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There will always be.

0.3 cameraphone

Motorola L7

Obstacles

the bus ride back down to singati was full of problems such as this broken down truck in the middle of a sharp curve

Taking advantage of the space on MMA's back campus.

ORMA Summer Adventure Camp 1 - Obstacle Course

38 foot long inflatable obstacle course.

Drive carefully.

License at www.paya.com/photos/1238821

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There's a procedure: the right turn to avoid terrain straight ahead has to be commenced at 60 ft or 'reaching the end of the runway" in TNCM (Princess Juliana International) airport.

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Well, trees are wonderful organisms, but they are unapologetic when they stand between me and the basket.

Obstacles

Students at Cliff Drive Elementary School kicked-off this school year with an exciting new addition to their outdoor play area—a new obstacle course!

Photo by Ng Chee Kiong

8th graders enjoy lawn games and a bounce-house obstacle course for their Random Act of Fun.

Modena

NCOs and Soldiers from IMCOM, Army North, Army South and the 470th competed at the obstacle course 24 April as part of an event for the 2018 Best Warrior competition at Camp Bullis in San Antonio Texas. Photos by Brittany Nelson

This Anti Tank obstacle is at a 3 way juction in the small hamlet of Bredgar at the south end of the hamlet south of Sittingbourne, Kent, UK this one is not recorded in the Defece of Britain Archive or marked on Google Earth ...

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Taking advantage of the space on MMA's back campus.

in the way of the street cleaner

(By the way, I've got stuff on ebay, in case you're interested.)

The Paparazzi Bots is a series of five autonomous robots each standing at the height of the average human. Comprised of multiple microprocessors, cameras, sensors, code and robotic actuators on a custom-built rolling platform, they move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles while using sensors to move toward humans. They seek one thing, which is to capture photos of people and to make these images available to the press and the world wide web as a statement of culture's obsession with the “celebrity image” and especially our own images. The flash autonomously goes off, capturing people’s photos and elevating them to “celebrity” in a kind of momentary anointing by the robots. The robots also become celebrities through their association to the “famous people” at the exhibition that are captured by the Paparazzi Bots.

Each autonomous robot can make the decision to take the photos of particular people, while ignoring other humans in the exhibition, based on things such as, whether or not the viewers are smiling or the shape of their smile. When the robots identify a person or group they will automatically adjust their focus and use a series of bright flashes to record that moment.

Surveillance technologies straddle a delicate balance that we have in contemporary culture, where we are all photographed without our knowledge by cell phones, hidden cameras and sometimes “celebritized”. This is a kind of modern baptism with the camera flash and the spectacle of being the focus of the camera becoming a kind of techno anointing.

This work explores ideas surrounding the shifting territories of self and machine and how machines can manipulate the other (us) in a grand co-evolutionary dance of emerging robot-human relations.

The recent emergence of social networks and their ability to connect people through software prompts via the world wide web is a prime example of the co-evolution of humans and their intelligent machines. The fact that the software prompts exploit our social needs for connectivity and social space is so easily exploited in this new critical juncture in our emerging machine human relations.

This camera can track your head and be set to take a photo if you smile mildly, medium-smile or pull-a-muscle smile. When set to smile mode, they do seem to prefer even smiles rather than crooked smiles so here the machine is making determinations about issues of "beauty". I have considered holding a robot beauty contest as an addition to this work.

By Ken Rinaldo.

Special Thanks to Shirley Madill curator who invited these works to Toronto for Nuit Blanche

Special Thanks to Amy Youngs the midwife to the birth of these robots.

Thanks to the Dynasty Foundation, Russia and Dmitry Bulatov Curator, for funding this robot Commission.

Thanks to Malcolm Levy who invited the production of three more Paparazzi Bots for the Vancouver Olympics in 2010

Thanks to the College of Arts and Humanities for further funding of this project.

on Gothamist

The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) hosts its annual Obstacle Course where the first year Naval and Officer Cadets earn their coin and take the customary dip into the lake. RMC, Kingston, ON on September 15, 2023.

Image by: Avr Annie-Claude Pellerin, Imagery Technician OJE, RMC, Kingston.

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Underground.

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

~ Took this shot from one of the beaches in Bacong, Negros Oriental. Curved horizon due to the wide angle lens I used for this shot.

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Medium format B&W 125 ISO film