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One thing I'd appreciate for Christmas is a realistic nativity scene. I've never seen one where Jesus and his family look Palestinian. I've never seen one where Mary and Joseph look like they've just finished a huge journey just so some beurocrats can do a head-count. And, of course, I've never seen one where Mary looks anything like she's just given birth.
The Christmas story's always so sanitised and pacified. It's been castrated (but without any pain or mess, of course).
It also seems pretty bizarre.
In the Christmas episode of Mr Bean, Mr Bean plays with the miniature nativity scene in a department store. Jesus is visited by the shepherds and wise men, but also by a robot and a Tyranosaurus. All the visitors are shhhed by Mary and Joseph for making to much noise.
Eventually, Jesus must be air-lifted by an angel to a doll's house, which the Mary and Joseph figures indicate is a much more suitable place for a newborn baby.
That scene (as in the scene in the episode, not the nativity scene) says a lot to me. The nativity scene version of Jesus and his parents is as alien to 1st century Palestine as the robot and dinosaur. They'd feel much more at home in a suburbanmiddle-class home in a wealthy country during the 21st Century than some dirty stable where anyone can walk in off the street.
Greenpeace Climate Crime Scene at the Ronald Reagan Republican Center in Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2010. A fundraiser for California Republican candidate for Senate Carly Fiorina was being held inside. by Robert Meyers
Tell Congress: No New Drilling. Period.
Maybe one of my Korean cyber-friends could translate. All the data I have is that it was near where we lived. As I recall after 61 years, our quarters were in the large building in the bckground.
This lovely old home was torched by an arsonist...yellow crime scene tape was all around! I was struck by the beauty of the azaleas contrasted with the gutted structure behind.
Amiga Scene in the 1990's.
Photos of Finnish and Scandinavian Amiga scene and demo parties in the 90's by Ville "PrimeP" Hyvönen of CNCD.
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Movie Scene (closed)
10520 Jefferson Ave, Brentwood Center, Newport News, VA
This location opened in 1990 as a Video Update (the fourth in the area) and was changed to Movie Scene in spring 2002, which closed in 2007.
All in all it's the perfect scene
And there's not anywhere that I would rather be ...
(mercy mercedes - the perfect scene)
Linking two of Belfast’s oldest streets, the Grade B1 listed North Street Arcade (built in 1936 to designs by Cowser & Smith Architects) has found itself in the firing line in recent years as it lies, with a number of other historic buildings, on the proposed site of a major shopping mall development.
The arcade has quirky Modernistic elevations to both North Street and Donegall Street. It is a bright double height space containing graceful brass shop fronts and a terrazzo pavement. The arcade makes a right-angled turn to link both streets and the bend along its course is marked with a shallow top-lit dome. It is the only example of a 1930s shopping arcade in Northern Ireland and is one of only a handful left in the whole of the UK.
The North Street Arcade is situated in the Cathedral Conservation Area which has for a few years been nurturing an arts and culture scene. The proposed scheme would be disastrous for the historic city centre as North Street and Donegall Street would be turned into little more than service entrances for the giant mall and its multi-storey car park. Local opposition to the proposals has thus been vocal with the ‘Let’s Get it Right’ campaign trying to positively influence the form and design of the mall scheme, and tailor it to the area’s special character. Belfast City Council has been raising awareness of the Cathedral Quarter and commissioned the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS) to compile a visitor’s guide to the area’s historic buildings.
Unfortunately the arcade, which had flourished with arts, community and youth related occupants in recent years, was seriously damaged following an arson attack.
This is a typical street scene in Timbuktu. The pedestrian kicks up the Saharan sand while he strides and carries a walking stick wearing a printed tunic and protective turban. A street lamp is noted on the right edge of the frame typically seen in most developed parts of our world. Timbuktu, Mali, Sub Sahara, W. Africa
Title: Behind the scene
Model: Loredana F.
Photo: Andrea Nicolini
Location: unknown (somewhere in Lampedusa)