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“In this shot, E.T. is on a hilltop overlooking the city. We realized the shot using a combination of a miniature set in the foreground and a matte painting in the background for the city. E.T. was a small puppet mounted to a rod that slid down a track, which gave the appearance that he was walking down the hillside toward the city. A lot of what makes this shot successful is the lighting and composition. The foreground looks a bit foreboding, whereas the cityscape has an almost magical quality about it. Hundreds of twinkling lights beckon him. In a way, it reflects what E.T. is feeling at this point in the story.”
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Google mangled the translation of the original caption for this a bit, if someone who reads german can provide a accurate translation I'd be grateful.
Christening of U35
The picture shows the Guard of Honour from the Navy School in Mürwik. (The Navy's music corps "Ostsee" is also referenced but does not appear to be in the picture.) The occasion is the christening of U 35, the fifth ship of its class for the German Navy, at HDW Wharf in Kiel. Guests include Thomas Kossendey, the parliamentary secretary of state in the German Defence Ministry (in Germany, "Staatssekretäre" are roughly what would be called junior ministers in the UK, while "Minister" are the equivalent to UK secretaries of state), Vice Admiral Axel Schimpf, Head of the German Navy, Prof. Dr. Helmut Reichling, the Mayor of Zweibrücken (I think the ship is being christened "Zweibrücken") and his wife Dr. Sigrid Hubert-Reichling, who is there as the ship's 'godmother'.
They seem to be taking this whole christening business fairly literally.
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Cameroon—At the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center, more than a dozen residents form a gallery of grief, looking on as Dorothy—a beloved female felled in her late 40s by heart failure—is borne to her burial.
By Monica Szczupider
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BUKIMA, VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, EASTERN CONGO, JULY 2007: Conservation Rangers from an Anti-Poaching unit work with locals to evacuate the bodies of four Mountain Gorillas killed in mysterious circumstances in the park, Virunga National Park, Eastern Congo, 24 July 2007. A Silver-Back Alpha male, the leader of the group was shot, three females were also killed. Two of the females had babies and the other was pregnant. The two babies were not found and it is thought that they will have died of stress and dehydration. The motivation for the killing is not known but it is suspected that there are political motivations. The local illegal Charcoal industry clashes with conservation efforts in this very poor area and embattled Rangers have been threatened, tortured and killed as a result of this clash of political and economic wills. Over 100 Rangers have been killed in the last ten years as part of their courageous efforts to protect the Gorillas of Virunga, one of the world's most endangered species. The Congolese Rangers in this particular group are working with Wildlife Direct, a Conservation organization. The Rangers receive a salary based on donations to Wildlife Direct and perform one of the most dangerous jobs in the world of wildlife conservation. The DRC has the highest toll of human casualties of any country since the Second World War, a figure in the region of 4.6 million dead as a result of war and resultant displacement, disease, starvation and ongoing militia violence.
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A scarily long time ago now. I think it would have been in the summer of 2002, and sadly (despite spending almost all my summers as a kid in Zim/RSA) was the last time I visited Africa.
The Virunga mountains straddle the border of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda. Most of that trip was spent in Uganda visiting Murchison Falls, Bwindi, Budongo etc. mainly looking for birds and chimps but we crossed the border into Rwanda to visit the Volcanoes National Park in search of gorillas. The mountains were spectacular and the forest had a very different "feel" under the canopy to forests I've worked in in South America or South East Asia. Seeing gorillas up close in the wild was one of the best wildlife experiences of my life. Sadly (and very unusually) we completely missed out on seeing chimps though.
That was my sole visit into Central or West Africa but I've read a lot about the area both in terms of wildlife and culturally and would love to visit. In fact, every time I've written a research proposal in the last few years the first few drafts have been based somewhere in the Congo Basin before being nudged towards south east asia by my supervisor.
I know a Rwandan guy (not very well) who was a war correspondent in Eastern DRC for Reuters - it sounds absolutely terrifying (in both good and bad respects).
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Communal spiders weave a huge web over fields in Wagga Wagga Austrilia
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I got it from this article in vanity fair about ILM. I'd be interested to see your drawing if you wouldn't mind sharing it?
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If I get it finished it will be in a show I'm doing in a couple of weeks. Soon as I have it done and photographed I'll link it to you.
Won't be the first time I've nicked atmospherics or landscapes from a Spielberg film still, but I loved the absurdity of this one. I'm a fan of invented spaces and the breaking of the suspension of disbelief really appealed to me.
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Google mangled the translation of the original caption for this a bit, if someone who reads german can provide a accurate translation I'd be grateful.