Urban camping means different things to different people, from living without a vehicle or electricity and plumbing to squatting in unused properties (anybody remember Howard K. Stern and/or know his whereabouts, and Cato Kaelin, please call – I miss ‘ya, bruh, heY!) and more. However, the most popular definition of urban camping provided by our buds at the Urban Dictionary is: “camping in an urban setting by sleeping on rooftops, under bushes, and in public parks.” <<< A very short list. I’m not exactly oceanfront in Laguna Niguel!
Very cool blog and more pics. Thanks, doods! Check ‘em out: Weburbanist
Camping out Times Square Style ~ New York City. Don’t burn the s’mores!
Great News! Dick Cheney’s office contacted me me MEH to do the official Veepresidential Portraiture to be unveiled at his retirement bee in 2008 or if ever, heY! Well, I’m pretty full up and pumped about it! I understand the art is not to ever be hung in the traditional sense, rather, to avoid work blockages and for all to behold, will be placed on casters and dragged all through the streets of Washington DC, the Nation’s Capital, (hint – free answer here if you are boning up for the new citizenship test). I am not quite finished with my dooty, but here is a snap shot of me deep in concentration at my homeland safe home school:
I hope His Most Serene Highness, Dick Cheney will enjoy the finished by-product!
This is, of course, a spoof of the original work pictured below by Rene Magritte, an artist favorite, titled, “La Clairvoyance.” Magritte was born on November 21, 1889, in the town of Lessines, Belgium. He was a Surrealist who used out of place and out of proportion imagery to provoke thought. His accessible and vivid Surrealism caught on in the 1960s and his works, or variations on them, were popularized as album covers for such artists as Jeff Beck, Jackson Browne, Styx, and Jethro Tull. With Magritte’s wit, I have a feeling he would have approved of my adaptation.
Lois Maxwell, born 14 February, 1927, passed away Sunday at the age of 80.Miss Maxwell was a Golden Globe-winning Canadian actress, known for originating the role of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise. Starring in fourteen James Bond movies, many fans credit her as the definitive Miss Moneypenny.
Born Lois Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario Canada to parents who were a teacher and a nurse respectively, she ran away from home at the age of fifteen in order to join the Royal Canadian Army during World War II. Enlisted initially as a soldier, she quickly became part of the Army Entertainment Corps, traveling Europe during the war, performing music and dance numbers to entertain the troops. The truth about her age was discovered when the group reached London, and in order to avoid deportation back to Canada, she enrolled at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Travelling to Hollywood at the age of twenty, she quickly found work and soon won the Golden Globe Award as “Best Newcomer” for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy, That Hagen Girl, as well as participating in a Life Magazine photo layout in which she posed with another up-and-coming actress named Marilyn Monroe. She appeared in Bedtime for Bonzo with Ronald Reagan, whom she declared in an interview with Hello! magazine she had found very handsome and attractive. Maxwell made a guest appearance in the “Something for a rainy day” episode of the ITC series The Baron, playing an insurance investigator.
Having tired of Hollywood, she moved back to Europe, living in Rome for five years from 1950 to 1955. There she made a series of films, and at one point became an amateur racing driver. While on a trip to Paris, she met her future husband, television executive Peter Marriott; they were married in 1957 and moved to live in London. Their daughter Melinda (b. 1958) and their son Christian (b. 1959) were both born in London.
During the 1960’s, she appeared in many other television series and movies both in Britain and Canada, and was the star of Adventures in Rainbow Country later that decade. She guest starred in episodes of The Saint and The Persuaders! which both starredRoger Moore. She provided the voice of Atlanta for the science fiction children’s series Stingray in 1963. She also portrayed Moneypenny in a 1967 made-for-television special (produced by EON Productions) entitled, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond.
In 1973, her husband, who had long been ill following a serious heart attack in the early 1960s, died. Maxwell then returned to Canada, settling in Toronto where she wrote a column for the Toronto Sun under the Miss Moneypenney pseudonym and became a businesswoman working in the textile industry. In 1994, she returned to England once more in order to be near her daughter, and retired to a cottage in the village of Frome, Somerset.
A few years later, however, she became ill and left the United Kingdom and moved to Perth, Western Australia to live with her son’s family. She remained there until her death at Fremantle Hospital, on September 29, 2007, and will be dearly missed by all.
~ X anemi
Episode clip from: Department “S” – The Ghost of Mary Burnham, played by Lois Maxwell
