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as viewed through the windows of the Merseyside Maritime Museum. (click on pic to view large)
Seen rear centre background, the 3 most recognizable Liverpool buildings in the world, known locally as "the three graces", the Royal Liver Building (completed in 1911), the Cunard Building (1916), the Port of Liverpool Building (1907), classic features of this Unesco Heritage waterfront.
In contrast, left, the new ultra contemporary Museum of Liverpool, fully opened December 2011.
The Polish (later British) author is not thought to have a specific historic link with Gdynia. The Baltic port was created a few years after Conrad's death: the monument is at the seaward end of the southern pier.
... we name those secret places
so that they exist, so that they are real, so that we have them in common.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
lef: Conrad Joseph: "Serce ciemności", Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2017, tłum. Jacek Dukaj, pp. 142-143.
The Polish certainly know how to do a decent monument.
In the foreground is Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski or Joseph Conrad once he arrived in the UK (that was 150 years ago all you misguided ‘taking back control of our borders’ people). I discovered this celebration of yet another expatriate Pole, immediately after visiting the excellent Gdynia Museum of Emigration.
By chance, the flat we stayed in in Warsaw on the same trip, was opposite the house Korzeniowski lived in as a child.
Behind it is the Żagle; a memorial to those lost at sea and Polish maritime history.
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Prints on sale at Fine Arts America
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“It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1
"They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 3
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I wonder how screenwriters begin to draw out her character? Maybe brainstorming over coffee and a white board with random words such as these. (check out Tom Kelly's ART of INNOVATION www.theartofinnovation.com/default.htm He and I chatted by email long ago during their heyday after creating the Palm V)
What would you add? My old college friend who's now a writer invited me to visit his monthly screenwriter's group. Got me thinking.
Biochemist, nano, ninja, Europe, Costa Rica, specimen, regiment, gene splicing, empaths, dancer, mafia, soldier, fever, hot zone, ancient languages, hypnosis, twins, camps, ballet, HEROES, cryogenics, poison,
Then I think music. Like director John Woo's famously ironic mixtures (Somewhere Over the Rainbow during a slow-motion shootout in the John Travolta/Nicholas Cage movie Faceoff). Or maybe just the serendipitously, simultaneously carefree and hypnotic songs by The Doors such as People Are Strange or Love Street.
I love discovering untapped potential. A fun example of this is in casting. Just like a producer and director, I look for that... something different... in a person. And then I go deep trying to describe to myself the impressions that person makes.
The Golden Book was an American literary magazine that published short fiction and ran from 1925 to 1939. Its writers included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anton Chekhov, Dorothy Parker, James Joyce, and other luminaries and its covers are beautiful to admire.
mystic, connecticut
1974
mystic seaport museum
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
1952 2nd Print; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Cover art by Stanley Meltzoff. Romance, terror and exotic Adventure.
1942 illustration from Hans Alexander Mueller for Joseph Conrad's story "The Secret Sharer" from "A Conrad Argosy"
Joseph Conrad is a 37.0 m Sail Yacht, built in Netherlands by Scheveningensche and delivered in 1916.
Her top speed is 9.5 kn and her cruising speed is 8.5 kn and her power comes from a Mercedes diesel engine. She can accommodate up to 8 guests in 4 staterooms, with 3 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 130.72 GT and a 6.5 m beam.
She was designed by Scheveningensche, who also completed the naval architecture. Scheveningensche has designed 1 yacht and created the naval architecture for 1 yacht for yachts above 24 metres.
Joseph Conrad is in the top 30% by LOA in the world. She is one of 216 sailing yachts in the 35-40m size range.
Joseph Conrad is registered under the Marshall Islands flag.
Afiladas no son las letras sino las sombras.
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Sharp are not the lyrics but the shadows.
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End of Maze series.
"The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness."
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The Polish (later British) author had part of his nautical career in the Suffolk port, but far too early to use the pub named after him.
Explore #290 on May 02, 2012.
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Screenshot. The picture on the cover of this Book Drum's eBook of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (an enhanced edition). is created from a section of one of my water reflection images that I captured from The Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver, BC, Canada. Click here to see my original: www.flickr.com/photos/73230975@N03/6649847687/in/set-7215...
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Today, by email, I recieved the official launch news of Heart of Darkness from Book Drum. It reads as follows:
"Hi there,
This is a big week for Book Drum. It's been our dream for a long time to combine our best profiles with the books they describe to create enhanced ebooks for ipads and other such devices. We've just launched our first: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, integrating Gordon Knox's brilliant profile. All the bookmarks are linked to the relevant passages of the book, and we've slotted in the Setting places at appropriate points in the text. The other elements of the profile are accessible from the Extras page.
You can claim a free copy of Heart of Darkness (enhanced edition) at www.KoboBooks.com. It is best read on Kobo's apps for smartphones or tablets, but you can also download the ePub on a desktop and read it with Adobe Digital Editions (also free).
Please do Rate this book! on Kobo and click the Facebook Like button.
This will be the first of many enhanced classics from Book Drum. Dracula, Pride and Prejudice and The Turn of the Screw will be released this summer. If you would like to help us create an enhanced classic, pick an out-of-copyright book and build a profile. If it's good, we'll publish the ebook."
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Will be travelling for the next month and will, most likely, be more off than on Flickr until we return to Canada in early June.
Have a great month of May and thanks for your visits.
Otago - Inglorious End
The carcass was left to disintegrate into the Derwent River, after its bones were picked clean by the scrap metal vultures.
www.parks.tas.gov.au/indeX.aspX?base=1793
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otago,_Tasmania#/media/File:Otago_B...
Note: Final version of this photo is available for sale.
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Intellectual Property of R. Cassidy and Cassidy Photography.
A gentle reminder about copyright and intellectual property-
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mystic, connecticut
1974
the joseph conrad
mystic seaport museum
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
"And this also... has been one of the dark places of the earth."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
This may be overpowering for some... View On Black or in the Largest size (contacts only)
Cell 115 Camp Vught Tragedy
Short history of the concentration camp in Vught
Camp Vught holds a special Place in Dutch history of the Second World War. It was the only official SS-concentration camp in occupied North-West Europe. Construction of a large concentration camp in the woods at Vught started in May 1942. The first prisoners arrived at the camp before it was finished at the end of 1942. These prisoners came from the camp in Amersfoort, which the Nazis wanted to give up. The famished and abused prisoners arrived at the railway station in Vught and were marched off along the streets.
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Board walk at the north end of the seasonal water shuttle service with view of Joseph Conrad on the left. Now a training ship, it was built in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1882.
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The Unsinkable TITANIC (Cunard Line) ..... sailing her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York......strikes an iceberg 600kms south of Newfoundland .... 11:40pm April 14th, 1912 .... sinks 2:20am April 15th, 1912 ......1500 passenger & crew lives lost, the majority percentage 'third class'.
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EMPRESS OF IRELAND (Canadian Pacific Line)........ sailing out of Quebec City for Liverpool ..... struck, in heavy fog, by the Norwegian Coal Ship "Storstad" in the St Lawrence River .... sinks in 14 minutes .... 2:30am, May 29th, 1914 ...... 1012 passenger & crew lives lost.
"The Forgotten Empress' has always been overshadowed by the sinking of the Titanic 2 years earlier, even though a greater number of passenger lives (840) were lost than that of both the Titanic (817) and the Lusitania (791). The outbreak of World War I just 2 months later also diverted attention from her tragedy. She is the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history.
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LUSITANIA (Cunard Line) ....... New York to Liverpool ..... torpedoed by a German U-boat 11 miles off the Irish coast .... May 7th, 1915 ...... sinks in 18 minutes .....1198 passenger & crew lives lost.
An event said to have contributed to America entering World War I .... argument continues to this day as to whether the Lusitania was a legitimate military target as, even though a passenger vessel, she was believed to be carrying a large quantity of rifle ammunition.
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The port of registration for all 3 ships was Liverpool.
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"As long as men will travel on water, the sea gods will take their toll." (joseph conrad)
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image above : from a permanent exhibit in Liverpool's Merseyside Maritime Museum.
Apocalypse Now. Coronel Kurtz:
"He visto un caracol que se arrastraba por el filo de una navaja. Ése es mi
sueño. Ésa es mi pesadilla. Arrastrarme, deslizarme por todo el filo de una
navaja de afeitar... y sobrevivir"
Apocalypse Now. Colonel Kurtz:
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my
dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a
straight razor... and surviving"
Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.
Guión/Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola & John Milius
Jane Anderson, aka Jane Anderson Taylor
“The Georgia Peach”
American writer, journalist, who broadcast propaganda on behalf of the Germans during World War II. She was indicted for treason in 1943.
As a young woman she was notable for her red-haired beauty and her intelligence.
Born January 6, 1888 in Atlanta Georgia
From Wikipedia.com
“She was born Foster Anderson, while her father, Robert M. "Red" Anderson was a close friend of showman Buffalo Bill. Her mother, Ellen Luckie Anderson came from a wealthy and prominent Atlanta family.
She attended Piedmont College, Georgia but was expelled in 1904.[2] She then attended Kidd-Key Women’s School, a finishing school in Dallas. She moved to New York City in 1909 where she lived until 1915. There she married Deems Taylor the composer in 1910. The marriage ended in divorce in 1918.
While in New York, she became a successful writer of short stories which were published in national magazines from 1910 to 1913.She then traveled to Europe in September 1915 where she remained until 1918, writing articles and reports for the London Daily Mail. As a war correspondent she suffered shell-shock from a visit to the British trenches in France in 1916.
She was a lover of the novelist Joseph Conrad who used her as the model for his heroine, Doña Rita, in The Arrow of Gold 1919. In 1922 she returned to Europe as a correspondent for the International News Service and Hearst Newspapers.In October 1934 she married a Spanish nobleman in Seville, Count Eduardo Alvarez de Cienfuegos, and settled with him in Spain.
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) broke out on July 17, 1936 and Anderson covered the struggle for the London Daily Mail, reporting from the Falangist side. On September 13, 1936 she was captured and imprisoned by the Republican side, held as a fascist spy, tortured and sentenced to death. However, in October 1936 her release was secured by the intervention of U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull and the State Department assisted her return to the U.S. Her experiences in Spain moved her political allegiance to the far right. She wrote and lectured on the Spanish Civil War to promote the Nationalist cause of Francisco Franco, who eventually won the war with German and Italian military assistance.She returned to Spain in 1938, worked for the Falangist Spanish Ministry of Propaganda and came to the attention of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, German State Radio, who offered her a post in Berlin in 1940.
Anderson began broadcasts from Berlin on April 14, 1941 and when Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941 American citizens were repatriated from Germany but Anderson chose to stay there.Until March 6, 1942 she broadcast Nazi propaganda via short wave radio for the German State Radio's U.S.A. Zone, the Germans giving her the name ‘The Georgia Peach’. Her radio program was broadcast two or four times weekly and each broadcast began and ended with the slogan, "Always remember progressive Americans eat Kellogg's Corn Flakes and listen to both sides of the story," while a band played Scatterbrain. In her programs she heaped praise on Adolf Hitler and ran ‘exposés’ of the ‘communist domination’ of the Roosevelt and Churchill governments. She specialized in interviews, one being with her co-worker, the British traitor William Joyce.She was removed from her position as a commentator when material in her March 6, 1942 broadcast was successfully used by U.S. counter-propaganda. She then appears to have been inactive until her return to her propaganda work in 1944 when she made a few broadcasts reporting the brutality of the Red Army on the Eastern Front.
On July 26, 1943 Anderson along with Fred W. Kaltenbach, Douglas Chandler, Edward Delaney, Constance Drexel, Robert Henry Best, Max Otto Koischwitz and Ezra Pound was indicted in absentia by a District of Columbia grand jury on charges of treason.However, on October 27, 1947, the United States Department of Justice dropped all charges due to lack of evidence. From a United States Government Office memorandum dated June 14, 1946: "It is true that she could be classified as a political commentator, although not a very effective one, but as she apparently stopped her broadcasting activities shortly after our entry into the war it does not appear worthwhile that further efforts be made to develop our case against her, notwithstanding the fact that she was indicted for treason in 1943.”
A further factor was that Anderson had been a Spanish citizen by marriage since 1934.
Anderson was released from custody in Salzburg in early December 1947. She then went to live with her husband at Almoharín, in the post-war world of Falangist Spain. In the early 1960s they moved to Cáceres where she gave private lessons in English and German. After her husband’s death, she moved to Madrid where she died in 1972."
mystic, connecticut
1974
mystic seaport museum
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Foggy and rainy day at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut. Location is on the Mystic River as it empties into Mystic Harbor. The vessel is the Joseph Conrad [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad_(ship)].
The small wooden lighthouse at the westernmost point of the Seaport, two miles upriver from Noank, was constructed in 1966. Although operational (it has a working fourth-order Fresnel lens in its lantern room on loan from the Coast Guard), it has never been an official aid to navigation. Rather, it is a replica of the current Brant Point Lighthouse in Nantucket that was built in 1901. The first Brant Point Light was built in 1746 on Nantucket Island. The Brant Point Light Station was the second light station to be built in New England, and numerous towers have stood on or near the point over the years.
Slide taken in October 1980.
Joseph Conrad as you've never seen him before! "When Hendrik Heyst rescued me from the ugly caresses of that fat swine Schomberg in the hotel at Sourabaya, I knew I loved him…"
© yohanes.budiyanto, 2014
Aeriel view of the ever expanding downtown Singapore and the historic Raffles Hotel in its low-rise garden setting, circa 1887. Shown in the centre is the three storey Main Building, which upon its opening in 1899 officially made the Raffles a grand hotel, from its more humbler beginning as a row of bungalows of only 10 bedrooms facing the Beach Road.
Shown on the bottom right is the landmark Bar and Billiard Room, circa 1896, which is famous for its legendary tale of how the last tiger in Singapore were found and shot dead after fleeing a circus and hide below the earlier structure that was elevated from the street in 1902.