View allAll Photos Tagged Brain
Brain coral is found around the globe and comes in many varieties. This one is either the grooved or the maze kind. Brain corals extend their tentacles to catch food at night. During the day, the brain corals use their tentacles for protection by wrapping them over the grooves on their surface.
Place: Abandoned sugar mill - Somewhere in Italy
Date: September 25, 2010
Camera: Olympus Evolt E-420
Lens: Zuiko Digital ED 14-42 mm 1:3.5-5.6
Questa immagine è stata pubblicata su:
All images are exclusive property of Fogli Luca and are protected under International Copyright laws. The images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without the written permission. If you wish to use or buy any of the images, please contact me by e-mail address lux76[at]libero.it or by flickr mail
See also: Lux @ Blogspot
50mm 1.8 D, AF Nikkor lens with a Kenko 36mm extension tube. Handheld with the SS-400 strobe bounced off the ceiling.
© Ben Heine || Facebook || Twitter || www.benheine.com
_______________________________________________
For more information about my art: info@benheine.com
_______________________________________________
Searching for Thoughts
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Searching for thoughts goes on from start to end,
Quickened with passion that gives each calling;
Like a blank page where fingers move and bend,
Passion and pain from the footsteps falling.
Again now and now the movements go on,
Deeper within darkness enter a step;
Ignite corners in blaze millimicron,
Starting to grow and becoming more help.
All from the searching from within the brain,
Play with what you know in bitter and sweet;
Narrow each law by reshaping the rein,
Each of its way becomes clear in its beat.
Across clearings a mind searches all through,
Symbols of play know how to continue.
-------------
Poem's source: www.poemhunter.com/peter-s-quinn
...the Mage was fearing for his life, the queen was adamant in her decision to strap him on to that hellfire-machine he had invented...
...still he had an ace up his sleeve, the sparks he had stumbled up on in his tower, he was gonna use them to convince the queen and the people that he was a real mage, a mighty warlock, and if they didn´t cancel the launch he would fry the whole capital with sparks turning the town in to an infernal mayhem...
But for this he needed a bit of planning, he knew the launch site, since the queen was stupid enough to announce it to the whole town so the could be there and watch what would maybe be his last experiment?
....with this plan he giggled a bit in a nervous way, now he would not only fool the grim reaper of his departure in to the misty land, he would also get the power he always had deserved when he "reveal his true magic" for the population, perhaps he would be crowned king, or even better emperor and all would fear him...
so the hours passed and the queens men came to collect him, he was still giggling a bit under his white beard, the soldiers though he had gone a bit more loopy than usual... and perhaps senile too...
when they arrived at the scene for the launch, he saw that almost all people in town had gathered for the even, the queen was seated in a palanquin so she could see over the mob of her loyal subjects...
The mage made sure to stand on the wire hidden by the dust on the street so that he would connect it to the metallic scaffolding underneath his wizard -gown...
The queen asked him if he had any final wish, and corrected herself and said, any specific wish before your departure to the moon,my dear mage?
the Mage Replied: Esmeralda I have, I have a wish to display my true forces for you and the people, this is a waning to all of you, my power are mighty, Make me your new leader or suffer the consequences!
...now was the time when he would display an arc of electric fire, scaring the queen and the people... but some kids had disrupted his circuit earlier that day while playing "launch the wizard" earlier that day...
the result was that he stood there moving his arms like a fool...
...all the people laughed, so did the queen...
She said: "yes I have seen your mighty magic it is as void as always...!
Somehow she pitied this old fool... perhaps she should spare him a certain death?
but now the executioners (doing this work too) strapped him to the rocket...
the mob of people was cheering as in one single voice: Blast him, Blast the phony mage to the moon or perhaps to hell...!!!
Now they queen Had started thinking, am I really this cruel? she was thinking of the monkey, would she do the same to him that he was planning to do to the poor animal, no she couldn´t, perhaps he should do some time in the slammer instead until he repented? she whispered to her man-at-arms to go and stop the executioners...
at this time the fish mongrel dropped a fish he had forgotten under his shirt it hit the point of broken circuitry and unified it, a great amount of power was instantly lead to the wizard strapped to the rocker... it ignited his experiment and off he was...
Kaboooom!!!
...again he got to see the world leave as a small blue orb and the moon became an ever bigger orb in front of him... then he passed out out of fear and actually the rocket went almost all the way to the moon, but lacked the power to break earths attraction so down he came towards the earth again...
now let us move to a different place on earth, somewhere called the buffalo plains by the locals in their language...
Three hunters are on their way home from a failed hunt...
- Hey Jumping Tiger, look here, what a strange crater, it is almost like something fell from the sky with great force...
- Owl Hooters that might be one of those fragile colorless ones that uncle Hurting-Liver was taking about when he came back from the salty lake without water?
- Hey you shouldn´t believe all that your strange uncle tells you, the strange stuff he is brewing is poison to his brain and his stories are as weird as our creation myths...
- Oh he went to shaman university, he studied there for five years...
- Yeah but that university is not exactly Princeton is it, it is just a place for odd bums like your uncle, just a wee bit to sane to put in the sanatarium...
- Hey, Beaver-Pelt look there in the middle of the Crater, just beside those cactuses
- Cacti, didn´t you go to university?
- Hey look at it, his it is a humanoid, but not one of those frail colorless ones... this one has a skin like old parchment!
- poke him with your spear?
- He is alive isn´t he?
- we will take him to our medicine man, he might know what to do?
Perhaps we should use him as that gargoyle from the totem pole that your uncle ruined when he was under the influence of that poison he brews and drinks...
- Yeah tie him up, the council of elders will know what to do...
- at the least we won´t come back empty handed to our village again or hunt down that hedgehog over there...
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
© All rights reserved
Ex Manicomio di Volterra
Mirrored image of a brain from a mouse with the neurodegenerative disease Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1). A major way to assess the impact of a potential therapeutic on the central nervous system is to assess cerebellar pathology in mice. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) researchers found that an experimental drug could stabilize or slow the progression of NPC1. Visit www.nichd.nih.gov/news/releases/nieman_pick_080917 for details.
Credit: NICHD/NIH, I. Williams
It's 1865 and the telegraph is heading west. George Crane, wanting to keep law and order out of his territory, is out to stop the construction. The engineer on the job is Ken Mason and he is the grandson of Zorro. As Crane sends his men or Indians to stop the work, Mason repeatedly puts on the Zorro costume and rides to the rescue in this 12-chapter serial.
Clayton Moore
September 14th, 1914 — December 28th, 1999
Clayton Moore, though best remembered today as television’s Lone Ranger, had a lengthy and distinguished career in serials. Moore was a physically ideal serial lead, but his greatest strengths were his dramatic, quietly intense speaking voice and expressive face. These gifts helped Moore to convey a sincerity that could make the most unbelievable dialogue or situations seem real. The bulk of Moore’s cliffhanger work was done after World War 2, when serials’ shrinking budgets cut back on original action scenes and made the presence of skilled leading players more important than in the serial’s golden age. Moore, with his sincerity and acting skill, was just the type of actor the post-war serials needed.
Clayton Moore was born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago. He began to train for a career as a circus acrobat at the age of eight, and joined a trapeze act called the Flying Behrs after finishing high school; as a member of the Behrs, Moore would perform for two circuses and at the 1934 World’s Fair. An injury to his left leg around 1935 forced him out of the aerialist business, and after working briefly as a male model in New York he moved to Hollywood in 1937, beginning his film career as a stuntman. He played numerous bit roles in addition to his stunt work for the next three years, among them a miniscule part in his first serial, Zorro’s Fighting Legion (Republic, 1939), as one of the members of the titular group. Edward Small, an independent producer allied with United Artists, cast Moore in his first credited parts in a pair of 1940 films, Kit Carson and The Son of Monte Cristo. The former featured Moore as a heroic young pioneer, the latter as an army officer aiding masked avenger Louis Hayward. Following these two films, Moore began to get credited speaking parts in other pictures. In 1941 he played the romantic lead in Tuxedo Junction, one of Republic Pictures’ “Weaver Brothers and Elviry” comedies, and the next year the studio signed him for his first starring serial, Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942).
Perils of Nyoka (Republic, 1942) was a vehicle for Republic’s new “Serial Queen,” Kay Aldridge, who played Nyoka Gordon, a girl seeking her missing scientist father in the deserts of North Africa. Moore was the heroic Dr. Larry Grayson, a member of an expedition searching for the “Tablets of Hippocrates,” an ancient list of medical cures sought by Nyoka’s father before he disappeared. Nyoka joined forces with Grayson and his expedition to locate Professor Gordon and the tablets–and to battle Arab ruler Vultura (Lorna Gray) and her band of desert cutthroats, who were after the Tablets and the treasure hidden with them. Perils of Nyoka was a highly exciting serial, with consistently imaginative and varied action sequences, and colorful characters and locales. Although Moore took second billing to Aldridge, his character received as much screen time as hers and his performance was a major part of the serial’s success. Moore, with his intense sincerity, made his nearly superhuman physician character believable; the audience never felt like questioning Dr. Grayson’s ability to perform emergency brain surgery on Nyoka’s amnesiac father in a desert cave, or his amazing powers of riding, wall-scaling, marksmanship, and sword-fighting, far beyond those of the average medical school graduate.
Moore went into the army in 1942, almost immediately after the release of Perils of Nyoka. He served throughout World War Two, and didn’t resume his film career until 1946, when he returned to Republic Pictures to appear in The Crimson Ghost. The impact of his starring turn in Perils of Nyoka was diminished by his long hiatus, and he found himself playing a supporting role in this new serial. He was cast as Ashe, the chief henchman of the mysterious Crimson Ghost, and aided that villain in his attempts to steal a counter-atomic weapon called a “Cyclotrode.” Ashe was ultimately brought to justice, along with his nefarious master, by stars Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling. The Crimson Ghost showed that Moore could play intensely mean villains as well as intensely courageous heroes. His sneering, bullying Ashe came off as thoroughly unpleasant, as he stalked through the serial doing his best to kill off hero and heroine.
Moore returned to heroic parts in his next cliffhanger, Jesse James Rides Again (Republic, 1947). The serial’s plot had Jesse, retired from outlawry, forced to go on the run because of new crimes committed in his name. Jesse and his pal Steve (John Compton) wound up in Tennessee, where, under the alias of “Mr. Howard,” Jesse came to the aid of a group of farmers victimized by an outlaw gang called the Black Raiders. The Raiders, secretly bossed by local businessman Jim Clark (Tristram Coffin), were after oil reserves beneath the local farmland, but Mr. Howard ultimately outgunned them. James’ own identity was exposed in the process, but he was allowed to escape arrest by a sympathetic marshal. Jesse James Rides Again was Republic’s best post-war Western serial, thanks in part to the unusual plot device of an ex-badman hero. Moore was able to give Jesse James a dangerous edge that most other serial leads couldn’t have pulled off; his cold, steely-eyed glare when gunning down villains seemed very much in keeping with dialogue references to Jesse’s outlaw past.
G-Men Never Forget (Republic, 1947), Moore’s next serial, cast him as Ted O’Hara, an FBI agent battling a racketeer boss named Vic Murkland (Roy Barcroft). O’Hara broke up various protection rackets organized by Murkland, but his efforts were hampered by Murkland’s impersonation of a kidnaped police commissioner (also played by Barcroft). G-Men Never Forget possessed a tough and realistic atmosphere not typical of gang-busting serials, and Moore delivered a grimly determined performance well-fitted to the serial’s mood. Moore’s acting, good supporting performances, skilled direction, and a well-written script made G-Men Never Forget a superior serial, one that could hold its own against earlier gang-busting chapterplays like the Dick Tracy outings.
Moore’s next serial was Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (Republic, 1948), in which he reprised his Jesse James role. Joined this time by Steve Darrell as Frank James, Moore tried to help a former gang member named John Powell (Stanley Andrews) develop a silver mine. Part of the mine’s proceeds were to be used to pay back victims of James Gang robberies, but the plan was derailed by a crooked mining engineer (John Crawford), who discovered the mine contained gold instead of silver and murdered Powell to keep this find secret. Crawford then used every trick in the book to keep Moore, Darrell, and Noel Neill (as Powell’s daughter) from developing the mine, but the James Boys unmasked his treachery by the end. Frank and Jesse James drew heavily on stock footage and plot elements from Republic’s earlier Adventures of Red Ryder, and was thus more predictable than its predecessor, but it was still an entertaining and well-made serial. Moore again made Jesse seem both sympathetic and (when fighting the bad guys) somewhat frightening.
By now, Moore was established as Republic’s premiere serial hero; however, his next cliffhanger would lead to his departure from the studio and change the course of his career. The last in a long line of Republic Zorro serials, Ghost of Zorro (1949) starred Moore as Ken Mason, the original Zorro’s grandson, who donned his ancestor’s mask to help a telegraph company establish a line in the wild West in the face of outlaw sabotage. Like Adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the serial was somewhat derivative of earlier outings (particularly Son of Zorro), but smoothly and professionally done. Moore delivered another strong performance, but for some odd reason Republic chose to have his voice dubbed by another actor in scenes where he was masked as Zorro. This strange production decision did not diminish Moore’s potential as a masked hero in the eyes of a group of television producers who were trying to find an actor to play the Lone Ranger on a soon-to-be-launched TV show; Moore’s turn in Ghost of Zorro landed him the part. Moore debuted as the Ranger in 1949, and played the part for two seasons on TV. During this period, he did make one apparent serial appearance in Flying Disc Man From Mars (Republic, 1950), but all his footage actually came from The Crimson Ghost.
In 1952, Moore was dropped from The Lone Ranger without any explanation from the producers, who apparently feared that Moore was becoming too identified as the Lone Ranger, and that he might become so sure of his position that he’d ask for a bigger salary. John Hart replaced Moore as the Ranger for the show’s third season, and Moore returned to freelance acting. He played numerous small roles in feature films, made multiple guest appearances (usually as a heavy) on TV shows like Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show, and also found time to make four more serials.
The first of these was Radar Men from the Moon (Republic, 1952), which featured Moore as a gangster named Graber, who was working with lunar invaders to bring the Earth under the dominion of Retik, Emperor of the Moon (Roy Barcroft). Scientist “Commando” Cody (George Wallace) opposed the planned conquest with the aid of his flying rocket suit and other handy gadgets. Moore met a fiery demise when his car plummeted off a cliff in the last chapter, and Retik came to a similarly sticky end shortly thereafter. Moore’s characterization in Radar Men from the Moon was reminiscent of his performance as “Ashe;” once again he performed deeds of villainy with swaggering relish.
Moore’s next serial, Columbia’s Son of Geronimo (1952), was his first non-Republic cliffhanger. He returned to playing a hero in this outing, an undercover cavalry officer named Jim Scott out to quell an Indian uprising led by Rodd Redwing as Porico, son of Geronimo. The uprising was being encouraged by outlaws John Crawford and Marshall Reed to serve their own ends, and Scott and Porico ultimately joined forces to defeat them. Son of Geronimo remains one of the few popular late Columbia serials, due to its strong and unusually violent action scenes and the forceful performances of Moore and his co-stars, particularly Reed and Redwing.
Moore’s last Republic serial was Jungle Drums of Africa (1952), in which he played Alan King, an American mining engineer developing a valuable uranium deposit in the African jungles. Moore was assisted by lady doctor Phyllis Coates and fellow engineer Johnny Sands and opposed by a group of Communist spies (Henry Rowland, John Cason) and their witch-doctor accomplice (Roy Glenn). While Drums drew extensively on stock shots of African animals to augment its jungle atmosphere, it relied to an unusually large extent on original footage for its action scenes and chapter endings, and the result was a modestly-budgeted but enjoyable serial that served as a good finish to Moore’s career at Republic.
Gunfighters of the Northwest (Columbia, 1953), Moore’s final serial, cast him as the second lead, a Mountie named Bram Nevin who backed up RCMP Sergeant Jock Mahoney. Moore, in his first and only “sidekick” role, played well off Mahoney; while the latter’s character was the focus of the serial’s action, Moore’s role was really more that of co-hero than of a traditional sidekick. The serial pitted the two leads against the “White Horse Rebels,” a gang of outlaws trying to overthrow the Canadian government. Though thinly-plotted, Gunfighters, with its nice location photography and good acting, was the last really interesting Columbia serial; it was also Moore’s last serial. In 1954, he returned to the Lone Ranger series, its producers having been forced to realize that Moore was firmly established as the Ranger and that audiences wouldn’t warm up to his substitute John Hart. The fourth and fifth seasons of the show featured Moore in his familiar place as the “daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains.”
After the Lone Ranger series ended in 1956, Moore reprised the role in two big-screen movies and then retired from acting. He remained in the public view, however, making personal appearances throughout the country in his Lone Ranger garb. Publicly and privately, he upheld the ideals that the Lone Ranger–and his serial heroes–had upheld on the screen: courage, charity, and a sense of justice. In 1979, he was barred by court order from making personal appearances as the Lone Ranger because the property’s owners worried that Moore’s close identification with the character would undercut a new Lone Ranger film. Moore nevertheless maintained his status as the “real” Lone Ranger in the eyes of fans, and, after the failure of the new Ranger feature, he was allowed to resume his mask in 1984. Moore died in Los Angeles in 1999, leaving behind several generations of fans that honored him not only for his TV persona, but for the kindess that characterized the off-screen man behind the mask.
Part of Clayton Moore’s success as the Lone Ranger was due to his respectful attitude towards the character. While some actors would have had a hard time taking a masked cowboy from a children’s radio show seriously, Moore’s performance was as heartfelt as if he had been playing a Shakespearian role; he gave the part all the benefit of his considerable acting talent. Moore played his cliffhanger roles, heroic and villainous, with the same respect and the same wholeheartedness. It’s no wonder that serial fans hold him in the same high regard that the Lone Ranger’s fans do.
Since I kill every plant I ever own, I satisfy myself by taking pictures of my brother's many plants and flowers. Love how detailed this little guy is - each finger-shaped segment is smaller than my pinky.
In the next edition of her lecture series "Brain for everybody", Dr. Manuela Macedonia takes a look at the mechanisms that contribute to the fact that many diets end in failure.
credit: Tijana - Fotolia.com
Day 21
Took this at maybe 4am last night. I took a 5 hour nap yesterday so I didn't get tired until way late. Experimenting with light leaks and vignetting. I like this.
Song: Brain Champagne - Thadwick Tristen Trevor lll & Swan Coltrane
Looks pretty good on black. Lightbox!
Two pairs of beta lobe neurons (one blue, one orange) in the brain of a locust. These neurons process olfactory information. Toward the top are mushroom bodies, brain areas associated with learning and memory. Credit: N. Gupta and M. Stopfer, NICHD
Social media and ubiquitous connection extract our brain time in every moment of our life... We are fed before being hungry, we become addicted smombies (smartphone zombies), we forget to connect with others and dream up the world we want to make...
Japan. Oct. 2024
White Brain fungus, Exidia thuretiana, growing in the garden. The fungus, and the dead twig it's growing on, is around 5mm across. 23 February 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
Please contact me to arrange the use of any of my images. They are copyright, all rights reserved.
Excellent upper view of the human brain. We can see here the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex divided by the longitudinal fissure. Both hemispheres are connected by the corupus callosum, and each of them is devoted to partly different mental functions. Left hemisphere is thought to be more rational, logical, analytical, and objective and handles normal speech. Beacuse it is more analytical it looks more at the parts. Right hemisphere handles things in a more random and subjective way. It appears to be responsible for more intuitive processes and looks more at wholes. So the dominance of one hemisphere over the other will define our way of thinking and interpreting the world.
Brain Forest Quipu is a multi-part installation at Tate Modern made up of sculpture, sound, music and video created by Cecilia Vicuña. It is an ancient South American recording and communication system made from knotted threads. At the centre of Brain Forest Quipu are two sculptures that hang 27 metres from the ceiling. They are woven together using a range of organic materials, including found objects, unspun wool, plant fibres, rope and cardboard to evoke the look of bleached-out trees and ghostly forms.