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Despite the clone troopers superior weapons, they were no match against the overwhelming numbers of Green Army soldiers
The Sweetest Surrender: Death is inevitable, yet some in their most desperate moments seek it willingly by embracing suicide. This series attempts to perceive this obliteration as salvation instead of destruction, celebrating the end with utmost reverence – the ultimate escape, the "sweetest" surrender.
8x11.5in, acrylic on watercolour paper.
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Showcased at Memento Mori: M.O.D.A. magazine's 1st anniversary party and exhibition.
Okay. So, were down in the underground, waitin' for the tube after deciding that the Olde City scene wasn't happening for us. I get Nik in the frame and fire. Out comes the fare collector from the booth and tells me "Let that be the last picture you take down here tonight. Ever since 9-1-1 they've been enforcing a no pictures rule down in the subways. If you wanna take one more that's fine".
What?!!!! What are you talkin' about dude? I've been shootin' in the underground since last November when I first got a camera. You're the first person, official or otherwise who's mentioned anything about a subway photography ban. What? Am I gonna send some images to my terrorist cell member friends and plot an attack?
I didn't say these things, I was merely thinking them. What I did was look back at him with a sad look in my eyes and turn off the D50 and put the lens cap back on, letting my civil liberty go away. I should have protested. If I don't stand up for my rights then I'll be in danger of losing them.
While I thought it was ridiculous and not helping to make people safer, I did comply immediately and without protest. I don't remember if I even answered him back. What a messed up experience that was.
Locals take an opportunity to take a picture in front of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
Live @ KGB with the Dark Order of Masters and Mistresses
photo by Jon Wright
models: Master Arcane and Jess
This is perhaps the most controversial tomb in the Belgian royal pantheon in Brussels. King Leopold III (1901-1983) was a controversial monarch to start with. He was accused of being a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War when he surrendered his country to Germany in 1940, and when he later returned to Belgium in 1950 he was forced to abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin. Before these events, his saving grace had been his popular and beautiful wife, Queen Astrid of Sweden, but unfortunately she died in a road accident in 1938 (in a car driven by Leopold). He remarried in 1941 to a commoner named Lilian Baels, but due to the marriage's unpopularity she was never allowed the title of Queen. At her death, although she expressed a wish to be buried separately, Lilian was interred together with her husband and his first wife, creating the strange entombed threesome seen in this photo. Queen Astrid's own photo is on the left on the tomb, Lilian's is on the right.
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Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
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The Distillery District is a commercial and residential district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located east of downtown, it contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acres (5.3 ha) district comprises more than forty heritage buildings and ten streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America.
The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988.
If we surrender completely to that strong hand, we will be conquerors.
MESSAGES OF GOD'S ABUNDANCE
Corrie ten Boom
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“Unconditional Surrender" is a 25-foot, 6,000 pound statue by J. Seward Johnson commemorating a famous World War II photo taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt of a Sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, New York City on Aug. 14, 1945, following the announcement of V-J Day.
The statue was unveiled Feb. 10, 2007 at Mole Park in San Diego.
Tuna Harbor Park visitors take a quick photo in front of "Unconditional Surrender" before its removal. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
day 23 - 11/19/08
Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight you for something I don't really want
than take what you give that I need
and I've beat my head against so many walls
now I'm falling down, falling on my knees
--Hold Me Jesus (Rich Mullins)
Unconditional Surrender is a series of sculptures by Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J day in Times Square, but said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen.
A family takes a final snapshot of the upper portion of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).
On Day 3, Paramahamsa Vishwananda spoke of the state of Mira, where she saw Giridhari everywhere and in everyone. He shared how her life was full of joy by surrendering to the Divine Name and so we should have trust into the Divine Name and never let go of it.
The evening music programme started with the vibrant young band, Vishwaas. Their enthusiastic kirtan was contagious. That performance was followed by the mystical and beautiful offering from Ma Parvathi Baul. Her singing is not entertainment, is not a performance, but is a complete sadhana in itself…and we were honoured to be able to see such a devotional experience.
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Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London.
Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War.
The museum's remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914. As of 2012, the museum aims 'to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and "wartime experience"'.
Originally housed in the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill, the museum opened to the public in 1920.
In 1924 the museum moved to space in the Imperial Institute in South Kensington, and finally in 1936 the museum acquired a permanent home which was previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Southwark.
The outbreak of the Second World War saw the museum expand both its collections and its terms of reference, but in the post-war period the museum entered a period of decline.
The 1960s saw the museum redevelop its Southwark building, now referred to as Imperial War Museum London, which serves as the organisation's corporate headquarters.
During the 1970s the museum began to expand onto other sites. The first, in 1976, was a historic airfield in Cambridgeshire now referred to as IWM Duxford.
In 1978 the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Belfast became a branch of the museum, having previously been preserved for the nation by a private trust.
In 1984 the Cabinet War Rooms, an underground wartime command centre, was opened to the public.
From the 1980s onwards the museum's Bethlem building underwent a series of multimillion-pound redevelopments, completed in 2000.
Finally, 2002 saw the opening of IWM North in Trafford, Greater Manchester, the fifth branch of the museum and the first in the north of England.
In 2011 the museum rebranded itself as IWM, standing for 'Imperial War Museums'.