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A quotation from "Troublesome Ursula" by Mabel Quiller-Couch, concerning dresses. Written opposite some sketches in my fashion notebook.
Reached Explore #365 on January 17, 2008.
"Every thing is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it." --- Twyla Tharp
This Canon Canonette was given to me by a Japanese friend when she upgraded to a Minolta Maxxum. She wanted auto focus. I was happy to get a cool rangefinder. If you look closely inside the ever-ready case, you can still see her notations in kanji.
For Dave. After all, I am a "photographer" too.
Flickr Group Roulette: "Quotation Mark" Abuse
Strobist: AlienBee 800 with diffused HOBD-W camera left. Gold reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
“until the end of the world,all whys will be answered,but now,you can only ask!” - Bob Marley
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Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE (1908 - February 4, 1987), was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster with a lengthy career. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father.
He was born in Swansea, the second son of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, Professor of Music, and Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the English Master was the father of Dylan Thomas who was just entering the school at the time that Vaughan-Thomas was leaving for Exeter College, Oxford where he read Modern History and gained a second class degree.
In the mid 1930s he joined the BBC and in 1937 gave the Welsh commentary on the Coronation of King George VI. This was the precursor to several English commentaries on state occasions he was to give after the war. During the war he established his name and reputation as one of the BBC's most distinguished war correspondents of WWII. His most memorable report was from an RAF Lancaster bomber during a real bombing raid over Berlin. Other notable reports were from Anzio, the Burgundy vineyards, Lord Haw Haw's broadcasting studio and the Belsen concentration camp. In 1953 he was one of a team of BBC commentators on the Coronation of the Queen. It was fitting that he commentated on the funeral of his fellow wartime BBC correspondent Richard Dimbleby who died in 1965.
In 1967, after leaving the BBC, he was one of the founders of Harlech TV (HTV), now ITV Wales, being appointed Director of Programmes. He wrote numerous books, many on Wales and a favourite subject of his, the Welsh countryside and he was a frequent TV broadcaster himself. Throughout his early career with the BBC he had adopted the required BBC accent of the time but employed his more natural native Welsh accent to even better effect in his later career.
His wartime overview and experiences, and his successful boradcasting career later, enabled him to view life and its vagaries with what he called 'pointless optimism'. A perspective that certainly served him well.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1974, and raised to Commander (CBE) in 1986.
He died in Fishguard in 1987.
"Fierce for the right, he bore his part in strife with many a valiant foe; but laughter winged his polished dart, and kindness tempered every blow.”
-WIlliam Winters
Elena Theodorini (1857 - 1926) is a Romanian Soprano whose critical biography, quotations, performance credits and bibliography are included in an Anthology of 160 women entitled:
"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN
Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)
www[dot]blouseroumaine[dot]com/orderthebook_p1[dot]html
DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card
COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)
LINK: www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html
CONTENTS:
2,250,000 words,
over 1,000 pages,
ca 160 illustrations in text
160 critical biographies,
58 social categories/professions,
600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),
circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)
6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place
index and name index)
AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.
INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status
Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)
NOTE:
Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.
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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)
AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu
BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur
CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza
DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu
EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün
FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida
GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza
HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin
II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian
JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj
KK *Mite Kremnitz
LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu
MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci
NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac
OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea
PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu
RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco
SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck
TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini
UU *Viorica Ursuleac
VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu
WW *Sabina Wurmbrand
ZZ *Virginia Zeani
The wings were made using vintage dictionary pages that were layered with mod podge, glitter on the edges, vintage buttons, and some millinery embellishments.
Finished off with a quotation bubble.
Think High Go Far
Make Ur Ambition Is Sky
Not Just A Star.
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Please do not use any photographs without permission (even for private use).
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Today it was interesting to see just how popular Oscar Wilde in Merrion square is as a tourist attraction.
Danny Osborne is an artist born in Dorset, England in 1949.He is a resident of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and Cork, Ireland. Osborne studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art. He is best known for his public sculptures, particularly his Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture "The Quare in the Square in Merrion Square Park" (originally commissioned by Guinness Ireland Group for £45,000 and located across from Ireland's National Gallery.
I like to listen to the tourist guides explaining this public art installation to visitors from all parts of the world and how often their descriptions are incorrect or incomplete. But, of course, the exact details are not all that important.
In 2016 I mentioned that the restoration of the Oscar Wilde installation had been completed with the return of the two minor bronzes to their plinths. The stone plinths or pillars are covered in quotations from Wilde. One has a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling on the top, while the other has a bronze male torso. One explanation is that they indicate Wilde's ambiguous sexuality and aesthetic sensibilities.
At the time I also reported that the orientation of the female nude has been corrected. It should be noted that the female nude is Oscar’s wife [Constance Lloyd] who was pregnant when Oscar had his first homosexual encounter. Originally she was facing Oscar but someone tried to steal the bronze and when the park staff restored it they installed it facing the wrong direction and then the tour guides came up with stories to explain why she had turned her back on her husband.
She is facing a different direction now but I am not 100% convinced that one could claim that she is now facing Oscar. Maybe she should be on the other plinth.
The sculptor Danny Osborne used complementary colour stones and also sought out stones with varying textures to give a more lifelike representation of Oscar Wilde than you would find in a conventional statue.
Wilde’s jacket is green stone which is complemented by red stone cuffs. The sculpture includes two stone pillars which are covered in quotations by Oscar Wilde. Placed on top of the pillars are two sculptures, one of the sculptures is a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling this represents Oscars wife Constance, while the other pillar has a bronze male torso.
The two pillars which flank Oscar Wilde on both sides are used to set out his thoughts, opinions, witticisms on art and life for all to see and judge. These quotes were selected by a mixture of poets, public figures, artists, and scientists, who use Wilde’s own words to pay tribute to him.
“They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I’m the one who falls in love” - Bob Marley
for more Bob Marley Quotes visit engtuto.com/bob-marley-quotes/
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place."
~ Emily Dickinson
雜誌界前輩『QUOTATION』編集長蜂賀亨，不久前趁著年末之際，盤點回顧了2011年的雜誌版圖觀察，其中提到了幾點微妙概況與變化，試總結如下：
──『GRAFIK』驚傳休刊
不論是在歐美或全球，均握有廣大影響力的英囯專業設計誌『GRAFIK』，尚未及迎接2012，便斷然宣告休刊，止步於193期。蜂賀亨認為，這固然和近年的大環境低迷有關，但最根本的原因還是在於雜誌本身無法追上讀者的口味轉變，這或許是紙媒難以避免的臨界點。我想這多半是他經營『QUOTATION』的親身体驗，要如何應對不由得讓人感到好奇。
──独立雜誌反守為攻
儘管整体環境依舊嚴峻、市場溫度降至冰点，2011年仍有不少大膽無畏的新雜誌相繼報到。尤數時尚攝影師Rankin領軍的『Hunger』及原『POP』編集主理的『Garage』兩本独立誌最受矚目外，還有兩本從線上原生，反攻實体的『STYLE.COM/Print』＆『Ponystep』也是來勢洶洶，看來2012暫還不會是紙本末日。
──ZINE雜誌異軍突起
另一方面，蜂賀亨也關注到近年來有愈來愈多，不滿於既存的商業出版模式，不依賴広告的独立刊物出現。像是每年都會在Tokyo Art Book Fair露臉的原生誌，或是規格形式皆向zine看齊的一些迷你誌，都是自主出版革命的最佳代表。
──雜誌大吹復古風
此外蜂賀亨還觀察到一個有趣的現象。2011年的雜誌視覺開始流行走復古風，長相趨近早期80、90年代的雜誌，以簡單易讀的典雅風格為主流，像是『Fantastic Man』般的雜誌愈來愈常見。雖然習慣感官刺激的讀者可能會略感無聊，不過真要像『Fantastic Man』一樣，擁有那麼高完成度的雜誌恐怕也不多吧。
最後，蜂賀亨表示對紙媒未來依舊樂觀，他相信2012年必然還會有更多新雜誌創刊，其中一定會出現挖空心思符合現今時代需求的雜誌吧！至少我如此相信。
These images may look a bit strange and distorted as they were produced using a 14mm lens.
In 2016 I mentioned that the restoration of the Oscar Wilde installation had been completed with the return of the two minor bronzes to their plinths. The stone plinths or pillars are covered in quotations from Wilde. One has a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling on the top, while the other has a bronze male torso. One explanation is that they indicate Wilde's ambiguous sexuality and aesthetic sensibilities.
At the time I also reported that the orientation of the female nude has been corrected. It should be noted that the female nude is Oscar’s wife [Constance Lloyd] who was male torsowhen Oscar had his first homosexual encounter. Originally she was facing Oscar but someone tried to steal the bronze and when the authorities restored it they installed it facing the wrong direction and then the tour guides came up with stories to explain why she had turned her back on her husband.
She is facing a different direction now but I am not 100% convinced that one could claim that she is now facing Oscar. Maybe she should be on the other plinth.
The sculptor Danny Osborne used complementary colour stones and also sought out stones with varying textures to give a more lifelike representation of Oscar Wilde than you would find in a conventional statue.
Wilde’s jacket is green stone which is complemented by red stone cuffs. The sculpture includes two stone pillars which are covered in quotations by Oscar Wilde. Placed on top of the pillars are two sculptures, one of the sculptures is a bronze figure of a pregnant naked woman kneeling this represents Oscars wife Constance, while the other pillar has a bronze male torso.
The two pillars which flank Oscar Wilde on both sides are used to set out his thoughts, opinions, witticisms on art and life for all to see and judge. These quotes were selected by a mixture of poets, public figures, artists, and scientists, who use Wilde’s own words to pay tribute to him.
As artists, we are perpetually seeking to penetrate the veil of cultural prescriptions and arrive at personal truth. ~Julia Cameron
Ironically, Joseph de Maistre used his famous quote about government to argue that a royal monarchy is the best form of government – not democracy. For the story behind the quote -- and some later variations of it -- see the post about it on my www.QuoteCounterquote.com site at this link - www.quotecounterquote.com/2010/01/every-nation-has-govern...
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” - Bob Marley
for more Bob Marley Quotes visit engtuto.com/bob-marley-quotes/
Photo of women working in the quotation room of the stock exchange.
Caption from the back of the photo reads: "BROKERS SMILE AGAIN NEW YORK - Girls in the Quotation Room of the Stock Exchange, shown here, answer requests for a stock price in scarcely sixty seconds after being asked. Due to manpower shortage, more and more women are finding employment on the 'Street'."
2008.08.645
很少有一本雜誌能夠像「QUOTATION」那樣，每一期都挾帶著如此高含量的創意養份，衝擊刺激已呈鏽化狀態的大腦皮質，以新視野與觀點之姿向我直襲而來。今早「QUOTATION」剛剛發佈了NO.6的出刊信息。這一回從表紙設計、用色配置到內頁版型均做了微幅調整。本期特別專訪了中国火紅人物芸術家艾未未，與近年快速竄起的超級時裝新秀Damir Doma等人。主要欄目則是將目光移向北欧設計現場，追蹤走訪瑞典服裝品牌「Acne」的創意總監Jonny Johansson、以及去年休刊的芬蘭獨立雜誌「KASINO A4」編集長。在慣例的篇幅之外又加上CAVIAR代表映像作家中村剛、網絡時尚雜誌hint magazine編集長LeeCarter的巻末特集。
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again.
I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So....here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements.
I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause, "Tag! You're it."
-- Anonymous
from: www.secretoflife.com