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The Big Lunch roadshow stopped in Londonderry’s Foyleside Shopping Centre on Saturday 28th April, with renowned storyteller Steve Lally entertaining young shoppers while their parents learned more about the community campaign.
The Big Lunch is a very simple idea from the Eden Project. It is funded by The Big Lottery and partnered by MasterCard, Kingsmill and EDF Energy. The aim is to get as many people in the UK as possible to have lunch with their neighbours for a few hours of community, friendship and fun.
Grainne McCloskey, local Big Lunch representative said; “We were delighted with the response from the Northern Ireland public last year, and hope 2012 will be the biggest Big Lunch ever.
“There are many reasons for people in Derry to get together this June. The Olympic torch, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Volunteering Week are all happening around the same time, so The Big Lunch is perfectly timed for communities to have fun with the people they live nearest.
“It’s really easy to get involved, just visit the Big Lunch website to get a free pack to help you organise your event. From tea and cakes with your neighbours to street parties and community BBQs, The Big Lunch, can be whatever you wish. No matter what you do, the outcome remains the same; starting good local conversations and building stronger, more sustainable communities in a fun, inclusive way,” she said.
Joanne McDowell, Big Lottery Fund NI Director, added: "The Big Lunch is firmly establishing itself in Northern Ireland as a great way for communities and neighbourhoods to come together in the simple act of sharing a meal.
“The Big Lottery Fund is encouraging charities, volunteer organisations and community groups across Northern Ireland to run Big Lunches in their communities that will bring local people together. The good conversations started at Big Lunches can lead to stronger neighbourhood networks and motivate people to take more of an active role in their communities.”
As well as neighbours and wider communities getting together to celebrate The Big Lunch, groups and membership organisations and charities such as The Scouts, Volunteer Now, PTA NI, Pretty n Pink and the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations have all pledged to take part.
You can get a free Big Lunch organisers pack at www.thebiglunch.com
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Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Students gathered to march and protest through the campus against racial violence and featured events on police brutality, white privilege, and on raising black children.
If we do not struggle against racial violence we are complicit in that violence.
Canon 5D Original
April 29th, 2015
Progressive .NET 2017. Wednesday, 13th - Friday, 15th September at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8268-progressive-dot-net-2017. Images Copyright www.edtelling.com
µCon London 2018 - The Microservices Conference. Monday, 5th - Tuesday, 6th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/10336-mucon-london-2018-the-.... Images Copyright www.tellingphotography.com
µCon London 2017: The Microservices Conference. Monday, 6th - Tuesday, 7th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8549-con-2017-the-microservi.... Images Copyright www.edtelling.com
Scala eXchange 2016, Thursday, 8th - Friday, 9th December at Business Design Centre, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7432-scala-exchange-2016#pro.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Black Lives Matter protest Katie Palvich outside Mitchell Hall on September 21st, 2015. Kirk Smith/The Review
Handwritten signs are posted on the entrance of the Calhoun Building at 711 Lake Street in Uptown Minneapolis on May 29, 2020. The messages express support for Black Lives Matter and racial justice during protests following the killing of George Floyd. One sign reads, “BIPOC Artists Here! BIPOC Organizations Here! Houseless People Sleep Here!".
This image is part of a continuing series following the unrest and events in Minneapolis following the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd.
The Story
The One-Winged Rhenal Calculus Creature
This is a human-generated, hyper-realistic photographic image of a fictional one-winged rhenal calculus creature, filed under the noble banners of still life, abstract photography, conceptual photography, and true photographic vanitas with symbolism.
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The wing of this creature, as tradition dictates, does not sprout from its body but lingers as a shadow — a phantom appendage, a deceitful silhouette. For this creature has no ambition to fly. Its purpose is subtler, more insidious: to trick the eye into believing in transcendence, while remaining stubbornly terrestrial, mineral, and cruelly intimate.
The image was generated not in the sterile glow of a laboratory, nor in the sterile glow of a prompt window, but in the dim, private caverns of the author’s InnerMostSpace. It emerged at the precise moment of its liberation, when the body, weary of hosting such an uninvited tenant, expelled it with the reluctant ceremony of pain. This was not a birth, nor a death, but something in between: geological miscarriage, mineral exorcism.
Unlike the digital phantoms of AI art, this creature was coaxed into existence by a prompt of chemicals, a long alchemy of calcium, oxalate, and time. The author’s body served as both crucible and gallery, a living kiln where the slow accretion of salts sculpted a form that no sculptor’s hand could dare to chisel. It is, therefore, one of the most authentic NFTs imaginable: Non-Fungible Torments. Yet, alas, the market is cruel, and the author too obscure to auction his agony for Ethereum. Thus, the image is offered here not as a commodity, but as a testimony — a preview of a series yet to come, a bestiary of SDL InnerSpace where each new creature carves itself out through the author’s unwilling channels.
The stories of SDL InnerSpace tell us that such beings seep from the Conceptual World, slipping through the Big Mesh — that porous veil between thought and matter — until they crystallize in the most fragile architectures of reality. Some choose the brain, where they masquerade as ideas. Others, more mischievous, choose the body, where they masquerade as stones. The author, it seems, has been chosen as a factory of both: a philosopher’s mind and a quarryman’s kidneys, producing artifacts that are at once metaphysical and excruciatingly physical.
So, behold the nephrolythic body of this one-winged impostor. Its surface is rough, like a failed jewel, a parody of preciousness. Its shadow-wing is a cruel joke, repeating that even pain can pretend to be angelic. It is tragic because it hurts, comic because it dares to pose as art, and poetic because it insists on being more than waste.
This is not just a photo. It is a relic of suffering, a shard of autobiography, a mineral metaphor. It is also a contribution to the constant philosophical debate on art, as a proof that art can be generated not only by prompts of words, but by prompts of flesh, chemistry, and endurance.
This is an image from InnerSpace, where the border between the conceptual and the corporeal is thin, and where even the most private agonies can be transfigured into public allegories.
This creature: born of salt, shadow, and sarcasm, is a monument to the absurdity of existence, and to the stubborn artistry of the human body, which insists on producing meaning — even when it hurts.
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Other than that, it happened today, exactly at 12:00, after eight days of suffering. I feel though that its other half is on its way too, so I guess I could create a small series to mint on OpenSea.
issues that matter according to the university of utah community on september 11, 2007
(left to right):
green
darfur
sex education
zebra mussels
increased recycling
lower drinking age to 18 ... if people can die for the US at 18, but not drink a beer ... thats crazy.
city/campus planning
On average, every US dollar invested in water and sanitation provides an economic return of eight US dollars
Peaceful protest in Chicano Park in San Diego on May 31, 2020, for Black Lives Matter, in the wake of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis.
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 10th-11th November 2016, Code Node, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7428-agile-testing-and-bdd-e.... Images copyright www.edtelling.com
The circles idea inspired me.. I had these awesome fabric scraps so decided to use them on the first page.. This bit has things that should matter to everyone most
The second one is the special things that matter to me most!
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
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Black Art Matters – A socially distanced protest and performing arts event - also a celebration of black artist’s cultural contribution to music, dance, literature, spoken word etc.
Held outside The Crucible Theatre in Sheffield; black performance artists called for greater representation and inclusion in arts and culture, not just in casting performers but in commissioning and decision making.
In recent decades, developments in software and hardware technologies have created dramatic shifts in design, manufacturing and research. Software technologies have facilitated automated process and new solutions for complex problems. Computation has also become a platform for creativity through generative art and design. New hardware platforms and digital fabrication technologies have similarly transformed manufacturing, offering more efficient production and mass customization. Such advances have helped catalyzed the maker-movement, democratizing design and maker culture. This influx of new capabilities to design, compute and fabricate like never before, has sparked a renewed interest in material performance.
We are now witnessing significant advances in active matter, 3D/4D Printing, materials science, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology and soft robotics, which have led to the convergence of software, hardware and material technologies and the growing field of programmable materials.
This conference was about the emerging field of active matter and programmable materials that bridges the worlds of art, science, engineering and design, demonstrating new perspectives for computation, transformation and dynamic material applications.
If over the past few decades we have experienced a software revolution, and more recently, a hardware revolution, this conference aims to discuss the premises, challenges and innovations brought by today’s materials revolution. We can now sense, compute, and actuate with materials alone, just as we could with software and hardware platforms previously. How does this shift influence materials research, and how does it shape the future of design, arts, and industrial applications? What tools and design processes do we need to advance, augment and invent new materials today? What are the key roles that industry, government, academic and public institutions can play in catalyzing the field of programmable materials?
This two-day conference consisted of a range of talks and lively discussion from leading researchers in materials science, art & design, synthetic biology and soft-robotics along with leaders from government, public institutions and industry.
Learn more at activemattersummit.com
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