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I don't do a lot of macro work, but I had a little time on my hands today....
Sigma 150mm F/2.8 Macro + 1.4x TC.
MORE MACRO PICS HERE.
Home Made Vanilla Extract. Making Vanilla extract needs just 2 ingredients and is super easy to make. Here is a fool proof recipe. www.whiskaffair.com/2015/11/home-made-vanilla-extract-rec...
To take my mind off the fact that I had to go and have a wisdom tooth extracted this afternoon (I broke it eating a Riesen chocolate chew), the Boy humoured me and we went to Toys R Us to check out the state of the shelves.
He actually pointed out this set to me, which according to the tag claims to be the 'ultimate tiny toddler collection'. However, of the 11 canonical Disney Princesses, all of the ethnic minority characters - Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan and Tiana - are missing. Whut?
To start with, we wondered if it was just old stock, but no - there's Rapunzel and Merida. Looking at the dolls themselves, it's clear that there's little (if any) variation in the facial sculpts, which might lend itself more easily to white characters (although obviously they all look vastly different anyway). But would it be so hard to attempt some other characters? I mean, there's even an empty balcony space for goodness' sake!
We live in the UK, and Europe has sometimes missed out when it comes to issues of non-white dolls, but this is ridiculous. I'm not white; back in the '80s, my parents had to try pretty damned hard to find me a Chinese-looking doll (I had a Cabbage Patch Kid, who was awfully cute). But that was the '80s. This might seem ironic coming from someone whose dollying pretty much exclusively consists of Disney characters, but I don't actually like the Disney Princess official franchise - I don't like the redesigns, and I feel that they actually pervert many of the positive strengths of character and versatility that the real film characters have to offer. For example - I get that Mulan looks pretty in her dress, but she sings *a whole bloody song* about how that isn't really her. Rapunzel's hair is a shackle - both literally and metaphorically. Her short brown hair is a symbol of her freedom, and her difference. Why is that always pushed to one side?
Anyway, basically, this is all a long-winded grumble about what is at best thoughtlessness and at worst racial princess profiling. Let me just say that I'm looking forward to getting my hands on Go Go Tomago. ;)
(P.S. Sorry about the long rant again, guys. Blame it on the dental extraction.)
Flame Resonance Extractor.
See.. even two plebs like me and the rodinator (Rodney Campbell) get that ya gotta channel that flame sh$t out somewhere... even NASA on their Saturn rockets worked it out, yet SpaceX Heavy just goes, meh, lets just put a bit of concrete with some tin wire in it to erode away as 16 millons pounds of thrust push that tin can into space
If they are that happy when it fails and self destructs then I can only imagine the party thats gonna happen when they get the thing into orbit
For those who do not follow whats happening in the space world all that will make no sense 😉
here's a cool space dad joke anyways
Why did the astronaut break up with his girlfriend?
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He just needed space.
This shot took awhile, single shot, no blends, no AI - although I am interested to know what happens when I put a query into a popular photo-AI program that goes alittle like "2 nut jobs under a bridge simulating flame extraction with steel wool, EL wire and a bit-whip"
Single shot 671 seconds, thats like 11 minutes @ f8 14mm.
Now a Texaco site owned by MFG after their purchase of Murco's UK retail business, Black Prince Service Station had been Murco-branded for almost 50 years goo.gl/maps/Ap7mbYL7UGum6NZR9
Murco initially entered the UK market in 1962 with the GO1 to GO7 blender system shown here (although the garage in the photo seems actually to be using an earlier model of Wayne pump than that in the close-up photo), importing petrol from a Veedol / Tidewater refinery in Denmark. (Murco would later of course buy a share in Amoco's Milford Haven Refinery). Their initial outlets, all company-owned, were in the south and south-east (I think the first was in Bournemouth) but as noted in this article, by 1965 they were looking for dealers as they expanded the chain into other areas of the country. But it was Murco's takeovers of the scandal-hit Olympic Petroleum (in 1964) and the discounter EP (in 1967) which enabled the real expansion of the brand.
Another Murco company-owned site in Coventry, opened in January 1965, on Brandon Road in Binley, was robbed by "two men armed with a knife and a cosh" in July 1965, around the time this article was published. The robbers locked the two attendants in a back room and escaped with £191.
For me, the somewhat American-style V-shaped sign pole is an especially interesting touch, marking Murco out as something new and dynamic in the era of quite staid marketing from companies such as Shell or BP. Although the Murco 'star' is actually a riding spur, it had a space-age look, and the corporate identity was produced (alongside the Spur version used in the US) by Lippincott & Margulies, the New York design agency famous for the Campbell's Soup can.
My first instinct looking at the image dispassionately was that the subject was trying to extract himself from a Strait Jacket! The caption suggests that he is in fact trying to extract his hands from a sling about his neck which is not too far away. Sir Anton Dolin was a dancer and choreographer one hundred years ago, so it should be interesting to read what we can find out about him?
Photographers: Either Serba or S. Georges, London
Date: Circa 1924
NLI Ref: NPA DOL
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Well after all this time, i finally bottled my vanilla. It tastes really great. Never again will i buy vanilla from the shops :)
Creator: The British American Brewing Co., Windsor, Ont.
Title: Malt Extract
Date: [c.1898-1929]
Extent: 1 label: printed ; (7.5x10cm)
Notes: From a collection of beer labels, stationery and Canadian breweriana donated by Lawrence C. Sherk.
Format: Label
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, library.utoronto.ca/fisher