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Strive to be the image of the interface presents a more nimble and design objectives, dynamic effects will be more implanted into the project concept designs.
Looks like Jeanne has been strived to grow up day by day (and frame by frame)...
She's ignoring what I said when she has this look. I can only bring her back with a piece of good-tasted cake or cookies...
How can you tell the diff between "concentration" and "addiction"?
PS - This roll was done on Sep. 11th 2013, and scanned with "Epson Perfection V600 Photo" Oct. 12th, 2013.
Close in pronunciation. Both meaning peace.
Most of us striving for it. Others abandoning it.
And Salaam Shalom pronounced a million times
in prayers that seem to go unanswered.
Fervent prayers at the Wall Ive heard.
Across the way, men on bended knees
pray to Allah asking for Salaam... for peace.
But unless Salaam Shalom like lovers
in the night unite in hearts and souls
a third and better thing will not be born.
These days bullets and missiles
speak louder than words.
And Shalom Salaam walk their separate ways.
Would it not be profound if they'd Stop, turn around
Face to Face, Then passionately Embrace?
c. Douglas Fireman
Taken at the Western Wall
in Jerusalem. Poem updated
May 23rd, 2013
The “2018 HLPF Side Event on Shaping Smarter and More Sustainable Cities: Striving for Sustainable Development Goals" held on 12 July 2018 in New York provided a platform to debate the impact of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) on cities, to present current national and international initiatives such as the United for Smart Sustainable Cities and to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in shaping smart and sustainable cities at the local level.
© ITU
Friends from Germany, Australia, Japan, Ireland, Holland and Canada joined us today for Harlem Gospel Walking Tour. As we were walking toward the church I noticed my Pastor (I'm an a member of the church) Rev. Johnson, and I asked if he would take a pic with us and he was more than happy to do so - were having a great time today.
With each and every post, we strive here at Creative Tempest to bring you only the best artists from around the world. This post comes to you all the way from Orange County, California, with our artist being none other than Randy and Erin from He&She Photography. Randy and Erin are a married couple who both come from creative family backgrounds. Erin, coming from a family of artists, has her bachelors of fine arts degree in creative photography. Randy who was a graphic designer has his bachelors of fine arts in graphic design. They both bring their creative expertise together to form a photography style that can best be described as “photojournalism meets quirky fashion photography. We are very influenced by the aesthetics of fashion photography, yet our unobtrusive approach enables us to create a documentary of your wedding from an insider’s perspective”. We, at Creative Tempest, love how their snapshots really capture that love-at-first-sight feel. They are candid, real and really focus on those moments of life that are usually otherwise lost. We’re happy to post such talent and vision here on Creative Tempest and hope you will share the same appreciation for their great artwork that we do. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com
History of Peckerwood Garden
John G. Fairey
Thirty years ago I came to Texas to teach first-year design in the school of Architecture at Texas A&M University and in 1971 purchased the land that forms the nucleus of my garden. The site with its clear, spring-fed brook reminded me of "magical places" in South Carolina where I grew up and what began innocently, as a pursuit of a sense of place, fast evolved into a passion. This enthusiasm continues unchecked, and the garden is still evolving on a site that has grown to almost 40 acres and abounds with new projects and purpose.
There are many ways to describe Peckerwood Garden: it is a collection of more than 3,000 plants including many rarities; it is a conservation garden containing examples of numerous threatened species, many of which are no longer found in the wild; it is a laboratory garden testing a wide range of "new" plants and our Mexican discoveries. It is a garden with a mission to encourage other gardeners to see a beauty in landscape that is consistent with our plants and climate; it is a pioneering garden exploring new plants and cultivation methods and aesthetic concepts for other gardeners. It is a garden that looks to the future, not to the past. Yet, most essential, it is my studio, a place where artistic and horticultural research are fused to create an environment that stimulates all of the senses, including the most elusive of all, our sense of time. My background and education as a painter have trained me to see the garden as an ever-changing interaction of texture, color, rhythm, and space; it is a series of rooms constructed with a wide variety of plant material in which trees, shrubs, light, shade, paths, steps, and water create and balance the composition...spaces created are arranged so that when walking, one catches glimpses of other spaces; there is not a beginning or ending but a progressive journey of discovery.
Peckerwood Historical PhotoA tornado destroyed the high canopy of giant, old trees in 1983. In hindsight, the devastation provided the opportunity to explore new directions in the garden that better reflected my ideas about space and to investigate and experiment with new plant material. At this time I was joined in this enterprise by Carl Schoenfeld, and we started researching native plants and their Mexican and Asian counterparts in the garden. The constant pursuit of new plants for the garden design has kept us aware of the need to evolve the garden continuously. With each addition and change, new problems arise to be solved, resulting in the evolution of the garden both visually and conceptually.
Renowned plantsman and native plant explorer, Lynn Lowrey (whose death was a keenly felt loss) introduced me to my first Texas native plant and for 25 years lent me his support and knowledge. It was Lynn who in 1988 invited us to join him on a botanizing trip in the mountains of northern Mexico.
Now veterans of about 100 expeditions to diverse remote regions of Mexico, we are striving to document and conserve a rapidly vanishing uncatalogued matrix of beautiful and uniquely diversified Mexican plants.
Our goal is to provide a cultural bridge between Mexico and the United States and, we hope, raise awareness on both sides of the border about the richness of this horticultural trove and the threat of its irrevocable loss due to overgrazing and other growing economic pressures. We feel strongly about conservation work. In order for these extraordinary plants to be fully appreciated, they must be brought to the attention of the public.
Plant Tag GraveyardThe best way to achieve this is to share plant material and information with other public institutions. Germplasm collected from these Mexican expeditions as well as the results of plant testing in the garden were shared with arboreta and interested plant societies. In the early 1990's, Doctor J.C. Raulston, Director, North Carolina State Arboretum (now J.C. Raulston Arboretum) distributed in one year alone over 9,000 plants grown from seed that we shared with him. The best of these plants are beginning to make their way into the nursery trade and individual gardens. The urgency value of the Mexican plant exploration has been a major factor in motivating me to donate my garden to the people of Texas. It is the beginning of a new level of sharing, both the garden and its new plants, with an ever wider constituency. Energy can now be directed to plant research in collaboration with an expanded group of participating institutions. In this way, I hope, the garden and the program to seek out and test new plants will continue into the next century. In this world of overemphasized technology in which values are often based on the superficial, gardens are a must for the public. They reacquaint us with the natural world, with our individual and shared past; they bring healing, literally and figuratively, to many of our ills.
My friends and I are in a young adults group at our church (Northwest Bible) in Hilliard, OH. On this day, we wore our shirts and headed to downtown Columbus to see one of our buddies run in his first marathon! Pictured from left to right: Kim Stahl, Amy Saul, Lindsay Stone & myself - Heather Beach.
Share your Pride at: www.osu.edu/O-H-I-O/
You have a front row seat to watch the evolution of the Harlem Heritage Street Market - nephew Shawn from the community made this shirt and now he brings it to market selling it directly to our good friend from Seattle.
Thanks to our visitors for helping us make the dream come true - thanks Seattle.
Aw. How sweet. It's like the t-shirt remake of "Ebony and Ivory." Or like a romantic moment in the middle of Miami Vice or something. Either way, this is a graphic message that speaks volumes, and is actually such a practical and simple design that it translates into any language under the sun - no explanation necessary. Let's strive for peace on earth, brothers and sisters.
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We're Winning!
"All across the state people are protesting a proposed coal export
terminal"- KHQ
TV News Station
"Environmentalists and other opponents of the terminal,
many of whom were dressed in red T-shirts, dominated public
testimony before a crowd of about 400."- Spokesman
Review
If Earned Media is any indication of of where we stand in the fight for
climate and environmental justice and a sustainable future against coal
exports, than the tide has turned in favor of activists and the
communities we strive to protect. The coal export battle is truly being
fought in the court of public opinion. Giant-sized sympathetic visuals
conveying the values we stand for and what threatens them, and an
engaging experience that helped communities feel a sense of shared power
were all prominent in the earned mainstream media coverage in Spokane
that included two television spots and the front page on their local
paper. The iconic imagery resonates so well that those in a position to
decide the regulations and even the coal export proponents were enamored
with it, excited, and joyful as they took pictures of and with it. We're
grateful to our supporters through whose support we're able to make sure
this critical flank of the fight is present to amplify, inspire, and
build engagement. If you are long to be a part of vibrant community
working to bring the world in closer harmony with your values, than join
Backbone Campaign, our
allies, and collaborators to build a powerful progressive movement.
Special thanks is owed to Spokane
Coalition Builders, and Occupy Spokane whose
dedicated engagement in their community and continued collaboration have
helped to reinvigorate engagement in the NW. The Power Past Coal
Coalition and Sierra Club have dedicated a ton of resources and energy
to mobilize the community to speak out at the hearings, with many other
community members from across the state and beyond sharing their talents
and gifts to make Fossil Fuel Foolishness a thing of the past.
Talk & Play is a free event series organized by and for the local games industry. We strive to create a welcoming atmosphere for the entire community, from students to CEOs, with the intention to gather the entire industry at WERK1 for food, drinks, quality talks, networking and play sessions. Thanks to Games/Bavaria, CipSoft and WERK1 for their support!
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SPEAKER - Jean Leggett
Our first speaker is Jean Leggett, co-founder and CEO of One More Story Games, the developer of StoryStylus, a simplified authoring platform for amateur and professional writers to create, publish and market diverse narrative-based video games. Jean is the lead writer of the Charlaine Harris game adaptation of “Shakespeare’s Landlord” to be published in early 2019 about a woman coming to grips with her PTSD from sexual assault when she discovers a murder close to home.
In her talk "Stories that haunt us and heal us: exploring mental health, abuse and trauma through games narrative” Jean will be speaking about the design of Charlaine Harris’ "Shakespeare's Landlord," a novel-to-game adaptation and how the development team designed narrative choices, events and characters to mindfully explore trauma, PTSD and character progression within the construct of a 2D mystery adventure game.
SPEAKER - Arno Görgen
Our second speaker is Arno Görgen, research associate at the University of the Arts in Bern. Over the past years Arno has worked in various medicine-historic institutes researching topics like "Violence towards Kids" and "Science and Pop Culture". He's currently graduating at the University in Bern with his project „Biohorror in Digital Games“.
His talk "Mental Health in Digital Games. Ethics and Aesthetics of the Unplayable" is going to focus on the depiction of mental illness in video games.
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AGENDA
--- 19:00 Doors Open
--- 19:30 Talks Start
--- 21:15 Pizza & Drinks, sponsored by CipSoft
--- 21:30 Game Showcase & Networking
--- 23:00 The End
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GAMES
If you're interested in showcasing your current project during the event, sign up here: goo.gl/forms/Tvfte4BJsV5KaUc53
We'll be announcing the games on display at Talk & Play in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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SPONSOR
Talk & Play is kindly sponsored by CipSoft:
CipSoft was founded in 2001 and arose from the success of Tibia, one of the first MMORPG’s of the world. In 2003, the company from Regensburg published TibiaME and with that the first online role-playing game for mobile phones. Panzer League, the first mobile multiplayer online battle arena for tanks, is currently in soft launch. Being one of the oldest German game developers, the company has an approximate annual turnover of 10 million euros and 90 employees. The independence from external investors as well as a continuous income from their online games allows CipSoft a steady growth without waves of redundancies or crunch times. You can find more information about CipSoft on their website: cipsoft.com/index.php/de/
Talk & Play is a format created by Berlingamescene.com, which has been running the event in Berlin every two months since 2013. Visit berlingamescene.com/talkandplay/ for more. This event is run independently and takes inspiration from the original format.