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Figure montante de l’art urbain, Levalet a investi la rue par l’installation de personnages à échelle humaine
au langage corporel expressif .
Cinéma, mime, théâtre d’improvisation nourrissent son travail pour donner naissance à une compagnie de
comédiens qui interagit avec le passant. Cette démarche illusionniste est un jeu de rôles qui semble croqué
sur le vif, de préférence à l’encre sur papier.
Collés ensuite dans la rue, les dessins de Levalet interpellent par leur trait caractéristique, leur décalage,
leur poésie, leur imagination et la pertinence d’un contexte toujours choisi avec soin.
Chaque installation raconte ainsi une histoire habile entre humour et questionnement et transforme
l’espace public en scènes inattendues aux sens multiples.
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Last week, Pan Am’s business train made a third consecutive week run. With the rumors flying of the Railroad being up for sale and potential new buyers checking out the Railroad. The train left Mechanicville, NY at sun rise but with all the slowdowns, the train came at pretty good timing. As seen here passing The farm land near the “Cosby Red Barn”. Photo taken Buckland, MA October 14, 2020
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I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
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Klondyke Mill was an ore processing mill on the edge of the Gwydir Forest, near Trefriw, north Wales.
Constructed in 1900,[1] the mill was built to receive lead ore (and some zinc ore) from Pandora mine, some 2 miles away – with which its history is inextricably linked – this ore travelling along a tramway which followed the eastern shore of Llyn Geirionydd. The mill saw little usage; Pandora mine was never profitable after construction of the mill, and the mine ceased operation in 1905. Klondyke mill itself closed in 1911 after having a short succession of optimistic owners.
In the 1920s, the mill achieved notoriety as the scene of an elaborate money-making scam, when investors were sought for the Klondyke mine, which was allegedly rich in silver. It is this scam which gives the mill its current name; during its years of operation it was initially known as Geirionydd Mill, then as the New Pandora Lead Works.[1]
Today the mill lies in a ruined state, a tribute to the false optimism of the time, and is believed to be the largest upstanding building associated with lead mining in north Wales.[2] It is a registered ancient monument [3][4] and, despite its state of disrepair, is under the guardianship of Cadw, the only mine structure in the Gwydir Forest to be so designated.
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My first sighting of a Colas Rail Class 70 and this wasn't really what I had in mind. Working 6M50 Westbury - Bescot engineers train through Compton Beauchamp, you have to question the need to move two YKA 'Salmon' flats such a distance. Wouldn't have including these in tomorrows consist been a more cost effective way to move them? I guess now they invested in the new traction, they need to be seen to be using it.
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Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland, where the investment here is not in the roads, but rather one of the many chip shops as this guy hauls bags of potatoes across Buchanan Street.
Can you reverse engineer the lighting before checking the setup? Drop a comment about your guess and then check the setup.
Strobist info and setup is here.
Iconic NYC scene.
"Dumbo (or DUMBO, short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area known as Dumbo used to be known as Gairville. It encompasses two sections: one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another that continues east from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area. The neighborhood is bounded by Brooklyn Bridge Park to the north, the Brooklyn Bridge to the west, Brooklyn Heights to the south and Vinegar Hill to the east. Dumbo is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.
The area was originally a ferry landing, characterized by 19th- and early 20th-century industrial and warehouse buildings, Belgian block streets, and its location on the East River by the imposing anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge. The entirety of Dumbo was bought by developer David Walentas and his company Two Trees Management in the late 20th century, and remade into an upscale residential and commercial community—first becoming a haven for art galleries, and currently a center for technology startups.
The large community of tech startups earned Dumbo the nickname of "the center of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle". In that time, Dumbo had become Brooklyn's most expensive neighborhood, as well as New York City's fourth-richest community overall; this is owing in part to its large concentration of technology startups, its close proximity to Manhattan, and its large number of former industrial buildings that have been converted into spacious luxury residential lofts. The neighborhood is the corporate headquarters for e-commerce retailer Etsy and home furnishing stores company West Elm.
Brooklyn (/ˈbrʊklɪn/) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behind New York County (Manhattan). Brooklyn is also New York City's most populous borough, with 2,736,074 residents in 2020. If each borough were ranked as a city, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S., after Los Angeles and Chicago.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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• Before you speak, listen
• Before you write, think
• Before you spend, earn
• Before you invest, investigate
• Before you criticize, wait
• Before you pray, forgive
• Before you quit, try
• Before you retire, save
• Before you die, live
Place: Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Chinese name: 宝骏730 (bǎojùn 730)
Year of launch: 2014
The last ten years lots of joint venture companies between Chinese domestic and international carmakers have popped up in mainland China, as the Chinese government sort of requires foreign-invested joint ventures to develop in return for approvals to expand production capacity on the lucrative Chinese market. Usually foreign carmakers dump their oldest models in those car brands, because they don't want to share their latest platforms and technology with the Chinese companies. So far we've seen brands like Baojun (SAIC-GM-Wuling), Venucia (Dongfeng-Nissan), Ciimo (Dongfeng-Honda), Everus (Guangqi Honda), Horki (Dongfeng-Yueda-Kia), Denza (BYD Daimler), Zinoro (BMW Brilliance), Ranz (FAW-Toyota), Kaili (FAW-Volkswagen).
Some of these brands have already been discontinued and only two brands are successful: Baojun and to a lesser extent Venucia. Baojun. Baojun started in 2011 with a sedan based on the Buick Excelle (Daewoo Lacetti/Nubira) platform, the 630 and sales really took off when it launched the 730, an MPV slotting above the Wuling Hongguang-range. In 2016 Baojun sold over 370,000 examples of this MPV. In 2015 it launched the 560, the brand's first SUV. It was yet another sales hit with over 320,000 units in 2016. In 2016 Baojun sold more than 760,000 cars.
Rania A. Al Mashat, Advisor, International Monetary Fund (IMF), USA speaking during the session "Investing in Peace" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 18, 2017
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A piggy bank and a calculator
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Another edit from a previous shot.
Have downloaded a trial version of Silver Efex. Not sure whether to invest so please let me know what you think.
Not getting any time to get out and get any new shots so experimenting with post processing programme's.
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The $12.4 million dollar Penn Central Mall opened in 1984 with a crowd of over 11,000 eager shoppers on hand. The mall structure was designed and developed between 1983 and 1984 using $3.4 million in Urban Development Action Grants. The grants included $800,000 for the relocation of 60 businesses and homes affected by construction of the mall. The remainder, $2.6 million, went towards construction of the mall.
Other funding sources include a $6.6 million loan, and $2 million from local investors and direct contributions through the sale of bricks located in the mall center court. Sernett’s Department Store built a brand new $1.2 million department store on the malls west side where HyVee sits today.
Sernett’s and JC Penney where the first two anchors to sign on onto the mall and K-Mart would soon anchor the malls southern side with a large new Class C store. The community development group lobbied hard for the mall, and when it opened in 1985, occupancy was over 70 percent.
It has been reported that Oskaloosa’s Sernett’s department store was one of the most successful locations in the chain. It was one of the few profitable stores when the Sernett family decided to close their faltering department store businesses.
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Thank you beautiful morning people for making our 26th CreativeMornings Cluj another awesome experience! Thank you so much Hedi Hoka for accepting our challenge and sharing with us a wonderful and inspiring talk. Thank you to our community partner ClujHub for hosting us. Thank you our dear local partners ClujLife, EBS radio, Food Waste Combat and AIESEC Cluj-Napoca. Thank you Natuu for the delicious breakfast. Thank you Alma Nicole and Jacob for sharing your musical talent and passion with us. This month’s theme is #CMinvest. @creativemorningshk chose this month’s exploration and Bao Ho (simplebao.com) illustrated it. Photo credits: Andreea Boros
Yuri: “Oh, Fletcher, please do not insult our intelligence…or the sophisticated network of gossips in our family. We know you and Wren are friendly again. Furthermore, you will take our money because we deem it so. How many times must we say that?”
Fletcher: “We talk from time to time on the phone is all. I hardly think that warrants a move to Boston, Butter Bean. And I am not taking one damn cent. End of discussion.”
Lukas: *chuckles, genuinely tickled* “I love the way you said ‘end of discussion,’ like that’ll actually work. The Georgia sun has clearly chicken-fried your brain, son.”
Fletcher: “Tell Yuri she shouldn’t give me the money.”
Yuri: *crosses arms, eyes narrowing dangerously* “Yes, Lukas, why do you not attempt to ‘tell me.’”
Lukas: “No thank you. For one, you won’t listen. And, for another, I happen to think investing in Fletch’s new law firm is a great idea.”
Fletcher: *sneers* “You sound just like Simon. I swear! Did y’all completely lose your balls when you got married?”
Lukas: “Lose, no. Hide in an undisclosed location, so Red can’t squish them, yes.”
Kumi: *face stretches into a pleased smile*
Molly: *signs animatedly, then grabs Fletch’s hand and squeezes it*
Diego: *translates* “‘Fletch and Wren are going to get married and live happily ever after.’”
Kumi: “How do ya know? Is this some mystical, all-knowing deaf thing? You lose one sense, so you gain extra intuition or psychic powers?”
Molly: *rolls eyes, releases Fletch’s hand and signs*
Diego: *translates* “‘Duh. Because of the way his face changes when he talks about her. Maybe y’all don’t notice it because you’re too busy listening to his words or tone, instead of watching his expression. But I can tell when he’s talking about Wren, even without reading his lips. His eyes illuminate like sunlight through oak leaves. It’s real cute.’”
Fletcher (sternly): “Keep talking like that, darlin’, and I’m going to renege on my promise to spring for unlimited pizza toppings at dinner.”
Molly: *smiles up at Fletcher, as she wraps her arm around his waist, unintimidated*
Fashion Credits
***Any doll enhancements (i.e. freckles, piercings, eye color changes, haircuts) were done by me unless otherwise stated.***
Molly
Shorts: SL Doll
Top: Mattel – California Girl Fashion Pack
Jacket: Mattel – My Scene Fashion
Platforms: Mattel – Barbie Collectibles - Peace & Love 70’s Barbie
Bag: Sugarbabylove (etsy.com); I made/added the charm.
Necklace: IT – Fashion Royalty – Capricious Natalia
Earrings: Me
Doll is a She’s Not There Poppy Parker, eyes have been repainted by me, all other enhancements by me.
Fletcher
Jeans: Mattel – Barbie Collectible – James Dean
Shirt: Clear lan
Belt: Miema (etsy.com)
Boots: Volks – Who’s That Girl? - Selfish
Doll is a Turning Heads Pierre.
A street art stencil feating the "get out of jail free" card image from Monopoly board-game. Found pained on the sidewalk in New York City in 2007.
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The Porter Brothers arrived from Randsburg in 1905 with 18 wagon loads of merchandise and built a store. The HD & LD Porter Store was the leading merchant in Rhyolite, Nevada. Customers were able to purchase groceries and fresh vegetables, clothing and assessories, mining supplies, hardware, lumber, furniture, hay, grain, and Studebaker wagons from this store. The store also offered freight animals for rent. Their slogan was, "We handle all good things but whiskey." Their first store in Rhyolite was located at Main and Esmeralda and opened in June 1905. The concrete, one story with basement and huge store front windows, building located on Golden Street was built in 1906. It was opened for business in November 1906. The lot was purchased for $1,200 and estimated building construction is $10,000.
The company had warehouses located in Beatty and Rhyolite, selling both wholesale and retail goods.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern edge of Death Valley. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
Industrialist Charles M. Schwab bought the Montgomery Shoshone Mine in 1906 and invested heavily in infrastructure, including piped water, electric lines, and railroad transportation, that served the town as well as the mine. By 1907, Rhyolite had electric lights, water mains, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, a school, an opera house, and a stock exchange. Published estimates of the town's peak population vary widely, but scholarly sources generally place it in a range between 3,500 and 5,000 in 1907–08.
Rhyolite declined almost as rapidly as it rose. After the richest ore was exhausted, production fell. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the financial panic of 1907 made it more difficult to raise development capital. In 1908, investors in the Montgomery Shoshone Mine, concerned that it was overvalued, ordered an independent study. When the study's findings proved unfavorable, the company's stock value crashed, further restricting funding. By the end of 1910, the mine was operating at a loss, and it closed in 1911. By this time, many out-of-work miners had moved elsewhere, and Rhyolite's population dropped well below 1,000. By 1920, it was close to zero.
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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor, and author. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 1997, Branson founded the Virgin Rail Group to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail. The Virgin Trains brand operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 1997 to 2019, the InterCity CrossCountry franchise from 1997 to 2007, and the InterCity East Coast franchise from 2015 to 2018. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.
In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship". For his work in retail, music and transport (with interests in land, air, sea and space travel), his taste for adventure and for his humanitarian work, he has become a prominent global figure. In 2007, he was placed in the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. In July 2021, Forbes listed Branson's estimated net worth at US$5.7 billion.
On 11 July 2021, Branson travelled as a passenger onboard Virgin Galactic Unity 22 at the edge of space, a suborbital test flight for his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic. The mission lasted approximately one hour, reaching a peak altitude of 53.5 miles (86.1 km). At 71, Branson is the third oldest person to fly to space.
Here he is greeting the crowd after jumping off Bognor Pier for the 25th International Bognor Birdman 2003.
Virgin Atlantic was the sponsor the 2003 event. This was described by Councillor Oliver Wingrove, Arun District Council's Cabinet Member for Leisure, as "a tremendous coup, bringing together two famous names in the 100 year history of aviation".
Sir Richard Branson, Chairman of Virgin Atlantic, said: "The Bognor Birdman is an internationally recognised event which celebrates our desire to fly as well as our limited ability to do so without power! It also showcases some of the most unusual ways to take flight. The centenary of the first powered flight would be an ideal time to break Bognor's own target of 100 metres of human powered flight. Who knows, I might even have a go myself!"
The International Birdman is a series of two English competitions held in the West Sussex towns of Bognor Regis and Worthing. The competition which involves human 'birdmen' attempting to fly off the end of a pier into the sea for prize money. The event began in 1971 and has always been held on piers in West Sussex, on the south coast of England. First held in Selsey, the event moved to Bognor Regis in 1978. In 2008 and 2009 the competition relocated to Worthing Pier due to renovations of Bognor Regis Pier. From 2010 Bognor Regis and Worthing have both held Birdman competition, forming the International Birdman Series. It is the oldest Birdman Rally in the world.
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