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Here it it! The Prize Money!
Submit Photos (with name, age, and age in photo) to cjonesgo@yahoo.com
Vote for your favorites in the comments.
The winner gets the whole collection!
Full details can be found below or at: sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/clt/399258308.html
or by mailing cjonesgo@yahoo.com
All you have to do is submit a picture of yourself as Batman, or someone from the greater Batman family, Robin, Joker, Batgirl you get the idea. Email Photos to cjonesgo@yahoo.com with your name and age, and your age in the photo.
I will post all photos on my Flickr site (everyone will get full credit for their photos). Then the world (the internet) can vote on who is most worthy of this collection. That’s it.
Vote for photos in the “comments” at: flickr.com/photos/41659446@N00/sets/72157601496058749/
Winner will be announced Friday, August 31rst 2007, so voting will be on until then! Good Luck!!
So here’s the story, when I was younger I had an unhealthy love of all things Batman. I was an avid reader of the comics, and wearer of Under-roos as far back as I can remember. Somewhere along the line, my personal obsession became a full fledged collection. I would receive Batman related items for EVERY Birthday, Christmas etc. Literally every gift I received for a five year span was Batman related. And in my 11 year old mind, every scrap of it was sure to be a collectors item. So my fortune grew. I was like some dragon atop my golden horde, relishing in every trading card or pencil topper I could get my greedy little hands on. Preserved in its protective blister packs it eventually was overlooked for more pressing concerns like girls. Eventually the whole lot of it was moved up to the attic where it remained until a few weeks ago. With my parents moving and the house getting cleaned out, the seal was broken on Batman’s tomb and he is haunting me once again. Time for it to find a new home, Yours!!
Now here’s the rub. By entering the competition, you agree to accept the prize. ALL OF IT. If you want to landfill it, fine, but it’s on your concenince, and I had better not find it in my trash can or scattered down my street.
I would prefer someone to just come and pick it up (Oakland CA) but I am willing to ship it provided you foot the shipping charges and an additional $10 for me to buy some boxes, tape etc. Keep in mind that this collection is bulky and sort of heavy.
Now a lot of what was available was related to the 90’s era films. The Blue and Gray Superfriends costume was abandoned for the more marketable Black costume in the Burton films, and as such a lot of what I have is of that Batman. The Pictures that I have taken show about two thirds of the overall collection, here is a list of some of what is included:
T-Shirts of at least a dozen different styles and sizes. Puzzles, Cereal, Corn Chips! Yes, Batman corn chips!! Pencil Toppers, Erasers, Markers, Remote control Batmobile, Pens and pencils, Board Games, Banners, Posters, Trading Cards, Glasses, Kites, Books, Notebooks, Napkins, Frisbees, Models, Party Favors, Playing Cards, Stuffed Animals, Tighty Whities, Water Bottles, Candy, Valentines, Boxers, Lunch Boxes, Something that I think is Shampoo, Are you starting to get an idea of what a crazy person I am…. I mean was…
Syracuse Cathedral, Sicily
C6th BC Doric columns incorporated in the C7th AD building in Ortigia, the historic centre of Syracuse
Sorry this is sideways! Thought I had it corrected. The letters spelling "sea" are from an old board game.
Side (Greek: Σίδη) is an ancient Greek city on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, a resort town and one of the best-known classical sites in the country. It lies near Manavgat and the village of Selimiye, 78 km from Antalya in the province of Antalya.
It is located on the eastern part of the Pamphylian coast, which lies about 20 km east of the mouth of the Eurymedon River. Today, as in antiquity, the ancient city is situated on a small north-south peninsula about 1 km long and 400 m across. [from Wikipedia]
(Scanned from a photograph taken during an extended holiday in Turkey, summer of 1995.)
The Pibow. A neat acrylic enclosure for the Raspberry Pi
Pibow Prototype D. This is an image of a prototype, and as such does not reflect the quality of the final product.
East Side Access tunnel boring machine launch March 18, 2011. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
We have turkeys. Well, technically they aren't ours. They're wild turkeys. They sometimes bed down in our trees or park themselves in the dirt driveway.
As a result of these visitors I now have a bouquet of turkey feathers.
I've always loved how textural feathers are.
117in2017 113 Textured (not processed)
Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell
Bows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Just got back from a great holiday tp Phuket. Just posting this shot at the moment of my daughter Eireann on the beach whilst the sunset and the clouds worked their magic on the horizon...Definitely thought this great song suited the shot
From the "Watchmen" Graphic Novel and upcoming Movie - Customization by me with big thanks to Mark aka MMCB for the custom trenchcoat
I was shooting an assignment for class yesterday and was using daisies as a prop. When I was finished I snapped a couple shots of the daisies just for fun. Such a little happy flower.
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by the Cynicus Publishing Co. Ltd. of Tayport, Fife.
The card was posted in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland using a ½d. stamp on Saturday the 12th. May 1906 to:
Mrs. Cowley,
Preston Road,
Brighton,
Sussex.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Thanks so much for the
letter - it was very charming.
Well, I hope to visit you on
the 19th!
The fine weather has come
so I'm perfectly happy - I'm
looking forward to seeing
you at home - soon!
I hope you will appreciate
this P.C. - Con & I think it
is divine.
Walter."
Cynicus
Martin Anderson, better known by his pseudonym Cynicus, was a Scottish artist, political cartoonist, postcard illustrator, and publisher.
Martin Anderson - The Early Years
Martin Anderson was born in Leuchars, Fife, in 1854. After his mother, Margaret Martin, separated from his father, she moved with her children to Cambuslang, Glasgow.
Anderson studied at Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenlees, in Ingram Street Glasgow. On leaving he worked as a designer at a calico printer.
Martin Anderson's Career
When he was 19, Martin founded The St. Mungo Art Club in Glasgow, intending it to be an alternative to the grander Glasgow Art Club.
In 1877 he began to provide small illustrations for serial stories in the short-running "News of the Week". In 1878 his painting "The Music Lesson" was accepted for the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition.
In 1879, at the age of 24, he decided to move to London, ("To study art proper" he explained in an 1894 interview in The Sketch).
In 1880 he was invited to join John Leng and Co., (the publisher of titles such as the Dundee Advertiser, the Evening Telegraph, Peoples Journal, and Peoples Friend), as its staff artist. Accepting the position, Andersen became the first such artist to be employed by any daily newspaper in Britain (until then daily newspapers were not illustrated). He moved to Broughty Ferry near Dundee.
In 1881, as a freelance artist, he began contributing cartoons and illustrations to the comic weekly "The Quiz", an imitation of the magazine "Punch". For his illustrations in The Quiz he used the pseudonym "Bob", but in November 1887 he adopted a second pseudonym, that of "Cynicus", and began to move away "from the safe and trivial to the dangerous and powerful realm of politics".
A series of cartoons entitled The Satires of Cynicus appeared in The Quiz in 1888. In 1890 he decided to publish a collected edition of his more controversial subjects. The Quiz cartoons were redrawn in a larger size and hand coloured. They were published in six monthly parts, each part containing two full-page cartoons. However, they did not sell well.
In 1891 he moved back to London in an attempt to get his work noticed, taking a shop in Drury Lane, with the sign "Cynicus Publishing Company" over its door and with prints of his cartoons displayed in its windows. The Satires of Cynicus began to attract public attention and increasing sales. The edition was limited to 1,000 copies, and by the end of 1891 it was almost out of print.
In 1891 he began contributing work to the "Pall Mall Budget", as well as to "The Idler" and "Ariel or the London Puck", yet another rival to Punch.
A second book, entitled "The Humours of Cynicus", again containing many reworked The Quiz cartoons, was part-work published starting in September 1891.
The complete 1,000-copy edition of the complete volume sold for 25 shillings, with a 100-edition deluxe version priced at 2 guineas. In 1892 he began work on another collection, "Symbols and Metaphors". It was also issued in parts, like its predecessors. A cheaper edition of The Satires of Cynicus was published in June 1892, and there were also later reprints of it.
Postcards
In the late 1890's a new market for Martin's products was quickly emerging - that of picture postcards. In 1898 Anderson began working for Blum & Degan where he designed court-sized postcards. In 1902, after the Post Office allowed divided back postcards, picture postcards became very popular and also began to be widely collected.
In 1902 Anderson decided to form his own company. The "Cynicus Publishing Company" was incorporated and began publishing colour postcards by the second half of 1902. Initially, the company did exceedingly well. However, by 1908 the mass-market popularity of postcards began to decline and the company suffered from dwindling profitability.
In 1911 the North of Scotland Bank forced the company to liquidate its assets. Its stocks of prints and original artwork were sold by the bank for a fraction of their true value and without any thought for their proper market: they were sold in a second-hand furniture saleroom rather than to art dealers in Edinburgh and London.
In 1912, after the collapse of the Cynicus Publishing Company, Anderson set up the "Cynicus Art Publishing Company" based in Leeds (the home of several postcard publishers), and began reissuing his old postcards and designing new ones. About 100 different postcards are known to have been printed by the Leeds company until 1914.
Cynicus and the Great War
The outbreak of war put an end to the seaside postcard market in Britain, and Cynicus Art Publishing Company was forced to close. In 1915 Anderson moved to Edinburgh, leasing a basement shop in York Place.
The printing plates for his postcards were sent from Leeds – but for uncertain reasons, and without the knowledge of Andersen, they were sold for scrap.
In 1915 he created an allegorical anti-war poster entitled "War!" In a pyramidal composition, a crowned Mammon sits on a throne, tossing away the Nation's wealth to an ecstatic crowd clutching sacks marked "War Profits"; a semi-naked Lust caresses him, famine and disease sit at her feet; Justice and Parliament stand bound and gagged; the Lamp of Truth is extinguished by censorship; the Church encourages the slaughter. In the foreground, a bloody river carries away the bodies of the dead while bankers grab the bank deposits of the dead.
This poster was displayed in his shop window until he was warned that he could be interned without trial under the terms of the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA). The poster was removed from view, but was made into a postcard which sold well.
In another allegorical poster titled "The Dictator", produced after the end of the war, soldiers returning home are greeted by a fat figure representing Capitalism, seated on a huge sack full of the earnings of others, using a megaphone entitled "The Press" to blast out "Propaganda and Misrepresentation" and setting his "Black and Tan" dog onto Ireland; the grave of Liberty and Freedom is trampled over by a truncheon-wielding policeman called DORA; two more fat figures, representing Lloyd George (standing on broken pledges) and the Church, carry a banner entitled "Britain's Welcome to the Troops" that frames the entrance to a poorhouse.
Martin Anderson's Retirement and death
In 1924 Martin's Edinburgh shop was destroyed by fire. Everything inside it was lost, and he did not have the funds to repair and restock it. He retired to his castle-like mansion in Balmullo to live in increasing poverty. A final edition of The Satires of Cynicus was published in 1926.
In 1930 he wrote "Memoirs of Cynicus", published in 12 instalments in the Glasgow Evening News.
Martin died suddenly on the 14th. April 1932, and was buried in the Martin family grave in Tayport Old Churchyard. The funeral was never paid for, and his grave is unmarked.
His mansion in Balmullo was extensively vandalised after his death.
The Graves of a Household
The quotation on the card is taken from the poem The Graves of a Household (1828) by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835). Here is the full text:
'They grew in beauty, side by side,
They fill'd one home with glee;
Their graves are sever'd, far and wide,
By mount, and stream, and sea.
The same fond mother bent at night
O'er each fair sleeping brow;
She had each folded flower in sight,
Where are those dreamers now?
One, midst the forests of the west,
By a dark stream is laid,
The Indian knows his place of rest,
Far in the cedar shade.
The sea, the blue lone sea, hath one,
He lies where pearls lie deep;
He was the lov'd of all, yet none
O'er his low bed may weep.
One sleeps where southern vines are drest
Above the noble slain:
He wrapt his colours round his breast,
On a blood-red field of Spain.
And one o'er her the myrtle showers
Its leaves, by soft winds fann'd;
She faded midst Italian flowers,
The last of that bright band.
And parted thus they rest, who play'd
Beneath the same green tree;
Whose voices mingled as they pray'd
Around one parent knee!
They that with smiles lit up the hall,
And cheer'd with song the hearth,
Alas! for love, if thou wert all,
And nought beyond, oh earth!'
Hemans' poem "The Homes of England" (1827) is the origin of the phrase "stately home", referring to an English country house. The poem evolved into the popular song "The Stately Homes of England", which was made famous by Noël Coward.
Maurice "Doc" Ewing
So what else happened on the day that Walter posted the card?
Well, the 12th. May 1906 marked the birth in Lockney, Texas of Maurice Ewing.
Born William Maurice Ewing, he became a research scientist specialising in geophysics, underwater acoustics and oceanography. His 1931 doctoral thesis was entitled 'Calculation of Ray Paths From Seismic Travel-Time Curves.'
Ewing was a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission, deep sea Core samples of the ocean bottom, and the theory and observation of earthquake surface waves.
He also conducted research into the fluidity of the Earth's core, the generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, as well as the study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Maurice "Doc" Ewing - The Early Years
Maurice was the eldest surviving child of a large farm family. He won a scholarship to attend Rice University, earning a BA with honors in 1926. He completed his graduate studies at the same institution, earning an MA in 1927, and being awarded his PhD in 1931.
In 1928 he married Avarilla Hildenbrand, and the couple had a son. The couple divorced in 1941.
Ewing worked as an instructor at the Rice Institute while pursuing his PhD before joining the faculty at Lehigh University in 1930, where he served until 1944.
While at Lehigh, he was instrumental in initiating a program in geophysics. In 1944 he married Margaret Sloan Kidder, with whom he had four children.
Maurice "Doc" Ewing - The Later Years
Maurice moved to Columbia University, becoming a professor of geology in 1947. In 1959 he was named the Higgins Professor of Geology at Columbia.
Dr. Ewing (often simply called "Doc" by those who worked with him) was the founder (established in 1949) and first director of the Lamont Geological Observatory (now known as Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) in Palisades, New York).
He worked at LDEO with J. Lamar Worzel (gravity specialist), Frank Press (seismologist), and geologists and oceanographic cartographers Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp.
The former LDEO research vessel R/V Maurice Ewing was named in his honor.
Maurice divorced a second time, and married his third wife Harriet Greene Bassett in 1965. In 1972 he joined the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and was named the head of the Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Marine Biomedical Institute.
During his career Maurice published over 340 scientific papers. He served as president of the American Geophysical Union and the Seismological Society of America.
Maurice led over 50 oceanic expeditions, and made many contributions to oceanography, including the discovery of the SOFAR Channel, the invention of the sofar bomb, and doing much fundamental work on plate tectonics.
While he was working on SOFAR, Ewing engaged in deep water photography, partly as a hobby, and partly to help the government identify lost ships destroyed by U-boats.
Maurice was the chief scientist on board the Glomar Challenger. He originated Project Mogul, an early program to detect Soviet nuclear weapons tests.
Ewing died at the age of 67 following a stroke in Galveston, Texas on the 4th. May 1974.