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West-German postcard by G. Barth, Frankfurt, no. GB 65. 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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so this is the place where I do my part time job and where I get those weird but beautiful flowers.. that building (not my office though) is just one of the several buildings we have inside the big area (if that's how you call it~)
I always walk there (doing long-cuts and enjoying the environment) after work..
they also have fishes in the ponds..
shot from my Sony Xperia Z..
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“After being a nanny for 20 years my brother asked me if I’d want to take care of my two nieces so I said 'yeah' and moved across the country to help out. My nieces and I had a blast dancing, playing make-believe, and using our imagination, but unfortunately, his wife and I didn’t really seem to connect. She basically told me I had to get out. She kicked me out and I ran out of money and had nowhere to go. I found a homeless shelter but it was really for people that had been abused or were addicted to drugs and alcohol. There were kind enough to let me in.”
“There were a lot of responsibilities associated with the shelter. You had to do cleaning and community service, you had to get a part-time job and save 90% of your money. I had been diagnosed with PTSD and it got too overwhelming for me. I started feeling ugly and I found these poems I could relate to. Things like, ‘You don’t die from suicide, you die from sadness’. I wanted to get rid of the ugliness so I left the shelter, took the money I saved, got a hotel, and took a bunch of pills. I didn’t want to be me anymore. I was walking around the street that night a gal saw me and said, ‘Is this your first night on the street?’. I told her it was but I was getting really tired because I had already taken the pills. She asked if everything was okay and if she could stay and pray with me. She gave me her sweatshirts. I told her I took some pills and she called 911. I was in the hospital 3 days. Then I went into a mental hospital for a couple weeks. It was hard after that because I didn’t feel connected and the only way for me to survive is to be connected to something.”
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‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
3rd February 2023
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the march arriving for the rally which started in Whitehall at 1pm, while the back of the march was still yet to leave the BBC building in Portland Place.
A huge loudspeaker system and projected film screen broadcast the speeches to the massive crowd.
National Education Union members were joined by delegations of striking workers from the PCS, RMT, ASLEF and UCU unions and other supporters.
The first speaker at the rally, was Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU, who said: ‘They try and paint unions as the villains, but it won’t wash. We fight for what is right, for enough to eat and keep warm and for public services which families depend on.
‘NEU members know that their schools are running on empty. Mr Hunt talked about Silicon Valley – but there are only half the teachers necessary who are skilled in computing. Half of IT is taught by teachers without training.
‘Sunak spoke of having maths teaching to the age of 18 years. But one in eight maths lessons are taken by teachers with no qualifications in maths.
‘How did we get to a situation where half of pupils are taught by unqualified teachers? We have the highest class sizes in primary and secondary schools. Teachers’ pay has dropped by 20% since 2010. Teachers are taking part-time jobs as they can’t pay the bills.’
Teacher Lucy Pastor said: ‘I lie awake at night thinking, what will it take for them to listen. Do they choose heating or eating … I am a single mum with a three and four-year-old, and have been teaching in secondary school for 12 years.
‘Cuts are systemic and there is criminal underfunding, erosion of pay and working conditions. I strike because I am desperate. Our education and children demand better. In this country there are the highest childcare charges in Europe, making it difficult for women to be teachers. I work part time. I am overdrawn every month and have to take in student lodgers. It’s not a good way to live.’
Paul Whiteman, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said: ‘Your fight is our fight. There has been industrial action in Northern Ireland, and it is starting in Wales. I can confirm we will ballot again in England.
‘There is a history of struggle in the trade union movement. When you oppress working people they push back. We have to stand firm. Our cause is just. It is about saving education for our children.’
Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said: ‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength. Sunak knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. My children were brought up by the fabulous NUT members in their state schools in Croydon and UCU members in higher education.
‘100,000 PCS members are on strike today, working in such places as the Cabinet Office, Serious Fraud Office, the British Museum, pensions and dole offices and airports. 40,000 civil servants use food banks. 45,000 claim benefits.
‘All they’ve offered us is 2% They plan to sack 90,000 staff. They have cut terms and conditions. We are saying, NO!’
‘The government says they can’t afford it. PCS members in HMRC told the former Chancellor, he hadn’t paid his taxes. Today, a strike of half a million workers is taking place – the biggest strike in over ten years.’
Jo Grady, General Secretary of the UCU said: ‘This rally is a message to the mainstream media and to our students and colleagues and people we work for.
‘They say we have the audacity to coordinate strikes. The Tory government has the audacity to coordinate with business who try to stop us striking. They coordinate zero hours contracts and fire and rehire.
‘We are on our fourth day of strike action. We are moving our employers, not enough. You can do the same. … UCU will re-ballot later this month … Be proud Be strong.’
The General Secretary of the TUC, Paul Nowak said: ‘This is a fantastic turnout. The biggest in the trade unions for 30 years – 300,000 from the NEU, 100,000 civil servants, 70,000 university lecturers, plus train and bus drivers. And more are in struggle: Physiotherapists, postal workers, Amazon and midwives standing up for a decent pay rise.
‘The government won’t negotiate seriously. They are making it more difficult to take strike action. We’re going to fight to protect the right to strike. Even if workers win the ballot, an employer can force a worker to work and sack them if they don’t. Not on our watch! We will fight for the right to strike.
‘There is crisis in class-rooms, hospitals, civil services and on the railways. It all lies at the door of numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street. There have been decades of underfunding and poor pay.
‘Negotiate with the unions. Deliver on pay. Go back and talk to friends at the workplace. This is a serious political chance to build a stronger, diverse trade union movement. Be proud of our unions.’
Lucy Cut, a nursery teacher from Brent said: ‘There is a massive crisis affecting special needs, the NHS, social care and housing. We see it day in day out. Their answer is more repression, taking away our rights.
‘For example the lack of speech and language therapy – it’s not the fault of refugees. WE are the answer. It’s us the working class who cares to provide a society that provides for them.’
Katie Leggal from the FBU said: ‘Let’s stand together and get organising. Without that we wouldn’t have women’s rights, weekends, or holiday pay. They want to take our organisations away from us.’
Eddie Brand, London Unison Ambulance Service Secretary, said: ‘We provided life and limb cover, for heart attacks. As ambulance staff we know how to provide a safe service. We worked during the pandemic, and in healthcare 24 hours a day 365 days a year. We are now being attacked with a new bill. We want a safe service, and decent pay.’
Mick Whelan ASLEF General Secretary said: ‘Sunak says that trade unions are anti-worker. We are committed to our communities and families. Every worker deserves better wages. They found the time to legislate to increase bankers’ bonuses. It’s the profiteers driving inflation in the UK. This is just the start. No zero hours! No fire and rehire! No P&O!’
The final speaker was Mick Lynch, secretary of the RMT, who said: ‘Hello what a beautiful sight. Every worker needs a pay rise – a square deal. We are united and will not be divided by who we work for, region or colour of our skin.
‘We are back here demanding change. We refuse to be poor. We are for our people on our terms. There are marches and demos all over the country. There are more ballots and more demands.
‘They should get out of the way. Get a new government, a new general election. They will not win the day. This is the fight of a generation – the fight for our future. Up the unions! Victory for us! Solidarity!’
The meeting ended with the chairwoman announcing the 15th March as a National Day of Action to be organised by the unions on the streets of London.
SHEFFIELD
Several hundred angry trade unionists and workers marched through Sheffield on Wednesday insisting: ‘We are fighting back right across the country.’
One emphasised: ‘Half a million workers are on strike today, and now a million workers have voted for industrial action. There are now more strikes to come. Let’s hear it for ambulance workers, for the nurses and the train drivers. Sheffield needs a pay rise. So we now have a plan for the biggest May Day March ever seen in this city.’
Leading delegations also on the march were South Yorkshire members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), and NEU teachers’ union from Prince Edward Primary School, Longley Park Sixth Form College, Dobcroft Infant School, Handsworth Community School, High Stores School, King Edward VII and Meadowhead schools.
Matthew Malik from UCU said: ‘I am Sheffield university’s union pensions officer. This time is different. Half a million strikers are out today – as our pay gets cut every year. Are we still living in feudal times, having to beg for the right to strike?’
He added: ‘We will win. The largest step is always one by one …’
TUC Yorkshire Regional Secretary, Bill Adams said: ‘Let’s hear it for ambulance workers, for the nurses and the train drivers. Sheffield needs a pay rise!
‘We are here in solidarity with workers – workers who have voted for strike action must “pull linen” or they will face the sack.
‘We’ve had enough! We are fighting back right across the country – half a million workers are on strike today and a million workers have voted for industrial action; strikes to come.’
Norwich Evening News:
In Norwich, hundreds of people gathered outside City Hall to support teachers striking over pay, working conditions and staff resources on Wednesday afternoon.
Will Harrahan, who teaches English at a city school, said: ‘We have a situation here where teachers are leaving the profession in droves. It’s creating a situation where children are missing out on their education, so it’s as much about them as it is us.
‘There’s too much work-load and demand placed on teachers, giving up weekends to mark papers or catch up on admin work. I know teachers who regularly work 60-hour weeks – these strikes are a last resort to change this.’
Harry Thomas, a special needs teacher at Fred Nicholson School in Dereham, added: ‘People are focusing on teachers pay but it’s funding for schools and education as a whole. We’re under-resourced, which means we struggle and can’t meet a lot of the needs for children. We have long working days and it’s now all becoming too much.’
This is all I had time to write as I was struggling with my cardiovascular problems: There was a march which included members of NEU, UCU, PCS, RMT, & ASLEF together with their placards and banners.
We had these shirts made for our wedding 2 years ago but I believe the Best Summer Ever!!! was actually this year. You see, for the last few years, I didn't really get to enjoy summer at all. For three years I had a food cart and my days from April until late October were filled with acquiring, prepping, schlepping and selling food 6 days a week. My days were long and hard. I loved what I was doing but I missed having energy left during the little free time I had to actually get out and do anything fun.
Last year, I switched over from doing the food cart to making preserves to sell at market. There was a potential for more free time because I didn't have to make and sell everyday. However, I decided to keep my two part-time jobs so in addition to preserving, I also nannied during the day and waitressed at night. To add to the craziness, I also sprained my ankle mid-season and we decided to buy a house at the end of the season. Whew! All of this left very little time to enjoy the summer.
Then, there was this year. I stopped nannying at the end of June and had all summer to enjoy doing what I love. I had time to pick my own fruit. I had time to do more markets. I had time to try new recipes. But best of all, I had time and energy to enjoy summer again.
I'm in the second year of my business and don't know yet if I'll ever be able to make a living doing this, but early on this summer, during a glorious summer day while I was picking berries on a friends farm, I decided to enjoy this time to the fullest and I think that I did.
Thanks to everybody who helped make this summer so awesome!
Ok, since I've been back at work, I've found taking a picture a day very challenging. Lack of time, creativity, ideas, day light, but mainly lack of time. Now that said, I can see the power of doing a 365 as it pushes one's creativity or take shots I wouldn't normally take.
My daughter's was Employee of the Month for December where she has a part time job, and I'm very proud of her work ethics.
Theese are 2 of my 3 duckings , Skiddy Lily and Razor
i hatched hem from the incubator :P there lovely , they smell so bad though!
and they never stop eating!!well i havn't been on this for ages, like a really long time. which is bad cause i enjoy it
But i've been busy but now it is offificaly summer and no more school for 7 weeks !
so I will try be on more
but i got my self a wee part time job :) In Sterling Furniture, If you don't live in Scotland you wont know what it is ! hahaand i'm going on holiday on Tuesday to New york and Florida , so excited! im sure i'll get some nice wee photos then :)
This is the famous female impersonator Jene Chandler pictured in 1962 aged 25. young female impersonator by the name appearing in the Nutrix publication, "Letters From Female Impersonators Vol 11" which is available for all in PDF form from The Digital Transgender Archive (www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/k3569438f).
By 1962 Jene was already quite established in the world of female impersonation and her letter describes her rise to fame from a manager in a ladies clothing section of a department store, all the way to starring in "The Jewel Box Revue" via "Club 82" in New York.
It seems Jene did indeed go on to further success as even with the briefest of searches finds her in various reviews including "Cherze La Femme" in Montreal in the late 60's early 70s (a program can be found here www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/m039k5161) and there is even a clip of her with fellow female mimics Vicky Lane and Guilda in a terrible movie entitled "When Drag Queens Attack" on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8IWh3Pr08)from 1976.
As always any further information I would be glad to hear from you....here is Jene, in her our words in 1962 as published in the magazine
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Dear Editor:
Here are a few pertinent facts about myself for the readers of your well-known female impersonator books.
My name is Jene Chandler (please spell my first name with a capital "J" and not "Gene" as some editors have done in the past by mistake). I was born in Brooklyn, New York, twenty-five years ago.
After graduating from High School in Brooklyn, I studied at Tulane University, where I majored in music and drama. After my first year studying drama in college, the "acting bug" bit me and I left college to take a part-time job in a large department store as a buyer of women s coats, dresses and suits, so that I could earn enough money to carry me over while seeking work in the theatre.
I managed the Women's s Department in the in the afternoons while working at an off-Broadway little theatre at nights in order to obtain acting experience I had to work days in the department store in order to eat well, as the little theatre group with which I became associated paid very small salaries, since their income was very little and they could not afford to pay much.
However, the valuable experience I gained at this little theatre group was worth much more to me than money, for it gave me the opportunity to gain much-needed experience and to learn how to apply make-up properly. My position as a buyer of feminine wearing apparel taught me how to distinguish good values in women's s fashions and did me in good stead later on, when I decided to become a female impersonator.
I became interested in female impersonation during my stay in Greenwich Village, New York, and realized that this profession was more lucrative than appearing in small parts in Broadway musical shows, waiting for my talents to become recognized.
While in Greenwich Village, I became acquainted with several female impersonators who wore stylish clothes of the latest fashions. They also seemed to have plenty of money to spend, while I was barely able to make ends meet, working at two jobs day and night !
This made me envious of them. As I was a fairly good dancer, I therefore decided to try my luck and audition for a traveling revue, which was scheduled to open in Washington, DC. This show had a chorus line of six females and six males in female attire.
I auditioned for this show as a male dancer and I was selected to work in the chorus. 1 worked for several months with the show and when the show opened in a Chicago night club, one of the showgirl exotic dance strippers left and I was asked if I would like to try and take her place.
This was my opportunity and I grabbed the chance. The pay was larger and it gave me a chance to work in a feature spot as a regular female impersonator.
I worked for a while as a stripper and singer in the show before joining another unit working in various cities, returning later to New York City. In New York I worked at the 82 Club as a showgirl and in several of the production numbers, all the time in female attire, which I was beginning to enjoy. I did my best to become as feminine-looking as possible in appearance and in my walking as I humanly could.
My crowning success came, when while working at the 82 Club, I entered a beauty con— test for women and - believe it or not was the runner up because of the judges t favoritism for another girl! I was tempted to tear off my wig and reveal myself as a man, but I thought better of the idea, as it would only mean forfeiting the runner up prize of a white silver fox stole, which I desired.
Later on I worked in Los Angeles, where I appeared on several nation-wide telecasts in a feminine role, with no one the wiser to the fact that I was actually a man! I worked as a female impersonator for five years and enjoyed it.
When "Doc" Benner offered me the job of working as a combination singer, stripper and Master of Ceremonies for the famed JEWEL BOX REVUE, I jumped at the chance and willingly accepted. It had long been my ambition to work in the Jewel Box Revue, which is considered to be the tops in the world of female impersonation.
The Jewel Box Revue to femme mimics is like the importance of Tiffany's to the jewelry world. Only the best and most talented female mimics are chosen to work in this revue, which is known all over the world. Since I am featured in the Jewel Box Revue, any of your readers can see me by watching the advertisements in the amusement pages of the newspapers.
Working in feminine attire is "nice work if you can get it," but it is also extremely hard work as well. I design my own hair styles and I create my own settings on my wigs, which are dyed to match my own natural hair coloring.Here is the way it is done.
I make a wig pattern of my head and snip off several locks of my real hair, which are given to the wig maker, so that he can match my hair with the right shade. I pay anywhere from $ 85 to $ 350 each for my wigs which, outside of my gowns, are the most expensive items in my feminine wardrobe.
I have to always have several wigs on hand, for while one is being cleaned, set and waved, I then can have one ready should one wig be delayed in being returned from the beauty parlor, as has happened on more than one occasion.
All I can say about my work as a female impersonator is that it has been a ball and I would die if for some reason I had to leave this wonderful profession.
I would not give up my work for all the money in this world. After many years of dancing on "high heels" and giving out with the impressions of the late Marilyn Monroe, Bette Davis and other famous Hollywood stars, while in drag, I have learned to love my work. I only resent some of the insulting remarks that certain "at Liberty" actors have leveled at those of us in this unusual profession.
I still get a lick out of the way salespeople, especially young girls, look at me when I am purchasing new dresses or lingerie when I inform them that these articles of clothing are for my own personal use! Their eyes pop out and their jaws drop. I have to take some of my photos of myself in "drag costumes" out of my wallet before they will believe me. When I'm leaving, the salesgirl would go over to a fellow worker and whisper excitedly to her. When not working, I'm dressed as a male and my former fellow-workers do not recognize me i
n female attire. It is lots of fun fooling the public into thinking that I'm a girl and I enjoy it.
With best wishes to you and your readers.
Cordially yours,
JENE CHANDLER.
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The original screen grab was 422x697 pixels. The original required some cleaning to remove the logo in the bottom right hand corner and the hand written "GENE CHANDLER" in the bottom left. The handwritten inscription is something quite common to Nutrix publications and indicates that the photographer was Irvine Klaw. Regular readers of my feed may even start to recognise the flat in which this was taken, which was probably Irvine's. This was upscaled and enhanced by a factor of three resulting in an image 1266x1995. The upscaling was performed by the excellent open source software "Upscayl" (www.upscayl.org/), I then used the open source image editor GIMP (www.gimp.org/) to convert to greyscale and then back to RGB for colourisation. Further white balancing and contrast adjustments were also performed in GIMP before exporting the image you see here as a JPG.
Disclaimer: The digital enhancements to the original are all my own work, plus (in this case) use of AI enhancement. Any such unauthorised use (without prior permission) for that aspect of the work will be considered a violation of my partial copyright. Where the original item is shown, it is done so purely for comparative purposes only.
By my Flickr friend Kounelli (thank you Manny :-))
So photo tells you something about me and shows 4 of my Christmas gifts :-)
I..
#1 am Flickr addicted!
#2 collect ladybugs (Already have about 350 of them :-))
#3 love taking photos
#4 am a law student
#5 like playing volleyball
#6 like red color
#7 really like my nick (mischuge means crazy - well just from time to time :-D)
Gosh already do not know what to say and I am not even in the middle :-o
#8 have a part-time job at car repair station Autoškobi (trocha reklamy Leni, všímáš si!!! :-))
#9 have one sister - she is 3 years older and completely different
#10 Half of the week I live in Prague with my sister, her boyfriend and 6 chinchillas :-) The second one with my parents and two dogs Asta and Titty in a small village Babice.
#11 am keen on reading! Terry Pratchett is the best!!!!!!
#12 When I was young I used to play on flute...well I guess I still can play but do not exercise at all :-(
#13 have Coeliac disease= a gluten free diet.
#14 vote for Democrats
#15 hate mushrooms and skiing!
#16 And never say never again!
Poor quality I know - it was quite an improvisation :-o
I will catch up soon - the internet has been fixed finally!
Have a nice day and great week!
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‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength’ says Mark Serwotka
3rd February 2023
THERE were more than 40,000 teachers and other striking workers on the NEU demonstration on Wednesday 1st February – with the front of the march arriving for the rally which started in Whitehall at 1pm, while the back of the march was still yet to leave the BBC building in Portland Place.
A huge loudspeaker system and projected film screen broadcast the speeches to the massive crowd.
National Education Union members were joined by delegations of striking workers from the PCS, RMT, ASLEF and UCU unions and other supporters.
The first speaker at the rally, was Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU, who said: ‘They try and paint unions as the villains, but it won’t wash. We fight for what is right, for enough to eat and keep warm and for public services which families depend on.
‘NEU members know that their schools are running on empty. Mr Hunt talked about Silicon Valley – but there are only half the teachers necessary who are skilled in computing. Half of IT is taught by teachers without training.
‘Sunak spoke of having maths teaching to the age of 18 years. But one in eight maths lessons are taken by teachers with no qualifications in maths.
‘How did we get to a situation where half of pupils are taught by unqualified teachers? We have the highest class sizes in primary and secondary schools. Teachers’ pay has dropped by 20% since 2010. Teachers are taking part-time jobs as they can’t pay the bills.’
Teacher Lucy Pastor said: ‘I lie awake at night thinking, what will it take for them to listen. Do they choose heating or eating … I am a single mum with a three and four-year-old, and have been teaching in secondary school for 12 years.
‘Cuts are systemic and there is criminal underfunding, erosion of pay and working conditions. I strike because I am desperate. Our education and children demand better. In this country there are the highest childcare charges in Europe, making it difficult for women to be teachers. I work part time. I am overdrawn every month and have to take in student lodgers. It’s not a good way to live.’
Paul Whiteman, General Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers said: ‘Your fight is our fight. There has been industrial action in Northern Ireland, and it is starting in Wales. I can confirm we will ballot again in England.
‘There is a history of struggle in the trade union movement. When you oppress working people they push back. We have to stand firm. Our cause is just. It is about saving education for our children.’
Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) said: ‘Greetings to this fantastic show of strength. Sunak knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. My children were brought up by the fabulous NUT members in their state schools in Croydon and UCU members in higher education.
‘100,000 PCS members are on strike today, working in such places as the Cabinet Office, Serious Fraud Office, the British Museum, pensions and dole offices and airports. 40,000 civil servants use food banks. 45,000 claim benefits.
‘All they’ve offered us is 2% They plan to sack 90,000 staff. They have cut terms and conditions. We are saying, NO!’
‘The government says they can’t afford it. PCS members in HMRC told the former Chancellor, he hadn’t paid his taxes. Today, a strike of half a million workers is taking place – the biggest strike in over ten years.’
Jo Grady, General Secretary of the UCU said: ‘This rally is a message to the mainstream media and to our students and colleagues and people we work for.
‘They say we have the audacity to coordinate strikes. The Tory government has the audacity to coordinate with business who try to stop us striking. They coordinate zero hours contracts and fire and rehire.
‘We are on our fourth day of strike action. We are moving our employers, not enough. You can do the same. … UCU will re-ballot later this month … Be proud Be strong.’
The General Secretary of the TUC, Paul Nowak said: ‘This is a fantastic turnout. The biggest in the trade unions for 30 years – 300,000 from the NEU, 100,000 civil servants, 70,000 university lecturers, plus train and bus drivers. And more are in struggle: Physiotherapists, postal workers, Amazon and midwives standing up for a decent pay rise.
‘The government won’t negotiate seriously. They are making it more difficult to take strike action. We’re going to fight to protect the right to strike. Even if workers win the ballot, an employer can force a worker to work and sack them if they don’t. Not on our watch! We will fight for the right to strike.
‘There is crisis in class-rooms, hospitals, civil services and on the railways. It all lies at the door of numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street. There have been decades of underfunding and poor pay.
‘Negotiate with the unions. Deliver on pay. Go back and talk to friends at the workplace. This is a serious political chance to build a stronger, diverse trade union movement. Be proud of our unions.’
Lucy Cut, a nursery teacher from Brent said: ‘There is a massive crisis affecting special needs, the NHS, social care and housing. We see it day in day out. Their answer is more repression, taking away our rights.
‘For example the lack of speech and language therapy – it’s not the fault of refugees. WE are the answer. It’s us the working class who cares to provide a society that provides for them.’
Katie Leggal from the FBU said: ‘Let’s stand together and get organising. Without that we wouldn’t have women’s rights, weekends, or holiday pay. They want to take our organisations away from us.’
Eddie Brand, London Unison Ambulance Service Secretary, said: ‘We provided life and limb cover, for heart attacks. As ambulance staff we know how to provide a safe service. We worked during the pandemic, and in healthcare 24 hours a day 365 days a year. We are now being attacked with a new bill. We want a safe service, and decent pay.’
Mick Whelan ASLEF General Secretary said: ‘Sunak says that trade unions are anti-worker. We are committed to our communities and families. Every worker deserves better wages. They found the time to legislate to increase bankers’ bonuses. It’s the profiteers driving inflation in the UK. This is just the start. No zero hours! No fire and rehire! No P&O!’
The final speaker was Mick Lynch, secretary of the RMT, who said: ‘Hello what a beautiful sight. Every worker needs a pay rise – a square deal. We are united and will not be divided by who we work for, region or colour of our skin.
‘We are back here demanding change. We refuse to be poor. We are for our people on our terms. There are marches and demos all over the country. There are more ballots and more demands.
‘They should get out of the way. Get a new government, a new general election. They will not win the day. This is the fight of a generation – the fight for our future. Up the unions! Victory for us! Solidarity!’
The meeting ended with the chairwoman announcing the 15th March as a National Day of Action to be organised by the unions on the streets of London.
SHEFFIELD
Several hundred angry trade unionists and workers marched through Sheffield on Wednesday insisting: ‘We are fighting back right across the country.’
One emphasised: ‘Half a million workers are on strike today, and now a million workers have voted for industrial action. There are now more strikes to come. Let’s hear it for ambulance workers, for the nurses and the train drivers. Sheffield needs a pay rise. So we now have a plan for the biggest May Day March ever seen in this city.’
Leading delegations also on the march were South Yorkshire members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), and NEU teachers’ union from Prince Edward Primary School, Longley Park Sixth Form College, Dobcroft Infant School, Handsworth Community School, High Stores School, King Edward VII and Meadowhead schools.
Matthew Malik from UCU said: ‘I am Sheffield university’s union pensions officer. This time is different. Half a million strikers are out today – as our pay gets cut every year. Are we still living in feudal times, having to beg for the right to strike?’
He added: ‘We will win. The largest step is always one by one …’
TUC Yorkshire Regional Secretary, Bill Adams said: ‘Let’s hear it for ambulance workers, for the nurses and the train drivers. Sheffield needs a pay rise!
‘We are here in solidarity with workers – workers who have voted for strike action must “pull linen” or they will face the sack.
‘We’ve had enough! We are fighting back right across the country – half a million workers are on strike today and a million workers have voted for industrial action; strikes to come.’
Norwich Evening News:
In Norwich, hundreds of people gathered outside City Hall to support teachers striking over pay, working conditions and staff resources on Wednesday afternoon.
Will Harrahan, who teaches English at a city school, said: ‘We have a situation here where teachers are leaving the profession in droves. It’s creating a situation where children are missing out on their education, so it’s as much about them as it is us.
‘There’s too much work-load and demand placed on teachers, giving up weekends to mark papers or catch up on admin work. I know teachers who regularly work 60-hour weeks – these strikes are a last resort to change this.’
Harry Thomas, a special needs teacher at Fred Nicholson School in Dereham, added: ‘People are focusing on teachers pay but it’s funding for schools and education as a whole. We’re under-resourced, which means we struggle and can’t meet a lot of the needs for children. We have long working days and it’s now all becoming too much.’
This is all I had time to write as I was struggling with my cardiovascular problems: There was a march which included members of NEU, UCU, PCS, RMT, & ASLEF together with their placards and banners.
Some people ask me, how could you walk away from 14 years of military service? How could you throw this all away? You are so close to retirement. Well, there are many reasons why I’m leaving the army. From too many deployments, to being away from my son, but, the heart of it all, one of the main reasons I want out, is the leadership. I know I could get in trouble for writing this, but I’m at a point where I really don’t care anymore. Here is the story…
Most soldier’s in the army come in right after High School, with a maturity level of an 11 year old. Maybe they had a part-time job beforehand, or had a short stop at a fast-food restaurant bussing tables. Whatever the case may be, the job experience and maturity is not brought with them in the service. These soldiers’s make rank, and nowadays make it fast. They are the leaders. Leaders that make decisions in the field that could make or break a mission. A mission that if failed, could have devastating results. This immaturity I can feel, and I live with everyday here in Iraq. Here is my board story:
When we arrived to Iraq last year, there were soldiers that were leaving, and they had extra things that could be useful to us that they could not take back. One thing that I saw that could be useful…. A Dry Erase Board. The board is huge, covers a wall. We could write information on there that is useful to other soldiers when they are not available. An example would be mail. We would write “Mail is In, go get your mail.” The old leadership loved the idea and it was a community board. Things happened, and our ‘old leadership’ could no longer be with us. (They are fine, just got injured)
New leadership arrived…….. (Record player stops playing)…..and well it was different. Remember the soldier’s that came in the Army right after High School with the maturity of an 11 years old? Well, here it is. In the flesh and blood. Our Leader. So full of Himself, he likes to be called by his pay grade position, not his name, a number, Seven. So, Seven it is!
Remember the board? The one that I acquired when I arrived here. Well, all belongings that are not personal just became his. Including my board. So, the unselfish me, accepts it, for what it is. So, I block off a small 8 inch by 12 inch space in the corner of the board, just for my soldiers. That space within the last 3 months has shrunk to a 3 inch by 3 inch block. The box was so small I had to change markers to a fine tip just to make notes. At times my soldiers go somewhere while I am sleeping, and I need to know where they are at, at all times. Therefore, they will just leave me a note. A soldier of mine went to the gym in the morning and I was asleep, so naturally, he left a note: “PVT JOE AT GYM”. He wrote outside the small box. And so the story goes.
I woke up this morning, because we had incoming explosions that landed near our building. SO, I went to look for my guys to make sure they were ok. I could not find one. PVT JOE. SO, I look at the board to see if he wrote down where he was at? The board is missing………
I look down the hall and I see the board, moved right next to Seven’s room and this is what I see. The Picture. The Immaturity. The audacity of a grown man. I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn’t take it anymore, for there are many more story’s that have led to this one, and I tried to hold off, I tried not to bring this to flickr, but I have no choice. It is here and now the world will know the foolish, idiotic, and futile personality of a ‘leader’ in our armed forces. This, Ladies and Gentleman represents where our Army is heading. The demise is inevitable, the slope is steep. Most of you have seen my pics, have a glimpse of what soldier’s go through here every day. And on top of all that, on top of what I had to wake up in the morning to, I also have to deal with this. Immaturity. The Immaturity of a leader. The leader of soldier’s. Leader of someone’s child in the battlefield. His actions only speak for themselves. And this is just the beginning.
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The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name. The image is a glossy real photograph.
The card was posted in Battersea, S. W. London on Monday the 25th. August 1930 to:
Mr. G. H. Wadsworth,
16, Old Square,
Lincoln's Inn,
London.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"London, S. W. 11.
Dear Uncle George,
Having a fine time.
Have been to the Tivoli,
Astoria, Coliseum, and
a great number of other
picture palaces.
Have also been to the
Gaiety to see 'The Love
Race', which made me
laugh during the whole
performance.
Have been to the Test
Match, and am going to
the Oval again today".
The Love Race
The Love Race was a stage musical comedy that was first presented at the Gaiety Theatre in London on the 25th. June 1930.
The play was a hit production, and was made into a black and white film starring Stanley Lupino, and co-directed by Lupino Lane (a.k.a. George Lupino). The film was released in the UK on the 9th. May 1932.
The storyline of the play and the film was based around the fierce rivalry between two motor manufacturers - and the romance that develops between the daughter of one and the son of the other.
During the film a mix-up with suitcases lands wealthy racing driver (Stanley Lupino) into an embarrassing situation with his fiancée at a party.
The film co-starred silent-era veteran Jack Hobbs and Hitchcock heroine Dorothy Boyd - along with another member of the famous theatrical family, Wallace Lupino.
The film includes rare racing footage of British sports cars of the period.
Sir Sean Connery
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 25th. August 1930 marked the birth in Edinburgh of Sean Connery.
Sir Sean Connery, who was born Thomas Connery, was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries, and made his final Bond appearance in the non-Eon-produced Never Say Never Again.
If non-Eon-produced Bond movies are included, Connery shares the record for the most portrayals as James Bond with Roger Moore (with seven apiece).
Following Sean's third appearance as Bond in Goldfinger (1964), in June 1965, Time magazine observed:
"James Bond has developed into the
biggest mass-cult hero of the decade".
Connery began acting in smaller theatre and television productions until his break-out role as Bond. Although he did not enjoy the off-screen attention the role gave him, the success of the Bond films brought Connery offers from notable directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and John Huston.
Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
He also appeared in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), Finding Forrester (2000), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
Connery officially retired from acting in 2006, although he briefly returned for voice-over roles in 2012.
His achievements in film were recognised with an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (including the BAFTA Fellowship), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
In 1987, Sean was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and he received the US Kennedy Center Honors lifetime achievement award in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
-- Sean Connery - The Early Years
Thomas Connery was born at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was named after his paternal grandfather.
He was brought up at No. 176 Fountainbridge, a block which has since been demolished. His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" McLean, was a cleaning woman. Connery's father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver.
His father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. Connery had a younger brother Neil, and was generally referred to in his youth as "Tommy".
Although Sean was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft. 2 in. (188 cm) at 18. Connery was known during his teen years as "Big Tam", and he said that he lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.
He had an Irish childhood friend named Séamus; when the two were together, those who knew them both called Connery by his middle name Sean, emphasising the alliteration of the two names. Since then Connery preferred to use his middle name.
Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:
"When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh
Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I
could put a name to every street we passed.
"How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to
deliver milk round here", I said. "So what do
you do now?" That was rather harder to answer."
In 1946, at the age of 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy, during which time he acquired two tattoos. Connery's official website says:
"Unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous –
his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong
commitments: his family and Scotland. One
tattoo is a tribute to his parents, and reads
'Mum and Dad', and the other is self-explanatory,
'Scotland Forever'".
Sean trained in Portsmouth at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned as an Able Seaman on HMS Formidable.
Connery was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.
Afterwards, he returned to the Co-op and worked as a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland Archie Brennan, as a coffin polisher, among other jobs.
The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour. Artist Richard Demarco, at the time a student who painted several early pictures of Connery, described him as:
"Very straight, slightly shy, too,
too beautiful for words, a virtual
Adonis".
Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British Army. While his official website states he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.
Connery said that he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he found that Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.
Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife.
While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with Sean's physical prowess, and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week (equivalent to £743 in 2021) immediately after the game. Connery said he was tempted to accept, but he recalls,
"I realised that a top-class footballer could
be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was
already 23. I decided to become an actor,
and it turned out to be one of my more
intelligent moves".
-- Sean Connery's Acting Career
(a) Pre-James Bond
Seeking to supplement his income, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951. During a bodybuilding competition held in London in 1953, one of the competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a production of South Pacific, and Connery landed a small part as one of the Seabees chorus boys.
By the time the production reached Edinburgh, he had been given the part of Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves, and was understudying two of the juvenile leads, and his salary was raised from £12 to £14–10s a week.
The production returned the following year, out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End.
While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the Valdor gang, one of the most violent in the city. He was first approached by them in a billiard hall where he prevented them from stealing his jacket and was later followed by six gang members to a 15-foot-high (4.6 m) balcony at the Palais de Danse.
There, Connery singlehandedly launched an attack against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by the biceps and cracking their heads together. From then on, he was treated with great respect by the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".
Connery first met Michael Caine at a party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the two later became close friends. During this production at the Opera House, Manchester, over the Christmas period of 1954, Connery developed a serious interest in the theatre through American actor Robert Henderson, who lent him copies of the Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and When We Dead Awaken, and later listed works by the likes of Proust, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bernard Shaw, Joyce, and Shakespeare for him to digest.
Henderson urged Sean to take elocution lessons, and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London. He had already begun a film career, having been an extra in Herbert Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring alongside Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle.
Although Connery had secured several roles as an extra, he was struggling to make ends meet, and was forced to accept a part-time job as a babysitter for journalist Peter Noble and his actress wife Marianne, which earned him 10 shillings a night.
One night at Noble's house Sean met Hollywood actress Shelley Winters, who described Connery as:
"One of the tallest and most charming
and masculine Scotsmen I have ever
seen."
Shelley later spent many evenings with the Connery brothers drinking beer. Around this time, Connery was residing at TV presenter Llew Gardner's house.
Henderson landed Connery a role in a £6 a week Q Theatre production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, during which he met and became friends with fellow Scot Ian Bannen.
This role was followed by Point of Departure and A Witch in Time at Kew, a role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae at the Oxford Playhouse, and a role opposite Jill Bennett in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie.
During his time at the Oxford Theatre, Connery won a brief part as a boxer in the TV series The Square Ring, before being spotted by Canadian director Alvin Rakoff, who gave him multiple roles in The Condemned, shot on location in Dover in Kent.
In 1956, Connery appeared in the theatrical production of Epitaph, and played a minor role as a hoodlum in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode of the BBC Television police series Dixon of Dock Green.
This was followed by small television parts in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program (in a special episode filmed in Europe).
In early 1957, Connery hired agent Richard Hatton, who got him his first film role, as Spike, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back.
In April 1957, Rakoff – after being disappointed by Jack Palance – decided to give the young actor his first chance in a leading role, and cast Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC Television's production of Requiem for a Heavyweight, which also starred Warren Mitchell and Jacqueline Hill.
Sean then played a rogue lorry driver, Johnny Yates, in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and Patrick McGoohan.
Later in 1957, Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.
He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, and Vincent Winter. This commenced filming on the 1st. December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.
Connery had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan.
During filming, Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. Connery and Turner had attended West End shows and London restaurants together.
Stompanato stormed onto the film set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set. Two Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato to leave and escorted him to the airport, where he boarded a plane back to the United States.
Connery later recounted that he had to lay low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.
In 1959, Connery landed a leading role in director Robert Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). The film is a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.
Upon the film's initial release, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely tall, dark, and handsome") and thought the film:
"An overpoweringly charming concoction
of standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy and
romance."
Sean also had prominent television roles in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 productions of Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, co-starring with Claire Bloom in the latter.
Also in 1961 he portrayed the title role in a CBC television film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian actress Zoe Caldwell cast as Lady Macbeth.
-- (b) James Bond: 1962–1971, 1983
Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded, his career would greatly benefit.
Between 1962 and 1967, Connery played 007 in Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice, the first five Bond films produced by Eon Productions.
After departing from the role, Connery returned for the seventh film, Diamonds Are Forever, in 1971. Connery made his final appearance as Bond in Never Say Never Again, a 1983 remake of Thunderball produced by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm.
All seven films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.
Connery's selection for the role of James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading her husband that Connery was the right man.
James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying:
"He's not what I envisioned of James
Bond looks. I'm looking for Commander
Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man."
He added that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. However Fleming's girlfriend Blanche Blackwell told Fleming that Connery had the requisite sexual charisma, and Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No première.
He was so impressed, he wrote Connery's heritage into the character. In his 1964 novel You Only Live Twice, Fleming wrote that Bond's father was Scottish and from Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands.
Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, who helped polish him while using his physical grace and presence for the action.
Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that:
"Terence took Sean under his wing.
He took him to dinner, showed him
how to walk, how to talk, even how
to eat".
The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week after Dr. No's opening, and he became a major sex symbol in film.
Following the release of the film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase in the lexicon of Western popular culture. Film critic Peter Bradshaw writes:
"It is the most famous self-introduction
from any character in movie history.
Three cool monosyllables, surname first,
a little curtly, as befits a former naval
commander.
And then, as if in afterthought, the first
name, followed by the surname again.
Connery carried it off with icily disdainful
style, in full evening dress with a cigarette
hanging from his lips.
The introduction was a kind of challenge,
or seduction, invariably addressed to an
enemy.
In the early 60's, Connery's James Bond
was about as dangerous and sexy as it
got on screen."
During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the sequence with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool. He had been concerned about this threat when he read the script.
Connery insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inside the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, and one of the sharks managed to pass through it. He had to abandon the pool immediately.
(c) Post-James Bond
Although Bond had made him a star, Connery grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying:
"I am fed up to here with the whole
Bond bit. I have always hated that
damned James Bond. I'd like to kill
him."
Michael Caine said of the situation:
"If you were his friend in these early
days you didn't raise the subject of
Bond. He was, and is, a much better
actor than just playing James Bond,
but he became synonymous with
Bond. He'd be walking down the
street and people would say,
'Look, there's James Bond'.
That was particularly upsetting
to him."
While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), which film critic Peter Bradshaw regards as his two great non-Bond pictures from the 1960's.
In Marnie, Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren. Connery had said he wanted to work with Hitchcock, which Eon arranged through their contacts. Connery shocked many people at the time by asking to see a script, something he did because he was worried about being typecast as a spy, and he did not want to do a variation of North by Northwest or Notorious.
When told by Hitchcock's agent that Cary Grant had not asked to see even one of Hitchcock's scripts, Connery replied:
"I'm not Cary Grant."
Hitchcock and Connery got on well during filming, and Connery said he was happy with the film "with certain reservations".
In The Hill, Connery wanted to act in something that wasn't Bond related, and he used his leverage as a star to feature in it. While the film wasn't a financial success, it was a critical one, debuting at the Cannes Film Festival and winning Best Screenplay.
The first of five films he made with Lumet, Connery considered him to be one of his favourite directors. The respect was mutual, with Lumet saying of Connery's performance in The Hill:
"The thing that was apparent to me –
and to most directors – was how much
talent and ability it takes to play that
kind of character who is based on charm
and magnetism.
It's the equivalent of high comedy, and
he did it brilliantly."
In the mid-1960's, Connery played golf with Scottish industrialist Iain Maxwell Stewart, a connection which led to Connery directing and presenting the documentary film The Bowler and the Bunnet in 1967.
The film described the Fairfield Experiment, a new approach to industrial relations carried out at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, during the 1960s; the experiment was initiated by Stewart and supported by George Brown, the First Secretary in Harold Wilson's cabinet, in 1966.
The company was facing closure, and Brown agreed to provide £1 million (£13.135 million; US$15.55 million in 2021 terms) to enable trade unions, the management and the shareholders to try out new ways of industrial management.
Having played Bond six times, Connery's global popularity was such that he shared a Golden Globe Henrietta Award with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.
He appeared in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) opposite Michael Caine. Playing two former British soldiers who set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, both actors regarded it as their favourite film.
The same year, Sean appeared in The Wind and the Lion opposite Candice Bergen who played Eden Perdicaris (based on the real-life Perdicaris incident), and in 1976 played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian opposite Audrey Hepburn.
Film critic Roger Ebert, who had praised the double act of Connery and Caine in The Man Who Would Be King, praised Connery's chemistry with Hepburn, writing:
"Connery and Hepburn seem to have
arrived at a tacit understanding
between themselves about their
characters. They glow. They really
do seem in love."
During the 1970's, Connery was part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, and played a British Army general in Richard Attenborough's war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), co-starring with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.
In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz. Often called one of the weirdest and worst movies ever made, it featured Connery in a scarlet mankini – a revealing costume which generated much controversy for its unBond-like appearance.
Despite being panned by critics at the time, the film has developed a cult following since its release. In the audio commentary to the film, Boorman relates how Connery would write poetry in his free time, describing him as:
"A man of great depth and intelligence,
as well as possessing the most
extraordinary memory."
In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, which describes the character's removing his mask and being:
"Sean Connery – or someone
of equal but cheaper stature".
When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role.
In 1981 he portrayed Marshal William T. O'Niel in the science fiction thriller Outland. In 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the official film of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
That same year, he was offered the role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie, going as far as taking voice lessons for the John Huston musical before turning down the part.
Connery agreed to reprise Bond as an ageing agent 007 in Never Say Never Again, released in October 1983. The title, contributed by his wife, refers to his earlier statement that he would "never again" return to the role.
Although the film performed well at the box office, it was plagued with production problems: strife between the director and producer, financial problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the film, and Connery's wrist being broken by the fight choreographer, Steven Seagal.
As a result of his negative experiences during filming, Connery became unhappy with the major studios, and did not make any films for two years. Following the successful European production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Connery's interest in more commercial material was revived.
That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which became a recurring role in many of his later films.
In 1987, Connery starred in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, where he played a hard-nosed Irish-American cop alongside Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness. The film also starred Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro as Al Capone.
The film was a critical and box-office success. Many critics praised Connery for his performance, including Roger Ebert, who wrote:
"The best performance in the movie
is Connery. He brings a human element
to his character; he seems to have had
an existence apart from the legend of
the Untouchables, and when he's
onscreen we can believe, briefly, that
the Prohibition Era was inhabited by
people, not caricatures."
For his performance, Connery received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Connery starred in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), playing Henry Jones Sr., the title character's father, and received BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations. Harrison Ford said Connery's contributions at the writing stage enhanced the film:
"It was amazing for me in how far he got
into the script and went after exploiting
opportunities for character.
His suggestions to George Lucas at the
writing stage really gave the character
and the picture a lot more complexity
and value than it had in the original
screenplay.
Sean's subsequent box-office hits included The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Draco the dragon in the film Dragonheart.
He also appeared in a brief cameo as King Richard the Lionheart at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). In 1998, Connery received the BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Connery's later films included several box-office and critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).
The failure of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was especially frustrating for Connery. He sensed during shooting that the production was "going off the rails", and announced that the director, Stephen Norrington should be "locked up for insanity".
Connery spent considerable effort in trying to salvage the film through the editing process, ultimately deciding to retire from acting rather than go through such stress ever again.
However, he received positive reviews for his performance in Finding Forrester (2000). He also received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.
In a 2003 UK poll conducted by Channel 4, Connery was ranked eighth on their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars.
Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings films, saying he did not understand the script. He was reportedly offered US$30 million along with 15% of the worldwide box office receipts, which would have earned him US$450 million.
He also turned down the opportunity to appear as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series and the Architect in The Matrix trilogy.
In 2005, he recorded voiceovers for the From Russia with Love video game with recording producer Terry Manning in the Bahamas, and provided his likeness. Connery said he was happy the producers, Electronic Arts, had approached him to voice Bond.
(d) Retirement
When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on the 8th. June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting.
Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his decision to retire.
On the 7th. June 2007, he denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones film, saying:
"Retirement is just too
much damned fun."
In 2010, a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, Estonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles and a handful of expatriate Scots.
In 2012, Connery briefly came out of retirement to voice the title character in the Scottish animated film Sir Billi. Connery served as executive producer for an expanded 80-minute version.
-- Sean Connery's Personal Life
During the production of South Pacific in the mid-1950's, Connery dated a Jewish "dark-haired beauty with a ballerina's figure", Carol Sopel, but was warned off by her family.
He then dated Julie Hamilton, daughter of documentary filmmaker and feminist Jill Craigie. Given Connery's rugged appearance and rough charm, Hamilton initially thought he was an appalling person and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life.
He also shared a mutual attraction with jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met whilst working in theatre. He made a pass at her, but she told him she was already happily married with a daughter.
Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1974, though they separated in 1971. They had a son, actor Jason Joseph. Connery was separated in the early 1970's when he dated Dyan Cannon, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Carole Mallory, and Magda Konopka.
In her 2006 autobiography, Cilento alleged that he had abused her mentally and physically during their relationship. Connery cancelled an appearance at the Scottish Parliament in 2006 because of controversy over his alleged support of abuse of women.
He denied claims that he told Playboy magazine in 1965:
"I don't think there is anything
particularly wrong in hitting a
woman, though I don't
recommend you do it in the
same way you hit a man".
He was also reported to have stated to Vanity Fair in 1993:
"There are women who take it
to the wire. That's what they are
looking for, the ultimate
confrontation. They want a smack."
In 2006, Connery told The Times of London:
"I don't believe that any level of
abuse of women is ever justified
under any circumstances. Full stop".
When knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 he wore a green-and-black hunting tartan kilt of his mother's MacLean clan.
Connery was married to French-Moroccan painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 4th. April 1929) from 1975 until his death. The marriage survived a well-documented affair Connery had in the late 1980's with the singer and songwriter Lynsey de Paul, which she later regretted due to his views concerning domestic violence.
Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in the South of France from 1979. He sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999.
He was awarded an honorary rank of Shodan (1st. dan) in Kyokushin karate.
Connery relocated to the Bahamas in the 1990's; he owned a mansion in Lyford Cay on New Providence.
Connery had a villa in Kranidi, Greece. His neighbour was King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, with whom he shared a helicopter platform.
Growing up, Connery supported the Scottish football club Celtic F.C., having been introduced to the club by his father who was a lifelong fan of the team.
Later in life, Connery switched his loyalty to Celtic's bitter rival, Rangers F.C., after he became close friends with the team's chairman, David Murray.
Sean was a keen golfer, and English professional golfer Peter Alliss gave Connery golf lessons before the filming of the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, which involved a scene where Connery, as Bond, played golf against gold magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.
The golf scene saw him wear a Slazenger v-neck sweater, a brand which Connery became associated with while playing golf in his free time, with a light grey marl being a favoured colour.
Record major championship winner and golf course designer Jack Nicklaus said:
"He loved the game of golf – Sean
was a pretty darn good golfer! –
and we played together several
times.
In May 1993, Sean and legendary
driver Jackie Stewart helped me
open our design of the PGA
Centenary Course at Gleneagles
in Scotland."
-- Sean Connery's Political Views
Connery's Scottish roots and his experiences in filming in Glasgow's shipyards in 1966 inspired him to become a member of the centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP), which supports Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.
In 2011, Connery said:
"The Bowler and the Bunnet was just
the beginning of a journey that would
lead to my long association with the
Scottish National Party."
Connery supported the party both financially and through personal appearances. In 1967, he wrote to George Leslie, the SNP candidate in the 1967 Glasgow Pollok by-election, saying:
"I am convinced that with our resources
and skills we are more than capable of
building a prosperous, vigorous and
modern self-governing Scotland in which
we can all take pride and which will
deserve the respect of other nations."
His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the UK Parliament passed legislation prohibiting overseas funding of political activities in the United Kingdom.
-- Sean Connery's Tax Status
In response to accusations that he was a tax exile, Connery released documents in 2003 showing he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2003. Critics pointed out that had he been continuously residing in the UK for tax purposes, his tax rate would have been far higher.
In the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Connery's brother Neil said that Connery would not come to Scotland to rally independence supporters, since his tax exile status greatly limited the number of days he could spend in the country.
After Connery sold his Marbella villa in 1999, Spanish authorities launched a tax evasion investigation, alleging that the Spanish treasury had been defrauded of £5.5 million.
Connery was subsequently cleared by officials, but his wife and 16 others were charged with attempting to defraud the Spanish treasury.
-- The Death and Legacy of Sean Connery
Connery died in his sleep on the 31st. October 2020, aged 90, at his home in the Lyford Cay community of Nassau in the Bahamas. His death was announced by his family and Eon Productions; although they did not disclose the cause of death, his son Jason said he had been unwell for some time.
A day later, Roquebrune revealed he had suffered from dementia in his final years. Connery's death certificate recorded the cause of death as pneumonia and respiratory failure, and the time of death was listed as 1:30 am.
Sean's remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered in Scotland at undisclosed locations in 2022.
Following the announcement of his death, many co-stars and figures from the entertainment industry paid tribute to Connery, including Sam Neill, Nicolas Cage, Robert De Niro, Michael Bay, Tippi Hedren, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, George Lucas, Shirley Bassey, Kevin Costner, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barbra Streisand, John Cleese, Jane Seymour and Harrison Ford, as well as former Bond stars George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, the family of late former Bond actor Roger Moore, and Daniel Craig, who played 007 until No Time to Die.
Connery's long-time friend Michael Caine called him:
"A great star, brilliant actor
and a wonderful friend".
James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli released a statement saying that:
"Connery has revolutionized the world
with his gritty and witty portrayal of the
sexy and charismatic secret agent.
He is undoubtedly largely responsible
for the success of the film series, and
we shall be forever grateful to him".
In 2004, a poll in the UK Sunday Herald recognised Connery as "The Greatest Living Scot," and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".
He was voted by People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.
Final Thoughts From Sir Sean Connery
"I am not an Englishman, I was never an
Englishman, and I don't ever want to be
one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman,
and I will always be one."
"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more
than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed
more times than a hooker."
"Love may not make the world go round,
but I must admit that it makes the ride
worthwhile."
"There is nothing like a challenge to bring
out the best in man."
"I like women. I don't understand them,
but I like them."
"Some age, others mature."
"I met my wife through playing golf. She is
French and couldn't speak English, and I
couldn't speak French, so there was little
chance of us getting involved in any boring
conversations - that's why we got married
really quickly."
"Everything I have done or attempted to do
for Scotland has always been for her benefit,
never my own, and I defy anyone to prove
otherwise."
"The knighthood I received was a fantastic
honor but it's not something I've ever used,
and I don't think I ever will."
"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs."
"More than anything else, I'd like to be an
old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or
Picasso."
"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there
can be no faith. For without fear of the devil
there is no need for God."
"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would
be even worse at doing anything else."
"I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do
my job right, people won't ask for their
money back."
"I haven't found anywhere in the world
where I want to be all the time. The best
of my life is the moving. I look forward to
going."
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this is a streetlight which is located in a way that i always use to go to part time job.
Sometime, the light and around it look like a scene of horror movie.
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.
This is another portrait from Catherine and Ken's wedding. I've been contemplating the notion of doing weddings and portraits for more than just friends and family. I tend to be a worrier, so it's bit of a nerve wracking idea... what if a client ends up not liking the images? What if the camera malfunctions? What if I were to miss a crucial moment?
And yet, I admit that portrait photography appeals to me just as much as shooting landscapes does. I find myself drawn to great portraits on Flickr, emotive images, both the traditional and the quirky. Sometimes I find my brain picking out settings and backgrounds for people portraits as I'm running around town. The desire is there. Thinking about diving a bit deeper into portrait photography, at least as a weekend or part-time job, gives me a bit of a thrill. So we'll see. I'd want to take the plunge and buy a good digital camera first, I think... I won't ever stop shooting film, but digital reassures me with its flashy feedback and instant confirmation that yes, I did get the shot or no, I need to try again.
Anyway. Rambling aside, I had fun shooting Catherine and Ken's wedding. Catherine made such a beautiful and regal bride (as evidenced here) and the company (and the dancing! Oh how I love the dancing!) was fun-loving and goodhearted.
This particular image has been edited with Nichole Van's actions. Sometimes I'll develop the itch to add some texture or effects to a photo, and Nichole's set is a good one to utilize.
C was a graduate student who had earlier had a part-time job working with me. In early 1995 she visited my office with her son, S. In the following years, she went on to get a PhD and he went on to be an engineering student.
This was TMY (Kodak T-Max 400) film in, I think, either the Flexo camera I was using at the time or the Rolleicord I had just got. The two pictures of C and S were the only ones on the roll for which I used a flash. The negative sat around for twenty years but C asked me this week for a copy of it, so I pulled it out and scanned it this morning.
State Library of South Australia D8196 (Misc).
Sir Hubert Wilkins (1888 – 1958)
Bronze sculpture 2001 by John Dowie AM
Hubert Wilkins was born at Mount Bryan in South Australia and when drought ruined his family’s farm he became aware of climatic extremes and the need to learn more. He studied engineering and photography at the SA School of Mines before moving to Sydney and later London to further his career.
He became a photographer for Gaumont, served on an Arctic expedition and became an official photographer for Australia during World War I.
In 1926 he made a successful trans-Arctic flight, and later used the same aircraft to explore the Antarctic Peninsula in 1928. He also attempted to take a submarine beneath the Arctic icepack, but failed. His ashes were scattered at the North Pole from the nuclear submarine USS Skate.
South Australian Collections
Gifted by the Artist.
*Sir George Hubert Wilkins (known as Hubert), Military Cross and Bar, MiD
Hubert Wilkins was born 31 October 1888 in an outback cottage on his parents’ property named Netfield, Mount Bryan East, South Australia. He was the youngest of 13 children, born to Henry and Louisa Wilkins.
He was war correspondent and photographer, polar explorer, naturalist, geographer, climatologist, ornithologist and aviator. As a child, Hubert experienced the devastation caused by drought and developed an interest in climatic phenomena.
If hardship moulded the character of Hubert Wilkins, so also did his passion for nature, music and a desire for knowledge. Enrolled in both the South Australian School of Mines and the Elder Conservatorium School of Music simultaneously, he studied electrical engineering, and singing, playing the organ, flute and cello at the Conservatorium.
It was in a number of part time jobs he learnt the art of blacksmithing, and gained a sound knowledge of the workings of both steam and internal combustion engines. On a trip to Sydney he became interested in photography. Returning to Adelaide he found employment with a travelling cinema and travelled in both South Australia and the Eastern States showing films.
When he was 20 years old (1908) he decided to leave Adelaide and see something of the world. At this time in his life a number of thoughts were forming in his mind, thoughts based upon his past experiences and that were to lead him to follow fixed courses of action. One of the most important of his ideas was to attempt to discover how and why the weather could so dramatically affect people’s lives, as it had done his own. Two forces now took over his life: the need to discover things concerning the world about him, and the need to travel to places that would provide him with the answers to the many questions forming in his mind.
His travels began by stowing away on a ship at Port Adelaide. The ship deposited him in Sydney and he soon found employment as a projectionist, then later as a cinematographer.
On reaching London he obtained work with the Gaumont Company as a cinematographic cameraman and with the Daily Chronicle as a reporter. It was then (1910) that he learnt to fly at Hendon. He did not sit for any of the flying exams, which would have made him a qualified pilot, through lack of money. But his interest in flying was to remain with him for the rest of his life. So too was his passion for photography. Photographs of the time (1911) show him performing photographic stunts. One popular photograph shows him astride the fuselage of a Deperdussin monoplane hand cranking his camera. Despite these promotional stunts Hubert Wilkins was perfecting the art of taking aerial motion pictures. In his autobiography he believed he was the first person to take a movie camera into the air and film the scenes around him.
As a war correspondent and photographer, in 1912 he covered the fighting between the Turks and Bulgarians. From 1913 to 1916 he was second-in-command on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic expedition: Wilkins became adept in the art of survival in polar regions, added to his scientific knowledge and conceived a plan to improve weather forecasting by establishing permanent stations at the poles.
Returning to Australia, on 1 May 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force (Australian Flying Corps). By August he had been transferred to the general list and was at I Anzac Corps headquarters on the Western Front. Appointed official photographer in April 1918, he was tasked with providing 'an accurate and complete record of the fighting and other activities of the A.I.F.' as a counterpart to Captain J. F. Hurley's propaganda work. In June Wilkins was awarded the Military Cross 'for bringing in some wounded men'. With Hurley's departure, he was promoted captain on 11 July and took charge of No.3 (Photographic) Sub-section of the Australian War Records unit. His routine was to visit the front line for part of each day that troops were engaged in combat and periodically to accompany infantry assaults. During the battle of the Hindenburg line, on 29 September he organized a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers in an enemy attack and directed operations until support arrived. Awarded a Bar to his M.C., he was also mentioned in dispatches. He is the only Australian official photographer to have been decorated.
In January 1919, as photographer, Wilkins joined Charles Bean’s mission to reconstruct Australia's part in the Gallipoli Peninsula campaign. He entered the England to Australia air race that year, but his aircraft, a Blackburn Kangaroo, experienced engine failure and crash-landed in Crete; he arrived in Australia by sea in July 1920 and his A.I.F. appointment terminated on 7 September. Engaging in further polar exploration, in 1920-21 he made his first visit to the Antarctic, accompanying J. L. Cope on his unsuccessful voyage to Graham Land. Wilkins next took part in Sir Ernest Shackleton's Quest expedition of 1921-22 on which he made ornithological observations.
Sir Hubert’s adventures continued from his home base in America. On one occasion he gleaned information from the Japanese Consul-General about Japan's intention to destroy Pearl Harbour and invade Singapore. Sir Hubert passed the information to the Allies but was not believed.
He died suddenly at Massachusetts, on 30 November 1958 and was cremated: four months later his ashes were scattered from the ‘Skate’ at the North Pole. Lady Wilkins survived him and wrote affectionately of a husband whose only contact with her for extended periods had been through his letters.
Ref: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol 12 (MUP) 1990
South Australian Aviation Museum
Flinders Ranges Research
"Me welcome Monster Burger. Would like Monstersize order?"
Uh-oh, looks like Gorthank had to get a part time job at Monster Burger to make ends meet.
Yep, I made a Monster Burger logo for him.
This is a vector drawing, drawn all in InDesign.
Want to see more? Check out my new blog! All the cool kids are doing it!
While coming up with photos for my three year flickrversary I spent an afternoon at Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, NH. This is known as "Falls of the Songs" and is about 50 feet. Unfortunately, there's no real good vantage point to see the thing, and this woodsy area was still swarming with black flies weeks ago and I left sporting a large welt on my temple.
The shot was a total accident, and in fact I hated every other shot I took there that day. The falls are really tucked away behind a craggy area and narrow and dark, and god forbid you crawl over a fence out there.
It is now officially July.
I have 54 days in NH left.
That is roughly 8 weeks.
I have 32 days left in the office.
I have 1 wedding to photograph.
1 vacation to Portland left.
1 more trip to Lubec, ME.
1 more trip to Storyland.
1 more trip to Clark's Trading Post.
I have 1 week left until I'm 29.
I have 2 shitty anniversaries this month.
And my going away party is planned.
So in honor of my leaving NH I came up with a list of 100 things I'm leaving behind. It's not your typical 100 list, and not everything that made this list is a positive. In fact, some of the following items contribute to my hightailing it out of this state!
Good, bad, or otherwise, I have spent 20 years here, and not all of it loathesome. I will say my opinion as a non-native is that the difference between a trailer park in NH and one in Alabama can be answered with one word: SNOW. The jokes about NH are plentiful, from racially motivated cracks about "The White Mountains", to a bit of humor stolen from a Maine comedian, "you can't get there from here," to commentary on the weather, "Don't like it? Wait a minute." I have spent a great deal of time trying to run away. 11 years in fact.
But in my adult life I have also made truly irreplaceable friendships, and that makes it harder to leave than anything else. But just like me in this photo, my time here is fading quickly, but the tattoos and memories are permanent.
I now present to you, 100 things in NH I am leaving behind:
my second home, the Scenic Theatre in Pittsfield, and my second favorite theatre, the Village Players home in Wolfeboro
drives along the Kanc
my favorite Magnolia tree across the street from the Wentworth by the Sea
my crazy extended family: The Del Valle family, Auntie Bea, Maye and Jim who secretly love Gromit, Dee Dee, and Angel, not to mention Briana and Tammy
potholes the size of Dodge Omnis
Storyland
hikes to Devil’s Den
13 miles of freezing cold ocean I have never done more than wade in
slush floats and brownie sundaes at Frekey’s Dairy Freeze in Chichester
the strange way strangers wave and say hi to each other, in the car, on the sidewalk, you name it
Tea Garden, home of the best sesame chicken in the world and a midori sour that will kick your ass
moose, although I’ve still never seen one and think they’re a myth, like unicorns
the first whiff of wood-smoke in the fall
Gaucho’s
days on the big lake with friends
my stylist at Capelli’s Salon
DeeDee’s superbowl parties
the ungodly amounts of snow from September-May
outrageous rents
the Clark Family and their trained bears at Clark’s Trading Post, a tourist spot I hit every summer, sometimes twice
the sense of dread I have every time I drive the stretch of road where I was hit by a drunk driver
the Lupine Festival
other people who spent too much time in their youth at the Elvis Room, long live memories of the Elvis Room!
nights in Amy’s dining room
Muddy River Smokehouse
parties around the fire pit in my backyard featuring spontaneous drum circles
the ’72 Cadillac Eldorado convertible
curly fries from the Tavern
insane vehicle registration fees paid to the town AND the state
lack of income tax
Lynn, the best esthetician ever, at Mirabella
farm fresh eggs $1 a dozen on the side of the road
the best vet ever, Kevin, and his staff who love my dogs and know them by name, at Central NH Animal Care in Chichester
the Palermo Mine
late nights cooking random things and drinking cold cream soda with Tamara
tivo’d episodes of Men in Trees with Tamara and Nikki
coffee at Mandy’s café, which is actually named "Lydia's, while we gossip, now I’ll have to pay for my girlie coffees when I want one, which sucks because she knows I prefer soy and I'll have to retrain someone to get my order correct
everything closing at 6 pm during the “off season”
masshole drivers
night swimming
white chocolate ice cream at Summer Freeze in Penacook
the annual night out in the limo (bite us, NHTAs! But damn, Angel WAS fabulous in the Hot Mikado...haha)
the ghosts in Tim’s apartment in Pittsfield
frost heaves
231 mph winds on Mt Washington
the amazing parade of motorcycles during Bike Week
mornings you can’t touch your steering wheel with bare hands because it’s 40 below zero outside
Maye’s dinners, which are TRULY events
days it takes an hour to get the ice off your car
spring flooding
the “food court druids” at the Mall of NH who have been there since 1998 but now at least hold jobs at Hudson News
the white trash who trick out their cars with plastic accessories from Wal Mart
the way people add an “s” to the end of words for no apparent reason: Wal Mart becomes “Wal-Mahts”, and the way people still miss that fabulous department store, “Ameses”
people who have lived in the same county their entire lives
the need for LL Bean waterproof down parkas with not just a waist cinch but a cinch at the bottom for those windy days
the lack of dog-friendly rentals
everyone knowing your name at the local IGA and what sort of muffin you’re going to have for breakfast
roads that close for the winter
the fact that regardless of how lost you appear to be if you keep driving down a road, even if it turns to dirt for several miles, you will eventually come out somewhere you recognize
asshole drivers in white work vans and red pick up trucks who drive at 60 mph in 50 mph zones even during the worst blizzards
Mat Clarke at Midnight Moon in Chichester; when I want a new tattoo I will fly home just for him, he’s that good
trips to “Marshall’s Grande”
Gold Fever Wings at the 99 with Melissa
the best part time job ever, at Mattson Photography
the amazing smell of lilacs every June that permeates the state
Polar soda
the whipped cheddar from Camelot Books in Wolfeboro
Sherman Farms orange flavored milk, the only cows’ milk I’ll touch
“redneck weddings” with pig roasts
chipmunks
Monty’s pet store in Epsom NH
playing pool in my basement until 2 am with Bri
measuring distance by time, not mileage
Robb’s new wine and cheese shop in Wolfeboro
getting in trouble with Angel and/or Bea at the theatre
the Capital Center for the Arts
Balloon Rally in Pittsfield the first weekend of August
where my cat Kitty is buried in Barnstead
professional theatre starring the talented Billy Butler
Fatty McNutnibbler
Great Waters Music Festival
black flies
NHPR
the first in the nation primary and meeting candidates in person
the lack of a really great pizza anywhere in the damned state
how swimming season is really only a week long
mosquitoes the size of humming birds
recognizing the names of all the people in the police log because the town is just that damned small
how there’s never any real news in NH except the weather
how it seems to be an hour to get just about anywhere
our hilarious local news anchors who are apparently in charge of their own hair and make up
the greatest prank in NH- America’s Stonehenge
road salt eating your exhaust all winter and yet it’s so hard to find an open car wash because of the insane temperatures
how if you address a letter to a person in a small town, even without their street address or PO Box #, it will still arrive
ice out…I still can’t believe it’s a real event
all the old trucks on the side of the road, which people will never restore NOR sell
covered bridges
a yard full of deer and wild turkey and even mink
town meetings
the ridiculous Red Sox/Yankees rivalry
The Whippany Railroad Museum had a Railroad Festival during the Period of July 27 thru 31, 1994 in the Morristown & Erie Railroad Yard. The Whippany Railroad Museum is located beside the M & E Railroad Yard at the intersection of Whippany Road and State Road 10 in Whippany, which is a community in Hanover Township. The Mailing Address of the Museum is 1 Railroad Plaza, Whippany, New Jersey 07981.
Lackawana Railway Express Car Number 2038, which appears in several Photographs in my Photostream, had a long and Interesting History (as explained by these two Documents) handed out at the 1994 Railroad Festival held In the Morristown & Erie Railroad Yard and on the adjacent "Whippany Railroad Museum" Grounds. These two Documents were written by the Tri-State Railway Historical Society in support of a United States Postal Service Locomotive Stamp Dedication (aka: First Day Issue of a New Stamp) on July 30-31, 1994.
My Photographs, of former (Erie) Lackawanna Railway Express Agency Railcar Number 2038 and other Railcars and Locomotives on Display proceeds these two Documents in my flickr™ Photostream. These Photographs can be be seen by successively CLICKING on the Arrow on the Right Side of these Documents.
Railway Express Cars were used by the Postal Service to move mail between Major Cities & States. Mail for various locations was often sorted inside the Express Car while it was moving between Main Postal Regions. In fact, my older brother worked at a part time job sorting mail in one of these Express Cars to supplement his income as a Fireman in Hudson County, NJ.
Additional information about the Whippany Railroad Museum can be found at:
This is my first car I ever bought and was the start of my obsession with European cars and Volkswagen's in particular!! I was 18 when I bought it with my own money, from the part time job I had working in a department store. I had this car for 2 years before I bought the white Passat wagon.
“It is often the last key on the ring which opens the door.” ~ Proverb ~
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.”
~John Dewey (American Philosopher, Psychologist and Educator, 1859-1952) ~
Isn't this amazing? What is more astonishing is that it was photographed in an art gallery at an opening on Saturday night! (It quickly became my favorite impromptu installation!)
As I was standing inside looking out, a man passed by the window with all these colorful objects hanging from his hand! OF COURSE, Colorfulexpressions eyes bulged out of her head and continued to follow him around the room once he entered! He was generous enough to allow me to photograph his collection. Evidently he "house sits" as a part time job! I was all keyed up talking with him!
Digital layout created for the "sneaky inspiration" challenge at Hero Arts. I was inspired by the color combo in sneak peek #2...blue/black/white/lavendar. The background & smaller circles are from the Stone Etchings kit...a free digi kit from Hero Arts. Thanks Hero Arts!! TFL!
You can view the journaling by clicking on ALL SIZES above the photo.
I've had a few ladies wonder if this is my first time working with digital...it isn't my first time. I have dabbled in digital quite a bit the past few years & have made several hybrid (1/2 digi/half paper) projects including Christmas cards (works great for mass producing!). Here's an example of a hybrid layout I created: My Journey. I also work with Photoshop quite a bit for the publications I make at my part-time job at the local college. :) Digital scrapbooking is so fun & can be quite addicting!! I love all of the papers & elements that are offered.
Materials used:
Large circular wording & date bracket: Ali Edwards at Designer Digitals
All other elements: Designer Digitals
My son Noah will be 20 soon. He is attending college and works a part time job at the local hardware store. His favorite hobby is fishing. He would rather fish that eat...and this boy can eat! He recently bought this kayak and he can spend hours in it and never tires of it. With all the evils the world offers young folks today, I feel so blessed to know that this is how he spends his free time.
If you look back at one of the first photos that I posted on Flickr, you'll see him at about 12 years old with a fishing pole in his hand. Time passes so swiftly. It seems like only yesterday. He still fishes that same pond, only now he has mastered it.
Out of money again after another round of shopping frenzy and had to get a part time job. Don't mind my attire, there's no dress code and this ancient library is hot as hell...
Theme: Puddles/rivers/etc
I have been working non-stop this week, in both varsity work and one of my part time jobs. To relax, I went outside to take a moment to reflect and be in nature. All I want right now is rain to justify all the time that I'm spending inside. Sigh.
They're under new management for bounty hunting and karaoke. Watto really needed a part time job after he lost Anakin to Qui-Gon because business really slowed down. Watto also now sells used sound equipment...
French postcard by Editions Nugeron, no. Star 194. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989).
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.
West-German postcard by G. Barth, Frankfurt, no. GB 66. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981).
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.
In the mid-80s my musical knowledge and ear for a song were at their peak. As a self-funded student at the University of Pretoria I lived a meagre (but fun) existence, and supplemented my income from a part-time job in a liquor store by entering radio competitions. At the time, my knowledge of everything David Bowie was second to none and I won many dial-in competitions identifying Bowie songs and answering questions about him, his collaborations and music. This was the list that I kept of my radio wins :-) On Music Radio 702, they actually changed the competition rules because of me. Following a good string of wins, they brought in a new rule that said listeners coudn't enter competitions if they'd won anything on the channel within the previous three months. So that was the end of that!
Between 1984 and 1985 I captured some of the wins on audio tape, and I have uploaded ten of these recordings to SoundCloud:
1. Jim Hicks (702).
2. Neil Johnson (702).
3. Mike Mills (702).
4. Jim Hicks (702).
5. Rob Wheatley (702).
6. John Berks & Glen O'Donovan (702).
7. Neil Johnson (702).
8. Barney Simon (Radio 5).
9. Neil Johnson (702).
10. Mike Mills (702).
"Table for two? And would care for a table by the window?"
Just practicing my hostess skills for after I retire and need a part-time job
Daniel entertained the folks at the First Tomato Festival in La Center, Washington. I loved that he sang lots of the Beatles' songs.
As a young boy Daniel used to listen to his Dad playing Beatles music and he fell in love with it, just as I did years before he was even born.
It was easy to talk to Daniel, not only for the reason that he had my son's name, which BTW is my favourite name in the whole wide world, but also for the reason that he was friendly and we had our passion for Beatles music in common.
Daniel earned his Bachelors of Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College in 2011. His focus there was on live music performance.
"Before that I earned my Associates Degree from Shoreline Community College in Seattle in 2006. I really gained a lot musically from going to school in Seattle, taking classes in music theory, piano, vocal, banjo, bass, bluegrass band and funk band.
Daniel's day job currently is at a marijuana farm where he originally started trimming earlier this year.
"I managed to get their attention and now I am learning the farming aspect. This is a new burgeoning field and I feel lucky to have stumbled into it in its infancy.
For the past seven years Daniel has subsisted on part time jobs and performing music. His goal is to find financial and life harmony between the farm and music.
"The message I have accumulated over years of playing music is simple: if you can then you will.
My thought on how I got to this message is that I struggled for years with musicianship, well into my mid-late 20s. A comment I recently heard was "I can't believe you're STILL playing music!" The process of learning, memorizing and performing still intrigues me.
The challenge Daniel currently faces is finding the right group of musicians to form a band with.
"Good well rounded musicians are hard to pin down."
Daniel's advice to my younger self would have been to study advanced science and mathematics for free while in high school.
Thank you so much, Daniel, it was a pleasure to meet you and listen to your music. I wish you good luck in your plans.
This is my 500th submission to The Human Family group.
Visit the group here to see more portraits and stories: www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily.
Edinburg, TX, USA
October 5, 2008
Omar sells newspapers along University Drive on Saturdays and Sundays. He does it part-time to supplement his earnings from working as a cook at a gas station's kitchen. With the extra money, he can treat himself to a an extra meal at McDonald's, and buy some cravings that he might have during the week. Being divorced, he needs to work for his own survival and for child support.
I was amazed at how jolly Omar is. He loves dealing with people, and he treats his customers with his utmost service by greeting each one of them a nice day. He's a big chatter and talks funny stuff, as well as realities of life.
A humble man...
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I saw him standing in a corner at Dundas Square in downtown Toronto and realized that he would be an excellent portrait subject. I doubled back and received a friendly “What’s up?” once it was clear that I was approaching him with purpose. I introduced myself and explained my project and told him I was approaching him because I thought he would be a good photographic subject. He smiled and said he would be glad to help out. Meet Ul.
Ul was standing in a corner by a ticket booth in the square and I knew I could make good use of the red color theme because I’ve done so in the past. When we looked at my test shot I could see that a white sign was reflected in the background and would be problematic. I was starting to scout around for alternatives when Ul said “How about here?” He simply took a step to the side, away from the reflective glass and I could tell that he had solved the problem for me. He was against an equally red (but far less reflective) door.
Photos taken (first straight-on, then over-the-shoulder), we chatted. Ul is Eritrean and he is 18 years old. He and his family came to Canada three years ago for a better life. I have met people from Eritrea before but memory is short so I reviewed on Wikipedia. It is a multiethnic country in the Horn of Africa which borders Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea. The main religions are Christianity and Islam. It is said to have one of the worst human rights records of any country which prompts many citizens to leave the country and settle around the globe. He is still in school and has a part-time job in a restaurant to help with the expenses. His ambition is to become trained as an auto mechanic. I commented that mechanics are always in demand and earn a good wage so it might be a good choice. “I sure hope so” he replied with a smile.
Looking at the time, Ul said he was going to be late to class if he didn’t get going. I thanked him for his time and sent him on his way, wishing this polite young man success in school.
When I offered to send him a free copy of the photo he said he had a problem with his password and is locked out of his email at the moment. I suggested he write me once he sets up a new account and I’ll happily send him a copy of his portrait.
This is my 449th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
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Settings: 5 sec at f1.4, ISO 200 :: 30mm Sigma f/1.4
This was taken just after midnight leading into 2013 from my girlfriends house in Milford.
I figure as this is my first shot, I can ramble on a little as to why I've chosen to do the 365 challenge.
It started in the first week or so of February last year (2012). I was watching all these videos on YouTube and Vimeo about DSLR photography and film-making, and suddenly, I just knew I had to get my hands on one and get immersed within it all. I was lucky at the time as I had just had a student loan come through, and as I lived at home and had a part-time job, I had some money to spare.
So I went out and bought my first DSLR, a Canon 550D with a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens. After reading the manual and watching more tutorials I decided I was ready to go out and start taking photos. The next few days were a huge learning curve as I only used the Manual function and up until this point I’d never really held a camera, let along consciously taken a ‘proper’ (not a point-and-shoot) photo.
After a few months I heard about 365 but deemed it way too late to get started! So, here I am, the start of a new year, ten months on after buying my first camera. I hope you guys get to see these photos, and I hope some of you even like a few! Take a browse and feel free to share your words of wisdom.
Drew
I met Megan along with two of her friends, Lochrann and Karya (see my previous two strangers) at the 2025 Beltane Pagan Market held in the Avenues of Sneinton Market, Nottingham. All three were keen to become part of my stranger project.
As the main Avenues were crowded, we move to an end one which was virtually deserted. It was also great that our location was in the shade and offered a choice of suitable backdrops. A dark grey door became an ideal background for Megan.
Megan is from Nottingham and is a student studying fine art. She also has a part-time job as a sales assistant.
Megan’s hobbies include producing linocut prints. Megan does other artwork too, usually of architecture or figurative subjects. Another past-time is making chainmail. This she does for herself but hopes to sell it to others in the future.
Megan runs a zine about Black Metal – find out more here: www.instagram.com/malevolentzine/
What one-word would Megan use to describe herself? “Mysterious,” she said, then added, “how I present myself and the real me are very different.”
Megan’s guilty pleasure is alcohol.
If I could grant Megan a wish what would it be? “To live in a castle,” she replied.
Thank-you Megan for saying yes to me photographing you for my stranger project. I hope you like your portrait.
This picture is number 431 in my 100 Strangers project, yes, I’ve decided to do a fifth round. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is my 402nd submission to the Human Family Group. To view more street portraits and stories visit www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/