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French postcard by Viny, no. 122. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Norma Shearer in Marie-Antoinette (W.S. Van Dyke, 1938).
American actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983) was the 'First Lady of MGM'. She often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award for acting. Shearer won the Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930).
Norma Shearer was born in 1902 in Montréal in Canada. In 1931, she would become a naturalised United States citizen. Her childhood was spent in Montreal, where her father had a construction business. Norma was educated at Montreal High School for Girls and Westmount High School. At age fourteen, she won a beauty contest. In 1918, her father's company collapsed, and her older sister, Athole Shearer (later Mrs. Howard Hawks) suffered her first serious mental breakdown. Forced to move into a small, dreary house in a 'modest' Montreal suburb, the sudden plunge into poverty only strengthened Shearer's determined attitude. In 1920 her mother, Edith Shearer, took Norma and her sister to New York. Florenz Ziegfeld rejected her for his Follies, but she got work as an extra at Universal. Other extra parts followed, including one in Way Down East (D. W. Griffith, 1920). She spent much money on eye doctor's services trying to correct her cross-eyed stare caused by muscle weakness. A year after her arrival in New York, she received a break in film: fourth billing in the B-movie The Stealers (Christy Cabanne, 1921). Irving Thalberg had seen her early acting efforts and, when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923, gave her a five-year contract. Shearer was cast with Lon Chaney and John Gilbert in the MGM's first official production, He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström, 1924). The film was a conspicuous success and contributed to the meteoric rise of the new company, and to Shearer's visibility. By late 1925, Norma Shearer was carrying her own films, and was one of MGM's biggest attractions, a bona fide star. She signed a new contract; it paid $1,000 a week and would rise to $5,000 over the next five years. By 1927, Shearer had made a total of 13 silent films for MGM. Each had been produced for under $200,000, and had, without fail, been a substantial box-office hit, often making a $200,000+ profit for the studio. She was rewarded for this consistent success by being cast in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927), her first prestige production, with a budget over $1,000,000. Privately, Thalberg was very impressed by Shearer. On 29 September 1927, they were married in the Hollywood wedding of the year. Thalberg thought she should retire after their marriage, but she wanted bigger parts. One week after the marriage, The Jazz Singer was released. Norma's brother, Douglas Shearer, was instrumental in the development of sound at MGM, and every care was taken to prepare her for the microphone.
Norma Shearer's first talkie was The Trial of Mary Dugan (Bayard Veiller, 1929) with Lewis Stone. Four films later, she won an Oscar in The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard, 1930). She intentionally cut down film exposure during the 1930s, relying on major roles in Thalberg's prestige projects: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) and Romeo and Juliet (1936) (her fifth Oscar nomination). Thalberg died of a second heart attack in September 1936, at age 37. Norma wanted to retire, but MGM more-or-less forced her into a six-picture contract. David O. Selznick offered her the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), but the public objection to her cross-eyed stare killed the deal. She starred in The Women (1939), turned down the starring role in Mrs. Miniver (1942), and retired in 1942. Later that year she married Sun Valley ski instructor Martin Arrouge, eleven years younger than she (he waived community property rights). From then on, she shunned the limelight. Norma Shearer passed away in 1983 in Woodland Hills, California. She was 80 and had been in very poor health in the last decade of her life. Shearer is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction, alongside her first husband Irving Thalberg. Shearer had two children with Thalberg. Her son Irving Thalberg Jr (1930) died in 1988 of cancer. He was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her daughter Katherine Thalberg (1935) died in 2006 of cancer. A vegan, she headed the Society for Animal Rights in Aspen, Colorado, from 1989.
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Visiting Essencia hotel in SL for 2 days. Will be snapping a few pictures. Full album on Facebook.
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Screens have always been a measured, controlled distance for me. I’ve grown up alongside the changing digital landscape, from vice to necessity, for better or worse. I have been everyone and no one online; I have been naively vulnerable and rigidly cryptic. I sarcastically joke about “my stint with agoraphobia” years ago because it’s easier than explaining the painful terror of that kind of isolation. Now it’s a global stint. Now it’s more screen time for everyone, the place that’s been my home inside my home since we had to hum along to dial-up. I think now about the nostalgic sounds of doors opening when people were available to you and closing when they weren’t. I open and close the doors between myself with others as a second nature and I weave in and out of my connectivity along the way. Do you know me? Can you ever know me? Would I even let you?
Un fantástico trabajo musical de David Appletree, en el que solo cabe escuchar y sumergirse entre esta vida.
¡¡ Gracias David !!
Screen DA music video for the first track of David Appletree's upcoming new album "Screen Dream".
Check the combination of music and biology through the images of beautiful microscopic creatures being themselves in their water habitats.
A full universe inside a drop, very likely as it was when life undertook "a new beginning", thousands of milions of years ago.
Video footage kindly shared by Antonio Guillén who has an amazing collection of pictures and videos taken from natural water ecosystems.
You can enjoy these and many more at "The Water Project" www.flickr.com/people/microagua/
"Screen Dream" to be publised on March 2021.ream
Screens have always been a measured, controlled distance for me. I’ve grown up alongside the changing digital landscape, from vice to necessity, for better or worse. I have been everyone and no one online; I have been naively vulnerable and rigidly cryptic. I sarcastically joke about “my stint with agoraphobia” years ago because it’s easier than explaining the painful terror of that kind of isolation. Now it’s a global stint. Now it’s more screen time for everyone, the place that’s been my home inside my home since we had to hum along to dial-up. I think now about the nostalgic sounds of doors opening when people were available to you and closing when they weren’t. I open and close the doors between myself with others as a second nature and I weave in and out of my connectivity along the way. Do you know me? Can you ever know me? Would I even let you?
This is my desk as it stands today. I'm currently in a video chat with kaepora[1] on the external screen using the built in iSight on the macbook's lid.
[1] keihatsu.org
After months of working on a tiny laptop screen, I'm finally back to dual external monitors. Hooray for screen space! And the ability to color calibrate those screens!
(Yes, that is the cat's tail on the left - I made the mistake of laying a towel in the open space, now it's "his spot" and I'm stuck with it til he gets bored of it.)
I was going to say "roll over the photo to view notes on the desk layout" . . . . . but it appears Flickr has removed the option to ad or view notes on a photo. Boo!
Detail from the Rhodes Cabin in Death Valley National Park.
More details in the previous photo.
Remember when screen was made from actual metal? I certainly do!
Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, made by Skidmore & Co. for Hereford Cathedral, 1862.
Conserved 2000-2001.
The screen is 10.5 metres high, 11 metres long and weighs over 8 tons (c.8130 kilos). Its basic structure of timber and cast iron is embellished with wrought iron, burnished brass and copper. Much of the copper and ironwork is painted in a wide range of colours. The arches and columns are decorated with polished quartz and panels of mosaic.
Passion flowers in many forms are dominant motifs on the screen, and symbolise the suffering of Christ upon the cross (the Passion). The bearded figure of Christ is the focal point of the Screen. On either side, angels play musical instruments, welcoming Christ's Ascension to Heaven. The back of the screen - the side facing the altar - is less ornate, having no figures, but simply the monogram 'ihc' (for 'Jesus'). All the figures - which look as though made from cast bronze - are in fact made from electroformed copper, then a revolutionary new technique, and much cheaper than casting bronze. Electroforming was a way of making metal objects by using electricity - a plaster pattern or model was immersed in a suitable liquid, and an electric current was passed through it, which resulted in a metal coating over the plaster.
The screen was a star piece in the International Exhibition of 1862, held in London, before its installation in the Cathedral in 1863.
A contemporary described it as 'one of the most important works, not only for its size but for the care with which it had been executed, and the successful endeavour to treat what is in fact a large architectural subject in metal alone.' In its profusion of ornament and colour, the screen is one of the finest examples of the Gothic Revival style. I took just five months to make.
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
i really did the transparent screen trick w/ the wallpaper, not just photoshopped or green screened. i think i'll do a more complex one soon. here's the tutorial i used: transparent tft screen
if you make your own transparent screen, post it in a comment on fireup.tv