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In the home stretch…

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In the home stretch…

natgeofound: Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and...

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:13:48 -0400

natgeofound:

Melville B. Grosvenor, Editor of the Magazine and President of the Society, admires new globes on a conveyor belt in a Chicago plant, December 1961.
Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic

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gacougnol: Harry Callahan

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:27 -0400

gacougnol:

Harry Callahan

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There is power in a king’s blood.

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There is power in a king’s blood.

adamferriss: bug

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The Four Knights of Gwyn

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:40:26 -0400

_{The Four Knights of Gwyn}

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kchampeny: Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove30”wide x 38”tall...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:40:25 -0400

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Kevin Champeny Copper Winter Grove 30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

kchampeny:

Kevin Champeny
Copper Winter Grove
30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs

Grove of miniature bonsai style trees constructed from 5000+ feet of 14 gauge copper coated steel, 2000+ feet of 32 gauge bare copper wire. The trees are hand tied to the stone, no welding or glue of any kind was involved, tension alone holds the trees to the stone.

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After Kagemusha won the [Palme d’Or at the 1980] Cannes...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:26:02 -0400

After Kagemusha won the [Palme d’Or at the 1980] Cannes International Film Festival, until 1982, Kurosawa traveled extensively in Europe and the United States, meeting filmmakers everywhere he went and being warmly welcomed. While he was staying in New York’s Plaza Hotel, he received many surprise visitors, including film greats Jean-Luc Godard, John Milius, Werner Herzog, and Martin Scorsese.

The combination of Godard and Kurosawa was unusual. Probably he was invited along by Milius and went out of curiosity. Producer Tom Luddy might have come with them as well.

We had heard that Milius was a Kurosawa fan, and Kurosawa also had good things to say about his The Wind and the Lion. Milius asked Kurosawa to teach him the martial art of kendo, or Japanese fencing, and did Mifune impersonations, but Godard only sat looking on, smiling, and never spoke to Kurosawa.

Another unusual visitor was the German director Werner Herzog, whose name was then unfamiliar to Kurosawa. There was a book he wanted to give Kurosawa, said Herzog, but he hadn’t been able to find it in the book store and he had a plane to catch, so he had just dropped by to pay his respects. Then the next day, I think it was, he made a special trip to hand-deliver the book—having gone to the trouble of altering his flight reservations to do so. I believe it was a book of drawings. In any case, Kurosawa found this gesture deeply moving.

Later, in Japan, Kurosawa took the first opportunity to go see Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and was overwhelmed by its tenacious energy.

— Teruyo Nogami, Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa

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