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The Yosemite Mummies
The "Yosemite Mummies"
Photo from Ripley's Believe it or Not who currently host the mummies.
The Giants of Yosemite Valley By Bobbie Short
The year, 1885. In California's great Yosemite Valley under the misty expanse near Bridal-Veil Falls, a party of silver and wannabe gold miners discovered what was to become the mystery of the decade. While having lunch, Mr. G. F. Martindale who was in charge of a party of miners, noticed a pile of stones that was placed against the wall of a cliff.
Seasoned miners, they were familiar with the natural formation of rock, this particular grouping struck Mr. Martindale as being unusual and seemed not to have been placed naturally. Realizing that if something in the wild is not placed naturally, he could only conclude human hands placed it there.
The miners set about removing the pile of stones. Behind the pile of stones they found a wall of rock that had been shaped and joined together with knowledgeable masonry. The joints between the rocks were all of uniform 1/8 of an inch in thickness and according to the reports from the men who were there, it was a beautiful job of stone work.
"As pretty as any wall on any building that I have ever seen" is the way one miner described it. Thinking that they had perhaps stumbled upon some lost treasure, the party of miners proceeded without delay and issuing great haste began tearing down the wall to get to the incredible riches that surely must lie within.
Disappointment fell heavily upon their heads as, in the end, they found the vault empty save a very large mummified corpse that lay on the ledge, which was carved from the natural stone for the express purpose of burial.
Lighting their carbide headlamps they set about examining the vault to see if perhaps they had overlooked something perhaps a map or some other clue to where the inevitable treasure might be hidden. Treasure of course being far more interesting than the fossil bones of a giant mummy.
What they found was another vault that had been carved from natural rock – 9 feet 3 inches high, 18 feet 6 inches deep and 8 feet 4 inches wide – containing a tall mummified corpse that was 6 feet 8 inches tall. The corpse was wrapped in what appeared to be animal skins and covered with a layer of fine gray power.
The miners removed parts of the animal skins to view the corpse and found it to be that of a woman holding a child to her breast.
The mummy was then taken to Los Angeles where it was placed before men, considered to be of great science in those days, most of whom agreed that is was a "relic" from a race that must have inhabited this country long before the American Indian. Tall people, they claimed, from a race which preceded the coastal natives?
All agreed that the height of 6 feet 8 inches tall in death must have represented an actual height in life of about seven or more feet. If their height relationship between men and women was approximately what it is today, then they concluded the males of the species could possibly have been some eight feet tall.
The most popular theory of the day was that the lady was a relic of some royal family of a lost Stone Age tribe of giants.
Interestingly enough, Captains Cooke and Magellan both wrote in their ship's logs of a race of giants that inhabited what we now know as the Pacific coast of South America. Cook was even supposed to have captured one of the giants reported to be nine feet tall.
Unfortunately, the giant escaped by breaking the ropes that bound him to the mast and jumped off the ship, overboard into the sea.
In an additional excerpt, Capt. Cooke wrote in his log that he was himself was 6 feet 3 inches tall, (which was very tall for those days when the average was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and under) and he could easily stand under the arm of the giant.
Cooke's report started a furor that was to last another 100 years and cause many to seek these giant people.
In the next century, many reports were filed stating that various of our major explorers had sighted the giants of what was then called Patagonia – but none had contact or for that matter even attempted to capture one of the giant men. Then suddenly, around the year 1650, the reports of sighting giants stopped abruptly.
Perhaps the giants moved inland, perhaps because they moved far away. They couldn't have just vanished. They could have simply become unpopular attractions and thus slipped gradually into oblivion. The fact remains that once up a time, they were there.
The Yosemite Valley, where the mummy was found has always been considered to be a place of great mystery by the Indians who lived there, the Ahwahneechees. The folklore of the Ahwahneechees relates a story of a giant who came into the valley long before the white man arrived.
The giant's name was Oo-el-en. They were vicious giants for they liked to eat the meat of the Indians. Oo-el-en would catch the adults and carry them away to a hiding place near the foot of Cascade Falls. Oo-el-en would then cut the people into small pieces, hanging their meat in the sun to dry into jerky.
The legend says that the Ahwahneechees finally killed the giants and burned their bodies. This rules out the possibility that the giant mummy of the Yosemite Valley might have been Oo-el-en.
However, if there was a giant, where did he come from and was there more than one of her kind. We may never know – sadly, all the Ahwahneechees are dead, the last having died in 1947.
The one thing the Ahwahneechees did leave was a written record of their long and complex burial rites. These Indians usually burned their dead – as they believed that by doing so they released the spirit of the deceased more quickly, so as to escape the evil spirits that lie in wait to grab it.
The important part of the ritual in relationship to the mummy of the Yosemite Valley was that they always wrapped their dead in skins of animals before they were burned. If you recall, the mummy of the Yosemite Valley was wrapped in the skins of animals and covered with a fine gray powder. Ashes, perhaps?
The learned scientist of that time, July of 1895, all agreed that the mummy predated the Christian era. It is therefore doubtful that the mummy was in any way connected with the Indians, as they were believed to have settled in the Yosemite Valley about 800 to 1000 years ago.
It is important to note at this point that the Ahwahneechees were also very small people, most being less than 5 feet 3 inches tall. However, there have been traces of a much earlier people that have inhabited the Southwest�..
1999 by Bobbie Short at BigfootEncounters.com
Additional Info from Lee Chin
This report is similar to the two bodies reportedly found at the 7,500 level on Mt.Rainier in 1910. An archaeologist was researching the ice caves located on the mountain.
He noted the unnaturally formed rock pilings, removed them and discovered an opening to a group of descending chambers.
There was an eerie light within that allowed him his viewing of the perfectly preserved bodies of a 7 1/2′ tall man and a 7′ female.
Both were wearing animal skins and carved jewelry. Both were placed upon platforms of carved ice. At the base of these platforms were the bones of children or very small humans. An adjoining lower cave had a small lake with a a skin-type boat on its shore.
The above info is from the archives of Del McBride, Curator Emeritus of the Washington State Historical Museum in Olympia.
Del passed on last year, but he was my beloved cousin and knowing of my interest in such infos he had sent me the entire report from the local newspaper reporting of same in 1910. It is (somewhere) in my genealogy files.
ADDENDA:"The article by Bobbie Short on giants of the Yosemite has errors in it. The last Ahwahneechees did not die in 1947. Alice and West Wilson were alive in the 1960's. I work with them in Yosemite and listened to many tales during and after work.
John Bingaman wrote a book about the Yosemite Indians in 1966. He was the District Ranger for many years in Yosemite. Shirley Sargeant is another that should know about the last Yosemite Indians. She spent a life time writing about Yosemite….Fred Dawson


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The Whitney Contemporaries Art Party And Auction, held last night at New York's Skylight obviously prompted Alexis, Gretchen, Amber, Camilla, Ivanka, Lydia and Tinsley to new heights of creativity. Judge for yourself whether or not this is a good thing.
Green With Envy: is how Camilla Belle's slip of a frock makes me feel.
Notorious: Gretchen Mol channels Page-era cocktail glam.
Wrinkle In Time: Lydia Hearst is looking so much like a late-60s fashion illustration that it's really freaking me out and I have to move on, immediately.
...and Read All Over: Amber Tamblyn, when she does it up, looks super comfy in her own skin. This was not always the case, but I'd say she's one to watch. Whatever that means. And by the way, that riddle must date back to the days when people really did read the paper thoroughly, because who nowadays reads a paper all over, from the bridge column to Circuits?
The Undead: Yes, Tinsley Mortimer looks good in her bandage dress - everyone does! But at this point, you more think "bandage dress" than "good."
Whereas...Ivanka Trump's dress could benefit from a touch of that Leger "fit technology."
The Quandary: It's always hard when you are convinced you hate something, like shiny leggings and gladiator sandals, and then Selita Ebanks waltzes up and looks amazing in them. She can, I suspect, do this with anything.
Psst, Hana Soukupova, your bra is showing!
Um, Awkward: I am glad I don't know Stacey Bendet, lovely as she seems, as I really wouldn't know what to say if I came face to face with her in this dress. I think I'd say something about the amethyst color. Yes, the color is lovely! So rich!
Temple of Doom: Ali Larter's amulet is clearly possessed of magical powers, and the search for it may well prompt a rollicking adventure. I'm assuming this dress is explained somewhere later in the script?
What Say You about Alexis Bledel's getup? I'm recusing myself because my love for her makes me impartial - even though I hated Gilmore Girls!
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Thank the Lord, we finally made it into our new house. It has been a crazy journey getting here and I never want to go through that heck again. Here's a quick run down of what has been going on in the Logan household since I last posted:
7/2-We finally closed on the house. Yay!!
7/3-We got our furniture delivered.
-I had my first OB appt. today. The appt. was a bit boring but at least everything was okay with the baby.
7/4-Clayton woke up in a lot of pain and got admitted to the ER for kidney stones. He was put on 7 or 8 doses of morphine before he finally felt comfortable enough to be alive. I couldn't stand seeing him in such pain. Poor guy.
7/6-We finally got our very first brand new bedroom suit. Our old one was a hand-me-down that we will be using for guests. And yes gals, we finally upgraded from a full to a king.
-I now have a milk man. How cool is that? He was going door to door giving away 1/2 gallon of milk to all new customers. It is a bit expensive but well worth it. The milk is organic and they recycle the containers for us. They also deliver Starbucks coffee beans, butter, cream cheese, sour cream, cheddar cheese, Sara Lee breads, bottled water, Eggland's Best eggs, etc. I am in heaven!
7/10-We got our cable back on. I have been going absolutely nutso without the internet.
I would like to announce that my best friend Tracy had her baby girl Addison on 7/7/07. Everyone is doing well and she is incredibly precious! I would give my right arm to be able to hold that sweet baby. Hopefully, I will be able to make a trip back to Asheville in the near future so that I can see her. Congrats to the Ducker household. :)
Well, this is the first time that I have been able to get on the net in forever. I have many things to do but I will be sure to upload some pics soon and I will be posting regularly once again.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Finally we are home!
Thank the Lord, we finally made it into our new house. It has been a crazy journey getting here and I never want to go through that heck again. Here's a quick run down of what has been going on in the Logan household since I last posted:
Posted by Brandy at 7/10/2007 05:37:00 PM
3 comments:
- Shawnna Samples said...
So glad to hear that you guys are getting settled
WOW - it sure has been an ordeal
hope there is lots of ORDINARY stuff in your near future - sounds like you guys could use some down time :D
- Tuesday, July 10, 2007 8:43:00 PM
- Krista Smith said...
First: CONGRATS! I know you were so tired of that hotel.
Second: poor Clayton! Man, hope he's all better now, those things are a killer (I hear)
Third: OH My Goodness! Congrats to Tracy! And on Carson's birthday!! You make sure to send me some pics. Maybe Kala can take and send some pics to both of us. I'm so sad that neither one of us are there anymore.
Fourth: I got your call, and will call you back ASAP. I know you're getting settled in to your house, and I can't wait to see the pics! email me your new email addy!
- Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:15:00 AM
- Angie said...
Yay!!! You're back!!
Couple of things:
1. You had a FULL sized bed??? And two people slept in it?
2. Love the milk man thing! I want a milk man!!!
3. Love your friend's baby's name! *wink*
- Friday, July 13, 2007 8:06:00 PM


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Frieze New York has released their list of fair exhibitors, so we took the liberty of charting exhibitor movement in and out of the fair. Expect a slightly more upscale fair without much change in size. Their debut last year included 180 "of the most exciting contemporary art galleries working today," whereas this March,we'll see "a carefully selected presentation of over 180 of the world's leading contemporary art galleries." They can't expand their tent—it's apparently as large as legally possible—so the bulk of the changes we'll see won't be with the shape of the floor plan, but rather who's on it.
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text: ARTIST STATEMENT PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST STATEMENTIn the midst of all our miseries, art lets us see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious. — David HockneyI always start with photographs of aged architectural elements. The original photographs may be used whole, repeated or deconstructed, blended one upon another, forms ultimately emerging through translucency, imparting depth and light. Its inherent patterns revealed, a common object is transformed into previously unimagined landscapes. My Portals series began with a dream I had in which I drew a circle in the sky with my finger and the stars aligned around it. I kept doing it over and over in disbelief as the stars continued to jump into place. Although this was only a dream, I believe it says something about our primal connection with the circles we see all around us: our sun, the full moon, the constellations arcing overhead, cycles of birth, life, regeneration…the certainty of completion when a circle has closed. This is why I continually explore the circular form in the Portals series. These "portals" seem doorways to realms of resonance both ancient and new, unexplored and intimately familiar.My newest series, Temples of Time, plays with the visual harmony inherent in the Tripartite Schema found throughout history in art, religion, and classical architecture. In the most basic way, each piece in the series has three vertical sections and three horizontal, with a third axis of depth implied through layering, creating a coherent nested relationship between parts and the whole. The Three: Body, Soul and Spirit, expressed through sacred geometry. I see this series at once as a ray of light breaking over high mountains and as a perspectival view deep into the mountain range. The art presents as grey, but upon closer inspection it is clearly, if subtly, infused with color. The Temples of Time works provide a place of peace and reflection – a Temple, a primordial echo through the mountains of creation, a place where the threads of life collide and interweave. For all this, the Temples of Time derive their imagery from photographs I take of gates that line back alleys or auto body shops. I thus realize an unlikely transformation by turning what goes unnoticed, discarded, or considered unsightly into a transcendent space.


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An Unearthly Series - The Origins of a TV Legend
Friday, 13 September 2013 - Reported by Marcus
The nineteenth in our series of features telling the story of the creation of Doctor Who, and the people who made it happen.
Production on the new series was progressing. The main cast were under contract, scripts were being finalised, and work was well under way on the title sequence.
An experimental session, testing new electronic effects for the series, had originally been planned for Friday 19th July, and it finally took place on Friday 13th September 1963, exactly 50 years ago today.
The place was Lime Grove Studio D, the studio which would become the main home of Doctor Who for its first few years of production. The main purpose of the day was to try to achieve an effect of the Doctor's spaceship, the TARDIS, dematerialising. The TARDIS prop had been built in the shape of a Metropolitan Police box, as specified in the script by Anthony Coburn. Police boxes were a common sight in 1960s London, with more than 650 in the capital. They played an important role in police work, providing a means of communication in the days long before the two-way radio. Designed by Metropolitan Police Surveyor Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1929 specially for the London police, the boxes were made of concrete with a door of teak. The interiors of the boxes normally contained a stool, a table, brushes and dusters, a fire extinguisher, and a small electric heater.
The replica, built by the BBC, was made of wood. On arrival at the studios on the morning of 13th, though, it was found that the prop was too big to fit into the service lift needed to transport it to the studio on the fourth floor.
One of the crew assigned to the studio that day was Dave Mundy, who remembers:
On Friday, 13 September 1963, crew 1 was allocated to Studio D, Lime Grove, 0930-1745, programme title – 'Dr. Who experiment'. Some experiments involved smoke generators and some electronic effects. Studio D still had the old CPS-Emitron cameras which were renowned for producing a vision 'peel-off' when pointed at a bright light... Studio D had the old tungsten 4-lights so it was very hot!Meanwhile, after the months of behind-the-scenes work that had so far been carried out on Doctor Who, details of the new series were finally beginning to be released to the public for the first time. The BBC had held a launch for its autumn television season with Controller of Programmes Stuart Hood in Blackpool on September 12th 1963, and the following day a report on the event and the new season's shows appeared in The Times newspaper. The article mainly concentrated on the return of the controversial satirical series That Was The Week That Was, but at the end mentioned in passing:
A new family series, "Dr. Who", which borders on science fiction, will be screened on Saturdays...While only a small acknowledgement in a report on a whole season's worth of programming, this is believed to be one of the first mentions - if not the first mention - of Doctor Who in the media.
Progress was being made on the scripts for the new series. The launch date had now been delayed for a further week and the show would now debut on Saturday 23rd November 1963.
On Monday 16th September, script editor David Whitaker updated the production team on the latest running order for the first few months of the show. The first three stories were unchanged. The series would begin with Tribe of Gum, followed by The Robots, and A Journey to Cathay. A story based on miniaturising the crew, favoured by Whitaker, was now slotted in at number four and had been assigned to author Robert Gould.
The fifth slot was now assigned to Terry Nation's story The Mutants. It had been commissioned by Whitaker after Nation submitted a storyline entitled The Survivors about a race of aliens who had survived an apocalyptic war. Nation's agent, Beryl Vertue, the future mother-in-law of showrunner Steven Moffat, had succeeded in negotiating a higher-than-usual fee for the writer and he was paid £262 per episode.
The sixth story had now been allocated to another established writer, Malcolm Hulke, who had proposed two stories for the series. One, The Hidden Planet, featured a world identical to Earth but hidden on the opposite side of the Sun. The other, the one that was accepted, was set in Roman Britain, just before the departure of the occupying forces.
Rex Tucker, who had been due to share directing duties with Waris Hussein, had left for a holiday in Majorca and it was decided he would not return to the project. Tucker had never been happy working on Doctor Who and it was agreed that when he returned from holiday he would move to other projects. In his place the young but experienced staff director Christopher Barry was pencilled in to direct the second and sixth stories of the series. Richard Martin was assigned the fourth.
Whitaker set out his thoughts about the series as follows:
These six stories, covering thirty four episodes, are, as has already been stated, not finalised - however they do provide a statement of flavour and intention. The first, second and third serials have been commissioned and are in various stages of development - the first being complete, the second being written in draft, the third in preparation and the fifth delivered in draft. Serials four and six are in discussion stages.Doctor Who Story Plan
- Tribe of Gum: Written by Anthony Coburn. Directed by Waris Hussein Four Episodes. The story begins the journey and takes the travellers back to 100,000BC and Palaeolithic man. In this story the 'ship' is slightly damaged and forever afterward is erratic in certain sections of its controls.
- The Robots: Written by Anthony Coburn. Directed by Christopher Barry Six Episodes. This story takes the travellers to somewhere in the 30th Century, forward to the world when it is inhabited only by robots.
- A Journey to Cathay: Written by John Lucarotti. Directed by Waris Hussein Seven Episodes. The travellers join the explorer Marco Polo on his Journey to Cathay.
- Miniscules [sic] story. Written by Robert Gould. Directed by Richard Martin Four Episodes. The TARDS transports Doctor Who back to 1963 but reduced in size to one sixteenth of an inch.
- The Mutants. Written by Terry Nation. Directed by Waris Hussein Seven Episodes. The TARDIS crew land on a planet inhabited by survivors of an atomic war.
- Story Six: Written by Malcolm Hulke. Directed by Christopher Barry Six Episodes. The travellers are set down in AD400 where the Romans are just about to leave Britain. The crew are involved in a struggle at a time when the blank pages of history occur, in an adventure full of excitement and action.
SOURCES: The Handbook: The First Doctor – The William Hartnell Years: 1963-1966, David J Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker (Doctor Who Books, 1994); BBC Prospero


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Saturday, August 7, 2010
More Dungeon Hobby Shop Art
Here's the front:
And here's the back:
Keith also sent along a scan of a Dragon magazine mailing envelope, which has some nice artwork on it as well, although it's less impressive than the stuff we've seen for the Dungeon Hobby Shop.
By the time I subscribed to Dragon (starting around issue #65 or thereabouts, maybe a little later), the magazine came in a plain (brown?) mailer without any illustrations or decoration on its outside beyond (I think) the Dragon magazine logo. That's a pity; I really like these quirky envelopes and wish I had seen them back in the day.
Thanks for these, Keith!
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They shifted over some time in the double digits to the more boring mailing covers. If my moduels weren't a bit buried, I'd try to reconstruct when they switched over...ReplyDelete
Does anyone know if there are any libraries out there with a special collections section dedicated to gaming and role playing games? because there should be. Makes me wish I could take an on-line archival class while I still have the chance.ReplyDelete
Here in Toronto, there's The Merrill Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and Fantasy that does in fact include a section devoted to RPGs.
It's RPG collection is very AD&Dcentric but still great that someone is doing it. Maybe it's the librarian and historian in me but someone needs to be collecting and storing these books in a secure place while they are still around to be found and collected.ReplyDelete
I'd just hate to see these books, any RPGs to be precise, to be lost to the hands of time.
I have a feeling that Charm Monster is gonna fail if the fighting man hits the serpent with his ax... I guess it comes down to speed factors... or not.ReplyDelete
Cute stuff. I also started buying Dragon in the mid-sixties (66 was my first issue, I believe, though I purchase mine in the mall rather than subscribing), so I never saw mailing covers.
I think the Merrill Collection relies heavily on whatever is donated to them, so it stands to reason they'd likely have more AD&D materials than anything else. On the other hand, at least some of this stuff is being preserved under archival conditions and it could in principle serve as the nucleus for a more wide-ranging and in-depth collection of materials pertaining to the hobby.
The Merrill Collection looks like a promising start. Since it has temperature controlled preservation, it might be a good place for gamers to donate items.ReplyDelete
That's what I am guessing. Most collections like these are donations. Libraries don't really want to sink their funds into this type of collection unless they have a stated interest in it. Syracuse University, for instance, has a decent collection of Lewis Carrol Alice in Wonderland ephemera. They brought out a first edition to let us see when they gave us the talk about archival work.
As someone with an interest in role playing games I would love for some library to do this but I don't think see that happening until someone gives them a huge chunk of books that gives them the impetus to go forward with this and even then I doubt they'd make the effort to collect more without an aggressive and competent archivist in charge.
Either way good for Merril, another thing to love about Toronto. One of my favorites cities. Would love to live their for a year or 2.
Is this collection related to Judith Merrill the SF author in any way?ReplyDelete
Is this collection related to Judith Merrill the SF author in any way?ReplyDelete
Yes. She started the collection by donating her own books and magazines to the library and helped establish an endowment to keep it going.
Wow, that Sea Serpent really flubbed its save versus a Charm Monster scroll. I would gauge it's at least 15HD. "It was a bad roll Ripley, a bad roll..."ReplyDelete
Good stuff!
You can see another one of these envelopes (front and back) in this thread on Tome of Treasures:ReplyDelete
One side features the same party as the other envelopes fighting a giant; the other side features a similar but much larger giant picking up the Dungeon Hobby Shop.
Bowling Green State University, in Ohio, has an extensive Popular Culture collection with all sorts of weird stuff, like Jack Chalker's fanzine bio of Scrooge McDuck. I don't know that they've got RPG stuff there, but I also don't know that they don't.ReplyDelete


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Spain: Sierra Nevada - Vazar de Mulahacen to Puntal de Sieta Lagunas
Track 4951
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Route from Alto de Chorillo acrioss the northwest face of Mulahacen to Puntal de Sieta Lagunas. The route used the Vasar walk, Len: 14.2km, Climb: 652m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||
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Bird's-eye view of Lough Eagher, Lough Coomloughra, Lough Eighter and Lough Acoose during a climb of The Bones Peak, 8th September, 2023. Dingle Bay can be seen on the right in the background.
Bawn Mountain: Crouching Tiger Hidden Trig
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Nothing much to add to this one, drove to the mast compound as mentioned by Fergalh. It's a quick bag but if you come this far and want to stretch the legs there is a local walk near here cal...
Spain: Sierra Nevada - Route to Veta Grande
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Tricky out and back to Veta Grande, one of the Sierra Nevada's 3,000m peaks... walk, Len: 12.1km, Climb: 721m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||
Rocky Island: North face conquered and no acclimitisation needed
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As it was a wet and windy day i took the North face ascent which was sheltered from the wind. At the pedestrian entrance steps to the crematorium I hopped the fence and zig -zaged briefly thr...
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View to the west from The Saddle Trig Point, April 2023. The Black & Red Cuillin on the Isle of Skye are visible in the distance behind the Trig Pillar.
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Route taking in a number of hills around 1,500m including La Boca de la Pesca walk, Len: 9.4km, Climb: 522m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||
An Teallach - Bidein a'Ghlas Thuill: View From Summit
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View back along the pinnacled ridge of An Teallach, July 2023.
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Aberystwyth to Welshpool
Central Wales - Pumlumon
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Place count in area: 122,
Highest place:
Pumlumon Fawr [Plynlimon], 752m
Maximum height for area: 752 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 526 metres,
Places in area Aberystwyth to Welshpool:
Allt y Derw 451m
Banc Bronderwgoed 404m
Banc Sychnant 444m
Banc Trawsnant 406m
Banc y Groes 421m
Bryn Amlwg 488m
Bryn Crugog 448m
Bryn Gwyn 471m
Bryn Gwyn 443m
Bryn Mawr 489m
Bryn y Fan 482m
Bryn y Fedwen 405m
Bryniau Rhyddion 467m
Carnedd Wen 523m
Carreg y Fran 436m
Cefn Crin 372.6m
Cefn Hirbrysg 454m
Cefn yr Esgair 451m
Cerrig yr Hafan 482m
Creigiau Bwlch Hyddgen 506.1m
Ddifed 412m
Disgwylfa 403m
Disgwylfa Fach 416m
Esgair Foel-ddu 479m
Fedw-ddu 488m
Foel Fawr 422.9m
Foel Goch 479m
Fuches 453m
Fynach Fawr 464m
Gamallt 450.7m
Garreg-hir 484.9m
Gias 475m
Llannerch-yr-aur 437m
Llechwedd Gwynau 446m
Moel Eiddew 453m
Moel y Garn 420m
Mynydd Cerrigllwydion 443m
Mynydd Pistyll-du 451m
Mynydd Ponterwyd 401m
Mynydd Talyglannau 449m
Mynydd Waun Fawr 425m
Mynydd y Cemmaes 442m
Panylau Gwynion 451m
Pen Craigypistyll 455m
Pen Llwyn-ieir 417m
Pen Llyn Coch-hwyad 496m
Pen y Waun-fawr 401m
Pen-caenion 299m
Stingwern Hill 358m
Twmpath Melyn 439m
Upper Park 352m
Waun y Gadair 403.8m
Y Drum 462m
Yr Allt 456m
Yr Allt 403m
Yr Helfa Las 411m
Cadair Idris:
Esgair Ddu 464m
Central Wales - Pumlumon:
Allt Pant-mawr 496m
Banc Bugeilyn 551m
Banc Bwlchygarreg 520m
Banc Bwlchygarreg West Top [Moel y Llyn East Top] 511m
Banc Llechwedd-mawr 560m
Banc Mynyddgorddu 312m
Banc y Garn 437m
Banc yr Wyn 503m
Bryn Moel 491m
Bryn y Fedwen 543.7m
Bryn yr Wyn 502m
Bryn-hir 179m
Bryn-y-Brain 294m
Bryn-y-tail 403.1m
Carn Hyddgen [Carn Gwilym] 566m
Carnfachbugeilyn 622m
Cefn Coch [Ffridd Esgair-yr-owen] 285m
Cerrig Gwynion 527m
Clipyn Du [Tarren Bwlch-gwyn] [Siambr Trawsfynydd] 582m
Cripiau Eisteddfa-fach 542m
Cwm y Derw 510m
Dinas 445.3m
Disgwylfa Fawr 507m
Drosgol 550m
Drybedd 566m
Esgair Fraith 499m
Esgair Gorlan 411m
Esgair y Maen 519m
Esgair y Maesnant NW Top 504m
Esgair y Maesnant SE Top 506m
Ffridd Pen-y-Graig 297m
Foel Fadian 563.8m
Foel Fras 528.7m
Foel Grafiau 528.2m
Foel Grafiau West Top 493m
Foel Isaf 548m
Foel Uchaf 522m
Foel Uchaf 565m
Fron Goch 289m
Llechwedd Crin 539m
Llechwedd Hirgoed SE Top 535m
Llechwedd Hirgoed West Top 538m
Llechwedd y Glyn 481m
Mawnog 519m
Moel y Llyn 521m
Moelfre 469m
Mynydd Bychan 493m
Mynydd Garth-Gwynion 228m
Newydd Fynyddog 427m
Pen Carreg Gopa 447m
Pen Creigiau'r Llan 507m
Pen Creigiau'r Llan North Top 492m
Pen Pumlumon Arwystli 741m
Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan (B&L GR) 724m
Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan [Plynlimon East Top] 727m
Pen y Darren [Moel Hyddgen] 529.4m
Pen yr Allt-fawr 316m
Pencerrigtewion 680m
Penglais 151m
Pumlumon Cwmbiga 620m
Pumlumon Fach 664m
Pumlumon Fawr [Plynlimon] 752m
Rhos Fawr 307.2m
Y Foel 546m
Y Garn [Drum Peithnant] 684m
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Longitude: -3.700965, Latitude: 52.570787
, Easting: 284817, Northing: 298354
Prominence: 106m
, Isolation: 1.2km
, GPS IDs, 6 char: Mlf469, 10 char: Moelfre469
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Descend from Bryn Y Fedwen back to corner of forest and back up the bridleway north to the edge of the forest. From here follow track to fence junction on left cross fence and head up west following fence to unmarked summit. Yet anoither summit called Moelfre !
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(SoapOperaNetwork.com) — The 25th Annual Broadway Fleamarket sponsored by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS took place today and several of daytime's biggest stars were on hand as celebrity guests including stars from "One Life to Live" such as Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning), Andrew Trischitta (Jack Manning), Gina Tognoni (ex-Kelly Cramer), Sean Ringgold (Shaun Evans), Ilene Kristen (Roxy Balsom) and even former cast member Judith Light (ex-Karen Wolek). Also in attendance was former "Guiding Light" actor Ron Raines (ex-Alan Spaulding), who is currently appearing in previews for the Broadway production of "Follies." Raines' former "Light" co-star Marj Dusay (ex-Alexandra Spaulding) was scheduled to appear but had to cancel due to illness. Also scheduled was "As The World Turns" actresses Eileen Fulton (ex-Lisa Grimaldi) and Ellen Dolan (Margo Hughes). Soap Opera Network spoke with a few of the stars and learned some interesting tidbits, one of which being that Ringgold received his offer from Prospect Park on Friday and he's since decided to continue with the show when it moves to the web in January along with "All My Children."
"You know what's funny, I was making up my mind cause I got the offer to come over on Friday [September 23] actually and I didn't give them my response, but after speaking with a couple of hierarchies, I just said 'you know what? I'll give it a year!' Why not? So I'm going to come over to Prospect Park." As for what the new version of the soap may look like and what fans can expect, Ringgold emphasizes that "There's going to be more of a free reign to do more things on the internet than you could normally do on network. It could get quite interesting. I'll leave that open for the imagination." As for the chance of new faces popping up and where they'll find their new filming digs, the actor says "I'm sure there are going to be new characters who are going to be brought on and I hope the studio goes to Brooklyn because I live in Queens. Although coming into Manhattan wouldn't be a bad thing – I'll miss Manhattan – but to just be able to wake up out of the bed and drive 10 minutes over to the studio. I'll be in heaven."
What is Ringgold looking forward to most for his character as the soap transitions from ABC to Prospect Park? "As long as Shaun is there for Destiny, and being supportive of his sister with her decision, whichever way we'll see how that turns out to be… just to be there for [my] sister and to make sure she's good and also my mom. They're going to bring my pops back and it'll be great if Greg [Terrell Tilford] popped up as well." Speaking of Destiny, particularly her portrayer Shennell Edmonds, can we expect to hear news of her continuing as well? While Ringgold couldn't confirm it as fact, he does hope it turns out to be the case.
Lastly with "One Life to Live" being canceled in April by ABC only to be picked up in July by Prospect Park, what happens to the planned series finale that was scheduled to air in January? "I'm sure they are changing the story a little bit because we're going to continue on with Prospect Park."


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In Valparaiso, a city on the coast of Chile, a small library is working to introduce local children to a new universe of books. The library is called Libro Alegre, which means 'Happy Book' or 'Cheerful Book.' It is a happy place, stuffed with dolls, legos, and one of those toy kitchens with plastic food. First and foremost, though, it's a library that's stuffed with stories. Imogen Mark, a volunteer at Libro Alegre, said "It truly, genuinely, is a unique collection of books." Mark is British but has lived in Chile for years. She explained that people donate books, mostly from Scandinavian countries. The books then get translated into Spanish. Finally those translations are printed out and pasted into the books, right over the original Danish or Swedish or English text. "So they're recycled books, but they're books that really don't exist anywhere else in Chile" she said. The library is actually in two places now: Most of the books are in the main building, in what you might call the touristy part of Valparaiso, not far from the harbor. There's also a collection of books high up in the hills above the city, in a poor neighborhood called Montedónico. You reach it by taking a bus up a steep, windy road. It's a part of Valparaiso that could seem sad if you were just passing through. Thick clouds settle on the ground like they've given up. But in the courtyard of a small medical center there are three red shipping containers. They open up to reveal a local branch of Libro Algre. The containers arrived from Denmark last April, loaded with books. They'd also been kitted out for story-time. Kids can pick a book from a shelf, find a seat, and get into a good story. Librarian Evelyn Badilla, who runs this outpost of Libro Alegre, said that the kids see themselves reflected in these books. "They're surprised when they recognize themselves that way," she said. The whole operation is the brainchild of a Danish retiree named Anne Hansen. She is a former teacher who used to live and work in Chile. After she returned to Denmark in the mid 1990s, Hansen had her big idea. "There was an enormous gap," she said, "and I thought let's start a library and let's see what will happen!" Hansen saw that there were very few books available to children in Valparaiso. And she didn't want them to miss out on the experience of sharing a great story. Imogen Mark says the books Hansen brought over also introduced a new kind of storytelling to this part of the world. Chilean books for children, she says, still tend to be stuck in the 1950s: They're intended to improve the reader, to teach a child something, usually a moral lesson. There are few Chilean books that simply tell a story from a kid's point of view, like 'Where The Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, one of many American books in the library that's received the translate, print and stick treatment. Libro Alegre began with a collection of fifty books. Over the last decade, the team has translated some 1500. Imogen Mark is aware that more often than not, the kids portrayed in the picture books are blond haired and blue-eyed and the pictures show European or American homes. "That sometimes is a bit troubling for us," she said. But the themes are universal. What happens when your grandfather dies? Or how do you feel when you go to school and you don't have any friends? The most popular books in the library, Imogen Mark said, are the ones featuring Spot the dog. But there's another one, a German book, that kids gravitate towards. It's called 'The Mole Who Wants To Know Who Has Pooped On His Head.' The kids at Libro Alegre are just like kids everywhere: They love the book because they get to say the word 'poop' a lot.
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Lew almost official as nominee for Treasury Secretary
Media headlines continue to tout Obama's white male choices for rounding out his 'new' cabinet. Latest to the list is that he has offered his Jacob Lew, his current White House Chief of Staff, the post of Treasury Secretary. See, e.g., Obama to tap Jack Lew for top Treasury post, Washington Post.com (Jan. 9, 2013).
Jack Lew has been a slew of things–hedge fund manager at Citigroup (bailed out big bank), university administrator (administrative stuff, not academic stuff) at NYU, Clinton and Obama administration OMB administrator, State Department official, and of course White House Chief of Staff. That means he is well embedded in the Wall-Street-respecting culture of Geithner, Summers, Paulson and the rest of the DC crowd that pays too much credence to what bankers say and not enough to what ordinary Americans think. So that is one strike against him.
On the other side, as the news story in the Post notes, the GOP generally views him as a tough negotiator who stands his ground on issues that Democrats have tended to consider important. That is one big strike in his favor, especially since it is not something that his current boss is especially known for (or good at, as evidenced by the way he caved on not letting the Bush tax cuts just die of their own accord so that less stupid provisions could be put in place, especially on the corporate and estate tax side).
But what about the fact that Treasury is where most tax policy thinking goes on, and thinking about the ins and outs of statutory provisions and exceptions, and thinking about "administrative" lawmaking through regulations. Under the Bush administration, the Treasury Department put through a series of regulations that greatly facilitated concentration of corporate giants into even larger corporate giants, and did so in ways that appear to have allowed, for the first time ever, a taxpayer who engaged in a reorg transaction and received boot and stock to recognize a LOSS in the reorg transaction by allocating consideration.
In other words, the internal goings on at Treasury are just another place that corporate lobbyists (including continuing contact between former Treasury and IRS officials with the bar as they move back and forth) can influence the law in favor of lower taxes for business. Shouldn't we care how much Lew knows about tax law and what his views on that are? I think we should.
Lew is a Harvard graduate with a JD from Georgetown (so yes, we continue to see the elite nominating their comrades in elitedom to offices in this country). He was a congressional aide and then policy adviser to Speaker Tip O'Neill in the late '70s, when he worked on Social Security, Medicare, budget, tax and similar issues. So at least he's got some depth of experience on those issues. He practiced law for several years, but not as a tax lawyer–he worked on electricity generation. Wikipedia says he has also dealt with Middle East issues and various other things in other short-term posts he has held. So a peripatetic acquirer of bits of experience and knowledge across a range of things, but not an economist and not a tax lawyer.
Does that make him qualified to head Treasury and to advise on what has become one of the most important areas of the law, in which we subsidize whole industries, give huge tax breaks to huge multinational corporations without even understanding how much of a break we are giving them (the bonus depreciation/accelerated depreciation/expensing regime and the active financing exception), and continue to consider that some of the richest people in the country are just "middle class"? I have my doubts.
Remember that in both of the big "economic" commissions of the last couple of years (Alice Rivlin's, Erskine Bowles') there were no actual tax lawyers–not even tax academics–involved. Maybe that's one reason the ideas miss out so much on what is reasonable. Maybe it's time that a range of tax academics were listened to about what shape the tax code needs to take, and why.
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Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Director, Office of Thrift Supervision; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel; and All Examining Person
The above-named bank has reported that one group of counterfeit checks and one group of fictitious business checks issued in the bank's name, using a correct routing number of 091400606 and a correct account number are being presented nationwide for payment.
The group of counterfeit checks is being issued as cashier's checks. These checks may be presented for payment in the amount of $4,820.00. The counterfeit items are very similar to the authentic items. The primary difference in appearance is that the authentic items include a remitter line, and the dollar amount portion of the instrument is enclosed in a box.
The group of fictitious checks would appear to be drawn on a business account; however, these instruments are actually drawn on the bank's official account. These checks include an account title of "PRECISION INCORPORATED, 47261 280th Street, Worthing, SD 57077" in the upper-left portion of the instrument. All of the fictitious items presented to date have been printed in the amount of $5,690.64 with a memo of "Columbia Credit Union." These checks are being issued in connection with a lottery scam. The letters that accompany the checks bear the letterhead of "Big Game Mega Millions American International Lottery Corporation, 2240 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite 300, Las Vegas, NV 89108." The letter informs the potential victim that they have won the jackpot. The contact information provided within the document includes the names of Bob Kampbridge and Susan Smith, who can be reached at 1-888-201-8802. In addition, the letter also references the following Websites: [www.AmericanInternationalLotteryCorporation.com] and [www.USAMega.com].
For additional information and guidance or to verify the authenticity of First Bank & Trust, NA's Cashier's Checks, please contact Paula Wagner, Vice President, Corporate Risk Management, First Bank & Trust, 133 S. Main Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104, by telephone at (605) 696-2200 or via email at [firstname.lastname@example.com].
Additional information concerning this matter that you believe should be brought to the attention of the OCC may be forwarded to:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mail: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Special Supervision Division, MS 6-4
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For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource page.
Daniel P. Stipano
Deputy Chief Counsel


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Filmmaker Julia Loktev.
I spoke with Director Julia Loktev in September about her latest film, The Loneliest Planet (NYFF '11), which is now playing in select theaters nationwide. Set in the mountains of Georgia (the country), the film follows a thirtysomething couple on vacation—Nica (Hani Furstenburg) and Alex (Gael García Bernal)—who hire a guide named Dato (played by real-life mountaineer Bidzina Gujabidze) to lead them through the beautiful, wild landscape. The fiancés' relationship is put to the test by the trying hike.
The Loneliest Planet interweaves the confounding vastness of the Georgian mountains with the never-quite-delimited intimacy of the two hikers and their guide. As with Loktev's previous feature film Day Night Day Night (ND/NF '07)—a claustrophobic study of a waifish, pan-ethnic, aspiring suicide bomber—The Loneliest Planet highlights Loktev's uncanny ability to put mise-en-scène into dialogue with the story it carries. Through this encoded conversation, her films become both starkly beautiful and calculatedly disruptive. Cuts, both sound and picture, interrupt the film perhaps as much as they conduct it.
The Loneliest Planet, in particular, cultivates its own inaccessibility, a gesture that can make the audience twitch and burn; the film is richer for it. Almost as soon as the camera unveils the landscape's vast beauty, as a luscious soundtrack of strings nears a pregnant crescendo, sound and image both cut, warping the fiction and tempering it, both. These jagged cuts skillfully mirror the landscape and relationships they depict. They also make The Loneliest Planet a challenging film, and one very much worth seeing. Moments of overwhelming beauty consort with carefully sculpted ambiguity to form tableaux whose unique textures are singular in contemporary cinema. Whether in the Georgian mountains, the tumult of Times Square, or the confines of her mother's home, Loktev is a director who makes familiar spaces seem strange and new.
The Loneliest Planet
Hani Furstenburg and Luisa Williams [who played the lead in Day Night Day Night] both have distinctive faces, but perhaps don't have the typical movie star look. What do you look for in a face when casting?
That's a good question. I think I just sense when it's right. Hani is a really good example because she's beautiful one moment, another moment, she almost looks like a child, or like she's changed ages. She's funny looking at other moments. I mean, she looks like Liv Ullmann! Well, when I first met her—she's going to yell at me for this—I was thinking, "God, it's the unholy cross of Liv Ullmann and Alfred E. Newman!"
You've worked with editor Michael Taylor on both Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet. Would you talk about how you work together?
We edit together, and we have a funny relationship actually because I operate and Michael sits in the director's chair. So, he's a brilliant judge of performances and he's very good at finding nuanced moments, but really I so enjoy the formal part. You know, the picture cuts and the sound cuts, on a very formal level, I can't give it up. So in a way we reverse roles. We always work together and I think we work together really well.
I interviewed him for Day Night Day Night because I had cut Moment of Impact (NYFF '98) myself, but I like working with somebody. Ultimately, I like sitting there with someone and having a conversation. It's much nicer than being stuck in a room alone.
Michael brings a very different aspect to it than I do. He was actually from a very different background. He was a script supervisor for a ton of films [Eat Drink Man Woman, 1994; Happiness, 1998; You Can Count on Me, 2000; Monster's Ball, 2001], and then moved into editing from there, so he's spent so much time on set. On The Loneliest Planet, Michael was also on set. I thought we'd begin the collaboration early on this one. It's really great working relationship; he's lovely to work with.
Are you looking to cultivate a certain feeling? Something disjunctive, something shocking for example?
I just want to be entirely in that space. I don't want to glue one space to another. You know, you're in one moment and then you're in the next moment. I don't see why one would want to suture that cut, or kind of smooth over from one thing to another. Because actually you're here and now, you're there.
And you like that feeling?
Yes, I like that. It pleases me somehow [laughing]. I think I look for the sharpest most unpleasant noises to cut on, truthfully.
Are there some films or filmmakers who do that for you?
I can't even think of any really right now. I know there must be many.
Yes, exactly. And those are even more extreme sound cuts. Absolutely. But the difference is with Godard… Well, I'm thinking of Contempt for instance, there are sound cuts, but they're not necessarily related to the picture cuts. For me it's very organic: I just cut the sound right where the picture is.
So you wouldn't say you're playing with sound?
I'm constantly working with sound because I came to film from sound, so for me sound is huge. I spend a lot of time thinking about sounds, recording sounds, and making sure we get everything in extreme close-up, constructing it. It's my favorite part, probably.
That's a lovely string score you have in The Loneliest Planet.
It's an existing piece by Richard Skelton that I found, and it just fit with the film. Strangely enough, I've heard people describe it as "from the Caucasus," but I'm like, "he's an English musician! Working with an English landscape!"
There is either violence or implied violence in The Loneliest Planet, Day Night Day Night, Moment of Impact, and in the video art you've done. So what's up with all this violence, Julia?
There's violence in life [Laughs].
You've also made several video art pieces or installations: I Cried for You, in which people are asked to come and cry on cue for the camera, and also piece for Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum. I think you've disowned that one. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The piece? [Laughing]
Yes. No, not the museum.
I haven't disowned it. [Laughs] At least I don't think so. It's called Rough House. I did a live version of I Cried for You in Toronto a few years ago, and that was the last thing. Well, I think ultimately I'm much more interested in regular movies. You know, I like time. I like when people come at the beginning and stay until the end. So, I haven't really been doing much installation work because it's hard to get that sort of time in a gallery setting.
What is your relationship to the films of Chantal Akerman?
I like Chantal Akerman. Jeanne Dielman, Je, tu, il, elle, these were films I used to watch and that meant a lot to me. It's something that I saw many years ago and it marked me. It's one of those movies that you see and it changes the way you think about movies, perhaps. So, it's not necessarily something I come back to.
Fair enough.
Well, no that's not a fair thing to say actually. It's one of those things where it's kind of always there in the back of your mind.
Day Night Day Night ((ND/NF '07)
What are some other films you like to rewatch?
Recently I've been rewatching Melville films. Le Cercle rouge, Le Deuxième souffle. The films I like are very different from the kinds of films people think I watch. I like gangster movies, I like Brian de Palma. For me the [Andrej] Zulawski retrospective was the highlight of my cinematic year last year. [Laughs] I think my tastes are very different from what I actually make. Maybe that will get more in sync going forward?
Would you make a comedy? There's so much comedy in your films.
There's always comedy, sure. But I also like music. I like dancing. I just did this kind of written piece on dancing with strangers.
So will you make a musical?
I would totally be into making a musical! But straight up comedy? No. I'm most interested in comedy in the midst of tragedy, especially in the most inappropriate moments.
When you watch a film, how do you like to feel?
I like to feel that I'm surprised. And I don't mean by the plot developments, but by a sound, an image, to be caught off guard. I mean, simple things, I think, things most people would want. But I also like films I don't understand completely. I think those are my favorite movies, where I don't understand what went on. Recently, I was watching all those Zulawski films. I'm thinking of My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days. I was like, "I don't know what I just saw, but I loved it." I get very excited with that.
Do you try to do that with your films?
Not in that sense. I don't want to make a film where people go see it and then the experience is done [when the movie ends]. To me the best thing I could hear about my movie is that "we went to a coffee shop and we argued about it for hours." Or, I think some critic wrote, "I'm not sure if I liked it, but I'm still thinking about it two weeks later." I think that's really the best response you can have. There's still something going on, after the film.
Julia Loktev and Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Peña at the 2011 New York Film Festival. Photo: Godlis
Do you think the couple in The Loneliest Planet was fundamentally a good match?
They seemed to have a nice symbiosis; they seemed very comfortable with each other. They had an intimacy. They are at a stage in this relationship where they can just be together, explore the world together. They can be together silently. I always think that's a mark of intimacy. … In any relationship, something can happen, that you're not ready for, where it throws you for a [loop]. And you don't know how to respond. And the film is about that, not knowing.
Knowing how to not know how to respond?
Yes, exactly, knowing how not to know. And that is the most difficult thing, when you don't act how you would have liked to act. And that happens all the time. We screw up all the time. And people forgive each other all the time, and people sometimes resent each other all the time.
I remember hearing Gael García Bernal say during an interview that what he most liked about working with you was that you instilled, early on, an important question in them as actors, before shooting, so that they had something to follow internally. Does that description resonate with what you like to do or tried to do?
Yes, and I think it's always about an unspoken question. That's what it's all about.
Were you able to anticipate the critics' responses to Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet?
You're always pleased by the nice things people say, and shocked by the stupid things, and hurt by the mean things people say. For Day Night Day Night in particular I was surprised by a typical criticism that got repeated, where people wanted an explanation for why the main character was doing what she did. For me, I thought that was fairly self-evident and something people could get from other contexts. I sort of thought the film plugged into other contexts immediately, and people didn't need to be told what they already know. I am surprised when people want to be told what they know already. I thought I would get blasted for a lot of different things, but not for that one. I thought the criticism I would get would be making a movie about a suicide bomber, but people reacted more to the fact that they wanted me justify her actions more. But, I didn't want to get into justifying the cause, and have this thing where I was saying "here's this poor little girl."
With The Loneliest Planet, I'm always surprised by people's reactions, because I never know who is going to say what, even among friends. It's so personal—I'll put it that way. People have these incredibly unpredictable personal reactions to the movie. It ranges from "there's no way this couple can ever be together again" to "what's the big deal?" I'm utterly shocked sometimes by how people react. It's not like it's that women think this and men think that.
The Loneliest Planet is so much about confusion. I thought I might get blasted for the film being reactionary and anti-feminist, because you could see that reading in there; you could kind of go there. I thought someone might say "you made this film about a girl who thinks she's independent, but she's not so independent after all!" And I'm being sarcastic here. That would be a reductive reading. But in a way the film reaffirms very traditional gender roles.
They're hiking a mountain. That's a place where traditional gender roles would show, I'd think.
It reaffirms those traditional roles. That for me is the contradiction, for me personally. That I think of myself as a feminist, but I catch myself where I want a man to be a man. I want a man to be a real man. [Laughs].
Where did you get this tongue twister [that appears in The Loneliest Planet], "I take my bitch to the beach?" Is this an old CIA test for undercover Soviet spies?
No, it's something I used to practice with my mother. You know, I was born in Russia, and my mother, like a typical Russian, says "bitch" like "beach" and "beach" like "bitch," and "shit" like "sheet" and "sheet" like "shit." [Laughs] So we used to practice those growing up with my mom, to train her to differentiate between these words.
Well, thank you. I look forward to speaking again as your next project develops.
Feminism aside, The Loneliest Planet is really about a man who doesn't behave how he would expect to behave. It's really about being confused by your own reactions, frankly. Because I don't have a clear position that I could say I was trying to articulate other than "people are fucked up, and sometimes fuck up."
The Loneliest Planet was a Main Slate selection in NYFF '11 and is now playing in more than a dozen cities nationwide.