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The Church was built in 1799 on the former Caminho dos Pinheiros, today Rua da Consolação, with the help of alms from devotees to Our Lady of Consolation and with the endorsement of the diocesan bishop Mateus de Abreu Pereira were able to begin its construction, with the technique of taipa, quite common at the time. The oldest record of its construction is a document transcribed by Jacinto Ribeiro, in which it attributes the idealization of the temple to the faithful Luiz da Silva and his brothers. Located in a boggy and marshy region there is another document proving the Church's ancient existence: on November 23, 1803, an office was registered that showed the need for drinking water for the residents of the neighborhood "Nossa Senhora da Consolação". In view of the custom of baptizing the district with religious names, mainly related to sanctuaries, the Church, besides already existing, corresponded to an important piece for the functioning of the region. And, in the year 1810, a plant in the city of São Paulo contained the chapel.
The fun of shooting (I should really say "attempting to shoot") Tree Swallows is that they are tiny fast birds that aren't bothered by your presence. In fact, they enjoy darting around and frustrating your attempt to photograph them. That said, they provide lots of opportunities and if you take enough shots, especially with the modern cameras that focus so quickly, it is possible. Even better, when you get them on the computer at home, and crop down, which is for me a necessity on birds this small, you sometimes find some prizes. Here's one in the act of catching a fly which you can see if you squint hard enough.
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This was the home of attorney John M. Hamilton (1847-1905), who served as Illinois Governor from 1883 to 1885. The house was built in 1872 by James Clark, a trader in hides. pelts, wools, and furs. Clark the property to Hamilton in 1873.
Hamilton's state political service began while he lived in the house. In 1876, he was elected to the Illinois State Senate where he four years, becoming president pro tempore in 1879. In 1881, Hamilton was elected lieutenant governor under Shelby Moore Cullon. When Cullom, just two years into his term, ran for and won a seat in the United States Senate, Hamilton assumed the governorship.
While Hamilton was governor, the state legislature thrashed out the details of Harber high-license law which probably attracted more attention than any other single issue of the 1880s. This bitterly contested act imposed license fees of not less than $500 per year on taverns and greatly reduced the number of such establishments operating in larger cities.
In May of 1883, Hamilton sent the state militia to Madison and St. Clair counties to quell labor troubles. A year later while the governor was working in his office in Springfield, a bullet came crashing through the window narrowly missing him. Some blamed anarchists or miners hot for revenge, while other put the responsibility on boys shooting pigeons in the street below.
Hamilton sought support to secure his own nomination for governor in 1884, but withdrew when he failed to gain the endorsement of key party officials. After his tenure in office, Hamilton never returned to live in Bloomington. In his post-governor years, Hamilton became a prosperous and respected lawyer in Chicago, where he died in 1905.
For its political significance, the John M. Hamilton House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Bloomington is the seat of McLean County. It is adjacent to Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area. Bloomington is home to State Farm Insurance, Country Financial and Beer Nuts. Illinois Wesleyan University is located here, while the neighboring city of Normal is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Bloomington is 135 miles (217 km) southwest of Chicago, and 162 miles (261 km) northeast of St. Louis. The estimated population of Bloomington in 2019 was 77,330, with a metro population of 191,067.
Hello, I'm Mr. Ed
A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed
Go right to the source and ask the horse
He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse
He's always on a steady course
Talk to Mr. Ed
People yakkity yak a streak and waste your time of day
But Mister Ed will never speak unless he has something to say
A horse is a horse, of course, of course
And this one'll talk 'til his voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking horse?
Well listen to this
I am Mister Ed
Belated but hope this shot of the Wayanad forests makes some viewers want to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the planet Earth.
This photo was taken at D'Kayangan Lake Garden........unedited only I framed it and endorsed my signature. I love my new camera....Sony DLSR A200....Thank you.
300 more days to go! This shot is a take of one of Boaz's shots, seen here
It breaks God's heart when he sees his people sinning and turning away from him. His very own creation, turning their backs on their creator. It cannot be comprehended. He wants to save us, and is willing to do so but a lot of times our pride and our own human nature gets in the way. We get too caught up in this world, too caught up in our own pleasures to notice God's arm outstretched ready to catch us as we fall. If it weren't for God's mercy, love and grace, we'd be pwned.
Thank you Lord for saving me.
Editor's note: HUGE positive announcement about SLS today. Read all about it here! www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/
Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton Block 1 configuration. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first SLS mission -- Exploration Mission 1 -- will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the moon and bring it back to Earth to demonstrate the integrated system performance of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft’s re-entry and landing prior to a crewed flight.
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President Barack Obama runs down the East Colonnade with family dog, Bo, on the dog's initial visit to the White House, March 15, 2009. Bo came back to live at the White House in April.
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Puerto, Donostia, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, España.
El puerto de San Sebastián (España) se encuentra situado dentro del término municipal de San Sebastián, formando parte de la bahía de la Concha, al sur del monte Urgull. Se inició su construcción moderna en la segunda mitad del s. XV d. C.
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La vieja cofradía donostiarra de mareantes, maestres de navíos, pilotos y mercaderes surgió en el puerto fluvial, hoy desaparecido, de Santa Catalina, sobre el río Urumea hacia el siglo XIII.
Fue promovido en las décadas finales del siglo XII por un grupo de armadores bayoneses que aportaban su superior técnica mercantil-marítima. Refrendaron la concesión, por Sancho el Sabio de Navarra, de un fuero de abierta orientación mercantil y marinera.
De esta manera se fundó la Cofradía de Santa Catalina cuya sede estaba en la antigua iglesia de Santa Catalina. Se llamó de esta manera por el hecho de que en los siglos XII y XIII era el puerto fluvial de Santa Catalina, sobre el Urumea, el que preferían para su tráfico los mercaderes y mareantes donostiarras, con preferencia a los puertos de Urgull y de Pasajes.
Cuando, pasado un tiempo, las naos se hacían de mayores proporciones y requerían muelles de mayor calado para el atraque, sería la misma cofradía la que fijó su atención en las mejores condiciones que reunía para naos de gran tonelaje el abrigo que se escondía bajo el monte Urgull.
Por éste motivo financió la construcción de un guardamar, primero, y luego de un cay en tal lugar, con lo que el viejo puerto sobre el Urumea venía naturalmente a perder en importancia frente al de la Concha.
The port of San Sebastián (Spain) is located within the municipal district of San Sebastián, forming part of the Concha Bay, south of Mount Urgull. Its modern construction began in the second half of the 15th century AD.
History
The old San Sebastián guild of sailors, ship masters, pilots and merchants emerged in the river port, now disappeared, of Santa Catalina, on the Urumea River around the 13th century.
It was promoted in the final decades of the 12th century by a group of Bayonne shipowners who contributed their superior mercantile-maritime technique. They endorsed the concession, by Sancho the Wise of Navarre, of a charter with an open mercantile and seafaring orientation.
In this way the Santa Catalina Brotherhood was founded, whose headquarters were in the old church of Santa Catalina. It was called this way because in the 12th and 13th centuries, the river port of Santa Catalina, on the Urumea, was the one preferred by merchants and sailors from San Sebastián for their traffic, in preference to the ports of Urgull and Pasajes.
When, after a time, the ships became larger and required deeper docks for mooring, it was the same guild that focused its attention on the better conditions that the shelter hidden under Mount Urgull offered for large tonnage ships.
For this reason, it financed the construction of a seawall, first, and then a cay in that place, with which the old port on the Urumea naturally came to lose importance compared to that of La Concha.
Good news! I've opened an Etsy shop with my girlfriend and we plan to sell LEGO lamps, starting with this one, named Arcobaleno.
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This week in 1996, STS-78 and its primary payload, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab, launched. During the 17-day spaceflight, the crew conducted a diverse slate of experiments divided into a mix of life science and microgravity investigations.
Five space agencies -- NASA, European Space Agency, French Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency and Italian Space Agency -- along with research scientists from 10 countries worked together on the design, development and construction of the laboratory.
LMS investigations, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, conducted the most extensive telescience to date, similar to investigations on the International Space Station.
Today, Marshall is home to the Payload Operations and Integration Center -- the command center for all science operations on the ISS, ensuring successful science operations to benefit people on Earth and to pave the way for deep space exploration. Flight controllers are on the clock 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to help astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground.
For more fun throwbacks, check out Marshall's History Album by clicking here.
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One of a series of photos of the moon and Earth's atmosphere as seen from the International Space Station over a period of time that covered a number of orbits by the orbital outpost.
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Candid shot, North Petherton, Somerset, UK
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A long-standing friend from my school days sent me this card by an unknown photographer of a bus that regularly conveyed us to our Beverley alma mater.
Seen pausing in Bridlington en route to Scarborough, East Yorkshire Motor Services 609 (NRH220) is a Leyland PD2/12 that was new in 1953. Its Roe bodywork is specially contoured to fit the Gothic arch of the Beverley North Bar - once a distinct feature of EYMS double-decker buses. The bus alongside lacks that feature. It is one of 632/633, a pair of PD2/12s with low-bridge sunken-gangway bodywork.
I date the view to 1960/61. A Morris Oxford Farina passes behind. I do not endorse the claim made on the side advert: I was one of a great many who did not want Watney’s - it was one of the worst beers I have ever sampled. Bud Light shares it for my Wooden Spoon brew.
From the Jack Thwaites Photographic Collections.
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Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA captured photographs of western Cuba and the Gulf of Batabanó as the International Space Station flew overhead. This composite image, assembled at Johnson Space Center in Houston, was shared by Williams on social media on July 13, 2016. Williams wrote, "Wow! Look at how the navy blue contrasts with the aqua, Gulf of Batabano Cuba."
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"Visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed, the President signed a patient's military banner at his request." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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The official portrait of the Obama family dog, "Bo", a Portuguese water dog, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.
Scientists discovered this history of black hole eruptions by studying NGC 5813, a group of galaxies about 105 million light years from Earth. These Chandra observations are the longest ever obtained of a galaxy group, lasting for just over a week. The Chandra data are shown in this new composite image where the X-rays from Chandra (purple) have been combined with visible light data (red, green and blue).
Galaxy groups are like their larger cousins, galaxy clusters, but instead of containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies like clusters do, galaxy groups are typically comprised of 50 or fewer galaxies. Like galaxy clusters, groups of galaxies are enveloped by giant amounts of hot gas that emit X-rays.
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President Barack Obama smiles while talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the phone in the Oval Office, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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drums crowned by tapering domes were deliberately scored to resemble candles, thus manifesting a certain aesthetic and religious attitude.Why are onion domes predominant in Russian architecture?
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Does it have any connection to similar domes in mosques?
Onion domes are predominant in Russian architecture because they became an important stylistic component of Russian Orthodox church design. According to what I have read, the dome's importance comes from symbolic and technical aspects. Russian onion domes have complex symbolic associations, from the classic "vault of heaven" to their appearance as tongues of flame, recalling the holy spirit. On the technical side, you have the often repeated theory that the domes were an adaptation to the climate, especially Russia's heavy snowfalls. The wooden construction of the onion dome would also have been a plus for Russian architects, was this material was in greater supply than the stone necessary for traditional, byzantine-style dome construction.One final reason for the predominance of the onion dome in Russian architecture: the origin of the dome and the associations that come with its origin. Russian church architecture, which features the dome most prominently out of all, is heavily influenced by Byzantine architecture. As Orthodox Christianity was the predominant religion, it follows that Russian builders sought to emulate the styles of the center of Orthodox Christianity, namely Constantinople. This architectural tradition places high importance on centrally-planned, domed spaces. This architectural tradition was combined in Russia with the native wooden-building traditions that have much in common with Scandinavia. These traditions stressed complex, creative wooden constructions with strong vertical components such as steeply pitching roofs and elaborate frameworks. The onion dome is a product of the combination of these two traditions. One source, an examination of the origin of the domes by S. V. Zagraevsky, argues that the domes were a Russian development in the 13th to 14th centuries along these lines--that Russian carpenters, skilled in complex woodwork from both building construction and shipbuilding (alluding to Rus's Scandinavian roots) developed the onion dome independently in order to fulfill the need for domes over Byzantine-influenced churches using wooden construction. This form of dome becomes widespread in the medieval period, thus cementing itself into "tradition" and becoming an essential part of Russian architecture.Note on sources and origins: like always, the story is far more complex than can be presented, and I would invite an expert on Russian culture to step in. The origins of the onion dome are shrouded as no original wooden domes from the period survive and scholars are forced to work from written and illustrative documentary evidence, which is open to varied interpretation. What I have read also presents two conflicting stories: that onion domes were a product of Indian and Byzantine sources that combined in the Islamic world, or that they were the products of independent developments that settled on the onion shape to suit their own technical or symbolic needs and which are only distantly connected to other similar designs in Central Europe, Russia, the Middle East, India. What is conclusive is that the widespread use of these domes dates back at least to the 12th-13th centuries. On sources, the most recent source on onion domes in English that I found (thanks to wiki) was Forms of the domes of the ancient Russian temples. Other works, such as National Elements in Russian Architecture and The Origin and the Distribution of the Bulbous Dome date back to the 1940s, but provide good insight into wooden dome architecture (note: these are JSTOR links). The wiki article on the Onion dome has a good introduction on these domes and has a list of sources, although many of them are in Russian.
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This is a story which begins with early Slavic Christian Religious architecture, which exerted a strong influence on secular architecture on the region. I'm just going to generalise and use 'church' here for all buildings used for Christian religious services, not bothering to distinguish between churches and basilicas and cathedrals and so forth as I don't wish to over complicate matters.
When the Kievan Rus, a confederation of Slavic tribes living in parts of modern day Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, were gradually Christianised from the mid 8th to the early 11th c. they were primarily influenced by missions from the Byzantine Church and so they adapted the Byzantine dome for their own church architecture. However, whereas Byzantine Churches usually featured a large central dome, as can be seen with the most famous example, the Hagia Sophia these early medieval Slavic churches feature several smaller domes with the characteristic bulging onion shape, see the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Novgorod built in the late 11th c. which may be due to some influence from earlier Slavic pagan architectural styles that are lost to us. Perhaps reflecting earlier buildings with multiple tower structures or bulged roofs.
This onion dome hasn't been completely dominant through all of the history of Russian and Eastern European Christian architecture, during the later medieval period a fashion for pointed roofs emerged, such as that of the 15th c. Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. Nevertheless the onion domed towers continued to be built alongside these. Sometimes the two styles were used simultaneously as seen with this early 16 th church at Ostrov, near Moscow where a pointed roof is topped off with a small dome.
... and so this story continues, waves of architectural fashions such as 17th c Ukrainian Baroque and 19th c Neo-Classical Byzantine sweep through the region, some of which typically incorporate onion domes and some of which don't, but it never disappears from the architects' tool kits. Because it was associated so strongly with the original conversion of the Keivan Rus, regarded as the common ancestor culture of Russia Ukraine and Belarus, it was had strong connotations of connecting later structures to this past and tying them in with a narrative of distinctive Russian/Slavic identity.
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True or not an architect once told me that the shape was heavily influenced by Russian climatology, with significant quantities of snow along the year this shape prevents the snow to accumulate on the roofs hence they would not collapse under the snow weight.You seem to be downvoted as a non-historian, but the hypothesis if very plausible. Initially church architecture in Russia was obviously very influenced by the Byzantine architecture, and domes were either egg-shaped, or even flatter than that (modern reconstruction of the Pirogoshcha Church of Our Lavy in Kiev, Ukraine)). But then in Russia they were quickly replaced by so called "helmet domes" (example: Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir, Russia). And it is this transition that might have been indeed influenced by the simple snow factor.
Starting as of XIII and for sure by XVI century helmet domes gradually evolved into onion domes. I don't know why it happened. Maybe, in a way, it "just happened", because all styles tend to evolve somewhere, and it does not always happen for particular reason, or serve a particular purpose.
I am not quite sure I can endorse what intangible-tangerine said in the comment nearby about secular architecture being an example here. Secular architecture in Russia was overwhelmingly wooden, and the only major type of brick "domes" that evolved from wooden domes is the tent roof church, which was quite popular for a while, but was then officially prohibited in XVII century for some reason, and allowed only for construction of bell-towers. It is rather uncomfortable to make a roundish dome, be it egg-, helmet-, or onion-shape one out of wood (even though it is technically possible). I am also not aware of any evidence for pre-Christian, or secular round dome-like structures in Russian architecture.As for pagan temples, it looks like Slavic pagan shrines were almost always located outdoors. While among Western Slavs some temples might have apparently existed, for some reason in modern reconstructions they are always depicted quite squarish in design (but here I am not sure, as the whole topic of Slavic Paganism is a rather sketchy one, due to a strong influence from romantic neo-pagan groups).
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An onion dome (Russian: луковичная глава, lúkovichnaya glava; compare Russian: лук, luk, "onion") is a dome whose shape resembles an onion. Such domes are often larger in diameter than the drum upon which they sit, and their height usually exceeds their width. These bulbous structures taper smoothly to a point.It is the predominant form for church domes in Russia (mostly on Russian Orthodox churches) and in Bavaria, Germany (German: Zwiebelturm (literally "onion tower"), plural: Zwiebeltürme, mostly on Catholic churches), but can also be found regularly across Austria, northeastern Italy, Eastern Europe, Mughal India, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Other types of Eastern Orthodox cupolas include helmet domes (for example, those of the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod and of the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir), Ukrainian pear domes (Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev), and Baroque bud domes (St. Andrew's Church in Kiev).Art historians disagree on when and why onion domes became a typical feature of Russian architecture. Byzantine churches and architecture of Kievan Rus were characterized by broader, flatter domes without a special framework erected above the drum. In contrast to this ancient form, each drum of a Russian church is surmounted by a special structure of metal or timber, which is lined with sheet iron or tiles.By the end of the nineteenth century, most Russian churches from before the Petrine period had bulbous domes. The largest onion domes were erected in the seventeenth century in the area around Yaroslavl, incidentally famous for its large onions. Quite a few had more complicated bud-shaped domes, whose form derived from Baroque models of the late seventeenth century. Pear-shaped domes are usually associated with Ukrainian Baroque, while cone-shaped domes are typical for Orthodox churches of Transcaucasia.Russian icons painted before the Mongol invasion of Rus do not feature churches with onion domes. Two highly venerated pre-Mongol churches that have been rebuilt—the Assumption Cathedral and the Cathedral of St. Demetrius in Vladimir—display golden helmet domes. Restoration work on several other ancient churches revealed some fragments of former helmet-like domes below newer onion cupolasPrior to the eighteenth century, the Russian Orthodox Church did not assign any particular symbolism to the exterior shape of a church.[10] Nevertheless, onion domes are popularly believed to symbolise burning candles. In 1917, noted religious philosopher Prince Yevgeny Trubetskoy argued that the onion shape of Russian church domes may not be explained rationally. According to Trubetskoy, drums crowned by tapering domes were deliberately scored to resemble candles, thus manifesting a certain aesthetic and religious attitude.[11] Another explanation has it that the onion dome was originally regarded as a form reminiscent of the edicula (cubiculum) in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Onion domes often appear in groups of three, representing the Holy Trinity, or five, representing Jesus Christ and the Four Evangelists. Domes standing alone represent Jesus. Vasily Tatischev, the first to record such interpretation, disapproved of it emphatically. He believed that the five-domed design of churches was propagated by Patriarch Nikon, who liked to compare the central and highest dome with himself and four lateral domes with four other patriarchs of the Orthodox world. There is no other evidence that Nikon ever held such a view.brightly painted: their colors may informally symbolise different aspects of religion. Green, blue, and gold domes are sometimes held to represent the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus, respectively. Black ball-shaped domes were once popular in the snowy north of Russia.
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The portrait accompanied an article titled "A Friendly Suggestion about Art Schools" by David Edstrom. Chat GPT gave the following summary and analysis of this piece:
David Edstrom, writing as both an artist and cultural observer, offers a forceful endorsement of the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, particularly under the leadership of its director, Channel Pickering Townsley. He opens with a philosophical reflection on the choice between authenticity and superficiality in both personal and cultural life. Edstrom argues that the highest form of beauty is not surface-level, but the kind that builds communities and societies.
He praises the Otis Institute for being grounded in sound and progressive principles, calling it one of the finest institutions of its kind. However, he warns that bureaucratic inefficiency and amateur interference threaten its success. He criticizes delays in basic operations—such as taking a week to approve a minor carpentry job—as examples of mismanagement.
Edstrom calls for the school to become a self-governing entity with full authority granted to the director, warning that otherwise the “brain voltage of a great man” (Townsley) and the time and energy of faculty and students will be squandered. He closes with a sharp rebuke of institutional meddling by unqualified outsiders ("dilettantes") and a plea for autonomy and professional respect.
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Townsley resigned from his post as managing director of the Otis Art Institute in about June 1921. This piece may explain his reasons for resigning.
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David Edstrom (1873–1938), also known as Peter David Edstrom or Pehr David Emanuel Edström, was a Swedish-American sculptor renowned for his expressive portrait busts and symbolic works.
Born in Vetlanda, Sweden, Edstrom immigrated to the United States with his family in 1880, settling in Ottumwa, Iowa. There, he developed an early interest in sculpture, studying under Johannes Scheiwe. In 1894, he returned to Sweden to pursue formal art education at the Royal Institute of Technology and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm .
In 1900, Edstrom moved to Florence, Italy, attending the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. During this period, he created notable sculptures such as Caliban (1900), Sphinx (1900), Lucifer (1902), The Cry of Poverty (1903), Despair (1904), and Pride (1904) . He also spent time in Paris, becoming part of Gertrude Stein's artistic circle and sculpting portraits of figures like Harriet Lane Levy.
Edstrom returned to the U.S. in 1915, settling in Los Angeles around 1920. He became one of the organizers of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was active in the local art scene. One of his significant American works includes the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Ottumwa, Iowa, featuring four reliefs on a shaft topped with a large eagle . In 1937, he created a statue of Florence Nightingale, titled Lady of the Lamp, for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Artists Program.
Edstrom's autobiography, The Testament of Caliban (1937), offers insight into his life and artistic philosophy. Despite early acclaim, his later years were marked by relative obscurity, and he passed away in Los Angeles in 1938. Today, his contributions are recognized within Swedish-American cultural history, though he remains a lesser-known figure in the broader art historical canon .
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This is not a commissioned shot and it is not an advertisement or endorsement of Art Van Furniture (indeed, I've never actually shopped there) but I was struck how like how morning light and reflections make this store in Downers Grove, Illinois come alive. This is a simple 3-shot HDR processed in the Lightroom Photomatix plugin.
Endorsed by PBPA...
Taken on: September 7, 2012
Location: PRBL Tarlac Terminal, Brgy. Sto. Cristo, Tarlac City, Tarlac
New photos of an old MOC.
I saw Angry Birds 2 yesterday with Frost Junior. The first Angry Birds movie was surprisingly good, far better than it had any right to be - and this MOC was built shortly after it's release.
Angry Birds 2 is simply not as good as the first. It's a bit of a mess really, unable to decide who it's target market is. An M rated movie that leans heavily into, and gets some of it's best moments from, toilet humor. A movie that goes for the "More is more" approach rather than focusing on it's core beats and making them stronger. The result is undeveloped main plots, left-field side plots that never quite make sense, new characters that are "Wacky" for the sake of "Wacky" and are simply jarring alongside the original cast, and nothing truly gets the attention it deserves.
It is also frequently a pretty movie (the exception being the new character designs) It has it's fair share of funny moments, but the result is uneven mishmash that'll be quickly forgotten.
It's not the harshest criticism that can be leveled at a kids movie, especially speaking as a parent who will inevitably be dragged along to them (and I do love my animated movies in general) it's just not a ringing endorsement.
Now I'm going to go put on the angry birds cartoon in the background, and do some MOC building.
Nov. 15, 2012
"The President had just met with the U.S. Olympics gymnastics team, who because of a previous commitment had missed the ceremony earlier in the year with the entire U.S. Olympic team. The President suggested to McKayla Maroney that they recreate her 'not impressed' photograph before they departed." (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Celebrity cosmetics endorsements are all the rage right now! From A-list fragrances, to superstar spokesmodels! So this week the super-stylin’ six girls will be glammin’ it up and going all out with total makeovers to promote the brand of their choice. Each girl will need to switch up her usual look and create a fun campaign poster for the cosmetics brand they’re promoting (It can be a real one or a fictional one). Each photo should be pretty close up to show off your fab new looks. Don’t worry, these changes aren’t permanent, so don’t ruin your dolls! :)
Here, Fianna is sporting a dramatic new look to promote her own (fictional) fragrance, "Icon"! With a new hair color, redder lips, smokier eyes, a fairer complexion, and a more toned-down outfit, she makes a new fashion statement and shows off her versatility!
Guest judge: Someone who has plenty of experience in getting the Bratz girlz "All Glammed Up" with fresh new looks, Chris AKA Dudewithdolls!
DEADLINE: April 29th
If you need an extension or have any questions, let me know! :)
If you missed episode nine, catch up on the action here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-lDrOQbTjw
Really sorry there are so many delays in this competition! Both Adrianne and I are CRAZY busy, but we're trying to get everything back in motion! Thank you so much to our contestants for your patience! ♥
Norio isn't quite sure what this is but he endorses it nonetheless. (Naomi and I enjoyed it and wouldn't give any to Norio for fear of intestinal upset on his part. As he's gotten older, he has become a lot more sensitive to richer human food so we try not to give him anything that we eat.)
President Obama and his family arrive back at the White House aboard Marine One after a weekend at Camp David, Feb. 8, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Selby Abbey
Standing in the chancel looking west through the choir, the nave altar and organ towards the west end, and main entrance to the abbey.
The Hill Organ
The organ of Selby Abbey is one of the finest romantic instruments in Britain. It was built in 1909 by William Hill and Son, the founder of the London Organ building Company. It was considered to be the best organ that the Abbey could have obtained at that time and represented a high point in the course of the British craft that was soon to be lost. The organ case is the work of his grandson, Dr Arthur Hill and Oldrid Scott, son of the celebrated George Gilbert Scott. Arthur Hill was trained as an architect in the office of George Gilbert Scott, where he worked alongside Bodley and Pearson – two other architects who designed beautiful organ cases. Hill’s finest organ cases can be found at Selby Abbey, Chichester Cathedral, Peterborough Cathedral and Sydney Town Hall.
For more than a century, the instrument has served generations of Abbey congregations for regular services, special events, weddings and funerals. It has also been used for concerts and recitals and many of the worlds greatest organists have performed on it, including Jean Guillou, Titulaire of Saint-Eustache in Paris; Dame Gillian Weir DBE; Marilyn Mason; Francis Jackson CBE; Carlo Curley and Daniel Roth. But it was the three LP recordings by the Italian Virtuoso, Fernando Germani, for HMV in the early 1960s that made the organ famous. As one of the outstanding organists of all time, Germani had the most formidable technique of his generation and will be forever remembered as the fount of enormous musical and technical inspiration. Unlike most of the other great master organists of Europe, he held a liturgical position for a number of years as the Pope’s Organist at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
By 2012, the organ had already become regularly unreliable and the rate of deterioration made it clear that it was nearing the end of its active life. It had been patched and repaired a number of times but the moment had finally come for a complete restoration to ensure the glorious sound of this world famous organ could be heard by generations to come.
With the financial backing of the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation, a major new appeal was launched the same year to raise the estimated £520,000 needed. The appeal was also supported by The Prince of Wales Charitable Foundation and endorsed by many famous international organists.
Thanks to the heart-warming support of a growing number of Benefactors from across the country and abroad, we have raised the funds needed and the restoration by Principal Pipe Organs of York has begun under the direction of Organ Consultant, Paul Hale.
Information with thanks to the Selby Abbey web site.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
The South Portico of the White House is seen from aboard Marine One as it approaches the South Lawn for a landing, May 11, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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