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During the course of last weekend I was reading some discussions in the group Just Class. Two in particular, "What Makes Us Happy and "What do you think". At the time I was listening to a song by Neil Sedaka called "You"
The words were particularly relevant to both discussions and so I decided to create a collage of Amanda's photos accompanied by that song.
The size restrictions on Flickr mean that I need to address how I feel in several videos of which this is the first.
Many of you will know that I came to dressing late in life after the death of my wife, and Amanda, has brought me comfort and added a new and wonderful dimension to my life and hence " THE ODE to AMANDA"
PART I is a selection of photos that mean something in relation to places i have been or to special photos that just mean a lot to me.
There parts will deal with friends and also special clothes that just take me to my wonderful Amanda world.
Portrait de Neil Farber, peintre contemporain canadien, feutre noir, pinceau à réserve, pastel à l'huile blanc.
Habituellement, se sont les peintres qui peignent et dessinent leur environnement. Eh bien, pour une fois, se sont des peintres qui seront dessinés. Et on démarre par un peintre canadien un peu plus jeune que moi, qui fait des toiles curieuses, à la fois naïves et enfantines, mais aussi torturées, entre cauchemars, médiumnité et introspection.
Les toiles de Neil, elles m'ont d'abord agacée, interrogée et parfois amusée. Et lorsqu'il travaille en duo avec son collègue et ami Michael, je me dis souvent qu'ils exagèrent dans la provoc les deux lascars...
Du coup, ils étaient de bons clients pour un croquis revanche. Parce que y a pas de raison que la provoc se vive dans un sens et pas dans l'autre. Non, mais!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkKYAT0LkU
Seul souci, difficile de trouver une bonne photo des deux artistes. Donc j'ai fait avec le matériel disponible. Sans doute que la coupe de cheveux a changé depuis la photo qui m'a servi de modèle, silhouette plus fine et la barbe a poussé, mais bon...j'ai fait avec ce que j'ai trouvé de mieux en terme de contrastes et de détails.
Portrait à un instant T...
Neil is a man of strong opinions. He decries "These young people with their placards" and other environmentalists as a threat to the way of life of the shepherd and their animals.
Neil Gaiman showed up for the preview screening of Coraline at Toronto's Scotiabank Theatre last night. It was a fantastic film and the 3D Glasses work great. I highly recommend watching it in 3D if you can, it only plays in 3D for a few weeks here starting Friday.
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Rugg Pond, last fall and this winter. Kalkaska County, MI.
Seems like I just took the fall pic and now it’s snowy. Time is speeding by too fast!
Senate House, University of Cambridge. University Vice-Marshal waiting for the honorary degrees procession to begin. Heads of colleges in the background
S64-31453 (1964) --- Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong.
[ NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Neil A. Armstrong ]
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, was named in honor of Neil A. Armstrong, best known as the commander of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, during which he became the first person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Previously known as the Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center, the center was renamed in 2014 to reflect Armstrong’s contributions to aeronautics. Armstrong is NASA's premier site for aeronautical flight research. The center also uses airplanes to conduct airborne environmental and Earth science; it employs a 747 aircraft with a telescope to perform astronomical science missions based out of its satellite facility in Palmdale, California.
Neil Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He served as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952 and joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. In 1958 NACA transitioned to NASA, and he continued to serve as an engineer, research pilot, astronaut and administrator.
As a research pilot, Armstrong participated in both piloting and engineering aspects of numerous projects, including the X-15 hypersonic rocket plane. He piloted the first flight of an X-15 aircraft equipped with a new airflow-direction sensor in its nose, as well as the initial flight of an X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. He worked closely with designers and engineers to develop the adaptive system, and made seven flights in the rocket plane between December 1960 and July 1962. During those flights he reached a peak altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a speed of 3,989 mph (Mach 5.74) in the X-15-1.
Armstrong also served as project pilot for research projects flown on the F-100A and F-100C aircraft, F-101, and the F-104A. He was the second pilot to fly the X-1B with an active reaction control system. He also flew the X-5, F-105, F-106, B-47, KC-135, and Paresev.
He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group before the Dyna-Soar project was canceled and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers using F-102A and F5D aircraft.
Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission that launched on March 16, 1966. On that mission, he performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface. A lunar landing training vehicle was tested and modified at the center that is now his namesake; Apollo astronauts used these to prepare for landing on the moon.
Armstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. In this position, he coordinated and managed the overall NASA research and technology work related to aeronautics. The Digital Fly-by-Wire control system for aircraft was among the technologies he helped transfer to industry.
He held a professorship of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio between 1971-1979. During the years 1982-1992, Armstrong was chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation, Inc. in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1955 and a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California as well as honorary doctorates from a number of universities.
Armstrong was a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the International Astronautics Federation. He was decorated by 17 countries and received numerous special honors.
Armstrong passed away, at the age of 82, on Aug. 25, 2012, following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
Neil Young - Greatest Hits!
Neil Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, deeply personal lyrics and signature alto or high tenor singing voice
74/365 This modernist landscape of a birch forest by American artist Neil Welliver (1929-2005) was my very first fine art purchase. It has been on one of my walls since 1986.
In addition to this signed and numbered edition, this same print was also a limited edition poster with typography in the lower section celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Lincoln Center.
I was young and went cheap on the framer. Someday I will need to investigate about getting the wrinkles out of the bottom and top of this lithograph.