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last week i finished my work and went to a guest house called "coco shanti" to see my friend, dj-takatrax but he was absent.
so i shot this mobile hung from the ceiling and went home.
French postcard by Edition Chantal, Paris, no. 77. Photo: R.K.O.
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) was an indomitable American stage and film actress, known as a spirited performer with a touch of eccentricity. She introduced into her roles a strength of character previously considered to be undesirable in Hollywood leading ladies. As an actress, she was noted for her brisk upper-class New England accent and tomboyish beauty.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born in 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. Her father was a wealthy and prominent Connecticut surgeon, and her mother was a leader in the woman suffrage movement. From early childhood, Hepburn was continually encouraged to expand her intellectual horizons, speak nothing but the truth, and keep herself in top physical condition at all times. She would apply all of these ingrained values to her acting career, which began in earnest after her graduation from Bryn Mawr College in 1928. That year she made her Broadway debut in Night Hostess, appearing under the alias Katharine Burns. Hepburn scored her first major Broadway success in The Warrior’s Husband (1932), a comedy set in the land of the Amazons. Shortly thereafter she was invited to Hollywood by RKO Radio Pictures. Hepburn was an unlikely Hollywood star. Possessing a distinctive speech pattern and an abundance of quirky mannerisms, she earned unqualified praise from her admirers and unmerciful criticism from her detractors. Unabashedly outspoken and iconoclastic, she did as she pleased, refusing to grant interviews, wearing casual clothes at a time when actresses were expected to exude glamour 24 hours a day, and openly clashing with her more-experienced coworkers whenever they failed to meet her standards. She nonetheless made an impressive movie debut in George Cukor’s A Bill of Divorcement (1932), a drama that also starred John Barrymore. Hepburn was then cast as an aviator in Dorothy Arzner’s Christopher Strong (1933). For her third film, Morning Glory (1933), Hepburn won an Academy Award for her portrayal of an aspiring actress.
However, Katharine Hepburn’s much-publicized return to Broadway, in The Lake (1933), proved to be a flop. And while moviegoers enjoyed her performances in homespun entertainments such as Little Women (1933) and Alice Adams (1935), they were largely resistant to historical vehicles such as Mary of Scotland (1936), A Woman Rebels (1936), and Quality Street (1937). Hepburn recovered some lost ground with her sparkling performances in the screwball comedies Bringing Up Baby (1938) and Holiday (1938), both of which also starred Cary Grant. However, it was too late: a group of leading film exhibitors had already written off Hepburn as “box office poison.” Undaunted, Hepburn accepted a role written specifically for her in Philip Barry’s 1938 Broadway comedy The Philadelphia Story, about a socialite whose ex-husband tries to win her back. It was a huge hit, and she purchased the motion picture rights to the play. The 1940 film version—in which she reteamed with Cukor and Grant—was a critical and commercial success, and it jump-started her Hollywood career. She continued to make periodic returns to the stage (notably as the title character in the 1969 Broadway musical Coco), but Hepburn remained essentially a film actor for the remainder of her career. Her stature increased as she chalked up such cinematic triumphs as John Huston’s The African Queen (1951), in which she played a missionary who escapes German troops with the aid of a riverboat captain (Humphrey Bogart), and David Lean’s Summertime (1955), a love story set in Venice. In Long Day’s Journey into Night (1962), an adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s acclaimed play, Hepburn was cast as a drug-addicted mother.
Katharine Hepburn won a second Academy Award for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), a dramedy about interracial marriage; a third for The Lion in Winter (1968), in which she played Eleanor of Aquitaine; and an unprecedented fourth Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981), about long-married New Englanders (Hepburn and Henry Fonda). Her 12 Academy Award nominations also set a record, which stood until 2003, when broken by Meryl Streep. In addition, Hepburn appeared frequently on television in the 1970s and ’80s. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her memorable portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie (1973), and she won the award for her performance opposite Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins (1975), which reunited her with her favourite director, Cukor. Though hampered by a progressive neurological disease, Hepburn was nonetheless still active in the early ’90s, appearing prominently in films such as Love Affair (1994), which was her last movie. Hepburn was married once, to Philadelphia broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, but the union was dissolved in 1934. While filming Woman of the Year in 1942, she began an enduring intimate relationship with her costar, Spencer Tracy, with whom she would appear in films such as Adam’s Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952); both were directed by Cukor. Tracy and Hepburn never married—he was Roman Catholic and would not divorce his wife—but they remained close both personally and professionally until his death in 1967, just days after completing the filming of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Hepburn had suspended her own career for nearly five years to nurse Tracy through what turned out to be his final illness. In 1999 the American Film Institute named Hepburn the top female American screen legend of all time. She wrote several memoirs, including Me: Stories of My Life (1991). Katharine Hepburn died in 2003 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia and IMDb.
Me Made May Day 5: Tilly and the Buttons Coco (Mini!) Dress, blogged in a big ol' round up here: howikopp.blogspot.com/2014/05/me-made-may-2014-week-2-rec...
She still needs a name but decided to take some pictures of her today anyway in a adorable new dress sent to me by the super amazing Keelyvh
Coco Chanel photographed in 1937 by her friend Cecil Beaton in Paris.Photo published in French Vogue,February 1971.
Model: Coco Gina
Hans van Eijsden Photography, The Netherlands
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM on full frame.
Light: Large clamshell setup with the Elinchrom ELC 1000 through a large silver Beauty Dish with silver deflector from the front-top-side, which creates the high contrast in her face. Elinchrom ELC 500 with small strip box from the front-bottom-side, to lower the density of some shadows and to flatten the legs. Elinchrom ELC 500 through a large LiteMotiv Strip from the back. I measured the light with the Sekonic L-758DR.
Postprocessing: Some local adjustment curves, some painting, local cloning.
Portfolio: www.hansvaneijsden.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/hansvaneijsdenphotography
Coco poses at California Adventure.
She rode every single ride with me. And she's safe! I'm so glad! XD
Tram L1025 Hair, COCO "MyDoll" hoodie and shorts. COCO's Bento hands.
MyDoll is a total system of body, heads, and clothing. Body and heads available in four tones, and 3 makeup styles. Hair and shoes from other vendors fit well. Special store on the COCO sim.
On our last day at our resort in Cayo Coco, we paid for a late check-out and spent the morning at the beach. In the late afternoon we sat by a lagoon and I made this sketch. There were large fish in the lagoon and some flamingos. It was a pleasant spot to spend our last hours in Cuba.
Lors de notre dernier jour à notre hôtel à Cayo Coco, nous avons payé le départ tardif et avons passé la matinée à la plage. En fin d’après-midi, nous nous sommes assis près d’un lagon et j’ai fait ce croquis. Il y avait de gros poissons dans le lagon et des flamants roses. C'était un endroit agréable pour passer nos dernières heures à Cuba.
Little late on this, but Pixar has released a trailer for their upcoming film, Coco, and it looks pretty good! Check out the trailer here: youtu.be/zNCz4mQzfEI
The phrase 'I should coco' originated in the 1930's and means something along the lines of 'I should think so'. The question in my mind is why this lovely lady is thinking just that. Has someone just made her a surprising offer that she just can't turn down? I'd like to think so. She looks a bit like she's just stepped out of a 70's sitcom so I'm thinking someone has just made her a bawdy (and probably somewhat sexist) offer and her response is 'I should coco' followed by peals of canned laughter. Well, that's what I think and i'm sticking with it...
Cheers
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Title: I should coco
Materials: Acrylic, paint pen, glitter and charcoal
Size: A2
Please email if interested
April 07, 2012 - Ice T and Coco Host Epic Saturdays at The Pool After Dark at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, NJ, USA, famouspix.zenfolio.com/p562859854