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Pub, former townhall / Pulheim / Rhein-Erft-Kreis / North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
Album of Germany (the west): www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157713209...
A five image multiple exposure taken in the local woods. I particularly like the textured effect you get with this sort of image.
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In the black-run, downhill plummet of my photographic journey I seem to have careered off-piste. I fear that I am lost forever….
The problem started when I went to a talk organised by the Royal Photographic Society given by Tony Sweet (tonysweet.com/ ) on Creative In-camera Photography. Since then I have been exploring the potential of multiple exposures of the same subject using a variety of approaches, but mainly small camera movements.
And it’s interesting.
And, frankly, a bit difficult to master. There are quite a lot of variables to play with, and different subjects need different approaches.
I thought I would share some of the fun I’ve been having with a range of things I’ve tried. I can’t say at all that I have mastered the technique, but it may encourage you to have a go yourself - you don’t need a camera that handles multiple exposures really as there are some easy ways to combine images in the processing (ask me for some details if you are interested).
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the fun and the images :)
Conrail RS32 2031 stands outside the Maryland & Delaware engine house in Federalsburg, Maryland Although the 1961 Alco looks rough, the M&D forces rehabilitated it to operating condition. It’s questionable whether it ever worked on the M&D, but it was transferred to the Arkansas & Missouri where it had a long career as its 42, and later, 30.
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Staff Sgt. George Shaughnessy from Coalition Joint Special Operation Task Force disseminates newspapers to the crowd of curious on Oct. 26, 2002. Soldiers from 489th Civil Affairs Battalion and support from 9th and 8th Psychological Operations, Ft. Bragg, N.C., deliver a humanitarian aid package to Nejhab, a village in Afghanistan. The package includes 10 medium size tents, 250 blankets, and three medical kits for the villagers before the colder seasons begin. (U.S. Army photo taken by Spc. Eric E. Hughes) (Released)
To learn more about living and serving in Korea with the US Army, visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil
Whether you are fresh off of active-duty, a military spouse or a seasoned professional, you will find a career with U.S. Army in Korea both challenging and inspiring. If you ready to join an award winning team and embark on the adventure of a lifetime, you can learn more about living and working in Korea online: imcom.korea.army.mil
Photos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed online at www.flickr.com/imcomkorea
The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available online at imcom.korea.army.mil
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About this image: Operation Enduring Freedom. A Department of Defense Image Collection.
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To learn more about living and serving in Korea with the US Army, visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil
Whether you are fresh off of active-duty, a military spouse or a seasoned professional, you will find a career with U.S. Army in Korea both challenging and inspiring. If you ready to join an award winning team and embark on the adventure of a lifetime, you can learn more about living and working in Korea online: imcom.korea.army.mil
Photos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed online at www.flickr.com/imcomkorea
The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available online at imcom.korea.army.mil
Published for those serving in the Republic of Korea - an assignment of choice.
About this image: Operation Enduring Freedom. A Department of Defense Image Collection.
These images are generally cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given the Department of Defense and individual photographer.
To learn more about living and serving in Korea with the US Army, visit our official website at: imcom.korea.army.mil
Whether you are fresh off of active-duty, a military spouse or a seasoned professional, you will find a career with U.S. Army in Korea both challenging and inspiring. If you ready to join an award winning team and embark on the adventure of a lifetime, you can learn more about living and working in Korea online: imcom.korea.army.mil
Photos from the US Army in Korea can be viewed online at www.flickr.com/imcomkorea
The Morning Calm Weekly command information newspaper is available online at imcom.korea.army.mil
Published for those serving in the Republic of Korea - an assignment of choice.
About this image: Operation Enduring Freedom. A Department of Defense Image Collection.
These images are generally cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given the Department of Defense and individual photographer.
it's lunch time, you've been on the phone all morning, you're tired and hungry, you put your hat and shades on and bout two steps away from stepping out for a long needed break and a bite to eat, then the phone rings, it's your boss...what do you do?
I took a selfie and sat back down...
This photo shows a number of chess pawns lined accprding to their size. It is a free and easy allegory (or maybe a harsh truth) referring to some professional career. And what is your opinion? Feel free to express it in the comment section under this photo. And don't forget to give it a little star.
She enjoys the beach so much, Merry thinks she will try selling sea shells down by the sea shore.
This is Prima Dolly Marigold, one of my older Blythe dolls. I usually reach for a new girl when it's photo time, so she is one of many who don't get as much exposure as I wish they did. Her sunny coloring is perfect for this "sea shore" theme in the Blythe a Day group.
Located between village Liepa and the primeval valley of River Gauja.
Lode clay deposit was discovered in 1953 by the geologist J.Slienis. Ten years later industrial extraction of clay for brick-making was started. The clay-pit became world famous when the geologist V.Kuršs in 1970 first time in the history of the world discovered well preserved fossils of Upper Devonian armoured fish and Strunius kurshi fish. Still nowhere else fish fossils in such good condition have been discovered; part of the fossils can be viewed in the expositions and funds of Latvian Museum of Natural History. Nowadays clay is extracted by the company „Lode“ which produces finishing, oven-chimney, and construction bricks, as well as other clay items. The Lode armoured fish deposit is a protected nature monument.
Information taken from www.entergauja.com/
Over 50 years ago as a young farm teenager, baling hay, milking cows and cleaning out hog sheds by hand guided my career decisions more than almost anything. In this photo, the past and the present of farming lie side by side. Round bales replaced the back breaking work of loading and unloading bales on a hay trailer. Few windmills in Minnesota still pump water and the old graineries have been largely replaced by newer methods of drying crops.
Located between village Liepa and the primeval valley of River Gauja.
Lode clay deposit was discovered in 1953 by the geologist J.Slienis. Ten years later industrial extraction of clay for brick-making was started. The clay-pit became world famous when the geologist V.Kuršs in 1970 first time in the history of the world discovered well preserved fossils of Upper Devonian armoured fish and Strunius kurshi fish. Still nowhere else fish fossils in such good condition have been discovered; part of the fossils can be viewed in the expositions and funds of Latvian Museum of Natural History. Nowadays clay is extracted by the company „Lode“ which produces finishing, oven-chimney, and construction bricks, as well as other clay items. The Lode armoured fish deposit is a protected nature monument.
Information taken from www.entergauja.com/
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West-German collectors card by Bravo.
Beautiful German-born actress Nastassja Kinski (1961) has appeared in more than 60 films. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Tess (1979) and parts in Wim Wenders' films Falsche Bewegung/The Wrong Move (1975), Paris, Texas (1984) and In weiter Ferne, so nah!/Faraway, So Close! (1993).
Nastassja Kinski (pronounced as "nas-TAS-ya") was born as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński in Berlin in 1961 (some sources say 1964. She is the daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski from his marriage to actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. She is a half-sister to actress Pola Kinski and actor Nikolai Kinski. Her parents divorced in 1968 and Kinski rarely saw her father after the age of 10. She and her mother struggled financially and eventually lived in a commune in Munich. Her career began in Germany as a model. The actress Lisa Kreuzer placed her in the role of the dumb Mignon in Wim Wenders' film Falsche Bewegung/The Wrong Move (1975) starring Rüdiger Vogler and Hanna Schygulla. In Great-Britain she featured in the horror film To the Devil a Daughter (Peter Sykes, 1976), starring Christopher Lee and produced by Hammer Film. That year she had her first major role in an episode of the popular German TV crime show Tatort. This episode, Reifezeugnis/For Your Love Only (1977), had a feature film length and was directed by Wolfgang Petersen at the beginning of his career. Years later, after Kinski had become an international star, the TV film was released theatrically in the U.S. In 1976, Kinski was photographed for French Vogue by director Roman Polanski, and the two started a romantic relationship. She was 15 years old at the time and he was 43. In the cinema Kinski also had a May-December romance in Così come sei/Stay As You Are (Alberto Lattuada, 1978) with Marcello Mastroianni. Polanski urged Kinski to study acting with Lee Strasberg in the United States and Great Britain and cast her in the lead part of his film, Tess (1979), based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. The film won three Oscars and Kinski won the Golden Globe for best newcomer. However, Derek Armstrong writes at AllMovie: “The quiet, contemplative nature of the film is echoed, although not so skilfully, in the lead performance of Nastassja Kinski. Seemingly cast more for her soulful eyes (and Polanski's budding relationship with her) than her acting, Kinski gives a tentative, one-note performance that is nearly inaudible. Still, it served to deliver her a variety of other projects and bring her limited stardom.”
Director Francis Ford Coppola brought Nastassja Kinski to the U.S.A. to act for his new Zoetrope Studios. In 1981, photographer Richard Avedon photographed Kinski. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: “Kinski became the dream of male college undergraduates everywhere by posing for a Richard Avedon poster wearing nothing but a large, live python which spiralled around her body. “The first Zoetrope production, One From the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1982), starring Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr and Kinski, failed at the box office and was a major loss for Coppola's new studio. In 1982, she also appeared in the erotic horror film Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982), which also was not successful commercially. Kinski then split her time between Europe and the United States. In France she filmed La lune dans le caniveau/Moon in the Gutter (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1983) with Gérard Dépardieu. In Germany, she played Clara Wieck in the biography Frühlingssinfonie/Spring Symphony (Peter Schamoni, 1983) opposite Herbert Grönemeyer as composer Robert Schumann. In Italy she co-starred with Rutger Hauer in In una notte di chiaro di luna/ Up to date (Lina Wertmüller, 1989). And in the U.S. she co-starred with Rudolph Nureyev in Exposed (James Toback, 1983), with Rob Lowe and Jodie Foster in The Hotel New Hampshire (Tony Richardson, 1984), with John Savage in Maria's Lovers (Andrey Konchalovskiy, 1984) and with Al Pacino in Revolution (Al Pacino, 1985). Her most acclaimed film was Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) in which she played the estranged wife of Harry Dean Stanton. Mark Deming at AllMovie: “Paris, Texas may be the finest of Wim Wenders' "road movies," a deliberately paced but deeply moving story of a man at the end of his emotional rope who is given an unexpected chance to heal both his scars and those he has inflicted on others. Harry Dean Stanton gives perhaps his finest performance - few actors could pull off a scene like the long monologue he shares with Kinski near the film's conclusion” The film won a César and also three awards in Cannes, and was nominated, however, the film was not widely released in the United States. In the mid-1980s, Kinski met Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Moussa. They married in 1984 and they have two children together, son Aljosha (1984) and daughter Sonja Kinski (1986).
Nastassja Kinski's luck in Hollywood turned in the 1990s when she appeared opposite Charlie Sheen in the action-comedy Terminal Velocity (Deran Serafian, 1994). After her marriage with Moussa had been dissolved, Kinski lived with musician Quincy Jones till 1995. In 1993, their daughter, Kenya Julia Miambi Sarah Jones, was born. In the cinema, Kinski would tackle serious subject matter in the AIDS drama One Night Stand (Mike Figgis, 1997) with Wesley Snipes, The Lost Son (Chris Menges, 1999), a crime drama revolving around a network of paedophiles, and the Serbian war drama Savior (Predrag Antonijevic, 1998) with Dennis Quaid. Her other film appearances include In weiter Ferne, so nah!/Faraway, So Close (Wim Wenders, 1993) with Bruno Ganz, the comedy of manners Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute, 1998) with Aaron Eckhardt, and The Claim (Michael Winterbottom, 2000), loosely based on Thomas Hardy's novel Mayor of Casterbridge. The story, filmed in sub-zero Calgary, Canada, tells about a man (Peter Mullan) who sells his wife (Kinski) and daughter (Sarah Polley) for a gold-mining claim. Jason Clark at AllMovie: “Winterbottom subtly draws viewers into this haunting tale of family regained and the power of greed by letting them take in the details through small gestures.” In the following years, Kinski played mainly in B-films and TV movies. Interesting were the French-Canadian Mini-Series Les liaisons dangereuses/Dangerous Liaisons (Josée Dayan, 2003) with Catherine Deneuve and Rupert Everett, and the dark mystery Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) with Laura Dern and Jeremy Irons. She co-starred with Julian Sands in the short film Il turno di notte lo fanno le stele/The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars (2012), directed by Edoardo Ponti, son of producer Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren. After a long interval, she was seen on TV in the French crime series Police de Caractères/Typeface (2022). Her daughter with producer Ibrahim Moussa, Sonja Kinski (1986), is a model and actress, and daughter by Quincy Jones, Kenya Kinski-Jones (1993) is also a model.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Derek Armstrong (AllMovie), Jason Clark (AllMovie), Mark Deming (AllMovie), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio. These Ford Crown Victoria's are training cars and have been worn from years of sitting outside.
Apollo Career Center in Lima, Ohio. These Ford Crown Victoria's are training cars and have been worn from years of sitting outside.
I love the Lady Golfer, and Pilot/Flight Attendant?! And the Packaging?! Do my eyes deceive me or are they boxed???
These new fashion separates are so damn cute. Images were found on the Walmart website. Unfortunately I don't know when these will be available(Hopefully soon)
German collectors card by Bravo, ca. 1986.
American actor Rob Lowe (1964) was one of the members of the Brat Pack. He is known for the television series The West Wing, in which he played the role of Sam Seaborn.
Robert Hepler (Rob) Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1964. He was the son of Charles Lowe and Barbara Hepler and grew up in Dayton (Ohio) and Los Angeles. Lowe has one brother, the actor Chad Lowe (1968), and a younger half-brother from his father's second marriage, Justin. His career began when he was eight years old, with appearances on the local television station and summer theatre. After his parents' divorce, Lowe moved with his mother and brother to Los Angeles where, along with Emilio Estevez and others, he was educated at Santa Monica High School. In 1979, Lowe got the role of Tony Flanagan in the television sitcom A New Kind of Family (1979-1980). The series ended after only 11 episodes. However, his name stuck when the media noticed him and compared him to up-and-coming members of the Brat Pack. Along with Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham, Anthony Michael Hall, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy, he was among the nine original members of the Brat Pack. He did a number of television films and earned his first Golden Globe nomination for the teen drama Thursday's Child (David Lowell Rich, 1983). Lowe appeared alongside Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise in The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983). The following year, he got the lead role in the film The Hotel New Hampshire (Tony Richardson, 1984), alongside Jodie Foster and Nastassja Kinski. Lowe starred with his fellow "Brat packers" in the coming-of-age film St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher, 1985). For this film, Lowe won his first award: a Razzie Award for worst male supporting actor. Partly because of his looks, Lowe became one of the Pack's most popular members. In between, Lowe starred in less noteworthy productions. In 1988, Lowe received his second Golden Globe nomination for the film Square Dance (Daniel Petrie, 1987). In 1988, however, his popularity suffered serious damage when a video emerged showing Lowe filming himself having sex with two girls, one of whom appeared to be underage. This happened in Atlanta, where Lowe was attending the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Lowe claimed he did not know she was underage, which was confirmed by the doorman of the bar where they met. She had also lied to get into the bar. For this, Lowe performed 20 hours of community service in Dayton. Around the same time, a leaked home video, in which Lowe could be seen with a model called Jennifer and a boyfriend, Justin Morris, while they were doing a threesome in a hotel room in Paris, was commercially marketed. This was one of the first celebrity sex videos to be sold commercially. Both videos caused a lot of damage to Lowe's career.
After these scandals, Rob Lowe sought treatment at a clinic for alcohol and sex addiction. After the scandals faded into oblivion, Lowe's career revived. This was partly because he mocked his irresponsible behaviour during an appearance as host of Saturday Night Live. In one of his appearances with the church lady, played by Dana Carvey, the latter promises to keep quiet about sex videos during the interview. In return, Lowe gets spanked by her live on TV. When Lowe is also spanked at the end of the skit, it turns out that, to the dismay of the church lady, this gets him sexually aroused. She starts exclaiming that Satan should be expelled from Lowe's buttocks, to which Lowe tells reporters, "I love getting spanked. I love the feeling of a glowing ass so much". In 1989, he sang the song 'Proud Mary' with the band Snow White at the Academy Awards, which was not a success. His role in the film Bad Influence (1990), in which he had to portray a villain, brought Lowe positively back into the limelight. In 1992, he made his Broadway debut in the play 'A Little Hotel on the Side'. The roles he was offered improved and in the same year Lowe appeared in Wayne's World. For his portrayal of the deaf-mute Nick Andros in the miniseries The Stand (Mick Garris, 1994) based on a book by Stephen King, Lowe received rave reviews. After this, Lowe temporarily disappeared behind the camera, where he produced the Western Frank & Jesse in 1994. In 1997, he wrote and directed the television film Desert's Edge. Also in 1997, he played the role of the right-wing leader of a Christian movement in the film Contact. In the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), he imitated the voice of Robert Wagner for the role of Young Number Two.
In 1999, Rob Lowe was back on television regularly when he got the role of acting head of communications Sam Seaborn in the NBC hit series The West Wing, about the life of President Bartlett (Martin Sheen). Basically, the series was supposed to revolve around his role, which was then the focus of the pilot episode, but the reviews for the complete cast were so raved, that a shift was made in the role assignment. In 2000 and 2001, Lowe received Golden Globe nominations in the "Best Actor" category for this, and in 2001 he also received an Emmy Award in the same category. In 2002, however, Lowe left the series because he could not agree on his role and salary. He wanted a more prominent role in the series with an accompanying salary than NBC was willing to give him. Although the other actors and especially Martin Sheen tried to keep him in the series, the episode featuring his departure was aired in February 2003, earlier than expected. During the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes. After this, he featured in the series Lyon's Den (2003), where he plays an idealistic attorney trying to get out of the shadow of his father, who is a senator. The series flopped and was taken off TV after 13 episodes. The same happened with the series Dr Vegas, also produced by Lowe. It stopped after 10 episodes due to a lack of success. Lowe starred in the remake of the Stephen King miniseries Salem's Lot (2004). In 2005, Lowe played the role of Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in the theatre production of Aaron Sorkin's play 'A Few Good Men' in West End London. Lowe played a supporting role as a movie agent in the satirical black comedy Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2006) starring Aaron Eckhart. In 2013, Lowe played a notable role as the evil plastic surgeon Dr Jack Startz in Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh, 2013), the successful film about the last decade of pianist and entertainer Liberace's life. In 2017, Lowe began a reality series with his two sons, the then 24-year-old Matthew and 22-year-old Jon Owen, The Lowe Files. With the exception of the hour-long pilot, the series featured 30-minute road trips with the Lowe boys, and occasional TV guest stars known in the field, investigating common urban myths and legends that Rob has loved since he was a young boy and has shared with his boys throughout their growth. In 2015, Lowe received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lowe has been married to makeup artist Sheryl Berkoff since 1991. They met on a blind date in 1983.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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French postcard by Cartcom. Photo: Sandrine Expily / Studio Magazine. Caption: Björk, Prix d'interprétation pour Dancer in the Dark. Cannes 2000. The photo was part of theexhibition 'Un Regard sur Cannes', presented at the UGC Ciné Cité Strasbourg-Étoile.
Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk (1965) is the former lead singer of the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes and has pursued a solo career under the name Björk since 1993. Björk is known for her interest in a wide variety of music genres, including pop, jazz, alternative rock, electronic and classical music. Her music label One Little Indian announced in 2003 that Björk has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. Björk has also played the lead role in Danish director Lars von Trier's film Dancer in the Dark (2000) opposite Catherine Deneuve.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born in the Icelandic capital city of Reykjavik in 1965. She is the daughter of Gudmundur Gunnarsson (an electrician) and Hildur Hauksdóttir who divorced before her second birthday. Björk (pronounced "Byerk") grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings. She started to study classical music at the age of 5. Her musical career started when she was eleven years old and studying classical piano. One of her music teachers sent a recording of Björk playing Tina Charles' song 'I Love to Love' (But My Baby Loves to Dance) to RÚV, the only radio station in Iceland at the time. This recording was subsequently broadcast and, in response, the music label Fálkinn offered Björk a record deal. In 1977, Björk released her eponymous debut album. It consisted of a number of Icelandic children's songs and covers of popular songs like 'The Fool on the Hill' by the Beatles, which Björk sang in Icelandic. Björk's stepfather accompanied her on the album with his guitar. The album went platinum in Iceland and has become a collector's item. In 1980, Björk graduated from the Conservatory. In 1980, together with bassist Jakob Magnússon, she formed the band Jam-80, which later became the band Tappi Tíkarrass. The single 'Bitið fast í vitið' was released in the same year. The album 'Miranda' was released in 1983. Björk then started collaborating with Einar Örn Benediktsson and Einar Melax from the band Purrkur Pillnikk and Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Sigtryggur Baldursson and Birgir Mogensen from the band Þeyr. After writing some songs together and rehearsing them for a few weeks, they decided to continue together under the name KUKL. KUKL toured Iceland with the anarchic punk band Crass from England, and later they visited England for some concerts with Flux or Pink Indians. As a result of these collaborations, the band produced two albums: 'The Eye' in 1984 and 'Holidays in Europe' in 1986. Both albums were released by the Crass Records label. In 1984, Björk formed the duo The Elgar Sisters with guitarist and fellow KUKL band member Guðlaugur Óttarsson. KUKL broke up, partly because their label Gramm was discontinued. In the summer of 1986, some members of KUKL and the surrealist group Medus started a collaboration and the arts collective Smekkleysa ("bad taste") was formed. A musical division was formed, the band Pukl, but soon the name of the band was changed to The Sugarcubes.
The Sugarcubes' first single was 'Ammæli' (or 'Birthday', in the English version). After the single became a hit in the UK, the band was placed on the One Little Indian label, which was founded by Derek Birkett, the former bassist of Flux of Pink Indians. The Sugarcubes then also signed a distribution contract with the American Elektra Records. In 1988, The Sugarcubes recorded their first album, 'Life's Too Good.' This album brought the band international success. Meanwhile, Björk kept herself busy with some smaller projects. In 1990, she recorded the album 'Gling-Gló' with the jazz group Trio Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, which was only released in Iceland. Björk also provided vocals on several tracks on 808 State's album 'Ex:el'. This collaboration sparked her interest in house music. In 1992, The Sugarcubes decided to split up. The members of the band realised that they all had different ambitions. Björk moved to London and started thinking about a solo career. She started working with producer Nellee Hooper, who had previously produced for Massive Attack, among others. From this collaboration came Björk's first international solo hit, 'Human Behaviour'. The album 'Debut' was released in June 1993. 'Debut' consisted of a mix of songs Björk had written since she was a teenager and songs she had co-written with Hooper. NME named it album of the year. The album was a worldwide success and sold nearly 3 million copies. Björk returned to the studio in 1994 to work on a new album with Nellee Hooper, Tricky, Graham Massey of 808 State, and producer Howie B. The album 'Post' was the result of this collaboration. The album Post was the result of this collaboration. Just like 'Debut', it was a collection of songs that partly consisted of songs that Björk had written in the previous years. In January 1997, 'Telegram' was released, an album of previously unreleased remixes of the songs on Post. Later that year, the album 'Homogenic' was released. This album marked a dramatic break for Björk from her earlier "fairy-like" image, which was still cultivated on 'Debut' and 'Post'. For 'Homogenic', Björk worked with producers Mark Bell from LFO, Howie B and Eumir Deodato. 'Homogenic' was her first concept album and is considered one of Björk's most experimental and extroverted albums to date, with its powerful beats reflecting the landscape of Iceland.
In 2001, Björk released her fourth solo album, 'Vespertine'. On the album, Björk creates an introverted, personal world filled with microbeats and small rhythms. 'Vespertine' is in stark contrast to 'Homogenic', on which extroverted lyrics and rather aggressive beats still predominate. On the album, Björk worked with the experimental music group Matmos, the Danish DJ Thomas Knak and harpist Zeena Parkins. Björk used lyrics by American poet E.E. Cummings and American filmmaker Harmony Korine. She then toured theatres and opera houses in Europe and North America and was accompanied by Matmos, Zeena Parkins and an Inuit choir that she had put together after auditioning during a trip to Greenland. In 2004, the album 'Medúlla' was released. The majority of the sounds on this album were created by vocalists although often electronically distorted. On the album, Björk used the vocal skills of throat singer Tagaq, hip-hop beatboxer Rahzel, Japanese beatboxer Dokaka, avant-rocker Mike Patton, Soft Machine drummer and singer Robert Wyatt, and several choirs. She also used a poem by poet E. E. Cummings again, this time for the song 'Sonnets/Unrealities XI'. In August 2004, Björk performed at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. She performed the song 'Oceania', from 'Medúlla'. Björk's sixth studio album 'Volta' was released in 2007. It's the follow-up to 'Medúlla'. Many people contributed again, including Timbaland, Chris Corsano, the drummer of Lightningbolt, the African group Konono Nr. 1, Toumani Diabaté, Mark Bell (LFO) who also participated in earlier projects by Björk, Antony (Antony & The Jonsons) and Chinese pipa expert Min Xiao-Fen. The first single was 'Earth Intruders', inspired by the Tsunami disaster and a nightmare that Björk had during a flight when visiting the site of the disaster. 'Innocence', 'Declare Independence' and 'Wanderlust' were the next singles. She performed at Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York and at the Glastonbury Festival in England. Björk appeared on the soundtrack of the film Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010).
Björk's seventh studio album, 'Biophilia', was released in 2011 It was followed by 'Vulnicura' (2015) and 'Utopia' (2017). Björk's acting career began in 1990 when she appeared in the Icelandic, English-spoken, black-and-white film The Juniper Tree (Nietzchka Keene, 1990), based on the Grimm Brothers' story of the same name. Björk played the role of Margit, a girl whose mother had been murdered because she was into witchcraft. Björk then had a small role as a supermodel in Prêt-à-Porter (Robert Altman, 1994). In 2000, Björk starred in the Danish-French film Dancer in the Dark, written and directed by Lars von Trier. In this film, set in the United States, Björk plays the role of the Czechoslovakian immigrant Selma. Selma tries to use her work in a factory to save money for an eye operation that will prevent her son from going blind. Björk also made the soundtrack for this film, which was released on CD under the title 'Selma Songs'. The album includes a duet with Thom Yorke of Radiohead, entitled I've Seen It All. The song was nominated for an Academy Award and performed at the 2001 Oscars ceremony. At the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, the film received a Palme d'Or and Björk was named Best Actress. At the Cannes Film Festival, she said that it would be her only cinema performance because it was too painful for her and because she considered herself a music artist and not a cinema artist. However, in 2005, Björk starred in the American-Japanese film Drawing Restraint 9, directed by Matthew Barney, who was also her partner. Björk was also responsible for the film's soundtrack. Björk also appeared prominently in the documentary Gargandi snilld/Screaming Masterpiece (Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon, 2005), which sheds light on the Icelandic music scene. Björk has a son named Sindri Eldon Thorsson (1986) with Þór Eldon, guitarist of The Sugarcubes. She has a daughter with artist Matthew Barney, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney (2002). Barney and Björk most likely broke up in 2013, and the two have since been separated. In 1996, a psychologically disturbed fan from Florida named Ricardo López sent Björk a hollowed-out book containing explosives. López filmed himself making the bomb, and shot himself after sending it. The police intercepted the book before it reached Björk.
Sources: Ralph Julien (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch), and IMDb.
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Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 2, 1986) is an American actress and singer. Lohan began her career as a child fashion model when she was three, and was later featured on the soap opera Another World for a year when she was 10. At age 11, Lohan made her motion picture debut in Disney's commercially and critically successful 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. Her next major motion picture, Disney's 2003 remake of Freaky Friday, was also a critical and commercial success. With the release of Mean Girls (2004), another critical and commercial success, and Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), another commercial success, Lohan became a teen idol sensation, a household name and a frequent focus of paparazzi and tabloids. However, Lohan's next starring role in the romantic comedy Just My Luck (2006), received poor reviews and was only a modest commercial success. Following Just My Luck, Lohan focused on smaller, more mature roles in independent movies, receiving positive comments on her work, including A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Bobby (2006) and Chapter 27 (2007).
My write up on photographing the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas here
On the weekend of November 20-21, 2010, I was invited to photograph the new Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas prior to their opening December 15, 2010 in Las Vegas NV.
This set of images represents my efforts that weekend to showcase this newest resort property opening up on the Las Vegas Strip. Thanks to David Scherer from The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for showing me around, to Miiko Mentz at Katalyst Films for helping to arrange the shoot, and to my wife for modeling for me.
To learn more about The Cosmpolitan of Las Vegas, check out their website here or their Facebook page here.
NASA's first Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (a modified Boeing 747) and five T-38 aircraft flies over Orbiter 101, also known as Enterprise, while it was parked on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Enterprise had just completed its second free flight of the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) on September 13, 1977, piloted by Joe Engle and Richard Truly.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) shown here was instrumental in the ALT flights, and also flew 70 of the 87 ferry missions during the operational phase of the shuttle program, including 46 of the 54 post-mission ferry flights from Dryden (now known as Armstrong Flight Research Center) to the Kennedy Space Center. After the orbiters were retired, this SCA flew three ferry missions to deliver Discovery, Enterprise, and Endeavour to museums where they are currently on display.
In November 1990, a second Shuttle Carrier Aircraft was delivered to NASA. Upon its retirement on February 8, 2012, it had amassed 33,004 flight hours over its 38-year flight career, including 386 flights as a NASA shuttle carrier aircraft, 66 of which were flights with a space shuttle mounted atop the fuselage. It flew 17 of the post-shuttle-landing ferry flights from Edwards to Kennedy.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S77-28200
Date: September 13, 1977
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Career
Name: Lurline
Owner: Matson Lines
Chandris Lines
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down: 1931
Launched: 1932
Christened: Lurline, 12 July 1932
Ellinis, September 1963
Maiden voyage: 12 January 1933
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan in 1987
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 18,163 GRT
Length: 632 ft (193 m)
Beam: 79 ft (24 m)
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) (service)
22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) (maximum)
Capacity: 715 passengers
475 first class, 240 tourist class
Crew: 359
SS Lurline was the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline's sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa and SS Monterey. Lurline served as a troopship in World War II operated by War Shipping Administration agents serving Army troop transport requirements.[1]
Rechristened in 1963 by Chandris Lines as the MS Ellinis, the ship became one of the most important luxury cruise ships on the Australian and New Zealand services. She operated in Australasia and Oceania until 1980.
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Lurline of the Matson Line
William Matson had first come to appreciate the name in the 1870s while serving as skipper aboard the Claus Spreckels family yacht Lurline (a poetic variation of Loreley, the Rhine river siren)[2] out of San Francisco Bay. Matson met his future wife, Lillie Low, on a yacht voyage he captained to Hawaii; the couple named their daughter Lurline Berenice Matson. Spreckels sold a 150-foot brigantine named Lurline to Matson so that Matson could replace his smaller schooner Emma Claudina and double the shipping operation which involved hauling supplies and a few passengers to Hawaii and returning with cargos of Spreckels sugar. Matson added other vessels to his nascent fleet and the brigantine was sold to another company in 1896.[3] Matson built a steamship named Lurline in 1908;[4] one which carried mainly freight yet could hold 51 passengers along with 65 crew. This steamer served Matson for twenty years, including a stint with United States Shipping Board during World War I. Matson died in 1917; his company continued under a board of directors.
Lurline Matson married William P. Roth in 1914; in 1927 Roth became president of Matson Lines. That same year saw the SS Malolo (Hawaiian for "flying fish") enter service inaugurating a higher class of tourist travel to Hawaii. In 1928, Roth sold the old steamship Lurline to the Alaska Packers' Association. That ship served various duties including immigration and freight under the Yugoslavian flag (renamed Radnik) and was finally broken up in 1953.
In 1932, the last of four smart liners designed by William Francis Gibbs and built for the Matson Lines' Pacific services was launched: the SS Lurline christened on 12 July 1932 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Lurline Matson Roth (who had also christened her father's 1908 steamship Lurline as a young woman of 18). On 12 January 1933, the SS Lurline left New York City bound for San Francisco via the Panama Canal on her maiden voyage, thence to Sydney and the South Seas, returning to San Francisco on 24 April 1933. She then served on the express San Francisco to Honolulu service with her older sister with whom she shared appearance, the Malolo.
Famous aviator Amelia Earhart rode Lurline from Los Angeles to Honolulu with her Lockheed Vega airplane secured on deck during December 22–27, 1934. The voyage prepared her for the record-breaking Honolulu-to-Oakland solo flight she made in January 1935.[5]
Lurline was half-way from Honolulu to San Francisco on 7 December 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She made her destination safely, travelling at maximum speed, and soon returned to Hawaii with her Matson sisters Mariposa and Monterey in a convoy laden with troops and supplies.
She spent the war providing similar services, often voyaging to Australia, and once transported Australian Prime Minister John Curtin to America to confer with President Roosevelt. Wartime events put the Lurline at risk. Royal Australian Air Force trainee pilot Arthur Harrison had been put on watch without adequate training. "A straight line of bubbles extending from away out on the starboard side of the ship to across the bow. I had never seen anything quite like it, but it reminded me of bubbles behind a motorboat. I called to the lad on watch on the next gun forward. A few seconds later the ship went into a hard 90 degree turn to port. We RAAF trainees received a severe reprimand from the captain for not reporting the torpedo. Anyway, it was a bad miss."[6]
Lurline was returned to Matson Lines in mid-1946 and extensively refitted at Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard in Alameda, California in 1947 at the then huge cost of $US 20 million. She resumed her San Francisco to Honolulu service from 15 April 1948 and regained her pre-war status as the Pacific Ocean's top liner.
Her high occupancy rates during the early 1950s caused Matson to also refit her sister ship SS Monterey (renaming her SS Matsonia) and the two liners provided a first class-only service between Hawaii and the American mainland from June 1957 to September 1962, mixed with the occasional Pacific cruise. Serious competition from jet airliners caused passenger loads to fall in the early 1960s and Matsonia was laid up in late 1962.
Only a few months later, the Lurline arrived in Los Angeles with serious engine trouble in her port turbine and was laid up with the required repairs considered too expensive. Matson instead brought the Matsonia out of retirement and, characteristically, changed her name to Lurline. The original Lurline was sold to Chandris Lines in 1963.
Ellinis of the Chandris Line
The Lurline was bought by Chandris Lines in September 1963 to replace the SS Brittany, wrecked by fire earlier in the year. The Ellinis sailed under her new name from California to North East England for repairs in North Shields and was refitted with increased accommodation for 1,668 passengers in one class.
She was given new Chandris livery and a modernised superstructure with new funnels and embarked on her maiden voyage from Piraeus to Sydney on 30 December 1963. Her homeward voyages were alternately routed east via the Panama Canal to Southampton. The ship took occasional cruises.
In April 1974, cruising to Japan, Ellinis developed major problems in one engine. Fortunately, Chandris were able to buy a surplus engine from her sister ship Homeric (ex-Mariposa) which was being broken up in Taiwan at the time. The replacement was carried out in Rotterdam, finishing in March 1975.
Ellinis provided mainly cruise services from 1975 and, in October 1981, she was finally laid up in Greece after providing passenger services for nearly fifty years. Despite various plans to utilize the ship whole, she was sold in 1986 and scrapped in Taiwan in 1987. Some of her fittings were installed in other Chandris ships; her engine parts were stored against future need by her aging sister Britanis (ex-Monterey)
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 3113/1, 1941-1944. Photo: Baumann / Ufa.
German stage, film, and television actor Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur (1914-1996) or Gustl (Stark-)Gstettenbauer began his career onstage as a child actor in 1927, at the age of thirteen. He went on to play a variety of juvenile roles in German films during the late silent film era. Gstettenbaur's career continued as an adult on stage, in film, and on television.
August Ludwig Gstettenbaur was born in 1914 in Straubing, Germany. He was discovered for the stage by the actor Eugen Klöpfer. Gustl had his first stage role at the age of 13 as Falstaff's page in Heinrich IV in the Lessing Theater in Berlin. He was best known for his portrayal of Piccolo Gustel in the popular operetta 'Im Weißen Rössl' (The White Horse Inn) by Ralph Benatzky. One of his first film roles was in the silent comedy Der Piccolo vom Goldenen Löwen/The Page Boy at the Golden Lion (Carl Boese, 1928) starring Fritz Kampers. Then followed a small part in the espionage thriller Spione/Spies (Fritz Lang, 1928) and a bigger one as a childish runaway in the classic Science Fiction film Frau im Mond/Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang, 1930). In 1930 he acted in the children's play 'Kakadu-Kakada' by Carl Zuckmayer in Berlin. The transition to the sound film was no problem. He soon became established as an actor for comedies.
With the advent of the sound film, Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur's engagements at the theatres decreased, and the film came to the fore. His film roles included Delikatessen/Delicatessen (Géza von Bolváry, 1930) with Harry Liedtke, Wien, du Stadt der Lieder/Vienna, you city of songs (Richard Oswald, 1930, Mädchen zum Heiraten/Girls to marry (Wilhelm Thiele, 1932) with Renate Müller, and Soldaten – Kameraden/Soldier comrades (1936). Gstettenbaur continued his career after the Second World War, mainly in music and Heimat-films as forest rangers, smugglers, hunters, etc. In 1954 he played his one hundredth film role in the Austrian-German comedy Wenn ich einmal der Herrgott wär/If I were once God (Anton Kutter, 1954). In the years from 1969 to 1971, he played in 5 episodes of the series Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht/ The Royal Bavarian District Court. For several years Gustl Gstettenbaur ran a guest house with a café in Hindelang / Allgäu under the name 'Filmstüberl "Bei Gustl"'. In 1985 he received the Filmband in Gold award for his many years of outstanding work in the German cinema. Gustl Stark-Gstettenbaur died in 1996 in Bad Hindelang, Bavaria, Germany. He was 82. He was married to Gracie Schenk.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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BCOL 4607, my first leading BCOL C40-8M, leads a southbound sand train over Spaulding on the CN Leithon Sub. This guy was getting held for every train under the sun, so we took a risk and bagged him here instead of at JB, which was getting shadowed to no end by this time. Right when we arrived, he got the light over the diamond, and all was well.