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This group of tiny vehicles covers quite a bit of pop culture ground. Pop culture pop quiz, hot shot: Can you name them all?
Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind.
Kanaval is many things.
A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture.
Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming.
It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant.
I hope you can experience it at least once.
Amazing.
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Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands.
Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.
The past few months I've had this satellite (just the dish) sitting on my desk, and I couldn't find a use for it in a minifig scale MOC. Then I realized it was much more useful in a micro MOC. I don't normally build micro, but this was a refreshing build, and I hope to build more micro in the future.
Nov' 2011
As the weather was pretty awfull here in West Sussex today, I decided to see if I could find any interesting chalk streams in the woods, these don't seem to last long because of the pourus nature of the ground. These were the best I could find today, might try again tomorrow.
Comments and critiques most welcome.
As always best viewed large on black.
Little bit of randomness I built last weekend. This was the first time I actually used the Maersk blue parts from the train I bought several years ago.
Seems like the square crew section needs to be longer. If I get the motivation I might play with that.
Practicin’ the micro shot
My well-worn favorite sport shoe Dunlop Volley by Mambo (a crossover project between Mambo and Dunlop)
check out my dunlop volley group page
Underside view of the Micro Machines Power Train City layout, the belt drive is inside the oval shaped cover and the motor has a worm driving a gearbox inside the large step-shape cover. Lots of friction in this lot and when it goes wrong, you're stuffed, because spare parts are difficult to find. It would help if Hasbro could make them available along with a range of new trains.
Formation en micro-jardinage de l’Association du personnel de la FAO Sénégal à l’arrière-cour de la Représentation sous le parrainage du projet «Capitalisation de la technologie des microjardins de la Ville de Dakar». Pendant la première phase, la formatrice est revenue sur l’origine du micro-jardinage créé par le Colombien César Marulanda avant d’expliquer les compositions et le rôle du substrat utilisé, les différents types de graines, les techniques de repiquage et d’arrosage, l’utilité des éléments nutritifs comme le compost, ainsi que la protection des cultures contre maladies et parasites, avec l’utilisation de pesticides. La seconde phase a permis au personnel de passer à la pratique en semant, sur les tables de culture, plusieures espèces dont la laitue, l’aubergine, le poivron, la tomate, etc. ©FAO/Ousseynou Diop
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a single dust mite
among skin scales in
housedust]
*They may look like monsters from a horror film, but these tiny creatures
inhabit our homes, clothes and even our bodies. A new book, 'Micro
Monsters', showcases some of the planet's most horrible insects and
microscopic beasts. British author and trained zoologist, Tom Jackson, spent
three months compiling the images in the book. Scientists coated the tiny
creatures in gold, froze them in liquid nitrogen and fired a beam of
electrons at the subjects from a scanning electron microscope to reveal the
incredible detail*
*Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a single dust mite among
skin scales in housedust*
[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a human head louse
with an egg]
*"I wanted to get together all the most gruesome and beastly pictures I
could," said 38 year-old Tom from Bristol. "This book shows children
everything that's around them at home, the garden and the playground."*
*A human head louse with an egg*
[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a brown ant biting a
blade of grass]
*"The pictures I'm most pleased with are the close-up portraits of insects
that show the intricate details of their eyes, mandibles and even the hairs
on their heads," said Tom*
*A brown ant biting a blade of grass*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a maggot
head]
*"I've tested the book out on my son Ned and it hasn't given him any bad
dreams, in fact he loves it. In particular Ned likes like the nasty worms."*
*A maggot head*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of an earwig on a
leaf]
*In scanning electron microscopy, a beam of electrons is fired at the
subjects. Electrons have shorter wavelengths than lights waves so smaller
objects can be captured.*
*An earwig on a leaf*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a European
hornet]
*Micro Monsters is shortly to be launched in the UK by Amber Books*
*A European hornet*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the head of a daddy
long legs]
*A daddy long legs*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of two water bears (or
tardigrades, microscopic, water-dwelling
creatures)]
*Two water bears (or tardigrades, microscopic, water-dwelling creatures*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a pill
woodlouse]
*A pill woodlouse*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a grain
weevil]
*A grain weevil*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a stable
fly]
*A stable fly*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a fruit
fly]
*A fruit fly*
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[image: ...A coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a female Lucilia
blowfly laying her eggs. Author and trained zoologist, Tom Jackson spent
three months compiling the 3D pictures. Using scanning electron microscopy,
he coated them in gold and deep froze them in liquid nitrogen before firing
a beam of electrons at the subjects. Micro Monsters is shortly to be
launched in the UK by Amber
Books]
*A female Lucilia blowfly laying her eggs*
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[image: A coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a female yellow
fever mosquito. A new book shows in intricate detail the mini-beasts that
inhabit our homes, clothes and even our bodies. Micro Monsters features over
80 of the world's most horrible insects and microscopic beasts with
full-colour annotated photographs, lively accompanying texts and facts and
figures...]
*A female yellow fever mosquito*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a tsetse
fly]
*A tsetse fly*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of an aphid (Greenfly)
feeding on a leaf]
*An aphid (Greenfly) feeding on a leaf*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a bluebottle
fly]
*A bluebottle fly*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a yellow dung
fly]
*A yellow dung fly*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a long-horned
beetle]
*A long-horned beetle*
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[image: Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a hover
fly]
*A hover fly*
CHIYAAN
Micro-macramé bracelet, multi coloured, and lots of Tibetan silver and silverplated, metal beads
all sizes
handmade
Sony has announced four micro hi-fi players under the name Sony CMT-G Series that offer a combination of Wi-Fi streaming, DAB digital radio and MP3 player capabilities. Sony says the G Series Hi-Fi systems' speakers "are micro but the sound packs a punch".
The Sony CMT-G2BNiP micro hi-fi unit is Wi-Fi enabled and can stream music over a home network or tune in to internet radio stations. It has a DAB and DAB+ radio tuner as well as FM/MW and is controllable via an app on an iPod touch or iPhone.
Earlier this summer we planted some grape vines to enhance our trellis. They will hopefully do a more friendly job than the previous plant.
Which was an oriental wisteria that was beautiful but was trying to pull the whole house down.
We mulched the area with compost and a few surprise plants sprung up. Mostly tomatoes, but a small vine was also launched.
Turns out it was a watermelon. This is one of the micro-melons being shot by a pellet. I only had one shot and this was it.
Cheers.
A micro limousine MOC.
Inspired by the four miniature vehicles featured in LEGO set 10214 Tower Bridge.
Thanks to the awesome Travis Mathieson and fellow MUGS members, I broke my LDraw cherry on the weekend at their free info seminar :D
Micro AT-AT with a nod to Rod Giles ;)
I saw this little microdot of an insect on a rose petal. I wanted to see how close I could get. Camera handheld without flash. The 2nd shot gives a little perspective just how small. Pleasanton, CA.