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The minimart by the Texaco in West Olympia on the corner by Haggen is so weird, it really gives the Day & Night market in Lacey a run for its money. But it was especially weird today after a formerly fantastic Holiday Rambler RV--longtime overnight parker by Capitol Lake (noticed it on my earliest photo scouting missions)--burst into flames. The crew that was called in to clean it up was there just as I walked up from the Subaru service department.
I had discovered that this minimart had some really unusual merchandise by the time I took notice of the presumed boss of the crew. Well, he was the only one not working anyway. He was asking for a closer look at some of the huge knives in the locked display case just as I had stumbled upon table lamps with glass lampshades depicting paintings of the Virgin Mary and an almost gothily gruesome crucified Christ. "BRO! BRO! BRO! YOU JUST MADE A SALE WITH THIS BAD BOY!!" boomed the bossman when I finally found the NOS range of energy drink products (make mine a sugar-free Turbo, please).
The dude's neck gaiter kept falling down, and after several minutes of meaningless smalltalk, requests to look at other miscellaneous merch, and even some joking and poking at trying to figure out which country the clerk and proprietor had immigrated from, the clerk finally found the spine to tell the man to leave or pull his saggy gaiter up. The guy was like "I FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING COMFORTABLE I COULD WEAR OVER MY FACE AND NOW JAY FUCKIN INSLEE WANTS TO BAN IT!"
Really now... I know it was shared across social media earlier this week that neck gaiters (and the kind made of the same material as moisture-wicking base-layer shirts) might spread more droplets than they hold back. Maybe that reportage was being imagined by this imbecile into an imminent decree from King Inslee.
Anyway... There was quite a selection of masks there, including the Mexican flag, a marijuana leaf in Jamaican flag colors, and every gang-associated color of a typical bandana design rendered in a typical cloth mask design with a malleable wire for nosebridge fitting. But what do you make of the American flag mask that says "PROTEST WHATEVER CAN'T BREATHE", though?
From the TED stage.
Moments earlier I did a live, and unfortunately, unrehearsed demo of the Nanotex waterproof khakis. I took a glass of water and splashed my waist with vigor to show how it would leave no mark. In a freak instance of fabric folding, the bolus of water hooked into a gaping open pant pocket. The inner pocket lining did not have any Nanotex coating.... So for the entire talk my boxers were soaking wet, but you wouldn’t know it because none of the water could seep through the outer pants fabric.
On screen is a Scanning Tunneling Microscope scan of dyads of atoms (carbon monoxide) on a copper surface. We got to play with these during a visit to Don Eigler’s labs at the IBM Almaden Research Center. A room full of equipment interfaces to a PC with a mouse that lets you move atoms around with audible feedback as you drag them across the surface (imagine the copper lattice atoms are bumpy like eggs in a carton).
In this particular example, carbon monoxide is lined up like dominos on the surface. With a flick on one end, they tumble like a child’s cascade. In this case, they are pre-configured to implement a logic circuit (the world’s smallest 3-input sorter). It is 260,000 times smaller than the smallest IC equivalent.
Circuit design experiments were done with regular dominos. The business expense report for dominoes raised some eyebrows at IBM.
As Thomas Gottschalk announced on the "Helene Fischer Show", he will host a "Wetten, dass..?" Anniversary show.
In 1996 I offered my live performance Superhuman Magnetic Man for Wetten, dass ..? on ZDF, German entertainment television show which was moderated by the entertainer Thomas Gottschalk. My offer was rejected. Frank Elstner a German TV presenter invented the show Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna bet..?"). Frank Elstner presented the Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna bet..?") which became extremely popular and was, for some time, one of the most successful shows in Europe. That year, Elstner was presented with a Bambi, the German television and media prize. In Britain it was copied as You Bet! and ran from 1988 to 1997. In 1987, famous television presenter Thomas Gottschalk replaced Frank Elstner as host of Wetten, dass..?,. Today Elstner mainly works for Südwestrundfunk (SWR) (formed from the old Südwestfunk and Süddeutscher Rundfunk), presenting the talk show Menschen der Woche. Since 28 September 2002 he has worked for ARD as the presenter of the Saturday evening show Verstehen Sie Spaß?, the German equivalent of Candid Camera, following on from Cherno Jobatey. Frank Elstner presented his final episode of "VSS?" on November 21, 2009. Until the start of 2005 he also presented the show Einfach Millionär (Simply A Millionnaire) run by the ARD television lottery. In 2006 Frank Elstner was listed in the Rose d'Or Hall of Fame, on the 25th anniversary of his greatest success, Wetten, dass..?. The same year he went on a 517 kilometre pilgrimage along the Way of St James, inspired by fellow television presenter Hape Kerkeling's pilgrimage diary Ich bin dann mal weg ("I'm off for a bit, then"). In 2006 Frank Elstner has presented the quiz show Die Besten im Südwesten (The Best in the Southwest) on the SWR. He also presents the ARD show Die große Show der Naturwunder (The Biggest Natural Wonders Show), along with Ranga Yogeshwar. In 2019 Frank Elstner at the age of 77 - says goodbye to his audience on Youtube Talkshow „Wetten, das war's?" and switches to Netflix with his show.
ZDF Wetten dass presenters: Frank Elstner, Thomas Gottschalk, Markus Lanz, Wolfgang Lippert.
1981–1987: Frank Elstner
1987–1992: Thomas Gottschalk
1992–1993: Wolfgang Lippert
1994–2011: Thomas Gottschalk
2012–2014: Markus Lanz
2020 "Wetten, dass..?" Anniversary show Thomas Gottschalk
Celebrities that have appeared on the show included a vast range of personalities, with repeated guests including the likes of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Naomi Campbell, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Aniston, David Beckham, Hugh Grant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, Bill Gates, Karl Lagerfeld, Mikhail Gorbachev and Gerhard Schröder.
Between the bets and the celebrity smalltalk, there were musical performances by top-ranking artists like Take That, Jennifer Lopez, Coldplay, OneRepublic, Rihanna, Kiss, t.A.T.u., Whitney Houston, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Anastacia, Avril Lavigne, Christina Stürmer, Bryan Adams, Shakira, Britney Spears, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Elton John, Tokio Hotel, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Ashley Tisdale, Joe Cocker, Lady Gaga, Luciano Pavarotti, Celine Dion, Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Robert Plant, Status Quo, Leona Lewis, David Bowie, Bruno Mars, Cher and Tina Turner.
Captain's log, stardate 54299. Buzz All-Bran and his intrepid crew, Neil Twister and Frank Zzapp, find themselves on an alien planet populated largely by curious yet relatively benign sarnivorous life forms.
After what seems an eternity of futile take-me-to-your-leader-type smalltalk, they conclude that the planet is completely bereft of intelligent life (having overlooked a species of clever but extremely furtive creatures known as squirls, rarely seen away from the corral).
As they return despondently to their ship, something catches the astronauts' attention: it is an inverted cornetto-like form, but much larger than usual and with distinctive orange and white markings. Sensing a new marketing opportunity, our fearless friends decide to throw caution to the solar wind and conquer the cone.
[somehow I managed to goad some astronauts into conquering a traffic cone -- just for you guys, of course]
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.
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all photos are from April 19, 2014 - made between 15:30 to 18:45 o´clock
Hamburg ( Hambourg / Hamburgo / Гамбург )
Hamburg - in Vorbereitung ein Kurztrip mit den älteren Ju-Jutsuka
des TuS Bloherfelde als Freizeitprogramm ( per Zug und Rad ).
Alles schon einmal per Rad abgefahren ( Hafencity / Speicherstadt / Landungsbrücken / Museumshafen ).
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.
The Alto, created in 1973 by Xerox PARC, is famous in computing lore. It is perhaps one of the most innovative computers of all time. Microsoft and Apple both "borrowed" from it freely, especially regarding the graphical user interfaces still very much in use today.
The placard says, "Xerox PARC innovations that made the Alto seem so revolutionary include the graphical user interface, Ethernet, WYSIWYG editing and printing, and the Smalltalk object-oriented programming language."
I started up this rotating 3D wireframe cube using the command `\d` and was rather proud of myself when I figured it out.
Autumn walk on a greenbelt path and a few deer came out of the forest. We said hi, made a bit of smalltalk and then went on our way.
GO WEST – Himmlischer Fensterblick aus Wagen 27 des ICE 1542 zwischen Dresden und Leipzig bei annähernd Tempo 200 . . . Auswahl aus einer Serie von rund 50 verwackelten Schmeißwechknipsbildern zwischen 16:44 und 16:47 Uhr am Tag nach Caspar, Balthasar und Melchior.
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.
Wir plauderten ein bißchen über das Wetter und ein paar Mädeldinge als sie dann zum Grund ihres Anrufes kam...
We had some smalltalk about the weather and other girly stuff when seh told me why she called...
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.
and - what do you think … ? …
… … no idea, they built me to kill for Star Wars - this really couldn't be the only reason for my existence .!.
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.
Jackie is a visual artist living and working in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As a graphic designer Jackie manipulated type, letters and words into logo's and symbols using paper and ink. As an artist, she manipulates thoughts, meanings and ideas to create three dimensional objects using clay, glass, metal and found objects.
Today I experimented with a Sigma 180mm lens mounted on a Sony A7RM2 body using a Metabones adaptor.
This combination of equipment does not work in Auto-Focus mode so I had to use manual focusing and this was not easy but it certainly would have been impossible without focus peaking [a feature that I have never properly employed before]. In case you are unaware focus peaking is a tool to assist you while manual focusing. Focus peaking highlights the areas that are in focus so you are able to quickly focus the camera and not miss crucial shots. However, focus peaking is not as easy as it sounds because it shows you what's sharp on the viewfinder screen, not what's sharp in the actual image. Since the screen or viewfinder has a much lower resolution than the actual camera sensor areas that are highlighted as being sharp in the viewfinder can be very much out of focus in the image you actually capture.