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Elderly Jack Pine on their last Legs
This stand of scraggly pines is facing its end as the forest matures in front of you. This "pioneer" tree dominates the nutrient-poor open dunes but finds itself crowded out by other species, as time improves the soil & growing conditions.
Jack pine needles are less than two inches long, twisted & in spreading bundles of two. Jack pine also can be identified by its irregular scaly ridged bank.
The closed cones open during the intense heat of fire. Burned, sterile soil limits most plants but is ideal for germinating Jack pine seeds. Jack pine is commonly clear cut for paper pulp.
*Jack Pine
Pinus Banksiana
British postcard. Image: Touchstone Home Video. Uma Thurman on the British poster for the video release of Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994). Caption: Own it now on video!
Blonde and blue-eyed American actress Uma Thurman (1970) is best known for her roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and was hailed as Tarantino's muse. Furthermore, she starred in a wide variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films.
Uma Karuna Thurman was born in 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. She is the daughter of Nena Thurman (née Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge), a fashion model and socialite who now runs a mountain retreat, and of Robert Thurman (Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman), a professor and academic who is one of the nation's foremost Buddhist scholars. Uma grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where her father worked at Amherst College. Thurman's household was one in which The Dalai Lama was an occasional guest; she and her siblings all have names deriving from Buddhist mythology; and Middle American behaviour was little understood, much less pursued. And so it was that the young Thurman confronted childhood with an odd name and eccentric home life - and nature seemingly conspired against her as well. She is six feet tall, and from an early age Uma towered over everyone else in her class. The family constantly relocated, making the gangly, socially inept Thurman perpetually the new kid in class. The result was an exceptionally awkward, self-conscious, lonely, and alienated childhood. Unsurprisingly, the young Thurman enjoyed making believe she was someone other than herself, and so thrived at acting in school plays. This interest, and her lanky frame, perfect for modeling, led the 15-year-old Thurman to New York City for high school and modeling work (including a layout in Glamour Magazine) as she sought acting roles. The roles soon came. She made her film debut in the teen thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight (Peter Ily Huemer, 1987). It was followed by Terry Gilliam's interesting box office bomb, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), starring John Neville. She made a brief appearance as the goddess Venus, and during her entrance, she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus'. Then followed her breakthrough in Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, which was based on the 1782 French novel 'Les liaisons dangereuses' by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The period romantic drama, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer, brought much attention to her unorthodox sensuality. Her performance intriguingly combined innocence and worldliness. The weird, gangly girl became a sex symbol virtually overnight.
Uma Thurman continued to be offered good roles in Hollywood pictures into the early 1990s, the least commercially successful but probably best-known of which was her smoldering, astonishingly-adult performance as June, Henry Miller's wife, in Henry & June (Philip Kaufman, 1990), the first film to actually receive the dreaded NC-17 rating in the USA. After a celebrated start, Thurman's career stalled in the early 1990s with films such as the mediocre Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton, 1993) with Robert De Niro. Worse, her first starring role was in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Gus Van Sant, 1993), which had endured a tortured journey from cult-favorite book to big-budget film and was a critical and financial debacle. Uma bounced back with a brilliant performance as Mia Wallace, that most unorthodox of all gangster's molls, in Tarantino's lauded, hugely successful Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994). For her role, Thurman was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She took little advantage of her new-found fame by choosing not to do any big-budget films for the next three years. She starred in the independent period drama A Month by the Lake (John Irvin, 1995) opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox, and supporting roles in which she has lent some glamorous presence to a mixed batch of films, such as Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme, 1996) with Matt Dillon, and The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Michael Lehmann, 1996). She played supervillain Poison Ivy in the reviled Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher, 1997) with George Clooney, and Emma Peel opposite Ralph Fiennes as John Steed in a remake of The Avengers (Jeremiah Chechik, 1998). She worked with Woody Allen and Sean Penn on Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and starred in Richard Linklater's drama Tape (2001) opposite husband Ethan Hawke. Thurman also won a Golden Globe award for her turn in the made-for-television film Hysterical Blindness (2002), directed by Mira Nair.
A return to the mainstream spotlight came when Uma Thurman re-teamed with Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). The two had dreamed up this two-part revenge action film on the set of Pulp Fiction (1994). Thurman starred as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child. She then turned up in the John Woo cautioner Paycheck (2003) that same year. The renewed attention was not altogether welcome because Thurman was dealing with the break-up of her marriage with Hawke at about this time. Thurman handled the situation with grace, however, and took her surging popularity in stride. She garnered critical acclaim for her work in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) and was hailed as Tarantino's muse. The two Kill Bill films brought her two additional Golden Globe Award nominations. Thurman reunited with Pulp Fiction dance partner John Travolta for the Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995) sequel Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, 2005). Despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film grossed US$95 million. She played Ulla in the remake of The Producers (Susan Stroman, 2005). In 2006, she was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier De l'Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres) by France. For her five-episode role in the musical TV series Smash (2012), Thurman received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Her later films include Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013) and The House That Jack Built (2018). She made her Broadway debut in Beau Willimon's political drama 'The Parisian Woman' (2017-2018) at Hudson Theatre. For her role, she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Leading Actress in a Play. In 2018, in a New York Times interview, Thurman revealed that Harvey Weinstein had sexually assaulted her in 1994. Uma Thurman was briefly married to Gary Oldman, from 1990 to 1992. In 1998, she married Ethan Hawke, her co-star in the offbeat futuristic thriller Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997). The couple has two children, Levon and Maya. Hawke and Thurman filed for divorce in 2004.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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I was invited to have art in an exhibit inspired by the year 1994, and at first I had no idea what the hell I was going to do, photography wise. I had already established myself in the Cincinnati and northern Kentucky music scene shooting band portraits for five years by then, so I took six movies and meshed then into three pieces and it was so much damn fun! The musicians had a blast and I was PURTY DURN impressed with my cleverness of the idea, the musicians collaborated and really ran with it. I would love to do this again. I had forgotten what an influential year 1994 was in all things pop culture!
My thanks to Adam Lee and Alisha Milacki, lead singer of Cincinnati group Hot For Alice for recreating the adrenaline shot scene had Ace Ventura been Vincent Vega in rescuing Mrs. Mia Wallace. This is a pic of the 24x36 foamcore print that was framed with the glass removed for the show. I posted my favorite of the shots separately.
Amazing Stories Quarterly / Heft-Reihe
- Bob Olsen / Four Dimensional Transit
(art: Frank R. Paul)
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Verlag: Experimenter Publishing Co. / USA 1928
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
A collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug for upcoming PULP ART BOOK (200+ images).
Limited edition prints available at:
Book release: Spring 2011
Pulp Commercial:
En la fotografia: Alby
Una foto borrosa de ayer y una fiesta de disfraces.
Borrosa porque no es Uma, no es Mia, no es de Tarantino :)
"No los odias?, esos silencios incómodos. ¿Por qué necesitamos decir algo para rellenarlos?. Es por eso que sabes que has encontrado a alguien especial. Puedes estar callado durante un puto minuto y disfrutar del silencio".
The motif of the dominant, short-haired, brunette and the submissive blonde was common in 50s/60s lesbian pulp fiction. Here's a selection of details of four Maguire covers.
Clockwise from the left:
Kimberly Kemp - Perfume and Pain, Midwood (1962)
Edwin West - Young and Innocent, Monarch (1964)
Gale Wilhelm - The Strange Path, Berkley (1958)
Della Martin - Twilight Girl, Beacon (1961)
Robert Martin - Sleep, My Love
Dell Books 794, 1954
Cover Artist: Griffith Foxley
"A brutal nightmare of violence..."
West of Middlebury, Vermont, the bridge was built in 1853 and rebuilt in 2012.
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Harding-Jones Paper Mill
Excello, Ohio
5 Image HDR
Another post from my trip to the abandoned paper mill, it was quite clear that the mill manufactured pulp to create the paper it made, nearby to this room. I thought this stack of paper rolls were interesting it's as if they were in mid-manufacture when they just up and left, leaving them behind to decay.
Constructed in 1856 and situated between what once was the Miami Erie canal in the rear and Main St and Cinci-Dayton Railroad in front it's easy to understand why the company was a industry leader from 1865 into the 1980s and was placed on the National Registry Of Historic Places in 1975. After speaking to a friend who grew up near the plant, it turns out it was at one time a manufacturer of paper used to print American currency. An interesting tidbit I read was that the complex it built upon the cellars of an old winery. The building was abandoned in 1990.
Kind of an homage the weird pulp covers of the day. Like the Shadow, The Avenger, The Phantom, etc. Might do more....
A collaboration between supermodel Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug for upcoming PULP ART BOOK (200+ images).
Limited edition prints available at:
Book release: Spring 2011
Pulp Commercial: