View allAll Photos Tagged Negotiation
Despite what the internet has been saying, I found Solo to be a really fun movie. So fun that I decided to break out the Legos and make a homage to it. Perhaps shoving them into a cheese grater was a bit of an odd idea, but this entire shot came together in less than three hours from when I got the idea to when I finished shooting it, so I'll count that as a success.
Lighting: 2x Aperlite YH700C flash units
Extension tubes: Kenko 20 mm extension tube
"You sir agree on our contract to carry out this deed?"
-Pan Asia soldier
"Yes, as long as you have the money."
-Sharp Sky Associate
"Of course, all of your cash is in these crates, and we have taken the liberty to supply you with all of the necessary items to achieve your mission. But be sure to remember our terms, once you commit the attack, it is your problem nothing shall be traced back to Pan-Asia. All problems will be dealt with your Sharp Sky Associates. Understood?"
-Pan Asia Soldier
"Yeah, just let me take my money and get out of here."
-Sharp Sky Associate
____________________
Chapter 3 of The Black Duke of Nightrose, a continuing photographic melodrama, sponsored by Laminak, your first stop for all your medieval/gothic furnishings needs. See the main store at maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Queens%20Lake/127/134/22.
Also sponsored by Quills and Curiosities (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Diagon%20Alley/138/156/2201), where Macabre meets Marvellous!
Also sponsored by Del-ka Aedilis (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DA%20Estate/151/93/1003), specialists in Roman, Viking and Medieval structures and accessories. When in Rome, turn to Del-ka Aedilis.
And now to our story....
---
Negotiations
"But what of love?" Holls asked, which confused the Duke to no end.
"And what of the dozen Duchesses who would have come before me?" She continued.
This did not seem to be going well at all.
"Seventeen actually..." the Duke corrected. "I grieve for every one, even the first, the Duchess umm...whatshername...look, can we hurry this along, I have a busy afternoon ahead."
---
Decor - Chaise Lounge Set, Pendragon Standing candles and assorted rugs by Laminak, (maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Queens%20Lake/108/129/25)
Background: Townhouse Isabella from the Medici series by Del-Ka Aedilis
Kevin is played by a Sentient Sludge from Quills and Curiosities.
Garb:
HIS: Duke from Hawker's House, Leonine Shoulder Guards by Dreamcatcher, Cavalier Hat by Grasshopper St., Basilard Dagger by Unity Maxim, Avalon's Tear Rapier by Requisition
HERS: Corset Dress from Hawker's House
Poses by Ana Poses, R. Bento and Rose and Thorn
Musical Inspiration - Soul Like Me by Andy Black (youtu.be/IT0sGOKrwy4)
"Negotiations have failed. Give the order."
"Release the serpents!"
Next up: the three-day-dead-cow-carcass to spread disease.
The trebuchet is fully functional with all moving parts and working winch. My 7th entry into the CCCXIII.
Freedom for Ocalan demonstrators at Burke Street Mall, Melbourne on 1 December 2018 ...
Peaceinkurdistancampaign.com: "‘There is a need to put the legitimate demands of Kurds on the agenda and to conduct sincere negotiations…The Kurdish issue in Turkey is a matter related with the human and citizen rights of the Kurdish people who have been exposed to brutal oppression for a very long time.’ Noam Chomsky"
©unscripted moments photography all rights reserved
After continuously asking to have a candy bar, in which my reply was "no", R. came up to me and very seriously stated "this is a candy bar!"
Like I do not know what a candy bar is. hehe the mind of a child.
All women in these streets are very kind, very gentle. It is very pleasant to talk with them but do not forget to buy some noddles. Just a question of elegance !!! and these noddles are very very good.
The boat is full, paperwork done,, lets go: No said the woman........
Port Barton beach, Palawan Is. Philippines
A mural outside the former US embassy in Tehran, suspicious of negotiations with a warmonger power used to enforce its rule by war and collective punishment.
Some quotes from Moorhead Kennedy, senior US diplomat taken hostage in Iran, from his book "The Ayatollah in the Cathedral":
"We lack the maturity to understand another point of view, to cooperate and develop consensus. Our difficulty in growing up impairs both our view and our management of foreign affairs."
"I felt caught up in the euphoria of the Revolution, of people not only free of the oppression of the Shah, but after decades of enforced Westernization, free to be Iranians again, and to make all things new."
"A month before our release, as we began to realize that the end of our captivity was in sight and to think back on what it all meant, a Marine roommate suddenly asked: "Say, supposed we were guards and they were the hostages - would we have treated them as well as they treated us?" What we recognized was that we were probably not inherently any better than they, and as capable as anyone else, of the greatest wrongs."
"Our analyses of overseas problems are too often based on abstraction - what the problem should be, rather than what it really is. We indulge ourselves in the luxury of seeing what we want to see and denying what we do not want to see."
"Given our belief in America's God-given destiny, it was easy to assume that what was right for us was right for everyone."
"A retired teacher berated us for condoning the conduct of our captors. Barry Rosen [another of the American hostages] replied, 'We are not making excuses for them, but there is reason to think that the Iranians have had a social revolution of great profundity. It was clearly one of the most broad-range revolutions of the twentieth century.'
"Our experience was [indeed] a side product of a social revolution of 'great profundity.' It induced in a number of us an equally profound psychological revolution. Even in captivity, I had begun to wonder by what means a similar and overdue revolution might be induced in the thinking of our fellow Americans."
Check out my albums:
---------------------------------
• Top 2%, with my best photos ever
• All my photos in Explore
• My best selling photos
• All my photos used on book covers
• My own wonders of the world
Visit me also in Facebook and Instagram
©2020 German Vogel - All rights reserved - No usage allowed in any form without the written consent of the photographer.
Yesterday, there were a dozen or more blue jays at the back door. They seemed to be in two gangs and they were harrassing each other to no end -- stealing nuts, making loud noises, showing all their feathers, and so on.
Then, a couple of hours later, just these two were there, being cautious with one another. I like to think they were working out the terms for a modus vivendi.