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our nephew has grown quite abit. now he very expressive and knows exactly how to manipulate the adult by acting cute and sad. but he still point at people using his middle finger. a habit he better change, lest he get himself into trouble.
Maxims of Behaviour
Alexander Knox
Kinetic light installation, 2008
Royal Mail House, cnr of Bourke & Swanston Sts (Melway ref. 2F, F3)
Maxims of Behaviour plays across the distinctive 10-storey, 1960s’ facade of Royal Mail House. Set among the giant billboards and screens of the south-eastern corner of the Bourke and Swanston Streets, Alexander Knox’s kinetic light work can be seen each winter evening from dusk till late, until 2012.
The work features colourful abstract imagery that moves spectral-like across the façade, transforming the site into a dynamic entity, a living thing that inhabits the area. The imagery is produced from abstracted video footage of the city’s light, colour and movement, and it acts as a mimetic device that echoes and feeds off its surrounds. The installation becomes an integral part of the nightscape, complementing the floodlit surroundings, creating an organic synthesis of movement and light. The title of the work is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Phantasmagoria’, in which the author draws an insightful parallel between ghosts and us.
Some 88 multi-coloured LED lights mounted on the ledges of the building facade are used produce the moving montage of light. This matrix of computer-controlled lights projects onto the surface of the building, with each light effectively acting as a pixel. Each night the average energy consumption is equivalent to running a 2400W small electric heater. The LEDs have a lifespan of 100,000 hours; they are very low maintenance and run on green power.
The City of Melbourne commissioned Alexander Knox to make Maxims of Behaviour as part of its Public Art Program.
Photograph by Greg Sims
Nest building behaviour is often associated with courtship and pair formation in birds. The degree to which this behaviour is used in courtship varies from mere manipulation of a piece of nest material or display of a potential nest site to the building of an entire nest by the male individual.
Both the partners of a pair carried the nesting materials together during the initial stage of nest construction. Males contributed more to find and fetch the materials, while the females took charge of manipulation at the nest.
Nest materials consisted of green branches, sticks and grasses. It was possible to identify 8 plant species among the constructing materials brought to the nest. Fresh leaves of Dumur (Ficus glomerata), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus citriodora), Jarul (Lagerstoemia speciosa), Kadamba (Anthocephalus indicus), Durba Grass (Cynodon dactylon) and Mutha Grass (Cyperus rotundus) were used more commonly in nest formation.
Asian open-billed stork - Anastomus oscitans (Shamukh Khol in Bengal) in the Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (Kulik Bird Sanctuary)
A resident colonial breeder distributed in tropical Southeast Asia. During monsoon period, the Kulik river enters the sanctuary, which supports a wide variety of food for the open billed stork. The main diet of the bird is apple snail, Pila globosa or other types of snail which grows in large number in the smaller or larger water bodies surrounding Kulik.
Every year large number of this bird species come in the sanctuary only for breeding purpose. According to the field report prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), more than 100,000 storks came to Kulik during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of this group!
Interesting Read:
Images of Bengal, India
Album Title: Exotic Behaviour
Model: 虹羚
Photographer: Edwin Setiawan
Place: 士林官邸
Date: 2009/07/12
Just about Photography: edwinsetiawan.wordpress.com
Edwin Setiawan Photography: www.edwinsetiawan.com
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Instinctive behaviour - uses rocks to break open emu eggs, which are too big to crack with its own talons or beak.
All black-breasted buzzards know instinctively how to break open the gigantic size eggs of emus - too big to pick up or break with talons or beak.
They find a stone, pick it up with their beaks, and throw it at the egg until it breaks! This is purely instinctive behavior - it is not taught. Only one other raptor does the same thing - an African raptor who breaks ostrich eggs - even bigger!
Normally it takes between 4 and 6 throws to break the (plaster cast) emu egg.
Beatrice got it in one shot today!
The Black-breasted Buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon), or Black-breasted Kite, is a large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae and the monotypic genus Hamirostra. Its wing length ranges between 440-500 mm, with females being larger.
t eats rabbits, large lizards, birds and carrion. It will also raid the eggs of ground-nesting birds, breaking large eggs by hurling stones against them with its large beak.
The Black-breasted Buzzard is endemic to Australia (found only there), mainly in the north and in semi-arid and arid central regions. It is rare in eastern, southern coastal or near-coastal mainland.
Habitat
Black-breasted Buzzards are found in lightly timbered plains, open country and tree-lined waterways through inland Australia and in semi-arid or arid regions.
Note : The emu "eggs" are realistic plaster casts - no real emu egg was harmed in this show
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
taken from my sea-kayak, in Tomales Bay, California. This sea-lion was making very strange noises from its snout, but I do not think its was due to my presence.
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--- for more info check en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Sea_Lion
InnerBody is the interactive installation where visitors are invited to interact with the human-heart shaped interface and take a fake medical examination. The visitors experience stressful multisensory environments and life-threatening diagnosis as antecedents of death anxiety to provoke positive consequences such as enhanced life meaning. The research outcomes related to use of multisensory interfaces to change user behavior have been accepted for publication in The Leonardo Journal.
Credit: vog.photo
Gesture, attitude, behaviour : a workshop with dancers Mauro Paccagnella and Alessandro Bernardeschi on march 6, 2007 at Erg (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels) for bachelor 1 students. Professors : Sabine Voglaire and Marc Wathieu. Pictures by Yves André.
Governments around the world are drawing on behavioural insights to improve public policy outcomes: from automatic enrolment for pensions, to better tax compliance, to increasing the supply of organ donation.
But those very same policy makers are also subject to biases that can distort decision making. The Behavioural Insights Team has been studying those biases and what can be done to counter them, in collaboration with Jill Rutter and Julian McCrae of the Institute for Government.
The report was launched with remarks from Alex Chisholm, Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Dr Michael Hallsworth, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team in North America presented the key findings.
The findings, their relevance to policy making today, and what they mean for the way governments make decisions were discussed by:
Polly Mackenzie, Director of Policy for the Deputy Prime Minister, 2010–15 and now Director of Demos
Dr Tony Curzon Price, Economic Advisor to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The event was chaired by Jill Rutter, Programme Director at the Institute for Government.
#IfGBIT
Photos by Candice McKenzie
Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve.
Because of the poor light I nearly kept the camera in the bag, pleased I didn't.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/54006
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Maxims of Behaviour
Alexander Knox
Kinetic light installation, 2008
Royal Mail House, cnr of Bourke & Swanston Sts (Melway ref. 2F, F3)
Maxims of Behaviour plays across the distinctive 10-storey, 1960s’ facade of Royal Mail House. Set among the giant billboards and screens of the south-eastern corner of the Bourke and Swanston Streets, Alexander Knox’s kinetic light work can be seen each winter evening from dusk till late, until 2012.
The work features colourful abstract imagery that moves spectral-like across the façade, transforming the site into a dynamic entity, a living thing that inhabits the area. The imagery is produced from abstracted video footage of the city’s light, colour and movement, and it acts as a mimetic device that echoes and feeds off its surrounds. The installation becomes an integral part of the nightscape, complementing the floodlit surroundings, creating an organic synthesis of movement and light. The title of the work is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Phantasmagoria’, in which the author draws an insightful parallel between ghosts and us.
Some 88 multi-coloured LED lights mounted on the ledges of the building facade are used produce the moving montage of light. This matrix of computer-controlled lights projects onto the surface of the building, with each light effectively acting as a pixel. Each night the average energy consumption is equivalent to running a 2400W small electric heater. The LEDs have a lifespan of 100,000 hours; they are very low maintenance and run on green power.
The City of Melbourne commissioned Alexander Knox to make Maxims of Behaviour as part of its Public Art Program.
Photograph by Greg Sims
Madeline Gannon, Research Fellow, Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Cultural Leader captured during the session: Being Human: Behaviour at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
Some 35 years ago at Slimbridge, I noted some interesting bird behaviour. A juvenile moorhen was searching for food and then offering it to some moorhen chicks. I guessed that it was probably an older brother/sister of those chicks, as the behaviour was tolerated by the adults. I’d never heard of this before and those I mentioned it to, seemed not to have heard of this behaviour.
A few years later I told the noted ornithologist, Malcolm Ogilvie, who informed me that he’d seen it while he was working at Slimbridge, and had (IIRC) written a brief paper about it.
At Martin Mere WWT this week I saw the same behaviour; a juvenile moorhen was working with two adults and offering food to 5 tiny chicks. Not always successfully - as the piece offered (in the photo above) was bit too large for those tiny chicks! However the behaviour was tolerated by the two parents, so again, I assume that the juvenile was from an earlier brood, and must provide some - if limited - practical help!
I mentioned it to some of the staff, but they were surprised to hear of such behaviour, and I wonder how well this is known. (I’m also interested to know if any other bird species behave in this way.)
Maxims of Behaviour
Alexander Knox
Kinetic light installation, 2008
Royal Mail House, cnr of Bourke & Swanston Sts (Melway ref. 2F, F3)
Maxims of Behaviour plays across the distinctive 10-storey, 1960s’ facade of Royal Mail House. Set among the giant billboards and screens of the south-eastern corner of the Bourke and Swanston Streets, Alexander Knox’s kinetic light work can be seen each winter evening from dusk till late, until 2012.
The work features colourful abstract imagery that moves spectral-like across the façade, transforming the site into a dynamic entity, a living thing that inhabits the area. The imagery is produced from abstracted video footage of the city’s light, colour and movement, and it acts as a mimetic device that echoes and feeds off its surrounds. The installation becomes an integral part of the nightscape, complementing the floodlit surroundings, creating an organic synthesis of movement and light. The title of the work is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poem ‘Phantasmagoria’, in which the author draws an insightful parallel between ghosts and us.
Some 88 multi-coloured LED lights mounted on the ledges of the building facade are used produce the moving montage of light. This matrix of computer-controlled lights projects onto the surface of the building, with each light effectively acting as a pixel. Each night the average energy consumption is equivalent to running a 2400W small electric heater. The LEDs have a lifespan of 100,000 hours; they are very low maintenance and run on green power.
The City of Melbourne commissioned Alexander Knox to make Maxims of Behaviour as part of its Public Art Program.
Photograph by Greg Sims
I made an album cover for cactus island recordings.
This is an awesome compilation with beautiful music inside!
I'm very happy with this work, is very special to me and one of my song is on it.
Released: 16th february, close to valentines day ; )
more info: www.cactusisland.net
Bad Behavior from Preston describe themselves as a six piece “balls to the wall” glam rock extravaganza and that pretty much sums this band up in a nutshell. The last competitive band of the competition and good lord, what a way to finish! Looking every part the Glam Rockers resplendent in their colourful outfits and make up, but it was really the front man, Phil Bailey, who not only took centre stage but looked the most avant garde a he did his level best to be the consummate front man. With three guitars on stage, the vocals were sometimes overwhelmed especially during 'Born To Party' but it was still a good performance overall. The bands cover was Alice Coopers' 'Man Behind the Mask', and although not one of the famous Cooper songs, it was nevertheless a good cover by the band. Bailey is predictably theatrical here which ties in very well with the bands image and although this is a proper band with serious musicians, there's nothing in the book saying that you can’t do it without planting your tongue firmly in your cheek! Their final number 'Apocalypse Now' was the best of the set with its great guitar riff that has the place jumping on and off stage. As the song reached its climax Bailey announced "This is the end!" and as the curtain falls on their performance, the band are greeted with generous applause as they take their final bows. What a great way to end the competition!