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Fool's Paradise is the former residence of well-known Canadian artist Doris McCarthy, best known for her landscape paintings. McCarthy bought the picturesque 12-acre property on the Scarborough Bluffs in 1939. Her mother viewed the purchase as an extravagance, referring to it as 'that fool's paradise of yours.' The name Fool's Paradise stuck, and eventually the property became McCarthy's full-time home and studio space. As a key figure in this country's artistic community, McCarthy experimented with, and contributed to, major art developments throughout the 20th century. In 2015, the Trust launched the Doris McCarthy Artist-in-Residence Centre, which uses the home and property as a unique live and work incubator for visual artists, musicians and writers of all disciplines. This was Doris McCarthy's desire when she donated Fool's Paradise to the Trust in 2008.
A publicity shot for Larkin' About production's new show, three saga louts whizz about on their motorised shopping trolleys.
Big in Falkirk, National Festival of Street Theatre 2009
Edward Watson and Melissa Hamilton in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. The Royal Ballet 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Las Vegas obtains 90-percent of their water from Lake Mead. They're spending $2-billion for a lower syphon. The Middle of the dam is the Nevada-Arizona border.
Maximum electric power produced by the water turbines: 2.08 gigawatts
Approximate power output: 4 billion KWh per year (i.e. $200 million at $0.05 per kWh)
Source: Wikipedia, Hoover Dam.
Historical Graph of Lake Mead Water Levels Updated every month.
By July 2009, the water is expected to decline below the 1965 level, just 17 feet above the 1,075-foot elevation that would trigger the first shortage declaration under a sweeping interstate pact signed in December 2007. Read more HERE.
The minimum power pool elevation (necessary to generate electricity) is 950-feet. (The lake bottom is 720-feet.) The elevation, June 2009 = 1095.26 ft. With more water released from Lake Powell power generation will last until 2017 at current rates of consumption.
This link shows (at page 15): Lake Powell dead pool elevation = 3370. In the last 150-days Lake Powell dropped 15 feet, current elevation (January 9, 2010) is 3624 ft., dead pool elevation = 3370; 254 divided by 15 = 16.9 x 150 divided by 365 = 6.9 years until Lake Powell reaches dead pool = 2017.
According to a February, 2008 scientific report, "Lake Mead's water level could drop below the dead storage elevation by 2021 and the reservoir could drop below minimum power pool elevation as early as 2017." Source: "Lake Mead could be dry by 2021".
Tucson uses about 130,000 acre feet of water per year.
The Coachella Valley & Imperial Irrigation Districts use 2,600,000 acre feet of water per year.
Non-Indian agricultural Central Arizona Project (Canal) water uses 364,968 acre-feet per year.
Agriculture consumes 70-percent of the water in Arizona or 4,400,000 acre-feet per year.
Good story in the April 6, 2010 edition of Tucson Weekly on the future of the Colorado River.
This image is on WikiHow and Wikihow, "How to Plan a Grand Canyon Vacation".
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Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
American postcard by Max B. Sheffer Card Co., Chicago (M.B.S.C.Co.), 1922. Photo: Paramount. Dorothy Dalton as Poll Patchouli in Fool's Paradise (Cecil B. DeMille, 1921).
Dorothy Dalton (1893-1972) was an American actress, who was highly popular in the silent era. She worked for Kay-Bee, Thomas Ince Corp., and Famous Players (Paramount). She left the film sets in 1924 when she married theatre producer Arthur Hammerstein.
Born in Chicago in 1893, Dorothy Dalton began her career as a theatre actress in 1910. She became part of stock companies in Chicago, Terre Haute (Indiana), and Holyoke (Mass.), and worked for the Vaudeville circuit Keith-Albee-Orpheum. In 1914 she arrived in Hollywood, making her screen debut in the film Pierre of the Plains (dir. unknown) alongside Edgar Selwyn. Selwyn was one of the protagonists of the American theatre scene of the early twentieth century, but he was also one of the founders of Goldwyn Pictures. In 1915 Dalton starred alongside William S. Hart in The Disciple (William S. Hart & Clifford Smith), followed by the role of Queen Anne in the 1916 version of The Three Musketeers (Charles Swickard) for Kay-Bee Pictures, starring Orrin Johnson as D'Artagnan. At Kay-Bee Pictures Dalton starred in numerous films produced by Thomas H. Ince, the powerful Hollywood producer who died so mysteriously in 1924. Her directors at Kay-Bee were Charles Miller, Raymond West, and Roy William Neill. In 1917 she appeared e.g. in The Price Mark and Love Letters, both directed by Neill but supervised by Ince. Here she starred alongside William Conklin. She also acted in Unfaithful (Charles Miller, Thomas Ince 1918), one of the last films directed by Ince before he devoted himself entirely to production. In 1918 Ince founded his own Thomas Ince Corporation, where Dalton continued to star in films now directed by Victor Schertzinger and Joseph De Grasse. Paramount distributed the films. Between 1917 and 1919 Dalton would do 8 to 10 films per year, always in the lead.
By 1920 Dorothy Dalton moved to Famous Players, Paramount's own production company. In 1921 she had the lead in Cecil B. DeMille's Fools Paradise, about a girl (Dalton) madly in love with a man (Conrad Nagel), who loves another woman (Mildred Harris). When he gets blind, the girl pretends she is the other woman. This goes well until he regains his sight (it is incredible how many people regain sight in films)... Dalton's star status was so big in the early 1920s that she was allowed to have her name in front of the film title. So it happened that, in 1922, the advertisement of Moran of the Lady Letty showed the name of Dorothy Dalton in evidence, while the name of Rodolfo Valentino, still considered an emerging actor, appeared in the background. Among Dalton's last films were On the High Seas (Irvin Willat, 1922) with Jack Holt and Law of the Lawless (Victor Fleming, 1923). Dorothy Dalton married twice. Her first husband was actor Lew Cody whom she divorced in 1915. In 1924, she married theatre producer Arthur Hammerstein, uncle of the famous lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. After this marriage, the actress left the film sets and only rarely appeared on stage again. Dalton became a widow in 1955. She was very close to actresses Lila Lee and Jacqueline Logan. With them, she loved spending the winter seasons in Florida. Dorothy Dalton died in 1972, at the age of 78, at her home in Scarsdale (New York state).
Sources: Wikipedia (Italian and English) and IMDb.
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Artists of The Royal Ballet in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. The Royal Ballet 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
Sarah Lamb and Federico Bonelli in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. The Royal Ballet 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Brian Maloney in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise, The Royal Ballet Season 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Edward Watson and Melissa Hamilton in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. The Royal Ballet 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
At first glance, unsavoury Frank is simply picking rubbish. However, look again and you soon realise that’s the one thing he never actually does. Frank re-arranges rubbish, redistributes rubbish, ‘recycles’ rubbish, hides rubbish under vehicles, meticulously goes through it for fag-butts and full beer cans, and if it ever actually gets as far as his bin-liner – it comes straight out of the hole in the bottom…after all, it’s the end of his shift and why should he care?
“You’re missing the bag, son. All you’ve got to do is put rubbish in a bag – that’s all there is to it.” Michael Eavis, Glastonbury 2002
www.foolsparadise.co.uk/foolsparadise2010/fools_acts_deta...
All American Canal, Mexico border fence, Torry Pines State Beach, Bentley (automobile), Salton Sea, California. (The car cost more than $100,000.)
The Salton Sea is the largest lake in California. The Sea’s current elevation is about 227 feet below mean sea level, its maximum depth reaches 51 feet. (Source with lots more historic info.)
Salton Sea ecological info with a historic and future graph of the sea's level, a prediction of another ecological disaster and an aerial photo, here.
The tiny waves were caused by a small motorboat waaay far away . . . U could hear the noise.
I also went to the Coachella festival, didn't take any good pics there but did post a video of 5-songs (next in photostream/set).
Best viewed in Original size.
One of the liveliest street performing groups I've come across - the Dancing Day-Trippers.
Alby 'n' Doris ride around in their super-quiet electric scooter and then leap out and go into a engaging jazz/jive routine.
Dancing Day-Trippers are a creation of The Honk Project (Grant Stimpson and Amy Howard).
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Alexander Campbell, Dawid Trzensimiech and Itziar Mendizabal in Christopher Wheeldon's Fool's Paradise. The Royal Ballet 2012/13 www.roh.org.uk/productions/fools-paradise-by-christopher-...
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
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Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Alby 'n' Doris doing their thing at Tenterden during the Folk Festival. And the spectators loved it!
Dancing Day-Trippers (Alby and Doris) are a creation of The Honk Project (Grant Stimpson and Amy Howard).
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Action Painting workshop at Ken Aston Square, Barkingside, London. Part of the Love Your London Festival, sponsored by the Mayor of London.
Event made possible through FOOLS PARADISE LTD. www.foolsparadise.co.uk
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
Christopher Wheeldon's 'Fool's Paradise' (part of the Royal Ballet's early November 2012 triple bill at ROH)
photo - © Dave Morgan
By kind permission of the Royal Opera House
I grew up about 15 miles north of Miami Beach but on a weekly basis (during the six months of the winter season) my father would take me and my brother down there to visit our grandmother Mama. South Beach in the 1970's wasn't the glamorous place most people envision today. She lived in a converted motel room one block west of Washington Av. (4 blocks from the beach) behind the post office . We would take our weekly walks around the neighborhood and see mostly kosher shops and stores with signs advertising "notions” and "sundries" selling the same Florida tourist crap everyone buys on vacation down here. Mama knew everyone walking down Washington Av. and didn't hesitate to introduce her son and two grandsons. We endured lots of pinched cheeks on those walks- she was so proud. But my dad hated those trips. He did it in the hopes of convincing her to move up closer to us- away from the old Miami Beach- it was a sad place. The beach was poor and old- "God's waiting room" was what many called it. But mama loved it. She roomed with a woman by the name of Mrs. Katz. They were roommates for years and wandered those streets together endlessly. She didn't want to move for reasons that we couldn't see at that time, but the beach was her world. She was safe with the people she knew in a world that was both exotic to the eyes of a immigrant from eastern Europe, and familiar to a senior existing in an almost exclusively senior world.
Miami Beach is a very different place today. Mama's "motel" room is a "studio" condo selling in the high $300's, a tube of suntan lotion goes for about $10 on Washington Av. and anything "Kosher" is hard to find around there today.
For a historically young place, Miami Beach has a unique history unto itself. A history very well told in a book I am reading now. Fool's Paradise by Steven Gaines paints a portrait (in pastel colors- of course) of the history and people who made "The Beach" what it is today. Not the pretty history you would expect, but a truthful one filled with hookers, con-men, and drug lords all chasing after the same thing my grandmother was chasing after...
...a moment in the sun.
Check it out!
And the next time you are in town, give me a call and I will show ya around!
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i was just a pawn..
dreaming myslef as the king.
thinking the queen is beside me...
being a lazy king,
i made long speeches about stalemates..
about its impotence..
about my impotence..
kicked up in the ass,
i wake up from the dream..
i'm not the king...
but the pawn closest to queen...
while the queen counsels the bishop
or infatuates with the rooks..
while she waits for the king..
i stay closest to her as a pawn.
as a pawn..
just as a pawn.
waiting for the next advancement..
(this is just an interpretation of the story from the perspective of an impulsive pawn. the queen have a better story from her part.i agree with that story. after all, i'm just a pawn)
Pavement art workshop event: Mansfield Arts Festival UK
13th July 2013
Event made possible through FOOLS PARADISE: www.foolsparadise.co.uk
In September 2012, "Fool's Paradise" marked Shohei Otomo’s first major solo exhibition in Australia.
The collection at 101 Collins Street featured intricate ballpoint pen illustrations that merged traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern cultural symbols.
Finally, the exhibition explored themes of societal facades and hidden discontent, offering a sharp critique of Japan’s evolving cultural landscape.
For more information, references refer to - www.shdw.gallery/projects/heisei
Photo Concept
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The Pond: When McCarthy discovered how much she enjoyed the reflection of the sky in the basin of her patio fountain, she started planning for the pond. The pond reflects her artistic sensibility and spirit.
Overview
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Fool’s Paradise is the former residence of well-known Canadian artist Doris McCarthy, best known for her landscape paintings.
History
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Cultural City Builder McCarthy bought the picturesque 12-acre property on the Scarborough Bluffs in 1939. Her mother viewed the purchase as an extravagance, referring to it as "that fool's paradise of yours." The name Fool's Paradise stuck, and eventually the property became McCarthy’s full-time home and studio space. In her lifetime, McCarthy produced an unparalleled body of work spanning over 75 years with an estimated 6000 paintings in a variety of media. She was elected the first female President of the Ontario Society of Artists and has taught some of Canada's most distinguished creative people. As a key figure in this country's artistic community, McCarthy experimented with and contributed to major art developments throughout the 20th century. This eccentric home built by McCarthy over her lifetime was donated to the Ontario Heritage Trust in 1998.