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110,000 Throughout Ireland Protested Against 64 Billion Euro Bank Debt - Were You There?

 

Have you ever noticed how often the number 64 appears in headlines and on posters. We in Ireland have a 64 Billion Euro debt, or so we are told. It is interesting to note that "The $64,000 Question" was an American game show broadcast from 1955–1958, which became embroiled in the scandals involving TV quiz shows of the day.

 

The organisers of today's protest march claimed that over 110,000 people took part in the demonstrations.but according to local media and police estimates the total country wide turnout was about 50,000.

 

The largest event took place in Dublin and according to local police about 25,000 took part while the organisers claim that at least 60,000 took part (maybe 64,000 took part). Today an experienced journalist explained to me that the police count the number of legs and divide by two and the protest organisers count the number of legs and divide by one (BTW that's a joke).

 

To be honest I do not know if anyone is even trying to be accurate but the following statement was issued by the ITCU:

 

9 Feb 2013

 

More than 110,000 people took part in demonstrations across the country today, in protest at the country’s continued bank debt burden.

 

The protests were organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and took place in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Sligo.

 

Over 60,000 took part in the Dublin protest, while at least 15,000 turned out in Cork, 13,000 in Waterford, 10,000 in Limerick, 7,000 in Sligo and 5,000 I Galway.

 

Congress General Secretary David Begg told protestors at a rally in Dublin’s Merrion Square that bank debt problem had not been solved by the recent deal.

 

He vowed Congress would continue its bank debt campaign until the link between private bank debt and national debt was clearly broken.

tagged by *NikSpectraRox*

 

Since everyone was doing it, didn't want to be left out so I decided to join the bandwagon. Fave MH dolls altogether in one pic. Don't know how this "TMI" thing is suppose to go since some people done only 15 question while some got all the way to 100 questions.....

 

1) Sexuality: Gay

 

2) If you could meet anyone on earth, who would it be? Ehh, My favorite Kpop groups?

 

3) Grab a book nearest to you, turn to page 23, read me line 17. - Who needs a book. I have my yaoi Kpop fanfictions right here!

 

4) What do you think about the most? Having an Asian boyfriend. Yes I am serious.

 

5) What does your latest text message from someone else say? "Yeah"

 

6) Do you sleep with or without clothes on? On as always.

 

7) What your strangest talent? It's kinda gruesome so I won't say but it does involve with my nails pinching against my lip

 

8) Girls.... (finish the sentence); Boys.... (finish the sentence) Girls are not, Boys are hot.

 

9) Ever had a poem or song written about you? Everyone sees me as a background character T.T

 

10) When was the last time you played the air guitar? I never have done that.

 

11) Do you have any strange phobias? ....I don't think so?....

 

12) Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose? When I was little and I stupidly stuck a tiny blue eraser or something in my nose and it somehow got stuck. I got it out when I blew my nose out :P

 

13) What's your religion? Buddhist

 

14) If you are outside, what are you most likely doing? Nothing

 

15) Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it? Mostly behind. I don't want the world to see how I look

 

16) Simple bit extremely complex. Favorite band? My life goes to Kpop, which I'm pretty sure no one on here has ever heard any of the ones I listen to except the ones that are so mainstream on here *cough* Big Bang *cough*....

 

17) What was the last lie you told? *On the phone with my dad* Oh my sister is about to leave. *Sister takes a whole hour to get ready.*

 

18) Do you believe in karma? Idk maybe

 

19) What does your URL mean? I do not know

 

20) What's your greatest weakness; your greatest strength? Weakness, Turning into goo by seeing a cute boy. Strength, Acting like a diva.

 

21) Who is your celebrity crush? I have none

 

22) Have you ever gone skinny dipping? FUCK NO!

 

23) How do you vent your anger? One thing = Music

 

24) Do you have a collection of anything? Dolls & Kpop posters, which is only 8 at the moment.....

 

25) Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online? Texting

 

26) Are you happy with the person you've become? No.......(;.;)

 

27) What's a sould you hate; sound you love? Hate - Running your finger down a magazine page. Love - Rain when it hits the ground softly

 

28) What is your biggest "what if"? "What if I wear this today?"

 

29) Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens? Ghost? Yes. Aliens? No.

 

30) Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Air

 

31) Smell the air. What do you smell? I can't smell the scent of my room, guess I'm used to the smell of my room.

 

32) Where's the worst place you've ever been to? Umm, My mind is hazy

 

33) Choose East or West coast? Depends

 

34) Most attractive singer of your opposite gender? ....*thinking*...I got nothing....

 

35) To you, what's the meaning of life? Enjoy it before it goes away

 

36) Define art. Relaxing and Calm

 

37) Do you believe in luck? Sometimes I do, and sometimes I'm all. "F*ck you luck!"

 

38) What's the weather like right now? Cloudy & Breezy

 

39) What time is it? Time for you to get a watch

 

40) Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed? Not yet, But I will pretty soon drive

 

41) What was the last book you read? Shanghai Girls

 

42) Do you like the smell of gasoline? Maybe

 

43) Do you have any nicknames? I used to....

 

44) What was the last movie you saw? Haven't seen a movie for a long time

 

45) What's the worst injury you've ever had? Being a monkey when I was young and crazily sat on top of a treadmill and crash landed which resulted with a minor broken right arm & a red bruise on my forehead.

 

46) Have you ever caught a butterfly? I try, but they never do live in the end

 

47) Do you have any obsessions right know? That one damn word in my head = BOYFRIEND!!!!

 

48) What's your sexual orientation? Go back to number 1

 

49) Ever had a rumor spread about you? Back in elementary school when a rumor spread I was gay for liking this boy in the 3rd grade. I was ignorant at that time

 

50) do you believe in magic? Psh, No

 

51) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done me wrong? No, I get into a yelling competition.

 

52) What's you astrological sign? Virgo? Idk, I don't pay much attention to it

 

53) Do you save money or spend it? I used to spend, but now I'm saving.

 

54) What's the last thing you purchased? Beast, Super Junior, & 2PM posters

 

55) Love or lust? Love.

 

56) In a relationship? I wish.....

 

57) How many relationships have you had? Please, people these days are so blind!

 

58) Can you touch your nose with your tongue? No

 

59) Where were you yesterday? At home.

 

60) Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you? Yeah

 

61) Are you wearing socks right now? Yes

 

62) Favorite animals? I think I have one but I don't know

 

63) Whats your secret weapon to get someone to like you? Talking to them more & waving or saying hello every day.

 

64) Where's your friend? Somewhere in this state I'm in.

 

65) Spit or swallow? Ahaha, No.

 

66) What's you heritage? Vietnamese

 

67) What were you doing last night at 12am? Editing my PLL series video. Yeah, LAMMMME!

 

68) What do you think is Satan's last name? I am not answering

 

69) Be honest. Ever gotten yourself off? You are just plain nasty now.

 

70) Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend? Yes, I am too childish and bubbly in real life. On the internet. I am just all boring....

 

71) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There's a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss had told you if you were late one more time you get fired. What do you do? SAVE THE POOR DOGGY! If I arrive late, Screw the boss! He can suck my big toe!

 

72) You are at the doctor's office and she had just informed you that you have approximately one month to live.A) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? B) What do you do with the rest of your days? C) Would you be afraid? I always want it to be like in those movies with a couple when one is about to die. Yeah, truly sappy :P

 

73) You can only have one of these things; trust or love. Love

 

74) What's a song that always makes you happy when you hear it? There are many songs that make me feel happy

 

75) What are the last four digits in your cellphone number? 1276

 

76) In your opinion, what makes a great relationship? Trust. That's it.

 

77) How can I win your heart? I want to be the princess of a storybook.

 

78) Can insanity bring on more creativity? What do you think.

 

79) What's the single best decision you have made in your life so far? Moving on from someone who won't open up to me.....it hurts but I'll be fine....

 

80) What size shoes do you wear? Any size that is bigger than my feet due an ingrown infection on my left big toe T_T

 

81) What do you want to be written in your tombstone? "I will haunt the ones who attacked me when I was alive"

 

82) Whats your favorite word? Poo or Phooey!

 

83) Give my the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word hear: Noise

 

84) What is a saying you say a lot? "Eat my pussy" Thanks a lot Ba Nee! XD

 

85) What's the last song you listened to? EvoL = We are a bit different

 

86) Basic question; what's your favorite color/colors? Pink & Black!

 

87) What is your current desktop picture? B2st/Beast

 

88) If you could press a button to make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be? People who took advantage of me and turned their backs against me.

 

89) What would be a question you'd be afraid to tell the truth on? "I have feelings for you..."

 

90) One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you're surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do? Heck, I still try to fall asleep even if I hear those noises.

 

91) You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power? Make people fall for me :P

 

92) You can re-live any point of your life. The time- span can only be a half hour. What half hour of your past would you like to experience again? Being a child again...

 

93) You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What would it be? Me pissing in my pants back in 6th grade, IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY & A CUTE ASIAN GUY!!!! WAHHHH!!!

 

94) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be? Taecyeon from 2PM. He is just...how do you describe it, perfect in any way!

 

95) You just got a free plane ticket to go anywhere. You have to depart right now Where are you gonna go? SOUTH KOREA!!!!!

 

96) Do you have any relatives in jail? I don't....think..so...

 

97) Have you even thrown up in the car? Eh, no.

 

98) Ever been on a plane? My only answer = www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk8p_Cw1jbU

 

99) If the whole world were listening to you right now, what would you say? "TONIGHT, YOU ARE MY BITCHES!"

 

100) Was this a good game. Maybe, It wasted my napping time. But yeah it did.

 

Don't know who has done this so.....consider yourself tagged. Yay. Congratulations. Yippee...

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Questions about the original settlement of the Americas has produced a number of hypotheses and models. The origins of these indigenous peoples are still a matter of dispute among archaeologists. The traditional view, which traces them to Siberian migration to America at the end of the last ice age, has been increasingly challenged by South American archaeologists. Theories to explain evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact with the Americas by Asian, African, or Oceanic peoples is generally the topic of significant debate. Demonstrations such as Kon-Tiki and the Kantuta Expeditions demonstrated the ability to travel westward with the Humboldt Current from South America to Polynesia.

Pour illustrer ce tag,quoi de mieux que ma chouchoute du moment?

  

Couleur préférée ? Rose poudré.

Plus grand rêve ? Pouvoir vivre sans me poser de questions.

Lucky Number / préféré ? Aucun.

Celeb bégui ? Oui.

La sexualité? Hétéro.

Si vous pouviez rencontrer personne sur la terre qui serait-il ? Mon ancien patron.

Prénom ? Céline.

Croyez en l'amour à première vue ? Non, je ne crois pas vraiment au coup de foudre.

Allergie ? Acariens et pollen.

Addiction ? Umi,ma Minifee Chloe.

Week-end typique ? Couture,tricot et bijoux pour dolls!

Serial Killer préféré ? Aucun.

Anniversaire ? 25 Octobre.

Meilleur ami (s ) Badoulagrenouille. Mais je considère également mes poupées comme mes meilleures amies, je sais que c'est dingue mais moi je leur parle xd!

Plat préféré ? Je n'en ai pas mais je suis fan du Nutella >-< !

Milkshakes ou yaourt ? Yaourts.

Cheetos ou fritos ? Plutôt frites.

État d'esprit actuel ? Marre des gens égoïstes. Amoureuse de ma doll.

Âge ? 23 printemps!

Avez-vous jamais rien volé ? Non jamais, même si certaines ont voulu m'entraîner...

Lorsque vous avez obtenu votre premier baiser ? Oulà je ne m'en souviens plus, vers mes 5 ans je pense?

Quelle est la nourriture la plus bizarre que vous aimez ? Chips avec mayonnaise!

Souhaitez-vous embrasser plutôt un singe ou Satan ? Tout dépend de la tête de Satan...

Avez-vous déjà trompé sur quelqu'un ? Non pour moi la fidélité est quelque chose de primordial dans un couple, ceux qui le font sont juste des gros lâches!

Combien de temps avez-vous attendu avant de prendre une douche ? Je prend des bains!

Quel est votre film préféré ? Princesse Mononoké.

Vous souvenez-vous bien de vos rêves ? Ca m'arrive!

Qu'aimez-vous sur vous-même ?

Mes yeux.

Quel est votre sport préféré ? J'en ai pas mais on va dire monter les escaliers xd!

Fumez-vous ? Non.

Buvez-vous ? Jamais, je ne supporte pas l'alcool...

Avez-vous jouer à des jeux vidéo ? Oulà beaucoup, déjà tous les Pokemon, deux Zelda, des jeux sur DS...

En ce moment je suis sur Okami,très bon jeu d'ailleurs!

Que pensez-vous de la Saint Valentin ? Pas besoin d'une journée spéciale pour se dire je t'aime.

Que pensez-vous des tatouages ? Joli mais pas pour moi.

Aimez-vous quelqu'un ? Oui ma Minifee *câlin*

Avez-vous déjà chargé un os ? What?

Qu'est-ce déodorant portez-vous? Un déo de marque repère tout simple sans parfum.

Si vous pouviez vivre n'importe où dans le monde ou serait-il ? Au Japon.

Que craignez- vous ? La mort.

Quel était le nom de votre jouet préféré étant un gamin ? Barbies,et je jouais aussi aux petite voitures!

Quel est votre céréales sucrées préférées ? Miel'Pops.

Quand vous allez à dormir la nuit dernière ? Je suis une couche-tôt j'ai besoin de beaucoup de sommeil, et même le week-end car sinon mon rythme est déréglé et bonjour le lundi!

Donc à 21h30 je suis couchée.

Quelle est votre relation la plus longue ? Pour le moment je me consacre à mes études,on verra plus tard!

Chanson préférée ? Romio et Cinderella,un des titres d'Hatsune Miku.

Mais en général j'écoute beaucoup de musique asiatique!

   

Pourquoi les quartiers de riches... ça compte pas comme du séparatisme ?

Lyon

 

Le graffeur Tapas Nocturne est l’auteur du petit personnage à tête blonde, dans le style BD, tagué un peu partout sur les murs de Lyon.

The program collects films that are asking the same questions: What was here before? And how can you show it if it’s not there anymore? When and how did absence turn into presence? Does it always do that?

It also connects places in East and West, New York, Berlin and Warsaw. Shanghai and Venice. Not only through images, but also through the people who made the films (and are in them): For them, 1984 had been fiction and 1989 a reality. They are from a generation that has been producing images and sounds before and after the Berlin Wall, in East and West, until today.

Program runtime is 62 minutes.

a-b-city by Dieter Hormel and Brigitte Bühler

BRD 1985, 8 minutes, digital projection

 

Accompanied by a score using music of Pere Ubu and Einstürzende Neubauten, a-b-city revolves around West-Berlin’s psychodelic atmosphere. Brigitte Bühler and Dieter Hormel, who were renown for their fast paced and skillfully edited Super-8 clips, mix TV images and time-lapse shots of nightly streets, drifting clouds, and a men continuously jumping in front of the Berlin Wall, bringing about an impression of the enclosed city that constantly shifts between ecstasis and depression. (Text: Florian Wüst)

Haunt No. 1-3 by Niklas Goldbach

2007, 2 minutes, digital projection

 

Haunt No. 1, Video Loop, 35 sec., Stereo

Assistance: Daniel Reuter

Haunt No. 2, Video Loop, 28 sec., Stereo

Assistance: Viktor Neumann

Haunt No. 3, Video Loop, 36 sec., Stereo

Assistance: Viktor Neumann

The video triptych focuses on the historical background and the future of up to now abandoned places in Berlin’s former working-class district Prenzlauer Berg where the gentrification process is almost accomplished.

5 lessons and 9 questions about Chinatown by Shelly Silver

USA, 2009, 10 minutes, digital projection

 

You live somewhere, walk down the same street 50, 100, 10,000 times, each time taking in fragments, but never fully registering THE PLACE. Years, decades go by and you continue,unseeing, possibly unseen. A building comes down, and before the next one is up you ask yourself ‘what used to be there?’ You are only vaguely aware of the district’s shifting patterns and the sense that, since the 19th century, wave after wave of inhabitants have moved through and transformed these alleyways, tenements, stoops and shops.

10 square blocks, past, present, future, time, light, movement, immigration, exclusion, gentrification, racism, history, China, America, 3 languages, 13 voices, 152 years, 17,820 frames, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, 9 questions, 5 lessons, Chinatown.

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Former East/Former West by Shelly Silver

USA, 1994, excerpt 10-15 minutes digital projection

 

Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, FORMER EAST/FORMER WEST is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary. Silver questions the very notion of a shared language, focusing on changing definitions of words for political and economic systems – democracy, freedom, capitalism, socialism, nationality and history.

Magnetic [eye] Berlin by Gunter Krüger

Germany, 2007 / 08, excerpt 10 minutes, digital projection

 

Since 1997, Gunter Krüger has been archiving media fragments which he finds on the street – broken audiotapes, scraps of VHS and discarded compact discs. At the location he records additional filmic notes.

In the second part of the “Magnetic [eye]” series, “Magnetic [eye] Berlin”, a selection of media fragments forms a portrait of his living space. The film is designed as a generative structure, i.e. there is no final version.

In 2007 and 2008, three different playlists were made, each varying in both the selection of the media fragments as well as their compilation. By integrating new modules, new playlists with predefined running times can be created for each screening.

Nullpanorama by Martin Ebner

Germany, 2003, 1 minute, digital projection

 

The ascent and decent of an advertiser’s captive balloon over the roofs of the capital.

Proprio Aperto by Judith Hopf, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Florian Zeyfang

Germany / USA, 2005, 6 minutes, digital projection

 

The single channel video and installation work PROPRIO APERTO, which was first presented in February 2005 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in the exhibition, “Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye,” shows a walk taken through the giardini, the grounds of the Venice Biennale, in winter.

The conversations that took place there among Judith Hopf, Natascha Sadr-Hadhighian and Florian Zeyfang result in a text that circles around landscapes of ruin, ghosts and the Dasein in cultural hegemony. The images — actually photographs — are presented in slow pans, and the various levels of destruction of the pavilion come more and more into the center.

The tone of voice and language congenially conveys the suitably contemplative mood during the walk, which carries over to the spectator.

The Rooms (excerpt) by Tim Blue and Paul Rowley

USA 2010, 5 minutes, digital projection

 

With rich sound design and diverse formats, THE ROOMS is an experimental study of an abandoned world that somehow continues to operate. This excerpt feautures the HAU 1 / Hebbel am Ufer, a historical theater in Berlin, that turned into a cultural space for contemporary experimental and innovative theater and performance art (HAU 1).

We will be strong in our weakness. Notes from the first congress of the Jewish Renaissance in Poland.Performance by Yael Bartana with Susanne Sachsse and Slawomir Sierakowski

Israel/Netherlands/Poland, 2010, 15 minutes, digital video projection

Jewish Renaissance movement in Poland, Tel-Aviv/Amsterdam/Warsaw

 

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is a film and video curator who lives and works in Berlin. She is Co-Director of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art (with Milena Gregor and Birgit Kohler) and Member of the selection committee of the Berlinale Forum and founding director of Forum Expanded, a new section of the Berlin International Film Festival which negotiates the boundaries of cinema. Her curatorial work comprises numerous film programs, retrospectives and exhibitions, among them Michael Snow, Guy Maddin, Heinz Emigholz, Birgit Hein, Ulrike Ottinger, Stephen Dwoskin and many others. She recently co-curated (with Susanne Sachsse and Marc Siegel) LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in A Rented World (October 2009).

Her texts have been published in Frauen und Film, The Moving Image, Texte zur Kunst, Ästhetik & Kommunikation, Schriftenreihe Kinemathek as well as in various festival and exhibition catalogues. She is the editor of: Kinemathekheft Nr. 93: Germaine Dulac (with Sabine Nessel and Heide Schlüpmann), Berlin 2002; “The Memo Book. Films, Videos and Installations by Matthias Müller”, Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2005; “The Primal Scene: Christine Noll Brinckmann. Films and Texts”, Berlin: arsenal edition, 2008; “Who says concrete doesn’t burn, have you tried? West Berlin Film in the ’80s” (with Florian Wüst), Berlin: arsenal edition, 2008. www.arsenal-berlin.de

 

Paul Rowley was born 1971 in Dublin. He has worked for more than ten years as a filmmaker and visual artist.

His critically acclaimed feature documentary Seaview, which he co-directed with Nicky Gogan, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and has toured festivals internationally since.

Together with David Phillips, Paul completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. They recently completed a 60 screen permanent video installation in the international terminal at LAX airport.

Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and the Bogliasco Foundation, Italy. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York, which led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. He lives in Dublin and Brooklyn.

See also www.condensate.net and www.stillfilms.org

 

Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work, which spans a wide range of subject matter and genres, explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves.

Silver’s work has been exhibited and broadcast widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. Screenings and installations have been mounted by venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Yokohama Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Kyoto Museum, the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Museo Reina Sofia, and the London, Singapore, New York, Moscow, and Berlin film festivals. Her work has been broadcast on BBC/England, PBS/USA, Arte, Planete/Europe, RTE/Ireland, SWR/Germany, and Atenor/Spain. Silver’s numerous fellowships and grants include awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the DAAD, the Jerome Foundation, the Japan Foundation and Anonymous was a Woman. She is based in New York where she is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

 

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Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty Brunette Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens! Lightroom 5.3 ! Pretty Hazel Eyes & Silky Brown / Black Hair!

 

And here're a couple of HD video movies I shot of the goddess with the 4K Sony:

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The epic goddess was tall, thin, fit, tan, and in wonderful shape (as you can see).

 

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Epic Goddess Straight Out of Hero's Odyssey Mythology! Pretty Model! :) Tall, thin, fit and beautiful!

 

Welcome to your epic hero's odyssey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Odyssey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.

  

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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.

 

ALL THE BEST on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!

 

Modeling the Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue swimsuit. :)

 

A laid-back,classic, socal lifestyle shoot!

 

May the 45surf goddesses inspire you along am artistic journey of your own making!

 

All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Truth, Beauty, and the Light of Physicist Dr. E's Moving Dimensions Theory's dx4/dt=ic . The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c. Ergo relativity, time, entropy, and entanglement.

 

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All the best on your Epic, Homeric, Heroic Odyssey into the Art of Photography from Johnny Ranger McCoy!

Possibly a Minke Whale(?) surfacing briefly at sunset off Clachtoll, Sutherland.

Question : What's the difference between a busker and a street musician?

 

Answer : I take photographs of street musicians and, if they are really good, buy their CD and, in extreme cases, wax lyrical about them on Flickr.

 

This guy has (according to Wikipedia) been at it for 20 years. He hand carved the body of the 5-string electric violin with a kitchen knife and has performed regularly in every major city in Europe.

 

The noise that he gets out of that violin (with a little help from the myriad gizmos in the foreground) is staggering!

i found this smomewhere in the net and thought it was funny.

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These guys always find me with a long lens on the camera. Sorry for the fuzzy handhelds, but it looked like the hindwings had not entirely inflated yet. Any other ideas of what is up with this one?

 

This is a black form Question Mark mineraling on Pleasant Plains Rd., Great Swamp NWR, NJ.

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Known to be inhabited at least since the 6th century BC by Phoneticians, Greeks and Carthaginians, the area of the S. Jorge castle is referred clearly in historical terms since the conquest by the Romans, being believed that by the time some kind of defensive structure already existed.

 

With the fall of the Roman Empire under the hands of the “barbarians”, and in the 6th century of these to the Arab conquerors, this castle was always a stage of battles, especially during the Christian re-conquest of the territory, being frequently taken by Christians and later on by the Arabs.

 

Still, in 1147 by the hand of D. Afonso Henriques (the first Portuguese king) and with the help of crusaders that were going to the holy-land, the castle was definitively conquered after a siege of 3 months. The story tells that the knight Martim Moniz, taking notice that one of the doors of the castle has been opened rushed into it placing his body among them and sacrificing himself. He prevented it to be closed though and allowed for the conquest of the fortress.

 

After this event, the castle resisted successfully to several Arab conquest attempts from 1179 to 1183.

 

Becoming Lisbon, in 1255, the capital of the reign, the castle was converted into royal palace which lead for it to be attacked several times by the Spanish in the attempts to conquer Portugal during the 13th and 14th century.

 

But with the damage made along centuries by earthquakes, especially in 1755, and the change of the royal palace to the Tagus River shores the S. Jorge castle entered in long decline being used as prison and military head-quarters. It was recovered during the 1940’s and 1990’s and it’s one of the most important places to visit in Lisbon, as it has some of the most magnificent views over the river and especially the medieval quarters of the town.

Ah yes. The Rise & Toys RT-01 Robot Rose, the figure that begs to answer the question "How much better would my life be if MP Arcee had a proper chest?".

 

Well, turns out there's some ups and downs, and no, I'm not talking about the jiggling.

 

Because sadly these are not silicone boobs.

 

So to start off, if you're not sure, YES, this is a knock off of the MP Arcee release from a few years back. To save myself a bunch of writing, it's suffice to say it's not as good as the official release, but it can do probably 80 - 90% of what it is supposed to do.

 

Highlights of the stuff that is a total miss is paint, the inability to hold weapons, and my favourite, an instruction manual that literally leaves you half way there.

 

But the parts are all there, including the die cast content, and the plastic quality doesn't seem to be off by much, if any. It's more the colour amongst the pinks can be inconsistent. Articulation is exactly the same until you decide to get crazy. Visor gimmick still works.

 

Before the main event, I just want to quickly point out the other major difference between this and the official MP - the face plates. I can't remember who made these, but they're closer to the animation model. There's another extra face that comes with their Nightbird release that is even more accurate.

 

The main event - the chest plates, which is probably the reason you bought this release. The original toy suffered from what would best be described as a sagging bust line, with Nightbird faring slightly better due to the long chin piece.

 

Well, this figure gives you the option of swapping out the original piece for one of two plates - one that gives the figure that classic look, but is definitely more flattering, and another that gives her the look of a pin up model.

 

Might as well go big, right?

 

The issue is that by attaching these chest plates, you lose use of her shoulder hinges, and basically won't be able to bring the arms across the chest... which if you think about it, makes sense given the size of the things.

  

Entertainers and athletes take questions and interact with the audience during a USO Show at Caserma Carlo Ederle as part of U.S. Army Garrison Italy, the seventh and final stop on the annual Vice Chairman’s USO Tour, April 3, 2019. Country music artist Craig Morgan, celebrity chef Robert Irvine, UFC Hall of Famer BJ Penn, former UFC Middleweight champion Chris Weidman, professional mixed martial artist Felice Herrig, two-time MLB World Series champion Shane Victorino; and professional surfer Makua Rothman joined Air Force Gen. Paul J. Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on a tour across the world as they visit service members overseas to thank them for their service and sacrifice. (DoD Photo by U.S. Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

I've never seen a butterfly like this one before.

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The question was: "How does it feel to be on top of Danica's head ?"

 

Danica's hair replied: "Awesome"

 

One more Go Daddy commercial for you featuring Danica and her hair for ya !

 

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我的世界,充滿各色的疑問

~~~~MUSIC TITLE QUIZ~~~~

 

"Answer the questions by placing your iPod/media player on shuffle, and answering with the title. Be truthful.

 

1. What did you say to your neighbor this morning?:

100 Years-Five For Fighting.

 

2. Your most used phrase?:

Over My Head-The Fray.

 

3. The last thing you told your teacher/boss?:

A story to tell your friends and family-Every Avenue.

 

4. Your nickname?:

Slip out the back-Fort Minor.

 

5. Your ideal song played during sex?:

Intro-T.A.T.U

 

6. What would you say to the President if you met him?:

All At Once-The Fray.

 

7. Your wedding dance will be to:

The Edge-Eiffel 65.

 

8. If you were famous, the newspaper would read:

Designer Skyline-Owl City.

 

9. Your best childhood memory?:

Freeze-T Pain.

 

10. What did you say after your most embarrassing moment?:

The Day Before the Day-Dido.

 

11. Your biggest vice is:

The Weight of Us-Sanders Bohlke

 

12. One day, you will scream this from the rooftops:

Loose Yourself-Eminem.

 

13. When your computer crashes, you scream:

Run-Snow Patrol.

 

14. Your last line during your last arguement?:

Just Dance-Lady Gaga.

 

15. If you were homeless, what would your cardboard sign read?:

Everything's Magic-Angels&Airwaves.

 

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Why are skeletons wearing a pair of shorts so popular in many shop window displays? This is a question that has puzzled many shoppers and fashion experts alike. Some possible explanations are:

 

- Skeletons are trying to show off their bones and attract other skeletons.

- Shorts are cheaper than other clothes and skeletons are on a tight budget.

- Shorts are easier to put on and take off than pants or skirts, which is convenient for skeletons who often fall apart.

- Shorts are more comfortable than other clothes and skeletons have sensitive skin.

- Shorts are more fashionable than other clothes and skeletons have a keen sense of style.

 

But shorts are not the only skeleton fashion trend. Skeletons also like to wear hats, scarves, sunglasses, and even jewelry. They like to accessorize and express their personality. Some skeletons prefer a casual look, while others go for a more elegant or edgy style. Skeletons have a lot of fun with fashion and don't care what others think. They are confident and proud of their appearance. Next time you see a skeleton in shorts, or any other outfit, don't be afraid to say hello and compliment their outfit. They might just give you a smile and a wink.

Leica M-A Summilux 1.4/35 Classic

 

My first film with my 2026 brand-new Leica M-A and the Summilux 1.4/35mm lens (see below details about the camera and the lens) was quite an emotion. I am trained to test many sorts of old camera’s of my collection, but doing so with brand-new camera is exceptional. It is an exception because in 2026 there are just a few possibilities of buying new film camera’s. My last one was the Pentax 17 in April 2025. Leica is the very last camera manufacturer still constructing and distributing « professional » grade film camera’s : their Leica M6 (produced again since 2022), the Leica MP (since 2003) and this Leica M-A (since 2014).

 

The Leica M-A is a Leica M of the same grade as my Leica M3 year 1956, so I had no question about the camera manipulation. The lens was however new to me and I had never used a Summilux 1:1.4 f=35mm with such wide apertu. Most of my unknowns were then about the lens.

 

I exposed the Kodak Tri-X film included in the delivery kit of my Leica M-A over two consecutive days: February 11 (views 1-20) and Feb. 12 (views 21-35), 2026 in Lyon, France. On the first day the weather was suitable for an outdoor session. I choose to goes to the cemetery of my district (Lyon Croix Rousse) because the funeral arts are full of details and textures that are interesting to test the lens with small-medium) apertures (f/4.5 to f/16). Due to a more degraded weather he day after with rain, I went to the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière t expose the rest in subdued light and larger aperture (full aperture f/1.4 to f/3.5).

 

The Summilux lens was equipped with a protective Leica UVa II filter E46 13034 and the Leica specific screw-on (E46) shade hood 12486. The camera was hold and secured using the vintage Leica ever-ready leather bag prepared for the M-A with the leather neck strap of the bag.

 

Expositions were determined for 400 ISO using my trusted Minolta Autometer III (1985) equipped either with a 10° finder for selective metering privileging the shadow area’s. Focus was obtained using the built-in optical range finder of the Leica M-A exceptionaly bright and clear even in subdued light.

 

Documentary smartphone picture

 

February 11-12, 2026

69004 Lyon

France

 

After completion to view Nr. 35 the film was processed using Adox Adonal developer at 1+50 dilution, 20°C, for 14min.

 

Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) fitted to a Minolta Auto Bellows III with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The diffuse light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.

 

The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version of Adobe Lightroom 15 (15.1.1, January 2026) and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as print files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.

  

About the camera :

 

On February 3, 2026, I took my partly delivered order of January, 2026, at the Leica Boutique, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France. I did this order between two short stays at

Hospital Edouard Herriot to have surgeries. It helped me a lot during these medical sessions to take an external source of distraction, not focused on the surgery moment upsetting necessities.

 

My project was initially based on the still existing film Leica M camera’s production maintained active today in Wetzlar, Germany. Leica Camera AG offers today for sale 3 film camera’s available in different finishes. These are the Leica M6, Leica M-P and Leica M-A on the margin of a very diverse range of digital Leica camera’s. The M-P and M-A are produced since 2014 and are likely the closest camera’s to the original first Leica M3 in (1954-1966). It is possible that Leica maintained their M film camera’sjust to sustain their iconic heritage in the history of the company.

 

The Leica M survived a time in the 1970-1980’s due to a modified production (Leica M4-2 then M6) by the Leitz Canada branch that closed in 1990. The Leica M6 was then again produced in Germany followed by the Leica M7. The further versions of Leica M8 to M11 today are digital camera’s.

 

I own in my camera collection since April 2024, a venerable standing Leica M3 year 1956 that is now, in 2026, 70-year old and in perfect optical and mechanical condition with a single and well matched Summicron 2/5cm. The camera is equipped as shown in the first commercial brochure of the Leica M3 in 1954 (standard lens, bag, shade hood). In general, when practicing photography, it is sometime safe to have a « backup » camera of the same type to be still operant in case of one camera failure. I was then amused to backup my Leica M3 by one of these brand-new produced Leica M.

 

The Leica M-A is the closest to my M3. It is purely mechanical camera, without any electrical on electronic circuitries. Intentionally, the Leica M-A has resurected some of the Leica M3 and Leica M2 (1958-1967) features as the metal advance lever, frame counter, engraving, rewind button, and of course their exact shape and dimensions. The front top cover is designed like the M2 with flat optical windows.

 

The complex range-finder combined to a framed viewer, including an automatic parallax compensation existed in different versions. The viewer of the Leica M3 was however never been mounted on other Leica M than the M3’s . The 0.91 magnification and its design made for focales 5, 9 and 13.5cm was modified on the Leica M-2 to enlarge the direct use of the viewer to the wide angle 35mm lenses to prise of a smaller magnification. The Leica M-A has o 0.72 magnification capable to display the 28mm frames. As a consequence the Leica M-A is more oriented to a common use of 28 and 35mm lenses.

 

I choose finally to order a M-A in the chrome silver finish with engraving resembling to the M3/M2 camera’s with a base lens Summilux 1.4/35mm « Classic » that mimics the original lens of 60’s, It was a formidable gift !. Ordering was however not so simple. At first, I was told that the Leica M-A production would be discontinued in Wetzlar … Arguing that the camera is still offered for sale of the on-line French website, I finally got an available box in stock in Wetzlar that was shipped straight to Lyon in 4-5 days. The lens was more slow to get, and I am still waiting.

 

I could however enjoy the pleasure of comparing in hands my 1956 Leica M3 and my 2026 Leica-M-A. The 70-year old Summicron 2/5cm (branded at this time « Ernst Leitz Wetzlar » fits smoothly and exactly to the M-A and the 50mm frame is automatically selected. The range-finder operates accurately. There is something fantastic to see the two camera side to side separated by 70 years. Installed in the vintage ever-ready leather bag I prepared for the Leica M-A, it is quite hard to detect at a first look that the M-A is a new camera.

 

The viewer is may be more contrasted due to an extensive AR-coating of of elements and the shutter has not the strange little noises that occurs on the M3 for the slow speeds, but essentially the two camera’s are indeed and undoudtly Leica’s M ! The grandfather and the grandson are so ressemblant.

 

About the lens :

 

After the delivery of my Leica M-A camera body the week before, I had the second part of my order on February 10, 2026, at the Leica Boutique, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France. I did this order in early January 2026, between two short stays at Hospital Edouard Herriot to have surgeries. It helped me a lot during these medical sessions to take an external source of distraction, not focused on the surgery moment upsetting necessities.

 

My brand-new 2026 Leica M-A (produced since 2014 by Leica Camera AG, Wetzlar, Germany) has the mixed technical features of the original Leica M3 (1954-1966) and Leica M2 (1958-1967). In particular the viewfinder system of the today M-A is inherited of the Leica M2 with a 0.72 magnification that allows the direct view field of a 35mm focal length. On the M3 , with its specific 0.91 magnification viewer, the use of 35mm lenses requires an external optical viewfinder or external optical correction of the built-in viewfinder. As a consequence the M3 appears optimal for the focal of 5, 9 and 13.5cm while the M2 appears more wide-angle lens oriented. The viewfinder of he M-A allows additionally also the framing of 28mm lens.

 

My idea was then to equip my M-A of a brand-new companion Leica 35mm lens of the current Leica production. The choice felt on the re-edition of an iconic 35mm Leica lens of the 60’s : a Summilux 1.4/35mm that first introduced to the market in 1961 as the first f/1.4 aperture 35mm lens.. This lens was as a modified double Gauss formula keeping the lens compact and not too heavy. The lens was soon highly reputed, especially in the photojournalism domain.

 

The « Steel Rim » describes a stainless steel ring mounted on the lens front to hold the shade hood. When looking at the optical scheme the modern version of the lens is not exactly the same but Leica keeper the major characteristic with a special softness at wide aperture 1.4 to 2.8 that miked the success of the lens at the time.

 

Receiving of a brand-new Leica lens is a not so common moment. The lens was packaged in Wetzlar on January 16, 2026 and delivered to the Leica boutique, Place Bellecour, Lyon, France on February, 10, 2026 where I took the precious package. We opened the boxes in the shop and had a good discussion staring at the jewel. When picking-up the lens I did not had my M-A body with me but we tried the mount on another second-hand M-A.

 

The lens is delivered by default with two shade hoods and rear/front ens caps. The replica of the original lens hood fits, clip-on , to the famous « »stieel rim » but is not curiously usable with filters. The second modern one was designed to be used with the E46 screwed filters. The seller offered for free a Leica UVa II, E46 filter (sliver decor) and a Leica clip-on lens cap E46 to be used with a filter because the default one is a bit too large with a filter on place on the lens. The package includes also a protective Leica black lens pouch, proof certificate and booklet.

 

On the roof of his house, British soldiers take details from a suspected militant during a night time arrest operation. At this stage they are interested in personal details only; later he will face more detailed questioning by fluent Arabic speakers. Basrah, August 2006.

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