My friend Joyce takes us on there hike along this trail along an abandoned train line.
This trail is in Southern California.
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Goat Canyon Trestle Bridge Hike
Posted in Activity, Experience, North America, Place, postaweek
Tagged Goat Canyon Trestle Bridge, hike, Southern California
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WPC: Smile
1. Each week, WordPress will provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- smile (daily post)
- smile (half a photograph)
- smile (q’s place)
- smile (travel with intent)
- smile (stenoodie)
- smile (jinan daily photo)
- smile (ungemaltes)
- smile (from hiding to blogging)
- smile (stenoodie)
- smile (city sonnet)
- smile (simply photos)
- smile (beijing daily photo)
- smile (|cee’s photography)
- favorite place (stenoodie)
- favorite place (ruined for life)
- favorite place (woollymuses)
- favorite place (nomad)
- favorite place (no fixed plans)
- favorite place (travel with intent)
- favorite place (a wandering memory)
- favorite place (la parole été donneé . . .)
- favorite place (come walk with me)
- favorite place (yi-chin ling)
- favorite place (spirit in politics)
Posted in Art, Asia, Blogging Challenge, Experience, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged brass, Buddhism, smile, Uygur women, wood
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WPC: Favorite Places
Sydney
Australia
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- favorite place (daily post)
- favorite place (stenoodie)
- favorite place (woollymuses)
- favorite place (nomad)
- favorite place (beijing daily photo)
- favorite place (jinan daily photo)
- favorite place (here & abroad)
- favorite place (park preview)
- favorite place (traveling miles together)
- favorite place (reconnected mind)
- favorite place (travel with intent)
- favorite place (a wandering memory)
- favorite place (la parole été donneé . . .)
- favorite place (come walk with me)
- favorite place (yi-chin ling)
- favorite place (spirit in politics)
- favorite place (jinan city photo)
- I’d rather be . . . (figments of a ducTchess)
- I’d rather be . . . (mara eastern)
- I’d rather be . . . (stenoodie)
- I’d rather be . . . (everyday strange)
- I’d rather be . . . (jasper’s journal)
- I’d rather be . . . (beijing daily photo)
- I’d rather be . . . (here and abroad)
- I’d rather be . . . (jinan daily photo)
- I’d rather be . . . (half a photograph)
- I’d rather be . . . (spirit in politics)
- I’d rather be . . . (scillagrace)
- I’d rather be . . . (my own private idaho)
- I’d rather be . . . (natsukashii kansai)
Posted in Art, Australia, Blogging Challenge, Culture, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Australia, Melbourne, Street art, Sydney
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WPC: Story
My first class in China honoring the victims of the 2008 earthquake
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- Stories (daily post)
- Stories (jinan daily photo)
- Stories (ruined for life)
- Stories (my point of view)
- Stories (simply photos)
- Stories (reluctant photographer)
- Stories (chronicles of an anglo-swish)
- Stories (journey of lens)
- Stories (j hardy carroll)
- Stories (beijing city photo)
- Stories (narrow bridge)
- Stories (this & that)
- Stories (stenoodie)
- Stories (mittened hands)
- Stories (willow soul)
- Out of this World (travel with intent)
- Out of this World (random thoughts lead to . . . )
- Out of this World (one day at a time)
- Out of this World (out of focus)
- Out of this World (narrow gate)
- Out of this World (jinan daily photo)
- Out of this World (here & abroad)
- Out of this World (spirit in politics)
- Out of this World (misty roads)
- Out of this World (cee’s photography)
Posted in Activity, Asia, Blogging Challenge, China, Experience, photography, postaweek
Tagged 2008, memorial, Sichuan Earthquake, story, students
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Seems actually using American Airlines frequent flyer miles for international travel sure ain’t easy.
Urumqi Security
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Originally posted on Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition:
I was aware of the unrest and problems in Xinjiang before I went to Urumqi, but I wasn’t prepared for all the check points and security measures that are part of daily…
WPC: Tour Guide
I love the ice floating in the Chicago River
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- Tour Guide (daily post)
- Tour Guide (ohm sweet ohm)
- Tour Guide (jinan daily photo)
- Tour Guide (my own private idaho)
- Tour Guide (bedlam & daisies)
- Tour Guide (misty roads)
- Tour Guide (simply photos)
- Tour Guide (beijing daily photo 2)
- Tour Guide (mittened hands)
- Tour Guide (stenoodie)
- Tour Guide (eirik jested)
- Tour Guide (sunrise, sunset)
- Tour Guide (life after tree)
- Tour Guide (wells baum)
- Beloved (mittened hands)
- Beloved (words won’t do)
- Beloved (jinan daily photo)
- Beloved (stenoodie)
- Beloved (half a photograph)
- Beloved (snapshots: styles and smiles)
- Beloved (here and abroad)
- Beloved (strange wednesdays)
- Beloved (ohm sweet ohm)
- Beloved (no fixed plans)
- Beloved (narrow bamboo gate)
- Beloved (cambodian beginnings)
Posted in Blogging Challenge, Nature, North America, photography, photos, postaweek, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Chicago, Chicago River, ice, Michigan Avenue, winter
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beloved
Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Watch for a second post. There’s more to come.
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- Beloved (daily post)
- Beloved (mittened hands)
- Beloved (words won’t do)
- Beloved (jinan daily photo)
- Beloved (stenoodie)
- Beloved (ruined for life)
- Beloved (strange wednesdays)
- Beloved (ohm sweet ohm)
- Beloved (narrow bridge)
- Beloved (cambodian beginnings)
- Beloved (city sonnet)
- Variations on a Theme (.cee’s photography)
- Variations on a Theme (jinan daily photo)
- Variations on a Theme (again and again)
- Variations on a Theme (mostly monochrome)
- Variations on a Theme (chronicles of an angry swiss)
- Variations on a Theme (the 15th day)
- Variations on a Theme (here and abroad)
- Variations on a Theme (a walk in the garden)
- Variations on a Theme (the reluctant photographer)
- Variations on a Theme (spirit in politics)
- Variations on a Theme (this, that & the other)
- Variations on a Theme (27 crosses)
- Variations on a Theme (beijing daily photo)
- Variations on a Theme (narrow bamboo gate)
- Variations on a Theme (q’s place)
Posted in Asia, Blogging Challenge, photography, postaweek
Tagged baby, beloved, family, Indonesia, Pekanbaru
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Stray Dog
If you can’t afford a trip to Japan, perhaps you can manage a trip via film. This just entailed a drive to my library.
The first noir crime film in Japan, in Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (1949) rookie detective, Murakami, gets his pistol stolen while he’s riding a crowded bus. Humiliated, Murakami (Mifune) takes responsibility for his carelessness and begs his boss to fire him. The pragmatic boss brushes his request away and pairs the rookie with a veteran detective (Shimura) named Sato. The two set out to track down the pistol.
Plagued by guilt, Mifune is obsessed with finding his pistol and disguises himself to search the black markets of aprés-guerre Tokyo. We see the squalor and darkness of these markets (which aren’t quite as bad as the poverty in Dos’ka den). These scenes are beautifully and masterfully shot to show this underworld full of hustlers, prostitutes, bums and drunks.
Aprés-guerre is a term Murakami and Sato discuss at length as Sato notices the difference between the pre-WWII generation and the aprés-guerre generation. A WWII veteran, Murakami expresses his sympathy and understanding for the culprit whom he imagines is a product of a rough society. Yusa, the thief, also is a veteran so Murakami identifies with him and knows how the war damaged the soldiers.
However, Sato tells him that thinking is generational and won’t help a cop do his work. If a cop’s philosophy views a criminal as being without choice or responsibility, the officer just won’t be able to work as he should, Sato asserts. Sato reminds Murakami that he’s chosen law and order, while Yusa’s chosen exploitation and crime. There is a difference, a big one.
As time passes, the missing gun is used in robberies and a murder. Murakami knows the pistol had all seven bullets and the plot becomes a race to get to the gun. In this race, the heroes’ search takes us through Japanese society from local watering holes, to a packed baseball field, to a burlesque hall, to a filthy shanty and to Sato’s simple, loving home. Along the way we’re treated to Sato’s wise practice. It’s fascinating to see him deal with each subject, be it a showgirl or a pickpocket, with just the right approach. His understanding of people makes chasing and shootouts unnecessary.
I learned about Stray Dog from the commentary feature with the Drunken Angel DVD. Mifune and Shimura starred in Drunken Angel. Here they both play completely different characters. Mifune moves from angry gangster to exemplary rookie cop and Shimura shifts from righteous drunk doctor to wise, veteran cop. Another pivotal performance was given by Keiko Awaji, who plays a showgirl, an uncooperative witness. In the extra features, Awaji explains how she didn’t want to be in this or any film. She wanted a career in operettas, but she got talked into this role. She was terribly pouty and unpleasant about the filming process and this difficult attitude made her performance work. Go figure.
I never intended to get into Japanese films as much as I have. I now have been so impressed with the stellar performances that it’s clear that it’s high time I learn the names of these actors.
Here’s a compilation of Mifune’s performances:
