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Mural entitled "I Love You Truly" by Ivan J. Roque aka @ivanjroque, seen at 10 South Main Street in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Changes" by Cameron Moberg aka @camer1sf for Mural Mania, seen at 701 South Main Street in South Bend, Indiana.
The artist states: "@crysmo is my muse for everything in life. Literally, everything. My bestie since 96. She is the example of what it means to “be the change” in our household. She loves me and my sons exceptionally well. She’s constantly setting an example for us on how to love better, how to converse better, and how to serve one another better. I’ll get better at painting you baby, I promise. But it’s really an impossible task. You’re too striking. ❤️"
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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An addition to our #UnfoldTheUniverse art social media campaign sent in by Valentin Monsalve from Switzerland.
This is a calligraphy they made. This is the back. View the front here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/53061875851/in/da...
Valentin says, "It was inspired by the beauty of the universe revealed by the James Webb Telescope and by a famous Chinese text called 千字文 "Thousand Characters Text". I used a paper that looks just like the panels of James Webb Telescope and it was made at a special workshop.
I entitled mine as "Thousand Disorders Text". I also wrote a small text in French that was inspired by the calligraphy making:
Des courbes
Des droites
Un hexagone
Une symétrie
Un enogaxeh
Un écart chemine vermillon
Une succession verticale forme une succession horizontale
Dans le chaos on peut voir de multiples logiques
Quand on a essayé 1 2 on en vient naturellement à essayer Ԑ Ⴙ
Nous verrons bien où le chemin nous mène!
The English translation of the French is:
Curves
Straights
a hexagon
A symmetry
A nogaxeh
A gap strolls red
A vertical succession forms a horizontal succession
In chaos multiple logics emerge
After trying 1 2 we naturally come to try Ԑ Ⴙ
Let's see where it goes next!
This "poem" is actually the exact description of what happens in the calligraphy that I made where the text that begins from right top and goes down do. The first line (that goes down) follows a curve and the second one a straight line. Then the alternance of those two patterns make a hexagon etc. To understand this you have to know the text in order to read it in the correct order and see the patterns."
Here is the Thousand Character Essay translation in English: www.camcc.org/_media/reading-group/qianziwen-en.pdf
If you create art inspired by what the James Webb Space Telescope might discover, share it with us! For more information, please visit: go.nasa.gov/unfoldtheuniverse
Image credit: Valentin Monsalve
This photograph was published in an online article in MyLONDON on September 22nd 2022. The article by Lea Dzifa Seeberg (Senior 'What's on' writer), was entitled:
'' Australian tourist asks Londoners if they can pet ‘cute’ squirrels as people warn ‘don’t f*** with squirrels ’' - People warned the tourist they might lose their hands
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Twenty four metres at 05:09am on Monday 4th November 2019, off Hyde Park Corner and Park Lane A4202 in the grounds of Hyde park, a Grade 1 listed Royal Park (the largest of) of London.
Spanning an area of 350 acres, the park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long water lakes, and was created by King Henry VIII in 1536 as hunting ground. It opened to the public in 1637 and was extensively improved under Queen Caroline in the early Eighteenth century. The Great exhibition for which the Crystal Palace was erected, designed by Joseph Paxton, was also held here.
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Nikon D850 Hand held with Sigma OS Optical Stabilization set to normal Focal length 600mm Shutter speed: 1/125s Aperture f/6.3 iso450 Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (8256 x 5504) 14 bit uncompressed Image size L (8256 x 5504 FX). Focus mode AF-C focus. AF-C Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. AF-S Priority selection: Focus. 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points.AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode: Shutter Priority mode. Matrix metering. Auto ISO sensitivity control on (Max iso 800/ Minimum shutter speed 125). White balance on: Auto1. Colour space: RGB. Active D-lighting: Normal. Vignette control: Normal. Nikon Distortion control: Enabled. Picture control: Auto (Sharpening A +1/Clarity A+1)
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From my set entitled “Toronto”
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In my collection entitled “Places”
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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Harbour
Toronto Harbour is a bay on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is a natural harbour, protected from Lake Ontario waves by the Toronto Islands. It is a commercial port on the Great Lakes as well as a recreational harbour. Waterfront uses include shipping, residential, recreational and cultural.
Originally a low sandy peninsula formed the southern limit of the bay. The mouth of the harbour pointed west. The eastern shore of the bay, approximately six kilometres east, was a marsh around the mouth of the Don River. Low sandy bluffs lined the northern shore.
In 1858 a storm washed a channel through the eastern edge of the peninsula that formed the south edge of the bay, forming the Toronto Islands.
Toronto Harbour is both a commercial port and a recreation area. Commercial activities are confined mainly to the harbour's eastern side, while the western side was developed into Harbourfront, a conversion from industrial land to recreational and cultural uses. Harbourfront has parks, hotels, an amphitheatre, and many other facilities. The Toronto Islands are also mostly recreational, although they do also contain a small community and an airport.
Toronto also has a second harbour, called the Outer Harbour (Toronto Harbour is sometimes called the Inner Harbour), but it never developed into a commercially viable project. It was created in the 1950s by the Toronto Harbour Commission through the construction of a new breakwater called the Outer Harbour East Headland. At that time, it was expected that there would be a great upswing in the number of ships calling at Toronto once the Saint Lawrence Seaway opened. However, the need for an extra harbour never materialized, and private boats are the only traffic usually found there now.
In June 2004, the company Canadian American Transportation Systems (CATS) began regular passenger/vehicle ferry service between Pier 52 and Rochester, New York using the vessel Spirit of Ontario I. The service used a marketing name called "The Breeze". While Rochester had a custom-built ferry terminal, the Toronto terminal was a temporary facility, near the end of Cherry Street for security and customs screening facilities while a permanent marine passenger terminal was still under consideration for construction. CATS discontinued the service after only 11 weeks; among the problems cited was the absence of a permanent marine passenger terminal in Toronto and literally no Canadian interest in the service. The Toronto Economic Development Corp (TEDCO) was not properly consulted by the American interests who combined with the Mayor saw little political favour in seeing the project through from the City of Toronto's point of view. The vessel was sold in a bankruptcy sale in February 2005 to Rochester Ferry Company LLC, a subsidiary of the City of Rochester. In April 2005, Rochester Ferry Company LLC announced that the Rochester-Toronto ferry service using Spirit of Ontario I would return, operated by Bay Ferries Great Lakes Limited and using the marketing name "The Cat". The Toronto Port Authority officially opened the International Marine Passenger Terminal on June 27, 2005, three days before ferry service resumed.[1] Even with impressive passenger numbers by the winter of 2006 the ferry service lost funding from the City of Rochester and announced that it would no longer be in business.
Wharfs existed along Toronto's waterfront in the 19th Century, but they have since been replaced by quays. Most of the former wharfs disappeared when the waterfront was filled in along with the now "missing" Creeks of Toronto.
A list of former wharfs along the central waterfront:
Dufferin Street Wharf
Queen's Wharf - Bathurst Street
Conner's Wharf - York Street
Millous Wharf - Yonge Street
Hamilton Wharf - Church Street
Sylvester Brothers and Hickman's Wharf - Church Street
Northern Railway Wharf and Elevator - Portland Street
Taylor's Wharf - George Street
Hogarty and Grussett Wharf and Elevator - Simcoe Street
Walsh and Love's Wharf - Simcoe Street
Tinning's Wharf - York Street
Higginbotham's Wharf - Yonge Street
Manson's Wharf - Market Street
Toronto and Northern Railway Wharf - Berkerley Street
Gooderham's Wharf and Elevator - Don River
A list of current quays/slips along the waterfront:
Bathurst Quay
Maple Leaf Quay
John Quay
York Quay
Queen's Quay
Yonge Quay
Rees St. Slip
Simcoe St. Slip
Ships of Toronto Harbour
tug Ned Hanlan II
tug M. R. Kane (tugboat) - originally Tanac-V246 and purchased by Toronto Drydock Company
William Lyon Mackenzie (fireboat)
CCGC Sora
Toronto Island ferry services
William Inglis
Sam McBride
Thomas Rennie
Ongiara
Maple City
Windmill Point
TCCA1
Trillium
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"The Wigwam, High and Pitt Streets, Carlisle. This card entitles you to one mystic reading (confidential). Clairvoyant--Enchant, Calirvoyante--Ismel (International Mystics)."
Mural entitled “I AM HERE” by Darius Dennis aka @72and10, Patrick Kane McGregor aka @patrickkanemcgregor, Jasper Patch aka @jasperpatch, and Esteban Sanchez, seen at 4654 North Broadway in Chicago, Illinois.
The mural is based on a photo by Danny Lyon aka @dannylyonphotos2 from the 1960s civil rights sit-in at the Toddle House diner in Atlanta, Georgia. Lyon identifies the following people: "John Lewis cleverly turned the back of his head to the camera, Charles Neblett, Judy Richardson, Joyce Ladner at the counter, Ivanhoe Donaldson standing in the back, all 1963 SNCC staff."
The sit-in movement was a nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 The sit-in was an act of civil disobedience that involved African Americans (later joined by white activists), usually students, going to segregated lunch counters, sitting in all available spaces, requesting service, and then refusing to leave when denied service because of their race.. The key to the success of the sit-in movement was the moral high ground that the participants took. Their peaceful demonstrations for basic legal rights and respect increased favorable public opinion of their cause. Facing violence with nonviolent resistance required that the students take no action against white aggressors and police who physically harassed and assaulted them and arrested them on spurious charges. The sit-in campaigns of 1960 and the ensuing creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) demonstrated the potential strength of grassroots militancy and enabled a new generation of young people to gain confidence in their own leadership. The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement. -- Perplexity AI
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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i heard this interview of richard dawkins at WNYC radiolab entitled 'in defense of darwin' this morning and it fit perfectly with the picture i shot yesterday.
i took the time to write down a bit of the interview on my blog, if you're inclined to further reading.
EDIT: i decided to add the text here, after all... those with patience can continue:
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Q: your daughter is driving around with you and you look and… she’s 6 years old. she sees a field of flowers. you say to her, well, what do you think they’re for? she says 'well, to make the world pretty and to help bees make honey for us. and you think, well, i’m sorry to tell her that this wasn’t true. and i explained to her that the flowers are not there to make the world beautiful and they are not there to delight bees or anything else. they’re in the world to copy their DNA.'
this is to a six-year old.
(audience laughs)
but essentially what you’re doing there is you’re addressing you’re opening the notion to her that the world is a purposeless, indifferent machine where the meaning of things is not clear, if it exists at all. you’ve found it, i think, kind of brave to say to your daughter , look, step into the wind…
(richard interrupts)
A: no, exciting! it’s a far more exciting view of flowers to understand what they’re really doing and, as six years old, she had no problem understanding that. i explained it to her.
but to come to your ‘what’s it for’ question, it’s a piece of massive presumption to think that the ‘what it’s for’ question deserves an answer. there’s no reason at all why something should have a ‘for’ about it. if i said to you, ‘what is the sun for?’ or 'what is mt. everest for', you would say 'don’t be so silly... it’s not an appropriate question'… but, because it’s flowers, you sort of feel there ought to be a ‘what is it for’ question.
Q: no actually i think it’s a harder question than that. i think most human beings have some deep impulse to explain their being here to wonder about the origins of here and the destiny of them and here. and that question, the meaning of it all is not a silly question.
A: that’s not a silly question and it has a perfectly good answer, which is not an answer to be couched in the language of purpose. it’s an answer to be couched in the language of scientific causation. what brought us all to be here… what is the explanation for our existence… that has a perfectly good scientific answer… and you go back in evolutionary time to the origin of life, and you go back before the origin of life to the origin of the world, the origin of the solar system, the origin of the universe… and that becomes deeply mysterious. needless to say, it’s not a question i could even begin to answer and i don’t think that, at the present stage, physics can either. but to the extent that there’s going to be an answer, it’s going to come from science and that is a deeply satisfying kind of answer to the question, 'why are we here?' we already have, in principle, the answer to that question and it is not an answer of the form ‘we are here in order to achieve some purpose’ it’s an answer of the form, ‘we are here because something happened, which led that something else that happened, which led to something else that happened'.
Q: are you … let me ask you the harder question … is this hard-looking and this telling your 6-year old, this leads to this leads to this, this kind of reductionist way of thinking about everything … does that seem to you to be less than joyously imaginative ?
A: no, i think that’s kind of super-romantic to actually understand that flowers are devices … beautiful devices, elegant devices which are shaped precisely to attract insects and hummingbirds and bats to take pollen from one to another… that is such a mind-blowing thought compared to the tame, sort of washed-out view that flowers are just sort of nice things to have around.’
(audience claps)
interviewer to audience: 'don’t encourage him.'
Mural entitled "Journey to Jenin" by Last Wave aka @1457Wave for Paint Memphis, seen at 1512 Lamar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee,
Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "The Free Spirit of the Mountains" by KEY DETAIL aka @keydetail, seen on the wall of the Midvale City Hall at 7501 Main Street in Midvale, Utah.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Miami Vice" by sef aka @sef.01 seen on the wall of Paul Lawrence Dunbar School at 505 NW 20th Street in Miami Florida.
The artist states: " When I was little, I really enjoyed watching TV with my parents. One of the series we watched together was Miami Vice, that TV show from the 80s and early 90s, which became a Miami icon. It was almost natural for me to choose this theme for my wall design that I just finished for my friends at @awalls for ART Basel Edition 2021. A wall that for me, represents not only the essence, the color and the spirit of the Magic City, it also shows companionship and equality."
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "Keep Your Head Above Water" by Eduardo Mendieta aka @emo_561 seen at 2013 NW Miami Avenue in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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A Tea for the Tillerman
Wickedly Delicious and Delightful
Years ago while doing research for a boring university project I stumbled across old archives for the Glamorgan Gazette from the pre-Great War 1900s.
A story entitled ‘Tea Party Misadventure’ caught my eye.
It was of interest mostly because my mum likes to put on elaborate dress-up tea parties of her own doing in our almost one-hectare backyard garden at home.
There was not much to this old story really, only reporting that at a certain fancy Tea held at the manor house recently the hostess and several guests reported jewels had turned up missing. I was suspiciously under the impression that they were wearing said jewels at the time, for no mention of them being nicked from rooms was made.
This piqued my curiosity because, due I’m sure to some quirk in my DNA, I get perilous shivers thinking some uncommon thief could be that skilled, he/she could undetected, nick the very jewels I’m wearing. Would love to know if I’m unique in that feeling.
That said ….
No mention of an investigation, the cause, or any outcome was given. Nor could I find a follow-up story.
I hate it when I cannot find answers to stories. And this one certainly piqued my rather offbeat interest over how something like that could occur.
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Then, much more recently, I had been out with Ginny to see the movie “Cruella.” She had “commandeered” her older Brother’s twin 8-year-old daughters for the occasion.
The movie basically sets up how Cruella became a thief, starting out with these tendencies as a young child.
I will admit that as we sat drinking at the pub afterward later that same evening (after seeing the giggling twin girls off back to thief mum) my mind pictured some of my own Mum’s past fancy tea parties.
I soon combined third memories with that long ago newspaper story of ‘misadventure at a similar function.
Certain scenes of that movie clicked in my alcohol-induced mind as to how the ladies at the fancy tea may have lost their jewellery.
Soon I came up with the seeds of the fictional story below using bits of those tea parties and my ideas on how dropping in a resourceful thief amongst the dressed-up guests' midst them could play out the unanswered questions in the Glamorgan Gazette’s missing jewellery storyline. Sort of filling in the gaps.
The descriptions of that tea described below are taken from years of tea parties Mum has hosted. The details are accurate including the settings, clothing, and jewels worn by the hostess(Mum) and her guests, including Ginny and I at various times.
The character studies of Estella, the wooden bead lady, and the Shannons are also loosely based on past tea party guests.
I guess any posh affair of that sort if carried on for enough years will have its odd occurrences and occasional uninvited guests. Which we have…
And of course, the story as told is a work of fiction.
No actual robbery-related misadventures have ever occurred at one of my Mum’s teas. They were always known to be sensible affairs.
I need to say that because mum still popularly puts them on, and I don't wish to scare anyone off. They are such fun.
The story below may seem far-fetched, but is it really? For something indeed quite odd had happened at that tea in Glamorgan to warrant a reporter’s story?
Next up :
Acte 1
My Tale
A Brief Characterization
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A Tea for the Tillerman
Acte 1
A Brief Characterization
Like her Mum before her(my Gamma), mine liked to hold these once a fortnight dress up “High” tea affairs with her friends. Held either inside the sunroom, or larger parties carried out in the backyard gardens during warmer months.
The invited were pretty much just ladies our mum knew, which was extensive. But during the summer months, these friends were more than welcome to also invite along daughters, relatives, and such.
They all would certainly get in the mood and have fun with the ongoing theme of a posh tea, trying to outdo one another in the dress-up department.
Elegant evening attire mixed in with cocktail dresses, silk and satin blouses with formal long skirts, and even the occasional repurposed wedding or bridesmaid gowns were the unwritten attire required to attend.
Copious displays of pearls and rhinestones were displayed with added panache. And many a real gemstone was snuck in to show its glitter and gleam off.
It was like they were expecting a member of the royal family to attend, Mum’s affair had grown to be simply that posh.
Tea (and stronger drink) was served and by the time the soirée died down by twilight, our yard(or house) contained a very happily cheerful lot. A laughing and huggy group of well-dressed, inebriated ladies.
A pickpockets dream, I always fancifully told myself as I watched it all play out many times.
This time it was no different, with soon giggling ladies, whom it became very apparent on the day of this tale, would have presented easy marks for the tomfoolery of someone without convictions (As the Culture Club song goes)!
Next up the Acte 2
Tea Party Misadventure
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From a marvellously entitled Catalogue and Compendium from 1909 and one that contains many adverts from various building, supplies and service companies vying for trade in the construction and maintenance trades. One advert is this; for the London based Ellis, Geary & Co (recently removed to 50 Cannon St., EC.) and who provided marble mosaic, parquet and wood-block flooring and a patent "Terralith" compound floor that was, along with "muralith" formed from an asbestos cement compound.
This advert shows wonderfully the sort of flooring often found in thresholds and entrances for such premises as shops - durable and a form of advertising, some of which have in places survived to this day.
Mural entitled "La Muerte no Acaba Nada" by José Garcia Cordero, seen at 228 NE 59th Street in the Little Haiti area of Miami, Florida.
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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This artwork entitled "The Hunted" was created on the promenade in Eastbourne. Redundant shelters have been boarded up and this work has been created by Sarah Gillings (aka (S.o.S) assisted by Zara Wilkins.
It has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund, via the Welcome Back Fund.
For more info visit Sarah's website www.iamsos.com
From my set entitled "My Town...Streetsville"
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In my collection entitled "Places"
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Murphy's Ice Cream Parlour is a major institution here in Streetsville. It was started by the Murphy family over twenty years ago, and was meant to be a small source of cash to supplement family income from the husband's job. It was was originally situated in a little garage beside the house that forms the basis of the current business. The Murphys ran it for a number of years until the family moved to follow the husband's work.
The new owner was interested in creating a shop that would be in harmony with the nineteenth century structures at Main and Queen Streets.
Murphy's does a rip-roaring business in the summer months, but should be closing for the winter pretty soon. It's great to sit under that awning on a really hot day.
Post Processing:
PhotoShop Elements 5, crop, sharpen, posterization, sandstone
While the image is entitled "Examination Hall, Mount Melleray", what is really interesting is the stance of the monks and other men along the avenue. They seem to be waiting on an arrival - but of what or whom??
Based on input from RorySherlock and Niall McAuley, we are happy to map this to the location of the (now demolished) exam hall of the Mount Melleray abbey and seminary. Niall McAuley and sharon.corbet also help us refine the date range - narrowing the 5 decade catalogue range to perhaps 2 decades or so around the 1870s/80s. On the subject, we're still unsure as to what's happening. However, as today's commentators point-out, there is more than a few similar examples in the collection. Perhaps indicating that this seemingly odd arrangement of subjects wasn't a "one off". And maybe therefore what's captured here is a routine monastic observance of some kind.....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914. Though likely in the first half of this range (perhaps 1870s/1880s). See comments.
NLI Ref: L_CAB_01439
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Travelling to a touristy place is fraught. Loud, entitled and obnoxious are some of the keywords which spring to mind. Places like Skara Brae, which is just a collection of holes in the ground among narrow paths on a miniscule site, are overwhelmed by their fame. When a tourist coach turns up…
Imagine my dismay at rushing the 5 miles or so from the Ring of Brodgar only to be beaten to the intersection by a coach! I was crestfallen. My tactic of beating the hordes to the intersection at Glencoe wouldn't work here. Like an episode of The Kumars at No. 42 it was a question of "did you take the A965 and A967 or come straight up the B9055 to the B9056"? The coaches take the A-road. I'm a traveller. I was on the B-road — the interesting one — so at East Aith on the Loch of Skaill I had to give way to my nemesis.
Nothing, absolutely nothing is worse than a coach load who paid too much and expects preferential treatment. They've got 15 minutes here so push, push, push…Good counsel from the experienced reception was to just pop in for a cup of tea. In fifteen minutes, they'll be gone. True enough, unless another concertinas in behind them. You still need to make a point of inserting yourself into the gap!
Ah, that's right, I'm here to go "ooh, aah" at these holes in the ground. Don't get me wrong, the romantic story of the discovery of Skara Brae and a peek into this history is not just ticking a box on a bucket list. But by now I'm over being enfeebled by awe in the face of antiquity. I'm more interested in the everyday of some human ancestor getting about meeting their needs and surviving. We know they did because we are here. Had they failed, QED, there'd be no one to admire their works.
These are structures numbered 9 and 10. Said to be the oldest they are recognised as being from an early phase of population on this site. Wait a while. We'll get to the more complex stuff in a moment. Remember I observed this isn't a big place!
Mural entitled "Spice - Queen of the Dance Hall" by MORAZUL aka @morazul.art, seen at 2033 NW 1st Place in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 27, 2015; Vivid Sydney installation called Entitle which references both Eastern and Western culture to enhance the theme of overindulgence using the lavish Chinese lantern technique, the overly ornate Rococo-inspired design Artist: Amanda Parer
Maybe I should have entitled this one Duchess of Burgundy as this is a female Duke of Burgundy, which for some reason are always far more elusive than males. Males draw attention to themselves by indulging in aerial dogfights with other males, whereas females just potter about. They have fuller, more rounded wings with more orange markings than males.
A really odd thing about Duke of Burgundy is that they are the only European representative of the family Riodinidae. This family has more than 1500 species but the vast majority are in tropical America, with just a few representatives from tropical Africa and southern Asia.
The scientific name is Hamearis lucina. Hamearis means "at the same time as spring" from the springtime appearance of these butterflies. Lucina is the Roman goddess who brings light, or brings out into the light, hence she is also the goddess of childbirth, who safeguarded women in labour.
There are probably fewer Duke of Burgundies in Britain than any other species because other rare butterflies tend to occur in large numbers in their favoured haunts, whereas Dukes are always rare. In 2000 there were thought to be 200 colonies, totalling just 2.66 square kilometres. Just 9 years later 120 colonies had vanished leaving just 80 colonies, and all but five of these were tiny colonies. This information is from Patrick Barkham's excellent Butterfly Isles.
They usually occur in grassy habitats with bushes and an abundance of either Cowslips or Primroses, their larval foodplant.
Most colonies are in southern England but there are a handful of outlying colonies in northern England, including North Yorkshire where I photographed this individual.
Mural entitled "Be Your Higher Self" by Rahmaan Statik aka @rahmaanstatik, seen at 450 North Clark Street in the River North area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Mural entitled "Icarian Flight" by El Mac aka @mac_arte and Augustine Kofie aka @keepdrafting, seen at 289 South Sweetzer Avenue in Los Angeles. California.
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Note: this photo was published in an Aug 5, 2008 NowPublic blog entitled "Waiting for iPhone 3g." It was also published in a Mar 25, 2010 Wikimedia Commons blog with the title "File:Sleeping-1-dot-jpg." It was also published in a Nov 8, 2008 blog titled "The Importance of Sleep to Teenagers." And it was published in a Jul 6, 2010 blog titled "Keep Dreaming, Kid: Rhode Island High School Tells Students to Sleep In." It was also published in a Sep 8, 2010 blog titled "Sleep less than 6 hours a night? Hello, diabetes..." And it was published ina Dec 21, 2010 blog titled "Not Just for Kids — the Surprising Health Issues of Midlife Women.."
The photo was also published in a Feb 7, 2011 blog titled "40代の心の危機." And it was published in a May 25, 2011 Cool iPhone images blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in a May 27, 2011 "The Daily Sleep" blog in a posting titled "Too Much Going On In Teen Life." And it was published in a Jun 29, 2011 Cool Sleep Importance Issues blog, with the same caption and detailed notes I had written on this Flickr page. It was also published in an undated (early Jul 2011) blog titled "5 Reasons Sleep Affects Your Fitness." And it was published in a Sep 16, 2011 Slate blog posting titled "Le bonheur appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt." It was also published in an Oct 12, 2011 blog titled "Donne e problemi notturni/1: il cervello lavora fino a tardy." And it was published in a Nov 28, 2011 blog titled "How to Perfect Your Sleep Cycle." It was also published in a Dec 15, 2011 blog titled "Dormi più di dieci ore per notte? Leggi qui."
Moving into 2012, the photo was published in an undated (late Jan 2012) blog titled "Serial dilution, or ... How to Count to a Million." It was also published in a Feb 6, 2012 blog titled "t10 Reasons It's Awesome to Be an Insomniac." And it was published in a Feb 20, 2012 "Mag for Women" blog titled "6 Signs of Sleep Deprivation." It was also published in a May 23, 2012 blog titled "Sleep Bot, la aplicación que le ayudará a tener dulcet sueños." And it was published in an undated (early Jun 2012) blog titled "効果的な予防策は？" It was also published in a Jun 15, 2012 blog titled "Dormir pouco pode aumentar consumo de comidas gordurosas, did estudo." And it was published in an undated (mid-Jun 2012) blog titled "I RIMEDI NATURALI PER LA PRESSIONE BASSA." And it was published in a Jun 14, 2012 blog titled "Dormir pouco pode aumentar consumo de comidas gordurosas, diz estudo." It was also published in a Jun 30, 2012 blog titled "Nice Healthy Gadgets photos." And it was published in a Jul 18, 2012 blog titled "How Much Sleep Do You Need To Keep Your Memory Sharp?" It was also published in an Aug 31, 2012 blog titled "Crampi allo stomaco notturni, quali sono i rimedi." And it was published in an Oct 20, 2012 blog titled "Sonno e salute, ecco 9 motivi per dormire di più." It was also published in a Nov 24, 2012 blog titled Scoperto l'antidoto all'ipersonnia, aiuterà la Bella Addormentata? And it was published in a Dec 10, 2012 blog titled "OCD and Sleep."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in an undated (late Feb 2013) blog titled "I RIMEDI NATURALI PER LA PRESSIONE BASSA." It was also published in a Mar 5, 2013 blog titled "Gros dormeurs : le gouvernement vote le passage aux 25 heures," as well as a Mar 13, 2013 blog titled "Student health and effects of sleep deprivation: Best study habits include adequate sleep," as well as a Mar 26, 2013 blog titled "How to Help Your Teen Get a Good Night’s Sleep." And it was published in an Apr 8, 2013 blog titled "WHAT DO I DO IF I CAN’T GET ALONG WITH MY TRAVEL BUDDY?" It was also published in a May 25, 2013 blog titled "Feeling Sleep Deprived? Blame Facebook," as well as a Jul 29, 2013 blog titled "Nefarious NapStealers and the Importance of Sleep." And it was published in a Sep 5, 2013 blog titled "Should High Schools Have Later Start Times?"
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Silly me: after the iPhone 3g had been out for a full week, I thought I could stroll right into the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue & 59th Street in mid-town Manhattan, and simply buy one without any muss, fuss, bother, or delay.
But when I arrived at 11 AM, I found a line of approximately 150 people waiting outside in the broiling sun, not seeming to move forward at all; it turned out that the Apple store "concierge" folks were letting them in in groups of ten, when the previous ten had been taken care of. When I asked the woman how long she had been waiting, she said, "Four hours" -- she had arrived at 7 AM, having already determined that the AT&T stores were sold out throughout New Jersey and Connecticut.
Well, I'm a gadget freak and a Mac fan, but there's a limit to my passion for such things; four hours was just too much. So instead, I decided to take a bunch of pictures of the people who were in the line. Of course, I have no idea whethere the people queued up in front of Apple stores in other cities (or at other stores here in NYC) are similar to this group ... but I'm inclined to think that they are. And if that's true, then the demographics of this group -- in terms of age, gender, nationality, ethnic groups, etc. -- is particularly intriguing. I saw only one guy dressed in a corporate uniform of suit and tie; Apple may be trying to break into the "enterprise" market, but that's not who was standing in line for all those hours in the sun...
O. N. Pruitt's exhibition entitled "Mr. Pruitt's Possum Town: Trouble and Resilience in the American South" at the Center of Missouri Studies art gallery at the State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF24-70mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 1/250-second exposure at ISO 1000, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Mural entitled "Protect your light" by Natalie Clare Shugailo aka @sub_urban_warrior for Rensselaer Art Walk 2023, seen at 117 North van Rensselaer Street in Rensselaer, Indiana.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Mural entitled "The Sleeping Knight" by Betz_Etam aka @betz_etam seen at 201 South Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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In 1943/44 my dad, who was enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy, travelled with the Navy Show which was entitled, "Meet the Navy". Not sure he was actually in the cast, so I'll have to pull his file at Archives Canada in Ottawa. Since he was a Certified Public Accountant, he might have watched the books. The show went across Canada by train. I know that Dad was not with the production that went overseas in 1945.
Dad is second from the right in the above photo. Here's the story of the Navy Show:
From my Herbert Charles Barber Collection
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/collections/7215760076...
"Meet the Navy" was a Royal Canadian Navy musical revue produced during World War II under the supervision of Capt Joseph P. Connolly, director of Special Services for the RCN. Rehearsals began in June 1943 at Hart House in Toronto. The production staff and company were recognized officially, though somewhat after the fact, by a Government of Canada Treasury Board order-in-council, 13 Aug 1943, as 'an Establishment to be known as "The Navy Show" for the... Entertainment of Naval, Army and Air Force personnel on Active Service; Promotion of recruiting; [and] Maintenance of public morale and goodwill'.
The show itself, called "Meet the Navy" and directed by Louis Silver (a Hollywood producer) and Larry Ceballos (a Broadway choreographer), was premiered for servicemen 2 September at Toronto's Victoria Theatre and opened to the public 4 September. It opened in Ottawa 15 September at the Capitol Theatre (Ottawa). During a year-long national tour, which covered some 10,000 miles by train, Meet the Navy entertained about a half-million Canadians. It travelled in 1944 to Britain, opening 23 October in Glasgow and touring England (11 cities in the provinces), Ireland, and Wales and playing at the Hippodrome in London (1 Feb-7 Apr 1945, including a command performance 28 February). Performances followed in Paris' Théâtre Marigny, the Brussels Music Hall, and Amsterdam's Carré Theatre. Meet the Navy closed 12 September in Oldenburg in occupied Germany. In 1945 the National Film Board produced the film Meet the Navy on Tour. Though plans for a Broadway run fell through, the show itself was filmed in November in Britain.
Meet the Navy included skits, dance routines, and several songs: 'In Your Little Chapeau,' 'Rockettes and the Wrens,' 'Brothers-in-Arms,' 'Meet the Navy,' and 'Beauty on Duty,' all by R.W. Harwood (words) and P.E. Quinn (music); 'The Boys in the Bellbottom Trousers' by Quinn; 'Shore Leave' by Noel Langley and Henry Sherman (words) and Quinn; and the showstopper (sung by John Pratt) 'You'll Get Used to It', with words by Pratt to music by Freddy Grant. Eric Wild (who conducted the pit orchestra) and Robert Russell Bennett arranged the music.
Leading roles were taken by Pratt, Robert Goodier, Cameron Grant, and Lionel Merton. Other featured performers included Dixie Dean, Ivan Romanoff (who conducted a balalaika orchestra and a chorus in 'Scena Russki'), Carl Tapscott (who did choral arrangements), the bass Oscar Natzke, and the dance team Alan and Blanche Lund. Members of the 25-piece orchestra included the violinists Victor Feldbrill, Bill Richards, and Joseph Sera, the trombonist Ted Elfstrom, and the saxophonist-clarinetist Howard 'Cokie' Campbell.
After the London debut of Meet the Navy, Beverley Baxter wrote in the London Evening Standard: 'Why is this piece so exhilarating, so completely satisfying and, since the first class always touches the emotions, why was it so stirring? Perhaps the answer is that quite outside the professional slickness and the terrific pace of the whole thing, we were seeing the story of Canada unconsciously unfolding itself to our eyes'.
In 1980, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Canadian navy, the Nova Scotia government revived Meet the Navy with several members of the original cast.
Phillips, Ruth. 'The history of the Royal Canadian Navy's World War II show Meet the Navy,' unpublished manuscript (1973)
Southworth, Jean. 'Actor revives his wartime role,' Ottawa Journal, 19 Aug 1980
From: The Encyclopaedia of Music in Canada
Mural entitled "Held Tight" by luvs aka @moises.be.nice, seen on the wall of a parking garage at 431 Art Alley in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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I entitled this image :
" Two ages of life" …
We can see a young man running along East River in the same time where an older woman contemplates the landscape, leaning on her walker …
The Tudors
- This show has everything: Intrigue, deception, lust, greed, the struggle for power, and beautiful architecture and amazing fashions. What more could one ask for?
Group: Macro Mondays Theme: Favorite TV show
Mixed media photomanipulation combining a macro photo of mine entitled Bleeding Rose and an abstract acrylic texture.
Special thanks to artist Lara Mukahirn for hand painting the acrylic texture elements as a personal commission, and granting me permission to publish this resulting image.
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1800 x 1200 px
Also available for download at 5000 x 3333 px on my Patreon page, an ever-growing collection of high res images for one low monthly subscription fee. You can find this specific photo at the following post:
Entitled: Battle of Giants
This was the result of a project we ran at work called Summer Jam. The theme we were given was Giants, and we had 4 Friday afternoons to come up with a piece of art work or creative expression to depict something relating to the theme.
This is what I came up with, it was a Jam in the truest sense as I made it up as I went along. I had a Lot of fun on this project.
Mural entitled "Together Defend the Community" by John Pitman Weber for Chicago Mural Group of the Community Arts Foundation seen at Washtenaw and Fullerton in the Logan Square area of Chicago, Illinois. Created in 1976 and restored in 2003 by John Pitman Weber with Kristal Pacheco, Damon Lamar Reed, Justin Longnecker, and Friends.
Mural entitled "Spirit of America" by Reinier Gamboa aka @reiniergamboa, seen at 726 NW 5th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The artist states: "As I was finishing painting, a couple walked by and the lady said " Red, white and blue, I see you ... Spirit of America!" I didn't know what to call this mural until she said it. So there it is. 'Spirit of America.'"
Photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Entitled: Young Mother Carrying A Child On Her Back In The Market, Hong Kong Island [c1946] H Morrison [RESTORED] Minor spot and scratch touch up, contrast and tonal adjustments, with a purposeful lower contrast background to provide better visual separation, and a final sepia tone.
Hedda Morrison was a tremendous resource for images from the latter part of the Republican China years, photographing extensively with a 2 1/4 Rolleiflex Twin Lens (my personal roll film favorite) during her 13 year stay in China (from 1933 - 1946). Coincidentally, she then married into the family of and bears the name of another very famous China photographer; she married George Ernest Morrison's son, Alastair in 1946. Besides photography in China, she was also known for a large body of image work in Malaysia and Australia (where she died in 1991). Her husband, generously donated her life's work, divided between Harvard University and Australia's Power House Museum of Science & Design.
One of Morrison's most iconic photographs, this image was found on Harvard University's VIA (Visual Information Access) Search Engine under Record Identifier olvwork351276.
Mural entitled “Rainbow Brite and the Permanent Peace of Mind” by Nicholas Zimbro aka @mr.zimbro, seen at 505 NW 20th Street in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
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Taken from a photograph album entitled 'War Activities,' Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company Limited’s Collection.
Date: 1914 - 1918
Reference no. DS.WS/143/3 (pg 35)
This photograph was selected by Charles Bell as part of the 'Uncovering Archives Photography' Workshop held at Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives in November 2012. See Charles' response to this image here: www.flickr.com/photos/thistoowillpass/8365535382/in/pool-...
Find out more about the project here: www.flickr.com/groups/uncoveringarchivesphotography/
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Mural entitled "A Vapor" by Noé Barnett aka @nb.artistry, seen at 2201 NW 1st Avenue in the Overtown area of Miami, Florida.
The artist states: "This wall, like all of my current work, is centered around the fragile nature of life and in essence is a memento mori. A reminder that we will all die and a hopeful message to remind the viewer to live life to its fullest in the present. Light and Life are my two main muses The life element is an obvious one. But the light is a bit more cryptic. The text “A VAPOR” was inspired by James 4:14 and only shows up under the cover of darkness, with a direct light, such as a camera flash or flash light shone at it. You’re literally forced to shine a light in the darkness, in order to see the message. This is a method of working that I will hopefully continue to push, and I have so many ideas on how to do so in the upcoming year."
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Mural entitled "Burst Your Bubble" by @artbyfio seen at 320 NW 29th Street in Miami, Florida.
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Ok so … everyone makes a speech no? After all this work I’m entitled to one… mine is so long it’s almost silly… so sit back, relax and if you feel like it… read about my journey…
About my 365 Project…
At the beginning this project to me was just about photography, about learning… I seriously started this expecting nothing but later it turned into a place where I could open my heart and share my world, my fears, my happiness, my thoughts, my life… shortly I also discovered I was involved on many people’s lives… This is a project about “hearts connecting through an image” … and I’m thankful for the chance I got to share mine with you and the chance I got to get to know yours…
365 pictures? Yes... And I am proud….
I did not miss a day … some days I was really inspired and took a shot I was really proud of and some days, even when I felt I could not do one more shot, I stepped up and took a crappy one… so here’s to great pictures and to the courage it takes to post a crappy one. (here, here!!) The past month I kept my stream “friends only” … I faced some really hard times and didn’t feel the need to share my work with the whole fickr community … 12 of the pictures of this project will remain “private” … believe me they are crap so you’re not missing out on anything… they were just about me, not wanting to fail myself, trying to persevere even in the hardest of times…I’m going public for the first time in a while now… so if anyone would like to see the past month of my work FM and I’ll let you in… I took some nice pictures ;)
About comments and faves:
I remember I was so happy when I received my first comment… I could not believe someone would actually stop, take a moment, look at your picture and say something…. so I thank you for the time you gave me by looking at my stream.
… It’s because of that that I completed this project, as simple as that…
Thank you time:
I’ll thank that girl/friend/sister who found flickr, made me do this and helped with many of my pictures (Shelby), I’ll thank my family and friends who helped with costumes, stage, equipment, patience, encouragement and love… (Papi, mami, Nita, Miau, Joe, Pancho, Guayo, Nena, Haya, Nati, Jose, Toño….),I’ll thank a man who was a huge part of my flickr experience… he gave me themes, was patience enough to hear about flickr drama, cheered me up and even played part of some of my favorite shots of this year (Bas)
Now to my flickr friends :
I was fortunate enough to grab your attention at some point during this year… and you came back a second time, and a third time and after that you stood by my side… not only as contacts but as real friends who always had words of love and encouragement for me… Thank you for stopping by, for leaving a comment, for just viewing, for clicking “fave”, for sending a FM to see if I was OK, for inviting me to a group, for adding me as a contact, and for having me as a friend.
I can only hope to meet you guys one day for real… I’m sorry if I don’t say something special for each one of you – even though I know exactly what I would tell you – but I would literally never finish this …
I’ll mention you by your real name and not your flickr nickname cause by now you are real friends to me: Jordy, Henry, Sarah, Mike, Brad and Patricia, Abe and Liina, Ernie, Charlie, Kim, Eva, Vanessa, Jonathan, Rebecca, Lenna, Maite, Amanda, Anna, Rodrigo, Andrés, Julie, Grace, Billie, Sarah B, Amy, Ana Belén, Jonh and Charlotte, Scott, Deven, Christine, Kevin, Hannah…. Thank you guys I really grown to love each and every one of you…
And to all of you who I didn’t mention … but in one way or another were part of this journey… thank you so much ….
About what’s next?:
A year 2 for Maria? I don’t think so… my camera needs a break from me, but I’ll keep on taking pictures and I’ll keep on sharing them with you… I do have LOADS of pictures I want to try… and many things I need to learn, but I’ll do it at my own time, without the pressure of posting every day… Photography is my passion and that will not change… I’m planning on attending more serious photography courses and who knows maybe I’ll turn into a pro one day…I’ll take a much needed fickr vacation….but I’ll visit your streams…
If you stay here I’ll stay here… that much I can promise…
Last but not least... thank you God for one more year of life I was able to document in such a lovely way...
Bet if this was a speech for the Oscars the band would have started the music long ago to shut me up so I’ll just say goodbye… see ya guys soon!!!
My love to each and every one of you….
Maria