TITANIC 95th Anniversary Poster - PREVIEW HERE!!!

[jpdc]

Hello everyone...

I usually post on the WTC Model topic because thats my main interest but though I'd post this here for your consideration and for opinions on my work.

Its basically an A3 Poster printed in Full Colour and Metallic Gold ink to commemorate the 95th Anniversary of the TITANIC's maiden voyage and the disaster!

http://www.jpdc.co.uk/small.jpg

Thanks!
J

http://www.jpdc.co.uk/titanicbanner.jpg

[Meerkat]

Very nice!!
I've always been interested in the Titanic - i was lucky enough to meet one of the last survivors, Eva Hart a few years ago, and i also own a small piece of coal brought up from the wreck which i bought at the science museum here in london during the Titanic exhibition (cost me £15).
It used to be a bit of an obsession when i was a kid, but now its just an interest i have.

[jpdc]

Thats cool!

I too have a peice of the coal... but meeting a survivor is priceless!

J

[Joelio]

Awesome poster!

I too was a little obsessed with it a few years back, when I was about 10. Even today I still collect a few things to do with it - I bought 3 model kits, one medium, one small and one big (in that order - to be more precise, a 1/600 scale, 1/720 scale and 1/400 scale). The big one looks fantastic and is sitting on my sideboard.

But nothing like a piece of coal :(

[Punzie]

It's a classy poster, Jpdc, but you may have to make a second poster for the Americans; truthfully, I think they'd like something splashier, (bad pun intended).

Joelio, every so often I see coal (w/authetication certificate) sold on ebay at not too bad a price. Ever look there?

[Joelio]

I don't normally look on ebay -

us NZers use trademe (http://www.trademe.co.nz), a more local (ahem... extremely local) trading website. :D

[jpdc]

lol, well u can buyit through me and not ebay if you want LOL!

[Joelio]

I'd say lol, but you said it just one too many times just then. :D

[jpdc]

lol

[Ninjahedge]

lol

Is that an acronym, or a top down view of someone in the middle of the "Electric Slide"?

;)

[Joelio]

Laugh Out Loud.

I'm sure you knew that, (being a Ninja and all :cool: ) but I just wanted to make it obvious that I'm SMART! :D

[jpdc]

Here are some ads for my Book and Poster!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32MPHCAMCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV3i16s_DTs

[Punzie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32MPHCAMCg
I liked how this ^^^ one had the ocean roaring as the sound track, but I think that it should haved roared more loudly, and there should have been crashing noises.

[Meerkat]

Awesome poster!

I too was a little obsessed with it a few years back, when I was about 10. Even today I still collect a few things to do with it - I bought 3 model kits, one medium, one small and one big (in that order - to be more precise, a 1/600 scale, 1/720 scale and 1/400 scale). The big one looks fantastic and is sitting on my sideboard.

But nothing like a piece of coal :(


I had a model too when i was a teenager, but only half finished it (typical 15 year old :D ). It ended up in the attic and when i moved to London it disappeared completely.

anyone here a member of the tianic historical society?

[Meerkat]

Here is something interesting i found in the paper today relating to the Titanic -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XPHQB5MV2CFQZQFIQMGSFGGAVCBQ WIV0?xml=/news/2007/05/02/ntitanic02.xml

[Punzie]

What a fascinating article! At the end it says:

Miss Francatelli's letter has come to light after her nephew took it to Christie's along with his aunt's life jacket.

Does anybody know why the nephew did not make the letter public sooner?

[Meerkat]

What a fascinating article! At the end it says:



Does anybody know why the nephew did not make the letter public sooner?

Good question - it's amazing that even now almost 100 years after the sinking artifacts are still popping up - i expect there are a lot more artifacts still to come to light (probably in dusty attics). A few years ago there was a very good exhibition at the science museum here, it's now showing in Victoria in British Columbia until October, so if you're planning a trip to that part of the world have a look.

[ManhattanKnight]

RMS Titanic never docked in NYC, but artifacts of her loss remain today on the City's Far West Village and Chelsea Hudson River shoreline. Had Titanic survived her maiden voyage, she would have berthed at the White Star Line's piers at the northern end of the newly-opened Chelsea Piers complex, off West 23rd Street. Those piers (Piers 60 and 61), greatly altered, are now part of the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment complex. This is how they appeared around 1912:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6977/chelseapiersrz3.jpg

Titanic's survivors arrived in NYC on the evening of April 18, 1912 aboard RMS Carpathia, a Cunard Lines vessel, which steamed upriver past Cunard's berths at the southern end of the pier complex, paused off West 23rd Street to lower Titanic's lifeboats into the river to be towed into White Star's berths, reversed downstream and docked at Cunard's Pier 54, at West 13th Street, where the 700-odd survivors disembarked.

Pier 54 lingered on as a largely-intact ruin into the 1980s, when this photo was taken:

http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/660/pier54ca1980sdm9.jpg

The pier's superstructure and headhouse were demolished soon thereafter, but its steel entrance arch still stands, bearing a faded "CUNARD WHITE STAR" legend (the once-rivals merged in 1934):

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6983/pier54archov4.jpghttp://img357.imageshack.us/img357/1907/whtstr2rr3.jpghttp://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6458/wscollagery3.jpg

Here's the arch on a busy day in 1940:

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5713/shapeup1940cv6.jpg

Five years before Titanic, Pier 54, then under construction, was the site of RMS Lusitania's maiden arrival in the Port of New York and served as her berth until her final sailing (and sinking) in 1915):

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6493/3435789kn9.jpg

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/1624/lusitania1910aym5.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/6439/chelseapiersaye6.png

[Punzie]

An interesting little photo essay with nice images. Thank you, MK.


WNY Pier 54 topic:

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3114


I remember Pier 54 before it was demolished in 1991, and indeed it was a "ruin". I wonder why it didn't get landmark status so that the superstructure and headhouse could be preserved.

[Meerkat]

An interesting article i found today relating to the RMS Carpathia, the ship which rescued the survivors of the Titanic and itself sunk by a torpedo off the coast of Cornwall during world war 1. There are a few other links to Titanic news articles there too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6964318.stm

[Mohamed]

I like Titanic
thank you

[Meerkat]

I like Titanic
thank you

Its always been fascinated by it, not sure why. If i see anything else on the subject in the news i'll add it to this thread.