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LESBOS, Mytilene. Julia Livilla. AD 18-41/2. Æ (20mm, 6.81 g, 12h). Struck under Caligula. Draped bust left / Caligula standing left, with toga drawn up over head (capite velato), holding patera. RPC 2348; SNG Fitzwilliam 4387; Trillmich pl. 14, 1; Vagi 576. VF, earthen green patina. Very rare issue in the name of Livilla, and the only type where her portrait appears alone. Perhaps the 11th known, with the majority in museum collections.
The youngest child of Germanicus and Agrippina Senior, Julia Livilla was born on the island of Lesbos during her parents’ tour of the eastern provinces. She is best known, like her sisters Agrippina Junior and Drusilla, for the alleged incestuous relationship she had with her brother, Caligula. Suetonius, the earliest historian to make this scandalous accusation, claims that the incest even took place during banquets (Gai xxiv), “when much company was present”, and that the emperor “placed each of them [his sisters] in turns below him, while his wife reclined above him.” It is telling that the tales of incest go unmentioned by historians such as Seneca and Philo, who actually lived during the reign of Caligula, and there is serious scholarly doubt if there is any truth to these claims. Nonetheless, the tales were often repeated by later chroniclers, and the incestuous relationship between Caligula and his sisters is fixed in popular imagination as one of great scandals of the Roman emperors. cngcoins.com
One of two wedding cakes this week. This one went to the Surfair Resort right on the beach at Marcoola on the Sunshine Coast.
11 inch Chocolate Cherry Ripe Mudcake, a 9 inch Caramel Mars Bar Mudcake and a 7 inch White Chocolate. All layered and coated with chocolate ganache and covered in white fondant.
I used half Bakels and half Satin Ice and kneaded in lots of extra icing sugar. I am so impressed with this - it was wonderful to work with and hardly any air bubbles.
#2326 - 2014 Day 134:: Draped fabric. Not sure I've seen this one at home before - you know what happens to anything new around the house!
Yippie activists Abbie Hoffman (left) and Jerry Rubin arrives at the House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearing October 1, 1968 investigating the clashes at the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Rubin is wearing a Viet Cong flag cape with a bandolier draped around him purportedly carrying live ammunition. Hoffman’s fringe jacket conceals an American flag shirt for which he was later arrested for wearing.
Hoffman quipped to the press, “I regret that I have one shirt to give for my country” while Rubin shouted that police were communists for not arresting him also.
Rubin and other Yippies tried to stand in silent protest of the “unfair treatment” they received at the hands of the committee. Rubin was then escorted by police out of the hearing.
Rubin and Hoffman had already been indicated as one of the "Chicago 8," charged with conspiracy to riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention.
While being called before a HUAC hearing once ruined careers in the 1950s, activists in the 1960s were openly contemptuous of the hearings and often looked upon a subpoena to appear before the committee as a badge of honor.
Rubin was an early opponent of the Vietnam War, running for mayor of Berkeley on an antiwar platform and helping organize the influential Vietnam Day Committee that attempted to stop troop trains.
Later helping to organize the antiwar 1967 March on the Pentagon and 1968 demonstrations at the Democratic Convention, Rubin was indicted as one of the Chicago 8 defendants whose trial transfixed the country. Later their convictions for conspiracy and contempt were overturned.
Perhaps most famously, as a prominent “Yippie,” he helped hone the tactic of using stunts to garner publicity for his causes.
As the antiwar movement began to subside in the early 1970s as the Vietnam War wound down, Rubin abandoned his activism and turned toward making money.
His ventures rendered him a multi-millionaire before he died after being hit by a car in Los Angeles in 1994.
Hoffman began his radical career in high school when he wrote a paper favoring atheism and his teacher in turn ripped up the paper. Hoffman attacked the teacher and was expelled.
Hoffman was active in the civil rights movement of the early 1960s and with early anti-Vietnam War efforts.
He gained attention when went with a group of supporters to the New York Stock Exchange and threw a mixture of real and fake dollar bills down to the traders below. Many booed while others scrambled to try to grab the money. Hoffman claimed that the protest was designed to expose what the traders were already doing: grabbing money.
At the massive march on the Pentagon in October 1967, Hoffman and Alan Ginsberg led a group to try to “levitate” the Pentagon.
Hoffman and his often cohort Jerry Rubin helped hone the tactic of using stunts to garner publicity for his causes.
As the antiwar movement began to subside in the early 1970s as the Vietnam War wound down, Hoffman was charged with distribution of cocaine and went underground.
After resurfacing, he was arrested with 14 others at the University of Amherst in Massachusetts protesting CIA recruiters and continued his left wing activism until his death in 1989.
In 1987 Hoffman summed up his views:
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a CIA that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
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Photograph by Joseph Silverman. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
More smoke images from a set I shot last January and February.
Strobist Info: Canon 580 EX II about a foot from the smoke. Camera settings were approx. 1/200 sec at f/9. See setup shot.
In 1901, eight paintings of elegant women draped in costumes and known as sylphs were installed around the four central piers of Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building in preparation for the opening of the very first Federal Parliament.
The sylphs representing the four seasons, Morning, Night, Truth and Justice were painted by Gordon Coutts, George Dancey, Girolamo Nerli and Leon Pole. Allegorical figures, usually women, were widely used to represent nations, values, stories and themes. In 1901 many people would have immediately recognised their symbolic associations. According to contemporary newspaper reports of the day, the artists had originally supplied the sylphs with less clothing than they are depicted in today. On viewing the paintings, the Victorian trustees insisted on the figures being shimmered over with more drapery, to protect the morals of those who viewed them!
The Royal Exhibition Building was designed by the architect Joseph Reed, who also designed the Melbourne Town Hall and the State Library of Victoria. According to the architect, the design was inspired by many different sources. The dome was modeled on the Florence Cathedral, while the main pavilions were influenced by the style of Rundbogenstil and several buildings from Normandy, Caen and Paris.
The foundation stone was laid by the then Victorian governor George Bowen on 19 February 1879 and it was completed in 1880, ready for the Melbourne International Exhibition. The building consisted of a Great Hall of over 12,000 square metres and many temporary annexes. In the 1880s, the building hosted two major International Exhibitions; the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 and the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888 to celebrate a century of European settlement in Australia. The most significant event to occur in the Exhibition Building was the opening of the first Parliament of Australia on 9 May 1901, following the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January. After the official opening, the federal government moved to the Victorian State Parliament House, while the Victorian government moved to the Exhibition Building for the next 26 years. On 3 September, the Australian National Flag was flown at Royal Exhibition Building for the first time. On that day Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced the winners of a competition to design a flag for Australia. The buildings were a venue for the 1956 Summer Olympics, hosting the basketball, weightlifting, wrestling, and the fencing part of the modern pentathlon competitions. As it decayed, it became known derogatively by locals as The White Elephant in the 1940s and by the 1950s, like many buildings in Melbourne of that time it was earmarked for replacement by office blocks. In 1948, members of the Melbourne City Council put this to the vote and it was narrowly decided not to demolish the building. The wing of the building which once housed Melbourne's aquarium burnt down in 1953. During the 1940s and 1950s, the building remained a venue for regular weekly dances. Over some decades of this period it also held boat shows, automobile shows and other regular home and building industry shows. It was also used during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s for State High School Matriculation and for the Victorian Certificate of Education examinations, among its various other purposes. Nevertheless, the grand ballroom was demolished in 1979, leaving the main structure in place along with annexes constructed in the 1960s and 1970s. Following the demolition of the grand ballroom, there was a public outcry which prevented the main building from also being demolished.
During a visit to Victoria in 1984, Princess Alexandra (Queen Elizabeth II's cousin) bestowed the royal title on the building and it has been referred to as the Royal Exhibition Building ever since. This title, and the first conservation assessment of the building undertaken by Alan Willingham, sparked a restoration of the interiors of the building in the late 1980s and 1990s, and the construction of a mirror glass annexe (which was later demolished). In 1996, the then Premier of Victoria, Jeff Kennett, proposed the location and construction of Melbourne's State Museum on the adjacent site. Temporary annexes built in the 1960s were removed and in 1997 and 1998, the exterior of the building was progressively restored.
On 1 July 2004, the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens was granted listing as a World Heritage Site, the first building in Australia to be granted this status. The heritage listing states that "The Royal Exhibition Building is the only major extant nineteenth century exhibition building in Australia. It is one of the few major nineteenth century exhibition buildings to survive worldwide."
Photography by Camille Leigh Photography, camilleleigh.com/
Tent: Amerispan Tents
Photographer: Camille Leigh Photography
Wedding Coordinator: Events by Henson (based in Maryland)
Tent chandeliers + draping, perimeter lights, & some reception chairs: White Door Events
Dishware, extra tables, ceremony chairs, ceremony arch, linens, chair covers, floral&decor: Events by Henson (based in Maryland)
Dance floor: Hicks Convention Rentals & Services
Music: DJ Stew
Wedding cake: Cake is Art
Catering + Bartending: Me & My Tea Room + Cocktail Cuties*
*This event was booked before the Dixon shifted to in-house catering
Approx. guest count: 145
Ceremony location: Hughes Pavilion main patio
Reception chairs provided by Dixon and White Door Events, covered with rental chair covers
1960's drapes.
3 layers of generously pleated material - white linen lining with blue/green subtle fading stripes (blue fading into green, fading into blue etc) linen fabric which is sandwiched between the white linen lining and open woven lime green mesh fabric. The oval holes in the mesh fabric are about 1 1/2 inches long at the longest. 2 eight foot panels, enough to cover 16 feet of window and wall - nearly 8 feet tall. In pristine like new condition.
I'm sure I've shown you these before. Super rare black zomba barkcloth drapes from the 30s. From my grandma's house and from the room I always slept in. I've spent so many hours staring at these. I adore them. They are my usual dining room drapery but I just switched to a recently acquired leaf barkcloth for the moth of November. You really get used to the drama of black in a room!
Motorized drapes in the conference room allow for privacy and shade. While all NAB rooms with full-size windows feature a draping system, the conference room's is unique in that it provides a second, totally opaque layer for complete privacy.
In this photo, drape was used left and right of the main stage. A third run was placed to the rear of the stage which hid the access stairs. A fourth run was used on the balcony behind the stage to get a more uniform look and to block the utilitarian wall.
In front of the stage drape was used to dress up the barricades.
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