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Talking and travelling
I'm in America. This is a three-week trip and in those three weeks, I'm speaking at four conferences.
That might sound like a fairly hectic schedule but it's really not that bad at all. In each place I'm travelling to, travel takes up a day, the conference portion takes up a couple of days, but I still get a day or two to just hang out and be a tourist, which is jolly nice.
This sojourn began in Boston where I was speaking at An Event Apart. It was—as ever—an excellent event and even though I was just speaking at An Event Apart in Seattle just a few weeks ago, there were still plenty of fresh talks for me to enjoy in Boston: Paul talking about performance, Lea talking about colour in CSS, Dan talking about process, and a barnstorming talk from Bruce on everything that makes the web great (although I respectfully disagree with his stance on DRM/EME).
My own talk was called The Long Web and An Event Apart Boston was its final outing. I first gave it at An Event Apart DC back in August—it's had a good nine-month run.
My next appearance at An Event Apart will be at the end of this American trip in San Diego. I'll be presenting a new talk there. Whereas my previous talk was a rambling affair about progressive enhancement, responsive design, and long-term thinking, my new talk will be a rambling affair about progressive enhancement, responsive design, and long-term thinking.
Sooner or later people are going to realise that I keep hammering home the same message in all my talks and this whole speaking-at-conferences gig will dry up. Until then, I'll keep hammering home that same old message.
I have two opportunities to road-test this new talk before An Event Apart San Diego (for which, by the way, tickets still remain: use the code AEAKEITH when you're booking to get $100 off).
I'll be speaking at Bmoresponsive in Baltimore at the end of this week. Before that, I have the great pleasure (and pressure) of opening the show tomorrow at the Artifact conference here in good ol' Austin, Texas (and believe it or not, you can still get a ticket: this time use the code ADACTIO100 when you're booking to get $100 off).
Until then, I have some time to wander around and be a tourist. It is so nice to be here in Austin when it's not South by Southwest. I should probably fretting over this talk but instead I'm spending my time sampling tacos and beers in the sunshine.


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Fans Compare Red Velvet Members' First Impression Vs Now
Red Velvet members, since debut in 2014, has undergone countless transformations while promoting all of the group's hit songs. The fans looked back and realized each member is quite different now from their first impressions!
1. Irene
Shortly after debut, fans thought Irene was the goddess of beauty for her 200% perfect visual. She immediately gained a large fanbase for her amazing looks.
She got the nickname "Ice Princess" because of her first impression.
But now, fans know she's only a white-headed long-tailed tit bird.
Irene is no longer intimidating, and when she tries, she looks like this adorable angry bird!
2. Seulgi
When fans first met Seulgi, they thought she could be the next "ssen unnie (쎈언니)", like that one Jessi song, because she looked so fierce and charismatic.
Everything about Seulgi screamed biggest, baddest b*tch, and fans loved that!
But Seulgi ended up being the cutest little fluffy bear!
Fans adore what a plot twist Seulgi turned out to be.
3. Wendy
Wendy had everyone think she's a beagle on the run, with her extra positive energy on stage.
She glowed with a super energetic vibe that fans instantly fell in love with.
While Wendy's personality hasn't changed much since debut, fans realized that her brightness doesn't make her a beagle, but actually a guardian angel.
Wendy puts her positiveness into encouraging her fellow members, fans, and other stars! She even made comedian Kang Ho Dong cry when she reached out to him and told him he's a good person.
4. Joy
At debut, Joy's Disney princess-like visual really wowed the fans. Her beautiful smile captivated thousands of fan hearts.
Just from the first impression, fans thought Joy would be the quiet, calm princess of the group.
Fans soon learned they were terribly mistaken about Joy being a pretty princess. She soon earned herself the nickname, "vel-jel-woot (벨젤웃)", which translates to "the funniest Red Velvet".
Joy loves to have fun, laugh, and show the world she's having the best time of her life, whenever wherever! Fans love this down-to-earth side of Joy.
5. Yeri
Last, but never the least, Yeri the "maknae (막내)" went through perhaps the biggest transformation since debut.
When she first revealed herself to the fans, she was considered the baby of the group.
But years passed and Yeri grew up into a young lady, whose aura simply stuns the fans every time she shows this grown-up side of her.
Her latest Ceci Magazine photo shoot has made her fans realize Yeri is no longer the baby, but actually the "maknae-on-top" now with her matured looks and vibes. Of course, fans love Yeri the same nevertheless!
Red Velvet
"Main Dancer" K-Pop Idol Nails RIIZE's Dance Challenge, But A Behind-The-Scenes Video Shows The Chaotic Reality Of Learning The Choreo
Leaders Supporting Leaders — aespa's Karina Seems To Check In On Red Velvet's Irene At SM Concert
Red Velvet's Irene Appears At Jakarta Concert Despite Earlier Plans Of Sitting It Out
Red Velvet To Make Comeback With Third Full- Length Album In November

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Traverse City Events: Bird lovers of Northern Michigan, this one's for you! Sunday, September 15 marks the final week to the National Geographic Traveling Exhibition "Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution," at the Dennos Museum Center of Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan.
This spectacular exhibition that reveals all 39 species of these elusive birds for the first time showcasing the groundbreaking research of photographer Tim Laman and Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist Edwin Scholes, featuring the extravagant plumage, crazy courtship dances and bizarre behaviors of these extraordinary birds closes Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 5 PM.
Admission to the Dennos Museum Center during the run of this special exhibition is $10 for adults and $5 for children and museum members.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday's until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1410 College Dr., Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.


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"You shall not pass!" booms Gandalf the Grey as mobile Safari visitors arrive at the New York Post web site this weekend. Sorry, correction: That's how it played out in my head. Reality is more mundane and mostly annoying.
Instead of a web site, mobile Safari visitors are greeted with a landing page that displays an iPad and instructions related to downloading the NYP's App Store app. As AppleInsider notes, this new page replaces a "welcome" ad promoting the app that would eventually allow visitors to proceed to the full web site experience.
To access that full experience now you'll have to plunk down $6.99/month, $39.99 for six months, or $79.99 for the full year.
Stinks for mobile Safari users, and the process is indicative of the ways in which newspapers will try and squeeze money out of certain subsets of Internet denizens, but a rag has to get paid, right?
In related news, blogger Dave Winer says the practice is "breaking the web" and that Apple is probably pretty pissed about the whole ordeal. He suggests they grant users the ability to "hide" what kind of device they're surfing the web with so that desperate for subscriptions because they gave away free content for so many years print newspapers can't pull this anymore. [AppleInsider]


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e-Reading Apps
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Readability turns any Web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer or Android device. With the Readability app, you can catch up reading you've saved with the free Readability add-on for your Web browser. Already a favorite on Kindle e-readers, now you can enjoy the benefits of Readability on your Android devices.
Store It. Share It. Read It.
To start saving articles from the Web to Readability, visit the Readability website using your favorite browser and install the free Readability add-on.
Make it a favorite, send to your archive, share with your friends, and more
Readability automatically turns Web pages into a clean, elegant, single-column reading view. With beautiful typography provided by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the reading experience in Readability is second-to-none. Too busy to read right now? Save any Web page to Readability and it automatically saves on your Web browser or Android device. Once synced, your articles will be there for you–whether you're online or offline. Customize the reading view by adjusting type size, text style, and contrast to your liking.
Readability also provides built-in native sharing support. Post favorite articles along with your own comments on Facebook, Twitter, or by e-mail to your friends. Enjoy an unlimited, search-able archive that syncs on the Web. As soon as you're done reading an article, simply tap it to archive. You can even add articles to your Reading List by e-mail. Copy and paste up to 20 URLs into the body of an e-mail and send that to a personalized address, provided free by Readability.
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What is TECENTRIQ?
TECENTRIQ is a prescription medicine used to treat adults with:
A type of lung cancer called non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
It is not known if TECENTRIQ is safe and effective in children.
What is the most important information about TECENTRIQ?
TECENTRIQ can cause your immune system to attack normal organs and tissues in any area of your body and can affect the way they work. These problems can sometimes become severe or life-threatening and can lead to death. You can have more than one of these problems at the same time. These problems may happen anytime during your treatment or even after your treatment has ended.
Call or see your healthcare provider right away if you develop any new or worse signs or symptoms, including:
Lung problems
Intestinal problems
Liver problems
Hormone gland problems
Kidney problems
Skin problems
Problems can also happen in other organs.
These are not all of the signs and symptoms of immune system problems that can happen with TECENTRIQ. Call or see your healthcare provider right away for any new or worse signs or symptoms, including:
Infusion reactions that can sometimes be severe or life-threatening. Signs and symptoms of infusion reactions may include:
Complications, including graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in people who have received a bone marrow (stem cell) transplant that uses donor stem cells (allogeneic). These complications can be serious and can lead to death. These complications may happen if you underwent transplantation either before or after being treated with TECENTRIQ. Your healthcare provider will monitor you for these complications.
Getting medical treatment right away may help keep these problems from becoming more serious. Your healthcare provider will check you for these problems during your treatment with TECENTRIQ. Your healthcare provider may treat you with corticosteroid or hormone replacement medicines. Your healthcare provider may also need to delay or completely stop treatment with TECENTRIQ if you have severe side effects.
Before you receive TECENTRIQ, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
The most common side effects of TECENTRIQ when used alone include:
The most common side effects of TECENTRIQ when used in lung cancer with other anti-cancer medicines include:
TECENTRIQ may cause fertility problems in females, which may affect the ability to have children. Talk to your healthcare provider if you have concerns about fertility.
These are not all the possible side effects of TECENTRIQ. Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for more information about the benefits and side effects of TECENTRIQ.
You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
You may also report side effects to Genentech at 1-888-835-2555.
Please see full Prescribing Information and Medication Guide for additional Important Safety Information.
The information contained in this section of the site is intended for U.S. healthcare professionals only. Click "OK" if you are a healthcare professional.
The link you have selected will take you away from this site to one that is not owned or controlled by Genentech, Inc. Genentech, Inc. makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information contained on sites we do not own or control. Genentech does not recommend and does not endorse the content on any third-party websites. Your use of third-party websites is at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such sites.


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Advanced Search
Ed tech developer Blackboard has released a new LMS tool for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. The free app, Blackboard Learn for Apple iPhone, allows users to access information in their Blackboard accounts and to receive notices through their iPhones.
The new app is Blackboard's first entry into iPhone development. It lets users receive alerts about grades, tests, and assignments and access various other kinds of information and resources, such as course materials, rosters, course maps, and other educational tools.
Students can only receive information from courses in which they're registered, and administrators have the option of limiting or blocking access to certain types of information.
"Many students and learners today live in a mobile world, and now they can learn in one too," said Michael L. Chasen, president and CEO of Blackboard, in a statement released today. "The iPhone application is part of our focus to help students more deeply engage in the educational experience by creating learning opportunities that are not bound by time or place."
Blackboard Learn for Apple iPhone is available now through the App Store. It can be downloaded free of charge. Further information can be found here.
About the Author
David Nagel is editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Technology Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal and STEAM Universe. A 29-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art and business publications.
He can be reached at [email protected]. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at or follow him on Twitter at @THEDavidNagel (K-12) or @CampusTechDave (higher education).
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How to Lower Your Homeowners Insurance
Homeowners insurance is a necessity if you own your home, and it's not something you can just cut like a Starbucks run if you want to save money. Let's find out ways you can lower your homeowners insurance.
Shop Around
This is an easy one – make sure to compare rates with different insurance companies. Even if you have been with one company for a long time, it's still pays to shop rates and see if you can get a better deal.
Choose the Best Plan
Don't just let your insurance agent decide what the best plan is for you – read through your options and see if you can lower any coverage, especially for items that may have depreciated or if you can remove certain things entirely. Keep in mind that you want to insure your home for its replacement cost, not market value. Your insurance agent isn't your best advocate – you are.
Lower Your Bill with BillCutterz
Send your homeowners insurance to BillCutterz and save as much as 20% or more. BillCutterz negotiates large discounts on your behalf, allowing you to sit back and enjoy the savings. While you're saving money on homeowners insurance, send them your other monthly bills such as cell phone, cable and satellite TV, internet, home bundles and much more.
Have Good Credit
Keep your credit in good standing. If you have negative items on your credit report, you will pay for it not only in higher interest rates, but you will have higher insurance premiums (this also goes for auto insurance). Take care of any negative items right away and always pay your bills on time to ensure you get the best rates.
Combine Policies
Insurance companies will often offer large discounts if you have multiple policies with them. Combine your auto and homeowners insurance to save big.
Raise Your Deductible
This isn't something everyone can do, but if you can raise your deductible your rates will often go down significantly.
Avoid Making Small Claims
The less claims you make, the lower your premiums will be. Avoid making small claims to keep your rates as low as possible. Use the extra money you save from a lower premium to save for small fixes so you don't have to make a claim.


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breakfast and brunch
Japanese Soufflé Cheesecake20.3.10
or japanese cotton cheesecake as some may call it, is not something on my to-bake list actually. when fiesta japanese restaurant started selling some 10 over years ago, all it took was one bite to conclude i didn't like it. there's just something wrong about it, cheesy but not quite and light as air. i like my cheesecake dense and creamy so this was totally out. miki ojisan's might be better, i don't know. but lately i've been trying to cut down on desserts quite abit and yet hv got an immense craving for cheesecake, therefore i decided to bake this. i cut portions by half so i had this really flat cake, but i like it this way. holding on to the principle that "all good french entremets should be low in height" i guess lol. tastewise is surprisingly good and rather different from my encounter at fiesta, if my memory didn't fail me. the cake also turned out beautifully - i'm a self-proclaimed eggwhite expert already i think, whisking the whites to a perfect "soft peaks" so there wasn't any cracking or anything.
wagashi (和菓子) are one of my favorite desserts of all time. whenever i visit japanese restaurants, i never fail to order japanese sweets like macha/goma anmitsu, parfaits, shiratama etc. and on the last day of lunar new year, called the lantern festival or yuan xiao, instead of making the usual tangyuan filled with peanut or sesame filling in a ginger soup, i decided to make something different.


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News and Media Relations staff attended the Mass and offered their informal observations on it and the cathedral:
For those who aren't familiar with the Cathedral of St. Patrick, as it's formally known, attending a funeral there can be an educational experience on both the layout and the schedule of New York City's most famous house of worship. If you arrive early with the hopes of getting a good seat, you will find that even as tourists mill about the aisles looking at the Christmas Creche and the Stations of the Cross, masses are performed at noon, 12:30 and 1 p.m.
In the case of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., whose Mass of Christian Burial was held today at 2 p.m., the same is true, even though Cardinal Dulles laid in state at the Cathedral from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors wishing to pay their final respects to the Cardinal needed only walk around the sanctuary where mass was being celebrated to the Lady Chapel, a much more intimate space with pews for about 50 that's dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Located at the eastern end of the cathedral, the Lady Chapel is far enough away from the hubbub of the rest of the church to allow for serious reflection on the accomplishments of a man who lived the kind of life that inspired millions.
Patrick Verel, Assistant Editor
Inside Fordham
Inside Fordham
What began with a moment of silence ended with applause, long and loud, ringing out through St. Patrick's Cathedral for Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.
Mourners greeted the Cardinal's casket with respectful quiet as pallbearers moved it into place at the foot of the main altar to begin the proceedings.
When Archbishop Edward Cardinal Egan closed the Mass, Cardinal Dulles' family and friends began a round of applause that moved like a wave through the assemblage. The final salute followed the casket as it was moved down the center aisle out of the church.
Joseph McLaughlin, Editor
Inside Fordham
Inside Fordham
For more detailed coverage of Cardinal Dulles' life, see Fordham Mourns the Death of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., and U.S. Catholic Community Bids Farewell to Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.


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Avance Home Health
Case Central
Community Action Partnership of Madera
Construction Management Group
Cows and Crops
Extreme Makeover
Fresno Ad Federation
Fresno City College Nursing Department
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Gold's Gym
Healthy Ox
Holy Trinity
JP Marketing
MCM Concepts
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Take 5 to Exercise
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Some Out of State Cities We've Worked In
Santa Clara
Mcafee – Green Screen, Corporate videos, Teleprompter Alibaba.com – Broadcast production, interviews, corporate news story Xgliders – We shot a television commercial and some internet marketing videos. We also did commercial photography. XCEO – We did an internet marketing video by editing some of their old footage and putting it together for their website.
Merced – We did a commercial for Own A Car Merced and have shot numerous other projects here.
Madera – We did a corporate video for the Community Action Partnership about their services and what they give back to the local surrounding communities. For Color-Box which is one of the biggest printers of commercial packaging we shot a corporate marketing video for them to use at tradeshows.
Fresno – This is where we started before branching out to include satellite locations up North. We have shot countless marketing videos, training videos, commercials, music videos, short films and features and a multitude of other projects.
Newport Beach – For Own A Car we shot a variety of running footage for their car library and have been there several other times on different projects.
San Francisco – H5 Technologies, Tealeaf, Case Central, Thunder Factory and Career Builder is just a short list of the high-profile corporate clients that we have served in the beautiful city of San Francisco. We have also provided RED One Camera Rentals, 1st Assistant Cameraman and Director of Photography positions on music videos in San Francisco and the bay area. We also provided HD video editing and colorist / digital intermediate painting artists for other projects.
San Jose – We have shot a large amount of vide production projects in San Jose and the surrounding areas. Some of our key clients include mortgage and realty companies, corporate clients such as Verizon and University of Phoenix. We also shot lots of television commercials for places like California Wheels.
Livermore – We shot a high-end event video and several beauty shots for one of our long time commercial clients.
Dublin – We did both 35mm film and High Definition Video Production for several television commercials for YUGTRE.com and Avianne Inc.
Walnut Creek – We have an office here and have been involved in a lot of projects around the walnut creek area.
Las Vegas – We have the most clients in Las Vegas, however, most come from outside of the area. We Have shot a lot of music videos such as Kriti Shamara and Corporate Events, Trade Shows, Live events, TV Commercials, and Conferences with clients that come into Las Vegas to take advantage of everything that the city provides.
Long Beach – We shot parts of car commercials and some stock footage in and around long beach.
Los Angeles – In the heart of the film and video industry we have shot / edited / provided crew positions for and done almost everything else for a large amount of productions. One of our latest projects Madison Lane was a web series that we provided Red One Rentals, equipment rentals, 1st AC and grips for including production support in the way of 2ND Assistant Directors and the like.
Sacramento – We shot all of the Take 5 To Exercise series in the Sacramento area and we are also involved with an ongoing project with the Army Corps of Engineers.
Oakland – Oakland is a great place to shoot a music video which we have done a lot of there. Highlights include videos with Too Short, E-40 and Bun-B
Bakersfield – This city is like a second home to us. We have done many projects with a number of auto companies in town including long runs of commercials and infomercials with Auto Shopper and Auto Choice.
Santa Rosa – We have shot for the Financial Report which is a nationally aired cable news show among other video production projects.
Salinas – Wargods is a Mixed Martial Arts League that was formed by some of our company founders. We are their go to production company and we are always ready to go back to Salinas and shoot more fight nights. We have also shot car commercials, corporate videos and done a lot of Real Estate work in Salinas.
Visalia – The Latin rock band and one of our favorite musical acts Mezcal calls Visalia home. We have shot several music videos for them.


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Saturday, August 23, 2008
The Pulse: Show & Tell 1
Today's question: Show and Tell. SHOW us one photograph of the object or objects that you collect and TELL us how your collection(s) came to be and/or what they mean to you. Feel free to include any anecdote about how you might have found/bought any of your treasures. The following is the first of four posts to answer this question.
Ingrid Dijkers It would have to be my marble collection I have had since shortly after my parents and I immigrated from the Netherlands. My parents had taken me to the beach to play for the day. I was fascinated by 2 teenage girls throwing buckets full of marbles off a little dock. After they left my father and I collected as many as we could, sharing each of our finds. Each being more beautiful than the last, they had such a magical quality. I never really played typical marble games with them, I just enjoyed looking at them. I loved the colors and swirls captured in the glass and the way light went through the marbles. I still have them all and still wonder how those girls came to acquire so many marbles and why they would throw them into the water.
Kristy Christopherson I am fanatical for old letters. I am fascinated by their history, and the beautiful color and character they each have. I started using them in my collages-originals, and always loved the beautiful handwriting. Even though I have quite a few in my collection now, I now tend to use photocopies of them in my work rather than originals, so that I can keep using them. I find them everywhere-flea markets, antique stores and ebay.
Jen Bradford Although I gather objects like rocks & feathers, my biggest collection is a library of images of all sorts. (Above, a microscopic pic of volvox, for example.) I am always adding to my pile of flickr favorites, and then assembling them into groups. (mosaics that all have fine lines, or birds, or a particular color...) and have files of images torn from magazines and saved for many years.
I also collect color swatches every time I go to a paint store.
Lisa Hoffman I have a shameless collection of Designer Vinyl Toys. I think that my attention was riveted to these little works of art when I was treated to a dinner at the home of fellow True Colorist: Keely Barham. She had converted her entire California living room into one huge studio, filled with these cool little creations living amongst her other tools and supplies. You can grab one of these "toys" at places like Urban Outfitters for $5. A great, affordable addiction. The endless designs from cutting edge graphics and stencil artists just makes me happy.
Gwen Buchanan this is from a posting I did, incidentally called, "Treasures"
High tide wrack lines...
Treasures from the Sea...
Bleached by the sun...
Gathered from the shore...
Sitting in a shell...
Beauty on my windowsill...
Atlantic Rock Crabs... Cancer irroratus... marine arthropod... crustacean class... grow up to 13 cm. or 5¼" across the carapace, the crabs thick defensive shield... A body enclosed in an armor casing of tough protein called Chitin... This exoskeleton must be periodically shed to permit growth... Found in intertidal and subtidal waters... on rocky and sandy seashores... among kelp beds... Carapace varies in color from red to purple.... underside is pale white/gray to yellowish... I love their still delicacy now, in this state, as opposed to their strength when they were alive, housing their life-giving organs, as the ocean crashed around them.
Jonna Barnett Rocks. My great-grandfather was a rock hound. He had a shop out behind his house where he all of his equipment for polishing rocks. And he had tons and tons of rocks. I can remember going out into his shop and being mesmerized by all the shiny colorful rocks that were everywhere. I often wonder what happened to all of his collection as we only got a handful when he passed away. A few years ago a friend of mine bought a place and the gentleman who had lived there before had been a rock hound. There were rocks all over the place, nice big hunks but none had been polished. She was going to take them off to the dump.....I saved them. You can find them peeking out of my flower beds, in my potted plants in the house and scattered around the house. And whenever I pick one up I always think of my great-grandfather and his shop.
I have rocks from all over the world. When friends and relatives go on vacation and ask if there is anything I want them to bring me I always ask them to find a cool looking or unusual rock to bring back for me. Some of them give me strange looks but they usually bring me back some pretty cool looking rock. My favorite is the one my daughter brought back from her first trip to Japan. She found it on the beach and it sits on my bathroom counter where I can see it every day.
Robyn Gordon I love Ethiopian artifacts and I think this love for anything Ethiopian started with a very old shield which is in my collection. It was brought back to South Africa by a soldier who was stationed in Ethiopia during the Second World War. It was given to my mother who eventually gave it to me. As a child I was fascinated by its conical shape and all the engraved metal embellishments. (I actually thought it was a hat). The fact that it is made out of tough hippopotamus hide made it all the more exciting. I love the coptic crosses in my collection. The ones with hollow bases were used mounted on staffs during processionals and the others are hand held crosses. The baskets made in Ethiopia are unique to that country. Woven, covered in leather and embellished with metal beadwork with leather straps for carrying.
Kim Logan Show and Tell......well, I have a weird collection of dividers..!!!...All I can say is its a graphic design thing..lol..!!! (photo attached) I love them, and I know some assemblage artists use them in their pieces, but for me they are graphically perfect..!!!
grrl+dog uhm.. I collect vintage sex and medical books and things. I have my grandmothers sex book that was given to her in early last century by my great grandmother and the things in there crack me up. I have about 5 books on "marriage" throughout the last one hundred years and they are fascinating. It shows where our heads were and how we interpret stuff. Also explains why so many of us are so messed up on the subject. Maybe it was my sterile slide show of chickens and eggs at the local church at age 11 that did it. I honestly had no clue till the age of 15 or so. I also collect vintage post mortem photos...maybe because my grandparents had so many blue babies and they died. That was one thing the sex book didnt tell them.
Deana Hager I love to go out looking for antiques and vintage items. I try to go out "hunting" at least once a week.
Karen Cole As a painting major in college, I was always eager to go to the art supply store and check out the brushes. The sizes, shapes and material from which they were made, has always been exciting for me. Since then, I have been a brush "gatherer". All kinds. Old house painting brushes for assemblage, vintage hair brushes, artist brushes, cleaning brushes. New York Central Art Supply, has an amazing assortment of artist brushes, some hundreds of dollars and imported, that I covet. My birthday is in February, BTW.
Nancy Baumiller I collect a variety of things! I do have a fun collection of Pez dispensers but at the moment the one that is standing out and enjoying is my Vintage valentine collection! I love the colors and sweetness of them!
Elizabeth Bunsen Well I am a collector of many things: ledgers, seed pods, pine cones, cashmere sweaters, rusty bottle caps... but it is my rock collection that speaks to me most deeply - stripeys, river rocks, herkimer diamonds, tumbled beach stones, hollow holy stones, moldevite, blue opal... the list is endless - but my favorites are those I find regularly at the beach and on various adventures - the stripeys, the heart shaped stones and the river rocks. Here is a little story: one of my earliest memories is being a little girl of about 8 in Lodgepole NE - I would walk out to the water tower a long walk far behind our house and sit down in the sun, find a smooth sun warmed stone and rub it on my upper lip relishing in the sensual warmth and smoothness of that rock - tuck it into my pocket and bring it home. Click here to see more of this collection.
David Castle I love to paint on the northern Oregon Coast in a special, sleepy place where polished agates wash up on the beach like little jewels. I initially started my agate collection because I simply couldn't walk the beach without picking them up. I then discovered that they make great painting tools – I place them in wet puddles of watercolor paint to create wonderful shapes for my "fossils" paintings.
Stephanie Mcatee I really don't collect anything in particular. Art elements maybe-? Unposed black and white pics of my family that I have taken and hung throughout my house… even if it's stuck in the wall with a straight pin! Just random.
Gail Pierce I have the usual collections of art books, magazines, and supplies including a collection of alphabet rubber stamps that I had to have and rarely use, but it's the mugs, vases and baskets full of brushes that come with a story. When my father died in 1999 I inherited tubes of oil and acrylic paints along with the brushes that he had used for decades. I can't seem to use them; after all, they're irreplaceable. Maybe my penchant for collecting brushes is in response to the frugality my father had when it came to his supplies, he only acquired a new one when gifted.
Around the time of my father's death, not unexpected, was when I started experimenting with mediums to replace the darkroom work I could no longer do. (Chemical sensitivity was the result of being unaware of the dangers of photography chemicals that should have been handled with gloves and a mask). Decorative painting was the first thing I tried, but not being one to follow patterns, recipes or directions that lasted about a minute. A different brush was required for different painting strokes. An interest in watercolors followed and of course more brushes; watercolors aren't my thing either. Then acrylics; I couldn't use the precious watercolor brushes, so more brushes were purchased. Speaking of precious, while packing to move from the Monterey Peninsula to the desert near Palm Springs two years ago I discovered a box of brushes I had purchased years before because they looked interesting; big thick brushes with beautiful handles. Collage requires brushes for gel mediums and those to my way of thinking should be of the disposable kind which led to a collection of cheap brushes from hardware stores. And then there are foam brushes, spatulas, spreaders, and brayers that are necessary for texture.
What brushes are my favorites? The cheap under a dollar natural bristle variety are the ones I always reach for when I start a painting along with a brayer and one of dad's brushes for luck!
Jen Worden I have this thing about bones. I'm not sure where it came from but seeing the skeletal structure of birds and animals, so fragile and yet so very, very strong, touches something deep within me. I feel compelled to surround myself with them. Luckily I have an amazing source that gifts me with more than I will ever be able to thank him for. I also love the castoffs of others. Most often rusty bits that have fallen alongside the road or end up in the ditch. Occasionally, shiny bits that I discover on a beach walk.
Jessica Gonacha I've sort-of started collecting Ganesh/Buddha figures by default-- I've gotten several as birthday presents, the funniest being this large gold one that my brother bought in Amsterdam and lugged back for me. Now he buys me one every year! I even had one show up sitting on my mailbox one day, just sitting there waiting for me to take it inside. It's still a mystery where it came form.
Judy Wise I collect "drizzly stones". These are smooth, cloudy stones the color of the skies on Manzanita Beach where I used to have a home. It always rained there and I loved the moody sea. I would walk the sands and collect these stones in my pockets and then sort them out each night only keeping the magical ones. So that the ones I have now were collected nearly 30 years ago and they are very powerful.
Binky Bergsman Right now I am attracted to empty boxes. They will be used in an assemblage of some kind, some day. I love the wooden one with the hole in the front. That piece slides up to view the insides. It will be an homage to Joseph Cornell.
Mistie Jordan As an assemblage/collage artist, I think this is a dangerous question because I could link a story to every piece I have. (laugh) I collect little metal things that are rusted, doll heads, things off the street, small dolls, buckles, snaps, paper, lace and fabric. My biggest collection however is buttons. My great-grandmother was the creator of things in my family and she passed that "need" to me. She taught me how to make so many things. And she had zillions of buttons. Just all over the place in jars and cups and tins. I have never been able to shake the necessity of having them everywhere myself. I have lots of them and people keep bringing them to me all the time. I've had little "collections" of things as long as I can remember. Family members would bring me things that were aunt so and so's etc. I was (am) the family pack-rat. Friends bring me items even now. My girlfriend was in an auto accident recently and she collected the little pieces from her car when they swept them up and brought them to me. She said she figured I'd do something interesting with them.
Sally Turlington Are you kidding me? What do I collect? What do I NOT collect? Let me just say that I collect mixed media supplies . . . that is to say EVERYTHING! Most precious to me are found and acquired objects - especially metal ones, paper scraps, cigar boxes, beads and charms, graphic arts and clip art books, vintage jewelry, current craft and art magazines, Communication Arts Magazines. This photo doesn't even show you the countless other things I collect -- like art books, dolls and statues, paints, brushes, decorative and handmade paper, paper company samples, storage containers, and on and on. I've been collecting for my varied art making interests for about 15 years. A few years back, I thought I might like to add on to my studio but came to the conclusion that I would than just fill up the new space, too. So I've made a conscious effort since then to STOP collecting. Yeah, right. Ask my friends! LOL. As a compulsive personality, sometimes I think I'm a collector rather than an artist. At any rate you could classify me as a pack rat extraordinaire!
Lisa Call I love rocks and collect them when hiking, on the beach, from my yard, etc. There is something about their solidness and shape that really appeals to me. I have rocks in bowls and on shelves all over my house. I believe the ones in this image are from New Zealand. Yes I flew home with a suitcase full of rocks after a 5 month sabbatical to that country in 2001, they got great rocks, or at least they did until I collected them.
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Seth, this seems to be a very inspiring question! Loved to read the answers and notice the similarity with a few of my own collections. Look forward for the others to follow. Have a nice weekend!
Regina, St. Maarten DWI
- August 23, 2008 at 8:58 AM
- ArtPropelled said...
Seth, this is my favourite post! I have loved every moment reading about everyone's collections.
- August 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Gillian McMurray said...
Been loving all the answers so far this week but this post is my favourite so far. I love all the pictures and stories. What great collections. Will be waiting with bated breath for the next instalments.
- August 23, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- notmassproduced said...
WOW - I will direct all my friends to this post when they start piping up about all my treasure - i am not alone - yay.
ps thanks for the comment on my blog Seth and I am well impressed that you've got time to read other blogs as well as curating this treasure trove. I'm also so chuffed that we get to see your answers to the questions too. x
- August 23, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Wow- this is my most favorite post yet!
- August 23, 2008 at 12:12 PM
- ckw said...
i really liked this question and the fact that there be a picture connected-
sometimes i just wanna see the picture and not read so many words-
i guess that is why i am a visual artist and not a writer -
thanks seth for doing this
- August 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM
- Sarah said...
this is cool to read - lots of rock collectors out there!
- August 23, 2008 at 1:54 PM
- Jonna said...
So so awesome to see what everyone collects. Truely amazing. Thanks Seth for all your hard work to pull this all together.
- August 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- lynne h said...
i love this post seth... seeing the pics and reading what everyone's written. there are more than a few collections i'd like to be able to reach right through the screen and tenderly examine.
- August 23, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Hey Seth, Good to know I am not as crazy after all.. This is rivetting reading, thanks for pulling it together. Dneese
- August 23, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Great question Seth! I'm fascinated by the variety of answers but also by how many people love rocks!!!
- August 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM
- rivergardenstudio said...
Oh Seth, this is wonderful, this morning is the first time I have got to sit down and really soak The Pulse in and I am so inspired! Thank YOU! Roxanne
- August 24, 2008 at 12:42 PM
- Steph said...
Seth, The Pulse rocks!
I gave you an award, more on my blog!
- August 24, 2008 at 1:22 PM
- Shayla said...
This was an especially enjoyable part. It's easy to see why these artists are so inspired. Collections seem to stimulate creativity. I'll have to give thoughts to starting one!
Thanks for stopping by my blog, and thanks for introducing so many great people!
- August 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM
- Jazz said...
I find it really interesting how many people have an affinity for rocks.
Every time I go for a walk I come back with a few stones in my pockets which I often don't even remember picking up.
- August 25, 2008 at 12:33 PM
- sarahelizabeth said...
Cool, very cool.
- August 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM
- Chris said...
Seth, sometimes it's so nice to be away from the computer for several days, because when I get back, I get to catch up on great blogs, like yours. LOOK at these fabulous things! I just want to jump into everyone's collections!!
Maybe not the crabs.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tales of Two Hitchcocks
by Sandra Parshall
Who was the real Alfred Hitchcock?
The sex-crazed obsessive who tortured Tippi Hendren when she rebuffed his advances? Or the henpecked director who let his wife tell him how to make his films and was sweet as a doting uncle to Janet Leigh?
A recent television film called The Girl and the new biopic Hitchcock remind me of the cautionary tale about two blind men who were asked to describe an elephant. After one touched the animal's trunk and the other its tail, they gave wildly contradictory descriptions of the complete creature. The two films about Hitchcock have a lot of verifiable facts in common, but they offer very different perspectives. Hitchcock is so light and breezy and The Girl so dark that it's hard to reconcile the two viewpoints.
In Hitchcock, which opened in theaters last weekend, Anthony Hopkins plays the director with a mild comic edge that makes him seem harmless and likable even when he's conversing with the dead serial killer Ed Gein. The movie is about the making of Psycho, inspired by Gein's devotion to his mother. Gein dug up his mom's corpse and returned it to their house, where he slept beside the rotting body and carried on as if she were alive and well.
Hitchcock's penchant for blonde actresses is well-known and was obvious in his films – he worked with Grace Kelly, Eva Marie Saint, Kim Novak, Vera Miles, Ingrid Bergman, among others. For the lead in Psycho he chose Janet Leigh, and he gave the subsidiary female role to Miles. Although the new biopic shows him briefly lamenting Miles's refusal to let him turn her into a film goddess, there's nothing obsessive about his behavior, and he is depicted as a perfect gentleman toward Leigh, played by Scarlett Johansson.
With a total lack of conflict in Hitchcock's relationships with the actresses, the filmmakers resorted to invention, concocting a romantic attachment between Hitchcock's wife, Alma Reville (played by the incomparable Helen Mirren), and a male screenwriter who wants her help in doctoring a script. Alma, by all accounts a gifted film editor who worked on her husband's movies without an on-screen credit, is portrayed as the savior who whipped Hitchcock's flabby, unexciting version of Psycho into shape and made it a masterpiece of suspense and terror. Without her intervention, it seems, Psycho would have had a limited release and died a quick, quiet death. Alma suggested killing off the Leigh character after 30 minutes, and she insisted on the unforgettable music in movie history's most famous shower scene.
Alma is also depicted as a discontented wife, fed up with her husband's "fantasy affairs" with his blonde leading ladies and craving his attention at the same time she feels disgusted by his weight and piggish eating habits. He rebels against her criticism at times, but he knows that he needs her.
The Girl, a joint production of the BBC and HBO that was shown on U.S. cable TV recently, is about the making of The Birds, the film that followed Psycho. Alma is a minor character in The Girl, and Hitchcock is a man teetering on the brink of madness. Played by Toby Jones, he is sexually obsessed with Tippi Hedren (acted by Sienna Miller). When the actress isn't playing her physically exhausting role on the set, she's narrowly escaping the director's advances behind the scenes. Hitchcock punishes her for rejecting him by forcing her to do dozens of takes, a full day's worth, of a scene in which she is attacked by a mob of birds. Nothing about that attack was faked. Hedren ended up collapsing, covered with bleeding wounds.
The Girl has stirred up a storm of protest from those loyal to the Hitchcock legend. The filmmakers say they based much of the script on interviews with Jim Brown, Hitchcock's long-time right-hand man and assistant director on The Birds. But Brown died before the movie was completed, and his wife has declared in interviews that she is "absolutely sure" her husband would never have spoken ill of Hitchcock. Scriptwriter Gwyneth Hughes, a BBC veteran, responded that her screenplay reflects Brown's frank statements about Hitchcock's "painful relationship with Tippi Hedren."
Hedren says the film is an accurate account of what happened to her while she was working for Hitchcock on The Birds and later on a second movie, Marnie. She has called him "evil and deviant" and told the audience at a London screening of The Girl that his obsession with her was "oppressive and frightening" and a "horrible experience." Another of Hitchcock's blonde leading ladies, Kim Novak, told the press that he never made a pass at her, therefore she doesn't believe the stories Hedren tells about him.
It's up to the viewer to decide which film is closer to the truth about the real Hitchcock... or whether they show two sides of the same man. Fortunately, nothing we discover about the filmmaker, his personal behavior, or his wife's role in shaping the movies, can diminish the films themselves. Like any brilliant work of art, they live on as distinct entities, quite apart from their creator.
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- G.M. Malliet said...
What I found odd in the Hitchcock movie was that although Janet Leigh finds the peephole via which she was being spied on in her dressing room, the screenplay kind of breezes right past that bit of deviant behavior. Next thing we know, Hitchcock is her pal, practically her uncle, and all is forgiven. The peephole scene is enough to convince you there was something very wrong going on with Hitch. I am assuming that scene was not made up.
- November 28, 2012 at 7:40 AM
Superb article, Sandy. shows you have a great gift for research ! Thelma Straw in Manhattan
- November 28, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Julia Buckley said...
So interesting. More evidence that one's legend can live on in perpetual ambiguity.
- November 28, 2012 at 10:05 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
A question for everybody: If you learn that a genius filmmaker -- or author, for that matter -- was a jerk, does that diminish your enjoyment of his work? Or give it a new dimension?
Gin, yes, the new Hitchcock movie does gloss over some things that are pretty widely acknowledged as true. They clearly wanted to avoid a heavy negative tone.
- November 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Patg said...
Interesting article, Sandra, I haven't seen either of them, but look forward to both.
Jaded as I am, I believe Heddron.
- November 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Sandra Parshall said...
I believe her too, Pat.
- November 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- JJM said...
Interesting article about the two men who were Alfred Hitchcock ... or weren't, depending on which version one believes. I'll have to hunt up those two on DVD, perhaps have a private little Hitchcock festival via Netflix.
To answer your follow-up question: "If you learn that a genius filmmaker -- or author, for that matter -- was a jerk, does that diminish your enjoyment of his work?" Depends on the enormity of the jerkitude, the form it takes, and whether or not I saw it in action myself.
If I (let's make up three examples) admired a set of water colours, then discovered they were painted by Adolf Hitler, the admiration would die a swift death. (As it is, his work is mediocre to begin with.) Of course, he was far worse than just a jerk ...
If I discovered Hitchcock was Mr Hyde instead of Dr Jekyll, it would give his work new dimension -- his offensiveness is far less than Hitler's, and his character might give me more insight into his films. He's no longer around, and there's no personal "relationship", i.e. while I admire his films, he's not one of my idols.
But if a writer were to answer in the course of a Facebook exchange an innocent question about something in one of her books with an impatient "No, no, no, you obviously haven't read my book!", well, I might finish reading what books of hers I already had, but ... might not be in such a hurry to buy the next one. That's no way to react to a fan who simply missed a point in the plot. (A real example, I'm afraid; I happened to read that particular exchange.) :( --Mario R.
- November 28, 2012 at 3:23 PM
- Unknown said...
The dark side of Hitchcock is also shown in the 3rd book in the biographical trilogy written by Donald Spoto: Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies.
- November 28, 2012 at 8:41 PM
- Carole Shmurak said...
Just did a five part series at a local library on The Books that Inspired Hitchcock and watched 5 of his films: Young and Innocent, Strangers on a Train, the 39 Steps, Rebecca, and Suspicion. His wife, Alma Reville, receives on screen credit as an editor or as a screenplay writer in at least 4 of those. So not true that she's uncredited in Hitch's films.
- November 28, 2012 at 10:26 PM
He met her when she was working as an editor. By the time they got to Hollywood and he had become a widely celebrated director, she wasn't working regularly on all of his movies. She wasn't on the payroll, that is, but she continued to contribute. They had a daughter by then.
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