Thursday, February 28, 2019

3 ... 2 ... 1 DAY TO BLAST OFF!




















Star Blast Game One sci-fi entertainment ebook and paperback release next March, 1


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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

3 ... 2 DAYS TO BLAST OFF

Star Blast Game One sci-fi entertainment ebook and paperback release next March, 1


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Ubi sunt, the Biltmore and the Oscars (6)

THE 10TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 1938
Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
Thursday, March 10, 1938
Honoring movies released in 1937
(pics from oscars.org)

EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE MCCARTHY

SPENCER TRACY, best actor for Captains Corageous

LUISE RAINER, best actress for The Good Earth

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

3 DAYS TO BLAST OFF

Star Blast Game One sci-fi entertainment ebook and paperback release next March, 1

Readers can buy the Kindle ebook right now on pre-order big sale before deadline. Spreading, comments, and feedback posts welcome.

Star Blast Game One is available for pre-order in amazon.com
Kindle Store here:

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Ubi sunt, the Biltmore and the Oscars (5)

THE 11TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 1939
Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
Thursday, February 23, 1939
Honoring movies released in 1938
(pics. from oscars.org)

MILIZA KORJUS, Singing "The Star-Spangled Banner"

BETTE DAVIS, Best Actress winner for Jezebel

WALT DISNEY, Receiving one statuette and seven miniature statuettes from Shirley Temple for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

MICKEY ROONEY, Juvenile Player

Ubi sunt, The Biltmore and the Oscars (4)

THE 13TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 1941
Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
Thursday, February 27, 1941
Honoring movies released in 1940
(pics from oscars.org)

JOAN FONTAINE AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK Best Actress and Directing nominees for Rebecca, winner of Best Picture


GINGER ROGERS AND JAMES STEWART Best Actress winner for Kitty Foyle, Best Actor winner for The Philadelphia Story


Monday, February 25, 2019

Ubi sunt, the Biltmore and the Oscars (3)


THE 14TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 1942
Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel
Thursday, February 26, 1942
Honoring movies released in 1941
(pictures from oscars.org)



BOB HOPE. Host of the Academy Awards in the times of glory we prided on having one


GARY COOPER, JOAN FONTAINE, MARY ASTOR AND DONALD CRISP
Best Actor winner for Sergeant York, Best Actress winner for Suspicion, Supporting Actress winner for The Great Lie, and Supporting Actor winner for How Green Was My Valley

CARY GRANT AND ROSALIND RUSSELL
Best Actor nominee for Penny Serenade and newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940)

The Biltmore Hotel hosted the Ceremony of the 4th Academy Awards of the Oscar in 1932 and then from the 7th to the 14th ones except the 12th from 1935 to 1942 except 1940. The Oscar awards were also conceived at the hotel.


Ubi sunt, the Biltmore and the Oscars (2)

The Biltmore Hotel hosted the Ceremony of the 4th Academy Awards of the Oscar in 1932 and from the 7th to the 14th ones except the 12th from 1935 to 1942 except 1940. The awards were also conceived at there.
1938 11th academic awards banquet. (oscars.org)


Ubi sunt, the Biltmore and the Oscars (1)


The Biltmore Hotel hosted the Ceremony of the 4th Academy Awards of the Oscar in 1932 and then from the 7th to the 14th ones except the 12th from 1935 to 1942 except 1940. The Oscar awards were also conceived at the hotel.

1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Organizational Banquet (oscars.org)



Thursday, February 21, 2019

Planet of the Apes reboot film series (3 of 3)

War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)


Planet of the Apes reboot film series (2 of 3)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)


Planet of the Apes reboot film series (1 of 3)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)


Planet of the Apes film by Tim Burton (2001)



Planet of the Apes original film series (5 of 5)

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)


Planet of the Apes original film series (4 of 5)

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)



Planet of the Apes original film series (3 of 5)

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)


Planet of the Apes original film series (2 of 5)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1968)


Planet of the Apes original film series (1 of 5)

Planet of the Apes (1968)


Facts about Space (15 of 42)

Rogue Planets


Wednesday, February 20, 2019

A Hotel Full of Ghosts

Millennium Biltmore, 506 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071


Next Sunday, (February 24, 2019) the 91st Academy Award Ceremony of the Oscar will be held at Dolby Theatre. However, the awards were conceived at the Millennium, which also hosted the ceremony for years in the beginnings.


Crystal Ballroom at opening party 1923
(Laura Itzkowitz for Untapped Cities)



Crystal Ballroom today
(Biltmore's web)


Facts about Space (10 of 42)



Saturday, February 16, 2019

The impossibility of sainthood, Rock (2)

The Weight by the Band

(Rock, the sainthood-seeking errand reptile in a pilgrim's progress)





"From its very conception, then, "The Weight" taps into both the spiritual and the real. It chronicles the increasingly complex trip of a sainthood-seeking errand boy—a do-gooder pilgrim who finds his progress hindered by a cast of curious characters. But these characters were pulled from the streets of Fayetteville and Turkey Scratch, not from the New Testament. The temptations, complications, and growing burdens of the narrator's errand were proffered not by visitors from the other side, but from the common-yet-fantastic characters who walk life's very real streets.
Inspired by Buñuel but populated by Arkansans, the song is most simply about the burdens we all carry. The "weight" is the load that we shoulder when we take on responsibility or when we try to do good. But it's also the heaviness that presses down on us when we fall into "sin" or wrestle with "temptation." (from Shmoop.com)

Friday, February 15, 2019

The impossibility of sainthood, Rock (1)


The Weight by the Band

(Rock, the sainthood-seeking errand reptile in a pilgrim's progress)





"From its very conception, then, "The Weight" taps into both the spiritual and the real. It chronicles the increasingly complex trip of a sainthood-seeking errand boy—a do-gooder pilgrim who finds his progress hindered by a cast of curious characters. But these characters were pulled from the streets of Fayetteville and Turkey Scratch, not from the New Testament. The temptations, complications, and growing burdens of the narrator's errand were proffered not by visitors from the other side, but from the common-yet-fantastic characters who walk life's very real streets.
Inspired by Buñuel but populated by Arkansans, the song is most simply about the burdens we all carry. The "weight" is the load that we shoulder when we take on responsibility or when we try to do good. But it's also the heaviness that presses down on us when we fall into "sin" or wrestle with "temptation." (from Shmoop.com)

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990


Twenty nine years today

Happy Valentine's Day, Earth


"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

(This excerpt from Sagan's book Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Sagan's suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voyager 1 was about 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles) away, and approximately 32 degrees above the ecliptic plane, when it captured this portrait of our world. From www.planetarysociety.org)

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Scott Mckenzie - San Francisco - 1967




Written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas to promote the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. In central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising against Soviet rule. The song has been featured in several films, including Frantic, The Rock, and Forrest Gump. 
(subtitleman, Youtube and Wikipedia)

Monday, February 4, 2019

Reptiles and reptilians rough approach





REPTILES

1. from johnkuart (Dragon Age) 2.  from that's classified























REPTILIANS

3. n/d n/a 4. n/d n/a

Saturday, February 2, 2019

Climate change?




Friday, February 1, 2019