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05 I Will Find You
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Nice having lots of steam engines as the High Summer timetable has just started - and the grinder problems seem to have been sorted.
Using a proper stance, when hand holding a camera, is important to minimize camera shake. There are a number of stances that accomplish this. Here, my mother-in-law demonstrates one such stance. :-)
on a road trip along MO-86, Missouri
7-2006
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
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I was driving around the gamelands by my house this week and came across this. It literally blew my mind. Its out in the middle of nowhere and I never expected to see Proper Tea. This box is at least 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh. This dude must be everywhere. I couldn't help to hop out of my truck and post up two of my own. Any idea on those other two?
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
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Sign on a pub in London, England advertising their traditional Sunday Roast, with a heavy emphasis on proper gravy. This sign is very British!
RHD and a daily runner plate. In a different part of the car park to the gathering. Note the wing mirrors!
There actually is a dam at Prado, on the other side of the 91 Frwy in the background. Again, sometime in 1975...I think. A westbound west of Corona.
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
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Photo by Stormline (Ervic Aquino). All rights reserved. This photo may not be reproduced for commercial use without the consent of the photographer. Reproduction for personal use is permitted.
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
Hosted by Team Proper
Photo by Stormline (Ervic Aquino). All rights reserved. This photo may not be reproduced for commercial use without the consent of the photographer. Reproduction for personal use is permitted.
New to Stagecoach East London in March 1999 as a dual door vehicle, this Alexander/ Dennis Trident No.17053 was repainted by Stagecoach Devon in to Devon General livery in 2007 to commemorate 100 years since the introduction of trams to Torquay. It is seen in Teignmouth approaching the sea front on a grey day.
“The poverty of modern architecture stems from the atrophy of sensuality. Everything is dominated by reason in order to create amazement without proper research. We must mistrust pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct. It is not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all, dwellings for great people.”
- Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was an influential Irish architect and designer whose iconic modernist work is among the most valuable and sought after in the world today.
Although Gray was not a trained architect, her contribution to design and architecture is incredibly significant. Her E1027 house, nestled within a rocky coastline in the south of France, was famously coveted by her contemporary Le Corbusier, while her ‘dragon’ armchair - made between 1917 and 1919 - sold at a Paris auction for almost 22 million euros in 2009, setting a record for 20th century decorative art.
Gray was born in 1878, near Enniscorthy, Wexford. Her father was a painter who encouraged her artistic interests and in 1898, she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, to study painting.
In 1900 she made her first visit to Paris – the city in which she was to spend much of her life. Moving there shortly after the trip, Gray continued her studies at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi for around five years before returning to London and the Slade school in 1905.
It was while back in the English capital that Gray chanced upon a Soho lacquer repair shop where she asked to be trained in the art of lacquer work. In 1906 she returned to Paris and began working with a contact of the Soho shop owner, a Japanese artist called Seizo Sugawara, whom she worked with for four years, despite developing lacquer disease on her hands.
It was this training however, that paved the way for her future career. In 1913, at the age of 35, Gray first exhibited her lacquer work and recently a black lacquered screen, made by the designer between 1923 and 1925, sold for 1.3 million euro at auction.
Her first major foray into furniture and interior design came at the end of the first World War, when Gray was tasked with decorating the apartment of a successful female milliner in the rue de Lota. It was during this period that she designed her famous ‘Bibendum’ chair, as well as carpets with modern geometric patterns and lamps, including the ‘tube’ style lamp for which she is also known.
Several art critics at the time hailed the work as innovative and in light of this positive response, Gray opened what was to prove a hugely successful shop in Paris - Jean Desert - to exhibit and sell her work and that of her artist friends.
In 1924, with her then partner, the Romanian architectural critic Jean Badovici, Gray’s interests turned to house design. That year she began work on ‘E-1027’ (the name of the building being a code for the couple’s initials - E for Eileen, 10 for J, the tenth letter of the alphabet, 2 for B and 7 for G).
The sharp clean lines, flat roof and ribbon windows that featured throughout the Cote d’Azur house helped make it an icon of modernist architecture. As well as collaborating with Badovici on the structural elements of the house, Gray also designed the interior and furniture – creating another design classic in the circular glass and steel E-1027 table.
Her friend and professional contemporary, Le Corbusier was said to be greatly impressed by the house and built his own summer home nearby. However, in what is believed by some critics to have been an act of jealous vandalism, he covered large areas of the white painted walls with somewhat gaudy and explicit murals, much to Gray’s distaste (they were apparently created at Badovici's behest in her absence.) It is perhaps ironic that Le Corbusier died in 1965, while swimming in the sea directly in front of E-1027, a building thought to have stirred such professional envy in him.
The house itself has been tarred by misfortune over the years – it was looted in the evacuation of the French coast during World War II, and in 1996 the then owner was murdered in the building. For years E-1027 fell into a bad state of disrepair, but it is currently being restored as part of plans by the French government, who designated it a French National Cultural Monument. The national agency, Conservatoire du Littoral, bought the villa in 1999 to secure it provisionally and it is hoped the house will be ready and open to the public again by 2015.
After the war, Gray returned to Paris and led a reclusive life, almost forgotten by the design industry. Then, in 1968, she agreed to the further production of her Bibendum chair, E-1027 table and other works with renowned London based retailer Zeev Aram – leading to the pieces becoming the modern classics they are today.
In 1973, she was recognised by her home country in the Bank of Ireland exhibition: Eileen Gray, Pioneer of Design. The event was organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) which later presented her with a honourary fellowship.
Eileen Gray died in her Paris apartment in 1976. In the following four decades her legacy lives on - her style still heavily influences modern design and the value and collectability of her work continues to grow.
History E1027, designed BY ARCHITECT EILEEN GRAY
1924: Villa is designed by Eileen Gray (with Jean Badovici)
1927: Building is completed
1932: Eileen Gray leaves the house
1937-39: Le Corbusier marks the walls with murals; Gray is displeased at his intervention
1951: Le Corbusier builds Le Cabanon next door
1960: A patron of Le Corbusier, Madame Marie-Louise Schelbert, buys E1027 at his behest
1956: Jean Badovici dies
1965: Le Corbusier has a heart attack and dies whilst swimming in the sea below
1976: Eileen Gray dies
1982: Madame Schelbert dies and a Swiss doctor (Dr. Kaegi) buys E1027
1996: Dr Kaegi is murdered in the villa by his gardeners
1999: Municipality of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the French Government buy E1027
2008: Restoration begins on now dilapidated villa
2013: The restoration had cost €600,000
2015: It is hoped that the house will be open to the public
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March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
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My children and I attended the 2016 Cup Cake meet here in Honolulu Hawaii at the Aloha Stadium. With the assistance of my daughter Abby holding my wirelessly triggered 580ex ii right in this photo I was able to properly capture the beauty of the old school truck that has a LS2 corvette engine in it! Definitely my favorite photo of the day.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II Flash
2x Wireless Triggers
35mm f9.0 1/80 ISO 200
Week 8
The series "Reflections through the Seasons"
As seen in the little garden, reflected in one of the buildings in Toronto.
I continue my series and here is the second week of Winter. Yes, that was the proper winter that week :)
No one was noticed in our little garden, just lonely wayfarers were passing by.
If you are new to my Reflections series, you are welcome to look through this set.
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
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Photo by Stormline (Ervic Aquino). All rights reserved. This photo may not be reproduced for commercial use without the consent of the photographer. Reproduction for personal use is permitted.
March 5, 2011
Oakland, CA
Hosted by Team Proper
Photo by Stormline (Ervic Aquino). All rights reserved. This photo may not be reproduced for commercial use without the consent of the photographer. Reproduction for personal use is permitted.