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✨ CHEERS TO THE EXPLORERS ✨
Portraits from @the_explorers_club Annual Dinner are live! It’s fun to get gussied up every now and again—particularly when I have a chance to sit in power alongside storyteller friends like @deneabuckingham & @julianne_snow.
IMAGE 1: Thanks to the immensely talented @felixkunze for the chance to sit for a portrait. It was rad to play in his studio and see his team work like a well-oiled machine.
IMAGE 2: Props to @patriciakoophotography, not only because I’m stoked to have portraits shot by her, but also because she manages to keep the positive energy high on longgg red carpet shoots.
#travel#adventure#rachel rudwall#rachelroams#rtw#photography#explorersclub#ecad#nyc#portrait#portrait photography#fashion#black tie#felix kunze#patricia koo#ecad2024
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Felix Kunze And Sue Bryce - The Lighting Series Sue Bryce and lighting expert Felix Kunze have created a special video series that focuses on incorporating artificial light into your studio. This comprehensive course delivers 10 lessons (plus 2 bonus lessons) that will open your eyes to the endless opportunities studio lighting creates. Any studio, any space, any set-up, there is always a way to create beautiful light. Learn the fundamental knowledge behind understanding artificial light, execute beautiful lighting scenarios anywhere and elevate your photography exponentially. Each course zeroes in on one specific topic and scenario. Felix takes you through how to set-up the lighting, your camera settings, shooting, modifying, and will leave you with all the tools you’ll need to master magnificent light in your studio. The lessons include understanding sync speed, how to choose a modifier, replicating natural light, achieving Felix’s signature lighting set-up, shooting on-location with strobes, creating back and sidelit scenarios, shooting in small spaces with strobes, formal portraits and headshots, group lighting, layering light, shooting into backlight, and more. INCLUDES 12 LIGHTING COURSES
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Birthdays 8.16
Beer Birthdays
Emile A.H. Seipgens (1837)
Johann Kjeldahl (1849)
Dann Paquette (1968)
John Pinkerton (1969)
Justin Dvorkin (1982)
Jacob McKean (1983)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Charles Bukowski; writer (1920)
James Cameron; Canadian film director (1954)
Steve Carell; comedian, actor (1962)
Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1601)
Hal Foster; Canadian-American author and illustrator (1892)
E.F. Schumacher; philosopher, economist (1911)
Famous Birthdays
Arthur Achleitner; German author (1858)
Scott Asheton; drummer (1949)
Kevin Ayers; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)
Angela Bassett; actor (1958)
Bruce Beresford; Australian film director (1940)
Ivan Bilibin; Russian illustrator, artist (1876)
Gloria Blondell; actress (1910)
Ann Blyth; actress and singer (1928)
Frankie Boyle; Scottish comedian (1972)
Ida Browne; Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1900)
Arthur Cayley; English mathematician (1821)
Matt Christopher; author (1910)
Madonna Ciccone; pop singer (1958)
Mae Clarke; actress (1910)
Albert Cohen; Greek-Swiss author and playwright (1895)
Vincenzo Coronelli; Italian cosmographer and cartographer (1650)
Robert Culp; actor (1930)
Jean de La Bruyère; French philosopher (1645)
Bill Evans; jazz pianist (1929)
Suzanne Farrell; ballet dancer (1945)
Ernie Freeman; pianist and bandleader (1922)
Barbara George; R&B singer-songwriter (1942)
Hugo Gernsback; Luxembourger-American author (1884)
Frank Gifford; New York Giants QB, tv sportscaster (1930)
Anita Gillette; actor (1936)
Eydie Gorme; singer (1932)
Georgette Heyer; English author (1902)
Timothy Hutton; actor (1960)
Laura Innes; actress and director (1957)
Eddie Kirkland; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1928)
Reiner Kunze; German poet (1933)
Jules Laforgue; Uruguayan-French poet and author (1860)
Ketty Lester; singer and actress (1934)
Robert Squirrel Lester; soul singer 91942)
T. E. Lawrence; British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (1888)
Kathie Lee-Gifford; television personality (1953)
Gary Loizzo; guitarist, singer (1945)
Gabriel Lippmann; French physicist (1845)
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.; novelist, short story writer, and essayist (1908)
George Meany; labor organizer (1894)
Pierre Méchain; French astronomer (1744) Otto Messmer; cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (1892)
Lois Nettleton, American actres (1927)t
Julie Newmar; actor (1933)
Fess Parker; actor (1924)
Armand J. Piron; violinist, composer, and bandleader (1888)
Taylor Rain; porn actor (1981)
Billy Joe Shaver; singer-songwriter and guitarist 91939)
Bill Spooner; rock musician, singer (1949)
John Standing; English actor (1934)
Wendell Meredith Stanley; biochemist (1904)
James "J.T." Taylor; R&B singer-songwriter (1953)
Nigel Terry; British actor (1948)
Wallace Thurman; author and playwright (1902)
Mal Waldron; pianist and composer (1925)
Lesley Ann Warren; actor (1946)
Eric Weissberg; singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (1939)
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I think you’ll agree I saved the best for last in today’s #FridayFashion Tadashi Shoji feature - the CAPE GOWN!
Kellie Gerardi recently wore Tadashi Shoji’s Bourne sweeping cape gown to the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. You might have spotted it hanging between the Callisto and the Neptune in the last photo in this post, or on the runway in this post, but I think we can all agree that Felix Kunze’s portrait of Kellie from the event is just the MOST (with Kellie’s photo a close second).
Best of all, there are still a few dresses in stock and on sale!
--Emily
#Friday Fashion#FridayFashion#FashionFriday#Fashion Friday#TadashiShoji#Tadashi Shoji#dress#gown#cape#sweeping cape gown#Kellie Gerardi#KellieGerardi#SpaceProm#Space Prom#gown cape#cape gown#Felix Kunze#FelixKunze
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Through the Years → Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (245/∞)
12 August 2010 | Crown Princess Mary of Denmark attends the CIFF Kids Fashion Show at Bella Center as part of Copenhagen Fashion Week S/S 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Felix Kunze/WireImage)
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Praemium Imperiale Awards, 2011
Photographer: Felix Kunze
#Judi Daily!#Praemium Imperiale Japanese Awards#Judi Dench#Dame Judi Dench#Photographer: Felix Kunze
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#Kommissar Rex#S06E11 Jagd nach dem ewigen Leben#Gedeon Burkhard#Alexander Brandtner#Heinz Weixelbraun#Christian Böck#Martin Weinek#Fritz Kunz#Christoph Dostal#Felix Nordegg#Nils Nelleßen#Michael Stoll#mine edit#Gabriel makes stuff
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This English recording of Die Unstillbare Gier sorta fascinates me
this recording came out in 2005, a few years after the broadway production of Dance of the Vampires, and years after the 1999 English demos with Steve Barton. But this version has different lyrics from the official English ones.
One example is that the official version has the same lyrics as the original Meat Loaf song “The skies were pure and the fields were green” but it was changed to “The wheat was golden and the fields were green”
Most glaring change for me would be the section with Napoleon’s page, the original lyrics make it seem that von Krolock could be sexually attracted to him “When I recall his body I can’t help but think/To consume, it was a sin” in the Martin recording “his body” is changed to “his candor” (candor meaning being honest and open) meaning Krolock was mourning the loss of the personality of the page, not his body
Now interestingly from what I can tell for this CD, Steinman was only credited as the writer of the music, not lyrics. Michael Kunze was credited for all the lyrics on the CD. He did write the original German lyrics, but Steinman himself was behind the English Broadway lyrics.
Really interesting that Kunze would be credited as the lyricist for the english lyrics since there is only a few minor changes from it and the Steinman version.
(also of note is that Martin was not involved with Tanz der Vampire till after the Broadway production, meaning this couldn’t have been recorded before it)
Full lyrics to the Martin Version
Full Lyrics to the 99 Demo
#tanz der vampire#Dance of the Vampires#Felix Martin#bal vampirov#Бал Вампиров#jim steinman#tdv#dotv#jimmys bullshit
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Waking the Dead - BBC One - September 4, 2000 - April 11, 2011
Crime Drama (92 episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Trevor Eve as Det. Supt. Peter Boyd
Sue Johnston as Dr. Grace Foley
Wil Johnson as DS/DI Spencer Jordan
Claire Goose as DC/DS Amelia Silver (Series 1—4)
Holly Aird as Dr. Frankie Wharton (Series 1—4)
Esther Hall as Dr. Felix Gibson (Series 5)
Félicité du Jeu as DC Stella Goodman (Series 5—8)
Tara Fitzgerald as Dr. Eve Lockhart (Series 6—9)
Stacey Roca as DS Katrina Howard (Series 8)
Eva Birthistle as Det. Supt. Sarah Cavendish (Series 9)
Recurring cast
Simon Kunz as DAC Ralph Christie (Series 1)
George Rainsford as Luke Boyd (Series 7—9)
Ruth Gemmell as Linda Cummings (Series 7—8)
Elizabeth Rider as DCC Maureen Smith (Series 8—9)
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Felix Kunze And Sue Bryce - The Lighting Series Sue Bryce and lighting expert Felix Kunze have created a special video series that focuses on incorporating artificial light into your studio. This comprehensive course delivers 10 lessons (plus 2 bonus lessons) that will open your eyes to the endless opportunities studio lighting creates. Any studio, any space, any set-up, there is always a way to create beautiful light. Learn the fundamental knowledge behind understanding artificial light, execute beautiful lighting scenarios anywhere and elevate your photography exponentially. Each course zeroes in on one specific topic and scenario. Felix takes you through how to set-up the lighting, your camera settings, shooting, modifying, and will leave you with all the tools you’ll need to master magnificent light in your studio. The lessons include understanding sync speed, how to choose a modifier, replicating natural light, achieving Felix’s signature lighting set-up, shooting on-location with strobes, creating back and sidelit scenarios, shooting in small spaces with strobes, formal portraits and headshots, group lighting, layering light, shooting into backlight, and more. INCLUDES 12 LIGHTING COURSES
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8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts got together for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and Buzz Aldrin's outfit stole the show
[From left to right: Charlie Duke (Apollo 16), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), Al Worden (Apollo 15), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Michael Collins (Apollo 11) and Fred Haise (Apollo 13).] Photo by Photographer Felix Kunze
Only four men alive today have walked on the moon. Last month, three of them got together in the same room.
NASA's Apollo program ran 17 missions, which are best known for putting the first people on the moon in 1969. Humanity hasn't set foot on the moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.
In March, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing — which happened on July 20, 1969 — eight of the 17 surviving Apollo astronauts gathered together for an early celebration at The Explorers Club in New York City.
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step foot on the moon (after Neil Armstrong), stole the show. Or rather, his outfit did.
Clad in a suit patterned with rocket ships, American flag socks, four gold rings, and two watches, the 89-year-old astronaut certainly stood out.
"His suit was drawing almost as much attention as the man himself," Kunze told Business Insider.
Aldrin has a history of sporting colorful outfits. He even walked in a New York Men's fashion show with Bill Nye in 2017 wearing silver sneakers, a metallic jacket to match, and a shirt that said "Get your ass to Mars."
He continues to advocate for sending future missions to the moon and Mars.
"I can't think of a more appropriate time than five decades from the time that the first Eagle [lunar module] landed on the moon to discuss that the US might lead internationals... to put another eagle on the moon," Aldrin previously told Business Insider.
Six of the astronauts — Duke, Worden, Cunningham, Schweickart, Aldrin, and Collins — spoke on a panel hosted by The Explorers Club, as Space.com reported, and recounted some of their hair-raising experiences during the Apollo missions.
Aldrin and Collins reportedly described how Aldrin and Armstrong almost didn't make it back off the moon's surface. (Collins stayed in the command module in lunar orbit in order to reconnect with the other two astronauts on their return.)
Apollo 11's lunar module, "Eagle," ferried the astronauts to the moon's surface and back. But while on the moon, Aldrin discovered that a piece of the module was broken.
"I laid down on the floor with my head to the right, which is the co-pilot's side, and I'm looking around at the dust that came in, and there's this little black object. Didn't look like it belonged there. Looked a little closer … this was a circuit breaker that was broken," Aldrin said, according to Space.com.
That circuit breaker was a critical piece of machinery that would help the lunar module get back to Collins in orbit.
"You get ready to land, you push that thing in … you get on the surface of the moon, you pull that out. If you wanna come home, you gotta push that thing in again, but it's broken off," Aldrin said.
"If they couldn't get off, they were dead men, and I was getting home by myself," Collins added, according to Space.com.
Luckily, the astronauts were able to jerry-rig a solution to the problem. Aldrin used a pen to push the button in, and the two were able to leave the moon.
Recently, the US has renewed a push to return men to the moon. On March 26, Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2024, according to the Associated Press. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has also said that getting boots on the moon is ultimately a step toward the goal of getting astronauts to Mars by the year 2033.
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Birthdays 8.16
Beer Birthdays
Emile A.H. Seipgens (1837)
Johann Kjeldahl (1849)
Dann Paquette (1968)
John Pinkerton (1969)
Justin Dvorkin (1982)
Jacob McKean (1983)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Charles Bukowski; writer (1920)
James Cameron; Canadian film director (1954)
Steve Carell; comedian, actor (1962)
Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1601)
Hal Foster; Canadian-American author and illustrator (1892)
E.F. Schumacher; philosopher, economist (1911)
Famous Birthdays
Arthur Achleitner; German author (1858)
Scott Asheton; drummer (1949)
Kevin Ayers; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)
Angela Bassett; actor (1958)
Bruce Beresford; Australian film director (1940)
Ivan Bilibin; Russian illustrator, artist (1876)
Gloria Blondell; actress (1910)
Ann Blyth; actress and singer (1928)
Frankie Boyle; Scottish comedian (1972)
Ida Browne; Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1900)
Arthur Cayley; English mathematician (1821)
Matt Christopher; author (1910)
Madonna Ciccone; pop singer (1958)
Mae Clarke; actress (1910)
Albert Cohen; Greek-Swiss author and playwright (1895)
Vincenzo Coronelli; Italian cosmographer and cartographer (1650)
Robert Culp; actor (1930)
Jean de La Bruyère; French philosopher (1645)
Bill Evans; jazz pianist (1929)
Suzanne Farrell; ballet dancer (1945)
Ernie Freeman; pianist and bandleader (1922)
Barbara George; R&B singer-songwriter (1942)
Hugo Gernsback; Luxembourger-American author (1884)
Frank Gifford; New York Giants QB, tv sportscaster (1930)
Anita Gillette; actor (1936)
Eydie Gorme; singer (1932)
Georgette Heyer; English author (1902)
Timothy Hutton; actor (1960)
Laura Innes; actress and director (1957)
Eddie Kirkland; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1928)
Reiner Kunze; German poet (1933)
Jules Laforgue; Uruguayan-French poet and author (1860)
Ketty Lester; singer and actress (1934)
Robert Squirrel Lester; soul singer 91942)
T. E. Lawrence; British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (1888)
Kathie Lee-Gifford; television personality (1953)
Gary Loizzo; guitarist, singer (1945)
Gabriel Lippmann; French physicist (1845)
William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.; novelist, short story writer, and essayist (1908)
George Meany; labor organizer (1894)
Pierre Méchain; French astronomer (1744) Otto Messmer; cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (1892)
Lois Nettleton, American actres (1927)t
Julie Newmar; actor (1933)
Fess Parker; actor (1924)
Armand J. Piron; violinist, composer, and bandleader (1888)
Taylor Rain; porn actor (1981)
Billy Joe Shaver; singer-songwriter and guitarist 91939)
Bill Spooner; rock musician, singer (1949)
John Standing; English actor (1934)
Wendell Meredith Stanley; biochemist (1904)
James "J.T." Taylor; R&B singer-songwriter (1953)
Nigel Terry; British actor (1948)
Wallace Thurman; author and playwright (1902)
Mal Waldron; pianist and composer (1925)
Lesley Ann Warren; actor (1946)
Eric Weissberg; singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (1939)
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Fort Douaumont, Douaumont France - December 2018
Full photo gallery online here.
Fort Douaumont
Constructed in 1885 and continually improved until 1913, Fort Douaumont was in much better condition to withstand the German Gamma howitzers that had leveled the Belgian forts at the start of the war in August of 1914. But the rapid destruction of those forts convinced the French Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre to reduce the number of soldiers stationed at Douaumont and remove all weaponry possible. The ability of Fort Douaumont to defend itself had been eliminated when the German Army began their assault on Verdun on February 21 1916.
On February 24 the fort was being manned by a French maintenance crew of less than 60 soldiers and had been under artillery fire for 4 days. A German regiment of 10 combat engineers, led by Felix Kunze, approached the fort without opposition. At the fort Kunze climbed inside an unoccupied gun emplacement and opened a door for the rest of his men to enter. None joined Kunze as they feared an ambush, so Kunze began to search the fort alone. He soon found a French artillery team which he captured and locked up.
More German soldiers entered the fort and, without firing a single shot, Fort Douaumont was captured from the French. Another officer was given credit for the capture of the fort and Felix Kunze was not recognized for his bravery until the 1930’s.
The French Army, quickly recognizing their mistake, began work to recapture the fort in May of 1916. It would take until October to take the fort back from the Germans, at the cost of 100,000 lives.
The fort is an immense structure. It was difficult to see much from the surface due to the fog the day I was there, as well as the fact that most of the fort is underground. The flags of France, Germany and the European Union are a reminder of the reconciliation and cooperation since the Second World War.
Fort Douaumont early 1916, photo Wikipedia.
Fort Douaumont at the end of 1916, photo Wikipedia.
March 26, 2019
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Via Daily Mail:
It may be a half-century since former U.S. astronaut, Buzz Aldrin rose up to become one of the first-ever humans to step foot on the moon, but that doesn’t mean he’s done making a splash.
At a recent reunion, eight former Apollo astronauts, and three of the four living men to have walked on the moon, gathered together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing.
While the momentous feat of humankind’s lunar landing was the subject of the reunion, Aldrin quickly stole the show, showing up in a glimmering silver suit, American flag socks, and an array of accessories replete with not one but two gold watches and an array of gold rings.
Photographer Felix Kunze shared the image of the astronauts on his website.
Aldrin has made the news for his bold fashion choices in the past, particularly during Men’s Fashion Week in 2017 when he took to the runway with fellow man-of-science, Bill Nye.
The former astronaut wore a similarly silvery suit with a T-shirt that read ‘get your a** to Mars,’ while Nye donned a jacket that looks almost identical to Aldrin’s above.
The event last month wasn’t all about Aldrin, though.
In a panel discussion, astronauts discussed their sometimes harrowing journeys, including what it’s like to drive the rover on the moon’s surface and another about how Aldrin and Armstrong were nearly stranded on the moon’s surface only to be miraculously saved by a felt-tipped pen, as reported by Space.com.
An anniversary of the first lunar landing comes with apt timing as the U.S. begins to shift back towards human space travel, particularly returning astronauts to the moon which hasn’t been done since 1972.
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Left to right: Charles Duke (Apollo 16), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), Al Worden (Apollo 15), Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9), Harrison Schmitt (Apollo 17), Michael Collins (Apollo 11), Fred Haise (Apollo 13)
Buzz is freakin’ cool....
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Praemium Imperiale Awards, 2011
In honour of Japan's Prince Takamatsu at Claridge's Hotel
Photographer: Felix Kunze
#Judi Daily!#Praemium Imperiale Japanese Awards#Judi Dench#Dame Judi Dench#Photographer: Felix Kunze
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