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Tourist in the undercroft of the Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, New York.
Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
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Due to the fact that we were threatened and pushed by fascists who were also threatening to smash our cameras, I couldn't take many pictures of what was happening today, I was too afraid to show my camera.
People turned up to 'protect statues' but I think in reality the objective was something different. There was a threatening atmosphere, bottles thrown, nazi salutes and police being attacked.
"A Little Tense": Exposure/Color Adjusted Digital Capture"Copyright:2015:Joel A. Fairchild...!...ILYJAF...!!!...{]=;
“The flat, staring eyes of the young men glowed ecstatically as the story unfolded. They leaned forward, a tense, worshiping group. Bramwell, satisfied with the effect of his narration, said, ‘With contact made, we used the intervening years, to install the vast equipment that, when the moment comes, will transmute not mere ova, but thousands upon thousands of our brothers – fully formed and ready to take over this world.
“We have also set up the devices through which avenues of attack will be provided for you and your brothers. These avenues must, of course, consist of water. When we strike, we will take over the United States. Using it as a beachhead, we will stream north and south and east and west. With mobile equipment, we will fling chaos ahead of us and in a short time, we will be the masters of this planet.’
“Tate’s voice had become more and more emotional as he built toward his climax and the last words were uttered as both a declaration of triumph and fervent prayer. Here indeed, was a dedicated man – if he and the members of his group could actually be called men.
“The group arose spontaneously, as a gesture of tribute. Then Tate slipped back into his cold shell and eyed them with grim impersonality. ‘That will be all. Go back to your posts. Await your orders.’
“They filed out, their mouths opening in that odd gasping manner so reminiscent of a trout surfacing to snatch a fly. . .” [Excerpt from the story, revealing plans for the conquest of Earth by fish-like creatures posing as human.]
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Paul W. Fairman (1909-1977) was a key figure in the pulp era, known for his prolific output and accessible, fast-paced tales of space, aliens, and adventure. He founded “If” and later edited “Amazing Stories” and “Fantastic,” playing a significant role in pulp SF publishing. He was also the managing editor of "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" from 1958 to 1963.
He used many names, including Adam Chase, Ellery Queen, E.K Jarvis, Mallory Storm and Ivar Jorgensen, to publish across genres, with some stories adapted into films. His 1952 short story “Brothers Beyond the Void” served as the basis for the “Twilight Zone” episode “People are Alike All Over.” His story “Deadly City” was adapted into the 1954 film “Target Earth,’ and his story “Cosmic Frame” was adapted into the 1957 film “Invasion of the Saucer Men.”
Fairman also ghostwrote several young adult novels for Lester del Rey, such as “The Runaway Robot.” He wrote for various franchises, including novelizations for “The Partridge Family” and a Sherlock Holmes pastiche for Ellery Queen titled “A Study in Terror.”
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"A cool small evening shrunk to a dog's bark and the clank
................................................................of a bucket -
And you listening.
A spider's web, tense for the dew's touch.
A pail lifted, still and brimming - mirror
To tempt a first star to a tremor."
~ Ted Hughes, b.1930 ~
From "Full Moon and Little Frieda"
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Sarasota, Florida
David
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475 - 1564)
Maker: Fonderia Chiurazzi (Italian, founded 1870)
Date: early 20th century
Fully nude and standing over seventeen feet tall, Michelangelo’s David was a revelation in Renaissance sculpture and remains today the most recognizable statue in the world. The figure’s dimensions, piercing gaze, and tensed musculature were a subject of discussion in the 16th century just as they are now, drawing admirers and detractors alike, all of whom played a part in determining the artistic and psychological significance of such a masterwork. In Florence, the statue became an image of republican fortitude, and in Sarasota, centuries later, it has become a symbol of the city’s identity as an arts capital.
Assuming a familiar contrapposto stance and poised with his humble armaments – a stone and a sling – David was as much a summation of antique and Renaissance sculpture as it was a break with tradition. The pose and treatment of the body are decidedly ancient, filtered through Renaissance sensibilities. But not since the Romans had anyone erected a nude male figure of such colossal proportions, nor with as much attention to human anatomy and interest in accentuated bodily forms. The choice of subject, the biblical David, was not novel either. Sculptors Donatello (ca. 1386-1466) and Verrocchio (ca. 1435-1488) had in the previous century shown the young hero standing victoriously over Goliath’s severed head. Michelangelo however cast David not as a haughty, ephebic prince but as a powerful, muscled young man, choosing to show him in the moments just before the battle. Its artistic qualities and symbolic potential were immediately recognized, and the statue, originally intended for the buttresses high up on the Florence Duomo, was placed instead at the entrance to the political center of the short-lived Florentine Republic (1494-1512), the Palazzo della Signoria. The statue stood there until the late 19th century, when it was removed to its present location in the Galleria dell’Accademia.
By virtue of the prime real estate it occupied and its subsequent glorification by art history (Vasari said it “eclipsed all other statues”), the David was copied extensively. The Ringling David, made in bronze from a cast of the marble original, has been the centerpiece of John Ringling’s Renaissance-inspired art museum since its founding in the late 1920s.
Re-enactment of a second World War battle on Fort Edam.
More photos of my visit to the fort can be found HERE.