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Dresden: Die Frauenkirche wurde im zweiten Weltkrieg zerstört und später wieder aufgebaut.
Ich habe sie mit einem stark überlagerten Film aufgenommen, sodass sie alt wirkt.
Dresden: The Frauenkirche was destroyed in the Second World War and later rebuilt.
I shot it with a heavily overlaid film so that it looks old.
Дрезден: "Фрауенкирхе" была разрушена во время Второй мировой войны и позже восстановлена.
Я снял его на сильно пересвеченную пленку, чтобы он выглядел старым.
She also started randomly doing the running man again after this so that was fun 😂
If you live in Cimbasso and randomly hear someone yelling JOSH I CAN'T STOP HER KEEPING DOING THE RUNNING MAN that will be me begging my bae (who does not game and has no idea what SL is) for help and will also likely mean I have my mic on accidentally again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Had nice walk along the coast down at Start point and stayed around fir sunset which was a lovely sight.
Look at Western art throughout the ages and you'll find all kinds of images from Greek mythology. Naked people, battles, big monsters; everything you need for a blockbuster epic. This fact wasn't exactly lost to the folks at the Treasure Island Casino (or TI, for short) when they started the Sirens of Treasure Island show four years ago. Vegas is all about big and flashy, so the fit came pretty naturally.
Nor was it lost information for Metropolitan Choppers when they pitched building a series of four bikes to the casino. Gambling houses offer cars as grand prizes all the time; some also offer custom bikes. TI liked the idea and let them run with it. The siren you see here, though, isn't a prize bike; it's a permanent player in TI's siren show. And it's all about the art.
The project didn't start that way, though. At first all Dan Kessinger had to work with was a blank canvas. "When you think about TI, you think about what you see out front when you're walking by-the Sirens show. So we thought, 'Let's turn the bike into a siren.'"
"Coming up with the concept took some time because it was all so elaborate," said Dan, chief builder at Metropolitan Choppers. "After coming up with the initial concept it was a lot of hard work to get all of the intricate details and specifics integrated into the design."
It was a two-part project that ate up eight months' time. Metropolitan Choppers built the platform and enlisted metal sculptor Scott Cawood's help for the big finish. "After seeing the Sirens stage show, I couldn't get the idea of a prone woman's gracefully flowing figure becoming the bike's structural form out of my mind. Our main goal was to bring that overall concept to life," said Rick Hill, Founder and CEO of Metropolitan Choppers. "We worked with Scott to get the flow of the motorcycle's movements, since he has no previous motorcycle experience. Dan would tweak what Scott would design and we were blown away when it started looking like the siren we envisioned."
Information above taken from an article titled "Treasure Island Casino Siren Chopper - The Sea Nymph" written by Mark Masker.
Image taken with my LG G4 and tweaked with Photoshop 6.
Starts Friday until the end of the weekend. November 25th - 27th
Up to 50% off items at the COLD ASH mainstore in-world.
At this vantage point, where the Niagara Gorge meets the Niagara Escarpment, we see a view of the Niagara River heading to Lake Ontario. Canada is the left shoreline and the US is the right.
The turkey vultures are starting to soar on this morning. Many are likely heading farther north on the migratory route. They have just started to recently return. In Grimsby at the Hawk Watch count, the turkey vultures number around 7000 each spring. There was a time in the 70s where there was hardly any of these birds, but numbers have steadily been increasing through the years.
In this image, it is morning and the sun has just begun to warm the landscape. It cooled to -3 Celsius overnight but is above zero now and headed to a high of 18 Celsius on this day. A mini March heat wave with 4 days like this!
Some information from the Niagara Peninsula Hawk Watch website
Migrating birds in spring have a purpose – to get where they are going in the shortest time possible. In order to achieve the fastest rate of travel and conserve energy, they seek out rising air. Along the Niagara Escarpment, strong updrafts are created by winds being deflected upwards as they blow against this limestone cliff. Migrant hawks take advantage of the redirected winds and glide on set wings above the tree tops. At Hamilton, the end of Lake Ontario, they drift northward, with many seeking out the escarpment again and others spreading out elsewhere.
These birds also drift high in the sky by “catching a thermal”, a column of rising hot air created by the spring sunshine warming the ground. Circling inside this thermal, the birds will rise until they are mere specks, and at the top of the thermal they glide forward for long distances without moving a feather.
Because the cold waters of Lakes Ontario and Erie do not produce thermals, almost all birds of prey migrating north into Ontario must go around these two large bodies of water. The configuration of the two lakes creates a funneling effect, with the result that large numbers of birds of prey fly directly over the Niagara Peninsula.
PARIS.- Quai Saint-Michel ...
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Working with my best friend! This is gonna be awesome!
You can check it out here - maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shadow/137/55/1991
Shildon National Railway Museum.
This is the oldest standard guage locomotive still working in Britain. It was built by Sharp Stewart & Co. in Manchester in 1863.
After dropping off their cars for NS to pick up the four MLW’s pull up past the NS dispatched PRR position light at South Driftwood. Their pickup today is pretty hefty and all four units will need to be online to make the trip up Keating Summit. The “rare” C630M belches out some black smoke upon being started up.
The spring is here, well... almost... I saw no flowers at that time, but the green color is starting to dominate the ground and some trees are showing their spirit. Give spring a month and it will show you it's beauty.
123 pictures in 2023 - 97. Starts with 'J' - My new jacket with my favorite flowers on it, sunflowers!
Dutch postcard by Int. Filmpers, Amsterdam, no. 363 / 817.
American actress Natalie Wood (1938-1981) was one of Hollywood's most valuable and wanted actresses in the early 1960s. At 4, she started out as a child actress and at 16, she became a star, when she co-starred with James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). For this role, she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. In 1961, she played Maria in the hit musical West Side Story. She was nominated twice for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Only 43, Wood drowned during a boating trip with husband Robert Wagner and Brainstorm (1983) co-star Christopher Walken.
Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko in San Francisco, USA, in 1938. Her parents were Russian immigrants. Her father Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko was a day laborer and carpenter and her mother Maria Zudilova was a housewife. Wood's parents had to migrate due to the Russian Civil War (1917-1923). Maria had unfulfilled ambitions of becoming an actress or ballet dancer. She wanted her daughters to pursue an acting career, and live out her dream. Maria frequently took a young Wood with her to the cinema, where Maria could study the films of Hollywood child stars. The impoverished family could not afford any other acting training to Wood. The Zakharenko family eventually moved to Santa Rosa, where young Wood was noticed by members of a crew during a film shoot. The family moved to Los Angeles to help seek out roles for her. RKO Radio Pictures' executives William Goetz and David Lewis chose the stage name "Natalie Wood for her. The first name was based on her childhood nickname Natalia, and the last name was in reference to director Sam Wood. Natalia's younger sister Svetlana Gurdin (1946) would eventually follow an acting career as well, under the stage name Lana Wood. Natalie made her film debut in the drama Happy Land (Irving Pichel, 1943) starring Don Ameche, set in the home front of World War II. She was only 5-years-old, and her scene as the 'Little Girl Who Drops Ice Cream Cone' lasted 15 seconds. Wood somehow attracted the interest of film director Irving Pichel who remained in contact with her family over the next few years. Wood had few job offers over the following two years, but Pichel helped her get a screen test for a more substantial role opposite Orson Welles as Wood's guardian and Claudette Colbert in the romance film Tomorrow Is Forever (Irving Pichel, 1946). Wood passed through an audition and won the role of Margaret Ludwig, a post-World War II German orphan. At the time, Wood was "unable to cry on cue" for a key scene. So her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her, giving her a reason to cry for the scene. Wood started appearing regularly in films following this role and soon received a contract with the film studio 20th Century Fox. Her first major role was that of Susan Walker in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947), starring Edmund Gwenn and Maureen O'Hara. The film was a commercial and critical hit and Wood was counted among the top child stars in Hollywood. She received many more to play in films. She typically appeared in family films, cast as the daughter or sister of such protagonists as Fred MacMurray, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Joan Blondell, and Bette Davis. Wood appeared in over twenty films as a child actress. The California laws of the era required that until reaching adulthood, child actors had to spend at least three hours per day in the classroom, Wood received her primary education on the studio lots, receiving three hours of school lessons whenever she was working on a film. After school hours ended, Wood would hurry to the set to film her scenes.
Natalie Wood gained her first major television role in the short-lived sitcom The Pride of the Family (1953-1954). At the age of 16, she found more success with the role of Judy in Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) opposite James Dean and Sal Mineo. She played the role of a teenage girl who dresses up in racy clothes to attract the attention of a father (William Hopper) who typically ignores her. The film's success helped Wood make the transition from child star to ingenue. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, but the award was instead won by Jo Van Fleet. Her next significant film was the Western The Searchers (John Ford, 1956), playing the role of abduction victim Debbie Edwards, niece of the protagonist Ethan Edwards (John Wayne). The film was a commercial and critical hit and has since been regarded as a masterpiece. Also in 1956, Wood graduated from Van Nuys High School, with her graduation serving as the end of her school years. She signed a contract with Warner Brothers, where she was kept busy with several new films. To her disappointment, she was typically cast as the girlfriend of the protagonist and received roles of little depth. For a while, the studio had her paired up with teenage heartthrob Tab Hunter as a duo. The studio was hoping that the pairing would serve as a box-office draw, but this did not work out. One of Wood's only serious roles from this period is the role of the eponymous protagonist in the melodrama Marjorie Morningstar (Irving Rapper, 1958) with Gene Kelly, playing a young Jewish girl whose efforts to create her own identity and career path clash with the expectations of her family. Wikipedia: "The central conflict in the film revolves around the traditional models of social behavior and religious behavior expected by New York Jewish families in the 1950s, and Marjorie's desire to follow an unconventional path." The film was a critical success, and fit well with other films exploring the restlessness of youth in the 1950s. Wood's first major box office flop was the biographical film All the Fine Young Cannibals (Michael Anderson, 1960), examining the rags to riches story of jazz musician Chet Baker (played by Robert Wagner) without actually using his name. The film's box office earnings barely covered the production costs, and film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer recorded a loss of 1,108,000 dollars. For the first time. Wood's appeal to the audience was in doubt.
With her career in decline following this failure, Natalie Wood was seen as "washed up" by many in the film community. But director Elia Kazan gave her the chance to audition for the role of the sexually-repressed Wilma Dean Loomis in Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) with Warren Beatty. The film was a critical success and Wood for first nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The award was instead won by rival actress Sophia Loren. Wood's next important film was West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961), where she played Maria, a restless Puerto Rican girl. Wood was once again called to represent the restlessness of youth in a film, this time in a story involving youth gangs and juvenile delinquents. The film was a great commercial success with about 44 million dollars in gross, the highest-grossing film of 1961. It was also critically acclaimed and is still regarded among the best films of Wood's career. However, Wood was disappointed that her singing voice was not used in the film. She was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964), and Deborah Kerr in The King and I (Walter Lang, 1956). Wood's next leading role was as burlesque entertainer and stripper Gypsy Rose Lee in the Biopic Gypsy (Mervyn LeRoy, 1962) alongside Rosalind Russell. Some film historians credit the part as an even better role for Wood than that of Maria, with witty dialogue, a greater emotional range, and complex characterisation. The film was the highest-grossing film of 1962 and well-received critically. Wood's next significant role was that of Macy's salesclerk Angie Rossini in the comedy-drama Love with the Proper Stranger (Robert Mulligan, 1963). In the film, Angie has a one-night-stand with musician Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen), finds herself pregnant, and desperately seeks an abortion. The film underperformed at the box office but was critically well-received. The 25-year-old Wood received her second nomination for the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role, but it was won by Patricia Neal. Wood continued her successful film career and made two comedies with Tony Curtis: Sex and the Single Girl (Richard Quine, 1964) and The Great Race (Blake Edwards, 1965), the latter with Jack Lemmon, and Peter Falk. For Inside Daisy Clover (Sydney Pollack, 1965) and This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966), both of which co-starred Robert Redford, Wood received Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. However, her health status was not as successful. She was suffering emotionally and had sought professional therapy. She paid Warner Bros. 175,000 dollars to cancel her contract and was able to retire for a while. She also fired her entire support team: agents, managers, publicist, accountant, and attorneys. She took a three-year hiatus from acting.
Natalie Wood made her comeback in the comedy-drama Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, 1969), with the themes of sexual liberation and wife swapping. It was a box office hit. Wood decided to gamble her 750,000 dollars fee on a percentage of the gross, earning a million dollars over the course of three years. Wood was pregnant with her first child, Natasha Gregson (1970). She chose to go into semi-retirement to raise the child, appearing in only four more theatrical films before her death. These films were the mystery-comedy Peeper (Peter Hyams, 1975) starring Michael Caine, the Science-Fiction film Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979) with Sean Connery, the sex comedy The Last Married Couple in America (Gilbert Cates, 1980) with George Segal and Valerie Harper, and the posthumously-released Science-Fiction film Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull, 1983). In the late 1970s, Wood found success in television roles. Laurence Olivier asked her to co-star with him in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Robert Moore, 1976). After that, she appeared in several television films and the mini-series From Here to Eternity (Buzz Kulik, 1979), with William Devane and Kim Basinger. For From Here to Eternity, she received a Golden Globe Award and high ratings. She had plans to make her theatrical debut in a 1982 production of 'Anastasia'. On 28 November 1981, during a holiday break from the production of Brainstorm (1983), Natalie Wood joined her husband Robert Wagner, their friend Christopher Walken, and captain Dennis Davern on a weekend boat trip to Catalina Island. The four of them were on board Wagner's yacht Splendour. On the morning of 29 November 1981, Wood's corpse was recovered 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) away from the boat. The autopsy revealed that she had drowned. Wikipedia: "The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as 'drowning and other undetermined factors' in 2012. In 2018, Wagner was named as a person of interest in the ongoing investigation into Wood's death." Natalie Wood was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull, 1983) was incomplete at the time of her death. It was ultimately finished and released, but Wood's character had to be written out of three scenes while a stand-in and changing camera angles were used for crucial shots. Natalie Wood was married three times. Her second husband was the British film producer and screenwriter Richard Gregson (1969-1972). She was twice married to actor Robert Wagner, from 1957 till 1962 and from 1972 till her death in 1981. She had two daughters, Natasha Gregson Wagner (1970) with Richard Gregson, and Courtney Wagner (1974) with Robert Wagner. The 2004 TV film The Mystery of Natalie Wood chronicles Wood's life and career. It was partly based on the biographies 'Natasha: the Biography of Natalie Wood' by Suzanne Finstad and 'Natalie & R.J.' by Warren G. Harris. Justine Waddell portrays Wood.
Sources: Dimos I (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Like me, this young girl was more interested in photographing the people at the public viewing than watching the game. Her look tells me that she already has a critical view of her own work. Hopefully she will change the brand of camera as she grows up :-)
This, from my garden, is significant because of the sunshine actually reaching ground!!
Enjoy your day everyone~~
Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven / Fotograaf onbekend, SFA001002754
Schaatsen: Nederlandse schaatsers Lijkle Poepjes en B. van der Zee klaar voor de start bij een schaatswedstrijd in Leeuwarden, Nederland 1914.
Speed skating: Dutch skaters Lijkle Poepjes and B. van der Zee standing ready for the start of a skating race in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands), 1914.
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The sun is hidden behind the clouds, the room is dark, the sound of the rain bouncing off the roof leaves the perfect conditions for a restful quiet morning. Willow is taking full advance of this slow going day.
submitted to ODC/ topic ~ tranquil
Amy Wilkinson, Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2016. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
They open their mouths, bear their teeth, mock bite and swipe at each other with their massive paws.
Thursday nights are Free Concert on the Green nights from late June until the end of August. It's a time of local and international music, community, and food trucks. This week marked the opening of the season. The first band was local and played progressive rock. The second group played cumbia, a music form started in Columbia. A good time was had by all, and soon it will be next Thursday. :-)