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Fashion illustration is an art — the top illustrators have been just as influential as photographers and are worthy of celebration
Think Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Nick Knight, Tim Walker. Now think Paul Iribe, Christian Bérard, René Gruau, Mats Gustafson and François Berthoud. Any fashion follower knows the first list names top fashion photographers. But how many recognise the names on the second list? Their job is the same, but their tools are entirely different.
Arguably, these illustrators have been just as influential and directional as fashion's greatest photographers, which is why the Design Museum's new exhibition, Drawing Fashion, is so exciting. Drawn from the world's greatest private collection of fashion drawings (the life's work of the gallery owner Joelle Chariau), this is the first time it has been shown in England. But it was worth waiting for.
It is both an eye-opener and…

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Thursday, November 20, 2014
"Sharyl Attkisson Joins KMOX's Mark Reardon To Discuss Controversial New Book"
On CBSlocal St. Louis, Mark Reardon posted a recent exchange he had with Sharyl Attkisson, including this and more:
"SA: I don't know. Hacking is a word that of implies to me sort of a single event — an in, an out. The forensics exams, three separate ones, have shown a long term monitoring and surveillance that went on both in my CBS laptop computer as well as on my home Apple computer. It's pretty chilling when you consider the extent of the abilities they had, according to the forensics reports, to monitor my every keystroke, to activate Skype by getting the password to my account, and listen through Skype on to audio if I was talking in the room or talking on the phone. Being able to exfiltrate files using Skype, downloading and refreshing these surveillance methods periodically using something called a BGAN satellite terminal, using WiFi when I was at a Ritz Carlton at one point. I mean they left some very distinct trails because I don't think they ever thought I would have the ability to have highly-skilled specialized forensics people be able to find what was in there. Ordinary computer analysts may be very good, but unless they know exactly where to look and they're familiar with some of the proprietary government practices, I'm told, they will never be able to find the things that were found in my computer. But I was able to go to some very good sources."
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Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr. Umesh Khot knew something was very wrong.
Khot is a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, which prides itself on its outstanding heart care. The health system's internal monitoring system had alerted doctors about the skyrocketing cost of the drugs, nitroprusside and isoproterenol. But these two older drugs, frequently used in emergency and intensive care situations, have no direct alternatives.
"If we are having concerns, what is happening nationally?" Khot wondered.
As it turned out, a lot was happening.
Following major price increases, use of the two cardiac medicines has dramatically decreased at 47 hospitals, according to a research letter Khot and two others published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.


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This is also from May 1960, and is of a proper famous person – Kenneth More signing autographs at the Imperial College fete!
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Birmingham Rag, October 1958
I'm not quite sure of the timeline here. I know my dad did National Service after he was at Imperial College, and I think that included a Masters degree.
But, now that he's been demobbed, it looks like he's back at university. I think he said once that he started on a PhD but couldn't finish it as the grant ran out. So, I'm guessing that this is the PhD period, especially as it looks like he started a proper job in 1959.
"Bugs and Paddy Toasting The Union"
"Sound Effects"
From the Imperial College Drama Society's production of Dispersal.
"Bugs in Bed (5th floor)"
Another from Imperial College. Not a clue what's going on in this one – it looks to me like someone's been out on the sauce and has slept it off in the corridor. But, if that was the case, surely he wouldn't have sheets, blanket and a pillow – not to mention an alarm clock on the window ledge.
"Morphy Day, General Melee"
November 1955, on the footpath of the Thames
A bit of digging on t'interweb reveals that Morphy Day traditionally consisted of various bits of Imperial College (which was made up of the Royal College of Science, the City & Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines) having a flour and tomato fight on the towpath at Putney whilst the Morphy and the Lowry races took place between the three colleges on the river. Somehow I suspect the rowing wasn't the most important bit of the day…
"Wal and apparatus"
Commemoration Day, 1955
My father on graduation day (known as Commemoration Day), October 1955 at the Royal Albert Hall.
EDIT: Just found this in felixonline.co.uk (the IC student newspaper):
In 1945, King George VI and the Queen Mother visited Imperial College to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Royal College of Chemistry, the oldest of the institutions that were amalgamated into Imperial College in 1907. It was decided that this royal visit would be commemorated annually, and it is this ceremony, held in the Royal Albert Hall, at which Imperial undergraduate students celebrate graduation.
ICDS – Maidstone 1955
Similarly to the production that the Imperial College Drama Society put on in Cheltenham in 1954, they did the same in Maidstone in 1955.
I think that the first shot is of the landlord & landlady in the pub that they adopted during their stay – there are several photos that appear to be in the pub.
I suspect that my father wasn't acting in this particular play, as this was taken from above the stage. I don't know what play they were doing – surprisingly enough his records don't say.
I suspect the reason I never really became interested in the theatre (drawing a discrete veil over my appearance as a Munchkin) is that I was subjected to too much Shakespeare as a small child. My parents were (and my mother still is) long-standing active members of the Masque Theatre amateur group in Northampton, and they were always involved in the annual open-air productions. Being too young to be left at home, my brother and I spent many interminable summer evenings hanging around Abington Park trying to think of something interesting to do. We must have been too well brought up, as otherwise we'd have been off nicking hubcaps or something like that – although Abington is too nice a part of Northampton for that sort of behaviour thank you very much.
Rowing, 1955
Along with the Drama Society, my father also rowed for Imperial College, competing in the Head of the River race two or three times. I'm not quite sure how he managed to combine both of these activities along with studying for his degree, but he seemed to manage it!
Interestingly enough, three of his interests were photography, cycling and rowing – I do the first two and have done the third. Something went wrong though, as I've never been interested in the theatre.