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Behold, my latest baby cake for Baby Amalia, being delivered to two wonderful dads. Gender-neutral colors are prevalent on most of my baby cakes. Don't let your kids fall prey to "girl" and "boy" gender stereotypes of "pink" and "blue". Let every child be true to who they are. Change begins with you.
Iceland, a Nordic island nation, is defined by its dramatic landscape with volcanoes, geysers, hot springs and lava fields. Massive glaciers are protected in Vatnajökull and Snæfellsjökull national parks. Most of the population lives in the capital, Reykjavik, which runs on geothermal power and is home to the National and Saga museums, tracing Iceland’s Viking history. Iceland is it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
Alvis Underground Duskfang Conversion Kit
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Took this picture of a band from the Tampa Bay Area named Fire and Ice during a show at Jannus Live in Saint Petersburg, FL. They were paying tribute that night to Pat Banatar.
Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City (Los Angeles), October 22, 2011.
A cake for the opening of the very first west coast exhibit for the internationally renowned and brilliant artist, Ray Caesar. Beautiful work, stunning patrons and a packed house. It was my absolute honor.
May you descend lightly into an abyss of sugar,
FIRE and ICING.
CREDITS:
Photography: Jun Park Photography
Artist: Ray Caesar
Cake Sculpture: FIRE and ICING
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I´ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
Unos dicen que el mundo acabará entre llamas,
otros dicen que entre hielos.
Por lo que yo sé acerca del deseo,
estoy con los partidarios del fuego.
Pero si tuviera que perecer dos veces,
creo saber bastante acerca del odio
como para decir que en la destrucción el hielo
también es poderoso
Y bastaría.
En este poema, Robert Frost compara dos fuerzas destructivas, el fuego y el hielo. Dos opciones para el fin del mundo. Pero después el poema adquiere doble sentido. El hielo es el odio, que provoca la frialdad, la rigidez, la inmovilidad en las personas.
El fuego, o la pasión, lo consume todo y lo destruye con rápidez arrasadora, convirtiéndolo en cenizas. Contrariamente, el hielo lo deshace todo lentamente. Posiblemente se refiera también a su creencia de que el mundo desaparecerá violentamente. O en una "Guerra Fría".
Cosplayers: Tabitha Lyons and David French
Characters: Teegra and Darkwolf
From: Fire and Ice
Photographer: Simon Trussell
Costumes: Artyfakes Action-Props
Do not adjust your screens…there is nothing wrong with your computer. Yes I built a ‘70 Ford Pinto and yes the flames are going the wrong way…but on the Pinto it’s the right way. For those who don’t get why, let me explain. The Pinto made it onto Time Magazine’s list of 50 worst cars ever made because it had a catastrophic design flaw. Aside from being just plain weird looking, the gas tank would explode when hit, even during a low speed rear end collision. The Ford Motor Company knew about the problem, they even knew that it would cost only $11 per car (that’s $57 if accounted for today’s inflation) to fix the problem but elected not to. They figured it would be cheaper to pay for the inevitable lawsuits that would occur as a result of death or serious injury. They put a cost on human life and that cost was…less than $11. This callous indifference for safety in favor of profit generated substantial lawsuits against Ford and even criminal charges, resulting in the company losing millions and being forced to recall the entire Pinto line. This car was known as “the barbecue that seated four.”
As its been gutted and refurbished for drag racing, this particular barbecue seats only two. The engine has been amped up, racing tires were installed as well as a wheelie bar. There’s fire extinguishing equipment in the back, making this Pinto safer than it was when stock…and the whole thing opens like a true 70’s era funny car! This car is called Hot Flash and was built for the Fire And Ice
build challenge over at LUGNuts where we had to perfectly balance both opposing elements of fire and ice. You see the fire, but where’s the ice, you ask? Well the seats are a cool blue to remind you of ice but that’s hardly a perfect balance, so for this challenge, I teamed up with my buddy Nathan Proudlove. So check out his icy cool Brain Freeze!…which also graces the 50 worst cars ever made list!
not to be solved, but to be coped with :-) Shimon Peres
HGGT!!
hellebore, 'Fire and Ice', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Such delight.... A Rose with bud.
A duo-toned Cherry Parfait rose also called 'Fire and Ice', in our garden.
It was, like all flowers: imperfect…
Still, it is slowly unfolding and yielding us its beauty and fragrance in the evening...
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Formerly a prop test setting I created in early October of 2010, it was re-assembled, slightly re-styled and then photographed again for the Style issue of FDQ magazine.
This is the Frank Frazetta movie poster for the film " Fire and Ice " .
Fire and Ice was a 1983 American animated adventure-fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film, a collaboration between Bakshi and Frank Frazetta, was distributed by 20th Century Fox, which also distributed Bakshi's 1977 release, Wizards. The animated feature, based on characters Bakshi and Frazetta co-created, was made using the process of rotoscoping, in which scenes were shot in live action and then traced onto animation cels.
The screenplay was written by Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas, both of whom had written Conan stories for Marvel Comics. Background painter was James Gurney, the author and artist of the Dinotopia illustrated novels. Thomas Kinkade also worked on the backgrounds to various scenes.
This artist was just getting started on his ice sculpture at the Fire and Ice event in downtown Racine (WI) on Saturday. All of the sculptures started as a rectangular block of ice. Many of the sculptors seem to start the process using a chain saw. I think this turned into the fish that I posted a shot of yesterday.
A combination of 4 photos and some play- my sunroof with raindrops this morning, The curtain in the garage with shadows, A champagne flute with ice and a candle. I enjoyed this theme!
Cosplayers: Tabitha Lyons and David French
Characters: Teegra and Darkwolf
From: Fire and Ice
Photographer: Simon Trussell
Costumes: Artyfakes Action-Props
Fire and Ice - mortal enemies captured in battle.
Strobist:
SB600 camera left on 1/64 with DIY grid snoot.
Sb800 camera right on 1/128 with DIY grid snoot.
Detailed setup information is on my lightandpixels.com blog here
Do not adjust your screens…there is nothing wrong with your computer. Yes I built a ‘70 Ford Pinto and yes the flames are going the wrong way…but on the Pinto it’s the right way. For those who don’t get why, let me explain. The Pinto made it onto Time Magazine’s list of 50 worst cars ever made because it had a catastrophic design flaw. Aside from being just plain weird looking, the gas tank would explode when hit, even during a low speed rear end collision. The Ford Motor Company knew about the problem, they even knew that it would cost only $11 per car (that’s $57 if accounted for today’s inflation) to fix the problem but elected not to. They figured it would be cheaper to pay for the inevitable lawsuits that would occur as a result of death or serious injury. They put a cost on human life and that cost was…less than $11. This callous indifference for safety in favor of profit generated substantial lawsuits against Ford and even criminal charges, resulting in the company losing millions and being forced to recall the entire Pinto line. This car was known as “the barbecue that seated four.”
As its been gutted and refurbished for drag racing, this particular barbecue seats only two. The engine has been amped up, racing tires were installed as well as a wheelie bar. There’s fire extinguishing equipment in the back, making this Pinto safer than it was when stock…and the whole thing opens like a true 70’s era funny car! This car is called Hot Flash and was built for the Fire And Ice
build challenge over at LUGNuts where we had to perfectly balance both opposing elements of fire and ice. You see the fire, but where’s the ice, you ask? Well the seats are a cool blue to remind you of ice but that’s hardly a perfect balance, so for this challenge, I teamed up with my buddy Nathan Proudlove. So check out his icy cool Brain Freeze!…which also graces the 50 worst cars ever made list!
Patricia Mae Andrzejewski was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to Andrew and Mildred Andrzejewski, a sheet-metal worker and a beautician. Her family moved to Lindenhurst, New York on Long Island, when she was 3 years old. "I have wonderful childhood memories of picking berries in the 'woods' by our house, driving to the 'docks' on the South Bay to get freshly harvested clams", she recounted once.
Patti (as she was known) became interested in theater and began voice lessons, singing at Daniel Street Elementary School her first solo, a song called “It Must Be Spring,” at age eight. She said, "As a kid, I sang at any choir, any denomination, anywhere I could." At Lindenhurst Senior High School (1967-71), Benatar participated in musical theater, playing Queen Guinevere in the school production of Camelot, marching in the homecoming parade, singing at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, and performing a solo of "The Christmas Song" on a holiday recording of the Lindenhurst High School Choir her senior year.
Benatar was cut off from the rock scene in nearby Manhattan though because her parents were "ridiculously strict - I was allowed to go to symphonies, opera and theater but I couldn't go to clubs". Her musical training was strictly classical and theatrical. She said, "I was singing Puccini and West Side Story but I spent every afternoon after school with my little transistor radio listening to the Rolling Stones..."
Training as a coloratura and accepted to The Juilliard School, Benatar surprised family, friends and teachers by deciding a classical career was not for her and pursued health education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At 19, after one year at Stony Brook, she dropped out to marry her high school sweetheart Dennis Benatar, an army draftee who trained at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then served with the Army Security Agency at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, before being stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia. Specialist (E-4) Dennis Benatar was stationed there for three years, and Pat worked as a bank teller in Richmond, Virginia.
In 1973, Benatar quit her job as a bank teller to pursue a singing career after being inspired by a Liza Minnelli concert she saw in Richmond. She got a job as a singing waitress at a flapper-esque nightclub named The Roaring Twenties and got a gig singing in lounge band Coxon's Army, a regular at Sam Miller's basement club. The band garnered enough attention to be the subject of a never-aired PBS special, and the band's bassist Roger Capps also would go on to be the original bass player for the Pat Benatar Band. The period also yielded Benatar's first and only single until her eventual 1979 debut on Chrysalis Records: "Day Gig" (1974), Trace Records, written and produced by Coxon's Army band leader Phil Coxon and locally released in Richmond. Her big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the renowned comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York. Her rousing rendition of Judy Garland's "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" earned her a call back by club owner Rick Newman, who would become her manager. Benatar said:
I came in from Virginia one night. I had straight red hair and I wore a dress. I sang a Judy Garland song and I don’t know what happened, I never sang in New York before in my life, even though I grew up there, everybody just went crazy. I didn't do anything spectacular. I don’t know what happened, it was just one of those magical things. [Rick Newman] came right in and said, 'Let's talk about you playing here some more...' Newman said, 'It was 2:45 in the morning. We had 30 performers and she was about #27. I was on the other side of the room drinking with some friends--then I suddenly heard this voice!'
The couple headed back to New York following Dennis' discharge from the army, and Benatar went on to be a regular member at Catch A Rising Star for close to three years, until signing a record contract. Catch A Rising Star was not the only break Benatar got in 1975. She landed the part of Zephyr in Harry Chapin's futuristic rock musical, The Zinger. Benatar's first foray into rock. The production, which debuted on March 19, 1976, at the Performing Arts Foundation's (PAF) Playhouse in Huntington Station, Long Island, ran for a month and also featured Beverly D'Angelo and Christine Lahti. Benatar noted: "I was 22 by the time I started to sing rock, so at first I was very conscious of technique and I was overly technical. That proved to be inhibiting so it was a disadvantage until I began to sing intuitively. That’s the only way to sing rock – from your gut level feelings. It's the instinct that the best singers have."
Halloween 1977 proved a pivotal night in Benatar's early, spandexed stage persona. Rather than change out of the vampire costume she had worn to a Greenwich Village cafe party that evening, she went on-stage wearing black tights, black eyeliner and a short black top. Benatar has stated: “I was dressed as a character from this ridiculous B movie called Cat-Women of the Moon.” Despite performing her usual array of songs, she received a standing ovation. Benatar has said that "[T]he crowd was always polite, but this time they went out of their minds. It was the same songs, sung the same way, and I thought, 'Oh my god ... [i]t's these clothes and this makeup!'"
Between appearances at Catch A Rising Star and recording commercial jingles for Pepsi Cola and a number of regional concerns, she headlined New York City’s famous Tramps nightclub from March 29 - April 1, 1978, where her performance impressed representatives from several record companies. She was signed to Chrysalis Records by founder Terry Ellis the following week."There was a long period of three years, when I spent my time taking demo tapes around and being rejected by one record company after another. Then just two days after the debut concert with the band, we were signed to a record contract...." Recorded in June and July 1979, Benatar debuted the week of August 27, 1979 with the release of I Need A Lover from the album In the Heat of the Night. She said, "My album was the last of a bunch by female singers to come out so I was told not to expect much, even though Mike Chapman was producing."
She won an unprecedented four consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Female Rock Performance from 1980 to 1983 for her second LP, Crimes of Passion, and the songs "Fire and Ice", "Shadows of the Night", and "Love Is a Battlefield". Of the ten Grammy Award ceremonies in the 1980s, Benatar was nominated for Best Female Rock Performance eight times, including for "Invincible" in 1985, "Sex as a Weapon" in 1986, "All Fired Up" in 1988 and in 1989 for "Let's Stay Together".
Benatar also earned Grammy Award nominations in 1985 for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female with "We Belong" and in 1986 for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Duo or Group as a member of Artists United Against Apartheid for their single, "Sun City". Benatar is also the winner of three American Music Awards: Favorite Female Pop/Rock Vocalist of 1981 and 1983, and Favorite Female Pop/Rock Video Artist of 1985. Benatar was twice named Rolling Stone magazine's Favorite Female Vocalist, and Billboard magazine ranks her as the most successful female rock vocalist of all time based on overall record sales and the number of hit songs and their charted positions.
Pat Benatar was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame at the Second Induction Award Ceremony and Fundraising Gala held October 30, 2008. In her acceptance letter, she said, “My upbringing, and the values and ideals I learned back in my hometown kept me grounded. I never forget that a small town girl from Lindenhurst, LI actually got the chance to live her dreams.
In the Heat of the Night
"I Need a Lover" was the first single to be released on August 27, 1979. However both it and the next single, "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" (October 1979), were unsuccessful. Benatar's third single "Heartbreaker" was released in early December 1979 and became an immediate hit, climbing to #23 in the U.S. Benatar said "That was written by these two English guys, Gill and Wade, and it had all these little English colloquialisms that Americans would never say. So the publisher gave it to me to clean up, and I had to figure out all these lyrics. It was making me crazy. But I loved the song from the first time I heard it, so I rewrote the lyrics and we did the song as it appears here. It's one of my favorites." A fourth single "We Live for Love," which was written by her future husband Neil Giraldo, was released in February 1980, and reached US #27. Although Giraldo claims that it was written about her, Benatar has playfully accused him during interviews of having written the song long before they met, obviously about another woman.
Benatar's debut album In the Heat of the Night was released in October 1979, and reached #12. It established Benatar as a new force in rock. Producer Mike Chapman, who had worked with Blondie and The Knack, broke his vow not to take on any new artists when he heard Benatar's demo tape. Chapman personally produced three tracks on the album, while his long-time engineer and now independent producer, Peter Coleman (who also supervised Nick Gilder) oversaw the rest. In addition, Chapman and his partner, Nicky Chinn, wrote three songs that appear on the LP, "In the Heat of the Night" and "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" which were previously recorded by Smokie, as well as a rearranged version of a song they wrote for Sweet, "No You Don't". The album also featured two songs written by Roger Capps and Benatar as well as "I Need a Lover" written by John Mellencamp and "Don't Let It Show" written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson. The album would be Benatar's first RIAA certified platinum album.
Crimes of Passion
In August 1980, Benatar released her second and most popular LP, Crimes of Passion, featuring her signature song "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" along with the controversial song Hell is for Children, which was inspired by reading a series of articles in the New York Times about child abuse in America. "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" (U.S. #9) was her first single to break the U.S. Top 10 and eventually sold more than 1 million copies (at that time, gold status) in the United States alone. The album peaked at U.S. #2 for six consecutive weeks in January 1981 (behind Yoko Ono and John Lennon's Double Fantasy) and eventually sold over 5 million copies, and a month later, Benatar won her first Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1980. Other singles released from Crimes of Passion were "Treat Me Right" (US #18) and the Rascal's cover, "You Better Run" (US #42), which gained some later notoriety when it was the second music video ever played on MTV, after the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star".[2][7][8] The album also featured a changed-tempo cover of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights. Produced by Keith Olsen, Crimes of Passion remained on the US album charts for 93 weeks and in the top 10 for more than six months, eventually becoming her second consecutive platinum certification by the RIAA. In October 1980, Benatar (along with future husband Neil Giraldo) graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Precious Time
In August 1981, Benatar hit #1 on the Billboard U.S. Top 200 LP chart with her third LP, "Precious Time". It was also her first to chart in the UK, reaching #30. The album's lead single, "Fire and Ice", was another big hit (US #17, AUS #30) and would win Benatar her second Grammy Award, this time for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1981 and her third consecutive RIAA certified platinum album. Two more singles, "Promises in the Dark" (US #38) and "Take It Any Way You Want It" are also released.
Get Nervous
A hit single, "Shadows of the Night", (US #13, AUS #19) heralded a new LP, Get Nervous, released in late 1982. The album was another smash, reaching US #4, her fourth consecutive RIAA platinum certification, and the single would garner Benatar yet another Grammy, again for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1982. The follow-up singles, "Little Too Late" and "Looking for a Stranger", were also successful, hitting US #20 and #39 respectively. The last single, "Anxiety (Get Nervous)", failed to make the Top 40. The WWII-themed music video for "Shadows of the Night" featured then-unknown actors Judge Reinhold and Bill Paxton as an American fighter copilot and a German radio operator, respectively.
Live from Earth
By 1983, Benatar had established a reputation for singing about "tough" subject matters, with a significant amount of songs featuring a "battle" metaphor. This was best exemplified by one of the biggest hits of her career, "Love Is a Battlefield" (penned by noted hit songwriter Holly Knight with Mike Chapman), released in December 1983. By then her sound had mellowed from hard rock to more atmospheric pop and the story-based video clip for "Love Is a Battlefield" was aimed squarely at MTV, even featuring Benatar in a Michael Jackson-inspired group dance number. This new pop direction was a huge commercial success, with the single peaking at #5 in the United States, and #1 in Australia for seven weeks. The song even gained some interest in the UK where it peaked at #49. The song would also net Benatar her fourth consecutive Grammy Award for "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance" of 1983. A live album, Live from Earth, which was recorded during Benatar's sold-out Get Nervous world tour of America and Europe in 1982 and 1983, contained two studio tracks, "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Lipstick Lies." The album peaked at U.S. #13 and became her fifth consecutive RIAA platinum winner.
Tropico
In October 1984, the single "We Belong" became another Top 5 smash in the US, and reached #7 in Australia. It was also Benatar's first ever UK top 40 hit, where it peaked at #22. In November, Benatar released her sixth album, Tropico (US #14, AUS #9, UK #31). A second single release, "Ooh Ooh Song," reached U.S. #36. It is also said by Benatar and Giraldo that this album is the first where they moved away from Benatar's famed "hard rock" sound and start experimenting with new, sometimes "gentler," styles and sounds. Despite not making the US Top 10, it earned her a sixth consecutive RIAA platinum certification. A third single, "Temporary Heroes" was also released in March 1985.
After the chart success of We Belong in the UK, Love is a Battlefield was re-released in early 1985 and became her highest chart hit there, reaching #17.
Seven the Hard Way
Benatar would hit the U.S. Top 10 with the #10 single "Invincible" (the theme from the movie, The Legend of Billie Jean) in 1985. "Sex As a Weapon" would climb as high as #28 in January 1986, and "Le Bel Age" (#54) in February. The album Seven the Hard Way peaked at #26, earning an RIAA Gold certification.
The title of the album is based on a bet in the game of craps: "Rolls of 4, 6, 8, and 10 are called "hard" or "easy" (e.g. "Six the Hard Way", "Easy Eight", "Hard Ten") depending on whether they were rolled as a "double" or as any other combination of values, because of their significance in center table bets known as the "hard ways"." The album was the band's seventh release in seven years. Benatar is holding a pair of dice on the album cover with three and a half dots each.
Wide Awake in Dreamland
In July 1988, Benatar released her eighth album, "Wide Awake in Dreamland" (US #28, UK #11). A single lifted from the album, "All Fired Up" (written by Kerryn Tolhurst, ex-The Dingoes) reached #19 in both the US and the UK, and was a #2 smash in Australia, becoming one of the biggest hits of 1988 in that country. Other singles released from the LP are "Don't Walk Away" (UK #42), "Let's Stay Together", and "One Love" (UK #59). The album also earned an RIAA gold certification.
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At this point I joined the RAF and stopped buying records so much, and so this is where my collection ends.
Iceland, a Nordic island nation, is defined by its dramatic landscape with volcanoes, geysers, hot springs and lava fields. Massive glaciers are protected in Vatnajökull and Snæfellsjökull national parks. Most of the population lives in the capital, Reykjavik, which runs on geothermal power and is home to the National and Saga museums, tracing Iceland’s Viking history. Iceland is it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
This gorgeous, furry guy looked bored at the Fire and Ice event in downtown Racine (WI) on Saturday, so I went over and had a chat with him. He was happy to have the attention and a bit of petting.
Spring of day, spring of season, spring of mind
Reveling in the imaginary reversing of Robert Frost's blight on the landscape, I bring you Willow Falls.
Willow River State Park, Wisconsin. Two-image panorama stitched together.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
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"The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears."
quote Sir Walter Scott.
From the garden, a rose called appropriately: Fire & Ice.
These duotoned roses are plump and opulent but are non-fragrant.
The weather was mad, raining, thunder and lightning, so in between showers, you can still see some drops on the petals, drying up quickly though under the studio-light... yep, I rushed out, yep another 'rescue' job, lol.
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