From ltc.ld at skynet.be Sun Jan 4 04:30:48 2009 From: ltc.ld at skynet.be (LTC) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:30:48 +0100 Subject: [LEN-E] 2009 Message-ID: <79au38$9k2puh@relay.skynet.be> After having some computerproblems, it's only now that I can wish to the members and owner of this list a very happy new year. Good health... Best regards Luc From ron at psymon.com Sun Jan 4 06:41:43 2009 From: ron at psymon.com (Ron Koster) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:41:43 -0500 Subject: [LEN-E] 2009 In-Reply-To: <79au38$9k2puh@relay.skynet.be> References: <79au38$9k2puh@relay.skynet.be> Message-ID: <20090104114157.5AB712BD02@mailwash40.pair.com> Hmm... "[LEN-E] 2009"... looks like a license plate for a car or something. ;) At 10:30 AM 1/4/2009 +0100, LTC wrote: >After having some computerproblems, it's only now that I can wish to the >members and owner of this list a very happy new year. Good health... Very, very glad to have you back, Luc! And, on behalf of us all, we wish you all the very best as well! And "ditto" from myself to everyone here, too, of course! Ron :) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca From roelvanderlist at home.nl Sun Jan 4 06:47:43 2009 From: roelvanderlist at home.nl (Roel van der List) Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:47:43 +0100 Subject: [LEN-E] 2009 In-Reply-To: <20090104114157.5AB712BD02@mailwash40.pair.com> References: <79au38$9k2puh@relay.skynet.be> <20090104114157.5AB712BD02@mailwash40.pair.com> Message-ID: Yep, also from the 'Low Countries' the very best wishes to all! Roel Op 4-jan-2009, om 12:41 heeft Ron Koster het volgende geschreven: > Hmm... "[LEN-E] 2009"... looks like a license plate for a car or > something. ;) > > At 10:30 AM 1/4/2009 +0100, LTC wrote: >> After having some computerproblems, it's only now that I can wish >> to the >> members and owner of this list a very happy new year. Good health... > > Very, very glad to have you back, Luc! And, on behalf of us all, we > wish you all the very best as well! > > And "ditto" from myself to everyone here, too, of course! > > Ron :) > > Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com > Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org > Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca > > _______________________________________________ > NOTE 1: PLEASE TRIM THE QUOTED PORTION(S) OF YOUR REPLIES! > NOTE 2: IF YOU CHANGE TOPIC, CHANGE THE SUBJECT HEADING! > List Info: http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/len-e/ > Your List Options: http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/options/len-e/ > List Archives: http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/len-e/ > To Unsubscribe: mailto:len-e-request at riefenstahl.org? > subject=unsubscribe Roel van der List Burgemeester Joostenlaan 17 6019BX Wessem Tel. 0475-562708 eMail: roelvanderlist at home.nl http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/499045 From ron at psymon.com Mon Jan 19 17:08:32 2009 From: ron at psymon.com (Ron Koster) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:08:32 -0500 Subject: [LEN-E] The Wandering Wallpaper Message-ID: <20090119220852.972392BD1A@mailwash40.pair.com> Hi folks! As we all know, there's been a lot of controversy about whether or not Leni appeared in the 1925 film, "Wege zu Kraft und Sch?nheit", and among those who believe she did there's even more controversy about where in the film one might find her. Steven Bach, for example, claims that he has "proof" that she was semi-nude in the Roman bath scenes (although I personally disagree with this), and then there are others who say that she is among the group of Mary Wigman's dancers -- and there is indeed a frequently published production still of that scene which includes someone who does look like they *might* be Leni. Whatever the case may be -- whether this latter photo does indeed include Leni or not -- even still Mary Wigman's dance school (and dance troupe) is of curiosity to many people interested in Leni Riefenstahl, if only because Wigman was perhaps the most famous proponent of expressionist dance from that period, and with Leni having attended her famous dance school in Dresden, naturally Wigman could only have had some sort of influence on her. And so, with that said, allow me to present "The Wandering"... http://www.riefenstahl.org/downloads/wallpaper/The_Wandering-preview.html ...(ignore the "close" button at the bottom of the page, as this page is designed to be a pop-up preview page). This is, of course, a colourized version (with some artistic license) of the aforementioned production still, created from an original 1925 postcard with that photo. This is also the first piece of artwork that I've done up for download as desktop wallpaper at sizes larger than 1024x768, too -- you'll note that a widescreen version is available as well (scroll down from the top for a preview, plus the appropriate download links). At the bottom of the page is a scan of the original postcard that I started from. Anyway, there you go! Leni is often thought to be the woman on the ground -- but that's entirely up to you whether you want to believe that or not. However, what I *can* say with some assurance is that the second (or perhaps third) woman from the top left, in the back row, is most *definitely* Gret Palucca, who also studied with Wigman at the same time as Leni (and who Leni mentions in her autobiography), and who later went on to attain her own great fame (almost on par with Wigman), also opening up her own noteworthy dance school. So Leni may or may not be there in this photo, but Gret most definitely is (as I said, I'm pretty sure she's the second woman from the top left, but I could be wrong and she might be the third). Ron :) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca From roelvanderlist at home.nl Mon Jan 19 17:33:29 2009 From: roelvanderlist at home.nl (Roel van der List) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:33:29 +0100 Subject: [LEN-E] The Wandering Wallpaper In-Reply-To: <20090119220852.972392BD1A@mailwash40.pair.com> References: <20090119220852.972392BD1A@mailwash40.pair.com> Message-ID: Op 19-jan-2009, om 23:08 heeft Ron Koster het volgende geschreven: > > And so, with that said, allow me to present "The Wandering"... Hi Ron, great piece of work! Greetings, Roel Roel van der List Burgemeester Joostenlaan 17 6019BX Wessem Tel. 0475-562708 eMail: roelvanderlist at home.nl http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/499045 From ron at psymon.com Tue Jan 20 00:09:32 2009 From: ron at psymon.com (Ron Koster) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:09:32 -0500 Subject: [LEN-E] The Wandering Wallpaper In-Reply-To: References: <20090119220852.972392BD1A@mailwash40.pair.com> Message-ID: <20090120050945.C14392BCE8@mailwash40.pair.com> At 11:33 PM 1/19/2009 +0100, Roel van der List wrote: >great piece of work! Thanks, Roel! :) Except I'm an idiot -- I just realized about an hour ago that I loaded up zip files for the wrong version of the pic! What I loaded up by accident was missing an entire "layer" (for anyone that knows Photoshop, you'll know what I mean) that had all sorts of little fixes in it -- for some reason I had that layer turned off when I made all the final wallpaper versions. Silly me... those fixes aren't anything *too* major, but it's mostly noticeable in the legs of the woman to the left of the setting (or rising -- take your pick) sun, whose legs are silhouetted through her robe. If any of you downloaded the wallpaper versions already, you may have noticed that her legs looked a bit too, um, "bony". Anyway, that -- an various other teeny little fixes -- are now restored. My apologies if you already downloaded any of the wallpapers, and now have to go back and download it/them again (if you want the "real" final version, that is)! Next time I'll make sure I've had enough coffee before I load everything up and announce things... Ron ;) :/ From luc.deneulin at skynet.be Sun Jan 25 19:51:10 2009 From: luc.deneulin at skynet.be (Luc Deneulin) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:51:10 +0100 Subject: [LEN-E] Close-up Message-ID: <65E65894-50A5-4A1D-933E-1CB9EA3CC8BF@skynet.be> I wonder whether anyone saw Kiarostami's Close-up? It is maybe a good starting point for discussion on documentar as well as working in a non-democratic regime as well. From ron at psymon.com Thu Jan 29 09:21:14 2009 From: ron at psymon.com (Ron Koster) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:21:14 -0500 Subject: [LEN-E] Three On A Rope Message-ID: <20090129141900.84DC12BD63@mailwash40.pair.com> Hi folks! On the Turner movie channel (TCM) over here, they often show old, vintage shorts in-between feature films, and every once in a while there's one that comes up from 1938 called "Three On A Rope". Although I don't imagine it could in any way really be classed as a "Bergfilm", it's basically a sort of instructional film about mountain climbing (portrayed with a fair bit of humour) -- it even includes a base jumper at the end of the clip (which I found rather surprising for that time, as I thought that was only a more recent thing)! Anyway, I just discovered that it's available on YouTube (someone quite obviously just captured it off of TCM)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvJK5IuS5Z4 Like I said, it's not exactly a "Bergfilm", but I thought that anyone interested in this latter genre might find it entertaining, nevertheless. Ron :) Woof?... http://www.Psymon.com Ach, du Leni!... http://www.Riefenstahl.org Hmm... http://www.Imaginary-Friend.ca