Above People's Expectations

Above People's Expectations Above People's Expectations is an art collective based out of Louisville, KY

Above People's Expectations is a collective of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers & other types of creative's based in Louisville, KY

Glasgow, Scotland, 1980. French Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to ph...
07/11/2025

Glasgow, Scotland, 1980.

French Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to photograph Scotland’s largest city: Glasgow, on the River Clyde. The city has long been known for its architectural heritage – from its majestic Victorian squares to stern rows of tenements and brutal industrial giants – much of this building being the product of the city’s great Victorian-era wealth. However, in spite of this prosperous past and the city’s pivotal role in Britain’s industrial and cultural development, numerous areas of Glasgow were – at the time of Depardon’s visit – poverty stricken. The photographer focused his work on Glasgow’s famed slums and dock areas, capturing the imposing architecture and broad vistas, as well as the resilient nature of the city’s inhabitants.

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew...
07/11/2025

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award.

The story behind her winning Oscar moment:

"I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true." With those words, Louise Fletcher became the 48th woman to receive an Oscar for Best Actress of the year. It was the most touching and dramatic moment of Hollywood's famous night. Louise's words and gestures to her parents brought tears to many eyes.

Louise was the second child born to Robert and Estelle Fletcher. Like her brother and sisters (there were four little Fletchers in all) she was a normally healthy youngster. There was only one difference in the Fletcher household -- mother and dad were deaf. They hadn't been born deaf. Both were victims of tragedy as children. Mr. Fletcher when four was struck by lightning and subsequently went deaf. His wife lost her hearing under circumstances that to this day, still remain a mystery. Doctors are only sure that she lost her hearing at 6 months of age.

Little did they dream in those early days of marriage, that one day a daughter of theirs would bring home a golden Oscar. When that moment finally did come, it was of such emotional intensity for them that both of Louise's parents cried, a sound seldom heard in the Fletcher house.

After getting her Oscar, Louise got to a phone as quickly as possible and called her folks. Georgianna, who teaches at Gallaudet College for the deaf, was there to do the talking and interpreting for both ends. Louise's father was so pleased by her Award speech to them that he told her, "That was some smart acting." At that point, her voice soft and loving, Louise told the father and mother who helped her to a full and enriched life in spite of their own hardship: "That was no acting." The thank-you to them was spoken directly from her heart.

Flying first class in the 1960's. Life was once simpler. There was only one class for passengers on airline flights. Ini...
07/11/2025

Flying first class in the 1960's.

Life was once simpler. There was only one class for passengers on airline flights. Initially, it was a very ‘adventurous’ class – open cockpits and high rates of fatalities. It then evolved to become comparatively luxurious and ridiculously expensive, even extending to sleeper suites – thought of as a modern introduction but actually dating back to the flying boats of the late 1930s.

But then, in the early 1960s, first class was dialed back in terms of the luxury features offered, although more recently, it is being selectively enhanced once more. Today’s business class is functionally equivalent to yesterday’s first class, and that today’s better types of premium economy are equivalent to earlier business class products.

It should also be mentioned that the Golden Age of Flying was an era of sumptuous design, a time in which the flying experience–from the visual look of the cabin to your stewardess’s uniform, right down to the silverware–was imagined by some of the world’s best designers.

The famous stripper Rita Renoir from the Crazy Horse Cabaret, 1950’sRenoir was the Vedette of the Crazy Horse Saloon, in...
07/11/2025

The famous stripper Rita Renoir from the Crazy Horse Cabaret, 1950’s

Renoir was the Vedette of the Crazy Horse Saloon, in Paris, between the 1950s and 1960s, becoming one of the most famous European strip-teasers.

Doug Coombs dropping in, 1989. Doug was a trailblazer in adventure skiing and remains a legend in the community to this ...
07/11/2025

Doug Coombs dropping in, 1989.

Doug was a trailblazer in adventure skiing and remains a legend in the community to this day.

Zsa Zsa Gabor at Prince Aly Khan's party. New York, 1959.“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep...
07/11/2025

Zsa Zsa Gabor at Prince Aly Khan's party. New York, 1959.

“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house."

Sharon Tate, Barbara Parkins and Patty Duke in a publicity shot for Valley Of The Dolls, 1967. Based on Jacqueline Susan...
07/11/2025

Sharon Tate, Barbara Parkins and Patty Duke in a publicity shot for Valley Of The Dolls, 1967.

Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls, it follows three women struggling to forge careers in the entertainment industry, each of them descending into barbiturate addiction—"dolls" being a slang term for depressant pills or "downers".

The Beauty, style, colourful sets, unbelievable clothes, gorgeous women, striking 1960s visuals. This is how Valley of the Dolls pulls off a ridiculous soap-opera script, a simple-minded direction and superficial characters for whom we don’t grow to care about in the slightest despite the film lasting for what would seem to be a million hours. If it tries to get us involved, it doesn’t. However it does camouflage pills and mean spirits with sophistication — which it does brilliantly.

The screenwriters create something that is a bit of everything we are dying to mock. It’s a soap opera and French soft p**n, it’s complicated in its simplicity, it’s a fall from grace, despite never having any grace at all, it’s loud and vulgar while softly batting its eyelashes, it’s rude while in the classiest of outfits yet it’s not so bad it’s good; it’s just good in a different way. And while half the world may not understand the film the other half loves it. It’s become a cult classic. So simply Valley of the Dolls offends the brain, yes, but really pleases the eyes.

Cindy Crawford in her Pepsi Ad, 1992.As “Just One Look” by Doris Troy plays in the background, supermodel Cindy Crawford...
07/10/2025

Cindy Crawford in her Pepsi Ad, 1992.

As “Just One Look” by Doris Troy plays in the background, supermodel Cindy Crawford drives up to a country Halfway Cafe and gas station in a red Ferrari. The doors of the car open up and she steps out as two young boys walk up to a nearby fence to watch. Wearing a white tank top and short jean shorts, she walks to a Pepsi vending machine and buys a can. She takes a long sip and just when you think the boys will comment on her looks, they instead comment on the new styling of the Pepsi can. This ad made huge waves when it premiered during Super Bowl XXVI, when the Washington Redskins took on the Buffalo Bills.

Shirley MacLaine and her daughter Sachi Parker photographed by Allan Grant for Life magazine in 1959.
07/10/2025

Shirley MacLaine and her daughter Sachi Parker photographed by Allan Grant for Life magazine in 1959.

Sean Connery and Claudine Auger on the set of "Thunderball" 1965.
07/10/2025

Sean Connery and Claudine Auger on the set of "Thunderball" 1965.

On October 3rd, 1990 Princess Caroline was in Paris when her husband Stefano was killed in an offshore powerboat racing ...
07/10/2025

On October 3rd, 1990 Princess Caroline was in Paris when her husband Stefano was killed in an offshore powerboat racing accident off the coast of Monaco near Cap Ferrat while defending his world offshore title. He was 30 years old and had planned to retire after the race. Only weeks earlier, he had escaped death when his boat blew up off the coast of Guernsey.

There were three to four-foot wave conditions on the race course, which caused Casiraghi's 42-foot catamaran, Pinot di Pinot, to flip. Traveling at ca. 150 km/h, it did not have a full canopy, and experts who studied the accident have said that Casiraghi would most likely have survived the accident had the boat been equipped with such a canopy. As a result of his death, safety laws became more stringent; a safety harness and closed hull became compulsory, as was a twin hull design for boats. Races nowadays take place close to the harbour where waves are gentler, which is policed off for safety reasons as boats are no longer allowed to drive near the course

Many have said stefano was the great love of Caroline's life and that the glint in her eyes was never the same and upon hearing the news of her husband she asked her father "what will become of me?"

Shortly before he died, Casiraghi told him Italian journalist Franco Bartolini that he was thinking of retiring from offshore racing. "At the time of the accident he was going very fast, and I think it was because he wanted to win one last time," Bartolini said after losing his friend

He was survived by Princess Caroline and children Andrea, Charlotte and Pierre.

Windows On The World' was an exclusive restaurant situated in the 106th and 107th floor in the North Tower of the World ...
07/10/2025

Windows On The World' was an exclusive restaurant situated in the 106th and 107th floor in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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