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Finally I did this LOL
May is tagged by CSaw★ <3
Rules :
1. Upload a picture of your nominated doll.
2. You just have to explain why is he/she 'special' and the story behind the mold, not for his/her character but for the doll itself ;)
3. Tag 5~6 flickr contacts! And ask them for one of their dolls~ Try not to repeat a lot XD
And that's all :)
My May is a TF May from Bluefairy. I, in fact, didnt like BJD before I saw May in the BF website. I thought they were too expensive and do not worth it. However, when I have my first look on May, I finally understood the meaning of "worth" in BJD world! I just knew I have to take her home <333 So I started my first part time job and earned my first HK$3xxx and then May is here *V* She is my first doll and forever the first in my heart<3 I love you my darling
Ok, tagging:
-erfrefefer ( Tomato)
-vermilli_n (Takeru)
-hello0811ling (芣蘭)
-mitha12 (綾)
-melonkingdom (橘子)
-Csaw (Aria)[sorry saw, I have to tag back *V*]
This laundrette-recently-turned-café exemplifies the changes Amsterdam is currently going through, and which may be recognised by people living elsewhere.
Amsterdam attracts large number of university graduates and other people with higher education. Its creative industries and its role as a tax haven and (shadow) banking centre for multinational companies offers jobs to large numbers of young women. On top of that, in no other developed country do so many women with children work in part-time jobs. It is changing the face of Amsterdam's shopping streets and the areas popular with locals. More utilitarian shops are making way for places that are attractive for this target group: clothes, shoes, and an endless number of lunchrooms and coffee and tea shops.
The Gerard Douplein just outside the city centre is one area where these changes are very visible. It also symbolises another change: slowly, Amsterdam's 17th century centre is losing significance for locals. The term "Venice of the North" may soon indicate an area overrun with tourists, rather than the canal zone that is the basis for the city's fame.
The summer of 2016 was one of the best ones, although I guess each summer is special in its own way. Well, two years ago I was going into my final year of university and I knew it was going to be stressful so I took advantage of that summer and enjoyed every single day of it. I started my internship at a magazine and I worked there full time, plus I had a part time job at the Bingo. I was constantly busy (and tired), but it didn't seem to matter. That summer was the summer I decided to go vegan for a few months and I was mostly living off smoothies and my boyfriend's food (who was kind enough to cook for me almost every day). It was also the summer I decided to move in with him before heading back to my student house and it turned out better than we both expected - we made smoothies in the morning together, went to the gym, he cooked me romantic dinners, we went on holidays to the Lake District. We also had a pet snake and a pet cat, who got us infested with bed bugs. I also started taking loads of photos with disposable cameras and this is one of them! Adam eating fish & chips from apparently the best place - Murgatroyds.
While attending UMKC I also had a part-time job at Haskin's Pharmacy in Shawnee, KS. I recently purchased a new 35mm Miranda camera because my 35mm Pax M2 had been stolen. I took it to work one afternoon and got this shot looking west on Johnson Drive showing the Aztec Theater and a 1958 Chevy.
1900
Carl Barnes, MD and LL.D. (May 18,1872- April 5, 1927), of Chicago, IL., a smart young man full of talent and ambition, opened the first Dallas embalming school in 1900 at the age of 28. The Dallas school was called the Barnes School of Anatomy, Sanitary Science and Embalming and was part of his growing chain of national embalming schools.
Dr. Barnes' father, Ellis Zephaniah Barnes (d 1900), was a prosperous undertaker in Connellsville, Pa. At the age of 15, young Barnes moved to Indianapolis, Indiana and enrolled in both medical and law schools there -- at the same time! Even after graduating with degrees both in law and medicine, Dr. Carl L. Barnes still kept an interest in embalming and sanitation. At first he traveled to larger cities and held embalming seminars in undertaking establishments before starting a fixed embalming school in Indianapolis in 1892 called the Indiana College of Embalming. He was quite a showman, and his embalming seminars were very popular. One newspaper even used the word "entertaining" to describe Barnes' embalming lectures and demonstrations.
In 1897, he moved to Chicago where he started an embalming school which became quickly successful. He eventually operated embalming schools in several other cities including Minneapolis, Boston, New York City and Dallas.
Barnes also compounded several varieties of embalming fluids and sold embalming instruments through the United States Chemical Co. that he operated with his two brothers, Thornton B. Barnes and Dr. Willard H. Barnes. They had locations in New York City where the home office was located and in Chicago where Dr. Carl Barnes lived. He continued to practice medicine and was the city sanitation officer in Chicago during the yellow fever epidemic there. His brother, Thornton, directed the embalming school in New York City and assisted his brother at many of the embalming seminars and demonstrations.
Dr. Carl Barnes wrote constantly, authoring several medical and anatomy articles and textbooks. His book entitled Barnes' Atlas of the Arterial and Venous Systems was published in 1905 and included color anatomical drawings, quite a feature for textbooks of that time. He wrote a medical book on Contagious and Infectious Diseases in 1903. Both were much-heralded medical standards for their times.
Dr. Barnes also wrote and published an extensive 552-page embalming textbook with color plates in 1896 entitled: The Art & Science of Embalming. The book also included a chapter on how to become an effective undertaker. The book was quite popular and eventually eight editions of it were published. Copies of this book still appear on eBay from time to time and are true collector's items for those of us interested in mortuary science history.
At first, the embalming courses at his schools lasted for six weeks. Interested students could enroll anytime -- "even on Sundays" one source noted.
Everything seemed to be going quite well for Dr. Barnes and his businesses until World War I broke out. Dr. Barnes volunteered to serve his country and enlisted in the Army as a captain and, as expected, eventually becoming a full Colonel. However, the time away from his schools apparently caused him to eventually lose his embalming schools. Col. Barnes, however, received several distinguished honors during the war, including a commendation from General John J. Pershing himself.
After the war, he remained both a chemist and practicing physician, and was the chief surgeon for a large Chicago hospital. He remained active in medicine until his death on April 11, 1927 at his home in Lake Geneva (near Chicago), Wisconsin, at the age of 55 after a two-month illness. Col. Barnes was buried with full military honors in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA.
1908
At Dallas, Professor Hood F. Smith, a prominent Dallas undertaker associated with the successful Ed C. Smith & Bro. Undertaking Company, directed the embalming classes under the supervision of Dr. Carl Barnes.
In 1908, Smith assumed full charge of the prospering school, the only one of its kind in the Southwest. Students from surrounding states -- even as far away as Nebraska and Colorado -- attended classes.
Professor Smith was assisted by Professor Will Dwyer, also an employee of the undertaking company. After Smith took over the school, the name of the school became the Dallas School of Embalming.
The classes were held in the basement of the Ed C. Smith & Bro. establishment which was then located downtown at 1811 Ross Avenue. Smith was well respected locally and nationally in the funeral service profession. In fact, he was second in line to serve as NFDA president at the time of his death.
1925
Hood Smith died suddenly on April 11, 1925 at age 40. His untimely death was a unexpected shock to the Dallas community and the funeral profession, and a giant funeral was held in Dallas on April 13, 1925. He was replaced at the embalming school by Mr. Dwyer, his able associate for 17 years. Mr. Dwyer kept raising standards, and the course of study was extended eventually to six months.
Some classes were still held in the Ed C. Smith Undertaking Co. building and some labs were conducted at the Southwestern Medical School. The medical school was held in prefab buildings behind the old Parkland Hospital on the corner of Oak Lawn and Maple.
Many of the students worked part time in the funeral home while attending school, helping on funerals and making ambulance calls. One student recalled that only the chapel and reposing rooms were air-conditioned during this time, so students escaped the hot Texas nights by sleeping on the roof of the building or on the floor of the reposing rooms while on night call.
George W. Loudermilk, a prominent Dallas undertaker who was active on the Texas State Board of Embalmers, often took it on himself to find jobs for graduating students who needed work.
1945-46
Dwyer died in 1945, and the school's last class was held in 1946. Shortly thereafter, L.G. (Darko) Frederick, who was Dwyer's assistant at the Dallas School of Embalming, and other funeral service leaders, including W.H. (Bill) Pierce of Dallas, formed the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science to fill the need for an embalming school in the Southwest.
The organizers converted an old two-story Victorian residence at 3906 Worth Street near Baylor Hospital into the "new" mortuary school. The first class in 1946 was called the Will Dwyer Class (Click here to see a picture of the students in that class). The building had been remodeled and enlarged several times by the time the above picture was taken in the late 1950s.
A large embalming theater and lab was added to the right side of the building in the 1960s. Students easily found part-time jobs at the Dallas funeral homes working funerals and running ambulance calls.
Darko also published one of the most popular books on embalming called The Principles and Practice of Embalming with Clarence G. Strub. The book became the standard one used in embalming schools all across the nation for many years.
1954
In March 1954, the school was merged with the former Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science which was started June 8, 1920 in Nashville by undertaker Lawrence A. Gupton.
Gupton-Jones students and some faculty were moved to Dallas and the combined school become Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science Gupton-Jones. (In 1967, the two schools were separated and Gupton-Jones re-opened in Atlanta where it remains today as the Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service.)
The original Dallas Institute Board of Trustees consisted of W. H. Pierce, Chairman; L. G. Frederick; Paul Bollman; Robert Kite; and Floyd Owens. Mr. Frederick was elected president of the college and Robert Kite served as dean.
1963
Upon the retirement of Mr. Frederick in 1963, Mr. Kite was elected president of the college and served in that responsible office until his retirement in 1992, at which time James M. Shoemake assumed the office of president. Click here to view pictures of the early Dallas Institute locations and leaders as collected by Dr. Jim Moshinskie
In 1972 Pierce Mortuary Colleges, Inc. was formed as a non-profit corporation by W.H. (Bill) Pierce, and consisted of Dallas Institute, Commonwealth College of Mortuary Science in Houston, Gupton-Jones College in Atlanta, and later the Mid-America College of Funeral Service near Louisville, Ky. Jerry Miller served as president of this group for many years. He is now retired and lives in Waco, Texas with his wife, Sue, who was the former registrar at Dallas Institute for many years.
W.H. Pierce was a visionary who always promoted the value of funeral service and sought to make those who entered the profession the best they could be. He personally attended every graduation until his death in 1998, and he is still remembered today at every graduation when the graduates honor their most outstanding classmate with the Bill Pierce Award.
1980s
Around 1980, The Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science was renamed The Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. In September of 1983, it moved into a new spacious building at 3909 South Buckner Blvd. where it remains today with James Shoemake as president.
The grand old building at 3906 Worth Street was torn down and the space was converted into a parking lot for nearby Baylor Hospital.
Ken Whittaker, a 1972 graduate of Dallas Institute, taught there for over 30 years. Dallas Institute now offers an Associate Degree program and recently, some of the courses were made available online so students could take internet-based lessons. Ken retired from classroom teaching in 2008, but continued to give conference seminars around the nation and was a popular speaker.
The school has gone a long way from Dr. Carl Barnes' first dream over 100 years.
Thousands of funeral service professionals from throughout the south have attended this famous school, including this author who proudly graduated from it in 1972 and taught there from 1978-1982.
2012 - Pierce Chemicals and Pierce Mortuary Colleges, which included the Dallas Institute, was sold to Wilbert Vaults on November 29, 2012.
Researched by Jim Moshinskie, PhD, CPT
James_Moshinskie@baylor.edu
OakCrest Funeral Home, Waco, Texas Photograph from the James F. Moshinskie Historic Photograph Collection
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This shot was the surgical center that I sometimes cleaned when the owner of the medical facility cleaning company went on vacation and I filled in for her. This is the waiting room, and definitely the most pleasant of the rooms in the place.
At this time in my life, I had gone through the loss of my job, then my mother, and finally had taken a part time job (after being out of work for 14 months,) working at a used furniture store. I did sales from 10 AM until 5:30 PM 3-4 days a week. I earned about $140 a week. Consequently I had to do other things, like work at the fabric store I had been the showroom manager of now and then on Saturdays, when they fell behind and had bolts to roll, artwork, which I showed sometimes, and had a couple of sales on, making pillows on the side, and selling off my jewelry to make ends meet, and cleaning this place.
Medical centers are not hard to clean because they're dirty, because they never CAN get dirty! Seldom did I encounter anything like blood, though I remember one night, when I lifted the grid of the long drain in the sink where the doctors washed up before and after an operation, I did see what seemed to be blood in there. I recall hoping my latex gloves didn't have any holes!
Whenever I'd go in there, I would be right behind the man who did the floors- Travis. I barely saw him, and was in there sometimes all by myself. The place was very large, and I was not a fast cleaner, so the lady who hired me, though she offered me $10 an hour to do the work, would only pay me for the time it took HER to do it nightly, and she was like lightning! After getting up and being on my feet from 8:30 AM until 5:30, I'd be there from 6 or 7 until I finished, which often wasn't until 11 PM or later. By the time I got home, I was in pain and ready to drop!
Now, one of the things about this place that I didn't like was the feeling of being watched. In the operating area, they had video surveillance, and that didn't bother me. It was something else. There was an eerie feeling back in the operating area like being in there with someone I couldn't see! I mentioned it to a lady I worked with in the furniture store, and she surmised that it was peoples' fear that I was sensing, since everyone who came in there had a little apprehension, at least. Whatever it was, it was unsettling. I liked when I got back to the lobby area because I didn't have that feeling there, and I was more comfortable.
This was a job I had during one of the toughest periods of my life, and it was strenuous, and because of my other job, physically painful. I got through it, but now when I go to places like this, I think of the people behind the scenes that do this sort of thing and what they go through. There are always people behind the scenes who make things nice for us. A little appreciation goes a long way!
First: Sydney
Middle: Parr
Last: Jones
Bio: I grew up in an amazing house Both my parents My sister Elizbeth and brother Tyler <3 I always loved hair i always had barbie dolls and styled their hair and i love it right now i have a part time job doing hair its amazing lol :D I hope you enjoy my Sexxi ness
A touch too much Good Life at an impressionable age?
The allotment: as if I don't have enough guilt in my life with 2 children and a part time job that should be full time. And a cat. And a garden. Oh and a husband,
Haven't made it down there for months between the snow & grumpy ill children. Got some blackcurrant bushes from the ILs last week and they needed to go in the ground before the snow comes again. Surprisingly, it was lovely digging down there, nice & soft and easy. Got the bushes plantedm plus some garlic which I've had for 3 months now. Oops. Still, the leeks are growing and the onions too, although I've culled the cabbage.
And we had a bagful of root veg worth, oooh, almost £2. More if you count it as organic. That's worth a year of guilt and days of weeding, isn't it? I heard they even sell them in Tescos these days...
"TAGGED AGAIN"
By HOURY
Here we go again............so this makes 32 now, you'll know my blood type soon~LOL
1) I have a short attention span, so a fast pace is my element.
2) Have somewhat of a character, but pretty even keel. My bark is worst than my bite.
3) I was born in another country and speak 2.5 languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
4) I am spiritual but not a church goer.
5) I value loyalty and honesty, but you can lie to me sometimes to spare my feelings.
6) I love my golden retriever his name is Max.
7) I have always been active in sports but not a jock, just like playing some sports.
8) I was in my high school swim team only a year, until the coach wanted me to shave my body so I could swim faster. That ended that cuz my motto is “bird never lay nest on bare tree”. So to rebel, I grew out my hair long and got plenty of birds~
9) I started my photo adventure back in the film day. Back then, while a senior in High School, the educators placed me on a “drop out” prevention program were I went to school for a ½ day out at 12N to lunch and report to a part time job. I was a (un-official) staff photographer for a local (b/w only) paper. I learned darkroom techniques and developed b/w. Covered many events like basketball games, the Democratic convention (there was a riot!) My favorite assignment was shooting models. The owner of the paper made sure the cover of the local paper had a model in a bikini. All editions, different models, but this was always the cover. :-))
10) I’ve already said this before, but in case u missed the first tag. I grew up during the Disco era. I can Salsa, Merengue, booty dance, u name it better that Travolta!
11) If I had it to do over again, I would choose to be a Musician….Rock Star…Just sayin~ it’s an art I love.
12) The person who tagged me better play, cuz I generally don’t do this. But I am a pleaser and hate to hurt anyone’s feeling.
13) Damn I’m running out of things to say….So sometimes even I am at a lost for words.
14) Love boating, snorkeling the reefs, fishing, anything out door.
15) Would like to bungee jump someday…Oh yeah I have a wild side. I’ve learned though.
16) Oh….back to point 9). I supplemented my income while attending college by shooting wedding photography. I went on to graduate top 10% of my class. With a degree in Psychology, but ended up as a sales professional cuz it paid better.
You guys watch out~ Houry, your my first tag...
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Cyn wearing Chucks standing on concrete.
Another quick stop on my way from my regular job to my Friday night part-time job. I'm still here, just had a few minutes to upload and post my comment.
It's going to be a great weekend. A friend of mine called right as I pulled in the parking lot here at work tonight and we're going to breakfast/coffee tomorrow morning. It will be so good to see her and I look forward to finding the joy in the rest of the weekend. I hope yours is equally wonderful.
For February's Alphabet Fun - Letter C
and for ODC - Shine
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shot this at one of the buildings at my new part time job. not sure if it fits the assingment or not, but i tried. :)
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"2. Upside Down. I hope I’ve commented before that a photo becomes instantly more interesting when it shows us something the eye cannot normally see. Motion blur, Macro shots, Cutouts, and my personal fave, wide angle. But there’s another way I saw demonstrated at the Met that is often overlooked. Upside Down. The featured picture from the early 20th century showed a view out a third story window of people walking down the street. I became more interesting the instant the artist displayed it upside down. The viewer is disoriented, uneasy. The work succeeds. Create an interesting image by turning the image from your camera upside down. Tag with cwd462."
British postcard by G. Barth, Frankfurt, no. GB 60. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984).
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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West-German postcard by G. Barth, Frankfurt, no. GB 67. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984).
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.
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Meer en Vaart 18/04/2021 11h50
At this gas station I had my first part time job in 1980. I was working in the car wash on Saturdays. A manned car wash with roll-over machine. At the time under the Chevron and later Texaco brand. Nowadays it's Esso. And the gas prize of regular E95 gasolina is 1.77 €.
Osdorp
Osdorp (Garden City Osdorp) is a neighborhood in the Western Garden Cities in Amsterdam, in the Dutch province of North Holland. The name is taken from the hamlet along the Osdorperweg, now known as Oud Osdorp.
The first pile was driven in 1957. In 1958 the first houses could be taken into use. The Osdorpplein shopping center was opened in 1964. Theater De Meervaart is located on this square.
In Osdorp streets are named after farms and other terms from the former municipality of Sloten and from Rijnland and after drowned villages in Zeeland. The district consists of a mixture of low, medium and high-rise buildings and was built up in the mid-1970s.
Osdorp is bounded on the east by the Sloterplas and the Christoffel Plantijngracht, on the north by the Ookmeerweg, on the south by the Plesmanlaan and on the west by the Middelveldsche Akerpolder. In the 1990s, an extension on the west side was realized in the form of the De Aker district.
Osdorp was given a tram connection to Slotervaart - Surinameplein and beyond in 1962, when tram line 17 started to run via Dijkplein to Dijkgraafplein. Tram line 1 was replaced in 1971. In 1988 line 17 returned to Osdorp, but now with terminus Osdorpplein. When line 1 was moved to De Aker via Pieter Calandlaan in 2001, line 17 returned to its original terminus at Dijkgraafplein.
With the establishment of the first districts, the district became part of the Osdorp district in 1981. It has been part of the New West district since 2010. Osdorp as a district now forms part of two officially defined districts: Nieuw-West Midden and Osdorp-West.
The city district had (at the end of 2006) 45,627 inhabitants and has an area of 11.30 km².
[ Wikipedia 06/2020 ]
It’s been one year since I left my job. One year since I packed up my bobble heads, cleaned out my desk and walked out of a building that was my home away from home for three and a half years. I left a job that looks great on paper, security that I would always have more than enough (sometimes even too much) work to keep me busy and employed, and approval of my choice of profession in the eyes of my peers. I walked out of certainty, and into the unknown. No job lined up, no fixed income, no knowledge of where I was heading. All I knew was that it was time for me to leave, that God was calling me to get up and follow Him.
So I did. Through various part time jobs, continuous hours at a coffee shop, and whatever other little lines of payment that fell in front of me, I made it through the spring, then summer, and then the colder months. Sometimes I’d have multiple days off during the week, hanging on twentyish hours of work. Other times, it was seven days a week for months, sometimes working from early in the morning until late at night. But through all of the hours, or lack thereof, God was ever present and mindful of me. Gloriously enough, as I battled the horrific monster that was my checkbook, God provided just enough for me, exactly when I needed it, almost to the dollar. Whenever bill time arrived, God gave me the funds to pay. And so I got by month to month.
What I did isn’t exactly what some might call a “wise decision,” especially in these times of economic somersaulting. To walk away from what I had and make a u-turn to walk down the path of faith is unusual, and when I first started telling people I left my job, they looked at me with sympathy pooling in their eyes. They didn’t understand that it was actually my choice to leave, to follow a calling I felt was much bigger, by a boss who ruled not only my life, but the universe as well. There have been times where I have been questioned, where I’ve been made to feel like serving coffee wasn’t good enough, and asked when I would be getting a real job. My response to these people? I do have a real job. Because to me, going out and serving God in whatever way I can, however He calls me to live as His light, is the most real and awakening life I’ve been privileged to have.
Believe me, it hasn’t been an easy trek. There are times where I wonder if I’m doing the right thing, if I’m living out my life in a way that glorifies Him. I know He has something in store for me, and I have a tendency to strain my eyes down the road. But I can honestly say that I have never relied on Him more and taken satisfaction in the little moments He graces me with, because without His provision, and the affirmation that I am walking in His footsteps, I couldn’t get through the days that turn to weeks, which mold into months.
One of the most amazing things that I’ve been learning, and I’ll write it in stone because this is a definite learning process, is that He is faithful. He cares, and He comforts when some days it's doubt, and other days it's destiny, that battles within me.
Do I know where I’m going? Absolutely not. Do I know where I’ve come from? Most certainly. And the distance between these two places of my life is not measured by my accomplishments, but rather what God is able to accomplish through me. Because He’s in the driver’s seat; I’m just along for the ride.
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Thanks to Lenabem-Anna for the texture.
Elmer’s Aunty is the elderly (but rather chic) aunt of the much loved book children’s book character Elmer. She is full of colour and is painted with designs taken from fabric swatches, in a patchwork style. She is inspired by the recent trend for using a patchwork upholstery fabrics to up cycle furniture and by the beautiful fabric swatches that we use in my part time job at an interior designers.
Designed by: Sue Guthrie
Sue Guthrie is a professional artist based in Birmingham. She specialises in painting and digital media and now works predominantly to commission. Her many high profile clients have included BMW, NHS and John Lewis.
Sponsored by: Ward CNC
Auction Price: £5000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
When I moved cross country to the Pacific Northwest from Boston I was just turning 30 and reluctantly realizing it was probably time to grow up. A couple of jumbo jets crashed into the twin towers, toppling the world economy and my hopes of making it as a commercial artist down with them. My budding art career dried up overnight. No art directors or publishers called me anymore. Suddenly my part time job as an environmental fundraiser wasn’t going to cut it and it was time to move cross country with a girl I’m incidentally no longer with and to pursue a real job…one with health benefits and a 401k. It was time to take responsibility and live the American Dream in a little cabin on the waterfront right next to her rich parents. Maybe someday we’d have kids and a dog…maybe I’d finally fit in with high society...maybe someday her well to do mother would stop judging me and like the person that I am. This entailed giving up my dreams as an artist…this meant losing my identity as a free thinker, as a rogue…as sort of a bad boy. This is the last painting I did when I lived in Boston and reflects the fear I felt of moving cross country. It tells the story of a guy named Roy…a regular guy living in the conformist 1950’s…a guy with a great job as a bread delivery driver, a guy with a supportive wife, beautiful kids and a little house with a white picket fence to call his own. In spite of having everything a regular guy could ever want, Roy eventually was compelled to rebel against conformity, religion, authority and the forces that caged him within the confines of being a regular guy and nothing more. He became more than happy to burn his perfect little house down in the dead of night and careen his truck off a cliff.
If paintings are like my children, this is my darkest, most brooding child yet. It’s a favorite amongst so many people. Years ago someone offered $6000 for it and I refused as I couldn’t bear to part with my most brooding child…one that reflects so much of my soul. That great job I was pressured to seek out so many years ago…the one with the health benefits and a 401k, like many things in life has ended a few months ago. I was just no longer affordable to keep around so they bid me adieu and sent me off into the world. I believe when one door closes, another opens and I’m trying my hand at being a commercial artist again. To move forward with my new life as an artist, I’m willing to live like one and finally sell off this painting for…as fate would have it…considerably less than the $6000 that was offered years ago. This and my other work will be at Zero Zero Gallery. 1525 Summit Ave. Seattle, WA. The opening is November 8th from 8-1030pm and will mark my reentry into the artist’s world. Come if you can, to show your support and hang out with me. I’ll be easy to find. I’ll be the one with a headful of hopes and dreams and a thousand doors of opportunities opening before me.
I have found that every season has its advantages and disadvantages for doing this project. This photo was taken in early December in downtown Toronto. The sky is often leaden, the cold wind is already biting, and we aren’t used to winter yet. Consequently, we spend a lot of time underdressed and rushing from one building to another seeking warmth. On the other hand, it is the season of hats, scarves, and hoods – all of which can add interesting notes to the strangers we meet and photograph.
I saw this young man ahead of me on the sidewalk and I was drawn to the tiger hat even though I only got the rear view. I had to scurry to catch up with him and made another of my all-too-frequent approaches from the blind spot. I’m always concerned about startling people with an approach from behind but have been surprised how often people give me a warm reception once they hear what I am doing and asking of them. Such was the case with Anthony who was heading to the University of Toronto library with his backpack and a pen behind his ear. He needed to grind out a 4000 word essay for one of his classes.
“Sure” was his reply “as long as it won’t take a long time. I’ve got to get this paper written.” Assured that it could be done quickly, I asked if I could walk with him for a bit while I explained the project and got to know him. I would be keeping my eye out for a suitable background because all we had where we met was a construction site. Soon Anthony was offering up some suggestions for locations a few blocks away that might work and it was fun having him so committed to the project. I learned that he is 23 and comes originally from Prince Edward Island in the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada. P.E.I. is known for its red soil and abundant potato harvests. He is in his final university year and will graduate in the spring with a degree in Theatre and Drama Studies. He’s got a fairly mundane part-time job which does not lead in the direction of his career goals but he is grateful all the same since university costs are high and having some income is important.
After a couple of blocks walking and chatting, I saw this colorful railing which is actually part of a pizza place but which I thought would add a nice touch to a portrait. I explained to Anthony that I was initially drawn to his tiger hat because I’ve seen a few other animal hats in the last couple of weeks but never when I was in a good situation to make a portrait of the owner. When I asked if there was a story behind his hat Anthony laughed and said “Actually, it belonged to my sister but she never wore it so now it’s mine and I really like it.” He quipped about being offstage and without theatrical makeup. We shared a laugh over that and were having a fun time doing the photos.
Andy proved to be a very friendly and open fellow. He was a pleasure to talk with and clearly “got” the project and was delighted to be part of it. I apologized for taking more than the 4 minutes I had advertised and he quickly said “Oh no, I’m not in THAT much of a rush. I’m really glad we had this chance.”
When I asked him how life is treating him these days he said “I really have nothing to complain about – other, that is, than this paper I’ve got to get written in the next couple of days.” When I asked if he had any advice for the other project photographers he thought for a moment and said “One of my teachers once said ‘You should always say yes to new experiences because they can open new doors.’” What great advice and Anthony clearly remembered it (because he said yes to my project request.)
Anthony told me his day had started out in a “so-so mood” but meeting me and participating in my project really put a smile on his face and turned his day around 180 degrees. I was so pleased to hear this. “What was your initial reaction to being pounced on by a total stranger and asked for your photo?” “Well, my initial reaction was, uh, WHAT is this guy up to?” We both laughed. “I’m not surprised” I said. “But then when you explained who you are and what you’re doing I got really excited about it. I love the idea and it was great meeting you. Thanks!”
Thank you Anthony for making time to meet and for participating in 100 Strangers. You are now #680 in Round 7 of my project. Good luck with your essay.
Additional note: I asked Anthony by email what the topic of his paper was. His reply gives a nice glimpse into his personality and great sense humor. It read in part:
"To answer your question, I was trying to write a paper about masks in relation to Greek tragedy. I've since jumped that doomed Titanic ship; hopefully my next idea will be the Carpathia over the horizon!"
If he writes like this all the time, I hope his Professor has an equally good sense of humor! He also asked for (and received) permission to use his portrait for his Facebook account.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by the other photographers in our group at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Italian postcard. Photo: Warner Bros. Harrison Ford in
Blade Runner- The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 1981). In 2007, Ridley Scott released Blade Runner: The Final Cut, digitally remastered with improved visual and sound effects, and with numerous revisions to the 1992 Director's Cut. Caption: 'Replicants are like any other machine: they can be an advantage or a risk', Deckard.
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
British photo postcard by Total Film. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984).
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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This picture may not be the most interesting manipulation wise but it really means a lot to me...it signifies a lot going on in my life right now...
On my formspring I had two people anonymously ask why I'm so negative all the time...why I judge my art based on the feedback I get. I gotta say, they were difficult questions to answer and actually really hurt to read them...but it's a formspring and it's their right to ask those questions and it was my choice to answer them. But it really stirred up a lot in me...
It's really easy for people to sit on the outside and view myself and my life and tell me what I should do and how I should feel...but people really don't have to live it. I know I'm not the most unfortunate person alive and I know that...I know I have good things ahead of me and I should appreciate what I do have...but it's been a really tough road for me. I can't just wake up and escape everything that I live with right now like the people watching me can. I know I have the power to overcome everything and I'm working on it...but right now I'm too scared to let go of this anger and fear...I'm absolutely terrified to hope right now
I could sit here and blab on about all the things that have been a struggle for me but I know nobody wants to hear it. But I'm hopeful today that things will get better...as it looks right now I will be moving to California to live with Garry in early September. I plan on transferring to the University of Phoenix online and getting my bachelors degree in 2013. I plan on finding a part time job and making new friends who actually care about me. I plan on being honest with myself and rediscovering myself...because right now I feel so powerless in my life and over myself that I need this change.
I'm terrified...I'm mortified...but I know it needs to happen. I've gone so long without my Garry and without my self esteem...things need to change and I need both of those things back.
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Elmer’s Aunty is the elderly (but rather chic) aunt of the much loved book children’s book character Elmer. She is full of colour and is painted with designs taken from fabric swatches, in a patchwork style. She is inspired by the recent trend for using a patchwork upholstery fabrics to up cycle furniture and by the beautiful fabric swatches that we use in my part time job at an interior designers.
Designed by: Sue Guthrie
Sue Guthrie is a professional artist based in Birmingham. She specialises in painting and digital media and now works predominantly to commission. Her many high profile clients have included BMW, NHS and John Lewis.
Sponsored by: Ward CNC
Auction Price: £5000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
Cloe: “I’m so sick of my job. Miss Boop totally screamed at me tonight. In front of customers!”
RC: “What did you do to torque her off?”
Cloe: “Why are you assuming I did something wrong? Besides, she shouldn’t get on to me like that.”
RC: “It’s a great part time job, Cloe. When I was in high school, everyone wanted to work at Boop’s. Most of us got stuck with boring jobs like I did as a stock boy at Food Dragon.”
Cloe: “No, I know that! I like the job but I’m just saying it wasn’t a good day and Miss Boop shouldn’t have gotten after me like that. I was out in the parking lot for a minute talking to Trent but that was just for a minute because he drove by just to see me.”
RC: “You don’t need to be going out with him. I don’t trust him.”
Cloe: “Haha! Okay, I’ll be sure to get approval from you on future boyfriends. Isn’t that what you just said?”
I loved her red hair and the flowers in it, I had to approach and get to know her. Sari is a curator working at the Helsinki City Museum. We met at the Book Fair.
"I was born in Helsinki 46 years ago, but I think age is just a row of numbers. It is your attitude that counts and how curious you are about people and great adventures that life offers every single day if you're just willing and openhearted to see.
"I used to have a long career in retail sales and in the cinema industry, however, eight years ago I had decided it was the right time for a change.
I had always been very interested in culture in all its forms and wanted to know more about it.
I decided to apply to Helsinki University to study cultural and art research and was so happy when I got in.
When I started my studies in the university, I didn't have any specific career in my mind, I just wanted to know more about things that interested me. After my freshman year I got a part-time job in Helsinki City Museum and then I knew right away that it was what I would want to do.
"I want to be part of an organization which makes personal stories and everyday life experiences of people living in Helsinki.
To begin with I worked at the customer service.
After I graduated, four years ago, M.A. in ethnology, I got a fulltime job and an opportunity to work with exhibitions. This is what I have been doing ever since.
"Although my work can be challenging and busy at times, it is exciting and surprising as well. I still love it.
"When I am not working I like to hang out with my friends and see rock concerts or movies, just simple things.
"My personal message would be: Live life to the fullest, it's better to burn than to fade away.
"Everyone has an opportunity to fall in love with Helsinki."
This is my 381st submission to The Human Family group.
Visit the group here to see more portraits and stories: www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily.
For years I've been watching, learning and yearnig to decorate things using technique called decoupage. Finally it became possible in spring. It was supposed to be my other part time job for rainy days. Since we didn't have many this year I ended up decorating in the afternoons, weekends. I have to be in my favourite shop at least once a week, checking what's new in stock. Me, who thinks shopping is such a necessity and a waste of time, lol.
Please forgive me that light spot - it is the morning sun coming into the living room. Had that table only half open when working in the kitchen, but it was bloking the kitchen door. So I have re-arranged a furniture in my already crowded living room - and voila! a lot of working space ;) 2 daylight lamps - but I still prefer proper daylight :) one day I am hoping to have a proper studio :)
王聖人說"大學生打工，笨死了!!"
"How stupid college students get part-time jobs for 100NT each hour!!" said saint wang
My dreams full of mystery have melted away into dreaming of exactly what I'd be doing at that point in time - sleeping. I've never been an insomniac but at the same time, I never get as much sleep as I'd need. As a child all I wanted to do was get up at 6am and watch cartoons; Pokemon, As Told By Ginger and Cardcaptor Sakura were my favourites. Getting older I only wanted to stay up late and sleep in the next morning. Now, as an 18 year old who is attending University and has a part time job, I'm wanting to stay up late into the night to get everything done, and wake early in the morning, around 7am, to ensure I can get where I need to be on time, to shoot in the beautiful early morning light, or just to know I haven't wasted a day. All I really need is a proper nights sleep, the delicate and darkened skin under my eyes proves that enough without my saying so -
and surely, the perfect resting place would be atop a fluffy cloud.
Katie and I shot this today in the richer area of Manchester city centre, much to the distaste of those shopping at Jack Wills...
Also, I'm almost at 20,000 views!
Olympus Stylus Epic Deluxe, Ultimate Value 200 ASA film (expired).
Las Vegas, NV.
www.nickleonardphoto.com | nickleonard.tumblr.com
Hello again, Flickr. It's been forever. I have no excuse to mention regarding my absence from posting images. I have developed at least close to a hundred rolls and still have surely a hundred instant images of all kinds that need to be scanned. That all makes me happy.
I lost my mojo with posting to Flickr during a move to a different place close in downtown Las Vegas, and also landing two part time jobs all around October of last year. Moves and getting everything back together can be hectic, or usually always are. It was difficult for me to find a balance between doing that and working both jobs. Time for Flickr couldn't be found...
A contact sent a message recently asking where I went, so I thought "You know what, fuckin' post a photo. You have plently in a folder all ready to go!" So here I am, and here's an image of an awesome CAT bus.
I missed my good Flickr pals a lot, and your images. I'm certain there is so much gold that has been posted that I have yet to see! Things are finally getting organized again, so hopefully I will begin to post more frequently like I did in the past.
Love you guys. Hope you're all well.
NL
I just got done applying for a part time job at home. I'm tired of spending nearly all of my time at a job that I don't give two shits about to make money to "do things" and "buy things". I either need to get a part time job that can let me focus more on my photography or just focus on my photography entirely
I'm still debating on whether to go back to school or not. I don't want to be 40 and working my life away at the same job. I'm 20 and it's already starting to happen.
Oh, the photo? It's my lovely lady Mariah (one of her senior photos I took) and it's one of my favorites :)
Elmer’s Aunty is the elderly (but rather chic) aunt of the much loved book children’s book character Elmer. She is full of colour and is painted with designs taken from fabric swatches, in a patchwork style. She is inspired by the recent trend for using a patchwork upholstery fabrics to up cycle furniture and by the beautiful fabric swatches that we use in my part time job at an interior designers.
Designed by: Sue Guthrie
Sue Guthrie is a professional artist based in Birmingham. She specialises in painting and digital media and now works predominantly to commission. Her many high profile clients have included BMW, NHS and John Lewis.
Sponsored by: Ward CNC
Auction Price: £5000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
Trick or Treat!
I'm /quite/ back, back to this community. I missed flickering so much. I had sure missed a lot, a lot of things. I've really been so busy with college life (I'm on my third year), also with a part-time job at a lab, I had to let go simming for a while. Well, quite a long while.
I'm quite back, because I reckon the second sem will be much, much busier than the first and for that, I have to stop playing again once classes start. But since it's my sembreak, I'm back at playing my (and our) beloved Sims 2 and I'm also back at snapping photos :)
I hope I could catch up. I'll be trying to check out and put up comments/faves on probably the last 10 pages of my contacts' uploads. Sighhhh, how I missed these things.
Anyway, Pirates today for Halloween. I've downloaded loads of pirate clothes, so this is the right occassion to use them :D
In this snapshot: (from your left)
Ruth Weskett, Hale Demoine, Xylent Wyndham, Xyrene Wyndham (had a little tan) & Zeke Paxton
HAPPPPY HALLOWEEEEEN! rawr
Day 66
Named after the lyrics of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls.
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I am in an AP photography class this year and for my final portfolio I need to hand in a series of images with a common theme. I was talking about this with my photography teacher a few months ago and he suggested that I do a series of self portraits that represent my health and what it feels like to be sick. It had honestly never occurred to me that other people wanted to know more so I was intrigued, and I created this photo that night from some pictures that I had never edited.
Some of you who know me already know this, but I know that most of you don't so I will fill you in:
I am diagnosed as a severe chronic asthmatic, but I have gone through a multitude of tests throughout my life trying to find an answer that makes sense to explain the difficulties I have with my breathing. Every four weeks I go to the hospital and have a tube inserted into my a port-a-cath in my side to go through methylprednisone treatments for three days, as well as taking many harsh medications on a daily basis. This photo was taken in July, when I was hospitalized because my "asthma" has been steadily getting worse for a while now and it got to the point where I couldn't control it at home. No one knows why I sometimes have flare-ups like that, but I do.
I don't let my health define me. I would hate to be seen as someone who takes advantage of their "excuse" or "reason" to get out of working. I have a part-time job, I try to never stay home from school, and I have pursued my love for photography with every spare second that I have.
The reason I waited so long to post this photo is because I want to be seen the way I always have been: as the girl who takes pictures. I don't want to be seen as "the sick kid". I pour all my energy into my friends and my family and my photography, and I don't want my accomplishments to be overshadowed by something that I can't control.
This is a part of me, and that's why it's important to share this as a photo in my self portrait project, but it doesn't define who I am.
I am defined by the things that I accomplish with the life that I was given, and I try to do the best that I can under the circumstances.
I think I'll let the photo speak for itself now.
:)
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 2255. Photo: RKO Radio.
Blue-eyed American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Oscar for Best Actor in 1982. Notably he also played against character as the villain 'Frank' in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Western Once upon a time in the West (1968). Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and his lifelong career spanned almost 50 years.
Henry Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1905. His parents were Elma Herberta (Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who worked in advertising and printing and was the owner of the W. B. Fonda Printing Company in Omaha, Nebraska. His distant ancestors were Italians who had fled their country around 1400 and moved to Holland, presumably because of political or religious persecution. In the early1600's, they crossed the Atlantic and were among the early Dutch settlers in America. They established a still-thriving small town in upstate New York named Fonda, named after patriarch Douw Fonda, who was later killed by Indians. In 1919, young Henry was a first-hand witness to the Omaha race riots and the brutal lynching of Will Brown. This enraged the 14 years old Fonda and he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for the rest of his life. Following graduation from high school in 1923, Henry got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota. In 1925, having returned to Omaha, Henry reevaluated his options and came to the conclusion that journalism was not his forte, after all. For a while, he tried his hand at several temporary jobs, including as a mechanic and a window dresser. At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky. Then he received the lead in Merton of the Movies and realized the beauty of acting as a profession. It allowed him to deflect attention from his own tongue-tied personality and create stage characters relying on someone else's scripted words. The play and its star received fairly good notices in the local press. It ran for a week, and for the rest of the repertory season, Henry advanced to assistant director which enabled him to design and paint sets as well as act. A casual trip to New York, however, had already made him set his sights on Broadway. In 1926, he moved to the Cape Cod University Players, where he met his future wife Margaret Sullavan. His first professional role was in The Jest, by Sem Benelli. James Stewart joined the Players a few months after Fonda left, but he would become his closest lifelong friend. In 1928, Fonda went east to New York to be with Margaret Sullavan, and to expand his theatrical career on Broadway. His first Broadway role was a small one in A Game of Love and Death with Alice Brady and Claude Rains. Henry played leads opposite Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives in 1931. They broke up in 1933. In 1934, he got a break of sorts, when he was given the chance to present a comedy sketch with Imogene Coca in the Broadway revue New Faces. That year, he also hired Leland Hayward as his personal management agent and this was to pay off handsomely. Major Broadway roles followed, including New Faces of America and The Farmer Takes a Wife. The following year he married Frances Seymour Brokaw with whom he had two children: Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, also to become screen stars.
The 29-year old Henry Fonda was persuaded by Leland Hayward to become a Hollywood actor, despite initial misgivings and reluctance on Henry's part. Independent producer Walter Wanger, whose growing stock company was birthed at United Artists, needed a star for The Farmer Takes a Wife (Victor Fleming, 1935) opposite Janet Gaynor. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: “With both first choice actors Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea otherwise engaged, Henry was the next available option. After all, he had just completed a successful run on Broadway in the stage version. The cheesy publicity tag line for the picture was "you'll be fonder of Fonda", but the film was an undeniable hit.” Wanger, realizing he had a good thing going, next cast Henry in a succession of A-grade pictures which capitalized on his image as the sincere, unaffected country boy. Pick of the bunch were the Technicolor outdoor Western The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Henry Hathaway, 1936) with Sylvia Sidney, and the gritty Depression-era drama You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) with Henry as a back-to-the-wall good guy forced into becoming a fugitive from the law by circumstance). Then followed the screwball comedy The Moon's Our Home (William A. Seiter, 1936) with ex-wife Margaret Sullavan, the excellent pre-civil war-era romantic drama Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) featuring Bette Davis, and the Western Jesse James ( Henry King, 1939) starring Tyrone Power. Fonda rarely featured in comedy, except for a couple of good turns opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Tierney - with both he shared an excellent on-screen chemistry - in The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason, 1938), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) and the successful Rings on Her Fingers (Rouben Mamoulian, 1942). Henry gave his best screen performance to date in Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939), a fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. Henry made two more films with director John Ford: the pioneering drama Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) with Claudette Colbert, and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. In his career-defining role as Tom Joad, Fonda played the archetypal grassroots American trying to stand up against oppression. His relationship with Ford would end on the set of Mister Roberts (John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, 1955) when he objected to Ford's direction of the film. Ford punched Fonda and had to be replaced.
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940) set the tone for Henry Fonda’s subsequent career. In this vein, he gave a totally convincing, though historically inaccurate, portrayal in the titular role of The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang, 1940), a rare example of a sequel improving upon the original. He projected integrity and quiet authority whether he played lawman Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) or a reluctant posse member in The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943). In between these two films, Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, and served in the Navy for three years. He then starred in The Fugitive (John Ford, 1947), and Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948), as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role. The following years, he did not appear in many films. Fonda was one of the most active, and most vocal, liberal Democrats in Hollywood. During the 1930s, he had been a founding member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, formed in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. In 1947, in the middle of the McCarthy witch hunt, he moved to New York, not returning to Hollywood until 1955. His son Peter Fonda writes in his autobiography Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir (1999) that he believes that Henry's liberalism caused him to be gray-listed during the early 1950s. Fonda returned to Broadway to play the title role in Mister Roberts for which he won the Tony Award as best dramatic actor. In 1979, he won a second special Tony, and was nominated for a Tony Award Clarence Darrow (1975). Later he played a juror committed to the ideal of total justice in 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) which he also produced, and a nightclub musician wrongly accused of murder in The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956). During the next decade, he played in The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton a.o., 1962), How the West Was Won (John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, 1962) and as a poker-playing grifter in the Western comedy A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Fielder Cook, 1966) with Joanne Woodward. A big hit was the family comedy Yours, Mine and Ours (Melvillle Shavelson, 1968), in which he co-starred with Lucille Ball. The same year, just to confound those who would typecast him, he gave a chilling performance as one of the coldest, meanest stone killers ever to roam the West, in Sergio Leone's Western epic C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) opposite Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. With James Stewart, he teamed up in Firecreek (Vincent McEveety, 1968), where Fonda again played the heavy, and the Western omedy The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly, 1970). Despite his old feud with John Ford, Fonda spoke glowingly of the director in Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Directed by John Ford (1971). Fonda had refused to participate until he learned that Ford had insisted on casting Fonda as the lead in the film version of Mr. Roberts (1955), reviving Fonda's film career after concentrating on the stage for years. Illness curtailed Fonda’s work in the 1970s. In 1976, Fonda returned in the World War II blockbuster Midway (Jack Smight, 1976) with Charlton Heston. Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films wilth all-star casts: the Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli/Tentacles (Ovidio G. Assonitis, 1977), Rollercoaster (James Goldstone, 1977) with Richard Widmark, the killer bee action film The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978), the global disaster film Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979), with Sean Connery, and the Canadian production City on Fire (Alvin Rakoff, 1979), which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. His final screen role was as an octogenarian in On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981), in which he was joined by Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane. It finally won him an Oscar on the heels of an earlier Honorary Academy Award. Too ill to attend the ceremony, Henry Fonda died soon after at the age of 77, having left a lasting legacy matched by few of his peers. His later wives were Susan Blanchard (1950-1956), Leonarda Franchetti (1957-1961) and Shirlee Fonda (1965- till his death in 1982). With Blanchard he had a daughter, Amy Fishman (1953). His grandchildren are the actors Bridget Fonda, Justin Fonda, Vanessa Vadim and Troy Garity.
Sources: Laurence Dang (IMDb), I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Wednesday 19th February 2014.
I woke up early this morning because I have been excited all night to return a call from Plymouth city council. They want me to come in for an interview next week to discuss photographing for them! This is all I've been told, so fingers crossed it's at least a part time job!
Now it's just the wait to hear back from BBC Devon Radio and The Herald!
Circumstances beyond my control caused me to come out of retirement and take a part time job. As a result I have not been able to dress for a while. Nice to be back in Leggs again.
With her elephant, Bugsy, artist Liz Hall celebrates the smallest, and sometimes hidden, wildlife found around our great, green city. The creatures featured on Bugsy can be found in gardens, woods, hedgerows and parks in and around beautiful Sheffield. By magnifying them for all to see on her sculpture, Liz hopes that Bugsy can inspire others to look more closely at this wonderful miniature world that is all around us.
Designed by: Liz Hall
Liz Hall is a Sheffield based illustrator who enjoys working in a variety of media. She has a degree in illustration from University College Falmouth where she found her passion for natural history illustration. Liz enjoys sharing her love of all things arty at her part time job as an art consultant at a local primary school where she gets not only to teach art but to work on murals and other projects with different members of the school community.
Sponsored by: Knowhow
Auction Price: £11,000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.
Name:Nicole Ann Giordani
Age:15
Height:6'2
Ethnicity:Dutch/Sweden/Italiana
Current Home:New york City
Current Job:Student /part time job as a model at W. modeling agency
Favorite Fashion Designer:Emilio Pucci
What She Can Bring To The Competition: she wants to prove the fashion industry that girls that are different are special
Brief paragraph about your model:Nicole wants to go far in this competion and she will do her best to fullfill her dream .And show the fashion industry what beauty is all-about!
-i hope you like it, i hope this is good enough to keep her on this competition !
Miko del templo Rinno-ji (originalmente Shihonryu-ji) en Nikko, Japan / Japón・日本・日光市・輪王寺
temple / buddhist / shinto / jinja / girl / smile
Las Miko (literalmente, médium o sacerdotisa) son sirvientes de los templos shinto que se han consagrado a su deidad y, supuestamente, permanecen vírgenes durante toda su vida. Su origen se remonta a la era Sengoku (1467-1568), uno de los períodos más turbulentos de la historia de Japón, y entre sus tareas se encuentras asistir a los monjes en las ceremonias, llevar a cabo las danzas ceremoniales (miko-mai) y atender a los fieles en las diferentes ventanillas de los templos vendiendo entradas, Omamori (amuletos protectores), Ofuda (talismanes) y Omikuji (papeles con la fortuna).
En la actualidad, lo más probable es que en realidad se traten de jóvenes universitarias en busca de un trabajo a tiempo parcial que les reporte un (modesto) sueldo con el que subsistir en esa etapa de sus vidas.
El atuendo tradicional de las Miko está compuesto por un haori blanco (chaqueta con corte de kimono) y un hakama rojo (falda dividida similar a un pantalón que utilizaban tradicionalmente los nobles y samurais durante el periodo Edo) atado con el cho musubi (nudo de la mariposa).
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Mikos (literally, shaman woman) are servants of the Shinto shrines who are devoted to their deity and, preferably, they remaln virgins during their entire life. Their origin dates back Sengoku era (1467 - 1568), one of the most turbulent periods in Japan history, and their duties consist on assisting the priests during the ceremonies, perform ceremonial dances (miko-mai) and attend the fidels in the different hatches of the temples selling tickets, Omamori (protective amulets), Ofuda (talismans) and Omikuji (papers containing fortune)
Nowadays, they are young girls studying at college most likely, looking for a part-time job which gives them a (modest) salary to subsist along this stage of their life.
Miko's traiditional attire has a white haori (a jacket that looks like a kimono) and a red hakama (a skirt similar a trouser that high-class population and samurais used to wear during Edo period) tied with a cho musubi (butterfly knot)
Pulsa L para ver sobre negro / Hit L to see on black
Pulsa F para marcar como favorita / Hit F to fave
German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/380. Photo: Teldec / Winkler / RCA.
Rita Pavone (1945) was one of the biggest teenage stars in Europe during the 1960s, and one of the few Italian pop stars to gain a foothold in the American market. Pavone also starred in several 'Musicarellos'.
Rita Pavone was born Turin, Italy in 1945. Mark Deming at AllMusic: “Her father, who worked at a Fiat auto plant, was a big fan of American musical stars, particularly Al Jolson, Judy Garland, and Gene Kelly, and young Rita shared his tastes, often singing along with his records and taking singing lessons when she wasn't busy with school or her part-time job ironing shirts. In 1959, Rita made her public debut as a singer, impersonating Al Jolson in a children's talent contest; by this time, rock & roll had made its way to the continent, and she became an immediate fan of the new teenage sounds. In 1960, Pavone landed her first professional gig, performing for soldiers at Italian NATO bases, and after initial attempts to score a record deal or nightclub engagement proved fruitless, Pavone got her big break in the fall of 1962”. She participated in the first Festa degli Sconosciuti (Festival of the Unknowns), a song competition for amateur artists. She won the contest, which was organised by singer and record producer Teddy Reno. The two fell in love. Rita was 17 and Teddy was 19 years her senior and already married, and father of a baby boy. However, they would always stay together. Her first single La partita di pallone (The Ball Game) was an immediate smash. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Her album debut, simply titled Rita Pavone, made her a national star, and international attention soon followed. Her recording of Cuore (Heart) also sold a million copies in 1963, spending nine weeks at number one in Italy. In the summer of 1964 she had chart success in the United States with Remember Me, backed with Just Once More. Pavone sang at Carnegie Hall in New York city, and between 1964 and 1970, she was a frequent guest at the Ed Sullivan Show, the most popular variety show on American television. Pavone was also very successful in Europe. In the UK, RCA Victor issued two of her singles in quick succession in 1966 and 1967. Both were hits, Heart peaking at #27 and You Only You peaking at #21 in the UK Singles Chart. During this same period she appeared at the London Palladium. Spain would prove to be one of her biggest markets. In this country she scored a string of hits, both with ballads and rock songs and became a teen idol. Pavone recorded a total of thirteen albums. She mainly recorded for RCA until 1968, then she signed for a brief period with Ricordi which launched her vanity label, RitaLand. Eventually she returned to the label that had launched her, recording three more albums with RCA.
In Italy, Rita Pavone also worked as an actress, and during the 1960’s, she starred in six films. The first was the French comedy Clémentine Chérie (Pierre Chevalier, 1963), featuring France Anglade. The others were the Musicarellos (Italian teen musicals of 1950s and 1960s) Rita, la figlia Americana/Rita, the American daughter (Piero Vivarelli, 1965) with Totò, Rita la zanzara/Rita the Mosquito (Lina Wertmüller, 1966) with Giancarlo Giannini, Non stuzzicate la zanzara/Don't Sting the Mosquito (Lina Wertmüller, 1967) with Giulietta Masina as Rita’s mother, the musical Western Little Rita nel west/Rita of the West (Ferdinando Baldi, 1967) with Terence Hill, and La Feldmarescialla/The Crazy Kids of the War (Steno, 1968). In the two Zanzara films, directed by Lina Werthmüller, ´Little Rita´ played a music student in love with her professor, who unknown to her is living a double life as a rock & roll singer. With Werthmüller she also made Giornalino di Gianburrasca/Gian Burrasca's Diary (1964-1965) with her. For this TV series, she also contributed several songs. Pavone’s film career targeted a teen audience and lacked great artistic value, but today her films are cult favourites in Italy. In 1968 Pavone finally married Teddy Reno in a church in Lugano, Switzerland. This event caused a scandal because Reno was still married to his first wife, Livia Protti, and in Italy there was no divorce law until 1970. They re-married each other in Italy in 1971. Later on she would participate in comedy films, such as 2 sul pianerottolo/Two on the landing (Mario Amendola, 1975). On TV, she participated in shows such as Alta Pressione (1967), Stasera Rita (Tonight Rita) and the variety series Studio Uno (1968). In 1982, she appeared in Come Alice (Like Alice), which became a hit in Italian television. In the theatre, she played Maria in a celebrated production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. And her songs are on many film soundtracks. The main character in the Argentine film Nueve reinas/Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000) tries to remember a Pavone song throughout the film. The song Il Ballo Del Mattone plays as the credits run. In 2006, she announced her official retirement from show business. She was a Senate candidate in the Italian general election of 2006. She participated as candidate for Per l'Italia nel Mondo (For Italy in the World), a centre-right list, led by minister Mirko Tremaglia. Rita Pavone and her husband Teddy Reno now live in Ticino, Switzerland. They have two sons, Alessandro and Giorgio, both of whom have become involved in show business themselves, Alessandro as a radio show host and Giorgio as a rock singer.
Sources: Mark Deming (AllMusic), Small Wonder (Official Rita Pavone website), Wikipedia and IMDb.
yesterday i shot, what i think was, my hardest assignment yet. i've shot shootings, car accidents, near-drownings, pediatric AIDS patients... but none of these people seemed as desperate and broken down as this woman and her husband.
my assignment said these two were facing "hard times" and are facing foreclosure on their home. that's all i knew.
i knocked on the door and was welcomed into the home. she was already sobbing. she said she didn't think she had it in her to cry anymore, and she kept crying. her husband suffered a heart attack and cannot work, she works at a local wal mart and the two can't afford their home anymore. she's done everything she can think of, trying to get his social security, writing the mayor, contacting the department of housing... she even said she applied for 27 part-time jobs to supplement her other one. didn't get one call back.
her mother died recently and she wasn't in the will, and was given no explanation by family.
she just sobbed and sobbed the entire time she was telling me their story.
he sat blankly and stared at the tv.
they've had to get food from the food bank.
a neighbor is taking phone calls for them at her home.
her gas tank is near empty.
they're relatively new to the area--they moved here 2 years ago in hopes of retiring--so they don't have any friends or family to ask for help.
she said she got in a fight with God in a parking lot after getting off work the night before and asked him why she's still living. she said she can't take much more.
she doesn't know where they're going to go and doesn't know how they'll find a roof to put over their heads.
then i had to tell them i needed to take a photo.
i deep down wanted to give them dignity.
he didn't want his photo taken and she kept breaking down. i only shot 6 frames. she kept crying.
and of course i could never get any photo i'd ever want in that situation.
i told her i was sorry.
i was sorry because i had never seen such sadness, and didn't know what to do.
i gave her a hug. she held on for a while and said she needed it.
i think i did, too.
i walked out stunned.
Friday is pizza day for us so I get up early and make the dough from scratch. In university I had a part time job working for an old baker and doing this once a week always brings back fond memories of all he taught me. Like it in B&W.
3/17/2011
Today's theme for Song/Lyric Collaboration is :
"Song that makes you feel lucky"
Well, this song doesn't make me feel, but the shows name dose have the word LUCKY in it, so I thought it was close enough. (I really don't have any songs that make me feel lucky)
Motteke! Se-ra-fuku - Lucky Star OP
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
A vague 3cm, ain't that a flexible rule? cho! (1)
For rapping, a sailor uniform... it isn't a disadvantage, bu.
Gotta do our best! Gotta do it!
That's when we catch and release, gyo
Darlin' darling FREEZE in the channel of my sweat, my sweat!!
A bit tired-- something's coming--
I love you-- huh, just one letter's different
You wimp-- gymnastic high bar--
gourmet-- enough already!
The blazing body of that gal who flew off-- is she what we call a normal girl?
Am I the only one who's surprised?
A second helping of that tender Tonkotsu
(chatter: Where are my glasses? ...)
BON-BON cheer squad
Let's get! Cherry pie
RAN-RAN welcome party
Look up! Sensation
Yea! Feels like something's there..
an asteroid bumped into me and crumbled away, whoa!
Sing out, squadron ranger
Take it!
I'm supposed to be the one who laughs last
Because of my sailor uniform That's the conclusion
I'm in a bad mood, what to do?
Even though it's Monday!
Summer clothes'll fix it Cuuute! ^^v
Gettin' close to 3 pics, don't know what to do until you see 'em yan
Do your best, be enthusiastic, my darlin' darlin' PLEASE!!
Risin' up-- fallin' down--
lovin' and such-- still keep your morals secret--
Spoiled brat-- bodyguard--
melancholic-- get carried away and it'll be an honorable defeat
The guy I stepped on says "OW my pinky" all exaggeratedly
A glimpse of black knee highs
Ain't it certain? Ain't it our territory?
Beggin' for smooth, bare legs
MON-MON Legend of the blind monk (7)
Let's go to the parthenon!
YAI-YAI Soran folk songs (8)
What's up? Temptation
Hey! Feels like I'm losing.. money money
If I look for a part time job I'll find one of course,
and then I'll have no worries in my life at all!
Try it!
What I'm aiming at now is my challenge
Even if I change out of my sailor uniform, it still = me
How 'bout the weekend?
Showin' off like always
With a sailor uniform it's so simple = easy life
A wind speed of 3 meters - hold on and bear it gyu
My heart beatin' fast, you holdin' tight on my waist, I'm sugar sugar SWEET!!
(chatter: A new... Do you wanna skip class? It is okay if... Huh? ...)
BON-BON MON-MON Day
Let's get! Uh Uh Ah!
RAN-RAN chop chop kick
Look up! Fu Fu Ho!
HI! Education!! Love is ABC
undagadaa undagadaa unyuunya (9)
It gets sunny, I fall in love, but it never comes to fruition laE
Take it!
I'm supposed to be the one who laughs last
Because of my sailor uniform That's the conclusion
I'm in a bad mood, what to do?
Even though it's Monday!
Summer clothes'll fix it Cuuute! ^^v
Of course
I'm supposed to be the one who laughs last
Because of my sailor uniform That's the conclusion
A vague 3cm, ain't that a flexible rule? whoa!
For rapping, a sailor uniform... right! it isn't a disadvantage, bo.
Gotta do our best! Gotta do it!
That's when we wear our cap and jersey, ha
If you can see our sweat through 'em darlin' darling be AMUSED!!
the Next Step?
Reflecting~ my hours have been cut...do I cut them more and take an additional part time job and lose my bennies? Or do I keep on struggling and cutting back on things like medical ins that doesn't cover shit, and cell phone coverage?
At least I haven't paid for the NFL package yet...and if they strike I won't have to, LOL!
A quick cake that I made at my part time job. They wanted a dragon to look like the one at the Providence Children's museum, but cuter. There was a topper added at the party.
Most of us have heard the saying that an apple a day keeps the Doctor away. Of course, that is implying that apples are healthy food.
When I was attending the University, I had a part-time job as a delivery boy for a laundry. I had several Dr offices on my route.
One day around noon I went into one and a nurse was eating an apple. I said, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away,"
She gave me the dirtiest , drop dead, look. That puzzled me.
As I left I was wondering about it and the thought came to my mind that she and the Dr possibly had something going on between them; hence, the dirty look. Who knows?