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In Revolver Magazine's November/December 2010 issue!!!
Published during the ukulele fad on the Mainland United States.
The first group of Portuguese immigrants to Hawaii invented the ukulele after they arrived in August 1879 via the SS Ravenscrag. That ship included cabinet makers from Madeira Island, who brought the Medeiran machete. In their new country, ukulele inventors Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias developed the ukulele, and the Hawaiians adopted it (ukulele means "jumping flea" in Hawaiian).
George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet popularized the small, guitar-like instrument when they performed at the Panama Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. From then on to the early 1920s, the ukulele became popular on the mainland United States.
- Alice Kim
Ukulele comic
Washington herald, Dec. 23, 1922, Page 16
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Suspended Animation Classic #797 First published April 4, 2004 (#14) (Dates are approximate)
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel
By Michael Vance
1) What is a graphic novel?
2) If "NBM became America's first graphic novel publisher" in 1976, how can Will Eisner's A Contract With God (1978/Baronet) be the first graphic novel? If you are interested in answers, you wont find them in Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel.
The Rise... is an essay on the short history of the graphic novel and the relatively long history of comic strips and books, the grandparent and parent of author Stephen Weiner's subject.
1a) One would think that Weiner would define the subject of his essay. But, in his defense, the definitions of the much older short story, novel, comic strip and comic book were only recently codified. Graphic novels are very young.
2b) The discrepancy in who was the first publisher and first graphic novel is impossible for this reviewer to resolve.
There are other discrepancies. As example, it's difficult to understand why books about comics are included in an essay about graphic novels.
But crepancies do abound in The Rise...
Will Eisner is a comics genius and deserves inclusion. Jules Feiffer (Tantrum), Wendy and Richard Pini (Elfquest), Alan Moore and Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and others also played roles in the increasing popularity of the graphic novel.
It's equally true that a single story told in a single volume adds nuances to comics that are difficult or impossible to achieve in a daily comic strip. But there the praise ends.
Drum roll. Announcing an editorial comment that has nothing to do with The Rise…:
Graphic novels are not better than comic strips or books. They are simply different. They should be welcomed into the comics family, but should replace no family member.
The Rise... is recommended for those curious about graphic novels.
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel/80 pg. hardback, $14.95 from NBM/ available at www.ebmpublishing.com, and comic and bookstores.
My photo of the deck of the Rainbow Warrior on the inside cover of the German Greenpeace Magazine. Note the Isle of Grain Chimney in the background!
Woohoo! My first officially published pictures. They made it into the August 2010 edition of "The Lutheran" magazine.
It's a nice article that involves an excellent feature about my friends at Humble Walk.
You can see the whole set here. And I'll also try to link to the issue when it's online. Otherwise head to you local Lutheran dealer to pickup your own copy.
Strobist info: sb900 at 1/4 bounced into the white part of a 5-in-1 reflector over the subject. Triggered via manual CLS.
The Lutheran Magazine - August 2010, pgs. 28-29, Augsburg Fortress
This photograph was published in an online article in THE DODO on 17th November 2023, by Stephen Messenger entitled:
'' Woman Is In Disbelief After A Wild Bird Starts Speaking To Her In English - I thought to myself, ‘Am I hearing things? ''
Part of VOXMEDIA and the Vox Media Network, The DODO is based in New York, USA and has a huge worldwide audience with platforms on Facebook, Twitter and all other major platforms.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twelve metres at 12:45pm on Wednesday 17th May 2023 off Pacific Rim Highway 4 and Airport Road on the sandy shoreline of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve at Long Beach in Tofino, British Columbia.
The American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) is a large passerine bird species of the family Corvidae. It is a common bird found throughout much of North America. American crows measure 16-21 inches in length and are the New World counterpart to the carrion crow and the hooded crow of Eurasia
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Dopo i successi ottenuti a livello mondiale e nei festival europei, i Muse, la più grande rock band internazionale, tornano a stupire il loro pubblico con un tour nelle maggiori arene d’Europa.
Le date: 14, 15, 17, 18, 20 e 21 maggio 2016 al Mediolanum Forum di Assago a Milano.
Il Drones World Tour vedrà la band esibirsi, per la prima volta nella loro carriera, in formazione circolare dal mezzo del palazzetto. Il gruppo è da sempre conosciuto per le scelte pionieristiche in termini di stage productions e, l’imminente tour, non sarà da meno. Il palco e lo show sono stati infatti pensati per dare al pubblico un’esperienza sensoriale, auditiva e visiva a 360°.
I MUSE hanno alle spalle sette album con i quali hanno venduto oltre 20 milioni di copie in tutto il mondo. Con il loro ultimo album, Drones, sono riusciti a restare in vetta alla classifica inglese per due settimane ed arrivare al vertice di quella americana, per la prima volta nella loro carriera.
Largamente riconosciuti come una delle migliori band live del mondo, hanno vinto numerosi premi, tra i quali: 5 MTV Europe Music Awards, 6 NME Awards e 6 Q Awards. Sono stati premiati due volte ai Brit Awards per “Miglior Band Live” e sono stati nominati per 5 Grammy Awards, vincendo il premio per il “Miglior Album Rock” con The Resistance.
Matthew Bellamy – lead vocals, guitars
Christopher Wolstenholme – bass
Dominic Howard – drums
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A cavallo tra il 2010 ed il 2011 un nome più di tutti è emerso tra gli appassionati di pop elettronico, un nome che fa capo ad un duo con base a Manchester. Si tratta degli inglesi Hurts che, con la pubblicazione del loro debutto intitolato Happiness, hanno reso felici tutti gli appassionati di un particolare momento della musica anni ’80 che faceva capo a band come Human League, New Order, Depeche Mode, Ultravox. Con un solo disco, infatti, gli Hurts hanno riscoperto e rivitalizzato quei suoni rendendoli nuovamente attuali attraverso la scrittura di una vera e propria opera pop eccelsa. Con Happiness gli Hurts hanno infatti conquistato sia i neofiti dell’elettro-pop sia chi gli anni Ottanta li ha vissuti in prima persona, grazie a singoli come Better Than Love, Wonderful Life, Stay e Sunday, decretando la loro opera prima come uno degli album di maggiore successo del 2010/2011. Ed è nel 2011 che la band vince la nomination di Best New Band agli NME Awards, con oltre 2milioni di copie vendute in tutto il mondo.
Nell’elettro-pop di Adam Anderson e Theo Hutchcraft, con rimandi al rock oscuro di Joy Division, Interpol, Editors e White Lies, si ritrova tutta la magia ed il glam degli anni ’80, una stagione tanto bistrattata quanto apprezzata per il cambio radicale che ha imposto ai canoni della pop-music. Anche dal vivo gli Hurts non tradiscono questa magia: il glam diventa parte integrante dello show che è, sin dagli esordi, uno dei live più affascinanti degli ultimi anni, con esplosioni sonore che flirtano con la dance. Imperdibili.
Theo Hutchcraft - voce
Adam Anderson - sintetizzatore, chitarra, pianoforte, tastiere
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A cavallo tra il 2010 ed il 2011 un nome più di tutti è emerso tra gli appassionati di pop elettronico, un nome che fa capo ad un duo con base a Manchester. Si tratta degli inglesi Hurts che, con la pubblicazione del loro debutto intitolato Happiness, hanno reso felici tutti gli appassionati di un particolare momento della musica anni ’80 che faceva capo a band come Human League, New Order, Depeche Mode, Ultravox. Con un solo disco, infatti, gli Hurts hanno riscoperto e rivitalizzato quei suoni rendendoli nuovamente attuali attraverso la scrittura di una vera e propria opera pop eccelsa. Con Happiness gli Hurts hanno infatti conquistato sia i neofiti dell’elettro-pop sia chi gli anni Ottanta li ha vissuti in prima persona, grazie a singoli come Better Than Love, Wonderful Life, Stay e Sunday, decretando la loro opera prima come uno degli album di maggiore successo del 2010/2011. Ed è nel 2011 che la band vince la nomination di Best New Band agli NME Awards, con oltre 2milioni di copie vendute in tutto il mondo.
Nell’elettro-pop di Adam Anderson e Theo Hutchcraft, con rimandi al rock oscuro di Joy Division, Interpol, Editors e White Lies, si ritrova tutta la magia ed il glam degli anni ’80, una stagione tanto bistrattata quanto apprezzata per il cambio radicale che ha imposto ai canoni della pop-music. Anche dal vivo gli Hurts non tradiscono questa magia: il glam diventa parte integrante dello show che è, sin dagli esordi, uno dei live più affascinanti degli ultimi anni, con esplosioni sonore che flirtano con la dance. Imperdibili.
Theo Hutchcraft - voce
Adam Anderson - sintetizzatore, chitarra, pianoforte, tastiere
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lévy Fils et Cie of Paris, with photography by Charles Ledieu of Arras. The card has a divided back.
Mont St.-Éloi and the Abbey
Le Mont Saint-Éloi is 8 km. north-west of Arras. The Abbey was was founded in the 7th. century, and rebuilt in the middle of the 18th. century.
During the French Revolution, the Abbey was abandoned and sold to the State. Subsequently it was partially demolished, although the two towers survived the demolition.
The towers are on a 120 metre-high hill and dominate the whole valley. They were therefore used by the Allies as observation posts until the Germans destroyed their upper parts along with a significant part of the Abbey.
To see what the St.-Éloi towers looked like after bombardment, please search for the tag 54MSE67
A Poem by Ezra Pound
Here is a poem about St.-Éloi by Ezra Pound (1885-1972):
'Over the flat slope of St.-Éloi
A wide wall of sandbags.
Night,
In the silence desultory men
Pottering over small fires,
cleaning their mess tins:
To and fro, from the lines,
Men walk as on Piccadilly,
Making paths in the dark,
Through scattered dead horses,
Over a dead Belgian's belly.
The Germans have rockets. The
English have no rockets.
Behind the lines, cannon, hidden,
lying back miles.
Before the line, chaos:
My mind is a corridor. The minds
about me are corridors.
Nothing suggests itself. There is
nothing to do but keep on'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
© Rankin's Heidilicious, published by teNeues, www.teneues.com, Photo © 2009 Rankin. All rights reserved.
Chinese Whispers
December 2012
Published in Tantalum Magazine March 2013 issue
Modelling Kae Kae Qi
Modelling Shuna Iijima
Fashion Styling Justyna Poniewaz-Gorajala
Make-up Artist Kay Razzaq
Hair Stylist Charlotte Pembroke
Photo Assist Ephraim Muller
Styling Assistance Aneta Harris
Hair Assistance Emma Moore
Photography Mark Paul Andrews
An Anthology of Images for sale see e-bay listing 250759346426
A series of original cartoons set in "a Northern city" some time in the 1960's. Drawn by mapping pen and hand rendered in Windsor and Newton coloured inks.
First published by The Black and White Cat Press Manchester
Published in a National Geographic Traveler special supplement: "The Western Balkans: Land of Discovery"
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Ghali apre la performance di Martin Garrix per Milano Rocks, sabato 10 settembre 2022 all’Ippodromo Snai San Siro.
Fru di The Jackal ha il compito di presentare Ghali e con lui sul palco come ospiti ci sono Axell, Tedua, Digital Astro, Pyrex, Baby Gang e Charlie Charles.
Ghali Amdouni, alias Ghali, è un rapper italiano. Nato a Milano il 21 Maggio 1993 da genitori tunisini, ha sempre vissuto in Italia, nello specifico a Baggio, periferia milanese.
Ha iniziato ad avvicinarsi all'hip hop utilizzando lo pseudonimo Fobia, mutato successivamente in Ghali Foh. Nel 2011 ha fondato i Troupe D'Elite, gruppo nel quale erano presenti anche il rapper Er Nyah (ora conosciuto come Ernia), la cantante Maite e il produttore Fonzie (ora conosciuto come Fawzi).
Il 26 Gennaio 2018 Ghali ha pubblicato il suo singolo Cara Italia, brano cult che ha superato le 128milioni di visualizzazioni su YouTube, venendo certificato triplo disco di platino nel giro di un mese e restando stabilmente ai vertici delle classifiche di airplay del paese per settimane. Un successo straordinario che segna il coronamento di un percorso lungo 4 anni che porta Ghali alla ribalta come vero e proprio riferimento della musica italiana ed europea.
Gianluca Colucci, in arte Fru è un attore e comico italiano nato nel 1995. Fru è uno dei membri del gruppo comico The Jackal insieme a Simone Ruzzo, Ciro Priello, Fabio Balsamo, Claudia Napolitano e Aurora Leone.
Arrivato nel gruppo comico solamente nel 2016, undici anni dopo la fondazione della società di produzione The Jackal, Fru nel 2020 è entrato a far parte del cast della nuova serie italiana originale Netflix in collaborazione con i The Jackal, insieme a Fabio Balsamo, Generazione 56K e nel 2021 è uno dei comici in gara nel comedy show di Amazon, LOL: Chi ride è fuori e nel 2022 è in coppia con Aurora Leone nella nuova edizione di Pechino Express 2022 – La Rotta dei sultani.
Axell è nato in Senegal, ma a 12 anni si è trasferito a Torino nel quartiere Barriera di Milano. Parla francese e italiano, due lingue che si mischiano nelle sue canzoni e che gli danno un sapore internazionale, transalpino, ma unito alla fame, alla rabbia e a quel rap italiano che inevitabilmente ha assorbito nel quartiere torinese dove è cresciuto. Suona il pianoforte e la tromba, ama il rap, ma ascolta anche musica classica, la sua ultima canzone, Que Pasa, è stata condivisa anche dal calciatore interista Hachraf Hakimi. Le sue peculiarità artistiche hanno attirato l’attenzione di Ghali ed Axell ha firmato per Sto Records e ha pubblicato Que Pasa.
Tedua, pseudonimo di Mario Molinari (Genova, 21 febbraio 1994[2]), è un rapper italiano. Precedentemente noto come Incubo o Duate, è uno dei componenti di Wild Bandana, collettivo musicale genovese di cui fanno parte anche Izi, Vaz Tè, Guesan e Ill Rave.
Digital Astro, al secolo Rida Amaouch, è un artista classe 2000. Nasce ad Acireale da genitori marocchini e comincia ad avere contatti con la musica sin dalla tenera età avvicinandosi a diversi generi che lo porteranno a creare uno stile molto personale. Nel 2017 conosce il producer Sadturs che si rivelerà essere una figura chiave nel suo cammino e con il quale formerà la più classica delle coppie rapper-producer.
Nel 2020 viene notato proprio da Ghali che, intuendone le grandi potenzialità, decide di inserirlo nella cantera di Sto Records facendogli firmare il suo primo contratto. I suoi primi singoli ufficiali “Preghiera per il blocco” e “Tutto Passa” vengono fin da subito apprezzati dal pubblico che iniziano a conoscere il mondo di Digital Astro. Questo ruota attorno al racconto delle difficoltà che i ragazzi delle nuove generazioni devono affrontare.
Dark Pyrex, detto anche Principe Pyrex o Prynce, è il letterato della Dark Polo Gang. Il suo vero nome è Dylan Thomas Cerulli ed è nato nel 1994 da padre romano e madre afro-americana di New York.
Incontra Dark Side, Tony Effe e Wayne da adolescente a scuola. Inizia a rappare con loro per gioco, finché Sick Luke, figlio di Duke Montana, li convince a fare le cose sul serio confezionando i primi beat. Nasce così Dark Polo Gang, collettivo che inizialmente è addirittura un quintetto, insieme a un altro ragazzo romano, Bangerz.
Baby Gang, pseudonimo di Zaccaria Mouhib, è un rapper italiano di origini marocchine. Nasce a Lecco nel 2001 e a partire dagli undici anni passa gli anni tra carceri minorili e comunità educative.
Nel 2018 pubblica Street, il suo primo singolo, ma poco dopo viene arrestato e condannato alla detenzione nel carcere minorile Beccaria di Milano, dal quale esce grazie all’intervento di Don Claudio Burgio che lo porta nella propria comunità. Nel 2019 pubblica i singoli Fuck la Pula, Educazione e Cella 1. Ottiene un discreto successo nel 2020 grazie alla collaborazione con la 167 Gang nel singolo Baby Gang e Bimbi Soldato con Sacky. Dopo una lunga serie di singoli, nel 2021 pubblica prima EP1, progetto di 7 brani con le collaborazioni di Il Ghost, Omar, Neima Ezza, Rondodasosa e Escomar. Per fine agosto è previsto Delinquente, il suo primo disco ufficiale pubblicato per Warner Music Italy.
Charlie Charles, pseudonimo di Paolo Alberto Monachetti, è un produttore discografico e disc jockey italiano, ritenuto tra i principali esponenti della scena hip hop e trap italiana degli anni 2010.
Charlie Charles inizia la sua carriera ascoltando e producendo musica elettronica e techno, dedicandosi anche alla composizione di colonne sonore. Dopo diversi cambi di scuola, abbandonò le superiori per dedicarsi solo alla musica, creando a Seguro un proprio studio di registrazione. Intorno allo stesso periodo conosce il rapper Sfera Ebbasta, intraprendendo una collaborazione musicale culminata nel 2015 con l'album in studio XDVR. Il 2015 segna inoltre la collaborazione con Marracash per l'etichetta discografica indipendente Roccia Music, producendo vari brani e album con Ghali, Tedua, Izi, Gué Pequeno e la Dark Polo Gang, oltre a Sfera Ebbasta.
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I received these two books in the mail yesterday — no note or anything. What the heck; I didn't order these. Especially two of the same thing. Then a light came on in my head and I started looking for a shot that would be mine. I found two - the ones on the right. That was a surprise. I don't remember anything about this transaction.
So, I'm now published in a national travel book. Cool indeed. Credits are in the front of the book, but whoever looks at those anyway.
Today's blog post.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by the Photochrom Co. Ltd. of Royal Tunbridge Wells. The card is an all-British production.
The card was posted in Folkestone using a 1d. stamp on Saturday the 16th. November 1935. It was sent to:
G. A. Goodchild Esq.,
Great Yeldham Hall,
Great Yeldham,
Essex.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Arrived quite safely,
but it poured with
rain last night. Fine
this morning, but
doubtful for this
afternoon.
Phoned to Edith last
night, she sounded
glad to have someone
to talk to.
Shall expect to meet
you 5 o'c in Liverpool
St. tea room.
Love,
C. G."
The Goodchilds
The Goodchild family of Great Yeldham were a prominent family of landowners in Essex.
In the 19th. and 20th. centuries the Goodchild family owned a mumber of farms in Great Yeldham, including Great Yeldham Hall Farm, HIghlands Farm, Lovingtons Farm, Potters Hall Farm, Poole Farm, Scotneys in Great Yeldham and Toppesfield, and Oak House, Great Yeldham.
There is a modern housing estate in Great Yeldham, and one of the estate's roads is called Goodchild Way.
The Goodchild family lived at Great Yeldham Hall. This is Grade II Listed, and has its origins in the 13th. century. It is now home to the English Spirit Distillery.
-- Catherine Goodchild
Catherine Mary Goodchild, who was born on the 30th. April 1914, was the child of William Bowyer Goodchild (1880 - 1952) and Florence Mary Hovenden (1887 - 1964).
Her parents married on the 27th. August 1907, and in addition to Catherine, produced 7 siblings. Will and Phoebe were two of them.
Other cards on the photostream indicate that after Ashford School for Girls, Catherine attended Royal Holloway College in Egham.
Catherine died at the age of 84 on the 2nd. June 1998.
-- George Arthur Goodchild
The G. A. Goodchild to whom Catherine sent the card was her uncle George Arthur Goodchild. He was born on the 5th. August 1881 in Great Yeldham. He married Charlotte Hetty Hovenden in 1912, and they had at least 1 son and 3 daughters.
George Arthur died at the age of 76 on the 19th. February 1958 in Great Yeldham. He was laid to rest in Great Yeldham.
A German Protest
November 16, 1935 (Saturday)So what else happened on the day that Catherine sent the card to her uncle?
Well, on the 16th. November 1935, the German government protested to Britain that a new British regulation on German exports going into effect on the 18th. November was "not in harmony with certain provisions of the German-British trade agreement."
The regulation stated that German exports must be accompanied by certificates of origin, and was an attempt to prevent Italian exports from entering Britain.
Jumbo
Also on that day, the musical Jumbo with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart premiered at the New York Hippodrome on Broadway.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by John Hinde Ltd. of 6, Rupert Street, London W1. The photography was by John Hinde, F.R.P.S., and the card was printed in the Irish Republic.
Note that 'A Hard Day's Night' is being shown at the London Pavilion. The film premiered at the theatre on the 6th. July 1964, and in the rest of the UK from the 10th. July 1964.
The card was posted in Edgware, Middlesex using a 3d. stamp on Wednesday the 3rd. August 1966. It was sent to:
Mrs. Netheridge,
3, Rowantree Close,
London N21.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mrs. Netheridge,
I hope you are well.
I am at my sister Jackie's
home on holiday.
I made my sister Jackie's
baby boy a pair of shoes.
Love from Daphne
xxxxxxxx"
Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space in London's West End. It was built in order to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.
The Circus now connects Piccadilly, Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square) and Glasshouse Street.
Piccadilly Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas, and its status as a major traffic junction has made the Circus a busy meeting place and a tourist attraction in its own right.
Piccadilly Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain and statue of Anteros (which is popularly, though mistakenly, believed to represent Eros).
Piccadilly Circus is surrounded by several notable buildings, including the London Pavilion and Criterion Theatre. Underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus Underground Station, part of the London Underground system.
History of Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Piccadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills, a term used for various kinds of collars.
The street was named Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II, but by 1743 it was being referred to as Piccadilly.
Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The intersection was then known as Regent Circus South (just as Oxford Circus was known as Regent Circus North), and it did not begin to be known as Piccadilly Circus until the mid 1880's, with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue. In the same period, the Circus lost its circular form.
The junction has been a very busy traffic interchange since construction, as it lies at the centre of Theatreland, and handles exit traffic from Piccadilly, which Charles Dickens Jr. described as follows in 1879:
"Piccadilly, the great thoroughfare leading
from the Haymarket and Regent Street
westward to Hyde Park Corner, is the nearest
approach to the Parisian boulevard of which
London can boast."
Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened on the 10th. March 1906, on the Bakerloo line, and on the Piccadilly line in December of that year. In 1928, the station was extensively rebuilt to handle an increase in traffic.
Piccadilly Circus's first electric advertisements appeared in 1908, and, from 1923, electric billboards were set up on the façade of the London Pavilion. Electric street lamps, however, did not replace the gas ones until 1932.
The circus became a one-way roundabout on the 19th. July 1926, and traffic lights were first installed on the 3rd. August 1926.
During World War II many servicemen's clubs in the West End served American soldiers based in Britain. So many prostitutes roamed the area approaching the soldiers that they received the nickname "Piccadilly Commandos", and both Scotland Yard and the Foreign Office discussed possible damage to Anglo-American relations.
The Holford Plan for the Circus
At the start of the 1960's, it was determined that the Circus needed to be redeveloped to allow for greater traffic flow. In 1962, Lord Holford presented a plan which would have created a "double-decker" Piccadilly Circus; the upper deck would have been an elevated pedestrian concourse linking the buildings around the perimeter of the Circus, with the lower deck being solely for traffic, most of the ground-level pedestrian areas having been removed to allow for greater vehicle flow.
This concept was kept alive throughout the rest of the 1960's. A final scheme in 1972 proposed three octagonal towers (the highest 240 feet (73 m) tall) to replace the Trocadero, the Criterion and the "Monico" buildings.
Fortunately the plans were permanently rejected by Sir Keith Joseph and Ernest Marples; the key reason given was that Holford's scheme only allowed for a 20% increase in traffic, and the Government required 50%.
The Holford plan is referenced in the documentary film "Goodbye, Piccadilly", produced by the Rank Organisation in 1967 as part of their Look at Life series when it was still seriously expected that Holford's recommendations would be acted upon. Piccadilly Circus has since escaped major redevelopment, apart from extensive ground-level pedestrianisation around its south side in the 1980's.
Terrorist Bombs
Piccadilly Circus has been targeted by Irish republican terrorists multiple times. On the 24th. June 1939 an explosion occurred, although no injuries were caused, and on the 25th. November 1974 a bomb injured 16 people. A 2lb bomb also exploded on the 6th. October 1992, injuring five people.
The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain
The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th. Earl of Shaftesbury. Lord Shaftesbury was a Victorian politician, philanthropist and social reformer.
It was removed from the Circus twice and moved from the centre once.
The first time was in 1922, so that Charles Holden's new tube station could be built directly below it. The fountain returned in 1931. During the Second World War, the fountain was removed for the second time and replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned again in 1948.
When the Circus underwent reconstruction work in the late 1980's, the entire fountain was moved from the centre of the junction at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue to its present position at the southwestern corner.
The subject of the Memorial is the Greek god Anteros, and was officially given the name The Angel of Christian Charity, but it is generally mistakenly believed to be his brother Eros.
Location and Sights
Piccadilly Circus is surrounded by tourist attractions, including the Criterion Theatre, London Pavilion and retail stores. Nightclubs, restaurants and bars are located in the area and neighbouring Soho, including the former Chinawhite Club.
Illuminated Signs
Piccadilly Circus was surrounded by illuminated advertising hoardings on buildings, starting in 1908 with a Perrier sign, but only one building now carries them, the one in the north-western corner between Shaftesbury Avenue and Glasshouse Street. The site is unnamed (usually referred to as "Monico" after the Café Monico, which used to be on the site); it has been owned by property investor Land Securities Group since the 1970's.
The earliest signs used incandescent light bulbs; these were replaced with neon lights and with moving signs (there was a large Guinness clock at one time). The first Neon sign was for the British meat extract Bovril.
From December 1998, digital projectors were used for the Coke sign, the square's first digital billboard, while in the 2000's there was a gradual move to LED displays, which by 2011 had completely replaced neon lamps.
The number of signs has reduced over the years as the rental costs have increased, and in January 2017 the six remaining advertising screens were switched off as part of their combination into one large ultra-high definition curved Daktronics display, turning the signs off during renovation for the longest time since the 1940's. On the 26th. October 2017, the new screen was switched on for the first time.
Until the 2017 refurbishment, the site had six LED advertising screens above three large retail units facing Piccadilly Circus on the north side, occupied by Boots, Gap and a mix of smaller retail, restaurant and office premises fronting the other streets.
A Burger King located under the Samsung advert, which had been a Wimpy Bar until 1989, closed in 2008, and was converted into a Barclays Bank.
Coca-Cola has had a sign at Piccadilly Circus since 1954. In September 2003, the previous digital projector board and the site that had been occupied by Nescafé was replaced with a state-of-the-art LED video display that curves round with the building.
From 1978 to 1987 the spot had been used by Philips Electronics, and a neon advertisement for Foster's used the location from 1987 until 1999.
For several months in 2002, the Nescafé sign was replaced by a sign featuring the quote "Imagine all the people living life in peace" by Beatle John Lennon. This was paid for by his widow Yoko Ono, who spent an estimated £150,000 to display an advert at this location. Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, Fanta, Sprite and Vitamin Water have all been advertised in the space.
The Hyundai Motors sign launched on the 29th. September 2011. It replaced a sign for Sanyo which had occupied the space since 1988, the last to be run using neon lights rather than Hyundai's computerised LED screen.
Earlier Sanyo signs with older logos had occupied the position since 1978, although these were only half the size of the later space.
McDonald's added its sign in 1987, replacing one for BASF. The sign was changed from neon to LED in 2001. A bigger, brighter screen was installed by Daktronics in 2008.
Samsung added its sign in November 1994, the space having been previously occupied by Canon Inc. (1978–84) and Panasonic (1984–94). The sign was changed from neon to LED in summer 2005, and the screen was upgraded and improved in autumn 2011.
L'Oréal, Hunter Original and eBay had signs in the Piccadilly Circus billboards since October 2017. One Piccadilly, the highest resolution of all the LED displays was installed by Daktronics in late 2013, underneath the Samsung and McDonald's signs. It allowed other companies to advertise for both short- and long-term leases, increasing the amount of advertising space but using the same screen for multiple brands.
The Curve, a similar space to One Piccadilly, was added in 2015, replacing a space previously occupied by Schweppes (1920–61), BP (1961–67), Cinzano (1967–78), Fujifilm (1978–86), Kodak (1986–90) and TDK (1990–2015).
On special occasions the lights are switched off, such as the deaths of Winston Churchill in 1965 and Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997. On the 21st. June 2007, they were switched off for one hour as part of the Lights Out London campaign.
Other companies and brands that have had signs on the site include Bovril, Volkswagen, Max Factor, Wrigley's Spearmint, Skol, Air India and Will's Gold Flake Cigarettes.
By way of a summary, and to aid the dating of other photographs of Piccadilly Circus, major brands and dates are as follows:
-- BASF up to 1987
-- Bovril from 1923
-- BP 1961 to 1967
-- Canon 1978 to 1984
-- Cinzano 1967 to 1978
-- Coca Cola from 1954
-- eBay from 2017
-- Fosters 1987 to 1999
-- Guinness from 1930 - see below
-- Fujifilm 1978 to 1986
-- Hyundai from 2011
-- Kodak 1986 to 1990
-- l'Oréal from 2017
-- McDonald's from 1987
-- Nescafé from 1999
-- Panasonic 1984 to 1994
-- Perrier from 1908
-- Philips 1978 to 1987
-- Samsung from 1994
-- Sanyo 1978 to 2011
-- Schweppes 1920 to 1961
-- TDK 1990 to 2015
Guinness
-- From 1930 to 1932, a Guinness ad showed a pint of Guinness and stated that 'Guinness is Good For You.'
-- From 1932 to 1953 the Guinness ad featured a clock and stated 'Guinness Time' as well as 'Guinness is Good For You.'
-- From 1954 to 1959 the Guinness clock had two sealions under it.
-- From 1959 to 1972 the Guinness ad featured a cuckoo clock with a swinging pendulum featuring two back-to-back toucans.
The Criterion Theatre
The Criterion Theatre, which is a Grade II* listed building, stands on the south side of Piccadilly Circus. Apart from the box office area, the entire theatre, with nearly 600 seats, is underground, and is reached by descending a tiled stairway. Columns are used to support both the dress circle and the upper circle, restricting the views of many of the seats inside.
The theatre was designed by Thomas Verity, and opened as a theatre on the 21st. March 1874, although original plans were for it to become a concert hall.
In 1883, the Criterion was forced to close in order to improve ventilation and to replace gaslights with electric lights, and was re-opened the following year. The theatre closed in 1989 and was extensively renovated, re-opening in October 1992.
The London Pavilion
On the north-eastern side of Piccadilly Circus is the London Pavilion. The first building bearing the name was built in 1859, and was a music hall. In 1885, Shaftesbury Avenue was built through the former site of the Pavilion, and a new London Pavilion was constructed, which also served as a music hall. In 1924 electric billboards were erected on the side of the building.
In 1934, the building underwent significant structural alteration and was converted into a cinema. In 1986, the building was rebuilt, preserving the 1885 façade, and converted into a shopping arcade.
In 2000, the building was connected to the neighbouring Trocadero Centre, and signage on the building was altered in 2003 to read "London Trocadero". The basement of the building connects with the Underground station.
Major Shops
The former Swan & Edgar department store on the west side of the Circus was built in 1928–29 to a design by Reginald Blomfield. Since the closure of the department store in the early 1980's, the building has been successively the flagship London store of music chains Tower Records, Virgin Megastore and Zavvi. The current occupier is clothing brand The Sting.
Lillywhites is a major retailer of sporting goods located on the corner of the circus and Lower Regent Street, next to the Shaftesbury fountain. It moved to its present site in 1925. Lillywhites is popular with tourists, and they regularly offer sale items, including international football jerseys at up to 90% off.
Nearby Fortnum & Mason is often considered to be part of the Piccadilly Circus shopping area, and is known for its expansive food hall.
The County Fire Office
Dominating the north side of the Circus, on the corner of Glasshouse Street, is the County Fire Office building, with a statue of Britannia on the roof. The original building was designed by John Nash as the extreme southern end of his Regent Street Quadrant.
Its dramatic façade was clearly influenced by Inigo Jones's old Somerset House. Although Robert Abraham was the County Fire Insurance Company's architect, it was probably Nash who was instrumental in choosing the design.
In 1924 the old County Fire Office was demolished and replaced with a similar but much coarser building designed by Reginald Blomfield, but retaining the statue of Britannia. During the London Blitz it was the only building in the Circus to be damaged, although only a few window panes were blown out. The building is Grade II listed.
Piccadilly Circus Underground Station
Piccadilly Circus station on the London Underground is located directly beneath Piccadilly Circus itself, with entrances at every corner. It is one of the few stations to have no associated buildings above ground, and is fully underground. The below-ground concourse and subway entrances are Grade II listed.
The station is on the Piccadilly line between Green Park and Leicester Square, and the Bakerloo line between Charing Cross and Oxford Circus.
Demonstrations at Piccadilly Circus
The Circus' status as a high-profile public space has made it the location for numerous political demonstrations, including the 15th. February 2003 anti-war protest and the "Carnival Against Capitalism" protest against the 39th. G8 summit in 2013.
Piccadilly Circus in Popular Culture
The phrase 'It's like Piccadilly Circus' is commonly used in the UK to refer to a place or situation which is extremely busy with people. It has been said that a person who stays long enough at Piccadilly Circus will eventually bump into everyone they know.
Probably because of this connection, during World War II, "Piccadilly Circus" was the code name given to the Allies' D-Day invasion fleet's assembly location in the English Channel.
Piccadilly Circus has inspired both artists and musicians. Piccadilly Circus (1912) is the name and subject of a painting by British artist Charles Ginner, part of the Tate Britain collection.
Sculptor Paul McCarthy produced a 320-page two-volume edition of video stills by the name of Piccadilly Circus.
In the lyrics of their song "Mother Goose", on the Aqualung album from 1971, the band Jethro Tull tells:
"And a foreign student said to me:
'Was it really true there were
elephants, lions too, in Piccadilly
Circus?'".
Bob Marley mentioned Piccadilly Circus in his song "Kinky Reggae", on the Catch a Fire album in 1973.
L. S. Lowry's painting Piccadilly Circus, London (1960), part of Lord Charles Forte's collection for almost three decades, sold for £5,641,250 when auctioned for the first time at Christie's on the 16th. November 2011.
Contemporary British painter Carl Randall's painting 'Piccadilly Circus' (2017) is a large monochrome canvas depicting the area at night with crowds, the making of which involved painting over 70 portraits from life.
In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), the second campaign mission takes place at Piccadilly Circus, where the game has the player intervene during a terrorist attack by the fictional terrorist group Al-Qatala. There is also a multi-player map called Piccadilly, which appears to take place in the aftermath of the terrorist attack.
Circa
Circa is an art platform based at London's Piccadilly Circus. They commission and stream a monthly programme of art and culture, every evening at 20:21, across a global network of billboards in London, Tokyo and Seoul.
Established in October 2020 by British-Irish artist Josef O'Connor, the daily and free public art programme pauses the world famous advertisements in Piccadilly Circus and across a global network of screens for three minutes every evening.
They commission new work to fill the space that considers the world in response to the present year. It is the largest digital art exhibition in Europe. O'Connor recalls:
‘I first had the idea when I was 19, but it was only
about three years ago that I acted on it and reached
out to the screen owner, Landsec, via Twitter.
I was inspired by Piccadilly’s kinetic architecture -
how it morphed and changed with time to reflect
the world - from neon lights in 1908 to the iconic
red and white Sanyo sign in the 1990's, etc.
You could accurately guess the decade by just
looking at a photo or postcard of the landmark.
This inspired the concept for Circa, to pause time
and commission artists to create new work that
considers the world around them, circa 2020/21, etc.’
The first artist to fill the three-minute daily slot was Ai Weiwei, who is quoted as saying in an interview with The Art Newspaper that:
"Circa 2020 offers a very important platform
for artists to exercise their practice and to
reach out to a greater public”.
Other notable artists and curators whose works have been exhibited as part of the Circa programme include Cauleen Smith, Eddie Peake, Patti Smith, James Barnor curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Alvaro Barrington and Anne Imhof.
Each commission for the project is approved by an independent council chaired by the British independent curator and ex-director of The Royal Academy, Norman Rosenthal.
On the 1st. January 2021, Circa commissioned two live performances from Patti Smith to help put an end to 2020 and beckon in the New Year. The New Year's Eve screening in Piccadilly Circus was eventually cancelled due to Covid restrictions, but the performance was still broadcast for free via the Circa YouTube Channel on the 31st. December to an audience of over 1.5million people around the world.
Circa and Serpentine Galleries' collaborative presentation of James Barnor’s work in April 2021 completed a journey that began more than half a century ago, when Barnor photographed BBC Africa Service presenter Mike Eghan against the backdrop of Piccadilly Circus’s neon signs in 1967.
The iconic image is held within the Tate collection, and was the inspiration behind Ferdinando Verderi’s Italian Vogue cover, with Barnor remote-shooting model Adwoa Aboah standing in the exact same location to create a present reflection on the past.
To celebrate her 80th. Birthday, British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was commissioned by Circa to present a new video work in Piccadilly Circus created with her brother entitled 'Don't Buy a Bomb,' an anti-war message presented for ten minutes on the Piccadilly Lights screen.
In the ten-minute film, the punk icon performed a re-written rendition of ‘Without You’ from My Fair Lady to offer a stark warning of societal indifference to looming environmental catastrophes, a cry against the arms trade, and its link to climate change.
In May 2021, British artist David Hockney's 2.5 minute iPad drawing of a sunrise entitled “Remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long,” was broadcast by Circa across digital billboard screens in London's Piccadilly Circus, New York's Times Square and prominent locations in Los Angeles, Tokyo and the largest outdoor screen in Seoul.
Oppression in China
So what else happened on the day that Daphne posted the card?
Well, on the 3rd. August 1966, a radio broadcast by China's Prime Minister Zhou Enlai in Ürümqi called on the people of the multi-ethnic Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to support the Cultural Revolution.
Within a month, the predominantly Sunni Muslim Uyghurs were under the persecution of the mostly Han Chinese Red Guards.
Archie C. Kuntze
Also on that day, a U.S. Navy board of inquiry recommended a court-martial for Captain Archie C. Kuntze for misconduct during his two years as commander of the supply depot operations within South Vietnam.
Captain Kuntze, who called himself "The American Mayor of Saigon", was convicted on the 14th. November 1966 of lesser charges involving a romantic affair. He received a reprimand.
Lenny Bruce
The 3rd. August 1966 also marked the death at the age of 40 of the American comedian Lenny Bruce. He died from an overdose of morphine.
Lenny was found in the bathroom at his home at 8825 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, reportedly with the needle of his syringe still lodged in his arm.
The day before, he had received a foreclosure notice on his house.