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James River Filmmakers Forum held on Saturday, February 23 at 8 p.m. at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, 1812 W. Main Street. Admission is free. Donations encouraged.
The lineup:
• Robert Massa (visiting filmmaker from NC) – The Box (4 minutes)
• Paul Hugins (visiting filmmaker from Alexandria) – Applications (8 minutes)
• James Mattise – As Best I Can Remember (12 minutes)
• Nils Westergard / Daniel Ardura – William (15 minutes)
• John Cappello – Cain (15 minutes)
• Christine Stoddard / David Fuchs – The Persistence of Poe (22 minutes)
jamesriverfilm.org/event/james-river-filmmakers-forum-2/
info@jamesriverfilm.org
this photo appears in the book xgray vision, which is available for sale through blurb.com.
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Nikiya had lost her job toward the end of 2019. When the pandemic hit, in March 2020, finding a job as a single mother suddenly became even more difficult. After working with PA Women Work to strengthen her job search skills, Nikiya landed a job and fearlessly jumped into her new role as a frontline healthcare worker in the COVID-19 pandemic. The persistence she showed in her job search and the courage she has wielded throughout this difficult year are impressive, earning her a 2020 Woman of Courage award from PA Women Work.
You can read Nikiya's full story of strength and watch a video of her journey here: www.pawomenwork.org/success-stories/nikiya-davis-2020-wom....
Along the Sitges promenade, rows of makeshift stalls line the pavement — colourful spreads of T-shirts, handbags, and trainers laid out under the Mediterranean sun. Business may be slow, but the determination of these traders never wavers; each shirt neatly folded, each hour a quiet testament to endurance and hope.
🇫🇷Le long de la promenade de Sitges, les étals improvisés s’alignent sur le trottoir — un kaléidoscope de T-shirts, de sacs et de baskets sous le soleil méditerranéen. Les ventes se font rares, mais la détermination des vendeurs reste inébranlable ; chaque chemise soigneusement pliée, chaque heure une preuve silencieuse de persévérance et d’espoir.
This is another sculpture by Salvador Dali, one that borrows from his most famous theme, the melting clocks (or soft watches). Interestingly, this bronze bears the same title as his most famous painting (Persistence of Memory), which he produced in 1931. There is no doubt that these pieces (the bronze as well as the painting) symbolize the element of time, but I found it very interesting to read about the various interpretations of so-called art experts and critiques on what Dali really tried to portray with these works of art, especially the painting (reproduced below). Try page 5 of this document .
CHDK timelapse of little ants marching over a terrain of decomposed granite. The memory card filled up right as they were dragging a larger, captured ant into focus, that had been trying to cross their line.
@ Caesars Palace
I've been working this graveshift and I ain't made shit
I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly past the sky
- Kanye West
So I did get grilled by the security guards when I started to shoot people at the table games but was able to take a few shots.
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Sb-900 @ 1/2 power into Brollybox Camera left.
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El reto final de todas las especies siempre ha sido la perduración en el tiempo. Los dinosaurios lo intentaron con todas sus fuerzas. Pero aquí nuestro protagonista descubrió tarde que las almendras no son huevos…
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The final challenge of all species has always been the persistence over time. Dinosaurs tried with all his might. But here our hero discovered too late that almonds are not eggs…
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Fauchois. The card, which has a divided back, was printed by Baudinière of Paris.
The people in the photograph (and the horse!) have obviously been posed for the shot.
Fouquereuil
Fouquereuil is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
It is a farming village situated 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Béthune and 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of Lille. Fouquereuil's population in 2017 was 1,570.
The church of St. Nicolas dates from the nineteenth century, and there is also an old mill. St. Nicholas was rebuilt, along with the rest of the village, after the Great War.
A Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is located nearby. Sandpits British Cemetery was begun by the XIII Corps at the outset of the German advance in April 1918, and continued to be used by them until September 1918.
There are now 394 Great War burials in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Shot at Dawn
One of the 394 men laid to rest in the cemetery was 15161 Private Patrick Murphy of the 47th. Battalion Machine Gun Corps. He was executed for desertion the 12th. September 1918.
He had served for most of the war, but it seems that he was convicted of desertion on 3 separate occasions. The Roman Catholic Padre reported that:
"Murphy went to his execution
wonderfully calm & resigned."
British Military Execution Protocol
chrishobbs.com tells us that nearly all executions conducted by the British Army in the Great War more or less followed the pattern described below in this first-hand account:
'The officer had loaded the rifles, and had
left them laying on the ground at our position.
We were warned to fire straight, or we may
have to suffer the same fate.
The prisoner was taken out of a car (we saw
him get out, with a black cap over his head
and guarded) and placed on the other side
of a curtain.
If we did not kill him, the officer would have
to.
As soon as the curtain dropped (the prisoner
was tied to a chair five paces away from us,
a black mark over his heart) we got the order
to fire.
One blank and nine live rounds. It went off
as one. I did not have a blank. The prisoner
did not feel it. His body moved when we fired,
then the curtain went up. The firing squad
only saw him for a few minutes.
We went back to the Battalion Orderly Room
and got a big tumbler of rum each, and we
went back to our billets, ate, and went to bed.
We had the rest of the day off. It was a job I
never wanted'.
(From 'It Made You Think of Home', the journal of Deward Barnes, CEF, on the execution of Private Harold Lodge on the 13th. March 1918).
Chris Hobbs goes on to say that even though the rate of desertion was over 4 times higher in the UK, no soldier was ever executed for desertion at home.
This was because executions abroad could be largely covered up by the Military, whereas any conducted in the UK would have provoked riots. This was especially the case after the futile loss of life that occurred during the Somme Offensive of 1916.
A Typical Execution
The condemned private spends his last night in a small room, alone with his thoughts before his execution at dawn. He might be writing painful letters to family and friends. He is also likely to be encouraged to drink heavily in order to be insensible during execution. The private is guarded by two military policemen (MPs or redcaps) and ministered by a chaplain.
The condemned man’s commanding officer (CO) orders a company of men to witness the execution, wanting to set an example to other would-be deserters. Meanwhile a firing squad assembles, sick with nerves, in the dawn light. Some of the men know the condemned and have mixed feelings about his fate, some even carrying deep resentment at having to execute him. Their rifles have been pre-loaded—one with a blank—to take some of the individual responsibility away from shooting their fighting pal.
The condemned man is led, blind drunk, to a post by two redcaps, his hands tied behind his back. The lieutenant waits at the side of the shooting party, with a medical officer (MO). The lieutenant (Lt.) gives the order to shoot the prisoner. Some deliberately shoot wide. Two of the men vomit on the spot. The MO checks the prisoner over and concludes that the private is mortally wounded, but not dead. The young lieutenant, with shaky hands, administers the coup de grâce: a bullet to the head.
A military ambulance stands by to take the corpse off to be buried. That same evening the battalion colonel writes a letter to the private’s parents informing them that their son has been shot at the front. He leaves the message deliberately ambiguous, sparing the man’s family any difficult feelings about his execution.
Posthumous Pardons
The 'Shot at Dawn' Memorial in Alrewas, Staffordshire, originally contained the names of 306 men who were executed for 'cowardice' or 'desertion'.
With many now recognised as having been suffering from mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder, these men were posthumously pardoned by Royal Assent in November 2006.
The Staffordshire memorial was created to honour their sacrifices, along with all those who died in combat fighting for the British Empire during the Great War.
200,000 serving soldiers were officially court-martialled by the British High Command during the Great War.
Of these, 20,000 were found guilty of offences that carried the death penalty. 3,000 officially received it, although most of these sentences were subsequently commuted.
In the end, of the 3,000, 346 executions were carried out by firing squad.
Now, of the 40 names left off the Shot at Dawn Memorial, three have been added, thanks to the persistence of memorial creator Andy DeComyn.
They are New Zealander Jack Braithwaite, Gunner William Lewis from Scotland, and Jesse Robert Short, from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Jack Braithwaite
Braithwaite's 'mutiny', according to the Birmingham Mail, consisted of nothing more than a misdemeanour.
The bohemian former journalist, who'd confessed at his trial to not being a natural soldier, had tried to calm down a belligerent prisoner at Blargies prison in Rouen by taking the man to his tent to feed him.
The soldier, Private Little, had been a ringleader in a small uprising against the prison guards. But Little was an Australian, and couldn't be executed because Australia's government wouldn't allow Great Britain to execute its soldiers.
Unfortunately Braithwaite was a New Zealander, and could be executed. His attempt to defuse the potential riot (sparked by appalling conditions at the prison) involved him leading Little away from the custody of a staff sergeant, which officially amounted to mutiny.
Jack was subsequently shot by firing squad on the 28th. August 1916.
Gunner William Lewis
Jack's execution occurred within five minutes of Gunner William Lewis, who'd also been involved in the uprising at the prison.
Corporal Jesse Short
Meanwhile, Corporal Jesse Short was condemned to death for uttering:
"Put a rope around that bugger's neck,
tie a stone to it and throw him into the
river".
He was said to be inciting guards barring his exit from the infamous 'Bull Ring' training camp to rebel against their officer.
This was the September 1917 Étaples Mutiny, an uprising by around 80 servicemen rebelling against what are now acknowledged to have been harsh and unreasonable conditions at the camp.
The uprising was depicted in the 1978 book (and 1986 BBC series) 'The Monocled Mutineer', the lead character in which is said to have been based at least partially on Corporal Short.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, confirmed Short's death sentence (as he had Lewis's a year earlier).
Short, Lewis, and Braithwaite received their pardons and have been honoured along with comrades who fell in battle.
The remaining 37 men who were shot, according to Richard Pursehouse of the Staffordshire military history research group the Chase Project, were not executed for mutiny, but murder.
As this also would have resulted in a death sentence even under civil law codes of the time, it was decided that their names should not be added to the memorial.
Heddy Honigmann received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival
fest07.sffs.org/awards/heddy_honigmann_pov.php
She was interviewed by John Anderson and her film Forever was shown (it also screens on Wed. May 2 at PFA)
fest07.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=46
Forever is about the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is in Paris where Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust, Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein and many others are buried.
It will be released starting in September
Next year there also will be a DVD boxed set of her films.
Navy personnel from RSS Persistence patrol the seas in the Gulf in a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat as part of OBO 2007
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These Hummingbird Moths (I know that's not their scientific name) have to be the hardest thing I've photographed. Three times this week I've rode my bike to the Butterfly Garden and tried to capture them. My persistence paid off tonight. Gosh they sure move fast. At the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
The Persistence of Loss - Inhibition
This is a series I am working on titled "The Persistence of Loss." I aim to capture the pieces of us that we lose along the way.
Watch the video on
Models - B. Weidman & J. Searle
Every time I try one of these I do something different. So I thought that this would be a great picture for my 365 challenge. See my bad photoshop skills the best I could do. Any Suggestions??
This is the result of about 150 tosses, got 6 good splashes I like this one the best. I think my Persistence paid off here :)
I saw these dandelions blooming in my yard last Friday, two days before the first snow of the season. Dandelions are tough.
At this time of year the sun sets towards the end of the pier in Southport. I had tried a few nights earlier but was thwarted by a low cloud bank about 20 minutes before sunset ... so headed out tonight and had a little more success, although the sun was setting a little more northerly than I'd hoped.
Never mind, maybe I'll try again in about 3 months.
Cheers for dropping by.
Heddy Honigmann received the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival
fest07.sffs.org/awards/heddy_honigmann_pov.php
She was interviewed by John Anderson and her film Forever was shown (it also screens on Wed. May 2 at PFA)
fest07.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=46
Forever is about the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is in Paris where Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust, Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein and many others are buried.
It will be released starting in September
Next year there also will be a DVD boxed set of her films.
The flowering trees and shrubs are being persistent against the snow and cold. It's yet to be seen how much damage has been done by the frost and snow.
I'm making a "Persistence of Vision" toy, which will show a programmed message in eight red light- emitting diodes.
In the Fab Lab we have a roll of copper foil backed with a conductive adhesive. I used a knife to cut out a hand shape. (In this case, I found it faster to work this way than to use the vinyl cutter.) I covered a small metal container with a vinyl sticker to insulate the foil board from the conductive tin. I soldered some surface mount LEDs and resistors onto the copper. I still have more to do!