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Ireland - Dublin (Chapter) Lonely Planet

From its music, art and literature to legendary nightlife, Dublin has always known how to have fun. There are world-class museums, superb restaurants and a top collection of entertainment, as well as seaside towns nearby for wonderful day trips.

Coverage includes: Dublin & around, Dalkey, Howth and Malahide

Ireland - Dublin (Chapter)

Tetons Trip Report by Sean + Rescue on The Leaning Tower in Yosemite

Sean's latest trip in the Tetons with pictures
Tom Evans rescue on the Leaning Tower

http://drdirtbag.wordpress.com -- Seano -- Updated in the Tetons

http://alanhalewood.blogspot.com/ -- Alan Halewood -- UK

http://elcapreport.com/ -- Tom Evans -- California
http://alpinist.com/doc/web13x/newswire-yosemite-leaning-tower-rescue

 

 

 

 

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SO CHAD WENT TO FLORENCE DURING PITTI UOMO......

The Duomo

The Mercato Centrale is a covered market hall

The Palazzo della Signoria, better known as the Palazzo Vecchio 

Ponte Vecchio, which overlooks the Arno river

Palazzo Pitti on Boboli Gardens' side

More than a week ago I was @ Pitti Uomo, but I didn't just enjoyed the show I also went like a tourist trough the small streets of the Capital of Tuscany. Florence is famous for its history. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year and I'm one of them. I enjoyed also the great new FW 2013 windows of the stores in the city even with 40 degrees that Shaggy Dog sweater looks great. My next stop is the Bread & Butter - Berlin, as JFK said I am a Berliner....

Blast from the past.

Today we are going to share some home inspiration with you in the form of two incredible time capsule houses. Yes, we realize that both homes are slightly over the top when it comes to decor, but that's exactly what we love about them. You rarely see extravagant colorful homes like these anymore, and quite frankly we find them to both be pretty incredible.

No, this isn't a movie set for some elaborate 70's movie, this is an actual time capsule home located in Nashville, Tennessee that was built in 1974. It's absolutely amazing what great condition it is still in! We are totally digging the yellow bedroom with the raised platform for the bed with bedding that matches the wallpaper. However, I think our favorite room in the house would have to be the bathroom though. I mean, how incredible is that sunken tub surrounded by plants and accompanied with pops of bright yellow everywhere? Wow-ee. Oh, and of course you can't forget the chartreuse shag carpeted staircase in the foyer. SO good. 

*You can find more photos of this incredible 70's home here.*

This ranch style house was built in 1957, making it slightly older than the previous home. The focal point of the house has to be the stunning circular brick fireplace surrounded by a curved half-circle living room. How fun would it be hosting parties in an incredible space like that? We also absolutely love the kitchen. Look at all of that turquoise counter space! We are in mid century heaven. Oh speaking of turquoise, check out that beautiful sunken tiled jacuzzi tub! Judging from the past two home tours, we really have a thing for sunken tubs. Hmm.. interesting.

*You can find more photos of this gorgeous 50's ranch house here.*

Both home tours found via Pam Kueber at Retro Renovation.

Happy Sunday, friends!  XO

The American Dreamer (1971)

          At the historical moment when this lyrical and revealing documentary was made, Dennis Hopper seemed poised for elevation to godlike status in popular culture. Still riding high on the success of his directorial debut, Easy Rider (1969), Hopper had just completed shooting a bold new feature, The Last Movie, which he not-so-humbly envisioned as a revolutionary step forward in world cinema. The American Dreamer captures Hopper during the protracted editing process of The Last Movie, although filmmakers L. M. Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller are only peripherally interested in the actual method by which Hopper and his cutters assemble footage. Instead, the filmmakers seek to capture the soul of an artist at his creative peak.

          Therefore, much of the documentary comprises Hopper delivering improvised monologues about his aesthetic and spiritual philosophy. And while Hopper is insufferably contradictory and pretentious and self-aggrandizing, creating excuses for indulgent behavior by characterizing every action he takes as a manifestation of his rebellious creativity, the seemingly unrestricted access Carson and Schiller gained to Hopper’s life makes The American Dreamer important. The content of The American Dreamer’s best sequences is so interesting that the documentary’s excesses—not least of which is fawning hero worship—can’t diminish the project’s informational value.

          Set mostly around a home in Taos, New Mexico, where a bearded Hopper supervises editing whenever he’s not indulging in sexcapades with the myriad willing ladies who drift in and out of the place, The American Dreamer is almost equally divided between narrative scenes capturing action as it unfolds, and poetic passages juxtaposing Hopper’s voiceover with shots of the actor/director driving, walking, or, in some cases, pulling performance-art stunts like stripping off his clothes while he strolls through a suburb. (In some of the most bracing scenes, Hopper has group sex with various nubile women, although the doc stops short of depicting anything X-rated.)

          The through-line of The American Dreamer is Hopper’s stream-of-consciousness speechifying, and there’s no question he’s a compelling speaker even when his rhetoric gets ridiculous. In cogent moments, he invents hip slogans, e.g., “It’s very difficult at times if you believe in evolution not to believe in revolution.” Elsewhere, he spews drug-casualty non sequiturs, e.g., “Can you go in a corner and not think about a white bear for five minutes? Is that possible?” And this was beforeHopper reached rock bottom. Much of Hopper’s extemporizing seems consciously designed to burnish the myth of Hopper as a soldier for social change (one of Hopper’s real howlers: “Society’s made me a criminal”). Meanwhile, some of the actor/director’s chitty-chat comprises glorified pick-up lines, as when he explains to a Playboy Bunny that he’s so concerned about female orgasms he thinks of himself as a lesbian.

          At his worst, Hopper embarks on sky-high ego trips, referring to himself in the third person as “the artist” and equating his work to that of Orson Welles. (The filmmakers goose these delusions of grandeur by lacing the soundtrack with original folk songs about Hopper’s quest to reinvent cinema.) The deification gets a bit much, but nestled within The American Dreamer is a poignant portrait of a uniquely talented man testing the outer limits of his universe, thereby inadvertently arriving at the place where maverick artistry becomes megalomania.

The American Dreamer: GROOVY

Mabel Kwong: Hi, I’m Asian. Come In, Leave Your Shoes On. Or Not

Mabel Kwong: Hi, I’m Asian. Come In, Leave Your Shoes On. Or Not

When an odd job or two needs to be done around our place, my mum welcomes the likes of contractors, plumbers and furniture delivery men into our Melbourne flat.

When she opens the door, these Caucasian handymen and tradesmen always politely ask, “Do we take our shoes off?”

And to my utter surprise and disbelief, each time my mum cheerily says, “No, no, no! It’s OK! Come in! Leave your shoes on!”

Iceland - North Iceland (Chapter)

Coverage includes: Eastern Húnaflói, Hrútafjörður, Hvammstangi & around, Vatnsnes Peninsula, Blönduós & around, Western Skagafjörður, Varmahlíð, Öxnadalur, Glaumbær, Sauðárkrókur & around, Tröllaskagi Peninsula, Hólar í Hjaltadalur, Hofsós & around, Siglufjörður & around, Ólafsfjörður, Dalvík, Árskógsströnd, Hrísey, Akureyri & around, Mývatn (Goðafoss) & around, Reykjahlíð, Eastern Mývatn, Southern Mývatn, Western Mývatn, Northern Mývatn, Krafla, Húsavík & around, Jökulsárgljúfur (Vatnajökull National Park - North), Ásbyrgi, Vesturdalur, Dettifoss, Northeast Circuit, Kópasker, Raufarhöfn, Rauðanes, Þórshöfn & around, Langanes, Vopnafjörður & around and Northeast Interior.

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Iceland - North Iceland (Chapter)

PPG for Morons: Paraglider Test

Carstensz Pyramid Summit Success by Kurt + The Incredible Hulk by Vitaliy

The Kurt Wedberg team just summited Carstensz Pyramid
Vitaliy M climbed the Incredible Hulk

http://sierramountaineering.com/blog/?m=201306

http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com/2013/06/incredible-hulk-positive-vibrations-and.html

Re: Personal Websites

by Cy Kaicener » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:45 pm

http://vividrea1ity.blogspot.com/ -- Vitaliy M -- California -- Updated

http://sierramountaineering.com/blog/ -- Kurt Wedberg -- California -- Updated on Carstensz

  the Incredible Hulk

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The Last Movie (1971)

          One of the most notorious auteur misfires of the ’70s, this misbegotten mind-fuck was Dennis Hopper’s follow-up to Easy Rider (1969), the surprise blockbuster that not only transformed Hopper from a journeyman actor to an A-list director but also established him, for a brief time, as a leading voice of the counterculture. Alas, Hopper’s poor choices as an actor, co-writer, and director turned The Last Movie into a metaphor representing the way some people, Hopper included, fell victim to the excesses of the drug era. In trying to escape the constraints associated with conventional cinema, Hopper created a maddening hodgepodge of self-indulgent nonsense and uninteresting experimentation.

          Hopper stars as Kansas, the horse wrangler for a Hollywood film crew that’s shooting on location in Peru. After a fatal on-set accident, Kansas drops out of his Hollywood lifestyle to start over in South America, hooking up with a sexy local girl (Stella Garcia) and scheming with a fellow U.S. expat (Don Gordon) to get rich off a gold mine. Kansas also romances a beautiful upper-crust American (Julie Adams), with whom he engages in gentle sadomasochism, and he gets roped into a bizarre situation involving Peruvian villagers who are “shooting” their own movie using primitive mock-up cameras and microphones made from scrap metal and sticks. (One of The Last Movie’s myriad pretentious allusions is that the “fake” film crew is making more authentic art than the “real” film crew.)

          Simply listing the trippy flourishes in The Last Movie would take an entire website, so a few telling examples should suffice. Early in the picture, a Hollywood starlet (played by Hopper’s then-girlfriend, former Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips) conducts a ritual during which she pierces a Peruvian woman’s ear with a large pin while people stand around the scene wearing creepy masks and chanting. Later, Kansas leads a group of Americans to a whorehouse, where they watch a grimy girl-on-girl floor show; this inexplicably drives Kansas into such a rage that he ends up slapping around his long-suffering female companion. And we haven’t even gotten to the weird one-shot bits that are periodically inserted into the narrative. At one point, Kansas leans back while a woman shoots breast milk from her nipple to his face. Elsewhere, while getting his hair trimmed, Kansas shares the following random remark: “I never jerked off a horse before.” Good to know.

          The whole movie culminates with a befuddling barrage of images, including scenes of Kansas getting beaten by members of the “fake” film crew, as if the Hollywood runaway is some sort of martyr for art. It’s all very deliberately weird. During the final stretch, for instance, Hopper cuts to silly things like “scene missing” placeholders and outtakes of actors consulting their scripts. The idea, presumably, was to deconstruct Hollywood filmmaking so that a new art form could emerge from the ruins, but Hopper missed the mark in every way. That said, it’s worth noting that Hopper brought interesting friends along for the ride. Cinematographer László Kovács, who also shot Easy Rider, does what he can to infuse Hopper’s scattershot frames with artistry, and the cast includes ’70s cult-cinema stalwart Severn Darden (who does a musical number!) as well as maverick B-movie director Samuel Fuller, who plays a version of himself during the scenes depicting the making of the Hollywood movie.

The Last Movie: FREAKY

Norway - Oslo (Chapter)

Oslo is fringed with forests, hills and lakes awash in opportunities for hiking, cycling, skiing and boating. Add to this mix a thriving cafe and bar culture, top-notch restaurants, nightlife and a large and visible immigrant community and the result is a thoroughly intoxicating place in which to forget about the fjords for a while.

Coverage includes: Sights, Activities, Tours, Festivals & Events, Sleeping, Eating, Drinking & Entertainment, Shopping, Drøbak, Drammen & around, Østfold, Fredrikstad & around and Halden & around.

Norway - Oslo (Chapter)

Lonley Planet: Borneo - Brunei (Chapter)

Coverage includes: Bandar Seri Begawan, Tutong, Jalan Labi, Seria, Kuala Belait, Temburong District, Bangar, Pulau Selirong, Batang Duri, Peradayan Forest Reserve and Ulu Temburong National Park.

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Borneo - Brunei (Chapter)

Comunicato Stampa FIVL

 Gli azzurri del parapendio prossimi ai mondiali e festa del volo nel matese
La squadra nazionale italiana di parapendio partirà entro breve per Sopot
(Bulgaria) dove dal 15 al 26 luglio si disputeranno i campionati mondiali.
La formazione azzurra è composta da Nicole Fedele di Gemona (Udine),
campionessa europea in carica e vincitrice della Coppa del Mondo 2012, dai
trentini Christian Biasi e Luca Donini, quest'ultimo vice campione del
mondo, dai torinesi Davide Cassetta e Marco Littamé e dal bolognese Alberto
Vitale. Team leader Alberto Castagna di Cologno Monzese (Milano).

Un raduno di piloti di volo libero è in programma per i prossimi 13 e 14
luglio presso il Falode Village, in località Acqua di Santa Maria a Castello
Matese (Caserta), nel cuore del Parco Regionale del Matese.
Il comprensorio di volo spazia tra Campania e Molise ed abbraccia monti come
il Miletto (2050 m) e la Gallinola (1920 m), le due vette più alte della
Campania. Dalle pendici di quest'ultima, a 1700 metri d'altitudine,
decolleranno deltaplani e parapendio, mezzi che si librano in aria senza
aiuto del motore e da qui il nome di volo libero dato a questa entusiasmante
attività. L'atterraggio è previsto circa 700 metri più in basso lungo il
lago del Matese, il lago carsico più alto d'Italia.
In deltaplano e parapendio è possibile sfruttare le correnti d'aria
ascensionali, dette termiche, per raggiungere quote ben al di sopra delle
vette più alte e da qui, sfruttando l'efficienza di queste semplici
macchine, avventurarsi su percorsi di decine di chilometri, rimanendo in
volo per ore. Basti pensare che l'attuale record mondiale di distanza in
deltaplano conta ben 768 km e circa la metà quello in parapendio, velivolo
più lento del primo.
La Festa del Volo di Castello Matese è un'occasione anche per gli
accompagnatori dei piloti, i loro famigliari ed in generale per tutto il
pubblico. Infatti, di contorno alla manifestazione c'è la possibilità di
partecipare ad escursioni in mountain bike, a cavallo, in trekking, di
provare un volo in biposto ed alla sera festa con musica, birra,
arrosticini, carni alla brace e vino fino a notte fonda.


Gustavo Vitali
Ufficio Stampa FIVL - Federazione Italiana Volo Libero
http://www.fivl.it - 335 5852431 - skype: gustavo.vitali
vitali.stampa (AT) fivl.it

Foto
http://www.gustavovitali.it/pagine/comfivl/bulgaria-matese-27-06-13.html

Per ulteriori informazioni sul CAMPIONATO DEL MONDO di parapendio
contattare:


Alberto Castagna - castagna (AT) telemako.it - 348 7375753

Per ulteriori informazioni sulla FESTA DEL VOLO a Castello Matese (Caserta)
contattare
Leone Antonio Pascale - 328 4380698 - pleonea (AT) gmail.com
Sito ufficiale http://www.parapendiolestreghe.it/

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Provence & the Cote d'Azur - Nice, Monaco & Menton (Chapter) Lonely Planet

Nice, with its atmospheric old town, great architectural heritage, fantastic nightlife and excellent restaurants is everyone’s favourite city. Monaco, complete with scandal-prone monarchy, throngs of VIPs and casino glamour, endlessly fascinates: come and make your own opinion!

Coverage includes: Nice, Arrière-Pays Niçois, Peillon, Peille, Corniche inférieure, Moyenne Corniche, Grande Corniche, Monaco, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Menton, Ste-Agnès and Gorbio.

Provence & the Cote d'Azur - Nice, Monaco & Menton (Chapter) 

Spread your love like a fever.

I don't know about you guys, but I am very excited about the fact that it is Friday today!! Yay! I may be a little bit more excited than usual because this is my first weekend off this spring/summer where I haven't had to deal with a million different commitments like moving, unpacking, renovating, working, blogging, etc... I have the whole weekend off for just my own personal time, and I for one, cannot wait! But first, I have time to share a quick dose of inspiration with you to get you in as great of mood as me for the start of your weekend:

Love the matching prints in this cozy rustic kitchen.

Cat scratch fever. (I know that the cat is probably damaging the record, but for some reason this photo makes me want a pet cat even more! What a cutie.)

We are absolutely in love with Beth's blog Local Milk and these recipes for Spiced pear, gorgonzola, & toasted walnut pie and  Sweet potato & ricotta gnocchi with figs & pancetta are at the tops of our lists. My mouth is watering just thinking about this!

The Orla Kiely Resort 2014 collection is absolutely to die for. I'm also really loving the models 1960's inspired hair. Hmm... very tempting...

How cute are these retro inspired receipe cards? And the best part: they're free to download and print! Woo woo! 

Happy weekend darlings!
XO, Stef

The Car (1977)

          As directed by journeyman Elliot Silverstein, whose eclectic résumé includes the memorable films Cat Ballou (1965) and A Man Called Horse (1970), this Southwestern-set shocker boasts such impressive visuals as panoramic vistas and razor-sharp detail shots. Clearly, Silverstein studied the way Steven Spielberg shot Duel (1972), and copied many of Spielberg’s flourishes. The Car also cops gimmicks from another Spielberg picture, Jaws (1975), notably combining point-of-view shots and theme music to jack up scenes of the villain attacking victims. Unfortunately, the villain of this piece is—as the title suggests—a car. Not a driver who uses a car as a weapon, mind you, but a customized, driverless Lincoln Continental. Yes, The Car is about a demonically possessed automobile. Novelist Stephen King took the same notion a step further with his 1983 book Christine, which gave the titular vehicle both a personality and supernatural powers, but in The Car, the killer is merely that—a car. Sure, it does a few fancy tricks like leaping into the air and repelling bullets, but the Lincoln has zero impact as a malevolent screen presence.
          The plot follows the Jaws formula of a small town victimized by an unstoppable killer. James Brolin stars as likeable sheriff working in the Utah community where the car is murdering people, so he teams up with fellow cops to battle the four-wheeled monstrosity. Eventually, local Indians persuade Brolin’s character that the car is possessed by an evil demon, so the film climaxes with Brolin and his troops attempting to bury the car in a remote canyon. The Car would have been more enjoyable had it been trimmed down to something like 80 minutes, but at its full 96-minute length, the movie feels needlessly padded with pointless and/or repetitive scenes. Nonetheless, there are some campy highlights.
          For instance, the filmmakers try to mimic the classic Jaws scene of a shark eating its way through an ocean filled with Fourth of July swimmers. Thus, The Carfeatures a ludicrous scene of the villainous vehicle chasing a high-school marching band from a football field to a cemetery. Later, the car soars through an entire house just to wipe out one victim. And the final scene is an unintentionally funny attempt at supernatural-cinema grandiosity. As for the acting, while Brolin is as weak as usual—moderately charming in quiet scenes, startlingly terrible in intense ones—he’s abetted by an okay supporting cast. Veteran character actor R.G. Armstrong steals the movie as a disgusting redneck who witnesses several of the car’s murders, Ronny Cox adds humanity as a deputy with an alcohol problem, and Kathleen Lloyd is appealing as the hero’s stalwart girlfriend. FYI, real-life siblings and future Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast members Kim Richards and Kyle Richards play the young daughters of Brolin’s character.

The Car: FUNKY

Blogspot from Nanga Parbat Survivors + Kyle Dempster Video

Polish Climbers who were attacked by the Taliban recount their ordeal and escape
Kyle Dempster video chasing after first ascents in Kyrgyzstan
Todays Personal Websites -  Down below

http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=68166

http://altitudepakistan.blogspot.com/2013/06/nanga-parbat-massacre-miraculous-escape.html

http://steveswensonsblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/attack-on-climbers-in-pakistan.html

http://www.explorersweb.com/offsite/?source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torok.ro%2F%3Fp%3D1222&lang=ro  The Romanian expedition continues

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?url=summer-2013-karakoram-climbs-go-on_1372434227

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http://www.climbing.com/video/the-road-from-karakol-with-kyle-dempster/

http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB3/post927220.html#p927220

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Turkey - Istanbul (Chapter)

Ask locals to describe what they love about Istanbul and they’ll shrug, give a small smile and say merely that there is no other place like it. Spend a few days here, and you’ll know exactly what they mean.

uncover the secrets of the seraglio in opulent Topkapi Palace
maps
marvel at the interior of Aya Sofya, one of the world’s truly great buildings
transport
surrender to the steam in an Ottoman-era hamam
restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Istanbul, Princes’ Islands.

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Turkey - Istanbul (Chapter)

TOMMY TON @ FASHION WEEK MILAN

Tommy Ton travels for GQ with the peacocks to Milan, to show us  the streetsyle of fashion Week.