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Alfred 23 Harth & Peter Brötzmann, 1987 on FMP.
In 1986 Alfred 23 Harth, in addition to his duo collaboration with John Zorn, entered into a striking partnership with Peter Brötzmann, resulting in the LP Go-No-Go (released in 1987 on FMP). The intensity of this duo soon found an expansion when Sonny Sharrock was brought into the fold, creating a formidable trio constellation. Harth’s connection to Sharrock also led to the project Aleister and Alice, which drew in companions from Plan Eden—his so‑called “mini opera” created for the Willisau Festival in 1987. This ambitious work featured Phil Minton’s vocals alongside contributions from André Bosshard and Günter Müller, integrating theatrical and operatic elements within a distinctly avant‑garde improvisational framework.
That same year, Harth became a central presence in the FMP project UND at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, where he performed with Brötzmann, Sharrock, Jim Meneses, and Louis Moholo, highlighting the vibrancy and dynamism of free music in Europe at the time. Harth’s exploratory spirit was equally visible during the five‑day “Workshop Freie Musik,” where another shifting formation coalesced around him, bringing together players such as Lars Rudolph, Danny Davis, Jay Oliver, and again Louis Moholo.
Perhaps most emblematic of Harth’s vision in this period was his initiative to form larger “super groups” that transcended national and stylistic borders. In September 1987, he spearheaded a one‑off but searing ensemble in Heidelberg featuring Sharrock, Brötzmann, the enigmatic Wietn Wito, and Mani Neumeier—a powerhouse of free improvisation and boundary‑breaking energy. This moment marked Harth’s drive to forge a new German “super group,” framing his artistic position not only as a collaborator with leading figures of the international scene, but as an instigator and architect of new sonic alliances.
A ship (that is not technically a SHIP) that I have been revising for the past year. Finally got it right on the, um, third attempt, I think?
Built around the UCS Falcon's dish and airlocks for scale, I wanted to see what I could really do building vertically in a Star Wars style. I've had ideas in this direct for the better part of a decade, so it's great to finally get them all to coalesce.
She's unarmed, deliberately, since I thought guns would muck up the outline - and frankly, there should be more civilian ships in the genre. She has a full interior which I shall hopefully photograph next (possibly while standing on a chair!).
Dolina litoral formada por coalescencia de dolinas en embudo y chimeneas kársticas. Karst exhumado de la Formación Lagos- Portimão (calcarenitas miocenas). La erosión litoral del frente de acantilado cercano ha conectado el mar con la dolina por medio de un arco marino a través del cual penetra el agua, por lo que se deja sentir la influencia mareal y la acción del oleaje.
Tidewater sinkhole, Praia da Dédé o Secreta, São Rafael (Portugal)
Ancient supratidal sinkhole (coalescence of solution pipes and funnel-shaped sinkholes) that has been reached by the sea, due to marine erosion. The sinkhole is connected to the sea by a sea arch, so the water penetrates with tides and waves.
Exhumated karst, Upper Miocene, Lagos-Portimão Fm, Algarve coast, southern Portugal.
Mass Effect 3 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; CT by IDK, One3rd, and myself, for in-engine post-processing tweaks, free camera and roll, FOV, fog, and cutscene AR modification; modified coalesced with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam, FOV; ALOT Texture mod, Vignette Remover; My own ReShade Preset
Mass Effect 2 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; my own ReShade config using MasterEffect Reborn; modified coalesced.bin with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam, custom FOV
This species is often considered a subspecies of the Eurasian eagle-owl Bubo bubo and is very similar in appearance. The facial disk is unmarked and has a black border, a feature that is much weaker in the Eurasian form. The base of the primaries is unbanded and rufous. The tail bands have the tawn bands wider than the black ones. A large pale scapular patch is visible on the folded wing.[4] The inner claws are the longest. The last joint of the toes are unfeathered.[5]
The taxonomy of the group is complex due to a large amount of variation.[6] Dementiev was the first to consider the possibility of bengalensis being distinct within the Bubo bubo group. However Charles Vaurie noted that this as well as ascalaphus appeared to be distinct and not part of clinal variation. There is a lot of colour variation with the ground colour being dark brown above while some are pale and yellowish. On dark birds the streaks coalesce on the hind crown and nape but are narrow in pale birds. However, Vaurie notes that despite the variation, they are distinct from neighbouring forms B. b. tibetanus, B. b. hemachalana and B. b. nikolskii, in being smaller and richly coloured.[7][8] Stuart Baker noted that there were two plumage variants that were seen across their range, one plumage has the back and scapulars spotted in white while the other form has a reduced number of white spots on the feathers of the back and the dark streaking on the back, neck and scapulars being prominent.[9]
Chicks are born with white fluff which is gradually replaced by speckled feathers during the prejuvenile moult after about two weeks. After a month or so they go through a prebasic moult and a brownish juvenile plumage is assume with the upperparts somewhat like in adults but the underside is downy. The full adult plumage is assumed much later.
This photo is taken about 10 minutes before the Sombrero on Mount Rainier shot using a 10.5mm f2.8 on a DX sensor (D7000), making it more like a 15mm. The clouds were still coalescing toward the mountain and there's still an abundance of blue light. The yellow sunlight is only hitting the higher clouds at this stage. I darkened the foreground in editing to diminish the impact of some distractingly brighter objects.
© 2013 - Brian Xavier Photography
Photo taken: Monday, September 2, 2013
Do not use my photos on websites, blogs, or in any other media format without my explicit permission.
Mass Effect 2 • ReShade Framework • Modified Coalesced • ToggleFreeCam • ToggleHud • One3rd/erikatschinkel CE Table • Pause • Tilt • FOV • Tonemap •
Marble Brewery, Downtown Albuquerque
Mass Effect 3 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; CT by IDK, One3rd, and myself, for in-engine post-processing tweaks, free camera and roll, FOV, fog, and cutscene AR modification; modified coalesced with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam, FOV; ALOT Texture mod, Vignette Remover; My own ReShade Preset
This stunning sweater & skirt ensemble is available at the current around of 68 Main. A gorgeous combination of a short bucle sweater with a high turtle neck, and a lovely full circle skirt with amazing textures. Comes in multiple colors. A must have for any fasionista's fall wardrobe!
Your Limo to 68 MAIN: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chop%20Zuey/127/212/4002
Olyvia is wearing:
Ghee Fall17 Cosy Boucle Sweater LARA - Graphite
Ghee Fall17 Embroidered Skirt - Lara - Graphite
Ghee Fall17 Essentials Suede Overknee Boots - Lara
Ghee Originals Coalesce Earrings
::SG:: Ligya MESH Nails Maitreya
CATWA HEAD AnnaGrey V4.10
DeeTaleZ Mesh BEAUTY MOLE (resize script)
IKON Triumph Eyes - Evening
Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V4.1
Necklace(Short) [MANDALA]KYARA/Volcano
Swallow Ring Son of a Gun Black
THE OAK - Graci Bag (Relaxed Right)
[KoKoLoReS] Hair - Haylee
[Z O O M] Cessil Glasses
^^Swallow^^ Eros Ring (Left)
He arises from the great expanse of land known as Lamar Valley. Trudging through deep snow and winding through tortuous creek beds, he makes his way to the southern edge of the valley to join his kin. The winter weather has adorned him with a frosty bling… flakes of crystalline snow gather on his thick coat and coalesce and mingle on his muzzle as if attending a private social gathering. He will soon cross the road, built by humans but repurposed by our four-legged friend to aid in his weary winter travels. At the moment, he is the handsomest coyote to walk the valley.
The Crystal Protectors are Sprites who guard the Faerie Hearts. When a faerie dies, their mystic energy coalesces internally in the heart which causes the organ to crystallize. While this happens with most faeries, High Faeries possess substantial mystic energy so these Faerie Heart crystals are desired for many purposes. They are energy sources that can meet demands ranging from powering gnome machinery to being weaponized.*
Of course, the High Faeries are decidedly unhappy about this as they are hunted for their hearts to be harvested. High Faeries are hardly defenseless, being among the most powerful beings, but highly skilled individuals, most notably among the Nightfiends,** have sometimes been successful in elaborate hunts and traps.
To discourage this, faeries and sprites have determined that the Faerie Hearts of fallen High Faeries will not be used for any purposes. Because of the energy contained within the Faerie Hearts they cannot be destroyed as that could result in a continent-level catastrophic event. So, the Faerie Hearts are hidden and the secret is diligently watched over and secured by the Crystal Protectors.
In all of fantasy warfare there is no quest that exceeds the quest to find the legendary hidden trove of Faerie Hearts.
👾 Happy 🏰 Heroclix 🏯 Friday! 🐉
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
* As seen with the Khamsin Fusers in BP 2021 Day 22:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50863451286/
** As seen in BP 2020 Day 304:
The apparent desolation of this view from the edge of the Island in the sky portion of Canyonlands National Park masks its incredible beauty. The canyon is formed by two rivers, the master canyon cutter Colorado River, and the Green River that ultimately meet and coalesce into the Colorado and proceed to the south to form Lake Powell, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Mead. The area you are looking at is on the eastern edge of the Island in the Sky looking eastward across the canyon. It reveals the three layers of the canyon. The upper level Island in the Sky at roughly 7500ft., the mid level White Cliffs, and the lower level where the Colorado River is still flowing and cutting ever deeper.
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I put my tripod on the most insecure place to take this. On small rocks at different heights. With water underneath. Do not try this at home.
While the Long War is mostly remembered as a conflict between Oléon and Corrington - with a later Mardierian Intervention - the Northern Kingdoms were not the only battlefields, as the conflict coalesced with other simmering wars. Many decades before the start of the Long War, knightly orders and agents of the Faith were already encroaching on Pontilla's territory, seeking to "civilize" the pagan lands and carve out their own monastic state, loyal to Oléon.
Over time the small border skirmishes and taunts turned into a full-fledged war, with several crusades launched into the Grand Duchy - mostly headed by the Oléonder Ordo Poseidonis, the Knights of Poseidon.
The Pontillans managed to stand their ground for a long time, thanks to the employment of clever tactics and reliance on early gunpowder weaponry.
In 347AE the infamous Battle of Ice River was fought, which is widely regarded as Grand Duke Basil's finest victory. Through clever maneuvering and usage of the terrain, the Pontillan host under the Grand Duke's command managed to lure the battle brothers of the Knights of Poseidon across a frozen-over river. When they realized the danger, many turned around and fled to a safe bank. Others dismounted and foolhardy pressed on under the barrage of ranged weaponry. The few that made it to Pontilla's side were swiftly cut down. However, retreat was becoming impossible as the ice started to give way under the weight of the soldiers and knights and was beginning to crack. Many men drowned or died of frostbite in the aftermath.
The Grand Duke then ordered the heads of fallen enemies or prisoners cut off and mounted on pikes along the banks of the river as a warning and grim symbol of victory. The chronicles of the Knights bestowed him the moniker "the Mad Lord" for this action, which is sometimes erroneously copied as "the Bat Lord", assuming it mistakenly refers to Basil's personal coat of arms.
Sadly for the Pontillans, the hubris of their victory was not to last as they were soundly defeated by Oléon in 349AE. With its army broken and Basil supposedly slain on the battlefield, the rest of the Grand Duchy was subdued and in 352AE officially annexed by Oléon.
However, control over the country is fickle and Pontillans remain defiant. Remnants of loyalists have fled to the ghastly Darkwood where it is whispered they are regrouping and biding their time. Indeed, patrols have reported rumors of sightings of armed groups adorned with bat-like imagery or claims of dark rituals and others practices the Knights label as "witchcraft" and "heresy".
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For the BOBS prequel Tales of Old, on Eurobricks.
It seems to be the year of the Dickcissel.
They are all over southern and parts of northern Ontario.
So many excellent photos are showing up.
So far this is the best I could manage, high in a tree with a strong wind ruffling its feathers.
Spiza americana
In preparation for fall migration, Dickcissels begin assembling in larger and larger flocks that gradually coalesce into flocks of thousands. Winter roosts can number into the millions of birds.
This is the view of the Panamint Valley and Mountains from The Panamint Springs Gasoline Station . The Panamint Playa is the dominant feature in the center of the valley. A playa, geologically, is the flat-floored bottom of an undrained desert basin that becomes at times a shallow lake. They sometime have salt or alkali flats in them when dry. Across the playa, the low lying dark hill is called Lake Hill. The western side of the valley is marked by the 11,000 foot high Panamint Mountain Range. Notice the alluvial fans that mark the mouth of the drainages coming down from the mountains. When alluvial fan coalesce together, geologists call them a bajada. Panamint Valley is an extensional basin located within the Eastern California Shear Zone ( a N‐S belt/zone of right‐lateral shear approximately 100 km wide that accommodates ~25% of the total relative motion between the North American and Pacific plates). The Panamint Fault Zone marks the east-side of the valley.
Piazza del Campo is the main public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia.
The twice-a-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza. The piazza is also the finish of the annual road cycling race Strade Bianche.The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with 8 lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into 9 sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions is held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. The Campo was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city.
The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc., have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :"...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city."
The unity of these Late Gothic houses is affected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained.
At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended.
Series of self portraits inspired by the word "Coalesce" meaning to come together to form one mass or whole. (Description found on google search: Define- Coalesce)
In this 65 second time exposure taken during the blue hour before sunrise, the stars are still visible and the clouds appear to be racing by as though orbiting the mountain. A lenticular cloud is covering the top of the mountian and in fact it did appear to be swirling around and around. In a series of pictures leading up to sunrise, the clouds coalesce around the top of Mount Rainer like a big sombrero.
The actual scene here at 5:24 AM was darker than you see in this photo, but with the time exposure the camera sensor picks up much more light than our eyes see in an instant. To the right of the picture you can see the pathway that leads to Frozen Lake.
© 2013 - Brian Xavier Photography
Photo taken: Monday, September 2, 2013
Do not use my photos on websites, blogs, or in any other media format without my explicit permission.
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (富士箱根伊豆国立公園 Fuji-Hakone-Izu Kokuritsu Kōen) is a national park in Yamanashi Prefecture, Shizuoka Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. It consists of Mount Fuji, Fuji Five Lakes, Hakone, the Izu Peninsula, and the Izu Islands. Rather than being a specific spot, its a collection of dispersed tourist sites that dot the region. The farthest point south, the isle of Aogashima, is several hundred kilometers from Mt. Fuji. It was established in February 2, 1936 as Fuji-Hakone NP as has coalesced into what it is today. It is the most visited NP in all Japan.
There were footprints to follow down the ridge line, so I crept behind the memory of some other wanderer in the dark. The air over the stagnant water was breathless, but not lifeless; quiet and contemplative.
By the light of the ominous moon I make my way to the treeline, coalescing into a scene so that I go from observer to participant. The land is ancient and I exist within it until, like a pebble, I am flicked away and lost to time. But centuries are seconds here, and though each moonrise is fleeting, it is cyclic. My nights are numbered but so are yours, Luna.
It's time to wake up, the Sun is rising... and it's time to take a breath.
Mass Effect 3 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; in-engine post-processing tweaks; modified coalesced with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam; IDK's CT for tilt, freecam, FOV, DoF, fog, and post-processing controls; SweetFX for contrast and bloom
Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi (O-fee-you-key) Nebula. Antares is the bright yellow star just to the right of the center in the photo and lies at the heart of the scorpion in the constellation Scorpius. The yellow nebulosity surrounding Antares is reflected light from Antares forming a reflection nebula. Antares is a red supergiant star at about 470 light years distance. If it were at the center of our solar system it would extend out to the orbit of Mars. In Greek mythology, Antares means “Rival of Mars” which fits because of its yellow-red color. The stellar wind from Antares has created a complex circumstellar gas cloud of reflection nebulosity - the region that appears yellow. Sometime soon (in astronomical terms) Antares is likely to become a supernova. It is among the four brightest stars that lie within five degrees of the ecliptic - the plane formed by our solar system, and can be occulted by the Moon. It is rare that it is occulted by a planet but Venus will pass in front of Antares in the year 2400 (probably miss that one).
The blue region just above and left of center is a reflection nebula composed of interstellar dust scattering light from a bright blue star in the middle, Rho Ophiuchi. It is about 395 light years away from Earth. Rho Ophiuchi is actually a double star. Both stars are very hot (surface temperature of over 22,000 K) and each are nearly 10 times the mass of our Sun. The two smaller stars close by are also double or multiple star systems. The dark streamers extending to the lower left are dense, dust and molecular clouds extending over 100 light years. Astronomers think these clouds are the result of a huge explosion that occurred in the recent past (about 1 million years ago). The hydrogen in these clouds may eventually coalesce and form new stars.
The red regions are emission nebula formed from clouds of excited hydrogen gas. The bright stars in the center of the red regions pump out lots of UV light that puts the surrounding hydrogen in an excited and/or ionized stated. When the hydrogen atoms return their unexcited state they emit red light which we see as a giant red cloud.
There is a globular cluster Messier 4 just above and slightly to the right of Antares but is ten times further away. And by the way, yes, those specks all over the surrounding background are stars.
Image info: Taken at Starfront Observatories near Rockwood, Texas, an observatory that hosts amateur telescope equipment operated remotely over the internet. My telescope there is a Williams Optics Redcat 51 - a small 2 inch refractor with a 64 megapixel full frame cooled astro camera the ZWO ASI6200MM. I used Chroma filters to collect images in the RGB color bands during the early morning hours over 6 nights in late February. A total of 253 2 minute sub exposures were collected and processed in PixInsight and Photoshop to form this image. I am continually amazed that just a few pieces of relatively inexpensive equipment allows us to experience such beautiful creations in our Universe.
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Illustration from the Chapter L´Atmosphère
Camille Flammarion, Météorologie populaire, 1888.
Ulloa is the namesake for the meteorological term "Ulloa's halo" (also known as "Bouguer's halo"), which an observer may see infrequently in fog when the sun breaks through (for example, on a mountain) — effectively a "fog-bow" (as opposed to a "rain-bow"). A fog-bow is defined as "an infrequently observed meteorological phenomenon; a faint white, circular arc or complete ring of light that has a radius of 39 degrees and is centered on the antisolar point. When observed, it is usually in the form of a separate outer ring around an anticorona."
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Giral, FRS, FRSA, KOS (12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general of the navy, explorer, scientist, author, astronomer, colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was appointed to that office after France ceded the territory to Spain in 1763.
Ulloa had already established an international reputation in science, having been part of the French Geodesic Mission in present-day Ecuador. He published an extensive record of his observations and findings on the South American trip, which was published in French in 1848 and in English as A Voyage to South America (1806). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Cloudbow, from the Chapter L´Atmosphère
Camille Flammarion, Météorologie populaire, 1888.
From the top of the Pambarmarca mountain, a strange weather phenomenon was noticed by Don Antonio de Ulloa and several other climbers who had gone there to establish signal posts for surveys. As the cloud covered hills became clear of the clouds and frost with the Sun rising, each person on the hill top started noticing his own image at distance of about 10 miles opposite to the Sun. In this image, the head of each one of them appeared (individually) within the centre of three concentric irises (with colours coalescing with each other) as if each one, individually, was seeing his mirror image; these were perpendicular to the horizon. An arch in white colour was seen at a distance from the three irises, circumscribing them. The diameter of the central iris was initially measured as 5.5 degrees while the arch around the circles was 57 degrees in size. Initially, the arches were seen in oval shape and as the Sun rose above the horizon it changed to a perfect circular shape, like the disc of the Sun. The arches displayed red colour bordered by orange colour, followed by bright yellow becoming straw colour and finally into green. However, the outer arch was seen all through in red colour only. Similar arches were seen when the Moon was rising. Such a phenomenon was noticed by the survey team frequently on the mountains here. In the past, others had also observed this phenomenon and named it as the "frostbow" or "cloudbow" as the cloud vaporized with sun rise. They are also called it the White rainbows unlike the rainbows which formed after rains.
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine L' Astronomie, starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.
Dyck Castle, a moated gem in the Rhineland, is steeped in nearly a millennium of history. Originally a simple fortification, it evolved into a grand baroque residence, reflecting the power and prestige of the Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck family who owned it for over 900 years. Today, it stands as a cultural monument, surrounded by the English landscape garden designed by Thomas Blaikie in the 19th century. The castle's historical rooms, now open to the public, host exhibitions and events, blending the past with the present. The gardens themselves are a horticultural showcase, offering a variety of themed gardens, modern landscape architecture, and even an adventure play area for children. Dyck Castle is not just a relic of the past but a living, breathing space where history, art, and nature coalesce to offer a unique experience to its visitors.
you know those moments just before your ideas coalesce or an insight hits? just before you leap? that's what i see in these elegant almost-poppy-blooms--the before of rich anticipation.
Dew Drops mingling in the red velvet district ~ may not be suitable for younger flickrites. Viewer discretion is advised.
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These images were created for publication in the Latino News and Entertainment Web service, SalsaMerengue.com. This was a fantastic concert. I didn’t quite know what to expect but was nevertheless blown away!
Yerba Buena Live in NYC on October 8th. This was Yerba Buena's Last Show of the Year in NYC. They shared the bill with at the Nokia Theater.
The Latin American collective Yerba Buena was organized by producer and multi-instrumentalist Andres Levin, a native Venezuelan who'd appeared on records by Marisa Monte, Arto Lindsay, los Aterciopelados, and Tina Turner, as well as helming the critically acclaimed Fela Kuti tribute Red Hot + Riot. Yerba Buena arose from Levin's wish to bring together a band capable of melding forms old and new, learning from each other in the form of a school. Gradually, the lineup coalesced, including vocalists Xiomara Laugart, Cucu Diamantes, and El Chino, percussionist Pedro Martinez, reed player Ron Blake, trumpeter Rashawn Ross, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, drummers Terreon "Tank" Gully and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez.
They are Latin-fusion ambassadors whose hipshaking desires want to play Afrobeat one moment, cumbia another, with hip-hop to follow, and throwing down a Yoruban chant or two. Finding that music throughout their island of Manhattan, Island Life gets into your blood and wont let you go. Put simply, the album is about Levin and the members of Yerba Buena living and breathing the immigrant music scene of New York, and sharing as Dre puts it, a multicultural soundtrack for Urbanistic Island Living.
Preston's angular and hostile roofing takes on astronomical form as the wires horizontal, vertical and everything in between coalesce transiently. A lone astronaut wanders to the ground control of platform 2.
Alter Ego
Elisabetta Meneghello & Peter Seelig
2018-04-13 - 2018-05-19
Cafe Hegelhof, Johannesgasse 16, A-1010 Wien
A designed organism
Roberto Borghi
Elisabetta Meneghello and Peter Seelig create their works four-handedly, following their own inspiration and at the same time leaving room for chance. However, there is a huge difference between chance and arbitrariness. What makes the first something more than mere confusion is the possibility of identifying an underlying pattern to it, a deeper meaning and a range of creational options that somehow lead to enlightening outcomes.
Meneghello and Seelig’s paintings remind me of the montage theory of Sergei Eisenstein – the director, among other things, of the epic Battleship Potemkin. According to Eisenstein, editing a film is a bit like writing in Japanese, the editing of the shots resembling the juxtaposing of ideograms. In both circumstances, the result is more than just the sum of its components. In fact, the result amounts to a whole new entity, an image endowed with its own meaning that sums up but at the same time transcends that of the pre-existing ones.
In Meneghello and Seelig’s works, this new entity results from what the two artists individually contribute to the same pictorial surface. I like to call it a “designed organism”, where the word “organism” ought be interpreted in a non-anatomical sense. This organism is not, in other words, a part of a body, but rather – inevitably and paradoxically – a segment of a figure, or a whole figure in its own right. Thus understood, the final work evokes somatic impressions, and as such it can be perceived as an organism while at the same time keeping its immaterial nature: it tends to give itself a structure and to coalesce into a geometry. From the seeming internal chaos new images are born, yet behind them one can identify visual patterns that disentangle the inextricable accumulation of colors and shapes.
More often than not, the intertwinement of shapes inevitably evokes the infantile sphere, the absolute freedom of play. Nonetheless, to play a game one needs rules, just as one needs to develop a central theme in order to make a point. Through these paintings runs a theme that is not merely metaphorical: to appreciate them fully one needs to identify the beginning of the pictorial mark, follow its path all the way through vortices, accumulations of silhouettes, amoeboid shapes, sketchy primordial beasts…
At times, the painting takes the form of a plan(t). Here the ambiguity of the term is deliberate: the “plan(t)” is a new notion that conflates and transfigures, like Japanese ideograms, two pre-existing semantic elements: a botanical one – the plant as a tree – and an architectural one – the plan as a design for a building. Let us pause on the latter for a moment. As shown by the drawings of many early twentieth-century architects (most notably Le Corbusier), architectural plans can assume the shape of a face. Lest we forget, some of the paintings presented here seem to remind us of the deep link between architecture and the features of a face, as attested by the origin of the word “façade”. So there, the faces that emerge from some of Meneghello and Seelig’s paintings really look like enigmatic, intriguing façades.
The argument pursued so far was purportedly as paradoxical as the title of the exhibition it sought to introduce. QuiNonÈAdesso – HereIsNotNow – means for the two authors primarily the non-identity of space and time, the mismatch of recollection and experience, the questionable reliability of one’s own intuitions and actions. However, “here” and “now” may also be conceived of as two Japanese ideograms: we do not know what would result from juxtaposing them. We may even think of them as two frames from a creative, ever-evolving footage that are edited into an open-ended film. But remember: the film’s ending is by no means arbitrary. Quite the opposite. It aims at communicating a message.
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Marble Brewery, Downtown Albuquerque
A view down from the side of the Darwin Plateau across The Santa Rosa Hills into the Panamint Valley. The Panamint Playa is the dominant feature in the center of the valley. A playa, geologically, is the flat-floored bottom of an undrained desert basin that becomes at times a shallow lake. They sometime have salt or alkali flats in them when dry. Across the playa is some low lying dark hill called Lake Hills. The western side of the valley is marked by the 11,000 foot high Panamint Mountain Range. Notice the alluvial fans that mark the mouth of the drainages coming down from the mountains. When alluvial fan coalesce together, geologists call them a bajada. Panamint Valley is an extensional basin located within the Eastern California Shear Zone ( a N‐S belt/zone of right‐lateral shear approximately 100 km wide that accommodates ~25% of the total relative motion between the North American and Pacific plates). The Panamint Fault Zone marks the east-side of the valley.
Update 10/4/2021: this image was featured by NASA's APOD: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211004.html
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These two mighty galaxies are pulling each other apart. Known as “The Mice” because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other. They will probably collide again and again until they coalesce. The long tails are created by the relative difference between gravitational pulls on the near and far parts of each galaxy. Because the distances are so large, the cosmic interaction takes place in slow motion — over hundreds of millions of years. NGC 4676 lies about 300 million light-years away toward the constellation of Coma Berenices and are likely members of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies. The above picture was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys which is more sensitive and images a larger field than previous Hubble cameras. The camera’s increased sensitivity has imaged, serendipitously, galaxies far in the distance scattered about the frame.
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Edit 9/7/2021: This image was published on APOD: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210907.html
This galaxy is just so bizarre that I had to process it! NGC 520 is the product of a collision between two disc galaxies that started 300 million years ago. It exemplifies the middle stages of the merging process: the discs of the parent galaxies have merged together, but the nuclei have not yet coalesced. It features an odd-looking tail of stars and a prominent dust lane that runs diagonally across the centre of the image and obscures the galaxy.
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Mass Effect 2 • GeDoSaTo (Downsampled) • Modified Coalesced • ToggleFreeCam • ToggleHud • One3rd/erikatschinkel CE Table • Pause • Tilt • FOV • Tonemap •
Description: Thank you Erika and Fency for teaching and helping me out on how to make GeDoSaTo work!
This image captures core part of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster, a rich assembly of galaxies lying about 19 megaparsecs (≈ 62 million light-years) away in the constellation Fornax, with its southern edge extending into Eridanus. The cluster spans roughly 6° on the sky and has an estimated total mass of about (7 ± 2) × 10¹³ solar masses, making it the second richest galaxy cluster within 100 million light-years, after Virgo.
Dominating the scene near the lower right is NGC 1399, a giant elliptical galaxy (with a diameter of ≈365,000 light-years) that marks the gravitational center of the Fornax Cluster. It is surrounded by smaller early-type members, including NGC 1404, NGC 1387, and NGC 1379, whose outer halos are being tidally influenced by NGC 1399’s deep potential well. These subtle interactions produce diffuse intra-cluster light (ICL) - faint stellar bridges and envelopes composed of stars stripped from satellite galaxies.
In the upper left corner, the magnificent barred spiral NGC 1365, known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, provides a vivid contrast. With its sweeping arms and bright central bar, it represents one of the most visually striking galaxies in the cluster and contributes to its complex dynamical structure.
The Fornax Cluster itself is of particular interest to astronomers because of its relative proximity and its ongoing dynamical evolution. Observations indicate that the cluster shows gravitational signatures of a subgroup merger, offering clues to how large-scale structures and clusters evolve and coalesce over cosmic time.
The faint bluish patch near NGC 1404 is likely a background galaxy or emission-line nebula, not physically related to the cluster but adding a colorful accent to the dense cluster core.
Together, this field reveals the diversity of galactic forms, from star-forming spirals to massive ellipticals, and the delicate web of interactions that shape galaxy clusters like Fornax, the nearest major cluster beyond the Local Group.
SharpStar AP140PH, 10Micro HPS1000, ASI 6200 OSC
Processed entirely in PixInsight
Total integration time: 9h50m
Data: SkyFlux Team @ Remote Astrophotography With Martin Pugh
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
Mass Effect 2 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; in-engine post-processing tweaks; modified coalesced.bin with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam, custom FOV; One3rd's CT for freecam, tilt, pause, and FOV, with my own DoF and post-processing additions; SweetFX for contrast and bloom
Mass Effect 2 - Downsampled from ~25 MP using GeDoSaTo; in-engine post-processing tweaks; modified coalesced.bin with UE3 debug codes, playersonly, freecam, custom FOV; One3rd's CT for freecam, tilt, pause, and FOV
Pfeiffer Beach, Big Sur, CA.
This rock formation is a photographer's dream. I arrived at Pfeiffer Beach while the sun was high above the rock, with photographers assembled like a small firing squad, shorter lenses up front, long lenses scoping from afar. As the sun began its golden hour dance, the photographers very methodically began to coalesce toward the center until finally one of Big Sur's visual treats appeared. The sun began to peak right through this window, straight down the middle (as its angle dictates during the earth's position in late Nov/early Dec) At this point we were all pretty mushed together, oohing and awwing at this awesome sight.
The Lagoon Nebula,catalogued as the 8th object in Charles Messier's list of comet-like objects, is a large interstellar cloud of gas and dust located roughly 4000~6000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is a birthplace of stars, where clouds of gas and dust coalesce under gravity to fuel active star formation.
This is a HDR image of the Lagoon Nebula, photographed from suburban skies in Mersing, Peninsula Malaysia. This rendition was done using a filter-modified Canon EOS 400D at prime focus of an 8" Newtonian Astrograph. The total exposure integration is 2.0 hours (12x600sec), tracked with the Losmandy G11/Gemini 2.
Calibration, Registration and Post-processing performed in Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 LE.
A ship (that is not technically a SHIP) that I have been revising for the past year. Finally got it right on the, um, third attempt, I think?
Built around the UCS Falcon's dish and airlocks for scale, I wanted to see what I could really do building vertically in a Star Wars style. I've had ideas in this direct for the better part of a decade, so it's great to finally get them all to coalesce.
She's unarmed, deliberately, since I thought guns would muck up the outline - and frankly, there should be more civilian ships in the genre. She has a full interior which I shall hopefully photograph next (possibly while standing on a chair!).
Whenever I see photos like this one, I always think the photographer amped up the saturation, but this photo, and all the others I took this day, are pretty much exactly as I shot them.
The night I took this photo, I had gone out to the pier with a bunch of other tourists to photograph the sunset, which was spectacular. Once the the sun sank below the horizon, all the other tourists drifted away, but I hung around, watching as the colors in the sky coalesced into darker hues.
Just before the day turned into night and I thought the show was over, the sky blazed into this amazing shade of hot pink, which was reflected by the placid water of the bay. The lights on the pier came on, glittering on the deep blue surface of the water, and my heart swelled with the beauty of it all.
Good things come to those who wait...
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