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Some numbers from my collection.
000, 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, 009,
100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109,
200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209,
300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309,
400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409,
500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509,
600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609,
700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709,
800, 801, 802, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809,
900, 901, 902, 903, 904, 905, 906, 907, 908, 909
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Every month the noose gets tighter and tighter...gas bills increase, electricity bills ...well electrifying! . My purse is being strangled....enough already. I've had enough of feeling the pinch just as everyone I know is
I vote we go back to bartering....LOL
Feel free to use this image, just link to www.SeniorLiving.Org This microstock required lots of post processing to get the blue tint. I also needed a bounce card to get more detail in the glasses.
Poster design for 'numbers' project. It's meant to resemble the style of the big posters for kids, but surrounding the idea that numbers are horrible and unappealing.
Ironically in my crit it was mentioned it might actually be attractive to kids...!
"Now that is what I call a Re-enactment!
Bartimaeus the blind beggar
May the Peace of the Risen Christ be with you! Easter is here.
We had a most successful Re-enactment of Our Lord's Passion. After so many months of preparation, sewing machines running hot updating costumes, actors learning lines, sound systems being upgraded and more, there we stood at 11am on Good Friday with microphone in hand: "Welcome to the 2018 Re-enactment of Our Lord's Passion!" And so it began.
How do we measure "success" in regards to our re-enactment?
On one measure you can use crowd numbers, donations, "Likes" and Shares and that would be appropriate if this was just a normal play. Even on that basis our event would certainly be considered a success with somewhere around 5,000 people participating and lots of great feedback and support.
But how do you measure success for a play that tries to be an authentic re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus Christ based on scripture and tradition of the Church? In this case we were told by the Pauline Fathers that many people came back and they were hearing confessions the whole day.
We saw many people following the play and praying along with us.
Crowning with Thorns
Many came up to us after the play thanking us for such an invigorating presentation of our Lord's Passion. Here are some of the early tales we have been told of the day.
One of the biggest challenges with a moving play is the safety of actors, crew and pilgrims as the play moves from scene to scene. We try many methods such as fixed tape and ropes as well as rope held by our marshalls. Enforcement for keeping the crowd back tends to fall towards the soldiers who, like in a theatre restaurant, instruct the crowd to move back for their own safety. Our photographer, eager to get "the photo", allowed a little old lady to sneak past the barriers so she could touch the cloak of Jesus. As the Centurion swung his arm giving orders to his soldiers, this lady who stood upright under his swing moved forward. "What the?" cried the Centurion and firmly moved her back with instructions. I thought she would be concerned at the firm treatment but she was grinning ear to ear and holding her bag telling her family, "I touched his cloak!"
I touched Jesus' Robes!
Some of our Marshalls volunteered to help on the day. Often these had not experienced the fluid intensity of a moving play like this and even though they were holding on to the rope barrier, found themselves sucked into the crowd. When the Centurion or one of the soldiers noticed their lost marshall and we heard the cry, "Get him out of there!" as they reached in and brought him back into line.
Our marshalls and soldiers request people to stay back for their own safety. When the Roman soldiers and Jewish guards broke out into another scuffle we heard the cry, "They're fighting again!" and the crowd suddenly made space. "Please stand back for your own safety," we once more cried as the procession moved on.
When Jesus was being scourged, the process started with one Roman making a few lashes. Then he gets moved back with the cry, "Let someone do it properly!" The primary flogging Roman soldier let fly with the whip dipped in the fake blood. Drops of blood flew in an arc and the soft straps struck Jesus with a satisfying slap and Jesus cried out. The crowd stopped chattering with an audible gasp.
One of our new actors had not actually attended the play in past years so this was all an amazing experience. When Jesus was being scourged and mocked, tears came to her eyes, but the Woman of Jerusalem in charge held her and said, "Don't cry yet. We have to call for his crucifixion in the next scene." So she held back her tears and like a trooper joined the crowd calling for Jesus' crucifixion. As she said afterwards, it won't be the same contemplating the story of Jesus' Passion in future.
At the start of the play we made sure the actors and crew knew that this was a "Live" play. That meant no retakes, no pause to re-do the scene, no stepping in to try again. "The play must go on!" we instructed. "After all, the pilgrims haven't read the script and the story won't be affected if your lines are not exact. So long as we get the important bits in the right order, no-one will know." That was good advice.
When Pontius Pilate was standing majestically on the balcony addressing the crowd, the sign of Roman Superiority detached from the balcony railing and fell to the ground with a crash. Pontius Pliate's eyes opened wide for a brief moment and then he turned his gaze back to the Crowd and Caiaphas and the Jews and continued as if nothing was wrong. The crew quickly removed the sign and all moved on as if this was part of play. We were told afterwards how clever this was, the falling of the sign representing the fall of Roman Justice. The play must go on.
Although we have a script which covers all the main dialogue and actions, the flavour comes from the interactions and improvised dialogue of the actors. Insults between the Jews and Romans provided occasional humour too. At the crucifixion, one of the Jewish Chief Priests called out "How many Romans does it take to Crucify someone?" Being sick of their taunts a Roman Guard approached them and said, "I have room for one more. Are you ready?" The Chief Priest stepped back behind the Jewish Guards and replied, "I have an appointment tomorrow and can't today."
We will report further tales as they come to light, but I want to end this post-play post with some heartfelt thanks. When organising an event like this where there are months of preparation involving over 100 cast, crew and support organisations, the whole thing only works when people do their part. This year worked so well because everyone did their part, no matter how small that part may have appeared. The actors didn't just remember their lines, but they also worked with their fellow actors and added their own ideas for their character. For example, the actor playing the blind beggar Bartimeus had the idea of having a blindfold and sat in his spot near the start of the play, begging for alms for about 20 minutes before the play reached him. Then he improvised with many calls for alms and requests about what the commotion was. It was a great job which really brought out the character of the blind beggar. It may have only been a bit part, but it formed part of the greater whole.
The same applied for each of the roles, from the primary speaking parts through to the behind the scenes actors of the Women of Jerusalem and Apostles before and after the abandonment of Jesus.
So many people have done their parts and done them well I am very proud to have been able to assist in co-ordinating and directing the play. An event like this generates a great camaraderie and fellowship and fosters a deeper understanding of not just this critical point in salvation history, but also the very human element that is the point of the whole Passion. Every actor and member of the crew and supporters must know that all the work and effort has been worthwhile to so many people.
Thank you.
~David Bruggeman"
Copied from goodfridaypassionplay.blogspot.com.au/
For more information please visit www.paulinefathers.org.au
No need to meditate or imagine, this event will take you to Calvary!
Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2018.
Go to Dewey Decimal 51x in the library to find Mathematics. Lots of numbers there. 513.2 is Arithmetic...
I've been meaning to post a few more normal perspective shots of the the mystery table and while tending to that effort, I decided to flip the table up on its head and take a closer look at that all wood table extension rail a bit closer and also tighten up all the original slotted higher grade steel screws that I figured a good number of them could stand a tightening up and I was hopeful that in doing so, I could reduce some of that shaky, creaky behavior and I was very relieved to find that not a single screw had been stripped, and not any of the wood cavities that the screws went into showed any sign of damage. So I was able to very carefully and slowly get all of them to tighten with a most secure seating, So the good news is that the table now sits very solidly and soundly on the floor and feels strong enough to now employ it as the new home base of my giant sized mitre box that I started working on back when there was still snow on the ground here. I never got around to completely finishing it off by adding a bit more trim, but that was just to make it a bit more pretty. But I'll have some pics up of that as well when I can squeeze that task in here.
So back to the table and the title of the picture above. I did find an extremely faded inked stamp on the side of one of the rail sections. It was difficult to capture because of the ink's fading and in a tight spot to fit my camera into to take the pic. So the cruddy looking text in the middle of the tables legs, represents my best effort at the moment to try to boost the readability of it but its still pretty difficult.
So the company is out of Wisconsin in the town of...Watertown. They invented and smartly patented the mechanism back in the 1880s and it turned into a roaring business success and ended up being one of the top two table slides in sales volume and it was apparently the local and regional furniture makers from all over the States and Canada who all fell in love with the product's beauty and durability and purchased them to be used on their own expanding table designs. Almost unbelievably, they've managed to keep their business doors open to this day and only stopped making their all wood product line in the mid 1980s and now they feature exclusively, aluminum table rail systems.
So now we know who made the rails.
But who made the rest of it???
The best visual clues I can muster of the table's maker is some recurring numbers that were written with a grease pencil. The predominant number being 78/12. So that is likely their catalog number on the design. And that design seems to have some elements of the world famous British furniture designer and builder from the 1700s, Mr. Chippendale. He published a catalog of his designs and left open a business license to copy his designs so long as you've paid him his fee for the printed catalog. And there-after, you too could become the next Chippendale local craftsmen...or crafts-women. But I don't own the catalogs currently beyond the one or two that have been digitized and made available for free download. But I haven't found this table's design in any of those page scans so far. Maybe that number I mentioned is a Chippendale model number? The world may never know! :)
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Event: Opteka 85mm f1.4 Testing
Location: My House
Body: Sony DSLR-A300
Lens: Opteka 85mm f1.4 ASPHERICAL IF
Aperture: F1.4
Shutter Speed: 1/30s
ISO: 400
Flash: off
This is one of the strangely fascinating number occurences. I looked down and caught it with my camera before it passed. (Don't worry, I pulled over before I took the shot. I'm not one of THOSE L.A. drivers.)
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The Golden Ratio informs a lot of my art and photographic composition. The Golden Ratio also informs the design of the golden revolver on all the swimsuits and lingerie, as well as the 45surf logo! Not so long ago, I came up with the Golden Ratio Principle which describes why The Golden Ratio is so beautiful.
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Dr. E’s Golden Ratio Principle: The golden ratio exalts beauty because the number is a characteristic of the mathematically and physically most efficient manners of growth and distribution, on both evolutionary and purely physical levels. The golden ratio ensures that the proportions and structure of that which came before provide the proportions and structure of that which comes after. Robust, ordered growth is naturally associated with health and beauty, and thus we evolved to perceive the golden ratio harmonies as inherently beautiful, as we saw and felt their presence in all vital growth and life—in the salient features and proportions of humans and nature alike, from the distribution of our facial features and bones to the arrangements of petals, leaves, and sunflowers seeds. As ratios between Fibonacci Numbers offer the closest whole-number approximations to the golden ratio, and as seeds, cells, leaves, bones, and other physical entities appear in whole numbers, the Fibonacci Numbers oft appear in nature’s elements as “growth’s numbers.” From the dawn of time, humanity sought to salute their gods in art and temples exalting the same proportion by which all their vital sustenance and they themselves had been created—the golden ratio.
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