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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:
Heres one from my senior session today. Randomly booked a few seniors the other day which was pretty awesome people are starting to recognize me I suppose. I also picked up a part time job at a casino working 2am-7am which is awesome too so a little extra cash.
Canon 5d
135L
Natural light
there was some harsh light coming in from the right side so I had my gf/assistant with a reflector/diffuser thing to block that.
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.
Colour the coast with your smile
- Dashboard
good morning,
this was taken on my phone at my apartment (as I'm sure you can tell from the quality, or lack-thereof). I am absolutely thrilled to move here in a couple months and share the experience with all of you who will be here.
I have been craving change recently, and having my own (shared with my best friend) place will definitely help to achieve that.
the last few weeks have been really rough, nothing like I imagined summer to begin, but the world keeps spinning.
I apologize for the lack of uploading in the last week; my part-time job feels more like a full time job.
I hope your day is beautiful.
“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!
Miller Shoe Parlor, 103 West Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan. Open since 1913! From the store's website:
Back in 1959, there were 30—plus shoe outlets in downtown Jackson. Today there is Miller Shoe Parlor and, around the corner from it, Genco Boot Shop.
“It's pretty dramatic how much things have changed downtown,” said Jim Shotwell, now retired owner of Miller, 103 W. Michigan Ave. His son, Steve, has taken over for his father, and Steve's son, Mike, 22, is working there partptime while he attends classes at Jackson Community College.
That makes a fourth generation to own or work at the shoe store, which was opened in 1913 by Charles A. Miller on the second story at 148 W. Michigan Ave., above Week's Drug Store. It was eventuaily sold to J.C. “Shotty" Shotwell in 1959, the same year Jim Shotweii began working for his dad at age 22. Almost everything has changed since then, including family dynamics. “Back then, people had one car. I have four cars and four drivers in my family," Steve Shotwell said. Jim Shotwell said merchants knew between 50 and 75 percent of their business would happen on Friday, Saturday and Monday because Fridays were paydays. “People cashed their checks at a downtown bank and did all their shopping there, everything from groceries to clothes to appliances to shoes,” he said.
Merchants also followed the bus routes, knowing to expect more customers when they were dropped off at W. Michigan Avenue and N. Jackson Street, as well as when schools dismissed for the day. Now people are “destination" shoppers. They have a reason for a purchase, drive there and drive home, the men said. Steve Shotwell said that on a Saturday in March, a dozen of his customers had driven more than 50 miles — from Coldwater, Alma, Toledo, Ohio, and other cities to buy shoes at Miller because of its customized fitting. He and Jim are certified pedorthists — specialists in the use of footwear and supportive devices to help fix problems affecting the feet and lower legs. The result is a number of people who buy shoes there because they were sent there by their podiatrists or heard recommendations from satisfied customers. “I watch people walk all the time and I know most don't have shoes that fit properly. Many either wear shoes that are too long or too short to get the right width. In other words, to keep their shoes on," Jim Shotwell said. “I watched a pro golfer interviewed on television about how he had developed a blister on his foot and had to withdraw from the tournament. It was an expensive mistake for him that he didn’t have properly fitted golf shoes."
Miller Shoe Parlor truly is a family business. “I worked with my grandfather on Saturdays and weekdays with my dad," Steve Shotwell said. “My grandfather always told me to be happy with customers and make yourjob fun, and you won’t work a day in your life.” He said he was only 8 years old when he started hanging out at the store and learning “advanced box stacking." When he got older he got to go on buying trips with his dad and got to know the owners of the shoe factories they bought from in Ohio and Wisconsin.
By the mid—1980s, it started to get difficult to find shoes made in America. In the past decade “it is almost impossible,” the men said. Jim Shotwell credits Steve with adding more of what used to be called “tennis shoes" to the store's once predominant inventory of leather shoes for adults and children. At first, these shoes were mainly black high or low top shoes for boys. It used to be that leather shoes fit a bit tight because the leather needed to be broken in, they said. “Today," said Steve Shotwell, “people want their leather shoes to fit like slippers and not have to break them in at all."
Miller moved to its current location in 1976 when Jim Shotwell realized he needed to be on the ground level and decided to stay downtown. “We draw from such a wide area that I've never regretted staying downtown. We had a fantastic year last year despite the economy," said Jim Shotwell, who for 40 years walked to work almost every day from his home near Sparks Foundation County Park.
Steve Shotwell, for his part, walks to a part—time job across the street in the County Tower Building. He is chairman of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. Two of the best things to happen downtownr Jim Shotweil said, were eliminating parking meters and creating — and finishing — the cityscape to unify the downtown district. Still, seeing empty stores always is disheartening. “As a business owner you hate to see it," Jim Shotwell said. He said he believes what he calls the “McDonald's theory" of business, getting lots of competitors nearby so if they are busy or — in the case of shoes — don’t have the size or color shoe that a customer wants, they just walk (or drive) to nearby stores.
All this and much more is fodder for conversation. Jim and Steve Shotwell have breakfast together almost every Friday morning, either at the B 2 B Café or Airport Restaurant & Spirits. And when they and their wives go out for dinner together, Steve Shotwell said the wives “always say we aren’t talking about shoes. And it always starts out that way, but eventually we get around to it."
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...
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).
May 2, 2010:
Can you believe its May already?! Schools almost over! :D
I get so ambitious during summer, but I end up not doing much :(
but I know for sure I'm doing summer school, yay for getting ahead T__T
This is my lovely sister :D
Today my mom wanted to get her hair done, and it took FOREVER.
So I got bored and decided to curl and style my sister's hair, then the people who worked there told me that I had the skill for it and I should learn more about it and it could be like my part time job! Highlight of my day :D
So how was your Sunday?
I just got told that when I hit 200 photos, I won't see it no more :(
boo for me not having a pro account.
I feel awful for being away so long! I've gotten more client work so it really as if I have two part-time jobs now, but that's no excuse to push aside time for art! This one had to be shot different from how I planned. I've shot IN the water at this lake but the day we shot, it was full of people and there are fish hooks and other nasty things in the water so I didn't subject my model to wading in that. I originally wanted her actually in the water on a step ladder but we improvised and it was a fun little challenge! Next time I plan on going when the swim beach is open. Something without blood for a change, but you know me, I'll be back to it with the next one maybe I'll post an up close of my model in the comments. She was so wonderful to work with.
Lovely stock used for the seagull: fav.me/d2u691f
I just found out that my part-time job will be full time. Coupled with sewing for con, I'm on a strict syllabus: 4 meals, work out, Me time, lab and sewing. 2-4 hour regeneration cycles. The goal is 43 dresses. Dr. Santa, help me
The other day, at work while acting as a SHOP STEWARD, I had to sit thru a hearing. It was like Tuesday. Anyway this person walked off the job, without telling the Manager on Duty a few nights before..a BIG misrake, and not the first time for this person. But, she has another full time job, and only worked here part time,,and does not care. So as a Shop Srewaed, I had to be a there. I knew that she was going to get mad at the situation and just quit, as she does not need this part time job. Lots of bitching on booth sides, I am getting bored...and then notice that I still had, small traces of red nail polish on my cuticals......I am great shop steward !!! At the point I saw my nails, a manager brings up OTHER stuff on this lady with work. I say,..{Dude all we are taliking about is the written incident... We all agree to keep it at that. Then she takes her name badge, and tells the manager, that she quits, and does not need the bullshit....I need to check my nails more often...lol !
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States.
LINK to video - South Bend Blue Sox vs. Racine Belles 1943 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcv3lY2dx90
LINK to video - The AAGPBL Uniform - "Oh Those Skirts" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO8VFPZSjR0
LINK to video - AAGPBL Rockford Peaches vs. Peoria Redwings in 1949 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYFwQprTZ4Q
(1) - Rose "Rosie" Folder (later Powell; May 12, 1926 – July 3, 2014) was an outfield/infield utility and pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1944 season. Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 140 lb, she batted and threw right-handed. Folder was a very dependable player during her only year in the league. ״Rosie״, as she was nicknamed, was able to play at shortstop, third base, right field, and also volunteered to pitch when her team suffered a shortage of hurlers. In addition, she displayed some power and consistently hit line drives. Born in Springfield, Illinois, Folder attended the now extinct Feitshans High School, where a Lutheran pastor taught her everything she had to know about baseball. He was really interested in putting a team together, and showed her how to pitch. Then she played for a fastpitch softball team. In 1943, Folder took a part-time job in a spark plugs factory in Chicago during the day, and played semi-professional softball for the Tungsten Sparks team at night. An AAGPBL scout spotted Folder while playing for the Sparks and invited her for a tryout. At the end of her senior year in high school, she took her exams early to attend the 1944 spring training camp at Peru, Illinois. Folder was allocated to the Kenosha Comets, a team managed by former big leaguer Marty McManus. We learned to play baseball from former major leaguers and were turned from tomboys to ladies by the charm school classes, she explained in interview.
In 1944, she posted a pitching record of 2–7 with a 5.67 earned run average in 14 games, but she was even better as a hitter. Her .261 batting average was the seventh-best in the league, a pretty good performance considering it was a dominant pitching league and no batters surpassed .300 on the year. Kenosha won the first half of the season and faced the second-half winning Milwaukee Chicks in the 1944 Scholarship Series. The series went to the limit of seven games and Milwaukee clinched the championship, four to three. During the postseason, Folder tried to make a shoestring catch at left field and sprained an ankle, which limited her playing time to one game. She went hitless in one at-bat. Folder returned home, married Edward Powell in 1946, and raised four girls and two boys. The couple had ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Besides this, she attended Illinois State Normal University in Normal, and also ran a daycare business in Carnation, Washington, for 25 years. She is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Though she did not attend the ceremony, she traveled to Cooperstown to see her name in the hall. "That was the biggest thrill of my life", she said of the event. Rose Folder Powell died on July 3, 2014, in Carnation, Washington, aged 88.
(2) - Mary Pratt (November 30, 1918 – May 6, 2020) was a pitcher who played from 1943 through 1947 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw left-handed. Pratt turned 100 in November 2018. Early life - Pratt was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts. She attended North Quincy High School. After graduation, she entered Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and participated in various sports there, including basketball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey, tennis, archery, and sailing. Pratt earned a degree in physical education in 1940. AAGPBL career - In 1941, Pratt got a job teaching in Quincy. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed at around that time, and after the school year ended in 1943, Pratt joined the league as a member of the Rockford Peaches. She played in 24 games during her first season, going 5–11 on the mound and batting .235. The following season, Pratt was transferred to the Kenosha Comets team. She immediately had her best season, winning 21 games and pitching a no-hitter, while leading the Comets to the league championship series. During this time, Pratt "was very effective using a controlled slingshot or windmill windup to get hitters out". Pratt slumped in 1945, going just 1–16. She won just 1 more game in 1946 and 1947 before retiring from professional baseball. Later life - Pratt continued to teach physical education classes in Quincy until 1986, and she also coached the school softball, basketball, soccer, and tennis teams. She won 10 softball championships in the state of Massachusetts. Pratt has been inducted into the New England Sports Museum, Boston University Hall of Fame, and Boston Garden Hall of Fame. Pratt died at the John Scott nursing home in Braintree, Massachusetts, on May 6, 2020, aged 101. Bergmann moved to Chicago and played in the rival National Girls Baseball League from 1952 to 1954. During this stint, she tied two league records by pitching a 23-inning game and hitting five singles in a game. Later career - Following her baseball career, Bergmann became one of the first commissioned police women in the city of St. Louis. She retired in 1981 after 25 years of exemplary service in the St. Louis Police Department. In 1988, Bergmann became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rather than any individual personality. Then, in 1996 she gained induction in the St. Louis Amateur Softball Hall of Fame, and also was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
(3) - Erma Bergmann - Erma M. "Bergie" Bergmann (June 18, 1924 – September 13, 2015) was an American baseball pitcher and outfielder who played from 1946 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 155 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. She later served as one of the first commissioned police women in the city of St. Louis. Career - Since the only organized ball for women in the country was softball, the AAGPBL created a hybrid game which included both softball and baseball. Over the twelve years of history of the league, the rules were gradually modified to more closely resemble baseball. Throwing underhand, Bergmann was one of the few AAGPBL hurlers to pitch all three styles in the league's history, being able to make the transition to full sidearm in 1947 and overhand pitching in 1948. Bergmann entered the league in 1946 with the expansion Muskegon Lassies, playing for them two years before joining the Springfield Sallies (1948), Racine Belles (1949–1950) and Battle Creek Belles (1951). In her rookie season, Bergmann posted a 15–16 record and a 2.05 earned run average in 35 pitching appearances, top numbers for the sixth-place Lassies. She also spent time at outfield, hitting a .255 average in 50 games. Her biggest thrill in her season debut came when she belted her only career home run in the top of the ninth inning of a game against the Rockford Peaches. She then shut down the Peaches in the bottom of the inning for a victory with her parents in attendance. In 1947 the AAGPBL moved its spring training camp to Havana, Cuba, and Bergmann was one of the two hundred girls who made the trip. That season she was used strictly as a pitcher. She ended the season with an 11–10 mark and a solid 1.74 ERA in 27 games, helping the Lassies win the pennant. In addition, she tossed a no-hitter against the host Grand Rapids Chicks on May 22 of that year. For the rest of her career, Bergmann played for awful teams and her season records reflect reflected it. She went 9–19 in 1948, though she recorded a 3.05 ERA. Then, she finished 11–14 with a 2.09 ERA in 1949, and went 11–14 with a 2.68 ERA in 1950. Her worst season came in 1951, when she went 7–18 with a 3.92 ERA while leading the league in losses, runs allowed (119) and earned runs (87). It would be her last year in the league. After that, Bergmann moved to Chicago and played in the rival National Girls Baseball League from 1952 to 1954. During this stint, she tied two league records by pitching a 23-inning game and hitting five singles in a game. In 1988, Bergmann became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rather than any individual personality. Then, in 1996 she gained induction in the St. Louis Amateur Softball Hall of Fame, and also was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
(4) - Joyce Hill - Joyce Elaine Westerman (née Hill; December 29, 1925 – January 18, 2021) was a catcher who played from 1945 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), 150 lb., she batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Hill did not play any sports at Kenosha High School because they had none for girls. She acquired softball experience while playing in the county softball league for 12-to 15-year-olds and then in an industrial league for two years. In Kenosha, she gained a good reputation as a hard throwing pitcher and shortstop for the team of Nash Motors, which later bought Hudson Company to found American Motors. Hill entered the league in 1945 with the Grand Rapids Chicks, but was converted into a catcher. She was a force behind the plate and had capacity as a left-handed hitter to drive the long ball. Nevertheless, Hill was traded six times in a span of eight years because each season the league would move players to try to keep teams competitive. So, in 1946, she divided her playing time between the South Bend Blue Sox and the Fort Wayne Daisies, before stabilizing with the Peoria Redwings the next year. Hill became the everyday catcher for Peoria in 1947. While she turned in a good defensive performance, she also showed a strong throwing arm and the ability to get the most out of a pitching staff. She then found herself on the move again, this time to the Racine Belles during the 1948 midseason. Through 1949 she shared catching duties with Irene Hickson, returning to Peoria from 1950 to 1951. While Hill loved to catch, she also suffered a litany of injuries that hurt her play. She recalled one game in which she had four broken fingers taped on her throwing hand. During the off-season, she continued to work for the Nash Company. Following the 1950 season, Hill and Raymond A. Westerman were married in Kenosha, the couple's home town. During her last two seasons in the league she played under her married name, Joyce Westerman, but her days of catching were over and she had to switch to first base and, eventually, to play outfield. Her most productive year came with Peoria in 1951, when she posted career-numbers in batting average (.277), runs scored (51), hits (86), extra bases (105), runs batted in (50) and stolen bases (20). Joyce rejoined the Blue Sox during her last year in the league. Near to the end of the 1952 season, a South Bend team decimated by injuries had lost six regular players. Then she won a decisive game with a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Blue Sox relied on their ace pitcher, Jean Faut, to finish off Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs, and win the championship title against the Rockford Peaches. Hill retired after 1952 to become a mother and raise a family of two daughters, Janet and Judy, both of whom became ball players. She later went to work for the United States Postal Service, retiring in 1985. She also played fast-pitch softball from 1960 to 1975, becoming a member of several championship teams. Hill, along with her former teammates and opponents, received their long overdue recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display to the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1988. When the 1992 film A League of Their Own was filmed at Cooperstown, she was one of the women who appeared for the last segment of the movie. Widowed in 2005, she lived in Kenosha as of 2005. She died on January 18, 2021.
(5) - Betsy "Sockum" Jochum (February 8, 1921 – May 31, 2025) was an American outfielder and pitcher who played from 1943 through 1948 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m), 140 lb (64 kg), she batted and threw right-handed. Overview profile - A native of Cincinnati, Jochum was one of the sixty original founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. An ideal leadoff hitter, she was one of the fastest runners in the early years of the league and rarely struck out, fanning only 104 times in 2,401 plate appearances, which combined with a stellar defense and a strong and secure throwing arm. In addition, she was an All-Star, won a batting title, collected 354 stolen bases, and pitched a full season during her six seasons in the league. AAGPBL career - Jochum entered the league in 1943 and spent her entire six-year career with the South Bend Blue Sox, one of two teams to play in every AAGPBL season, the other being the Rockford Peaches. Jochum appeared at center field and left, pitched, and also played first base for a long time when the regular was hurt. Her numbers were affected over time because she played in a league that progressively expanded the length of the base paths and pitching distance and decreased the size of the ball until the final year of play in the 1954 season. In her rookie season, Jochum posted a .273 average and led the league in at-bats (439), hits (120), singles (100), and doubles (12). She also stole 66 bases, scored 70 runs, and led all hitters in the second half of the season with a .295 average. She was selected to the All-Star Game, which coincidentally was the first night game played at Wrigley Field, on July 1, 1943. Jochum led the circuit in her sophomore year of 1944 by hitting a respectable .296 average, considering the league's dead-ball era. She also posted career-numbers in games (112), runs (72), hits (128) and stolen bases (127), including seven steals in a game on August 2. Jochum dropped to .237 with 40 runs and 25 stolen bases in 1945 but rebounded in 1946 with a .250 average, including 64 runs, 73 stolen bases, 64 runs and a career-high 63 runs batted in. In that season, Dorothy Kamenshek led the league with a .316 average, while Bonnie Baker tied Sophie Kurys for second place at .286. With her .250 average, Jochum ranked third in her team and tenth overall for girls playing 90 or more games. She also tied with Kamenshek for the fewest strikeouts (10) and ranked second in RBI behind Elizabeth Mahon (72). Often a second-division team, the Blue Sox advanced to the playoffs for the first time in 1946, being beat in the first round by the Racine Belles, the eventual Championship Team after defeating the Rockford Peaches in six games. In 1947, the league moved its spring training camp to Havana, Cuba. The new rules applied during the regular season permitted a full sidearm pitching delivery, and many players who developed hitting underhand pitching had problems adjusting to the new pitching style. As a result of the innovation, Dorothy Kamenshek was the champion bat with a significant .306 average, Audrey Wagner was the leader with seven home runs, and Elizabeth Mahon topped all hitters with 53 runs batted in. Jochum was not an exception, as she slipped to .211, 42 RBI, 36 runs, and 44 stolen bases. For the second consecutive year South Bend made the playoffs, but again lost in the first round, this time to the Grand Rapids Chicks, who defeated the Racine Belles in seven games.
In 1948, the league shifted to overhand pitching. Showing her versatility, the strong-armed Jochum was a natural choice to become a pitcher in her final season. She debuted against the Fort Wayne Daisies and limited them to a pair of hits, allowing only four batters to get on base (two by errors) while striking out five. At one point during the season, Jochum had a 13–6 record, but she lost seven of her last eight decisions to finish with a 14–13 mark. When she was not pitching, South Bend manager Marty McManus used her to fill at outfield, first base and pinch hit, even though she batted a low-career .195 average. Nevertheless, Jochum provided 14 of the 57 victories of her team, including a sparkling 1.51 earned run average, and striking out 103 batters while walking just 58 in 215 innings of work. Nevertheless, for the second straight year South Bend lost to Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs.
In November 1988, Jochum, along with her former teammates and opponents, received their long overdue recognition, when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York dedicated a permanent display to the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. In 1999 she was enshrined into the Ohio Baseball of Fame and Museum in 1999. Besides this, her South Bend Blue Sox uniform has traveled in an itinerant display promoted by the Smithsonian Institution as part of its exhibition on Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers. As Jochum recalled in an interview, Women should have their own major league and minor leagues plus the sponsors to make it go. As of 2010, Jochum was living in South Bend, Indiana. She turned 100 in February 2021. Jochum died in South Bend on May 31, 2025, at the age of 104.
"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.
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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.
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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
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Harry Edward Styles, born 1 February 1994 is from the village of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, England. He is a former pupil at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, a state comprehensive school. Born to mother Anne Cox and father Des Styles, he has an older sister, Gemma. He was seven when their parents divorced, his mother subsequently getting remarried. Following the divorce, Styles, his older sister and mother moved further out into the Cheshire countryside. At the age of twelve he moved back to Holmes Chapel. Prior to participating in The X Factor, the then sixteen-year-old Styles had a part-time job at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.
Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo with band members lead guitarist Haydn Morris, bass guitarist Nick Clough and drummer Will Sweeny. They had once entered a Battle of the Bands competition, which they won. As a child, Styles loved singing, noting Elvis Presley as one of his influences. He also cites Presley for his musical beginnings. Styles also cites contemporaries, Foster the People, Coldplay and Kings of Leon among his influences. Styles states that The X Factor gave him "a lot more" confidence as a performer. Styles says that he often looks to Coldplay front man Chris Martin for inspiration when performing on stage. Styles also states that The Beatles had an influence on him growing up, as his father would play their music.
Harry is a member of One Direction an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, consisting of members Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after being formed and finishing third in the seventh series of British television singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by the power of social media, their two albums Up All Night and Take Me Home, released in 2011 and 2012 respectively, broke several records, topped the charts of most major markets, and generated hit singles, including "What Makes You Beautiful" and "Live While We're Young".
Often described as sparking the resurgence in the boy band concept, and of forming part of a new "British Invasion" in the United States, the group have sold over 14 million singles and 8 million albums, according to the band's management company, Modest! Management. Their achievements include two BRIT Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards and three Billboard Music Awards. According to Nick Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" by Billboard, while The Huffington Post named 2012 "The Year of One Direction".
UJX918M one of the Yorkshire Puddings featured earlier that Maynes purchased in 1987, a complete but possibly by now deserted Mill can be seen in this view.
Built in the late 1800’s as a conventional cotton Mill, Lumb Mill was one of many Mills in the area served by the local network of canals, it was no doubt responsible for the increase in size of the Littlemoss village and the opening of Droylsden Station. By the time I went to Littlemoss school the canal network had ceased to be operational, mostly intact it was filled with all sorts of old rubbish and became the usual eyesore. The Mill was no longer an operational Mill but the old plastic moulds we found round the back suggest it was producing plastic components back in the 1960’s. It became known as Sharna Mill after the plastic toy company who operated from the Mill and later moved to the new building by the bus terminus, Sharna became part of Triang, or Triang became part of Sharna I’m not sure which, but the company became Sharna Triang limited. Many of the young mothers of Droylsden took part time jobs at the Sharna factory in the 1980’s and learned another side of life working alongside the regular factory girls, not to mention the increase in their knowledge of local vocabulary.
UJX 918M Halifax 8, WYT 3008 to A Mayne Manchester 1987. Wdn 1988 to Barry Cooper.
Leyland Leopard PSU4B/2R
Plaxton B45F
New 1973
Classic crew training video from 1970's www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0NOhQj1m3s Back when McDonald's had more control over their crew.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm36MpPSeM
Clips reel showing a sample of B-roll video of the Schirmer Farms cotton harvest in Batesville, TX, on August 22 and 23, 2020. USDA Media by Lance Cheung.
Transcript:
Engine and machinery sounds (throughout)
01:07 (Ernie Schirmer) My son is a lot better at technology.
01:10 (Ernie Schirmer) We got auto-steer, and that is a big help in a lot of things.
01:16 (Ernie Schirmer) I didn't think at first when it came out that it was going to be nice, but you can save a lot of time.
01:50 (Ernie Schirmer) Cotton is one of those crops that has made us money over the years.
02:04 (Ernie Schirmer) Corn prices you can never depend on yield.
02:22 (Ernie Schirmer) ..you start later in the morning and can work later at night.
02:30 (Phone rings)
02:37 (Ernie Schirmer) Hello.
04:04 (Ernie Schirmer) Another thing about farming is you got to love it. You can hardly go to school and learn how to farm. You got to be on the job training or loving it.
04:14 (Terri Schirmer) I have a full-time job, too. This is part-time job. This is my stress relieving job.
04:16 (Ernie Schirmer) There's so many things changing all the time. Yea, as far as chemicals, you can go to school and learn what they do and everything, but as far as getting it all done, planting times, and getting the equipment. You got to be a mechanic you got to be, you know, a little bit of everything.
Social Orientation Class - Obligated by our new Prime Minister. This is so that all migrants understand the system of Belgium. Beneficial information about healthcare, work, spare time, society, etc. After this class, it's back to school again for Dutch courses A1 and A2.
I had to learn the tram routes first then walk over to school.
So I've been busy with school since March 4th. I have a part-time job coming up soon too! Busy busy!
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Nine Reasons the Economy is Not Getting Better
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman
We are now looking at unemployment numbers that undermine any confidence that we might be nearing the bottom of the recession. The appropriate metaphor is not the green shoots of new growth. A better image is to look at the true total of jobless people as a prudent navigator looks at an iceberg.
What we see on the surface is disconcerting enough. The estimate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of job losses for June is 467,000. That increases by 7.2 million the number of unemployed since the start of the recession. The cumulative job losses over the past six months have been greater than for any other half-year period since World War II, including demobilization. What's more, the job losses are now equal to the net job gains over the previous nine years, making this the only recession since the Great Depression to wipe out all employment growth from the previous business cycle.
That's bad enough. But here are nine reasons we are in even more trouble than the 9.5 percent unemployment rate indicates.
One. June's total included 185,000 people who were assumed to be at work, many of whom probably were not. The government could not identify them; it made an assumption about trends. But many of the mythical jobs are in industries that have absolutely no job creation: finance, for example. When the official numbers are adjusted over the next several months, look to some of the 185,000 boosting the unemployment totals.
Two. More companies are asking employees to take unpaid leave. These people don't count on the unemployment roll.
Three. No fewer than 1.4 million people wanted or were available for work in the past 12 months. They were not counted. Why? Because they hadn't searched for work in the four weeks preceding the survey. The assumption is that they had found work or don't want it, but there are other explanations: school attendance, family responsibilities, sheer exhaustion.
Four. The number of workers taking part-time jobs because of the slack economy, a kind of stealth underemployment, has doubled in this recession to about 9 million, or 5.8 percent of the workforce. Add those whose hours have been cut to those who cannot find a full-time job, and the total of unemployed and underemployed rises to 16.5 percent, putting the number of involuntarily idle workers in the range of an overwhelming 25 million.
Five. The inside numbers are just as bad. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory private-sector employees, around 80 percent of the workforce, dropped to 33 hours. That's 48 minutes a week less than before the recession began, the lowest level of activity since the government began tracking such data 45 years ago. Full-time workers are being downgraded to part time as businesses slash labor costs to remain above water and factories operate at only 65 percent of capacity. If American workers were still putting in those extra 48 minutes a week now, 3.3 million fewer employees could perform the same aggregate amount of work. With a longer workweek, the unemployment rate would reach 11.7 percent, not the official 9.5 percent (which in turn dramatically exceeds the 8 percent rate projected by the Obama administration).
Six. The average length of official unemployment increased to 24.5 weeks. This is the longest term since the government started to track these data in 1948. The number of long-term unemployed (those out of a job for 27 weeks or more) has now jumped to 4.4 million, an all-time high.
Seven. The average worker saw no wage gains in June, with average compensation running flat at $18.53 an hour.
Eight. The jobs report is even uglier when you consider that the sector producing goods is losing the most jobs--223,000 in the last report alone.
Nine. The prospects for job creation are equally distressing. The likelihood is that when economic activity picks up, employers will first choose to increase hours for existing workers and bring part-time workers to full-time status.
Many unemployed workers looking for jobs once the recovery begins will discover that jobs as good as the ones they lost are almost impossible to find because more layoffs in this recession have been permanent and not temporary. Instead of shrinking operations, companies have closed whole business units or made sweeping structural changes in the way they conduct their business. For example, General Motors and Chrysler shut down hundreds of dealerships and reduced brands; Citigroup and Bank of America cut tens of thousands of jobs and exited many parts of the world of finance. In other words, we could face a very low upswing in terms of the creation of new jobs, and we may be facing a much higher level of joblessness on an ongoing basis. Job losses may last well into 2010 to hit an unemployment peak close to 11 percent. And then joblessness may be sustained for an extended period.
Can we find comfort in knowing that employment has long been considered a lagging indicator? It is conventionally seen as having limited predictive power because employment reflects decisions taken earlier in the business cycle. But today is different. Unemployment has doubled from 4.8 to 9.5 percent in just 16 months, a record rate so fast it may influence future economic behaviors and outlooks. Bear in mind that the lackluster increase in inventories suggests that there's little prospect in the pipeline of real growth in consumption, investment, and exports. So the terrible state of the labor market is likely to be a strong head wind against consumer spending for a long time as wages and overall income growth are decelerating and households, within a fairly short period, will have received their full portion of the stimulus package.
How could this happen when Washington has thrown trillions of dollars into the pot, including the famous $787 billion in spending that was supposed to yield $1.50 in growth for every dollar spent? For a start, too much of the money went to transfer payments--Medicaid, jobless benefits, and the like--that do nothing for jobs and growth. The spending that creates new jobs is new spending, particularly on infrastructure. It amounts to less than 10 percent of the stimulus package today.
Second, the stimulus package may have been well intentioned, but it was too small and too badly constructed to get money into the economy fast enough to replace lost consumer and business spending and to slow unemployment. Workers' pessimism is justified: About 40 percent believe the recession will continue for another full year. As paychecks shrink and disappear, consumers are more hesitant to spend and won't lead the economy out of the doldrums quickly enough.
It may have made him unpopular in parts of the Obama administration, but Vice President Joe Biden told it as it is when he said the administration misread how bad the economy was. The administration inherited the problem, but then it failed to understand how ineffective its solution would be. The program was supposed to be about jobs, jobs, and jobs. It wasn't. The recovery act may have been a single piece of legislation, but it included thousands of funding schemes for tens of thousands of projects, and those programs are stuck in the bureaucracy as the government releases the funds with typical inefficiency.
An additional $150 billion, which was allocated to state coffers so as to continue existing programs like Medicaid, did not add new jobs. Hundreds of billions of dollars were set aside for tax cuts and for new benefits for the poor and the unemployed, and that did not add new jobs. Now state budgets are drowning in red ink as jobless claims and Medicaid bills climb.
Next year, state budgets will have depleted their initial rescue dollars. Absent another rescue plan, they will have no choice but to slash spending or raise taxes, or both. The complete state and local government sector, which makes up about 15 percent of the economy, is beginning the worst contraction in postwar history in the face of a deficit gap of $166 billion for fiscal year 2010, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and a cumulative gap of $350 billion in fiscal year 2011.
Similarly, households overburdened with historic levels of debt will be saving more. The savings rate has already jumped from zero in 2007 to almost 7 percent of after-tax income now, and it is still rising. Every dollar of saving comes out of consumption. Because consumer spending is the economy's main driver, we are going to have a weak consumer sector, and many businesses simply won't have the means or the need to hire employees. In the aftermath of the 1990-1991 recession, Americans bought houses, cars, and other expensive goods. This time, the combination of a weak job picture and a severe credit crunch means that people won't be able to get the financing for big expenditures, and those who can borrow will be reluctant to do so.
In recent times, Americans found myriad ways to fuel spending, even as incomes stagnated: borrowing against the once rising price of their homes and tapping plentiful credit cards. No longer. The paycheck has returned as the primary source of spending, and pay is eroding even for those who have jobs. This process is nowhere near complete, and, until it is, the economy will barely grow, if at all, and may well oscillate between sluggish growth and modest decline for the next several years until the rebalancing of the excessive debt has been completed. Until then, the private economy will be deprived of adequate profits and cash flow, and businesses will not start to hire. Nor will they race to make capital expenditures when they have vast idle capacity.
In other words, there are many more reasons today to expect the downturn to continue than to expect a turnaround. Consumer spending and residential investment could be even weaker than most estimates, and, as the level of fiscal stimulus begins its decline in the second half of 2010, we may be facing an even more difficult future.
No wonder poll after poll shows a steady erosion of confidence in the stimulus measures. One survey even showed 45 percent believe the limited results suggest they should simply be abandoned midway. The disappointment is understandable--but that would only make things worse. So what kind of second-act stimulus program should we look for? This time, it should not be an excuse to pass a lot of programs like those in the first stimulus package that do not really have the kind of multiplier effect on job creation and on economic growth that was intended. In any event, given the trends, it is absolutely critical that the Obama administration not play politics with the issue but really begin to prepare a second stimulus program, so that if the economy does take a major downturn, it will be possible this time to provide much more rapid government support to infrastructure spending that will maximize the creation of jobs. The time to get ready is now.
***Now add to this the sheer INSANITY of the "cap and trade" bullshit law and "healthcare reform" and this economy will crumble like a stack of cards! This bastard Obama is KILLING the USA!
Cap and Trade is madness ----- this will drive corporations AWAY to other countries by much more than we have ever seen! And it will have NO IMPACT whatsoever on "global warming"! This is a total power grab! Son of a BITCH we have to boot these suck-pump bastards OUT ASAP!!!!!!!
Yugi Muto (武む藤とう 遊ゆう戯ぎ Mutō Yūgi), also romanized as Yugi Mutou, is the main protagonist of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series, along with Yami Yugi. It was stated once that Yugi is the modern day version of Pharaoh Atem.
Together with the spirit of Pharaoh Atem, he holds the title "King of Games" (King of Duelists in Japanese version).
Yugi possessed the three thousand-year-old (five thousand in the dub) mystical Millennium Puzzle, which allowed his body to bear host to the spirit of the Puzzle, Yami Yugi. Yugi was initially unaware of his existence and control of Yugi's body, and would involuntarily shift to Yami Yugi at trying times.
He lives with his paternal grandfather, Solomon Muto, and his mother.
Yugi is part of a close-knit group of best friends: Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Téa Gardner and Bakura Ryou. Yugi's friends often cheer him on from the sidelines, and Joey has dueled at his side. Yugi has been friends with Téa since childhood and has a romantic crush on her. Téa has been shown to have romantic feelings for both Yugi and Yami Yugi.
Appearance
Yugi's character design was overseen by Kazuki Takahashi. His normal outfit consists of the standard male Domino Junior/Senior High uniform complete with a closed buckled collar. His extremely extravagant hair features multiple layers including long blond crooked, pointy locks for his fringe; the rest features a set of five large spikes and two smaller spikes colored black with a magenta sheen along the edges. So far, he is the only character in the franchise to have his hair divided into three colors. He wears the Millennium Puzzle on a lace around his neck. The lace is later replaced with a chain. He often wears a KaibaCorp Duel Disk on his left arm.
When he played Dungeon Dice Monsters against Duke Devlin, he wore a black long-sleeved shirt, a gray sleeveless vest, dark blue pants, and black shoes.
When he and Téa took a day together to find out about the Millennium Puzzle, he wore a black linen shirt and several pieces of wrist-chains, along with a pair of leather pants.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters, Yugi wore a different attire of a violet jacket and jeans. He also wore the Capsule Shooter on his left arm. In Episode 4, he gained a Duel armor that allowed him to become one with one of his capsule monsters.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yugi went through noticeable development. While physically resembling Atem, he is much taller and has a lean-built frame. During this time, Yugi's present-day eyes are not directly shown.
Personality
Yugi is kind-hearted and child-like. He is good at games, riddles, and puzzles, especially Duel Monsters. As Shadi stated when he looked into Yugi's Soul Room, he has no malice or wickedness in his heart.[9] This doesn't mean he cannot get angry at someone, but is willing to forgive them.
Yugi is also very shy when comes to meeting people who admire him, especially girls. As seen with the cases of Mai, Vivian, and later Rebecca, he would often blush and even freeze up when they approached him. Yugi is also not good in front of big crowds, as seen when Mokuba tried to get him up on stage to give a speech.
Unlike his other self, Yugi has no problem with losing. In fact, he is willing to lose if it means helping his opponent. Yugi also has a lack of confidence in his own abilities, but still wants help out his friends. Over the course of the series, he becomes more confident and determined. He is also willing to sacrifice himself if it means saving someone else, such as Joey or Yami Yugi.
Voice
The voices differ slightly between the different series and the English dub, although the voice of Dark Yugi is much deeper, stronger and more confident than that of Yugi.
Original
In the Japanese version, Yugi has considerably more confidence than in his previous appearance, but is still very polite. It's harder to distinguish between his voice and Dark Yugi's, but Dark Yugi's tone is considerably sterner and has the same pattern of speech as his previous appearance. This series also established Yugi calling Dark Yugi もう一人のボク mō hitori no boku ("other me") and Dark Yugi referring to Yugi as 相棒 aibō ("partner"). Also, Yugi's first-person pronoun is ボク boku, while Dark Yugi's is オレ ore.
English
In the English dub, Yugi's voice is high-pitched and sometimes strained in more emotional moments, and generally has a friendly tone towards everyone. Yami Yugi's voice, in comparison, is fierce and commanding. In the Singaporean dub, Yugi and Yami Yugi are voiced by Chuck Powers. In this dub, Yugi's voice is soft and slightly high-pitched, while Yami Yugi's voice is near the total opposite. In the Singaporean dub, both Yugi and Yami Yugi speak with a slight drawl. In the first season, Yugi calls Yami Yugi "Spirit," then in other seasons Yugi started to call him "Pharaoh." Sometimes, he also calls him Yami. Yami Yugi always called Yugi by his name.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yugi is a young adult and his voice is deeper, yet still distinct enough to be separate from Atem's.
In Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dark Side of Dimensions, Yugi's voice is slightly deeper than it was in the English dub.
Spanish (Spain)
In the Spanish version, Yugi and Yami are voiced by two different people (Alex Saudinós as Yugi Muto and Pablo Sevilla as Yami). In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yugi is a young adult and his voice is the same actor as Yami Yugi.
Etymology
Yugi's given name literally translates to "Game" in Japanese, symbolizing how Yugi loves to play games. In the English dub, his surname is pronounced as "Moto"; in Japanese, the word "moto" can mean "foundation" or "basis", which may be a reference to how Yugi served as a host for Yami Yugi. Occasionally, his English surname has been misspelled "Moto".
Biography
History
Yugi lived in his family's game shop, Kame Game, with his mother and grandfather. His grandfather taught him a lot about the game, Duel Monsters.
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Yugi, bullied by Joey and Tristan.
Joey and Tristan used to bully Yugi. Joey even went as far as taking a piece of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle and throwing it into a canal. However, Yugi stood up for Joey and Tristan when they were attacked by Ushio, claiming that they were his friends, whereas Ushio claimed he was protecting Yugi in order to earn money. Joey and Tristan came to be Yugi's friends after the incident and Joey recovered the piece of the Puzzle.
After solving the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi unknowingly became host to Yami Yugi, the spirit of Pharaoh Atem. He shared his body with Yami, who occasionally takes control, typically to help Yugi and his friends.
Yugi and Joey once visited Burgerpalooza, only to find Téa working there. She feared that if they told, she would get expelled as it's against school rules to have part-time jobs. (In the dub, she worried about getting fired, as they could have revealed that she was under 18, the required age to work there.) She splattered their burgers in ketchup, warning them not to tell. They told her that they did not even know she worked there, and they wouldn't say a word.
Yugi later found Téa in a warehouse, being filmed by a pervert, who threatened to reveal she was working at Burgerpalooza. (In the dub, he was a mugger who tricked her by writing a note, pretending Yugi and Joey had given her a dance studio.) Yugi tackled the man, but got thrown against a wall. Téa was also knocked unconscious after trying to attack him. Yugi then transformed into Yami Yugi, who defeated the man in a card draw game and Mind Crushed him. Yugi came to believe that he had saved Téa himself, although he didn't remember how he did it.
Yugi defeated Joey in Duel Monsters at school and decided to invite Joey, Téa and Tristan to see his Grandpa's rare card, the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon", after school. Seto Kaiba, who overheard, kidnapped Grandpa and forced him into a Duel for his "Blue-Eyes", as he refused to trade or sell it. Yugi and his friends caught up after Solomon had already been defeated, and witnessed Kaiba tear-up the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" in front of them. Outraged, Yugi challenged Kaiba to a Duel, and Solomon gave Yugi his Deck. Yugi Dueled Kaiba as Yami Yugi and discovered Kaiba had the other three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" in his Deck, but defeated him using "Exodia the Forbidden One", taking Kaiba's title as the Duel Monsters World Champion.
Since Joey had been having trouble with winning in Duel Monsters, Yugi asked his grandfather to help train Joey.
Maximillion Pegasus heard of Yugi's victory over Kaiba and sent him a videotape inviting him to participate in his Duelist Kingdom tournament. Pegasus appeared on the TV and Dueled Yugi on the spot, while freezing everyone else in the room. Pegasus placed a time limit on the Duel and won because time ran out seconds before Yugi could claim victory. As a penalty for Yugi's defeat Pegasus stole Grandpa's soul.
Yugi entered the tournament in order to rescue Grandpa. At the pier, before boarding the ship to the tournament, he gave Joey one of his two Star Chips, allowing Joey to participate and help him.
On the ship, Yugi met Weevil Underwood, who acted friendly towards him and told Yugi that he knew of secret new rules to be introduced in the tournament. Shortly after Weevil left, Yugi gave Joey the "Time Wizard" card, telling him how it can be helpful in a tight spot. Yugi met Weevil again later and showed him his "Exodia" cards, which Weevil tossed overboard, to hinder Yugi's Deck. Joey jumped into the water to recover them, but after getting two of them was hit by the current and Yugi dove in to save him. Both of them were then rescued by the stowaways, Téa and Tristan, who threw them a rope ladder.
Once the tournament started, Yugi tracked down Weevil to get revenge, but Weevil fled, leading him into a forest. Yugi suspected this was to do with the new rules Weevil mentioned. Weevil led them to a meadow, where he accepted Yugi's challenge, as his monsters got Field Power Bonuses there. Yugi switched to Yami Yugi, who bet both his Deck and Star Chip, earning him Weevil's two Star Chips after he won.
Yugi cheered for Joey in his Duel against Mai. As Yami Yugi, he offered Joey abstract clues to help him win. Joey defeated Mai using the "Time Wizard" card, Yugi gave him.
While searching for food, Yugi and his friends, found fish Mako Tsunami had prepared. Unbeknownst to them, Mako had set it as bait to lure opponents, to where his monsters greatly benefit from the field. Mako appeared, angered over them stealing his food. After Yugi introduced himself, Mako was happy to meet the Duelist, who defeated Kaiba, and shared the food with him and his friends. Yugi got up to leave, but Mako stopped him by throwing a harpoon in front of him and demanded a Duel. Yugi switched to Yami and defeated Mako, winning two more Star Chips.
Yugi and his friends saw a contestant, being forced to leave the island as he was out of Star Chips. The boy claimed they had been stolen, along with his Deck. He described the thief and where he met him. Yugi promised to get his Star Chips back, before the boat left the island. At the scene of the crime, they met the thief, whose face was disguised. He Dueled Yugi, with five stolen Star Chips on the line, and Yami Yugi soon realized that the thief was Kaiba's brother, Mokuba. Mokuba explained how Yugi's humiliation of Kaiba, resulted in his departure, giving Pegasus an opportunity to take over KaibaCorp. Mokuba sought revenge on Yugi for this. Unable to win the Duel, he made a grab for Yugi's Star Chips, but Yami discouraged Mokuba and promised to help him and Kaiba.
The group made their way back to the bay, but the boat had already left. Mokuba showed Kemo that Yugi won back the Star Chips, but Kemo slapped them into the water, including some of Yugi's. Kemo grabbed Mokuba to take him back to Pegasus, but Yugi challenged Kemo to a Duel for Mokuba's freedom. Since Kemo was not a Duelist, he told Yugi to come back in an hour (4 hours in the dub) and he would have an opponent arranged for him.
Yugi returned to the spot and faced Ghost Kaiba, who pretended to be the actual Seto Kaiba and used his Deck. With the help of the real Kaiba, who weakened Ghost Kaiba's "Blue-Eyes White Dragons", via a virus, Yami Yugi won. Yugi retrieved Kaiba's Deck, but Kemo had already disappeared with Mokuba.
Yugi was not allowed to help Joey in his Duel with Rex Raptor. As the Duel started Yugi went to find Tristan, who left in a huff with Joey for accepting those conditions. Tristan reminded Yugi that he should still be at the Duel to offer Joey his friendship, so the two of them returned to watch.
That night, Mai shared her food with Yugi and his friends, although she promised that they would be enemies again tomorrow.
Bakura Ryou appeared at their campsite, shortly after Mai left for a walk. While the group talked about cards they own and identify with, Yugi encouraged Téa to pick one for herself and picked the "Dark Magician" as his own. Bakura suggested that they play a friendly Duel, where Yugi includes the cards Joey, Tristan and Téa identified with; "Flame Swordsman", "Cyber Commander" and "Magician of Faith", in his Deck and he can show them how his card, "Change of Heart" works. Bakura changed to Yami Bakura, who trapped the group's souls in the cards they selected. He proceeded to take Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, but Yami Yugi emerged and faced Yami Bakura in a Shadow Game, staking the Millennium Puzzle, in order to return his friends.
Yugi's friends appeared in place of the monsters they selected as Yami Yugi Summoned them. When the "Dark Magician", Yugi was Summoned, the two Yugis met. In the Japanese version, Yugi was aware of Yami's existence and the two of them agreed now is not the time to keep secrets. In the dub, Yugi was unaware of Yami's existence until that time, though he said he often heard a powerful voice coming from the Millennium Puzzle when he Dueled. Yugi told his friends of Yami's existence, that he is the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle and apologized for not telling them before. In the dub, Yugi admitted to having felt Yami's presence while he Dueled and felt they could trust him. Yami managed to win the Duel, with the help of Bakura betraying Yami Bakura, returning everyone to normal, although Téa, Tristan and Joey believed the Duel to have been a dream. Yugi didn't take time to explain as they heard Mai scream at that point.
The group found the Eliminator, PaniK, who had just beaten Mai and taken all eight of her Star Chips. Yugi accused PaniK of being a coward and Dueled him as Yami Yugi, winning back Mai's Star Chips. He offered them to Mai, who reluctantly took them back, remarking that she owed him one.
Later that night Kaiba arrived on the island and Yugi returned his Deck.
The next day, Mai left a letter explaining she had left and owes Yugi for winning back her Star Chips. Joey later got separated from his friends, who searched a cave after finding his wallet outside. After running from many traps, they found Joey in a Duel with Bonz. Joey won, but Bandit Keith's gang trapped Yugi and his friends in the cave, by sealing the entrance with a boulder.
Using Bakura's Millennium Ring as a guide, the friends found the Paradox Brothers guarding an exit. Yugi and Joey faced them in a Tag Duel to gain passage.[32] After winning Yugi and Joey, each had enough Star Chips to enter the finals and Yami Yugi passed the brothers riddle test in order to exit.
At the stairs to Pegasus' castle, Téa pondered on Yugi's differing personalities and wondered if there could be two Yugis. Yugi admitted to feeling as though there is someone else living inside him, but hoped he wasn't going crazy.
At the top of the stairs, Kaiba blocked the way and talked Yugi into a Duel. Yami took control and faced Kaiba, using his Duel Disk technology.[14] As Yami was about to win, Kaiba stood up on the edge of the castle, such that the shockwaves from Yugi's attack may cause him to fall to his death. (In the English anime, Yugi spoke to Yami, telling him not to do it.) Yami contemplated, but in the end decided to attack. Téa ran to Yugi insisting that this is not like him and calls for the ordinary Yugi to come out. Yugi took control in time to cancel the move. He fell to his knees, shocked by what he had almost done. Kaiba took his turn and won the Duel, claiming five of Yugi's Star Chips.
Now fully aware of the other Yugi's existence, Yugi admitted it to his friends, telling them that he is afraid of him and consequently afraid to Duel. Kaiba called Yugi weak, but Téa protested arguing that Yugi saved him and Kaiba is the real loser.[34] After Kaiba left, Yugi continued to mope. Joey offered Yugi to take his Star Chips, so he may enter the finals, but Yugi ignored him. Frustrated, Joey grabbed Yugi by the shirt, asking him if he cares about his grandfather.
Mai appeared and was briefed in on what just happened. She offered Yugi her excessive Star Chips, as per her promise from earlier, but Yugi did not even acknowledge Mai's appearance. Annoyed, Mai told him to grow up and hang on to the Star Chips. She accused him of being afraid to Duel again and challenged him. Téa instead accepted the Duel, to win back Yugi's Star Chips.
Yugi began to slowly snap out of his depression as he watched Téa Duel. After Mai surrendered, Yugi approached her about the face-down card she didn't use. Mai denied that she lost for him. (In the dub, she said that some cards just aren't worth playing.)
Inside the castle, the group were invited to watch Pegasus Duel Kaiba. Seeing as Kaiba was Dueling to save Mokuba, Yugi opted support to Kaiba. Kaiba was trapped in Pegasus' "Soul Prison" card, after his defeat. Yugi then shouted down to Pegasus' asking who he is to mess with people and their families like this.
The finalists along with Téa, Tristan and Bakura were treated to a meal that evening, where the finalists got paired-up. After the meal, Yugi gave Joey his "Glory of the King's Hand", as it is mandatory for each finalist to possess either it or "Glory of the King's Opposite Hand".
That night, Yugi was woken by his grandfather's voice, calling him. He followed it and found a "Soul Prison" card, with his grandfather's soul inside. Solomon warned him about Pegasus and is accompanied by the cards containing Seto and Mokuba Kaiba's souls. Yugi woke up afterwards, wondering if it was a dream.
Yugi faced Mai in the first Duel of the finals. Yami Yugi gives little effort to the Duel, as he was worried about facing Pegasus. (In the dub, Yugi refused to let Yami Duel, fearing how he may harm their opponent.) This resulted in Yugi playing poorly. Encouraging words from Mai returned the Yugis to the top of their game and allowed them to turn the Duel around and emerge with a win.
Yugi cheered for Joey in his Duel against Bandit Keith.
Yugi faced Joey in the final round. Joey used all he learned from Yugi, but was still defeated by Yami Yugi. Afterwards Joey offered to give "Glory of the King's Hand" back to Yugi, so he may claim the prize money. However Yugi declined, as he had entered to tournament with the intent of saving his grandfather and now the Kaiba brothers. The money was not important to him, but Joey needed it for his sister's eye operation.
Yugi advanced to Duel Pegasus. At the start of the Duel, Yugi requested that the Kaiba brothers' souls be released as well as his grandfather's, if he wins. Pegasus accepted but indicated that he plans on taking Yugi's soul if he wins. Pegasus used his Millennium Eye to read Yami Yugi's mind during the Duel, but Yugi had an idea about countering Pegasus's powers by the risky strategy of having him and Yami switch minds each time they played a face-down card, thus preventing Pegasus from reading their strategy while running the risk that one of them would attempt something that would hinder the other's plans. After the Yugis destroyed Pegasus' "Toon World" card, Pegasus transported them all into the Shadow Realm. In the Shadow Realm, Yugi lost his life energy while doing the mind shuffle strategy, lacking the spiritual strength to play on that level, and Pegasus continued successfully reading Yami's mind, until Joey, Téa and Tristan blocked his Millennium Eye. Yami defeated Pegasus, returning them both back from the Shadow Realm.
Pegasus disappeared after his Duel with Yugi. Determined to ensure the captive souls are returned, Yugi and his friends searched for Pegasus. They found a number of Pegasus' men carrying him away after he was assaulted by Yami Bakura. Croquet explained that he was attacked. (In the dub, he said that Pegasus had fallen ill.) Yugi and company headed to Pegasus' tower, where they found a diary entry addressed to new King of Duelists who defeats him, explaining why he created Duel Monsters. Yugi then spotted the three "Soul Prison" cards, which are now blank, meaning the souls are no longer imprisoned.
As he left the tower, Yugi bumped into Shadi, who used his Millennium Key to enter Yugi's mind. To Shadi's surprise he found two soul rooms; one for Yugi and one for Yami. Shadi wound up in a Shadow Game with Yami, but was rescued by Yugi. Yugi informed Shadi that he doesn't believe his other self intends to harm him and asked Yami to release Shadi from the game.
A door opened, leading them to a room lined with stone tablets of Duel Monsters. Yugi learned from Shadi that millennia ago, Egyptian kings played Shadow Games with real monsters and magic. After the games became a war that threatened to destroy the world, one brave pharaoh sealed the magic away. The duo were confronted by the Dark Magician. Shadi prepared to counter by Summoning the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. However Yugi insisted that the Dark Magician would never harm him and asked the magician to let them past. To Shadi's astonishment the magician complied. Seeing Yugi's control over the Dark Magician, Shadi believed he may be the chosen one.
Shadi returned himself and Yugi to outside Yugi's soul. Before disappearing, he told Yugi his name and claimed to have not told it to anyone before.
After the group found Mokuba was back to normal, Croquet handed Yugi the other prizes on behalf of Pegasus, who had been taken to hospital. Yugi received the card "The Ties of Friendship", was crowned the King of Games and also received the 3 million dollar check, which he gave to Joey for Serenity's eye operation.
Kaiba thanked Yugi for saving Mokuba and insisted that they have a fair Duel someday to determine who is the better Duelist. Yami Yugi congratulated Yugi on saving everyone. (In the dub, Yugi pointed out that he doesn't even know Yami's name. Yami replied that he has been called many things such as Pharaoh, Yu-Gi-Oh and Yami. Yugi refered to him as Yami and said he is glad to call him his friend, while Yami was proud to be one.)
Yugi and his friends got a lift back to Domino City from Kaiba.
As Yugi brought his grandfather home from the hospital, the group was confronted by Rebecca Hawkins. She accused Solomon of stealing her grandfather's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and challenged him to a Duel. At Kaiba Land, Yugi faced Rebecca in the Duel, as his grandfather was unfit to play.[45] The Duel turned out to be an exact repeat of the Duel their grandfathers played a long ago over a drink of water. Like how Solomon surrendered back then as Arthur needed the water more, Yugi surrendered to teach Rebecca about the Heart of the Cards. Just then, Arthur arrived, showed that Yugi could have won, and explained why he surrendered. After Rebecca apologized, Yugi gave her the card, "The Ties of Friendship".
Mokuba arrived at Kame Game and informed Yugi and his friends that Kaiba's mind had been trapped in the Virtual World by The Big Five, while testing out a virtual reality machine that he created. Upon agreeing to help, Yugi, Joey, Téa, Tristan and Mokuba snuck into Kaiba's laboratory at the Adventure Game. Yugi, Joey and Mokuba got into pods to transport their minds to the virtual world, while Téa and Tristan kept guard.
Yugi, Joey and Mokuba appeared in a graveyard, where they were confronted by "Armored Zombie", "Clown Zombie" and "Dragon Zombie". They Summoned monsters to battle them, but the zombies kept reviving stronger than before. However Joey continued to attack them, until Yugi reminded him of his Duel with Bonz. So Joey played "Shield & Sword", dropping their DEF to 0 and Yugi finished off the zombies with "Dark Magician". Upon beating the zombies, they were each given a card displaying how much currency they have.
The trio spotted the fairy Iru, who guided them to a town. Here they heard that a prisoner, who may be Kaiba, had been taken to the Cave of Death. They were unable to travel there due to the sandstorm and a townsman informed them that they would need a "Niwatori" in order to cross that desert. Upon searching the town, they found a battle competition with "Niwatori" as a prize.
Yugi and Mokuba watched Joey Duel Madam Butterfly in the Virtual World Coliseum. Once Joey found out that Madam Butterfly was Mai Valentine, Yugi and Mokuba ran over to them and explained what happened to Kaiba. Offering to help, Mai got her "Harpie Lady" to snatch the "Niwatori" card from the Coliseum owner and the four of them ran for the desert. At the edge of the desert, Mai played the "Niwatori" card, producing four large birds for them to ride on.
Once they crossed the desert, they reached the template at the Cave of Death. Inside they found themselves in a maze and were chased by "Labyrinth Tank". Yugi used "Magical Hats" to hide them and transport them to another part of the maze, where they met Iru and Adena. Iru guided the group to the exit, but it was guarded by "Gate Guardian". Yugi and Joey together Summoned "Black Skull Dragon" and equipped it with "Dragon Nails", making it strong enough to defeat "Gate Guardian". Outside the maze, a rescue party arrived and took Yugi and his friends to the palace as a reward for saving Adena.
At the palace Yugi and his friends learned that Adena was the queen of the land. (In the dub, she was a princess.) Adena informed them of Mythic Dragon ritual where they must offer sacrifices to the Mythic Dragon. They learn that Adena is to be this kingdom's sacrifice and Kaiba is to be another kingdom's. Adena tells them of a legendary flying machine which can access the castle where Kaiba is and how she believed that Yugi and his friends are prophesized heroes who will destroy the Mythic Dragon. Yugi, Joey, Mai and Mokuba agreed to help and were given hero costumes to wear.
On one of the battlements, they were attacked by monsters who were after the sacrifice. Yugi, Joey and Mai unsuccessfully tried fighting them off. However Mokuba, who had previously swapped clothes with Adena, was kidnapped instead. While trying to find a way to save Mokuba, Yugi noticed a recent storm had revealed the outlines of the flying machine on the floor below them. Yugi asked Adena how long ago the legend involving the flying machine took place. With the unlikelihood of the machine still working and not enough time to dig it up, Yugi hinted to Joey that they needed to restore it to the condition it was 1000 years ago, prompting Joey to use "Time Wizard" to take the machine back 1000 years.
Yugi, Joey and Mai flew the airship up to the castle. On the way they were attacked by monsters, which they countered by summoning their own monsters. Yugi was attacked while his "Dark Magician" was too far away to save him. However Iru, blocked the attack, sacrificing itself. Yugi then played "Swords of Revealing Light" to block attacks. Angry over Iru's death, Yugi switched to Yami Yugi, who led the group to the castle.
As Yami, he managed to regroup with the Kaiba brothers and defeat The Big Five's "Mythic Dragon" in the final stage by Summoning "Dragon Master Knight". Shortly after Adina thanked them and revived Mai, Joey, Mokuba and Iru, the group returned to the real world.
Dungeon Dice Monsters
Grandpa feared for his business, the Kame Game, when the new game store, the Black Clown opened in Domino City. He ordered Yugi to stay away from the new shop. However Yugi and Téa passed it on the way to school later. Yugi received a flyer for a new game Dungeon Dice Monsters, but Téa dragged him away after he blushed at the lady handing out the flyer.
At school, they met the new student, Duke Devlin, the owner of the Black Clown. Joey was jealous of Duke's popularity and challenged him to a game of Duel Monsters. Yugi objected to the condition that Joey and Duke both use Decks from packs they open on the spot. Joey lost the televised Duel and in keeping his end of the bargain had to do whatever Duke said. Yugi became disgusted after Duke forced Joey to wear a dog suit and behave like a dog, so he switched to Yami who challenged Duke to a Duel. Duke accepted if they play Dungeon Dice Monsters instead of Duel Monsters and should Yugi lose he must relinquish his title of "King of Games" and give-up playing Duel Monsters.
Unfamiliar with the rules, Yami got off to a rough start. His chances did not improve as Duke revealed that he designed Dungeon Dice Monsters with Pegasus' aid. Duke blamed Yugi for Pegasus' disappearance after Duelist Kingdom.[51] Yami used his innate gaming skills to turn the tables on Duke. Yami succeeded in calling "Dark Magician", which Pegasus had added to the game, and used it to defeat Duke.
After the game, Duke, Yugi and Yugi's friends went to Duke's office. Duke lamented that his dream has been crushed as nobody would want to play Dungeon Dice Monsters now. However Yugi assured him that it was a great game and his friends agreed. Duke apologized for how he had treated them and they agreed to be friends.
Yugi replaced the brown rope around the Millennium Puzzle with a chain, which Yami Yugi complimented and offered him advice on impressing Téa, who was waiting for him. Embarrassed, Yugi asks what he was talking about. As Yugi left the room, his mother asked who he was talking to. Yugi replied that it was nobody and dashed off, telling Yami to stop picking on him, as he offered to help make Téa like him. (The Yugis talking about Téa and the scene with Yugi's mother were removed from the dub; thus it is never explained why Yugi was blushing.) Yugi met up with Téa and left for school with her (in the dub, they were going to a soccer game). Yugi told her that Yami was worried about his destiny and had no memory of his past.
On the way to school, Yugi bumped into Bandit Keith, who was possessed by Marik Ishtar and disguised as a fortune-teller. Falling for the disguise, Yugi reluctantly let him hold the Millennium Puzzle in order to read his future. Keith knocked over the table at Yugi and Téa and ran off with the Puzzle. Yugi and Téa split up to find him. In his search, Yugi followed a series of arrows, although he knew it was a trap, he felt that he had no other choice. Yugi caught-up with Keith, who had the Puzzle bolted to a wall. According to ancient rules, Marik had to win the Puzzle in a Duel, so he challenged Yugi to a Duel through Keith. Yugi was unable to switch to Yami during the Duel and quickly realized that Bandit Keith was his opponent after seeing he used a Machine Deck.
Yami Bakura sensed an evil presence and pinpointed it to the Duel. Seeing Keith controlled, Yami Bakura used the Millennium Ring to break Marik's control. Keith struggled to resist being repossessed, but Marik took control long enough to have Keith smash the Puzzle. Bakura swung down from a rope, knocking Keith unconscious. Bakura then collected a piece of the Puzzle and sealed a fragment of his soul inside it, before returning it to Yugi. Keith regained consciousness and continued to struggle with Marik's mind control, setting fire to the warehouse in his confusion. Unable to remove the piece of the Puzzle connected to the wall, Yugi stayed in the burning building to reassemble it. After inserting the last piece he collapsed and goes unconscious from the heat , but was rescued by Tristan and Joey and was taken to the hospital.
Worrying about how the Puzzle almost got stolen, Yugi took time to talk with Yami and discovered that Yami has no idea of who he once was, as he has lost all his memories. The duo suspected that their new enemy is in possession of a Millennium Item.
To try and help Yami regain his memories, Yugi asked Téa to spend time with Yami. He asked Téa out, but switched to Yami just before the date. Not expecting this Yami started shouting into the Puzzle at Yugi, until he was noticed by Téa. On the date, Yami and Téa learned from Ishizu Ishtar that Yami was once an Egyptian pharaoh and that Yugi had to enter the upcoming Battle City tournament to stop their new enemy.
While talking with Téa, about Duel Monsters at school, Téa asked which card best suited Yugi, assuming he would pick "Dark Magician". However Yugi explained that while "Dark Magician" is powerful, "Maha Vailo" better suits him, as it's not the strongest card, but it had hidden power. He would have liked to have picked "Dark Magician", but thought it's better suited to the other Yugi.
The day before the tournament, Yugi and Joey picked-up their Duel Disks in order to compete and the next morning Yugi finished reconstructing his Deck for the tournament.
Yugi spotted Joey trying to get a rematch with the Rare Hunter, Seeker, who had won his "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". Yugi noticed his robes were the same as the ones Bandit Keith wore, while he was possessed. Seeker refused to face Joey again, but challenges Yugi to a Duel. Yugi accepts and switched to Yami[60], who won and took back Joey's "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". Marik then used Seeker as his puppet to communicate with Yugi. He introduced himself, told Yugi how he's after the power of the pharaoh and warned him that there are more deadly Rare Hunters. Yugi offered Joey back the "Red-Eyes", but Joey refused, saying he will wait until he's a true Duelist before earning it back.
Yugi saves Arkana from the buzzsaw.
Yugi was lured into a tent by a harlequin and confronted by the Rare Hunter, Arkana. As Yami Yugi, he faced Arkana in a Duel, where the loser's feet got cut off by a buzzsaw. (In the dub, they got sent to the Shadow Realm by energy disks.) Yami won the Duel, but Yugi then took over and saved Arkana from the buzzsaw (energy disk in the dub).
At the canal side, while Yugi spoke with Yami about recent happenings they were confronted by another Rare Hunter, Strings. Strings was under Marik's complete control and Dueled Yami Yugi using the Egyptian God Card, "Slifer the Sky Dragon". Yami won the Duel, earning "Slifer the Sky Dragon" through the Ante rule. Kaiba, who had appeared during the Duel challenged Yugi to a Duel on the spot, but Marik warned Yugi that he was going to take control of Joey. Yugi declined Kaiba's challenge as he had to find and save his friend.
As Yami Yugi searched the city for his friends, with Kaiba's help, they defeated the Rare Hunters Umbra and Lumis twice, gaining enough Locator Cards to qualify for the finals and also located Joey at Domino Pier.
Yugi facing Joey, who is possessed by Marik
At the Pier, Yugi was forced to Duel Joey, who was possessed by Marik. Each player had their ankles chained to an anchor, which would drag them underwater to drown after the timer reaches 0. The only way for either player to save themself was to defeat their opponent, which would open a box, giving them a key. Yami made the first few of Yugi's moves, but Yugi insisted that he should fight this battle himself. Through talking to Joey and using "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" to remind him of his promise to become a true Duelist and even giving him the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi managed to get Joey's subconsciousness to ignore Marik's commands. Yugi managed to fully snap Joey out of Marik's control shortly before forcing himself to lose. With Joey back to normal, Yugi told Marik that he was the true loser of this Duel. Yugi let his Life Points fall to 0 and collapsed, releasing Joey's key. However Joey managed to force the Duel into a DRAW, releasing Yugi's key too. Using the chain, Joey swung to Yugi's side of the field and grabbed his key, before the anchor dragged them both down. He unlocked Yugi, who floated to the surface and was brought ashore by Tristan. Serenity dove in with the other key to save Joey. Joey later apologized and returned the Millennium Puzzle. Yugi thanked Yami for trusting in him and Yami said that Yugi has taught him the strength behind kindness and that one day Yugi will surpass him in every way.
Afterwards Mai gave Yugi and his friends a lift to the finals.
Yugi, Joey, Mai, Téa, Tristan, Duke and Serenity arrived at the KaibaCorp Stadium for the finals. Yugi was suspicious of the finalist Marik, who is under the guise "Namu", and Bakura, who should be in the hospital. Téa cleared any suspicion of Namu, by informing Yugi of how he saved her, Joey and Bakura earlier. Shortly after Odion Ishtar, pretending to be Marik arrived, everyone boarded the blimp, where the finals took place.
As Yugi prepared for the finals in his room, he added "Slifer the Sky Dragon" to his Deck, thinking he was going to need it to face Marik. He also suspected Bakura had come into contact with the Millennium Ring again.
Yugi meets Shadi.
Yami Yugi faced Bakura in the first of the quarter-finals on the Stratos Dueling Arena. Yugi's suspicions were confirmed as they faced Yami Bakura.[71] When Bakura was one turn away from winning with "Destiny Board", the two Yugis agreed that they had to use "Slifer the Sky Dragon" to defeat him. Yami Yugi Summoned "Slifer", but Marik switched control of Bakura's body from Yami Bakura to Bakura, who was too weak to withstand the attack. However Yami Bakura disagreed with Marik's plan and took control of Bakura's body. He invited Yugi to attack him, refusing to let his host die. Yugi won the Duel, knocking Bakura unconscious and in leaving him need of medical attention.
During the intermission before the next Duel, Yugi unsuccessfully tried to get Kaiba to make an emergency stop to take Bakura to a doctor. Yugi went back to his room and began examining his Deck. He was interrupted by Shadi, who told him how the Egyptian God Cards were created and why he must stop Marik from getting his hands on them.
Ishizu gives Yugi the Millennium Necklace.
Joey defeated Odion, who was still pretending to be Marik and exposed him as a fake. Subsequently Namu was exposed as the real Marik and Yami Marik took control of his body. Marik confronted Yugi, saying the battle for the Pharaoh's power had just begun.
After losing to Kaiba, Ishizu Ishtar told Yugi of the Ishtar family's history and gave him the Millennium Necklace, as he was going to need all seven Millennium Items to recover the Pharaoh's memories.
That night Yugi was woken by Téa, who reported Bakura has gone missing. They discovered he was Dueling with Marik and saw him lose shortly after they arrived.
Virtual World
The Battle City blimp got sucked into a mechanical fortress in the sea, by Noah Kaiba. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Téa, Serenity, Duke, Kaiba and Mokuba exited the blimp, where they were greeted by a projection of the Big Five, who explained that they got trapped in the Virtual World, after they failed to trap Kaiba there, during the Legendary Heroes game. For that they hate Yugi and his friends for helping Kaiba. Having Kaiba as a common enemy, Noah uploaded their minds into his computer system. Using an altered form of Duel Monsters, they planned to face the gang in order to claim possession of their bodies, so that they may exist in the real world.
The group were then transported to a virtual jungle, where they are given a demonstration of the Deck Master rules. The Big Five then separated the gang, by making holes appear under them.
Yugi was transported to a pond, where he was faced by Gansley, who had taken the form of "Deepsea Warrior". Before Dueling Gansley, Yugi changed to Yami Yugi, who Gansley identified as "Type-B". During the Duel, Yugi noticed that their Deck Master, Kuriboh was trying to tell them something. As Yami was about to lose, Yugi took over and used Kuriboh's Deck Master effect to save them. Shortly afterwards, Yugi collapsed so Yami took back control and won the Duel.
The Yugis entered a hallway afterwards. Although they were aware there were traps behind some doors, Yugi ran through one, after hearing Téa scream, but was thrown back by an attack. Yami drew the Level Star of the door to Yugi's attention, so Yugi Summoned a monster of a higher Level, "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress" and has it launch an attack into the doorway. They entered the doorway and wound up repeating the same process. Realizing it was because they keep choosing the Level 1 door, they started attacking different Levels. The final door had the 2000 ATK, Level 4 monster, "Flash Assailant", backed up with a series of face-down Magic or Trap Cards. Yugi used "Heavy Storm" to clear the face-downs and the effect of "4-Starred Ladybug of Doom" to destroy "Flash Assailant".
Yugi arrived at the scene of Téa's Duel, but was held back by a wall of ice. "Dark Magician" was taken from his Deck and Summoned to Téa's field, after she played "Sage's Stone". Attacking with both "Dark Magician" and "Dark Magician Girl", Téa defeated Crump, causing the ice around her to disappear. Yugi rushed to her aid and gave her his coat. Together they walked though the ice region and entered a door, taking them to a courtroom, where Joey was Dueling Johnson.
Yugi correctly suspected that Johnson had rigged the outcome of Joey's luck based cards. Although Noah attempted to disqualify Johnson, Joey insisted that they continue with the game unrigged. After Joey won, he, Yugi and Téa exited though another door.
The trio found their way to Duke, Serenity and Tristan's Duel against Nezbitt. After the Duel, the gang tried to find Tristan, before the Big Five took his body. They briefly met up with Kaiba and Mokuba, but were attacked by Nezbitt in possession of Tristan's body. The real Tristan in the body of a robot monkey helped them fight the imposter. However Nezbitt kidnapped Mokuba and Kaiba took off after him, leaving the others think about what to do with the monkey, not knowing it was Tristan.
The group took a pick-up truck to go after Kaiba. On the way, they found out the monkey was Tristan after he accidentally flipped a switch, allowing him to speak normally.
After watching Kaiba Duel Leichter, Yugi and Téa went with Kaiba to help him find Mokuba. The others tried to follow, but the tunnel disappeared, before they could enter.
Inside the tunnel Yugi and Téa got separated from Kaiba, and found themselves in a simulation of Kaiba's mansion back when Seto Kaiba got adopted. Yugi found a picture of Kaiba's father, Gozaburo, with Noah, shortly before meeting up with Kaiba again. Noah then showed the three of them a projection of the past, where Gozaburo showed Noah a picture of Seto, who Noah had to be able to compete with in order to run KaibaCorp.
Noah transported Yugi, Téa and Kaiba back to their friends, where they were confronted by the Big Five, now all sharing possession of Tristan's body. Yugi and Joey teamed-up to Duel them in order to win back Tristan's body. Although Yugi and Joey won, the Big Five attempted to steal their bodies, but Noah took them away, along with Tristan's body, before they could.
Since Noah designed the robot monkey, Yugi and his friends searched it for clues. Yugi pushed a red button, which transported them to a virtual Kaiba Land. From there the gang took a handcar through a subway and wound up on the scene of Noah and Seto Kaiba's Duel.
Yugi takes Yami to his soul room of recent memories.
Noah won and turned Seto and Mokuba to stone. This caused Yugi to get mad and change to Yami, who accused Noah of foul play, as he had used Mokuba as a shield to help him win. As Yami, Yugi combined his Deck with Seto's and continued the Duel. Noah gradually turned Yugi's friends to stone as Yami Dueled, until none of them were left. Yugi then offered Yami support and took him to his soul room. Inside he brought Yami to a room containing his recent memories, where everyone, who had been turned to stone offered their support. Back in virtual reality, Yami imagined Yugi's friends giving him the cards drawn by "Card of Sanctity". With them, Yami Summoned Kaiba's three "Blue-Eyes White Dragons" to win the Duel against Noah.
After the Duel, Noah attempted to steal Yugi's body and escape to the real world, but the power of the Millennium Puzzle forced him back. After Noah found out that Gozaburo had been using him, he tried to help everyone escape the virtual world and took them to a virtual Domino City. The group got separated and met-up again, minus the Kaibas. Having realized Noah double crossed them, Yugi started to blame himself for trusting Noah.
Gozaburo had monsters attack Yugi and his friends as they looked for a way out, but Yugi and Joey fought them off by Summoning monsters from their Decks. Noah, having stolen Mokuba's body and escaped to the real world, organized a missile attack to destroy the fortress, including the servers for the virtual world. After having a change of heart, he contacted the group and explained that they must get out out quickly before the virtual world is destroyed.
Yugi and Kaiba jump from the building.
Noah told them to go the arcade. Yugi, Duke and Joey fought off more of Gozaburo's monsters, while Téa, Serenity and Tristan went there. When Yugi, Duke and Joey got to the arcade, Noah asked Yugi to go and get Seto before returning himself.
Yugi complied and went to the KaibaCorp building, catching Seto shortly after he beat Gozaburo in a Duel. Gozaburo took the form of a monster and chased the two. Noah instructed them to jump off the building. With no other option they complied and awoke in the real world, before hitting the ground.
Yugi, Kaiba and Mokuba ran to escape the fortress before the missile strike and were helped onto the moving blimp by Joey and Tristan, shortly before the fortress got destroyed.
Battle City finals
The KaibaCorp blimp took the finalists to the Duel Tower for the Battle City finals. Yugi switched to Yami Yugi for the Battle Royal to determine match-ups[95] and wound up with Kaiba as his opponent.
Yugi weeps over Joey, after he loses to Marik.
Yugi tried to stop Joey from Dueling Marik. However Yami reminded him that Joey accepted the Duel knowing it would be a Shadow Game and nobody can stop such a game. Yugi worried for Joey and wondered if there was something they could do to help. However Yami assured Yugi that this was Joey's fight and he can win with their support. After Joey lost, Yugi screamed that it's a lie. He said that he won't lose Joey to the Shadow Realm. Later at Joey's bedside, he begged for him not to die. Yugi blamed himself, saying that he should have Dueled Marik instead. Out in the hallway, Yugi cried more and considered stopping Dueling, but Yami convinced him that they must not give-up and let Marik win. Yami got the idea to use the Millennium Necklace to see what happens. He and Yugi then used it to look into the future, where they saw Yami and Joey preparing to Duel.
Yugi Dueled Kaiba in the second semi-final as Yami Yugi. They managed to defeat Kaiba and afterwards found out Joey was okay to Yugi's delight. Yugi and Yami gained Kaiba's "Obelisk the Tormentor" card through the ante rule.
Yugi and Yami watched Joey Duel Kaiba in a third place play-off. They both agreed that Joey was a great Duelist and would have defeated Marik, had their Duel not been turned into a Shadow Game. The two them noticed the Millennium Puzzle acting strange and saw Téa's reflection in it. They left the Duel to find Téa, who was possessed by the original Marik to confront Yami Marik. At the top of the Duel Tower, they found Téa, Marik and Ishizu. Ishizu explained that Téa would be fine and that Marik's good side still lives on within Téa's mind.
Yugi partly disappearing, while Yami Yugi Duels Yami Marik.
Before facing Marik, Kaiba gave Yugi the card, "Fiend's Sanctuary", which Kaiba intended to use against Marik himself. Yami Marik and Yami Yugi's final Duel was a Shadow Game, where the regular Yugi and Marik were drawn from their bodies and floated next to them in spirit form. Yugi and Marik were bound by their wrists and ankles in darkness and parts of their bodies disappeared as their "Yami" selves lost Life Points. (In the 4kids version, they were gradually being swallowed into the Shadow Realm.) If Yami Yugi lost, Yugi would vanish and the Pharaoh would cease to exist as he required the physical body of a host to maintain himself.
Yugi encouraged Yami throughout the Duel. He even urged Yami to pay Life Points to keep "Fiend's Sanctuary" active, knowing it would make part of his body disappear. Yugi insisted that they must find a way to win without causing the good Marik to disappear. However, the good Marik possessed Téa and told Yugi not to hesitate, he's prepared to die. He no longer blamed the Yugis for his father's death. (In the dub, Marik said not to worry about protecting him, he wants to defeat his dark side at all costs.)
Yugi was certain that Yami Marik was going to fuse with "The Winged Dragon of Ra" a second time in the Duel and reminded Yami Yugi that if he does that again, he will become a monster and have the weakness of a Monster Card. With that in mind, Yami Yugi managed to use "Ragnarok", which would destroy "Ra". As Yugi wondered if this would cause the good Marik to disappear, Odion appeared.[104] Since Odion had been keeping Yami Marik away, his return allowed the regular Marik to regain some control of his body and urged Yami to attack. The Yugis continued to use the effect of "Ragnarok", which destroyed Ra and caused Marik and Yami Marik to switch places. With only 1 Life Point left, only Yami Marik's eye remained. Marik then surrendered causing Yami Marik to disappear and Yugi to win the Duel.
Yugi and Yami Yugi receive the last and strongest of the Egyptian Gods, "The Winged Dragon of Ra".
As the host, Kaiba congratulated Yugi for winning. (In the dub, he added that Yugi only won because Marik surrendered.) Marik informed Yugi that with his dark side gone, the souls of Mai and Bakura should be released and gave him "The Winged Dragon of Ra" due to the ante rule. Marik then showed Yugi the hieroglyphics carved on his back, explaining that the secret of the Pharaoh's power is written there, and whoever holds the three Egyptian God Cards can unlock that secret. With his mission complete, Marik handed the Millennium Rod and Ring to Yugi.
Kaiba announced that he was going to blow-up the Duel Tower and gave everyone an hour to evacuate. Yugi and his friends returned to the Battle Ship and found that Mai and Bakura were okay, but there was no sign of the Kaiba brothers on the blimp. With the Battle Ship damaged from escaping Noah's fortress and no one able to find the Kaibas, everyone else boarded the KaibaCorp helicopter. As they left, they saw Kaiba and Mokuba had escaped in their Blue-Eyes White Dragon jet.
Back in Domino City, Yugi and his friends said goodbye to the Ishtar family, Duke and Mai. Afterwards, back in Kame Game, Yugi and Yami Yugi assembled a Deck and included the "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" Joey gave them. At sunrise, the Yugis met Joey at the plaza for a final Duel to conclude their Battle City adventure.
Doma
Between classes, Yami took control of Yugi's body and skipped out of school to go to the museum, with Egyptian God Cards to uncover his memories. Yugi asked why they were going alone. Yami replied that it would be too depressing to say goodbye and just wants Yugi to see him off. (In the dub, there was no mention of why they were going alone. Instead Yami said that he felt the Egyptain God Cards pulling him to the museum.) However, Téa, Joey and Tristan caught up with him outside the museum and reminded him that they are a team. Inside Yami held the Egyptian God cards up to the tablet, but something held him back. The group heard a scream and dashed outside, finding a large number of living Duel Monsters in the city.
Suspecting the Duel Monsters appearing was caused by Kaiba's holographic technology, they went to KaibaCorp, but were unable to get past a crowd of reporters.
Yugi helps Grandpa after the break-in and learns that the Egyptian God cards have been stolen.
Later at the Kame Game, as Yugi and his friends watched Kaiba on TV explaining that he wasn't responsible, there was a break-in and the Egyptian God cards were stolen by motorcyclists from Doma. They quickly rushed outside and saw the Gods appear in the city. Yugi wondered who could have Summoned them as only someone with a connection to the Millennium Items can Summon the Egyptian Gods. The thieves then appeared before them, demanding that Yugi follow them if he wants to get the God cards back. Yugi changed to Yami and wound up Dueling one of them, Gurimo. Gurimo used the soul stealing card "The Seal of Orichalcos" and was even able to Summon "Obelisk the Tormentor" through its power.[106] Yugi still managed to defeat Gurimo, causing his soul to be sealed in the card. Afterwards Yugi took his necklace containing a fragment of the Orichalcos stone. As a reward for his victory, Rafael released the souls of Rex and Weevil, which Gurimo had previously captured using "The Seal of Orichalcos".
On the street, Yugi, Téa, Joey and Tristan found Rex and Weevil and discussed the bikers, who had stolen their souls and Yugi's God cards. Rex and Weevil pretended to agree to help them, but secretly planned on getting the God cards for themselves.
Rebecca kisses Yugi.
After leaving Rex and Weevil, Yugi and his friends met Rebecca Hawkins, who claimed that Yugi is now her boyfriend and took them to the museum to see her grandfather Arthur. From researching the origins of Duel Monsters, Arthur confirmed that Yugi was indeed sharing a bond with an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh and informed them that pharaoh saved the world when Ancient Egyptian sorcerers harnessed real monsters' powers by sealing them in tablets, like Duel Monsters. He also showed them photos from what he believed was Atlantis, showing carvings of Duel Monsters, proving that the origins of Duel Monsters dates back further than 3000 (5000 in the dub) years in Egypt to at least 10000 years ago in Atlantis. Arthur told them that he believes there is a parallel dimension where Duel Monsters are real. Since the pharaoh saved the world the last time people conjured these monsters, Arthur believes Yugi is to save the world this time, since the pharaoh has been reborn in him. Not certain what to do next, Yugi gave Arthur the stone he had taken from Gurimo for him to test. Outside the museum, to Yugi's embarrassment, Rebecca gave him a kiss before leaving. Shortly before leaving himself, Yugi thought that he heard someone calling for help, but couldn't see them anywhere.
As Yugi went to sleep that night, he heard the voice calling for help again. The Millennium Puzzle activated and the two Yugis were sent to the chamber inside the Millennium Puzzle. They heard the voice calling for help again and searched to see if they could find who it was. They eventually found Kuriboh, who led them to a room they'd never been to before. They heard the voice again and followed it, causing them to be transported through a vortex to the Duel Monsters Spirit World.
Yugi and Yami release Timaeus and gain his strength
Yugi and Yami found themselves hovering above a castle. They flew down into it and met Dark Magician Girl, who told them that both worlds were in danger. She explained that the two worlds rely on each other for survival, but now a gateway has been opened between the two worlds and the great beast, who feeds on the life force of humans and spirits will consume them all. Yugi and Yami agreed to help them, so Dark Magician Girl took them to three dragons trapped in crystal. According to legend, three warriors should be able to free them. Believing Yugi to be one of the warriors, she instructed the Yugis to remove a sword from one of the dragons. Yugi and Yami pulled the sword out, freeing the dragon, Timaeus.
Yugi woke-up in his bed shortly afterwards. He saw a strange light phenomenon trapping monsters outside. He ran to the plaza to see what it was and met his friends there. The monsters were absorbed into a crystal, which shattered, revealing an eye, which shot a twister at Yugi. However Yugi's Duel Disk began to glow as the card, "The Eye of Timaeus" appeared in it. Using it, Yugi Summoned Timaues to attack and destroy the eye. The Dark Magician Girl then appeared next to Yugi and informed him that the battle is just beginning.
While showing his friends the card, Yugi received a package from Industrial Illusions, containing a videotape and the card, "Illusion's Key". He was initially reluctant to watch the video, remembering the last one Pegasus sent him. After deducing Pegasus can't seal souls, since he no longer has the Millennium Eye, Yugi and his friends watched the tape. Pegasus offered some explanation for the recent events, but since it was too risky to leave the information on tape, he asked Yugi to meet him in person and arranged a jet for Yugi and his friends to come to California and bring the "Illusion's Key" with them.
Timaeus lights up as Critias is released by Kaiba.
The group took the plane to San Francisco, where a limousine was provided to take them to the Industrial Illusions headquarters.[110] Inside the limousine, Yugi noticed "The Eye of Timaeus" lighting up as Kaiba reelased Critias elsewhere. However the limousine took the group to a desert and the driver abandoned them at a gas station.[111] At the station, they were approached by another motorcyclist gang looking for trouble, but Mai Valentine appeared on a motorbike and fought off the bikers, causing a fire. Tristan drove Yugi, Joey and Téa in the limousine away from the station before the gasoline pump caused an explosion. Mai also escaped on her motorbike and drove away. The limousine broke down, while still in the desert, leaving Yugi and his friends stranded. Using Téa's femininity while the boys hid, they were able to hitch a ride from a truck driver to Industrial Illusions.
When the group finally at the Industrial Illusions headquarters, they were locked in by Mai, who revealed that she was with Doma and had captured Pegasus' soul in a "The Seal of Orichalcos" card, before challenging Joey to a Duel. During the Duel, Yugi's "The Eye of Timaeus" card once again lit-up as Joey was sent to the Spirit World to free Hermos. Fearing Mai would lose, Valon broke-up the Duel and the members of Doma fled.
Yugi and company encounter the holographic recording of Pegasus.
Yugi and his friends were then joined by Duke, Rex, Weevil and Kaiba. Using the card "Illusion's Key", Yugi was able to open a secret room, where they encountered a holographic recording of Pegasus. Pegasus told them about Doma's involvement in historical events and told Yugi where to find an exclusive card, he would need later. They found the card, "Legend of Heart", albeit blank at the time, within the room. Although, Kaiba decided not to stick with Yugi and his friends, they correctly guessed that he had the other Legendary Dragon, "Fang of Critias".
Duke gave the gang a lift to Arthur Hawkins' house to look for clues on what to do next. By the time they got there, Arthur had been kidnapped and the house was blown-up. Rebecca flung herself around Yugi and explained what happened. The group went into Arthur's mobile home and discussed what happened. Rebecca returned the Orichalcos stone, Yugi had lent to Arthur. While the others prepared something to eat, Yugi and Rebecca stepped outside to talk. Rebecca showed Yugi a card and note from Rafael she found after the explosion. Rafael's note told Yugi to come alone to Death Valley. (In the dub, it told Yugi to go there if he wanted to see Arthur again.) Later that night, Yugi borrowed Rebecca's horse, Copernicus, to go there.
Yugi Dueled Rafael as Yami Yugi at Death Valley, but still accompanied Yami in spirit form. Yugi was relieved when Rafael said that he had no intention of playing "The Seal of Orichalcos" in this Duel.[116] However Rafael used "Exchange" to give the card to Yugi later on. Yugi urged Yami not to use that card, no matter what happens and Yami agreed. However, they reached a point where Yami felt he was going to lose unless he played the Seal. Despite Yugi's objections, Yami played it and Yugi's spirit form left him alone.
Not wanting anything to happen to the Pharaoh, Yugi saves him by allowing the Seal of the Oricalchos to take his spirit instead.
Yugi was unable to contact Yami for the rest of the Duel, as he was trapped behind the Seal. He unsuccessfully tried pleading with him to not sacrifice his monsters, including "Dark Magician Girl", whom they made a promise with. Yami went on to lose the Duel and was about to lose his soul to "The Seal of Orichalcos". Using the power of the Millennium Puzzle, Yugi broke the seal that was holding him back and appeared next to Yami again. Since "The Seal of Orichalcos" only takes one soul, Yugi pushed Yami aside and let the seal take him instead.
Yami traveled to the Stone Wilderness, where spirits both good and evil roam, in the hopes of contacting Yugi. He managed to find Yugi and apologized for what happened. Without Yugi, Yami said the darkness inside him is starting to grow. He was afraid that Rafael might be right that he is evil and feared getting his memories (This maybe false because, he was manipulated easily by Rafael's words to be a lie from Dartz only to get his soul or being influenced by the Orichalcos itself). Yugi reminded Yami that he has been locked away. Yami tried apologizing again, but Yugi said that he didn't want his pity. Yugi asked if Yami only came here to demoralize himself. (In the dub, he said if Yami truly is evil, there's only one thing to do.) A Duel Disk appeared on Yugi's arm and he challenged Yami to a Duel. Yugi knew that he would have to Duel Yami sooner or later and if Yami's heart has become dark or engulfed in the darkest abyss, Yami shall lose. (In the dub, Yugi said that Yami doesn't deserve to be a part of this world and must pay for what he has done.) Yami reluctantly accepted the Duel.
Yugi after playing "The Seal of Orichalcos" in his Duel against Yami.
Both Yugi's drew the same cards in the same order, so Yugi used "Sangan" to shuffle his Deck and "Card Destruction" to reset their hands. Yami stated that the Duel was meaningless. However Yugi explained that Yami's weakness is the darkness in his heart, he is arrogant and warped by his sense of pride. With only one value, it's impossible for Yami to see other people's pain. (This explanation is removed from the dub.) Since he was a mirror reflecting Yami's dark side, Yugi had "The Seal of Orichalcos" in his Deck. Yugi used it and proceeded to use the same strategy Yami used against Rafael, sacrificing his monsters to win. Yami realized that this is what he looked like in the Duel against Rafael warped by his own psychological disruption and descends into his own darkest abyss. He refused to lose, as it would prevent him from saving Yugi and two worlds will eventually be destroyed. But, Yugi only sees Yami, who never cared about anyone's suffering because his pride got in the way and proceeds with monster sacrifice that it is thanks to Yami's recklessness that he can use this strategy to exact his own vengeance. He managed to counter Yugi's strategy with "Divine Wind" and win. Yugi was pleased that Yami won and said that in defeating him, Yami defeated the darkness in his heart and Orichalcos influence that corrupted him meaning that Yugi planned this all along and was never under the influence of the evil card.
I wasn't well prepared since I didn't know the train we going almost 50 MPH along here but I still got a decent shot.
From 1988-90 every day after school I used to walk these tracks to my part-time job way down on Elizabeth Rd and Victoria.
Strobist - Softbox camera left.
I love... love... love My Goose, along with all my other liquor. I don't consider myself to be an alcoholic, more like a Mixaholic. I should've been a chemist or something. Actually I'm a bartender too... at least I was for a few years until I started cocktailing.
I was laid off from my day job but at least I still have my part-time job.
As April is "Autism Awareness Month" and I am an Aspie, diagnosed at the tender age of eight years old - maybe this frame is fitting. For the volumes it speaks in the various aspects in my complicated but simple life…but I'm not sure. This frame has had me thinking of all it represents, my passion for mass transit, trains, helping those who need it - and giving my life to helping others. My entire life I've been a civil servant, working in various levels of government and for a couple non-profits. The road to where I am now hasn't been easy either, but along the way I've always done what I can for those in my life and those who I can help, as that is what gives me my satisfaction, my drive and my passion. At 15 I began a 'part-time' job at SacRT, which turned into a four-year apprenticeship under the then director, until his untimely death in 2008. *sigh*
There is so much…yet so little. I too hope that I can die, knowing that I helped someone - or even changed the world I love so much. For now though, I can watch, observe and learn about the industry I left to pursue something better…who knows? It may lead me back…soaring into a bright future.
© D. Felice Strong-Baker Photo, All Rights Reserved.
I needed to look up an address and ducked into the Kingston Community Credit Union to ask for a phone book. It is a bright, sunny, but frosty day in Kingston at the eastern end of Canada's Lake Ontario. Standing in the doorway of the compact banking office, waiting for my glasses to clear, I heard a friendly voice inviting me to have a cookie and a cup of coffee. Looking down I saw this lovely white-haired woman in her pink shawl sitting at a table just beside me and her smile warmed up the room. Meet Rose.
Rose asked what she could to to help me and I was still trying to absorb her unexpected presence in the small credit union waiting area. I explained my startle by mentioning that I hadn't noticed her presence until she spoke. "It's ok" she said. "I work for the Credit Union. My job is to make you feel welcome and assist you in any way I can." A warm feeling came over me and I explained I wasn't a member of the credit union but had stopped in looking for a phone book. Rose got up and went to the counter and asked a teller for the phone book and gave it to me, inviting me to sit across from her at the small table. She offered me a sheet of paper and a pen to write down the address I looked up.
Rose asked about my camera and I explained my 100 Strangers project and she said she knew of Flickr and she picked up immediately on the social aspect of the project as well as the photographic aspect. "It sounds wonderful. I bet you meet lots of interesting people doing your project." "Like you?" I replied. She said she'd be happy to pose for me and I introduced myself and told her a bit more about the way the photos are used. Rose was quite receptive to my request that she move to the chair I had been sitting in because I felt a bit more window light might reach her kind face in that position and I asked her to look right into my camera lens and she said "That might be kind of difficult because of my wandering eye." I told her that would be ok and after a couple of photos I asked if she would mind removing her glasses in case they had distracting reflections. Again, Rose was happy to do so.
The Credit Union space was small and cramped and I had to dance around every time the door opened with a customer entering or leaving. Rose said "I notice how aware you are of your surroundings while taking your photos. I'm sure that's a good thing for a photographer." We went on to talk and when I asked Rose her age she said "Outside or inside?" I said "Both." Rose replied "I'm 80 on the outside but only about 9 on the inside. How about you?" I said "I am 67." There was a pregnant pause and I knew what was coming: "But how about on the inside?" I thought for a moment and said "I guess about 14." "Excellent" was Rose's reply. What an interesting and warm person she seemed. She again offered me coffee and cookies and I said I felt a bit uncomfortable eating the food because I wasn't really a customer but just asking for a phone book. "Oh, that doesn't matter at all" she said. "You've come in the door so you're a part of our community." I had a delicious cookie and we talked some more. I was vaguely aware of the credit union tellers listening to our conversation with smiles on their faces between customers.
When I asked about Rose's job and referred to it as a greeter she smiled and said "I don't usually use that word to describe it; the word is a bit too similar to 'greed.' I just say I'm here to welcome you and help you out in any way I can." I found out that Rose used to be a bookseller and had her own shop but during a rather famous ice storm in1998 Rose had been forced from her house and lost her stock of books. The credit union allowed her to "camp out" in the upstairs portion of the credit union and that gradually transitioned into her current paid, part-time job there. When I expressed concern at her losing her business she said she actually grew from the experience. She said "I didn't used to be a very nice person, you know." I told her I found that hard to imagine and asked what she meant. She said "My love of books resulted in my being rather mean and critical of anyone who didn't like them as much as I do. That was then." When I asked her how she would describe herself as a person she replied without pause "Why, the opposite of before." As we talked Rose paused to say hello to customers as they came and goodbye as they left. "I like your hat" she said to one man as he left. Once the door closed she said "That man always wears a straw boater hat in the summer... he's really quite the dandy." As another man was leaving Rose said "Did you forget your cane? Don't forget that." The vision-impaired man shook his head at his own forgetfulness and retraced his steps to retrieve his white cane from near the counter. "Maybe you should put your name tag and phone number on it" she said in a friendly tone. "You can't afford to lose that." He agreed and said he'd never thought of it but would go home and do so.
When I told Rose what an interesting person she was and how glad I was to have met her she said "Well the feeling is mutual, Jeff. And just remember Thoreau's words 'Take all necessary risks.'" Rose said she was an admirer of Henry David Thoreau and pointed me to her blog on this subject: rosedeshaw.com/advice-from-henry-thoreau/
My encounter with Rose was so warm and filled with good will that I spontaneously asked her if it would be ok to hug her and she said "Oh yes. I'm quite huggable." And she was.
Thank you Rose, for participating in 100 Strangers. Ours was a wonderful and unexpected meeting. You are now Stranger #279 in Round 3 of my project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
To browse Round 1 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157633145986224/
To browse Round 2 of my 100 Strangers project click here:www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157634422850489/
I entered Toronto’s nonprofit Harbourfront Arts Centre (www.harbourfrontcentre.com) to buy tickets for a presentation that night by a Volker Gerling, a German photographer who creates flip-books of photos he takes of people he meets while walking across Germany (www.auroranova.org/portraits-in-motion/). I stepped into a gallery at the Centre and asked this young woman for directions to the box office and she kindly directed me down the hall. Tickets purchased, my thoughts returned to this woman as a potential subject for my Human Family photography project. Her red hair and blue eyes, along with her friendly manner had made a favorable impression. (Note of disclosure: I’m married to a blue-eyed redhead.)
I stepped into the gallery where she was sitting at the desk and told her the instructions were excellent and thank you. I told her about the presentation I had bought tickets for and she seemed interested. I went ahead and introduced myself and asked if she would participate in my photo project. She was very supportive of a fellow artist pursuing his project but since she was on duty, she wasn’t free to leave her desk. She said if I could do a photo without her leaving her post, she’d be happy to oblige. There was sufficient afternoon light entering the gallery since her desk was near the door so I introduced myself while getting my camera out of my bag. Meet Amanda.
Photos taken, we chatted while she kept an eye on the gallery. Amanda is 31 and staffing the gallery is a part-time job for her. She is an artist herself and specializes in three-dimensional fabric-based installations. She has a BFA degree from Toronto’s York University and has recently completed and MFA in Fibers and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and has exhibited quite widely. You can see some of her highly creative and beautiful work here: amandamccavour.com/.
I found out that Amanda was an Artist in Residence at Harbourfront Centre and between working at the gallery and her own studio work she sounded quite busy. When I asked how she thought her friends would describe her as a person she said “I hope they would see me as hard-working but caring and hard working.” A message to share with the project? “Everyone has creativity within. It’s important to find it and express it.” A message to your younger self? “Be more patient and worry less.”
It was time to thank Amanda for sharing a few minutes of her workday with me and telling me a bit about her life as an artist. I apologized for my greasy hand (I had grabbed my bicycle lock the wrong way before entering the building). Amanda said she’d had a flat tire bicycling to work this morning and could relate to my dirty hand.
It was great meeting you Amanda. I wish you continued success in your artistic undertakings and thanks again for participating in The Human Family Group on Flickr.
This is my 236th submission to The Human Family Group on Flickr.
You can view more street portraits and stories by visiting The Human Family.
Melle - Red Landscape (1952).
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Biographical sketch
Koos Levy-van Halm
1908-1922, a retrospective
Melle Johannes Oldeboerrigter was born on 27 May 1908 in Wittenburg, a residential neighbourhood adjacent to Amsterdam's eastern harbour area. He was the youngest of three and the only son. His parents, who were forty-three and thirty-seven when Melle was born, had each been through a lot by then. His father, Hendericus Oldeboerrigter, was born on 31 January 1865 in the village of Nijega in Friesland. At age 12, he signed on to work on a sailing vessel and advanced from junior seaman to boatswain. Raised Catholic, he soon became a socialist and was politically active in the seamen's league, an organization that subscribed to the ideals of the social-anarchist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis.
Melle's mother, Johanna Geertruida de Vries, was a very practical woman. She came from Harlingen, where she was born on 3 July 1870 and was a widow when she married Hendericus. By age thirty she had experienced serious emotional losses, including the deaths of her first husband and two children of tuberculosis. One of her children that died had been called Melle as well. Melle and his sisters Liberta and Henriëtte, four and two years older than him, respectively, were vaguely familiar with this past; their mother stayed in touch with the relatives of her late husband. She rarely spoke about the events, and Melle did not learn what actually happened until 1942. As a young woman, she was sufficiently resilient to cope with her new family life. With her husband at sea, however, she lived in constant fear of another loss and sometimes with good reason, such as during World War I, when the ship on which Hendericus sailed was rumoured to have been sunk by torpedoes. In such crises, she let her children give in to their emotions, and they all wept frequently.
The children were very close. The house where they were born at 32 Derde Wittenburgerdwarsstraat comprised six families on three floors; in their half of the rear third-floor apartment, the family had a room with an alcove and a tiny kitchen. As was customary, the entire family slept in the alcove. The area was separated off the back of the room, containing a large bedstead against the wall on each side, with a curtain serving as a partition down the centre.
The Oostelijke Eilanden [eastern islands] – Wittenburg, Kattenburg and Oostenburg – had only two bridges connecting them to the rest of Amsterdam. The streets of Wittenburg were filled with hastily built nineteenth-century residential construction and the remaining shipyards. Young island dwellers, including Melle, roamed the fields around them or ventured into the city. Melle saw more than most children, thanks to his disposition and upbringing. He enjoyed popular books, such as In sloot en plas by E. Heimans and J.P. Thijsse, which was read by all his family members as well. In an interview published in 1970 in the Algemeen Handelsblad daily, Melle reminisced that he often went to catch sticklebacks and tadpoles with his friends. He explained that he derived this interest from the youth movement and from people such as Thijsse, a vast source of knowledge: 'There are no longer any sticklebacks or frogs... And where will they find an anthill? I drew them all as a small child.'
His talent for drawing did indeed become noticeable early on; he cultivated this skill at home and at school. Still, he did not remember his years in primary school as a happy time. His name was difficult to remember, and being left-handed was another obstacle. At the posh school, as he referred to kindergarten, he had his name pinned on his smock. Melle was an absent-minded child and had a vivid imagination.
In an interview with Ischa Meijer (1972), Melle described his childhood home as poor but cosy. He was especially close to his mother and said that she was very wise. She used to comfort him after his many 'visionary nightmares,' which differed little from the 'waves of images' that 'overwhelmed' him later in life. His mother used her earnings to supplement the wages of her seafaring husband and brought home small treats for her children. Art supplies were always available. Sometimes she gave them little presents. One very special gift was called the book of cats and was by the graphic artist Steinlen. As a young draughtsman, Melle later met and was influenced by the other work of this socially dedicated artist.
Despite his frequent absences, Melle's father had a considerable say about how his children were raised. An ardent socialist, he managed to pass his principles on to his children. All three quickly joined the socialist choir De Jonge Proletaar. In addition to the recreational singing and dancing on Sunday mornings, the children needed to master cantatas with complicated texts. The choir that performed at Domela Nieuwenhuis's seventieth birthday in Amsterdam's Concert Hall in 1916 addressed him as 'Father Nieuwenhuis.' Melle later considered himself fortunate to have been present at the event and described the socialist leader as a Saint Nicholas dressed as a commoner. He believed that experiencing a historical era enriched his life. His father felt the same way and was unable to control his emotions when he described the 1918 sailors' uprising he had witnessed in Kiel, which had led Hamburg to be controlled briefly by a council of workers and soldiers (the Council Republic).
Melle later called himself a socialist by conviction. Unlike his father, he was wary of active confrontations. His depictive ability enabled him to respond in his own, unique way.
1922
Melle is admitted at the graphic school in Amsterdam to learn typesetting at age fourteen. He attends evening classes in drafting and lithography as well. While in school, he joins the anarchist youth movement behind De Moker, een opruiend blad voor jonge arbeiders [an incendiary magazine for young workers]. Known for its typography and radical content, De Moker was published privately. Melle produced several illustrations for the magazine, taking the Belgian artist Frans Masereel as his role model. The group, which opposed the established order, was immensely idealistic. Men and women went camping together, swam nude and abstained from smoking and drinking. The congresses held at rural venues featured lectures by prominent individuals such as Anton Constandse and Bart de Ligt.
A small group advocated a lifestyle without commitments. This appealed to Melle, who longed to travel throughout Europe, singing and playing his guitar. His father warned him against this course, because he objected to the extreme consequence of anarchism and favoured a measure of discipline and social adaptation. Melle complied with his father's request that he complete his training and then look for work. As an adult, Melle concluded that the discipline he needed to become a typographer was the appropriate mindset for becoming a successful painter.
1925
Melle worked for several printers with brief interruptions. One printed the countercultural periodical Zwarte Kat, to which Melle contributed.
In Het Vrije Volk (1975) Melle said the following about this work: 'When I was young I produced drawings for pornographic papers. Because I neither smoke nor drank and still belonged to the youth movement, I simply saved the money. Eventually I invested it in a revolutionary youth magazine...'
1926
Melle refuses to do his compulsory military service. While distributing anarchist, anti-militarist leaflets at the barracks, he is arrested. Released after fourteen days, he escapes a lengthy prison sentence, as he is rejected from the armed forces because of his tiny build.
Around this time Melle meets Marth Bruijn, a dancer at an experimental dance troupe run by Florrie Rodrigo.
1930-1934
Melle becomes a typesetter at the Arbeiderspers and does the layout for Het Volk, a daily published there. Honing his skills as a typesetter, he works extremely quickly. In his free time, he draws many dummies in chalk and pastels, comparable to a journal of drawings. Compelling newspaper reports inspire many of his drawn memos. He later uses watercolours, sometimes on very large sheets, and has a few series bound. He destroys a lot of his work as well. He asks to be assigned night shifts at the printing press to balance his busy schedule. Melle becomes friends with Lex Althoff, the supervisor of the night editorial board. Lex introduces him to De Kring, an artists' society where Melle meets writers, such as Gerard den Brabander, Jacob Hiegentlich and Jac. van Hattum, and artists, such as Henk Harriet and Willy Sluiter. He draws for periodicals that represent specific political views and illustrates books and book jackets, including for the publishing company Boekenvrienden Solidariteit, which H. Kohn founded in exile.
1934
After several temporary abodes, Melle and Marth move to 62 Amsteldijk in Amsterdam. They do not marry on principle. Both are politically active.
1935-1936
Melle joins the Bond van Kunstenaars ter Verdediging van de Kultuur (League of artists in defence of culture). In this capacity, he helps design the variegated exhibition De Olympiade onder dictatuur (The Olympics in a dictatorship) at De Geelvinck in Amsterdam in 1936.
1938
Melle starts painting, as he indicates in a memo.
Historian Jacques Presser is the first to purchase one of his oil paintings. Author Theun de Vries is the first to write reflections about Melle's graphics and other work in Kroniek van Hedendaagse Kunst en Kultuur.
1940-1944
Following the outbreak of the war, several people in need of a place to hide find shelter at the Amsteldijk.
Melle continues to work at the Arbeiderspers. He also manages to provide type outside the company for the underground press, such as the resistance paper De Vonk. In the few moments that remain after performing his daily duties, Melle draws and paints. Though highly prolific during the early war years, he sometimes has to use inferior materials in his paintings, such as printer's ink.
Owners of works from this early period include: interior designer Jaap Penraat, dancer Florrie Rodrigo, physician Wim Storm, author Maurits Dekker, night-shift executive editor for Het Volk Lex Althoff, industrialist Edie de Swaan and antique dealer Jac. Vecht, who also owns a book comprising a series of watercolour lawn scenes.
1944
In the November issue of the underground paper De Vrije Kunstenaar – launched by Gerrit van der Veen's resistance group in 1942 – one of the few drawings featured is by Melle. Lou Lichtveld (Albert Helman), a close friend of Melle's, was an editor at that point. Fellow editor L.P.J. Braat remarks in a commentary about a facsimile edition (1970): 'Anybody at the time who saw this wonderful drawing "Solidarity," depicting a German soldier gorging himself, with an emaciated Dutch child facing him, realized immediately which well-known painter and artist had produced it.' A note by Melle about this period reads: '... in November all work ground to a halt: no light, no coal, no home.'
Melle moves in with Puck van Hilst – the couple later marries – at 90 Stadhouderskade.
1945
Melle quits his job and devotes all his time to art. He keeps his workshop on the Amsteldijk. Puck supports them as a pedicurist. The exhibition Kunst in vrijheid [Art in freedom] at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam features four of Melle's oil paintings.
A small circle of admirers purchases his work regularly. In hard times Melle receives help from good friends, such as the De Swaan brothers.
Melle moonlights as a contributor to the weekly De Vlam, socialistisch weekblad voor vrijheid en cultuur. His drawings appear on the cover, credited to his pseudonym Frits. Deriving from the underground paper De Vonk and with the physician Wim Storm as the executive editor, De Vlam's contributing editors include Henriëtte Roland Holst, Jef Last and Tom Rot.
1946
Tentoonstelling van teekeningen van Melle [Exhibition of Melle's drawings] is his first solo exhibit, held at the Galerie Lemaire, 28 Leidsestraat, Amsterdam.
1947
First exhibition featuring drawings, watercolours and paintings opens at Huize Sluiter in Groningen. Poet-painter Hendrik de Vries delivers an introductory speech.
Melle's father dies.
A series of drawings with titles such as Oude man in bed [Old man in bed], Laatste stappen van een oude man [Final steps of an old man], Riekus in grot [Riekus in cave], Nog bij moeder [Still with mom].
1948
Melle's mother dies.
1949
First exhibition at the book and art dealer Magdalena Sothmann, 284 Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam.
1950
First foreign exhibition of Melle's work is organized at Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann in Hamburg.
1953
Melle and Puck move to 126 Weteringschans. Melle takes a part-time job as a typesetting instructor at the institute for industrial art, later the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. That same year, his duties are expanded to comprise typography at the bound graphics department.
1955
Puck van Hilst and Melle Oldeboerrigter marry.
Director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum Esquire W. Sandberg rejects two of the three paintings selected by a jury for an exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. This opinion echoes that of other museum directors who refuse to exhibit Melle's work. Just before the opening, Melle is given the opportunity to submit two other paintings.
1958
Sexologist C. Van Emde Boas publishes a controversial article in the January issue of the literary journal De Nieuwe Storm, analysing Melle's work based on his childhood experiences.
A group of friends and relatives organizes a fiftieth birthday celebration for Melle at café Schiller. Cinematographer Max de Haas records a motion picture of the event.
1961-1962
The Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet 1942-1945 selects Melle for the visual art award. Melle refuses to accept the award, upon learning that one of the jurors had joined the Kultuurkamer.
1965
At the eighth Biennale, Melle's work is exhibited in Saõ Paolo. J.N. van Wessem, the director of Leiden's municipal museum De Lakenhal, who helped set up this exhibition, writes Melle about the glowing appreciation for his work, especially among foreign artists.
1967
Melle's becomes a painting instructor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the free graphics department in addition to his other duties.
Melle receives the Keerkring seal from the Keerkring society of artists, where many regard him as the 'greatest living painter.'
1968
A tribute from Her Majesty: on 29 April Melle becomes a Companion of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Melle's friends form a committee to organize a sixtieth birthday celebration for him in the Koningszaal at Artis, the Amsterdam zoo. In addition, the committee arranges for Van Oorschot publishers to issue a binder containing twelve prints and two lithographs.
Large review exhibition at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede.
On the VARA television series Signalement, Henk de By produces a program about Melle, one of the first art shows broadcast in colour.
1969
In Stockholm, Melle's work is featured at the major theme-based exhibition The second international exhibition of erotic art.
1972
Large review exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and at the Gemeentemuseum Arnhem.
1973
Melle retires from his job.
1974
Collaborative project with former student Ruscha Langelaan: Duoschilderij.
1976
On 24 May Melle dies of a heart attack and is buried at the Oosterbegraafplaats cemetery in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam, July 1988
(from: 'Melle schilder, aquarellist, tekenaar, Amsterdammer', Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, 1988, p. 108 ff.)
Russia, Caucasus. Great Rosefinch, Carpodacus rubicilloides, endemic species for Caucasus. Old male. Mt. Cheget.
© Tom Schandy / Wild Wonders of Europe
Tom Schandy from Norway has been interested in birds since he was a small boy. 12 years old he had his own bird-column in the local newspaper, and soon he started to illustrate his bird articles with own pictures. He studied biology at the University of Oslo and made his master on the lekking behaviour of the Great Snipe, and he financed his studies by selling pictures of birds and other creatures.
After finishing his studies he got a part-time job in WWF Norway, first as a conservation officer, later as an information officer. Rest of the time he worked as a freelance wildlife photographer and author. I 2000 he became full time author and professional wildlife photographer – and has never looked back. Now he searches the globe for nature – in order to write articles and make books. So far he has been involved in more than 20 books, mainly on natural history. Many books are local nature books, but he also made a book about Africa which has been published in both Norwegian, Swedish, English and Spanish (The magnificent Africa).
The last few years he has been concentrating on Latin-Americas wildernesses, and just now he is moving his attention to the northern wildernesses of the world, like Alaska, Canada. Spitsbergen and Russia.
The aspect of nature conservation forms a vital part of Tom Schandys photography. If his photos, books and articles on nature and wildlife can be used to promote the enjoyment of nature and inspire nature conservation and biological diversity, then much of the purpose has been achieved!
►I did not take this photo, but the story is mine.◄
In the mid-1960s, when we were living in Connecticut, I was offered a part time job as a wedding photographer, working for the Hartford branch of a large New York studio, and this Graflex Speed Graphic was the camera I used. Usually it takes 4x5 sheet film, but the studio I worked for had their Speed Graphics fitted with 120 roll film backs, which produced a 2-1/4"x2-3/4" negative. I earned $25 per wedding, most of which went towards paying for the camera, which I had to buy. Obviously, I never made any money at it, but, it sure was fun, and one of the weddings I photographed produced the largest print order the studio had ever received, so I guess I was doing something right.
The camera came equipped with a razor sharp 80mm f2.8 "normal" lens, which was the equivalent of a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera; and automation of any kind, or zoom lenses didn't exist then; and I didn't even own an exposure meter, so when I wasn't using flash, I had to go with the "Sunny 16 Rule." The flash that I used was a Braun unit that included a monstrously heavy battery pack that hung from my shoulder, and to get the exposure right, I had to judge the distance to the subject, and then do some quick calculations using the guide number to come up with the right settings, all while the bride and everyone else in the wedding was in motion, and "targets of opportunity" were popping up all over the place, especially at the reception. But, I always came back with dead-on exposures, something that many photographers today, who were raised on fully automatic cameras, would likely think of as inconceivable under those conditions. Photographing the ceremony and setting up the various group shots was the easy part. However, as I said, it sure was fun.
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For images and stories of this nature, I have put together a set called Our Life Story, depicting our life together over the past half century and containing over 200 images and descriptions which, for the most part, are in chronological order. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.
My version of the one of my favorite SelfMOCs. Please welcome Velken!
This is my universe version. In my world he is better known as 10% VEXUS Velken. Velken is lone warrior. He is working for himself. While doing one part-time job he was attacked by VEXUS virus. There was a fight between him and some VEXUS'ifed matoran and Toa. Velken prove his strength and VEXUS tried to get him. Thankfully Velken didn't corrupted completely. But it cause some memory loss and also loss with his elemental powers.
Between errands in downtown Toronto I had my eye out for potential Strangers. I met a couple of men sitting on a ledge in an alcove of a highrise office building with beautiful reflected light from surrounding buildings and an interesting metal sculpture in the lobby behind them. Both were very pleasant but declined, citing shyness. I tried my usual anti-shyness techniques but to no avail. They expressed some guilt because they thought the project sounded really great and we parted with their sincere good wishes for my project and their thanks for my having considered them. I found this typical of many “rejections.” They couldn’t have been nicer about it and we parted with friendly handshakes and an exchange of names. I said “Perhaps we’ll meet again in the future on a less-shy day.” They laughed and said “Maybe.”
Just down the block I spotted this man having his Starbucks coffee on an outdoor patio. I should mention that the last couple of days have been 20 C in Toronto with sunshine and believe me, the natives are frantic to shed their galoshes and get out onto the patios.
I introduced myself and the project and he gave a slightly self-conscious smile and quietly said “Sure. You can do it.” I told him he didn’t need to get up but he did and said “Just tell me where to go.” I positioned him against the windows of the Starbucks and asked him to tip his Blue Jays cap back slightly so the light could reach his eyes. Only then did I notice the bloodshot eye. Well, no turning back now. I took just four photos. One was a blink shot and I deleted it. That left 3 to work with. Chuck had a somewhat studied casual manner as I photographed him which I think was his way of managing some shyness.
We chatted a bit and I asked him what he was up to when I interrupted him and he said he was getting ready to go to work. “What do you do?” “Well, I’m a trainer at a gym for a part-time job. My full-time job is as a shipping manager for a store – just a blue collar job.” I said “I get the impression you love the trainer job but do the shipping job to pay the bills.” He smiled. “That’s exactly it.” I commented that I’ve met people in the arts (artists, musicians, actors) who are in the same situation – working a boring job for the pay and doing what they love the rest of the time but not getting much pay. Well, I guess it’s better to be doing what you love for little pay than to not be doing it at all but it’s a shame more people can’t get adequate pay for the work they love. I feel that I was one of the lucky ones in that regard.
Chuck, who is 43 (that surprised me a lot) was born and raised in Canada but moved to New York at age 18. He lived and worked there, then in San Fransicso, and then in Los Angeles before returning to Toronto ten years ago. When I asked which country he prefers he said “Each has its benefits, but I don’t like the political climate in the U.S. these days and I’m happy to be back here in Canada.”
We parted with a friendly handshake and me giving him my contact card. He said he didn’t need a photo but I said he could email me if he changes his mind.
Back home I played around with the best image and came up with three versions. Rather than fuss over which one I picked the one that jumped out to me and decided to post the other two as comment photos for you to ponder which you would have picked. The comment photos have less background to the left compared to this one which includes more background. The second comment photo is a black and white conversion of the first – my effort to minimize the bloodshot eye.
Thank you Chuck for participating in 100 Strangers. You are now Stranger #464 in Round 5 of my project.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
To browse Round 1 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157633145986224/
To browse Round 2 of my 100 Strangers project click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157634422850489/
To browse Round 3 of my 100 Strangers project click here: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcbowen/sets/72157635541434065/
To browse Round 4 of my 100 Strangers project click here:
I find it eerie how this photo is so fitting...I guess in a way, Sayuri's stubborn expression is a reflection of my long struggle to get where I am now. The title comes from a song by Origa, which is also the opening theme of Ghost in the Shell: SAC. It's one of my favourite animated series, and the lyrics are meaningful.
Although the meme is more towards the side of BJD, some parts of it spill over into my personal life, too - because that's what my BJD are to me. Personal, part of me, reflections of my soul.
Tagged by rainwaltz.
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Challenge: Your Ten Personal Rules for Collecting Today (Because Tomorrow it May Change)
I. Rome wasn't built in a day. If you want to get better at something, work for it. If you want something, work for it. Don't sit there in your sad little corner crying about how you can't do anything, or get anything, because it sure as hell didn't get me anywhere. Fight for what you want, be it in the form of finding part-time jobs or studying to get into a good school. It's taken me seven years to get to where I am. I've come a long way. But I'm still fighting. And I'll never stop fighting. I use the word 'fight' because that's what it is. It's a constant battle against the self every day, to get past your weaknesses, to get better.
II. Never ever settle for less than what you desire. This is related to (I). Know what you want and go for it, because if you settle for less, you're cheating and disappointing yourself and you won't ever be truly satisfied. I've broken this rule before and I have learned the hard way that the consequences are just not worth it.
III. Nobody's perfect and that means you aren't going to be able to please everybody. You like what you like. People who want to be around you for who you are won't care, and those that constantly want to tear you down just because god forbid you don't like Volks or something, they don't matter. Changing your tastes or buying something you aren't even fond of just to pander to a certain group's likes is really pathetic.
IV. If you respect me, I will respect you. I like what I like, you like what you like, I don't like what you like, and you don't like what I like. That's fine. Sniping at each other because we don't like what each other likes, that is NOT fine. Not at all.
V. I don't take shit from stupid people. If you piss me off in any form (be it being a bad buyer/seller or just a douchebag in general), don't expect me to take it lying down.
VI. Tastes can and WILL change. Learn to accept that. It's a natural part of staying in this hobby. It's not impossible for someone to go from liking maybe Soom's sculpts to wanting to collect only Volks, for example. (I use Volks because it's probably the most well-known instance of such cases and lots of people get shit for it.) I have a revolving door because of that. People may think poorly of me for it, but that's just how I roll. I'm going through a period where my aesthetic tastes are on freaking steroids or something and they just change so fast.
VII. Be happy with what you have. There is no point being jealous over what someone else has, though it is human nature to covet and to desire. If you only focus on what you don't have, you will never ever know how much you have and you will be a very miserable soul.
VIII. The hobby is just that. A hobby. It is secondary to making sure you have a healthy bank balance, enough food to eat, and a roof over your head. I love food, I would never spend to the point where I can't even buy my favourite foods. This hobby does not pay your bills. Very few people can achieve that. It is not a lifestyle, hence do not treat it as such. It's not going to get you very far in life, sorry to say.
IX. Nothing is ever 100% original. Seriously. Get over it. Everything overlaps to a certain degree. The human race has been around for hundreds of thousands of years, you'd be pretty hard pressed to find something that hasn't already been done yet. That said, do not take it as an excuse to bloody pilfer someone's entire world-building story or aesthetic preference or whatever. I find it very hard to believe that someone's inner voice can be a carbon-copy of another's, though I guess with 6 billion people on this planet it can happen. Carve out your own niche. That too will take time. You can't rush it.
X. This hobby isn't a competition to see who has the most dolls or who can spend the most money on whatever. It's meant to be fun but when it's turned into a contest, everyone ends up miserable.
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And that's it. I have a considerably more cynical outlook on everything as per compared to most other people, I suppose - but I'd be lying if I said this hobby was a bed of roses all the time.
I don't think it will ever not feel good to take a 365, especially after a period of not taking them.
I have recently gotten a part time job, and the hours aren't so part time. I'm having extreme difficulties waking up, and I'm getting sick what feels like on a weekly basis. While my job challenges me and I enjoy the stability (and money!), I am an extremely shy and introverted person, and the fact that I am constantly having to talk to people and make eye contact is overwhelming and often makes me feel...bad. I dread going in to work just because I dread talking to hundreds of strangers in a day. Its so mentally, emotionally, and physically draining. But I only just got this job, and I'm hoping it will get better. I also feel terrible complaining, because so so many people have it much worse than me. with actually terrible jobs.
Anyway, here's an image I feel properly depicts how I'm feeling. I hope you like it.
I don't have any good story to go with this, so you have to go only with picture today :)
Maybe only that why my collar bone has a bit weird shape is because I broke it while being extras in movie Harrison's Flowers It was my part time job when I was studying university :)
TOTW and Tiny Words
[A few months ago after he lost a lot of weight Kristoff purposed to Ana! She was thrilled and excited that he asked, but secretly unsure if she actually wants to get married. Today is Ana and Kristoff are taking their engagement pictures today at a studio. They walk into the establishment and get sent to different rooms to get dressed and have makeup put on. When Ana enters her room she sees her favorite hair and makeup stylist, Esmeralda.]
A: Esmeralda! What are you doing here? [She runs to hug her]
E: Hey, girl! [she returns the hug] This is my part time job.
A: What about the salon?
E: Don't get me wrong now, I love doing hair, but I didn't go to school to just make hair look good, honey. Hahaha. SOOO I hear you're here for engagement pictures, how exciting!
[Esmeralda ushers Ana into the chair and she starts applying her makeup]
A: Yeah...I guess.
E: You don't sound very excited to me. What's wrong, girl?
A: I don't know. I guess I'm just scared. I always wanted a boyfriend, but a husband..I'm not sure. After that whole engagement to Hans thing....
E: Honey, you don't have to worry. I think Kristoff is a good one. A little weird with the ice stuff, but still good.
A: I know....
E: [she noticed Ana is still worried] Look, honey, being married isn't easy, but if you two are a team and communicate properly, and love each more that you both thought you could, then you should be fine.
A: We've only been together a year though...
E: Phoebus and I knew each other for about 5 months before we got married.
A: Wow, really!?
E: Mhm. Going strong too. Now, girl, what are we going to do with this hair?
A: What do you mean?
E: If you think I'm letting you out of this room with braided pigtails you have another thing coming.
A: [she grabs her hair] I like my pigtails
E: Do you want an up-do or loose curls?
A: Neither.
E: Not happening, honey. [She leaves to get her hair products]
Bringing back an "older" model! I saw how a lot of the other model's did a interview type thing, so I did one too. Here's to hoping you like her!
A message from the model:
G'Day! I'm Phoebe Moore! I hope you're all gobsmacked to see me again! I haven't been up to much recently, just hanging out with me mates and rellies! When I saw this competition I thought it would be a blue to miss it. So here I am! Guess you'd like to know a wee bit more about me, eh? Well, I'm very sooky, I enjoy riding ripper waves, and I have a ridgy-didge style! And those are only a few things 'bout me! I'm not a bludger and I mean very well in this competition. I won't yabber your ears off, but I hope all you tall poppies still favor me. Wish me luck!
Catch ya 'round! :D
Name: Phoebe Lynn Moore
Age: 20
Height: 5'9"
Current Job: Teacher's Assistant
Current Home: Narooma, Australia
Nationality: Australian
Bio
When Phoebe was quite young she did pageants and mini modeling competitions. Her mom and dad supported her 100%. They helped her put make-up on, purchased the dresses, bought fake teeth, the whole package! All had to come to a stop when her dad passed away in a serious motorcycle accident. Her mom sank into a deep depression, pulled Phoebe out of competitions and sent her away to boarding school. After boarding school and high school Phoebe landed a part-time job as a teacher's assistant. Ever since the accident Phoebe has wished to get back into modeling.
Her mom now happily supports her in every decision she makes in life.