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oldschoolvillageidiot · 20 days

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Another relic from the olden days when Stargate SG-1 was airing live, that the youths may not know about. When Conan O'Brien had his original show, he had a segment called Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage, where a very soft-spoken man ranted about nerdy stuff. One time he did an entire bit about Daniel Jackson leaving SG-1. At the end of the bit, Conan said, "I think there are maybe six people out there who know exactly what you're talking about." One of those six people actually worked for the show, or was somehow connected to it, and they got in touch with Conan. They loved the bit, and invited Pierre to come out and film a cameo. He's the technician (Sergeant O'Brien) at the end of Zero Hour, and they did a follow-up bit following him when he went to Vancouver to film it.

Original Recliner of Rage segment

Follow-up

#stargate #sg1 #stargate sg-1 #amanda tapping #richard dean anderson #conan o'brien #pierre bernard

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arcadebroke · 19 days

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#Pierre Bernard #Cowboy Bebop #Anime #Late Night with Conan O'Brien #video

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jeannepompadour · 3 months

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Maria Anna of Austria by Pierre Bernard, 1763

#pierre bernard #1763 #1760s #18th century #france #18th c. france #mid 18th century #mdp18th c.

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knowgoopplz · 16 days

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spent my whole life self-conscious about having niche, esoteric interests that nobody else in my peer group could relate to. It was othering and isolating.

means a lot to me, in a sentimental and vulnerable way, to see Conan O'Brien go big viral while eating hot wings. I used to record Conan and watch episodes back to back. Conan was like my church. He was smart and weird. He didn't mind debasing himself or being the butt of the joke (because he is in on it even if other people don't always realize); his persona involves a unique flavor of subversive confidence that I found instructive.

A lot of confidence and personality is about feedback loops. Unfortunately, too many people never get the feedback they need to properly develop, whether that's due to nature, nurture, environment, etc. Using humor as a maladaptation to hack this process is nothing new, but Conan's persona is unique even among the very best in that he is the butt of the joke and simultaneously it's okay if you don't get it, totally fine, in fact that's even better. This is like drawing blood from a stone. It doesn't make sense, shouldn't work, and yet it does.

That's a big contrast from traditional comedian types who desperately need you to get the joke to laugh with them and performance art types like Sacha Baron Cohen, Colbert Report Era Stephen, or Nathan Fielder, among whom it's better if you don't get the joke because that means the joke is on you and even funnier.

Whether it's Pierre Bernard, Jordan Schlansky, or Conan himself, a recurrent theme of his show was letting your freak flag fly, putting on a spectacle to make fun of yourself, then miraculously deriving confidence from the process. I'm moved by Conan smearing hot sauce all over his face while laughing manically on a multimillion-view video. makes me feel validated even though Conan already taught me it's fine if nobody really gets you.

#conan o'brien #team coco #jordan schlansky #pierre bernard

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chailipliner · 20 days

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palais bulles by architects antti lovag and pierre bernard

#architecture #antti lovag #pierre bernard

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rocklandhistoryblog · 2 years

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY – NEWS FROM YESTERYEAR

[Image: The “Boss” (Pierre Bernard) takes a ride while “Baby,” the elephant, gets her training at “farm-culture.” Image from Life at the Clarkstown Country Club. To read more about Pierre Bernard and the Clarkstown Country Club, visit our archived issue of South of the Mountains (vol. 44, no. 1, 2000) here: https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/hsrc/id/4126/rec/1.]

May 11, 1932 – #90YEARS AGO

Excerpt from Rockland County Evening Journal

BERNARD TEACHES ELEPHANT TO HANG FROM BAR BY TRUNK

Dr. P. A. Bernard’s herd of elephants has now an entirely new routine and he is personally teaching one of the “babies” a remarkable stunt—that of lifting his own weight by his tru[n]k. After wrapping the trunk around a stout bar, the animal will step off a platform into space and swing, a feat declared to be unequalled.

The elephants, so familiar to members of the Clarkstown Country Club or to persons who pass the estate, appeared recently in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Madison Square Garden, New York City. It was the first time the company, which has 50 Elephants of its own, hired an outside elephant act.

Varied Work

Dr. Bernard’s elephants have been taught to plow the four acres used as a club vegetable garden, to push automobiles around, to drag a dump truck and to pull out stakes and fence posts. They even get down on their knees and roll big field stones into position with their trunks and heads as well as work the pumps in the draining of the pools.

The elephants are permitted to graze on the lawns of the club and loaf in the cool woods on the property, being perfectly reliable around other animals.

Dr. Bernard always has been fond of animals and during the several years he spent in India he grew to have a special interest in elephants. Last fall friends in India shipped him three baby bulls, Juno, the youngest, three and one-half years old, and Buddha and Babe.

Dr. Bernard got into contact with Arthur Eldridge who was born with the circus and has been with elephants for fifty-one years since. The trainer took the job of looking after the three babies, and sold Dr. Bernard his own elephant, Mom, a full-grown beast that the Sells-Floto Circus had to get rid of because she was cantankerous. Eldridge has never had any trouble with her.

New Tricks

The trainer was delighted at the chance to work with such young bulls, having never before started on any younger than eight or nine years, though he himself has made three different trips to India, and has imported eighty-elephants to the country. He set out to make these young bulls do what elephants had never done before.

Juno, he decided to teach to clown. He got her to box, with a glove tied on her trunk. Then he convinced the idea of getting her to ride the tricycle.

She was coaxed to a dummy tricycle held to the floor, fixed, so the pedals had but an inch or so of motion. Gradually, the pedals were set farther and farther off axis until she was going through a regular pedal motion. Then she was put on a tricycle that moved. She was afraid at first, but at last she learned. The hardest job of all remained.

“We couldn't make the bus fit the elephant and still look like a tricycle,” says Eldridge. “I tried three times before I hit on this one, come up with airplane wheels behind and an automobile wheel in front.

“Wire Act”

Meanwhile, Buddha, four years old was being trained to do his “wire act” in which he walks a narrow board and turns around on it. First a beam was placed on the ground and he was taught to walk it. Then an inch would be sawed from it every week or so until it got to its present dimension, four inches across. Later it was raised in the air. Buddha has performed the feet off the ground.

These and other stunts were taught in Dr. Bernard’s garage. The three baby elephants were taught to dance, individually and in a sort of ballet, and to play chimes. Baby was taught to walk up an incline on a big ball. More and more the guests at Dr. Bernard’s estate would go out to the garage to see the stunts.

Tall tales of what the elephants were doing reached the ears of John Ringling, who came here to see for himself. He persuaded Dr. Bernard to part with his pets for the length of the circus stay at the Garden.

Training elephants has always been supposed to be a work requiring tremendous patience. But though their training began only last October, the three baby bulls do an act that circus people call the best elephant act ever developed.

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Flashback Friday appears every Friday. To receive the full flashback report (formerly seen in the Rockland Review), read this week’s “News From Yesteryear” here: https://www.rocklandhistory.org/page.cfm?page=946&eblast_recipient=1211395

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#Pierre Bernard #Clarkstown Country Club #rockland history #local history #rockland county #rocklandhistory #nyshistory #orangetown #nyack #hudson river valley

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dipolos · 10 months

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Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (2000)

#Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes #water drops on burning rocks #ludivine sagnier #bernard giraudeau #stills #film stills

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positivexcellence · 2 months

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@U24_gov_ua: Robert De Niro, Viggo Mortensen, Catherine Deneuve, Imagine Dragons, Bono, Hilary Swank, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry — over 30 celebrities and U24 ambassadors have addressed Ukrainians with words of support. Thank you to everyone who has been with🇺🇦during these 2 years. #StandWithUkraine

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filmreveries · 11 months

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“The best plans can be wiped out at any moment by what we call fate. I confess, that saddens me.”

The Vanishing (1988) dir. George Sluizer

#the vanishing #the vanishing 1988 #george sluizer #gene bervoets #bernard-pierre donnadieu #johanna ter steege #film screencaps #film stills #films #screencaps #french films

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chicinsilk · 5 months

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Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1952-53 “Jolie Madame” Collection. Katharine Hepburn, in a model evening dress worn in the play "The Millionaires" by George Bernard Shaw.

Pierre Balmain Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1952-53 Collection "Jolie Madame". Katharine Hepburn, dans un modèle de robe du soir porté dans la pièce de théâtre "The Millionaires" (Les Millionaires) de George Bernard Shaw.

Photo Angus McBean

#haute couture #pierre balmain #katharine hepburn #american actress #french designer #french style #fashion 50s #1952-53 #fall/winter #automne/hiver #george bernard shaw #the millionaires #angus mcbean #evening gown #robe du soir

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germanpostwarmodern · 2 years

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Maison de Verre (1928-31) in Paris, France, by Pierre Chareau & Bernard Bijvoet

#1920s #house #modernism #modernist #architecture #france #architektur #paris #pierre chareau #bernard bijvoet

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bernardcalet · 7 months

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Étude, 2023

Papier découpé

(Study, 2033)

#ADGAP

#bernard calet #stone #pierre #screen #carbon #artist on tumblr #art

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honeygleam · 3 months

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the vanishing (1988) dir. george sluizer

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harrybyharry · 8 months

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The Vanishing, dir. George Sluzier, 1988

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gogmstuff · 7 months

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1909 was a big year in hats -

Left 1909 (1 January issue) Les Modes hat by Alphonsine. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1443.

Right 1909 (1 Febuary issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1418.

Left 1909 (1 March issue) Les Modes (back of issue) Variations sur la mode by De Losques. From gallica.bnf.fr; cropped 851X1204.

Right 1909 (1 March issue) Les Modes Variations sur la mode by De Losques. From gallica.bnf.fr; cropped 854X1206.

Left 1909 (1 March issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1413.

Right 1909 (1 April issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine photo-Félix. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1412.

Left 1909 (1 May issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine photo-Félix. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots and flaws w Pshop 1024X.1405.

Right 1909 (1 May issue) Les Modes Hats by Maison Amicy. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots and flaws w Pshop 1024X1405.

1909 (1 June issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine photo-Félix. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1406.

Left 1909 (1 August issue) Les Modes hat by Alphonsine photo-Félix. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots w Pshop 1024X1407.

Right 1909 (1 August issue) Les Modes Hat by Maison Amigy photo-Reutlinger. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots w Pshop 1024X1407.

1909 (1 August issue) Les Modes Cover princesse Alexandre de Hohenlohe photo-Pierre Sanitas. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots w Pahop 1024X1408.

Left 1909 (1 September issue) Les Modes cover Mlle Ocampo by Helleu. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots and flaws w Pshop 1024X1406.

Right 1909 (1 September issue) Les Modes robe d'après-midi by Bernard photo - Reutlinger. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1407.

1909 (1 October issue) Les Modes Hat by Alphonsine photo - Félix. From gallica.bnf.fr; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1024X1408.

#1909 fashion #1909 #1900s fashion #1900s #Belle Époque fashion #Belle Époque #hats #wide hat #feathered hat #Alphonsine #De Losques #Maison Amicy #Félix #Reutlinger #Princess Alexandre de Hohenlohe #Pierre Sanitas #Mlle Ocampo #Paul César Helleu #Bernard

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fidjiefidjie · 7 months

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Bon jour et bonne semaine à tous ☕️ 📰

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach à Europe 1🗼Paris 1982

Photo de Bernard Charlon/ Getty Images

#photooftheday #black and white #photography #vintage #bernard charlon #getty images #jean pierre elkabbach #journal #newspaper #bonjour #bonnesemaine #fidjie fidjie

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