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TCF Ep. 496 - George Nobechi & Ibarionex
George Nobechi is a Japanese/Canadian Fine Art and Documentary Photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. His bi-cultural upbringing has influenced his vision that simultaneously makes him an insider and outsider to both Western and Eastern cultures. His contemplative work is often described as depicting a warm feeling of humanity.
Nobechi launched the inaugural Santa Fe Workshops programs in Asia before moving on in 2017 to start his own initiative, Nobechi Creative, which produces workshops and tours in Japan, as well as exhibitions, artist talks, community events, and major photo projects. Through Nobechi Creative, he has collaborated with artists such as Jamey Stillings on his renewable energy project "Changing Perspectives, Japan," Sam Abell on his retrospective exhibition "Hagi, 1980," as well as Arthur Meyerson and Greg Gorman.
Nobechi currently resides in Tokyo, where he is focused on creating projects related to the human condition in rapidly-changing Japan.
Photographer Links:
Nobechi Creative Workshops
Jamey Stillings
Education Resources:
Candid Frame Resources
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TCF Ep. 495 - Eiji Ohashi
Hokkaido-born and based photographer Eiji Ohashi (b. 1955, Japan) has been photographing Roadside Lights, a typology of vending machines across various cities and landscapes in Japan for years.
Artist Statement on the series 'Roadside Lights':
As dusk approaches, roadside vending machines light up in cities and in the outskirts. These scenes of vending machines, ordinarily standing on the roadside, are particular to Japan. The vending machines downtown or in the wilderness, placed to stand in solitude, are an image of loneliness. They work tirelessly, whether it is day or night. But once their sales drop, they are taken away. If they do not glow and shine, they will stop existing. There might be something human about them.'
Ohashi won awards such as NIKATEN, between 1991-2005 he won these four 5 times, also won 11 times the JPS Award between 1990-2005. In 2016 the Moscow international photo awards. In 2017 he won the Photo-eye Best Books and was in the Top50 Critical Mass. After he won the Higashikawa International Photo Festival Special Photographer Prize in 2018.
Eiji Ohashi
Naoya Hatakeyama
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TCF Ep. 494 - Robert Hale
Robert Hale's work both as a photographer and as a journalist has taken him on assignment throughout the world. His images are characterized by clarity and simplicity, with an extraordinary eye for light and shadow.
His images are characterized by clarity and simplicity, with an extraordinary eye for light and shadow. Whether animate or inanimate, Robert feels his subjects have an inner essence, and, if handled with patience and sensitivity, this essence will reveal itself. His goal is to allow it to live in prints.
Robert's images, essentially portraiture, have been printed in such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, The LA Weekly, Black Enterprise, and a variety of national and international publications.
Robert has been proud to volunteer his photographic services to the Los Angeles Children's Museum, Aids Project Los Angeles, LA Shanti, Aids Service Center in Pasadena, California, as well as serving on the board of Directors for The Black Gallery Group, Los Angeles, California.
Robert Hale Website
Robert Hale on Instagram
Vern Evans
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Marc Silber has been a photographer most of his life, and actually turned pro at age 13 when he sold one of his images to a teacher. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute with fellow alumna Annie Leibovitz. Marc loves to help others improve their photography, so in 2009 began his video series Advancing Your Photography, where he's had the great fortune to interview some of the world's best photographers. Marc's new book is titled Create: Tools from Seriously Talented People to Unleash Your Creative Life.
Marc Silber
Dan Milnor
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Magdalena Sole was born in Spain and grew up in Switzerland, as a daughter of Spanish immigrants. She holds a Masters of Fine Art from Columbia University. Her work has won numerous awards, including the Silver Award in 2011 at PX3 Prix de la Photographie, France for her new book, "New Delta Rising" (University Press of Mississippi), and an Oscar for "Man On Wire" for which she was the Production Manager. Her work has been widely exhibited in the US and Asia.
Magdalena Sole
The Candid Frame #285 - Magdalena Sole
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TCF Ep. 491 - KK Ottesen
KK Ottesen documents the stories of people's lives by combining words and images into powerful and accessible stories that resonate with a broad range of audiences. Through her magazine work, books, and contributions to documentary film, Ottesen brings her audiences close to her subjects creating what has been called "searing, intimate" portraits that break down barriers and stereotypes and allow for the discovery and celebration of common ground.
Ottesen's second book, ACTIVIST: Portraits of Courage, has just been released from Chronicle Books in partnership with Blackwell & Ruth. Ottesen has contributed to The Washington Post Magazine over the past decade, and other credits include Esquire, Ms., and Washingtonian. Her first book, Great Americans, was featured widely, including on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's All Things Considered, PRI; and in The San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Reader's Digest, and Entertainment Weekly. Ottesen earned a bachelor's from Wesleyan University and a master's from Yale. She returned to Washington, DC more than a decade ago, where she lives with her husband and two children.
KK Ottesen
Alan Chin - Documenting Detroit
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TCF Ep. 490 - Sebastian Meyer
Sebastian Meyer is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker, and a recipient of multiple grants from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. His editorial photographs have been published in TIME Magazine, Fortune Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The FT Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, among many others. Meyer has made films for National Geographic, PBS Newshour, Channel 4 News, CNN, VOA, and HBO.
Meyer produces photo and video content for NGOs and charities such as UNICEF, WHO, UNFPA, and MercyCorps.
In 2009 Meyer co-founded Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency
Sebastian Meyer
Ben Brody
Tokyo: Explorations in the Metropolis with Ibarionex Perello & George Nobechi
Working the Street Photographic Workshop - Los Angeles
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TCF Ep. 489 - Corey Rich
Corey Rich is one of the world's most recognized adventure sports and outdoor lifestyle visual storytellers. Over the last two decades, this photographer, director, and DP has combined his creativity, athleticism and burning desire for exploration to capture some of the wildest places on earth. In doing so, Rich not only secured a place at the center of contemporary adventure storytelling, but he can be named as one of the pioneers of this authentic style of immersion-based photographic and motion work.
Rich has documented some of the world's greatest athletes in extreme locations spanning the globe, from alpine climbing in Pakistan's Karakoram Mountains to ultramarathon racing in the Sahara Desert of Morocco, freight-train hopping in the American West, underwater cave exploration in the Yucatan and snowboarding in Papua New Guinea.
Rich who is also a Nikon Ambassador has directed and shot still and motion campaigns for some of the most innovative companies of our time and his work have been featured in a host of top editorial publications around the world.
Corey Rich
Jose Azel
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TCF Ep. 488 - Allison Zaucha
Allison Zaucha (b.1991) is an independent award-winning photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about working on social issues with a variety of news publications and nonprofit organizations. In addition, Allison enjoys developing meaningful storytelling campaigns with brands and commercial clients. She uses the camera as a means of connection, empowerment and understanding. Allison is a member of Women Photograph and NPPA.
Her work has been published in Vanity Fair, WIRED, Forbes, Esquire, US News and Report, CNN, ABC News, The Lily, Vox, Baltimore Sun and the historical book Together We Rise: The Official Oral History of the Women's March by the Organizers.
Philip Montgomery
September Dawn Bottom
Missouri Photographic Workshop
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TCF Ep. 487 - Elliott Kaufman
Elliott Kaufman's career path is unique but has always revolved around architectural motives. When he began shooting in the mid 70s his orientation was toward the fine arts. Kaufman developed ideas for site-specific photomurals and wall art much before this concept became a mainstream art venue.
He was able to work in this capacity with corporate industrial clients such as Westinghouse, General Electric, Warner Brothers and The Walt Disney Company. He then exhibited this work in such venues as in The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the American Institute of Architects, The Light Gallery in New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He won a competition jointly sponsored by the Port Authority of New York and The New York Public Art Fund, where he was awarded the commission to create a 35' x 45' public art mural outside of the Holland Tunnel.
He has recently re-issued his first book American Diner, which captured the culture of the diners during the late seventies.
Elliott Kaufman
Harry Wilks
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TCF Ep. 486 - Gulnara Samoilova
Gulnara Samoilova is a street and fine art photographer based in New York City and the founder of @WomenStreetPhotographers Instagram feed. She holds a certificate in creative practices from the International Center of Photography in New York City and a diploma in photography from the Moscow Poletech College.
Gulnara is a former Associated Press photojournalist and received national and international awards for her iconic photographs from 9/11/01, including first prize in the most prestigious World Press Photo competition in Amsterdam and nomination for the Pulitzer Prize by the AP. Gulnara's work is a part of major collections such as the Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, New York Historical Society, the Newseum, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
With almost 40 years combined experience as a documentary photographer, artist, darkroom printer, photojournalist, and a photo editor, Gulnara employs her experience and qualifications to research and curate an impressive body of work by women photographers from around the globe.
Gulnara's Website
Gulnara on Instagram
Women Street Photographers on Instagram
Ximena Echague
Listener Intro: Willy Airaldi
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Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice; as well as a Professional Fujifilm X-Photographer. She has been photographing for over 40 years and, in addition to her large social media following, her voice has been heard around the world in commercials, apps, tutorials and television.
She grew up in the countryside of Sonoma Valley, California; a rich, natural world surrounding her. She experienced a constant source of wonder and delight in nature; eventually referring to the heart achingly beautiful movement of depth, light, patterns and gestures she discovered there as "the brushstroke of creation". Discovering, exploring and creating with it became her passion.
In the states, she speaks on the topics of inspiration, creativity and finding one's artistic voice in photography. She has delighted audiences at events like Fujilove LIVE (NYC), The Fujifilm X-Photography Summit in The Great Smoky Mountains, Photo Plus Expo (NYC), Google HQ, Fujifilm's National Sales Meeting and numerous venues around the country.
Internationally, she's been featured in Fujifilm Magazine, Progresso Fotografico (Italy) and Forbes.com. She and her work have been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Grid, national print and video ads for Fujifilm, in photo galleries in Japan and the U.S., TWiP, Macphun Software, Landscape Photography Magazine, as well as a plethora of podcasts and interviews around the interwebs.
Karen Hutton
David Brookover
Listener Intro: Richard Corbett
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Jeffery Saddoris Everything Podcast
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TCF Ep. 483 - Hadi Salehi
Hadi Salehi is a master of the art of analog photography. Salehi's images capture diverse portraits that are powerful and soft, leaving a haunting quality that lingers in the psyche. Salehi seeks to create a collective awareness as a cultural messenger through his images, revealing quiet truths through his process intensive works. With a career that spans more than 40 years, Salehi has closely documented cultural innovators such as Keith Haring, as well as developed an expansive body of analog, digital, film, and mixed media works. Hadi Salehi is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Hadi Salehi
Steve Lavoie
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TCF Ep. 482 - Ernesto Bazan
Italian photojournalist Ernesto Bazan first traveled to Cuba in 1992 and immediately fell in love with the county and its people; he felt transported to the Sicily of his childhood. After many more trips, Bazan finally moved to Cuba in 1997, documenting daily life, raising a family, and teaching photography classes during the "Special Period." Bazan's images document the country's socioeconomic crisis and the tensions between rich and poor after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of its financial support. He captured the Cuban people's despair and hopelessness as well as their joy, resilience, and dignity of his neighbors. This fourteen-year project--awarded a W. Eugene Smith Fund Award for Humanist Photography--documents the island's struggle to maintain its socialist identity in a post-communist world.
Ernesto Bazan
Barbara Peacock
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TCF Ep. 481 - Jason Hamacher
Jason Hamacher's professional efforts are shaped by passion, motivation, and vision. He is an internationally recognized musician, photographer, writer, public speaker, and massage therapist. His work has taken him across the globe documenting the sights and sounds of culture, music, people, and food. Hamacher's diverse clientele ranges from Vidal Sassoon to an NBA dance team, from the Syrian Embassy to some of the most popular heavy-metal bands in the world. He exhibits his photography frequently and is currently finishing both a book on Aleppo, Syria and a CD of ancient Christian chants.
Hamacher's passion for the arts was recognized early when he began playing drums at the age of ten, performed his first concert at fourteen, and recorded his first album at seventeen. His interest in history and culture unfolded as a youth while touring Europe and Asia with his band. He continues to write, record and play music internationally.
In addition to running Lost Origin Productions, Hamacher is a happily married father, plays drums with two bands (Regents and Frodus), and leads the massage therapy department at RENU Med Spa in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Jason Hamacher
Chris Mills
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TCF Ep. 480 - Jérôme Brunet
Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as a classical cellist for eight years before moving on to the guitar. He continues to play guitar to this day. Jérôme displayed an early talent in the visual arts, studying the discipline in high school before completing a formal education in photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris, France.
Jérôme's award-winning photography has been published internationally in such publications as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Billboard, Popular Photography, American Photo, Guitar World, Smithsonian and The New York Times. His client list includes Nikon, Fender, Gibson, John Varvatos, AEG, Warner Bros. Records and he has collaborated with the non-profit organizations Unicef, Rock for MS, T.J. Martell Foundation, John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit and the Recording Academy's MusiCares.
Jérôme Brunet
Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado
Ibarionex + Olaf in Vancouver, Canada
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TCF Ep. 479 - Ken Merfeld
Ken Merfeld owns and operates a commercial / fine art photography studio where he photographs fashion, advertising, portrait, and celebrity assignments. His work has appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Angelino, Zoom, Black and White, and Los Angeles magazines.
Prior to his work in the world of Wet-Plate Collodion, Ken has worked on a personal portrait project (traditional silver prints) for more than 20 years which includes: dancers, bikers, people with their pets, autistic children, "little people", transvestites, identical twins, women wearing masks.
In response to the rapidly moving electronic image world, as well as his inherent desire to keep his traditional darkroom alive, Merfeld has chosen to embrace the ultimate, historical, hands-on technique of Wet-Plate Collodion (originally known as the "Black Art") from the 1860's. Influenced by the 19th. Century portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron, whereby a single defining exposure is made on a piece of glass and processed immediately, Ken has re-defined his continuing world of emotional portraiture.
Merfeld teaches photography part time at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Ca., does seminars for Julia Dean Photography Workshops in Venice Beach, Ca., and conducts Portrait Seminars out of his studio in Culver City four times a year. Ken also has a portfolio critique/review (see "Photo Soup") service by appointment, also operated from his studio.
So he won't go absolutely crazy thinking, creating, looking at, and discussing visuals, Ken also plays an expert game of Pétanque, loves to play Djembe drums, and aspires to learn to play a blues harmonica one day.
Merfeld Photography
Merfeld Collodian
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TCF Ep. 478 - Sheila Pree Bright
Sheila Pree Bright is often described as a "Cultural Anthropologist. Her earliest experience as a photographer began when she spent time in Houston where she began photographing the gangsta rap scene and confronting the dynamic between Hip hop and gun culture. In 2003, she created her MFA thesis photo series, Plastic Bodies, which would later be featured in the film Through the Lens Darkly and go viral on Huffington Post in 2013.
Bright earned national acclaim when she won the Center Prize at the Santa Fe Center of Photography in 2006 for her Suburbia series which features images of African American suburban life. In 2008, she premiered her first solo exhibition at the High Museum of Art, featuring her series Young Americans.
In 2014 and 2015, Bright visited Ferguson and Baltimore after the murders of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray to photograph and document the protests. The culmination of these photos would become her series 1960Now which was published by Chronicle Books October 16, 2018.
1960Now series is now in the collection of the Smithsonian African American History and Culture Museum, Washington, DC; The High Museum of Art Atlanta; The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA; City of Atlanta, Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs and the Pyramid Peak Foundation, Memphis, TN.
Sheila Pree Bright
Listener Intro: Pamela Anticole
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TCF Ep. 477 - Patrick Brown
Patrick Brown's images are testament to his remarkable versatility of approach and commitment to the profession.
Patrick Brown has assembled an impressive volume of outstanding photographs, tracing the eclecticisms of our time across the globe. Faultless in the portrayal of the human condition, hopes, and disillusionment, the everyday and the extraordinary are captured in the instinctive and the single releases of the shutter.
An ongoing journey of discovery, Patrick's subjects as well as the process of photography are imbued with the freshness and the enthusiasm animated by the prefect marriage of technique and intuition.
Patrick Brown's images demand involvement and invited contemplation. A finely tuned sensibility to his subject matter creates a prefect balance; the camera, the photographer become almost imperceptible, without every being invasive or distant.
Podcast Awards
Registration & Nomination Site
Adam Ferguson
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TCF Ep. 476 - Michael Benanav
Michael Benanav is an author and freelance photographer known for immersing in foreign cultures and bringing compelling stories and images back from distant places. His most recent book is Himalayan Bound.
Michael's first book, Men Of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold, tells the true story of a 1000-mile journey with one of the world's last working camel caravans, hauling salt along ancient trade routes from the heart of the desert to the fabled city of Timbuktu. The book was nominated by Barnes & Noble for their Discover prize and was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association (even though it was written for fully-grown adults). Michael's second book, The Luck of the Jews: An Incredible Story of Loss, Love, & Survival in the Holocaust, (originally published as Joshua & Isadora), traces the astonishing wartime experiences that brought his paternal grandparents together on the deck of a refugee boat sailing from Bucharest to Istanbul at the end of 1944.
His latest book, Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals & an Ancient Way of Life, follows a family of nomadic water buffalo herders on their annual spring migration into the Indian Himalayas - offering an intimate glimpse into a rarely-seen way of life, while exploring the challenges faced by this endangered tribe. It was named one of the three best books of 2018 by the Society of American Travel Writers.
Michael Benanav
Masrat Zahra
Himalaya Bound Website
Listener Intro: Michael Steiner
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TCF Ep. 475 - Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye
Radcliffe "Ruddy" Roye is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper.
Recently, Radcliffe began experimenting with interpretative photography, preferring to allow the abstract content within the frame to dictate the voice and purpose of the image. His Elements series focuses on the bold, austere, graphic and emotionally raw imagery, that is trapped behind a diffused lens. With painterly abilities, Radcliffe uses this diffused methodology to subtly awake the subconscious and expose the isolated figure or vision painted within a rhetorical frame.
Radcliff "Ruddy" Roye
Listener Intro: James Lee
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TCF Ep. 474 - Jasmin Mara Lopez
Jasmin Mara López is an award-winning journalist, radio producer, youth media educator and filmmaker that works in the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Los Angeles with familial roots in México, her childhood was impacted by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rights, youth empowerment, and social change.
In 2007, Jasmin founded Project Luz, an organization that empowers youth to share stories within their communities utilizing audio and photojournalism techniques.
Jasmin is working on her first film, Silent Beauty, about her family's history with child sexual abuse and their culture of silence. Jasmin disclosed abuse she endured as a child in 2014.
Jasmin Mara Lopez
Annie Flanagan
Listener Intro: Chris Pearson
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TCF Ep. 473 - Willem Baptist
Willem Baptist is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director whose latest film is Instant Dreams.
Instant Dreams is a feature documentary about the fascination and love for Polaroids. When Polaroid announced the end of instant film in 2008, the last still working factory was bought by a small group of enthusiasts. Among them is the retired scientist Stephen Herchen who previously collaborated with the inventor of Polaroid and is still trying to unravel the secret of the lost chemical formula.
Willem Baptist
Instant Dreams Website
Jean Luc Godard's Contempt
Alexandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain
Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker
Listener Intro: Eric Woods
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TCF Ep. 472 - Jessica Chou
Jessica Chou approaches her subjects with as little preconceived notions as possible, allowing people the space to collaborate with the moment and the place they inhabit. She strives for honesty and to look at things as they are, without artifice or judgement. The result is something that is at once observant and intimate. While her photography is documentary in style, it is led by the possibilities for storytelling and expression within a single frame.
From photographing high-profile public figures to exploring changes in the cultural landscape or reporting at the U.S. and Mexico border, what unites her work is her curiosity, empathy and her ease in shifting between disparate worlds and finding the naturalness in things that do not necessarily belong together.
Jessica was born in 1985 in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles known as the San Gabriel Valley. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in Middle East History and is currently living and working between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Jessica Chou
Teresa Eng
Listener Intro: Alex Casares
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TCF Ep. 471 - Jesse Dittmar
Jesse Dittmar is a celebrity portrait photographer who began serving as an assistant for some of the industry's best photographers including Chris Buck and Annie Leibovitz. On his own, he has photographed celebrities including Jodie Foster, Uma Therman, Tom Hanks, Sting, James Earl Jones and more. His photographs have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice and Rolling Stone.
His recent book, Two showcases his penchant for intimate portraiture with beautiful black white portraits of his photographic subjects.
Jesse Dittmar
Pari Dukovic
Listener Intro: John Adair
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TCF Ep. 470 - Sophie Mayanne
Sophie Mayanne is a 26-year-old fashion and portrait photographer, splitting her time between London and Cotswolds, UK. Her style is unmistakable, favoring raw, striking imagery that is hers and hers alone. Her work has been recognized by both the fashion and music industries and has been particularly favored by up and coming artists & publications who admire the honesty and genuineness in her images.
Behind The Scars is a photography campaign that celebrates scars of all shapes and sizes, and the incredible stories behind them. The series is photographed by Sophie Mayanne and began in April 2017. Since then, Mayanne has captured over 300 scar portraits and stories – encouraging many men, women, and children all over the world to embrace the skin they are in.
Jack Davison
Listener Intro: Scott Allen
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TCF Ep. 469 - Sarah Marie Rooney & Sasha Dylan Bell
Sarah Marie Rooney and Sasha Dylan Bell are photographers who collaborated on a conceptual photographic project titled "Fear of Dreaming". This work explores the inner conflict, following a dreamer who has lost her way. The portraits which solicited the involvement of a trained dancer explored the process of being overwhelmed by fear and of moving through and out of it.
Sarah Marie Rooney grew up in Connecticut and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Musical Theatre, from Syracuse University. After graduating she continued her vocal studies in the UK and New Zealand, before performing more than fifty solo vocal recitals and operas in the United States, Australia, the UK, and New Zealand. Sarah was also the Business Manager and Executive Theater Producer at BATS Theatre, Producer of Summer Shakespeare, and the Producer for Young and Hungry Theatre Company. In addition to performing and producing, she taught and directed classes for theater, voice, and stage at the Wellington Theatre for Performing Arts (NZ), Oregon Children's Theatre and School (USA), and St. Mary's in Sydney (AU). She also maintained a private singing studio for ten years.
A photographer for animal welfare and rescue organizations, Sarah documents events for Best Friends Animal Society and Wags and Walks. When not photographing animals, she is capturing everyday life on the street or planning her next travel adventure. Sarah lives in Manhattan Beach, California with her furry, four-legged family (two rescue dogs and one rescue cat).
Sasha Dylan Bell is an artist based in Los Angeles, with an interest in portrait photography and cinematic storytelling.
In 2015 Sasha was Creative Arts Emmy-nominated for his editing work on Got Your 6, a documentary chronicling battle-worn soldiers and their struggle to find a new 'normal' in returning home from Afghanistan.
He currently lives in Los Angeles and is at work on the photography series, Wise, a gentle exploration of the lives of the elderly, along with directing & producing the documentary, The Regulars, a love letter to the unusual personalities of Hollywood Boulevard and editing on David Makes Man for Oscar-winning creator, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight).
Sarah Marie Rooney
Sasha Dylan Bell
Ellen Friedlander
Listener Intro: Ryan Katsanes
Focus on the Story Photography Festival
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TCF Ep. 468 - Julieanne Kost
Julieanne Kost is a Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide — via live events, Adobe.com, her own website (jkost.com) and blog.
She is also the author of "Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking," and "Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom", an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop CC Essential Training and the Art of Photoshop Compositing for Lynda.com.
Julianne Kost Portfolio
Julianne Kost Tutorials
Keith Carter
Listener Intro: Marty Strecker
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TCF Ep. 467 - Diana Lundin
Diana Lundin is a commercial pet portrait photographer based in Southern California. After a successful career as a writer and editor, she embarked on a second career as a photographer. Her commissioned and personal work evokes the unique personalities of pets and the special relationship that they share with their caregivers.
This summer she will be releasing her first book Dogs vs Ice Cream, a selection of over 100 portraits of a wide variety of dogs eating the tasty treat.
Diana Lundin
Grace Chon
Listener Intro: Robert Coffey
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TCF Ep. 466 - Mark de Paola
Mark de Paola was literally born into a photo studio on Cahuenga Blvd in Los Angeles and grew up splitting time between Los Angeles and New York. Mark's earliest recollections are of watching photo shoots and being completely immersed in the fashion books and periodicals of the time, Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Mark's photographic foundation is the works of his father Alessio, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern, and Art Kane.
Mark's vision is best described as a combination of reportage, fashion, and beauty. It has always been Mark's objective to capture a natural beauty in a setting where a model's personality is allowed to flourish while a story is being told.
Mark's very first assignment was a magazine cover image of actor Henry Fonda. While working in New York, Los Angeles, and Milano, Mark would go on to shoot countless campaigns, editorials, and covers, including those for Vogue Mexico and Vogue Spain.
Mark's storytelling still style quickly translated to motion/ television commercials where Mark directed/shot several hundred spots including those for Anheuser-Busch (aired on Super Bowl), Giorgio Perfume (exhibited in Museum of Modern Art N.Y.), Donna Karan, Neutrogena, English Ideas Cosmetics, Sony Cybershot, Century 21 Real Estate, Ford Motorsports, Toyota, Ducati Motorcycles, Kawasaki Jet Skis, and many more; all with an eye for style and realism.
De Paola continues to work with select clients around the world combining his artistic sensibilities. Mark's work is included in fine art photographic collections, both public and private, around the world.
Mark De Paola
Paola Roversi
Listener Intro: Mike Leonard
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TCF Ep. 465 - Safi Alia Shabaik
Safi Alia Shabaik discovered art and photography at an early age when her mother enrolled her in a pinhole camera class at the California Museum of Science and Industry. She attended UCLA, earning her B.A. in Fine Art with honors. Since then, she has worked as a fashion stylist and photographic documentarian and has lived in both New York and Los Angeles. Post-college, while still in Los Angeles, Catherine Opie became her mentor and taught her the art of large scale color printing in her custom-built darkrooms. While in New York, Safi became fashion stylist, photographic documentarian, personal assistant, travel companion, and confidante to the legendary icon, Ms. Grace Jones, in her personal and public life. Safi was given free rein to photograph anytime they were together.
Throughout her life, her work has been about identity, persona, subculture and the humanity of all people. Her subject matter moved from the public realm to the private, when she became a caregiver for her father who was beginning to exhibit symptoms of the disease. Personality Crash: Portraits of My Father Who Suffered from Advanced Stages of Parkinson's Disease, Dementia, and Sundowner's Syndrome, her most recent series, is a riveting, collaborative body of work that explores the human condition from an intimate perspective, focusing on her father's journey up until his death. These intense, beautiful black and white images comprise the artist's highly personal story but also serve as a universal reminder of what it means to be human.
Artist Links:
Safi Alia Shabaik
Lauren E. Simonutti
Steven F. Arnold
Listener Intro: Simon-Pierre Tremblay
Senior Wellness Resources:
American Parkinson Disease Association
American Society on Aging
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TCF Ep. 464 - Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson & George Nobechi
Sam Abell, Arthur Meyerson, and George Nobechi recently shared a "buddy trip", traveling through the heart of Japan via train. While George lives in Japan, Arthur and Sam have frequently traveled to the country on assignment and to teach workshops. However, this trip was a very personal one, which allowed these three friends to do more than photograph together, but to also share a wealth of unique cultural and personal experiences.
Sam Abell is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in National Geographic. He first worked for National Geographic in 1967 and is one of the more overtly artistic photographers among his magazine peers.[citation needed] Sam Abell's style of photography is documentary in the sense that his major avenue, the National Geographic magazine, is a publication of record. Abell has said that he could be perfectly happy with his photography even if his only subject was light itself.
George Nobechi is a Japanese/Canadian Fine Art and Documentary Photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. His bicultural upbringing has influenced his vision that simultaneously makes him an insider and outsider to both Western and Eastern cultures. His contemplative work is often described as depicting a warm feeling of humanity.
TCF #214 - Sam Abell
TCF #400 - Arthur Meyerson
Listener Intro: Matthew Gore
Masahisa Fukase
Fred Zafran
Arno Rafael Minkkinen
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TCF Ep. 463 - Sara Terry
Sara Terry is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker known for her work covering post-conflict stories, and a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow for her long-term project, "Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa." Her first long-term post-conflict work, "Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace," led her to found The Aftermath Project in 2003 on the premise that "War is Only Half the Story." An accomplished speaker on aftermath and visual literacy issues, her lectures include a TEDx talk, "Storytelling in a Post-Journalism Word," and several appearances at The Annenberg Space for Photography.
She has directed and produced two feature-length documentaries, Fambul Tok (2011) and FOLK (2013). Fambul Tok, about a groundbreaking grass-roots forgiveness program in Sierra Leone, premiered at SXSW in 2011, and grew out of her photo project, "Forgiveness and Conflict: Lessons from Africa." It was supported by the Sundance Documentary Institute and Chicken and Egg and was hailed by Paste magazine as one of the best 100 documentaries of all time.
Terry became a photographer and filmmaker after a long, award-winning career in print and public radio. She is working on her third documentary, "That's How We Roll," about mobile home parks and the affordable housing crisis.
Sara Terry
The Aftermath Project
Yassine Alaoui Ismaili
Todd Bertolaet
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TCF Ep. 462 - Roland Miller
Roland Miller, a Chicago native, studied photography at Utah State University earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. For 14 years, he taught photography at Brevard Community College (now Eastern Florida State College) in Cocoa, Florida, where he was first exposed to many nearby NASA launch sites. He then taught at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois for six years before becoming dean of its Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts division in 2008. Miller retired from higher education in 2018 to work full-time on his aerospace photography.
In 2016, Miller's project, Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History, documenting the deactivated and repurposed space launch and test facilities around the United States was published by the University of New Mexico Press.
Images from Miller's Space Shuttle documentary project, Orbital Planes, have been exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida and at The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida
Miller is currently completing a project, Interior Space, with Italian Astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, to collaboratively photograph the interior of the International Space Station.
Roland Miller
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TCF Ep. 461 - Thomas Michael Alleman
Thomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English Literature.
During a fifteen-year newspaper career, Tom was a frequent winner of distinctions from the National Press Photographer's Association, as well as being named California Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1995 and Los Angeles Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1996.
As a magazine freelancer, Tom's pictures have been published regularly in Time, People, Business Week, Barron's, Smithsonian and National Geographic Traveler, and have also appeared in US News & World Report, Brandweek, Sunset, Harper's and Travel Holiday. Tom has shot covers for Chief Executive, People, Priority, Acoustic Guitar, Private Clubs, Time for Kids, Diverse and Library Journal.
In the late 1990s, Tom exhibited "Social Studies", a series of street photographs, widely in Southern California. He's currently finishing "Sunshine & Noir", a book-length collection of black-and-white urban landscapes made in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Thomas Michael Alleman
Anne-Marie Weber
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TCF Ep. 460 - Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock studied fine arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She started as a street photographer and gradually became a lifestyle photographer. She has had the privilege to study with Mary Ellen Mark, Eugene Richards, and Ernesto Bazan.
Her project, Hometown, has just been printed in an 80-page book, with an introduction by Ernesto Bazan. It is a 30-year photographic project of everyday life in the town she grew up in and spent most of her life, spanning from 1982 to 2015.
Barbara is currently working on her project, American Bedroom. It is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling: their bedroom. The nature of the project comprises portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their character and spirit.
Stephanie Gengotti
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TCF Ep. 459 - Nico Therin
Nico Therin is a Los Angeles based French photographer. For as long as he can remember, he has been attracted to form and color, but it wasn't until he moved from France to the United States to follow his exchange student high school sweetheart that he entertained the idea of studying photography.
Through photography, he has been allowed to capture intimate and colorful moments and consider himself lucky to have shared these moments with his subjects. His inspiration comes from familiar fragments of everyday life; those recognizable experiences that connect us. He searches for these moments oftentimes in places that he's not familiar with, and the more he collects and experiences, the more he feels attached to the world around him. For personal projects, he's generally drawn towards underrepresented communities, where he takes a collaborative approach with his subjects to celebrate them, most often through movement and proximity.
Nico Therin
Mark Katzman
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TCF Ep. 458 - Meryl Meisler
Meryl Meisler was born 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in North Massapequa, Long Island, NY. Inspired by Diane Arbus and Jacques Henri Lartigue, Meryl began photographing herself, family, and friends while enrolled in a photography class taught by Cavalliere Ketchum at The University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1975, Meryl returned to New York City and studied with Lisette Model, continuing to photograph her hometown and the city around her. After working as a freelance illustrator by day,
Meryl frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos. As a 1978 CETA Artist grant recipient, Meryl created a portfolio of photographs which explored her Jewish Identity for the American Jewish Congress. After CETA, Meryl began a 31-year career as an NYC Public School Art Teacher.
Upon retiring from the NYC public school system in 2010, Meisler began releasing large bodies of previously unseen work. Meryl's first monograph A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (Bizarre, 2014), received international acclaim. The book juxtaposes her zenith of disco photos with images of the burned out yet beautiful neighborhood of Bushwick, Brooklyn in the 1980s. Her second book, Purgatory & Paradise SASSY '70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre, 2015), contrasts intimate images of home life on Long Island alongside NYC street and nightlife. She is currently working on two more books in her series about the 1970s & '80s.
Meryl lives and works in New York City, continuing the photographic memoir she began in 1973 – a uniquely American story, sweet and sassy with a pinch of mystery.
Meryl Meisler
Tequila Minsky
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TCF Ep. 457 - Mark Thiessen
Mark Thiessen has been a photographer with National Geographic since 1990 and on staff since 1997.
He is widely published in all areas of the National Geographic Society, including National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Adventure magazine, and National Geographic Traveler magazine. National Geographic books that feature Thiessen's work include Return to Midway, which documents the discovery of the U.S.S. Yorktown, and Baseball as America, a look at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Thiessen has contributed to many articles for National Geographic magazine, including "Monsters of Madagascar" (August 2000), "Russian Smokejumpers (August 2002), "Search for Other Earths" (December 2002), and "Nanotechnology" (June 2006).
In 1996, Thiessen began a personal photography project on wildland firefighters that took him to the front lines of wildfires every summer. To better understand the world of this little known subculture, he became a certified wildland firefighter. An award-winning online piece, FireCall, features Thiessen's photographs and interviews with a veteran wildland firefighter. Thiessen was also profiled for an episode of the National Geographic Channel's Out There series.
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TCF Ep. 456 - An Rong Xu
An Rong Xu is a New York City-based photographer and director. Born in China and raised in New York City's Chinatown, Xu explores the world around him through his unique cultural perspective.
Xu's work is rooted in the beauty of the ordinary, capturing a rich cinematic stillness in his photography and a passionate ethereal journey in his films. Bringing with him a vision for creating emotional narratives, Xu shares a deeper look into the lives of his subjects with a sense of trust and candor, shown through personal moments and words unspoken.
Xu has photographed and directed for publications and companies such as The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, GQ Taiwan, The History Channel, Instagram, Airbnb, Underarmour, and Google.
An Rong Xu
Sung jin Park
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TCF Ep. 455 - Michael A. McCoy
Michael A. McCoy is a Washington D.C. based freelance photojournalist and a two-time combat veteran. In his work as a photographer, he sees himself as a visual storyteller. He is devoted to his documentary and environmental portraiture work which includes his personal project Invisible Wounds which explores the lingering impact of PTSD on veterans.
Michael A. McCoy
Michael Santiago
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TCF Ep. 454 - Stella Johnson
Stella Johnson is a photographer and educator known for her passionate and honest documentary projects. She received a Core Fulbright Scholar Grant to photograph in Mexico in 2003, and Fulbright Senior Specialist grants to teach in Mexico in 2006 and in Colombia in 2018. The University of Maine Press published her monograph, Al Sol: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon, and Nicaragua in 2008. Johnson's photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally.
A dedicated educator, Johnson holds teaching positions at Boston University and Lesley University College of Art and Design. She also teaches workshops in Greece, Cuba, and Mexico. She was a 2013 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, and a nominee for the Boston Foundation's Brother Thomas Fellowship. Johnson's work has received numerous honors including a New England Foundation for the Arts Cultural Collaborative Artist-in-Residence Grant and Julia Margaret Cameron Award.
Johnson holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and an MS in journalism from Boston University. Her work is held in public collections including The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Portland Museum of Art, and The Southeast Museum of Photography, among others.
Stella Johnson
Iaritza Menjivar
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TCF Ep. 453 - Ibarionex Perello w/ Jamie Rose
In this unusual episode, photojournalist and documentary photographer Jamie Rose conducts an exhaustive interview with TCF host, Ibarionex Perello about his life, including his career as a photographer, writer, and podcaster. It includes a temporary sidetrack as a stand-comic. The conversation examines some of the challenges he has faced professional and personally, including a recent diagnosis of ADHD.
Jamie Rose is a co-owner of Momenta Group LLC. She has worked as an international photojournalist on five continents and has been a contract photographer and communication strategist with some of the world's largest nonprofit organizations.
In 2011, Jamie was awarded the United Nations' IPC's Photographers Leadership Award. She has also won awards and grants for her documentary and nonprofit work including from Jamie is considered an expert in nonprofit photography business development. She has been interviewed twice by Photo District News (PDN), News Photographer Magazine, as well as online publications and podcasts about the importance of nonprofit documentary photography. She has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown University, American University, Hiram College, Syracuse University, and Columbia University's Journalism schools about her work with international nonprofits.
Jamie lives in the heart of the mountain in ski country with her husband and their awesome pound puppy, Cody, in Redmond, Oregon.
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Mental Health Hotline
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
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TCF Ep. 452 - Valerie Jardin
Valerie Jardin is a popular street and travel photographer, educator and host of the Hit the Street podcast. After leaving a successful career as a professional commercial photographer, she dedicated herself to her personal photography and conducting photo experiences both in the United States and Europe.
She has recently turned her lens to more personal projects including a series of environmental portraits of artists that live and work in her community.
Hit the Streets Podcast
Direct download: Valerie_Jardine_SMALL.mp3
TCF Ep. 451 - Jens Krauer
Jens Krauer is a street photographer, educator, and podcaster based in Switzerland. In a relatively short time, he has become a talented photographer and brings a thoughtful philosophy to the practice of making images. As the host of the FujiLove podcast, he frequently interview photographers not only about their use of Fuji cameras but also their varied approaches to making photographs.
FujiLove Podcast
Ken Jarecke
Klaus Bo
Direct download: Jens_Krauer_SMALL.mp3
TCF Ep. 450 - David Burnett
David Burnett is a photojournalist with more than 5 decades of work covering the news, the people, and visual tempo of our age. He is co-founder of Contact Press Images, the New York based photojournalism agency.
In an issue of American Photo magazine, Burnett was named one of the "100 Most Important People in Photography." (That made his mom very happy.) In the spring of 2018, David was awarded the Sprague Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Press Photographers Assn., though he claims he is trying to figure out what his subsequent 'lifetime' work will be. In his career, he has created photographs of history unfolding: war, sport, politics, the famous, the infamous, and the Unfamous.
In a world gone mad over digital photography, his kit includes a 70-year-old Speed Graphic press camera, and a plastic $30 HOLGA. Each has a place alongside his digital cameras, each camera a tool to find the right look for the right moment.
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John Cena Injured at WWE House Show
The wrestling world is buzzing today over the news that John Cena was injured Tuesday night at a WWE house show. Reports indicate that top WWE superstar injured his hip and abruptly went to the finish of his match. The early prognosis is not good with Cena telling the live crowd after the match that he may need time off.
Wrestling websites and media have been scrambling for the last 24 hours looking for more details on the injury. I have read several fan reports and they all report that Cena stopped his Steel Cage match with Wade Barrett in the middle of the match after taking Barrett's Wasteland. Barrett started climbing the cage after the move. The typical spot here would have been for Cena to catch him and pull him down. Cena couldn't stand up. Barrett climbed down on his own and immediately went to the finish, which probably looked rather ridiculous.
Fan filmed footage of the match has hit You Tube. The footage shows Cena apologizing to the fans for the sudden finish. Cena then goes on to say, "If I am hurt and I have to take some time off after this, there is no damn way I am getting carried out of this ring and I am walking out on my own two feet." Cena gingerly left the ring and was not able to put any weight on one side, and looked like he was in a lot of pain as he left the cage.
The ramifications of this could be devastating for the WWE. The timing couldn't be worse as the WWE is set to begin building to WrestleMania 27 starting with the Royal Rumble. The WWE has done a great job of creating parody among its wrestlers but Cena has been pushed well beyond anyone else in the company and is the face of the WWE. If the top WWE superstar is unavailable for WrestleMania, plans would have to change immediately beginning with the January 3 Monday Night RAW.
Cena has been one of the more resilient top WWE superstars over the last several years only suffering one major injury as opposed to guys like Edge, Randy Orton, and Triple H who have all missed time with numerous injuries. Cena is regarded as the busiest WWE wrestler in the company between personal appearances and wrestling so his ability to remain relatively injury-free is impressive.
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The WWE has really boxed themselves into a corner. Regardless of the severity of the injury, this should be a wakeup call. The WWE has not prepared themselves at all for any kind of a Plan B if Cena would go down for any amount of time. Nobody has been promoted even close to his level and without Cena, there would definitely be a major gap in the programming. It is so bad that even when Cena was "fired" by Wade Barrett the WWE wouldn't remove him from television for even a week to sell the angle. The lack of depth at the top is probably the worst it has been in years.
Jeff Hardy cashed in the last time Cena went down and took the babyface spot left open when Cena went down in 2007. Hardy was both lucky and well prepared for the role and relished in his feud with Randy Orton. Hardy only got that spot after Orton's feuds with Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho fizzled fast. Hardy was such a success that even after Cena returned, Hardy remained a top guy so in the end the WWE used the injury to elevate a new star. Unfortunately I don't see anyone at first glance that can match Hardy's success from either brand. The WWE are going to have a hard time scrambling around for a guy to move into that role naturally and successfully.
Once again there have been no reports yet indicating that Cena will miss any time. It could be a small sprain that would only require Cena to sit out for a few weeks. The WWE would be extremely lucky if that is the case, and the injury could be played up as part of the CM Punk/Nexus attack on RAW. The Royal Rumble is over a month away which would give Cena plenty of time to rest his knee if it is only a minor injury.
Off the top, there aren't any candidates that immediately stick out as potential replacements. Triple H is an obvious and probably the likely choice. Two weeks ago CM Punk would have been perfect in the role. Unfortunately his sudden heel turn nullifies any chance of that. Wade Barrett is an interesting possibility, but I think it is too soon to turn him although that looks like where it is going. Rey Mysterio could come over from SmackDown but it weakens SmackDown too much in my opinion. Edge is old news at this point and fans aren't ready to accept him as the ultimate babyface that Cena was. If there is someone I am missing let me know because I just don't see him.
Calling Shawn Michaels!
UPDATE: WWE.com reports that John Cena suffered a hip injury and is day to day. "His return to action will be evaluated on a day to day basis." Ironically the article not only refers to the video on You Tube but actually provides a link to the clip. That is a bit of a surprise considering the usual WWE plan of attack when it comes to those kinds of videos is to have them removed due to copyright violations.
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Harrysong ft. Toofan – "Oppressor"
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Harrysong- New Album
Artist: Harrysong ft. Toofan
Title: Oppressor
Genre: Afrobeats
Released Year: 2020
Album: Right About Now
Producer(s): Twinbeatz
Label: Alterplate Record
Harrysong ft. Toofan – "Oppressor" Stream & Download
In this age and time, it takes a lot to have an appreciable knowledge of most musical instruments and also stand as a lead vocalist of a band. Harrysong is one Nigerian artist who has a deep knowledge of the piano, guitar, conga, drums as well as a unique voice that naturally place him ahead of others.
Barabas and Masta comes together to form TOOFAN. The are the young musical generation of Togo. Their musical style, which they call "the Ogbragada", is a combination of Rap and urban music. In 2005, TOOFAN launched their first single, "Epervier Ogbragada", to support the national football team of Togo. It will be followed in the footsteps of "Epervier 2006", always in honor of their team who had just qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The title remains on everyone's lips and becomes the hymn of all Togolese fans.
So the group will fly to Germany to represent Togo at the World Cup musical shows. Back in Lomé, they released their very first album: Obragada 2006. A tobacco!
Since 2013, the group has launched a new dance called "GWETA" to "dodge the jealous". A dance that has met with tremendous success in Togo and throughout Africa.
Billboard.africa maintained that the Alterplate Record frontline, Harrysong has finally dropped his long-awaited album project called "Right About Now".The project contains 9-tracks and features the solid likes of top-notch artists such as Davido, Stonebwoy, Rudeboy and others. The impressive bodywork is what you should check out, dive into it below!
Nigerian superstar, Harrysong released a new track called Oppressor featuring talented artist, Toofan.The classic entry 'Oppressor' was taken off his recently released project called 'Right About Now EP'. The TwinBeatz-produced song is set to become a Club and Party banger soon. It was mixed and mastered by Zeeno Foster.
Click Below to listen and download this song on billboard.africa:
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The sweet and savory Islands Hawaiian Burger and Hoisin Beach Bowl with mahi-mahi.
Lick the Plate: Get your pineapple on at Islands in May
by David Boylan May 10, 2017 May 13, 2017 247
I will admit up front that I've never been a fan of pairing pineapple with savory foods. On its own I love it. Nothing better than a slice fresh pineapple on its own or mixed into a fun cocktail. So when I heard Islands had a Pineapple Pairing Menu happening during the month of May, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to cross that pineapple and savory threshold so I headed to their Encinitas location to give it a shot.
First off, I did a bit of research on pineapples and discovered they do have some notable health benefits. This propaganda could all be drummed up by the pineapple growers but it was spread over several websites so there must be some validity to it.
The benefits I found the most of related to respiratory health, improved digestion (pineapples are high in fiber), improved oral health, reduced inflammation and increased circulation. They have huge amounts of vitamin C with 131 percent of the daily value. That value goes down to 32 percent in canned pineapple, so stick with the fresh for the full vitamin C effect. Pineapples are also full of the enzyme bromelain, which has all kinds of benefits. Bottom line here is that pineapples are delicious and good for you.
Historically, the most significant grower of pineapples was Hawaii, but they are now cultivated in large quantities in Brazil, the Philippines and Costa Rica. However, pineapples are actually native to Paraguay and Brazil. Got all that? Good.
Synonymous with warm weather and beach days, sweet and tangy pineapples hit peak season from March through July. Islands restaurants, known for their surf-inspired menu and tropical drinks, is all about pineapples April 1 through May 31. Just FYI, Islands uses nearly 182,000 fresh pineapples per year in all of their restaurants.
Pineapple lovers will find a Pineapple Pairing Menu with suggested pairings of popular pineapple dishes from the main menu. The pairings include the Hawaiian Burger, topped with fresh grilled pineapple and teriyaki sauce, paired with the Big Island Iced Tea. Yaki Tacos are topped with a house-made grilled pineapple salsa, served with a refreshing piña colada. The Hoisin Beach Bowl, made with chunks of fresh grilled pineapple and grilled vegetables, served over brown rice with mahi mahi or chicken comes with a signature Mai Tai. The Toucan Sandwich has teriyaki sauce, fresh pineapple, Swiss cheese, lettuce tomato and mayo and goes perfectly with a Longboard Lager. Each pairing is meant to complement the dish and bring out the sweet and savory goodness.
Kids can join in on the fun with a themed coloring contest, which will also run through the end of May. To enter, kids simply design and decorate the pineapple coloring sheets provided in restaurant, and parents or legal guardians post the colorful creations to social media using #PineappleParadise and #IslandsBurgers for a chance to win $50 to Islands. Ten lucky winners will be selected. For kids who love pineapple, Islands Gremmie Menu features a dish popular with both kids and parents, fresh pineapple spears with yogurt dip.
So I went for the Hawaiian Burger and can honestly say I really enjoyed it. I look at it like putting cranberries on turkey or lingonberries on Swedish meatballs, same concept. It was a very good burger. My guest went with the Hoisin Beach Bowl with mahi mahi, made with chunks of fresh grilled pineapple and grilled broccoli, served over brown rice. Seafood and fruit are more of a natural pairing for me and this was delicious.
And while I love pina coladas, every time I have one I can't help but thinking of the song from Rupert Holmes' officially titled "Escape," but known to most as the "Pina Colada Song." It was only recently that I discovered what that song was about. I should note that all of the cocktails were tasty and that there is a full bar at Islands that is quite popular.
Actually there is something for just about everyone on the menu at Islands. The simple, fresh ingredients found in its signature burgers are never frozen, fries are fresh cut daily and it's a great place to watch a game or surf videos with a plethora of TVs.
I'm not a big chain restaurant kind of guy, but Islands does it right. Follow Islands on Twitter and Instagram at @IslandsBurgers and like Islands at www.facebook.com/IslandsRestaurants. Don't forget to share your favorite pineapple moments by using hashtags #PineappleParadise and #IslandsBurgers!
Lick the Plate can now be heard on KPRi, 102.1 FM Monday – Friday during at 4:10 and 7:10 p.m. David Boylan is founder of Artichoke Creative and Artichoke Apparel, an Encinitas based marketing firm and clothing line. Reach him at [email protected] or (858) 395-6905.
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Coast News Lick the Plate columnist David Boylan is celebrating 10 years and 500 columns with the Coast News in 2019! His feature covers the ever expanding North County culinary scene that includes restaurants, culinary personalities, trends, observations, tributes and his popular takeover column where area businesses, bands or teams contribute to the column. Lick the Plate has also been a popular radio show for the past eight years in San Diego on 100.7 KFMB, and on stations in Detroit, Michigan, Windsor Ontario and Traverse City, Michigan. Besides the column and radio show, David runs Tatonka Digital & Analog, a boutique marketing agency headquartered in Oceanside, California. Reach him with show suggestions at [email protected] or www.lick-the-plate.com


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ORICA-GreenEDGE Ends Eneco Tour with Three in Overall Top Ten
When the Eneco Tour came to a close in Geraardsbergen, ORICA-GreenEDGE had three riders in the top ten overall. Luke Durbridge slotted into fifth place. Svein Tuft, who started the final stage in the race leader's jersey, hung on for seventh place. Sebastian Langeveld finished two places back in ninth.
Tuft initially looked as if he had clinched the final spot on the overall podium, 40 seconds down on overall winner Lars Boom (Rabobank). After the race had finished, the team learned commissaries had issued the Canadian a 20 second time penalty for taking bottles inside the final 20 kilometers. The lost seconds dropped him down to seventh place.
"We have to accept the time sanction opposed by the commissaries," said Sports Director Daniele Nardello. "It's unfortunate, but we still managed to keep a select three guys in the top ten."
Three times up the Muur de Geraardsbergen, dropped from Tour of Flanders earlier this year, proved decisive on the heels of other cobbled climbs littered throughout stage seven.
"Today's stage included a very difficult finale," Nardello noted. "The riders worked well to keep themselves in the front group and give as much support to Svein as possible. We expected a lot of attacking during the last half of the race, and when this happened, Svein was not able to stay in the front group. It may have been a little too optimistic on our side to think that he could."
Alessandro Ballan (BMC) won the stage from Boom in a two-up sprint. The duo escaped from a nine rider breakaway that formed over the Muur.
It has been a hugely successful race for the Australian outfit with two stage wins, three days in the leader's jersey split between two riders and three riders in the general classification top ten.
"We've done well at the Eneco Tour, and I'm proud of the efforts of both riders and staff," said General Manager Shayne Bannan. "We have a lot to look forward to as we approach the last part of the season."
Due to tragic events in his immediate family, Sports Director Laurenzo Lapage was unable to be with the team on the final day of the race. The entire ORICA-GreenEDGE team sends it thoughts and prayers to the Lapage family.
Safely through stage four of the Giro-Rosa as the breakaway stays away
Trentin takes a top-10 as Adam Yates stays safe on stage three
Kennedy comes agonisingly close to her first WorldTour victory on stage three of the Giro-Rosa
Mitchelton-SCOTT solid in Tour de France stage two team time trial
Van Vleuten sneaks 2nd place on the 2nd stage of the Giro-Rosa to move up on GC & gain some time
Trentin sprints to seventh in chaotic finish to stage one of the Tour de France
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"Manicurists arguably have one of the most difficult backstage jobs during fashion week. Imagine trying to paint nails and toes while crawling around under tables without getting stepped on. It's a crazy life, and Madeline Poole, the Global Color Ambassador for Sally Hansen, tells Fashionista what it's like." Read more at Fashionista.com.


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The sunny days are just around the corner!
Meaning, we can finally give our coats, scarfs and thick jackets a break at least until the next cold season. But again, our weather-related worries don't end there.
When the summer knocks on our door, we usually instinctively choose "the dark side" of the street for any walk. Shade is a trusted confidant when you want to avoid direct sunlight and a go-to solution when hats or sunglasses aren't around. But again, staying in shadows forever is not practical, and that's why shade is a good friend while sunscreen is the BFF! Putting cream on your face, neck, and hands every time you head out is so terribly annoying, but surely better than putting up with sunburnt skin! Besides, multiple studies have shown that regular application of sunblock can slow down the aging process. So, smear away my friends, like your youth depends on it!
Choose your outfit carefully! You have to be strategic when it comes to your clothing when summer comes around. Why? Because there are air-condition units in almost every building you visit. That's not inherently bad, but that means that temperature usually differs by significant (sometimes insane) amount inside and outside. One single outfit can't handle such drastic temperature changes! Put that light sweater in your bag, especially if your colleagues like to keep the AC blasting. It shouldn't go unmentioned: cotton is your best choice when it comes to materials, but you already knew that, right? And, you should probably avoid black if you don't want to spontaneously combust once you step outside.
All of us are well aware that water is crucial all year round. We heard that mantra so many times, it feels redundant to repeat it once again. But it has to be done! During those hot summer days staying hydrated is imperative. When the temperatures are higher, our bodies do their best to keep everything running smoothly, even though that requires much more effort in those, almost hellish circumstances. Helping our body function normally should be everyone's priority. That's why you should ALWAYS have a water bottle at hand. To avoid all the heat-related inconveniences like cramps, exhaustion, stroke, and the dehydration itself use the oldest and oldest trick in the book: chug, chug, chug!
Since we have all these modern amenities at our fingertips (literally), it would be a shame not to use them to our advantage, right? And are you really going to be surprised if it rains in Seattle? Really? The town's second name is The Rain City! Pick up the habit of clicking on some of those weather apps that we have at our disposal. Throughout the summer keep your umbrella close by, just in case of unexpected showers.
When summer is in full blast, some of us would prefer not to go out at all. Unfortunately, life can't go on pause just because it's too hot to function (according to us). To make the best of those days, consider using the services of your favorite livery company to avoid traffic jams and long waiting periods between the buses. The wonderful vehicles of Seattle Limo Service are your safe haven when you are on the go, no matter if rain or sunshine cause the fleeting inconveniences.
The most important thing is that you take all the fun opportunities fun in the sun can offer. Keep these things in mind when the heat wave comes to town, and you will get by unscathed!


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William Chrisman football coach Scorpio Horn saw his quarterback do something that he hasn't seen very often from his senior captain.
What happened made Horn the biggest cheerleader on the field.
"Wooo! Atta boy, No. 2!" Horn shouted after James Bailey picked up a first down on a 10-yard run and absolutely trucked Cleburn Greene before he fell forward for another 3 yards.
That's just the kind of dynamic that the do-it-all signal caller has. His speed, elusiveness and power were all on display in a Suburban Middle Six game against Ruskin in which he rushed for 160 yards on 14 carries and scored three times.
The Bears led the Eagles 28-0 before the same was suspended due to heavy rain and lightning Friday at Independence All-School Stadium. The game will resume at 11 a.m. Saturday with 3:42 left in the third quarter and Chrisman with the ball.
On Chrisman's first score, Bailey showed some of his power when he broke about four tackles on a run up the gut that resulted in a 12-yard touchdown run to make it 6-0 late in the first. At the 9:32 mark in the third, he showed his speed when he found a small hole on the left side, squeezed through it and turned on the jets and easily outran the Ruskin defense for a 51-yard touchdown. Jordon Woods ran it in for the two-point conversion to make it 14-0.
"I just feel like my line just need to block three seconds for me, then I can make something happen from there," Bailey said.


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Центральной усадьбы племзавода имени Максима Горького () — село в Белебеевском районе Башкортостана. Административный центр Максим-Горьковского сельсовета.

С 2005 современный статус.

География
Расстояние до:
 районного центра (Белебей): 24 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Глуховская): 7 км.

История

Статус село, сельского населённого пункта, посёлок получил согласно Закону Республики Башкортостан от 20 июля 2005 года N 211-з «О внесении изменений в административно-территориальное устройство Республики Башкортостан в связи с образованием, объединением, упразднением и изменением статуса населенных пунктов, переносом административных центров», ст.1:

5. Изменить статус следующих населенных пунктов, установив тип поселения - село:

6) в Белебеевском районе:

в) поселка Центральной усадьбы племзавода имени Максима Горького Максим-Горьковского сельсовета

Население

 Национальный состав
Согласно переписи 2002 года, преобладающая национальность — русские (50 %).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Совет муниципальных образований Республики Башкортостан

Населённые пункты Белебеевского района

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Tag: emergency
Washingtonians, How's your State of Emergency Going?
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington was the first to declare a State of Emergency, and he may be the last one to rescind it. "Never let a crisis go to waste" has a corollary, and that is: "Preserve the crisis."
It's April 12th, 2022. Governor Jay Inslee has had State of Emergency powers for 772 days. He issued his emergency proclamation on February 29th, 2020, more than two years ago. He was the first governor in the nation to do so, making Washington State's COVID emergency longer than any other.
Come Saturday, we are again completely alone in the Pacific Northwest in our heightened condition. Oregon rescinded its emergency powers declaration on April 1st, 2022. Idaho's Governor Brad Little is ending their State of Emergency this Friday. Governor Dunleavy ended Alaska's State of Emergency a year ago. Montana ended its State of Emergency last June.
We are significant outliers not just in the Pacific Northwest, but when compared with the nation as a whole. According to the National Academy for State Health Policy, only Washington State and West Virginia remain in an indefinite State of Emergency. Thirty-seven states either had no state of emergency or those declarations have already expired (lightest green.) Eleven more are set to expire later this month (slightly darker green.) One is set to expire in May (Illinois), and one in June (California.) In West Virginia, the Governor signaled in March that he'd end the State of Emergency soon but hasn't done so yet. Local West Virginia news suggests that potential loss of federal health insurance money have likely driven him to delay.
Data from National Academy for State Health Policy, updated to reflect April 12th 2022
The question which matters most is: are we in an emergency?
No matter how you evaluate it, the resounding answer is no. Statewide, just 2.04 people per 100,000 are hospitalized with COVID, not even necessarily due to COVID. In our entire state of 7,710,000 people, just 157 of us are hospitalized for any reason with a COVID-positive test, not even because we have COVID. Remember: most hospitals routinely test all patients upon admission in an abundance of caution. Therefore, patients hospitalized due to, say, highway accidents who then also test positive for mild, asymptomatic COVID will be counted in that 157 tally.
Even erroneously counting every single one of these hospitalizations as being caused by COVID, that's a current hospitalization rate of 0.002% of our population. Are we in any imminent danger of "overwhelming" hospitals? No.
If this is an emergency, then everything is.
Inslee's emergency declaration included eight "WHEREAS" justification statements. None of them seem timely or relevant at the moment. Better still, in terms of vaccination, we seem among the most prepared states for future waves, be they minor or major. According to the Washington State Department of Health dashboard, fully 81.5% of Washington's population over 5 years old have received at least one vaccination dose, and 74% are fully vaccinated. Vaccination will be ongoing and at people's discretion, with many starting to get their second booster shot. Thankfully, that groundwork for optional self-protection for those most at risk has been laid.
How's hospitalization trending? I tried to get an accurate hospitalization trend chart from the State of Washington Department of Health dashboard, but was greeted by this:
In what kind of Emergency do we shut down reporting of detailed hospitalization trends?
If you look at deaths with COVID (again, not necessarily due to COVID), the folks at 91-DIVOC have a helpful chart. Does this say "emergency" to you?
Deaths with COVID-19, not necessarily due to COVID-19, out of 7.71 million Washingtonians
Even if you look just at case rates, there's no need for alarm. Omicron is a milder variant, which results in lower severity of outcome:
COVID case rate, Washington State, per State Department of Health
Why is this continuing?
The Governor said the quiet part out loud in his response to KOMO's Keith Eldridge on Monday: "We want to make sure that federal money keeps coming, so it's important to keep this in place right now."
I'm sorry, Governor, but how is that not fraud? I know, that's a pretty bold accusation, but let's open the dictionary. Fraud is defined as "wrongful deception intended to result in financial gain." This is clearly deception. There's no COVID emergency currently in our state, and there hasn't been for months.
Or, we can put aside the dictionary, and simply look to legalese. How does Washington State Law define an "emergency?"
The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 38.52.010 states:
'Emergency or disaster' as used in all sections of this chapter except RCW 38.52.430 means an event or set of circumstances which: (i) Demands immediate action to preserve public health, protect life, protect public property, or to provide relief to any stricken community overtaken by such occurrences; or (ii) reaches such a dimension or degree of destructiveness as to warrant the governor proclaiming a state of emergency pursuant to RCW 43.06.010."
Do these conditions still exist?
Every Washingtonian knows that the conditions since 2020 have dramatically changed. We are no longer in lockdown. We are no longer required to wear masks. Kids have been back in school in every district in our state for months. County cases and hospitalizations are low and have been for months.
Bit by bit, the various mandates which were imposed during the State of Emergency are being rescinded. Inslee's decided that drivers license renewal and learner permit extensions can now expire (proclamation April 1st 2022). He's decided a mask mandate isn't necessary; that ended March 12th 2022. Even Seattle's City Council let the long-lasting eviction moratorium imposed during COVID finally expire.
Adding to the absurdity, both Inslee and his Lt. Governor went on vacation recently. I have no problem with them taking time off, but how can one possibly take a vacation during a state of emergency?
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel had a famous quip: "Never let a crisis go to waste." For Inslee, this appears to have a corollary: Preserve the crisis.
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Author Steve MurchPosted on April 12, 2022 April 13, 2022 Categories Politics and NewsTags covid, emergency, stateLeave a comment on Washingtonians, How's your State of Emergency Going?


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Top rated utterly implausible movies that are also reasonably faithful
Check out today's highest ranked utterly implausible and reasonably faithful movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are utterly implausible and reasonably faithful, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
1 Battlefield Earth (2000)
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
John Travolta, Barry Pepper
totally ridiculous
stretched imagination
2 Bewitched (2005)
Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show "Bewitched".
2005-06-21 | Comedy / Fantasy
Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell
waste of acting talent
brainless fun
wonderful cast
3 BloodRayne (2005)
In the 18th century, a vampire escapes from the freak show she once participated in and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother. Storyline In the Eighteenth Century, Rayne is the half-human half-vampire Dhampir and the lead attraction in a carnival's freak-show in Romania. When she escapes, she meets a fortuneteller that tells that her mother was raped by the king of the vampires Kagan and she decides to destroy her father. In her journey for revenge, she meets Vladimir and Sebastian, the leaders of the fortress of vampire hunters Brimstone, and she joins their society. She seeks for powerful talismans to defeat Kagan, while the skilled warriors Vladimir and Sebastian train her to face the forces of Kagan and her human side falls in love with Sebastian. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005-10-22 | Action / Adventure
Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley
stilted acting
experienced director
torturous
4 The Last Airbender (2010)
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
Noah Ringer, Dev Patel
quite disappointing
stilted dialogue
5 A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
2018-03-08 | Adventure / Science Fiction
Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey
thoroughly disappointing
bothersome voice
6 Thunderbirds (2004)
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
Brady Corbet, Soren Fulton
miffed
much more appropriate
cinematic treat
7 Inspector Gadget (1999)
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett
quite amusing
robotical acting
eye-popping special effects
8 Sex and the City 2 (2010)
Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda are all married now, but they're still up for a little fun in the sun. When Samantha gets the chance to visit one of the most extravagant vacation destinations on the planet and offers to bring them all along, they surmise that a women-only retreat may be the perfect excuse to eschew their responsibilities and remember what life was like before they decided to settle down.
2010-05-26 | Comedy / Drama
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis
shitty
abhorrent
9 Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion's dank cellars.
2013-01-03 | Horror / Thriller
Alexandra Daddario, Tania Raymonde
interesting twist
wrong turns
10 Gigli (2003)
Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.
2003-08-01 | Drama / Comedy
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez
utterly stupid
completely idiotic
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The recommended movies of Top rated utterly implausible movies that are also reasonably faithful are Battlefield Earth, Bewitched, BloodRayne, The Last Airbender, A Wrinkle in Time, Thunderbirds, Inspector Gadget, Sex and the City 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Gigli.
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