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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
ROOM WITH A VIEW: YOKOHAMA 1962
AN ESSAY ON CHANNELING BACK TO THE AUTUMN OF 1963 BY ROBERT L. HUFFSTUTTER
This is a room with a view. It is an industrial view.
As i go back into time, through some intense channeling, i can see the details of where this structure once stood. There is a blank fuzzy and very electrical feeling; my pulse races.
Suddenly it is 1963 and there is a vacuum so intense I break into a cold sweat. I was that close to returning and held back. Let me say this: The spot no longer exists today, no longer visible. It is inside of a quiet commercial lounge with views of what has happened during the last four decades. There are two figures that appear like surreal images, somewhat ghostlike, in a corner. They are smiling and sipping wine. There is an aura around them...
Posted 5 minutes ago.
This is a room with a view. It is an industrial view.
As i go back into time, through some intense channeling, i can see the details of where this structure once stood. There is a blank fuzzy and very electrical feeling; my pulse races.
Suddenly it is 1963 and there is a vacuum so intense I break into a cold sweat. I was that close to returning and held back. Let me say this: The spot no longer exists today, no longer visible. It is inside of a quiet commercial lounge with views of what has happened during the last four decades. There are two figures that appear like surreal images, somewhat ghostlike, in a corner. They are smiling and sipping wine. There is an aura around them...
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JAPAN 1961
NOT THE TYPICAL PICTURE SHOW AMERICANS LIKED...
WHEN I WAS GROWING UP...the movies were a big event for us kids; Saturday movies were cheap.
There wasn't really an "economy" back in 1949--you either had a dime or you didn't. For ten cents, I could escape the terrors of my Uncle's turkey pen for an afternoon at the Byam Theater in Fairmont. The movies were a thrill. I liked the cartoons, but it was the movie that I liked. My favorite movie at the time was Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne. Remember, the second world war had ended in 1945 and the barrels were still hot in the late 40s and early 50s.
Forever a patriot afterwards, us guys wanted war movies, the more the better. If the main flick was something like the Three Stooges, we were upset. No, it was not that I had no sense of humor. Felix was great; Mickey Mouse was okay. Porky was right good, but the essence of Saturdays was the featured movie.
Let me see one more good war movie with my buddies on a Saturday afternoon with the aroma of hot, salty popcorn so thick we could touch it with our tongues. We liked the Western shoot 'em ups too; let me ride with the Cisco Kid and find the bad asses he always found. Who else do I want to see again? Hopalong was okay. He was a bit too finished for me. Okay, there were lots of gangster movies with everyone using Tommy guns. Us guys liked that kind of action. But it was the war movies, yes, the war movies with bodies scattered everywhere.
We were eager to get home to the woods behind our neighborhood so we could play war. We were sorry that all the wars were over. "Shoot, we won't get to kill any enemies now that our dads and uncles have killed them all," whined my best buddy, Tim Duggins. We had no idea what war was about or how often they came around. It was not that we had not received some grade school lessons about wars. We knew all about the Redcoats. We studied the Civil War. We were surprised that America had began as a nation still favoring slavery, but since none of us were Black, we thought about how terrible it must have been and that was it. There wasn't a lot taught about minorities in the 50s; we had no idea what minorities were. Education had not yet become progressive or totally honest.
We knew about the Germans and how mustard gas was sprayed in our grandfather's faces. We tried that one time with a jar of mustard and got in big trouble. Well, it was a bad idea; we knew nothing detailed about the First World War. We were yet to hear about how an Arch Duke named Ferdinand being killed was the reason the first world war began; it was a "shot heard around the world."Nobody told us the real truth: that World War One began, in actuality, because of nasty and cruel religious reasons, the number one reason most wars begin. We would find that out later, just as we are still learning about religion and war. We would learn much about good and evil and it was not all from Bible lessons.
We didn't care for the uniforms our guys wore in the First World War. The helmets were weird, odd, not at all cool like the U.S.Marine helmets in the Second World War. We laughed when we saw those leggings laced up. But that wasn't near as funny as the French helmets. That helmet was a real classic. Millions of French soldiers were killed in World War One, another reason only a few were left for the second world war. Note how few of those archaic iron helmet are seen on the military channel's newsreel creations.
Now I have strayed a long way from John Wayne. Let's see, I did not care for slapstick comedy, love stories or musicals. Musicals got better after I turned thirteen. I remember Shirley Jones in Oklahoma. Jane Russell was sexy and sexy was a word that was naughty at that time. "Damn" and "hell" were bad words too. It was okay, however, if they were spoken by John Wayne.
Stationed in Japan at nineteen until I turned 22, talk about some easy duty. I didn't know how good I had it for awhile. Compared to what our troops in combat theaters of the Pacific Theater had to endure and compared to the Nazi stench that drifted throughout Europe, the service personnel in Japan had it good in the sixties.
Where in the hell am I going to find any good movies in Japan? There was the base flick. Fairly good movies, but I can't recall any that I saw. There were other entertainments that drew my attention.
Today, I look at the quaint cutout couple outside a Japanese Movie House in 1961 and chuckle. I was worried about the movies? I thought our dads and uncles had won all the wars. Youth is so naive. At least this youth was naive for many years. There was a storm brewing. We could feel its vibrations from within the hangar of our squadron. There was war and rumors of war. Security was gradually tightened. Naval Intelligence was beefed up.
It was not until years later that I discovered what was happening throughout the military in the Vietnam War. One thing leads to another. Things always lead back to places we have been and seen. And there finally comes a time, like now, when one asks what it all meant anyway? Evil still exists. Wars are still being won and lost. And cardboard cutouts and posters are still higly collectible items. We live in interesting times; we have lived in interesting times. May our children's children be able to enjoy an America that was as joyful as the one I grew up in during the 1950s. It was, no matter where one lived, a time of innocense and naivity. It was a time we remember as "good old days" just like they say in the picture shows.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Fields of Gold
Seconds before a Boeing 757 touches down at LAX, Runway 24R.
Reflections of the sun hitting the plane
Video of Crosswind landings at LAX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4Owum7W6I
A few more crosswind videos and landings at Kai Tak (now closed) in Hong Kong (my favorite airport)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDdQz6QlFs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqO6gdJIz8
At the moment the rear wheels touch down, the pilot puts a touch of "rudder" to line up with the runway.
Reflections of the sun hitting the plane
Video of Crosswind landings at LAX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4Owum7W6I
A few more crosswind videos and landings at Kai Tak (now closed) in Hong Kong (my favorite airport)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDdQz6QlFs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqO6gdJIz8
At the moment the rear wheels touch down, the pilot puts a touch of "rudder" to line up with the runway.
desk objects
TRY SETTING UP A STILL LIFE PHOTO AS COOL AS THIS ONE WHEN YOU HAVE TIME. THANKS TO OMOO FOR MAKING ME THINK OF TRYING A STILL LIFE SHOT SOMETIME SOON. ONE COOL PHOTO...............
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
longboat
THE VIKINGS ARE COMING! NO, THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN TO THE USA AND SOME OF US JUST DIDN'T REALIZE IT. BUT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS INTERESTING PHOTO FROM Swede66....I FOUND THE WOOD TEXTURE APPEALING. LIKEWISE, I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE COLOR AND THE MOVEMENT OF THE LIGHT AND SHADOW. THE BOW IS SHARP AND STRIKING. I WOULD SUPPOSE THE BOW WAS DESIGNED TO SPLIT OR BURST ICE WHEN NEEDED. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS ITEM OF SWEDEN'S MARITIME HISTORY.
A LONGBOAT
Traditional longboat, typical of the area around Lake Siljan in Sweden. People used these boats to travel to church over the lake.
A LONGBOAT
Traditional longboat, typical of the area around Lake Siljan in Sweden. People used these boats to travel to church over the lake.
JAPAN 1963
I had just purchased my new Petri 35 MM and began shooting photos of everything around. How fortunate to have captured what I consider is one of the best photos I shot during the time I spent in Japan in the early 1960s.
Color film was sky high back then and the way to get around it was through slides. Somewhere, in a box or large metal container there is an entire collection of slides I have yet to find. Honestly, after nearly fifty years, there are still a few items I have yet to unpack. Some of the items are tiny memoirs, others are programs from exhibits attended.
Somewhere among my old keep sakes are programs of events attended. There is a Chagall Exhibit program; it was a great exhibit and one I enjoyed with a young lady who loved art as much as I did. Sometime, perhaps, I will take time to find some of those other old items. Perhaps not.
Some items, like people, remain as young as they were when they were last seen, one of the truths about romance that defies the passage of time and keeps memories as young as springtime.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Allegan, Michigan - Regent Theatre Marquee
THIS IS A CINEMATIC MASTERPIECE, A GREAT MOVIE HOUSE SHOT.
CAPTURING IT HEAD ON LIKE THIS WOULD BE HARD FOR MOST PEOPLE. SOMEBODY WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO HOLD THE LADDER FOR ME. IF I LET MY MIND WANDER, I CAN IMAGINE SEEING THE OLD MOVIES THAT PLAYED HERE, STARTING WITH THE "THREE STOOGES" AND "MIRACLE ON 43RD STREET. THERE WAS, I AM SURE, JOHN WAYNE'S "SANDS OF IWO JIMA" AND MORE THAN A FEW OF THOSE FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS THEY STOPPED MAKING ALMOST FIFTY YEARS AGO LIKE"PICNIC", "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" AND "THE KING AND I" AND OF COURSE, THE DISNEY CINDERELLA AND FANTASIA SPECIALS. THERE WAS "SHANE", A REALLY GOOD WESTERN,"NORTHWEST PASSAGE," A GREAT TRAIN MOVIE. THERE WAS "BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE" WITH THE SULTRY BLONDE, KIM NOVAK , THE WAR ROMANCE MOVIE "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY WITH DEBORAH KERR AND ROBERT MITCHUM? AND THERE WERE THE REAL CLASSICS LIKE "CASA BLANCA" AND A FEW WITH GLORIA SWANSON AND LOREET YOUNG, THE SIRENS OF THE SILVER SCREEN IN THE LATE 20S AND EARLY 30S, BEFORE MY TIME.
YOUR PICTURE SHOW PICTURE WITH ITS RETRO IMAGES CHALLENGED MY MIND TO RECALL A LOT OF FAVORITE OLD MOVIES. THE LIGHTS ON THE MARQUEE REMINDED ME OF MANY FRIDAY NIGHT DATES DURING THE LATE 50S. IT IS A MOST UPLIFTING PHOTOGRAPH. BY ROBERT L. HUFFSTUTTER
CAPTURING IT HEAD ON LIKE THIS WOULD BE HARD FOR MOST PEOPLE. SOMEBODY WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO HOLD THE LADDER FOR ME. IF I LET MY MIND WANDER, I CAN IMAGINE SEEING THE OLD MOVIES THAT PLAYED HERE, STARTING WITH THE "THREE STOOGES" AND "MIRACLE ON 43RD STREET. THERE WAS, I AM SURE, JOHN WAYNE'S "SANDS OF IWO JIMA" AND MORE THAN A FEW OF THOSE FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS THEY STOPPED MAKING ALMOST FIFTY YEARS AGO LIKE"PICNIC", "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS" AND "THE KING AND I" AND OF COURSE, THE DISNEY CINDERELLA AND FANTASIA SPECIALS. THERE WAS "SHANE", A REALLY GOOD WESTERN,"NORTHWEST PASSAGE," A GREAT TRAIN MOVIE. THERE WAS "BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE" WITH THE SULTRY BLONDE, KIM NOVAK , THE WAR ROMANCE MOVIE "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY WITH DEBORAH KERR AND ROBERT MITCHUM? AND THERE WERE THE REAL CLASSICS LIKE "CASA BLANCA" AND A FEW WITH GLORIA SWANSON AND LOREET YOUNG, THE SIRENS OF THE SILVER SCREEN IN THE LATE 20S AND EARLY 30S, BEFORE MY TIME.
YOUR PICTURE SHOW PICTURE WITH ITS RETRO IMAGES CHALLENGED MY MIND TO RECALL A LOT OF FAVORITE OLD MOVIES. THE LIGHTS ON THE MARQUEE REMINDED ME OF MANY FRIDAY NIGHT DATES DURING THE LATE 50S. IT IS A MOST UPLIFTING PHOTOGRAPH. BY ROBERT L. HUFFSTUTTER
Monday, February 23, 2009
FredsPixRiverBoatJapan53
I HAVE BEEN CALLING HIM FRED, BUT HIS NAME IS BILL...SORRY, BILL, I JUST DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION WHILE READING YOUR PROFILE. I WAS TOO OVERWHELMED BY YOUR PHOTOS....FROM NOW ON, IT'S BILL. (BILL IS NOT HIS OFFICIAL NAME, BUT IT IS, HE SAID, WHAT EVERYONE CALLS HIM.}
FredsPixNoseArt53
IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, THIS IS THE FABULOUS MARILYN MONROE. WHO REMEMBERS THAT MARILYN MADE A TRIP TO SEE THE TROOPS IN KOREA. SOMEWHERE ON SOME FORMER SOLDIER'S PHOTOSTREAM THERE'S A FANTASTIC SNAPSHOT OF MARILYN WITH A COUPLE OF SOLDIERS RIDING IN A JEEP, SMILING HER BEAUTIFUL SMILE. FOR VIEWERS WANTING TO SEE SOME VINTAGE NOSE ART, CLICK ON THE HIGHLIGHTED TEXT BENEATH THIS PHOTO; YOU WILL SEE SOME SPICY NOSEART. THANKS TO FRED FOR SHARING THESE PHOTOS OF HIS TOUR OF DUTY IN KOREA AND JAPAN BACK IN THE 1950S. THESE ARE THE TYPE OF PHOTOS THAT ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN COLD BUT SO OFTEN ARE LEFT IN DUFFLE BAGS, ON STEAMER TRUNKS OR ARE IN THE CORNER OF A DUSTY AND UNOPENED DRAWER MARKED "MEMORIES OF LONG AGO."
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
CCW
A TOUCH OF PURE CLASS; CLASS COST BIG BUCKS. BUT THEY SAY YOU CANNOT HEAR THE CLOCK RUNNING. THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME. THANKS TO Swede66 for one CLASSY IMAGE...
Friday, February 20, 2009
090124 411
A DIFFERENT SLANT ON JESUS. YOU WILL SEE A MAN CARRYING A SIGN STATING HE HATES JESUS. NOW, THIS? WILL PEOPLE PLEASE MAKE UP THEIR MINDS! TO SEE MORE OF THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, CLICK ON THE HIGHLIGHTED USERNAME (PHOTOGRAPHER 16WadeSt).
090208 268
PRAY FOR THIS MAN THAT HE MIGHT SEE THE LIGHT OF LOVE AND HAVE THE BLINDNESS OF HIS MIND LIFTED...FREEDOM OF SPEECH. HAD HE DONE THIS IN COLONIAL AMERICA HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SHUNNED; HAD HE DONE THIS IN SPAIN OR ITALY DURING THE MIDDLES AGES, HIS FATE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEALED. NEWS BULLETIN: HE IS THE GUY WHO WANTED TO TAKE "IN GOD WE TRUST" OFF OF THE U.S.MONEY
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Blue Mosque / Mesquita Azul
ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD BY A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS WORLD CLASS IN HIS PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS...Robert L. Huffstutter
20080322_娘散歩
FROM THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN BLOOM...THANKS TO blackteaj.justice. Check out his photos. Excellent photographs of Japan
charles lane
GREENWICH VILLAGE. ONE CAN IMAGINE A MYRIAD OF ART STUDIOS AND MINI MUSICAL CONSERVATORIES. AND BOOKS, YES LOTS OF BOOKS INSIDE THESE VILLAGE PADS THE COBBLESTONE PAVEMENT LOOKS LIKE IT IS FROM THE LATE 1800. GOOD SHOT OF VILLAGE SERENITY. ANOTHER GREAT SHOT BY OMOO...
Monday, February 16, 2009
Green Woods Deluxe Cottages
WHO WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A WILD GUESS ABOUT WHERE THIS COTTAGE MIGHT BE LOCATED? SINGAPORE? NASHVILLE? BANGOR? MOUNT PLEASANT? I HAVE NO IDEA, NO DATA ON PHOTO.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Alpha Chi Omega Fan_DSC2165
one of the best metal and glass abstracts I have seen...CONGRATULATIONS TO LARS ANDERSON Copyright 2009
Crosley auto, Nashville, Tennessee
This is the Crosley that was our family car in 1951 and '52. That's me, Howard, as a teenager cleaning the windshield. The license plate which is shaped like Tennessee, is dated 1952. The location where this was taken is now in the middle of I-65 in Nashville.
This car was great for taking shortcuts through alleys.
As a high school kid, I figured out that most streets in Nashville had a 30 mph speed limit, but nobody enforced speed limits in alleys. In fact, I don't think I ever saw a speed limit posted in an alley, so I used them for shortcuts. It took about 15 minutes for me to drive from Belmont Blvd to West End Avenue on the streets, but using alleys, I could reduce the distance by about a mile, avoid red lights, and get there in about ten minutes. Having a small car helped me dodge the trash cans.
This car was great for taking shortcuts through alleys.
As a high school kid, I figured out that most streets in Nashville had a 30 mph speed limit, but nobody enforced speed limits in alleys. In fact, I don't think I ever saw a speed limit posted in an alley, so I used them for shortcuts. It took about 15 minutes for me to drive from Belmont Blvd to West End Avenue on the streets, but using alleys, I could reduce the distance by about a mile, avoid red lights, and get there in about ten minutes. Having a small car helped me dodge the trash cans.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Peeking over
VOTED BEST BLACK CAT PHOTOGRAPH IN THE WORLD BY EARL R. STONEBRIDGE, CERTIFIED BLACK CAT EXPERT, U of B.C.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Ford Pop
IF YOU WANT TO SEE ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST COLLECTIONS OF ALL TYPES OF AUTOMOBILES, CHECK OUT CAR CRAZY ROB....................
Great Wall
A fabulous take on the great wall. Though i have seen thousands of images of this spectacular project, i have not seen it so dramatically exhibited. The blues are many and of various hues and shades; it is an image of serenity and this is, in some ways, so full of irony in that so much labor and so many lives were exhausted in its construction. This is not to be critical, only factual. Considering the amazing progress china has made in the last two decades, the wall is still a symbol of what a nation can do and can be when unified for defense or for economic progress. An ancient image in blue to a nation that is leaping into this new 21 st century with a speed and precision that seems totally miraculous. Congratulations to china and congratulations to the photographer, aileenie
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
od poniedziałku od razu
THIS WOULD DEFINITELY BE MY CHOICE FOR A PLACE TO LIVE IN POLAND IF IT IS NOT PART OF A PRISON. I LOVE THE DESIGN. THERE WOULD NOT BE TOO MUCH ROOM FOR HANGING OUT ON THE BALCONEY. GREAT PHOTO FROM A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER.
Zdrojowa
THIS PHOTO HAS INSPIRED ME TO FLY TO POLAND AND PUT A VASE OR SOMETHING NEAT IN THIS LITTLE ALCOVE. IF THAT IS NOT A GOOD REASON, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS. IS THIS A COOL PHOTO OR WHAT? PLEASE COMMENT. LET ME KNOW WHAT KIND OF ITEM YOU WOULD SET IN THIS ALCOVE. A BOTTLE OF VODKA? SOME FLOWERS? A MANNEQUIN.? OR WOULD IT BE COOL JUST TO STAND THERE INSIDE THIS ALCOVE AND SAY HI TO THOSE WHO PASSED BY? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS OR WHERE IT IS LOCATED IN POLAND. TIME TO GET OUT THE RESEARCH BROWSER TAB.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
7th & 8th graders 1928 Channing, Michigan
They appear to be children who were needing better nutrition and more sleep. It would be enlightening to know how many of these youngsters were working long hours in addition to attending school. If they all had the same last name, it would be haggard. That is to say, sadly, they all appear somewhat haggard. I see no signs of any kinky trends unless it was a unkempt hair styles...........These are all interesting and one might wonder how many are still living. Most were too old for world war two.
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