One of the first pieces that brought classical elements under the ice —— called “Corinthian.” Some glowing painterly effects in here… the solvent drips and masking. The history and movement of the ice. #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #landscapepaintingnow #landscapepaintingnowcanada #arcticice #iceberg #corinthiancolumns #hamontart #canadianartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CKWY9wWgu2M/?igshid=osj3f9bssv01
The painting was inspired by sketches Church had made of Icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. The painting is currently displayed in the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Here is the larger sibling of what l posted yesterday. So exciting to work with this masking process, and there are colour effects I love in here. Used Venetian Red to make that grey-purple — fab new mix!
I start my review with Emporio Armani (photo 1), with a slight inspiration coming from Asia, with lines similar to the kimono translated into Armani language. Maxi-buttons were placed on the side, shiny silk brocades gave a little light to the looks, ruffles everywhere and just one very bright colour, red, together with grey and black. Sportmax (photo 2) always finds a good compromise between wearability and fashionability. It was great because the details that made the clothes simple made them also remarkable: the raw cuts of the little dresses, wool in neutral shades used for the beautiful coats closed by just one string, straight lines and basically no decorations at all.
This time I didn’t like the prints in Etro collection - guess in some cases it reminded me of Desigual, which I hate - but I recognise this is a matter of taste. It wasn’t a bad collection, but overall that’s the problem: it was just nice. Too many dresses looked as the same, the only successful ones in my opinion being the ensemble top + trousers and the ones in the shiny tones of gold. Iceberg (photo 3) was instead a grower for me. It started looking like another ‘normal’ collection but it wasn’t: when you start noticing the three-dimensional quality of the few prints, or the focus on the extremely tight waist, with high-waisted sort of trousers which are maybe more leggings than pants, in neutral tones, or the wool multi-coloured skirts paired with immaculately made white blouses, well, it wins you over.
How I like experimentation with fabrics! The great strength of Marco De Vincenzo’s collection (photo 4) was, first of all, the extremely wide variety of materials: there was leather, sheepskin, denim, wool, velvet. And then the interesting manipulation of these materials: criss-crossing in contrasting shades, fringes, fur patchwork. It was a total collection. Philosophy di Lorenzo Serafini (photo 5) had period elements with 70s vibe: the ruffles, the bows, the white lace meets high-waisted slightly flared trousers, chiffon maxi-dresses, bright colours like blood orange, with some much more modern twists - shorts with printed sweaters and tiny jackets in flowery patterns.
There were definitely too many idea in Versace collection. The glam look is becoming old, and the only looks I really appreciated were the black ones with slits revealing slashes of amazingly bright colours: lemon yellow, fiery red. I also save the little dresses with the puzzle of greek prints - signature of the brand - declined in different colours. For the rest, it’s a no no. Bally chose instead classic shapes revisited with a touch of irony: colour blocking, oversize croco trousers, bright accessories.
Day 4
Ermanno Scervino (photo 6) presented a collection which was already successful after the first few white quilted dresses in which the quilt creatively formed a pattern. It then went on with a chain of sophisticated blue looks, with dreamy and romantic shapes. Beautiful the gowns closing the show, inspired by the 40s and still linking the brand to its signature elegant style.
Creativity takes over again at Antonio Marras (photo 7) and the result is always fabulous. Colours veered towards pastel shades, but shapes are much more rigorous and structured: square-shaped oversize coats with prints inspired by abstract and deco art, referencing the beautiful lace used throughout the collection, mixed with velvet or juxtaposed on the other colours to create beautiful graphic effects.
I chose that outfit in the photo for Gabriele Colangelo (photo 8) because it represents, in my opinion, the very core of this amazing collection: a pair of wool blend grey trousers and a simple woven panel as a top. The woven panel was the real fil rouge connecting the whole collection and was present over dresses, coats, trousers, skirts. Wonderful idea that of the insertion of colours in the final part, fuchsia being the main tone. Fur added that little bit of opulence giving character to an already perfect collection.
nine years and counting by Danielle Nelson Via Flickr: Yesterday Facebook informed me that the day was my “Hasselbladiversary” … the day I purchased my 500 C/M. Since then we’ve been on many adventures and over nine years have made roughly an image per day. So here’s one from my favorite camera, to commemorate the occasion.
A visual journey of the ill fated liner that struck an ice-burg on the morning of April 15th 1912 and sank, taking with her over 1500 passengers and crew.
In 1907, J. Bruce Ismay (President of the White Star Line) and Lord Pirrie (Chairman of Harland & Wolff shipbuilders) dreamed up the idea to build luxurious ocean liners as a way for the White Star Line to compete in the transatlantic passenger market. A total of three ships were planned: The Olympic, Titanic and the Britannic. The next year was spent doing extensive design work. On July 30, 1908, authorization was given to build the Titanic and her sister ship the Olympic. The name Titanic is derived from Greek mythology and means gigantic. In 1911, the order was placed for the third ship Britannic. The ships were constructed by the Belfast shipbuilders Harland and Wolff.
Above: The Titanic and Olympic on the stocks, Belfast, 20 October, 1910, the day the Olympic was launched. She was the largest vessel in the world until the launch of the Titanic.
The keel for the Titanic was laid on March 31, 1909. A cost of £3 million for the first two ships was agreed.
Above: Bird’s eye view from the top of a gantry of Olympic, older sister of the Titanic and build using the same methods and design. Olympic was launched on 20 October, 1910. She was scrapped in 1935 after striking and sinking the famous Nantucket lightship off the eastern coast of the United States.
Above: The massive anchor of Titanic is transported to its destination in Belfast by horsedrawn cart. The centre anchor was the largest ever forged by hand and weighed nearly sixteen tons.
Titanic was launched at 12:15pm on 31 May 1911. 22 tons of soap and tallow were spread on the slipway to lubricate the ship’s passage into the River Lagan.
The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted out.
Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). Her total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m).
Above: The Titanic on trials in Belfast Lough. The surveyor signed an “Agreement and Account of Voyages and Crew”, valid for twelve months, which declared the ship seaworthy.
During Titanic’s construction, 246 injuries were recorded, 28 of them “severe”, such as arms severed by machines or legs crushed under falling pieces of steel. Six people died on the ship while she was being constructed and another two died in the shipyard workshops and sheds. Just before the launch a worker was killed when a piece of wood fell on him.
Above: RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. The two White Star Liners in Belfast seen together for the last time, 3rd February 1912.
The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. The aim was to convey an impression that the passengers were in a floating hotel rather than a ship; as one passenger recalled, on entering the ship’s interior a passenger would “at once lose the feeling that we are on board ship, and seem instead to be entering the hall of some great house on shore”. Passengers could use an on-board telephone system, a lending library and a large barber shop. The First Class section had a swimming pool, a gymnasium, a squash court, a Turkish bath, an electric bath and a Verandah Cafe.
The Titanic left for Southampton on 10th April. After a journey lasting about 28 hours she arrived into Southhampton at about midnight on 4 April and was towed to the port’s Berth 44, ready for the arrival of her passengers and the remainder of her crew.
Above: Leaving Southampton.
The last photograph of the Titanic as she prepared to cross the Atlantic
All is on course and excitment builds in New York for the return trip.
Above: An advertisement for the British luxury passenger liner Titanic, part of the White Star Line’s fleet, announces that the ship is set to sail on April 20th, 1912 at 12 Noon, 1912. Ticket prices and berth descriptions are provided.
What they didn’t see…
The Iceburg that sank the Titanic appeared out of the darkness on the evening of the 14th April.
At 11:40pm on 14 April, the lookout spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. The First Officer ordered the ship to be steered around the obstacle and the engines to be put in reverse but it was too late; the starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. Five of the ship’s watertight compartments were breached. It soon became clear that the ship was doomed, as she could not survive more than four compartments being flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment as her angle in the water became steeper.
Above: Captain Edward John Smith, who went down with his ship
Above: A copy of the last message sent by Edward Smith from the Titanic which tells of passengers being put into lifeboats.
At 2:20am, two hours and forty minutes after she struck the iceberg, the Titanic’s rate of sinking suddenly increased as her forward deck dipped underwater and the sea poured in through open hatches and grates. As her unsupported stern rose out of the water, exposing the propellers, the ship began to break in two between the third and fourth funnels due to the immense strain on the keel. With the bow underwater, and air trapped in the stern, the stern remained afloat and buoyant for a few minutes longer, rising to a nearly vertical angle with hundreds of people still clinging to it, before sinking. For many years it was generally believed the ship sank in one piece; however, when the wreck was located many years later, it was discovered that the ship had fully broken in two. All remaining passengers and crew were plunged into lethally cold water with a temperature of 28 °F (−2 °C). Almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other causes within 15–30 minutes. Only 13 of them were helped into the lifeboats though these had room for almost 500 more people.
Distress signals were sent by wireless, rockets and lamp, but none of the ships that responded was near enough to reach her before she sank. A nearby ship, Californian, which was the last to have been in contact with her before the collision, saw her flares but failed to assist. Around 4am, RMS Carpathia arrived on the scene in response to Titanic’s earlier distress calls.
Above: Survivors of the Titanic disaster nearing the ‘Carpathia’, in a lifeboat. The arrow points to Joseph Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line.
Above: Latitude 41’ 46N and longitude 50’ 14W, the place where the Titanic sank.
The initial reports coming from the Carpathia confused, leading the American press to report on 15 April that Titanic was being towed to port by the SS Virginian.
Above: Newspaper boy with news of the Titanic disaster with the headlines: Titanic Disaster - Great Loss of Life.
Carpathia docked at 9:30 p.m. on 18 April at New York’s Pier 54 and was greeted by some 40,000 people waiting at the quayside in heavy rain. Titanic’s 214 surviving crew members were taken to the Red Star Line’s steamer SS Lapland, where they were accommodated in passenger cabins and taken back to England.
Above and below: 167 surviving crew members of the Titanic are taken ashore from the SS Lapland on board the paddle steamer Duchess of York, before landing at Plymouth, 29th April 1912. The men had previously been rescued by the Carpathia and taken to New York.
Above: Titanic Crew Survivors. Portrait of a group of surviving crewmen from the RMS Titanic, 1912. Pictured are, front row, from left: Ernest Archer, Frederick Fleet, Walter Perkis, George Symons, Frederick Clench; second row, from left: Arthur Bright, George Hogg, (?) Moore, Frank Osman, Henry Etches.
Above: Titanic Memorial, London. The Lord Mayor of London arriving at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, for the memorial service for the victims of the Titanic disaster.
Objects Exhumed Of Titanic In France On December 15, 1992.
The last living survivor was Millvina Dean from England, who at only nine weeks old was the youngest passenger on board, died aged 97 on 31 May 2009. A special survivor was crew member Violet Jessop who survived the sinkings of both Titanic and Britannic and was aboard Olympic when she was rammed in 1911.
Glacial Lagoon by Fougerouse Arnaud Via Flickr: This photograph was taken at the glacial lagoon of Jökulsárlón in southern Iceland. The biggest glacier of Iceland, named Vatnajökull, began to retreat due to the rising temperatures during early 1900s, the melting and the retreat created a lagoon somewhere around 1940. Nowadays the lagoon is still growing and big icebergs are continuously falling from the tongue of the glacier. The lagoon is pretty close to the sea, and at high tides, seawater flows into the lagoon, melting the iceberg who are going to derive into the sea at low tides. You can found dozens of icebergs, from small to big scattered around the closest dark sand beach, left here to melt. The view is very astonishing, but unfortunately, I went there three times during my trip and every time it was pouring rain… I still managed to get some shot, hidden under my poncho. Here is the result.
Above: RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic. The two White Star Liners in Belfast seen together for the last time, 3rd February 1912.
Above: The swimming pool for first class passengers only. Above image from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284933/Titanic-II-Australian-tycoon-unveils-plans-replica-doomed-vessel.html
Above: Leaving Southampton.
The last photograph of the Titanic as she prepared to cross the Atlantic
The Iceburg that sank the Titanic appeared out of the darkness on the evening of the 14th April.
