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Warm soft colors reflect the French and Mediterranean influences that make the comfortable and peaceful decor of Villa ANA so very special. A mere five-minute drive from the tropical garden at the entrance takes guests to Gustavia or Gouverneur Beach. Two bedrooms of equal dimensions with lovely tiled baths share a second tropical garden that features an exotic Travelers tree as its centerpiece. A separate bungalow houses a third bedroom with a small living room and wet bar. A single level, tiled terrace connecting the bedrooms, pool and living area provides covered and uncovered dining as well as places to sunbathe or relax in the shade. An additional tropical garden is located below the pool. The neighboring islands of Saba, Statia, St. Kitts and Nevis can be clearly seen from the terrace and pool area where dazzling sunsets paint the western skies throughout the winter.
Under The Influence 2014 featuring Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Tyga, Ty Dolla $ign, Mack Wilds, Iamsu!, Sage The Gemini, DJ Drama, and Rich Homie Quan.
Photography by CZR-E for The Come Up Show. Check out the review at www.thecomeupshow.com
«Producer, DJ and musician Chico Correa – not to be confused with renowned pianist Chick Corea – takes influences from traditional Brazilian swinging rhythms like coco, samba, baião and mixes them with rock and electronic music. Over the years, he has won over the Brazilian crowds with his Pocket Band and even scored a small hit.»
video «Baile muderno» - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KajA3Pt3Nzc
site - www.myspace.com/chicocorreapocketband
Brazilian Underground Night @Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium, 10/2011
Biography & Artist Statement:
My passion for photography started when I got my first digital point-and-shoot camera when I was 14; but, my fascination grew when I got my first DSLR at the age of 17.
I took Digital Arts and Design at Malayan Colleges Laguna and graduated in 2010. I then moved to San Francisco and continued my education. Since then, I have been honing skills more and more by taking photography classes, and doing some experiments involving light.
I also often make my own equipment when the tools I'm looking for aren't commercially available.
I am now seeking growth in the world of portraiture, black and white darkroom photography, and 3-Dimensional photography.
CCSF Photography and You:
I have always been fascinated by images because they spark my imagination. These images make me question what happened/is happening/will happen next, and where is it. Ever since I got my first DSLR in 2008 I've been exploring the things I could do with it: landscapes, 360-panoramas, light painting, freeze motion, and more recently, 3D.
Taking classes in the photography department meant challenging myself to do what I have not done before. It makes me think of new ways to be creative. When I take pictures in my "mini studio" in my own little room, it often involves setting up the light, tying objects with strings, and making strange contraptions just to make the image I imagined possible.
Now I am thinking of ways I could combine these things that I learned to make something new out of them. This makes the process twice as difficult and hopefully the results will also be twice as better.
Photographer: Kári Sverriss. Hár/Makeup: Margrét Sæmundsdóttir Model: Anna Thora Alfredsdottir Assistant: Hjalti Rafn Guðmundsson.
R-Kilt in hemp from Ontario Canada beside a statue of one of the North American First Peoples, in the Waverley Bar, Dumfries.
Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
In picture: The good lads of BlackBerry RIM: Luis Gonzales,
Church of St Mary
Monument to Sir Henry Kervil †1624 and Lady Mary †1624. Alabaster
Wiggenhall St Mary is, and presumably always must have been, isolated from the village, in the grounds of the Hall. This had been built by the Kervils, but neglected after Sir Henry’s death, with no heirs, so that by the 1740s only the gatehouse survived. The present hall, invisible from the path, was built in 1864. The monument is set at the east end of the south nave, behind a wooden screen. It is a grander version of the monument by a Nottinghamshire workshop to Sir Henry Pierrepont †1615 at Holme Pierrepont. The choice may well have been influenced by their shared Roman Catholic religion, since Sir Henry was described by Francis Blomefield (1705-1752) as ‘a bigoted papist, and about November 1620, was accused by Sir Christopher Heydon, Knt. that the Papists met at his house, in order to subscribe to and assist the Emperor, against the King of Bohemia, when King James I. requested a loan (for the recovery of the Palatinate) from the nobility and gentry of England, whereupon he was sent for to the council table, imprisoned some time, and his papers seized, but was afterwards released.’ The remark needs to be set in the context that Blomefield lived when the threat of the return of the Jacobites, and thus of Roman Catholicism, was very real.
The monument ordered, presumably by Sir Henry, follows the pattern at Holme Pierrepont with the figures on a tomb chest, divided by black marble columns without capitals, richly decorated with their coats of arms in strapwork frames. He wears plate armour with strangely bulbous knees and a ruff, his feet – the right broken resting on a gauntlet. His wife also wears a ruff, with a veil over her head extending down her back, her dress strangely crumpled over her knees. The Corinthian columns on the back plate have been doubled, but still support a cornice, curved in the centre to frame the coat of arms, while the strapwork around the inscription has been reduced, and the top is dominated by a heraldic goat, wearing a coat with wings between its ears. The full array of Pierrepont children on the front of the chest in Holme Pierrepont is here sadly reduced to the young girl under the central arch, standing in prayer accompanied by a child in swaddling clothes, to show that both had predeceased their parents, the last of the Kervils.
Francis Blomefield 'Freebridge Hundred: Wigenhale St. Mary's', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 9 (1808), pp. 176-183. URL: www.british-history.ac.uk; The connection with Holme Pierrepont was noted by Jon Bayliss in Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997 p.780
Joseph Stella ( 1877 – 1946 )
The Heron - 1925
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Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
February 24 – May 21, 2023
Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella (1877–1946) is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, especially the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. Lesser known, but equally as ambitious, is his work dedicated to the natural world, a theme that served as a lifelong inspiration. Throughout his career, Stella produced an extraordinary number of works—in many formats and in diverse media—that take nature as their subject. These lush and colorful works are filled with flowers, trees, birds, and fish—some of which he encountered on his travels across continents or during his visits to botanical gardens, while others are abstracted and fantastical. Through these pictures, he created a rich and variegated portrait of nature, a sanctuary for a painter in a modern world.
Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature is co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art and is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine Stella’s nature-based works. The exhibition features more than one hundred paintings and works on paper that reveal the complexity and spirituality that drove Stella’s nature-based works and the breadth of his artistic vision. Through expanded in-gallery didactics, including a graphic timeline of Stella’s career and a short film, the exhibition digs deeply into the context of the works, exploring their inspirations, meanings, and stylistic influences.
Touring Dates:
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 15, 2022–January 15, 2023)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (June 17, 2023–September 24, 2023)
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If you know the painter Joseph Stella, it’s probably from his famous urban landscapes like Brooklyn Bridge (1921), a futurist interpretation of New York’s dramatic 20th-century industrialization. But Stella was just as captivated by the botanical world as he was by cityscapes, and today, Atlantans can see that side of the artist in vivid color. Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, an explosive new exhibit at the High Museum of Art, features dozens of his flower and plant-filled paintings and drawings. In Atlanta through May 21, the exhibit travels chronologically through Stella’s lifelong love-affair with the natural world, from an early study of a piece of bark to the epic, intricate Tree of My Life.
Visionary Nature was a joint effort between the High; the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida; and the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where it heads next. “They were really focused on [Stella’s] nature works, and we have a great work by Stella here at the High,” said Stephanie Heydt, the museum’s Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art. “It was a great collaboration.”
Stella was born in 1877 in Muro Lucano, a hilly city in southern Italy. He immigrated to New York originally intending to follow his brother into medicine, but after a uninspired stint in medical school, he pivoted to painting. Stella studied briefly under the impressionist painter William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and soon developed a reputation as a sensitive interpreter of the urban working class.
The High’s exhibit features of some of these early works, in which the natural world spills out amidst the smokestacks and steel mills of America’s industrial revolution. “This is the Progressive Era at the turn of the twentieth century,” Heydt explained. “And he’s looking at the people in his own community, specifically the Italian immigrants.”
Traveling back in Europe, Stella was inspired by the contemporary artists he saw there: the cubism of Pablo Picasso and early futurism of Umberto Boccioni. He drew on these sources back in the U.S, earning acclaim for his dynamic geometric paintings of the metropolis; several choice selections, including American Landscape (1929), and Smoke Stacks (1921), are on view in this exhibit.
But even as Stella built his career on the towering achievements of urban industry, he yearned for the sunny landscapes of his youth. He frequented havens like the Bronx Botanical Gardens, which opened in 1891 and offered escape from New York’s sooty streets. Walking through Brooklyn one day, he later wrote in an essay, he stumbled across a sapling.
“This little tree is coming up from a crack in the sidewalk, shadowed by a factory, and he sees himself in this tree,” Heydt said. “He says, This is me.”
That encounter inspired Tree of My Life (1919) a florid aria sung to the natural world. A sturdy olive tree—Stella himself—anchors the canvas, surrounded by a vortex of tropical plants, birds, and, in the background, Stella’s native Italian hills. Brandywine Museum Director Thomas Padon envisaged the exhibit after seeing Tree of My Life in a private collection. “I was transfixed,” Padon told the New York Times.
Stella painted Tree of My Life and Brooklyn Bridge within a year of each other, announcing a duality that would define the rest of this career. While he painted flowers throughout his life, it was his moody, futurist treatments of New York that made him an art-world celebrity. European artists fleeing World War I were landing in New York in droves, sparking a new creative fascination with the cutting-edge American city. “(Marcel) Duchamp says the art of Europe is dead, and this century is about America,” explained Heydt. “Stella’s understood to be one of the first American-based painters to figure out . . . how to paint the new modern city.”
But Stella’s love of the natural world—and of Europe—endured. He returned to botanical themes throughout his life, infused with the Old Master styles of the Italian Renaissance. Many works in this exhibit invoke the sun-drenched vistas and towering cathedrals of Italy, overrun by sumptuous flowers that are decidedly not native to the Iberian peninsula. Stella—a native turned immigrant—seems to delight in the contradiction: in Dance of Spring (1924), tropical orchids and calla lilies burst open in a beam of beatific light, like Jesus rising to the heavens in a Raphael. Purissima (1927), part of the High’s own collection, evokes the iconic Renaissance Madonna, here transformed by Stella’s whimsy: the stamens of a lily serve as her celestial crown, while snowy egrets (the Florida kind) grace her sides.
With saturations of color abounding in every room, Visionary Nature enjoys an added depth through words. Stella was a prolific writer, and the exhibit makes canny use of text to explore his passion for the living world. “My devout wish,” reads one such diary segment on view, “That my every working day might begin and end . . . with the light, gay painting of a flower.” In a unique addition to their exhibition, the High created a short video featuring more of Stella’s own thoughts. “We wanted to end with his voice telling us how he felt about various paintings in the show . . . or his ideas about art,” explained Heydt.
Stella, who died in 1946, spent the last years of his life in ill health, largely confined to his studio. He never stopped painting the natural world; a few of those last works, modest trees still full of flair, are on view here. A few years before his death, his friend and fellow artist Charmion von Wiegand paid a visit to his studio. She found Stella amidst a riot of color, studiously painting his favorite subject. “Flower studies of all kinds litter the floor,” wrote von Wiegand, “and turn it into a growing garden.”
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Influencers church (Paradise) fireworks 19/12/2014
Carols and Fireworks.
Canon EOS 5D, 24-70L, ND2-400 Variable filter, 1 sec exposure and longer
2015
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A role player from the fictional village of Bayan relaxing by the village's clinic during Exercise MAPLE RESOLVE 19 at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Detachment Wainwright on May 11th, 2019.
Image By: Private Jordyn Anderson
Garrison Wainwright Imaging
WT07-2019-0013-003
People often mistake me for an historian, which is wrong, but I can see how they might get that impression. I think of myself as many things – explorer, adventurer, photographer, artist, writer, poet, storyteller. Some of those are synonymous, but they give away the fact that I'm not purely motivated by the past. What drives me is discovery. It could be the search for something our species left behind in the forest – abandoned roads, cemeteries, vehicles, or buildings. But I spend just as much time around sleepy backroad bridges, walking smalltown side streets, and getting distracted by the natural beauty beyond any human influence. An historian does extensive research – not me! My patience concludes after writing down a few facts, consulting my old maps, and making notes from local word of mouth and rural legend. I'm heavily indebted to the researchers who came before me, as I tell my own life story wherever it takes me. As much as anything else, I'm looking to find myself.
January 2, 2025
Bear River, Nova Scotia
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Influencers church (Paradise) fireworks 19/12/2014
Carols and Fireworks.
Canon EOS 5D, 24-70L, ND2-400 Variable filter, 1 sec exposure and longer
2015
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LITTLE ONE and EYE SPY
Tuesday 9 and Wed 17 July, 7.30pm, £10, Lock 91, 9 Century Street, Manchester M3 4QL; and
Friday 12 and Saturday 13 July, 7.30pm, £10, Eagle Inn, 18-19 Collier Street, Salford, M3 7DW.
Two one hour twisted yet comic explorations looking at the darker side of human nature with a short interval between. We all recognise love, we all understand hate and yet we dance between them day-by-day. How far do those emotions take us and can they push us across lines we should never have crossed? The first, Little One by Hannah Moscovitch is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire - one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable - and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail order bride. The second is Eye Spy, a company devised piece: A cycle of six short plays that take a peek at the not so distant future. Eye Spy is set in a Tech-obsessed society and looks at the stories of people living under the 'BOOK' regime. Sarah, a modern influencer needs more followers, how far will she go to get them? Jack has started wearing his yellow hat with pride, why? Will we ever find the Hacker? Whatever you do DON'T type a FORBIDDEN WORD!
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Meeting details at 2011 Top 100 SMB Influencers. Picture by Grant Wickes principal of Wickpoint Management Services and currently VP Businss Development Wasp Barcode Technologies.
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