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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 ;-)
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
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.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Free Tibet ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
Kids climbed on top of an abandoned tower in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the elections. To go down, some of them slided down a big pipe !
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Pakistani Lifestyle (Recommended as a slideshow)
The Spectra installation by Ryoji Ikeda, at the Montparnasse tower during the 2008 edition of the Nuit Blanche in Paris.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
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.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
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.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
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).
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Based on realistic medieval crane, created for Archenval project.
Explanations on the technical construction of the wheel:
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The base is not complicated: it is a cross formed of round plates and round bricks 1 x 1, and assembled on a cross (Technic, Axle Hub Connector with 4 Bars)
The circle of the wheel, it is composed of four parts: "Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Light - Thick Ring" of both sides, a "Plate 1 x 6," the "light clip" in opposition relative to each other, in which comes to slide "Stop with a Bar 6L Ring", and "tile 1 x 4" between the two "Light clip" to finish.
This technique allows to adjust the angle variations and thus to define different angles. Therefore, any constraint on the inter-axis.
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Cette grue médiévale, réaliste et fonctionnelle, a été créée pour Archenval.
Explications sur la technique de construction de la roue:
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La base n'est pas compliquée : c'est une croix formée de round plates et round bricks 1 x 1 assemblées sur, justement, une croix (Technic, Axle Connector Hub with 4 Bars)
Le cercle de la roue, est lui composé de 4 pièces : "Plate, Modified 1 x 1 with Clip Light - Thick Ring" de part et d'autre, d'une" Plate 1 x 6,"le "light clip" en opposition l'un par rapport à l'autre, dans lequel on vient glisser "une Bar 6L with Stop Ring" et on lisse le tout avec une tile 1 x 4 entre les deux "Light clip".
Cette technique permet de pouvoir régler l'inclinaison à donner et donc de définir des angles différents. En conséquence, aucune contrainte sur l'entre-axe.
On the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel, approx. 200 Palestinians demonstrated in Paris from République to Barbès.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of "Palestinian Demonstration" (Recommended as a slideshow)
Demonstrators on top of the statue Place de la Nation.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Régimes Spéciaux (Recommended as a slideshow)
Devant l'Auberge Bressane de Belluas (Ain -01), un sympathique hôtel restaurant près de Bourg-en-Bresse.
Voir les explications à:
Artur Bordalo (né en 1987), connu professionnellement sous le nom de Bordalo II (prononcé et parfois écrit Bordalo Segundo), est un artiste de rue portugais, "artiviste" autoproclamé. Son travail se compose principalement de grandes installations et de peintures murales réalisées à partir de déchets recyclés, dans le but de mettre en lumière le gaspillage et la surconsommation dans notre monde d'aujourd'hui.
Explication de l'œuvre ci-dessus par son auteur : "Une jeune chouette, qui se dégourdit les pattes, essayant d'atteindre ses objectifs. L’œuvre est divisée : un côté plus classique, conservateur, qui s’accroche aux vieux murs ; et un autre côté, plus tourné vers l’avenir. Ce côté coloré représente l'endroit où surgissent de nouvelles questions et de nouvelles idées, de nouvelles solutions et interprétations du présent, pour que tout fonctionne mieux à l'avenir. Des espaces de connaissance, d’éducation et de culture comme base d’une société évoluée et démocratique. Les plus jeunes sont l’espoir qu’à l’avenir de meilleurs choix et de meilleures décisions auront lieu – l’histoire nous l’a appris. C’est pourquoi c’est un honneur d’avoir l’opportunité d’avoir une œuvre d’art dans un lieu avec un tel environnement."
Artur Bordalo (born 1987), known professionally as Bordalo II (pronounced and sometimes written Bordalo Segundo), is a Portuguese street artist and self-described artivist. His work consists mainly of large installations and murals made from recycled trash, with the intention of highlighting waste and over-consumption in our world today.
Explanation of the work above by its author: “A Young Owl, stretching her legs, trying to reach her goals. The piece is divided: a more classic, conservative side, that’s holding on to the old walls; and another side, more directed to the future. This colourful side represents where new questions and new ideas rise, new solutions and interpretations of the Present, so that everything works better in the future. Spaces for knowledge, education and culture as the basis for an evolved and democratic society. The younger ones are the hope that in the future better choices and decisions take place – History has taught us. This is why it’s an honour to have the opportunity to have an artwork in a place with such surroundings.”
Etang Tenreuken en bordure de la forêt de Soignes - Bruxelles
Cette fois, la pêche est bonne. Toutefois, la proie fut relachée quelques instants plus tard ... Faut-il trouver une explication par la taille de la prise ?
Tenreuken pond bordering the Sonian Forest - Brussels
This time, the fishing is good. However, the prey was abandoned a few moments later ... Must find an explanation by the big size of the fish ?
Pentacon Six TL
Carl Zeiss Jena
Biometar 80 f2.8
Kodak Portra 160
The looking for analog cameras was a particularly daunting time for me. It was in "Alps Do" in the Shinjuku neighborhood I saw this Bronica, a device that some Flickr contacts use (Soreikea, thank you). HappyflightSmile and Kahori Yagi gave me a lot of advices to find this analog camera shop: Thanks a lot ! After a long time to talk with the seller, and after much detailed explanations, I started to use it. An apprehension initially, then a such comfort and a such precision have made a device that follows me everywhere. It's a mesmerizing device which makes me want to write a beautiful photographic story.
みなさん, 本当にありがとう.
Ecrivons une histoire, ensemble - Kanazawa Mai 2015
la recherche d'appareils photos argentiques fut un moment particulierement intimidant pour moi. C'est à "Alps Do" dans le quartier de Shinjuku que j'ai vu ce Bronica, un appareil que certains contacts de Flickr utilisent (merci Soreikea). Grâce à HappyflightSmile et Kahori Yagi, j'ai eu de précieuses indications pour trouver ce genre de magasin : Merci beaucoup! Après un long moment à parler avec le vendeur, et après beaucoup d'explications précises, je me suis mis à l'utiliser. Une appréhension au départ puis un tel confort et une telle précision en ont fait un appareil qui me suit partout. C'est un appareil envoûtant me donnant envie d'écrire une belle histoire photographique.
Philosophical Enthusiasms.
Unterscheidende Fragen syllogism contradiction die sich entwickelnden Prämissen Sätze steigen,
أجوبة الاستفهام هندسة العلوم العطف ذات الصلة عرضي مغالطة دون أن يلاحظها أحد,
arddangosiadau predicating cadarnhau casgliadau gweledigaethau rhythmig deallusol briodoli diffygion pwysig,
inconvenienter praedicta nomina subordinare errare premissis colligitur inferable anatomica prosyllogismi,
άφατο υποκειμενική σιωπηρή έννοιες γρήγορη ανάλυση προϋποθέτει παραστάσεις διαίσθηση παρουσίαση,
Explications artistiques descriptions sensibles mesures illimitées imagination cognitive facultés objectives,
destructieve oorzaken verondersteld kennis immense ruïnes verongelijkt vertrouwen verwacht redenaars punten,
Requisitos anapaest partes trochees condiciones trágicas funciones extremas desgracias descubrimiento incidentes,
приверженности участки изобретений возможные исторические стихи замечательные последствия действия исполнительского искусства,
擬態語の移転は、自発的な原理を制限する動きを制限する不思議な知識を提供する.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Panoràmica des de Rennes le Château (L'Aude).
El pic de Bugarach, és el cim de les Corbières; arreu es diu que en aquests llocs, hi ha pujades sembrades de llegendes, de bruixes i de tresors càtars.
www.iacobus.net/bruguera/pages/Bugarach.htm
El pico de Bugarach, es la cima de las Corbières, todos dicen que en estos lugares, hay subidas sembradas de leyendas, de brujas y de tesoros cátaros.
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Le Mystère de la Montagne aux Fées
Le Pic de Bugarach est le point culminant des Corbières avec 1231mètres. De nombreux témoignages (certains très anciens) font état d’apparations ou de lumières nocturnes s’ échappant ou entrant dans cette montagne. On parle d’ovnis, de lumières étranges, etc. Des satellites on détectent sous le Pic de Bugarach, d’étranges cavités ainsi qu’un immense dôme et on ignore toujours actuellement ce qui se trouvent à l’intérieur et aussi comment y accéder. Les avions survolant cette région on comme consigne de ne pas passer au dessus de cette zone, car tous les instruments se dérèglent sans aucune explication.
virtuellife.centerblog.net/1930-le-pic-de-bugarach
El misterio de la Montaña de las hadas
El Pico Bugarach es la culminación de las Corbières con 1231mètres. Muchas historias (algunas antiguas) informan de apariciones o de luces nocturnas que se escapan o entran en la montaña. Se habla de los ovnis, luces extrañas, etc. Los satélites han detectado bajo el Pico Bugarach, extrañas cuevas y una gran cúpula, y se ignora actualmente que se encuentra en el interior y también cómo acceder a ella. Los aviones que vuelan sobre esta región se les instruye a no pasar por esta zona, pues todos los instrumentos van mal sin ninguna explicación.
El misteri de la Muntanya de les fades
El Pic Bugarach és la culminació de les Corbières amb 1231mètres. Moltes històries (algunes antigues) informen d'aparicions o de llums nocturnes que s'escapen o entren a la muntanya. Es parla dels ovnis, llums estranyes, etc. Els satèl lits han detectat sota el Pic Bugarach, estranyes coves i una gran cúpula, i s'ignora actualment què es troba a l'interior i també com accedir-hi. Els avions que volen sobre aquesta regió se'ls instrueix a no passar per aquesta zona, ja que tots els instruments van malament sense cap explicació.
Johannes van Dam is currently living out his dream, performing famously in his role as the number one restaurant reviewer in Amsterdam. He works for the newspaper "Het Parool" and is currently spending his Sunday morning at a his local coffee shop reading his own review in the newspaper, smiling ruefully.
He is happy to talk to me and motions out at the rainy street. "This was a canal about 30 years ago," he nods, looking over his glasses. "Then we build road because we not need that canal anymore."
He shakes the newspaper and backhand slaps his review in a gesture of disbelief. He utters some Dutch explicative while laughing, and then stabs at his column with his finger. "This is a good review my friend!"
This looks best Large on Black
This comes from my Portraits Series
Le télescope spatial James Webb a capturé une image étonnante de Herbig-Haro 46/47 à l'aide de son instrument proche infrarouge, NIRCam .
L'image, traitée par Joe DePasquale du Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), présente une "paire étroitement liée d'étoiles en formation active" dans des détails et des couleurs brillants.
L'image comprend les pics de diffraction à six points désormais emblématiques de Webb, bien que l'on puisse affirmer qu'ils sont à huit points sur la base des lignes colorées plus courtes qui coupent horizontalement les noyaux d'étoiles.
Soit dit en passant, DePasquale explique que ces noyaux d'étoiles brillantes sont rendus sous forme de points noirs par le pipeline de traitement de Webb, ce qui signifie que lui et Pagan doivent remplir les zones noires avec du blanc à l'aide d'algorithmes spéciaux.
« Prenez un moment pour vous attarder sur le fond. Une profusion de galaxies extrêmement éloignées parsèment la vue de Webb.
Son image composite NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) comprend plusieurs poses, mettant en évidence des galaxies et des étoiles lointaines.
Les objets bleus avec des pics de diffraction sont des étoiles, et plus ils sont proches, plus ils paraissent gros.
Les galaxies spirales blanches et roses semblent parfois plus grandes que ces étoiles mais sont nettement plus éloignées.
Les plus petits points rouges, la spécialité infrarouge de Webb, sont souvent les galaxies les plus anciennes et les plus éloignées.
Voici donc quelques explications qui nous permettent d’un peu mieux connaître notre galaxie …
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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of Herbig-Haro 46/47 using its near-infrared instrument, NIRCam.
The image, processed by Joe DePasquale of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), features a "tightly bound pair of actively forming stars" in brilliant detail and color.
The image includes Webb's now signature six-point diffraction peaks, although it could be argued that they are eight-point based on the shorter colored lines that intersect star cores horizontally.
Incidentally, DePasquale explains that these bright star cores are rendered as black dots by Webb's processing pipeline, which means that he and Pagan have to fill in the black areas with white using special algorithms.
“Take a moment to dwell on the substance. A profusion of extremely distant galaxies dot Webb's view. His NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) composite image includes multiple exposures, highlighting distant galaxies and stars.
Blue objects with diffraction peaks are stars, and the closer they are, the bigger they appear.
White and pink spiral galaxies sometimes appear larger than these stars but are significantly further away.
The smallest red dots, Webb's infrared specialty, are often the oldest and most distant galaxies.
Depuis quelque temps La Corée du sud met les bouchées doubles en Origami,On connait bien sur le Maitre Wonseon Seo (RedPaper),mais voici un nouveau talent sous le nom de Jeong Jaeil.Les points forts de ses beaux modèles sont: le volume un mélange de 2D et de 3D, et de penser à fermer ses créations.
Justement normalement sur ce porc, le museau est complétement fermé, mais comme j'ai compris après comment faire pour le fermer complètement, j'ai donc modifié le modèle pour lui donner une bouche.
Je vais replié ce modèle avec un grand plaisir avec un papier plus grand.
Diagramme: www.flickr.com/photos/143234267@N08/31570629164/in/datepo...
Explication supplémentaire pour le museau: www.flickr.com/photos/143234267@N08/32118553323/in/photos...
Papier: 20 x 20cm. Papier Kraft
For some time South Korea has been working on Double Origami, We know well about Master Wonseon Seo (RedPaper), but here is a new talent under the name of Jeong Jaeil. The highlights of his beautiful models are: volume one Mixing 2D and 3D, and thinking about closing his creations.
Precisely normally on this pig, the muzzle is completely closed, but as I understood afterwards how to close it completely, I modified the model to give it a mouth.
I will fold this model with great pleasure with a larger paper.
Diagram: www.flickr.com/photos/143234267@N08/31570629164/in/datepo...
Additional explanation for the muzzle: www.flickr.com/photos/143234267@N08/32118553323/in/photos...
Pour la découvrir il vous faudra chercher le gardien de l’église et lui donner 1,50€ par personne. Il vous échangera alors cet argent contre un ticket, vous donnant accès à la Chapelle d’Or (Cappella del Coro), par une porte discrète. Vous tomberez sur des petites salles contenant des sièges dans lesquels les doges se sont assis par le passé, des fresques superbes, un polyptyque sublime… Avec une fiche d’explications en français, si besoin. Continuez votre chemin et empruntez un petit escalier qui descend… Bienvenue dans la crypte, en partie inondée, qui date du Xe siècle. Huit des plus anciens Doges de Venise reposent ici.
Ce qu’il y a de plus étonnant c’est que cette crypte est peu connue des touristes.
(Hommage à mon beau-père qui est mort hier soir)
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To discover it you will have to look for the guardian of the church and give him 1,50 € per person. He will then exchange this money for a ticket, giving you access to the Golden Chapel (Cappella del Coro), through a discreet door. You will come across small rooms containing seats in which the doges have sat in the past, beautiful frescoes, a sublime polyptych ... With a sheet of explanations in French, if necessary. Continue your way and take a small staircase that descends ... Welcome to the crypt, partially flooded, which dates from the tenth century. Eight of the oldest Doges of Venice rest here.
What is more surprising is that this crypt is little known to tourists.
(Tribute to my father-in-law who died last night)
Prise avec mon smartphone Huawei P10
Le pont de Vroenhoven se situe à quelques mètres de la frontières avec les Pays-Bas. Un musée se trouve sous celui-ci, retraçant son histoire durant la guerre, mais également des explications sur le Canal Albert, qui passe dessous.
Le premier pont à cet endroit était un pont en arc en béton construit lors de la construction du canal Albert en 1935. Il a été détruit en 1944 par l’armée allemande qui battait en retraite. Un pont à travées a temporairement remplacé ce pont jusqu’en 1947, après quoi le pont a été reconstruit dans sa forme originale en 1947.
En 2007, la construction du nouveau pont de Vroenhoven a commencé, juste à côté de l’ancien pont existant. Le 16 janvier 2009, l’ancien pont a été détruit à la dynamite et le nouveau pont a été mis en service en juin 2010. Le remplacement du pont a permis d’élargir le goulot d’étranglement du canal, de sorte que deux navires peuvent désormais passer simultanément. Cet élargissement n’était pas possible auparavant car les piles de l’ancien pont étaient trop proches les unes des autres.
La construction du nouveau pont comprend également un espace pour un musée – le Pont de Vroenhoven, un théâtre en plein air, un mur d’escalade et un café-restaurant.
L’histoire est également dominée par la bataille pour le pont pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ce pont a été capturé intact par les troupes allemandes lors de l’invasion du 10 mai 1940. Une douzaine de soldats belges ont été tués dans le bunker situé près du pont. Un jour plus tard, sept aviateurs belges sont tués lors de leurs attaques sur les ponts de Vroenhoven et de Veldwezelt, abattus par les canons antiaériens allemands.
The Vroenhoven Bridge is located a few meters from the border with the Netherlands. There is a museum underneath it, which tells the story of its wartime history, but also explains the Albert Canal, which runs underneath.
The first bridge at this location was a concrete arch bridge built during the construction of the Albert Canal in 1935. It was destroyed in 1944 by the retreating German army. A span bridge temporarily replaced this bridge until 1947, after which the bridge was rebuilt in its original form in 1947.
In 2007, construction began on the new Vroenhoven Bridge, right next to the existing old bridge. On 16 January 2009, the old bridge was blown up with dynamite and the new bridge was put into service in June 2010. The replacement of the bridge widened the bottleneck of the canal, so that two ships can now pass simultaneously. This widening was not previously possible because the piers of the old bridge were too close to each other.
The construction of the new bridge also includes space for a museum – the Vroenhoven Bridge, an open-air theatre, a climbing wall and a café-restaurant.
The history is also dominated by the battle for the bridge during the Second World War. This bridge was captured intact by German troops during the invasion of 10 May 1940. A dozen Belgian soldiers were killed in the bunker near the bridge. A day later, seven Belgian airmen were killed during their attacks on the bridges of Vroenhoven and Veldwezelt, shot down by German anti-aircraft guns.
Sometime in the mid nineties I was , sitting in the studio,finishing up some editing waiting for Jonny rock ( Jon Garner ) to show up and shoot his show "ground level"
Ground level was a music video platform for up and coming artists to show case their work.
From over my shoulder and into my lap there came a CD. I remember it had zebras on the cover.
Jonnys voice said "a chilly dog , what the (explicative) Dave"
And that was my introduction to Steve Kusaba .
Now 30 years later (and three hundred Steve kusaba music videos later) I have cut a music video to the song that left Jonny befuddled .
'I wanna' by Steve kusaba from the album: brothers of another realm
(And to jon Garner I must inform you the lyric is chilli burger)
Zürich Fraumünster (Frauenmünster) . Notre Dame. Swiss, Zurich: Our Lady Minster .
bell tower - Glockenturm
Places / Switzerland / Canton of Zurich / Zurich
The Fraumünster abbey /Fraumünster, ehmalige Klosteranlage
Ehemalige katholische Klosterkirche - Benediktinerinnen.
Ordo Sancti Benedicti -
Ora et labora et lege“ (lateinisch: „Bete und arbeite und lies“). Drei Gelübde legt der Benediktinermönch im Laufe seines Ordenslebens ab:
„Stabilitas“ (Beständigkeit in der Gemeinschaft),
„Klösterlichen Lebenswandel“ und
„Gehorsam“.
Als ein Motto der Benediktiner kann gelten: „Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus – Auf dass Gott in allem verherrlicht werde“.
Monasterium Thuricense (Thurgau) . 853 deutsche Gründung durch Ludwig dem Deutschen ein Enkel Karl des Grossen.
Im 11. Jahrhundert wurde die Äbtissin quasi Stadt-herrin von Zürich. Sie bekam zur Gerichtsbarkeit auch noch Zoll-, Markt-, und Münz-recht.
Bis Zwingli 1524 mit der Reformation alle Klöster auflöste und katholische Besitzungen der jeweiligen Region, hier der Stadt Zürich übertrug. Die letzte Äbtissin wurde bürgerlich und heiratete einen Ritter. Ihr ( Katherina von Zimmern ) wurde ein Brunnen - Denkmal errichtet.
Bis ins 19. jahrhundert hatten Katholiken keine Niederlassungsberechtigung im Kantonsgebiet.
1807 wurde im Münster erstmals wieder eine katholische Messe gelesen. Danach erlaubte die Zürcher Regierung den Aufbau eine katholischen Gemeinde .
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Fünf Glasfenster (1967) im Chorraum und (1978) eine Rosette von
Moische Chazelewitsch a Schagalow aka Marc Chagall:
Tolle steuerbare Panoramen mit Orgelmusik:
Fünf Glasfenster (1967) im Chorraum von Marc Chagall:
Founded in 853 by King Louis the German, this church with ist convent was inhabited by the female members of the aristocracy of southern Germany. It enjoyed the patronage of kings and the right to mint coins in Zürich until well into the 13th century. Ownership of the church and convent passed to the city of Zürich after the Reformation.
Important architectural features include the Romanesque choir and the high vaulted transept. The nave was last renovated in 1911, following on from work to heighten the north tower and remove the south tower in the 18th century. In addition to the largest organ in the canton (5,793 pipes), its most stunning jewels are the stained glass windows: those in the north transept are by Alberto Giacometti's cousin, Augusto (1945), the five-part cycle in the choir (1970) and the rosette in teh southern transept (1978) are by Marc Chagall. There is a series of frescos by Paul Bodmer in the cloister to mark the founding of the Fraumünster.
google-celebrates-marc-chagall ...
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La chiesa con il convento femminile venne finanziata da re Luigi il Tedesco e abitata da donne dell'alta nobiltà del Sud della Germania. Essa godeva dei favori di re e mantenne il diritto di battere moneta a Zurigo fino al XIII secolo. Dopo la riforma protestante, chiesa e convento passarono nelle mani della città. Importanti componenti dell'edificio sono il coro romanico e la navata centrale con le sue alte volte.
La Langhaus venne ristrutturata l'ultima volta nel 1911, dopo che già nel XVIII secolo era stata allungata la torre nord e asportata la torre sud. L'ornamento più importante, oltre al grande organo a 5793 canne, è costituito dalle vetrate variopinte: la finestra nord nella navata trasversale di Augusto Giacometti, ciclo di vetrate nel coro (1945), ciclo di vetrate strutturato in cinque parti nel coro (1970) e la rosetta nella navata trasversale meridionale (1978) sono opere di Marc Chagall.
Nella via crucis si trova un ciclo di affreschi di Paul Bodmer sulla fondazione del convento.
Exif:
Digital Zoom Ratio 2.7x
Focal Length (35mm format) 114 mm
aka 307 mm digital
All on flickr
www.fluidr.com/search/all/zürich/interesting
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My shots (~100)
i've Been Tagged By iơme♡ / You will find the Explication Here
B R I T I S H
[★] You drink a lot of tea.
[ ] You know what a brolly is.
[ ] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[ ] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[ ] You use the word "bugger" or the phrase "bloody hell."
[★] Fish and Chips are yummy.
[★] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[ ] You dislike emos almost as much as you dislike chavs.
[★] It's football... not soccer.
Total : 4
A U S T R A L I A N
[ ] You wear flip flops all year.
[ ] You call flip flops "thongs", not flip flops.
[ ] You love a backyard Barbie.
[ ] You know a Barbie is not a doll.
[ ] You love the beach.
[ ] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[ ] You're a sports fanatic
[★] You are tanned.
[ ] You're a bit of a bogan.
[ ] You have an Australian something.
Total : 1
I T A L I A N
[ ] The Sopranos is a great show.
[ ] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[ ] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[ ] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[★] You know Italian songs.
[★] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[★] You speak some Italian.
[ ] You are under 5'10".
[ ] You know what an Italian horn is.
[★] Pizza/spaghetti is the best food in the world!
[ ] You talk with your hands.
Total : 4
S P A N I S H
[ ] You say member instead of Remember.
[★] You speak Spanish or some.
[★] You like tacos.
[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr. a Lil Bit
[ ] You are dark skinned.
[ ] You know what a Puta is.
[ ] You talk fast occasionally.
[ ] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[ ] You know what platanos are.
Total : 2
R U S S I A N
[ ] You say villain as: Vee-lon.
[★] You get short tempered.
[★] You get cold easily.
[★] Rain is fun for you.
[ ] You get into contests all the time.
[ ] You can easily make do with the cold weather.
Total : 3
I R I S H
[ ] You think beer is the best.
[★] You have a bad temper.
[ ] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murphy, O', Fitz or ends with a ley, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y or L.
[ ] You have blue or green eyes.
[★] You like the colour green.
[ ] You have been to a St. Patty's day party.
[ ] You have a family member from Ireland.
[ ] You have red hair.
[ ] You have/had freckles.
[ ] Your family get together always include drinking and singing
Total : 2
A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N
[ ] You say nigga/nukka casually.
[ ] You have nappy hair.
[ ] You like rap.
[★] You know how to shoot a gun.
[★] You think President George Walker Bush is racist.
[★] You like chicken.
[★] You like watermelon.
[★] You can dance.
[ ] You can sing gospel.
Total : 5
A S I A N
[ ] You have slanty/small eyes.
[★] You like rice a lot.
[ ] You are good at math.
[ ] You have played the piano.
[ ] You have family from Asia.
[ ] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[ ] Most people think you're Chinese.
[ ] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[ ] You go to Baulko.
Total : 1
G E R M A N
[★] You like bread.
[★] You think German Chocolate is good.
[★] You speak some German.
[ ] You know what Schnitzel is.
[★] You hate it when stupid people call you.
[★] You went to Pre-school
[ ] You're over 5'2".
Total : 5
C A N A D I A N
[ ] You like/play/played hockey.
[ ] You love beer.
[ ] You say eh.
[ ] You know what poutine is.
[★] You speak some French
[ ] You love Tim Horton's.
[ ] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[ ] You watch/watched Degrassi.
Total : 1
A M E R I C A N
[★] You hate foreigners.
[ ] You hate non-Christians.
[★] You're lazy.
[ ] You have had an abortion.
[ ] But love the penalty.
[ ] You don't read.
[ ] You shop at Wal-Mart.
[ ] You think this survey is rather biased.
Total : 2
B E L G I A N
[★] You grow some small vegetables in the yard
[★] You like french fries.
[ ] You think Belgian chocolate rules.
[ ] You know that the official best beer in the world' is Belgian.
[ ] You speak both Dutch and French
[ ] You like Belgian waffles.
[ ] You call a pub or bar a café.
[ ] You fully realize and acknowledge that your football team sucks.
[ ] You drive/own a French or German car.
[ ] You have a lot of comments on your government.
Total : 2
D U T C H
[★] You like the colour orange.
[ ] You are a football enthusiast.
[★] You often go to 'coffee shops'.
[★] You know what is meant by 'coffee shops'.
[ ] You tend to overreact and show your emotions.
[★] You have a cheerful nature.
[ ] You like the sea.
[ ] You are good at building/handiwork/projects.
[ ] You tend to favour the megalomania.
Total : 4
A R A B
[ ] You are a patriot.
[ ] You say "3ngleezy" instead of "english"
[★] You laugh at other accents, especially Egyptian.
[ ] You beckon at things with you forehead or eyes.
[★] You like seafood, especially fish, more than any other type of food.
[★] You are tanned.
[★] You have a black hair.
[★] Your last name starts with " Al " or " bin "
[ ] you like showing off, especially with new cars and clothes.
[★] You dislike reading.
Total : 6
Result : I'm a [ A R A B ]
i will tag :
Reé! - © sнσ8~αʟ8σʟσв™ - { vanessa } - خولـه ~ - Abdulla Al-Marri
Grand Portail
explications sur le portail
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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.
The Olympic torch was carried through London on Sunday, April 6th. Despite heavy security, the relay was disrupted by numerous pro-Tibet protesters, resulting in 37 arrests by the police.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Olympic torch in London (Recommended as a slideshow)
On Nov. 5, 2008, a couple of hundred people gathered on the Champs-Elysées near the Arc de Triomphe to celebrate the victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential elections. Most of them were from the CRAN (Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires), a French federation of pro-black associations.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of "Obama for president !" (Recommended as a slideshow)
Cette façade mérite une observation attentive, tant l’organisation, la signification et la richesse des décors répond à une volonté évidente d’inspiration et d’explication. La symbolique du chiffre 3 est omniprésente: 3 portails, 3 niveaux, jusqu’aux triangles du haut du fronton.
l’ensemble dégage une grande harmonie. Les lignes verticales sont bien accentuées, mais les trois étages, classiques dans le style roman, ne forment pas de cloisonnement horizontal rigide.
Sa décoration sculpturale est extrêmement riche et figurative, occupant tous les espaces libres sans jamais donner l’impression de surcharge. Les deux thèmes, l’Église et l’humanité se rejoignent au fronton dans l’apothéose d’un jugement dernier empreint d’espoir.
Une trentaine de petits personnages de toutes origines sociales, représentant le peuple de Dieu, s’avance vers la Vierge Marie, représentée ici dans des vêtements du XII e siècle. De par sa situation, elle est ici en position de médiatrice vers le Christ, qui la domine entouré de deux anges.
This facade deserves careful observation, as the organization, the meaning and the richness of the decorations respond to an obvious desire for inspiration and explanation. The symbolism of the number 3 is omnipresent: 3 portals, 3 levels, up to the triangles of the top of the pediment.
the whole exudes a great harmony. The vertical lines are well accented, but the three floors, classic in the Romanesque style, do not form rigid horizontal partitioning.
Its sculptural decoration is extremely rich and figurative, occupying all the open spaces without ever giving the impression of overload. The two themes, the Church and humanity meet at the pediment in the apotheosis of a last judgment full of hope.
Thirty little characters of all social origins, representing the people of God, advance towards the Virgin Mary, represented here in clothes of the twelfth century. Because of her situation, she is here in the position of mediator to Christ, who dominates her surrounded by two angels.
Giant Causeway is an amazing place but I feel I didn' stay long enough to find an interesting composition. If you're interesting to find the origins of these hexaganol building blocks, pleas have a look to the first photo of the Giant causeway I uploaded as I wrote all the explanations.
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On voit souvent la chaussée des géants avec vue sur la mer, maisi il y a une falaise du côté opposé. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur la formation de ces briques hexagonales faites de basalte, je vous invite à lire les explications que j'ai posté avec la première photo de la série.
The Olympic torch was carried through Paris on April 7th. Despite heavy security, the relay was seriously disrupted by numerous pro-Tibet protesters and human rights activists such as RSF, resulting in a partial cancellation of the event.
Here, at the end of the day, soccer star Pauleta, one of the torch bearers, arrives in Charléty stadium... by bus. On his side, one of the omnipresent Chinese security staff. All the last relays were canceled. Somehow, it felt like the torch was in a cage...
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Paris torche les JO ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
Supporters of the PPP at a popular rally in Nasirabad, in the suburbs of Rawalpindi on Jan.4, 2008.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Pakistani Elections (Recommended as a slideshow)
On January 3, 2009, 20 to 25 thousand people demonstrated in Paris to condemn the killings of Palestinians in the Gaza strip by Israel since the beginning of the offensive on Dec. 27. Similar demonstrations took place in other French cities. Spirits were high, and the organizers had a tough time maintaining order.
Incidents broke out around 5pm in St Augustin, where the rally ended, when approx. 200 to 300 people started attacking the police with stones, bottles, etc. as well as vandalizing cars, storefronts, phone booths, bus stops, etc. all the way to the Opéra. 3 or 4 cars were burnt down, others flipped upside down, and dozens had their windows smashed.
While many protesters complained and tried to stop the violence, some also attacked the photographers (sometimes physically), accused of showing the "wrong" side of the event.
Here, "protesters" are destroying a car.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Stop the killing in Gaza ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
I find knitting patterns aren't very explicate. They will casually say "This pattern requires 4 balls of Knitting Maniac's Double Worsted (or insert brand name of your choice), when what they should say is, "this pattern requires 3 full balls Knitting Maniac's Double Worsted. You will then be required to open a fourth ball of which you will use approximately 3 yards of the yarn. After that is done we will then stop making this yarn in this particular dye lot, rendering it useless to you. You may add it to your collection of Odds and Ends. Hummmmm.....By looking at this collection of oddments I had better start knitting some more scarecrows.
On April 3, 15.000 people (according to the organizers), mostly teenagers, took to the streets again to protest against the planned reduction in the number of teachers. The demonstration was marked by constant incidents with the police from a smaller group of youths at the front, throwing bottles, cans and stones. At least a dozen were snatched by small teams of plain clothes policemen from time to time.
Here, a plain cloth policeman uses some gelatinous "tear gas" while another tries to hold on to a protester.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Ecole en danger ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
On April 1st, 11.000 people (4.500 according to the police), mostly teenagers, took to the streets again to protest against the planned reduction in the number of teachers. Some incidents and fights forced the organizers to stop the demonstration in Sèvres-Babylone.
Here, protesters tear down a Sarkozy poster.
Merci de lire les explications en début d'album / Please read the explanations at the beginning of the set
Part of Ecole en danger ! (Recommended as a slideshow)
300.000 œuvres d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques constituent la collection que le musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac a pour mission de conserver, de documenter et d'enrichir. (...)
Le plateau des collections permanentes présente 3.500 œuvres selon un parcours géographique sans cloisonnement. La proximité de ces œuvres permet un dialogue inédit entre les cultures des quatre continents.
source: www.quaibranly.fr/fr/missions-et-fonctionnement/le-musee-...
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Asie | Asia
Population Kalash, région du Hindou-Kouch, Afghanistan
fin 19e sciècle
Les sculptures d’ancêtres kalash sont érigées à l’occasion des secondes funérailles, un an après la disparition d’un grand homme. L’ancêtre porte une coiffe à cornes honorifique qui devait être complétée par un torque et une boucle de ceinture aujourd’hui manquants.
Source : note explicative à côté de l’œuvre
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Figures of Kalash ancestors are erected on the occasion of the second funeral, a year after the death of a great man. The ancestor wears an honorary horned headdress which must have been completed by a torque and a belt buckle which are now missing.
Source: explanatory note next to the work
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300,000 works from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas make up the collection that the Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum's mission is to conserve, document and enrich. (...)
The permanent collections display presents 3,500 works along a geographical route without compartmentalization. The proximity of these works allows for an unprecedented dialogue between the cultures of the four continents.