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As with any new, half-baked Sears Holdings idea, we can see there's still a few little kinks (and exposed rebar XD) to work out with the Sears drive-thru merchandise pickup concept! Unfortunately, it looked like the actual, real exterior merchandise pickup sign had been mangled by this obnoxious action (yet was still hanging on the building for dear life), but that mangling might even make it a cooler artifact to own! Even if I had wanted to ask someone about it, there wasn't a soul to be found inside the forbidden zone of the demolition fence on this late Saturday morning. It was eerily quiet, and peering into the darkness of the store's interior (even from quite a long distance away, I might add) was kind of spooky actually. This was the only major new damage during the week on the main building, but I expect that will change very soon :(
Speaking of which, for anyone that wants to follow this via Facebook, member Ron Hale has been posting photos of the demolition progress, and has some of the auto center still half-standing. Many thanks to Retail Retell for that Facebook link! This will probably be it for me until next Friday or Saturday (if I can go then) from Sears Laurelwood, and I expect by then the photos (content-wise) will only get worse :(
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Sears, 1957-58 built (closed April 2016), Poplar Ave. at Perkins Ext., Memphis
As the Year of the Tiger ends today, a sincere thanks to all for the messages of support here at Flickr and at www.wildtiger.org
And an extra thanks to those supporting the Flickr Group
Focus: 2010 - 2022 Tiger
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Let us all hope that by the next Year of the Tiger in 2022 the great cat will no longer be endangered and the habitat, wildlife and people in tiger areas are flourishing.
Cheers Jack
My Misaki pre-order from last year has finally arrived. I have to say for me she is so worth the wait. This is my 2nd Misaki. My 1st is a nude Dazzling Darling
Greetings mate! As many of you know, I love marrying art, science, and math in my portrait and landscape photography!
The gold 45 revolver is designed in accordance with the golden ratio! More about the design and my philosophy of "no retouching" on the beautiful goddesses in my new book:
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And here's more on the golden ratio which appears in many of my landscape and portrait photographs (while shaping the proportions of the golden gun)!
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The dx4/dt=ic above the gun on the lingerie derives from my new physics books devoted to Light, Time, Dimension Theory!
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Beautiful swimsuit bikini model goddess!
Golden Ratio Lingerie Model Goddess LTD Theory Lingerie dx4/dt=ic! The Birth of Venus, Athena, and Artemis! Girls and Guns!
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I am working on several books on "epic photography," and I recently finished a related one titled: The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography: An Artistic and Scientific Introduction to the Golden Mean . Message me on facebook for a free review copy!
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The Golden Ratio informs a lot of my art and photographic composition. The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo! Not so long ago, I came up with the Golden Ratio Principle which describes why The Golden Ratio is so beautiful.
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
The Birth of Venus! Beautiful Golden Ratio Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Helen of Troy! She was tall, thin, fit, and quite pretty!
Read all about how classical art such as The Birth of Venus inspires all my photography!
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As always, your comments and faves are appreciated. Constructive criticism and suggestions are especially welcome as I believe they help to make me a better photographer. Thank you for taking the time to look at my photos.
A one time common sight on the WCML, 86323 and 86231 stand at Crewe during the early morning of 4th September 1984.
86323 was an early casualty being scrapped as 86623 in October 2003, 86231 was withdrawn in 2008, but appears to be still lingering, awaiting scrapping.
As Metro Vancouver was experiencing a record-breaking heat wave, Chris and I decided to cool off at Pebbly Beach
My new doll has arriv... oh wait xD My cousin's dog is so adorable and photogenic. I want one too! =(
Merry christmas!
The churchyard filled with deathcold snow that silenced even the cries of lost souls. And the stillness glowed with an iridescent aura. Peace fell with the snow.
As well as Volvo B10Ms Whitelaw of Storehouse also took delivery of two Leyland Lynx into their fleet in 1989 for use on the routes in Lanarkshire Whitelaw had developed during the Central SMT strikes.
G473 PGE the second of the two is seen at Canderside Toll working the 254 from Hamilton to Storehouse.
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It annoys me a bit that I can't be as beautiful and sexy as some of the fabulous trans girls I put in my posts with their pert little breasts and tight little bums. Of course I tell myself if I take that bike ride or refrain from eating an extra chocolate buscuit I might in a few months helped along by my hormones be just like them. I think the real truth is they were usually very young fresh and newly transgendered with budding breasts and healthy sexual appetites. Well I don't do so badly there in some respects but of course I might not feel old but I'm a bit too matured and crusty to pass myself of as a fresh and innocent teenager lol. However like football players I think a lot of those girls have a short time in the limelight making money which might explain why some at least spoil what they've got by being encouraged to to extend it with what are for me at least ugly enhancements and modifications. Then there are pimps and drugs and killers on the streets so unlike Jojo who can just play at it for them it's a hard life and I just hope some manage to save up enough money from doing porn to buy a nice little earner, that hair-dressing salon or corner bar. Indeed some of the girls nearing retirement go into management and production and no doubt some because they have that special gift and beauty find husbands but I doubt Jojo will not be that lucky staying lumbered with her swirling pond of blow-job mimicking goldfish.
As all the pictures in my gallery, this is a FREE picture. You can download it and do whatever you want with it: share it, adapt it and/or combine it with other material and distribute the resulting works.
I’d very much appreciate if you give photo credits to “Carlos ZGZ” when you use this picture. This would help me find it and add it to my photoset “Used elsewhere”.
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Por favor, si utilizas esta imagen, dale el crédito a “Carlos ZGZ”. De esta manera podré encontrarla fácilmente y añadirla a mi álbum “Used elsewhere”.
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I processed the film today. Even though I have done this thousands of times, you never really relax until you see those first few frames come out of the wash.
That's the magic of film. It demands your abilities.
And even though I should be in bed, I at least had to do a few scans to serve my impatience.
Though this may not end up being an official part of the series....It's at least a tribute to how much Devon nailed this very difficult part...a part that is probably one of the most evil persons in the entire book of Judges.
It's even more of a tribute because Devon is probably one of the kindest, least violent and gentlest person you could meet.
More and much more to come. But for now....I know Sunday delivered up it's promise....
FROM 'IN THE TIME OF THE JUDGES'
(CONTINUING)
1941 Lincoln Raymond Loewy Designed Continental
Coachwork by By Derham
As the show cars inched along in line toward the awards stand I noticed this unusual looking car. What the heck was this, I thought. Glancing at its hubcaps I knew it must be a Lincoln but what kind - what year - what model, I questioned. Now maybe many classic cars aficionados would have the answer but me, being merely a quasi aficionado (if there is such a thing?), had no idea. I walked briskly over the driver/owner to question him. Being quite accommodating the gentleman explained quickly and in my rush to get in position for a shot of this “beast”, I was able to pick up only a few words here and there. I heard “continental”. I heard “Derham", I heard “Studebaker” and I heard "Raymond Loewy" but then I had to scurry back as he began moving forward and I had to get back and try to line up for a shot of the car. I managed to snap off a few shots. Frankly I wasn’t very impressed with its looks……..but have since discovered this car took top honors in its class at Pebble Beach . Don’t know the Concours year it was but just the name “Pebble Beach” denotes prestige.
Over the time these pictures have been residing in my 2023 Geneva Concours d’Elegance folder, I have learned a great deal more about this rare car. From what I understand this car has two “sister cars”, each slightly different in their appearance and equally rare. Much better than I could, the author of the following New York Times article provides the “rundown”.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The first Lincoln Continental, originally designed as Edsel Ford’s personal vehicle, has often been cited as one of the most beautiful cars in the world. Perhaps no other car can boast of a more prestigious design pedigree. It was originally sketched by Bob Gregorie, Ford’s chief stylist (reportedly, in an hour, in response to Mr. Ford’s urgent request for a “vacation car”).
But Raymond Loewy, the famous industrial designer, figured he could improve it. So Loewy had his staff restyle a 1941 model to his specification. When it was finally completed in 1946, a Saturday Evening Post article referred to it as “The Fanciest Thing on Wheels.”
The one-of-a-kind beauty (a similar car created for Loewy’s wife has since disappeared) turned up this weekend on the block at Gooding & Company’s classic car auction here, where it was a real show-stopper. It sold for $451,000 — about three times what a stock Continental of that vintage is generally considered to be worth. The car had been owned by an Asian collector for many years, a Gooding spokesman said. (Loewy died in 1986.) The Loewy Lincoln has seldom been seen in recent years, although it made a star turn last August at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Monterey, Calif.
At the time of this car’s makeover, Loewy’s “staff” at the time included a veritable who’s who of automotive design: Virgil Exner, who would in later years design Chrysler’s famed Forward Look cars; Gordon Buehrig, responsible for many noted Auburn, Cord and Duesenberg designs; and Bob Bourke, later head of Studebaker styling. They helped Loewy recraft the Lincoln into a low, long stunner with fenders integrated into the body, a clear plexiglass roof and round opera windows. The conversion work was done by the noted custom coachbuilder, Derham Body Co. of Philadelphia.
Arguably, the Loewy Lincoln’s most over-the-top feature was its 24-carat gold horn ring, instrument bezels and control knobs.
The car also includes a couple of inside jokes, including an “RL” emblem on each side that is encircled by a chrome band. Sharp-eyed industrial design fans may notice the chrome ring comes directly from a Frigidaire refrigerator, which Loewy had also designed.
The one potentially sour note on the entire car is the unusual custom grille. Loewy replaced the original grille of the Lincoln — a lovely chrome “waterfall” design that was perhaps its signature feature — with a styled version of the sometimes-lampooned “bullet nose” found on postwar Studebakers.
Why would Loewy do such a thing? It would not have been too smart for Loewy to be seen driving anything blatantly identifiable as a Ford product at the time. Loewy’s firm, you see, had an exclusive, ironclad contract to design Studebakers.
Now, as they say, you know the rest of the story.
Source: New York Times | Wheels
By Jerry Garrett
January 20, 2008 11:16 am
………One final word. The title chosen for this artwork. Frankly I thought the design of this car as odd and this conjured up thoughts of a James Bond movie I saw years ago - Goldfinger and one of Goldfinger's henchmen, "Oddjob". (This is how my brain moves……. ) Then comes the design, or job that Loewy did. Not overly impressive in my estimation but who am I to argue with the judges from Pebble Beach! The the background. It’s a scene from the Austrian Alps but why chosen? Mainly because I didn’t have much choice……and it looks pretty.
Hope ya’all enjoy…………
Sony A300 + Tamron 70-300 Di LD f4-5.6
No acepto en los comentarios de mis fotos: invitaciones a grupos, iconos de "foto vista en...", links o fotos de galerías personales, ni avisos de ningún otro tipo, vayan o no acompañados de comentario alguno hacia mi foto. Se borrarán sin previo aviso.
As one goes through life, One learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe......
You don't move.
Non-HDR, Adjusted sharpness, contrast and saturation
Some dirt on my lens again :)
As part of Karlsruhe’s 300 anniversary celebrations, loads of pianos have been placed all over the city for everyone to play. It’s a brilliant atmosphere to hear all the talented locals playing open air. The man playing in my sketch was very good. The long row of bikes is also a typical Karlsruhe scene.
Stone Mill across the street in 1763 (now known as the Hunterdon Art Museum)
Ralph Hunt built the earliest section of this Mill to process wool sometime around 1810. His wool business failed, however, thanks to a permanent downturn in the market for domestic cloth. By 1820 Ralph confessed to the Census that “the establishment has been doing very little for two or three years past. The demand for sale of the cloths and sattinets are very dull…a few of the farmers get their wool manufactured, but from the low prices of foreign cloths.” Things did not improve and Ralph lost all of the family’s property, more than 400 acres and mills on both sides of the river. He defaulted on his mortgage, and the Taylor family took ownership.
The Red Mill in Operation: 1810 - 1928
From 1828 to 1834 John Bray and John B. Taylor took over running the Woolen Mill. The Taylors, now the dominant merchant family, changed the name of the town from Hunt’s Mills to Clinton, after the popular New York governor DeWitt Clinton. Bray and Taylor continued in the woolen business but they also diversified by grinding feed, flour and stone plaister, as well as by selling chestnut wood for rails. They even opened a dry goods establishment which carried everything from china to sheet iron. But Bray and Taylor also failed in their business, selling it for three quarters of its purchase price.
John W. Snyder, the new owner, refitted the Mill for grist and ceased wool production. But he too quickly fell into debt, and lost the property in 1842. After a swift series of owners, the Easton Bank split the site into a mill and a quarry. In 1847 the Mill was sold to John F. Stiger and John A. Young, who used it to grind flour and grist. In 1868 Young sold his part of the business to his partner, John Stiger, who continued to operate it as a grist mill.
In 1871 Stiger sold the mill and it again changed hands several times before it was purchased by Philip Gulick in 1873. Gulick ground grist on the third and fourth floors of the mill and produced peach baskets in the first level. In 1892 Gulick set up The Clinton Illuminating and Water Co. on the second floor of the mill. It provided electricity for Clinton’s street lamps. Gulick died in 1901 and his widow rented the Mill to Elmer and Chester Tomson and in 1905 they purchased it outright.
Chester changed the mill’s operation to grist to graphite and for a short time the mill became known as the “Black Mill.” The greasy black dust was wildly unpopular in town, and after a public outcry he turned to grinding talc and the Mill was soon dubbed the “White Mill.”
As seen from the Promenade Plantée.
The first disused railway transformed into an elevated walkway park of greenery in 1993.
...As an ELDER Unoa Ange "decadent" version :D
I know the meme is for personal dolls, but when I saw this screenshot of the music video, I couldn't help but share her expression x) She's so cute, I almost want an Unoa Elder that looks just like her ; u;
After a dark year in New York City, bright new sculptures were found all across the city.
As Long as the Sun Lasts by Alex Da Corte on the rooftop garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
As Cubans head out to the beach to escape the summer heat of crowded cities, many are making the drive in relics from another era.
Tens of thousands of vintage American cars remain scattered throughout the country, manufactured before the revolution and subsequent US embargo in 1960. In the summers and at classic car shows, the old American models end up on display.
With no automobile imports coming in, the cars are preserved by Cuban mechanics and improvised fixes by the owners themselves.