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I love close-ups! To me, faces are the most important subject to photograph. I couldn't miss showing you Emy's beautiful eyes!
And here we are, at long last, the Follower Feature, as I will now proceed to call it (alliteration!)! I do enjoy pouring over my follower list to put these together; the hard part is always choosing just a few, just those who really, really deserve more support than they are getting. Without further ado...
First up is Dannyman (Kangar)! Though not the most complicated of MOCs, I am very impressed by their ability to put so much character in with very few pieces. Vines, fins, tires, and heavy armor are used to great effect throughout their gallery. The flattery also helped. :P
Next, we have Poor Disadvantaged! What a name. Hopefully this feature and your picture's large and prominent location will get you on even ground. :P Anyway, it was hard to pick just one MOC to feature here. They have so many great designs, including brilliant combiners of '01 and '15 sets alike. Plus, I always love to see a MOCist who likes to post their art.
And here we have De_Nanit! Though they are just getting started, I can see a bright future ahead of them. Small MOCs can be just as difficult as larger ones, and De_Nanit has really mastered that design. The color schemes are interesting and vibrant and the posing is just adorable.
Next up, Ray G. Fox! Expect a lot of variety from this talented MOCer. Their gallery is full of everything from strange, nightmarish creatures to Toa and mechanical walkers, and each one is very unique. I also appreciate their photography, both indoor and outdoor.
And last, but certainly not least is thebestbudgie! If you're a fan of System (standard Lego brick) creations, especially mecha, thebestbudgie is a must-follow. This adorable little gal is just the beginning of a wide variety of colorful machines and monsters.
As always, I would love to see your best creations down below. There is a lot of talent out there, and these five are only the beginning.
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at Weakstyles, we will be doing features on all different types of cars in every different scene. We decided our friend Aron is worry enough for our very first feature.
Heres the teaser for you guys, hope you enough it. Keep checking the blog for all info and the feature will be posted this week.
Strobist:
4 B800s two shown in the background, one pointed at Aron, and the last one pointed at the front of the car.
1 ABR800 pointed at the rear quarter.
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Throwback to celebrate updating IG today and it being almost as colorful as this Angel Tern 🐥 #throwback #instagram #angel #bird #digitalart
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Today the Hereios of the We're Here group are making a splash with photos of water, water, water.
This water feature is just outside the Fullerton Bay Hotel, Singapore.
Featuring: Red Mint, Gang/Cold, Ugly Duck, Meghindo's
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Now Featuring: @alishylishy 🎨💕 NEXT UP on the blog, I’m chatting with the founder of @craftingitforward who has leveraged the power of social media & influencers to spread joy to those in need. Click the link in my profile to read more about this craft box with a twist and to learn about the project that I designed for their subscribers ✨👍
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✦ Now featuring: Perceptive Image in 3 Stages by Zone Patcher
11 different photos makin a collage…converted by a fractal collage …3D Fractal objects scattered about…3 stages …
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The Steeplehead of Entheon suggests the people of four directions coming together in visionary oneness, a pinnacle of Sacred Unity where humanity meets divinity. Can’t wait to fabricate this! Help us build Entheon on our current Kickstarter campaign. Buildentheon.com
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If you thought that the light grey hull was sort of boring, and that I was just building your standard octagonal ship with big slabs like everyone else then think again. The front hinges off. A month or so ago I showed this thing in a vertical stance as a "space elevator". I liked the idea but still wanted this to be a space ship of sorts. Well I compromised and thought of hinged aircraft such as the Antonov, and transferred the idea here. I figured that if you discover a new planet your first goal is creating a supply chain between you, the exploring vessel, and other ships behind you.
This whole thing will get bigger as is traditional, but I'm really taking my time. Since I've finished the biggest obstacle (the Nautilus), I can proceed further with my sci-fi grand plan. Really the goal is to continue building sci-fi shit like this and other ships until I graduate. I'll then see if I can continue building during Masters study and finish the whole project for a future brick con or other lego convention.
The scene I've had in my head for the past couple years is the Nautilus coming in as backup to an exploration vessel(s) which look somewhat abandoned on a desolate new world. I guess kind of Alien inspired with a mix of Halo.
The biggest struggle is going to be building the whole environment. It is going to have to be at least 1 x 2 meters squared area for the world to look big in comparison to the other ships, and definitively have curvature of the planet built into it. Issue there is that would take a ludicrous amount of parts and $ compared to all my other stuff. My lego collection is actually tiny compared most AFOL's, and all my ship builds including the Nautilus have been on a tight budget.
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Who is ready for summer?!? Art by @joshstyle Photo courtesy of @unsplash _____________________________________________ #joshstyle #summer #life #art #rsa_graphics #fitness #igers #thednalife #donthatecreate #illustration #illmatic_features #designerscollective #life #liferemixed #surreal42 #art_spotlight #artofvisuals #iphonesia #thenextcreators #d_expo #c_expo #instagood #happy #agameoftones #facetune #love #picoftheday #society6 #picame
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3D abstract design
British postcard. in the Picturegoer Series, London Films, no. 1049. Photo: London Films. Publicity still for Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda, 1935).
Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a handsome, eloquent, and highly charismatic actor and singer, who became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. With his powerful bass singing voice, Robeson made an evergreen of the song 'Old Man River'. He starred in The Emperor Jones (1933), the first film to feature an African American in a starring role. At the height of his popularity in the 1930s, Robeson became a major box office attraction in British films. In the USA, he courted disdain and public controversy for most of his career as a staunch Cold War-era advocate for human rights, as well as his very vocal support for Joseph Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. While the backlash of his civil rights activities and left-wing ideology left him embittered and practically ruined his career, he remains today a durable symbol of racial pride and consciousness.
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1898. His siblings were William, Benjamin, Reeve, and Marian Robeson. Their father, William Drew Robeson, was a humble Presbyterian minister and former slave. In 1900, a disagreement between William and white financial supporters of the Witherspoon church arose with apparent racial undertones. William, who had the support of his entirely black congregation, resigned in 1901. The loss of his position forced him to work menial jobs. The young, impressionable Paul grew up singing spirituals in his father's church. He was only six when he and his four siblings, William, Benjamin, Reeve, Marian, lost their mother, Maria Louisa Bustill, a schoolteacher. She was nearly blind and died in a stove fire accident at home. His father then raised the family singlehandedly. Paul was a natural athlete and the tall, strapping high school fullback had no trouble earning a scholarship to prestigious Rutgers University in 1915. At the age of 17, he became only the third member of his race to be admitted at the time. He excelled in football, baseball, basketball, and track, and field, and was the class valedictorian. In his speech, he was already preaching idealism. Paul subsequently played professional football to earn money while attending Columbia University's law school, and also took part in amateur dramatics. During this time he met and married Eslanda Cardozo Goode in 1921. She eventually became his personal assistant. Following graduation, he obtained work at a New York law firm, but quit when a stenographer refused to copy a memo, telling him, "I never take diction from a n*****." His wife persuaded him to play Simon in Ridgely Torrence's 'Simon the Cyrenian' at the Harlem YMCA in 1921. This was followed by his Broadway debut the following year as Jim in Mary Hoyt Wiborg's play 'Taboo', a drama set in Africa, which also went to London. As a result, he was asked to join the Provincetown Players, a Greenwich Village theatre group that included in its membership playwright Eugene O'Neill. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "O'Neill personally asked Paul to star in his plays 'All God's Chillun Got Wings' and 'The Emperor Jones' in 1924. The reaction from both critics and audiences alike was electrifying...an actor was born." In 1925, he sang the first concert recital consisting solely of black spirituals, at the Greenwich Village Theatre in New York. That year, he also made his film debut starring in Body and Soul (Oscar Micheaux, 1925). Gary Brumburgh: "a rather murky melodrama that nevertheless was ahead of its time in its depictions of black characters. Although Robeson played a scurrilous, corrupt clergyman who takes advantage of his own people, his dynamic personality managed to shine through." Radio and recordings helped spread his name across foreign waters. His resonant bass was a major highlight in the London production of Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein II's 'Show Boat'. The role of Joe, the deckhand, was written for him, but because of schedule conflicts and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s delay in putting on the show, he had been unable to star in the first stage production but played the role in London five months later. His rendition of "Ol' Man River" became the benchmark for all future performers of the song. In 1928, he made the second-ever recording of 'Ol' Man River'. (Bing Crosby did the first). Show Boat continued for 350 performances. At the time no U.S. company would hire Robeson and so, he remained in London to play the role of William Shakespeare's 'Othello' in 1930. Paul caused a slight stir by co-starring opposite a white actress, Peggy Ashcroft, who played Desdemona. After his wife Essie discovered Robeson had been having an affair with Ashcroft, she decided to seek a divorce and they split up. Around this time Robeson starred in the film Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930), a silent film that dealt strongly with racial themes. Stephen Bourne at BFI Screen-on-Line: "Black characters in American cinema of the period rarely moved beyond Al Jolson in blackface, or the dim-witted buffoons played by comedy actors like Stepin Fetchit. For the ambitious Robeson, there were hardly any opportunities to play challenging roles." In 1931, he returned to the stage in the O'Neill play 'The Hairy Ape'. The following year he appeared in a Broadway revival of 'Show Boat' again as Joe, to critical and popular acclaim. In the same production, Helen Morgan repeated her original 1927 performance as the half-caste role of Julie, but the white actress Tess Gardella played the role of Queenie in her customary blackface opposite Robeson. In 1932, Ashcroft and Robeson's relationship ended. Robeson and Essie reconciled, although their relationship was scarred permanently.
Throughout the 1930s, Paul Robeson spent most of his time singing and performing in England. He also was given the opportunity to recapture two of his greatest stage successes on film: The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy, 1933) and Show Boat (James Whale, 1936), with Irene Dunne, Helen Morgan, and Hattie McDaniel. His performance of 'Old Man River' in this film version of Show Boat became legendary, both for its quality and for Robeson’s purposeful changing of the lyrics "I'm tired of livin' and 'feared of dyin’" to the more activist "I must keep fightin' until I'm dying". In Britain, he played Bosambo in Sanders of the River (Zoltan Korda, 1935), which he felt would render a realistic view of colonial African culture. It made Robeson an international film star. Stephen Bourne: "When Robeson became a major star in British films in the mid-1930s, he negotiated for roles that projected a positive image of a black man, roles that broke away from one-dimensional and offensive racial stereotypes. But he often found himself in conflict with an industry that glorified the British Empire and colonialism. This was certainly the case with his first commercial film, Sanders of the River (d. Zoltan Korda, 1935), one of a cycle of imperial adventures produced by Alexander Korda for London Films."Robeson also appeared in such British films as Song of Freedom (J. Elder Wills, 1936), King Solomon's Mines (Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas, 1937), Jericho (Thornton Freeland, 1937), and The Proud Valley (Pen Tennyson, 1940), set in a Welsh coal-mining town. After returning to America, Robeson played a sharecropper in a segment of the Hollywood movie Tales of Manhattan (Julien Duvivier, 1942) but, after the film was released, he was criticised for perpetuating a racist stereotype. Robeson agreed with his critics and volunteered to join protestors outside cinemas where the film was being shown. He said he wouldn't make any more films until there were better roles for blacks. During the 1930s he gravitated strongly towards economics and politics with a burgeoning interest in social activism. In 1934 he made the first of several trips to the Soviet Union and outwardly extolled the Soviet way of life and his belief that it lacked racial bias, despite the Holodomor and the later Rootless Cosmopolitan Campaign. He was a popular figure in Wales where he became personally involved in their civil rights affairs, notably the Welsh miners. Developing a marked leftist ideology, he continued to criticize the blatant discrimination he found so prevalent in America. In 1939, he premiered Earl Robinson’s multi-ethnic cantata 'Ballad for Americans' on CBS radio, which he would eventually perform in twenty-five languages. In addition to his creative work, Robeson used his personal prominence to push for social and political reform. He supported the Spanish partisans against Franco’s fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, raised funds for refugees from Hitler’s Germany well before such activities were fashionable, and organized a coalition that challenged President Truman to support an anti-lynching law in 1945. The 1940s was a mixture of performance triumphs and poignant, political upheavals. While his title run in the musical drama 'John Henry' (1940), was short-lived, he earned widespread acclaim for his Broadway 'Othello' in 1943 opposite José Ferrer as Iago and Uta Hagen as Desdemona. This production is still the longest-running non-musical production of a Shakespeare play ever to be staged in the United States, due almost entirely to Robeson's enormous popularity. He appeared in a World War II-era U.S. Government War Department propaganda film, Easy to Get, aimed at combating the spread of venereal diseases among black soldiers. In the film, Robeson appears at the end in his capacity as a celebrity football star and singer to advise viewers to stay "clean". By this time, however, Robeson was being reviled by much of white America for his outspoken civil rights speeches against segregation and lynchings, particularly in the South. A founder of the Progressive Party, an independent political party, his outdoor concerts sometimes ignited violence and he was now a full-blown target for "Red Menace" agitators. In 1946, he denied under oath being a member of the Communist Party but steadfastly refused to refute the accusations under subsequent probes. His continued support for the Soviet Union became even more controversial after Stalin publicly turned against Israel in November 1948. As a result, his passport was withdrawn and he became engaged in legal battles for nearly a decade in order to retrieve it. Adding fuel to the fire was his only son's (Paul Jr.) marriage to a white woman in 1949 and his being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. He was unable to receive it until 1958 when his passport was returned to him.
Paul Robeson was essentially blacklisted, and tainted press statements continued to hound him. He began performing less and less in America. Despite his growing scorn towards America, he never gave up his American citizenship although the anguish of it all led to a couple of suicide attempts, nervous breakdowns, and a dependency on drugs. Europe was a different story. The people continued to hold him in high regard as an artist above reproach. He had a command of about 20 languages and wound up giving his last acting performance in Tony Richardson's production of 'Othello' at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959. Although he did give a few interviews on television, he never played any dramatic or musical roles in that medium. In 1960, in what was his final concert performance in Great Britain, Robeson sang to raise money for the Movement for Colonial Freedom at the Royal Festival Hall. In October 1960, Robeson embarked on a two-month concert tour of Australia and New Zealand with Essie. While in Sydney, he became the first major artist to perform at the construction site of the future Sydney Opera House. Back in London, Robeson expressed a desire to return to the United States and participate in the civil rights movement, while his wife argued that he would be unsafe there and "unable to make any money" due to government harassment. His health suddenly took a turn for the worse and he finally returned to the United States in 1963. His poet/wife Eslanda Robeson died of cancer two years later. Double pneumonia and a kidney blockage in 1965 nearly killed Robeson too. Robeson moved in with his son's family in New York City. He remained in poor health for pretty much the rest of his life. His last years were spent in Harlem at his sister's house in near-total isolation, denying all interviews and public correspondence. At a Carnegie Hall tribute to mark his 75th birthday in 1973, he was unable to attend, but a taped message from him was played that said: "Though I have not been able to be active for several years, I want you to know that I am the same Paul, dedicated as ever to the worldwide cause of humanity for freedom, peace, and brotherhood." In 1976, Paul Robeson died at age 77 of complications from a stroke. He was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Among his many honours: he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995; he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998; was honored with a postage stamp during the 'Black Heritage' series, and both a Cultural Center at Penn State University and a high school in Brooklyn bear his name. In 1995 his autobiography 'Here I Stand' was published in England in 1958. His son, Paul Robeson Jr., also chronicled a book about his father, 'Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey' in 2001. When appearing before HUAC, the Committee asked him why he didn't relocate to Russia. He replied: "Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay right here and have a part of it just like you."
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Stephen Bourne (BFI Screen-on-Line), Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (AllMusic), Find A Grave, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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New York City is a feast for the eyes. Every turn you take can lead to a wonderful scene, it's like walking onto the set of a movie which spans several eras in time. I so enjoy the show.
I know I should feature and/or play other guitars for my Guitar Tuesday theme, but Draco keeps calling my name!
Theme: Music To My Ears
Year Seven Of My 365 Project
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Location: Brazil - BR - South America - SA - Bahia - Camamu - Marau - Peninsula de Marau - Taiupus de Fora
Photographer: Mark
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New for 2017, Octan unveils its long-awaited nostalgia racing team featuring its all-new modular gasser chassis. While the cars carry no "offical" Octan logos or other branding, the paint scheme leaves no doubt who is unofficially sponsoring this team of young engineers and builders who concidentally all work together at said company. The fleet consists of the original pilot car, a 1955 Chevy; a mid-sixties compact Station Wagon of undetermined make, and a late-forties Ford coupe. The 55 and wagon feature flip-up front ends while the Ford simply needs nothing more than the hood removed. While these cars are not street legal in their race trim, there have been unconfirmed sightings of them at the late-night street races that absolutely never take place on Bricksburg's industrial West Side neighborhood on the first and third tuesdays of every month.
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I'd like to introduce the new modular gasser chassis that is the second in line with the modular hot rod chassis I debuted this time last year. The new gasser chassis features great flexibility to accomodate many different body styles as seen here. Wheelbase and ride height are adjustable in several ways yet they all share common mounting points. As with the hot rod chassis, wheels and engines are easily changed. The front frame clip can easily accomodate either fixed or flip-up front ends.The chassis is low enough that bodies can easily be configured to fit minifigs as these models all do. As a final note, the 55 Chevy is an update of a former build. Can you spot all the changes?
Thanks for looking, I hope you enjoy these as much as I did building them.
Featuring: Accessories, Animations, Apparel, Avatar Enhancements, Builds, Cosmetics, Decor, Jewelry, Landscaping, Poses
Event Opening Date: June 12, 2023
Event Closing Date: June 24, 2023
Teleport to Cosmopolitan
This event is in one location
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I’m gonna leave the last drawing I made here❤ idk but it kinda reminds me to “The little prince” hahaha🙈👑 . I’ll go on a trip in some hours, so wish me luck guys! I love y'all❤
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The side of the former Palace Cinema, Conwy.
The Palace Cinema has a chequered history, closing as a cinema and running as a Bingo hall until before the Pandemic. Later, there was a cafe/restaurant upstairs, though this appears to have now gone and plans are afoot to re-open the restaurant under a new name and reputation.