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Broadway and Embarcadero, Oakland, California • More plaques per landmark @ Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, listed by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 2000 (#00001067).
• To the left of Heinolds’ you see a wonderful mural depicting several stages of Jack’s life. To the left you see Jack and Charmian in front of the Winery Cottage welcoming guests to their estate. Then we see him standing at the steering wheel of the Snark. It is followed by an oval which displays the Wolf House as it was days before the fire. Over a view of Jack London Square as seen from the estuary hovering over Jack’s motto: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. The famous wolf can be seen to the left of the hut Jack lived in during his Alaska years. – From Walter Schweikert's Bay Area Murals.
• Steeped in maritime lore, Jack London Square is one of Oakland’s most identifiable landmarks and a symbol of the city’s history as a seaport. Fronting a natural estuary leading to San Francisco Bay, the site was the heart of Oakland’s port operations, linking the industries of shipping and agriculture. It remains a vibrant working waterfront.
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.
In an introduction to a collection of stories, he wrote:
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Jack London spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront that is now Jack London Square. Here, his youthful adventures as an oyster pirate and sailor inspired stories like The Sea-Wolf. Visit the life sized bronze stature of Jack London standing watch over the waterfront at the foot of Broadway, created by artist Cedric Wentworth.
London made notes for future books while sitting at the tables of Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, built in 1883 from the timbers of a whaling ship. Now a National Literary Landmark, Heinold’s preserves its rustic character from an earlier era when it was frequented by eminent politicians, statesmen, authors, and artists, as well as humble sailors shipping out to sea. Adjacent to Heinold’s, a recreated model of the cabin Jack London lived in during his time spent in the Yukon is available for viewing. – From the website of Jack London Square.
I'm busy writing a research proposal for an MA thesis. Or, rather, I'm busy taking pictures of my desk when I should be writing my research proposal.
In most of the standard medieval iconographic compositions, St. Mark the Evangelist is presented accompanied by a lion which sometimes is with wings. The lion figure is present presumably because his Gospel emphasizes the royal dignity of Christ, and the lion is the figure representing his royalty. He is shown most of the times seated with a book or pen presenting his character of Evangelist and secretary of St. Peter. In some occasions, only the figure of the Lion, as one of his attributes, is presented.
St. Mark is known as the author of the second Gospel in the New Testament. This Gospel is dedicated to the life of Christ after his baptism, to his death and resurrection, focusing particularly on the last weeks of his life. Tradition says that St. Mark wrote this Gospel receiving the materials directly by St. Peter whilst accompanying him as a secretary on a journey to Rome. He has died in Alexandria where he also founded a church in this city. Several centuries after his death, his body was carried off by Venetian sailors bringing it to Venice where St. Mark became the patron saint of this city which adopts his emblem, the lion, as its own.
Link to “St. Mark the Evangelist” set
Link to "The four Evangelists" collection
Manuscript title: Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis
Origin: Engelberg (Switzerland)
Period: 12th century
Image source: Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5, p. 134v – Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bke/0005/134v)
In addition to the replacement of vellum by paper for production of Qur’an manuscripts during the tenth and eleventh centuries, different types of Arabic calligraphy styles were introduced. Some of the new scripts included naskh, thuluth, and muhaqqaq, which began the replace the angular Kufic script used in the writing of early Qur’an manuscripts. Naskh is simple, supple without any particular emphasis, and highly readable, while Tuluth is wider, more elaborate, and uses elongated verticals. Thuluth was used by Mamluks during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and later was refined by Ottoman calligraphers in Turkey. Another script that was highly prized was known as muhaqqaq, which is characterized by its large size, elongated letter endings, and flattened curves that highlight the text.
go watch bright eyes' video for "easy/lucky/free"and you'll understand why i did this. if you don't want to watch it, then these are the lyrics to that song- written backwards with the image flipped. i wrote it as it was playing. so like, i wrote it pretty quickly. it's hard.
if you HAVE seen it, this is my attempt at it. because i was bored.
*yesterdays photo*
sorry, again....i've been a bit out of taking photos recently: but thats going to change!
last week it was summer...its now completly autumnal. LOVELY :)
My Dinner with Eric
7 June 2005
I just had dinner with Eric Bogosian. I can’t believe it. I’ve been a huge fan of his for years, ever since this guy Sam gave me his performance piece “Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” on CD back at Roach Motel many years ago. Then I caught up with his starring and basically one-man role in Oliver Stone’s movie version of Bogosian’s play “Talk Radio,” and after that I saw his live theater shows and bought his books. Now he’s a novelist as well, peddling two novels, “Mall” and his new one “Wasted Beauty” which, uncharacteristically, Books and Books hadn’t managed to get a shipment of, so no signed copy for me, but as it happened, things turned out much better . . .
I showed up alone, after yet another day spent alternately unpacking boxes at my my new apartment and dozing away the brutal June heat, that even cranking AC can’t dispel. I made sure to be early to the bookstore, as I’m a huge fan and wanted to get on the front row. It certainly has been a long time since I was in Coral Gables. It was the first time I’d seen the new Books and Books location.
After a breathless introduction by a local theater director, Bogosian came out and began to discuss his book, with a very different affect than I remembered from his performance pieces. He talked about how 9/11 happening “ten blocks from my house” “broke something in me” and how he stopped doing or writing his live performance pieces as a result, though he still writes plays.
He read a sequence from “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee” (in which a schlemiel tries to chat up an airline attendant), and then read a long sequence from his novel, a scene at a therapist’s, in which the protagonist discusses with the therapist his guilt at being unhappy even though he has a life which appears as if it ought to make him happy.
A Q&A session followed, in which the large audience proved itself very well-up on Bogosian’s work. At one point he got into an argument with a young man who was taking photos of him, on the subject of whether the guy needed his permission or not. It was an interesting exchange, and the young man acquitted himself quite well. I was tempted to get into it, as I’d half thought about taking a couple of pictures myself before deciding I was too interested in what was being said to distract myself. The whole thing seemed to bother Bogosian, and he seemed to feel that he’d ruined the mood of the reading by extending the exchange, but it was more entertaining than anything else.
He discussed the making of the movie version of Talk Radio, which was made in tandem with Born on the Fourth of July. When Oliver Stone introduced him to an old man in a wheelchair he didn’t realise it was a make-up test for Tom Cruise, etcetera.
At the end of the reading the audience descended on him in large numbers for signings. I looked around the room and caught sight of an old friend I hadn’t seen for years – Caren Rabbino, founder of the Miami Light Project, which is now a cultural staple in the city, though I remember her back at the University of Miami telling me she was thinking of starting it. It was great to see her, as once upon a time we had been close friends. I made my way over to her and we had a happy little reunion. I recalled asking Caren about booking Bogosian years ago and her response about him being already too big; this was obviously before the two times that the Miami Light Project brought him to town (I still have my Nov 11, 1995 ticket from the Broward Center). Shortly after that, she invited me to join her and “Eric,” now an old friend of hers, for dinner. Two other friends were coming along, and we proceeded to Bugati, an Italian place just off Miracle Mile. I was in a great humor, though I was careful not to overdo it. I did take the piss out of Bogosian’s faux Brit accent in “Benefit,” the sketch about the British rock star though, and talk ranged from “command economies” (another of our party had been hosting a reading group based around a new book by an Indian economist) through brain chemistry (a transsexual of his acquaintance claims that now she’s a guy the testosterone really “starts the video rolling” when “he” spots a hottie), the book business, various authors – Eugenides, McEwan – to quaaludes and various forms of excess as practiced in Britan and the US (his description of “real ale” made it clear that to him this was something really exotic). He said “the chains” often set up his readings in the children’s section, “and of course I do all this explicit sex stuff” he laughed. Finally, Bogosian was explaining that when bikers in a certain part of the country wear embroidered white wings it signifies that they’ve been hazed by being made to have sex with a dead person; this seemed to be the cue for the management to turn on the lights and close the place down.
It was a very relaxed dinner and the movie actor-performance artist-playwright-novelist-renaissance man seemed to enjoy himself. He was clearly pleased when I asked him if his hilarious sketch “Stag Night” had been based on a real event. It was gratifying for me to be able to shake his hand and congratulate him on his work. Perhaps artists really are no different from anybody else, but I know that I enjoy being around at least some of them, for all their hang-ups and weirdness. It was a thoroughly satisfying evening.
which is why i procrastinated and ended up taking a picture of my handy dandy notebook! (name that tv show)
Dr Suess
This is the Captain.
He is upset.
He is a brave seafaring chap who has been documenting his area of the Welsh coast for many a year using photographic means. His pictures adorn many a kitchen wall in the form of calendars and has had numerous appearances in the press and local newspapers.
But a new challenger has sailed in to steal the Captains spoils.
The Man that Grabs Time.
A chance encounter on a stormy night resulted in a boon of popular photographs for the Timegrabber, much to the displeasure of the Captain. Now all the Captain can do is sigh a sad sigh as conversation turns to the now infamous 'Lightning Strikes Pier' shots of legend.
And why is the Captain so displeased?
The man that grabs time is his creation. A young promising fellow whom he groomed in the ways of photography and Flickring.
He has created a Monster.
Zorki 3 "Bufera" (1955)
Jupiter 8 1:2 50mm (1955)
Fuji Neopan 400
Sverdlovsk 6 - 1/100-F4
DD23 Stoekler double bath
Epson V600
History of the 'Success' from: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-onboar...
In 1852 the Success, a merchant ship, arrived in Melbourne. It was the height of Victorian gold rush, and she was abandoned by her crew. An opportunity was quickly seized, as ‘she was acquired by the British Government to serve as a convict hulk at Hobson’s Bay,’ with 72 cells built to accommodate prisoners.
Maurice Downey relates how:
The unfortunate convicts who were confined below in ‘durance vile’ numbered 120, not one of whom escaped, and no wonder, seeing that they were completely at the mercy of 27 inhuman warders, who made their lives a very hell within their ocean habitation. A mere inspection of these cells and the instruments of torture with which they were amply furnished, is sufficient to make one shudder.
The Success was not the only prison hulk at anchor in Hobson’s Bay; she was joined by the President, Lysander, Sacramento and Deborah, to cope with Australia’s overflowing prison population. The Success, however, was notable for the ‘brutalities’ enacted on board, with prisoners subject to punishment by the dreaded cat-of-nine tails, with some receiving ‘as many as 100 lashes…with this hellish device.’
Further means of punishment included:
Leg-irons, spiked iron collars, straight iron jackets, body irons, with hand-cuffs attached, were also used on some of the prisoners doing their sentences on board the Success. The spiked iron collar was a shocking means of punishment, and was so constructed that the wearer was obliged to remain always in a stooping attitude, which induced ill-health in many, and was the cause of death to not a few.
One observer recalled all the horrors of dungeons and prisons from across the world, ‘but not one of these is to be compared in refinement of cruelty and multiplication of horrors to the floating hells of Victoria.’
The Success’s career as a prison hulk came to an end with ‘the dreadful murder of Inspector-General Price by a large number of convicts.’ John Price was murdered by convicts from the Success in 1859, and the Weekly Irish Times notes how:
His murder was the direct means of leading to the abolishing of the hulk system in Australia, and more than one Australian paper stated openly that as he had sown the wind he had reaped the whirlwind.
Meanwhile, in 1868 the system of transportation to Australia finally ceased, but years of abominable cruelty, especially on the hulks, had left their mark on many.
But the Success was not to be left alone, even after she had been converted to a store hulk. In 1890 she was purchased by entrepreneurs with the intent of making her into a floating museum. They installed former Success prisoner Harry Power as a sort of showman for the former prison hulk, as reports The Sketch. The author of The Sketch article, however, is unsupportive of the Success being made into a tourist spectacle:
A curio – interesting indeed; but her weather-worn face and draggled appearance tell us too plainly that she belonged to another age than ours. She has lived her life, done the duty allotted to her; pity it is she cannot be left in peace.
And although she was scuttled in 1891 with the venture being unsuccessful, she was soon after refloated and sent to tour the world, arriving in England in 1894. She was still touring in 1912, when crowds gathered at Cobh, Ireland, ‘to give a parting cheer to the venturous old ship,’ as reports the Suffolk and Essex Free Press. The Success was setting off to cross the Atlantic, where she was exhibited at the Great Lakes and San Francisco, before being sunk in 1918 or 1919, and then again refloated. The Success appeared at the Chicago World Fair in 1933.
C. Fox Smith, writing for Britannia and Eve in 1936, was highly critical of this use of the Success, deeming her display to represent ‘a floating Chamber of Horrors.’ But for many the Success served as a reminder of a supposedly bygone age of cruelty, which saw the torture of prisoners and the creation of ‘heartrending tales’ from the tightly-packed cells.
Title: Bibliotheca chalcographica : illustrium virtute atque erudition in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum…Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves: sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry Chalcogr:
Author: Boissard, Jean Jacques 1528-1602
Published: Francofurti : Impensis Johannis Ammonii Bibliopola
Year: 1650-1654
Call number: NE 218 .B657 1650
Physical Description: 9 parts in 1 volume. 438 portraits, 21 cm. The cover is most likely vellum with gold decorations, particularly the spine. The fore edges are yellow. There is an index and yellow and blue striped headbands. Almost all illustrations (portraits) and very little writing.
About this book: Also known as “De Bry’s Portraits of Illustrious Men." Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. He traveled in Germany, Italy and Greece but became ill and died in France (Wikipedia).
Note that there were multiple de Brys. It is unclear as to which one that this book is referring to.
Johann Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-German engraver and publisher. He sometimes collaborated with Jean Jacques Boissard (Wikipedia).
Sources cited:
Jean-Jacques Boissard (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Boissard
Johann Theodor de Bry (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Theodor_de_Bry
Lions Club, Garden Place, Peaks Island in Casco Bay, Portland, Maine USA • Seen on one of the picnic tables.
At the beginning of 1936, Orwell was looking for somewhere to live that was very cheap and where he could concentrate on writing his book. He heard that the lease was available on a cottage in the village of Wallington, 35 miles from London, in the Hertfordshire countryside. He caught a train to Baldock, walking the two or three miles to the village. The cottage was a very small sixteenth-century building with a tin roof and almost no modern facilities. Orwell took over the tenancy and moved in on 2 April 1936. He started work on The Road to Wigan Pier by the end of April, but also spent hours working on the garden. (Roses growing there today are said to be the same ones he purchased from Woolworths in nearby Hitchin). He also opened the front room up as a village shop to supplement his income. Orwell married Eileen O'Shaughnessy on 9 June 1936 in Wallington church. His parents in law were still trying to talk his fiance out of the marriage the night before in the Plough Inn next door. The reception was also at the Plough (now a private house).
Orwell left the cottage just before Christmas 1936 to take part in the Spanish Civil War but fled Spain in June 1937 after being wounded in the throat and also falling foul of the pro-Soviet Communist faction in Barcelona. Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War gave rise to Homage to Catalonia (1938) but also coloured his later works such as 'Animal Farm' (1945). Although not written until after he left, the farm in his book 'Animal Farm' is thought to be modelled on Manor Farm in the village.
On arrival back in England, he stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich and then returned to the cottage in the first week of July 1937 finding things in disarray after his absence. He acquired some animals including a goat called 'Muriel', a rooster called 'Henry Ford', and a poodle puppy he called 'Marx' and settled down to writing 'Homage to Catalonia'.
With the coming of the War, Orwell spent more time living in London whilst working for the BBC and sub-let the cottage. He didn't finally give up the lease until July 1947 after he had moved to Jura.
At the time of posting, the cottage was for sale at £450,000.
Original Caption: Resolution introduced by Senator Henry Clay in relation to the adjustment of all existing questions of controversy between the states arising out of the institution of slavery (the resolution later became known as the Compromise of 1850), 01/29/1850
Production Date: January 29, 1850
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=306270
From: Senate Simple Resolutions, Motions, and Orders of the 31st Congress, ca. 03/1849-ca. 03/1851; Record Group 46; Records of the United States Senate, 1789-1990; National Archives.
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
Description on front of card: Columbus, Ohio's State Capitol from the Air
No. in Series: A-22 / OB-H1956
Description on back of card:
Business section and civic center showing U.S. Post Office, Municipal Buildings, A.I.U. Citadel and State Office Building on Marconi Boulevard.
Recovered Written Date: April 8, 1945
There appears to have been a message at one time and it has since been erased.
Recovered Message:
April 8, 1945
View on post card is of ? ? small building in front of A.I.U. Citadel is the City Hall which I visited. There is a ?bby show ???
Scioto River ??? River ??? River ??? River ??? O[lentangy?] River ????
Broad
Era: Linen Era
Condition: Used. Message erased before card was received. Writing on the back.
Publisher: W.E. Ayres, 1049 Livingston Ave., Columbus, Ohio | Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" postcard by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photo by: Butler Airphotos, Inc.
Publisher Note:
Butler Airphotos, Inc. was established in 1938 by Clyde Butler, Howard Alsop, and Margaret Butler.
W.E. Ayres had a variety store at 1047-1049 Livingston Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.
Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany.
He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908.
According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States."
The company was best known for its wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era."
Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction and many more years for him to perfect the method.
His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s.
The company aided the war effort during the second world war by also printing many military maps.
Curt Teich eventually turned management of the company over to his son, but he remained active in company operations throughout its history.
Curt Teich died in 1974 and the family business was sold to Regensteiner Publishers who continued to print postcards at the Chicago plant until 1978 when the rights to the company name and processes were sold to the Irish company, John Hinde Ltd. Their California subsidiary now prints postcards under the name John Hinde Curteich, Inc.
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Title courtesy of the young lady on the right. Cute to see them having so much fun over something so wonderfully simple.
It's the Little Things 2.0 #199
we had a couple of these taken when we first started going out, 2 years and a couple months ago and still truckin on ha!..we wrote on the back of them. you know just so we were reminded ;) this is Jons to me.
He is the funniest person i have ever met! I also hated all things romantic until he came along, he's changed me into something i never thought i'd be, and i love it!
I also found it hard to trust anyone but he's made me realise after a very hard time i had that there is people out there who do good in this life and are not out to hurt people who really care.
This woman faithfully writes letters to those she loves, despite the crippling arthritis in her hands. These hand shots were part of a slide show on the "hands of heaven on earth".
Ben writes at his desk August 5, 2010. Ben's writing desk is filled with his art materials - paintbrushes, paint palettes, coloured pencils. He loves writing, and uses his notebooks and white board to communicate. He also likes documenting what people wear. His whiteboard is filled with scribbles about "Mom's beige skirt" and & "my sister's blue blouse".