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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🌥

"La Grosse Bouteille" boulevard Richard Lenoir🗼Paris 1953

Photo de Jean Marquis

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Mitchell's Diary - In over my Head

One-shots in the series of Art & Vampires. Excerpts from Mitchell��s diary.

Words: 767

Being a badass male vampire doesn't mean you can handle female vampires 😁

References to stories in the Art & Vampires series - 1. New Orleans and 2. London and 6. New York

Art & Vampires is about the relationship and developments around Mitchell, a vampire and Amy (Ames), a human. It’s about the vampire world, the supernatural, but also about history, cities around the world, art, antiques and adventures.

Face claims vampires: Aidan Turner - John Mitchell, Richard Armitage - Rick Marlowe, Jaime Murray - Alana (Lana) Lenoir and Ben Barnes - Ben Sheldon. Humans: Mila Kunis - Amy (Ames) Quinn, Bianca Lawson - Lena Parker (witch).

List of Mitchell’s diary One Shots in the Art & Vampires Master list

Dividers by @firefly-graphics

Rick warned me,  but of course I didn't listen.  That time,  I was in way over my head and I can tell you that being immortal is less attractive when Alana keeps bringing up your mistake and rubs your face in it every time she gets the chance. But what can I say,  she was a beauty.  

I'm talking about Neesha of course.  

I'll never forget her and not just because Lana keeps reminding me, the she-devil. I hope she doesn't get her hands on this diary,  otherwise I'm screwed,  like that time I got involved with Neesha. And I mean literally.

It was in the forties, nineteen forties. I need to remember to mention the centuries.  We were back in London and I had been able to get my life,  or existence, to be exact,  back on track after,  well,  you know,  Belle.  

I had been thinking.  I couldn't go through any of that again, losing a loved one.  I'd had a hard enough time before Belle,  dealing with the fact that you will always outlive your loved ones,  but losing Belle hit hard, as you are well aware,  because I've written diaries full of my laments.  

So,  I had a plan,  a brilliant one.  I had the perfect solution.  I would get myself a female vampire companion,  who would never leave me and I would have eternal happiness.  Neesha was going to be just that. Or so I thought.

In the first half of the 20th century,  we moved around from New Orleans to New York,  and finally back to London. After the war, London was a mess. The city was severely damaged and even though our neighborhood wasn't spared,  The Mayfair,  our mansion,  was.  We moved back for a while to keep an eye on things and make sure that it remained our house. People who lost their homes during the bombings of London were being relocated to abandoned houses and we needed to make sure that our mansion was not going to be taken over by others. 

Fortunately for me,  even though the city was damaged and the people were recovering from the war,  there were always parties to be found.  Especially for us vampires. 

As you can imagine,  I was spending as much time as I could attending as many parties as I could.  I was determined to find that vampire companion and never be sad again.  

Neesha was a gorgeous goddess, who stood out amongst the crowd like a shining star in the dark night sky,  quite literally,  with her shiny jewelry and extravagant silver dress.

I can't even remember how I got there,  to that party,  but I will always remember the sight of her and how I,  half intoxicated,  chatted her up and actually managed to get her undivided attention.  

As said,  Rick had warned me not to get involved with her. He had an eye for 'trouble', but,  you know,  I had my plan and this scrumptious woman was going to fit that perfectly.  

To this day I'm still not sure if she was playing with me,  like a cat with her prey,  or if I had enamored her with my charm.

By the end of the night, having abandoned Rick and Alana, I found myself in Neesha's arms, or in hindsight,  claws,  in what seemed to be a former hotel somewhere in the city.  She had made the hotel her home  and the top room,  with a huge skylight,  was her den.  

I don't know how many times we fucked, but it seemed like we did nothing else for days.  It was like I was under her spell and I couldn't get free and I am man enough to admit that my dick actually hurt! 

You know,  as vampires,  we recover quickly,  also on that front,  but after Neesha,  I was about ready to be celebate for the rest of my immortal life. 

At some point,  I must have seen the light and realize that I wasn't ready to have my existence ended by sex.  Even if death by sex sounds pleasant enough.  So,  I ran and didn't look back and my not so brilliant plan of getting a vampire companion went out the door with me.  I didn't stay celibate of course,  but those are stories for another time. 

Anyway,  I'm not sure why I wrote down this memory.  Maybe it's because Ames was fishing for embarrassing stories from the past and I didn't really want to confess all this to her.  Or maybe it's a way of letting go. Now if only Alana could do the same. 

Time to say goodnight for now and hide you well,  my dear diary.  I'm ready to join my sweet Ames in bed, cuddle up to her and make pleasant memories.

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Neige boulevard Richard-Lenoir (Paris 11) — aquarelle, mine de plomb, pierre noire, gouache blanche, carnet nº 97, janvier 2013

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Reflecting circles

The reflecting circle was invented by the German geometer and astronomer Tobias Mayer in 1752, with details published in 1767. His development preceded the sextant and was motivated by the need to create a superior surveying instrument.

A Mayer circle, 18th century

It is a complete circular instrument graduated to 720° (to measure distances between heavenly bodies, there is no need to read an angle greater than 180°, since the minimum distance will always be less than 180°). Mayer presented a detailed description of this instrument to the Board of Longitude and John Bird used the information to construct one sixteen inches in diameter for evaluation by the Royal Navy. This instrument was one of those used by Admiral John Campbell during his evaluation of the lunar distance method. It differed in that it was graduated to 360° and was so heavy that it was fitted with a support that attached to a belt. It was not considered better than the Hadley octant and was less convenient to use. As a result, Campbell recommended the construction of the sextant.

Jean-Charles de Borda further developed the reflecting circle. He modified the position of the telescopic sight in such a way that the mirror could be used to receive an image from either side relative to the telescope. This eliminated the need to ascertain that the mirrors were precisely parallel when reading zero. This simplified the use of the instrument. Further refinements were performed with the help of Etienne Lenoir. The two of them refined the instrument to its definitive form in 1777. This instrument was so distinctive it was given the name Borda circle or repeating circle. Borda and Lenoir developed the instrument for geodetic surveying. Since it was not used for the celestial measures, it did not use double reflection and substituted two telescope sights. As such, it was not a reflecting instrument. It was notable as being the equal of the great theodolite created by the renowned instrument maker, Jesse Ramsden.

A Jean-Charles de Borda circle, by Étienne Lenoir 1775

Josef de Mendoza y Ríos redesigned Borda's reflecting circle in 1801. The goal was to use it together with his Lunar Tables published by the Royal Society. He made a design with two concentric circles and a vernier scale and recommended averaging three sequential readings to reduce the error. Borda's system was not based on a circle of 360° but 400 grads (Borda spent years calculating his tables with a circle divided in 400°). Mendoza's lunar tables have been used through almost the entire 19th century. Edward Troughton also modified the reflecting circle. He created a design with three index arms and verniers. This permitted three simultaneous readings to average out the error.

A Troughton Circle, 1803

As a navigation instrument, the reflecting circle was more popular with the French navy than with the British.

M. Daumas, Scientific Instruments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and Their Makers, London 1989

William Edward May, A History of Marine Navigation, G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., Oxfordshire, 1973

Richard, Dunn, Navigational Instruments, London 2016

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Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris 11e. Avril 2017.

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Charles Lansiaux

64-66 boulevard Richard Lenoir

À l'arrière-plan, flèches de l'église Saint-Ambroise.

Paris 1920

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FFAN Wrap-Up & Recs

Introductory post

Masterpost

This concludes our foray into Famous Five vintage (and not-so-vintage) art!

I started this project about a year and a half ago and I’m very pleased to have brought it to its conclusion. I ultimately got more ambitious that I imagined at the start, and managed to gather physical copies from almost every edition from the 1950s to the 1980s (I also have a few from the 1990s onwards, but I didn’t make a concerted effort to find them all as they rarely contain original inside illustrations, and the cover art can be found online). The only physical book I know I’m missing is one from the Swiss publisher with Umberto Nonna’s illustrations. If it so happens that I find a copy of this book – or any additional editions that I don’t currently know of – I will make an additional post to the FFAN series, but until then I’m calling it done!

You can expect three more posts over the next few days focusing on the Five enjoying fun outdoorsy activities to accompany you into summertime! 🎒����️🏖️🌞

And to wrap thing up, I thought I’d share some light about my favourite books from both Blyton’s and Voilier’s series.

From Enid Blyton’s original series:

#10 Five On A Hike Together: I love how the action is condensed over five days, with the events leading smoothly one to the other. The children were just going on a carefree hike, when they inadvertently get pulled into a mystery and solve a puzzling “treasure map”. They get to show their wits, be self-reliant, outsmart the bad guys, and find the treasure just in time before going back to school, all the while enjoying the lovely scenery of the countryside in the fall! Dick and Anne also get their special moment in the spotlight, which doesn't happen in many of the books.

#03 Five Run Away Together: The first adventure where the Five go off on their own for an extended period of time without any adults around. I think this one appealed to me when I was a child because of the fantasy of running away from ill-meaning adults and thriving on their own. (Just to be clear, I did not personally live in an environment where I was faced with ill-meaning adults, so this wasn’t wish-fulfilment. But I do remember several books that I particularly liked and that were focused on a teen protagonist(s) running away and living for a time on their own away from adults, so this is clearly a storyline that appealed to me.) I also like how, this being early in the series, George tends to respond to things on her own, because she’s used to being an only child, and needs to get some sense knocked into her to realise that she now has three cousins who have her back.

#04 Five Go To Smuggler’s Top: A spectacular, spooky scenery for a baffling mystery. The secondary characters (Block, Mr Barling, Mr Lenoir, and of course Sooty) are particularly memorable!

#19 Five Go To Demon’s Rocks: Once again I like that the children are going away on their own (at least I’m consistent in my preferences! 😅), and the scenery of the lighthouse is spectacular! I do think that the resolution is a bit of a let-down with the children finding the treasure pretty much by chance. But it is followed by a thrilling climax at the top of the lighthouse in a storm!

#07 Five Go Off To Camp: This book is just a very good mix of humour and mystery. Mr Luffy is also a very entertaining character and I wouldn’t have minded seeing him in more books!

Honourable mentions to #01 Five On A Treasure Island, the book which opens the series and in which our main characters first meet; #08 Five Get Into Trouble, which only didn’t make it into my top five because I find Richard annoying (which is entirely the point of this character); #15 Five On A Secret Trail, whose plot I like but which again gets bumped a few spots down because I find the whole “twins” plot twist very quickly annoying; and #18 Five On Finniston Farm, with its charming scenery but ultimately very thin plot.

From Claude Voilier’s continuation series:

#LC23 Les Cinq et le trésor du pirate: I had not read this book as a child and it was a really nice discovery. As I mentioned in the detailed post, this book felt much better written than a lot of the other books in the continuation series, making for a very entertaining read. I can absolutely recommend it if you want dip your toes into Voilier’s series. (Although, well, this is one of the few books that were never translated into English, so you’ll have to make do with the original French! 😉)

#LC18 Les Cinq et le trésor de Roquépine: This one was a favourite back when I was a child, and the nostalgia remains strong to this day. What can I say, I do love the treasure hunt trope! 🤷🏻‍♀️

#LC11 Les Cinq dans la cité secrète: Also a childhood favourite, this one for the Indiana Jones vibes!

#LC07 Les Cinq contre le Masque Noir: Another recent discovery. I liked the wide cast of characters/suspects, and the Five striking them off their list one by one based on their sleuthing. I did, however, figure out who the real culprit was really early on, so that did diminish the impact of the ultimate plot twist. (But I do wonder if I would have figured it out if I had read this book as a pre-teen/teen and not as an adult.)

#LC08 Les Cinq et le galion d’or: Several fun twists with the customary treasure being found by the children very early on, but stolen again, and the mystery being where the thieves keep moving it to. But points docked off for the resolution being due to a stroke of luck rather than the children getting to use their wits.

Honourable mentions to #LC20 Les Cinq jouent serré due to several genuinely funny moments; and #LC21 Les Cinq contre les fantômes, for its mystery aura.

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crew of the revenge

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OFFICERS Captain Federico Warner Quartermaster Richard Sherman Sailmaster Navorro Bowman Boatswain Patrick Willis Helmsman Arik Armstead Master Gunner Dre Greenlaw

SPECIALISTS Surgeon Mitch Wishnowsky Cook Randy Gregory Carpenter Tashaun Gipson Sr. Sailmaker Emmanuel Moseley

REGULARS Gunners Ji’Ayir Brown Deommodore Lenoir Isaiah Oliver Sailors Talanoa Hufanga Oren Burks Charvarius Ward Brutes Chase Young Nick Bosa Javon Hargrave Deckhands Ambry Thomas Azeez Al-Shaair Javon Kinlaw

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Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, 2014)

Cast: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish, Shane McRae, Stephen Kunken, Seth Gilliam. Screenplay: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, based on a novel by Lisa Genova. Cinematography: Denis Lenoir. Production design: Tommaso Ortino. Film editing: Nicholas Chaudeurge. Music: Ilan Eshkeri.

After four previous nominations, Julianne Moore was overdue for an Oscar. I just wish she had won for a more challenging film than Still Alice, a middlebrow, middle-of-the-road movie that unfortunately suggests a slicked-up power-cast version of a Lifetime problem drama. It goes without saying that, with her luminous natural style, Moore can act the hell out of anything she's given: When she played Sarah Palin in Game Change (Jay Roach, 2012) on HBO, she even made me forget Tina Fey's great caricature of that eminently caricaturable politician, and did it without resorting to caricature. What bothers me most about Still Alice is its choice of an affluent white professional, a linguistics professor with a physician husband (Alec Baldwin) and an attractive family, to carry the burden of what the movie has to say about Alzheimer's. Why couldn't the film have been about the effect of early-onset Alzheimer's on a black or Latino family, or someone faced with meeting the bills -- a waitress or a secretary or a factory worker, perhaps? The screenplay (by directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, from Lisa Genova's novel) even shamefully asserts at one point that the disease is particularly difficult for "educated" people. The movie has its good points, of course. Kristen Stewart, as Alice's younger daughter, is a revelation. Those who knew Stewart only from the Twilight movies were startled by the skill and maturity of her performance. And the scene in which Alice discovers the suicide instructions left by herself before the disease had progressed is deftly handled, as the disease itself prevents Alice from remembering and following through on the instructions. The film also has some poignancy in the fact that director-screenwriter Glatzer, who was Westmoreland's husband, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and died from the disease in 2015. But the use in Still Alice of excerpts from Tony Kushner's Angels in America suggests a dubious parallel between Alzheimer's and AIDS.

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🌥

Foire à la ferraille, boulevard Richard Lenoir🗼 Paris 1948

Photo de Marcel Bovis

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You Can't Take it With You - PBS - November 21, 1984

Musical (A presentation of "Great Performances")

Running Time: 116 minutes

Stars:

Jason Robards as Grandpa Martin Vanderhof

George Rose as Boris Kolenkhov

Elizabeth Wilson as Penny Sycamore

Colleen Dewhurst as Grand Duchess Olga Katrina

Maureen Anderman as Alice Sycamore

Carol Androsky as Essie Carmichael

Jack Dodson as Paul Sycamore

Alice Drummond as Gay Wellington

Christopher Foster as Ed Carmichael

Arthur French as Donald

Page Johnson as A man from the Department of Justice

Rosetta LeNoire as Rheba

Bill McCutcheon as Mr. De Pinna

Meg Mundy as Mrs. Anthony P. Kirby

Orrin Reiley as Henderson

Nicholas Surovy as Tony Kirby

Richard Woods as Anthony P. Kirby

Jason Robards III as Mac

Wayne Elbert as Jim

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Podfic - Mitchell’s Diary - Amy

This is a recording of the first of my Mitchell's Diary stories. You can read along with the story below,  or in the original post. 

Please note that English isn't my first language. I hope that you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed writing and recording it.

You can find another podfic in my master list - Autumn Reflections 

If you enjoyed the story,  please know that leaving a comment and reblogging means the world to me and encourages me to write more stories and record more podfics 💜

Enjoy! 

Divider by @firefly-graphics

Art & Vampires is about Mitchell and Rick, vampires and CEOs of VAMPs - Vintage and Art Marketing Partners. The stories are about the relationship between Mitchell and Amy (Ames), a human. It’s about the vampire world, the supernatural, history, cities around the world, art, antiques and adventures. 

Face claims vampires: Aidan Turner - John Mitchell, Richard Armitage - Rick Marlowe, Jaime Murray - Alana (Lana) Lenoir and Ben Barnes - Ben Sheldon. Humans: Mila Kunis - Amy (Ames) Quinn, Bianca Lawson - Lena Parker (witch).

I can’t remember when I first noticed her, but when I did, I knew that I wanted to get close to her, get to know her. It was already dark, the first time I talked to her, in that alley. I had been shadowing her for a while before that first encounter. I knew that she would come home from her job at the library. Any minute, she would appear from the subway and make her way home to her apartment. 

I had seen her take a shortcut through the alley a couple of times, saw her hesitate for just a moment, contemplating if what she was about to do was a good idea, before briskly and bravely might I add, making her way home through that dark alleyway. 

I had noticed scum holding up in that alley more and more and I couldn’t help but feel concern over her. I wanted her to be safe, protect her even. Strange, because I didn’t even know her and there were many others who took the same route. I sure didn’t care for them as I cared for this girl, that I didn’t even know. 

That night, the weather was unforgiving. It was cold, the wind was brisk and cold rain was splattering on the pavement. I was watching, waiting for her to appear and there she was. She hurried across the street and paused a moment before disappearing into the alleyway. 

I followed her, but I kept my distance. I had a bad feeling and sensed that something was about to happen. Or maybe it was simply a matter of how many times can this go right before something goes wrong.

Sure enough, the scum was there and I saw them close in on her. She had come to a stop, almost two thirds through.  They blocked her way and she must have known that she was in trouble. She was quickly looking over her shoulder, turned around and started walking back out of the alley, but it was too late. One of those bastards grabbed her arm, spun her around and the others were quick to form a circle around her to block her way out. 

All my senses heightened and the hair in the back of my neck stood up. Some text book horror movie dialogue went on between them and one of them had the nerve to talk about having fun with her. I snapped and rushed forward  in my vampire form, fangs bared and my eyes pitch black.

When that scum saw my face, they were quick to turn around and ran off. She turned around and saw my pitch black eyes. I was afraid that I would scare her off and I cursed myself that I hadn’t turned back to human form in time. But she didn’t move away. She seemed intrigued, rather than scared. Maybe she thought that her mind had played tricks on her, or maybe she was really very brave. We introduced ourselves and that’s when I learned her name. Amy. Not that I stuck to that name for long. Somehow she was always Ames to me. My endearment.  I think I only ever called her Amy when I was angry with her.

That evening, I accompanied her home and I knew that I needed her in my life. I set the things in motion and made it so that she would come work for our company VAMPs and sure enough, my dearest Ames is now part of  my life. My love, who will be by my side forever. Hopefully for eternity. 

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"Because nothing is lost forever."

Still Alice (2014)

Director: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland

Cinematography: Denis Lenoir

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