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Even though I don't smoke, I always carry a lighter. It is the most versatile and most used item in my tool kit. I use it to shed light, provide heat, make fire, salute performance and detect air flow.
Some recent examples of use: I have verified the presence and direction of air flow in an over-heated electronic device, and have learned why our house could easily, though unintentionally, be flooded with carbon monoxide. When hiking in the jungle at Pangor Laut Resort, our guide needed heat to release the fragrance from the sap of a felled tree. (He purported it to be a component of Channel No. 5.) "Does anyone have a lighter?" he asked. As I produced the only fire-making device among an amazingly-unprepared group of jungle explorers, all Nancy could say was, "He doesn't even smoke!" To which I added: "Do you need a knife or a saw, too?"
I don’t think I could function without my lighter, and that’s making me anxious, for my current lighter is running out of fluid and may fail me soon.
My Michael Jackson lighter has served me well, even though I wasn't keen on it. Truth be told, I grudgingly bought the tacky thing, for I had no choice. How did I find myself – a person renowned for being prepared – get backed into buying it?
When I boarded the plane to come to China last year, I had forgotten to stow my collection of four Bic lighters in my checked luggage, and the kind people at CATSA rightly confiscated them. I needed to replace them as soon as I arrived in Beijing.
You would think it would be easy to buy a disposable lighter in a land populated with so many smokers, but, to his credit, disposable is not an attribute valued by the Chinese consumer.
Unlike in North America, only a fool would pay money for something designed to be thrown away. One might as well throw away money! When something breaks here, it gets fixed; and if it can’t be fixed, it gets repurposed – even used bricks. It would be unconscionable to buy something that could neither be recharged, repaired nor repurposed.
Disposable is associated with profligate wastefulness, and is not a trait people want to project, except in their fashion accessories (which includes the category "cars"). Instead, the Chinese prefer the brand recognition that comes from, say, owning an heirloom Zippo lighter – even if it's counterfeit.
Still, my deeply personal relationship with airport security-screening has made me a fan of the disposable lighter. When I found myself light a few lighters, I was determined to replace them with disposables.
I searched for several weeks, but I could not find one – until I visited the store where this photo was taken. They had disposable lighters, albeit only The Michael Jackson model. I bought one without hesitation, for I had quickly learned that if you see something you need here, buy it, for you might never see it again. I'd deal with the social consequences later.
This store is home base for most Beijing expats, because it specializes in stocking its shelves with groceries, foodstuffs, and household products from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia, all sold at a reasonable price. The staff is friendly and helpful, and some of them speak English very well. The proprietors are keen to channel the zeitgeist of foreign life.
This probably explains why disposable lighters are displayed prominently at the checkout counter. What foreigner could pass up a culturally relevant lighter, such as The Michael Jackson? I couldn’t.
Last night, when I happened to be visiting the store, I thought I'd test drive the 2011 model. Was I in for a shock!
Last year, I had to buy the Michael Jackson, because it was the only model available. But this year, in keeping with the increasing plenitude of products flooding the Chinese consumer market, I found myself overwhelmed with choice: There were eight models!
And then a strange thing happened: My quest for a serviceable replacement for the aging Michael Jackson was confounded by my need to consider branding. Which lighter would best reflect my lifestyle? When I need to offer a light to my American and German friends, do I want to bask in the prestige that comes from sporting The Obama, The Bin Laden or one of the stylized Neo-Nazi-Kriegsmarine models?
I'll have to replace my dying lighter some day, soon, but I need to think more about who I am and what kind of person I want to be.
© 2011 K W Hadley
2011-07-22 Update: My Michael Jackson lighter was confiscated by the security people at Beijing Capital International Airport because, one again, I forgot to put it in my checked-luggage. No matter. When I was in Canada, I bought 7 disposable Bic lighters. Now, when I draw a lighter from my pocket, people will see a bland Canadian using a bland lighter... >Sigh<
2019 collection
wearable wall hanging
freeform wrap rap
tunic dress top
coat vest jacket
circular elements
spiraling around
a bright nurturing sun
of happiness & joy
muti versatile unique
unorthodox designer piece
offering about a gazillion
wearing options
indoors & outdoors
deluxe urban streetwear
in a very trendy
lagenlock design
Compositionally Challenged: June's most versatile - lines
52 in 2019: Striped
Active Assignment Weekly: Nothing
I chose this assignment to challenge myself as well, not just you guys. I did a lot of thinking and looked at a lot of photos. Some of my concepts were impractical, or too time consuming (I am a very lazy photographer). I saw a photo, though, when I did a Flickr search for 'nothing'. It really appealed to me and it seemed quite easily achievable and I have put the link in the comments for reference. That photo was the inspiration for this photo.
What it took: My husband and I were going home on the streetcar (tram) and as we went through the underpass (subway) I noticed the incredible light and shadows, the silhouettes, the stripes, it was all quite dazzling. I've never seen the underpass look like that before. Or maybe I just never noticed? So we got off the streetcar. I took so many photos, of people, cars, lines, shapes, from the entrance, from both sidewalks... The photos all came out great. This one is the one I feel is the closest representation of what I was trying to capture - an interesting photographic nothingness and, unlike the inspiration photo, no real subject, just impressions. I've cropped the photo to get rid of two people and a car. Two people remain. The dark areas have been made darker. Being such an Ernst Haas fan, I saturated the colours a bit as well. That's it.
ƒ/7.1, 1/160, ISO100, 18-55mm lens, Nikon D5300. 12.28pm on 2 June, Dufferin underpass on Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada.
The M230 variant known as XM914 provides the capability for self-defense from ground threats as well as air defense, while allowing vehicles to maintain maneuverability. It is the “weapon of choice” for vehicles like the M-SHORAD. (Photo by Georgios Moumoulidis, Training Support Activity Europe)
Willow is a Soulkid Fafner hybrid on a Mnf Body. She was my first doll and I did her faceup myself. I love her to bits...
Candy Garden Collection now available at www.versatilecorsets.com
Models: Frankie Sin and Natasha
Photography: Michelle X Star
Styling and Designing: Me
Versatile space with major concert arena and 780-seat theatre, for music, comedy and family shows.
Address: Lancaster Rd, Preston PR1 1HT
© 2019 Tony Worrall
Quality is good - zoom in or go Large (press the L key) to see each pic nicely. Just like Linda's but hers are more artistic :-)
I thought that the photos in the Versatile challenge weren't getting their share of the fun. Flickr only pushes threads (discussions) to the top when it senses a new post. Because in this challenge we build up our post over the month, it only gets a showing on the days a new post is started.
I asked Linda if I could do a 'Versatile' montage. On saying yes I set to to have a go. This is pure DIY. A blank file, with downloaded files placed individually into place, saved, and titles added. The photos were different sizes so I shrunk them to make them all the same height - 500 pixels. This is my fourth go/version of the montage.
One photo per challenge (the challenge is to take a photo for each of the 10 subjects each month) - and at least one photo from everyones post.
Once I got this one finished and more or less presentable, I tried using the Photoshop E13 collage - a pathetic app. They probably sell better ones in their app store, but there is only the one in the program.
I tried the Picasa collage and it is also pathetic. I couldn't change the order - it worked the first time, but never again after that. I have a very low boredom threshold, and the computer is just this side of the bin. Grrrrr.
BRIEF:
The plot for this design was a mid-size family garden, which had recently benefited from the addition of a large sunroom on the back of the property. It was a fairly blank canvas, with nothing of note to be retained in the re-design. The garden had side access and worn boundary fences which required replacing. There was no clear brief other than that the design include a seating area and some lawn, and that the transition from sunroom to garden be fairly seamless
SOLUTION:
The focus of this design was to create an exterior space that serves as an extension to the interior, featuring several distinct and versatile areas that can be adapted to a variety of uses.
The garden's boundaries were replaced with new fencing to provide a uniform and attractive backdrop to the transformation within, while the long sideway down the right of the house was renovated with the addition of attractive 'bamboo' slate tile flooring in a random lay pattern.
The first section of the space comprises a large area of Western Red Cedar decking adjoining the house, and offers ample room for entertaining, with a long L-shaped fixed-bench seat stretching width-ways across the space from the left-hand side to the centre. This was backed with a rendered block raised bed, planted with fragrant lavender and capped with 'bamboo' slate tile, to provide a sense of enclosure and separation from the rest of the garden.
A decked walkway running down the right hand side of the space provides access to a 'spa' area, featuring a large square hot tub housed upon a reinforced paved hard-standing and nestled between existing and additional trees, shrubs and foliage to provide a secluded and intimate area for bathing throughout the seasons. Hidden behind mature and new planting in the bottom left corner, a large shed provides ample storage for the client's garden accessories. The middle of the space has been given over to a large lawn edges with slate.
A purple and yellow planting scheme of soft, cottage-style evergreen shrubs and flowering perennials will help to bring year round lightness and subtle colouring to the space.
After-dark hot tub bathing is enhanced by several strings of pea-lights woven through the existing shrubbery. Deck lights demark the main area of decking and guide one's journey along the decked walkway. Finally, spot lights in the beds highlight certain area while providing a gentle wash throughout the space.
TESTIMONIAL:
"After months of planning and a full year of having builders everywhere, we had finally got the house into good shape but the garden was a nightmare. It had been somewhat overgrown before the builders moved in, but after a year of being used as a builders yard, it needed shock treatment.
We needed help fast so we searched the web. We were looking for garden designers with creative ideas for smaller London gardens. We didn't want anything too traditional but at the same time, nothing too extreme.
Earth Designs fitted the bill and after a design session with Katrina, we engaged them for the project. They had offered us a design service only, but as we only had a 4 week window in which to complete the job, we gave them the whole project.
We had built a new extension with wide glass doors that opened out into the garden, so the brief to Earth Designs was to "bring the outside, inside" and create a strong link between the new room and the garden beyond. The actual garden space was not large so we wanted to use the space as an extension of the living space - to be an "outside room".
Monday 18th April and three very charming men arrived on our doorstep at 8.0am sharp. Arlo was the project manager, ably aided and abetted by Paul and Phillip. They worked brilliantly as a team and always hit all the deadlines. In particular they did a great job in working with our neighbours to ensure the whole project ran smoothly.
The first week involved clearing the site - no mean feat with 30-year-old ivy stems that looked more like tree trunks.
The second week involved levelling the garden, putting up new fencing, building the corner seating base and planters, plus marking out the garden shape. It was good to be able to make minor changes to the design on the ground at this stage. The hot tub arrived too and was winched into place for connection later.
Week 3 saw the decking and seating built.
Then in week four the turf arrived, the lawn went down and on the last day, Katrina arrived with a truckload of wonderful specimens (and Matt) and we had a wonderful time planting. Ground Force Mk II - a complete garden from start to finish in just 4 weeks!
There were a few things that needed to be sorted out after the main work was complete. Earth Designs were great about coming back until all was complete and finished.
Our thanks to Katrina, Matt, Arlo, Paul and Phillip for a great job, completed on time and on budget with a great looking result."
Earth Designs is a bespoke garden landscape design and build company specialising in classic, funky and urban contemporary garden design.
Our build teams cover London, Essex and parts of South East England, while garden designs are available nationwide.
Please visit www.earthdesigns.co.uk to see our full portfolio.
Follow our Bespoke Garden Design and Build and Blog to see what we get up to week by week, our free design clinic as well as tips and products we recommend for your garden projects www.earthdesigns.co.uk/blog/.
Earth Designs is located in East London, but has built gardens in Essex, Hertfordshire and all over the South East. Earth Designs was formed by Katrina Wells in Spring 2003 and has since gone from strength to strength to develop a considerable portfolio of garden projects. Katrina, who is our Senior Garden Designer, has travelled all over the UK designing gardens. However we can design worldwide either through our postal garden design service or by consultation with our senior garden designer. Recent worldwide projects have included garden designs in Romania. Katrina’s husband. Matt, heads up the build side of the company, creating a unique service for all our clients.
If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Postal Design Vouchers. f you would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.
The versatility of the Lockheed Constellation airframe led to a number of modifications done by both the US Navy and the USAF, which generally shared the same EC-121 designation despite their different roles. Navy aircraft included the WV-2Q (EC-121M) electronic intelligence and WV-3 (WC-121N) weather reconnaissance aircraft. These lacked the radar domes of the WV-2/EC-121K and, in the case of the EC-121M, flew clandestine missions along the borders of the Eastern Bloc.
The USAF also modified a small number of Constellations into specialized variants, mostly testbeds identical to the standard EC-121D that tested the QRC-248 (“Quick Look”) and Rivet Gym (EC-121M) setups. Four were also briefly modified during the Cuban Missile Crisis as EC-121Q Gold Diggers, which tracked U-2 missions over Cuba. The largest number of modified Constellations, however, was the EC-121R, codenamed Batcat. Classified until the early 1980s, Batcat EC-121s were ex-Navy WV-2s and WV-3s supplied to the USAF and stripped off their radar domes. 25 Batcats were sent to Thailand, flying with the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing at Korat RTAFB, Thailand. Batcat’s role was to monitor and coordinate Operation Igloo White, the electronic surveillance of the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietnam, through Laos and Cambodia, to the South.
Igloo White was the brainchild of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who envisioned an “electronic fence” around South Vietnam, which would save on manpower (and money). Using sensors dropped by USAF and US Navy aircraft, the sensors would bury themselves in the ground around known traffic points along the Trail. These sensors would then detect truck traffic and other manmade sounds, relay the signals to Batcats on station, which in turn would relay them to American forward air controllers, who would call in airstrikes.
While Igloo White had its uses and was on occasion very successful, halting Trail traffic was more effectively done by the FACs themselves or by US/South Vietnamese Special Forces on the Trail itself. Batcat missions lasted eighteen hours, requiring the aircraft to have better air conditioning than the standard EC-121. The project was wound down with the American pullout beginning in 1970, with the Batcats supplemented by QU-22 “Baby Bat” two-man aircraft, and ended for good in December 1971. Two Batcats were lost in fatal accidents during the war; the 28 survivors were later scrapped.
The EC-121R can be instantly identified not only by its lack of radar domes, but also its Southeast Asia camouflage of two shades of green and brown over white; Batcats were the only Constellations to receive camouflage schemes. Due to its clandestine nature, recognition markings on Batcats was limited to its bureau number on the tail.
The Varsity was a versatile twin piston-engined aircraft brought into RAF service in 1951 for crew training as a replacement for the Wellington T10.
The aircraft had been designed three years earlier in response to an Air Ministry specification and had been put into production once proving trials and operational tests had been completed. To adapt the successful Valetta design for a general purpose crew trainer, the Varsity was given a nose-wheel undercarriage and an under fuselage pannier bomb-aimer's station. The Museum also has an example of the Valetta which is awaiting major restoration.
The most outstanding quality of the Varsity was that it could provide excellent training for pilots, flight engineers, radio operators, navigators and bomb aimers simultaneously. The latter were seated in a very large ventral gondola which contained bomb aiming equipment and a small quantity of training bombs.
The prototype Varsity T MkI made its maiden flight on 17 July 1949. The RAF took its first deliveries in October 1951 which went to No.201 Squadron, Advanced Flying School at Swinderby, Lincolnshire. Production of the Varsity T MkI for the RAF ceased on 28 February 1954 after a total of 163 had been built.
WL679 was built by Vickers Armstrong at Bournemouth and released from their factory on 25 September 1953. This was the last Varsity to fly with Royal Air Force Insignia, but in the very distinctive livery of the Royal Aircraft Establishment. It landed at RAF Cosford on 27 July 1992 and signalled the end of an era spanning over 43 years.
A Class 52 trio portraying the daily duties attributed to the type during their last years of service on the Western Region of British Rail.
1. Stone empties with "Western Duke."
Camera: Olympus OM1 35mm SLR.
Reworked in black and white.
Beautiful and versatile nuno felt wrap/skirt felted from hand dyed fabrics and fibres. The silks and silk/cotton fabric was dyed by the amazing Merridee Smith and the fibre by Lori Simoni in Loomis, CA. This piece was felted as an experiment using methods which I will be writing about in my new book with Chrissie Day to be published some time in late November! www.clasheen.wordpress.com/
Not Afraid to Look sculpture at the Standing Rock Sacred Stone protest camp. Photographed with an Olympus OM-2n Using a Zuiko MC Autozoom f/4 35-70mm lens. The film is Kodak Max Versatility 400, expired 09/2004.
Dressing table mirror reflected in the wardrobe mirror.. and repeat :)
Sepia, selective colour, white matte and border.
a versatile rainbow
for all occasions
& seasons
multicolor glamour trash
for people with small closets
unisex free size no budget accessory
for fashion clowns
who don´t believe in blue skies
& the constitution
of The Wiener Schnitzel Republic
Used in every theater of the war, the jeep transported officers, evacuated wounded, towed light artilley and performed myriad other duties.
I took the Sigma 35 F1.2 out for an official spin at my local park, with my lovely wife and daughter whom is always gracious enough to pose for me.
My quick thoughts, coming from the Sony Camp and using the Zeiss 35mm F1.4za, the Sigma is more sharper, even at 1.2, The Zeiss may have just a bit more punch of color, but the Sigma isn't far off. The build goes to Sigma, so does the heft. You can get very creative with the F1.2, it's fun. AF is actually pretty good, S and C, the Eye focus was good as well. The MFD is very good, I can get pretty close.
For me it is worth the price tag. How tack sharp this lens is wide open is unbelievable. My favorite lens in my bag was the 50 S Pro and followed by the Sigma Art 85, the Sigma Art 85 has been bumped to 3rd place by the Sigma 35mm F1.2. The Panny 50 S Pro is still a special lens and my favorite and it does surpass the Sigma 35 1.2, but not by much. However, if I had to take one lens, it would be the Sigma 35 F1.2 because of it's versatility.
I am not a professional, just a highly enthusiastic photographer who loves everything photography.
Most are shot wide open and very little post, if any.
The beauty of Tasmania's Riversdale Estate is in both its stunning surroundings and its unique versatility. Offering a range of indoor and outdoor spaces, it combines elegance, grandeur and modern functionality.
We offer a number of warm and unique spaces that can allow guests to move around the Estate in private surroundings. Each area has its own distinctive character.
The French Bistro – with its refined European décor – offers floor to ceiling windows that allow for views into the vineyard and waterways beyond, allowing guests an unrivalled location and vista. It provides a formal ambience while creating a sophisticated elegance.
The Private Dining Room – with its plush leather wing-back chairs and chesterfield sofas, large handcrafted dining table, fireplace and spectacular views of the vineyard – presents itself to smaller, more intimate weddings.
The Estate Garden – with its luscious green landscape and well-established trees – provides stunning water vistas and 360 degree views of the Estate and its 38ha vineyard. It is the ideal venue for weddings at any time of the year. Our garden pergolas offer perfect settings for wedding photography with the garden and water views in the background. A paved area in front of the Estate’s main building allows for wedding ceremonies of an unforgettable nature.
This image shows the French Orangery in all its splendour.
Morning and afternoon tea in the Orangery is all about good taste. From the interior design of elegance and comfort of the music that blends so well with the warm chatter and the delicious and sumptuous delicacies served on fine china and silver platters: cucumber sandwiches, scones so light with clotted cream, perfectly formed pastries fused with flavours.
By day or night, spring or summer, autumn or winter, Riversdale Estate is the perfect choice for visitors to luxuriate in the welcoming atmosphere and the superb locally grown and prepared produce and wines.
If you would like information and pricing, please contact our Wedding and Events Coordinator Benjamin who can assist with planning your perfect day:
e: weddings@riversdaleestate.com.au
t: +61 3 6248 5555
DadaKamikazeKnitting
Guerrilla knitting attack
in intuitive
sensitive
highspeed mode
tunic
dress
pseudo-poncho
wrap
multimedia
multitechnique
freeform & pattern crochet/knitting
Navajo 3-ply
& some more nonsense I cant´t remember
multi versatile
like most of my creations
endless wearing options
for fearless ladies with attitude
& urban drag queens
The all-new Jaguar F-PACE is a performance crossover designed and engineered to offer the agility, responsiveness and refinement that all Jaguars are renowned for, together with unrivalled dynamics and everyday versatility.
DadaKamikazeKnitting
Guerrilla knitting attack
in intuitive
sensitive
highspeed mode
tunic
dress
pseudo-poncho
wrap
multimedia
multitechnique
freeform & pattern crochet/knitting
Navajo 3-ply
& some more nonsense I cant´t remember
multi versatile
like most of my creations
endless wearing options
for fearless ladies with attitude
& urban drag queens
The most versatile tool in outside cooking - Muurikkapannu (R)
PS: Those who are interested in tecnology I can tell that living in the wilderness requires many extras. Electricity comes from a Honda i10 petrol powered inverter/aggregate using as a middle storage a 60 Ah Battery with 12/220 V inverter. My wife and me have 2 laptops using 3G mobile net communication, 3 mobile phones, 3 Nikon bodies and about 10 different lenses for them. There is no road, no electricity, no .... Just the beautiful, adorable nature around us - a lot of fish in the lake, much of lingonberries in the woods and exiting scenery 24/7 with Auroras making their surprcising appeances during the nights ....
THE VERSATILITY OF THIS ESCAPE ARTIST, MAGICIAN, ILLUSIONIST, FORMER U.S.M.C. DRILL INSTRUCTOR 2X, RECRUITER FOR U.S.M.C., UNICYCLIST, JUGGLER, GYMNAST, MARATHON RUNNER, COMBAT INSTRUCTOR FOR NAVY SEALS, MARTIAL ARTS EXPERT IN A NUMBER OF ARTS, SURFER, DAREDEVIL, HANDGLIDER, FATHER OF FIVE CHILDREN, 6X WORLD RECORD HOLDER IN ESCAPOLOGY AND 46 MPH HANDSTAND ON SKATEBOARD TIED TO A MOTORCYCLE, TEACHER IN GYMNASTICS, MARTIAL ARTS, CIRCUS PERFORMER HIGH WIRE, PARACHUTIST, SPECIAL FORCES IN MARINES, FASTEST JAIL BREAK IN 22 SECONDS, FASTEST STRAITJACKET ESCAPE LESS THAN 7 SECONDS...IS UNMEASURABLE TO ANY OTHER ESCAPE ARTIST IN THE WORLD AND PERHAPS IN HISTORY. I HAVE SUPPLIED BUT A FEW PHOTOS THAT ARE LEFT FROM HOUDENNY'S EX-WIFE TAKING THEM AND PREVIOUS REPORTERS MISPLACING THEM DURING INTERVIEWS, WHICH IS A SHAME HAVING SO MANY YEARS LOST OF THIS MAN' TALENT.
NOTE: HOUDENNY ACTUALLY FREED HIMSELF FROM THIS POSEY STRAITJACKET LESS THAN 7 SECONDS IN 1985 AT QUATICO, VIRGINIA AND DIDN'T EVEN UNDO ANY OF THE STRAPS AS YOU CAN NOTICE IN THIS PHOTO.
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www.motiono.com/HOUDENNY/albums/177/
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Versatile Financial Advisor Business Card design template by Octavian Belintan.Showcased on Inkd.com.
A financial planner helping families and other clients make choices regarding their money and finances can use this business card. The combination of green and blue give the business card a professional undertone appropriate for the financial industry.
East-German card by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 1/972.
Dashing and strikingly versatile actor Jean-Claude Brialy (1933-2007) became a star in the late 1950’s when he was one of the best known faces of the Nouvelle Vague. He worked with such New Wave filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, and François Truffaut, and he also directed a number of films himself. It made him an embodiment of the French cinema for a global audience.
Jean-Claude Brialy was born in Aumale, French Algeria (now Sour El-Ghozlane, Algeria), in 1933. He was the son of Roger Brialy, a colonel stationed in colonial Algeria with the French Army, and Suzanne Abraham. At the age of nine, he went with his family to various cities in France, settling after the war in Strasbourg, where he took his baccalaureate. Brialy showed great promise in drama and won first prize at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. He detested his strict upbringing, and acting became an early form of rebellion. He had violent arguments with his father, who once locked the 15-year-old boy in to prevent his attending rehearsals of a school play, Jean-Claude responded by smashing up the furniture. Against the wishes of his parents, he enrolled at the Centre Dramatique de l’Est (Eastern Centre of Dramatic Art in Strasbourg), to train to be an actor. Military service then intervened and Brialy found himself attached to an army film unit in the German town of Baden-Baden. There he made his first film, a short entitled Chiffonard et Bon Aloi. His job also enabled him to go to shows, and to meet actors, including Jean Marais. Demobilized, he moved to Paris in 1954. There he scratched a living by small roles on stage and entertaining the queues outside the first-run cinemas on the Champs Elysees. He became friendly with a group of young critics and aspiring filmmakers who were taking over the influential journal Cahiers du Cinéma. At 21, he joined a Cahiers outing to Arles to see Jean Renoir's stage production of Julius Caesar. He made his film debut in a short directed by one of the Cahiers critics, Le Coup du berger/Fool's Mate (1956, Jacques Rivette). Cahiers editor Eric Rohmer casted him as the lover in his 10-minute short La sonate à Kreutzer/The Kreutzer Sonata (1956), an adaptation of the short story by Tolstoy. Brialy appeared uncredited in two features by Louis Malle: Les Amants/The Lovers (1958, Louis Malle) and Ascenseur pour l’échafaud/ Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle) both starring Jeanne Moreau. His first lead was in Le beau Serge/Handsome Serge (1958, Claude Chabrol) as an idealistic Parisian student who returns after a ten-year absence to his provincial village and becomes obsessed with saving an old school friend who has become a hopeless alcoholic (played by the brooding Gerard Blain, often called the James Dean of France). The film, which won an award in Locarno, and the Jean-Vigo Prize, immediately attracted attention, and the performers (Brialy, Blain, and Bernadette Lafont) were widely acclaimed. Le beau Serge was immediately followed by Les Cousins/The Cousins (1959, Claude Chabrol), in which Brialy played the sardonic town cousin to Blain's simple country cousin.
The young Turks of the Cahiers du Cinema formed the core of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave). This film movement was a rebellion against the conventions of the French cinema. As James Travers writes at Films de France: ”Out went polished scripts, well-rehearsed performances and meticulously staged productions. In came spontaneity, improvisation, subversive politics, real human emotion, and fun.” The Cahiers critics were starting to have an impact far greater than they could have anticipated and the French cinema seemed to be going through a period of frantic renaissance. The director became the intellectual author of the film; the stars were made more human, the stories more enigmatic. Jean-Claude Brialy also made several films with the other Nouvelle Vague filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Pierre Kast, and Jacques Rozier. Ronald Bergan stated in The Guardian: “Where Belmondo represented anarchy, Léaud youthful innocence and Blain sensitivity, Brialy brought cynicism, charm and sophistication to the films of the period.” Brialy was the leading man in Godard’s ‘neo-realist musical’ Une Femme est une femme/Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard), in which Anna Karina plays a stripper who wants to have his baby and turns to his best friend Jean-Paul Belmondo when he refuses. In the film Brialy directly addresses the audience with a line that became an epigram for the Nouvelle Vague: “It’s hard to tell if this is a comedy or a tragedy, but either way it’s a masterpiece.” For Truffaut he appeared opposite Jeanne Moreau in La Mariée était en noir/The Bride Wore Black (1968, François Truffaut), and for Rohmer he starred in Le Genou de Claire/Claire’s Knee (1970, Éric Rohmer), in which he played a bearded Cultural attache who is taking his last summer holiday as a bachelor at Annecy and becomes filled with desire for a young woman’s knee.
Besides his work for the Nouvelle Vague, Jean-Claude Brialy also worked with many other well known filmmakers. He made his feature film debut in Jean Renoir’s Elena et les homes/Elena and her Men (1956) and played his first substantial role, in L’Ami de la famille/A Friend of the Family (1957, Jacques Pinoteau). Then came a supporting role in Christine (1958, Pierre Gaspard-Huit), starring Romy Schneider, who would become a close personal friend. He appeared with Alida Valli in Le Gigolo/The Gigolo (1960, Jacques Deray), with Anthony Perkins in Le Glaive et la Balance/The Sword and the Balance (1963, André Cayatte) and with Jane Fonda in La ronde/Circle of Love (1964), Roger Vadim's adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play about various people having affairs. He was an asylum inmate in Le Roi de Coeur/King of Hearts (1966, Philippe de Broca), which became a US hit. In the following decades he worked with cineastes like Luis Buñuel (Le Fantôme de la liberté/The Phantom of Liberty, 1974), Bertrand Tavernier (Le Juge et l’assassin/The Judge and the Assassin, 1976) and Ettore Scola (La Nuit de Varennes/That Night in Varennes, 1982), but he was equally attracted to popular comedies, such as Le Maître-nageur/The Swimming Instructor (1978, Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Pinot simple flic/Pinot, Simple Cop (1984, Gérard Jugnot). He reunited with Claude Chabrol and Bernadette Lafont for Inspecteur Lavardin/Inspector Lavardin (1986, Claude Chabrol) in which he played a gay uncle. Other notable appearances include: Les uns et les autres/Bolero (1981, Claude Lelouch), Mortelle Randonnée/Deadly Circuit (1982, Claude Miller), and La Reine Margot/Queen Margot (1994, Patrice Chéreau) starring Isabelle Adjani. Brialy also directed a dozen (TV) films himself, including Églantine (1971), an enchanting story set in the 19th century of a boy's visit to his grandmother, and Un Amour De Pluie/Loving in the Rain (1974) starring Romy Schneider as a woman who takes her daughter to a summer resort in search of a love affair. He often appeared in supporting roles, and was nominated for a César for the best supporting actor for his role in Le Juge et l’Assassin (1976), but won the César for Les Innocents/The Innocents (1988, André Téchiné).
Jean-Claude Brialy came to personify all that is best in French culture. A bon vivant, he started his own restaurant in 1966: the popular L'Orangerie, on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, which he owned for two decades. He was a natural raconteur, he worked as a singer, he revelled in his numerous television and radio appearances. As a lover of literature, he read extensively and wrote several best-selling books, including the autobiographies, Le Ruisseau des singes (River of Monkeys) (2000) and J'ai oublié de vous dire... (I Forgot to Tell You ...) (2004) in which he revealed that he was homosexual. And he was also a man of the stage. His theatrical successes include Georges Feydeau’s La Puce à l’oreille (A Flea in Her Ear, 1968) and Hotel Paradiso (1974), and Sacha Guitry’s Desiré (1984). When he wasn’t treading the boards, he was helping to direct theatres and film festivals. As James Travers writes at Films de France: “It’s no wonder that he became one of the best loved and most highly respected figures in France.” For his exceptional contribution to French culture, he was awarded the Légion d’honneur (the Legion of Honour). In his last film, made for television, Brialy gave his best performance in years, as the gay Jewish poet Max Jacob in Monsieur Max (2007, Gabriel Aghion), who converted to Catholicism and died in a Gestapo internment camp. Following a long illness, Jean-Claude Brialy died of cancer in 2007, in his house in Monthyon, France. He was 74. In over more than a half-century, Brialy appeared in 185 films and television shows. He is cited in The Guardian saying: "Out of the 185 films, I must admit that I've enjoyed myself 185 times".
Sources: James Travers (Films de France), Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Tim Weiner (The New York Times), Jean Roy (L’Humanité), Adam Bernstein (Washington Post), Kimberly Lindbergs (Cinebeats), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), The Independent, Film Reference, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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