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Mum's ear tag turns into an alternative teat when she is laying down.
Maxine's calf happily sucked on it until she decided to stand up.
This is my favourite cyanotype so far -- I think this one turned out the best -- still wish I could afford a better method for creating the negatives so I could get a greater tonal range -- ah well
We are very excited to announce that MOEKO will be at the Curves event in May as part of our relaunch! There is a cute little kawaii dress on offer in various colours and a super free gift for you all. So put a note in your diary, the event runs from 3rd until 24th.
Curves: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Entice%20Fashion/195/193/1501
Moeko blog: moekostoreblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/moeko-at-curves/
I have always been fascinated by the strange looks of worlds from the minds of sci-fi-writers. When I went to Tasmania, I took the change to exaggerate the unique landscapes with infrared films creating an almost eerie look keeping the viewer at unease with himself. Still, those artworks create a certain amount of curiosity – a need to explore the unknown but familiar.
Well, I suppose I'm not much of a sports fan, so I spent most of the time outside the courts, trying to find alternative matches.
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a shot from in the week, it was very windy but glad i went out on my bike got some good shots with the sun setting....
Happy Sliders Sunday
Nikon D7000
Hello everyone,
Here's my latest creation, a 68 LEGO Dodge Charger, which is a set "Mod" and "alternative" at the same time, to the 10265 LEGO Mustang, this means it was built based on the LEGO set, shares some techniques such as the steering mechanism and the adjustable rear height technique, I liked those features from the LEGO set so I decided to keep on them since they fit my model perfectly. It's also at the same scale as the LEGO set and uses pieces exclusively from the same set.
Being built based on the 10265 set, fortunately it's sturdy and playable enough and considered a good model both to display or to play with.
I also decided to build a black version with chrome bits, it's design exactly the same as the blue one but I had to use 1x10 slopes instead the 2x8 slopes on the blue version since these pieces are rare in black.
A blower and a front lip are optional, I can add and remove them easily anytime, but I personally prefer it with the add-ons.
Thanks for looking and I really hope you to enjoy this.
My alternative shot for this week's Macro Mondays theme of Spooky and Frightful.
A Halloween candle, lit from below with a head torch and utilising the burning wick, a golden glow flowed through the wax, highlighting the bats, graveyard, pumpkins and flying witch.
printed on Ilford Multigrade Warmtone RC,
first development in ORWO 100,
full bleaching in cupric sulphate bleacher,
re-development in homemade lith developer D-85
Alternative Street Detail
More dags RSPCA donation box showing a spanial dog with two puppies.
Guidhall Market Bath Avon.
alternative title : Master-Slave dialectic over 38° N
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
There is nothing, I say, that men can desire better to preserve their being than to agree with each other in all things, so that the spirits and the bodies of all compose, so to speak, one Spirit and one Body, to strive together to preserve their being, as far as they can, and to seek together, and each for oneself, the useful which is common to all. But (...) As men are subject to passions, it can not be said that they agree together in nature. (...) It is only as they live under the guidance of reason that men can agree together in nature.
Il n’est rien, dis-je, que les hommes puissent souhaiter de mieux pour conserver leur être que de se convenir tous en tout, en sorte que les Esprits et les Corps de tous composent pour ainsi dire un seul Esprit et un seul Corps, de s’efforcer tous ensemble de conserver leur être, autant qu’ils peuvent, et de chercher tous ensemble et chacun pour soi l’utile qui est commun à tous. Mais, (...) en tant que les hommes sont sujets aux passions, on ne peut pas dire qu'ils conviennent en nature. (...) C'est en tant seulement qu'ils vivent sous la conduite de la raison que les hommes peuvent convenir en nature.
( Baruch Spinoza, Eth. IV-18, IV-32..35 )
Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by ‘degenerate’ images and statements. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York and Atlantic City; he ‘redevelops’ by raising rents, thereby driving out tens of thousands of poor families, most of whom are condemned to homelessness, becoming the equivalent of the dead fish of environmental ecology.
De même que les algues mutantes et monstrueuses envahissent la lagune de Venise, de même les écrans de télévision sont saturés d’une population d’images et d’énoncés "dégénérés". Une autre espèce d’algue relevant, cette fois, de l’écologie sociale consiste en cette liberté de prolifération qui est laissée à des hommes comme Donald Trump qui s’empare de quartiers entiers de New York, d’Atlantic City, etc. pour les "rénover", en augmentant les loyers et refouler, par la même occasion, des dizaines de milliers de familles pauvres, dont la plupart sont condamnées à devenir "homeless", l’équivalent ici des poissons morts de l’écologie environnementale.
( Félix Guattari, Three Ecologies, 1989 )
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Poem of the day:
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And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan’t crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
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Et la mort n’aura point d’empire.
Sous les ondulations marines
Tout de leur long couchés nul vent ne les tuera ;
Vissés à l’échafaud, quand les chairs se déchirent,
Fixés même à la roue, ils ne craqueront pas,
La foi qu’ils ont en main pourra se désunir,
Et les diables cornus les traverser de pas ;
Pourfendus de partout, ils ne céderont pas,
Et la mort n’aura point d’empire.
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( Dylan Thomas - Twenty-Five Poems, 1936 )
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Latex fashion shoot with Sara Scarlet.
Model: Sara Scarlet
MUA: Riona Noire
Studio: Dock House Studio, London
The Abrotanum sneakers are belted down and studded up and ready for a night out! They are great for everyone and will spice up any outfit! These are rigged for Jake, Kario, Legacy Male, Gianni, Reborn, Lara, Legacy Female, Kupra, and MaitreyaX. Also comes with a Fatpack color hud! The Manhood event opens on August 27th!
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I did a little post with a few LR4 presets and cloud texture from the shot below.
This image is from the Rollei Crossbird 200 ISO film.
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Second Best "52 Weeks Project"
Since I have been joining the 52 Weeks Project on Flickr it has happened several times that I had to chose between two or more self portraits that week. A difficult choice. The solution is to create a set of all good alternatives. Life is full of choices and sometimes a week has too much opportunities. This is one of those alternatives, the second best. And sometimes just as good.
On top of the tunnel of the railway in between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Landry and standing on a left over of the snow at this level for this Winter season in March 2022...
Location: Along the D220 from Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Landry near the hamlet called La Ravoire.
Coordinates: Click on the link to see the exact location on Google Maps:
Reason: My 26th overnight in Bourg-Saint-Maurice and I making a 3.9 kilomter walk from my hotel to the closed station of Hauteville-Gondon I visited in January 2018.
La Ravoire: A hamlet not far from Bourg-Saint-Maurice and still part of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Along the D220 between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Landry.
Official "52-Weeks" of this week: 10/52 Piet Wiedijkpark
Weather: Partly sunny / cloudy, 8° C
To Listen ♫: Daniel Corner - Cosmic Travellers (Youtube)
Self-portrait technics: Joby portable gorillapod placed on my crossover bag which was placed on the ground.
Top left: A corniform above a rectangle, with four thin lines stretching away as if the legs of a cow. This may be an attempt to add detail to the description of cow, or a visual description of a raw-hide pelt being stretched. An alternative might be that the rectangular body is a hut with the 'legs' as tethering ropes and the horns are entrance fencing delimiting and protecting from wind and sun - a 'farmyard' work area.
Top right: one of Mont Bégo's most enigmatic petroglyphs comes from Fontanalba's 'Voie Sacrée' and seems to defy analysis. The lines are thought through, and with so much lifestyle description assigned to the Mont Bégo petroglyphs, one feels that there must be a slot for the image in a pastoral context: Stretching leather? A hut with guide ropes? And so on. One of the problems here is the 'boundary line' that goes through the design and appears to be part of the image rather than a superimposition.
Possible explanations:
1. A fridge. There is a simple mountain structure of the Pyrenees called a 'houn'. Here, a cold spring of mountain water flows through a dark stone hut, and any heat inside is transferred to the flowing water. Naturally, the environment inside the hut becomes cold enough to preserve milk products, often as they are assembled prior to transformation into curd, butter and cheese. The principle of heat transfer is similar to that at the back of a fridge and indeed 'houns' are archaic fridges. The pilgrims of Mont Bégo had cows in their lifestyle and transforming their milk into cheese would be within the date range. Just such a proto-houn might assure quantities necessary for cheese production during hot periods, and the stone steps or ledges aside the directed spring water may be pictured here covered by a stretch of taught leather attached to two long poles.
2. A ceremonial space. It seems safe to say that Mont Bégo's largely Bronze age population were walking into the barren non agricultural zone around Mont Bégo to show the mystical mountain the proud qualities of their life and culture - in effect asking for blessing and 'dialogue'. Today we see the zone's favoured rock surfaces ornamented with a diverse array of schematic images. With the weather shutting down the area for seasons of snow and storms, it becomes possible to suspect that there was a preferred period of pilgrimage - lets say at the time of the golden larch trees around October. Tools and people might all wish to be 'seen' and blessed and one of the mankind's traditional means of blessing is with water. Might this be the image of a temporary shrine for seasonal pilgrims? Here the image may be of a natural spring directed into a ditch and made to pass through a very simple roofed building. It is possible that there are two long poles and that an attempt was made to describe 'uprights' - here drawn vastly before the rules of perspective as flattened right angles. Flat representations of dimension can be verified from an Iron age site to the north (rock 23 Naquane) which depicts an early cart and as the wheels are easy to identify and less ambiguous than straight lines, the principle of 'flat' depiction of height is observed. With this interpretation, the roof is held-up by six posts aside a second smaller building, away from the stream, which would in turn be held up by four posts.
With 'pilgrims' leaving very little outside of the petroglyphs, there is also a possibility that a sacred water spring was located away from Mont Bégo, and that the element was in truth as far away as the described field systems and tools and simply 'taken' to the sacred site as an image idea. Tools, children, young animals might all have been offered sacred water aside rites and ritual.
3. Tanning. Cattle can be used for reserves in extreme conditions, they can be used for their meat, they can be used for their manure (manure cob etc), they can be used for their horns (drinking goblets and measuring devices), and they can be used for their pelt - probably the largest readily available. A large pelt can be one trimmed cover without seams, or a source for multiple smaller products apt for the lifestyle of the whole clan. Leather cord, leather ornament, leather cloths, leather coverings and full leather covered huts can all be envisaged by crofters as they look after even a small number of domesticated cows.
I only saw a small selection of the petroglyphs of Mont Bégo, and in the literature there are discussions of subsets of glyphs that may show stretched pelts. With this image, the stretching, if that is the case, is not as one might expect. The classic image is of a hide stretched evenly on a frame or with multiple pegs (Roberto Rosselini recreated a prehistoric village for one of his films where the stretching leathers were integrated onto hut roofs). If huts were covered in leather, and many of the corniforms are in fact depictions of huts with fence 'farmyards', then cow leather will have been used at its maximum size. Tanning requires large quantities of water, a product (urine, salt solutions, lime) and plenty of repeated 'lissage'. Here a large pelt may have been made temporarily manageable for one 'tanner' by being temporarily sewn into a cylinder. Two long poles could thread through the cylinder and be pulled taught. With this interpretation a drainage ditch or 'rigole' passes under the pelt so that fresh water can constantly be scooped.
Here, the canal here would have been a straight line with a right angle and this does not seem immediately logical. I have seen drainage canals on mountain slopes doing just this. A spring feeds the ditch rather than making the field generally boggy. The ditch then cuts perpendicular across the slope, and in so doing, it catches additional ground water that can be riddling down the slope. Before it overflows the ditch turns back down the slope at an angle and drier pastoral land is preserved within.
Of the three options, the 'fridge' needs data on ancient cheese production in the area. The ceremonial holy spring needs data on this potential representation of vertical posts, and the tanning loop is weakened by depictions of central 'ropes' that seem difficult to explain.
Lower left. Hyperbolic horns, a square body shape, legs like guide ropes and an apparent 'farmyard' where there might be a tail, all suggest that the abstract form of a cow might have been employed as a hut archetype. My work on 'transport dragons' explains how pelts over frames might have helped man navigate the extremes of the ice age. That these mobile structures took on the character from fauna and myth is also to be expected. Culture is not genetic and can survive as a memory even after waves of migration. Sedentary populations holding onto the traditions of a collective consciousness may feel that it is quite natural for their practical huts to resemble an animal. Domestication also added the mind of man to the animal, and was a lifestyle that required constant training and reflection. The cow/hut symbol may have perfectly reflect this inter relation.
Lower right: The closest of the four images to the pelt of a cow - but there are still differences: the horns, the tail and even the general shape do not alight to an image of a pelt. The argument here is that the image is not descriptive but instead communicates the principles of 'cow', and this may well be the case. An alternative explanation may seem idiotic, but needs to be considered, and is that the square of the 'cows' body is once again a small building, but this time for the distribution of feed for young calves or winter hay, and that the legs and tails are calves feeding with their heads tucked into the building's sweet smelling feed, in what may have been at the time an amusing image from the cycle of life.
AJM 6.2.19.
Alternative focus shot. Not super happy about the way this turned out. Comments and criticism are always appreciated!
This PORSCHE (Prototype of Retro Sport Coupe Heedfully Engineered) is an alternative model of LEGO 10295 Porsche 911. More info and pics on my website: www.nkubate.com/retro-sport-coupe/ Instructions available at Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/users/NKubate/mocs/
Withdrawn artic 10170 has found a new use as a static test centre for checking visitors to the depots temperature before they enter. Seen here parked up at the depot entrance.