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Priyanka Chopra Supports Save the Children Campaign. Sizzling Hot Priyanka Chopra gives a shot to reporters at a press conference to announce her association with Bvlgari Save the Children campaign in Mumbai. At the event, she was constantly showing her left hand on which there was a ring, now there are speculation that it is her engagement ring, now who the hell she is engaged with ? Shahid or Harman or else ? Any Check Priyanka Chopra is mini dress.
SWAN LAKE
“Ballet is also a symphony”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“The Ballet of ballets” - this is how the masterpiece of Piotr Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake is often referred to.
Since very few records concerning the first production of the work have survived, there can be only speculation about who was the author of the original libretto or the original idea of the ballet. The most authoritative theory claims Vladimir Begichev, director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres during the time that the ballet was originally produced, to be the one, and Vasily Geltser, Premiere Danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre to be his co-author.
First production
In 1875 Begichev commissioned the score of Swan Lake from Tchaikovsky for a rather modest fee of 800 rubles, and began to choose artists that would participate in the creation of the ballet. The choreographer assigned to the production was the Czech Julius Reisinger (1827-1892), who had been engaged as Balletmaster to the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet) since 1873. Most of the Julius Reisinger 's previous work for the company had not been successful due to their mediocre quality.
Because of its music, Swan Lake proved to be the first of its kind - a ballet set to the score of a symphonic composer. Up to that point, and for some time afterwards, composers known as “specialists” - composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time considered to be appropriate for ballet, - always wrote scores for ballets. Today, the most famous of these composers are the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Leon Minkus.
Tchaikovsky studied the music of these "specialists" before setting to work on Swan Lake in order to grasp the musical needs of ballet, and it is interesting to note that he had a rather negative opinion of their music until he studied it in detail. Tchaikovsky most admired the ballet music of such composers as Leo Delibes, Adolphe Adam, and later, Riccardo Drigo. It is interesting to mention also that Tchaikovsky re-used material from an opera that he had abandoned in 1868 - The Voyevoda - for Swan Lake.
By March of 1876 the score was complete, and rehearsals began.
Swan Lake (or The Lake of the Swans as it was called then) had its premiere on February 20, 1877. It was given as a benefit performance for the Ballerina Pelagia Karpakova, who created the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre's Premiere Danseur Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. It is not known for certain whether or not Karpakova danced the part Odile, which is today almost always danced by the same Ballerina who dances Odette. The poster of the original production credits the role of Odette to Karpakova, while the character of Odile is listed with three asterisks. It is highly unlikely that Karpakova did not dance Odile, as it is known that she participated in the all of the dances associated with the character in the third act.
The premiere was not well received, with near unanimous criticism concerning the dancers, orchestra, and decor. Unfortunately Tchaikovsky's masterful score was lost in the debacle of the poor production, and though there were a few critics who recognized its virtues, most considered it to be far to complicated for ballet. In spite of the poor reaction to the premiere, the ballet nevertheless continued being performed.
Subsequent productions
Julius Reisinger left Moscow in 1879, and his successor as Balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. Hansen, to his credit, made considerable efforts in the late 1870s/early 1880s to salvage Swan Lake, and on January 13, 1880 he presented a new production of the ballet for his own benefit performance. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. This production had far bigger success than the original, though it was by no means a great one. Hansen presented another version of Swan Lake on October 28, 1882, again with Kalmykova as Odette/Odile. This version of Swan Lake was given only four times, the final performance being on January 2, 1883, and soon the ballet was dropped from the repertory altogether.
In all, Swan Lake was given a total of forty-one performances between its premiere and the final performance of - a rather lengthy run for a ballet that was so poorly received upon its premiere.
Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo edition of 1895
In the 1880s Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky several of his greatest works - the operas The Enchantress (1886), and The Queen of Spades (1890); in 1887 - score for Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that would prove to be one of both Tchaikovsky and Petipa's greatest masterworks; immediately after The Sleeping Beauty, premiered on January 15, 1890, which became a great success, Vsevolozhsky commissioned a second score for a ballet and an opera from the composer - The Nutcracker and Iolanthe, which premiered together on a double bill on December 6, 1892.
Prior to commissioning Tchaikovsky to score The Sleeping Beauty, Vsevolozhsky had considered reviving one-act of Swan Lake for the 1886-1887 season. Though this production never materialized, Vsevolozhsky continued showing interest in Swan Lake, and he even designed costumes for a possible revival of the work that would be produced by Petipa (Vsevolozhsky was a talented costume designer, having designed the costumes for the first productions of both The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, as well as Raymonda, among many other ballets). Tchaikovsky was delighted at the prospect of Swan Lake being revived by Petipa, of whom he had the greatest respect, proclaiming that "never with anyone but Petipa would I produce ballets".
Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, just when plans to revive Swan Lake were beginning to come close to realization.
Vsevolozhsky then planned a memorial concert to be given at the Mariinsky Theatre in honor of the composer, with the bill consisting of the first act of Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans, his overture from Romeo and Juliet, his Coronation Cantata, and the second scene of Swan Lake, in a staging by Lev Ivanov, Second Balletmaster to the Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's choreography for the memorial concert was unanimously hailed as wonderful.
The Ballerina who danced Odette was the Italian Pierina Legnani.
Soon after Legnani was named Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, and it was because of her great talent that a full revival of Swan Lake was soon planned for her benefit performance in the 1894-1895 season. Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second scene while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third scenes. Ivanov was also entrusted with staging the Neopolitan Dance and the Hungarian Dance in the Grand Divertessment of the third scene.
Tchaikovsky's brother Modest was called upon to make the required changes to the ballet's libretto, the most prominent being his revision of the ballet's finale - instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of the wicked Von Rothbart as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an apotheosis. The most crucial changes were done to the music. Modest Tchaikovsky recommended that Riccardo Drigo, a celebrated composer in his own right and chief conductor of the Imperial Ballet and director of the Imperial Italian Opera, would revise Tchaikovsky's score. With instruction from Petipa and Ivanov Drigo set to work. All was ready by the beginning of 1895, and the ballet had its premiere on January 15. Pierina Legnani danced Odette/Odile, with Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried, Alexei Bulgakov as Von Rothbart, and Alexander Oblakov as Benno.
It is M. Petipa and L. Ivanov legacy upon which all the subsequent productions and versions of Swan Lake draw.
Swan Lake in Tbilisi
In Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the first performance of Swan Lake (second act) took place in 1907 and was presented by the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg on a benefit performance for Olga Preobrajenskaya. She Preobrajenskaya performed the role of Odette/Odile herself, and Pavel Kozlov danced the role of Siegfried.
In 1912 ensemble of dancers from the Imperial Ballet under leadership of Fedor Lopukhov performed the third and the forth acts of the ballet with Lubov Egorova and Sergei Andrianov in the main roles.
Michael Mordkin started staging a new production of Swan Lake for the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1922, but he emigrated from the Soviet Union soon, and the production was brought to a premiere by his student Igor Moiseev in 1923.
In 1928 the Italian choreographer R. Balanoti produced Swan Lake for the Georgian company again.
Two great Soviet dancers and balletmasters Vakhtang Chabukiani and Konstantin Sergeev staged their own acclaimed versions of Swan Lake in 1945 and 1975 accordingly.
New version of Swan Lake for the State Ballet of Georgia was created in 2005 by Alexei Fadeyechev, former star and former Artistic Director of the Bolshoi, son of one the greatest Siegfrieds of all times Nikolai Fadeyechev.
SWAN LAKE
“Ballet is also a symphony”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
“The Ballet of ballets” - this is how the masterpiece of Piotr Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake is often referred to.
Since very few records concerning the first production of the work have survived, there can be only speculation about who was the author of the original libretto or the original idea of the ballet. The most authoritative theory claims Vladimir Begichev, director of the Moscow Imperial Theatres during the time that the ballet was originally produced, to be the one, and Vasily Geltser, Premiere Danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre to be his co-author.
First production
In 1875 Begichev commissioned the score of Swan Lake from Tchaikovsky for a rather modest fee of 800 rubles, and began to choose artists that would participate in the creation of the ballet. The choreographer assigned to the production was the Czech Julius Reisinger (1827-1892), who had been engaged as Balletmaster to the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (today known as the Bolshoi Ballet) since 1873. Most of the Julius Reisinger 's previous work for the company had not been successful due to their mediocre quality.
Because of its music, Swan Lake proved to be the first of its kind - a ballet set to the score of a symphonic composer. Up to that point, and for some time afterwards, composers known as “specialists” - composers who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time considered to be appropriate for ballet, - always wrote scores for ballets. Today, the most famous of these composers are the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Leon Minkus.
Tchaikovsky studied the music of these "specialists" before setting to work on Swan Lake in order to grasp the musical needs of ballet, and it is interesting to note that he had a rather negative opinion of their music until he studied it in detail. Tchaikovsky most admired the ballet music of such composers as Leo Delibes, Adolphe Adam, and later, Riccardo Drigo. It is interesting to mention also that Tchaikovsky re-used material from an opera that he had abandoned in 1868 - The Voyevoda - for Swan Lake.
By March of 1876 the score was complete, and rehearsals began.
Swan Lake (or The Lake of the Swans as it was called then) had its premiere on February 20, 1877. It was given as a benefit performance for the Ballerina Pelagia Karpakova, who created the role of Odette, with the Bolshoi Theatre's Premiere Danseur Victor Gillert as Prince Siegfried. It is not known for certain whether or not Karpakova danced the part Odile, which is today almost always danced by the same Ballerina who dances Odette. The poster of the original production credits the role of Odette to Karpakova, while the character of Odile is listed with three asterisks. It is highly unlikely that Karpakova did not dance Odile, as it is known that she participated in the all of the dances associated with the character in the third act.
The premiere was not well received, with near unanimous criticism concerning the dancers, orchestra, and decor. Unfortunately Tchaikovsky's masterful score was lost in the debacle of the poor production, and though there were a few critics who recognized its virtues, most considered it to be far to complicated for ballet. In spite of the poor reaction to the premiere, the ballet nevertheless continued being performed.
Subsequent productions
Julius Reisinger left Moscow in 1879, and his successor as Balletmaster was Joseph Peter Hansen. Hansen, to his credit, made considerable efforts in the late 1870s/early 1880s to salvage Swan Lake, and on January 13, 1880 he presented a new production of the ballet for his own benefit performance. The part of Odette/Odile was danced by Evdokia Kalmykova, a student of the Moscow Imperial Ballet School, with Alfred Bekefi as Prince Siegfried. This production had far bigger success than the original, though it was by no means a great one. Hansen presented another version of Swan Lake on October 28, 1882, again with Kalmykova as Odette/Odile. This version of Swan Lake was given only four times, the final performance being on January 2, 1883, and soon the ballet was dropped from the repertory altogether.
In all, Swan Lake was given a total of forty-one performances between its premiere and the final performance of - a rather lengthy run for a ballet that was so poorly received upon its premiere.
Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo edition of 1895
In the 1880s Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, commissioned Tchaikovsky several of his greatest works - the operas The Enchantress (1886), and The Queen of Spades (1890); in 1887 - score for Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet that would prove to be one of both Tchaikovsky and Petipa's greatest masterworks; immediately after The Sleeping Beauty, premiered on January 15, 1890, which became a great success, Vsevolozhsky commissioned a second score for a ballet and an opera from the composer - The Nutcracker and Iolanthe, which premiered together on a double bill on December 6, 1892.
Prior to commissioning Tchaikovsky to score The Sleeping Beauty, Vsevolozhsky had considered reviving one-act of Swan Lake for the 1886-1887 season. Though this production never materialized, Vsevolozhsky continued showing interest in Swan Lake, and he even designed costumes for a possible revival of the work that would be produced by Petipa (Vsevolozhsky was a talented costume designer, having designed the costumes for the first productions of both The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, as well as Raymonda, among many other ballets). Tchaikovsky was delighted at the prospect of Swan Lake being revived by Petipa, of whom he had the greatest respect, proclaiming that "never with anyone but Petipa would I produce ballets".
Tchaikovsky died on November 6, 1893, just when plans to revive Swan Lake were beginning to come close to realization.
Vsevolozhsky then planned a memorial concert to be given at the Mariinsky Theatre in honor of the composer, with the bill consisting of the first act of Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans, his overture from Romeo and Juliet, his Coronation Cantata, and the second scene of Swan Lake, in a staging by Lev Ivanov, Second Balletmaster to the Imperial Ballet. Ivanov's choreography for the memorial concert was unanimously hailed as wonderful.
The Ballerina who danced Odette was the Italian Pierina Legnani.
Soon after Legnani was named Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, and it was because of her great talent that a full revival of Swan Lake was soon planned for her benefit performance in the 1894-1895 season. Ivanov and Petipa chose to collaborate on the production, with Ivanov retaining his dances for the second scene while choreographing the fourth, and with Petipa staging the first and third scenes. Ivanov was also entrusted with staging the Neopolitan Dance and the Hungarian Dance in the Grand Divertessment of the third scene.
Tchaikovsky's brother Modest was called upon to make the required changes to the ballet's libretto, the most prominent being his revision of the ballet's finale - instead of the lovers simply drowning at the hand of the wicked Von Rothbart as in the original 1877 scenario, Odette commits suicide by drowning herself, with Prince Siegfried choosing to die as well, rather than live without her, and soon the lovers' spirits are reunited in an apotheosis. The most crucial changes were done to the music. Modest Tchaikovsky recommended that Riccardo Drigo, a celebrated composer in his own right and chief conductor of the Imperial Ballet and director of the Imperial Italian Opera, would revise Tchaikovsky's score. With instruction from Petipa and Ivanov Drigo set to work. All was ready by the beginning of 1895, and the ballet had its premiere on January 15. Pierina Legnani danced Odette/Odile, with Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried, Alexei Bulgakov as Von Rothbart, and Alexander Oblakov as Benno.
It is M. Petipa and L. Ivanov legacy upon which all the subsequent productions and versions of Swan Lake draw.
Swan Lake in Tbilisi
In Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre the first performance of Swan Lake (second act) took place in 1907 and was presented by the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg on a benefit performance for Olga Preobrajenskaya. She Preobrajenskaya performed the role of Odette/Odile herself, and Pavel Kozlov danced the role of Siegfried.
In 1912 ensemble of dancers from the Imperial Ballet under leadership of Fedor Lopukhov performed the third and the forth acts of the ballet with Lubov Egorova and Sergei Andrianov in the main roles.
Michael Mordkin started staging a new production of Swan Lake for the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1922, but he emigrated from the Soviet Union soon, and the production was brought to a premiere by his student Igor Moiseev in 1923.
In 1928 the Italian choreographer R. Balanoti produced Swan Lake for the Georgian company again.
Two great Soviet dancers and balletmasters Vakhtang Chabukiani and Konstantin Sergeev staged their own acclaimed versions of Swan Lake in 1945 and 1975 accordingly.
New version of Swan Lake for the State Ballet of Georgia was created in 2005 by Alexei Fadeyechev, former star and former Artistic Director of the Bolshoi, son of one the greatest Siegfrieds of all times Nikolai Fadeyechev.
No doubt armed with advance information of such 'up' Departmental working, Class33/1 33116 strides past the 1898-built signalbox at Farncombe viewed from the station platform end.
Regrettably, no train details recorded.
Current speculation holds the future of the historic signalbox within it's confined site in question.
1998
Now this might be train 40119 (Rotterdam Botlek - Milano Smistamento) but it would be in the wrong place, seeing as it is traced - like most Gotthard freight trains - via the Bözberg line. However, the ongoing engineering works in the Bözberg tunnel may have led to a diversion via Aarau, but that's just speculation on my part. What is certain, is that the train is hauled by BR 193 464 ("Arth-Goldau") and 474 ("Mannheim"). Frenkendorf, 20-08-2020.
Burlington Northern diesels were painted in these two shades of Cascade green over the course of the railroads 25 year life. However the real answer to these two shades of green may be due to some fading, but I don't think so!!! F45 #6629 was delivered 3 & a half years before this image, and the BN #2511, ex Great Northern 3028 wears a very recent Cascade green paint job. So let the speculation begin!! Posed for my Canon FTb at St. Paul, MN on 10-08-1974
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This entire Mr. Virtual World journey has been a roller-coaster ride of emotions for me. From the initial elation on going through to the finals, to the subsequent phases of self-doubt, confidence boost after hearing positive feedback, adrenaline rush after a successful runway and the ultimate low after my internet connection screwed with me, this entire journey has been a huge learning experience and one which i would not forget. As the contest draws to a close (next week), i wanna thank all the amazing people who have believed and guided me over the past month, and all those who put me down, make snide remarks about my shape, make speculations about my age, and guessing whether i was an alt etc... I wanna thank you, cos you helped me get better. :) xoxo
"...words can't bring me down, so don't you bring me down today.."
Special Thanks to the people who have been with me every step of the way: RicoRacer Flux; Editorial Clarity; Meimei Shiu; AmyChristine Avedon, Topaz Joubert, Louise McWinnie, Linnda Scofield, Cieleste Magic, Nyunyu Kimono, Anna Sapphire, Maja, Lilou, ..... and many many more who left me shout-outs. <3<3<3
Song: Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
La iglesia de San Juan de Otero, ahora dedicada a San Bartolomé, se ubica en el interior del Parque Natural del Cañón del Río Lobos, realmente en el término no municipal denominado: Comunero de San Bartolomé, regentado por los municipios sorianos de: Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero y Ucero en Castilla y León (España); fue construida en el primer cuarto del siglo XIII, cuando el estilo románico daba paso al gótico, transición que quedó plasmada en la obra arquitectónica. Formaba parte de un cenobio templario del que sólo se conserva la capilla.
De su vinculación a la Orden de los Caballeros del Temple no cabe duda. La especulación se genera únicamente en torno a sus antecedentes. En una bula papal de 1170, el papa Alejandro III hace referencia al Monasterio de San Juan de Otero, perteneciente a la diócesis de Osma. Puede que estuviera localizado en el mismo lugar que San Bartolomé y fuese reemplazado por la construcción protogótica que ha perdurado, pero también hay quien apunta la posibilidad de que estuviera situado en el otero donde se asienta el castillo, y que se edificara a la par que éste a mediados del siglo XII. Las ruinas de la pequeña iglesia que subsisten podrían ser, en tal caso, las del primitivo santuario templario.
La iglesia tiene planta de cruz latina, disposición que se acusa ostensiblemente al exterior. Llama la atención la escasa altura del transepto en relación con la de la nave. La cumbre de la bóveda de aquél queda por debajo de la línea de imposta de la bóveda de cañón apuntado de la nave, de tal manera que ambas bóvedas no se intersecan y no dan lugar al establecimiento de una cúpula o un cimborrio sobre el crucero.
Las pilastras de sección rectangular adosadas a los muros exteriores del ábside, así como las que flanquean la portada, y la misma puerta que luce seis arquivoltas muy apuntadas, ponen de manifiesto el momento de transición del románico al gótico en que se edificó esta iglesia.
Merecen ser resaltados los dos rosetones, uno en cada astial del transepto, cuyas celosías evocan influencias musulmanas en la forma del entrelazado que compone una estrella lobulada de cinco puntas. Poseen tres arquivoltas de las que sólo la externa está decorada.
The church of San Juan de Otero, now dedicated to Saint Barthelemy, is located inside the Natural Park River Canyon Lobos, really in no municipality called: Comunero of St. Bartholomew, run by the sorianos municipalities of Herrera Soria Ucero Ucero and Nafría of Castile and Leon (Spain); was built in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, when the Romanesque style gave way to Gothic transition was reflected in the architectural work. It was part of a Templar monastery of which only the chapel remains.
Its link to the Order of the Knights Templar no doubt. Speculation is generated solely around their background. In a papal bull of 1170, Pope Alexander III refers to the Monastery of San Juan de Otero, belonging to the diocese of Osma. Maybe he was located in the same place as San Bartolomé and was replaced by protogótica construction that has endured, but also who points out the possibility that was located on the hill where the castle is located, and which will be built at the same time this mid-twelfth century. The ruins of the small church that could subsist be in such a case, the primitive Templar sanctuary.
The church has a Latin cross, provision is ostensibly accused abroad. Particularly striking is the low height of the transept in relation to the ship. The summit dome that is below the impost of the pointed barrel vault of the nave, so that both vaults do not intersect and do not lead to the establishment of a dome or a dome over the transept.
The pilasters of rectangular section attached to the outer walls of the apse, as well as flanking the doorway, and the door which boasts six archivolts very targeted, reveal the moment of transition from Romanesque to Gothic that this church was built.
They deserve to be highlighted the two rosettes, one in each astial the transept, whose lattices evoke Muslim influences in the form of interlaced comprises a lobed five-pointed star. They have three archivolts of which only the outer is decorated.
Alien art
My picture above is showing that tears are coming from an eye and spreading in space, crying from being alone.
Space, containing matters, didn’t start and will not end at all, existing always and endless. Space has our universe which has a lot of galaxies. Space might have a lot of universes. Our universe is expanding for now, but it would contract and die in a big crunch, like the Big Bang played in reverse.
If universes begin and die over and over again, like inflating and deflating balloons over and over again, space will have matters ( stars, galaxies and universes) just in certain areas of space. What escapes from a universe is light. Light can advance in to the rest of the space and can live billions of years. Light is made of particles called photons, bundles of the electromagnetic field that carry a specific amount of energy. Photons have no rest mass and they do not occupy any volume.
Speculation:
Light is pure energy, not matter, but matter could be created out of photons. Light might start a new universe in different part of space.
Einstein's famous E=mc2 equation states that energy and matter (or mass) are interchangeable. Photons from different universes might collide with each other and create matters.
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I know what you're thinking.
"Boss, Doomfist isn't even in the game!"
I know.
A lot of speculation has been circulating the interwebs, and it had me hyped when Orisa wasn't revealed. I'm hoping for an in game Doomfist, like a lot.
Anywho, this figure is my own take on the character.
It's inspired by some concept art, the Numbani map, a little bit of Horizon: Zero Dawn flair, and my own ideas.
I'll just explain the figure.
Doomfist:
The hair is inspired by a lot of Concept Art. It started out as a wolverine hairpiece. The head is fully painted by me, with a little blue body paint added (which is where the Horizon influence came from).
The armor was what I had started for Saw Gerrera, but I painted it all black.
The actual "Doomfist" is made from a four lego hands, a flickfire gun, and other various bits. The other arm is wrapped in etape, with a silver wash, and a few blue additions. I gave him a Rex pauldron, as it fits with the color scheme, along with a custom waist cape.
His legs were extended.
I don't really think the photo does him justice, because he looks so much better in person.
Anywho, thanks for reading!
Boss
#overwatch #doomfist
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There is some speculation about what's in that trunk.
West of Rochelle, Illinois
June 2008
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The curious case of the red-tail hawk carrying a pine cone. Open to speculation if you have any ideas.
Duga, also called "russian woodpecker", was a Soviet over the horizon radar system, used as a part of the missile early warning radar network. Operated from 1976 - 1989. Duga broadcasted in the sw radio bands, with reaching over 10 MW it was super powerful.
The Duga signal, a repetitive tapping noise at 10 Hz rate, was source for lots of speculations such as Soviet mind or weather control experiments.
The massive steel construction is 700 meters (2,300 ft) long and 150 meters (490 ft) high.
G R E A T VIDEO:
Animation by www.JensIsensee.de
Music by www.OlafurArnalds.com
This Video is an atmospherical speculation about what unexpected things might be happening in the unattended flow of light and time. It's a short version of the composition with the same name from the Album "For now I am Winter" by Ólafur Arnalds.
Maybe you know these birds or rather their shadows from an older tour visual i once created for him. So he kindly allowed me to put this piece of animationon on Youtube as I developed the visuals into a miscvideo. I hope you enjoy it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2NYgZUUoY
Musica
"Only The Winds" di Ólafur Arnalds
Artista
>Ólafur Arnalds
G R E A T >Ólafur Arnalds
Best vision ............
ON FLUIDR:
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It's time to dream away...
Festa paesana , nella campagna toscana, la più bella campagna del mondo, dove puoi vivere senza fretta, e dove c'è veramente "amicizia" tra le persone adulte ......e anche tra i bimbi che ti accolgono sempre con sorrisi sinceri.
E non occorre modificarli...., sono sempre così.
Forse una scelta di vita...., e un modo di vivere diverso che ti ripaga sempre.
N. 5 my fav A great smile on Flickr.
Carpe diem,"cogli il giorno", i migliori contatti sono questi,
e lo stare insieme ai bambini , fa crescere sempre...
Non me ne faccio niente dei falsi sorrisi della gente, delle frasi fatte, delle parole di circostanza; preferisco un vaffanculo sincero ad una sorta di falsa apparenza.
Gracias por pasar aquí.
Thanks for visit in Tuscany ...........I'm Dan!
Not so subtle colour, with the last of the evening light hitting the tree.
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Green Day Know Your Enemy con subtítulos en español
CUARTA Y ULTIMA ENTREGA DE ESTA SERIE
IMPRESCINDIBLE SOBRE FONDO NEGRO!!!!!!!!!!
BETTER ON BLACK BACKGROUND!!
Perteneciente a la serie " La otra Barcelona"... (4) de (4)
Con esta serie intento retener graficamente esos lugares que todavia no han sido devorados por la especulacion y la "voracidad" de los tiempos modernos
It belongs to "The Other Barcelona" series. (4) (4)
This is my attempt to record photographically those places that have not yet been destroyed by speculation and fierceness of modern times.
This series is the first published part from the set "Landscapes from a farm park south Milan" and they are enclosed in my first personal expo i had in 9th of september to 19 with my friend Mirko Bozzato , graphic designer and photographer. The farm park of south Milan is a reality which Mirko and I appreciate it's the greenest area of Milan: a beautiful reality that needs to be protected by building speculation. The expo is about a collaboration between us ...we were really good friends since we were kids and he started to take pictures about the awesome landscapes there during the last two years: i proposed to him to re-work with my style on his photos. Im very glad that I finally made a work on landscape images, trying to give them a sense of dramatic force to represent all the pressure by building interesting buildings around the park area: the idea is to use my textures to show a hidden dark side that could ruin the peace and beauty of the place
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Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel
I shut my eyes
Inside the cabin I make sounds
In through the tubes I send this noise
Behind these two hills here
Fall asleep
And when I float in green grass of tunnel
It flows back
Down from my ceiling
Drips great noise
It drips on my head through a hole in the roof
Behind these two hills here
There's a pool
And when I'm swimming in
Through a tunnel....
I shut my eyes.
I shut my eyes
All the textures used for this work are from: JoesSistah... , Lenabem , pareeerica , skeletalmess , les brumes , Sooper Tramp , Eddy 07 , una cierta mirada , Boccacino , Keyimagen-Javi , Sick Little Monkey , xd360 , S3PTIC-STOCK , adamned art, rubyblossom, Visualogist , Brenda Starr , Ava Verino , encounter - Laura , cleanzor's photostream , Dirk Wustenhagen's photostream .Thanks very much for their awesome creations.
Thanks you all for your kind visits, comments, favorites and invitations, much appreciated !
[Landscapes from farm park south Milan Series] 01/05
Well after much anticipation and speculation it would appear we do have little ones this year, which is a relief after the disappointment of last years failure :-)
Stodmarsh 27-08-24
We may never know where it came from but was amazing to see it flying free. So no speculation please.
NGC 4565 is a giant spiral galaxy more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy and it has been proposed that if it were viewed face-on, it would be the most spectacular of the galaxies of its type in the nearby Universe.
Much speculation exists in the literature as to the nature of the central bulge. In the absence of clear-cut dynamical data on the motions of stars in the bulge, the photometric data alone cannot adjudge among various options put forth. However, its exponential shape suggested that it is a barred spiral galaxy. Subsequent studies with the help of the Spitzer Space Telescope not only confirmed the presence of a central bar but also showed a pseudobulge within it as well as an inner ring. NGC 4565 has at least two companion galaxies, one of which is interacting with it. It has a population of roughly 240 globular clusters, more than the Milky Way. (Wikipedia).
First complete image taken from London.
LRGB image: 28-29/4/16
Chiswick, London, UK
Over 4 Hours Total Combined Exposure
Bin1x1 16x600s L, 3x600s R, 3x600s G, 3x600s B
Equipment:
T: Takahashi FSQ106ED @ f/5, extender-q 1.6x (f/5->f/8)
C: QSI683ws Mono CCD, Astronomik Filters
M: Celestron Advanced Vx
G: QHY5-II
Acquisition and Processing:
PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6
There has been a lot of rumour and speculation as to what was to become of the CN Hagersville Subdivision when the lease ran out this year and now we know.
A public CN letter was sent out to customers on the line last week stating the following:
"CN is pleased to announce that we will be assuming control of operations for the following rail lines:
Southern Ontario Railway's Hagersville subdivision effective September 18 2018. This rail line includes the following stations: Caledonia, Hagersville and Nanticoke.
SOR's Hamilton subdivision effective December 13 2018. this rail line includes the Hamilton rail station"
For the time being things should stay the same, but we will begin to see changes occurring moving forward. As railfans we must remember that these changes effect peoples livelihoods and we need to be respectful of that.
If you haven't got your shots, now is the time.
In 1975, the NASA Summer Study was conducted at Stanford University. The purpose of this event was the speculation about designs for future space colonies.
Several designs arose from this summit, and one of them took the name of the place it was being held: Stanford torus.
Although, the concept of a rotating wheel space station has previously been proposed by Wernher von Braun and Herman Potočnik, and even used in movies (remember 2001: A Space Odyssey), Stanford torus achieved to be a design on its own, and one of my favorites along O'Neill cylinder, whose design was used for the Babylon 5 space station of the homonymous series, which you can see in LEGO form in here, or for the Cooper Station in Interstellar.
Coming back to the Stanford torus, its shape is, as its name suggests, a torus (you know, a doughnut, but with its mathematical name), plus a central part (or hub) with mirrors to reflect light to the inside of the torus, which is attached to the torus itself via a number of "spokes".
You can get more information of the Stanford torus on its Wikipedia page.
For this LEGO version I have allowed myself a certain degree of license, to achieve a better looking model:
- Removing the central hub and the spokes which somehow distracted attention from the torus.
- Not closing the torus, via transparent panels, to allow a better view of the interior design.
The final model is rather small (not more than 32 studs in diameter), because of the parts I had available, but it proved to be quite a challenge in terms of design.
I hope you enjoy it!
Tucker Torpedo brochure, c. 1947. This concept drawing includes a centrally positioned steering wheel, doors that wrap up into the roof, and front fenders that turn when the car is cornering. These features did not reach production.
The Tucker 48 (named after its model year) is an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker and briefly produced in Chicago in 1948. Only 51 cars were made before the company ceased operations on March 3, 1949, due to negative publicity initiated by the news media, a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation and a heavily publicized stock fraud trial (in which the allegations were proven baseless and led to a full acquittal). Speculation exists that the Big Three automakers and Michigan Senator Homer S. Ferguson also had a role in the Tucker Corporation's demise.[citation needed] The 1988 movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on the saga surrounding the car's production. The film's director, Francis Ford Coppola, is a Tucker owner and displays his vehicle on the grounds of his winery.[2] The 48's original proposed price was said to be $1,000, but the actual selling price was closer to $4,000.[3] A 1948 Tucker sedan was featured in the July 26, 2011, installment of NBC's It's Worth What? television show. The car's estimated value at that time was US$1,200,000. The car is commonly referred to as the "Tucker Torpedo". This name was never used in conjunction with the actual production car, and its name was officially "Tucker 48".
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The opening lines of this song, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine. Never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine," are part of some wonderful song meaning speculation. A common interpretation is that the bullfrog is the prophet Jeremiah from the Bible, that the bullfrog, with his distinctive call that stands out in nature, is God's voice.
www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2233
Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Thanks for looking!
Pecking Order.
Читающие руки перевод исправления поразительные выражения причудливый язык сокращающий прозаические глаза оригинальные этюды громкоговорители переводчики повороты,
concepts importants chansons courantes cafouillage cadres lésiner cas pensées contraires guerrier esprit spéculations conscience maladresse systèmes,
machtige meesters ambachtslieden trouw radicale bevelen prestaties idealen discretie sterfgevallen solidariteit controles vechten studenten,
mear-chogaí idé-eolaíocha eagraíochtaí cúiseanna foirmeacha patrúin leasmhara léargas méideanna mothúcháin ar snámh domhain ciúin ag caint,
تتعلق التعاليم الجمركية لسلطة الشر بطرق إتقان الممارسات التي تدرس أسئلة أداء الموضوعات والأجيال العاملة,
改革知識の確立は刑法を台無しにします新しいもつれた管理は基礎を揺るがしました解体壁苦難の状況経験された耽溺のほのめかしお世辞.
Steve.D.Hammond.
This old, restored and preserved Shell gas station sits along Front St. running through Issaquah Washington. There is speculation that the building may have been constructed as a residence in the late 1890’s. By 1902 records show the building was used as a warehouse and grocery store. By the 1940s the building had changed hands and became a feed store and gasoline station.
In 2003, the building was Landmarked and the Downtown Issaquah Association (DIA) with assistance from the City of Issaquah, private party donations and volunteers began the process of restoring the building to its 1944 appearance as the Hailstone Feed Store and Shell Gasoline Station.
It’s now most frequently used as a backdrop for social media posts.
It snowed in early season and speculation in autumn by information, and I went right away.
Because if mountains were still colored leaves, snow was intense to say, and it was snowswept.
I spend Ichiya and wait for a morning.
When I wake up, the environment is a silvery snowscape in the deep blue sky!
Snow who freezes gathers round the trees just as it is, and it's glued together.
I'm intoxicated with this photogenic world, and a result sticks all day.
I'm going to do.
Crows and other corvids often harass birds of prey in flight or perched. Why they do this at the risk of injury or death is a matter of great speculation. Some suggestions are intuitively attractive- groups of crows are proactively protecting their young, or in some cases they are attempting to steal prey that the raptor has captured.
Sometimes corvids seem to bug raptors for no logical reason, as here with a solo crow taking on a red-tailed hawk in mid-air. Presumably the crow's young have fledged by now, and the hawk did not have anything in its talons. Note how the hawk has rotated its body in flight so that its talons can be used to protect itself.
Crows are among the most "clever"/ intelligent birds, exhibiting learning similar to primates. A crow species in New Caledonia construct intricate tools to probe trees for larvae, and pet crows are able to distinguish different human faces. Who knows why they take on birds that are larger and powerful, but perhaps they have their reasons.
Narrabeen & Queenscliff.
Both these iconic Sydney ferries are now at Cockatoo Island where they have been moored for approximately 2 years.
Sadly Narrabeen’s future seems uncertain as she is now simply rusting in peace and awaiting her final fate.
As for Queenscliff there is speculation that she will undergo a refit and is expected to return to service.
Here the latest crane technology is being engaged to facilitate to refit on Queenscliff.
Cockatoo Island.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Shriveled Hands.
Flammes mystérieuses visions sombres magnifique méditation significations amères spéculations pensées couvrant des circonstances confuses souvenirs,
أفواه مهجورة أقدام مظلمة قنوات الظلام تنجرف ليال قاتمة المياه سباح السامي الماس فضول العقول متفاوتة,
rührkammern zerschmetterten pläne trommeln sorgen aufrechte richtungen beschleunigen schrecken gelöste teile eifrige herzen unvorstellbare aufregungen,
nepažįstamų žmonių juokas suvokiant mirtį išniekinimas manieros neaiškūs šešėliai pavojingos aistros fantastiški sprogimai prieštaringi tarifai,
efectos acusadores bailando confianza gusanos poderosos porciones importantes narración mordida absurda escuela tonos metafísicos,
絶え間ない目極端なマーク自然な興味深い説明過度の疑い補償の挿入挿入安心繊細さ繊細さは確かに控えめな賛辞を位置づけます確かに.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Thence gathering plumes of perfect speculation,
To imp the wings of thy high-flying mind,
Mount up aloft through heavenly contemplation,
From this dark world, whose damps the soul so blind,
And, like the native brood of eagles' kind,
On that bright Sun of Glory fix thine eyes,
Clear'd from gross mists of frail infirmities.
From An Hymn Of Heavenly Beauty by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
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With speculation that Amtrak 606 will soon lose its fizz I took another crack at it today at Baltimore County Fire Department Station 54 in Chase, MD.
I would have preferred this weather: www.flickr.com/photos/jimkleeman/16769120776/in/photolist...
The stone rows of Ménec, one of the three major groups of stone rows at the megalithic sites of Carnac, Brittany, France
Some background information:
The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in in the French department of Morbihan. They consist of stone alignments, dolmens (stone tombs), tumuli (burial mounds) and single menhirs (standing stones). More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local granite and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany and form the largest such collection in the world. Most of the stones are within the Breton municipality of Carnac, but some to the east are within neighboring La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as early as 4500 BC.
There are three major groups of stone rows – Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan, which altogether are known as the alignments of Carnac. Another much smaller group of stones, the Petit-Ménec alignments, can be found in the neigbouring village of La Trinité-sur-Mer. These four groups may have once formed a single group but have been split up as stones were removed for other purposes. The standing stones are made of weathered granite from local outcroppings that once extensively covered the area.
The Ménec alignments near the village of Le Ménec consist of eleven converging rows of menhirs stretching for 1,165 by 100 metres (3,822 by 328 feet). At either end the remains of stone circles can still be seen. The largest stones, around 4 metres (13 feet) high, are at the wider, western end. The stones then become as small as 0.6 metres (2 feet 0 inches) high along the length of the alignment before growing in height again toward the extreme eastern end.
The Kermario alignments consists of 1029 stones in ten columns, about 1,300 m (4,300 feet) in length. At their eastern end, where the stones are shorter, a stone circle was revealed by aerial photography. The Kerlescan alignments are a smaller group of 555 stones, further to the east of the other two sites. They are composed of 13 lines with a total length of about 800 metres (2,600 feet), ranging in height from 80 cm (2 feet 7 inch) to 4 m (13 feet). At the extreme west, where the stones are tallest, there is another stone circle which has 39 stones.
There are several dolmens scattered around the area. These dolmens are generally considered to have been tombs. However, the acidic soil of Brittany has eroded away the bones. They were constructed with several large stones supporting a capstone, then buried under a mound of earth. In many cases, the mound is no longer present, sometimes due to archeological excavation, and only the large stones remain, in various states of ruin.
At the end of the 18th century, the alignments of Carnac were attributed to druidic gatherings. But just a few years later, it was claimed that they represent stars in the sky. A later theory from 1887 argued for a connection between the rows of stones and the directions of sunsets at the solstices. More recent studies assume an astronomical purpose or support the concept of a geometric megalithic yard. However, the most modern theory suggests that the stone rows belonged to some kind of defensive structure against preternatural menaces originating from the nearby sea. Anyway, a generally valid theory regarding the purpose of the alignments has not been agreed on yet.
Since 1996, the alignments of Carnac – or to be more precise – the Ménec alignments are part of the UNESCO tenative list, a list of worldwide architectural and cultural heritage sites, which are considered to become UNESCO world heritage sites sometime. If you plan a visit there, please be aware that Carnac can be overcrowded by tourists at certain hours of the day. There are also several touristic offers of clever tradespeople that cost money. However, you can still eplore the alignments on your own, although it’s no longer possible to stroll around between the stone rows as they are protected from regardless visitors by having been fenced in for quite some time.