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In my garden I have a patch of hens and chicks. They're nestled amongst these stones at the base of an oak stump. When the tree fell the Virginia Creeper that covered it fell with it, but soon made a comeback. A week ago, I pulled it out and the roots ran so deep that I ended up dislodging my entire hens and chick family. I replanted them, and transplanted the Virginia Creeper. Today I see that it has made a comeback. Persistant little thing, isn't it? :D
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this tree across the street has the most persistent leaves...i wonder if they'll ever fall?
i see them as a gentle reminder to be unwavering in my determination. especially in winter when all i want to do is curl up with a warm mug of something delicious and read....
Several of the trees hold their leaves for a long time...the Japanese maple and the oaks. Soon even these will let go.
Solved by balsamia / Trine / ThioOof / KaRiNe_Fr / PhotoGraham / Zolurne / and you ?
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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R i d d l e of the day:
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Di nuovo a Firenze ... stop.
Da Parigi, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Mosca, Parigi, ... stop.
Scalo Milano, incognito ... stop.
Chi sono io ?
[ uk | us ]
Back to Firenze ... stop
from Paris, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, ... stop
Stopover Milan, incognito ... stop
Who am I ?
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De retour à Florence ... stop
depuis Paris, New York, Washington, Tokyo, Moscou, Paris, ... stop
Escale à Milan, incognito, ... stop
Qui suis-je ?
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Volver a Firenze ... Stop
De Paris, Nueva York, Washington, Tokio, Moscú, París, ... Stop
Escala de Milán, de incógnito ... Stop
¿Quién soy yo?
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
"... The production of motive power is due, ... not to an actual consumption of calories, but to its transport from a warm body to a cold body, ie to restore its balance, balance assumed broken for any reason whatsoever ... it takes place not only for steam engines, but for all fire machines, ie for any machine which engine is the caloric. The heat can obviously be a movement source only under the changes in volume or form it causes to the bodies, these changes are not due to a constant temperature, but due to alternatings between heats and colds, yet to heat any substance one must have a warmer body , and to cool it, we need a colder body. ... "
( Sadi Carnot - 1824 - Thoughts about the motive power of fire and about the machineries able to develop this power. )
"... La production de la puissance motrice est donc due, ..., non à une consommation réelle du calorique, mais à son transport d’un corps chaud à un corps froid, c’est-à-dire à son rétablissement d’équilibre, équilibre supposé rompu par quelque cause que ce soit, ... cela a lieu, non seulement pour les machines à vapeur, mais aussi pour toute machine à feu, c'est-à-dire pour toute machine dont le calorique est le moteur. La chaleur ne peut évidemment être une cause de mouvement qu'en vertu des changements de volume ou de forme qu'elle fait subir aux corps ; ces changements ne sont pas dus à une constance de température, mais bien à des alternatives de chaleur et de froid : or, pour échauffer une substance quelconque il faut un corps plus chaud qu'elle; et pour la refroidir, il faut un corps plus froid. ..."
( Sadi Carnot - 1824 - Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance )
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La bêtise et le cynisme sont-ils les derniers noms d'Entropie ?
En Birmanie ? En Chine ? En Tchétchénie ? A Guantanamo ? A Gaza & Ashkelon ? . .
. . ou dans notre vertueuse Europe, qui donne des leçons de Droits de l'Homme . .
. . tout en méprisant, traquant et rejetant ses propres . . indésirables ?
Are silliness and cynicism the last names of Entropy ?
In Burma ? In China ? In Tchétchénie ? In Guantanamo ? In Gaza & Ashkelon ?. .
. . or in our virtuous Europe giving human rights lessons
. . while scorning, tracking and rejecting our own . . unwelcomes ?
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Five months later--after enduring strong winds, heavy rains, wet snows, and hail--this Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) leaf continues to resist the inevitable.
water cuts through rock, not because of strength, but through persistence.
jim watkins
📍Big South Fork National River & Scenic Area, KY
Credit to Svetlana Petrova & Zarathustra the Cat
Source and more fat cats on: https//fatcatart.com
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363/365 - Persistence
1/250th f2.8 ISO320
200mm
Had a bit of ride after work with Marcus and his two young ripper kids and just as we were about to leave, we saw this amazing glowing sun so couldnt resist but get some end of evening photo kicks. This one was actually as packing up but something about it I really liked.
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Taken with a Ferrania Condor camera on Kentmere 400 film, developed in Rodinal for 15.5minsa at 21.5 degrees.
It is a balmy 10 degrees C today, and these flowers have no plans to pack it in anytime soon. The light purple ones are a wildflower, I believe, heart shaped aster. They are always the last to bloom. The white ones are a cultivated flower, look like a tiny mum, but I don't know what they are called. These bloom early and keep on blooming, and reseed themselves like crazy.
The stones are from right here, a lovely thick, hard layer of stone with lots of fossils, about 300 million years old, and already nicely broken up into giant brick shapes.
Once I saw this tree I knew I had to get a shot of it. This is also from Sandefjord where my in-laws has a cottege and this tree was standing on the top of a hill, alone watching over the whole place.
This was taken during the sunset, though the sun is setting right behind me so I didn't get to capture a lot of colors here, but I think the sky turned out pretty dramatic with this long exposure.
It turned out so much better then I thought it would so I'm very happy with the result even though it's not the kind of picture I normaly take :)
Canon 450d, Sigma 10-20mm, Green*l ND 8,
2 exposures: 8'', 30''
f/16, ISO-100, 10mm
Thank you for viewing :)
When the conditions are favorable and allow for a pretty solid chance of capturing a great image you’ll find me out shooting the night sky. I always head out with high hopes knowing that I ......
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Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
1998-2001.
By Feilden Clegg Bradley.
A purpose-built fine art and crafts studio for Yorkshire ArtSpace Society.
The building is by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, and as their website observes:
Persistence Works was the UK’s first purpose-built fine art and crafts studio complex. Located in Sheffield, it provides a permanent base for 89 artists. The client was Yorkshire ArtSpace, a charitable organisation supporting artists and craftspeople by providing studio space at affordable rents, while offering a wide range of visual arts events and activities to the community.
The project was part funded from the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England and the European Regional Development Fund, although the intention was that this low maintenance, low energy facility would provide sufficient studio space to enable it to become financially independent.
The site is a prominent one, situated at the inter-section between the cultural and industrial developments within Sheffield’s old cutlery industries’ quarter. The function of the building is a synthesis of the two aspects of the cultural and industrial sectors; a synthesis which is also reflected in its form.
The building demonstrates innovation in our use of materials. It explores the use of concrete and the design and method of construction were carefully researched to achieve the highest quality affordable finish. The cast in situ concrete is contrasted with lightweight, frameless glass elements. The building incorporates a number of artists’ works, with the primary collaboration a “floating wall” to the main frontage.
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Yorkshire ArtSpace
Museum/Gallery
Yorkshire ArtSpace is a project established to provide studio space for artists which opened in October 2001 at the Persistence Works building in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The Yorkshire ArtSpace Society, originally established in Sheffield in 1977 by a group of artists, aimed to provide accessible studio space. At that time, the Society was based at Washington Works, but only on a short term lease. Persistence Works was designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. It is the UK’s first purpose built studio complex for artists and craftspeople. The project has created studio space for sixty eight practicing artists and craftspeople in addition to exhibition, project, education and office spaces, The building won an RIBA Yorkshire White Rose award and a Civic Trust Award Commendation. It was also a finalist in the Prime Ministers’ Better Public Building Awards in 2002.
2003 Bradford entered a bid for 2008 European Capital of Culture.
The bid campaign slogan ‘One Landscape, Many Views’ appeared across the district and on one of Bradford Royales. Bradford was not successful. The bus went on for a fairly long life and even managed to be repainted into the firstgroup corporate livery at the time, albeit it was operating in Edinburgh by then. Everything in this view is now history except the old building on the left. Busmiles...ahhh !
I can now fit all of my unsorted bits in the two giant bins, and I've reclaimed a major horizontal surface!
Persistent fall leaves on an American beech tree at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve, Cary, NC, USA.
© B. Bora Bali & B³ Photography, All Rights Reserved.
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence.” --wolfdyke-- Strobist: Pocketwizards flextt5 and a 580EXII with stofen diffuser upper right.
Having been convinced he’s no concert pianist, Stormtrooper Bruce digs deep to find some hidden talent for the upcoming talent contest being held during Festival Alley. He knows he can bake, but what else can he possibly do?
Stormtrooper Bruce: OK, guys, I know we’re all excited about movie night tonight, but I want to see what you think about this? I’ve been practicing weeks and I think I’ve finally nailed it.
TK-1110: Dude! Give it a rest. Just bake something amazing the P will love and leave it at that.
Fett: Yeah. I’ve heard what you’ve been putting these guys through. You should still have a ton of that X-o’-tiQ chocolate left. And you know who loves chocolate!
TK-432: Wait? You-Know-Who? Is Lord Voldemort a judge?
STB: OK, guys. Prepare to be wowed!
Hello, Mr. Yoda. Say, have you heard - we’ve been trying to find those droids for ages. Any ideas?
STB using his Yoda voice - Do or do not. There is no try.
STB: Mr. Yoda, in you’re opinion, can anyone join the Dark Side?
STB using his Yoda voice: Fear is the path to the dark side, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
STB: Mr Yoda, Can you teach me any Jedi mind tricks?
STB using his Yoda voice: You must unlearn what you have learned.
TK-432: Wow! That was awesome. I never saw your lips move!
TK-1110: Not to rain on your parade, but the whole point of being a ventriloquist is being able to see that your lips don’t move. Um, you’re wearing a helmet, dude.
Fett: I get it. That’s what makes this so funny. A Ventriloquist Trooper? Hilarious! But you should know - it’s Master Yoda, not Mr. I can think of at least two judges on this ship who might take off points.
STB using his Yoda voice: Always two there are, no more, no less.
Chewie: Graaagh, yawllol! Trrrqlargh!
TK-432: I’m so loving this! No paint, no musical torture, no Medic Droids. Let’s get on with the movies, unwrap our gifts, and eat!
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The 1820's American Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia.
By the 1820s, the diverse peoples who settled the Valley of Virginia had lived together for several generations. Shaped by the common experiences of the American Revolution, the founding of the United States, and the market revolution, ethnic differences began to fade. Cultural persistence remained strongest among the Virginia Germans. Many Virginia Germans maintained their language and unique customs throughout the 1800s, but after 1820 they began moving toward the mainstream of American life.
By the early 1800s, middling farmers in the Valley of Virginia were able to provide a comfortable lifestyle for themselves and their families. Such households were furnished with tables and chairs, coarse earthenware, pewter and ceramic tableware, chests, books, and bed and table linens, though rarely with fashionable goods such as mahogany furniture or porcelain. Virginia Germans often added cast-iron heating stoves and clocks to their household furnishings.
Activities in and around Virginia German farmhouses were reminiscent of their Central European heritage. Wives and daughters worked as hard as the men, and were known to assist the men and boys with fieldwork. In the house, women did the spinning and weaving and made linen and wool cloth that could be traded for goods at local stores or made into coverlets or rag carpeting. Meals prepared by German housewives were distinctive, and included dishes such as sauerkraut, scrapple, and raisin pies.
Anglo-American influences entered the Virginia German lives slowly. By the 1820s, English furniture forms, such as the chest of drawers, began to appear in their houses, and they became tea and coffee drinkers, and began using imported English dinner plates and teacups.