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Little Corella
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I'm often amazed at how dextrous the larger birds seem to be with the feet.
And like most of their relatives this one is a Leftie
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
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I always check these feeding birds over, just on the chance one of them is bucking the system and using its right foot.
No so this time.
Alot of people will never make it to Sanna. You travel miles across the most barren landscape on a scruffy little single track road. You may see nothing. No people. No cars, No houses. Coming upon Achnaha it seems like you have found civilisation again. 8 thinly spread houses. A handful of people. 24 sheep. A few battered and bent trees. You can't go much further west on the British mainland. The road peters out a mile or two further on. Even still, some leftie, CND, anti-nuke, anti-Tory, SNP, Uni educated misfits have found this place to isolate themselves from the city way of life they felt part of until they discovered no one liked them. It's strange that Man has settled in all the extremities of the Earth, across deserts and mountains to get away from it all. And then I realise I'm one of them.
What will you expect to see in Chinatown? A Jimi Hendrix Shrine!
This is totally out of my expectation!
Shot taken at Chinatown Vancouver.
Chinatown is one of the historic districts in Vancovuer. Here are my other shots of Chinatown Vancouver.
Which shoe/sock to you put on first.... left or right?
one theory is that you tend to favour your more dominant side
I'm right-handed but can draw with my left hand
and with the shoe/sock?... I'm a leftie
this is for all my fellow lefties... happy FUTAB!
Just wanted to say Hi and to let you know things are improving, but still have a ways to go for a complete recovery! The pain has gotten much better, but I still have numbness in my left arm and hand, being a leftie, its taking a bit longer. Thank you dear friends for all of your support and well wishes.
Wishing you all a wonderful week! Take care and stay well! :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ayV1XU0csE&list=RD6ayV1XU0cs...
How many roads must a man walk down
Before he's called a man?
How many seas must the white dove sail
Before he sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannon-balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed in the sea?
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
How many times can a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
And how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer my leftie friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind
Wore them until they literally fell apart - summer and winter the most reliable boots for hiking eva (in my humble opinion). This crack finally forced me to buy another pair, then another pair. I even combined the least cracked ones left and right from my first and second pair - I hate saying good bye and getting new things. tThey are super comfy it feels like walking on clouds. Never any wet nor cold feet, gore tex. When I got Jeannie my first buy ever where these boots - a dream come true. I am on my third pair right now.
A dump tonight... I have a few days off sketching and then I have a day when without trying I just seem to be sketching a lot.
This page (yes, more tea cups!) is a record of a couple of experiments I have been doing in the last 36 hours. You all know that I have been using pencil lately...so testing out on tea cups is perfect for me to review approaches. Not sure if the notes make sense....
I know that I should really try to do without my red setup lines... But this recent exercise has reminded me why I do it and how the security blanket of these thinking lines (which I often ignore) give my ink lines so much confidence. Using pencil has merged these two functions and I have found myself doing more sketchy (hesitant) lines with the pencil – this was strange.
All fun... No idea where it will lead me... (I think that I can safely say that I have got myself distracted tonight)
BTW – this page kinda goes from right to left (remember that I am a leftie)
The match in one tweet: History made! Thunder make 4-159 to win the #SydneySmash thanks to a classic 80no from Mr Cricket & some fireworks from Dre-Russ #BBL05
The hero: Mike Hussey has enjoyed plenty of fairytales through his career and 18,287 parochial fans got to witness another at Spotless Stadium tonight. The Thunder captain and eternal fan favourite, Mr Cricket made a stunning unbeaten 80 from 59 balls to take his side to 4-159 and put them in a great position for victory. The innings was dotted with the usual Hussey trademarks – with no less than four maximums, including one from the final ball of the innings.
Andre Russell was expected to shine with the bat but his bowling is vastly under-rated. He was fast and hostile and looked to take the Sixers' batsmen by surprise. A cracking yorker knocked over Brad Haddin and he bowled dangerman Nic Maddinson, too, before returning to remove Nathan Lyon. The Jamaican faced just five balls for four not out and showed glimpses of his athleticism in the field, but it was his clinical showing with the ball that put the home side on track for the win. Honourable mention to Shane Watson, who chimed in with three wickets to seal the deal.
The victim: Michael Lumb made 34 but nonetheless had a night to forget – his team lost, he copped a questionable lbw decision, and he dropped this…
WATCH: Lumb drops a sitter The moment: The first ball of the match's sixth over, Jackson Bird bowling to Hussey. SIX! It was a cracking stroke –advancing down the track, meeting the ball on the half volley and lifting it deep over long off – and signalled the return of everyone's favourite Twenty20 tournament. It also removed any question marks about Mr Cricket's decision to play another season, with the veteran leftie proving, once again, that class is permanent. The surprise: The Sixers have been renowned throughout their BBL existence as a side that fights hard and refuses to give in, no matter the situation. So it was a shock to see their middle and lower order fold dramatically when the Thunder applied the screw. At one point, the BBL|04 runners-up lost 5-12, surrendering the match in the process.
The talking point: The streak is over! Four seasons and seven matches of dominance came to a spectacular end at Spotless Stadium, thanks to a class all-round performance from the Thunder and a rusty effort from the Sixers. The stat: As well as being their first defeat in the Sydney Smash, this is also the first time the Sixers have lost their opening match of a BBL season. The wash-up: The Thunder can't afford to get carried away with this wonderful win – last year they began in similar fashion only to fall apart mid-season. The Sixers meanwhile have enough experience to avoid panic – it's two points lost, but there are still 14 to collect.
I did not realize it at the time, not until I actually reviewed the photos, but this guy is actually missing his left foot. Not sure what happened but as seen in the foreground of the picture, no left foot...taken from my kayak.
All constructive comments are appreciated. TIA.
To see more pictures of turtles that I have taken please visit my turtle album at www.flickr.com/photos/black_cat_photography/albums/721777... - I hope you enjoy... Thanks for visiting.
To see more pictures I have taken from my kayak, please visit my kayak album at www.flickr.com/photos/black_cat_photography/albums/721777... - I hope you enjoy.
This was taken on Forsyth, between Broome & Grand, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
A tiny detail: the young woman is left-handed. Only another leftie would notice that ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Jun 14, 2015.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
I started out in life a little indifferent to politics. Well, I was completely innocent then. But it’s probably true to say that, as a baby boomer, I found myself born into a slightly privileged way of life, something which is very much frowned upon these days. But there I was starting out on the right: although being part of an army family we were supposedly non-political despite a penchant to want to shoot leftie trouble makers. But I swapped boarding school in the prosperous south for a comprehensive school and the muddy boots of a common farm boy in the desolate spaces of northern Scotland. I might have veered a little left then towards more liberal, care-free thinking which had me thinking I was very ordinary eating bread with dung stained hands. But definitely not CND, anti-nuclear material. But having moved downhill on the concrete wall I switched back to the right, onto the slippery algae green stuff. Never an environmentalist I became a few more ‘ists’ I’m told going on down the track where it got darker. And I became bad. But once I had come to the edge, things suddenly became lighter and a tug at my side pulled me back again to the left and dragged me into a more sociable ‘way’ (I think). I’m on that last part of the zigzag line now. I can see where it ends, the pattern of my life. Underfoot it’s now damp seaweed, slippery as hell, and I’ve already come a couple of croppers, but there is no turning back. I have to go on. Or stay where I am. I wish I could. I dunno…..I’m just rambling. First day back in the office for over four months! Being at home drove me mad!
we found mermaid scales and she flew like the birdie she is then stopped to watch the pelicans dive and feed. we shared a 'Mike's mess' and still after all these years found ourselves clunking knuckles forgetting about the leftie rightie difference. the fog stayed and though it's supposed to be in the 80's most the week, today it felt like autumn. a hearty laugh is overdue, anyone know a good joke?
I'm having the perfect introvert weekend - no one to visit or look after (and the Boy, though I love him dearly, isn't back until tomorrow). Just me, sitting on my sofa, eating toffees and watching crime documentaries on YouTube.
And knitting! Sadly, I'm not a great knitter. I'm a leftie, and also not a big fan of patterns (impatience or arrogance, take your pick). However, I do like that I can knit on the train, or at my desk over lunch, and I also like the look of a decent piece of proper knitwear on a doll. I've knitted cardies for Mini Mes before (wouldn't really be a Mini Me without), but they've always been super tiny - 1:12 or even one at 1:24. I was trying to knit a 1:6 one with 1mm needles, but it was taking forevaaaah, and the tension was way too tight.
So I got some 2mm needles and some crochet cotton, and what do you know? The whole thing comes together so quickly! Well, comparatively speaking.
It's not the prettiest cardigan in the world, but it proves that this works in principle. I might do some repainting later. Maaaaybe.
Cigar Box guitar by Birdwood Guitars, Katoomba. Fender Elite Telecaster, Maton EM325C
Taken on a rainy Saturday - that became a noisy one not long after...
I've wanted to do this for a while, and im quite proud of the turn out. Hope ya like it.
Made in PMG 0.6
Mister postman, can you tell me if there's a letter for me... This seems to be a popular shot at Gold Hill, complete with trampoline. Note that the Google street view has been up Main Street so you can poke up the street for yourself. Is this what the post office means when they talk about distribution to collective areas? I guess this is the down shot of the righties is legislating that the PO bank a massive number of years to bank pension money in an attempt to bust the union and the post office. No corp has ever been under such restraints; in fact most of those pensions have been stolen. Never mind that UPS and FedEx rely on the USPS to deliver a lot of their parcels. Idiots walk the land of our current America. Maybe they need bombs for a new war that can only have rotten consequences instead of a personal mail system even though it is written into the Constitution. I guess RFD and REA were leftie things. I suppose that all Gold Hill residents could all individually drive down to Boulder to get their mail thereby bloating the take by fossil fuel industries.
I walked across the street from the Inn to the dog speed limit sign and decided to get some snaps on the north side of Main. I recommend driving slowly up there, at least so you don't hit the end of the street too quickly (or any of the dogs). You don't suppose the dogs ARE the authorities up here? The people of Gold Hill love their dogs.
I was working my way up Main Street in Gold Hill and I was already running out of time and getting sprinkles on my third recent try. A "lode" of opportunities exist up and down Main but I have limited time until the next round of rain. I expect the historical designation is responsible for most of the ambiance. There is a mix of old log and milled lumber structure construction, and lumber milled to look like logs. That was a fad in the past. Often mills arrived at booming camps early. That and the mine timbers accounted for the lack of timber in photographs from early days.
I was just starting my third\ jet tour of Gold Hill, Colorado before the next imminent rain out. Gold Hill is a remnant of the oldest Colorado mining days and I caught sight of this shot of the intersection of Lickskillet Gulch Road and Horsfall Street at the main intersection. Horsfall becomes Main. To say Gold Hill tops a mountain ridge is accurate with the road east and west rise while Lickskillet, north, and Gold Run, south to Boulder, drop off the sides of the ridge. If I remember correctly, the Horsfall lode was perhaps the earliest strike in Gold Hill and was responsible for the earliest development. As Wiki puts it: Gold Hill is accessible from nearby Left Hand Canyon Road via Lick Skillet Road, the steepest county road in the United States. It IS safe in first gear IF you have good brakes. Phil [www.flickr.com/photos/boondocks/with/5371371329/] and I investigated what we thought was Gold Hill a few years back but it seems that we barely manage the project.
Gold Hill has lasted for decades through the original gold boom, the second gold boom, the silver boom and its 1893 demonetization and finally the return to reliance on gold and tungsten mining and processing. It has never completely died and is not accurately, a ghost town. It's history of transportation was a bit tortured considering one route was Lickskillet. I assume most transportation was to and from the Gold Hill Railway Station when the Switzerland Trail rails were laid west on its way to Ward. The steep sides of the canyon originally meant the road up from Boulder had to ascent the canyon. Old Gold Hill still lives on in this century-old mining camp. The narrow gauge route was never built from old Hill Station (see the map). It continued to cling to the foothills above Boulder.
i was tagged by the cool matt coughlin so i thought i'd join in on the fun fact game. here are 10 things about me i bet you had never guessed if i didn't tell you:
1. my favorite movie of all time is the departed.
2. i am a leftie - too bad they don't make left-handed cameras.
3. i am half-danish, half-german and speak three languages - danish, english, and german.
4. i have a weird obsession with manatees - sometimes i like to go to the aquarium and just look at them floating around in the water
5. when i was 12 my favorite tv show was fresh prince of bel air. i think it still is.
6. i love spicy food - especially indian and mexican
7. i come from a very musical family so i have played many different instruments including trombone, cello, and piano.
8. snakes scare me like nothing else in the world. that one video on youtube with the world's largest snake didn't make things better for me. geez!
9. new york city is my favorite place in the world
10. cinnabon rolls are the best thing ever created by man! well that and silly string i guess.
i have tagged a few other awesome people so get busy coming up with ten facts about yourself!
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The match in one tweet: History made! Thunder make 4-159 to win the #SydneySmash thanks to a classic 80no from Mr Cricket & some fireworks from Dre-Russ #BBL05
The hero: Mike Hussey has enjoyed plenty of fairytales through his career and 18,287 parochial fans got to witness another at Spotless Stadium tonight. The Thunder captain and eternal fan favourite, Mr Cricket made a stunning unbeaten 80 from 59 balls to take his side to 4-159 and put them in a great position for victory. The innings was dotted with the usual Hussey trademarks – with no less than four maximums, including one from the final ball of the innings.
Andre Russell was expected to shine with the bat but his bowling is vastly under-rated. He was fast and hostile and looked to take the Sixers' batsmen by surprise. A cracking yorker knocked over Brad Haddin and he bowled dangerman Nic Maddinson, too, before returning to remove Nathan Lyon. The Jamaican faced just five balls for four not out and showed glimpses of his athleticism in the field, but it was his clinical showing with the ball that put the home side on track for the win. Honourable mention to Shane Watson, who chimed in with three wickets to seal the deal.
The victim: Michael Lumb made 34 but nonetheless had a night to forget – his team lost, he copped a questionable lbw decision, and he dropped this…
WATCH: Lumb drops a sitter The moment: The first ball of the match's sixth over, Jackson Bird bowling to Hussey. SIX! It was a cracking stroke –advancing down the track, meeting the ball on the half volley and lifting it deep over long off – and signalled the return of everyone's favourite Twenty20 tournament. It also removed any question marks about Mr Cricket's decision to play another season, with the veteran leftie proving, once again, that class is permanent. The surprise: The Sixers have been renowned throughout their BBL existence as a side that fights hard and refuses to give in, no matter the situation. So it was a shock to see their middle and lower order fold dramatically when the Thunder applied the screw. At one point, the BBL|04 runners-up lost 5-12, surrendering the match in the process.
The talking point: The streak is over! Four seasons and seven matches of dominance came to a spectacular end at Spotless Stadium, thanks to a class all-round performance from the Thunder and a rusty effort from the Sixers. The stat: As well as being their first defeat in the Sydney Smash, this is also the first time the Sixers have lost their opening match of a BBL season. The wash-up: The Thunder can't afford to get carried away with this wonderful win – last year they began in similar fashion only to fall apart mid-season. The Sixers meanwhile have enough experience to avoid panic – it's two points lost, but there are still 14 to collect.
Good thing it's self-adhesive.
I was concerned it might have microdot on the back if it was lick-and-stick.
Wait... that sounds kinda' porno-ish.
What the Hell.
It's a damn postage stamp.
"Purple haze was in my brain... lately things don't seem the same."
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U.S. Postal Service Honors Legendary Guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, with Limited-Edition Forever Stamp on the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park
Rocking the Music Icons Stamp Series With a Tribute Concert
March 13, 2014
AUSTIN, TX — The U.S. Postal Service will take center stage on the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park with the dedication of the Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp.
Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, Hendrix displayed an innovative style that embraced the influences of rock, R&B, modern jazz and the blues, inspiring musical artists of his era and beyond.
The Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp goes on sale today at Post Offices nationwide, online at usps.com/stamps, at the Postal Store on eBay at ebay.com/stamps, and through 800-STAMP24
(800-782-6724).
“Combining influences from rock, modern jazz, soul and the blues with his own innovations, Jimi Hendrix helped found three new genres of music — heavy metal, jazz fusion and funk — and in doing so, left behind an indelible mark on pop music and popular culture generally,” said Joseph Corbett, chief financial officer and executive vice president, U.S. Postal Service.
“I’m especially pleased that we continue celebrating our Music Icons stamp series with the issuance of the Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp,” Corbett said. Janie Hendrix, sister to the late Jimi Hendrix, joined Corbett to dedicate the stamp.
“I am deeply touched and so are other members of the Hendrix family by the issuance of this stamp, and I wish to thank the United States Postal Service for bestowing one of our nation’s highest honors on my brother Jimi,” said Janie Hendrix. “While my brother has been cited many times as being among the most influential musicians of all time, the recognition implicit in his being portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp ranks as an unparalleled honor.”
The stamp dedication will take place prior to a Jimi Hendrix Celebration concert at the SXSW Outdoor Stage at Butler Park. Scheduled perform to are guitar luminaries, Wayne Kramer, guitarist for Motor City 5; Slash, former lead guitarist for Guns N’ Roses; Rusty Anderson, lead guitarist for Paul McCartney’s tours; and Perry Farrell, lead singer for Jane’s Addiction. Also, the concert will feature Robby Krieger, guitarist for the Doors; Mary Bridget Davies, star of Broadway’s “A Night with Janis Joplin”; Jesse Malin, guitarist/musician; Dave and Phil Alvin, former guitarists for The Blasters; and Etty Farrell, wife of Perry Farrell and former star of E! reality series, “Married to Rock.”
The Postal Service has released numerous stamps to celebrate and honor music icons who had a big impact on American culture and the music industry. The Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp kicks off the 2014 Music Icons series, which will include Janis Joplin later this year. The 2013 Music Icons series honored Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Lydia Mendoza.
The new limited-edition Jimi Hendrix stamp, designed by artist Rudy Gutierrez, features a vibrant, colorful design fashioned to evoke the movement and rhythm of the late singer and pay homage to the psychedelic rock era of the 1960s.
The stamp pane, designed to resemble a vintage 45 rpm record sleeve, features a painting of Hendrix’s face surrounded by colorful swirls and small icons that reference song lyrics or aspects of Hendrix’s life. The various icons include flowers, a guitar, a mermaid and a butterfly. The stamp art shows Hendrix in performance, wearing one of his trademark vintage military jackets and playing one of his beloved white Fender Stratocaster guitars.
About Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, WA, Nov. 27, 1942. Originally named Johnny Allen Hendrix, his name was later changed by his father to James Marshall Hendrix. Entirely self-taught, he had to adjust his first right-handed guitar to his left-handed playing; he restrung it upside down and turned the instrument around to play it. The teenager soon began playing with bands in the Seattle area.
Hendrix pushed the boundaries of what a guitar could do, using a basic setup that at times included a wah-wah pedal to control the output from the amplifier to produce voice-like tones; a fuzz-box to create distortion of the sound; and a Univibe, a phaser that created regular, pulsating changes of pitch, all channeled through a set of Marshall amplifiers at top volume. He was able to manipulate the various devices to produce sounds that could be loud — the quintessential psychedelic music — or melodic and gentle. A master at the controlled use of distortion and feedback, he expanded the instrument’s vocabulary in a way that had never been heard before — or since.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the U.K. Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked Hendrix No. 1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and No. 6 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In 1991, Hendrix received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and in 1993, he was awarded a posthumous Grammy for lifetime achievement.
The Jimi Hendrix stamp is being issued as a Forever Stamp, which is equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce price.
Customers may view the Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp, as well as a preview of many of this year’s other stamps, on Facebook at facebook.com/USPSStamps, on Twitter@USPSstamps or on USPSstamps.com.
Ordering First-Day-of-Issue Postmark for Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp
Customers have 60 days to obtain the first-day-of-issue postmark by mail. They may purchase the new stamps at local Post Offices, at usps.com/stamps or by calling 800-STAMP-24. They should apply the stamps to envelopes of their choice, address the envelopes to themselves or others and place them in larger envelopes addressed to:
Jimi Hendrix Station
Postmaster
8225 Cross Park Drive
Austin, TX 78710-9998
After applying the first-day-of-issue postmark, the Postal Service will return the envelopes through the mail. There is no charge for the postmark for fewer than 50 requests. For more than 50, the price is 5 cents each. All orders must be postmarked by May 12, 2014.
Ordering First-Day Covers
The Postal Service also offers first-day covers for new stamp issues and Postal Service stationery items postmarked with the official first-day-of-issue cancellation. Each item has an individual catalog number and is offered in the quarterly USA Philatelic catalog, online at usps.com/stamps or by calling 800-782-6724. Customers may request a free catalog by calling 800-782-6724 or writing to:
U.S. Postal Service
Catalog Request
PO Box 219014
Kansas City, MO 64121-9014
Philatelic products for the Jimi Hendrix Forever Stamp
There are 16 philatelic products available for this stamp issuance:
588006, Press sheet with die cuts, $70.56 (print quantity of 2,500)
588008, Press Sheet without die cuts, $70.56 (print quantity of 2,500)
588010, Keepsake (Pane of 16, 1 Digital Color Postmark), $9.95
588016, First-Day Cover, $0.93
588018, Full Pane First Day Cover, $10.34
588019, Cancelled Full Pane, $10.34
588021, Digital Color Postmark, $1.64
588024, Framed Art, $39.95
588025, Poster with First Day Cover, $14.95
588026, T-shirt (med) with First Day Cover, $17.95
588027, T-shirt (large) with First Day Cover, $17.95
588028, T-shirt (XL) with First Day Cover, $17.95
588029, T-shirt (XXL) with First Day Cover, $17.95
588030, Ceremony Program, $6.95
588031, Stamp Deck Card, $0.95.
585032, Stamp Deck Card with Digital Color Postmark, $1.99
A special promotional page has been created to display all of the Jimi Hendrix philatelic products.
The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
About me. Let's see. I will wake up and see that the Flickr Friday theme is "Sea of Lights" and take this shot immediately. Wanting to get my shot of the day out of the way because the whole day is filled with photo shoots for work and I will be slammed.
I've already said most of this, but...
I am a leftie
I love people
I can't stand close minded people
I'm addicted to lip gloss
I like things neat
I am also a Leo and very loyal
I talk to strangers
Without my camera, I am lost
I feel everything deeply
I feel fortunate all the time for many things
When I am down or going through a hard time, I can still be happy and laugh
Now I'm no stranger to takin' a punch or two for doin' the business that I do tryin' to capture some of the soul of the people I see on the street...
But this dude done caught me off guard.
I've gotten pretty good at readin' people and seein' real quick whether or not I'm gonna be able to 'close' on 'em through the viewfinder.
I got the 35mm back up front on the camera and in order to fill the frame I gotta be a real 'uncomfortable' 7 or 8 inches away from my subject's face in order to do it.
'Uncomfortable' for the subjects that is... I'm used to it.
That takes a really 'special' approach that lens.
This dude was a freakin' ninja I swear to gahd.
I saw him leanin' over a trash can lookin' all fascinating and shit and I made the approach.
This was my first shot.
And my last shot.
As you can see by his left thumb and a part of his left hand loomin' large in this shot he didn't really like that action.
He took an open handed swipe... more at the camera than me really...
but it was ungahdly freakin' fast.
Usually a guy throws a punch at you and you can sort of see it 'develop' throughout his body... if he's good it starts in his feet where he makes sure he's got a solid connection with the ground and it moves up his entire body to his fist... which when it cracks like a whip I hopefully am putting my excellent and well honed ducking skills to use.
I don't get punched too often anymore because I'm so much more experienced and I can see it comin' from so far off I usually just abort the approach before I'm even within' punching range.
But this cat was just relaxed and chilled out as he could be.
Until lightnin' struck with his left hook of a swat right there.
He meant business too.
There wouldda been some hurt if he connected.
It wasn't like the punches I'm used to at home.
Those are usually closed fisted and comin' right for my head.
This guy was different.
Look at his face... his posture and his lean... it all looked cool to me through that viewfinder.
I really wanted the closeup.
It really all happened lightning fast...
and I think it was the shadow that I saw that told me to duck... his damn hand moved so quick in the periphery.
I did my duck and both me and the camera evaded contact.
This dude had some balls.
I'm a peaceful guy...
but I'm not small...
and he looked like he didn't have a care in the world that I was gonna hit him back if he connected.
Which usually means either he's a badass... carrying... or messed up.
I don't run from people who do this kind of thing.
I back out of striking range and then try to make cool the situation.
'You better watch that camera boy' the man said.
I looked him in the eye tryin' to figure out the angle from which to make cool.
'You want me to delete the picture old guy' I asked.
'You ain't listenin' to me boy' he said.
Then he asked 'now what did I say?'
'You told me I'd better watch it with my camera' I replied... still making that critical eye contact.
'Do you want me to delete the picture or what... I don't want you to be angry about it' I said to the guy ... showing him the shot on the screen with my finger over the 'delete' button.
Sometimes they'll see the shot and everything gets cool right there.
Other times they'll ask me to delete it and I will.
But I won't do it just because they take a swing.
'Get outta here boy... I know your name' he said and I backed away before turning down the street.
That sounded sorta like some 'voodoo threat' and don't need none of that action... I'd just gotten the old 'Evil Eye' last week in Chicago so I figured it was time to leave.
The dude never even stopped leaning on the garbage can.
I thought about his reaction for a while after that.
Nothing he did offended me really.
I have nothing bad to say about the man and no ill will towards him whatsoever.
If he'd have connected with me I might have taken things differently but I ducked it and he missed me and the camera too.
I think the swipe was warranted in his mind and I can see why some people would feel that way.
It is an intrusive thing that I do.
Not everyone is cool with it.
I do it out of love and a lot of people can feel that.
Some people are just shocked or surprised and I get that too.
The 'swipe' was an 'old guy' chastising a 'young guy' for what he perceived as my lack of manners.
That's what it felt like.
It's cool.
I realized two things then...
that I needed to 'get into the groove' of this city before I got my ass kicked for my penchant for closeup photography...
and I ain't shootin' any old dudes with canes until I do.
I feel the love behind it all old guy.
I'm sorry we both didn't see it the same way.
I was looking through pictures tonight and decided to scan in one of my favorite photos on Earth, this pic of my son, at 2 years of age. It feels like yesterday I shot this. How the years freakin' fly.
DBS class 60 no. 60015 takes the curve at Penketh with the 12.11 (6F74) Liverpool Bulk Terminal - Fiddlers Ferry PS coals on 17th March 2014. Unashamed use of the tele......
I'm having the perfect introvert weekend - no one to visit or look after (and the Boy, though I love him dearly, isn't back until tomorrow). Just me, sitting on my sofa, eating toffees and watching crime documentaries on YouTube.
And knitting! Sadly, I'm not a great knitter. I'm a leftie, and also not a big fan of patterns (impatience or arrogance, take your pick). However, I do like that I can knit on the train, or at my desk over lunch, and I also like the look of a decent piece of proper knitwear on a doll. I've knitted cardies for Mini Mes before (wouldn't really be a Mini Me without), but they've always been super tiny - 1:12 or even one at 1:24. I was trying to knit a 1:6 one with 1mm needles, but it was taking forevaaaah, and the tension was way too tight.
So I got some 2mm needles and some crochet cotton, and what do you know? The whole thing comes together so quickly! Well, comparatively speaking.
It's not the prettiest cardigan in the world, but it proves that this works in principle. I might do some repainting later. Maaaaybe.
I'm typing one handed here... I sliced myself with my xacto yesterday. You'd think after twenty years as a designer I would be beyond that. Anyway, this bandaid reminded me that I took the "Which Sesame Street Character Are You?" quiz and was Big Bird. I kinda wish I had been Grover. 158/365 project bokeh
Despite its striking appearance, this container for miscellaneous bits of athletic-related program (offices, workout rooms, first-aid rooms, gift shop, etc.) was approached more as an in-between building - more a product of its environment than the other way around. The exterior structural diagrid was chosen to avoid interior columns (an existing mechanical facility underneath couldn't be chopped up); the kinked form responds loosely to the adjacent stadium. The interior atrium is dominated by a single staircase, which conveniently unites Tschumi's signature leftie red, the proverbial red carpet, and the team colors of the Cincinnati Bearcats. (I also have a hunch that the diagrid was, at some point, justified in branding terms: clearly, the building has been "clawed" by the stadium's fierce mascot!)
Versus the stair at Lerner Hall, which is supplemented by a broad occupiable ramp, this one seems a bit bereft of Tschumi's trademark event-space ambitions. Certainly, chance encounters could happen here as much as anywhere else, but making them happen isn't the architecture's principal task.
This is an illustration for our class. The text is about lefthanders being forced to use their right hand, but the brain doesn´t adjust to it, so the right hand stays the weak side, which causes lefthanders a lot of stress and drop in concentration.
I tried to mix my ink-like style with the rougher elements, I´m not 100% sure if it already works yet...
(The speech bubble coming from the left hand says "Snore", showing that the strong left hand is completely unchallenged while the weak right hand is struggling with its tasks.)
secret #3
i see dead people.......sort of.
my indonesian mother comes from a long line of javanese mystics. you see, in java, the sense of the spirit world is alive and revered.
flashback: when i was seven, i had a vision of baby cita climbing over the rail of her crib and falling to the floor below. i remember telling my mother about it, who comforted me by telling me that cita would be ok. don't think such horrid thoughts, she warned me.
three days later, in the dead of night, baby cita preceded to climb over the rail of her crib and plummeted to the hard laminate floor beneath, suffering a huge gash across her temple. in the rush to get cita to the hospital, i excitedly reminded my mom that i foresaw the happenings. she reacted so severely, not remembering my earlier warning, demanding that i tell her of these things immediately the next time it happened.
that experience must have scared me so badly that i've never had such a strong vision since.
outcome: baby cita was fine, was given a few stitches, and to this day, we tease her that she is a leftie due to the fall she succumbed when she climbed over the railing of her crib..
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Last day of two casts, back to one tomorrow, alas my dominant leftie. Wire extraction too, shudder :(
Wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! I am recovering from surgery on my right hand ( my dominant hand! ) and will be laid up for a while yet. Man, it sure is hard becoming a “Leftie”!!
Take Care!
Tagged by people in this BJD questionnaire thinger.
1: From all the dolls you own, who is your favorite and why?
Always Ferrand. Because I adore his face. The character was created later and I adore him too, but it was the mold that I fell in love in.
2: Explain how you managed to get into BJD collecting.
I used to play TheSims2 a lot and was active in the online community. There was a wall hanging recolor (on MTS2 or GoS) that Atomic space kitty made with photos of her Hound. So I googled and at first I didn`t get crazy about the dolls, it came after a while. A month later, maybe? I don`t remember now :P
3: Which was the very first doll you ever bought?
Resinsoul Mei.
4: Which doll do you plan to buy next?
I would really like to not buy anything at this point. There is a hope I can keep away from buying for a while, as I have a little Volks to pay off and a shitload dolly items to buy.
5: Are you currently waiting on any dolls?
Nope.
Well, i`m waiting for the girls of Buried in Oblivion to make a boy XD
6: How many dolls do you currently have?
8 dolls (one is for sale) and 2 heads.
7: Which was the very last doll you bought?
Volks Kakeru.
8: What is the worst thing about this hobby?
The community :P
9: What is the best thing about this hobby?
Sooo many things I can do with dolls and for dolls :) I love being creative!
10: Which is the best dolly photo of yours?
I don`t know. I can`t really pick one.
11: Which is your favourite BJD company?
Judging by my dolls, it should be Soom XD well, it`s not. Looking overall at quality and beauty, Dollshe is quite high in the rank.
12: Who are on your wish list?
Right now a must have is baby Jane, who is a girlie from Only doll, don`t remember the mold`s name.
I would really love to have a SA Bermann.
For a project doll, AS Mr.Rabbit head.
And the mentioned above BiO boy.
13: Are there any dolls you wished you had never purchased?
No, I needed them all to get where I am now.
14: Who's your favourite face up artists?
Ferret`s nook, because I wub her as a person and her skill got very awesome :D and people, whose work I`ve seen live, especially on my dolls, HerrZog, Shiroi, kamarza... plus many others that do it very good.
15: What is a must when considering a purchase (poseability/faceup/age/etc)?
Various things. If it`s a body, then equally beauty and poseability, if it`s head, I don`t care for a faceup, as I prefer my own ideas. Once I got a faceplate with a faceup, cause it was pretty much what I wanted.
16: Anything else you'd like to add?
Hugs for the crazy doll people XD
The ultimate icon of jet-age fabulosity, Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center demonstrates the confluence of an architectural Modernism divorced from its European leftist constituency and that most fleeting of American achievements, the postwar mass middle class. The situation sowed the seeds of its own ruin. In the short term, the increased acccess to air travel wrecked older tourist economies (like that of Atlantic City), contributing to the growing problems of urban economic stagnation while promising that in due time the glitzy jet-setting of princesses and Rockefellers would be available to everyone. In the long term, the capacity of American capital to extend its representatives and bureaucratic infrastructure across the globe would squeeze the well-paid American factory worker back out of the equation, though this process was not entirely complete by the time that cheap fuel and giant aircraft rendered the TWA Flight Center obsolete.
To present-day eyes, the building seems small, not only in the usual way of architectural masterpieces that just never seem to live up to their photographic billing. It's quaint, really - a departure terminal with food and drink areas prepared to seat a couple of dozen at most. Yes, the building was always only a foyer - aerials here make clear the relationship of the main building to the two actual departure gateways (one added by Roche-Dinkeloo in the late Sixties), both since demolished. But still: its justly-celebrated grace and adventure, its attempt to convert mystical-utopian Expressionism into the giddy coinage of Leisure Time, could only ever be for a relative few. The customer base of flying was made cheaper in part by lowering the quality of accomodations. The ubiquity of interchangable, banal, people-moving airport-space resulted; its manifestations now literally encircle the Saarinen building, which ceased operations in 2001. In later years, if commuter air travel unravels completely, we may look back on the desperate ordinariness of present-day air travel with the same nostalgia that's now directed towards the glamour and the glitz of Saarinen's time. These are both temporary phenomena made possible by particular intersections of money, resources and perceived need.
For all that, though, the Saarinen building is something special, in the same way that the palaces of kings can often lay claim to more architectural merit than the barracks of migrant farm-workers. It is not merely a testament to the economics of its own making, any more than Long Lines or the Moscow subway system. The conventional wisdom is right: this is a hum-dinger and a genuine original, a magnificent synthesis of prewar concrete Expressionism with a triumphant American confidence and literalism. The "bird in flight" here is a far cry from the magical abstractions of Taut or Steiner. TWA's real opposite number is Neviges: a reinvention of the same architectural language to the tune of dour theological agonies and the seeming inversion of Taut's crystalline dream-kingdoms. Just as a nonbeliever may roam Böhm's shadowy city-crown and be moved by the light, the footsteps and the heaviness of air, so may a leftie cynic still relish an aesthetic thrill in Saarinen's fantastic, mass-luxury mirage.
Images shot during a reception for Open House New York. Reflections prompted by recent weeks spent struggling with Theodore Adorno and Walt Disney, about which the less said here, the better.
Addendum: Yes, I'm back to posting photos. A month in, the Flickr redesign remains disastrous, and many aspects of the posting and browsing experience are outright hostile to my workflow. They've closed the relevant feedback threads after a total of some 40,000 largely negative comments; all we can really do is hope that behind the scenes, the staff are working to resolve the most egregiously awful features. I'm still not the least bit happy about how things look around here, but what can I do? My archive aside, the people worth talking to are all here...