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So, as you can tell from the title, I have another question for you guys. This ones about my profile picture, I'm thinking it might be time to change it up a bit, seeing as I've had this one since I began here on Flickr. I may also change my banner as well, just so everything's been changed.
So... yeah, what do you guys think? Feel free to give suggestions and opinions. I know this is probably quite a minor thing, but still felt it might be something worth asking. XD
EDIT #1: I have found one I'm pretty happy with, thoughts?
EDIT #2: May try this one, seeing as this one is me. (or at least a version of me. XD)
In Ladakh the general emphasis of photographers is to take in the wide desert mountainsides and the occasional portrait of monks and lined weathered faces of the local citizens.
Not much gets documented about the people and how they spend their time, specially not the worn out forgotten old people spending their time spinning a prayer wheel and counting prayer beads in the alleys and backways of Leh city.
The ruined and dilapidated structure behind the two "at peace" Ladakhis has since then disappeared. The structure was being brought down when this was shot one day in the late afternoon in November. A shard of strong sunlight came through the domes and walls of a Buddhist temple lighting up the two men deep in their conversation. What were they talking about? That question hurriedly crossed my mind as I reeled off a few shots without disturbing the peace of the place. I was more worried about mundane things like exposure and getting a good focus on a hunting lens.
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Yerp, that big question.
Where DO you stand in this world?
Have any of you guys felt like you were just a person that would never be heard?
You can speak your mind all you want, but no one would listen?
Have you guys ever felt left out from something?
Because you are different, and you stand out?
We all feel that at points, it's totally okay. :)
Nothing is wrong being different.
Friendship has no:
-Color
-Age
-Gender.
-Imperfections.
I hate seeing people fearing to be friends with someone because they are different.
I hate it how like in the 60's or something, there were many racists, more racists than there are today.
I don't like it when people don't want to be someone's friend because of age.
Who cares how old there are, true friends can overlook that.
Come on, be honest, when you were younger, didn't you LOVE to tease the boys, and call them mean things?
Personally, I dislike single-sex schools, since we're all human, we belong in this world TOGETHER.
Imperfections.
True friends overlook imperfections.
Your hair, your eyes, your weight--- BASICALLY how you look, true friends overlook that.
So please remember this,
No matter how different a person could be, a true friend would accept them for who they are. Not what race they are, what age, or how they look.
I was going to buy a dolly
When I was shopping at the store.
But then I had to ask myself
A question, like: 'what for?'
I thought about the stuff I have
In boxes piled high.
I can't find things when I look for them
So now I rarely try.
Or I buy things and leave them sit
In bags or in a box.
I don't want 'em, I don't need 'em
But I got 'em, lots and lots.
These new dollies are quite tiny,
Bratz, I think they were.
Bratz Dolls, Classic Minis
And a bargain at two-fer.
But two for ten whole dollars
That's five bucks apiece!
And these dolls are really tiny
Like, two inches tall, at least.
Five bucks! You must be kidding!
For a doll that small? Obscene!
These little plastic figures
Should be in a gum machine!
Put in a nickel or a dime
And turn the crank or knob.
If the machine don't eat your coin
You'll get a little glob
Of molded plastic in a little
Brittle plastic ball.
You'll look forlornly at your palm
And ask yourself, 'That's all?'
Usually the plastic ball
Is better than the prize.
But it only cost a nickel
So you shrug and roll your eyes.
The new dolls are called Blind Box
Which means you don't know what you'll get.
Just like with the old gum machine
A let-down lies ahead.
But now Blind Box is all the rage
Like coin machines of yore.
And fools like me spend fives and tens
Hoping we will score.
Score what? A piece of plastic junk
In a little plastic cube?
As was the case in yesteryear
The buyer is a rube.
Five bucks! Not just a nickel!
Ten bucks! Not one thin dime!
And here I thought the gum machines
Were bordering on crime.
A hundred years have passed, it seems
'Tween now and way back when
And things, they cost a hundred times
As much as they cost then.
But me, I'm now much smarter,
So I thought about my stuff
Sitting in the storage shed
And I told myself, 'Enough!'
I walked right past those little dolls
On a shelf down near the floor.
I do not need a Blind Box doll
That costs ten bucks or more!
I wandered through the store aisles
Buying eggs and cheese and rice
Milk, and bread, and butter
Then I thought about the price.
Things now cost so much, it seems
That money has no meaning.
I thought about those little dolls...
You can guess where this is leading.
Yeah, I went back, and picked one out
And then I picked out two.
I mean, with money being worthless
What harm would it do?
I coulda bought some carrots
Quite a lot for ten.
Maybe then my eyesight
Would be what it was again.
I coulda bought some apples
A dozen, maybe more.
Then I might start feeling good
Like I did before.
Instead, I bought a tiny doll
In a tiny plastic box
I have not opened it up yet
So I don't know what I got.
Doesn't really matter.
It's just some plastic chunk
That I'll shove in to a storage bin
With my other plastic junk.
Maybe I could take it back
Do I have the receipt?
Or did I lose the slip somewhere
Beneath the car's back seat?
Shouldn't I feel happy?
I got a brand new toy!
Where is the excitement?
Where is all the joy?
Instead, I'm feeling foolish
Over money, things, and all
And wondering why I spent ten bucks
On a Blind Box Doll.
Three Questions
When this female grizzly made serious eye contact with me three questions popped into my mind.
Is it just curiosity?
Is she just warning me to get out of her space?
Is she considering me for dinner?
No matter. The answer to all three was the same. Get back into the car. I had been shooting over the hood of the car and as soon as I got back inside she lost interest and began to browse the nearby vegetation for goodies.
Good morning. Just a single posting of a Question Mark Butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis) I captured yesterday on top of a trimmed (or broken) branch limb at the pond across the street. I saw it by accident and it was the only shot I was able to get before it flew off.
Question Marks are part of an association of butterflies commonly known as "anglewings," which have sharply angled wings. When folded at rest, the undersides resemble dead leaves or pieces of bark. This group includes anglewings, tortoiseshells, commas, question marks, leafwings, snouts and daggerwings. Habitat includes deciduous woods, forest clearings & edges, and open woodlands.
Thanks for visiting...and I hope you have a great Sunday.
Lacey
ISO100, aperture f/5.6, exposure .008 seconds (1/125) focal length 200mm
*Christmas question!*
What is the kind of your favorite cake?
あなたの好きなケーキはなんですか？
Christmas series #4
※明日もう一個あるので、覚悟して下さい(o'(ェ)'o）
Dec 23, 2008 #461
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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.
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View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
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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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Pretty Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! :)
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Nikon D300 Photos of Beautfiul Sexy Hot Brunette!
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.
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!
Ask me any questions! :)
Invercargill and the province of Southland.
A puzzled question is why does a city of 50,000 people exist on the southernmost tip of NZ which has the bleakest climate? Invercargill is the coolest, most bleak and cloudiest city in NZ. It averages just 1,600 hours of sunshine a year compared with 1,500 for London, 2,050 in Christchurch, 2,800 in Adelaide and 3,200 in Perth WA. It has around 200 mm of rain every month of the year and it is a very windy city. It is in fact one of the largest southern cities in the world only surpassed by Ushuaia and Punta Arenas in Argentina and Chile respectively. But because of its latitude it has long summer days. Even in mid-October when we visit the length of day will be around 13.5 hours with the sun setting around 8:20 pm. In high summer twilight ends around 10:30 pm with a 16 hour long day like in Scotland. At this time of the year one can often see the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights an atmospheric phenomena of subarctic regions. Like Dunedin Invercargill was settled by the Scots. Many of its streets and families have Scottish names. It developed as an offshoot of Scottish Otago. The Surveyor General of Otago selected the site for a new town in 1856 and laid out the streets in a grid pattern on this very flat city. The first land was sold in 1858 and by 1861 Invercargill was a very small but flourishing town. Why? Because it had three main riches, apart from some gold found in the hinterland in 1860: it had the largest most fertile plains of NZ; it had a coastline rich with oysters, lobsters, cod fish and abalone( paua); and it had heavily forested mountains with hardwoods which were in great demand throughout the world- rimu, totara, silver beech etc. These basic factors meant that the province of Southland when it separated from Otago in 1861 had a bright future. The land, rainfall, soils and seas would provide for the people as it had done for the Maoris before the whites arrived. Southland consequently has had a rich and varied agricultural past ranging from sheep pastoralism, grain growing especially oats for porridge and barley for illicit whisky making (how could the Scots survive in this cold climate without whisky?) ,linen flax growing and milling, dairying and milk processing, fish and seafood canning, timber cutting and timber mills, and meat freezing and butchering works. These rural industries necessitated railways and like Dunedin Invercargill become a major rail head with lines going north to Lumsden, Kingston and Queenstown in the Alps, across to Gore, and west towards Fjordland and the richly forested valleys adjacent to it. Timber in particular needed the railways. Invercargill established railway workshops and the manufacturing steam engines for the railways of NZ. Its first railway line was built in 1867 to the Bluff, the port for Southland. It was connected to Christchurch by 1878.
In the 20th century Southland has developed hydroelectricity which in turn has attracted industry to the region. Possums introduced from across the Tasman in 1858 have become a major pest but they have also spawned a new industry- possum textiles and woollens; red deer were introduced from Europe in 1901 to Fjordland and now with the advent of helicopters and helicopter farming they are “farmed” for venison and processed near Invercargill. The story of Southland and Invercargill is one generally of success and success based on the climate and the resources of the land. For example, dairying has been strong since the early 1880s and continues today with Fonterra Milk processing mainly for export to Asia; linen flax milling continued until 1956; flourmills have processed wheat and the oat mill in Gore produced porridge oats; and Chewings Fescue was found to thrive in Southland and has become a major industry producing lawns for houses around NZ. Southland introduced prohibition in 1905 which lasted until 1945 and the illegal moonshine or whisky making in the hills east of Invercargill near Gore continued whilst that was in place. But the really big success has been hydroelectricity which began with Lake Monowai Power station in 1925. It still powers Invercargill and feeds into the national power grid. More recently the enormous Manapouri Power Station 200 metres below the water level of Lake Manapouri near Te Anau in Fjordland was completed in 1971 after work commenced in 1964. It is the largest hydroelectric station in NZ and the second largest power station in NZ. It was developed for Comalco to erect an aluminium smelter and refinery at the Bluff near Invercargill which is now run by Rio Tinto and employs nearly 3,000 people from Invercargill but its financial viability is shaky and the plant has been threatened with closure. Another major industry of Invercargill is fertiliser production.
•Invercargill is a Scottish settlement. 40% of Invercargill’s suburbs and nearby towns have Scottish names and the first Presbyterian Church was the leading church of the province. The current church replaced an earlier 1863 church in 1915 when it was completed. It is built of brick with a domed roof, a 100 foot high tower and it is in the Italian Romanesque style. It is on the highway from Dunedin at 151 Tay St. Next on the right is St Johns Anglican Church( 108 Tay St) in red brick built in 1887; almost next door is the impressive Town Hall and Theatre ( 88 Tay St) built 1906 in classical style; next is the YMCA building of 1910 at 77 Tay St; at the roundabout (the location of the Boer War Memorial) at the end of the street is the old Bank of NSW built in 1904 on the right whilst on the left is the former Cornerstone Bank of NZ building from 1879 ; as you turn right into Dee St. you will see a plethora of brightly painted heritage buildings all in good repair – partly because the city’s young mayor from Auckland some years ago supported and encouraged this to revitalise the city. At 136 Dee St is the Blackman building with the large black swan on the roof line and further along (178 Dee St.) is the Gothic St Pauls Presbyterian Church built in 1876 and added to in 1881. In Victoria Ave is the former but now closed Information Centre and Southland Museum. Here also is Queens Park with its rhododendron dell rock garden, magnificent trees etc. Nearby is the City water Tower (a flat city needed a tower for water pressure) built in 1888 with 300,000 red, yellow and black bricks. 101 Doon St.
Other heritage buildings include:
Entropy, as expressed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, is an all pervasive natural force, similar in importance to gravity or electro- magnetism. Its attributes involve the flow of what we call "time". It shows why time travel is impossible and why water only runs downhill. Entropy permeates all aspects of human existence. Entropy explains why it is easy to lose money and difficult to make money. Entropy is the force behind Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, must go wrong. Is time-travel impossible? Why does water only run downhill? Why is it easy to lose money but difficult to acquire it? The answer to these and many other puzzling questions rests in the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in Entropy. The so-called Second Law relates closely to the term Entropy. An understanding of this fundamental law of nature and its ramification provides great insights in the way the world really works. Entropy, as expressed by the Second Law, is the ultimate Natural Law because it determines the flow of what we call "time". Thus, entropy deals with the very existence of the universe. The term entropy describes phenomena that have the most profound effect on all events in human existence, including our ability to achieve happiness by aligning ourselves with Objective Reality.
The Second Law holds a unique position in science because it has never evolved from a theory such as the Theory of Relativity or the Theory of Quantum Mechanics. The Second Law is empirical. There is no fully satisfactory theoretical proof for the Second Law, although there are some connections to Quantum Mechanics, Probability and Relativity. Once a Unified Field Theory, the Theory of Everything, is developed, it will and must account for Entropy. Many scientists, who claimed that this Law is paradoxical in nature, have tried to attack it. However, in all instances the alleged paradoxes were due to faulty reasoning. The Second Law has prevailed and has established itself as the most fundamental of all Natural Laws.
The profound nature of the Second Law manifests itself in every aspect of human existence. It covers questions pertaining to the obscure beginnings of the universe to the way we pour milk in our coffee. I remember my high school teacher posing the question: You have a cup of very hot coffee that you would like to drink as soon as possible, let us say, within 5 minutes. Should you first add the desired quantity of cold milk to the coffee and then let the coffee sit for 5 minutes? Alternatively, do you let the coffee sit for 5 minutes and then add the same quantity of milk?
The answer is not intuitive but it is simple, if we are familiar with the Second Law: The rate of heat exchange between the hot coffee and the ambient air depends on their temperature differential. The higher the temperature differential, the faster will be the rate of exchange. Within the 5-minute waiting period, heat transfers to the air at a higher rate if we do not add the cold milk initially to the coffee. If we add the milk at the beginning, instead of at the end of the 5 minutes, the energy transfer will slow down and the coffee will be markedly hotter at the end of 5 minutes.
This revelation does not appear to be a momentous event. It was only intended to indicate the pervasiveness of the Second Law, especially in view of the fact that most people are seemingly ignorant of it. The point is, the Second Law is not intuitive. We have to acquire the relevant knowledge by a rational thought process in order to take advantage of it. The cup of coffee is not important but the principle behind the cup permeates all of our existence: In order to optimize the effectiveness of our actions it is helpful to understand the implications of Entropy.
Entropy describes the degradation of energy to perform work. What is energy? On the high school level, we simply defined energy as the capacity to do work. However, the real question is, What factor, precisely, is doing this work? Why does energy have the capacity to perform work? The HOWs in life are easy, the WHYs are the tough ones.
Energy is the raw material of the universe. At the time of the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago, there was nothing but raw energy. There was no mass with a physical attribute. It was only much later in the nascent universe that this primal energy transformed itself into physical mass, stars, nebula and black holes. Stars, and particularly supernovas, are the factories of the elements, such as iron, from which human beings are formed.
As we know from Einstein's famous formula E = m c^2, mass and energy are freely convertible into each other. The Hydrogen Bomb demonstrates this conversion in a spectacular fashion. Most of the energy it generates is due to the conversion of matter into energy. Such conversion of matter into energy, and vice-versa, is also a less spectacular event in everyday phenomena although it is usually so minuscule as to escape our attention: When we exercise vigorously, we convert chemical energy into radiated heat energy. All this radiated energy that leaves our body has mass, just as light has energy and weight, although it will not register on our bathroom scale.
In cognizance of these basic facts, we can stipulate that energy is the basic raw material that makes up the universe and all that is contained within it, including human beings. The essence of the universe is the unity of energy, time and space.
Energy is essentially a heat phenomenon. Heat and work are mechanisms by which systems exchange energy with one another. The mechanical equivalent of heat is called a Joule. 4.2 joules are the equivalent of one calorie, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius.
In order for energy to perform work, a difference must exist between energy at a high potential and energy at a more randomized, diluted, potential. The term entropy is a measure of the degree to which energy has lost the capacity to perform useful work. Entropy signifies the dilution, the randomization of energy. We may look at water in two lakes, connected by a canal. Unless the lakes are at a different level, unless they are at a different energy potential, there is plenty of water, but all this water has no potential energy and cannot perform any useful work because it cannot change levels. This ability or inability to perform useful work is an analogy to and is at the heart of the term entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Let us back up a little: This whole subject of Thermodynamics sounds like a very complicated affair. Indeed, it is both very simple and extremely complex. There are three Laws of Thermodynamics, but we need to concern ourselves only with the first two laws because they are closely interwoven and can actually be expressed in one sentence: The total energy content of the universe is constant and the total entropy, the non-usable energy, is constantly increasing. There you have it: The combination of the first and second law of thermodynamics.
Very interesting, but what does it mean? It means that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can be transformed into mass, chemical energy, heat energy, latent energy and work, but it cannot be created and it cannot disappear. Energy is also in a constant, inevitable and irreversible process of becoming increasingly randomized. Salt crystals may be dissolved in a beaker of water without losing its identity as salt. The salt became more randomized when it dissolved in the water. The Law of Entropy decrees that it cannot reconvert itself to the less randomized, crystalline version. The salt cannot reconstitute itself as crystals, unless we introduce external energy to evaporate the water.
The amount of energy in the universe was established at the time of the Big Bang. At that point, energy was extremely concentrated and ordered. Since then, the universe has expanded vastly and energy has become more diluted and randomized. It is inherent in the nature of the universe that this process must and will continue. If it were to stop, the universe would cease to exist.
This increasing randomization of energy, entropy, is part of the structure of the universe. The energy dilemma does not involve the amount of energy that is available; it involves the form in which the energy is available. The universe is involved in a constant process of converting one form of energy into another form and in doing so, it inevitably must convert part of the original energy into more randomized, less usable, heat energy. Potential energy is organized energy whereas heat represents randomized, disorganized energy. Heat energy is irretrievable energy. Although the energy contained in heat is not destroyed, it has become unavailable for producing work. All forms of energy are degraded incessantly and irreversibly to an inferior, lower-quality, more-randomized form of energy: Heat.
By the same principle, the solar energy that pours out of the furnace of the sun travels on and on until it eventually becomes scattered throughout the universe: It becomes so randomized that it becomes unusable for the performance of work. Therefore, we must stipulate that entropy, as a measure of the randomness of energy in the universe, is always increasing.
The question arises, what will happen when all the usable energy in the universe is converted into randomized heat energy and is no longer capable of performing such work as expanding the universe. We refer to this condition as the Heat Death of the Universe: Once all the energy in the universe is converted to and randomized as heat, then the universe will be in a state of energy equilibrium, everything will be of the same temperature and entropy will remain constant. This is where science gets more complicated and involves the microwave background radiation consisting of photons near, but not quite at, absolute Zero. Scientists have recently detected this microwave background radiation and have thus confirmed the connectivity between Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics.
Before we go on to some practical manifestations of entropy, we need to be aware of a very important characteristic of entropy: The Laws of Thermodynamics pertain only to a system that we refer to as a closed system: An entity that does not exchange energy, information or mass with anything outside the system. The universe in its totality is a closed system because no new energy is injected into it. Therefore, all laws of Thermodynamics apply to the universe. Earth is not a closed system because our sun constantly injects it with new energy. This infusion of energy into the non-closed system of the earth makes it possible to comply with the Second Law while achieving an increase in the complexity of life forms, as necessitated by the process of evolution.
The laws of thermodynamics are among the very few laws of nature that describe phenomena that are an integral part of the origin of the universe, of the Big Bang. The other laws in this category are gravity, relativity, nuclear binding forces and electromagnetism. Human beings need not concern themselves with the effects of relativity or quantum mechanics. However, the phenomena of thermodynamics constantly and profoundly affect all human beings.
If there are any laws that have truly universal applicability and that also affect ordinary human affairs, they are the Laws of Thermodynamics. The following statement contains the essence of Entropy: In any transformation of energy from one form to another, useful energy is lost irreversibly. The German physicist Clausius first used the term Entropy in 1865 to describe the nature of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Even great physicists of that period, like James Maxwell, had trouble with a concept involving only negatives and dealing with the idea of measuring a state of disorder. Today we can condense the statement of Entropy by stating: Entropy in a closed system can never decrease. There are no exceptions to this statement.
The Second Law decrees that water can only flow downhill. Objects do not run uphill by themselves. If we wish to have water run uphill, we must supply outside energy to pump it up the hill.
A clock gradually runs down because the latent energy in its spring is used to run the clock and part of this energy is converted to irretrievable heat. Because the heat cannot be reconstituted into usable energy, this energy is lost irretrievably and the clock cannot rewind itself.
Even in the most complex energy transformations, there is a forward direction to the process because only an outside energy source can reverse a heat-process within a closed system. The burning of gasoline in a car creates mechanical energy and heat. However, no process in the universe will allow the exhaust gases to re-combine with the heat energy and reconstitute the original gasoline: The heat energy of the burning gasoline has achieved a higher and irreversible state of randomization: The entropy of the system, and the universe, is irreversibly increased, as required by the Second Law.
The close relationship of entropy to the statistical laws of probability becomes clear when we hold a stack of five coins in a hand and throw them on a flat surface. Instead of retaining their previous order and proximity, they scatter and increase their randomness. The fall of the coins generated and dissipated the tiniest little bit of heat and the lack of this heat prevented the coins from reforming in the same stack as before. Entropy always drives all transformation of energy in such a way as to increase irreversible randomness.
Ice must have a tendency to melt because H2O molecules in ice crystals are more orderly than in the form of water. Ice crystals tend to become randomized by changing from orderly ice crystals to a more disorderly state as a liquid.
Water must evaporate: A gaseous structure is more randomized than a liquid state.
Time can only flow in one direction: The arrow of time can only move from the dead past to the non-existing future. The Second Law is closely interwoven with the laws of probability. Therefore, the laws of entropy are statistical laws. If we apply statistical laws applicable to entropy to future events, they provide meaningful results; if we apply them to past events, they are meaningless. Therefore, time can flow only from the dead past toward the future, which does not yet exist. Time travel will always remain impossible: It is inherently impossible to move from one state of non-existence to other states of non-existence. The Second Law decrees that the universe would have to cease to exist in order to allow for time-travel.
The laws of thermodynamics are the descriptors of the universe and do not permit perpetual motion machines. We would only waste our time and money if we were to attempt building a machine that not only can run forever, but that could even produce excess energy while doing so.
Heat flows from a hot object to a cold object, never the other way around. When we drop a hot peace of metal in a container of cold water, the metal cools and the water heats up until their temperatures have equalized. During this process the entropy, the randomness of the system consisting of the water and the metal, increases and no further useful work can be performed because there is no longer a temperature differential between the water and the metal: The system has become randomized.
This manifestation of the Second Law can be stated quite simply: Heat energy will not flow from a cooler to a warmer body. It would be foolish to try to warm our hands on a block of ice although there is considerable heat in the ice. If we compare the heat of ice with the heat of liquid hydrogen, ice would appear to be very hot, indeed. It would be easy to build a machine that runs on the heat differential between the cold block of ice and the much colder liquid hydrogen. However, since the heat in the ice is at a much lower level than the heat in our body, heat cannot flow from the ice to our hands. We cannot warm our hands by immersing them in ice. We have always known this fact. Now we know why we cannot warm our hand by touching a block of ice.
Bridges and buildings will inevitably collapse, unless entropy is counteracted by the addition of new energy, such as money, energy, power or labor, to the system. If we do not paint the bridge, it will eventually, but inevitably, collapse.
Money is not energy but it represents energy. Therefore, money becomes randomized automatically, in compliance with the Second Law. As we only know too well, money has a distinct tendency to dissipate, to randomize. On the other hand, the creation of wealth requires an infusion of energy from a source outside the system, such as a competent strategy or the contribution of additional capital or labor.
We know empirically, that things do not organize themselves into artifacts that are more complex unless new energy is inserted from outside the system. This fact is obvious because a broken window will not repair itself. Without competent management, without the energy to organize and structure transactions, a business will fail, a victim of entropy.
Without new software, without the infusion of new energy from outside the computer system, a computer will never acquire new capabilities, but its hard-drive will fill up with defects and clutter due to the degeneration of the data it holds. A well known fact.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is closely interwoven with the future of the universe and with all life on earth. Sometimes people say that the existence of life on earth violates or contradicts the Second Law. However, this is not the case; we know of nothing in the universe that violates the Second Law.
The definition of life revolves around three prerequisites: The organism must be able to replicate itself, the organism must be capable of energy conversion and the organism must be subject to evolution. The essence of evolution is an increase in complexity, as is obvious when we consider the evolution of living organisms over eons of time.
An increase in complexity entails an increase in the orderliness of the organizational character of the organism: Life represents a decrease of entropy, a decrease of randomness. Such a decrease in randomization can only come about as a result of an infusion of energy from the outside of the closed system, from the outside of the organism. Therefore, the ability to utilize energy by converting it to a usable form, is the essence of all things that we call alive or living. In the case of life on earth, the outside energy is derived from the sun. No sunlight, no life on earth.
This is the chain of life on earth: No energy, no evolution. -- No evolution, no life -- No energy, no life
The discussion of energy is significant, because nothing happens in the universe without energy. The whole universe is a cauldron of energy conversions. As far as human beings are concerned, we need to remember that the standard of living of a person or a nation is determined primarily by the availability of usable energy sources, such as oil or nuclear energy. Without sources of energy to turn our wheels and to compensate for entropy, humanity would revert to the primeval existence of hunters and gatherers.
Many people have trouble understanding the principle of entropy because it is a concept of negatives, because it is a measure of the disorder, of the randomness of a closed system. Every biochemical function requires a decrease in entropy, which can only be achieved by the infusion of energy into a life-sustaining system.
Many people erroneously believe that everything that we use up can be recycled and reused if we only develop the appropriate technology. However, the Second Law makes it inherently impossible to achieve complete reconstitution or recycling. In order to recycle a used product, we must insert additional energy in the collecting, transportation and reprocessing of used materials and this energy expenditure contributes to the overall entropy, the randomness, of the environment. Thus, discards can be recycled only by the expenditure of additional energy and at the expense of increasing the entropy of the universe as a whole. On a light note: Every time someone lights a cigarette, he increases the entropy of the universe and contributes to the energy death of the universe.
Why is this discussion of entropy and the Second Law so important to us, to ordinary human beings? After all, most of us are more concerned with living a happy life, than the heat death of the universe. The problem is that the Second Law has a tendency to interfere with our happiness because it has a pervasive, pernicious effect on our lives. It is imperative that we are aware of the impairments caused by entropy in order to counteract them effectively.
If we encounter a problem in life, it is most important to be fully cognizant of the precise nature and cause of the problem. In trying to resolve the problem, it would be counter-productive to invoke the help of imagined superior beings, instead of dealing with the problem in a realistic, purposeful manner. Unless we understand the nature of entropy, we cannot resolve the deleterious effects that make it difficult to achieve desired results. Therefore, a profound knowledge of the Second Law is extremely important to our quest for happiness.
"Murphy's Law" is well known. After allowing for many humorous embellishments and variations on the basic theme, Mr. Murphy’s proposition states: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." A corollary version claims: "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse".
We laugh about this aspect of life because we have all experienced the effect of Mr. Murphy's Law on many occasions. Rather than recognize Murphy's Law as a humorous version of a basic law of nature, we usually look upon it as a quirk of nature. Nothing could be further from the truth: When we look at the Second Law of Thermodynamics, we realize that Mr. Murphy's law is an inescapable consequence of the principle of Entropy.
Unless we constantly insert new energy into a house by maintaining it, painting it, repairing it, the structure will eventually but inevitably be leveled to the ground. Its molecules will move from a lower level of randomization, from structure, to a higher level of randomization, towards unstructured debris.
Entropy is the reason why paint peels, why hot coffee turns cold. Furthermore, entropy is the reason why investments have a preordained inclination to go sour -- unless we enhance success by inserting into the investment system additional energy in the form of strategy, work, calculated risk or other forms of energy. Entropy ensures that sugar, which becomes more randomized when it is dissolved in water, will not reconstitute itself in the crystalline form -- unless we apply heat energy from outside the system and evaporate the water.
Wherever we look, whatever we do, we must be acutely aware of the immutable laws of thermodynamics, especially the easily overlooked Second Law: Entropy. This fundamental law of physics ranks with other fundamental manifestations of the universe such as gravity, time and electromagnetism.
Anything that can go wrong not only will go wrong, it must go wrong, as decreed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Kansas---early one room school for 8 grades... One teacher.
Author Avis Carlson, in her book, Small World Long Gone, illustrates the quality of education around 1907 for the first 8-grades-------in a building such as these.
I will give you one of several examples in the book of qualifying test questions:
"Two of arithmetic's ten questions asked us to find the interest on an eight-per-cent note for $900 running 2 years, 2 months, 6 days..." !!!!
And, they diagrammed sentences from Shakespeare!!:: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" as an example.
And, further, they were pronounce and give the meaning of such words as: "zenith, deviated, coliseum, panegyric, Spartan, talisman, eerie, Triton, crypt......"
On an on....
Avis passed the 8th grade qualifying test at 11 years, 8 months of age.... !!!!!!!!!! [Her book: ISBN 0-911694-00-5]
To Continue:
HISTORY: All states in America settled under the Northwest Ordinance had Townships of 36 sections, each 1-square mile is size, for the exclusive use of the common schools. These schools were constructed on sections numbered 16 and 36 on the survey maps. Those two sections were owned by the schools. Income form the land help fund those learning centers
Walking from other sections was considered reasonable distance for children!
I suspect they would have to have spent, at most, an hour or so walking to and from school.
Realize that is less than kids now spend on buses. And those former kids did not suffer from obesity. Is this progress....?????
HISTORY---continued.
In Kansas the school issue was codified as Article 1 our Constitution. I find that significant--the very FIRST item!!! IMPORTANT perhaps?!
Previous to that, the Northwest Ordinance, which was the Federal Government's legal instrument to create states, designated sections 16 and 36 for the common schools.
These sections were to help fund the cost of schools, and were to be for the 'EXCLUSIVE' use of those schools.
If the land was sold, at least in the Kansas, another piece of land, of equal value, had to be purchased with the proceeds of the sale--for 'perpetual' use for the schools.....
That did NOT happen.................................. READ ON......
America's education system is in trouble... it has moved from "learning" to "feelings".
By all standards of modern testing, current high school students know less than they did 100 years ago.
The 8th-grade in 1907 was the equivalent to a 2015 high school diploma, and more...!
TO REVIEW WHAT WAS STATED INITIALLY:
Sample questions from a Kansas school from 1907 for 8th grade qualifying:
Math--'find the interest on an 8% note for $900 running 2 years', 2 months, 6 days;...
English--analyze and diagram -[Shakespeare!]: '"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."' There are others.
Avis Carlson passed the test at 11 years 8 months of age. The school from which she graduated was similar to this building, one room for 8 grades and one teacher.
[Source of quotes: Small World Long Gone by Avis Carlson, ISBN 0-911694-00-5, pg. 83. ]
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Addendum: This building has been razed.
This may be one of the last photos of this school in such a dilapidated state. It probably has not been used for decades.
REALIZE the Ordinance stated the two sections were for the purpose of funding schools ownership was 'Perpetual' for the common schools.
In Kansas, due to 'politics', the 16/36 sections were eventually sold, and several years ago all the funds were put into Kansas teachers retirement fund [KPERS] as the 'employers' contribution.
The land, therefore, is not, in perpetuity, FOR aiding in the funding of student education in Kansas. It is for the teachers.
Now school lobbyists are clamoring for more cash, usually for infrastructure. But modern NEA [a lobby] schools are not delivering anything close to the quality of student the meager building above produced.
Most school expenditures are for real estate, feeding children that should be fed by parents, and transporting them to and from school. I call this 'nanny' government instead of rugged individualism. The call for 'equality' violates the bigger reason for America, FREEDOM to exercise, or not, our talents as children and as adults.
In a word, SOCIALISM. This political philosophy has NOT worked any place on the planet.
Paul Johnson's NY Times Book of the Year, Modern Times, makes the statement that 125 million people died unnatural deaths, world-wide, between 1920 and 1990 due to socialism.
Controlling education is the way to change a culture. That is exactly what has, and is, happening.
How such machinations occur is beyond me.
I guess voters are asleep, really asleep.
I guess politicians don't read fundamental law.
In sum, politics stinks but the REAL FAULT LIES WITH THE PEOPLE. WE ARE INHERITING, GENERATION BY GENERATION, THE LACK OF THE BENEFITS OF FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE. I BELIEVE IT IS BY DESIGN, AND THE MODERN ARCHITECT IS JOHN DEWEY, THE FATHER OF MODERN EDUCATION, WHO WAS A FABIAN SOCIALIST. Look him up for yourself.
NOTE: I have original documents as to these facts for anyone interested. Contact me.
Tagged by ♥♦ Psycho ♠♣
. Thank you very much dear. :-)
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How old are you?: I forgot! :-P
Do you have any pets?: Yes. Tomcat Kenny. ♥
Which Disney Movie is your favourite one?: Geri's game, Toy Story, Brave, the Princess diaries, Alice in Wonderland, UP and more. :-)
Favorite Cartoon?: Futurama, Family Guy and more. :-)
How many dolls do you have?: about 110
How many MH Dolls do you have?: One. Ghoulia Yelps ♥
How many EAH Dolls do you have?: 0
How many Winx Club Mattel Dolls do you have?: 0
Which doll is your favourite?: All. :-)
Which is your favourite anime? : Manga.
Who is your favourite Winx and why?: Flora. She loves nature. :-)
Which was your most expensive doll?: Hujoo Doll. :-)
YouTube or Flickr?: Both :-)
Which was your first doll?: Rubber baby. :-)
Which is your most wanted doll at the moment?: Blythe doll! ♥♥
Who is your favourite MH Character?: Ghoulia Yelps. :-)
Which power would you choose: Earth or Water?: Both!!
My Scene or Bratz?: I do not know. My Scene? :-)
Barbie or My Scene?: Both. :-)
If you could choose a fictional character to be your boyfriend, who would you choose?: Hatter - Johnny Depp. ♥♥♥
When did you start collecting dolls?: Five years ago? :-)
How do you Flickr Peeps feel about your images being included in Tumblr accounts?
I have an image that (for some reason) has thousands of views and notes on Tumblr which is lovely, however, they have the main image hosted there without a link back to the main file on Flickr.
25.media.tumblr.com/aa690c7206e7822a92385dc5c44f9261/tumb...
it's kinda bugging me as I recently went through lots of grief trying to get a company to remove one of my images from their website.
For some reason I thought the Tumblr community would always retain information relating to the original author / photographer.
Any Thoughts?
I was tagged by Babs and DeanReen , thanks Babs and Deany!!! :) Anyone who sees this - please feel free to join in!
1.) Well Mod Barbie Lover, How are you?
HOT! The bloody extreme Aussie weather is so getting to me! Everyone just sees our glorious sunshine and beaches, but it is RARELY like that over summer... more like oppressively hot, very humid and sticky, with massive thunderstorms every five minutes that wipe out whole suburbs! ( and no power/water etc!!!)
2.) What is the meaning behind your Flickr name?
Pretty self explanatory!
3.) Sexuality?
Yes PLEASE! LOL
4.) Decorating?
I aspire to clean-lined minimalism (Mickey Rourke's apartment in '9'1/2 weeks' was my dream apartment back in the 80's!) but the reality is more 'shabby chic'- approaching 'Grey Gardens' when I haven't cleaned in a while! (Though minus the wildlife... ewww!)
5.) Did doll collecting influence your life in any way?
ABSOLUTELY!!! Like most people who work in the fashion industry, Barbie was my first 'client' and my first connection to the fashion world, so she was a HUGE influence! Nowadays, my collecting is definitely a form of therapy, as it is with others, but I LOVE the research the most! (One of my first jobs was researcher and editorial assistant at a fashion magazine!)
6.) What does your family think about you as a doll collector?
They don't really know about it yet! Though my workmates do and they think it's really cool, actually!
7.) What might be your biggest fear?
Have TOO MANY to mention and can't rate them! LOL But probably dying alone tops my list.
8.) if you could meet anyone on earth, who would it be?
Yves Saint Laurent when he was young and happy... Christian Dior (just reading his autobiography - yes, he actually wrote one, which is amazing since he died so suddenly and at an age before designers usually write their memoirs!) and he seemed to be a sweet, humble, sensitive and very funny man! Coco Chanel because she would be SOOO entertaining... and I always REALLY get on with b****es! LOL... Nelson Mandela, though I would probably be way too intimidated to say anything!!! Oh and yes, Jon Hamm! OBVIOUSLY!!! hehehehehe
9.) Grab a book nearest to you, turn to page 23, read me line 17 (if it’s the start of a sentence, finish the sentence)
"Eventually I fled from the growing materials on the landing, and even found myself working on the steps of the staircase."
– Dior By Dior (talking about the preparation of his first collection that launched his famous 'New Look'.)
10.) What do you think about the most?
My next deadline, and what on EARTH am I gonna do for it... And of course my Barbie/Francie/Skipper/Christie/Stacey/ Ken etc. etc. addiction, my next purchase, and the next Barbie photo I will take!
11.) What does your latest text message from someone else say?
"Hey how R U today? Hot as HADES, Yah?" (A friend from work)
12.) Do you sleep with or without clothes on?
I wear Chanel No.5! (Not really, but I LOVE when Marilyn Monroe said that when asked what she wore to bed.)
13.) What is your strangest talent?
I can touch my nose with my tongue!!!
14.) Girls.... (finish the sentence); Boys.... (finish the sentence)
Girls... are for dressing
Boys... are for UNdressing! HA!
15.) Ever had a poem or song written about you?
Nope... but my high school buds used to mangle Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal' and sing 'Eddi are you WALKING?' ... so does that count?
16.) When was the last time you played the air guitar?
I play no musical instruments, imaginary or otherwise . (Though I DID play the Tuba in a high school band when I was forced into it by the music teacher. I had chapped lips for months!)
17.) Do you have any strange phobias?
Driving. I learnt and everything, but I always think I will smash into a wall or pole or something... ( and had lots of accidents anyway!)
18.) Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?
I think some straws at a party while at school... when I was drunk!
19.) Backpacks or satchels?
Backpacks in the 80's ( I had a GORGEOUS faux leather Prada rip-off one from the Gap that I wore to death) But now... DEFINITELY satchels!
2011/08/09 Cricket Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA
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Firefly, Metallo, Black Adam, Question, Nightwing, Cyborg
Hello all! I've updated some figs and made some new ones as you can see. First, Firefly. I really like how he turned out. He is kind of based off his appearance in "The Batman" tv show. Just with red as a main color. With Metallo I didn't want to make him all Robot so I tried to make him like the Superman Animated Series version. Black Adam is just the New 52 version. Question has a suit and trench coat. Nightwing has EG combat pants. Cyborg doesn't have the robo arm and his head is now the Nick Fury one. Hope you like 'em!
On another note, I now have Skype. If anyone wants my username just fm me and I will send it to you.
Thank you to legoman685 for telling me to make Firefly and Metallo.
This is without question the most daring photograph I have ever uploaded to my Flickr stream, and I don't think I am ever going to try to outdo it for audacity. I was actually quite hesitant to upload it at all, in large part because of the well-known fact that I do not like tattoos or other forms of body art, and do not wish to appear to be endorsing or encouraging them in any way. But while I don't know if I will leave it here, I finally decided to add it to my stream, for several reasons. First, this very personable woman was obviously enjoying herself at Comicon and was a good sport about posing for me. I gave my Flickr URL to her and her husband, and I think she deserves to have her picture here at least long enough for her to check it out and see if she likes it. Second, laying aside for the moment her tattoos, this is probably only marginally more revealing than the bellydance photos I uploaded about three years ago, and which are going to stay on my Flickr page, partly because my wife happens to like them. (She was with me when I took those, in fact.) Third, I know that at least a few of my regular viewers will applaud me for stepping outside the box and doing something truly out of the ordinary, at least for me. And finally, with regard to the tattoos themselves, my feelings about them do not require me to ignore the fact of their increasing popularity, or to fail to acknowledge the artistic talent that goes into creating them. For what it's worth, even my friend Marietta, who is one of my favorite models, has one, and the tattoo appears in some of my pictures of her.
So with all of that in mind, I add this to my stream, at least on a provisional basis. If it gets a lot of good feedback, I will most likely leave it here; if not, it will probably come down in a few days at most. But either way, don't expect to see many images like this one posted by me in the future.
Sony A7RII Fine Art Zion National Park Autumn Winter Subway Hike! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography!
An important thing to remember is that even though pixel sizes keep getting smaller and smaller, the technology is advancing, so the smaller pixels are more efficient at collecting light. For instance, the Sony A7rII is back-illuminated which allows more photons to hit the sensor. Semiconductor technology is always advancing, so the brilliant engineers are always improving the signal/noise ratio. Far higher pixel counts, as well as better dynamic ranger, are thus not only possible, but the future!
Yes I have a Ph.D. in physics! I worked on phototranistors and photodiodes as well as an artificial retina for the blind. :)
You can read more about my own physics theory (dx4/dt=ic) here: herosodysseyphysics.wordpress.com/
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And all the best on Your Epic Hero's Odyssey!
The new Lightroom rocks!
Beautiful magnificent clouds!
View your artistic mission into photography as an epic odyssey of heroic poetry! Take it from Homer in Homer's Odyssey: "Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them. " --Samuel Butler Translation of Homer's Odyssey
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Sony A7RII Fine Art Zion National Park Autumn Winter Subway Hike! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography! Sony A7R2 & Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens!
Over the hills, golden light accompanied the wings
of desire, straight in the infinity of dreams, in the
magical world of love.
In the evening, in quiet minutes I believe I can
hear the gentle sound of the waves, thoughts
begin to speak. Imaginations, of happiness, or
fears? The twinkling stars, helping on our track?
There are .... longings, questions. Your
warmth caresses me .... Kisses, vertigo. There is
so much, so much. We're seeing the same
moon, daughter . .
Besos
Questioning the question and the intention behind it; is it from
the heart? It should be shouldn’t it? It could be… Or was it a
childhood crush that grew into a something that never should
have been? Past heartbreaks make us weary, but there is a
reason for the hurt. It has to happen for us to be the people
we are today. The question has been raised again… and the
answer is clear. Or is it?
-A heartfelt Honest ramble
This Staples was built in 1999 and closed in March 2018.
Former Staples in Fort Wayne, Indiana - Illinois Road
*Feel free to use this photo, or any others in this photostream, for any use that is non-commercial. Please make sure to provide credit for the photo(s). Please contact me at eckhartnicholas@yahoo.com for questions or permission for commercial use.*
Ippio Payo & Genelabo performen Nobody Ansers Questions - an audiovisual journey
Video by : Genelabo
Music by : Ippio Payo
Underdeck !!! is 3- rd track from the audio-visual album :"Nobody Answers Questions"
Format: LP/CD
Label: Echokammer EK092 & Geenger Records GNGR 094
VÖ: 20.08.2021
After countless collaborations between Josip Pavlov (Ippio Payo) and Gene Aichner (Genelabo) over the last 17 years,
"Nobody Answers Questions" represents uncharted waters for both of them. With only the most basic equipment, they face the passage......
The name of the butterfly is "Question Mark" The other one has been identified as a "Coma" butterfly LOL