This piece of art caught my eye on the Washington Post web site.
Jiaqi (Jackie) Wang is an illustrator and animator originally from China, currently based in Los Angeles. Jiaqi graduated with a MA Animation At London College Of Art. She specializes in 2D moving images and motion graphics. Her work revolves imagination about daily life, full of colors, visual design, and character design.
This link will enable you to admire her talent. It is worth your time. jiaqiwang
Sadly our president is a sad man who hates everyone who doesn’t bow to him. Bruce Springsteen correctly points out how Donald Trump is the absolute opposite of Ronald Reagan who offered positive inspirational words of hope and happiness. There is no morning in America.
Palm Springs’ on-again, off-again love affair with Marilyn Monroe — or, at least, the 26-foot statue of her — has taken a giant step forward. The Seward Johnson sculpture that visited the city from 2012 to 2014 will be installed permanently at an upcoming downtown park next year.
The super-sized tribute to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic scene from Billy Wilder‘s 1955 infidelity comedy, The Seven-Year Itch, with the figure capturing the instant a blast of air from a NYC subway grate raises her white dress.
I took these photos on May 18, 2013 in Palm Springs. The statue was moved elsewhere in 2014. It toured other cities including Hollywood, Chicago, and opposite a church in Stamford Connecticut. And some churchgoers in Stamford believed the 26-foot tribute to the blonde-bombshell was disrespectful.
I was in love with Doris Day. She was not only physically attractive, she was both an outstanding singer and actress. When she decided to retire to Carmel I was devastated. TMC and other TV channels should run marathons of her many movies. “Hooray for Hollywood” was a signature song of hers. Farewell dear Doris. You will always be in my heart.
Standing 72 stories on Bunker Hill, the building holds a prominent position in business and in popular culture. It has appeared in numerous movies and even been fictionally destroyed for dramatic effect in such films as “Independence Day,” which saw aliens blow up the tower as they began their invasion of Earth.
The building was the tallest west of the Mississippi River until another building the Wilshire Grand Center competed on June 23, 2017 opened with one more floor.
Still, going to the top of the US Bank Building is fun to do and besides the views there is a glass slide from the 70th floor to the 69th floor that is mounted to the outside.
The views from the those two floors are spectacular.
City at sundown (Photo taken by a friend)
Westin Bonaventure Hotel (numbers indicate the weight the roof will support in thousands of pounds)
Hollywood sign and Griffith Park Observatory in the distance
Snowcapped Mount Gorgonio and Mount Baldy.
The me too movement has gone too far!
The Me Too movement, with many local and international alternative names, is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. #MeToo spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace.
So what does the song ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ have to do with the campaign against sexual harassment? The Me Too movement has decided that they have the right to police everyone’s words.
Songs and movies were written for fun and entertainment. So the word baby has a sexual connotation. “Guys and Dolls” will have to be banned. Burt Bacharach’s – “Wives And Lovers” is definitely not acceptable. No one was ever harmed by those songs or movies.
There should be a rebellion by men against those that want to destroy fun.
Let’s ban “Baby it’s cold Outside”—but allow the rap songs on 24/7 that glorify rape,sex and total disrespect for all women—where is the outcry against rap??
I hope readers of this blog are willing to say “enough.”
OK, I am late. This was my wife’s tole painting effort. Now she is working on some snowman displays. No Christmas displays. Just winter displays.
There it was parked on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California. A Rolls-Royce Convertible with the top down. It was parked like any other car. I could see the entire car in the morning sun.
I was taking Freddy, my terrier, into the groomer for a trim and bath. After I parallel parked I realized that there was a Rolls-Royce in front of me. When you go to the car show they have these cars on display but you really can’t see the interior easily. This car could be seen by everyone walking or driving by. No one was around and I ran my hand over the wood not certain that it was really wood. No license plate on the back told me it was very new. The owner was definitely showing off.
Check out the luxurious teak wood decking on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe Convertible. “The optional teak decking was inspired by classic racing yachts – hand-made from 30 separate pieces and cut from the same tree for consistent grain,” explained on the hogring.com web site. The teak wood decking is optional and comes at a hefty price of $9,875. Anyone willing to spend nearly $500,000 on the base model would not baulk at paying an extra $10K for such a gorgeous feature.
Here are the pictures all taken by me.
It’s been a long time coming. At long last Minnie Mouse, the loved Disney cartoon character, received well deserved recognition for her role with Mickey Mouse. She now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Mickey was the first cartoon character to get a star in 1978, when he was 50.
Minnie Mouse, accompanied by Mickey Mouse and Katy Perrry, gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, Jan. 22, 2018
Something from the “good old days” that really was good!
Coast Contact 