If your dog is in the dangerous breed category
and you have a small child in your home, please
don't leave your dog alone with the child
under any circumstances. It only took a moment
for the following to happen:
THANK YOU!
The Dog
WELL I'LL BE DOGGONE!
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
If your dog is in the dangerous breed category
and you have a small child in your home, please
don't leave your dog alone with the child
under any circumstances. It only took a moment
for the following to happen:
THANK YOU!
The Dog
If your dog is in the dangerous breed category
and you have a small child in your home, please
don't leave your dog alone with the child
under any circumstances. It only took a moment
for the following to happen:
THANK YOU!
The Dog
WEATHER CARVED SCULPTURE
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Humans may have spent thousands of years trying to master the art of the perfect sculpture, but these incredible photographs of icebergs show they are no match for nature's grand design.
Pictured off the Western Antarctic Peninsula, these colossal ice carvings have been whittled away by biting polar winds, freezing water and sub-zero temperatures to form incredible mega structures that take the breath away.
The vast array of frozen sculptures includes 'Swiss cheese' icebergs which appear to have deep holes drilled into them and some that have formed gigantic cathedrals of ice.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1258041/Incredible-pictures-giant-ice-sculptures-carved-sea-water-polar-winds.html?ITO=1490#ixzz0j91z1FMk
GORGEOUS MATHMATICS
A movie inspired on numbers, geometry and nature, by Cristóbal Vila. Incredibly beautiful!
KIM JONG-IL'S TRAFFIC LIGHTS
North Korean traffic girls, in their uniforms deigned by the Great Leader, with their unfailingly robotic movements and riveting focus, are becoming figures of cult status. Instead of traffic lights to control the stop and go flow of an intersection, women dressed in perfectly crisp and identical outfits stand alone in the middle of intersections in a small circle (or on a platform with an umbrella for shade). They are only allowed to turn counter-clockwise, directing traffic with forceful, halting movements. They have wonderful uniform variations for rain and winter. They’ve been the subject of photographic study since at least the 1970s, have the website Pyongyang Traffic Girls dedicated to them (with Traffic Girl of the Month; here’s March), a growing catalog of user submitted YouTube videos, and at least one Flickr photo pool. Are they sexy? Strangely, yes. Are they efficient? Frightfully so. Do we have our Halloween costume now? Most certainly.
FAUX NEWS & THE GOP
Former Bush speech writer and conservative David Frum on ABC's Nightline:
Be careful what you wish for!
HAPPY 80TH STEPHEN
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Stephen Sondheim born 22 March 1930 is probably the greatest post-war writer of Broadway musicals.
Having been rescued from a lonely childhood and encouraged as a boy by his neighbourhood friend's father, Oscar Hammerstein II, and studied music at Williams College, his career took off when, aged 26, he was asked to write the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The following year he was writing lyrics for Jule Styne's songs for Gypsy. His first attempt as a composer & lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) and a hit.
Having been rescued from a lonely childhood and encouraged as a boy by his neighbourhood friend's father, Oscar Hammerstein II, and studied music at Williams College, his career took off when, aged 26, he was asked to write the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. The following year he was writing lyrics for Jule Styne's songs for Gypsy. His first attempt as a composer & lyricist was A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) and a hit.
His work is hard to categorise. He is gay but has rarely created a gay character; his range of subjects is diverse; he has mastered many different musical styles, each new project is a new challenge; he is rarely formulaic. Lyrically he is as intelligent, witty and ironic as his music is audacious, in the style of his gay predecessors Noel Coward, Lorenz Hart or Cole Porter. His shows however, generally reject traditional notions of love and romance and neither do they reflect the gay culture which has emerged and become mainstream during his career, although ironically, his work has contributed much to that culture and become part of the gay musical tapestry - songs such as:Somewhere, Losing My Mind, Being Alive, Send In The Clowns...
His greatest shows include: Company(1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976),Sweeney Todd (1979), Into The Woods(1987), Sunday In The Park With George(1984), Assassins (1991), Passion (1994) & Getting Away With Murder (1996).
He has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, eight Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize, multiple Drama Desk and other theatre awards. His shows are regularly revived and many of his songs are now standards covered by a diverse range of artists. In 2008 he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
2010 marks the 80th birthday of this Broadway and songwriting legend, and many events, benefits and tributes are planned to celebrate this landmark.
His greatest shows include: Company(1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976),Sweeney Todd (1979), Into The Woods(1987), Sunday In The Park With George(1984), Assassins (1991), Passion (1994) & Getting Away With Murder (1996).He has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, eight Grammys and a Pulitzer Prize, multiple Drama Desk and other theatre awards. His shows are regularly revived and many of his songs are now standards covered by a diverse range of artists. In 2008 he was awarded a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
2010 marks the 80th birthday of this Broadway and songwriting legend, and many events, benefits and tributes are planned to celebrate this landmark.
LOCAL GIRL MAKES GOOD
Click to EnlargeSan Francisco and Baltimore can be very proud of Speaker of the House Pelosi for her leadership in passing the most sweeping health reform bill in US history. I am so pleased that Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi is my local represenative in S.F. and that I was fortunate enough to live in Baltimore while her brother Thomas was mayor. Personally I met her with her interior designer in my business here and believe I enjoyed dinner at her family's restaurant in Baltimore in the late 60's.
MESSAGE ON A BOTTLE: THE PLASTIKI
A boat made of 12,000 plastic bottles has set sail on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney to spread awareness about pollution in the world's oceans.
Environmentalist and banking heir David De Rothschild and a crew set out on the appropriately named Plastiki catamaran.
Their 11,000-nautical mile journey will go past the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a sea of waste about five times the size of the UK or twice that of Texas.
Four out of five plastic bottles end up in a landfill, according to the UN.
"It is time we beat waste and this is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind issue that needs to be addressed," Mr De Rothschild told the BBC earlier this month.
The 31-year-old adventurer, who has completed expeditions to both poles and various jungles, was already tweeting on Saturday, hours after the boat set sail on its three-month voyage.
"Travelling 2.0 Knots ummm! That's a lot of ocean ahead!" he said on his Twitter page. "Just saw our first bit marine debris - a plastic cup!"
MOTHER NATURE'S FIERY POWER
Video made by the Icelandic coast guard of the volcano eruption near Eyjafjallajökull glacier, in South Iceland. The eruption started shortly before midnight on Saturday 20th of March 2010. Amazing... it is a fissure volcano, this kind of volcano expels large amounts of fluid lava and occurs in areas of the Earth in the edges of continental ridges such as Mid-Atlantic, where exactly Iceland is.
REAL MEN WEAR LEVIS
1970's psychedelic commercial with the supposition that man had evolved differently.
HIGHS AND LOWS
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Earlier this week, the world's shortest man, He Pingping, age 21, died after developing chest pains while filming a television show in Italy. Pingping suffered from primordial dwarfism, a condition which kept him from ever growing taller than 73 cm (2 feet 5 inches) tall. Pingping was recognized by the Guinness World Records organization. Pingping of China smiles as Sultan Kosen of Turkey rests his hands on He's shoulders during a promotional event in Istanbul, Turkey on January 14, 2010.
He, with a height of 73 cm (2 feet 5 inch), and Kosen, with a height of 246.5 cm (8 feet 1 inch), have been listed in the Guinness World Records as the world's shortest man and tallest man respectively.
DANCING WITH GUNS
The perfect time to dance, is when you've got a gun dangling from your body. Granted, guns don't go off just by shaking them, but there's probably a reason you don't see any television shows called "Dancing with Guns". Not everyone is carrying a piece, but these dancing police officers, shimmying security guards, and twisting traffic cops may be armed.
Luckily dancing cops have been caught on camera by brave videographers and uploaded before their cameras could be confiscated. Videotaping law enforcement is all fun and games until someone gets arrested.
Luckily dancing cops have been caught on camera by brave videographers and uploaded before their cameras could be confiscated. Videotaping law enforcement is all fun and games until someone gets arrested.
SEVENTY YEAR OLD VISIONS
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Vintage original design drawings by Ernest Brunswick of the New York design firm “the modern room”. This was a design firm and furniture studio in new york city in the 1940’s and 1950’s. These original drawings and watercolors show a variety of interior designs which include original furniture designed by The Modern Room for their interiors.
AMERICA'S FOLK HERO
Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85. Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV's Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and developer, died at his Santa Ynez Valley home. His death came on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, Marcella.
Parker, who had become a successful winery owner and real estate developer after retiring from Hollywood in the 1970s, died of complications from old age at his home in California.
BATHING HOUR ON DAYTONA BEACH 1905
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A leisurely warm day in the Florida sun. There seem to be more people watching, than actually bathing. The lone "horseless carriage" doesn't seem to be drawing much attention. One dapper gentleman wearing a fedora though, has spotted the photographer!
CANNINE COMMUTERS
STRAY dogs are commuting to and from Moscow's city centre on underground trains in search of food scraps.
The clever canines board the Tube each morning. After a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where they spend the night.
Experts studying the dogs say they even work together to make sure they get off at the right stop after learning to judge the length of time they need to spend on the train.
The dogs choose the quietest carriages at the front and back of the train. They have also developed tactics to hustle humans into giving them more food on the streets of Moscow.
Scientists believe the phenomenon began after the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, and Russia's new capitalists moved industrial complexes from the city centre to the suburbs. Dr. Andrei Poiarkov, of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, said: These complexes were used by homeless dogs as shelters, so the dogs had to move together with their houses.
Because the best scavenging for food is in the city centre, the dogs had to learn how to travel on the subway to get to the centre in the morning, then back home in the evening, just like people.
Dr. Poiarkov told how the dogs like to play during their daily commute. He said, "They jump on the train seconds before the doors shut, risking their tails getting jammed. They do it for fun. And sometimes they fall asleep and get off at the wrong stop."
The dogs have learned to use traffic lights to cross the road safely, said Dr. Poiarkov. And they use cunning tactics to obtain tasty morsels of shawarma, a kebab-like snack popular in Moscow.
They sneak up behind people eating shawarmas, then bark loudly to shock them into dropping their food.
With children, the dogs play cute by putting their heads on youngsters' knees and staring pleadingly into their eyes to win sympathy and scraps. Dr. Poiarkov added, "Dogs are surprisingly good psychologists."
The Moscow mutts are not the first animals to use public transport. In 2006 a Jack Russell in Dunnington, North Yorks, began taking the bus to his local pub in search of sausages. And two years ago, passengers in Wolverhampton were stunned when a cat called Macavity started catching the 331 bus to a fish and chip shop.
LUCIFER HAS TO SIT DOWN TOO!
A pair of Devil headed arm chairs from a Portuguese fasienda
Brazil1920's
This beautifully carved pair of devil or gargoyle chairs was acquired from a Portuguese
estate/farm). These chairs are believed to be Gothic Revival from the early 1900's. We would think they were made even earlier but for the fact they are made of distinct exotic Brasilian hardwood typical of the region of Sao Paolo. They are extremely heavy over 200 lbs. each.
Price
$12,000
Condition*
Excellent
Measurements
height: 42"
second height: 17"
depth: 33" Seat depth: 22"
width/length: 38"
Specifications
Number of items: 2
Materials/Techniques: Exotic Brasilian hardwood, red leather, bronze studs. They have been hand rubbed with a light french polish and then waxed. the sides have been carved out of single pieces of wood. Note: this is the natural color of the wood and no stain has been used to enhance color.
Creator: unknown
Photography
provided by Thomas Hayes Gallery
Location
Thomas Hayes Gallery
6162 Santa Monica blvd
Hollywood, CA 90038
USA
Phone: 323.463.4434
E-Mail: info@thomashayesgallery.com
Ref. : U08102180691561
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