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Class 88 No. 88002 "Prometheus" is seen heading towards
Spittal Crossing at Berwick-Upon-Tweed working a light engine movement 0Z03 from Edinburgh -York Parcel Sidings
I realized I haven't posted anything for a while (I have no idea why), but I'm back anyhow.
This figure was inspired by the head which I was really happy with but finding a suitable torso was a challenge (I'm still not really happy with it).
Parts (top to bottom): Black Hood, Head from one of the Knights of Ren from Kylo Ren's shuttle, Black Quiver, torso and legs from imperial pilot/death star trooper, Ninjago Katana, Hawkeye's bow.
BIG announcement coming soon...
88002 passes Spittal whilst working 6S31 from Doncaster Up Decoy to Millerhill, Monday 30th April saw this service being Class 88 hauled for the first time, it had a relatively light load from the previous evenings SCO traffic forecast!
PROMETHEUS STOLE FIRE FROM THE GODS AND GAVE IT TO MAN.
FOR THIS HE WAS CHAINED TO A ROCK AND TORTURED FOR ETERNITY.
Model: Marilia Morais
Photo and Concept: Jackson Carvalho
Beauty and Hair: Roberta Torres
Stylish: Rodrigo Merisson
Producer: Reginaldo Augusto
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better viewed in black
Left to right: Anarky and Prometheus.
I've been wanting to make a Prometheus for awhile but I couldn't find a helmet since I wanted a purple one but I think this works better.
EXPLORE Worthy - REMIX THIS PIX 20 (2019 Art)
Statue with thanks from Stanley Zimny. Used with his permission:
All credits and a BIG thankyou goes to dasnewton www.flickr.com/photos/dasnewten/
I love his Stuff and that he is sharing the instruction, thank you for that.
I build some other Mocs from dasnewton, but but I need to photograph them.
This is the valuable sarcophagus known as the "Prometheus Sarcophagus". It was sculpted by a workshop in Rome in the very early years of the 4th century AD, when the great anti-Christian persecution ordered by Diocletian began. The carved scene is a vigorous affirmation of paganism: in the crowded composition, divinities of every rank (Zeus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon, Eros, Psyche, the workshop of Hephaestus and a representation of the Underworld) crowd around the protagonist, the Titan Prometheus portrayed in the center, seated, intent on observing his creature: the man, still an inert clay puppet, rigidly stretched out at his feet. In a prominent position there are Hera and Zeus in the act of giving Hermes the money with which to redeem the man's life from Hades. Next to Hermes, there is Poseidon with the trident; at the two corners, at the top, Selene's chariot and Apollo's chariot. Between Zeus and the man, finally, Eros and some Erotes push Psyche, the soul, to give life to the first human being.
In his book on Greek Myths Apollodorus narrates the entire story of Prometheus. In 1.7.1-45 he writes:
« Προμηθεὺς δὲ ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ γῆς ἀνθρώπους πλάσας
ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς καὶ πῦρ, λάθρᾳ Διὸς ἐν νάρθηκι
κρύψας. ὡς δὲ ἤσθετο Ζεύς, ἐπέταξεν Ἡφαίστῳ τῷ
Καυκάσῳ ὄρει τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ προσηλῶσαι: τοῦτο δὲ
Σκυθικὸν ὄρος ἐστίν. ἐν δὴ τούτῳ προσηλωθεὶς
Προμηθεὺς πολλῶν ἐτῶν ἀριθμὸν ἐδέδετο: καθ᾽
ἑκάστην δὲ ἡμέραν ἀετὸς ἐφιπτάμενος αὐτῷ τοὺς
λοβοὺς ἐνέμετο τοῦ ἥπατος αὐξανομένου διὰ νυκτός.
καὶ Προμηθεὺς μὲν πυρὸς κλαπέντος δίκην ἔτινε
ταύτην, μέχρις Ἡρακλῆς αὐτὸν ὕστερον ἔλυσεν, ὡς ἐν
τοῖς καθ᾽ Ἡρακλέα δηλώσομεν»
Prometheus moulded men out of water and earth and gave
them also fire, which, unknown to Zeus, he had hidden in a
stalk of fennel. But when Zeus learned of it, he ordered
Hephaestus to nail his body to Mount Caucasus, which is a
Scythian mountain. On it Prometheus was nailed and kept
bound for many years. Every day an eagle swooped on him and
devoured the lobes of his liver, which grew by night. That was
the penalty that Prometheus paid for the theft of fire until
Hercules afterwards released him, as we shall show in dealing
with Hercules.
Source: Bologna University: La Creazione dell'Uomo
White marble sarcophagus with high relief depictions
Early IV century AD
From Puteoli,
Naples, National Archaeological Museum – Inv. no. 6705
A quick glance might convince you this tree is long-dead. That is how many people tend to see bristlecones -- just a lot of dead wood. (Not being totally immune to this tendency, I keep a very informal mental tally of just how dead a bristlecone can appear while actually thriving. Maybe I’ll put together a Top 10 sometime.)
There certainly is a lot of dead wood here. Probably more than five thousand years worth. But a bristlecone, theoretically immortal, is tough to kill and this tree is not dead. It is downsized -- puttering along in a sort of deep-time version of semi-retirement.
On the backside, out of the wind, are two strips of living bark (one on each side) -- strip bark -- each supporting a luxuriant plume of needles and vibrant, fertile cones. Think vine and arbor -- a millennium or two ago, maybe many such vines. Long before that, a whole tree.
Few trees can do this -- shutting-down sector by sector through time as conditions dictate. It is a capability that allows for perfect morphological adaptation to millenniums of wind, and ice, and erosion, and fluctuating micro and macro climates. The tree is living, in effect, within its long term means. All that dead wood, like the wrinkles of a weathered face, is just history...Just.
The oldest known Great Basin bristlecone pine (in the White Mountains of California) is almost 5070 years old by ring count -- the recently confirmed oldest living individual tree in the world. I like to think this sophisticated lady has a hundred years on that. But we’ll never know for sure because the heartwood is completely gone, the history erased -- a result of rot from the higher precipitation levels in the Snake Range of Nevada as compared to the much drier climate of the White Mountains in the immediate rain shadow of California’s High Sierra.
The tree "Prometheus" was the lone, relatively sound, exception in all of the Snake Range -- largely intact, single-trunk, six-feet in diameter, almost one-hundred forty growth rings per inch, almost five millenniums-old when discovered; oldest known living individual organism in the world. Which, of course, is how it came to be felled fifty-three years ago in the guise of science.
Heart rot would not normally be thought of as having survival value, but for an ancient bristlecone in an era of chainsaw science, that would certainly seem to be the case.
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(For those with a sharp eye: Yes, that is an extremely rare pine hen in the right foreground...probably hatching a clutch of cones. Shhh...she thinks you can’t see her.)
Creating this shot took quite a bit of planning and effort with Rob kindly agreeing to stand stock still for about 10 minutes while I moved around the cave in the dark controlling the back light, light painting the foreground, firing the laser and setting off smoke pellets.
I used the brilliant 'Live Composite' function on my EM-1 so I could monitor my progress and see the image building up on the back of the screen during the exposure. Really great fun to do and certainly very different!!
(10 minutes live composite of 10 sec exposures f/5.6 @ 7.5mm Samyang fisheye)
Project Prometheus
Assessment report
Date 29 10 2631
>> Confidential <<
Initial contamination with the agent of P381-X9341-A showed great potential. However Dr. M03198 failed to keep the infection quarantined. After the incident, the Prometheus was sealed off. With no food supply the infected crew turned on itself. We continued to monitor the situation closely.
When the power reactor started to show signs of failure we sent in a squad to extract the sole non infected crew member. They were able to reach the pod but were ambushed. From the final video transmission we could see the target was already starting to mutate. Sending in another squad is useless.
It was decided to stop the program. We disabled the Prometheus' guidance matrix and shut down the power core remotely. The ship is now following a decaying orbit around the planet and will crash on it's surface within a few days.
Project Prometheus is terminated effective immediately.
Project Chronos is still go.
A collaborative vignette between myself, H2brick, and PsychoBrick. We all saw Oppenheimer together, and absolutely loved the film. We all immediately set out to build a powerful vignette to represent the movie and critical period in our history. We used my parts, built at my house, and had an absolute blast.
Hope you enjoy the build! What did you think of Oppenheimer? If you haven't seen it, you're missing out on the best movie of the year!
More photos available on my website.
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Captain's log entry #34
Earth Date 16 01 2593
The Prometheus arrived at interstellar jump gate Alpha-12. Jump sequence to planetary system X9341-A was initiated moments ago. I'm going to get some sleep while I can. First officer A34918 is in command until my return. Just received a message from Elle. She is already waiting in my quarters ... it seems I won't be getting that much sleep after all.
Bob out.
Fiery TMS Elements hull re-texture. While this isn't the latest TMS release it is certainly one of their best to this day.
Photo taken at Blake Sea - Siren's Isle
After the sneaky fellow popped up in the Midnighter book I was reading, I finally bit the bullet and put together a Prometheus for myself.
:> Prometheus mainframe ... welcome
:> info
:> User id ... A34918
Earth date ... 20 01 2593
Mission date ... 24 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes
Mission status ... jump to planetary system X9341-A successful
:> log
> Shuttle ready for take off, engine test ok
> Equipment is prepared and being loaded
> Crew members boarding
> ETA to surface of planet P381-X9341-A: 2 hours 26 minutes
> ...
> Crew is still unaware of real mission purpose
> I do hope Dr. Elle knows what she's doing!
:> exit
:> Logged off
Butterflies in the genus Caligo are commonly called owl butterflies, after their huge eyespots, which resemble owls' eyes. There are about 20 species in the genus, found in the rainforests and secondary forests of Mexico, Central and South America.
Owl Butterflies are very large, 65–200 mm, and fly only a few metres at a time, so avian predators have little difficulty in following them to their settling place. However, the butterflies preferentially fly in dusk, when few avian predators are around. Caligo means darkness.
The Caligo species on the photo is the Caligo prometheus. This species can be found in the rainforests and secondary forests in the northwest of South America (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).
The wingspan is usually from 115 mm to 130 mm, but can reach 150 mm.
This picture was taken in de Vlinderhof (the butterfly house) in the Utrechtse Botanische Tuinen (botanical gardens of the Utrecht University) in the Netherlands.
De met een spanwijdte van 115 tot maximaal 150 mm vrij grote uilvlinder (Caligo prometheus), ook wel uilenvlinder genoemd, is een dagvlinder uit de familie Nymphalidae (vossen, parelmoervlinders, weerschijnvlinders). Naast de Caligo prometheus zijn er nog ongeveer 20 soorten in het geslacht Caligo beschreven, die ook allemaal uilvlinder worden genoemd en ook sterk op elkaar lijken.
De bruingrijze tekening van de onderkant heeft opvallende oogvlekken, net uilenogen, die als fopogen dienen. Bij bedreiging spreidt de uilvlinder zijn vleugels om zijn belager af te schrikken met de starende blik van een uil. De uilvlinder is vooral tijdens de scheming actief. Overdag zie je ze meestal rusten.
Ze worden gevonden in de regenwouden van Mexico, Midden-en Zuid-Amerika (Amazonegebied).
De Caligo prometheus wordt aangetroffen in Colombia, Equador en Peru.
De boven kant van de Caligo prometheus is donkerbruin met een blauwe weerschijnskleur aan de basis.
Deze foto is gemaakt in het vlinderhuis in de Botanische Tuinen van de Utrechtse Universiteit.
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