#kamikaze museum

[rabbitcruiser]

World War II: The first kamikaze attack on October 21, 1944. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

#World War II #World War Two #WWII #first kamikaze attack #21 October 1944 #anniversary #Japanese history #Corpus Christi #USA #USS Lexington (CV-16) #USS Lexington Museum - National Historic Landmark #summer 2011 #travel #USS Lexington Museum On The Bay #engineering #tourist attraction #landmark #indoors #flag #sign #original photography #Texas

[kamikazeshakedown]

Yesterday, I visited the Rubell Museum in Washington, DC, and it did not disappoint. 

Artists featured: Kehinde Wiley, Vaughn Spann, Keith Haring (x2), Matthew Day Jackson, Hank Willis Thomas (x2), Tschabalala Self, Jenny Holzer (x2).

#kehinde wiley #vaughn spann #tschabalala self #matthew day jackson #keith haring #hank willis thomas #jenny holzer #rubell museum dc #kamikaze shakedown #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #modern art #museums

[nuzzle]

hi, i love your blog so much! *⋆˚꒰ˊૢᵕˋૢෆ꒱ out of curiousity, when and how did you become a lolita lifestyler and do you have any tips for someone trying to become one? thank you!! ଯ( ॢᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ॢഒ

hello, and thank you so much for loving my blog!! ♡

i'm sure many lolitas have different ideas on what a lifestyler exactly is and what being one means to them personally.. but i think it's as simple as loving the fashion so much that you put forward the effort to incorporate it into other parts of your life.

i first started considering myself a lifestyler about a year ago. around that time, my wardrobe was building up a bit more and i was crossing a bunch of dream items off my list. i also started slowly growing my collection of lolita-related physical media (catalogs from brands, gothic & lolita bibles, lolita magazines, books, dvds and such!) i wanted other factors of my life to match my clothes.

i feel as though a lot of it has to do with your environment. changing up your room a bit.. maybe you want to paint your walls a different color or rearrange things a bit. you could slowly collect the things you love, it could be anything! tea sets, figures, manga, music, games, posters or prints of art.. for me—adorning my closet with my dresses, having a display mannequin, organizing my accessories, including my novelty items in my daily use, displaying my collection of media in my lolita room and surrounding myself with my favorite things helped egl feel more like a lifestyle rather than just a fashion that i love!

other than decorating your living space/room i think dressing up daily is an obvious one. doesn't have to necessarily all be lolita, maybe if your school/work's dress code doesn't allow it you could have some egl inspired elements in your casual everyday outfits. outside of that, having cute roomwear/pajamas comes to mind.. like the nightgown and nightcap momoko wears in kamikaze girls! a cute swimsuit for beach or pool days in the summer, perhaps workout gear and outfits for the gym that matches your aesthetic (i instantly think of the silly bedazzled dumbbell in mister rococo)

occasionally taking some coord pics or making wardrobe related posts, going on outings that feel rococo or victorian inspired (maybe a garden visit, museums, a picnic, or afternoon tea!) having a journal, blog, social media or maybe even your own website dedicated to the topic and decorated with your aesthetic of choice, could all be really fun things for a lifestyler. i find that cataloging your wardrobe is exciting (be it digitally on lolibrary, making your own database for your closet, or building one of those physical books with pictures) along with planning coords. some more hobbies could be sewing, fixing up and restoring items in your wardrobe, crochet, baking or cooking (make some cute sweets or snacks!) studying art history or historical fashions, gardening or tending to flowers, looking into a variety of different teas and tea leaves you may enjoy, making collages or journaling, reading, listening to music, playing an instrument, watching movies, playing games, it could really be anything that you enjoy!

it's also important to remember not everything in your life has to be centered around egl, and not everything has to fit inside an aesthetic box. don't let being a lifestyler burn you out or put you off of trying different things.. you can truly do anything you want to do at the end of the day. your passion and love of lolita won't start disappearing and fading away on days that you choose to live differently!

and thank you for the fun question!! i hope my answer was able to do it justice ^_^

#asks #lolita fashion #egl #lolita lifestyle

[jeanne-darc-tournament]

List of Jeanne media submitted so far

Note that not all may appear in the final bracket.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica / Puella Magi Tart Magica / Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story

Figaro Illustré magazine illustration by Albert Lynch

Gerard Way himself

The Black Parade album cover

Johanne comic by Gerard Way, Marley Zarcone and Hi-Fi

The Lark

Fate series / Fate/Grand Order / Fate/Apocrypha

Joan of Arc Saved France--Women of America Save Your Country--Buy War Savings Stamps poster

Jeanne d'Arc (PSP game) by Level-5

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Pieśń - Studium do obrazu Joanna d`Arc by Jan Matejko

A sketch in the Register of the Parlement of Paris by Clément de Fauquembergue

"Joan of Arc: What Did She Look Like?" YouTube video

Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

RWBY

Requiem of the Rose King/ Baraou no Souretsu

Hetalia: Axis Powers

The Simpsons: episode "Tales From The Public Domain"

Clone High

Genkaku Picasso

Ikemen Vampire Otome Games

Granblue Fantasy

Sid Meier's Civilization III

Joan of Arc song by Madonna

Afterschool Charisma

Joan of Arc by Arcade Fire

Majo Taisen

Drifters

Dragon Age

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Joan of Arcadia

Zendaya's 2018 Met Gala costume

Age of Empires II

Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

The Genesis of Misery

Maude Adams as Joan of Arc by Alphonse Mucha

Jeanne d'Arc by Georges Méliès

Jehanne 1429 by Arnaud Courlet de Vregille

Joan of Arc by Gari Melchers

Joan of Arc by Charles Amable Lenoir

Jeanne d'Arc by Roger de La Fresnaye

Johan of Arc - Archives nationales (France) - AE-II-2490 by Vinzez Sozvr Zovzanza

Inazuma Eleven Go

Dragalia Lost

Digimon

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

The Who Was? Show

The Inquisitor's Tale

Vanitas no Carte

Saints (Boxers and Saints)

Joan by Heather Dale

#COMPASS

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Living Scriptures Animated Hero Classics: Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc by Carl Theodor Dryer

Joan of Arc stamp, 1975, Seychelles, for International Women's Year

重奏オルレアン/Chamber Music for Orleans

Johanna von Orleans (Originaltitel The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc)

Joan of Arc by Regisseur Christian Duguay

Statue of Joan of Arc Paris by Emmanuel Frémiet

B&G Foods's Joan of Arc canned beans

[mybeingthere]

"Kenji Yoshida’s monumental works consist of ethereal gold, silver and precious metals on canvas which unite a restrained tradition of Japanese applique work with that of an abstract modernist aesthetic. Yoshida first studied art under Kiyoshi Hayashi before the outbreak of World War II. Selected for training as a kamikaze pilot, Yoshida was extremely lucky to survive his teens. It was under the weight of many such memories, that Yoshida returned to his art. 

From that point onwards the majority of Yoshida’s work carried the single, most telling of all titles, Sei-Mei - La Vie - Life. In 1964, Yoshida left Japan permanently and moved to Paris, the acknowledged centre of Modernism. This move brought Yoshida’s work into the great movements of the time. He was confronted by the heady shock of the Abstract Expressionists, in particular Rothko and Motherwell, who both employ similarly abstract forms in striving for the transcendent spirituality that characterises Yoshida’s art.

In 1993, Yoshida became the first living artist ever to be given a solo exhibition at the Japanese Galleries of the British Museum, London, UK. October Gallery has shown regular exhibitions of Yoshida’s work since the late 1980s, the most recent being in 2015. His contribution to the exchange of culture between Japan and the West was acknowledged in a special programme broadcast by NHK (the Japanese National Broadcasting Service) in August 2010, timed to coincide with the commemorative services for the cessation of the Pacific War."

https://octobergallery.co.uk/artists/yoshida

[lovvecherrymotion]

I am getting in your business hehe

12, 16, 87 and 100 pretty please?

12. Ideas of a perfect date:

i'm a very simple woman; i like the idea of visiting a nice museum, having dinner out (anything asian would probably be my choice - sushi or korean) and ending the night drinking cocktails together 😌

16. Favorite movie:

now this is hard. i don't have one favorite movie. i have a bunch of movies i enjoy and i feel people should watch. i do think Kamikaze Girls is very underrated, so i'm telling everyone to watch that

87. Have you ever sat on a roof top?

YES! my childhood room has access to my house's rooftop and i've sat there before lmao. i've also been to a bunch of rooftop bars

100. Give us one thing about you that no one knows.

once again, this is hard, because i'm terrible at keeping secrets. but i guess people on tumblr don't really know i ended up picking my uni because of someone i met online and loved a lot, so i'm sharing that lmao.

#thank you!! #this was fun #ask

[radarsteddybear]

I am begging you to tell me your opinions on these american battleships because my only knowledge here at all is that Iowa is a landlocked state (isn't it???) which seems like am odd choice... and I'm so confused and would love to know which you think is best and why

EDIT: Here's the poll if anyone else would like to vote in the next *checks watch* 22 hours

That's a good question. Mostly I like them because battleships = cool and I've been to all of these (they're all museums now).

Actually, all the states they're named for are landlocked except for New Jersey (and, as such, the New Jersey is the only one actually in her namesake state; the Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin are in LA, Hawaii, and Norfolk, VA respectively). As far as I can tell, they're named after those states because the US likes to name ships after states, and I guess it was their turn again 🤷‍♀️

My list of fun facts that I've gathered from my visits (a lot of these are repeated from my original tags on the poll, so sorry if you've seen them already):

The Iowa-class battleships were the last class of battleships to be made for the US Navy.

Six battleships were ultimately ordered, though the Illinois and Kentucky were never finished. At some point, the Kentucky's bow was used to repair the Wisconsin after a collision.

The Iowa was used to transport FDR across the Atlantic during WWII for a 1943 conference in Tehran. As such, the US Navy had to refit the bathroom in the captain's quarters (which the president used while on board, being of the highest-rank on the ship) with a bathtub. Nobody ever had a good enough reason to remove it, so it's still there to this day.

I can't remember if this became a tradition or not, but on at least one occasion, the Iowa's crew welcomed her new captain by drawing him a bath in the aforementioned tub complete with a rubber duckie and a little toy sailboat.

During WWII, the Iowa had a mascot in the form of a little dog named Victory, or Vicky for short. He and President Roosevelt, who very famously had a little Scottie dog named Fala, got along very well, and Vicky even slept at the foot of the president's bed while he was aboard.

The New Jersey is the most decorated battleship in US history.

The Missouri was the site of Japan's formal surrender at the end of WWII.

The Missouri is currently moored at Pearl Harbor, meaning you can see the site of the beginning and the end of America's involvement in WWII in one place.

The Missouri was hit by a kamikaze and still bears a dent in her deck.

Even though the Wisconsin (BB-64) has a higher hull number than the Missouri (BB-63), the Wisconsin was commissioned and completed first.

The Wisconsin had a doughnut shop on board, though it is no longer in operation.

Sailors used to refer to the bunk beds (at least four high, if I'm remembering correctly) as "coffin racks" due to the limited amount of space between bunks.

The New Jersey has little two-person tables scattered around the enlisted men's bunk area with checkerboards printed directly on them so that sailors could pass the time. I'd bet the others do, too, but I don't remember specifically.

The Wisconsin has some sort of art on the walls but I forget the exact story behind that.

That's all the fun facts I can remember off the top of my head without digging up the notes I took.

I personally voted for the New Jersey because it was the first one I went to and it's the only one I've been to twice. Objectively, the Missouri may be the best because it was the site of such a historic moment.

#battleships #US Navy #USS Iowa #USS New Jersey #USS Missouri #USS Wisconsin #ask box #answered #carriagelamp

[hrodvitnon]

I mean, both USS Laffey’s were ships that decided that death was either optional or has to be awesome. The first Laffey, a Benson-Class Destroyer, went down RIPPING AND TEARING (apologies) through a Japanese fleet solo. The second Laffey, an Allen M. Sumner-Class Destroyer? On a damage-to-ship size/displacement ratio, she is the toughest ship ever, seeing as she, among other things, shrugged off multiple kamikazes and survived two nukes. She’s currently a museum ship. 1/2

Super Tank Boat.

(Never apologize for any usage of RIP AND TEAR, it's an awesome phrase and one should feel awesome using it.)

I mean, you're welcome to share more Ship Trivia, I'm just sorry my "responses" to the trivia is on the minimalist side of things. (I don't know anything about ships beyond some nuggets about the Titanic, but these are some pretty neat factoids, so... yeah.)

#Anonymous

[usafphantom2]

Iconic World War II Seafire fighter is integrated into the historic fleet of the British Royal Navy

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 12/20/2021 - 08:21 AM in Military, Museums

A Supermarine Seafire, an iconic World War II fighter, has become the latest addition to the collection of legendary Navy Wings naval aircraft based at RNAS Yeovilton.

Charity Navy Wings purchased the naval version of Britain's most famous aircraft, the Spitfire, so that it could appear in air screenings as a "flying memorial" to honor the air and ground crews of the past.

The Seafire Mk XVII "SX336" landed on RNAS Yeovilton - where pilots learned to pilot the fighter model 80 years ago - to join a collection that already includes Swordfish, Sea Fury, Sea Vixen and Sea Hawk.

Acquired with a large donation intended for the specific purpose of adding a Seafire to the collection, the Seafire "SX336" is the only Mk XVII in flight conditions - and one of the few Seafires still flying in the world.

The aircraft has been meticulously and carefully restored by its former owner.

"SX336 is a magnificent example of Spitfire's naval history," said Navy Wings CEO Jock Alexander.

“Few people know that Spitfire went to the sea, and we couldn't have wanted a more iconic and evocative British fighter to add to the collection.”

The Seafires served extensively with the Fleet Air Arm from the second half of World War II until the Korean War, a decade later. He distinguished himself particularly by fighting with Kamikazes when the British Pacific Fleet helped defeat Japan in 1944 and 1945.

The Seafire SX336 is an Mk XVII model that left the Westland factory in Yeovil in 1946 and was painted in the colors of the post-war Royal Navy under the marks of the Yeovilton-based 776 Naval Air Squadron.

Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon VI engine and having greater firepower and speed over the first models, the "SX336" flew over its hometown before landing in Yeovilton.

"Seafire will not only be a new and exciting display aircraft, but will also enhance our broader heritage package, allowing the charity to provide different aircraft formations to air show organizers in the future," said Navy Wings Chief Operating Officer Frank Hopps.

“Flying aircraft are a unique archive of history and Seafire gives the collection a value of real rarity, allowing us to offer several benefits to our outreach and educational programs.”

The gift that allowed Navy Wings to buy the Seafire also included a spare engine, which is critical to the long-term support and sustainability of the veteran aircraft.

Tags: Military AviationMuseumsRN - Royal Navy/Royal NavyWarbird

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.

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[rabbitcruiser]

World War II: The first kamikaze attack on October 21, 1944. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

#World War II #World War Two #WWII #first kamikaze attack #21 October 1944 #anniversary #Japanese history #Corpus Christi #USA #USS Lexington (CV-16) #USS Lexington Museum - National Historic Landmark #summer 2011 #travel #USS Lexington Museum On The Bay #engineering #tourist attraction #landmark #indoors #flag #sign #original photography #Texas

[violetsystems]

I might write about some movies I've been watching tomorrow. I turned off the third party sharing so it won't train the AI any more than I've already done by breathing. I'll never get an article written about me in motherboard anyway. Ironically, those articles will probably all be written by AI five years from now anyway about presumably artificial people being victimized by artificial crisis. I find it funny they announced Neuromancer for Apple TV the day my Apple Card denied my Amazon subscription. There's a peripheral joke in there somewhere. Corporate wars are here to stay. We're just little people at the feet of giants and yet those giants expect us to manicure their feet with information so they can stay standing. For whatever it's worth, I decided to keep Midnight Pulp for another month. Strangely comforting being surrounded by trash that's entertaining instead of trash that's psychologically toxic. You can blame Kamikaze 89 and the live action version of Golgo 13 set in a very different era of Iran. I've had the vinyl for the former for awhile. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. But there's so much weird subtext about it that I need to unpack it in paragraph form to get my thoughts out about it. Good practice for my moma prescreening writing assignment about crisis mitigation. You get clowned for three years by people you once called friends and suddenly a famous art museum wants you to talk about risk management. I'm into it. If I had to up and move to New York I'd do it. But at least it makes the overtly washed and fading moma t-shirt in my closet feel extra hardcore.

[nihonnokeshiki]

Chiran

Buke-yashiki (Residenzen von 7 Samurai mit Gärten) Museum u. Gedenkstätte für die Kamikaze-Piloten Japans auf dem Gelände des ehemaligen Flughafen.

#japan #kyushu #chiran #bukeyashiki #chiran peace museum

[auraldream]

Japanese pilots posing with a puppy.

Taken in Bansei Air Base, Kagoshima. They departed the next day as part of the 72nd Shinbu Corps for their Kamikaze (Divine Wind) mission in Okinawa.

Corporal Yukio Araki holds the dog. He was 17 years old.

Source: Chiran Peace Museum

[lionellistuff]

June 3d, Tokyo Imperial Palace and Yasukuni Shrine

Today we visited the Tokyo Imperial Palace, and the Yasukuni Shrine.

The grounds of the Imperial palace are located in the center of Tokyo just west of the Financial district. The area it covers is vast, in the most central location of the largest city in the world. The land it occupies is so lucrative that its appraisal value during the real estate bubble of the 1980’s was estimated to be greater than all of California. Despite its size, however, the actual palace where the imperial family resides takes up little of the land, and is not open to the public, except for the New Year’s celebrations, crownings, and the Emperor’s Birthday. Most of the palace area is covered in forest, and beautiful gardens which is what our group was able to see. I highly recommend any tourist in Tokyo that they visit the imperial palace gardens, especially during spring if it is not raining. It is the perfect place to relax, take a stroll, and buy some cheap and high quality souvenirs for your friends and family.

We also saw Tokyo Station, which faces the Financial district. The building was destroyed during WWII, but rebuilt in the mid 1960’s. The architecture is decidedly Western and was stylized as such in order to to inspire the citizenry and businessmen as Japan charted a new, modern way after the Tokugawa era.

Academic Reflection

Later we walked to the Yasukuni shrine (靖国神社) which means peaceful country shrine, an ironic name for the Shinto shrine which deifies Japan’s war dead. This shrine is a politically charged place because the shrine does not only venerate Japan’s war dead, but 14 “Class A” war criminals who committed heinous and barbaric acts during WWII. The shrine also helped to solidify and support Japan’s national mythos as it exited the feudal era and entered the modern world. The shrine created the illusion of connection between the divine emperor (from which the government claimed sovereignty), the soldiers who served him, and those they left behind in their deaths. Because the emperor, after the Tokugawa era and before the end of WWII, was seen as divine, any who died in service to him was, with imperial blessing, deified and became kami (神).

My experience at this shrine did not feel particularly politically charged. The shrine’s grounds are very peaceful and characteristic of the rest of Tokyo and its Shinto shrines. I did not enter the museum hosted by the shrine’s priests which paints a revisionist picture of Japanese imperialism as it existed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, complete with the emotional letters Kamikaze pilots sent to their families prior to their final missions. I declined to provide an offering to the shrine, and mostly just enjoyed the beautiful natural scenery and Shinto architecture.

From left to right: Yasukuni Shrine, me at the Imperial Gardens, and the Imperial Moat. Note the prominent chrysanthemum crest hanging from the shrine which denotes association with the imperial household.)

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Listed: Son of Dribble

Son of Dribble, from Columbus, Ohio, recently had their second album receive the vinyl treatment by the Minimum Table Stacks label, following its digital release last year. “The band’s fuzzy yet morose Velvets-meets-Joy Division garage rock clamor practically screams out for a wider audience and a more robust pressing,” Dusted’s Bryon Hayes wrote in his review of Son of Drib Against the Wind, “so it’s great that the label took the bait.” Since the album’s initial release, the trio of vocalist Andy Clager, guitarist Darren Latanick and drummer Vicky Mahnke, welcomed second guitarist Mike Nosan into the fold and have been busy playing shows and plotting its follow-up. But not so busy that they couldn’t take a moment of their time to share with Dusted readers a list of things that inspire them musically, lyrically and otherwise. Enjoy!

The Mekons

Cosmic auntie/uncle vibes. They’re like gypsies who created their own world, exploring and expanding at their leisure. Mekons are a band with guts.

Mummenschanz

How can mime-adjacent performance for children be funny, kind, and sublime all in the same moment? Deep dive into the comps — especially the 1970s and 1980s stuff. Are we all just blobs trying to get up a ramp? Are we the blob? Or are we the ramp?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

A real wizard. He had a hauntingly beautiful vision that cut to the heart of the human condition. A great actor as well (Kamikaze 89, Baal). An early reference for our song “Candy Boy” was “disco song for a Fassbinder film.”

Norman McLaren

Early minimalist psychedelia. It’s really fun to get lost in his work. They used to have a DVD compilation at the library. They don’t have it anymore, maybe somebody stole it.

Teenage Fanclub

Just look at that guitarist playing with leather gloves on.

Jean Dubuffet

Art brut is for the people, it reminds you that you should cut your own hair. His series Pisseurs is several drawings of people peeing in alleys. Our song “J & Dubuffet” was inspired by Andy taking his kid to the local museum, but it’s mostly about just doing what you want while you can.

ELO songs that don’t get radio play

That moment when you realize that something incredible has been right in front of you the whole time. Listen to “Starlight” (1977), “Midnight Blue” (1979), “Don't Walk Away” (1980), and “Another Heart Breaks” (1981). It's a wild ride of space travel and heartbreak (and robot backup singers).

Donald Barthelme

He could write very poignantly and then quickly melt everything into absurdity, sort of throwing things out the window. Great technique.

Schoolly D

A child finds a copy of the first tape (Schoolly D, 1985). They look at the artwork and think it is the coolest, rawest thing they’ve ever seen. They then listen to it, and it is the coolest, rawest thing they’ve ever heard. “P.S.K., What Does It Mean?” sounds like it was recorded in a room full of fog.

Scott Walker

Before recording the album, Andy took a pilgrimage to Walker’s hometown of Hamilton, Ohio (just north of Cincinnati). Checked out the local sculpture park and then found the house that he grew up in. Dug some dirt out of the yard, mixed it into a strawberry milkshake and drank it in an attempt to consume some sort of spirit. A true poet.

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