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I designed these characters for a client's wedding. See how they incorporated these designs into their big day. jmaruyama.com/blog/2013/11/14/wedding-characters/
With the proposal of a Movie coloured 60's Dalek on the horizon I was inspired to look into ways of recreating the 60's Dalek art (such as by Ron Turner) with the Character Options toys.. This is so very basic but as a first attempt I quite like it. Sadly my 'starscape' is tiny so framing has to be very tight.
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12-8-11
135mm DC
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Scarface and The Ventriloquist, Poison Ivy (Inspired by legoskf), Killer Croc, KG-Beast, Hugo Strange.
Some of these aren't GCW characters anymore but I thought I'd show them anyway.
Falls Run #2
Blackwater Falls State Park
This waterfall on Falls Run is rarely seen or photographed, no official trails mark the way and many have no clue of its existance. Long before Kevin Adams - the popular waterfall guidebook author - wrote his waterfall guide to VA and WV, I sought out this falls. I started my search on the wrong side of the creek and followed what turned out to be a deer trail into an impenetrable rhododendron jungle surrounded by deer poo!
I soon found a much easier way down along Falls Run and although it does require fighting some rhody, it ends with a remarkable view of a waterfall full of character and beauty. From this vantage point one can also catch glimpses of Blackwater Falls and the Blackwater River down below.
You have to time it right to get good shots of the waterfalls on Falls Run as it is a smaller stream and requires lots of rainfall - in drier times it is but a trickle.
Enjoyed showing my friend Bill this waterfall on our recent trip earlier in the month . . .
Going to post and run - I have some windshield time in front of me today but hope to begin catching up w/ everyone this evening . . .
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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Took these shots at the Em-Con Nottingham 2023 (Cosplay) event at The Motorpoint Arena. Many had travelled the length and breadth of the country to attend.
More in my album. 'Cosplay Nottingham'
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PADDY, SCOUT, and COUSIN PADDINGTON: "Now we eat them of course, Bogart!"
BOGART: "Oh! You were right Paddy and Scout! They are delicious and were well worth the wait!"
PADDY, SCOUT, BOGART and COUSIN PADDINGTON: "Yummy, yummy! Snuffle... snuffle... gulp." *Happy chomping and chewing noises and the licking of lips with cute little pink bear tongues.*
My Paddington Bear came to live with me in London when I was two years old (many, many years ago). He was hand made by my Great Aunt and he has a chocolate coloured felt hat, the brim of which had to be pinned up by a safety pin to stop it getting in his eyes. The collar of his Macintosh is made of the same felt. He wears wellington boots made from the same red leather used to make the toggles on his Macintosh.
He has travelled with me across the world and he and I have had many adventures together over the years. He is a very precious member of my small family.
Scout was a gift to Paddy from my friend. He is a Fair Trade Bear hand knitted in Africa. His name comes from the shop my friend found him in: Scout House. He tells me that life was very different where he came from, and Paddy is helping introduce him to many new experiences. Scout catches on quickly, and has proven to be a cheeky, but very lovable member of our closely knit family.
Travelling all the way from London, Cousin Paddington was caught in transit thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, so it looks like he is stopping with us for a long while. That makes me happy, as the more I look into his happy, smiling face, the more attached I am becoming to him.
Bogart has only arrived in the last few months. He has travelled all the way from Georgia, via Alabama as a gift to me from a friend. I look forward to getting to know his character, but I can already say that he has lovely Southern manners and seems to be a fun and gentle soul with an inquisitive nature.
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Taken & Edit by: me ..
Canon EOS 40D - F5.6 - ISO 100 - 1/400 - 105.0mm
This wonderful gentleman was sharing tea with us, sitting where he could enjoy the warm sun coming through the window. Seeing such great lighting and photogenic face I approached him and took 6 shots, all almost the same but just to be sure. This was the first, as often it captures the feeling better and is just what I had intended.
Nikon Df with 50mm 1.2 AiS @ f1.4
Introducing the characters!
Ragamadon = Regina + Garmadon
Mojo = Moto + Ninjago
Mia = Green/Lloyd
Liz (as an adult) = Fire/Kai
Stephanie = Electricity/Jay
Olivia = Ice/Zane
Andrea = Earth/Cole
Emma = Water/Nya
STORY:
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The BFF Ninjas have captured the dreaded air pirate ship "Destiny's Booty" from the evil warlord Ragamadon.
But a true pirate to the end, Ragamadon pops her own ship's balloon.
She'd rather scuttle the ship than have it fall into ninja hands!
Will the BFF Ninjas survive using their Cutejitsu powers?
ABOUT:
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A mashup of the Friends and Ninjago LEGO Themes. Completed for the online challenge on Instagram #WeArrFamily challenge for a pirate build on talk like a pirate day, and #FriendSHIPtember to build friendly ships in the month of September.
This is a SHIP (Significantly Huge Investment in Parts)
BUILD INFO:
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Built between April 2021 – September 2021
Time: About 100 hours.
Length: 108 studs (33.5 inches)
Width: 60 studs (19 inches)
Height: 114 studs (36 inches)
This is my interpretation of the "One Hanging Brick" challenge from LEGO Masters FOX Season 2. The entire model is suspended on a 1x4 Technic brick. The ship is suspended using four 2x4 reels and hooks.
The core of the balloon and ship are a studless polytecture method using "Mixel" ball joints.
Taken at Animatic Con held at the Holiday Inn Eastgate in the Eastgate suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. From their site: "Animatic Con started in March of 2015 with the idea of delivering to the fandoms across the U.S. a convention that was fun, and had a higher purpose. After much consideration and discussion, we decided that we wanted to help raise funds for Autism . . ."
I don't know what character she is portraying. Hopefully she'll see this and let me know.
After being shut down for over a year due to Covid, dress-up events are now being held again, but as the delta variant explodes, it wouldn't surprise me if they get shut down again. I felt very rusty having not been able to take any portraits for so long and it showed in my work this day.