choose Frederick Belasco (brother to David and Edward Belasco of the New York Belasco theaters) to run the new venue. The Belasco's opening production was Gentlement Prefer Blonds. After the theater closed, it was converted into a movie palace, became home to the Gospel Temple, and later the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), before being acquired by the current owner.
I love my little point-and-shoot Sony T100. However, in the low light of the theater I had to use the OSI setting. As a result the interior appears an erie Victorian red, even though it's mostly blue and gold. No amount of tinting would help, so the pictures are what they are.
After the tour we decided to take a walk around the block to see what other architectural treasures were in the neighborhood:
-- The Mayan Theater (HCM-460). 1040 S Hill St. Built in 1927, the theater opened with George Gershwin's "Oh Key." It was designed by Morgan, Walls, and Clements, and is only one of eight buildings in Los Angeles designed in the Pre-Columbian (Mayan Revival) style. The hand-carved wall scuptures were created by Mexican artist Francisco Cornejo.
-- The White Log Cabin Coffee Shop. Across the street from the Belasco is an amazing little piece of Los Angeles Programmatic archiecture in the form of a quaint log cabin. Built in 1932 and designed by Kenneth Bemis, it began life as the White Log Cabin Coffee Shop. Later it was painted red and became Tony's Burgers. Today it survives as the El Comedor Mexican Grill.
-- The YWCA (Woman's Athletic Club). 1031 S Broadway. Designed by Allison and Allison in the Italian Renaissance style, the structure is impressive but in sad need of repair. Today it serves as a home of the Los Angeles Jobs Corps.
-- The Herold-Examiner (NRHP-92000382, HCM-178). 1111 S Broadway. The Harold-Examiner is a Mission and Spanish Colonial Revival masterpiece, built in 1912 by legendary California architect Julia Morgan, for William Randolph Hearst. It is said she took inspiration from A. Page Brown's California Building of the 1983 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, however Gebhard and Winters owe this more to a coinciidence of styles. The building's colorful domes and open-arched arcades are it's most notable features, but the arches were closed in during a 10-year strike that lasted from 1967 to 1977. The Herold-Examiner finally closed it's doors November 2, 1989, and the building -- still owned by the Hearst family -- has remained shuttered ever since. Despite a scare in the early 1990's when the Hearst family wanted to tear down the building for a parking lot, it survives in relatively good condition (thanks in part to community outcry and it's designation as both a National Register of Historic Places and a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Ladmark).
The Belasco Theater: thebelasco.com/Main/Main.htm
The Mayan Theater: clubmayan.com/
The Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation (LAHTF): www.lahtf.org/
Wikipedia: The Los Angeles Herold-Examiner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Herald-Examiner
The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord is on his heavenly throne. He observes everyone on earth; his eyes examine them - Psalm 11:4 (NIV)
A CBP Agriculture Specialist examines a shipment of green chile for pests and disease at the Columbus (New Mexico) port of entry.
Photos by: Chad Gerber
Picture via Damian Mac Con Uladh twitter.com/damomac/status/211133929049161728/ taken outside Flutes champagne and wine bar at Dublin Airport
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