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I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Macro photography taken at Pulau Ubin Singapore.
Be transported back in time to 1960s Singapore as you embark on a trip to Pulau Ubin. Shaped like a boomerang, this 1,020-hectare island is home to Singapore’s last village or kampongs, as well as the Chek Jawa Wetlands, one of Singapore’s richest ecosystems.*
*https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/parks-and-nature-reserves/pulau-ubin-and-chek-jawa
By U.S. Coast Guard definition, a stand-up paddle board is a vessel only outside a surfing, swimming or bathing area, so regulations regarding the consumption of alcohol by persons operating a vessel within United States territorial waters would not apply, I suppose. Does the Bud Light the young lady is holding then fall under Santa Bárbara’s ordinance regarding consumption of alcohol in public places, I wonder...
Empty self engrossed reflection in the face of a store window dummy. I removed myself from the reflection, which I took with a telephoto lens.
The soybean crop in Brazil is the fastest growing over the past three decades and accounts for 49% of the area planted in grain country. The increase in productivity is linked to technological advances, the management and efficiency of producers. The grain is an essential component in the production of animal feed and increasing use for human consumption is rapidly growing.
*Copyright © 2012 Lélia Valduga, all rights reserved.
This is just a little set of photos (24, I think) not exactly a real "project" and very little thought went into the compiling, sequencing, whatever, editing of the images. Just a quickie while avoiding anything of substance. Please do not try to extrapolate any deeper meaning or higher concept. There is very little here. With that said, enjoy the show.
This poster, displayed in 2006, is an advertising for a low cost flight and accommodation five days, four nights, in the City of Fès (Morocco). The price per Day including air transport, in euros, 76, is Incredibly low !
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Offre de vol "Low Cost" plus séjour cinq jours quatre nuits à destination du Maroc soit, en monnaie actuelle : 76 euros !
Well, its finally ready for public consumption! So here it is...
This Big Boy features:
- Lego Power Functions motors provide the moving force. There are 4 (yes,...four) M sized PF motors (that are barely) stuffed into the boiler. (I would have prefered 2 XL PF motors instead of 4 M's, but believe it or not, no matter how hard I tried, the much larger XL PF motors were just a couple plates too wide to fit inside this boiler design.) There are 2 M motors connected to each of the 2 articulated sets of 8 drivers. The (rechargable) battery box is placed near the front of the tender, while the receiver is hidden amongst the tender's load of coal.
- The Battery box and on/off switch is quickly accessed though an easily-removed "gate" at the front of the tender. The battery rests on floor tiles and between an inside rail arrangement that holds it in place, but still allows the battery to slide right forward for easy access when the gate is removed, enabling the battery to be either turned on/off, or replaced with a different one if it is time to charge it.
- The driving rods and pistons are fully functional. (I wanted to see that thing move while it moves, you know what I mean? :-) )
- All 4 wheels of the leading truck are fully functional, and all 4 wheels steer when it traverses through the curves. (That, without a doubt, was the hardest thing to figure out how to do on this moc. While there were lots of other areas on the Big Boy that were a pain in the a-- to model, a 4-wheel-steering leading truck that cleared the pistons and front drivers of an articulated wheel set made me scratch my head for a l-o-n-g time.)
- The engine's cab and tender are 8 studs wide, and the boiler is approximately 7.5 studs wide. Even though these measurements might suggest that the scale of this engine is at 8 wide, in all actuality, because of the gigantic dimensions of a full size Big Boy, this moc is probably closer to being in 6-wide scale (or possibly maybe even 7 wide scale) then in 8 wide scale. (Especially when the Big Boy is placed next to and compared with most mocs that are modeled in 6-wide. But I am open to hearing everyone's else's opinions on this Big Boy moc's 'actual' scale. I am kind of curious as to what everybody thinks on that subject.)
- The moc is completely able to negotiate all curves and switches. (I built this thing to be able to play with it, after all! LOL. Locomotives aren't any fun at all if they are just sitting on a shelf being looked at.) I have a fairly tight layout, with many close-placed switches, and I have somehow managed (after much repeated rebuilding, b----ing, and track testing) to make that bazillion-wheeled monster go through corners and switches successfully. (I did have to move some of my buildings back and away from the corners of the track a stud or two in order to able to accommodate the wide swinging boiler, however.) I have not tried this engine on flex track, yet- I wonder how it'll do riding on that stuff?
- The front coupler is fully functional (but rarely used).
- Total model length from the front engine coupler to rear tender coupler is just a few tenths of an inch short of 31 inches. (I was hoping the thing would make it to a full yard long when I was done building it, but because I like building train mocs that are scaled to the driver size, it didn't scale right at 36 inches in length. But how cool would it have been able to say "This engine is a yard long and built entirely of Lego!"? LOL. )
- I'd like to believe that the moc is about 97% done (but you know how that goes-- nothing you build is ever really DONE done.) There is a small bit of plumbing to do yet, a wrong colored headlight holder (it needs to be black), and stickers to do yet. Part of my hope is that I will get some good build feedback, and if anybody has any ideas/suggestions for improvements, please fire away. :-)
- The only non-lego part on the moc is the use of metal wire inside the flexable tube used for handrails to help maintain the correct shape of the flextube bends. (I do love using BBB wheels on my train mocs, but in this circumstance I wanted to power this thing using the actual drivers as the motive force, and because of that, I needed to use Lego's rubberband-grooved drivers for improved traction.)
This is Picromerus bidens Spiked Shieldbug (final instar nymph) with a caterpillar for consumption later. I think the caterpillar is that of Autumnal rustic Eugnorisma glareosa. Druridge Pools NR
An exceedingly rare probable/possible Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) produced/issued photograph of the earth, taken by the JHU/APL Department of Defense Gravity Experiment (DODGE) satellite.
I’m certain this photograph was meant for internal distribution & consumption. I haven’t seen more than maybe three different color photographs taken by the satellite, one of which was the first full-disk color image of the earth.
Thankfully & frankly - long overdue - JHU/APL posted the following content, which was not available when I first posted my below linked photograph:
www.jhuapl.edu/TechDigest/Detail?Journal=A&VolumeID=6...
Credit: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY website
Further/more specifically, per Fig. 1, despite the ‘picture characteristics’ depicted, I think this is a cropped image taken by the “60° - FIELD B & W CAMERA”. Again, with only several DODGE images to base my ignorant supposition, none showed the mast structure to this degree…along with what looks like one of the extended damper booms across the lower left corner of the image. That, along with it being black & white might support such. Although, I wouldn’t be surprised if the historic color photographs released to the press were also cropped for ‘prime time’.
Wonderful & amusing anecdotal information associated with the DODGE image at the following:
www.donaldedavis.com/2003NEW/NEWSTUFF/DDEARTH.html
Credit: "Don Davis: Space Artist and Animator" website (lots of good stuff here)
Further:
“The DODGE (Department of Defense Gravity Experiment) satellite was orbited primarily to study a number of advanced biaxial and triaxial gravity-gradient stabilization techniques at near-synchronous altitudes. Secondary objectives included obtaining measurements of the earth's magnetic field at near-synchronous altitudes and black-and-white and color TV photography of the entire earth disk. DODGE was launched as part of a multiple DOD satellite payload that included DATS 1, LES 5, and IDCSP 16, 17, and 18. The satellite was in the form of an octagonal aluminum shell with a truncated pyramid at the top and a 25.4-cm-diameter cylindrical mast extending 1.57 m from the satellite base. The satellite body was 2.41 m long and 1.22 m in diameter. A total of 10 knobbed booms were carried on board. Upon radio command, these booms could be independently extended or retracted along three axes to various limits out to 45.75 m. The cylindrical mast housed a 4.6-m boom that extended through the end of the mast, two 15.25-m-long damper booms that extended in the x-y plane, and triaxial vector magnetometer sensors. The remaining seven booms were contained in the satellite body along with a two-camera (one color and one black-and-white) vidicon camera system. The command system consisted of a dual command receiver, dual command logic, and power switching circuitry. The telemetry system included two directional antennas mounted on the mast, two 38-channel commutators for housekeeping data, and a dual transmitter system that transmitted analog data at a frequency of 240 MHz and TV data at 136.8 MHz. The satellite was successfully stabilized 12 days after launch by means of the gravity-gradient booms and libration dampening systems. It was oriented with its base and mast directed toward the center of the earth's disk. The mission was a success and proved the feasibility of achieving triaxial gravity-gradient stabilization at synchronous altitudes using passive and semi passive techniques. The satellite operated for over 3 years and took thousands of black-and-white and color pictures of the earth. Early in 1971, problems with the batteries on board limited operation to only solar acquisition periods. The satellite was placed in an operational off mode in early 1971.”
Above per/at:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1967...
Credit: NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive (NSSDCA) website
1956 Triumph Tiger T110
Production
1953–1961
Engine
649 cc parallel twin OHV four-stroke
Transmission
4 speed / chain
Wheelbase
57 inches (140 cm)
Seat height
31 inches (79 cm)
Weight
420 lb (190 kg) (dry)
Fuel capacity
4 imp gal (18 l; 4.8 US gal)
Fuel consumption
70 mpg‑imp (4.0 L/100 km; 58 mpg‑US) at 60 mph (97 km/h).
The Triumph Tiger 110 is a British sports motorcycle that Triumph first made at their Coventry factory between 1953 and 1961. The T110 was developed from the Triumph Thunderbird and first appeared in 1954.
Although it was supposed to be the sports model of the Triumph range, the Tiger 110 was later fitted with the rear paneling that was introduced with Triumph's 350cc 3TA twin in 1959. This rear cowling earned it the nickname 'bathtub' from its shape and made the T110 look somewhat staid. In any event, from 1959, the T120 Bonneville was now Triumph's leading sports model and before the introduction of Edward Turner's unit construction 650cc twin in 1962, the T110 was dropped from Triumph's range
Thurs. the 23rd & Fri. the 24th was offline. So 2 days shooting and no editing or uploading.
As my place off-limits while they ripped out a 8'x10' window and replaced with new Triple-pane window.
About 300 clicks over the last 2 days. D90....55-200vr.
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and it was fairly effortless too, to be taken in like that.
Not sure how much I like this one in black white, but they sincerely I think were meant to be so.
Nanticoke Power Generating Station; energizing our addictions
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Kogal (コギャル kogyaru?) is a subculture of conspicuous consumption among girls and young women in urban Japan Is is one of several types of so-called gyaru, or peer conscious social groupings. Kogal are characterized by flaunting their disposable income through distinctive tastes in fashion, music, and social activity. In general, the kogal roughly approximates a sun-tanned California Valley Girl, and indeed, there are even some linguistic similarities between these Western groups and Kogal. Both subcultures have derived entire sets of slang terms (such as Kogalese; (コギャル語 kogyaru-go?)). Kogals are not to be confused with the ganguro subculture, although they are similar.
Kogals are known for wearing platform boots, a miniskirt, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blonde or brown), artificial suntans, and designer accessories. If in school uniform, the look typically includes skirts pinned very high and loose socks (large baggy socks that go up to the knee). Kogals' busy social lives and desire for new material goods lead them to be among the first consumers of Japanese mobile phone technology, and their taste in clothes tends toward Burberry scarves and Louis Vuitton handbags. Kogals spend much of their free time (and their parents' income) shopping, and their culture centers on the Shibuya district of Tokyo, in particular the 109 building, although major Japanese cities are sure to have a small population. During the summer, kogals may sometimes be seen at the beach. They are generally not seen in high-end department stores.
Critics of the Kogal subculture decry its materialism as reflecting a larger psychological or spiritual emptiness in modern Japanese life. Some kogals support their lifestyle with allowances from wealthy parents, living a free; or parasite single; existence that grates against traditional principles of duty and industry.
The kogal phenomenon emerged in the mid-1990s and its effects can still be seen today in its numerous off-shoots of sub-categories, although conservative tastes in dress and hair color seem to be on the upswing. The Gothic Lolita aesthetic has been described as a reaction to the kogal look, since it attempts to reclaim childhood innocence, though skeptics point out that most Lolita merely model after J-rock cosplay and spend just as much, if not more money on their appearance when compared to kogals.
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This is an illustration I made for the magazine "Imagine Demain le Monde"
(January/February 2010 - Number 77).
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This was my favorite kind of morning. Shoots where I get off work, tired and a little bit more insane than usual due to sleep deprivation, and meet up with a girl that just wants to explore and create with me. I could do this for the rest of my life, easily.
And why not? I don't do this as a job, mostly because I don't know how, but also because I feel that would take the fun out of it. I have incredibly lovely people like Jordan, who is an artist as well, excited to come home on her holiday break from school to take pictures with me and just wander around my city.
If you've got something better than that, I'd love to hear it, because I have yet to find something as fun as the company of others in the presence of cameras and the sun.
Custom, toasted Marshalls for Rotofugi signing on May 30, 2009. Hand-painted by Ms. Colors with an old school header card sealed in a plastic bag... simple!