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Dear friends, this is a perfect reproduction of a ship building. You may find this at "Galata Museo del Mare", in Genoa, Italy. "Galata Museo del Mare" is a famous museum about sea and shipping.
Technical details: no flash, artificial light. Handheld. SOOC, no treatment at all (please see EXIF). Taken few hours ago!
an entry for Soccer's contest. So I built most of these within a day, I'll also add the villains in the next post.
Lore: While in a battle with Black Adam, both him and Captain Marvel were accidentally sent back to medieval times which caused a chain of events to happen centuries earlier and put them both in suspended animation. 25 years later, a team of unlikely people have to embark on a journey to stop Black Adam from taking over the world.
Top L-R: The Green Lantern, Superman, Wonder Woman.
Bottom L-R: Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Batman, Flash, Green Arrow.
The Empire Builder was only several hours late on this second morning of February, which means the light was perfect for a shot at St. Anthony. It looks like they came into contact with a body of soft tissue somewhere along their journey from the PNW.
Evidenced on the horizon, a wall of overcast is moving in, but not before the Empire Builder heads out of town. They had an on-time departure from Union Depot and are heading for CP rails at St. Croix for a trip down the River Sub.
What a wild ride this has been! From my first Iron Builder round back when it was a gruelling long month to this new fast paced 2-week format. Iron Builder is a tough competition where all eyes are on the contestants, so there is no room for sloppyness along the way! (And it's damn hard to combine with a full time job sometimes!)
I'd like to thank everyone who has provided me with encouragement along the way. Be it liking my builds or providing me with comments and feedback, you are all great and you make it worth it. So thank you :)
Now what did I think of this last seed piece? Well, after getting over the initial shock I think I liked it better than the dynamite. But the blue shield holder did not give me an easy ride. For me there are two problems with it. One is that its main connection point is an axle instead of a bar, and I am in no way used to building with Technic. My collection of Technic-pieces is severely poorly sorted, and I am really bad at using those types of clunky pieces. So I often worked around that by finding other ways of attaching the shield holder that did not have to rely on Technic. The other problem with the piece? The color blue. I am not a huge fan of LEGO standard blue. It is not the color I buy the most parts in, nor is it a color I find particularly easy to work with. So those two factors where something I had to overcome during these two weeks, and I feel like I was able to pull through pretty well once I got going. Overall the piece had an interesting shape and provided the ability to put things at an angle. And I didn't even know this piece existed before I opened my envelope with them!
Iron Builder tends to bring out the best in me, and this round was no different. I am particularly pleased with a few of my builds this round, notably Jörmugandr and Blue Shelled. Both builds that play into my interests outside of the LEGO hobby, and both builds where I feel like I was able to use the seed piece in some really fitting ways. The robomaid was the most fun build though, I just love the expression the seed piece gave it.
Now it's time for a new champion to take my place. I wish you the best in the future Elias, good luck taking on your next challenger!
The westbound Empire Builder is seen here departing Union Station just a few minutes behind schedule at CP Morgan.
No words can express my joy when few hours ago I’ve been named LEGO Builder of the Year 2019 by The Brothers Brick, the world’s no. 1 source for LEGO news, reviews, and fan creations.
It’s an incredible goal to me. Thanks a bunch to The Brothers Brick Team for this special award and thanks to Rod Gillies (Senior Contributor) for the wonderful article and for the description of my MOCs.
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There was no better way to end the year.
Thank you all!
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In 1868/69, this building was designed by the architect Heinrich Karl Schell for the Krüger family, well-known Riga builders, and it had a magnificent front garden on the Merkel Street side. In 1869, Franke's café-restaurant and Johann von Manteifel's photo studio were the first to open, and later other cafés and even a cinema appeared. The owners of the house changed several times in the following decades, but for the longest time, it was owned by the prominent von Tranze-Rozeneck family, a member of the Vidzeme knighthood. After the Soviet occupation, the building was nationalised. In 1940, the Customs Department was housed there, and in 1941 it began to be used for the Economics and Law, and History and Philology faculties of the State University of Latvia (until 2009). During World War II, the building's stoker hid Jews who were lucky enough to escape the ghetto in the basement. The popular Sakta gift and souvenir shop was opened here in 1964, under the design of architect Joseph Goldenberg to rebuild the former perfumery and gift shop premises.
I recently did an interview with John Klapheke, also known as BrickBuilder7622. Check it out at InnovaLUG's website!
As per the Iron Builder competition rules. I (the looser) have built a trophy for Bruce (the winner).
I figure that anyone who beats me in a head to head (no pun intended) competition deserves to be able to mount my head on their wall. Thus I have created a Lowell sphere version of my head for Bruce to mount on his wall.
We've been hard at work and are delighted to announce that Iron Builder is making its comeback! This time anyone can challenge the thrones!
Head over on iron.builders for more information and join us on discord!
With virtually the last of the daylight the westbound Empire Builder is seen running a couple of hours late at Essex, Montana. It had just departed from the modern concrete platform that has been built to replace the original chalet style predessesor.
By way of a little explanation. The Empire Builder runs between Chicago and Portland/Seattle daily, a distance of over 2,200 miles. An end to end trip might sound enjoyable, but I would guess without a cabin it would be quite a feat of endurance. I have been lucky enough to experience a short two hour trip between Whitefish and East Glacier.
A collage of 'The Builder' Giraffe No.13 by Artist Paulina Porebska. November, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand. I was doing collages for blipfoto and didn't think to put them up on Flicker but well from now on as they take so long to do!
Giant fibreglass Giraffe sculptures, reaching 2.5 metres high, are now standing tall on the streets, parks and public spaces of Christchurch and surrounding areas until 24 January 2015. At the end of the public art exhibition, in February, the Giraffes will be auctioned so we can all be part of raising money for local charities and turn the city’s Summer of fun into a helping hand for those who are in need.
On the side of every locomotive's smoke box is plates with the information for when the locomotive was built. These are the ones on Black River & Western which started life out in Colorado on the Great Western Railway.
While Amtrak train 7, the westbound 'Empire Builder' waits in the Milwaukee Intermodal Station, CSXT 140 pulls through on the bypass with a CP ethanol train.
Amtrak Empire Builder train with service from Seattle to Chicago, East Glacier on Marias Pass line Montana.
The Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_Egret
Phtograph taken at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands near Boynton Beach, Florida: April 12, 2011
Titled after a song by Gong. "Master Builder", on their album "YOU" is a power-house piece of music like no other. Starting off with deep Tibetan style chanting and repeated mystic syllables, the song gradually and gradually builds up to a muscular, repeated figure leading to furious and dazzling displays of synth, guitar and saxophone.
"Master Builder" takes no prisoners. It makes no compromises and relays a spiritual power that is hair-raising and breathtaking. It's shocking, rocketing finish is like being propelled out of cannon into the vast, light filled sky of another universe. In this case, on the album, "Master Builder" leads to the complex wonder of "A Sprinkling of Clouds", one of the greatest pieces Gong ever created. The two songs are inextricably linked.
It is this moment, from the Zen-shock finish of "Master Builder" and the propulsion into "A Sprinkling of Clouds" that came to mind when this image was created.
"Master Builder
Tell me how you make a Temple.
Jewels and Moonstones
You don't really need them.
You know.
Master Builder,
Tell me what the Temple's
Made of.
Deep inside you,
You can make
An Invisible Temple
In your own Imagination
If you Will."
- Allen, Smyth, Blake, Malherbe, Moerlen, Howlett, Hillage.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKfTKNp_yUI
ToR Oct 19, 2013
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Skokie, Illinois. Fabulous sculpture outside the most mundane business strip in the world. There's a sculpture park nearby; maybe this one is in for repair.
One of Gunnars best clients is the well-known boat builder Hanko Swift. He runs his business together with his three sons.
After many memorable adventures on their travels, Elmar and Adele von Rabenstein finally decide to return home. With some of the golden coins from their treasure heist they buy a brand new boat with a custom yellow painting from Hanko and say "goodbye for this time!"
Returning to Chicago on the eastbound Builder is a handful of horizons and amfleets from 'Snow Train' on the west coast, it's not very often you get to see Amtrak's single-level cars out here, especially on a 'warm' December day...
Brighton
Leica M3, 35mm f2 Summicron, and Rollei Retro 400S stand developed for 1 hour in Rodinal 1 + 100.
Amtrak 45 leads Amtrak train #7 a shortened version of the Empire Builder only going as far as St Paul due to snow in North Dakota. Westbound at Lake Forest, IL.
The Empire Builder at one of my favorite places to shoot; Approaching Duke. Became a little more difficult to visit after 9/11 since the Prairie Island Nuclear plant is just to the right.
Amtrak 184 the Phase IV heritage unit leads Amtrak train #8 the eastbound Empire Builder at Lake Forest, IL.
Amtrak 116 and 162 lead up the inbound builder just after sunset with only a few miles to still go till the trip is over.
“A job you have to do, or a job you want to do?” I asked as I approached. “Oh I love it.” Was the answer. This is one of the roughest paths on Cader Idris, mostly used as a descent route. Erosion from footfall and weather has taken its toll. The massive chunks of stone are dropped in by helicopter and then chaps like this slowly manhandle then into place. He’s been at this since September and has another year to go. Funding is an issue, having lost some in European money due to Brexit, so if you’re visiting, use the car park, pay the fee, it all helps these guys continue to improve and maintain the paths too many people take for granted.
While the next round of Iron Builder rages on, I present a trophy to my victorious opponent Andrew, as per the tradition of the Iron Builder competition.
I hope there is space for this Brickarms Bionidoll trophy to stand proud on your shelf of wonders!
Cheers! : D