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Lush channels her inner (80's?) rock chick and gives a nod in the direction of Maximo Park.
Outfit by Fetique+ Clinique except for the boots and tights which are from Eclectic's stock outfit, and the wig is from the "Tribe" set by fashion beyond reason.
but for some reason, whenever I get the camera out, he won't look at me. I say all the words that make him look, "treat", "walk", "wanna go see your friends?"...but he ignores me with the camera. Finally, he looked up.
The shoes? I was on a business trip in Kansas City and went out to dinner with friends, afterward myself and Becky went for a bit of shopping and we both bought the same pair of shoes. Fun!
For TRP, had to have a shot with my dog for ApplesInHerBra's day, and for FGR because nothing spoils you more than a new pair of shoes and a dog who gives unconditional love.
Sue (nods): “That could be the reason, yep. I’m afraid that’s just the life of a musician. Wait until he gets on tour. Oooh, it’s going to get even worse.”
Sybil: (gives Sue a scared look)
Sue: “Not that you should be afraid of any temptations of tour life… Uh, I’ll just shut up now. Sorry. I’m not helping at all, am I?”
Sybil: “Actually, you just gave me an idea… (shakes her head) But I don’t even want to think about it… No, it can’t be that.”
Sue (baffled, takes a hold of Sybil’s hand): “Syb, give me an honest answer now… You don’t think… I mean, you’re not suspecting that… (gulps) Elliot is taking some substances?”
Sybil (rolls eyes frustrated): “Now you said it! That’s exactly what I didn’t want to hear or even think about!”
Sue: “Sorry… I know it’s a stupid assumption. He wouldn’t do it – not anymore.”
Sybil: “It fits the symptoms, though. I’ve also noticed that his appetite has become worse. For instance, he usually keeps a box of donuts in the kitchen cabinet. He thinks I don’t notice it when it’s on the bottom shelf behind the garbage can, because he’s the one who takes the garbage out. You wouldn’t believe it when you look at his hair or clothes, but he’s actually tidier than me, and he often does housework and never forgets to feed Faline.”
Sue (smiles impishly): “I do believe he’s tidier than you. I’ve seen your bedroom, girl.”
Sybil (blushes): “Anyway, Elliot thinks I don’t approve of him eating that much sugar. And that might have been the case at some point, but not anymore… He hasn’t even touched the donuts lately! They actually dried up and I secretly replaced them with new ones yesterday. I don’t think he even noticed, because they’re still all there.”
Sue (stunned): “Oh... And we know how much he loves his donuts.”
Sybil: “Exactly. And I just remembered that whenever we’ve been together… intimately… I mean, he has gotten so excited that he has hurt me…”
Sue (shocked): “What?”
Sybil: “Not intentionally! He stopped when I told him to. But it’s like he couldn’t control himself on his own… And the next minute he’s out. He seems like he wants me, but when it comes down to it… um, then he either really, really wants me, or he doesn’t at all. He switches on and off like a robot. It’s all or nothing for him. He scares me sometimes. Maybe that’s why he’s avoiding me now? He doesn’t want to hurt me…”
For some reason this one reminds me of the audio application "Reason".
Structure Synth Model, rendered in Sunflow. This one uses IBL (image based lights) lights from the example on the Sunflow wiki:
sfwiki.geneome.net/index.php5?title=Lights
Does anyone know where I can find some nice free HDR images to use as IBL lights?
The topic ‘Space’ creates fantasy not just in kids but also in adults. The sole reason is that it is unexplored, unique, and difficult to access. In some people, this fantasy will turn into a strong passion where they look for various sources to quench their thirst on related topics, news, etc. On the other hand, space may seem a very challenging topic because every difficult thing is quoted as- ‘This is rocket science’. This builds up an aura in the minds of elders especially that learning about space is not a cup of tea, let’s try not to overburden our kids, and so on. For people falling under such categories, SPACE remains a fantasy forever. They don’t even attempt to cross that barrier forever in their life.
In both the categories mentioned before, there is a need for refinement on how to access space education, to get a feeling that space isn’t tough, and also why there is a need to study about it. Before this, there is one more important footstep i.e., one has to know what exactly interests an individual! According to many, the topic SPACE involves various perspectives such as the universe, black holes, rockets, satellites, flights, etc. This misconception has misguided many students in ending up with wrong choices in their career path and still repent on knowing about their insightful of real ‘SPACE’. Some of them may feel fascinated by airplanes flying in the sky, some others get goosebumps when they see live rocket launching, and others just get lost when they see the dark matter in the universe. Unfortunately, all these are grouped as ‘Space’. But in reality, they are as different as an apple and a peach, despite falling into the fruit category, they may look similar but are completely different. So, first one has to think deeply about what exactly drives their interest: is it the flights, rockets, satellites, or the stars. This is the first step towards diving into any subject for that matter. Once you have figured it out, the next step is to know why you need to know about space.
Thinking about things that fly will activate the brain in terms of physics, the mathematics behind flight, concepts such as gravity, density, etc. will be well learned, why not all the things on earth are flying, why is it only aircraft able to do it and so on. Similarly, the elevator helps us to go from the first floor to the 8th floor for instance; but how can I use such an elevator to go beyond the earth’s atmosphere? Oh yes, rockets do this job, then why only a rocket can do it, and why not the same aircraft that helped us to fly inside the earth can do it. Likewise, thinking about how are we able to communicate with people residing in corners of the world, how are we able to get a thorough understanding of the earth, mapping, weather forecast, etc. Thanks to the satellites that are orbiting our earth and doing all these jobs for us. Nevertheless, are we the only ones in this universe living? We don’t know yet, but why should we limit our curiosity! Let’s explore, and that is when a man can dream about going to other planets in search of life, resources, etc. A point to be noted is that all these can be done with the things we already know i.e., we use the same spacecraft to travel to Mars, and use the same parachute to land on it and use the same toy car i.e., rovers to explore the Martian surface or in the recent days, the same helicopter we use on earth was used on Mars too-The Ingenuity. Therefore, learning these basics is just like learning the art of stitching clothes. Once you become a master of this skill, you can be the designer to any person irrespective of events. Even in space education, after learning how everything works on Earth it is much easier to adapt your knowledge not just to Mars but even to design any vehicle, technologies for interstellar travels too. So, coming back to the question of why to study about space is because it is like breaking all the thought barriers which usually limits your rational process and going beyond the level one could even imagine, not just in a dream but bringing all imagination into reality and see things working. This is something the pleasure you can evidence only while exploring oneself about ‘Space’.
The last question, how do we learn about space. Of course, there are wide internet sources which help one to know the facts, watch amazing videos on YouTube, read the encyclopedia and the list goes on. But wait, what if you find a platform where one has been promised to give all these in a combo pack! What more one needs right! That is what the team www.givemefive.ai aims at doing this amazing job. With the experts, the students are helped to discover the path they are interested in, then they are encouraged to go with their passion, they are taught with the basics and train to grasp concepts up to an advanced level not limiting to theory but also many practical applications with interesting activities. The outcome of this course will be a strong, confident individual who knows what interests him/her in Space, they come out with the dream of achieving it and they are sure about what higher studies will lead this way. Unlike the individuals who dream of the universe but end up as an Aeronautical engineer.
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3/12/14
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1) I have horrible posture.
2) My nose is huge.
3) My facial hair sucks.
But god damn it if I'm not handsome. ;)
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I saw someone do this really cool a really cool profile portrait that was super dramatic and had these crazy shadows, so I decided to have a go at it!
A lot of people may not know this about me, but I listen to a TON of hip hop. For some reason, when I first meet someone, that isn't the impression that they get?? I think because I used to have super long skater hair, people thought I listened to a different genre of music.. but nope. I listen almost exclusively to hip hop. I grew up on hip hop, listened to hip hop my whole life, and will continue to listen to hip hop for the rest of my life. It's just something I can't ever get tired of.
And the hip hop culture is amazing as well. I lurk a bunch of hip hop forums and I can read the discussions for hours on end. Unfortunately though, a lot of people, mostly older people, think hip hop is ignorant music for hood rats. They listen to one "hip hop" song on the radio and immediately generalize that kind of music to a particular group of people.. But that's actually one of the things that I love most about the culture of hip hop. Not many people dig deep into the underground artists, into the more introspective types of hip hop. A lot of my favorite rappers talk about their stories growing up, the struggles they've had as teenagers and adults, and how they've made something from nothing.. And I think that's inspiring. It's easy for me to relate to.
As for my favorite artists/albums?
Below the Heavens by Blu & Exile is my #1 album of all time. If you haven't heard it yet, you need to give it a chance. HMU and I'll give you a download link to it. It's actually my girlfriend's favorite album too! :3
Another one of my favorites is, and this may be an unpopular opinion to some, Kanye West.
If you think about it, without Kanye, the hip hop game would be completely different today. Think about when College Dropout dropped, what other kinds of hip hop were dominant? Gangsta rap. Then Kanye came and literally, LITERALLY, changed the game. Without Kanye, there would be no Drake. There would be no Kendrick Lamar. And those two are two of the most popular out there right now.. And yet, people don't give Kanye credit, and instead, bash him as a crazy lunatic who wants nothing but attention.
Listen to College Dropout. Then listen to Late Registration. Kanye completely changes his style between albums. Then listen to Graduation. AGAIN, he changes his album. 808's and Heartbreaks comes next, and once again, his style is completely different. His greatest album in my opinion, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, shows a completely different Kanye. I don't know any rapper that can change his style like that for almost every album. Crazy.
Kanye haters, give Yeezy another chance.
This one's for you Nave Dhesi
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The HSBC Savings Map of Britain provides an up to the minute picture of Britain's savings and reveals the disparity in savings habits and intentions between genders, generations and regions.
To see all the findings from the report, visit: www.newsroom.hsbc.co.uk/press/release/hsbc_savings__inves...
This is the second year of the study. All the research has been carried out by Opinion Matters, among a UK representative sample of 2002 people over the age of 16, between 26th November and 9th December 2011.
I've designed a CD cover for a japanese rapper, Killha
The order was a CD which has a reason to purchase not downloading. So something interesting package design as an artwork. and I made it like going through double doors into the theater, and the show starts. after listening the music, vice versa
I'm always open to design album cover, thanks all of the musicians in the world.
Reason Transport are back in the fold with these 14 plate vehicles ordered by company director Alan Reason.
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drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend....to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.
(LATERALUS)
pages from Pupski's sketchbook, collage - painted paper on painted paper
Because in Orange County--where nice abs are a spiritual quest--someone would actually drive a car like this.
This borders on the sublime when you view it LARGE.
The 100 Strangers Project
For some reason, I always seem to stumble upon a stranger rather than seek one out. I was going for lunch with a couple of friends when we passed by a local bootmaker, Mike Karnes, in Saint Jo, Texas and to my surprise he was giving a class on bootmaking. Shortly after we were seated at the restaurant, the class came in for lunch as well and we shared some friendly banter.
As we were leaving, one of the fellas asked if we would like to come in and take a look around the shop to see how boots are made. "Well... heck, yeah! And can I take a few photos?" And the answer was an enthusiastic "Yes!".
Unfortunately, the light was quite dim, so I increased my ISO and started shooting. That was when I struck up a conversation with Drew. Drew is a school teacher and is on summer vacation. He has been teaching economics, U.S. history, and government now for about 13 years and decided to spend a couple weeks this summer learning bootmaking. Following this class, he will have his very own pair of custom made cowboy boots to start off the school year. I thought that was so cool! Sure hope he tells his students about his summer experience.
Drew's dad was also in the class and has made a pair of boots in a previous class he had taken. He showed me a photo on his phone of the boots he made... and they were gorgeous!
So I would like you to meet Drew as he sits at his sewing machine working on his very first pair of handmade cowboy boots. I hope he will take a photo so I can see the results of his new found hobby!
To see more of the 100 Strangers Project go to: www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
the reason i was so excited about color in my previous post is because everything else in my yard looks like this.
Hi friends. This is the reason/excuse for my tremendous lack of communication or of anything interesting to say or do or make for the past month. This is our kid, fetal age 9 weeks. This sonogram is not much to look at but apparently this little shadowy blob will grow up into a real person who will eventually resent us and inherit our genetic weaknesses and debt. We're calling it Peanut. Because it is about the size of a peanut. 2 cm. from "crown to rump" as they call it in the baby-measuring business. So it's like from the tip of your thumb to your first thumb-knuckle. It is amazing to me that someone who is still so eensy-teensy can make you feel SO SICK. I feel close to human this week, but oh my GOD, the nausea and occasional spontaneous vomiting has GOT to go. It is unacceptable and has been preventing me from sewing for weeks now. Not cool. It's getting a little less awful. Or maybe I just know how to manage it better (the second I start to feel queasy, I have to stuff my face. Ideally with baked potatoes. It's that simple, really). Ok, so this is my secret project. There you go. ETA is July 2. You can start knitting for us any time. We like orange.
: D love, erin & also aaron & the peanut.
to put off making the bed. I mean, c'mon. How am I supposed to disturb this? I'm sharing cat sitting duties with Bret while Sweetdogk's in South Lake Tahoe.
The main reason for visiting Cambridge was to see King's College Chapel.
I must first than two friends, Simon K and Aidan for posting shots from Cambridge and so firing up my desire to visit.
Things fell into place and I found myself on a train last Sunday, and a place on the first tour of the day Monday morning.
I will add more thoughts as I post shots, but this for a start.
Quite the strongest emotional response I have ever had to a building, I had to choke back tears!
All chairs and seating have been removed, so there is just the building.
"Just."
Just a handful of us early visitors had the entire chapel to ourselves.
I followed up, not on purpose, a Japanese lady who was walking round with an i phone of a selfie stick, recording herself walking round the chapel, rather than the chapel itself. Which I know is her choice.
I saw the wonderful glass in the windows of the side chapel, so decided to photograph those too. Took some time.
No restrictions on photography, just don't "use flash on the Rubens" in the chancel. I was told.
In truth, there's more than enough in the Chapel for a whole day, as I'm sure new details would reveal themselves each time you looked.
I walked out into the college grounds, to walk to the bridge over the river. I mean, really, there was no one else out there, and a couple of punts were drifting past, so I wandered round the large square of grass, half of which had been apparently wild flowers, but now cut to look like a rough lawn.
The chapel has a 16th sundial, and marvellous lead drain downpipes. I snap them all.
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Begun by Henry VI, completed under the direction of Henry VII, the glass scheme installed under the somewhat-disinterested Henry VIII. 'The heart and soul of early 20th Century Anglicanism' according to M R James, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols begun here during the First World War helped invent the modern Christmas. The fan vaulting is spectacular, the proportions (300ft long, 40ft wide, 90ft high) almost shocking in their single-minded Perpendicular triumphalism. The Chapel vies with Ely and Peterborough Cathedrals as the best single medieval building in Cambridgeshire, but the vast scheme of early 16th Century glass is undoubtedly the biggest and best of its kind anywhere in the British Isles.
www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/21007385075/in/album...
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King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture and features the world's largest fan vault.[3] The Chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, a period which spanned the Wars of the Roses and three subsequent decades. The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. It is a landmark and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge.
Henry VI planned a university counterpart to Eton College (whose Chapel is very similar, but not on the scale intended by Henry). The King decided the dimensions of the Chapel. Reginald Ely was most likely the architect and worked on the site since 1446.[6] Two years earlier Reginald was charged with sourcing craftsmen for the Chapel's construction.[6] He continued to work on the site until building was interrupted in 1461, having probably designed the elevations.[6] The original plans called for lierne vaulting, and the piers of the choir were built to conform with them.[6] Ultimately, a complex fan vault was constructed instead.[6] Reginald probably designed the window tracery at the extreme east of the church's north side: the east window of the easternmost side chapel, which unlike the Perpendicular style of the others is in curvilinear Gothic style.[6] The priest and later bishop Nicholas Close (or Cloos) was recorded as the "surveyor", having been the curate of St John Zachary, a church demolished to make way for the Chapel.[7][8][9]
The first stone of the Chapel was laid, by Henry himself, on the Feast of St James the Apostle, 25 July 1446, the College having been begun in 1441. By the end of the reign of Richard III (1485), despite the Wars of the Roses, five bays had been completed and a timber roof erected. Henry VII visited in 1506, paying for the work to resume and even leaving money so that the work could continue after his death. In 1515, under Henry VIII, the building was complete but the great windows had yet to be made.
The Chapel features the world's largest fan vault, constructed between 1512 and 1515 by master mason John Wastell. It also features fine medieval stained glass and, above the altar, The Adoration of the Magi by Rubens, painted in 1634 for the Convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium. The painting was installed in the Chapel in 1968; this involved the lowering of the Sanctuary floor leading up to the High Altar. It had been believed that gradations were created in 1774 by James Essex, when Essex had in fact lowered the floor by 5 1/2 inches,[10] but at the demolition of these steps, it was found that the floor instead rested on Tudor brick arches.
During the removal of these Tudor steps, built at the Founder's specific request that the high altar should be 3 ft above the choir floor, human remains in intact lead coffins with brass plaques were discovered, dating from the 15th to 18th centuries, and were disinterred.[12]
The eventual installation of the Rubens was also not without problems: once seen beneath the east window, a conflict was felt between the picture's swirling colours and those of the stained glass.[13][title missing] The Rubens was also a similar shape to the window, which "dwarfed it and made it look rather like a dependent postage stamp".[14] Plain shutters were proposed, one on each side, to give it a triptych shape (although the picture was never part of a triptych) and lend it independence of form, which is how one sees the Rubens today. The installation was designed by architect Sir Martyn Beckett, who was "philosophical about the furore this inevitably occasioned - which quickly became acceptance of a solution to a difficult problem."[15]
During the Civil War the Chapel was used as a training ground by Oliver Cromwell's troops, but escaped major damage, possibly because Cromwell, having been a Cambridge student, gave orders for it to be spared. Graffiti left by these soldiers is still visible on the north and south walls near the altar.[16] During World War II most of the stained glass was removed and the Chapel again escaped damage.[17]
Another evening at Klein Namutoni waterhole and another giraffe running around for no apparent reason. Etosha National Park, Namibia.
The reason why this sunset has a lot of meaning for me is because it was taken in the neighbourhood that I've grown up in. Before last year, I would never have realised that sometimes all you need is a slight perspective change (and elevation off the ground) to see something really differently. I never thought I could have a full horizon view of the sunset from somewhere that passed by every day, but never bothered to go upstairs to take a look.
I'm glad that I explored an area that I've always taken for granted to have nothing interesting!
On a side note, this was photographed with 2 exposures from a block in my neighbourhood. Actually, this is a reworked HDR edit, done when my bestfriend showed me how he made use of the HDR Pro plugin before exporting back to Lightroom to to all the adjustments. The original one that I attempted (posted on FB) was manually blended and the edges weren't as crisp.
out of 20,000 reasons why you shouldn't drink quality coffee while heavy under the flu. I got this amazing Ethiopia Kaffa Forest Tega and Tulla Coffee, not from Novo (the place advertising right now on CoffeeGeek) but from Paradise Roasters. I had to try it.
Problem is, I have the flu right now, and I'm light headed, dizzy, not well at all. But I ground into the press pot right away, and flicked the knob on the Ditting grinder... to release the stray grounds....
and made impact with the Bodum press. Sigh.
I know the reason why you came to me
It’s love
That’s all we need
It’s the reason that it talks to you
It’s love
It seems to be easy
Bed frame on the front lawn...for whatever reason. The master bedroom is just above it on the second floor.
You'll see why I named it that in a moment.
After leaving Fort Ransom we drove a little while and happened upon this place. I can only assume it must have been a farm house, as it's way out in the country with only other farms around it. But it's so beautiful for a farm/country house, even in it's state of decay!
I wish I could tell you when this place was built or abandoned. And I wish I could tell you that it just needed some major repairs and could be livable again. But...that wouldn't be true. Once dad and I walked around outside and got inside it as apparent that no amount of work could save this place. So we tried to enjoy it in the moment.
I found this house briefly covered on another blog while I was looking for more information on it. In the comments section, a relative had left this comment that really stuck with me about the place, because it was all I was able to find out about this beautiful place. So in closing, I'll leave you with Marin's comment:
"I wish that I could put into words the flood of emotions your pictures of the “farmhouse was just off the side of the highway about three miles south of town.”
That house was the home to my Great Uncle and Aunt.
It broke my heart to see what it looks like now. After Tante Elsie (Aunt Elsie in Norwegian) passed away, the farmstead became the property of someone else.
I shed quite a few tears, but then started to smile remembering the gatherings at her home that always included her AWESOME sugar cookies. I remember sneaking into the pantry in the kitchen and stealing a few extra krumkake and of course, more sugar cookies!
I could see her butt sticking out from under the porch as she grabbed kitten after kitten for her great niece to play with.
I shared this with Mom and we did a lot of reminiscing. It was strange how I could still remember what furniture was in each corner, at one point I realized I didn’t see the piles of junk on the floor, instead I saw how Tante had decorated her home.
I was terrified to walk up the stairs more than 25 years ago, I’m not sure how you walked up as far as you did!
Thank you." -Marin (www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/2014/09/10/nome-north-dakota/)
For reasons I can't explain, after using a Steno notebook at work (spiral bound on the top of the page) I became obsessed with top-bound Circa notebooks. I liked the idea of getting the discs up out of the way of writing.
I think I made them in every size of paper that was reasonably available to me. Bottom to top: letter size, Classic size (letter size chopped in half), 5x8" index cards, 4x6" index cards, 3x5" index cards, and 2x3" cards (4x6" cards chopped in fourths).
Reason, July 2013
Sex in the Arab World: Author and activist Shereen El Feki on whether the Arab Spring can produce a Summer of Love
Obamanomics 2.0
Overselling Psychiatry
Kinder, Gentler Prohibition
For some reason, there's always a lot of "hits" on the aerial pix of Dorney, so here's another from Nick - nice wide shot of the whole park - for those people thinking of visiting.
The park is quite packed in there, and they've had to replace less-used rides to keep it all in the space!
So this is why I bought my camera. Tbh, photography was never such a big deal for me, neither was archaeology. I was dumb, I know. After this year, I felt I needed a camera to take pictures of ruins, but i guess i just felt in love with the idea of photography. This is one of my favorite ruins. San Gervasio, Mexico. An arc where a long, long road begins. I think it symbolizes much more than that.