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Attempt number 4 on Tony's round 4.
(here's attempt 3 if you're curious. It was a trial of a weird skin... i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/kremit_the_frog/tony4_3.jpg )
I just don't know anymore! I deleted my other two attempts because they were god-awful, especially when I looked at them from my work computer (lol). Hopefully the coloring won't look shitty on this one on other computers. I spent WAY too long in bodyshop shittily recoloring CC!
Vintage illustrations from A Round Robin by M.A.Hoyer and Robert Ellice Mack. Illustrations created by Harriett M. Bennett.
Esta es una de lar ruedas pequeñas del Elea.Con un botón que hay más arriba pueden ir fijas o móviles en función del terreno a pisar.Tienen un diseño precioso,parece el dibujo de un treból.
Another try at the dinosauroid. This picture is of two adults, one with throat pouch full.
One of the big problems I was having with the dinosauroid was the evolutionary line. Because we came from arboreal ancestors, it was hard to think outside of those evolutionary restrictions. Still riffing on Darren Naish's ground-hornbills as models for post-cretaceous maniraptorans, I was caught with the paradox of a creature who would have very capable forelimbs - from the arboreal lifestyle - but yet, used the bill as the main manipulator. The two didn't fully go together. An arboreal creature would most likely have very capable hands, with a comparatively underdeveloped oral manipulator.
But thinking of non-primate intelligence helped a lot when trying to build this creature. Hyenas have monkey-level intelligence and social complexity, yet they never had to come down from the trees to attain it (not to mention elephants). So the dinosauroid didn't need to be arboreal, or ape-like at all, to be intelligent. And in terms of beak as primary manipulator, forepaws don't necessarily equal hands. For full-time bipedal mammals, like the kangaroos, the forepaws are great for digging and smacking other kangaroos, but they're not dextrous. (Thusly, this dinosauroid is tentatively placed in a strictly terrestrial evolutionary line of beaked troodontids, this line breaking from the previously illustrated herbivorous line sometime in the eocene and developing into a highly social family of terrestrial omnivores - this troodontid being one of the most intelligent of this family.)
So for the dinosauroid, the forelimbs are great for combat and grasping prey, but perhaps rather terrible for flint-knapping and the like. They are stuck with the versatile but still self-limited beak as the main tool. This creates an interesting problem for me as an artist, though - if they can’t devise human-esque tools, like hand axes, etc, what visual signifiers of intelligence can you draw them with? Elaborate basket traps?
Termite fishing sticks?
(I'm still partial to the image of the beak-held spear.)
With the cooling towers of the Byron generating plant in the background, IC&E's 6360 and 6095 lead the Chicago-Nahant MCCNA west around the curve near MP 99, The MCCNA is headed.for the siding at Adeline to be run around by detouring CP freight (probably 295),
Some CP traffic between Minneapolis and Chicago is detouring on the IC&E Marquette and Chicago Subdivisions due to flooding that inundated CP's Watertown Subdivision. The MCCNA's own route to Nahant is interrupted by high water in the Quad Cities and will operate via BNSF's Barstow Subdivision, thence to Iowa Interstate for a river crossing via the Government Bridge.
Photograph taken at 07:07am on July 19th 2012 of London's number one Tourist attraction for the past several years, The London Eye, opposite the Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank, Central London, England.
Nikon D7000 55mm 1/800s f/4.5 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS
LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 16.85s
LONGITUDE: W 0d 7m 7.73s
ALTITUDE: 7.0m
Upon arrival at Danycoed Halt the locomotive runs round its train before departing on the journey back to Bronwydd Arms. Here diesel shunter D2178 is seen on July 3th 2021.
Anton Kratochvil designed and built about 20 round houses in Racine between 1939 and 1969. He decided the answer to America's housing problem was a house that was more efficient to build, heat and maintain. When he was living in one of them he had to whitewash the windows because he got tired of the architectural peeping toms!
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #11 - Circular.
17th-century tower in Copenhagen, Denmark, one of the many architectural projects of Christian IV of Denmark. Built as an astronomical observatory, it is noted for its equestrian staircase, a 7.5-turn helical corridor leading to the platform at the top (34.8 meters above ground), and its views over Copenhagen.