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NET by Numen / For Use at Z33 from 03.07 - 02.10.2011
Austrian / Croatian design collective Numen / For Use develops a new site-specific installation for Z33's high spaces.
The project consists of flexible nets suspended in air to form a floating "landscape" open for visitors to climb in and explore. The installation resembles biomorphic architecture and urban utopias of former decades.
www.z33.be/en/projects/numen-use-net
photo: Kristof Vrancken / Z33
Three geeps throttle up to track speed after slowly making its way through downtown.
Indianapolis, IN.
12-23-15
After Cecil the Lion killing a big game hunter explains why he shoots wild animals...
Peter Flack has shot dozens of wild animals including lions for sport and here explains why he does it and how...
Walter Palmer, a US dentist shot Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe sparking condemnation from wildlife lovers but he is not alone in his love of blood sport.
Peter Flack is a South African lawyer, businessman and hunter.
He is a retired game rancher and has killed many wild animals including lions.
Here he explains what it is like to hunt and kill a lion.
There are broadly four ways to hunt lion – tracking, following the sound of a roaring lion, hanging out bait and waiting and bump into lions accidentally when hunting something else.
In all likelihood a lion will already have become aware of your presence and be on the alert.
It may only wait for a few seconds to confirm its suspicions before departing and, if it actually sees you and recognizes you for what you are, it may not stop again for a very long time.
On the other hand, if you have pushed the lion on a number of occasions, particularly in areas where it is very hot underfoot such as the semi-arid or semi-desert regions of Africa, the lion may eventually become irritated and decided that offence is the best form of defence, turn the tables and decide to hunt you.
Although a lion will, more often than not, grunt at the start of a charge, this is not invariably the case and, although being big animals they will usually make a noise when they come, again, this is not always the case.
A lion can move from lying down to 100 metres in under five seconds so, should something like this happen, you need to be alert, focused and have prepared mentally and physically for such an event because it will be too late to try and work out what to do if and when such a situation eventuates.
Should you unexpectedly come face to face with a lion, you must not open your eyes wide and stare intently at it as cats will take this as a threat display and, particularly if you have given it a fright or there are young ones around, this may well trigger a real or a mock charge.
If you want to avoid a confrontation, you need to be sufficiently in control of yourself to half close your eyes, tilt your head to the ground and blink frequently while backing slowly away yet nevertheless keeping a careful watch on things.
Before you shoot one you must be absolutely sure you are ready to make a clean, one shot killed. There should be a cartridge in the chamber of your firearm and the safety catch off.
In all likelihood, adrenalin will have suffused your body, your heart will be beating faster and you will be breathing quicker and shallower. Muscles will be tense and, were you to open your hands, your fingers will have developed a slight tremor. It is vital that, in these moments to breath deeply and relax your shoulders.
The tracker will usually spot the lion first and point it out to the guide if he has not already seen it. Your attention should be focused on moving into a comfortable, steady position from which you can make a clean, one shot kill and you need to remind yourself, yet again, that nothing bad happens until you pull the trigger.
Even if it is the last hour of the last hunting day, it is far better to decline the shot and lose the opportunity than make one when you are uncomfortable, unsteady and uncertain.
When I see I lion I think power, awesome, coordinated power, followed by respect and an ancient remembered fear.
However my mind is totally focused on the picture in the tube of my telescopic sight and it is calculating the precise spot on the animal which I must hit in order to drive the bullet through its heart or spine.
You also need to remind yourself to re-chamber a round immediately after you have fired and to keep on shooting at the lion for so long as you can see it and it is still moving.
When I have shot a lion a whole complex array of emotions washes over and through me such as I have never experienced in any other situation.
When hunting dangerous game liked lions, relief that no one has been injured or worse is usually at the forefront of my mind, followed quickly by awe at and admiration for the marvellous animal; happiness that I have been successful and a quiet sense of achievement that we have beaten the animal by fair chase means on its own terms and on its own home ground; sadness that a magnificent animal like this has died but tempered by the fact that it was killed instantly or almost instantly with one shot.
During these moments I like to be left on my own with the animal, to be able to examine it closely and carefully in my own time and allow the emotions of the moment to play out in me without any need to put on a face for the hunting team who may or may not share them.
It is more than 15 years ago since I shot my last lion in Tanzania but, as I remember things, the hunting team were overjoyed and made a big fuss of me.
It had been a long and difficult hunt. The lion outwitted us a number of times and, over the two weeks, there were many times when we were ready to give up. But we were eventually successful and it was a very big, old lion whose skull subsequently measured well in Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game. When we got back to camp the staff all rushed out to greet us, picked me up and danced around the camp with me and, at night held a big party.
I must admit that I also had a scotch or two. that evening and, the next day, local villagers came from all around to see the lion and there was some competition to buy the fat and meat.
Why do I want to shoot a lion? I suppose you could just as easily have asked why do you want to shoot any animal?
I can give you a whole lot of rational and cogent reasons why hunting is critical for the conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitats in Africa but I suspect some people already know them and, besides, they do not explain to me why I hunt the animals I love so much and for whom I have devoted almost all my discretionary time, effort and money to conserve and preserve.
The best I can do is suggest that for most of the 200,000 years that mankind, as we know it today, has been on this earth, men and women have hunted to provide for and protect their families. Agriculture only began a mere 10,000 years ago and refrigeration has only been prevalent for less than 300 years.
As such I think that some men and woman are more genetically predisposed to follow in the footsteps of their forebears than others and, like my other major passion, writing, all I can say is that it satisfies something deep within me that is beyond my ability to explain.
Having said that, hunting has coloured my entire life. It gets me out of bed every morning to exercise so that I may remain fit enough to hunt. It dictates the books I read, the art I admire, the places I visit, the people I befriend and the subject matter I write about and film.
For most people, the Big Five – rhinoceros, elephant, buffalo, leopard and lion – are the top of the hunting totem pole and, before I discovered the top African trophies like bongo, mountain nyala, giant eland, forest sitatunga and Abyssinian greater kudu, I thought it was completely natural to want to test myself as a hunter against the most challenging and dangerous of African game animals in their natural habitats.
Today, if you can afford it, because a lion hunt is the most expensive hunt in Africa, some of them costing in excess of the £100,000 with no guarantee of success, I think it is almost your duty to hunt lions and try and ensure that as much of this money as possible reverts to the communities who live cheek by jowl with these magnificent animals and who, but for this money, have no incentive not to kill them by all means at their disposal, including poison, leg traps, snares and fixed guns over bait.
In fact, it is my firm belief, based on all the studies I have read, all the empirically established evidence I have mustered and everything I have seen while hunting in 17 sub Saharan African countries that, if you want to ensure the extinction of all lions in Africa, the surest way would be to ban lion hunting.
This was extracted from Peter's blog with his permission. To find out more about his life visit his website
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The US Army is trying to expand its existing Pinon Canyon training grounds to the size of Connecticut, confiscating scores of southeastern Colorado ranches and evicting hundreds of families from the land they've worked for a hundred years. (Sign lit by my headlights.)
For the full story and more photos, please see The Antique Police: A Filipino Aparador Catalogue, Part Two.
Suspended ironically by the same monofilament used for hooking fish in the wild, these (larger than?) life-sized models are arranged to give visitors a close-up view of their features and habitat.
Here and there in the museum are bright orange wall notices to remind visitors to keep themselves 6 feet apart, as illustrated by the length of an average sized adult freshwater sturgeon seen in Michigan waters. This video clip concludes on that note.
Press L for 'lightbox' to view the clip on a black background.
Broadford is just a short distance from Melbourne in Victoria, Australia and is the location for the annual Bike Bonanza run each Easter by Motorcycling Australia at the State Motorcycle Complex. Here over one thousand motorcycles are in action at the road racing circuit, moto-cross and enduro tracks, trials area, and speedway.
The feature marque this year was Moto Guzzi including the appearance of six factory racers from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. No apologies for a lot of photos of these bikes as I will probably never see or hear them again. Thanks to the Italian owners for bringing them South. The collection of Guzzis in the car park was also in the hundreds.
This is a large folder with 345 photos and probably only shows a quarter of the bikes present.
A great weekend with friendly atmosphere and the chance to see and hear some great machines.
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Enjoy the photos. I can provide higher resolution if needed. No cost but if you use them I would like credit given.
For more information for next years event keep an eye on www.ma.org.au/
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Greenhouse gases and climate change creates one of the important factors threatening Erzurumda, Turkey. Here, the cold climate often damages crops. Greenhouse agriculture is a cheap, but not yet common solution that may be preferred in the future in order to protect the crops. (Photo Credit: Ihsan Ilze)
For my iTunes. Her acoustic versions of her songs are amazingly powerful.
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2. Just Dance
3. Poker Face
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The Frist center for the Visual Arts for the Weaving Splendor exhibition.
Downtown Nashville Tennessee.
Weaving Splendor: Treasures of Asian Textiles.
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Sorry for the mass upload, I just wanted to get these out of the way so I can finish uploading stuff from the archives. Almost through 2009 after this!
From the set of Boycatt!
More can be found HERE! (I didn't want to break up my recent stream too much with these)
© Laura Crowell 2009. Do not use my images in any way, shape, or form without my written permission.
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NEO System is always glad to hear that their clients are pleased with work. This time the great job was done for the AZCAN, who offers a vast array of industry-leading civilian armored vehicles with models ranging in level of security.
We did our best to make their stand distinguished, charming and memorable. Due to the unusual form, it is called NEO Di Mare, bright colors and sparkling glass the booth attracted lots of visitors and among them was the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev. Besides, the stand was ranked as one of the most beautiful stands at the exhibition.
We are really happy that our work was highly estimated.
System NEO. Impress. Differ. Fascinate.
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Polymer Clay, no varnish, no glaze, just handsanded and hand polished.
Plans for Lincoln Square Shopping Center, located at 4100 Redwood Rd. just off Hwy 13 in the Oakland Hills, were first announced in January 1961. This parcel has an unsettled history. The hill above it had succumbed to a landslide during the extremely wet winter of 1958. This shopping center was built on difficult terrain, against a hillside. In order for it to be feasible, the designers built both the shopping center structures, as well as the parking lot, in tiers. This means that the shopping center's buildings are two-level, with the bottom floor tenants that open out to the parking lot level, and the upper floor tenants with entrances onto the courtyard, which is on higher ground. And the parking lot has two rows of spaces on each tier, with access provided by sloping ramps to the left and right sides.
The landscaping made a conscious effort to preserve the existing Oak and Eucalyptus trees, which also set the tone for the rustic buildings featuring wood planks and redwood siding.
The shopping center opened for business in November, 1963, anchored by a 17,000-square-foot Safeway. The Safeway underwent an unfortunate renovation in 1998, during which time the upper windows were obscured by a tacky stucco facade. The rest of the shopping center went on virtually unchanged until it was renovated around 2018. Sadly, the rustic facades of the plaza buildings were replaced with industrial-modern ones which are very inharmonious to their natural surroundings. Only the wavy roofline was unaltered. During this time, an original tenant, the Pot Pourri shop, closed due to rent hikes. This store was originally called Lincoln Square Gallery. Something good did come out of something bad, however. The hideous false facade of the Safeway was removed, and the gabled roof is once again visible.
Globe chandelier inside of Pot-Pourri.
1970s photo of Lincoln Square: www.branaghinc.com/lincoln-square
The informative article referencing the 1958 landslide: oaklandgeology.com/2019/06/10/the-lincoln-square-landslid...