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Chose the poster image for the next Compressed video. For this one, I spent lots of time with liquids, light and magnetism for the visual effects.
Should be done within a week!
The moment is heavy with unspoken words, an eternity compressed into a fleeting gesture. A mother and grandmother, weathered by years of sacrifice, pour every ounce of their love, pride, and sorrow into this final kiss. Their hands, roughened by toil, hold the daughter close, as if trying to anchor her to a life she must leave behind.
This is not just a farewell—it is a rite of passage, a silent promise that their love will follow her into the unknown. Whether stepping into the servitude of another family or the quiet halls of the monastery, the daughter carries with her the weight of their devotion, their hopes, and their dreams.
The kiss is their gift, a blessing to shield her, a final act of selflessness in a world that asks too much of women like them. And though their hearts ache with the loss, they know they must let her go, trusting that the seeds of love they’ve sown will bloom in her future.
Beneath the shadow of the ancient stone,
A tender kiss, a love deeply known.
Hands calloused, yet a touch so kind,
A fleeting embrace, forever enshrined.
Through parting tears, a silent plea,
Carry us with you, wherever you’ll be.
Into the fields or cloisters’ embrace,
Our love remains, time cannot erase.
Hands rough from labour,
A kiss before the unknown,
Love in every breath.
Stone walls stand silent,
A mother’s heart softly breaks,
Farewell to her child.
Paths now diverging,
A kiss seals love eternal,
Life’s quiet echo.
Steam cotton compress, somewhere in Louisiana. Taken with Olympus OM2s on Kodak 200 speed professional film using a Zuiko 28mm lens. This apparatus stood about thirty feet high, the rods pictured here were enormous. This device would have used steam generated by a nearby boiler(not there) to ram loose cotton into a square bale for shipment north to the fabric mills.
This 2’0” gauge 0-4-0 locomotive was built in 1908 by H K Porter of Pittsburgh to operate from compressed air, allowing it to be used in flammable areas where other locos would not be able to operate.
I came across this during a visit to the B C Museum of Mining near Squamish while driving from Whistler to Vancouver in 1998.
BEEF... it's not just for dinner anymore.
"Beef" is a plot device - a highly antagonistic relationship between characters that is used to move a narrative forward. With that in mind, today I'll be looking at the S.H. Figuarts Resurrection Freeza (or Frieza) figure.
Freeza is a long standing villain in the Dragonball universe. While most recently seen (at least to me) in the Dragonball Super "Tournament of Power" arc, Freeza was introduced way back in the Z series as the one responsible for t e destruction of Planet Vegeta (Saiyan homeworld) and the total domination of countless planets, eventually being the self proclaimed Emperor of the Universe.
He was first defeated by Goku after a LENGTHY fight on Planet Namek (and I do mean long.. long a weeks worth of episodes long), and was obliterated in about 5 minutes after Future Trunks first appeared before the Cell Games.
Freeza I would describe as a melodramatic drama queen, and considers himself superior to all living being in the universe.. so naturally he's a fan favourite. To the point where his movie on resurrection was written officially into canon. While the universe now has its genocidal madman to deal with, this madman owes Goku a solid, and it'll be interesting to see where things go from here.
Resurrection Freeza is actually the third issue of the original 2014 Final Form Freeza toy. It features the same body with new heads, slightly fewer accessories, and a very lame base. You get the figure, three heads/expressions (smirk, open mouth, gritted teeth), a Halo, some additional hands (closed fist pair, open palm pair, open hand pair, two different pointed right hands), two total pairs of feet (one for the ground, one for floating). two tails (one for standing, one for floating poses, the latter of which can be segmented to replicate battle damage), crossed arms effect, Death Ball and Death Beam attack effects, and the standard Tamashii Nations transparent base.
A pretty good stack of goodies, but I can sort of see if you had the OG you'd probably not be rushing out to upgrade. While you get new heads, you lose the neat rock base, which also had special feet for standing on it.
One of the first things I noticed upon opening and assembling the figure is that geting Freeze to stand without support requires Freeze to lean forward a bit to counteract the weight of the attached tail, which doesn't bother some people but just drives me insane. If only the tail were slightly longer, you could have used it to balance the figure. But, the way it stands, it's about 1/8 inch short.
I think the new heads are slightly larger than the old ones, which is fine as I found the original figures to be kind of undersized. I guess this increase alone was enough to keep Freeza in line with the rest of the 2.0 line up. Oh speaking of which, this is "Resurrection Freeza" as it comes with a halo, which is how the Dragonball universe shows a character is dead. Strangely though, it only works with his smirking face, which I don't understand why.
I also don't understand why Freeza only came with one stand, seeing how annoying it is to actually pose the figure without one, and how having one is mandatory for the Death Beam effect - the Death Ball clips onto the wrist.
From an articulation perspective, it's not bad but you're looking at first generation Dragonball body, which means it's not going to be as refined and will have more limitations on range of motion. You get ankles, double jointed knees, hips, waist, mid torso, shoulders with slight chest compress, bicep swivel, double jointed elbows, wrists, limited neck movement, and head articulation. There's also a single point (or two if you're using the floating one) of articulation for the tail. As stated above, you'd do have most of the standard points, but do the nature of the cuts in the body the actual quality of the pose you're trying to pull off will vary.
Paint wise, Freeza is beautiful. Nice metallic purple with a matte white, featuring some subtle blue paint apps to serve as highlights. Paint applications are even and paint masking for the most part is razor sharp, especially where it counts, with some very minor masking deficiencies otherwise. Decal work and other small details are nicely done.
Build quality wise is strangely not quite up to par. Overall, most of the usual criteria are addressed - good choice of materials, no issues with limb length or joint strength, and the only real area with gap issues is the arms, which is understandable given the interchangeable nature of the parts there. The issue is that the tail joint doesn't like to stay in place, resulting in it falling out very easily, which is annoying to saying the least because not only do you lose the tail, but the entire figure will topple over due to loss of mass.
Overall, it's nice to have a Freeza in the collection, and while I would have liked to have the rock base, the screaming face is a good trade off... I'm gonna have me some fun with that. As always, while the figures generally will keep flowing here, I've got no clue what is coming next for this property in particular.. also this whole Covid thing makes buying figures like this a bit challenging, but hey, I've got some decent backlog to burn through.
Besides.. "challenging" isn't "impossible", so as always, stay tuned.
This is a cotton compress powered by steam(originally), but now run off of compressed air. It has a 90 inch piston in it and was used to compress cotton into bales for easier rail transportation.
Description on the rear of this picture describes a future fiberglass four passenger body on this chassis.
200,000 litres of air compressed to 200 atmospheres powers this chassis to 50 kmh. Designed and constructed by Vittorio Sorgato. Shown being tested near Milan.
Allied Air Compressors provide clean dry air compressed for industrial and shop environments in NZ at affordable prices. More Info - bit.ly/1vLhRdr.