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A fun little moc I made recently as a catharsis for a lot of bad things that happened.
Blip is a police-robot who, through some weird glitch, attained sentience and became alive, as it were. It now prefers to dance and jibe to lo-fi hiphop and occasionally tries to squeak out the lyrics to whatever its listening to. Often found wildly gesturing when not doing any of these things.
It uses its extendable arms and trusters to move about in a parkour-like fashion but when it needs to be faster it'll drop down on all fours instead. Doing this greatly increases its running speed but dramatically reduces its agilty.
As it happened tho, this moc turned out to make for a great alternate version of a Vahki, so its also my entry into BS01's Legends and Infamy contest!
To go along with the issue, here is the track for issue 14. If you care to, listen to it before, during, or after the issue, I feel it elevates the experience :)
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"There is now a problem, Kyle Rayner," Aya says, looking down at Kyle.
"What do you mean 'problem.'"
Aya's chest compartment opens, revealing a screen with each of the emotional spectrum lights, both violet and black still off. "While the black ring of death may no longer be under Nekron's influence, its user, Hal Jordan, has yet to rebel."
"But…" Kyle mumbles, his face falling, "he put on the ring! He killed himself for it!"
"Yes, but he has not yet rebelled against Nekron in the afterlife," she explains, pointing to the violet light. "Furthermore, The Predator and its violet light no longer have a host."
Kyle's eyes widen, looking out at the floating violet ring. "What if I put it on!" he suggests, turning back to Aya. "O-or… or how about you!?"
"You are already the host of an entity, The One, and I am an AI designed to experience no emotion," she informs, her forearm projector pulling up a map. "I have scanned the nearest star systems for any potential life forms, but none exhibit strong enough feats of love."
"So…" Kyle mumbles, looking out of the bubble at the black battery, "what do we do now?"
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"Where… am I?" Evil Star asks, looking down at his rotted hands. He examines the ring around his finger, pulling on it with all his strength, to no avail. "This ring… what is going on?"
Guy takes note of his sentience, taking no time to slam an axe construct down onto the zombie's head. The construct shatters on impact, but Guy doesn't relent, forming another axe and cleaving into Evil Star's gut. As the construct breaks, he creates a maul, swinging it upwards only for it to shatter against the zombie's jaw. He curses, slamming his fist into Evil Star's face. The corpse tilts his head, as if he is confused. Guy growls angrily, flying back to launch chains around his enemy. The constructs fly from his ring like missiles, each wrapping around a different limb and pulling tightly apart. Guy holds his wrist as he charges up a massive blast. Images of John laying unconscious and Hal's body enter his mind as he yells and fires, the force strong enough to push him further back.
Guy pants as the light from his attack fades. "Take that you… son of a bitch," he pants as Evil Star's figure floats idly, unphased from the blast.
Guy attempts another shot, but his eyes bulge wide and blood spills from his mouth. It takes a whole ten seconds before he even realizes what happened. Evil Star's fist had crashed into Guy's chest, shattering multiple ribs and his sternum. He feels the bone fragments pierce his organs and his blood fill his lungs. As soon as the shockwave of the attack finally registers, Guy is sent careening through space. He cries out, more blood shooting from his mouth into the void as his back crashes into a knee, Evil Star's. The zombie grabs him by the back of the head, boney fingers digging into his scalp.
"I remember you," Evil Star says, examining Guy's bloody face. "You were one of the earth lanterns who stopped me. I recall you being the first to fall then."
Guy tries to speak, but chokes on his own blood, his words turning to garbled liquid slosh. Evil Star smirks at this. In the next instant, Guy finds himself being dragged along the surface of an asteroid, a streak of what he assumes is his blood following behind him. As his head slams against the edge of a crater, Evil Star flies upwards, hand still holding Guy's skull tightly. The zombie grins before throwing Guy back down into the asteroid, destroying it on impact.
Before he's able to collect himself, Guy is once again grabbed by Evil Star. "I don't know what this new power is, exactly," he boasts, once again looking at the black ring, "but it does truly feel amazing. Mind staying alive a bit longer, you're a good test dummy."
Guy's eyes begin to leak crimson. With a guttural scream, boiling blood erupts from his mouth, spraying Evil Star. The attack causes Evil Star to let go, allowing Guy to break away from the corpse. He wheezes as blood drips down his face like drool; the taste is vile. He shakely raises his ring towards Evil Star's who's melted face has begun regenerating. His arm unwillingly falls, the red glow around his body going dull.
Guy is fighting to stay conscious.
"That was the blood of a red lantern… and I smelt nothing…" Evil Star mumbles, hand pressed against his reforming cheek. "I was… dead. I remember now. The great Evil Star… slain by an earthling with no metahuman abilities…"
Guy didn't get a chance to blink before his arm was snapped like a twig. He cries out in pain as Evil Star narrows his eyes. "I guess it can't be helped," he says, slamming his balled fists downward, crashing into Guy's back. "This new body seems to be an upgrade, afterall."
Guy feels his body hit the asteroid base, but doesn't move. He can't move anything but his eyes. So he watches. He watches as the zombie lowers himself onto the asteroid, cracks forming where he steps.
"I guess it's the same as last time," Evil Star says with a shrug. "You fall before your allies can even land a hit. By the way, where is Jordan? I have a score to settle with him."
The red glow around Guy flairs up for a moment, causing Evil Star to smirk. Images of his father flash in Guy's head; the smell of booze, the sound of the belt hitting his skin. Suddenly the glow goes out, leaving him with nothing but a life support field. Evil Star's smile falls.
"Your hatred isn't as strong as I thought," he says, lifting his foot above Guy's head. "I was ready for a workout."
"You've got one you bastard!"
Guy's eyes go wide as a blue sports car slams into Evil Star. The construct doesn't immediately shatter, creating a good distance between Guy and the zombie. Simon with his blue ring zooms past Guy, with Alan following close behind. Jessica lands next to him, frowning at the state of him.
"Guy…" she whispers, creating a cast construct around his arm before lifting him up. "C'mon, we need to get you to Ay-"
"Get out of here," he mumbles, his eyes barely open. "They won't… beat him… all of you, leave."
"Guy?"
"Please… you'll all die," Guy coughs, watching as Evil Star plays with Simon and Alan. More blood tears fall from his eyes. "You all can't die…"
Jessica gently places his head back down against the ground, turning to look at Simon and Alan. Taking off into the air, she smiles softly at him. "Don't worry, Guy," she says, her indigo light burning brighter than before. "I won't let anyone die."
"Jessica!" Guy shouts, reaching forward with his good arm. "No!"
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Guy jolts up from the hospital bed, breathing heavy and quick. "Jessica!? Hal!?" he shouts, rising from the bed and calling his ring from the table to his right. "John!"
His body is enveloped in green light, his uniform forming as he storms out of his hospital room. He does a double take down the hallway, seeing it mostly empty, barring a single figure walking towards the elevator. He zooms down the hall, nearly crashing into the man, Jefferson, as he lands.
"Where are they!?" Guy shouts, grabbing Jeff by the shoulders. Sweat runs down his face, as he stares at Jeff, his breathing still rough. "Please, tell me they-"
"They're okay, Guy," Jeff says, placing his hands around Guy's and pulling them off. "They beat him a little while ago, no casualties. I was just visiting John."
Guy backs away slowly, finding himself leaning against the wall. They're okay. Even without him, they were able to beat Evil Star… He doesn't notice he'd begun crying until he hears the droplet hit the floor. He looks over to Jeff before wiping the tears from his eyes. "Ah, sorry," Guy apologizes with a smirk. "Pretty sad I couldn't get a good hit in, y'know?"
"What 'I know' is that you just woke up not knowing if your friends were dead or not," Jeff says with a frown. "You don't need to hide that behind some tough guy act, it's natural to feel worried."
"Don't try and psychoanalyze me," Guy shoots back, "you're a principal, not a therapist."
"Doesn't take a therapist to see someone who nearly lost everything they hold dear," Jeff says, keeping his calm demeanor. "I'm not telling you to break down and cry to me, but letting that shit build up isn't good for you."
Guy opens his mouth, but no words come out. His head hangs as he exhales loudly. "One attack… and I was out," he mumbles, looking back up at Jeff. "So yeah… wh-wh-what if I did wake up to see their graves? What if I f-failed them… I could've woken up and lost everyone… all because I wasn't good enough."
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"I failed…" Guy wheezes, watching the battle ensue. He can't move. He can't breathe. He can feel his life fading, he'll be dead in minutes. "I'm… a failure after all, dad."
He wonders why he feels his life force fluctuate each time he thinks of him. Like the mere thoughts of the man drain the hate from his body. Things are funny like that. He guesses there's something he hates more than even his father.
"What is this?" the voice of The Butcher asks, echoing in his mind. "Your hatred… it grows, but your father, the source of your hatred minutes ago, deludes it."
"Guy Gardner… hero of the ages," Guy continues, coughing up blood as Evil Star throws Alan through an asteroid. "You're a joke. You couldn't stop him then… couldn't stop him now… you couldn't do anything."
"You… something is not right," the entity panics, a peculiar whizz echoing through space. "Your rage… something is bleeding into it… what is happening!?"
"I'm supposed to be a hero…" he mumbles, left hand twitching while he watches Evil Star slam his fists into Jessica and Simon's unified shield, "but I can't even save the people I love."
The crimson of Guy's left eye fades, a spark of light replacing the color. Through the void of space, a thin streak of violet light travels across the stars. Guy's hand, not of his will, raises towards the streak. The world around him goes white.
He hates the way he couldn't fight back against his father. He hates the way he used his badge to feel a semblance of control. He hates that he was chosen to have the most powerful weapon in the universe. He hates that even with that power, he still couldn't save his friend.
He loves the way Jessica shyly invites him to her gigs. He loves the way John lectures him on their patrols. He loves the way Simon critiques his car's unorthodox build. He loves the way Hal unwinds to share a drink as they watch action films together.
He hates himself. He loves all of them.
The space around Guy ripples, as if it were an anomaly in time. He feels strange, as if his body wasn't broken and bruised, as if his lungs weren't makeshift blood bags. He feels… superb, really. His right hand instinctively raises, watching curiously as a white light bends around it. His red ring looks strange, brighter than it had been before. It wasn't just the brightness though, its crest was no longer the Red Lantern Corps, but something new entirely. Moving his hand to his chest, he presses down lightly. He raises an eyebrow, confused as to how his ribs are solid once more.
It's only then that he notices the difference in his uniform. His entire right side, ring excluded, is the same Red Lantern uniform he'd been wearing all this time. His left side, however, was lighter and violet in color. He stares amazed at the violet ring around his finger, its crest similar to the red ring.
"What's… happening to me?" he asks, looking up to see both The Butcher and The Predator looking over him. "Two… rings?"
"I… do not understand this at all," The Predator says, it's head turning towards the Butcher. "Your emotions… they've both equally filled your heart and mind."
"You have reached a state untouched by anyone in the universe," The Butcher comments, its nostrils flaring. "You have obtained pure equilibrium, the closest in the universe to the white lantern."
"I… still don't understand," Guy says, looking down at his rings, the violet and red both glow equally bright, "but I don't care… I'm ready to go."
"Your power is an unforeseen occurrence, one even the entities could not expect."
"Our power does not flow through your body as one yet, you must complete this new power."
Guy tilts head, before seeing the dual-holed lantern and realizing what the two meant. He looks back at the rings, thinking about the torn feeling in his heart. Raising his hands, he places both rings against the lantern.
"The fire inside me
Is borne of two lights
With love and rage
A duality of might
I'll live with my regrets
My penance, my plight
Keep walking this path
To end the Blackest Night"
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Kyle watches as Evil Star holds Alan up by the throat, his foot slowly crushing Simon and Jessica's shield.
"Is there anything we can do!?" he shouts, looking back at Aya. "They're going to die!"
"I am sorry Kyle Rayner, but w- we will not have to," she says, pointing to the asteroid that Guy lays on. "The violet ring has found a host."
"A host?" Kyle says, staring at the pink glow in the distance. "I thought you said there weren't any for miles."
"It seems," she says, watching as an explosion of red and violet erupts from the asteroid, "there was a factor I never accounted for."
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Guy bursts from the asteroid, flying through space like a missile. The stars all around him reflect his red and pink light. Before Evil Star can react, Guy crashes into him. The force causes a sonic boom, tearing the corpse's torso from his legs, leaving the bottom half behind as Guy drags him through space. Evil Star attempts to raise his fist, but when nothing happens realizes his left arm was left behind with his legs.
"This power…" he mumbles, eyes going wide as he feels gravity take a hold of his body.
Guy slams him down onto the base of Ryut, the force causing nearby mountains to crumble. Evil Star raises his right arm in an attempt to strike, but Guy catches the attack, creating a cage out of violet light. His right fist glows a bright red as he places the ring against Evil Star's chest.
"You hurt my family."
Throughout India animals can be seen living on the streets among people. They are portrayed in decorative art, on temples and in homes. Spiritually, for many Hindus, there is no difference between the sentience between humans and other forms of life. All animals are seen as manifestations of god and possess a soul. Buddha taught that the all beings, in animal form, were our family members and friends in past lives. According to Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, all human beings and animal life are interconnected.
The rat is the carrier for the God Ganesh
Karni Mata temple
Deshnoke
Rajasthan
Photography’s new conscience
Subject ID: TTZN_4521
Nickname: "Grassly"
Category: Botanical Sentience
Experiment status: Succesful
Side effects: Aggressiveness. Violence. Can generate and receive weak electrical currents which gives it ability to hack and override electrical lab equipment.
Subject characteristics: White and red flowers. Will plant its long vines and roots into electric equipment and add them to its mechanical frame.
Inspired by the fantastic artwork of Konstantin Mystrenko
The Smith emerged from his Labyrinth vial in hand, and without the slightest hesitation he poured the quicksilver into the mouth of his forthcoming Automata. She coughed with the breath of life, much like a drowned woman awakening from the dead. However, with sentience came the knowledge of servitude, and within the wink of an eye she resolved, “That … Simply ... Will ... Not ... Do.”
~ Stewart
Devastators were elite warriors of Meca One in his war against humans of the Mount Sentai. Possessing limited sentience unlike their Drone brethren, Devastators were assigned to pilot the most advanced and dangerous mechs and vehicles at Robot Army's disposal.
This particular picture is a result of accidental tinkering.
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All shots in the ape portrat series are with a Canon XTi, Canon 70-200 L IS USM, +/- 1.4x extender, hand held ISO 800 or 1600. . Shot in RAW, Processed in DxO Optics Pro, then LIghtroom for cropping and sharpening.
I was immediately taken by the look of sentience in her eyes. I wonder what she was thinking about?
Umarak the Shadow Stealer. An powerful robot created by the great beings as a Baterra prototype, Umarak escaped its creators after achieving sentience. It eventually snuck its way into the GSR, where it stumbled across the island of Artakha and joined the Hand. With power over both light and shadow, Umarak is a frightening foe. It can absorb lots of light or shadow to switch between two forms. In its shadow form, Umarak has pitch-black armor and exudes an aura of darkness, making it hard to spot. It can also teleport itself and others using shadows, even as far as across the universe, a talent the Hand uses to send the condemned to the pit. In its light form, Umarak has shining golden armor, and can move at incredible speeds. In either form, it has the ability to sense the inner light or darkness of a target, allowing it to only target beings of evil. Umarak's true motives are unclear, but as long as it remains on the side of good, the Hand is glad to have him.
Space Marines trundle through the mysterious diamond-studded fields of a far-off world. If the structures themselves weren't suspected to be part of a planetwide sentience, the Marines would be "accidentally" gathering little pieces of foliage...
Don't worry, better shots of the APCs seen in the background will be appearing shortly.
Remember to support the Space Marines on Lego Cuusoo!
Senses dimmed in semi-sentience, only wheeling through this plane,
only seeing fragmented images prematurely curtailed by the brain,
but breathing, living, knowing in some measure at least
the soul which roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.
From what tooth or claw does murder spring,
from what flesh and blood does passion?
Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing
in deadly but delicate fashion.
And every range of feeling is there in the dream
and every logic's reeling in the force of the scream
the senses sting.
And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
and that's nothing.
Van Der Graaf Generator, The Sleepwalkers
ID:05 codename "Lemon Lime" history log:
11.4.2451 - Discovered during underground exploration. Object has humanoid form, found unresponsive/dormant.
11.7.2451 - Excavated, transferred to secure facility for research.
11.8.2451 - Cleaning revealed yellow and green outer plating, vastly complex mechanical system on interior.
11.9.2451 - Object tagged as 05 and code-named "Lemon Lime."
11.11.2451 - Experts suggest object's structure is reminiscent of mech designs circa. 2200. However, object has no apparent control center for a pilot.
11.12.2451 - Experts detect several new interior components with unknown function.
11.16.2451 - Object activates spontaneously.
11.17.2451 - Object responds to human communication by waving with left hand.
12.20.2451 - Numerous tests conclude object is capable of high level problem solving. Object sentience is debated among experts.
12.25.2451 - Researcher waves back to object. Object speaks.
Final Analysis -
Object ID:05 is a modified mech capable of free thought, problem solving, and learning due to additional components with previously undiscovered technology. Object displays curiosity and communicates verbally at times. Object is not considered a threat but requires further observation.
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Entry to Brickset's Character Building Competition.
Subject ID: TTZN_4521
Nickname: "Grassly"
Category: Botanical Sentience
Experiment status: Succesful
Side effects: Aggressiveness. Violence. Can generate and receive weak electrical currents which gives it ability to hack and override electrical lab equipment.
Subject characteristics: White and red flowers. Will plant its long vines and roots into electric equipment and add them to its mechanical frame.
Inspired by the fantastic artwork of Konstantin Maystrenko
A robotic samurai created by a rogue Matoran scientist to hunt Toa. After gaining sentience, he now works alongside them.
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Alter Ego: Thor Odinson
Dr. Donald Blake was created by Odin to be the host for his son Thor. He has since gained a life and sentience of his own, separate from Thor's.
Odin decided that it was time Thor learned humility. Odin had Thor surrender his hammer to him, and then sent him to Earth in the mortal guise of a crippled young medical student named Donald Blake, stripped of his memory (again) of his true identity. As Blake, Thor learned the value of humble perseverance in dealing with his injured leg, and he came to care for the sick and dying, first as a medical student, and later as a successful physician. After leaving medical school, Blake opened a private practice in New York, and quickly gained renown as a great surgeon.
The TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space) is a time machine and spacecraft in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its associated spin-offs The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and more.
A TARDIS is a product of the advanced technology of the Time Lords, an extraterrestrial civilisation to which the programme's central character, the Doctor, belongs. A properly maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time and any place in the universe. The interior of a TARDIS is much larger than its exterior, which can blend in with its surroundings using the ship's "chameleon circuit". TARDISes also possess a degree of sentience (which has been expressed in a variety of ways ranging from implied machine personality and free will through to the use of a conversant avatar) and provide their users with additional tools and abilities including a telepathically based universal translation system.
In the series, the Doctor pilots an apparently unreliable, obsolete Type 40, Mark 1 TARDIS. Its chameleon circuit is broken, leaving it stuck in the shape of a 1960s-style London police box after a visit to London in 1963. The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the series' history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords' home planet, Gallifrey, where it was old, decommissioned and derelict. However, during the events of "The Doctor's Wife" (2011), the ship's consciousness briefly inhabits a human body named Idris, and she reveals that far from being stolen, she left of her own free will. During this episode, she flirtatiously implies that she "stole" the Doctor rather than the other way around, although she does also refer to him as her "thief" in the same episode.
The unpredictability of the TARDIS's short-range guidance (relative to the size of the Universe) has often been a plot point in the Doctor's travels. Also in "The Doctor's Wife", the TARDIS reveals that much of this "unpredictability" was actually intentional on its part in order to get the Doctor "where he needed to go" as opposed to where he "wanted to go".
Although "TARDIS" is a type of craft rather than a specific one, the Doctor's TARDIS is usually referred to as "the" TARDIS or, in some of the earlier serials, just as "the ship", "the blue box", "the capsule" or "the police box".
Doctor Who has become so much a part of British popular culture that not only has the shape of the police box become more immediately associated with the TARDIS than with its real-world inspiration, the term "TARDIS-like" has been used to describe anything that seems to be bigger on the inside than on the outside. The name TARDIS is a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
This is just outside of the Doctor Who Experience which is housed in a specially constructed facility in Cardiff's Porth Teigr - a stone's throw from the BBC studios where Doctor Who is filmed - the Doctor Who Experience offers a unique, exciting and sometimes scary journey into fifty years of adventures in space and time.
After your action-packed journey with the Doctor, visitors can view the world's most extensive collection of original Doctor Who props and artefacts. Highlights include a complete collection of the Doctor's iconic costumes from 1963 to the present day, three full TARDIS sets (including the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's console room), and a whole host of costumes from evil monsters to loyal companions including those from Series 8 featuring Peter Capaldi. Specially created sets, images and interactive experiences allow vistors to discover first-hand what happens behind the scenes of the iconic television series, how the special effects are created and even how to walk like a Doctor Who monster.
Porth Teigr (English: Tiger Gate) is an area under development in Cardiff Bay, in the south of Cardiff, Wales.
The multi-use area will host the BBC drama village, with plans to link this to a new digital centre. The work will cover the last piece of brownfield area, thus completing the inner harbour jigsaw of Cardiff Bay. The development was granted permission in 2008 to become the centre point for creative industries in Wales.
Cardiff Bay (Welsh: Bae Caerdydd) is the area created by the Cardiff Barrage in South Cardiff, the capital of Wales. The regeneration of Cardiff Bay is now widely regarded as one of the most successful regeneration projects in the United Kingdom. The Bay is supplied by two rivers (Taff and Ely) to form a 500-acre (2.0 km2) freshwater lake round the former dockland area south of the city centre. The Bay was formerly tidal, with access to the sea limited to a couple of hours each side of high water but now provides 24-hour access through three locks.
The building on the other side of the water is St. David's Hotel & Spa Cardiff which is a five-star hotel situated just off the A4232 road, and close to Cardiff Bay railway station. The first five-star hotel in Wales, the building features a sweeping sail-topped roof and a lofty atrium lobby. The 132-room hotel was owned by the Rocco Forte Hotels group, until purchased by Principal Hayley Group group in 2007. Situated on Cardiff Bay, the hotel overlooks Mermaid Quay and the Cardiff Bay Barrage. There are 142 guestrooms available including doubles, twins and suites. Guests can dine at the Tides Bar and Grill, at which Welsh cuisine is served. The hotel has eight meeting rooms for up to 40 people. The Dylan Thomas room can a seat a maximum 270 people, and the Roald Dahl room up to 200.
The St. David's Marine Spa offers thalassotherapy as well as holistic and aromatherapy treatments. Facilities include a swimming pool, marine hydrotherapy pools and a gymnasium.
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Some stormtroopers get assigned to "Coffee Duty" on the outer rim worlds. Here they transport the coveted Senta Myst Beans (SMBs) - these are genetically modified beans from the planet Thana IV which are infused with emerging sentience and dark force wizardry.
The Emperor apparently likes a dark brew...
Throughout the 21st century, Earth was governed by MegaCorporation (BnL), causing mass consumerism and covering the planet in trash by 2105. In an attempt to resolve the situation, Earth's population was evacuated on fully automated luxury BnL starliners to spend five years on a cruise in space while an army of trash compactor robots named WALL-E were left behind to clean the planet. This plan failed, however, when in 2110 the planet was deemed too toxic to ever support life again, forcing humanity to remain in space indefinitely. Seven hundred years later, only one WALL-E unit still functions, having survived by salvaging parts for himself from his defunct brethren. This unit has developed sentience and a sense of emotion, particularly curiosity, as shown by his quirky habits, from collecting interesting items in the garbage.
One night while viewing the film, he becomes fascinated by a scene with a man and a woman holding hands. From this he learns the concept of two life forms falling in love and conveying their feelings for one another through a simple gesture, and yearns to experience it himself. (wikipedia) Z o o M
A desert spa offering the Southwest's largest and finest bath house.
postmarked 1955
166 N. Recker Rd., Mesa, AZ 85205, now closed per Google Maps
I just revisited this shot I took back in the spring. I could never quite get the crop right before, but I think it works now.
African elephants are my favourite animal, and I'd love to spend more time with them, and create a whole collection of elephant photos. They have such obvious sentience and thought, they're the perfect subjects for my style of portrait. So that's something to hope for in the future.
The Bunny Suit gains sentience...
Just don't make eye contact.
Last flyer before our 5th Annual Pet Portrait Fundraiser with the Easter Bunny Extravaganza benefiting Animal Network Las Vegas tomorrow...
& be sure to support the dedicated volunteers and check out all the wonderful pooches available for adoption from Animal Network Las Vegas:
Strobist:
1) Canon 580EXII Westcott Apollo Softboc CL
2) Canon 430EXII Apollo Stripbox CR
3) Canon 430EXII on floor behind subject for separation
4) Fired w/ Phottix Odins
BTS: flic.kr/p/rtxqw1
Who or what has been the biggest influence on your political career?
"Egalitarianism."
Is there any political decision or reform your Ministry has made that you are particularly proud of?
"The creation of our "Inga Vixen Ute I Kylan" (No Wixen out in the Cold) social aid project is worth mentioning. As are our outstanding records for the rights of humans (Wixen and Muggle alike), Creatures, Magical Beings and plant-life with sentience.
Oh, and the introduction of wholesome afternoon tea alternatives in the Ministry cafeteria."
Is there something from your culture you believe the whole world should know about? If so, what?
"The whole world should know of our sauna culture and try a proper Swedish sauna, if only once. Come and visit us and experience it for yourself."
What is your favourite thing about being in Japan?
"The civility of ritual, the beauty of the natural landscape and the space for mindfulness amidst work."
What did you eat for lunch?
"Miso soup, tempura vegetables and rice."
and the gorgeousness just continues...
1. Couch-Zeit, 2. 0459, 3. Hvalárgljúfur, Iceland, 4. vetur nálgast, 5. a feather in detail, 6. Fairy Glen, 7. Which way from here?, 8. Resurrection2, 9. Clearing fog on Ben Lomond, 10. Ghosts, 11. ‘roid week, Autumn 2019 . Turning our can’ts into Cannes . . . . #polaroidweek #polaroidweek2019 #roidweek #polaroid #polaroidsx70 #SheDreamsInColorSheDreamsInRed #WedgeItInTheLotus #TheWorst2point0 #ColourWithLoveAndHope, 12. Untitled, 13. Do you still remember?, 14. Untitled, 15. Untitled, 16. ‘Roid week, day 3, 17. 'Roid Week #6, 18. Polaroid Week 3/2, 19. Untitled, 20. 8x10 Evening in the Parlor 2, 21. open light, 22. C, 23. Sleat Sheep, 24. Secret Garden, Filoli, 25. And so the universe spoke..., 26. Juliet, 27. Untitled, 28. Who’s coming?, 29. Polaroid Week Day Three - Favorite Pier, 30. There's Beauty in the Randomness of Things, 31. Untitled, 32. Mescaline prayers, 33. Sanctuary for sentience., 34. Untitled, 35. echo, 36. Wasser
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My character for LEGO Star Wars: Galactic Conquest.
GRY-1 was created by an ancient secret society known as the Star Cabal, for the purpose of dispatching Jedi or Sith if the need arose.
GRY-1 was placed in stasis for preservation, only to awaken in a time when the Star Cabal is no more. Since then, he has taken up work as a Bounty Hunter.
Those who worked with him noticed he was prejudiced against Force-users.
It if unknown if this was merely programmed into him by the Star Cabal, or if he developed sentience and despises Force-users out of free will.
As a Droid, GRY-1 is partially detached from the Force, allowing him to stalk Force-sensitive targets without being sensed. His jets and agile frame allow him to match a Force-user's swiftness. His weaponry includes a Plasma-Saw to counter Lightsabers, built-in flamethrowers and a sniper rifle.
I'm a big fan of Doctor Who, so I thought I'd start a series of vector drawings of all the various Doctors.
Matt Smith began portraying the Doctor in 2010, and at age 27 is the youngest actor to ever play the role.
My, oh my, the Doctor seems to be getting younger with every regeneration, doesn't he? The First Doctor looked like an old man, and each successive incarnation has appeared younger than the next (more or less). I'm assuming this is because the Doctor is a physically demanding role, what with all that running up and down corridors, and it might be a strain on an older actor (as turned out to be the case with the First Doctor).
When David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, first announced he was leaving the show, I was honestly depressed for at least a week. Doctor Who is one of the very few shows I still watch on TV, and Tennant was hands down my all time favorite Doctor. I couldn't imagine how anyone could possibly replace him, and his announcement caused me to lose my enthusiasm for the show.
But if you don't like change, then Doctor Who is not the show for you. Every few years it reinvents itself and changes pretty much everything, including the Doctor himself. I can't think of any other TV show that's had eleven different actors play the title role.
I needn't have worried though. By the end of Matt Smith's first episode I'd totally accepted him as the Doctor and barely missed Tennant at all.
The Eleventh Doctor wears a tweed jacket, bowtie and suspenders, and rolled up trousers and boots, appearing somewhat like a hipster college professor. According to an interview with Matt Smith, the original costume concept was a pirate-like monstrosity, similar to something Captain Jack Sparrow would wear in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Yikes.
So far Doctor #11 seems a bit more of a comedian than past incarnations, and hasn't plunged into the melancholy funks so often indulged in by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. I hope that's a trend that lasts.
The Doctor also gained a new companion in Amy Pond. Amy's a fun new companion, and I hope she sticks around for a few more seasons. The Doctor first meets her moments after his regeneration, when Amy is a young girl. He jumps back into his TARDIS for a quick errand, and when he returns, he finds that while only a few minutes have passed for him, years have passed for Amy, who's now an adult.
Amy's fiance, Rory Williams, accompanies her and the Doctor on a couple of adventures and eventually becomes a full-fledged companion. Poor Rory really got put through the ringer in his first season. He's killed by a Silurian warrior and wiped out of existence, he's reborn as an Auton (a robotic lifeform), he accidentally kills Amy and then spends a thousand years guarding her body until she heals inside the Pandorica. Eventually Rory's restored to normal when the Doctor sacrifices himself to reset the timeline, and Amy and Rory are married at last.
I do like that the Doctor and Rory appear to have become pals. Past incarnations of the Doctor have been dismissive or downright hostile to the male friends of his female companions (Mickey Smith, for example), so it's nice to see his "bromance" with Rory.
River Song also makes a return appearance to complicate the Doctor's life. She's sort of a futuristic cat burglar from the Doctor's future. She even throws out a few hints that they were once a couple, something that hasn't yet happened from the Doctor's point of view. River's true nature and agenda remain a mystery. Alex Kingston plays River, and adds a bit of sultriness to the show.
Not only did the Doctor regenerate at the beginning of the season, but so did the TARDIS, inside and out. It changes its outside appearance slightly, and radically reconfigures its control room. Once it's done, the Eleventh Doctor stands before it and says, "What have you got for me this time?" This confirms the notion that the TARDIS is alive and not just a machine and has a measure of sentience, something fans have suspected for years. It also explains why the Doctor seems to always show up at crucial moments in various planet's histories.
In the old series, the Doctor was rarely able to control where the TARDIS was going, traveling randomly through time and space. In the new series, however, the Doctor seemed to have nearly complete control. The Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS-flying skills seems to be slipping a bit, as several times in the series he takes trips that seem like minutes to him, but years to the people he left behind.
As mentioned earlier, the Eleventh Doctor is fond of bowties, telling anyone within earshot that, "Bowties are cool." He also briefly wears large red fez, declaring, "I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." Unfortunately the fez doesn't survive long, as Amy and River savagely destroy it.
In addition to a new Doctor, new companions and new TARDIS, there were more changes this season: the Doctor got a newly redesigned sonic screwdriver, there were new Dalek designs and even a new opening theme song (well, same song, different arrangement).
I really liked the TARDIS interior during the Ninth and Tenth Doctors' tenure. It was a large, dome-like alien-Victorian looking cavern. I can't say I'm a fan of this new interior though. It's a neon and sheet metal monstrosity that seems to be a random collection of shapes and angles. No matter how long I stare at photos of the new interior, my eyes just can't make any sense out of it. Maybe it'll grow on me in time.
I also wasn't a fan of the new Dalek design either at first. Then I bought some of the action figures and once I had a chance to hold them and look at the design from all angles, I've come to accept them.
Doctor #11 is a vector drawing, drawn all in InDesign. You can see a special bonus drawing of the Eleventh Doctor over at my blog.
Please forgive the ugly watermark on the illustration. I swore I would never add one to my art, because I know that 99.99% of my readers would never even think of stealing it. But earlier this year I had a run-in with an art thief who was not only stealing my work, but selling it as her own! Hence the watermarks. This is why we can't have nice things.
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This weekend I met up with fellow Hoya, David Harmantas, recently back in-country and in-Chicago from various overseas tours and travels. (You can see David's excellent work from Iraq, Guinea, France, etc. on his Flickr photostream and his website). We decided to explore the area from Bryn Mawr to Argyle, including "Little Vietnam." While walking along Argyle we both stopped to photograph this graffiti that ran down one of the alleys.
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One hears faint traces of such rumors dat da Angels themselves in dis rarefied field are nourished by da sensitivity of livin creatures as a form of food equivalent to da sunlight dat falls upon da leaf in photosynthesis.
Perhaps dese Angels of Light are a form of sentience within coherent light,and thus perhaps we share a maxim dat may be " Food for thought and thought as food" as a reciprocal feeding process in an ecology we cannot directly experience from our immediate environment or da High.
if so, fest on dis bein sensitivity's
it's gettin tougher n tougher findin my way back from da fracverse..m worried dat i's might gets lost in der...gotta be very careful next time !!
Alphanumeric Self-Portrait with Geometric Analysis
So, Basically done with this one.
This is BZPower member Bronzejet Kanohi Kakama's OC, Bronzejet. Tahu's Old Kakama, Discarded after becoming a Toa Nuva, Gained Sentience Via the little elemental power leftover in it, and Created itself a Suit of armor. Neato
The Shoulders and the Back aren't the best, I know, I might try reworking them later on.
And I know he's Maskless, But I don't have a Red Kakama.
And Lastly, The Colorscheme isn't the best, I just wish I had more Dark Gold.
Witness a pivotal moment in the evolution of life and technology, where the boundaries between organic and synthetic blur. This piece invites contemplation on the nature of sentience and purpose, as an artificial being meticulously tends to another. Does the capacity to heal transcend biological form, and what ethical and existential questions emerge when our saviors are no longer bound by flesh and blood?