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I don't know how many of you are like me, but I swear I'll obsess for hours over one outfit and change it up over and over again until it's perfect ESPECIALLY if it's for a photoshoot. I changed out my top and re-bought items 5 times before deciding on this one from Cynful Clothing & Co. (and no, they didn't ask me to plug them, I'm a nobody lol)
This outfit is for the upcoming chapter in The Framework called The Slums which shooting for begins today. I'm really looking forward to this one since my character got her pride pretty wounded in that last one and it's time to show how much ass this girl can kick!
'Old Cologne' - Historic condominium complex in Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Upper Silesia, southern Poland.
Picture No: 2021-05-01-9999_246_P_FRAMED_S
Edited in Canon DPP 4: brightness: +1.33, shadow: -1, highlight: -2, strengh: +6. Bit cropped.
No photomontage. Framed in Photoshop 6.
After a high society evening, our heroine decides to wander among the proles to see if she might pick up a little rough trade. And as the day slowly breaks, she contemplates the wheelbarrow where she appears to have come to rest at some unspecified, forgotten moment
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An entrance to the largest slum in Mumbai, and in all of Asia – home to more than one million people.
"Dharavi, a Mumbai slum where 600,000 residents are crammed into 520 acres, contains the attributes for environmentally and socially sustainable settlements for the world's increasingly urban population, he said. The district's use of local materials, its walkable neighbourhoods, and mix of employment and housing add up to "an underlying intuitive grammar of design that is totally absent from the faceless slab blocks that are still being built around the world to 'warehouse' the poor" - Prince Charles
"I visited Dharavi with an NGO back in September, and I'm inclined to agree with Charles -- the poverty in Dharavi seems to be of a different character to the poverty elsewhere in Mumbai. Here you see poor children who nevertheless are shod, are playing, attending school, and not begging. Not to say that Dharavi is a paradise or even pleasant to live in -- the toxic fumes from the plastics recycling plants are reason enough to want to raise your children elsewhere -- but that, as compared to government schemes to cram poor people into tower-blocks, Dhravi has a lot going for it." - Cory Doctorow
Photo taken in an orphanage/AIDS hospice/preschool in slums of Bangkok. The Mercy Centre is run by a slum Catholic priest named Father Joe Maier.
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© 2007 Wiley Books
Photo of a rock garden playground at an AIDS orphanage/hospice/preschool in slums of Bangkok. The following is true:
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The chorus that christens the morning begins sharply at seven o'clock. Its crescendo rises softly in a child's soprano, then quickens into a staccato that flits like wind chimes through the slum priest's windows and the entire Mercy courtyard. Nothing about it is orchestrated. You couldn't if you wanted.
"Does a rock have life?" he asked me one day.
Silly question.
"Do rocks make noise?"
Sure, if you throw them against something.
Outside his house is a preschool playground with no swings, slides or ropes to climb, just beige sand and giant boulders, plenty of both. When Mercy constructed it from donated materials, the staff envisioned an aesthetic touch to the school yard. A rock garden, it's called. Then the preschoolers saw it and took off their shoes. They burrowed their toes into the sand and hopped from boulder to boulder, as if a creek gurgled underfoot. They patted and stroked the rough granite, pampered it like a pet, then marched around it smiling, laughing, joking. Turns out rocks and sand are good for more than their looks. The children were cut loose, told to go wild.
And that's when the Mercy morning received its gleeful accompaniment.
One of the kids told the priest that if one boulder is touched or climbed on then every boulder must be touched or climbed on. Seems all the preschoolers know this rule. You don't leave even one rock out, feelings get hurt that way. The priest shook his head at the obvious wisdom.
"Neither you nor I would ever think we could offend a rock, but actually it is a very (spiritual) concept, very cosmic, that all creation has life," he says. "So … does a rock have life?"
It can enrich it, I guess. Who knew? But left alone it's still just rock, and like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, maybe no one hears it, sees it or cares. That's where I figure he's headed: the Buddhist philosophy of interdependency. Everything affects everything else. Life does not exist in isolation. We receive by giving and vice versa. It's why Father Joe calls it a privilege for abused/orphaned/sick children to allow him to serve them. Their trust is electric.
"Yes, a rock is a form of life," he says finally. "Not one of the higher forms."
For more information on Father Joe's work and chairty visit the Mercy Centre website or its USA tax-deductible equivalent here
Didn't know if I was going to make it before the end of the year but I was able to finish this yesterday and take the picture today after I got home from Legoland, I still love that place even though I am considered an adult now. XD
This build originated as a way to show off these figs I made with a cool brick built armor design. Plus I hadn't done a cyberpoc scene this year and my soon to come year end collage wouldn't be complete without it. (if I do one, its a lot of work. :-P)
Hope you guys enjoy and happy new year!
Taken in one of the main Varanassi slums where many child work hardly all days.
You can see more photos in www.ruralphoto.es
My entry to Round 3 of The Tourney 2015 over on MOCpages.
My character searches through the slums of Guaire in search of a man who can give him vital information on other teams.
Just for fun, who do you think the informant is? :)
Not all planets are nice places to visit. Plenty of underhanded deals happen on the seedier planets of the outer rim.
Barter, beg, buy or steal, but make it quick and do it without delay lest someone take an interest in your activities, or hide.
My half of a collaboration with Taz-Maniac for Sydney Brick Show 2016 this weekend, hope you enjoy.
Welcome to the cyber slums, a ramshackle, ecclectic collection of organized chaos, computers and spare parts.
This is one of my largest builds to date, but also one of the most fun as it allowed me the freedom to try out many different textures and techniques I wouldn't have been complimentary in any other build. All of the buildings have full interiors, but I wasn't able to get good lighting to take pictures of the insides, so you'll just have to take my word for it :P
Cheers,
Tim
Soli Deo Gloria
Robby's troops gun take cover as his tank engages the spider-mecha. Meanwhile, my own infantry storm a nearby building.
In the years following King Internationals extensive campaign in Somalia it was evident that while the Tabaraysasho Xornimo had been defeated and scattered beyond repair, there were still many splinters of the original insurgent group operating in the more destabilized areas of eastern Somalia, many taking advantage of the flow of foreign businesses, namely Global Energy Solutions trying to lay claim to the vast expanses of cheap and much of the time unclaimed land due to the large majority of the populace having fled the area to take refuge in neighboring counties. With many of the companies’ investments being threatened, King International was again brought into Somali. Unlike the former contracts pertaining to Somalia, this time King International had to take a less aggressive approach, which ultimately proved costly, on many occasions convoys and escorts were ambushed and with the strict engagement policies, placed in order to cut down on collateral damage, there was, much of the time, little to be done to avoid these confrontations.
Welcome to the cyber slums, a ramshackle, ecclectic collection of organized chaos, computers and spare parts.
This is one of my largest builds to date, but also one of the most fun! It allowed me the freedom to try out many different textures and techniques that wouldn't have been complimentary in any other build. All of the buildings have full interiors, but I wasn't able to get good lighting to take pictures of the insides, so you'll just have to take my word for it :P
Cheers,
Soli Deo Gloria!
Lo studio delle crisi economiche dimostra che sul piano economico, come nella quasi totalità dei fenomeni biologici, la natura abbandonata a se stessa ha sempre la tendenza a passare da un eccesso all'altro.
Contrariamente ai filosofi ottimisti, convinti come Leibniz che natura non facit saltus, la natura nel campo della vita ne pratica di continuo e procede sempre con brusche oscillazioni.
Ignora la tecnica del frenaggio e la sostituisce con bruschi periodi di distruzione.
È indifferente alle sofferenze che sono la logica conseguenza di questi strattoni e di questi riadattamenti periodici.
Gaston Bouthoul
1896 - 1980
Bassifondi di Città del Capo, Sudafrica, vista dal finestrino dell'aereo, lato destro, prima dell'atterraggio
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