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So, I was sitting in my room last night and I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if I made really simple, action figure like mechs? After that thought, I made these. I was going for ultra simplicity and the right proportions. I think they came out ok, but they could use some work. I might be making some other suits based off this 'frame' in the future.
Also, these were majorly inspired by these :)
Belgian collectors card by CLARK Tendermint. Illustration: Tibet.
Steve McQueen (1930-1980) was the ultra-cool Hollywood star of the 1960s and is still an icon of our popular culture. In the 1960s, he was the highest-paid actor of his generation, with an average salary of $5 million. With only 27 films, his film career was rather short.
Terence Steve McQueen was born in Beech Grove, a suburb of Indianapolis, in 1930. His childhood was spent on his uncle's farm in Missouri, as his father left home when he was only six months old. His mother followed suit shortly afterwards. As a teenager, he moved to Los Angeles, where he joined a gang. When he was arrested after an attempted robbery, he ended up in a reform school, the Chino Reform School. He spent a year and a half there and was set straight again. Years later, he set up a fund for that school and even left it $200,000. In 1947, he joined the Navy, where he clashed several times with his superiors. Three years later, however, he was given an honourable discharge for heroic conduct. This was followed by a series of 12 trades and 13 accidents: construction sites, oil fields, a lumberjack in Canada and even a courier in New York. McQueen enrolled in a few well-known acting schools and his drive earned him a scholarship from the famous Actors Studio. Long enamoured of cars and motorcycles, McQueen began to earn money by competing in weekend motorcycle races at Long Island City Raceway. He purchased the first two of many motorcycles, a Harley-Davidson and a Triumph. He soon became an excellent racer, winning about $100 each weekend (equivalent to $1,000 in 2022). In 1955, he made his Broadway debut in the play 'A Hatful of Rain', starring Ben Gazzara. In late 1955 at the age of 25, McQueen left New York and headed for Los Angeles. He moved into a house on Vestal Avenue in the Echo Park area and sought acting jobs in Hollywood.
Steve McQueen's first breakout role came on television. When McQueen appeared in a two-part Westinghouse Studio One television presentation entitled The Defenders, Hollywood manager Hilly Elkins took note of him. McQueen's first film role was a bit part in Somebody Up There Likes Me (Robert Wise, 1956), starring Paul Newman. He appeared on Dale Robertson's NBC Western series Tales of Wells Fargo as Bill Longley. McQueen next filmed a pilot episode for what became the series titled Wanted: Dead or Alive, which aired on CBS in September 1958. This became his breakout role. He would later cross over into comparable status on the big screen, making him the first TV star to do so. His first lead role in the cinema was in the low-budget Sci-Fi film The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., 1958), but his breakthrough was as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the Western The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges, 1960). McQueen's focused portrayal of the taciturn second lead catapulted his career and led to his withdrawal from Wanted: Dead or Alive. Steve McQueen delivered another crowd-pleaser, the war film The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963) with James Garner. This film established McQueen's box-office clout and secured his status as a superstar. McQueen earned his only Academy Award nomination in 1966 for his role as an engine-room sailor in The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise, 1966), in which he starred opposite Candice Bergen and Richard Attenborough. Riding a wave of popularity, he starred in such hits as The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965) opposite Ann-Margret, the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968) with Faye Dunaway, and the mega-hit Bullitt (Peter Yates, 1968), which co-starred Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, and Don Gordon and won an Oscar for Best Film Editing (Frank P. Keller). Bullitt is famous for its car chase scene through the streets of San Francisco, which is regarded as one of the most influential in film history.
Steve McQueen teamed up with maverick Hollywood director Sam Peckinpah for the modern Western Junior Bonner (1972), and The Getaway (1972) with Ali McGraw. His last great hits were Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973) with Dustin Hoffman and the 'disaster' movie The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin, Irwin Allen, 1974) with Faye Dunaway and Paul Newman. On a personal level, Steve McQueen was as he usually was on the big screen: virile, petulant, slightly paranoid, tormented. He was obsessed with speed and regularly performed very well in national and international motor races. He was also a good marksman and a lover of oriental martial arts. He had a black belt 9th dan in Taekwondo. Together with James Coburn, he was one of the pallbearers of Bruce Lee's coffin. His last two films were loosely based on true stories: Tom Horn (William Wiard, 1980), a Western about a former Army scout-turned-professional gunman who worked for the big cattle ranchers hunting down rustlers, and was later hanged for murder in the shooting death of a sheepherder, and The Hunter (Buzz Kulik, 1980), an action thriller about a modern-day bounty hunter. In December 1979, he was diagnosed with lung cancer, caused by asbestos. But he kept this a secret until a month before his death. In January 1980, he suffered a heart attack shortly after marrying his third wife. At the end of 1980, he died of a heart attack in Mexico, less than a day after a successful operation to remove tumours from his right lung. Steve McQueen was only 50 years old. He was married to Neile Adams from 1956 to 1972, with whom he had two children. His second wife was Ali MacGraw from 1973 to 1978 and his last wife was Barbara Minty from 16 January 1980 until his death on 7 November of that year.
Sources Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
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what I prepared for the hot summer days.
夏 天，是 吃 涼 麵 的 季 節。
人 妻 興 致 勃 勃 的 變 化 涼 麵 新 吃 法，
除 了 先 前 的 日 式 吃 法，這 次 的 中 式 吃 法，
更 還 要 配 合 著 不 同 的 『 手 法 』與 『 食 器 』，
沾 著 吃，佐 著 吃，拌 著 吃，攪 和 著 吃....。
未 來 更 決 定 要 嘗 試 韓 式 吃 法，泰 式 吃 法，蒜 泥 吃 法....。
所 以 可 以 肯 定 的，炎 炎 夏 日，涼 麵 絕 對 會 是 我 家 今 年 的 重 頭 戲。
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Perfect Pink Teresa, Cool Blue Barbie and Purple Panic Christie! Only Skipper left to collect them all!
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Empty cars have been delivered to the mill this afternoon and the E&LS is assembling an outbound train in the Ontonagon Yard. The switch in the foreground is the north wye switch and leads to the bridge and the mill on the west side of the river but in this photo is lined for the mainline out of town. These yard tracks remain in place but the mainline from just east of here to Rockland has been removed. November 24, 1997.
Here is my contribution to the eighth and final round of RogueOlympics 2025 on the topic of "Klasse" (“class”).
I took the theme in the sense of “great result / great performance” and also wanted to address the Olympic Games in line with our Rogue Olympics.
The movie “Cool Runnings” came to my mind. It's a comedy that tells the story of the first Jamaican bobsleigh team and their participation in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Although the film invents much of the story and embellishes it with narrative and comedy, it is based on a true story. Ridiculed by many winter sports nations, the Jamaicans nevertheless managed to qualify for the Olympic bobsleigh competitions.
Although the Jamaican bobsleigh team only played a minor role in the rankings, they did achieve a respectable success.
After all, Jamaica took part in all the Winter Olympics from 1988 to 2002 and improved steadily. After a few years without participation, Jamaican winter athletes took part in the Olympics again from 2014.
I just love the courage and enthusiasm of the Jamaican bobsleigh team, as well as the funny movie from 1993 - in German that is "klasse".
I'm ending my participation in the Rogue Olympics 2025 with this picture of the "Finish". Like every year, I had a lot of fun, even if time was sometimes tight and some other things had to take a back seat.
I hope you like my contribution. Have fun and see you next year on this stage!