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The participants at the 2010 summer school came from a wider range of disciplines and experience than in previous years, I think. They maintained the tradition of excellent and difficult questions, and their collective knowledge and sharp minds kept the presenters on their toes.
Here and elsewhere I've removed the participants' names from the nametags.
I do not no what to do what my lego star wars minifigs I have 55 and some dc/marvel ones too got any ideas were or how I can
set them up
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Sony A7RII Photos: Sony 16-35mm Vario-Tessar T FE F4 ZA OSS E-Mount Lens: Fine Art Galleries and Creating High-End Fine Art Prints on Fuji Crystal Supergloss Metallic Facemounted to Acrylic! Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art
I had fun visiting Prolab Digital by the LAX ariport to witness the creation of a fine art print for the band the Who's Charity Auction! :) I was always curious how the face-mounted! prints were made! :)
Not so long ago, I was honored with an invitation to donate one of my fine art prints to The Who's charity auction benefitting Teen Cancer.
Well, I hope my art is able to help a bit! It's quite an honor.
Given the cause, I decided to go big and print a 40"x60" museum-quality, fine art rendition of a fortuitous Malibu sunset recently photographed with the new 42 mp Sony A7RII! Please find the photograph of the sunset here:
www.flickr.com/photos/herosjourneymythology45surf/2020220...
As a physicist who worked on CMOS photosensors and an artificial retina for the blind, I have always been fascinated by the amazing evolution of digital cameras and sensors, and that interest recently carried over into the art and science of printing fine art photography. What makes an optimal fine art print? I visited Prolab Digital to ask some questions while documenting the creation of the museum-quality archival print. This also tied into a book I am working on, which is a beauty-driven approach to photography. Every element of photography, from camera and lens selection, to settings and composition, to computers and software, to printing, can be seen as an answer to the simple question, "How do I best capture and share beauty?"
Fine art photography can be broken down into three basic stages, all dictated by beauty--capturing beauty's light, bending and shaping beauty's light, and liberating the beauty's light in a fine art print. The first stage centers about the optimal capture of beauty's light out in the field via the blending of optimal compositions, sensors, settings, and glass. The second part consists of bending and shaping the beauty's light in post--in software such as Lightroom or Photoshop. And the third part consists of liberating the light in the finest manner possible via a combination of printing and mounting on the materials most capable of projecting the original beauty's light--the light that began in the landscape, passed on though the camera's sensor and then through a computer and software, and now travels forth from the wall of a gallery or museum.
For the finest rendition, we choose to print on Fuji Crystal Archival paper--either the metallic or super-gloss which makes the light pop. Both papers have tiny metallic crystals of silver halide which reflect the light in a manner that makes a print look backlit, thusly bringing it to life with a magical glow. The light literally emanates from the scenic landscape, just as it did when first captured in the field. Fuji describes their line of "crystal" papers:
"Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper is a silver halide color paper, designed exclusively to produce high-image-quality color prints on both analogue and digital printers. This paper incorporates latest silver halide emulsion technology, coupler technology and layer design technology to deliver enhanced color reproduction, white purity, image stability and handling of the photo."
The print is then face-mounted to a sheet of 1/8" or 1/4" acrylic UV resistant acrylic via an adhesive. Not only does this thin layer of plexiglass serve to capture and liberate a gallery's high-end lighting fixtures in a way that brings the landscape to life, but it also serves to protect the print. While scratches on acrylic can be buffed out, once an aluminum print is scratched or damaged, it is very hard (if not impossible) to repair. The resistance to UV rays keeps the print from fading.
To further enhance the experience, we use acrylic with an anti-reflective coating, known to the industry as "P99 non-glare plexiglass." This equivalent to the "museum glass" used in more traditional framed and matted prints, is well-worth the premium, as it cuts down on the glare from ambient light and reflections from the environment. Without the reflective coating, the viewer of the art will see their own reflection, or reflections of the lights and windows in the room. When we go to a gallery or museum and cast our gaze upon a seascape, we want to see the art, and not a reflection of ourselves! :)
The physics of anti-reflective coatings consists of applying thin layers of film to the glass's surface with a thickness chosen in proportion to the wavelengths of visible light, so that when the light reflects, the wavelengths of the incoming and outgoing wave match up in opposition, and thus cancel one-another, thereby "disappearing" the reflection. This is not easy to do, but we photographers always pay premium for lenses and filters coated with the anti-reflective coatings, so as to optimize the capture of beauty's light. And thus it makes sense to mount a print to glass with anti-reflective coatings, so as to liberate the beauty's light in an optimal manner.
For longevity and durability, the print is mounted to aluminum with a metal cleat attached to the back for hanging. Sandwiched between a solid sheet of aluminum on the back and UV-resistant acrylic on the front, the print is frozen in time, and will never wrinkle nor crease.
Well, I'm working on a book on all this--the full odyssey of creating museum-quality/gallery-quality prints! :)
Any idea what this is? Taken in South Beach.
Answer: flickr.com/photos/ohadby/85290811/
More on my photoblog: ohadonline.com
Alex Horrox-White as The Full Stop (the nemesis of legendary superhero Question-Mark Man) and Amie Marie as Caesura, his villainous (and villainess) partner in crime.
This is from a studio shoot with the entire cast of "The Baffling Adventures of Question-Mark Man" by Bottled Spider. A really fun show about superheroes...and punctuation. What's not to like? :-)
You can see more shots (both from the show and the studio shoot) in my Bottled Spider set.
Walking the streets of Greenwich I came across this question mark. I have no idea what it is for, but it made me think of "Doctor Who"...
I don't know what the business is, or if its a block of flats, but it is on King William Walk about two blocks south of the Cutty Sark.
It all started with an innocent question from Greg via AIM. He asked me if I knew where he could find a Where's Waldo hat. I tried a few queries in Google and Froogle, but the best I could do was pull up a couple of knitting patterns, and pictures of other people with Waldo hats. He wasn't about to knit one and neither was I, but I offered to sew one up for him out of fleece since it's a rare occasion that I get to connect with an old friend from the East Coast.
I ended up making 4 Waldo hats before I perfected the pattern and got the sizing right. I showed my creations to my brother and he casually mentioned, "You know, it would be funny if there was a flash mob where a lot of people showed up dressed like Waldo. It would be like the puzzle where there were thousands of Waldos and you had to find the real Waldo."
I thought it was a brilliant idea, so I decided to make it come true.
Behold:
Participate in the re-creation of the most difficult Waldo puzzle ever! Come out to the square across from the San Francisco Ferry Building on Saturday November 11th at noon in a red and white striped shirt and blue pants. This event will occur rain or shine. If it rains, we will congregate inside the Ferry Building.
For event details and costuming resources, visit the Mob of Waldos web site.
If you think this is a cool idea, please help to spread the word! The bigger the turnout, the more fun it will be!
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Marble, AD 66-8
Celebrating Nero's success over the Parthians, the breastplate of this statue depicts the emperor as the Sun riding in his chariot. The same image decorated the awning of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome during Tiridates's coronation. Below, two mythological figures symbolise the Parthian submission to Rome. The statue originall carried a portrait of Nero like the one displayed above, stressing his martial qualities.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
If you find a heart stamped out in your Baked Ruffle (I note the Baked, cause I like to be all healthy, yo - yah, right), do you get a special prize? Perhaps FritoLay is giving away $100,000.00? Yes? maybe?!
Please!!!
Scouts hike along Thomas Road for the first area show. 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Tuesday July 27, 2010. Photo by Jim Brown
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"Not me!" Steve Saxer said "but our contingent forgot pots". with Richard Clement from Troop 706 of San Diego at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Tuesday July 27, 2010. Photo by Kathy Disney
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“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” - Jim Rohn
Hakone Garden
Saratoga, CA
February 2008
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I wouldn't have bothered publishing this, but it's interesting, in that it got me questioned more than any other photo I've taken this year.
I was walking away when the two lads on the right asked me, "Whose car is that?"
"No idea," I said. And that was the end of that one. But then a man dressed in a sort of half-uniform look quickly jogged up to me from the pub before I could carry on through Queen Square.
"Is there a particular reason why you were taking a photograph of that car?"
"Well, mostly because it's parked on a roundabout, on double-yellow lines."
"That's because I'm picking up the Lord Mayor. Does that make a difference to you?"
"Er. No, not really."
"Er. Okay."
"Goodbye."
It was an odd conversation, and I don't think we were on the same wavelength.
Now, I should say that I'm not too bothered where the Lord Mayor parks. It's just that I read the Bristol Traffic blog and it often features pictures of interestingly-parked cars, so I guess my brain's now programmed to think "Oooh, big official-looking car parked on a roundabout on double-yellow lines, that might be an interesting photo to have." I am a little nonplussed by the rushing-up-and-questioning-me bit, though. Odd.
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan responds to your questions during a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 21, 2014. You can view the Reddit AMA here: redd.it/2mzwjo. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Without question, Pompeii was the highlight of my recent trip away. Walking through the streets of this Roman city even though it was destroyed in AD 79, it's almost like looking at a slice of modern day life. You can see so clearly what was what, how they lived, shopped and entertained. The brothel was quite revealing with fresco's still visible on the walls showing you what was on the menu and carved into the stone on a nearby road 'male bits' in the form of an arrow pointing the way to the brothel. They knew what was important!
The city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in the year AD 79. The eruption buried Pompeii under 4 to 6 meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1749. Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into the life of a city at the height of the Roman Empire. Today, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Italy, with approximately 2,500,000 visitors every year.
I got creative today at work . . scribbled this while painting some windows on a storefront : ) couldent resist tagging it with mark of ..the riddler.from. batman : )
Participants in class, learning, taking notes, and asking questions about the new Just-In-Time web based toolkit that helps managers better provide reasonable accommodations and disability inclusiveness at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), on Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The class covered a wide range of topics, from proper verbal labels, and best strategies for various work place scenarios, to applicable laws, to name a few. The class provided knowledge for employees at all levels. The web-based toolkit was made in collaboration with Cornell University. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
"My Lazy Boy!" Roger Kriegl Jr. of Troop 802 from California at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, Monday July 26, 2010. Photo by Kathy Disney
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I chased this beauty all over the yard before he let me get close enough to get some nice closeups of the closed and open wings, I think these butterflies are so interesting because of the wing shape and the markings. I like the little golden curled up probiscus in the closed wing shot!
What are the circular objects visible on this satellite photo taken over Libya? is one of the questions of Africa Quiz available at GlobalQuiz.org - the smartest quiz on the globe.
Follow the link to check, what are the most common answers.
I tried to do the 3D effect but i think I failed,anyways sense i was being tagged alot and I usually dont do tag games I thought Id do this :D
1.Are you named after anyone?My middle name was my Grandpa's so yeah.
2.When was the last time you cried?I dont know
3.Do you have any kids? "I would hope not, jeez"-Jessica
4.If you were another person, would you be a friend of yourself? Probably not because Im really loud when I talk and I know that gets on my friends nerves sometimes.
5.Do use sarcasm alot? Like all the time.
6.Will you ever bungee jump? Probs not,Id probably chicken out when everything was ready.
7.What your favorite cereal?I prefer oatmeal but cereal would have to be Life cereal.
8.First thing you notice about people?If they have a gap tooth! I wish I had a gap tooth D:
9.What is your eye color?Blue
10.Scary movies or Happy endings?Happy ending because Im such a wimp when it comes to Scary movies!
11.Favorite smells?Blood Oranges! I LOVE Blood Oranges!
12.Summer or Winter?Summer! No school and great lighting for pictures!
13.Computer or Television?Next please!
14.Do you have any piercings or tattoos?No,but Im thinking about getting an eyebrow piercing when I get older but it would probably really hurt!
15.How would you describe yourself?It depends on my mood.Sometimes Im really loud and crazy and other times Im tired and really quiet.
16.What the furthest you've been from home?Canada I think?Wait no it's Alaska but I was like 2 when that happened...
17.Do you have any special talents?Um no.
18.Where were you born?A hostpital,where else?
19.What are your hobbies?Photograhpy,Soccer
20.Do you have any pets?Yes! Two lovely dogs! Indigo and Bear-Bear!
21.Favorite Movie?Favorite Singer?Favorite Model?Hunger Games Catching Fire,Its changes all the time and Raina Hein :)
22.Do you have any siblings?A sister.
My bonus question!
23.Least favorite singer?LORDE. My gawd.I hate Lorde.Im sorry for the people who like her but I cannot stand her anymore!dont get me wrong she has a great voice but,Watching her live performances are like worse then Horror movies!Im done now.
Thats it :) and Thank you too the people who tagged me!