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I just arrived back from the Columbia Gorge and overall, the shooting conditions were great. With some persistence, I managed to find a few new locations that I had on my list, however, it rained so hard towards the end of my trip that I wasn't able to make it to a couple of the spots I had at the top of that list. This may be one of the smaller waterfalls in the Columbia Gorge, however, the overall scene was really appealing to me and the greens were fresh and vibrant after a fair amount of rain.
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church is in Union Hill, an unincorporated town west of New Prague, Minnesota. The area began to be settled in 1852 by a group of Germans from the Rhenish Provinces between Bonn and Trier in the west of Germany. They were categorized as Prussian immigrants because at that time, Prussia controlled the area. Many of the settlers were related and/or had previously known each other.
It took years of struggle for the Union Hill settlers to be allowed to build their own church. In 1860, they built a log church but were not allowed to consecrate it because it was too close to existing churches. A second church was built and used for about a year when suddenly it was forced to close because of its small size and its proximity to the church at Heidelberg.
By 1867 there were 44 families settled in Union Hill, and they were finally granted permission to build their own church. The parish was placed in the hands of the Franciscan Fathers in 1875, and under the leadership of Francisan Father Fabian Rechtiene, a new Gothic-style brick church was completed in 1883. That is the church that still stands today.
There is a short history of the church and Union Hill that was written in 1967 for their 100 year anniversary. It was called "The Early Settlers of St. John's Parish at Union Hill in 1867" (click the title to go there).
You can also find further info in a 2015 article called "150 years is reason to celebrate in Union Hill" on TheCatholicSpirit.com website.
Erawan Elephant Museum Bangkok Valley is regarded as important. Sculpture floating elephant copper used to knock up a hand to the height of the elephant down to the base measured 43.6 meters, or about the height of the building 14-storey height of individual elephants, 29 meters, the height of elephants, including buildings, 43.6. meters, a width of 12 m. The length of the elephant elephant elephant body weight of 39 meters and weighs 150 tons 100 tons of elephant heads.
Inside the building into three classes according to the Erawan belief in the three worlds, is the ground floor, the human world. And heaven is part of the underground storage of artifacts belonging to the private collection of antiques, most of the species persistence and a cup of tea cups, vases, plates, bowls, a simulated human body underwater with snake Sitting in the middle of the room. Created by the human serpent is believed to take care of antiquities underwater. The human world. There are three different types of art to watch. Garnish with fresh stucco and painted ceramics. This relief from the pole, tin and glass Stain Glass heaven as part of a collection of statues and old age. The artwork on the walls of the stomach with a story about elephants solar system. German craftsmanship is technically a powder.
The attraction of this job. Located on Sukhumvit Road. Where the road intersects with the camp, Kanchana. The new city district. Muang Samut Prakan.
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm)
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí 1931
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
11 West 53 Street - New York, NY 10019-5497
Almost two years after the presentation of the EU Global Strategy and more than a year after Jean Claude Juncker’s white book on the future of Europe, the European Union still struggles with major challenges and threats that seem to undermine the stability of the security environment within its borders and in its neighbourhood. In the aftermath of Brexit and with the proximity of to the European Parliament elections in 2019, the third International Conference Europe as a Global Actor (Lisbon, May 24 & 25, 2018) will discuss the role the EU can play in the current global transformations, as well as the domestic and external obstacles it faces as a global actor.
The Center for International Studies of ISCTE-IUL organized the third edition of the International Conference “Europe as a global actor”, on 24 and 25 May.
The opening lecture was given by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, on May 24, at 09:30 am.
The Conference Program also included a debate on the state of the Union with the presence of Portuguese MEPs, panels and round-tables on the challenges of the Common Security and Defense Policy, the future of European security and defense, the EU’s relationship with other global players and the future of the European Union as a global player. In addition to the presence of several invited scholars, in plenary sessions moderated by Portuguese journalists, the program also included the presentation of communications by around 40 international researchers in this area of knowledge.
May 24th
9h00 | Registration – Floor 2, Building II
09h30 | Opening Remarks (Aud. B203) – session in Portuguese
Keynote Speaker: Augusto Santos Silva, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs
Helena Carreiras (Director, School of Sociology and Public Policies, ISCTE-IUL)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues (Director, Center for International Studies, CEI-IUL)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00 | Round Table I: CSDP: challenges and opportunities (Aud. B203)
Moderator: António Mateus (RTP)
Laura Ferreira-Pereira (Universidade do Minho)
Jochen Rehrl (EEAS – ESDC)
Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
12h30 – 14h00 – Lunch
14h00 – 15h45 | Parallel Sessions I
Panel 1 –The future of European Security and Defence (Room C201)
Moderator: Ana Isabel Xavier (CEI-IUL)
Stefano Loi (CEI-IUL): “The PESCO agreement and the future of the European common defence”
Lorinc Redei & Michael Mosser (University of Texas at Austin): “The European Union as a Catalyst in European Security”
Patricia Daehnhardt (IPRI-NOVA): “The EU and transatlantic relations: the end of the Euro-Atlantic security community?”
Panel 2 – The European policy on migration and asylum (Room C301)
Moderator: Giulia Daniele (CEI-IUL)
João Barroso (CEI-IUL): “The EU and the refugee crisis: a literature review”
Tommaso Emiliani (College of Europe): “EU Migration Agencies: More “Guarding”, Less “Support for Asylum”? An Assessment of How the European Board and Coast Guard and the European Asylum Support Office Pursue Their Relations with Third Countries in Light of the So-Called ‘Refugee Crisis’.”
Emellin de Oliveira (NOVA): “The Securitization of Migration through Technology: an analysis of the PNR Directive”
Panel 3 – The state of the Union and the future of Europe: reflections and scenarios (Room C302)
Moderator: Ana Lúcia Sá (CEI-IUL)
Luís Machado Barroso (CEI-IUL; IUM) & Marco António Ferreira da Cruz (IUM): “It is not enough to be… It needs to be seen”: the analysis of EUGS implementation 1st Year report”
Ricardo Alexandre (CEI-IUL): “The Western Balkans Euro-fatigue and the impact on EU of potential alternatives to integration”
Dina Sebastião (University of Coimbra): “The persistence of Portuguese Atlanticism as a block for a supranationalization of European defence policy”
15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
16h00-18h00 | Round Table II – The EU & other global players (Aud. B204)
Moderator: Helena Tecedeiro (Diário de Notícias)
Thomas Diez (University of Tübingen)
Maria Raquel Freire (CES-UC, Coimbra)
Luís Tomé (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL, Lisbon)
18h00 – 20h00 | Parallel Sessions II
Panel 4 – Brexit (Room C401)
Moderator: Bruno Cardoso Reis (CEI-IUL)
Sanja Ivic (Institute for European Studies, Serbia): “The Question of European Identity in Light of Brexit”
Allan F. Tatham (Universidad San Pablo-CEU): “‘Breaking up is Hard to Do’: The evolution of the EU’s withdrawal criteria”
Christopher Pitcher (ISCTE-IUL): “‘I voted remain’ a look at the social and political divides within Brexit Britain through qualitative analysis of the narratives and attitudes of British citizens who voted remain”
Luana Lo Piccolo (ISPI – Milan): “Brexit: an increasing fragmentation of the international architecture”
Panel 5 – The EU and its Neighbourhood (Room C402)
Moderator: Cátia Miriam Costa (CEI-IUL)
Petar Georgiev (Council of the EU): “Pursuit of greener pastures in the Eastern neighbourhood: reconciliation of EU’s security interests and normative ambitions”
César García Andrés (Universidad de Valladolid): “The role of Ukraine within the European neighborhood policy and its effects on relations with Russia”
Mónica Canário (CEI-IUL): “Why do we need a real gender policy in the EU?”
Filipe Lima (CEI-IUL): “The EU and Israel and Palestinian Conflict”
Panel 6 – Transnational threats (Room C502)
Moderator: Ana Margarida Esteves (CEI-IUL)
Sofia Geraldes (ISCTE-IUL): “Digital Battlefields: Assessing the EU soft security actorness countering social media information warfare activities”
Marc de Carrière (Amarante International): “Going beyond NATO’s Article 5: A EU-NATO Blockchain to deter cyber warfare”
Davoud Gharayagh-Zandi (IRS; Shahid Beheshti University) & João Almeida Silveira (FCSH-NOVA): “The European Union security actorness within EU-Iran relations in the Post JCPOA Era”
Henrique Miguel Alves Garcia: “Radicalization in Belgium and EU security environment”
Susana Pedro
Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command and Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, recognized nine Army Civilians for exemplary leadership and performance April 20.
The U.S. Army Installation Management Command Stalwart Awards recognize individuals who distinguish themselves among their peers and supervisors as outstanding IMCOM Soldiers and Civilians.
"You all are the future of IMCOM," said Lynch. "You have been recognized by IMCOM leaders as the best of the best."
Lynch, Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and the Environment, and IMCOM Command Sgt. Maj. Neil Ciotola awarded each Stalwart a medallion during a midday general session at the U.S. Army Installation Management Symposium in San Antonio.
Wanda Stover received the Stalwart Award for the IMCOM Europe Region. Stover, supervisor of the alcohol and drug abuse control program for U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr, Germany, was cited for exceeding expectations and striving to improve the quality of life for Soldiers and their Families.
Other nominees from IMCOM-Europe were Ron Joseph, director of human resources, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, and Jan Meert, director, Army Community Service, Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Dawn Jones, administrative officer for the Camp Humphreys Department of Public Works, received the Stalwart Award for the IMCOM Korea Region. The award cited Jones' high standards and commitment to Soldiers, Civilians and Families.
Also nominated from IMCOM-Korea was James North, supervisor and strategic planning specialist in the USAG Yongsan Plans, Analysis and Integration Office.
Martin Venturo, acting Deputy to the Garrison Commander and director of the Resource Management and Plans, Analysis and Integration offices for Fort Monmouth, N.J., took the Stalwart Award for the IMCOM Northeast Region. Venturo received recognition for his ability and leadership while taking on many additional responsibilities.
Also nominated from IMCOM-Northeast was Carrie Mead, chief of the Plans, Analysis and Integration Office for Detroit Arsenal, Mich. Douglas Farrington, fire inspector for Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., received a posthumous nomination.
Dennis Drake, supervisory public affairs specialist for Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, won the Stalwart Award for the IMCOM Pacific Region. Leadership, resourcefullness, skills and attitude made significant contributions to the garrison's public affairs mission, according to the award citation.
Also nominated from IMCOM-Pacific were Brenda Braswell, supervisor and equal opportunity specialist for USAG Japan, and Michael Meeks, director of public works for Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Leo Stolfi, supervisory emergency services manger for Fort Polk, La., was named Stalwart Award winner for the IMCOM Southeast Region. Stolfi was cited for dedication, perseverance, performance and serving as a role model for others.
Other IMCOM-Southeast nominees were Melinda Jo Berry, budget analyst for the Resource Management Office at Fort Gordon, Ga., and William Leyh, director of plans, training, mobilization and security for Fort Rucker, Ga. Ted Freeman, Army Substance Abuse Program manager for Fort Riley, Kansas, received the Stalwart Award for the IMCOM West Region. Through Freeman's persistence, Fort Riley was the first Army installation to develop a "Save a Soldiers Life" program by installing a computerized DUI simulator. Fort Riley is the only installation to develop a battalion-level breath-testing program.
Also nominated from IMCOM-West were Daniel Dougherty, motor transport officer at Fort Hood, Texas, and Gregory Harrell, supervisor and air traffic control specialist at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
Shaunya Murrill, chief of the Outreach and Strategic Integration Division, Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command, Alexandria, Va, won the FMWRC Stalwart Award. Murrill made it possible to extend standardized programs and services to Soldiers and Families of the Total Army, both in the communities where they live and to the geographically dispersed.
Pratya Siriwat, operations officer in the U.S. Army Environmental Command Mission Integration Cell won the USAEC Stalwart Award. Siriwat's leadership enabled the successful relocation of the USAEC Headquarters and more than 60 percent of the command's staff from Aberdeen to San Antonio.
Kathy Aydt, chief of strategic communications for IMCOM, received the Stalwart Award for headquarters and region staff. Aydt initiated, spearheaded, and implemented an enterprise-wide campaign that resulted in the creation of a new installation management logo. She works to ensure strategic communications staff members embed imcom values in every message transmitted to internal and external customers, key stakeholders, congress, and the army family.
Also nominated were Jerry Bennett, operations specialist in the Northeast Region Operations Division, Jonathan Hunter, chief of the Southeast Region Installation Support Team at Fort McPherson, Ga., Gordon Hurd, chief of the Budget Execution and Integration Branch for Europe Region, Primasita Seery, supervisory logistics management specialist for the Pacific Region, Jerry Vesey, general engineer for IMCOM West Region.
ABOUT the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:
IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe - We are the Army's Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle. Our Mission: Our mission is to provide Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with a quality of life commensurate with the quality of their service. Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizations' mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.
To learn more about IMCOM:
Homepage: www.army.mil/imcom
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Dalí Universe is a permanent exhibition of works by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí which is housed in a 3,000 square metre (32,000 square feet) suite of galleries at County Hall. Opened in 2000, it displays over 500 works, including sculptures dating from 1935-1984, drawings, lithographs, gold and glass objects and a Dalí-inspired furniture collection, but no major paintings. The exhibition was originally curated by Beniamino Levi, who worked with Dalí on the development of his sculptures. Technically Dalí Universe is an exhibit at the County Hall Gallery, which also stages other art exhibitions, but it is much better known under its own name.
This sculpture of Dalí's most famous painting, "Persistence of Memory" (1931), stands outside County Hall along the bank of the River Thames. The painting has also been popularly known as Soft Watches, Droopy Watches, or Melting Clocks. It is currently displayed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, where it has been since 1934.
" Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak " .... Thomas Carlyle
persistence ..... keep on growing and blooming where you are planted regardless on the bloke with the chainsaw.
April 23rd, 2013
April 2013: A Month in 30 Pictures / Day 23
A spring snow covering blue mist spirea flower buds from last year.
Church of St Sylvester, Chivelstone Devon is now the religious centre of this coastal parish known as Prawle point which is situated at the most southerly point in Devon and also incluldes the villages of South Allington, Ford, Lannacombe & East Prawle.
Mentioned as Cheveletone in the 1086 Domesday Survey, the Lord of the Manor was then Juhel de Totnes who was granted many manors in the south-west by William the Conqueror and who founded Totnes Priory in c.1087 but who , after the king's death , was expelled by his successor.
There was a chapelry here by the end of the 13c, attached to the parish of Stokenham held by Totnes Priory.
The church now consists of chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, embattled three stage west tower with 5-sided stair turret on the south side , holding 5 bells, and is mainly Perpendicular in style.
The present building was constructed in the early 15c , though the chancel may be 14c, and enlarged with the rebuilding of the aisled nave, tower & porch in mid-16c.
It is the only one in Devon dedicated to Pope Sylvester who died in 325AD
Inside is a wonderful early 15c rood screen with painted saints www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5d01WbJ7P4 & a
later c1480 fine matching painted medieval pulpit hollowed out of the trunk of a large oak tree www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/aCN1aNhKqJ
The registers date from 1630.
It was restored in 1897 but by the beginning of this century was badly in need of further extensive restoration.
The PCC also hoped to create a space that could be used more widely by the community as well as bringing in revenue to help make it more sustainable in the future - this in addition to providing better facilities for the loyal congregation.
Having been unsuccessful with previous grants the Church worked hard with the active support of Le Page Architects, to win a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The final interview for the grant on zoom released £400,000 during the 2020 lockdown, this supplemented with other fundraising for the match funding. There is an explanatory video that explains the project here: eastprawlehistorysociety.co.uk/church-repair-project
Work was done during 2021. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xs1N7-DnU
There have been interesting complications around structural and conservation repair, entailing 8m deep low impact piles to support the south porch, as well as repair to a reed reinforced plaster ceiling. Extensive repointing, upgrade of rainwater goods, other repairs to lead roof, and stonework repair to decayed windows has formed the majority of the external work.
Interior works are wide ranging, involving the installation of an accessible lavatory unusually with a shower. This is so that the Church may be used for overnight accommodation for walkers and tourists champing.co.uk. Grant of consent to allow for a shower was extremely hard won but eventually allowed. A bespoke hideaway kitchen offers simple catering for a variety of events.
Conservation work to the medieval pulpit was one of the highlights of the project and remains of late 17c / early 18c wall paintings have been found under layers of whitewash,
In the graveyard are numerous graves dating from 1712 , many to those who lost their lives in ships wrecked throughout the centuries,
In his book “Kingsbridge and its Surroundings” (1874) S P Fox wrote bout the wreck of the Gossamer:“A China tea clipper ship, of 735 tons register, was wrecked in December, 1868 and 13 lives were lost. There was a strong South-wrest breeze, and a heavy sea… The Captain was seen to lash his bride of just two weeks to a spar in the hope that she would stay afloat. For a time the two of them clung to the storm tossed bit of wood until the sea took them in its cold embrace…”
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 13" (24.1 x 33 cm)
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí 1931
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
11 West 53 Street - New York, NY 10019-5497
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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:
[...] Il y a deux espèces de multiplicité : celle des objets matériels, qui forme un nombre immédiatement, et celle des faits de conscience, qui ne saurait prendre l'aspect d'un nombre sans l'intermédiaire de quelque représentation symbolique [...] Il faut admettre deux conceptions, l'une qualitative, l'autre quantitative, de la différence entre le même et l'autre. [...]
[...] There are two types of multiplicity : the one of material objects, which form a number immediately, and the one of consciousness facts, which does not take the appearance of a number without the intermediary of some symbolic representation [...] We must admit two approaches, one qualitative, an other one quantitative, of the difference between the same and the other.[...]
( Henri Bergson - Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience - 1889 )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
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Yorkshire Artspace Society
Persistence Works Studios, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
Persistence Works is our purpose built, award-winning studio complex in Sheffield City Centre. Comprising 53 studios of varying size to accommodate around 80 artists and makers, its six floors are zoned to suit a broad range of making processes, including light industrial work.
Persistence Works, Brown Street, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, 1998–2001
Persistence Works [24, 80], 1998–2001 by Feilden Clegg Bradley is the first purpose-built (as opposed to converted) fine art and crafts studios erected in Britain for many years. Built for the Yorkshire ArtSpace Society, a co-operative which first took over redundant industrial buildings in this area for studios in 1982. Constructed of in situ fair-faced concrete, industrial in scale (fifty-one studios) and austerely dignified in design with minimal surface decoration, a welcome contrast to the Postmodern gimmickry so prevalent elsewhere in the city. Two elements: a long low block facing Brown Street, with cantilevered first floor above a glazed podium, and a parallel six-storey block behind, linked by an impressive glazed atrium [24] through which large art- works can be removed. Angularity is only relaxed in the reception area which has a curved outer wall, bowed like a ship’s prow. Large and noisy activities are restricted to the double-height studios on the ground and first floors, quieter ones such as painting to the upper floors of the rear block. The rear elevation is punctuated by large set-backs at ground and first-floor level to provide balconies to the studios. Artworks integral to the building’s design include a screen of rippling glass panels along the façade by Jeff Bell, the perforated steel gates by Jennie Gill, blue circular lights with steel ‘hairs’ protruding from the façade by Jo Fairfax and the reception area floor by Jasia Szerszynska.
I ran across this little guy while take more light photos now that it's finally snowed and cool enough to stick. I like his "never say die" attitude.
Climbing the steps to reach Madame Eiffel .. and he did get to the top.
Taken during the Parisian version of Scott Kelby's 3rd Worldwide Photowalk .
Explore 359 - merci & thanks!
TRANS AM
From their scattered possibilities comes the surging probability of Trans Am.
A transcendent body of sound and surgical persistence survives in the theatre of their critically received new album Sex Change. Nathan, Phil & Seb ride in on a conspiracy of the gods, anoint the confused, and cut it up in an all-scar variety show. From one obscene strategy to the next, they stitch together their operation of patterns...
"Sex Change is typically eclectic but pushes their sound further towards '70s stadium prog, keyboard-driven Krautrock, shredding '80s rock, John Carpenter soundtracks from the late 1970s, super clean and mellow funk-rock, and whatever you call the kind of music they play behind sports play-by-plays." (King Blind)
...the trannies have never seemed more exultant. Time for a return.
Recently touring the US & Canada as guests of TOOL and from that booking appointments on antipodean shores again in 2008...
Consume presents
Australian08 appointments:
THUR 7 FEB - OXFORD ART FACTORY, Sydney
Plus Soft Tigers and Ponyloaf
Tickets from Tickets available from: all Moshtix outlets, ph: 1300 GET TIX or www.moshtix.com.au
and custommade.com.au (ph 1300 762 545)
FRI 8 FEB - GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane 'Andy Warhol Up Late" series
Tickets: $20.00 (includes 'Andy Warhol' exhibition entry). Book through qtix, phone 136 246 or www.qtix.com.au. For program details and further information visit www.qag.qld.gov.au/warhol_uplate
SAT 9 FEB - EAST BRUNSWICK CLUB, Melbourne
Plus guests...
Tickets on sale at the East Brunswick Club box office, 280 Lygon St, PH: 9388 9794 or via the website www.eastbrunswickclub.com
SUN 10 FEB - St Kilda Festival, THE ESPY, St Kilda
Plus others to be announced...
Ticket details from venue.
Trans Am's SEX CHANGE album out now on LTI.
Special Australian edition includes bonus making of documentary.
www.myspace.com/transbandspace
TRANS AM bio
Formed in 1993, Trans Am confirms the trio of Nathan Means (bass, keyboards, vocals), Phil Manley (guitar, keyboards, bass, vocals) and Sebastian Thompson (drums, vocals, bass, guitar, programming). Over the course of seven albums and three eps, Trans Am have pleased and confounded critics with their ever-changing music style. From their most Deutsch-influenced self-titled debut to Futureworld, their 80's inspired super-synth pop tunes to the raw rock of Red Line, their musical style has always varied.
After Trans Am’s last album, Liberation – a bleak portrayal of life in a security obsessed imperial capital, the band exploded and abandoned Washington, D.C. for three different continents. The following period of programmed isolation found Nathan Means in Auckland, Phil Manley in San Francisco and Sebastian Thomson splitting time between London and New York. Internal contact was primarily electronic but for a handful of live shows. With two years’ separation fueling them, the band began in June 2006 on a program of sporadic rendezvous, reconvening briefly on several continents to work on what would become the most joyous and upbeat rock album of Trans Am’s chronicle.
Down Under
In June of 2006, Trans Am reunited at MAINZ, a recording school in Auckland, New Zealand, with a few songs and almost no musical equipment. Recording moved forward with a wide range of borrowed instruments, keyboards and other gear, including a 1960’s Mellotron and remarkable vintage amps loaned by iconic New Zealand musician Chris Knox (Tall Dwarfs). The MAINZ session, recorded by a professor and a student who received credit towards graduation, was threatened when photos of the band drinking beer in the on-campus studio were discovered by the administration. Future drinking occurred off campus.
The Other Hemisphere
Two months later, recording continued in Brooklyn, New York at the Okropolis: headquarters of New York band Oneida. Determined to make a break with the past, Trans Am again arrived with almost none of their signature gear - none of the vocoders, keyboards, drums, drum machines and amps that they used on previous albums.
Two weeks later the album was mixed at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco. Compared with previous records such as TA and Liberation, which took months to complete, Sex Change was conceived, written, recorded and mixed in only three weeks.
Obscene Strategies
Although Sex Change marks a break from their past, Trans Am have always embraced unnatural and perverse recording techniques and concepts. In such a crush of time, Trans Am had to rely on traditional time and possibility expanding substances: coffee, yerba mate, et cetera, as well as a codified series of recording techniques called “Obscene Strategies”.
Brian Eno is well known for his “Oblique Strategies” in which studio engineers - faced with an apparent roadblock - draw a card from a deck. The card might suggest, “Take something perfect and make it more human”, with the intention of animating the track through an infusion of randomness. Over many years, Trans Am developed their own Obscene Strategies to provide a less humanist and more time-sensitive set of guidelines for loosening creative blockages. Sample
suggestions include:
#11 Take a nap
#16 Make it sound like Jackson Browne
#18 Rip off black musicians
#19 Invite all your friends over
#20 Check your email
#23 Leave the studio unlocked overnight
#31 Hose down the control room
#43 Pillow fight!
Liberation
Perhaps the band’s geographical liberation was the inspiration for the creation of Sex Change, Trans Am’s most international and exhilarating album to date. Whatever the reason may be, Sex Change is a welcome and forceful return by a band that has been a consistent innovator and touring machine for over a decade.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories staff photo, featuring an alphanumeric persistence of vision display. Exposure time: 2.5 s.
(Poem inspired by Salvador Dali painting Persistence of Memory)
"Chained to the hands of time,
faded memories burn to dust,
swarming ants creep along decayed
branches
Insomniacs depict a striking mind,
in the midst of picturesque beauty―
battling through day and night
I lose myself to the calm seashore,
astray on the edge of a cliff,
unmoved between space and time
A desperate strive for normality,
this persistence will live on,
to diminish the warped recollection
of an unknown vision"
- Kavita Trivedi
[পরিশিষ্টঃ ছবিটি তোলা অবশ্য অন্য প্রেক্ষিতে। প্রদর্শিত ঘড়িটি প্রায় শ বছর পুরানো। রামুতে এক ঐতিহ্যবাহী মন্দিরে সংরক্ষিত ছিল ওটা। সম্প্রতি ২৯ সেপ্টেম্বর বৌদ্ধ বিহারে দুর্বৃত্তদের ন্যাক্কারজনক হামলায় ক্ষতিগ্রস্থ হয় মন্দিরটি। সাথে ঘড়িটিও...]
Abir Shaqran Photography
Ramu, Cox' Bazar,
Bangladesh.
31 October, 2012
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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:
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
~ James Whitcomb Riley
A small desert life climbing the dune and probably trying to reach home before night fall. What amazed me is the thin trail it left all along and the persistence it was showing when climbing this "mighty" dune. Above all, this creature is doing the journey all alone. I now wonder how long it must have traveled to get here and be "captured" forever.
The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area(NRA), located on the Oregon Coast, stretches approximately 40 miles north from the Coos River in North Bend, to the Siuslaw River, in Florence. The park is part of Siuslaw National Forest and is administered by the United States Forest Service (USFS).
These Wind-sculpted sand dunes some of them towering to 500 feet above sea level were formed by the ancient forces of sun, wind, water and time. These sand dunes are like no others in the world and are the largest expanse of coastal sand dunes in North America.
August 1, 2010, Oregon dunes, Oregon, this one taken here.
Another Demotivational poster created with fd's Flickr Toys, & inspired by the wickedly sarcastic "despair" series ( www.despair.com ) which is, itself, inspired by the famous Motivation posters.
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www.thisdishisvegetarian.com/2010/09/0851dolphin-killings...
Despite the controversy and the presence of activists, fisherman in the town of Taiiji, Japan, have resumed the killing of marine life. Taiji is home to the waters which host an annual dolphin slaughter—the bloodshed which was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_(film)
The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film that describes the annual killing of dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama, in Japan from an ocean conservationists point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and reports that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year in the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats.
The film states that the dolphin hunt is, in a large part, motivated by the tremendous revenue generated for the town by selling some of the captured dolphins to aquariums and marine parks. The dolphins that are not sold into captivity are then slaughtered in the cove by the fishermen and the meat is sold in supermarkets.
The Cove exposes the slaughter of more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises off the coast of Japan every year, and how their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is sold as food in Japan and other parts of Asia, often labeled as whale meat. The majority of the world is not aware this is happening.
The focus of the Social Action Campaign for The Cove is to create worldwide awareness of this annual practice as well as the dangers of eating seafood contaminated with mercury, and to pressure those in power to put an end to the slaughter.
On September 1, the six-month dolphin hunting season opened again, and fishermen in Taiji plan to take to the cove despite international pressure. Experts say education, awareness and persistence are needed to eventually turn the tide.
1.4MM people have signed the petition to end the slaughter, but this is just the beginning. The hunt still goes on. Find out what you can do to help.
www.wspa-usa.org/pages/272_what_s_wrong_with_swimming_wit...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
The consumption of fish is by far the most significant source of ingestion-related mercury exposure in humans and animals, although plants and livestock also contain mercury due to bioaccumulation of mercury from soil, water and atmosphere, and due to biomagnification by ingesting other mercury-containing organisms. Exposure to mercury can occur from breathing contaminated air;from eating foods containing mercury residues from processing, such as can occur with high-fructose corn syrup;from exposure to mercury vapor in mercury amalgam dental restorations;and from improper use or disposal of mercury and mercury-containing objects, for example, after spills of elemental mercury or improper disposal of fluorescent lamps.
Human-generated sources such as coal plants emit approximately half of atmospheric mercury, with natural sources such as volcanoes responsible for the remainder. An estimated two-thirds of human-generated mercury comes from stationary combustion, mostly of coal. Other important human-generated sources include gold production, non-ferrous metal production, cement production, waste disposal, human crematoria, caustic soda production, pig iron and steel production, mercury production (mostly for batteries), and biomass burning.
#243 in a series for one photo a day for a year
Norio and Argent enjoying the heater in the kitchen of our house in Yubari in October of 2017. Argent is in almost the exact same position as she was in a picture exactly one year earlier.