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For the "Smile on Saturday! ;-)" theme: TITLE WANTED
Update: I got several lovely titles:
- jumping turtle
- Godzilla
-"HELP, I NEED A LAMP"
- Go, its green!
- "Swamp Thing"
- 'HELP, IK KRIJG NATTE VOETEN!'
- Turned Turtle and ran..
- A shining turtle
- lonely turtle
- 'Hello from Mars'
- 'Smile on Saturday'
- I'm from the green …
- A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean, and you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a Prince, bit long maybe, but then is it a frog?
- Disappointed frog leaves?
- "So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night" :-))
- Terapin's travel
- "I am going... bye bye"
-"I am a little drunk...I guess…"
- Tommie Turtle Talks
- Turtling into the distance?
- "The Dance"
- "A Frog Went a Courting"
- Goodbye, I'm just jealous
- Green Walker
- "where's the door?"
- Y run away
- Green Back
- hugs
- "Paper Frog at the Dark Pond"
- "Out of the green lagoon"
- "The lost Ninja Turtle "
You see the backside of the origami Kappa, which is lovely creation by Yudai Imai. He made a tutorial, so if you want, you can to fold it too. It is a nice model to fold and uses several origami techniques.
I folded this 'Kappa' from a sheet of duo-colored kraftpaper, 35x35cm. Final height about 8cm.
Here you see the frontside.
“This way, Godzilla!”
The little hero lures the monster out of the city…
Be brave.
Stand strong.
And let's keep looking out for one another, my friends!
he picks up a bus and he throws it back down
as he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
oh, no, they say he's got to go
go, go, Godzilla, yeah
oh, no, there goes Tokyo
go, go, Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, they say he's got to go... go go Frogzilla...
American bullfrog looking quite ominous at Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thank you for looking!
reference to Godzilla lyrics by Blue Oyster Cult
Nice viewed F11 and L
My dad said don’t play the flute.
Too many girls play the flute.
You’ll never win that competition.
Instead, play the tuba and make a loud noise.
As loud as Godzilla’s roar.
Shake the ceilings and the floor.
You can hide behind it.
You can claim someone else made it.
You can fill a room and disappear.
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~~~King Ghidorah (キングギドラ, Kingu Gidora), sometimes spelled Ghidrah or Ghidora, is a 'Kaiju', that appears in several films and video games in the Godzilla franchise.
'Kaiju' is a Japanese word that means "strange beast" and is usually translated as "monster" in English. It refers to any sort of strange creature, but especially to giant monsters in Japanese cinema and folklore.
King Ghidorah is a golden-colored dragon. It has three heads on long necks, bat-like wings and two tails. It always stands on two hind legs and has no arms or front legs. Its size varies from incarnation to incarnation. King Ghidorah is Godzilla's nemesis, and one of the strongest Kaiju in the Toho universe. In most films, Godzilla has to team up with other Kaiju before he can defeat King Ghidorah.~~~
Info - WiKi
I used one sheet of gold foil, 35x35cm.
Final size: height and length about 12cm, depends on the modeling of the wings and heads.
Model: origami King Ghidorah
Design: Keiichi Kozasa
Diagrams in the book 'THe Graceful of Origami' by Makoto Yamaguchi
Godzilla visits an aircraft carrier out at sea. I really appreciate everyone's comments & favs - its been a while since I snapped a pic of the big guy!
This old Godzilla statue, made in 1995 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Godzilla's birth, was relocated to "TOHO CINEMAS Hibiya" in 2018, and a new Godzilla statue based on the Godzilla depicted in "Shin Godzilla" (2016) has been installed [Information from Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau]
Well, since I was just listening to B.O.C.'s "Godzilla" ... I thought I would post along that line.
I spotted at least 15 Basilisks this particular morning. This one was approx. 16" overall.
HAPPY FRIDAY-EVE :-)
Macro Mondays " It's Alive"
Many thanks to all those who view, comment and or fave my photos....It is greatly appreciated ......Chandana
Special Thanks to AXFiocca for letting me edit and use one of his photos while he was at Monterey Car Week.
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This is the abandoned Biederman’s warehouse from the west. The collapse happened within the last few days.
I was sailing along the Costal Waterway in my peace, when I saw a marina to moor the boat. Everything seemed calm as usual, the wind was fine, the sea was calm... the perfect day to sail without major worries.
I point the bow towards the entrance to the marina, thinking that it would be the perfect place to drink a coffee and buy some supplements to take aboard so that nothing is missing on long distance trips... Yes, everything seemed perfect... suddenly...
Near the marina the calm waters start to stir, I start to hear a growl that starts to be louder to the point of being deafening, I was backlit and I see a giant figure emerging from the ocean... I couldn't believe it. .. it was the...
GODZILLA
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I thought to myself - I'm in trouble, what do I do now?
I tried to get out of there as quickly as I could, but bad luck never comes alone, when I tried to start the boat's engine, it didn't want to work (my fault I didn't do the maintenance in time).
- What to do, I thought? If raising the sails might enrage the beast even more... and I suddenly remembered...
I went down to the cabin, went to the pantry, and knew I had a big hunk of ham that was out of date and was going to be thrown away. I found it, I came to the deck, when I look up I see the beast getting even closer to the boat, I started to imagine that there was no way out... it was the end right there.
I shouted to get his attention, waving the ham to distract him, scared I managed to get the strength to throw the ham at him. As he was slow the ham fell into the water, at that moment some orcas that surrounded the place went straight to the ham which generated some turbulence near Godzilla, and he started to try to look for food at the bottom of the sea.
Seeing that the beast was distracted, I tried for the last time to start the engine. Yessss... it started with some difficulty, a little uncompensated, but it started to work. I walk away from the place still hearing the beast's angry roars, point the bow north, raise the sails (lucky me the wind was SW) and flee from there.
I didn't win for the scare, apart from the fact that I was almost out of provisions and I only had to find another port to rest, stock up on food and try to find out why the engine wouldn't start. It was going to be a long day!
Yes my friends Godzilla is in the oceans of Second Life to torment the navigators who approach that place, so here is my "warning"... go as far away as possible so you don't wake him up
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Final thoughts of this tale...
Another story, fruit of my imagination, that came to my mind when I took the picture. I want to thank everyone who "made possible" the wonders of Second Life so that we can all "Dream a Little"
Nino
Very territorial little Lizard. He spotted me a long way off and ran to confront me. Immediately challenge me to a contest of pushups. He did about 45 or more in just a few seconds. I said "Okay Pal, you win. No contest." Feeling superior now, he hopped up on a rock about 6 feet away, and proceeded to challenge me once again, but this time did about 75, and waited for a response. I straightaway turned and walked away, in absolute defeat.
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SALVATION THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST - ALONE!
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
❤️❤️ IT'S ALL JESUS AND NONE OF OURSELVES! ❤️❤️
16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the SALVATION of everyone WHO BELIEVES: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD IS REVEALED, a righteousness that is by FAITH FROM FIRST TO LAST, just as it is written: "THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH." (Romans 1:16-17)
16 KNOW that a man is NOT justified by observing the law, but by FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be JUSTIFIED BY FAITH in CHRIST and NOT by observing the law, BECAUSE BY OBSERVING THE LAW NO ONE WILL BE JUSTIFIED. (Galatians 2:16)
1. Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2. BY THIS GOSPEL YOU ARE SAVED, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.
3. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4. that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5. and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 6. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. 7. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, 8. and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.
9. For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. 11. Whether, then, it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
7. Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9. I am the gate; whoever enters through me WILL BE SAVED. He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10. The thief comes only to STEAL and KILL and DESTROY; I have come that they may have LIFE, and have it to the FULL. (John 10:7-10)
1 Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. 2 For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. 3 Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4 Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them." 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 "or 'Who will descend into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. 11 As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame." 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile--the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:1-13)
Jesus came to bring spiritual LIFE to the spiritually dead and set the captives FREE! FREE from RELIGION, ERROR and outright LIES, so WE might serve THE LIVING GOD! In SPIRIT and in TRUTH!
So you'll KNOW, and not think you're to bad for God to love. The Christian LIFE isn't about how good WE are, because NONE of us are! It's about how GOOD JESUS IS! Because JESUS LOVES US, so much he died in our place and took the punishment for all of our sins on himself. The wages of sin is DEATH, and Jesus took the death WE so richly deserved for us and died in our place. The good news is, there's no more punishment for sin left. WE, you and I were all born forgive as a result of the crucifixion of God himself on the cross that took away the sins of the whole world. All we have to do is believe it, and put your Faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. That my friends is REAL UNCONDITIONAL LOVE! YOU ARE LOVED. ❤️ ✝️ ❤️
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Has heat that cuts through the static sky
With its coffee stained clouds
Breathes an uneven dust
Will not back down even if you
Offer him a Stroopwafel
It’s a pity he’s wrecking the city
But he is honestly just a big angry kitty
Who holds grudges over hundreds of years
Senses our utterly human fears
No flood here
But flames and the Black Death may abound
Wherever Dutch monsters are found.
**The above photo was taken in Amsterdam and is a remnant of fliers left on a telephone pole, conveying secret messages and urban fairy tales that very few people pay attention to.**
**All photos and silly poems are copyrighted**
A volte è il nome a evocare l’immagine. “Cafe Godzilla” non ha bisogno di spiegazioni: è un urlo visivo, un richiamo pop incastonato in una facciata quasi silenziosa. Ma c’è di più. In pochi metri si incontrano tre temperature di luce distinte — il buio profondo a destra, la freddezza metallica al centro, e la calda intimità a sinistra. Non disturbano, non si rubano spazio: convivono in equilibrio. Eppure, quel che altrove sembrerebbe solo un papocchio, qui è una firma. Un’estetica senza compromessi, istintiva e tutta giapponese.
時には名前だけで十分だ。「カフェ・ゴジラ」は説明不要の存在感を放ち、静かな外観にポップな印象を刻む。だが注目すべきは光の構成だ。数メートルの中に、右の深い闇、中央の冷たい白、左の暖かい黄が共存する。対立せず、調和している。他の国なら混沌と見えるかもしれない。でもここでは違う。これは様式美だ。自然体で、迷いのない、日本ならではの表現。
Sometimes the name says it all. “Cafe Godzilla” needs no explanation — a visual shout, a pop icon carved into an otherwise quiet facade. But there’s more. In just a few meters, three types of light coexist: deep darkness to the right, cold white in the center, and warm glow to the left. They don’t fight — they balance. What might look messy elsewhere feels intentional here. It’s not random. It’s a style — raw, unapologetic, and unmistakably Japanese.
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Built for BioCup 2022 Round 1
Subtheme: Extraterrestrial
The 1994 Tohu villian Space Godzilla, reimagined with more alien like qualities, especially H. R. Giger's Xenomorph.
Major thanks to Buttloaf for the background edit.
For more on Space Godzilla:
Tokyo Tower is a communications and observation tower in the district of Shiba-koen in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, completed in 1958. At 332.9 m, it was the tallest tower in Japan until the construction of Tokyo Skytree in 2012. It is a lattice tower inspired by the Eiffel Tower, and is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations.
The tower's main sources of income are tourism and antenna leasing. FootTown, a four-story building directly under the tower, houses museums, restaurants, and shops. Departing from there, guests can visit two observation decks. The two-story Main Deck (formerly known as the Main Observatory) is at 150 m, while the smaller Top Deck (formerly known as the "Special Observatory") reaches a height of 249.6 m. The names were changed following renovation of the top deck in 2018. The tower is repainted every five years, taking a year to complete the process.
In 1961, transmission antennae were added. They are used for radio and television broadcasting and now broadcast signals for media outlets such as NHK, TBS Television, and Fuji Television. The height of the tower was not suitable for Japan's planned terrestrial digital broadcasting planned for July 2011, and for the Tokyo area. A taller digital broadcasting tower, known as Tokyo Skytree, was completed on 29 February 2012. Tokyo Tower has become a prominent landmark and frequently appears in media set in Tokyo.
With their spiky shells and primitive-looking faces, alligator snapping turtles are often described as dinosaur-like.
They are the largest species of freshwater turtle, found exclusively in the United States. Males can weigh up to 80 kg. Astonishing.
It was fascinating to be shown this intriguing creature and in particular to learn of their tongue-lure, used to attract unsuspecting prey. These turtles remain quite still with their mouths wide open as seen here, revealing what looks like a delicious, bright pink wriggling worm, twitching back and forth. Prey that mistakes the turtle’s tongue for a tasty snack will swim right into the range of the hungry predator’s jaws.
This is a captive specimen. When I visited this aquarium, I neglected to ask what stopped the turtle from eating the other inhabitants. It was the largest aquarium I had ever seen in a private home and beautifully kept.
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On this week's "podcast" episode, I talk about having too many cameras and why trying to narrow it down to one (or a number close to one) is a really good idea.
This plays off of the whole nearly-dying in a Utah Canyon thing I talked about last week, of course. But it's not just about weight (literal or metaphorical).
It's not just about becoming experts on our specific cameras, it's also about moving away from being consumers.
I recently talked about inspiration and how sometimes we're told that buying a new camera or new gear will inspire us. It's a dangerous idea.
Fortunately, I also explain how to narrow down your cameras and why you might not have to (sort of, you'll see).
To accompany this piece, I took a half dozen or so 4x5 shots of "all" of my own cameras gathered together in a big pile which sometimes featured Godzilla for no real good reason.
I shot some with natural light in my living room and some others (including this one) using a headlamp that I found along a trail while hiking and photographing Pawnee Buttes.
It's also using a new-to-me lens. This isn't a very good test of what it can do, but I wanted to see how it worked. Seems fine.
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'I Have Too Many Cameras, Too'
Camera: Chamonix 45-F2
Lens: Schneider Xenar 150mm F3.5
Film: Fomapan 200
Exposure: f/3.5; 2min
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
March 2025
This is an acrylic painting which is 30 x 30 inches on a cradled wood panel. Sean Banister’s work can be seen on his website:
The conductor is leaning towards the cab window, keeping his eye on an SUV rapidly approaching the Centerville Road grade crossing as his freight train speeds west. Crew members have said that you never know when an incident is going to happen, but when it does it tends to happen quickly. I imagine that was going through the conductor's mind as he watched the SUV hit the brakes and heed the gates and flashers just out of frame as the train passed over the crossing at around 40MPH.
Norfolk Southern D8-40CW No. 8391 is leading train 38Q, tagged in dirt on the tank by a member of the fuel pad crew with the name GODZILLA. I don't know why, but the name seemed appropriate for these old "widecabs" that NS inherited from Conrail after the split in the late 1990's.
Gojira (or Godzilla) is undoubtedly one of Japan's greatest icons. The Japanese monster first appeared on screen in the movie 「ゴジラ (Gojira)」in 1954. He was called Godzilla in the English dubbing. Since then Gojira has starred in over 30 Japanese films, multiple American films, a trilogy of animated films and an animated series.
Gojira was depicted as a metaphor for the use of nuclear weapons and Dr. Serizawa, one of the main characters in the original film, makes a clear speech against the use of weapons of mass destruction, even using them against the monster, because of the consequences of the rulers having the possibility of using them in the future.
As time went by, the character would lose his image as an icon of the atomic massacre of 1945, and would go through several stages, becoming, at the end of the Showa period, the hero of the film by defending Japan from other monsters.
While Godzilla is an icon of Japan, he is especially famous in Shinjuku. It is very common to see buses with Godzilla images that say "Shinjuku loves Godzilla."
Godzilla head Shinjuku:
It is made to original scale (12 meters). It weighs 80 tons and is 50 meters above the ground, which is supposed to have a real height according to how it is represented in the movies.
Its design belongs to "Godzilla VS Mothra" that was taken to the movies in 1992. It is currently a tourist attraction.
It is possible to access the head from a terrace of the famous Gracery hotel in Shinjuku, installed inside the Shinjuku Toho building.
Editors of Time Out Tokyo included the Godzilla head in their 2019 list of the city's "best public art sculptures".
Kabukichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Publication History
Frankenstein's monster, now commonly referred to as Frankenstein, is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus as its main antagonist. Shelley's title compares the monster's creator, Victor Frankenstein, to the mythological character Prometheus, who fashioned humans out of clay and gave them fire.
In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method based on a scientific principle he discovered. Shelley describes the monster as 8 feet (240 cm) tall and emotional.
The monster attempts to fit into human society but is shunned, which leads him to seek revenge against Frankenstein. According to the scholar Joseph Carroll, the monster occupies "a border territory between the characteristics that typically define protagonists and antagonists".
Frankenstein's monster became iconic in popular culture, and has been featured in various forms of media, including films, television series, merchandise and video games.
The most popularly recognized version is Boris Karloff's portrayal in the 1930s films Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and Son of Frankenstein.
Character Fictional History
Victor Frankenstein builds the creature over a two-year period in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt after discovering a scientific principle which allows him to create life from non-living matter.
Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror. Frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness.
He finds solace beside a remote cottage inhabited by an older, blind man and his two children. Eavesdropping, the creature familiarizes himself with their lives and learns to speak, whereby he becomes an eloquent, educated, and well-mannered individual.
During this time, he also finds Frankenstein's journal in the pocket of the jacket he found in the laboratory and learns how he was created. The creature eventually introduces himself to the family's blind father, De Lacey, who treats him with kindness. When the rest of the family returns, however, they are frightened of him and drive him away.
Enraged, the creature feels that humankind is his enemy and begins to hate his creator for abandoning him. Although he despises Frankenstein, he sets out to find him, believing that he is the only person who will help him. On his journey, the creature rescues a young girl from a river but is shot in the shoulder by the child's father, believing the creature intended to harm his child.
Enraged by another act of cruelty, the creature swears revenge on humankind for the suffering they have caused him. He seeks revenge against his creator in particular for leaving him alone in a world where he is hated. Using the information in Frankenstein's notes, the creature resolves to find him.
The monster kills Victor's younger brother William upon learning of the boy's relation to his creator and frames Justine Moritz, a young woman who lives with the Frankensteins, as the culprit (causing her execution afterwards). When Frankenstein retreats to the Alps, the monster approaches him at the summit, recounts his experiences, and asks his creator to build him a female mate.
He promises, in return, to disappear with his mate and never trouble humankind again, but threatens to destroy everything Frankenstein holds dear should he fail or refuse. Frankenstein agrees, and eventually constructs a female creature on a remote island in Orkney, but aghast at the possibility of creating a race of monsters, destroys the female creature before it is complete.
Horrified and enraged, the creature immediately appears, and gives Frankenstein a final threat: "I will be with you on your wedding night."
After leaving his creator, the creature goes on to kill Victor's best friend, Henry Clerval, and later kills Frankenstein's bride, Elizabeth Lavenza, on their wedding night, whereupon Frankenstein's father dies of grief. With nothing left to live for but revenge, Frankenstein dedicates himself to destroying his creation, and the creature goads him into pursuing him north, through Scandinavia and into Russia, staying ahead of him the entire way.
As they reach the Arctic Circle and travel over the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean, Frankenstein, suffering from severe exhaustion and hypothermia, comes within a mile of the creature, but is separated from him when the ice he is traveling over splits.
A ship exploring the region encounters the dying Frankenstein, who relates his story to the ship's captain, Robert Walton. Later, the monster boards the ship, but upon finding Frankenstein dead, is overcome by grief and pledges to incinerate himself at "the Northernmost extremity of the globe". He then departs, never to be seen again.
Appearance
Shelley described Frankenstein's monster as an 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) creature of hideous contrasts:
"His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips."
A picture of the creature appeared in the 1831 edition. Early stage portrayals dressed him in a toga, shaded, along with the monster's skin, a pale blue. Throughout the 19th century, the monster's image remained variable according to the artist.
Universal Pictures films
Boris Karloff in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in a variation of the classic 1931 film version with an assist from make-up artist Jack Pierce.
Karloff had gained weight since the original iteration and much of the monster's hair has been burned off to indicate having been caught in a fire. Some of the hair was gradually replaced during the course of the film to simulate it beginning to grow back.
The best-known image of Frankenstein's monster in popular culture derives from Boris Karloff's portrayal in the 1931 movie Frankenstein, in which he wore makeup applied and designed by Jack P. Pierce, who based the monster's face and iconic flat head shape on a drawing Pierce's daughter (whom Pierce feared to be psychic) had drawn from a dream.
Universal Studios, which released the film, was quick to secure ownership of the copyright for the makeup format. Karloff played the monster in two more Universal films, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein; Lon Chaney Jr. took over the part from Karloff in The Ghost of Frankenstein; Bela Lugosi portrayed the role in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man; and Glenn Strange played the monster in the last three Universal Studios films to feature the character – House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
However, the makeup worn by subsequent actors replicated the iconic look first worn by Karloff. The image of Karloff's face is currently owned by his daughter's company, Karloff Enterprises, secured for her in a lawsuit for which she was represented by attorney Bela G. Lugosi (Bela Lugosi's son), after which Universal replaced Karloff's features with those of Glenn Strange in most of their marketing. In 1969, the New York Times mistakenly ran a photograph of Strange for Karloff's obituary.
Since Karloff's portrayal, the creature almost always appears as a towering, undead-like figure, often with a flat-topped angular head and bolts on his neck to serve as electrical connectors or grotesque electrodes.
Hammer Films Productions version
In the 1957 film The Curse of Frankenstein, Christopher Lee was cast as the creature. The producers Hammer Film Productions refrained from duplicating aspects of Universal's 1931 film, and so Phil Leakey designed a new look for the creature bearing no resemblance to the Boris Karloff design created by Jack Pierce.
For his performance as the creature Lee played him as a loose-limbed and childlike, fearful and lonely, with a suggestion of being in pain. Author Paul Leggett describes the creature as being like an abused child; afraid but also violently angry. Christopher Lee was annoyed on getting the script and discovering that the monster had no dialogue, for this creature was totally mute.
According to Marcus K. Harmes in contrasting Lee's creature with the one played by Karloff, "Lee's actions as the monster seem more directly evil, to judge from the expression on his face when he bears down on the helpless old blind man but these are explained in the film as psychopathic impulses caused by brain damage, not the cunning of the literary monster. Lee also evokes considerable pathos in his performance."
In this film the aggressive and childish demeanour of the monster are in contrast with that of the murdered Professor Bernstein, once the "finest brain in Europe", from whom the creature's now damaged brain was taken.
The sequels to The Curse of Frankenstein would feature Victor Frankenstein creating various different Frankenstein monsters, none of which would be played by Christopher Lee:
The film The Revenge of Frankenstein has Victor Frankenstein placing the brain of a hunchback named Karl (portrayed by Oscar Quitak) into a makeshift body (portrayed by Michael Gwynn). Though the procedure works, Karl starts to redevelop his deformities and later dies in front of Victor.
The film The Evil of Frankenstein reveals that Victor Frankenstein had made a prototype version of his monster which was kept in a frozen cave. After being thawed out and reanimated, the Monster (portrayed by Kiwi Kingston) has his brain awakened by a hypnotist named Zoltan (portrayed by Peter Woodthorpe). When Frankenstein's lab went off the cliff, it apparently killed Victor and the Monster.
The film Frankenstein Created Woman has Victor Frankenstein surviving the lab's destruction and making a female monster from the remains of a cowardly innkeeper's half-disfigured daughter Christina Kleve (portrayed by Susan Denberg) after she threw herself in the river following the death of Victor's ally Hans. He and Dr. Hertz transferred Hans' soul into Christina's body causing her to become possessed by him. After coming to her senses, Christina commits suicide by drowning herself in the river.
The film Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed has Victor Frankenstein making a monster out of the remains of the asylum's administrator Professor Richter (portrayed by Freddie Jones) that involves placing the brain of Victor's former assistant Dr. Frederick Brant (portrayed by George Pravda) into Professor Richter's body. The Monster later drags Victor into the burning house.
The film Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell has Victor surviving the fire and making a monster from the hulking ape-like asylum inmate Herr Schneider (portrayed by David Prowse) while also giving him a new brain and new eyes. During its plans for revenge, the Monster is killed by a mob of asylum inmates.
Toho versions
In the 1965 Toho film Frankenstein vs. Baragon, the heart of Frankenstein's monster was transported from Germany to Hiroshima as World War II neared its end, only to be irradiated during the atomic bombing of the city, granting it miraculous regenerative capabilities.
Over the ensuing 20 years, it grows into a complete human child, who then rapidly matures into a giant, 20-metre-tall man after he is rediscovered. Frankenstein escapes a laboratory in the city after being agitated by news reporters using flash photography on him, and goes to fend for himself in the countryside, only to be accused of attacking villages and killing people, actually the victims of the underground monster Baragon. The two monsters face off in a showdown that ends with Frankenstein's monster victorious, though he falls into the depths of the Earth after the ground collapses beneath his feet.
The film's sequel The War of the Gargantuas would see cell samples of the monster regenerate into the titular Gargantuas, two hairy giants consisting of the malicious green sea monster Gaira and the friendly brown mountain monster Sanda. Gaira and Sanda later appeared in the series Ike! Godman and the IDW Publishing comic Godzilla: Rulers of Earth.
Other film versions
In the 1973 TV miniseries Frankenstein: The True Story, in which the creature is played by Michael Sarrazin, he appears as a strikingly handsome man who later degenerates into a grotesque monster due to a flaw in the creation process.
In the 1977 film Terror of Frankenstein (also released under the title Victor Frankenstein), "the Monster" is played by Per Oscarsson. This adaptation closely resembles the creature as described in the novel, both intelligent and articulate, but with dark blond hair and black lips.
In the 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the creature is played by Robert De Niro and has an appearance closer to that described in the original novel, though this version of the creature possesses balding grey hair and a body covered in bloody stitches. He is, as in the novel, motivated by pain and loneliness. In this version, Frankenstein gives the monster the brain of his mentor, Doctor Waldman, while his body is made from a man who killed Waldman while resisting a vaccination. The monster retains Waldman's "trace memories" that apparently help him quickly learn to speak and read.
In the 2004 film Van Helsing, the monster is shown in a modernized version of the Karloff design. He is 8 to 9 feet (240–270 cm) tall, has a square bald head, gruesome scars, and pale green skin. The electrical origin of the creature is emphasized with one electrified dome in the back of his head and another over his heart, and he also has hydraulic pistons in his legs, with the design being similar to that of a steam-punk cyborg. Although not as eloquent as in the novel, this version of the creature is intelligent and relatively nonviolent.
In 2004, a TV miniseries adaptation of Frankenstein was made by Hallmark. Luke Goss plays the creature. This adaptation more closely resembles the monster as described in the novel: intelligent and articulate, with flowing, dark hair and watery eyes.
The 2005 film Frankenstein Reborn portrays the creature as a paraplegic man who tries to regain the ability to walk by having a nanobots surging through his body but has side effects. Instead, the surgeon kills him and resurrects his corpse as a reanimated zombie-like creature. This version of the creature has stitches on his face where he was shot, strains of brown hair, black pants, a dark hoodie, and a black jacket with a brown fur collar.
The 2014 TV series Penny Dreadful also rejects the Karloff design in favour of Shelley's description. This version of the creature has the flowing dark hair described by Shelley, although he departs from her description by having pale grey skin and obvious scars along the right side of his face. Additionally, he is of average height, being even shorter than other characters in the series. In this series, the monster names himself "Caliban", after the character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the series, Victor Frankenstein makes a second and third creature, each more indistinguishable from normal human beings.
Frankenstein's monster appears in the Reiwa era film The Great Yokai War: Guardians.
The 2024 film Monster Mash by The Asylum features a Frankenstein's monster variant called Boris (portrayed by Erik Celso Mann).
Personality
As depicted by Shelley, the creature is a sensitive, emotional person whose only aim is to share his life with another sentient being like himself. The novel portrayed him as versed in Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives, and The Sorrows of Young Werther, books he finds after having learnt language.
From the beginning, the creature is rejected by everyone he meets. He realizes from the moment of his "birth" that even his own creator cannot stand the sight of him; this is obvious when Frankenstein says "…one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped…". Upon seeing his own reflection, he realizes that he too is repulsed by his appearance. His greatest desire is to find love and acceptance; but when that desire is denied, he swears revenge on his creator.
Contrary to many film versions, the creature in the novel is very articulate and eloquent in his speech. Almost immediately after his creation, he dresses himself; and within 11 months, he can speak and read German and French. By the end of the novel, the creature is able to speak English fluently as well.
The Van Helsing and Penny Dreadful interpretations of the character have similar personalities to the literary original, although the latter version is the only one to retain the character's violent reactions to rejection. In the 1931 film adaptation, the creature is depicted as mute and bestial; it is implied that this is because he is accidentally implanted with a criminal's "abnormal" brain.
In the subsequent sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, the creature learns to speak, albeit in short, stunted sentences. However, his intelligence is implied to be fairly developed, since what little dialogue he speaks suggests he has a world-weary attitude to life, and a deep understanding of his unnatural state. When rejected by his bride, he briefly goes through a suicidal state and attempts suicide, blowing up the laboratory he is in. In the second sequel, Son of Frankenstein, the creature is again rendered inarticulate.
Following a brain transplant in the third sequel, The Ghost of Frankenstein, the creature speaks with the voice and personality of the brain donor. This was continued after a fashion in the scripting for the fourth sequel, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, but the dialogue was excised before release.
The creature was effectively mute in later sequels, although he refers to Count Dracula as his "master" in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The creature is often portrayed as being afraid of fire, although he is not afraid of it in the novel, even using fire to destroy himself.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones. Finsbury Square, London
First appearance: 1818, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus
Created by: Mary Shelley (Author)
It's not often that you get to see a waterfall in the ocean, but such wonders can be found in the bay of Fundy.
A foggy summer afternoon was enjoyed on precarious cliff edges while dodging gulls.
One day I'll get the timing right with the low tide and head down to those impressive sea stacks.
Till then, this bird's eye view will have to suffice.
Thanks for looking
Gavin
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FRENCH : J'ai passé la nuit à errer (voir série précédente déjà déposée du 30 05) et je vois maintenant le jour s'installer sur Tokyo. En fait le jour se lève très tôt sur cette city, fin mai. Le soleil se pointe à toute allure sous cette latitude. La lumière en quittant ses rampes de la nuit nous propose un spectacle rare et bref. D'un tissu dense de nuit, le ciel de la City devient doux comme un coton qu'on imbibe à grande eau de rose. La lumière urbaine mourante et son atmosphère fade inquiète et interroge. Cela dure qu'une trentaine de minutes mais ces minutes sont magiques. Les reflets de la nuit sont encore là alors que ceux du jour naissant s'y imbriquent aussi. Puis un instant glauque s'installe. Rues vides, sentiment de silence, un vent de solitude vous souffle des pensées improbables. On roule une cigarette à un carrefour désert et on est en suspens. On a beau shooter un max on a le sentiment que tout nous échappe et qu'on le regrettera. Puis on peut dire ça y est, il fait jour ! Mais c'est déjà trop tard, la ville a repris ses droits et se croisent alors les peuples de la nuit passée et ceux du jour nouveau. Un peu plus tard j'apprends qu'Air France a retrouvé ma valise contenant mon installation photographique attendue par ma galerie sur Ginza. Elle est à ma disposition à l'hôtel. Je l'installerai dans la journée. Ce fut 2 jours et 3 nuits d'angoisses sombres et collantes que je vais enfin pouvoir taire. De ce fait dans ce livret on ne trouvera que mes clichés de ce matin naissant ainsi qu'une courte scénette nocturne. Le reste de ma journée fut consacrée à mon installation photographique à la galerie et à la rencontre de 1ers visiteurs.
ENGLISH : I spent the night wandering (see my book dedicated to the day of May 30) and I see now the day settle on Tokyo. In fact the day rises very early on this city, at the end of May. The sun rises at full speed in this latitude. The light leaving its ramps of the night offers us a rare sight because brief. From a dense fabric of night, the sky of the City becomes tender like a cotton which one imbibes with great water of rose. The dying urban light and its bland atmosphere worries and questions. It lasts about thirty minutes but these minutes are magical. The reflections of the night are still there while those of the new day are also intertwined. Then a gloomy moment settles. Empty streets, feeling of silence, a wind of solitude solicits you. We roll a cigarette at a deserted crossroads and we are in suspense. We can shoot a max we have the feeling that everything escapes us and we regret it. Then we can say that it is, it is day! But it's already too late: the city has regained its rights and then cross the peoples of the past night and those of the new day. A little later I learn that Air France has found my suitcase containing my photographic installation expected by my gallery on Ginza. She is at my disposal at the hotel. I will install it during the day. It was 2 days and 3 nights of dark and sticky anxieties that I will finally be able to shut up. Therefore in this booklet we will find only my shots of this early morning and a "short" night scenic. The rest of my day was devoted to my photographic installation at the gallery and the meeting of 1st visitors.
It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more. ~ Unknown
HBW my flickr prens! and Happy New Year too :)
To get to this beach you have to walk from a small parking lot through a 30 m tunnel and then walk down quite a few meters to the beach. Looks kind of like Godzilla's living room ;-)
“But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”
Sherlock Holmes – ‘The Three Garridebs’
There’s a lot of description today, so I’d get a cup of tea or something before you start.
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin ….
The thing is, I had all kinds of good intentions about today. The end of Year 3 of my 365 Days. A big day. Time to do something special. I had considered a shot showcasing all of the props I’ve used in the last three years. Then I thought that I’d adopt the alternative approach, and just do a simple self-portrait and allow the text under it to speak for me.
What I’ve ended up doing is something silly and just a little bit disturbing. And, in some ways, that seems the best way to finish the year, because it’s what I’ve spent a lot of the rest of it doing. I was inspired by today’s group picks for The Rogue Players (Awkward Posing) and FGR (Evildog tribute). The former is obvious. The latter is covered in that I’m copycatting this shot – if a dog can do it (even with Photoshop) so can I. The ‘bubblegum’ is a balloon, but the hair’s all mine. The shot I’m copycatting is very much a Flickr cliché, and we all love clichés. There’s still so many I haven’t done yet, either.
And the title? Well, this is it. The End. After three years, and 1096 pictures, I have decided to stop my 365 Days project. I like to think I'm quitting whilst I'm ahead. Inspiration is waning, but I hope I'm still managing to produce some good pictures. I hope that I’m making people laugh. Or at least smile. Or, perhaps, beg to be taken to pictures of kittens. Sometime I hope I’m making people think. However I know that I can't keep up the standard for another year, and I don't want to start something I can't finish in a satisfactory manner. Maybe I'll find another project to occupy my time and provide work for my camera, or maybe I'll take more of a break and just post random things from time to time. I don't know. At the moment I have soldiers that need painting and plenty of real work to be getting on with, and I should really devote my daily self-portrait time to those things instead.
The biggest thing that's got me through the last three years is YOU. The comments, support and inspiration from other Flickr members have reminded me that the thing was worth doing on a regular basis, and I have appreciated them all. I'm not much of a contact myself, though, for which I apologise. Perhaps with more time I’ll spend less time updating my own stream, and more time visiting yours. But I’m basically very lazy, so I wouldn’t count on it. I do try. Really.
On to the year itself. This was our first full year in Australia, and I hope that the pictures have reflected a little of what it's been like to set up life in a new country. In the past twelve months we've set up a new IT training business, moved house (reluctantly), suffered a family bereavement and drunk a lot of coffee. I've managed to find a local gaming group and help stimulate it back into regular activity, and have begun to involve myself in the local transgender scene. I've worn sunglasses, frocks, bunny ears, a warthog, a tiara, masks, hats and (far to frequently for some) nothing at all. Lego, Sherlock Holmes and Godzilla have made regular appearences, and I didn't let a couple of significant Charles Darwin anniversaries pass un-noticed either. I've consumed pies, chocolate, pea soup, tea and more coffee. I haven’t had a haircut all year. More than this, I have learned to be comfortable with who I am. My wife Catherine is probably my most frequent guest-star, and I must thank her for agreeing to do silly things for me, and for putting up with the siller things that I've done. Both of my children have also appeared this year, although generally they've had the sense to steer clear. Otherwise guest stars have been few and far between - one of our customers agreed to be in one picture, and our friendly neighbourhood cafe owner reluctantly appeared in another. My niece is in a third, and there's a couple of my wargames associates too. The lovely Eve appeared by proxy.You'll note that I've not provided links to any of these things; it's a pathetic attempt to get you to trawl the set looking for them.
As before, here are the geographical extremes for this year's set. All pictures were taken in Australia and, with a couple of exceptions, within New South Wales:
Most Northerly - Day 3.197 (Katoomba)
Most Southerly - Day 3.289 - (Bateman's Bay)
Most Easterly - Day 3.38 (La Perouse)
Most Westerly - Day 3.52 (Canberra)
And here are the popularity stats. I have excluded Days 3.91 and 3.198, as they were part of group efforts to seduce the Magic Donkey, so their stats were artificially enhanced.
Most Views - Day 3.101
Most Comments - Day 3.261
Most Favourites - Day 3.261
Most Interesting - Day 3.86
At the time of writing 34 of this year's pictures have made Explore. A few are still there.
Some personal favourites:
My favourite for the year: Day 3.150 - Rachel getting ready to go out
Day 3.56 - A glorious, unrestrained, moment.
Day 3.87 - An 'inspired by' shot which became the featured picture for this year's set.
Day 3.94 - A rare case of a shot that came out pretty much how I planned it in my head
Day 3.102 - A tribute to my best friend
Day 3.108 - Grease!
Day 3.177 - When mucking about on Photoplus pays off
Day 3.199 - Basically just me.
Day 3.266 - The strangest event of the year.
Day 3.310 - And, finally, the big cover-up
Since I'm finishing up, perhaps an overview of the three years is in order. You can see Year 1 here and this is Year 2.
And here are the 100 Most Interesting pictures across the whole three years. The third year makes up nearly 50% of the total. Sometimes it surprises me what's made it into that set.
At the other end of the scale is this set, showing my 20 Least Interesting self-portraits.
As you can imagine I have taken thousands of pictures in order to get the few gems that you'll find in those three sets. Sometimes there are choices to be made as to which picture to use for a particular day, which leads me on to the 365 Rejects set - the pictures that almost made it. There's actually one or two good shots in there.
OK. I've gone on enough. It only remains for me to do what I’ve done on all the other pictures for this year – a year ago today I was celebrating 366 Days.
Have you read this far? Well done!
"One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine"
The Doctor, saying goodbye - 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth'.
ニコンプラザ新宿のカメラメンテの予約時刻まで少し時間があったので、新宿歌舞伎町を撮影してみました。はたしてゴジラが見守っている歌舞伎町は健全な街になっているのでしょうか？
I had a little time before my camera maintenance appointment at Nikon Plaza Shinjuku, so I took some photos of Shinjuku Kabukicho. Is Kabukicho, under Godzilla's watch, a healthy neighborhood?
So there I was...sitting at home this evening, enjoying a nice cup of tea reading some old Spiderman comic books...and then...BAAMMM!!!
What feels like seconds later was really hours...my body feels like it just got shot out of Godzilla's rectum...I finally open my eyes to see what the heck is going on and then...WAM!...I just got licked (more like smacked) on the face by this enormous tounge that even the dude from KISS would be envyous of...
Immediately I realize that Venom has kidnapped me for reasons I do not know...All I know is that he is even more uglier in person and smells like doo-doo...Is there some super power I posses that he wishes to steal from me?...does he want all my money (doubt it)?...or does he just want to lick me to death?
Stay Tuned...
As I moved closer to a pond of water in order to get a nice shot at a Golf course I heard, "UGG". I looked around and saw nothing out of the ordinary and took one more step forward. Again I heard, "UGG". When I looked down, not 8' away was the largest Iguana I have ever even heard of, never mind seen.
I noticed he started bobbing his head up and down and figured that must be Iguana talk for, "Piss off". I slowly back away never taking my eyes off of his rather large teeth and went straight to my car. I had my 24-70 lens on so quickly replaced it with my 70-200 and returned to the scene of the crime.
Godzilla was still there so I took a few more shots, this time from a safer distance. His body alone was 4' long and the tail added to his length. All other Iguana's we saw were a greenish-grey color. Their entire body might be 3' if it were a big one. But this one was a monster.