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Commission piece for one of the people i admire most in the Doll Artists World.
Story:
Suulah the Traveler
It was a dark era, a time when all the dragons of Asheruk perished because of a major event that changed the lives of many. The gods were'nt happy with man's greed and deceit. Equa, the messenger's scrolls contain more and more material things than good will from their prayers. The Asheruk people, the keepers of the white dragons of the Haal Volcano, used the dragons to conquer other tribes and rob them of their wealth, and they wont be satisfied, they still asked the gods for more gold and riches. Bathala, the highest god, was so fed up that he crushed his staff of ivory and opals towards Haal, and made it erupt so violently it smashed Bathala's staff into several pieces, killing all dragons and the Asheruk people.
Gods Bulan (Moon) and Aldo (Sun) knew that after this wrath unleashed by Bathala, more will come due to the importance of Bathala's Staff. It maintains the balance of night and day, good and evil... even the difference between being a god and people. Aldo and Bulan started to feel their powers weakening at each moment, as with the other gods, so they went to the barren lands of Asheruk blasting the land with their luminescence to find the pieces of the staff. There they heard a faint sound of a baby, the lone survivor Asheruk. Bulan couldn't bare the thought of leaving the baby behind, so she stayed, carrying the infant in her arms. Aldo, weaker by the moment contested to her to leave the child behind and continue with the search but Bulan couldn't do it. The two knew that it would be their end soon, so they looked at each other's eyes as if agreeing on what to do. Aldo called in the sun and Bulan the moon, and instructed them to go on twelve man hour intervals, not appearing once together, and the remaining powers and life they had, they gave it to the child they named Suulah. As the two gods succumbed to their end, a violent wind blew all over Suulah. The sun and moon in swift motions went on to hasten days and nights, making time fly. Sullah growing into lady minute after minute, with the wisdom of Bulan and Aldo instilled in her heart and mind. Clad with the sand filled wind and the bone of dead dragons she started her quest on finding the pieces of Bathala's staff to regain the balance of everything... Even till now, Suulah still looks at the skies when the the bight sun would drown the earth with light, but still the imbalance that the broken staff bears, a faint moon in one sky. A glimpse of her foster parents together in the heavens and hoping one day as she completes the pieces she is closer to thanking the gods that gave her life, and the opportunity to make amends the sins of her tribesmen...
For more than three decades, 'The Traveler' - or Art as he's affectionately been nicknamed - has kept vigil on the corner of Wall Street and Franklin Avenue in downtown Bend. The sculpture has two ducks as companions, and was modeled after a homeless man that the sculptor Richard Beyer knew. The statue evokes emotions in all who have met Art, and he is perhaps, Bend's most beloved citizen.
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Friday afternoon "downtown Des Moines" photo drive! Mission: 52 in 2017 Weekly Edition Scavenger Hunt for interesting typeface.
It's history, as seen in the Des Moines Register (Feb. 5, 2014): a favorite Des Moines landmarks - THE TRAVELERS UMBRELLA - The neon lights of the Travelers Umbrella have long shone over Grand Avenue, even after the company it advertised left town. The umbrella went up, early 1963, topping the 10-story Insurance Exchange Building on Grand and Fifth Avenues, where Travelers Insurance Co. occupied the top floor. It replaced a sign of a winged horse that advertised for Mobil Oil throughout the 1940s and ’50s. By the time Travelers left the building in 1967, it had become an iconic part of the downtown skyline. It remained, in part thanks to a special 1979 city exemption to a rule limiting the size of ad signs. In 1995, the building’s owner agreed to maintain the sign as a city icon.
One of the iconic neon signs in Des Moines has somehow been saved even though The Travelers Insurance Company is long gone. This sign is supposedly the inspiration for Claes Oldenburg's Crusoe Umbrella sculpture that I posted yesterday.
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The Travelers, also known as Les Voyageurs, are bronze surrealist sculptures by the French artist Bruno Catalano. Located on 10th Avenue and 1st Street SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Chippy dreams of being a world traveler. =^D
Just making more room on my hard drive. =^D
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100 photos challenge | 21. vacation.
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I wanted to portray the loneliness that often come with traveling. being in a foreign place can seem intimidating and isolating at first, however i firmly believe that traveling is good for the soul. you learn and see so much
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This paper toy is The Traveler, the main protagonist and player character of Journey, which is an indie video game developed by Thatgamecompany and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3, the papercraft is created by Calvin Nicholas Lin. There are white-robed Traveler and ...
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Iconic neon sign for the Travelers Insurance, atop the Insurance Exchange Building, 5th and Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. The umbrella sign was erected in the spring of 1963, replacing a Mobil Oil sign, which included a winged horse, that topped the ten-story Insurance Exchange Building during the 1940s and '50s. The umbrella could have suffered the same fate as the Mobil sign and lasted only a decade or so, if the MacVicar Freeway hadn't been built about the same time. The freeway, now known as Interstate Highway 235, increased the value of the sign. Once the highway was completed in 1965, the sign with its red neon umbrella became a calling card for Des Moines. For years, the 50-foot wide umbrella dominated the city's night skyline, catching the attention of thousands who sped past on the freeway. Fully lit, it is still one of the first sights that drivers from the east notice when approaching the downtown on I-235.
When the sign first appeared atop the Insurance Exchange Building, the Iowa office of Connecticut-based Travelers Insurance Co. occupied the 10th floor of the Insurance Exchange Building. In 1967, though, the office moved to 215 Keosauqua Way; in 1978, it moved again to West Des Moines. The sign remained downtown, however, and in 1979 it won an exemption from a then-new city sign ordinance limiting the size of advertising signs.
The sign faced a tougher test in 1995, when Travelers abandoned the umbrella in its national advertising and allowed a lease on the downtown sign to expire. When Travelers gave up on the umbrella in 1995, Eagle Sign & Advertising said it would cost $20,000 to tear down the sign. That's when the building's owner stepped in and agreed to maintain the sign as a Des Moines landmark.
Just pre-ordered Bungie's new upcoming game, Destiny. I went in to gamestop and asked to pre-order it and the dude said they were giving posters to the first 25 people to pre-order. Then we had an awesome conversation about how Destiny will probably be the next big game/series. ;) And the poster is huge haha! And while the front is freaking epic, the back is amazing as well.
If you haven't already, you HAVE to check out this video...
Destiny ViDoc: Pathways Out of Darkness
And if you want to know more, check out IGN's in-depth article about the revealing of Destiny.
Bungie's Destiny: A Land of Hope and Dreams
But dang. I'm so so so excited for this game. (To bad we have to wait for like a year.) xD But man...it's gonna be great. Bungie is back. ;') <3
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The shot was inspired by .brianday.
I got a couple of Pocket Wizards over the holidays along with the One Light DVD
Obvious from this shot I have not had time to watch much of the DVD so I have a steep learning curve toward the mastery of off camera flash
Strobist Info: ??? 580EXII mounted to a 48" umbrella at 1/8 power
The fog was so intense in this spot I had to at least try
52 week : Week 4 {already out of order}
Playmates - Star Trek: The Next Generation Carded Figures
Space. The Final Frontier
Borg, Gowron, Borg, Locutus, Commander Sela, Cadet Wesley Crusher, Lieutenant (JR) Worf, Captain Scott, Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi, Ensign Ro Laren, Lursa, B'Etor, The Traveler, and Admiral William T. Riker
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The old Des Moines Library, Downtown Des Moines, IA., transformed by the World Food Prize Organization.
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like
a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
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Nessie wants you to know she isn't going anywhere
This is an expansive look at 2 families, one balck and one white, spanning several generations, and how their paths cross...very insightful
These chairs' ass-sitting areas are pressed together to form lipsticked mouths — but sadly there has not been any food served to any waiting mouths in this ruined & decaying old abandoned unwanted restaurant for quite some number of years now. The nearby traffic signal changes & changes & changes & changes, for no-one ever to see.
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In downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, on December 20th, 2009, the former Travelers Restaurant ("Steaks Our Specialty") on the west side of 7th Street, north of Avery Street.
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Library of Congress classification ideas:
TX945 Restaurants—United States—Pictorial works.
HD257 Abandoned buildings—United States—Pictorial works.
HG3766 Business failures—United States—Pictorial works.
NK2715 Chairs—Pictorial works.
QC425 Reflection (Optics)—Pictorial works.
TR659 Windows—Pictorial works.
F249.P2 Parkersburg (W. Va.)—Pictorial works.