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A little something that I'm working on. The owners of the store are already dressed. Now I have to choose the customers and dress them.
A young male chimpanzee of the Walter zoo having fun on the grass.
They have a quite nice enclosure and you can take pics of them at eye height.
We visited the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum in Vernal, Utah. They had a display of minerals that glow in UV light. I thought it would be fun to show how colorful they are, but there was no way I was going to get a documentary photo in the dark, so I tried ICM (intentional camera movement). This is a hand-held 4 second exposure, SOOC (straight out of camera).
All my last uploads had a quite "negative" mood,
so I thought this graffiti fits perfectly with me ;-)
(Althought I don´t understand why a german sprayer writes his "message" in english, but maybe he meant the band "fun fun crisis")
To all people from Hannover or who visit Hannover: I have just started a new group www.flickr.com/groups/hannoverstreetphotography/
so please join if you are interested!!!!
Deep in the forest, when the sun goes down, with some luck you can see the other, evil side of the SMURFS!
Fun is fundamental.
There is no way around it.
You absolutely must
have fun. Without fun,
there is no enthusiasm.
Without enthusiasm,
there is no energy.
~Doug Hall
.... With no energy, nothing happens!
Well, I was dreading this day all week because I knew that they were sending me another supervisor from another store to train and I hate training people. I hate having to talk all day and usually the person coming to be trained hates it even more than I do. I went to bed before midnight for a change last night and woke up feeling every bit as tired, if not more so, than when I went to bed. I think I even worry in my sleep. But I was determined to get to work early and have at least half an hour to myself before my guest or guests arrived ( I had no clue who was coming). Of course, that didn’t happen because when I went out to my car this morning and went to start it, nothing happened. Absolutely nothing. So, I naturally assumed the obvious, that I had left my lights on, and the car was dead even though Dayna told me that the lights turn out by themselves. After killing my battery in this manner far more times that I care to admit (and you’d never believe me if I told you how many) I was pretty sure this was the case. So, I started looking around for jumper cables, finding none ( I know I had them... with my history, how could I not!) I started looking for that little battery charger that I used to carry around in my old car). Found that, but it was dead and I couldn’t find the charger for that either (see a pattern developing here?) So I called work and told them I’d be late and told them to apologize to the person I was to be training and I would be there as soon as I could. I went back inside and was deciding if I should ask Dayna to drive me to work, or call AAA and wait for them to come, and I noticed a key on the kitchen counter. My key. My car wasn’t dead, I had the wrong key. Keyless ignition. *sigh* So happy I hadn’t called AAA. Probably should have gone back to bed right then and there. I was only 10 minutes late for work. The woman from the other store was waiting for me. She was very nice, knew her stuff, really didn’t need training at all, but we went through the motions. I was able to show her a few things and shared a few “tricks”. I was tremendously distracted for several reasons all day though. I took a few personal phone calls during the day, I started sentences, lost my train of thought and didn’t finish them.... basically, I was pretty much a disaster. She came from a store where one of my favorite managers now works, and I did explain and apologize to her for my distractions and at lunch time I asked her, “You’re not going to go back and tell George that I’m a nutcase, are you?” She assured me that she was not and told me, “He’d never believe me anyway. He sings your praises. He loves you.” Huge sigh of relief! Although, I argued with George all the time because he believes that animals don’t have souls and don’t go to heaven, I loved him anyway! During the course of the day, I reaffirmed what I had known all along, that I am successful in my job because of several circumstances... I have an amazing “team”, without them nothing would work (pretty much what all of the other stores are experiencing.... nothing works!), I love and respect them and vice versa, I have “trained” our management to give us more coverage in the shoe department than is deemed necessary by the idiots in corporate, and apparently I have a bigger stockroom than other stores... all of these factors allow us to make our manager look really really good (not that he isn’t really, really good anyway.... because he is!) and the downside is that they seem to think that I know more than other shoe supervisors and can fix other shoe departments (which I don’t and I can’t) and it rewards me with more work which I am not compensated for. (someone owes me lunch, at least!!)
So, I gave this woman my cell phone number, told her to call me if she needs anything, told her I would stop in and talk to George and that I would come and work with her for a day and get everything straightened out and she could take it from there if they would allow me to. She was on her way out when she stopped and said “My managers asked me to ask one more question. How do you make this FUN?” I couldn’t really answer that, but I have to say that I pleased to be asked the question....I was pleased because it means that my manager, other store managers and probably even the district manager knows that in our store...we have fun. I don’t think you can teach fun. How could I say.... we sing, we dance, we throw things (apologies to Jason Mraz...but we throw things, we don’t steal things... well, some of us do...but they get fired and led out in handcuffs by policemen), we laugh, we hug, some days we cry, we take pictures, we hand cell phones to customers and have them take pictures of us, we keep chocolate hidden in the stock room, we make games out of things, we have a competitive streak, we shoot rubber bands, we play tricks on people, we shop during working hours, we don’t call in sick...(we call Torrie and Torrie fixes it when possible), we bend rules, and most importantly.... we. are. family. So, all in all I guess it was worth going to work today. Oh...and before she left, I dug through my locker and pulled out a pad of post-it notes, shaped like a cat head. They had been in my locker since George left years ago. I bought them to annoy him. He HATED post-it notes. I LOVE post-it notes. I use them EVERYWHERE. Drove George out of his mind. So, I gave them to her... and told her that they were FUN. I told her to use them religiously. I told her to write “Meow, meow” on one and stick it on George’s door (story for another day). I hope she will. And then I hope she won’t call me and tell me that she is now unemployed. (sometimes my idea of fun can cause problems!)
I shot this up at Lake Bumbunga just near the town of Lochiel. This was shot just as they moon set so it went from really light to pitch black......... I was a little odd being out there all by myself but fun at the same time. I could't actually stand still or I would sink into the bog!!!! I also set the camera up with the intervalometer a few hours prior to this shot for a star trail under the moon light. It is so nice to be able to set the camera up and go back to the car :)
Something different from the usual decay photos. A trip to LA in October and a new camera for travel - Canon M3 mirrorless.
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is named after the Christian saint, Monica. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by the city of Los Angeles – Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, Sawtelle on the east, Mar Vista on the southeast, and Venice on the south.
Partly because of its agreeable climate, Santa Monica had become a famed resort town by the early 20th century. The city has experienced a boom since the late 1980s through the revitalization of its downtown core, significant job growth and increased tourism. The Santa Monica Pier remains a popular and iconic destination.
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Miss Roxy loves these Chuck-It water bumpers, but only if they are used in the pool. She might use them on a non-pool day maybe once or twice a year, otherwise they are for pool use only. (She has several, one of every color)
A female Gadwall (Anas strepera) was chased by two competing males for an affair! It was not serious at all but a chasing fun in play mood for them. After waiting for long 4 hours they break their silence and came inside water from their resting place and the fun began. All of a sudden the silence was broken by their fast actions and calls. For a new winter season it was their first visit here. Pics was taken from a long distance in Santragachi, West Bengal, India.
Ryan Carrington & Steve Davis, 2018, Discovery Meadow, Downtown, San Jose, California, USA, sculpture
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.
French actor of Spanish origin Louis de Funès (1914-1983) was one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel. In many of his over 130 films, he portrayed a humorously excitable, cranky man with a propensity to hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger. Along with his short height (1.63 m) and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a highly comic effect, especially opposite Bourvil, who always played calm, slightly naive, good-humored men.
Louis de Funès (French pronunciation: [lwi də fynɛs]) was born Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza in Courbevoie, France in 1914. His father, Carlos Luis de Funès de Galarza had been a lawyer in Seville, Spain, but became a diamond cutter upon arriving in France. His mother, Leonor Soto Reguera was of Spanish and Portuguese extraction. Since the couple's families opposed their marriage, they settled in France in 1904. Known to friends and intimates as ‘Fufu’, the young De Funès was fond of drawing and piano playing and spoke French, Spanish, and English well. He studied at the prestigious Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He showed a penchant for tomfoolery, something which caused him trouble at school and later made it hard for him to hold down a job. He became a pianist, working mostly as a jazz pianist at Pigalle, the famous red-light district. There he made his customers laugh each time he made a grimace. He studied acting for one year at the Simon acting school. It proved to be a waste of time except for his meeting with actor Daniel Gélin, who would become a close friend. In 1936, he married Germaine Louise Elodie Carroyer with whom he had a son, Daniel (1937). In 1942, they divorced. During the occupation of Paris in the Second World War, he continued his piano studies at a music school, where he fell in love with a secretary, Jeanne Barthelémy de Maupassant, a grandniece of the famous author Guy de Maupassant. They married in 1943 and remained together for forty years until De Funès' death in 1983. The pair had two sons: Patrick (1944) and Olivier (1947). Patrick became a doctor who practiced in Saint-Germain en Laye. Olivier was an actor for a while, known for the son roles in his father's films, including Le Grand Restaurant/The Big Restaurant (Jacques Besnard, 1966), Fantômas se déchaine/Fantomas Strikes Back (André Hunebelle, 1965) starring Jean Marais, Les Grandes Vacances/The Big Vacation (Jean Girault, 1967), and Hibernatus (Edouard Molinaro, 1969) with Claude Gensac as De Funès’ wife, a role she played in many of his films. Olivier later worked as an aviator for Air France Europe.
Through the early 1940s, Louis de Funès continued playing piano at clubs, thinking there wasn't much call for a short, balding, skinny actor. His wife and Daniel Gélin encouraged him to overcome his fear of rejection. De Funès began his show business career in the theatre, where he enjoyed moderate success. At the age of 31, thanks to his contact with Daniel Gélin, he made his film debut with an uncredited bit part as a porter in La Tentation de Barbizon/The Temptation of Barbizon (1945, Jean Stelli) starring Simone Renant. For the next ten years, de Funès would appear in fifty films, but always in minor roles, usually as an extra, scarcely noticed by the audience. Sometimes he had a supporting part such as in the Fernandel comedy Boniface somnambule/The Sleepwalker (Maurice Labro, 1951) and the comedy-drama La vie d'un honnête homme/The Virtuous Scoundrel (Sacha Guitry, 1953) starring Michel Simon. In the meanwhile, he pursued a theatrical career. Even after he attained the status of a film star, he continued to play theatre. His stage career culminated in a magnificent performance in the play Oscar, a role which he would later reprise in the film version of 1967. During this period, De Funès developed a pattern of daily activities: in the morning he did dubbing for recognized artists such as Renato Rascel and the Italian comic Totò, during the afternoon he worked in film, and in the theater in the evening. A break came when he appeared as the black-market pork butcher Jambier (another small role) in the well-known WWII comedy, La Traversée de Paris/Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956) starring Jean Gabin and Bourvil. In his next film, the mediocre comedy Comme un cheveu sur la soupe/Crazy in the Noodle (Maurice Régamey, 1957), De Funès finally played the leading role. More interesting was Ni vu, ni connu/Neither Seen Nor Recognized (Yves Robert, 1958). He achieved stardom with the comedy Pouic-Pouic (Jean Girault, 1963) opposite Mireille Darc. This successful film guaranteed De Funès top billing in all of his subsequent films.
Between 1964 and 1979, Louis de Funès topped France's box office of the year's most successful films seven times. At the age of 49, De Funès unexpectedly became a superstar with the international success of two films. Fantômas (André Hunebelle, 1964) was France's own answer to the James Bond frenzy and lead to a trilogy co-starring Jean Marais and Mylène Demongeot. The second success was the crime comedy Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez/The Gendarme of St. Tropez (Jean Girault, 1964) with Michel Galabru. After their first successful collaboration on Pouic-Pouic, director Girault had perceived De Funès as the ideal actor to play the part of the accident-prone gendarme. The film led to a series of six 'Gendarme' films. De Funès's collaboration with director Gérard Oury produced a memorable tandem of de Funès with Bourvil, another great comic actor, in Le Corniaud/The Sucker (Gérard Oury, 1964). The successful partnership was repeated two years later in La Grande Vadrouille/Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At (Gérard Oury, 1966), one of the most successful and the largest grossing film ever made in France, drawing an audience of 17,27 million. It remains his greatest success. Oury envisaged a further reunion of the two comics in his historical comedy La Folie des grandeurs/Delusions of Grandeur (Gérard Oury, 1970), but Bourvil's death in 1970 led to the unlikely pairing of de Funès with Yves Montand in this film. Very successful, even in the USA, was Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob/The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Gérard Oury, 1973) with Suzy Delair. De Funès played a bigoted Frenchman who finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins. In 1975, Oury had scheduled to make Le Crocodile/The Crocodile with De Funès as a South American dictator, but in March 1975, the actor was hospitalised for heart problems and was forced to take a rest from acting. The Crocodile project was canceled.
After his recovery, Louis de Funès collaborated with Claude Zidi, in a departure from his usual image. Zidi wrote for him L'aile ou la cuisse/The Wing and the Thigh (Claude Zidi, 1976), opposite Coluche as his son. He played a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, who is waging a war against a fast-food entrepreneur. It was a new character full of nuances and frankness and arguably the best of his roles. In 1980, De Funès realised a long-standing dream to make a film version of Molière's play, L'Avare/The Miser (Louis de Funès, Jean Girault, 1980). In 1982, De Funès made his final film, Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes/Never Play Clever Again (Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault, 1982). Unlike the characters he played, de Funès was said to be a very shy person in real life. He became a knight of France's Légion d'honneur in 1973. He resided in the Château de Clermont, a 17th-century monument, located in the commune of Le Cellier, which is situated near Nantes in France. In his later years, he suffered from a heart condition after having suffered a heart attack caused by straining himself too much with his stage antics. Louis de Funès died of a massive stroke in 1983, a few months after making Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes. He was laid to rest in the Cimetière du Cellier, the cemetery situated in the grounds of the château. Films de France: “Although fame was a long time coming, Louis de Funès is regarded today as not just a great comic actor with an unfaltering ability to make his audience laugh, but practically an institution in his own right. His many films bear testimony to the extent of his comic genius and demonstrate the tragedy that he never earned the international recognition that he certainly deserved.”
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Films de France, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
French postcard in the series Portraits de Stars by L'aventure carto, no. 8, 2003. Photo: Marcel Thomas / Collection Gérard Gagnepain.
French actor of Spanish origin Louis de Funès (1914-1983) was one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel. In many of his over 130 films, he portrayed a humorously excitable, cranky man with a propensity to hyperactivity, bad faith, and uncontrolled fits of anger. Along with his short height (1.63 m) and his facial contortions, this hyperactivity produced a highly comic effect, especially opposite Bourvil, who always played calm, slightly naive, good-humored men.
Louis de Funès (French pronunciation: [lwi də fynɛs]) was born Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza in Courbevoie, France in 1914. His father, Carlos Luis de Funès de Galarza had been a lawyer in Seville, Spain, but became a diamond cutter upon arriving in France. His mother, Leonor Soto Reguera was of Spanish and Portuguese extraction. Since the couple's families opposed their marriage, they settled in France in 1904. Known to friends and intimates as ‘Fufu’, the young De Funès was fond of drawing and piano playing and spoke French, Spanish, and English well. He studied at the prestigious Lycée Condorcet in Paris. He showed a penchant for tomfoolery, something which caused him trouble at school and later made it hard for him to hold down a job. He became a pianist, working mostly as a jazz pianist at Pigalle, the famous red-light district. There he made his customers laugh each time he made a grimace. He studied acting for one year at the Simon acting school. It proved to be a waste of time except for his meeting with actor Daniel Gélin, who would become a close friend. In 1936, he married Germaine Louise Elodie Carroyer with whom he had a son, Daniel (1937). In 1942, they divorced. During the occupation of Paris in the Second World War, he continued his piano studies at a music school, where he fell in love with a secretary, Jeanne Barthelémy de Maupassant, a grandniece of the famous author Guy de Maupassant. They married in 1943 and remained together for forty years until De Funès' death in 1983. The pair had two sons: Patrick (1944) and Olivier (1947). Patrick became a doctor who practiced in Saint-Germain en Laye. Olivier was an actor for a while, known for the son roles in his father's films, including Le Grand Restaurant/The Big Restaurant (Jacques Besnard, 1966), Fantômas se déchaine/Fantomas Strikes Back (André Hunebelle, 1965) starring Jean Marais, Les Grandes Vacances/The Big Vacation (Jean Girault, 1967), and Hibernatus (Edouard Molinaro, 1969) with Claude Gensac as De Funès’ wife, a role she played in many of his films. Olivier later worked as an aviator for Air France Europe.
Through the early 1940s, Louis de Funès continued playing piano at clubs, thinking there wasn't much call for a short, balding, skinny actor. His wife and Daniel Gélin encouraged him to overcome his fear of rejection. De Funès began his show business career in the theatre, where he enjoyed moderate success. At the age of 31, thanks to his contact with Daniel Gélin, he made his film debut with an uncredited bit part as a porter in La Tentation de Barbizon/The Temptation of Barbizon (1945, Jean Stelli) starring Simone Renant. For the next ten years, de Funès would appear in fifty films, but always in minor roles, usually as an extra, scarcely noticed by the audience. Sometimes he had a supporting part such as in the Fernandel comedy Boniface somnambule/The Sleepwalker (Maurice Labro, 1951) and the comedy-drama La vie d'un honnête homme/The Virtuous Scoundrel (Sacha Guitry, 1953) starring Michel Simon. In the meanwhile, he pursued a theatrical career. Even after he attained the status of a film star, he continued to play theatre. His stage career culminated in a magnificent performance in the play Oscar, a role which he would later reprise in the film version of 1967. During this period, De Funès developed a pattern of daily activities: in the morning he did dubbing for recognized artists such as Renato Rascel and the Italian comic Totò, during the afternoon he worked in film, and in the theater in the evening. A break came when he appeared as the black-market pork butcher Jambier (another small role) in the well-known WWII comedy, La Traversée de Paris/Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956) starring Jean Gabin and Bourvil. In his next film, the mediocre comedy Comme un cheveu sur la soupe/Crazy in the Noodle (Maurice Régamey, 1957), De Funès finally played the leading role. More interesting was Ni vu, ni connu/Neither Seen Nor Recognized (Yves Robert, 1958). He achieved stardom with the comedy Pouic-Pouic (Jean Girault, 1963) opposite Mireille Darc. This successful film guaranteed De Funès top billing in all of his subsequent films.
Between 1964 and 1979, Louis de Funès topped France's box office of the year's most successful films seven times. At the age of 49, De Funès unexpectedly became a superstar with the international success of two films. Fantômas (André Hunebelle, 1964) was France's own answer to the James Bond frenzy and lead to a trilogy co-starring Jean Marais and Mylène Demongeot. The second success was the crime comedy Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez/The Gendarme of St. Tropez (Jean Girault, 1964) with Michel Galabru. After their first successful collaboration on Pouic-Pouic, director Girault had perceived De Funès as the ideal actor to play the part of the accident-prone gendarme. The film led to a series of six 'Gendarme' films. De Funès's collaboration with director Gérard Oury produced a memorable tandem of de Funès with Bourvil, another great comic actor, in Le Corniaud/The Sucker (Gérard Oury, 1964). The successful partnership was repeated two years later in La Grande Vadrouille/Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At (Gérard Oury, 1966), one of the most successful and the largest grossing film ever made in France, drawing an audience of 17,27 million. It remains his greatest success. Oury envisaged a further reunion of the two comics in his historical comedy La Folie des grandeurs/Delusions of Grandeur (Gérard Oury, 1970), but Bourvil's death in 1970 led to the unlikely pairing of de Funès with Yves Montand in this film. Very successful, even in the USA, was Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob/The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (Gérard Oury, 1973) with Suzy Delair. De Funès played a bigoted Frenchman who finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins. In 1975, Oury had scheduled to make Le Crocodile/The Crocodile with De Funès as a South American dictator, but in March 1975, the actor was hospitalised for heart problems and was forced to take a rest from acting. The Crocodile project was canceled.
After his recovery, Louis de Funès collaborated with Claude Zidi, in a departure from his usual image. Zidi wrote for him L'aile ou la cuisse/The Wing and the Thigh (Claude Zidi, 1976), opposite Coluche as his son. He played a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, who is waging a war against a fast-food entrepreneur. It was a new character full of nuances and frankness and arguably the best of his roles. In 1980, De Funès realised a long-standing dream to make a film version of Molière's play, L'Avare/The Miser (Louis de Funès, Jean Girault, 1980). In 1982, De Funès made his final film, Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes/Never Play Clever Again (Tony Aboyantz, Jean Girault, 1982). Unlike the characters he played, de Funès was said to be a very shy person in real life. He became a knight of France's Légion d'honneur in 1973. He resided in the Château de Clermont, a 17th-century monument, located in the commune of Le Cellier, which is situated near Nantes in France. In his later years, he suffered from a heart condition after having suffered a heart attack caused by straining himself too much with his stage antics. Louis de Funès died of a massive stroke in 1983, a few months after making Le Gendarme et les gendarmettes. He was laid to rest in the Cimetière du Cellier, the cemetery situated in the grounds of the château. Films de France: “Although fame was a long time coming, Louis de Funès is regarded today as not just a great comic actor with an unfaltering ability to make his audience laugh, but practically an institution in his own right. His many films bear testimony to the extent of his comic genius and demonstrate the tragedy that he never earned the international recognition that he certainly deserved.”
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Films de France, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
So one of my very talented friends had some fun with one of my pictures in FaceApp. The original photo is bottom left.
I wonder which one of the 9 altered ones in the filmstrip will be the most popular?
"Just a little Fall Fun down at the lake last
weekend. Would love to have this cute
scarecrow and a few of his pumpkins to
put in my yard.....aren't they adorable?
They were a little pricey....but were made
out of corrugated metal and would probab-
ly last forever. Maybe I'll save up and get
me some next year!"
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"Anyway, I'm just lovin' all the great Fall
decor I'm seein' out there right now!"
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"Hope all of My Friends are having a
Fun Fall week!"
~Mary Lou