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Overworlds and Underworlds took place in several areas of Leeds over the weekend, think we managed to see most of it and it was generally great, if rather baffling.
I wouldn't generally consider myself a fan of dance, but I really did enjoy the pieces performed in the dark arches (I must have liked this one, I sat through more than 90 minutes of it).
"The one with the chairs" - seemed to be the main description for this performance over the weekend. I'm not sure what its proper title is, but it definitely did involve a lot of chairs. Performed by the Pheonix dance theatre in collaboration with Charlotte Vincent, it was a looping story of various parts - including a game of musical chairs.
NY subway is really a surreal world. A multitude of people floods seamlessy from the "overworld", but if you try to get out of this human tide, you can meet human beings with their feelings, their moments of intimacy, even under Broadway.
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
These remnants of an ancient civilization generate throughout both the Overworld and the Nether, corrupting the landscape around them. Their main function is to provide an in-game hint as to how to travel to the Nether. Get the building instructions for free at rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-47814/veyniac/the-ruined-portal/...
The Bohrok arrive at the surface of the island, coming straight from the Bohrok hives, through the tunnels linking the overworld to Mata Nui's core.
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
A collaboration build with Ben Cossy.
Built for Brickvention Australia 2019.
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
Overworld of Hyrule from the video game The Legend of Zelda released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.
One stud represents 16x16 pixels. The map itself (without the bottom text) is 256 studs by 88 studs (each screen/section is 16x11).
First displayed at BrickCon 2012 in Art/Sculpture/Mosaic.
I made some changes over the weekend to make displaying / storage easier and fixed a couple errors.
Update 1: Awarded the "A Winner is You" trophy for the Let's Play theme at Bricks Cascade 2013.
Inspired by the underworld/overworld photos by stocksphotography Take a look at his fantastic photostream!
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
The Shadow Triad have assembled an army of orcs and goblins and are readying themselves for war. It is believed they are assembling in the nearby city of Windpeak, a city known to be crawling with thieves and robbers.
Arakoth and some of the Realms best men head towards Windpeak, to see if these rumors are indeed true. Little do these adventurers know, something else is rising, something sinister. Screams of fear fill the streets, citizens run towards the gates as our noble adventurers rush towards the heart of the city. The main courtyard of Windpeak has been converted into a summoning ground, blood red circles and ancient writing cover the cobblestone, and three dark mages stand above it, reciting an ancient incantation. Suddenly with flashes of blood red light a towering monster emerges. The Soul Hoarder has been reborn, freed from its hellish prison. Arakoth and the adventurers ready themselves for battle. Fear flashes across Arakoths face, this terrible monster has been brought forth into the overworld and he had no idea how to stop it… but he and his party have been through many impossible challenges and together they can defeat this horrible monster. Arakoth let out a battle cry as the party attacked in full force!
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More Photos on MOCpages: www.moc-pages.com/moc.php/450628
Our Annual Brickvention Collaborative build for this year is here. Built by Myself and Eli (E.B.)
So for those of you who don't know Eli and myself build one half of this diorama each. We build on opposite sides of Australia and then bring this MOC together in Melbourne for Brickvention. We have been doing this now for 7 years and man it's good fun!
This year I really wanted to focus on mixing a Bionicle into a system MOC, I love making both Bionicle and System stuff, so it was nice to mix the two into one Diorama for once.
This MOC ended up winning 2nd Best in Show at Brickvention 2019
Also be sure to check out Eli's stuff, you can find him here: www.flickr.com/photos/elis_photostream/
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If you want to learn a little bit more out the collaborative process as well as see some behind videos and tips about the build, check out this video in which I talk about exactly that:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQF8duw9LGQ&t=4s/
And here is a process video explaining in depth how we built the MOC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy93L8rz8X0&t
We pushed into an overworld of wind and light
Where sky unfettered ran wild from earth to noon,
And the tethered heart broke loose and rose like a kite
From sands that borrowed diamonds from the sun.
From Buckroe, After the Season, 1942 by Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913 - 2004)
Gale force onshore winds create rivers of sand at sunset...
So, when I first saw the new Mario sets with its customizable overworld/level gimmick, I could not help but think of the regions from the pokémon games. After, to wanted to see how far I could come with some Photoshopping based on this idea which is why I created this.
With the Hidden Side sets and the Mario sets using an interactive play system, I thought maybe you could combine the two into one. Using an app similar to Hidden Side with the style of building from the Mario sets, to create something new which I have called: lego Pokémon: Build em' all.
Seeing as the app is what most of this is about, so here is a list of some things that could potentially be done with an app like this:
- Build, capture and fight with different Pokémon
- Learn more about your Pokémon's moves
- Fight other trainers/friends locally
- Visit a Pokécenter to play and take care of your Pokémon
- Visit a Pokémarkt to get potions to use in battle
- Fight in a Gym against a Gym leader with your best Pokémon
Unlike the Mario sets, there is no starter pack you need for the other sets to work. Every set would come with at least one Pokémon to use and fight with along with a trainer minifigure. If you were to have enough sets, maybe you could even replicate an entire region from the games.
That's all I have for now. I wanted to leave room for others to interpret this idea in their own way. If you guys have any other suggestions on how a system like this could work, you are welcome to let me know in the comments.
in the dark arches, Overworlds and Underworlds from the imagination of the Quay Brothers, city of leeds.
From the desk of the Princess
So the Mario Bros. took us all out Trick or Treating around their neighborhood the other night. It was soooo fun, and the guys all really worked hard on their costumes! They looked awesome. I'm not in this pic, because I'm taking it (duh), but I was one of the Ice Climbers. The guys wanted to see me in something sexier (psshhh, guys), but I didn't want to freeze to death. It gets really chilly in Overworld 1-1! My costume idea let me wear a coat with a fur-lined hood! So ha!
Anyway, Mega Man had one of the sweetest costumes. I swear, he 1UPped everyone! I totally thought he was Link when I saw him out the window, and I was all "Oh, Link must've gotten a ride from Mega Man's mom," and then he gets to the door, and I almost fell over. SO FUNNY! He really worked hard on it, and he even helped his mom sew the tights! LOL! I can't believe he painted his helmet! He's normally so protective of it. He won't even let us try it on.
Dig Dug is such a little sweetie. He doesn't say much yet, but apparently he really wanted to be Donkey Kong era Mario. I love that. I can't believe he even knows about that. He's too young! Mario was very proud of him. I think he's Dig Dug's hero, and that is so sweet. He could hardly carry the mallet! Squee!
Link was all depressed because he didn't have much time to work on his costume, because Zelda got in some trouble and he had to go bail her out again. I don't know what he sees in her. OMG, I shouldn't say that. That was mean. Anyway, he had to settle for a store-bought Mega Man mask, and the rubber band kept breaking. Mega kept making fun of him, too, saying "This looks like the work of Cut Man!" I felt bad laughing, but it was funny. I don't think Link was too upset. I think each was flattered really that they wanted to go as each other.
Mario, in typical Mario fashion just picked a simple idea and did it well. He was Dig Dug. Dig Dug was elated. I know Mario did that for him. He didn't really have anything he wanted to be, so he figured he'd make Dig Dug's day and go as him. Very sweet. That's Mario. He always does the right thing, even if he is kinda boring. There's really no one I'd rather have saving me, though.
Luigi trotted out his Master Blaster costume again. This is the 3rd year. He is really milking it. I asked if he was going to go as that again next year, and he was all "Babe, you don't give up a ride this cherry," (gag!) so I guess we have him pegged next year. He added a ball launcher to the cannon this year, and kept annoying the crap out of his brother. They fight so much. Luigi always starts it, too. He's such a brat. Kinda cute, though. omg don't tell him I said that.
Samus was there, too, which was cool. I like having another girl there, even if she is stronger and deadlier than all the guys. She's so quiet, you'd never know what a fighter she is. She went as Excitebike. Little secret about Samus: she loves choppers. She's got like 5 of them, and she's always souping them up. Apparently that's a real vintage Excitebike frame that she got cheap because the previous owner made his own track with nothing but R and S pieces, and those really wreck a bike quickly. He put in a bunch of "moguls" (is that right?) which completely blew out the shots, too. OMG listen to me talking like a biker chick! I guess I was listening after all. I don't know how I remembered all that. Well, anyway, the guys went nuts over it. I'm about the only one who didn't get what was so fascinating about it. It's nice, but still. Some of us were talking later, and we're totally going to try to pry her out of that suit next year. She's gorgeous, but she hides it all from the world. I didn't even know she was a girl for the whole first year I knew her! She always finds a costume that lets her stay in that helmet. She has such pretty hair. I wish she'd let me braid it. I just want a real girlfriend for once. Is that too much to ask?
Last but certainly not least, Bullet Bill went as Bub from Bubble Bobble. SO CUTE! Hahaha. He even had a little lanyard with a bottle of bubbles that he'd blow sometimes. He couldn't see too well with all the face paint over his eyeholes, and he kept flying right through the middle of us and knocking everyone over. It was funny the first 2 times, but he did it like 6 or 7 times by the end of the night. He should be more careful. I bruise as easily as a... well... you know ^_^ Luckily nobody got hurt, or pushed into one of those stupid bottomless wells (little secret - Mario is terrified of those things - won't even go near 'em!). I don't know how Billy keeps finding costumes that have 2 B-words. Last year he was Bayou Billy. He had the cowboy hat and whip and everything. The whole BB thing is a theme with him. He even has a BB gun. I mean, what's the point?! He's a BULLET! But, then I guess it's like me playing with princess dolls...
This pic was taken at Aunt Bowser's place. She's really rich, and her place is like a castle inside! She even has lava pits! It felt so good standing by those after all the cold Overworld air. She gave us little bags of gummi Cheep-Cheeps and homemade Koopa cookies. And NO, they're not made of real Koopas! ROFL! I ate all my cheeps before we left, and then some of Mario's! Those things are so yummy! I could eat like a whole pound of them.
Ooh, I gotta go! I have another party to go to tonight, and I haven't liked any of the dresses I've tried on so far. Lol, I'm such a princess! Don't hate me! SMOOCHES!
XOXOXO
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Peach
Où il est également question de la célébrité.
La première fois que j'ai entendu parlé de François Sagat c'était lors de la nuit toute nue de Canal + le 18 juillet 2007 que mes parents regardaient pendant que j'étais au dehors. www.madmoizelle.com/actu/actu_canal-plus-se-met-au-nu_200...
Puis Britney sort son Gimme more et sur youtube je tombe sur la vidéo de François se brossant les dents. J'ai trouvé ça tellement drôle.... Que je me suis promis de faire une photo inspiré de ce mini-clip : www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ljf1-N3UA
Et maintenant musique ! Si, si à écouter : Gimme more de Machinae Supremacy, album Overworld
Nous sommes nés la même année comme tant d'autres : www.ados.fr/naissance-1979.html
ça m'épate toujours de voir des personnes de mon âge qui soient célèbres. Qu'est-ce qui pousse chacun à faire la vie qu'il mène ? Qu'est-ce qui me pousse à faire ces photos ?
Quoting from the back cover:
"In the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities that echoed with the vastness of the world's history, science, myth and magic had become one. Sorcerers who read the books of ancient times held great power, and fearsome monsters created in ages long forgotten stalked the land.
"In this world of mystery and danger, the adventurer known as Cugel the Clever was forced to undertake a quest for Iucounu the Laughing Magician -- a quest that was to take him to lands stranger than any he had dreamed of, and pit his wits and his sword against powers from beyond time itself.
"In this long-awaited new novel of the Dying Earth, Jack Vance has written a tale that you will want to read again and again, for its marvels are unending."
Video demonstration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EUK2BtvqF4
Instructables tutorial: www.instructables.com/id/Electronic-LEGO-Super-Mario-Bros...
Technical specs per model: ~300 LEGO pieces, 6 Volts DC (2x 3V CR2032 coin cells), two LEDs, sound: piezo speaker, microcontroller: Atmel ATtiny85 programmed with Arduino Uno.
Using the same design principles and technology as my electronic Invincibility Starmen, I’ve built a new series of interactive LEGO creations with a retro video game theme! Tapping the small tactile buttons on the backs of the mushrooms causes the eyes to blink in sync with melodies generated by Arduino. The green mushrooms play the 1-up sound effect, two of the red ones play a segment of the Overworld theme from Super Mario World, and the third red mushroom plays the airship victory music from Super Mario Bros. 3!
-Baron von Brunk
The fanfare opening of Montiverdi's profane opera Orpheo is one of the iconic starts in the whole of the classical music repertoire. Written towards the end of the Renaissance, and in view of the coming of Baroque, the work was finished in 1607. By this date, all of the hermitages and churches in the tight cluster of four that feature in this 'moving lens test' were fully constructed and 'in service'. Built around an important pagan loci that, even until recent years, married Christian traditions with folk traditions: cultural rites that stood on corridors with perspectives back through superstition with potential glimmers of residual Celt and post prehistoric rite.
The Toccata of Orpheo rings with 'Court' and formal cultural social ornament, and there are some academics who go as far as to squeeze the fanfare towards a military guise. Hearing the first version on traditional folk instruments, and seeing how the key elements of melody and rhythm fit so snugly into a simpler pastoral musical form, is between happenstance and intrigue. Far from sounding like a military fanfare, the toccata when played by traditional instruments, sounds like an assemblage of bird songs, calls and chatters - might Montiverdi have taken a synergy of ancient 'rural melody' and polished these into 'power' for feudal and centralised ornament? The 'underworld' for centralising Medieval was the endless pagan undulations with its myriad corners of folk and pagan duties and habits. Here, 'saving' Orpheo from the underworld is almost a guise for taking melody out from the countryside and placing it into the context of the court. This is pure speculation, but something to think about whilst contrasting the two versions.
In the film, the two versions of the tocatta are presented side by side, with a short gap between, and neither comply rigorously with Montiverdi's score. One is played by the Spanish folk musicologist Juanma Sanchez - tabor pipe in one hand and string drum over his shoulder, and the second, a more recent and justifiably popular recording by Gabriel Garrado, with a potentially over-wide orchestration and using modern recording techniques.
Primitive folk musical instruments vary with local example but are spread over a wide and detailed rural geography, from the Near East to the Atlantic coast, with other correlations toward the north of the African continent and beyond: drums, cithares, luths, bagpipes, flutes, whistles and recorders, shakers and casternets, dulcimer and salteriums all finding local expressions over vastly different local geographies: different tuneings, frets, chords and strings, materials and combinations - but all locally made and frequently played expressions from shared themes.
The shepherds, fowlers and free-time musicians, who played at local gatherings in the dark ages, may not have been subject to artistic description, and we are left knowing that simple pipes and flutes were established with man during the ice age and that bagpipes and string drums (zithers and lutes) were known in parts from the iron age, and that their distribution is vast, varied and detailed. The wide range and local differences may suggest a deep and continuous time and variation beyond some of the Middle Ages dates of origin often quoted. A migrant from Greece or North Africa may install in mountains and quietly continue with a soundscape... People create tunes and people dance to music. Man is a tool maker, and the complements to his voice diversity were just the 'tools' for melody and rhythm.
A three holes tabor pipe is long enough to find an octave by varying the speed of air. Whilst the notes are a little less precise than a two handed pipe, a three holed tabor lets the left hand guide the rhythm for dancers. A single unit musician can thus guide both practices and gatherings, allowing music to penetrate into the smallest corners of countryside and then meet as complicit larger gatherings of known musical themes and mastered moves. The gathering fields aside the village of Tella were dynamic and variable enough to host every possible mass gathering a year could generate. Pilgrims from the plane who arrived, looked up to the high mountains and down on their distant valley perspectives; shepherds and crofters, cross summit traders and east west traders all passing through the spiritual and social Babel of Tella - in many ways an unusual loci for both history and prehistory.
Tella is in the Spanish Haut-Aragon, and is located at an altitude of 1387m, overlooked by the high passes of Portillo de Tella 2089m and the peaks of Mont Perdu 3355m, Castillo Mayor 2110m and the Sierra d'as Zucas 2781m. The pagan fields and cluster of Hermitages are found on available land to the east of a rocky pog now known as the "Punton de las Brujas" (witches python). The image of pagan gatherings linked with conceptions of evil is hosted by the Basque word Akerra - which translates as the 'Billy Goat". The assignment of 'Evil' to the Akerra gathering may have been part of anti pagan protocols and a goat is an animal that domesticates with its own mischievous opinions. Dancing and gathering to honour 'mischievous' elements within nature is not necessarily the same as 'devil worship'. However hard you try to domesticate a Billy goat, it will still eat anything, stand on everything and bang into all. If sheep want to stay on a crest and the flock's Billygoat is interested in a person far away, then the sheep will follow the Billygoat who is perhaps the original pied piper, with all of the bagage of potential good or evil that 'following' can entail. It can be argued that the art of domestication that accompanied man through the late Mesolithic and in to history and the day-today needed the variable of 'mischief' as part of the equations in a 'lifestyle of folk science' where topics of conversation need to be focused on 'seeds of ideas' and their futures. Here the Billygoat is a personification of the factor today understood as 'levels of uncertainty'.
Violent and extreme thunder and lightning land beyond mischief, and are abundant and amplified by the watching peaks of a mountain range: the 'fear and fascination' of this human experience can find focus in a voyeuristic viewpoint like Tella - again this is not the same as the Devil or evil - more a great force that remains outside of human will and domestication. A force of mixed and strong emotions, to be feared and even hated, revered or even admired.
Mother earth as a provider of water, sun, soil, seed and birth; the heady seduction of the dance of the life force. Sewing and harvest all asking for get-togethers around the vivid fields of Tella.
For all of this pagan dynamic, witches were locally feared and visualised with physical sculptured stone points called 'espantabruja' adorning the roofs of all local buildings. Was there also a 'seedy' side this high mountain vista, coupled with vectors for superstitions and dark ideas. A spinster herbalist is never far from superstition and rite, and where people flow there are often those who settle. It may also be the case that the local herbalist 'witches' of the deep countryside were kept away from the refined spiritual loci.
The lens test includes a selection from Goya's paintings of a Spanish witches sabbath (El aquelarre) and the focal point of the Billy Goat character is clearly evident. The painting is context bound to a period of advanced and even procured superstition that followed the retreat of Napoleon's plundering armies from the Iberic peninsula. Goya's works were against superstition, and the lens test includes his image of a pagan goat rite complete with strong stigmatic images of participants handing over babies for sacrifice.
The four hermitages and Churches position themselves around the pagan fields, key views, accommodation and sacred-path termini of Tella. They were built as part of a policy to 'syncrétiser' pre Christian activities, or to 'work with' - perhaps akin to Celtic Christian activities to the north. Four Christean buildings, all practically in sight of each other for a mountain village of less than 50 buildings), is an indication of the importance of the landscape and crossroads to people and culture, and the elements of animism are all imposing and strong.
Tella is in the Haut-Aagon on the south side of the highest central portion of the east-west mountain range. It sits on ancient paths north south and east west and has intimate views on a mythical mountain Les Tres Serols. Many ancient ancient villages have dry fields and rises to their sides - plots of land where bonfires are lit to mark the Summer Solstice and at a distance where fire does not present a danger for thatched roofs and wooden frame. The equivalent for the mountain village of Tella is a short walk away - hermetically apart, and very vivid, with bonfire fields on three different associated levels all overlooking a rocky outcrop with hints of its own Babel-esque spiral. The moving lens test was largely shot from a fixed point looking down on this ancient loci, revolving around to take in the heady mix of pre Christean elements and Christean elements. The only exception is a shot of the Church in the main village itself - San Martin. An attempt was made in the video edit to evoke a sense of living human drama rather than simple picturesque landscape.
Tucked under the rocky outcrop:
L’ermitage de los Santos Juan y Pablo
Consecrated in 1019 and perhaps the first Christian building in the greater region.
Starting the second version...
l’Ermita de la Virgen de Fajanillas
13th century.
The simple building on the far hill with a view looking down on the unseen path up from the lowlands:
Nuestra Señora de la Peña. 16th century.
The main Church of Tella is the
l’Eglise paroissiale San Martín of 1509
The original music from Juanma Sanchez:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YObScUtwfVU
Again Juanma Sanchez, here with an overview of the varieties of traditional pipes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1o2mFVqA0M
A string-drum maker's site:
An overview of string-drum and pipe variety:
www.pipeandtaborcompendium.co.uk/other%20percussion/strin...
Orfeo: Toccata Gabriel Garrido
Ensembel Elyma
Claudio Monteverdi. libretto by Alessandro Striggio
K.617 ASIN : B0000283B7
AJM 13.1.20
Press play and then 'L' and even f11. Escape and f11 a second time to return.
My entry for CCCXX - Fantasy Creature category.
The Demon King, enemy of the clerics, sits upon his obsidian throne, plotting to corrupt the overworld and break the grip of the holy warriors on the inhabitants of the lands under the sun.
There is tor-tor Tunggal Panaluan which is a cultural ritual.This ritual usually held when a disaster struck the village, Tunggal Panaluan is held to find the solutions to the problems. Because the stick of Tunggal Panaluan is a blend of the power of Debata Natolu namely Banua Gijjang (Overworld), Banua Tonga (Middle-earth) and Banua Toru (Under World).
Tor-Tor at the present time is no longer associated with only spirits, but became an art because tor-tor is a cultural tools in every activities of Batak indigenous people.
Video demonstration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EUK2BtvqF4
Instructables tutorial: www.instructables.com/id/Electronic-LEGO-Super-Mario-Bros...
Technical specs per model: ~300 LEGO pieces, 6 Volts DC (2x 3V CR2032 coin cells), two LEDs, sound: piezo speaker, microcontroller: Atmel ATtiny85 programmed with Arduino Uno.
Using the same design principles and technology as my electronic Invincibility Starmen, I’ve built a new series of interactive LEGO creations with a retro video game theme! Tapping the small tactile buttons on the backs of the mushrooms causes the eyes to blink in sync with melodies generated by Arduino. The green mushrooms play the 1-up sound effect, two of the red ones play a segment of the Overworld theme from Super Mario World, and the third red mushroom plays the airship victory music from Super Mario Bros. 3!
-Baron von Brunk
This is part 1 of my minecraft custom purist figbarf thingy series. And if you couldn't tell already, this ones theme is aggressive overworld mobs. So without further a do, here we go:
L to R
Skeleton, I am very impressed with how good the head looks on it, everything else was kind of a given considering its a skeleton holding a bow, so it is simple.
Zombie Villager, not the happiest with this one, but it is good enough, it's head is flesh because zombie villager's are usually villagers recently killed by zombies, so they aren't as decomposed as the others.
Creeper, really like it, I am still trying to find a good way to give it 4 legs, but this will do for now, I always thought that creepers would look cool with a little red, and IMO they do.
Zombie, like I said, the villager zombies arent as decomposed as these are, I like how it looks like it is wearing torn clothes, so it just crawled out of the ground.
Spider, least favorite of the bunch, just a mirkwood spider with red eyes, I am going to try and find a way to make it smaller, maybe take out a few pieces or something like that.
So tell me what you think about these, and how I can improve them. These are free for anyone to use, just give credit where it is needed ;)
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