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Backstory: Was looking through my go to app for inspiration beyond my own to transform a selfie and bingo there it was. I’d just shaved half my face which gave the selfie a bit of an edge, even more so after the make over.
Apps used: This is one of my fave apps I go to as a break from from my usual creative process, where I can sit back and let this app do what it does and little interference by me.
If you’re into selfies and portraits, this app gives you lots of choices to manipulate and make- over any face you can throw at it. Fun and good for a laugh. The one and only Photo Lab.
Made for Mobile Frame Zero, the Lego tabletop wargame where you can build anything you want! (Seriously...)
Another round of Arcade Gacha, another round of not getting on the Arcade-Sims.
But I went to the Seraphim-yardsale (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sea%20Whispers%20Island/12...) and got everything I wanted without having to rely on my capricious good fortune.
Military Suits and dog: Gabriel, Arcade gacha event
Buildings: Minimal, Arcade gacha event
Sunglasses and necklace: Rebellion
Digital painting with Procreate five, iPad Pro, and Apple Pencil.
I’m not sure if this one is done or not…
Two young chacma baboons have a spat over something. A moment later they were again friends and grooming each other.
Kruger NP, South Africa
The monument was originally erected to commemorate the seventy railway workers who enlisted from the workshops and died in service or were killed in action in World War One. The names of more than twenty-five men who died in service or were killed in action in World War Two were added at a later date.
The monument is a square section column which at the top has a bronze female figure of Peace standing on a globe of the Earth.
The Midland Railway Workshop Memorial was erected through voluntary contributions from the staff assisted by the goodwill and co-operation of the Commissioner of Railways and management. The figure on the memorial was sculpted by Pietro Porcelli and the bronze casting was executed in Italy. The memorial was unveiled on the 20th December 1925 by the Governor of Western Australia, Sir William Campion and the stone was dedicated by the Archbishop of Perth.
Info: Monuments Australia
I love taking my family to the zoo, and the Memphis Zoo is a very good one. But I also confess some conflicted emotions. My first title for this photo was “prison bars”. But is that what it is? Are these harmless attractions, or an atrocity? I’m conflicted.
Let me just point out that it is a statement Storm stands for, and not a wish the rest of us share.
I go back to February in this photo. Some ask if the sun is always blue over Fjaerland, and the answer is sadly no. I am afraid Flickr is a fake reality, if not as bad as Facebook. We post mostly the sunny photos and the ones where the belly somehow looks smaller than in reallity.
Today there is a heavy and cold rain coming down. Not nice, and I will not post pictures of it, but I must admitt that it removes the snow a lot more effective than sun in day and frost at night.
There is a lot more photos in the first comment.
I often like rock versions of well known songs. It is hardly ever wrong to add a punch in the arrangement, nor power in the vocals. One I found a few weeks ago is Bad Wolves version of Cranberries Zombie. I really like this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
If you want to learn more about the story behind it, then read on further. I feel this to be a good version, and the reason behind it a touching one.
"One of our most asked-about songs recently has been the cover of "Zombie" done by the rock group Bad Wolves
Personally, the first time I heard this song, it instantly became one of my favorites. The haunting lyrics...the slow build to a chorus that's almost impossible NOT to turn the volume up to 10 and sing along to. Obviously, most of us have heard this song from the Cranberries original version in 1994.
According to Songfacts , the song is about the Irish Republican Army, who in 1993 set off bombs in a busy shopping area near Liverpool, England that killed a 3-year-old and 12-year-old boy and injured more than 50. Although they said ( according to the New York Times ) that they "profoundly" regretted the death and injuries.The Irish rebellion against British power began in 1916, hence the lyrics " it's the same old theme since 1916..." from the Cranberries version of the song.
Cranberries lead singer Dolores O'Riordan claimed that "Zombie" speaks about "the Irish fight for independence that seems to last forever."
According to Songfacts:
On August 31, 1994, just a few weeks after this song was released, the IRA declared a ceasefire after 25 years of conflict, leading some critics of The Cranberries to wonder if the IRA was willing to call a truce to make sure the group didn't release any more songs about them.
Fast-Forward to 2018:
The hard-rock band Bad Wolves wanted to do a cover of this song. They recorded a demo and in order to get clearance on the copyright laws of the song, sent it to management of the Cranberries. Management let the band hear it, and O'Riordan liked the song so much that she said she'd lend her vocals to this new version of it.
When news got back to Bad Wolves, they were excited about the opportunity and ecstatic that O' Riordan wanted to collaborate on it.
According to an interview, lead singer Tommy Vext said " She was really excited about that because the nations may have changed but we're still fighting the same battles today. Humanity is still fighting to assert itself despite all the conflicts."
The day that O'Riordan was set to join Bad Wolves in the studio for recording, she sadly passed away in her hotel room.
According to an interview with Billboard , , Vext and his bandmates were shocked and were at a crossroads: do they just 'shelf' the song and forget about it...or do they release it anyway?
They felt releasing it may be bad for their image as they didn't want to make it look like they were capitalizing on O'Riordan's death.
Instead, they decided that all the proceeds they made from the single release would go to O'Riordan's children. Meanwhile, it was pushed to Rock radio stations in the USA. The song follows suit with successful covers from 'Modern Rock' bands of older songs such as Disturb's "Sound of Silence" (originally done by Simon and Garfunkel )and Five Finger Death Punch's "Gone Away" (originally done by The Offspring ) and "House of the Rising Sun" (originally done by The Animals .)
Check out the homage paid to O'Riordan (who was painted in gold in the original video) with the recent video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ"
This is one shot. Taken in a room with mirrors on all sides with a single snooted strobe stuck with a camera mount to the upper part of the mirrors.
Strobist: Canon 430 EX in gridded snoot upper camera right at 1/64. Triggered with RF 602s.
As CP 9732 rolls into Clinton,IA from the north with a unit train of fuel oil, UP 8075 comes into town from the east after crossing the Mississippi River with a load of containers and intermodal trailers. The CP tracks have to cross both UP main lines to continue south so CP9732 was stopped for :30 min while the UP cleared both main lines of east and west traffic.
A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
Made for Mobile Frame Zero, the Lego tabletop wargame where you can build anything you want! (Seriously...)
Train 109 waits to let Train 20 slide by after meeting at the location where double-track returns to single-track East of 11th St. Station. This is CP 33.3 on the South Shore Line in Michigan City Indiana.
October 30, 2023
This was the view across Damascus in 2010 , just before the war had started. I wonder , what the view is there now !!. When will this insane & inhuman conflict end ??? When will the suffering of innocent civilians end ?? When will the Russians show some humanity & allow a respite in this most dreadful conflict ?????
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Not the violent conflict
between parts of the truth,
but the quiet suppression
of half of it,
is the formidable evil;
there is always hope
when people are forced to listen
to both sides;
it is when they attend
only to one
that errors
harden into prejudices,
and truth itself ceases
to have the effect of truth.
John Stuart Mill
Taken from the book I have been reading, "The 3rd Alternative" by Stephen Covey
Another title for the book could be---How to love your enemies and do good to them
that despitefully use you....