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Shipwreck worth 3 Billion
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A treasure hunter said he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion.
If the claim proves true, it could be one of the richest sunken treasures ever discovered.
But an attorney for the British government expressed doubt the vessel was carrying platinum. And if it was, in fact, laden with precious metals, who owns the hoard could become a matter of international dispute.
Treasure hunter Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research in Gorham, Maine, announced that a wreck found sitting in 700 feet of water 50 miles offshore is that of the S.S. Port Nicholson, sunk in 1942.
He said Wednesday that he and his crew identified it via the hull number using an underwater camera, and he hopes to begin raising the treasure later this month or in early March with the help of a remotely operated underwater vessel.
“I’m going to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water,” Brooks said.
Captain America
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joe Simon, who along with Jack Kirby co-created Captain America and was one of the comic book industry’s most revered writers, artists and editors, has died at age 98.
Simon’s family relayed word of his death Thursday, posting a short statement on Facebook and telling The Associated Press through a spokesman that Simon died Wednesday night in New York City after a brief illness.
More here: http://news.yahoo.com/captain-america-co-creator-joe-simon-dies-nyc-203315402.html
This cover version of The Band Perry’s “If I Die Young” is the best cover version of any song for 2011. A great song to begin with, with lyrics like: “the sharp knife of a short life” and “send me away with the words of a love song”
…this cover version does it complete justice. The cover is by Michael Henry and Justin Robinett.
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(Rolling Stone) — No rock icon has sealed his vault as tightly as Bob Seger.
Six early albums have been out of print for decades, he has no box set, and the words “bonus track” seem to be anathema to him.
He held back on a two-disc hits collection for years, but he’s finally relented. Good thing. Previous sets didn’t have his 1968 garage-jam classic “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” and this set has a smoking cover of Little Richard’s “Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back to Birmingham).”
All the big hits are here, though nothing sounds as glorious as the live “Travelin’ Man/Beautiful Loser” medley.
An insane amount of material still remains locked up, however. Hey, Bob, cough it up!
*Welcome back Bob..although you never really left us!
Van Halen Reunion of the Year:Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, and David Lee Roth will reunite next year and hit the road as Van Halen for the first time since 2007.
In addition to the tour, the band is also set to celebrate its 40th anniversary with their first full album featuring Roth behind the mic since 1984′s 1984.
Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen, and David Lee Roth will reunite next year and hit the road as Van Halen for the first time since 2007.
In addition to the tour, the band is also set to celebrate its 40th anniversary with their first full album featuring Roth behind the mic since 1984′s 1984.
Cheeta the Chimp-Tarzan
PALM HARBOR, Florida (AP) — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.
Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune newspaper that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She says he seemed to be tuned into human feelings.
Based on the works of author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan stories, which have spawned scores of books and films over the years, chronicle the adventures of a man who was raised by apes in Africa.
Cheetah was the comic relief in the Tarzan films that starred American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller’s estate sometime around 1960.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Harry Potter said goodbye to Hogwarts and movie theaters in 2011, but not without earning boatloads of cash along the way.
The boy who lived dominated the box office this past year with more than $1.3 billion worldwide, making him the undoubted winner in a less-than-stellar year financially for movies, but “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″ wasn’t the only sequel to succeed. Eight of the top 10 earners at the theaters belonged to sequels, prequels or remakes.
This trend is what Jeff Bock, box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, sees as the big box office story of 2011, for good and bad. “You can’t deny sequels’ potency at the box office, with seven of the top 10 grossing films of 2011 being continuing sagas (eight if you count ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’,”Bock said.
Pop Artist James Rizzi
Rizzi’s managers, Art 28 GmbH & Co. KG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said in a statement on its website that the artist died peacefully at his studio in New York’s SoHo district on Monday. They gave no cause of death.
Rizzi was born in Brooklyn and studied art at the University of Florida. He returned to New York in 1974 and first made his name as a street artist.
He became known for his bright, cartoon-like drawings and 3-D constructions. In 1996 Lufthansa commissioned him to decorate a jet with pastel stars, birds and travelers.
Rizzi developed a large international following, especially in Germany. Last year a school in Duisburg was named for him.
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K Mart Stores to Close
The closings are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has struggled with falling sales and shabby stores.
In an internal memo Tuesday to employees, CEO and President Lou D’Ambrosio said that the retailer had not “generated the results we were seeking during the holiday.”
Sears Holdings Corp. said it has yet to determine which stores will close but said it will post on http://www.searsmedia.com when a final list is compiled. Sears would not discuss how many, if any, jobs would be cut.
More story here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sears-close-100-120-kmart-sears-stores-113133071.html
100 Toy Soldiers
Vintage Juicy Fruit
Yankee Muscle Power Training
Touchdown Of The Century of the Day: Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson somersaults into the record books with one of the most magnificent plays in sports history.
Vivian Maier
Film Is Not Dead
The HDRI Handbook
The HDRI Handbook 2.0: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch
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The HDRI Handbook 2.0 is the most comprehensive guide to High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). Once Hollywood’s best kept secret, this cutting-edge imaging technology is a method to digitally capture and edit all light levels in a scene. It represents a quantum leap in imaging technology, as revolutionary as the leap from black-and-white to color imaging. HDRI is the final step that places digital ahead of analog. These days HDRI is a fully mature technology available to everyone. Professional architectural and landscape photographers have already adopted HDRI as part of their regular workflow, and it has become one of the hottest trends for ambitious amateurs and creative professionals alike. Now, The HDRI Handbook 2.0 redefines its own gold standard by revealing all the latest techniques, software programs, and equipment.
Film Is Not Dead: A Digital Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Film (Voices That Matter) by Jonathon Canlas and Kristen Kalp.
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With the popularity of digital photography growing by leaps and bounds over the last decade, some say film has been dying a slow death ever since–or is already dead. The reality is that film has never gone away, and in recent years has experienced a surging, renewed popularity–sometimes simply for its retro, analog status, but mostly for film’s ability to create a look and feel that many believe digital can still not achieve. If anyone can attest to this, it’s Utah photographer Jonathan Canlas, who exclusively shoots with film, and has both an extremely successful wedding photography business as well as a series of popular workshops held numerous times per year around the world.
In Film Is Not Dead: A Digital Photographer’s Guide to Shooting Film, Canlas teams up with co-author Kristen Kalp to open the doors for anyone who wants to begin–or return to–shooting film. Casual, irreverent, fun, inspiring, and beautiful, this unique 10×8 hardcover book teaches the reader the basics of film, cameras, and shooting in this medium.
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier and John Maloof.
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Vivian Maier was a professional nanny, who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs worldwide—from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age.
It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago that any of it saw the light of day. Presented here for the first time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects the best of her incredible, unseen body of work.
The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital by Shannon Perich.
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A richly illustrated volume examines the portrait work of Dorthea lange, Richard Avedon, Robert Weingarten, George K. Warren, Julia Margaret Cameron, the Barr & Wright Studio, Gertrude Käseebier, Nickolas Muray, Henry Horenstein, and Lauren Greenfiled. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities.
The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies.
“The Human Project”
by Mark Sean Orr & Contributors
A collaboration of 30 great photographers and poets make this book of family and the human interaction a must have for photography lovers around the world. Wonderful photographs of human nature and inspirational quotes and poetry!
Softcover $47.49
Hardcover $56.69
Imagewrap $60.14
Available as an eBook too! Read “The Human Project” on your iPad or iPhone!
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