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In the months following George Bush's dramatic arrest at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport three months ago the possility that a former US president maybe be tried and sentenced for war crimes has gripped the imagination of people from New York to New Delhi. Media representatives from every corner of the planet have turned the sleepy Dutch city of the Hague into a international news circus dwarfing the coverage given the O.J Simpson trial in the 90's. According to latests foreign ministry accounts 6,560 reporters have descended upon city to cover this week's preliminary hearings which are scheduled to conclude next week.
Bush's detention on route to the UN conference on North Atlantic Security and Safety in Zurich severely strained US – Dutch relations with some Republican members of Congress calling for the air strikes on military targets within the country if the former president was not released. In the days that followed hundreds of businesses and organisations with ties with the Netherlands were attacked throughout America with three Dutch citizens losing their lives in bomb attack on the country's Los Angeles consulate.
Not surprisingly, it has been the question of the sense and the legitimacy of the trials that is the center of attention for many eyewitnesses. Despite the lack of a legal precedent, most of them approve of the proceedings because, as U.S. writer Gore Vidal put it, "warmongers will no longer be able to live quietly in retirement." Some observers, however, have remained skeptical. Iraqi writer Salah Wali considered the indictment "bizarre" and American diplomats based in Europe have privately admitted that the Americans didn't "enter the war with clean hands. No nation could have done so."
The defendant, who await the world's judgment in varying postures of resentment, resignation, and revolt, is another focus for most members of the press. "While the counsel for the prosecution read US documents about the killing of Iraqis and Afghans," railed Polish reporter Pawel Osmanczyk, enraged by the prisoner's deliberate display of boredom, "Bush yawns, or just pretends to be asleep."
Fascination for and disappointment about the banality of the man who helped in the possible murder of thousands of people also appear in the accounts of the reporters witnessing the proceedings. "Involuntarily one desires to see a greater man," wrote Australian journalist John Pliger, "who have to stand trial for all the cruelties which are spread out before the court." Afghan opposition leader, Abdullah Abdullah remarked incredulously: "He is so insignificant that you ask yourself: Was it really this degenerate who laid my country to waste... ?"
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On this date in 1971, one day after landing Apollo astronauts Dave Scott and James Irwin explored the surface of the moon in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), the first of its kind on the lunar surface.
This photo from the June 11, 1971 issue of Life Magazine shows the astronauts -- from left, Jim Irwin, Al Worden and Dave Scott -- posing with their color-coded Corvettes and the 1-G LRV trainer. As with the stylized birds on the Apollo 15 patch, the cars are red, white, and dark blue.
In a 2005 e-mail, Dave Scott notes "As I recall, this particular photo of the corvettes was taken out by the launch pad. The corvettes were stylized to essentially show the flag and set a bit of unit pride... primarily to let the troops know that we were about and paying attention to all they were doing; e.g., at almost any level of the launch complex one could look down and recognize the crew's cars; we went to the pad often for various spacecraft activities as well as to just say hello to the folks putting the Saturn V and its payload together."
For more photos of the history of the Lunar Rover, click here.
Credit: Life Magazine
Painting for Life Magazine cover
by Frank Xavier Leyendecker, 2 February, 1922
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
In tribute to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965
It's Malcolm X Day this Sunday coming so I wanted to use this week's 52 entry to mark the occasion and pay respect to a personal hero of mine. He was a shining example of turning your life around, speaking truth to power, living every day as though it is your last and refusing to 'know your place' and buckle under; a man who believed in going out and fighting for what is yours by right, rather than waiting for the man with the foot on your neck to decide he wants to let you up.
Texture by Skeletal Mess
Image of The Mayflower Club by dbking: www.flickr.com/photos/bootbearwdc/2500337137/
Life Magazine Flapper cover in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LifeFlapper1922.jpg
Over a thousand Chicagoans from all over the city, gathered at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by David Lang.
V–J day in Times Square is a famous photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that I tried to add another dimension by using some color.
Colored by Mark Jaxn
Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
Little Lulu from a Life magazine ad, Feb. 14, 1949.
Lulu was a fairly popular female formal name given in the the latter half of the 1800's. It was/is also a diminutive form of the given names Louisa, Louise, or Lucy.
It is very rare today, indicative of changing norms and practices in society. In contemporary times even the name "Lululemon" isn't based on a person but was a totally fabricated name containing as many "L"s as possible so as to make the name sound western and difficult for Japenese consumers to pronounce.
I personally have never met a Lulu in my life.
I was raised by my maternal grandmother and Jack was her favorite younger brother and was a photographer for LIFE magazine in China during World War Two.
As a child I grew up with posters of Peter Pan on the wall across from my bed, and Jack's Chinese soldier on the wall above me.
He died when I was nine.
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The Flapper by F. X. Leyendecker - Life Magazine © 1922
This photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 is an iconic image of the Great Depression. I tried to add another dimension by using some color and I think it came out pretty well.
Colored by Mark Jaxn
Okay, so I do like this old stuff.... The long green box BTW is for holding knitting needles, and the holes on top are for checking you've picked the right size .....
As humans we build physical barriets to keep us safe, and use electronic gadgets to keep in touch with theoutside world. Yet, we are so mesmerized by these gadgets that we become oblivious to our immediate surroundings and the dangers that may lurk there...like a 275 Ib. cripple with a camera...
Sir Noel Coward is arguably the epitome of flamboyance. English playwright, composer, singer, director and actor. That is why I decided to use his photo as a background for the exemplar Ansco Super Memar. Both are products of the 1950s. Loomis Dean captured Sir Coward in 1955 at the desert near Las Vegas to depict his song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen". The camera was made in 1954 by Agfa, the same company that manufactured the film.
I made a few decent shots with this camera. The viewfinder is bright and uses a neat rangefinder, which focuses with relative ease. I love this camera for its functionality and for its classic look.
As for Dean's shot of Sir Coward, the urbane artist complained that he doesn't wake up until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. But with limo and a tub of ice and liquor, Coward was persuaded. He goes on to say, "Splendid, splendid ... now if only we have a piano."
This is my latest installment to paying tribute to vintage cameras and icons behind them. For techies, you would be please to note that I've been using the Carl Zeiss 100mm Makro mounted on the Canon 5d Mark ii set at f/22 and at a very long exposure. I'm also using LEDs to light up the subject. The killer shot is actually a composite of images shot from different lighting direction and later on layered so I can paint out desirable shadows and highlights.
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Over a thousand Chicagoans, from all walks of life and all parts of the city, came together at Millennium Park to perform "Crowd Out" by Davind Lang.
Although a bit chaotic in the beginning, once the leaders of each of the small groups that formed the whole got things in sync, it became a beautiful performance and a moving experience.
I came upon this event purely by accident and it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Once surrounded by all these people, I was pretty much stuck, so you see some of the same faces over and over again.
Wallace Kirkland, 'Life' magazine photographer, Australia, 1940, by Max Dupain, vintage gelatin silver print, Damien Parer papers and photographic material 1930-1964, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 28, collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n7oVMPMn/xXemd0JEbL33e
LIFE’S COVER
“Marilyn Monroe had her first brush with fame at the beginning of World War II when she was 16 and working in an aircraft plant. An Army public relations photographer spotted her and, to boost wartime morale, shot her alongside every machine in the factory. These pictures got her work as a model and eventually led to a Marx brothers’ film in which her role consisted of walking into a room and out of it. ‘That’s a fine walk,’ said Groucho. ‘Now do it again more so.’ She took the advice and is now up among the Hollywood great.” [Note from the Editor]
Marilyn was on the cover of Life six times. This was the first, her debut cover by Halsman