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for the last day of my song selections in Musically Challenged, i knew i wanted to do "Gimme Shelter".
everything that i know and love about classic rock, i learned from my big brother. and though our top bands were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and, most importantly, The Doors, there were a few dozen Stones songs that found a permanent place on our list of favorites.
that, and the fact that the first concert i ever attended, with my brother and some friends, was the Rolling Stones (with Guns N Roses opening!).
i had a much different shot in mind than the one i posted, but i wasn't able to find the time to execute it.
i'll probably get around to doing it one day, but i didn't want to let my last chance at doing "Gimme Shelter", to just... fade away.
(yes, i totally said that on purpose. and yes. i am such a dork)
it may not look like a storm is threatening on that sun soaked beach, but i love the way the women in the bottom right are looking up to the sky as if something IS, in fact, coming their way.
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"Gimme Shelter," by The Rolling Stones
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
...I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
i know that i am nothing new
my words might not seem much to you
but brother how we must atone
before we turn to stone
- Ingrid Michaelson, Turn to Stone
It's officially no longer my birthday since it's now past midnight. It didn't really feel all that birthday-ish anyway. Weird year. Weird month. Weird birthday. I didn't even have any birthday cake. I guess some years a late night cup of gingerbread tea has to suffice. Here's hoping my thirty-third year will be a little smoother and less hilly than my thirty-second. The highs were wonderful but I don't think I want to suffer through those kinds of lows again. Thankfully, there's nowhere to go but up from here. And I intend to climb rapidly and not look back.
Musically Challenged: Ingrid Michaelson - Turn to Stone
lately something here don't feel right
this is just a half-life
is there really no escape?
no escape from time
of any kind
i keep trying to understand
this thing and that thing, my fellow man
i guess i'll let you know
when i figure it out
but i don't mind a few mysteries
they can stay that way it's fine by me
and you are another mystery i'm missing
- Duncan Sheik, Half-Life
So today has been pretty crazy. In the midst of getting a ton of errands and cleaning done, I've been constantly keeping tabs on my LivingSocial deal. So far I've sold 36 deals. That's a LOT of photoshoots! Excited and terrified at the same time! :) Hopefully these new clients will generate some more word-of-mouth and referral business for me at my regular rates down the road. In the mean time, at least I'll be busy!
Oh, and I picked the songs this week in Musically Challenged, so come check them out and play along!
Musically Challenged: Duncan Sheik - Half-Life
it's time again for me to choose the weekly list of songs in Musically Challenged.
i miss the early days of MC when there were two or three dozen shots per list every single week. i loved seeing everyone's interpretation of what each song or one line of lyrics meant to them, photographically.
now all we're left with is this hooker's take on every third word of every fifth verse of an obscure as fuck song by this ancient British asshole who never amounted to anything.
so pretty please, people, take a look at the lyrics and music to the 14 songs i chose for this week and slap a lyric or two into your title if it fits - even if it doesn't fit! or go out and shoot something based on your animosity towards any musicians i chose! or your desire to bed down the fictitious girl being sung about! or your derision reserved only for David Hasselhoff and drunken cheeseburgers!
have fun, people! pretty please??
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1. "Big Pimpin'"- Jay Z
2. "Rhinestone Cowboy" - David Hasselhoff
3. "She's a Jar"- Wilco
4. "Midnight Radio" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)
5. "Today" - Josua Radin
5.2 "Dream"- Priscilla Ahn
6. "Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails / Johnny Cash
7. "November Rain" - Guns N Roses
8. "Signs" - Bloc Party
9. "Crying Lightning" - Arctic Monkeys
10. "World Spins Madly On" - the Weepies
11. "Promises" - Eric Clapton
12. "I5 Step" - Radiohead
13. "Falling Slowly" - 'Once' (film)
More fun with lights this evening.... combo of Strobist stuff as well as light painting.
The more astute amongst you will realise this is not a self portrait..... I used to look like this 30 years ago, but now I'm more of a party keg guy than a six pack guy. (Although compared to most 50 yr old folk I still look fairly fit so happy enough with my body). This is my younger son Sebe.... Luckily quite happy to pose half-nekkid at night in October in the UK (the young are hardy & foolish).
Strobist Info: Bowens GM200 1 ft behind & 6 ft to either side of subject. Both on full power. Triggered by Cactus triggers at start of the 30 sec exposure. Light trails with a hand flashlight triggered by muscle.
As usual, some learning experiences when doing a new technique. I really should have worked out a way to keep his arms still..... initial flash captured him, but during the 30 second long light painting his arms moved slightly & they look a bit thin as a result. Next time I will use some thin black thread for him to tense against & keep arms in absolute position.
OK, so hit quite a few themes with this one.....
FGR - Alien Light Forms
Bench Monday
TOTW - Love your body (I do, but envious of my son's)
Musically Challenged - As chosen by Pikespice.
The song is Halloween by Helloween - supposedly from the 80's so I ought to remember it, but I don't.... of course metal wasn't my thing then (or now). Long long lyrics, so here's the section that is relevant.
I can see a Light comin'
It's comin' nearer
It's shining
It's shining so bright
It's shining on me
I am the one, doom 's in my hands
Now make your choice,
redeemed or enslaved
I'll show you passion ang glory
He Is the snake
I'll give you power and abundance
He's the corrupter of man
Save me from the evil one
Give me strength to carry on
I will fight for all mankind's
deliverance and peace of mind
"each day when he walks to the sea
he looks straight ahead, not at me
tall and tan and young and handsome
the boy from Ipanema goes walking
and when he passes, I smile
but he doesn't see, no doesn't see"
- "The Boy from Ipanema"
based on the original by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes
and also for kat as she specifically requested exactly what is in the title of this photograph. and who am i to deny her her wishes and dreams...? ;)
you've been all over
and it's been all over you.
"Beautiful Day" by U2
for: Musically Challenged
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view of the Century City skyline from atop The Grove in Hollywood, CA
On Friday 2 friends of mine and I flew down to Denver to be with our friend Deb, who had just lost her husband Derek, in a tragic accident. After the candle light memorial Friday night, we went over to her place to help get her boat ready to sell. Deb also went through Derek's things, figuring out what she wanted to keep. Unlike myself, Derek had very good taste in clothing, and knew what looked nice. Deborah gave me a few of his ultra high class button-up shirts, and I am honored to have them. I just hope I can do them justice!
Today would have been Derek's 40th Birthday.
Alison Krauss & Union Station—The Lucky One
(21 of 52)²
Oh I am what I am
I do what I want
But I can't hide
And I won't go
I won't sleep
I can't breathe
Until you're resting here with me
- Dido, Here With Me
Had a really good day. My stomach is finally feeling normal again. *knocks wood* Had a very busy day and none of it was spent on my couch. Well, ok, I'm on my couch now, but come on. It's after 8pm. I think it's allowed now. Have a lot to get accomplished in the next week. Including heading down to the dreaded Secretary of State to wait for god knows how long to get my last name changed on my driver's license. Hopefully I can tick that off my list tomorrow so I can focus on the rest without that looming over my head any longer.
Happy Hump Day, people!
Musically Challenged: Dido - Here With Me
a few years ago, i fell in love with a song by Joshua Radin, "Closer". i found it the way i seem to find most these days: on a television show.
i've since been mad abut the rest of his songs as they are very much the singer/songwriter style that i'm crazy about. give me a voice and a guitar or a voice and a piano and i'm sold.
Ashley chose the songs this week in Musically Challenged and selected "Today", by Joshua Radin.
this particular song wasn't in my tops of his until Ellen Degeneres showed a 4 minute video montage of the day she married Portia De Rossi and it's just unreal beautiful. i tear up every damn time i see it.
the photo above is more of a literal take on just one line of lyrics, and not indicative of the entire song itself. the video does that job brilliantly, so have a look there, if so inclined.
if you like simple but beautiful singer/songwriter music, i can't recommend Joshua Radin enough.
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Shoelaces untied
You can dry your eyes
Perfect shadows alive
Behind us
This is the day i make you mine
You are the one
I've been wating for today
And here comes the sun
That's been baiting on today
Lately i've lost my tongue
Today you found the sun
I know not long has grown
Well i thank god you came along
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edit: oops! i forgot to add that this image was inspired by this photo by the lovely and talented Kaboomish Gem (who also rocks a Sheffield dialect, my favorite!)
do you ever go through slumps? i'm so slumpering right now.
picking up the camera and taking photos has slipped so far back on my Want To Do list. i can't sort out if it's because we're so damn busy with several large Life Things at the moment or if it's just one of those times where photography sort of naturally takes it's turn on the back burner.
i always carry my camera with me - that's still the case. but i just don't take it out as much these days. even when i see something i know could become a stellar shot. i got a macro lens about a month ago and have shamefully hardly utilized it. and taking self portraits? dear god, that sounds just full of allllll sorts of hassle and the antithesis of fun. i'd honestly rather take pictures of clouds day after day than pictures of myself. where, oh where, has my vanity gone? ;)
i suppose i can partially chalk up my lack of interest to having a parent in the hospital for several weeks and subsequent recovery, house hunting and all the stress that brings, and the fact that i'm going to have a baby in 3 months time (eeeek!!!).
but still. i miss it dammit. and this place, too. i love it when the stars align and everything you shoot looks and feels great and you can't want to get on here and post and comment and just enjoy.
i'm sure it will all return soon enough. ebbs and flows and all that jazz.
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i really, really love Explosions In The Sky. there are three great songs by them in Musically Challenged this week, including this one: Your Hand In Mine
(which is a perfect accompaniment to the above image, i've decided)
And all the girls walk by
Dressed up for each other
And the boys do the boogie-woogie
On the corner of the street
~John Mellencamp (Van Morrison)
Strobist Info:
Flashpoint II 320M @ 1/2 in softbox at 4:00
530 EX II @ 1/2 in softbox at 8:00
430 Ex II @ 1/4 in beauty dish at 5:00 pointed against BG
CyberSync triggers
You can still donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting HAITI to 90999.
"Vicarious" is my favorite song from my favorite band, Tool. I was thrilled to see it in this week's Musically Challenged list, but I knew it was going to be hard to do it justice. It hits you hard right out of the gate and builds for 7 minutes to an enormous climax. It's incredibly powerful and explosive, and its subject matter is the guilty pleasure we all experience from watching others suffer. And by an eerie coincidence, it happens to be extremely relevant right now.
A week ago the nation of Haiti didn't cross any of our minds. Some of us didn't even know where it was. And now we donate our hard-earned money to help people we'll never meet put their shattered lives back together.
But let's not kid ourselves; We're glad it's not us. We're glad we can look at the photos on our laptops and watch the rescue efforts on our HDTVs. The part of us that feels guilty about that tries to empathize, to suffer vicariously through the pixels on the screen. But none of us can possibly know what it's like to be surrounded by death and destruction of such magnitude. So ultimately we just go about our day.
I live in Los Angeles. I'm able to live here only because I choose to ignore the simple fact that sooner or later, we will have our own Big One. It could happen in a thousand years, or it could happen at the end of this sentence. So every time the Big One hits somewhere else is another time it didn't hit me and the people I care about. Like it or not, we're all playing a game of Russian Roulette with the universe, and there's no sense feeling guilty when someone else gets it in the head. Just be glad it wasn't you and make the most of the time others no longer have.
So Haiti, I'm so sorry for the fate that's befallen you. I've given to help you rebuild and will continue to urge others to do the same. But to quote the final lyric from my favorite song:
Much Better You Than I.
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Eye on the the TV
'Cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor it happens to be, like...
"Killed by the husband"
"Drowned by the ocean"
"Shot by his own son"
"She used a poison
in his tea...kissed him goodbye"
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies
Don't look at me like
I am a monster
Frown out your one face
But with the other
Stare like a junkie
Into the TV
Stare like a zombie
While the mother holds her child
Watches him die
Hands to the sky crying,
"Why, oh why?"
Cause I need to watch things die... from a distance
Vicariously I live while the whole world dies
You all need it too, don't lie
Why can't we just admit it?
Why can't we just admit it?
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
Neither the brave nor bold
Will write as the story's told
We won't give pause until the blood is flowing
I need to watch things die... from a good safe distance
Vicariously I live while the whole world dies
You all feel the same, so...
Why can't we just admit it?
Blood like rain come down
Drum on grave and ground
Part vampire
Part warrior
Carnivore
And Voyuer
Stare at the transmittal
Synced to the death rattle
La, la, la, la, la, la-la-lie (x4)
Credulous at best
Your desire to believe in
Angels in the hearts of men
Pull your head on out
Your hippie haze and give a listen
Shouldn't have to say it all again
The universe is hostile, so impersonal
Devour to survive... so it is, so it's always been
We all feed on tragedy
It's like blood to a vampire
Vicariously I
Live while the whole world dies
Much better you than I
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Strobist: Red gelled flash to my left and behind on 1/4, bare flash hitting the wall to the right on full power.
Girl put your records on
Tell me your favourite song
Just go ahead, let you're hair down...
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
Day 178--"Take 'em out the hood, keep 'em lookin good" --Jay Z, "Big Pimpin"
For red.dahlia's musically challenged week. ;)
You never realize how much hair you have on your fingers until you take a macro,
For Musically Challenged, Gimme Shelter by the Stones.
A storm is threatening
My very life today.
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away.
Lyrically, whatever. But that guitar is just to die for, and the haunting backup vocals give me chills every time.
I've been kind of a slave to my 50mm lately, so I figured I'd whip out the ultrawide for a change.
Strobist: 430 EX2 in 60" reflective umbrella above camera with 1/2 CTO. LP120 behind me with a red gel fired up at the ceiling of the freeway overpass.
Musically Challenged
Here we go again,
asking where I've been
You can't see these tears are real,
I'm crying
(Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds)
Hey Lou, what did you get up to on Friday night?
Oh you know, got home from work, had a beer, ate some taco’s, had another beer, sat in the kitchen for three hours well my boyfriend painted me, had another beer, watched The Crow.
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Another copy cat shot. This one was kind of a bitch! Getting the lighting even close was tough. It's far from perfect, bit it's as good as I could get it! And hey...I'm learning, so it's all good.
Like I said, I like roads. And I like this one in particular a lot because it takes me snowboarding. I've driven it many times, but usually at night. It's rare that I get to see the 395 bathed in light, and man is it a pretty drive.
Therefore, I'm hereby assigning myself this song for Musically Challenged, since it just barely missed making the cut when it was my week to choose the songs. But it was running through my head when I ran out into the middle of the highway to shoot this, so out of the blue and apropos of nothing, here's my photo entry for Dredg's "Same Old Road."
We're a ship without a storm
The cold without the warm
Light inside the darkness that it needs, yeah
We're a laugh without a tear
The hope without the fear
We are coming - home~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DIO~
The Last in Line <------Listen.....one of my all-time fave songs..ever!!
Posted for Musically Challenged...The Last in Line by DIO!
This weeks Musically Challenged list was chosen by the wonderful Forty-OneCrush.
I think it looks pretty sweet Large, so go ahead and hit "L" :-)
one good thing about music,
when it hits you feel no pain
so hit me with music, hit me with music
hit me with music, hit me with music now
- Bob Marley, Trenchtown Rock
I suppose I was due for one of these. My behind the glass series always kind of reminds me of a peep show - a little glimpse into the story of a character who you think you know, while in reality what you're seeing is just a thirty second show of a character of their choosing. Does that make sense? Anyway, while creating these various characters obscured behind the glass, I just kept thinking of a burlesque peep show. Of course, I don't own any really burlesque lingerie (unlike a certain friend of mine whose closet overfloweth and shall remain nameless). So you get my toned down version.
And before my family gets pissed (as they most always do when I show this kind of skin), I was also in the mood to celebrate my weightloss thus far. I mentioned last week that while I've been watching the numbers on the scale change, I only just recently started noticing my clothes fitting much more loosely. Well last night, on a whim (at 12:30am no less), I decided to try on some old jeans of mine that just a few months ago I couldn't even pull all the way on, let alone fasten. Some of these jeans I haven't worn in YEARS. Um, yeah. Totally comfortable in them now. Can't even express how happy that made me. So of course I wound up trying on the majority of the clothes in my closet that haven't fit me in forever. And squealed (quietly since it was 1am by that time) each time something fit me comfortably again. I'm up to six pairs of pants and jeans that are now fully ready to move back into active rotation in my wardrobe. And countless shirts and adorable jackets that used to cut off all circulation in my arms and now fit exactly the way they're meant to fit.
I'm working on getting healthier and losing weight for me. Not for anyone else. I want to get back down to a weight where I feel like me again. That's probably not as skinny as I once was, but I want to stop feeling like I'm trapped in somebody else's body. I've got about forty pounds left to lose, but I'm in no rush. Slow and steady wins this race (says the girl who has lost rapidly and gained it back just as quickly in the past).
Progress, not perfection.
Musically Challenged: Bob Marley - Trenchtown Rock
watching this: butterflies! and anything else from the Viva La Vida tour in 2009 makes me tres happy. smiles all around. Coldplay is my guilty pleasure and i am not ashamed, dammit!
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"Lovers in Japan" by Coldplay for Musically Challenged
- Portishead, Roads
Hey guess what? This week marks the one year anniversary of our weekly Emulation Challenges in My Face is My Canvas! Unreal, right? I never in a million years thought that when I created that group one drunken night that it would become so popular that it could actually sustain weekly challenges for a year. To those of you who have been active participants, thanks for being so rad. To those of you who loved it at the beginning and then abandoned it half a year ago (Vic!), you aren't quite as rad but I still like you (except for Vic). This week's emulation challenge is effing awesome if I do say so myself. It was chosen by the immensely creative and talented Kel-Z. You should really drop by and play along.
I'm glad I have soccer tonight because I need to work off some nervous energy. I'm shooting my first wedding this Saturday (with the help of the talented and cocky Tom) and I'm fairly terrified at the prospect of screwing it up somehow. Fingers crossed everything goes off without a hitch! And Tom has promised not to be a little pussy this time and actually drink with me instead of bitching out, so Saturday night after the reception should be fun times. :)
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week 52
Theme of the Week: Fashion Statements
Musically Challenged: Roads - Portishead
30 Songs in 30 Days: Roads - Portishead
As I lay upon my bed, I begin dreaming
Of how it's gonna be the day that I am free
Once I settle like the dust upon the table
But then you came along
You helped me write this song
I don't know what day it is,
I can't recall the seasons
And I don't remember how we got this far
All I know is I'm loving you for all the right reasons
In my sky you'll always be my morning star
- The Jayhawks, All the Right Reasons
I'm not super familiar with the Jayhawks, but I do know that every song I've ever heard of theirs, I've instantly loved. So I'm pretty sure it's time for me to download an album or two. And since Brad picked one of their songs for Musically Challenged this week, I figured the least I could do was visualize a lyric or two. :)
It was a long freaking day. I got up and into work early because I had a client meeting. Didn't find out until I was already into the office that it was postponed by two hours. *sigh* Isn't that the way it always goes? Anyway, it was an uncharacteristically long day for me as days go, and I'm pooped. Looking forward to relaxing with Andy this evening and watching some Lost a little later on. Up early again tomorrow for an 8:30am hearing over an hour away, so I'll be hitting the hay early tonight.
Hope all of you had a good Tuesday. And a big bear hug goes out to Jenna, because I know hers sucked. Tomorrow will be better, sweets!
365 Days (self portraits): Day 329
Musically Challenged: All the Right Reasons - The Jayhawks
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The Vienna Opera Ball
Viennese Opera Ball
Just as already the operetta and the waltz had been imported from Paris to Vienna, comes also the model for the Vienna Opera Ball from the Seine metropolis. By a corresponding approval of Duke Philip of Orleans, on 2 January 1716 a "public ball" can be held for the first time, to which everyone has access who can pay the admission fee of five livres. First, the balls take place at the Comédie française, but already in 1717 was given the Académie de Musique, the Paris Opera House, the special right of the organization. Nevertheless, in the Comédie furthermore take place balls, with the audience far more popular than the 'opera balls'.
In 1861 the construction of an opera house begins at the Ringstrasse, on the explicit desire of Emperor Franz Joseph not solely intended for performances of operas and ballets, but also for the staging of the Opera Ball. With this, have been created both the spatial and the official conditions for a genuine Viennese Opera Ball according to Parisian model. It should, however, take another eight years before a dance event in the opera could be held for the first time after the completion of the house in 1869.
Initially, due to the increasing violence at the Paris balls but only Court Opera soirees take place. This includes elegant evening soirees with musical entertainment, but without dancing. On 11 December 1877 opened the court musical director Wilhelm Gericke the first Court Opera Soirée with the "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn. After several concert pieces the baton is handed over to the Strauss family. First, Johann Strauss son conducts the Vienna Philharmonic with a waltz, followed by his brother Edward with a specially for this day composed "Opera Soirée Polka". After that, the dance-crazed Viennese are no longer stoppable: all chairs were put to the side, and the evening, which was thought without dance pleasure, ends like a ball. This is the hour of birth of the opera ball, even though for the time being still far away from being called so.
Already the second event on 15 January 1878 is announced officially as "Second Hofopernsoirée (Ball)". The third, for 12 February 1878 scheduled Soirée, is canceled for reasons of piety, since Pope Pius IX. a few days earlier had died. After the uncomplicated election of Leo XIII. to new head of the Church the ball is on 23 February rescheduled.
After these three opera soirees from March of the same year take place redoutes in the Court Opera, continuing the tradition of masked balls and linked with strict dress code: "in the hall, with the exception of the lodges, the ladies the stay is only permitted in an elegant mask, short costumes are not allowed. The gentlemen of civil appear in evening dress with white cravat, cylinder or Claquehut (opera hat - chapeau claque). "During the next twenty years during the carnival time each year should be organized two, in some seasons even three redoutes. However, at these festivals the Viennese society is not as boundless as once united in the common ball pleasure, because in the meantime the guests are spread across three different levels, not only differing in space but also in the appearance of guests from each other. Are the boxes the aristocratic guests in elaborate ball gowns reserved, so gather in the stalls the bourgeois guests, for which there is no mask constraint. In addition, there are the galleries that are accessible to every viewer without special admission ticket.
1899 the popular balls for the time being come to an abrupt end, as is discovered that the opera for such festivals does not comply with the safety regulations. Since an appropriate conversion proves to be too costly, the redoutes are discontinued for an unforeseen period of time. A certain compensation for those festivals offers in the following years the in the new town hall held "Ball der Stadt Wien".
Only in 1921, the tradition of the redoutes in the Court Opera has been resumed, but without being able to follow on the success of previous years. After several breaks followed in 1924, 1928 and 1929 again opera redoutes, neither musically nor stylistically corresponding with the level of the defunct imperial monarchy-time and they are not characterized by the former wit, charm and temperament. The twenties are not only politically, but also culturally a very different time in which with the progressive emancipation of women the meaning of a redoute became obsolete.
And so 1935 is launched the first as such referred to Opera Ball. In a time of political uncertainty, it complied in addition to social also with diplomatic and official representative purposes. Therefore, it takes no wonder that the guest list has many personalities from politics. The last opera ball before the outbreak of the Second World War should be organized in 1939, when Austria was already 'connected' by Adolf Hitler to the German Reich. Therefore respectively stiff and artificial resulted according to that this night on which no happiness will raise, previously the rule.
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Reopening of the Vienna State Opera, 1955
© wissenmedia
Shortly before the end of World War II, the Vienna Opera House on 12 March 1945 almost completely was destroyed by a bomb. It should take ten years until the house was rebuilt and with Ludwig van Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" at the 5th November 1955 ceremoniously could be opened. In the following carnival season with this also the first opera ball of the post-war period can be celebrated, but which has changed its face much: "Actually, the Opera Ball is not a Viennese event anymore, but already a pan-European one. A ball night for which the world envies us".
This new image has remained to this day, with the only difference that the Opera Ball is now no longer considered only as a pan-European, but as an international event. A highlight of the evening is the annual opening of the ball by about 180 debutantes who on the arm of the to them for this evening assigned Cavaliers in a Polonaise move in. After the Vienna Philharmonic for many years had taken over the musical interpretation of the evening, there is since 1982 a Vienna Opera Ball Orchestra grounded specifically for this purpose. In addition, since 1984, there is also a Viennese Opera Ball Ladies Ensemble, made up of 15 musicians and beyond the ball unfolding a very busy concert schedule.
Today on the Opera Ball there is not exclusively danced just waltz anymore. Up to ten orchestras or soloists play at the same time in different places of the house, and as a concession to modern times there is since some years even a nightclub. And yet, the waltz enjoys as the king of dances to this day unbroken popularity, without which for many no Viennese Opera Ball is thinkable. Another innovation is also the since 1981 in the Schwind Foyer installed Viennese Opera Ball Casino, which is a special attraction especially for the younger guests. Collectors will also appreciate the annually by the casino issued special Opera Ball chips.
How to become a debutante?
Proposals are now mostly send in by the dance schools of the country. The first condition is the perfect mastery of the links waltz, which is checked at a Vortanztermin (dance audition date - don't worry, the Lipizzans are doing the same!). Has the potential debutante overcome this hurdle with flying colors, it is about to find a suitable partner for the big night. The criteria for this choice are less situated in personal relationships than in pure dance qualities. After finally the couples have found each other, for five days under the expert guidance of several ballet master not only the links waltz, but also the choreography of the marching in is practiced until everything is perfectly rehearsed. The question of clothes is strictly regulated for the couples: the ladies in white dresses with a little crown on the head and the gentlemen in evening dress. To underline the internationality of the ball, every year also Debütantinnen and Debütanten from around the world are invited.
Guests
Artists from the world of the theater and the music, film and television can be found on the Vienna Opera Ball as well as well-known athletes and fashion designers. Diplomats and politicians from home and abroad appreciate the special atmosphere, and every now and then you meet also members of the European nobility. The Opera Ball today is no longer just a lavish celebration in which together a whole evening and a full night is celebrated, but increasingly also a social forum that connects professional and political contacts in a pleasant way with a social event.
Scandals
In recent decades, the Vienna Opera Ball, however, has not only found unanimous support, but has been increasingly criticized. In the 80s made fights between angry citizens that characterized the event as a "festival of the political and monetary bigwigs" and the police the headlines. Unforgettable is also the demonstration against the reprocessing plant Wackersdorf when in 1987 the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz-Josef Strauss participated in the Opera Ball. In addition, now almost every year during the opera ball take place demonstrations against these seemingly senseless waste of funds in the face of hardship and misery, hunger and wars, social and health problems in the world.
Nevertheless, the Opera Ball has lost none of its fascination and all over the world - from Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur and Korea to Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul and Dubai, Ankara, Istanbul, Kiev, Prague and Budapest to Rome, New York, Los Angeles and Washington - it found imitation, without being able to ever really come close to the Viennese model. Even if the question of the contemporaneity of the Vienna Opera Ball ever and again was controversially discussed, at the latest in 2005 has been shown that even this traditional event cannot stop short before general social changes: for the first time a smoking ban for the Opera Ball was pronounced.
Created for The Hypothetical Awards' 4th Annual, Musically-Themed challenge..."Album Cover Design!"
A number of years after Lead Singer Devanna Heikoop’s mysterious death, Lorne Carvalho and Margret Van Rooy, two of the founding members of the now defunct Tempora Equinox, gathered in a Geneva recording studio with the original 24 track, 2” tapes from the Dead Album sessions. Working with a looped bedtrack taken from Ultrahybrid #4 and Devanna’s “ghost vocals” from various other outtakes, the song Fallen was completed.
The song was released as a limited edition single and within weeks skyrocketed to #1 on the Billboard charts. Such was the success of the song that, ten live shows were staged, featuring the heretofore unknown singer KayCee and three members of the original sextet. The Coachella show was truly the last time any version of The Tempora Equinox performed together.
Back cover Here
Explored Front Page! & #50 Explored thank you so much you guys. you are making 2010 so wonderful for me!!! <3
I am honored to tell you guys that I am a group icon! I mean this photo is a group icon lol check it out here at Musically Challenged
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?
The Stranger by Billy Joel
Today's baby shoot of Anthony was so adorable. I just want to steal him away what a freaken cute kid! I cant wait to get to editing those photos.
I didnt get the calendar project from that producer :( I got out-bidded apparently. Even though I never even got to speak to the guy in person and negotiate anything. But all is good, God will re-direct my path, and I've been getting some really sweet referrals. I need to start building my website but have no idea what to call myself since Anna Nguyen is already taken. :(
anyways.... Jen ! tagged me so I get to give you all ten random facts about me: here goes...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
1. I have a strong tendency to teach people, to help people and show them how to reach their potential. I think I should be a teacher. and i love it.
2. I've been taken for granted a few times in my life, and its not wonderful, but for some people, like family, I just cant say no, even if it hurts me.
3. I hate it when guys hit on me especially now, I normally nonchalantly add in the conversation that I have a boyfriend/fiance/husband, I get almost frantic when they still proceed to disregard that comment I made. Sometimes I just up and walk away, I cant help it my body says "get out!"
4. I use to hate taking pictures of people, I thought they were boring and everyone did them. after starting my 365 I absolutely LOVE taking pictures of people. they are interesting and captivating.
5. I cry in almost every movie I watch, even if it's not sad, I will probably take something that way and cry about it.
6. I tear up during the biggest loser finales when the contestants find out how much they have lost. I feel like I journey with them during their weightloss journey
7. I thought I was over an ex-friend, but every time I think I will run into her, I get scared and run away. I'm such a coward
8. I try to be the best person I can be, so that people will miss me when I'm gone.
9. my favorite ice cream combo at Cold Stones is French Vanilla with Cake Batter ice cream, graham crackers and a kit kat or twix mixed in. YUM.
10. I over-analyze everything.
Project 365: day 218
Musically Challenged: The Stranger - Billy Joel
TOTW: Album Covers - It just looks like an ablum cover, I have no idea what to call it yet.
Baby it's Cold Outside~Dean Martin
I really can't stay- But baby it's cold outside
I've got to go away - But baby it's cold outside
This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in
So very nice -I'll hold your hands they're just like ice
My mother will start to worry- Beautiful, what's your hurry?
And father will be pacing the floor- Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful please don't hurry
Well maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour
The neighbors might think -Baby it's bad out there
Say what's in this drink - No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how -Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell - I'll take your hat your hair looks swell
I ought to say no no no sir - Mind if I move in closer
At least I'm going to say that I tried- What's the sense of hurtin my pride
I really can't stay- Baby don't hold out
Baby, it's cold outside
I simply must go - But, Baby it's cold outside
The answer is no -But, Baby it's cold outside
This welcome has been -How lucky that you dropped in
So nice and warm -Look out the window at that storm
My sister will be suspicious - Gosh your lips look delicious
My brother will be there at the door- Waves upon a tropical shore
My maiden aunt's mind is vicious- Gosh your lips are delicious
Well, maybe just a cigarette more- Never such a blizzard before
I got to get home- But baby you'd freeze out there
Say lend me a comb- It's up to your knees out there
You've really been grand- A thrill when you touch my hand
But don't you see- How can you do this thing to me
There's bound to be talk tomorrow- Think of my life long sorrow
At least there will be plenty implied- If you caught pneumonia and died
I really can't stay- Get over that old doubt
Baby, it's cold outside
I guess I'm learning
I must be warmer now.
I'll soon be turning round the corner now.
Outside the dawn is breaking,
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free!
- Queen, The Show Must Go On
Today has been utterly unproductive. I have a headache from hell and have felt sort of cloudy in the mind all day. Sucks. But you know what doesn't suck? The pulled pork my husband spent all of yesterday making for us. That, friends, is quite delicious.
Musically Challenged: Queen - The Show Must Go On
You could say I'm hard to hold.
- Jann Arden, Good Mother
Not much to report today. Other than I couldn't decide whether I liked this better in color or in black and white. I feel myself gravitating more towards black and white lately, so I'm trying to make sure I don't just default to that every time.
Musically Challenged: Jann Arden - Good Mother
TOTW: Musically Inspired
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Although the words below were first used musically to address great famine, the lines selected are intended to express some of my own thoughts regarding world crises of all kinds.
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There comes a time
When we heed a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all
We are the world
We are the ones who make a brighter day
Send them your heart
So they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
(paraphrased lyric content "WE ARE THE WORLD")
@ M Jackson. L Richie 1985
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Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
And the world will live as one
(paraphrased lyric content "IMAGINE"
John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band
@J Lennon, 1971