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My optimistic storm chase target in southwest Kansas busted yesterday afternoon—at least until well after dark. But further southwest, I did catch an excellent sunset mammatus and lightning display later from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Meanwhile, a lunar Eclipse was on tap for this morning. And lunar eclipses are very cool. So, I got up early for that.
Most of us are optimistic about having Barack Obama as our next President and we look forward with great Hope.
Barack knows that he is the beneficiary of the work of all those who came before. Many have sacrificed - and in some cases - suffered or died for the rights of others.
On this day, one day before the inauguration of Our 44th President, we celebrate a special birthday.
Thank you Martin.
from wiki:
" 'I Have A Dream' is the popular name given to the public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., when he spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites among others would coexist harmoniously as equals. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.
According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 'Dr. King had the power, the ability and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a modern day pulpit. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.'
Optimistically, the seeds of hope we sow will bear fruits, like this beautiful tree in our community.
I am optimistic about actually doing this year's Life Book lessons. Last year got away from me, but thankfully, I've got all the lessons saved. Yay! This year, though, I am going to sit down once a week and actually do the lessons. This Fairy Art Mother is totally inspired by Tamara LaPorte. willowing.org
A Group of Four Optimistic Cactus Flowers In My Front Garden
These glorious cactus flowers in my front garden open at night and last for a single day. They are so optimistic that they will be fertilized quickly.
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Unusually optimistic future vision for Britain in 1933. This was a short lived era of modernism in British graphics. By the end of the decade it was back to the stodgy clichés of Merrie Olde England and Better Safe Than Sorry.
Feeling optimistic for no good reason. Maybe that is the best time for optimism.
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GTWL Adjective Optimistic
I was optimistic when I was boarding my little boat this morning. It looks easy to operate Optimist class yachts, but it’s not. I was especially nervous when there was no wind and my boat didn’t want to move much.
It’s nice to know that my mobile is waterproof, in such scenery.
Photo captured off U.S. Highway 101, the Redwood Highway, via Minolta MD Tele Rokkor-X 135mm F/2.8 Lens. Near False Klamath Cove. In the unincorporated, rural and census-designated place of Klamath. Coast Range. North Coast. Del Norte County, Northern California. "State of Jefferson." Late July 2017.
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 5500 K
An optimistic objective on the now abandoned charity shop at Chase Farm Hospital, with a previously abandoned section of the hospital behind it. let's hope that the buildings that have replaced these fare better.
He optimistically orchestrated an onerous operation to overtly oppress the obnoxious outlaw owl to outrage by overtaking him with an old oaken oar. The ordinary ordinance only offered the odds to offset the odoriferous and odious oaf to operate with obscurity. We observe an obsolete obsession with obstreperousness originating with ornate obstacles.
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I woke up Saturday morning feeling optimistic. It was totally overcast, but there was no wind and no rain. Perfect weather for long exposure water shots! I grabbed my gear and headed out to one of my favorite spots, Catherine Furnace in the George Washington National Forest.
Only when I got there, I was shocked by what I found. The area all around the stream was torn up, bushes and trees removed, dirt and rocks misplaced, barriers everywhere. WTF?! Turns out the Forest Service has decided to replace the bridge that spans Roaring Run where it empties into Cub Run. So despite the ideal weather conditions and beautiful Spring foliage, my composition options were limited if I didn't want barriers to appear in my photos.
This is just another event in a long string of events that convinces me I have a photography curse. Last year, everyone I know that went to Shenandoah National Park saw a LOT of bears. Me? I saw two all year. I've been up to shoot the sunrise 6 or 7 times in the last few months and they've all been a bust. I can't find ducklings or goslings anywhere. My 5D broke. And now they've torn up one of my favorite photo spots! If that's not a curse, I don't know what is.
On a positive note, this is some of the best water flow I've ever seen at Cub Run, thanks to all the constant rain.
...hard work in a heat that would make most of us collapse within a few hours. Still there is room for a pure and warm smile!
Rice- farmers working after the sunset. Somewhere on the road west of Nong Khai, near the Mekong river, north-east Thailand 2008...
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"I'm an optimistic beauty. Never impolite. / Easy like Saturday, mid-day. / Breezy, chilled-out, dumb girl."
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"That's Life"
Bif Naked
I like babytalking, popcorn without butter,
and anybody who will pay attention
to these requirements.
I'm an optimistic beauty. Never impolite.
Easy like Saturday, mid-day.
Breezy, chilled-out, dumb girl.
Thats life with me. I know.
Around and around you will go.
But, if I french kiss you
in the broad daylight,
you'll fall in love..oh,oh,oh.
That's life with me. I know.
Well I am pretending to be a free-bouncing lover.
I wear my defensive mask of optimism like a badge.
And ultimately. I am much to lazy to change.
I'm rather conditioned to my life of melodrama.
Thats life with me. I know.
Around and around you will go.
But, if I french kiss you
in the broad daylight,
you'll fall in love..oh,oh,oh.
That's life with me. I know.
That's life with me. Thats how it will be, my friend.
A roller coaster ride you won't forget.
I am just a mess. I am just a mess, at best.
I am just a blue-ribbon prize winner till the end.
Thats life with me. I know.
Around and around you will go.
But, if I french kiss you
in the broad daylight,
you'll fall in love..oh,oh,oh.
That's life with me. I know.
Queen Of Blood, 1966
(aka Planet of Blood)
The 60s saw quite a few foreign sci-fi dubbed into english, with new english-speaking actor footage inserted. Queen of Blood (QoB) is a bolder and more expansive example of that sub-genre. While others stayed fairly true to their original stories, Curtis Harrington (writer and director) turned the original, Mechte Navstrechu, on its head. Much of the first half of QoB is made out of footage from the 1962 original. The second half of QoB is almost all new footage starring John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith and Dennis Hopper. Harrington turned a sentimental soviet sci-fi romantic piece into a moody sci-fi horror story.
Synopsis
See the original plot synopsis here. Briefly, signals are received on earth from an alien spaceship on its way to earth. It crashes on Mars for unknown reasons. Earth sends one team of astronauts to mount a rescue. After that team encounters trouble en route and is low on fuel, a second ship is sent to help out. Turns out there were no survivors on the main alien ship. An escape pod is found on Phobos, with an alien woman still barely alive. They all regroup and take her aboard their ship for the trip to earth. On the way, she regains consciousness, but cannot speak. She does not eat, but has strangely hypnotic eyes. She feeds on Paul, drinking his blood. He is found dead the next day. Anders argues that she should not be killed, but studied on earth. She gets him the next night. Allan ties her up, but that next night, she uses her heat vision to burn the ropes. She is feeding on Allan, but Laura interrupts her. In a mild scuffle, Laura scratches the alien, who runs screaming. Allan revives and finds the alien dead. She bled to death (green blood). As they land on earth, Laura discovers dozens of pulsating eggs hidden around in the ship. Dr. Farraday wants them saved for study. Fade to black, The End
Laungton's Nightmare -- In the original soviet movie, the token westerner, Dr. Laungton, is derided for his worry that first contact with aliens might be dangerous. QoB plays out perfectly as the alternate ending as imagined by Laungton. Ironically, QoB reinforces the soviet writers' assertion that westerners are fearful pessimists. Harrington takes their romantically optimistic vision (MN) and turns it into a grim horror piece.
An ethical question raised during QoB, (a couple times) is whether the guilty party (the alien "queen") should be put to death for her "crimes" or preserved for science to study. Allan (John Saxon) espouses the cowboy justice point of view in wanting her killed for her first crime. Anders and later Dr. Farraday argue she is too valuable to science to kill. Anders even suggests that her survival is so important that he, Laura and Allan should give blood donations to the queen to keep her (a) from getting so hungry she kills them and (b) to keep her alive for study on earth. Science demanded it's "pound of flesh".
Foundations of Alien -- QoB is one of the movies cited as a precursor to the 80s blockbuster Alien. Great things seldom come totally out of the blue, but draw upon foundations set by others. It! Terror from Beyond Space ('58) featured the crew trapped in a ship with a killer alien theme. QoB repeats this, but with the feeding-upon-them twist. Of course, the other famous It was The Thing ('51) in which the alien used human blood to nourish its eggs. QoB draws on this too. Night of the Blood Beast ('58) featured an alien which implants embryonic "young" into the body of a living human host. QoB adds the eggs while it repeats the monster-onboard device.
While most of the first half of QoB reuses footage from Mechte Navstrechu, several model scenes (rockets, mostly) are used from Nebo Zovyot. Corman acquired the rights to both, so used them like a clip library. Viewers will note that the moon base "Lunar 7" is also reused from Corman/Harrington's prior re-edit movie Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet ('65).
Unlike most movies in the re-edit sub-genre, There is almost no dubbing. Only one TV announcer is kept and dubbed, as well as one small scene where a scientist talks via a videophone to an assistant. Other than that, all the original Russian actors are cut out Their roles are roughly filled with english-speaking stars. Distant shots of the Russians in their space suits are kept. The Americans are given roughly similar (though cheaper looking) spacesuits. The result was pretty well done, such that someone not familiar with the original would not notice any discontinuity.
QoB is actually a pretty well done mash-up of prior soviet sci-fi footage and new footage. While its story line is entirely new, it is well presented and develops a fair bit of atmosphere.
The film stars John Saxon, Basil Rathbone, Judi Meredith (The Night Walker), Dennis Hopper (Night Tide), Florence Marly, Robert Boon, Don Eitner and features a cameo appearance by horror personality Forrest J Ackerman.
Life can push me down
Life can wrinkle my skin
Life can shadow the sun
Life can simply pass me by
That will never break my spirit
I will stay optimistic
That just how it is
Life is what I live for
Part of the United Kingdom Set
Hey! here is a portrait(s) for a change. You might remember one of the girls from this other portrait. Still continuing shots from the London trip with the class. I can't remember the exact name of the place but its the church where they filmed the Hogwarts lunch room in Harry Potter. There was a gift shop and while a lot of the students bought stuff, most of them where wise and thought that a poster of a knight should not cost 35 pounds / 57 dollars.
Have a great monday!
Nathan