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Sainte-Chappel Chapel
Paris, France
In April my wife and I visited Paris, France for a few days. If you would like more details and photos about our experience, check out my post Rain Free in Paris to See St. Chappel on my blog Batteredsuitcase.net
If you look real closely, there's an iconic cliché here! Extra HCS ka-chings for the first person to spot it
:-) HCS!
Update: Note, there's no "painting" effect going on here. That wonderful texture in the tree trunks is natural.
#27 of 50: 50 days of 50mm
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- For Mac version, not sure how you can change the resources of the Windows version.
To replace the Evernote toolbar icons:
- Right-click (control-click) the Evernote.app in your application folder
- Choose “Show Package Contents”
- Click the “Contents” folder
- Replace those images inside the “Resources” folder
* remember to backup your Resources folder before you replace the images
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The iconic, American-designed, dual-bulb Vemco Vemcolite VL-4 was introduced in 1985. I got mine about 1987 at the same time I moved up to a track-drafter drafting machine. The VL-4 had a specific bracket so it could attach to the top of the vertical beam, the one that moves left and right and had the floating head with the scales. It was great the way the light moved with focus of my work.
I’ve been a graphic designer for a zillion years. Initially my primary tools were an x-acto knife, metal-edged triangles with a t-square on a drafting table with a metal edge and a Borco self-healing surface. Then eventually I graduated to a parallel rule and triangles. By the mid-‘80s I was doing a ton of print ads, including lots of fullpage newspaper ads, so I needed to improve my production capability for doing big stuff. The holy grail at the time was a track-drafter. I got one and loved it! And got the cool dual-bulb Vemco VL-4.
I needed a table with a lot of useable real estate. I took a big, solid-core, natural birch-skinned door, trimmed the ends with caps of cocobolo, and for the long front edge I routered out a beefy pencil trough of laminated hardwoods cristobal and purple heart. I built a standing-height base. I was ready for some serious paste-up chores!
Less than a year later I got my first Macintosh, a Mac Plus. And within a couple years, computers changed everything with graphic design tools.
Eventually my track-drafter went into storage, and then at some point I sold it at a garage sale. But the vintage Vemco VL-4 and custom-trimmed big-door table are still with me in my studio and are used every day for all kinds of art projects.
The iconic Victorian pillar box in Tunbridge Wells's The Pantiles has its opening sealed. I have no idea why - it's clearly an active box given the collection times notice.
A few months back, in celebration of getting 100 followers and for my new user icon, I opened up requests for more MNOLG-style icons, and here is the result so far. I think I received over 30 requests, and I'm still catching up, but consider this a promise to finish them up pretty soon.
I would ask that you not use them without permission of the owners. If you would like one for yourself, I may open up some commissions pretty soon. These take way too long to do them all for free (but they'll be cheap). :D
Going clockwise from top right, there is:
1. EMMSixteenA4
2. *GoldenBoy*
3. IbenTesara
4. Jaetaro
5. GoldenArpeggio
6. Toa Taruho
7. Toxic Geek
8. thormagniss
9. Dead Frog Inc.
10. Commander Spencer
If any of you have a Deviantart profile, let me know, and I'll add the link on my post on Deviantart.
Red - Check
Curves - Check
Great British Icon - Check
The curve of a red telephone box and the curve of Routemaster RM1955, seen at Brooklands Museum.
Female Icon Dasha And Out Of Sigh Nadja
(In an attempt to not become a Dasha Exclusive Account I’m trying to space out posting my millions of Dasha photos! Poor Nadja is SO loose in some joints that she needs help to hold a pose, but it ended up giving me some great results!)
Metra F40 no. 122 shoves its train into Chicago Union Station with the Willis (pronounced "Sears") Tower in the background dominating the skyline.
I love that logo.
Ultrafine Xtreme 400@800 developed in the same tank as the Arista Premium - Diafine 3+3. The negs came out very thin and the images grainy. This is fixed with levels tweaked in PS.
Olympus 10 + Zuiko 28 mm f 3.5 ... I love this 28 mm, so encompassing !!
An extract from Praying with Icons
The Vladimir Mother of God
One of the most frequently painted of all icons reminds us of the love that binds Mary and Jesus to each other, and also of the connection between Mary and ourselves, for we too are her children. There are numerous variations, but all of them show Christ in his mother's arms with their faces pressed together. One of her hands holds him, the other draws our attention to him, a motion reinforced by the gentle tilt of her head. There is a subdued sense of apprehension in Mary's face, as if she can already see her son bearing the cross, while Christ seems to be silently reassuring his mother of the resurrection.
This is one of the icons attributed to the Gospel author Luke. While we know of no surviving icon painted by his hand with certainty, according to tradition the original of this icon was his.
The most famous version of the icon, the Vladimir Mother of God, was given by the Church in Constantinople to the Russian Church in 1131. Every movement and use of the Vladimir icon has been chronicled ever since. It was in Kiev until that city was destroyed by the Golden Horde. From there, in 1155, it went to the city of Vladimir in the north. In 1395 the icon moved once again, this time to Moscow, a river town that had grown to be the chief city of Russia.
At present the icon is in a church adjacent to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, where it was housed through the Soviet period. On one occasion, during an attempted coup in 1993, it was taken out of the museum by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexei, and used to bless the city -- the kind of action long associated with this icon. Even when it was housed in the museum, it was not unusual to see people in fervent prayer as they stand before this battered image. (There are many good printed reproductions of the Vladimir icon, but nothing I have seen does justice to the original. Partly this is because the surface of the icon, having suffered much damage, reveals level upon level of the overpainting of those who restored the icon over the centuries. We see portions of earlier painting in one area, later retouching in others. The rough terrain of the icon's surface is lost in prints.)
In some versions of the icon -- the Vladimir prototype is one -- Mary appears to be looking toward the person praying before the icon, in others her gaze is slightly off to the side, but in either case her eyes have an inward, contemplative quality. "The Virgin's eyes," Henri Nouwen comments, "are not curious, investigating or even understanding, but eyes which reveal to us our true selves." [Henri Nouwen, Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying with Icons (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1987), p 36.]
Invariably, Christ's attention is directed to his mother. Always there is the detail of Christ's bare feet, a vivid symbol of his physical reality: he walked among us, leaving his footprints on the earth.
In some versions of the icon there is an additional detail of love, the arm of Christ around his mother's neck. This too is in the Vladimir prototype.
In contrast to Renaissance religious paintings with a similar subject, we notice in the icon that while Christ is an infant in size, his body's proportions are those of a man; a baby's head would be much larger. This is intentional. The noble face we see pressed against Mary's cheek is the Lord of Creation and the Glory of God. He wears adult clothing, a tunic and coat woven from gold, the color iconography uses for the imperishable and all that is associated with the Kingdom of God. In these details the icon reveals the real identity of the son of Mary.
Over her dress, Mary wears a dark shawl which circles her head, has a golden border, and is ornamented with three stars (one is hidden by Christ's body) symbolizing her virginity before and after her son's birth. At the same time they suggest that heaven has found a place in her.
The icon's triangular composition not only emphasizes the stillness of the two figures and gives the icon an immovable solidity but is a reminder of the presence of the Holy Trinity in all things.
The center of the composition is at the level of Mary's heart. A much used Orthodox prayer declares, "Beneath your tenderness of heart do we take refuge, O Mother of God." As anyone discovers in coming to know the Mother of God, her heart is as spacious as heaven.
In any version of the icon of the Mother of God of Tenderness, the Vladimir icon being only the most famous example, we see Mary's perfect devotion, a devotion so absolute that God finds in her the person who can both give birth to himself and who will ever after serve as the primary model of Christ-centered wholeness -- the woman whom all generations will regard as blessed. In her assent to the angelic invitation, Mary said not only on behalf of herself and all her righteous ancestors but for all generations, "Yes, Lord, come!" Through her all humanity gives birth to Jesus Christ, and through Christ she becomes our mother.
Because the icon portrays the profound oneness uniting Mary and Jesus, it is a eucharistic icon: in receiving the Body of Christ, we too hold Christ, and are held by Christ.
In the Gospel, we hear Mary praised for having given birth to Jesus and having nursed him. Christ responds by remarking on what is still more important about his mother and all who follow him wholeheartedly: "Rather blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it." [Luke 11:28] She who gave birth to the Word of God also keeps it eternally.
It was at Mary's appeal that Christ performed his first miracle, changing water into wine at the marriage feast at Cana, and at Cana that we hear her simple appeal to each person who would follow her son: "Do whatever he tells you." [John 2:5] These few words would serve well as another name for this icon.
Praying with Icons web page: jimandnancyforest.com/2005/01/praying-with-icons/
The Ivan Vazov National Theatre is Bulgaria's national theatre, as well as the oldest and most authoritative theatre in the country and one of the important landmarks of Sofia. It is located in the centre of the city, with the facade facing the City Garden.
The theatre's Neoclassical building, designed by famous Viennese theatre architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner, was finished in 1906