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Met yet another American foundry I didn't know existed. Hello, Hobart & Robbins! Thank you, Letterform Archive.
Not much is known about them. Circuitous Root has only these two entries:
www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/noncomptype...
www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/typemaking/...
AKA The New England Type Foundery. Merged with Boston Type foundry in 1885. This 1851 catalog is from the Tholenaar Collection at the Letterform Archive in San Francisco.
Practising Calligraphy. Didn't have examples so had to find out the nicest way to write down every single letter...not straith and equal enough yet.
The text is in old Dutch, it rhymes.
It says something like: "some strange pears are growing in the garden of The Lord". Which means that The Lord didn't make us all the same...
Maybe someone knows a nice English equivalent for this old Dutch saying?
atelier ying, nyc.
The prolific author crafted psychological mysteries of the old school, not far from Agatha Christie in the way that the dialogue moved along swiftly, and in the efficient use of simple language. In my opinion, Simenon uses description in a very filmic way that also is old fashioned.
"L'Affaire Saint Fiacre" was my first Maigret novel. The way this novel is crafted, with sharp and brief details, allows me the latitude that I need to think to weave a very specific design in which Maigret is not too far from Weegee's 1929 Coupe, but for this Parisian Police vehicle, I'm thinking of it more as a touring car which is more for comfort.
My only upgrade to the Maigret's series is to his wardrobe (which was a heavy overcoat), providing a bespoke gentleman's suit with sleeves that could easily be rolled up.
The idea of a traditional picnic hamper for a touring car is modified to be enjoyed inside the vehicle, albeit in a symbolic manner befitting the character of its single occupant.
Therefore, the cab interior functions as a toilette and also as a simple bar room.
The features:
1. A tray set to serve Madame Maigret's plum liqueur.
2. A fruit knife, for the enjoyment of seasonal fruit, such as oranges. This is kept inside Maigret's suit which is stowed in the back as shown. The coat will be thoroughly warmed when Maigret leaves the car.
3. French press coffee, some country bread with a napkin
4. An oil lamp
5. A tiny coal furnace.
6. A toiletry set of a water jug, hot water supply, towel and shaving set.
7. A winding rack of smoking pipes with small bowls, chicken feather cleaners and a large tobacco humidor
8. Green curtains and a cheery Neapolitan ochre wallpaper line the interior.
9. Driver, with a silver calling card tray in the front.
Maigret comes in from the bitter cold and removes his coat, unbuttons and rolls up his sleeves to enjoy the warm French country house comforts of a simple yet leisurely shave. Thereafter he will breakfast with coffee and bread, or receive a visitor for a drink and a pipeful of French tobacco.
Design, concepts, text and drawing are copyright 2014 by David Lo.
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Magdi Allam Recounts His Path to Conversion
Benedict XVI Baptized the Journalist at Easter Vigil
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 23, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of Magdi Allam’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. The Muslim journalist was baptized by Benedict XVI at Saturday's Easter Vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
An abbreviated form of this account appeared as a letter to Paolo Mieli, the director of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Allam is the paper’s deputy director. The Italian version of the complete text is available at magdiallam.it.
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Dear Friends,
I am particularly happy to share with you my immense joy for this Easter of Resurrection that has brought me the gift of the Christian faith. I gladly propose the letter that I sent to the director of the Corriere della Sera, Paolo Mieli, in which I tell the story of the interior journey that brought me to the choice of conversion to Catholicism. This is the complete version of the letter, which was published by the Corriere della Sera only in part.
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Dear Director,
That which I am about to relate to you concerns my choice of religious faith and personal life in which I do not wish to involve in any way the Corriere della Sera, which it has been an honor to be a part of as deputy director “ad personam” since 2003. I write you thus as protagonist of the event, as private citizen.
Yesterday evening I converted to the Christian Catholic religion, renouncing my previous Islamic faith. Thus, I finally saw the light, by divine grace -- the healthy fruit of a long, matured gestation, lived in suffering and joy, together with intimate reflection and conscious and manifest expression. I am especially grateful to his holiness Pope Benedict XVI, who imparted the sacraments of Christian initiation to me, baptism, confirmation and Eucharist, in the Basilica of St. Peter’s during the course of the solemn celebration of the Easter Vigil. And I took the simplest and most explicit Christian name: “Cristiano.” Since yesterday evening therefore my name is Magdi Crisitano Allam.
For me it is the most beautiful day of [my] life. To acquire the gift of the Christian faith during the commemoration of Christ’s resurrection by the hand of the Holy Father is, for a believer, an incomparable and inestimable privilege. At almost 56 […], it is a historical, exceptional and unforgettable event, which marks a radical and definitive turn with respect to the past. The miracle of Christ’s resurrection reverberated through my soul, liberating it from the darkness in which the preaching of hatred and intolerance in the face of the “different,” uncritically condemned as “enemy,” were privileged over love and respect of “neighbor,” who is always, an in every case, “person”; thus, as my mind was freed from the obscurantism of an ideology that legitimates lies and deception, violent death that leads to murder and suicide, the blind submission to tyranny, I was able to adhere to the authentic religion of truth, of life and of freedom.
On my first Easter as a Christian I not only discovered Jesus, I discovered for the first time the face of the true and only God, who is the God of faith and reason. My conversion to Catholicism is the touching down of a gradual and profound interior meditation from which I could not pull myself away, given that for five years I have been confined to a life under guard, with permanent surveillance at home and a police escort for my every movement, because of death threats and death sentences from Islamic extremists and terrorists, both those in and outside of Italy.
I had to ask myself about the attitude of those who publicly declared fatwas, Islamic juridical verdicts, against me -- I who was a Muslim -- as an “enemy of Islam,” “hypocrite because he is a Coptic Christian who pretends to be a Muslim to do damage to Islam,” “liar and vilifier of Islam,” legitimating my death sentence in this way. I asked myself how it was possible that those who, like me, sincerely and boldly called for a “moderate Islam,” assuming the responsibility of exposing themselves in the first person in denouncing Islamic extremism and terrorism, ended up being sentenced to death in the name of Islam on the basis of the Quran. I was forced to see that, beyond the contingency of the phenomenon of Islamic extremism and terrorism that has appeared on a global level, the root of evil is inherent in an Islam that is physiologically violent and historically conflictive.
At the same time providence brought me to meet practicing Catholics of good will who, in virtue of their witness and friendship, gradually became a point of reference in regard to the certainty of truth and the solidity of values. To begin with, among so many friends from Communion and Liberation, I will mention Father Juliàn Carròn; and then there were simple religious such as Father Gabriele Mangiarotti, Sister Maria Gloria Riva, Father Carlo Maurizi and Father Yohannis Lahzi Gaid; there was rediscovery of the Salesians thanks to Father Angelo Tengattini and Father Maurizio Verlezza, which culminated in a renewed friendship with major rector Father Pascual Chavez Villanueva; there was the embrace of top prelates of great humanity like Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Monsignor Luigi Negri, Giancarlo Vecerrica, Gino Romanazzi and, above all, Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who personally accompanied me in the journey of spiritual acceptance of the Christian faith.
But undoubtedly the most extraordinary and important encounter in my decision to convert was that with Pope Benedict XVI, whom I admired and defended as a Muslim for his mastery in setting down the indissoluble link between faith and reason as a basis for authentic religion and human civilization, and to whom I fully adhere as a Christian to inspire me with new light in the fulfillment of the mission God has reserved for me.
Mine was a journey that began when at four years old, my mother Safeya -- a believing and practicing Muslim -- in the first in the series of “fortuitous events” that would prove to be not at all the product of chance but rather an integral part of a divine destiny to which all of us have been assigned -- entrusted me to the loving care of Sister Lavinia of the Comboni Missionary Sisters, convinced of the goodness of the education that would be imparted by the Catholic and Italian religious, who had come to Cairo, the city of my birth, to witness to their Christian faith through a work aimed at the common good. I thus began an experience of life in boarding school, followed by the Salesians of the Institute of Don Bosco in junior high and high school, which transmitted to me not only the science of knowledge but above all the awareness of values.
It is thanks to members of Catholic religious orders that I acquired a profoundly and essentially an ethical conception of life, in which the person created in the image and likeness of God is called to undertake a mission that inserts itself in the framework of a universal and eternal design directed toward the interior resurrection of individuals on this earth and the whole of humanity on the day of judgment, which is founded on faith in God and the primacy of values, which is based on the sense of individual responsibility and on the sense of duty toward the collective. It is in virtue of a Christian education and of the sharing of the experience of life with Catholic religious that I cultivated a profound faith in the transcendent dimension and also sought the certainty of truth in absolute and universal values.
There was a time when my mother’s loving presence and religious zeal brought me closer to Islam, which I occasionally practiced at a cultural level and in which I believed at a spiritual level according to an interpretation that at the time -- it was the 1970s -- summarily corresponded to a faith respectful of persons and tolerant toward the neighbor, in a context -- that of the Nasser regime -- in which the secular principle of the separation of the religious sphere and the secular sphere prevailed.
My father Muhammad was completely secular and agreed with the opinion of the majority of Egyptians who took the West as a model in regard to individual freedom, social customs and cultural and artistic fashions, even if the political totalitarianism of Nasser and the bellicose ideology of Pan-Arabism that aimed at the physical elimination of Israel unfortunately led to disaster for Egypt and opened the way to the resumption of Pan-Islamism, to the ascent of Islamic extremists to power and the explosion of globalized Islamic terrorism.
The long years at school allowed me to know Catholicism well and up close and the women and men who dedicated their life to serve God in the womb of the Church. Already then I read the Bible and the Gospels and I was especially fascinated by the human and divine figure of Jesus. I had a way to attend Holy Mass and it also happened, only once, that I went to the altar to receive communion. It was a gesture that evidently signaled my attraction to Christianity and my desire to feel a part of the Catholic religious community.
Then, on my arrival in Italy at the beginning of the 1970s between the rivers of student revolts and the difficulties of integration, I went through a period of atheism understood as a faith, which nevertheless was also founded on absolute and universal values. I was never indifferent to the presence of God even if only now I feel that the God of love, of faith and reason reconciles himself completely with the patrimony of values that are rooted in me.
Dear Director, you asked me whether I fear for my life, in the awareness that conversion to Christianity will certainly procure for me yet another, and much more grave, death sentence for apostasy. You are perfectly right. I know what I am headed for but I face my destiny with my head held high, standing upright and with the interior solidity of one who has the certainty of his faith. And I will be more so after the courageous and historical gesture of the Pope, who, as soon has he knew of my desire, immediately agreed to personally impart the Christian sacraments of initiation to me. His Holiness has sent an explicit and revolutionary message to a Church that until now has been too prudent in the conversion of Muslims, abstaining from proselytizing in majority Muslim countries and keeping quiet about the reality of converts in Christian countries. Out of fear. The fear of not being able to protect converts in the face of their being condemned to death for apostasy and fear of reprisals against Christians living in Islamic countries. Well, today Benedict XVI, with his witness, tells us that we must overcome fear and not be afraid to affirm the truth of Jesus even with Muslims.
For my part, I say that it is time to put an end to the abuse and the violence of Muslims who do not respect the freedom of religious choice. In Italy there are thousands of converts to Islam who live their new faith in peace. But there are also thousands of Muslim converts to Christianity who are forced to hide their faith out of fear of being assassinated by Islamic extremists who lurk among us. By one of those “fortuitous events” that evoke the discreet hand of the Lord, the first article that I wrote for the Corriere on Sept. 3, 2003 was entitled “The new Catacombs of Islamic Converts.” It was an investigation of recent Muslim converts to Christianity in Italy who decry their profound spiritual and human solitude in the face of absconding state institutions that do not protect them and the silence of the Church itself. Well, I hope that the Pope’s historical gesture and my testimony will lead to the conviction that the moment has come to leave the darkness of the catacombs and to publicly declare their desire to be fully themselves. If in Italy, in our home, the cradle of Catholicism, we are not prepared to guarantee complete religious freedom to everyone, how can we ever be credible when we denounce the violation of this freedom elsewhere in the world? I pray to God that on this special Easter he give the gift of the resurrection of the spirit to all the faithful in Christ who have until now been subjugated by fear. Happy Easter to everyone.
Dear friends, let us go forward on the way of truth, of life and of freedom with my best wishes for every success and good thing.
Magdi Allam
The Comus Inn at Sugarloaf Mountain in Dickerson, Maryland
Outbuilding - high contrast black and white. Try it in lightbox.
"Heed youth's call--vote as you think but vote! November 6, 1956. Use your freedom to vote. Boys Scouts of America. Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge."
The printed text on the other side of this doorknob hanger includes the title "The American Way of Life," a list of "political and economic rights which protect the dignity and freedom of the individual," and another reminder to "Keep your freedom--vote!"
According to "Boy Scouts to Leave Vote Pleas at 35,000,000 Homes," an article in the Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, Pa.), Oct. 25, 1956, p. 1, Scouts planned to distribute 35 million Liberty Bell hangers prior to the presidential election on November 6:
"The nation's 4,175,134 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers, and adult leaders will climax their nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote campaign beginning Saturday, November 3. On that day and on Monday, November 5, they will call on a total of 35,000,000 homes and leave on front doorknobs a Liberty Bell hanger urging citizens to vote.
"They have been conducting a nonpartisan campaign, without reference to any candidate or party. It has been sponsored jointly with Freedom Foundations, Inc., of Valley Forge."
After all the votes were tallied on November 6, it turned out that incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower had won re-election and defeated his Democratic opponent Adlai Stevenson.
This 134,618 square foot Target Greatland (#668) opened on October 13th, 1991 along with two other Columbus Area stores. This was Target's first entry into the Columbus market. This Target still operates as a Greatland but the store will be closing in January 2016.
This Target store was built on the former site of a drive-in theater that had been open since the 1950s. The long driveway on West Broad going back to the Target store is a relic of the old drive-in. The Consumer Square shopping center originally opened with Cub Foods as a co-anchor. Cub Foods later became a Kroger store.
Some people claim this was one of the most profitable Target stores in the 1990s. That may explain why the store had 24 checkouts at one time! Since then other Columbus area Target stores have opened and many retail stores (plus Westland Mall) in the area around this Target failed. A large Hollywood Casino opened a block from here but apparently that did little to draw people to Target.
In August 2015, Target announced that this store would be closing in November, possibly on the 1st. I visited this store on November 1st (what I thought was the last day) only to find the shelves still being stocked, the Food Avenue still serving up popcorn, and the seasonal section was brimming with Christmas decorations. Everything seemed to be business as usual except for one thing, the Pharmacy was shut down. There was a note on the front door saying the pharmacy shut down in October and that prescriptions were moved to another Target.
A couple days after my visit, Target announced again that this store would be closing; this time that it would be closing on January 30th, 2016. This Target Is still closing but I will try to visit both this store and the other Target in Springfield, Ohio that is closing in mid-January.
I do have more pictures of this store from a previous trip here- www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=71978807%40N03&sort=da...
Target Greatland - Soldano Boulevard - Columbus, Ohio
SOURCES
>jobisez.com/edi-igs/Target/Store%20Addresses%20by%20Store%20Number.pdf
>historicaerials.com/
>property.franklincountyauditor.com/
>dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/08/12/Target-to-close-W-Broad-store.html
>huffingtonpost.com/entry/list-of-target-store-closings_563a8529e4b0b24aee48d007
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#56 Illustrate a well-known quote for 116 pictures in 2016. I love the sign with the bird with the worm in his mouth!
Note the valley fold on the sign.
Always end up with leftover black kami in my packets. I suppose I should be folding penguins with it, but I don't know where the diagrams went to.
recently processed film. mamiya 6MF 75mm f/3.5 + cross-processed kodak E100VS. lab: A&I color, hollywood, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
The Master Photo Finishers of America distributed this advertising slip in 1926 to promote picture taking at Thanksgiving. The ad's morbid suggestion is that you'd better take snapshots of your family when you get together during the holiday this year because some of them might pass away so that "[n]ext year might be too late."
After I posted this advertisement on Flickr, it was mentioned on PetaPixel and featured by Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing: "Get a load of this print ad from the Master Photo Finishers of America, 1926. . . . Scanned and Flickr'd by Alan Mays, whose photo stream is full of wonderful vintage weirdness."
Thanksgiving
"Save the Day with Snap Shots"
— the day of the year which brings most families together, is a splendid opportunity to take snap-shots of the entire family, both singly and as a group. Next year may be too late.
Have your camera and a few extra film ready.
Master Photo Finishers of America.
Thank you, in advance, to those of you who take a moment to leave a comment and/or fave my photo. I appreciate it tremendously.
2012 Camaro SS, owned by Joann Rauls
Organized by the Orange County Mustang Club, a group of car lovers with an affinity for the classic muscle car, the event showed approximately 200 cars this year – with everything from Model T’s to the newest Ford Mustang.
I'll be posting many more photos from this event that took place in Brea, California soon. Stay tuned.
"Unos textos llegaron a buscarme anoche.
Yo estaba muy ocupada pero igual les abrí la puerta.
Me esperaron un rato tomando café, mientras terminaba unas letras para publicar.
Pidieron azúcar para endulzar las cosas mas tristes que hay que soportar"
Paper lanterns at Yasaka Jinja. On each lantern, the name of the person or establishment who donated it is written. The one in blue is a nice little restaurant in Gion called "Hyotan" - no special religious significance or anything like that but maybe they're friendly with the shrine priests.
If you use this image, please attribute it with a link reading "Japanexperterna" to www.japanexperterna.se, or, where this is not possible, non-linked text reading "Japanexperterna.se"
写真の転載について：写真の転載・使用は歓迎いたしますが、その際に必ずwww.japanexperterna.seへリンクいただくようお願いします。（印刷は除く）
Found these undated brochures while cleaning up some old papers. Full of facts about the World Trade Center.
It's spooky to see phone numbers for places that no longer exist.