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"Chouchou is a historic location in Second Life. Each of us has visited it at least once, and it enchanted us.

At the point of arrival, water, and an endless horizon seemingly infinite surround you.

When you activate music, it’s magic. The music is original to the authors of the location, more specifically: Juliet Heberle is a vocalist, while Arabesque Choch is a composer. The original music of Chouchou on the official website of the sim: chouchou.cc/music/.

Chouchou is known for its music and for the location of water that inspired many other sites, but it is right to remember that the sim hosts two other exciting spaces in the sky, Islamey, and Memento, accessible by a teleport located at the foot of the staircase that leads to the air.

Also, the authors of the location have made artistic videos of high level, and they are visible on their website at the following link: chouchou.cc/music/, under the heading “music videos.”

Today, reading on Facebook, I learned that Chouchou is in danger of closing down.

Many people are worried about this news because Chouchou is a symbol of Second Life, one of many, of course. However, one of the most significant. I hope that the Linden Lab will accept the invitation to preserve this place that for many Second Life users is a corner of peace, harmony, and therapy to the greyness of everyday life."

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Rigging a new device in an active Space-Time Overlap Event is incredibly difficult. Cut the blue wire... no wait a minute... the blue wire was the red wire before...the red wire was the detonator!!!

 

From two of my photos digitally worked up to quasi-sentience.

 

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Sun, Beaches, Sea, Summer, but also ... Friendship, Fun, Loneliness, Nostalgia and ... a great desire to live with the great desire to return to the normal life of always before the pandemic (to always keep in mind that, even if the worse than the Covid-19 pandemic, it now seems to be behind us, the crisis is certainly not to be considered over just because mortality has reduced): I present here, on Flickr, a collection of exhibitions made in this hot summer, with traceable photographs, almost entirely, in the "beach photography" genre. The photographs were all taken in July-August 2022, on the beaches of the east coast of Sicily, and of the Ionian coast of Calabria.

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Sole, Spiagge, Mare, Estate, ma anche ...Amicizia, Divertimento, Solitudine, Nostalgia e… tanta voglia di vivere col grande desiderio di ritornare alla vita normale di sempre ante-pandemia (da tenere sempre a mente che, anche se il peggio della pandemia da Covid-19, sembra ormai alle spalle, la crisi non è certo da considerarsi terminata solo perché la mortalità si è ridotta): presento qui, su Flickr, una raccolta di esposizioni realizzate in questa calda estate, con fotografie riconducibili, per la quasi totalità, al genere “beach photography”. Le fotografie sono state tutte realizzate nel mese di Luglio-Agosto 2022, sulle spiagge della costa orientale della Sicilia, e della costa ionica della Calabria.

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FEC train 103 splits the MP 168 intermediates near City Point on their way south to Fort Pierce, FL.

 

The new main on the right of the train is complete but it has not been activated yet. This extention runs between the new Cocoa Junction control point (this CP still hasn't been activated as well) to CP Frontenac. Frontenac used to be the south end of the Titusville double track and with Brightline’s project occurring, FEC decided to double track this section between Cocoa Junction and Frontenac as it didn't make sense for a small 2-4 mile stretch of single track to remain between the two CPs. This will likely help reduce bottlenecking and traffic slowdowns while the unit train arrives at City Point each weekday morning. For example, the 103 seen here had to wait until 336 and 915 cleared the main before they were able to proceed south.

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. . . I remember the first time I saw a Stealth Bomber at a Chicago Air Show, I was totally blown away!

 

I got that same feeling this weekend in Traverse City when I watched this male Snowy Owl cruise past me with no sound whatsoever! Again, totally blown away!

 

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Located at 2445 Lakeshore Rd W, the square was created as an amenity for the district by The Village property owner and is now managed by the Town of Oakville.

 

The space is bookable for events and activations (think outdoor markets, fitness classes, holiday-themed activities, live music – the possibilities are endless!) and will be dressed to impress with colourful hanging baskets and planters soon.

 

Bronte Market Square also functions as a resting and gathering space and for improving connectivity and pedestrian access to local businesses. Its infrastructure includes seating areas, access to electrical power and a water feature.

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All the photos I present were taken in the town of Taormina;

I made photos related to "street photography";

I photographed people who, for the most part, I had never met before, performing their portraits, I thank them for their sympathy and availability;

The volcano Etna, in recent days has shown an intense eruptive activity, I photographed that spectacular eruptions from Taormina;

I tried to capture minimal photographic stories, collected walking down the street .. ... in search of fleeting moments ...

For some photographs I used a particular photographic technique at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production.

 

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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate nella cittadina di Taormina;

ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “street photography”;

ho fotografato persone che, per la maggior parte, non avevo incontrato prima, eseguendo dei loro ritratti, le ringrazio per la loro simpatia e disponibilità;

il vulcano Etna, nei giorni scorsi ha mostrato una intensa attività eruttiva, anche con intensi fenomeni chiamati "fontane di lava", emissioni a getto continuo perdurate intensamente per molti minuti, di altissime "fontane" di magma incandescente, molto spettacolari e non comuni, le fotografie dell'Etna sono state realizzate da Taormina;

ho provato a cogliere storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...

Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.

 

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Topaz Denoise. handheld, EE1 Dot sight

 

 

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It's been a while but I'm back to my Sage and Crystals shenanigans!!! I hope you are all ready! #behindthescenesshootingforamethystadventures #sageandcrystalsmagazine Tune/Vibe: youtu.be/1H-slVEJcN4?si=oebCxFgvC77JwE0e

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All the photos I present were taken in the town of Taormina;

I made photos related to "street photography";

I photographed people who, for the most part, I had never met before, performing their portraits, I thank them for their sympathy and availability;

The volcano Etna, in recent days has shown an intense eruptive activity, I photographed that spectacular eruptions from Taormina;

I tried to capture minimal photographic stories, collected walking down the street .. ... in search of fleeting moments ...

For some photographs I used a particular photographic technique at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production.

 

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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate nella cittadina di Taormina;

ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “street photography”;

ho fotografato persone che, per la maggior parte, non avevo incontrato prima, eseguendo dei loro ritratti, le ringrazio per la loro simpatia e disponibilità;

il vulcano Etna, nei giorni scorsi ha mostrato una intensa attività eruttiva, anche con intensi fenomeni chiamati "fontane di lava", emissioni a getto continuo perdurate intensamente per molti minuti, di altissime "fontane" di magma incandescente, molto spettacolari e non comuni, le fotografie dell'Etna sono state realizzate da Taormina;

ho provato a cogliere storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per la strada ... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...

Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.

 

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NS 4423 leads manifest 38G east up the west slope as it passes the slide protection fences that line along the side of the rails in Cassandra, PA.

Playing around with my new motion-activated bird photo booth. The Cornell bird guide says "A big, brash blackbird, the male Great-tailed Grackle shimmers in iridescent black and purple, and trails a tail that will make you look twice."

 

Explore #461 on March 12, 2017.

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We had moved some things around to clean & Hazel decided it was a nice place to take a nap. I always love her little activation noise and the way her sweet little nose wrinkles. She’s all kinds of adorable!

This one is part of a project i did about the brain and art for a symposium about the brain. I did three shots that were part of an exhibition.

 

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Driver Mark Pointon walks forward to activate the main road level crossing protection at Farrell Flat, South Australia, on 2 January 1996.

 

Australian National, broad gauge, Alcos 706/841 are working a Burra to Port Adelaide grain train with 10 loaded grain hoppers ex Burra; another 10 will be added at both Saddleworth and Tarlee.

 

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Danger. The emergency destruct system is now activated. The ship will detonate in T minus ten minutes. The option to override automatic detonation expires in T minus five minutes.

 

The lifeboat/shuttle from the last scene of my third favorite film of all time, ALIEN (1979)!

 

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hot and cold, a few days ago in Sicily ....

  

caldo e freddo, qualche giorno fa in Sicilia ....

  

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Hey guys! Haven't posted in awhile.. been very busy with school, homework, youth group, and some "college" related stuff. :P

I know I nearly always say this, but I have lots of projects I'm working on that should be completed soon. These figs aren't anything that special, just wanted to upload them for the sake of uploading them before I take them apart. Nice to upload again too :)

 

Anywhose, hope you like 'em! Let me know what you guys think, and expect some more stuff soon to come! (More custom stuff, got some great things planned :3).

Enjoy pals!

--Jesse

8 Juin 2014, une magnifique structure rotative aborde les terres du Calvados. Un pur moment de contemplation. D'autre photographies seront à venir dans les prochains jours.

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All the photos I present were taken on the beaches of the “Nirvana Club Village” which is located in Belcastro Marina in Calabria (southern Italy); I made photos related to "beach photography" (a genre similar to "street photography");

... I photographed young and old people ... with a great desire for the sea and a great desire to dive into the sea to swim; I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the beaches ... in search of fleeting moments ...

I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production

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Tutte le foto che presento sono state realizzate sulle spiagge del Nirvana Club Village in Calabria in località Belcastro Marina (Catanzaro); ho realizzato foto riconducibili alla “beach photography” (un genere affine alla “street photography”);

ho fotografato persone giovani e meno giovani…con tanta voglia di mare e tanta voglia di immergersi in acqua per fare qualche nuotata; ho realizzato alcuni foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando sulle spiagge... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...

Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.---------------------------------------------------------

 

It works! The robotic start-up commands initiated correctly, all systems are online and a new robot is born! Nova Team is happy to introduce EX-K1T, the very first of the A.R.C. Bots (Augmented, Robotic, Companions). The A.R.C. Bots will be a new line of robots for the station, each built on the same A.I. and physical frameworks. Each bot is augmented to handle specific tasks and each with their own unique personality subroutines. They are highly intelligent and able to adapt to any situation. With their unique personalities it is hoped that they will more easily and naturally work with their human counterparts. All the while having one program to supersede all the rest; the preservation of human life.

 

EX-K1T or K1T if you prefer is an exploration bot. His primary function will be to assist Nova Team on their expeditions into deep space. More in the future on each type of A.R.C. Bot and what their primary job and features will be.

 

Here we have Captain Knight shaking mechanical hands with K1T while Steele, Daystom and Marshall look on in pride and excitement!

 

To learn more about Nova Team's other adventures visit their album: flic.kr/s/aHskpavQh5

 

So this is what I've been working up to! Finally! ;-) I hope you all like the A.R.C. Bots. I'm pretty happy how they turned out. In my next few photos, I'll show off the different models of bots. Both as action shots as well in a cleaner way so you can see what I used to put them together in a LEGO sense. I had a clear goal when I starting building them, I wanted them to be simple builds, each having the same basic structure, while each having their own unique look and personality and for them to be not too much larger than minifigures. I’m pretty surprised the amount of poseability I got out of these guys despite their small scale, which is super helpful for my photography!

  

For those who are interested, unfortunately I am unable to sell the Nova Team minifigures or designs due to the use of the "Classic Space" logo which is owned and trademarked by The LEGO Group. My custom designed figures and use of the official "Classic Space" logo is for personal use only in my MOCs and photography. By the same token, I will not give away the design files and source material either. Thank you for understanding! Trust me, if I could legally sell these, I would.

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Little Cloud and three friends are spending the lazy days of summer hanging out in the Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place. Source: www.bfplto.com/events/349/into-the-clouds-installation/

 

FriendsWithYou is the fine art collaborative of Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, working collectively since 2002 with the sole purpose of spreading the positive message of Magic, Luck, and Friendship™. Known for immersive installations and interactive artworks, FriendsWithYou invites viewers of their work to reconnect with and reinterpret their lives through communal experiences. The artists work in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, large-scale experiential installations, live performances, and more recently, virtual reality and animation. Incorporating the healing arts, modern rituals, animism, and unified symbols, their works are meant to prompt a wide spectrum of untapped emotions, from playfulness to self-reflection, enabling both personal and shared experiences. FriendsWithYou’s mission is to cultivate moments of spiritual awareness and powerful, joyous interactions.

 

Forging their own brand of post-pop visual language a la Takashi Murakami, Arturo Herrera and Yayoi Kusama, FriendsWithYou takes a spiritual and serene approach to form and figure. Their reductive and simplified use of geometric abstraction always contains a whimsical touch. Taking Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics to heart and hand, the artists make art of the Post-Internet era. Alongside the body of works of Murakami, Jeff Koons, and Damien Hirst, FriendsWithYou is a new breed of artist, actively generating culture beyond the traditional art boundaries and reshaping the current contemporary art scene. By blurring the dividing line between perceived “high” and low” art, as explained in Murakami’s Superflat essay, FriendsWithYou utilizes other mediums like design and limited edition products from a fine art perspective. Their most important artistic tactic to foster these interpersonal relationships is the use of play. By reinterpreting religious traditions, symbols, and spiritual practices, FriendsWithYou inverts solemn and serious ideas through the act of play to open up a connection to the divine. Many FriendsWithYou works reference toys because they are meant for play, a tool for unstructured free association and interaction. Their sculptures and paintings, inflatables, and objects are meant to trigger the buried, neglected urges and yearnings that a seasoned art viewer may not expect to have activated; playfulness, laughter and inquisitiveness, with an end result of feeling connected. Influenced by the simple happiness found in everyday life, FriendsWithYou’s work is designed to be accessible to all.

 

Throughout the last fourteen years, FriendsWithYou has gained international recognition as pioneers in the field of experiential art. FriendsWithYou installations are fully immersive experiences that draw audiences into a magical world where the line between imagination and reality is blurred. What started as hand-sewn toy sculptures have grown into much larger than life projects and national and international exhibitions. FriendsWithYou’s work has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Art Basel in Miami Beach; Dallas Contemporary; Galerie Perrotin, Miami; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; The High Line, New York; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; Marine Projects, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara; Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, and most recently at the Oakland Museum of California.

 

FriendsWithYou works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, The Goldman Family Collection, Montblanc Collection, amongst others.

 

FriendsWithYou released their Rizzoli published monograph We Are FriendsWIthYou in May 2014. The book spans their career thus far, and features contributions by musician, producer and longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams; director, filmmaker, and spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky; and Dallas Contemporary executive director Peter Dorshenko.

 

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This is probably one of my favorite photos taken on the CSX Northern Subdivison since I was introduced nearly 5 years ago. At the time, the thought of these signals disappearing was far out of sight. Now, as of today, October 1st, 2012 (a year, and 7 days after this photo), these US&S C&O signals at West End Robbins have most likely have been lowered to the ground, as like most between BR Cabin (north of Minford) and MR Cabin (south of Vauces), and new, hooded Safetran signals activated and put in their place. Though a sign of progress and newer technologies, its hard to think that these sentinels, a trade mark of the Chesapeake and Ohio, are disappearing so rapidly. Seems that there will be a piece missing on this line soon.

 

The fall colors are beginning to pop as CSXT 8075 leads empty eastbound coal train E441 past the C&O signals at West End Robbins on a warm, sunny October day. Taken: 10/8/11

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