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Où la symbolique de la Méduse, placée dans le centre, devint une figure fixe où les trois jambes devinrent le symbole triangulaire de l'île, formée ainsi par trois sommets.
Triangle pour les Grecs, "Trinacria" (l'île aux trois promontoires), on retrouve partout ce fameux symbole qui trace trois jambes prenant naissance autour de la tête de Cérès. Il illustre cette course vaine, retrace l'histoire complexe et toujours recommencée.
Inspiré du symbole de l'Ile de Man : le "Triskèle Manx" (droite) serait une représentation de la Trinité Celtique. Ce symbole est souvent relié à Manannan, Dieu celtique de la Mer qui résidait sur l'île, qui lui doit aussi son nom. On trouve ce symbole sur les monnaies de l'île, dès le Xe siècle, puis il figure comme armoiries des roi de l'Ile de Man.
Dans le centre, on y voit une figure, souvent la Gorgone, ce qui laisserait croire à son origine méditerranéenne. Il est fort probable que le symbole dérive de figures religieuses de l'Orient, qui représenteraient le Dieu Baal, sous forme des trois saisons ou de la lune.
Gravée sur les boucliers ou sur les casques, la triskèle était utilisée pour distinguer les guerriers d'une même race ou d'une catégorie particulière. Ce symbole a été aussi retrouvé sur les tombes, comme signe d'importance des personnes décédées.
Aujourd'hui encore, elle est le symbole de la Sicile ](Trinacrie, Triquêtre)
Trinacria:
* c'est une tête de femme, ailée et coiffée d'un nœud de serpents, d'ou rayonnement trois jambes fléchies, comme saisies en plaine course, telle est la représentation symbolique de la Sicile.
* Le nom vient de "Trinakrie" (ou"trêis àkrai "), signifiant "trois pointes" (ou "trois promontaires") en grec. L'île était sur nommée ainsi en raison de ses trois caps (peloro,passero et libeo).
* Ce symbole a pour origine une monnaie de l'antiquité, la Triskèle grecque.
"Triskékésignifie d'ailleurs en grec: "qui a trois jambes".
on à coutume d'identifier le virage qui se trouve au centre de l'emblème comme étant la méduse, l'une des trois gorgnes mythologiques grecques.
* D'autre explications existent également à propos des éléments figurant autour de la Méduse:
pour certains, le nœud de serpents est une crinière d'anguilles de mer qui vise à terroriser les ennemis, et quant aux jambes fléchies, elle représenterait les rayons du soleil.
* dans l'antiquité, les marins et cartographes grecs représentaient la Sicile par le symbole de la "Trinakrie " sur les cortes.
* La plus ancienne représentation siulienne de la Trinacria,comme, connue a ce jour, date du 7 ièm siècle avant Jésus Christ.
* de nos jours, ce même emblème de la Trinacria orne le drapeau officiel de Region Sicilienne.
Where the symbolism of the Medusa, placed in the center, became a fixed figure where the three legs became the triangular symbol of the island, thus formed by three peaks.
Triangle for the Greeks, "Trinacria" (the island with three promontories), we find everywhere this famous symbol which traces three legs taking birth around the head of Ceres. It illustrates this vain race, retraces the complex history and always started again.
Inspired by the symbol of the Isle of Man: the "Triskèle Manx" (right) would be a representation of the Celtic Trinity. This symbol is often linked to Manannan, Celtic God of the Sea who resided on the island, which also owes his name to him. We find this symbol on the coins of the island, from the 10th century, then it appears as the coat of arms of the king of the Isle of Man.
In the center, we see a figure, often the Gorgon, which would suggest its Mediterranean origin. It is very likely that the symbol derives from religious figures of the East, who would represent the God Baal, in the form of the three seasons or the moon.
Engraved on shields or helmets, the triskelion was used to distinguish warriors of the same race or of a particular category. This symbol was also found on tombs, as a sign of importance of the deceased.
Even today, it is the symbol of Sicily] (Trinacria, Triquêtre)
Trinacria:
* it is the head of a woman, winged and wearing a knot of snakes, or radiating three bent legs, as if seized in plain running, such is the symbolic representation of Sicily.
* The name comes from "Trinakrie" (or "trêis àkrai"), meaning "three points" (or "three promontaires") in Greek. The island was so named because of its three capes (peloro, passero and libeo).
* This symbol originates from a currency of antiquity, the Greek Triskele.
"Triskékésésifier besides in Greek:" which has three legs ".
it is customary to identify the turn which is in the center of the emblem as being the jellyfish, one of the three Greek mythological gorgos.
* Other explanations also exist about the elements appearing around the Medusa:
for some, the snake knot is a mane of sea eels which aims to terrorize the enemies, and as for the bent legs, it would represent the rays of the sun.
* in antiquity, Greek sailors and cartographers represented Sicily by the symbol of "Trinakrie" on the cortes.
* The oldest Siulan representation of the Trinacria, as, known to date, dates from the 7 th century BC.
* these days, this same emblem of Trinacria adorns the official flag of the Sicilian Region.
Pres du Pont de l'Europe a Strasbourg, des membres du "Black Block" regardent bruler l'ancien bureau des douanes durant la manifestation du 4 avril 2009 contre le sommet de l'OTAN.
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No this is not a Halloween costume, but statue outside a Chinese restaurant in Panama.
Today's Halloween customs are also thought to have been influenced by Christian dogma and practices derived from it. Halloween falls on the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).Since the time of the primitive Church, major feasts in the Christian Church (such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost) had vigils which began the night before, as did the feast of All Hallows'. These three days are collectively referred to as Allhallowtide and are a time for honoring the saints and praying for the recently departed soulswho have yet to reach Heaven. All Saints was introduced in the year 609, but was originally celebrated on 13 May. In 835, it was switched to 1 November (the same date as Samhain) at the behest of Pope Gregory IV. Some suggest this was due to Celtic influence, while others suggest it was a Germanic idea. It is also suggested that the change was made on the "practical grounds that Rome in summer could not accommodate the great number of pilgrims who flocked to it", and perhaps because of public health considerations regarding Roman Fever– a disease that claimed a number of lives during the sultry summers of the regionBy the end of the 12th century they had becomeholy days of obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing church bells for the souls in purgatory. In addition, "it was customary forcriers dressed in black to parade the streets, ringing a bell of mournful sound and calling on all good Christians to remember the poor souls." "Souling", the custom of baking and sharing soul cakes for all christened souls, has been suggested as the origin of trick-or-treating. The custom dates back at least as far as the 15th century and was found in parts of England, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy. Groups of poor people, often children, would go door-to-door during Allhallowtide, collecting soul cakes, in exchange for praying for the dead, especially the souls of the givers' friends and relatives. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593). The custom of wearing costumes has been explicated by Prince Sorie Conteh, who wrote: "It was traditionally believed that the souls of the departed wandered the earth until All Saints' Day, and All Hallows' Eve provided one last chance for the dead to gain vengeance on their enemies before moving to the next world. In order to avoid being recognized by any soul that might be seeking such vengeance, people would don masks or costumes to disguise their identities". In the Middle Ages, churches displayed the relics of martyred saints and those parishes that were too poor to have relics let parishioners dress up as the saints instead, a practice that some Christians continue in Halloween celebrations today. folklorist Kingsley Palmer, in addition to others, has suggested that the carved jack-o'-lantern, a popular symbol of Halloween, originally represented the souls of the dead. On Halloween, in medieval Europe, "fires [were] lit to guide these souls on their way and deflect them from haunting honest Christian folk." In addition, households in Austria, England, Ireland often had "candles burning in every room to guide the souls back to visit their earthly homes". These were known as "soul lights". Many Christians in continental Europe, especially in France, acknowledged "a belief that once a year, on Hallowe'en, the dead of the churchyards rose for one wild, hideous carnival," known as the danse macabre, which has been commonly depicted in church decoration, especially on the walls of cathedrals, monasteries, and cemeteries. Christopher Allmand and Rosamond McKitterick write inThe New Cambridge Medieval History that "Christians were moved by the sight of the Infant Jesus playing on his mother's knee; their hearts were touched by the Pietà; and patron saints reassured them by their presence. But, all the while, the danse macabre urged them not to forget the end of all earthly things." This danse macabre, which was enacted by "Christian village children [who] celebrated the vigil of All Saints" in the 16th Century, has been suggested as the predecessor of modern day costume parties on this same day.
In parts of Britain, these customs came under attack during the Reformation as some Protestants berated purgatory as a "popish" doctrine incompatible with the notion of predestination. Thus, for some Nonconformist Protestants, the theology of All Hallows’ Eve was redefined; without the doctrine of purgatory, "the returning souls cannot be journeying from Purgatory on their way to Heaven, as Catholics frequently believe and assert. Instead, the so-called ghosts are thought to be in actuality evil spirits. As such they are threatening."[ Other Protestants maintained belief in an intermediate state, known as Hades (Bosom of Abraham),[ and continued to observe the original customs, especially souling, candlelit processions and the ringing of church bells in memory of the dead. With regard to the evil spirits, on Halloween, "barns and homes were blessed to protect people and livestock from the effect of witches, who were believed to accompany the malignant spirits as they traveled the earth." In the 19th century, in some rural parts of England, families gathered on hills on the night of All Hallows' Eve. One held a bunch of burning straw on a pitchfork while the rest knelt around him in a circle, praying for the souls of relatives and friends until the flames went out. This was known as teen'lay, derived either from the Old English tendan (meaning to kindle) or a word related to Old Irishtenlach (meaning hearth).The rising popularity of Guy Fawkes Night (5 November) from 1605 onward, saw many Halloween traditions appropriated by that holiday instead, and Halloween's popularity waned in Britain, with the noteworthy exception of Scotland. There and in Ireland, they had been celebrating Samhain and Halloween since at least the early Middle Ages, and the Scottish kirk took a more pragmatic approach to Halloween, seeing it as important to the life cycle and rites of passage of communities and thus ensuring its survival in the country.
In France, some Christian families, on the night of All Hallows' Eve, prayed beside the graves of their loved ones, setting down dishes full of milk for them. On Halloween, in Italy, some families left a large meal out for ghosts of their passed relatives, before they departed for church services. In Spain, on this night, special pastries are baked, known as "bones of the holy" (Spanish: Huesos de Santo) and put them on the graves of the churchyard, a practice that continues to this day.
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La façon en photo argentique d'avoir une image au foyer c'est d'utiliser du plan film. Étant donné que je ne voulais pas investir dans une autre caméra, j'ai décidé de modifier une caméra que je possédais. La Kodak Tourist, avec sa porte amovible, était la candidate idéale pour en faire une caméra utilisant le plan film; d'autant plus que j'avais déjà des plaques de plan film. Aussi je ne voulais pas utiliser un drap par dessus la tête pour effectuer le foyer, j'ai donc adapter une loupe. Le tout est expliqué sommairement sur la photo.
/ A good way in film photography to get the image in focus is to use sheet film. I did not want to buy another camera so I modified a camera already owned. The Kodak Tourist, with its removable door was an ideal donor; I already had the cut sheet film plate from a Rolleiflex, all I had to do is work it out. Also I did not want to use a dark cloth over my head so I adapted a hood magnifier to help get a sharp focus. On the photo, I give a summary of the procedure.
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Merci beaucoup pour votre visite, les gentils commentaires et les favoris. / Many thanks for your visit, kind comments and favs.
Philippe et Frédéric travaillent à la corde sur la centrale EDF de Vitry sur Seine.
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Supporters of the PPP at a popular rally in Nasirabad, in the suburbs of Rawalpindi on Jan.4, 2008. At some point, people (incl. children) were praying for Benazir Bhutto, a scene that I've seen repeatedly at every gathering. As in many other aspects of life in Pakistan, it seems that politics and religion are closely intricated.
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Part of Pakistani Elections (Recommended as a slideshow)
A protester holding a flyer denouncing the military dictature, in front of the Myanmar embassy in Paris. The police actually prevented the rally to reach the embassy itself resulting in a stand-off.
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Part of Protest at Myanmar embassy (Recommended as a slideshow)
On May 21, a couple of hundreds fishermen came to Paris to demonstrate against the increase in oil prices and the failure of the government to fulfill its promises (partly due to UE rules). While a delegation was received by the minister Michel Barnier, some protested outside the ministery, clashing with the police for about an hour with flares and emergency rockets. 3 policemen were seriously hurt. Everybody calmed down afterwards and no arrest were made.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album et de parcourir les photos par ordre chronologique / Please read the explanation at the beginning of the set and view the pictures in chronological order.
Part of "Pêcheurs en colère"
Thank you to all of you , old and new flickr friends , in this one year and half that I have started to do photos you have been very important for me , every your word and view has been appreciated very much and I have became a little better photographer first of all for this .
So I would like to send a little present for all of you ,of course if you want :) , and this little present is : one photo of mine in original size with a little explication about the way that I have done it in post-production ( so write me the photo that you want ).
Ufff ... I know that my english is very bad I hope that you have understand all :)
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this isn't the gift ( for istance is not in original size ) , all of you can choose the photo that you prefer .
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On the Atlantic shoreline. Just seaward of Ocean Avenue, some 300 yd / 275 m east of its T-intersection with Harrison Avenue.
Welcome to beautiful Avalonia, a terrane that was originally associated with the southern supercontinent of Gondwana. Now it's conveniently attached itself to New England, after a long journey across an ancient, long-vanished ocean basin.
This exposure is composed of maroon, oink, greenish, and gray clastic beds, somewhat metamorphosed, that are graded in a way to suggest a turbidite sequence. This is the Newport Neck Formation, thought to be Neoproterozoic or older. It's one small component of the Avalonian section of northeastern North America.
I especially like this shot and the outcrop it shows because the reddish-brown layers extending up from the water's edge. There also seems to be a monoclinal fold—a whitish layer slopes down to a lower horizontal level at right. Is it the "buff-weathering" volcanic-ash tuff also cited for this locale?
A later note: Since I first wrote this, I've come across the following source:
- Rast, Nicholas and James W. Skehan. "The Geology of Precambrian Rocks of Newport and Middletown, Rhode Island" (1981). NEIGC Trips, 293.
This field-trip guide is an oldie but a goodie, because it specifically describes the stratigraphy and metamorphic textures of this part of the shoreline.
And of course I also like the fact that it confirms what I wrote above. See Part 7 of this set for a further explication of this site's rock types.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Rocks of Little Rhody album.
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Part of Pakistani Lifestyle (Recommended as a slideshow)
What more can I say?! 'Hibiscus' should be a verb... No explication needed. So beautiful against the blue. Though in the shadow, taken without a flash near the Botanical Gardens of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Such wonderful white light...
Police officers demonstrating in Paris under heavy rain.
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During the Independence Day parade on Aug. 6th, an old man celebrates the memories of his ancesters who fought the Chaco war against Paraguay.
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La République a décidé d'envoyer un contingent de clone de la 41st Legion ainsi qu'un commando de Shadow Trooper sur Kashyyyk afin d'explorer au plus profond de la jungle une forteresse perdue.
Republic decide to send a contingent of the 41st Legion and Shadow Trooper Commando on Kashyyyk to explore in the depths jungle a lost fortress.
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About a thousand supporters of Moussavi demonstrated from the Sorbonne to Jussieu, 2 universities, on July 9, 2009, commemorating the 10th anniversary of he July 1999 students upheaval. They protested against the alleged rigging of the June 11 elections by president Ahmadinejad, hence the motto "where is my vote ?". They also condemned the violence of the repression against the opponents and the censorship of the media.
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Anne et moi avons passé une demi-journée dans les coulisses de "Chouette à Voir". On a pu assister à l'entraînement de plusieurs Oiseaux Ambassadeurs dont, une crécerelle, une petite nyctale, un faucon pèlerin, un grand-duc, une buse de Harris ainsi qu'un urubu à tête noire que Anne eu la grande surprise, mais surtout le grand bonheur de recevoir sur son épaule lors de ses vols d'exercices. J'ai aussi eu le grand honneur de remettre en liberté une petite buse juvénile.
Nous sommes très reconnaissants à Dr. Guy Fitzgérald ainsi que Gabrielle Paré et Flavie pour leur hospitalité et leur grande générosité de conseils et explications.
En prime une mante religieuse nous attendait près de notre table de pique-nique. Une journée délicieuse.
We had the great honour and pleasure of spending half a day at UQROP's raptor center "Chouette à Voir". We participated in the daily care of some of the many "Ambassador Birds". Weighing them, feeding them and exercising them is a daily routine. Some of the birds we were allowed to handle included the Harris Hawk, an American Kestrel, a Great Horned Owl, a Northern Saw-whet and much to my companion's surprise and amazement a Black Vulture decided to perch on her shoulder while we were doing flight exercises. An experience that touched her heart and which she will never forget. Finally, I was honoured with the task of releasing a juvenile Broad-winged Hawk.
As if this was not enough a "Praying Mantis" was waiting for our return by the picnic table (see a previous post for a picture).
I counted them today : 100 and a little bit more. They are my first and strangest harvest in the garden of my new flat. If I look carefully, I can find some every day. And so do my neighbours in their own gardens.
I had an explanation: in the basement was a laundry, once, and the shirts drying in the wind - imagine, no electric dryer at the time .... - well, the shirts lost some buttons. I guess that, like seeds, they grew and multiplied under the ground....
Ma première et plus étrange récolte de ce nouveau jardin. A ce jour, un peu plus de 100 boutons en porcelaine blanche. Et ça continue, puisque presque chaque jour, j'en retrouve quelques uns.
A force, j'ai eu une explication: il y aurait eu une blanchisserie au sous-sol de l'immeuble. Et les chemises séchant dans le vent ont dû régulièrement perdre quelques uns de leurs boutons. Je soupçonne qu'ils ont dû germer et se multiplier sous terre.....
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Galanthus (Snowdrops; Greek gála "milk", ánthos "flower") is a small genus of about 20 species of bulbous herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. Most flower in winter, before the vernal equinox (20 or 21 March in the Northern Hemisphere), but certain species flower in early spring and late autumn. Snowdrops are sometimes confused with the two related genera within Galantheae, snowflakes Leucojum and Acis. All species of Galanthus are perennial, herbaceous plants which grow from bulbs. Each bulb generally produces just two or three linear leaves and an erect, leafless scape (flowering stalk), which bears at the top a pair of bract-like spathe valves joined by a papery membrane. From between them emerges a solitary, pendulous, bell-shaped white flower, held on a slender pedicel. The flower has no petals: it consists of six tepals, the outer three being larger and more convex than the inner series. The six anthers open by pores or short slits. The ovary is three-celled, ripening into a three-celled capsule. Each whitish seed has a small, fleshy tail (elaiosome) containing substances attractive to ants which distribute the seeds. The leaves die back a few weeks after the flowers have faded. The inner flower segments are usually marked with a green, or greenish-yellow, bridge-shaped mark over the small "sinus" (notch) at the tip of each tepal. An important feature which helps to distinguish between species (and to help to determine the parentage of hybrids) is their "vernation" (the arrangement of the emerging leaves relative to each other). This can be "applanate", "supervolute" or "explicative". In applanate vernation the two leaf blades are pressed flat to each other within the bud and as they emerge; explicative leaves are also pressed flat against each other, but the edges of the leaves are folded back or sometimes rolled; in supervolute plants one leaf is tightly clasped around the other within the bud and generally remains at the point where the leaves emerge from the soil.
Réminiscence archéologique de l'Angélus de Millet – 1934 - Huile sur bois
« Réminiscence archéologique de l'Angélus de Millet » est une référence au tableau « L'Angélus » (1859) du peintre français Jean-François Millet (l'un des fondateurs du mouvement artistique du réalisme). La peinture de Millet (à gauche) représente un couple de paysans lors de la récolte de pommes de terre à Barbizon, avec vue sur le clocher de Chailly-en-Bière récitant l'Angélus, prière marquant la fin de leur journée de travail. Salvador Dalí en avait vu une reproduction sur le mur de son école et affirmait avoir été effrayé par le tableau. Pour lui il s'agissait d'une scène funéraire (pas d'un rituel de prière), le couple étant en train de prier et de pleurer son enfant mort. Sur son insistance, le Louvre a radiographié le tableau permettant d’apercevoir un petit cercueil surpeint par le panier… Afin d’éviter de verser dans les arts divinatoires une explication probable serait que Millet avait à l'origine peint une sépulture, peut-être une version rurale du célèbre tableau de Courbet « Enterrement à Ornans » (1850) pour le peintre et collectionneur d'art américain Thomas Gold Appleton qui avait passé commande mais n’avait jamais pris son tableau. Suite à cette déconvenue et pour vendre plus facilement sa toile, Millet aurait modifié son œuvre en y ajoutant notamment un clocher, l'imagerie de l'Angélus avec des paysans en prière étant un sujet religieux sentimental populaire du XIXe siècle !
Comme Van Gogh, Salvador Dali était également fasciné par ce travail et en a écrit une analyse : « Le mythe tragique de l'Angélus de Millet ». Il peint cette interprétation surréaliste de l’Angélus de Millet (à droite), transformant le tableau original en une parabole inconsciente du pouvoir sexuel féminin. La figure féminine, à droite, pose dans l'expectative, prête à bondir, tandis que le mâle, tête baissée, essaie vainement de protéger ses parties génitales avec son chapeau. La forme de la femme suggère une mante religieuse, thème prédominant dans les œuvres surréalistes, signifiant les sentiments contradictoires d'attraction et de désespoir dans le domaine du désir. Dalí a estimé que la femme n'était pas seulement le partenaire dominant, mais constituait également une menace sexuelle pour l'homme.
La ligne d'horizon basse et le paysage presque vide soulignent la monumentalité de l'étrange structure au premier plan, les cyprès symboles de la mort et de la finalité, soulignent l'atmosphère du fatalisme. Les deux paysans de L’Angélus ont été transformées en ruines architecturales imposantes probablement inspirées par les visites de Dali des ruines romaines à proximité de sa maison d'enfance. Dali transforme les figures de Millet en monuments non pas parce qu'elles doivent être considérées comme des symboles morts, mais parce qu'elles représentent des principes anciens toujours présents, les fondements de la sexualité humaine.
Deux scènes similaires, en bas au centre un homme avec un petit garçon également vu à droite avec une infirmière assise, soulignent le contraste entre l'innocence de l'enfance et les peurs de l'âge adulte (la minuscule représentation père / fils a commencé à apparaître dans les œuvres de Dali à partir de 1929). (Dim : 31,75 x 39,4 cm)
Archeological Reminiscence of Millet's Angelus – 1934 - Oil on wood panel
"Archaeological Reminiscence of the Angelus of Millet" is a reference to the painting "The Angelus" (1859) by the French painter Jean-François Millet (one of the founders of the artistic movement of realism). Millet's painting (left) represents a couple of peasants during the potato harvest in Barbizon, with a view of the bell tower of Chailly-en-Bière reciting the Angelus, a prayer marking the end of their working day. Salvador Dalí had seen a reproduction on the wall of his school and said he had been frightened by the painting. For him it was a funeral scene (not a prayer ritual), the couple being praying and mourning their dead child. At his insistence, the Louvre x-rayed the painting allowing a glimpse of a small coffin overpainted by the basket… In order to avoid pouring into the divinatory arts a probable explanation would be that Millet, had originally painted a burial, perhaps to be a rural version of Courbet's famous painting "Burial at Ornans" (1850) for the American painter and art collector Thomas Gold Appleton who had ordered but never picked up his painting. Following this disappointment and to sell his canvas more easily, Millet would have modified his work by notably adding a bell tower, the imagery of the Angelus with praying peasants being a popular sentimental religious subject of the 19th century!
Like Van Gogh, Salvador Dali was also fascinated by this work and wrote an analysis of it: "The tragic myth of the Angelus of Millet". He paints this surreal interpretation of Millet's Angelus (right), transforming the original painting into an unconscious parable of female sexual power. The female figure, on the right, poses expectantly, ready to pounce, while the male, head down, vainly tries to protect his genitals with his hat. The form of the woman suggests a praying mantis, a predominant theme in surrealist works, signifying the contradictory feelings of attraction and despair in the domain of desire. Dalí believed that the woman was not only the dominant partner, but also posed a sexual threat to the man.
The low horizon line and the almost empty landscape underline the monumentality of the strange structure in the foreground, the cypresses symbols of death and finality, underline the atmosphere of fatalism. The two peasants of L’Angélus were transformed into imposing architectural ruins probably inspired by Dali’s visits to the Roman ruins near his childhood home. Dali transforms Millet's figures into monuments not because they must be considered as dead symbols, but because they represent ancient principles still present, the foundations of human sexuality.
Two similar scenes, in the bottom center a man with a little boy also seen on the right with a nurse seated, underline the contrast between the innocence of childhood and the fears of adulthood (the tiny representation father / son has started to appear in Dali's works from 1929). (Dim : 12 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in)
This is an oil painting using both a paint brush and a palette knife. I was inspired by one of my favorite quotes to create this piece. The outlines of the two individuals are painted in black and their faces contain a multitude of colors. The atypical and messy nature of the faces explicates that our imperfections make us beautiful and that although we are constantly growing, learning and changing, we are all still masterpieces.
On May 21, a couple of hundreds fishermen came to Paris to demonstrate against the increase in oil prices and the failure of the government to fulfill its promises (partly due to UE rules). While a delegation was received by the minister Michel Barnier, some protested outside the ministery, clashing with the police for about an hour with flares and emergency rockets. 3 policemen were seriously hurt. Everybody calmed down afterwards and no arrest were made.
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Part of "Pêcheurs en colère"
The older twin ladies either side of me saw Buffalo Bill perform before Queen Victoria when they were children.
Collaboration with Simon Suckling (original photographer).
Difficile après la tonte. Non seulement sa tonte fut longue et difficile car sa laine est très sèche et elle a été assez méchamment coupée, mais en plus les autres la chassent (voir explication sur la video en commentaire)
Hard after the shearing. Not only was the shearing long and difficult because her wool is too dry, so she was also badly cut, but her "sisters" chase her (see complete explanation on the video in the comment field below).
Si quelqu'un sait de quel genre de bateau il s'agit, son explication sera la bienvenue, d'avance merci !
If anyone knows what kind of boat this is, their explanation will be welcome, thank you in advance!
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Un journaliste interviewe un activiste participant a un sit-in d'une trentaine de personnes Boulevard Clémenceau, devant l'un des check-points de la zone de securite au matin du début du sommet de l'OTAN à Strasbourg, le 04 avril 2009. Apres avoir essuye quelques tirs de grenades lacrymogenes, ils seront finalement portes a l'ecart par les forces de l'ordre puis relaches.
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Definitely my biggest project, both in term of parts used and time spent on the design. It represents a geisha from Ghost in the Shell (the 2017 live action movie). Her mask can open in 7 panels to reveal a frightening robotic face.
The tricky part was to make a convincing face while the mask is closed, but thin enough to keep some space behind it for the pearl gold part. I spent a long time working on the hinges, trying to limit the space between the panels when they are closed. Because of those constraints, some proportions are a bit off. I'm still very happy about with how it turned out, as it's quite far from what I'm used to building.
Reference pictures: mask closed, mask open.
And the opening scene of the movie that features this character.
Des explications en français sont disponibles ici sur brickpirate.
J'aime beaucoup ces petits animaux, tellement patauds au sol et si gracieux dans l'eau.
A ne pas confondre avec les pingouins qui s'appellent "auk" en anglais et penguin pour les manchots ce qui rajoute à la confusion.
Explication intéressante sur la différence : www.manchots.com/differences-entre-manchots-et-pingouins/
I love these little animals, so clumsy on the ground and so graceful in the water.
There is a source of confusion between French and English
The French word "pingouin" = auk while the English "penguin" = manchot in French
Difference between the penguin and the oak : whatis.thedifferencebetween.com/compare/auk-and-penguin/
Merci à .Sissi, petite fée plus d'explications sur le site www.flickr.com/photos/26450367@N04/7342776210/in/set-7215...
Au musée Animalaine (voir photo précédente pour explication), il n'y avait pas que des moutons, il y avait aussi des lamas dont celui-ci qui m'a fait plein de bisous. Du moins tant que j'avais des friandises (sachet avec mélange pour moutons vendus à l'entrée)... après il m'a complètement ignorée le vilain
At the Animalaine museum (see previous photo for explanation), there were not only sheep, there were also llamas including this one that gave me kisses. At least as long as I had treats (bag with mix for sheep sold at the entrance) ... after he completely ignored me, naughty guy
On April 8th, 20.000 people (according to the Union nationale lycéenne-UNL), 8. 500 according to the police, demonstrated once more from Luxembourg. Numerous incidents forced the organizers to stop the march around Duroc, with stones and bottles thrown at the police, who replicated with tear gas and charges, with a few arrests.
Here, protesters party frenetically around the traditional flare ;-)
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Part of Ecole en danger ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
Bonjour,
« Cosmos » : Postprocessing de la superposition d’une photo prise à MERLIMONT (62, Côte d’Opale) et d’une copie d’écran de veille d’une photo de galaxie :
www.lesphotosdarchibald.fr/zenphoto/R%C3%AAve-d%27enfant/...
Vous trouverez les explications sur la réalisation de cette photo à l’adresse :
www.lesphotosdarchibald.fr/zenphoto/news/Cosmos,-rencontr...
Je vous souhaite un bel été.
Cordialement.
Daniel LEJEUNE
Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe
By Dennis Overbye
Published Oct. 10, 2022
Updated Oct. 12, 2022
For the last century, the biggest bar fight in science has been between Albert Einstein and himself.
On one side is the Einstein who in 1915 conceived general relativity, which describes gravity as the warping of space-time by matter and energy. That theory predicted that space-time could bend, expand, rip, and quiver like a bowl of Jell-O and disappear into those bottomless pits of nothingness known as black holes.
On the other side is the Einstein who, starting in 1905, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics, the nonintuitive rules that inject randomness into the world — rules that Einstein never accepted. According to quantum mechanics, a subatomic particle like an electron can be anywhere and everywhere at once, and a cat can be both alive and dead until it is observed. God doesn’t play dice, Einstein often complained.
Gravity rules outer space, shaping galaxies and indeed the whole universe, whereas quantum mechanics rules inner space, the arena of atoms and elementary particles. The two realms long seemed to have nothing to do with each other; this left scientists ill-equipped to understand what happens in an extreme situation like a black hole or the beginning of the universe.
But a blizzard of research in the last decade on the inner lives of black holes has revealed unexpected connections between the two views of the cosmos. The implications are mind-bending, including the possibility that our three-dimensional universe — and we ourselves — may be holograms, like the ghostly anti-counterfeiting images that appear on some credit cards and drivers licenses. In this version of the cosmos, there is no difference between here and there, cause and effect, inside and outside or perhaps even then and now; household cats can be conjured in empty space. We can all be Dr. Strange.
“It may be too strong to say that gravity and quantum mechanics are exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind of Stanford University wrote in a paper in 2017. “But those of us who are paying attention may already sense that the two are inseparable, and that neither makes sense without the other.”
That insight, Dr. Susskind and his colleagues hope, could lead to a theory that combines gravity and quantum mechanics — quantum gravity — and perhaps explains how the universe began.
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Einstein vs. Einstein
The schism between the two Einsteins entered the spotlight in 1935, when the physicist faced off against himself in a pair of scholarly papers.
In one paper, Einstein and Nathan Rosen showed that general relativity predicted that black holes (which were not yet known by that name) could form in pairs connected by shortcuts through space-time, called Einstein-Rosen bridges — “wormholes.” In the imaginations of science fiction writers, you could jump into one black hole and pop out of the other.
In the other paper, Einstein, Rosen and another physicist, Boris Podolsky, tried to pull the rug out from quantum mechanics by exposing a seeming logical inconsistency. They pointed out that, according to the uncertainty principle of quantum physics, a pair of particles once associated would be eternally connected, even if they were light-years apart. Measuring a property of one particle — its direction of spin, say — would instantaneously affect the measurement of its mate. If these photons were flipped coins and one came up heads, the other invariably would be found out to be tails.
To Einstein, this proposition was obviously ludicrous, and he dismissed it as “spooky action at a distance.” But today physicists call it “entanglement,” and lab experiments confirm its reality every day. Last week the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a trio of physicists whose experiments over the years had demonstrated the reality of this “spooky action.”
The physicist N. David Mermin of Cornell University once called such quantum weirdness “the closest thing we have to magic.”
As Daniel Kabat, a physics professor at Lehman College in New York, explained it, “We’re used to thinking that information about an object — say, that a glass is half-full — is somehow contained within the object. Entanglement means this isn’t correct. Entangled objects don’t have an independent existence with definite properties of their own. Instead they only exist in relation to other objects.”
Einstein probably never dreamed that the two 1935 papers had anything in common, Dr. Susskind said recently. But Dr. Susskind and other physicists now speculate that wormholes and spooky action are two aspects of the same magic and, as such, are the key to resolving an array of cosmic paradoxes.
Throwing Dice in the Dark
To astronomers, black holes are dark monsters with gravity so strong that they can consume stars, wreck galaxies and imprison even light. At the edge of a black hole, time seems to stop. At a black hole’s center, matter shrinks to infinite density and the known laws of physics break down. But to physicists bent on explicating those fundamental laws, black holes are a Coney Island of mysteries and imagination.
In 1974 the cosmologist Stephen Hawking astonished the scientific world with a heroic calculation showing that, to his own surprise, black holes were neither truly black nor eternal, when quantum effects were added to the picture. Over eons, a black hole would leak energy and subatomic particles, shrink, grow increasingly hot and finally explode. In the process, all the mass that had fallen into the black hole over the ages would be returned to the outer universe as a random fizz of particles and radiation.
This might sound like good news, a kind of cosmic resurrection. But it was a potential catastrophe for physics. A core tenet of science holds that information is never lost; billiard balls might scatter every which way on a pool table, but in principle, it is always possible to rewind the tape to determine where they were in the past or predict their positions in the future, even if they drop into a black hole.
But if Hawking were correct, the particles radiating from a black hole were random, a meaningless thermal noise stripped of the details of whatever has fallen in. If a cat fell in, most of its information — name, color, temperament — would be unrecoverable, effectively lost from history. It would be as if you opened your safe deposit box and found that your birth certificate and your passport had disappeared. As Hawking phrased it in 1976: “God not only plays dice, he sometimes throws them where they can’t be seen.”
His declaration triggered a 40-year war of ideas. “This can’t be right,” Dr. Susskind, who became Hawking’s biggest adversary in the subsequent debate, thought to himself when first hearing about Hawking’s claim. “I didn’t know what to make out of it.”
Image A white, illustrated cat sits in the middle of the page, staring out, and dark blue lines radiate from behind it like a scintillating star.
Credit...Leonardo Santamaria
Encoding Reality
A potential solution came to Dr. Susskind one day in 1993 as he was walking through a physics building on campus. There in the hallway he saw a display of a hologram of a young woman.
A hologram is basically a three-dimensional image — a teapot, a cat, Princess Leia — made entirely of light. It is created by illuminating the original (real) object with a laser and recording the patterns of reflected light on a photographic plate. When the plate is later illuminated, a three-dimensional image of the object springs into view at the center.
“‘Hey, here’s a situation where it looks as if information is kind of reproduced in two different ways,’” Dr. Susskind recalled thinking. On the one hand, there is a visible object that “looked real,” he said. “And on the other hand, there’s the same information coded on the film surrounding the hologram. Up close, it just looks like a little bunch of scratches and a highly complex encoding.”
The right combinations of scratches on that film, Dr. Susskind realized, could make anything emerge into three dimensions. Then he thought: What if a black hole was actually a hologram, with the event horizon serving as the “film,” encoding what was inside? It was “a nutty idea, a cool idea,” he recalled.
Across the Atlantic, the same nutty idea had occurred to the Dutch physicist, Gerardus ’t Hooft, a Nobel laureate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
According to Einstein’s general relativity, the information content of a black hole or any three-dimensional space — your living room, say, or the whole universe — was limited to the number of bits that could be encoded on an imaginary surface surrounding it. That space was measured in pixels 10⁻³³ centimeters on a side — the smallest unit of space, known as the Planck length.
With data pixels so small, this amounted to quadrillions of megabytes per square centimeter — a stupendous amount of information, but not an infinite amount. Trying to cram too much information into any region would cause it to exceed a limit decreed by Jacob Bekenstein, then a Princeton graduate student and Hawking’s rival, and cause it to collapse into a black hole.
“This is what we found out about Nature’s bookkeeping system,” Dr. ’t Hooft wrote in 1993. “The data can be written onto a surface, and the pen with which the data are written has a finite size.”
The Soup-Can Universe
The cosmos-as-holograph idea found its fullest expression a few years later, in 1997. Juan Maldacena, a theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., used new ideas from string theory — the speculative “theory of everything” that portrays subatomic particles as vibrating strings — to create a mathematical model of the entire universe as a hologram.
In his formulation, all the information about what happens inside some volume of space is encoded as quantum fields on the surface of the region’s boundary.
Dr. Maldacena’s universe is often portrayed as a can of soup: Galaxies, black holes, gravity, stars, and the rest, including us, are the soup inside, and the information describing them resides on the outside, like a label. Think of it as gravity in a can. The inside and outside of the can — the “bulk” and the “boundary” — are complementary descriptions of the same phenomena.
Since the fields on the surface of the soup can obey quantum rules about preserving information, the gravitational fields inside the can must also preserve information. In such a picture, “there is no room for information loss,” Dr. Maldacena said at a conference in 2004.
Hawking conceded: Gravity was not the great eraser after all.
“In other words, the universe makes sense,” Dr. Susskind said in an interview.
“It’s completely crazy,” he added, in reference to the holographic universe. “You could imagine in a laboratory, in a sufficiently advanced laboratory, a large sphere — let’s say, a hollow sphere of a specially tailored material — to be made of silicon and other things, with some kind of appropriate quantum fields inscribed on it.” Then you could conduct experiments, he said: Tap on the sphere, interact with it, then wait for answers from the entities inside.
“On the other hand, you could open up that shell and you would find nothing in it,” he added. As for us entities inside: “We don’t read the hologram, we are the hologram.”
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Against a black background sits a rough, ghostly cat that looks as if it has been drawn from white scratch marks and cat hair.
Credit...Leonardo Santamaria
Wormholes, wormholes everywhere
Our actual universe, unlike Dr. Maldacena’s mathematical model, has no boundary, no outer limit. Nonetheless, for physicists, his universe became a proof of principle that gravity and quantum mechanics were compatible and offered a font of clues to how our actual universe works.
But, Dr. Maldacena noted recently, his model did not explain how information manages to escape a black hole intact or how Hawking’s calculation in 1974 went wrong.
Don Page, a former student of Hawking now at the University of Alberta, took a different approach in the 1990s. Suppose, he said, that information is conserved when a black hole evaporates. If so, then a black hole does not spit out particles as randomly as Hawking had thought. The radiation would start out as random, but as time went on, the particles being emitted would become more and more correlated with those that had come out earlier, essentially filling the gaps in the missing information. After billions and billions of years all the hidden information would have emerged.
In quantum terms, this explanation required any particles now escaping the black hole to be entangled with the particles that had leaked out earlier. But this presented a problem. Those newly emitted particles were already entangled with their mates that had already fallen into the black hole, running afoul of quantum rules mandating that particles be entangled only in pairs. Dr. Page’s information-transmission scheme could only work if the particles inside the black hole were somehow the same as the particles that were now outside.
How could that be? The inside and outside of the black hole were connected by wormholes, the shortcuts through space and time proposed by Einstein and Rosen in 1935.
In 2012 Drs. Maldacena and Susskind proposed a formal truce between the two warring Einsteins. They proposed that spooky entanglement and wormholes were two faces of the same phenomenon. As they put it, employing the initials of the authors of those two 1935 papers, Einstein and Rosen in one and Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in the other: “ER = EPR.”
The implication is that, in some strange sense, the outside of a black hole was the same as the inside, like a Klein bottle that has only one side.
How could information be in two places at once? Like much of quantum physics, the question boggles the mind, like the notion that light can be a wave or a particle depending on how the measurement is made.
What matters is that, if the interior and exterior of a black hole were connected by wormholes, information could flow through them in either direction, in or out, according to John Preskill, a Caltech physicist and quantum computing expert.
“We ought to be able to influence the interior of one of these black holes by ‘tickling’ its radiation, and thereby sending a message to the inside of the black hole,” he said in a 2017 interview with Quanta. He added, “It sounds crazy.”
Ahmed Almheiri, a physicist at N.Y.U. Abu Dhabi, noted recently that by manipulating radiation that had escaped a black hole, he could create a cat inside that black hole. “I can do something with the particles radiating from the black hole, and suddenly a cat is going to appear in the black hole,” he said.
He added, “We all have to get used to this.”
The metaphysical turmoil came to a head in 2019. That year two groups of theorists made detailed calculations showing that information leaking through wormholes would match the pattern predicted by Dr. Page. One paper was by Geoff Penington, now at the University of California, Berkeley. And the other was by Netta Engelhardt of M.I.T.; Don Marolf of the University of California, Santa Barbara; Henry Maxfield, now at Stanford University; and Dr. Almheiri. The two groups published their papers on the same day.
“And so the final moral of the story is, if your theory of gravity includes wormholes, then you get information coming out,” Dr. Penington said. “If it doesn’t include wormholes, then presumably, you don’t get information coming out.”
He added, “Hawking didn’t include wormholes, and we are including wormholes.”
Not everybody has signed on to this theory. And testing it is a challenge since particle accelerators will probably never be powerful enough to produce black holes in the lab for study, although several groups of experimenters hope to simulate black holes and wormholes in quantum computers.
And even if this physics turns out to be accurate, Dr. Mermin’s magic does have an important limit: Neither wormholes nor entanglement can transmit a message, much less a human, faster than the speed of light. So much for time travel. The weirdness only becomes apparent after the fact, when two scientists compare their observations and discover that they match — a process that involves classical physics, which obeys the speed limit set by Einstein.
As Dr. Susskind likes to say, “You can’t make that cat hop out of a black hole faster than the speed of light.”
Correction: Oct. 10, 2022
An earlier version of this article misidentified the academic affiliation of the physicist Don Marolf. It is the University of California, Santa Barbara, not the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dennis Overbye joined The Times in 1998, and has been a reporter since 2001. He has written two books: “Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Search for the Secret of the Universe” and “Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance.” @overbye
About a thousand people marched in Paris to support a free Tibet on March 21.
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Part of Free Tibet ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
The Spectra installation by Ryoji Ikeda, at the Montparnasse tower during the 2008 edition of the Nuit Blanche in Paris.
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Part of Nuit Blanche 2008 (Recommended as a slideshow)
A Tibetan demonstrator poses with members of the Parliamentary group for Tibet in front of the Chinese embassy in Paris on March 18.
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Part of Free Tibet ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
The little bloom on a December night...
A wee bit early !!!
Crimean snowdrop, Galanthus plicatus, 30 cm tall, flowering January/March, white flowers, with broad leaves folded back at the edges (explicative vernation)
Street scene from Lahore.
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Part of Pakistani Lifestyle (Recommended as a slideshow)
On the morning of October 29, rain was pouring down on the tents of the rue de la Banque. For the few people sleeping without tents, the night was really hard, and all the cardboards on the pavement were soaked, as well as many blankets.
Here, a man is crossing the stream of water between the tents (the building behind is the Bourse - Paris stock exchange).
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On the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel, approx. 200 Palestinians demonstrated in Paris from République to Barbès.
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Part of "Palestinian Demonstration" (Recommended as a slideshow)