#paul getty jr.

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Brian Jones, Nicky Browne, Tara Browne, Paul Getty Jr, Talitha Getty & Anita Pallenberg photographed by Michael Cooper in Ireland on Tara's 21st birthday, 1966🥀🍃🍂

"The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness's superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months." -Andrew Loog Oldham🥀🍃

Via @weirdtvland on Instagram🍂

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[seagull-astrology]

C160 Not so Sunny von Bulow

C160 Not so Sunny von Bulow

  Martha (Sunny) von Bülow, was an American heiress. She got into the news as it was suspected her second husband, a Danish-born man-about-society tried to poison her. Instead of dying, Sunny ended up in a life long coma before finally succumbing on Saturday December 6th, 2008 at an elite nursing home in Manhattan. Mrs. von Bülow, who was 76, had been in a coma for nearly 28 years. Maureen…

[antoine-roquentin]

corollary to the prior post:

The New Yorker article notes that William Newsom III, the father of the current governor, was also advisor to the son of the richest man in the world in the 1950s, Gordon Getty. In fact, Gordon and William (and John Paul Getty Jr.) grew up together and went to the same Jesuit prep school, St Ignatius. 4 years above them was future San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, 4 years below was future California governor Jerry Brown. Newsom III owed his appointment as judge to Brown in 1975 a year after Brown’s electoral win, where he quickly made good on the governor’s hippie style by ruling the Bohemian Club in violation of anti-discrimination statutes by not hiring women as employees, calling to mind Nixon’s famous remarks (the Grove is the Club’s yearly camp).

William Newsom III in turn owed his fortunes to his father, William Newsom II’s, patronage of a young Pat Brown, Jerry’s father, whose 1943 run for San Francisco District Attorney he financed to the tune of $5,000 obtained from his construction magnate father. In turn, he was Pat Brown’s campaign manager for his 1962 victory over Richard Nixon. This was a repayment for the 1960 transferal of expensive land in the Squaw Valley from the state to Newsom II, which Brown engineered with his gubernatorial powers.

Another St. Ignatius classmate was Paul Pelosi. His brother Ron ended up marrying Newsom III’s sister, Barbara, while he, of course, married the scion of a prominent Baltimore political family, Nancy D’Alesandro. Over the decades, these families became quite intertwined, sharing board memberships on charities and companies around the state. In turn, Billy Getty, son of Gordon, became quite close with current California governor Gavin, who was his best man at his wedding and opened a wine store with him. The duo are seen here with another Getty grandchild, Peter:

And while Gavin was mayor of San Francisco, he was a patron of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris, godmother of Billy Getty’s son.

Of course lots of people have discussed monopoly capitalism and interlocking boards of governance and how they restrict the functioning of creative destruction. It’s a straightforward contradiction that capital becomes more closely tied in a few hands even as it spreads outwards and decimates traditional social relations. However, I do think it’s important to talk about in the context of an article that gives the impression of the Getty family and the California government as opposed when in fact they are closely aligned in numerous hypocritical ways.

[anotherdayinbliss]

Talitha and Paul Getty Jr. at their home in Morocco. Photos by Patrick Lichfield, published in Vogue on January 15, 1970. 

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my thoughts on Trust (2018) (because there are many)

i came as part of my marinelli filmography mission and i was not expecting to love it as much as i did it’s absolutely brilliant

fletcher chase was absolutely one of my favourite parts the way he connected the audience to the show and encouraged us to examine everything and try to understand the story was so fun, he should’ve been used more also the last episode where he hints at little paul’s future and says ‘google it’ THAT WAS COLD AF pure genius

harris dickinson was amazing and while i do wish they would’ve cast someone who actually looked fifteen he created a character to care about so well

my other personal standout was michael esper as paul jr, the way you are able to both dislike him for the shitty things he does while also so intimately understand where it all comes from was very emotionally intense and just outstanding

nearly all the characters had these fleshed out three dimensions that prevented it from being black and white, literally everyone does at least one thing you can disagree with yet nearly all of them get the chance to lay out their truth so you understand ‘i am a person and this is what i am doing but it is not the whole story. this act is not me. it is not that simple.’

speaking of which (i had to mention him when he brought me here) primo. while he was always going to be brilliant in luca’s particular brand of entertainingly unhinged, i didn’t expect to not hate him. there were certainly moments when i did, but when he stands at the port in the finale, there was something almost satisfying about it? especially regarding his dealings with salvatore and francesco. the parallels between the guys in calabria and the gettys are just wonderful narratively.

(little mention for angelo. i loved him in episode 5 and when primo showed up and did that i was devastated.)

god donald sutherland can play a villain. the frustration and fury and desperation of his family rubs off on you as you watch, so many times i was yelling at the screen and wondering how someone could be so awful. the scene where paul jr lost his lover and called asking for help stands out in my memory.

bullimore <3

so many great shots, great edits, great soundtrack. this is just so well done, it was such a pleasant surprise to enjoy it so much.

[madandi]

Another interview for Better

A witty, no-nonsense policewoman faces off against a charismatic but chilling villain in crime-filled Yorkshire. You can see why Better might fill a Happy Valley-sized hole when it starts tonight on BBC1.

That, probably, is where the similarities end because Lou and Col, the central pair in the new series, have a very different relationship from Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley. For a start they actually like each other. Lou (Leila Farzad, aka Suzie’s manager in I Hate Suzie) is a high-ranking cop in Leeds, while Col, played by Andrew Buchan — who was the grieving father Mark Latimer in Broadchurch and Matt Hancock in This England — is the dapper Northern Irish head of a drug-dealing network.

Not a typical friendship, then, but they’ve been scratching each other’s backs for 19 years, rising to the top in their respective fields. The five-parter by Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent (Humans, Spooks) is moody and stylish with flashes of gallows humour. In the first episode Col invites Lou to his birthday dinner, telling the guests: “I’ve made it to another birthday in a challenging line of work.” Col and Lou sneak off for a fag. “I would not be here today without you,” he tells her. “Same here,” she replies. Their loyalty to each other is about to be challenged.Better is “a character-driven morality piece about redemption”, Buchan says over Zoom from a café near his home in Buckinghamshire. “And two characters who’ve made some very particular choices that slowly start unravelling. They’re both landlocked in a sense but just can’t get out.”It is, he adds, “nothing like Happy Valley”, although he understands why people might wonder.

The night before we speak he was at a screening in Leeds, where the show is set and shot. “One of the questions from the audience was about how people are going to naturally draw comparisons with Happy Valley. But in the future, hopefully, when a million more shows are being made up there, you wouldn’t need to draw comparisons.”Shows such as the one Buchan, 43, has just written, Passenger, which we’ll get to later. He is a proud northerner, having grown up in Bolton and married a fellow Lancastrian, Amy Nuttall, who played Chloe Atkinson in Coronation Street and Ethel the maid in Downton Abbey, with whom he has a child.

He used to excel at what he calls “everymen going through a crisis”, from Mark in Broadchurch, whose son is killed, to a former soldier accused of murder in The Fixer. These days he brings similar nuance to less ordinary — and richer — types: the millionaire scion John Paul Getty Jr in All the Money in the World; Andrew Parker Bowles, husband of Camilla, in The Crown; Felim Bichan, a financial player in Industry. SKY UKHis character in Better is loaded and powerful with an Ulster accent to boot, while the London-born Farzad, whom he describes as “a force”, does a Yorkshire one. Both sound pretty impressive to these poncey southern ears. Col’s accent was inspired by the Belfast-raised actor Jamie Dornan. “I bumped into him in a lift in London and we had this little brief chat,” Buchan says. “It’s such an amazing accent. I was walking along, quietly doing impersonations of Jamie Dornan to myself.

”When Buchan was first offered the role, “I was, like, ‘God no. He’s got to be 68 with a loose tooth and a gold chain. I’m not that guy.’ ” The director told him that they wanted someone a bit more charming. “He’s quite calm and careful and considered. He’s not a psychopath. But when people press his buttons he can go places.” Col’s lavish modernist house, filmed in Harrogate, “was a wee bit ridiculous”, Buchan says. Harrogate’s posh, isn’t it? “To us Boltonians it definitely is.”

He got closer to privilege when reading modern languages at Durham University and studying at Rada, where he was in the same year as Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough.Buchan also starred in the political drama Party Animals with Riseborough, whose recent Oscar nomination has been criticised after she benefited from celebrity cheerleaders including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet. “All I know is that she’s a phenomenal actress,” Buchan says. “My initial reaction to her being nominated was ‘about time’.

”Playing Hancock was “interesting”, he says, but he won’t be drawn on a political judgment. This England went quite easy on the former health secretary but Buchan “could only play what was on the page”, although he admits he must have “subliminally” incorporated his impressions of a man he had seen on TV daily during the pandemic.Well, it worked — his performance was eerily persuasive. He won’t say what he thinks of Hancock doing I’m a Celebrity but he raves about Kenneth Branagh’s take on Boris Johnson. “I’ve worked with some witty folk in my time, but Ken’s ad libs are off the scale.”

We talk about The Crown, in which he starred with Josh O’Connor and Emerald Fennell (“whose careers have nosedived obviously since then”, he says wryly), and All the Money in the World, where Christopher Plummer famously replaced Kevin Spacey as John Paul Getty Sr after Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct.Filmed in Rome, it was a taste of movie opulence that Buchan hadn’t had before. He compares it with The Fixer in 2008: “We filmed it in Lewisham, in minus 2C, covered in fake blood, in a vest and it was all quite unpleasant. So, to shoot in Rome!” For the reshoots he was flown back out on a private jet with Plummer, Michelle Williams and Ridley Scott, the director. “I think I was the only one who’d never been on a private jet before.”

Plummer handled the cast and crew with panache, he says, which was hard “when you’ve got 20,000 people in between takes saying, ‘Can you do Edelweiss?’ ” Plummer and Spacey had “very different takes” on the role, the father of Buchan’s character. “Christopher grabbed my hand really tightly and smiled at me with this twinkle in his eye, which was really unnerving. Whereas Kevin was the complete opposite.” More in character? “Yeah, whereas Christopher kind of played against it.”

His big ambition is to do more comedy. When he was playing the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow in Garrow’s Law he had long chats about it with his co-star, Alun Armstrong. “Al said, ‘The problem is that good comedies are as rare as rocking horse shit.’

”Buchan has found a neat way around that problem — writing his own show for ITV. Passenger is a horror comedy set in a small village called Chadder Vale in Lancashire. “We start filming in five days’ time, which is quite frightening,” he says. He won’t be acting in it but he has written all six episodes.“I’m on a bit of a hamster wheel at the minute, churning them out. When you can hear the execs barking at you, ‘We need, we need, we need . . . ’ you think, ‘I’m just going to treat that as white noise.’ ” The series will feature a former Met policewoman called Riya Ajunwa investigating a series of unnatural crimes including the abduction of a local girl. Dark, funny, female cop, set in the north — it’s all the rage, you know.

[whileiamdying]

The Story of ‘Gangsta’s Paradise,’ Coolio’s Biggest Hit

The 1995 song changed the rapper’s life, bringing a rush of stardom — along with a new level of success that he was unable to match again.

Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” built off Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise,” held No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in 1995.Credit...Paul Bergen/Redferns, via Getty Images

By Julia Jacobs Sept. 29, 2022

It started in 1995 in a home in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, where two roommates — a music producer and a D.J. — used to compete over who could find the best sample from their record collections.

One day, Paul Stewart, the D.J., conceded that his roommate, the producer Doug Rasheed, had bested him when Rasheed put on a vinyl copy of Stevie Wonder’s 1976 album “Songs in the Key of Life.”

The track that Rasheed played, “Pastime Paradise,” opened with a mournful synth loop that replicated the sound of a string section. The song that it inspired, “Gangsta’s Paradise,” would change both of their lives and catapult an up-and-coming West Coast rapper named Coolio to global stardom.

Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died on Wednesday in Los Angeles at age 59; the cause has not been disclosed. The rapper had a handful of hits before and after “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but nothing in his career would top the popularity and cultural influence of that track, which was featured in the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds” and went on both to win a Grammy and inspire a Weird Al Yankovic parody.

In recent years, Coolio had commented on the legacy of the song and its long shadow over the rest of his career, calling it, in one interview, both a blessing and curse (“More of a blessing than a curse,” he noted).

“That record: It took him over the top,” Rasheed, the song’s composer and producer, said in an interview on Thursday. “It made him a household name worldwide.”

Coolio’s opening words, which are based on Psalm 23, became one of the most widely remembered verses in ’90s rap: “As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there’s nothin’ left.”

The singer L.V. (born Larry Sanders), who features on the song, had already started collaborating with Rasheed on the track, he said in an interview, when Coolio wrote those lyrics. Listening to the Wonder song in that Hollywood Hills home, it had been L.V.’s idea to turn “Pastime Paradise” into “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

L.V. recorded multiple vocal tracks that Rasheed combined to sound like a large choir singing a haunting refrain, as well as the chorus: “Been spending most their lives living in a gangsta’s paradise.”

The tale of how Coolio first heard the track differs depending on who is telling it. In L.V.’s version, L.V. brought the song, with his recorded vocals, to Coolio on a cassette tape, hoping to persuade him to collaborate on it after another rapper had turned him down. In Coolio’s account, according to a Rolling Stone oral history of the song from 2015, the rapper was visiting the Hollywood Hills home to pick up a check from Stewart, who was his manager, when he heard the track.

“I walked into the studio, and asked Doug, ‘Wow, whose track is that?’” Coolio told Rolling Stone. “Doug said, ‘Oh, it’s something I’m working on.’ I said, ‘Well, it’s mine!’”

Coolio recalled writing his verses in one session, rapping about chasing his dreams and the uncertainty of whether he would live to 24 years old. (He was in his early 30s at the time, but 24 rhymed better, he said in a 2015 radio interview.)

The reinterpreted song still needed to get a green light from Wonder’s camp. But, Rasheed recalled, Wonder was turned off by the profanity and violence expressed in the lyrics. The producer asked Coolio for a rewrite, and the rapper agreed. The other catch: Wonder’s music publishing company would receive three-quarters of the publishing proceeds.

“The terms were a little harsh, but without them approving it there’s no hit,” Stewart, who managed both Coolio and L.V. at the time, said in an interview on Thursday.

Stewart shopped the song around and found a very interested party in MCA Records, which was producing the soundtrack for “Dangerous Minds,” starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a former Marine who becomes a teacher at an underfunded Bay Area high school. (The movie received mixed reviews, with The Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan calling it “stereotypical, predictable and simplified to the point of meaninglessness.”)

The music video, directed by Antoine Fuqua and featuring a severe-looking Pfeiffer staring down Coolio, initially received a pass from MTV, Stewart recalled, until MCA arranged to advertise the video on the channel, generating interest from viewers.

MTV picked it up, and “it was the most phenomenal takeoff of a record that I’ve ever seen,” Stewart said. “Gangsta’s Paradise” spent three weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 and was named the chart’s No. 1 song at the end of the year. It won the Grammy for best rap solo performance in 1996.

Then came Weird Al.

The musical parody artist and his team approached Coolio to get his blessing to make their own version of the song — “Amish Paradise” — Rasheed said, but the rapper refused. Knowing that legally speaking, Weird Al didn’t need their green light, Rasheed gave them his approval, despite Coolio’s skepticism.

“I think he just didn’t want to be made light of,” Rasheed said. To Coolio, his collaborators explained, “Gangsta’s Paradise” spoke to the real hardships and fears around street life in a way that seemed to resonate with people from different walks of life.

“A lot of people say it saved them from whatever demons they were dealing with, that they listened to the song and it helped them carry on,” Coolio said in the Rolling Stone oral history.

The “Amish Paradise” music video from 1996 opened with Yankovic in a broad-brimmed hat and a thick beard rapping, “As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain.” In place of Coolio’s references to being “raised by the state” and finding protection in “the hood team,” Yankovic rapped about “milkin’ cows” and partying “like it’s 1699.”

Rasheed said that over time, he saw Coolio soften to the parody, viewing it as more homage than mockery. And in later interviews, the rapper said that he had changed his perspective on Yankovic’s song.

“I let that go so long ago,” Coolio told Vice in 2014. “Let me say this: I apologized to Weird Al a long time ago and I was wrong.” He added, “I listened to it a couple years after that and it’s actually funny,” adding an expletive.

In an interview with Newsweek a few months later, Yankovic said he was relieved. “I’m not the kind of guy that has beef with people, because I go out of my way to make sure that people are fine with what I do,” he said. “That was the one little moment in my whole history where there was a problem,” he noted, saying it was “very sweet” of Coolio to have told Vice he had made amends.

While “Amish Paradise” gave Coolio’s song a boost, the track was a smash on its own. L.V. remembered Coolio and his crew touring the world — Japan, France, Australia — and feeling like they were drawing “Michael Jackson-level” crowds that recited the lyrics along with them. Earlier this year, Coolio celebrated the song reaching a billion streams on YouTube.

“He put some magic on that track,” Rasheed said. “His voice, his delivery his cadence — it was something really special.”

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Ted Cruz Blasts Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. For 'Refusing To Answer' Questions

(L) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questions acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. and Deputy Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Paul Abbate during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) / (R) Acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz chastised Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. on Tuesday for seemingly dodging his questions.

Under the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rowe testified on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, following the resignation of previous U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

Cruz asserted that the acting director had failed to respond to inquiries regarding the number of agents Trump was given in comparison to President Joe Biden as well as the agency’s “decision-making process.”

Cruz: “I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests. And I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics… Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly deny the requests for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same person make that decision?” Rowe: “Senator, what I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political.”

Even though he requested it in advance, the Secret Service did not provide protection for Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until after the Trump murder attempt, when Trump himself demanded that the Independent candidate receive more protection, especially given his family’s history of assassinations.

Cruz: “I have a simple question: yes or no. Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request? That’s a yes or no question.” Rowe: “Senator, that is not a yes or no question. One, there’s a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection… That is a bicameral, bipartisan process.”

As the two continued to converse and talk over one another, Cruz informed Rowe that his usage of the term “bicameral” was incorrect because he is not a member of Congress.

According to sources within the Secret Service, there weren’t enough personnel available to defend Trump due to the NATO summit taking place in Washington, D.C., as well as first lady Jill Biden’s campaign event taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to the Daily Caller.

Cruz: “What was the relative size of the Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned to the President and the First Lady?” Rowe: “Senator, the former president travels with a full shift, just like the president.”

Cruz then asked Rowe to clarify if it was “the exact same size.”

Rowe: “On the day of, in Butler, the agents surrounding him, it is the same number of agents surrounding the president today.”

The Texas senator chimed in after the last statement to clarify his use of the term “president,” asking for a second time if “it is [his] testimony that in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump had the same number of agents protecting him that Joe Biden has at a [comparable] event.”

Rowe grew frustrated and insisted he was “trying to answer.”

Cruz: “You are not answering it. Is it the same number of agents or not? Sir, you are refusing to answer straight.

Rowe tries to interject.

Cruz: “Sir, stop interrupting me. Stop interrupting me. You are refusing to answer clear and direct questions. I am asking the relative difference in the number of agents between those assigned to Donald Trump and those assigned to Joe Biden. I’m not asking why you assign more to Joe Biden.”

As the testimony and discussion became more heated, Rowe finally informed Cruz that he would give him the precise number so he could see it with “own eyes.”

Meanwhile, Rowe emphasized the breakdowns in communication that occurred during the Butler event throughout Tuesday’s hearing, claiming that data regarding Crooks was “stuck” and “siloed” in local law enforcement channels.

Rowe: “The only thing we had was that locals were working an issue at the three o’clock, which would have been the former president’s right-hand side, which is where the shot came… Nothing about man on the roof, nothing about man with a gun. None of that information ever made it over our net.”

However, Rowe’s last statement highly contradicts other news reports and testimonies by local law enforcement.

Although the FBI still hasn’t disclosed a motive for the failed assassination attempt, CNN reported on Tuesday that the CEO of the website “Gab,” Andrew Torba, claimed last week that law enforcement contacted him and said there’s a chance the would-be assassin had an account on his alternative social media platform. The aforementioned account, according to Torba, was “pro-Biden.”

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 30, 2024

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The Trillion Dollar Equation The most famous equation in finance, the Black-Scholes/Merton equation, came from physics. It launched an industry worth trillions of dollars and led to the world’s best investments. Go to https://ift.tt/UxDHF29 and use the code Veritasium for $200 off your Pod Cover. Special thanks to our Patreon supporters! Join this list to help us keep our videos free, forever: https://ift.tt/MyqmYxG If you’re looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ift.tt/ljbHYQE ▀▀▀ A huge thank you to Prof. Andrew Lo (MIT) for speaking with us and helping with the script. We would also like to thank the following: Prof. Amanda Turner (University of Leeds) Owen Maher (Electrify Video Partners) ▀▀▀ References: The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons launched the quant revolution, Gregory Zuckerman. Penguin Publishing Group. - https://ift.tt/5kmTQNB The Physics of Finance: Predicting the Unpredictable: Can Science Beat the Market? James Owen Weatherall. Short Books. - https://ift.tt/mIAVg3o The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets, J.Voigt. Springer. - https://ift.tt/LIwuntx Black, F., & Scholes, M. (1973). The pricing of options and corporate liabilities. Journal of political economy, 81(3), 637-654. - https://ift.tt/CBzMTgm Cornell, B. (2020). Medallion fund: The ultimate counterexample?. The Journal of Portfolio Management, 46(4), 156-159. - https://ift.tt/WqYwsg0 Images & Video: Ed Thorp on The Tim Ferris Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNvz91Jyzbg Jim Simons on TED - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kIdtMJGc8 Jim Simons on Numberphile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0 ▀▀▀ Special thanks to our Patreon supporters: Adam Foreman, Anton Ragin, Balkrishna Heroor, Bill Linder, Blake Byers, Burt Humburg, Chris Harper, Dave Kircher, David Johnston, Diffbot, Evgeny Skvortsov, Garrett Mueller, Gnare, I.H., John H. Austin, Jr. ,john kiehl, Josh Hibschman, Juan Benet, KeyWestr, Lee Redden, Marinus Kuivenhoven, Max Paladino, Meekay, meg noah, Michael Krugman, Orlando Bassotto, Paul Peijzel, Richard Sundvall, Sam Lutfi, Stephen Wilcox, Tj Steyn, TTST, Ubiquity Ventures ▀▀▀ Directed by Will Wood and Derek Muller Written by Will Wood, Emily Zhang, Petr Lebedev and Derek Muller Camera operation by Raquel Nuno Additional research by Gregor Čavlović Edited by Jack Saxon and Trenton Oliver Animated by Fabio Albertelli, Jakub Misiek, Ivy Tello, David Szakaly and Will Wood Produced by Will Wood, Han Evans and Derek Muller Thumbnail by Ren Hurley Additional video/photos supplied by Getty Images and Pond5 Music from Epidemic Sound via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5w-dEgIU1M

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Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge with the Rare Photo of the Iceberg. Image: CorinMesser/BNPS

Unearthed Titanic Iceberg Photo Gives Rare Glimpse At Giant Ice Rock That Sank 'Unsinkable' Ship

The historic image shows a large glacier oddly shaped like an elephant above the surface of the north Atlantic two days after the luxury liner struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank

— By Graeme Murray | News Reporter Paul Vass | 13 April 2024

A newly unearthed photo of the iceberg that sank the Titanic gives a rare glimpse at the giant ice rock that forced the 'unsinkable' ship to snap in two.

The black and white image was captured by an undertaker working on the body recovery ship that arrived on the wreck site in the aftermath of the sinking. It shows a large glacier oddly shaped like an elephant above the surface of the north Atlantic and was taken two days after the luxury liner struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank with the loss of 1,522 lives. The photographer, believed to be funeral director John Snow Jr, later put the snap in a cardboard mount and simply captioned it 'Titanitic' (sic).

Titanic leaving Southampton bound for New York on her ill-fated journey. Image: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Mr Snow's father ran an undertakers in Nova Scotia and when news of the tragedy broke he and his staff of embalmers were summoned to Halifax. They boarded the cable-laying ship the Mackay-Bennett which was loaded with 100 coffins and 100 tonnes of ice to preserve the bodies.

They had set off for the wreck site 800 miles away and arrived four hours later on April 17, 1912. The crew began their grim task the next morning. In all they recovered 306 bodies from the sea.Those identified as first class passengers were embalmed on the ship and placed in coffins. These included the bodies of John Jacob Astor IV, the richest man aboard and Isidor Straus, owner of Macy's department store.

Second class passengers were embalmed and wrapped in canvas and some 116 third class passengers and crew were buried at sea. The ship returned to Halifax seven days later with 190 Titanic victims. The 5ins by 3ins photo of the iceberg was passed down through the Snow family until it was acquired by a collector of Titanic memorabilia about 30 years ago. It is now coming up for sale at Henry Aldridge & Son Auctioneers of Devizes, Wiltshire for an estimated price of £4,000 to £7,000.

Another Picture of an Iceberg Taken by Captain Wood That Sold in 2020. Image: BNPS

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said: "Nobody can say for sure that this was THE iceberg that sank the Titanic. But what we can say is that after the rescue ship Carpathia, the Mackay-Bennett was one of the first ships to reach the wreck site and that the undertaker on board decided to take a photo of this iceberg.

"He must have had his reasons for taking a photo of this iceberg. He captioned it Titanic and mounted it for posterity. It hasn't been sold before and was acquired directly from Mr Snow's family by our vendor in the early 1990s. It is an extremely rare photograph and we are sure it will attract a lot of interest."

The 'unsinkable' Titanic was speeding through an ice field in the north Atlantic when it struck an iceberg at 10.20pm on April 14, 1912. Lookout Fred Fleet struggled to spot the glacier at first because the water was so calm that no waves were breaking at the base of it which was a tell-tale sign of one.

The liner sank at 2.20am on April 15. A photograph of another iceberg that could also have been the one Titanic struck on the night of April 14, 1912, has been seen before. That was one taken by a crew member of the Minia, another body recovery ship which arrived on the scene on April 22 - a week later.

And in 2020 a photo of an iceberg that was taken two days before the tragedy by the captain of a passing passenger liner sold at auction. Captain W. Wood was on the SS Etonian and he noted the geographic coordinates of the glacier which were almost the same for when the Titanic floundered 40 hours later. The latest photo is expected to be sold on April 27.

Another view of what appears to be the same iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic that is seen in a photograph up for auction this month. This image (above) was owned by Captain De Carteret, the Captain of the CS Minia which was sent to recover bodies from the wreckage site in April 1912.

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✨️ #ArtIsAWeapon

#MarvinGaye - my favorite musical artist of all time - was born 85 years ago today (April 2, 1939).

Gifted, flawed, spiritual, tormented, beautiful...

Caption reposted from @nmaahc What's a Marvin Gaye song that speaks to you?

#OnThisDay in 1939, singer Marvin Pentz Gaye Jr. was born. The Washington, D.C. native developed an early love of music through the church, and by the 1960s came to be known as the #PrinceofSoul.

The son of a Hebrew Pentecostal minister, it was the Pentecostal Church that served as the context of his faith formation and creative musical genius. Gaye mastered the piano and drums as a child and caught the attention of Motown founder Berry Gordy, who hired him as a session drummer for the label working on songs for Stevie Wonder and The Supremes. Under the label, Gaye would enjoy a steady string of hits including “Stubborn Kinda Fellow” (1962), “I’ll Be Doggone” (1965), and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968). As a major Motown artist, Gaye is credited as one of the sonic architects responsible for creating the label’s distinctive sound.

Described by Ebony as “intensely spiritual, almost mystical,” and seemingly in “pursuit of some ethereal other world” because of his preoccupation with religion and sexuality, Marvin Gaye’s artistry further complicated conventional notions of the holy and the profane. Alongside the strong religious and sexual sensibilities evidenced in later songs such as “Sexual Healing,” “Sanctified Lady,” and “Let’s Get It On,” Gaye’s 11th album, What’s Going On, is acclaimed for the socially conscious quality of his lyrical content. Themes explored on the album include an anti-war critique, ecology, love, sensuality, and community, all informed by his formative Hebraic-Pentecostal worldview.

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Images 1 & 2 by Ed Caraeff @thebulletlisttrip Van Nuys, California March 28, 1976.

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Images 3 & 4 by Isaac Sutton - reposted from @nmaahc - Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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21 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2023 : DIA CINÉFILO - “O ESTADO DAS COISAS” (1982) UM BELO FILME DE WIM WENDERS RODADO NO HOTEL ARRIBAS DA “ MINHA “ PRAIA GRANDE. TEVE ANTES UMA ELOQUENTE INTRODUÇÃO SOBRE A HISTÓRIA DO LUGAR : no Nimas cinema de culto decorre um ciclo Wim Wenders onde aconteceu no dia 21 uma sessão especial a que não podia faltar por dois motivos : primeiro “Der stand der Dinge “um dos melhores filmes de Wim Wenders ; segundo a introdução feita pelo arquitecto José Luís Saldanha baseada no seu estudo “ Right on the Edge “ publicado em 2021 na revista de arquitectura AA Files sobre o Arribas Hotel em Sintra, - o hotel mais ocidental da Europa, que o cineasta escolheu como local de rodagem foi projectado pelo arquiteto Raul Tojal na década de 1960 . O hotel começou a sua vida como um motel e piscina, mas quando Wenders lá filmou no início da década de 1980, estava num estado de enorme decadência . Estabelecendo relações entre arquitectura, paisagem, história local e representação cinematográfica, Saldanha revelou um local que é tanto um lugar físico quanto parte de um imaginário cultural e para mim cenário favorito há 75 anos ! Wenders deu com aquele hotel vazio muito destruído no Inverno anterior por uma tempestade que “parecia uma baleia encalhada ." Este hotel abandonado da Praia Grande é a paisagem onde o sentido da espera se instala - porque O Estado das Coisas é um filme sobre a espera, sobre a incerteza que Wenders experimentara com Hammett, e Ruiz com O Território. Ou melhor, é sobre o receio de Wenders de fazer um filme na América. Uma equipa de cinema filma, em Portugal, perto de Sintra, “The Survivors”, um remake de um clássico da série B americana, “The Most Dangerous Man Alive”, de Allan Dwan. Mas a película e o dinheiro acabam, o produtor desaparece e eles ficam numa longa espera espera. Até que o realizador decide partir para Los Angeles, à procura dele. Gordon, enquanto amigo, deve-lhe pelo menos isso.. No decorrer da investigação, fica a saber que o financiamento provém de origem duvidosa, Friedrich descobre, que Gordon se esconde numa roulotte , conduzida por um guarda-costas, na tentativa de escapar aos assassinos que o perseguem por o filme ser rodado a preto e branco num tempo de technicolor ! O Estado das coisas é assim uma fábula, uma mensagem sem ilusões sobre o “estado das coisas”.da lógica assassina que é, em última análise, a do dinheiro. Na última e grande cena do filme, Gordon e Friedrich descem da roulotte para dar o abraço da despedida. A bala dos assassinos atinge Gordon pelas costas e este deixa-se literalmente cair dos braços do amigo. Friedrich vê-o cair a seus pés. Consigo traz uma câmara de 8 mm que aponta em direcção à avenida hollywoodesca, numa vertiginosa panorâmica subjectiva. Uma segunda bala, vinda não se sabe bem de onde, abate-o. Ele cai , sem largar a câmara e a imagem muda repentinamente de direcção, ao mesmo tempo que na avenida passa uma viatura, num chiar de pneus,O Estado das Coisas é dos mais belos filmes de Wim Wenders um “naufrágio “em que tudo acontece quando não está nada a acontecer. Produção de Paulo Branco (vencedora do Leão de Ouro no Festival de Veneza), reuniu nomes desde Samuel Fuller ao diretor de fotografia Henri Alekan (de A Bela e o Monstro de Cocteau, ou Férias em Roma de Wyler), passando por Robert Kramer, no argumento, Viva, a musa de Andy Warhol, Paul Getty Jr., Roger Corman, etc. Nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, Wim Wenders ficava apenas atrás de Rainer Werner Fassbinder como um dos deuses do Novo Cinema Alemão . Pelo menos quatro dos seus filmes podem ser considerados tão bons como os melhores da época. Eles são Alice nas Cidades (1974), Kings of the Road (1976), The State of Things (1982) e Paris, Texas (1984) .Tive oportunidade no fim de felicitar o arquitecto Professor José Luís Saldanha e ficou combinado voltarmos à narrativa da Praia Grande ….

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Big Libs in bed with big oil GASP!

Big Libs in bed with big oil GASP! It’s a good thing they solved the climate issue in Dubi or this might look SUPER hypocritical. The author suggests these families got intertwined prior to their “peaks of wealth and power”, they bonded over “old bones”, Science and wine AND the Getty’s only had a few billion at the time.

This is a very recent article did anyone else hear this on main stream media? It’s fascinating how privileged all of these Dems are.

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The Gettys, too, are on that list. Founded by oil baron J. Paul Getty who moved under the radar until his "outing" as the richest American by Fortune magazine in 1957, the subsequent four generations of his family have been in the spotlight navigating fields from environmentalism to fashion to business, music, digital archives, arts, LGBTQ rights and politics. With five wives, the patriarch of the dynasty, J. Paul Getty, fathered four sons who lived to adulthood, and the family tree has flowered to some 19 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

In the wake of the sale of the company in 1985 to Texaco for $10.1 billion—at that time the biggest corporate acquisition in history—$3 billion was partitioned into four separate trusts. Currently, the family's combined net worth could be in the neighborhood of $20 billion, which will finally be divided among all the heirs upon the death of J. Paul Getty's last living son—Gordon, currently 88.

As the family has navigated personal and professional successes and failures, it has also become inextricably enmeshed into the California political fabric, with longtime close family friendships developing between the Gettys and current Governor Gavin Newsom, Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as well as their families. William A. Newsom II, Gavin's grandfather, was a surrogate father to Getty sons John Paul Jr. and Gordon. William "Bill" Newsom III, Gavin's father, was even the bearer of the ransom money when John Paul III was kidnapped. Newsoms, Harrises, Pelosis and Gettys are godparents to one another's children and make appearances at important family events.

Left to their own devices, Paul Jr. and Gordon spent a good deal of time at the nearby home of their St. Ignatius prep school classmate, William "Bill" Newsom III, and his five siblings. This lively Irish-Catholic household was presided over by William A. Newsom II, a real estate developer and campaign manager for Edmund G. Brown, governor of California from 1959 to 1967 (whose son Jerry subsequently reclaimed the office in 1974 for the first of his four terms).

Their great affection for him endured. When Paul Jr. died at his mansion in England in 2003, a framed photograph of Newsom II was near his bed. This intimate family friendship between the Gettys and the Newsoms spanned generations, including Gordon's four sons—Peter, Andrew, John and Billy—and Bill's son— Gavin, California's 40th governor.

Since moving with her husband to the Pelosis' hometown of San Francisco in 1969, Baltimore-born Nancy had her hands full taking care of their four children; their fifth child was born in 1970. Though she'd grown up in a political household, the idea of herself taking office was still nearly two decades off.

As they grew up, Billy Getty and Gavin developed an appreciation of good wine from their fathers, both passionate oenophiles and best friends. In the years after these families met and became intertwined, as they rose to the peaks of wealth and power, there have been inevitable accusations of cronyism. But they bonded over old bones. They were all fascinated by the science—

At Billy's 1999 wedding to Vanessa Jarman, held on a ranch in Napa Valley, Judge Newsom officiated, and Gavin served as best man. Among the 165 guests was a new assistant district attorney in town, a 34-year-old up-and-comer named Kamala Harris, Vanessa's new friend. Two years later, Harris threw the shower before the birth of the couple's first son. When their daughter was born, Kamala was asked to be the godmother.

Over the years, Newsom political opponents have tried to weaponize his connections to the Gettys, portraying him as a child of privilege.

In the election cycle of 2020, some airtime was devoted to pondering Kimberly Guilfoyle's path from Gavin to fiancé Donald Trump Jr. "Life's interesting," Newsom said

Amid the pandemic, the Gettys were shaken by back-to-back tragedies. Ann, the matriarch, died of a heart attack, and son John, 52, was found dead in a San Antonio hotel room. According to the medical examiner's report, he died of "cardiomyopathy and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD], complicated by fentanyl toxicity."

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andscape The Keke Palmer incident isn’t anything new. Usher has been driving guys crazy for decades.

Check out ‘The insecure man’s guide to hating @usher’ as told by @daviddtss on andscape.com 💻

There’s male artists who been doing the same thing he’s been doing for decades. If there’s one insecure guy who acting like this because his girlfriend/wife/baby mother/life partner is being serenaded by usher, imagine the insecure guys before hand that acted like this when their girlfriends/wives/baby mamas/life partners were serenaded by someone like Chris Brown, trey songs,teddy pendergrass, Marvin Gaye, or these other musician heartthrobs.

the same can be said for all the female musicians who brought the men onto the stage like Janet Jackson. But I don’t think the women in the audience of those concerts would act like that towards their boyfriends/Husbands/baby daddies/life partners because even if they are jealous they don’t take it publicly on social media.

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The insecure man’s guide to hating Usher

By David Dennis Jr.@DavidDTSS

July 19, 2023

It seems like every show at Usher’s Las Vegas residency has created a new viral moment: from 21 Savage singing with him to his smooth skating fall to his serenading of Saweetie. And of course, when Usher sang to actress Keke Palmer — prompting her boyfriend to call her out on social media and leading to a barrage of insecure men voicing their concerns about how “their” women should behave. This shouldn’t come as a surprise – Usher has been terrorizing insecure men for 25 years.

I should know, because he used to make me feel insecure, too. 

When an 18-year-old Usher released his second studio album, 1997’s My Way, with his first major single, “You Make Me Wanna,” his smooth moves, silky voice and, yes, even the small glimpses of rap ability made him an instant heartthrob. All the girls loved him — including the girls I had crushes on. Sure, I was 11 at the time and my chances of actual relationships with any of these girls was as likely as any of them ever meeting Usher. But it didn’t matter. Usher was public enemy No. 1 for prepubescent David Dennis Jr. 

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But Usher struck a different nerve. And that nerve gets hit every time he does this with a woman we deem as belonging to someone else. Because too many men see married or coupled women as no longer their own person. Instead, they belong to the men they are tethered to.

Take, for instance, Usher’s history with Beyoncé. When he brought her on stage to perform his song “Bad Girl”, they grinded, touched and teased each other and the crowds who watched. 

But they also made insecure men angry. They haven’t seen Beyoncé as a whole person going on two decades now — ever since she was partnered with Jay-Z, a person men have used as a proxy for our own hypermasculine aspirations. We’ve grown up with “Big Pimpin” Jay-Z, who many believed would never stand for his woman to be touched like that. I remember the casual conversations about the dances. The affair accusations. The conspiracy theories that Jay-Z had Usher on some hit list for taking liberties with something that was his. We created fan fiction to justify the fact that Usher was allowed to roam the streets without ramifications from Jay-Z. HE TOUCHED HOV’S WOMAN. 

Even now, people are imagining a world where Usher brings Beyoncé up on stage and Jay-Z puts the hammer down. Twenty years later. 

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The Usher-induced panic has only increased during his residency in Las Vegas. Every show features a personal serenade from Usher. Often, he calls celebrity women to the stage and woos them with his voice and those dance moves that ruined my childhood chances at love. (Sorry, got distracted.) 

Recently, Palmer was the target of his musical romancing. The actress and new mom was eating up Usher’s antics as he hugged her and sang into her ear. She was wearing a sheer black dress over a bodysuit, continuing her roll of post-labor gorgeousness that has stunned the internet with every snapshot. As soon as the clip of her hugging Usher hit the internet, her boyfriend and father of her child, Darius Jackson, took to social media to criticize Palmer and the entire event. 

“It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom.” He followed it up with more chauvinistic opining: “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is. This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”

The insecurity radiated off the tweet. As well as the fact that Jackson seemed to relegate Palmer to her roles as wife and mother and the services she provides to him as her boyfriend, the father of her children and a man who wants to police hiswoman. 

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Jackson’s outrage may have torpedoed whatever career he had as it caused the internet to dig up old, troubling tweets, forcing him to delete his social media. Palmer has addressed the incident indirectly (including releasing a sweatshirt with the phrase “I’m a MOTHA.”) 

What Jackson’s comments revealed was another layer of how many men view the women in our lives. Mothers. Girlfriends. Wives. They are augmentations of our own images. Vehicles of our own greatness and how we’re perceived by the people around us. Certainly not as their full human selves. 

And the cause of that disruption is just a guy who sings his heart out. A man who’s been there singing and dancing his way through life and somehow making too many of us feel like less than by simply existing. Life would be so much easier if we just sat back and enjoyed the show.

David Dennis Jr. is a senior writer at Andscape and an American Mosaic Journalism Prize recipient. His book, The Movement Made Us, will be released in 2022. David is a graduate of Davidson College.

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