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Warm up wall in Bochum, I struggled a bit and not too happy with outcome, but it was great to meet Dater, HIFI and WERT from Italy!
Ancient Classical sources have it that Prometheus, a Titan, and the son of Iapetus, granted to mankind the secret of fire (among other things), much against the wishes of Zeus.
As punishment, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to be chained to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains.
There, a great eagle (the symbol of Zeus) feasted daily upon Prometheus' liver. Being immortal, his liver and body regenerated every night only to be redevoured each day by the eagle. This went on for 30,000 years until the indomitable Herakles arrives on the scene, liberating Prometheus by killing the eagle.
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A couple of builder's notes:
1) Why white?
a) The Titans were often associated with this colour. They were said, according to some sources to be beings of "white clay" and thay they covered themselves with white gypsum dust during their rituals. In fact the name of the element Titanium is derived from the Greek "Titanos", meaning Titans, or the "First Sons of the Earth".
b) I have a lot of white LEGO.
2) Sources include Nicolas-Sébastien Adam's incredible sculpture of this scene, completed in 1757. Also Laconian black-figure amphoriskos, approx. C6th B.C.
My entry to the Wrath of the Titans contest.
Prometheus
sculptor: Paul Manship, 1934
Rockefeller Plaza (Lower Plaza)
Rockefeller Center, Manhattan
New York City, NY
As said earlier, here are the files for the digital Prometheus. This has been done has authentically to the original as shown by Das when he did his breakdown. Hence the minor junkyard of illegal connections and non fitting parts :)
Have fun!
77/100 - Myth
"Prometheus' Passions"
When I was coming up with some of the themes for this project, I thought of this one because I had this idea in mind before I even planned on doing this project. Prometheus was a Greek Titan god, who was tasked with crafting men out of clay. After he made man, he later stole fire to give to man, an act which gave man the ability to progress and start civilization.
I wanted to portray the moment when man broke from the mold and started to be free.
This was taken during my walk up to view the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye. This location is where some of the film Prometheus was shot - I cannot wait to watch that film!!
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Rockefeller Plaza, New York
"Paul Manship's highly recognizable bronze gilded statue of the Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus recumbent, bringing fire to mankind, features prominently in the sunken plaza at the front of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The model for Prometheus was Leonardo (Leon) Nole, and the inscription from Aeschylus, on the granite wall behind, reads: "Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends." Although some sources cite it as the fourth-most familiar statue in the United States, behind the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, Manship was not particularly fond or proud of it." (Wikipedia)
The burial of Saint Hilary of Arles: a pagan sarcophagus for a Christian bishop.
The decoration of the sarcophagus main side is dedicated to the myth of the creation of man and to his fate summarized by the three Moirai (Parcae) carved in central position. Although the composition is clear and orderly assembled, the scene is particularly complex.
To left, the Titan Prometheus, in his identity as creator of men, is portrayed as a seated sculptor modeling a little boy out of clay. Immediately to his right Athena, as goddess of reason and culture. This is the same Athena whom we shall meet again and again as the patroness of learning and culture. The head of Helios decorated by rays of sunlight is carved behind Athena. The presence of the god Sun in the far left of the scene means the beginning of a new life. Near the statuettes created by Prometheus there is Hermes, the escort of souls. The god is recognizable by his main attributes: petasos and caduceus. He pushes the spirit (Psyche) – represented in the form of a winged female figure - inside the body of one of the statuettes made by Prometheus. The female figure standing before Hermes is Lachesis, one of the Moirai (Fates), who determines the horoscope of the newly born child. She holds a sphere, representation of the celestial globe, and a bag; next to her there is her sister Clotho, spinning the thread of life. In a rightmost position, the third Moira, Atropos, is seated on a stool. She unrolls the scroll of fate reading the destiny of the human beings. It is Atropos who, when time is over, slices the tenuous thread of life. Between Clotho and Atropos the god Poseidon is represented with two female characters. The leftmost figure represent Selene recognizable by the crescent moon adorning her hair and the stars carved on the background of the sarcophagus chest. Here, the goddess is the counterpart of Helios carved on the far left corner of the scene summarizing the parabola of the human life from birth to death.
The female character wrapped in a mantel, standing in the right corner of the scene, is the deceased woman moving toward the Styx river here represented by his river divinity. In the lower right corner Tellus.
Roman Sarcophagus
Height : 0,71 m. ; Length : 2,21 cm
From Arles
Ca. 240 AC
Paris, Musée du Louvre – (Ma 339)
The Freight Depot at Kingstown, Carlisle, located on a remnant of the Waverley route at Brunthill has a large hardstanding ideal for road rail transfers. On 24 January 2017 such a tansfer took place where new Electro/diesel locomotive 88002 is seen being lowered down the ramp, inch by inch from the trailer. The locomotive had been transported by road from Southampton.
:> Prometheus mainframe ... log in
welcome, officer Hackett
:> info ... success
:> User id ... 234353
Earth date ...05 11 2198
Mission date ... 43 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes
:> exit
:> logged out
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Latourell Falls during a rainy, Saturday morning. My wife and I drove for a long weekend down to Oregon for some photo fun. We spent a few hours at Latourell and Wahclela falls in the Gorge and then drove to Cape Kiwanda.
Weather didn't cooperate much, but it sure worked great for the falls in the Gorge. The flow was high and the colors nice and saturated.
Let me know what you think, ok?!?!?!
This image is intended to accompany the Inventing Interactive article "Territory's Prometheus UI" -- showing some of the UI design in "Prometheus" The full post is online at www.inventinginteractive.com/2012/06/20/territorys-promet...
About 85% done. See how much stuff changes over time...This is probably missing parts of the old you may have liked, fear not I have them saved for other projects.
I wanted to deviate from the "space sausage" so I made alterations. Kind an homage to Studio Nue rather than Homeworld-esque . I just need to fill in greebly bits in between the panels.
It is unfortunate that this bears the same name as the upcoming movie, but my daughter has been doing Greek mythology and I had some macross stickers.
My turn at building this ship. I started with using the barrels on the engines and that determined the scale. At the widest point the body is 5-wide, which made getting the body shape tricky. It would have been trickier if the studs on this piece where open, because then I couldn't have built a 5-wide base directly on top of it.
88002 passes Scout Green working 4M27 Mossend - Daventry.
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