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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. - Karl Von Clausewitz
Alter Ego: Flamiac
Name: Cleveland Patterson
Allegiance: Villain
Powers: None
Weapons:
* Custom Flame Thrower
* Flame proof armour
* Bullet resistant suit
Key Weakness: Hand to hand combat which he is not skilled in.
Origin:
Cleveland was always fascinated with fire especially ways of weaponising something so dangerous. His obsession lead him to criminal activities and engineering his own unique flame thrower called 'Fire Breather' to help him along the way. Instead of being a common street thug he pulled off high stake heists using his intellect and Fire Breather to pay for his flame resistant armour and clothing. He now is an assassin for hire and is commonly used by many mobsters as a distraction for Meta Heroes in the area going by the name 'Flamiac'.
The colour Yellow is the colour of Sunshine, Hope, and Happiness !! It stands for Freshness, Positivity, Clarity, Energy, Optimism, Enlightenment, Remembrance, Intellect, Spirituality, Honor, Loyalty, and Joy !!! ……What else do you want???
I personally prefer the Golden Yellow , because it makes my heart sing, like the colour White does !! Therefore, I have plenty of both representatives in the garden, which make EXCELLENT associations with all the rest strong bloom colours in the garden, like the reds , Indian pinks, and blues!! Well, I would say a very ….Mediterranean-style-coloured garden…
***** Amber Queen Rose is the MOSTly(!!!) Golden Rose bloom in our Garden!! Sweetly scented! She is a sturdy , healthy plant, with upward strong branches, dark green beautiful leaves!! Just Adorable!!!
“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. - James Joyce”
Macro Monday project – 04/21/14
"Curves"
Several versions of the myth have survived from ancient sources. The classic version is by Ovid, found in book 3 of his Metamorphoses (completed 8 AD); this is the story of Narcissus and Echo. One day Narcissus was walking in the woods when Echo, an Oread (mountain nymph) saw him, fell deeply in love, and followed him. Narcissus sensed he was being followed and shouted "Who's there?". Echo repeated "Who's there?". She eventually revealed her identity and attempted to embrace him. He stepped away and told her to leave him alone. She was heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in lonely glens until nothing but an echo sound remained of her. Nemesis, the goddess of revenge, learned of this story and decided to punish Narcissus. She lured him to a pool where he saw his own reflection. He didn't realize it was only an image and fell in love with it. He eventually recognized that his love could not be reciprocated and committed suicide.
An earlier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.Like Ovid's version, it ends with Narcissus committing suicide. A version by Conon, a contemporary of Ovid, also ends in suicide (Narrations, 24). In it, a young man named Aminias fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Narcissus also spurned him and gave him a sword. Aminias committed suicide at Narcissus's doorstep. He had prayed to the gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he provoked. Narcissus walked by a pool of water and decided to drink some. He saw his reflection, became entranced by it, and killed himself because he could not have his object of desire.[3] A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself (Guide to Greece, 9.31.7).
Influence on culture
Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses. This was followed in more recent centuries by other poets (e.g. Keats and Alfred Edward Housman) and painters (Caravaggio, Poussin, Turner, Dalí (see Metamorphosis of Narcissus), and Waterhouse).
Narcissus in literature : Narcissus by Gyula Benczúr In Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir (1830), there is a classic narcissist in the character of Mathilde. Says Prince Korasoff to Julien Sorel, the protagonist, with respect to his beloved girl:She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you.During the two or three little outbursts of passion she has allowed herself in your favor, she has, by a great effort of imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are.(Page 401, 1953 Penguin Edition, trans. Margaret R.B. Shaw).The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Le Traité du Narcisse ('The Treatise of the Narcissus', 1891), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found (we are told) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan. The alchemist's (and Coelho's) source was very probably Hesketh Pearson's The Life of Oscar Wilde (1946) in which this story is recorded (Penguin edition, p. 217) as one of Wilde's inspired inventions. This version of the Narcissus story is based on Wilde's "The Disciple" from his "Poems in Prose (Wilde) ".Author and poet Rainer Maria Rilke visits the character and symbolism of Narcissus in several of his poems.Seamus Heaney references Narcissus in his poem "Personal Helicon" from his first collection "Death of a Naturalist":
"To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity."In Rick Riordan's Heroes of Olympus series, Narcissus appears as a minor antagonist in the third book The Mark of Athena.In the fantasy series Harry Potter, Narcissa Malfoy, a minor antagonist, is named for Narcissus.William Faulkner's character "Narcissa" in Sanctuary, sister of Horace Benbow, was also named after Narcissus. Throughout the novel, she allows the arrogant, pompous pressures of high-class society to overrule the unconditional love that she should have for her brother.Hermann Hesse's character "Narcissus" in "Narcissus and Goldmund" shares several of mythical Narcissus' traits, although his narcissism is based on his intellect rather than his physical beauty.A. E. Housman refers to the 'Greek Lad', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth. At the end of the poem stands a jonquil, a variety of daffodil, Narcissus Jonquilla, which like Narcissus looks sadly down into the water.Herman Melville references the myth of Narcissus in his novel Moby-Dick, in which Ishmael explains the myth as "the key to it all," referring to the greater theme of finding the essence of Truth through the physical world.On Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's A Fada Oriana, the eponymous protagonist is punished with mortality for abandoning her duties in order to stare at herself in the surface of a river.
Narcissus on film
In the TV series Boardwalk Empire, a Dr. Narcisse (Valentin Narcisse) is introduced as a condescending intellectual.
Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren finished his career with a short film named Narcissus, re-telling the Greek legend through ballet.Narcissus appears in the Disney adaptation of Hercules. In the film, he is portrayed as an Olympian god with purple skin.In the film Bab'Aziz, directed by Nacer Khemir, a Narcissus like character was portrayed by an ancient prince who sat by a pond for days after days and looked at the reflection of his own soul. He was referred to as 'The prince who contemplated his soul'.Pink Narcissus is an artistic film by James Bidgood about the fantasies of a hustler.The escape craft Ripley boards in the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien is called the Narcissus.In the 2011 film Seeing Heaven, Narcissus is depicted in a painting - the character of the film also replicates the myth of Narcissus gazing at his own reflection. The film delves deeply into the main character (Paul) and the theme is loosely based on the myth of Narcissus, as all who look at Paul are transfixed by his beauty - just as all those who gazed upon Narcissus were transifixed with his beauty.
In music
National Medal Of Arts recipient Morten Lauridsen wrote a choral work entitled "Dirait-on" based on the poem by Rainer Maria Rilke."Supper's Ready" by Genesis (ca. 1972), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool / (He is you) / Social Security took care of this lad. / We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower. / A flower?. The movement is titled "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?".American rock band Tool made a subtle reference in their song "Reflection" from their third studio album Lateralus. Not only is the whole song a metaphor of the myth, but it also makes an explicit reference: And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt/ Don't want to be down here feeding my narcissism/ I must crucify the ego before it's far too late/ I pray the light lifts me out. The song combines elements of self-analysis and finding the right path, versus self-infatuation and absorption.Progressive metal band Threshold referenced the myth with an 11-minute epic titled "Narcissus", the closing track on their album Hypothetical. Greek metal band Septic Flesh recorded a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissus") on their album Communion."Narcissus in a Red Dress" by The Like was released on The Like EP and their album Release Me. The Canadian band Hedley has written a song about Narcissus (called "Narcissist"). One line goes He falls in love with his reflection in the glass / He can't resist who's staring back.Composer Nikolai Tcherepnin wrote his ballet "Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40 in 1911 for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and was danced by Nijinski. Uruguayan band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song "Me Amo" (I Love Myself) in which the chorus sings "como Narciso soy" (I am like Narcissus). In 2010, Swedish electronic artist pacific! released "Narcissus" an album and ballet staged in Gothenburg.[7] In 1994, composer Mark Applebaum composed Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for marimba solo. This work comprised one movement of the larger Janus Cycle, for mixed instrumentation.[8] In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work. She composed Narcissus for flute and digital delay.
In 1898 Havelock Ellis, an English sexologist, used the term "narcissus-like" in reference to excessive masturbation, whereby the person becomes his or her own sex object.In 1899, Paul Näche was the first person to use the term "narcissism" in a study of sexual perversions.
Otto Rank, in 1911, published the first psychoanalytical paper specifically concerned with narcissism, linking it to vanity and self-admiration.Sigmund Freud only published one paper exclusively devoted to narcissism in 1914, called "On Narcissism: An Introduction".One of the personality disorders is called narcissistic personality disorder.In Marilyn Manson's song Deep Six, One of the lines mentions his name, along with the Greek god Zeus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)
Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself.The myth of Narcissus is one of the most known Greek Myths, due to its uniqueness and moral tale; Narcissus, was the son of River God Cephisus and nymph Lyriope. He was known for his beauty and he was loved by God Apollo due to his extraordinary physique.The myth of Narcissus comes in two different versions, the Greek and the Greco-Roman version, as both Conon the Greek and Ovid, the Roman poet, wrote the story of Narcissus, enhancing it with different elements.According to Conon, Aminias, a young man fell in love with Narcissus, who had already spurned his male suitors. Aminias was also spurned by Narcissus who gave the unfortunate young man a sword. Aminias killed himself at Narcissus’ doorstep praying to the Gods to give Narcissus a lesson for all the pain he had provoked.Narcissus was once walking by a lake or river and decided to drink some water; he saw his reflection in the water and was surprised by the beauty he saw; he became entranced by the reflection of himself. He could not obtain the object of his desire though, and he died at the banks of the river or lake from his sorrow.The myth presented by Ovid the poet is slightly altered. According to this myth, Narcissus’ parents were worried because of the extraordinary beauty of the child and asked prophet Teiresias what to do, regarding their son’s futureTeiresias told them that the boy would grow old only if “he didn’t get to know himself”. When Narcissus was sixteen he was walking in the woods and Nymph Echo saw him and felt madly in love with him. She started following him and Narcissus asked “who’s there”, feeling someone after him.Echo responded “who’s there” and that went on for some time until Echo decided to show herself. She tried to embrace the boy who stepped away from Echo, telling her to leave him alone. Echo was left heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in glens; until nothing but an echo sound remained of her.Nemesis, though, the Goddess of Revenge, heard the story and decided to punish Narcissus. From this point the stories are similar; Narcissus sees himself in the pond and he is amazed by the beauty of the reflection. Once he figured out that his love could not be addressed, he killed himself.
Woods are protected by flood.
The Krudhyn Tarot - Two Of Swords (2014, 2016)
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In the figure the Sword attributed to King Afonso I, also called Dom Afonso Henriques " The Conqueror", the first king of Portugal (1139–1185).
Swords represent thoughts, ideas and intellect.
The Two of Swords therefore serves as a reminder that life’s decisions are frequently quite difficult and can reflect indecision and being at an impasse with regards to an important matter. In any case you need to make a decision and face the problem !
In the middle is virtue and hence the balance between the swords.
The Two of Swords can also represent that you have the ultimate fate in your hands and so is the owner of your future but of course if nothing is decided can lead to a long impasse in your life.
These cards do not stand alone. They each have individual meanings that combine and contrast with the other cards in the reading. This way, no two readings are alike.
* The reversed Two of Swords says that this is a time to be cautious and prudent whether a new relationship, is better be patient. Conflicts can arise more often and little annoyances that in the end could be avoided with diplomacy and patience.
Even though you may be sure that your ideas are the best ones is time to hear the plans and ideas of others too and avoid conflicts specially in work or with your friends, is a time that you will need them more even for help in your decisions.
HEAD N.N is an artwork which appeals to the intellect. The artist behind the work is Marianne Heske.
You can find it in Torshovdalen, Oslo Norway. Torshovdalen is located in the district of Sagene in the municipality of Oslo. The valley stretches from Trondheimsveien to the east, Sinsenkrysset to the north, and Torshov to the west.
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JR - Paris & New York, France & USA
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Photography Installation, Interactive Installation
JR is interested in participatory art where there is no stage separating the actors from the spectators, where people don't just see art; by contributing their stories and portraits, they make it.
In 2011, after receiving his TED Prize, JR called for the creation of a global art movement. His Inside Out art project allows participants to be photographed and have their portrait pasted in support of a shared idea, project or action.
A socially engaged practice based in relational aesthetics, the act of participation gives meaning to the ephemeral work. As the project is completed and infused with energy, emotion and intellect, it evolves into a larger work, resulting in a collective memory.
"You can't try telling me it's healthy to live in a cave - only coming out at night, dressed like a bat, to beat people up ..."
('Batgirl' and 'Batman' by DC Direct / 'Batgirl' based on art by Carmine Infantino)
Publication History
Cyborg is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, and first appeared in an insert preview in DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980).
Since his inception in the New Teen Titans relaunch in 1980,the character has been one of the most recurring roster members of the Teen Titans and in the 2010s, he was once reimagined as a founding member of the DC's flagship Justice League superhero lineup in lieu of his live actions adaptations, with these changes later removed from continuity.
The character's alter-ego is Victor Stone, a genius whose athletic interests contrasts with his scientific parents. After suffering from a tragic accident that nearly kills him, he is rescued by his estranged father, who desperately used all of his knowledge to give cybernetic limbs in place of his lost ones and converted into a cyborg to save his life. While granted powers over technology and a superior body, Victor felt he lost much of his humanity and aspirations in the accident.
Eventually, he embraced the lifestyle of a superhero and became one of Earth's foremost heroes, serving as a important member of the Teen Titans, Titans, and the Justice League.
Cyborg made his live-action debut in the television series Smallville, portrayed by Lee Thompson Young. Ray Fisher portrayed the character in the DC Extended Universe films Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Justice League (2017), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) while Joivan Wade portrayed Cyborg in the television series Doom Patrol and in the fourth season of Titans. In animated media, the character has made his debut in the animated series Super Friends. He has been voiced by Ernie Hudson, Khary Payton, Bumper Robinson, Shemar Moore, and Zeno Robinson.
In an interview, Pérez described his design approach for the character. "In the case of Cyborg I was inspired visually -and I think it is obvious from the head- by Deathlok... then I decided to make him more robotic than android by making more metallic parts of him, so that he wasn't quite as human... but the half-face metallic plate was obviously inspired by Deathlok by Rich Buckler, and then I used a young Jim Brown as my inspiration for how I would handle the body language for the character."
Fictional character biography
Victor Stone is the son of Silas and Elinore Stone, two STAR Labs scientists intent on using their research to improve mankind. Silas and Elinore scientific adventures often estranged their son, as they would sometime dedicate more time and toward their work, oppose to him. The two even used their son as a test subject for intelligence-boosting experimentation. While the successful experiment granted Victor a genius-level intellect, he resented his parents for treating him more like a lab subject oppose to a son.
Vic's resentment caused him to steer away from science and math in high school. Instead, he pursued an interest in athletics, much to his father's disdain. His life changed profoundly during a visit to STAR Labs to meet up with his parents, who were busy conducting inter-dimensional experiments.
The experiment accidentally allowed a protoplasmic creature into the lab. Silas managed to return the creature to its home dimension, but not before it had slain Elinore and severely injured Victor. Desperate to save his son's life, Silas used untested cybernetic enhancements to rebuild and reconstruct Victor's body. He succeeded, but didn't anticipate Victor's horror and anger at what he had done.
Cyberion (Pre-Flashpoint)
Tragedy struck when the Wildebeest Society captured the Titans and more shocking that the leader of the group was their teammate Jericho. Vic was launched in a rocket along with several members and crashed landed in Russia where he was seriously injured and damaged. The Russian scientists with the help of Red Star rebuilt Vic but due to such heavy brain trauma he had become no more than a walking robot with a human appearance.
After several months, Vic's mind started to regain his memories but when the race known as the Technis came to Earth looking for a way to integrate with society and save their race. Cyborg sacrificed himself for both the Earth and the Technis was was rebuilt into Cyberion.
Cyberion became their protector as they traveled throughout the galaxy. Some time later, Cyberion was reunited with his former teammates and engaged in an interstellar conflict which resulted in the destruction of Tamaran. But there was triumph to be found in tragedy: The Titans were able to restore Raven - who was reborn in a golden spirit form.
Following that, Raven, Minion and Garfield Logan elected to remain in space as traveling companions to Cyberion. Frightened by Cyberion's total embrace of technology, Gar left his friend and returned to earth. Jarras Minion also had doubts about Cyberion's new attitude and decided to leave as well. Jarras, a sworn pacifist, made Victor a gift of his Omegadrome war suit before he left. The Omegadrome allowed Victor to try to carry out his Technis Imperative: To recreate the planet Technis at all costs.
Cyborg's New Body
Having collected a planet-size assortment of technological debris, Cyberion journeyed to Earth to turn its moon into a new Technis world and populate it with his Titans allies. The JLA and the Titans first clashed, then united, to prevent Cyberion from destroying the planet while saving Vic's soul and downloading it into Minion's morphing battlesuit, the Omegadrome.
Vic was later offered a human body if he would help Vandal Savage harvest Addie Kane's immortal blood. Before he could make a decision, Starfire destroyed Addie's body, thus robbing Vic of the chance to make a choice. Also, Vic had to remain a member of the team, per a deal that Nightwing made with Batman.
Following the events of his Technis Imperative, the JLA only trusted Vic to remain free if the Titans kept a watchful eye on him. Feeling like he owed his old friend a debt, Nightwing worked constantly to find a cure for Vic's condition. With Jesse Quick's help, Victor was given a new lease on organic life with a body cloned from cell samples harvested by the Russian scientists who once spared him.
Though his mind and cybernetic abilities were still encapsulated in the Omegadrome, Victor inhabited a truly biological body. And for the first time in years, Cyborg knew what it is to live and feel and breathe unaided by mechanized parts. Embarking on a new life, Victor Stone left the Titans for the West Coast.
Vic Stone later aided the Flash during the "Our Worlds At War" crisis. At that time, Vic started using the golden Omegadrome to morph into a cybernetic form. Cyborg decided to return to adventuring and settled in Keystone City, home of the Flash. But when Vic Stone linked with the evil computerized Thinker in an attempt to stop him from taking over the city, his body became mechanically paralyzed - reverting him to his silver cyborg form.
All-New Teen Titans
Shortly afterward, a mysterious android from the future known as Indigo attacked the Titans and Young Justice , resulting in the apparent deaths of Troia and Omen. At Troia's funeral, Nightwing disbanded this version of the Titans.
Meanwhile, members of Young Justice, especially Wonder Girl, felt responsible for the tragic deaths. This led Wonder Girl, Robin, Impulse and Superboy to form a new group of Teen Titans under the guidance of the more experienced Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy.
Cyborg, who was damaged in the battle caused by Indigo, has since received an upgrade in his cybernetic parts. He would experience the formation and reformation of the Titans multiple times, mentoring some versions of the team and even starting a short-lived team of his own.
But he would always return to the companionship of his original Titans teammates, even to the extent of joining several of them in the Justice League of America.
After the Infinite Crisis Cyborg was fused to Firestorm and entered into a coma. When he finally woke up, he learned that the Teen Titans had dramatically changed. Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, Raven, and Beast Boy had left the team; Starfire was lost in space; and Superboy was dead. Along with Robin, Kid Devil, Ravager, and Wonder Girl (who had just rejoined) he started a quest for Raven.
Post-Flashpoint: Earth-0
Vic Stone is a star wide receiver for the Ford Titans, a high school football team. He has an interest in super human activities but is more focused on going to college, earning a football scholarship, and hoping his father makes it to his games. Vic and his father have a distant relationship and after missing several games,
Victor finally ventures to S.T.A.R Labs to confront him. Silas tells his son that given the current state of metahumans starting to show up around the planet, Vic's love for football is going to become irrelevant at some point.
Discouraged, Victor begins to leave when everything takes a tragic turn, as a Mother Box unit springs to life and opens a Boom Tube. Victor and several scientists are fatally injured or killed by the boom tube energy.
Not intending to lose his son the same way he lost his wife, Silas outfits Vic with experimental bionics that have been reverse engineered from alien technology found around the globe. With aid from T.O. Morrow and Sarah Charles, Vic's life is saved and the energies from the motherbox are incorporated into his new form as Cyborg.
This allows Victor to access the vast New Gods data library and discover Darkseid's true invasion plans. After aiding in sending Darkseid back where he came from, Cyborg helps to found the Justice League. He has not begun any process of reconciliation with his father, who is primarily concerned with Victor's mechanics rather than his humanity.
After the villain David Graves makes an attack against the Justice League, Cyborg and his team mates travel to the valley of souls. There he learns that he walks the line between life and death--meaning that part of his soul has left his body.
He sees a false apparition of his human self that tries to convince him that Victor Stone is dead and Cyborg is just an imitation. Victor quickly sees past this ruse, and he and the rest of the Justice League defeat Graves.
The situation lead to Vic embracing who he has become, not a young man who has lost his humanity, but a man who has learned to be a hero through shocking means. Allowing Vic to start to forgive his father, as he knows his father was just trying to save his life.
Throne of Atlantis
To help retrieve Superman and Wonder Woman from the depths of the ocean floor, Victor upgraded his suit to have an Environmental Mode that allows him to operate underwater. He then commenced a world wide League recruitment initiate to combat the Atlanteans hostiles
Trinity War
At the conclusion of the Trinity War, all of Victor's cybernetics were brutally ripped from his body as Grid, a software virus deeply embedded into Victor's cybernetics, revealed itself. The virus was planted by Atomica to help the Crime Syndicate of America.
Atomica told Cyborg about what she did the Justice League and Justice League of America/ She also told him that she was the one that poisoned Superman and put the green Kryptonite in his nervous system where she trigger his heat vision, which killed Dr. Light.
Cyborg was upset to hear this happening and all of a sudden she told Cyborg that he also betrayed the Justice League and it was Grid that was in his body. Cyborg body turned in to him as the Justice League and Justice League of America watched in horror and where all in shock to see this happening and that the Crime Syndicate of America was taking over the world they where from Earth 3.
Atomica was a spy on both teams and she had all their plans. She was planning for the CSA to come and attack the various Justice Leagues.
Forever Evil
Cyborg is kept alive with the help of Simon Baz and Batman. Batman and Catwoman manage to escape and bring along Cyborg to S.T.A.R. Labs to get the help of Victor's father Silas.
Silas is initially reluctant to turn his son back to Cyborg once again for fear of hurting him but Victor pushes him to do so saying that this time it is his choice and he must help stop the Crime Syndicate.
Cyborg is given an upgraded more slimmer armor. Cyborg goes to enlist the help of Doctor Will Magnus so that he can revive the Metal Men and fight the Crime Syndicate.
Magnus is also initially unwilling to revive the Metal Men as they were deemed failures the first time, but Cyborg convinces him to do so. The team is once again brought together and they join Cyborg in an attempt to fight. Cyborg directly confronts Grid while the Metal Men help fight the Secret Society members that were with him.
Cyborg and Grid both enter the digital world where they do battle with each other. Grid initially appears to have the upper hand in the battle attempting to exploit Cyborg's human side. However, Cyborg states that he has embraced his tech side and that he is the bridge between human and tech.
He manages to shut down Grid and goes into the fallen watchtower where he helps Batman use Wonder Woman's lasso to free the Justice League teams from the Firestorm matrix.
Powers, Skills and abilities
Cybernetics: Cyborg possesses cybernetic enhancements that provide superhuman strength, endurance and durability. Cyborg can also interface with computers. Built into his body-armor were an infrared eye, computer generator, sound amplifier, and special programming adapters that allowed him to interface with other body extensions.
Shape-Change: Cyborg has virtually unlimited shape-changing abilities that allow him to mimic road, air or space vehicles and even reshape his entire body or parts of it to form such complex shapes such as a tank.
Superhuman Strength: At optimal capacity, Vic can lift/press in excess of four metric tons. If he pushes himself, he can even exceed five tons, but not without causing severe stress to his cybernetic components. Recently Victor breaks apart Kalibak's Chaos Cannon used to destroy planets.
Superhuman Speed/Agility: He possesses a degree of superspeed.
Jump Jets: As his request Dr. Silas Stone installed Jump Jets so that wouldn't be so dependent of Boom Tubes. Apparently the Jump Jets provides the ability to super-jump across the state lines.
Flight
Sensor Systems/superhuman Senses: Due cybernetic enhancements their five senses were increased to superhuman levels.
Super hearing
Microscopic Vision
X-Ray Vision
Night Vision
Target/Tracking Systems
Physiological/Medical Scanners
Superhuman Stamina: Victor doesn't need to sleep,eat or drink. Adding the Environmental Mode (that replaced his last lung) no longer has the need to breathe, and can operate in any area that has no oxygen in space or as in underwater.
Superhuman Durability: The nature of Cyborg's body provides offers protection against physical and energy attacks,being able to withstand the pressures of the deepest parts of the oceans.
Computer Interfacing: Cyborg is connected with all Earth's computers and satellites including government agencies, secret service (CIA,MI-6...) and even the Batcomputer.
The Grid: Alongside Batman created a program to prevent himself from being distracted while on duty, because he is constantly bombarded with endless influx data streaming into his system and that program selectively focus on high-priority items and filter out other received data,which helps him to create a complete database of every metahuman/superhuman on Earth.
Technopathy: Since is linked with Earth's computers and satellites Victor can control any type of technology that have connection with the Internet as well control any form of electronic communication,allowing it to manipulate data or rearrange security privileges. Recently demonstrated the ability to hear Brainiac's drones communicating with each other.
Technomorphing: He doesn't just command technology,but is also capable to incorporates them into himself as did with Red Room's technology and a Motherbox,where did came most of their weapons. Recently their systems suffered serious damage after the explosion of the Watchtower and to repair himself used technology from a escape pod.
Teleportation: Cyborg can use Boom Tubes to transport himself and the League to anywhere n Earth and in the Universe,since is stated Darkseid use it to cross dimensions,however one out of every thousand 'jumps' results in transporting himself and whoever is with him to Apokolips. Recently installed a silent mode to not be noticed by others,not even Superman couldn't note him coming.
Integrated Weapons: He had various types of weapons integrated into his cybernetic parts.
White Sound Disruptor: The Sound Disruptor or White Noise Canon fires focused sound blasts powerful enough to vaporize a Parademons group,blown up portion of a building and affect spirits. The canon has been able to reach 300 decibels and theorically can exceed this limit.
Sonic Emmiter: Beyond the sonic cannon also has a sonic emitter that allows to mimic and generate any sounds he desires,may run voices through his systems to make real-time translation and even generate ultrasonic sound attacks.
Ice Beam
Energy Cannon/Energy Gun:
EMP Pulse: It may incapacitate any technology (that's not shielded against such attack) in a distance of 50 meters away. T.O. Morrow nicknamed it as a Heart Attack.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Victor Stone
Publisher: DC
First appearance: DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980)
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Created by: Marv Wolfman (Writer)
George Pérez (Artist)
Cyborg has been seen in the Paprihaven story such as in episode 1465!
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He's also appeared on Seinfeld in BP 2022 Day 250!
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And in The Office in BP 2025 Day 99!
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
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♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♫♪Music ◎ TUNE ◎ Music♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♫♪
First verse, uh, I'm on 'til I'm on a island
My life's ridin' on the Autobahn on autopilot
Before I touch dirt, I'll kill you all wit' kindness
I kill ya, my natural persona's much worse
You've been warned if you've been born or if you can form
Slap up a cop and then snatch 'im out of his uniform
Leave him wit' his socks, hard bottoms and bloomers on
And hang him by his balls from the horn of a unicorn
Y'all niggas' intellect mad slow, y'all fags know
Claimin' you bangin', you flamin'
Bet you could light your own cigarette witcha asshole
Me and Shady deaded the past, so that basically resurrected my cash flow
I might rap tight as the snatch of a fat dyke
Though I ain't wrapped tight
My blood type's the '80s!
My '90s was like the Navy, you was like the Bradys
You still fly kites daily!
Catch me in my Mercedes
Bumpin' "Ice, Ice Baby, " screamin' Shady 'til I die
Like a half a pair of dice, life's crazy
So I live it to the fullest 'til I'm Swayze
And you only live it once, so I'm thinkin' 'bout this nice, nice lady
Wait, no, stop me now 'fore I get on a roll (Damn)
Let me tell you what this pretty little dame's name is, 'cause she's kinda famous
And I hope that I don't sound too heinous when I say this
Nicki Minaj, but I wanna stick (My penis in your anus!)
You morons think that I'm a genius
Really I belong inside a dang insane asylum, cleanin', try them trailer parks
Crazy, I am back, and I am razor-sharp, baby
And that's back wit' a capital B wit' an exclamation mark
Maybe you should listen when I flip the linguistics
'Cause I'm'onna rip this mystical slick shit
You don't wanna become another victim or statistic of this shit
'Cause after I spit the bullets, I'ma treat these shell casings like a soccer ball
I'ma kick the ballistics! So get this dick, I'ma live this
I'm livin' life in the fast lane
Movin' at the speed of life and I can't slow down
Only got a gallon in the gas tank
But I'm almost at the finish line, so I can't stop now
I don't really know where I'm headed, just enjoyin' the ride
Just gon' roll 'til I drop and ride 'til I die
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
Yeah
My whole goal as a poet's to be relaxed in orbit
At war wit' a bottle, this Captain Morgan attacks my organs (C'mon)
My slow flow is euphoric, it's like I rap endorphins (Woo!)
I made a pact with the Devil that says "I'll let you take me
You let me take this shovel, dig up the corspes, Jack Kevorkian" (C'mon)
Go 'back and forth in more beef that you can pack a fork in
I'm livin' the life of the infinite enemy down
My tenement, too many now, to send my serenity powers
Spin 'em around, enterin' in the vicinity
Now
Was called Eminem, but he threw away the candy and ate the rapper
Chewed him up (Pt!) and spitted him out
Girl, giddy-up, now get, get down
He's lookin' around this club and it looks like people are havin' a shit fit now
Here, little t-t-trailer trash, take a look who's back in t-t-town
Did I s-st-stutter, motherfucker? Fuck them all
He's shuts the whole motherfuckin' Walmart d-d-down every time he comes a-r-r-round
And he came to the club tonight wit' 5'9? to hold this bitch down
Like a motherfuckin' chick underwater, he's tryna d-dr-drown
Shawty, when you dance, you got me captivated
Just by the way that you keep lickin' 'em dicks like her lips I'm agitated, aggravated
To the point you don't suck my dick, then you're gonna get decapitated
Other words, you don't fuckin' give me head, then I'm have to take it
And then after takin' that, I'ma catch a case, it's gon' be fascinatin'
It's gon' say "The whole rap game passed away" on top of the affadavit
Graduated from master debater slash massive masturbator
To Michael Jackson' activator (Woo!)
Meanin' I'm on fire off the top, might wanna back up the data
Runnin' over hip-hop in a verbal tractor-trailer
Homie, this sick, you can normally ask a hater
Don't it make sense, these shell casings is just like a bag of paper
Drop in the lap of a tax evader (Homie, they spent)
Now make that ass drop like a sack of potatoes
What, girl, I'm the crack-a-lator
Percolator to this party, be my penis ejaculator later
Tell ya boyfriend that you just struck paydirt
You rollin' wit' a player, you won't be exaggeratin' when you sayin'
I'm livin' life in the fast lane
Movin' at the speed of life and I can't slow down
Only got a gallon in the gas tank
But I'm almost at the finish line, so I can't stop now
I don't really know where I'm headed, just enjoyin' the ride
Just gon' roll 'til I drop and ride 'til I die
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
I'm livin' life in the fast lane (Pedal to the metal)
The Light in the Dark
While I was reading the magic mushrooms were growing
HKD
Glückspilze
Während ich las – für viele viele Jahre – wuchs das Licht in der Dunkelheit.
So wurde ich ein richtiger Glückspilz… ;-)
HKD
Zur Infio:
Die wunderschönen Fliegenpilze habe ich gestern im Garten unter einer Birke fotografiert. Es scheint ein gutes Pilzjahr zu sein. Auch die braunen Birkenschwammerl sind sehr zahrlreich erschienen.
Der Fliegenpilz wird auch Glückspilz genannt. Das geht noch auf die Zeit der Schamanen und Kräuterweiber zurück, die diesen Pilz auch für die Induzierung einer Trance einsetzten. Da es bei diesen Ritualen wie berichtet, häufig zu Lachanfällen kam und wohl auch noch kommt, hielt man die Reisenden für glücklich...
Die Schamanen waren natürlich auch glücklich, diesen Reisepilz zu finden, denn für sie war er ein Mittel, Visionen zu empfangen, was für ihren Stamm überlebensnotwendig war, z. B. um Jagdwild aufzuspüren, Heilkräuter gegen Krankeiten zu finden oder eine neue Wasserquelle usw. Da der Pilz also sehr hilfreich und begehrt war, wurde sein Auffinden stets als glücklicher Umstand gewertet.
Und so bin ich ein richtiger Glückspilz! Unter der Birke stehen 8 Pilze, die allerdings schon von den Schnecken entdeckt wurden... Vielleicht ist eine Schamanenschnecke dabei... ;-)))
HKD
If you like to see my latest videos:
Meditation - Introducing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vocdfNPPNJo
or
Path of Wisdom
www.youtube.com/user/koppdelaney
and
Dark Night of the Soul
"On turning over the large stiff pages of a folio volume, or the yellow leaves of a manuscript, in short, a poem, a code of laws, a confession of faith, what is your first comment? You say to yourself that the work before you is not of its own creation. It is simply a mold like a fossil shell, an imprint similar to one of those forms embedded in a stone by an animal which once lived and perished. Beneath the shell was an animal and behind the document there was a man. Why do you study the shell unless to form some idea of the animal? In the same way do you study the document in order to comprehend the man; both shell and document are dead fragments and of value only as indications of the complete living being. The aim is to reach this being; this is what you strive to reconstruct. It is a mistake to study the document as if it existed alone by itself. That is treating things merely as a pedant, and you subject yourself to the illusions of a book-worm. At bottom mythologies and languages are not existences; the only realities are human beings who have employed words and imagery adapted to their organs and to suit the original cast of their intellects. A creed is nothing in itself. Who made it? Look at this or that portrait of the sixteenth century, the stern, energetic features of an archbishop or of an English martyr. Nothing exists except through the individual; it is necessary to know the individual himself. Let the parentage of creeds be established, or the classification of poems, or the growth of constitutions, or the transformations of idioms, and we have only cleared the ground. True history begins when the historian has discerned beyond the mists of ages the living, active man, endowed with passions, furnished with habits, special in voice, feature, gesture and costume, distinctive and complete, like anybody that you have just encountered in the street. Let us strive then, as far as possible, to get rid of this great interval of time which prevents us from observing the man with our eyes, the eyes of our own head.[...]A language, a law, a creed, is never other than an abstraction; the perfect thing is found in the active man, the visible corporeal figure which eats, walks, fights, and labors. Set aside the theories of constitutions and their results, of religions and their systems, and try to observe men in their workshops or offices, in their fields along with their own sky and soil, with their own homes, clothes, occupations and repasts, just as you see them when, on landing in England or in Italy, you remark their features and gestures, their roads and their inns, the citizen on his promenades and the workman taking a drink. Let us strive as much as possible to supply the place of the actual, personal, sensible observation that is no longer practicable, this being the only way in which we can really know the man; let us make the past present; to judge of an object it must be present; no experience can be had of what is absent. Undoubtedly, this sort of reconstruction is always imperfect; only an imperfect judgment can be based on it; but let us do the best we can; incomplete knowledge is better than none at all, or than knowledge which is erroneous, and there is no other way of obtaining knowledge approximatively of bygone times than by seeing approximatively the men of former times."
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine -- Introduction to the History of English Literature
Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, the patron of the arts and sciences, and the deva of intellect and wisdom in the Hindu pantheon.
"May Ganesha bring you joy, love, and peace."
('Ganesha' by Four Horsemen / 'Figura Obscura')
Diorama by RK
....in un mondo che libero non è
The courage to be free , in a world that isn't free
Cavalli selvaggi a Pizzo d'Evigno , Liguria
....l'intelletto annulla il fato. Finché uno pensa è libero...( Ralph Waldo Emerson )
Libertà significa responsabilità. Ecco perché molti la temono
( George Bernard Shaw )
Freedom means responsability. That's why a lot of people fear it.
..Intellect defeats fate. Until a person thinks, is free...
1. I, the pure, stainless and infinite Consciousness beyond maya, look upon this body in action like the body of another.
2. The mind, the intellect, the senses, etc. are all the play of Consciousness. They are unreal and seem to exist only due to lack of insight.
3. Unmoved by adversity, a friend of all the world in prosperity, without ideas of existence and non-existence, I Live free from misery.
4. Inactive am I, desireless, clear as the sky, free from hankering, tranquil, formless, everlasting and unmoving.
5. I have now clearly understood that the five elements, the three worlds and I myself are pure Consciousness.
6. I am above everything ; I am present everywhere ; I am like space; I am that which (really) exists; I am unable to say anything beyond this.
7. Let imaginary waves of universe rise or fall in me who am the ocean of infinite Consciousness ; there is no increase or decrease in me.
8. How wonderful that in me, the infinite ocean of Consciousness, waves of jivas (individual souls) rise, sport for a while and disappear according to their nature.
9. The world which has come into existence on account of my ignorance has dissolved likewise in me. I now directly experience the world as supreme bliss of Consciousness.
10. I prostrate to myself who am within all being, the ever free Self abiding as inner consciousness.
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Yoga Vasishta Sara - SELECTED VERSES - Meditation on the Self
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Painting by Nicolas Poussin
"....minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes..."
zzzzrrrRRRAAAKKKLLLllrrzzz!!
Doctor Doom: You are too late, as usual! Without Richards' mind guiding you, I have moved you three like pawns! And now you are here merely to witness my triumph!!
Human Torch: Not while we have breath, Doom!! I'll turn that oversized doohickey into slag!!
Doctor Doom: AAHAHA!! Please try!
Invisible Woman: Johnny, no! It may set off a chain reaction!
Doctor Doom: Ah, Susan, you at least have a semblance of intellect!
The Thing: Enuff with all this malarkey!! One good punch!! That'll settle it!!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
This episode of the Bijou Planks has been brought to you out of our desire to say "doohickey" and "malarkey". Thank you.
“It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau
A staple of fantasy warfare, orcs comprise the largest single contingent of the evil forces. Given that orcs are rather limited in their intellect and training, the great majority become foot soldiers to form the bulk of the front lines and the casualties. There are a few orcs, however, who manage to excel in other areas.
One of these is the orc tracker. By nature, orcs in general are not particularly observant or detail oriented, but some are found to possess these qualities. When these skills are combined with their excellent senses of smell and hearing, they make for good trackers.
The orc tracker will rarely be mistaken for a stalker. They track but they employ little to no stealth. More like baying hounds, they typically run ahead while tracking, yelling and screaming in excitement. And just as the noise of the hounds will frighten a prey into leaving cover, so the loud cacophony of a group of orc trackers can route a camp of enemies before the soldiers even arrive.
👾 Happy 🏰 Heroclix 🏯 Friday! 🐉
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
I am proud to be a human being.
A human like everyone else in this planet.
A human who does not make distinctions in terms of race, gender, intellect, religion, beliefs, and culture.
A human who respects others and in doing so earns respect from them.
A human who respects the law and does not expects or demand special treatment.
A human who values and believes in God, family, morals, and life, above all, but also respects those who think different.
A human who is saddened by division and injustice and hopes that one day humanity will learn to live in harmony.
Will we ever learn that there are so many things that we have in common to focus in the few things that we don't?
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Siento orgullo por ser un ser humano.
Un humano como todos los demás en este planeta.
Un humano que no hace distinciones en términos de raza, género, intelecto, religión, creencias y cultura.
Un humano que respeta a los demás in al hacerlo se gana el respeto de ellos.
Un humano que respeta la ley y que no espera o reclama trato especial.
Un humano que valora y cree en Dios, la familia, la moral y la vida, sobre todas las cosas, pero que también respeta a los que piensan diferente.
Un humano que se entristece con la división e injusticia y espera que algún día la humanidad aprenda a vivir en armonía.
¿Será que algún día aprenderemos que tenemos demasiadas cosas en común como para enfocarnos en las pocas en las que diferimos?
My friendship with Katie goes back over a decade, and continues to evolve in deeply meaningful ways. Since she's a notable personality on Flickr, many of you know her to be witty, sexy, charming, charismatic and vivacious. She is all that, but in addition, she's a person of deep intellect, wisdom, empathy and character. We are opposites in many ways, as she attracts people like bees to honey with her extroverted life-of-the-party personality, whereas I, as an introvert, am more inclined toward quieter pastures . . . . but as the old saying goes, opposites attract! Here we are sharing a glass of wine in Rehoboth Beach. We were up early the next day to play a round of golf!
"Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
-- Leonardo da Vinci (Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Le 900e anniversaire en 2022 de la nomination de Suger, abbé de Saint-Denis en 1122, est l’occasion de revisiter la théologie de la lumière. Fernand Schwarz, philosophe et anthropologue, décrit ce phénomène qui a engendré, avec le passage de l’art roman à l’âge gothique, un changement important dans la construction des cathédrales.
Nous publions ici des extraits du troisième chapitre de l’ouvrage de Fernand Schwarz Symbolique des cathédrales, symboles et lumière (1), chapitre consacré à Suger, l’abbaye de Saint-Denis et la théologie de la lumière.
L’abbaye de Saint-Denis, un destin royal et une œuvre théologique
En l’an 1124, l’abbaye de Saint-Denis, gardienne des reliques du saint martyr qui avait converti la France au christianisme au IIIe siècle et était vénéré à l’époque comme le patron de la maison royale, est solennellement proclamée par Louis VI, sanctuaire national de France (elle a servi de caveau à certains de ses illustres rois, et a été en outre le témoin du sacre de Charlemagne). En clair, on promet à Saint-Denis un destin équivalent à celui de Rome ou de Constantinople.
Suger conçut la cathédrale de Saint-Denis comme une œuvre théologique, qui s’inspirait largement des écrits de la figure légendaire du saint et martyr Denys, que l’on confondait à l’époque avec Denys dit l’Aréopagite, métaphysicien de la lumière qui inspira le XIIe siècle.
Toute chose participe de la lumière divine
Pour Denys, la lumière est le premier principe de cette métaphysique. Il fait ici référence à la splendide théologie de la lumière de l’Évangile selon saint Jean, dans laquelle le logos divin est conçu comme la lumière véritable qui brille dans les ténèbres et qui est à l’origine de toutes choses. « Je suis la lumière du monde ; celui qui me suit ne marche point dans les ténèbres mais aura la lumière de la vie ». Évangile selon saint Jean, VII, 12.
Pour Denys, la création est une action illuminatrice, et l’univers déjà créé ne pourrait exister sans la lumière. Si la lumière cesse de briller, tout ce qui existe tombe dans le néant. Il rappelle que la création est la révélation de Dieu et que toutes choses créées sont des « lumières » qui témoignent par leur existence de la lumière divine et permettent ainsi à l’intellect humain de Le percevoir.
Dieu est lumière et chaque être reçoit et transmet cette lumière selon une hiérarchie conçue par Dieu. [… ] La lumière physique sert à créer des analogies avec la lumière transcendante pour que l’esprit des hommes s’éveille. Tout objet, comme toute créature, réfléchit la lumière divine, tout revient donc à Dieu par le biais des choses visibles. Cette conception est à la base de la pensée gothique. Ainsi s’est établie la connexion entre la métaphysique de la lumière et l’esthétique de la lumière.
Dans son traité de métaphysique, Denys affirme que la lumière divine qui irrigue le monde assure l’union entre les êtres créés.
La cathédrale de Suger : l’expression d’une métaphysique
Suger entreprend la construction de son église avec l’objectif d’en faire un sanctuaire.
Certes, Suger veut forger une alliance entre l’Église et la couronne qui permette à l’Église et à la France de propager un nouvel art de vivre, alliance de spiritualité et de matérialité dans la cité : ce nouvel art doit permettre la rencontre du profane et du sacré. Mais l’essentiel pour lui est de construire un temple dont Dieu serait l’auteur et le guide. D’où l’importance de recourir à la théologie, à une vision métaphysique plutôt qu’à des techniques, pour servir de modèle à la nouvelle église, la cathédrale. Pour les bâtisseurs d’alors, la technique vient au second plan, elle sert à exprimer l’idée.
Contrairement à ce qu’on croit d’habitude, le trait distinctif de l’art nouveau médiéval n’est pas la voûte en croisée d’ogives ni l’arc en ogive ou l’arc-boutant. Tous ces éléments ne sont que des moyens de construction qui se retrouvent dans l’architecture pré-gothique.
[… ] Ce qui n’était qu’un artifice technique devient le moyen d’ouvrir des baies, de faire tomber les cloisons pour que toute l’église « resplendisse d’une lumière ininterrompue ». Depuis le chœur jusqu’à la porte, la lumière se diffuse sans obstacle. Cette cohésion lumineuse reflète l’unité de l’univers dont parlait Denys.
[… ] Néanmoins, deux aspects de l’architecture gothique sont sans précédents : l’utilisation de la lumière et un rapport original entre la structure et l’apparence, la fonction et la forme, qui donnera naissance à l’église mystique. Ces deux caractéristiques obéissent à une conception métaphysique et pas à un étalage de trouvailles techniques qui existaient déjà auparavant et que les maîtres gothiques n’ont fait que mettre à profit pour exprimer leur vision de l’harmonie cosmique.
L’utilisation de la lumière : la communion du Ciel et de la Terre
L’emploi de la lumière dans l’édifice gothique, dans son rapport à la substance matérielle des murs, est diamétralement opposée à celui de l’église romane ; la lumière dans le roman sert à mettre en évidence le contraste entre la substance concrète, lourde et sombre, et la lumière elle-même, symbole de l’esprit. Lumière et matière s’opposent comme le bien et le mal.
Le mur gothique donne par contre l’impression d’être poreux. La lumière s’infiltre à travers et le pénètre en se fondant avec lui et en le transfigurant, La matière apparaît de plus en plus légère et la lumière de plus en plus présente.
Toute l’architecture est conçue pour vider la matière des murs et la remplacer par d’immenses verrières translucides. La cathédrale gothique devient ainsi un monument dédié à la transparence. Le ciel et la terre entrent en intime communion grâce à la lumière qui traverse toutes les parties de l’édifice. La matière n’est plus impénétrable, elle devient la substance porteuse du Verbe-Lumière et l’ascension des flèches dans leur légèreté défie la gravité terrestre.
« [… ] Les nefs latérales, les tribunes, les déambulatoires, les chapelles du chevet deviennent plus étroites et moins profondes tandis que les murs extérieurs sont traversés par des lignes entières de verrières. Vues de l’intérieur, les verrières perdent leurs définitions comme si elles fusionnaient, verticalement et horizontalement, dans une sphère continuelle de lumière produisant une zone de contraste lumineux derrière toutes les formes tangibles du système architectural. » (La Catedral gotica, Otto von Simson, page 26 )
L’Abbaye de Saint-Denis, la porte du Ciel
[… ] Saint-Denis est la première église dont la façade soit conçue pour évoquer l’idée que le temple est, en termes liturgiques, la porte du Ciel. Ce motif sera ensuite repris par toutes les cathédrales. Il s’inspire de l’idée que l’art chrétien doit figurer la vie éternelle, telle une porte qui conduit la pensée vers les vérités ineffables.
[… ] La porte dorée de Saint-Denis est le signe qui permet à l’esprit confus de s’élever vers la vérité, de progresser du matériel à l’ineffable. En contemplant la lumière, l’âme « ressuscite de son immersion dans la matière ». (Suger, « De son administration », XXVII, 89)
La présence, dans le tympan central, de la résurrection des morts ne doit pas être comprise dans son sens eschatologique habituel. Elle sert également à exprimer l’illumination qui se produit chez celui qui passe de ce monde à la contemplation de Dieu.
Le rôle de la lumière
[… ] Grâce au savant rapport qu’il établit entre la hauteur et la profondeur, l’abbé Suger recrée un véritable circuit de prière, « circuitus oratorium », qu’il emplit de lumière en créant de nouvelles fenêtres : « Toute la chapelle majeure se trouve empreinte d’une merveilleuse lumière constante qui pénètre à travers les fenêtres sacrées ». (Suger, « De la consécration », IV, 225)
Les verrières gothiques sont nées. Pour la première fois, on réduit la surface des murs au bénéfice de la lumière, on fait tomber les cloisons, un principe qui est la grande conquête du gothique. La régularité du tracé, avec les rayons qui partent du centre de la chapelle majeure, permet ainsi à la lumière d’entrer pour la première fois sans entraves à travers les vitraux des chapelles absidiales.
La conception de la nef, restée inachevée, est aussi lumineuse que le chevet et l’édifice tout entier dégage une extraordinaire impression de luminosité. Il inspirera les cathédrales de Noyon, de Senlis et surtout Notre-Dame de Paris.
[… ] Pour Suger, la lux nova, qu’il introduit dans l’intérieur de l’église, est associée au Christ lui-même. C’est pourquoi il qualifiera les fenêtres portant les vitraux de « très sacrées et miraculeuses ». Comme le suggère un de ses amis, Hugues de Saint-Victor, un vitrail est la démonstration visuelle de la théologie de Denys.
Les vitraux sont comme des voiles, qui occultent et révèlent en même temps l’ineffable.
Pour Suger, suivant les traces de Denys, tout l’univers est comme un voile éclairé par la lumière divine. Le temple devient ainsi l’image d’un univers transparent. Les fenêtres ne sont pas conçues comme des ouvertures dans un mur, mais comme des surfaces translucides portant les formes du sacré qui irradient dans tout l’édifice.
Grâce à Suger, l’art gothique et la lumière se développèrent et apportèrent un renouveau dans la construction des édifices religieux en France et en Europe, ajoutant une dimension symbolique et de connaissance très importante. Suger fut un précurseur dans de nombreux domaines qui firent de lui un homme éclairé (2).
(1) Ouvrage publié aux Éditions du Palais, 2012, 186 pages. Ce livre a été réédité plusieurs fois : Symboliques des cathédrales, visages de la vierge (Éditions du Huitième jour en 2002), Symbolique des cathédrales, symboles et lumière(aux Éditions Nouvel angle en 2009) Symbolique des cathédrales, miroirs de l’univers (aux Éditions du Palais, 2012)
(2) Lire l’article de Marie-Agnes Lambert, Il y a 900 ans, Suger était nommé abbé de Saint-Denis dans la revue page…
Par Fernand SCHWARZ
Fondateur de Nouvelle Acropole France
La belle histoire des cathédrales
par Alain BILLARD
Éditions Adapt/SNES /éditions De Boeck Supérieur, 2021, 320 pages, 29,90 €
Ce magnifique ouvrage abondamment illustré raconte l’histoire des cathédrales depuis l’époque paléo-chrétienne jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Chaque cathédrale fait l’objet de deux pages. Se rajoutent des dates clés, des témoignages artistiques (peinture, littérature, cinéma…), des évènements liés à ces édifices (effondrements, incendies, tremblements de terre…), les techniques de construction avec les types de matériaux utilisés, l’apport de grands hommes influents (Suger, Gaudi, Perret industrialisation (carrières de pierre, forêts, utilisation de l’acier et du béton…) ou bien grands hommes influents (Suger, Gaudi, Perret, Viollet-le-Duc,…). Par un architecte, expert et chargé de mission auprès du Ministère de la Culture, spécialiste de la construction et de la stabilité des bâtiments anciens.
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"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. " ~Victor Hugo
"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul." ~Gaston Bachelard
EXPLORED - January 28, 2012, via Explore at #269 on Fluidr.
Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men.
The young, in one another's arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
by William Butler Yeats - More
history:
krazmacher is a legendary warrior , has a gold indestructible armor forged by the god of iron with the lava of the volcano krazorm hence the name , the armor can be worn only by the most powerful warrior and brave land named maicher once worn the armor became part of it so his name became krazmacher .
characteristics:
strength = 10
speed = 7
Intellect = 7
Power = 9
destroyal = 6
I built krazmacher taking an idea from trasformers 4 optimus prime and I recreated his weapons , in the head instead of using the yellow piece to detach the head I wanted to create it because I did not color would stand out well in the end than the sword and shield I added a small dagger gold to add something more .
What does it mean to be the silent observer? The subjects in this series embody the joint-like posture of mannequins. They allude view, obscuring themselves behind objects and other times reveal their presence in an ordinary remote world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ
Christie Pits Park, Toronto ON 10 May 2021
Doug Ford is the premier of Ontario. He has proven electable, but not much of an intellect. Once in power, has no idea what to do with it. It is unfair to insult his waistline, but legitimate to object to his government.
Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.
- Freeman Patterson
By Indian artist Satish Gujral (1925 – 2020)
Part of an exhibition in the MAS museum in Antwerp in 2023.
Satish Gujral was an internationally acclaimed artist, muralist, sculptor, architect and writer. In his quest for a unique Indian artistic identity, free of European influences, Gujral came to be known as one of the pioneers of modernism in post-Independent India.
During the course of his seven-decade career, he also designed several notable buildings, including the Belgium Embassy in New Delhi.
Photo = top part. A variety of materials were assembled in a geometric composition. The work is an attempt by Gujral to combine modern design with the traditional use of colour of India.
It is the Age of Steam!
The Crew of the "SKY TERROR" are a wretched band of Zombie Pirates. Their Zeppelin reigns Torpedoes, bombs and death from above.
Lead by their Nefarious Captain "Oberon Black" they are the scourge of the English Channel .
They prey on the coal ship steamers which toil between England and France, consuming the brains of some of their captives while selling off the rest as cattle to their undead compatriots.
THE CREW
The Ships Brute – Kang
Blessed with limited intellect but fearsome strength and appetite, Kang is forced to wear a divers helm to stop him from eating all the prey the crew capture. His eagerness to get at lunch makes him the perfect one man boarding party. He acts as leader of the Vanguard, although slow he is nigh on unstoppable!
Gunner "Torpedo" Jim Jones.
Consigned to the lower reaches of the "Sky Terror" Torpedo cuts a lonely and forlorn figure. He passes his spare time painting murals on the ships ordinance. He is only truly happy when is he let above deck to polish his prized deck guns or better still to let them loose upon the living.
Captain Oberon Black
The captain suffers from the malaise of airsickness, an affliction which leaves him with the most unpleasant of attitudes.
A vile and treacherous individual, utterly ruthless, driven by a hatred of the living and a love of violence. Although he bears the scars from many battles he refuses to let Nurse Love assist him with the replacement of his missing limbs or eyeball. Instead he enjoys the extra malice that he can inflict with his saw hand and cast iron stomper leg. The Captain runs a tight ship and owns the most lucrative vessel in the meat trade.
Nurse Love
The mysterious Nurse Love was originally a prisoner aboard the "SKy Terror" she tried to tend the other prisoners when her ship was captured but alas she succumbed to a bite from one of her patients. Now in undeath she is tasked with the job of repairing and fixing up the crew of the "Sky Terror". sowing on a new digits here and there or back filling the holes in a sailors gut. A spinster in life she refuses to accept the same fate in death. She hopes to kindle a romance with the Captain. Seduced by the allure of his power and prestige, she has offered him her heart (and indeed several other peoples too) in an as yet unsuccessful attempt to woo him.
Master-Bosun Zim Sarson.
His eternal service to the Captain was forfeit after being tricked into signing a long term employment contract in life. Accursed are the department of Inhuman Pirate Resources! In death he seeks to replace the captain and put an end to his servitude. A troublesome crew member he is always undermining the captain and trying to put his oar in…
Accessories are TLG with a dash of brickwarriors for good measure.
Started many moons ago but only finished today as an entry to the Eurobricks zombie competition category D.
Reed Richards is a founding member, and the leader, of the Fantastic Four. Richards has a mastery of mechanical, aerospace and electrical engineering, chemistry, all levels of physics, and human and alien biology.
He is the inventor of the spacecraft that was bombarded by cosmic radiation on its maiden voyage, granting the Fantastic Four their powers. Richards gained the ability to stretch his body into any shape he desires.
Mister Fantastic acts as the leader and father figure of the Fantastic Four, and although his cosmic ray powers are primarily stretching abilities, his presence on the team is defined by his scientific acumen, as he is officially acknowledged as the smartest man in the Marvel Universe.
This is particularly a point of tragedy in regards to his best friend, Ben Grimm, who he has constantly tried to turn back into his human form but who typically remains a large, rocky creature called the Thing.
He is the husband of Susan Storm, father of Franklin Richards and Valeria Richards, and mentor of his brother-in-law, Johnny Storm.
Born in Central City, California, Reed Richards is the son of Evelyn and Nathaniel Richards. Nathaniel was a scientific genius, and Reed inherited a similar level of intellect and interests.
A child prodigy with special aptitude in mathematics, physics, and mechanics, Reed Richards was taking college-level courses when he was 14.
He attended such prestigious universities as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the fictional Empire State University. By the age of 20, he had several degrees in the sciences under his belt.
It was at Empire State University that he met Benjamin J. Grimm. Reed had already begun designing a starship capable of traveling in hyperspace. Sharing his plans with his new roommate, Grimm jokingly volunteered to pilot the craft.
Also while at State U he met a brilliant fellow student, Victor Von Doom. In Richards, Doom met the first person who could match him intellectually; regarding Richards as his ultimate rival, Doom became increasingly jealous of Richards. Determined to prove he was better, Doom conducted reckless experiments which eventually scarred his face and would lead him to become Doctor Doom.
During the summer months, Reed rented a room in a boarding house owned by the aunt of a young woman named Susan Storm, who was an undergraduate student at the time. Reed fell in love with Sue instantly and began courting her.
Ultimately, Reed was too distracted from his work on his dissertation due to his romance with Sue and decided that the best thing for the both of them was to move out of Marygay's home.
Moving on to Harvard, Reed earned Ph.D.s in Physics and Electrical Engineering while working as a military scientist, all this by the age of 22. He also worked in communications for the Army.
Three years later, in his mid-20s, Reed used his inheritance, along with government funding, to finance his research. Determined to go to Mars and beyond, Richards based the fateful project in Central City.
Susan Storm moved into the area, and within a short time, found herself engaged to Reed. Reed's old college roommate, Ben Grimm, now a successful test pilot and astronaut, was indeed slated to pilot the craft.
All seemed well; however, when the government threatened to cut funding and cancel the project, Reed, Ben, Sue, and Sue's younger brother Johnny, agreed to sneak aboard the starship and take it up immediately.
They knew they had not completed all the testing that had been planned, but Reed was confident they would be safe. Ben was initially skeptical about the unknown effects of radiation, while Reed theorized that their ship's shielding would be adequate to protect them.
It was on Reed's initiative that the fateful mission which had Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm accompanying him into space took place. When their ship passed through the Van Allen belt they found their cockpit bombarded with nearly lethal doses of cosmic radiation.
Reed had neglected to account for the abnormal radiation levels in the belt's atmosphere. The cosmic rays wreaked havoc on the starship's insufficient shielding and they were forced to return to Earth immediately.
When they crash-landed they found that their bodies were changed dramatically. Reed's body was elastic and he could reshape any portion of his body at will. At his suggestion, they decided to use their new abilities to serve mankind as the Fantastic Four.
Reed was chosen to lead the group, under the name "Mr. Fantastic". He later told his daughter, by way of a bedtime story, that the reason he suggested they become adventurers and gave them such outlandish costumes and names as "Mister Fantastic" and "The Thing" was that he knew they would likely be hated and feared for their powers without such an over-the-top public image.
Richards was a veteran of World War II who had served behind enemy lines in occupied France, and the goal of his space mission was a crewed space flight to the moon before the Communists were able to. Later, the challenge was getting there before the Chinese Communists and to explore the interstellar areas of the red planet and beyond.
Reed and Sue "were kids together" and Sue was the "girl next door" who Reed left behind to go fight in the war. Sue was thirteen years old when she first met Reed, who was in his early twenties, at her Aunt Marygay's boardinghouse.
Leadership of the Fantastic Four
The early career of the Fantastic Four led Mister Fantastic to a number of discoveries, and had their first encounters with many unusual characters. In the team's first appearance, they battled the Mole Man. They then battled the Skrulls. Soon after that, the team encountered the Sub-Mariner. They then had the first of many battles with Doctor Doom. They later journeyed to a subatomic world. Soon after that, they encountered Rama-Tut. They then battled the Molecule Man.
As the team leader, Mr. Fantastic created numerous exotic devices and vehicles for the team to use such as clothing made of 'unstable molecules' so that it can be used with their powers safely. Furthermore, he often leads the team into daring expeditions such as into the Negative Zone in addition to opposing evil. Also, he has felt personally responsible for Ben Grimm's grotesque change and has labored off and on to reverse it permanently.
Under his guidance, the team went on to become Earth's most celebrated band of heroes. Together, they would save the world countless times. Ever driven by his quest for knowledge, Reed is believed by most to be the Earth's foremost intelligence. There is little he cannot create, fix, or understand given time. The patents and royalties on his inventions alone have funded the group over the years.
However, there are drawbacks to his association with the team. Chief among them is the team's violent encounters with Doctor Doom, who believes that Reed was responsible for the accident that scarred him.
Doom has never forgiven Reed and has sworn revenge. Doom has even gone as far as transforming Reed into a monstrous freak, attacking Reed's children and attempting to seduce Sue.
Subplots and story arcs
After many adventures as the Fantastic Four, Reed married Sue. Not long after that, the team encountered the Inhumans for the first time. They next encountered Galactus and the Silver Surfer.
Reed then opened a portal to the Negative Zone for the first time. Soon, the team first battled the Psycho-Man. Before long Reed and Sue had a baby, Franklin; the team battled Annihilus right before Franklin's birth. Franklin was a mutant with incredible powers, but, due to the cosmic ray alteration to his parents' DNA, they manifested while he was still very young (in the Marvel world, most mutants like the X-Men get their powers while teenagers).
Franklin appears to have power that can rival a member of the Celestials; almost immeasurable power in the body of a small child.
Under the constant pressure of their dangerous life, the couple briefly separated, and Reed further alienated Sue by shutting down Franklin's mind in order to prevent his power from causing global catastrophe; Sue Storm initiated divorce proceedings but the two were reconciled soon after.
Reed also saved Galactus's life during the course of his adventures. He then bought the Baxter Building.
Later, he was tried by the Shi'ar for saving Galactus's life, but the charges were dropped when Eternity briefly granted all those attending the trial a moment of 'cosmic awareness' that allowed them to understand that Galactus was necessary for the continued well-being of the universe.
Reed's battle with Gormuu prior to getting his powers was recounted. Just after that, Reed was reunited with his father in an alternate timeline. Some time later, Reed and Sue retired from the Fantastic Four, and then joined the Avengers, although Reed's past experience as leader of the Fantastic Four meant that he had trouble adjusting to following Captain America's lead regardless of his respect for the other man. Eventually, Reed and Sue did rejoin the Fantastic Four.
In the course of fighting an alien called Hunger, Doctor Doom was seriously injured. The Fantastic Four were also part of the battle against Hunger and Doom asked for his old enemy to take his hand. At that point they both disappeared in a flash, leaving nothing but ashes. It would appear as if the two sworn enemies had fittingly died in each other's hands.
However, unknown to anyone else at the time, Reed and Doom had actually been thrown back into the time of barbarians and onto an alien world by a being called Hyperstorm, Reed's grandchild from an alternate future, the child of Franklin Richards and Rachel Summers, daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey.
They were so far into the past, and with no technology, that even their brilliant minds couldn't find a way back home. Doom was captured and held prisoner by Hyperstorm. Reed wandered aimlessly for about a year.
Meanwhile, the rest of the FF recruited Scott Lang as scientific advisor. They even confronted an insane alternative version of Reed called the Dark Raider who was traveling from reality to reality, destroying all the various versions of himself after his own failure to save his world from Galactus in their original confrontation.
A while later, the remaining members of the FF along with the Sub-Mariner, Lyja and Kristoff Vernard found themselves trapped in the same era as their Reed and Doom.
They found Reed but faced a new problem: during his time alone, Reed had resigned himself to the reality that it was impossible for his old friends to stage a rescue and attacked them but soon realized that these truly were his friends.
After returning to their own time period, he sought Galactus, as he was the only being in the Universe who could defeat Hyperstorm. Upon Hyperstorm's defeat at the hands of Galactus, the FF returned to the present day where they continued their lives, not only as a team, but as a family.
Onslaught and Heroes Reborn
Shortly after their return, the FF were confronted by a being called Onslaught. Onslaught took control of an army of Sentinels and invaded New York City, hunting down every mutant being he could find.
Onslaught wished to add the abilities of the ultra-powerful Franklin Richards to his own. Only through the apparent sacrifice of the Fantastic Four's own lives and that of many of the heroes in the Marvel universe was Onslaught finally vanquished.
The heroes would have died then and there if not for Franklin, who created an alternate reality for them to reside in. Completely oblivious to what had taken place, Reed and his compatriots relived most of their lives.
In their absence the Fantastic Four's headquarters, Four Freedoms Plaza, was annihilated by a super villain group called the Masters of Evil, posing as heroes, The Thunderbolts.
One year later, Franklin returned with his family along with the other heroes from the parallel reality. Reed was overjoyed to see his son again, but he and the rest of the FF found themselves without a home. They moved into Reed's storage warehouse on Pier 4, overlooking the East River.
Making this their home, the Fantastic Four continued with their lives, eventually managing to move back into the Baxter Building.
It has emerged that Reed is one of the members of the "Illuminati", unknown to his wife. He is also in possession of the "Power" gem of the Infinity Gauntlet.
Pro-Registration
In the Civil War event, Reed Richards is one of the leading figures, along with Iron Man, on the side which is in favor of the Superhuman Registration Act.
He speculates that this will lead to conflict with his wife, which came true when a clone of Thor, created by him and Tony Stark, went out of control and killed Goliath and nearly killed all the rest of the Secret Avengers until Sue Storm stepped in and saved them.
Soon after, Sue left Reed, along with Johnny, to join the Secret Avengers in hopes that it would drive Reed to end the conflict quickly.
Shortly before the events of Civil War, Peter Parker demanded to see the conditions inside the detention facility designed by Reed to hold unregistered superhumans.
After being escorted to and from the prison by Iron Man, Parker returns with more doubts than ever about whether he is on the right side and asks Reed why he supports the Superhuman Registration Act, a question Reed answers by telling the story of his paternal uncle, Ted.
Reed remembers his uncle, who was a professional writer, as "funny", "colorful", and "accepting". As a boy, Reed loved spending time with Ted. Unfortunately, Ted was also "an eccentric" and "stubborn".
Because he had a career in the arts and because he stood out, Ted was called before HUAC, imprisoned on contempt of Congress charges for six months, and was unable to find work after he'd served his sentence.
He was even shunned by Reed's father. Ted lost everything, which Reed says finally "killed him" without going into greater detail. Richards opines that his uncle was wrong to take such a stand, to pick a fight he couldn't win, and to fail to respect the law.
However it was revealed that the real reason for supporting the registration act is due to his development of a working version of Isaac Asimov's psychohistory concept.
His application of this science indicates to him that billions will die in escalating conflicts without the presence of the act. In the final battle of the war, he is shot by Taskmaster, saving Sue Storm's life. With Reed on the brink of death, a furious Sue crushes Taskmaster with a telekinetic field.
Reed survives, however, and Sue returns to him in the aftermath of the battle, having been granted amnesty. Seeking to repair the damage done to their marriage as a result of the war, Sue and Reed take time off from the Fantastic Four, but ask Storm and the Black Panther to take their places in the meantime.
World War Hulk
Within the midst of Civil War, Reed Richards learned from a brief conversation with Mastermind Excello that the Hulk is not on the planet where the Illuminati attempted to exile him.
After a conversation over the good the Hulk has done for humanity, Reed tells Iron Man of what happened to the Hulk and also states that the Hulk has friends, and "may God help us if they find him before we do".
Within the aftermath of Civil War, Reed Richards had been keeping tabs on Mastermind Excello and when the She-Hulk learned about the Hulk's exile, Reed Richards sends out Doc Samson to confront her when he sees her meeting with Mastermind Excello.
Then Reed is seen with Tony Stark as Iron Man. Both men were trying to convince Sentry to fight the Hulk, thinking that the calm aura that the Sentry produces may be able to stop the Hulk's rampage.
With the aid of the rest of the Fantastic Four, Storm, and the Black Panther, Reed is able to create a machine that projects an image of the Sentry and recreates the hero's aura of calm.
He uses the machine on the Hulk just as he is about to defeat the Thing, but the Hulk knows it is not the real Sentry and destroys the machine. In a last line of defense, Sue Storm tries to protect her husband by encapsulating the Hulk in an energy field while pleading with him to spare Reed. The Hulk does not listen and is able to easily exert enough strength against her force field to cause Susan to collapse and experience a nosebleed from the stress, dooming Reed to the Hulk's wrath.
Reed is later seen among the various heroes that the Hulk defeated so far, within the depths of the Hulk's Gladiator arena located within Madison Square Garden.
He and all of the heroes are implanted with "obedience disks" that are used to suppress their powers.These disks are the same that were used upon the Hulk during his time on Sakaar.
The Hulk orders Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic to face off in battle. Richards, after having the upper hand on Stark, is then given the thumbs down by Hulk, instructing Richards to kill Stark.
However the Hulk spares their lives, showing them that he proved his point to the world. They survived the encounter by Hulk's mercy and the timely intervention of the Sentry.
The Illuminati are partially cleared from the responsibility of Sakaar's destruction when Miek, one of the Hulk's alien allies, admits he saw the Red King forces breach the ship's warp core. Miek kept quiet to initiate what he felt was Hulk's destiny as the "Worldbreaker".
Secret Invasion
Mister Fantastic is at the Illuminati's meeting discussing the threat of the Skrulls when the Black Bolt with them is revealed to be a Skrull in disguise.
Mister Fantastic and Hank Pym autopsy the body of the Skrull who impersonated Elektra (with Reed pretending to be seeing the corpse for the first time, thus keeping the secret of the Illuminati).
After completing the dissection, Reed claims to have discovered the secret of how the Skrulls have been able to conceal their identities. Before he can elaborate, "Hank Pym" reveals himself to be a Skrull and shoots Richards with a weapon that violently leaves his elastic body in a state of chaotic disarray similar to Silly String.
After that, it is shown that a Skrull assumed Reed's form in order to successfully ambush and capture Sue Richards, to facilitate an attack on the Fantastic Four's headquarters.
A conscious but still mostly shapeless Reed Richards is seen being forcibly stretched in all directions to cover the floor of a medium-sized arena aboard a Skrull ship, with all of the seats filled by Skrull onlookers.
He is freed by Abigail Brand, and then travels with her to the Savage Land and uses a device to reveal all the Skrull invaders present.
After helping the Avengers to defeat the imposters and return to New York, Reed aids the heroes and villains of Earth in their battle against the Skrulls.
Dark Reign
Mister Fantastic aids the New Avengers in the search for the daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones.
He and the rest of the Fantastic Four are magically reduced to television signals by the chaotic activities of the Elder God Chthon, to prevent them from intervening, though after Chthon is defeated, he and the other three are turned back.
Norman Osborn is a man well aware that Reed is one of the few that have intellect exceeding even his own and thus poses a great threat to his carefully constructed shadow world.
Osborn sends H.A.M.M.E.R. agents to shut down the Fantastic Four and capture them, expelling them from the Initiative and stripping them all their rights.
Taking place a week from the Secret Invasion, which has caused Richards to seriously reevaluate his own life and the life he has built for his family, resulting in turbulent internal conflicts.
Richards, as he takes a long, hard look at the life, is prompted to construct a machine that is capable of bending reality itself, to do so.
Agents from H.A.M.M.E.R. arrive just as Reed activates the machine, interfacing with the Baxter Building's power supply, resulting in an energy fluctuation that sends Sue, Ben and Johnny back to the prehistoric era, fraught with dangers, which manifest in the form of the First Celestial Host.
Reed searches for answers which can only be found in alternate timelines as the three find themselves in a super hero Hyborian-age civil war; Franklin and Valeria are the only ones available to confront the agents Osborn sent.
Richards studies other parallel Earths to see if any found a peaceful solution to the Civil War, which resulted from the Superhuman Registration Act.
Reed peers into different worlds, some more bizarre than our own, to see what they did differently. This is an insightful look into where the Marvel Universe has gone in the past "year" (in Marvel time) and to see who was at fault, if anyone.
Reed meets with the other five Illuminati to handle the problem. Ultimately, after seeing about a million alternate Earths, he had concluded that there was no way for the Civil War to be resolved but that he, as the cleverest man in the Marvel Universe, had a responsibility to put things right.
But before turning the machine off, he searches for other realities where they have the same machines he is using; the machine locates them and the people he finds tell him that they can help him.
Reed Richards reappeared, refusing to give Hank Pym an invention previously left in the care of the Fantastic Four, following Bill Foster's untimely death, causing the Wasp to lead the team of Mighty Avengers to retrieve the device.
Then, Pym's attempting to knock down the Baxter Building (due to Loki's manipulations, likely) sows further displeasure and leads to a direct conflict between the Fantastic Four and Loki's Mighty Avengers.
This conflict eventually ends in a new base for the Mighty Avengers and a shockingly disturbing alliance of the Dark Reign.
A new character is then seen, a ruler known as the Unspoken, one more powerful than any other in the universe, to the point he had to be erased from history, and how his return will impact the planet and the cosmos beyond, in the War of Kings.
After the Secret Invasion and some time into the Dark Reign, in the War of Kings, when Blastaar is about to open the portal to Earth, on the other side in Camp Hammond, Star-Lord and the Guardians tell Reed Richards and others to never open the portal, or they will face the wrath of Blastaar.
Mister Fantastic agrees and says they will not open the portal and then asks who they are. Star-Lord replies, "We're the Guardians of the Galaxy" before leaving.
Future Foundation
Tragedy strikes the team when Johnny is apparently killed in the Negative Zone. As the Fantastic Four recover from Johnny's apparent death, Mister Fantastic grows disillusioned at how scientists see science and its applications.
Therefore, he creates a new team, the Future Foundation, to help create a better future for mankind.
However, the team's initial tasks are complicated when they are forced to deal with the 'Council of Reeds', a group of alternate versions of Reed Richards who lack his morality or family that became trapped in the FF's reality after an accident with Reed's dimensional portal.
The Quiet Man
After Johnny is returned and the team resume using the Fantastic Four name, they are systematically attacked by the mysterious Quiet Man, a figure who reveals that he has been behind many of the villain attacks the FF have faced over the years, now stepping forward to take a more active role as he shuts down Johnny's powers, frames the Thing for murder, has Reed and Sue Richards declared unfit guardians for their children, and then abducts Reed with the intention of framing him for a series of attacks committed by the heroes created in Franklin's pocket universe.
However, Reed is able to defeat the Quiet Man's plan to proclaim himself the hero who defeated Reed's 'attack' on the world when he realizes that the Psycho-Man - one of the Quiet Man's allies - intended to betray him, forcing Reed and the Quiet Man to work together to deactivate the Psycho-Man's equipment.
Secret Wars
During the Secret Wars storyline, Reed is one of the few survivors of Earth-616 to come through with his memories intact, hiding in a 'life raft' with various other heroes and eventually released by Doctor Strange.
Learning that the new 'Battleworld' is now ruled by Doctor Doom, who has absorbed the power of various Beyonders and Molecule Men to become a virtual god, Reed and the other heroes disperse across Battleworld to come up with a plan.
Reed eventually starts working with his counterpart from the Ultimate Marvel universe who calls himself Maker. The two find themselves disagreeing on their methods, with Reed preferring to find a way to save the world while Maker is more focused on killing their enemy, Reed countering his other self's accusations that he is weak by musing that he simply has things to care for outside of himself.
In the final confrontation, Reed and the Maker discover that the source of Doom's power is the Molecule Man (Owen Reece), but although the Maker attempts to betray Reed by transforming him into the appearance of an ape, Reece reverses the Maker's attack and turns him into pepperoni pizza.
When Doom comes down to confront Reed, Reed challenges Doom as Reece temporarily deprives Doom of his new god-level powers, Reed proclaiming Doom to be nothing more than a coward for taking control of what was left of existence rather than trying to reshape it.
Inspired by Reed's words, Reece transfers Doom's power to him, with Reed recreating the former Earth-616 before he, Susan, their children, and the rest of the Future Foundation move to use Franklin and Reed's powers to rebuild the multiverse.
eturn to Prime Earth
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, and the Future Foundation were later confronted by the Griever at the End of All Things after Reed had expended most of his Beyonder-based energies while Franklin was left with only limited reality-warping abilities.
Due to the Griever causing the collapse of 100 worlds, the Future Foundation had to make a stand even after Molecule Man was killed. When Mister Fantastic tricked the Griever into bringing their Fantastic Four teammates to them, Thing and Human Torch were reunited, and every other superhero that was part of the Fantastic Four showed up as well.
Faced with these numbers, the Griever was eventually driven back when most of her equipment was destroyed, forcing her to return to her universe or be trapped in this one, while the heroes were able to repair the damaged equipment to create a new teleporter to send them all home.
Powers and abilities
Reed Richards gained the power of elasticity from irradiation by cosmic rays. He has the ability to convert his entire body into a highly malleable state at will, allowing him to stretch, deform, and reform himself into virtually any shape.
Richards has been observed as being able to utilize his stretching form in a variety of offensive and defensive manners, such as compressing himself into a ball and ricocheting into enemies, flattening himself into a trampoline or a parachute to catch a falling teammate, or inflating himself into a life raft to aid in a water rescue.
He can willfully reduce his body's cohesion until he reaches a fluid state, which can flow through minute openings or into tiny pipes. Reed is also able to shape his hands into hammer and mace style weapons, and concentrate his mass into his fists to increase their density and effectiveness as weapons.
Having an elastic-like texture allows Reed protection from damage. He can be punched with incredible force, flattened, squished, and still re-form or survive without any form of sufficient injury.
Reed's control over his shape has been developed to such a point that he has been able to radically alter his facial features and his entire physical form to pass among human and non-humans unnoticed and unrecognized.
He has even molded himself into the shapes of inanimate objects, such as a mailbox. He rarely uses his powers in such an undignified fashion. However, he appears to have no qualms about stretching out his ears, taking the shape of a dinosaur, becoming a human trampoline, or inflating his hands into pool toys to entertain his children.
The most extreme demonstration of Reed's powers is when at one point he was able to increase his size and mass to Thing-like proportions which also increased his physical strength.
Assuming and maintaining these shapes used to require extreme effort. Due to years of mental and physical training, Reed can now perform these feats at will. His powers (and those of the Red Ghost) were also increased when they were exposed to a second dose of cosmic rays.
Maintaining his body's normal human shape requires a certain degree of ongoing concentration. When Reed is relaxed and distracted, his body appears to "melt in slow motion" according to Susan Storm.
Being forcefully stretched to extremes during a short span of time (by a taffy-puller-type machine or a strong character, for example) causes Reed to suffer intense pain and the temporary loss of his natural elastic resiliency.
He possesses other weaknesses too; a great shock to his body - for example, from the likes of Doctor Doom when he constructs around him - can make his body so rubbery he loses motor control. Enough energy can reduce him to a liquid state in which he is immobile.
Mister Fantastic's strength comes more from the powers of his mind than the powers of his body; indeed, he once told Spider-Man that he considers his stretching powers to be expendable compared to his intellect.
Some accounts have implied that his intellect may have been boosted by his powers, as he once visited an alternate universe where his other self-had never been exposed to cosmic rays and was notably less intelligent than him, though purely human versions of Reed that are as or even more intelligent than himself have been shown, particularly among the Council of Reeds.
Tony Stark has commented that Reed's ability to make his brain physically larger (via his elastic powers) gives him an advantage, though this seems to be meant more as a joke. That said, scenes from the same event show Reed "inflating" his skull as he calculates the power output of Tony's Repulsor-battery heart implant.
For virtually his entire history, Mister Fantastic has been depicted as one of the most intelligent characters in the Marvel Universe.
A visionary theoretician and an inspired machine smith, he has made breakthroughs in such varied fields as space travel, time travel, extra-dimensional travel, biochemistry, robotics, computers, synthetic polymers, communications, mutations, transportation, holography, energy generation, and spectral analysis, among others.
However, he is never afraid to admit when others have greater expertise in certain fields than him, such as recognizing that Doctor Octopus possesses greater knowledge of radiation, that Hank Pym is a superior biochemist, or that Spider-Man can think of a problem from a biology perspective where he would be unable to do so, since his expertise is in physics.
Richards has earned Ph.D.s in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering. His patents are so valuable that he is able to bankroll the Fantastic Four, Inc., without any undue financial stress.
Mind control is rarely effective on him and when it does work, it wears off sooner than it would on a normal person, due to what he describes as an "elastic consciousness".
However, this intelligence can be a handicap in his dealings with magic, as it required an intense lesson from Doctor Strange and facing the threat of his son being trapped in a hellish environment for Reed to fully acknowledge that the key to using magic was to accept that he would never understand it.
Richards is also an accomplished fighter due to his years of combat experience with the Fantastic Four, and has earned a black belt in judo.
Following the Battleworld crisis, Reed acquired the powers of the Beyonders that were once wielded by Doom, but he relied on his son Franklin's creativity and new powers to help him recreate the multiverse after the incursions destroyed the other parallel universes.
Equipment and technology
Although the Fantastic Four have numerous devices, crafts, and weapons, there are some items that Reed Richards carries with him at all times.
Fantastiflare: Launches a fiery "4" into the sky that is used during combat situations to let other members of the group know their location.
Uniform Computer: Like all the Fantastic Four's costumes and the rest of Reed's wardrobe, his suit is made of "unstable molecules". This means that the suit is attuned to his powers, which is why Johnny's costume doesn't burn when he "flames on", Sue's costume turns invisible when she does, and Reed's costume stretches with him.
The costume also insulates them from electrical assaults. In addition, the team's uniforms are also, in essence, wearable computers. Their costumes have a complete data processing and telemetry system woven into the material of the uniform on a molecular level.
This forms a network with the entire team, providing a constant, real-time uplink of everyone's physical condition as well as their location and current situation.
The suit is capable of displaying data and touch-pad controls on the gauntlets. Its sensors can track all of the team's uniforms and provide a picture of their immediate vicinity.
The suit has an intricate scanner system which can detect things around the wearer, from how many people are in the next room to what dimension or planet they are on.
Reed can also up-link the bodysuit to any computer by stretching his fingertips to filament size and plugging them into an I/O data-port. With this, Reed can establish a fairly comprehensive database of any computer's cybernetic protocols and encryption algorithms.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Alter Ego: Reed Richards
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961)
Created by: Stan Lee (writer)
Jack Kirby (artist)
Trying out each of the 3 starters although I already know I want to go Nomad and have him go as full out melee.
Corporate, if I play, is all intellect and tech.
History
The John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840 was an only child, with a modest fortune, and a fine intellect. He became a classics scholar, a scientist and a friend of Charles Darwin. He was one of the first members of the Royal Horticultural Society and a patron of the plant collectors of the day.
He chose Riverhill because its sheltered situation offered an ideal lime free hillside where he could hope to establish newly introduced trees and shrubs. From his garden notebook, it can be seen that planting started in 1842. Subsequent generations, continued the planting and in 1910 Colonel John Middleton Rogers created what is now known as ‘The Wood Garden’ a fine collection of Japanese Maples, Rhododendrons and Azaleas. His wife, the infamous Muriel, created many additions including the now hidden Rock Gardens.
Until the beginning of the 2nd World War, eight full time gardeners kept Riverhill looking immaculate. Since the war years, however, a shortage of manpower and a lack of money has meant that the garden was allowed to deteriorate, with many parts of the original planting lost to everyday use and visitors.
Today, four generations of the Rogers family live at Riverhill,
The estate is managed by Edward Rogers (Great-great-great-grandson of the John Rogers who bought Riverhill in 1840) and his wife, Sarah.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings."
~ Susan Sontag
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. HG-Wells.