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Ever since the Batgirl Pullip was announced I planned on getting two, one to keep as Batgirl and one to turn into Oracle. For non-comic fans Oracle is who Barbara Gordon aka. Batgirl becomes after being crippled at the hands of the Joker in the Killing Joke.
As the Oracle, Barbara is indispensable to the superhero community as an information broker where she relies more on her keen intellect and computer skills to fight crime in an increasingly technological world. She eventually goes on to found the Birds of Prey crime fighting team with Dinah Lance aka. Black Canary.
During the recent DC relaunch Barbara Gordon regained her ability to walk in the comics (The Killing Joke still happened but she was eventually rehabilitated and able to walk again).
The Oracle Arena, also known by its former names of the Oakland Coliseum Arena, the Oakland Arena, the Arena in Oakland, and The New Arena, is an indoor arena in Oakland, California. It was originally constructed as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena in 1966. It is also the oldest facility still in use by the NBA. The arena has been home to the Golden State Warriors since 1966. Among the current NBA venues in the state of California, it has the largest seating capacity, holding 19,596 spectators.
Oracle Arena is part of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum complex, which consists of the Arena and neighboring Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly database management systems. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, United States, Oracle employs more than 115,000 people worldwide as of 2009. By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
The Oracle Arena - 7000 Coliseum Way in Oakland, California --
2013 America's Cup in San Francisco Bay.
Oracle Team USA hydrofoiling during race 13, which they went onto win.
www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/016342
President
Oracle Corporation
Safra A. Catz has served as a President since January 2004 and as a Director since October 2001. She served as Chief Financial Officer from November 2005 to September 2008, as Executive Vice President from November 1999 to January 2004, and as Senior Vice President from April 1999 to October 1999.
I generally don't like product placements in my photos, but in this case it was impossible to avoid. Anyway, Oracle makes database programs, and this thing is hardly a database. :)
I called it a thing because from this angle it looks more like a flying machine than a sailboat.
The hull (or hulls), are made out of carbon fiber. I could not find the weight of the hull alone, but the entire boat outfitted for racing weighed 17 tons (short tons; 34,000 lbs). This is extremely light for a boat that carries 13,000+ square feet of sail.
I like industrial stuff, and I like sailing, so I had a lot of fun shooting this event (that took a few days). I grew up racing sailboats (12' to 45' in length), so I can relate to the excitement of using the wind and water in a competition of design, wits and skill.
This one is my first test with the Yashica Mat 124G. I believe that they are not bad results. I have to try a minor range aperture.
Yashica Mat 124G :: Fuji Superia 100
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In the frame of Common Ground week in Antwerpen, the Oracle Practice session guided by Caroline Daish and Michel Yang
Let’s step inside the aural space
and open the channels between ourselves and others!
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