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Title: Landscapes
Description: Music by Al Monti from mp3.com
Aerial photo near 1:10 from California Coast Records Project...they rock!
0:00 undulating fields of Poison Oak at Point Sierra Nevada
0:39 Mouth of San Carpoforo Creek
0:56 ???? on outdoor awning of building
1:00 Streptanthus sp. (Jewel flower)
didnt look at it closely though
1:12 Hemizonia corymbosa macrocephala (tarweed) field as seen on CA natives video
1:24 The Gibralter of the Pacific (Morro Rock)
1:28 Orthotrichum sp. moss (just guessing)
1:36 View of the back of the Black Hills and other of the 9 sisters of San Luis Obispo Co.
1:42 Circinate vernation of Woodwordia
fimbricata (Chainfern)
1:47 Twisted Hesperoyucca whippleii (Spanish
bayonet, Our lord's candle, chapparal
yucca) ABUNDANT, view at new dorms
from Eastern hills
2:03 Madia sativa (Coast tarweed)
2:07 Fruit of Umbellularia californica
(Bay Laurel) can make spice from dried
leaves, and in same family as avocado
Title: Cosmopolitan Alexandria [1860-1961] part 2
Description: In [part two] of Cosmopolitan Alexandria ,I will present extra photos reflecting the European influence on Alexandria in the first half of the 20th century ,the photos were mostly taken from the following websites
http://www.greece.org/alexandria/eka2/eka11.htm
http://romeartlover.tripod.com/Alessandria.html
Cosmopolitan Alexandria memories can be also witnessed from some plant species that are mainly restricted today to certain old districts of the city [those known to be former places where European communities used to live ] but virtually unknown in newer districts and the rest of Egypt
The sequence of the presented photos are as follows
1.Antoniades Palace
2.Statues present in the gardens of Antoniades
3.Caesalpinia gilliesii [a shrub relatively common in Alexandria,very rare in the rest of Egypt].
4. Former Hotel Majestic
5.Ailanthus altissima [a very common tree in old districts of Alexandria,very rare in the new districts of the city and the rest of Egypt].
5.Greco-Roman museum
6.Head of Alexander the Great [ Greco-Roman museum ]
7.Monuments [ Greco-Roman museum ]
8.Oreopanax reticulatum [a very common tree in old districts of Alexandria, rare in the new districts of the city and the rest of Egypt].
9.Statue of Venus in an ordinary old Alexandrian house.
10.Araucaria excelsa tree at Montaza Gardens [ Araucaria is a common tree in Alexandria,rare elsewhere]
11.Bay laurel tree [Laurus nobilis] at the Italian house of the elderly at Chatby district. Old laurel trees are fairly common in old districts of Alexandria,virtually unknown in new districts of the city and the rest of Egypt.
12. The Ioulia Salvagou Theatre [Greek community of Alexandria]
13.Patesserie Deleces
14.Cecil Hotel
The accompanying music is that of the famous French song [Alouette]
Title: Hell on Earth
Description: Video tribute to George Romero's original "Dawn of the Dead". Directed by Steven Richards, music by Stiiv, from Dario Argento's original theme. All video & dialogue clips are (c)Laurel Group/Anchor Bay Ent., used with permission. All music (c)Stiiv.
Title: ShaeLaurel Irish Show Live at Busch Gardens 2006
Description: Here's a sneak peek of ShaeLaurel's new Irish DVD as performed on the Desert Grill Stage at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Sit back and enjoy this high energy Irish extravaganza! The full-length DVD is packaged with a CD of favorite Irish music and is available at www.ShaeLaurel.com
Title: W.B.Yeats: News for the Delphic Oracle (1)
Description: This is from Yeats' last poems. As he got older he, like so many of us, found that the restraints of his youth and middle age fell from him. 'Why should not old men be mad?' he asked in one of these late poems. And in another:
You think it horrible that lust and rage
should dance attention upon my old age;
they were not such a plague when I was young;
what else have I to spur me into song?
'News for the Delphic Oracle' is a melange of all his old favourite themes: Irish mythology, Greek myth and philosophy, dolphins and lust. And a wonderful poem it is especially if one reads it (as Yeats would surely have wished) with due attention to metre, rhythm and rhyme. Then it is very nearly song. I made two versions of this poem, because on Windows Movie Maker it is impossible to narrate timeline while audio-vision is playing: you can have my voice with accompanying music and pictures, but you cannot hear and see me and listen to music and watch pictures at the same time. So: I present both versions for your delight. If you have a preference, please tell me! (Perhaps Microsoft will issue a new improved program so that one can hear and see everything at once!!)
The music is by Ravel, the Daphnis and Chloe Suite.
News for the Delphic Oracle
There all the golden codgers lay,
there the silver dew,
and the great water sighed for love,
and the wind sighed too.
Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed
by Oisin on the grass;
there sighed amid his choir of love
tall Pythagoras.
Plotinus came and looked about,
the salt-flakes on his breast,
and having stretched and yawned awhile
lay sighing like the rest.
Straddling each a dolphin's back
and steadied by a fin,
those Innocents re-live their death,
their wounds open again.
The ecstatic waters laugh because
their cries are sweet and strange,
through their ancestral patterns dance,
and the brute dolphins plunge
until, in some cliff-sheltered bay
where wades the choir of love
proffering its sacred laurel crowns,
they pitch their burdens off.
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,
Love has blinded him with tears;
but Thetis belly listens.
Down the mountain walls
from where Pan's cavern is
intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
belly shoulder, bum,
flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
copulate in the foam.
Title: W.B.Yeats: News for the Delphic Oracle (2)
Description: This is from Yeats' last poems. As he got older he, like so many of us, found that the restraints of his youth and middle age fell from him. 'Why should not old men be mad?' he asked in one of these late poems. And in another:
You think it horrible that lust and rage
should dance attention upon my old age;
they were not such a plague when I was young;
what else have I to spur me into song?
'News for the Delphic Oracle' is a melange of all his old favourite themes: Irish mythology, Greek myth and philosophy, dolphins and lust. And a wonderful poem it is especially if one reads it (as Yeats would surely have wished) with due attention to metre, rhythm and rhyme. Then it is very nearly song. I made two versions of this poem, because on Windows Movie Maker it is impossible to narrate timeline while audio-vision is playing: you can have my voice with accompanying music and pictures, but you cannot hear and see me and listen to music and watch pictures at the same time. So: I present both versions for your delight. If you have a preference, please tell me! (Perhaps Microsoft will issue a new improved program so that one can hear and see everything at once!!)
The music is from Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe.
News for the Delphic Oracle
There all the golden codgers lay,
there the silver dew,
and the great water sighed for love,
and the wind sighed too.
Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed
by Oisin on the grass;
there sighed amid his choir of love
tall Pythagoras.
Plotinus came and looked about,
the salt-flakes on his breast,
and having stretched and yawned awhile
lay sighing like the rest.
Straddling each a dolphin's back
and steadied by a fin,
those Innocents re-live their death,
their wounds open again.
The ecstatic waters laugh because
their cries are sweet and strange,
through their ancestral patterns dance,
and the brute dolphins plunge
until, in some cliff-sheltered bay
where wades the choir of love
proffering its sacred laurel crowns,
they pitch their burdens off.
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,
Love has blinded him with tears;
but Thetis belly listens.
Down the mountain walls
from where Pan's cavern is
intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
belly shoulder, bum,
flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
copulate in the foam.
Title: GEORGIAN DANCE THEATRE LEGACY
Description: Georgian dance theater "Legacy" was founded only two years ago by dancers of Sukhishvili Georgian National Folk Dance Ensemble - Maka and Eka Vacheishvili. This new Ensemble has very big successes in Georgia and in neighboring countries. Legacy has his own style of dancing of Georgian Folk Dances. Year 2006 was very fruitful for us, because we won Georgian Award of Best Ensemble - 2006 on the Iliko Sukhishvili Competition, prize "Gold laurel (bay) leaf" and Gold medals for all members of Ensemble. We participated in Georgian TV Festival "Gold Eagle"-2006 and we won Laureate Award, prize "Gold Eagle" and Gold medals for all members of Ensemble.
Ensemble has big successes in Turkey, Israel and in Armenia. Right now our aim is to participate in International Festivals and Competitions and find new foreign supporters. In October 2007 we presented our full program in Georgian Opera Hous and now we would like to arrange commercial Concerts in different countries. We're calling to interested Impresarios and other interested peoples or organizations to participate in our full program to plan future cooperation and collaboration with our Ensemble. We can send you photos of our Ensemble and appropriate video records. Georgian Folk dance Group LEGACY, was founded in 2000. The artistic director and the choreographers of the group LEGACY are Eka end Maka Vacheishvili, professional artist laureate of world festivals. Georgian choreography incorporates different types of dances: solo, double, mass, women, and men, as well as mixed dances. Among them we have to distinguish the dances with social, entertainment, war and lyrical themes. Since the founding of the group in 2000 LEGACY has shared the richness of Georgian cultural heritage, Georgian folk life through the music and dance with audience in various countries of the world. The talent of the dancers, the richness of the choreography and the joy of life displayed by them have captured the hearts of millions of people. The young artists perform traditional dances representing various time periods of Georgian history, from the ancient times to the dances of 19Th-20Th century.
LEGACY is a colorful coalition of highly talented young exceptional artists-dancers who by their level of performances are not inferior to professional artists. The dancers have been noted for their ability to move gracefully on the stage, for their artistry and grace.
During these few years our group has gone through many changes, we changed out music which is especially created to fit in with European Market demand. Our group is mixture of show ballet dances and theater dances of Caucasian origin dances. so while watching it you are getting a special dance performance of Caucasian dances in remake.