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I've seen this car around town and have meant to take photos. It just happened to be parked under our balcony, so I took a top view. Sometime I may have a chance to capture the other artwork..
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The original photo was of a statue in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square. Photoleap wis used to create this tribute to Portland, Oregon's amphibian-costumed protesters who are responding to the troops sent in by trump. "Violent" protesters dancing wearing frog costumes? The whole world is laughing at the absurdity of his misrepresentation.
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"What are we looking at?" Our narrator asks this question to our audience, and, perhaps, to the ghosts in the footage at the center of RIOTSVILLE, USA. During these last many difficult, upending, dark, and often revelatory years in the United States, that question has persisted in my mind.
I have worked extensively as an archival researcher for filmmakers and artists for the last fifteen years. And as a director of archival films, my work has focused on contending with the ways we can locate and trace structural power and white supremacism within the archives. In The Rifleman, I connect the NRA and the U.S. border control; in Graven Image, the construction, funding, and political backdrop to the building of Stone Mountain, the nation’s largest Confederate Monument; and in The Reagan Show, the manipulative PR machine and self-documentation of the Reagan administration. My goal as a filmmaker is to re-present historical material that forces us to contend with our past and reflect upon our present, and interrogate the unique ways that moving images can transmit history in this country.
Making this film was about more than detailing the precise governmental and political machinations that lead to this specific training program. It was about making sense of the Riotsville footage; for me that is what the filmmaking process always is. How do you situate Riotsville within the legacy of 1968, reconciling living memory and mythology? How do you situate it within the life of the communities most affected by the state violence the performances at Riotsville are illustrating, and within the activism organizing to oppose it? And crucially, how do you situate it within a nation founded on white supremacism, determined to launch a war against its Black citizens, on a loop for hundreds of years?
These questions informed the form and shape of the film; a mapping of structural forces that could not seem more urgent in 2022, with all the violence and possibility it contains.
– Sierra Pettengill
Who doesn't like the attention once given to a simple magazine cover--no political statement, no attempt to capitalize on a celebrity, current event or fear. Just a beautiful, evocative illustration appropriate to the season.
Reader's Digest, October 1960.
...will you remember me? ♫♫♫
Too blueish....! I know :S
This didn´t turn out the way I had it in my mind AT ALL!!!! plus, the left part of the background looks as if it has fadded away!!! grrrrrr
Text and shot inspired in some way by this! ♫
Gracias ♥ Faby ♥ por enseñarme lo del enlace! =)
This was a demonstration of those in the poorer district of the old-town area of Panama City seeking government improvement of financial distribution of public funds to improve thier status.
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This image is an intimately personal statement. "waitin' on me" is slang for "Waiting for me".
My wife Clara & I took our puppy Sheila bumming again, stopping a number of times to look for photographic possibilities and to walk Sheila.
Clara suggests images at times. At other times she waits and waits patiently while I try different captures.
Love = waitin' on me
Hoping you have or find someone like her, if you so choose.
p.s. Lightbox please
p.p.s. Tagged by Tatyana (into the dust) (she does such amazing things with light), so here goes:
Favourite colour: Sky blue - Clara's eyes.
Describe the background picture that’s on your phone: Becca.
Last movie I watched: In theatres, The Secret World Of Arrietty
If I were an animal I would you be: A hawk
What is your favourite tv show? Watching the Chicago Cubs and reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond
Are you allergic to anything?: Nope
Your Dream Vacation?: Visiting Ireland and Scottland
What is your favourite photo you have taken: This because it was Becca's idea!
What is your favourite animal?: Our pup Sheila, of course.
It's been awhile since we saw one of these...
I'd rather have a foot of snow instead of ice...the absolute worst!
Let's hope this is yet more media hype by the so called forecasters.
I discovered this statement to the world on Perrie's foot.
From Psalm 139 verse 14. "I am a unique creation filled with wonder and awe".
Carthay Circle Restaurant
Disney California Adventure
The Carthay Circle Restaurant occupies the Carthay Circle Theater, the new centerpiece of DCA. Nobody denies the place is beautiful both inside and out, but some questioned whether the centerpiece of the park should be a restaurant rather than an attraction of some sort. While an attraction is always nice, I think the Carthay makes a statement. The place is unprecedented within a theme park on the West Coast of the US. Walt Disney World in Florida's big secret is that it's a culinary powerhouse, but even there most of the good stuff is hiding in hotels or to the wonderful selection in Epcot's World Showcase, which itself has unprecedented refined theming and dining. Yet still, the Disney theme parks suffer from stereotypes of their own past and lesser amusement parks that crowd the country. Burgers, fries, and junk food are what most people expect, and anything beyond that is greeted with low expectations. Sure Disney has multiple award-winning chefs working the background of many of these restaurants, but you can't blame the general public for not knowing about this or expecting it: the parks themselves don't really advertise themselves as places to have fantastic, unique dining experiences.
But here we have the Carthay Circle Restaurant, a place that has ended up one of the classiest restaurants in Southern California let alone a theme park. The first floor houses a full lounge and bar serving 1930s era cocktails put together with a masterful flavor and attention to detail. These aren't drinks you can just go pick up anywhere in the country, finding anything like them typically requires finding one of a few top tier bars scattered about, even then usually buried in a few populous cities like LA or NY. The 2nd floor is a dramatic, opulent dining area, full of various rooms and enclaves evoking a restaurant design they really don't do that often anymore. The food is exceptional, with a menu that isn't afraid to be adventurous even though it still needs to appeal to a majority of the tens of thousands of people walking through the gates. Quail, Rack of lamb, Fresh fish, Short Rib, Udon… it's a feat that it all pulls together.
The dining experience is really an extension of Disney's approach to most experiences: a great blend of nostalgic theming, constructing an idealized past along with modern flourish. You can't really go anywhere else in California and have the dining experience you can have at the Carthay. That Disney has put this front and center in the park is a notice to all guests that theme parks may not be about what they assume they are. It's not just rides and burgers (although there's nothing wrong with that): it can be about refinement and relaxation, it can be about idealized culinary experiences as much as lands of fairy tales and talking cars.
I think the Carthay is one of those placemaking institutions, a place DCA sorely needed. The Carthay is something I can keep coming back to. There's always one more drink to have, always an item on the menu calling my name. Sometimes it's not about a ride or attraction, sometimes I want to be transported to an idealized fantasy and just exist in it, sipping a cocktail, looking over the menu, enjoying my surroundings and my company. Putting a place like this within an icon of a theme park tells people "this is the kind of thing you should be expecting to do here." If it defies expectations for not being "a ride" then I think the plan is working perfectly.
(That's a Pimm's Punch up there by the way: a perfect drink for the summer.)
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