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A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
Dressed up snowmen at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
These wonderful and comical snowmen are along Winding Lane. Goes to show that our Canadian agricultural scientists do indeed have a great sense of humor!
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
What in the world is the comical pic about? Inspiration from lolcats: lolcat.com/pics/takethis.jpg After seeing that picture, I was randomly inspired to do this. Honestly, this should be on a billboard. LoL! Now contraceptives, safe sex, and being smart about what you do are very important things. That all should be take seriously. This picture is more of a parody, a joke, for humor and the love of it... showing the funnier side to human nature. It's ok to laugh, we're all thinking the same thing.
365 Project - Day 348
“Oberfinanzdirektion” - a quintessential German word. Comically long, denoting a hyper bureaucratic institution that roughly translates to regional finance office. Today’s architectural shot housed said office from the mid 1950’s to 2009. It is such a perfect example for Germany’s 1950’s functional, getting-things-done architecture, that it has been designated as a protected site of historic interest. It is, however, also contaminated and beyond renovation efforts, which means it’ll be torn down in the near future. I shot it during the Golden Hour which brought out the graffiti and the facade’s colours nicely, but the dynamics where still to intense for a normal photograph so I once again had to resort to a tone mapped HDR.
Behold, all the mobile devices I've ever owned, from the ever so comical pink 3310 to the brick monster like e61i. Digging them all out sure did bring back some memroeis. None of them were broken or stolen, I do take care of my stuff :)
It was around the 3310 and 3100 phase where I paid very little attention to phones, I simply bought what was required and used it merely for texting and phoning folks. There were phones with cameras and mp3 players but back then I had a digital compact and an iriver so I really didn't need one that was below that quality. The pink phone was a right joke back in my days and 6th form, back then was the time I thought it was cool to go for the most rediculous thing that noone would get and claim your coolness there (not sure how that panned out tbh). The next phone (3100) was a quick choice since it was the cheapest one that had a colour screen (colour screens were cool back then) and yeah, I loved the design and the tackyness of it all. You could throw it a few times and not worry much about it breaking, the keys were rubbery and the case glew in the dark. Got to love gimmick values
Around the time I started my placement year I began demanding more, mainly because I felt like I'm doing quite a lot of things outdoors which would be utilised better if I was say, online or something. This was where the n70 popped out and I bought it second hand. I abused all the features including tethering which was pretty neat back in those days. My crazy 7 hour journeys to and from Leeds on the megabus was thus solved with constant interweb surfing and whatnot.
It was only when I started my proper job did I demand for something that not only allows me to kill time when I'm out, but find things to productively do. I purchased an e61i which sported a nice lovely QWERTY keyboard since I reckon num pads were no longer cool. I didn't look back, really enjoyed typing on the keyboard and work has thus increased even when I'm out and about.
The spot on the right is obviously my next one, and since it was only announced yesterday, no prizes for what I'll be getting for my next phone. Yup, after 7 years of Nokia loyalty I'm finally jumping the boat with an iPhone. Nothing sorted just yet mind, but the idea is that I'd buy the latest iPhone 3GS when it comes out on the 19th. I haven't signed up on a waiting list or anything yet so I'm slightly skeptical on whether I'll get one in the first place. The old phone worked really well but now I would like to make use of all those iPhone comaptible web apps that go well with what I do, stuff like flickr/gmail/muse board are all so much better in iPhone format. God bless Safari, not only that the Maps feature and other apps you can get just adds the cherry on top.
So yeah, that's a brief history of my phones I've ever owned.
But yeah, enough of me, share me your mobile phone stories :D
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
So I decided to do something comical today and took Blastoise out for a stroll, we came across this lawn ornament and we went hysterical! I think it might have been his father :P
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
1992 was very much a continuation of the trends of 1991. More older Joes got new figures, even ones from as late as 1988, like Shockwave. There were other nice new versions of Gung Ho, Wild Bill, Roadblock, Cutter (pictured here, albeit on a Funskool card with comically bad artwork and an unusual specialty as an "anti-tank cannon expert"!) and Mutt. The Duke form this year is okay and has a bit of a "Desert Storm" feel to him which makes sense considering the year, an even more blatantly Desert Storm-ish version would come out the next year. The Eco Warriors line added two new versions of veteran Joes, Barbecue (you could actually see his face this time! I find myself actually liking this version of Barbecue a bit) and yet another Deep Six, who would not be so bad except for some unforgivably bad bright green and magenta highlights. He came with a dolphin, which isn't quite as goofy as it sounds (the US Navy sometimes uses trained dolphins in their operations) which had a super rare "killer whale" variant. This was the last year we would see any Joes or Cobras come with any animal buddies in the vintage line. There was also a new version of Spirit, which was ok except for his neon green shirt. Wetsuit (pictured here) also got the neon treatment, but the black and yellow contrast actually sort of works on him. This version is neat because he can actually remove his (sadly unrealistic looking) diving helmet, something no previous version could do, so we can actually see his face and his VERY 90's mullet! Ace also got an update, the 90's Ace was actually more realistic than the 80's version, which looked more like an astronaut than an airman.
Returning old Joes definitely outnumbered the newbies this year. New characters of note was another fantastic Oktober Guardsman, Big Bear (pictured here) and in another rare comic book tie-in, a character that was supposed to be the son of the Joe teams original XO, General Flagg (which is also a great figure I wish I had). Most of the new characters were limited to the new special teams for this year, the Ninja Force (led by a nice, put poorly articulated new version of Storm Shadow) and the D.E.F. (Drug Elimination Force).
The Ninja Force figures were an attempt by Hasbro to cash in on the perceived "ninja craze". I say perceived because I don't think there really was much of one. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were dominating the toy aisles at this point, and they were ninjas, but I don't think this was the main thing that made them popular and Hasbro failed to understand that. Ninja Force was an attempt to steal some of that TMNT magic. Maybe it did sort of work, as the Ninja Force stuck around longer than any other special teams, for 3 years right up until the end of the vintage line. Thye even sort of took over the comic book for awhile which was called "GI Joe featuring Snake Eyes and the Ninja Force" for awhile. Ninja Force characters are usually not too popular with us collectors as many of them feature unusually bright colors (like this T'bang figure that is pictured here and was given to me - I've actually had TWO of them given to me, he is that unpopular!) for ninjas, and "action features" that limit their articulation and make them difficult to pose. Despite this, there are actually a handful of Ninja Force figures that aren't too bad, like the aforementioned Storm Shadow. Nunchuck is a pretty cool Ninja Force figure and a character that was revived in the early 2000's as a passable stand in for the deceased Quick Kick.
The D.E.F. is another controversial sub team that clumsily attempted to bring real world issues to the fantasy world of GI Joe. at the time, I was not disturbed by this. I was a bit of a "straight edge" punk at this point in my life, so I was definitely anti drugs. I knew that US special forces sometimes intervened in the "War on Drugs" by aiding South American governments, so the D.E.F. didn't seem too far fetched to me. However as an adult, I can appreciate what a useless waste of money and resources the whole "War on Drugs" is in ways I could not as a teenager. There is no denying that most of the D.E.F. figures are pretty cool though, I am especially fond of their leader, a new character named Bullet-Proof, which is a nice, solid military looking figure which I plan to add to my collection soon.The '92 version was even free of neon, as were all the '92 D.E.F. figures, even the bad guys.
All in all, I think '92 was a pretty good year, at least on the Joe side. There were still a lot of good figures and nice versions of old characters, even Ninja Force was sort of subdued compared to how crazy it would become in the next few years.
The comical little clock, Pendule, from Beauty & The Beast-
Sand Sculpture Festival in Noordwijk, held in September 2009.
Nothing on reverse except the photographer's details: Fr. Breidenbach, München.
A diminutive Bavarian infantryman (Landwehr?) looks almost comical in his over sized transitional tunic and corduroy trousers. Let's hope he had time to call into a tailor before he departed for the front.
He is armed with a Gew 98 rifle fitted with an all-steel ersatz bayonet.
Alb. II
Jersey Zoo, the Lemurs are sunning themselves on the windowsill waiving at passers by....
Reminded me of the Amsterdam red light district.... but then again I got a warped mind ;-)
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 5233. Photo: R. Dührkoop.
Paul Heidemann (1884-1968) was a German stage and screen actor, and also a film director and producer. In the silent period, he was famous for his comical parts.
Paul Heidemann was born in Cologne, Germany, on 26 October 1884. After an initial career in the tobacco branch, he took acting lessons at the Meiningen-based court actor Leopold Teller. In 1906 he debuted in Hanau as Prince Karl-Heinz in the operetta Alt-Heidelberg. In 1909 he joined the Theatre of Breslau, where he sang in Bruno Granichstaedten’s operetta Bub oder Mädel. Here Heidemann created his reputation as a talented comedian. On the recommendation of composer Jean Gilbert, he moved to Berlin in 1911, where he debuted in Gilbert’s play Die keusche Susanne. Franz Porten discovered Heidemann for the cinema, where in 1912 he played his first lead in Das Brandmal ihrer Vergangenheit, followed by films such as Ihr Unteroffizier (1914), Ein nettes Pflänzchen (1916) und Der Diplomatensäugling (1919). From 1913 to 1915 he played the character Teddy in countless comical shorts, such as Teddy ist herzkrank (1914), Teddys Geburtstagsgeschenk (1915) and Teddy züchtet Notkartoffeln (1915); sometimes he directed these as well. Between 1919 and 1923 Heidemann had his own production company, Paul Heidemann-Film GmbH in Berlin, where he played the lead in films initially mostly directed by Erich Schönefelder and later on rather by Georg Schubert and Heidemann himself. A late example is Eine kleine Freundin braucht ein jeder Mann (Heidemann 1927), starring Heidemann but also Julius Falkenstein, Hans Albers, Siegfried Arno and Charlotte Ander.
In the 1920s Heidemann became an important supporting actor and sometimes leading actor in all kinds of films, in particular comedies, such as Die Bergkatze (Ernst Lubitsch 1921) with Pola Negri, So sind die Männer (Georg Jacoby 1922) with Harry Liedtke, Der Sprung ins Leben (Johannes Guter 1923) with Xenia Desni, Das süsse Mädel (Manfred Noa 1926) with Mary Nolan and Mary Parker, Die Dritte Eskadron (Carl Wilhelm 1926) with Claire Rommer, Flucht aus der Hölle (Georg Asagaroff 1928) with Heidemann, Jean Murat and Agnes Esterhazy, and Flucht vor der Liebe (Hans Behrendt 1928) with Jenny Jugo and Enrico Benfer. Simultaneously Heidemann acted on the Berlin stages, mainly in operettas. When in the early 1930s military comedies were popular, Heidemann acted in various military farces such as Wenn die Soldaten... (Luise & Jakob Fleck 1931) with Otto Walburg, Schön ist die Manöverzeit (Erich Schönfelder 1931) with Ida Wüst, Die Mutter der Kompanie (Franz Seitz senior 1931), Drei von der Kavallerie (Carl Boese 1932) with Paul Hörbiger and Fritz Kampers, and Liebe in Uniform (Georg Jacoby 1932). Heidemann also acted in many successful films of the 1930s, often as the sidekick of the favourite actor Hans Albers. Among the most well-known productions are Die grosse Sehnsucht (Stefan Szekelty 1930) with Camilla Horn and Theodor Loos, Ihre Hoheit befielt (Hanns Schwarz 1930-1931), Der tolle Bomberg (Georg Asagaroff 1932) with Heidemann in the lead, Ganovenehre (Richard Oswald 1932) with Fritz Kampers, Paprika (Carl Boese 1932) with Franziska Gaal, Narren im Schnee (Hans Deppe 1938) with Anny Ondra, and Schneider Wibbel (Viktor de Kowa 1939) with Erich Ponto.
During the Second World War, Heidemann worked again as a film director and staged some film comedies, such as Mein Mann darf es nicht wissen (1940) with Mady Rahl, Krach im Vorderhaus (1941) again with Rahl, Weisse Wäsche (1942) with Harald Paulsen, and Floh im Ohr (1943), even if the films were not huge hits. In the 1950s he acted both in BDR and DDR films, playing Presskopp in the old Berlin farce Ein Polterabend (Curt Bois 1955) and the mayor in Bärenburger Schnurre (Ralf Kirsten 1957). He also acted then in films like Torreani (Gustav Fröhlich 1951), Der keusche Josef (Carl Boese 1953), Rittmeister Wronski (Ulrich Erfurth 1954), Der Mustergatte (Erik Ode 1956) and Jede Nacht in einem anderen Bett (Paul Verhoeven 1956-1957). Paul Heidemann died in Berlin on 20 June 1968.
Sources: German Wikipedia, IMDB, www.filmportal.de, www.defa-sternstunden.de, www.cyranos.ch/smheid-d.htm.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
RUBE GOLDBERG
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. The Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society is named after Rube Goldberg, who earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines, complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. In 1948 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning.
Goldberg graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904. Goldberg was hired by the city of San Francisco as an engineer, however, his fondness for drawing cartoons prevailed, and after just a few months, he quit the city job for a job with the San Francisco Chronicle as a sports cartoonist. The following year, he took a job with the San Francisco Bulletin, where he remained until he moved to New York City in 1907.
He drew cartoons for several newspapers, including the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening Mail. His work entered syndication in 1915, beginning his nationwide popularity. A prolific artist, Goldberg produced several cartoon series simultaneously; titles included Mike and Ike, Boob McNutt, Foolish Questions, Lala Palooza and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club.
Professor Butts
While these series were quite popular, the one leading to his lasting fame involved a character named Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts. In this series, Goldberg drew labeled schematics of the comical "inventions" which would later bear his name. In 1995, "Rube Goldberg's Inventions," depicting Professor Butts' "Self-Operating Napkin," was one of 20 strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. The "Self-Operating Napkin" is activated when the soup spoon (A) is raised to mouth, pulling string (B) and thereby jerking ladle (C) which throws cracker (D) past parrot (E). Parrot jumps after cracker and perch (F) tilts, upsetting seeds (G) into pail (H). Extra weight in pail pulls cord (I), which opens and lights automatic cigar lighter (J), setting off skyrocket (K) which causes sickle (L) to cut string (M) and allow pendulum with attached napkin to swing back and forth, thereby wiping chin. After-dinner entertainment can be supplied with the simple substitution of a harmonica for the napkin.
Rube Goldberg
Later in his career, Goldberg was employed by the New York Journal American and remained there until his retirement in 1964. During his retirement, he occupied himself by making bronze sculptures. His work appeared in several one-man shows, the last one during his lifetime being in 1970 at the National Museum of American History (then called the Museum of History and Technology) in Washington, D.C.. Goldberg died at the age of 87; he is buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.
In addition to his 1948 Pulitzer Prize, he received the National Cartoonists Society Gold T-Square Award in 1955, their 1969 Reuben Award and their Gold Key Award (posthumously in 1980).
Rube Goldberg machine
A Rube Goldberg machine is a complex apparatus that performs a simple, easy task in an indirect and convoluted way. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor, as the machine makes slow but steady progress toward its goal.
The term also applies as a classification for a generally over-complicated apparatus or software. The corresponding term in the United Kingdom is "Heath Robinson" (machine or contraption), after the British cartoonist with a similar focus on odd machinery. The term "Rube Goldberg machine" first appeared in Webster's Third New International Dictionary with the definition "accomplishing by extremely complex roundabout means what actually or seemingly could be done simply."
Rube Goldberg's inventions are a unique commentary on life's complexities. They provide a humorous diversion into the absurd that lampoons the wonders of technology. These satires of man's ingenuity resonate in modern life for those seeking simplicity in the midst of a technology revolution. Goldberg's machines can also be seen as a physical representation of the pataphysical, carrying a simple idea to a nonsensical, ornamented extreme.
RUBE GOLDBERG
Born: 1883 : : : Died: 1970
Job Description: Cartoonist and sculptor
Worked in: Newspaper comics
Noted for: Boob McNutt, editorial cartoons, and incredibly complicated inventions
Comics have given many now-familiar words and phrases to the English language — "Dagwood sandwich" from Blondie, "goon" and "jeep" from Popeye, "yellow journalism" … from The Yellow Kid, to cite but a few. But only one cartoonist has enriched our linguistic heritage by the donation of his own name. Even people who have never seen the work of Rube Goldberg know what a "Rube Goldberg device" is. Nor is that the only phrase that contains his name. Not as many people know about The National Cartoonists' Society's Reuben Award. But of those who do, a great majority know who it was named after, and who designed the zany-looking statuette — the NCS's first president, Reuben Lucius Goldberg.
Goldberg was born on the Fourth of July, in 1883. He showed an early interest in cartooning, but like many later-famous artists, was discouraged by his parents, who preferred he prepare for a more practical way of making a living. They figured he could use his drawing ability in a lucrative career in engineering, and to that end, got him enrolled in the University of California's College of Mining. He graduated in 1904 as a full-fledged mining engineer.
Like Gelett Burgess before him, Goldberg did very little with his engineering degree before moving on to his true career. After six months of boredom, he took a job in the art department of The San Francisco Chronicle. At first he mostly tidied the place up (and allegedly, while emptying wastebaskets, figured out what had happened to his own earlier cartoon submissions), but soon became one of the Chronicle's sports cartoonists. He moved to The San Francisco Bulletin in 1905, replacing Thomas A. "Tad" Dorgan (Silk Hat Harry), who had gone to New York to make his fortune. Goldberg followed Dorgan in '07, when he moved to The New York Evening Mail. It was there that he started on the road to fame with his regular feature, Foolish Questions, in which he would suggest silly answers to such annoyingly obvious queries as "Windy, isn't it?" and (said by a hotel clerk) "Do you want a room, sir?" This Goldberg original was echoed decades later in Mad magazine's regular feature, "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions", by Al Jaffee.
It was in 1914 that Goldberg created the series that brought him lasting fame — a series that was inspired by his academic studies. Recalling the so-called "Barodik", an incredibly complex contraption for determining the mass of our planet, cooked up by Goldberg's analytical mechanics instructor, Professor Frederick Slate, Goldberg drew a convoluted and highly improbable "Automatic Weight-Reducing Machine" for the Evening Mail.
Many syndicated features followed, some of which, including Boob McNutt, Lala Palooza and Mike & Ike (They Look Alike), became reasonably well known in their own right — but he continued to create his unlikely engineering stunts for the duration of his cartooning career. They became such a part of American culture, that in 1995, in company with Little Nemo in Slumberland, Barney Google, Li'l Abner and several other immortal newspaper comics, they were commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
Goldberg became an editorial cartoonist in 1938, when The New York Sun hired him to fill that position (which, by the way, had been vacant at the Sun since 1920). His political cartoons were distributed nation-wide by The Bell Syndicate (Mutt & Jeff, Sad Sack). The one he drew for the July 22, 1947 edition, about the world on the brink of nuclear destruction (back when that was a new topic), won a Pulitzer Prize in '48.
By the time he was 80 years old, Goldberg grew tired of cartooning. Instead of retiring, however, he embarked on a new career as a sculptor — and, typically, excelled at it. In fact, it was for his humorous sculpture that, in 1967, he finally won the award named after him.
Rube Goldberg died in 1970, revered by his peers in the cartooning community for his lifetime of extraordinary achievement.
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DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN © 2000 David Barsalou
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
The Brown Pelican is a comically elegant bird with an oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body. Squadrons glide above the surf along southern and western coasts, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves. They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up.
Brown Pelicans are huge, stocky seabirds. They have thin necks and very long bills with a stretchy throat pouch used for capturing fish. Their wings are very long and broad and are often noticeably bowed when the birds are gliding.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
...a comical parody of the "Banda Calypso", a popular north-eastern Brazilian band represented here by our Cultural Coordinator Ivone in the swinging role of lead singer Joelma and with music teacher Anderson as her partner Chimbinha, backed by their dance ensemble of youngsters from the Hummingbird Arts & Cultural Activity Centre. This was just one of many comical presentations held by our staff during the children's winter holiday festival talent show at our main prevention centre in São Paulo.........
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
Italian postcard by La Rotofotografica / Unione Cinematografica Italiana, no. 137.
Ferdinand Guillaume (1887- 1977) was an Italian comical actor, famous in the 1910s as Tontolini and Polidor.
Ferdinand(o) Guillaume, the son of a well-bred European circus family once fled from France during the Revolution, was enrolled by the Cines company in 1910 together with his brother Natale and their wives. Guillaume was launched as the character Tontolini, in 1912 also known in Britain and the US as Jenkins. Guillaume provided Cines and Italy an international reputation in the field of comical films. His circus background was a clear consistency in his films. Actress Lea Giunchi was married to Natale (Natalino) Guillaume and often played as 'Lea' in the Tontolini comedies, before becoming the regular film partner of Kri-Kri (Raymond Frau), who more or less substituted Guillaume when the latter moved over to Pasquali.
After some 100 shorts as Tontolini, and after the success of his first feature-length film, Pinocchio (Giulio Antamoro, 1911), Ferdinand Guillaume went over to the Pasquali company. Here he created the character of Polidor (named after a horse in his previous circus shows), continuing his double profession of leading actor and director, being often the scriptwriter of his films too. Shooting some 100 films, up to four films a month, in the years 1912-1914, the Polidor films were distributed all over Europe and the US. Guillaume's output shrunk considerately from the outbreak of the First World War, although he still had a large output in 1916-1917. Guillaume managed to pursue a constant career in cinema until 1920, when his brother died in a plane crash dring the shooting of a film. Guillaume had occasional come-backs in sound cinema, as in Fellini’s films Le notti di Cabiria (1957) and La dolce vita (1960), and in Pasolini's Accatone (1961). His last film part was that of an old actor in Fellini's Toby Dammitt (1968).
Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, Ivo Blom in Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (Routledge).
A young wanderer, named Sapna, arrives in Goa to become a dancer and soon sets her way making and breaking to become the Star of the City. Read the story at comicales.com.
Dressed up snowmen at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
These wonderful and comical snowmen are along Winding Lane. Goes to show that our Canadian agricultural scientists do indeed have a great sense of humor!