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I second to it,... it's a demanding 2nd time watch for me,.......n' ........ so with Interstellar,...
In last Starwars movie, somehow i saw it in 8-10 intervals with no holding material,. just time-pass and eye-candy science watch,..
no holding in the story or any excitement for me, much,.... also repeat of the same cameratography and technology, which already saw in previous all versions,... starting from fifth city,... Fifth city ( 20+ yrs old movie ) had rather better cinematography of flying cars,..
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Waterloo ( 1970 )
Waterloo movie's main achievement is the fact that it manages to win a bit of sympathy for the loser of the battle of Waterloo , Napolean Bonaparte . Inspite of him being a megalomaniac who invaded large parts of Europe , you do feel for the great man as he nears the end of his illustrious career as warrior .
The movie was made with Russian soldiers as extras , which reduced the budget as they demanded less pay than westerners and allowed for the creation of large armies of actual men rather than create them by special effects . That indeed is the special point of the film ; it really shows large armies of real men manoeuvring and skirmishing and clashing in battle .
The movie begins with Napolean surrendering before his enemies and being forced to abdicate to the island of Elba , but a wave of popular emotion in France brings him back to power . The scenes of crowds of French men and women cheering him are authentically portrayed . Marshals who have promised to keep Napolean in an iron cage are forced to accept him back and he forgives them generously because he needs them to command his armies . But his enemies led by the British are not ready to accept him as ruler of France and war is certain .
The British forces are led by Arthur Wellesley , a slim and cool person who is not ruffled by changes in fortune when battle is going on or when persons close to him are killed ; His own daughter's fiance is destined to be killed in the coming encounter . As news comes that Napolean is on the march , Wellesley coolly asks the ball dance that is happening to go on . He shockingly talks about his own soldiers as scum , but accepts before his wife that the scum are wiling to lay their lives for him .
The tension in the two camps on the night before battle is well built up , and Napolean has ill health because of the tension . The battle is all or nothing for him , and France is alone against the armies of Britain and Prussia . The Prussians are led by Blucher but are away and it is not certain whether they will arrive to impact the battle in time .
As the two armies confront each other , it is a grand spectacle for a connoisseur of war movies . The British are in red uniforms , the French are in blue and the Prussians are in black .Perfectly disciplined formations of men go into battle with drums beating and guns roaring and firing yellow flames and acrid smoke . The charges of heavy cavalry are well pictured , with masses of horsemen charging the battleground in ever increasing speed filling you with awe and the enemy with fear .
At first the battle goes in favour of the French as they manage to storm a well defended fortified position of the British , but when Napolean is taking rest his marshal orders a charge of cavalry without infantry support . The British infantry which is well dug in defends doggedly by making several square formations . However Napolean still manages to retrieve the French position and soon Wellesley is in dispair as he is staring at defeat . But the French marshal ( Degrouchy ) who was supposed to stop the Prussians sticks too rigidly to orders and does not follow their forces . This allows Blucher and his Prussians to arrive to attack the main French troops just when needed by their allies the British . The battle decisively swings in the favour of Napolean's enemies because of this and all is lost for him.....his troops however refuse the British offer to surrender and prefer to to be mown down by artillery guns to redeem their honour ; the final scene is full of pathos as the victor ( Arthur Wellesley---the future Duke of Wellington ) surveys the battlefield .
The movie scores in acting , and photography and colours are good . Background music is decent too . I would rate it three stars out of five .
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Exodus ( 1960 )
The real problem for the moviemakers was an impossible one---to match the novel on which the movie was supposed to be based . And EXODUS is one of the most influential novels of the 20th century , a masterpiece if there ever was one ( GODFATHER and CARPETBAGGERS are others ) . But the novel is so vast in scope and scale that it was not possible to pack all it's events in one movie , even though the movie was already long at 3 hours 15 minutes . A miniseries would have been more apt to film the novel , but it would not have had the grandeur of a film would it ?? Certainly not in the era of small TV sets which did not have HD ; the movie was made way back in 1960 when TV technology was in it's infancy . So a cinemascope movie that left out some of the events in the novel was made .
The movie starts with an American nurse ( played by Eva Marie Saint ) who is a volunteer at the internment camp of holocaust survivors in Cyprus wanting to adopt a young danish Jew girl and take her back to the US . But fate has other plans as a rebel Jew ( played by Paul Newman ) who had fought in the British Jew brigade smuggles many Jews including the danish girl onto a ship which is renamed the 'Exodus' , and the ship is destined to sail to Palestine . The Danish girl ( played by Jill Haworth ) is in love with a holocaust survivor ( played by Sal Mineo ) and wants to go to Palestine and not America . The American nurse also boards the ship , and the rebel Jew threatens to blast the ship by dynamite if the British authorities do not remove their blockade of the ship . So they relent and allow it to sail to the cheers of the Jews not only in the ship but also in the internment camp . Their joy is to be seen to be believed ; the call of the holy land promised for 2000 years and now at last in reach after innumerable sufferings is something that others like me will not even begin to understand....
All the Jews have stories of persecution and horror to tell ; the stories are beyond the imagination of those who have led secure lives . For example , the holocaust survivor loved by the danish girl had chosen to co operate with the nazis to bury murdered members of his own community by dynamite in order to save himself , and the nazis have done unspeakable things to him . The British officers guarding the internment camp also look at the Jews with racism and think of them as troublemakers .
The movie has two love stories---one of the american nurse who first loves the character played by Newman , but feels different from his family and rejects him until a life and death situation makes her realise her love for him . The other is of the danish girl who has fallen in love with the holocaust survivor . The two lovers are opposites ; he has seen the worst form of persecution under the nazis , while she has seen compassion as all danish citizens marched out wearing the star of David ( jewish symbol ) when the nazis asked the Jews to identify themselves thereby hiding the Jews . Naturally she has a wide eyed innocence about her . But it is she out of all people who is selected by fate for death at the hands of the Arabs ; she who constantly worried about the holocaust survivor...such is the hand of destiny in the midst of war .
And war it is , as the Jews and Arabs have to fight it out for claiming Palestine . The film has bomb blasts and assassinations and full scale fighting . The Jews' moment of triumph is shown in the movie---when the United nations passes the resolution for partitioning Palestine to form a Jewish state . And more fighting has to be done . Some Jews like the character played by Paul Newman are friendly enough with some Arabs that an Arab friend lays down his life to save him ; he is buried along with the danish girl . Naturally , the character played by Newman dreams of a nation where Jews and Arabs with live like equals . But as history tells us with the benefit of hindsight , dreams are not always fulfilled !!
Inspite of it's shortcomings , the movie has the ingredients of an epic . And I went on to like it as I saw it more . Acting is not natural but theatrical , but the director has woven the events into a well told story . Music is of course the strong point of the film , and is tinged with emotion with the Israeli national anthem being it's theme . Photography is okay .
Verdict---Good .
Three stars out of five .
Last edited by ashdoc; October 12th, 2017 at 05:55 AM.
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An oft quoted Gandhian phrase is that if all were to follow an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth, then the world would go blind. The counter to that is that if only some follow this and others don't then it is the non-violent who would go blind while the rogues will rule the world.
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Godfather part one
Review has spoilers
Godfather---I have read the novel several times many years ago , and the characters have been etched in my mind since then . The Godfather himself , his hot headed son Santino/Sonny and his mistress , his younger son Michael and his first wife Apollonia and his second and far more important wife Kay , the family advisor Tom Hagen who fails to advise properly , the heads of the family battalions Clemenza and Tessio , Rival dons Barzini and Tattaglia , and above all singer Johnny Fontane ( who was surely based on Frank Sinatra ) ; I have digested and consumed these characters in my mind during the period I read the novel again and again in my bid to analyse them , and then I forgot or rather tried to forget them when I moved on to other things in life . Compared to the times I read the novel I have seen the movie fewer times...only about three times I guess . Today was the third time . The last time I saw it , it was years ago and I wasn't reviewing films . Next time I see the movie might be years down the line , and I don't know if I would be reviewing films at that time at all....it's a now or never time to review the movie....no my review is not important , it's the movie that is important
Out of the movies based on the three novels ( Exodus , Carpetbaggers and Godfather ) that have impacted my mind enough to read them again and again , Godfather does the best justice to the novel it was based on . Exodus movie makers had to leave many events in the novel out of the movie , but director Francis Ford Coppola has managed to pack many of the events in the Godfather novel into his movie . And he has packed them in such a way that the movie is as great as the novel itself . And inspite of the limited time that a movie gives , he has managed to build every character well . Of course , he has been backed by top class acting by his lead actors . Also backed by fabulous music as background score .
The colours of the movie have a brownish hue about them , and the theme is dark---the life and happenings of a mafia family over a period of time when they lose their might and how the eventual heir manages to recoup that might . But the recoupment comes at a terrible price at the end ; the heir loses the trust of his wife in the climax scene . This is important however only to people like me who consider women's opinion important ; in the world of gangsters the opinion of women is not so important really . It's a man's world of guns and knives .
Yeah , they are gangsters really . But seeing the movie ( and also while reading the novel ) one might feel that it is the history of the ups and downs of some empire that is being recorded . The mafia head honcho is not just head he is a combination of God and father . People come to pay homage to him and kiss his hand as if he is some emperor . The people who are under his protection are never denied any demand they make . Singer Johnny Fontane asks for role in a movie and the movie's producer ( who refuses to entertain the Godfather's proposal ) gets to see his favourite horse's beheaded head on his bed the next day....no one can refuse the Godfather .
But even an emperor has powerful enemies , and so does the Godfather . At first the enemies try to co opt him into their narcotics business , but he is a man of principles that are not seen outside the movies ; he refuses to enter such a dirty business . Result---his attempted murder . For the money in narcotics is too much and his son Santino/Sonny has shown an itch for it . But once his father is attacked the son has to fight back . And Sonny does fight back in typical hot headed fashion well acted by James Caan .
But the enemies strike back again to try to kill the Godfather ( Marlon Brando) and his younger son Michael ( Al Pacino ) has to save him at cost of being given a damaging blow on his face by a crooked police captain who is an ally of the drug dealers . The Godfather never wanted him to be part of the crime business , but circumstances have sucked him in it never to leave him ever . His girlfriend Kay ( Diane Keaton ) will have to adjust eventually , even though she is not Sicilian like the entire mafia fraternity .
Riven by the need for revenge , Michael decides to kill the main drug dealer Sollozzo and the police captain in a meeting for negotiations . The movie perfectly shows the tension on the face of a person out to do a gangland killing for the first time . Once he kills , he has to flee to his father's homeland Sicily . And in his absence , the mafia gang war hots up like nothing else . Sonny becomes the de facto head of the family ; actually family being just glorified term for gang . But writer of both the movie and novel builds up the characters of these mafia gangsters as if they are great statesmen .
Yeah all great statesmen , except Sonny . In true unstatesmanlike fashion , his great weakness is his temper . And when his sister gets beaten by her husband , he shakes all security considerations aside to go and give a savage beating to his brother in law . His enemies ( the five families in alliance with the dead Sollozzo ) quickly latch on to this weakness . The brother in law ( whose ego has obviously been massively bruised by the beating he got ) is induced to beat his wife again to induce a security ignoring trip by Sonny to beat his brother in law . And as he barges out of his well protected den without his bodyguards , he is gunned down . In Sicily too , Michael who has fallen madly in love with a Sicilian girl and has married her has to see his wife killed in a bomb meant actually to kill him . How the mighty family of the Corleones have fallen.....
It's time for the Godfather to negotiate a peace with the enemies . But first a word about his acting on hearing and seeing his son Sonny dead . I feel Marlon Brando is at his finest at expressing grief at his son's death . Every muscle of his face seems to quiver with sorrow , especially when he takes the body to be laid to rest to the undertaker who had come to ask his help to take revenge on his daughter's molesters in the beginning of the movie . The daughter's molesters were soundly beaten by the Godfather's men , but such mafia help comes at a price ; you have to repay your dues to the mafia any time they ask....
At the peace negotiations , Godfather Don Corleone has to compromise with his enemies to bring back his son Michael from Sicily . And he has to promise not to take revenge for Sonny . Michael comes back and marries Kay , but the enemies are taking advantage of the Corleones' weakness to take over their territory . The Don tells Michael how to deal with them after his death , because as long as he is alive he cannot break his promise to not renew the war . In real life such gangland promises are not worth the paper they are written on , but the makers of the movie build a larger than life image of the Don as a great man ; he seemingly never breaks his promises . It is important not to get carried away and remember that only in the movies do such people exist .
Once the Don is no more , the enemies ( Barzini and Tattaglia ) make the first move to eliminate his successor Michael by co opting one of his lieutenants . But the Don had already warned Michael of this move before he died ; not for nothing was he called the Godfather . Michael then unleashes his true potential . He shows how cold and calculating he is by becoming godfather of his sister's son . Thus he puts his brother in law the father of the godchild in the dark about his true intentions to kill him in revenge for his part in Sonny's murder . Then he kills him after forcing a confession of his part in Sonny's murder from him . And he also carries to fruition an already well crafted plan to destroy his enemies like Barzini and Tattaglia and their cohorts within his own gang by gunfire . Just how loud do the guns boom in the movie ? Watch it for that....
Verdict---Great .
Four and a half stars out of five .
Last edited by ashdoc; October 29th, 2017 at 11:53 AM.
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The huge number of Bollywood movies which have copied this testifies to the greatness of Godfather. There are a serial also which showed in DD long back.
Posted elsewhere -
This is quite a game, politics. There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends,only permanent interests. - Some Firang
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Operation daybreak ( 1975 )
1942---the heyday of nazi occupation of Europe . Hitler's right hand man Reinhard Heydrich is appointed as the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia ( modern day Czech republic ) and he quickly unleashes a reign of terror there , giving orders for murder of countless innocents . To stop him , the British parachute three Czechoslavs with orders to assassinate Heydrich . The Royal air force drops two of them in the wrong position 200 km away from their intended target .
The two are questioned by a german patrol and have to kill the germans . But they are helped by czechs who bribe a german driver to take the two to a doctor because one of them is wounded slightly . To the surprise of the two , the doctor first questions them and then unites them with the third member of the group . The mission is on and they prepare plans to kill Heydrich while hiding in a church along with the Czech underground resistance .
The members of the Czech resistance do not agree with the idea of killing Heydrich because the nazis would take terrible revenge by killing scores of innocent Czechs . But for the three sent from Britain , orders are orders . However the first chance to kill Heydrich is lost as another oncoming train blocks their sight just when they are going to shoot him from afar while he is travelling in a train to Berlin .
But they use the resistance members to track Heydrich's movements and find out that he regularly uses a route for reconnoitering the countryside and slows down at a particular turning point . Two members of the group plan to kill him there . They are Sergeant Jan Kubiš ( played by Timothy Bottoms ) and Sergeant Jozef Gabčík ( played by Anthony Andrews ) . The third ( Sergeant Karel Curda---played by Martin Shaw ) goes to meet his wife and child and stays there .
As Heydrich's car slows down one of the two tries to kill him upfront by sten gun but his gun jams . As he flees , Heydrich's bodyguard chases him and leaves his master unprotected . The other lobs a grenade from the other direction fatally wounding Heydrich . The two then meet in the church and members of the resistance then ask them to flee as the avenging germans are after their blood . The two decide to wait for the third member ( Curda ) to come back .
But Curda who is living with his wife gets terrified after he hears about the german massacre and destruction of the village of Lidice as revenge for Heydrich's murder . He fears for his wife and child and thinks that they would get killed too in the german orgy of revenge . He actually goes to the germans and rats out on his comrades in return for safety of his family !!
As the germans surround the church and begin to kill , the extended climax is full of pathos . Of the twosome realising to their chagrin that the comrade they waited for has actually betrayed them . Of the resistance group putting a fierce fight to the death killing many germans . At last gas is pumped into the hiding room of the two and still they hold out . Finally they are attempted to be drowned by pumping water until they are forced to shoot themselves .
The movie has decent photography , but it is the musical score that excels . The background music truly is scintillating and is rich with emotion . The nazi era is properly recreated complete with nazi salutes and uniforms and brutality . Acting and action is good but it is in emotion that the film really scores . The men find time to form dalliances with women and the grief of the women on their death is hard to watch , especially because it is a true story . Yes the movie is based on real events and what happened to each character during or after the war is told at the end . As expected , the war takes the lives of most . But the destroyed village of Lidice was rebuilt after the war , a testament to the triumph of justice .
Verdict---Good .
Four stars out of five .
Last edited by ashdoc; December 22nd, 2017 at 10:19 AM.
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Gone with the wind
Saw this movie on netflix .
Vivien Leigh plays Scarlet O'Hara , the daughter of a cotton plantation owner in southern United states . They have black slaves on the plantation , but the movie shows them to be treated more like servants than slaves and they fuss over Scarlet . But at the time of the beginning of the movie itself , their whole world is on the verge of collapse . The northerners have declared war on the south to free the slaves and history tells us that the south was defeated .
But the southerners are full of martial spirit and scoff on anyone who tells them about the superiority of the northerners ( yankees they are called ) over the south in terms of resources . One such person is Rhett Butler ( played by Clark Gable ) , some kind of freelance warrior and philanderer who visits prostitutes .
In typically filmy fashion , Rhett falls in love with Scarlet at first sight . But Scarlet loves another man who rejects her and she marries a boy to spite the person she loves . Soon she is a widow as her husband is killed in action . Similar is the fate of the whole southern armies as the yankees invade Atlanta in Georgia and bring fire and destruction with them . Scarlet who is in Atlanta is helped to escape from Atlanta by Rhett , but arrives on her plantation to find her mother dead and her father gone crazy due to the destruction of everything near and dear to him ; yes the plantation has been destroyed .
But Scarlet is determined to survive and stands like a rock commanding everyone to help rebuild everything . She grows up from a young girl being fussed over by everyone to be a strong lady...and Rhett Butler does occasionally drop by because he still loves her . But he refuses to financially help her and Scarlet marries second time to an older person to get his money . But he is killed too and Scarlet finally accepts Rhett's proposal .
They have a daughter and but she dies too . And Scarlett continues to love the man she loved from the start . His wife is kind and understands , but later she is dead too , asking Scarlet to look after her husband . Rhett realises that it is time for a reunion of Scarlet with her man and decides to move out .
But the man says he loved only his wife and too late Scarlett realises that she was so mistaken in rejecting the love of Rhett , but he is gone . She decides to go back to her place of strength---her plantation , from where she will again make a move to regain her lost husband . Not a loser or sissy is our heroine....
And I found myself sympathising with Scarlet O'Hara , the woman who knew no fear and fought like tigress among all the vicissitudes of fortune . And among all these vicissitudes , these southerners yearn for their past . The past where there were huge plantations of which they were their owners and had black slaves and grew cotton . Of grand parties on those plantations . All of which has been swept away by the tidal wave of history....gone with the wind !!
The movie shows the black slaves loyally co operating with the southern ( confederate ) forces and talking of licking the yankees , a fact that I found incredible . The yankees were coming to liberate them weren't they ? And no scene of blacks being ill treated or being unhappy at their position . In the world of Margaret Mitchell ( the novelist who wrote the novel on which the movie is based ) the blacks are satisfied with their position in the existing order and indeed co operate with preserving it . No hint of revolt . A conversation says that the whites treated their black slaves well . Sounds unreal and full of blissful ignorance at best and neglect of the situation on the ground at worst .
I would have been more happy to see Scarlet and Rhett reunited at the end , and was disappointed to see him go . Yet I liked the movie . Colours photography and music is good and Vivien Leigh has put her heart and soul in her acting . Much appreciated by me and of course much loved by the public which made the movie such a huge hit .
Verdict---Good .
Four stars out of five .
Last edited by ashdoc; January 1st, 2018 at 04:39 AM.
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Sunset Boulevard ( 1949 )
The movie is from the black and white era .
William Holden plays an out of luck movie script writer named Joe Gillis whose scripts are not accepted by most directors . While running away from men trying to take his car because he has not paid it's dues , he accidentally stumbles into the mansion of a forgotten movie star of the era of silent films named Norma Desmond ( Gloria Swanson ) . She lives in her own world where she is still supposed to be a great star with a huge fan following , though it is actually her own butler ( played by Erich von Stroheim ) who writes the fan letters . And he too was a former movie director who had discovered Norma but whom she married and later divorced , but became her butler because he could not live apart from her . Can things get quirkier than that ?
Yes , they can get quirkier . Because Norma takes a fancy to Joe and decides to make the much younger Joe her keep , and Joe accepts because he has run out of funds . Norma wants to make grand comeback to films even though she is 53 , and Joe becomes the scriptwriter of her bizarre comeback movie . But actually he is interested in another girl called Betty ( Nancy Olsen ) and soon Betty spurns her fiance for him .
But Joe has got too much entangled in the situation created by Norma to ever get out . She wants the great director Cecil B. DeMille to direct her film , and her faded but still remembered star power is on display as she enters his shoot to be warmly greeted by him and recognised by people . But he is not really interested in directing her .
The crisis occurs when Norma discovers that Joe and Betty are in love . And when Joe tries to walk out with some harsh words of truth , she fires a gun on him....his fate is like the male spider who mates with the female spider only to find that there is no release as she devours him . As the police come to arrest Norma with reporters for shooting the arrest , she has gone sufficiently mad to think that the scene is of the shooting of a film being enacted .
The film actually is in touch with the truth , for in the film industry there are several former stars who live in the memory of the former halcyon days . The Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna was one such person , who was constantly reliving his former superstardom long after it had perished . The dialogue by Norma in the movie saying 'I am big . It is the pictures that got small.' aptly sums up this attitude . Not surprisingly , the film is regarded as a classic . Acting is good , if you are willing to tolerate Gloria Swanson's overdramatic acting as Norma Desmond . Photography is good if you are willing to tolerate black and white colours and small screen format .
Verdict---Good .
Four stars out of five .
Last edited by ashdoc; January 12th, 2018 at 10:08 AM.
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oh wow Asdoc you are catching up on classics!
we ill have something to talk about if we meet
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John Wick
Keanu Reeves plays John Wick , an ex underworld gangster who had left his crime career for getting locked into holy matrimony with his wife years ago .
Sure , a man may want to leave the underworld but does the underworld ever leave him ?? No...
The underworld to which he formerly belonged lays it's deadly arm on him again at the same time his wife has just died....
Worse , the Russian underworld gangsters not only steal John's car , but also kill the puppy his wife had given him as parting gift....
It seems that the death of the puppy left John more hellbent on revenge than the theft of the car....for it was the gift from his beloved wife....
And hell hath no fury like a John Wick wronged....
The director builds a great aura around John Wick's character---even hardened gangsters are supposed to quake in their boots at the very mention of his name....the father of the gangster who stole his car phones John Wick to try to pacify him....to no avail , but of course....
John has an entire armory stashed inside his house---everything from the latest pistols to modern telescopic sighted long range rifles to hand grenades are available to him....
The Russian mafia sends in men to kill John before he can kill them....
And do I even have to tell you that the legendary John Wick is waiting for them to strike and is all prepared....
Mayhem follows of course , and again---do I even have tell you that John Wick succeeds in killing all his would be assassins....after all , he has to live up to all the aura that the director has built around him....
The effect of the aura doesn't stop there---body bag disposal squads are waiting to dispose all dead bodies , and do so without batting an eyelid.....apparently they have seen John Wick carry out similar mayhems before and to them this seems to be regular stuff that John does....
Even the friendly neighborhood policeman comes dropping in , and leaves probably realizing what has happened---he does not have the guts to dare to search the house , for no one trifles with John Wick....
So what happens when John finally decides to go to the heavily guarded nightclub where the target of his legendary wrath is hiding ?? More mayhem of course....
Does John get his revenge ?? Do I even need to answer that....
Question is , does he get his revenge in style....??
For the answer to the second question , watch the movie....
The movie seems like a shooting game that has been heavily fixed so that bullets fired by John Wick's enemies generally don't find their target ( though they sometimes do ) , but John's bullets unerringly find their mark....all slam bang action....
And even when John has been caught and tied up , the bad guys' head honcho wastes his time giving rambling talks to John---does not just dispatch John with one bullet on his head....
When John escapes and attacks the bad guys' car , the head honcho does not mind chuckling to appreciate John's fighting skills.....
Even the marksman hired by the russians for killing John ( played by Willem Dafoe ) seems to be more interested in protecting John than killing him....
The whole film self mocks itself throughout , as if it is telling the audience---don't take us seriously....
Needless to say , dead bodies pile up like anything , enough to keep an undertaker busy for weeks....
And inspite of all the violence that has been unleashed , where is the police ?? It practically doesn't exist in the movie....
So anything goes---a pile of destruction is created....
And amidst all this , the concierge at the hotel that he stays in ( it's for gangsters only ) receives John with a dead pan expression every time he comes back after unleashing a massacre---all this is daily stuff for the concierge , especially from John . Of course , the concierge does not mind adding some extra amount to John's bill when some of the killing happens in John's suite and the hotel has to do the cleaning up....
Now if you want to see more of this nonsense you can see this movie , but I am not recommending it....
Keanu Reeves does act okay , but the Russian mafia leader seemed more funny than menacing---for the task of creating menace was left to John....
But all his attempt at creating menace didn't impress me---I left the theater disappointed....so will you too I guess....
Verdict---Don't bother to watch this movie .
Last edited by ashdoc; April 14th, 2018 at 11:32 AM.
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The first John Wick may not amount to much more than non-stop gunfights... but the second one is absolutely good. It has much more of the assassin's creed... and the constant struggle between John Wick and the character played by Common is worth watching that one movie. Please do watch the second one and rate it, Ashkuddi pai...
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Words by Alex Hillinger, Director of Asymbol.co
This project began life in the summer of 2013, conceived by Mike Parillo, Corey Smith – founder of Spring Break Snowboards – and Asymbol. It's story, however, begins decades earlier, in the 1980's, with snowboarding pioneers like Chuck Barfoot and Tom Sims and Regis Roland, whose approach to snowboarding leaned heavily in the direction of surfing on snow.
It's hard to remember, but snowboarding was at one time only a backcountry activity. Boards were shaped by hand using simple tools and plywood. Edges? Who needed edges in powder?
The invitation for Neon Daze & Winter Waves conveys it best:
Imagine that you've been teleported to a winter dreamland. You wake up not knowing where you are but its cold and there's the soft sound of bluster in the morning. You walk out of your room, down a hallway where you see a sliding glass door that reveals snow and sun, look a little further and an amazing hike-able peak just behind your house.
You rush back in to find all the gear you need with the exception of a board. In the garage you find tools, a two foot by eight foot piece of plywood, epoxy resin and enough hardware to mount your bindings. What would you make?
This invitation was sent to a list of riders, surfers and artists so legendary it's impossible to calculate their collective impact on the sport. Together, they represent an unprecedented group of board riding heroes:
Travis Rice, Pat Moore, Kevin Pearce, Corey Smith, Bryan Iguchi, Jeremy Jones, Ian Walsh, Gerry Lopez, Nathan Fletcher, Mike Parillo, Todd Glaser, Matt French, Nick Russian, Carl Smith, Pete Saari, Adam Haynes, Billy Anderson and Willie McMillon.
*100% of Jeremy Jones' board sale, along with a percentage of proceeds from all other Neon Daze & Winter Waves boards, will be donated to POW: Protect Our Winters
Special thanks to: Union Binding Co., CAPiTA, Poler and Baldface Lodge for making it happen!
The ideas flowed almost immediately, ranging from swallow-tail pow shapes to shapes inspired by old-school skate decks. More than simply an artistic challenge, Neon Daze & Winter Waves also posed the challenge of designing a board that's as fun to ride as it is to look at.
Each of the boards in this project was hand cut and shaped by Corey Smith and Mike Parillo in Corey's backyard in Truckee, California. These raw boards were then transported to Los Angeles, where Mike Parillo spent hundreds of hours glassing, sanding and painting them by hand into the finished boards that comprise this remarkable collection. Each board is a one-off work of original art.
Along the way, a quiver of them were taken to Baldface Lodge outside Nelson, BC, to be test-ridden in epic early season powder by Mike, Corey, Travis Rice, Kevin Pearce and Jeff Pensiero.
Neon Daze & Winter Waves is an unabashed celebration of the roots of snowboarding, and the simple act of riding a hand-built board down a powder covered hill.
In the words of Mike Parillo:
"Lets strip our beautiful sport down to the absolute basics, celebrate purity and simplicity and how fun that can be."
In reducing a snowboard down to its most basic elements, form and function become one in the same. Nothing is more elemental than that.
Let the riding of Neon Daze & Winter Waves begin…


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by Constance Garcia-Barrio
The Women's History Month Celebration Saturday, March 16, at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, 220 W. Tulpehocken St. in Germantown, comes wrapped in a feast for the senses. Costumed guides and wallpaper in startling, yet period-authentic patterns, catch the eye. The words of Susan B. Anthony's speech, "Declaration of the Rights of Women of the United States," given on the steps of Independence Hall in 1876, ring across time in an impassioned re-enactment.
"It's a full immersion evening," said Diane Richardson, executive director of the mansion, Philadelphia's only Victorian museum house. "Guests will even leave with a taste of the past — a cookie made from a Victorian recipe and a copy of the recipe."
Visitors may enter the past more deeply still. "They'll be assigned the identity of a Victorian woman for the evening," said Richardson, who lives in Wyndmoor. "Biographical details will help guests see the era through the women's eyes."
While Saturday's celebration, which starts at 7 p.m., will open a portal to the past, it also spotlights the mansion's new "Upstairs Downstairs" interpretive tour. Built in 1859 by cloth merchant Ebenezer Maxwell, the mansion, with its kitchen gadgetry, maids and garden gave the Maxwells a comfortable middle-class life.
Yet, Anna Maxwell had many limitations. "A woman wouldn't have ventured out on the street alone if she valued her reputation," said Isabella Fidanza, an intern and English major at Drexel University. "She would have taken along a relative or a maid."
Richardson noted that if a married woman inherited money, it belonged to her husband. "The laws favored men," said Richardson, whose empathy for Victorian women's strictures may grow from challenges in her own life. Born in Lake City, Iowa, Richardson, 63, earned a bachelor's degree in home economics education from Iowa State University.
She taught home economics in Iowa for one year, and then married a Navy pilot. "We moved all over the country — Florida, California and, finally, Pennsylvania," said Richardson, who has two daughters, Amber Yonan, 36, mother of Richardson's three grandchildren, and Suzanne O'Brien, 33. "I put my energy into homemaking and childrearing. If I had given a little attention to my career, it would have paid off. When the marriage ended after 25 years, I had to reinvent myself."
Richardson's childhood helped to prepare her for her vocation. "Growing up in Iowa, I tagged along when my mother and her friends went antiquing," she said. "I also learned to appreciate fabric and to sew because that was the only way I could have pretty clothes." She gained experience in historic preservation in restoring a circa 1770 condemned farmhouse, and later as a volunteer at the Peter Wentz Farmstead in nearby Worcester.
"I helped catalogue a collection of the Farmstead's vintage clothing and to preserve museum objects." She also earned a certificate in historic preservation from Bucks County Community College. It required her to do 200 hours of research on a specific topic. She chose window treatments from 1700 to 1901. In 2000, she parlayed that knowledge into her own business, Richardson Interiors, of Wyndmoor.
Richardson became executive director of the Maxwell Mansion in 2007. "When I came to the mansion, I had to make decisions about wallpaper and paint for the 2008 restoration of the parlor, hallway dining room and Mr. Maxwell's library," she said. "Thanks to restoring the farmhouse, I was familiar with reproduction fabrics, window treatments, historic wallpapers and other aspects of design."
More changes were afoot. The mansion had offered the same tour for 30 years, and Richardson wanted to revamp it and spiff up the programming. However, a lack of funds stalled the project. In an outcome worthy of Charles Dickens, the mansion had a visit from a Christmas angel of sorts. Architectural historian Henry Magaziner, who had worked to save the mansion from demolition years earlier, died at age 100 on Christmas Day in 2011. He bequeathed $50,000 for the museum's educational programming. "We couldn't have developed the new tour without those funds," Richardson said.
Saturday's celebration includes a talk about Victorian women by author Cordelia Frances Biddle, the re-enactment of Susan B. Anthony's speech and a discussion of Victorian cookery by Becky Diamond, author of "Mrs. Goodfellow: the Story of America's First Cooking School." Guests can enjoy champagne and "light comestibles," but more delicious still is learning how some Victorian women broke out of their expected role.
Quaker matron Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) enraged half the city when she helped found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in December of 1833. Not only did the members plunge into politics, considered off-limits for women, but they took on the hottest issue of the day. The group's interracial membership added insult to injury.
For more information about the Upstairs Downstairs Tour and other events, call 215-438-1861 or visit ebenezermaxwellmansion.org


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Tracking the Rotation of Uranus
These three NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of the planet Uranus reveal the motion of a pair of bright clouds in the planet's southern hemisphere, and a high altitude haze that forms a "cap" above the planet's south pole.
Hubble's new view was obtained on August 14, 1994, when Uranus was 1.7 billion miles (2.8 billion kilometers) from Earth. These atmospheric details were only previously seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by Uranus in 1986. Since then, detailed observations of Uranus's atmospheric features have not been possible because the planet is at the resolution limit of ground-based telescopes.
Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observed Uranus through a filter that is sensitive to light reflected by a pair of high altitude clouds. This makes a high altitude haze over Uranus' south polar region clearly visible, along with a pair of high altitude clouds or plume-type features that are 2500 and 1800 miles (4300 and 3100 kilometers) across, respectively. This sequence of images shows how the clouds (labeled A and B) rotate with the planet during the three hours that elapsed between the first two observations (left and center picture) and the five hours that elapsed between the second pair of observations (center and right picture). Some cloud motion might be due to high altitude winds on the planet. (Observations are indicated in Universal Time.)
By tracking the motion of high-altitude clouds, the new Hubble observations will allow astronomers to make new measurements of Uranus' rotation period. Based on the previous Voyager observations, Uranus spins on its axis at a faster rate than Earth does, completing one rotation every 7 hours, 14 minutes.
One of the four gas giant planets of our solar system, Uranus is largely featureless. Unlike Earth, Uranus' south pole points toward the Sun during part of the planet's 84-year orbit. Thanks to its high resolution and ability to make observations over many years, Hubble can follow seasonal changes in Uranus's atmosphere, which should be unusual given the planet's large tilt.
These observations were conducted by a team led by Dr. Ken Seidelmann of the U.S. Naval Observatory as Principal Investigator. These images have been processed by Professor Douglas Currie and Mr. Dan Dowling in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. Other team members are Dr. Ben Zellner at Georgia Southern University, Dr. Dan Pascu and Mr. Jim Rhode at the U.S. Naval Observatory, and Dr. Ed Wells, Mr. Charles Kowal (Computer Science Corporation) and Dr. Alex Storrs of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Credit: Kenneth Seidelmann, U.S. Naval Observatory, and NASA


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WWI armament kills 2 workers, injures 2 more in Flanders Fields former battlegrounds
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YPRES, Belgium – An armament from World War I has exploded at an industrial site in the former Flanders battlegrounds, killing two construction workers and injuring two more.
Johan Lescrauwaert of the Ypres prosecutor's office said a shell or grenade from the 1914-1918 war exploded near the workers. The circumstances were unclear because there was apparently no digging at the site, the usual cause of such accidents, he told VRT network.
Every year the battlefields in western Belgium throw up hundreds of armaments from the Great War, and most are destroyed without incident by a special Belgian army bomb squad. In a nearby city, the army was completing the destruction of over 800 gas canisters.
The Flanders battlefields cover dozens of cities where allies clashed with German forces for most of the war.


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Sumate to jail and the Carter Center mired in muck
I have been traveling and too busy to post regularly while a few interesting things are happening. So, there is a quickie.
Today, finally, the government has decided to indict SUMATE executives. The weak reason: because they accepted foreign money, namely the NED. This of course from a government that has been throwing money to all sort of leftist groups around LatAm, not to mention its partiality to the FARC and ease of use of Venezuelan lands to all sorts of Colombian "dissidents". But then again what else is new? Pseudo lefties of the Chavez type have always been particularly good at using double standards. And when you have managed to control the judicial system, why not?
But the real interest here is the timing, again. At a point where the CNE might have to accept a few changes to make regional elections it is crucial to destroy the main electoral machinery that could help the opposition save a few townhalls and state mansions. The "evidence", as it is, has been long known and indictments for treason to the fatherland could have been issued long ago. I mean, is it a heinous crime or is it not?
The Carter Center is at it again. Now, their new report seems to be a little bit more critical of the Venezuelan electoral system. Though they still swear by the results that they quickly certified. Interesting, no? Could it be the sudden Florida sting? Or the fact that they are reluctantly acknowledging that their reputation is severely damaged. In a forum today (or yesterday, I did not quite understand) Ms. McCoy acknowledged the following when asked if the referendum helped solve the Venezuelan situation:
"Dijimos antes de ese proceso que un revocatorio no podía resolver todas las diferencias, fue importante porque la gente pudo expresar sus preferencias sobre el mandato del presidente Chávez. No ha resuelto las diferencias y tal vez ha creado nuevas divisiones, en algunos aspectos"according to El Universal translation. I would like to have the exact words in English so I will not dare to translate back. However! However!!!! Clearly Ms. McCoy subconscious is betraying her. She recognizes, in my opinion, that her "peace" mission has failed "might have created new divisions". Indeed!
I would suggest her, and her boss and co-workers to take a hard look at their actions in Venezuela. Some healthy dose of self criticism is in order. At least for any future observation that they might undertake.
But I digress. In that new report, the Carter Center is suggesting to do stuff THAT SHOULD HAVE DONE ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 15. It is a little bit late now. And the preachy words for a reconciliation smacks too much of demanding the opposition to bear with chavismo as the CC KNOWS TOO WELL that chavismo controls everything and that there is only protest left for the opposition. What negotiations is the CC talking of? Be serious!
But I am always willing to help and I am going to offer a way for the Carter Center to start redeeming its image: take a stand for SUMATE. I am not kidding, putting real pressure on stopping that Sumate hypocritical witch hunt (an oxymoron by the way) would go a long way in having people in Venezuela think that the Carter Center does care about democracy and the rule of law.


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The Quality of Mercy: A Novel (Hardcover)
Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father's ship, including Sullivan, brought back to London to stand trial on charges of mutiny and piracy. But as the novel opens, a blithe Sullivan has escaped and is making his way on foot to the north of England, stealing as he goes and sleeping where he can.
His destination is Thorpe in the East Durham coalfields, where his dead shipmate, Billy Blair, lived: he has pledged to tell the family how Billy met his end.
In this village, Billy's sister, Nan, and her miner husband, James Bordon, live with their three sons, all destined to follow their father down the pit. The youngest, only seven, is enjoying his last summer aboveground.
Meanwhile, in London, a passionate anti-slavery campaigner, Frederick Ashton, gets involved in a second case relating to the lost ship. Erasmus Kemp wants compensation for the cargo of sick slaves who were thrown overboard to drown, and Ashton is representing the insurers who dispute his claim. Despite their polarized views on slavery, Ashton's beautiful sister, Jane, encounters Erasmus Kemp and finds herself powerfully attracted to him.
Lord Spenton, who owns coal mines in East-Durham, has extravagant habits and is pressed for money. When he applies to the Kemp merchant bank for a loan, Erasmus sees a business opportunity of the kind he has long been hoping for, a way of gaining entry into Britain's rapidly developing and highly profitable coal and steel industries.
Thus he too makes his way north, to the very same village that Sullivan is heading for . . .
With historical sweep and deep pathos, Unsworth explores the struggles of the powerless and the captive against the rich and the powerful, and what weight mercy may throw on the scales of justice.
About the Author
BARRY UNSWORTH, who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker finalist for Pascali's Island and Morality Play and was long-listed for the Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel. His other works include The Songs of the Kings, After Hannibal, Losing Nelson, and Land of Marvels.
Praise For…
"Unsworth is one of the best historical novelists on either side of the Atlantic, and in both Sacred Hunger and The Quality of Mercy his vast knowledge of 18th-century social and material conditions creates a rich and strange rendering of daily life that's utterly persuasive."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Told with bite and freshness. Unsworth, one of the most ingenious and varied of today's British writers, makes his scenes not just vivid but microscopically vivid - we see not only their visible life but the invisible life that pulsates beneath. But what may be more remarkable is the creative subversion he works in his characters. . . . Unsworth gives his figures glittering definition, and then leaves them open and undefined."
—Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
"Unsworth is one of the greatest living historical novelists, and this is what he does best: He entices us back into a past gloriously appointed with archival detail and moral complexity. . . . [The Quality of Mercy] is another engaging demonstration of the talent that's made Unsworth one of the very few writers to appear on the Booker shortlist three times. His sentences recall the sharp detail, moral sensitivity and ready wit of Charles Dickens. But his sense of the lumbering, uneven gait of social progress is more sophisticated, more tempered, one might say, by history."
—The Washington Post
"Deeply moving. . . . Unsworth brings his characters together with authority and grace. As with all of his historical novels, he conveys the sights, sounds and smells of life in another century without the slightest hint of pedantry."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Instantly compelling and impeccably written. . . . Line by line, Unsworth is a vigorous and precise writer."
—Los Angeles Times
"Reading Barry Unsworth, one immediately feel secure in the hands of an experienced pro, a master scribe who knows his way through a story like a seasoned navigator sailing treacherous but familiar seas. . . . [His] latest labor of love is full of gorgeous prose, wonderful dialogue in regional dialect, deeply etched characters, and historical settings both rural and urban one can smell and taste. . . . Endlessly enthralling."
—San Antonio Express-News
"Thought- provoking and resonant."
—The Denver Post
"Wryly, and with Austenesque delicacy, Unsworth presents the intricacies of love, competition, and other timeless human emotions, as well as 18th-century law. Having invented his own brand of historical fiction, characterized by research, imagination, and a literate narrator equally adept at penetrating a society's values or an individual's heart, Unsworth creates a novel that works both as period piece and indictment of industrial capitalism. . . . It succeeds in presenting a compelling picture of a transitional moment in English history, not to mention in the development of the English character."
—Publishers Weekly
"The Quality of Mercy is the work of one who is both artist and craftsman. There is not a page without interest, not a sentence that rings false. It is gripping and moving, a novel about justice which is worthy of that theme. In short, it is a tremendous achievement, as good as anything this great novelist has written."
—The Scotsman
"Unsworth's is a vigorous, clear-eyed approach to history, electrified by his complete feel for the period, his neat bathetic wit and his natural gift for storytelling."
—The Telegraph
"Unsworth's writing is as rich and authoritative as ever, his eye for the period detail as judicious."
—The Guardian
"Entirely engrossing."
—Financial Times
"Immediately involving and immensely readable."
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Wednesday Tea and Tour at Historic Morven
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 1:00 pm
Invite a friend (or a few!) to relax in the classic elegance of Morven's Garden Room overlooking the Colonial Revival garden. Tea at the home of Richard Stockton and his poet wife, Annis Boudinot Stockton, includes tea sandwiches, scones, and an assortment of fresh fruit and sweets.
Four generations of Stocktons lived at Morven before it was sold to Robert Wood Johnson in the early 20th century. It later became the official home to five New Jersey governors.
A docent-led tour of the museum accompanies the tea and can be taken at 12:00 or 2:00 p.m.
Admission is $22.00 per person ($18.00 for Friends of Morven ).
Advance reservation is required and subject to availability.
Payment is due at the time of booking. Space is limited, so plan on booking your tea as far in advance as possible. Please call (609) 924-8144 ext. 103 for reservations. Visit the Morven website for more information.
Free automobile parking is available on site. For other local parking options, visit www.princetonparking.org.


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The panelists discuss current security issues and ways to mitigate them.
QCon returned to London this past March for its thirteenth year in the city, attracting 1,500 senior developers, architects, and team leads.
Mark Grundland explores practical techniques for information visualization design to take better account of the fundamental limitations of visual perception.
Voice-based computing interfaces need testing with an adapted approached, suited for their specificity and context. Some things need to be adapted (test strategy, testing approach, validation criteria) while others can be re-used (e.g. API testing approaches and tools), and some need learning new things (e.g. testing artificial intelligence models and components).
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Feb. 12, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The women's track team hosted the Coed Invitational on Saturday. Junior Christine Fanchiang was victorious in the pole vault and the 55 meter hurdles for the Engineers. Freshman Emily Repak moved into the school record books with new personal bests in both the long and triple jump.
Fanchiang set personal bests in both events, with a time of 7.75 seconds in the 55 meter dash and a mark of 11'1" in the pole vault. Her vault mark was the third best in MIT program history and exactly met the NCAA provisional standard.
Freshman Emily Repak established personal bests in the long jump (16'3") and triple jump (33' 1/4"). Her mark in the long jump moved her to fifth on MIT's all-time list, while her triple jump was good enough for fourth all-time.
Sophomore Karen Condon placed second in the one mile run with a time of 5:33.48. In the 1000 meter run, senior Betsy Eames finished second.
The Engineers also got a solid performance from sophomore Aline Thomas. Her mark of 36-05.25 was good enough for third place in the shot put. In the weight throw, she earned second place with a toss of 44-03.25.
The women travel to Northampton, Mass. on Saturday, February 18 for the New England Division III Championship. The competition will begin at 12:00 p.m.


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Transform your photos into one-of-a-kind, hand painted masterpieces!
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To The Shore by Hunter Jay - 30.000" x 14.625"
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To The Shore canvas print by Hunter Jay. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Hi Rana. Thanks for the interest, but this one is already sold.
This is one of my favorites. If you still have the original I am interested in buying it. I have a photo that I took in Florida that looks almost exactly like your painting. Hope you are doing well. :)
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pixels.com/fineartamerica.com makes great prints. Sorry but the original is already sold.
This is a beautiful painting.
Nicely done!
Hunter you seem to have natural or intuitive grasp of the nature of water. Great control of your meduim and brush. As always strong work. I love just stopping by your site to look around.
Corner Detail: Stretched canvas print with 1.5" stretcher bars and mirrored image sides. Also available with black sides, whites sides, and 5/8" stretcher bars.
Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed on one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). All stretched canvases ship within 3 - 4 business days and arrive "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames.
Fine Art America is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints. All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers. We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.
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My art career began in 1964 with drawings of Godzilla in battle with squadrons of fighter jets. Fellow first graders were my early collectors for these scenes of chaos; all free for the asking. At the time, no one knew I'd rather draw cars and castles, but the Godzilla drawings were so popular and made my friends so happy, I couldn't resist. When I was ten years old, my parents (AKA Santa Claus) gave me a microscope for Christmas. The entire process of using the microscope fascinated me; the lens that had two settings, the little rectangular glass slides, even the gray metal box it came in! But of course the best thing was getting a good look into an infinitely tiny magical world. A grain of sugar became a revelation to me. A blade of...
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Fine Art America sells thousands of pieces of artwork each month - all with a 100% money-back guarantee. We take great pride in the fact that hundreds of thousands of artists have chosen Fine Art America to fulfill their orders, and we look forward to helping you select your next piece!
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Our BEAUTIFUL Large Dog Bed in Navy is from our Quatrefoil Collection - we have 16 colors in stock! This fabric looks GREAT embroidered with a pets name and makes a great puppy dog gift! BB
💫 At Three Spoiled Dogs, we strive for perfection when it comes to comfort and design, so we know you'll love our beds and your pets will too! We have 100+ stylish upholstery fabrics in stock. If you would like our data sheet with all the fabrics in one document just send us an email, hello [!at] ThreeSpoiledDogs.com and we will email it to you right away!
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TSD flippable design extends the life of your dog bed by using both sides instead of just one. Our beds come with soft but durable inserts and the bed cover has a concealed zipper and zips off for easy cleaning. If you just need a replacement cover or want to recycle an insert of your own, click here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/257906381/dog-bed-cover-90-stylish-fabrics-in
Inserts: All of TSD dog bed inserts are made from 100% cotton fabric with a stain-repellent finish that resists oil and water stains, and are sewn with heavy duty thread. They are stuffed with lofty polyester filling and a layer of memory foam that stays both cool in the summer and warm in the winter all while having a soft to the touch feel.
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Small (S) up to 20 lbs: 22" x 16" x 4" & $117
Small Medium (SM) up to 40 lbs: 30" x 20" x 4" & $137
Medium Large (ML) up to 65 lbs: 36" x 25" x 5" & $167
Large (L) up to 95 lbs: 40" x 30" x 5" & $197
Extra Large (XL) 95+ lbs: 44" x 34" x 5" & $227
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When purchasing your dog bed, "Add to Cart" the bed you want, select "Personalize My Bed, Yes Please!" then select the font style you want for your pups name. In the Note to Seller, be sure to let us know your pups name and the thread color you want for their name. It's that simple!
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