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Aha, my Oyster card has arrived!
The Oyster Card is a prepaid electronic cash card mainly used for public transit in London.
This nice card came yesterday. It contains a short message – sadly the person who sent it to me forgot to write their name on it 😟
Hereio Xavier of the We're Here! group has chosen the Christmas Dysfunction group for today's visit.
Vintage card. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M.G.M.).
Gene Kelly (1912-1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955).
Eugene Curran Kelly was born in 1912 in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He was the third son of James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and his wife, Harriet Catherine Curran. By the time he decided to dance, he was an accomplished sportsman and able to defend himself. He attended St. Raphael Elementary School in the Morningside neighborhood of Pittsburgh and graduated from Peabody High School at age 16. He entered Pennsylvania State College as a journalism major, but after the 1929 crash, he left school and found work in order to help his family financially. He created dance routines with his younger brother Fred to earn prize money in local talent contests. They also performed in local nightclubs. In 1931, Kelly enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh to study economics. His family opened a dance studio in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In 1932, they renamed it the Gene Kelly Studio of the Dance and opened a second location in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1933. Kelly served as a teacher at the studio during his undergraduate and law-student years at Pitt. Kelly eventually decided to pursue a career as a dance teacher and full-time entertainer, so he dropped out of law school after two months. In 1937, having successfully managed and developed the family's dance-school business, he finally did move to New York City in search of work as a choreographer. His first Broadway assignment, in 1938, was as a dancer in Cole Porter's 'Leave It to Me!' Kelly's first big breakthrough was in the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Time of Your Life' (1939), in which, for the first time on Broadway, he danced to his own choreography. In 1940, he got the lead role in Rodgers and Hart's 'Pal Joey', choreographed by Robert Alton. This role propelled him to stardom. Offers from Hollywood began to arrive.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the largest and most powerful studio in Hollywood when Gene Kelly arrived in town in 1941. There he made his film debut with Judy Garland in For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkeley, 1942). The film was a production of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM and it was one of the big hits of the year. The talent pool at MGM was especially large during World War II, when Hollywood was a refuge for many musicians and others in the performing arts of Europe who were forced to flee the Nazis. Kelly's film debut was followed by Cole Porter's Du Barry Was a Lady (Roy Del Ruth, 1943) with Lucille Ball, the morale booster Thousands Cheer (George Sidney, 1943), Cover Girl (Charles Vidor, 1944) opposite Rita Harworth, and Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney, 1945) with Frank Sinatra. MGM gave him a free hand to devise a range of dance routines for the latter, including his duets with Sinatra and the celebrated animated dance with Jerry Mouse—the animation for which was supervised by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Anchors Aweigh became one of the most successful films of 1945 and Kelly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. In Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire, for whom he had the greatest admiration, in 'The Babbitt and the Bromide' challenge dance routine. He co-starred with Judy Garland in The Pirate (1948) which gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism. It features Kelly's work with the Nicholas Brothers—the leading black dancers of their day—in a virtuoso dance routine. Now regarded as a classic, the film was ahead of its time but flopped at the box office. Kelly made his debut as a director with On the Town (1949), for Arthur Freed. Stanley Donen, brought to Hollywood by Kelly to be his assistant choreographer, received co-director credit for On the Town. A breakthrough in the musical film genre, it has been described as "the most inventive and effervescent musical thus far produced in Hollywood."
Two musicals secured Gene Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film. First, he directed and starred in An American in Paris (1951) with Leslie Caron. The highlight of the film is the seventeen-minute ballet sequence set to the title song written by George Gershwin and choreographed by Kelly. The sequence cost a half-million dollars (U.S.) to make in 1951 dollars. Kelly's many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. In 1952, he received an Academy Honorary Award for his career achievements, the same year An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Probably the most admired of all film musicals is his next film, Singin' in the Rain (1952). As co-director, lead star, and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force and unforgettable is Kelly's celebrated and much-imitated solo dance routine to the title song. Kelly continued his string of classic Hollywood musicals with Brigadoon (1954) with Cyd Charisse, and It's Always Fair Weather (1955), co-directed with Donen. The latter was a musical satire on television and advertising and includes his roller-skate dance routine to I Like Myself, and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey that Kelly used to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope. Next followed Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls (1957), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg. It, too, sold few movie tickets. Dale O'Connor at IMDb: "Kelly was in the same league as Fred Astaire, but instead of a top hat and tails Kelly wore work clothes that went with his masculine, athletic dance style." He finally made for MGM The Happy Road (1957), set in his beloved France, his first foray in a new role as producer-director-actor. After leaving MGM, Kelly returned to stage work.
After musicals got out of fashion, Gene Kelly starred in two films outside the musical genre: Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960) with Spencer Tracey and Fredric March, and What a Way to Go! (1964). In 1967, he appeared in French musical comedy Les Demoiselles de Rochefort/The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) opposite Catherine Deneuve. It was a box-office success in France and nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music and Score of a Musical Picture. Kelly directed films without a collaborator, including the bedroom-farce comedy A Guide for the Married Man (1967) starring Walter Matthau, and the musical Hello, Dolly! (1969) starring Barbra Streisand and Matthau. The latter was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He appeared as one of many special narrators in the surprise hit That's Entertainment! (Jack Haley Jr., 1974). The compilation film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to celebrate the studio's 50th anniversary. The film turned the spotlight on MGM's legacy of musical films from the 1920s through the 1950s. Kelly subsequently directed and co-starred with his friend Fred Astaire in the sequel That's Entertainment, Part II (Gene Kelly, 1976). It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire—who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired—into performing a series of song-and-dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film. It was later followed by That's Dancing! (Jack Haley Jr., 1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan, 1994). Kelly received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Gene Kelly passed away in 1996 at the age of 83 in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. His final film project was the animated film Cats Don't Dance, not released until 1997, on which Kelly acted as an uncredited choreographic consultant. It was dedicated to his memory. Gene Kelly was married three times: yo actress Betsy Blair (1941-1957), Jeanne Coyne (1960- her death in 1973) , and Patricia Ward (1990- his death in 1996).
Sources: Dale O'Connor (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Designed and published by Mauro D. Caputo. This card was likely sold exclusively through Saks Fifth Avenue.
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This is my business card-set.
I have saw Legohaulic's buesiness card-set.
I think it's so cool. I should design my own card-set for me.
I am a doctor, so I try to design a specail card-set for me.
this is my final rerult.
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This card was inspired by Lisa C. I tried to use simple crisp colors and cutting around the border image to capture some of her style. More info here: www.cherryhilldesign.com
On the reverse:
G. C. Arless
Photographer
Montreal
See the biographical sketches on photographers at Lost Gallery
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This is my first card made using a digital image from Hero Arts - and I really enjoyed using it. I just downloaded and printed the image then cut it out! Brilliant. So easy! And cheap!!
HA Stamps:
CL341 - Thank You Sayings
DigiKit - HA VINTAGE Skyland Birds ( I LOVE this line of birds...)
PS507 - Kraft Notecards
PP - Little Yellow Bicycle
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Wedding Card graphic available for download at http://dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/wedding-card/ in EPS (vector) format.
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I read on Twitter about call for artists to make a card for charity purposes to raise funds for The Women's Crisis Center in Moss, Norway, to support abused women and children. I happily did the card in sepia ink and green Kuretake and only then found out that it is too late and exhibit is already open for 2 days. :-/
For HA ''website' challenge this week.
Made this card on a calm color scheme selected them myself.
I was inspired by the following card design in the technique article section:
Watercolor effects with Distress Inks By Shari Carroll.
*The coloring method is from Distressed Resist Technique by Jennifer McGuire on the HA blog video, and I add to color the white embossed part with several Liquid Pearls with water medium.
(I sure remember this method, the Liquid Pearls with water medium was introduced by Jennifer on the HA blog in the past, but I couldn't find where it was.)
I use pale pink Making Memories PP for the distressed resist part.
stamp used:
HA PF: You Sparkle / LL249
HA CardArt Happy wished/ K4883
HA SE: Artistic Windows / LP128
The design base of this card was also uploaded and can be seen at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomoh/3726305831/
Here is my blog where materials etc. are written:
tomohsattic.blogspot.com/2009/07/similar-2-cards.html
If you interested in it, please access.
TFL! :)
The Flickr Lounge-Christmas Cheer.
I get Christmas cards from all over the world. I have noticed with each passing year I get fewer cards. With the prices of things going up it's not surprising. I consider this one of the ornaments I have in my home during the Christmas holidays.
When most of us think of Valentine’s Day, we think of declaring love for someone with a special card, that is usually fancy, beautiful, and adorned with hearts and flowers. However, it was not always like this!
The Victorians had a custom of sending ‘Vinegar Valentines’ to people they did not much care for. These cards were sold in the United States and Britain, from the middle 19th century to the early 20th century. Also called comic valentines, these cards were decorated with garish caricatures and featured a short line or poem that, rather than offer a message of love and affection, it criticized, rejected, and/or insulted the recipient. They were often sent without a signature, enabling the sender to speak without fear. Oh, and for added spice, the recipient of these insults paid the postage on delivery :-).
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This card I made for the craftorij summer challenge day 33.
The themed for that day was Emoticons.
Also I added to the July challenge of the lovegroup, "tag you're it".
"25 Firemans Cards, 20 cts."
A card pasted in an "Agent's Sample Book" that was issued by an unidentified calling card company.
For other firemen's calling cards, see C. H. Moscrip, H. G. Phelps Hose Company No. 1, Sidney, N.Y., Eugene O. Chase, Second Leading Hoseman, Danielsonville, Conn., and Fireman Calling Card.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Fireman's Card.
This years Christmas card for our church. The headline is up for changing, The concept is a retro christmas look to signify looking back to Jesus, or revisiting Jesus again. It's really hard to find pics of Jesus that aren't super cheesy so I wanted to stear clear of that idea and just show a nice Christmasy scene. The silver lines at the bottom will be a shiny spot silver when printed.
Any input or ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Here is the card for my friend that has just had a baby boy, stamped with the playful animals set and other company stamped congrats.
I was inspired by Francesca's card fridayfinally.blogspot.it/2015/09/merry-christmas-cute-sh... so genius idea!
We visited the cemetery where this rather remarkable man was buried. I love his card from the tail end of his days on earth.
Entering Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge~ Create a Scene
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Entering Simon Says Monday Challenge~ Nautical/ By the Sea
A beautiful hike through Carding Mill Valley, Shropshire. Nikon D750, 28-80mm lens on a travel tripod.
I originally designed this card as a wedding invitation for dear friends. I wanted to give a subtle nod to their Asian background.
The interlocking Yin Yang design with Japanese flower motif opens up to reveal two interlocking hearts and a message for your Valentine. Overlapping two different colors of paper allows you to customize this card for weddings or anniversaries as well.
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