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June 6, 2019 - Odessa Nebraska US
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A rare day for cloud based structure! On the back side of a passing system gave us a uncanny view of clouds moving from the east to west. It is a very rare occurrence in Nebraska.
Though I'm not chasing severe weather this day... It's what pulled me out to go view some explosive non severe thunderheads. Truly the essence of a good view. Watching mother nature do her thing, and having front row tickets is even better.
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It was the week before Christmas and I had to use up my remaining holiday entitlement before the end of the year. With the kids at school and my better half working, I had a week to play
Monday had seen me head for a day trip to Ardgour and Tuesday was an indoor day as a large Atlantic weather system swept over Scotland. The forecast for the rest of the week was changeable across Scotland – apart from the far north! So decision made – I was headed for Sutherland! Leaving the house at 6am, I arrived on the shoes of Loch Merkland four hours later at 10am. At this time of the year the days re short (an even shorter the further north you go) so I was aware I needed to get cracking and I had decided on Ben Hee as it would fit in with me getting back before dark. The plan there after was to enjoy some carlife (;)) and spend the next three days in this area.
The forecast was looking good and I set off in glorious sunshine with little wind. Numerous herds of deer greeted me as I headed up the track and towards the Allt Coire a’ Chruiteir burn. The skies were still blue but as the summit of Ben Hee came into view I noticed it was capped in cloud, which was skudding over the summit . The path was ok, but had been eroded away by the burn in places, but I wasn’t complaining as it was dry and nicer than the rest of Scotland. Once out of the wee glen the winds picked up and it was cold!! The pull into the cloud and towards the summit was also the freezing level and a white rim coated the rocks as I approached the cloud capped summit of Ben Hee.
As opposed to coming back down the same way, I decided to drop down over Sail Gharb and hoped to snap a photo of Loch an t-Seilg. I wasn’t sure whether the cloud base would enable this , however the views soon opened out and the views over to Ben Hope and Ben Loyal were fabulous. I was a bit jealous as these near bye peaks were cloud free. A few more snaps and I was soon chasing the unset down the hill to get back to the car before nightfall.
Back at the car and I found a larger parking area to spend a cold night in the car before another adventure on the Thursday
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"Raven 81' A-29B Super Tucano touching down on runway 30 at Prestwick, on delivery to Nigeria, we were unfortunate with the weather, very low cloud base and strong winds and rain.
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A 'Fog Ocean' View From Blackrock Summit (Central District), Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
3 bracket shots - merged and lightly tonemapped in Photomatix Pro
The meteorological definition of fog is a cloud (stratus) which has its cloud base on or close to ground.
More specifically, the term stratus is used to describe flat, hazy, featureless clouds of low altitude varying in color from dark gray to nearly white. These clouds are essentially above ground fog formed either through the lifting of morning fog or when cold air moves at low altitudes over a region.
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To truly appreciate the magnitude of a massive fog system like this is to see it firsthand. I captured some video footage because sometimes photos don't do justice - check out the video clips on YouTube if you have a spare minute.
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This morning's cloud base started developing into something interesting at about 7.00am. I believe that these are altocumulus stratoformis undulatus clouds.
WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?
We are Blue Tapes, a boutique tape label specialising in sound art and alternative process artwork. We release music from Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
WHY TAPES? ISN'T IT ALL A BIT SELF-CONSCIOUSLY RETRO?
No, tapes are not a dead format. They never went away. They’ve been the format of choice for distributing home-recorded or experimental music pretty much since the inception of that technology, and even the advent of peer-to-peer, cloud-based music services, and social networking hasn’t particularly eroded this - it’s only added more strings to our bow in terms of connecting with other human heads.
Tapes are a good format. Even audio purists like Autechre are insistent that - sonically - cassette tape is their favourite playback format. Even until recently, Autechre promos were issued on cassette tape rather than CD - wanting to sidestep lazy digital pirating was only one small part of the reason for this.
One thing you need to know about Blue Tapes. If something is good enough for Autechre, then it’s good enough for us.
Tapes are still the most economical way of producing physical music product, and the one that can be produced to a high standard in the lowest print run. This is liberating in a number of ways. Firstly, it releases us from any business-based demand of recouping, covering overheads, etc, which in turn prevents us from having to prioritise releasing musically that is “commercially viable”. If a particular piece of music is so niche that about only one person in the whole world other than us and the musician who invented it would ever get it, then it doesn’t appear commercially unviable for to release that. It’s cool by us. If we love it, we will produce it, we’ll add artwork and interesting packaging - and sometimes books, and large-format art you can hang on your wall, and other strange things - and we’ll put our heart and guts into trying to get it out there to people.
OK, BUT WHY NOT JUST RELEASE STUFF ON VINYL? DOES ANYONE EVEN HAVE A TAPE PLAYER ANYMORE?
OK, so for you heathens who don’t own a Walkman, we’ll chuck in a download code with each release. Something that any music fan should have worked out by 2012 - different formats are appropriate for different listening experiences. There isn’t necessarily any one better or best format. You can’t take tapes out running with you, or listening on the bus. Most mobile telephones do this job just fine. Richard Youngs recently correctly observed that vinyl was good living room music, for when you’ve got people round or for a glass of wine in the evening. I don’t think anyone ever really liked CDs.
Tapes are something even more different. The experience of listening to a tape is not at all like listening to a Spotify playlist. Tapes cannot be shuffled. Tracks cannot easily even be skipped. You are submitting yourself as a listener to music on tape in a way which you are not particularly used to anymore, because your control over the experience is limited and passive. You cannot author your own tracklists or create your own sequencing. Tumblr, Flickr, Soundcloud, This Is My Jam etc have trained us all to be maddeningly proficient archivers of content, but in this context your faculties as an editor have been diminished. On some level this somehow stops you from thinking too much about the music, and leaves you more susceptible to its twists and turns, it leads you down the internal logic of its soundworld and you either surf with it or switch it off and come back to it.
And that is the truly great part. Tape is the ONLY format where a recording can be played from halfway through a piece. Most tape players will flip the side over for you, so you can drop in and out of the music at any time, or it can loop forever. As listeners we are freed from the tyranny of the tracklisting and the linear music narrative. Any browsing of last.fm stats reveals all album-type releases to have the greatest number of listeners for track 1, second highest number of listeners for track 2, third highest for etc… if you’re in a band and you put your best track at the end of your album then you are fucked. In our world though, the listening experience becomes cyclical. Each note of music at the ‘end’ of the tape is listened to equally as much as the music at the ‘start’ of the tape.
In future releases we will experiment with this further by releasing actual tape loops: a truly continuous music. Infinite and indestructible.
(Apart from by magnets.)
But vinyl, of course we love vinyl. Everybody loves vinyl. But vinyl is expensive. And can only be produced in mass quantity. Anyone releasing a very niche music on vinyl is taking a huge gamble - often doomed to just become an expensive vanity project. Tapes are utilitarian and bullshit-free. If you hate the music on your tape then you can record something else over the top if it. By contrast, vinyl is positively bourgouis and decadent.
This week, I paid £25 for Sunn O)))’s Monoliths & Dimensions LP. I aim to price all of our releases at £3.33 for music and artwork of comparable quality and imagination.
WHY £3.33?
It’s the number of a bus that goes past my house. Sorry, that’s such a Sarah Records thing to say.
WHY DO MUSICIANS EVEN NEED A LABEL ANYORE? WHEN THEY CAN SELL THEIR OWN MUSIC DIRECT THROUGH BANDCAMP, ITUNES, EVEN AMAZON...
They don’t. But then, they never did. Of all the reasons for wanting to start a label I think this is actually the one that’s hardest to answer. The function of Blue Tapes here isn’t to act as a benefactor, a sort of kindly uncle who chucks money at musicians so he can adopt some of their glamour by association. If anything, it’s to be a collaborator. We’ve constructed so many annoying rules about how and what we release that by the time any actual sound has emerged out the other end of the process it’s practically generative.
Each Blue Tape will consist of one piece of music per tape (or one piece per side) and will come in artwork and packaging supplied by the label. The audio almost becomes soundtracks for still images.
Further down the line, we’re hoping to get all of the musicians actually collaborating with each other, in a kind of international house band, with Blue Tapes acting as the conduit or curator for this. This was something that 4AD did very well.
Of the current crop of traditional labels, only Southern’s excellent Latitudes series is doing anything similarly exciting (although again, trying to collect the full series will kick your wallet about the balls somewhat).
The two labels I have been most excited about in the past five years have both been tape labels: Stunned (RIP), whose every release you wanted to cling to your heart and never let go, and The Tapeworm, who are practically the Penguin Books of the tape scene.
SO WHAT DO YOU ACTUALLY SOUND LIKE?
Really, we want stuff that inhabits its own soundworld. That isn’t too ‘genre’. Sound that sort of makes up its own rules. A lot of this stuff will probably be home-recorded. A lot of it will probably be instrumental. Apart from the releases that are spoken word. No pop songs.
But, of course, we love pop songs. Everyone loves pop songs. Pop songs were the ultimate art-form of the 20th Century, and there’s no reason to assume that the 21st Century is going to be any different so far. Pop music superseded all other art because of its hungry commercial appetite - it was capitalism as high art. Pop music existed to sell things, so it had to evolve to be fibre optic-fast, to continually outdo itself, to extinguish the competition with the cold and precise mechanics of the killing machine.
Pop songs are the source code around which all of our cultural life is programmed. They are a highly-advanced from of brainwashing. They permeate everything. You don’t have to hunt for pop: it hunts you.
Like I said, we love that shit. But if we want anything from this label it is to create a bit of a sanctuary from real life. Tiny tape-sized pockets of time and space that the rest of the world can’t get into.
THAT’S what we sound like. Forcefields.
But seriously, artists who we are currently in talks with releasing stuff from include the modern classical composer and librettist Missy Mazzoli, the avant-playwright and journalist kicking_k, a collaboration between San Franciscan sound artist Zachary James Watkins and Moroccan poet Abderrahim Elkhassar; minimalist electronic composers The Fractal Skulls, Cherry, and 51717, and the improv-doom group Kellar. Our first release (blue one) is The Grin Without The Cat or The Cat Without an Outline by Matt Collins of Toronto.
It’s all very exciting stuff.
WHICH IS BETTER: ANALOGUE OR DIGITAL?
There are no betters in life, only differents! But everything about this label, from the processes used to create the artwork to the tiny-teethed grinding cogs in the cassettes we release is going to be steeped in the former. For some reason, the physics involved in the processes of sunlight burning through a chemical barrier to x-ray an image into paper or film, or how audio information can be remembered by magnetised ferric oxide is easier to grasp and more fun to think about than how a digital camera or MP3 works.
Also, what I like about tapes is they don’t just disappear into the vaults of your iTunes. Instead they turn up randomly in your sock drawer, or behind the sofa, like little lost amulets; staring at you accusingly. And you think YOU, fuck - you. Let me put you on and just forget about this cleaning the house business for five minutes.
We’re launching a website soon. From it you can buy music. £10 for a subscription series, where you will receive a tape a month for four months, or individually for £3.33 each.
A glimpse of something other than cloud from the summit of Sgorr Dhearg on Beinn a'Beithir. The cloud-base had lowered during the climb - typical! - but started lifting again after 15 mins of hanging around at the top..
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A cloud is a visible mass of droplets, in other words, little drops of water or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity, such as masses of material in space called interstellar clouds and nebulae. Clouds are studied in the nephology or cloud physics branch of meteorology. It is composed for more than 20° of gas.
On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm (0.00039 in) in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths. They thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance at the cloud base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may appear colored accordingly. Clouds look darker in the near-infrared because water absorbs solar radiation at those wavelengths
It was the Sunderland Airshow at the weekend and probably the biggest event in the city's calendar.
I'm led to believe that the thousands of visitors who descend upon the seafront come from far and wide and you could find accommodation hard to find if you don't book up early enough!
In the week leading up to thhis year's event, the UK was having a heatwave. Unfortunately, as Friday approached, the sttart of the weekend-long event, the weather changed. A low cloud base really puts a spanner in the works for an event like this and although the show went ahead as planned, some of the flying displays were either dropped or curtailed. The weather challenges aside didn't stop the fun and there was still plenty going on to keep the huge crowds happy.
Here, a view along the misty seafront as thousands of people look to the skies.
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A 'fog ocean' of low lying clouds in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
A leftover from my fog bank shots taken back in April (hence the vibrant Spring greenery), as seen from an overlook in the South District of Shenandoah National Park.
The meteorological definition of fog is a cloud (stratus) which has its cloud base on or close to ground.
More specifically, the term stratus is used to describe flat, hazy, featureless clouds of low altitude varying in color from dark gray to nearly white. These clouds are essentially above ground fog formed either through the lifting of morning fog or when cold air moves at low altitudes over a region.
To a large extent, the mountain causes fog. Moving air masses must rise to get over the mountain. As the air rises, it expands and cools; if the air is moist, cooling may cause moisture to precipitate as tiny droplets, and produce the clouds that we call fog.
Half a dozen times a year, an atmospheric inversion may produce a strange effect: fog lies like a soft white blanket on the Shenandoah Valley and the Piedmont, while the mountaintop is clear. Then you can look down on a "fog ocean," with the lower peaks rising above it like islands.
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To truly appreciate the magnitude of a massive fog system like this is to see it firsthand. I captured some video footage because sometimes photos don't do justice - check out these 2 video clips (hand held) on YouTube if you have a spare moment.
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HDR -- 3 brackets (-2 | 0 | +2) merged and tone mapped.
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Part of the challenge of a 52 week project is that the photo has to be taken during the week of that particular theme. Well, what if you want to get outside to shoot, but it rains for pretty much the whole of the week? If you get to the final day of the week, you have no choice but to head out anyway.
So off I headed in search of a pylon, with the sky covered yet again in a dull monochrome. Hardly the most inspiring back drop. But, as I headed up a nearby hill, I drove into the cloud base. And all of a sudden, the tops of the pylons started disappearing, as did the more distant pylons.
And that self-same monochrome cloud became the perfect moody setting, a minimalist dream drapery, hanging just like the wires from the jutting towers, almost hiding them from view. Turned out to be a lovely setting for some silhouettes...
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At sunset, surface temperature was a warm 70F with RH @ 25%. Although convection was inhibited, falling precipitation caused strong downdrafts as the moisture cooled the air through evaporation. As a result, a ragged cloud base formed and rain never reached the ground. Gusty winds also failed to reach the ground. If the convection were stronger (like in a month), things would have been a lot more weather-intense.
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This was a shot taken in the Lake District of England as the light was slipping away in the early evening. The mountains can be seen to have a low cloud base over them!
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...early in St Ives harbour, noted for the quality of light, but here the light is filtered by a low cloud base presenting a much softer, unsaturated scene.
Italian Tornado at RIAT (Saturday). I've waited a long time to see a Tonka doing this kind of stuff. I really miss this after being stationed on a Tornado unit for six years. It would be nice to see one in 1980s camouflage but so glad to see it I'll look past the girlie paint job.
Cloud base was a problem, the Raptor and Typhoon (and many others) didn't fly.
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I like California sky.
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But, this one's a bit different. It's a CMF series! Specifically because, after the Lego DC series was revealed, I've been thinking of ideas for a series 2. So, here it is. I'll write the names of the minifigures, if it's based on a specific comic, it'd be in brackets what it's from, and then a coma, and the accessory(s).
1. Armored Batman (Dark Knight Returns), grappling hook
2. Superman (First appearance), new metal pipe piece
3. Lex Luthor (Super Friends costume), kryptonite+ray gun
4. Wonder Woman (Rebirth), sword+shield
5. Atrocitus, red power ring+red lantern
6. Alan Scott, green power ring+green lantern
7. Mr. Mxyzptlk, Unikitty cloud base plate
8. Zatanna, wand+rabbit
9. Dr. Fate, lightning pieces
10. Vixen, claw pieces
11. Booster Gold, Skeets
12. Kid Flash (Rebirth), back lightning pieces
13. Raven, translucent purple dish pieces
14. Penguin (First appearance), umbrella
15. Joker (First appearance), Joker fish
16. Black Adam, lightning piece
~Madam Web
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The Battle of Britain Day is the name given to the large-scale aerial battle that took place on 15 September 1940, during the Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England or Luftschlacht um Großbritannien).
In June 1940, Nazi Germany had conquered most of Western Europe and Scandinavia. At that time, the only other major power standing in the way of a German-dominated Europe was the British Empire and the Commonwealth. After having several peace offers rejected by the British, Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to destroy the Royal Air Force (RAF) in order to gain air superiority or air supremacy as a prelude to launching Operation Sea Lion, an amphibious assault by the Wehrmacht (German armed forces) onto the British mainland.
In July 1940, the Luftwaffe started by closing the English Channel to merchant shipping. In August, Operation Adlerangriff (Eagle Attack) was launched against RAF airfields in southern England. By the first week of September, the Luftwaffe had not gained the results desired by Hitler. Frustrated, the Germans turned towards the strategic bombing of cities, an offensive which was aimed at British military and civil industries, but also civilian morale. The attacks began on 7th September 1940, but were to reach their daylight climax on 15th September.
On Sunday, 15th September 1940, the Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attack against London in the hope of drawing out the RAF into a battle of annihilation. Around 1,500 aircraft took part in the air battles which lasted until dusk.The action was the climax of the Battle of Britain.
RAF Fighter Command defeated the German raids. The Luftwaffe formations were dispersed by a large cloud base and failed to inflict severe damage on the city of London. In the aftermath of the raid, Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion. Having been defeated in daylight, the Luftwaffe turned its attention to The Blitz night campaign which lasted until May 1941.
The 15th of September, also known as Battle of Britain Day, is now an annual commemoration of the battle in the United Kingdom. In Canada, the commemoration takes place on the third Sunday of September.
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The USAF Heritage flight sent up a P51 to do a check on the cloud base for the F22 display, listening in on the tower frequency we relayed the bad news to those close by.
About this photo:
I had just driven about 10 miles from an overlook above the Columbia River near Vantage Washington. I had intended to do some shooting of that dramatic gorge where the Columbia River cuts deeply through the high steepe country of Eastern Washington. However, a tremendous thunder and lightening storm drove me away.
The lightening above the gorge was spectacular. It filled the sky with fingers of lightning which shot from sky to earth and danced horizontally just below the cloud base. Even if I had wanted to take a few images of the storm, it would have been impossible because as well as the constant and multiple lightening strikes all around the car; the wind was whipping at at least 70 mph.
I have only been in one other thunderstrom that compared to this one, and it was in Waco Texas some years back which also spawned several tornadoes.
From a safer distance, this is what a small slice of that Eastern Washington summer thunderstorm looked like.
This morning's cloud base started developing into something interesting at about 7.00am. I believe that these are altocumulus stratoformis undulatus clouds.
321_SoireeWall_11Nov21 - Greater Houston Partnership Soirée annual gala celebrating Houston as a truly global city at Hotel ZaZa chaired by Margaret and Thad Hill November 11, 2021. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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De Tallado Inmaculada Concepcion in a virina
Last Quarter, 19th century, Manila
Ivory, polychrome, gold gilding, silver dipped in gold
82 x 40 x 40 cm (32 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 in)
In 1578, Pope Gregory XIII established the diocese of Manila and decreed that its cathedral should be under the invocation of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Then Pope Pius XXII in 1942, declared Virgin Mary under the title Immaculate Concepcion as the patroness of the Philippines. Since then devotion to her has grown even more popular and widespread.
This is a beautiful depiction of the Inmaculada Concepcion, complete with all the attributes. The head, in ¾ ivory and wooden backing, has a serene and kind aura, her hands made of solid ivory are in prayers. The body is carved from a single piece of wood and her garbs are polychrome painted in traditional colors, gold gilt on some areas and painted estofado-style to recreate brocade decorations. She wears earrings adorned with real diamonds. Her crown, halo with 12 stars, sun and moon are all original and made of silver dipped in gold. The center of the sun on her right side is colored glass. The original cloud base is mounted on a gold-leafed sub-base. The virina is old while the kamagong base is a replacement. Found from the same wealthy family in Nueva Ecija where St. Joseph was found.
Estimate: PHP 200,000 - 220,000
Lot 393 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 22 September 2018. Please see www.salcedoauctions.com for more information.
This thunderstorm reached severe intensity as it move over my area. Its developing supercell structure was quite evident with the distinct lowering and semi-rotating cloud base. Within a few minutes after this timelapse ends, 0.41 inch fell in just 9 minutes with 2 minutes of pea and marble sized hail.
Taken with YI 4K action cam in video mode
The returning Railway Touring Company's 'Cumbrian Mountain Express', 1Z87 1523 Carlisle - London Euston, is seen between Colwich and Rugeley with Class 86/2 No. 86259 'Les Ross/Peter Pan' at the helm on 6th August 2016. The bright sunshine enjoyed earlier in the day has now given way to a gathering cloud base which thwarted any thoughts of the hoped for 'glint shot'. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
162_GHP_Airports_5Oct22 - Greater Houston Partnership State of the Airports with Mario C. Diaz, Director of Aviation, Houston Airports held at the Marriott Marquis October 5, 2022. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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011_GHP_SoireePortraits_2019.jpg -- Greater Houston Partnership “Emerald City” Soiree 2019 with photography sponsored by Conoco Phillips at Hotel ZaZa August 24, 2019. (Photo by Richard Carson)
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A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency.
This image was made long after the color of the sunset peaked one evening near Bodega Bay, California. Left, was the blue color of the sky pouring through openings, filtering through the clouds above, and bounicing around to paint this image blue. With this angle, I was able to photograph the interesting cloud base and the sea, not forgetting, of course, the wonderful sea stacks of the Sonoma County coast that always steal the show. Thank you for looking!
a) San Jose y Niño Jesus
b) La Inmaculada Concepcion
Binondo, Manila and San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan
ivory, silver, velvet, baticuling wood
1890s
a) San Jose y Niño Jesus
head to toe: 11" (28 cm)
body: 5" x 4" (13 cm x 10 cm)
Virina:
H: 22" (56 cm), D: 9" (23 cm)
Base:
H: 6" (15 cm), D: 14" (36 cm)
b) La Inmaculada Concepcion
head to toe: 11" (28 cm)
body: 5" x 4" (13 cm x 10 cm)
Virina:
H: 22" (56 cm), D: 9" (23 cm)
Base:
H: 6" (15 cm), D: 14 (36 cm)
Opening bid: PHP 300,000
Property from the Don Maximo Viola Collection
Provenance: Maximo Viola, Descendants of Maximo Viola
About the Work
by Augusto Marcelino Reyes Gonzalez III
Commissioned by D Maximo Viola y Sison (1857–1933): an exceptional tabletop “San Jose y Nino Jesus.”
The San Jose has a serious, fatherly expression and the Nino Jesus he is carrying on his left hand has a playful but respectful mien. The father carries a solid silver staff of lilies on his right hand. Both San Jose and the Nino Jesus have long hair of “jusi” fibers; the father wears a solid silver “paraguas” halo and the son wears solid silver “tres potencias” symbolizing the three powers of the Lord --- Authority (Exousia in Greek), Ability (Dunamis in Greek), and Strength (Kratas in Greek). The San Jose wears a traditional green robe and yellow cape and the Nino Jesus wears a traditional yellow robe, both are embroidered with floral and foliar designs of the 1890s genre. The father stands on an exceptional “peana” pedestal base of the rare type: a lily emerging from four acanthus leaves which are supported by smaller leaves on a base of foliar forms. The finely–gilded peana is found only with the highest quality ivory statuary. In Roman Catholicism, Saint Joseph is the foster father of Jesus Christ and the Patron of the Universal Church. During the Spanish period and up to prewar (up to 1940), the center of devotion to El Glorioso Patriarca San Jose was at the San Nicolas de Tolentino church (“Recoletos”) in Intramuros; there were weekly devotions on Wednesdays and a big fiesta every 26 November. Unfortunately, the Recoletos church, the 26 November fiesta tradition, and the image of San Jose Patriarca were all destroyed by aerial bombs in February 1945. The other important, traditional centers of devotion to San Jose remain with “Tata Hosep” in Las Pinas, “Tata Bukot” in Navotas, and “Senor San Jose” in Mandaue, Cebu. There is a renewed, worldwide devotion to Saint Joseph as Pope Francis has acknowledged that he often leaves a petition to the saint overnight and receives a resolution in the morning.
Commissioned by D Maximo Viola y Sison (1857–1933): a beatific tabletop “La Inmaculada Concepcion.” The Virgin Mary has a gentle downward gaze, reminiscent of the “La Purisima” festejada at the Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis (Franciscanos) in Intramuros (destroyed during World War II). It has long hair of “jusi” fibers, a silvergilt crown, and an aureole of twelve stars. The long, slender hands are held together in prayer. The image is dressed in the traditional white robe and blue cape, “palikpik” style, embroidered with floral and foliar designs of the 1890s genre. An enameled, silvergilt sun and silver crescent moon are at its feet. The statuette stands on a (deliberately) oversized, silver–leafed, Ming–style “ensaimada” cloud base with the serpent interspersed between. The cloud is supported by a traditional gilded “peana” pedestal with foliar forms. The Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception states that: “We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.” During the Spanish era (up to 1898), and up until prewar (to 1940), the 08 de Diciembre procession of “La Purisima” (“La Inmaculada Concepcion”) at the Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis (Franciscanos) was one of the much – awaited events in the Manila calendar. Although it was La Catedral de Manila that was under the patronage of “La Inmaculada Concepcion,” and although the Jesuits fervently venerated her under that title at the Iglesia de San Ignacio de Loyola on Calle Arzobispo, it was the Franciscanos who organized the annual fiesta in her honor. The late afternoon procession started at San Francisco on Calle San Francisco esquina a Calle Solana, through Calle Solana, entered the Iglesia de Santo Domingo de Guzman (Dominicanos) on Calle Beaterio esquina a Calle Solana for prayers and hymns, through Calle Beaterio, passed La Catedral on Calle Beaterio esquina a Calle Cabildo, then returned to San Francisco via Calle Real del Palacio (currently General Luna street). It was a joyous affair as “Navidades” (Christmas) was already in the air with the cool December breezes; five days later would be the 13 de Diciembre fiesta of Santa Lucia de Siracusa (Saint Lucy of Syracuse) at the Iglesia de San Nicolas de Tolentino (Recoletos) on Calle Cabildo Recoletos, a time when country folk from the surrounding provinces --- Bulacan, Pampanga, Morong, Laguna, Batangas, Cavite --- descended on the church patio with their fresh delicacies and charming wares, to the delight of the city folk who eagerly purchased them, for even then, Manilenos inevitably suffered from “mal de ville” (“city illness”).
Lot 140 of the Leon Gallery auction on June 17, 2023. Please see leon-gallery.com/auctions/The-Sp
the stalkers are a rival team to both the government and the ultra force.. are they heroes, or are they not ????
STALKERS MEMBER 2
NAME: EDWARD “TED” GRAVESTONE
CODE NAME: VACUME
AGE: 19
STATUS: MEMBER
POWERS: CREATE A MINIATURE BLACK HOLE TO OPPONENTS
ORIGINS:
Edward was part of a government project known as “PROJECT ZEBRA”.
Project Zebra was where children were kidnapped as baby’s and injected
Super-gene formula into them, which unlocked there meta power, as well as boosted there ages drastically
Ted was given the ability to open a black hole with his hands and extract enemies into it. After the Ultra Force broke out a bunch of meta teen’s from a government base, they failed to enter the bottom floor.
7 people still remained there and for months and months they were still tested on. Eventually, a man in a suit an mask known as general X came to rescue them aswell as a Witch known as “trix”. Since that day, they have been the stalkers, Hating the government
STALKERS MEMBER 3
NAME: OSCAR CURRENT
CODE NAME: JET-SPLASH:
AGE: 19
STATUS: MEMBERS
POWERS: CREATES A TSUNAMI WITH HIS FISTS
ORIGINS:
Pretty much the same as Vacume’s except the fact he has water based powers instead
STALKERS MEMBER 4
NAME: LEWIS CHILLI
CODE NAME: EYEZ
AGE: 19
STATUS: MEMBER
POWERS: LAZAR VISON/ XRAY VISON
ORIGINS:
Pretty much the same as Vacume’s except the fact he has eye based powers instead
STALKERS MEMBER 5
NAME: LEXI MEDDLE
CODE NAME: CLOWDLING
AGE: 19
STATUS: MEMBER
POWERS: CREATE CLOWDS/CONTROL CLOUDS
ORIGINS
Pretty much the same as Vacume’s except the fact she has cloud based powers instead