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The show's producer told me that when CAP showed up unexpected, he was offered a clean wall to do a fill-in, but insisted on going over, so POBE had to do a fill-in for the sole purpose of CAP to go over him.
He worked as lead Actor in one of the Ladhaki films produced by a french company. Currently he is a school teacher and runs this grocery shop in free time.
I tell people I'm a writer, but what I mean to say is, "I want to do big things but all I have are these stupid words."
Leica M6 + Voigtlander 35mm / Kodak Tri-X + dev Kodak T-MAX
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Writer’s Block
Until It hit me it was just a joke
Something that happened to other folk
If it happened at all
And I was not just in thrawl
To some confected scare
A sort of of malade imaginaire
Who would dare to go to the doc
To complain about suffering from writer’s block.
But I did and he was quite emphatic
It was likely, he said, psychosomatic
Tell me the symptoms, he asked, with a hint of a mock
While he glanced I think at a nearby clock
I said in a bid to clear his doubt:
“There are words inside me that won’t come out”
Ok he said with a knowing grin
Take this twice a day. An aspirin
I’ll write a prescription said the doubting doc
Unless, of course, I get writer’s block.
writer's block
/ˌrīdərz ˈbläk/
the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
The keyboard of my Mac Mini computer... coming back to life.
This is my favorite detail (with the scaffold); when I saw for the first time the custom printed penguin from minifigs.me, it immediately reminded me of an Italian street artist named PaoPao, who's famous for decorating concrete bollards.
This is his photostream:
www.flickr.com/photos/pao_street_art/
and this is one of his famous bollards:
www.flickr.com/photos/pao_street_art/5668691521/
Then I bought two of them and I put in the front of the station with an appropriate writer (Wyldstyle, in this case). This is not the definitive configuration, but I couldn't wait any longer: I had to show you!
I am sorry for the not so high quality of the photo.
Hope you like it as much as I do!
London
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ELEGANT WRITER PEN..QUICK SNOW SCENE SKETCH
This was completed entirely with ONE pen...The Elegant Writer Pen.
I have been using this Pen for at least 6 years, incorporating it into almost 200 of my Mixed Media Paintings..and have even painted some entirely with it, like this one.
The inspired hill of Vézelay
The Burgundy hill of Vézelay, which French writer Paul Claudel named “eternal”, has been drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims (nowadays more likely tourists) since time immemorial. It has also drawn strife, battles and pillage: the big monastery was no less than six times destroyed by fire, and always rebuilt. Here, the Second Crusade was preached on Easter Day of 1146 by Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, whom King Louis VII of France had summoned to be lectured on the sort of penance his royal person should submit to to atone for his many sins: Bernard chose the Crusade. Crusaders congregated here as well for the Third one, in 1190.
The history of Vézelay began around 850, when Count Girard de Roussillon founded a nunnery at the foot of the hill, in the locale now occupied by the village of Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay. Fifteen years later, the nuns had been replaced by monks for reasons that never reached us. What we know is that further to a Viking raid on Burgundy in 887, the monks took refuge at the top of the hill, in the remnants of a Roman oppidum, and never went down again.
Originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the monastery they built on the hilltop was placed in 1050 under the patronage of Mary Magdalene, further to the claimed transport of her bones from the Holy Land by a monk named Badillon. This so-called “transposition” was validated by the Pope, but the people of Provence rebelled fiercely against that ruling: it had indeed always been well known that the saint, who had been the very first, even before the apostles, to see Christ resuscitated, had left the Holy Land and come to France where she finished her life in the mountains of the Sainte- Baume, which were named after her. Her bones had been kept in the basilica of Saint-Maximin, the largest church in the whole of Provence.
Thus sanctioned by the Pope, and confirmed yet again by Pascal II in 1103, the claim of the Vézelay monks drew immense crowds (and brought enormous riches). The fact that they also claimed to have the bones of Martha and Lazarus were not for nothing in the considerable attraction the abbey had on a pilgrimage-hungry Christendom. However, the Provençal people were victorious in the end, when they revealed that the bones of the Magdalene, which had been hidden during the 900s as the Saracens drew nearer, were opportunely re-discovered in 1279. This time, Pope Boniface VIII found in their favor and that ruling was never overturned: the pilgrimage to Vézelay was dead, even though the big church kept its dedication.
The rest of the history of Vézelay is a long downhill walk. In 1537, the Benedictine monks are replaced by canons. In 1568, the Protestants seize the church and burn it again. Finally, in 1819, lightning strikes and sets the church aflame for the last time. When architect Viollet-le-Duc, mandated by Minister Prosper Mérimée, arrives on-site in 1840, the abbey church of Vézelay is but a gutted carcass, ready to collapse. That same year, the church was put on the first list of French Historic Landmarks (“Monuments historiques”) and restoration works were undertaken urgently; they were to last until 1861, and many other such works have been undertaken since.
The church was granted basilica status in 1920, and in 1979 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it is the starting point of one of the major Paths to Compostela, the Via Lemovicensis, so-named because it runs through the large city of Limoges.
On that day of June 2024 I went to Vézelay as a side trip during a photographic expedition for the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the non-profit heritage organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer, it was raining. Therefore, I took no photo of the outside, but instead concentrated on the inside. Furthermore, a lot of what can be seen on the outside, including the façade and the tympanum, are re-creations of the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc, and thus much less interesting for our purpose.
Another of the beautifully sculpted capitals in the narthex. I can’t show them all as it would take months of uploads, but I found this one particularly interesting, lively, humorous and to-the-point: on the right, we see a woman emptying a basin of what looks obviously like used, dirty water. And on the left is a flow of similarly unsavory liquid pouring out of someone’s mouth. This is an allegory, often repeated during the Middle Ages, urging people not to spread rumors or bad-mouth their neighbor.
Don’t hesitate to zoom in to view the details!
I took this picture on camel back mountain so I would have a good view of the sky for my concentration. I took a picture of the model bending over the type writer and in Photoshop I added multiple pictures of paper by cutting them out and shaping them in the picture. For the sky I layered and blended three pictures and added a warm filter. Color editing in Lightroom. This picture fits due to the surrealism of the flying papers and the matching color scheme 11.608x15.75 in 240 ppi
Digital Composite
meglio guardarla ... View On Black
Zhabei Park - Shanghai - Cina ore 7:30 del mattino
Questo signore scrive con un pennello ad acqua.
WRITERS RESIST: Louder Together for Free Expression was a literary protest on the steps of the New York Public Library’s Schwarzman Building at 42nd St. that brought together hundreds of writers and artists and thousands of New Yorkers on the birthday of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. American poet laureates Robert Pinsky, Author and Rita Dove offered each other hope and inspiration with "inaugural" poems.
Remembrance Day 2022 - 4 (of 9) - Canon EOS 1D Mark II with Canon EF 28-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS USM (EOS mount) & Polarizer - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
The Crawford family first came to Bangor in the early seventeenth century. William Crawford rented the area which became known as Crawfordsburn from Sir James Hamilton. In 1670 the family purchased the estate from the Earl of Clanbrasil. Eventually the estate passed to the Sharman family by marriage in the early nineteenth century.
William Sharman was born in 1781. He was brought up at Moira Castle which his father rented. This house no longer exists. William’s father was a collector of revenue and customs in the Lisburn area, but also owned land in various places, including Rathfriland. William later wrote about his youth, explaining that he was considered a delicate child. He did not go to school and was taught by his father. He was not sent to college either, lest his morals should be corrupted!
In 1805 William married Mabel Crawford of Crawfordsburn. They lived for a time on the family estate in Meath and also in Dublin. In 1826 they were called to Crawfordsburn. Mabel’s father was in his 80s and her brother had been badly injured. It was decided to break the male entail on the estate. When Mr. Crawford died in 1827, William and Mabel became the owners of the Crawfordsburn estate. William adopted the name of Crawford by royal license.
William Sharman Crawford, aged 47, was now the owner of 5,748 acres in County Down at Crawfordsburn, Rademon, Banbridge and Rathfriland as well as 754 acres at Stalleen in County Meath. He had a substantial income of £8,000 a year. Mabel and William now resided at Crawfordsburn. We were shown a picture of the house from a book by Proctor and Malloy, published in the early 1830s. The house had been built about 1780 and modified about 1820. The gate house on the Crawfordsburn Road is quite sophisticated when compared to the original house. The reason is probably genealogical. One of his sisters married the first Earl of Caledon and their son employed the famous architect John Nash to remodel his house. The Crawfords probably met Nash when staying at Caledon and got plans for the gate lodge.
William Sharman Crawford took an active interest in politics. He is best known for his advocacy of Tenant Right – the Ulster Custom which gave a tenant greater security through the three “f”s: fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale of goodwill. Crawford called this “The darling object of my heart”. This idea was not popular with other landlords, but Crawford remained a strong advocate of it for the rest of his life. He may have been influenced by one of his tenants from the Banbridge area – Hugh Bronte, the grandfather of the Bronte sisters of Haworth.
In 1831 Crawford contested the election for County Down. Two families had for some time dominated the two seats available for the county in the House of Commons – the Hills of Hillsborough and the Stewarts of Mount Stewart. Two sons of these families also contested the 1831 election. Voting took place over four days in Downpatrick and there were allegations of bribery. Crawford was supported by Mr. Johnston who owned a brewery in Newtownards. He also held 50 acres from the Stewart family which he lost after the election. Sharman Crawford failed to win a seat, but did not give up his political ambitions.
In 1832 he stood for Belfast against Lord Arthur Chichester, the son of the Marquis of Donegall. He lost support because of his views on scripture and education. A new education scheme included the spending of half a day on scripture. Crawford approved the reading of scripture, but not as something to be enforced in schools. He endorsed the sign on Crawfordsburn school which said “No Bible Read Here”. Finally he entered parliament as M.P. for Dundalk in 1834. His tenants and the local Bangor liberals welcomed him home with celebrations and bonfires. His success at Dundalk was probably due to several factors. There were only 200 men in the town qualified to vote and he had the backing of the famous Irish politician Daniel O’Connell. Lord Castlereagh called him O’Connell’s slave but they later fell out as Crawford favoured reform and a federal system in Ireland, while O’Connell went further and advocated the end of the Union. Crawford held the Dundalk seat until 1837.
Now he was in parliament, Crawford came to the attention of the English radicals. He was offered a seat in Rochdale as a supporter of free trade and was the M.P. for the town for 11 years. In 1852 he once more contested the County Down seat. It was a hotly contested election with rioting in Downpatrick where the election was held. Local papers condemned his radical views.
William Sharman Crawford died in 1861 aged 81. His funeral took place from Rademon to the family vault at Kilmore Church.
His daughter Mabel, one of eleven children, became a great traveller, writer and feminist. She wrote three books, including one on Life in Tuscany. The estate was inherited by Major John Sharman Crawford who had been born in 1809. He faced difficult times due to famine, crop prices and land acts. It was during his time that the railway was extended from Holywood to Bangor in 1865. He made improvements to the estate, including the gate lodge on the Helen’s Bay road.
On his death the estate passed to his brother Arthur, a barrister. The latter restored the family fortunes by his marriage to a distant cousin Alicia, whose family owned a brewery in Cork. The brewery was inherited by her son, Colonel Robert Gordon Sharman Crawford in 1889. On the death of his father in 1891, he also inherited the Crawfordsburn estate. He built the model farm and land steward’s house. Then in 1904 he began building the present Crawfordsburn house which was designed by Vincent Craig, brother of the politician Sir James Craig. It was a substantial house in the Victorian style and had 25 bedrooms, including those for the servants. Vincent Craig also built a house for himself in Helen’s Bay and designed the Royal Ulster Yacht Club headquarters about 1899.
Colonel Crawford became deeply involved in unionist politics at the time of the Home Rule Crisis, before the First World War. He became an M.P. and later a member of the Northern Ireland Senate. His son was killed in a motorbike accident at Aldershot in July 1913. Terence Sharman Crawford is commemorated by a plaque in St. John’s Church in Helen’s Bay. His father also built a memorial hall in Crawfordsburn in 1914. The inscription “RGSC 1914” is still visible on the corner of the building. Edward Carson was staying with Crawford at the time of Terence’s death. Carson was due to address a meeting of Volunteers on the afternoon of the day when the telegram arrived, but Crawford insisted that the meeting went ahead. Crawford became commander of the North Down battalion of the Ulster Volunteers. When Northern Ireland was set up in 1921 he became M.P. for mid-Down.
Crawford’s other great passion was sailing and he became Vice Commodore of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. He was involved with some of Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenges for the America’s Cup. He died in 1934 of pneumonia while on a trip to New York. The Crawfordsburn estate passed to his grandson who was a minor. Finally in 1947 the estate was sold to the Northern Ireland Hospitals’ Authority. The house became a children’s TB hospital. More recently it was sold and converted into flats. .... called Sharman.
Extract from online notes of Bangor Historical Society.