writes photos on Flickr

56 4

..all i had to do was write it.

ah, how good it feels to be happy again. :)

24 4

9/365

i like having a place all to myself to write my thoughts. small enough to bring with my anywhere, keep a pencil or pen with, filled now with bright and colorful words in pink and blue and orange. its not full yet, not even close, but its more writing than ive done in a while. lists. thoughts off the top of my head. more lists. letters. sketches. ideas. something all to myself. something all my own.

Canterbury Shaker Village # 2 by keithhull

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** I really enjoyed the afternoon I spent at Canterbury Shaker Village north east of Concord New Hampshire. There are no living Shakers at Canterbury but the State and local people have done a wonderful job preserving the buildings so you get a great sense of how the community lived. The buildings were beautiful simple in design but with real elegance . I believe this shot is of the school building. In case you wonder why a celibate community needed a school room the Shakers cared for orphan children.

An interior shot of the schoolroom is found at the top of the comments

Notes on The Shakers

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, is a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded in the 18th century in England. They were initially known as "Shaking Quakers" because of their ecstatic behaviour during worship services. As early as 1747, women assumed leadership roles within the sect, notably Jane Wardley, Mother Ann Lee, and Mother Lucy Wright. Shakers settled in colonial America, with initial settlements in New Lebanon, New York (called Mount Lebanon after 1861). They practice a celibate and communal lifestyle, pacifism, and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalised in their society in the 1780s. They are also known for their simple living, architecture, and furniture.

During the mid-19th century, an Era of Manifestations resulted in a period of dances, gift drawings, and gift songs inspired by spiritual revelations. At its peak in the mid-19th century, there were 6,000 Shaker believers. By 1920, there were only 12 Shaker communities remaining in the United States. At the present time, there is only one active Shaker village, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, which is located in Maine. Their celibacy combined with external and internal societal changes resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community, and consequently many of the other Shaker settlements are now village museums, like Canterbury

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR TAKING THE TIME TO WRITE A COMMENT IT’S MUCH APPRECIATED AND SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN JUST GIVING A FAVE

ANYONE MAKING MULTIPLE FAVES WITHOUT COMMENTS WILL SIMPLY BE BLOCKED

White Blank Page by Jesica Almaguer

1 3

TE AMO!!!

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Code :: Read Write by RedKen

7

Write/Erase by Jim Fetter

33 7

For Macro Mondays "Eraser." Save time by erasing while you write.

Red tree. Blue sky. by Mitsushiro Nakagawa

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title.

Red tree. Blue sky.

(iPhone 11 Pro shot)

Honolulu. Hawaii. America. 2019. … 5 / 13

(Today's photo. It's unpublished.)

Images.

Casper Sage --Summer's Gone (Official Music Video)

youtu.be/3_bjTB-G23s

Important Notices.

I have relaxed the following conditions.

I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...

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YouTube更新しました😃

日産サクラEVとマイルスデイヴィス映画【クールの誕生】

と

ロシアは核を絶対に使えない

youtu.be/Ns4b5J4IGnk

#日産 #EV #サクラ #applecar #アップルカー #アップル #apple #マイルスデイヴィス #クールの誕生 #ロシア #核 #絶対使えない

◉日産サクラEVのニュースにコメント書きました😃

「社会の意識を変えることが必要」価格・充電残された課題も・・・各メーカー新型EV車発表(2022年5月20日)

youtu.be/lmBsX_e3iVk

僕のコメント

原点に帰るべき。EVの仕様、給電の問題以前に、『このクルマ、欲しい！』と心躍る原点が必要。

アップルカーの開発が話題になってますが、恐らくiPhoneが発表された時の誰もが欲しくなるEVが発表され、車を再発明するでしょう。楽しみです。

【テスラは、たぶん携帯を販売します。😃】

新しい記事を引用。ツイートしました。

マスク氏「中国は米国抜き去る」

topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/36kr/business/36kr-186703...

中国は確かに米国を越えます。

が、中身の体制、人は変わらない。よって、アップルは中国を脱出中。

テスラは残る？

◉マイルスデイヴィス映画【クールの誕生】

www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B08Y698P1...

どちらも廃盤で値段が跳ね上がっています😅

検索するとYouTubeでも聴けます。

○ライヴ・イン・ヨーロッパ1967-ブートレグ・シリーズVol.1(DVD付)（アコースティックマイルス）

www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B005J7CRA...

○ライヴ・イン・ヨーロッパ1969-ブートレグ・シリーズVol.2(DVD付)(エレクトリックマイルス・ロストクインテット)

www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B008CQCAC...

◉ロシアの核は初めから使えないですね😅

#日産 #サクラ #EV #マイルスデイヴィス #クールの誕生 #レビュー #ロシア #核 #絶対 #使えない #apple #applecar #アップルカー #電気自動車 #アップル #開発 #ニュース #新しい #アコスティックマイルス #エレクトリックマイルス #ロストクインテット #1967 #1969

最新のお知らせ。

以下の僕のTシャツ。無料配布。

コロナの影響で、運送方法は国によって変わります。

1/25

一人目が決まりました。

それはドイツの人です。

m.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/favorites/

僕は心から感謝します。ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月３日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

2/25

二人目はタイの女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/Abbozzo/

僕は彼女へ受け取って欲しいとお願いしました。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

3/25

3人目はメキシコの女性です。

www.facebook.com/OvejaDeSion

彼女はfotologの頃からずっと僕を支えてくれました。

彼女は僕の道案内をしてくれました。

ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

4/25

4人目は、セルビア共和国の女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/IvanaPopov/

２０２０年１２月１４日発送しました。

船便です。たぶん２ヶ月から３ヶ月以内で到着します。

:)

5/25

５人目は、インドネシアの男性です。

www.flickr.com/photos/33836533@N04/

２０２０年１２月２４日。発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

6/25

6人目は、フランスの方です。

youpic.com/image/18158054/ombre-chinoise-by-ce-pe

www.flickr.com/photos/191604817@N04/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

7/25

7人目も、フランスの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/151630891@N07/

www.flickr.com/people/liveworkcreate/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

8/25

８人目の方はルーマニアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/63mr/

2021年１月中に発送します。

:)

9/25

9人目は日本の方です。16歳です。

www.instagram.com/kai.kawazu/

受賞歴

2017 小国町フォトコンテスト2部門

2018 EPSONmeet up selectionデータ部門優秀賞

2020 熊本高文連前期写真コンテスト優秀賞

Webフォトコンテスト協賛メーカー賞

10/25

10人目は、ブラジルの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/mangelo/

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

11/25

11人目は、アメリカの方です。

youpic.com/photographer/HeathBrunner/

www.flickr.com/photos/181948650@N04/

vmaxrecords.bandcamp.com

soundcloud.com/vmaxrecords

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

12/25

12人目は、イタリアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/122700703@N05/

youpic.com/photographer/raffadepa2019/

cacciatoredisogniblog.wordpress.com

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

13/25

13人目は、ロシアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/183731920@N08/

youpic.com/photographer/Andjey/

２０２１年３月中に発送します。

Mitsu.

Important Notices.

I have relaxed the following conditions.

I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50613367691/in/dateposted-p...

重要なお知らせ。

僕は以下の条件を緩和しました。

僕はTシャツを無料で世界中へ配布します。

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...

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Youtube 更新しました。

眞子さまのご結婚、そして恋愛の大切さ

youtu.be/07kpnGBKtcY

1 昨今の婚活っていうのは？

2 誰かをふいに好きになることの大切さ

3 過去や現在、未来に囚われない

4 未来を信じることの大切さ

5 映画　レディープレイヤー１のテーマ

【自分の気持ちを告げること】

#眞子さまのご結婚そして恋愛の大切さ #恋愛 #婚活 #誰かを好きになる #彼や彼女 #結婚 #未来 #過去 #現在 #信じる #大切さ #レディプレイヤー1 #映画 #自分の気持ちを伝えること #告白 #眞子さま #佳子さま #イケメン #美女 #可愛い子 #イクメン #身長 #高学歴 #高収入 #職歴

#ソフトバンク光からドコモ光へ #ソフトバンク光 #ソフトバンク光を解約しました #ドコモ光 #ドコモ光がつながらない #プロバイダー #GMO #PS4もつながります #とくとくBB #光ファイバー #NTT #ルーター #ONU #GEONU #LAN #ケーブル #白 #WiFi #ワイファイ #小型ONU #ひかり電話対応 #ホームゲートウェイ #rx600mi #郵送されてきた同梱物内の説明書だけでは決してつながりません #ネットトータルサポート #説明書 #NEC #Aterm #WG２６００HS2 #RT #BR #CNV #乗り換え #チェックポイント #IPv4 #IPv6 #PC #パソコン #IPアドレス #重要会員登録証 #接続パスワード１ #接続ID1 #機器設定用 #パスワード #郵送 #ブラウザ #ユーザー名 #user #PPPランプ #インターネット #開通 #現在の状態 #チェック #NTTの機器ルーター #LANケーブル #ソフトバンクの白い #ちょっとおしゃれなWiFiのラン #ドコモとかから #送られてきた新品のもの #契約したプロバイダーGMOから送られてきた新品の #NEC #Atermwg2600HS2 #重要なチェックポイント #切り替える #故障 #配線確認 #配線方法 #ひかり電話 #送られてきた機器の説明書のとおりに進めても絶対につながらない #注意点 #まずは現在の状態をチェック

ソフトバンク光からドコモ光へ

＝　プロバイダーがGMO（とくとくBB）の場合のみ　＝

このPDFファイルは以下にあります。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

A まずは現在の状態をチェック

現在あなたはソフトバンク光を使っています。

①そして、光ファイバーのつないでいるNTTの機器ルーター、ONU（NTT GE-ONU）は、この写真１と同じもの

www.google.com/search?q=NTT+GE-ONU&client=safari&...

②そこからLANケーブルでつないだソフトバンクの白い、ちょっとおしゃれなWi-Fiのラン

www.google.com/search?q=ソフトバンク光　ワイフ...

B ドコモとかから、送られてきた新品のもの

①NTTの機器、ルーター小型ONU、NTT ひかり電話対応ホームゲートウェイ　PR-600MI

そして説明書は以下。

nttwest.ssdl1.smartstream.ne.jp/nttwest/flets/kiki/downlo...

②契約したプロバイダーGMOから送られてきた新品の、NEC　Aterm WG２６００HS2

www.aterm.jp/function/wg2600hs2/index.html

背面にある小さな、三段回のスイッチ、RT、BT、CNVは、デフォルトでRTとなっており、説明書でもRTのままでと書いてあるが、これはBT、真ん中へ切り替える。

C 重要なチェックポイント

①現在動いているONUはそのまま使い、そこのLANポートから、LANケーブルで、送られてきたルーター PR-600MIのWANへ接続します。

ひかり電話　配線方法の解説と注意点【ドコモ光・ソフトバンク光・フレッツ光ほか対応】NTT GE-ONU RX-600MI 故障と思ったらまずは配線確認

youtu.be/EpyvRtBNPoo

②送られてきた機器の説明書のとおりに進めても絶対につながらない

③現状、IPv4　が　IPv6へは変わるわけではない。

④LANケーブルが直接接続できるPCが必須。

プロバイダー設定（GMOというプロバイダー）＝ホームゲートウェイ PR-600MIの説明書、

の　５　インターネットに接続してみようを見る。

①のIPアドレスを入力してブラウザを立ち上げる

②機器設定用パスワードを入力、と説明書には書かれているが、

ここには【GMOから郵送されてきた重要会員登録証】に記載されている

インターネット接続サービス情報の接続パスワード１に記載されたパスワードを入力。

説明書③のユーザー名に【user】を、と書かれているが、userは入れずに、

ここには【GMOから郵送されてきた重要会員登録証】に記載されている

接続ID1を入力する。（メールアドレスに似ている）

そして説明書④のとおり、設定を押して完了。するとPPPランプが点灯して接続完了。ここで初めてインターネット開通となる。

#ソフトバンク光からドコモ光へ #ソフトバンク光 #ソフトバンク光を解約しました #ドコモ光 #ドコモ光がつながらない #プロバイダー #GMO #PS4もつながります #とくとくBB #光ファイバー #NTT #ルーター #ONU #GEONU #LAN #ケーブル #白 #WiFi #ワイファイ #小型ONU #ひかり電話対応 #ホームゲートウェイ #rx600mi #郵送されてきた同梱物内の説明書だけでは決してつながりません #ネットトータルサポート #説明書 #NEC #Aterm #WG２６００HS2 #RT #BR #CNV #乗り換え #チェックポイント #IPv4 #IPv6 #PC #パソコン #IPアドレス #重要会員登録証 #接続パスワード１ #接続ID1 #機器設定用 #パスワード #郵送 #ブラウザ #ユーザー名 #user #PPPランプ #インターネット #開通 #現在の状態 #チェック #NTTの機器ルーター #LANケーブル #ソフトバンクの白い #ちょっとおしゃれなWiFiのラン #ドコモとかから #送られてきた新品のもの #契約したプロバイダーGMOから送られてきた新品の #NEC #Atermwg2600HS2 #重要なチェックポイント #切り替える #故障 #配線確認 #配線方法 #ひかり電話 #送られてきた機器の説明書のとおりに進めても絶対につながらない #注意点 #まずは現在の状態をチェック

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Write, talk by Stéphanie Renon

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©S.R.

Dedicated To My Grandson Aidan: TLC by Ric Seet

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Please write to ricseet@gmail.com if you like a FREE copy of this picture. In return please donate any amount and to any charity of your choice. Just trying to do the little we can help to the needy. Thank you for your generosity!

Thank you for viewing and have a happy day.

Explore #4, May 10 2012

When I visited my daughter on March 20 2011, my grandson, Aidan, was telling me about this bird with babies. I was excited and asked him to show me. He took me outside his home and pointed up - "there they are".

Wow - I saw how cute they were and grab my cam from the car.

Thank you Aidan!

Update: May10 2012

This pic is sold to Nat Geo for their coming book. Proceeds is going to charity.

The lady who bought the pic had a hard time tracking me down becos the person who downloaded this pic from my Flickr account without my knowledge, plastered this all over the internet and change my name from Ric Seet to Rik Seet. So no one can track the originator down. Now others are profiteering from this scam and here is the link to one such websites. You pay them to download my stolen pic:

pixdaus.com/under-her-wings-by-rik-seet-birds-aves-fauna-...

When I did a Rik Seet goggle search there are about 4 full pages of links to such websites !

www.google.com.sg/search?q=Rik Seet&ie=utf-8&oe=u...

This is one of the downside of the internet. To prevent such future mishaps, I have since disabled the download feature under Privacy & Settings. Base on the feedback this is not even safe. Additional advises is to add Watermarks and reduce file size to 800X800. From what I am hearing nothing is save on the net.

Thank you friends for your kind advise. .

Update: May13 2012

I managed to write to a few websites/blogs via email and FB.

1. A friend responded on FB and apologize for posting the pic on FB for Mother Day.

2. An Australian cyclist by the name of Craig plaster the pic for 2012 Mother Day. I wrote to inform him that the pic is my and he blocked me off immi'ly. Isn't that just great, steals your pic and ignores you!

3. What's even more interesting is Pixdaus.com has an option for you to complain if your are the owner of the intellectual property. Isn't this a laugh. I presume they believe they excuse themselves of any legal obligation in the eyes of the law by having this feature on their website! I have written to them and waiting for their reply.

Update June 1 2012

Today a caring Flickr friend brought to my attention that the above pic was stolen again and this pic was posted on Flickr. Wrote to the person to delete my picture which was done. Not a word of apology.

These people have no shame - steal other pictures and post it like theirs. Even took part in invites and participated at the various levels of award to claim credit for themselves.

here is the link if this shameful person and I have seen another couple of stolen pics as well becos they are too skillful for him. Even wrote to advise that these be remove. I am contacting the legal department of Yahoo in Singapore and making a few suggesting to them to apprehend such people.

by Pasckal2011

www.flickr.com/photos/69511790@N07/7293622534/

Since then more Flickr friends have alerted me. I am now no more angry becos I have learnt to share and come to realized this picture brings great memories & joy to others. One guy wrote to request for a print becos he wanted to place it next to his Bible.

He said that it is "God's Gift To Nature"

Update June 4 2012

Great to see that couple of my Flickr friends have added water mark to their pic. Very creative as they take the trouble to strategically position the watermark . I will borrow this idea. Thanks guys!

Update Dec 17 2012

Nat Geo is now printing double the number of copies and has agreed to denote US$300/ to charity of my grandson choice - SPCA. Thank you Nat Geo.

Update Dec 25 2012

Today I received a very touching letter from a mother who requested this print. I am glad that a picture is worth a thousand words and holds special meaning and brings great joy.

So if you need a print please drop me a Flickr mail and your mailing address. Thank you.

My heart goes out to this special lady and this picture is my gift to her. Some of you are aware that my daughter was critically ill. In her own words she told me she nearly died in Oct. Now I rejoice becos she is making slow recovery ----. A small step at a time!

June 2014, my daughter is blessed and much better now. She has regain 10kg in weight. Still allergic to food but not life threaten.

Hi Ric,

I have been searching for the photographer who took the absolutely beautiful photo of the colorful momma bird with it's babies under its wings. I've actually been praying I would find the original photographer. I won't get into the details, but for the last almost 2 years, I've been going through a really hard time with my health due to a horrible medical mistake that I suffered at the hands of a doctor. I will not let anyone tell me I am not going to get better. My husband and my son need me back. This picture holds such meaning for me...I've found it on other websites, which I am so sorry that people are stealing your work, and I have gone back to look at it a lot over the last several months. It brings me great comfort and the colors are just so beautiful and bright. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy a large print of it from you so that I can frame it and have it matted with a verse so I can look at it every day in my house. Would you mind letting me know if it's possible to buy a print from you? If so, what are the size proportions that you could print out for me? The place I want to hang it could handle an overall size of 24"x24" or 24"x28", which would be framed and matted with an inscription matted under it. Hopefully that description makes sense. Would you mind contacting back?

Update April 11 2016

Today i received a very comforting email from this lady and I thank her for helping mereach out to others who may need this pic becos of the sentimental/special meaning this pic means to them. For me this pic means a world to me bcos I am a dad to two precious daughters that I love dearly. No matter what -- I will always be there for them as long as I am on this good earth.

Hi Ric,

I must confess I posted your beautiful picture of the bird shielding her babies under her wings on a tweet and my FB page. I didn't take it from Flickr, I (wrongly) assumed it was in the public domain. Would you like me to remove it or would it be mutually agreeable to post a link to you for your credit and publicity? I am a solicitor working from home writing wills and trusts, hence the family theme, I have not tried to profit directly from the photo, just thought it was a nice image of caring. Sorry.

Kind regards,

Elizabeth

Thank you Elizabeth. There are lots of caring people on this good earth.

Write a title ! by Abdulaziz Alkhaldi

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[ EXPLORED ]

Model: ME ;p
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 50

Flash: Only One Softbox On The Right Of Me (1/2) With Canon Speedlite 580EX II

WRITES ON RED... by PETE CASSO

10 11

WRITE ON by TheDigitalGrove

38 2

Acorn Woodpeckers 3207 by Jan Maguire

29 14

Acorn Woodpeckers live in oak and mixed oak-evergreen forests in the Southwest. However, since these guys live in California, they can stash their stash where else? - in palm trees. If I were writing captions, which I enjoy doing with interacting pairs, I might write "do you think we have enough, or should we keep going?"

You might remember an image I posted a few weeks ago, where the little guy was stuffing his booty in a fence post.

365 Days - Day 123/A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage. by Steve

A lot of times I feel like I'm an accidental detective. This profession was never an ambition of mine. In fact, in college I was convinced that the private investigator had followed the dodo and passenger pigeon into extinction.

But, lo and behold, like the coelacanth, a 19 year career as a private eye swam up out of the depths and bit me in the ass. And I'm fiendishly good at it. In many ways I feel like I was wired internally to do this very thing. Virtually unemployable at anything else. I cannot resist the clues, the puzzle pieces, the thrill of finding the hidden, learning the secrets and haunting the quiet places where I watch and wait.

What I really wanted to do was write, but journalism was never truly in the cards. I spent way more time behind a lens than in front of one.

At times I feel a novel in me fighting to get out. For years that voice has been stifled. A recent addition to my life has me reassessing the road not taken. The voice is back and the words have again begun to flow. It is a gift beyond compare. I can only hope that somehow, some way I can reciprocate is such valuable kind.

Stocking tease by Paula Satijn

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Normally I would write that this is a much needed stocking adjustment because such hold-up stockings tend to slide down your legs a little over time. Although that is true it is also often an excuse; the reality is that hold-ups stay in place pretty well and that stocking adjustments are mostly needed for quite different reasons.

First of all, silky stockings with lacy stocking tops are too pretty to keep hidden all the time. They simply deserve to be shown every now and then.

Secondly, fondling with my stocking tops is the most feminine activity I can think of. It feels so incredibly girly, tender, sensual and exciting to lift my skirt a little, take the stocking tops between my fingers and give them that magical little pull. That's just heaven for me.

Last but not least, stocking adjustments are incredibly sensual and seductive, yet in style with plenty of ladylike class. That fits very well to me: I love to play and tease, but only in style. Stocking adjustments are perfect for that and they're are also much appreciated by people who happen to witness them. That's a win for everybody.

St.Valentine, one of Japanese deities by aya1gou

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Did you know that?

apparently, St. Valentine is also one of Japanese deities...

this is a chocolate section of a supermarket.

you can write your wish(about love romance) and stack it on the walls, just like at shrines...

Don't forget to buy omikuji choco too! ;)

Write a caption... by Yaxchilan Itzy

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forty-one: summer is ending. by courtney.ngo

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explored.

day forty-one out of fifty.

last one for today, i promise.

~~i'll write more later.~~

i was tagged again.

1. i just started watching dexter (not the cartoon one!) today, and im kind of addicted.

2. im leaving for college in nine days, and i don't really know how i feel...nervous, scared, excited, doubtful, accomplished.

3. sometimes i just don't feel like going out, but i feel like my friends don't understand why. it's hard to explain, but i like alone time every now and then.

4. i have a this dream, and someday, that dream will come true.

5. people watching is probably one of my favorite activities.

6. my dog is weird. i love him.

7. one of my greatest pet peeves is rude people...good thing i'm not afraid to be rude back. others include loud chewing, people talking during movies, stripes and plaid together...the list goes on.

8. eight is my favorite number.

9. i'm nocturnal, a night owl, whatever you want to call it.

10. infinite is my favorite word.

graffiti under a bridge - a sign of the times by marneejill

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in Whiskey Creek

Love Letters To Juliet by Gianluca Vecchi

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[Lettere D'Amore A Giulietta > 情书给朱丽叶 > Любовные письма к Джульетте > ジュリエットへの愛の手紙]

Location: Verona (Veneto region - Italy).

Subject: This is the entrance of the alleged house of Juliet, the character who—together with her lover Romeo—is the protagonist of the Shakespeare's tragedy which all of us know. This house is one of the most famous and attended attractions of Verona, although there is no historical proof that Romeo and Juliet's legend is true. On the walls of the entrance there are panels where the visitors may write messages, especially love ones. The panels were placed to avoid writings on the real walls—a bad habit that occurred and still occurs. Any comment about this clever behaviour is useless, even if we think that the majority of the love writers are teenagers.

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And then there were three very different designs for the headlights by Border Rovers

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Sandy the Landy writes: After a long spell away, sorting out my cooling problems, I am finally back with my mates.

I now have a modified radiator, oil cooler, electric fan, to stop me from getting hot and bothered. The boss has been very understanding, and I am looking forward to getting back to work. I am towing Anastasia up to Edinburgh later on today.

She is not too heavy and has curves in all the right places , if you catch my drift.

On parade and to my extreme right is Oscar with his sheer sides very short wheel base, and lights behind the grill. In the middle is Old Faithful, whose reliability and performance is awesome, and then me. By the time I was built headlights were in the wings to comply with changes to lighting regulations in The North American Dollar Area (NADA) where many of my 6 pot brethren ended up.

Write your name by Mr KIES

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DEMS.333,pornos - KIES.wc,pornos.

En SantaPola del 2008.

Write Your Own by Rock Water

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write with light by Eleonora Oppioli

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Berwick, Royal Border Bridge, 60103 'Flying Scotsman' (York - Edinburgh) Photo David Rodgers 14/05/16. by ALAN HART

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David writes ...

Despite having just returned from the USA on Friday the body clock (and brain) clearly were out of sync and, no doubt the alternative of watching the endless Eurovision Song Contest on tv resulted in a sudden decision to drive up to Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border just a couple miles beyond.

The purpose was to see newly-overhauled Class A3 pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman working a charter from York to Edinburgh, this being a return to Scotland for the first time in many years and certainly the first time a BR green-liveried A3 has been seen there since 1964.

In the event the charter was running a little late and it was 19.30 before the A3 steamed across the Royal Border bridge over the River Tweed....but disaster...there was a slight breeze from the north-east and the smoke was blowing down all the way across the viaduct. Fortunately it must be a little more sheltered towards the north end and the smoke cleared over the northern three arches!

After a water stop at Berwick-upon-Tweed the train departed north to the Scottish capital soon after 20.00 but much of the line along the North Sea coast was in shadow and the slight breeze resulted in nothing worthwhile.

It remains to be seen if Berwick-upon-Tweed becomes the new 'Checkpoint Charlie' where all passengers and trains are searched (or turned back) should England decide to leave the EU next month as Scotland have decided to remain in the EU!

David Rodgers.

Write About Love by aline b

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DRAW ABOUT LOVE: a Belle and Sebastian tribute.

www.drawaboutlove.tumblr.com

inner beauty by Andy Kennelly

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I don't normally write much with my photos because my hope is that the pictures speak for themselves. However, many of you have asked why my daughter and I went to Africa. My wife and I decided a few years ago that it is important for kids to see other parts of the world as early an age as possible. We developed a plan that when our kids turn 16, I would take them to a third world country and just try to help people. Helping people in a third world country were the only rules. Some of you might remember when my oldest daughter and I went to Haiti in December of 2009. Well this time I took my middle daugter to Africa. My older brother is a missionary so I knew he would be able to help us get to remote areas that have a lot of need. Now I understand that I am probably bias because I think all of my kids are amazing, but my daughter blew me away on this trip. She dug her heels in and loved people in the most amazing way. We were delt our share of obstacles (lost luggage, rough accomidations, etc.) but she never complained. I was able to see an inner beauty in her that was amazing to me. It's funny when you step out of your confort zone and help people, you usually end up getting more out of it than you think. I've had two amazing trips with my daughters and I'm looking forward to the last one (I think she's leaning towards India).

You can see more photos in the comments below and I've left them viewable in case you want to leave a comment or view them large.

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The city of Sarajevo - BOSNIA, as we know it today was founded by the Ottoman Empire in the 1450s upon conquering the region, with 1461 typically used as the city’s founding date. It quickly grew into the largest city in the region. In the early 16th century, Jewish refugees from Andalusia settled in Sarajevo. They were descendants of the Sephardic Jews expelled in 1492 from Spain. For the first time in its history, Sarajevo was the city of four religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity - Eastern Orthodox as well as Roman Catholic). The city's Jewish population made note of this, naming Sarajevo "Jerusalem of Europe"

The Old Sephardic Jewish Cemetery of Sarajevo is one of the most famed Sephardic burial grounds in the world. Founded in 1630, when Rabbi Samuel Baruch rented the land, it is the oldest intact burial ground of any religious group in Sarajevo and is known for its age and beauty. The cemetery is entered through a triple arched gateway (> see the photograph). The chief glory of the cemetery are the gravestones, erected in a style found nowhere else expect Spain. The unusually shaped tombstones are inscribed in Hebrew and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) with epigraphs written in poetic form.

In her guidebook Jewish Heritage Travel, Ruth Ellen Gruber writes: "[The] big, slightly rounded blocks with Hebrew inscriptions on one face, thrust out of the ground on the hillside like miniature pillboxes, making an eerie, unforgettable site." The form of the tombstones is unique in Europe: large, rounded in shape and lying horizontally, often set into the hillside. They were quarried in a stone-pit near the cemetery and carried to the site. Most are almost identical in size and form, giving the hillside a patterned look. Only the gravestones of prominent rabbis and scholars were larger or more lavish.

Write, Right. by BP

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’One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.‘ V S Naipaul, in conversation 1994. St James, Trinidad A91B4E12-4584-4A8F-BC23-EEA909C08DE2 by robert huggins

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write. by Finalement

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write away by Elias Kitsios

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Write something special by lica’s Art

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Write your story by Fg Perez

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Write beautifully by Air Walk

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by April

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Amedeo Modigliani

Italian, 1884 - 1920

Woman with a Necklace, 1917

Oil on canvas

(closeup)

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was a Jewish-Italian painter and sculptor who pursued his career for the most part in France. Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy and began his artistic studies in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906. Influenced by the artists in his circle of friends and associates, by a range of genres and movements, and by primitive art, Modigliani's oeuvre was nonetheless unique and idiosyncratic. He died in Paris of tubercular meningitis—exacerbated by a lifestyle of excess—at the age of 35.

Early life

Modigliani was born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy.

Livorno was still a relatively new city, by Italian standards, in the late nineteenth century. The city on the Tyrrhenian coast dates from around 1600, when it was transformed from a swampy village into a seaport. The Livorno that Modigliani knew was a bustling centre of commerce focused upon seafaring and shipwrighting, but its cultural history lay in being a refuge for those persecuted for their religion. His own maternal great-great-grandfather was one Solomon Garsin, a Jew who had immigrated to Livorno in the eighteenth century as a religious refugee.

Modigliani was the fourth child of Flaminio Modigliani and his wife, Eugenia Garsin. His father was in the money-changing business, but when the business went bankrupt, the family lived in dire poverty. In fact, Amedeo's birth saved the family from certain ruin, as, according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child. When bailiffs entered the family home, just as Eugenia went into labour, the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of the expectant mother.

Modigliani had a particularly close relationship with his mother, who taught her son at home until he was ten. Beset with health problems after a bout of typhoid at the age of fourteen, two years later he contracted the tuberculosis which would affect him for the rest of his life. To help him recover from his many childhood illnesses, she took him to Naples in Southern Italy, where the warmer weather was conducive to his convalescence.

His mother was, in many ways, instrumental in his ability to pursue art as a vocation. When he was eleven years of age, she had noted in her diary that:

“The child's character is still so unformed that I cannot say what I think of it. He behaves like a spoiled child, but he does not lack intelligence. We shall have to wait and see what is inside this chrysalis. Perhaps an artist?"

Art student years

Modigliani is known to have drawn and painted from a very early age, and thought himself "already a painter", his mother wrote, even before beginning formal studies. Despite her misgivings that launching him on a course of studying art would impinge upon his other studies, his mother indulged the young Modigliani's passion for the subject.

At the age of fourteen, while sick with the typhoid fever, he raved in his delirium that he wanted, above all else, to see the paintings in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi in Florence. As Livorno's local museum only housed a sparse few paintings by the Italian Renaissance masters, the tales he had heard about the great works held in Florence intrigued him, and it was a source of considerable despair to him, in his sickened state, that he might never get the chance to view them in person. His mother promised that she would take him to Florence herself, the moment he was recovered. Not only did she fulfil this promise, but she also undertook to enroll him with the best painting master in Livorno, Guglielmo Micheli.

Micheli and the Macchiaioli

Modigliani worked in the studio of Micheli from 1898 to 1900. Here his earliest formal artistic instruction took place in an atmosphere deeply steeped in a study of the styles and themes of nineteenth-century Italian art. In his earliest Parisian work, traces of this influence, and that of his studies of Renaissance art, can still be seen: artists such as Giovanni Boldini figure just as much in this nascent work as do those of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Modigliani showed great promise while with Micheli, and only ceased his studies when he was forced to, by the onset of tuberculosis.

In 1901, whilst in Rome, Modigliani admired the work of Domenico Morelli, a painter of melodramatic Biblical studies and scenes from great literature. It is ironic that he should be so struck by Morelli, as this painter had served as an inspiration for a group of iconoclasts who went by the title, the Macchiaioli (from macchia—"dash of colour", or, more derogatively, "stain"), and Modigliani had already been exposed to the influences of the Macchiaioli. This minor, localised art movement was possessed of a need to react against the bourgeois stylings of the academic genre painters. While sympathetically connected to (and actually pre-dating) the French Impressionists, the Macchiaioli did not make the same impact upon international art culture as did the followers of Monet, and are today largely forgotten outside of Italy.

Modigliani's connection with the movement was through Micheli, his first art teacher. Micheli was not only a Macchiaioli himself, but had been a pupil of the famous Giovanni Fattori, a founder of the movement. Micheli's work, however, was so fashionable and the genre so commonplace that the young Modigliani reacted against it, preferring to ignore the obsession with landscape that, as with French Impressionism, characterised the movement. Micheli also tried to encourage his pupils to paint en plein air, but Modigliani never really got a taste for this style of working, sketching in cafes, but preferring to paint indoors, and especially in his own studio. Even when compelled to paint landscapes (three are known to exist), Modigliani chose a proto-Cubist palette more akin to Cézanne than to the Macchiaioli.

While with Micheli, Modigliani not only studied landscape, but also portraiture, still-life, and the nude. His fellow students recall that the latter was where he displayed his greatest talent, and apparently this was not an entirely academic pursuit for the teenager: when not painting nudes, he was occupied with seducing the household maid.

Despite his rejection of the Macchiaioli approach, Modigliani nonetheless found favour with his teacher, who referred to him as "Superman", a pet name reflecting the fact that Modigliani was not only quite adept at his art, but also that he regularly quoted from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. Fattori himself would often visit the studio, and approved of the young artist's innovations.

In 1902, Modigliani continued what was to be a life-long infatuation with life drawing, enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti (Scuola Libera di Nudo, or "Free School of Nude Studies") in Florence. A year later while still suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Venice, where he registered to study at the Istituto di Belle Arti.

It is in Venice that he first smoked hashish and, rather than studying, began to spend time frequenting disreputable parts of the city. The impact of these lifestyle choices upon his developing artistic style is open to conjecture, although these choices do seem to be more than simple teenage rebellion, or the cliched hedonism and bohemianism that was almost expected of artists of the time; his pursuit of the seedier side of life appears to have roots in his appreciation of radical philosophies, such as those of Nietzsche.

Early literary influences

Having been exposed to erudite philosophical literature as a young boy under the tutelage of Isaco Garsin, his maternal grandfather, he continued to read and be influenced through his art studies by the writings of Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Carduzzi, Comte de Lautréamont, and others, and developed the belief that the only route to true creativity was through defiance and disorder.

Letters that he wrote from his 'sabbatical' in Capri in 1901 clearly indicate that he is being more and more influenced by the thinking of Nietzsche. In these letters, he advised friend Oscar Ghiglia,

“(hold sacred all) which can exalt and excite your intelligence... (and) ... seek to provoke ... and to perpetuate ... these fertile stimuli, because they can push the intelligence to its maximum creative power.”

The work of Lautréamont was equally influential at this time. This doomed poet's Les Chants de Maldoror became the seminal work for the Parisian Surrealists of Modigliani's generation, and the book became Modigliani's favourite to the extent that he learnt it by heart. The poetry of Lautréamont is characterised by the juxtaposition of fantastical elements, and by sadistic imagery; the fact that Modigliani was so taken by this text in his early teens gives a good indication of his developing tastes. Baudelaire and D'Annunzio similarly appealed to the young artist, with their interest in corrupted beauty, and the expression of that insight through Symbolist imagery.

Modigliani wrote to Ghiglia extensively from Capri, where his mother had taken him to assist in his recovery from the tuberculosis. These letters are a sounding board for the developing ideas brewing in Modigliani's mind. Ghiglia was seven years Modigliani's senior, and it is likely that it was he who showed the young man the limits of his horizons in Livorno. Like all precocious teenagers, Modigliani preferred the company of older companions, and Ghiglia's role in his adolescence was to be a sympathetic ear as he worked himself out, principally in the convoluted letters that he regularly sent, and which survive today.

“Dear friend

I write to pour myself out to you and to affirm myself to myself. I am the prey of great powers that surge forth and then disintegrate... A bourgeois told me today - insulted me - that I or at least my brain was lazy. It did me good. I should like such a warning every morning upon awakening: but they cannot understand us nor can they understand life...”

Paris

Arrival

In 1906 Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. In fact, his arrival at the epicentre of artistic experimentation coincided with the arrival of two other foreigners who were also to leave their marks upon the art world: Gino Severini and Juan Gris.

He settled in Le Bateau-Lavoir, a commune for penniless artists in Montmartre, renting himself a studio in Rue Caulaincourt. Even though this artists' quarter of Montmartre was characterised by generalised poverty, Modigliani himself presented - initially, at least - as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions. He soon made efforts to assume the guise of the bohemian artist, but, even in his brown corduroys, scarlet scarf and large black hat, he continued to appear as if he were slumming it, having fallen upon harder times.

When he first arrived in Paris, he wrote home regularly to his mother, he sketched his nudes at the Colarossi school, and he drank wine in moderation. He was at that time considered by those who knew him as a bit reserved, verging on the asocial. He is noted to have commented, upon meeting Picasso who, at the time, was wearing his trademark workmen's clothes, that even though the man was a genius, that did not excuse his uncouth appearance.

Transformation

Within a year of arriving in Paris, however, his demeanour and reputation had changed dramatically. He transformed himself from a dapper academician artist into a sort of prince of vagabonds.

The poet and journalist Louis Latourette, upon visiting the artist's previously well-appointed studio after his transformation, discovered the place in upheaval, the Renaissance reproductions discarded from the walls, the plush drapes in disarray. Modigliani was already an alcoholic and a drug addict by this time, and his studio reflected this. Modigliani's behaviour at this time sheds some light upon his developing style as an artist, in that the studio had become almost a sacrificial effigy for all that he resented about the academic art that had marked his life and his training up to that point.

Not only did he remove all the trappings of his bourgeois heritage from his studio, but he also set about destroying practically all of his own early work. He explained this extraordinary course of actions to his astonished neighbours thus:

“Childish baubles, done when I was a dirty bourgeois."

The motivation for this violent rejection of his earlier self is the subject of considerable speculation. The self-destructive tendencies may have stemmed from his tuberculosis and the knowledge (or presumption) that the disease had essentially marked him for an early death; within the artists' quarter, many faced the same sentence, and the typical response was to set about enjoying life while it lasted, principally by indulging in self-destructive actions. For Modigliani such behavior may have been a response to a lack of recognition; it is known that he sought the company of other alcoholic artists such as Utrillo and Soutine, seeking acceptance and validation for his work from his colleagues.

Modigliani's behavior stood out even in these Bohemian surroundings: he carried on frequent affairs, drank heavily, and used absinthe and hashish. While drunk he would sometimes strip himself naked at social gatherings. He became the epitome of the tragic artist, creating a posthumous legend almost as well-known as that of Vincent van Gogh.

During the 1920s, in the wake of Modigliani's career and spurred on by comments by Andre Salmon crediting hashish and absinthe with the genesis of Modigliani's style, many hopefuls tried to emulate his 'success' by embarking on a path of substance abuse and bohemian excess. Salmon claimed—erroneously—that whereas Modigliani was a totally pedestrian artist when sober,

“...from the day that he abandoned himself to certain forms of debauchery, an unexpected light came upon him, transforming his art. From that day on, he became one who must be counted among the masters of living art.”

While this propaganda served as a rallying cry to those with a romantic longing to be a tragic, doomed artist, these strategies did not produce unique artistic insights or techniques in those who did not already have them.

In fact, art historians suggest that it is entirely possible for Modigliani to have achieved even greater artistic heights had he not been immured in, and destroyed by, his own self-indulgences. We can only speculate what he might have accomplished had he emerged intact from his self-destructive explorations.

Output

During his early years in Paris, Modigliani worked at a furious pace. He was constantly sketching, making as many as a hundred drawings a day. However, many of his works were lost - destroyed by him as inferior, left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them.

He was first influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, but around 1907 he became fascinated with the work of Paul Cézanne. Eventually he developed his own unique style, one that cannot be adequately categorized with other artists.

He met the first serious love of his life, Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, in 1910, when he was 26. They had studios in the same building, and although 21-year-old Anna was recently married, they began an affair. Tall (Modigliani was only 5 foot 5 inches) with dark hair (like Modigliani's), pale skin and grey-green eyes, she embodied Modigliani's aesthetic ideal and the pair became engrossed in each other. After a year, however, Anna returned to her husband.

Experiments with sculpture

In 1909, Modigliani returned home to Livorno, sickly and tired from his wild lifestyle. Soon he was back in Paris, this time renting a studio in Montparnasse. He originally saw himself as a sculptor rather than a painter, and was encouraged to continue after Paul Guillaume, an ambitious young art dealer, took an interest in his work and introduced him to sculptor Constantin Brancusi.

Although a series of Modigliani's sculptures were exhibited in the Salon d'Automne of 1912, he abruptly abandoned sculpting and focused solely on his painting.

Question of influences

In Modigliani's art, there is evidence of the influence of primitive art from Africa and Cambodia which he may have seen in the Musée de l'Homme, but his stylisations are just as likely to have been the result of his being surrounded by Mediaeval sculpture during his studies in Northern Italy (there is no recorded information from Modigliani himself, as there is with Picasso and others, to confirm the contention that he was influenced by either ethnic or any other kind of sculpture). A possible interest in African tribal masks seems to be evident in his portraits. In both his painting and sculpture, the sitters' faces resemble ancient Egyptian painting in their flat and masklike appearance, with distinctive almond eyes, pursed mouths, twisted noses, and elongated necks. However these same chacteristics are shared by Medieval European sculpture and painting.

Modigliani painted a series of portraits of contemporary artists and friends in Montparnasse: Chaim Soutine, Moise Kisling, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marie "Marevna" Vorobyev-Stebeslka, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and Jean Cocteau, all sat for stylized renditions.

At the outset of World War I, Modigliani tried to enlist in the army but was refused because of his poor health.

The war years

Known as Modì, which roughly translates as 'morbid' or 'moribund', by many Parisians, but as Dedo to his family and friends, Modigliani was a handsome man, and attracted much female attention.

Women came and went until Beatrice Hastings entered his life. She stayed with him for almost two years, was the subject for several of his portraits, including Madame Pompadour, and the object of much of his drunken wrath.

When the British painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse in 1914, on her first evening there the smiling man at the next table in the café introduced himself as Modigliani; painter and Jew. They became great friends.

In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet and art dealer Leopold Zborovski and his wife Anna.

Jeanne Hébuterne

The following summer, the Russian sculptor Chana Orloff introduced him to a beautiful 19-year-old art student named Jeanne Hébuterne who had posed for Foujita. From a conservative bourgeois background, Hébuterne was renounced by her devout Roman Catholic family for her liaison with the painter, whom they saw as little more than a debauched derelict, and, worse yet, a Jew. Despite her family's objections, soon they were living together, and although Hébuterne was the love of his life, their public scenes became more renowned than Modigliani's individual drunken exhibitions.

On December 3, 1917, Modigliani's first one-man exhibition opened at the Berthe Weill Gallery. The chief of the Paris police was scandalized by Modigliani's nudes and forced him to close the exhibition within a few hours after its opening.

After he and Hébuterne moved to Nice, she became pregnant and on November 29, 1918 gave birth to a daughter whom they named Jeanne (1918-1984).

Nice

During a trip to Nice, conceived and organized by Leopold Zborovski, Modigliani, Tsuguharu Foujita and other artists tried to sell their works to rich tourists. Modigliani managed to sell a few pictures but only for a few francs each. Despite this, during this time he produced most of the paintings that later became his most popular and valued works.

During his lifetime he sold a number of his works, but never for any great amount of money. What funds he did receive soon vanished for his habits.

In May of 1919 he returned to Paris, where, with Hébuterne and their daughter, he rented an apartment in the rue de la Grande Chaumière. While there, both Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani painted portraits of each other, and of themselves.

Last days

Although he continued to paint, Modigliani's health was deteriorating rapidly, and his alcohol-induced blackouts became more frequent.

In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbor checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani was dying of the then-incurable disease tubercular meningitis.

Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home, where, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window two days after Modigliani's death, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani.

Modigliani died penniless and destitute—managing only one solo exhibition in his life and giving his work away in exchange for meals in restaurants. Had he lived through the 1920s when American buyers flooded Paris, his fortunes might well have changed. Since his death his reputation has soared. Nine novels, a play, a documentary and three feature films have been devoted to his life.

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