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Look closely, the ceremonial wrench that will be used to kick off the refurbishing to steam and active duty for 611 is on the side of the pilot. It was used to remove that nut to kick of the restoration at Streamliners in Spencer.
Dévêtir un prince
Lou Roy, exposition Révérences
"l'installation plonge le visiteur dans un cérémonial chirurgical, détournant ainsi les représentations canoniques du cheval en histoire de l'art.
L'objet artistique se veut identifiable : un blason, un papier en toile de Jouy, une broderie, un vitrail. Ces supports esthétiques traditionnels se révèlent alors peu à peu au regardeur en dévoilant un sujet plus tacite. Le corps est ouvert, le dessin et les couleurs forment les entrailles."
Madeleine Balansino
expo Révérences, mai 2021
Centre d'art contemporain Bouvet-Ladubay
Saumur-St Hilaire St Florent
www.bouvet-ladubay.fr/visiter-vous-reunir/centre-d-art-co...
It is extraordinary or extremely unusual for the Admiralty Arch's main central gate to be Open to the general public, as this gate is normally reserved for royal ceremonial processions only (coronations, weddings, funerals and the like)! Commons and traffic are supposed to pass through the side gates.
Maintenance works are apparently carried out.
The Admiralty Arch seals off the Northeast end of The Mall (extending straight to Buckingham Palace) and provides access to Trafalgar Square.
Admiralty Arch was designed by Aston Webb (Architect) and commissioned by King Edward VII in memory of his mother, Queen Victoria in 1910 (completed in 1912). The Arch is built in a grand Beaux Arts architectural style (neoclassical).
A Roman / Latin inscription reads:
ANNO DECIMO EDWARDII SEPTIMI REGIS \
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ CIVES GRATISSIMI MDCCCCX
(In the 10th year of King Edward VII, to Queen Victoria, from most grateful citizens, 1910).
A 125-yr lease over the building was sold in 2012.
Fragment of an ancient cubit rod (measuring stick) that was both a tool and a status object. Length measurements and their fractions are marked on one side of the rod. On the other side of the rod, the variations of the day length of different months are compiled to adjust the sundials and water clocks. In addition, one side lists the names of the gods as well as the names of the Egyptian nomes.
Third Intermediate Period, from Heliopolis.
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Egypt of Glory – The Last Great Dynasties, Amos Rex - Helsinki 9.10.2020 - 21.3.2021
Collection of Museo Egizio, Turin
Lou Ross Singer from West Africa in Green African Cultural Cloth on West African Ghanaian Ashanti Chief's Ceremonial Chair Portrait Photoshoot Shoreditch Studio London – from either Côte d'Ivoire or Sierra Leone
Wooden Palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Russia
The wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich with 270 rooms decorated with paintings and carvings was built in 1667 without using any fasten materials, nails or hooks. It consisted of 26 buildings connected with each other by passages and halls. The whole complex was divided into male and female parts. The male part included ceremonial chambers, chambers of the Tsar and of his sons, while the female part belonged to the Tsarina and to the Tsar’s daughters.
After the death of Alexei Mikhailovich the palace was rebuilt. During the XVIII century it was gradually falling into decay despite all efforts to save it. On October 4,1762, Catherine the Great inspected the palace and even ordered to carry out some minor restoration work. But the palace was not destined to be her Moscow residence. In 1768, Catherine ordered to demolish wooden palace which was dilapidated by then.
Two centuries later, in 1990s, authorities begun its reconstruction, which was based on archaeological and historical researches. By this time the original basement of the palace was covered with a centuries-old forest. Thus the building was decided to be relocated to the far end of Kolomenskoye park. The palace was turned into the museum where currently visitors can see the every day life of the Tsar’s family.
Ceremonial gate, (boka kaku) in the Shosei-en gardens, Kyoto.
When I was there it was more like a bee hive as it was swarming with bees. Maybe they had built a hive inside?
A highly unusual, dare I say it unique piece of architecture.
This photo was taken in the opening ceremony of College Students & Teachers Re-union,2012 at Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal, India.
Beautiful Bengal
The official start to the X games (desert marathon) in Hami. They held a very big rally, with taichi, kung fu (and actual Shaolin Monks).
Tagetes erecta, the Aztec marigold, Mexican marigold, big marigold, cempaxochitl or cempasúchil, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tagetes native to Mexico and Guatemala. Despite being native to the Americas, it is often called the African marigold. In Mexico, this plant is found in the wild in the states of México, Michoacán, Puebla, Veracruz and Guerrero.
This plant reaches heights of between 20 and 90 cm (7.9 and 35.4 in). The Aztecs gathered the wild plant as well as cultivating it for medicinal, ceremonial and decorative purposes. It is widely cultivated commercially with many cultivars in use as ornamental plants, and for the cut-flower trade.
Some authorities regard Tagetes patula (the French marigold) as a synonym of Tagetes erecta.
Description
It is a herbaceous annual or perennial plant whose height ranges from 30–110 cm. The root is cylindrical, pivoting, with a fibrous and shallow branching system. The stem is striated, sometimes ridged, smooth or slightly with villi, cylindrical, oval and herbaceous to slightly woody, with resin channels in the bark, which are aromatic when squeezed. Opposite leaves at the bottom alternate at the top, up to 20 cm long, pinnate, composed of 11 to 17 leaflets, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, up to 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, acute to acuminate, serrated to sub-holders, the lower ones of each leaf frequently setiform (in the form of threads), the superiors are sometimes completely setiform; with abundant round glands.
The main characteristic of the flowers is that they are grouped in small heads or in solitary inflorescences, on peduncles up to 15 cm long, they are liguladas of yellow colors to red. In the flowers of the disc: 150 to 250 in the simple heads, in the doubles it shows different degrees of transformation in ligules, yellow to orange corollas, of 8 to 10 mm in length. The fruits and seeds are: linear achenes 7 to 10 mm long, smooth or slightly covered with stiff hairs at the corners. It has a long flowering period extending throughout the summer and fall. It reproduces easily by seeds.
Distribution and habitat
Although native to Mexico, they are also found in the countries of Central America and the Caribbean: Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
In their wild form they are found in the Balsas basin and western Mexico and live in diverse types of ecosystems, such as tropical deciduous forests, thorny forests, cloud forests and pine-oak forests. In the wild, it is found as a getaway in heavily disturbed places at altitudes of 800–2300 m.
As an introduced species (cultivated) it can be found in China, India, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Australia.
History
The archaeological record of the use of Tagetes erecta among pre-Hispanic civilizations is not as abundant as in the case of other species of the same family. For example, it has been possible to establish the ceremonial use among the Mexica of T. lucida as an aromatic plant, which they called yauhtli, through the chemical analysis of the incense burners found in the remains of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The Nahuatl term cempoalxóchitl, was used to refer to several species of flowers, which includes T. erecta, T. lucida, T. patula, T. lunulata, T. tenuifolia, T. peduncularis and T. elongata. This complicates the differentiation of one species and another when such a term is used, however, it appears that T. erecta was primarily named by this term.
The identification of T. erecta as some flowers represented in Aztec art, such as those seen in the Coyolxauhqui monolith, as part of the goddess's headdress, has been proposed as a symbol of her sovereignty or her death. They are part of the necklace that a plant deity wears in a vase found in the Templo Mayor, although it could also be T. patula. With the arrival of the Spaniards in Mexico, the documentary record of the ceremonial and medicinal use of T. erecta increased in which the flower is described by Bernardino de Sahagún as:
These flowers are called Cempoalxóchitl; they are yellow and of good smell, and wide and beautiful, that they are born, and others that sow them in the orchards; They are in two ways, some they call females Cempoalxóchitl and they are big and beautiful, and others that are called Cempoalxóchitl males are not so beautiful or so big.
Sahagún also describes, in the same work, that the plant had a role in the rituals of the religious festival Mexica of the month Teculhuitontli, where the goddess of salt Huixtocíhuatl, whose color was yellow, was celebrated and who offered herself as sacrifice a woman. In the work of the physician Francisco Hernández, it is described that the name cempoalxóchitl received at least seven types of flowers, noting that the term properly described the largest of them and that the Spaniards called it carnation of Indian, also lists its medical properties.
Cultivation
It is widely cultivated and there are many cultivars used in gardening as an ornamental plant. The cultivar 'Inca Orange' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
In Mexico, it is used in the festivities of the Day of the Dead, to decorate altars and tombs; hence the name "flower of the dead". However, since antiquity it is also used for food and medicinal purposes.
Uses
Rituals
Its flower, the cempasúchil is also called the flor de muertos ("flower of the dead") in Mexico and is used in the Día de Muertos celebration every 2 November. The word cempazúchitl (also spelled cempasúchil) comes from the Nahuatl term for the flower cempohualxochitl, literally translated as "twenty flower". In Thai it is called ดาวเรือง [DaoRuang] or "dow ruang", literally translated as "star glittering". Water infused with the fragrant essential oil of the flower was used to wash corpses in Honduras, and the flower is still commonly planted in cemeteries.
Medicine
Since prehispanic times, this plant has been used for medicinal purposes. The Cherokee used it as a skin wash and for yellow dye. The pigments of the erect tagetes are due to the presence of carotenoids, of which the main one is lutein, which is associated with the prevention of the development of age-related eye diseases such as cataracts and macular degeneration. The most intense orange tones of the flowers are related to a higher content of carotenoids, especially xanthophyll. Some studies indicate the effectiveness of the latter in the prevention of coronary artery disease, heart attacks, immune response, old age and cancer. In some regions of Mexico it is used in digestive ailments, such as stomach pain, as well as diarrhea, colic, liver problems, bile, vomiting, and indigestion. The plant also has a history of use against intestinal parasites and worms with one study indicating that it has a different mechanism than the anthelmintic drug levamisole. Other uses include respiratory diseases such as colds, flu, bronchitis and nasal congestion as well as gynecological problems.
Antioxidant activity has been discovered in the essential oil of this plant although less than that of α-Tocopherol, possibly attributable to the presence of camphor and methyl eugenol. It is most effective against the nematode species Pratylenchus penetrans.
Culinary
The ray florets have been used in lettuce salads and other foods to add colour and flavour. The flowers are rich in carotenoids, and are thus used to make food and feed pigments. The dried flower petals, ground to a powder, are used in poultry feed to ensure a good colouration of egg yolks and broiler skin, especially in the absence of well-pigmented yellow maize in the feed. This is still in use today, but now usually in the form of an extract which may have advantages of lower transport and storage cost, better stability and better utilization. It is also used to enhance colouring in crustaceans, such as the Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei).
Essential oils
The essential oil of the flower contains antioxidants. It may be added to perfumes to infuse an apple scent into them.
Dye
It is used as a natural dye on textiles
A ceremonial dancer in First Nation regalia performs at Rotary Park in Merritt BC Canada on National Indigenous Peoples Day.
The I-405/SR 167 Interchange Direct Connector project is the first Connecting Washington-funded project to start construction in King County.
The flag mast is the main focal point of the Parliamentary Triangle and you can walk directly under it when you explore Parliament House's grass roof. You can also see it from vantage points all around Canberra.
The design of the flag mast pays homage to Walter Burley Griffin's plan for a pyramidal Capitol building—a ceremonial public space that would celebrate the achievements of the Australian people—which he envisioned as the centrepiece to his design for Canberra.
Its apex, above the exact centre of Parliament House, marks the intersection between the building's 'law-making axis', on which the House of Representatives and Senate chambers are located, and its 'land axis', which runs from the forecourt and contains key public areas of the building as well as many of the major architectural commissions.
This intersection symbolises how the elements of Australian democracy—the people, the parliament and the government—are all brought together under one flag.
*https://www.aph.gov.au/Visit_Parliament/Things_to_Do/Learn_about_the_flag#:~:text=The%20Australian%20flag%20is%20flown,wide%20by%206.4%20metres%20high.
Anna Senegalese Fashion Model in Brown Skirt and Top on West African Ghanaian Ashanti Chief's Ceremonial Chair Portrait Photoshoot Shoreditch Studio London
One of the absolute bestest things about living in Alaska is the chance to watch the Iditarod - what a blast, even if it is only the ceremonial start. I staked out a good spot along the trail, dug a deep snow pit - we've had an incredible amount of snow this year, and just laid back and watched the mushers fly by. At the ceremonial start each musher has a guest rider in front - they obviously don't have them during the real Iditarod.
I took these photos on 3 March 2012 during a heavy snow on a lovely day in Anchorage.
San Juan Chamula, a small town located 10 km (6 miles) northwest of San Cristobal de las Casas, is home to a fiercely independent Tzotzil community. The Tzotzil Maya are one of the largest indigenous groups in Chiapas, making up roughly one third of the state’s indigenous population. San Juan Chamula is one of several Tzotzil communities located in the highland towns outside San Cristobal and one of three Tzotzil districts that together comprise the group’s ceremonial center. The town also serves as the main hub of religion and commerce for the Tzotzil Maya in Chiapas. You can identify the people of San Juan Chamula by their traditional dress. The men wear black or white wool tunics called chujes that are belted around the waist. The women dress in embroidered huipils (blouses) made of cotton or satin blouses, shawls and long black linen skirts. The Chamulans are talented artisans who produce high quality handmade embroidered blouses, bags and weavings. The best places to shop for these items are at the local artisans’ market, the Sunday tianguis (weekly open-air market) in San Juan Chamula or in crafts markets in San Cristobal.
You’ll want to step inside San Juan Chamula’s church, the Cathedral San Juan Bautista. Statues of saints line the interior walls and the floor of the church is covered in pine needles and lit candles. Visitors are welcome to observe the prayer rituals, but it’s forbidden to take photos inside the church. The Tzotzil Maya of San Juan Chamula practice some interesting religious rituals that blend pre-Hispanic traditions with Catholicism. There are no pews and no alter inside their church. Instead, worshippers kneel on the floor, lighting candles and chanting. The rituals often include an abundance of soda and posh, an alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane. They also practice several ancient healing rituals, some of which use eggs, bones and live chickens that are sacrificed in the church and later eaten as a sacred meal or buried in front of the homes of the sick. Nearby you can also visit the town cemetery and ruins of the old church of San Sebastian. The Museo de Medicina Maya (Mayan Medicine Museum) in San Cristobal focuses on the history and theory of indigenous Mayan medicine, including many of the rituals that are practiced in San Juan Chamula. If you're interested in learning more about these fascinating traditions and beliefs, it's well worth a visit. San Juan Chamula is an important destination for Chiapas tourism and best visited with a knowledgeable local guide who can provide insight into the unique customs and traditions of the Tzotzil Maya.
Mount Vernon Columbarium
MORE INFO : Candles are used to symbolize purity and blessing for the death.
Soldiers from 2nd Canadian Division practice drill on April 7, 2015, in preparation for sentry duty at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The National Sentry Program will see sentries posted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from April 9 to November 10, 2015.
Des soldats de la 2e Division du Canada exécutent des exercices militaires le 7 avril 2015, en vue de leur affectation à titre de sentinelles à la Tombe du Soldat inconnu. Dans le cadre du Programme des sentinelles, des sentinelles seront postées à la Tombe du Soldat inconnu du 9 avril au 10 novembre 2015.
Photos by : Cpl Wesley
Directorate of Army Public Affairs
Another relief of a ceremonial barque, this one outside in the sun. Seti I's name, Men-Maat-Re, is spelled out between two goddesses in the lower portion of the shrine in the middle. There are a number of erased kneeling figures at the bottom of the shrine: the Souls of Nekhen and Pe. I don't think I've noticed them being erased elsewhere. I wonder who would take exception to them, but not the nearby goddesses?
Temple of Seti I (Gurna), Egypt
The Suquamish Tribe presented WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar, WSDOT Assistant Secretary for Ferries Amy Scarton and WSF Tribal Liaison Phillip Narte with ceremonial blankets during the vent ceremony.
Utladanga
My Choice - Best Durga Puja@Kolkata 2012
Durga Puja - the ceremonial worship of the mother goddess, is one of the most important festivals, is celebrated every year in the month of October with much gaiety and grandeur in India and abroad, especially in Bengal, where the ten-armed goddess riding the lion and killing the Buffalo-Demon (Mahishasura) is worshipped with great passion and devotion.
The traditional icon of the goddess worshiped during the Durga Puja is in line with the iconography delineated in the scriptures. In Durga, the Gods bestowed their powers to co-create a beautiful goddess with ten arms, each carrying their most lethal weapon. The tableau of Durga also features her four children - Kartikeya, Ganesha, Saraswati and Lakshmi.
More, hinduism.about.com/od/durgapuja/a/durga_puja_history.htm
The huge temporary canopies - held by a framework of bamboo poles and draped with colourful fabric - that house the icons are called 'pandals'. Modern pandals in Kolkata are innovative, artistic and decorative at the same time, offering a visual spectacle for the numerous visitors who go 'pandal-hopping' during the four days of Durga Puja.
Images of Durga Puja at Kolkata: www.google.co.uk/search?q=durga+puja+kolkata&hl=en&am...
The ceremonial staircase at Discovery World Wisconsin features a moving space-frame art structure. I've shot this before ... but, always with a slightly faster shutter speed which seems to do a nice job of showing the structure, but does nothing to convey the movement it makes. On this day, I carefully braced myself against the railing, and pulled a reasonably steady 3 second expsure (handheld!). Though I did drop the background on this image ... I didn't otherwise tweak color or sharpness ... what you see overlayed is the jpeg save of the raw file.
Mirit Ben Nun: Shortness of breath
'Shortness of breath' is not only a sign of physical weakness, it is a metaphor for a mental state of strong desire that knows no repletion; more and more, an unbearable glut, without repose. Mirit Ben Nun's type of work on the other hand requires an abundance of patience. This is a Sisyphean work (requiring hard labor) of marking lines and dots, filling every empty millimeter with brilliant blots. Therefore we are facing a paradox or a logical conflict. A patient and effortful work that stems from an urgent need to cover and fill, to adorn and coat. Her craft of layering reaches a state of a continuous ceremonial ritual.
This ritual digests every object into itself - useful or discarded -- available and ordinary or rare and exceptional -- they submit and devote to the overlay work. Mirit BN gathers scrap off the streets -- cardboard rolls of fabric, assortments of wooden boards and pieces, plates and planks -- and constructs a new link, her own syntax, which she alone is fully responsible for. The new combination -- a type of a sculptural construction -- goes through a process of patching by the act of painting.
In fact Mirit regards her three dimensional objects as a platform for painting, with a uniform continuity, even if it has obstacles, mounds and valleys. These objects beg her to paint, to lay down colors, to set in motion an intricate weave of abstract patterns that at times finds itself wandering the contours of human images and sometimes -- not. In those cases what is left is the monotonous activity of running the patterns, inch by inch, till their absolute coverage, till a short and passing instant of respite and than on again to a new onset.
Next to this assembly of garbage and it's recycling into 'painted sculptures' Mirit offers a surprising reunion between her illustrated objects and so called cheap African sculpture; popular artifacts or articles that are classified in the standard culture as 'primitive'.
This combination emphasizes the difference between her individualistic performance and the collective creation which is translated into cultural clichés. The wood carved image creates a moment of peace within the crowded bustle; an introverted image, without repetitiveness and reverberation. This meeting of strangers testifies that Mirit' work could not be labeled under the ´outsiders art´ category. She is a one woman school who is compelled to do the art work she picked out to perform. Therefore she isn't creating ´an image´ such as the carved wooden statues, but she produces breathless ´emotional jam' whose highest values are color, motion, beauty and plenitude. May it never lack, neither diluted, nor dull for even an instant
Tali Tamir
August 2010