Lantern

Festa del Redentore 1899, Maurice Prendergast

Breton Girls with Chinese Lanterns 1896, Ferdinand du Puigaudeau

Chinese Lanterns 1886, John Singer Sargent

The Lantern Bearers 1908, Maxfield Parrish

Board culture

Out of the water, I am nothing.

--Duke Kahanamoku

The ocean just off of Pacific Coast Highway where it meets Sunset Boulevard isn't an area known for big waves. Still, you can always see a large group of surfers, sitting patiently on their boards, waiting for a swell. We refer to them as 'bobbers', although the heart of surfing is showing up, getting in the water and waiting. I enjoy the surfing photographs of Don James; he captures the solitary nature of the sport.

Cowboy

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Cavalry Charge, 1907

Frederic Remington is synonymous with the dynamic portrayal of cowboys and the western frontier. No doubt his paintings and sculpture influenced filmmakers.

The Cowboy, 1902

Appaloosa (2008)

Gunfight in the Street

The last duel between Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) and Randall Bragg

(Jeremy Irons) in the overlooked and underrated film,

Appaloosa (directed by Ed Harris).

10 List: Super backstories

Superman: Born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, sent to Earth via spaceship by his father, moments before his home planet disintegrated.

Batman: Born Bruce Wayne, who as a child witnesses the murder of his wealthy parents and swears revenge against crime.

Captain Marvel: Born Billy Batson, works as a reporter when he discovers new powers each time he calls out Shazam! (the name of a wizard).

Captain America: Born Steven Rogers, works as a cartoonist when he volunteers to test a serum in a medical experiment. Serum=superpowers

Daredevil: Born Matthew Murdock, blinded by a radioactive chemical that also heightened his remaining senses.

Spiderman: Born Peter Parker, bitten by a laboratory test spider and develops super strength and spidey senses.

Hellboy: Born (?) Anung Un Rama, summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists, but raised as a normal boy by a kind professor.

Wonder Woman: Born Princess Diana of Themyscira, is discovered by 'man' after a plane crashes on her native home, Paradise Island.

The Hulk: Born Bruce Banner, while developing a bomb for the US government, is exposed to radiation which causes involuntary and episodic super strength. Oh, and green pigmentation too!

The Spirit: Born Denny Colt, murdered as a rookie cop, but manages to return from the grave to continue his crime fighting.

Second City

Chicago is the third largest city in the USA,

behind New York and Los Angeles.

Referred to as "the second city" implies

a rivalry or runner-up status (to New York probably) but

the label denotes the city's resurrection.

John R. Chapin

The Great Chicago fire of 1871 raged from October 8th to October 10th, destroying 18,000 buildings that left 100,000 people homeless. Reconstruction began immediately: between 1872 and 1879, more than 10,000 construction permits were issued. The do-over took more

than a decade, developing mastery of steel framing that would

be used in future skyscraper construction.

The Photographer

The Photographer is a music-drama in three acts, created in 1982 by composer Philip Glass. The performance is based on events in the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

In 1872, Leland Stanford, the wealthy industrialist, founder of Stanford University and racehorse owner, commissioned Muybridge to photograph horses in motion.

In 1875, after a sensational trial, Muybridge was acquitted for murdering his young wife's lover, whom he suspected was the true father of his infant son. It was Stanford who paid for Muybridge's defense. After his acquittal, Muybridge resumed his work for Stanford, creating the infamous footage of the horse Occident, seen running in the attached video.