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COCA-COLA SIDE OF LIFE ART REMIX
Asa Griggs Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company, was also a real estate developer and banker and famous for his philanthropy. Born in 1851 as one of eleven children of a prosperous merchant and planter, Candler was brought up with strong religious beliefs and a firm work ethic.
Candler became a successful manufacturer of patent medicines, and in 1888 he bought the Coca-Cola production rights from founder John Pemberton. He immediately realized the business potential of Coca-Cola and acquired complete ownership of the Coca-Cola business for $2,300 by 1891. He changed the formula several times to improve taste, improve shelf life and insure he had a unique product, because several people had known Pemperton’s original formula. Within four years, Candler’s merchandising flair helped expand consumption of Coca-Cola to every corner of the United States. Using innovative advertising and distribution methods, Candler marketed this new product no longer as a medecine but as a soft drink. In 1908 the Coca-Cola script had been spread across 2.5 million square feet of walls and 10,000 windows displayed Coca-Cola signs.
ROCKANDROLL AGENCY is a full-cycle communication agency offering marketing services, strategic development and art direction. RockAndRoll Agency was founded in 2003 by Jean-Philippe Noterman and Wouter De Coster. Jean-Philippe studied philosophy/anthropology, Wouter has a background as fashion designer. Before starting RockAndRoll Agency, they worked already together for 5 years in the publishing and communication business.
RockAndRoll Agency is dedicated to the production of visual identity design, graphic animation and websites. As art buyers and curators, RRA is always looking for artists with strong ideas and an individual voice. Contact: wdc@rockandrollagency.com
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Photo captured via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 135mm F/2.8 Lens. Stuart Mountain Range. Central Cascades Range. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2016.
Exposure Time: 30 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Filter: Vü Sion Filter ND-10
I'm going to be optimistic today. Because, frankly, I really really need it.
1. I love my cameras. Even though I grumble about it a lot, I do enjoy looking back on my past 365s, so I can only imagine I will do the same for this one. Even the crappy, quick snaps like this.
2. My kid is my ultimate happiness. There is nothing more amazing or unexplainable than the love between a mother and her child.
3. I really enjoy rain. I know, sunshine is lovely, and lately I've been craving it...but nothing beats that low-lying blanket of clouds and the sound of raindrops plunking into puddles. For me, anyway.
4. I love coffee. A lot. I grew up every day of my life watching my parents sit at the breakfast table with big mugs of steaming coffee and talk and laugh. It's more than just some awesomely delicious liquid that zaps the sleep outta me. It's...comfort and habitual and a memory.... and I adore that.
5. I love simplicity and snuggly clutter. Yes, both. I like things like...bare white walls and a simple one color bedspread with a shelf that is just chock full of knick knacks and odds and ends. It's a balance, you see.
6. I love that feeling when you wake up all warm and comfy and know you have nowhere to be. Of course, I'm a mommy...so technically...I always have 'somewhere' to be...but at least I can do it in my jammies.
7. I love it when I can't find the words to finish what I want to say, or I say the wrong word, and whoever I'm talking to just knows exactly what I mean and doesn't say a word. Bliss.
8. I love the smell of a new book. I also love the sound it makes when you first open it.
9. I love it when everything is where it belongs. I have a mini-panic attack when I wake up to a mess...pretty much anywhere.
10. I love laughing so hard that I feel it in my stomache...the next day. Where, its so funny you are in physical pain and your eyes water. It doesn't sound awesome, but trust me....it makes your whole week better.
11. I love waking up from happy dreams, and my whole day seems that much brighter.
12. I love simple pleasures. Like a surprise candy bar, or water by my bed when I wake up, or when a diaper miraculously changes itself. Yep, my husband is pretty good at that stuff.
13. I love warm, sunny summer evenings where you have nothing but a screen door between you and the smell of growth and moisture and bbqs, and you can almost hear the grass move as you watch it.
14. I love days of quiet and privacy, where I can wander around in my shorts and tank tops all day and noone sees me but my 1 yr old. If the doorbell rings, I ain't home.
15. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Emerson
*hugs*
mwah
.K
Random Fact: 16 pennies stacked up equals one inch, and 16 pennies in a line is one foot.
They say that hope makes the world go round. Whether we admit this as an universal truth is a different argument altogether . But my world does revolve around hope. The impossible optimist that I am, I live on hope. I hope clean drinking water would be available to all and every child would have a fair education. I hope to wake up one day to a world where there is no poverty, no fanaticism, no war, no genocide. I hope that each of my days start only to end perfectly. I hope my friends and my loved ones would be by my side at all times. I hope that one day transcontinental travel time would let me see my mum almost as soon as I start missing her. I hope to be able to cook up a fabulous meal in a jiffy. I hope to be able to possess a Louis Vuitton without having to spend a fortune on it. I hope that these cups will magically breed cakes overnight. I hope of new hopes every day.
In March 1969 the prototype Bristol VRLL Eastern Coach Works bodied double deck motor coach for Standerwick, fleet number 50, was in Victoria Coach Station. There was so much optimism and excitement for this and subsequent vehicles of the batch at the time, but I think they eventually became a liability due to a number of problems in their design. My photo.
Photo captured from the Sweet Creek Falls Interpretive Trail at Sweet Creek Rest Area, alongside State Route 31, the International Selkirk Loop and the North Pend Oreille Scenic Byway, via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens. Selkirk Mountains Range. Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Pend Oreille County, Washington. Early October 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-250 * Aperture: F/4 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 3905 K
Clem brought his daughter, Lucy, to work with him. She had never ridden in a train engine before let alone driven one. Pretty big day for a four year old. Too bad Clem suffered a heart attack and hadn't bothered showing Lucy how to stop the train!
The above story is fictitious.
Kern County, California 2013
The Atomium is the iconic building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m (335 ft) tall. Its nine stainless steel clad spheres are connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. It also works as a museum.
In 1958, it was said that the Atomium embodied the boldness of a time wanting to confront the fate of humanity with the scientific discoveries. The building had to symbolize the trust in the scientific progress and give a brand image to the World Fair, the first one organized since that of New York in 1939. The idea was centred on an optimistic modernity intended to make people forget World War II.
Another day, another dollar spent.
I'm also not grumpy today, so hells to the yes on that.
I also think this might be a record, as I took only 2 shots. For setting up a manipulation, even with me being one to half-ass things, still I am impressed by that number.
Inspiration for this? A lot of shit hitting the fan and me seeing a jar in my closet. *click*
My kid is bored. I better go play happy entertaining mommy. :)
G'night yo
mwah
.K
Random Fact: A henley style shirt is called so because it is a no-collar knit with buttoned placket, and they were worn by rowers in Henley, England. It was originally a rower’s shirt.
The Exchange Hotel is located on the corner of Edward and Charlotte Streets. Peter Hartley first purchased the land in 1850 and the hotel was constructed in 1863, during Hartley’s period of ownership. Like many other hotels in Brisbane, the Exchange Hotel was built on a street corner. This ensured these hotels became familiar landmarks by which a particular intersection might easily be identified. The Exchange Hotel was also built during Brisbane’s first significant building boom, which took place in the early 1860s. According to Gordon Greenwood, “The optimism of the early sixties produced a building boom which led to a rapid increase in the number of residences, shops and public buildings”.
The first advertisement for this hotel drew attention to the superior accommodation for gentlemen and families, good stables and proximity to the A.S.N. Wharves located at the Town Reach of the river. These characteristics reflected the purpose of hotels in Brisbane during the nineteenth century. According to Morrison, writing in the 1880s:
Few cities afford such a variety of hostelry accommodation as the City of Brisbane. The shifting character of the population, and the enormous opportunities for speculation have created a large demand for temporary homes.
Hotels thus played an intrinsic role in the development of Brisbane, particularly given the significance of land speculation in the city’s history. This is reinforced by the construction of this hotel during a property boom, when the need for temporary accommodation was acute.
The Exchange Hotel was situated in the locality known as ‘Frogs Hollow’, an area bounded by Alice, George, Elizabeth and Edward Streets. For much of the nineteenth century, this section of the city was known as Frogs Hollow because it was a low-lying, marshy area prone to flooding.
In this period the area was largely filled with residential properties, boarding houses, various small businesses and the odd warehouse or factory. All of these were adjacent to the city’s increasingly busy wharves, a ferry terminal and the Botanic Gardens. It was a place that teemed with life both day and night and would have also ensured a strong trade for local hotels, along with accommodation.
The Exchange Hotel was remodelled in 1887 during another period of an economic and building boom in Brisbane, which occurred throughout most of the 1880s. During this period a large number of Brisbane hotels were built or extended and redeveloped, primarily to accommodate the dramatic increase of Brisbane’s population, which almost trebled during the decade. Architect John Ibler invited tenders for alterations and additions to the Hotel in early June 1887. Ibler was born in Bavaria, Germany, and practiced as an architect in Victoria before moving to Brisbane in 1886. It is unclear what ‘alterations and additions’ were carried out but it is likely that the Hotel was extended along the Edward and Charlotte Street frontages, amongst other changes. The current shape of the building was therefore fixed in this period.
The location of the Exchange in Frogs Hollow also illustrates the other primary purpose of hotels in Brisbane’s history, that is, as places for social gatherings. In particular, according to Ronald Lawson, by the 1890s Brisbane’s hotels functioned as working men’s clubs: “the vast majority of hotel patrons were workingmen: there was a strong lower-class taint associated with drinking in hotels”. This was the case in a hotel’s ‘public bar’ as opposed to the ‘private bar’, which was only available to guests staying at the hotel. From the 1880s onward, Frogs Hollow was increasingly filled with warehouses and light industry and the proximity of the Hotel to such businesses would have ensured a strong trade from working men.
The significance of hotels providing accommodation continued past the nineteenth century. An advertisement for the Exchange Hotel in the Brisbane newspaper the Sun, in 1912, draws attention to the fact that the hotel is a:
First-class Home for Visitors of Moderate Means. Centrally situated in the very heart of the City. Convenient to all the Theatres – midway between Principal Wharves and Central Railway Station, and within two Minutes of Botanical Gardens.
Thus the purpose of the nineteenth century hotel as temporary accommodation remained more or less the same into the early twentieth century. This advertisement further reinforces the element of travel that brought guests to the hotel; in this case the wharves and rail. It also suggests that the Hotel benefited from being close to such Brisbane attractions as the theatres and the Botanic Gardens and therefore drew business from the early tourist trade.
The working class aspect of hotel patronage also extended well beyond the nineteenth century. In particular, Australian Labor Party (ALP) staff and politicians frequented the Exchange Hotel from the early 1950s through to the early 1970s. The ALP’s state headquarters was located in Invicta House, on the corner of Elizabeth and Edward Streets, from 1958 to 1972, and its leaders and senior members regularly patronised the Exchange Hotel. The importance of the Exchange Hotel to the ALP, during this period is best summed up by the following 1972 quote from the Brisbane newspaper The Sunday Sun: “Some of the most important political decisions in Labor Party history have been discussed and made over its bars”.
The Hotel underwent a number of renovations in the 1950s and 1960s, and this is possibly when the verandahs were removed. However, the pressure of commercial development on CBD corner sites, the change in drinking habits caused by the state government’s drink driving campaigns and the spread of off-licence beer, wine and spirits shops throughout Brisbane’s suburbs have all contributed to the demise of hotels in the CBD. Of the thirty-two hotel sites identified within the Central Business District in 1951, only seven remain, including the Exchange Hotel. Nonetheless, a new generation of patrons have ensured the popularity of the ‘pub’. This is reflected in extensive renovations to the Hotel, which were carried out in 2002, converting the Exchange into a modern entertainment venue.
J. M. Freeland has argued that “The pub is one of the most socially significant, historically valued, architecturally interesting and colourful features of Australian Society…[it] has never been a mere transplant and adaptation of an English progenitor”. The Exchange Hotel provides evidence of these attributes. It is also one of the oldest remaining hotels in the CBD. The Exchange represents an important visual reminder of the prominence of the hotel in the history of Brisbane and, in particular, the CBD.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
Well if anyone knows me, or knows my work, I am really not much for optimism. Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed, how terrible, and what a stupid way to live. It is so hard to change, but I am trying... it is difficult to change after so many years, so I am not there, I don't know if I will ever be, but I can't give up. I know now if I did give up, what is there to live for... and I want to live, truly LIVE!
Now of course... a quote :)
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”
-Elbert Hubbard
I was going to use this until I thought about things:
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
-Crowfoot
Its like answering the famous question ...
Is the glass half-empty OR is the glass half-full?
In this case...
Will i climb Or will i Fall?
Optimism is about shifting the odds in our favor. Its about training oneself to make good decisions when faced with crisis situations. Its about hanging in there and working against negative forces . Its the confidence inside us , our own capability to improve our own situations!....
BELEIVE IN YOURSELF!
playing with post processing
awaiting yet another snowstorm of measurable inches ~sigh~.......... so was looking thru a kaleidoscope/teleidoscope with my camera again. found this pic that i liked but the dust and cat hairs distracted, so i was taking them out and playing with sliders and *voila* an abstract ~grin~
often wondered if i should leave the 'how i did it' out-- would that make it more mysterious??
oh, i just realized i could use this for:
scavenger3 "how did you do that?"
and
scavchal16-- i'd say an optimist ~grin~
looks hot hot hot on black ~grin~
El optimismo es un imán de felicidad. Si te mantienes positivo, las cosas buenas y las personas buenas se sentirán atraídas hacia ti.
Ten paciencia con todo lo que queda sin resolver en tu corazón. No se desespere si las respuestas no llegan inmediatamente. Algunas respuestas solo se revelan con el paso del tiempo.
樂觀是一塊幸福的磁鐵。 如果你保持積極的態度，那麼美好的事物和美好的人就會被你吸引。
對心中未解決的一切要有耐心。 如果沒有立即得到答案，請不要失望。 有些答案只是隨著時間的流逝而揭曉。
The optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.
I was always optimistic and hopeful that Obama would win the United States presidency. I was at a company celebration on the evening of the 4th and all I could think about was the election results.
I was celebrating this historic moment as it was happening. I was truly, profoundly moved when I learned that Obama had officially won (when I got home). I'm still riding on that feeling since last week, watching the Obama victory speech, Obama fan videos. It really has made me renew hope in humanity and even if I'm not American, I believe Obama can unite more than a nation.
To people expressing cynicism, saying that Obama can't change anything and that hope will only be crushed, I say that hope drives us forward and drives us to do unimaginable things. At the very least, hope is making me and a lot of people a bit happier for the time being.
Watch It's a New Day from will.i.am on youtube for some Obama-inspired music.
I loved the open expression which flitted across this woman's face for a brief instant: otherwise she was quite stern. She was selling betel nuts and other vegetables in the tiny village market of Thanh Thuy about 8 km from Hue.
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This proverbial phrase is used to encourage optimism and a positive can-do attitude in the face of adversity. These days we've been handed great big lemons in the form of a worldwide health crisis called the coronavirus.
And, there are many ways to make coronavirus lemonade....you can use your time to accomplish a special project; to read some good books or; to donate to the needy. It is a time when we should be staying socially distant but, when it's finally over, I'm confident that it will actually bring us closer together. Perhaps when we look back, this coronavirus episode will ultimately become a much-needed lesson in humanity. God bless us all.
The tendency to be hopeful and to emphasize or think of the good part in a situation rather than the bad part, or the feeling that in the future good things are more likely to happen than bad things
Learner's definition of
OPTIMISM : a feeling or belief that good things will happen in the future : a feeling or belief that what you hope for will happen
Both of them expressed optimism about the future of the town.
The early sales reports are cause/reason/grounds for optimism.
Most of us reacted to the news with cautious/guarded optimism. [=a feeling that something good may happen but will not definitely happen]
— opposite pessimism
A photograph taken a year or so ago, when on holiday in Dartmoor. The weather was hideous we were fairly high up at this point, and the cloud started coming thickly down until it submerged the whole area. I admit that at this point I personally wished that i had not read quite as many Steven King books. The irony of having an ice cream van, ever hopeful of a British summer though amused me.