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Asking what the iPhone 4S could add to the iPhone series's app scene is like trying to think of a present for the person who has everything. Aside from apps of dubious legality or precarious moral standing, the App Store has it all, and the iPhone 4S isn't going to change that much.
Just like the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 before it, though, the iPhone 4S will incite a spurt of graphics-focused development from a handful of precocious developers. In the last round of graphical splurging, the most notable entries were Epic Citadel and its full game spin-off Infinity Blade - from Epic Games. It's likely we'll see similar feats, probably once again from Epic Games too, within the next 4-8 months.
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Many of the key points in President Obama's new blueprint for the next decade of U.S. defense strategy are straightforward. More spy gear; more special forces; fewer land wars; Asia, Asia, Asia. Whatever you think of the merits of those points, at least they're internally consistent.
Others… not so much.
Sometimes the analysis in the strategy suggests a policy choice that the strategy actually disavows. Sometimes it walks back controversial points. Sometimes it makes pledges that sound sensible at first blush — but don't actually make sense the more you think about them. Here are four of the most glaring contradictions within the strategy.
The Military Should Leave Europe (But Won't). The whole point of the new plan is to build "the joint force of 2020, a force sized and shaped differently than the military of the Cold War," Defense Secretary Leon Panetta boasted Thursday. But the U.S. just can't vacate the Cold War's primary battlefield: Europe. In fact, the plan makes a strong case for the Army to take its brigades home. "Most European countries are now producers of security rather than consumers of it," the strategy says, bolstered by NATO's success in Libya.
But the Pentagon won't take its own advice. The closest it comes is to pledge that the military's force structure in Europe will "evolve." Asked if that means the U.S. will pull out of Europe 20 years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Panetta replied, "Not only are we going to continue our commitments there, but we are going to maintain the kind of innovative presence there that we think will make clear to Europe, and those to those who have been our strong allies in the past, that we remain committed."
Translation: maybe there will be another shave and a haircut to the U.S. military's nearly 70-year European expedition, but not much more than that. Even though Europe is united, safe, at peace and the U.S.' real security interests are halfway around the world.
"Limited Counterinsurgency". One thing critics and advocates of counterinsurgency can agree on: it requires a lot of time, cash and, especially, people. So it's baffling for the Pentagon strategy to say that U.S. forces will remain prepared "to conduct limited counterinsurgency operations." What are limited counterinsurgency operations?
To give the Pentagon a generous interpretation, limited counterinsurgency operations might mean training partner militaries to wage their own battles against insurgents. That's more properly called "security force assistance," but whatever. Less generously, the Obama administration is trying to walk away from counterinsurgency without getting bashed by critics for scrapping the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. Either way, after Thursday press conference, Pentagon reporters who tried to figure out what the term actually means were unable to reach a consensus. Several of us ended up more confused the longer we debated each other.
The Army Is Getting Cut (Until We Surge It). This one is more sugar-coating than outright contradiction. But one of the major implications of the new plan is "smaller conventional ground forces," in President Obama's words. (Panetta didn't cite a number for how small the Army will get, but we're hearing around 480,000 soldiers, a drop of nearly 100,000 from current levels.) No sooner did the Pentagon announce that, however, than it said: well, for now.
Plans for shrinking the Army (and the Marine Corps) will build in "reversibility," Panetta pledged. Should unforeseen land wars arise — you know, like the two post-9/11 wars the Army didn't anticipate fighting — the Army will be able to "surge, regenerate and mobilize… quickly." True, it's a lot easier to start recruiting more soldiers than it is to, say, build more ships or planes. But it also sounds like the Obama team is afraid of taking criticism for downsizing the Army rather than confidently defending a major aspect of its new strategy.
This Is The Pentagon's Blueprint, Until It Isn't. Even the fundamental purpose of the strategy isn't free from contradiction, thanks to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It's supposed to be the cornerstone for crafting the military of 2020, as Panetta put it. But Gen. Martin Dempsey, the military's top officer, walked that back: the strategy is merely "a waypoint" for a "continuous and deliberate process" of building that future force.
Maybe it's Dempsey's Army background talking, but he sounded lukewarm on the document. "It's not perfect," he told reporters, and it's open to criticism for slashing the military too deeply or not reorienting it enough to meet future threats. "That probably makes it about right," Dempsey intoned, "for today."
Should that change, the military would simply "adjust" what the strategy says, and it'll have an opportunity to do so every year when it issues its budget, Dempsey said. Maybe that would be a mere tune-up; maybe it would be something more drastic. After all, the strategy effectively scraps the Pentagon's last four-year plan, after only two years. It's ironic that the Pentagon's blueprint for the future might not be built to last.
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Bruins forward Loui Eriksson is out indefinitely with a concussion, general manager Peter Chiarelli announced Thursday afternoon. According to Chiarelli's statement, Eriksson flew back to Boston on Thursday and was diagnosed with a concussion by team doctors in Boston.
Eriksson suffered the concussion in the third period of Wednesday's win over Buffalo when Sabres forward John Scott landed a vicious elbow to his head after Eriksson had dumped the puck in from center ice. Eriksson needed to be helped off the ice by teammates and did not return to the game.
Scott was ejected from the game and has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL pending an in-person disciplinary hearing.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Allegrezza, William URN etd-1029103-145352 Title Politicizing the Reader in the American Lyric-Epic: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Pablo Neruda's Canto General Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Comparative Literature (Interdepartmental Program) Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2003-10-10 Availability unrestricted AbstractBoth Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda wanted to create epic works that would distinguish American literature from the literary traditions of Europe, works that would grow organically from the native landscapes and peoples of the Americas. Part of their projects included creating works that would act as political sourcebooks for their cultures. Whitman wanted to foster a democratic culture in the United States through writing a grand poetic work, while Neruda wanted to create a communist culture in Latin America through an epic work. Soon into the project Whitman realized that the traditional epic was not a suitable form for his task, so in attempting to construct a new form, he created the lyric-epic in his Leaves of Grass. Since Neruda believed that Whitman was the first authentic literary voice of the Americas and that the lyric-epic was a native form, he used Leaves of Grass as a paradigm when writing his Canto general. In separate discussions of each work, this study examines the politics of both writers and why they wanted to write political sourcebooks; their use of camaraderie/fraternity to tie readers together for democratic or communist governments; their rewriting of history as redemption and as the progression of democracy or communism; and lastly, their endeavors to teach readers to read as democrats or communists. Ultimately, the study argues that Neruda and Whitman were the foundations and the peaks of their literary traditions and that studying Whitman's and Neruda's lyric-epics reveals a common form for poetic epic attempts in the Americas after Whitman; moreover, it argues that even while Neruda used Leaves of Grass as a paradigm, he wrote a work of equal standing to it in Canto general. Files
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It's a Wonderful Life
8 comments:
- Henhurst Interiors said...
Thank you for these brilliant ideas, Jennifer. I have a Mr. Wonderful who would be thrilled by any one of these.
Have a lovely weekend!
- December 7, 2012 at 9:01 AM
- Jennifer C. Webb said...
Thanks Phyllis, my Mr. Wonderful critiqued my choices and approved thankfully. He may be getting a few of the items ha
- December 7, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- I Dream Of said...
It really is a wonderful life, isn't it. Great gift ideas here, Jennifer. We know my Mr. Wonderful is getting a Marklin train, and sadly I think he does, too - he saw a pop up order confirmation that I didn't know was on my laptop! Boo! Trying to throw him off now...
Happy Shopping! XO
- December 7, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Love the umbrella and leather notebook...hmm, give and borrow? Ha!
Author of LCitW spoke at T's school. He asked the question, "Who, growing up, had the rule 'Come home when the street lights come on?'" Almost the entire room raised their hands. Sadly, not an option many places anymore.
Oh, and T still LOVES the tactical light Mr. Webb gave him. Uses indoors mostly (Nature Deficit?) and when M takes him camping.
- December 7, 2012 at 12:51 PM
- Jennifer C. Webb said...
Dang Jeanne...tell him it was just spam ha. Good luck
- December 7, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Jennifer C. Webb said...
MK: that is amazing....how lucky to hear him speak. We're taking the girls to the farm tomorrow for a little outdoor time. However, they want to drive the tractor...not what I had in mind
I gave John that notebook and had the name of the farm engraved on the cover. He loved it and it has aged very well. Very pleased
John has another flashlight for T haaa
- December 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM
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Where's the Bourbon? There are lots of manly type wooden crates that make wonderful storage for art brushes after.
Love your wonderful selection.
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ha Patricia, the Bourbon is a staple
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Minnesota took the top three spots in the 60m dash and 800m run, to cruise to a Jack Johnson Classic team title with 190 points. Chimerem Okoroji (7.52), Chidera Obasih (7.60) and Sasha Davis (7.64) were the Gophers top three in the 60m, while Heather Brunn (2:14.07), Katie Hill (2:14.07) and Megan Smith (2:14.89) lead the way in the 800m.
North Dakota State (120), South Dakota (105), Northern Iowa (85.5) and South Dakota State (52) rounded out the top five in overall team scoring.
DeAnne Hahn landed a throw of 17.55m (57-7) to win her second title of the season in the weight throw. Jeri Johnson-Chambers finished third for Minnesota with a mark of 17.14m (56-3), which was more than three feet further than her top throw last week.
Christina DeLakis won the shot put with a toss of 15.11m (49-7). It was the second title of the 2012 season for the redshirt freshman, who captured the title last week with a mark of 14.86m (48-9). Hahn finished third for Minnesota with a mark of 14.78m (48-6).
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Stephanie Price and Laura Docherty were up front for the Gophers in the mile, as Price ran a 4:50.75, which was second overall. Laura Docherty was right behind her running 4:55.65.
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High Jump: Melissa Flucke, third place 1.66m (5-5 ¼).
600m: Sharyn Dahl, third place 1:33.59.
Minnesota will next head to Mankato, Minn., next weekend to participate in the Minnesota State Open (Friday-Saturday). The Gophers won't return home until Saturday February 18, when they host the Parents Day Invitational.
Note: Former Golden Gopher Heather Kampf set a new Jack Johnson record in the mile with a time of 4:41.58...Olimpia Nowak of Northern Iowa set the new Jack Johnson 60 hurdles with a time of 8.44...North Dakota State's 4x400 relay team set a new UM Fieldhouse record with a time of 3:48.00.
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1) Minnesota 190
2) North Dakota State 120
3) South Dakota 105
4) Northern Iowa 85.5
5) South Dakota State 52
6) Manitoba 36.5
7) Augustana (SD) 14
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Robert Frank
|Robert Frank
November 9, 1924
Zürich, Switzerland
|Photographer, film director
|Notable work
|The Americans
|Mary Lockspeiser Frank (divorced; 2 children)
June Leaf
Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ . . . ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century."[1] Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with manipulating photographs and photomontage.
Background and early photography career[edit]
Frank was born in Switzerland. Frank states in the 2005 documentary "Leaving Home, Coming Home" by Director Gerald Fox, that his mother, Rosa (other sources state her name as Regina), had a Swiss passport, while his father, Hermann originating from Frankfurt, Germany had become stateless after losing his German citizenship as a Jew. They had to apply for the Swiss citizenship of Frank and his older brother, Manfred. Though Frank and his family remained safe in Switzerland during World War II, the threat of Nazism nonetheless affected his understanding of oppression. He turned to photography, in part as a means to escape the confines of his business-oriented family and home, and trained under a few photographers and graphic designers before he created his first hand-made book of photographs, 40 Fotos, in 1946. Frank emigrated to the United States in 1947, and secured a job in New York City as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. He soon left to travel in South America and Europe. He created another hand-made book of photographs that he shot in Peru, and returned to the U.S. in 1950. That year was momentous for Frank, who, after meeting Edward Steichen, participated in the group show 51 American Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); he also married fellow artist Mary Frank née Mary Lockspeiser, with whom he had two children, Andrea and Pablo.
Though he was initially optimistic about the United States' society and culture, Frank's perspective quickly changed as he confronted the fast pace of American life and what he saw as an overemphasis on money. He now saw America as an often bleak and lonely place, a perspective that became evident in his later photography. Frank's own dissatisfaction with the control that editors exercised over his work also undoubtedly colored his experience. He continued to travel, moving his family briefly to Paris. In 1953, he returned to New York and continued to work as a freelance photojournalist for magazines including McCall's, Vogue, and Fortune. Associating with other contemporary photographers such as Saul Leiter and Diane Arbus, he helped form what Jane Livingston has termed The New York School of photographers (not to be confused with the New York School of art) during the 1940s and 1950s.
The Americans[edit]
With the aid of his major artistic influence, the photographer Walker Evans, Frank secured a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[2] in 1955 to travel across the United States and photograph all strata of its society. Cities he visited included Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan; Savannah, Georgia; Miami Beach and St. Petersburg, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; Butte, Montana; and Chicago, Illinois.[3] He took his family along with him for part of his series of road trips over the next two years, during which time he took 28,000 shots. 83 of these were selected by him for publication in The Americans.[4]
Frank's journey was not without incident. He later recalled the anti-Semitism to which he was subject in a small Arkansas town. "I remember the guy [policeman] took me into the police station, and he sat there and put his feet on the table. It came out that I was Jewish because I had a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation. They really were primitive." He was told by the sheriff, "Well, we have to get somebody who speaks Yiddish. They wanted to make a thing out of it. It was the only time it happened on the trip. They put me in jail. It was scary. Nobody knew where I was."[5] Elsewhere in the South, he was told by a sheriff that he had "an hour to leave town."
Shortly after returning to New York in 1957, Frank met Beat writer Jack Kerouac on the sidewalk outside a party and showed him the photographs from his travels. Kerouac immediately told Frank "Sure I can write something about these pictures," and he contributed the introduction to the U.S. edition of The Americans. Frank also became lifelong friends with Allen Ginsberg, and was one of the main visual artists to document the Beat subculture, which felt an affinity with Frank's interest in documenting the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. The irony that Frank found in the gloss of American culture and wealth over this tension gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists, as did his use of unusual focus, low lighting and cropping that deviated from accepted photographic techniques.[4]
This divergence from contemporary photographic standards gave Frank difficulty at first in securing an American publisher. Les Américains was first published in 1958 by Robert Delpire in Paris, as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series, with texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck that Delpire positioned opposite Frank's photographs.[6] It was finally published in 1959 in the United States, without the texts, by Grove Press, where it initially received substantial criticism. Popular Photography, for one, derided his images as "meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures, drunken horizons and general sloppiness." Though sales were also poor at first, the fact that the introduction was by the popular Kerouac helped it reach a larger audience. Over time and through its inspiration of later artists, The Americans became a seminal work in American photography and art history, and is the work with which Frank is most clearly identified. Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2014, said "it is impossible to imagine photography's recent past and overwhelmingly confusing present without his lingeringly pervasive presence." and that The Americans "changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it. [ . . . ] it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century."[1]
In 1961, Frank received his first individual show, entitled Robert Frank: Photographer, at the Art Institute of Chicago. He also showed at MoMA in New York in 1962.
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of The Americans, a new edition was released worldwide on May 30, 2008. For this new edition from Steidl most photographs are uncropped compared with the cropped versions in previous editions, and two photographs are replaced with those of the same subject but from an alternate perspective.
A celebratory exhibit of The Americans, titled Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, was displayed in 2009 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[7] The second section of the four-section, 2009, SFMOMA[8] exhibition displays Frank's original application to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (which funded the primary work on The Americans project), along with vintage contact sheets, letters to photographer Walker Evans and author Jack Kerouac, and two early manuscript versions of Kerouac's introduction to the book. Also exhibited were three collages (made from more than 115 original rough work prints) that were assembled under Frank's supervision in 2007 and 2008, revealing his intended themes as well as his first rounds of image selection. An accompanying book, also titled Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, was published.
By the time The Americans was published in the United States, Frank had moved away from photography to concentrate on filmmaking. Among his films was the 1959 Pull My Daisy, which was written and narrated by Kerouac and starred Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and others from the Beat circle. The Beats emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised.[4] Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Frank's co-director, Alfred Leslie, revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film with professional lighting.
In 1960, Frank was staying in Pop artist George Segal's basement while filming Sin of Jesus with a grant from Walter K. Gutman. Isaac Babel's story was transformed to center on a woman working on a chicken farm in New Jersey. It was originally supposed to be filmed in six weeks in and around New Brunswick, but Frank ended up shooting for six months.
Frank's 1972 documentary of the Rolling Stones, Cocksucker Blues, is arguably his best known film. The film shows the Stones on tour, engaging in heavy drug use and group sex. Frank said of the Stones, "It was great to watch them — the excitement. But my job was after the show. What I was photographing was a kind of boredom. It's so difficult being famous. It's a horrendous life. Everyone wants to get something from you.''[4] Mick Jagger reportedly told Frank, "It's a fucking good film, Robert, but if it shows in America we'll never be allowed in the country again." The Stones sued to prevent the film's release, and it was disputed whether Frank as the artist or the Stones as those who hired the artist owned the copyright. A court order restricted the film to being shown no more than five times per year, and only in the presence of Frank. Frank's photography also appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stones' album Exile on Main St..
Other films by Frank include Me and My Brother, Keep Busy, and Candy Mountain which he co-directed with Rudy Wurlitzer.
Return to still images[edit]
Though Frank continued to be interested in film and video, he returned to still images in the 1970s, publishing his second photographic book, The Lines of My Hand, in 1972. This work has been described as a "visual autobiography", and consists largely of personal photographs. However, he largely gave up "straight" photography to instead create narratives out of constructed images and collages, incorporating words and multiple frames of images that were directly scratched and distorted on the negatives. None of this later work has achieved an impact comparable to that of The Americans. As some critics have pointed out, this is perhaps because Frank began playing with constructed images more than a decade after Robert Rauschenberg introduced his silkscreen composites—in contrast to The Americans, Frank's later images simply were not beyond the pale of accepted technique and practice by that time.
Frank and Mary separated in 1969. He remarried, to sculptor June Leaf, and in 1971, moved to the community of Mabou, Nova Scotia in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia in Canada. In 1974, tragedy struck when his daughter, Andrea, was killed in a plane crash in Tikal, Guatemala. Also around this time, his son, Pablo, was first hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia. Much of Frank's subsequent work has dealt with the impact of the loss of both his daughter and subsequently his son, who died in an Allentown, Pennsylvania hospital in 1994. In 1995, he founded the Andrea Frank Foundation, which provides grants to artists.
Since his move to Nova Scotia, Canada, Frank has divided his time between his home there in a former fisherman's shack on the coast, and his Bleecker Street loft in New York. He has acquired a reputation for being a recluse (particularly since the death of Andrea), declining most interviews and public appearances. He has continued to accept eclectic assignments, however, such as photographing the 1984 Democratic National Convention, and directing music videos for artists such as New Order ("Run"), and Patti Smith ("Summer Cannibals"). Frank continues to produce both films and still images, has helped organize several retrospectives of his art, and his work has been represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York since 1984.[9] In 1994, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. presented the most comprehensive retrospective of Frank's work to date, entitled Moving Out.
- 1997: Flamingo, Hasselblad Award exhibition, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden.
- 2004: Storylines Tate Modern Museum, London. First major exhibition in the UK.[10]
- 2008: Robert Frank, Paris, Museum Folkwang, Essen.
- 2009: Robert Frank. Die Filme, C/O Berlin, Berlin.
- 2009: Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 18 January – 26 April 2009 and then toured to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 16 May – 23 August 2009; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 22 September – 27 December 2009.[11]
- 2012: Robert Frank, From the collections of Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Schweiz,[12] Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
- 2014: Robert Frank In America, from the Cantor Art Center at Stanford collection, Stanford University.
- 1955: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[2]
- 1996: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography from the Hasselblad Foundation.[13]
- 2002: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.[14][15]
- Les Américains = The Americans
- Paris: Delpire, 1958. French. Includes text in French by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck about American political and social history, selected by Alain Bosquet. Part of the Encyclopédie Essentielle series.
- New York: Grove Press, 1959. Introduction by Jack Kerouac.
- New York: Aperture; Museum of Modern Art, 1969. Revised and enlarged edition. With an introduction by Jack Kerouac, a brief introduction by Frank, and a survey of Frank's films, each represented by a page of film frame stills.
- Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. ISBN 978-3-86521-584-0. Most photographs are uncropped compared with cropped versions in previous editions, and two photographs are replaced with those of the same subject but from an alternate perspective.
- The Lines of my Hand.
- Tokyo: Yugensha. Deluxe, slipcased edition. Edition of 1000 copies, 500 featured the slipcase photograph of "New York City, 1948", 500 featured the slipcase photograph of "Platte River, Tennessee".
- New York: Lustrum Press, 1972. Paperback.
- New York: Pantheon. ISBN 9780394552552.
- Flamingo. Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center, 1997. ISBN 9783931141554. Catalogue for Hasselblad Award exhibition, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden.
- London/Wales. Published in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., for an exhibition held May 10-July 14, 2003.
- Zurich; New York: Scalo, 2003. ISBN 9783908247678.
- Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. ISBN 978-3865213624.
- Come Again. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 9783865212610. According to the back cover, "Photos have been taken within the context of the photographical project 'Beirut, city centre, 1991', Éditions de Cyprès, Paris."
- Paris. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 978-3865215246.
- Peru. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 978-3865216922.
- Zero Mostel Reads a Book. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. ISBN 978-3865215864.
- Pangnirtung. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. ISBN 978-3869301983.
- Pull My Daisy. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. ISBN 978-3865216731. A transcript of Kerouac's narration from the film Pull My Daisy (1959) with film stills and an introduction by Jerry Tallmer.
- Ferne Nähe: Hommage für Robert Walser = Distant Closeness: A Tribute to Robert Walser. Bern: Robert Walser-Zentrum, 2012. ISBN 978-3-9523586-2-7.
Critical studies, reviews and biography[edit]
- Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86521-806-3. By Sarah Greenough. With essays by Stuart Alexander, Phillip Brookman, Michel Frizot, Martin Gasser, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Kuc Sante and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Published to accompany an exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Prose, Francine (Jan 2010). "You got eyes : Robert Frank imagines America". Harper's. 320 (1916): 67–73. Reviews The Americans.
- Don't Blink – Robert Frank (2015). Documentary directed by Laura Israel.
- 1959: Pull My Daisy (with Alfred Leslie)
- 1961: The Sin of Jesus
- 1963: O.K. End Here
- 1965/1968: Me And My Brother
- 1969: Conversations in Vermont
- 1969: Life-Raft Earth
- 1971: About Me: A Musical
- 1972: Cocksucker Blues
- 1975: Keep Busy (with Rudy Wurlitzer)
- 1980: Life Dances On
- 1981: Energy and How to Get It (with Rudy Wurlitzer)
- 1983: This Song For Jack
- 1985: Home Improvements
- 1987: Candy Mountain (with Rudy Wurlitzer)
- 1989: Hunter
- 1990: C'est vrai! (One Hour)
- 1992: Last Supper
- 1994: Moving Pictures
- 2002: Paper Route
- 2004/2008: True Story
- ^ a b O'Hagan, Sean (7 November 2014). "Robert Frank at 90: the photographer who revealed America won't look back". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ a b "Robert Frank". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ Lane, Anthony (14 September 2009). "Road Show: The journey of Robert Frank's "The Americans."". The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ a b c d Dawidoff, Nicholas (14 July 2012). "The Man Who Saw America". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ Gefter, Philip (12 December 2008). "Snapshots from the American Road."The New York Times. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ Ladd, Jeffrey (9 May 2012). "Master of the Photobook: Robert Delpire's Long and Legendary Influence". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ^ "Robert Frank: The Americans". Steidl.
- ^ "Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans"". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ "Art: Evoking the World of Some Great Painters", The New York Times
- ^ Robert Frank: Storylines, Tate Modern: Exhibition, 28 October 2004 – 23 January 2005
- ^ Greenough, Sarah (2009). Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans. Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 978-3-86521-806-3.
- ^ "Robert Frank: From the collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur, MAMM". Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ^ "Robert Frank". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ^ "Medal Day History". MacDowell Colony. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ "MacDowell Medal winners 1960-2011". London: The Daily Telegraph. 13 April 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- Philip Gefter, Snapshots From The American Road, The New York Times, Dec. 14, 2008.
Further reading[edit]
- Alexander, Stuart. – Robert Frank: A Bibliography, Filmography, and Exhibition Chronology, 1946-1985 (Center for Creative Photography, 1986). OCLC 16798695
- Gefter, Philip. - Photography After Frank (Aperture, 2009). ISBN 978-1-59711-095-2
- Green, Jonathan. – American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present (Abrams, 1984). Chapter 5, "The Americans: Politics and Alienation." ISBN 0-8109-1814-5
- Janis, Eugenia Parry and Wendy MacNeil, eds. – Photography Within the Humanities (Addison House, 1977). "Robert Frank" (transcript of a talk and interview conducted at Wellesley College on 14 April 1975), pp. 52–65. ISBN 0-89169-013-1
- Leo, Vince. – Robert Frank: From Compromise to Collaboration. Parkett, 1994, Issue 42, pp. 8–23.
- Papageorge, Tod. – Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (Yale University Art Gallery, 1981). ISBN 0-89467-015-8
- Penman, Ian. – Robert Frank: Storylines (Steidl, 2004). ISBN 3-86521-041-4
- Sandeen, Eric. – Picturing An Exhibition (University of New Mexico Press, 1995). Chapter 5, "Edward Steichen, Robert Frank, and American Modernism." ISBN 0-8263-1558-5
- Tucker, Anne and Philip Brookman, eds. – Robert Frank: New York to Nova Scotia (Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, 1986). ISBN 0-8212-1623-6
- Bibliographies
- Frank Bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
External links[edit]
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- Robert Frank, Pace/MacGill Gallery
- Robert Frank at the Internet Movie Database
- Robert Frank's Masterpiece: "The Americans" at 50
- Robert Frank at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans", National Gallery of Art, 2009
- Elson Lecture 2009: Robert Frank, National Gallery of Art
- Robert Frank Collection Guide, National Gallery of Art, 2014 (with "more than 430 images")
- "Seeing Beauty in Our Shadows Robert Frank's 'The Americans,' unpopular when first published, has shaped the way America looks at itself," The Wall Street Journal, September 19–20, 2009
- Robert Frank on National Public Radio
- 'Walker Evans and Robert Frank: an Essay on Influence' by Tod Papageorge
- Nericcio, William Anthony. – Cinematography, Photography, and Literature: Robert Frank's Aesthetic Triptych (MOPA, San Diego, 2000). (An online essay on Pull My Daisy with illustrations and film-clip.)
- 'Robert Frank: Dissecting The American Image' by Jno Cook
- Illustrated book review of The Americans
- Robert Frank at the Internet Movie Database
- Works by or about Robert Frank in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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Somewhere in a cobwebby corner of my computer's hard disk are a few manuscripts I wrote 15 years ago on my first PC. The word-processing software I used then was grandly named The Final Word. It was anything but. I've gone through a dozen word processors since then, and nearly as many computers. To keep older documents accessible, I've had to transfer and transform them repeatedly, from one disk to the next and from one file format to another. And still I have yet to find the Final Word. Sooner or later I'll be gathering up my digital belongings yet again and converting them to some new format. This time I'll have 12,000 files in tow. I can't wait.
But my personal data-migration problems are puny compared with those of corporations, universities, libraries and publishers. (Imagine the plight of the National Archives, the agency charged with preserving everything the U.S. government deems to be worth keeping.) And the material to be preserved is not just text. Obsolete storage media and file formats are just as vexing when the files hold other kinds of information, such as images, engineering drawings, the numerical results of scientific experiments, digitized audio and video, maps, tax returns, databases.
One cause for worry among archivists is the impermanence of digital storage media. In this respect civilization has been going downhill ever since Mesopotamia. Paper documents cannot match the longevity of the Sumerians' clay tablets, and magnetic media seem to be even more evanescent than paper. That's disturbing news, and yet I suspect that relatively few disks or tapes have yet died of old age. Long before the disk wears out or succumbs to bit rot, the machine that reads the disk has become a museum piece. So the immediate challenge is not preserving the information but preserving the means to get at it.
Occasionally, the rescue of some long-neglected digital resource calls for heroic measures, such as reconstructing an antique tape drive. But most file transfers and translations are routine; utility software handles the conversion, though often with a minor loss of information. Even when the process is easy and successful, however, file conversion is a nuisance. It's a lot like moving your household—more work than you expected, and a few dishes always get broken. As my stockpile of files for the digital U-Haul continues to grow, I dread the prospect more and more. I daydream of hiking into the woods as a cybersurvivalist, refusing ever again to upgrade my hardware and software. If I stock up on spare parts—80-megabyte disk drives, 30-pin SIMMs—I could live out my remaining years in a log cabin with a Macintosh SE/30.
Most likely I would not be alone in the woods, but before I begin hoarding the computer equivalent of canned goods it seems prudent to consider less-extreme alternatives. All I really want is some way of representing digital information that I can stick with for a while. I want a file format for the ages—a single format that will serve many purposes and continue to work with many combinations of hardware and software. Which format is that? I don't have a definitive answer—not even an answer that meets all my own immediate needs. But I think I know where to look for inspiration. Here's a hint: Among all the kinds of things stored in computers, the ones that are hardest to keep up-to-date and hardest to move from one platform to another are programs for the computer itself. Maybe programmers know something the rest of us ought to learn.
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Thank YOU, Danville Weekly
Original post made by Hal Bailey, another community, on Nov 21, 2007
May you and all the staff at The Danville Weekly celebrate our thanks for an exceptional job of reporting, communicating and interacting with all our communities and neighborhoods.
Joyous Thanksgiving,
Posted in thanks by the Alamo Region community of neighborhoods
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on Nov 28, 2007 at 8:15 am
Dear neighbors,
I enjoyed Hal's thanks to The Danville Weekly in honor of Thanksgiving. The Danville Weekly editor and staff have provided an interactive view of the interests and personalities of our region and Alamo in particular. In my nine years as a resident in Alamo, I have always felt that I lived in another community because I could not understand the interests and actions of our more public citizens or the culture of the neighbors that surrounded me. As more and more younger people moved into my Alamo neighborhood, I found more relationships and an easy understanding among growing friendships.
Now with the former culture on the wane and only sprinkled in the neighborhoods, I am enjoying my neighbors and neighborhood events with the easy comfort that is the new majority culture. As I read The Danville Weekly on-line and in print, and review the Town Square Forum, I am finding my experiences explained by the many comments of Alamo neighbors and their neighborhood groups.
In reading the various postings and guest columns of the waning community groups, including their AIM releases, I am beginning to understand this past culture as a culture of group mentality. More personally, I spent time in October in front of Safeway speaking with AIM petition volunteers and experienced the culture. Three very nice ladies attempted to "pat me on the head and educate me" in proper thinking and adherence to their cultural and political viewpoints.
I am thankful for the diversity of thoughts brought forward by The Danville Weekly,
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My observations in Costa Rica so far... some weird; some just different:
- there's a security guard at Levi's office building with a GUN -- por qu�? Didn't know that denim needed that much protection.
- Costa Rica is not that into sidewalks either (same as Guatemala).
- People don't walk facing the traffic. They walk wherever it's convenient for them but I'm always reminded that cars won't stop or slow down for pedestrians. Crazy!
- San Jose also has a Hooters restaurant! (yes, it's true, Robbie)
- People will sell all kinds of stuff (oranges, peppers, trinquets) in the middle of a 2 lane street. They just walk in between the traffic and when the traffic slows when trying to enter the 'roundabout', they will try selling you a bag of oranges!!
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China is developing very quickly. People in the UK are very familiar with the 'Made in China' label on many goods. But what about product design in China?
Many Chinese designers are studying and working abroad, and some of them have already returned. Is Chinese design changing? What is the future of design in China?
The seminar will focus on Chinese design now and what the future holds for it.
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Everyone is invited to attend this free seminar. If you are interested in Design and China, come and join us!
I'd like to thank Vtop for its cooperation and the exquisite poster design. A very special thanks to Mr. Hongxing Zhang and Mr. Zhongmin Wu. Vtop is a multinational network of designers. If you are interest, please check their website.
中国设计论坛 背景:对高速发展中的中国,英国人从很多产品中已经熟知了"中国制造"标签,但是对于中国产品设计呢?他们知道多少。如今有很多中国设计留学生在海外求学 和工作,有些也已经回国,设计在中国有所改观吗?未来的设计出路在哪儿?我们将尝试着探讨这些问题。 这个论坛的主题是关注中国设计和中国设计前景,欢迎海外的中国设计师参加和关注中国设计的海外设计师参与近来。非常感谢中国部的高级馆长张洪兴和Vtop design的吴仲旻参加此次论坛。同时感谢Vtop design的合作并为这次论坛设计了精美的海报,这是一个海外华人设计师的交流网,有兴趣交流设计的朋友可以访问网站。


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- The new law will outlaw smoking in public places.
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› [ C ] the space at a table where one person will sit and eat, usually with a plate and knives, forks, and spoons arranged on it(餐桌旁的)位子
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1) Dell Demps spoke to New Orleans media late Thursday night following the team's participation in the draft, but was unable to provide many specifics under the circumstances. Demps: "We want to upgrade the roster."
2) Manning's hosted an extremely well-attended Pelicans draft party last night. Check out this photo gallery, featuring appearances by Anthony Davis and Jason Smith.
3) From now through the end of July, there's very little "off" in the NBA's offseason. Teams can begin negotiating with free agents on Monday. NBA TV is broadcasting "Free Agent Fever" preview specials Sunday night at 6 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (Central time).
4) With the draft concluded, the Pelicans begin the process today of putting together their summer-league roster. We'll have updates next week.
5) Prior to last night, there was a press conference tentatively scheduled for today to introduce new players from the draft (such as what took place in 2012). That will be rescheduled for a later date.


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For at least a little while back in 2008 it felt like the world, the business world in particular, was exploding. When Lehman Brothers went under, even veterans of financial crises were heard to yelp: sell everything you can, head for the hills.
So the list of firms which expanded in the midst of such calamity must be few. One of them is Equinox, the luxury fitness club beloved of celebrities, which recently opened off Kensington High Street and has plans for another four to six outlets in the capital.
Harvey Spevak, chief executive and president, says: "2008 was a record year for us, 2009 was as good as 2008. There are very few consumer-facing brands that can make that claim."
No kidding.
But why would an opulent luxury gym have survived the carnage? Isn't a flash fitness club the ultimate in luxury spending? Surely if you were fearful of losing your job and mindful of saving some cash, a gym costing £180 a month for membership alone would be top of the cuts-list. Spevak claims not: almost universally, A-type characters decided that as the going was getting tough, only the fittest could be sure of survival.
"The demographic and the profile of the typical Equinox member is such that when the crisis hit they became even more focused on living healthily," he says. "We saw increased usage from the same members and many new members joining. If they were cutting back, they were going out to eat less often or buying fewer clothes. Their Equinox membership was very important to them."
And that £180 is often only the beginning of the monthly spend.
For other services — the retail offering and the highly regarded personal training — a typical member may double the membership fee each month, which explains why Equinox is able to boast that all 60 of its clubs are quickly profitable.
In turn, this means Equinox can fund its own expansion rather than borrow from outside.
And although other gyms come and go, Equinox has never shut a club once open. "I feel pretty comfortable that there are enough people that desire what we offer to keep growing. Our members have a significant discretionary income, they are successful people coming from media, new media, banking, fashion, modelling."
What about those celebrities?
"They are helpful to us," concedes Spevak. "But we don't pursue them. They come to us." Why was London next after the US? "London is a gateway city to the world," he says. "Many people from around the world choose to relocate to London or spend significant time here. It is a great platform to educate the rest of the world about Equinox." More than that, Spevak is a London-o-phile. "I love London," he says, "the energy and the architecture. I've been blown away at how well received we have been. The locals have embraced us."
Each new club generates about 250 jobs, so potentially Equinox can be a mini-boom for those in the fitness trade. "It is difficult to be specific about how many gyms we could open in London over the next two to four years, but I will say we are very excited by success in Kensington," he says.
Inside the club, it is clear right from the start that you are not in Average Joe's, the struggling gym in Vince Vaughn's Dodgeball film.
It feels like a well-appointed spa, partly because it is, though one where the sweat will be generated from more than folk keeping still in hot rooms.
The luxury comes in ways large and small. There are eucalyptus-scented towels for example, which may not be necessary but they do smell nice.
And the pampering available — at a price — includes 24-carat-gold facials and detoxifying mud wraps.
Others in the gym trade trying to cling onto members might look on with envy. What leisure analysts in the City note — and this applies beyond the fitness industry — is that the worst market space to be in at the moment is the middle.
If you're top of the range, the customers you seek can still afford you. If you're cheap, thrifty customers will find you. But if you're somewhere in-between, life is tricky.
Spevak himself has been running the business since 1999 and — it is fairly obvious — likes to work-out. He follows, he says, a "holistic healthy lifestyle". Feeling good and living well isn't something that ends once you step off the treadmill, in other words.
Equinox offers what the New York Times called "a temple of wellbeing" to those who aim to treat themselves with consideration. They may have found a sweet spot.
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The hotel is mostly in one building, with the reception, bar, restaurant, and the majority of the rooms above. Then there is the pool, with an apartment beside it (where Pablo and Brian stayed), and at the other end of the hotel is the chapel, with another apartment (where Joanne and Bob were upstairs, and I had the downstairs. I guess it paid to be on a 4hr delayed flight with P & B after all!). I was extremely thankful for my room when we found out the air con wasn't working in the hotel, but yet my room remained cool all week. I tried not to mention that too loudly there though J
Our first dinner was quite a dining experience!! There was a wedding reception in the hotel at the same time, so the food just kept coming and coming. While delicious, there comes a point where you can't bear to look at another dish. I am sure that too much food was to blame for lack of some people's sleep that night, as much as the heat. Very tasty though! When the dancing started, at one point a conga line formed and wound it's way through our side of the dining area. The wedding guests started pulling people from our group in to the dance, which was lots of fun. Some people didn't find the festivities all that entertaining though, at about midnight a man came out of one of the privately owned apartments and went out to his car and laid on the horn for what seemed an eternity. Apparently in Italy "please can you turn your music down I am trying to sleep" is not the way to make a statement. The father of the bride came out and had a "chat" with the crazy honker, which involved a lot of hand gesturing, colourful language and yelling on both parts. Very Italian! I can't remember how many times the crazy honker laid on the horn, but eventually I think he packed up his dog and his wife and headed back to wherever he came from. But more on him later!


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Bloomberg, Swedish daily Dagens Indusrri and other media said Wednesday that the Chinese-Japanese investment group National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), that may build electric cars, agreed to buy Saab Automobile and bring the Swedish manufacturer back from bankruptcy.
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Property Location
With a stay at Grand Hotel Ortigia Siracusa, you'll be centrally located in Syracuse, steps from Porta Marina and minutes from Temple of Apollo. This 5-star hotel is within close proximity of Palazzo Platamone and Piazza Archimede.
Make yourself at home in one of the 58 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and bidets. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and a turndown service.
Pamper yourself with onsite massages, body treatments, and facials. You're sure to appreciate the recreational amenities, including a spa tub and a steam room. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge). Getting to the surf and sand is a breeze with the beach shuttle (surcharge).
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, where you can enjoy drinks at a bar and dine alfresco (weather permitting). Or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Syracuse? This hotel has facilities measuring 538 square feet (50 square meters), including a conference center. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
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- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Conference space size (feet) - 538
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- Conference space size (meters) - 50
- Steam room
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Beach umbrellas
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- Wedding services
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- Roll-in shower
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Luggage storage
- Total number of rooms - 58
- In-room accessibility
- 24-hour business center
- Coffee shop or café
- Beach sun loungers
- Laundry facilities
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Free WiFi
- Number of floors - 3
- Multilingual staff
Room Facilities
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- In-room safe
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- All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
- Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
- Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 15 for adults and EUR 15 for children (approximately)
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The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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