Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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It was an absolute honor to see Jim Jarmusch this past Saturday…kind of a real pinch me is this real wait please stop pinching me it actually hurts kind of a feeling! I’ve been a fan of Jim Jarmusch since I could walk….no, perhaps that is an exaggeration but it’s at least been awhile. I am trying to think of the first film I actually saw by him and I think it was Coffee and Cigarettes. That was a film seen at just the right age where I had discovered coffee and longed for more philosophical conversations fueled by caffeine and thoughts. I thought the film clever but not too clever. More like the type of clever fitting for a film I’d actually want to be in myself-not to become famous but just to have a few good conversations. Dead Man was another film that made me realize the vital place of poetry, like that of William Blake, in this world. Years later, I would fall in love with Paterson and William Carlos Williams…the way the twins and switching of careers were made whimsical along with metaphorical plums. This is just to say that I have admired this human for a while. I have watched Mystery Train and loved the way every shot was framed with perfection. Night on Earth was a way to appreciate the moments that people never seem to account for and Ghost Dog was compelling in a way that nodded to pop culture but creating something all of its own. Even the spookier The Dead Don’t Die and Only Lovers Left Alive were genius films.
Jarmusch talked about his empathy for actors and how he didn’t want to put actors through the strenuous hardships that other directors do. He talked about being careful and particular about scenes but also imagining a human in a way that they might evolve into a character. He talked about meeting Jean-Luc Godard and talking about the difference between ice cream in Paris and in Italy. He talked about how Neil Young and he had agreed that the best day was a day without a plan. He mentioned that he enjoyed poetry but he thought the best advice about writing it was along the NY school line of thinking that you should write for a person in mind vs. the whole world. He talked about how he didn’t care for musicals outside of Busby Berkeley films and how the director of Nosferatu, F. W. Murnau, had written an essay for Colliers in the 1920s before talking films about how someday he envisioned that films would feature real people doing real things instead of just beautiful glamorous people. Jarmusch talked about how Robert Mitchum had a really vivid sense of humor. Jarmusch said he was an outlier in Hollywood because he had to have the final cut. He revealed his next to be released film will make Paterson feel like an action film. He said he wasn’t interested in owning a big house with a pool in Beverly Hills. When he was talking about Only Lovers Left Alive and Paterson, he said it was great when you found someone where even those boring moments were great.
Simply put, there is just no one this Earth quite like Jim Jarmusch….
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Hey, Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel. It wasn't thunder-snow, but it was a winter rainbow appearing during our morning walk. So, my wife matched your enthusiasm, exclaiming "It's a full rainbow!".
Circa 1915
Library of Congress
Original picture:
Photographer:
Harris & Ewing
© Harris & Ewing, 1915
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2025
James Francis Thorpe
May 22 or 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and professional basketball.
He lost his Olympic titles after it was found he had been paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the contemporary amateurism rules. In 1983, 30 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) restored his Olympic medals with replicas, after ruling that the decision to strip him of his medals fell outside of the required 30 days. Official IOC records still listed Thorpe as co-champion in decathlon and pentathlon until 2022, when it was decided to restore him as the sole champion in both events.
A great guitarist, composer, songwriter and the man that gave us the guitar solo in *Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
Jim. A fellow walker around my area. He is the real walker. Normally walks over 6 miles a day. I caught up with him this morning. He is moving back to Boston, MA later this week. He will be missed by all in the neighborhood. Just wanted a snap shot of him.
Acrylic on canvas 23.75" x 28.75" May 10, 2021 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Hevingham/292357/8457655/...
Jim, who drives for The Regency, took me to see these huge yellow hibiscus on the way home. I took just three pictures (from which these were cropped) out the window from the passenger's seat. I'm amazed at their clarity!
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis.
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Jim Corbett Waterfall, Ramnagar, Uttarakhand.
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Gary (Jim Burns) spends much of Pickle Tosser sitting on the crapper. His legs really did fall asleep.
Myself and Ricardo went to Bath near bristol to view a Leica M6 i had put a deposit on to buy , only to find out they had sold it !!. Dam i was gutted as it was soooo cheap and in stunning condition.. anyway the only bonus of the day was bumping into this guy .. Jim Hanshaw.. I took this shot at this angle because i saw him as the brain .. there wasn't a thing this man diddn't know about classic 35 slr's.... and man did he love to chat, even when Rich and i had to leave he was following us along the street still talking..
i hope to bump into him again for a deeper insight into his knowledge soon
Jim knows how to get a portrait session started by bringing in some tasty single malt Oregon whiskey!
The great thing about the Deardorff Studio is the ability to use a full range of movements in the front and back while being able to hold up that 12 pound 18 inch f4.5 cooke portrait lens. Both eyes are in focus thanks to some rear and front swings and front tilt and a flat field anastigmat. This shot was 10 seconds at f4.5.
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On the 30th of March, 2022, the railfaning world lost one of its biggest proponents, as cancer took from us, too soon, the life of Jim Wrinn. Here was Jim in mid-2021 with his wife Cate, as they celebrated the first fan trip with Rio Grande Southern No. 20 after a seventy year absence on the rails.
While I haven’t known Jim Wrinn as long as some, in the past two years that I have, it has been a great trip with journeys across the hinterlands of New Mexico, the Silvery San Juan Mountains of Colorado, journeyed at home right to the edge of The Grand Canyon.
Highball Jim!
Acrylic marker on paper 9.75" x 6.75" 2020 www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Prototype/292357/7947802/view
Acrylic on wood panel 10.75" x 8.75" 2021. www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Ibbenb-ren/292357/8572530...
Jim Harris: Herzogreith. Acryl auf Holzplatte 10.75” x 8.75” 2020. www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Herzogreith/292357/727957...
Jim Thorpe (Lenape: Màxkwchunk) is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA. The town has been called the "Switzerland of America" due to the picturesque scenery, mountainous location, and architecture (from Wikipedia). This shot was taken from the Asa Packer Mansion overlooking the town during a Christmas trip with friends. Unfortunately cold rain and fog was what we were greeted with.