#ALFRED LAWRENCE

[anamon-book]

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[thesmilingfish]

I was looking for something in the shed and found this instead. (Actually I found a TON of very cool things that I own but don't have room for in the cottage, but anyway...)

I did a little research and apparently this is the first book in the short series of Columbo tie-in books. What's weird is that mine is hardback but I can't find it listed as a hardback anywhere. On the back it actually says "First Time in Paperback". Maybe it was made for libraries.

Anyway, here's today's cool thing.

[itsthundertime]

Just some fan art and sorta redesign of someone's fan child with my own just because I felt like it😇

Yes, this was inspired by a scene from Hazbin Hotel🙃

[itsthundertime]

SNARLS LIKE A RABID DOG

IT'S ALFRED LAWRENCE YIPPPIIEIEIEIIEIEIEIEIEIEI!! ✨✨✨🎉🎉🎉‼️‼️‼️

Well, guys. I want to share it with you...

BENDY FANDOM COLLAB!!

It was exciting, and I, like I hope many other participants, had more experience of some kind. I thank everyone who even just responded to my offers to participate, it's also good, even if you refused.

PARTICIPANTS:

@cvmcicle

@mee-the-demon

@science-funtime

@shammy-yipee

@itsthundertime

@kris-bj

@grandthefoxdelusion, and @nrryxx!

Thank you all very much!!

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Scream Along With Me (1967)

Art by Richard Bober

[alovelywaytospendanevening]

British gay/bi male writers and their social circles

As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.

I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.

This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!

(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)

[c0rpse-filth]

"he's me fr" the he in question:

[20thcenturypaintings]

Cherry Trees at Owletts

Artist: Alfred Kingsley Lawrence RA (British, 1893-1975)

Date: 1935

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, United Kingdom

[artemlegere]

Ask Me No More

Artist: Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British, 1836–1912)

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Property of a European collector

Ask Me No More

'Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd: I strove against the stream and all in vain: Let the great river take me to the main: No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield.' Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess.

'Ask me no more', which takes its title from a poem by the Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson, is a quintessential Alma-Tadema subject. In fact he treated it so often that it is probably the one with which he is most closely associated: a pair of lovers seated on a marble bench overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The sun always shines in these pictures, although it never seems oppressively hot; and the lovers are invariably shown in a state of emotional anticipation rather than succumbing to passion itself. As Vern Swanson, the leading authority on Alma-Tadema, states in his catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings, love-making is shown not 'at the point of climax, but rather earlier, when the tension is mounting.

A trademark feature of the painting is the marble bench. Alma-Tadema had made a specialty of painting marble since the late 1850s, and it had become one of his most celebrated accomplishments, endlessly commented on in reviews and even joked about in Punch. Dutch artists had always excelled at still-life, and Alma-Tadema's marble-painting is in this tradition. The same skill emerges in the way he handles flowers, as 'Ask me no more' also demonstrates. But the exquisitely rendered bunch of anemones does more than testify to the painter's virtuoso technique. Evidently a tribute from the youth to his sweetheart, it adds a touch of poignancy to the narrative. It is also a vital compositional element, placing an accent precisely where it is needed, and it provides a focal point for the colour scheme, a subtle interplay of blues, mauves and creams balanced against the pale aquamarine of the girl's dress.

This chromatic harmony is enhanced by the pearly light that pervades the scene, coming from behind the figures to create a contre-jour effect and cast delicate shadows onto the marble pavement. In 1884 Alma-Tadema had taken over 17 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, a house previously occupied by the French artist James Tissot who had fled back to Paris on the death of his muse and mistress, Kathleen Newton. He proceeded to remodel it extensively, furnishing it in a variety of exotic styles and generally turning it into one of the sights of London. Among its many notable features was the apsidal end of the artist's studio, which he had lined with aluminum to create the diffused and silvery light so typical of his later works. 'Ask me no more' is a classic example.

The picture is almost the last in which Alma-Tadema painted his ever-popular theme of a young couple suffering the palpitations of romance, although a watercolour version, entitled Youth, followed in 1908. 'Ask me no more' was the only picture he showed at the R.A. in 1906. He had seldom contributed more than three examples, and one became more or less the norm during his final years.

[davidhudson]

Happy 94th, Tippi Hedren.

1962 photo by Lawrence Schiller.

[professorambrius]

Happy Father's Day

Some of my favorite dads and their kids.

[aisakalegacy]

Été 1930, Hylewood, Canada (4/4)

Quelques nouvelles de ton investissement. Il va bien ! À la mi-juin l’année dernière, j’ai réuni quelques gars de l’île et des copains pour m’aider avec les travaux. Au départ, ce n’était que moi et mon cousin Fabien, mais Rumédier le gérant du sanatorium nous a envoyé son petit-fils pour nous donner un coup de main, et mes copains du pensionnant sont venus aider aussi. À nous sept, nous avons dragué, nivelé, construit la jeté et les quais, aménagé les accès, installé les bâtiments portuaires, les points d’eau, et les points de carburant. Grâce à toi, j’ai pu payer ceux qui ont pris de leurs temps et de leurs ressources pour m’aider, et surtout, j’ai pu faire électrifier le port ! Oui, tu lis bien, le port d’Hylewood est relié à l’électricité.

A la mi-juillet de cette année, après un an et un mois de travaux, le port était terminé (mises à part quelques petites finitions). On m’a envoyé un inspecteur afin de vérifier la solidité des infrastructures et faire des tests pratiques… Et depuis aujourd’hui, le 16 septembre 1930 : le port d’Hylewood est officiellement ouvert ! Bon, la saison est pratiquement terminée donc je ne pense pas que j’accueillerai grand monde cette année, mais tu sais, même si on avait terminé les travaux plus tôt, on n’aurait sûrement pas eu grand monde de toute manière. Par rapport aux années précédentes, il y a eu très peu de touristes cet été. L’année prochaine sera sûrement meilleure. En attendant les clients, je m’occupe. Je joue de la guitare, et surtout, je pêche. Tu trouveras d’ailleurs trois photographies dans l’enveloppe de cette lettre, pour que tu puisses voir à quoi ressemble le port. J’y ai ajouté aussi une prise que j’ai faite, une magnifique truite de dix livres  !

Je ne savais même pas que la cousine Ada s’était rendue en France. Pour tout t’avouer, nous ne sommes pas très proches de cette branche de la famille, alors je ne sais pas bien comment elle a entendu parler de toutes ces histoires, mais je plaide non coupable ! À mon avis, ça doit être Maman, puisqu’elle allait régulièrement voir Tante Françoise pour qu’elle corrige ses lettres à ta mère. Je t’avoue que depuis la mort de Tante Françoise, je ne sais pas bien qui s’occupait de la corriger. J’avais toujours supposé que c’était Mlle Rumédier, mais peut-être bien qu’elle demandait à la cousine Winifred, qui aurait parlé du contenu de ses lettres à sa sœur Ada. Tante Françoise pouvait parfois se montrer un peu snob et vieux jeu, alors ne prend pas toutes les pratiques de ses filles pour des généralités. Par exemple, porter un voile noir épais pour un enterrement est plutôt quelque chose qu’on associe aux vielles dames très catholiques.

Embrasse les filles de ma part. J’espère que tu profites du calme retrouvé, que Sélène est mariée, et que Jean-François est bachelier. Ne manque pas de montrer la photographie de ma truite à Ange et à Antoine !

Je t’embrasse affectueusement,

Lucien LeBris

[autumncottageattic]

Enchanted April is a 1991 British film adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel The Enchanted April. It stars Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright, with Alfred Molina, Michael Kitchen, and Jim Broadbent in supporting roles.

Part IV

[kemetic-dreams]

The term “Middle East” itself is rooted in Eurocentrism, as it references the region's location relative to Europe rather than its actual geographical location.

The term "Middle East" may have originated in the 1850s in the British India Office. However, it became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to "designate the area between Arabia and India"

[anonymous-badger-238]

Day 2

A valley girl (oh yeah valley dudes exist btw) is supposed to be from the San Fernando Valley, an affluent area of LA County

Sure, Alvarez (San Francisco) talks like one (sometimes), but McMillan is closer to the San Fernando Valley (Redondo Beach of the South Bay), so...

Anyways Alvarez ships Lawrence with Alfred Loomis. I THOUGHT he'd be a Lawrenceheimer shipper but I guess not. Here's some evidence:

Anyways let's have Alvarez and McMillan get into some drama

"There are no other options" what a mid excuse now your best friend is miserable

Oh and two pages later they're sharing vests. Seriously one day Alvarez hates McMillan and wants to ruin his life and the next he loves him again...

Honestly Alvarez would make for a great subject for a biopic he's so funny

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1936, archeological Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr was recruited by the government to find and retrieve the biblical Ark of the Covenant before the Nazi’s could during Hitler’s drive to find religious artifacts to aid him in winning World War II. (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flm)