Amazon photos on Flickr

The fruit loop bird. Just follow your nose. I don't know what kind of toucan it is but I saw this at the last minute. I was surprised I even got the shot.

Ngoc Tram 2 by Hai Pham

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Amazon Lily

amazon_gift_certificate_account_balance by AliaK

trying out www.mturk.com/mturk - it seems to have mostly spammy things to do but I found a couple of word matching exercises (apparently for a research project but perhaps spam?) and transcribed a short mp3 - an interview with one of the design team architects of the World Trade Center in New York. I made $3 (very low hourly rate!!) and transferred this to my amazon account - gift certificate balance so I can use it for another book purchase. this worked ok, I now have $3 to spend.

the site has an interesting history - tinyurl.com/39wel5 - though seems to have been overtaken by spammers now who have HITs for spammy content. the site also seems to be targeted towards American and Indian workers as only US bank accounts can be used, and people in India can have checks raised in Rupees. though for other countries you can transfer the balance to your amazon gift voucher.

the idea of Human Intelligent agents is interesting - they call it Artificial Artificial Intelligence. it's a type of crowdsourcing - but not as we know it ! it reminds me of a science fiction novel - perhaps one of Neal Stephenson's. similar to the rentacoder or yourmaninindia sites or even craigslist.

23/04/2009

Joe by José Lima Jr.

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Presidente Figueiredo

Amazon 川越配送センター by akwada

The Scythian Arrow by Audrey Lucero

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This is a very large painting. Sorry, it's in the States right now, and I don't have the dimensions with me.

Cool thing is, it won Second place in the National Society of Arts and Letters Watercolor painting competition (2006, I think) , along with a couple others of mine.

I designed all of her jewelry and her hairstyle; her tattoos (as well as every motif in the paiting) are inspired by Scythian Art and Metalworking. The background is in the Nouveau style (my first attempt) and the pattern is based off of Scythian felted hangings.

I call this 'The Scythian Arrow' because the tattoo on her right arm is taken from a design painted on an extant Scythian arrow. It turned out to look pretty good on a human arm, I think.

I plan on doing more with Scythian art in the future. I love its ferocity and virility. There's just so much potential there.

DSC_7439 by jpgolf14

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Amazon River, Manaus, Brazil

2019-03-09_046_DSC_2183 Copyright Bruno Lavit by Bernadette Yves