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Turkey thief or no turkey thief, I decided that Peanut needed to have her home and private space back. So back up from the basement it came. When I brought it downstaris I had told Peanut that I couldn't afford the mortgage, but since she has been so unhappy for the last few months I would get a loan and refinance her home. Peanut is very content! She slept in her own home for the last two nights.
I will tweak this style a little but have been wanting to use this fabric for something like this for a while :)
The pic doesn't have anything to do with the lyrics, but I thought it fitting since the song reminds me of Postman Pat.
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Gold teeth and a curse for this town were all in my mouth.
Only, i don't know how they got out, dear.
Turn me back into the pet that i was when we met.
I was happier then with no mind-set.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and i'm lonely.
And if you'd 'a took to me like
A gull takes to the wind.
Well, i'd 'a jumped from my tree
And i'd a danced like the kind of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
God speed all the bakers at dawn may they all cut their thumbs,
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away.
I'm looking in on the good life i might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields am i too dumb to refine?
And if you'd 'a took to me like
Well i'd a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would 'a fared well.
New Slang - The Shins
Just continuing to refine my techniques. The theme build for the car was inspired by Ruby's scythe from the web series RWBY. I may have a front shot coming, but it's heavily dependent on my mood since I kinda get bored when I spend too much time on a single car.
Before & After: www.artstation.com/artwork/kzJ4d
Vehicle: Toyota GT86 w/ Varis widebody kit & Rocket Bunny ducktail sitting on SSR MS1's.
Community wrap by: HernanLucena203 (based on the NFS No Limits design)
this is one from a while back of wee hannah great wee model with tons of presence, i have been trying out adobe cs5 refine edge and have been really impressed by it so far it still requires a bit of work but the results are worth it this image was an easy one to mask but i have done far harder with it and its prefoming well.
When I was refining the design, I tried to think of some accessories for the robot. Here's a watering can and flower pot. They both are very rounded to evoke the style of the robot. I'm really happy with the flower pot, I wanted to make something new and different from what we've already seen in Icons / Botanical sets. I also like the use of the Technic gear as the head of the watering can.
Instructions on Rebrickable : rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-256495/Leewan/walt-accessories-f...
When travelling in 1998 thru Shan-State (Lashio and Kalaw) the first visual impression was: where are the trees? Some locals told me both private entrepreneurs and the government had cut down huge areas and sold to China.
Myanmar had political trouble and was considered some sort of pariah state suffering under embargoes and lack of investments. Next to selling natural resources and precious stones, little was left to refinance the state then to sell even the forests. It also enabled China to get a harbour at the Burmese coast in order to reduce seafreight for its exports. Back in 1998, so I was told when being in Mandalay, 40% of all Mandalay's property would already belong to Chinese traders and companies (I have no sources to confirm or deny it). Apparently, Chinese had a strong influence already then and I wonder how it is now, more than 20 years later.
Scanned slide, image taken End of March 1998
The sun rises behind the pines of Lake Guntersville
(Explore #8, 11/21/2009, and Front Page! Thanks everyone!)
Working on refining my technique with this fun form of macro photography.
This is a 20 image stack, each frame shot at f4. Getting the lighting right on this one was tough with so many drops in so many different places. In the end it was worth the work.
Shot using a Tokina AT-X 90mm f2.5 Macro lens and the AT-X 1:1 extender.
Excerpt from the plaque:
From Line to Form
Brian Donnelly began his artistic journey at the age of 12 with graffiti – a style of art that breaks convention. He began tagging the streets of his hometown, Jersey City, eventually branching out to Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. This was the formative period when he developed his artist persona KAWS and several of his signature motifs. In 1993 he enrolled in Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, where he received technical training. This salon-style hang of works reveals his love of drawing and his dedication to refining his skill.
KAWS’s time as a graffiti artist was foundational to what would become the ethos of his current practice: claiming public spaces, communicating with broad audiences, and self-promotion through creating.
Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
The headstone of Mansfield How whose epitaph reads:
"In the bloom of Life
I did refine my breath
O then by me admonish'd be
And all prepare for death"
... written by Wm Macfie to his brother John in Edinburgh regarding the family sugar refining businesses and life in general. 1831-1840
[ contents of these letters at - www.mawer.clara.net/letters.html ]
On the high plains of Central Montana a westbound train of Bakken North Dakota Sweet Crude moves west up the east slope of the Continental Divide at Browning Montana. There is no pipeline direct from North Dakota to the refineries in the Pacific Northwest. These refineries were built mostly to refine Alaska Crude long before a fracking boom in the "old" oil fields would unleash a civilization changing surge in US oil production. Rail is now the conduit that move this black gold west. The train is on heavy grade of 1% which will increase to 1.3% near Bison. note the snow fences protecting the railroad, the area is historically known for extreme winter storms dumping snow by the feet. 6/22
"This autumn issue explores how refining our senses - taste, sight, sound, touch, and smell - enriches the experiences we have with each other."
Pretty excited about this volume, not only because it's beautiful & always exciting to receive in the mail, but because I got a chance to contribute. I, with the help of Eric, (who is honestly much better with words) wrote an essay about taking the time to slow down and enjoy brewing coffee in the morning. The essay is featured next to photos by the talented Chantelle Grady, who photographed a Kyoto drip coffee maker & a page with different old time brewing methods.
There's a few more shots on the blog as well, along with pictures of our homemade s'mores that turned out far better than I thought- I'll just say that graham cracker dough is stickier than I expected!
The mine has been shut down for years by this point but the refining of copper continued apace. A tidy pair of ex-Algoma Central GP38-2s has their outbound train put together and will soon begin the 77-mile trek across the length of the White Pine Sub.
December 22, 2002.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985. Illinois Street supply yard.
The USSRM provided equipment to the Fairbanks Exploration Company (F.E. Co) in support of gold mining operations outside of Fairbanks in the middle part of the last century.
www.asme.org/about-asme/engineering-history/landmarks/113...
Friday Flashback.
Tri-X 400, Minolta SRT.
SiG-552 with x2 magnification red dot on top rail, 550 lumens flashlight, red dot sight for CQB and a grip on the sides.
.... Refining tactical
This is my entry for this weeks Mosaic Montage Monday where the theme was Refine/Refined, I hope this is a close enough match to the theme given that each one of those little coloured balls on the Freckles sweets is pretty much just refined sugar.
Happy Mosaic Montage Monday!
As I said on my last picture, here is V.3. Now, this was actually painted after the Satyr Zerofrost's Nightingale re-texture , as I like this enhanced texture much more than the original armour, I also use this on my skyrim, so thats another reason. I will definatly be refining some lines, as I now see some are uneven.
Enjoy!
A farmer unloads raw salt at salt field yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. This photo is taken in the destination of Banshkhali Upazila in the division of Chittagong in the country of Bangladesh.
The salt industry being one of the largest labor intensive cottage industries of Bangladesh absorbs largely around 5 million people directly or indirectly. The total value chain of the salt industry in Bangladesh involves largely two sub-sectoral activities namely-- the refining process which is operated by salt mills and the crude salt production process that involves a significant chunk of marginal farmers of coastal Bangladesh.
Among the farmers, farmers some are cultivating salt on their own lands while the other farmers are cultivating salt after taking the land as lease either directly from owners of the lands or through middle men. Local administration sources said a huge quantity of lands are being used for salt cultivation in Banshkhali this year.
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বাঁশখালীর উপকূল জুড়ে চলছে লবণ উৎপাদন। এখানকার বিভিন্ন ইউনিয়নে ৫০ হাজার লবণচাষি ১৫ হাজার হেক্টর জমিতে লবণ চাষ করছেন। অনেকে জমি মালিকের সঙ্গে চুক্তিতে চাষ করেন। উপজেলার কাথরিয়া, বাহারছড়া, সরল, গন্ডামারা, পুইছড়ি, শেখেরখীল, ছনুয়া ও খানখানাবাদ উপকূলীয় এলাকায় ব্যস্ত সময় পার করছেন তারা।
লবণ চাষিরা জানান, কাঠের রোলার দিয়ে মাঠ সমতল করার পর চারপাশে মাটির আইল দিয়ে ছোট ছোট প্লট তৈরি করা হয়। এরপর ছোট প্লটগুলো রোদে শুকিয়ে কালো বা নীল রঙের পলিথিন বিছিয়ে দেওয়া হয়।
জোয়ার এলে মাঠের মাঝখানে তৈরি করা নালা দিয়ে জমির প্লটে জমানো হয় সাগরের লবণাক্ত পানি। অনেকে ইঞ্জিনচালিত শ্যালো মেশিনও ব্যবহার করেন। এভাবে পানি সংগ্রহ করার পর ৪ থেকে ৫ দিন রোদে রাখা হয়।
কড়া রোদে পানি বাষ্পীভূত হয়ে চলে যায় আর লবণ পড়ে থাকে পলিথিনের ওপর। লবণ চাষ মূলত আবহাওয়ার ওপর নির্ভরশীল। একটু ঝড় বৃষ্টি হলেই উৎপাদন বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। কুয়াশাও লবণের জন্য ক্ষতিকর।
উৎপাদিত লবণ থেকে পানি সরে গেলে ব্যাপারীদের হাতে তুলে দেওয়া হয়। এই লবণ কিনে নিয়ে কারখানায় রিফাইনারি মেশিনের মাধ্যমে পরিশোধন শেষে বস্তা বা প্যাকেট ভর্তি করা হয়। পরে সেই লবণ চলে যায় বিভিন্ন স্থানে।
Packard series
Packard Motor Car Company was an American luxury automobile company. It was founded in Warren Ohio as the Ohio Automobile Company by James Ward Packard, his brother William, and their partner, George Lewis Weiss. The first car rolled out of the factory on November 6, 1899.
Packard’s cars were considered the preeminent luxury car before World War II, and owning a Packard was prestigious. Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he brought together a group of investors to refinance the company, soon after which Packard moved its operations to Detroit.
In 1953 (or 1954, depending on your source), Packard bought rival Studebaker and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. Some historians believe that this was the beginning of the end of the company. It was certainly followed by a series of circumstances and events that ultimately led to the end of the company in 1962.
This series of photographs was taken at America’s Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum is a restored Packard dealership transformed into a museum that displays twentieth-century classic Packards and historic Packard artifacts and memorabilia.
The dealership originally sold Packards in Dayton, Ohio beginning in 1908. It moved into the building that is now home to the museum in 1917. Robert Signom II, the museum's Founder and Curator for 27 years, acquired the building in 1991 and painstakingly rehabilitated it to its original Art Deco grandeur, opening the museum in 1992.
Car Collector magazine named the museum one of the top ten automotive museums in the United States. The cars on display range from 1900s Brass Era cars, the streamlined Classic cars of the 1930s and 1940s, to the modern Packards of the 1950s. The museum also has a collection of war machines, parts, accessories, and original sales and service literature.
When I was refining the design, I tried to think of some accessories for the robot. Here's a heart-shaped balloon, to match the heart-shaped eyes. I've designed it in april 2025. I was quite proud of the idea of using the then-relatively new element 5852, but the next day, first images of 43257 Angel first appeared, and I was bummed to see that someone at Lego had the same idea as me.
Instructions will be released on rebrickable in the coming months.
W.A.L.T. will be available for preorder on bricklink starting February 16th. :)
To hit with precision —
exactly where I meant,
exactly as I wished.
Simple?
Not at all.
Practice and repetition bring me closer to accuracy,
but before that, I must want it.
I must tune myself inward
and learn how to refine.
And even after I’ve learned and aligned —
from every strike
there will always rise the small, unwanted fragments,
the dust that drifts in the air.
Because wanting, planning, and aiming are never quite enough.
There will always be things
we didn’t plan for.
Viser et Affiner
Atteindre avec précision —
exactement où je l’avais voulu,
exactement comme je l’avais imaginé.
Simple ?
Pas vraiment.
La pratique et la répétition m’amènent vers plus de justesse,
mais avant cela, il faut désirer.
Il faut s’accorder de l’intérieur,
apprendre à affiner.
Et même après avoir appris et m’être aligné —
de chaque impact
s’élèveront toujours de petits fragments indésirés,
la poussière qui flotte dans l’air.
Car vouloir, planifier et viser ne suffisent jamais tout à fait.
Il y aura toujours des choses
que nous n’avions pas prévues.
Seeing my creation being enhanced with AI, gives me a sense of pride I never felt before for my craft, my visions, what comes to my brain and I make it happen.
You can take anything from me, but what you see in these enhanced pictures with more realistic refining, the vision and creativity, no one can take my skills and art from me.
To new goals I'm heading with this!
#grateful
In 1900, prospectors discovered magnificent green cliffs of exposed copper in the Wrangell Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. Their discovery, the “Bonanza Mine Outcrop,” proved to be one of the richest copper deposits ever found. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennecott Copper Corporation extracted nearly $200 million worth of copper from nearby mines. At the peak of operation, approximately 300 people worked in the mill town and 200-300 in the mines. The Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark preserves some of the buildings remaining from the ore refining operation, including the Concentration Mill seen in the background here. Today’s visitor can get a guided tour of the entire inside of this huge building as it clings to a steep mountainside.
Over its brief history, Kennecott Corporation, with support from J.P. Morgan, Guggenheim and other New York financiers, produced $200-300 million worth of copper and silver.
(Source: National Park Service website)
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In Explore 6 Nov 2023. Best position: #445.
Fairbanks Alaska. ca. 1985.
The United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. Illinois Street supply yard.
I had a lot of fun making this one. It's nice to do an asymmetrical conversion once in a while, it makes it need a lot less fine tuning. I did have to refine the holes a bit though, and I think one of them might be too big. I like the overall result though.
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Salida Smokestack. The tall brick smokestack just west of Salida is the most visible reminder of the smelting industry that once employed thousands of workers most of whom lived nearby in Smeltertown. The Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company operated the smelter from 1902 until 1920.
Skateboarder, Plaça dels Angels, Barcelona.
Still experimenting with available-light night-time street shots on film. Panning is the only catch some subjects, as most of the time the light is too dim to freeze motion.
1/30th at f1.4, EI 1600, using 400TX developed in ID-11 1+1. I am gradually refining the developing and starting to get results that I quite like.