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A rich, russet-and-gray bird with bold streaks down its white chest, the Song Sparrow is one of the most familiar North American sparrows. Don’t let the bewildering variety of regional differences this bird shows across North America deter you: it’s one of the first species you should suspect if you see a streaky sparrow in an open, shrubby, or wet area. If it perches on a low shrub, leans back, and sings a stuttering, clattering song, so much the better.
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH - Wilfred Own
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
HD - if difficult to stream, start playback, then pause for ... (or until the grey line gets towards the end), then play without stutter.
Taffy stuck, tongue tied
Stutter-shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am...fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am
colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
El caramelo pegado y la lengua atada
tartamudeo y estoy tenso
sácame del interior.
estoy bien.
Estoy cubierto en piel
a nadie le permito entrar
sácame del interior.
Estoy doblado, y desdoblado, y desdoblado
estoy
daltónico
café negro y huevos blancos
sácame del interior.
Estoy listo ...
Why is it so difficult to get a slideshow onto flickr?! The quality is much reduced and it ends abruptly although my file is high quality with a fade out :( Therefore best seen small…… ipad is ideal ;o)
Anyway, I thought this might be a better way of presenting my weird fireworks photos and contains all the pictures in the Focus blur album and some more :)
If it stutters, pausing it for a while might help so it can build a buffer.
Music (if you can call it that) is Kaboom by David Solano.
League of Heroes: Ascent
Episode 3: Darkest Before Dawn - Part 2
“We interrupt our continuing coverage of the New Brickton prison break, it seems that we are getting an unexpected live feed from the madness in Midtown.” The news anchor stuttered, nervously shuffling through the stack of papers on the news desk. “Frank, can you switch us over…”
Static… and then the picture suddenly changed from the busy news room to a devastated street. A blonde woman, statuesque and menacing stares into a shaky camera lens.
“Good morning citizens of New Brickton. From this day forward, it will be remembered that you sent forth your champions to face Celedon the Destroyer… and I have found them wanting. They lie here now in pathetic heaps, driven before me and broken at my feet. Is this really the best you have to offer? I demand a challenge worthy of my strength! For every hour that I am unsatisfied, I will raise another block of this insignificant city! Your only other option is complete surrender. Death or servitude, I give you the gift of choice mortals. Your first hour begins now.”
The broadcast suddenly cuts to a rainbow test pattern. Unseen by the camera, a winged figure descends to the devastated street. Upon touching down on the pavement, she kneels over the motionless form of the Indestructible Man.
“Wake up! Please!” She shakes Fred’s seemingly lifeless body, “Fred, I don‘t know what’s happened to us, but I do know that you are still alive and I know that we need to get you and your friends out of here.”
This was built for the League of Lego Heroes Group… www.flickr.com/groups/llh/
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 11: Wynter Mabry and Emily Blunt attend the 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala at Guastavino's on July 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for American Institute for Stuttering)
Taken from right-to-left, as I was sitting on the north side of the train, headed west.
I really like what happened when I set the camera on my phone to 'panorama' and then held it stationary against the window of the train: (from an email I wrote) "The camera accrues the image unevenly: it's looking for motion but its internal gyroscope ("accelerometer") is confused. If things aren't changing much in the foreground, the picture 'piles up' and the horizon stutters, but water or trees close-by trigger a richer capture
This was just after sunrise. Fall colours here, and lots of standing water."
Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus), Central Coast, New South Wales.
A great frog and a nice surprise to see a male in full breeding colour this late in the season.
Sometimes there would be performers down at the cantina. Stuttering droids, magicians, and twi'leks dancing to Brickney Spears was the norm. Today's entertainment was completely different though.
St Andrew, Collyweston, Northamptonshire
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth, 1916
And so to church-exploring again, a day in which our hero takes a bicycle ride into Rutland and north Northamptonshire. He rides two ridges either side of the great Welland Vale, meets an eccentric churchwarden, sees double, frightens a horse, has his head turned by a young American lady, witnesses the longest railway viaduct in the British Isles, has another incident with a lady over wheelie bins and climbs hills no man of his age should be expected to climb.
An early start, the 0600 from Ipswich, arriving Stamford, Lincolnshire at 0810, and then I headed straight across the county border and up and out the long ridge that runs on the Northamptonshire side of the Welland Vale, climbing higher and higher with spectacular views into the Vale below. The day was overcast, which is always a disappointment in this part of the world with its stone buildings which are brought to life in sunshine, but even so the villages are lovely and the rolling hills dramatic.
My plan was to visit my 50th Northamptonshire church, and then cut and run back to Stamford via Ketton. However, this was not the way things would turn out.
My first port of call was only a couple of miles out of Stamford, but involved a steep climb on the busy Stamford to Kettering road before turning off and swooping down and then up into the exquisitely pretty hilltop village of Easton-on-the-Hill and its church of All Saints, which I was surprised to find was locked without a keyholder notice. I hadn't expected this. I wondered if I was too early, because it was still a few minutes short of 0830, but the bloke cutting the grass said it was usually open by this time, but he thought it had been left locked because there was a wedding later that day. He didn't have a key, and of course as it is usually open every day there wouldn't be a keyholder notice, would there.
It seemed a shame, because Pevsner has lots to say about how lovely the inside is. A big church, the graveyard narrow and big-treed to the south, difficult to get a shot from that side, but wide-open to the north with some grand 18th Century memorials, which was some recompense. The 18th Century was Stamford's heyday of course, one of the most important towns in England before the Industrial Revolution.
I hate starting the day with a locked church, but it would be one of only a couple in the course of the day. I headed back on to the busy road which in less than two miles brought me into Collyweston, an even prettier village, although the traffic spoilt it a bit. Here was the church of St Andrew, locked with a keyholder notice. The church is set back from the main road behind a large wall, with just a narrow doorway entrance. This is unusual, but it is the same at Helpston in Cambridgeshire, not so very far off and a very friendly church. However, this doorway had a sign saying 'this gate is closed. The trees are dangerous.'
I peeped over the wall, and the church looked a bit neglected. Was it still in use? I headed up the main road and turned off into an unutterably lovely high street of mainly 17th and 18th Century stone buildings, some thatched, others roofed in 'Collyweston tiles'. A gated alleyway ran up to the south side of the church, and a sign said 'you can't get through the churchyard. The trees are dangerous'. All very curt and to the point. I headed down to the church, but I could see the padlock on the doors, and a sign 'Because we've had robberies, we have to keep the church locked. If you have a genuine reason for visiting, the key is at...' and it listed five keyholders, all surprisingly close by, neighbours in fact.
I chose the first one on the list, a few doors down from the gated alley. Here, a sign said 'tradesmen, itinerants and salespeople - you can knock on this door all you like, no one will hear you. If you have a genuine reason for calling, open the door, walk up the alley and ring the bell at the far end.' At this point I realised I was dealing with a genuine eccentric, and so it proved. He jumped at the chance to show a stranger his church. As we walked back to the church I said I was sorry to hear there had been robberies. "Yes, well," he said, "there was one long ago. But the main reason we keep the church locked is we can't find anyone reliable to open and close it each day', which reminded me of one of the reasons my late friend Tom Muckley used to give as the most likely ones for churches to be kept locked, and not for security reasons at all.
A tall, rather shabby church, and stepping inside was to find a rather sad interior and a sense of past glories, for Lady Margaret Beaufort had a castle at Collyweston, and the 15th Century brought plenty of money for church renewal. A chapel at this time was built on the south side of the chancel, and 20th Century restoration has revealed inside it the original outside wall of the late Norman church. There is a very good AK Nicholson war memorial window which includes an image of the church (and, incidentally, part of the churchwarden's house, he was proud to note). There is a very tall south clerestory, but no aisle, filled with early 19th Century glass 'brought here from a Yorkshire church'. No one seems to know who it is by. I noticed the Sarum screen still in use, and I asked the churchwarden if they were still High Church. 'We get what we're given', was his curt reply.
I said farewell to my new friend and then headed back on the busy road towards the next village, which was set below where the A47 Leicester to Great Yarmouth road crosses it. On the map it looked a busy junction, but I knew the A47 well from travelling to and from Leicester when my son was at university there, and it is quite cycleable at this point, quite unlike what it will be like once it gets into Norfolk. A lot of the traffic there must come off of the A1 I suppose. Duddington was reached after a short distance in the Leicester direction, and here was the church of St Mary, and it was open.
A lovely village, and a delightful setting for the church, up an alley between cottages and then set on a small, round, raised churchyard, which must be an ancient space. The church is very pretty, though a bit of an oddity, as the spired tower is set at the east end of the south aisle. Inside, the church is lovely, such a difference to the previous church, clean and light and overseen by glorious Norman arcades with capitals, but on a small scale, for this is not a big church. I thought it was delightful, and of course it had no difficulty in stepping up as church of the day so far.
I now headed out of Duddington at the western end of the village back onto the A47, but just before I reached it I crossed the gently winding River Welland by an old stone bridge and in doing so crossed into Rutland for the first time. Barely half a mile on the A47, and I turned off again towards Tixover.
To be continued.
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Accomplishments/Success/Victories (Not in chronological order)
•*Many Hours Of Classroom Teaching benefiting many students
•Large Portfolio Of Design Projects
•*Many Pen And Ink Sketches And Collected And Exhibited In Art Galleries
•Learning To Free Hand Draw
•Learning To Draft Well
•*Designing and Building
•*Hanging Drapes In So Many Houses In New York City
•Overcoming Stuttering
•Knowing Ted and Rhoda Brown the Radio Announcer Team in New York and Assisting Decorating Their Homes in Harrison, Westchester New York.
•*Being Audio Video Monitor And Stage Director In Junior High
•*Marching In The Columbus Day Parade In The High School Band
•*Being Elected Class Bank Representative
•Learning How To Read
•Being Taught How To Tie My Shoe Laces By A Blind Girl
•Receiving A Set Of Electric Trains From My Father
•Collecting Phonograph Records To Play On Phonograph Bought For Me By My Father
•Winning the Best Design Job upon Graduation from Pratt Inst.
•Being Tall Enough To Discourage Bully From Attacking Me
•Being Accepted As A Student By Pratt Institute
•Being Accepted As A Student By Yale University
•Completing All Math And Structural Design Courses
•Driving A Car By Myself
•Riding A Bike, Skating, And Skiing
•Going To Europe For The First Time
•Entering Rome By Rail
•Moving To Holland Ave Away From Simpson Street To “Real House”
•Building And Using My First Interior Play House
•Designing And Building My First Stage
•Designing And Installing Wrought Iron In My Room
•*Seeing My Designs For Lobbies Being Built
•*My First House Design For Frank Houser
•*Seeing My First Big Design Projects Being Built For James Talcott And The Bank Of Israel
•*My First Radio Broadcast At Pratt Institute
•*My First And Last Theatre Performance As An Actor At Pratt
•My Beach Pavilion Design Model Being Exhibited At Pratt
•*Being Asked By Earth Day Producers To Manage Production Of Both Earth Day Events In New York City And Helping John Mc Connel Get U Thant’s Signature To Proclaim Earth Day As An International Holiday And Appearing As Spokesman For The Project On All Three Media Networks, Magazines, News Papers And Professional Journals.
•Learning How To Swim At The YMCA
•Being Really Goods Friends With Senior Professional, Writers, Such As Gerald Popiel, Paul Weiss, Yvonne Illich, Otto Hula, Ara Ignatius, Friederich Kiesler, Forrest Wilson, Max Waldman, And Vincent Scully
•Having Been Taught By Famous Professionals Such As Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore, Paul Rudolph, Peter Millard, Sibyl Maholy Nage, Henry (Hank) Pfisterer, Buckminister Fuller, Mies Van Der Rohe, James Polchek, And Gerald Luss,
•Having Worked For Edward Durrell Stone And Morris Lapidus
•Having Professional Affiliations with World Famous Architects Such As Phillip Johnson, Paul Rudolf, Charles Moore, Gordon Bunshaft, Gio Ponte, Palo Soleri, Victor Lundy, and Friederich Kiesler.
•*Having Designed Many Builddings On The Campus Of The State University Of New York (SUNY) In Albany
•*Designed Exhibitions For The Bigelow Carpet Company
•*Having Been Invited To Teach the Climatology and Bio Climatic Design Courses Created by Victor Olgay Immediately Following His Untimely Death.
•Understanding Of the Key Principles of Design, Planning, Programming for Cities, Buildings, Furniture, Fashion, Music, Etc.
•*Design And Build Shop In Condado, Puerto Rico
•*Complete Island Wide Plan Of Public Libraries Under Direct Contract To The Department Of Education Of Puerto Rico And Dr Rafael Corrada
•*Design and Complete Grace English Lutheran Church Restoration in Santurce Puerto Rico after the Death of Its Pastor and Our Dear Friend, Gerald Bergen.
•*Research Pollution And Environmental Innovations In Germany Published By Architectural Record As “Pollution Architecture”
•*Founding Laboratories for Metaphoric Environments, Designing and Complete Building of Loft on 318 East 68 Street. Living And Working In The Loft Including Writing Prospectus And Many Program Proposals.
•*Designing Tennessee Indigenous Housing and Public Buildings for Construction on English Mountain and Sugar Tree Tennessee. And Belize, Honduras.
•Apply Successfully A Job Search Campaign Method From A Book Discovered By Christina
•*Gulf Oil Corporation Employs Me to Author Its Pollicies and Procedures for Building, Non-Oil Production, Pollicies and Procedures. John Wiley And Sons Later Contracted With Me To Publish This As Book Called ”Project Manuel Standards” (PMS)
•*Manage All Aspects Of The Design Build Process To Design And Construct Gulf Oil Corporation Computer, Office, Laboratory And Chemical Site Support Facilities As Designated Owner’s Representative For Gulf’s Special Projects Covering Houston, Victoria, Midland, And Odessa.
•Become Deciples And Active Yoga Members Doing Exercises And Changing Diet
•Stop Smoking After Three Week Of Abstinence On Paradise Island In The Caribbean
•Invited To B E Junior Partner Of Long Established A&E Firm (SRG)In Puerto Rico
•Successfully negotiate to minimize changes to my company’s (SRG) Design and Systems for the El Mundo Office Tower in San Juan Puerto Rico
•For The First Time Speak Publicly at San Juan’s Toast Master Club, thanks to the encouragement of Herb Warfel.
•*For Serge Chermayeff, Complete Sketches Diagramming Thought For His Study Of Complementarities For Cities And Campus Planning
•For Frederick Kiesler, Complete Construction Of A Model Of A Temple In Israel
•*Be Invited By Charles More To Create And Carry Out Lecture Series Authored By Me Called: ”Architecture The Making Of Metaphors” With Speakers Such As Turan Onat, Christopher Tunnard, Vincent Scully, Forrest Wilson, William J Gordon, Kent Bloomer, Charles More, It Was A T This Series That Robert Venturi Aired His Famous Treatise On Las Vegas.
The Proceedings Were Transcribed for Publication in Perspecta and was partially published In Main Currents in Modern Thought.
•*Monographs on Metaphors Published in Lebanon, Turkey, England, Finland, Saudi Arabia, And USA.
•Ordained As Minister Of The Gospel; First By Gospel Crusade Under Gerald Dirstine And Then By The Assemblies Of God Locally By Pastor Dan Betzer.
•*In Saudi Arabia Design Factories, Schools And Offices And Write Standard Building Codes And Engineering Procedures For The Arabian American Oil Company; For The Presidency Of Youth Welfare Over See The Construction Of A Sports Park; For The Ministry Of The Interior, Eleven Hosing Projects, For A Private Operations And Maintenance Company And Another Conglomerate All Business Development And Marketing Of Construction; For A Private Consulting Company Critique Design competitions For Banks And Ministerial Projects; For A&E Company Design And Set Up Reference Library; And For King Faisel University Teach Architecture For Five Years.
•*Found ICI University And Plant Many Underground Church Groups, Which Is Still Today In Operation.
•*For The Frizzell Architectural Design Company In Fort Myers Manage The Construction Of Three twenty five million dollar High Schools
•*For An Interior Design Company In Fort Myers Design Houses, Lobbies, And Assist Set Up Library Of Architectural And Contemporary Furniture.
•*Teach Interior Design At Edison Community College
•*Examine Plans for Residential Building Permits for the Lee County Development Services.
•*Invited To Lecture and Teach Building Construction, Architecture and Interior Design at Parsons School Of Design, Pratt Institute, University Of Houston, Ohio University, And University Of Petroleum and Minerals. Appointed Associate Professor By Texas A&M University
•*FM Broadcasting Announcing And All Commercial, Station Break, Voice Over Work For WlAE; Fm 93.7 Hartford, Connecticut; Owned By Paul Di Savino (WPAT; Paterson). Hold Third Class Broad Cast License.
•NCARB and License to Practice Architecture Awarded in 1971 In New York after Completing NCARB Exam in Puerto Rico.
And if we get beaten by this winter,
If we get strangled by regret,
just let our love of life and tension
Gasp in sweet and stuttered breaths,
and have them lay us in a basement,
Smash some bottles on the ground,
and say we couldn't tell the difference between the feeling and the sound.
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I was actually going to attempt the Brenzier method today but screwed up halfway through and gave up. I don't think this was the right image for it anyway. I'm not positive how happy/displeased I am with this yet, but it's going up for now.
I was going to do something more dark and brooding due to the recent school shooting that happened incredibly close to my very own town, but decided that light rather be shed on the situation, hence the lightbulbs. Speaking of light, I am off to the candlelight vigil for the school in a few minutes. Be at peace, my loves.
There once was a warthog
with a stutter
who spoke mostly with a hiccup
and a mutter.
He improved things, it's true,
just for something to do,
And now his speech is smoother
than butter.
the library project is a project creating a subtle dialogue about the issue of giving,lending and taking.as most of my pieces have a lifespan of a stutter in the street (either because of collectors or weather or the street cleaners), i thought i would try to embrace it and play around with the circumstances. before placing the pieces on the surface, i wrote(for the first edition, but later came up with alternate sentences) "i let you borrow my heart for a while,let others borrow it as well", and then placed the piece over the writing,covering it.
the pieces in this series are applied with double sided tape (which can be easily removed) with some unpeeled scraps of tape on the cardboard left for the borrower to replace anwhere.i think its great if someone wants to take it home, but it raises the conflict of the fact that its in the street for the art to be shared with the people using it.therfore, whoever dispatches the piece can replace it in it original location, or even better, a new location,making him/her part of the arts existence and making it even more part of the collective reality than it was before.
(best viewed large)
Red-naped Sapsuckers are industrious woodpeckers with a taste for sugar. They drill neat little rows of holes in aspen, birch, and willow to lap up the sugary sap that flows out. The presence of sap wells is a good indication that they are around, but so are their harsh wailing cries and stuttered drumming.
Operations have just resumed at Newell & Wright"s additional base at Tinsley Yard, after a stuttering start due to local site conditions and flooding on the network.
2 reach stackers wade through the slurry, whilst unloading the 4E00 from London Gateway, brought in by 66708 "Jayne".
I am not use to dictation so I have a tendency to occasionally stutter or speak a little faster then I mean to. If I was taking face to face I would definitely be doing a better job at speaking.
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Joe: Stutter
Cheryl Cole: 3 Words (Feat. Will.I.Am)
Frou Frou: Let Go
Skee-Lo: I Wish
Corinne Bailey Rae: Paris Nights/New York Mornings
Lady GaGa: Love Game
Jay-Z: I Know (Feat. Pharrell Williams)
Justin Bieber: Baby
Taylor Swift: Fearless
Wiley: Never Be Your Woman (Feat. Emilie Sande)
Regina Spektor: Us
John Mayer: I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You (From WTLI)
Sade: Lovers Rock
Glee: Defying Gravity
Russian postcard by Goznak, Moscow, Series no. 9, no. A 15639, 1928. The card was issued in an edition of 10.000 copies. The price was 10 Kop.
Anatoli Ktorov (1898-1980) was a brilliant Soviet and Russian film and stage actor who stuttered in real life but was perfectly eloquent in acting roles. He had a career spanning from silent films, Yakov Protazanov, to the Oscar-winning epic Voyna i mir / War and Peace (1965-1967). He became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1963.
Anatoli Ktorov (Russian: Анатолий Кторов) was born Anatoli Petrovich Viktorov in 1898 in Moscow. His grandfather was a successful merchant, and his father, named Pyotr Viktorov, was an industrial engineer. His mother was a pianist and singer. Young Ktorov was brought up in an artistic environment of Moscow's cultural milieu. He attended Classical Gymnasium in Moscow and was fond of acting in school drama class. In 1916, at age 18, Ktorov became a student at the Acting School of Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, a stern acting coach who was critical of Ktorov's stuttering. But Ktorov, who was a shy person in real life, demonstrated his remarkable persistence and determination. He practised his lines several hundred times. In 1917, Ktorov made his stage acting debut at the Komissarzhevsky Theatre. Ktorov never stuttered on-stage. However, director Komissarzhevsky did not believe in Ktorov, and his career seemed to be limited to cameo roles. Ktorov's fate was changed by Illarion Pevtsov, who believed in Ktorov's talent and took him as a protégé. In 1919, Pevtsov introduced Ktorov to Vera Popova, an established actress and experienced acting coach. She also recognised Ktorov's talent and took him under her wing. Eventually, Popova became Ktorov's partner on stage and in life.
From 1920 to 1933, Anatoli Ktorov was a permanent member of the troupe at the Korsh Theatre in Moscow. There, he played leading roles in classic dramas and comedies, as well as in contemporary plays, with Vera Popova as his permanent stage partner. In 1925, Ktorov shot to fame with a leading role opposite Igor Ilyinsky in the silent film comedy Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka/The Tailor from Torzhok (1925) by director Yakov Protazanov. He also gave an impressive performance in Protazanov's comedy Prazdnik svyatogo Yorgena/St. Jorgen's Day (Yakov Protazanov, 1930) starring Igor Ilyinsky. The highlight of Ktorov's career was his brilliant performance as Paratov in the classic film Bespridannitsa/Without a Dowry (Yakov Protazanov, 1936), starring Nina Alisova. It was based on Alexander Ostrovsky's play 'Without a Dowry' (1878). However, Soviet directors did not want to cast him after these films, and Anatoli Ktorov did not have any film work for 25 years. Ktorov's aristocratic looks and noble manners were not in demand in the Soviet Union, while most Soviet films were dominated by political propaganda under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. From 1933 to 1980, Ktorov was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre. Anatoli Ktorov was designated People's Artist of the USSR (1963), was awarded the Stalin Prize (1952) and received numerous decorations for his contribution to the art of film and theatre. His last film roles are considered to be his best works. He was Prince Bolkonsky in Voyna i mir/War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967), and then he played the King in Posol Sovetskogo Soyuza/The Ambassador of the Soviet Union (Georgy Natanson, 1969). Anatoli Ktorov died of natural causes in 1980 in Moscow and was laid to rest in Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
Sources: Steve Shelokhonov (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Stand there, baulked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until, at last, rage draws out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet"
I shot the photos that make up this multi-exposure, this week, while walking in one of my usual gorgeous places. When I put this image in my set, Gesture Poems, I realized I had shot almost the exact same angle last winter in the same place. The sky, the lighting, everything was the same yet somehow the time that has passed between shootings, has changed it all for me.
When I shoot with my LX100 set on iA (fully automatic) I often get some Stuttering at the outside of the image. It looks like a double exposure that is off just a bit. This happened when I shot this one, so I worked in Snapseed, PhotoToaster and TitleFX to make it “arty,” and to save the shot.
League of Heroes: Ascent
Episode 3: Darkest Before Dawn - Part 2
“We interrupt our continuing coverage of the New Brickton prison break, it seems that we are getting an unexpected live feed from the madness in Midtown.” The news anchor stuttered, nervously shuffling through the stack of papers on the news desk. “Frank, can you switch us over…”
Static… and then the picture suddenly changed from the busy news room to a devastated street. A blonde woman, statuesque and menacing stares into a shaky camera lens.
“Good morning citizens of New Brickton. From this day forward, it will be remembered that you sent forth your champions to face Celedon the Destroyer… and I have found them wanting. They lie here now in pathetic heaps, driven before me and broken at my feet. Is this really the best you have to offer? I demand a challenge worthy of my strength! For every hour that I am unsatisfied, I will raise another block of this insignificant city! Your only other option is complete surrender. Death or servitude, I give you the gift of choice mortals. Your first hour begins now.”
The broadcast suddenly cuts to a rainbow test pattern. Unseen by the camera, a winged figure descends to the devastated street. Upon touching down on the pavement, she kneels over the motionless form of the Indestructible Man.
“Wake up! Please!” She shakes Fred’s seemingly lifeless body, “Fred, I don‘t know what’s happened to us, but I do know that you are still alive and I know that we need to get you and your friends out of here.”
This was built for the League of Lego Heroes Group… www.flickr.com/groups/llh/
Ex Hong Kong (China Motor Bus) Leyland / Dennis Condor at Market and Stutter in San Francisco working for Big Bus Tours.
JIROE / ROIDS / AROE.
BRIGHTON KEEPS CREATING IT..
Although we love graffiti very very much we often approach painting with the tongue firmly in the cheek. you won't see too many gothic horror themes or similar moody subjects. For no good reason we thought it might be nice to paint the atari animated, visual stuttering mantronix sampled channel 4 tv anchor.
We'll up a proper picture tomorrow.
British postcard in the Picturegoer series, London, no 707 H. Photo: Universal.
British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) is one of the true icons of the Horror cinema. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939), which resulted in his immense popularity. In the following decades, he worked in countless Horror films, but also in other genres, both in Europe and Hollywood.
Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in 1887 in London, England. Pratt himself stated that he was born in Dulwich, which is nearby in London. His parents were Edward John Pratt, Jr. and his third wife Eliza Sarah Millard. ‘Billy’ never knew his father. Edward Pratt had worked for the Indian Salt Revenue Service and had virtually abandoned his family in far-off England. Edward died when his son was still an infant and so Billy was raised by his mother. He was the youngest of nine children, and following his mother's death was brought up by his elder brothers and sisters. As a child, Billy performed each Christmas in plays staged by St. Mary Magdalene's Church. His first role was that of The Demon King in the pantomime Cinderella. Billy was bow-legged, had a lisp, and stuttered. He conquered his stutter, but not his lisp, which was noticeable throughout his career in the film industry. After his education at private schools, he attended King's College London where he took studies aimed at a career with the British Government's Consular Service. However, in 1909, the 22-year-old left university without graduating and sailed from Liverpool to Canada, where he worked as a farm labourer and did various odd itinerant jobs. In Canada, he began appearing in theatrical performances and chose the stage name Boris Karloff. Later, he claimed he chose ‘Boris’ because it sounded foreign and exotic, and that ‘Karloff’ was a family name. However, his daughter Sara Karloff publicly denied any knowledge of Slavic forebears, Karloff or otherwise. One reason for the name change was to prevent embarrassment to his family. He did not reunite with his family until he returned to Britain to make The Ghoul (T. Hayes Hunter, 1933), opposite Cedric Hardwicke. Karloff was distraught that his family would disapprove of his new, macabre claim to world fame. Instead, his brothers jostled for position around him and happily posed for publicity photographs. In 1911, Karloff joined the Jeanne Russell Company and later joined the Harry St. Clair Co. which performed in Minot, North Dakota, for a year in an opera house above a hardware store. While trying to establish his acting career, Karloff had to perform years of difficult manual labour in Canada and the U.S. to make ends meet. He was left with back problems from which he suffered for the rest of his life. In 1917, he arrived in Hollywood, where he went on to make dozens of silent films. Some of his first roles were in film serials, such as The Masked Rider (Aubrey M. Kennedy, 1919), in Chapter 2 of which he can be glimpsed onscreen for the first time, and The Hope Diamond Mystery (Stuart Paton, 1920). In these early roles, he was often cast as an exotic Arabian or Indian villain. Other silent films were The Deadlier Sex (Robert Thornby, 1920) with Blanche Sweet, Omar the Tentmaker (James Young, 1922), Dynamite Dan (Bruce Mitchell, 1924) and Tarzan and the Golden Lion (J.P. McGowan, 1927) in which James Pierce played Tarzan. In 1926 Karloff found a provocative role in The Bells (James Young, 1926), in which he played a sinister hypnotist opposite Lionel Barrymore. He worked with Barrymore again in his first sound film, the thriller The Unholy Night (Lionel Barrymore, 1929).
A key film which brought Boris Karloff recognition was The Criminal Code (Howard Hawks, 1931), a prison drama in which he reprised a dramatic part he had played on stage. With his characteristic short-cropped hair and menacing features, Karloff was a frightening sight to behold. Opposite Edward G. Robinson, Karloff played a key supporting part as an unethical newspaper reporter in Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931), a film about tabloid journalism which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. Karloff's role as Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931), based on the classic Mary Shelley book, propelled him to stardom. Wikipedia: “The bulky costume with four-inch platform boots made it an arduous role but the costume and extensive makeup produced the classic image. The costume was a job in itself for Karloff with the shoes weighing 11 pounds (5 kg) each.” The aura of mystery surrounding Karloff was highlighted in the opening credits, as he was listed as simply "?." The film was a commercial and critical success for Universal, and Karloff was instantly established as a hot property in Hollywood. Universal Studios was quick to acquire ownership of the copyright to the makeup format for the Frankenstein monster that Jack P. Pierce had designed. A year later, Karloff played another iconic character, Imhotep in The Mummy (Karl Freund, 1932). The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932) with Charles Laughton, and the starring role in MGM’s The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin, 1932) quickly followed. Steve Vertlieb at The Thunder Child: “Wonderfully kinky, the film co-starred young Myrna Loy as the intoxicating, yet sadistic Fah Lo See, Fu Manchu's sexually perverse daughter. Filmed before Hollywood's infamous production code, the film joyously escaped the later scrutiny of The Hayes Office, and remains a fascinating example of pre-code extravagance.” These films all confirmed Karloff's new-found stardom. Horror had become his primary genre, and he gave a string of lauded performances in 1930s Universal Horror films. Karloff reprised the role of Frankenstein's monster in two other films, the sensational Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935) and the less thrilling Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939), the latter also featuring Bela Lugosi. Steve Vertlieb about Bride of Frankenstein: “Whale delivered perhaps the greatest horror film of the decade and easily the most critically acclaimed rendition of Mary Shelley's novel ever released. The Bride of Frankenstein remains a work of sheer genius, a brilliantly conceived and realized take on loneliness, vanity, and madness. The cast of British character actors is simply superb.” While the long, creative partnership between Karloff and Lugosi never led to a close friendship, it produced some of the actors' most revered and enduring productions, beginning with The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ullmer, 1934). Follow-ups included The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935), the rarely seen, imaginative science fiction melodrama The Invisible Ray (Lambert Hillyer, 1936), and The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945). Karloff played a wide variety of roles in other genres besides Horror. He was memorably gunned down in a bowling alley in Howard Hawks' classic Scarface (1932) starring Paul Muni.. He played a religious First World War soldier in John Ford’s epic The Lost Patrol (1934) opposite Victor McLaglen. Between 1938 and 1940, Karloff starred in five films for Monogram Pictures, including Mr. Wong, Detective (William Nigh, 1938). During this period, he also starred with Basil Rathbone in Tower of London (Rowland V. Lee, 1939) as the murderous henchman of King Richard III, and with Margaret Lindsay in British Intelligence (Terry O. Morse, 1940). In 1944, he underwent a spinal operation to relieve his chronic arthritic condition.
Boris Karloff revisited the Frankenstein mythos in several later films, taking the starring role of the villainous Dr. Niemann in House of Frankenstein (Erle C. Kenton, 1944), in which the monster was played by Glenn Strange. He reprised the role of the ‘mad scientist’ in Frankenstein 1970 (Howard W. Koch, 1958) as Baron Victor von Frankenstein II, the grandson of the original creator. The finale reveals that the crippled Baron has given his face (i.e., Karloff's) to the monster. From 1945 to 1946, Boris Karloff appeared in three films for RKO produced by Val Lewton: Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson, 1945), The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945), and Bedlam (Mark Robson, 1946). Karloff had left Universal because he thought the Frankenstein franchise had run its course. Karloff was a frequent guest on radio programs. In 1949, he was the host and star of the radio and television anthology series Starring Boris Karloff. In 1950, he had his own weekly children's radio show in New York. He played children's music, told stories and riddles, and attracted many adult listeners as well. An enthusiastic performer, he returned to the Broadway stage in the original production of Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), in which he played a homicidal gangster enraged to be frequently mistaken for Karloff. In 1962, he reprised the role on television with Tony Randall and Tom Bosley. He also appeared as Captain Hook in the play Peter Pan with Jean Arthur. In 1955, he returned to the Broadway stage to portray the sympathetic Bishop Cauchon in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. Karloff regarded the production as the highlight of his long career. Julie Harris was his co-star as Joan of Arc in the celebrated play, recreated for live television in 1957 with Karloff, Harris and much of the original New York company intact. For his role, Karloff was nominated for a Tony Award. Karloff donned the monster make-up for the last time for a Halloween episode of the TV series Route 66 (1962), which also featured Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney, Jr. In the 1960s, Karloff appeared in several films for American International Pictures, including The Comedy of Terrors (Jacques Tourneur, 1963) with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre, The Raven (Roger Corman, 1963), The Terror (Roger Corman, 1963) with Jack Nicholson, and Die, Monster, Die! (Daniel Haller, 1965). Another project for American International release was the frightening Italian horror classic, I tre volti della paura/Black Sabbath (Mario Bava, 1963), in which Karloff played a vampire with bone-chilling intensity. He also starred in British cult director Michael Reeves's second feature film, The Sorcerers (1966). He gained new popularity among the young generation when he narrated the animated TV film Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones, Ben Washam. 1966), and provided the voice of the Grinch. Karloff later received a Grammy Award for Best Recording For Children after the story was released as a record. Then he starred as a retired horror film actor in Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968), Steve Vertlieb: “Targets was a profoundly disturbing study of a young sniper holding a small Midwestern community, deep in the bible belt, terrifyingly at bay. The celebrated subplot concerned the philosophical dilemma of creating fanciful horrors on the screen, while the graphic, troubling reality was eclipsing the superficiality so tiredly repeated by Hollywood. Karloff co-starred, essentially as himself, an aged horror star named Byron Orlok, who wants simply to retire from the imagined horrors of a faded genre, only to come shockingly to grips with the depravity and genuine terror found on America's streets. Bogdanovich's first film as a director won praise from critics and audiences throughout the world community, and won its elder star the best, most respectful notices of his later career.”. In 1968, he played occult expert Professor Marsh in the British production Curse of the Crimson Altar (Vernon Sewell, 1968), which was the last Karloff film to be released during his lifetime. He ended his career by appearing in four low-budget Mexican horror films, which were released posthumously. While shooting his final films, Karloff suffered from emphysema. Only half of one lung was still functioning and he required oxygen between takes. he contracted bronchitis in 1968 and was hospitalized. In early 1969, he died of pneumonia at the King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst, in Sussex, at the age of 81. Boris Karloff married five times and had one child, daughter Sara Karloff, by his fourth wife.
Sources: Steve Vertlieb (The Thunder Child), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Stutter Rap (No Sleep til Bedtime), was a parody on Gangster Rap (No Sleet til Brooklyn), by the Beastie Boys. Morris Minor and the Majors, fronted by comedian Tony Hawks took the song to number 4 in 1988.
Ok, the record is naff, but the cover is the reason for this posting, a superb red 1950 moggie convertible, RVW 178, a car that is still around.
and ChaCha had captured it in the suit.
Love those liver spots, Marcel, not quite freckles but a good simulacrum. I still love when grown men stutter, it makes me feel protective towards them, like I want to tell them it is OK, they will be fine.
It gives me a little heartache, but not of the bad kind.
I guess it's called 'fellow-feeling', or something like that.
I particularly love when we make mistakes and realise it, almost simultaneously.