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" Robot Resurrection " giant robot sculpture by Shane Evans.
Robot Resurrection’s team made an epic journey from World’s Faire in New York last weekend to set up in the Plaza de Panama
Maker Faire 2015
This was the first Maker Faire in SD ( lots of tech tinkerers, artists, programmers, crafters, Steampunk and Star Wars lovers, art cars, hacked bikes and vehicles, printers (screen and 3D), laser cutters, music aficionados, gardeners, engineers, robotics clubs, sculptors, fitness enthusiasts, fashionistas, and those who defy definition by mixing all a manner of materials, genres, and technology )
From the Project Gutenberg 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, a definition of "love."
Thanks for looking!
Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.
La qualità capace di appagare l'animo attraverso i sensi, divenendo oggetto di meritata e degna contemplazione:
Più dell'oro
possanza
Sovra gli animi umani
ha la Bellezza
Parini
La definizione qui sopra è tratta da Wikipedia (a cui oggi ho fatto una donazione)...
La foto, dal mio archivio, un tramonto indonesiano fra i più belli.
Buona serata
#bellezza #beauty #tramonto #indonesia #cielo #sky #nuvole #clouds #dream #palette #colors #colori #horizon #orizzonte
When I first joined flickr and was reading comments I couldn't figure out what this mysterious bokeh was... I've figured it out! It's here!
Cuando me uni primero a flickr y leiba los comentarios no podia entender que era este mysterioso bokeh... Lo supe! Esta aqui!
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Chianti is a red Italian wine produced in Tuscany. The first definition of a wine-area called Chianti was made in 1716. The earliest documentation of a Chianti wine dates back to the thirteenth century when viticulture was known to flourish in the Chianti Mountains around Florence. Discover the most celebrated region of Tuscany. The vineyards of this area produce one of the best wines in the world: Chianti Classico. This Wine represents a major source of wealth for the Chianti area, no wonder then that this product has been particularly looked after and protected, in order to distinguish its quality from other wine productions. This is why a rigid legislation has been introduced to regulate the production of Classic Chianti. The first limit obviously regards the geographical area where the grape must grow. But not only the vineyards must be cultivated in the prescribed area: the whole process of wine-making, storage and bottling must take place inside the protected zone. The grape variety from which Chianti is produced is Sangiovese. The alcoholic strength must not exceed 12 %. In addition to this, there are other requirements that must be followed, regarding the average amount of dry product (24 g/l); the acidity rate (4,5 g/l), the colour (intense ruby red), the smell (fruity, with nuances of wildflowers, berries, cherries or plums) and taste (harmonious, dry, strong and with respectable tannin).
We drive on the glorious wine roads of Tuscany. We visit the farms and cellars and of-course taste the great Chianti wine. Photo of the warm colors of the Tuscany evening sunset taken on the Casale dello Sparviero estate.
Denk je aan Toscana, dan zie je stadjes op heuveltoppen, wijngaarden omzoomd door cipressen zover het oog reikt. Liefhebbers weten dat je overal tussen die landerijen. wijnhuizen kunt vinden waar je ook nog eens kunt proeven... het idee alleen al doet je toch bijna het water in de mond lopen. Ook als je weer thuis bent en je neemt een slok van je meegebrachte wijn, ben je er in je gedachten weer helemaal: op dat zonovergoten terras in Castellina in Chianti of bij dat fantastische restaurant met die truffelgerechten in Monteriggioni. Zeg je wijn in Toscana, dan zeg je Chianti, een wijn die zich in de laatste 30 jaar tot Classico heeft ontwikkeld. Chianti is de bekendste en populairste van alle Italiaanse wijnen. De wijn wordt gemaakt van de alom aanwezige Sangiovese-druif, die graag veel zon heeft en goed bestand is tegen grote temperatuurschommelingen. De belangrijkste Chianti-zones worden gevormd door de streek Chianti Classico gelegen rond Castellina. Zoals met zoveel in Italia, is ook de wijnbouw begonnen in het zuiden, maar hebben de noorderlingen het later overgenomen. Na de Romeinse tijd kwam de zuidelijke wijnbouw in de versukkeling. De oudste ononderbroken wijntraditie. In de Renaissance kwam de productie weer helemaal terug en wel in...Toscana. Rijke handelaars en bankiers zoals de families Frescobaldi en Antinori namen druivenrassen mee uit Frankrijk en legden daarmee de basis voor het feit dat Toscana tegenwoordig de oudste onononderbroken wijntradities van Italië kent.
I photographed this as a slide a long long time ago...I actually don't know when. Anyway, I no longer know what word is being defined. If anyone knows please comment.
Weed: a plant considered undesirable, unattractive or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted.
Had a great time photographing this perfect little family and many other cute sheep today! :) I absolutely LOVE this time of the year!
Nature is an endless source of beauty and inspiration for me. Not a day goes by that I can't find (my definition of) perfection outside.
Fall is here, temperatures are dropping and my miniature rose decides to produce one last exquisitely perfect rosebud :)
I am eternally in love, eternally grateful.
1969 Plymouth Roadrunner 440
So what exactly would be the definition of a muscle car? Well let me first say that there may not be an exact definition. There are simply too many variables, personal opinions and just plain subjective love for one’s own “performance car” to define such. Consider the following narrative as a guideline as to what would constitute being designated a muscle car.
* Following is an excerpt from a Thesis presented to the Graduate School of Clemson University by William Blythe McKinney, December 2009 which I copied and pasted into this narrative.
www.tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1"
First, the car must carry a V8 engine. After all, there must be “muscle” behind a muscle car. And while performance can be garnered from turbocharged or supercharged V-6 engines, they do not have the loud, car-shaking visceral appeal of the V8. In the 1960s, the more cubic inches you had under the hood,
the cooler you were.
Next, the car must have only two doors, making it look sleek and sporty. But despite the two doors, the American muscle car has always carried a backseat, therefore separating it from the smaller, more European style “sports car.” This means that while smooth and fast and very desirable, a Corvette [4] would not be considered a muscle car.
Muscle cars had to have some semblance of practicality, and that came with the lower sticker price and inclusion of a rear seat. While there is some debate over what makes the cut as far as modern muscle (for example, should powerful trucks be considered?) the classic definition of the muscle era was 1964 (the first year of the GTO) through 1974 (the last year for the Super Duty Trans Am – although Trans Ams would continue to be popular in a less potent version throughout the 70s and 80s.) The zenith of the movement is generally considered to be 1970, when 100 octane fuel was still available
4. - It should be noted that some people will consider a Corvette a muscle car, while others will not. The Corvette is an American icon all on its own. Its run is much longer than the muscle cars; it has been built since the early Fifties and every year since up to the present-day (2009). Also, it is a two-seater, and expensive. Still, some will argue that it was right there in the performance battles of the late Sixties, racing against Hemi MOPARS and others, and so they include it in the discussion.
and there seemed to be no end of it, and horsepower wars had vaulted factory stock engines into the 400hp-plus range. In the years following 1970, power began to subside as emission concerns took hold, and the auto market moved in a new direction.
Finally, to be a muscle car, a car must have rear wheel drive; important to performance enthusiasts because power is not lost in turns, and there is not the feeling of being pulled to one side under heavy acceleration as in front-wheel drive vehicles (something called “wheel drift”). Also, it was cool to show off a car’s muscle by performing big smoky burnouts. This was best done by the rear wheels instead of the front, which just make it look like your engine was on fire.
People can and will argue about when the muscle car revolution really started, but for the purpose of this article, we’re placing the start in the early to mid-sixties, specifically 1964, but with credit to the earlier cars. 1964 was chosen because that was the year of the first Pontiac GTO, the car that’s most often cited for starting the whole muscle car pheno-menon. It was the first factory intermediate model with an engine from a full-size car... There were performance models long before 1964 , but the basic muscle car premise is a big engine in a smaller car. That’s the basic definition of a hot rod, only now you could buy a brand new hot rod at your local GM, Ford, or Chrysler dealership and finance it. Somehow, it’s not the same.
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By yours truly:
Burn ‘um up………heat ‘um up. Burn out. Smoke billows and swirls around a throbbing, growling, thump’a de thump four wheel beast. A couple of quick stabs on the throttle – an ear splitting vawomp, vawoomp blasts from open headers………. The car shutters and shakes as it inches forward toward the staging line, tripping the red light on the “christmas tee”. The ground shakes as both cars begin their “run-up”, r.p.m.s climb - 5000, 5500, 6000 igniting 500, 600 or more of raw brute horsepower under the hood. The count down, a yellow, another yellow. Engines screaming – the car hunches like a growling, angry Tiger ready to pounce. Green light! Foot slams the throttle, clutch peddle flies up, line lock released, the tach needle spins, higher, higher. An earth shaking roar, smoke and fire - the car bolts forward, whirling slicks dig into hot asphalt, as the front end bolts up. The car enters a different world – images melt into a blur, gears slam; second, third, fourth – a growling scream from Hell fills the air. A quarter of a mile is eaten up in a matter of seconds. The traps appear from the darkness. Time to back down – back down but no. The age is ending. Like our time on earth, the muscle car is dying……… stay in it, stay in it. The traps blur by. It pierces the darkness in an instant. It enters an ethereal world – a world devoid of time and space. It passes the bounds of our world. A raging thing – a screaming machine no longer tied to the bounds of earth. There is no return. A final scream – a final breathe and then, then silence. A blazing light pierces the darkness and it knows there is no return. Its era is passed. It is but a memory now. There is no sorrow, no regrets, no fear. It had its day and like all things, it’s time passes into memories.
This, my friends, is the muscle car ………………
*A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
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Candid eye contact street portrait taken in Glasgow, Scotland. This young woman was filming her street performing friends when I stepped in with my lens. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking on the image. Oh, she wasn't smiling at me... she was just constantly smiling!
definition: any of various free-swimming, mostly marine cnidarians (esp. class Scyphozoa) with a body made up largely of jellylike substance and shaped like an umbrella: it has long, hanging tentacles with stinging cells on them
seen in sealife oberhausen